Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103

[Destro_Yersul]

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[dish]

Hello Destro. Nice thread.

What were we talking about? Segways or something?

*Oooh, room service just arrived.*

[Destro_Yersul]

Something like that. Randman thinks they're silly, I think they're awesome.

Does the room service have pie?

[randman22222]

Oh gods, I want pie now. :smallsigh:

[Cristo Meyers]

Segways, zombie movies, growing up in the cornfields of Illinois...

...you know, the usual.

[Destro_Yersul]

And now, apparently, pie. Which I have had the past several days, by virtue of working at a grocery store that sells decent premade pies. big chunk of pie for break, how could you say no?

On the downside of that, I'm rapidly running out of ice-cream.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Pie, pie, pie....Pie pie pie!

*misses old thread already* I liked seeing mah name on the top of the thread list...

[dish]

Something like that. Randman thinks they're silly, I think they're awesome.

Does the room service have pie?

No. They have a really horrible plate of spaghetti. Remind me never to order it again. The salad and rolls are ok though. (And the beer was really needed.)

[Destro_Yersul]

My turn for that now, Dallas. :smallbiggrin:

Also.. horrible.. spaghetti? This.. not compute.. blasphemy! *goes to destroy the room service that dares to make spaghetti bad in any way*

[Dallas-Dakota]

Also notes that Segways are illegal in the Netherlands.

[randman22222]

They should be illegal for STUPIDITY everywhere. :smallsigh:

In a related note (:smalltongue:), for some reason I'm trying to capitalize letters using the ctrl key. Keep popping up windows. :smalltongue:

[Cristo Meyers]

If stupidity were illegal, 98% of the world's population would be on death row.

I can't remember where I heard that...

[banjo1985]

Nice title. :smallbiggrin:

Stupidity is both widespread and catching...it's like a virus or something.

In the UK it's illegal for kids to play conkers at school because of health and safety unless they are wearing goggles....I mean come on....

Mind you, I'm capable of hurting myself on absolutely anything, so I guess I need the looking after. :smallbiggrin:

[Jibar]

:smallsigh:

Oh alright. I guess I'll boogie. Just gimmie a second.

Hup two. Hup two. Hup two. Up and down two. Up and down two. I've got a giant Yorkie bar two. Hup two. Hup two. Hup two.

Oh, and I found out I'm going to another play next wednesday.
Honestly, this college is intent on culturing the crap outta me.

Huh. Oh yeah.

*BOOGIE!*

This thread has been blessed.

[Dragonrider]

This one smells like pine sol.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Really?
*sniffs*

Hmm, more like Den....Mountain Den...

[Cristo Meyers]

*sniff*

I smell smoke...

[Skippy]

Cool! New thread already!!!

I'm back from a calculus test. It was really easy...

[Destro_Yersul]

Nice title. :smallbiggrin:


Thank ye. I figured it was appropriate.

My brother is in Calculus, I think. He's probably going to be an engineer or something and make more money than I could ever hope to make because I never bothered to actually try in school.

Maybe I'll mooch off him. :smalltongue:

[YPU]

Also notes that Segways are illegal in the Netherlands.

No longer, they need lights a horn and number plate, then go trough a checkup and then you can have them. the producers have promised to make those features standard for the models shiped to the netherlands.
how i know this; newspapers.

[TwoBitWriter]

Whats the legality of Segways in the United States?

I personally despise them, and tend to yell obscenities publicly whenever I see someone on them.

[Haruki-kun]

I'm back from a calculus test. It was really easy...

I'm not quite sure using those words in that context is gramatically correct... :smalltongue:

*stabs whoever came up with Calculus*

[Dallas-Dakota]

No longer, they need lights a horn and number plate, then go trough a checkup and then you can have them. the producers have promised to make those features standard for the models shiped to the netherlands.
how i know this; newspapers.
What?
That...Sucks.....

I'm sad now.....

I need to go watch Nickelodeon close for the day. That always cheers me up.

(Yes, nickelodeon closing(even for the night) cheers me up, I'm weird like that)

[Griever]

On the topic of segways-

We shall lure them to the Hot Gates, where their pants will count for nothing.

[Phase]

Like I said before, my English teacher is amazing. We were reviewing the character themes of Brave New World, and he does this awesome impression of Bernard Marx, everyone laughed so hard!

[PhallicWarrior]

My english teacher sucks, because he's... well, me. I'm homeschooled. Still, getting to read eight of Shakespeare's best plays in one semester isn't bad.

But now I have a powerful urge to put on a production of Hamlet...

[CurlyKitGirl]

:smallsigh:

Oh alright. I guess I'll boogie. Just gimmie a second.

Hup two. Hup two. Hup two. Up and down two. Up and down two. I've got a giant Yorkie bar two. Hup two. Hup two. Hup two.

Oh, and I found out I'm going to another play next wednesday.
Honestly, this college is intent on culturing the crap outta me.


Your college is intent on you remaining top of my Envy List. What play this time?

[Player_Zero]

Speaking of calculus I just got a booklet from uni telling me what will be on the test during the first week.

Basically it's more basic than sticks and stones. I seriously doubt they expect you to get a single question wrong...

[mangosta71]

Well, what do you expect? Calculus is easy. The only math class I had that I thought was hard was my Prob/Stat course, and that was mostly just because I took it my last semester, while my Cal classes were in my first-third. So a couple years had passed between them.

[Jibar]

Your college is intent on you remaining top of my Envy List. What play this time?

I... don't know.
I wasn't listening.
I started giggling when pool murders was mentioned.
For reasons that I can not fathom. :smallconfused:

[Player_Zero]

I expected that a course that required a super special STEP qualification for entry to at least assume you knew the basic principle of calculus!

Oh well I suppose, if it's all too easy I'll have more time to waste doing nothing.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I... don't know.
I wasn't listening.
I started giggling when pool murders was mentioned.
For reasons that I can not fathom. :smallconfused:

So . . . it involves Michael Barrymore? :smallconfused: Bet I got his name wrong and all.
But pool murders are really quite funny. You've got to kill someone, in a pool and presumably, surprise them.
Now, drowning's really easy to do but if you want it really dramatic you should -
What?

And I love Mock the Week, even if it's just repeats. Frankie, Hugh, Andy and Russel are fantastic.
Cities on hydraulic legs. *giggles*

[DraPrime]

A friend of mine passed out today because he's been deprived of sleep. Since I have been getting about as much sleep as him I can't be far behind. Yay :smallannoyed:

[Uncle Festy]

I'm back, after having missed half the last thread-ish!
Yay!
*subscribes*
Mm, pie.

[Rawhide]

I'm currently cooking up a storm to make Serpentine proud.

Herb and garlic marinated kangaroo meat mini-roast.

[Thes Hunter]

OOooo Kangeroo meat, never had any of that.

So is it farm raised or wild caught?

But with garlic and herbs, can you go wrong?

[Rawhide]

Thes: This should explain all (http://macromeats.com/Aboutus/KangarooIndustry.aspx).

[Bitzeralisis]

Kangaroo meat!? Eew. :smallyuk:

[Rawhide]

Kangaroo meat!? Eew. :smallyuk:

It was, actually, absolutely delicious (and all gone).

[Bitzeralisis]

It was, actually, absolutely delicious (and all gone).

I mean "eww" ethically.

[Rawhide]

I mean "eww" ethically.

In what way is it unethical? (http://macromeats.com/Aboutus/KangarooIndustry.aspx)

[Recaiden]

It was, actually, absolutely delicious (and all gone).

What else does it taste similar to? I've heard that kangaroos are tasty, but not in what way.

How to kill people in pools? Jump up behind them from in the water, and set the pool on fire.

[Recaiden]

I mean "eww" ethically.

Do you react ethically to eating other animals like kangaroos?

[Bitzeralisis]

Do you react ethically to eating other animals like kangaroos?

Only mammals that walk on two legs.

[Exeson]

I have never tried Kangaroo, which is a shame, it's on my list though.

Also on the subject of meat we (me, mother and sister) are going to South Africa over Christmas and you know what that means? BILTONG! *salvates*

[Nychta]

Oh, my gods. I'm not the only one who loves biltong.

When we were in London, we were near this dairy. Mum sent me to get some dishwashing liquid one day, and I walked in and saw packs and PACKS of biltong.

I bought all of it.
Mum was not pleased.
It was delicious.

[Kaelaroth]

Mhmmm. Spiced English Muffins.

*drool*

With honey!

[Exeson]

Yeh biltong is amazingly expensive here in the UK, so when we go to South Africa to visit my Aunt and Uncle and cousins we just buy loads and bring it back with us. :smallbiggrin:

[dish]

I expected that a course that required a super special STEP qualification for entry to at least assume you knew the basic principle of calculus!

Oh well I suppose, if it's all too easy I'll have more time to waste doing nothing.

According to my father (because I really wouldn't know) it is traditional in university maths classes to revise the entire A-level syllabus in the first week or so. Then they move on to more complex stuff. At the same pace. If you're still finding it easy at the end of the first term then you're probably very good. If you're still finding it easy by second year then you may just be a genius.

I know I should google it, but I'm lazy. What is biltong?

[Jibar]

Mhmmm. Spiced English Muffins.

*drool*

With honey!

You called?
:smalltongue:

[Thes Hunter]

Holy crap! Last thing I knew it was 10:20... now it's noon.

Internet, we need a divorce. :smallyuk:

[mangosta71]

Noon! That means I've been up for an hour already! And probably awake for most of that.
Does it count as awake if I have no recollection of the passage of time?

[Recaiden]

Only mammals that walk on two legs.

They don't walk on 2 legs, they hop on 2 legs.

[loopy]

They don't walk on 2 legs, they hop on 2 legs.

Skippy? Where are you Skip-- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!* :smallfrown:

*Do not want.

[Phase]

What is this "Biltong"? An animal? A pack animal? A pack animal that hunts dairy products?

[Nychta]

Biltong: Delicious South African dried meat snack. Typically has other stuff in it like coriander and garlic.

[Uncle Festy]

Biltong: Delicious South African dried meat snack. Typically has other stuff in it like coriander and garlic.

What meats?
Are they tasty meats?

[Cristo Meyers]

...now I'm hungry...what do we got around here...

cashews...cashews...oh look, cashews!

crap...we are truly snack food deficient in the Meyers' Holding...

[TwoBitWriter]

In the Brand household, I just discovered a box of Star Crunches that I had purchased two weeks ago and forgot about!

Yay for me!

[Bitzeralisis]

I have almonds. Salted, baked almonds.

From Costco.


Biltong: Delicious South African dried meat snack. Typically has other stuff in it like coriander and garlic.

Like jerky? :smalltongue:

[Cristo Meyers]

I have almonds. Salted, baked almonds.

From Costco.



Rub it in...

I love Costco...a huge jug of Capt. Morgan for $20 bucks...and my personal favorite...a box of chicken and cheese flour toquitos for like $15...

...man...now I'm really hungry...

[Nychta]

yeah, it's kinda like beef jerky, but better.

Snacks: SCROGGIN!!!

[Uncle Festy]

Darnit, now you're all making me hungry…
*starts gnawing on computer*

[Recaiden]

Snacks: Horrible tasting multigrain cracker...things.
I think i'll go eat an ice cube instead.

I've never heard of Biltong before today. How regional is it?

[Nychta]

Regional?
Actually, I don't know. It's hard to find good biltong in NZ, but there's more in England. I'd assume that it's popular in South Africa, though.

[Cristo Meyers]

I'd imagine that you would be looking for quite a while to find any in the U.S.

[Bitzeralisis]

Behold the power of the internet! (http://www.biltongusa.com/) :smallbiggrin:

[Phase]

All hail the internet! Before which, all the worlds secrets are laid bare!

[Cristo Meyers]

Including many that probably shouldn't be!

[Nychta]

Secrets, half-truths, and lies, that is...

[Felixaar]

Bahahahahaha! No one knows my secrets!
Which would be more impressive if I had any.
the above line is a lie. i have many terrible secrets and few people i dare share them with. they will haunt me to my grave... not. I do have a few nifty secrets though.

[Volug]

All hail the internet! Before which, all the worlds secrets are laid bare!

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff132/MasatoHyuga/weegeeay0.png

[Thes Hunter]

*sigh* :smallsigh:

It's essay writing time again. In the past Curly and Phoe (among others) gave me huge amounts of help...

I might need to ask for help again... since I suck at the whole writing thing. blah.

[mangosta71]

*sigh* :smallsigh:

It's essay writing time again. In the past Curly and Phoe (among others) gave me huge amounts of help...

I might need to ask for help again... since I suck at the whole writing thing. blah.

At least you don't have people asking you to write official letters for them. :smallmad: I imagine you also don't have to proofread every paper your boss writes before he submits them for publication because he's Chinese and his English isn't very good. On the upside, I learn a lot about theory that way.

[Player_Zero]

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff132/MasatoHyuga/weegeeay0.png

Weegee. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HqGOobn12A)

Also, sleeping schedule: I has none.

[Serpentine]

I'm currently cooking up a storm to make Serpentine proud.

Herb and garlic marinated kangaroo meat mini-roast.Oooo, yummers! Home-marinated or one of the pre-marinated ones from the supermarket? For some reason those ones are sometimes quite bitter...
Thes: What's your essay on?

[Tempest Fennac]

Kangaroo meat is quite nice (I tried it last year). Why haven't you got a sleeping schedule, PZ?

[Rawhide]

Oooo, yummers! Home-marinated or one of the pre-marinated ones from the supermarket? For some reason those ones are sometimes quite bitter...
Thes: What's your essay on?

This one from the shops (http://macromeats.com/Products.aspx) (scroll down to "Kangaroo Mini Roast", but with only one in the packet, not two), but no, it was not at all bitter. It was in fact quite delicious.

[The Bushranger]

Kangaroo meat? That I have got to try.
Ostrich...check.
Bison...check.
Alligator...check.
Deja vu......check...


And now, from the world of Cannasleep, I give you...
1001+ Things the Worst Party in Eberron is Forbidden from Doing (http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/captainjarlot/)
If you have a drink in your hand, put it down first.

[Tempest Fennac]

Ostrich is nice, but I haven't tried any of the other kinds of meat on that list (sadly, ostrich lacks any kind of fat:smallfrown:).

[Jibar]

Goooood morning everybody.
I'm very happy. I managed to go to a party last night without having some form of nervous breakdown. :smallsmile:
I was dancing and talking to people. It was brilliant. And so much fun. :smallbiggrin:
Then I get back, and I realise there's a whole bunch of early Cat-Muffins running around.
And I have like nothing I need to do this weekend, so the day is mine to waste.
I'm in such a good mood! :smallbiggrin:

[Rawhide]

Goooood morning everybody.
I'm very happy. I managed to go to a party last night without having some form of nervous breakdown. :smallsmile:
I was dancing and talking to people. It was brilliant. And so much fun. :smallbiggrin:
Then I get back, and I realise there's a whole bunch of early Cat-Muffins running around.
And I have like nothing I need to do this weekend, so the day is mine to waste.
I'm in such a good mood! :smallbiggrin:

Let me make your mood even better. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4915765&postcount=291)

[Jibar]

Let me make your mood even better. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4915765&postcount=291)

Hey, that did. :smallsmile:
*is practically skipping around the house by now*

Edit: OOoo. Fun story. I've started using the word "Jib" a lot. Just shouting it at people to get them to hurry up, or using it as an adjective. I even used as an expletive the other day.
Now everybody always laughs when they hear me just shouting "Jib jib jib!" at anything in my way. So it was my turn to laugh last night when I had about a dozen people all shouting "Jib!" at a dog in an attempt to get it to move.

EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL!

[Uncle Festy]

And now, from the world of Cannasleep, I give you...
1001+ Things the Worst Party in Eberron is Forbidden from Doing (http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/captainjarlot/)
If you have a drink in your hand, put it down first.

:smallconfused:
There's nothing there.
WHY IS NOTHING THERE!
*twitch, twitch*
*remembers last time we were talking about food*

[Phase]

:smallconfused:
There's nothing there.
WHY IS NOTHING THERE!
*twitch, twitch*
*remembers last time we were talking about food*

Maybe you're blind? That would suck...

[Destro_Yersul]

It shows up for me, so he must be blind. But to use a computer, he can't be THAT blind. Maybe he's selectively blind?

[Uncle Festy]

No, it's just that none of the words loaded, for some unfathomable reason.
No worries, I just googled it up and found this (http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/1001_and_more_Things_that_the_worst_party_in_Eberr on_is_forbidden_from_doing). All hail the power of Google! :smallcool:

[bosssmiley]

Also, sleeping schedule: I has none.

Try starting with something simple like "when it gets dark outside". :smallwink:


And now, from the world of Cannasleep, I give you...
1001+ Things the Worst Party in Eberron is Forbidden from Doing (http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/captainjarlot/)

"WARFORGED!!!" :smallbiggrin:

[Destro_Yersul]

Dark outside? That's about when I wake up. Be going to sleep soon, cause it's already nearly 8:30. AM.

What?

Also, all warforged are now to be refered to as Johnny 5 because of that list. I don't care what they look like, it's an awesome movie.

[Lyesmith]

I may not play D&D, but that list has given me more than a few laughs!
In response, Maggie thatcher wants you to come to the rave. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd0YI6Fvv3s)

[dish]

Anyone know how to do strike-through on text in gmail? If I wanted to write 'celebrate/comiserate' is there an easy way for me to do that?

[Cristo Meyers]

I have to say, reading Gaiman's American Gods is so much more entertaining when you're actually from Illinois...

I couldn't help but smile when the raven said to go to Kay-ro...

[Recaiden]

Anyone know how to do strike-through on text in gmail? If I wanted to write 'celebrate/comiserate' is there an easy way for me to do that?

I don't think that there is. I tried to do that before and was unable to do it using gmail. :smallannoyed:

[Lyesmith]

American Gods! It is one of my favourite books ever.
I'll confess to thinking the world would be pretty awesome if it was like that, as well.

[Cristo Meyers]

American Gods! It is one of my favourite books ever.
I'll confess to thinking the world would be pretty awesome if it was like that, as well.

It's just so great that he actually worked in one of Illinois' biggest jokes:

Travel the world, come to Illinois!

Kay-ro/Cairo is a big one too.

[Lyesmith]

I should re-read it.
The bit in the woods, though.

"Hey, raven. Say 'Nevermore'"

"<Fornicate> you", said the raven.

I nearly wet myself with laughter, so I did.

[Cristo Meyers]

That was just the icing on the cake, coming right after the Kay-ro bit.

(If you're wondering, that actually is how we pronounce the name of that city here.)

I can't wait to pick it back up...but I promised 1000 words a day and by Shar I'm going to deliver!

[Pepz]

god I loved american gods, although I haven't read it in way too long now,
also loved Gaiman's Fragile Things, especially the first story the Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft cross-over is pretty brilliant :smallbiggrin:

Yay for my first post in a random banter thread :smalltongue: (only missed 102 of them :smalleek: )

[Hoggy]

I have found myself singing into beer cans to stop them going flat.

[Cristo Meyers]

I'm only about a hundred pages in, left off just as he reached El Paso (the one in Illinois :smallbiggrin:)

Yeah, we're bad about that here...Havana, El Paso, Cairo, Metropolis, Marselles, Peru...

[Thanatos 51-50]

I should re-read it.
The bit in the woods, though.

"Hey, raven. Say 'Nevermore'"

"<Fornicate> you", said the raven.

I nearly wet myself with laughter, so I did.

I'm a fan of some of the excahnges from Way of the Wolf:

Protaganist: "Hold! What are your names?"

Other Guy: "Well, I'm 'Mind your own <Diety-cursed> Business', this is my brotherm 'Or I'll rip off your <Fornicating> Head' and his cousin, 'And <expel solid waste> down your neck'!"
~~~
Also, later on in the book:

Future Love Intrest: "Whats your name?"

Protagnist: "David."

Future Love interest: (Pointing to Protagonist's injured sqaud mate, whom she is about to apply firt aid to) "And what is his name?"

Protagnist: "Injured man of average height"

[CurlyKitGirl]

*sigh*
I need to read American Gods; I think the college has it though so it's all good. I might have read it Saturday but I was distracted by a new Discworld book: The Folklore of the Discworld and I love it. It's a sort of explanation on many of the myths and folklore of the Disc but also where it came from. So the gods are actually spoken of as if they stole some aspect of themselves from earth.
I love that book.
Then I went hunting for I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak in Smiths' but I couldn't find a copy so I was left feeling miffed. I hall have to wait for Christmas now.

Anything else?
Oh, I've become utterly addicted to Run Run Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM&feature=related) by Slade. I must've listened to it thirty times today alone.
See chameleon lying there in the sun
Total ear worm. But so darn good. *listens again*
Oh, and that line above is possibly the most catchy part of it all.

Even worse than Boom De Yada.:smallamused:

[Cristo Meyers]

*sigh*
I need to read American Gods; I think the college has it though so it's all good. I might have read it Saturday but I was distracted by a new Discworld book: The Folklore of the Discworld and I love it. It's a sort of explanation on many of the myths and folklore of the Disc but also where it came from. So the gods are actually spoken of as if they stole some aspect of themselves from earth.
I love that book.
Then I went hunting for I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak in Smiths' but I couldn't find a copy so I was left feeling miffed. I hall have to wait for Christmas now.

Anything else?
Oh, I've become utterly addicted to Run Run Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHoPYLQvnQM&feature=related) by Slade. I must've listened to it thirty times today alone.
See chameleon lying there in the sun
Total ear worm. But so darn good. *listens again*
Oh, and that line above is possibly the most catchy part of it all.

Even worse than Boom De Yada.:smallamused:

Yes, yes you do need to read American Gods...or I shall shun you as a heretic.

See? Watch me...shuuunnnn...

I chose to ignore your Boom De Yada...nope, totally unaffected by it

I love the whole world...

TOTALLY UNAFFECTED...

[loopy]

Even worse than Boom De Yada.:smallamused:

When I saw the Boom De Yada comic on xkcd, I imagined it as a much grittier tribal type of sound.

BOOM de yada yada. BOOM de yada yada.

I then heard the actual version, and was only slightly disappointed. :smallwink:

[Uncle Festy]

Ahh.
It's nice being blissfully ignorant of Boom De Yada.
A preemptive @ v, vv, vv, vvv, vvvvv, vvvvvvv, and all the rest: I ignore your foul links! I ignore them!
Begone, foul links of the night! Turn Youtube Link!
:smallwink:

[Bitzeralisis]

My Youtube links disguise themselves as TinyURLs.

Hooray for intelligent links! :smalltongue:

[bosssmiley]

Hast thou trouley no loue for ye Blog of Geoffrey Chaucer (http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/)? :smallfrown:

[Uncle Festy]

*facepalms*
I should have known that when I posted this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4920373&postcount=105) someone would twist it out of control.
Wait, now I can't open my own link!
Must… resist… opening…
Nooooo!
@v: One problem – I left out vvvv. I skipped from vvv to vvvvv! Hah! :smallamused:
*opens link*
Wait, why'd the page refresh?
*opens link*
Stop refreshing, stupid page! I wanna know what he's linking to!
*opens link*
*and again*
*and again*
Uncle Festy watches his player. "… this could take a while…"

[Sneak]

I've heard this place can be good for a laugh or two. (http://tinyurl.com/63twj8)

Or a facepalm or two. :smallwink:

[dish]

I don't think that there is. I tried to do that before and was unable to do it using gmail. :smallannoyed:

I ended up copy-pasting from word.

America Gods is a long, rambling, mess of a novel. And I absolutely adore it. Great fun.

[AetherFox]

Hey, I got a random question for anyone out there. Has anyone here read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? Also, have you played the song Elephant Bones on Guitar hero 2? The reason these are related, is because there is a quote in the loading screen for the song, that I believe to be taken, and slighly changed, from Good Omens. It ends with the phrase "That handsome devil".

@v Thanks. What a coinky-dink

[Cristo Meyers]

Hey, I got a random question for anyone out there. Has anyone here read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and... I forget the other guy...? Also, have you played the song Elephant Bones on Guitar hero 2? The reason these are related, is because there is a quote in the loading screen for the song, that I believe to be taken, and slighly changed, from Good Omens. It ends with the phrase "That handsome devil".

That other guy would be the other author we were talking about: Neil Gaiman :smallwink:

[Thes Hunter]

Hrm.. I finished my latest Practhett book yesterday, I am going to have to start another one. =]


Maybe I need to take them to the cafe and see if I can snag some fellow nerd herd for conversation.

[Griever]

With all the cat-muffins from Friendly Banter and all the Cats from Structured Games, it makes you wonder where the muffins are!

[Thes Hunter]

Have you checked with the Muffin man?

He might have some leads.

[Nychta]

Today was an absolutely terrible day.

I have a song to write for music which I have started three times and given up on three times. I just don't like anything I'm writing at the moment. I have until next Wednesday, but my only chance to write the song will be before and after school. I don't have the music program at home, the demo version cannot save, and I can't afford the program.
This is especially frustrating because I consider myself fairly musical and I'm a fairly good composer. It's the damn lyrics that are tripping me up, though. The lyrics and the tune refuse to go together, and when stuff refuses to go together quickly, I decide I don't like it and have to start again.
Half of me is saying "Dude, it's a freaking assessment for a subject that you'll never pursue inside of school. Why bother?" and my proud, perfectionist side is saying "But I want to do it right! I just want to have it perfect!" And then the other half ((yeah, I have three halves)) is saying "Well I can't be bothered but I'm going to waste a lot of time moaning about it, procrastinating, and getting distr---ooh, there's a bird!"

Also, Curly, I have converted my mum to The Book Thief. Now you have mentioned it, I must try find more books by Markus Zusak...

[Thes Hunter]

xNadia, from one perfectionist to another....

1) our pretty good is still 10x better than most people's kick ass.
2) Pretty good is still better than not done at all.

my $.02.

*Note I have to tell myself this like a million times a day. :smallwink:

Now tomorrow's goal will be to end my epic level procrastination.

[mangosta71]

My major goal is to get back into the gym at work, especially since I generally have absolutely nothing to do at least half the day (this upcoming week it's looking like afternoons). The trouble is I hurt my foot and it took several months to heal, so I don't have anywhere near the endurance I had at the start of the year. Also, the lack of exercise the past while has made me feel extremely lazy. And since none of my other habits changed, I put on probably 30-40 pounds. :smallmad:

[Nychta]

xNadia, from one perfectionist to another....

1) our pretty good is still 10x better than most people's kick ass.
2) Pretty good is still better than not done at all.

my $.02.

*Note I have to tell myself this like a million times a day. :smallwink:

Now tomorrow's goal will be to end my epic level procrastination.

Thanks :smallsmile:
But yeah, number 2 is my huge problem. I'd rather just not hand in an assignment that I didn't have the time to do properly. If I hand in something half-baked, I kinda feel...

dirty.

As for procrastination, don't stress it. You can fix that anytime.

[The Bushranger]

As for procrastination, don't stress it. You can fix that anytime.
Indeed. Anytime at all.

Like, oh, say maybe tomorrow?

:smalltongue:

[Rawhide]

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can put off until next week.

[The Rose Dragon]

I'm a big fan of doing things on time.

Even if I can put it off tomorrow, I put it off today.

[Rawhide]

If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.

[The Rose Dragon]

And sometimes a lenient instructor who gives an extra last minute.

[wadledo]

Ah, procrastination.
The gift that keeps on giving and then beats you over the head with a live aardvark and sells your comatose body to lonely Japanese businessmen.

Also, my in my Writing class, I am apparently the best(or at least most consistent) writer of poetry.
This is my best work to date:My cup,
Standing on stone,
Washes away.

My hair,
White with salt,
Tastes dry.

My feet,
Sinking through paper,
Are gone.Don't knock you own work until you can compare it to others and see that it's terrible.

[The Rose Dragon]

Wadledo, you are an awesome writer of poetry.

My best work is in Turkish, so I can't post it here. My only English work... kinda sucks (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4916895&postcount=396).

[Phase]

Ah, procrastination.
The gift that keeps on giving and then beats you over the head with a live aardvark and sells your comatose body to lonely Japanese businessmen.

Best. Analogy. Ever.

In other news, I hate Mondays...

I'm like Garfield in that respect...

And in that I love lasagna, dislike dogs, and talk without moving my mouth.

[Nychta]

Best. Analogy. Ever.

In other news, I hate Mondays...

I'm like Garfield in that respect...

And in that I love lasagna, dislike dogs, and talk without moving my mouth.

Who likes Mondays?

[Rawhide]

Who likes Mondays?

Certianly not the Boomtown Rats. (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0)

[dish]

@^ To be fair, the Boomtown Rats were singing about a very specific case of someone who didn't like Mondays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Ann_Spencer). I hope most of us aren't going to go on a killing spree because we hate one particular day.

Wadledo: I like your poem - I've always preferred short poems to long ones - but this makes me smile, anyway.

[de-trick]

grrr its monday morning, wat makes it better is i bought a zune, so i have music for school, but buyin the zune ate up most of my money

but how good is a zune

[TwoBitWriter]

I actually like Mondays, in a perverse sort of way.

It is the day that I am busiest at work, so it generally goes by very fast.

Friday is a different story.

There's more to consider in choosing a day to dislike then to simply compare its proximity to the weekend (or whichever days you have off.)

[Destro_Yersul]

I have Monday off, and therefore I like it. Especially considering Sunday is always busy as hell.

It's nice to have a day to rest immediately after working like a madman for several hours straight.

[The Rose Dragon]

Certianly not the Boomtown Rats. (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0)

Beat me to to punch, will you?

[mangosta71]

I actually like Mondays, in a perverse sort of way.

It is the day that I am busiest at work, so it generally goes by very fast.

Friday is a different story.

There's more to consider in choosing a day to dislike then to simply compare its proximity to the weekend (or whichever days you have off.)

The most important factor in choosing a favorite day is length of time until you have to work again. I have a standard M-F job, so Saturday is my favorite day because not only do I not have to work that day, but I also don't have to go to work the next.

[randman22222]

My favourite day of the week is Tuesday. Middle of the week (in this country - Muslim calender/holy day offsets the week by one day).

Just feels like standing on a time-mountain's precipice. You can look backwards through the week and see for miles, and look forwards, and see for miles.

Same goes with summer and looking through a year.

[Griever]

In other news, I hate Mondays...

Phase has a case of the Mondays? :smallfrown:

At least the moon is full... wait, does that mean Phase is nekkid?! :smalleek:

[TwoBitWriter]

The most important factor in choosing a favorite day is length of time until you have to work again. I have a standard M-F job, so Saturday is my favorite day because not only do I not have to work that day, but I also don't have to go to work the next.

I'll agree with that. Does that make Friday or Sunday your 2nd favorite day?

Sunday you have no work, but must work the next day.
Friday you work, but then you have the whole weekend ahead of you.

Personally, I favor Friday in that debate.

[Tempest Fennac]

I hate having to do certain things (eg: paperwork), but I'm often fine once I can bring myself to start it. For some reason, I seem to be the only male in my Complementary Therapy class at university. I wonder why it seems to be more popular with women?

[Destro_Yersul]

I'll agree with that. Does that make Friday or Sunday your 2nd favorite day?

Sunday you have no work, but must work the next day.
Friday you work, but then you have the whole weekend ahead of you.

Personally, I favor Friday in that debate.

Likewise. That way you got something to look forward to, rather than looking at the week ahead of you and crying softly to yourself over the soul-crushing futility of your hopeless dead-end job whilst curled up in a small corner of the darkest room you can find...

sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there. :smallbiggrin:

[CurlyKitGirl]

Oh gods; why can't I ever sleep on SUnday nights?! And even though I had a full three hours free today my epic procrastination (combined with the awesomeness that is Higgers) meant I either talked or did jack for the full time.
And I have a formal letter to write, in French, and my stalker, attention - seeking cat is headbutting me in the arm as I type and she has relegated me to the bottom right hand corner of the mattress.
ANd there's that letter to right.
And I'm spacing out; haven't slept since 10am Sunday morning. Et une lettre informelle . . . I swear by Ma'at that I will get it done before nine.
At least it doesn't have to be long.

And to make things worse I had to wear the Jeans That Don't Fit today so even with a belt pulled to the last hole they kept falling down. And I had to get from one side of the campus to the other in under five minutes and down two flights of stairs and up one flight of stairs as well. Under those five minutes.
And my jeans have been slipping down all day.



I'm very spacey today aren't I? Eyes burning up top.

@Eggy: favouriting that blog.

EDIT:
And I do declaren unto thee worlyd that Y hayte Mondays with a pafion moft fiery. Alfo Tuesdayf through Sundayf.

[Tempest Fennac]

Why were you wearing those jeans if they don't fit? It's odd that you don't sleep well on Sundays.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Why were you wearing those jeans if they don't fit? It's odd that you don't sleep well on Sundays.

Because I like walking around as if I were a Jezebel!
[sarky tone]How about this? If someone wears something that doesn't fit then surely one can infer from that that there's nothing else they can wear![/sarky tone]

I need a nap.

[Edge]

Well, Mondays are much better for me now, given that I'm running the first game of D&D my group has played in about 3 or 4 years.

Eberron game using Pathfinder rules.

Action points really need to be renamed AWESOME POINTS THAT YOU SHALL BOW BEFORE!

The group's changeling rogue survived a 2000ft fall in Sharn thanks to timely invervention of the warforged wizard's floating disk and a Action Point-aided jump.

Then he proceeded to get kicked in the face by the other changeling he was chasing. :smallwink:

Now, to actually stat those recurring villains. Ak, Shrapnel and Roughhouse.

On a semi-related note, does a warforged armed with a component that shoots lightning bolts too powerful? Or does the awesomeness make it alright?

[randman22222]

Because I like walking around as if I were a Jezebel!
[sarky tone]How about this? If someone wears something that doesn't fit then surely one can infer from that that there's nothing else they can wear![/sarky tone]

I need a nap.

That was kinda mean. I concur with that. You ought to sleep a little. :smallconfused:

[Destro_Yersul]

Depends how often it does so, really. If you were to power it by sticking a wand into the slot, like a battery, I wouldn't have a huge problem with it. If it lets the warforged go all Palpatine on everyone all the time whenever he feels like, it's a bit powerful.

[Tempest Fennac]

That would be fine, Edge (Destro has a good point). That scenario with the Changeling sounded ironic.

[Lyesmith]

Nobody sleeps well on sundays. Ever.
I'm always assailed by paranoia, and little swarms of thoughts.

You know what sucks, actually?
I have to miss 2 hours of a triple sociology lesson tomorrow to learn how to look after kids.
I dont WANT to be doing this stupid "House form" thing. It's a waste of my goddamn time. Form is for doing work i've not done yet, not being a good citizen and helping children.:smallfurious: I HATE children. And all the lower years are scum, anyway.

I shall be as obstinate as i possibly can. Maybe they'll ban me from doing it at all if i just sugest violence all the time.

I should go into teaching.

However! I got a C for my first bit of work in english, and a B in my psychology test. I rule. Now I just need to learn to do work at home, instead of relying on Free lessons.:smalleek:

[Zeful]

Violence and teaching don't mix. Teaching and toothbrushes do however.

And the punishment for fighting in school should be saturday and sunday classes.

[Tempest Fennac]

For some reason, my secondary school (as well as my sister's) did a similar thing to that with forms (I don't think there was honestly much of a benefit to it).

[Jibar]

Brilliance
Definition: Trying to find this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6zzIWw6BU8&feature=related), and finding the most relevant video is this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKPi8xtyjA&feature=related)

:biggrin:

[Lyesmith]

Oh, Gods.
Jibar.
I actually like that song now.
Still, it'll be fun to tease Rhian with. Who didnt realise what it was about. Oh, Rhian.

And yes, it really is a lamentable waste of time. I could be doing stuff that matters, damnit!

[Tempest Fennac]

For some reason, schools have issues with the idea that they exist to teach people, and they seem to think that stuff like that is productive (it's like head teachers rambling on about naff-all at prize-giving ceromonies).

[bosssmiley]

On a semi-related note, does a warforged armed with a component that shoots lightning bolts too powerful? Or does the awesomeness make it alright?

It would probably count as an inbuilt wand whatsit component from the ECS.
Probably not overpowered
the wand will probably require UMD checks to activate
it'll run down quickly enough (50 charges or 2/day won't last long if used as a primary weapon)
a characteristic weapon like that will teach its own counter (energy resistance) quickly enough
Functionally it would be not dissimilar to a breath weapon: intermittent substantial damage


Violence and teaching don't mix.

Who is this oik who knows not our ancient and honourable traditions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning)? Six of the best for the rapscallion! :smallbiggrin:

[mangosta71]

I thought Curly's response was more funny than mean. But I'm told that I have an odd sense of humor. And we won't go into what went through my head when she said her pants kept falling down. :smallredface:

Anyhoo, *hugs* to Curly. Get some sleep, hun.

[Destro_Yersul]

See? I'm good with titles. Only six pages and we've hit Disturbing already. Distracting was a given. :smallbiggrin:

And yeah, I thought it was kinda funny too. And I too have an odd sense of humour. I believe 'warped' is how it's been referred to most often.

[Dihan]

There's a "Self Help Day" on Wednesday in my school. Basically we're sent 10 KM along the mountains in a circle, raising money for the school, except we're not allowed to get sponsors. It wouldn't be so bad but as I'm in year 13 we're given the job of standing around with friends all day telling people which way to go - I did this last year and it was fun. However this year I have no good friends (I stayed back a year to finish off two AS courses I started last year) so I really don't want to go just to sit around by myself doing nothing.

Besides, I'm not much of a walker. I think I'll just stay at home and do something productive, like, I don't know, homework perhaps? Instead of wasting my time sitting around watching little brats raise a handful of pennies for my stupid school, and developing a cold in the process.

/endminirant

[mangosta71]

You could get a loudspeaker and play the theme song from M*A*S*H through it at all the walkers.
For those who are too young to remember, the song is titled Suicide is Painless.

[Edge]

Yup, it's wand-powered. The only fight they've had with these guys so far was really short, given the NPCs were on a grab-and-run mission. Now to develop a complication for the Karnnathi dragonshard...

[CurlyKitGirl]

I'm British - all British people are warped.
I'm a teenager - all teenagers are warped, twisted, evil and suffer from hormones.
I have a sarcastic wit and a tongue shaped from purest acid.
I am also sleep deprived. And cranky. And writing in French.

I am therefore, warped and twisted so far past evil that even CE looks like LG.

In other news, I'm finding it so easy to switch from French to ENglish and vice versa that when I talk to myself it's a peculiar mixture of both, with some Japanese and latin mixed in for fun.

[Lyesmith]

*Groans*
Oh gods.
Curlyyyy
That sounds painful to me. I am utterly, utterly monolingual, no matter how hard I try. I put in a ton of effort for French, and got a bloody E!

[Edge]

I pepper my English with the odd French, Italian or Ancient Sumerian word.

What? :smallconfused:

[wadledo]

I have failed to learn(in no particular order):
French,
Latin,
Spanish,
American Sign Language,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese,
Italian,
and Cherokee.

My girlfriend has tried to teach me a little Hawaiian, and I have several friends who can speak Korean who also say I'm hopeless.
Don't talk to me about being bad at languages.:smallmad:

[Zeful]

Languages are fun (hard but...) though I only failed spanish class twice.

[Gem Flower]

Ooh! Languages!:smallbiggrin: *excels at languages* :smalltongue:

[Dr. Bath]

Noouu! My story about failing at German! All gone. Curse you cuttarl button!

Anyhoo... <3 BBC radio. Yayz! 8 til midnight on bbc radio 1 and 2 makes me happy. :smallbiggrin:

[Destro_Yersul]

I'm British - all British people are warped.
I'm a teenager - all teenagers are warped, twisted, evil and suffer from hormones.
I have a sarcastic wit and a tongue shaped from purest acid.
I am also sleep deprived. And cranky. And writing in French.

I am therefore, warped and twisted so far past evil that even CE looks like LG.

I'm Canadian, which is close enough, and I appreciate British Humour.
I technically still a teenager, though that'll end in a month or so.
I'm sarcastic and generally amusing, even if only I think so.
I'm sleep deprived, which makes everything inexplicably funny, and I hate French.

I end up NG. Study in contradictions, I am.

I want to learn German, because it's so much fun to yell in, but for now I'm sticking with English. Which means I have an excessive vocabulary in that one language, because I can't be arsed to start learning a new one.

[Lyesmith]

I'm British - all British people are warped.
I'm a teenager - all teenagers are warped, twisted, evil and suffer from hormones.
I have a sarcastic wit and a tongue shaped from purest acid.
I am also sleep deprived. And cranky. And writing in French.

I am therefore, warped and twisted so far past evil that even CE looks like LG.

In other news, I'm finding it so easy to switch from French to ENglish and vice versa that when I talk to myself it's a peculiar mixture of both, with some Japanese and latin mixed in for fun.

I'm Brit and twisted.
Teen and twisted (And hella hormonal)
Sarcasm and wit are one's bread and butter.
But i'm generally just cranky.

And CN. CN is the best alignment, really. You can do Whatever you want. The Fey have it right, ladies and gents.

*Dances the Saftey Dance*

[Oregano]

Can all the British people name things that represent Britishness, it's actually for Film but I already have an idea.

Rain= Represents the Passive Aggressiveness of British people(We'll complain but do nothing about it).

[Lyesmith]

I really wish i could find the Goodness Gracious Me Eurovision entry.
It sums up the british SO WELL.

Edit : Found it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2ChYuRh3U)

[Edge]

Britishness is fish'n'chips, umbrellas, the Guardian and a love of dark humour.

c/f Frankie Boyle.

[Lyesmith]

Ah, Frankie Boyle. He's by far one of my favourite comedians.:smallbiggrin:

[CurlyKitGirl]

What's so wierd about monologuing to oneself in many languages? But at least I've done the formal letter now.

And I've just remembered something I completely forgot, and even saved deliberately to tell you guys.
In E Lang we had a practice exam paper to do today (warming up for commentary and January) and one of the articles we had to base our directed writing off of was from WIKIPEDIA!
An article in an exam paper.
From Wikipedia.
I had a geeky moment and referenced xkcd all over the paper. And then some other geeky things.


Can all the British people name things that represent Britishness, it's actually for Film but I already have an idea.

Rain= Represents the Passive Aggressiveness of British people(We'll complain but do nothing about it).

Jermey Clarkson on The British [from Never Mind the Buzzcocks] (paraphrased): " . . . and we, who were raised on a steady diet of fish fingers and drizzle eventually managed to conquer a third of the known world."

[Destro_Yersul]

Does the fish n' chips have Tartar sauce? Because if it does I totally call it.

Also, and don't take this the wrong way any of you British folks out there: You have pretentious accents. :smalltongue:

[Lyesmith]

It's not so much wierd, it just makes me scared of you.
Another guy who's name i've forgotten on the british :
'The average person from britan would rather be right than happy. This tells you all you need to know, really.'

[Oregano]

I personally find British accents to sound normal, even if they're fastly different, it might be because I'm used to them though.

Some American accent's annoy me, I was watchign a clip of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind earlier and Jim Carrey's voice was so annoying, of course Kate Winslet's faux-american voice was worse.

[Groundhog]

I find that when people who don't have an American accent try to put one on, they usually sound like they're imitating someone who has some sort of mental problem. Wonder what that says about most people's opinion of Americans...

Also, why have people switched to Jibar-like muffintars?

[Destro_Yersul]

Jibar's Birthday is coming up. We want to inflate his ego.

[Lyesmith]

Yeah. We figued it's best to make him happy and lure him into a false sense of security before we sacrifice him.

[Groundhog]

Aha. Just how is the sacrificing going to work?

[Dr. Bath]

The gist of it is we use a big cake knife, and on the day... Cake for all! Except it would be muffin, not cake.

[YPU]

Destro, get posting in the Shadowrun topic, they are asking all kinds of difficult questions.
I might resort to foetal position and humming soon…

[Groundhog]

The gist of it is we use a big cake knife, and on the day... Cake for all! Except it would be muffin, not cake.
That's ok. Muffins are just as delicious.

[Vuzzmop]

wow. i leave the forums for a few months and look how they grow!
.
.
.
And now I feel lonely.
"Agrees with YPU. Gets all hummy and foetal."

[Destro_Yersul]

Way ahead of you, my undead friend. So no humming, or you'll interrupt the sleep I should be having right now. But aren't, because this topic is aptly named.

[Oregano]

Apparently someone's making a Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time movie, starring Jake Gyleenhaal.:smalleek:

[bosssmiley]

Can all the British people name things that represent Britishness, it's actually for Film but I already have an idea.

Rain= Represents the Passive Aggressiveness of British people(We'll complain but do nothing about it).

What's British? Entire books have been written on the subject mate. I particularly recommend Hilaire Belloc, George Orwell and Jeremy Paxman on the English (coz, let's face it, the English set the tone for Britishness, by sheer weight of numbers if naught else). I have little enough time for that dreary tourist Bill Bryson, and would only recommend him to the limited understanding of a contemptible Johnny Foreigner.

As for what defines classic Britishness: pragmatism, phlegmatic stoicism, rigorous self-discipline, rampant hypocrisy, a tolerance for eccentricity, casual arrogance towards foreigners, the belief that one's home is one's castle, twitching net curtains, the phrase "I know my rights", and the unshakable belief that - aside from HM the Queen and the BBC - the country has gone completely to the dogs. pace Orwell we have hot water bottles and tweed nightwear instead of love lives, and the country runs on a diet of tea, scones and Victoria sponge.

Our favourite war heroes all die in the attempt (Hotspur, Wolfe, Nelson, Gordon), and the best kind of war is one where the British are beleaguered and alone, but remain steady and unbowed.
The quintessential British love story is "Brief Encounter".
The quintessential British composers Elgar and Vaughn Williams.

@Edge: The Grauniad is not quintessentially English you scruffy little reprobate, The Times (which may be appended "of London" in the presence of benighted colonials) is.


Also, and don't take this the wrong way any of you British folks out there: You have pretentious accents. :smalltongue:

I assure you, we haven't. A Bostonian accent ("Hahvahd yahd...") is pretentious (http://definr.com/pretentious); an accent dating back to before William the Conqueror is anything but. :smallwink:


Apparently someone's making a Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time movie, starring Jake Gyleenhaal.:smalleek:

Well that's a film that'll suck donkeys for pocket change then.

Jake Gyjellenegeventhespellcheckerhateshimgehagehallal can't act for toffee ("Dozy Dorko", "Day After Toshmorrow", "Jarhead" all prove he is a talentless one-note performer).

Obviously David K. Zandi was just too Persian for Hollywood's rarefied tastes. :smallamused:

[mangosta71]

I like English accents, for the most part. I absolutely despise the American Southern accent. I've worked all my life at not developing one because I don't want to sound like some backwards idiot when I speak.

[DraPrime]

I don't mind the American southern accent. It makes people sound more friendly. I hate the Boston accent (ironic since half the people I know have one), because American accent+lack of the letter R=really irritating. You don't park a car. You pahk a cah.

[Oregano]

They should have got Omid Djalili to play the Prince obviously. That could end up suirprisingly awesome.

[Dr. Bath]

They should have got Omid Djalili to play the Prince obviously. That could end up suirprisingly awesome.

I would watch that. Probably twice. :smallbiggrin:

Omid Djalili is hilarious, one of the best stand-ups I've seen.

[DraPrime]

They should have got Omid Djalili to play the Prince obviously. That could end up suirprisingly awesome.

Really? I always thought that Sacha Cohen would be fantastic. I'm joking

[Oregano]

He's nowhere near as funny as Omid Djalili, in fact I don't think of him as that funny, where as Omid Djalili never fails to supply the laughs.

[Dr. Bath]

Sacha Baron Cohen? Of Bruno, Borat and Ali G fame? I don't see it. Not as an arabian prince.

And yeah, not nearly as funny as Omid. He's the no. 1 Iranian comedian in Britain. :smallwink:

[de-trick]

got to love my accent, canadian small town hick accent, mixed with a bit of ukraine swears with a little native talk(mustly to annoy them:smalltongue:)


but i dont like big city accents there too quick and rushed, like the layed back talk.

[DraPrime]

He's nowhere near as funny as Omid Djalili, in fact I don't think of him as that funny, where as Omid Djalili never fails to supply the laughs.

Observe the white text in my post and all will become clear :smalltongue:

[Groundhog]

Apparently someone's making a Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time movie, starring Jake Gyleenhaal.:smalleek:

Is this another one of those movies that attempts to be historical and fails?

[DraPrime]

Is this another one of those movies that attempts to be historical and fails?

It's based of a very unhistorical video game.

[Bitzeralisis]

A movie based on a video game? That's a new one.

And the converse of what it should be.

Yes, I'm taking Geometry. :smalltongue:

[Copacetic]

Y'all have ten seconds to decide who would win in a fight, Gorilla's with Shotguns or Velociraptors with RPC' (http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/Logicone/RocketPropelledChainsaw.jpg)s.

On a more serious note, really hope I win the bet I made with my fellow AP Algebra student. If I lose, I have to hand him 5$ and eat a Teaching Certificate. Long Story.

[Uncle Festy]

Y'all have ten seconds to decide who would win in a fight, Gorilla's with Shotguns or Velociraptors with RPC' (http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/Logicone/RocketPropelledChainsaw.jpg)s.

Duh. Velociraptors beat anything, RPCs beat anything. No competition.
But, er… try and pull back on the raptor discussion. I just finished watching Jurassic Park. :smalleek:

[Thes Hunter]

Chili that is almost too hot to eat makes.....


Guess..


Chili con queso that is almost too hot to eat. Yowzas! :smalleek:

[Groundhog]

What's chili con queso?

[Recaiden]

What's chili con queso?

A food made with beef, tomatoish sauce, chili peppers, sometimes beans, and in this case, also cheese. Chili (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_con_carne)

Maybe, just maybe, the movie will be okay.

[Phase]

Duh. Velociraptors beat anything, RPCs beat anything. No competition.
But, er… try and pull back on the raptor discussion. I just finished watching Jurassic Park. :smalleek:

Don't worry, Sam Jackson is down here with you. See there's his arm no-OHMYGODSITSANARMOMGHALP!!!!!

[Skippy]

Maybe, just maybe, the movie will be okay.

I've seen only ONE half-well done movie based on a video game, and it was Silent Hill. Statistically speaking, it will also be a mediocre movie.

List of movies based on video games I remember so far:

-Super Mario Bros
-Street Fighter
-Mortal Kombat
-Alone in the Dark (ugh. It hurts to remember)
-Tomb Raider
-Hitman
-Bloodrayne (It hurts even harder)

If anyone else remembers any movie I missed, be my guests and add them to the list.

@V: Oh, yeah. I knew I was forgetting something important.

[Bitzeralisis]

Final Fantasy? :smalltongue:

[Destro_Yersul]

Final Fantasy had some good fight scenes, and was an interesting movie. It would have been better if most of it actually made sense. Yes, I played FF7, and it still made no sense.

[mangosta71]

If you really want your brain to scream in pain and attempt to flee in terror, Street Fighter Alpha. Yes, you mentioned Street Fighter, but Alpha is so godawful it deserves special and separate mention.

[Skippy]

Street Fighter.

Guile was the hero.

Not Ryu, or even Ken. And Ken was also American, so he should have been the hero.

Dhalsim is an evil scientist and E. Honda is a... cameraman?

If that movie was terrible, I shudder at the thought of an even worse movie based on Street Fighter Alpha...

[Oregano]

I like the first Mortal Kombat, think it's awesome, the second one...not so much.

Oh right, you were joking, that makes sense.

FF: Advent Children was very flawed, you needed to have seen FFVII, it's got bad pacing really and the plot would have been better if they made it a sequel game like DoC. Doesn't work as a movie, works as a really long cutscene though.:smalltongue:

[Nychta]

Being the horribly superficial person that I am, my friends had to lure me into Final Fantasy with Crisis Core. Shiny graphics...

My problem is that I kinda know the plot now.

Also, I don't understand why people are so attached to Aerith. Though I did cry buckets when Zack died.

[Tempest Fennac]

Street Fighter was awful. My sister decided to watch AC dispite not playing FF7, and she said it was good apart from the pointless cameos and the fact that the last half an hour was weird.

[Kimusabe]

Being the horribly superficial person that I am, my friends had to lure me into Final Fantasy with Crisis Core. Shiny graphics...


Well our plan worked, didn't it :smalltongue:


My sister decided to watch AC dispite not playing FF7, and she said it was good apart from the pointless cameos and the fact that the last half an hour was weird.

She might not have found the last half hour wierd if she had played through FF7 (but for some people, doing so didn't help, which is fair enough considering how strange the plot of Advent Children is), but it's great that she enjoyed it regardless.:smallbiggrin:

[bosssmiley]

They should have got Omid Djalili to play the Prince obviously. That could end up surprisingly awesome.

How that is casting! :smallcool:


Street Fighter.

Guile was the hero. Not Ryu, or even Ken. And Ken was also American, so he should have been the hero. Dhalsim is an evil scientist and E. Honda is a... cameraman?

You fail at understanding the hilarious awesome that was the Street Fighter movie! It is the very embodiment of so bad its good (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoBadItsGood). It's nearly as fantastically bad as "Beyond Reanimator". Come on, how can you not laugh your ass off at poor Simon Callow telephoning it in, or at the antics of the late great Raul Julia, or at Van Damme and Kylie Minnow as AN peacekeepers with their bad-ass stealth boat, or at Blanka the Hulk.

Street Fighter quotes page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111301/quotes) at IMDB.com. Brace for comedy gold. :smallbiggrin:


Bison: Ah! Doctor Dhalsim! How is your research today?
Dr. Dhalsim: The same. Warped. Corrupted. My science twisted to serve perversion instead of peace.
Bison: Tell you what. After I've crushed my enemies, we'll see about getting you published. That should cheer you up, hmm?

[banjo1985]

Huzzah more Final Fantasy converts! Advent Children was a great film, though I had never completed FF7 and so had no idea who Zack was or his relevance to the plot.

Reno is still my favourite. :smallbiggrin:

*resists temptation to shamelessly plug his FF WW game*

[Phase]

All this talk of video game movies makes me wonder what Uwe Boll is corrupting next.

[SMEE]

Someone help me! D:

I'm having the weirdest idea ever! D: I want to buy another 8 goomba plushies in the next few months to add to the one I have so I can name them 100, 200, 500, 800, 1000, 2000, 5000, 8000 and 1up! :smalleek:

[dish]

Should we be helping you by encouraging you, or by discouraging you? :smallconfused:

[Destro_Yersul]

Encouraging, obviously. Bonus points if they get lined up on a shelf with a poster of jumping pixel-mario bouncing off the last one's head.

[SMEE]

But, but, but!!! They're goombas! They're so cute for having an evil Mario bouncing in their heads!

No member of the Mario family is getting close to my goombas!

They're mine! My own! My precious! :smallfurious:

[Zeful]

Then you shouldn't name them by the game's scoring convention. Just saying.

[Oregano]

I have an issue with Crisis Core though, I'm sure many people wanted to know Zack's story but he was only there to be Cloud's idol, he wasn't supposed to be some utter badass that gets involved in an awesome plot(I don't actully have Crisis Core so I may be wrong), I think it kind of cheapens Cloud even more in a way. This should probably be in a gaming conversation.

Personally I'd love to see a miniseries of FFIV, but I'd demand that the majority(if not all) of the dialogue was took from the DS game. It'd be fun to hear You Spoony Bard!

Street Fighter was good as a mindless action movie but no good as a Street Fighter movie.

EDIT: Do you really think the Chun Li movie with Kristin Kreuk will be any better?

[Tempest Fennac]

What did "spoony" mean anyway? Apparently, there's some foxes who live near to where I'm staying at university. I'll need to resist the urge to feed them, though.:smallfrown:

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Are you forgetting the Super Mario Brothers movie when discussing bad games to movies?

[Oregano]

Apparently Spoony means foolish, but it could have other meanings.

[Tempest Fennac]

Thanks (I was never entirely sure). I know the Western version of FF6 was plagued with poor translation as well.

[Skippy]

-Super Mario Bros
-Street Fighter
-Mortal Kombat
-Alone in the Dark (ugh. It hurts to remember)
-Tomb Raider
-Hitman
-Bloodrayne (It hurts even harder)

@Atreyu: It was on top of my list. The scars aren't closed yet.

@^: It's called "Woolseyism (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Woolseyism)"

[Oregano]

What about Double Dragon and Dungeon Siege?

[Skippy]

What about Double Dragon and Dungeon Siege?

I knew I was forgetting another terrible Uwe Boll Movie. Or maybe I had it blocked from my mind...

[Jibar]

Arrrrgh.
InkGuy's laptop decided to reformat my mp3 player when it couldn't read it, and so I lost all my music. I've got it all on my computer, but it took me two hours to get all the songs I wanted on there. Then, since I use it as a soundtrack for several of my 360 games and I really can't be bothered to put all the music back I was going to put music onto the hard drive.
OH HEY. YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
Apparantly I can only put music on the hard drive if I own it in an audio CD style. So I would need like 50+ CDs to get all my music on there. Because no, not allowed to rip from DVDs. That's not fair. And no, I can't copy it from my computer onto the hard drive. I can only stream. And NO. I can't stream without connecting to the network. And I can't connect to the network because Microsoft decided that installing any king of wireless adaptor into any of their consoles after the Wii and PS3 proved it could be done would be UNFAIR. Even if you bought the Elite version and expected something a little more than a HMDI cable and a bigger hard drive.

Summary of Jibar's Day: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHHHH!
HATE MP3 PLAYERS
HATE XBOX
HATE MICROSOFT

On the plus side, I found myself a new hero. A man who perfectly reflects much of my personal philosophy and beliefs in the media.
Antonin Artaud. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaud)

[Skippy]

HATE MICROSOFT

Welcome to the club.

Edit: I forgot to add. I am terribly sorry for your loss. I know what it feels like, to lose those carefully chosen tracks in your mp3 player, all the time invested on it and everything... You've got my sympathy, Jib.

[Exeson]

Summary of Jibar's Day: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHHHH!
HATE MP3 PLAYERS
HATE XBOX
HATE MICROSOFT

Dude, don't fight the corporation now. Wait till Microsoft have taken over the world and then join myself and other like minded individuals in the resistance movement. :smallamused:

[Oregano]

Dude, don't fight the corporation now. Wait till Microsoft have taken over the world and then join myself and other like minded individuals in the resistance movement. :smallamused:

We shall call it the Nintendo Revolution, oh wait...:smalltongue:

[TwoBitWriter]

Dude, don't fight the corporation now. Wait till Microsoft have taken over the world and then join myself and other like minded individuals in the resistance movement. :smallamused:

Thats most unfortunate... outing yourself to the future ruler of Microsoft/The World!

"Guards! Seize them!"

[The Rose Dragon]

I am strangely addicted to cashew nuts. I don't find the taste great or anything, but I keep eating them.

What's more, I just drank coke. A lot of it. Cashew nuts just drown the taste of coke.

It's terrible. Help?

[wadledo]

Try being addicted to dried cranberries.
Say it with me:
Bath-room

[Oregano]

Hmmm, go to sleep, that should help the addiction a bit.:smalltongue:

Did no one get my joke?:smallfrown:

[Dallas-Dakota]

Microsoft? Microsoft?

It´s google that is taking over the world....... Slowly....Ever growing......

We must resist it, code zebra alpha tango whiskey foxtrot, over.

[TwoBitWriter]

Try being addicted to dried cranberries.
Say it with me:
Bath-room

Me? I'm addicted to Hedonism... Can't get enough of it.

Usually not at the expense of other though, so I consider myself relatively harmless.

[Destro_Yersul]

I'm torn between being impressed that you seem to know the words for military alphabet off by heart and the fact that that acronym severely confuses me, if Acronym it is.

[Oregano]

Alpha
Beta Bravo, shouln't listened to my bro, I wouldn'y have been corrected then.:smalltongue:
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee
....I'm thinking Zulu(but apparently it's not).

My brother actually said most of them, I knew about half of them.

EDIT: And c'mon people "The Nintendo Revolution" That's pure comedy gold!

EDIT 2: Spoilered now.

@V: My brother said Bravo, I chose to ignore him, how foolish of me.:smallredface:

[Dr. Bath]

Psst! It's Bravo, not Beta.

If you're fed up with Microsoft get a Mac. Or Linux.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I'm torn between being impressed that you seem to know the words for military alphabet off by heart and the fact that that acronym severely confuses me, if Acronym it is.
No its not a acronym....
And Bath stands correct.

And thenks.

[bosssmiley]

Summary of Jibar's Day: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHHHH!
HATE MP3 PLAYERS
HATE XBOX
HATE MICROSOFT

You might want to start reading Shamus Young and Lawrence Lessig.
They, like most sensible people, seem to be of the crazy old 19th century mindset of "you bought it, you own it, you can do with it what you like". Accordingly they think that intrusive DRM is the work of the devil.


On the plus side, I found myself a new hero. A man who perfectly reflects much of my personal philosophy and beliefs in the media.
Antonin Artaud. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaud)

Now he is a curious little Johnny Frog. Typical French wild overstatement of his - otherwise interesting - case, a nasty dose of existentialism and cultural self-loathing, copypastas Nietzsche with a conveniently-timed psychotic breakdown (193X-1946 :smallamused: ), responsible for numerous acts of cultural emesis in the guise of 'performance art', but at least he's not a worthless Marxist like 90% of recent French 'thinkers' seem to be.

Theatre of Cruelty? We in England call that 'immersive theatre' or simply 'good stage technique'. :smalltongue:


Alpha
Beta
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee
....I'm thinking Zulu(but apparently it's not)

It was Zulu in the old phonetic alphabet. AFAIR it's currently Zebra.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Dang typo´s, I see it now... Ment Zebra. And yes it was Zulu, and so I remember both....

Annoying.:smallannoyed:

[The Rose Dragon]

I think it is Zulu, but it used to be Zebra.

It was our homework to memorize those in 5th grade in English class. I live in Turkey. You do the math.

[Dallas-Dakota]

*can´t remember which one was first*:smallannoyed:

Also, I can poke a classmate twice and he´s down on the floor. When he was sitting normally. Studying. And not really hard pokes at that....

[Oregano]

I think Zulu's the old one.

I take it yous all know the weird thing about the phrase "over and out" then?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Note to self:
Do not watch the following shows while drinking fizzy pop (no particular order to this):
Buzzcocks
HIGNFY
Mock the Week
QI
Most shows on Dave

Reason:
You could spray your laptop/book/homework with the drink.
Your nose and nasal passages will burn.
It'll go down the wrong tubes.
All of the above.

Painful.
Also, I'm going to bed earlier and earlier every night. Sunday: half midnight. Monday: half eleven. Tonight: about ten or half past.

And tomorrow I'm essentially coming in from nine fifteen until four fifteen for an hour lesson starting at three fifteen.
I'm even going to do some optional homework during the boring times. Well, all of it.