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2010-08-21, 12:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
LGBT in the playground - banner by Doihaveaname?.
Thanks to Ceika, Dihan, Happy Turtle, Reicaden and Haruki for the avatars.
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2010-08-21, 12:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
...Is it strange that both times I snuck on to post in RB. it was in response to SMEE rooting for a boxer?
Well, it's too bad that she lost, but at least she had a shot.
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2010-08-21, 05:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- for the sake of my art?
Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
. . .so am I, and not in a good way. "The color? Always something tacky" indeed. Pyrian's undercoat speech sounds plausible, but the first reaction. . .eergh. Then again, I always did prefer the bisque ceramics before my mother painted them and had them fired (sorry, mom). I'll take my similitude of life in 2-D forms only, please. Save the color for the life. Wear wild prints no matter how pale you are.
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2010-08-21, 06:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 06:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
LGBT in the playground - banner by Doihaveaname?.
Thanks to Ceika, Dihan, Happy Turtle, Reicaden and Haruki for the avatars.
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2010-08-21, 06:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Want to meet some of the most awesome people on the internet? Come to the Baltimore/DC Area RenFest Meetup 2012!
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2010-08-21, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 07:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Well, they were doing it in encaustics. Gardner's Art Through The Ages (12th edition, 2006) contends that the greeks did paint their sculpture, but did not use garish colors.
Apparently they favored leaving the flesh in the natural color of the stone brought out through polishing and painted using encaustics (basically, mixing the pigment with hot wax) I'll PM the link to the excerpt I found since, well, it is an art history book and as such has naughtybits.
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2010-08-21, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Good. So I still have the right address, then.
Yes, you really should read H2G2. One of the best endings to a chapter in a book ever is found in H2G2. Just one sentence that has nothing to do with anything else in the chapter.
Also, I have to admit it actually took me a few seconds to re-arrange the Star Trek reference and to make it make sense. But I got there in the end.
The log usually confuses us too, and we were the ones who wrote it. It usually starts off pretty informative about who shows up when and where, and what we plan on doing, and then, as we start getting inebriated, we just jot down random thoughts or out of context comments.
It's great fun, though.
Also, the DD from the H2G2 group is Demon Drawer, and not Dallas-Dakota.
The fact that I've met two distinct groups from the internet and both of them have a DD was actually discussed during the H2G2 meet.
Also, the DD from H2G2 commented on Thufir's pics from the UKitP meet posted n Facebook during the H2G2 meet, and mixed things up so he thought the pics were posted by one of his mates that I didn't know. It was a pretty weird and slightly confusing moment.
Seconded.
I haven't been to a proper Kräftskiva for ages. One of the drawbacks of living in the UK, where they don't realy eat crayfish. Sure, you can get crayfish at IKEA during the crayfish season, but it's not the same.
Also, for anyone wanting to see a kind of typical crayfish party (although slightly exaggerated for tv purposes) you can go to about 42 minutes into this YouTube video (after going through the 4OD ads, unfortunately).
Edit Also: I didn't make any pancakes or waffles last night. Decided it was too much effort, so I had a few friends over to play some Carcassonne and then order in Chinese food instead.
And apparently, I agreed to some guy coming over to give me a quote for a new kitchen today. Even though I can't afford a new kitchen.
I think that some important other business needs to pop up so that the appointment can't go ahead. Masybe I need to go for a walk or something.
That's important, right?
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2010-08-21, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 08:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Yay!
I must obiect to that. I have some excellent friends who are skinny. Cassie is skinny, and you know she's lovely.
And I'm iust back from another party. This has been quite a week, and I am now left with good memories, many photos, and a great desire to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Yay!
I usually read all of RB, but if I'm in a hurry I iust skim over everyone's posts except a few people. Curly is one of those people.
How can she blaspheme? She's a Goddess!
Also, they'll appreciate it less if they later find out you lied.
Never.
Inappropriate iokes... so tempting..."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2010-08-21, 08:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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2010-08-21, 08:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Actually, I think the "umbrella" is a bird, and that those features are visible on the clean statue as well.
Augh, now I'm curious too.
ION: More orienteering, and I think my right foot hates me for this weekly torture session I'm subjecting it to.
IOON: This computer is working horrendously slow, probably due to the downloader that's trying to download something moderately reasonable from the internet, but fails horribly (it does download, but it does so at a speed which is most easily counted in unprefixed bytes per second) and just ends up slowing the whole computer down. I think I'll change to the other computer now.
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The crayfish party or (paranormalbeingofimmensepower forbid) the SW Holiday Special watching?Last edited by Teddy; 2010-08-21 at 09:32 AM.
Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
Spoiler: Banner by Vrythas
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2010-08-21, 09:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 09:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Moving back in with my father has both up and down-sides.
PRO:
Awesome shower
Mahoosive comfy towels
My old roomy room
Public transport is slightly better (as in, I can get the train/bus within a 40 minute walk)
CON:
Like, half the food is out of date ARGH
The internet is actually worse than with my fosterfamily
My room is still chaos
The shower curtain is broken and there's a bathchair in the bath
I like to complain. Also, now I have to go shopping for stuff we need which means I need to make a list and I HATE LISTS and all the newspapers hate me for doing well in my A-levels.Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2010-08-21, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Ah, newspapers. They do love to hate. With exams it's always either "Exams are getting easier!" or "The educational system is failing!"
Both annoy me in equal measure. I'd like to see the writers of those frankly insulting articles take an exam, just to see if they're up to scratch, and in most cases to expose their own staggering hypocrisy. They seem to adore cheapening the achievements of students across the country.
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2010-08-21, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2010-08-21, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
He'd probably be one of the only ones to pass.
Just don't let him take Business Studies.
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2010-08-21, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
The thing I find ridiculous was that people were saying that exams were getting easier, and too many people were getting As, so they introduced A* to help differentiate the really good from the good, and make fewer people get As... then the same complainers say that adding A* destroys creativity because people are scared they might drop marks and not get an A*.
BANG → !
OH LOOK AT HER/.../YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN MEAN/RICHARDS
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2010-08-21, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2010-08-21, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 11:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Awesome.
You. Me. Meetup. End of September good? If not, December?
According to anecdotal evidence I was reading when I was three or four. Apparently the KoorlyParents were buying me KS1 prep stuff when I was in nursery.
I doubt that, but I know I was reading when I started Y1 at six (I don't actually think there was a reception at my school until I was in Y2). And I know that because I got The Chronicles of Narnia as a present in December 1997, so I would have been six and three-quarters.
So people can drama you?
Hmmm, Bath, we of the Playground drama you.
How late is late? King Charles I, for instance, didn't speak until he was six years old.
And yes, there is a language centre in the brain, and most language theorists (there's a proper name for this, but I forget) say that for most children language skills (grammar and vocabulary) are almost fully acquired by the age of two. By the age of four a child should have the rough skills of an adult. Obviously not all the finer grammar or the vocabulary; but all the essential skills are there.
The main part of language acquisition should be done before the age of two.
I have several chapters of this kind of thing if anyone's interested in further detail.
Yup.
Doi. Iust remembered where the H2G2 reference came from.
And I'm quite happy that the original Enterprise reg had the same number of letters and numbers as a Britlander postcode.
That's the best part of having a log. You can track how things such as common sense disintegrate and where in-iokes take over everything including comprehension.
Hehe. A fun coincidence though. If a little meta that the discussing of coincidental DDs is brought up at a meetup and on a thread for the other guys.
It always happens.
They never take into account that the exam format has changed, as has the marking system and the syllabus. Basically, the only thing the new A Levels have in common with the old ones is the name, and some of the subiects. Plus they didn't have coursework like we do.
And when it comes to comparing A Levels to O Levels it makes me angry.
They also never consider that the teachers have had more experience with teaching the subiects, and they can roughly predict the type of questions that will show up, or at least certain themes that are most likely to appear based on examing every exam paper since 2002. Or how about that because many of the books (for the literary exams) have been offered up for exams and coursework have been so for multiple years. This means the teachers will know the books backwards and forwards and will do their best to show their pupils what they know.
I think this sort of thing is typical only to Britland, it's as if we can't comprehend a positive.
A Level results are better than ever!
Then the exams are too easy; make them harder.
A Level results have gone down 2% compared to last year!
Then the education system has gotten worse and the children are stupid now. Teach them better.
Bathatar!
Squid bones are lies.
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2010-08-21, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-08-21, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
The HooToo group has logged events for most of our meetups (well, the official ones, anyway) since the first one ten years ago.
Some of them are just plain weird.
I used to have a link to a place where one of the guys had collated all the logs and posted them, but I can't find the link now.
Random juvenile jokes and innuendos abound. Along with random quotes like "No, Wumbie! Bad Wumbie!" or "That's what duck tape is for." All of which can be taken waaaaay out of context.
Great fun to go back to see what happened, or at least what we decided was notable enough to jot down in the log, all those years ago.
Edit: Also, I couldn't get away from the kitchen salesman guy. I tried to ignore him, but he buzzed every flat in the building and one of the neighbours let him in, and then he started knocking on my door.
He's currently sitting at my dinner table statting up a new kitchen and checking what the damage would be, financially.
He's got some pretty decent ideas, though.
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2010-08-21, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I'd love to keep a log of my social group's exploits.
Results day : Party party WOOO! Absinthe, Pizza & toplessness.
It'd be like that, only less lucid and in illegible handwriting.Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2010-08-21, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Oh dear, absinthe. My friend tried all the different types of absinthe in the bar during freshers week last year. In a shocking twist he managed to injure himself by the end of the night and catch a chest infection.
Did you drink it properly? Or just have horrible horrible shots?
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2010-08-21, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Everything I say is 100% TRUTH*
*may contain traces of lie
Loki avatar by Dr.Bath.
(I totally ship him and Curly. But shhh, it's a secret.)
Formerly known as Aziraphale.
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2010-08-21, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Champagne is the worst.
The worst. Just in general.