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    ...Is it strange that both times I snuck on to post in RB. it was in response to SMEE rooting for a boxer?

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    . . .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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    Quote Originally Posted by Introbulus View Post
    ...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.
    Yes, stop stalking me!

    Seriously now, thanks. It seems that the match was one sided most of the time.
    She would have had a better chance if the fight was here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quincunx View Post
    . . .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.
    I was under the impression that article was a hoax. I mean, one of the statues has clowns carrying umbrellas painted on the armor. That can't be real, can it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeb The Troll View Post
    I was under the impression that article was a hoax. I mean, one of the statues has clowns carrying umbrellas painted on the armor. That can't be real, can it?
    Obviously, you don't know much about the ancient greeks taste in clowns.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeb The Troll View Post
    I was under the impression that article was a hoax. I mean, one of the statues has clowns carrying umbrellas painted on the armor. That can't be real, can it?
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post
    Don't worry, it's okay, it's exactly the same place, there was iust some hooha between some of the other planes about my one's name. I couldn't be bothered to listen to them all nagging me when I could be reading the books from the Maybe Existing In A Female Alternate Universe Where the Roman Empire Never Even Took Off (It Was Always A Monarchy).
    Surprising how big an effect that little thing had.
    Good. So I still have the right address, then.

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    You know, I really need to read H2G2. I keep making all these accidental references to it. The Star Trek one though, completely deliberate. Glad you liked.
    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.



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    That log confused me. A DD and someone with my real name. The world is a strange place.
    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.

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    Yay, Kräftskiva! (Literaly translated, that would be "Crayfish Party".)

    Basically, Kräftskiva is a gathering where people sit around the table under silly paper lamps, wearing silly paper hats, drinking dram and eating crayfish. Our table was really freaking long, as the whole street was invited (only ~30 houses, and not everybody came, but nevertheless), but we suffered from a staggering defficiency of silly paper lamps, as they were all smashed last year by meddlesome kids.

    So, I don't like crayfish, and I'm not really that much into alcohol, so I mostly just consumed baguette and low-alcohol (read: almost none) Cider. Still pretty nice, though. A lot of time for relaxed socializing.
    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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    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.
    Which one is your favourite? Wait, don't answer that on here, PM me with it.

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    Ohboy. Quotestorm time.
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    People who are too skinny iust look icky, with all them bones poking out of the palce. ANd what are you meant to hold onto with a skinny person? Bone?
    I must obiect to that. I have some excellent friends who are skinny. Cassie is skinny, and you know she's lovely.

    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post
    That sounds amazing. Glad you had a fantastic time at your friend's house.
    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.

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    The problem can be solved so easily. I'll iust plane shift some over to you.



    They were great videos though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rawhide View Post
    Which one is your favourite? Wait, don't answer that on here, PM me with it.
    Done. Now, I might be a bit off on the exact wording since I haven't read the books for a while, but it's pretty damn close.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeb The Troll View Post
    I was under the impression that article was a hoax. I mean, one of the statues has clowns carrying umbrellas painted on the armor. That can't be real, can it?
    Actually, I think the "umbrella" is a bird, and that those features are visible on the clean statue as well.

    Quote Originally Posted by KuReshtin View Post
    Done. Now, I might be a bit off on the exact wording since I haven't read the books for a while, but it's pretty damn close.
    Augh, now I'm curious too.

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    ...This makes me miss Louisiana.

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    The crayfish party or (paranormalbeingofimmensepower forbid) the SW Holiday Special watching?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thufir View Post
    How can she blaspheme? She's a Goddess!
    Also, they'll appreciate it less if they later find out you lied.
    Who says they'll ever find out?

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    Moving back in with my father has both up and down-sides.

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    Awesome shower
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    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.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Fifty-Eyed Fred View Post
    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.

    Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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    He'd probably be one of the only ones to pass.

    Just don't let him take Business Studies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teddy View Post
    The crayfish party or (paranormalbeingofimmensepower forbid) the SW Holiday Special watching?
    Oh, heh, the crawfish boils. (As they're called there.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fifty-Eyed Fred View Post
    Ah, newspapers. They do love to hate. With exams it's always either "Exams are getting easier!" or "The educational system is failing!"
    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*.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dogmantra View Post
    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*.
    Then you have The Fonz, who just walks in, clicks his fingers, points and goes AAAAAA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rawhide View Post
    Then you have The Fonz, who just walks in, clicks his fingers, points and goes AAAAAA.
    You're incorrigible, Rawhide.

    Man, that's what the education system needs! The Fonz! He'll be in charge of school from now on!
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    The radio just said that hotter the waitresses, the worse the economy. Is that good or bad news?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fifty-Eyed Fred View Post
    No, actually (well, Fresher's Week is at the end of September, but my course starts in October)

    . . .

    Possibly - I'm up for it. *checks term times* I'll be there from the 26th September to the 17th of December. I'll be pretty close to where you live actually, since I'm going to the Cornwall Campus (near Falmouth).
    Awesome.
    You. Me. Meetup. End of September good? If not, December?

    Quote Originally Posted by Fifty-Eyed Fred View Post
    Wow... you must be the first other person I've spoken to who taught themselves to read. I thought I was the only one!
    I'm not so strange after all, then.
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Bath View Post
    Drama. DRAMA! The concept of wuv confuses and infuriates me. So I call it drama instead so then the bad words go away.

    He sounds like a helluva guy!
    So people can drama you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Bath View Post
    Hells yeah. Admittedly my paediatrician thought I might have brain problems because I didn't speak for ages and was generally a pretty sickly baby to begin with. So maybe everyone does develop the english language from scratch as a child and I'm just dumb.
    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.

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    Good. So I still have the right address, then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KuReshtin View Post
    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.
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by KuReshtin View Post
    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.
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by KuReshtin View Post
    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.
    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aziraphale View Post
    Why is everyone complaining about A-Level reuslts!? I'd like to see these fat middle-agers who got paid to do uni and sat much eaiser A-levels get an A*.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fifty-Eyed Fred View Post
    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.

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post

    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.
    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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    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.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Bath View Post
    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?
    We added sugar, fire, lemonade, vodka, water, champagne.

    Not all at once, but those were only some of the absinthe mixes we tried.
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    Champagne is the worst.

    The worst. Just in general.

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