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[Loki]

oh my GOD I just remembered how I found the qcverse, and it's much earlier than I remember thought.

edited because the last word made no friggin sense in that context

What the shit, you have only been here for half a year?

Was the author of "The Never-Ending Story" paid by the word?

yeah his name's Charles Dickens

FUCK GOD DAMN CHARLES DICKENS WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT

You mean Michael Ende.

I have this thing where if I am really tired, I start getting dreams while mostly conscious, I can tell people what's happening in the dream and everything. Shortly after, I start talking bullshit, because my short-term memory seems to skip stuff and if I arrive at a conclusion, I don't remember how I got there, so if there is something in my "dream" about running elephants, I might start talking about how elephants are not very good runners and probably need running shoes, and then immediately forget how I got there.

[Masterpiece]

oh my GOD I just remembered how I found the qcverse, and it's much earlier than I remember thought.

edited because the last word made no friggin sense in that context

What the shit, you have only been here for half a year?

Yeah but I meant the time I found the comic not the forums.

[Loki]

Yeah, that was unrelated. I could have sworn you had been in the forums for a year at least. (By the way, happy forum-half-anniversary).

[Masterpiece]

wow it's been that long already

[Welu]

I was thinking hard about when I first discovered the comic because I immediately jumped into the archives so I don't quite remember the arc happening at the time. Although I think it was late-ish 2008, so during the Sven/Faye arc. Just means I read the comic for three years before even looking at the forum. 

[Thrillho]

I cannot remember a time when Masterpiece wasn't here.

[Method of Madness]

Me neither, honestly.

[Is it cold in here?]

<Kosh voice>
I have always been here
</Kosh voice>

[Kugai]

[UlkeshVoice]Yes[/UlkeshVoice]

[Masterpiece]

I cannot remember a time when Masterpiece wasn't here.

I'm hoping that's a good thing™

[lepetitfromage]

Ditto. And it IS a good thing. 

[nekowafer]

Yeah I hadn't realized you were only here for a couple months. You're awesome and I'm glad you're here &lt;3

[Thrillho]

I cannot remember a time when Masterpiece wasn't here.

I'm hoping that's a good thing™

You're making the place look untidy, bro!





You are part of the forum fabric now.

[Welu]

I was trying to write a semi-analytic blog post about RASSLIN' because I thought it might be interesting for some to read the perspective of a person who basically stopped following RASSLIN' well over ten years ago and missed almost all the 00's and has got back into it over the last couple years. It quickly started to turn into a love letter to a (to me) new wrestler that I didn't like at first when I started rewatching and now completely adore and I've realised how much I need a space to fanperson over RASSLIN'.

I can't stop typing/saying the word that way, I'm sorry.

[Method of Madness]

Whenever I see "rassle" I think of that episode of Rugrats, when they go to the family reunion and that big baby asks if Angelica wants to rassle.

[Welu]

I should rewatch Rugrats.

It's stuck in my brain to say it that way because of the South Park episode.

[lepetitfromage]

D'awww....Rugrats was the best.


In other news: E.G. Daily aka Tommy Pickles is on The Voice this season. That makes me incredibly happy. And she's pretty damn good!

[Method of Madness]

As a contestant?

[Is it cold in here?]

Dead leaves are still full of useful structural chemicals and have plenty of raw energy stored (as you see if you put them in a fire).

So why doesn't anything macroscopic eat them? Even if it requires exotic bacterial enzymes, why isn't there something macroscopic which has a symbiotic relationship with leaf-digesting gut bacteria?

[LTK]

I think it's actually fungi that digest the majority of dead plant material.

[snalin]

Plant matter is really hard to break down. At the point where the bacteria and fungi have broken it down to be digestible by anything that's not super specialized, I assume that all of the nutrition is gone.

I think grazing creatures can eat leaves, but I don't know if they eat the fallen ones. Maybe they taste bad?

[Masterpiece]

Just listened to some songs I wrote and recorded two years ago.

oh god where are the rose tinted glasses I wore when I thought they were good?

[pwhodges]

Earthworms will do stuff in a sufficiently compressed pile of leaves, I suspect.

[LTK]

Compressed isn't enough. As far as I was aware, earthworms literally only eat dirt (no teeth, you see) so the plant material has to be sufficiently decomposed to fit through an earthworm mouth, and has to be mixed with the soil.

[pwhodges]

Earthworms will eat just about anything organic (natural), especially dead leaves and other dead plant material.

(My underline)
Source

Epigeic earthworms live on the surface of the soil in leaf litter. These species tend not to make burrows but live in and feed on the leaf litter.

Source

Earthworms line their burrows with leaves, and as they rot down the worms
can eat them.

Source

OK, so maybe the bacteria need to get in there first.

Daily earthworms consume their weight in fallen leaves and other organic materials.

Source

[LTK]

Yes, that makes sense. I was thinking that the top layer of dead leaves in a forest (which are not deader than the other ones, right?) are generally still whole and strong, while the ones at the bottom are pulpy and fall apart as soon as you pick them up. I imagine that earthworms would be able to eat the bottom layer, but not the top.

[lepetitfromage]

As a contestant?

Yep

[Is it cold in here?]

So as a business I could rent out my herd of earthworms to eat fallen leaves so people won't have to rake them.

[Carl-E]

That's a long term business plan.  Sorta like tree farming. 

[mtmerrick]

So my sister the animal lover has shown me that Ravens can actually speak.    that is so creepycoolwierd.

[Grognard]

both my cats snore.
my orange cat snores so loud, I can hear him in the next room.

[Is it cold in here?]

Not only can they speak, they can be taught to safely operate a bean grinder.

[Carl-E]

But can they then tamp the grounds for espresso? 

[GarandMarine]

Not only can they speak, they can be taught to safely operate a bean grinder.

Probably operate it better then some of the barista I worked with.

[Patrick]

I had a brain-damaged kitty as well. He was so derpy and adorable. And he fell down the steps a lot.

oh man, cutest fuckin thing I ever did see was part of a litter born by my ex girlfriend's roommate. he was rather abnormally formed, had little club feet, and the roommate had an equally twisted sense of humor to mine and called him Tardo at my request. he was super clumsy and HELLA loving and I really wish he had lived longer than a week. poor little guy, I miss him so bad. RIP Tardo you were seriously the best kitten.

[nekowafer]

Ours was Eddie. As in special ed.

[Welu]

That reminds me that I'm seeing Stephen Lynch live soon in the city. Should get my tattoo stuff ready to book a session if there's time.

[Method of Madness]

Awesome! Let me know how he is live.

[Grognard]

some days being an IT guy sucks.
I accidentally killed this guys' personal laptop.
now I'm shelling out $$$ for a replacement.

?why am I nice and offer to fix stuff?

[Carl-E]

Isn't that what disclaimers are for? 

And what's he doing bringing his personal laptop to the IT guy at work?  Unless it's some business on the side, you shouldn't be responsible for that. 

[mtmerrick]

That horrible feeling when you're eating and you cough and what you're chewing goes up into your sinuses. And then you have to go to the bathroom and blow your nose until chunks of food come out

[Grognard]

Isn't that what disclaimers are for? 
And what's he doing bringing his personal laptop to the IT guy at work?  Unless it's some business on the side, you shouldn't be responsible for that.

I was being helpful on the side, during my break.   Stupid Me. 
And verbal disclaimers don't count for shit when PCs go from working w/minor problems to absolutely non-functional. 

Fuck.
and my $$$ situation aint the best right now, either. 

[LeeC]

I am noticing all through the interwebs that a popular costume idea for halloween this year is a group costume effort as the 3 witches from hocus pocus.  Both men and women are getting into this trend this year.

[GarandMarine]

So I just had someone on another forum actively try to convince us all that WW2 was because the Nazi leadership was gay. Therefore gays are evil.

Or something.

I.. just... I mean. wat?

 

[LeeC]

contemplating the ethics of helping this girl from work with her personal machine. I am conflicted.

Nazi stuff 

I remember my first beer.

[Zebediah]

I must ask: Why is Facebook offering me ads to "find love with Chinese Buddhist women"? I'm married, which Facebook damned well knows, so I'm not looking for a mail-order bride. I'm also not Buddhist. Or Chinese, for that matter.

[Barmymoo]

I'm not sure many/any Chinese Buddhist people would be looking for a mail-order bride either, I always thought of those agencies as being for people who fetishise ethnicities and cultures they don't belong to.

[Method of Madness]

Is preferring a specific ethnicity that is not your own any worse than preferring your own ethnicity?

[LeeC]

I get more dating site adds ever since I became single about a year ago, I am fairly certain it is because of the facebooks.

[Zebediah]

Is preferring a specific ethnicity that is not your own any worse than preferring your own ethnicity?

Not at all. You're attracted to whatever combination of features you find attractive, and that's your own business.

Still scratching my head about what triggered that ad for me, though. I guess their algorithm only matched on "male". Maybe within a specific age range. But clearly it didn't bother to check relationship status. And why the ad made such a big deal out of the fact that these women were Chinese Buddhists, when I don't get similar ads for any other combination of ethnicity and religion...