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[jhocking]

man who cares about either music or television? I'm all about the internet.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Also, I'm running a total of 4 hours of sleep in 48 hours! The amount of caffeine required to keep me going through my one class and the rest of the day may or may not cause massive strain on my heart.

I once heard that a mathematician is a machine that converts coffee into theorems.  I believe the statement is actually true for graduate students.

[Gemmwah]

Today was just another normal day, going about doing my boring stuff. I decided to go get a milkshake, so I went into ShakeAway and I come out with this:



He put so much whipped cream on top that the lid wouldn't shut, so he had to give me a spoon to eat it with, and as I was leaving the shop he says "Laters, Batman."

His female co-worker says to him, "dude, she can't be Batman, she's a girl!"

He looks at her and replies, in the most deadpan voice, "If the cup says she's Batman, then she's Batman."

I've had the biggest smile on my face since, such an excellent way to make my day a million times better. Thank you Mr ShakeAway man!

Love, Batman.

[loco_banana]

The Shakeaway man sounds excellent. I hope you tipped.

[iamiam]

sonnet 130 is my favorite!  it's basically shakespeare blatantly making fun of petrarchan sonnets by being like 'bitch please, there's no such thing as a lady with lips red like coral and hair yellow like gold.  my woman is a real woman: imperfect and i love her despite and because of it. no need to make shit up."

<3

[WriterofAllWrongs]

My puny analysis of Sonnet 130 is going to be gutted like a fish oh god why did I major in a subject I am terrible at

For all the fly shorties that be mad digging a bachelor's degree in English(?).  They all like, "Mm, papi, you always write them dissertations so good.  I wanna... critique your thesis?"

(i actually have no idea how degrees and subjects work in Norway, so I am basically talking out of my ass.)

[ackblom12]

sonnet 130 is my favorite!  it's basically shakespeare blatantly making fun of petrarchan sonnets by being like 'bitch please, there's no such thing as a lady with lips red like coral and hair yellow like gold.  my woman is a real woman: imperfect and i love her despite and because of it. no need to make shit up."

<3

If my memory is serving me correctly, that sonnet was written to a man.

There's a lot of evidence supporting that all but one or two of his sonnets were written to men.

[Barmymoo]

I care if a sonnet is in iambic pentameter! I basically got As in all my practice essays in English A level for putting "and here Shakespeare has disrupted the flow of the iambic pentameter in order to create a sense of disturbance and uncertainty" in basically all of them.

Iambic Pentameter: Ticket to Good Grades

[ackblom12]

Ahhh, ok, that makes a lot more sense now.

[WriterofAllWrongs]

What is a fly shorty? (and yes my bachelor is in English) I feel knowing this is key to understanding your post.

Fly shorty is somewhat outdated (well fly is, anyway) slang for an attractive woman, like a real gone girl, hot chick, swell gal, etc.


I was saying women will be on your dick if you have a college degree in English. 

[Bastardous Bassist]

Soooooo, I failed the prelim, but I get to take it again next semester.  Apparently someone got kicked out of the program.  My adviser tells me that all of the professors were fairly certain that I will pass it next year, but I just didn't put in enough work this year.  I'm a little bit annoyed, because that means the work I put in this year is kind of wasted, especially the one question that was really hard, but I pretty much nailed it.  I'm a little bit more annoyed because one of my buddies is getting out of the Air Force late next summer and he wanted to go on a Europe trip with me.  At least I get to use the money that I would have been putting away for a new(er) motorcycle (if I can scrape together enough), so it's not entirely a loss.

Also, I've turned this into dinner with this girl that I've always kind of liked and she always seemed to kind of like me, but we've never really had it be convenient to get together (I have a really tough time asking people out if I know them kind of well and they are part of my circle of friends).  It's not necessarily a date, but I'm going to set up a situation that could easily turn into a more date-y situation.

[J-cob9000]

Mother agreed to let me skip tomorrow in order to go to school. Which, thinking about it, is ironic.

Also, whoever it was that said "AWESOME" to "Improv Olympics": yes. It's pretty much a live version of Who's Line Is It Anyway? done by high schoolers and a few staff members. It's a whole lot of fun and I invite you all to come see it. It's $3 at the door of the Sumter High School Auditorium. Be there or be square!

[Bastardous Bassist]

Sumter High School Auditorium

I knew a pretty interesting dude from Sumter, SC in college.

[J-cob9000]

If he's a freshman or sophomore, I might know him. Do tell who it is.

[Bastardous Bassist]

He was the same year as I, which means he graduated (college) in 2007, so it's unlikely that you knew him.  On the off chance, his name is Daniel Powell.

[J-cob9000]

I recognize the name but that might just be because both Daniel and Powell and pretty common names down here. Oh, well.

[Thomas Edison]

I did my Drama A Level performance with a Daniel Powell.


Basically what I'm saying is, yeah, it must be a pretty common name.

[jhocking]

Can you post his address too?  So that we can verify their identity.

[snalin]

I was the awesome, but I doubt you'll buy me plane tickets.

I care if a sonnet is in iambic pentameter! I basically got As in all my practice essays in English A level for putting "and here Shakespeare has disrupted the flow of the iambic pentameter in order to create a sense of disturbance and uncertainty" in basically all of them.

To be or not to be; that is the ques....tion

That is some seriously good writing right there. That last part of question breaks the rythm completely and causes the sentence to either sound like a question or stop way too suddenly. If you are used to speaking like in iambic on stage (da DUM da DUM da DUM), the question mark comes all by itself.

[Barmymoo]

Jens and I have been writing sonnets and other poems to woo Mixtape Girl. I am the iambic pentameter queen.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Oh, god.  I had an English assignment in high school where I had to write in iambic pentameter, and I just couldn't do it.  I really do have no concept of meter and how it combines with words.

[Hat]

Well English is a stress language and so there is a vowel sound called a "schwa" represented phonemically by an upside down lower case e in the IPA, which represents a completely destressed syllable. (since vowels are the heart of a syllable in english a stressed vowel creates a stressed syllable and so forth).  There are also partially destressed syllables, and basically whether a syllable has primary (completely stressed) or secondary (partially destressed) depends on its relationship to the vowels in the same word. The most sonerous (this is a technical term roughly relating to how much air is passed through the glottis if I remember correctly) vowel has the main stress, and so forth.


For example in the word "Pentatonic" in my pronunciation of it (yours may differ) I think I'd describe the stress as PEN-ta-TO-nic with destressed syllables in "ta" and "nic" and the main stress in the "TO"


trust me when I say Iambic pentameter is the easy one.

Technically you can't really "write" in Iambic pentameter because stress isn't really implicitly encoded in written words, but if you can assume the reader will have roughly the same accent as you (or will adopt it) and will make the attempt to place the stresses in the correct place you can write something that can be easily read out loud having iambic pentameter

[Eris]

man, I kinda miss learning about linguistics, but it is so hard and confusing and waaaaaaaaaaah.


guys, I have a cold and my nose is all blocked. I still haven't heard from my boss about the roster (I got a call yesterday saying I was working last night, and the boss' wife who was working instead of him said she would message me last night but hasn't), so I am going to go get more antibiotics, butter, and go talk to the people working today to see if they have any idea when I am working tomorrow.

I am guessing this is not a common situation for this cafe, but it sure is making me worry.

[Bastardous Bassist]

I guess I was unclear as to my meaning.  I know how it works, I just can't do it for the life of me.  My brain won't go in that direction, which is rather distressing to me, since my best friend is fantastic at using language (she'll sometimes write these beautiful e-mails just talking about stuff).

[tania]

today i got paid to play beatles rock band on a giant high definition television with a rotating cast of strangers for like two hours.

sometimes my job is really cool!

[WriterofAllWrongs]

What do you do, if you don't mind me asking?  Because I can not imagine a job title that would encompass the excellent task you were charged with, unless it was "Dead Person Living In Heaven."

[tania]

i work for an electronics store selling computers and incidentally the home office department is right next to the home theatre department which had just set up a beatles rock band demo on one of their giant high definition televisions, and later it got real dead during late afternoon so they let me take an extra long paid break to go play video games with the customers and have so much fun and be so awesome. so i guess playing video games isn't actually in my job description but i got paid to do it so it still counts.

also because i was in such a good mood the rest of the evening my sales were extra fantastic and normally i hate my stupid job and stupid sales and stupid people but today was the best day! everything is so super fantastic!

[Scarychips]

The local Music TV station is letting anyone who wants to play enter and play the game with the VJs and all that. I'm gonna go maybe  this weekend if I find people to go with.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Tania, that's fucking possum.

[David_Dovey]

Love, Batman.

Basically the reason I went on a second date with my now-girlfriend of nearly two years (holy shit!) is because she called me Batman on our first date. (Also I guess because she was super pretty and intelligent and we were interested in a lot of the same stuff. But mostly the Batman thing).

Speaking of linguistics, can anybody recommend a book about linguitics to me that is for someone who has more or less no idea about linguistics at all? Linguistics for dummies, if you will.

Also cos the other thread got locked, do I look like a Jonas brother?? If so, which one?

[0bsessions]

I'm going to give it to the middle one.

[JD]

I guess curly hair lad

[Eris]

What a dashing hat you have there, Dovey

[David_Dovey]

That is not nearly as dashing as any of the hats I actually own.

Zomb, two of the three have curly hair?

[JD]

Curly hair lad on the right

[Zingoleb]

Blaggy,

Okay, I think I should quit my job. It's not that I have to stand in a giant freezer for hours on end or that I get paid almost minimum wage but I think I'm killing people.

Last Friday on my way to work, there was a huge accident on the way. Semi-truck went off the highway, cab was crushed, man was taken out on a stretcher.

Today, at work, I was told to make a run to Tops. On the way there, a truck ended up running off the road and there was a big scene (also with an ambulance).

On my way back from Tops, a man on a motorcycle and a car ended up getting well acquainted with each others features.

Now, this is a little, little town - probably somewhere around 12-13,000 people. I've never seen an accident around here before (not to say that they don't happen, but you don't really see it). Then, while I'm working, people are crashing everywhere.

Does this mean that I should stop stocking Horny Goat Weed to save lives?

(Also, which Jonas Brother does Eris look like?)

[David_Dovey]

Kevin

[Jace]

Okay, I think I should quit my job. It's not that I have to stand in a giant freezer for hours on end

HOW DO ALL OF YOUR JOBS SUCK SO MUCH?!

[Zingoleb]

Bad karma. In a past life I was a dung beetle and I accidentally rolled a ball of poop into an ant colony and murdered hundreds. (This is true)

[Barmymoo]

How the hell can you possibly know that is true?

It's a beautiful sunny day today and I'm in an absolutely foul mood.

[pwhodges]

I went back to hospital today and my heart function is fully normal (which means, in particular, that I am allowed to drive again).  The damage will repair completely, but I am supposed to stay off work and take it easy for 6 weeks - well I can think of things to do in that time, I guess!

I am told my heart attack may cause some problems getting travel insurance in the future - we shall see.

[Lunchbox]

I bought a second hand (two year old) black MacBook from my friend! I am so excited about it, it is awesome! Hooraaaaaaay
Also I am taking my boyfriend on a road trip to meet my family this weekend, promises to be INTERESTING TIMES

[BeoPuppy]

At work, hardly working spending too much time playing games with pals at http://www.randomby.com/forum/arcade.php .

It's a pretty neat site. It's mascotte is a chicken I used to own so, you know, fondness and all that.

[jhocking]

I'm going to give it to the middle one.

Curly hair lad on the right

I don't know how you fools managed to pick the two that he doesn't look like when there are only three options and he looks exactly like the one on the left.

[JD]

I was comparing my self to the jonas bros.(for the hell of it) But yeah he looks like the one on the left







Its my birthday biznitchesss

[tania]

happy birthday!

[snalin]

happy b-day.


So, I'm going to this thing in Germany, and I'm checking out the facebook profiles of everyone going. Some of them has a lot of mutual friends, which is cool, but there's one guy there who has a profile pic with himself and Siv Jensen, the leader of the far-right party here in Norway. I've yet to meet someone voting that who isn't either stupid, racist or totally douchebags (protip, it's a bit over 20% of the population). we'll see how this works out.

[WriterofAllWrongs]

happy birthday, zombie.


So, I live with my younger sister, my mother, and her ex-boyfriend a ways out of Birmingham, Alabama.  My mother and this guy, Manly, broke up about a month ago, and had a few fights following the break-up that lead to Manly saying that he was going to up and leave us here in an apartment we can't afford because he couldn't live with Mom being sort of a prick, and Mom couldn't live with him being an idiot about things.  There's a whole bunch of factors involved with the break-up, like there always are, such as my mother not having much of a job for a few months/really bad asthma which lead to a series of hospital visits and us having to live off the guy for a while, and now that Mom has her asthma under moderate control with Advair, the dude wants all his money back immediately when we didn't have it on top of us having to pay all of the rent.  My mom has a job now, but she doesn't get paid that much in the end, and she has been driven crazy by his constant hounding (though he probably wouldn't be so bad about it if she didn't start some ridiculous fight everytime he asks about it).  This is all really shitty, and I wish they would just talk about it instead of being all aggressive, but folks is folks I guess.

In any case, when they started going out they were very hunky dory about it and right off planned to get married and did all this romantic and committed stuff, like "Let's get phones on a family plan!" and "Let's get the cable, lease and internet in your (Manly's) name, and we'll both pay for it!"  Now this sounds pretty regular, I guess, but this was like, a MONTH into it all.  I was still with my girlfriend, my sister was still homeschooling, and we still lived in the thick of the city (Birmingham).  Now, all of these commitment-related things are starting to bite us in the ass, and Manly is basically leaving with: three-fourths of the furniture, which means all I am going to have to move out a lot of furniture from my room for Mom and Morgan (which is okay after all); cable and internet (which is less okay, but I'll live); and the phone plan, which will take a month or so to get replaced.  Mom also now has to go through getting all the bills in her name, which is a hassle, and has to struggle to both pay Manly back incrementally and pay a good amount of rent.  All in all, this is a really crappy scenario, and I wish those two wouldn't have been so capricious about it all at the beginning I guess.

Word vomit over.  Sorry about that.


ALSO, I liked Catcher In The Rye a good deal, and I don't really feel like punching Holden in the face.  The character was so crumby, and appeared very reluctant about how awful he acted all the time, that he actually earned a bit of pity from me.  He ends up in a mental hospital for christsakes.  He was awful towards people, but not evil or intentionally mean even.  Just really rude and misunderstood and dumb. 

The worst towards girls, though.  That gave me a bit of a frown.

[Scarychips]

Happy Birthday Zomb!

Holy Shit guys! Playing drums and jamming with people on the drums is pretty much one of the most pleasant thing ever! Twas the first time I played the drums, and I apparently can hold a beat pretty good. Yes, it was mostly Snare + Kick + Tom kind of beat, but still, it was fun!

[Der Golem]

...this guy, Manly...

Dudes name is Manly?