"I'm here," he said, arrivingly.
Random thought: I balk tackwards all the time. Like.. a "sight slent of licorice". Does anyone else do that?I thoo it when I dink of it, and if I dart to stew it inadvertently, I tumsimes mause 500 picroseconds and go ahead with it. But I was lucky to grow up in a punning household, and Saturday Evening Post when I was a child carried spoonerized tairy fails, such as "Beeping Sleauty" and "Back and the Jeanstalk." Check this entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism)
I wonder what happened if you could split a person in half. Not bisecting them, or anything gory like that; I'm thinking of putting them through a sieve that catches half of the person that goes through it. Say you take every second molecule in a person's body and move it exactly three feet to the left. You'd essentially end up with two of the same person, only both are 50% less solid. In theory they'd still be able to function, but for how long?It's a fascinating question, but I don't think any mechanical solution would be healthy. But if there were an instantaneous way to do it, or simply to make every other molecule go away....You might end up with the little orange-haired scientist. Maybe she was the result of an experiment?
Yes Gnomes2169, it is strange to eat a room. Not unheard of though.
Random thought: I balk tackwards all the time. Like.. a "sight slent of licorice". Does anyone else do that?
I wonder what happened if you could split a person in half. Not bisecting them, or anything gory like that; I'm thinking of putting them through a sieve that catches half of the person that goes through it. Say you take every second molecule in a person's body and move it exactly three feet to the left. You'd essentially end up with two of the same person, only both are 50% less solid. In theory they'd still be able to function, but for how long?
That takes concentration! Who was driving?
I wonder what happened if you could split a person in half. Not bisecting them, or anything gory like that; I'm thinking of putting them through a sieve that catches half of the person that goes through it. Say you take every second molecule in a person's body and move it exactly three feet to the left. You'd essentially end up with two of the same person, only both are 50% less solid. In theory they'd still be able to function, but for how long?
I'm no biologist, but isn't a lot of stuff that's stored in your brain stored on molecular size? So I think you'd go brain dead instantly. Also, I doubt the spine would be able to hold you up with half of it's original integrity. But it's an interesting concept.
If you have any additional search bars on a computer within my reach, it will be dealt with.
I have a google search box, and a yahoo search bar. All the male members of my family have expressed varying degrees of horror and disgust, but it collects nectar points for me. 1 point to every 2 searches up to 50 points a month. I'm quite happy to sacrifice two centimetres of screen for free money.Interesting. What are those points good for? And do you take a minute or five every first of the month to do 100 arbitrary searches to fill the quotum?
I'm no biologist either. The spine might survive - the remaining half would only need to support half the original weight. The brain most likely would not. Also, don't most cells need all (or nearly all?) of the genetic material to function properly? For the purposes of this gedankenexperiment we may treat DNA as a single molecule, but if each cell loses a randomly selected half of its chromosomes, something is bound to go wrong.Every human has 2n chromosomes; 23 paternal, 23 maternal. Take 23 of those away, and you'd be in trouble, yes. But every strand of DNA is really two molecules bound together by reversible polar forces, so you can just split every chromosome down the middle and have the cells rebuild the other strand according to the template with any nucleotides that they have lying around.
Interesting. What are those points good for? And do you take a minute or five every first of the month to do 100 arbitrary searches to fill the quotum?
I farted and it scared my cat.Been there, done that.
My cat farted audibly when she was an adolescent. Startled me.I farted and it scared my cat.Been there, done that.
Yeah, been there, done that. I honestly hadn't thought about cats farting before this happened, but it makes sense if you think about it. I mean, they make gas too...QuoteMy cat farted audibly when she was an adolescent. Startled me.QuoteI farted and it scared my cat.Been there, done that.
Eh, why not? Buffalo's a nice city.
:angel:
Plus, there's a difference between having an opinion about what you want your sex life to be like and judging other people for doing things that don't impact upon you at all.
Is it better to brush first, then floss (getting the gunk impacted by the brushing out) or to floss first and then brush (allowing the toothpaste to get between the teeth)?I floss first and then brush. It never occurred to me to do it the other way round. I don't know why.
spacedicksSee, it's at this point that Gnomes here tries to stab out his inner eye... and real eyes...
How big their tongue is, how hard they lick, if it is split in twain.
My brother won't listen to my advice on getting a job, because people never believe their siblings can know anything useful.
My brother won't listen to my advice on getting a job, because I'm on disability for schizophrenia.Erm, not to sound like a dick or anything but the drugs that are given to manage schizophrenia absolutely ruin planning and concentration skills in everyone, so you might not be the best person to give advice right now...
I have literally no idea how she manages to do it.
I have literally no idea how she manages to do it.
She's probably a hoverer.
I was thinking of conventional robot apocalypse fiction and how it's basically impossible for an AI to independently develop any kind of agency, let alone a tendency to crush all humans. Then I was reminded of Battlestar Galactica, and I thought, what if AI-controlled, indistinguishable-from-human robots conspired to secretly help humanity instead of wiping it out? I don't know, maybe that somehow turned out to be the case with the Cylons; I only saw the first season.
Again.....I apologize.
I think you think too much.
Maybe the question is why us guys avoid it. And I find that I don't avoid it; I'm dribbling more than I used to. Maybe I need to change the washer, if I can find it, and if the hardware stocks it, and if I can figure out how to install it.
Excuse me; I have to go euphemize.Maybe the question is why us guys avoid it. And I find that I don't avoid it; I'm dribbling more than I used to. Maybe I need to change the washer, if I can find it, and if the hardware stocks it, and if I can figure out how to install it.
I read the whole washer thing as an euphemism about fixing the dribbling. Made the post pretty hilarious.
My girlfriend has this inexplicable ability to get piss on the toilet seat. I have literally no idea how she manages to do it.My toilet seat has an occasional fit while I'm standing before it, peeing: It flops down of its own volition. Is there such a thing as a female toilet seat?
"Does the anticipation of a professor stumbling over my last name make me a bad person?"
(13 letters, 5 syllables, non-english origin)
"Does the anticipation of a professor stumbling over my last name make me a bad person?" (13 letters, 5 syllables, non-english origin)No. My entire name is only three syllables, and professors used to stuff it up all the time. And professors deserve to suffer! Sorry Carl...
I think some people are actually simply incapable of imitating the sounds they hear, as opposed to making the sounds they are used to.Short of hard work in the language-laboratory where you can record yourself and play it back, I think this is probably true of most, if not all people, though perhaps less so for musicians like yourself. Some sounds are just very difficult for people not used to them to hear and reproduce. For example, many Chinese surnames begin with the initial that is represented in pinyin as zh (Zhou, Zhang, Zheng etc.). This is one of the three "retroflex" initials, and is hard for English-speakers to get their tongues even if they are not confused by the romanisation. Unless I'm talking to a CSL student, I advise people simply to pronounce zh like the j at the beginning of jungle, jangle, or Joseph.
There are even people who think that what I really want to be called is Paulo, when my name is Paul.Eh? Portuguese style? Powlo?
There are even people who think that what I really want to be called is Paulo, when my name is Paul.Eh? Portuguese style? Powlo?
For example, many Chinese surnames begin with the initial that is represented in pinyin as zh (Zhou, Zhang, Zheng etc.). I advise people simply to pronounce zh like the j at the beginning of jungle, jangle, or Joseph.
Dalsgard....not Duhlsgard, Duhlsgurd, Dalsgurd, Delsgard, Dalesgard......Dals. Gard.
I advise people simply to pronounce zh like the j at the beginning of jungle, jangle, or Joseph.
Dalsgard....not Duhlsgard, Duhlsgurd, Dalsgurd, Delsgard, Dalesgard......Dals. Gard.
Yeah, but is the first A like the sound in doll or pal?
Is the actual way it's actually pronounced kind of like a 'Z' sound, but mixed with an 'Sh' sound?No. The pinyin romanisation has no intuitive connection to what an English-speaker would expect the sound to be. Wade-Giles is no better; it represents the sound as ch. Consider the name of the famous Chinese statesman Zhou Enlai, which used to be romanised as Chou En-lai. People used to pronounce his surname "chow" (rhyming with cow). Now they often say "ʒow", where ʒ is the sound of the French-style j in Frère Jacques. The closest easy English pronunciation to the correct Standard Chinese is "Joe", but taking care to pronounce the o sound "purely", without dipping it so that "Joe" rhymes with "bow" as in bow and arrow.
I think some people are actually simply incapable of imitating the sounds they hear, as opposed to making the sounds they are used to.
I think some people are actually simply incapable of imitating the sounds they hear, as opposed to making the sounds they are used to.
Many people are incapable of even hearing the sounds they are not used to. If your native language doesn't use a phoneme it can take a long time to even hear that the sound is different from one that you make. One of the steps in language tutoring is frequently just getting the student to hear the difference between the two sounds. I had to do this with my Chinese student and the sounds 'ss' and 'th'. She was unaware that she replaced "th" with "ss" (brosser instead of brother) and when I tested her we found that in unfamiliar words or words out of context she actually couldn't hear which sound I was making. She had very good reading skills, so she knew, theoretically, which sound words should be making, because she could spell them, but if I just said the word "myth" or "miss" she couldn't tell which one I had said.This, exactly this. It's pretty interesting to see just how much automation the brain does to facilitate speech perception. You can even test people on their perception of different phonemes by digitally altering their sound, which shows that there is a very clear boundary between, for example, what an English speaker perceives as a 'b' sound and a 'p' sound. Like this! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Categorization-and-discrimination-curves.png) This boundary, of course, can vary quite drastically from language to language.
You can't reliably make a sound until you can reliably differentiate it from other similar sounds.
According to my wall clock, it is 24.6 °C in my fridge.
What's a really deragatory thing to call someone specifically from Vermont or to call the whole state?
I'm incapable of growing a full beard. I have bald spots in my goddamn face. This angers me greatly. I won't show pics but imagine what Robinson Crusoe would look if he got attacked by a wild miniature lawnmower. That's what I look like unshaven.Similar situation here, only my face is horribly asymmetrical. On one side of my face, I have more hair growth on my cheek, and on the other there's more on my throat. If I ever decide to grow it out, it's going to look pitiful as well as terribly lopsided. Alas, some of us are not cut out for beards; better then to be shaven than to look like a slob.
Syrplejerks?What's a really deragatory thing to call someone specifically from Vermont or to call the whole state?Something relating to maple syrup?
What's a really deragatory thing to call someone specifically from Vermont or to call the whole state?
Something relating to maple syrup?
I'm incapable of growing a full beard. I have bald spots in my goddamn face. This angers me greatly. I won't show pics but imagine what Robinson Crusoe would look if he got attacked by a wild miniature lawnmower. That's what I look like unshaven.Similar situation here, only my face is horribly asymmetrical. On one side of my face, I have more hair growth on my cheek, and on the other there's more on my throat. If I ever decide to grow it out, it's going to look pitiful as well as terribly lopsided. Alas, some of us are not cut out for beards; better then to be shaven than to look like a slob.
All of Northern New England makes maple syrup
I really know nothing about Vermont.
It's been marketed to such an extent in the US that unless you are a fairly ardent Atheist, it's just a part of your life, dogma, politics, symoblism and all.Although overt religiosity is perhaps more common in the USA than Australia, for example, that's pretty much true in all countries dominated by cultures originating in Europe, through sheer historical inertia. Even atheists, and adherents of non-Abrahamic religions for that matter, frequently use symbolism and metaphors drawn from Christian, or at least biblical tradition. If nothing else, the influence of the Authorised Version of the Bible on the English language makes it pretty much unavoidable.
Happiness is a hypothetical state of mind that can only be approximated, never attained. Like a hyperbolic function approaching the limit. Given that we are averse to death, we always want more out of life than we currently have. Therefore, happiness is antithetical to the human condition, because if one were to find true happiness, they would need to die immediately afterwards.
So the only way to win at life is to lose at life.
Happiness is a hypothetical state of mind that can only be approximated, never attained. Like a hyperbolic function approaching the limit. Given that we are averse to death, we always want more out of life than we currently have. Therefore, happiness is antithetical to the human condition, because if one were to find true happiness, they would need to die immediately afterwards.
So the only way to win at life is to lose at life.
I just emailed my gynecologist. This feels weird, somehow.
Dear Apple haters (also sometimes known as, but not restricted to, Droids),I think you're looking for this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,23788.0.html).
You are ten times more fucking annoying than any rabid Apple fanboy could ever hope to be.
Droid users: You have an awesome platform - stop obsessing so much over what people who don't have the same opinion as you are buying. It comes across as incredibly insecure.
Thanks.
I now return you to your previous random thoughts.
Happiness is a hypothetical state of mind that can only be approximated, never attained. Like a hyperbolic function approaching the limit. Given that we are averse to death, we always want more out of life than we currently have. Therefore, happiness is antithetical to the human condition, because if one were to find true happiness, they would need to die immediately afterwards.
So the only way to win at life is to lose at life.
The only winning move is not to play?
I have now reigned about 50 years in both victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have readily answered my call; nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.
My argument was that an individual need not, in an isolated moment, meet all the requirements of life to be alive. If they once had or will have the capacity, then they are alive until all indicators cease.I like that! It's a much better argument than the one I had about there being a difference between 'life' and 'living'. Yours is best because it describes life independently of time.
[...]They ... don't?
I am not sure where mules fit in though.
Dear Apple haters (also sometimes known as, but not restricted to, Droids),
etc.
Also: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/
I smell delicious
Also, this forum is slowly decomposing into butts and kitties apparently...
The profound meaning is KITTY.
In here, there is this great and exotic thing that is so great and exotic, I can't even begin to tell you how great and exotic it is, that's how great and exotic it is. You should like it now.
So it's not just the introversion?
:angel:
And let's procrastinate on that speech some more... yes, procrastination...
Did you just quote my dismissive review of Lovecraft?
Half of Babbage's brain is preserved at the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The other half of Babbage's brain is on display in the Science Museum, London.
So you won't make eye contact with them?I approve of this answer.
Why is it that I always look at the ceiling while buttoning my pants?
I've realised recently that I jump when I pull my pants on and button them while in mid-air. It's one of the more exuberant ways to make yourself less naked.
...its correlation with Alzheimer's...:psyduck:
Anyway, I noticed today that my armpits smell like grapefruit.:psyduck:
I think the link between Aluminium and Alzheimer's is thoroughly debunked.
I think the link between Aluminium and Alzheimer's is thoroughly debunked.
So, uh, random thoughts? Nametags are useful. Why doesn't everyone wear nametags, all the time?
The only aluminum pan we still use is teflon-lined. I gather there's some debate about the health effects of that, as well...
I prefer glassware, myself.So what you are telling me is that I shouldn't cook metal? Dang it. How am I supposed to feed my robot now?
Teflon is safe when used correctly, but it's pretty easy to fuck up, from what I've gathered - especially if you use metal in it, which is a huuuuge no-no.
Ugh, I hate people knowing my name when I don't know who they are. I used to prefer the days when I forgot my name badge (they were company issued and required) and I could wear one of the spares. We should definitely not wear name tags all the time, people just need to be less embarassed about saying "I'm afraid I don't remember your name". I have often forgotten the names of my relatives and ex-partners so it isn't like it's an indication of how little I care about the person.But if everyone wears nametags, then someone can't know your name without you also knowing theirs. I'd just like to be able to address people I don't know as something other than 'hey you'.
No, it's not that I want to know their name - I want to know them as a person and find out whether I can trust them with my name. It is a gut feeling thing. My name is key to who I am and I don't want to just give it out to people.Interesting. Although women have good reason to withhold name, phone, address, the way you put it evokes a more primitive concern, akin to people who resent having their picture taken. And these lyrics from "The Naming of Cats":
No, it's not that I want to know their name - I want to know them as a person and find out whether I can trust them with my name. It is a gut feeling thing. My name is key to who I am and I don't want to just give it out to people.I guess I just don't see it that way, given that your name is just a collection of syllables chosen by your parents because they need something to refer to you by.
The moment a name is put to something, whether that's someone's actual name, nickname, a social movement or sexual preference, it changes the perceived nature of it.
Cats and birds sounds like a bad idea. I'll stick with cats and teflon.
yes. There are studies, I will try to find, which show that in the US having a "black" name means you get chosen less for job interviews even if you have and identical resume to someone with a "white" name.
Don't think so - is it awful?
Very few people have ever spelled my first name right (Lindsey) and almost nobody ever says my last name right.
Lindsey is what I would expect as a first name. Your last name I've never seen elsewhere, but my first guess would be to say it rather like Americans tend to say my name.
You'd be surprised how easily messed up a three letter last name is, but like, no one EVER says mine correctly.And a four-letter word. It's my habit to introduce my last name as "Ball, B-A-double-L"
You'd be surprised how easily messed up a three letter last name is, but like, no one EVER says mine correctly.
How is Hodges pronounced in England?
Plural of Hodge: "hojjiz". It's just that the short "o" sound, as in "odd" or "pop", often sounds like the a of "ar" when said by Americans. Your name suffers from the fact that hard or soft g is not clearly defined by the following vowel. I wrongly guessed "gi" as in "Gillian", not as in "gift".
Pics or it...didn't...
...dammit, internet, you only immerse two of my senses! I demand more! More! More! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ZZaHhs7ic)
Some people get an aversion to certain kinds. I won't drink southern comfort. the only two times I drank it I threw up later that night.You'd be surprised how far removed the nausea can be from the initial food intake. I think it can be as long as 24 hours, if not more. It's an extremely robust evolutionary adaptation; the negative association can last as long as decades without being reinforced beyond the first time.
I think the hangover might be too far removed from the drinking to trigger it. I threw up while still drunk and could taste the Soco which made the two connected for me.
Why is it that I always look at the ceiling while buttoning my pants?
So you won't make eye contact with them?
So uh now I think of this every time I button or unbutton my pantsI wondered for years why young women entered an office looking down at their front.
a sideways glance in the mirror is much more helpful. Not because I care what anyone else thinks, but because sometimes it's just nice to check yourself out! Maybe it's shallow, but if it makes you feel good about yourself then I don't see the harm in it.
I keep things inthe gap part of ballgownsmy bra when I go to aballbar - phone and keys, ID.
Before then it was run on pure pretension and rage.
I'd be happy to help you kill little children's hopes and dreams.
Wait, that's not what you meant?
The bar is set at four? So ... two fish and two bunnies and we're at the loony bin?
Thank god a bunny passed away recently.
I voted. I got my sticker. My sticker that tells people, "You can't judge me because I didn't vote, because I did and here's my proof."
I really want to go out and watch the election results later, but M has a really bad headache and I don't think anyone else will go with me. :(
Watch them online!
Why can't I fit my fat hand in the salsa jar?!
No, just fulfilling.
I was just reminded by a lady that I hadn't seen in a long time that as a little boy of maybe 3 or 4 I was blonde. I have brown hair now.
I remember when my dad died you know. I was only six. I got loads of presents off everyone like it was Christmas. I remember wishing a couple more people would die so I could complete my Lego set. My grandma tried to explain you know. She said he'd gone away and he wasn't coming back.
So I wanted to know where like, you know. She said he was very happy and he'd gone to the same place as my goldfish. So I thought they'd flushed him down the bog. I thought he was just round the U bend you know.
I used to stuff food down, you know, and magazines and that for him to read. They took me to a child psychologist in the end because they found me with my head down the bowl reading him the football results.
a Mac Evangelist.
Whose bright idea was it to use the same word for 'visible electromagnetic radiation' and 'low in weight'?
Hum hum.. I use ph-neutral soap for everything. I ´unno if that´s good or bad but I cleanes my hair and leaves my skin in an okay state. Maybe a bit dryish, but that´s due to the season, I guess.
Anyone use them styling-paste products? I use a sort of cheap one
http://www.meyrose.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/got2b_strand_matte_Vorderseite.jpg
but I was wondering wether an expensive one (like 20-30 bucks) would do better?
I use it because I have thin hair but it bothers me a bit and I like it floofier!
I used to think I had straight hair. Then when I stopped brushing it, it curled up. So, I'm getting used to the fact that my hair isn't as straight as I thought. :lol:
So... I don't really know what is to blame.
What would you put on such shelves? What a miraculous opportunity!
I think there's a general fear that they'll just grow back thicker and wirier.
I occasionally find rough, black, curly strands in with my otherwise straight(ish) blonde hair. They're easiest to spot when they're short and along my part because they stick up all crazy, but now and then I find long ones... I really do not know what to make of it.
So, the cliche is that extroverts gain energy from social interaction, and introverts are drained by it.
A friend points out that energy is conserved, so the extroverts must be sucking it out of the introverts.
I like how your avatar is responding to your thought.
'I don't know what to change it to.'
*shrug*
How does your ever changing avatar work, Hodges?
Yes, how exactly? One of these days you need to share.
I'm happy to stick with Sheamus. I wanted one of him specifically and I might keep the shrug motif I've accidentally continued.
I'm very interested!
I'm happy to stick with Sheamus. I wanted one of him specifically and I might keep the shrug motif I've accidentally continued.
I'm very interested!
I demand you say 'fella' in all of your posts now. By the way, I will now be making wrestling jokes at you to see if you get them.
A friend points out that energy is conserved, so the extroverts must be sucking it out of the introverts.
I'm happy to stick with Sheamus. I wanted one of him specifically and I might keep the shrug motif I've accidentally continued.
I'm very interested!
I demand you say 'fella' in all of your posts now. By the way, I will now be making wrestling jokes at you to see if you get them.
I watched wrestling constantly back in the 90's, but lost interest when my brothers moved out. Not as fun to watch alone. Only got back into it in the last few months so I'll probably miss the gags a lot... FELLA!
Well you were a second ago, ratchet pants
I can take off both my socks with my feet lying in bed, and also FOLD THEM TOGETHER while simultaneously cuddling. Beat that.
I'm a furry and I'm okay!
I can pick things up with my feet while I'm walking along.
I'm a furry and I'm okay!
You're still weird.
I don't get it. (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,27326.msg1116770.html#msg1116770) What am I missing?I'm a furry and I'm okay!
You're still weird.
Well yeah.
Having finally listened all the way through every song on the Anthology collection, every B-side, the BBC sessions, and Christmas album, there isn't a single Beatles song publicly available that I have not heard.
LTK: It was a funny picture. That's all.Would you have been as amused if it had been furries depicted that way?
I still fucking hate "I Am The Walrus"
LTK: Absolutely.All right. I still don't understand, but I can live with that.
Goo goo g'joob.I still fucking hate "I Am The Walrus"
Then we agree.
I should really learn not to google anything Ackblom posts.
Just because I am part of a specific group doesn't mean that group cannot be made fun of in front of me. I have no illusions of perfection. I'm fat, poor, white, Jewish, a furry... and I will forever pick on myself for all of those things. And really, as Unicorn said, furries are fuckin' weird.Oh, yeah, that makes sense. But I mean, you could find plenty of things to ridicule bronies for, but choosing to portray them as fat, hairy and lonely is just petty, you know?
I'm like a life lesson given sentience. That life lesson is "be careful what you google".
choosing to portray them as fat, hairy and lonely is just petty, you know?
Queue has four more letters than it really needs.Q agrees. The epic fights I've had about this during Star Trek Scrabble...
If you have a penis piercing/mod that disrupts the stream you sit. Unless you enjoy peeing on EVERYTHINGIt doesn't take a piercing/mod, sometimes, for the stream to go unexpectedly 20-30 degrees to left or right. I hate it when that happens!
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/peeing_sitting_downTo which I add:
I used to pee in the changing room shower after PE class when I was 12. The other kids would complain about the smell but no one knew it was me so I kept on doing it for a year or so. This has likely affected my mental development pretty significantly. Dunno exactly how, though, as I always sit down peeing now.I think it may be important to pee near a drain if you're going to go in the shower.
Gouda is amazing.
hey shitdicks how's it going
Bobby Tables?
Elesia, if you ever get a boner...
...uh, call me?
Ah, neko, if you were local you'd get so many makeouts too. Boyfriend permitting, obvs.
They smell like earthworms.
Hey! I only moved to a city when I turned 18! Until then I have always lived in semi-rural villages, and my mum's house is in the middle of nowhere. I do, however, wash frequently.
You could get the smell of dirt by rolling in mud.
meatotomy
The crazy half naked man in Lockout is Rudy from The Misfits disguised by a fauxhawk. Every time I can speak all I can hear is "But I'm Ruuuuuuudy".
www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=492Didn't work. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sleep+madness) Just because you're using incognito mode now, doesn't mean that previous personalisation is undone.
is the second result for a Google search using the phrase sleep madness. I cleared my cookies and used Incognito mode to stop any personalised results happening.
What? It's a random thought!
Didn't work. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sleep+madness) Just because you're using incognito mode now, doesn't mean that previous personalisation is undone.
OIC. Then QC probably ranks higher on google than DDG.Didn't work. (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sleep+madness) Just because you're using incognito mode now, doesn't mean that previous personalisation is undone.That's why I cleared out my browser as well.
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54048
I also really need to find a way to incorporate "encuntening" into my vocabulary as of yesterday.
Unless you're doing the gay stuff, then it's just cocks all the way down.
Is it a little strange/pervy that I have definitely recognized a girl by her ass before? Because that has happened so many times, oh my god you don't even know how many times, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY TIMES
Is it a little strange/pervy that I have definitely recognized a girl by her ass before? Because that has happened so many times, oh my god you don't even know how many times, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY TIMES
nah, it's pretty normal aka objectifying as fuckI don't think it's either pervy or objectifying. I notice butts, bottoms and asses. For years, I've learned to recognize many of my women friends by their backs as well as their fronts, even if they're not all that attractive from either side. Would I developed that if I didn't find bottoms attractive? I don't know. Other guys might have an answer for that.
Panel three of comic 637 (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=637) doesn't make much sense to me. Why would Dora ask that? What does her brother do? Why am I reading the archives for the fifth time?
Sven doesn't play songs...he just writes them.
Now now, Neko, we've been down this road before :-P
I love asses. Seriously that's like the sexiest thing ever, man, woman, or otherwise. And there are very few people I could recognize by just their ass. Though I feel like I pay attention to completely different things than most people, even when we're both looking at the same thing.
I've got quite bony hips.
I exist on a website where you can find that out, though.
so rough I almost cried.
One of my cats is hiding under my bed and I am terrified. (not really) (but she is kinda scary)I once knew a Siamese that hid under beds and sofas and rushed out to bite ankles.
Is there any particular reason that marten has a mini-manchu (or possibly a horseshoe) in this comic?
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1135
the downside is that it hella itches as the hair grows back and it can be painful if you cut yourself. Why do you want to?I know that feeling,
Random thoughts seeme innocuous enough to read while I eat my pancakes :-Pplease tell me I got a spit take out of you. :-D
the downside is that it hella itches...I know that feeling,
...apart from the occasional skin irritation.
Speaking of aureoles I used a fancy new scrub/body butter in the shower the other day and it seems to have irritated JUST my nips. No idea why.
It doesn't have to.
Just use some moisturizer after shaving and that's it = ). Never had a problem after doing this.
Why do you want to?Hydrodynamics. Just ask Clinton.
Speaking of aureoles I used a fancy new scrub/body butter in the shower the other day and it seems to have irritated JUST my nips. No idea why.The skin there is more sensitive and prone to irritation. Also, mammary ducts + irritating foreign substance = pain. Similar to urethral irritation.
On a girl I could take it or leave it, but would never insist that someone shave for me.
You would have no problem with a girl with chest hair? Like, grizzly bear cleavage? I dunno, count me out.
as long as they're clean, they can shave or not shave whatever they want.
when you want to attract a mate sometimes you got to have the right kind of plumage...
(http://www.colourbox.com/preview/1175391-761381-close-up-of-a-peacock.jpg)
In general, I'm not really a fan of hairy men aesthetically but I like my boyfriend's body hair just because it's my boyfriend.
Vampire glove are no good unless there is a violet wand involved.
If you haven't guessed, vampire underoos and bras have the points facing inwards.Guhh....why? Ow ow owww..... I have enough trouble with nail clippers....
[...] Wartenberg Pinwheel [...]Sadly, I know this term because of 50 shades of grey ...
On the topic of insertables I was looking up "strapless strap-ons" cause I am thinking of investing in one.
Didn't I leave the tab open so when I opened my laptop in class with rows of people behind me there were a dozen dildos on my screen.
Doh
I think if I had the money I'd have more crazy pokey/purple things just for the sake of it even if I didn't really use them.Once you buy it, the temptation never goes away until you actually use it. But don't worry, the big pink one in my sock drawer tells me it's totally worth it.
Went jogging, did some situps, feel amazing. Am now getting out the weights.Hoo-RAH. Gimme 400 reps, private! :emotrex:
Man, any of those sex toys that deal with electricity are really unappealing when you electrocuted yourself twice as a 6 year old.Thank God for watertight battery housings...
9V batteries are delicious. To me they're like little rectangular lemons.Isn't 1 Ampere enough to kill a person?
I get shocked quite regularly on the job..I guess it's what I get for using my body as a groundsource, instead of going and buying an electrostatic wristband...but typically what I touch by accident are all lower than 2 amperes. Might be as high as 400-600 volts, but...meh. It's a job.
9V batteries are delicious. To me they're like little rectangular lemons.
I get shocked quite regularly on the job..I guess it's what I get for using my body as a groundsource, instead of going and buying an electrostatic wristband...but typically what I touch by accident are all lower than 2 amperes. Might be as high as 400-600 volts, but...meh. It's a job.
I honestly can't tell if that pun was intentional or not.
whoa, whoa, whoa, stop that. a series of puns tends to spark a landslide of them around here, and I'd rather keep this place nice and grounded.I think the proper terminology would be "cascade" or "avalanche".
whoa, whoa, whoa, stop that. a series of puns tends to spark a landslide of them around here, and I'd rather keep this place nice and grounded.
whoa, whoa, whoa, stop that. a series of puns tends to spark a landslide of them around here, and I'd rather keep this place nice and grounded.I think the proper terminology would be "cascade" or "avalanche".
Isn't 1 Ampere enough to kill a person?
The voltage is irrelevant, except as providing the motive force for the current, but it should be noted that there is a time element as well.
Indeed, voltage's motive force is quite relevant.
Don't eat electricity, folks.
Best sentence ever.
Don't eat electricity, folks.
Best sentence ever.
Also true. I've gotten enough shocks from 450V capacitors lying in wait (damn sleeper cell components, they are) but I'm still here. Conversely, the 22,000V shock to my voltmeter, carrying 40 Amps, was enough to make my hair stand on end without being part of the circuit. Also my voltmeter caught on fire from the inside. :'(Indeed, voltage's motive force is quite relevant.
But not the voltage in itself without other things being right - as you must know well, an HT shock from a high-impedence source is annoying rather than deadly.
She might qualify for a permit on the grounds of need: she's a target for perverts who take their Japanese porn too seriously.Well, she IS made for guys who otherwise would ride the subway with their waifu pillow...
I wonder if we would be thinking as badly of Hitler if he was just a megalomaniac dictator instead of a genocidal megalomaniac dictator.
The way I heard it was "Those who can't teach, teach teachers".
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?
One Thousand. How's THAT for random?
I could never understand why people drink ice water. That shit is painful. I like my water lukewarm to hot.
I like my alcoholic drinks room temperature, from girly drinks to liquor to beer.
I want to bitch about my media class but I don't know how but I'm thinking, "It's a media class! I should do it in FILM!"
It was written for Haydn's patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, while he, Haydn and the court orchestra were at the Prince's summer palace in Eszterháza. The stay there had been longer than expected, and most of the musicians had been forced to leave their wives back at home in Eisenstadt, so in the last movement of the symphony, Haydn subtly hinted to his patron that perhaps he might like to allow the musicians to return home: during the final adagio each musician stops playing, snuffs out the candle on his music stand, and leaves in turn, so that at the end, there are just two muted violins left (played by Haydn himself and the concertmaster, Alois Luigi Tomasini). Esterházy seems to have understood the message: the court returned to Eisenstadt the day following the performance.
The professor of my undergraduate Communications 101 class at UWW would always start his lectures with a quiet "well, I guess since everyone is here, we should begin." I was always tempted to interrupt when he said that and ask, "If we all decided not to show up one day, would that mean class is canceled?"
Never did, though.
Is "Big Fat Gay Wedding" too offensive to consider for use as a pun?
I have no sense of the appropriateness of these things...
It feels like weather in michigan may as well be determined by random thoughts. It was 52F yesterday, 23F today with intermittent snowstorms.
NO SMILIING. Oi, stop smiling.
Why does my hair have to look completely different every day, when I do the same thing to it every morning? The only time it looks sort of the same is when I actually put 10 minutes into blow-drying and straightening and whatnot.
Unicorn, what brand of glasses are those? I've been looking for a half-frame style for a while that fits my look, and those hit the nail on the head.
Unicorn, what brand of glasses are those? I've been looking for a half-frame style for a while that fits my look, and those hit the nail on the head.
Tommy Hilfiger. I think I got these like six years ago? I have other glasses but they're decidedly femme rather than androgynous so I don't wear them much.
found a picture of them (and fuck it's an horrid picutre)
Depends on what criteria you're judging it by.
If I was a dictator there would be glitter and dildos everywhere
I vote for Paul Hodges as dictator.It occurs to me that this is not how a self-respecting dictatorship comes into being.
The only answer I could come up with was Akima. Intelligent and benevolent. But with an iron fist.I've always seen myself as more of an Empress...
Choose your own title. The job is yours.The only answer I could come up with was Akima. Intelligent and benevolent. But with an iron fist.I've always seen myself as more of an Empress...
It has been said that during the worst period of hyperinflation that in the time it took to drink a cup of coffee, the price for the cup could double.
Besides a compulsion to write endless strings of zeros, individuals that suffered from this condition would reportedly become confused when referring to numbers and would state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children.
I knew a Patrick...he was a stoner
Steve talks to himself out-loud a lot. It only bothers me when I think he is talking to me.
I talk to myself internally a lot, and I was actually going to recommend it to some people here, but never got around to it. When I have a problem, I imagine someone I might talk to about the problem, and talk to them in my head, I try to answer as they would, ask the follow up questions they would, and then try to analyse my own responses to see how I actually feel, or what solutions there could be. It is a bit like talk therapy, but all in my head. I find it to be realyl helpful at making big descion, calming my fears, and reassuring myself. I can explain it more sometime, probably in the pessimism thread.
I talk to myself internally a lot, and I was actually going to recommend it to some people here, but never got around to it. When I have a problem, I imagine someone I might talk to about the problem, and talk to them in my head, I try to answer as they would, ask the follow up questions they would, and then try to analyse my own responses to see how I actually feel, or what solutions there could be. It is a bit like talk therapy, but all in my head. I find it to be realyl helpful at making big descion, calming my fears, and reassuring myself. I can explain it more sometime, probably in the pessimism thread.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/09/a-warning-to-college-profs-from-a-high-school-teacher/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/09/a-warning-to-college-profs-from-a-high-school-teacher/)That was painful to read...I'm now seriously considering private education for my children. For a long while I've been wary of No Child Left Behind, but I'd rather not have the future fall behind to that extent.
This article pretty much sums up my ideas on American education
I've been rereading my essay for a class, and it occurs to me: I sound like an absolute ponce. Were I to be so eloquent in spoken dialogue, I would have no fear of ever being rendered speechless.
I hate that this frozen breakfast sandwich needed to specify that I microwave it on a microwave safe plate.
I wonder if "falling pregnant" is a colloquialism, or if it's just a slip-up.
"I was walking down the street, tripped, and landed crotch-first on a penis. I've fallen pregnant!"
You also fall in love.
But the usage has an interesting undertone; just as falling ill is something that happens to you with no personal responsibility, so falling pregnant seems to imply that it was in some sense unavoidable. It seems to remove responsibility both from the woman and perhaps even (or especially?) from the man.
I hate that this frozen breakfast sandwich needed to specify that I microwave it on a microwave safe plate.
I once heard of a chainsaw that had instructions to "not stop with hands, feet, or genitals."
Cumshots look stupid when the girls don't swallow. Looks like they have a drinking problem.
but it's just awful for your breath...
[...](a particular irritant of mine is long, perfectly manicured nails in lesbian porn, because in real life, fingernails fucking hurt)[...]Never thought about that ... but now that you have mentioned it I'm squirming in my seat.
"Sir, it specifically says not to stop the chain with your genitals, I'm afraid your claim is null and void."
"Sir, it specifically says not to stop the chain with your genitals, I'm afraid your claim is null and void."
"... as are your genitals"
Pear shapes are awesome. I'm a hip fan on ladies.
And absolutely, the giant obviously fake boob look is very sought after, or at least it was at one time. These days things tend towards the more natural look and "amateur" porn.
Nothing wrong with small boobs. I will always value small real boobs over huge fake ones...and that's saying something, because I <3 SIZE.Anything more than a handful is a waste, IMO.
Anything more than a handful is a waste, IMO.
True, but then again I have somewhat larger hands :PAnything more than a handful is a waste, IMO.
This phrase has always bothered me. I'm sure a lot of people who say it don't really care that much and aren't going to shut down any woman with larger than average breasts. It shouldn't matter because it's not like they're getting near my boobs anyway. Although it does make me get a twinge of, "My breasts nor any amount of their size is a waste. If you really think they're a waste maybe you just can't think of enough to do with them."
Sorry, taking abstract comments personally. I get the same annoyance at, "Flat chests make you look like you're a twelve year old boy." As breasts are not the only quantifier of femininity and you can definitely have feminine appearing bodies regardless of size.
Random fact: Apparently the average bra size for pornstars is a 34B.
Anything more than a handful is a waste, IMO.
This phrase has always bothered me.
When did Nickelback become so hated? and why?
I..i don't get it; i listen a couple of songs years ago, and they were fine (not a masterpiece, but it wasn't bad). It's something about their personal life? That would explain it, because i don't check things like that on musicians/bands.
...Go on?
That said, Nickelback is pretty damn far from the worst band I've ever heard, but they've gotten so fucking bad once they figured out the commercial route. Like, their earlier stuff - Never Again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1v0MVNwS-E) is a really fucking powerful, angry song that still means a lot to me.
The reason Nickelback music is more annoying to me than say, Justin Beiber, is because of the way it crosses genres. Beiber is pretty much limited to air time on top 40/pop stations. Nickelback has air time on top 40, adult contemporary/soft rock, county, and rock stations. This means I have to hear Nickelback fucking everywhere.
I liked your pic better.
But, I understand.
Sleep. Must. Sleep. But I want to watch True Blood and talk to sexy people... but I have to be awake in 7 hours and that's not enough sleep for me...I'm so happy I can get away with 4-5 hours of sleep every now and then when I get distracted and forget about the time.
Some researchers are doing a project on sleep deprivation, and if I'll be their test subject they'll give me €460 for staying awake for 24 hours and doing some tests. Score!
And here's my random thought: Why does the bread's crust lose its crunchiness the day after I buy it? It always goes soft. Maybe I should buy a toaster.
I wish I didn't feel fatigued when getting under 10 hours of sleep. :-\
I wish I didn't feel fatigued when getting under 10 hours of sleep. :-\
I'm with you...ugh. Yesterday I woke up at 5am, was on the road at 6, drove off and on for 13 hours, through three states, and over 300 miles. And it was supposed to be a normal workday.
Today, I'm up again early, I have eight errands I have to run before 10am local time, including moving 750lbs of TV parts around. And then I'm on the road again until about 6pm.
There needs to be more hours in the day.
I have no idea how to pronounce that even after listening to it being pronounced.
(http://snag.gy/D9SzV.jpg)
Grapheme synesthesia?
vowels are faintly coloured unless they start a word - then they influence the whole word. otherwise they don't really influence a lot unless there's a lot of the same vowel (in which case it offers its own inflection on the word - infinite is very white, even though it's got splashed of colour in it), or unless there's more than one vowel in a row, in which case it kind of washes the colours out. think like a watercolour.So what if I write it properly? Which would be Æthien.
'th' does the same thing - only it's a lavenderish, periwinkle blue sort of colour. it can really easily be overtaken by other letter combinations because it's a really soft colour.
so "Aethion" is an over-all purpleish-blue name, but that n is just like
a big splotch of orange right in it and it's mocking me, I swear it is.
(My favourite name is still Aletheia.)
Does this help?
(My favourite name is still Aletheia.)
no not really. usually i'm reading too quickly for it to happen - it only happens if i'm reading one word. other words are kind of distracting.Does this help?
nnnnnnnno, but that was amazing
I've been pronouncing it the way Maes Hughes pronounces his daughter's name.
peg solitaire?That's it! You can probably imagine how hard it is to find that on Wikipedia when your knowledge goes as far as "You jump pieces over one another until you run out of moves".
It's just "solitaire" to me, and usually played with marbles on a board with indentations. The pegs are for portable setups.But you probably call the card-game "Patience".
Since the committee consists of both members of the state center and state house of representatives, it is being called...
"The Joint Committee on Marijuana"
Photocopiers are the greatest thing ever. Except when they are the worst thing ever.
WiFi networks my laptop can see include "HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi" and "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"
I want to rename our network something witty.
By extrapolation, it should be good for another 24 years.
HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi
Mine is named "The Shire", and for a while the pass phrase was "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul".
who the hell are you people
I never understand the lyrics of that song.
I never understand the lyrics of that song.
As in, "I can't make them out" or "I don't understand what they mean"?
I can help with both...
I never understand the lyrics of that song.
As in, "I can't make them out" or "I don't understand what they mean"?
I can help with both...
Well, I can't make them out. I assume I would be able to understand them if they were written down somewhere, given I had no trouble with the rest of the movie. It's the singing that really throws me off.
We Are The Sons And Daughters Of Robin Hood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DoHLdYrdo)
Was sitting enjoying a coffee and had an inner monologue, was weird as it wasn't even in my voice.
Speedy recovery to you! Be sure to poke around in your OS's settings for "Accessibility" -- there will be a ton of things to help with impaired vision.
The other voices in my head only respond if I call out for them.
The other voices in my head only respond if I call out for them.
I wish mine did that. They've been infuriatingly quiet lately.
The other voices in my head only respond if I call out for them.
I wish mine did that. They've been infuriatingly quiet lately.
Is the shuffle function on my iPod a good way to predict the future?
...I just found the magnifier function. You are my spine's hero!
When I have a Word file just for me, for whatever reason, it's generally 6 or 7 pt. For work I have to make it 10 or 12.
Comic Saaaaaaaaans!
Comic Saaaaaaaaans!
http://bancomicsans.com/main/pdf/bunnypunch.pdf (http://bancomicsans.com/main/pdf/bunnypunch.pdf)
Comic Saaaaaaaaans!
http://bancomicsans.com/main/pdf/bunnypunch.pdf (http://bancomicsans.com/main/pdf/bunnypunch.pdf)
does that still apply if you're just quoting it though
My favourite font is Georgia. It's really gorgeous italicised.
I wonder sometimes why I find freckled redheaded girls so darn irresistible.
I wonder sometimes why I find freckled redheaded girls so darn irresistible.
are there people who don't
DDOS attacks suck.I concur with your statement.
I wonder sometimes why I find freckled redheaded girls so darn irresistible.
are there people who don't
I think the people who say they don't are simply jealous.
DDOS attacks suck.Hey, that's not Random!
I wonder sometimes why I find freckled redheaded girls so darn irresistible.
are there people who don't
I think the people who say they don't are simply jealous.
Woo Hoo!!!! my title changed.
FYI it generates electricity via thermo-voltaic (Seebeck effect) ceramics and beta decay.
Is the reason for using beta decay that it produces more heat than helium nuclei?FYI it generates electricity via thermo-voltaic (Seebeck effect) ceramics and beta decay.
Why not use an alpha emitter? Far easier to shield.
NASA seems happy with 238Pu thermoelectric sources.
Well last night I came up with and ditched an idea for a device that could provide electricity for something like power armor. Mostly because running the numbers revealed it would be dangerously radioactive. If anyone compares it to an arc reactor they will receive a nasty a glare. FYI it generates electricity via thermo-voltaic (Seebeck effect) ceramics and beta decay.
<murderous glare>Well last night I came up with and ditched an idea for a device that could provide electricity for something like power armor. Mostly because running the numbers revealed it would be dangerously radioactive. If anyone compares it to an arc reactor they will receive a nasty a glare. FYI it generates electricity via thermo-voltaic (Seebeck effect) ceramics and beta decay.
A bit like an arc reactor?
I need to decide if I want to renew my lease or not. Rent is going up another $50/month. :?
Can't sleep. Lesbian fantasy fiction is exploding from my head, must write. The math, it beckons to me as well. I hate my overactive mind sometimes.
I never said it was erotic. It's just a work about a princess murdering those responsible for the death of her family and the downfall of her country with some romance involving the vampire thief who tagged along because she was bored.
How much money should I spend on Doctor Who stamps?
How much money should I spend on Doctor Who stamps?
Something tells me they'll be worth about as much as Star Trek: TNG trading cards in about a hundred years.
There are a few comics out there called "busty girl problems/perks" and "Flat girl problems/perks" they can be very true and very funny.
They cannot change it under the lease I signed for but I only signed a 1 year lease and it is ending next month. If I want to renew I have to sign a new lease so it will go up by $50/month if I renew. I did my own home repairs and there is nothing they need to repair and they have done regular maintenance through the year.I need to decide if I want to renew my lease or not. Rent is going up another $50/month. :?
Check and see if there is a clause in your rent agreement or the local/state laws...sometimes there is a mandate that says your landlord cannot raise your rent without first addressing any unfinished home repairs or maintenance. It could give you some time to decide, or time to save up.
Plural, as far as I know, uses 's (5) for possession, unless the plural ends with s (6), then it uses just the apostrophe?
A Master's degree in xxx is the degree of a Master of xxx. The apostrophe is correct and required. The plural form, when required, is also genitive: "he has masters' degrees in maths and biochemistry".
Ugh yes, it's one of the ways I know someone doesn't have a girlfriend if they have long, sharp talons (there's a boy in my lecture with unusually long nails and he uses them to pick his nose, which is another indicator that he will be single forever).
You were just winding us up, really, weren't you?
Alternatively, you get a little frisson from reading over-detailed explanations of minutiae; it's OK, we understand.
Or, he could stop being annoying as shit, stop being useless against the first gym on Yellow, and get in a goddamn pokeball like he should because YOU ARE DOMESTICATED AND SUBJUGATED AND YOU WILL DO WHAT I FUCKING SAY
Or, he could stop being annoying as shit, stop being useless against the first gym on Yellow, and get in a goddamn pokeball like he should because YOU ARE DOMESTICATED AND SUBJUGATED AND YOU WILL DO WHAT I FUCKING SAY
I can only hope you're not a parent.
"Ash's pikachu is just ridiculous. Who violently objects to a rare and valuable gift that'll make you bigger, stronger, a better fighter, and a Overall more valuable member of the team, especially when you know there are a lot more Overall powerful pokemon in your group? "
You were just winding us up, really, weren't you?
Alternatively, you get a little frisson from reading over-detailed explanations of minutiae; it's OK, we understand.
On the subject of Pikachu being ridiculous:
(For those who haven't seen it)
I love Egoraptor so hard. Do you watch Game Grumps?
A loli goth with a railgun.... hmmm.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Or, he could stop being annoying as shit, stop being useless against the first gym on Yellow, and get in a goddamn pokeball like he should because YOU ARE DOMESTICATED AND SUBJUGATED AND YOU WILL DO WHAT I FUCKING SAY
I can only hope you're not a parent.
A loli goth with a railgun.... hmmm.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Ye gods! I'm an anime character.
Someone asked me why I decided to build a .30 cal railgun with the same range and velocity as a normal rifle when I could build a 30mm hypersonic version that could take out a tank. I answered that besides the extreme cost difference between the two (~1200 bucks versus several million) the government tends to frown upon people building something that could take out a building. Still it would be cool, but I like not being in prison.where have you been all my life? xD
Edit: Besides the jail thing there are many, many better things I could do with several million dollars at my disposal. Shopping for new loli goth clothes in Japan comes to mind.
Honestly.. Not really, it was kind of a fucked up thing to say when it was such a transparent analogy.
You feel that what I said about an electric cartoon rat was fucked up?
You were just winding us up, really, weren't you?
Alternatively, you get a little frisson from reading over-detailed explanations of minutiae; it's OK, we understand.
Take this award for extravagant word of the day for your excellent usage of "frisson".
(Edit2: Sorry for being such a killjoy, didn't mean to..)You feel that what I said about an electric cartoon rat was fucked up?
Speaking in a "transparent analogy", yes. Though obviously you wouldn't be a dad to any electric cartoon rats either, so on that front it'd be all good, right? After all, the response could only be applicable within the analogy, otherwise it'd be "I can only hope you're not a Pokémon Trainer".
Go ahead, read what you said within the context of my post preceding it. I'm sorry for the response since you were messing around, but it was my reaction at the time, so not gonna say it was a joke now. Reading it like that hurt.
(EDIT: Fuck you, puns. Fuck you forever. I hate you. Seriously. Now I can't stop reading it as "Trans parent". Fuck. Not intentional at all.)
I think butts is a good way to go.
You were just winding us up, really, weren't you?
Alternatively, you get a little frisson from reading over-detailed explanations of minutiae; it's OK, we understand.
Take this award for extravagant word of the day for your excellent usage of "frisson".
I keep forgetting you're newer round these parts, so it surprised me a little that you'd even be surprised.
That said, Paul, your vocabulary is amazing.
I am new, but I do expect a higher standard of English from portions of the forum already, still proper usage of words like "frisson" needs to be properly commemorated, that others might be inspired and strive to further their own vocabulary.
I am new, but I do expect a higher standard of English from portions of the forum already, still proper usage of words like "frisson" needs to be properly commemorated, that others might be inspired and strive to further their own vocabulary.
Please keep in mind that some of us have other native languages, though, even if we're generally pretty good at it. When writing in the Depression thread a bit ago I spent a while just trying to figure out whether I was "laying down with X" or "lying down with X" trying to avoid looking dumb.
Please keep in mind that some of us have other native languages, though,
BUTTS
http://cheezburger.com/7168596480
Probably NSFW
Please keep in mind that some of us have other native languages, though,
This is indeed mentioned in my notes in the rules section; and actually, at times even the distinctions between different forms of English can become a matter of interest. From time to time educational discussions of vocabulary, or individual words, or matters of grammar pop up just about anywhere here.
English may be the bastard child among languages, but that doesn't excuse people being horribly abusive and negligent towards it.
I could not care less meaning I care so little that it would be impossible to care any less.
Most people say it wrong though, saying, I could care less, meaning... it's possible to care less than they do meaning that they actually care.
I prefer to say that I could not possibly give a fuck.
oh, there are always going to be dialects that are bizzare, no question about it. but at least those dialects (normally) know how to spell, understand that grammar is in fact a thing that exists, and have some sort of functioning phonics system.
Everywhere I've been in the US has zero understanding of or desire to have any of that. Public schools teach stuff that's just WRONG
I prefer to say that I could not possibly give a fuck.
Its dead Jim. :mrgreen:
oh dear mata nui, i've been grammar nazi'd.I don't know which is worse. The fact that you just referred to a Lego universe deity, or the fact that I know this to be the case. :psyduck:
But yes, i have a Dead Jim™. :evil:
wiki's mainpage is always done up wonderfully for April 1st.I missed it, but Google is reaching out to another of our senses on today's page.
Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a few hours.
Put a man next to a plutonium-based bomb and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Uranium <3
SEPTEMBER IS NOW BITCH
I love you Neko
But does Caesar want his salad tossed?Who wouldn't.
deal.
I'm going to toss you all off a tall bridge.excellent. I've been wanting to try out my wingsuit =D
BMI DOES NOT WORK EXCEPT AS THE BAREST GENERAL INDICATOR OF HEALTH
GUYSPlayliiiiiiist! (http://www.youtube.com/user/pulcinopiotv)
GUYS WATCH THIS FUCKING VIDEO RIGHT MOTHER FUCKING GOD DAMN NOW
ARE YOU WATCHING YOU BETTER BE FUCKING WATCHING YOU FUCKS
these are the most fuckin amazing things i've ever eaten
Welp, time to epilate my legs.
BRING IT ON MEDIEVAL TORTURE DEVICE
OW FUCK FUCK FUCK
one of our kitchen cabinets. :Pthese are the most fuckin amazing things i've ever eaten
Where did you find them?
i can't epilate above the knees. the pain is too much and makes me sob like a baby. i didn't even cry when i got my lip pierced, to give you an idea of my pain tolerance.
Holy cow a job just opened up that I really want.
i can't epilate above the knees. the pain is too much and makes me sob like a baby. i didn't even cry when i got my lip pierced, to give you an idea of my pain tolerance.
Actually that doesn't give me an idea. I ain't pierced nowhere. Not really my thing. :-)
well to give you a clearer idea of what a lip piercing feels like it feels like someone stabbing you in the face
Holy cow a job just opened up that I really want.
Seth Rogen should release a range of estrogen pills called Sethstrogen.
perhaps this should go in Confessions but I've always found him to be incredibly attractive.Seth Rogen? Attractive? No, that should go in the TMI thread. :psyduck:
Just messin with your head...but not the way Seth Rogen does, apparently. :mrgreen:
Also my mouth, your tongue and ink-superpowers! And incest!
no explanation necessary obviously
Random thought: "grammar nazi" = "literary Hitler".
Random thought: "grammar nazi" = "literary Hitler".
Confession time - in my well over a decade of internatz, I never bothered to learn what an IRC actually consists of. Is it just a chatroom?
Confession time - in my well over a decade of internatz, I never bothered to learn what an IRC actually consists of. Is it just a chatroom?
An IRC Server can contain multiple Channels (Chatrooms). These are typically denoted with a #. (This was before Hashtags on twitter were a thing.) You can connect to an IRC Server with various clients. My favourite way of connecting to IRCs is using irssi, a small console Client on Linux which runs on my homeserver. For beginners on Windows probably mIRC would be the wisest choice.
BRING FORTH THE HOLY GRENADE!
with insulting or praising rabbits, respectively?
silly lagomorph
...why don't I have a script? WHO OF YOU BASTARDS STOLE MY SCRIPT?Now I know for a fact that you're german.
but here's a big basket of carrots and some flowers to make up for it. Not that I like you or anything... silly lagomorph *turn and blush*
...why don't I have a script?
...why? Was I supposed to say "which of you bastards"?Which one. Sorry for correcting you, but a friend of mine literally did the same mistake today, and I argued with him that sometimes, using a literal translation from German is not the best thing to do.
but here's a big basket of carrots and some flowers to make up for it. Not that I like you or anything... silly lagomorph *turn and blush*
That's more like it, you don't treat your pet-girls in such a manner no matter what!
and pets her soft furry back
tempura carrots are freaking awesome.
Right, because that's totally how petplay works, Primo. :roll:
RabbitLion :psyduck:
36 seconds in...
Welcome to our group New Zealand :-)
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It seems that IRC daemons are designed to require more configuration than a full LAMP server before they'll even start for testing; apparently they are all designed in the school of my software is more complex than yours yah boo sucks. This may take a while.
One comes with an example config that includes lines that must be removed before the program will start; it is explained that they are there to test whether you have worked your way through the whole config file line by line.
Do you ever stop and think about how weird some regular words sound?
Like cup. Cup is a weird word.
I know I'm crazy.
On another note I am terrified by the looming evil of my driving test tomorrow.
Bunny.
Buh.
Knee.
Bunny. Bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny.
Bun. Ee.
Eeeeeeee!
Bunny!
Bunny.
Buh.
Knee.
Bunny. Bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny bunny.
Bun. Ee.
Eeeeeeee!
Bunny!
WHAT?! WHAT DO YOU WANT, UNICORN?! :psyduck:
fuck waffles.
Welcome to our group New Zealand :-)
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fuck waffles.
either this is a highly creative curse or i've underestimated Garand's sexual attraction to food. :psyduck:
or is he, in fact, telling someone to go fuck a bunch of waffles?
The enemy of my enemy is
You know who else grows on you? Leeches.
You know who else grows on you? Leeches.
For a time when I was small my father had some leeches as a "pet". They lived in a jar on the mantelpiece in his study.
I've been trying to sleep all day in preparation for the two night shifts I have tonight and tomorrow. I don't think it's gonna help much T_T
I'm sick of not having any pets. I miss my dog. My partner basically hates animals but not really but he has little patience for them and it hurts so much not living with any animals.so I am guessing a bird is out of the questions? What about fish? They greet me when I get home and love to follow my finger. I call them my fishy friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxOtD7OZ294) Hammies are a good idea.
I would recommend rabbits. A well socialized [rabbit] can be fairly smart, and will be quite happy to see you and get snuggles, they have a surprising amount of personality.
Now there's a third option, but some people really hate them... rats are super smart, very clean and quite affectionate, some people have issues with the tails though, or just the concept of rats in general.
moved to the new subforum? :-)
moved to the new subforum...
probably not the right thread but I finally got around to getting my fem-shep to ME2 and romancing garrus is the most hilarious thing ever.
in the Mass Effect games (ME) you can port your character (Shepard is the character's name) from fist game to the second and the second game to third. Saving all the decisions you made which makes your shepard unique from say a different person playing.probably not the right thread but I finally got around to getting my fem-shep to ME2 and romancing garrus is the most hilarious thing ever.
I understood some of these words...
I want to RELATE (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/board,20.0.html), but I cannot seem to do so.
@Paul: The Confessions thread is just on "Pause" right, not locked for good? And will the Relationship/BDSM/Depression/etc. threads be moved to the new subforum? :-)
I'm taking a relaxing bath and it's full of bubbles that smell like grass and gold sparkles that smell like orange and patchouli.
EDIT: ankhtahr, the sub-forums will have their names in bold on the forum homepage if they have new posts in them.
random: I have often thought of just moving to either England or Germany. :psyduck:
fem-shep romancing garrus
I'm taking a relaxing bath and it's full of bubbles that smell like grass and gold sparkles that smell like orange and patchouli.
I'm taking a relaxing bath and it's full of (bubbles that smell like grass) and (gold sparkles that smell like orange) and (patchouli).
I'm taking a relaxing bath and it's full of (bubbles that smell like (grass and gold sparkles)) that smell like (orange and patchouli).
I'm taking a relaxing bath and it's full of (bubbles that smell like grass and gold)[,] (sparkles that smell like orange) and (patchouli).
?
@Paul: Is mushy flirting still banned in Relate? :-D
If flirting is a communication of interest between two people, why is an audience important
Why Mongolia? Just curious. I always liked learning about the medieval mongols. :-) Crushed everyone playing as them in Age of Empires 2.random: I have often thought of just moving to either England or Germany. :psyduck:
Sometimes I look at my bank account, see that 'hey, I have money', and think that there is no reason why I shouldn't just buy a one-way ticket to Outer Mongolia...
One day I'll probably even have the guts to do it.
hehe. I would say playing ME3 as bro shep, I kind of wanted Gar-bear and Dr. Michel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTwPw2DFsOs) to hook up.fem-shep romancing garrus
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I hereby support Pilchard123's proposal. This seems more suitable than the current layout. Also, will the "Relate" forum be "Members only"? I don't really feel good about the stuff I posted in there being public. I mean, I can live with it, I wouldn't have posted there otherwise, but still, I would feel more comfortable that way.
...eh, Chinese Food it is.
Random thought: Is it just me or are the lyrics to "Wake me up before you go-go" pretty depressing?yes
Grrrr Samsung. y u so stupid. :facepalm:ok, I'll bite. Why?
I can't for the life of me figure out why people hashtag things on facebook. I've come to the conclusion that either they missed the point entirely, or I did.
You mean <i>years</i>
It's like this (on the left, of course):
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It's like this (on the left, of course):
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*growls at formulas* I thought I could leave analysis at uni.
I have an Acer Iconia A500 (10.1") and it is awesome. It isn't the prettiest piece of work, but I loves it.
I have an Acer Iconia A500 (10.1") and it is awesome. It isn't the prettiest piece of work, but I loves it.
=O that's my tablet!
Since I got my note 2,though, it's gotten very little use...
@ankhtahr- actually a lot of Samsung phones have Wolfson DACs.
Has anyone else noticed that, when some people look you in the eye, they flick their gaze from your left eye to your right eye?
Is that now how you're meant to do it? I hate eye contact. I tend to look around people more than at them.I don't know how you're meant to do it, it just stood out to me this one time. I just always look at someone's left eye (which is on my right).
i noticed just now that the pupil nekowafer's avatar dilates and contracts. Clearly I'm not very observant :psyduck:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/525454_10151661292878623_152662694_n.jpg)
I might have just agreed to take my 14 year old daughter to a Ke$ha concert. I fear for my sanity.
Then did you notice that my avatar lost his speech bubbles?I noticed that....
I just found out that Americans pronounce Löwenbräu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u) as Lowenbrau.you should see the tourists at Oktoberfest. Hilariously incapable of staying sober.
You people aresickfunny.
I just found out that Americans pronounce Löwenbräu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u) as Lowenbrau.
You people aresickfunny.
.....i stared at your avatar for a good 15 seconds before i realized i wouldn't be able to see blinking behind sunglasses. :facepalm:
I just found out that Americans pronounce Löwenbräu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u) as Lowenbrau.
You people aresickfunny.
So how is it pronounced? According to Google translate it's "loovenbroi", but I don't know how much to trust it.
I just found out that Americans pronounce Löwenbräu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u) as Lowenbrau.you should see the tourists at Oktoberfest. Hilariously incapable of staying sober.
You people aresickfunny.
It's simple: : løːvənbʁɔʏI just found out that Americans pronounce Löwenbräu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6wenbr%C3%A4u) as Lowenbrau.
You people aresickfunny.
So how is it pronounced? According to Google translate it's "loovenbroi", but I don't know how much to trust it.
And the first time I recall it being referenced in the forums, someone abbreviated it to "RP", and all I could think of was "rice pudding"...
my avatar is sign of a sick obsession in my life
@ankhtar: that was one of my your ex's biggest pet peeves. :P she swore off the TV series forever because of it.
It's hit that time of year where my hair is in a pony tail 24/7. Booooooo
Bangs!
(Scotland is never warm)
Okay Lee, now look up dakimakura, you probably saw some of them while researching waifu.those are the pillows right? I think I saw a tag line of it.
Well, to be honest, I am pretty sure the Pokémon World routinely violates thermodynamics, so there is that.Water-type Pokemon can regurgitate a seemingly endless stream of water. Putting some of it in rainclouds seems trivial then.
Random thought: What if the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon (http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/) is the result of our brain subconsciously realizing we are in the Matrix? You know, like deja-vus are a sign the Agents are changing something about the Matrix?That... doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Well, to be honest, I am pretty sure the Pokémon World routinely violates thermodynamics, so there is that.Water-type Pokemon can regurgitate a seemingly endless stream of water. Putting some of it in rainclouds seems trivial then.Random thought: What if the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon (http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/) is the result of our brain subconsciously realizing we are in the Matrix? You know, like deja-vus are a sign the Agents are changing something about the Matrix?That... doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
You know how in dreams you randomly think of something, and ten your dream changes to the topic you were thinking about, no matter how absurd? I think the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon is something like that. (Okay, I don't really think that, but let's pretend for a minute).Disbelieving that this world is real isn't that absurd. If you ask me, the most important difference between the Matrix and our world is that we don't have a real-life counterpart in the world that's running the simulation.
Elvis was a big fan of adding bacon to his PB and banana sammich. The king truly was a visionary.... and then he died. Of fat.
[last stanza]Yes, this is what I meant, thanks. Nice poetry by the way.
I swear, one day I am going to grow up.
<3
I just got my hair cut short.
<3< ?
<3<
I just got my hair cut short.Are you dis-tressed?
Another random thought: It always bothered me how in that one scene in The Matrix, the one where they pass some guards who are like "please present all your weapons" and Neo and Trinity have a whole arsenal under their trenchcoats, Neo has absolutely no qualms killing civilians. Sure, he has to kill them; that doesn't mean he wouldn't feel mental anguish over doing so. The guy is a hacker for crying out loud! Not a killing machine!
yeah, i forgot how you wrote the Auspisticism symbol earlier, so i just ended up doing a Kismesissitude symbol instead. :P
May felt she was getting too deeply into the forum, and decided to take some time out to prevent it interfering with her life.
midwifeslashbarristerslashtrapezeartist.
I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a knifethrow.Golden.
I'm not sure where the clowns and elephants fit in, though.
I'm wondering how it is that Motorhead gets second tier billing. :-\
Got home. Emptied mailbox. Noticed one letter addressed to me. Entered room. Put down mail. Hung up coat. Sat down in front of computer. Browsed the web, wondering what I was supposed to be doing once I'd sat down. It must have been on the computer, because why else would I sit down?
Oh right. Mail. Meatspace is hard sometimes.
I'm wondering how it is that Motorhead gets second tier billing. :-\
because fall out boy are probably more successful right now (especially with their comeback) than motorhead ever was?
But probably true. Lemmy is way to ugly to ever break out of the hard rock underground. Not that he prolly cared much either way.
But probably true. Lemmy is way to ugly to ever break out of the hard rock underground. Not that he prolly cared much either way.
Personally, I think Lemmy's wart has plenty of charisma.
Personally, I think Lemmy's wart has plenty of charisma.
They've got a lot of snappy lyrics and good songs. I just thought their time was passed.I'm actually unsure which of the two bands you mean.
Ugh, my past self needs a hard punch in the face.
Ugh, my past self needs a hard punch in the face. Not just because of music, just in general.
Well doing it myself wouldn't be much good.
I'm thinking something like this:
I mean, it's not like the bar was set particuarly high for FMV adventure games, but both Phantasmagorias hit that terrible b-movie spot almost perfectly. I'm also not entirely sure it was on purpose.
Well doing it myself wouldn't be much good.
See, that'd likely be because you're restraining your hits on instinct. If you're having trouble pushing past that then fast repeated hits in the same spot usually does the trick.
I've only seen Spoony's Let's Play of it which I recently rewatched.
the lineup for riot Fest was announced today
T. domestica is not an aggressive species and will retreat when threatened by larger creatures (e.g. humans). As long as its web is undisturbed, the spider will retreat to the funnel tip and stop responding to any movement whatsoever. If the web is attacked and partially destroyed, the spider will attempt to flee the area or may huddle its body into a ball against the wall or some other nearby object. To usher the spider into a cup for relocation, hold the cup in front of the spider and use something to gently nudge the spider from behind. A spider's first reflex after being touched from behind is to walk or run forward. The spider will walk right into the cup that is placed in front of it.
Tegenaria species rarely bite. If they do, the bite is painless.
In contrast, the 8th century duke called Waifer of Aquitaine was someone who refused to waiver.waifer into waifu, something else the internet taught me a week or so ago...the horror :psyduck:
Nekowafer's name could also be read as Catbiscuit.
I'M SO OKAY WITH THISCAN'T... STOP... WATCHING...
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With the number of atheists continuing to rise, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday afternoon learned the danger of assuming on live television that his interviewee is a Christian.
“I guess, you gotta thank the Lord, right?” he told the survivor of a deadly tornado that ripped through Oklahoma. “Do you thank the Lord?”
“I — I’m actually an atheist,” the woman politely responded.
“Oh, you are? Alright,” Blitzer replied.
The woman, however, handled the embarrassing situation with grace.
“We are here, and I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord,” she told Blitzer.
Is it weird that once I decide someone is attractive, I want to smell them?
I'm serious about the random letter dropping. Come ON people. Do some editing before you press the "send" button on your smartphone app, okay?my smartphone is INCAPABLE of dropping letters.
I'm serious about the random letter dropping. Come ON people. Do some editing before you press the "send" button on your smartphone app, okay?I thought that it pertained to me and have gone back and reread my post like 4 times but I'm not missing any letters at all. It is as it should be.
Nah, it just makes you Terezi. :P
If I slide the page, the textbox loses focus, which means the cursor isn't there anymore; so I have to touch the textbox again, but then the cursor, once again, ends up in another place entirely than intended. If I pinch-zoom it, the textbox is now small enough so that I can see all of it, but then I still have to place my finger on the spot I want to edit. The problem is, I cannot read what I wrote, OR place my finger accurately enough on the place I want to edit.what os are you running, cupcake? o_O or do you just have a 2" screen? because i've never even heard of a even semi-modern android phone having those issues.
An no, using a pen is not an option with the screen I have. It's one of those which only work if you touch them with conductive curved shapes such as fingertips or, say, metal spoons (yes, I tried that; it works, but is of course far too impractical.)
I could flip the phone to be in the "long side up" format, but then the keyboard takes half of the screen, and the textbox the other, which, once again, makes scrolling around neigh-impossible.
If Androids are that "dumb" when it comes to recognizing words and editing them, then why in the world do they call them "smart phones"?they're not. Loki is a special exception :P
I should probably just root my Android and upgrade it; then maybe I could properly play Ingress. But I am afraid of bricking it.YES.
I've never had any issues with my Droid X2 or Galaxy S3 since they added the little "flag" on the cursor. You can also use the arrow keys to move it around.
Nah, it just makes you Terezi. :P
I don't know who that iiiiiis
That's a pretty odd request, though I would totally just ask outright.
I mean, would YOU send a girl one of your worn t-shirts just because?
what os are you running, cupcake? o_O or do you just have a 2" screen? because i've never even heard of a even semi-modern android phone having those issues.
Nah, it just makes you Terezi. :P
I don't know who that iiiiiis
what os are you running, cupcake? o_O or do you just have a 2" screen? because i've never even heard of a even semi-modern android phone having those issues.
Gingerbread (2.3.5). Screen specifications: 240 x 320 pixels, 3.14 inches (~127 ppi pixel density).
Oh, and the virtual keyboard doesn't have any arrowkeys, obviously.
Don't know what model phone you have, but on the one I have, the center button (not sure if it has a name, but it's the one I have to press to activate the screen) doubles as an arrow key button, but you have to drag your finger on it instead of pressing the button. Took me a while to figure that one out. Maybe I should start reading manuals before using things.
what os are you running, cupcake? o_O or do you just have a 2" screen? because i've never even heard of a even semi-modern android phone having those issues.
Gingerbread (2.3.5). Screen specifications: 240 x 320 pixels, 3.14 inches (~127 ppi pixel density).
Oh, and the virtual keyboard doesn't have any arrowkeys, obviously.
i could see it.
How does anyone expect the advertising slogan "X people can't be wrong" to be taken seriously? The number of people (e.g.) following any particular religion makes it completely useless.
I think that's why LTK wrote "trying to be productive". Stop trying, just be productive.No, it's definitely the point at which I stop being productive altogether. Technically, it's already tomorrow, and I didn't plan on doing any work tomorrow until after I've slept.
Our professor keeps talking about popping (in relation to automators), but "poppen" means banging in colloquial German, so I am being a small child and giggling.
I don't read the news - its depressing.
Our professor keeps talking about popping (in relation to automators), but "poppen" means banging in colloquial German, so I am being a small child and giggling.
This hit a little too close to home
[5sf-movie]
You thought I didn't know? (http://twitter.com/TheNoyanSahin/status/339545501726814209)This hit a little too close to home
[5sf-movie]
HEY! they're having a kickstarter for a film! Check it out! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5sf/dude-bro-party-massacre-3 (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/5sf/dude-bro-party-massacre-3)
Note to self: Do not take a phone with you on the toilet, unless you want to see your face lit creepily and scare you sleepless for the THIRD time
I just got kicked out of the kitchen. Apparently I'm not allowed to either watch or help her cook. :psyduck:all my female relatives are like this. men are neither wanted or needed in the kitchen.
Roofies! (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=521)
Surprisingly those complaints didn't come. And the food was delicious. :)I just got kicked out of the kitchen. Apparently I'm not allowed to either watch or help her cook. :psyduck:all my female relatives are like this. men are neither wanted or needed in the kitchen.
ready yourself for the "but i didn't have any heeeeellllp" complaints. they're coming. :mrgreen:
In other news: We wanted to go to the movies to see Fast and Furious 6, so we reserved some tickets. But when we got there, there was a huge fucking line of people in front of the cinema. By the time we made it to the counter they had given our tickets away. The lady at the counter was lucky I didn't hit her in the face...
Misfisting?Miss Fisting!
I think the problem was that the line forced them past the up-for-grabs limit.This exactly. We were there 40 minutes in advance but when we finally got to the counter there were only 10 minutes or so left. There were only 2 tickets left and the seats were not together, so we decided not to go. We went to get some ice cream after that. At least that was delicious.
There should be a separate "reserved" window...
by the way, why the hell is this forum called ponyleaks?
by the way, why the hell is this forum called ponyleaks? I've had friends seeing my browser and going "oh you're a pony guy?", so what the hell?
When Jeph went on his last "rampage" before going sober, he renamed the forums PonyLeaks as a takeoff on WikiLeaks and on MLP. He probably thought it would bring the forums higher on SEO lists.It was originally "Serious Pony Discussion Forum" which, as far as I could tell, was just Jeph's little joke. I think that was way before MLP even became a thing. 'PonyLeaks' was indeed a reference to WikiLeaks. I doubt SEO lists have anything to do with it.
Where do you see that?
Why the HELLS would you Google that?
Does no one read my posts?I remember. It was name first, topic later.
I mentioned it in the old thread, because it always caught my eye - I just can't remember which former forumite (say that five times fast) it was, but there was a sig around that quoted an exchange about a "serious pony discussion"; apparently it was a thing for a brief time, and the forum was probably renamed around the same time.
Of course, the timing may have been reversed; perhaps the forum already had the name and someone took the opportunity to point out the synchronyzation of the topic and the name.
I dunno. But doesn't anyone else remember seeing this?
by the way, why the hell is this forum called ponyleaks? I've had friends seeing my browser and going "oh you're a pony guy?", so what the hell?
I never saw that you pointed it out, though. What old thread do you mean?
by the way, why the hell is this forum called ponyleaks?I've wondered this myself. Googling the term links this thread (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=26928.0) in the forums.
"Would you have less of a seething hatred for me if I gave you a pony?"
"Actually, yes. Yes I would. Are we having a serious pony discussion?"
So I have to go to the DMV tomorrow and replace my license... but I also got a call back from an awesome job I applied to awhile ago... I need to call them monday... I am nervous.welcome back from the land of electronics and sushi!
I don't remember if I mentioned in here but I got my college grades back, I got straight As!
I hear they let you choose music to listen to during an MRI or CAT scan so that you can relax and keep still. It would never work on me. I'm a musician. I'd be tapping or slap-drumming or emulating any instrument I heard some way, somehow. They'd never get a clear image and I would fucking die of cancer that they couldn't possibly detect.
Lola... la la la la Lola...
I wasn't in Derry last week but Hi any way!
I wonder why smell-o-vision isn't a thing yet?
They exist, they just haven't caught on.
http://www.geekosystem.com/smell-printer/
I wonder why smell-o-vision isn't a thing yet?
i wonder if this has anything to do with a certain "poopy mystique" post elsewhere on the forum.... :-P
This made me laugh so hard.Jup, I have a dirty mind.
Monday I was highly amused that my underwear matched my shoes (http://www.toms.com/periodic-table-women-s-vegan-classics-13/s). (Sadly, just in colors, not because both were periodic tables.)Underwear with the periodic table on it would be all kinds of awesome. I want something like that now.
"Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls,
it's a mixed-up muddled-up shook-up world,
except for Lola..."
It's ambiguous, at best, but I believe Ray has said that it was about a trans* person.
In his apartment, Robert [Wace, the band's producer] had been dancing with this black woman, and he said, 'I'm really onto a thing here.' And it was okay until we left at six in the morning and then I said, 'Have you seen the stubble?' He said 'Yeah,' but he was too pissed [intoxicated] to care, I think.
If they had periodic table boxer briefs I'd be sold.
I work at the Video Online team at my faculty in University, so the log in is Video Online.
The password is audiooffline.
Someone had a very creative moment there.
I work at the Video Online team at my faculty in University, so the log in is Video Online.
The password is audiooffline.
Someone had a very creative moment there.
We need more nukes, not less. >_<Chernobyl would say otherwise. But this is not the Discuss thread so I'm not going to discuss this further.
But this is not the Discuss thread so I'm not going to discuss this further.
In certain regions of Holland, a Gaggle can also refer to a group of adolescent females.
Chernobyl would say otherwise.
What do you call a group of human females? A flock? A herd? A murder?
When Britain shuts down its last nuclear power station, it will no longer have sufficient native generating capacity for peak winter requirements. We already import electricity from France, who have built nuclear power plants to supply us - how crazy is that?
what, hundreds of years?
How do you read alt text on an ipad?
... Not random, at all really, but I just don't know ...
Easy (http://www.sears.com/artsmith-inc-boxer-brief-briefs-periodic-table-of/p-000000000000000034970000BBRIEFPERDCTABLEP?prdNo=14)
i have a cat in the shape of a teapot. the head comes off, it how you fill it up.
so read what you want.
Choo Choo Bear could do it, I suppose.Pretty much what I thought.
how's the line go - art should disturb the comfortable and comfOrr the disturbed?(?
Cats take on the shape of their containersCats are water! Water is cats! Tofu is delicious!
Choo Choo Bear could do it, I suppose.
In less than 24 hours I'll be 22 years old. I'm not yet sure how I feel about that.Everything will be exactly the same, you'll just realize that the concept of birthdays is stupid.
But why Kayna? We all know who the best troll is.
my little johnlock
When Britain shuts down its last nuclear power station, it will no longer have sufficient native generating capacity for peak winter requirements. We already import electricity from France, who have built nuclear power plants to supply us - how crazy is that?It is simply another example of outsourcing what are perceived as dirty, or dangerous, industrial activities or energy extraction facilities to other countries that we care less about than our own. Think of it as no different from importing oil from the Niger Delta (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/02/nigerian-oil/oneill-text)... :-D I agree with you about nuclear-power alarmism though...
That is 豌豆黄 (wāndòuhuáng). It is a very Beijing snack food, made by cooking peas well, grinding them into sweetened bean paste, then adding some sugar, fruit, and Osmanthus, and finally cutting into pieces after cooling. It is too sweet and greasy for my taste, but I hope you enjoyed it. :-)Thanks! It was pretty good. One of my coworkers brought a couple big bags of snack foods when returned from China.
And the grid simply can't support something like that.
flat out, no. The grid here is designed to be strictly one way. I've heard plenty of stories about people who generate (even if just at some times of the day) over 100% of their power needs - if their excess power is pushed more than a couple of houses back down the line it starts damaging the electrical company's equipment. Many places have stopped this from being a risk at all by labeling any house that has the capacity to push power back into the grid as a power plant and subject them to all applicable rules, laws, and regulation.And the grid simply can't support something like that.
Why do you say that, when there are schemes that allow individual householders to contribute to the grid, e.g. from solar panels? (Well, there are in the UK, do you not have that possibility where you are?)
Why do you say that, when there are schemes that allow individual householders to contribute to the grid, e.g. from solar panels.You certainly can do this in Australia, and I don't remember any particular fuss when it came in. Power utilities are very imaginative in inventing "technical" reasons to not do things they have not done before, or finding ways to drown them in red tape.
would you know yet more? (http://www.allouttabubblegum.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Would-You-Like-To-Know-More.jpg)Probably not if it means I'm a hotlinking shithead.
Probably not if it means I'm a hotlinking shithead.
I don't think I could tell you my first girlfriend's name...I at least remember my first girlfriend's name, although I don't have any olfactory memory of her.
I don't think I could tell you my first girlfriend's name...I at least remember my first girlfriend's name, although I don't have any olfactory memory of her.
I don't think I could tell you my first girlfriend's name...I at least remember my first girlfriend's name, although I don't have any olfactory memory of her.
No, I'm saying look at your avatar (though I guess you already knew that).Thinking of this, here's the original image so you can decide for yourself if he looks like Gordon:
No, I'm saying look at your avatar (though I guess you already knew that).Thinking of this, here's the original image so you can decide for yourself if he looks like Gordon:(click to show/hide)
Nice! It definitely stands out more from the background with those colors.No, I'm saying look at your avatar (though I guess you already knew that).Thinking of this, here's the original image so you can decide for yourself if he looks like Gordon:(click to show/hide)
I have waaayyy too much time at hand. Also my Gimp skills are getting better.(click to show/hide)
I spent far more time for this than I expected. Frickin JPEG artifacts. Also a mistake in my workflow lead to me spending most of the time working on the selection for the layer masks with a greyscale image. Colors are easier to distinguish than different shades of grey. About three hours of work. Feel free to replace your Avatar with the Gordonised version if you want to.
Edit: Damn, uploaded the wrong version at first. Fixed it now.
Why are spoons called spoons?Because when you put one on top of another, they spoon.
Beings with superior keyboards
If that's too much of a hindrance to you personally, then there are these kinds of screens (http://www.ocmodshop.com/images/guides/choosing_right_graphics_tablet/thumb_choosing_graphics_tablet_11.jpg). Didn't look up the price of those these days, but my brother has one like that.Me personally? I have the artistic predisposition of a Parkinsonian giraffe. I was merely curious.
It seems to be related in the way that I seem to be attracted to artistic types.
On second thought, there were those ninjas who tried to ambush me, but they died too quickly to say who they were sent by. Do you think this is related somehow? :D
It seems to be related in the way that I seem to be attracted to artistic types.
On second thought, there were those ninjas who tried to ambush me, but they died too quickly to say who they were sent by. Do you think this is related somehow? :D
Maybe you need to stop dating the relatives of ninjas?
It seems to be related in the way that I seem to be attracted to artistic types.
On second thought, there were those ninjas who tried to ambush me, but they died too quickly to say who they were sent by. Do you think this is related somehow? :D
Maybe you need to stop dating the relatives of ninjas?
Man there's just something about a kunoichil... getting home from a long day, she's perched above the door and BAM! tries to knife you in the appendix. Defend yourself or die.
Soviet Third Shock Army, 7th Panzer Division (Early and Late war), Afrika Korps, (yes I have a man crush/warrior bro crush on Rommel), then a mix of Allies forces, probably Big Red 1. Then finally, one day I'll get my Marine Corps units... if Battle Front ever makes them.
Depends on your point of view. Honestly I'd say it wasn't. The battle of Antietam was the turning point of the entire American Civil War, a victory there would have insured at the very least foreign intervention by France, Great Britain and other military powers on the South's behalf, blocked the Emancipation Proclamation, dealt Lincoln a serious political blow and of course given Lee military access to the North instead of being chased back to Virginia in a hurry. McClellan could have almost ended the war there if he wasn't an incompetent nancy and had pursued Lee, which would have resulted in the shattering of the Army of Northern Virginia, but that's neither here nor there.
Edit: Why yes I wrote a 10 page research paper on this last semester, why do you ask? :psyduck:
No other campaign and battle in the war had such momentous, multiple consequences as Antietam. In July 1863 the dual Union triumphs at Gettysburg and Vicksburg struck another blow that blunted a renewed Confederate offensive in the East and cut off the western third of the Confederacy from the rest. In September 1864 Sherman's capture of Atlanta reversed another decline in Northern morale and set the stage for the final drive to Union victory. These also were pivotal moments. But they would never have happened if the triple Confederate offensives in Mississippi, Kentucky, and most of all Maryland had not been defeated in the fall of 1862.
— James M. McPherson, Crossroads of Freedom
You might want to check out the liquor laws in PA, as well. They're still post-prohibition. We're the only state other than Utah with a state-owned wine and spirit shop monopoly, and the beer system is antiquated and regulated as all fuck. You can get six packs at some restaurants and designated six-pack-shops, and can only get cases at beer distributors. Not at groceries, convenience stores, or anywhere else.I'm a bit surprised. I would have thought Indiana to have more stringent liquot laws than PA, and the only restriction they had (IIRC) was no liquor sales on Sundays.
I have never understood how you use one of those things. Don't you have to see where you're drawing in order to do anything?
Arguable.Yes they are. A-Wings beat all, though.
But V Wings are still undeniably cool.
Ok but what I mean was that I want a real spaceship, not a fictional one. Ideally I'd go for a nuclear powered reusable design with plasma rockets as opposed to traditional chemical ones. I'd take Darth Vader's TIE fighter over the rebel ships.If any TIE, I'd have to chose a TIE Hunter (http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060527203719/jedipedia/de/images/a/a8/Hunter2.JPG)
As far as star wars starfighters go, nothing beats the Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor.You'd really prefer an Actis-class over the Delta-7 Aethersprite-class?
Out of TIEs, I'd want a TIE Phantom.
If i wanted a functional starfighter (not a science fantasy one like something from star wars) it would have to be a Viper.All TV and movie space-fighters are very soft science-fiction at best. BSG is only marginally better than Star Wars in that regard, despite decades of improvement in special-effects techniques. B5's Starfury is a little better than BSG in avoiding lazy aircraft-carrier tropes, but still raises awkward questions, unless you turn your science-brain off.
For star trek, you gotta go with a Prometheus Class <3I could not agree more. Other valid choices are Sovereign and Defiant classes, but Prometheus is more awesome than both of them combined. :-D
An M6 with a top speed of 360, what more could you ask for?
That's my whole point, you don't really need an M5 if your M6 can already go that fast. You have enough room for a whole lot of energy cells for your jump drive and with a speed of 360 you can move around system plenty fast enough.An M6 with a top speed of 360, what more could you ask for?
A docking bay. I'd like to have a docking bay for at least one M5.
If i wanted a functional starfighter (not a science fantasy one like something from star wars) it would have to be a Viper.All TV and movie space-fighters are very soft science-fiction at best. BSG is only marginally better than Star Wars in that regard, despite decades of improvement in special-effects techniques. B5's Starfury is a little better than BSG in avoiding lazy aircraft-carrier tropes, but still raises awkward questions, unless you turn your science-brain off.
If i wanted a functional starfighter (not a science fantasy one like something from star wars) it would have to be a Viper.All TV and movie space-fighters are very soft science-fiction at best. BSG is only marginally better than Star Wars in that regard, despite decades of improvement in special-effects techniques. B5's Starfury is a little better than BSG in avoiding lazy aircraft-carrier tropes, but still raises awkward questions, unless you turn your science-brain off.
Ok but what I mean was that I want a real spaceship, not a fictional one. Ideally I'd go for a nuclear powered reusable design with plasma rockets as opposed to traditional chemical ones. I'd take Darth Vader's TIE fighter over the rebel ships.
No idea where I placed my joystick as well.
If i wanted a functional starfighter (not a science fantasy one like something from star wars) it would have to be a Viper.All TV and movie space-fighters are very soft science-fiction at best. BSG is only marginally better than Star Wars in that regard, despite decades of improvement in special-effects techniques. B5's Starfury is a little better than BSG in avoiding lazy aircraft-carrier tropes, but still raises awkward questions, unless you turn your science-brain off.
They're soft military science as well. For theoretical void combat there is absolutely no good reason to have star fighters of any kind from ANY known continuity. The Star Marines series by Ian Douglas is pretty decent SciFi with solid science at least from the time, and where things really only get muzzy is applied alien tech that cheats, and starfighters on the grounds of rule of cool (his fighters are better then most) but the fact remains it's a waste of resources to create a fighter when you could be putting that much more weapons, targeting computers, reaction power, armor and life support into a behemoth. If we ever go to war amongst the stars it shall herald the return of battleship and dreadnought to their place at the center of naval (space type in this case) combat.
The Union was the aggressor against the south, which was attempting to secede through democratic means.
I know what you mean, but I think this is relevant. It can really kind of fit in with any dominant class.Wow! That's powerful and there's little I'd disagree with.
http://courtneystoker.tumblr.com/post/55179727336/fuckingrapeculture-blacksentai-white-dudes
I know what you mean, but I think this is relevant. It can really kind of fit in with any dominant class.i agree with this so completely.
http://courtneystoker.tumblr.com/post/55179727336/fuckingrapeculture-blacksentai-white-dudes
"White dudes have this thing where they believe your best friend in the world can have opposing political ideas. You’re supposed to be able to have healthy debate and disagreeing shouldn’t harm your friendship.
That’s gross and stupid. Its really easy to say that when all your disagreements are theoretical. Its easy to say when none of the laws passed actually effect your life. Fighting with your best friend about corporate regulations, school charters, educational funding, abortion, health care, voting restrictions, drug laws, taxes and all sorts of stuff is cool and lively because none of it is going to actually leave you in a bad spot.
Its different for the rest of us. I can’t be friends with you if you think I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. We can’t be friends if you think my friends shouldn’t have the ability to designate
whatever gender they want and have that be legally recognized. We can’t be friends if you think I don’t deserve health care. Or if you think native children should be ripped away from their cultures and people. We can’t be friends if you think closing down health care clinics in an attempt to end safe legal abortions is a good thing.
All these theoretical political ideas and lively debates effect real people, and I won’t be friends with someone who disagrees with me on them. Because disagreement means you don’t see me or a whole bunch of my friends and family as human beings worthy of rights and respect."
For some reason, I just remembered the Pledge of Allegiance, which I don't think I've recited since middle school. And in retrospect, it's very creepy to consider that we have people in primary school who recite it mindlessly every day.http://wondermark.com/736/
But consider that people beneath viewpoints you consider abhorrent can be surprisingly kind, understanding, smart.Kind? If someone thinks I am sub-human because I am not white, or of lesser value because I am female, they are not "kind" within any reasonable definition of that word. At all. Ever.
Its different for the rest of us. I can’t be friends with you if you think I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. We can’t be friends if you think my friends shouldn’t have the ability to designate whatever gender they want and have that be legally recognized. We can’t be friends if you think I don’t deserve health care. Or if you think native children should be ripped away from their cultures and people. We can’t be friends if you think closing down health care clinics in an attempt to end safe legal abortions is a good thing.Ackblom12 hits the nail on the head. People are entitled to their opinions, and I fully support their right to express them too, but they are wholly, solely, and inescapably 100% responsible for their opinions and how they choose to express them. The notion that people should be regarded as "kind" while holding and expressing, by word and deed, thoroughly vicious opinions, is simply failing to hold them accountable, in a culture of impunity for privilege.
All these theoretical political ideas and lively debates effect real people, and I won’t be friends with someone who disagrees with me on them. Because disagreement means you don’t see me or a whole bunch of my friends and family as human beings worthy of rights and respect."
Absolutely. It's not uncommon to hear it called the War of Northern Agression in several parts of the South. Also downplaying the role of slavery. My thoughts on these things are 'not pleasant' at best.
http://www.xefer.com/2011/05/wikipedia
the 4th from the last explains it all :mrgreen:Having grown up in a town that is considered to be part of Appalachia, I would have to agree. That place makes third-world countries look good in comparison. :psyduck:
Dry counties are terrifying hell holes to me.Whenever I went to Dallas I made sure to take a trunk full of booze for the inevitable room party at A-kon.
Red indicates 'dry' and yellow 'semi-dry'Michigan's representation on that map puzzles me too. What can you do in the blue counties that you can't do in the yellow? My first thought is that some townships in each of the yellow areas have some restrictions on hours of sales or limitations on where package beer and wine can be sold. Some cities, for example, in the past banned sales of beer and wine at gas stations. BTW, I was told in my couple of years in Ann Arbor that Division St. divided the part of the city where bars could be located from the part nearer the University. Pretzel Bell, Metzger's and Old German were on the other side of that street.
There doesn't seem to be any standard for what 'semi-dry' means though.
My county in Michican seems to be semi dry but I can drink at a restaurant or bar, buy liquor, beer or wine at a grocery store, a gas station or a liquor store on any day of the week, get my beer to go from a bar, or even have beer, wine, or liquor delivered.
"Freight" has way too many letters.
"Freight" has way too many letters.
A place in London - see Kew Gardens.
No, but you can catch ghoti. :wink:
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I'm counting 12 guitars on the pic that Jeph posted on Twitter yesterday. Man, that's a lot of guitars.
I'm counting 12 guitars on the pic that Jeph posted on Twitter yesterday. Man, that's a lot of guitars.
You don't play guitar, do you.
I'm counting 12 guitars on the pic that Jeph posted on Twitter yesterday. Man, that's a lot of guitars.
You don't play guitar, do you.
I play guitar. And I only have one. But I play classical guitar though.
Only today I found out my partner used to play guitar. Even though they don't play any more it still raises their attractiveness 40 points.
No. I tried teaching myself several times but I never got far before I gave it up again. I can play a few chords and the first notes of 'Nothing else matters', though.I'm counting 12 guitars on the pic that Jeph posted on Twitter yesterday. Man, that's a lot of guitars.
You don't play guitar, do you.
I'm counting 12 guitars on the pic that Jeph posted on Twitter yesterday. Man, that's a lot of guitars.
You don't play guitar, do you.
Playing guitar has got me into at least one girl's pants. And it's certainly assisted with at least two more.
Amusingly my ex-wife is probably the one who gave the least shits about it.
So the next time your grandfather says he had to walk ten miles to school when he was young, you can tell him that ten miles used to be a shorter distance than it is now! In your face!
We have SCIENCE (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28964.0.html). Direct all your inquires there.First of all, going near the speed of light isn't how you'd like to travel intergalactic distances anyway. You want faster than that, because else it'd already take you thousands of years to even leave the Milkyway, even if you take the shortest possible route from earth.
I'm not sure which is true, but I heard that space getting bigger means that it takes longer to travel from one point to another. That's why it's impossible for us to travel to the most distant galaxies: the space in between galaxies grows faster than we can travel, so even if we could travel close to light speed, we could never reach them. I suppose that must also mean that things here on Earth are getting further apart.
First of all, going near the speed of light isn't how you'd like to travel intergalactic distances anyway.Well, I'd like to be able to do lots of things, going faster than light being only one of them. :roll: I figured I'd stay within the current realm of possibility.
Secondly, things on earth aren't getting further apart, because even though the universe is expanding, that doesn't mean that the planets are stretched along with that expansion. Because if that were the case, they would all have been torn apart by now. Things (matter) are just drifting further apart, they are not getting bigger.That implies that the space that planets inhabit is somehow immune to the expansion, while interplanetary space is getting bigger. Why would that be the case?
So I went to visit Amherst, Massachusetts today!Did you run into Dora?
I'm counting 12 guitars on the pic that Jeph posted on Twitter yesterday. Man, that's a lot of guitars.
You don't play guitar, do you.
I play guitar. And I only have one.
i am depressing levels of bored. >_<
"I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored'." - Loius CK
I've recently been invited to a ten-year high school reunion. The school I went to no longer exists. I'm not going.I didn't begin to go to high school and college reunions until I was in my mid-50s. Then I was sorry I hadn't gone to the earlier ones. They're not so much about reliving old times and dealing with the other kids you all were, as they are about dealing with new people with whom you have a long connection. What you've all become and how you got there is more fun than what you all once were. And financial success is the smallest part of that.
Fucking fruit flies.That's a blog post.
Literally. On my peaches.
So whaddaya think Jephzibahs big secret is? He's been hinting at it for months.
I'm predicting a Kickstarter of sorts...
So whaddaya think Jephzibahs big secret is? He's been hinting at it for months.
I'm predicting a Kickstarter of sorts...
Not to toot my own horn here but I was so right
did they send me daughtry when i asked for sunn o)))?
Hmm.....something I saw on a friend's FB page:
"artists are not usually nice people."
Um...I'm not really sure how to react to that.
Hmm.....something I saw on a friend's FB page:
"artists are not usually nice people."
Um...I'm not really sure how to react to that.
It was out of date when you were handed the digest.
I wonder sometimes if the mods have a parental attachment to us. They tend to be like kind and loving parents. Including their facepalming over all the webcest.
I have not even so much as met any of you, save for two(?) people who haven't posted in forever.
Was that my sister? I remember you were in town at one point but I didn't make it to meet up with you.
Depends on what the "it" we will be kicking is.
I shed a tear once. It sent me into a violent rage. The records are sealed but the loss of life and property damage was incredible
-GarandMarine
Striking from nowhere / Killing with accuracy / This is who I am.
Sorry, did that hurt? / That "sorry" was sarcasm / I am not sorry.
Hey, this area / Smells vaguely of butts and death / An unpleasant stench.
It's hard to choose what computer I should buy.If I am to believe the computer hoarders ... All of them.
And what's with the mod-splosion? Surely the workload hasn't increased that much...
any reasonable person has at least five computers on their person at all time.It's hard to choose what computer I should buy.If I am to believe the computer hoarders ... All of them.
You'll never take me alive, flatfoot.
*is sad no one got the homestuck reference*I think I heard that one before and I don't even read Homestuck.
One or two Newtons.
So if it's your random number of choice, it's not really random is it?
Note to self: avoid DISCUSS. You were doing so well. Don't get sucked in now, only frustration and anger await you.Yeah, but in DISCUSS, you were doing so well.....
What's a DISCUSS? Is that like the game they play with a disc? :roll:
Masterpiece, whenever I see a photo of you I am surprised at your skin tone.How so?
that is actually why I use a picture of myself as my avatar.
You guys exist on other places on the internet as well?Depends on your definition of "exist". :-P
what surprises me even more is seeing somebody from the forums somewhere else on the internet. As in seeing Sorflakne commenting on SatW, or Emoroffle on DoA…places I exist on the internet (currently):
You guys exist on other places on the internet as well?
If I were a crazy stalker, I'd aggregate the shit out of the accounts you all just revealed to possess.
This reminded me of how a couple of months ago a guy decided to find out my dead name, where I am, friends/family etc. He admitted to doing it. After mumbling out how "that's not okay.." the response was "Sorry for knowing how to use the internet".
Refused to give any kind of even vague apology for it, instead he was angry about me "attacking him for his honesty", told me to "just be rational about it" or how it didn't make sense for me to be upset about going through things like that because I had a picture of me as a kid up somewhere, which apparently means everything from back then is public (whether I volunteer it or not)? He didn't understand at all why it'd be something that'd bother me. :-\
This reminded me of how a couple of months ago a guy decided to find out my dead name, where I am, friends/family etc. He admitted to doing it. After mumbling out how "that's not okay.." the response was "Sorry for knowing how to use the internet".What a turd! That's like breaking into someone's house and saying: "Sorry for knowing how to use lock-picks." I'm twitchy about revealing much on-line. I am much more open here than in other places, and on the whole I try to keep Real Life and online life separate.
I usually just say something like "oh, I've got friends from various internet forums" when asked how I know people in Australia, Norway, the UK, Canada, Mexico, Finland, and across These Great States (and also the shitty ones).Yes, that's pretty much what I do. If I mention "programmer forums" most people lose interest immediately...
I am much more open here than in other places,
Come on now: Bainidhe_Dub is the name of the sword that only Doyle can wield.
People still use bars of soap? Not the liquid stuff?
It's pretty common to avoid anti-bacterial soap. I just did some googling and apparently anti-bacterial stuff contributes to antibiotic resistance, pollutes the waterways (and the consequences of that are untested), and doesn't really do any good since the majority of illnesses are caused by viruses, not bacteria. Basically anti-bacterial soap is a dilute antibiotic, and overuse of antibiotics is a serious public health concern.This is why I hate tv commercials that exploit and exacerbate people's nosophobia (thank you, wikipedia) and tell them to buy aggressive anti-bacterial cleaning agents to protect their children and all that shit. They're even putting it in detergent, for fuck's sake.
Basically, I second Masterpiece's latest vitriolic letter.Thank you.
Sometimes when you're at work and things aren't going your way (goddamn laser), you just have to find a cricket to play with.
That doesn't sound like genderfluid, it sounds like you just assumed wrong.this is not the first senior citizen i've met who appears to be presenting as a different gender (or simply as androgynous), apparently purposefully. it confuses my brain, man :psyduck:
That doesn't sound like genderfluid, it sounds like you just assumed wrong.
Wouldn't help - all human brains look basically the same.
That doesn't sound like genderfluid, it sounds like you just assumed wrong.this is not the first senior citizen i've met who appears to be presenting as a different gender (or simply as androgynous), apparently purposefully.
We've got a lot of crickets around here, if your geckos are hungry.Sometimes when you're at work and things aren't going your way (goddamn laser), you just have to find a cricket to play with.
My geckos would consider that one as tasty.
The closest laser to where the cricket was was our Nd:YAG laser, which would have vaporized the poor little fellow.Batsman dives to avoid laser blast:
The marketing department for the company with the innovative aircraft should not have called it "groundbreaking".
Why are our most common pets carnivores?Carnivores don't make for good eatin'.
Plant-eaters would be cheaper to feed and safer to have around.
50 to 100 years from now, people will "celebrate" in oddly inappropriate ways.Just read about a golf course offering a deal for 9/11 of a 9 holes round for $9.11. 18 holes for $19.11.
Picnics, 9-11 sales, parades...
Today (tomorrow) I am wearing the most anti-american shirt I own, coincidentally it isn't terribly anti-american, but it certainly isn't a pro-america stance.When I logged onto Facebook this morning, the first thing I saw was an image someone posted that said "We will never forget." I had no clue what it was referring to, until I realized that I had forgotten...
Happy 9-11, never remember, always forget
Ehh... chlorine gas is green. Chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hypochlorite)) is not chlorine gas any more than table salt is chlorine gas.
Ehh... chlorine gas is green. Chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hypochlorite)) is not chlorine gas any more than table salt is chlorine gas.
I think it may have been a joke. Hair bleach bleaches hair, so chlorine bleach should bleach chlorine. But chlorine gas is still green, so the bleach didn't work.
Total time logged in: 57 days, 22 hours and 31 minutes.I may have a problem.
I don't mean to be rude to the dedicated HCI people in my program, but learning the mathematical equations for optimal button size has just passed ideal temp/relative humidity for paper storage as the most boring ass shit I have learned in grad school.(click to show/hide)
The forum software times you in 15-minute units, so frequent brief visits are considerably exaggerated.I hope this is the reason for my eighty days in the forum since 3rd June 2009. I only recently exceeded two posts per day, so I suppose it is either that, or I make too many long posts, and spend a lot of time composing them.
Is somebody's name Steve and I don't know it? Or am I Steve, because of my avatar?
sometimes I see familiar strangers in the city or around town and worry I'm in a "Truman Show" situation....
not in a serious paranoia kind of way but it does cross my mind, then I start wondering for fun.
Does she bark during the sortation?
It is completely adorable and makes me smile too, it wasn't a comment on the quality of the avatars.
Random Thought: I'm pretty sure pwhodges avatar no longer changes. I've seen Marten playing the guitar five times in a row now.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/truman-show-delusion-when-youre-convinced-everyones-watching-you
You're welcome :mrgreen:
I hate when people on here change avatars, because there are some people where their tone of voice and avatar is the only thing I identify them by and so the name passes me by.
Is it me, or does Welu's look like a toony Chuck Norris?
Hopefully he's not saying, "Is that Chuck Norris?" :psyduck:
I immediately praised her in that sing-songy voice one uses to speak at small children.In academic circles, this is known as 'motherese'. :-D
I immediately praised her in that sing-songy voice one uses to speak at small children.In academic circles, this is known as 'motherese'. :-D
Also, if you talk to children properly, they'll learn to speak properly much quicker.I can't speak for the data but the baby-speak voice is used in every human culture, so evolution is pretty firmly proving you wrong there. :-D
My neighbor in Turkey had his daughter and his grandkids over for a few weeks. They're lovely three year old twins, one girl one boy. They learned to talk when they were one, most likely because their mother speaks to them in a completely normal way. It's fascinating to see a child's mind through talking to them.
Also, they're so incredibly cute!!!
If people can't figure it out from the label then ... perhaps we should just allow natural selection to run it's course.
Why did you put bananas in the fridge? :?Partly to keep them away from the fruit flies. An open window and a banana that's not in an airtight container will draw them in, guaranteed. Also, whatever chemical reaction is causing them to ripen (and eventually blacken) goes much slower if they're chilled.
not go downI have heard this has sometimes been the instigation of divorces, yes.
:-D *slowly inserts a banana into the pun jar suggestively* :mrgreen:
Loki is [...] German and a beep booper, a well versed gentleman and knows so much that I am intimidated by his knowledge.
Do you look particularly like a member of the FFL or SFL?Never heard of the SFL, but seeing as the FFL is foreigners then I guess any male would.
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01126/foreign-legion_1126189c.jpg)
Somebody explain to me the latest explosm comic (http://www.explosm.net/comics/3321/), because I don't get it.
only in Relate is that permission allowed for normal members
Moderators are not normal?
Thought 2: Punching a one-pound block of mozzarella cheese is a great stress reliever.
Sanity is for the weak.We'll let the large percentage of the population with mental illnesses and disabilities know on your behalf.
Yeah, it's perfect for the job. Firm enough that it doesn't fall apart, and soft enough it doesn't hurt my hand.Thought 2: Punching a one-pound block of mozzarella cheese is a great stress reliever.
That sounds oddly wonderful...
I really don't think that's how he meant it.
Was the author of "The Never-Ending Story" paid by the word?
that awkward moment when you can't tell if someone's a child or a really short adult.
Despising your own species probably isn't the most natural of thought patterns in the first place IICIH.For any species other than the human race you'd be correct.
How does it go?
"Dogs have owners. Cats havestaffslaves."
Ahahaha. My friend's cat is the stupidest animal ever. It licked some siracha hot sauce off her plate, and immediately regretted it, crying and licking the carpet. Burn finally goes away, so what does our intrepid idiot kitty do? Goes to lick up some more!
How is that possible? :psyduck:
though his eyes slowly follow my motions.GAHH
oh my GOD I just remembered (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28766.msg1137659.html#msg1137659) how I found the qcverse, and it's much earlier than Irememberthought.
edited because the last word made no friggin sense in that context
You mean Michael Ende.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
Yeah but I meant the time I found the comic not the forums.oh my GOD I just remembered (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28766.msg1137659.html#msg1137659) how I found the qcverse, and it's much earlier than Irememberthought.
edited because the last word made no friggin sense in that context
What the shit, you have only been here for half a year?
I cannot remember a time when Masterpiece wasn't here.I'm hoping that's a good thing™
I cannot remember a time when Masterpiece wasn't here.I'm hoping that's a good thing™
Earthworms will eat just about anything organic (natural), especially dead leaves and other dead plant material.(My underline)
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 (http://www.earthwormsoc.org.uk/earthworm-information/earthworm-information-page-2)
Earthworms line their burrows with leaves, and as they rot down the wormsSource (http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/eng-westonbirt-leaves-worms-soil.pdf/$file/eng-westonbirt-leaves-worms-soil.pdf)
can eat them.
Daily earthworms consume their weight in fallen leaves and other organic materials.Source (http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CoopExt/4DMG/Soil/worms.htm)
As a contestant?
Not only can they speak, they can be taught to safely operate a bean grinder.
I had a brain-damaged kitty as well. He was so derpy and adorable. And he fell down the steps a lot.
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.
Nazi stuff :psyduck:I remember my first beer.
Is preferring a specific ethnicity that is not your own any worse than preferring your own ethnicity?
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?
:psyduck:
Is preferring a specific ethnicity that is not your own any worse than preferring your own ethnicity?
Preferences doesn't necessarily mean requirements. For example I am attracted to blonde women, but that doesn't mean I will only date blonde women. Though I have met people who do think preferences = requirements.funnily enough, hairwise i can be attracted to anyone except blondes :P
Open-heart surgery on a hard drive is not a common skill!the freezer thing wouldnt help with this. Or at least I dont think it would make the heads or bearing unstuck. I mean I could open it and fix it in a jiffy but any bit of dust getting in there is bad news bears.
You've tried all the folk remedies like putting it in the freezer?
We should go back to having button flies.
We should go back to having button flies.
The jeans I'm wearing have button flies - do you have difficulty finding them?
We should go back to having button flies. Zippers break too easily. Sure, buttons pop off too, but sewing a button back on is pretty simple. If the metal teeth going flying off the zipper of your favorite pair of jeans, well that's just too damn bad isn't it?Oh god no button flies are the worst. :psyduck:
My advisor may have been wondering why I was talking about pervs... :psyduck:
"A Freudian slip is when you say something by mistake that gives away what you were really wanking about." - Ricky Gervais.
Cold sucks. I used to be fairly tough, but between living in Florida and Arizona (80 degree winters baby! ...but 140 degree summers) and almost dying of hypothermia while I was in SERE -50F (+ Wind Chill) = Suuuuuck.this is precisely why the soldiers in WWI wrote stories, memoirs, and books.
So as I desperately dive for my buffalo jacket (aka my polypro), I leave you with... Momma Dog.
Three days with no sleep leaves you a little... off.
Yeah, but then they'd know to look for the guy with the unreadable DNA.Not if they find your original, unmodified DNA. If they find your new DNA, just make a new virus!
Infect everybody with the virus.That would have no discernible effect in everyday life, but if everyone in the world suddenly gained a few repeats in their DNA, it would confuse the shit out of every forensic geneticist.
it would confuse the shit out of every forensic geneticist.
Nah, that sounds like a Dan Brown novel.
Random thought: You could make yourself undetectable to DNA tests by infecting yourself with a retrovirus that inserts or deletes a few of your short tandem repeats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_profiling), if there is DNA evidence implicating you in a crime.
Yeah, but then they'd know to look for the guy with the unreadable DNA.
The next day: 'What? Six bank robberies!? But I just vandalized the library!' 'Nice try. They saw your plate with all the 1s and Is' 'That's impossible! I've been with my car the whole ti-- ... wait. Ok, wow, that was clever of her.'
For some reason I'm wondering how Americans pronounce 'Hannelore', since it's originally a German name (I think).
I just add "lore" to the end of "Hannah".We pronounce it the same way.
How do you prefer to pronounce Hannelore’s name? Is it the German way rhyming with Isadora or the phonetic way rhyming with herbivore?
Rhymes with herbivore.
Woohoo! (I'd pronounce it that way even if he didn't say that, mind you, but woohoo!)My own, Dutch-English interpretation of how to pronounce it would be Her-me-own.
(Funny story, I pronounced Hermione with the i and the o switched, so Hermoine. I knew it was spelled Hermione, but for some reason it just seemed right to pronounce it Hermoine. I didn't stop until she put a canon pronunciation in book 4.)
I think I have complained about this before but I went to Burger King on the way home from a trip and spent a long time ascertaining whether the veggie burger was vegan. Once we'd determined that it was, I ordered it. It came with free cheese. :psyduck:I'm no vegan specialist but the cheese is bad right?
Guy Fawkes: patriot or terrorist?
Guy Fawkes: patriot or terrorist?
Or the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions?
94ssd, there are other things that can negatively affect your iron count as well. How's your sleep schedule? Sleep deprivation will burn your iron out of your system. Do you drink coffee (regular ordecaf)?
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The more uncomfortable the furniture is in a coffee shop, the better the coffee is.
The worse the hours are at a hardware store, the better the selection and service is.
But now I'm back. So, Yay, I guess.
I've always thought that if you have the tech to do clones, you probably have the tech to make cyborgs or straight up robots that's not limited by the the human body.
Just don't network them like skynet...or cylons...or geth...The belief that intelligent robots automatically develop motivation, agency and a sense of self-preservation is baseless and is one of the most pervasive examples of anthropomorphisation in science fiction.
Sint Maarten with a three year old is a challenge.
can't tell if the interwebz (http://imgur.com/gallery/nhfO3) is just enamored (http://imgur.com/gallery/hURZn) with Jennifer Lawrence or if she just really is a cool person (http://imgur.com/gallery/Bku1g).Jennifer Lawrence is the fucking best. I'm not saying I'd leave Sarah for her if given the opportunity, but I should probably stop that sentence there.
If 20% of women never reproduce, does that automatically mean 20% of men don't as well?divorces, population ratios, infidelity, all play a major faction so no.
Binks ...
... best avatar, ever.
I ate taco bell and an entire pizza today, why am I so friggin hungry right now! :psyduck:
We need Patrick to repost his Jennifer Lawrence Facebook status, it was hilarious.
I do love my Renter's insurance.Renter's insurance is good... I may be weird, but I have it not so much because I'm worried about the building burning down, but around here there is a small but nonzero chance that the building will be hit by a tornado... :psyduck:
I do love my Renter's insurance.Renter's insurance is good... I may be weird, but I have it not so much because I'm worried about the building burning down, but around here there is a small but nonzero chance that the building will be hit by a tornado... :psyduck:
Why does 1% and 2% milk exist, but nothing in between 2% and whole milk exists?
I want to round up a bunch of feminists and feed them to cannibalistic tribes.
Whole milk is 4%, so each variant is half the fat of the previous - all neat and tidy.
From my admittedly limited knowledge of meat, I'd suggest looking for the most muscular feminists, free from disease, as I think they'd be tastiest.
I want to round up a bunch of feminists and feed them to cannibalistic tribes.
Skim milk has had all the fat skimmed off, and is what everyone drank until sometime in the 50s, I think,
I want to round up a bunch of feminists and feed them to cannibalistic tribes.
From my admittedly limited knowledge of meat, I'd suggest looking for the most muscular feminists, free from disease, as I think they'd be tastiest.free ranged?
They're taxed via all the extra shit they have to buy. Although in this country there's no VAT on childrens' clothes.
I think a lot of skim milk, before it became popular, was dried and sold as powdered milk, and made into formula.I am very aware of that. My grandfather worked at Carnation's packaging plant. I also hail from the home of Horlick's Malted Milk.
It's 4% because it's 4% milkfat. Skim milk has had all the fat skimmed off, and is what everyone drank until sometime in the 50s, I think, when homogenization became vogue. Heavy cream and whipping cream are all the milkfat that is skimmed off the top (as well as cheese and yogurt and other dairy products... almost all come from the skimmed off fat).From my admittedly limited knowledge of meat, I'd suggest looking for the most muscular feminists, free from disease, as I think they'd be tastiest.
They have to have some padding, because a steak with no fat is not a very flavorful steak at all.
I want to round up a bunch of feminists and feed them to cannibalistic tribes.
You ain't from around these parts, are ya, boy?
Just remember that even here on the internet, we're all real people with real feelings.
Yea, the feminazis is really what I mean. Or maybe I just knew it'd strike some nerves here. Your pick!
It's ok, Binks, I agree. All feminists should learn their place.
PS it's stuck in your head now, and you're all welcome for that
[...]I've visited some of those sites via the trans* thread and man-oh-man are some of those people agressive! It's like reading propaganda from Germany circa 1940's. Unbelieveable how merely existing can be such a bother to other people.
Some of the transphobic ones strike me as too toxic for human consumption.
[...]
I have a ton of European and leftie type friends, So I constantly feel like I'm the most conservative human being on Earth. Then I talk to ACTUAL conservatives.
The socialist party is never right! It's usually left.I have a ton of European and leftie type friends, So I constantly feel like I'm the most conservative human being on Earth. Then I talk to ACTUAL conservatives.
Compared to most North Carolina democrats, I'm so liberal that I sometimes wonder if the Socialist Party is right for me.
From what I understand left is right over there.
No seriously. The "left/right" political spectrum is reversed across the pond. Belay that, it might be just Russia... not sure.
Don't shut up. Never shut up.
2 more posts until I am at 666 posts. I can't think of any funny ideas for that post. :(
I often wonder about a friendly blind guy stumbling into medusa's lair. Medusa, used to people coming after her for her head, is usually on the defensive. Ready to slay her hunters. But upon seeing this blind man, walking stick in hand, groping around to find his way through even the most well lit areas, would she drive him out? Or, after years of loneliness, would she try to be friendly to this stranger?(click to show/hide)
Unless Zeus overturns Athena's warping of Medusa, or if Athena ups the bitch meter and unbinds the guy, I don't foresee a happy ending. And seeing that her lower half is a snake, erotica is out the door too. Would also have to decide if the snakes on her head follow her will or their own basic snake behavior. Any lean in for a kiss and bam bam bam, like 20 venom filled snake bites.
Also google Lamia porn, a snake lower body will not stop perverts as you should know by now.
That is an absolutely fair point, I was more referring to Rule 34 with that particular post.
I dunno if I'd be cool with a snake woman, a centaur mare would be bad ass though. Maybe a bit more difficult to go out to dinner, but hey she can give you a ride to work! I swear a conversation about monster girls popped up somewhere else just recently...
Valdis brings up a good point. The whole situation is cute. May make for a webcomic better than a novel. If I wasn't shit at drawing, I wouldn't mind doing one.
speed beer.
The forum management does not encourage any kind of activity which may get you arrested, in (involuntary) pain, or in mental anguish.
So that's why this forum stopped being people telling each other about what drugs they did in the weekend.
As far as I can tell speed beer is completely legal on private property. Might be a bit iffier if you go to a park or something in the United States, or depending on how jack booted your local LEOs are.I'd guess it depends on how much real work the local police have. The ones here have little real work to do, so they'd be all over it in a second. Of course, you couldn't do it anyway, as you'd need a hill and snow, both of which are in short supply here. Plus, the beer being 3.2% might throw off the balance of the game. :psyduck:
As far as I can tell speed beer is completely legal on private property.Well yeah, absolutely, the open containers/public drunkenness would be the only issues (and the fact that the main sledding hill in my town is behind an elementary school, so even being there at night might be considered trespassing).
Plus, the beer being 3.2% might throw off the balance of the game. :psyduck:Why? 3.2% is nothing.
So that's why this forum stopped being people telling each other about what drugs they did in the weekend.
The word of the day is: Gravid
Moral of the story: Swedish people lay eggs.If I could be female I would be Swedish so I could lay eggs.
Moral of the story: Swedish people lay eggs.
I knew it! This explains why you keep stealing sheets to make a nest with.
Interesting - I think that definition is wrong personally, the word gravid is used to mean pregnant when applied to humans in English too. At least, on my course we talk about the gravid uterus, and primigravida, multigravida etc. Yes, it's a specialist term, but that doesn't stop it counting!Is it weird that I can totally imagine 'gravid' being used as slang, like 'gnarly'?
Heh, ITV Player is warning me that the episode of Lewis I'm about to watch contains "One scene of moderate peril". Oh noes! Not moderate peril!
I once named my variables specifically so at one point in the program it would say functioncall(allyour, base, arebelong, tous). Not very creative but I still got my fair share of amusement out of it.
So. The office has entered into a pool to try to win the Mega Millions jackpot. In the event of my winning, I will be expecting each of you to give me tours around your home towns. Jackets are required for gentlemen who wear suits and ladies who wear suits, if you're a dress wearing individual, please select suitable full length evening attire.
I may or may not be kidding about the dress code.
I do in fact know the first three things I'd do with the money though. Write two checks and set up an international wire transfer to completely change the lives of three people I care about very much. Then pick out my three favorite charities and get my name on the wall somewhere.
THEN I am going to the fuck mothering gun store baby!
So. The office has entered into a pool to try to win the Mega Millions jackpot. In the event of my winning, I will be expecting each of you to give me tours around your home towns. Jackets are required for gentlemen who wear suits and ladies who wear suits, if you're a dress wearing individual, please select suitable full length evening attire.I was going to ask why on earth you would want a tour in Oklahoma, but then I got to the part about the gun store and realized you'd fit right in here. :-)
I may or may not be kidding about the dress code.
I do in fact know the first three things I'd do with the money though. Write two checks and set up an international wire transfer to completely change the lives of three people I care about very much. Then pick out my three favorite charities and get my name on the wall somewhere.
THEN I am going to the fuck mothering gun store baby!
See, I need to find a place that's really, really cold...but without the snow. I'd like that.I know the perfect place for you!
Method, Colorado would suit you nicely out on the plains. It's an Alpine desert so precipitation is minimal.Interesting. I will consider this.
whelp.if you did win would you be drinking tiger blood?
I did not win.
so I am at work.
You're supposed to guess the price of an item, which is between $1 and $1000, and if you're wrong, you're told whether your guess was above or below the price. So the optimum strategy is binary search: start with $500, if it's higher guess $750, and so on... When I watched it today, the guy found out the price was between $700 and $750, so he started guessing 701, 702, 703, 704, so on. The price was $746.If would have taken me ten guesses. The frustrating part is I would've guessed $747, then $745, and THEN $746.
Yeah, that's why when the players are within $5, they usually just bark out the last few numbers as fast as they can. This guy tried to do it when he was only within $50...You're supposed to guess the price of an item, which is between $1 and $1000, and if you're wrong, you're told whether your guess was above or below the price. So the optimum strategy is binary search: start with $500, if it's higher guess $750, and so on... When I watched it today, the guy found out the price was between $700 and $750, so he started guessing 701, 702, 703, 704, so on. The price was $746.If would have taken me ten guesses. The frustrating part is I would've guessed $747, then $745, and THEN $746.
(500;750;625;688;719;735;743;747;745;746)
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/2626158/everybody-walk-the-dinosaur-o.gif)
If the past tense of spit is spat, and the past tense of shit is shat*, shouldn't the past tense of knit be knat?
*If you use "shit" as the past tense of "shit", I have immense scorn for you.
Spoken like a true bachelorEh, a true bachelor wouldn't even bother to wrap the presents at all.
Christmas thought: Why wrap things nicely if it's going to get torn apart anyway. My gifts are easily recognizable because they're obvious hatchet jobs using no small amount of tape. WHY does it matter if the edges are neatly tucked in or whatever?If you wrap it carefully that shows care and love and attention.
The billboard said "Cat Rental" but it appeared to be for construction equipment, otherwise I would have rented a female longhair.
The billboard said "Cat Rental" but it appeared to be for construction equipment, otherwise I would have rented a female longhair.
Oh man I have the BEST idea for a business.
The billboard said "Cat Rental" but it appeared to be for construction equipment, otherwise I would have rented a female longhair.
My inbox just reached 8,000 emails. :psyduck:Not unread, I hope :psyduck:
I had my university account forward to my Gmail account, so everything that sent to there while I was in school is in my Gmail inbox.
Also there are apparently cafes in Japan where you can hang out with cats.
a very large overlap
Once I got Gmail, I never deleted an e-mail without an actual reason. Why would I?
Okay, who wrote the Wikipedia article on Frostburg State University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostburg_State_University)? They couldn't come up with pictures of the place, so they put up a picture of the Sheetz on the other side of town... :psyduck: Plus, is it really necessary for the article to contain the records of the womens' tennis team's last ten losing seasons (or any athletic records, for that matter)? This makes me remember why I quit editing Wikipedia.
Whatever. Lapping will occur.a very large overlap
Isn't one of the points of cats that they go overlap?
It's not where I am now (I'm at the University of Oklahoma now), but I grew up in the town of Frostburg, and took a couple classes at Frostburg State.Okay, who wrote the Wikipedia article on Frostburg State University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostburg_State_University)? They couldn't come up with pictures of the place, so they put up a picture of the Sheetz on the other side of town... :psyduck: Plus, is it really necessary for the article to contain the records of the womens' tennis team's last ten losing seasons (or any athletic records, for that matter)? This makes me remember why I quit editing Wikipedia.
Is that where you are? I went to school with one of the members of the math department there... one of my best friends in grad school, actually.
And, like the jerk I am, I haven't kept in touch with him. Or anyone else. :-(
Why would it be ironic?Because Gaz. Duh.
I learned that shit on the streets!A subtle but significant difference. You're so ... sophisticated.
No wait, I mean, I learned to shit on the streets.
Whenever there are university breaks coming up, everyone always says things like "oh my god I can't wait to sleep in my own bed." But I think the bed in my dorm room is way more comfortable than my bed at home, and I'm looking forward to returning to it.
I honestly don't know why any one would subject themselves to the tyranny of the radio, unless they lack both an aux port AND a tape deck.
I honestly don't know why any one would subject themselves to the tyranny of the radio, unless they lack both an aux port AND a tape deck.Talk radio in Sydney is a festering pit of horrible, and the "rock" stations are pretty dreadful too, but by listening to 2MBS-FM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2MBS) a subscriber-supported music station, I have been exposed to music that otherwise I would probably never have heard. It's like a bee bringing musical pollen to fertilise my ears. (http://www.finemusicfm.com/) :)
I honestly don't know why any one would subject themselves to the tyranny of the radio, unless they lack both an aux port AND a tape deck.I fully agree. Although who still uses tapes?
I honestly don't know why any one would subject themselves to the tyranny of the radio, unless they lack both an aux port AND a tape deck.I fully agree. Although who still uses tapes?
It enables forward planning of hotels, couriers, flights, aircraft sizes, and the like; and in return (or as an incentive to do what makes their life easier) we get what we are led to believe is a bargain.
Point of order: it's usually called "Wisconsin Dells" without the redundant "Wisconsin", unless you're referring to an address.
And there's an Indiana, California, Wyoming, and Oklahoma in Pennsylvania. (I'm probably missing a couple more)Point of order: it's usually called "Wisconsin Dells" without the redundant "Wisconsin", unless you're referring to an address.
With places like Kansas City, Missouri, Ohio County, West Virginia, and Texas City, Illinois, you can never be too careful.
It doesn't stop at American states: you people have stolen names from one continent over like St. Petersburg.
Something for the Germans in this forum:Until today I was always unable to remember the definitions of concave and convex, but when I encountered one of the words today I was reminded of this and I immediately understood. Awesome mnemonic!
Ist das Mädchen brav bleibt der Bauch konkav.
Hat das Mädchen Sex wird der Bauch konvex.
I dunno, I thought it was funny.
The one for resistor color codes is best forgotten.They have PLANS. :psyduck:
Why does Amtrak's online route map include Cuba?
There's a Bogota in New Jersey, but the stress is on the second syllable rather than the third. I drive through it all the time!
...ow. That's just...no.
There's a Bogota in New Jersey, but the stress is on the second syllable rather than the third. I drive through it all the time!Sort of like Lebanon, Missouri (stress on the second syllable), or Miami, Oklahoma (pronounced "Miama").
My father and his family are from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
My wife still refuses to try to spell the name of the city.
....so sweet bread isn't bread that is sweet?
Spotted Dick
Meat in dessert is making a bit of a comeback, partly thanks to the likes of Heston Blumenthal. Not bad per se although my current diet doesn't really allow for it.
....so sweet bread isn't bread that is sweet?
No, no. Distinguish sweet bread and sweetbread - two quite different things.
Sarah made me the best banana bread EVER for my anniversary. Too bad May couldn't have it, it wasn't vegan.
(It had bacon in it.)
twitteredNO. BAD. Twitter is the only word that must never be verbed.
It is WAY too late for that.twitteredNO. BAD. Twitter is the only word that must never be verbed.
(I really wish I hadn't stolen that joke from David Cameron.)
(I really wish I hadn't stolen that joke from David Cameron.)
He's gone up a notch in my estimation for that (but just one, and from a very low base).
:psyduck: I cannot believe I did that. :psyduck:Ahem. (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29463)
I've opened a twitter account. :-\
the END TIMES are surely nigh.
The horror! Pigs try to fly and fall from the skies! Cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony! Hell, Michigan, freezes over!
What part of NO are you having trouble with?DO IT, CARL.
GM and I will be the last ones... standing?
It's cool dudes just get one and we can totally send each photos of our dicks or something I mean whatever I'm not gay or anything but I just like dicks so go on sign up to Twitter I mean whatever
The horror! Pigs try to fly and fall from the skies! Cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony! Hell, Michigan, freezes over!
post a link to your publications, darnit.If I posted a link to my publications, I'd effectively be posting my name on the forum, and I'm a little bit paranoid about that...
I wonder if there are any good restaurants in Hell, Michigan.The Dam Site Inn. Haven't been there in 10 years or so. There really is a dam behind it, and I wonder how much of it's frozen over. It was a pizza and beer place when i first started going there to start our annual trip to Hell. It had an upscale menu for a few years, last I recall it's back to pizza.
The horror! Pigs try to fly and fall from the skies! Cats and dogs living together in peace and harmony! Hell, Michigan, freezes over!
WhyDon't. What's up, Carl?
why
why
do I try
to get by
on as little
as humanly possible?
Meanwhile, Star Trek: The Next Generation has one of the most abysmal clip shows ever in its second-season finale, "Shades of Grey" It was almost literally, "Riker's got a fever and the only prescription is A CLIP SHOW!"
Just watched a star trek episode where Riker gets stung in the leg, infecting him with an alien microbe that attacks his nervous system, and it's so aggressive that it spreads to his brain so that they have to do some really weird mumbo jumbo to keep him going.
All I could think of was "why didn't you cut the fucking leg off you idiots?!" Some medical officer that is.
The Simpsons had some good clip shows.
Don't forget the second episode (of six) of Clerks: the Animated Series.The Simpsons had some good clip shows.
I enjoyed the Community clip shows where they talked about things that happened in universe that we've never seen.
My cat has gone missing. :( Has not been seen for 30 hours now. everyone is missing him.
I think she kept him.Did you never ask her?
I hate this goddamn mouse, the left click button is broken and I was stupid and decided to trade this one for my simple but functional mouse to my friend 'cause I'm dumb and way too nice sometimes
the fuck is wrong with me why did I offer that
Ha, Dopplegangers.I think you have told the story before. Still funny the second time.
I was picked up by the Buffalo PD for someone who looked just like me. They thought I'd forged my ID, until my folks came for me. I was 18, the guy they were looking for was in his 20's and had held up two bars and a gas station.
I saw his mugshot. It was creepy how much we resembled each other. We are not unique snowflakes...
Man, now you're getting deep
Was I ever not deep? :roll:
Man, now you're getting deepThat's what she said.
Very right. Much wrong. Wow.You just gave one.
(Also, example?)
less-badassConsidering who you're talking about, this is not at all anything to be ashamed of. EVERYONE is less badass than Tyrion.
Man if waffle house served booze it would be THE SPOT hands down.
Found a picture of me when I was 2, I still think it's weird that I used to have blond hair (it's brown now, for those who haven't seen a picture of me).I had the brightest color of blond as a kid, yet now my hair is a dark brown, bordering on black. I think it's not that uncommon.
We have that exact same bedspread.It's my favorite one!
Random Thought: Even though I am 23 now, I still have a fleeting feeling of shame when buying condoms.
At least until I realize I'm keeping myself safe by using them.
Random Thought: Even though I am 23 now, I still have a fleeting feeling of shame when buying condoms.
At least until I realize I'm keeping myself safe by using them.
Random Thought: Even though I am 23 now, I still have a fleeting feeling of shame when buying condoms.
At least until I realize I'm keeping myself safe by using them.
I have never understood that. Buying condoms means you're getting laid, which in the rules of high school, makes you cool as shit.
Buying lube is way more fun. People's eyes tell a million stories.
Buying lube is way more fun. People's eyes tell a million stories.Explain. What stories?
Random Thought: Even though I am 23 now, I still have a fleeting feeling of shame when buying condoms.
At least until I realize I'm keeping myself safe by using them.
One of those wonderful benefits of college - free condoms.
Random Thought: Even though I am 23 now, I still have a fleeting feeling of shame when buying condoms.
At least until I realize I'm keeping myself safe by using them.
I have never understood that. Buying condoms means you're getting laid, which in the rules of high school, makes you cool as shit.
Buying lube is way more fun. People's eyes tell a million stories.
I grew up in Turkey.
Buying lube is way more fun. People's eyes tell a million stories.Explain. What stories?
There are various joke versions of the NFP 704 chart that I've seen. If it's randomly posted on a wall, and not on a chemical container, I'd guess it's not an actual label. Most of the joke versions are something along the lines of this (http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=738).
Nothing stops us from shipping elsewhere, bwa ha haaJeph doesn't seem to hate shipping as much as he once did, he liked that enough to retweet it and compliment it.
(http://i.imgur.com/pevELc4.jpg)
Sure; the problem in the forum has always been how quickly shipping descends into creepiness
nip it in the bud.
You would first have to find the cache using GPS coordinates, then look at the clue located there (usually in some sort of a box or container), and then decipher the clue using the rot13 to get a hint on where your next "clue" will be - or where your reward for finding the clue would be.
don't have a GPS.
Sure; the problem in the forum has always been how quickly shipping descends into creepiness, so it's best to nip it in the bud.
Boys, you've not lived unless you've had your bud nipped.
5. Citing “Google” on a college paper or work presentation
Who the fuck does that? Is this advice for over 20s, or for bumblefuck idiots who probably wouldn't read an article about this anyway?
9. Waiting until the last minute to do things
Unless that method actually works for you, like it does for some people.
I guess you just have to expect this kind of thing from a thinly-veiled christian site.
I guess you just have to expect this kind of thing from a thinly-veiled christian site.
The first section after the current issue on their website is "God," I'm seeing an un-veiled Christian site.
And now I've contributed to generating page views on a christian site. My soul has been tainted.Well, you know what they say:
Well, you know what they say:But if I click play, am I generating views for a pro-christian video? or is it a spoof? I MUST KNOW BEFORE I CLICK.
5. Citing “Google” on a college paper or work presentation
Who the fuck does that? Is this advice for over 20s, or for bumblefuck idiots who probably wouldn't read an article about this anyway?
You'd be surprised (says the partner of a university teacher).
And now I've contributed to generating page views on a christian site. My soul has been tainted.
When you see Christian material, just think about Sithrak instead!
*shrug* We're all entitled to our own viewpoints after alllove you for this
*shrug* We're all entitled to our own viewpoints after alllove you for this
So I just realized I love all of you and it's unfair both to you as to me if I leave this forum just because I despise one poster here.
So I guess you're stuck with me for the time being
Not referring to me there, I hope? :-PNo.
4. Only going to church to find a relationship
Who the fuck does that?
God save me I just don't like the taste of hetero pork as much.I laughed for like three minutes straight at this. Punintended?
Just off to the gay supermarket to buy my groceries. I mean, I know the other supermarket sells everything I need, but I just prefer buying things from gay people.
I bank with the gay bank. Their interest rates aren't very good but at least I know I have a better chance of banging the girl who cashes my cheques.
My clothes all come from the gay shop, I like to know that other gay people have used the changing room before me.
Literally the only reason to go to a gay church instead would be so that I could date the congregation.
4. Only going to church to find a relationshipWait, why is this a bad thing?
Who the fuck does that?
That seems unlikely given it's a Christian website.Keep in mind they're discouraging this.
What non Christian would go to church for a date? Not exactly a fast track to an easy lay, is it?Well, considering some atheists are more well-read on the bible than most christians, they could easily infiltrate the church and get themselves some holy hanky panky.
Not everyone looking for a date is looking for an easy lay.
Also, love the expression "holy hanky panky".I can't claim credit for it. We sell it on a shirt at our campus' godless society
Who said anything about atheists? I was thinking of people who identify as Christian but don't otherwise care enough to go to church. I guess that wasn't really clear though, my bad.Not everyone looking for a date is looking for an easy lay.
Method, I'm not trying to be a dick here, but are you seriously suggesting as a scenario that atheists go to church to look for a date?
Sometimes I add forumites from on here to Facebook and think I'll regret it, but find a lot of quite lovely common ground and a real bond forms. Today has been one of those conversations.
So, "goodman" was appropriate to say to a woman?
Windows 8 tablet?
Your first problem is using internet explorer.
Is it possible for a university network to screw up a web browser?
Any way of dealing with that?Is it possible for a university network to screw up a web browser?
Quite easily, if it's using a so-called transparent proxy.
Swing
Sometimes when I'm not sure how Swing is implemented, I create a sandbox of sorts just to test ifI love it when an experimental learning-style comes together. And it's the only answer to crappy ambiguous documentation anyway.actionsevent listeners fire the way I expect them to. In such a case, seeing the "YOU DID THE THING" prompt is a sign I've done everything right.
Serious question, what is wrong with swing? (I never did much with it, we were simply introduced to it as a better alternative to java.awt).
I'd argue that book four is when it stops being a children's series. I'm actually rereading them through audio books at work. I'm on book 5 now.
Right, which is why it was a really good decision. But it's also less Harry hitting puberty and moreI'd argue that book four is when it stops being a children's series. I'm actually rereading them through audio books at work. I'm on book 5 now.
to be totally fair, that's about when kids of the characters' respective ages start noticeably growing up.
I mean, I can see the danger of jacking off over the stove, but jacking someone else of over the stove should work out fine.
My problem is that it'll be kinda hard to time it - eggs take a certain amount of time to fry, so if whomever you're jacking takes too long, you'll spoil breakfast. Maybe mix it in with the eggs beforehand?
I think not, there may be one here but he'd probably be solo.
So we wouldn't know in advance who would shoot first, then.
It goes off, shattering the pun jar and ending pun shaming forever.
Sleepover at Gareth's place.
bodily fluids(http://www.donegaldollop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/StrangeloveRipper1.jpg)
bodily fluids(http://www.donegaldollop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/StrangeloveRipper1.jpg)
Do we have anyone named Han among us?I am a Han... But we are definitely not solo.
spread your seed
The Internet is no longer just about email, ecommerce or Twitter. “We are at an inflection point,” says Joe Salvo, manager of Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory at GE Global Research. “The next wave of productivity will connect brilliant machines and people.”
But before that happens, they must find a common language. “It’s still like the Tower of Babel,” Salvo says. “We need to bring them together in powerful new networks.”
Do we have anyone named Han among us?I am a Han... But we are definitely not solo.
QuoteThe Internet is no longer just about email, ecommerce or Twitter. “We are at an inflection point,” says Joe Salvo, manager of Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory at GE Global Research. “The next wave of productivity will connect brilliant machines and people.”
But before that happens, they must find a common language. “It’s still like the Tower of Babel,” Salvo says. “We need to bring them together in powerful new networks.”
Maybe he means we're still suffering from the effects of the Tower of Babel's destruction, and we have to reverse it?
Making money isn't cutting it for me.Wanna trade?
I second this offer. (edit) err... I mean I also offer to trade. I guess I made it sound like I was agreeing that Method doesn't get paid well.Making money isn't cutting it for me.Wanna trade?
Well, I dont :roll:I second this offer. (edit) err... I mean I also offer to trade. I guess I made it sound like I was agreeing that Method doesn't get paid well.Making money isn't cutting it for me.Wanna trade?
Making money isn't cutting it for me. I can do that, I'm even fairly good at it. I want to do something that feels like it matters again.
Sure the Marine Corps paid me dog food, fucked me over constantly and generally abused me and my comrades on a near daily basis but... it mattered. In lives saved and blood bonds formed it mattered.
I want that back.
Making money isn't cutting it for me. I can do that, I'm even fairly good at it. I want to do something that feels like it matters again.
Sure the Marine Corps paid me dog food, fucked me over constantly and generally abused me and my comrades on a near daily basis but... it mattered. In lives saved and blood bonds formed it mattered.
I want that back.
server adminMaybe I'm not understanding the term, but that isn't you?
Hm, I think this metaphor makes me the annoying Temperance Movement rep in the corner.
Drunkenness leads to metaphors, too.
Drunkenness leads to metaphors, too.
Metaphors be with you always.
It didn't say "DO NOT EAT ME". It said "DO NOT EAT". Silica gel has the same obligations as everyone else to communicate clearly.Ironic considering I had no idea what you actually meant!
Hasn't he been back a while?
Hasn't he been back a while?
Method, my phone does aBroken image. Hopefully you stay this time.nicerwarmer welcome than you:(click to show/hide)
Except caffeine doesn't actually affect the taste of the coffee.
Or convince Putin he's the reincarnation of Sherman. He's crazy enough to go for it.He's already marched through Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_war), so...
Yo, ChaoSera, I'm up in your old town over the Easter holidays, wanna meet up?That'd be awesome, because I'm actually alone over Easter! Wanna send me your mobile number per private message so we can discuss where and when to meet up?
Kidding by the way. I'm still not going to be able to visit.:(
Or convince Putin he's the reincarnation of Sherman. He's crazy enough to go for it.
Sooooooooo jealoussssssss
[Christ has been resurrected! Truly, he has been!]
No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...It's Ukrainian. Without knowing any Ukrainian, I can tell because it has the letter 'i' and Russian does not.
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
It's pretty common in areas that are conquered by other nations for the conqueror to force their writing system on the conquered, even if the languages are nothing alike. Some examples of that would be Mongolian, which uses the Cyrillic alphabet, or Vietnamese which uses the Latin alphabet.No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
Ukrainian? I don't actually know how to tell the difference between cryillic languages or how different they are from each other. Recently I had the revelation that Arabic and Persian are nothing alike. I had just assumed the shared writing system meant they were linguistically related as well.
Related: !المسيح قام! بالحقيقة قام (al-masiḥ qam! b-al-ḥaqiqata qam)
I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.
I took Beginning Arabic my freshman year of college and dropped it a few weeks in because we were still learning how to write the alphabet. I was 19 and impatient, but damn it, I wanted to learn how to read and translate. I would never have need to write anything, really, computers exist. I kind of regret not sticking with it (I switched to Ancient Greek, which led to me being a Classics major), but...yeah.
I am looking forward to starting my Arabic classes :) I have found a free website with some very basic vocabulary just to get a feel for the language.
For the record, I noticed that. (Also, the Russian version sounds more archaic.)No one noticed that it's not Russian, I see...It's Ukrainian. Without knowing any Ukrainian, I can tell because it has the letter 'i' and Russian does not.
Hint: there's a lot of people in a certain country that would definitely notice it's not Russian...
It's just a short course and I think we're focusing on spoken Arabic rather than written - but I don't know which sort. Presumably the one that's spoken most commonly.
I'm taking the classes because I'm interested in Islam, the Arabic world etc and also because I want to learn the basics of a few of the languages the women I care for speak. I couldn't find a Punjabi class and although Polish would be useful, I went for Arabic first.
基督復活了 他確實復活了Chinese does not have verb tenses, so the above "time" discussions about "is risen" vs. "has risen" don't really apply. What the Chinese really says is something like "Christ('s) resurrection (is a) completed action!; his resurrection truly (is a) completed action!" As is common in Chinese, the verb is implied, not stated, but the use of "risen" carries the same sense of a completed action, so it's a perfectly good translation.
Of course, as well as it being Easter, there are those who are remembering that it is 4/20...(click to show/hide)
That's useful to know, thanks! (By the way, not Barry - Barmy! Or May, if you'd rather.)
No matter where it is.
Well, if you're attracted enough to kiss them in a toilet stall then they can't be that bad :psyduck:
Well, if you're attracted enough to kiss them in a toilet stall then they can't be that bad :psyduck:
About 2 years ago I went to my hometown's local music festival, Two Day Town. The at-the-time brand new Altamont Brewing Co. had set up a campsite with a shitload of kegs, and they were letting people drink for free, no fucks given. I'd been reconnecting with a friend of mine, little cutie we'll call R. R and I had more than our share of brews, and I started feeling a little ill, so we walked to the men's bathroom. The fresh air of the walk helped me feel a little better, so instead of puking, we decided making out was way better. So we did... and then the nausea came back, so we stopped, and I chucked. I hadn't even rinsed my mouth out and she was already trying to make out with me again.
I went with it.
if you watch too many and normal speech starts to sound excruciatingly sluggish.
You mean you already watched enough videos to make normal speech sound slow or that normal speech sounds slow regardless?if you watch too many and normal speech starts to sound excruciatingly sluggish.
It already does.
Random thought: I should not be watching Avatar.
Well, does anyone know anyone in the business? At all?
Re: Masterpiece
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Also damn you and thank you for showing me Qwertee.
Well, does anyone know anyone in the business? At all?
I interviewed an undertaker for a class project. He was a really interesting guy to talk to, he said that his job is to serve the living by helping them through their grief.
WTF lol :DYes, but only because I sent it through a private message. So nobody can see it unless they have the URL.
(is that picture hosted on Facebook?)
I wish I was witty enough to pretend you just accidentally referenced a meme.
Who did you send it to?!WTF lol :DYes, but only because I sent it through a private message. So nobody can see it unless they have the URL.
(is that picture hosted on Facebook?)
I put on a tight skirt and heels and crawled into Evil's lap and gave it's neck a lick.
I second that motion.I put on a tight skirt and heels and crawled into Evil's lap and gave it's neck a lick.
Pictures? :-D
Definitely, DEFINITELY not me.:roll:
I think you underestimate how many unappealing images exist on this planet.
Before I replaced my white Macbook, my laptop was the one stained yellow with laser dye.
Although the fact that my laptop is held together by gaff tape does help distinguish it.
I used the word 'heteronormative' today. I felt strange.Why does it feel strange? It's a bitchin' name for a main villain dude. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1526)
..ever heard the phrase "some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug?"What does that metaphor mean exactly? That the bugs are people who are buzzing around like idiots and run into people that are just annoyed and trying to get somewhere, or that the cars are people who are tremendous destructive forces barreling through life at top speed without regard for what bugs are on the way?
today: I'm the fucking bug.
and WHERE DID ALL THESE FUCKING WINDSHIELDS COME FROM!!!!!!!
Wait, so you're saying I could have eaten the rest of my ice cream? Mom made me throw it away :-(
Wait, so you're saying I could have eaten the rest of my ice cream? Mom made me throw it away :-(
You can literally let giraffes eat food out of your mouth, they're that clean.
I've always prefered "Some days you're the magical girl with awesome cosmic powers and other days you're the villain of the day on the receiving end of said cosmic powers"An old gym teacher used to say "some days you're the big dog, and some days you're the hydrant".
You can literally let giraffes eat food out of your mouth, they're that clean.Hanners doesn't share your idea of giraffes. (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1376)
One of the undergrads in our lab is absolutely terrified of me for some reason. I mean sure, I yell obscenities at lab equipment, but that's because the lab equipment is getting in the way of me getting data. Don't get in the way of the data collection and you won't have a problem.
Nah nah nahGaaaazman!
Why is it okay when girls grab my butt but it's absolutely not okay if I grab theirs?
I've definitely been felt up by gay guys who told me that it was okay, since they thought girls were "icky". One grabbed my boobs, in public, in a large crowd, and a lot of people saw it happen. Of course I can't read minds, but no one seemed the least bit offended by it. Weird.
Edit: Oh right, [this thread] (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=29404.0) is a thing.
So she's the only child within 100 miles of your parents now, right? So it won't be a new experience for them to only have one around, I guess.
Once my sister leaves the state this fall and I move back home, I will be the only of four children within 100 miles of our parents. :psyduck:
That's what they want you to think.
Is there any real difference between paranoia and intuition?
Also, HAVE YOU SEEN THE LITTLE PIGGIES
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is wonderful though and I won't hear otherwise.
also I am going to disagree strongly with you on the merits "Warm Gun," I think that song's a damn masterpiece. the polyrhythm during the solo, the 10/4 "Mother Superior" part, the 3/4 vs. 4/4 polyrhythm when "Happiness" starts... it all feels so natural to me, and considering how fucking crazy different it gets, that's a tough feat to accomplish.
Don't be hating on Desmond and his pretty face."Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is wonderful though and I won't hear otherwise.
That song is a fucking abomination.
You haven't fully experienced the White Album if you didn't listen to your new copy with your friends on the day it was released. :p
My views on it are detailed somewhere in the music forum, I think.
HAPPINESS(http://indul.ccio.co/f8/TA/e1/49469295876527977810oMkUNc.jpg)
IS A WARM GUN MAMMA
As a Beatle fan, I can recognize the White Album as the complete train wreck that it actually is.
It is both a great album and the worst. For the prototypical metal song, "Helter Skelter", there is that abomination known as "Revolution #9."
It is at once both an example of what going beyond boundaries can do, and a reason why you sometimes need to have someone to rein things in.
It is equal parts stunning, goofy, exquisite, inane, insane, exceptional, and excrement.
Four blokes from Liverpool, nicking from the best (as John said at times), going beyond restraints - and, sometimes, beyond what technology is capable of doing. (The Beatles - the proper name for the album - was only partially recorded on eight-track systems.)
I'd argue that the first four minutes are a reason for keeping him.Cream was a terrible Prince single ... oh, wait, wrong exit.
Also, pretty much everything from Cream. Seriously - CREAM, MAN. CREAM WAS AWESOME
I'm trying to think of a drum solo which is actually good and I can't think of one. Moby Dick? Orgy in Rhythm?YYZ.
Any bandthat closes a sub-40-minute album with a5-minute drum solo is no friend of mine.
Then play two hours with an interval in the middle, or 90 minutes each side. And you must've seen a different gig to me cause the one I saw (on DVD admittedly) he was sat down on the stage playing his solo and the rest of the band offstage.Hmm ... I've seen recordings where he goes completely nuts. Something else, indeed.
Neil Pert stands alone!
Literally all bands that have 'x solo' on their setlists need to fucking stop it. Metallica used to give Jason Newsted a bass solo. BASS SOLO PEOPLE. A BASS BY ITSELF.
Neil Pert stands alone!
On a completely different planet.
TRIVIA: Ringo Starr hated drum solos. In a complete sense of irony, the one he did for the final medley on Abbey Road (the fill before "The End" starts) was the only one he ever did that was recorded for any length in Beatles recordings history.
Literally all bands that have 'x solo' on their setlists need to fucking stop it. Metallica used to give Jason Newsted a bass solo. BASS SOLO PEOPLE. A BASS BY ITSELF.
The Chili's give Flea a bass solo pretty regularly. Those are pretty rad, though. I could listen to his bass all by itself for a while. <3
Bastard? Why, pray, is he a bastard?
Klinghoffer is good but I miss John. Terribly.
So I'm glad I got burnedSomething tells me I got that song stuck in your head yesterday. :-D
think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive
Either the world is going to pot or I am.Does "going to pot" just mean "going to shit"? I've never heard that phrase before.
My thought was prompted (somewhat indirectly) by contemplating, while walking the dogs, why I enjoy work less than I did. It's because of modern management styles that have convinced themselves that better value can be got by having less people do more work - not true. Being on the end of such management for the past year, and for what is probably going to be the last two years of my working life is starting to piss me off (which is sad, because I actually like the manager concerned - it's just that the whole department is now permeated with this toxic approach). I have specific large jobs to get done, and management is actively making it harder to do them. But maybe also I'm less resilient than I used to be.
Let's crush 'em up and do them in rails off your thigh?
I'd really like to do that, and I even know what kind of business I'd like to do, but I'm terrified to try it and have no idea how I'd raise the capital anyway.
Let's crush 'em up and do them in rails off your thigh?
that's the plan
My thought was prompted (somewhat indirectly) by contemplating, while walking the dogs, why I enjoy work less than I did. It's because of modern management styles that have convinced themselves that better value can be got by having less people do more work - not true.My epiphany was when the multinational I worked for decided to outsource the work of my entire department worldwide. One minute you're on the fast-track, tagged as a "high achiever", "future leader" and all that corpspeak bulldust, and the next you've been made redundant on statutory minimum terms, because a new CIO on the other side of the planet decided this was the way to boost his career...
Hmm...my idea was to start a brewery, and I'm not crazy about the idea of buying an existing brewery. Also, even if I did do that, my student loan debt is one thing, but buying a business would be an order of magnitude above even that.I'd really like to do that, and I even know what kind of business I'd like to do, but I'm terrified to try it and have no idea how I'd raise the capital anyway.
I sense a possible fascinating thread coming into being.
Buy an existing business with the seller financing it. It's not unheard of.
I bought myself a cap. It says "Sorry I'm so fresh" on it.That's what it should say :mrgreen:
it says "and so clean clean" on the back
I just noticed I'm in Loki's signature. Neat.Heh. I admit I had forgotten that (I mostly browse the forums via Tapatalk nowadays, which doesn't show signatures). Yeah, I really liked the expression.
94% of people do the same thing day after day.
There's a new advert for TicTacs and it says something like "94% of people do the same thing day after day. So shake it up! Put TicTacs in your pockets and turn your bum into maracas! Join a queue and shout CONGA! TicTacs. Refreshingly different" and I can't help thinking that anyone who shouts CONGA in a queue of people is probably a very irritating, rude person who I would seriously dislike and suddenly I have even less desire to eat TicTacs.
Like I said to you on Twitter, it's a lose-lose. You either risk not getting credit or you ruin your own art.
No, true. But if I were a digital artist I'd be mildly irked everytime I'd had to put it in somewhere.
I'm an open book, and it's so easy to tear it apart by just tugging at the proper pages. People I've least expected to did that recently and it forced me to reevaluate many of my personal relationships with people I used to be very comfortable with.
And I'm not at all accusing you of anything, it's just that the fact scares me.
I have multiple towels. Guess I'm not that hoopy a frood.On the contrary, you're hoopier than most.
You shouldn't have to, but maybe invest in a VPN that would allow you to access the USA version? (Not sure if that would work, but if it thinks you're accessing it from the USA you should be able to access everything)I'm not sure whether I prefer doing something not really legal and paying for it to doing something outright illegal to get the exact same entertainment products. But it doesn't matter as I'm going to do neither; I'm not invested in watching series or movies and I don't mind it staying that way.
It's something to do with licensing, but I don't really understand.
What's worse is that the releases that DO arrive here are dubbed over, and I hate dubbing. Like, with a burning passion.
Well if it makes you feel better, his brothers and sisters are still long dead.
The only thing the minced oath has is the illusion of civility.You say that like it's a bad thing.
Random Thought: is there an easy way to get rid of chloride on your skin after swimming in a pool? I just returned from swimming and my face burns (I tried showering. )
Random Thought: is there an easy way to get rid of chloride on your skin after swimming in a pool? I just returned from swimming and my face burns (I tried showering. )
Seems like it would be water-soluble by definition.
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So random thought, I've been getting iced coffee at McDonald's every day, and I get it black with no sugar. The price board lists calories, and it lists the calorie range from 80 to I believe 270, but it's 80 that bugged me, because coffee with just ice should have no calories (or some negligible amount, like 5 or 10). Surely enough, I went online and looked up the calorie count and found out that 80 is with sugar. So what I don't get is, why don't they put the calorie range starting at 0? People can and do order it with nothing added, even if they have to specify to get it, so why advertise your product as having more calories than it has?
The fact that you care so much makes you a good friend. It's always possible to be a better one, though.
I always struggle with presents, even for people I have known for years and years and think I know a lot about.
The trouble for a lot of people is that the camera never lies.
Just photograph hips. Hips don't lie.Only for Shakira.
The trouble for a lot of people is that the camera never lies.
Good news, everyone: This is complete bullshit.
http://hulderin.tumblr.com/post/88024761877/oh-good-life-doctor-tiger-bitch
You're welcome. ^_^
That, admittedly, is the insignificant flaw in my theory.Just photograph hips. Hips don't lie.Only for Shakira.
The trouble for a lot of people is that the camera never lies.
There is nothing better in the world that to be holding a purring kitten in your arms. :)
I want a massive breakfast burrito with red chili sauce, eggs, bacon, sausage and hashbrowns inside.
We naturally place (domestic) cats and dogs into the position of infantile companions, and so it often seems natural to use the "young" versions of their names indiscriminately as a term of affection or endearment; I don't think there's anything more to it than that.The interesting thing is that kitten see themselves as our young as well.
Fun fact: The pigeons found in US cities are actually feral descendants of versions of domesticated rock doves.
Was a bit weird.What's weird about that?
I still have to read Dune.
Was a bit weird.What's weird about that?
I still have to read Dune.Go do that now. We'll wait.
I have an almost limitless supply of rubber bands at my job, so naturally I like to fling them at random objects and coworkers [never in the face, I'm not that evil].
Then, I found this:
...So, naturally I made one of my own.
I might not have a job soon.
I'll do that someday, but you should wait here (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=29969.0) instead.I still have to read Dune.Go do that now. We'll wait.