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Title: This forum is like a family
Post by: Thrillho on 27 Jul 2013, 12:34
You know, the more I think about it, the more I feel like this forum is like another family to me.

This occurred to me after a discussion with Garand the other day in which I realised I kinda feel like he's the forum's older brother who'd beat people up for us.

It's also kind of like a support group at the same time.

...it's also certainly as annoying as a family can be at times  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: LeeC on 27 Jul 2013, 12:37
can I be the step brother who lights things on fire but somehow you manage to get blamed?  :angel:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 27 Jul 2013, 12:41
In the short time I've been here this seems to constantly be the case. You guys get along like brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, moms and dads, and grandpas and grandmas. I've seldom seen such a close community before, and I'm glad to have joined it.   :-D
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 27 Jul 2013, 12:50
By age, of course, I'd be a grandfather. I haven't yet learned to act like one, even to my IRL grandkids. Nevertheless, the forum is certainly a family to me. I tend to recognize that quickly, since I'm always on the lookout for families to glom on to.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: ankhtahr on 27 Jul 2013, 13:40
I guess I'm certainly part of the younger generation here, and haven't been a member of this group for long. Still I think of everybody here as a very good friend. I've shared stuff with you guys which I didn't really share with anybody I know in person. You've helped me when I was having trouble, and I'm absolutely certain that I wouldn't be as positive about my life as I am now if I hadn't met all of you forumites. Many of you have cheered with me when I was happy, all of you gave me support when I needed it. You have definitely helped me to shorten depressive moods.

You're all great!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: jwhouk on 27 Jul 2013, 13:43
...Does that make pwhodges "Great Grandpa Paul"?  :evil:

I'm that weird uncle who lives out in the middle of nowhere and pops in at odd hours.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Loki on 27 Jul 2013, 14:13
Gareth-bro is best big bro.

Edit: this is not a statement meaning to downplay other big brothers or other forum members. It's just that I meant to say this exact sentence for... a while.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: ackblom12 on 27 Jul 2013, 14:25
I'm pretty sure I'd be the weird uncle.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Thrillho on 27 Jul 2013, 14:29
Gareth-bro is best big bro.

Edit: this is not a statement meaning to downplay other big brothers or other forum members. It's just that I meant to say this exact sentence for... a while.

Loki, I owe you a hug and a beer.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: BeoPuppy on 27 Jul 2013, 14:35
I'm pretty sure I'd be the weird uncle.
Seconded. Weird everything actually.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Loki on 27 Jul 2013, 14:45
My, we certainly have a lot of uncles. This says heaps about our grandfather  :-D

Gareth: the hug I'll gladly accept. The beer I will have to treat you to.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 14:49
First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: de_la_Nae on 27 Jul 2013, 15:03
Good consequences, or bad consequences?  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: ankhtahr on 27 Jul 2013, 15:12
Gareth, your comment made me remember that Loki promised me to celebrate my 18th birthday should we ever meet in person…

By the way, this one goes out to all regulars in this Forum:

(http://i.imgur.com/HRdCu1c.png)

Edit: and before anyone asks: yes, I have slightly edited Steve's speech bubble.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 15:15
Honestly I doubt some of you would be able to tell the difference Nae
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: TheEvilDog on 27 Jul 2013, 15:15
I'm guessing I'm the cousin who keeps to himself much of the time and listens to what other people have to say.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: J on 27 Jul 2013, 15:16
i guess i'd be one of those obscure cousins who lives nearby, but nobody really knows very well.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Valdís on 27 Jul 2013, 15:20
First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

Onii-chan~~!

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 27 Jul 2013, 16:02
I'd probably wind up the weird nephew/cousin.  The one whose a bit odd/goofy and a little shy/quiet but you like having round 'cause he's OK.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 27 Jul 2013, 16:10
First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

Onii-chan~~!

(click to show/hide)

Wouldn't our continued flirtations be siscon then?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: LeeC on 27 Jul 2013, 16:15

First person to start calling me "Onii-chan" will suffer consequences..
as soon as I am less in pain/exhausted

Onii-chan~~!

(click to show/hide)

Wouldn't our continued flirtations be siscon then?

I demand to see this settled through agni kai!
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Valdís on 27 Jul 2013, 17:46
Wouldn't our continued flirtations be siscon then?

Hn..? Flirtation? I don't know what you mean onii-chan~! You're being weird again!

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Valdís on 27 Jul 2013, 17:51
Also Gareth actually is like a nice goofy older brother with slight incestuous tendencies

this forum is a lot like a family

xxx

I am so not used to being kissed repeatedly by family! :lol:

ooo
And you sure you don't want some familial kisses  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 27 Jul 2013, 20:39
Grumpy old "uncle" who's not really related to anyone in any way that anyone can remember. 

Mostly hangs out to complain. 




Occasionally has an insight, and it's usually pretty unpleasant. 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Jul 2013, 21:53
What's my role?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: J on 28 Jul 2013, 02:01
i suppose you'd be the uncle who babysits us all and breaks up fights
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: snalin on 28 Jul 2013, 03:42
Gareth-bro is best big bro.

In the the plethora of Japanese honorific postfixes; the -san and -chan and -kun, we can now add -bro. I'm going to go and make an alternate Naruto fan-dub. "But, Sasuke-bro!", "Wait, Sasuke-bro!", "Isn't Sakura lovely, Sasuke-bro?"
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Lines on 28 Jul 2013, 07:38
I claim the cousin that makes you handmade gifts whether you want them or not, but you don't care, because they usually involve some kind of baked good.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: TheEvilDog on 28 Jul 2013, 08:09
I claim the cousin that makes you handmade gifts whether you want them or not, but you don't care, because they usually involve some kind of baked good.

With none of us suspecting that the lovingly baked goods are in fact poisoned! (With love....and Poison! The band, of course. Who also added poison!)
*Gasp*
You want the family fortune all for yourself!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 28 Jul 2013, 08:54
I'm guessing I'm the aunt that thinks she's still a kid and talks about sex and makes poop jokes.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Barmymoo on 28 Jul 2013, 09:19
I guess these days I'm the distant cousin who visits once every few years and no one quite remembers.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Thrillho on 28 Jul 2013, 09:30
I'm guessing I'm the aunt that thinks she's still a kid and talks about sex and makes poop jokes.

I have, to be fair, never known anyone to use the word 'butt' so much.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: TinPenguin on 28 Jul 2013, 09:42
I've no idea what the hell I am. The talking pet?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 28 Jul 2013, 09:57
You're the forum clamp weasel
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Thrillho on 28 Jul 2013, 10:00
That made me laugh far too much
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Loki on 28 Jul 2013, 10:25
i suppose you'd be the uncle who babysits us all and breaks up fights

I think of Method of Madness as the older kid who babysits the youngsters.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Welu on 28 Jul 2013, 10:40
What am I? Some kind of Little Sister? (http://i.imgur.com/LhYVUGG.jpg)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Jul 2013, 10:55
Okay, if you want. 

But that image was a bit disturbing... keep your needles to yourself! 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Loki on 28 Jul 2013, 11:00
Unicorn is the crazy (in the nicest way possible) and occasionally insightful pair of traumatized twins who speak in unison and are pale and seem to look right through you far away into the distance.

Noone knows what happened to their parents or how they are really related to the family, but noone dares to ask.

GM is the guy sitting on his veranda with a  shotgun in his hand. However if he lets you in his house, you will realize that he is knowledgeable about all gun things and he also probably has deer heads all over the walls.

Akima is the Australian cousin of ...somebody and can be most frequently found meditating under a tree on a hill. The children sometimes gather around her to listen to her stories. Occassionally some adults come up with them too, listening in fascination as well.

Game and Watch Forever is the distant relative who rarely speaks and rumor is he once killed a man with his bare hands. Or twenty.

Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Patrick on 28 Jul 2013, 11:10
By age, of course, I'd be a grandfather. I haven't yet learned to act like one, even to my IRL grandkids. Nevertheless, the forum is certainly a family to me. I tend to recognize that quickly, since I'm always on the lookout for families to glom on to.

"glom" is one of my favorite verbs ever.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: snalin on 28 Jul 2013, 11:31
GM is the guy sitting on his veranda with a  shotgun in his hand. However if he lets you in his house, you will realize that he is knowledgable about all gun things and he also probably has deer heads all over the walls.

My image of Garand is Clint Eastwood's character from Gran Torino.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Pilchard123 on 28 Jul 2013, 11:34
Game and Watch Forever is the distant relative who rarely speaks and rumor is he once killed a man with his bare hands. Or twenty.

Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 28 Jul 2013, 11:39
Ouch.... I'm not quite that old...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: cesium133 on 28 Jul 2013, 11:41
I'd guess I'd be the giant inflatable spider sitting outside the house or something?  :psyduck:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: lepetitfromage on 28 Jul 2013, 11:48
I guess these days I'm the distant cousin who visits once every few years and no one quite remembers.

I remember you!! And I remember when you posted all the time! In fact, when our new friend in the comic was dubbed "May", I thought of you instantly.


I don't know if this means that I have a good memory or that I'm creepy. :-P





I'm not entirely sure who I would be in our little family.....Hmmm...must think about this one.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Loki on 28 Jul 2013, 12:29
Gareth-bro is best big bro.

In the the plethora of Japanese honorific postfixes; the -san and -chan and -kun, we can now add -bro. I'm going to go and make an alternate Naruto fan-dub. "But, Sasuke-bro!", "Wait, Sasuke-bro!", "Isn't Sakura lovely, Sasuke-bro?"

This took me way too long:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: ankhtahr on 28 Jul 2013, 12:47
I still don't see who I am in this.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 28 Jul 2013, 12:58
You seem like the younger brother type. And maybe I am not technically related because I hit on everyone.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Valdís on 28 Jul 2013, 13:01
The slightly younger br--

You seem like the younger brother type.

Yeah, what she said! Yay, I'm a middle child!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Loki on 28 Jul 2013, 13:04
I third the "younger brother" opinion :)

(Confession: I don't actually know what siblings are like)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Jul 2013, 14:48
i suppose you'd be the uncle who babysits us all and breaks up fights

I think of Method of Madness as the older kid who babysits the youngsters.
Yeah, that works.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 28 Jul 2013, 15:18
*Smiles goofily*
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: snalin on 28 Jul 2013, 15:23
Gareth-bro is best big bro.

In the the plethora of Japanese honorific postfixes; the -san and -chan and -kun, we can now add -bro. I'm going to go and make an alternate Naruto fan-dub. "But, Sasuke-bro!", "Wait, Sasuke-bro!", "Isn't Sakura lovely, Sasuke-bro?"

This took me way too long:

(click to show/hide)

I love you
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Patrick on 28 Jul 2013, 15:36
I'm the middle-school aged boy cousin who is afraid of girls and makes penis jokes constantly
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 28 Jul 2013, 16:54
So far I think I'm that twice-removed Count Olaf-type distant relative who people put up with but everyone knows is an arse. I mean, only time will tell how accurate that is.

Regarding NARUTO FAN DUB (OH-EM-GEE):

Quote
In the the plethora of Japanese honorific postfixes; the -san and -chan and -kun, we can now add -bro. I'm going to go and make an alternate Naruto fan-dub. "But, Sasuke-bro!", "Wait, Sasuke-bro!", "Isn't Sakura lovely, Sasuke-bro?"

I would watch that anime so hard. Yes I'm a fanboy, kay?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: bainidhe_dub on 28 Jul 2013, 17:48
I guess I'm somebody's big sister who spends most of the time sitting in the corner, reading a book but secretly listening in on the conversation. Every so often I yell something semi-relevant that usually passes without comment.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Papersatan on 28 Jul 2013, 19:19
I married into this family. 

So now I'm a weird aunt I guess.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Lines on 28 Jul 2013, 19:30
I claim the cousin that makes you handmade gifts whether you want them or not, but you don't care, because they usually involve some kind of baked good.

With none of us suspecting that the lovingly baked goods are in fact poisoned! (With love....and Poison! The band, of course. Who also added poison!)
*Gasp*
You want the family fortune all for yourself!

(http://mindfulearful.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fallingasleep-blink.gif)

What.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: de_la_Nae on 28 Jul 2013, 19:39
I AM THE NIGHT
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Jul 2013, 19:50
I'm Batman. 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: de_la_Nae on 28 Jul 2013, 20:44
OH

I AM NOT THE NIGHT THEN
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Jul 2013, 20:57
I MAY OR MAY NOT BE A PARTICULAR TIME OF DAY.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Zingoleb on 28 Jul 2013, 21:03
twin

she died a long time ago. i miss her. i want to believe she's real. belief makes everything real.

you see her, too.

seeing is believing.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: cesium133 on 28 Jul 2013, 21:12
I MAY OR MAY NOT BE A PARTICULAR TIME OF DAY.
I MAY OR MAY NOT BE MAY.

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: J on 28 Jul 2013, 21:18
i've been thinking about becoming vengeance, but i'm still on the fence about it.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Jul 2013, 21:19
Perhaps you could become death, destroyer of worlds?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 28 Jul 2013, 21:59
I married into this family. 

So now I'm a weird aunt I guess.

Which makes you that weird aunt and uncle duo who always bring odd covered dishes that everyone avoids out of fear to family BBQs.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 28 Jul 2013, 22:05
Perhaps you could become death, destroyer of worlds?

Shiva would probably be angry over that.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Papersatan on 28 Jul 2013, 22:59
I married into this family. 

So now I'm a weird aunt I guess.

Which makes you that weird aunt and uncle duo who always bring odd covered dishes that everyone avoids out of fear to family BBQs.

We're the weird aunt and uncle that you don't quite trust to watch your kids, even though the kids totally want to be watched by us.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: RedWolf4 on 28 Jul 2013, 23:39
Shotgun alleged cousin out to steal the map to the hidden treasure!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: J on 29 Jul 2013, 00:08
Perhaps you could become death, destroyer of worlds?
well maybe. i hear the pay is alright, but the hours suck.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Welu on 29 Jul 2013, 04:33
And maybe I am not technically related because I hit on everyone.

Since Kat said she is married in, you could be her sister and you're both Cool AuntsTM.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Cire27 on 29 Jul 2013, 06:27
I barely post even though I've been on this forum since I was 13.  I wonder if I have a place in this family.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: TheEvilDog on 29 Jul 2013, 06:30
I claim the cousin that makes you handmade gifts whether you want them or not, but you don't care, because they usually involve some kind of baked good.

With none of us suspecting that the lovingly baked goods are in fact poisoned! (With love....and Poison! The band, of course. Who also added poison!)
*Gasp*
You want the family fortune all for yourself!

(http://mindfulearful.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fallingasleep-blink.gif)

What.

Exactly!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Jul 2013, 07:16
I barely post even though I've been on this forum since I was 13.  I wonder if I have a place in this family.

The quiet teen that lives in the attic.  If we'd put in that separate entrance like you asked, we'd never see you! 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Game and Watch Forever on 29 Jul 2013, 09:37
Game and Watch Forever is the distant relative who rarely speaks and rumor is he once killed a man with his bare hands. Or twenty.

*looks nervously at the floorboards he's standing on*

... No way! You're totally off by twenty!  :angel:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Papersatan on 29 Jul 2013, 10:11
And maybe I am not technically related because I hit on everyone.

Since Kat said she is married in, you could be her sister and you're both Cool AuntsTM.

Makes sense, cause when Neko first started posting, I was convinced she was bizarro me. 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 29 Jul 2013, 10:14
You mean I'm not?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Barmymoo on 29 Jul 2013, 10:23
I MAY OR MAY NOT BE A PARTICULAR TIME OF DAY.
I MAY OR MAY NOT BE MAY.

(click to show/hide)

No dude, that's me.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: LeeC on 29 Jul 2013, 10:25
No dude, that's me.
well then, welcome back cousin....
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: lepetitfromage on 29 Jul 2013, 12:45
I keep coming back to a weird mom-ish role but it A) Makes me feel old and B) Makes me sound way more important than I am.


How many aunts do we have around here anyway? :-P

Always room for one more!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Welu on 29 Jul 2013, 13:43
I'm sticking with the little sister role for myself since I don't think I'm Cool or Responsible enough to be an aunt.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 29 Jul 2013, 14:13
Yeah I wouldn't label myself as Cool or Responsible.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Welu on 29 Jul 2013, 14:15
I can verify you are at least Cool. Responsible rating pending.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: lepetitfromage on 29 Jul 2013, 15:54
One more vote over here for "Neko is cool". :-)

Possibly one of the coolest people I know! 8-)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: TheEvilDog on 29 Jul 2013, 15:56
Guys, you're all cool.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 Jul 2013, 16:06
Dude, we're NOT cool. Trust me. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1472)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 29 Jul 2013, 16:22
Cool is what you make it.

I don't follow the mindless herd with regards fo fashion/culture etc.

That's cool.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 29 Jul 2013, 16:43
You are definitely all insane.

<3
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 29 Jul 2013, 16:53
You're only just figuring that out??!     :parrot:  :psyduck:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 29 Jul 2013, 16:57
Absolutely no idea where I fit in...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 29 Jul 2013, 17:01
You can be my fellow 2 times removed distant relative ass if you wish.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 29 Jul 2013, 17:18
I would consider you a little brother, Matthew.

Also usually I would call someone with your name Matt, but I'm so used to Masterpiece referring to you as Matthew that you're stuck that way in my head.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Masterpiece on 29 Jul 2013, 17:30
that's because Matthew is an awesome name!

I am not part of the family. I just moved to town.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 29 Jul 2013, 17:32
Not all that recently. You are part of the family.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 29 Jul 2013, 17:34
You definitely are a part of this very dysfunctional family. :D
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 29 Jul 2013, 17:44
Compare this family with IRL families you know. Is this one so dysfunctional? It's a large family, a truly extended one. Now my knowledge of real life families may be limited, being an only child who raised an only child. But this one seems to function well. Not perfect, but well.

BTW, Neko, I found a great Bday card in Arizona in March. It's perfect, although I had no one in mind when I bought it. It'll be on its way tomorrow. Be late, belated and all that.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 29 Jul 2013, 19:10
No, it's really not all that dysfunctional. I make funnies sometimes.

And thank you! I always look forward to getting mail :D
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 30 Jul 2013, 00:16
How many aunts do we have around here anyway? :-P

Always room for one more!

More aunts than a picnic! 








What?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: lepetitfromage on 30 Jul 2013, 05:55
 :-P :roll: :-D







Also, I fully support Primo's role as little brother. And Masterpiece: you are SO part of the family, don't even try to get out of it.  :police:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 30 Jul 2013, 06:43

More aunts than a picnic! 


What do awnts have to do with a picnic?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: cesium133 on 30 Jul 2013, 07:00
They like food, just like everyone else!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Nikolai on 30 Jul 2013, 07:00
I think that one belongs in the pun thread...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: bainidhe_dub on 30 Jul 2013, 10:20
I like to go by the rule that if there's more than two degrees of connection, you're a cousin. Cousin's kids? Cousins! Cousin's step kids? Cousins! Mom's first cousin's daughters? Cousins! Their kids? Cousins! Husband's work-husband's fiancee? Cousin!
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2013, 10:24
While the au probably should make "ont" the "proper" pronunciation, it's always sounded odd to me. I'll usually say "ant", but sometimes I actually will use "ont" (like "root"/"rout" for route, I usually use the former for that, but not always.) I wonder if we should make a pronunciation thread. For that matter, I wonder if we already did and I just don't know about it.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Zebediah on 30 Jul 2013, 10:35
I'm the uncle who tells you that you need to find a better hiding place for your porn stash, because your mom will totally find it where it is now. I won't reveal that she already damn well knows where it is, because I'm trying to leave you some dignity here.

And I will not, under any circumstances, tell you where your mom's porn stash is hidden. That'd be just plain wrong.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 30 Jul 2013, 10:37
While the au probably should make "ont" the "proper" pronunciation, it's always sounded odd to me. I'll usually say "ant", but sometimes I actually will use "ont" (like "root"/"rout" for route, I usually use the former for that, but not always.) I wonder if we should make a pronunciation thread. For that matter, I wonder if we already did and I just don't know about it.
All that came to mind is English is weird.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2013, 10:45
English is weird enough before it goes and weirds itself even more.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 30 Jul 2013, 15:08
I think English is successful because of that weirdness. Even though it's ridiculously hard to learn, English is such a melting pot of words and grammatical idiosyncrasies that it is applicable to nearly any context.

The crazy words we have and use make great stories, dialogues, science, as well as music.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 30 Jul 2013, 15:12
Regarding root v rowt:

I use root for everything. I guess it is just a generalized term.

I rarely say rowt. I didn't use it in Pokemon; that's for sure.

Considering the networking machine is usually pronounced rowter and not rooter, I think the differentiation may have been popularized to avoid confusion with the word root, like android devices, and plants.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2013, 15:17
"Rooter" makes me think of this:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 30 Jul 2013, 15:20
I have rarely heard those called rooters. I call those snakes or drain snakes.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: bainidhe_dub on 30 Jul 2013, 15:39
It was originally a brand name (Roto-Rooter) but apparently the patent ran out and now multiple plumbers and drain snake companies use the term. *back into the book*
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2013, 15:56
It's the less that it makes me think of an actual product and more that it makes me think of Futurama.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 30 Jul 2013, 16:01
In Spanish roto means broken...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: J on 30 Jul 2013, 17:22
I think English is successful because of that weirdness. Even though it's ridiculously hard to learn, English is such a melting pot of words and grammatical idiosyncrasies that it is applicable to nearly any context.

The crazy words we have and use make great stories, dialogues, science, as well as music.

i seem to recall a biopsychology teacher i had some years back explaining to the class that english speaking countries had some of the lowest rates of senile dementia & age related brain degeneration on earth. he claimed that this was because the complexity of the language kept the brain more active, which in turn staved off neurological apoptosis.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Akima on 30 Jul 2013, 19:09
Considering the networking machine is usually pronounced rowter and not rooter, I think the differentiation may have been popularized to avoid confusion with the word root, like android devices, and plants.

In Australia route is normally pronounced "root", but in networking parlance the American "rowt" pronunciation is universal, despite the potential confusion with rout. Only context separates these two devices, both of which are called "rowters":
(http://www.arrowcomputers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/RTN10.jpg)(http://static.productreview.com.au/pr.products/141777_dewalt_dw625e_plunge_router.jpg)

A complicating factor in Australia, is that "root" is a synonym for "fuck", especially when used as a verb, so referring to a "rooting table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_table)" might provoke sniggers. And you never root for a football-team etc. here; you "barrack" for it. Just like "fuck", "root" can imply that something is broken or otherwise in trouble: "If my wife finds out that I rooted my secretary, I'll be rooted!" So talking about rooting your phone can also be ambiguous: "I tried to root my phone last night, but it didn't work and now it's rooted!"

English...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 30 Jul 2013, 19:20
It's probably why Wang Computers always made me snigger.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 30 Jul 2013, 19:39
Naw, that's just you.   :angel:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 30 Jul 2013, 19:41
 :angel:





<_<


>_>



 :evil:      :-D

Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: pwhodges on 07 Aug 2013, 05:13
In Australia route is normally pronounced "root", but in networking parlance the American "rowt" pronunciation is universal, despite the potential confusion with rout. Only context separates these two devices, both of which are called "rowters":

In the UK it is rare to hear "rowter" for the networking device, but in my experience it is normal for the woodworking tool.

...Does that make pwhodges "Great Grandpa Paul"?  :evil:

You beat real life by just three days ;)  (see the pictures thread)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: J on 07 Aug 2013, 11:31
why do we even pretend that english has rules at all?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Aug 2013, 11:39
It does, but rules are made to be broken.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: LeeC on 07 Aug 2013, 12:51
if we followed the rules for the english language then puns would have never existed.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Aug 2013, 13:57
How do puns break any language rules?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Blue Kitty on 07 Aug 2013, 17:55
I tried finding a Christmas Vacation gif, but this was the best I could find

(http://media.tumblr.com/a005a81be8f27a5365e317316b5abbf0/tumblr_inline_mnmxln5qED1qz4rgp.gif)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Aug 2013, 22:56
How do puns break any language rules?

How does a pun not break the rules?  They're nothing but incorrect usage and alternative meanings! 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Aug 2013, 23:11
Wait, what? Puns only work when the usage is actually correct (but still sounds like something else), otherwise you're just saying gibberish.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Aug 2013, 23:33

More aunts than a picnic! 



I rest my case. 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 07 Aug 2013, 23:33
While the au probably should make "ont" the "proper" pronunciation, it's always sounded odd to me. I'll usually say "ant", but sometimes I actually will use "ont" (like "root"/"rout" for route, I usually use the former for that, but not always.) I wonder if we should make a pronunciation thread. For that matter, I wonder if we already did and I just don't know about it.

see, for me, it depends completely on the name its being used with. examples:
-Ont Lori
-Ant Diana

Regarding root v rowt:

I use root for everything. I guess it is just a generalized term.

I rarely say rowt. I didn't use it in Pokemon; that's for sure.

Considering the networking machine is usually pronounced rowter and not rooter, I think the differentiation may have been popularized to avoid confusion with the word root, like android devices, and plants.

Route-er:
(click to show/hide)
Root-er:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Aug 2013, 08:54

More aunts than a picnic! 



I rest my case.
Ahhh. Right.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: dr. nervioso on 08 Aug 2013, 17:07
I'm probably the younger brother who's rash, inconsistent, and sort of a commitaphobe. I disappear for months at a time and return (if only to make a cheesy joke).
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 09 Aug 2013, 14:20
Hopefully, you're not the one we have to keep changing the locks on.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Metope on 09 Aug 2013, 20:05
I guess these days I'm the distant cousin who visits once every few years and no one quite remembers.

Yeah this sounds like me too.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: SageJiraiya on 09 Aug 2013, 21:22
WHO!?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: pwhodges on 10 Aug 2013, 00:06
Hi Kris!

When people post after weeks or months of silence, I wonder if they are just dropping by with no real idea of what's going on, or whether they have read every post in the mean time but have only now found any reason to join in again...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Metope on 10 Aug 2013, 11:51
I usually read a few and then give up, there are just too many. I'm not very good at being consistent with forums these days.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: pwhodges on 10 Aug 2013, 12:01
Too many - absolutely!  I only read two active forums, and after a two-week holiday from the Internet (yes, no Internet for two weeks - my longest gap in over ten years), I see no prospect of catching up.  Just some cherry-picking, then "mark all read" and start again.  In particular, it's the first time since I became a mod here that I haven't at least glanced at every single post.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Aug 2013, 12:03
Every single post? Yowza. I usually just look at the threads I post in (and post in the threads I look in!), and I try to add a few threads to that list now and again, but...every single post? Wow.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: pwhodges on 10 Aug 2013, 12:09
How do you think the board got turned around with so few mods?  Also, when I started, there was still spam to catch every day, preferably before too many people reported it!  But it's got to being hard work, and I'd like to spread it more widely.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Aug 2013, 14:21
I cut myself down to just four forums, and there are a handful of threads in them that I don't bother with but in the ones I read, I still read every damn post.  Yeah. 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Aug 2013, 15:36
I tend to read all the posts in all the forums except "Hi, I'm New", "Band", and "Discuss." I may have a problem.  :psyduck:
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Aug 2013, 17:04
I only keep up with a dozen or so threads, but if I can't get some sort of "unread posts" option on a board, I'm probably not going to be on it much.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 10 Aug 2013, 18:24
If I wanted to zip through the posts on this forum, I'd use Taptalk on the iPad. But since I expect to make a few responses, I usually use the computer. I never got very fast on the iPad touchscreen.

I once watched Barmymoo typing on the iPad screen, and in a moving car. I think she was somewhere around 50-60 wpm. I remarked on it. She said she'd been typing since she was very young.

Yeah, but still ....
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 10 Aug 2013, 22:13
For people who know how to use them properly, touchscreens can be the ultimate human interface device :)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Aug 2013, 22:38
Yeah, for some things I can use them fine. Typing is not one of them. I mean, I can type on one, sort of, using my thumbs. But it's nothing compared to me on a keyboard.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: nekowafer on 11 Aug 2013, 02:16
I'm super fast on my cell phone or ipod, and only slightly slower on my tablet. It took some getting used to for sure.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Aug 2013, 08:33
I still have to look at the friggin keyboard when I type.  And having a mechanical one makes it easier - without the "feel", it's hard to tell what I've hit or missed, since I'm not looking at the screen. 


My phone is an old Treo with a button keyboard for the same reason.  I hate touch screens.  I think my skin resistance is funny, I have to poke the ones for ATMs and fast food places several times before they register my touch.  They seem to work better when I use a knuckle than a fingertip. 




And I'll be damned if I'm going to type with my knuckles...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Aug 2013, 09:12
When I got my cell phone, I made sure to get one with a physical keyboard, because typing on a touchscreen sucks. I'm sorry, but it does.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2013, 09:19
I actually have never had a physical full keyboard on a phone. I went a regular flip phone to an iPhone back in 2008. Also the keys on phones with physical keyboards look really small, and my hands are kind of big. It's easier to just have to touch a small key than to have to press it down without pressing the ones next to it as well.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 11 Aug 2013, 14:40
But that's my problem with a touch screen - I hit all around the key, even looking at it.  When it registers.  So I have to look back and forth.  The buttons are tiny, but you don't use it the way you do a keyboard, you're not doing tenfinger typing, it's thumbs and an occasional finger. 


No, not that finger...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2013, 14:47
Fair enough, it's just a matter of preference I suppose.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2013, 15:03
I prefer a stylus to fingers, but these new "pressure sensitive" styluses don't hit the right spot most of the time. Of course, I'm using it on my iPod Touch, whose small size might have something to do with it...
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Kugai on 11 Aug 2013, 15:05
Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I'm a Keyboard and Mouse person.

About the only interaction I have with Touch Screen Tec is the local Westpac ATM's.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: ankhtahr on 11 Aug 2013, 15:58
Well, I definitely prefer keyboards. Good keyboards are better than bad keyboards, but most keyboards are better than touchscreens for text input. I absolutely loved my Palm Prē for that. Well, I loved my Palm Prē for almost everything. If they had brought webOS on newer devices with better hardware I might still use it.

Anyway, Keyboards for text input. Trackballs for pointing. Mice for playing shooters. Graphics tablets for drawing/picture editing. Touchscreens for applications like Maps or so. Maybe browser navigation as well.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 11 Aug 2013, 16:26
I prefer a stylus to fingers, but these new "pressure sensitive" styluses don't hit the right spot most of the time. Of course, I'm using it on my iPod Touch, whose small size might have something to do with it...
OK, you cannot use an iOS device with a pressure sensitive stylus, unless it's an active electronic stylus - that is to say one with batteries and a data connection of some kind to the device (Bluetooth, plugged into the headphone jack, ect)

A non-powered non-capacitive stylus cannot interface with an iOS Screen, as their screens only accept capacitive touch, and capacitive touch technology cannot be pressure sensitive.

So either you're highly mistaken, are being sold a scam, or are using something bizarre. Sorry.

And I'm not picking on iOS either - this holds true for Windows phones and 99% of android phones as well - in fact it holds true for Pretty much all devices with a capacitive touch screen, unless they have an added physical component inside the screen, which is rare and expensive and usually sourced from Wacom.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Aug 2013, 16:32
Something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0041D0K1Q
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Barmymoo on 11 Aug 2013, 16:36
I once watched Barmymoo typing on the iPad screen, and in a moving car. I think she was somewhere around 50-60 wpm. I remarked on it. She said she'd been typing since she was very young.

Yeah, but still ....

I don't remember this happening (although I'm assuming it was on our epic road trip to the land of cheese and grumpy prison wardens) but I just did a speed test on my laptop keyboard and typed out a section of text 100 wpm with no mistakes. I am a very fast typist, but touch screens really slow me down. I get frustrated with the touch screen ticket machines at train stations because it always takes multiple attempts to get my ticket. Why can't we have BUTTONS? I wouldn't want a Qwerty keyboard on my phone though. I got confused enough when my work phone required me to press a different button to get a space than my personal phone. I was always accidentally changing the character type instead of putting a space into the message. My texts typicallyLOOKEDLIKE8447.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 11 Aug 2013, 19:06
I prefer a stylus to fingers, but these new "pressure sensitive" styluses don't hit the right spot most of the time. Of course, I'm using it on my iPod Touch, whose small size might have something to do with it...
OK, you cannot use an iOS device with a pressure sensitive stylus, unless it's an active electronic stylus - that is to say one with batteries and a data connection of some kind to the device (Bluetooth, plugged into the headphone jack, ect)

A non-powered non-capacitive stylus cannot interface with an iOS Screen, as their screens only accept capacitive touch, and capacitive touch technology cannot be pressure sensitive.

So either you're highly mistaken, are being sold a scam, or are using something bizarre. Sorry.

And I'm not picking on iOS either - this holds true for Windows phones and 99% of android phones as well - in fact it holds true for Pretty much all devices with a capacitive touch screen, unless they have an added physical component inside the screen, which is rare and expensive and usually sourced from Wacom.
This  (http://adonit.net/jot/touch/)may be an equivalent. IIRC, it's gotr mixed reviews, has batteries and maybe uses a bluetooth connection with the tablet to transmit pressure readings. I've read about it in the past, but didn't review it just now.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Redball on 11 Aug 2013, 19:09
I once watched Barmymoo typing on the iPad screen, and in a moving car. I think she was somewhere around 50-60 wpm. I remarked on it. She said she'd been typing since she was very young.

Yeah, but still ....

I don't remember this happening (although I'm assuming it was on our epic road trip to the land of cheese and grumpy prison wardens) but I just did a speed test on my laptop keyboard and typed out a section of text 100 wpm with no mistakes. I am a very fast typist, but touch screens really slow me down.

OK, I may have exaggerated the speed, but it was impressively touch-typingly fast. I think you were dealing with your writing group.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: valley_parade on 11 Aug 2013, 20:28
Do you guys remember the days when we all used to actually hang out like, all the time?

I doubt there's many of us left from back then. We even made Jimmy come to America once.


edit: I have found pictures from this. Linds rode a bronze donkey, too:

(http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h76/captain_applesauce/bostoncon/0116091607.jpg)
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2013, 20:44
Man, I wish I was around back then :/
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Barmymoo on 12 Aug 2013, 03:41
I mean, it wasn't a time-specific phenomenon - we could arrange meetups now too! Aren't there three being arranged at the moment?
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: GarandMarine on 12 Aug 2013, 04:38
We just had one! We just need to keep doing it till it becomes a habit.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 12 Aug 2013, 08:04
No one replied to my CES meetup idea… :(

@JWH- that's a capacitive stylus. Inherently not pressure-sensitive.

@redball- that's the "active stylus" I mentioned. That (and things like it) are rare,  expensive, and hard to use. They deliver very inconsistent results, but some people still swear by them anyways. *shrugs*

Using one of those with an iphone/ipod would be laughably overkill, btw :P
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Aug 2013, 08:23
But you still press with the stylus, yes?  So it's an issie of whether the pad is pressure sensitive, no? 
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 12 Aug 2013, 09:01
No, with an active stylus like that, while it is pressure sensitive, the touchscreen doesn't have to be. It converts the pressure to either a wireless/wired signal, or actually electrically creates the capacitive surface. The transmitting method can be laggy, and electrically creating the surface is not reliable at all. Neither is really that great.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Masterpiece on 12 Aug 2013, 11:38
You press with the stylus but if I recall correctly, it's only a PRESSING-NOTPRESSING kinda thing, there really isn't any bit of sensitivity measured. Not on iPhones and iPads, that is. The Surface Pro has a Wacom stylus thingy, and it is SO GREAT. The Vaio I am using has an active pen. It is decent, but eh.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: mtmerrick on 12 Aug 2013, 12:18
yeah, i'm a note 2 user. I'm quite familiar with how wonderful wacom-based tech is <3 nothing else even compares. haven't gotten a chance to try out the surface's, but i hear its just as good.

the stylus redball linked to (which will not load on the PC i'm using right now for some reason) showed varying lineweights by pressure, and claims to work on all capacitive displays. I've see that pen before, its of the generated-capacitive-surface variety.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: Jace on 12 Aug 2013, 13:03
I mean, it wasn't a time-specific phenomenon - we could arrange meetups now too!

There's a lot less people I wanna meet now that I know them better.
Title: Re: This forum is like a family
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Aug 2013, 13:36
@JWH- that's a capacitive stylus. Inherently not pressure-sensitive.

Yeah, you're telling me. I try pushing buttons on the screen with it, and it's about 80% likely to actually touch the right one (or get it to "click").

Still beats using fingers.