Eadin's Exchange of Extraterrestrial Excuses AKA Random Banter #155

[Eadin]

Random Banter NR 155


Greeting mortals! Welcome to the new Random Banter thread!
Be wary, those who dare enter here, for there are rules to be followed if you want to survive.

DA RULES:

1. Spam. For the purposes of RB, one word posts are generally considered spam. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* are also be considered spam. Remember that the quality of the post's content is much better than the speed of your response.

2. This isn't the Play by Post or Town forum, nor is it the Silly Message Board Games or Structured Games forum. Please avoid continuous roleplay or mock battles and fights such as the "competition for control of the universe".

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14. Once you have made a Random Banter thread, you must wait 50 threads before making another one.

15. If you can avoid dibs calling on making the next thread, that will avoid people needing to wait if the thread hits 50 pages while the dibs-caller is asleep.

LIST OF PAST RANDOM BANTER THREADS:

Amotis' Random Banter #1 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13484)
Dhavaer's Random Banter #2 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13401)
PhoeKun's Random Banter #3 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13319)
Rei Jin's Random Banter #4 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13205)
Toxic Avenger's Random Banter #5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13146)
Jibar's Random Banter #6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13026)
Ego Slayer's Surrogate Random Banter #7 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12939)
Sneak's Random Barroom Brawl #8 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12918)
Sophistemon's Solemnly Random Banter #9 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12855)
Vaynor's Very Random Banter #10 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12834)
Bookman's Blathering Random Banter #11 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12809)
Gralamin's Glorious Random Banter #12 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12785)
Rilik's Resplendently Random Raillery #13 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12766)
Gezina's Growling Grazing Random Banter #14 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12747)
The Zerglings Utterly And Geeky Random Banter #15 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12740)
jaqueses Truthfully Randomly Fireside Banter # 16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12735)
Jack Squat’s Jubilantly Quixotic Random Banter #17 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12693)
Cardel's Banter of Cookie Jubilation #18 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12668)
Archonic's Chaotically Random Banter of Rods #19 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12657)
The Rod's Inanimate Temple of RANDOM banter #20 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12638)
Lucky’s Loquaciously Loud-Mouthed Random Banter#21 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12630)
Deckmaster's Divinely Delightful Random Banter #22 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12614)
Saithis' Soliloquy of Random Banter #23 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12598)
Loveable Lianae's Ludicrous Lampooning Lottery #24 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12578)
NEO|Phyte's Neolithic Nest of Weasel Banter #25 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12544)
Target's Random Banter of "non-violence" #26 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12533)
Tarnag40k's Random banter of "grammar errors" #27 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12515)
Kyrian's Random Banter of ADHDness #28 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12507)
El Jaspero's Random Drunken Ramblings #29 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12503)
Boss Smiley's Eloquently Eggy Banter #30 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12494)
Lykan's Looney Explosionarama & Random Banter #31 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12482)
Iames's Iambic Yarn of Yammering #32 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12468)
Dispozition's Deviously Distressed Banter #33 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12458)
CP's Copiously Combusting Banter of Carnage #34 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12445)
Alarra's Altar of Random Banter #35 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12432)
Eloquent Rune's Electrifying Rambling Banter #36 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12423)
E_P's Very Own Quite Popular Random Banter #37 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12419)
Hydrogelic's Foolish Mortal Random Banter #38 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12413)
Ink's Smudgy Splotchy Random Banter #39 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12405)
Azrael's Big Black Book of Banter #40 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12397)
The Logic Vampire's Rational Random Banter #41 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12387)
Shiny's Shimmering Space-hitchin Random Banter #42 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12376)
ZombieRockStar's Random Banter #43 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12360)
Nostrabel's Realm of Cookies and Random Banter #44 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12342)
Charity's Cheery Chatter Circle #45 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12328)
Samiam's Spontaneous Scintillating Soliloquy #46 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12310)
LLama's Masked Mysterious Random Banter #47 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26599)
Ravishing Rydia's Recumbentibus ^_^ Random Banter #48 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27622)
Penguinizers Perilous Random Banter #49 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28083)
Death's delightfully morbid surrogate random banter #50 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28444)
Wayril's wonderfully weird surrogate random banter #51 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28990)
Rawhide's Deck of Random Banter (52 Cards) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29697)
Korith's Sorrogate Random Banter of Zombie Killing #53 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30353)
Surrogate thread of random Bor-dom #54 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31109)
Rex Idiotarum's Painfully Pogoing Thread #55 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31512)
The Wrath of KHAAAAAANtalas’s William Shatner Flavored Random Banter # 56 (Surrogate) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32080)
EmeraldRose's Random Banter of Lashing Wit #57 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32494)
Captain van der Decken's Surrogate Ship of Random Loot (Banter) #58 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32847)
SDF's Neverending I-Don't-Have-an-OotS-Avatar-Yet Story Banter #59 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33465)
Mauril's Surrogate Dwelf Banter of Fantasy Race Confusion 60th Edition (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34165)
Rockphed's Dice Rolling Toga Party of 61 Drunken CIA Analysts (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34568)
var Lord_Magtok = Random(Banter*62) + Surrogate (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34801)
Jibar's Retro Random Banter #63 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35014)
Malina's Random Spanish Banter #64 of morphical annoyance (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35256)
Mr. E's Random Banter #65 of Cane Toting and Hat Tipping (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35418)
Ego Slayer's Hellishly Random Banter #66.6 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35596)
Purple Gelatinous Cube o' Doom's bowl of bantery j-e-ll-o randomness #67 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35859)
Zephra's Random Banter of Ghostly Wailings, and Howling Fun#68 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36317)
Cobra Ikari's Random Banter #69 of Rampant Hugging, Guttermindedness, and ;-) Kinky. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36977)
Scorpina's Random Banter #70 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37480)
Raistlin1040's Super Special Awesome Random Banter #71(Now with 20% more tacos) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37824)
Uberblah's Random Banter #72 Of Caffeine And Sleep Deprivation Induced Randomness (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38225)
Lucky’s Random Banter #73 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38987)
Castaras's Random Banter #74 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37836)
D'anna Biers RB #75 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39495)
Zeb The Troll's RB#76 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39801)
Eldpollard's RB #77 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40128)
Gezina's and Calamity's Random banter #78 of double entendre and doom (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40410)
Random Banter #79 In Loving Memory of Hexa_Regina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40909)
Zeratul's random banter #80 of throwing puppies off bridges (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41778)
Vespe's Random Banter #81 of singing dolphins and mostly harmless planets. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43254)
CSK's Giant in the Playground Forums Addicted Anonymous, Random Banter #82 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44919)
Iames's Ramblingly Erratic Belldandy-Charged Random Banter #83 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47592)
Serpentine's Scintillating Sensually and Sinuously Seductive Stochastic Satire #84 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49048)
Radikalskippy's Random Banter #85 of lost ideas and where to find them... (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50658)
Moon Called's Random Banter #86 of Sexy Anime Boys and Fangirl Squeals (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51825)
Lilly's Lovely Random Banter #87 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52783)
FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54612)
SweetRein's Sugary Restrained Random Banter #89 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59668)
Midnight's Mutant Motorcycle Madness Random Banter #90 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=62430)
Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65645)
Dragonrider's Random Banter in Conjunction with the Weighted Cube #92 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67629)
Bushranger's Bodaciously Buffed Random Banter-y Rooster #93 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69425)
Haruki's Historically Hilarious Honey-covered Random Banter #94 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71161)
North's Maple Syrup Flavored Non-Alliterative Random Banter #95 Eh? (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73464)
Wadledo's Weirdly Warbling Watercress Watching Washing Machine Only Random Banter #96 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75946)
SMEE's Random Banter #97 of gender bending and closet bursting (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78694)
Raiser's Rambunctiously Rambling Random Banter #98 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81626)
Dr. Bath's Random Banter, dripping with daring deeds of dastardly deipnosophists #99 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84068)
VOTE, the Democracy Demon's Devilishly Devious and Decidedly Diabolical Desultory Derision (Random Banter) #100 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84914)
Jack Squat's Justlessly Juxtaposed Random Banter #101 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87577)
Dallas-Dakota's Dundering Dandelion's Devilish Damsel's Distress Random Banter #102 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4790602#post4790602)
Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4903962#post4903962)
Aziraphiles Actually Alliterative and Awesomely Affluent Random Banter #104 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92718)
Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94491)
Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95905)
Slayer's Seemingly Sweet and Socially Silly Random Banter # 107 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97703)
Zero's ambrosial and aberrantly adventitious, abstemiously erudite Random Banter #108 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=99100)
Coplantor's Completely Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100414)
Rutskarn's Roly-Poly Rebellious and Rejected Random Banter #110 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101156)
TwoBitWriter's Tubular Tracts of Thought-Talking Random Banter #111 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5600540#post5600540)
Phase's Phully Phormed, Phalangeal, and Phantasmagorical Random Banter #112 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101988)
Wolfbane's Wonderfully Wacky and Wildly Wandom Random Banter #113 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102865)
The Kiwi's Kinkily Knotted and Kookily Kickass Random Banter #114 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103674)
Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104480)
The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105584)
Random Banter #117 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=106698)
Dragonprime's Dynamically Dangerous Dextrous and Destructive Random Banter #118 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107882)
Farmer Felix's Fantastic FRandom FBanter #119 (may contain traces of fnuts) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109007)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part one) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=110963&page=50)
Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness (part two) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113197)
Mrmud's Mixed-Up and Minimally Mechanized Random Banter #121 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114623)
Dogmantra's Dastardly, Despotic and Dangerous Random Banter #122 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116660)
Alteran's Amazingly Anachronistic, Altruistic, and Antagonistic Random Banter #123
(http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118380)Admiral Euphoria's Random Banter Thread of Delusional Grandeur #124 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6614894)
Fred's Flying Fishy, Fighting, Fiery, Fantastic Face Off Random Banter #125 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121385)
Cyrano’s Non-Alliterative Inaugurational Random Banter #126 To Usher In The Future (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122977)
Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
loopy's Legendary and Long-Awaited Lollipop Fuelled Random Banter #128 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123816)
Shadow's Shady Shop of Sharks, Shingles, Shammies, Shiny and Random Banter #129 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125667)
KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126557)
Supagoof's Supa-Sensational Silly Symphonies Set Sizzingly On Fire Random Banter #131 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128570)
Pyrian's Pyrotechnic Pyre of Pyrrhic Pyros with Pyrotic Pythics Random Banter #132! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130459)
Perenelle's Pleasantly Playful and Passionately Peculiar Random Banter #133 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131814)
Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7373844#post7373844)
Il'deav Ilah'naie's Indiscreet Intimacies on Indigo Iceboats Random Banter #135 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134438)
Recaiden's Resplendent and Rotating Realistic Random Banter #136 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136879)
Jibar's Random Banter #137: Return of the Cat-muffin (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138879)
Zeb The Troll's Zecond Go At Ze Random Banter #139 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065”]Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138[/URL]
Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expusled Into Existance, By Ravens_cry #142
[URL="http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=159998)
The thread that changed name one last time, with style. (Random Banter #144) (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161407)
Banjo’s Bodacious & Boosted Bumper Bulletproof Box of Banter Most Random #145 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=162819)
Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=164224)
KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166664)
Archonic's Archaic Acronymical Antidisestablishmentarianism Random Banter - #148 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169890)
Skeppio's Splendidly Strange & Superbly Scintillating Random Banter - #149 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=173056)
Teddy's Turbulent and Topicless Random Banter #150 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175338)
Fifty-Eyed Fred's Ferociously Fanatical and Fabulously Fascinating Random Banter #151 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=178205)
Rae's Really Rascally and Ridiculously Rowdy Random Banter #152 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181296)
Haruki's Hot n' Holy Random Banter #153 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10176275#post10176275)
MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187576)


Good Luck!

[Heliomance]

Let's get with the boogying then!

[Zaydos]

My favorite food is probably fried chicken and mashed potatos, what about y'alls?

[LaZodiac]

It begins!

Favorite food, hmm. I guess I really like perogies. Oh, oh, and eclairs, I loooove eclairs!

[MoonCat]

Add the last one to the thread list.

[Tiger Duck]

Hey, classical music can be pretty good. Classical music with dums and electric guitars, on the other hand, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdEBIazXELU) can be absolutely amazing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9OKLQq0YQ)

Sorry I don't like that at all. But then I'm more of a pop music kind of guy ^^

[Eadin]

Add the last one to the thread list.

Woopsie :smallredface:

[MoonCat]

*boogie?* space

[Zaydos]

There's been as many posts in the old one since this was made as there have been in this one. :smallbiggrin:

[Eadin]

*boogie?* space

*boogies with MC*

:smallbiggrin:

[HalfTangible]

Stupid dibs.

...

I kid :smallbiggrin::smalltongue:

[MoonCat]

*boogie boogie*, but I still see no link in the archive.

There it is, hit enter once Eadin, it's combined with Haruki's

[Castaras]

*BOOGIE*

There, that's better. :smallbiggrin:

[KuReshtin]

I love that new thread smell. :smallsmile:

As for favourite food. It's a tough call.
There's a lot of things I really like.
Like my Spagetthi Bolognese.
Pizza.
Sausage Stroganoff. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akxgb5ONhB0)
'Kroppkakor' (filled potato dumplings).

[LaZodiac]

Boogie! I've never boogied in my life! But I'll go at it with reckless abandon and a smile!

I think that's the cheesiest thing I've said so far.

[Eadin]

(added link)

My favorite food is dim sum:smallbiggrin:

[MoonCat]

*BOOGIE*

There, that's better. :smallbiggrin:

This is better.

*boogie*

[Zaydos]

I staunchly refuse to boogie. I have 2.5 left feet and I only have 2 feet

[MoonCat]

I staunchly refuse to boogie. I have 2.5 left feet and I only have 2 feet

You sound like me in real life.

ION: We need to start measuring forum time by RB threads. "I joined in the time of MoonCat" LaLa could say, and I could say "I joined in the time of Rae" and so on. it's more reliable than most methods of keeping time here.

[Zaydos]

You sound like me in real life.

The sad thing is in real life it would take my friends 10 seconds to get me to say "eh why not" because really, they're my friends if I can't embarass myself there where can I? That said it would probably take two posts of people trying to get me to boogie to get me to.

[LaZodiac]

Haha, same here. I even once tripped over myself in Wal-Mart once XP

No one was around though so I was fine.

[KuReshtin]

Boogying is overrated anyway.

*RUMBAS*

[Heliomance]

The sad thing is in real life it would take my friends 10 seconds to get me to say "eh why not" because really, they're my friends if I can't embarass myself there where can I? That said it would probably take two posts of people trying to get me to boogie to get me to.

Do it! You know you want to!

[Zaydos]

Do it! You know you want to!

That's one.

[Heliomance]

Go on! Boogie!

Al the cool kids are doing it.

[Zaydos]

Go on! Boogie!

Al the cool kids are doing it.

I'm not named Al :smalltongue: I'm not sure if it counts as two since its the same person... I'll consider this.

[LaZodiac]

Dance with me Zaydos, we can be clumsy and ridiculous together *spins off~*

[Zaydos]

Dance with me Zaydos, we can be clumsy and ridiculous together *spins off~*

Fine I'll dance.

*attempts to dance*

Which edition is this? Is high good or bad? Do I add half my level? :smalleek: What level am I?

[Ranger Mattos]

Now, why exactly would the excuses we would be exchanging be of the extraterrestrial variety? :smallconfused:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I joined in the time of...

I don't know. The links fail after the 85th. I guess I would be somewhere about ZRS's...

[MoonCat]

Fine I'll dance.

*attempts to dance*

Which edition is this? Is high good or bad? Do I add half my level? :smalleek: What level am I?

I roll my eyes at you.

[LaZodiac]

Fourth! High is good, and considering we're all so clumsy I guess level one, so we can't add half a level XP

Admitidly, I took that too far.

[MoonCat]

I just finished reading through the entire archives of the OoTS forum. 191 pages. I'm ot sure why I did it, but I did it.

[LaZodiac]

Sometimes, people just want to archive binge. It's a compulsion, probably found mostly in people that have an extreme love for reading.

[MoonCat]

Also discovered from an archive binge, the last RB thread that hasn't been purged is #85.

[Zaydos]

Fourth! High is good, and considering we're all so clumsy I guess level one, so we can't add half a level XP

Admitidly, I took that too far.

I rolled an 11, do I add Dex or Cha though?


I just finished reading through the entire archives of the OoTS forum. 191 pages. I'm ot sure why I did it, but I did it.

Why? Oh the humanity, why? Also what did you find out, anything interesting?

[LaZodiac]

Since it's fourth addition, you add you're dex or charisma mod, whichever is higher.

[MoonCat]

Why? Oh the humanity, why? Also what did you find out, anything interesting?

Even after over a hundred locked threads of "Where's Rich?" and "Late Comic" people will never figure it out.

ION: Does anyone remember the Stig?

[Zaydos]

Since it's fourth addition, you add you're dex or charisma mod, whichever is higher.

Yay my Dex score might be positive (I hurt myself, but that's just because the DM of my life uses Critical Fumbles).

[Miscast_Mage]

Yah! I finally caught one of these before it grew to an unreachable length! Ha! Now I can has posts in here!

...Um... So... I.. uh... I-I don't know what to say!:smalleek: HALP!

No, wait, actually: *ahem* EI~RIN! EI~RIN! HELP ME EI~RIN!

[Zaydos]

ION: Does anyone remember the Stig?

I admit nothing.


Yah! I finally caught one of these before it grew to an unreachable length! Ha! Now I can has posts in here!

...Um... So... I.. uh... I-I don't know what to say!:smalleek: HALP!

No, wait, actually: *ahem* EI~RIN! EI~RIN! HELP ME EI~RIN!

It's random banter the subject changes several times a page. Just do what comes naturally. I follow the invisible pixie of chaos (he gives free popcorn).

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Generally you don't ever need to know anything beyond perhaps a page or two before the latest page. It does help to be constantly here, you get a feel for what topics come up OVER and OVER and OVER again, in what we have dubbed the "Random Banter Time Loop". Curly knows most about those.

[MoonCat]

Yah! I finally caught one of these before it grew to an unreachable length! Ha! Now I can has posts in here!

...Um... So... I.. uh... I-I don't know what to say!:smalleek: HALP!

No, wait, actually: *ahem* EI~RIN! EI~RIN! HELP ME EI~RIN!

What's the difference between joining halfway through or at the beginning? We're random, it won't make a difference.

And I still have no idea what the Stig is. I'm holding out Rawhide, HA!

[LaZodiac]

I know a Stig is a type of dragon esque monster, but that's about it.

[Zaydos]

I know a Stig is a type of dragon esque monster, but that's about it.

And now I'm curious again. If there be dragons I want to know.

[MoonCat]

And now I'm curious again. If there be dragons I want to know.

You remind me of Lady Sibyl Ramkin.

[Zaydos]

You remind me of Lady Sibyl Ramkin.

Well I prefer to deal with Draco Nobilis and not lowly swamp dragons, but even the latter have their place.

[Miscast_Mage]

Yay chaos! Free popcorn! A cookie to who got my reference!
Mweeheehee! :3

[MoonCat]

Well I prefer to deal with Draco Nobilis and not lowly swamp dragons, but even the latter have their place.

Moon dragons are coolest

[LaZodiac]

Oh, sorry Zaydos, I'm wrong, it's a Stirge, not a Stig. Either way, here it is.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5664/91325507.jpg

Yha, they look pretty silly.

[CynicalAvocado]

Oh, sorry Zaydos, I'm wrong, it's a Stirge, not a Stig. Either way, here it is.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5664/91325507.jpg

Yha, they look pretty silly.

silly.

understatement. it looks like a mosquito on steroids

[Zaydos]

Oh, sorry Zaydos, I'm wrong, it's a Stirge, not a Stig. Either way, here it is.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5664/91325507.jpg

Yha, they look pretty silly.

What's silly about jungle dwelling mosquito-bats? I thought they were awesome when I was 7-8. At least they aren't in Space. That is excluding the Spelljammer rulebook Lost Ships

Also the 2e picture was better.

[LaZodiac]

Heh, I'm really only familiar with the 4E pictures. To each there own though.

That reminds me, I think I need to de level some Stirge's for later. Would be pretty funto have a swarm of them XP

[KuReshtin]

ION: Does anyone remember the Stig?

Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves... all we know is, he's called the Stig.



And I still have no idea what the Stig is. I'm holding out Rawhide, HA!

Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin's, and that wherever you are in the world, if you tune your radio to 88.4, you can actually hear his thoughts... all we know is, he's called the Stig.


I know a Stig is a type of dragon esque monster, but that's about it.

Some say that on really warm days, he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason, he's allergic to the Dutch... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[Recaiden]

Moon dragons are coolest
Well, they're on the moon; of course they are.


Heh, I'm really only familiar with the 4E pictures. To each there own though.

That reminds me, I think I need to de level some Stirge's for later. Would be pretty funto have a swarm of them XP

Is that including or excluding when they kill all the players?

[LaZodiac]

Excluding, I don't like killing players. Which makes it a liiiittle difficult because the guy I play with has a gigantic wizard fetish. Magic is greater then all in his mind, so it's all wizards all the time. It's acutally kinda fun when he terrifies the kobolds on floor two by nuking the heck out of the first floor, then leaving the wasteland of magic and corpses there when they go outside to rest.

[CynicalAvocado]

Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves... all we know is, he's called the Stig.



Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin's, and that wherever you are in the world, if you tune your radio to 88.4, you can actually hear his thoughts... all we know is, he's called the Stig.



Some say that on really warm days, he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason, he's allergic to the Dutch... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

Some say that his tears are adhesive, and that if he caught fire, he'd burn for a thousand days... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

yeah, i was thinking the same thing:smalltongue:

[MoonCat]

Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin's, and that wherever you are in the world, if you tune your radio to 88.4, you can actually hear his thoughts... all we know is, he's called the Stig.


Some say that on really warm days, he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason, he's allergic to the Dutch... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

Go {hug} yourself Ku.

[Rawhide]

Some say he naturally faces magnetic north, and that all of his legs are hydraulic... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[MoonCat]

Is this one of those circular topics Koorly knows so much about?

[KuReshtin]

Go {hug} yourself Ku.

:smallwink:

This will be the default response to any question regarding The Stig.

Either that, or:

I am The Stig.

[Eruantion]

Some say when night falls he converses with the stars... all we know is, he's called the Stig. I really have no clue what the Stig is, I'm just playing along.

[LaZodiac]

So what I'm seeing is that The Stig is The Monster In The Darkness. Seem's about right.

[Rawhide]

So what I'm seeing is that The Stig is The Monster In The Darkness. Seem's about right.

Some say that he lives in a tree, and that his sweat can be used to clean precious metals... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[CynicalAvocado]

Some say that he thought Star Wars was a documentary, and that he recently pulled out of I'm A Celebrity because he is scared of trees... and Australia... and Koo Stark... and Ant... and Dec. All we know is, he's called the Stig.

[KuReshtin]

Some say he isn't machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[MoonCat]

I just made myself chocolate pudding!

[Eadin]

*Just made some chocolate milk*
dear god this thread moves fast!
Isn't The Stig like that dude with the cool suit & helmet?


I just made myself chocolate pudding!
EEEEEEEEEE CHOCOLATE HIGH FIVE

[LaZodiac]

Oh man chocolate pudding! I had some yesterday! Pudding is delicious!

[Rawhide]

Some say he isn't machine washable, and all his potted plants are called Steve... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

My favourite one.


Isn't The Stig like that dude with the cool suit & helmet?

Some say that his breath smells of magnesium, and that he's scared of bells... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[MoonCat]

I'm using it to help me choke down the Ashwagandha. The rest of it is very yummy. :smallsmile:

[Dvil]

Some say, the outline of his left nipple is exactly the same shape as the Nürburgring. All we know is, he's called the Stig.

[Eruantion]

*Just made some chocolate milk*
dear god this thread moves fast!
Isn't The Stig like that dude with the cool suit & helmet?

So did the last one, I missed the last six or so pages entirely.

[CynicalAvocado]

Some say that he sucks the moisture from ducks, and that his crash helmet is modelled on Britney Spears' head... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[KuReshtin]

Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish delight... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[Eruantion]

Some say when rain falls he does not get wet, and as he walks the water is repelled from his feet... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

[Teddy]

New thread and three pages already!? Whoa, things are going fast when I look away and make "Captain Teddy"s for schoolwork.
...
Probably more for my own amusement than it actually being needed for my schoolwork, but I have a hard time doing any of my free English assignments in a serious tone any longer. Ambitious, sure, but certainly not serious.

Good examples of this have been my faux-newspaper articles about rabbits as biological weapons and diapers being toxic waste, and an in-depth analysis of the differences between bears and Russians (not too many, but it ended up in favour of the bears :smallwink:).

Also, from last thread:

Same.
"Ooh, I'll be good and go bed early; it's only midnight and I'm really tired."
*five hours pass*
"Why am I not asleep yet?"
Course, I don't got to worry about fall-asleep places as they are: my bed at uni or my/someone's bed at home.
Used to be when going to (Britlander) college most people'd sleep on the bus up as it was an hour from our stop to (Britlander) college, and we'd be getting up at six thirty most of us, and some poor souls were up earlier. Terrible thing to have to do, especially in winter.
And then after X hours in college (me, it was all day every day that last year) many'd fall asleep on the way home too. Especially in summer when we'd all been up early, and it was so warm and sunny in the classrooms and on the bus that . . .
zzzzzzzz

Well, at least you can sleep on a moving vehicle. I'll have to more or less fall unconscious from tiredness to acomplish the same thing. :smallsigh:

Sleep usually isn't that tricky for me, though. At least not for as long as a few critera are met, namely:

Complete darkness.
Complete silence.
Perfect temperature (cold in the summer, hot in the winter).

Yep, no problems with sleeping at all... :smallwink: (Luckily enough, I'm not living in a large city with a lot of heavy traffic. Also, things aren't as bad as it may sound. I usually do get good sleep.)


What's odd is that no one commented on the OP being like an airplane thingie.

Well, I started it (since it fitted well with "Turbulent"), so I haven't really felt any need to comment on it. Also, it looks like Eadin dropped the airplane theme for now...

EDIT: This "Stig" thing makes me utterly confused, or rather, it would if I wasn't too tired too feel confused, and on the top of that, the only thing that really makes me confused is being handed assignments when I'm not listening (which I for some magical reason always tend to do five minutes before assignments are to be handed out). Right now, I'm just acknowledging it's existence as something I don't understand the concept behind.

[Eadin]

Well, I started it (since it fitted well with "Turbulent"), so I haven't really felt any need to comment on it. Also, it looks like Eadin dropped the airplane theme for now...

I didn't really notice there was an airplane theme:smalltongue:

[Miscast_Mage]

Some say that he speaks in the voice of a dozen angels. whispering sweet offerings of cake... all we know is, he's called the Stig.
That's a lie.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Generally you don't ever need to know anything beyond perhaps a page or two before the latest page. It does help to be constantly here, you get a feel for what topics come up OVER and OVER and OVER again, in what we have dubbed the "Random Banter Time Loop". Curly knows most about those.

Yep.
I'm credited with noticing the RB Time Loop and categorising some of its main topics:
mathematics
literature/books in general
music; especially instruments
sci-fi shows - a further branch off this would be: which/who is best
Doctor Who
recent movies
older movies
the RB Time Loop (even this sentence has been repeated before)
schooling
idiocy
puns

And while we're on the meta discussions of RB:
Random Banters 138 and 140 - 142 are missing from the archive. Please add the following links to the archive:

Edge's Effluence of Extravagant and Effulgent Random Banter #138 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7876065)

Curly's Rambunctious and Erudite Random Banter #140 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148462)
Deth Muncher's Destructive and Meandering Random Banter #141 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=150904)
A Thread in Which Banter Most Random is Expulsed Into Existence, By Ravens_cry #142 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156548)


Is this one of those circular topics Koorly knows so much about?

It is now, although to be strictly honest, it's a branching off of a recurring theme many people know about.

The Stig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig).
Sadly, much of the information there is utterly wrong, so if you really want to know about The Stig, your best source is here (http://www.topgear.com/uk/stig).

[LaZodiac]

OH,RIGHT! THAT GUY!

Wow, I feel dumb for forgetting about him. He was awesome. He's like a sentai hero!

Come on, you'd all watch Kamen Rider Stig. You would!

[MoonCat]

Omygoodness!!! My beloved baby brother (who is actually seven years older than me) is coming back from California FOR MY BIRTHDAY! I haven't seen him since August!!!

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

I haven't graced RB with my presence for quite some time.

*Graces*

But then, I have been very busy, lest it should be construed as intentional neglect...

I am, incidentally, sure that this sort of post must fit into the RB Time Loop somewhere. Even this sentence has been repeated before.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I haven't graced RB with my presence for quite some time.

*Graces*

But then, I have been very busy, lest it should be construed as intentional neglect...

I am, incidentally, sure that this sort of post must fit into the RB Time Loop somewhere. Even this sentence has been repeated before.

Yus. That too.

I have too much soup in my room. It must be removed post haste.

EDIT:
THUFIR!: re: your TOaFK blog post, I can explain your cognitive dissonance over the killing of King Pellinore if you so wish, it ties in with my earlier digression about Gareth pretty damn well.

[LaZodiac]

Omygoodness!!! My beloved baby brother (who is actually seven years older than me) is coming back from California FOR MY BIRTHDAY! I haven't seen him since August!!!

Hooray! That sounds pretty awesome MoonCat, hope you have a great birthday =D

[ZombyWoof]

Omygoodness!!! My beloved baby brother (who is actually seven years older than me) is coming back from California FOR MY BIRTHDAY! I haven't seen him since August!!!
You should go back to CA with him, if only so our lovely state can be made all that much better by your presence :smallbiggrin:
A Zomby's desperate desire to meet the awesome people of this board is in no way connected. These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.

[Kneenibble]

Hey I thought I saw Herr Doctor Bathium post somewhat recently -- is that delightful blackguard still afoot or did he leap from London Bridge with a side of beef in his trousers while I was gone?

Secondly,
You people are bafflingly grand. I would this were a classy 1920s jazz lounge, and we its schmoozy zooted sousifers.

[ZombyWoof]

Secondly,
You people are bafflingly grand. I would this were a classy 1920s jazz lounge.
So you could... get drunk and do coke?

[Kneenibble]

So you could... get drunk and do coke?

Nah, nah, I can do that at home/work. So I could serve y'all Manhattans and Martinis and pretend to be cool.

[LaZodiac]

Honestly Kneenibble, I don't think you need to PRETEND you're cool. That avatar is pretty fly, and if it's any indication you are too.

[Thufir]

ION: We need to start measuring forum time by RB threads. "I joined in the time of MoonCat" LaLa could say, and I could say "I joined in the time of Rae" and so on. it's more reliable than most methods of keeping time here.

Are we counting from time we joined the forums or time we joined Random Banter? The former I don't know. For the latter, I joined in the time of Wadledo.


Generally you don't ever need to know anything beyond perhaps a page or two before the latest page. It does help to be constantly here, you get a feel for what topics come up OVER and OVER and OVER again, in what we have dubbed the "Random Banter Time Loop". Curly knows most about those.

Hey, she may have been the first to observe its existence, but I am the only one who ever declared myself Lord of the Time Loop! (At least I'm pretty sure I did that once...)


Oh, sorry Zaydos, I'm wrong, it's a Stirge, not a Stig. Either way, here it is.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5664/91325507.jpg

Yha, they look pretty silly.

What the hell? Stirges don't look like that. Stirges are supposed to be grapfrits!


Some say when night falls he converses with the stars... all we know is, he's called the Stig. I really have no clue what the Stig is, I'm just playing along.

You need to have two possible facts before the "All we know is" bit, I believe.


Yep.
I'm credited with noticing the RB Time Loop and categorising some of its main topics:
mathematics
literature/books in general
music; especially instruments
sci-fi shows - a further branch off this would be: which/who is best
Doctor Who
recent movies
older movies
the RB Time Loop (even this sentence has been repeated before)
schooling
idiocy
puns

You missed off declaring ourselves to be deities. And Gilbert & Sullivan! There may be only two or three of us who know anything about it, but we post enough to get it into the time loop easy. Also quotestorms. Quite possibly some other stuff.
Oh, and there are some specific bits of literature which come up more frequently, like Shakespeare and Pratchett.


EDIT:
THUFIR!: re: your TOaFK blog post, I can explain your cognitive dissonance over the killing of King Pellinore if you so wish, it ties in with my earlier digression about Gareth pretty damn well.

Your timing's pretty good, I just got back from karaoke probably around the time you made that post. Explain away!

ION: Karaoke, as I just said. After a couple of years, it was finally seasonally appropriate for me to sing Here Comes the Sun. So I did.

Edit @Kneen: You are totally cool. I don't know if Dr Bath is being around, though I kind of got the impression he would be around a bit more maybe?

[Zaydos]

So what I'm seeing is that The Stig is The Monster In The Darkness. Seem's about right.

Edit: Forgot I'd told it to quote this :smallredface:.

You might be right though.


You should go back to CA with him, if only so our lovely state can be made all that much better by your presence :smallbiggrin:
A Zomby's desperate desire to meet the awesome people of this board is in no way connected. These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.

Does this desire have to do with eating awesome peoples' brains? If so two thumbs ups Woof

[ZombyWoof]

Does this desire have to do with eating awesome peoples' brains?
>.> Mebbe.

Herp, my housemate is complaining that she won't get very good jobs because the system is leaving her behind. She's failing all of her classes that are actually graded.

It ain't the system dear.

[Kneenibble]

Honestly Kneenibble, I don't think you need to PRETEND you're cool. That avatar is pretty fly, and if it's any indication you are too.
It is but gilding over base metals, I tellz ya! It is but greater icing on a lesser cake! I am as cool as the half-beer you left beside the radiator when you passed out at 5 am.


ION: Karaoke, as I just said. After a couple of years, it was finally seasonally appropriate for me to sing Here Comes the Sun. So I did.
I rather relish the image of a gentleman in a 3-piece suit & hat with a watch chain doing Beetles' karaoke. It fits right into the jazz lounge motif too.

[LaZodiac]

>.> Mebbe.

Herp, my housemate is complaining that she won't get very good jobs because the system is leaving her behind. She's failing all of her classes that are actually graded.

It ain't the system dear.

Heh, that's not all that surprising, though it is unfortunate.

EDIT: Ah, but you see, Kneenibble, I do not drink beer. Does that make you more or less awesome?

[ZombyWoof]

In my eyes it makes you less awesome :smallannoyed:


Note: I'm kidding :smallwink:

[Thufir]

It is but gilding over base metals, I tellz ya! It is but greater icing on a lesser cake! I am as cool as the half-beer you left beside the radiator when you passed out at 5 am.

Leaving aside that I don't drink beer, I'm also not in the habit of switching the heating on.


I rather relish the image of a gentleman in a 3-piece suit & hat with a watch chain doing Beetles' karaoke. It fits right into the jazz lounge motif too.

Sadly, I wasn't wearing a suit jacket, a pocketwatch, or a hat. I meant to have a hat but I forgot.

[Zaydos]

Heh, that's not all that surprising, though it is unfortunate.

EDIT: Ah, but you see, Kneenibble, I do not drink beer. Does that make you more or less awesome?

IMHO more awesome. I've not had any that I could stomach (not saying there aren't any good ones but in my limited experience I haven't had it).

[LaZodiac]

Meanwhile, I'm eating nacho chips with ranch chip dip. Delcious.

[TwoBitWriter]

Leaving aside that I don't drink beer


You don't know what you are missing, my friend. :smalltongue:

[Thufir]

You don't know what you are missing, my friend. :smalltongue:

Yes I do. I've tried beer and didn't like it. :smallyuk:

But leaving that aside, TWOBIT! You're almost never on here any more! *Hugs*

[CynicalAvocado]

You don't know what you are missing, my friend. :smalltongue:

beer tastes like piss. or at least the beer i used to drink does

[ZombyWoof]

beer tastes like piss. or at least the beer i used to drink does
The solution is to drink better beer.

[CynicalAvocado]

The solution is to drink better beer.

i drink vodka and/or whiskey mostly now

and thats when i drink.

which is when i have something heavy on my mind

[Zaydos]

i drink vodka and/or whiskey mostly now

and thats when i drink.

which is when i have something heavy on my mind

Same here. Actually I've drunk once when I didn't it was better than drinking when I do.

[Thufir]

The solution is to drink better beer.

No, the solution is to drink things which taste nice.

[LaZodiac]

Alternatively, drink Root Beer?

[Heliomance]

Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves... all we know is, he's called the Stig.



Some say his skin has the texture of a dolphin's, and that wherever you are in the world, if you tune your radio to 88.4, you can actually hear his thoughts... all we know is, he's called the Stig.



Some say that on really warm days, he sheds his skin like a snake, and that for some reason, he's allergic to the Dutch... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

Bah. You beat me to it.

Some say he appears on high-value stamps in Sweden, and can catch fish with his tongue... all we know is, he's called the Stig.

Some say his voice can only be heard by cats, and he has two sets of knees... all we know is, he's called the Stig.


As for the time loops, you missed the Punstorms.

[Zaydos]

Alternatively, drink Root Beer?

Ah that's no fun (I prefer Dr. Pepper, although Root Beer is nice too).

[Thufir]

As for the time loops, you missed the Punstorms.


puns

I wish I had a suitable pun for this occasion, but I don't.

[Kneenibble]

There's two pundits I know -- a pair o' gnomes in Asia -- you should visit. Just watch yourself while you're there, I hear they're homophones.


...was that a stretch?

[LaZodiac]

Oh Thufir, you couldn't think up a suitable joke. Guess it's time for punishment!

I apologize

[Heliomance]

I wish I had a suitable pun for this occasion, but I don't.

That wasn't there before. >_> <_< >_> <_<

It's a perspiracy, that's what it is. You're all perspiring against me. It's kinda icky, actually.

[Zaydos]

Comparing my join date to this thread, I joined during the 125th thread, but I didn't even know this thread existed till Haruhi's thread (153rd).

ION: If you deprive me of soda I drink milk by the gallon. Mmmm dairy.

[LaZodiac]

Oh man, same here Zaydos. I love milk XP

All types of milk too. Dairy products make me happy.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Hey, she may have been the first to observe its existence, but I am the only one who ever declared myself Lord of the Time Loop! (At least I'm pretty sure I did that once...)

I think you did do that once yes. Probably way back in the 120s though.


You missed off declaring ourselves to be deities. And Gilbert & Sullivan! There may be only two or three of us who know anything about it, but we post enough to get it into the time loop easy. Also quotestorms. Quite possibly some other stuff.
Oh, and there are some specific bits of literature which come up more frequently, like Shakespeare and Pratchett.

We have a lot of time loops. Can't be expected to remember them all.


Your timing's pretty good, I just got back from karaoke probably around the time you made that post. Explain away!

Hooray!
Link to previous post about Gareth for refreshing of memory. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10509575&postcount=1398)
It's all tied up with blood kin and blood loyalties.
A few facts to get out of the way first (as far as Malory is concerned): all the Orkney Brothers are Arthur's kin: Gareth, Gawain, Gaheris and Agravayne are Arthur's nephews. Mordred is Arthur's son and an Orkney Brother, and he spent a fair part of the Morte hanging out with the other four.
And now: backstory!
The Tale of the Knight with Two Swords (Sir Balyn) draws the Sword of Virtue when no other knight, not even Arthur can (incest . . . ), so Sir Balyn is lauded as a great hero. Then a Lady of the Lake shows up (there are lots, but this specific one is the one who gave him Excalibur) and is promised 'safe conduct' by the King. Sir Balyn promptly cuts her head off because she got his mother burned alive. Naturally Arthur's more than a little upset as he, a monarch, promised someone safe conduct in his own court, and it was defied for the sake of vengeance.
This sets up the overarching theme of blood loyalty/kin/brotherhood versus chivalric brother/kin. It's very much linked to the Might is Right principle you noted in your own blog post; so it's highly possible that Arthur may have set up the Round Table to show that always holding loyal to family above and beyond all else is, while not wrong, not always the right thing to do.
Shame about the 150 Knights of the Round Table though.
See, Sir Pellinore killed Gawain's father, and Gawain is actually an overly violent person with serious jealousy and rage issues.
But they're both part of the Brotherhood of the Round Table.
One word: conflict.
The exact thing the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Round Table is trying to avoid.
And so Gawain and his brother Gaheris kill Pellinore. Except by this point in time Sir Lamorak (Pellinore's son) is busy having sex with the Morgawse (their mother) who by this time had been a widow. It is so on.
SO Gaheris, vicious little sod that he is sneaks into his mother's bedroom and lops her head off. Because she dishonoured him and his brothers. However, he doesn't kill Lamorak with her because killing an unarmed knight is dishonourable - hello moral dissonance! So four of the Orkney Brothers (Gareth stays out of it) fight him in a duel before Mordred quite literally stabs him in the back.
Oh dear. Not exactly chivalric is it?
Now, with the latter especially, all the other knights (including Arthur) are very shocked and outraged, Tristram even goes as far as to say that this act will cause Arthur to lose many of his knights. Gareth all but disowns his entire family for their actions. However, they can't act against them because:
1) They're all Arthur's blood kin, so that would needlessly complicate matters.
2) It was a legitimate blood feud going by the moral and ethical systems that were in place scant decades ago, and many of the Knights have acted similarly.
3) It also serves as a foil to Gareth's conduct throughout the entire book. He is the perfect Knight of Camelot in a sense as he is much closer to Launcelot than any of his brother, and Launcelot reciprocates that filial affection, and he can suborn his 'baser' familial instincts for what is Right rather than following the more . . . traditional acts of vengeance. Gareth embodies the spirit of the oaths of the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Round Table. That they are oath kin and bound together by many ties, not the least of which being their vows; and what Gareth's kin did destroyed virtually all of them.

So with the cases of the Orkney Brothers (bar one) and their focus on blood feud and vengeance (which can totally be tied into political antics going on in the Wars of the Roses) they serve as a contrast between what is and is not chivalric conduct.
Especially Gawain! Everyone says he's the innocent, sweet knight. He is not.
The reason he acted as Gwenyver's champion? Because when he was younger and a rasher, more foolish man he tried to kill a(nother unarmed) knight, only to miss and kill the knight's lover. As punishment the ladies of the court of Camelot laid a punishment upon him that he is to always act in a lady's defence, especially when no other will, and to be merciful because he was not. This oath is so important it's even worked into the Pentecostal Oath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostal_Oath).
And then you have Agravayne's idiocy in denouncing Gwenyver and Launcelot's adultery. Again, this is done solely because it directly shames the Orkney Brother's and insults their self-centred morals. Why? Arthur is their uncle/father. And that which shames their family shames them.
But I ramble, so I end this. Hope it explains your peeve.

By the by, I was reading the TVTropes page for King Arthur while writing this on a whim. There's a lot on that page which is wrong in slightly unnerving ways that make me want to correct it.
Especially the parts about the Seige Perilous and Grail Quests.
And they missed out Layamon's Brut which should be placed after the Roman de Brut by Wace.
Honestly, aren't there any Arthurian scholars/nuts on TVTropes?

Note:
Add to RB Time Loop Topics: Curly expands/rants/speaks effusively about one of the following: literature in general; English in general; cartoons, specifically Disney


ION: Karaoke, as I just said. After a couple of years, it was finally seasonally appropriate for me to sing Here Comes the Sun. So I did.

Edit @Kneen: You are totally cool. I don't know if Dr Bath is being around, though I kind of got the impression he would be around a bit more maybe?

I know what you mean! It was almost warm and sunny today. Freaky. o.O
And Bath was around last RB, he couldn't stay away, I think he's going to start getting more regular again.

EDIT:
That took a while. Playing on TVTropes probably didn't help. Nor did eating a yoghurt. Maybe I should keep a soapbox in RB, just in case I need to expound again.

[Zaydos]

Oh man, same here Zaydos. I love milk XP

All types of milk too. Dairy products make me happy.

I just had a bowl of ice cream (smores if you really must know) and now have a big glass of chocolate milk.

ION: I finally watched Fright Night. What can I say I like vampire flicks.

[LaZodiac]

Ohh, smore icecream sounds delicious. I'm going to have cookie dough icecream in a few actually. Yum!

[Zaydos]

-snipped-

That was awesome, although how ignobly Gawain performs in Le Morte d'Arthur is saddening since in the earliest tales he was the most honorable knight (actually if you go to Geoffrey of Monmouth he's one of the only two mentioned by name, the other was his brother whom he killed). Really it seems more like a Norse saga than anything else. I really do need to finish that book, although I think it will tear at my childish innocence the whole time (what can I say I still want to be a knight).


Ohh, smore icecream sounds delicious. I'm going to have cookie dough icecream in a few actually. Yum!

It's good, and so is cookie dough.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Oh man, same here Zaydos. I love milk XP

All types of milk too. Dairy products make me happy.

Bagged Milk ftw! :smallcool:

[Thufir]

Hooray!
Link to previous post about Gareth for refreshing of memory. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10509575&postcount=1398)
It's all tied up with blood kin and blood loyalties.
A few facts to get out of the way first (as far as Malory is concerned): all the Orkney Brothers are Arthur's kin: Gareth, Gawain, Gaheris and Agravayne are Arthur's nephews. Mordred is Arthur's son and an Orkney Brother, and he spent a fair part of the Morte hanging out with the other four.
And now: backstory!
The Tale of the Knight with Two Swords (Sir Balyn) draws the Sword of Virtue when no other knight, not even Arthur can (incest . . . ), so Sir Balyn is lauded as a great hero. Then a Lady of the Lake shows up (there are lots, but this specific one is the one who gave him Excalibur) and is promised 'safe conduct' by the King. Sir Balyn promptly cuts her head off because she got his mother burned alive. Naturally Arthur's more than a little upset as he, a monarch, promised someone safe conduct in his own court, and it was defied for the sake of vengeance.
This sets up the overarching theme of blood loyalty/kin/brotherhood versus chivalric brother/kin. It's very much linked to the Might is Right principle you noted in your own blog post; so it's highly possible that Arthur may have set up the Round Table to show that always holding loyal to family above and beyond all else is, while not wrong, not always the right thing to do.
Shame about the 150 Knights of the Round Table though.
See, Sir Pellinore killed Gawain's father, and Gawain is actually an overly violent person with serious jealousy and rage issues.
But they're both part of the Brotherhood of the Round Table.
One word: conflict.
The exact thing the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Round Table is trying to avoid.
And so Gawain and his brother Gaheris kill Pellinore. Except by this point in time Sir Lamorak (Pellinore's son) is busy having sex with the Morgawse (their mother) who by this time had been a widow. It is so on.
SO Gaheris, vicious little sod that he is sneaks into his mother's bedroom and lops her head off. Because she dishonoured him and his brothers. However, he doesn't kill Lamorak with her because killing an unarmed knight is dishonourable - hello moral dissonance! So four of the Orkney Brothers (Gareth stays out of it) fight him in a duel before Mordred quite literally stabs him in the back.
Oh dear. Not exactly chivalric is it?
Now, with the latter especially, all the other knights (including Arthur) are very shocked and outraged, Tristram even goes as far as to say that this act will cause Arthur to lose many of his knights. Gareth all but disowns his entire family for their actions. However, they can't act against them because:
1) They're all Arthur's blood kin, so that would needlessly complicate matters.
2) It was a legitimate blood feud going by the moral and ethical systems that were in place scant decades ago, and many of the Knights have acted similarly.
3) It also serves as a foil to Gareth's conduct throughout the entire book. He is the perfect Knight of Camelot in a sense as he is much closer to Launcelot than any of his brother, and Launcelot reciprocates that filial affection, and he can suborn his 'baser' familial instincts for what is Right rather than following the more . . . traditional acts of vengeance. Gareth embodies the spirit of the oaths of the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Round Table. That they are oath kin and bound together by many ties, not the least of which being their vows; and what Gareth's kin did destroyed virtually all of them.

So with the cases of the Orkney Brothers (bar one) and their focus on blood feud and vengeance (which can totally be tied into political antics going on in the Wars of the Roses) they serve as a contrast between what is and is not chivalric conduct.
Especially Gawain! Everyone says he's the innocent, sweet knight. He is not.
The reason he acted as Gwenyver's champion? Because when he was younger and a rasher, more foolish man he tried to kill a(nother unarmed) knight, only to miss and kill the knight's lover. As punishment the ladies of the court of Camelot laid a punishment upon him that he is to always act in a lady's defence, especially when no other will, and to be merciful because he was not. This oath is so important it's even worked into the Pentecostal Oath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostal_Oath).
And then you have Agravayne's idiocy in denouncing Gwenyver and Launcelot's adultery. Again, this is done solely because it directly shames the Orkney Brother's and insults their self-centred morals. Why? Arthur is their uncle/father. And that which shames their family shames them.
But I ramble, so I end this. Hope it explains your peeve.

Well, I got the thing about it being a blood feud, and of course there was still a general feeling of killing people being more acceptable. But as you pointed out, the idea of the Round Table was to impose chivalry etc over all else, so Arthur should have done something else.
Well, I say I got it. I got it as a motive, but not as being basically accepted as law. So that does rather add to my point on discovering about Arthur's troubles and the infanticide and so on in The Candle in the Wind - because it's again him wanting to adhere to the rules rather than simply act based on his own personal feelings, even though that's what the Orkneys are doing all the time.

I did already know a certain amount of that stuff (I omitted a certain amount of the details due to the length of the blog post), but I thought it was Agravaine who killed Morgause?


Note:
Add to RB Time Loop Topics: Curly expands/rants/speaks effusively about one of the following: literature in general; English in general; cartoons, specifically Disney

Oh yeah, Disney is another general one.


I know what you mean! It was almost warm and sunny today. Freaky. o.O

Well actually I just meant because it's spring. For some reason we haven't had a karaoke night in spring for the past few years.


Maybe I should keep a soapbox in RB, just in case I need to expound again.

In case? I think it's pretty much a given that it'll happen sooner or later.

[Ranger Mattos]

Comparing my join date to this thread, I joined during the 125th thread, but I didn't even know this thread existed till Haruhi's thread (153rd).

ION: If you deprive me of soda I drink milk by the gallon. Mmmm dairy.


Oh man, same here Zaydos. I love milk XP

All types of milk too. Dairy products make me happy.


Bagged Milk ftw! :smallcool:

I would say something about my love of dairy products, but I think my location says it all.

[Thufir]

That was awesome, although how ignobly Gawain performs in Le Morte d'Arthur is saddening since in the earliest tales he was the most honorable knight (actually if you go to Geoffrey of Monmouth he's one of the only two mentioned by name, the other was his brother whom he killed). Really it seems more like a Norse saga than anything else. I really do need to finish that book, although I think it will tear at my childish innocence the whole time (what can I say I still want to be a knight).

Oh, that was the other thing I was going to mention which I ended up leaving out of the blog post because it wasn't that significant: In The Candle in the Wind I also gained considerably more respect for Gawaine. Because previously I'd mostly just viewed him as a stupid brute, and perhaps he is, at his root. But he tries to be better than his base nature.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I would say something about my love of dairy products, but I think my location says it all.

Coooooooos! I lurve coos. They be so big! And warm! Yet bony, on the dairy cows. Cooooooooooos...

I love going to the Royal Winter Fair. So many farm animals! :smallsmile:

[CurlyKitGirl]

That was awesome, although how ignobly Gawain performs in Le Morte d'Arthur is saddening since in the earliest tales he was the most honourable knight (actually if you go to Geoffrey of Monmouth he's one of the only two mentioned by name, the other was his brother whom he killed). Really it seems more like a Norse saga than anything else. I really do need to finish that book, although I think it will tear at my childish innocence the whole time (what can I say I still want to be a knight).

Try reading Gawain and the Green Knight then; Gawain is very much the best of all knights. Shame about the temptation though.
Glad you liked my miniature lecture. I've actually done much longer and better ones.
What that says about me I don't know.
Especially given many of them are Disney based.


Well, I got the thing about it being a blood feud, and of course there was still a general feeling of killing people being more acceptable. But as you pointed out, the idea of the Round Table was to impose chivalry etc over all else, so Arthur should have done something else.
Well, I say I got it. I got it as a motive, but not as being basically accepted as law. So that does rather add to my point on discovering about Arthur's troubles and the infanticide and so on in The Candle in the Wind - because it's again him wanting to adhere to the rules rather than simply act based on his own personal feelings, even though that's what the Orkneys are doing all the time.

Also pragmatics.
With the infanticide: Arthur is a nobody. He has no known lineage, and he becomes King because magic. His position as King isn't really stable until after King Lucius is defeated, so any threat to him is a threat to his kingdom; especially as (at least in the Morte) Merlin prophesies that Mordred will destroy his kingdom. Reasons are excuses though, still an evil act utterly at odds with the traditional expectation of Arthur, but it has literary precedent.
Many Middle English Romances have brutal kings/pragmatic ones. In Athelstan the titular king kicks his own pregnant wife in the stomach, causing a miscarriage because she pleads for mercy on behalf of their friends. Said entire family is due to be horribly tortured to death, even the children.
In Layamon's Brut Arthur drowns a man in a bog, and then orders all the females of said man's family to be mutilated by having their noses cut off.
Really, I think there's a lot of conflict simply because of the disparate nature of the many, many, many source texts.
But it's the conflict between body politic and body private, blood feuds and chivalric codes that cause Camelot to weaken to the point where Mordred can usurp the throne.


I did already know a certain amount of that stuff (I omitted a certain amount of the details due to the length of the blog post), but I thought it was Agravaine who killed Morgause?

It's definitely Gaheris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgause). On the other hand, so many similar names and names the same it can be forgiven for getting them mixed up.


Oh yeah, Disney is another general one.

Probably mostly my fault too. I loves me my Disney. Guess what I'm watching right now?
Tangled.
Seen it before, watching it again. It's nice.



Well actually I just meant because it's spring. For some reason we haven't had a karaoke night in spring for the past few years.

Weeeelllll, it's also appropriate because it were warm and sunny today. That it also happens to be spring (and nearly my birthday) is a bonus.
But being that I never had no karaoke before I can't comment on the actual nature or act of karaoke-ing.


In case? I think it's pretty much a given that it'll happen sooner or later.

*installs a soapbox*


Oh, that was the other thing I was going to mention which I ended up leaving out of the blog post because it wasn't that significant: In The Candle in the Wind I also gained considerably more respect for Gawaine. Because previously I'd mostly just viewed him as a stupid brute, and perhaps he is, at his root. But he tries to be better than his base nature.

Same in the Morte, and again I'll reiterate my suggestion to read Gawain and the Green Knight be it in prose or poetic translation, parallel text or the original. There's even a film adaptation of it too, although I forget the name.

[Zaydos]

Yeah, Gawain and the Green Knight is actually my favorite Arthurian tale. And I'll admit I know the pragmatism behind the baby killing, and could understand it, but even so it just didn't sit well with my ideals. I do need to try reading the book again now that I'm more cynical/mature/world-wise (not the same thing, but all three have happened).

[Thufir]

It's definitely Gaheris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgause). On the other hand, so many similar names and names the same it can be forgiven for getting them mixed up.

I reject your reality and substitute my own T.H. White's! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agravaine)


Probably mostly my fault too. I loves me my Disney. Guess what I'm watching right now?
Tangled.
Seen it before, watching it again. It's nice.

You and JibJab.
I need to watch Tangled some time. I wish I had money so I could sort cinema trips with friends.


Weeeelllll, it's also appropriate because it were warm and sunny today. That it also happens to be spring (and nearly my birthday) is a bonus.

It was indeed. Unfortunately I had to hide from the sun a bit, as it hinders my ability to read things on my laptop screen.
But the spring was the main point for me. The last number of karaoke nights have all been in winter, so Here Comes the Sun would not really have made sense.
And were those parentheses intended as a subtle reminder? Because such is thoroughly unnecessary. I know when your birthday is.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Yeah, Gawain and the Green Knight is actually my favorite Arthurian tale. And I'll admit I know the pragmatism behind the baby killing, and could understand it, but even so it just didn't sit well with my ideals. I do need to try reading the book again now that I'm more cynical/mature/world-wise (not the same thing, but all three have happened).

I don't think mass infanticide ever sits well with anybody's ideals; but if you look at it pragmatically you can see why he would do it even though nobody ever agrees with it.
It even got a laugh out of me.
>.>
<.<
Well, the end result did. The nobles whose children were killed were "displeased". Understatement of the millennia. Hehehehehehe. :smallsmile:
I really advocate reading the Morte, or at least giving it another go.

I adore Gawain and the Green Knight too, and to be honest, I really like a fair number of the Pearl-manuscript's poems.
And most of the Romances in general, not all of them, but I like a good number of them. Especially the Breton lais, the Matter of England romances and the grotesquerie/burlesque ones. It alternates between good solid chivalric hi-jinks and really bloody subversions of it. Except by subversion it probably only applies to readers post-Victorian sanitisation attempts.

[Zaydos]

I will readily admit I need to read the Matter of England and the Matter of France (and isn't there a Matter of Italy as well), because someone whose grown up adoring knights ought to be familiar with their sources.

But yeah when I have time and an open reading list I might give Morte a second try. Actually I'm only reading sci-fi anthologies right now... and I need something to read before bed so maybe tonight would be ideal.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I reject your reality and substitute my own T.H. White's! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agravaine)

Yeah well, Malory came first! :smalltongue:


You and JibJab.
I need to watch Tangled some time. I wish I had money so I could sort cinema trips with friends.

Yup. Me and Jibbers.
Because Disney is wonderful. Except for That. One. Film. :smallfurious: which is part of my own personal discontinuity.
Don't worry about going to the kinema to see Tangled, it'll be out on DVD soon enough, and probably there are a few thousand versions of it on the internet from some enterprising pirates.
*insert song here*


It was indeed. Unfortunately I had to hide from the sun a bit, as it hinders my ability to read things on my laptop screen.
But the spring was the main point for me. The last number of karaoke nights have all been in winter, so Here Comes the Sun would not really have made sense.
And were those parentheses intended as a subtle reminder? Because such is thoroughly unnecessary. I know when your birthday is.

Ah, guess I'm lucky then as I don't get the sun on my laptop, barely even makes it through the window. The song is definitely appropriate for spring though.
Nah, I'm just excited. And a little downhearted. I'm no longer a teenager. Except in my adorably naive and precocious mind where I'm about thirteen years old all the time. Plus I'm getting a Big Present and I don't know what it is and I'm really excited and so happy because this is literally my only Big Present I'll have ever had for my birthday that is Big and not Small or Non-existent. Also for once it's not overshadowed by Easter which is astoundingly late this year.


I will readily admit I need to read the Matter of England and the Matter of France (and isn't there a Matter of Italy as well), because someone whose grown up adoring knights ought to be familiar with their sources.

Not that I know of . . . There is a Matter of Germany though, it's later than the others.
*high fives the love of source material*
So you going to be hunting down the Stanzaic and the Alliterative Morte Arthur, the Morte Artu, the Roman de Brut, Layamon's Brut (only a quarter of the poem is Arthurian though) and the various branches of Arthur too?
If it's just general romances, there's a good volume called Middle English Verse Romances published by the Exeter University Press which provides a general introduction, a specific one for each romance, notes and a glossary as well. It's very good. You can find it for about £12 on Amazon.
Or you could go for the prose romances, the popular ones.
Basically, just swing a cat in a medieval section of a library and you'll hit a few dozen of them.


But yeah when I have time and an open reading list I might give Morte a second try. Actually I'm only reading sci-fi anthologies right now... and I need something to read before bed so maybe tonight would be ideal.

The Morte's pretty long, about 750 pages unless you go for an abridged or translated one. It's good bedtime reading though; would last you a fair bit.
Problem is, given how tired you might be you'd be pretty confused at times. I mean, my tutor was a bit hazy on some of the names, and she actually teaches this! Albeit only for a few weeks/a month a year. But she has shelf loads of stuff about Arthur so.
There's a good guide (http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/MYTH/Arthur/Mal0.htm) online that has a very useful timeline by the by.

[Thufir]

Yup. Me and Jibbers.
Because Disney is wonderful. Except for That. One. Film. :smallfurious: which is part of my own personal discontinuity.

Well this is strange. I actually don't know what you're talking about for once.


Don't worry about going to the kinema to see Tangled, it'll be out on DVD soon enough, and probably there are a few thousand versions of it on the internet from some enterprising pirates.
*insert song here*

Well, yes, but there is something special about going to see films in the cinema, and I'd like to do it somtime, for something.
A rollicking band of pirates we...


Nah, I'm just excited. And a little downhearted. I'm no longer a teenager. Except in my adorably naive and precocious mind where I'm about thirteen years old all the time. Plus I'm getting a Big Present and I don't know what it is and I'm really excited and so happy because this is literally my only Big Present I'll have ever had for my birthday that is Big and not Small or Non-existent. Also for once it's not overshadowed by Easter which is astoundingly late this year.

Ceasing to be a teenager doesn't mean you have to act any more maturely or whatever you know. I mean, look at me!
Here's to Big Presents. *Raises imaginary glass*

So when are you actually going home?

ION: Reading through old RB threads can be weird. Bits of my past that had slipped my mind. The forgotten source of a rather strange idea. Typos which I really can't understand how I managed to type.

[LaZodiac]

I've made a few typos with numbers in them once. Sometimes, typos just appear without much rhyme or reason to how they happened.

[Thufir]

Well it's, all the right letters were there, but one of them was seriously displaced. Like 'obiouvs'. How did that v manage to get all the way over there? Also 'gourps'.

[LaZodiac]

My personal theory on that is that each individual finger has a certain speed, and sometimes one finger works faster then other, which leads to some buttons being pressed before or after others, and since your brain just registers them as being hit, you don't notice.

Of course, I'm not a science person so this might just be conjecture on mypart.

[Kneenibble]

I think you're on to something there, Zodalien. In particular, the nerves for the ring and pinky fingers are connected to each other, whereas the first two fingers and thumb are independent, nervously, and also much stronger -- therefore faster. Lay your hand flat on a table and see how high you can lift your ring finger without getting your pinky involved, as compared to your middle finger. Piano technique has a lot to do with training and strengthening that bloody fourth finger against the hand's wishes.

Question ex caelo:

Suppose I have a digital image from a normal-sized page in a book that I want printed as a high quality poster.

Whom do I see for such a thing?!

[MoonCat]

You should go back to CA with him, if only so our lovely state can be made all that much better by your presence :smallbiggrin:
A Zomby's desperate desire to meet the awesome people of this board is in no way connected. These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.


TMBG? When are you going to visit your brother in CA?

As soon as I can. My brother would like me to, but he has work part of the day, and for some reason I can't just hang out in his lodgings. Also, my parents don't trust me and him alone for too long, we're still siblings :smallbiggrin:

But when I do I'll be sure to tell the forums I am.

[Rawhide]

And I still have no idea what the Stig is. I'm holding out Rawhide, HA!

Well, there's no need to 'hold out'. The entire point of my comment was that if you ask, all people are going to do is give replies like we have been giving...

[MoonCat]

Well, there's no need to 'hold out'. The entire point of my comment was that if you ask, all people are going to do is give replies like we have been giving...

About two threads ago I mentioned that I had trouble resisting curiousity. I didn't ask anything.

[ZombyWoof]

As soon as I can. My brother would like me to, but he has work part of the day, and for some reason I can't just hang out in his lodgings. Also, my parents don't trust me and him alone for too long, we're still siblings :smallbiggrin:

Where is he at? You don't have to give specifics, but a city would be nice! (like, "Moon Cat's brother lives in Los Angeles.")

[LaZodiac]

Heh, sibling rivalry. I'm actually surprised you aren't giving your parents justified reasons to be afraid of you two sticking together. I'm horrible enemies with my sister, for the most part anyway.

[Amiel]

Clinical coding is both excellent and random; medical conditions we have to code for: "implantation of quills of porcupine", "fireball effects from nuclear explosion in war operations", "excessive jogging", "spontaneous combustion"


‎EDIT: "Have to" as in "may need to in eventuality".

[Rawhide]

About two threads ago I mentioned that I had trouble resisting curiousity. I didn't ask anything.

Well, it wasn't about curiosity or resisting, just that you'd never get a straight answer to that question...

[AtlanteanTroll]

*Jumps in @ random*

I always enjoyed T.H. White, it's a shame that his work hasn't inspired D&D nearly as much as Tolkein.

[Teddy]

Honestly Kneenibble, I don't think you need to PRETEND you're cool. That avatar is pretty fly, and if it's any indication you are too.

Was this an intended pun? :smallwink:


I think you're on to something there, Zodalien. In particular, the nerves for the ring and pinky fingers are connected to each other, whereas the first two fingers and thumb are independent, nervously, and also much stronger -- therefore faster. Lay your hand flat on a table and see how high you can lift your ring finger without getting your pinky involved, as compared to your middle finger. Piano technique has a lot to do with training and strengthening that bloody fourth finger against the hand's wishes.

*tests*
Huh, my fingers aren't especially tightly linked, and I'm not a piano player. I could without any problem raise my ring finger as much as possible without my pinky finger budging a bit...


Clinical coding is both excellent and random; medical conditions we have to code for: "implantation of quills of porcupine", "fireball effects from nuclear explosion in war operations", "excessive jogging", "spontaneous combustion"


‎EDIT: "Have to" as in "may need to in eventuality".

Hehehe. Preparedness for the both unlikely and surreal tend to yield interesting results. :smallamused:

Also, I find your avatar creepy in a new and different way (yes, adjectives coming in pairs are solely for the dramatical effect. Tautology be damned).

[Archonic Energy]

And I still have no idea what the Stig is. I'm holding out Rawhide, HA!

Some say he’s wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat...

[Zaydos]

Unfortunately I seem to have misplaced my copy of Morte I thought it was in the stacks'o'old D&D books but it was not :smalleek:


*Jumps in @ random*

I always enjoyed T.H. White, it's a shame that his work hasn't inspired D&D nearly as much as Tolkein.

Tolkien didn't inspire the game as much as people think. Names of monsters and entire races yes but the feel of the game in the old books is far closer to Conan or Elric than Tolkien; heck I'd say giving us the entire magic system makes Jack Vance a larger influence. It's kind of like some of the rumors say they borrowed names and such from him to sell the game, they took the world from other authors. I could go on because yes I have thought to much about this.

Which actually makes your statement more true. It is a shame that knightly style writings didn't influence the game even as much as Tolkien.

[LaZodiac]

Sorry Teddy, I wasn't planning on any puns there, though it's cool I did one accidently.

Also, I've kinda got the same thing. I can lift my pinky without moving the ring finger, but I can't lift the ring finger all that much without the pinky going up as well.

[Teddy]

Sorry Teddy, I wasn't planning on any puns there, though it's cool I did one accidently.

Accidental puns are sometimes the best ones. Especially if they're subtle too (which they tend to be, due to them being accidental, you know...).

[MoonCat]

I Shall Wear Midnight has arrived at my library!

*dives into book*

Also, happy Fat Tuesday.

[ZombyWoof]

Tie-Dye Tuesday baby!

[LaZodiac]

I don't know, this Tuesday doens't seem fatter then the other ones. Nor is it any prettier (though the sky IS nice and clear today)

[Zaydos]

And now I want pancakes :smallannoyed:

ION: making 2e and 4e dragons is harder than I thought, but they're DRAGONS :smallbiggrin: And not the explosive swamp variety.

[The Rose Dragon]

I have a blog (http://khantalas.tumblr.com/) now!

Warning: might offend roleplaying game players, people who listen to R&B, people who like McDonalds, and nice people in general. Might contain the occasional S-word. Feel free to tell me how stupid I am in the comments.

[Kneenibble]

*tests*
Huh, my fingers aren't especially tightly linked, and I'm not a piano player. I could without any problem raise my ring finger as much as possible without my pinky finger budging a bit...
Alternatively, make a fist and try to extend your ring finger: you'll see what I mean. Although apparently for a small number of people the nervous interconnexus is not so great. Yes I made up that word.

[KuReshtin]

Alternatively, make a fist and try to extend your ring finger: you'll see what I mean. Although apparently for a small number of people the nervous interconnexus is not so great. Yes I made up that word.

I was always told to place the hand on a table with the middle finger curled so that you have the second knuckle resting on the table, and the rest of the fingers having the fingertips placed on the table.
You will be able to raise the index finger from the table, and the pinky finger, but not the ring finger.

[Teddy]

I have a blog (http://khantalas.tumblr.com/) now!

Warning: might offend roleplaying game players, people who listen to R&B, people who like McDonalds, and nice people in general. Might contain the occasional S-word. Feel free to tell me how stupid I am in the comments.

I read through that blog post, and I must say that it gave me the smug sense of superiority I usually tend to get when someone has opinions that deviate from my own. I usually get to fill my daily quota (I usually refer to it as stupidity quota) of it by reading the readers' letters in the newspaper, which tend to be pretty stupid surprisingly (and saddeningly) often. Luckily for you, though, your blog post wasn't as much stupid as simply rageful, but I guess it can trigger the same reaction in me... :smallwink:

[LaZodiac]

That is completly true (atleast for me, just tried it) so maybe the ring finger is more connected to the middle finger, and the pinkie is connected to the ring finger by a one way connection (pinkie is connected to ring, but not the other way around)

[The Rose Dragon]

Luckily for you, though, your blog post wasn't as much stupid as simply rageful, but I guess it can trigger the same reaction in me... :smallwink:

Hah! Your honesty is appreciated. I've been saving this for a long time, and it just had a release, so it is possible it came off as hotter than it was intended. But regardless, I make no apologies for having an unpopular opinion.

In other news, apparently a couple feet of snow is enough to make tomorrow a holiday, which makes me outraged, since I had Japanese classes tomorrow, and we were going to start learning katakana. Damned weather blocking my education.

[ZombyWoof]

"This is a story of a girl/ who cried a river and drowned the whole world/and while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her/when she smiles."

Wonderful.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Well this is strange. I actually don't know what you're talking about for once.

Home on the Range. There're many good reasons for you to have never heard of it.
Don't watch it.
Seriously.


Well, yes, but there is something special about going to see films in the cinema, and I'd like to do it sometime, for something.
A rollicking band of pirates we...

True, but last time I went to the kinema it was to see . . . to see . . . um. Invictus perhaps? It's not that I'm against the kinema, it's not even that I don't see the point in it, it's just that I don't go.
Hooray for Pirates.
It is it is a glorious thing
To be a pirate king


Ceasing to be a teenager doesn't mean you have to act any more maturely or whatever you know. I mean, look at me!
Here's to Big Presents. *Raises imaginary glass*

So when are you actually going home?

True, I don't got to actually grow up, but it's disheartening nonetheless. Don't really know why. Not going to work is it, this being a grown up thing? Oh well.
*toasts the Big Present*
And I'm going home Friday.


I Shall Wear Midnight has arrived at my library!

*dives into book*

Also, happy Fat Tuesday.

Hooray!
Now read I Shall Wear Midnight. It is very very good indeed and must be read.

ION:
I crave ice cream.
Aye or nay?

[Teddy]

Alternatively, make a fist and try to extend your ring finger: you'll see what I mean. Although apparently for a small number of people the nervous interconnexus is not so great. Yes I made up that word.

No, I actually don't. I reach it out as much as possible (slightly painful), and the pinky finger still doesn't budge. The interesting thing is that I'm pretty sure it hasn't always been like this...


I was always told to place the hand on a table with the middle finger curled so that you have the second knuckle resting on the table, and the rest of the fingers having the fingertips placed on the table.
You will be able to raise the index finger from the table, and the pinky finger, but not the ring finger.

This, however, is true for me, but I'd blame it on the sinews and/or the skin being porly designed for this kind of exercise, rather than neural interconnections, because, as I said above, it's actually painful.

[Zaydos]

Hah! Your honesty is appreciated. I've been saving this for a long time, and it just had a release, so it is possible it came off as hotter than it was intended. But regardless, I make no apologies for having an unpopular opinion.

In other news, apparently a couple feet of snow is enough to make tomorrow a holiday, which makes me outraged, since I had Japanese classes tomorrow, and we were going to start learning katakana. Damned weather blocking my education.

I like 3.X but having grown up with the Red Box and later AD&D 1st and 2nd I can see where you're coming from. Although when listing settings you forgot Spelljammer :smalltongue: I don't know why but it was my favorite when I was a kid.

Also make flash cards tomorrow. Katakana is more difficult for most people than Hiragana from my own experience and that of my friends in Japanese classes.

[Kneenibble]

I was always told to place the hand on a table with the middle finger curled so that you have the second knuckle resting on the table, and the rest of the fingers having the fingertips placed on the table.
You will be able to raise the index finger from the table, and the pinky finger, but not the ring finger.
It's such a weird sensation. Never done this one before.

No, I actually don't. I reach it out as much as possible (slightly painful), and the pinky finger still doesn't budge. The interesting thing is that I'm pretty sure it hasn't always been like this...
You can extend your ring finger from a fist of its own volition as far as you can extend your middle finger from a fist?

Also make flash cards tomorrow. Katakana is more difficult for most people than Hiragana from my own experience and that of my friends in Japanese classes.
Agreed. It's been five years since I studied Japanese and I can still remember all Hiragana, but I don't think I was solid in Katakana even then. They just look like Inukshuk to me.

[Tiger Duck]

ION:
I crave ice cream.
Aye or nay?

Aye, I think


And I'll be having some cake :smallbiggrin:

[Teddy]

Hah! Your honesty is appreciated. I've been saving this for a long time, and it just had a release, so it is possible it came off as hotter than it was intended. But regardless, I make no apologies for having an unpopular opinion.

Apologise? Well, you're doing right in not doing so. Different opinions are what make the world interesting, although we could do with a little bit less of the opinions that want to inflict death/repression on innocients... (Even though they're even more interesting to debate with, on virtue of holding a position so far from my own.)


In other news, apparently a couple feet of snow is enough to make tomorrow a holiday, which makes me outraged, since I had Japanese classes tomorrow, and we were going to start learning katakana. Damned weather blocking my education.

If you listen to the media, you'd get the impression that not a soul here in Sweden wants to learn a word, and certainly not go to school. It makes a nice contrast when "Operation Dagsverke" (do work, earn money, give it to charity), or rather our own variant of it, is organised by the International Politics class, and all the science students stay in school to study instead of getting a small job and get the rest of the day off.

Also, when I told my parents I want to study to become a graduate engineer, and they ask if I really want to do another 5 years. My answer was somewhere along "But I want to learn."


You can extend your ring finger from a fist of its own volition as far as you can extend your middle finger from a fist?

I think it might be the muscles that raise the finger not being strong enough to stretch the muscles and sinews that contract it. If it was the nerves, you'd be able of raising it higher than that if you held the middle in its curled state by force.

[Dvil]

I broke my wrists a few years back, and the nerves/tendons didn't heal 100%, resulting in my ring and middle fingers moving together even more than they used to. Even when I'm consciously trying to avoid it, if I move one then the other will move too, though usually not the same distance.

[Kneenibble]

I think it might be the muscles that raise the finger not being strong enough to stretch the muscles and sinews that contract it. If it was the nerves, you'd be able of raising it higher than that if you held the middle in its curled state by force.
Answer the question though.

This is not my own conjecture, eh? It's called the ulnar nerve.

@v edit Weird... not sure how your name got in there Zaydos. Apologies.

[Zaydos]

Answer the question though.

This is not my own conjecture, eh? It's called the cronal nerve.

I don't know which question you want me to answer, or misquote btw.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Aye, I think


And I'll be having some cake :smallbiggrin:

Ah, but then the problem for me is: what do I get? Tescos is doing half price on Ben&Jerry's. Which is good. But what flavour?

And for you: what kind of cake? This is vastly important.

EDIT:
I also wish to switch avvies. What should I go for?

[CynicalAvocado]

can anyone help me identify a book? it's about these astronaut dudes and two astronaut dudettes who go up to the ISS and there's, like, a really nasty virus there and it takes some dna from the species it kills and mutates so it's like a chimera, and the cover is blue with a picture of an eye with a scalpel next to it.

[KuReshtin]

The other week, someone mentioned a fun fact about fingers.

Apparently (the best way ever to start a spposed fact), there are no muscles in the fingers.

[Rawhide]

The other week, someone mentioned a fun fact about fingers.

Apparently (the best way ever to start a spposed fact), there are no muscles in the fingers.

How accurate do you want to be? Fingers contain arrector pili (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrector_pili).

[The Rose Dragon]

The other week, someone mentioned a fun fact about fingers.

Apparently (the best way ever to start a spposed fact), there are no muscles in the fingers.

Fingers do have muscles. They are slightly different than most skeletal muscles, but they do have muscles.

[MoonCat]

I read I Shall Wear Midnight in under four hours. I liked The Wintersmith better, to be honest.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I read I Shall Wear Midnight in under four hours. I liked The Wintersmith better, to be honest.

Curly lifted an eyebrow slightly, "Oh?
"Is there any particular reason?" she asked quietly, an undertone of curiosity trickling through her voice.

[ZombyWoof]

Random banter turns into random roleplay? :smallconfused:

[Worira]

I'm not sure it's an undertone of curiosity if you're outright asking a question.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Random banter turns into random roleplay? :smallconfused:

I'm odd.
This way just appealed to me at that point in time. And I do think it's better than simple stuff.
But mostly whimsy.


I'm not sure it's an undertone of curiosity if you're outright asking a question.

Can be.
You can ask a question out a duty, out of boredom, for the sake of conversation and so on.
This is honest curiosity as Pratchett and all things Discworld are my loves, and I encourage discussion of them at all times. Especially a person's first read of them, and the latest book released.

[ZombyWoof]

Whimsy is a perfectly acceptable reason to do anything.

[MoonCat]

Curly lifted an eyebrow slightly, "Oh?
"Is there any particular reason?" she asked quietly, an undertone of curiosity trickling through her voice.

I just liked some of the other Aching books better. Something just felt off about this one, unlike the others, which I very much enjoyed. And it's not the new books part, because I liked his other new books. Maybe it was the civilization of the Feegles, or the Cunning Man's whole schtick. And Roland's almost total character change. Also, for some reason I disliked everything they did in Ankh-Morpork.

[Teddy]

Answer the question though.

This is not my own conjecture, eh? It's called the ulnar nerve.

Huh, there was a question? I didn't notice that and read and answered to you sentence as if it was a statement. Well, if you didn't manage to glean it from my last post, yes, I can lift it a bit more (but it causes pain). Also, in my last post is the slightly more obvious reason to why I don't believe it's a nerve messing it up, as the middle finger being held in place shouldn't prevent the nerv from telling the muscles operating the ring finger from contracting. Hence why I believe it's muscles, sinews and/or the skin that messes it up for me.

Also pain, again.

ION: I just spent a few hours making a dramatic look from below of an airship, and now it's half past one. And I have school in 7 hours. I think I'm far to ambitious at not doing my English asignments in the ordinary way...

[Thufir]

I was always told to place the hand on a table with the middle finger curled so that you have the second knuckle resting on the table, and the rest of the fingers having the fingertips placed on the table.
You will be able to raise the index finger from the table, and the pinky finger, but not the ring finger.

Nyaah that's really weird.


True, but last time I went to the kinema it was to see . . . to see . . . um. Invictus perhaps? It's not that I'm against the kinema, it's not even that I don't see the point in it, it's just that I don't go.
Hooray for Pirates.
It is it is a glorious thing
To be a pirate king

...now trying to remember the last time I went to the cinema...
Robin Hood maybe? Though that was just because we'd kind of decided we would have a cinema trip on this day, I don't think we actually knew when we decided what was on.
On the other hand, since then there have been numerous films I would have liked to have seen in the cinema but I didn't. :smallfrown:
With cat-like tread, *STAMP!*


True, I don't got to actually grow up, but it's disheartening nonetheless. Don't really know why. Not going to work is it, this being a grown up thing? Oh well.
*toasts the Big Present*
And I'm going home Friday.

Home long? (Yes I could look up the Oxford term dates but you might be going back early and anyway the website doesn't always load in a timely fashion)


Ah, but then the problem for me is: what do I get? Tescos is doing half price on Ben&Jerry's. Which is good. But what flavour?

I'm rubbishing at making decisions like this without actually having the options in front of me.
Also it depends on mood. Sometimes I would go for fruit flavour of some description, but then sometimes I'd want to go for major sweetness. Cookie dough tends to be my default in the absence of any particular leanings towards a different flavour.


EDIT:
I also wish to switch avvies. What should I go for?

Again with the not having options in front of me. Could you narrow it down to a few options or must I just try to remember them?


I read I Shall Wear Midnight in under four hours. I liked The Wintersmith better, to be honest.

Wintersmith. No 'The'.


Whimsy is a perfectly acceptable reason to do anything.

This is very true, and I'm adding it to my sig-quote selection.


I just liked some of the other Aching books better. Something just felt off about this one, unlike the others, which I very much enjoyed. And it's not the new books part, because I liked his other new books. Maybe it was the civilization of the Feegles, or the Cunning Man's whole schtick. And Roland's almost total character change. Also, for some reason I disliked everything they did in Ankh-Morpork.

I'm going to go find the post I made on the subject back either when it came out or when Curly read it, I can't remember which.

Edit: It was when it first came out.


That's what I said on saturday. It didn't help I had to be up at 9:30.

Read it, loved it.

The one bit which I was less keen on was Wee Mad Arthur abandoning the Watch. OK, so he's actually a Feegle, that's fair enough, but Ankh Morpork, and particularly the Watch, has always been full of creatures having to be something other than what they're expected to be, so I don't see why we couldn't have had him remaining a Feegle policeman.

Oh, and actually I was slightly bothered by the impression I got of the soothings - since apparently they made Roland pretty much forget the events of the first 3 books? It may be easier to forget the bad things, but sometimes it's better to remember them, lest they happen again. That's the message I would expect from a Discworld book, especially a Witches/Tiffany one. So I think there are problems with the soothings which could have been explored.
The same actually goes for the Wee Mad Arthur thing - could have been gone into more. Maybe it would've bothered me less if the definite change hadn't happened over the course of about half a page.

On Amber, I agree Pterry may well be setting her up as a character for the next book, but I think an additional purpose for her was simply to show that just because all these terrible things are happening with the Cunning Man, doesn't mean Tiffany's day-to-day tasks as a witch just vanish. She has to fight the Cunning Man, and she has to deal with the talented girl now somewhat estranged from her parents, and all the other things. That aspect did fall by the wayside a little getting towards the climax of the book, but it was still there.

Likewise the issue of Tiffany running herself ragged dealing with everything and never getting enough sleep sort of faded from importance, and the change from 'Tiffany is locked in a dungeon and will have a hearing etc' to 'Everything is fine except for the Cunning Man' was a bit sudden. The influence of the Cunning Man on people stopped short a bit.

So, basically my only real problem with the book was that there could've been more of it.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

Has RB been kept abreast of Charlie Sheen's recent insane interviews? The Autotune the News rendition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg) of them has been stuck in my head all day, and kept me absolutely pumped for the entire time. :smallcool:

[LaZodiac]

Can't say I have Fred, I'm not a big fan of his show so I don't particularly care.

It is kinda amusing to see a person break down like that.

[Zeb The Troll]

I have a blog (http://khantalas.tumblr.com/) now!

Warning: might offend roleplaying game players, people who listen to R&B, people who like McDonalds, and nice people in general. Might contain the occasional S-word. Feel free to tell me how stupid I am in the comments.A response here because I'm not able to do it on your blog space.

I have to wonder if you don't need to make some clarifications in your post. To wit "I started playing roleplaying games before D&D ever appeared on the scene, back when TSR was still the biggest deal on the block, and when WotC was primarily known for Magic."

D&D has been a pretty big deal as long as I can remember (and that's quite a a while :smallamused: ). It hit the markets 15 years before WotC (a company that originally only produced RPG's, I might add) existed and it would be another three years before Alpha M:tG was released. Even 2e predates WotC by 3 years (and probably you, by a similar amount). TSR had nothing except D&D/AD&D from the start (sure, they tried other things, but no one but the most hard core of grognards remembers them). Without TSR and D&D/AD&D, there was no RPG scene. D&D defined the scene. To talk about playing RPG's before D&D came on the scene is like saying you started to play Texas Hold'em before poker was invented. It makes it hard to take any of the rest of the post seriously.

On a related note, the idea of 3rd Edition didn't bother many of us older gamers primarily because 2nd Edition was getting a little long in the tooth and, historically, it was time for a new edition (1st Edition AD&D lasted ~10 years and 2nd Edition was already 12 years going by the time the release of 3rd Edition was announced). The actuality of 3rd Edition upset a great many of us because, unlike 2E, which was largely a major retweaking of the rules, 3E threw the old system out like it was yesterday's trash and started over. It was a completely new game, wholly unfamiliar to those of us who'd been playing for more than a decade (many of us more than two decades by then). So, asserting that most of us didn't care when it came out tells me you weren't actually in touch with the RPG scene at large at the time this happened.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

It is kinda amusing to see a person break down like that.

Indeed. Schadenfreude is my forté. :smallamused:

ION:
Preparing for my radio show at 11, and you Playgrounders have the power to influence which topics will crop up! RB, go!

[The Rose Dragon]

Goddammit, Bilkent! Isn't it enough you deprived me of my Japanese class? Do you wish to deprive me of all this week's classes as well?

If you can't tell, I'm pissed because of it's the snow day off.

[Zaydos]

I had a dream with snakes, vivid memories of what I realized afterewards were other dreams, walking on lilypads, sakura blossoms, and ending with someone trying to kill me to take my "hyper-preparedness" which seems to have just been my luck and grabbing sticks because I like walking sticks.

[Teddy]

It turned out that my all-nighter to finish the pictures for my English assignment was for naught, because the projector in our classroom wasn't working, so I got to postpone my presentation for an indefinite time. I find it a bit sad, because I had put my mind into doing it today, but on the other hand, this will allow me to structure my speech better, polish up the PowerPoint another level and make a decent estimation on how long this actually will take.

[LaZodiac]

Indeed, Teddy! Though, if the projecter never gets fixed, that is gonna suck hard.

[Teddy]

Indeed, Teddy! Though, if the projecter never gets fixed, that is gonna suck hard.

Well, it would, but thankfully, I have two English classes in the week, each being situated in two different classrooms. On top of that, we have portable projectors too, and I'm certainly not going to do mine without one. Without pictures, it's just going to be advanced words and references that no one will get (those are just for my own amusement).

[CurlyKitGirl]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!

Today and tomorrow have just turned into clusterboops of very not good kinds!
So early this morning (i.e. about two a.m.) I get an e-mail telling me I'm having an end-of-term meeting on Friday in the mid-afternoon times, but he says it's possible to rearrange, so I ask to switch to Thursday on account of not being here.
Then when I checked my e-mail about half an hour ago two things:
One: he won't switch, so I tell him all the other things like my dad only being able to pick me up on Friday on account of his very possibly losing his job and he has to go back to work Friday night or early hours Saturday morning and he really needs some sleep before doing a fifty-three plus hour shift. So I'm practically begging End-Of-Term meeting guy to at least move it to earlier in the morning when chances are (hopefully) dad won't be here.
Reason I don't know when dad's coming up?
BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHEN DAD'S EVEN GOING TO BE HOME ON FRIDAY IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THE MORNING TO COME PICK ME UP, AND I CAN'T CONTACT HIM SO HE'S GOING TO KICK UP A VERY LARGE STORM OF OMITTED WORDS!!

Ahahahehehehhahahaha.
AND I got an e-mail while freaking out about the above cluster storm asking if we can have a tutorial tomorrow morning on a topic I haven't even started looking at because I thought we were doing it next term!
So now I have to read a lot of things, write an essay plan and write an essay by half past ten tomorrow morning and I'm going out to dinner tonight and oh smeg why is this happening now?!
I thought it was lazy days.
LAZY DAYS!

And I haven't even phoned up home to tell them about End-Of-Term meeting guy and I know when I do it's going to turn out he's coming up at stupid o'clock early in the morning because my life is determined to screw with me this week!!!!!

Aha. Ahahaha. Ahahahehehehahahahahahehehe.
I'm gonna go concuss my-
I'm gonna go by something extremely unhealthy, some nail polish remover and conditioner, and get money on my laundry card to do my laundry and freak out now.

[Thufir]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!

Today and tomorrow have just turned into clusterboops of very not good kinds!
So early this morning (i.e. about two a.m.) I get an e-mail telling me I'm having an end-of-term meeting on Friday in the mid-afternoon times, but he says it's possible to rearrange, so I ask to switch to Thursday on account of not being here.
Then when I checked my e-mail about half an hour ago two things:
One: he won't switch,

Wait, what? He said it's possible to rearrange, but then he won't rearrange? Either it is rearrangeable or it isn't, and someone not being in the right city is about the best reason for rearranging I can think of.


*snip*

I have no other specific comments.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Razor-Sharp_H7/Avatar/Hug.png
(I fear that at your present levels of stress/rage, hugging you may cause you to vibrate me into some alternate reality or something, but I'm doing it anyway)

[MoonCat]

Apparently I'd been sleep-walking last night. Apparently I'd had enough sense to put on a bathrobe before I walked into my parents room and mumbled something about a phone.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Wait, what? He said it's possible to rearrange, but then he won't rearrange? Either it is rearrangeable or it isn't, and someone not being in the right city is about the best reason for rearranging I can think of."

It is "only rearrangeable for another academic meeting or a tutorial. Being out of the city is no excuse for me to rearrange this meeting."
And he also said "[a]s you should know by now" in the same reply.

But luckily, thanks to my miniature (yet somehow surprisingly eloquent (i.e. not messed up)) meltdown in the reply it's be moved to Thursday!
Hooray hysterics presented in a logical fashion!
*boogie*
Now just the essay to worry about.
See, normally, I've had all week to not-read and not-do the essay, but still think about it, so I can read and write with some idea of what I'm at. This, this is not good. After all, it's not as if I don't have a (small) stack of books four and a half inches high to read.

[QUOTE=Thufir;10523144]I have no other specific comments.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Razor-Sharp_H7/Avatar/Hug.png
(I fear that at your present levels of stress/rage, hugging you may cause you to vibrate me into some alternate reality or something, but I'm doing it anyway)

Sadly, due to the sudden ricochet between stress-rage and relief and stress-stress, Thufir was vibrated out of this reality into one made entirely of marshmallows.

EDIT:
Plus when I went Lush to get my new conditioner the man at the till complimented my nails, and the colour of them, before throwing in free samples of soaps.
Awesome.
:cool:
:biggrin:

[KuReshtin]

My parents came to visit today.
We got back from the airport at about 4PM. It's now 6PM, and they've already started a masive clean-out of my flat.
No matter if I clean the flat or not, they always find more stuff to clean and root out things that I've forgot about that can be tossed out.
So far, my mom has half-filled a bin bag with stuff to throw out.
And my dad has decided that my washing machine needs adjusting since it makes too much sound for his liking.

This will likely go on until they go home on Sunday.
:smallconfused:
I don't really know whether to be happy about it or annoyed about it.

[CurlyKitGirl]

My parents came to visit today.
We got back from the airport at about 4PM. It's now 6PM, and they've already started a masive clean-out of my flat.
No matter if I clean the flat or not, they always find more stuff to clean and root out things that I've forgot about that can be tossed out.
So far, my mom has half-filled a bin bag with stuff to throw out.
And my dad has decided that my washing machine needs adjusting since it makes too much sound for his liking.

This will likely go on until they go home on Sunday.
:smallconfused:
I don't really know whether to be happy about it or annoyed about it.

Free maid service.
Fell grateful for the free cleaning, then later be annoyed because they put everything back in the wrong place.
Simples.

[HalfTangible]

Apparently I'd been sleep-walking last night. Apparently I'd had enough sense to put on a bathrobe before I walked into my parents room and mumbled something about a phone.

What do you wear to bed if you need a bathrobe? :smallconfused:

[LaZodiac]

They're parents, being annoying but still nice to be around is what they do best.

I to am curious about that MoonCat.

[MoonCat]

What do you wear to bed if you need a bathrobe? :smallconfused:

Things that are more revealing than I'd like my parents to see. I didn't really know I was a sleepwalker though, so I didn't really bother to wear less revealing things. I'm glad sleeping me had the sense to throw on a robe! :smallsmile:

[Zaydos]

I just found out that my nephew doesn't hug me. He just gets close so he can headbutt my mouth. He's so cute.

[LaZodiac]

Yha, good thing. I feel kinda left out, I don't sleep walk. I apparently sleep incredibly soundly.

[HalfTangible]

Things that are more revealing than I'd like my parents to see. I didn't really know I was a sleepwalker though, so I didn't really bother to wear less revealing things. I'm glad sleeping me had the sense to throw on a robe! :smallsmile:

Huh. I sleep in loose shorts. Occasionally with a shirt. Not something i'd wear to church or a date but something i wouldn't mind being seen in.

And i'm too lazy to sleepwalk, though some weird episodes have occured involving sleepwalking in my life.

[Thufir]

It is "only rearrangeable for another academic meeting or a tutorial. Being out of the city is no excuse for me to rearrange this meeting."
And he also said "[a]s you should know by now" in the same reply.

I hereby dub this man a jerkface.
Now without knowing your reasons for having to be going on friday, if the meeting had been arranged a bit earlier, it would be fair to expect a student to change their going home plans to fit in the meeting. But two days in advance? Nuh uh.


Sadly, due to the sudden ricochet between stress-rage and relief and stress-stress, Thufir was vibrated out of this reality into one made entirely of marshmallows.

It's all soft and pillowy and delicious...

[MoonCat]

Huh. I sleep in loose shorts. Occasionally with a shirt. Not something i'd wear to church or a date but something i wouldn't mind being seen in.

And i'm too lazy to sleepwalk, though some weird episodes have occured involving sleepwalking in my life.

Clothes bug the hell out of me in bed, and then I can't sleep. I wear pants, because they don't bug me so much, but night shirts I'll only wear if other people are around. One time I was sleeping on a boat and I sleepwalked up several stairs and to the other end of the boat.

[LaZodiac]

Assuming the boat was on the water, which I no doubt believe it was, that's kinda impressive to keep your balance while sleep walking.

You should take up gymnastics, I bet you'd do great!

[KuReshtin]

Free maid service.
Fell grateful for the free cleaning, then later be annoyed because they put everything back in the wrong place.
Simples.

True, I guess. It took my mom about 34.7 seconds from when she stepped inside the door until she started talking about stuff that could be changed to make things 'better' with the flat.



They're parents, being annoying but still nice to be around is what they do best.


I guess you're right.

We're going out for dinner in about an hour since it's my dad's birthday today as well.

[Zaydos]

Clothes bug the hell out of me in bed, and then I can't sleep. I wear pants, because they don't bug me so much, but night shirts I'll only wear if other people are around. One time I was sleeping on a boat and I sleepwalked up several stairs and to the other end of the boat.

With me it's the opposite; not having a shirt makes me uncomfortable and unable to sleep.

My theory is this is because I had a sheepskin on my bed when I was a kid and if I didn't have a shirt on it would make me itch a lot (but it was so soft and comfortable).

[MoonCat]

Assuming the boat was on the water, which I no doubt believe it was, that's kinda impressive to keep your balance while sleep walking.

You should take up gymnastics, I bet you'd do great!

...It was a ferry. With levels. It had cabins. (Not that that was where I was sleeping, I was curled up on the floor in a stairwell, because my dad said it would be way more fun to travel that way.)

[HalfTangible]

...It was a ferry. With levels. It had cabins. (Not that that was where I was sleeping, I was curled up on the floor in a stairwell, because my dad said it would be way more fun to travel that way.)

More fun... to sleep under a staircase


.... You're kidding, right?

[LaZodiac]

Even more impressive! I'm basing this being impressedness on the fact that boats, like a ferry, are always moving due to waves and water and stuff. So the fact that you were able to stay standing is pretty cool.

[KuReshtin]

Is it just me, or is anyone else now imagining MoonCat sleep-walking through the corridors of a ferry, while only wearing pajama bottoms? :smallredface:

[Thufir]

Is it just me, or is anyone else now imagining MoonCat sleep-walking through the corridors of a ferry, while only wearing pajama bottoms? :smallredface:

Well, now that you've mentioned it I would be if I could remember what MoonCat looked like.
But before reading your post I wasn't.

[Teddy]

Even more impressive! I'm basing this being impressedness on the fact that boats, like a ferry, are always moving due to waves and water and stuff. So the fact that you were able to stay standing is pretty cool.

Ferrys aren't generally moving especially much at all, or at least not if they're sailing on a calm sea.

Now, I once wen't just across the Baltic Sea in a storm. We were spending our time in the restaurant i the front of the ship, which happens to be the place that tosses the most. Going to get more food from the buffet was an interesting (and fun) experience as the floor level went up and down by half a metre between each wave. :smallbiggrin:

[LaZodiac]

Ahh, ok Teddy.

And same here KuReshtin! Hahaha :smallredface:

[MoonCat]

More fun... to sleep under a staircase


.... You're kidding, right?

Nope. There were three ways you could travel/sleep on the boat. One was having your own cabin, one was sitting in an airline style chair, and one was sleeping on the floor. We'd gotten two airline style chairs, but my dad decided we should sleep on the floor so we could stretch and be more comfortable. At first we were out side on the metal floor, but then around 11 I got cold. So we went to the stairwell, which had it's lights on all night, but there was at least carpet.


Even more impressive! I'm basing this being impressedness on the fact that boats, like a ferry, are always moving due to waves and water and stuff. So the fact that you were able to stay standing is pretty cool.

Well, it was an overnight boat, so it was pretty smooth for better sleeping. It was also huge. So balance was about as hard as walking in a normal room.


Is it just me, or is anyone else now imagining MoonCat sleep-walking through the corridors of a ferry, while only wearing pajama bottoms? :smallredface:

I was around other people, I had on an over-sized tee-shirt. With a picture of a drunken monk on it, as I recall.

The rest of the story is that I woke up around three, standing up, and being glared/watched with mild interest at by some guard. I got back to my dad about half an hour after that, because I had gotten to the other end of the boat, and up a few levels.

And I'm flattered that so many people wish to imagine me topless in polite company. :smalltongue:

[KuReshtin]

Well, now that you've mentioned it I would be if I could remember what MoonCat looked like.
But before reading your post I wasn't.

I don't know what MoonCat looks like either, so maybe I'm not so much picturing MoonCat walking around topless as I am picturing a random pretty woman walking around topless on a ferry, wearing only her pajama bottoms.
Still, since MoonCat was the one who mentioned the scenario, the random topless woman I'm picturing walking around in the ferry corridors could for all intents and purposes be MoonCat.

I guess the only thing that could be done to make sure that it's MoonCat I'm picturing is for MoonCat to post a picture of herself in her pajama bottoms. :smallwink::smalltongue:



I was around other people, I had on an over-sized tee-shirt. With a picture of a drunken monk on it, as I recall.

Now you're just ruining the story. :smalltongue:



The rest of the story is that I woke up around three, standing up, and being glared/watched with mild interest at by some guard. I got back to my dad about half an hour after that, because I had gotten to the other end of the boat, and up a few levels.

And I'm flattered that so many people wish to imagine me topless in polite company. :smalltongue:
:smallwink::smallredface:

[LaZodiac]

Hehe, we can't help it, from the pictures we have seen, you seem so cute XP

Of course, some of us have perverted overactive imaginations, so maybe that's why too. like I'm one to talk, I'm probably the most perverted person here

[MoonCat]

By the time I got back I was so tired I just fell straight asleep, and didn't even get to see the boat come into the harbor. Pity.

I have also sleepwalked down a pair of stairs and fall halfway down. You know those nightmares where you're falling, and then you wake up? Well imagine that you wake up, and you are still falling, albeit with more sound, and more pain.

[LaZodiac]

Haven't had dreams like that, thankfully. Sounds painfull though, transitioning from dream to reality in such a way.

[Zaydos]

By the time I got back I was so tired I just fell straight asleep, and didn't even get to see the boat come into the harbor. Pity.

I have also sleepwalked down a pair of stairs and fall halfway down. You know those nightmares where you're falling, and then you wake up? Well imagine that you wake up, and you are still falling, albeit with more sound, and more pain.

Ouch, that sounds... Ow.

I am now glad more than ever that I don't sleep walk.

[MoonCat]

So yeah LaLa, I don't have good balance, if I fall down stairs.

Although, I have managed to do so without falling while asleep other times, I know this because I've been told that one time I walked downstairs and kissed a lampshade.

[LaZodiac]

That must of been one sexy lampshade, then. Atleast in your dreams.

And darn, no gymnastics for MoonCat. Oh well.

[MoonCat]

That must of been one sexy lampshade, then. Atleast in your dreams.

And darn, no gymnastics for MoonCat. Oh well.


One time I did run downstairs

I was looking for my brother, because I needed to tell him something urgent. He'd already been in CA for a few months, and I ended up searching for him in the refrigerator before I woke up and realized that I was out of my mind.

[AtlanteanTroll]

So yeah LaLa, I don't have good balance, if I fall down stairs.

Although, I have managed to do so without falling while asleep other times, I know this because I've been told that one time I walked downstairs and kissed a lampshade.

TOGA! TOGA! *cough* How old are you?

[MoonCat]

TOGA! TOGA! *cough* How old are you?

TOGA? And I'm not tellin' :smalltongue:

[LaZodiac]

To be fair, if Watchman has taught me anything, someone could be hiding in your fridge at any moment.

[AtlanteanTroll]

TOGA? And I'm not tellin' :smalltongue:

Togas (and lampshades), you know, those things they wear to Frat parties?

[MoonCat]

To be fair, if Watchman has taught me anything, someone could be hiding in your fridge at any moment.

My brother is nearly six feet tall, and had been in CA for months. The likelihood of him being in the fridge was minuscule. I'd say impossible, but my brother tends to do quirky things unannounced, so I'll say minuscule.

And the lampshade was not occupied by anything except a lightbulb, thank you very much!

[LaZodiac]

Well, him not being home in months is a perfectly good point, but I think a six foot tall person could easily hide in a fridge if absolutely nessicary.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Your Avatar, why did you change it MoonCat?

[LaZodiac]

Just some silly clone saga thing. I intend to ignore it like I did with Star Wars. Yawn.

In other news, my grandma is going for an ultrasound of her kidney tomorrow. I might get Pokemon Black or White because of this. Is this a good or bad thing, overall?

[MoonCat]

Your Avatar, why did you change it MoonCat?

I'm doing it for Clone [Period of Time]. While I won't do the voice thing, I will have a grey avatar and sig for a bit. Just in fun, of course. At least until my Mirror Week avvie shows up.

[KuReshtin]

Clone [period] wasn't supposed to start until Sunday 13th, though, MoonCat.

Back from dinner with my parents. The hostess at the restaurant asked us f it was a special occasion for us to be out for dinner on a Wednesday. So I told her that it was because my parents had just come to visit me, and that it is my dad's birthday.

When I told her it was my dad's birthday, she said that it was customary for them to give the birthday boy a complimentary drink, so they sorted out a Jack Russian (Jack Daniels, Kahlua, Coca Cola and Guinness) for him.
Then, after the meal (we all decided on having the duck) we ordered some dessert, and when she brought it in they'd put a birthday cake candle in my dad's sticky toffee pudding.
I thought it was a very nice touch. :smallsmile:

[LaZodiac]

That sounded like a lot of fun KuReshtin. And atleast they didn't sing for him XP

[MoonCat]

Clone [period] wasn't supposed to start until Sunday 13th, though, MoonCat.

Everyone else began to do so, so I figured, what the hell, might as well.

[KuReshtin]

That sounded like a lot of fun KuReshtin. And atleast they didn't sing for him XP

This is true. They didn't sing.
It was a good night, though. And now my dad is watching the kicky-ball on the telly.


Everyone else began to do so, so I figured, what the hell, might as well.

Three others doesn't really represent 'everyone else', though.:smallwink:
I'd rather say that most of the people in the Clone thread who said they'd be part of it hasn't yet changed their avatars.

[AtlanteanTroll]

This is true. They didn't sing.
It was a good night, though. And now my dad is watching the kicky-ball on the telly.

They play Football in Scotland? Who knew. :smallwink:

[MoonCat]

Three others doesn't really represent 'everyone else', though.:smallwink:
I'd rather say that most of the people in the Clone thread who said they'd be part of it hasn't yet changed their avatars.

MoriHikari ,azuyomi244, Icewalker, Captain Happy, and me is not four people. And if the Resistance movement has started, I thought they'd better have some people to resist.

[LaZodiac]

I'd just like to say, when I first came here, I wasn't sure if I should stay. Forums usually felt cold to me, like no one cared and like I could not care about them.

But after the time I've felt here, I've felt that there is warmth here, that I can care, and you guys care to. I've made some friends here (maaybe a bit more, I don't wanna say :smalltongue::smallredface: ) and over all, I love the feel of this place now, and don't know if I could ever leave.

So yha, I'd just like to say thank you to all of you.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I'd just like to say, when I first came here, I wasn't sure if I should stay. Forums usually felt cold to me, like no one cared and like I could not care about them.

But after the time I've felt here, I've felt that there is warmth here, that I can care, and you guys care to. I've made some friends here (maaybe a bit more, I don't wanna say :smalltongue::smallredface: ) and over all, I love the feel of this place now, and don't know if I could ever leave.

So yha, I'd just like to say thank you to all of you.

Honey, at best you've been here nine days . . .
But yes, this is a lovely place. Only forum I'm on, only forum I ever intend to be on.
It's a close-knit place.
Glad you've been welcomed into the fold and are staying. :smallsmile:

[CynicalAvocado]

I'd just like to say, when I first came here, I wasn't sure if I should stay. Forums usually felt cold to me, like no one cared and like I could not care about them.

But after the time I've felt here, I've felt that there is warmth here, that I can care, and you guys care to. I've made some friends here (maaybe a bit more, I don't wanna say :smalltongue::smallredface: ) and over all, I love the feel of this place now, and don't know if I could ever leave.

So yha, I'd just like to say thank you to all of you.

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/4/8/grouphug128521554971127946.jpg
i believe this is relevant

[LaZodiac]

Heh, hooray for hugs!

And yha, I know I've been here 9 days, but considering I don't do jack most of the time, I spend the majority of my time here, so I figure I've had a lot of time here.

[Fifty-Eyed Fred]

It's always amusing to me to notice the discrepancy in post rate between myself (a couple a day, perhaps, on average?) and those such as yourself. :smalltongue:

[Zaydos]

Mine swings. There's been twice I dropped off the forums for a month + and I've ~10 a day as my average total. At one point it was about 20 a day even though when I first started I was nervous about posting at all.

And I'm technically a member of 2 forums. Sometimes I think about finding more D&D forums to post homebrew at for more reviews, but I'm always too scared to do it in the end.People are scary

[LaZodiac]

Hehe, yha. If it's any consolation, I wasn't aware about just how much I post untill just a while ago XP

EDIT: Also, question to you, my dragony friend! Do you have any plans for 4e stuff? I'm highly interested in your skills at home brewing =P

[Thufir]

It's always amusing to me to notice the discrepancy in post rate between myself (a couple a day, perhaps, on average?) and those such as yourself. :smalltongue:

Average posts per day can be seen on your profile. Yours is 1.33. LaZodiac's is 48.28. Mine, if anyone's curious, is 4.45, which is higher than normal. For most of my time my average posts per day has hovered around 4.

[Zaydos]

EDIT: Also, question to you, my dragony friend! Do you have any plans for 4e stuff? I'm highly interested in your skills at home brewing =P

Kinda, no... I don't grok the system well enough. I mean I've DMed one shots and I've played, but never enough to feel comfortable homebrewing stuff. I think I've made one monster for 4e and I think I underestimated its power level and I need to either weaken it or buff it up to the next level altogether. At the same time I enjoy the system and want to learn it. I have a little bit of an idea for a PbP but I don't really think I'm ready to run it and it would require a lot of work as it would be a test of sorts and require homebrewing 2e stuff which I'm no more ready for than 4e.

Honestly there are lots of people on the homebrew forums that know 4e much better than I do.

[LaZodiac]

Ah, ok Zaydos. I only ask because you're the only homebrewing I knew semi personaly (IE, I recognize you) and because there is absolutely no 4e homebrew on the site. From what I can see, anyway.

[Zaydos]

Ah, ok Zaydos. I only ask because you're the only homebrewing I knew semi personaly (IE, I recognize you) and because there is absolutely no 4e homebrew on the site. From what I can see, anyway.

Yeah I can't seem to find much. Looking over the homebrewer's extended sig I found like 2 people who did a lot of 4e work (both on page 2 of the thread). I technically have a little bit of 4e homebrew somewhere on my computer that I've never posted for when I was going to be DMing a 4e Spelljammer campaign that fell through... strangely enough none of the stuff included actually converting spelljamming rules to 4e I guess I just assumed I'd do that in my head :smallconfused: