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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Dr. Bath
I'm really not going to be fine though.
Auugh.
Everyone gon' find out I'm secretly not smart at all!
Yeah that's going to happen to me. Except it's not a secret... And everyone will already know...
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Eldpollard
Currently I am sort of unemployed. As in I've finished work and I have nothing to do until I start university in September. With that in mind I made a video that I hope you all find specquackular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ff_pL6KzME
I apologise in advance.
I giggled. I still giggle. *giggles* :smallbiggrin:
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
DoggyDude: I'm really sorry [Insert Name], but I can't come to this team building exercise, I've come down with a bug *cough cough* and I'm not well enough to come.
SImples.
Number of times I've been ill for inconvenient outings is a wonder. Your parents will endorse it as well as it's eminently useless. Iust tell them you'll spend the week getting a headstart on your work and they'll pass on the skive with ease.
If they don't, iust keep up the acting. A bad tummy ache works wonders.
Heh. I get ill afterwards. Although... that was after sleeping in a tent with the temperature being -4 degrees Celsius when we woke up in the morning, and over 10 kilometres of walk while carrying a backpack which probably weighted about 20 kilos. I guess I had it in me already without noticing it, but just a few hours after I got back to school, I was pretty much non-functioning. And I barely made my way home.
I got an MVG (top grade) in the Nature and Outdoor Life course, though. :smallwink:
(The excursion was a part of that course.)
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
It's more to do with her BTEC result. She's had five years of keyboard lessons, this is the subiect she wants to do at uni and she 'practiced loads' for this suiect.
And yet she only got a PASS.
Well, I skipped over that one as I don't really know anything about it. After brief wiki-ing, well it's still supposed to be kind of GCSE equivalent level, in which case what I said still kind of applies.
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Clearly the solution is more ice cream and more books.
Right! I'll iust go get some stamps. You find out Koorly's adress while I break into a bookshop, assuming they're all shut at 10:15pm.
Operation: Cheer Up Goddess starts now! Go go go!
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Originally Posted by
Dogmantra
Oh, I will probably end up not going for whatever reason. I just don't understand why they feel they have to force this... well, crap, on students as a way of welcoming them into the 6th form...
Idiocy?
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Also, you're in uni already? Or do resitters have to go up earlier than the norm?
At Newcastle resit exams were in August. You'd have to come back in the middle of your holiday.
Fortunately I live in the area and never had to- oh wait, there was that stats exam... I really don't remember resitting it actually, but I know I did, because I didn't fail the module.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Welcome to the club, Doctah Bath.
I'm also one of those seems-smart but actually is not-smart.
Though I do think you're smart and are gonna do just fiiiine.:smalltongue:
Except that it was lazyness that ruined me, not not-being-smart.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Pyrian
Ice cream and books are like explosives: if they don't solve your problem, you're not using enough. :smallcool:
Someone's been watching almost as much Mythbusters as we have in our house. :smallbiggrin:
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
The problem for my siblings is that I'm the eldest of them all. So I set scarily high standards.
We also know that each of my siblings can at least meet most of my standards. The two youngest are in all probablilty smarter than I am - especially Little Sister in math and the sciences and Littlest Brother in history and music - so we get disappointed if they don't meet the standards we know they're capable of.
You kow how Britlander schools give level grades until Y10 or so?
Well Little Sister was given an 8 (for Troglanders and others: that's the highest you can get, so A+ or the equivalent) for music, and a 7 for history.
Hence the vexation.
Isn't being the oldest lucky? You get to set the standard.
Of course then there's always the danger of being outshone by younger siblings.
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
Right! I'll iust go get some stamps. You find out Koorly's adress while I break into a bookshop, assuming they're all shut at 10:15pm.
Operation: Cheer Up Goddess starts now! Go go go!
NOW!
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
Right! I'll iust go get some stamps. You find out Koorly's adress while I break into a bookshop, assuming they're all shut at 10:15pm.
Operation: Cheer Up Goddess starts now! Go go go!
I'm instantly reminded of Black Books, with Bernard Black saying with an incredible hangover "Half 10? Have you ever bought a book at half 10? No of course you haven't, that would be a world gone topsy-turvy." Granted, that was at half 10 in the morning, but still...
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Originally Posted by
Teddy
I giggled. I still giggle. *giggles* :smallbiggrin:
Ah thanks very much. Editing it was fun, I'd never used the program before and I was bored in half an hour. Most of my time was spent making the ducks appear to the thudding noises.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Dr. Bath
I'm really not going to be fine though.
Auugh.
Everyone gon' find out I'm secretly not smart at all!
Applying your logic you're going to pass with flying colours.
:smallCobra:
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
Right! I'll iust go get some stamps. You find out Koorly's adress while I break into a bookshop, assuming they're all shut at 10:15pm.
Operation: Cheer Up Goddess starts now! Go go go!
:smallcool:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to loot thirty-five books in eight minutes.
Time starts now.
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
At Newcastle resit exams were in August. You'd have to come back in the middle of your holiday.
Fortunately I live in the area and never had to- oh wait, there was that stats exam... I really don't remember resitting it actually, but I know I did, because I didn't fail the module.
Oh, I suppose that makes sense.
Resits are annoying though, I had to take some and they iust bugged the hapy right out of me.
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Isn't being the oldest lucky? You get to set the standard.
Of course then there's always the danger of being outshone by younger siblings.
It works both ways: you're smart, so the Kin resent you for being a Goodie Two Shoes (even though I wasn't) because you've basically ruined their entire academic life until at least the end of secondary school; or you're smart, but the Kin are smarter, and you're told "You could have really applied yourself, like Little Sister and then maybe you could have reached such heights."
Big Sisters never get any fun. Can't do this, have to do that, don't do that, do this and it'll set a bad example . . . rarh rarh rarh.
And I swear to any deity you care to name, that if Mum makes me do another The Talk to Little Sister I'm going to get tipsy, keep Little Sister up until three a.m. and then send her to mum.
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Originally Posted by
Eldpollard
I'm instantly reminded of Black Books, with Bernard Black saying with an incredible hangover "Half 10? Have you ever bought a book at half 10? No of course you haven't, that would be a world gone topsy-turvy." Granted, that was at half 10 in the morning, but still...
I've bought a book at half ten in both the morning and the evening.
Not all that exhilarating.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
We interrupt this Random Banter to bring you a
~Sign of the Apocalypse~
...here in Tallahassee, there is a new subdivision/townhome development.
It's name?
"Tarantino."
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
My German professor this semester is ridiculous. She gives us a sheet of questions and calls it a quiz, but in parentheses next to the question she writes the answer for us. :smallsigh:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Somehow "Tarantino" just doesn't invoke the notion of a place I'd like to live. Watch while safely on the other side of a movie screen, sure. Live in? Heck no.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Uggh. Play tryouts soon. School's putting on the Hobbit. I want to be Smeagle.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I'm trying to convince my school to put on Pirates of Penzance this year.
Of course, now I want them to do the Mass Effect version.
I am the very model of a scientist Selarian...
I know the species Turian, Asari, and Batarian...
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
:smallcool:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to loot thirty-five books in eight minutes.
Time starts now.
Grand Theft Libro eh?
I'm now imagining an alternative version of Gone In 60 Seconds with books instead of cars.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
It works both ways: you're smart, so the Kin resent you for being a Goodie Two Shoes (even though I wasn't) because you've basically ruined their entire academic life until at least the end of secondary school; or you're smart, but the Kin are smarter, and you're told "You could have really applied yourself, like Little Sister and then maybe you could have reached such heights."
Big Sisters never get any fun. Can't do this, have to do that, don't do that, do this and it'll set a bad example . . . rarh rarh rarh.
And I swear to any deity you care to name, that if Mum makes me do another The Talk to Little Sister I'm going to get tipsy, keep Little Sister up until three a.m. and then send her to mum.
True, true. You have to be the responsible one but get yelled at to "stop being so bossy". :smallsigh: Thankfully my dad explicitly told me that when youngest brother was born 12 years after me, that under no circumstances was I going to be forced to act as a "second mother" to him unless I wanted.
Oldest brother was always smarter than me so I worked harder . . . middle brother has complained that he feels overshadowed by us but he's good at different things so that helps. And the boys are so wide-spaced that the only ones who've really had any rivalry were me and oldest brother. We took community college classes together when I was a senior and he was a sophomore in high school. He far outstripped me in chemistry but fortunately I contrived a 105% in Spanish, passing him considerably so we were even in terms of being better at something. Still, he ALWAYS found tests easier than I did. :smallsigh:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
It works both ways: you're smart, so the Kin resent you for being a Goodie Two Shoes (even though I wasn't) because you've basically ruined their entire academic life until at least the end of secondary school; or you're smart, but the Kin are smarter, and you're told "You could have really applied yourself, like Little Sister and then maybe you could have reached such heights."
Big Sisters never get any fun. Can't do this, have to do that, don't do that, do this and it'll set a bad example . . . rarh rarh rarh.
And I swear to any deity you care to name, that if Mum makes me do another The Talk to Little Sister I'm going to get tipsy, keep Little Sister up until three a.m. and then send her to mum.
This is because most families exist for optimal inflicting of trauma and psychoses upon developing individual. Definitely sounds like the type of organization to cut ties with at the earliest opportunity... :smallyuk:
I mean, really, being so lazy that you even delegate the SEX TALK to one of the older siblings? :smalleek:
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Is it better to say what you beleive, even if it makes you look like a bigot, or to just be polite and not say anything?
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Hee hee. We're playing "How the West was Won" on band. It's like my favorite song ever now.:smallbiggrin:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
PJ the Epic
Hee hee. We're playing "How the West was Won" on band. It's like my favorite song ever now.:smallbiggrin:
Do you mean this song?
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
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Originally Posted by
AtlanteanTroll
Is it better to say what you beleive, even if it makes you look like a bigot, or to just be polite and not say anything?
Context is all.
Yeah, pretty much.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
Context is all.
I don't get it :smallconfused:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
That's exactly the song, my friend! :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
True, true. You have to be the responsible one but get yelled at to "stop being so bossy". :smallsigh: Thankfully my dad explicitly told me that when youngest brother was born 12 years after me, that under no circumstances was I going to be forced to act as a "second mother" to him unless I wanted.
There are five years between me and Little Sister.
I left secondary school, and in September of the same year Little Sister started the same secondary school.
Those teachers refer to me as a legacy person as in, "Oh, you're Koorly's sister; she was a very smart girl, loved English" etc etc. Being so close together has the extra pressure.
And I'm not allowed to be bossy. Big Sisters are meant to be bossy, and then during the Big Upsets comes over all soft and nice and stuff.
Plusyou're always the one who gets the blame when Little Sibling breaks somthing or does something because you did.
Little Brother knew I had really good hand eye coordination and was able to carry four plates of stuff upstairs in the relative gloom, but he tries it with only two plates and he smashes them and stains the wall and carpet.
WHo cleans up?
THE ONE WHO SET THE EXAMPLE. rArGh.
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Oldest brother was always smarter than me so I worked harder . . . middle brother has complained that he feels overshadowed by us but he's good at different things so that helps. And the boys are so wide-spaced that the only ones who've really had any rivalry were me and oldest brother. We took community college classes together when I was a senior and he was a sophomore in high school. He far outstripped me in chemistry but fortunately I contrived a 105% in Spanish, passing him considerably so we were even in terms of being better at something. Still, he ALWAYS found tests easier than I did. :smallsigh:
Likewise, but I'm the stupid-good at tests one.
The only real area where the talents of the KoorlyKin overlap (and I mean the entire extended maternal family (now known to have more than seventy relatives, going back no further than grea-aunts and uncles and their children, plus the usual suspects)) is history.
We're all good at it.
Turns out I have a second cousin who has a PhD in History and is apparently quite well known - I believe he's a visiting Professor. Professionally.
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
This is because most families exist for optimal inflicting of trauma and psychoses upon developing individual. Definitely sounds like the type of organization to cut ties with at the earliest opportunity... :smallyuk:
I mean, really, being so lazy that you even delegate the SEX TALK to one of the older siblings? :smalleek:
Nope. Little Sister had the sex talk in school an from mother. What I had to do was instruct in . . . screw it. No euphemisms.
It was half past two in the morning and I was woken up by my mum and told to tell Little Sister about periods - specifically how to use pads.
There was a logical reason behind me doing it rather than mum; but when I have to recount second-hand stories such as Favourite Maternal Aunt's First Tampon (actually a really funny story) I'd really rather not.
Especially when I was woken up especially for it.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
AtlanteanTroll
I don't get it :smallconfused:
Basically, you asked a question so general that it cannot really be answered without additional information.
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
I mean, really, being so lazy that you even delegate the SEX TALK to one of the older siblings? :smalleek:
My parents didn't even do the sex talk. My mom only told me one thing, and it wasn't even true.
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Originally Posted by
Pyrian
Basically, you asked a question so general that it cannot really be answered without additional information.
My parents didn't even do the sex talk. My mom only told me one thing, and it wasn't even true.
I read a book in second grade. An now I'm a perv. Go figure.
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Still doesn't compute. I mean, I read a book in second grade, and I'm a perv, but the one doesn't correlate to the other. :smallconfused: Anyway, I don't think you necessarily need to relate what you did or did not read in second grade, regardless.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
There are five years between me and Little Sister.
I left secondary school, and in September of the same year Little Sister started the same secondary school.
Those teachers refer to me as a legacy person as in, "Oh, you're Koorly's sister; she was a very smart girl, loved English" etc etc. Being so close together has the extra pressure.
My poor mum and her sister are exactly a year apart (well, two days short of a year) and Mum had to deal with being "[aunt]'s little sister"; my aunt had to handle a little sister who was cute and talented. It wasn't fun for either of them.
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
And I'm not allowed to be bossy. Big Sisters are meant to be bossy, and then during the Big Upsets comes over all soft and nice and stuff.
Yeah, I'm not allowed to be bossy either. Above aunt was very much, and my dad's big sister even more so - in other words, both my parents have Bossy Older Sister complexes and told me off whenever I so much as asked one of my siblings to stop doing something.
The result being that I am an expert at telling people to do things in a polite and you-don't-have-to-even-though-you-do way:
"Hey, would you mind _____?"
"When you have the time, please ___, I need it done as quickly as possible."
Probably a mite passive-aggressive at times as well. :smallamused:
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
The only real area where the talents of the KoorlyKin overlap (and I mean the entire extended maternal family (now known to have more than seventy relatives, going back no further than grea-aunts and uncles and their children, plus the usual suspects)) is history.
We're all good at it.
Heh. Us too, at least on the maternal side. Grandfather is a retired professor of Latin American history; doctor aunt has BA in history; grandmother has a BA in history; several second cousins as well; and of course it's a frequent subject of dinner table conversation. Along with semiotics and epistemology because my parents are unapologetically flaming academics.
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Nope. Little Sister had the sex talk in school an from mother. What I had to do was instruct in . . . screw it. No euphemisms.
It was half past two in the morning and I was woken up by my mum and told to tell Little Sister about periods - specifically how to use pads.
There was a logical reason behind me doing it rather than mum; but when I have to recount second-hand stories such as Favourite Maternal Aunt's First Tampon (actually a really funny story) I'd really rather not.
Especially when I was woken up especially for it.
Heh. Sometimes I'm glad I'm the only girl.
Though on the other hand it took me a long time to get over embarrassment on such subjects because having only brothers meant that I had no one to go through it with, except my friends, and my friends mostly went through it well before me because I was typically much younger than them. Also, say no to tampons. No like. But anyway I think the first time I had my period would have been one of the most difficult conversations of my life, except it happened to be the same day I had my appendix out, meaning I couldn't walk, meaning I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself and was with my mum . . . sigh.
You know what never ceased to amaze me though? That some women supposedly faint at the sight of blood. What.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Pyrian, Koorliana.
:smallyuk:
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Originally Posted by
AtlanteanTroll
I read a book in second grade. An now I'm a perv. Go figure.
What, like, Lolita? Because who leaves that kinda thing around 6 year olds? :smallconfused: err... 7 year olds?
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
You know what never ceased to amaze me though? That some women supposedly faint at the sight of blood. What.
Society is ridiculous. I mean, who goes through childhood without getting bloody noses and learning they're pointless distractions?
Edit: Hmm... A question for peeps who know about children, what are 8-10 year olds "supposed" to be able to do in the kitchen to help cook with supervision?
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Originally Posted by
Pyrian
My parents didn't even do the sex talk. My mom only told me one thing, and it wasn't even true.
My parents didn't either. I guess they figured I was a smart kid... I figured most everything out myself anyway. They didn't tell me anything false about it either... I guess it was partly to avoid an even more awkward conversation later on when trying to construct an excuse.
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Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
You know what never ceased to amaze me though? That some women supposedly faint at the sight of blood. What.
I don't get it either. If you bleed between your legs about once a month every month in addition to whatever scrapes you get yourself into, why are you freaking out over this? It's just a scratch, honest. I'll walk it off.
...Okay, I'll walk it off after I get to the ER to get it stitched up. But it's still really not that bad.
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
Hmm, please explain, by PM if necessary.
No need.
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Originally Posted by
Pyrian
Ice cream and books are like explosives: if they don't solve your problem, you're not using enough. :smallcool:
Now that's an absolutely corking apharism if ever I saw one.
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
The problem for my siblings is that I'm the eldest of them all. So I set scarily high standards.
Same goes for me, really. My brother got his GCSEs this week, and I've known for a long time he's envious of my exam skills. But then, I'd like to have his sports skills, so it's give and take.
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
The ice cream is all gone now. :smallfrown:
Why is the ice cream always gone?
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Now if you excuse me, I'mma go binge surf Amazon for books. Prolly won't buy them, but they'll please me.
I've done this. Mostly because of a lack of available money, though. :smalltongue:
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Cameraderie.
You're in an old-fashioned VIth form (probably) where they still believe in a iolly old time with all your chums pitching in for a smashing good time and to break in the new fodder a la toasting crumpets. Not to mention having a good old scrimmage on the rugby field.
Bully for them.
With lashings of piping hot tea and ginger beer!
Could that get any more stereotypical?
Pip pip. Tally ho! old bean.
Hey, I thought you were talking about 'Mantra's life! :smalltongue:
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Originally Posted by
AtlanteanTroll
Is it better to say what you beleive, even if it makes you look like a bigot, or to just be polite and not say anything?
I've found a delightful compromise works wonders over the years; say what you believe in the most reasonable, polite manner possible, and most will either be won around to your views or otherwise be unable to disagree. :smallcool:
Well, the reason for that is due to mixing my upbringing (taught to be supremely polite) and personality (I'm normally in a leadership role), so it may not work for you at all.
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Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Those teachers refer to me as a legacy person as in, "Oh, you're Koorly's sister; she was a very smart girl, loved English" etc etc. Being so close together has the extra pressure.
My brother either gets "Oh, you're Fred's brother! God, your brother is an absolute legend." *ego swells* "Your brother was such a clever, funny, articulate young man, and so studious too. How's he doing?" *ego swells further* or "God I hated your brother. What a narcissistic, self-righteous, arrogant prat, and too damned clever for his own good." *ego cut back down to size*
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Originally Posted by
Pyrian
My parents didn't even do the sex talk. My mom only told me one thing, and it wasn't even true.
Same thing here. Hence why I believed some very strange things for a couple of years regarding the whole thing. I still remember some of the ridiculous stories I heard from my classmates, but I can't tell them here. :smallwink:
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
Society is ridiculous. I mean, who goes through childhood without getting bloody noses and learning they're pointless distractions?
Haemophiliacs?
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Originally Posted by
Fifty-Eyed Fred
I've found a delightful compromise works wonders over the years; say what you believe in the most reasonable, polite manner possible, and most will either be won around to your views or otherwise be unable to disagree. :smallcool:
I think the easiest option is simple: don't have bigoted conceptions of others. If there's a choice where one is what you think, but it makes you seem bigoted, analyze the opinion. If you value one human's rights above another's for no sufficient reason in a manner that appears bigoted, check, maybe you should fix that.
Being true to yourself is all well and good, just don't be a racist.