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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
In this night's dream, everyone in the Potemkin village was dead--lynched--a week or more dead. The body I inspected was Russian-dark, not Slavic, lying face-down in a front yard with its back opened and hair curling around the gash. In that yard, tied to a tree trunk upright by its own hair, another body drooped forward under the weight of horns. No one else knew. Nobody would profit from this massacre.
Phase: You would deprive me of my judgment of others, my ability and choice to exercise my beliefs of right and wrong, and by extension my reason and sense of self as a sentient being, and--! That's quite a lot to sacrifice for some action labeled "easy".
Pyrian: Spoilsport.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I'm sorry you had a strange dream where a whole bunch of russians were massacred in a combination russian-western theme facade town. :smallconfused: That's... gotta top the list for both weird and scary as far as dreams go...
Mostly weird though.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Phase
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.
That's all very well, but...
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Originally Posted by
Quincunx
Phase: You would deprive me of my judgment of others, my ability and choice to exercise my beliefs of right and wrong, and by extension my reason and sense of self as a sentient being, and--! That's quite a lot to sacrifice for some action labeled "easy".
Yeah, pretty much this, though I hardly advocated bigotry per se.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Fifty-Eyed Fred
[...]"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*
Hey! This is one of the things that shouldn't hurt you, no matter wether it's true or not. If it's true, then your narcissistic, self-righteous, arrogant brain should see it as flattery (probably ignoring the "prat" part completely). If it isn't, then you shouldn't care. Although, it might hurt if it was true but you've grown out of it...
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Quincunx
[...]Potemkin[...]
Now, just because I know how this is supposed to be pronounciated, I got curious and wonder how many of you there are who also knows. :smallconfused:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Teddy
Hey! This is one of the things that shouldn't hurt you, no matter wether it's true or not. If it's true, then your narcissistic, self-righteous, arrogant brain should see it as flattery (probably ignoring the "prat" part completely). If it isn't, then you shouldn't care. Although, it might hurt if it was true but you've grown out of it...
It's not something I think is true. It's just that after hearing high opinions of me, hearing a low one prevents me from being egotistical, which is actually quite a good thing; I loathe conceited people.
It's just the sort of thing I'd hear from someone who hated me "just because", which is understandable, since not everybody can get on with everybody else.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Quincunx
Phase: You would deprive me of my judgment of others, my ability and choice to exercise my beliefs of right and wrong, and by extension my reason and sense of self as a sentient being, and--! That's quite a lot to sacrifice for some action labeled "easy".
So is this a pro-bigotry sentiment? Or pro the choice to be bigoted?
Because while everyone technically has the right to have their own beliefs, if those beliefs involve oppressing other sentient humans for no good reason then I hold those beliefs are wrong and should change.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Coidzor
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?
Depends on the children.
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Mando Knight
My parents didn't either. I guess they figured I was a smart kid... I figured most everything out myself anyway.
Likewise.
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Originally Posted by
Fifty-Eyed Fred
It's not something I think is true. It's just that after hearing high opinions of me, hearing a low one prevents me from being egotistical, which is actually quite a good thing; I loathe conceited people.
I used to be conceited. But now I'm iust perfect. :smallcool::smalltongue:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Coidzor: Missed the cooking question, sorry. At that point my sisters and I could mix and pour on our own for, say, muffins, but were supposed to get help with maneuvering them in and out of the oven thanks to our short reach. Pancakes were cooked under supervision and maybe eggs too.
Dr. Bath: You've just also exercised your beliefs of right and wrong. :smallwink: If anything, I'm pro-weighing up all the hidden costs of feeding the ego. So many. . .let's call them 'sub-optimal' human behaviors stopped being complete nonsense once I started counting up how much 'wasted' energy was being diverted to feeding the ego. Like Indiana Jones swapping a stone for the statue, it's easier to remove the bad behavior if you're poised and ready to swap in some other source of self-esteem before snatching away the old and bad one--in this case, bigotry.
Teddy: Given how I mangled "kräftskiva" earlier this week, I'm guessing I don't.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
So, a mixture of cinnamon, cocoa, cappucino mix, coffee grounds, hot water, fat free half-and-half, and a single calcium tablet does not substitute for a full night's sleep for one's reasoning abilities.
So, I'm admitting weakness and yadda yadda yadda, but, seriously, why should an individual care about that difficulty?
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I've realised today that something that constitutes job security for one person can mean a special level of hell for someone else.
One of the guys at work has been off sick all week, and I'm the only other person in the team that has had any dealings at all with the account he's covering.
My only experience is that of a couple of half-days of training from this guy over two months ago.
So, of course, when he's off sick, they come to me to cover the entire account on my own. Problem is that there aren't any work instructions at all, anywhere. So just because this guy knows everything about the account and can do it in his sleep, he's not botheres writing any of the 'simpler' procedures down, and so I don't have a clue what to do about it, cause it's not available anywhere to find.
So, by him knowing all this and not having it written down, he's ensured that he's got a good job security, since he's the one who can hold things together, but anyone else who needs to cover for him (that'd be me) will be totally out of their depth and not be able to do anything, cause only the 'special problems' that only occur once every blue moon are listed in the available documentation.
I hate my job.
:smallmad::smallfurious:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Quincunx
Teddy: Given how I mangled "kräftskiva" earlier this week, I'm guessing I don't.
Hehehe...
However, Potemkin is... Russian, I think, or at least from that region, so the pronounciation is of the charts even for a Swede. My mother learned some Russian when she was in the Gymnasium, so even though she's forgotten pretty much all of it, she can read and pronounciate cyrillic words and names. She read the name out loud for me and little brother when we managed to stumbled upon a picture of the armored cruiser with "Потёмкин" written on the prow, and tried to pronounciate it as it looked like ("Notemknh" :smallamused:).
Also, asking any of you non-Swedes to pronounciate Swedish words would just be cruel. For example: we have too many variations of the "sh" sound to count ("sh", "ch", "sch", "sj", "stj", "tj", "si", "ti", "sk", "skj", "j" and "g" are the letter combinations that I can come up with right now that can make the "sh" sound), a pronounciation of the letter "u" that almost no one but us has (and none but a few foreigners can even make that sound, making it very easy to distinguish people born outside of Sweden, even if they've lived here for a very long time), and three additional letters that the English alphabet lacks.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Teddy
Hehehe...
However, Potemkin is... Russian, I think, or at least from that region, so the pronounciation is of the charts even for a Swede. My mother learned some Russian when she was in the Gymnasium, so even though she's forgotten pretty much all of it, she can read and pronounciate cyrillic words and names. She read the name out loud for me and little brother when we managed to stumbled upon a picture of the armored cruiser with "Потёмкин" written on the prow, and tried to pronounciate it as it looked like ("Notemknh" :smallamused:).
Also, asking any of you non-Swedes to pronounciate Swedish words would just be cruel. For example: we have too many variations of the "sh" sound to count ("sh", "ch", "sch", "sj", "stj", "tj", "si", "ti", "sk", "skj", "j" and "g" are the letter combinations that I can come up with right now that can make the "sh" sound), a pronounciation of the letter "u" that almost no one but us has (and none but a few foreigners can even make that sound, making it very easy to distinguish people born outside of Sweden, even if they've lived here for a very long time), and three additional letters that the English alphabet lacks.
You forgot 'k' as another "sh" sound. As used in the words 'kök' but definitely not in the word 'kex'.
I think I'd pronounce the word 'Potemkin' something like 'Patchyemkin' with the stress on the 'tchyem' bit.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
KuReshtin
You forgot 'k' as another "sh" sound. As used in the words 'kök' but definitely not in the word 'kex'.
I think I'd pronounce the word 'Potemkin' something like 'Patchyemkin' with the stress on the 'tchyem' bit.
My mum can read a little bit of Cyrillic, and also loves the movie "Battleship Potemkin", so I've always pronounced it that way.
I don't know how she learned russian though. Did she take a class once? I dunno. I've never thought to ask.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
I dropped my psychology revision sheet in the bath :(
So now I shall revise by sleeping, and hoping that I REM sleep lots.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Quincunx
If anything, I'm pro-weighing up all the hidden costs of feeding the ego.
Remember, kids. Don't starve your ego.
Also, mmmmm, battleships. Battlecruisers are cooler, though.
If somewhat more explosive.
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Finally some good news today.
Just got a message telling me that I have a brand new shiny copy of puerto Rico waiting for me to pick up after work today.
:boogie:
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
The Bushranger
Also, mmmmm, battleships. Battlecruisers are cooler, though.
If somewhat more explosive.
Heh, first I read this as "expensive", and became very confused by this, but then I saw what you had written.
Yeah, they're suffering from a pretty large risk of going BOOM! if they decide to engage a battleship or another battlecruiser head on.
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
I used to be conceited. But now I'm iust perfect. :smallcool::smalltongue:
You think I'm arrogant, but my mother always told me never to lie.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Quincunx
In this night's dream, everyone in the Potemkin village was dead--lynched--a week or more dead. The body I inspected was Russian-dark, not Slavic, lying face-down in a front yard with its back opened and hair curling around the gash. In that yard, tied to a tree trunk upright by its own hair, another body drooped forward under the weight of horns. No one else knew. Nobody would profit from this massacre.
I know, from experience, that dreams about committing murders have to do with repressed emotion, especially when the dreamer tries to hide the body: but what's the semiotics of a dream where you discover and inspect murders? What do you think? It's a striking scene.
In the dream I remember from this morning, I was vacationing with a nearly naked indigenous tribe around a lake and with a leap of faith, learned to breathe underwater. I felt magical and powerful.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
Oh dear Gods, the pain...
Something happened to my back. I show up at work, and was about to let my boss' dog outside and then BAM! Stabbing pain on the right side of my back, near the shoulder/neck area. I didn't even turn it in a funny direction or anything; it just happened.
I've got some ice on it now, but does anyone else have any advice for getting rid of this pain? This is the worst possible time for this to happen, because I move into my apartment on Saturday, and I have packing/errands to do today after work.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Thufir
I used to be conceited. But now I'm iust perfect. :smallcool::smalltongue:
Call me self-righteous, but I'm far more perfect than you. :smallwink:
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Ok, Q's scenario has me hands-down. I ate about dreaming my own teeth.
Also, who on earth is Emo Phillips? He's on the radio at the moment. Reputed to be hilarious, but...well, he's really not...:smallconfused:
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Kneenibble: I went to sleep musing on the very recent social or maybe political backlash back 'home' in the U.S. and think that may have been my subconscious answer to the question "How could this end?". For overlying gloss in dreams, however, I think that I (or perhaps both of us) need to stop reading back issues of National Geographic. :smallwink: "Potemkin village" was accurate enough, but then Potemkin mutated to Pushkin and flavored the imagery.
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Teddy
Hehehe...
. . .Also, asking any of you non-Swedes to pronounce Swedish words would just be cruel. For example: we have too many variations of the "sh" sound to count ("sh", "ch", "sch", "sj", "stj", "tj", "si", "ti", "sk", "skj", "j" and "g" are the letter combinations that I can come up with right now that can make the "sh" sound). . .
. . .and then, just to complicate matters, a fraction of the population will turn a fraction of those "sh" sounds into "hw" sounds with no rhyme or reason what-so-jolly-ever.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Teddy
Heh, first I read this as "expensive", and became very confused by this, but then I saw what you had written.
Yeah, they're suffering from a pretty large risk of going BOOM! if they decide to engage a battleship or another battlecruiser head on.
I think the battlecruisers were more expensive, too. :smalltongue: Especially Fisher's Follies.
Of course, I've always liked weird ships. The British Hawkins class cruisers, for instance...
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Dragonrider
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.
Sucks to be staircase children. Truly.
And staircase relatives as well. I spent all of my secondary school life with two cousins in the same tutor group as me, another second cousin in the same year (potentially three), an honourary cousin (actually related to me through marriage - her aunt married my uncle), and as we rose from Y7 to Y11 all our siblings and other relations entered the school.
Bizarre.
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Dragonrider
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:
Passive-agressive is fun, but I'm also a shouty person. Same with all our family.
Have you ever done that sugary sweet voice, where you lend them X and then start dropping hints about all the other things they've borrowed and never returned; and slowly imply what would happen to their things if your stuff wasn't returned.
Classic Big Sister Blackmail.
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Dragonrider
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.
Envy.
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Dragonrider
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.
Eh, a 50/50 gender family' no big thing. You iust get embarrassed by everything male and female.
And a very no to tampons.
Very no.
O.o Whoa, that's a bad day for that to happen.
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Dragonrider
You know what never ceased to amaze me though? That some women supposedly faint at the sight of blood. What.
Blood from iniuries is 'unnatural' in that one should not be iniured. One happens whether you want it or not.
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Fifty-Eyed Fred
Why is the ice cream always gone?
Because it's so nummy that it can't be resisted.
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Fifty-Eyed Fred
I've done this. Mostly because of a lack of available money, though. :smalltongue:
Ah, money, if only the lottery was winnable, then we could buy all the books we wanted.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
What, like, Lolita? Because who leaves that kinda thing around 6 year olds? :smallconfused: err... 7 year olds?
No, a book on how babies are made.
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Mm. Om nom nom delicious shortbread my mother brought back for me.
Also, the cat from two houses down the street keeps coming round and sitting in our porch when we leave the front door open. It's nice.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Thufir
Mm. Om nom nom delicious shortbread my mother brought back for me.
With milk?
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Big sisters sound terrifying.
I'mma stay being all alone as a child in the past. No deloreans for me.
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Re: Masa's Massively Masterful Message Medium - Random Banter #146
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Originally Posted by
Aziraphale
Also, who on earth is Emo Phillips? He's on the radio at the moment. Reputed to be hilarious, but...well, he's really not...:smallconfused:
He's a comedian. I paid to go and see him at the Edinburgh Festival, having been told he was one of the best comics alive today, and I'd die laughing.
... After the hour was up, I merely wished that he had died laughing, at one of his own jokes...