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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Feytalist
You people are all really odd.
Keep going.
Welcome to the internet; this is normal. :smallwink:
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
edit Oh yes, the loincloth story. :smallbiggrin: I am friends with a mad genius who does little film projects for his band, and likes to use me as an actor. This time it was a caveman story about the discovery of music [mythologizing his band as an echo from a prehistoric time], which we mostly filmed at this old rock quarry outside of town back in September -- but we had a few scenes to finish and the availability of all the actors just happened to fall on the coldest night so far this year.
I suppose I should take it as a complement that he gave me the least clothes of all the cavemen.
That's great! (and also, not so great; coldest night of the year and all)
Heh. :smallamused:
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Originally Posted by
Mynxae
Should I upload a picture of myself too? My hair is long, just not curly. :smallbiggrin:
Also.. Dev.. *swoons* :smallredface:
Why not?
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Originally Posted by
Dimonite
EDIT:
ION: I am apparently an old man already at the age of (five days from being) 19: I just spent five minutes looking for the glasses that were already on my face.
Heh. :smallamused:
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
...That's a pun? :smallconfused:
I mean, I can see an old man such as Hugh Hefner getting crotchety as a pun. But that one with your dad... wat.
Well no, my dad's is a pun. Mine isn't, but I've been known to pun on other occasions. I thought I was a registered pun offender here already...
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
^: I just don't see it. *shakes head sadly*
*strokes beard sadly*
Man, Novembeard is making it all scratchy instead of soft. :smallconfused:
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
Mary had a Mutant Sheep
Whose fleece glowed in the dark.
She took him to the hill so steep
That rose above the park.
But later on, she turned in bed
And found no rest that night:
For when she laid her weary head,
Her mouth shone eery bright.
...Is that some kind of inneundo?
...That's got to be an innuendo...
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Originally Posted by
Mynxae
Should I upload a picture of myself too? My hair is long, just not curly. :smallbiggrin:
Yeah, sure, knock yourself out. That's what the You Thread is for, after all. :smallwink:
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
...Is that some kind of inneundo?
...That's got to be an innuendo...
Surely not from Kneenibble!
Mary had a little lamb
She fed it castor oil
And every time it jumped the fence
It fertilized the soil.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
Yes, I can see what you mean. It is fun, and light, and innocent, without being patronizing or simplistic; & it has just the slightest streak of darkness through it. I love when Moomin left the little puddle of fermented loganberry syrup [what is a loganberry ;___;] and biscuit crumbs for the mysterious creatures under the sink and when his velvety coat decided to start becoming long and warm. :3
Yes, the books are all very much about exploration and adapting to a new and unknown situation, all while preserving your own identity. You can still hone your principles, even when your whole world has gone missing.
And, apparently, loganberry is a raspberry-blackberry hybrid, and a breeding component for boysenberry. In this case, however, it's a liberal translation of "lingonsaft", or lingonberry cordial.
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
(Is it "necessity to do nothing for reasons of meditative mind-states intrinsic to my personality" or "necessity to do nothing because of a mind-numbingly boring job" kind of nothing?)
The former, although the need rises when I spend long days in school (which in turn causes me to go to bed unreasonably late on those days). Hanging here on the forums is my usual down-time activity, and playing games work as well most of the time, as would reading, but the likelyhood of me being able to engage in any given activity drops drastically by each meter (or abstract equivalent thereof) I have to take to reach it, since my initiative abilities become nigh zero in the meantime, and getting myself a good book usually lies somewhat outside of the scope, which is too bad...
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
Being in this guy's life is a wild ride: he is always cooking up some zany artistic scheme and involving me in it. We met in theatre classes and have always worked really well together, so that's where the trajectory started.
*hugs* Oh Teddifer. I would be happy to invite you into a silly project.
And I would come, because I love to do silly stuff, and I it's not like I'm able to say no either way. :smallwink:
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
I confess, I have never treaded on a floor through which I could see the rooms below. :smalleek:
It's cool. Gives you a sense of how the systems work and how there's another world outside your bubble. Given, my mind is all about encapsulation and declosure, so I like it when I can see through one to the other (or do the reverse, obscure the one through the other, but that's not the case here), but the sensation of walking on thin air is great as well.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Coidzor
...Is that some kind of inneundo?
...That's got to be an innuendo...
Is it? Should I be worried I just got ate?:smalltongue::smallamused:
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was black as soot.
And everywhere that Mary went
Its sooty foot it put.
Mary had a little lamb
She tied it to a pylon.
Ten thousand volts shot through its fleece
And turned its wool to nylon.
May had a little lamb
Her father killed it dead.
And everywhere that Mary went
She took her lamb, in bread.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Mary had a little pig
Whose fleece was really skin
And everywhere the pig has been
Smells rather much like gin
Mary had a .44
She holstered on her waist
And when a thief would draw her ire
She'd shoot him in the face.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Mary had a little lamb
With a side of cranberry jelly.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Mary had a little lamb
Notice had
I ate the lamb
Mary had a little lamb
and then I shot her on her pad.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Mary had a little lamb
Who was the colour of white paint
Poems are hard
Bacon.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Technically Doctor Who spoilers. Spoiler
Show
Whyyyyy Donna, whyyy, she was the best of all them!
ION: Welp, that makes three pieces of fiction that have succeeded inmaking me burst into geniuine tears without my trying to do so becuae that's what people are supposed to do.
I actually started crying. ****ing Doctor Who. I'm dying on the inside. Oh, and no one of the most popular gifs on a things that I read WILL BE RUINED FOREVER BECUASE I KNOW THE STORY BEHIND IT! AND I'LL CRY ALL OVER AGAIN!
whyyyyyyyyyyy?
<cries>
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
MoonCat
Technically Doctor Who spoilers.
Spoiler
Show
Whyyyyy Donna, whyyy, she was the best of all them!
ION: Welp, that makes three pieces of fiction that have succeeded inmaking me burst into geniuine tears without my trying to do so becuae that's what people are supposed to do.
I actually started crying. ****ing Doctor Who. I'm dying on the inside. Oh, and no one of the most popular gifs on a things that I read WILL BE RUINED FOREVER BECUASE I KNOW THE STORY BEHIND IT! AND I'LL CRY ALL OVER AGAIN!
whyyyyyyyyyyy?
<cries>
MOONIE CRYING OVER A TV SHOOOOOW. *cries* She's finally one of us!:smallsmile::smallbiggrin:
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
You people are all crazy. And your rhythms are sometimes off.
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Originally Posted by
araveugnitsuga
My best friend and I were both born on the same day, on the same month, on the same year, on the same hospital.
Sadly three years after my sister was prematurely born that very day and month.
You were born on a hospital? That's rather unusual...
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
Don't worry about Archangel! One doesn't get to be a budgie agent without having a few tricks tucked under one's wing. I believe he has colourful knockout gas secreted about his person somewhere for cats of appetite.
I personally recommend work in libraries, which kept me in bread & butter through University. It seems aesthetically appropriate for you, too, whom I could not bear to imagine in a cheap grease-splattered uniform.
Oh well then... In that case, I suppose I will have to prepare for random budgie friendship attacks.
I too recommend working in a library to myself. I submitted a volunteer form down at the local library, but I have not yet heard back from them and suspect I never will. I must go and get another form and submit it.
Hopefully, my recent job application to work as a bank teller will be successful. It may not be glamorous or aesthetically pleasing, but who am I to complain?
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Originally Posted by
Kneenibble
Mixed Australian hardwood is quite handsome -- I just looked it up [blessings of the ages upon the Internet!]. It is only somewhat arduous to sand and repolish hardwood floors, unless in older homes where carpet or linoleum had been placed overtop and a gross residue of glue remains.
Is the wear and tear aesthetically pleasing?
& as the auspicious Teddy spake, Douglas fir is pretty darn hard. The whole frame of my house is made of it too. Much more solid than the spruce and chipboard construction that is common nowadays.
Indeed it is. Ours has a dark polish to it that makes the lighter wood stand out rather nicely. The difficulty of having to do it would be the time requirement, the cost and the fact that we would have to remove all the furniture from every room. Fortunately, my Dad is a floorsander and polisher by trade, as well as being a plumber by trade, and could do the work himself.
And no, it's not particularly aesthetically pleasing. The polish has dulled in many places and their are large scratches in some areas, mainly the living room.
The floor in my room is perhaps the best, but that is probably because I never spend any time there.
Hmm... As far as I am aware houses here are usually constructed of a timber frame with the interior walls covered in plasterboard and the exterior walls covered with whatever exterior facing was chosen to build it, often weather boards. Our building codes are rather stringent at times.
I think ours is pine mostly... And the main structural beams are rather solid. All in all, houses are usually built solidly here. At least, they were in my immediate local area... I'm not completely certain, but I am confident in the building codes.
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Originally Posted by
MoonCat
Technically Doctor Who spoilers.
Spoiler
Show
Whyyyyy Donna, whyyy, she was the best of all them!
ION: Welp, that makes three pieces of fiction that have succeeded inmaking me burst into geniuine tears without my trying to do so becuae that's what people are supposed to do.
I actually started crying. ****ing Doctor Who. I'm dying on the inside. Oh, and no one of the most popular gifs on a things that I read WILL BE RUINED FOREVER BECUASE I KNOW THE STORY BEHIND IT! AND I'LL CRY ALL OVER AGAIN!
whyyyyyyyyyyy?
<cries>
*joins in with the grief*
That episode was so sad... That was the most awesome character ever...
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
You were born on a hospital? That's rather unusual...
Well, not on a hospital; in a clinic.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
I have a theory that, on the internet, Doctor Who is discussed more than every other live action TV show combined. Maybe it's just the sites I visit.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
That's because Star Trek is kinda quiet for the moment. And Firefly is fading out of the public consciousness.
Has it really been 10 years? Wow.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
araveugnitsuga
Well, not on a hospital; in a clinic.
An understandable error. I and O are directly adjacent to one another and such an error won't show up on spell check and nor is it grammatically incorrect, if rather strange.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
English pronouns are dreadful. If there is one mistake I know I do regularly, then it's using the wrong pronoun in the wrong situation. Given, I suppose haphazard pronoun rules are ubiquitous irregardles of language, and whatever you find logical is actually what you grew up with, but I can't shake the feeling that the English pronouns are even less consistent than the average. Either way, they're wildly different from Swedish, so literal translations are off the table (for example: we Swedes actually do say "on the Hospital" (or rather, the literal translation thereof) in the context of where you were born).
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Feytalist
That's because Star Trek is kinda quiet for the moment. And Firefly is fading out of the public consciousness.
Has it really been 10 years? Wow.
I'm more of a "character based drama" kinda guy. I kinda wish people would stop talking about Doctor Who and Firefly partly because I'm not much of a fan of either and partly because talking too much about anything (except music, of course) tends to grate. But hey, that's just me.
But seriously, guys. A little Six Feet Under goes a long way.
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@Teddy: On isn't a pronoun... Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases...
Examples of pronouns include: They, them, I, you, him, her, she, he, his, etcetera.
On is a completely different kind of word. It's a preposition.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Speaking of pronouns; my dad comes from a part of the country with a very odd colloquialism: the tendency to use "he" for just about every object and subject you can think of. My uncle, when speaking of his wife, will say something like "He is not in such a good mood today" or something. I always found it very amusing, till I caught myself doing the same thing.
That's actually just the tip of the iceberg; you can write a thesis on my dad's use of language. Colloquialisms are fun.
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AllIHaveIsCrunk
But seriously, guys. A little Six Feet Under goes a long way.
I never really liked Six Feet Under, but I wouldn't really be able to give you a reason why. Also I've never actually even seen an episode of Doctor Who, and I should probably hand in my geek membership badge after admitting that.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
@Teddy: On isn't a pronoun... Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases...
Examples of pronouns include: They, them, I, you, him, her, she, he, his, etcetera.
On is a completely different kind of word. It's a preposition.
Clearly, Elemental is a noun pro.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Feytalist
I never really liked Six Feet Under, but I wouldn't really be able to give you a reason why. Also I've never actually even seen an episode of Doctor Who, and I should probably hand in my geek membership badge after admitting that.
You keep it. The inevitable nerd backlash is coming and you're going to need that. When the exasperated contrarians arrive on horseback, cleansing the land from the taint of the Whovians, the only thing that will stay their wrath will be your geek card and the statement you've just made.
They might even make a golden statue of you and worship you.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
@Teddy: On isn't a pronoun... Pronouns are words that substitute for nouns or noun phrases...
Examples of pronouns include: They, them, I, you, him, her, she, he, his, etcetera.
On is a completely different kind of word. It's a preposition.
*facepalm*
I knew that. I even set out to translate the Swedish word for "preposition" (which incidentially is spelled the same) just to make sure I got it right, but I mixed them up in my brain at translation moment and failed to catch the error. Duhhh...
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
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Originally Posted by
The Succubus
Clearly, Elemental is a noun pro.
Thank you. Apart from that, I have no idea what to say in response to this.
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Originally Posted by
Teddy
*facepalm*
I knew that. I even set out to translate the Swedish word for "preposition" (which incidentially is spelled the same) just to make sure I got it right, but I mixed them up in my brain at translation moment and failed to catch the error. Duhhh...
That's right, blame translation errors.
And there's nothing wrong with our prepositions! In means in something, on means on something. Apart from that, I really can't explain it any further because it's such a basic part of language it can't be explained... I shall try though.
We say in the hospital in reference to where one was born because it is kind of inside the hospital. To be on it would require being on the outside, either on the walls or on top of it.
It makes perfect sense, it just can't be adequately explained.
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
It's also fairly consistent--when talking about an object capable of containing things (hospitals, cups, cities) we always talk about things being IN them; when talking about objects that don't contain things (trays, tables, counters) then we talk about things being ON them.
I'm sure someone will come along with exceptions to this rule, but I can't think of any off the top of my head!
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Nibble was a budg'r'igar
With feathers yellow'n'green
And everywhere that Nibble went
His feathers they would sheen
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Re: Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185
Nibble had a little bird,
A blue and white budgie.
When he puts photos in this thread,
Everyone goes "squeee!" :smallbiggrin:
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Don't you just hate it when you have indigestion? From fricken' sausages? Every single time I have them, I get it afterwards. Sometimes barely any pain, other times.. yeah. :smallannoyed: