Random Banter #117

[CurlyKitGirl]

I just found it a little odd, is all. You're so very knowledgeable about, well, everything else.

I've only been reading properly for fourteen years! Gimme a break!
Despite what my sig says, I have yet to devour every book in existence. And there're many, many areas in which I know jack or near enough that it makes no difference.
But yeah, I guess in literature I'm probably more well - read than most people my age and willing to discuss it, sometimes quite volubly.

[Recaiden]

There is Lego all over my desk.
I cannot do anything here because there's Lego in the way.
And this isn't all of it. This is some of the smaller sets that have just accumulated.
Arrrgh. >,<

You seem to be missing the point. You can build things out of Lego. What more do you need?

[PhoeKun]

Tell me about it. I couldn't even get access to most of the books I wanted to read when I was in secondary until Y10 or later. Thank Io for befriending and practically working as a school Librarian. And I wrote all their quizzes!
But I has access to know.

Did you like the other review too?

I very much enjoyed the other review!

Today's been a big stresser in terms of money (realizing I need money I don't have very soon), and these have been exactly the sorts of things I need to avoid breaking down. I'm smiling, instead, which is something I wasn't sure I'd be doing. Thanks.

Random topic change: I need hair ties of some sort. I am becoming unsatisfied with the way it looks when I just let it lie flat, but I'm not really sure what style to shoot for.

[CurlyKitGirl]

I very much enjoyed the other review!

Today's been a big stresser in terms of money (realizing I need money I don't have very soon), and these have been exactly the sorts of things I need to avoid breaking down. I'm smiling, instead, which is something I wasn't sure I'd be doing. Thanks.

Sweet! I made Phoe happy, best thing I've done all day. And I had fun reviewing them too.

Random topic change: I need hair ties of some sort. I am becoming unsatisfied with the way it looks when I just let it lie flat, but I'm not really sure what style to shoot for.

Well, how long's your hair?
Curly, wavy, straight?
Normally leave it flat? Try some ordinary pony tails, nape of neck, high etc.; for that just use bog standard hair bands or scrunchies. Perhaps ribbons if you fell adventerous, but I've no idea how to keep them on (my hair is choas theory incarnate and hates being restrained).
You tried plaits? Braids?
ALice bands maybe? Still down, but pushed back and gives a little more body to your hair.
I used to be fairly adventurous with hair styles (well weird ones) before I just got bored; anything goes really.
I'd make a high pony tail using a plain black band, split the tail into x parts and make x braids or 1/2x braids and 1/2 loose and wrap ribbon around the black band holding the tail together. Then I'd fiddle around with the braids.

I was an odd girl. Still am, but my hair rebelled. Now it's a bit like King Charles' but nowhere near as corkscrewy.

[The Rose Dragon]

I never styled my hair. At best I wore it in a ponytail. Mostly I just combed it so it wasn't a complete mess and called it a day.

[PhoeKun]

Sweet! I made Phoe happy, best thing I've done all day. And I had fun reviewing them too.



Well, how long's your hair?
Curly, wavy, straight?
Normally leave it flat? Try some ordinary pony tails, nape of neck, high etc.; for that just use bog standard hair bands or scrunchies. Perhaps ribbons if you fell adventerous, but I've no idea how to keep them on (my hair is choas theory incarnate and hates being restrained).
You tried plaits? Braids?
ALice bands maybe? Still down, but pushed back and gives a little more body to your hair.
I used to be fairly adventurous with hair styles (well weird ones) before I just got bored; anything goes really.
I'd make a high pony tail using a plain black band, split the tail into x parts and make x braids or 1/2x braids and 1/2 loose and wrap ribbon around the black band holding the tail together. Then I'd fiddle around with the braids.

I was an odd girl. Still am, but my hair rebelled. Now it's a bit like King Charles' but nowhere near as corkscrewy.

It's a little bit past my shoulders (just a tiny, tiny bit) at its longest, and as straight as straight can be. I've been trying to grow it out for a while now, ever since I stopped having to fight my parents and sister who all wanted me to have short hair. It's not so much that they forced me as it is that I have no spine, and would cut it short every time they asked more than once.

I've not been very adventurous with my hair, and I don't know a lot about styling it, but now that I'm free enough to have the chance, I want to explore!

[Jack Squat]

I can't style my hair, so I just wear a hat all the time.

yes, can't. My hair finds a way to go back to it's normal self no matter what. Even slathered in gel, give it a couple hours, and it's mostly back where it was. I've got some pomade, but never really bothered trying it.

On the plus side, I've found hat hair works pretty well for me, just have to fluff it out a bit.

[SweetLikeLemons]

If you have impossible, thin, straight hair like mine, then mousse is your friend. If you want to go through the time and effort to blow-dry it, then it gives you more body without making it all sticky, and it is the only way to make my hair hold a curl for more than a couple minutes. Also, it helps keep hair up if you want to do something fancy with it.

Stylewise, I am a big fan of the french twist. A little mousse, a few hair pins and it looks great. Very classy, even if I don't take much time on it and it comes out a bit messy, and it takes like five minutes.

Otherwise, I wear a ponytail almost every day. I got a bit tired of it recently, so I started just pulling the front back with flat clips. It is a little juvenile, maybe, but simple and looks like I've actually done something with it. It takes mere seconds, too, which is good.

[Sneak]

I don't "style" my hair...I just shower/wash it, dry it with a towel, mess around with it with my hands until I like it...and that's it.

Haven't combed or brushed my hair in years...probably at least five years, maybe more.

Several of my female friends want to straighten it when it's at its longest (right before I get it cut).

I'm kind of afraid of that, though. I don't like being a paper doll.

So yeah, I'm afraid I no absolutely nothing about styling hair.

BUT: I applaud your adventurousness! Go PhoeKun!

[Coplantor]

My pillow is who decides my daily hair style.

[Lyesmith]

I was going to straighten my hair (which makes me look like someone has glued a crow to somtething, then attacked it with blowdriers from all angles), but then I was reminded of a timed essay I had to do for tomorrow.

Friggin' mountains! Now my back is sore from being hunched over typing at the speed of thought.

Also, I may have burned my scalp a bit. I need some boy-straighteners.

[A Rainy Knight]

My pillow is who decides my daily hair style.

Now, someone who speaks my language. But I must ask, does your pillow charge you as much for it as mine does?

Honestly though, my philosophy is to try to keep my hair cut short enough that I don't have to mess around with it, because I can't really be bothered to put in the effort for fancy-prancy hair styles.

[Assassin89]

For me Spring Break begins April 9 and ends April 13.

For hair, I prefer it cut short.

[Recaiden]

I just comb my hair up after showering, and it settles itself into a weird, upward style. Not hard to take care of though, and I don't have to get it cut very often.

[The Rose Dragon]

Anyway, the point is: Did you remember to be awesome today? Trick question.

[Quincunx]

CurlyKitGirl gives analysis, and in a more commercial vein, review. I give feedback and attention. Out of respect to the recently broken writing block, this'll be at feedback level two, where an aspiring author ought to enjoy level three at least. (Authors use constructive feedback, where a level two is usually meant for someone who wouldn't like to revise their work, just enjoy it.)

I couldn't resist sneaking one more peek, reading one more page, before starting to cook dinner. It was wise--that page was Glacier, the only poem which showed rather than told, the only symbol to contemplate, the only one that required work to yield its secrets. I ruminated on the symbol, wondered why the breath of the speaker rolled along the ground when our human breath hangs higher, whether "I can't move" precluded the speaker being the sea, why "She stands, and I watch" implied vertical distance instead of horizontal, fiddled with the difficulty of a moving/still/moving glacier, and chalked it up to the uncertainty of the speaker's position, and settled on the voice being that of the changeable sea.

Now I go to style my hair in Coplantor's fashion. Goodnight!

[Recaiden]

Anyway, the point is: Did you remember to be awesome today? Trick question.

Yes, Dragonrider. Is the trick supposed to be that you know we aren't awesome(A lie, by the way), or that we are, or a third option? Although I could be more awesome. I'm planning to deal with that later this evening.

[The Rose Dragon]

The trick is, according to Nerdfighter Charter (which I may or may not have made up right now), you are supposed to not forget to be awesome in the first place.

Remembering implies you forgot it.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line".

EDIT: Also, not DR, but JG & HG.

[Dihan]

I don't know if anyone else knows, but YouTube is blocking all music content for British users because they didn't want to pay large royalties. Apparently it comes into effect on Monday. YouTube isn't changing their stance.

[The Rose Dragon]

Well, YouTube was blocked in Turkey completely, so meh.

[PhoeKun]

CurlyKitGirl gives analysis, and in a more commercial vein, review. I give feedback and attention. Out of respect to the recently broken writing block, this'll be at feedback level two, where an aspiring author ought to enjoy level three at least. (Authors use constructive feedback, where a level two is usually meant for someone who wouldn't like to revise their work, just enjoy it.)

I couldn't resist sneaking one more peek, reading one more page, before starting to cook dinner. It was wise--that page was Glacier, the only poem which showed rather than told, the only symbol to contemplate, the only one that required work to yield its secrets. I ruminated on the symbol, wondered why the breath of the speaker rolled along the ground when our human breath hangs higher, whether "I can't move" precluded the speaker being the sea, why "She stands, and I watch" implied vertical distance instead of horizontal, fiddled with the difficulty of a moving/still/moving glacier, and chalked it up to the uncertainty of the speaker's position, and settled on the voice being that of the changeable sea.

Now I go to style my hair in Coplantor's fashion. Goodnight!

Hm. Hm, hm, hm.

You hit harder when you decide to wear the kid gloves. I take it you believe "show don't tell" to be an immutable rule? Or do I simply lack the skill to safely ignore it?

[Recaiden]

The trick is, according to Nerdfighter Charter (which I may or may not have made up right now), you are supposed to not forget to be awesome in the first place.

Remembering implies you forgot it.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line".

EDIT: Also, not DR, but JG & HG.

Dri used to have that in her sig. I didn't know what they were until you asked me about it and I had to look it up. This was life-changing.

[Coplantor]

So bed hair is Coplantor's fashion now? Great, another thing from the list acomplished.

If you were wondering, it is number 6, success in the world of fashion.

[Alleine]

I just slap a hat on. It works for me, and apparently has caused a girl to want my head because she thinks its cute.

All I can think of is my head mounted on her wall in the same fashion as a deer head

[Sneak]

I just slap a hat on. It works for me, and apparently has caused a girl to want my head because she thinks its cute.

All I can think of is my head mounted on her wall in the same fashion as a deer head

Hey, it'd get you into her house.

I kid, I kid.

Also:

Coplantor...HIGH-FIVE! SUCCESS!

[Rutskarn]

My number six is lasso a giraffe while balancing upside down on a bear's head.

I've crossed it off, but I kinda cheated. I was technically throwing a ball of yarn at a toy giraffe, while standing rightside-up on a bearskin rug, and wrestling a bear.

[Coplantor]

27 was hard, bungee jumping using my intestines as a bungee cord... Sheesh, all the messy complications we had, but in the end it all trned out well.

And sneak, FIVE-HIGHED already!

[Sneak]

YEAH!

I have not yet punched a whale.

My life is a sad, sad affair.

[Alleine]

My goals are lame.

Most of them consist of "go home and pass out on the couch"
or
"go home and not pass out on the couch"

As you can clearly see, I totally push the limit all the time.

[Rutskarn]

Try stepping it up a little.

Go home and pass out...on a bear.

And...yeah, I'm tapped.