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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
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2009-09-08, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
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2009-09-08, 11:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I come to you, Playgrounders, from my school library! This is my first spare period. Ever. I have no work to do, so I figured I can waste time on the internet.
So far school has gone well, I like the looks of all of my courses. My teachers look good as well, but the ones I'm worried about I won't meet until tomorrow.
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2009-09-08, 11:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Did they seem concerned about the cobra that resides inside you, or was it taken in stride, leading you to beleive that they all have venemous creatures inside them?
Either way, hope you have fun and whatever, and don't worry. There's nothing they can do to you that therapy can't fix.Last edited by V'icternus; 2009-09-08 at 11:56 AM.
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2009-09-08, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Gonna be gone for the next few days. Luckily, since I've been falling out of synch with FB, y'all shouldn't much notice.
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2009-09-08, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I WAS THERELife is like a dungeon master, if it smiles at you, you just know that something terrible is about to happen
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2009-09-08, 12:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
and THAT FB is all about the crazy.
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2009-09-08, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Mesopotamia is basically Iraq. The borders aren't exactly the same but then the borders were never particularly consistent anyway. Mesopotamia is known for the cradle of civilization that developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and that area is central Iraq.
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2009-09-08, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
@Katara: While one connects you with people you haven't seen in a while and might want to see again, the other one conects you with people you you've never seen and it's probably for the better
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2009-09-08, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Since I've been FBing for two and a half years and Facebooking for half that, I cannot STAND people referring to Facebook as FB because my first thought is, "You're on GiantitP too????"
I think a lot of the Mesopotamian peoples were also Mediterranean, though. Akkadian was the lingua franca of the whole Mediterranean area and I'm pretty sure the Akkadians were considered Mesopotamian? The Sumerians were.
I dunno. It's only been a week - I'm not going to pretend knowledge that I don't have. I'm entirely too good at stating things as facts and having people believe me, only to later find out that I was mistaken. I don't do that anymore. But when I was, oh, fifteen, it seemed to happen a lot.
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Nah, you can learn a lot from here other than just wierd stuff, like, mesopotamian stuff, and book things, and Rutskarn, you can learn Rutskarn.
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2009-09-08, 12:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-08, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I never confuse FB (Facebook) with GitP. Because Friendly Banter here has always seemed like minor offshoots of the unstoppable RB thread. RANDOM BANTERERS UNITE! =D
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Yeah, RB seems to take the spot light of FB, and it's quite adictive too.
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I've always taken FB as Friendly Banter, probably because I tend to forget to Facebook etc. exists.
I'll concede to that for now; it could be a linguistic choice rather than a geographic choice. Maybe you could ask your professor later on.
I think the problem with stating things as fact here is that generally, we're slightly more intelligent than 'average'. I say 'slightly more intelligent', but actually I'll amend that to slightly more well read or knowledgable than the 'normal' person in our age groups. This means we've got enough of a smattering of something to be more willing to accept what we've read or heard of from other, 'more knowledgeable' sources.
@Coplanter: This is the only place I know where we can go from discussing theoretical scientific/historic/literary/linguistic topics before devolving into endless puns and innuendo.
You can learn loads here.
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2009-09-08, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Yeah, I understand what you say, lack of activity on the forum seems wierd and void.
Is SMBG ADD suffering people heaven or hell?
@^: Yeah, I know, although my regular conversations with friends are quite the similarLast edited by Coplantor; 2009-09-08 at 12:56 PM.
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2009-09-08, 01:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Damn. I think my brain coagulated overnight.
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2009-09-08, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Whether SMBG is heaven or hell depends on your point of view. I, however, have a very real problem. I need a good, free, text editor that will highlight words while I program. I could use notepad, but I would rather use something like vim or Emacs. Any suggestions?
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
SO what was class consensus on: What is the Mediterranean?
"Us" and "Them" are fluid. Four miles away it's still Cornish, and we're even still in the same district, but They're not Us, but Them.
It depends on how far down into an area you want to go. Cornwall is Cornwall, but the North Cornish (that's north coast) and the South Cornish (south coast) treat each other with mild condescension. And when it gets to how close you are to the Tamar . . .
Them up there are almost Devonshire folk. And They're Up Country.
And we're still in the same county!
It's mainly a literature based history class, yes? Either way language has a big impact on things, you'll be doing interactions between civilisations and things maybe and how they affected the dispersion and assimilation of myths and stories as you've already seen. Ha. Here's me telling you what your class is doing when 1) I'm not in that course, 2) or in the college, and 3) or even in the same country.
Still, hooray! for me making a mildly logical guess. I will now have a celebratory ice cream. Because I've not had any in three months.
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2009-09-08, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I must say, Curly, that your use of the language is truly lovely.
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Yep. Though apparently the tenors were slightly flat on the final note
That did occur to me. In the afternoon rehearsal Nick McGegan said something about us being the future of choral music. I never thought about myself as being really part of big things in choral music, but then I've just performed in one of the proms at age 21, so maybe I should rethink that point of view.
I heard about the Stephen Fry interview. He also posted about it on his twitter. And came backstage after the performance and signed autographs (I couldn't be bothered to wade through the crowd to reach him, so I didn't get one). Oh, and apparently he said our diction was excellent, which is astounding for such a large choir.
I loves my music highs Though of course the Royal Albert Hall does apply to the performance as well as the standing ovation. So it's kind of like it just put everything at a higher basic level.
And thinking about it some more, really a standing ovation just lets you keep feeling the elation. The extent of the elation is down to the quality of the performance - in which the Royal Albert Hall was obviously a factor. Amazing setting and excellent acoustics.
*Is envied*
*And kinda smug*
Your awesome, it is truly overwhelming.
And of course this is another example of how things can't be incorrect english. A dictionary would tell you awesome is an adjective, but I just used it as a noun, something you have.
Recalling a previous RB conversation topic, a friend of mine currently has the following as his facebook status:
[Name] it amusing to sentences with no verbs, and whether you still from the context what."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2009-09-08, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
What are you programming in? For Java, netbeans is supposed to be one of the best (I don't/have never programmed in java, but have friends who do). There's also the windows virtual suite, although the user interface sucks for that. Bloodshed is supposed to be pretty decent as well.
I'd probably just dual-boot linux and use vim, but that's what I'm used to as well.
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
We talked about it: There are different tiers of Us and Them. I have a lot of Us:
If I go out around town, I'm a Whitman student.
If I cross to the other side of the state, I'm from Walla Walla.
If I go to California, I'm from Washington.
If I go to Pennsylvania, I'm from the West Coast.
If I go to England, I'm from the USA.
Presumably if I leave the planet, I'm from Earth.
The difficulty lies in where US stops. Because eventually it does, and that's where wars happen. In the American Civil War, people's concept of "us" didn't really extend beyond the state they lived in: A person was a Georgian first, a Southerner second, and an American last of all. People in the north may have been Americans, but they were Northerners. Pennsylvanians. Not Us.
(For my ancestors, it was the southerners who were Thems). And it was after the war that things started to reverse so that people were American first, West Coaster second, Washingtonian third.)
Sorry. It's interesting.Last edited by Dragonrider; 2009-09-08 at 02:05 PM.
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
interesting and annoying.
Does have a fair bit to do with how easy it is to get us to do violence upon one another though, if I'm recalling correctly.
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
All of this reminds me of the monkeysphere.
Human evolution is determined by the abilty to relate to larger groups of people, yet, from a big group and a small group closer to the individual, the smallest group will always be "us".
Us the family, us the neighbours, then us the fellow citizens, country men, humans. And it gets more and more intresting when you add other categories such as religion, ethnic group, language, studies, hobbies, etc...I WAS THERELife is like a dungeon master, if it smiles at you, you just know that something terrible is about to happen
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