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2009-10-04, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Yet another Touhou fan in the playground.
I'm the strongest, but don't call me an idiot or I'll cyro-freeze you together with some English Beef. - Cirno Avatar by me, assassin8⑨
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2009-10-04, 09:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yet another Touhou fan in the playground.
I'm the strongest, but don't call me an idiot or I'll cyro-freeze you together with some English Beef. - Cirno Avatar by me, assassin8⑨
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2009-10-04, 10:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Or I could just use good ol' fashion DIY, which is probably what I'll end up doing.
*takes out glue, hair gel and scissors*
*goes to draw and takes out bags of different coloured hair*
I knew my hair collection would come in handy one day...
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2009-10-04, 10:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-04, 12:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
You know, the problem with lazy days is you can get into a bit of a lethargic rut. For example, right now I should be en route to a choir rehearsal, but I'm not. Partly because I'm still in a bit of alethargic rut from yesterday, and partly because there was a group of chavs sitting on the front wall of the house next door deterring me from leaving. However, just as I came here to mention this, they left, but I'm still here. I should really go...
"'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2009-10-04, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
I am boooored! Entertain me!
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2009-10-04, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Go on! Carpe Diem! You never know when they'll be back! Think of the hymns in German and Latin and other languages you could be singing (I'm assuming it's that sort of choir.)
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2009-10-04, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-04, 01:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
I've been noticing a lot of things about the RB lately, and I feel that a reposting of certain rules might be in order...
1. Spam. For the purposes of RB, one word posts are generally considered spam. Likewise, posts that are nothing but *actions like this* are also be considered spam. Remember that the quality of the post's content is much better than the speed of your response.
7. Random Banter can only be as good, or as entertaining, as you make it. Demands to be entertained will fall on deaf ears unless you can add something more meaningful to the conversation.
10. Every post should contain two visible, legible complete sentences, Subject and Predicate. C'mon, make your old English teachers proud.
11. Remember, Random Banter is not your IM client. If you want to have a back and forth discussion with just one person, look in their contact information for IM details.
I'm not trying to be very strict here, but the Random Banter has gotten too bantery recently.
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2009-10-04, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
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Avatar by KwarkpuddingThe subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
Whoever makes shoddy beer, shall be thrown into manure - town law from Gdańsk, XIth century.
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2009-10-04, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-04, 01:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Aagh, I'm feeling all guilty now because of my post about swigging.
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2009-10-04, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-04, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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But if people can't spam, they need a Spam Thread.
It's like, written in the starlight.Avatar by KwarkpuddingThe subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
Whoever makes shoddy beer, shall be thrown into manure - town law from Gdańsk, XIth century.
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2009-10-04, 01:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-04, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
I would have termed it the other way - too much random, not enough banter.
However I share your sentiments. This thread is intended for very free and wide-ranging conversation, but it should still be conversation. If you have nothing else to say, just think of something random you did/saw recently, and talk about it, but don't just come in here and post essentially nothing.
@Crown of Thorns: That sort of choir yes, but the piece we're doing at the moment is in english. However, your advice is wasted, as I've already failed to leave the house."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2009-10-04, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Ugh...
I didn't want to do this but:
Vigilante Modding
If you’re not a Moderator, don’t act like one. Rich has selected a few people he trusts to keep an eye on conversations here. Please refrain from chastising other posters over breaking the rules, especially concerning minor things. The proper response when you see someone breaking these rules is to report the post as discussed above or to a PM to the local Moderator. At most, you may courteously link to this thread. But whatever you do, do not tell other posters what to do, what rules they have broken, that they are "spamming", etc. Posters who do so excessively will be issued an Infraction for their actions.Avatar by KwarkpuddingThe subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogs—I was a man before I was a king.
Whoever makes shoddy beer, shall be thrown into manure - town law from Gdańsk, XIth century.
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2009-10-04, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-10-04, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
I was not acting like a mod. This rule implies that I was pointing fingers at specific people and saying "UR DOIN IT WRONG", which is not what I did, nor was it what I intended to do.
But I will move away from this topic now, before things start becoming heated.
Right now I'm trying to write an essay for Philosophy. The topic of it is Epicureanism. Specifically, talking about how there's more to this philosophy than seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. Some people think that it's a very gluttonous view on life, but the whole pleasure/pain thing is only the tip of the iceberg. I'm having trouble writing it up, though. It's only two pages double-spaced, which is next to nothing for a college paper. But I've only got about a half-page of words down so far. I'm just having trouble elaborating on things.Last edited by Neko Toast; 2009-10-04 at 01:41 PM.
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2009-10-04, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
A trick I learned from a course I went on last year for when you're having essay trouble is to put away all your books and plans and just pick up a notepad and free write on the subject. You can get a surprising amount written in a short time, and then you just have to neaten it up and add citations and the like afterwards.
ION: I have once again been condemned to spend a week on a business trip. A week in a Premier Inn. I mean, as hotel rooms go, it's ok, but it's still a hotel in the middle of nowhere. And they only gave me two teabags. This was a hopeless underestimate of my nightly tea consumption. Pah.
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2009-10-04, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
/\: The hotel has an electric kettle, I hope, at least. While in theory water boiled in a pan on a hotel hob should be adequate for pouring over a teabag, in practice it tasted hideous.
Unfortunately, there is nothing in the rules about not being a killjoy. Therefore, if someone wishes to drag down a lively banter into an abyss populated with her personal demons, it might be annoying but nothing to hit ye olde report button(e) over.
I can use this.
I have used this. It wasn't very satisfying for any party. No, it was very satisfying for the few hours between posting it and noticing that the world was not suddenly full of people improved in the Victorian sense, then it turned to ashes and a powdery-palmed need to try another tactic. Bludgeoning with words was as ineffective as a physical blow, when it came to influencing folks mentally. Powder in the palms, trickling away at the ends of every seam, nagging under the fingernails--not time, but the need to bend other people to one's will.Last edited by Quincunx; 2009-10-04 at 02:09 PM.
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Re: KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130
Not sure if even that may even work. I think the problem right now is distractions. My roommate is singing to the songs that she knows the words to, and our friend (who really should go back to her own dorm now, as she slept here last night) is playing FFXII on the PS2. The most distracting is the singing, considering she's right behind me. I'm never going to get this essay done at this rate.
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2009-10-04, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh my.
I have to leave the house at four o'clock in the morning. Thing is, I rarely even get to sleep by two o'clock.
Yes, I can sleep on the way up, but we're picking up a passenger too. My aunt.
I'ma going to be so tired.
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