KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130

[Fostire]

*does search for own posts* (when did they change the time limit between searches from 300 seconds to 120?)

Results:
apparently I did nothing but lurk for the first 4 months of membership (also my itp birthday is coming )

Also for the first several months I posted mostly in Roleplaying games and homebrew, with a couple of posts in the request an avatar thread.

As to the content... well... they're slightly better now I think

[Phase]

Sigh. I couldn't sleep, so I sifted through my backlogs...

I just had to make this now, to redeem myself in my own eyes...

Doesn't look familiar?

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[Fostire]

Wow, looks awesome!

[Coidzor]

I like it, even if it is a poo wyvern.

Man I'm tired. That was the best I could come up with?

...ION: Running to catch the bus after falling over from the pain of a dozen fire ants biting you from your butt to your knees is not fun and bad for whatever it is that's on the front of your lower leg beneath the knee, that stuff opposite the calf.

[Dragonrider]

I'm listening to Mika's new album.

I played it for everyone else in my house and apparently I have terrible taste in music, because none of them liked it at all.

[Coidzor]

Yes. You're bad and you should feel bad, Deary.

Honestly. Can't even spell his name Micah....

[toasty]

I'm listening to Mika's new album.

I played it for everyone else in my house and apparently I have terrible taste in music, because none of them liked it at all.

See, the real answer is they have terrible taste in music. ;) But actually, the guy sounds really... weird from his wikipedia page (yes, all my musical information usually comes from wiki, sue me).

I dislike my math... argh.

[Phaedra]

I'm listening to Mika's new album.

I played it for everyone else in my house and apparently I have terrible taste in music, because none of them liked it at all.

I just downloaded this and I love it, so that's two of us with terrible taste. I'm happily singing along to it while I desperately try to finish my methodology chapter. Sure, it's mindless cheesy pop but I like that. I'm happy having poor taste in music.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Righ!
Things done: my first lecture (Introduction to decadence and aesthetes); my first essay was handed in half an hour bbefore the deadline.
All is good.

Things to do: buy Pratchett's new book and devour it in hours. Then lend it to a friend. Also, eat lunch. And another lecture.

Seriously, for fifty minutes we cram a lot of stuff in, and it's all challenging stuff. Ca't wait for the next one.

Also, I almost missed my first lecture as I was cold and too tired to get to sleep and then I slept until half past nine. Good thing my faculty building's nearby. Missed brekkie though.

[Nameless]

Righ!
Things done: my first lecture (Introduction to decadence and aesthetes); my first essay was handed in half an hour bbefore the deadline.
All is good.

Things to do: buy Pratchett's new book and devour it in hours. Then lend it to a friend. Also, eat lunch. And another lecture.

Seriously, for fifty minutes we cram a lot of stuff in, and it's all challenging stuff. Ca't wait for the next one.

Also, I almost missed my first lecture as I was cold and too tired to get to sleep and then I slept until half past nine. Good thing my faculty building's nearby. Missed brekkie though.

Hop to it now! chopchop! *pushes along*

[Thufir]

Sigh. I couldn't sleep, so I sifted through my backlogs...

I just had to make this now, to redeem myself in my own eyes...

Doesn't look familiar?

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You know, I seem to recall a webcomic in the Playground a while back to do with dragons... I wonder what happened to it...

@toasty: How dare you disparage the mightiest and most noble of all academic disciplines. Need any help?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Hop to it now! chopchop! *pushes along*

Slave driver. Just for that you're not invited to my cyber party.

@toasty: How dare you disparage the mightiest and most noble of all academic disciplines. Need any help?

I'm sorry, but toasty wasn't talking about English, maybe you're confused?

[Nameless]

Slave driver. Just for that you're not invited to my cyber party.

*GASP! :O* *Makes you a full fry-up breakfest*

[CurlyKitGirl]

*GASP! :O* *Makes you a full fry-up breakfest*

No eggs, no beans, heavy on the bacon, sausages and toast. Lots of butter and jam please.

[Elm11]

Rawr! quick, whats the best way to get rid of a song that's stuck in my head? Can't get Bycicle race by queen out of my head, and it's driving me insane.

[Nameless]

No eggs, no beans, heavy on the bacon, sausages and toast. Lots of butter and jam please.

Don't push it. e_e

[CurlyKitGirl]

Rawr! quick, whats the best way to get rid of a song that's stuck in my head? Can't get Bycicle race by queen out of my head, and it's driving me insane.

I fail to understand . . .
Why would you want to get a Queen song, especially such a good one, out of your head?
I suggest listening to Bohemian Rhapsody. If that fails try Another One Bitea the Dust.

[Thufir]

I'm sorry, but toasty wasn't talking about English, maybe you're confused?

Huh. English, mighty and noble? And you have 1 lecture a week? The glorious heights of mathematics cannot be scaled so easily.

[Jack Squat]

Rawr! quick, whats the best way to get rid of a song that's stuck in my head? Can't get Bycicle race by queen out of my head, and it's driving me insane.

Get another song in your head. This one normally does it for me.

[toasty]

@toasty: How dare you disparage the mightiest and most noble of all academic disciplines. Need any help?

Its no so much that I don't understand it justs frustrates me sometimes. Assuming I study enough I'll get good enough grades. Its remembering to study enough that is the problem.

I have the same problem with Physics, but only more so. I'm still trying to figure out if its the teacher who expects me to be slightly smarter or that I'm just too lazy and not doing enough review before the tests.

Oh, and English awesome. Essay writing is fun.

[Elm11]

Get another song in your head. This one normally does it for me.

Oh god, i hate you now, i'd finally managed to repress that abomination against music .

Other thna that, i love queen, it's great, but that song has been going around my head all day... OH WAIT! IT ISNT ANYMORE COZ THERES A **** ****** ***** *** ***** ** CHIMPANZEE RIDING ON A SEGWAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR

[Jack Squat]

You're welcome :

In other news, I forgot to eat breakfast today...that was a mistake on my part.

[Quincunx]

Only now does it occur to me that the boogie which blesses Random Banter has been to the stiff and self-conscious gestures which accompany Queen--got no rhythm, got no flavor, gotta devote all the white-hot brainpower just to spit out that much with that style. The next boogie will be blessed with the funk. This calls for subtle changes of the wrists of the avatar and at least one foot raised from the floor, high-stepping while trying not to look like a dry run for the Mummers' Parade--yes, that's where I belong, spangled and drained, a dry little breadcrumb crumbling under the strain of keeping a beat, but I want to break free!

[Cobra_Ikari]

Only now does it occur to me that the boogie which blesses Random Banter has been to the stiff and self-conscious gestures which accompany Queen--got no rhythm, got no flavor, gotta devote all the white-hot brainpower just to spit out that much with that style. The next boogie will be blessed with the funk. This calls for subtle changes of the wrists of the avatar and at least one foot raised from the floor, high-stepping while trying not to look like a dry run for the Mummers' Parade--yes, that's where I belong, spangled and drained, a dry little breadcrumb crumbling under the strain of keeping a beat, but I want to break free!

But...I have no feet. What a predicament. v.v

[Dragonrider]

Honestly. Can't even spell his name Micah....

Well, that might be because it's pronounced "Mee-ka", not "Mai-ka"

I just downloaded this and I love it, so that's two of us with terrible taste. I'm happily singing along to it while I desperately try to finish my methodology chapter. Sure, it's mindless cheesy pop but I like that. I'm happy having poor taste in music.

Yay! Most of the other music I listen to is cerebral and interesting. Besides, Mika writes, arranges, plays, and co-produces his own songs, which is better than you can say about a lot of cotton candy pop. Also from interviews it seems like he doesn't take himself too seriously.

Rawr! quick, whats the best way to get rid of a song that's stuck in my head? Can't get Bycicle race by queen out of my head, and it's driving me insane.

Listen to Mika?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Yay! Most of the other music I listen to is cerebral and interesting. Besides, Mika writes, arranges, plays, and co-produces his own songs, which is better than you can say about a lot of cotton candy pop. Also from interviews it seems like he doesn't take himself too seriously.

. . .

Listen to Mika?

He's okay, not one of my favourite musical acts, but he' good for fun. Also, that Teenage Dreams of his is horrifically addictive. Also, I could swear that I'd heard the song months before I first heard it.

@Thufir: Ha! One compulsory lecture; I have many other optional lectures, two classes a week and a tutorial.
Silly mathematicians not being able to research their topics independantly.

Also, I need a good site with Rossinni on it.

[Dragonrider]

He's okay, not one of my favourite musical acts, but he' good for fun. Also, that Teenage Dreams of his is horrifically addictive. Also, I could swear that I'd heard the song months before I first heard it.

Yeah, his music is like that. The first time I heard "Grace Kelly" I spent the entire time going "Where have I heard this before?!"

[CurlyKitGirl]

Yeah, his music is like that. The first time I heard "Grace Kelly" I spent the entire time going "Where have I heard this before?!"

YOu know what we need?
A music historian/student!
Then he/she can tell us why it's all so familiar.
Also: I'm really bored because I hande in my essay before noon and now I've got nothing to do until tomorrow and have had nothing to do since three.
I mean, I have a chapter of a book to read and a poem. But that's all. And the chapter bit is optional!

I think it's to do with Mika's voice myself. That and the choruses, possibly the rhythm?

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And I can't play music until six! Well, obviously I can, but my door's open and I've misplaced my headphones temporarily.

[Dragonrider]

I think it's to do with Mika's voice myself. That and the choruses, possibly the rhythm?

Likely the chord progression.

His voice is extremely unusual. But having read the wiki article, I have a lot more respect for him. Mostly the bit about his sexuality, because my brother and I keep arguing about it: he says he's GOT to be gay, which is what a lot of people think. but I think it's cool he tells the media it's none of their business.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Likely the chord progression.

His voice is extremely unusual. But having read the wiki article, I have a lot more respect for him. Mostly the bit about his sexuality, because my brother and I keep arguing about it: he says he's GOT to be gay, which is what a lot of people think. but I think it's cool he tells the media it's none of their business.

Potentially. The parts I do remember are often the chords alongside the lyrics. And yes, he's fairly impressive impressive from what I read in that article. Couldnt really care about his sexuality myself, but a lot of people get hung up about it.

Gods below I'm bored and my head and eyes hurt because of last night. Stupid upstairs neighbour lending me Civ IV Beyond the Sword. And the essay.

So, DeeRee, how's college for you?