Rpgsr4me's Ravenous, Roaring, Raging Rampage of Random Banter #134

[DraPrime]

Why is it so frickin' cold?

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If it's going to be 10 degrees it should SNOW, dangit!

And over here it's just around 32, and we have snow. Feeling jealous?

[Dragonrider]

And over here it's just around 32, and we have snow. Feeling jealous?

Hatefully.

I just resent the cold. I'm wearing long sleeves and a sweatshirt, warm tights under my pants, socks over the tights, and shoes, and my feet are on the frozen edge of not-quite-numb. Thermostat's set to 70 but it just can't drive away the cold.

[Dr. Bath]

See, at minus 12 it is far too cold for snow. The upper atmosphere needs to be within a fairly specific temperature range for it to snow, and the ground temperature needs to be around freezing for it to settle. Just how it is.

Try setting fire to things. Surefire!way to make it snow.

[DraPrime]

Hatefully.

I just resent the cold. I'm wearing long sleeves and a sweatshirt, warm tights under my pants, socks over the tights, and shoes, and my feet are on the frozen edge of not-quite-numb. Thermostat's set to 70 but it just can't drive away the cold.

How about drinking warm things and getting under a warm blanket? It always helped me?

[Moff Chumley]

See, at minus 12 it is far too cold for snow. The upper atmosphere needs to be within a fairly specific temperature range for it to snow, and the ground temperature needs to be around freezing for it to settle. Just how it is.

Try setting fire to things. Surefire!way to make it snow.

It's generally a good all-around tactic. *nodnod*

[Zocelot]

A pair of -40 socks are one of the usefullest purchases I've made for surviving the cold. When you're feet are warm/cold, the rest of you is too.

[Phase]

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Why did they cancel Clone High!?!?! I want to know what happens!!! DAMN YOU, CLIFFHANGERS!!!!

[Coidzor]

^: 4:30

Hatefully.

I just resent the cold. I'm wearing long sleeves and a sweatshirt, warm tights under my pants, socks over the tights, and shoes, and my feet are on the frozen edge of not-quite-numb. Thermostat's set to 70 but it just can't drive away the cold.

See. You need long-johns under that as well, right on yer skin.

I'm regretting not being able to find my long-johns, as I am reduced to layering various lounge pants and a couple of sweaters on top of a pair of non-long-john thermal underwear and a nest of t-shirts and long-sleeved shirts.

On the bright side, there's enough cloth on me that you'd need to aim more carefully to get anything vital with a knife.



In related news, I am currently looking around for recipes and things to do with the oven so that, well, it's helping to heat the house.

Currently I'm about to start on a casserole of canned chicken, stewed tomatoes, mole verde, black beans, egg noodles, and refried beans with a topping of crumbled up stale tortillas(crunchy) and cheddar.

Then next I'll be doing a meatloaf, prossibly. Or possibly making some bread.

I could do with learning that skill.

[Nomrom]

On Friday it snowed. Today, the low was 52°F. Tomorrow, we should be in the 70's. Man my weather is screwed up. But hey, at least I got my taste of winter, and now I don't have to be cold anymore.

[Phase]

^: 4:30

I have no idea what I'm looking for there.

[Destro_Yersul]

It's currently around 5 degrees here. That's 23 for you backwards folks who don't use Celsius yet. And I am not cold, despite wearing only a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and some slippers.

And it's not snowing here, either.

[Coidzor]

I have no idea what I'm looking for there.

whoops. Off by about 20 seconds. "This is for canceling firefly, you goth bastard."

[Ikialev]

I had to go to our glorious capital city for a school trip. That was one hour of riding on a train and an hour of getting lost and panicking only to find out that it was canceled.
Then going back home took me the same amount of time. <3german

[Mauve Shirt]

ARGH I studied too much of the wrong stuff for my US History exam. >_< I can only hope for a C and a 10-point grading curve. And then I'll still get a low C in the class.
I need an A on my psycholinguistics exam. Time to study more for that.

[Fostire]

It's currently around 5 degrees here. That's 23 for you backwards folks who don't use Celsius yet. And I am not cold, despite wearing only a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and some slippers.

And it's not snowing here, either.

5 degrees? that's almost summer! Here in Winnipeg it's 30 degrees below that.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I need an A on my psycholinguistics exam. Time to study more for that.

Psycholinguistics?

That sounds damn interesting...

[Mauve Shirt]

Psycholinguistics?

That sounds damn interesting...

It might be, if I didn't have a freaking insane professor.
As far as I can tell from the books we've been reading, the point of psycholinguistics is to look at studies that have been done previously and do them again, hoping for different results.
We read and presented an article about how language ability at a young age correlates to reading ability later, and whether genetic or environmental factors contribute more. We found 3 previous studies, done by the exact same people, which proved the same thing as this study using the exact same methods. That yes, being able to use language at a young age helps you read better, and it's more environmental than genetic.
And Dr. Parker is just incompetent. She burst into tears when we said she forgot to assign us that she asked us to turn in. She never returned our midterms, so I don't know what I'm getting in the class. We were going to do our own study on child language, but she didn't assign kids until 4 weeks before exams, we had too much other work to do to spend 5 hours a week on a kid, so we had to switch to an article presentation.

[Morty]

Universities and colleges do have a tendency to crop... interesting characters. My mother told me about a professor in her school who was so dedicated to his work that when his wife gave him an ultimatum - "It's either school or me" - he chose school.
Also, darn you people and your snow. Here, the weather's like in early Spring. I didn't even notice when December came.

[Destro_Yersul]

5 degrees? that's almost summer! Here in Winnipeg it's 30 degrees below that.

Did I forget the minus sign? I did. -5. My bad. Still doesn't quite hold a candle to Winterpeg, but then there's not much that does. Certainly Vancouver never managed to get quite that cold.

[Gullara]

FAHRENHEIT, doofus. That's about -12 to you sensible people.

-12 only, sorry if I don't feel sorry for you but it is -30 here and Hell has officially frozen over.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Celcius > Farenheit, silly americans...

Also, I'm sick.
Very sickly, more then usual.

[Dragonrider]

-12 only, sorry if I don't feel sorry for you but it is -30 here and Hell has officially frozen over.

Do you live in a place where it's *usually* that cold?

I just want snow. And there's no chance of it this week.

[Cristo Meyers]

Do you live in a place where it's *usually* that cold?

I just want snow. And there's no chance of it this week.

You can have ours, and our bass-ackwards ergonomic snow shovel thing too.

First major snow of the bloody season has to come on a day when I have to be at work early and not leave until late...

[Gullara]

Do you live in a place where it's *usually* that cold?

I just want snow. And there's no chance of it this week.

Ya I live in Saskatchewan Canada and the winters can be nasty

[Player_Zero]

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Why did they cancel Clone High!?!?! I want to know what happens!!! DAMN YOU, CLIFFHANGERS!!!!

Wow, that's some slow reaction time you've got there.

What annoys me more is that there isn't any new Venture Brothers.

[Dragonrider]

Ya I live in Saskatchewan Canada and the winters can be nasty

Ah. Yes. Well, I live in southeastern Washington, where the winters are pretty mild most years. We get snow, but not till late December.

[Gullara]

Ah. Yes. Well, I live in southeastern Washington, where the winters are pretty mild most years. We get snow, but not till late December.

Lucky I can't stand the cold *shudders*

[CurlyKitGirl]

Aaaaah, two of my Christmas presents arrived today. Which?
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature and The Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary.
The joys of parents. And I mean that in a non-sarcastic way. Not only do I genuinely want both of these books for my own enjoyment, it also turns out they're both course books. Obviously, the latter fact came first even before I knew what they were, but I still really want them for myself.
Come on. How many children ask for, and get, an Old English dictionary for Christmas. I'm working my way up the Wierdest Christmas Present Ever Requested List. That probably eased me up from Geeky But Hardly Ever Weird to Quite Geeky And Slightly Weird.

And now I get to enjoy translating thirty-six lines of The Battle of Maldon without looking at a single translation; we have to do a commentary on it, so no cheating. Also they don't want it interfering with our floundering in a new language and making assumptions on the language based on what may very well be an inaccurate translation.
By Io, the Lady and Om, I haven't had to do a blind translation since I was in Y7 and doing French, and even then I could vaguely guess what was happening.
Actually, still can, but it's not the same. I can pick out words, pronouns are easy; but the inflections are despicable.

I had one solitary moment a few weeks ago where I wished I had studied German, but then the insanity faded. It would still be useful though. I can remeber German numbers, 'Ich heibe Koorly' and 'Rathaus'. That's all.
Meh.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Wasn't it ''ich bin Dallas''?

Or perhaps ''heibe'' was ''am called'' where as ''bin'' is ''am'', so both would be correct....

Also apprently my english is nearly good enough to get accepted by english uni. Orso I was told.(By checking online how high my results actually are compared to things)

Sadly I can't go check on the internet, since I have to get some rest now.

[Kneenibble]

Ahh, the Battle of Moldon...
I love how there's those two cowardly thanes who flee the battle who are mentioned by name, though I forget them now, and will go down forever in infamy. When our class studied that piece we wanted to write graffiti all over the school like, "X IS A COWARD!!"
...or, "X ond X beođ earge!" (edit: is that right? it's been a while)

Can I recommend some reading, Curly? The Anglo-Saxon translation of Genesis attributed to Caedmon is really cool, the devil's character is made an anti-hero a lot like Lucifer in Paradise Lost.

5 degrees? that's almost summer! Here in Winnipeg it's 30 degrees below that.

And after a November warmer and less snowy than May, we are having a December where so far the highs each day have been lower than the weather station's average recorded lows. Weirdest year for weather in my life.

Ah well, it's just more evidence that the government is secretly testing weather control technology.