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2010-09-04, 01:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I had lunch with a Holocaust survivor today. I can't tell you quite how I feel. Privileged to have met him barely covers it.
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2010-09-04, 01:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Speaking of annoying grammatical errors. Two of my brothers use "much" instead of "many". For example, "How much pies are there?" Every time I hear it I practically scream "many!" at them
Also, I always forget the difference between, please don't shoot me, "its" and "it's". Could somebody clear that up for me?
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2010-09-04, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 01:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I talked with a Hibakusha while in Japan. It was akward and enlightening.
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2010-09-04, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
It's the only kennin' I have.
Except for the fact that a kenning is also a word in OE which has a wholly poetic meaning such as banhus (bone-house) meaning body.
So while I only have one kenning, I know many more.
But Gilt is meant to be gilt! Hes supposed to be florid nd so over-the-top the idea of him actually being a pirate or villain is impossible.
v.v
I have a confession to make.
I still haven't read it. I got ill last night - the kind of ill where you can handle being out of the house for maybe ten, fifteen minutes tops.
Dad won't buy it yet either.
This is the longest I've been without reading a new Discworld release the day of its release since Monstrous Regiment. All the others were either the day of, or the day afterwards.
Thank you. :smallevil:
Best bit about that was I eventually went to bed about four o'clock this morning, and maybe ten minutes later I started getting The Cough a la Marble Hornets, and the milkman comes around half four on a Saturday. But he was early today.
I was smirking into the darkness about how Slender Man-y it was with the distorted shadow of the milkman in his headlines emblazoned across the ceiling while I coughed.
Oh the delicious irony.
The trio of blogs is still very tempting. I fell asleep thinking about how certain qualities of the Slender Man were evocative of the UnSeelie.
And then dreamt about buying a copy of House of Leaves.
That's amazing! I do remember your English was fairly poor, but for it to be that good in so short a while is fantastic.
And they say internet forums don't teach you anything.
Tell her to pretend she's a grown up writing something boring.
I acquired a formal style of writing by reading. Then Y10 came with actual coursework, and we had Practice Coursework and lessons on writing a formal essay.
Dull.
Most people found it hard doing the transition from fairly formal Formal Work and Proiects to Super Formal Work, but I blinked.
I blamed my reading for it. Still do
IRN (In Related News):
Suffering from my lack of Discworld and being ill today I picked up H2G2 for the first time ever today.
The book Dad has only has the first four in the trilogy of five (or six), and I've only been reading for three hours. I'm on chapter ten of The Restuarant at the End of the Universe.
Review when I'm done with Book the Second?
Prolly.
I've had some giggles though.
Bathatar!
Squid bones are lies.
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2010-09-04, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
BANG → !
OH LOOK AT HER/.../YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN MEAN/RICHARDS
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2010-09-04, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Singular? This from one of the major contributors of the 'Shipping Thread, the shared virgin's-milk mythos from which one would draw kennings if one had paid considerably more attention than I had? Without you, we would have fewer. Mind, with as many references to other existing material as you had, the 'shippers probably obtained more unique mythos per paragraph from Cristo Meyers than anyone else, but for synthesis you reign supreme.
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2010-09-04, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Well my brains are just messed, I can speak really basic French and German, but anything past ''really basic'' is refused by my brains.(And the really basic parts have only been shoved in by countless years of practice)
In fact, I failed a couple of high school years because of my inability with Latin, French and German.
And it's already been around 3 years, time passes quickly, eh?
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2010-09-04, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I remember my first posts on gitp....
They looked somewhat like this:
hey im looking for a few peple to play an asianthemes pbp game with if your intrested please tel me٩๏̯͡๏)۶
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2010-09-04, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Yeah, mine were like that too, except the actual content, which was more like ''hey, wahts up?''
A rather scary TEN THOUSAND posts ago.
o.0
Also, strawberries are delicious. And will totally conqour the-fruit-which-must-not-be-talked-about.
*hugs* I love you all. Ready for round two?
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2010-09-04, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
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2010-09-04, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
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2010-09-04, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 07:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-04, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
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2010-09-04, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I ask because apron
iswas an incorrect spelling. The correct spellingiswas napron.
How many of you would spell it as napron and be upset at the usage of the incorrect word apron? Instead of writing "a napron", so many people wrote "an apron" instead, that the word napron has been dropped from dictionaries and replaced by the word apron. I bet there were many purists back in the day complaining about its misuse...
P.S. Though, personally, I do think we should try to avoid the use of the word irregardless. We don't need another situation like inflammable/flammable.
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2010-09-04, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
In fairness, not too much could go wrong from misunderstanding the word "apron". A baking-related delay, perhaps.
Regardless vs irregardless has a bit more chance of a serious misunderstanding, but probably most people will work it out.
Flammable vs inflammable, however. That could lead to a terrible misunderstanding indeed....
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2010-09-04, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Amusingly, the rise of "flammable" is precisely on the basis of the fact that people might think "inflammable" was the inverse of "flammable" rather than a derivative of "inflame" (which is indeed where it actually came from).
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2010-09-04, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Irregardless of your beliefs, a napron is inflammable.
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2010-09-04, 11:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
I really don't like drunken people. They both repulse and disgust me. They think I'm a pathetic idiot for not wanting to get drunk with them, and tell me that I don't know how to have fun, and that I'm boring.
And yet they still try to drag me into talking with them
Go away. You're drunk, and I think you're pathetic for feeling the need to get that way because you think it's fun.
Sick of people putting me down because I don't get drunkWitness my glory and know that when my darkness fades, if you yet live, it is because an ally does not.
AN EMPTY SPOT WITHIN MY CRAW CRAVES YOUR FLESH, YOUR BONES BLED RAW!
YOUR FEAR! YOUR FEAR! SO SWEET! SO STRONG! TO TEASE MY TONGUE, YOUR LIVES ARE GONE!
YOUR ODDS UNFAVORED, MY WEB TOO STRONG! SPEED WON'T NEGATE A LINE STEPPED WRONG!
YOU DARE? DARE SMITE THIS AWESOME BEAST? YOUR FATES ARE SEALED AS MY NEXT FEAST!
HEED THIS BECK AND HEAR THIS CALL! FIGHT ME STILL, YOUR WILLS SHALL FALL!
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2010-09-04, 11:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Screw them. You don't have to be drunk to be cool, Naoto.
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2010-09-05, 12:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Don't mistake that for not drinking water if you're overheated. Go ahead and do that, please.
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2010-09-05, 01:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
+1 post of agreement.
Getting drunk isn't a requirement of coolness. In fact, it'd give you a coolness penalty unless associating with other drunk people.
I've never been more than tipsy. And that was 1-small-cup-of-punch tispy. Not a fan of going any further. Not being in control sucks.
I'll make one exception. A game of Baron Munchausen is bound to be more fun if everyone is just slightly drunk
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2010-09-05, 01:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2010-09-05, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147
Well, someone has to.
These, however, are getting too picky.
Hit them with something.
Well, I think they went for looking so disreputable no-one could believe he was actually so.
Illness bad (TreeCurly pretty)
Yay! Excellent books them.
I was looking at mine the other day. I've changed a bit, and stopped posting in the OotS discussion threads at all (I only did occasionally anyway), but not such a great deal of difference in manner I think.
OK, that's bad, but you shouldn't generalise and lump all drunken people in with those who do this. I know some lovely drunken people.
ION: Spent much of yesterday at a friend's house. Got to play a bit on a gamelan. Played a ~6 hour game of mission Risk. Almost won, but then so did everyone else.
Of course, having had only 4 hours sleep due to I Shall Wear Midnight and having to get up to meet said friend I was pretty knackered towards the end.
And now, I will shortly be going to the beach.Last edited by Thufir; 2010-09-05 at 08:38 AM.
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