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    Default Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182

    Well, I've been meaning to do this for a while and here we are.

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    Default Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182

    But the previous random banter was Dimonite's Decidedly Draconic Devious Discussions! Not Serpentines Secretly Sapphic Sacrarium of Salaciousness!

    And naturally, you've edited your post already.

    Oh well...


    Anyway... Anyone got advice for dealing with the tiny insect that keep flying around my monitor?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    But the previous random banter was Dimonite's Decidedly Draconic Devious Discussions! Not Serpentines Secretly Sapphic Sacrarium of Salaciousness!

    And naturally, you've edited your post already.

    Oh well...
    Yep. Was trying to edit it beforehand, but Cloudflare wasn't delivering the site so I had to wait.

    As regards the bug, assuming you have no reason to believe it harmful and/or endangered, I'd say to just swat it with something and clean up. Much as it may sound callous, the few that you might kill should be far less than the reproductive rate of any insectoid species...
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    Default Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182

    I know... But it's rather quick.
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    Default Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182

    They always are- patience is going to be important here (even though it may be in short supply)

    Also, in the event of illogically placed commas, tap the monitor slightly in case they,fly away...
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    Well, Deadpool was a surprisingly nice thing to wake up to, haha!

    Which is odd as you'd usually think it was disturbing to wake up to him.
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    I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
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    I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coidzor View Post
    Well, Deadpool was a surprisingly nice thing to wake up to, haha!

    Which is odd as you'd usually think it was disturbing to wake up to him.

    Yeah, I also found that a hilarious way to start my day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AtlanteanTroll View Post
    I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
    Yaaaaay. *claps at AT with clappiness*

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    Reposted from last thread, because I somehow always manage to miss the new one. By two hours. I'm a slow writer at times...

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    That version is actually quite relaxing. But this song is far more relaxing.
    60 bpm is too high for my resting pulse. I just end up feeling more stressed by it. That said, messuring my own pulse is a bit tricky, because feeling my own pulse stresses me as well for some obscure reason, causing a higher pulse, and more stress.

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    Got too little sleep, lost track of time and realised that I'd be late for school. We've been caught in a freaking tropical storm as well (moderate wind, mostly rain), so I didn't feel like going, and determined from the course webpage that the lab we'd have today (automata theory) seemed easy enough to do on my own later. I actually tried downloading the source code for the software that we're supposed use and compiling it on my own, but after failing to include one header file despite giving the correct search path, missing another entirely, having to install the third set of third-party software and getting a string that's too long for the system to handle (over 65025 characters of auto-generated code), I just gave up and removed all traces of my efforts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teddy View Post
    ...We've been caught in a freaking tropical storm...
    But... You're in Sweden! Tropical storms might as well be mere legends told to you by travellers from distant lands!
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    Guys, stop telling me I'll be ok. I know I'm going to be fine, that doesn't stop me worrying about a big vague mess of undefined potential crises

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    I guess so. The advent of timeline has made one of the best lines in that song obsolete, but I guess some people might still get a kick out of it. I'm glad to hear it made you smile, anyhow.

    On a related note, people who frequent coffee shops, what kind of songs do you like to hear?
    My ideal coffee shop music would be ambient, like Starfade. Maybe some soft electro, such as mind.in.a.box or the lighter side of VNV Nation. These suggestions may or may not actually be helpful

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teddy View Post
    Perhaps it was smulpaj (or not, because smulpaj is delicious and certainly not made with choclate).
    The key word in my earlier post was "savoury", i.e. not sweet. Basically, any of the various types of meat (including beef, chicken, lamb, etc.) or vegetarian substitutes.

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    I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
    Yo AT your avatar is broken.

    Anyway, concerning the "Killed it for me" comment last night, I'm thinking it would of been better to say "what killed me" instead. That would of gotten my point across more better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    But... You're in Sweden! Tropical storms might as well be mere legends told to you by travellers from distant lands!
    Yeah, that's kind of the gist of it. It apparently made an amazing job evading the entirety of North America, and decided that it'd be a nice idea to go over and harass some Scandinavians instead for a change of pace. It's currently strong squalls and overcast, but no rain and and the clouds are fairly thin.

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    The key word in my earlier post was "savoury", i.e. not sweet. Basically, any of the various types of meat (including beef, chicken, lamb, etc.) or vegetarian substitutes.
    Yeah, but since you started off by disbelieving the whole concept of a crumbly crust, I'd already gotten the idea. And since LaLa didn't specify if it was savoury or not (until afterwards), I still felt it was appropriate, given that the name literally translates to "crumb pie".

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    Yo AT your avatar is broken.
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    Anyway, concerning the "Killed it for me" comment last night, I'm thinking it would of been better to say "what killed me" instead. That would of gotten my point across more better.
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    I can't see it either. But I thought it was my browser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teddy View Post
    Yeah, but since you started off by disbelieving the whole concept of a crumbly crust, I'd already gotten the idea. And since LaLa didn't specify if it was savoury or not (until afterwards), I still felt it was appropriate, given that the name literally translates to "crumb pie".

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    Hmm. LaZombie.

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    I'd rather not be a zombie, but if I was it'd be like the ones in "Death Becomes Her".

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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    Yo AT your avatar is broken.

    Anyway, concerning the "Killed it for me" comment last night, I'm thinking it would of been better to say "what killed me" instead. That would of gotten my point across more better.
    "Would have", don't you mean? (Sorry).
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    I suddenly considered making a post concerning language evolution and the divergence of the spoken tongue from the written text...
    Is that what awaits English? Rampant bilingualism as the written language atrophies and the spoken language continues to evolve to a form unintelligible to today?
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    "Would have", don't you mean? (Sorry).
    LaZodiac gets so much wrong with language, I wouldn't even know where to start, so I don't bother.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rawhide View Post
    Man, anime conventions and stuff look so cool, but I'd never be able to go.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    "Would have", don't you mean? (Sorry).
    My writing is half written have spoken. Sometimes I use qualities of written dialoge (ie, brackets like this and what not) and sometimes I use qualities of speaking dialoge (like yha, would of could of should of instead of have, and so on).

    And yes, yes, I'm terrible at this whole english thing
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rawhide View Post
    LaZodiac gets so much wrong with language, I wouldn't even know where to start, so I don't bother.
    But if you don't tell them they'll never know!

    (Although I suspect you're right).
    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac
    My writing is half written have spoken. Sometimes I use qualities of written dialoge (ie, brackets like this and what not) and sometimes I use qualities of speaking dialoge (like yha, would of could of should of instead of have, and so on).
    It actually took me a couple of minutes to parse that (did you do that on purpose?)

    The thing is, "would of" is wrong even in spoken language. "Would've" is fine, but as soon as the "-ve" turns into "of", it loses grammatical sense.
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    I suddenly considered making a post concerning language evolution and the divergence of the spoken tongue from the written text...
    Is that what awaits English? Rampant bilingualism as the written language atrophies and the spoken language continues to evolve to a form unintelligible to today?
    To the language thread!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    The thing is, "would of" is wrong even in spoken language. "Would've" is fine, but as soon as the "-ve" turns into "of", it loses grammatical sense.
    Actually, technically, based on the accepted pronunciation of the word of and the contraction would've... When someone thinks they're saying "would of", they're actually saying "would've", but with more emphasis on the 've.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    Actually, technically, based on the accepted pronunciation of the word of and the contraction would've... When someone thinks they're saying "would of", they're actually saying "would've", but with more emphasis on the 've.
    Yes, but once it is written, then it is a grammatical error.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aedilred View Post
    But if you don't tell them they'll never know!

    (Although I suspect you're right).

    It actually took me a couple of minutes to parse that (did you do that on purpose?)

    The thing is, "would of" is wrong even in spoken language. "Would've" is fine, but as soon as the "-ve" turns into "of", it loses grammatical sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    Actually, technically, based on the accepted pronunciation of the word of and the contraction would've... When someone thinks they're saying "would of", they're actually saying "would've", but with more emphasis on the 've.
    Yha, that's basically my problem. My head internalizes the internet as a given factor of real, so some words get spelt the way they sound, like would've being "would of"

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