Peebles' Perfectly Pointless Popular Prattle - Random Banter #211

[Skeppio]

I see nothing wrong with elbows on tables. How are you supposed to eat otherwise? Do you just keep your arms stuck behind the table like inefficient T-Rex arms?

Spoiler: Seemed appropriate

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Also, I see nothing wrong with having your elbows on the table. Gotta put them somewhere.

[Cyber Punk]

Ah, when I say 'elbows on the table' I mean 'just the elbows'. Forearms gotta be on the table, at least. Hovering hands are mighty uncomfortable.

Gotta put them somewhere, as Skeppio just said.

[Solse]

Ah, when I say 'elbows on the table' I mean 'just the elbows'. Forearms gotta be on the table, at least. Hovering hands are mighty uncomfortable.

Gotta put them somewhere, as Skeppio just said.

IMO, not only is just elbows socially frowned upon, it's uncomfortable. Forearms and elbows are also frowned upon, but at least you can enjoy your meal. Luckily I've never been to any dinners with any organization that requires formality, so I've never had to not put my elbows on the table.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I'm a Murikan. What is this "queue" of which y'all speak?

[Max™]

@AtlanteanTroll: I think it's the letter that comes after 'p', so I imagine they're talking about piddling on the shoes of the person beside you at a urinal, which is frowned upon here as well.

I not only don't put my elbows on the table, I keep my arms folded tightly against my chest and hold my utensils partially like a barbarian apparently. When I use a fork+knife and am cutting something I like to hold the fork like I'm going to stab someone with it, as it just makes my brain happy doing so. It can make it kind of awkward to turn it and get the cut portion into my mouth, and doing this on a date can make things really awkward looking... but I knew I had found my one true love when my woman not only found it to be cute that I eat like a barbarian, she wasn't put off when I occasionally throw my head back and roar like a T-Rex either.

[enderlord99]

I'm a Murikan. What is this "queue" of which y'all speak?

I'm not sure, but I think it's uptight-person language for "line you're supposed to stand in."

[HalfTangible]

I'm a Murikan. What is this "queue" of which y'all speak?

*also from America*

Queue. It means 'line'. As in 'line at the store'. Or 'line to get popcorn at the movies'.

>.>

[Solse]

You can tell someone's British when they post about queues. The most British thing I can think of is people queuing up to go onto a double-decker bus with a Union Jack draped over it, driving to the official Crumpet and Tea Emporium, a block away from Buckingham Palace where the Queen loudly proclaims the name of a cereal brand.

EDIT: I also think that AT was being tongue-in-cheek.

[Max™]

The most british thing I can think of is an Aston Martin Vulcan lined up alongside a Jaguar F Type R alongside a Mclaren P1 trying to play God Save the Queen with their exhaust notes.

Note: Preferably the Top Gear hosts would be the ones trying to do this, complaining the whole time about how crap the other two are at it.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I also think that AT was being tongue-in-cheek.

Indubitably so. I am surprised anyone thought I wasn't...

[LaZodiac]

Indubitably so. I am surprised anyone thought I wasn't...

Sounds like someone's got a reputation

[HalfTangible]

Finally saw Frozen.

It's not my favorite Disney film, but it's up there. Strong symbolism, some good visuals... There's a few plot points that don't make any sense or needed some more development, but overall it's really good.

[Rain Dragon]

Hair seems to grow out from short really quickly. I woke up one morning and it was at my shoulders.
I should probably get the ends trimmed, but this length is cool.

When 70% of the population called it white and gold, thats not proof that their eyes or their brains are defective. It means 70% of people like to crank up the brightness and contrast on their monitors too high.

I was starting to wonder about that...

I feel like I've managed to dodge this topic somewhat. I've not seen much of it anywhere but here, really.

[Septimus Faber]

You can tell someone's British when they post about queues. The most British thing I can think of is people queuing up to go onto a double-decker bus with a Union Jack draped over it, driving to the official Crumpet and Tea Emporium, a block away from Buckingham Palace where the Queen loudly proclaims the name of a cereal brand.

You forgot that we then tend to complain about it. We're odd folk, really.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Sounds like someone's got a reputation

I cannot seem to cipher out your comment ATM. Which is a bit ironic. Heh.

[Max™]

How is that ironic? :D

(hey, I did say a few posts back that I am the worst type of aspie-hole, and yes that is a deliberate merge of aspie and another word with the same first two letters which I don't think is appropriate to post here)

[enderlord99]

The website example.xxx is neither already-owned nor reserved-as-an-example (the only ones that are reserved as examples, IIRC, are example.com, example.net, and example.org.)

Someone should register example.xxx and make it just huge text that says "get a life, weirdo!" or something similar. I'd do it myself, but I don't know how to register domain names myself, nor do I have any money to do so with...

[FinnLassie]

After a week long holiday, I'm back at uni, clueless as always... And I don't feel rested at all. Why is it a norm that I always get ill during breaks?

[Qwertystop]

When 70% of the population called it white and gold, thats not proof that their eyes or their brains are defective. It means 70% of people like to crank up the brightness and contrast on their monitors too high.

Nope. Swung the brightness as far up and down as it goes on my phone and computer - the only time it doesn't look off-white/dirty-yellow is when it's too dim to actually make out the picture.

[LaZodiac]

I cannot seem to cipher out your comment ATM. Which is a bit ironic. Heh.

It means that "Oh, it appears AT has a reputation of being bit of a ditz, how unfortunate"

How is that ironic? :D

(hey, I did say a few posts back that I am the worst type of aspie-hole, and yes that is a deliberate merge of aspie and another word with the same first two letters which I don't think is appropriate to post here)

Wow, there is so much wrong with what you've just said that I cannot even begin to start explaining why it's awful.

Like, I mean it's likely all intended as a joke, but wow man.

After a week long holiday, I'm back at uni, clueless as always... And I don't feel rested at all. Why is it a norm that I always get ill during breaks?

Oof, feel better soon Finn *nurse mode*

[enderlord99]

Wow, there is so much wrong with what you've just said that I cannot even begin to start explaining why it's awful.

Like, I mean it's likely all intended as a joke, but wow man.

Both words mean, very approximately, "person with more empathy than a true sociopath, but much less than a 'normal' person." The difference is that one is an official diagnosis and the other is an insult. I have that diagnosis, and I actually don't find that post particularly offensive.

Only slightly.

[LaZodiac]

Both words mean, very approximately, "person with more empathy than a true sociopath, but much less than a 'normal' person." The difference is that one is an official diagnosis and the other is an insult. I have that diagnosis, and I actually don't find that post particularly offensive.

Only slightly.

So do I I'm just more surprised by him using it to make a kind of offensive joke/excuse for not understanding something. If you don't understand something I think it's perfectly alright to just say you don't, and using a mental condition as a crutch is wrong. But that's just my thoughts on it. I'm not even actually offended.

AT ANY RATE, I had a weird sort of nightmare last night I'd like to share, because in retrospect it isn't actually all that nightmareish, just super silly. I only remember two parts, and they are as follows. I'm at the store and Dad said he'll buy me a game, but I can't find any I want. The second part is that I was being advanced upon sexual by Sheldon from Big Bang Theory because I was wearing green, which is really more just disgusting then scary.

[Cuthalion]

I have an art thread again....

Not going to do dailys here, I think, but other stuff sure.

[Rawhide]

As far as I've seen, if you want to queue jump, you should ask politely and/or have a good reason for doing so, otherwise people will disapprove verbally.

Also, on the subject of elbows on the table: it occurs to me that I've never done that. I checked myself and I automatically leave them off the table.

I see nothing wrong with elbows on tables. How are you supposed to eat otherwise? Do you just keep your arms stuck behind the table like inefficient T-Rex arms?

Someone once tried to claim that the rule used to be that you always put your elbows on the table, because that meant you couldn't easily get at a hidden knife and assassinate someone. Then the rule later changed to not putting your elbows on the table, in order to show that you trusted the people enough to assume that they weren't going to assassinate you.

But I can find no verification of this anywhere, so it's probably false. More likely, it came from a time when putting your elbows on the table could unbalance it and, like any tradition, gets enforced "just because" it is a rule, even though the reason has been long lost and no longer applies.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Having my first Vietnamese lesson right now over Skype. With someone in Hà Nội.

We're talking about floods and . . . the weather. How British.

[AtlanteanTroll]

How is that ironic? :D

Because HalfTan couldn't decipher my message properly, and then I couldn't decipher LaZ's. (Albeit for different reasons.) Although...

It means that "Oh, it appears AT has a reputation of being bit of a ditz, how unfortunate"

This makes no sense. Most people got it right away. Including the self-described "aspie-hole."

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Because HalfTan couldn't decipher my message properly, and then I couldn't decipher LaZ's. (Albeit for different reasons.) Although...

I've no regard for the current related dialogue, but I'm popping in because I know that he prefers not to be called HalfTan for future reference.

ION: How is everyone!? I had a moderate weekend. Went to the dentist, and it turned out alright here.

[LaZodiac]

Because HalfTan couldn't decipher my message properly, and then I couldn't decipher LaZ's. (Albeit for different reasons.) Although...

Maybe I missunderstood what you missunderstood, then.

I've no regard for the current related dialogue, but I'm popping in because I know that he prefers not to be called HalfTan for future reference.

ION: How is everyone!? I had a moderate weekend. Went to the dentist, and it turned out alright here.

I'm doing good! Hope you're doing well.

[HalfTangible]

I've no regard for the current related dialogue, but I'm popping in because I know that he prefers not to be called HalfTan for future reference.

ION: How is everyone!? I had a moderate weekend. Went to the dentist, and it turned out alright here.

He knows.

Because HalfTan couldn't decipher my message properly, and then I couldn't decipher LaZ's. (Albeit for different reasons.) Although...

I blame you

[FinnLassie]

I had a dream that I was with Kneenibble, watching birdies going all birb and doing all bird kinda stuff, like being cute, and when I woke up I started crying.