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2019-09-10, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
If they absolutely hated you they'd let you know. So it's probably not that.
On that note, why do people insist on shortening names? I've never referred to myself by a diminutive, my name tag explicitly has my full name (although I rarely wear it, seeing as I work in the kitchen), and I've even specifically requested my full name before. But apparently three syllables is too much for people these days.Last edited by halfeye; 2019-09-10 at 03:15 PM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2019-09-10, 03:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Dang. That's substantialy more dedication than I've ever mustered. Even when I was intending to try and watch everything I was sticking to surviving episodes, and I ended up leaving that goal somewhat by the wayside until they did the twitch marathons and I managed to fill in a lot of the Classic era.
I'm not going to fight you on Nightmare in Silver but Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks? Seriously?
YES. That three parter started out great and then the quality dropped like a stone.
Off the top of my head I think I'd agree with most of your choices for best episode of each Doctor.
Peter Capaldi is also my favourite Doctor if I have to choose but as far as 'not always the best scripts' I'd say that good peformances and themes elevating scripts of variable quality is just a general hallmark of Doctor Who, and has been since 1963."'But there's still such a lot to be done...'
YES. THERE ALWAYS IS."
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2019-09-10, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-10, 03:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
If they're not using their Customer Voice on you, it means they do like you. Please note that liking you doesn't mean "wants to date you" it just means a co worker that doesn't make them want to die.
In a work place, due to society being broken, reducing names to single syllables so that work can get down quicker is a regular practice wherever it's possible. In a less cynical view of things, maybe they don't know how to say your name properly in the full sense?
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2019-09-10, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Hate me if you want. But that's your issue to fix, not mine.
Primal ego vos, estis ex nihilo.
When Gods Go To War comes out March 8th
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2019-09-10, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Yes, but there's a world of difference between 'doesn't dislike' and 'wouldn't mind if I started a conversation in the staff room'.
That's a mildly friendly thing, diminutives of names are mostly in a friendly tone, there are exceptions, but most of the time those exceptions are fairly obvious. Calling someone <full_name> is mostly formal, and depending on how formal the situation is, may be unfriendly (if the situation if very formal, then formal is neutral and informal may be odd, if it's informal then formal is usually unfriendly, but if the person is typically formal may be neutral).
I have previously remarked that my full name being used is a sign of a close friend.
I know that like =/= fancy (not that it matters, I feel like I'm the only single person at work anyway), but as I said 'I'm willing to chat' and 'you don't make me want grab a knife' are two very different things.
In a work place, due to society being broken, reducing names to single syllables so that work can get down quicker is a regular practice wherever it's possible. In a less cynical view of things, maybe they don't know how to say your name properly in the full sense?
Some people go by diminutives. I don't. And yet apparently for something 'so minor' my preferences don't matter.Last edited by Anonymouswizard; 2019-09-10 at 04:14 PM.
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2019-09-10, 04:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
As long as you answered the questions, you answered the questions. All the rambling means is that they could follow your thought process more easily. In fact, thinking back, I think I've been more successful in interviews where I've rambled than ones where I've given concise answers.
I know the feeling (almost like we both have a developmental disorder that limits our ability to understand non-verbal cues or something).
On that note, why do people insist on shortening names? I've never referred to myself by a diminutive, my name tag explicitly has my full name (although I rarely wear it, seeing as I work in the kitchen), and I've even specifically requested my full name before. But apparently three syllables is too much for people these days.
I doubt Newton would have been very good in a Starbucks job. He'd be ridiculously overqualified, his people skills were notoriously attrocious and his hands were often covered in mercury, which would be a health and safety nightmare.
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2019-09-10, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I think it is important to remember that women are people too. Small talk is a skill, and it is considerwd impolite not to engage in it. Since women have more pressure to be polite there will be more pressure to engage in small talk.
Think of it as practice, do your best to engage at the same level. If they like you they will invite you into more meaningful conversations.
Newton's financial abilities were impressive, maybe a position on banking would have been better.
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2019-09-10, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-09-10, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Oh don't worry, apparently I'm just not trying hard enough
Like, I get what people are saying, but people don't understand what it's like to have social anxiety and an inability to read body language. I rarely start conversations with people because I can't tell if they're put off by me, and apparently there's something that puts people off beginning conversations with me.
But people just assume I have the abilities of a normal person, because that's easier than acknowledging that people can have conditions that affect their ability to socialise or read people.
As a society we just seem to have decided to lengthen names in formal situations and shorten them in informal situations and there's nothing that can be done. In school I had a friend Dan with the opposite problem; he used to carry around a book of baby names to explain to teachers that Daniel was a completely different name. They never listened.
Where did this come from? If it's directed at me, then I'm sorry I made the implication that they aren't.
Small talk is a skill, and it is considerwd impolite not to engage in it. Since women have more pressure to be polite there will be more pressure to engage in small talk.
Think of it as practice, do your best to engage at the same level. If they like you they will invite you into more meaningful conversations.
Newton's financial abilities were impressive, maybe a position on banking would have been better.
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2019-09-10, 04:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Tom Baker, right? Not Colin Baker?
You should watch Heaven Sent, that's some of the best Doctor Who ever.
Also, I don't know why, but I feel like you would enjoy Seven a lot.
I really like the way Magician's Apprentice dealt with Davros and that Genesis call-back was amazing.
[QUOTE=Thufir;24139221]Dang. That's substantialy more dedication than I've ever mustered. Even when I was intending to try and watch everything I was sticking to surviving episodes, and I ended up leaving that goal somewhat by the wayside until they did the twitch marathons and I managed to fill in a lot of the Classic era.[//QUOTE]
Well I had the luck of finding this website
which convienently gathered all classic episodes with fan subtitles (which has its perks and its downsides as always).
Heh. I hesitated to include it but it didn't have anything that was really bad in it (unlike, say Fear Her or Love and Monsters also from Ten) and I really like the whole idea of individua daleks turing good one way or another. It's not really better than some epsodes I did not include (like The Lodger or The Crusade) but I wasn't really making an exhaustive list.
I know, right!? It built the Monks hugely and they couldn't live up to that.
I was particularly disappointed that
SpoilerThey cured Twelve's blindness. That cheapens the ending of Oxygen and I thought it was great to have the Doctor cope with a disability especially one that was a direct consequence of him doing the right thing (sorta).
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2019-09-10, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I'll be honest, "someone who tolerates you as a co-worker" was intended as a joke on my part. It's probable that your co-workers do like you, since I mean you all go through the same **** together and proximity just means you'll get to know each other well over time.
Yeah, they should definitely ask. I imagine most people doing it are only doing it so as to not offend you with their feeble attempts at pronouncing the 'ct' sound. I do absolutely get it, and you should tell them as such. Or at least ask as to why they shorten it, and mention you're uncomfortable with it.
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2019-09-10, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
As someone with a short given name....doesn't help. People will ADD to your name if it is short. For example Tom will become Tommy. Or Tomahawk. Or Tombones. Or something equally daft....It may eventually drive you to take another name entirely that people seem to work with better (in my case my surname)....
Some people just have names that others decide don't fit them. And it kinda sucks.
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2019-09-10, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I know for me, my given name to be shortened would have had the front half chopped off (and the diminutive of that was associated with other names), so, that seems to have been a decent turnoff for people trying to nickname. Not that it would have stopped persistent people, but if you don't have a front bit that detaches nicely, I think you're more likely to have people full-name you.
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2019-09-10, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-09-10, 07:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
likely...but people are persistent...and nicknames may well have very little or nothing to do with one's actual name.
Cactus, Alien, Turbo, Lit, Brillow....All were nicknames various teachers had for me in high school. None have anything to do with my name...one rhymes with a modification of my surname that was popular for a hot thirty seconds.
So when I say it has as much to do if people think your name "fits" that's what I'm talking about....
hell Tarquin was the name my father wanted to give me...and some of my friends found out...and it became my nickname from some people...plus Tarko, Tark, etc from others. And that one kinda stuck...enough that I still use it for my names in online forums.
At least shortened names have some relation.
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2019-09-10, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-10, 08:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Hell, they can have nothing to do with one's actual anything. My nickname in high school was 'Russian Boy'. I'm not Russian. Not any kind of Slavic, or eastern European, or anything. Still ended up with 'Russian Boy'.
Not that I minded all that much, or I wouldn't have let myself get called Russian Boy for four years. But I still have no clue where it came from.
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2019-09-10, 09:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2019-09-11, 12:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-09-11, 01:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
This is a super-cynical view on things. I habitually shorten names, not because I want to be succinct, but because it makes me feel like I'm friends with them. I do it less often with spoken names than written, probably because I'm more anxious face-to-face, and nicknames are regular online, but still, if people have a nickname, I'll use it, because it makes me feel at ease.
That said, not listening when you're told people don't want you to use a nickname is highly inconsiderate, although not everyone has good memories (raise a hand everyone who have a hard time remembering names). I've had a pair of friends make general statements that they do not want a nickname to be used, so I stay off those.Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2019-09-11, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
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2019-09-11, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I think my cooking experiments have got out of hand. I just made myself hoisin turkey with tomatoes in vinegar reduction and rice.
It's not that anything's bad, it's just that the tomatoes would have worked better if I'd had access to balsamic vinegar instead of having to settle for white wine, and if they were served on a slice of toast as a starter, and the hoisin turkey needs a new vegetable dish (possibly a carrot or courgette salad). I might be reviving some of this if I ever host a dinner party.
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2019-09-11, 03:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
When I was in high school my "nickname" was Big Red (redacted), with a song made up about me.
In college it somehow became Warcraft in my speech and debate team, CJ among some of my friends. Then I accidentally got called Bob by someone, and a new member of the group thought C was for Cornelius. So I was Cornelius J Bob Jackson for absolutely no reason at all, any part of which was in interchangeable use and none of which was my name.
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2019-09-11, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
toss some at individual friends when they come over.
accept when they ask for help cooking when they host dinner parties
since you are there you get to dramatically increase your social circle.
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no I have never used stuffed beefheart to settle into new social groups I swear, whatever made you ask?
and I may think that carrot (being sweet) may not be the best pairing for a shared hosin sauce. Perhaps a more contrasting more bitter veg? Something Belgian (sprout or Endive) mixed in perhaps?
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2019-09-11, 03:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-09-11, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
No, but when served on the side carrot dressed with vinegar and a few additions works incredibly well with East Asian dishes. Although hoisin might not work with it, hmmm....
Maybe, if I leave the turkey in a cranberry-based marinade for three hours, then fry it with fresh herbs (I'm thinking rosemary, and maybe a sprig of thyme), them serve it with new poratoes and greens (for some reason my first instinct is kale, but I think green beans might work better). Wouldn't really be able to serve it with a cranberry sauce if I did that, but a good marinade (maybe fresh cranberries, some white wine vinegar, a teaspoon of sugar, and some freshly ground pepper) and proper seasoning should remove the need for it.
A big problem I have is a lack of opportunities for help and friends who won't ask for my help cooking. Which is a shame, because I'm probably the most technically proficient chef among my circle of friends (being the only one who has ever flambéd, and being able to juggle about four pans which all require my attention at times).
Part of the problem is the lack of opportunities, which is a shame as I love cooking for others. I'm wondering if I could pull off getting a turkey dish into the staff Christmas party, it'll depend when it is and where I am over Christmas, and I'll need a good way to make 50+ portions that can be essentially eaten as finger food. Which means I either need to avoid sauce or go all the way to sticky...
Oh, I know that food is a great way to get people to like you, it's just a lack of opportunity (if there's a BBQ party or the like at work the chef does the cooking, and most of my friends don't host). I do, however, have an agreement with a friend that I'll cook her something English and vegetarian when she's better, so I need to work out a good substitute for beef/lamb in a cottage/shepherd's pie.
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2019-09-11, 04:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
Side employment:
Professor Emeritus:Studies of Supernatural Events and Countermeasures;
Miscatonic University, Nashville Campus
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2019-09-11, 05:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-11, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I need to find more London bases friends, I've got a great dinner+games evening planned (duck, sealed before being boiled in fresh plum sauce, served alongside mashed potatoes, broccoli, and carrots, followed by stewed apples with custard, topped off by board games or roleplaying), but given the lack of ability to host people for the night I might have to switch to a dinner and games afternoon with a meal that requires less attention (Coq au Vin or Irish Stew, for example). Then I could add another person or two if I could find interested people.
I mean, I know the way to a (wo)man's heart is through their stomach, but I still have to meet said (wo)man before I can suggest a cheese and wine evening.
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