Destro Yersul's Dangerously Distracting and Doubtlessly Disturbing Random Banter #103

[Destro_Yersul]

I'm torn between being impressed that you seem to know the words for military alphabet off by heart and the fact that that acronym severely confuses me, if Acronym it is.

[Oregano]

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Alpha
Beta Bravo, shouln't listened to my bro, I wouldn'y have been corrected then.
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee
....I'm thinking Zulu(but apparently it's not).

My brother actually said most of them, I knew about half of them.

EDIT: And c'mon people "The Nintendo Revolution" That's pure comedy gold!

EDIT 2: Spoilered now.

@V: My brother said Bravo, I chose to ignore him, how foolish of me.

[Dr. Bath]

Psst! It's Bravo, not Beta.

If you're fed up with Microsoft get a Mac. Or Linux.

[Dallas-Dakota]

I'm torn between being impressed that you seem to know the words for military alphabet off by heart and the fact that that acronym severely confuses me, if Acronym it is.

No its not a acronym....
And Bath stands correct.

And thenks.

[bosssmiley]

Summary of Jibar's Day: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGHHHHHHH!
HATE MP3 PLAYERS
HATE XBOX
HATE MICROSOFT

You might want to start reading Shamus Young and Lawrence Lessig.
They, like most sensible people, seem to be of the crazy old 19th century mindset of "you bought it, you own it, you can do with it what you like". Accordingly they think that intrusive DRM is the work of the devil.

On the plus side, I found myself a new hero. A man who perfectly reflects much of my personal philosophy and beliefs in the media.
Antonin Artaud.

Now he is a curious little Johnny Frog. Typical French wild overstatement of his - otherwise interesting - case, a nasty dose of existentialism and cultural self-loathing, copypastas Nietzsche with a conveniently-timed psychotic breakdown (193X-1946 ), responsible for numerous acts of cultural emesis in the guise of 'performance art', but at least he's not a worthless Marxist like 90% of recent French 'thinkers' seem to be.

Theatre of Cruelty? We in England call that 'immersive theatre' or simply 'good stage technique'.

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Alpha
Beta
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee

....I'm thinking Zulu(but apparently it's not)

It was Zulu in the old phonetic alphabet. AFAIR it's currently Zebra.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Dang typo´s, I see it now... Ment Zebra. And yes it was Zulu, and so I remember both....

Annoying.

[The Rose Dragon]

I think it is Zulu, but it used to be Zebra.

It was our homework to memorize those in 5th grade in English class. I live in Turkey. You do the math.

[Dallas-Dakota]

*can´t remember which one was first*

Also, I can poke a classmate twice and he´s down on the floor. When he was sitting normally. Studying. And not really hard pokes at that....

[Oregano]

I think Zulu's the old one.

I take it yous all know the weird thing about the phrase "over and out" then?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Note to self:
Do not watch the following shows while drinking fizzy pop (no particular order to this):
Buzzcocks
HIGNFY
Mock the Week
QI
Most shows on Dave

Reason:
You could spray your laptop/book/homework with the drink.
Your nose and nasal passages will burn.
It'll go down the wrong tubes.
All of the above.

Painful.
Also, I'm going to bed earlier and earlier every night. Sunday: half midnight. Monday: half eleven. Tonight: about ten or half past.

And tomorrow I'm essentially coming in from nine fifteen until four fifteen for an hour lesson starting at three fifteen.
I'm even going to do some optional homework during the boring times. Well, all of it.

[Rawhide]

Apparently, some pre-1956 alphabets that are not the NATO alphabet used Zebra, amature radio too apparently uses Zebra, but the NATO alphabet uses Zulu. If this is wrong, someone needs to update the wikipedia entry!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nato_alphabet

[Exeson]

In CCF the Phonetic alphabet we are taught it is Zulu. So at least that is the British version.

[Oregano]

That was the one I was told, but I think it was indeed changed.

Most peculiar.

Do you know what's weird about the phrase "over and out" Exeson?

[Destro_Yersul]

it's redundant?

Oddly enough, those codes seem to be one of the few things my pocket reference book doesn't have.

[bosssmiley]

Apparently, some pre-1956 alphabets that are not the NATO alphabet used Zebra, amature radio too apparently uses Zebra, but the NATO alphabet uses Zulu. If this is wrong, someone needs to update the wikipedia entry!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nato_alphabet

Bah humbug! These young tykes and their post-1956 phonetic alphabet. Zebras helped us defeat the Axis and replacing them with Zulus after the fact is just rank ingratitude.

[Oregano]

How do you mean Redundant? I think you do actually know what I know, although I could've been lied to anyhow.

EDIT: It's actually on Wikipedia, so it's probably a lie.

[InksGuy]

In an interesting new tangent: I finally got around to making an original avatar for myself! It's me!

Damnit, now this means I'm going to have to Cat-Muffinmicise it, doesn't it...

Well, it's not as if I was actually going to be doing that ever-growing pile of work now, was it?

[Phase]

Rack 'em and pack 'em. We're phantoms in fifteen.

And that's the extent of my military knowledge.

[Exeson]

Do you know what's weird about the phrase "over and out" Exeson?

It doesn't work, over means you are expecting a reply and out means that you are not. so it is a contradiction.

[Oregano]

Ding ding ding. That was the answer I was looking for.

So how many things have messed up by using that phrase?

@V: That sounds about right.

[Exeson]

Ding ding ding. That was the answer I was looking for.

So how many things have messed up by using that phrase?

Pretty much every Hollywood move in existence?

[Destro_Yersul]

It's redundant because both mean you're done talking.

I have a pocket ref book, which I like. It allows me to know things I have no need to know, like the '10' radio codes and the semaphore alphabet.

[CurlyKitGirl]

As dull as I thought; luckily I've been daydreaming and generally learning nothing whatsoever.
Done my optional homework last night. Exhausted today even thuogh I went bed at eleven - was watching Boris Johnsons' episode of HIGNFY. Ver' funny. Don't know why I'm so tired. Not much on tonight though so even earlier to bed tonight. At least I'm not nauseous all the time now. Stupid cold giving me a sore throat now.

Glad I'm in college though 'cause I've got unlimited monochrome printer credits and I've got lots of internet stuff I want to print off.
At least 200 pages. Doing it very slowly though. I mean, just one little document of mine is 29 pages.

Stream of conciousness rocks. As does my ability to take notes without paying attention to what's being said/is on the board. My mind loves auto pilot. That good or bad?

[TwoBitWriter]

I think its good. Back when I was still in school, every night, in my dorm room, I would hand-write a single sheet of college-ruled paper worth of random thoughts that I had at night, just before bed.

It is very cool to read over about a hundred or so of such pages and see how your thoughts evolve over a period of time.

I recommend you do stream of consciousness every night.

Edit: And when I got deliriously tired, I would compose random poetry. My favorite one was called "Ode to a Saucepan."

[Zeful]

Stream of consciousness can be hard, you have to not let the thoughts of you writting impeed on the writting. Metacognition at it's best.

[Tempest Fennac]

I was usually in bed by 21:30 when I was at home, but I've been stayin up a bit later since I started at university (I still wake up before 5:30, though).

[Jibar]

Summary of Jibar's Today

Lesson 1: Free period. Watch Animatrix. Find it awesome.

Lesson 2: Tutorial. Bleh. But we didn't have to do anything so it's cool.

Lesson 3: Philosophy. Find out new teacher not only knows who Alan Moore is, but likes graphic novels.

Lesson 6 (Lunch): Philosophy. Actually get some homework in. Find out nobody wants to save the rhinos.

Lesson 4: Drama. Messed around with our beginning. Intent on terrifying people now.

Lesson 5: English. Brilliant lecture on Chaucer.

Conclusion: Jibar's Today kicks Jibar's Yesterday's ass.

[bosssmiley]

Summary of Jibar's Today

Lesson 1: Free period. Watch Animatrix. Find it awesome.

Curate's egg of a collection that. Good in parts (2nd Renaissance & Beyond), but leavened with swathes of self-indulgent, badly-animated suck.

Lesson 2: Tutorial. Bleh. But we didn't have to do anything so it's cool.
Lesson 3: Philosophy. Find out new teacher not only knows who Alan Moore is, but likes graphic novels.
Lesson 6 (Lunch): Philosophy. Actually get some homework in. Find out nobody wants to save the rhinos.
Lesson 4: Drama. Messed around with our beginning. Intent on terrifying people now.
Lesson 5: English. Brilliant lecture on Chaucer.

Conclusion: Jibar's Today kicks Jibar's Yesterday's ass.

Jibar's Yesterday is now waiting in an alley to kick Jibar's today's ass back and then swap identities with it. As a result you may feel recurrent deja vu on Tuesday Thursday. Do not be alarmed, this is a normal side-effect of diurnal impersonation.

edit:
^v - Gak! I am the delicious manly Geordie filling in a Norfolk sandwich. Take off and smear this unholy masculo-gustatory concoction with horseradish from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.

[InksGuy]

Summary of Jibar's Today

Lesson 1: Free period. Watch Animatrix. Find it awesome.

The laptop apologises for re-formatting your MP3 player, and hopes you might find it in your heart (what little of it there is left ) to forgive, and presents the gift of Animatrixey awesomeness to calm thy raging soul...

That got wierd...

Yes indeed. (has nothing else to contribute)

[happyturtle]

omgomgomgomgomgomg!!!!!!!

David Morrissey might be the eleventh Doctor!!!!!!

*swoons*

Oh please let it be true and not just a cruel internet rumor!!!!!

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