Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106

[RightHandless]

Psh.

When I stare, it's into space. People just usually go "WTF..."

One of my friends said he thought I was having a brain anneurism (can't spell it for my life... Dx).

Playgrounders with low Wisdom scores for the win.

What always gets me is that I tend to carry on doing whatever it was I was doing when my mind started to wander. Usually I will be jolted back to reality when my brain demands some kind of conscious input on a matter, leaving me frantically trying to figure out what I was doing before I started to daydream while my body is half frozen in the middle of an action.

[Oregano]

Can anyone tell me how to pronounce Noh and Kabuki?

[Neko Toast]

Can anyone tell me how to pronounce Noh and Kabuki?

'Noh' sounds just as it is spelled, really.

'Kabuki' is Kah-Buu-Key.

[Oregano]

'Noh' sounds just as it is spelled, really.

So is it like No, or softer sounding?

'Kabuki' is Kah-Buu-Key.

So I had this right, thank god.

[Neko Toast]

So is it like No, or softer sounding?

It is a softer sounding 'no', as if combining the words 'no' and 'oh'.

[UncleWolf]

Wait. Stop there.
The only test I've taken is the one for entering the military.
I can't, for the life of me, remeber what its called now.

I scored in the 93rd percentile. This continues to haunt me whenever the Senior Enlisted need to come down on me for something.

"You scored a 93 on your <Drawing a blank>, so you obviously aren't dumb..."

It is called the ASVAB. When I had to take it freshman year I got in the 81st percentile, I'd definitely score higher now.

and it is a softer sounding no, there were a few sounds like it in Korean.

EDIT: Looks like someone beat me to the punch.

[Oregano]

It is a softer sounding 'no', as if combining the words 'no' and 'oh'.

Right, thanks, I wasn't sure on the pronounciation as I've only read them; didn't want to look like an idiot.

[Player_Zero]

So, I was attempting to compile the saddest and most depressing media you could find for no particular reason. Anyone got any suggestions?

[Dr. Bath]

Daily Mail, Daily Express... I find them depressing.

[Oregano]

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt.

I personally find a lot Queen's later work with Freddie sad, especially These are the Day of Our Lives and Let me Live(which is made all the worse by him dying before he finished it and the majority being sang by Roger[or is it Rodger?] Taylor and Brian May).

[Lyesmith]

Daily Mail, Daily Express... I find them depressing.

I Object!
The Daily Mail is hi-larious. Especially in summer.

[Oregano]

I Object!
The Daily Mail is hi-larious. Especially in summer.

Ahhh Summer in the media, AKA Paedo hunt season.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Media as in all kinds?
Well, Bloody Sunday has had people commit suicide over it. A lot of war poems are depresing.
Remember years ago you had that Mad World song as Christmas number one? Third most depressing Christmas song ever.

Have a 200 word French essay in tomorrow. Status: not done.
Have two French listening exercises in tomorrow. Status: not done.
Should have three free hours tomorrow. Don't. Have an interview prep session.
I've also come to the conclusion that French is the exam I would be happy to get a B on. Everyting else I want As in. Curse my varied degree applications.
French annoys me with the fiddly homeworks.
I don't like French at the moment, but I love the class.

Hate math. Love my Englishes, always have, always will.
Oddly, I was GAT for math in primary school. Lost interest in it and well, didn't do as well as I did in everything else at GCSE.
I've always known what I liked, disliked and was planning to do/might have wanted to do later on which is why I never put any effort into: PE (but who does anyway - I pity the people at my old school now as they have to do a compulsory PE GCSE and (get this) have to spend PE lessons discussing tactics and plans for teams sports - I mean, who does anything of the sort and sticks to it when you're 11 - 16 and doing it for fun?!); music, art, dance, drama (used to love it; lost it after we moved to my second primary and wasn't allowed to join a single club); food, textiles; woodwork; electronics and ICT.
Imagine my surprise when I had to take an ICT GCSE quivalency test at college.
Oh, and my sister in Y8 is already preparing to take a Humanities GCSE next year. The. Whole. Year. Is. This is not a private school.
They combined History, Geography and RE.
I was appalled when I found that out. It's like, like, teaching math and all the sciences at once.
School's gone to the dogs.

EDIT:
More depressing media:
Who Want To Live Forever? by Queen and both versions of The Show Must Go One (the one with Freddie singing lead vocals and the one after he died with Elton John singing lead vocals). They knew he was dying so it makes it all the worse when you read and listen to the lyrics of both.
And I've made people cry by writing stories based on them.

[Oregano]

Bloody Sunday

You mean the film? Because I'm supposed to watch it for film and go to Northern Ireland to go to the place it happened and everything.


EDIT:
@Curly: Who Wants to Live Forever is less a reflection on the band and more about Highlander(and immortality), although it still is sad. He was also quite well at the time, although I think he'd already been diagnosed.

[CurlyKitGirl]

You mean the film? Because I'm supposed to watch it for film and go to Northern Ireland to go to the place it happened and everything.


EDIT:
@Curly: Who Wants to Live Forever is less a reflection on the band and more about Highlander(and immortality), although it still is sad. He was also quite well at the time, although I think he'd already been diagnosed.

I thought it was a song. Wait; it might be Gloomy Sunday.

And the song can take on poignant tones afterwards. Can you listen to the song without thinking of the ironies involved?
No.
So even if it wasn't written in presonse/around the time of them knowing he was dying it still evokes such thoughts.

[Dr. Bath]

It's a U2 song. And it is pretty depressing. That is, unless you don't listen to the words, then it's not so bad. Unless you're thinking of some other song.

Gloomy Sunday would be the suicide one.

ARGH

Now my speakers AND my headphones are broken.

[Player_Zero]

That song is awful. It really is.

Not because it's supposed to be depressing, it just sounds really bad.

[Oregano]

It's a U2 song. And it is pretty depressing. That is, unless you don't listen to the words, then it's not so bad. Unless you're thinking of something else.

ARGH

Now my speakers AND my headphones are broken.

Yer there's a film aswell, they're both about the massacre in Northern Ireland.

And the song can take on poignant tones afterwards. Can you listen to the song without thinking of the ironies involved?
No.
So even if it wasn't written in presonse/around the time of them knowing he was dying it still evokes such thoughts.

I know, it was more because it reminds me of Highlander and the sadness of that rather than the band.

[UncleWolf]

For any who may want to know, Saving Private Ryan just started on TNT

[wadledo]

Well, in other, less exciting news, I just got back from a weekend of college visits, working, and eating massive amounts of candy until my mouth feels like my teeth are made of batteries.

[ghost_warlock]

Aww, thanks. Workin' on the scholarshippy stuff...

I've always loved learning. English is definitely my best subject, which is good, seeing as I intend to be a writer.

That's what I originally intended to do...sort of. But I lost momentum. That is, I got injured working on an art project my senior year of college and a long conversation with the surgeon who fixed me up resulted in me enrolling in a college several hundred miles away.

BTW, I'm curious about something...the other day I was having a conversation with my grandfather, and he kept insisting that it sounds like you're being falsely pretentious to say "I'm writing a novel", whereas "I'm working on a novel" is somehow less so. I'm not buying it.

Granted, this is the grandfather who had cancer last year and who, as a result of the radiation and other treatments, has completely lost his "acceptable to say" filter.

I think if my maternal grandfrather said this I'd give him a hug, thank him for the advice, and then go back to ignoring him.

If my paternal grandfather said this, I wouldn't even know because I haven't spoken to him in years. He's stinky.

[Phase]

Now my speakers AND my headphones are broken.

I just recently ordered a new pairof headphones. The previous ones kept trying to stab Ella Fitzgerald.

[Lemur]

I can't help but think that Kiwi! is sad, although not in a depressing way.

And the phrase "The Show Must Go On" made me think of Pink Floyd's the Wall, which is kinda depressing, but not really in sad way. I'd have to describe it as more of an assault on your psyche, at least for the movie. I don't find the songs by themselves nearly as disturbing as the imagery in the film.

Meanwhile, the phrase "Who wants to live forever" reminds me of "No One Lives Forever" by Oingo Boingo, which is not depressing at all really.

[Felixaar]

...You know, some times I feel like a total idiot...

...then I read things like this.

I feel better after that.

[UncleWolf]

...You know, some times I feel like a total idiot...

...then I read things like this.

I feel better after that.

Well, if he had killed himself he would have earned a Darwin Award.

[bosssmiley]

Oh, and my sister in Y8 is already preparing to take a Humanities GCSE next year. The. Whole. Year. Is. This is not a private school.
They combined History, Geography and RE.
I was appalled when I found that out. It's like, like, teaching math and all the sciences at once.
School's gone to the dogs.

Of course it has, and deliberately so. I mean, we can't have the proles thinking for themselves, can we? If they're allowed to study the humanities as something other than dumbed down, homogenised mental pabulum they may come to the conclusion that the country is not as it should be. The sheep can't be allowed to know enough to object to their shearing.

Ahhh Summer in the media, AKA Paedo hunt season.

Monkey Dust. That is all.

"By the power invested in me by hysterical tabloid headlines and the unthinking proletarian masses..."

I just recently ordered a new pair of headphones. The previous ones kept trying to stab Ella Fitzgerald.

Your music critic headphones intrigue me, and I wish to know more.

For any who may want to know, Saving Private Ryan just started on TNT

Laziest. Theme tune. Ever.
Listen carefully, it's just the same 2-3 leitmotifs repeated over and over again.

[dish]

For any who may want to know, Saving Private Ryan just started on TNT

Laziest. Theme tune. Ever.
Listen carefully, it's just the same 2-3 leitmotifs repeated over and over again.

But it is a pretty depressing film, so may count towards P_Z's list.

I have planned this week's classes really badly. I'm doing two different segments in which I have to use my voice a lot. It's Monday evening and I can feel the strain in my throat already. I could be in serious trouble by Thursday.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Guess what?
We got one of those very old, very leaky buses to get to college today. The floor was practically a puddle and there were many people standing up. About six.
And the girl right up front slipped, banged her head into that pole in the entrance of the bus and fell. We were in the middle of traffic fairly near the college and had to stop and get her to a seat so we could move on.
She was practically unconscious.
An ambulance was waiting at the college for us when we came in. Ver' exciting.

Thus ends my tale of rain and leaky buses.

[Felixaar]

Ugh, I have a head cold, so I keep wanting to type in cold speak. Like this.

Ught. I hath a hed coldth tho I theep wanthino to thype inth colthe thpeah. Lith thiths.

Theoretically I can only have so much oogie boogie cold stuff in my nose, but man theres a lot in there... and I think I just rupture a nostril...

[Phase]

Ught. I hath a hed coldth tho I theep wanthino to thype inth colthe thpeah. Lith thiths.

Oh no! Felixaar happens to have so much mucus that his brain is suffering! Quickly! Get a new one!