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2019-08-12, 08:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
It's funnier without the comma since it implies no stopping in your saying it. There are no pauses in saying the phrase you say it all at once, and that carries a sort of intensity to it.
It might also be this! My brain is full of things that I piece my identity from.
Secret messages.
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2019-08-12, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I mostly use white text for delayed punchlines. Humor is an art that I like to explore with the dexterity of a kindergartener with watercolors.
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2019-08-12, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
It means the text has blended with the background
Now don't knock Radio 3, I have a cousin who produced a show on it. In honesty the key thing about Radio 3 is there's more leeway about what you can put on our, evening of it is mostly banging tunes these days.
I honestly still don't get the point of Radio 5 (Live).
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2019-08-12, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
YouBUTcanWHOalsoWOULDsimulateDOstrangeSOMETHINGvoicesLIKEwithTHAT?it.
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Call me Laco or Ladislav (if you need to be formal). Avatar comes from the talented linklele.
Formerly GMing: Riddle of Steel: Soldiers of Fortune
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2019-08-12, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Well I'm trying to cut down my coffee addiction. Today I drink one cup of coffee.
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2019-08-12, 10:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-08-12, 10:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-08-12, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-12, 11:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Yous all managed to talk for three pages before I was able to snap open my own can of thread participation goodness?! What are you people, social or something?
I mangled my ankle close to two weeks ago and it's still iffy. If it's still flipping the bird at me on Wednesday, ER time!Originally Posted by LaZodiac
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2019-08-12, 11:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Mix-Yez-Pittle-Ick. Of course, the real question is how to pronounce Kltpzyxm.
No, no, "I hate sports" was the previous random banter thread.
But seriously, if you want a pointless radio station try Radio 6. It's just Radio 1 with less talented presenters. Also apologies to anyone who isn't British and has no idea what we're on about.
I'm referring to the poetic movement roughly coterminous with the reign of George V (1910-1936). In hindsight, probably not a reference most non-UK playgrounders can reasonably be expected to get.
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2019-08-12, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-12, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Given that we're all on the internet, I'd say anti-social might be more accurate.
Free access to medical facilities and you put it off.... Well, in any event, I hope you don't need to go and it feels better soon.
Kci-Lkttip-Zey-Xim. Obviously.
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2019-08-12, 11:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-08-12, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-12, 12:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-12, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Forum Wisdom
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2019-08-12, 12:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Yes, I do feel that that probably does determine a general base level of comfort higher than possibly other combinations of the two. (Though, admittedly, not necessarily.)
Annoyingly, the more likely I am to want to hug somebody the more likely they are to respect my boundaries and not. Being autistic doesn't automatically mean I don't have a need for physical affection!
White text is along the lines of strikethrough, in it essentially being "meant" to be ignored - in white text's case, it's far less obvious about it, though. If you've only got a single line of it (rather than whole paragraphs), it's easy for something to be missed entirely, as there's no huge gap. So, usually, it's really only there as a personal joke (or if you expect the post to be quoted), rather than something that you'll expect everyone to see (like you would with strikeout).
That's fair. I just tend to have a thing about commas. There needs to be just the right amount. Sometimes I'll just go about splitting sentences into two just because they seem to individually have 'too many' commas, even if it makes perfect sense.
It might also be this! My brain is full of things that I piece my identity from.
Yeah, 'or something' sounds roughly about right.
I mangled my ankle close to two weeks ago and it's still iffy. If it's still flipping the bird at me on Wednesday, ER time!
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2019-08-12, 12:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-08-12, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
*shrugs*
We were aware of the basics of dating already in the earliest years in school. It isn't exactly complicated.
I'm almost violently opposed to time travel myself. To many stories with time travel create time loops where people go back in time and create that event or invention or piece of art which deeply inspired them in the future, and I just find such origin stories deeply unsatisfying.
That does change the meaning of the phrase, though. Not the formal logic of it, sure, but the subtle flavour.
It has no exact meaning, people use it to create hidden or semi-hidden messages for whatever reason they want something not immediately visible. Personally, I most often use it to either provide boring explanations to things that sound funnier unexplained, but which people undoubtedly will ask for an explanation for, in which case they'll see it when they quote me. Or (as was more the case in my last post) to put some distance between two bits of text where one is vastly less important than the other, and tons of line breaks just look ugly.
Oh dear no, the English language most definitely doesn't need even more sounds tied to the same letters only barely separable via context!
Ouch! Here's hoping for recovery! I'm not sure if you can talk about a swift such after two weeks already, but a soon such at least.
Hmm, I think there might a cultural difference in when people consider it time to seek medical attention between us Nordic countries and you North Americans, if my interaction with people on the Internet contra people I know around me are any indication. I don't know what it would be, though. Maybe a stronger sense of solidarity with society over here making people less willing to "burden the system with their trivialities". After all, just because it's mostly free doesn't mean there's an infinite capacity. Part of the unspoken social contract is recognising when you probably don't need help from the system, and refraining from using it in that case.Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2019-08-12, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
It's not, but it speaks to my naïveté that I was still really unaware into, like, high school. Go me.
I'm almost violently opposed to time travel myself. To many stories with time travel create time loops where people go back in time and create that event or invention or piece of art which deeply inspired them in the future, and I just find such origin stories deeply unsatisfying.
That does change the meaning of the phrase, though. Not the formal logic of it, sure, but the subtle flavour.
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2019-08-12, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
That sort of time travel can still have the stable time loop--you know, where someone in the present day gives you a watch, you take it with you into the past, and give the same watch to the younger version of that person? The entire time loop is the same each time through.
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2019-08-12, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Or maybe it's difficult to see a doctor? My GP surgery/practice, which has about six doctors, only allows making appointments 2 weeks ahead of time, and they keep some back to be available on the day, but either way most of them are gone by 8.30 (am), and the few they keep back to the afternoon are gone by 14.30.
So who made the watch, and when? seems wrong to me.Last edited by halfeye; 2019-08-12 at 02:11 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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2019-08-12, 02:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
I mean, except that's not exactly strictly stable. That watch is going to deteriorate over time, even disregarding the "where did it come from" problem - meaning that the loop will be at least a little different each time as things finally wear down.
But, that's the kind of thing that wouldn't happen in the 'fixed' timeline. If you gave something to someone that they weren't supposed to have, they'd somehow lose it before it really came into effect to damage the timeline, rendering it basically lost and scattered by the time it got to your time again. You'd never be able to start the loop in the first place.Last edited by DataNinja; 2019-08-12 at 02:18 PM.
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2019-08-12, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Uhm, for the record, are we talking about "dating" in the sense of being in a relationship, or "dating" in the sense of going out on a date?
I'm not really fond of that flavour of time travel either, because that in turn makes it feel kinda pointless, and also arbitrarily restricted by the universe. Sooner or later, some time researcher is going to attempt to mess up the timeline completely just to see how far the universe is willing to go in stopping them, and how do you write a story that resolves that in a smooth fashion?
In fact, the only story I can think of where the premise depended on time travel and which I truly enjoyed was Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, in which there, due to an event, exists a finite number of specific points in time when it's possible to open a portal to another specific point in time. That makes it possible to do time travel without forking timelines, and still enforce that history turns out the same way without making it feel like there are arbitrary limitations at play.
Somewhat, but usually not overly so. And in theory, that shouldn't significantly affect people's tendency to suggest you get your various ailments checked.Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2019-08-12, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-12, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
Watch 12 Monkeys. The movie, not the lame donkey tv series.
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2019-08-12, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
As in the sense of what, exactly, a relationship entailed. Because in my mind, "dating" was just going out, and doing whatever seemed fun (again, not in that sense) together. Basically, just... a closer brand of friendship, really. (Which, yes, I understand now that that's still the seed of things - if you're not close friends, it's probably not gonna work out - but in my mind, that's really all there was to it.)
So, there was me with the sense of "oh, yeah, a date is just, like, going out for dinner, bowling, whatever, just the two of you." And 'dating' was pretty much nothing else. Yeah.
I'm not really fond of that flavour of time travel either, because that in turn makes it feel kinda pointless, and also arbitrarily restricted by the universe. Sooner or later, some time researcher is going to attempt to mess up the timeline completely just to see how far the universe is willing to go in stopping them, and how do you write a story that resolves that in a smooth fashion?
In fact, the only story I can think of where the premise depended on time travel and which I truly enjoyed was Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates, in which there, due to an event, exists a finite number of specific points in time when it's possible to open a portal to another specific point in time. That makes it possible to do time travel without forking timelines, and still enforce that history turns out the same way without making it feel like there are arbitrary limitations at play.Last edited by DataNinja; 2019-08-12 at 02:53 PM.
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2019-08-12, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-08-12, 02:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: SZbNAhL's Similarly Sibilant (if unpronouncable) Random Banter #223
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2019-08-12, 02:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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