Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Must have missed this because this kind of wordplay appeals to me, if only for the "wait, what?" reaction it causes in others.

I was expecting something more along the lines of "Ugh, really dude?" and if not something that specific then at least something! Flew right by them. I read all of that awful play to make that joke.

[The Succubus]

Could be worse. I was once forced to read all of Pride and Prejudice for my English GCSE and all because of a scene involving Colin Firth and a wet shirt. Suddenly everyone* became obsessed with that damn book and the wretched scene isn't even in it.

As a fifteen year old kid, I wasn't interested in the slightest about the fact that Elizabeth Bennet thought Mr Darcy the most awful snob, or how scandalous it was that Jane ran off with the caddish Mr Wickham.

Why couldn't we have studied a story with meat to it like 1984 or Animal Farm?

Yeah, Ms Austen and I don't see eye to eye.


* Everyone, that is, that went warm and melty at the sight of Colin Firth in clingy wet period costume.

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Could be worse. I was once forced to read all of Pride and Prejudice for my English GCSE and all because of a scene involving Colin Firth and a wet shirt. Suddenly everyone* became obsessed with that damn book and the wretched scene isn't even in it.

As a fifteen year old kid, I wasn't interested in the slightest about the fact that Elizabeth Bennet thought Mr Darcy the most awful snob, or how scandalous it was that Jane ran off with the caddish Mr Wickham.

Why couldn't we have studied a story with meat to it like 1984 or reading Heathcliff's descent into madness in Wuthering Heights?

Yeah, Ms Austen and I don't see eye to eye.

While I agree with you about Ms Austen I don't agree on your reasons. The internet has this juvenile belief that "higher stakes" equals "better content" and that is just nonsense. Just the mostly widely believed rubbish today, second only to "pop music is bad because it's pop music".

[Dimonite]

Could be worse. I was once forced to read all of Pride and Prejudice for my English GCSE and all because of a scene involving Colin Firth and a wet shirt. Suddenly everyone* became obsessed with that damn book and the wretched scene isn't even in it.

As a fifteen year old kid, I wasn't interested in the slightest about the fact that Elizabeth Bennet thought Mr Darcy the most awful snob, or how scandalous it was that Jane ran off with the caddish Mr Wickham.

Why couldn't we have studied a story with meat to it like 1984 or Animal Farm?

Yeah, Ms Austen and I don't see eye to eye.


* Everyone, that is, that went warm and melty at the sight of Colin Firth in clingy wet period costume.

Hey, I liked Pride and Prejudice! ... and Zombies

Worst book I ever had to read for a class was Slaugherhouse Five. I cannot express how much I hated Billy Pilgrim.

[Socratov]

I said I might buy that for you. And why would I buy that so early?



Oh my.

You know... Just because I've never read it does not mean I am not aware of the fact that the titular Discworld travels through space resting on the backs of four giant elephants that stand atop an even more giant turtle.

I know it's easy, it wasn't intended to be hard. Just enough to make it ridicilous, but leave room for the possibility of happening (which I indeed may have spoiled)

Isn't Advent in April? Or am I thinking of Lent..?

And yes, I enjoy tormenting you. You do it to me too though!

You're thinking of Lent.
So you'll tell me on the first of December because you don't know when Advent begins? Excellent. It's nice we've reached an agreement.

At least I let you know what your presents are... Last Christmas I took you shopping with me to buy them...

Wait, what? I don't know what you're getting me.

*grabs popcorn, puts up armchair, gets some mead to drink while watching above happen*

[Mutant Sheep]

*grabs popcorn, puts up armchair, gets some mead to drink while watching above happen*

Oh, but it is too early for me to drink! THE HUMANITY!

[Socratov]

Oh, but it is too early for me to drink! THE HUMANITY!

think like this: Somehwere on the world it's the right time to drink, so why not take a drink?

[Elemental]

Why do people find my arguments with a small subset of people entertaining?

think like this: Somehwere on the world it's the right time to drink, so why not take a drink?

Mr. Sheep really shouldn't because of his age, if I'm remembering correctly.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Mr. Sheep really shouldn't because of his age, if I'm remembering correctly.[/QUOTE]

But he's a pirate! He was meant to break laws! Such as the fact that he has 6 appendages!

[Mutant Sheep]

Why do people find my arguments with a small subset of people entertaining?





Mr. Sheep really shouldn't because of his age, if I'm remembering correctly.

Because I find referingo friend as a 'ex' silly, as if he as never made out, then there can have been no makeouts, which is a necessity for a real 'relationship' to begin. Without the makeout, it is just "something MIGHTA happened"-ship.

Indeed. I said it for the comedy. I DO EVERYTHING, FOR THE POORLY PHRASED COMEDY.

[Socratov]

Why do people find my arguments with a small subset of people entertaining?

Because you do it so well...

Mr. Sheep really shouldn't because of his age, if I'm remembering correctly.

But that's different from it being too early to drink and thus not related. if it is true then it's another matter and he should have said that (upon which I'd answer that it's a pity and that he should grab a soda or something).

[Elemental]

Because I find referingo friend as a 'ex' silly, as if he as never made out, then there can have been no makeouts, which is a necessity for a real 'relationship' to begin. Without the makeout, it is just "something MIGHTA happened"-ship.

Indeed. I said it for the comedy. I DO EVERYTHING, FOR THE POORLY PHRASED COMEDY.

See, this is why I rarely discuss relationships with Mynxae except to disapprove of his every action.
They're just too complicated.

And I had something intelligent to say right about here, but it's gone...

Because you do it so well...

But I'm not trying to be entertaining!
I was having a serious and non-antagonistic argument!

But that's different from it being too early to drink and thus not related. if it is true then it's another matter and he should have said that (upon which I'd answer that it's a pity and that he should grab a soda or something).

See above: He does everything for the poorly phrased comedy.
However, don't be confused, he conceals a keen intellect behind that façade of difficult to properly understand posts and overwhelming zaniness.

[Mynxae]

See, this is why I rarely discuss relationships with Mynxae except to disapprove of his every action.
They're just too complicated.

And I had something intelligent to say right about here, but it's gone...

My intelligence-stealing device worked!

[Elemental]

My intelligence-stealing device worked!

No it didn't. I just did an intermediate difficulty Minesweeper in thirty-nine seconds.

[Mynxae]

No it didn't. I just did an intermediate difficulty Minesweeper in thirty-nine seconds.

And? I could get a bot to do it quicker..

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Obviously the best way to play minesweeper is to order a zombie horde across the field. Two things, one thingy.

[Elemental]

And? I could get a bot to do it quicker..

So you could get a computer program to do something faster than a human? You know how impressed I am right now?
I'd be more impressed If I saw an olive in a jar full of olives.

Anyway... I'm going to bed.
Goodnight everyone!

[Socratov]

So you could get a computer program to do something faster than a human? You know how impressed I am right now?
I'd be more impressed If I saw an olive in a jar full of olives.

Anyway... I'm going to bed.
Goodnight everyone!

Well, I'd say that Mynxae woudl have made a bot and do it quicker then you. So writing the bot, compiling the code and having the bot run and solve it in 39 seconds, That would be amazing...

anyway g'night Ele

[Qwertystop]

Zelda music thingy tonight! Yay slightly-early birthday present!

Do you call it a symphony or its it a concert?

[TheWombatOfDoom]

Zelda music thingy tonight! Yay slightly-early birthday present!

Do you call it a symphony or its it a concert?

The 25th anniversary zelda music concert? I believe it was called symphony of the Godess or some such, so I'd go with symphony. I was at that in July in Phila on my 25th birthday, and I turned 25. It was EPIC. Are you dressing up?

[DJ Yung Crunk]

Zelda music thingy tonight! Yay slightly-early birthday present!

Do you call it a symphony or its it a concert?

I recently went to one of those for Final Fantasy. It was crap. Worst 200 bucks I ever spent.

[Kneenibble]

Also, Kneen darling, would you be interested in a play called Laila Majnu?

Yeeees... possibly. It has an Oriental ring to it. Do you have tickets? Are you inviting me? :D

A Danish woman once read to you in Swedish?
...
Does not compute!

(To explain this outbreak, it's a bit like if I would tell you that a New Zealandish woman read something to me in Canadian. )

That said, I won't doubt that you'd react the same way to "proper" Swedish.

You mean, mutual intelligibility but funny-sounding? I didn't know that: she just told me she spoke Swedish. I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference, anyways, unless you and she were standing on either side of me enunciating everything slowly. In her defense, she was a very senior academic and a director, so maybe she actually did speak proper Swedish?

But unto Curlily's curiosity: surely, somewhere in the Swedish academy, there is a canon of classics? Strindberg is so celebrated a playwright that we had a Strindberg Fest here two years ago, and he can't be your only literary export.

...It's not a tree... And there are three of them flowering at the moment. Two have just started. I'll have to wait for better lighting at the moment. Right now, the glare from the Sun would ruin most attempts at photographing them.

TREE, IT'S A TREE, LA LA LA LA LA LA LA

Do the flowers smell at all? Are they pretty? Are there bees in them? *frenzied excitement*

Ele, I swear you just made that wall of post so only the truely devoted would bother responding.

I swear you made your face so only the truly devoted would bother responding.

Is there a Nibbles and a Sheepie about? We need'a practise our SC2 dying against other peoples

ION: My hair is short. Really short. Should I post before and after pictures and have people judge me and giggle?

You ought to post pictures, yes. You shall be judged and judged harshly. I myself wonder whether I should post pictures of my November moustache, which I am enjoying so much that I plan to keep it.

We can win! That last game was not representative of our skills nor our harmony as a team: merely the hazards of me not massing phoenix immediately.

Well, practically all food (with the exception of salts,) go stale or otherwise tasteless after a due amount of time, so it's only reasonable to let the customer know when it was made so that they won't be bereft of the quality they seek. Also, printing a best before date costs nothing, and for most foodstuff with a long durability, it will be consumed long before that date is reached anyway, while it gives the consumer an extra guard against unscrupulous producers. Sure, many consumers tend to stare themselves blind at the best before date, throwing away otherwise fresh food, but that's mostly a problem with the perishables.

All in all, I fail to see what harm a best before date does on a tea package.

If I may chime in on this topic: tea loses its flavour a lot more quickly than the best before dates. If I were the legislator, I would mandate a date of packaging label rather than a best before [or better yet, a date of harvest]. Even after a few months, green tea starts to taste like socks; black tea is only a little more stable.

[Mynxae]

You ought to post pictures, yes. I myself wonder whether I should post pictures of my November moustache, which I am enjoying so much that I plan to keep it.

We can win! That last game was not representative of our skills nor our harmony as a team.

/chuckles Oh my. I'll post pictures after this League of Legends game.

We can try... I'm sure we were all rusty at competitive play. And it would be better if you two had working headsets/even a microphone so then we could communicate better!

[Teddy]

Seeing EleMynx bicker about disclosing a Chrismas present prematurely is highly entertaining, but also highly perplexing. Why anyone ever would want to know (or rather, be told) what he'd get for Christmas is way beyond me. Isn't the whole point of wrapping them and all kind of ruined if you already know what's inside?

I mean, the suspense and all that...

But once you've used the energy to create the budgie anti-budgie pairs, wouldn't some of it be lost due to factors beyond our control?
*half remembered physics*

And we'll know because we were the ones who did it in the past.
Damn time travel...

Nah, only if the anti-budgie escapes from my gentle command, but he wouldn't want to do that.

There's nothing wrong with it. It just irks me for some reason.

Heh, to me it's just a piece of humorous trivia with a depth to it, i.e. the best sort of trivia.

You mean, mutual intelligibility but funny-sounding? I didn't know that: she just told me she spoke Swedish. I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference, anyways, unless you and she were standing on either side of me enunciating everything slowly.

Well, pretty much, although it can be pretty hard to follow a fast-speaking Dane, as they have a tendency to, well, swallow pretty much all consonants, whereas we're pretty high in the articulation league...

In her defense, she was a very senior academic and a director, so maybe she actually did speak proper Swedish?

That's actually highly possible. Mum knows fluent Danish ever since she studied at the Copenhagen University, so it'd be hypocritical of me to reject the inverse.

But unto Curlily's curiosity: surely, somewhere in the Swedish academy, there is a canon of classics? Strindberg is so celebrated a playwright that we had a Strindberg Fest here two years ago, and he can't be your only literary export.

Well, we had a discussion about adopting a literary canon for all school children to read through a few years ago, but it met tons of criticism and was eventually dropped from the table. The thought of picking out a small group of authors and put in the eternal hall of fame just doesn't fit with the Swedish mentality. We're just too aware that not everyone shares the same opinions and that there for every acclaimed talent will be countless more in the shadows.

Also, pretty much everyone realised that the children would hate it, and that it would be a terrible way of introducing them to the classics.

If I may chime in on this topic: tea loses its flavour a lot more quickly than the best before dates. If I were the legislator, I would mandate a date of packaging label rather than a best before. Even after a few months, green tea starts to taste like socks; black tea is only a little more stable.

Nah, most customers don't know how to treat a packaging label. It's easier to count down than to count up.

ION: The ground finally got cold enough for the snow to stay, and now the lawns are all white.

YAY!!!

[Mynxae]

Seeing EleMynx bicker about disclosing a Chrismas present prematurely is highly entertaining, but also highly perplexing. Why anyone ever would want to know (or rather, be told) what he'd get for Christmas is way beyond me. Isn't the whole point of wrapping them and all kind of ruined if you already know what's inside?

I mean, the suspense and all that...

I very rarely wrap gifts. I usually just hide them in a bag or something, then throw them at the person.

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[Kneenibble]

/chuckles Oh my. I'll post pictures after this League of Legends game.

We can try... I'm sure we were all rusty at competitive play. And it would be better if you two had working headsets/even a microphone so then we could communicate better!

My nephew has been trying to get me to play League of Legends with him. I'm close to giving in. Is the learning curve as steep as I fear?

You mean... you mean talk to somebody from the Playground? I have never done such a thing! We fear change.

Nah, only if the anti-budgie escapes from my gentle command, but he wouldn't want to do that.

This conversation you are carrying on with Elemental makes me happy. What do the anti-budgies look like?

Well, pretty much, although it can be pretty hard to follow a fast-speaking Dane, as they have a tendency to, well, swallow pretty much all consonants, whereas we're pretty high in the articulation league...

That's actually highly possible. Mum knows fluent Danish ever since she studied at the Copenhagen University, so it'd be hypocritical of me to reject the inverse.

I'm browsing Youtube to help me hear the difference. Norwegian fits into this too?! How interesting. I know so little about the world. ;___;

Well, we had a discussion about adopting a literary canon for all school children to read through a few years ago, but it met tons of criticism and was eventually dropped from the table. The thought of picking out a small group of authors and put in the eternal hall of fame just doesn't fit with the Swedish mentality. We're just too aware that not everyone shares the same opinions and that there for every acclaimed talent will be countless more in the shadows.

Also, pretty much everyone realised that the children would hate it, and that it would be a terrible way of introducing them to the classics.

Hmm. And yet, how can you construct a positivist national mythology without a literary canon? [I'm only half-joking about that] Maybe I just take the idea of a canon for granted, being of English descent in a country whose official heritage is English and French, two of the biggest canonists around.

Seriously though -- let me ask this instead. If I were an Arts student in Sweden, is there a Swedish Literature degree I could take? And is there a list of usual suspects that I would study? Is Strindberg in there somewhere? I really like Strindberg if you haven't noticed.

ION: The ground finally got cold enough for the snow to stay, and now the lawns are all white.

YAY!!!

I am happy for you!
Here is a winter-coloured budgie to help you celebrate.

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I very rarely wrap gifts. I usually just hide them in a bag or something, then throw them at the person.

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O! I definitely think short hair suits you better, but I would like to give you a sharp side part and slick it down rather extremely. Like this:

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It would really suit your face.

Your hair itself is nice while it's long, but I think it short suits you better.

[TheWombatOfDoom]

D: I'm so confused, is kneenibble ION? Who is this ION? Are they nice? Will they take kindly to offerings?

Edit: Mynxae! I kind of link both! Long hair is always fun, but you can pull off spikes and gel too.

[Mynxae]

My nephew has been trying to get me to play League of Legends with him. I'm close to giving in. Is the learning curve as steep as I fear?

As long as you are the one starting a game, you should be fine. Otherwise you'd be facing level 30's like myself and hopefully your nephew. It's not too tough of a game. It just has some really idiotic people in it.

I found it amusing that in the last game, the Zed said to me 'Is that your first time playing Lux? Lololol'. I replied with 'I've been playing Lux for years. So shut your mouth, amateur'.

You mean... you mean talk to somebody from
O! I definitely think short hair suits you better, but I would like to give you a sharp side part and slick it down rather extremely. Like this:

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It would really suit your face.

That makes me think I'd look either really spiffy, or like an Italian Gangster.

D: I'm so confused, is kneenibble ION? Who is this ION? Are they nice? Will they take kindly to offerings?

Edit: Mynxae! I kind of link both! Long hair is always fun, but you can pull off spikes and gel too.

Thanks Wombat. (also, ION means 'In other news')

ION: I'm going to go to bed everyone. It's 5 to 5am here in Australia, and I should sleep while I can..

[Kneenibble]

D: I'm so confused, is kneenibble ION? Who is this ION? Are they nice? Will they take kindly to offerings?

Don't listen to what Mynxae said. ION is me, and yes I am very nice. What kind of offerings do you have?

As long as you are the one starting a game, you should be fine. Otherwise you'd be facing level 30's like myself and hopefully your nephew. It's not too tough of a game. It just has some really idiotic people in it.

I found it amusing that in the last game, the Zed said to me 'Is that your first time playing Lux? Lololol'. I replied with 'I've been playing Lux for years. So shut your mouth, amateur'.

Okay good. I don't have a great deal of time to spend learning a game that I might not even like. Are the people better or worse than on Battlenet?

Lux? Zed? Are you speaking Australian? *grabs by the collar and shakes*

That makes me think I'd look either really spiffy, or like an Italian Gangster.

Can't it be both? But let us say, not quite as greasy as an Italian gangster. Use a product without that wet sheen. Are you going to try it?! Tryyy it!

ION: I'm going to go to bed everyone. It's 5 to 5am here in Australia, and I should sleep while I can..

Goodnight, Mynxalot! Dawn is a perfectly acceptable bedtime.

[Amidus Drexel]

Hrm... we're getting to the end of the thread... We should probably pick someone to do the next one soon.

I very rarely wrap gifts. I usually just hide them in a bag or something, then throw them at the person.

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Agreed. Bags are easier than messing with paper and tape.

I can't see the second one....

ION: The ground finally got cold enough for the snow to stay, and now the lawns are all white.

YAY!!!

Yay indeed! (read: jealous)

can't wait for snow can't wait for snow can't wait for snow can't wait for snow can't wait for snow can't wait for snow

But I'm not trying to be entertaining!
I was having a serious and non-antagonistic argument!

All arguments are entertaining. The irrationally civil ones are even better.

Not really. I just wanted to set up that "makes Romeo and Juliet look like Shakespeare" joke. And none of you laughed.

I was expecting something more along the lines of "Ugh, really dude?" and if not something that specific then at least something! Flew right by them. I read all of that awful play to make that joke.

Only bluetext can convey jokes adequately!

(It helps those of us that are bad at detecting sarcasm over the internet)

ION: I appear to have acquired a small following of freshman girls. I... don't know how this happened.