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2009-09-07, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Um . . .
What's not to get? It's a quiz. In a pub. Generally the quiz contains easy questions, popular knowledge and moderately to fiendishly difficult things. Often people joke about how they'd love Stephen Fry on their team. And the host is the person who runs the pub, so he's vicious.
Firstly, General Studies is a crock. Most universities don't even accept it as a qualification.
Secondly, VIth form sucks. I used to have forty five minutes to three free hours a day at college. And I could leave the premises any time I liked, even if it meant skipping a lecture.
@Maggy: I don't watch James Bond films.
*steals teh Maggeh Box*Last edited by CurlyKitGirl; 2009-09-07 at 12:56 PM.
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2009-09-07, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
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2009-09-07, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
IŽl only have two books at most for college.
And probably just one book.
This is cool and scary at the same time.
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2009-09-07, 01:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Pub is short for public house.
A public house is different from an inn in that it is legal to sell alcohol to the public as well as food and a place for recreation and general gathering.
Some pubs are also inns in that you can stay upstairs, but not all inns are pubs.
So it is a weird Brit - people abbreviation of something, but it's just a "bar - like tavernny thingy" too.
*huggle the God of Huggles*
It's been ages since I had a Cobra Hug.
That's just terrifying. I had four books for one subject. Granted, you'll have a very light bag, but that's just worrying.Last edited by CurlyKitGirl; 2009-09-07 at 01:02 PM.
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2009-09-07, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I'm in my final year of high school (I don't know what it'd be for you people who live in somewhere that isn't here, and I can't be buggered to find out. Suffice to say that after this, I'm either getting a job or going to Uni. And I'd prefer the job, thankyouverymuch.) and I have four subject and two books... and one seperate book filled with information, called "Appendices", though "semi-related ideas of everyone who has ever lived" might be more appropriate. Then there's the stuff I need for English... ergh... We're currently doing poetry.
Let me make this clear...
I did not sign up for basic English to learn about the meaning behind poetry!
It seems to have very little with English, and more to do with my schools love of "meaning" behind what they teach, which means to pass my Exam I'll probably just need to pretend I saw a lot of cruddy meaning in their awful texts. (One book I had to read had at least five suicide attempts, with at least two of them succesful. And it's a true story.)
I just wanna learn what words mean, how to spell them, how to use them, and why saying "burgers hair sword yanking!" is incorrect use of the English Language.
But, now that I've vented over my well-known hatred of learning things I don't want to know, how's everyone else doing? Especially you. Yeah, you. You know who you are.
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2009-09-07, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Well, I'm just appreciating what I have (mainly because I can leave the site and the other years can't).
And I don't know what College is like so I can't make a comparison.
And I know about General Studies, but, it's just something that's there and that I'll have to do, so for me, it's not worth fussing about.
I actually like 6th form.This avatar pierces the heavens and is by Miss Nobody!SpoilerOriginally Posted by Anuan
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2009-09-07, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-07, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
So I just did Biology homework about DNA whilst listening to That Spells DNA by JoCo. I shan't be telling my teacher that I know the names of the bases because of a song.
BANG → !
OH LOOK AT HER/.../YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN/YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN MEAN/RICHARDS
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2009-09-07, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
...I listen to the Elements Song a lot just to try and memorise the things.
Makes me wish science was still back thousands of years ago or whatever. Fire, Water, Earth, Air,HeartAether = elements. So much easier to remember. And could possibly make an easier song to sing along to.
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2009-09-07, 01:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Ooh, let's see if I remember these. Adenine, Thiamine, Cytosine, Guanine? With AT and CG pairing up? And in RNA, Uracil replaces...Thiamine? It could be Adenine, but I don't think so.
I took biology a year early, which means I don't have it this year. I need to make sure I don't forget everything for next year, when I'll have it again.
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You could still memorize those, you'd just be wrong. In fact, you'd be just as wrong as if it had happened in the past.Last edited by Alteran; 2009-09-07 at 01:26 PM.
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2009-09-07, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
I'm aiming for evolutionary biology. I have no training in genetics. I'm gonna learn everything in honors Bio this year. Wish me luck.
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2009-09-07, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
"'Intelligence' is really prolific in the world. So is stupidity. So often they occur in the same people." - Phaedra
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2009-09-07, 02:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
That means you're eighteenish. US High School = Oz High School.
Final year of High School = Last year of UK college.
In both cases the next step is university. Or US college.
Ah. But. You. I, what? No. Uh. *haemorrhage of the brain*
Poetry is pure(ish) English.
Poetry is one of the oldest forms of writing and story telling in the world. If you don't understand poetry you can't properly understand English or any other language.
Language in its purest form is poetry:
"We dance in a ring and suppose
The Secret sits in the middle and knows"
That is The Secret by Robert Browning. Everything in it has to do with spelling, placement in the sentence, structure, syntax. Everything.
Why did the poet use "suppose" and "knows"? Was it the sound? Is it the subtle difference between their definitions? Is it that they're part of a lexical set of knowledge?
Does this mean the Secret is knowledge? Who is "we"? Why use the present tense inclusive plural? Why is "Secret" capitalised? Does that anthropomorphise it or tell us it's a real person? Why are "We" moving around the edges? What is so imprtant about the "Secret" that makes it the very centre of all?
ALL English is meaning.
Everything is meaning.
Why does red mean danger?
Why is swearing so taboo?
It's been proven that analysing poetry enables a better grasp on language as a whole, not to mention in some aspects, culture itself. Why is the Iliad so universal that it's been around almost three thousand years? Why Gilgamesh? Why Beowulf? Poetry, whether we like it or no, is endemic of a society, of a culture and of a history.
All schools study poetry. All people know poetry. Song is poetry come again to some of its oldest roots: Bardic songs. Oral poetry with a set rhythm and pieces to enable better recollection of the song or poem.
I can't recall precisely, but if the novel is a glass or orange squash, a poem is orange juice concentrate. That was said by someone.
If you wanted to learn those basics you mention: spelling, definition, and application you shouldn't have taken it at a more developed 'basic' level. The title of the course Basic English shows in a sense just how important poetry is. Nursery rhymes; everyone knows them. They never leave you and they're poetry containing a story. Why does it stick? What's with the language that makes it impossible to forget? Reading into a story is hard not to do. Analysing poetry is using your instincts, and sharpening them to ridiculous levels as you'll see below.
Leaving it at primary in this case would be best. What you want, rather than an education and learning how to analyse anything is a dictionary and a grammar book.
This is the thing I think I have most problems with. Nothing is ever incorrect use of the English language (granted, in other languages with a strictly inflected case system (i.e. German or other Eastern European or Asian languages) or with ideograms reflecting a specific thought and idea (Japanese leaps to mind) there will be 'impossible' or unorthodox uses of language). It is 'non - standard' or 'unorthodox'.
"burgers hair sword yanking" can mean anything. "Sword yanking" - swords are almost inextricably linked with males, the masculine and inevitably the phallus. "burgers" are meat. 'Meat' is also a slang term for the penis itself (coming from the phrase 'meat 'n' two veg') not including the scrotum and other . . . bits. So "hair" could be pubic hair. Hence this 'random' collection of words can be seen as an extremely obtuse metaphor or synecdoche for masturbation.
Alternatively: "burgers" - this is the plural form of a concrete noun. It is still meat.
However, "hair" is in the singular with no use of a pronoun to indicate whether the "burgers" own it, or are doing something to it. "sword" is also singular, possibly indicating perhaps an unusual neologism of a "hair sword".
So is the "sword yanking" itself out of the burgers? In that case, who is holding the sword, why did they attack the burgers? Are they maybe some kind of activist vegans/vegetarians? What is the story behind how the sword is made of "hair"? Is it only the hilt bound in hair? This seems likely, but if the entirety of the sword is made of hair, why?
Nothing has no meaning.
You don't object to studying novels, short stories or books do you? I bet you've read and loved at least one of the following: LoTR, Harry Potter or Discworld. How do you know what's happening without the subtle hints and meanings you read into the text?
Poetry is an extremely condensed form of a book. By having a form and in some case a limit to lines, syllabes per line and other limits it makes the author apply with more finesse the intricacies of a complex language where one word can mean one hundred things depending on its placement in a sentence and every other word in the sentence, the sentences surrounding it and every other word in the entire thing.
And so ends my impassioned plea on the worth of studying poetry. P.S. I don't even like poetry very much.
DISCLAIMER: I may not have gotten The Secret entirely right. It could be 'dance in a circle and suppose'.Last edited by CurlyKitGirl; 2009-09-07 at 02:21 PM.
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2009-09-07, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Yum, soft drinks. I could get on with Cherry Coke attached to one arm via IV and Irn Bru on the other one.
Round Four: Eat Brains.
SPLAT!
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2009-09-07, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
My school day means PARTAY!
ahem.
Monday!
8.15-9.45 French
10.00-11.00 Chemistry
11.15-12.15 English (well, actually it's critical reading and logic in English, but that's basically still English)
12.45-13.15 Maths (The teacher is HORRIBLE. And it's the 11th grade! And I want to do the frickin exam!)
14.30-15.30 German (The teacher is the most pedantic person EVER! Ordnung etc)
Tuesday!
9.45-11.00 History (Och nein, the teacher is called Sandman because his tone and lessons are so boring you can fall asleep in 10 minutes)
11.15-12.15 Chemistry
60 minutes break! I mean, what the friction!
13.15-14.15 German
14.30-15.30(45) Maths
Wednesday!
8.30-9.30 English
10.00-11.30 Citizenship or Society teaching or something (with the same teacher as History)
11.45-12.45 Virtues (ethics and morality in one bunch; totally pointless unless you're borderline psychopath)
13.15-14.45 British Literature (AWESOME)
15.00-16.00 Media
Thursday!
8.15-9.45 French
10.00-11.00 Chemistry
11.45-13.00 Geography
13.15-14.45 Estonian literature
Friday!
8.15-9.45 Estonian literature
10.00-11.30 Maths
11.45-13.15 Physical education
13.45-15.15 French conversation
So, the plan has it's "Yay!"'s and "Nay!"'s, with the nays being math teacher, German teacher and PE being in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY. I swear I would have fallen asleep if we had desks in the French conversation class.Avatar by Threeshades
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2009-09-07, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Today is the first day of my new job as a security guard. I am nervous as all hell.
Normal for a first day, really. Bonus points because I don't know much of what to expect.
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2009-09-07, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-07, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Argh, my cold/flue is getting worse. I have a horrible sore throat, my eyes itch and are very watery and my nose isn't much better. >_<
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2009-09-07, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Luck!
In other news, I also have school tomorrow. But its only a partial day (10:00 - 1:00 or 2:00), so it'll be totally survivable. Hopefully none of my teachers this year are the types to spend a 35 minute class assigning homework due for Thursday...
Ugh. Where has all that long long beautiful summer gone to?
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2009-09-07, 04:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's the stuff. Are your eyes puffy and kinda bloodshot and really itchy? That's what I get when I have an allergic reaction to dust or smoke.My Homebrew
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2009-09-07, 04:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2009-09-07, 05:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Thanatos's Tharmturges Present: Tropical, Tipsy, and Typically Random Banter #127
Indeed, Citizen Kane is fantastic.
Spoiler<-I won this from Dr. Bath.Spoiler
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2009-09-07, 06:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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