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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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But the previous random banter was Dimonite's Decidedly Draconic Devious Discussions! Not Serpentines Secretly Sapphic Sacrarium of Salaciousness!
And naturally, you've edited your post already.
Oh well...
Yep. Was trying to edit it beforehand, but Cloudflare wasn't delivering the site so I had to wait.
As regards the bug, assuming you have no reason to believe it harmful and/or endangered, I'd say to just swat it with something and clean up. Much as it may sound callous, the few that you might kill should be far less than the reproductive rate of any insectoid species...
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Well, Deadpool was a surprisingly nice thing to wake up to, haha!
Which is odd as you'd usually think it was disturbing to wake up to him.
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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Well, Deadpool was a surprisingly nice thing to wake up to, haha!
Which is odd as you'd usually think it was disturbing to wake up to him.
Yeah, I also found that a hilarious way to start my day.
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I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
Happy Birthday, AT!
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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
Reposted from last thread, because I somehow always manage to miss the new one. By two hours. I'm a slow writer at times...
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Originally Posted by Rawhide
Pie crust... crumbly? What?
I've never had a savory pie crust that was crumbly. What kind of pies have they been feeding you???
Perhaps it was smulpaj (or not, because smulpaj is delicious and certainly not made with choclate).
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That version is actually quite relaxing. But this song is far more relaxing.
60 bpm is too high for my resting pulse. I just end up feeling more stressed by it. That said, messuring my own pulse is a bit tricky, because feeling my own pulse stresses me as well for some obscure reason, causing a higher pulse, and more stress.
ION:
Got too little sleep, lost track of time and realised that I'd be late for school. We've been caught in a freaking tropical storm as well (moderate wind, mostly rain), so I didn't feel like going, and determined from the course webpage that the lab we'd have today (automata theory) seemed easy enough to do on my own later. I actually tried downloading the source code for the software that we're supposed use and compiling it on my own, but after failing to include one header file despite giving the correct search path, missing another entirely, having to install the third set of third-party software and getting a string that's too long for the system to handle (over 65025 characters of auto-generated code), I just gave up and removed all traces of my efforts.
That said, I still managed to get quite far in installing something intended for a UNIX machine on a Windows computer, so I bear my failure with pride nevertheless.
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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
Guys, stop telling me I'll be ok. I know I'm going to be fine, that doesn't stop me worrying about a big vague mess of undefined potential crises
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I guess so. The advent of timeline has made one of the best lines in that song obsolete, but I guess some people might still get a kick out of it. I'm glad to hear it made you smile, anyhow.
On a related note, people who frequent coffee shops, what kind of songs do you like to hear?
My ideal coffee shop music would be ambient, like Starfade. Maybe some soft electro, such as mind.in.a.box or the lighter side of VNV Nation. These suggestions may or may not actually be helpful
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I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Originally Posted by Teddy
Perhaps it was smulpaj (or not, because smulpaj is delicious and certainly not made with choclate).
The key word in my earlier post was "savoury", i.e. not sweet. Basically, any of the various types of meat (including beef, chicken, lamb, etc.) or vegetarian substitutes.
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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Originally Posted by AtlanteanTroll
I am considering this thread to be a birthday present.
Yo AT your avatar is broken.
Anyway, concerning the "Killed it for me" comment last night, I'm thinking it would of been better to say "what killed me" instead. That would of gotten my point across more better.
Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Originally Posted by Elemental
But... You're in Sweden! Tropical storms might as well be mere legends told to you by travellers from distant lands!
Yeah, that's kind of the gist of it. It apparently made an amazing job evading the entirety of North America, and decided that it'd be a nice idea to go over and harass some Scandinavians instead for a change of pace. It's currently strong squalls and overcast, but no rain and and the clouds are fairly thin.
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The key word in my earlier post was "savoury", i.e. not sweet. Basically, any of the various types of meat (including beef, chicken, lamb, etc.) or vegetarian substitutes.
Yeah, but since you started off by disbelieving the whole concept of a crumbly crust, I'd already gotten the idea. And since LaLa didn't specify if it was savoury or not (until afterwards), I still felt it was appropriate, given that the name literally translates to "crumb pie".
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Yo AT your avatar is broken.
Actually, I think that is your browser. It works fine for me, at least.
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Anyway, concerning the "Killed it for me" comment last night, I'm thinking it would of been better to say "what killed me" instead. That would of gotten my point across more better.
I think I prefer you non-dead, actually.
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I can't see it either. But I thought it was my browser.
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My ideal coffee shop music would be ambient, like Starfade. Maybe some soft electro, such as mind.in.a.box or the lighter side of VNV Nation. These suggestions may or may not actually be helpful
They aren't. I'm a folksinger, man.
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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Originally Posted by Teddy
Yeah, but since you started off by disbelieving the whole concept of a crumbly crust, I'd already gotten the idea. And since LaLa didn't specify if it was savoury or not (until afterwards), I still felt it was appropriate, given that the name literally translates to "crumb pie".
Actually, I think that is your browser. It works fine for me, at least.
I think I prefer you non-dead, actually.
Aaah.
Oh, ok.
Thanks, I do too. Oh English, you and your figures of speech
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Originally Posted by LaZodiac
Yo AT your avatar is broken.
Anyway, concerning the "Killed it for me" comment last night, I'm thinking it would of been better to say "what killed me" instead. That would of gotten my point across more better.
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I suddenly considered making a post concerning language evolution and the divergence of the spoken tongue from the written text...
Is that what awaits English? Rampant bilingualism as the written language atrophies and the spoken language continues to evolve to a form unintelligible to today?
We may never know for certain... But whatever it is, I'm sure the results will be very interesting...
Man, anime conventions and stuff look so cool, but I'd never be able to go.
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"Would have", don't you mean? (Sorry).
My writing is half written have spoken. Sometimes I use qualities of written dialoge (ie, brackets like this and what not) and sometimes I use qualities of speaking dialoge (like yha, would of could of should of instead of have, and so on).
And yes, yes, I'm terrible at this whole english thing
Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Originally Posted by Rawhide
LaZodiac gets so much wrong with language, I wouldn't even know where to start, so I don't bother.
But if you don't tell them they'll never know!
(Although I suspect you're right).
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My writing is half written have spoken. Sometimes I use qualities of written dialoge (ie, brackets like this and what not) and sometimes I use qualities of speaking dialoge (like yha, would of could of should of instead of have, and so on).
It actually took me a couple of minutes to parse that (did you do that on purpose?)
The thing is, "would of" is wrong even in spoken language. "Would've" is fine, but as soon as the "-ve" turns into "of", it loses grammatical sense.
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Originally Posted by Elemental
I suddenly considered making a post concerning language evolution and the divergence of the spoken tongue from the written text...
Is that what awaits English? Rampant bilingualism as the written language atrophies and the spoken language continues to evolve to a form unintelligible to today?
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The thing is, "would of" is wrong even in spoken language. "Would've" is fine, but as soon as the "-ve" turns into "of", it loses grammatical sense.
Actually, technically, based on the accepted pronunciation of the word of and the contraction would've... When someone thinks they're saying "would of", they're actually saying "would've", but with more emphasis on the 've.
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Originally Posted by Elemental
Actually, technically, based on the accepted pronunciation of the word of and the contraction would've... When someone thinks they're saying "would of", they're actually saying "would've", but with more emphasis on the 've.
Yes, but once it is written, then it is a grammatical error.
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Re: Mercenary Pen's Meticulously Planned Machine of Prose Random Banter #182
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Originally Posted by Aedilred
But if you don't tell them they'll never know!
(Although I suspect you're right).
It actually took me a couple of minutes to parse that (did you do that on purpose?)
The thing is, "would of" is wrong even in spoken language. "Would've" is fine, but as soon as the "-ve" turns into "of", it loses grammatical sense.
To the language thread!
I can't say wheter or not I did something on perpose because I don't actually know what it is I did.
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Actually, technically, based on the accepted pronunciation of the word of and the contraction would've... When someone thinks they're saying "would of", they're actually saying "would've", but with more emphasis on the 've.
Yha, that's basically my problem. My head internalizes the internet as a given factor of real, so some words get spelt the way they sound, like would've being "would of"
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