Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183

[Dimonite]

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

I'm going to be perfectly honest, if it was entirely feasible I'd gather snow in like a cooler and sell it to you.

I would buy it, and throw some at my friends. Who would be EXTREMELY CONFUSED.

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Dimonite

I would buy it, and throw some at my friends. Who would be EXTREMELY CONFUSED.

In that case I'd either need to know where you live or learn how to use EBay so you can then order from their. We'd have to negotiate how much snow you want, which would influence the price (since I'd have to buy the cooler and ship it, which would cost me money, so we'd need to make sure the costs could be recouped).

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I saw snow today!
... it was for like 5 minutes and none of it even REACHED the ground, but still.

After last year's TERRIBLE not-even-a-winter, this is a great thing.

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

I saw snow today!
... it was for like 5 minutes and none of it even REACHED the ground, but still.

After last year's TERRIBLE not-even-a-winter, this is a great thing.

You taunt me so.

[Qwertystop]

Um... That ad. What festivities?

[AtlanteanTroll]

I'm confused. What's special about this weekend in Trogland? Because I can't think of anything on the national scale.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

It's a meetup in Baltimore.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Oh. I thought there was something actually big and national going on that I couldn't think of.

Hah.

[Cuthalion]

I.... was confused when i first saw that.

[Kneenibble]

Originally Posted by Dimonite

Bah! the very notion of you talking too much is ludicrous, my good man. Also, that mid-fluff budgie is adoralarious.

Edit: I DID google "Australia magic psychedelic bush." Got this:

Spoiler

Well that's much less horrifying than I feared lest would turn up. Good show.

& thank you. (*v*)♫♪♫♪

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

BUDGIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I'm just a bad reader. Your posts have too much not-stupid in them for me to digest.

I shall send you a pair of spectacles with lenses of unincluded amethyst and wire frames of 18k gold over which seven British Professores Emeriti at Cambridge chanted the works of Chaucer and Elliot. When you wear them, your hair shall become as gold as the sun and you shall read with the proficiency of an Egyptian court clerk.

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

In that case I'd either need to know where you live or learn how to use EBay so you can then order from their. We'd have to negotiate how much snow you want, which would influence the price (since I'd have to buy the cooler and ship it, which would cost me money, so we'd need to make sure the costs could be recouped).

Zodalicious! You musn't! This is how the Americans will steal our precious precious water, one cooler full of snow at a time!

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Zodalicious! You musn't! This is how the Americans will steal our precious precious water, one cooler full of snow at a time!

Probably, but think of all the money I could get! And really, wouldn't it just evaporate and return to the sky, and thus us, eventually?

Also, nice nickname

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

I guess that Northern America is somewhere weird then?

Originally Posted by Mercenary Pen

The same weirdness has been seen in the UK... particularly around unseasonal snow (of which we get a lot more than we used to).

Okay, either somewhere or sometime weird. Still, snow that's yellow thanks to pollen...

Originally Posted by Devmaar

That would be because herbs are delicious.

Sounds likely.

Originally Posted by Devmaar

ION, I'm so fricken social, when my coursemate said she might be going to the pub, I told her she should text me if she did, as I would join them. There is a very good chance I will meet people tonight. Wish me luck.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Thank you. Do you have any example of the jewelry that pleases you? I ask this in full knowledge, of course, that not everybody spends the time lusting after gems that I do.

Not really. I'm not really the type who bothers with jewelry, not because I'm averse to wearing it (I would totally adore, say, a silver necklace with an eagle-shaped pendant), but because I never think especially much about my appearance. The closest I have, which actually is the only piece of jewelry I possess (if you ignore the very simplistic tie pin I hammered out of brass a few years ago), is the small laurel wreath brooch in silver that I got from the queen's hand for being one of Sweden's best (and the best in Uppsala län) at news when I was in eighth grade.

That one is currently resting on a shelf in my room. The dust isn't doing it any justice, especially since it oxidises the silver, but I haven't got the heart to close the lid on its box. I'm not really the one to flaunt my achievements, but burying it in my drawers won't do it any justice either...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

There was a ring at the art gallery gift shop for a while -- it was a silver band carved delicately into oak leaves and acorns with a very pretty port-coloured garnet, small but flawless and saturated, set in the middle. That kind of thing?

Sounds lovely. I wish I could see it...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

I've always found chives too pungent to nibble on their own, though -- or do you have chives of superior delicacy over there?

Too pungent? Well, I suppose your mileage may vary, but I've never been especially fond of pungent tastes, and these chives work just fine with me. Sure, it's there, but for as long as I don't each too much (half a straw at a time or so), I'm not having any problem with them...

[Devmaar]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Good luck!

It ended up not happening because the other people were tired.

I'm planning to be social tomorrow though!

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Somehow I got a callback for my audition for Macbeth for one of the 2 big student theatre troupes. I was SO certain I had messed up my audition so hard, was not expecting a callback at ALL. So I'm fairly happy about this.

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Probably, but think of all the money I could get! And really, wouldn't it just evaporate and return to the sky, and thus us, eventually?

Canada lies in the sky!? Wow, I knew it was far up in the north, but not that far up...
...

Originally Posted by Devmaar

It ended up not happening because the other people were tired.

I'm planning to be social tomorrow though!

That's too bad. Oh well, good luck with that then instead.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Somehow I got a callback for my audition for Macbeth for one of the 2 big student theatre troupes. I was SO certain I had messed up my audition so hard, was not expecting a callback at ALL. So I'm fairly happy about this.

That's the way to do it, yoh. Same thing happened to me with Oklahoma! last year. Show 'em who's boss, Gwyn.

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Canada lies in the sky!? Wow, I knew it was far up in the north, but not that far up...
...

Oh you

[smellie_hippie]

Originally Posted by Qwertystop

Um... That ad. What festivities?

It is an abomination, and should be viewed as a signal to lynch Archie because he is CLEARLY a werewolf!

[enderlord99]

Guess what guys? Google is spying on me!

EDIT: Oh no! I posted that on the internet! That's worse!

[AtlanteanTroll]

Originally Posted by Pokemon-freak89

Guess what guys? Google is spying on me!

Google's been spying on everyone for years. Get with the program.

[Elemental]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Seeing how the pollen season ends long before any snow (unless you live somewhere weird), finding snow that's yellow only thanks to pollen is practically unheard of.

Merely repeating what I read. After all, I know nothing of snow apart from the information available on the Internet and in books.
But obviously, snow coloured yellow due to pollen would obviously only be at the start of the snow season and according to what I read, is usually from alpine conifers. But again, I haven't actually read up on it in years.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Yes, the gradual and peaceful suffusion of gentle blue before dawn is a beautiful thing, finally bursting into the fiery glory of sunrise. To watch it would be a better use of insomniac time than thrashing about in bed frustrated, surely.

Do you not heat the house on cold windy nights?

Indeed. I must make certain to do that one morning when I cannot sleep. I shall get out of bed at some ungodly hour, walk to the kitchen and fix myself a warm Milo and sit on the veranda with a book until the sun has risen.
I'd be so sick the next day, but I wouldn't care.

And no. We just don't heat the house period.
Firstly, it's designed to shed heat, not retain it. Secondly, the cost of doing so with the aforementioned design would be exorbitant. Fourthly, we actually lack the means to do so. And finally, what better way to defeat the cold than to snuggle up in warm blankets with a cat warming your feet?

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Apropos piano strings, I recently started to dismantle my great-grandmother's piano to reclaim the wood for a bookshelf [its mechanisms are too far gone to ever repair sufficiently]. In order to cut the strings out, I had the piano laid on its back, sitting on the strings with several towels. Even so, when I snipped the bass strings, they broke with a huge spark and went flying across the room with enough force to scratch the paint on the walls. That could have been my eyeball.

The higher notes have three strings, I think, more because one of those tiny strings wouldn't produce enough noise. Likewise the lower ones have only the one string because their thickness produces more than enough sound. - although certainly, space and fragility are a factor as well.

Also thanks for your complements on my ring-a-ling

I think there's a way to remove a string in case it requires replacement, but I can't remember...
But aside from that, I am glad that it was not your eye. Though you would likely have looked very dashing with an eye patch, the loss far outweighs whatever potential gain there could be.
And you are likely correct. One string at the highest end would be much too soft, and three at the lower end would be much too loud. However, I was always taught that it was for simple reasons of practicality to avoid them breaking by spreading the force of the hammer across three strings.
Oh well... Both explanations are equally valid and applicable.

Not at all, it is a beautiful ring.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Here, sir! One Internets depicting an usual Australian summer for you.

Spoiler

Umm... While fire is an annual event best prepared for by lighting it yourself... I'm pretty sure that doesn't count as usual...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Do I talk too much ;____;

Never! You speak with such elegance that our lives are made all the better for it!

[AtlanteanTroll]

So, there's some song I think I like, that I can't remember the name of, that opens with the lyrics "This is me getting over you" and then some other stuff. It's not Coffee Project and it's not Alkaline Trio. Help?

EDIT: Never mind.

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by AtlanteanTroll

So, there's some song I think I like, that I can't remember the name of, that opens with the lyrics "This is me getting over you" and then some other stuff. It's not Coffee Project and it's not Alkaline Trio. Help?

EDIT: Never mind.

Aw, I was gonna throw stupid suggestions at you. *cough* AIM U FOO'

[Mynxae]

I have an adblock program for Google Chrome so somebody tell me what the ad is all about.. It sounds so exciting!

[Elemental]

We wouldn't see it anyway Mynxae. It's for the Americans.

[Mynxae]

Blasted Americans..

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by Mynxae

I have an adblock program for Google Chrome so somebody tell me what the ad is all about.. It sounds so exciting!

You block the adverts on this site? I actually quite like them, they've introduced me to several new webcomics, a few online games, a remake of Baldur's Gate (Enhanced Edition), and various other things.

Though, I am very thankful that animation is prohibited...

[Mutant Sheep]

There is thread with image. Its just a old-one joke with Archon-le-brit calling us 'Mericans Troglanders (and PROUD OF IT WOOT) and stabbing Hippie. With alt text. That says *stab*. But it is no big big thing. Maybe cost Archon a few bucks at most, and is good laugh. (Theres a meetup for us Troglandites, you see, and archon is jealous.)

@the Rawhided Aussie-I whitelist most of the sites I like that use the ads for important revenue (or if I just really like the site and wish to contribute money in the way my super-safe-ad-clicking does, even though its unnecessary I feel like I'm helping.)

[Mynxae]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

You block the adverts on this site? I actually quite like them, they've introduced me to several new webcomics, a few online games, a remake of Baldur's Gate (Enhanced Edition), and various other things.

Though, I am very thankful that animation is prohibited...

/chuckles Oh dear, poor Archonic Energy.

@Blocking-Ads: I block ads on practically every site. /shrugs They bug the hell outta me.

[MoonCat]

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

There is thread with image. Its just a old-one joke with Archon-le-brit calling us 'Mericans Troglanders (and PROUD OF IT WOOT) and stabbing Hippie. With alt text. That says *stab*. But it is no big big thing. Maybe cost Archon a few bucks at most, and is good laugh. (Theres a meetup for us Troglandites, you see, and archon is jealous.)

@the Rawhided Aussie-I whitelist most of the sites I like that use the ads for important revenue (or if I just really like the site and wish to contribute money in the way my super-safe-ad-clicking does, even though its unnecessary I feel like I'm helping.)

Mutant, Trogland is only the Texas-y part of 'Murca.