Mynxae's Maliciously Magnificent Random Banter #183

[Rawhide]

I just opened a can of lemonade. It's far too sweet. When did lemonade become too sweet?

[The Succubus]

I find there's two types of lemonade. There's the 7-Up/Sprite kind which is made according to the secret recipe of "50% water, 50% sugar - what do you mean there's supposed to be lemon in it?".

The other sort is "cloudy lemonade". This tends to be much sharper than the other kinds and often has pulped lemons in it. It can still be fairly sweet but the taste is less drowned out by sugar. It's usually still rather than sparkling.

[Thufir]

Originally Posted by Elemental

You British people certainly do. Probably because your weather is so dismal.
Take that! I can throw national stereotypes around too!

Hey! We had several sunny days this summer.

Originally Posted by Elemental

Edit: *screams in frustration*
Why didn't anyone tell me Fur Elise was in three eight time?!?!?
And I made such a nice four four time signature too...

Why didn't you take a few seconds to think what time signature it was in before making the wrong one?
I mean, I only really know the start of Fur Elise, but I could immediately tell there was no way it was in 4/4.

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by The Succubus

I find there's two types of lemonade. There's the 7-Up/Sprite kind which is made according to the secret recipe of "50% water, 50% sugar - what do you mean there's supposed to be lemon in it?".

The other sort is "cloudy lemonade". This tends to be much sharper than the other kinds and often has pulped lemons in it. It can still be fairly sweet but the taste is less drowned out by sugar. It's usually still rather than sparkling.

While I will disagree with you there, I feel that 7-Up is in a category of its own, I will agree with you that there are three to four types of lemonade.

7-Up variety
Water/sugar variety
Trying to be lemon flavour variery
Actually lemonade

This was the second, and most common variery, water/sugar. It may be* because I have been severely cutting back on sweet things (I want to maintain my fitness), but I honestly don't remember it being this sickly sweet.


*Ok, almost certainly is.

[Elemental]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

I just opened a can of lemonade. It's far too sweet. When did lemonade become too sweet?

Which brand?

Originally Posted by Thufir

Hey! We had several sunny days this summer.

I know. But I know of several non-dangerous native plants and animals.
I guess Britain and Australia are even... For now...

Originally Posted by Thufir

Why didn't you take a few seconds to think what time signature it was in before making the wrong one?
I mean, I only really know the start of Fur Elise, but I could immediately tell there was no way it was in 4/4.

My brain broke.
And I only really know the start as well. Which I was transcribing from memory after not seeing a piece of sheet music for it for years and four four time is really easy to produce in vector form, but three eight is hard and now I'm not going to bother with a key signature.
And in my defence... I forgot that there is an anacrusis equivalent to a beat and that everything is semiquavers and because I can only remember the first bar plus anacrusis from the top of my head and thought they were quavers I assumed that it was a four four bar!

Sorry... Run on sentences because art is hard. And anyway, I don't know why I bothered with it to begin with... I'm only using the first six notes of the song.

[Dimonite]

Originally Posted by Rawhide

I just opened a can of lemonade. It's far too sweet. When did lemonade become too sweet?

I think your problem is that you are drinking lemonade out of a can. I've never had good lemonade from a can. But perhaps that's just because I eat lemons by themselves and think that they should be free of the corruption of water.

Originally Posted by Elemental

And I only really know the start as well. Which I was transcribing from memory after not seeing a piece of sheet music for it for years and four four time is really easy to produce in vector form, but three eight is hard and now I'm not going to bother with a key signature.

Well, you don't have to bother with a key signature because it's in A minor.

[Rawhide]

Originally Posted by Elemental

Which brand?

Kirks. A very decent softdrink brand.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Originally Posted by Thufir

Hey! We had several sunny days this summer.

Indeed you guys did and it was lovely. The very first interaction I had once I got into Birmingham over the summer was one of the leaders from Ireland apologizing for the weather only for me to tell her it had just been 49 C back in the states. She then swore.

[Devmaar]

Haha! Take that physics tests.! I crush you beneath my mighty intellect!

Except for the handful of questions I couldn't do, and the mistakes I may have made...

[Elemental]

Originally Posted by Dimonite

Well, you don't have to bother with a key signature because it's in A minor.

Brain malfunctioning... I meant time signature!

Originally Posted by Rawhide

Kirks. A very decent softdrink brand.

Indeed. A bad batch perhaps?



Anyway, it's really late.
Goodnight everyone!

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Man, all that stuff you're doing, I'm wondering if you'll have time for little ole me

Well, given that "all that stuff" indeed means "all that stuff", I guess the answer should be "yes". I sometimes feel like I'm really busy, but then I look back at my life and realise how much time I actually spend doing something completely pointless. And then I go back to playing FTL.

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

Assistant? OUR teddy? Nonono, you have to take the lead on this one bro. Helping freshmen is not your proper place.

Actually, it's more like this:

Originally Posted by Amidus Drexel

Schweet!

"Silly freshmen, you cannot do labs by yourself! In fact, I get paid to keep you on track!"

Which will be a great source of enjoyment. Also, I bask in the light of minds enlightened. I would become a teacher wouldn't I become something I want to become even more instead.

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

I just found and drank about a third of a pints worth of straight martini over the course of an hour, occasionally mixing with fruit juice.
My liver is fine.
My stomach though is saying that seeing as dinner was essentially a bust (on a related note, I only realised half an hour ago I sliced a fair chunk of my thumb off while doing the spuds - not a reason for the suckiness of the dinner before you ask - they were entirely blood and flesh free) it only contains 500ml of ice cream and roughly a litre and a half of acoholic mixers. Oh, and a packet of cheesy doritos. So I might be in for a tummy ache later.
And don't worry, still haven't gotten drunk yet. Am contemplating going on a proper bender once I find some real life friends again though. For curiosity's sake if nothing else.

See, the day when you actually set out to get drunk for real, you'll going to end up on the emergency ward for critical liver failure. And that wouldn't be a good thing.

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

Oh, and considering the news below, your life is definitely better than mine in the job/education/friends angle.

Yeah, probably. Given, the job is only 25% at most, but then again, I don't actually need it per se either. It'll just look good on my resume, and allows me to do something mostly useful.

And I suppose I'm lucky who can go to university in the town where I grew up. I don't have to run out of friends just because I'm going home over the weekend, seeing how I still live with my parents. I intend to move out some day, but I'm just way too comfortable with my life as it is, and I'll miss my little brother (the older, especially)...

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

No alcohol for you then. This is most definitely a non-alcoholic pity party then.

Yeah. Given, I could need some strong booze right now, but since I'm still going on painkillers, I probably should refrain from drinking for a while...

Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

Congratulations!

Thanks! And thanks to all of you whose congratulation-similies I either cut out or didn't bother to move here because I'm seriously not in the mood to excert myself right now...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

I will brew you a tea of dried poppy pods. Your pain will dissolve like a hot spoonful of syrup.

Thanks. I could really need something like that right now. Especially with added sugar.

Originally Posted by MoonCat

Just realized every single word in that last sentence had an apostrophe. I'm either turning into Sweden, or I'm turning really, really, really American.

I suppose this is some sort of reference (Hetalia?), seeing how the Swedish language is pretty much void of apostrophes...

Originally Posted by Feytalist

"Just one more chapter" has caused more work delays than I care to admit. And at least one failed test.

Just one more level, just one more turn. Authors were the true predecessors in the search for the ultimate way of ensuring addiction in your recipients.

ION:
Exam went straight to Hell and I missed the train. The day started good, I was up in due time, my exam code was really easy to memorise, I left the house in good time and arrived at the exam hall in good time as well...

Except, it wasn't the right exam hall.

You see, I always double-check my facts, because I'm constantly worried that I'll get something wrong, and my worries are always baseless, because I've actually got a pretty good memory. On the other hand, there seems to be a law dictating that the more prepared I am for something, the less likely it is to happen, and the same applies to oversights, so at those rare times when I forget or otherwise neglect to double-check something, it's pretty much guaranteed to be wrong. And this was one of those cases.

I pretty much immediatly realise that something is wrong when I get to the exam hall I though we would be at, as my course isn't listed on the table for placement along the bench rows. Now, I'm going to be late, but they let you in up to half an hour after the exam has started, and I've got my computer with me, so I just open it up and check my mail for where the exam actually is taking place. I recognise the street name, but I can't quite place it in the sudden stress, so I open up our friendly neighbourhood map searching tool and enter the street adress. From the look of the area, I recognise it as a place on the other end of the town, and immediately jump up on my bike to get there.

After a quarter, I'm finally there, but something isn't right. For a starter, the street number isn't right, and neither is the street, but I figure the uni has another exam hall in the general area. Low office rent and all that. It isn't until I've gone to all the bounds of the area I should search within that I stop and realise something must be seriously wrong.

I once again dig out my computer from my backpack, thank the heavens for not raining upon me and open it up. I once again study the map, and I notice a name written not far from the marker I'm heading for. That name is the name of the industrial area on the other side of the town from where I'm standing now, and I've got ~5 minutes left before they lock the doors, i.e. it's a pointless effort.

Now, I'd agreed to meet up with a coursemate after the exam to work on a school project, and due to a lack of useful means of communications (you can't text someone taking an exam, as they might've forgotten to turn off their phone), I figured the only reliable way of getting in contact was just to wait him out. So, I get to the exam hall somewhere close to 10 minutes after they've locked the doors, so I've got nothing to do but to, curled up in a miserable little ball, sit down on the cold concrete and hope he'll finish soon. It's quite cold outside, and I deeply regretted not bringing a cap, even though caps work quite badly together with bicycle helmets.

After one hour and 20 minutes, our lecturer arrives, and he cheerfully greets me with an "Already finished?". I tell him my predicament, and he goes into deep contemplation, trying to figure out some way he can solve it for me that doesn't include waiting until the middle of January. Sadly, doing something like that would run into the problem with prejudice (the "30 minutes - locked doors" rule is an anti-cheating meassure, and if he lets me through, he'll have to do it to others as well), and I'll tell him that there isn't much to do it, and that I'll just have to retake the exam. At least I could follow him through the door to the lobby, where I could warm myself and talk to the friends who already have finished the exam (not many by then, but still). My time outside had frozen me to the bones, and it took another hour to just thaw up again.

I'm just happy I didn't have to wait the following two and a half hours it took for my friend to finish the exam waiting outside. Being cold helped getting my thoughts off why I was there in the first case, but ~4 hours would've been borderline dangerous...


The worst part is that I was so prepared for this exam. I would in all likelyhood have gotten the top grade. And then I miss it all because I forget to double-check my facts. Twice. So I'm in a sort of foul mood, and the almost hour spent biking around town at top speed, followed by an hour and 20 minutes spent trying as efficiently as possible to drop my body temperature as low as possible, will most likely cause me to crash in a full-blown cold tomorrow. If I'm lucky.
Jay.

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Well, given that "all that stuff" indeed means "all that stuff", I guess the answer should be "yes". I sometimes feel like I'm really busy, but then I look back at my life and realise how much time I actually spend doing something completely pointless. And then I go back to playing FTL.

The worst part is that I was so prepared for this exam. I would in all likelyhood have gotten the top grade. And then I miss it all because I forget to double-check my facts. Twice. So I'm in a sort of foul mood, and the almost hour spent biking around town at top speed, followed by an hour and 20 minutes spent trying as efficiently as possible to drop my body temperature as low as possible, will most likely cause me to crash in a full-blown cold tomorrow. If I'm lucky.
Jay.

Hey now, having fun is never pointless

Oh dear . I hope you get better soon! And that really is unfortunate X_X

[Devmaar]

...
Wow

I am very glad my studies are all on one campus.
*hugs Teddy*

[Coidzor]

Teddy: I think it might be a reference to the swedish chef. Or possibly that swedes or at least swedish-americans have a tendency to drop letters/syllables from words, regardless of whether there are apostrophes in the formal syntax or not.

I'm leaning towards the former, though, honestly, as I can't remember anything about the Swedish-Americans other than that they live in the cheese-producing states predominantly and may or may not be responsible for the Minnesotan accent.

Originally Posted by Elemental

Edit: But women like the truth! It's desirable!

Where did you get that idea? People hate the truth. They say they want it, but they can't handle the truth!

[Dimonite]

*so many hugs for Teddy*

[Kneenibble]

Teeeeeeddyyyyyy. ;____;
I'm sorry this has happened. If anyone ever needed a budgie hug, it is you!


I will make you poppy-pod tea, then, syrupy with wildflower honey. For a few hours you will be as a hot air balloon hovering carefree a kilometre above the earth.

Originally Posted by Elemental

It does indeed. Unfortunately, they grow rather tall and there is nowhere that my Mother would allow me to plant one.

Well, as I said, it's nothing too special. Definitely not rare or anything...
If I remember correctly, Mum said that Dad just brought it home when Grandma moved out of her old place a few years and put it down the side of the house. It has since flourished.
I do believe the shady conditions there are perfect for it. As well as for numerous opportunistic ferns. I think we may have one or two other orchids, but they're not near flowering.

Ahahahahaha...hahaha...haha. Oh yes. You can grow orchids outside there! How fabulous. I was at first imagining a potted heirloom plant on a windowsill, which was rather hibernocentric of me.

I love shade gardens. I transplanted some hostas and bleeding hearts to a shady patch in my garden at the end of September, and I look forward to their beauty in the spring. I also have some foxglove seeds I'm going to plant in another shady area.

Attack here was merely used as a term to emphasise the intensity with which she focuses on her self imposed task. But I am rather ticklish, so I fear that my uncontrolled laughter may disturb her.
That is often the case when the cat plays with my hand. The pain is minimal as she drags her teeth across my skin in a playful imitation of hunting, but it does tickle rather a lot.
Her claws on the other hand...

I love when cats do that. Especially when they roll on their back, inviting a bellyrub, and then once your hand is deep in the fluff they trap it there in a jagged ticklish-painful vice.

So long as you kept your hand still, Mabel would not be discouraged by your laughter. She would preen your eyebrows, and peck your tear ducts, eyelashes, and nose while she was at it. <3 I love when she gets nibbly.

Well... I'm not sure what style I shall employ yet. But I will attempt to base my images off actual cephalopods.
Okay... You accept Cephalopodan, but not cephalopod?

When I am done, I shall link the finished artwork to you. Perhaps I shall produce a short comic strip involving the aforementioned Kraken and the individual attempting to play the piano.
Unfortunately, I drew the piano from the back such that the expressions of the musician were visible as they encountered problems with their playing.
Also... The keyboard was causing me to great distress.

I look forward to seeing it, whatever you do!

See I thought Fur Elise opened with semiquaver triplets for some reason, and checking the sheet music I'm dead wrong -- so you're not the only one who would make a mistake at first.

Nonsense. I always do my best to interpret the things you say such that they are completely innuendo free. That way, I am able to enjoy your poetic speech more easily.
*is conservative and old-fashioned*

That is a greater kindness than I deserve, unfortunately.
Although I don't direct my innuendos at you out of respect for that very reason.

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

We don't like them monocles in these here parts...

Yes, I imagine you [plural] don't -- I have broken quite a few reading Cobra's posts, who seems to delight in titillating my active imagination, the scrumptious bastard.

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by Devmaar

...
Wow

I am very glad my studies are all on one campus.
*hugs Teddy*

The stupid part is that I have all my lectures and classes in a 100 metres radius area, and there is an exam hall in there as well which we practically never uses. Then there are two bigger buildings with two exam halls each located in the industrial areas of the town, one in each end, and neither of these buildings is anywhere close to any other part of the university (which in turn are scattered all over the southern half of the town).

I think the reason is low rental costs, which sounds reasonable to strive for when you're talking about buildings the size of a larger sport hall that only are in use 2 weeks at a time 4 times each year...

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Teeeeeeddyyyyyy. ;____;
I'm sorry this has happened. If anyone ever needed a budgie hug, it is you!


I will make you poppy-pod tea, then, syrupy with wildflower honey. For a few hours you will be as a hot air balloon hovering carefree a kilometre above the earth.

Yes, this is exactly what I need. Something warm and fluid that will make me forget everything and let me go to bed with a smile on my lips. I think I'll make myself a large cup of tea (hmm, I wonder if my OotS mug has gone through the dishwasher since this morning) and take another dose of painkillers. That should at least make my attempts at sleeping painless.


Also, thank you all for your hugs. Your sympathies are really heartwarming when I've had a bad day.

[Devmaar]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Also, thank you all for your hugs. Your sympathies are really heartwarming when I've had a bad day.

I'd say it's what I do, but I'd feel I was stealing Cobra's schtick

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Yes, this is exactly what I need. Something warm and fluid that will make me forget everything and let me go to bed with a smile on my lips. I think I'll make myself a large cup of tea (hmm, I wonder if my OotS mug has gone through the dishwasher since this morning) and take another dose of painkillers. That should at least make my attempts at sleeping painless.


Also, thank you all for your hugs. Your sympathies are really heartwarming when I've had a bad day.

If I could, I'd be a big warm blanket for you to feel better. Get better soon man *hugs tightly*

[Heliomance]

I have come to the conclusion that I should not be allowed to own hats. My first top hat, I took on a pub crawl and didn't bring it back. My trilby, the signature one that my avatar wears, I lost many months ago, I know not where. And now my pride and joy, my genuine Australian Snowy River Akubra bush hat is missing, and I can't for the life of me remember where I last had it. I expect the only reason I still have my second top hat is because it's been sat on my shelf unworn for ages.



The trilby is replaceable, if I can be bothered. The Snowy River hat I got on the other side of the world, and cost $120 AUD. It is not replaceable, and its loss makes me very sad.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

See, I have increased my hat collection from 1 to 6 in the last 2 months...

[Tragic_Comedian]

Originally Posted by Heliomance

I have come to the conclusion that I should not be allowed to own hats. My first top hat, I took on a pub crawl and didn't bring it back. My trilby, the signature one that my avatar wears, I lost many months ago, I know not where. And now my pride and joy, my genuine Australian Snowy River Akubra bush hat is missing, and I can't for the life of me remember where I last had it. I expect the only reason I still have my second top hat is because it's been sat on my shelf unworn for ages.



The trilby is replaceable, if I can be bothered. The Snowy River hat I got on the other side of the world, and cost $120 AUD. It is not replaceable, and its loss makes me very sad.

Sorry for your loss, Helio. Maybe it will turn up eventually...

I've got a thing for hats, but have never really got used to wearing them. I wear a hat (well, a cap, really) more now that I'm in college than ever just because usually I wake up so late that I am unable and/or unwilling to comb my hair. What I really want is a Huck Finn cap, something to play gigs in, but I can't find one. I've been forced to go topless.

[Sir Reingo]

A gentlemanly shark just joined this thread. I do believe that this thread just grew a mite more random.

Just a thought.

[Qwertystop]

Hats:

I once knew a guy who frequently wore three fedorae and a gasmask. One of the fedorae was red-and-black plaid.

Originally Posted by Sir Reingo

A gentlemanly shark just joined this thread. I do believe that this thread just grew a mite more random.

Just a thought.

Hi!

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by Sir Reingo

A gentlemanly shark just joined this thread. I do believe that this thread just grew a mite more random.

Just a thought.

Greetings! Salutations! Baaaaaah!

Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

See, I have increased my hat collection from 1 to 6 in the last 2 months...

Hats. They coo'. Also, automatic sexiness.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

I came here with an undyed wool handknit toque. Since then, I have acquired, in order: the hat from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, a grey-blue-silver ex-soviet military ushanka, a sparkly cheap plastic magician's top hat, and now a white top hat (slightly dirty) and a white bowler (not quite as dirty). And a white wig too.

I had a nice straw trilby, as pictured here:

Spoiler

But it disappeared.

I also had a fake ex-soviet Ushanka when I was younger, pictured here, but it doesn't fit me anymore:

Spoiler

I had a white trilby too, but I got mustard stains on it by accident and it never came out.

Spoiler

And I also had a normal trilby which seems to have disappeared? Or did I leave it at home? I can't remember.

I also have a gasmask though.

Spoiler

There are a few other pictures of hats that I've only ever worn once, and oh apparently when I was just a babe I had a hat too

Spoiler

But yeah.

The story of Gwyn's life in hats.

Oh, the bel-air hat kinda looks like this:

Spoiler

[Sir Reingo]

Greetings to everyone who said hello to me, who I can't be bothered to quote.

You'll find that's one of my most fun features. Well, that and pedantry.

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by Sir Reingo

Greetings to everyone who said hello to me, who I can't be bothered to quote.

You'll find that's one of my most fun features. Well, that and pedantry.

Gwyn. gwyn. Gwyn. Gwyn. Gwyn...this isnt the You thread. ( I DO remember that gasmask photo though. )

@v. .... Hat thread it be.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

No, it's the hat thread.

See, look at the title of my post. Hat thread.

[Tragic_Comedian]

Aw, you were so cute when you were little, Gwyn.