Dish's Delightfully Deranged and Deliciously Deliquent Random Banter # 106

dish · 11-07-2008, 12:40 AM

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Previous Threads:
(We all have far too much spare time.)

Spoiler

This thread is for random discussion, not random chit chat. People have set up an unofficial IRC chat thingy for that sort of thing. Not only will you not annoy the people here, you will also help increase the popularity of the IRC chat. It's win/win/win!

Be not unkind, and may enjoyment flow post-haste!

Skippy · 11-07-2008, 12:52 AM

Yay!! I love the smell of a new thread in the morning!!

I went to see "Be kind, rewind" tonight. It was a really good movie. Especially, since I'm still working at the Blockbuster. It has more meaning like that...

Wolfbane · 11-07-2008, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by radikalskippy

Yay!! I love the smell of a new thread in the morning!!

I went to see "Be kind, rewind" tonight. It was a really good movie. Especially, since I'm still working at the Blockbuster. It has more meaning like that...

I have to agree with you, the feel of a nice crisp clean thread does do something wonderful. Won't last a week.

I've been wanting to watch that movie. I have one to recommend. Dark City. It is one of the freakiest and coolest movies out there.
To get you started, here is a little something you'll find out in 2 seconds anyways

Spoiler

It is a Fantasy/Sci-fi/Horror and is one of my top 10 favorites.

Phase · 11-07-2008, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by radikalskippy

Yay!! I love the smell of a new thread in the morning!!

I went to see "Be kind, rewind" tonight. It was a really good movie. Especially, since I'm still working at the Blockbuster. It has more meaning like that...

Ditto on both counts. But even the nocturne himself needs to rest. To bed.

Wolfbane · 11-07-2008, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Phase

Ditto on both counts. But even the nocturne himself needs to rest. To bed.

Aye, I have to agree. Sleep is needed. To Bed I am off!

Zeb The Troll · 11-07-2008, 01:36 AM

Mmmm. Bed sounds nice. Alas, I be here at the workplace for another 6 hours. On the bright side, my weekend will start then.

*waves at RB'ers at large*

Raiser Blade · 11-07-2008, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolfbane

Aye, I have to agree. Sleep is needed. To Bed I am off!

Sleep is for... weak people who need to sleep! You heathens must bow before Caff-eine!! With his blessing you need never waste a moment of your life sleeping.

At least until the effect wears off. Then you might accidentally fall asl...

*snore*

Jibar · 11-07-2008, 01:41 AM

*BOOGIE*

The thread has been blessed.

Now, back to... whatever it is I do in the mornings.

Raiser Blade · 11-07-2008, 01:43 AM

I feel obligated to point out that "deranged" has one r.

dish · 11-07-2008, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Raiser_B1ade

I feel obligated to point out that "deranged" has one r.

Oops

(I'm an English teacher an all. Knew I should have checked a dictionary.)

Charity · 11-07-2008, 03:36 AM

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

Vizen · 11-07-2008, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by dish

Oops

(I'm an English teacher an all. Knew I should have checked a dictionary.)

Hey don't worry about it. My English teacher is dyslexic, and often makes a mistake or two. But the remaining students in the class are good peoples, and point it out to her. ^_^

Thufir · 11-07-2008, 03:40 AM

We performed Faure's Requiem last night.

Libera me, domine... de morte aeterna...

KnightDisciple · 11-07-2008, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolfbane

Aye, I have to agree. Sleep is needed. To Bed I am off!

All you people with your semi-normal sleep hours. Bah!

Pepz · 11-07-2008, 03:44 AM

Normal sleeping hours? Went to bed at 3am this night just because I didn't feel like sleeping. Too bad I did have to get at up at 8, but it's not like I'll miss those three hours.

Vizen · 11-07-2008, 03:56 AM

Gahhh...Sleep is helpful. Especially at passing the time when you got nothing to do. In fact, I think I might just do that.

InaVegt · 11-07-2008, 04:19 AM

Why's everyone going to bed around 10 in the morning?

Charity · 11-07-2008, 04:34 AM

Time enough for sleep when you're dead.

bosssmiley · 11-07-2008, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by radikalskippy

Yay!! I love the smell of a new thread in the morning!!

I went to see "Be kind, rewind" tonight. It was a really good movie. Especially, since I'm still working at the Blockbuster. It has more meaning like that...

Been meaning to watch that since reading Squaremans' excellent review.

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Originally Posted by Thufir

We performed Faure's Requiem last night.

Libera me, domine... de morte aeterna...

<John Cleese> Ooooooooh, hark at Mr Kulchah over there. I hope you've brought enough la-di-da to share with everyone young man. </Cleese>

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Originally Posted by Charity

Time enough for sleep when you're dead.

But I'll need a nap to make sure I have enough energy for that main snooze.

ION:

Strange man doodles entire basement with marker pen, wife likes it
Grauniad hack makes sure their sprog will grow up to hate them
Spoooooooky camera-less photography ("Why, 'tis witchcraft!")
Banks plan to destroy world and loot remains
International Society of Supervillains looks at bad locations for lairs
Inked porkers barred from art expo
and Warren Ellis reckons we're all doomed. DOOMED!!!

(And El Reg hasn't even done their customary Friday Playmobil reconstruction yet)

dish · 11-07-2008, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Vizen

Hey don't worry about it. My English teacher is dyslexic, and often makes a mistake or two. But the remaining students in the class are good peoples, and point it out to her. ^_^

The problem is, sometimes the students are wrong. Last week I wrote the word "mortgage" on the board. My students all told me I had made a mistake and should change it, so I did until someone checked his dictionary and realised that my original spelling was correct.

The moral of this tale is: sometimes the teacher is right. The trick is knowing when.

smellie_hippie · 11-07-2008, 06:42 AM

All this talk about sleep...

Weird sleep last night. Mtn_Faerie stayed at her folks house while re-exchanging cars with MY folks. It's nice to know that it's unsettling to sleep without someone you've slept with for the past 5 years...

CurlyKitGirl · 11-07-2008, 07:06 AM

Tell me about it. I can't sleep without my Sunshine Bear; when I was little(r) his absence gave me wake - up - screaming nightmares. My parents learned to wash him quickly, in the day if they wanted an uninterrupted nights sleep.
Obviously not the same as Hippie's problem, but I'm bored and it's only just turned twelve.
Still better than college though.
But there's still nothing on.

*goes off to watch old cartoons*
*and read*

But first; @dish: when I was in secondary school I had a PE/History teacher who taught me history in Y8 (topic: America until the Civil War) and he barely knew the first thing about it.
He thought Christopher Columbus was Spanish.
He couldn't spelly Inuit or half the other tribe names right. He actually called them Eskimos and Red Americans a few times.

And some other gaffs that were obvious to anyone who knew slightly more than most kids knew about the subject. Five of us ended up playing a game called Correct The Teacher While Undermining His Authority. I had the record for most corrections in a lesson - six; but someone else had the record for Most Obvious Mistake Corrected. He thought the Aztecs were a Native American tribe from roughly where the southern states are.
Good times; terrible teacher.

Player_Zero · 11-07-2008, 07:11 AM

I've gotta' stop sleeping for... 15 hours a day... Maybe if I ate some sort of food once in a while?

dish · 11-07-2008, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by smellie_hippie

All this talk about sleep...

It has been a decidedly drowsy and dozy thread thus far. Must be all the ds.

@Curly: That story is terrifying. On several different levels.

Mauve Shirt · 11-07-2008, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolfbane

I've been wanting to watch that movie. I have one to recommend. Dark City. It is one of the freakiest and coolest movies out there.
To get you started, here is a little something you'll find out in 2 seconds anyways

Spoiler

I have a horrible habit of staying up late and not doing my homework for my class at 10:00, so I have to wake up at 7:00 AM to do my homework, but then I get on the computer and don't start my homework til 8:30 or so. I get 6 hours of sleep on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Charity · 11-07-2008, 08:19 AM

Meh, I had a math teacher who was so astonishingly inept and poorly cut out for the teaching profession that he got so mad at me correcting him constantly that he refused to acknowledge my existance.
I then started asking my mate loudly to inform Mr Eady that he had made an error, as he is acting like a child and ignoring me... after about a week of this he snapped and started throwing stuff at me, then had the gall to send me to the principle when I started throwing it back... he doesn't work there any more.

Edit - Mauve I've been operating on 4-6 hours a night for the past... 15 years.
As it goes, I read a statistic somewhere that stated that folk that sleep 5 hours a night live the longest on average... whether that means you can extend your life by sleeping less is unclear, but you can definately experiance more of it.

TwoBitWriter · 11-07-2008, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Mauve Shirt

Spoiler

I have a horrible habit of staying up late and not doing my homework for my class at 10:00, so I have to wake up at 7:00 AM to do my homework, but then I get on the computer and don't start my homework til 8:30 or so. I get 6 hours of sleep on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Dark City was so much superior to the Matrix, in mine own opinion.

@Curly: Your misadventures in a class about early American History amuses me, as a student of history... Red Americans... haha, my Great Grandmother would LOVE that one... (She was full-blooded Cherokee...)

bosssmiley · 11-07-2008, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl

when I was in secondary school I had a PE/History teacher...

Is it bad that I could sense the car crash coming as soon as I saw those two subjects juxtaposed?

"Who let the PE Teacher near a book?"

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Originally Posted by Mauve Shirt

Spoiler

"Dark City" did it first, and had both Richard O'Brian and the late, great Ian Richardson as villains (Riff-Raff + Francis Urquhart/The Master of Porterhouse > Agent Elrond).

W00t! The ION frenzy continues with the new BOFH, which includes the wonderfully apt term 'Wikisalting' (the art of source and attribution fabrication for the eponymous hivepedia).

Oregano · 11-07-2008, 09:12 AM

Am I right in thinking Christopher Columbus was a Dalmatian?

I'm probably wrong, like how I'm wrong about everything else.

Mauve Shirt · 11-07-2008, 09:20 AM

I agree with both that have said Dark City is superior. I just saw it second. It has the advantage of not having Keanu Reeves. I do think the Agents are scarier than the Strangers.