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If Oscar Wilde had lived in our time, he would be a /b/tard.

Actually, scratch that. He does, and goes by Jethro Q Walrustitty.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:26 AM

BobbyG vigilantly taxonomish from England Since: Jan, 2001
vigilantly taxonomish
#10276: Apr 27th 2010 at 11:39:45 AM

Woah, anger, Spain.

It includes the word "rubbishing", and is therefore awesome.

Thought: I'd forgotten how awesome Wendy Cope was.

Reading Scheme by Wendy Cope

Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
Jane has a big doll. Peter has a ball.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!

Here is Mummy. She has baked a bun.
Here is the milkman. He has come to call.
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.

Go Peter! Go Jane! Come, milkman, come!
The milkman likes Mummy. She likes them all.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!

Here are the curtains. They shut out the sun.
Let us peep! On tiptoe Jane! You are small!
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.

I hear a car, Jane. The milkman looks glum.
Here is Daddy in his car. Daddy is tall.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!

Daddy looks very cross. Has he a gun?
Up milkman! Up milkman! Over the wall!
Here is Peter. Here is Jane. They like fun.
Look, Jane, look! Look at the dog! See him run!

edited 27th Apr '10 11:46:23 AM by BobbyG

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SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
Laugh it off, everybody
#10277: Apr 27th 2010 at 12:40:47 PM

This is so one-sided it isn't funny.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....
harmattane X_X from Location, location Since: Jan, 2010
X_X
#10278: Apr 27th 2010 at 3:09:41 PM

Hopefully you don't hate my last serial update, because I think I'll be too busy to do another one for the rest of the week.

Ce ne pas un post.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#10279: Apr 27th 2010 at 3:35:16 PM

I wonder if it's possible to learn Japanese by reading untranslated manga with a handy-dandy bilingual dictionary in hand? Or just reading untranslated Japanese, in any case.

If you know the grammar, and have a lot (a lot) of time on your hands, perhaps.

Oh, learn? Not understand? Dunno. Probably not, or at least it would take forever and ever and ever.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#10280: Apr 27th 2010 at 4:20:47 PM

Look at a puddle in the rain. Watch a droplet hit the water, and explode with the force of impact, sending water reeling in a circle of waves from the epicenter. In much less than a second the water regains its composure; the drop might well have never been, but for an almost negligible addition to the puddle's volume. It's no wonder water is so overused in metaphors.

Look again. You ignored the instructions. Look at a puddle in the rain. Not some raindrop. You can't see any raindrops. Don't delude yourself. You can see a streaking in the air, a streak you think is a water droplet. How ludicrous. You can see, briefly, the concentric waves I've just told you signal an impact Again, ludicrous. Can you see the impact? You let me describe it to you, and so you imagined, wrongly, that you could. Perhaps you could use film, you think. Spend forty seconds to watch one. How long would it take for you to see every drop? A raindrop is nothing. Don't pretend that you can see it.

Look again. You're so easy to distract. Look at a puddle in the rain. See the impact. Not just one. Widen your field of view. In less than a minute, a hundred raindrops die, or so I tell you. Watch the impacts. Can you see the pattern? There, there, there, there, there, driven by the wind. Your eye is too slow to see an impact, and your mind is too slow to understand them all. Can you comprehend genocide? If you look casually, you'll see two frames, looping. Focus. Do you see three, now? Four? Focus. Now the image is continuous, or so you imagine. You can see the randomness. Can you see the pattern? Drops in a line, a triangle through time, and circles, reverse Gatling guns absorbing bullets from the sky.

Look again. Can you see the pattern of the patterns? A triangle gives way to its circumscription. A tangent line fires (you follow it with your eye), doubles back, continues, splits into two inlets, which do you pick? You can't follow both. Your mind is too slow. Do you see the pattern of the patterns?

Look again. You can't see.

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Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#10281: Apr 27th 2010 at 4:24:36 PM

In my capability as a poor critic, I say "a good, short read."

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#10282: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:06:20 PM

I did it. I watched every episode of XIN.

..

Why did I do that?

Kill all math nerds
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#10284: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:13:37 PM

Does anyone know how credible Steven Mithen is? I'd like to read his books, but I'd rather not do so if all of his ideas are bunk.

There's a paragraph in a review of one of his books by another anthropologist that shows me that he's not entirely credible, but she does say that his main ideas are reasonable.

edited 27th Apr '10 5:13:50 PM by LuckyRevenant

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#10285: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:28:43 PM

XIIIIIIIIIINNNNN!

Kill all math nerds
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#10286: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:31:03 PM

Who would inflict such a thing upon the world?

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#10287: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:33:50 PM

Myrmidon, you're going to die if you continue these activities! D:

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.
Myrmidon The Ant King from In Antartica Since: Nov, 2009
The Ant King
#10288: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:34:19 PM

By the final episode the series was almost good. That might just be the Stockholm syndrome talking though.

Kill all math nerds
Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#10289: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:35:41 PM

Somedays you feel like Simon, some days you just feel like Kyonko on fire.

Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#10291: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:36:39 PM

I have to say, I'm a bigger proponent of the idea that Neandertals died more from competition with modern humans rather than being absorbed into them due to interbreeding.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
Haven Planescape Hijack Since: Jan, 2001
Planescape Hijack
#10292: Apr 27th 2010 at 5:45:02 PM

^^ grin

edited 27th Apr '10 5:45:20 PM by Haven

Productivity is for people without internet connections. -Count Dorku
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
ALMSIVI
#10294: Apr 27th 2010 at 6:18:19 PM

Has anyone read anything where an adolescent boy is out hunting with his father when he falls down a hole, where he finds a trapped ground sloth. His father goes to find help, and finds a short-nosed bear instead. Also, the adolescent and his father are primitive men; very early Americans.

I'm trying to figure out if this is something I dreamt, read somewhere once, or is my own original story idea.

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
harmattane X_X from Location, location Since: Jan, 2010
X_X
#10296: Apr 27th 2010 at 6:39:44 PM

@Tzetze: Your little piece of writing made me sad. It hurt because you know what you are talking about, and it's true.

Ce ne pas un post.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001
Embrace the mindscrew
#10298: Apr 27th 2010 at 6:50:10 PM

Well, that was an odd thing to happen in Imperium Nova.

Tzetze: I liked it because it talked about stuff I liked, like toying with mental conditioning.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.
harmattane X_X from Location, location Since: Jan, 2010
X_X
#10299: Apr 27th 2010 at 6:51:04 PM

@Tzetze: Maybe not, but you did something coherent.

Ce ne pas un post.
Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#10300: Apr 27th 2010 at 6:53:03 PM

It ended up being about the inability to escape maya. Seems to be the only thing that I ever want to write about. Luckily, it's very general. You could write romance, horror, war, anything really about the inability to escape maya.

I started writing it because I was actually looking at a puddle in the rain, though. Pretty, how random it is.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.

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