Random Thought of the Day

[Heathcliff]

If I was to learn how to drive at 17, probationary ant 18, I could be a Formula 1 racer by the age of... 180!!

Ergh... Maybe I should choose a different career.

[Maryd.]

If I was to learn how to drive at 17, probationary ant 18, I could be a Formula 1 racer by the age of... 180!!

Ergh... Maybe I should choose a different career.:smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash:: smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::s mash::smash::smash::smash::smash:



YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT GIRLIE...:eek:

[DanielBenoit]

People always mention how deeply I breath and I'm almost completely oblivious.

[Heathcliff]

:smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash:: smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::s mash::smash::smash::smash:



YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT GIRLIE...:eek:

Ouch. Maybe I shouldn't become a race-car driver. Can I become a skateboard stunt-artist?

[DanielBenoit]

There's two picture association games :eek:

[Maximilianus]

There should be no homeworks at all. They keep certain people off Lit Net http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/grin.gif

[Annamariah]

There should be no homeworks at all. They keep certain people off Lit Net http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/grin.gif

Tell that to my teachers :D

[Maximilianus]

Tell that to my teachers :D

They are just an ocean away. I will tell them anytime http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/i-m_so_happy.gif

[Shannanigan]

I love Maximilianus' icon. Seriously. Beowulf ftw.

[Scheherazade]

Whoohooo!!! I have managed to convert the Word documents and I can read my course readings on my Ereader!

:D

[papayahed]

Ouch. Maybe I shouldn't become a race-car driver. Can I become a skateboard stunt-artist?

How much fun would race car driving be though???? (sorry Mary but it would!!)

[Hurricane]

If professors want to use a computer program to assign homework for them, they should use programs that don't take over an hour to learn how to use (including 20 minutes of instructional video) when it would've taken less than five minutes for the student to do the problem correctly by hand on paper.

[Maximilianus]

I love Maximilianus' icon. Seriously. Beowulf ftw.

Thank you, I like yours too. If I'm not mistaken it's a dragon, isn't it?

[DanielBenoit]

January is such a depressing month. The snow becomes dirty and melts, but only to a point in which it's a cross between white scum and brown grass. It's December in the nude.

[Heathcliff]

How much fun would race car driving be though???? (sorry Mary but it would!!)

It would be awesome. Dangerous, but fun.

More dangerous, but more fun, when it is raining.

[Silas Thorne]

Do you have a better morning listening to the Chinese national anthem pumped through the loudspeakers at the university than I do when I sleep through it? I've heard the cannons of the enemy and am still marching on, like in the song.

[Heathcliff]

I like the beach.

[Maryd.]

Never trust anyone:flare:

[Shannanigan]

Thank you, I like yours too. If I'm not mistaken it's a dragon, isn't it?

It is; a rather old icon, though. Might change it. Think I've had it since I registered here years ago.

"Do you think the gods will allow me to die at the hand of some nameless Friesian?!....let him go; he has a story to tell."

[Heathcliff]

I almost won a game of checkers!!

I think it was a draw.

Nobody could move.

Check it out:
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/album.php?albumid=719&pictureid=6027

[Maryd.]

Never turn your back in the dark.

[Maximilianus]

It is; a rather old icon, though. Might change it. Think I've had it since I registered here years ago.

The new one looks great too :thumbs_up


Never turn your back in the dark.
Like turning your back on someone, right?

My random thought of today: it may be really dangerous... even in full daylight http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

[Heathcliff]

I'm going to change my avi.

[Maximilianus]

I noticed that someone I know has changed her avi :D

[Heathcliff]

I noticed that someone I know has changed her avi :D

It took me ages to get a Salada biscuit like that, they kept on breaking.

[Maximilianus]

It took me ages to get a Salada biscuit like that, they kept on breaking.

And you finally pulled it off. That's what matters http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/i-m_so_happy.gif

[Maryd.]

Isn't it amazing how a Salada biscuit can be the main topic of "Random Though of the Day"?

[Maximilianus]

Biscuits are amazing. Especially honey biscuits/cookies http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/declare.gif

[Maryd.]

Yum, my derriere, says I am not allowed to indulge in such pleasures.

[Heathcliff]

Biscuits are amazing. Especially honey biscuits/cookies http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/declare.gif

I'm drooling already.

[Maximilianus]

Yum, my derriere, says I am not allowed to indulge in such pleasures.
http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/mosking.gif

I'm drooling already.
Me too http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/popcorm2.gif

[papayahed]

Something about rain boots is just so freeing.

[Jozanny]

Getting random invitations to join Facebook from internet contacts I cannot even remember seriously means I need a life, even if I want absolutely nothing to DO with Facebook and its parent company.

I am not at my best this evening and will head to bed, nitey.

[kiz_paws]

Try explaining eleven dimensions... :eek:

[toni]

It's depressing how some people choose to be oblivious to your dietary preferences.

[Heathcliff]

It's depressing how some people choose to be oblivious to your dietary preferences.

Couldn't agree more.

Only mine is more like, 'NO!! I don't want icecream at one am!!'

[Maryd.]

No, icecream after 11.00pm girl!!!

[Maximilianus]

When they need me, I'm there.
When I need them, I'm there.

[Heathcliff]

No, icecream after 11.00pm girl!!!

Precisely. I don't want the icecream otherwise I'll be hypo and I'll never get to sleep.


When they need me, I'm there.
When I need them, I'm there.

I'm here!!

[Maryd.]

When they need me, I'm there.
When I need them, I'm there.

Me to Maxi. :thumbs_up

[toni]

Hearts, chocolates and fluff. The Valentine's season makes me nauseous.

[Maryd.]

There packed and off to school... Hmmm... Now what?:idea: Ah that's right work... :bawling: :crash::crash::crash:

[Heathcliff]

Amazing, I must quote something from the song Fairytale by Alexander Rybak.
" No one else can make me sadder,
no one else can lift me higher up. "
Amazing what a few friends can do.

I love school. Too easy.

[BienvenuJDC]

I must quote something from SNL (the good years)
"You can pick your friends...
...you can pick your nose...
...but you can't pick your friend's nose!"

[Maximilianus]

I'm here!!


Me to Maxi. :thumbs_up

Thank you both.

I'm thinking why people say "in the good times and the bad times". I just see them wanting the rose while rejecting its thorns and then I ponder why they talk about accepting the whole package. They should rather say "If it hurts I don't want it. If it's pleasant then come my way". I can't really understand the concept of love anymore. It's either some kind of fake, or I get too easily confused. People seem to go for the happy our, 'cause when one of them is downed, the other apparently loses their apparent former interest. There's a chance, though, that at this stage of night and life I may be going insane and I may not know what I'm thinking/saying. I'd better stop.

[Niamh]

sometimes the special dietry option on a flight is not the best option.

[Satan]

Sometimes your mind goes blank and all you feel or see is a void stretched across the horizon. It doesn't make any sense. And then you're back to your usual self, feeling empty and scared of the nothingness around you and within. Numb, quiet, uneasy and looking for a drink, some music, the beauty of written word -- an escape from the lightness. You want to feel something under your feet. Anything. You want to believe it's a dream.

[Maryd.]

Sometimes your mind goes blank and all you feel or see is a void stretched across the horizon. It doesn't make any sense. And then you're back to your usual self, feeling empty and scared of the nothingness around you and within. Numb, quiet, uneasy and looking for a drink, some music, the beauty of written word -- an escape from the lightness. You want to feel something under your feet. Anything. You want to believe it's a dream.

Wow, very poetic.:thumbs_up

[neilgee]

I'm sat on the edge of an explosive cliff, randomly

[Maryd.]

I'm sat on the edge of an explosive cliff, randomly

Is there any other way to sit?

[Satan]

Wow, very poetic.:thumbs_up

Why, thanks! I was expecting comments like "how depressing!", though. :D

[Maryd.]

Why, thanks! I was expecting comments like "how depressing!", though. :D

Poor Satan, he is depressed... Ironic ha?

[Satan]

It's you, lady, and other good souls here. Depressing it is! :bawling:

[Maryd.]

It's you, lady, and other good souls here. Depressing it is! :bawling:

Oh, poor dear... Here :ladysman:

All better.

[Satan]

Aww, thanks! :P

[hoope]

Sometimes you lose the desire to live anymore.. you lose your fighting spirit for life . That's when you just wake up in the morning for the sake of moving on !

[Maximilianus]

Sometimes you lose the desire to live anymore.. you lose your fighting spirit for life . That's when you just wake up in the morning for the sake of moving on !

Agreed.

[Heathcliff]

I did the survey. I didn't like it.

[Maryd.]

Hmmm. Not happy!

[Satan]

Pending work. :bawling:

[Maryd.]

Pending work. :bawling:

Not stressing out dear, are you?

[Satan]

No, taking it easily.

[Maryd.]

No, taking it easily.

Colio... enjoy.

[samercury]

Editing a resume is sooooo annoying and time-consuming

[Maximilianus]

She's on-line. I wonder if she noticed I am too :p

[BienvenuJDC]

She's on-line. I wonder if she noticed I am too :p

Most likely...even if she's playing dumb about it...

[Heathcliff]

Life is like a water balloon. Pop.

[Maryd.]

Painting is only tedious when the weather is over 30 degrees... Yuk.

[Niamh]

Too many clothes!

[Maximilianus]

She gave me a whole awful lot to think about. I hope I deserve it.

[stephofthenight]

Hm life without that one person is like a empty box that is suppose to have chocolates :'(

[Maximilianus]

Hmm... life with that one person is like a box full of chocolates, and you never know what you're gonna get :D

[Heathcliff]

Life is like a banana, tasty but not that much to get hyped about these days.
I'm going to creaet a 'Life is like...' thread.

[papayahed]

Why are Friday afternoons always soooo slow??

[Maryd.]

Why must it always be me... I should just pin a "kick me" sign to my own back.:smash:

[Heathcliff]

I hate the song Sk8er Boy by Avril Lavinge. So sad. Only at least there is a happy ending. I hate songs about normal things. Shame it is such an awesome song and the music and lyrics are simply immaculate.

[Maximilianus]

Why must it always be me... I should just pin a "kick me" sign to my own back.:smash:
Awww, Mary, sorry :( who took it out on you? Want me to beat them? http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/punish.gif

[Heathcliff]

Awww, Mary, sorry :( who took it out on you? Want me to beat them? http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/punish.gif

Hey, no Maxi, it was probably me. But if it wasn't, WHACK right in the nose.

[toni]

Tommasso de' Cavalieri is to Michaelangelo : Henry Wriothesley is to William Shakespeare.

[DanielBenoit]

I hate the song Sk8er Boy by Avril Lavinge.

And I hate songs that use numbers in the spelling so that it looks k3wl! :p


Tommasso de' Cavalieri is to Michaelangelo : Henry Wriothesley is to William Shakespeare.

I find it rather interesting how openly homoerotic some of Michelangelo's paintings are. One never really notices it until they learn about his life.

[Heathcliff]

And I hate songs that use numbers in the spelling so that it looks k3wl! :p
It isn't that cool. Especially when you are searching it up for the lyrics and you wouldn't have known there were numbers. Don't see how it was relevant. Fair enough if the number eight was in the song, but... Yea.

Do you ever have those times when you think someone is walking up to you, and you're smiling, so happy to see them, and you don't even notice everyone elsee around, then someone comes walking from behind you and waves at them and they wave back? (Rehetorical question. :lol:)
I hate that. Happened to me today. I felt pretty stupid, but then I decided, 'whatever, I'm the one eating pizza, if they came to talk to me then they'd want some.'

[Satan]

Is I, the self, transient or does it come back after death, like waking up in the morning after a night of peaceful sleep?

[hoope]

" Don't tell me you can't do it; tell me you will try! Don't tell me that you have tried and failed! Tell me that you attempted something new, for there is no failing in life just setbacks! For I know the feeling of that fire burning and I know the feeling of taking one step forward and two steps back, but remember tomorrow is another day!"
Shona Blackthorn

[BienvenuJDC]

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

http://www.cuandoerachamo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Walt_Disney.jpg

[Virgil]

"Lay down, Sally, and rest you in my arms.
Don't you think you want someone to talk to?"

[Ashbe Maeur]

My random thought of the day:

Do these parents that leash their children realize how ridiculous it appears? And almost soul-crushing, if you ask me.

The last thing I'd want when my first date came to the house was Mom showing him all the wonderful pictures of me at the park, with my leash.

[blazeofglory]

My thought is we are in a chain of thoughts that chain us and want unchain myself, for slavery of thought is what I distaste most.

For all of us are prisoners of thoughts

[Heathcliff]

Computers are slow. They should be faster.
And the kettle should boil faster.
And teachers shouldn't check our phones at school.

And, a thought to explain why I don't appreciate how lucky everyone is to have these things, they aren't. Ehh... Nevermind my rants about how the industrial revolution brought education and that brought the world spiralling downward.

Then again, if it wasn't for the industrial revolution then there wouldn't have been mass unemployment in England during the mid to late 1800s. Then there wouldn't have been as many convicts and Australia wouldn't have been colonised.

I love slow computers, pathetic kettles and teachers that have authority to check our mobile phones.

[Katy North]

"Things are only impossible until they're not."

That's a Star Trek quote I think, but I can't remember who said it...

[toni]

Struggling new actresses like me write their own write-ups for the film press. How tragic.

[Heathcliff]

"Things are only impossible until they're not."

That's a Star Trek quote I think, but I can't remember who said it...

I must watch Star Trek.

[Maryd.]

It's all in my mind... That's what they tell me!

[Maximilianus]

It's all in my mind... That's what they tell me!
Can be in their minds too Mary. Do not believe everything they tell you, for they may be lying, and you may be right. At times we have things in the head, but at other times we are completely right. Be careful with that comment. I often get it... when they want to deceive me http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

[Maryd.]

Deception is a cruel thing... It linguers often. But I am not scared anymore. Let them try and deceive me!

[Maximilianus]

Well put Mary :nod: Keep strong :thumbsup:

[Heathcliff]

I said this somewhere else, but I must repeat it:

Does anyone else think that putting saliva on your skin is good for you because if it breaks food and bacteria down in your mouth it may be able to do the same thing?

[Nax]

I think buying some exfoliating moisturizer will take alot less time.

Tho it does make sense, its a solvant so it would do something, but I dont think it would be benificial overal as there is ALOT of bacteria in saliva and it would undoubtably cause rashes and infections.

[Heathcliff]

I think buying some exfoliating moisturizer will take alot less time.

Tho it does make sense, its a solvant so it would do something, but I dont think it would be benificial overal as there is ALOT of bacteria in saliva and it would undoubtably cause rashes and infections.

I've got all of that exfoliating stuff, but I'd like to find something else anyway.

Hmmm... You're probably right. That's the thing with my ideas. They are either awesome of awful.

[Maryd.]

A leopard doesn't change his spots.

[Heathcliff]

I'm pretty certain a zebra is white with black stripes, not black with white stripes.
Just like dalmations. :)

[Maximilianus]

A leopard doesn't change his spots.
True, they don't seem to have a way to change them http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif


I'm pretty certain a zebra is white with black stripes, not black with white stripes.
Just like dalmations. :)
Hmmm... are you sure? Can you present any proof of it? :p

[Maryd.]

True, they don't seem to have a way to change them...

Yes well I learnt that the hard way didn't I?

[Maximilianus]

Yes well I learnt that the hard way didn't I?
It's the way that will make you stronger :thumbsup: :wave:

[papayahed]

Is there a cure for procrastination?

[Lulim]

Is there a cure for procrastination?
Let me know when you discover one :)

[Heathcliff]

Hmmm... are you sure? Can you present any proof of it? :p
http://ccn1.net/POTD/whitezebra.jpg

Any good? But I think that on is sort of mutant.

[papayahed]

I need a new avatar.

[Sapphire]

I wish I kept up with my French - both for the understanding of musical lyrics as Victor Hugo :mad2:

[Ashbe Maeur]

The food network is the worst channel to watch when on a diet, ever.

[Maryd.]

What is with camps anyway?

[DanielBenoit]

Greatest musicians of the 20th century:

Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Thelonious Monk
Glenn Miller
John Coltrane
Ella Fitzgerald
Charles Parker
Charles Mingus
Wes Montgomery
Edith Piaf
Bing Cosby
Billie Holiday
Johnny Cash
Elvis
The Beatles
John Lenon
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Buckethead
Radiohead
Explosions in the Sky
Public Enemy
Edgard Varese
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
Sergei Prokofiev
Dmitri Shostakovich
Maurice Ravel
Sergei Rachmaninoff
John Cage
Phillip Glass
John Adams
Bernard Hermann
Leonard Bernstein


All are in no particular order, but I've always considered Satchmo to represent the soul of the century, so I consider him the best.

[Maryd.]

Waiting can take such a long time... Waiting.... Waiting... Waiting...

[Joreads]

When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds!

[DanielBenoit]

At night my soul turns on end and becomes something else. I know not if I am the day or if I am the night, if the day is merely a dream of the night, or the night a dream of the day.

[Heathcliff]

At night my soul turns on end and becomes something else. I know not if I am the day or if I am the night, if the day is merely a dream of the night, or the night a dream of the day.
And this stuff should be in the quote thread. Stuff that brain back into your head. And very impressive list, for the ones I've heard of in all my


Does anybody think that water tastes better in some places because of a large number of things. Like, living close to a main road where it is all polluted makes it tastes bad. A newer house has better and fresher pipes so it tastes good. The place where we went to camp at tasted nice because the area isn't very populated. On the other side of the train tracks to us, at my friends' house, it is good, of course it is newer.

Yea, I think too much.

[Maximilianus]

Does anybody think that water tastes better in some places because of a large number of things. Like, living close to a main road where it is all polluted makes it tastes bad. A newer house has better and fresher pipes so it tastes good. The place where we went to camp at tasted nice because the area isn't very populated. On the other side of the train tracks to us, at my friends' house, it is good, of course it is newer.

Yea, I think too much.

I agree completely, including the final remark where you admit to be thinking too much http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/mosking.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/derisive.gif

[Nightshade]

Happy world book day!
:banana:

[Heathcliff]

I agree completely, including the final remark where you admit to be thinking too much http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/mosking.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/derisive.gif

Ahh... I'm pretty sure the water thing is true.
And yes, I do think way too much, however I could just as well.

In which case:
Do things like drinking, smoking, etc. necessarily ruin your liver in small amounts? I suppose it is an organ, and cannot be built on as a muscle can develop, but it could grow a little resilience. Like how vaccines are generally small doses of whatever they are preventing, so much so that the body can overcome it and become immune to it. Then you think, could there be a plus side to drinking and smoking a little in that case? Smoking especially, seeing as it is generally pretty bad for you? I mean, when your body is used to functioning with a drug it becomes less powerful. So would that make the effects of drinking and smoking lessen? And because they may also make you immune to other things, like how my dad's uncle was told to take up smoking as a child so he wouldn't get chicken pox. I'm either right or horribly wrong...

[RosyRosalind]

In the wise (and true) words of the Bard of Avon,

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere." Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 1.

[Nightshade]

I cant watch tv or films anymore without multitasking, isnt that wierd? I need to have a book , the internet going maybe a task that need s my hands for me to stay still long enough to watch it. As to books Im evenhaving trouble with them, gone are the days of reading 6 books in a single sittingI barley manage 30 pages before I need to get up and walk around or watch a bit of tv, or fidgit generally. I hhave even started taken crochet out with me to do while I am talking to people so I can foucus on what they are saying...
what is wrong with me?!

[JuniperWoolf]

If I don't pull my ears back when I talk to customers, they think that I'm angry.

[Heathcliff]

I'm thinking, people are incredibly resilient. I mean, we don't get upset over everything that gets on our nerves.
I'm going to make a list of things that aren't entirely awesome, only a few examples of things I witness on a day to day basis:
- Deoderant that leaves white marks.
- Mosquito bites.
- Shoelaces that are too long.
- My lunch cut in half rather than in fours.
- How inside joggers the little bit that is tied under the laces falls to the sides.
- When the lights flicker and you may think that there is likely to be a power failure.
- Global warming.
I could just as well go on and on, but I'm certain you wouldn't hear it. But, yea, do you get it?
Usually people point out the positives but all of the negatives just go to show how easy it is to learn to live with it. I mean, I dilsike all of the above, and I'm sure nobody seriously adores them, but I have never seriouslt lost it about any of those things. I mean, I've never smahed anyone in the face for giving me a sandwich not cut the way I like it, locked myself in my room for a day because my shoes bothered me or cried myself to sleep about deoderant.
Anyone agree that we can get over all of the things that do bother us just how we ignore the teensy things?

[Nightshade]

Actually Heath I LOVE dramatic pauses... havent time for them myself usually as apparntly I talk waaaaaaaaaaay too fast ( not to mention too much as proven my current vocal chord sprain! :yikes: ) still I enjoy drama!
And since I havent had a good dose of drama in a while here is a list of ways to have fun drama in your life:
1) You are never too old for makebelive if you have a boring job to do pretend you are a spy undercover ( nancy drew or james bond style its up to you)!
2) Make up ridiculous stories about people on the bus with you, the more amusing the better personally I am fond of the obviously this person is an alien who have come to acknowledge me as a superior being and gift me with castles in the sky ( or spain) :p
3) If its rain go out do a jig and burst into song, come on you know you want to!
4) try skipping down the road , or moon walking if you preffer, maybe even spinning in circles till you are dizzy!
5) make sure you wear socks when you are cleaning the kitchen ( or bathroom is big enough that too) put on some music and 'iceskate' - umm if you are a mum make sure your kids cant see you because its not exactly safe!
6) Go on climb a tree!
7) dance around and sing crazy songs when you are doinghouse work ( Johnny cash's get rhythm, elvis's rubberneckin' and James Brown's Get UP off of that Thing make good starting point!)
8) Amusing things other people can't see specifically fun underware ( including stripy socks! ) bizzare costume jewlery (like ankle bracelets belly buttong rings etc,) or if you cover your hair dye it a bizzare colour! Sometimes I like to draw smily faces on my knees and write thinsg like SMILE! nobody sees my knees so who cares? I know its there and it makes me chuckle.
9) Wear fancy clothes! I have some prom dresses I bought for under a fiver than I chopped up and changed into everyday skirts and other stuff, but wearing them always makes me feel rather grand!
10) If all else fails to make you smile or laugh, go hunt down a romance ( like a propper mills and boons/ Harlequin ) and try reading a passage or two aloud if the drama there doesnt make you laugh Im sorry but you are a lost case!

[Heathcliff]

Ahh, Nightshade. You like them? If you say so, I don't mind them on some occassions, but when they just go on forever.... So I'm cutting that out.
Haha. I like the drawing smiley faces, I do that. My mum slides around in socks.
I like coming up with a new theory every day, but it is much too early for that... :arf:

[papayahed]

Even though my avatar is a papaya head I'm thinking it's just not me, it should be more cartoon-y, no?

[Maryd.]

Sometimes one needs to fall into oneself.

[Heathcliff]

Even though my avatar is a papaya head I'm thinking it's just not me, it should be more cartoon-y, no?
Yea. This one is cool, but I had this whole mental image of you being Snoopy... :blush:

[Maximilianus]

Sometimes one needs to fall into oneself.
Like I should do right now.

[Maximilianus]

Ahh... I'm pretty sure the water thing is true.
And yes, I do think way too much, however I could just as well.

In which case:
Do things like drinking, smoking, etc. necessarily ruin your liver in small amounts? I suppose it is an organ, and cannot be built on as a muscle can develop, but it could grow a little resilience. Like how vaccines are generally small doses of whatever they are preventing, so much so that the body can overcome it and become immune to it. Then you think, could there be a plus side to drinking and smoking a little in that case? Smoking especially, seeing as it is generally pretty bad for you? I mean, when your body is used to functioning with a drug it becomes less powerful. So would that make the effects of drinking and smoking lessen? And because they may also make you immune to other things, like how my dad's uncle was told to take up smoking as a child so he wouldn't get chicken pox. I'm either right or horribly wrong...

Not an expert in the field, but I would rather not risk my own liver in order to find out what doses of what poison may make it stronger. I would rather wait until I get proof from tests done on someone else's liver :p I won't risk mine, just in case, unless I have nothing else to lose, like if I were doomed to die anyways. Maybe only in such case I would conduct some experiment on myself, just because I wouldn't have much to lose. However, I doubt the capacity of livers to get stronger. Remember our organism is not the big thing, in terms of strength.

[Mariner]

Disc golf rocks.

[Heathcliff]

Not an expert in the field, but I would rather not risk my own liver in order to find out what doses of what poison may make it stronger. I would rather wait until I get proof from tests done on someone else's liver :p I won't risk mine, just in case, unless I have nothing else to lose, like if I were doomed to die anyways. Maybe only in such case I would conduct some experiment on myself, just because I wouldn't have much to lose. However, I doubt the capacity of livers to get stronger. Remember our organism is not the big thing, in terms of strength.
I see... I doubt I would try it either, but I like to think. In that case, seeing as a lot of this tolerance depends on what happens before birth, is there a possibility that things, like a moderate amount of alcohol and drugs, consumed by a mother whilst she is pregnant, could it be of benefit to the child? Like how people have tried to wipe out rabbits or something by poisoning them, and some survive and become immune to that particular poison, then so do their children. Seeing as we have a little more technology then a bunch of rabbits, we will most probably be able to avoid killing off most of our species and be able to reproduce super-kids who don't seem effected by small doses of alchohol or drugs. Of course, that would mean people take more to get the same hit, however it is less likely you'll go into a fit after getting your drink spiked. Or this could be reversed, and then if pregnant women are kept incredibly healthy, no chemicals, not even coffee or chocolate, anything that could create an effect on an unborn child. That could result in a race of children that were highly susceptible to illness, etc. If women are hyped up on important vitamins that are beneficial then it is possible that they may help them.
So, who believes me?

[Scheherazade]

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

[Maryd.]

Like I should do right now.

'Tis quite invigorating, you know.

[Mariner]

Even if you have a parking permit, you can still get a parking ticket. fml.

[Maximilianus]

I see... I doubt I would try it either, but I like to think. In that case, seeing as a lot of this tolerance depends on what happens before birth, is there a possibility that things, like a moderate amount of alcohol and drugs, consumed by a mother whilst she is pregnant, could it be of benefit to the child? Like how people have tried to wipe out rabbits or something by poisoning them, and some survive and become immune to that particular poison, then so do their children. Seeing as we have a little more technology then a bunch of rabbits, we will most probably be able to avoid killing off most of our species and be able to reproduce super-kids who don't seem effected by small doses of alchohol or drugs. Of course, that would mean people take more to get the same hit, however it is less likely you'll go into a fit after getting your drink spiked. Or this could be reversed, and then if pregnant women are kept incredibly healthy, no chemicals, not even coffee or chocolate, anything that could create an effect on an unborn child. That could result in a race of children that were highly susceptible to illness, etc. If women are hyped up on important vitamins that are beneficial then it is possible that they may help them.
So, who believes me?
It's an interesting theory http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif


'Tis quite invigorating, you know.
http://smiles.kolobok.us/remake/wink.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/air_kiss.gif

[Heathcliff]

It's an interesting theory http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

Thank you. :thumbs_up
I'm already getting sick of the idea though. I must make a new one.

I feel like arguing that the world is flat. I'm sure if you tilt your head and squint your eyes a little, it might be... :smash:

Oh yea. My RE teacher told me today that before the Medieval era, people did think the world was round. In the Creation Story they said it was a dome. In about 600BC some Greek guy proved it as well, even though some did not believe him. All that brought me to think was, 'weren't the Medieval people a bunch of twits?' I mean, religion was all they had and if you didn't believe it, well, in England and a few other parts of Europe, you'd be pretty much killed. So, I am actually incredibly curious, how in this whole flat world did they mess it up?

[BienvenuJDC]

Oh yea. My RE teacher told me today that before the Medieval era, people did think the world was round. In the Creation Story they said it was a dome. In about 600BC some Greek guy proved it as well, even though some did not believe him. All that brought me to think was, 'weren't the Medieval people a bunch of twits?' I mean, religion was all they had and if you didn't believe it, well, in England and a few other parts of Europe, you'd be pretty much killed. So, I am actually incredibly curious, how in this whole flat world did they mess it up?

There is a passage in Isaiah that mentions the "circle of the earth"...which the Hebrew word could also be translated...sphere...

hmmm....interesting...

[Heathcliff]

There is a passage in Isaiah that mentions the "circle of the earth"...which the Hebrew word could also be translated...sphere...

hmmm....interesting...
Yep, very interesting. Only thing I don't understand is how everyone came to be such a bunch of twits.
They'd already found a religious and scientific explanation, what more did they want?
Ah well, a lot of the people in history were absolulte twits anyway...

[BienvenuJDC]

That is what happens when knowledge is controlled. It was called the Dark Ages for a reason. It's about like this Global Warming scare that the media is currently not exposing as the farce that it is.

[Heathcliff]

Everyone gave up in Dark Ages. Like, God was cursing them by giving them the plague and wiping out two-thirds of Europe. Of course, nowadays, we know it was fleas and rats, but I guess it made people think that is God wan't helping them then he was wrong about the shape of the world. Hehe. Weird thing for them to suddenly change their mind about. I'm sure there was a gap in continuity somewhere, but I can't believe they just suddenly decided on something as extreme as the entire world. It is just so weird...

You don't believe global warming? I believe it is happening, but I don't care all too much.

[DanielBenoit]

If there is any show that is corrupting our society, it is 24. The fact that our young people get so excited and say things like "Jack's a badass" when he's torturing the "bad guys", makes me worried and sick.

[OrphanPip]

If there is any show that is corrupting our society, it is 24. The fact that our young people get so excited and say things like "Jack's a badass" when he's torturing the "bad guys", makes me worried and sick.

The scary thing is that Keither Sutherland's grandfather founded Canada's largest socialist democratic party and pushed forward universal health care in Canada.

It horrifies me that such a hack is related to one of the most important political figures in Canadian history.

[DanielBenoit]

The scary thing is that Keither Sutherland's grandfather founded Canada's largest socialist democratic party and pushed forward universal health care in Canada.

It horrifies me that such a hack is related to one of the most important political figures in Canadian history.

Ugh I know. He's a good actor, but the show clearly has fascist undertones. My sister was watching the most recent episode and Jack was threatening this suicide bomber (who had locked himself in a safe and was threatening to explode) that he will kill his innocent mother unless he surrenders himself. My sister and her boyfriend were just cheering him on because he was such a "badass" even though that is completely against the policy's of the FBI and human rights in general.

Yeah, so I suppose we can just say "to hell with human dignity and rights" when it comes to war and terrorists. What's the point of having the law anyway?

Of course this is only a stupid TV show, but it was certainly settled into the minds of many Americans as an accurate representation of reality. I mean, if you have a show that fictionally presents a proof of the "ticking time-bomb" scenario thrown in with gruesome scenes of torture in which the "hero" remains unaffected, all this once every week, the American public is bound to begin to believe it.

I great many people in my family sadly see Islam as nothing more than a bunch of hateful suicide bombers that want to kill all infidels. With distorting media portrayal by news organizations and television shows like 24, it's no wonder.

All and all, Jack Bauer is either one of the fakest characters in the history of television, or one of the most psychopathic. For how can any sane human being bring themselves to do the things he does and still stay cool, calm and collected without being psychotic?

[Hurricane]

For how can any sane human being bring themselves to do the things he does and still stay cool, calm and collected without being psychotic?

Professionalism.

[DanielBenoit]

Professionalism.

Oh so I guess all it takes is good ole' "professionalism" to torture people with a clear conscience?

[Hurricane]

Oh so I guess all it takes is good ole' "professionalism" to torture people with a clear conscience?

Yup! To elaborate: it's his job. It's pretty safe to assume he thinks he's doing the right thing. When you think you're doing the right thing, it's pretty easy to justify a lot of things (whether they are right or not).

[DanielBenoit]

Yup! To elaborate: it's his job. It's pretty safe to assume he thinks he's doing the right thing. When you think you're doing the right thing, it's pretty easy to justify a lot of things (whether they are right or not).

But that's not proffesionalism, it's tyranny. Of course he thinks he's doing the right thing, just as soldiers in war do, but that becomes irrelevant when the grotesque horrors of their field reach them. Why else is it that so many soldiers suffer from shell-shock? either that, or they become so-hardened that they must create a disregard for human life in order to fulfill their job. I don't believe any sane human being can torture someone and believe that they are doing the right thing, or even have any sense of morality at all. But don't take my word for it, take Joe Navorro's, one of the FBI's top interrogation experts "Only a psychopath can torture and be unaffected. You don’t want people like that in your organization. They are untrustworthy, and tend to have grotesque other problems."

If I can convince myself that I am right in stealing, maybe even murdering, I can get away with it for some time, but eventually ones conscience catches up to them. Just look at Raskilnikov from Crime and Punishment.

[The Comedian]

Pabst Blue Ribbon, I have heard your siren call. And I am coming.

[JuniperWoolf]

*sigh* I miss Mono (the person, not the disease).

[Hurricane]

If I can convince myself that I am right in stealing, maybe even murdering, I can get away with it for some time, but eventually ones conscience catches up to them. Just look at Raskilnikov from Crime and Punishment.

All I'm saying is that people can justify a lot of things to themselves. Paul Tibbets went to his grave believing he did precisely the right thing in dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.

[Heathcliff]

If there is any show that is corrupting our society, it is 24. The fact that our young people get so excited and say things like "Jack's a badass" when he's torturing the "bad guys", makes me worried and sick.
It is a concern.
Although it is one of those weird things where people descirbe something as sick and that is apparently a good thing.



If I was to buy my parents house, and then my brother was to buy it from me, and then my parents were to buy it from him, all of this using the first home buyers grant, would that be illegal? I mean, it would save so much money...
Yea, I'm sure they'd have made it illegal, seeing as it is so practical. -sighs-

[Nax]

There is no spoon

[Mariner]

I should put a Subway in the garage...

[Heathcliff]

I should get a driver's lisence, then a shiny Mistubishi 3000 GT. Yea. I should get to my 14th b'day first.

[toni]

I want to finish my screenplay but, I'm afraid it's beginning to look irrelevant.

[papayahed]

Babies are fun. and tiring.

[Maximilianus]

If there is any show that is corrupting our society, it is 24. The fact that our young people get so excited and say things like "Jack's a badass" when he's torturing the "bad guys", makes me worried and sick.


It is a concern.
Although it is one of those weird things where people descirbe something as sick and that is apparently a good thing.

The problem is not 24, but what people have within the skull, which is what eventually helps you understand what you watch on TV. There's not a single episode of 24 where Jack Bauer is depicted as someone who enjoys what he does. Actually, and if you look carefully inside the story, he pays a high price for his actions, but of course in order to see it you have to dive into the story's plot, and not merely to watch some bloodbath. It's as though we were saying that George Washington lead a revolution because he wanted to kill Brits. Well, I'm pretty sure that Mr. Washington was mainly thinking about what was best for his country, in a similar manner as Jack Bauer does. I don't advocate for violence, but how did almost every free nation become free? The character is not having a great time, as most of the founding fathers of every free nation did not have a great time during the killings they had to get involved in. My point is, you do what you do because you have to do it and not necessarily because you like it, or because you enjoy it, or because you want a reputation as a "badass". If our youngsters do not understand that they are being showed the price one has to pay for being a full-time undertaker, and instead they believe they are merely seeing an entertaining bloodbath by a "badass", then our youngsters lack enough brains to catch the purpose of the story, and that's not a TV show's fault. It's as though we blamed a book because there are people who don't get the book's plot. It's all matter of analytic ability.

By the way, "badass" is one of those words I hate the most. It has become one of those stupid clichés that get stuck into people's vocabulary just because they heard it somewhere, without really pondering about real meaning and implications.

[Snowqueen]

I've so much work to do.

[Dogbrick]

Random thought: Sharks will only attack you if you are wet...

[Heathcliff]

The problem is not 24, but what people have within the skull, which is what eventually helps you understand what you watch on TV. There's not a single episode of 24 where Jack Bauer is depicted as someone who enjoys what he does. Actually, and if you look carefully inside the story, he pays a high price for his actions, but of course in order to see it you have to dive into the story's plot, and not merely to watch some bloodbath. It's as though we were saying that George Washington lead a revolution because he wanted to kill Brits. Well, I'm pretty sure that Mr. Washington was mainly thinking about what was best for his country, in a similar manner as Jack Bauer does. I don't advocate for violence, but how did almost every free nation become free? The character is not having a great time, as most of the founding fathers of every free nation did not have a great time during the killings they had to get involved in. My point is, you do what you do because you have to do it and not necessarily because you like it, or because you enjoy it, or because you want a reputation as a "badass". If our youngsters do not understand that they are being showed the price one has to pay for being a full-time undertaker, and instead they believe they are merely seeing an entertaining bloodbath by a "badass", then our youngsters lack enough brains to catch the purpose of the story, and that's not a TV show's fault. It's as though we blamed a book because there are people who don't get the book's plot. It's all matter of analytic ability.

By the way, "badass" is one of those words I hate the most. It has become one of those stupid clichés that get stuck into people's vocabulary just because they heard it somewhere, without really pondering about real meaning and implications.

I'm just going to nod my head. I'd never seen or heard of it before in my life before this. :nod:

[Maximilianus]

My whole existence must have been planned as some kind of symphony, digressing among Mozart's 40, Beethoven's 9 (or 5 too) and Nightwish's Ghost Love Score http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/remake/wacko.gif


I'm just going to nod my head. I'd never seen or heard of it before in my life before this. :nod:
Okay :nod: It becomes a good story when you carefully read between the lines.

[Heathcliff]

Okay :nod: It becomes a good story when you carefully read between the lines.
Yes. :nod:

Ahh... Got it. My brains is processing things slowly today.

[blazeofglory]

I am wet with sweat... something is at work

[Satan]

Why? Why? Why?

[Maryd.]

Why? Why? Why?

The same question I ask often myself... With no avail, of course.

[Heathcliff]

The same question I ask often myself... With no avail, of course.
Why, why, why am I still online? Okay, I'll get off.

Bye everyone!!

[Taliesin]

I think St.Paddys is one of the few holidays that isn't an excuse but a legitimate reason to drink. Sláinte!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgma--0WYU

[Maximilianus]

I wonder if TV presenters sincerely believe their explanations of the obvious are needed. I wonder if the audience needs to be explained the obvious.

[Heathcliff]

The Beatles were cool. Only thing I didn't like was how simple their songs were.
I mean, they were classics for their time, but I just can't put a complex element into them.
I'm thinking of the song Yellow Submarine with an awesome bass line an miscellaneous jazz solos throughout.
Not as awesome as made out to be.

[Maximilianus]

Tonight I will ask myself about the measure for normality, like when people say "you're weird". I mean, how do they know themselves to be normal? Is there any fixed normality standard? How do I know the standard for normality wasn't set by a... how is it called... oh yes... a weirdo?


The Beatles were cool. Only thing I didn't like was how simple their songs were.
I mean, they were classics for their time, but I just can't put a complex element into them (...)
Sure thing they never meant to be complex at all :p

[Heathcliff]

Tonight I will ask myself about the measure for normality, like when people say "you're weird". I mean, how do they know themselves to be normal? Is there any fixed normality standard? How do I know the standard for normality wasn't set by a... how is it called... oh yes... a weirdo?
As if you want to be normal anyway. I don't.

Sure thing they never meant to be complex at all :p
Yea, I know. Only I'd prefer if it were. :(

I'm a sook, yea?

[Wilde woman]

French is remarkably difficult to pronounce.

[Maximilianus]

As if you want to be normal anyway. I don't.

:)


Yea, I know. Only I'd prefer if it were. :(

I'm a sook, yea?
Nah, you're just beating a dead horse :svengo: :p


French is remarkably difficult to pronounce.
Statement that seems to hold some truth in it.

[DanielBenoit]

The Beatles were cool. Only thing I didn't like was how simple their songs were.
I mean, they were classics for their time, but I just can't put a complex element into them.
I'm thinking of the song Yellow Submarine with an awesome bass line an miscellaneous jazz solos throughout.
Not as awesome as made out to be.

OMG

Blasphemy! Blasphemy!

Monika, Monika! Toni, Toni, Toni!!!!! Where art thou?


Watch out Heathcliff! Duck when Toni takes a swing at you!

[Heathcliff]

I'm up to 3,000 words.

I think I'm also done. I hope.


OMG

Blasphemy! Blasphemy!

Monika, Monika! Toni, Toni, Toni!!!!! Where art thou?
Yea, like I'm comitting a crime. :cuss:

I'd defend myself but I'm a hundred percent sure I'd argue with you and virtually scream in your face, although I'm not going to.

You, my dear, are not yet off the hook in my books, for underage drinking, young man. :svengo:

[DanielBenoit]

You, my dear, are not yet off the hook in my books, for underage drinking, young man. :svengo:

Well I'm in a rather dream-like mood, but that's probably because it's 2:46 am here and I'm on a nighttime high.

Anyway,

Young lady, you will soon learn to appreciate your elder musicians :p

[Heathcliff]

Well I'm in a rather dream-like mood, but that's probably because it's 2:46 am here and I'm on a nighttime high.

Anyway,

Young lady, you will soon learn to appreciate your elder musicians :p
Appreciate, yes. Appreciate a lot actually. You'd be surprised how highly I think of you and how much I look up to you.

So when you do things it lets me down more than you could imagine. And I don't want you to be a bad influence. Perhaps I baby you too much... Even though I know I cannot own you.

Well. I'm done.

Goodnight dear. :wave:

[Nightshade]

Tea would be Hawsome!

[papayahed]

weekend duty stinks.

[AimusSage]

"That is not quick which takes forever"

Quick reply why do you sometimes take forever?

[Heathcliff]

We thought we ran out of paper!!
I am relieved now that we found some. It would have been the end of the world as we know it, seeing as my brother and I have been doing homework all weekend and we just need to print it.

[JuniperWoolf]

I just told my friend Steve that I couldn't go to Edmonton to see him this weekend because I had the flu, and he responded with "****! Well, I got you the flu for your birthday, but I guess now I'll have to return it."

Hahahaha! Classic.

[Maximilianus]

I shouldn't forget there are people suffering worse calamities than mine, but my memory leaks when I'm under stress. I need a new sensei and a bunch of new tricks.

[BienvenuJDC]

It's a sad and depressing day...

[Maryd.]

It's a sad and depressing day...

Poor dear, why?

[Heathcliff]

it's a sad and depressing day...
cuggles!!

[NikolaiI]

Love is surprising, amazing, and wonderful.

[Taliesin]

Way to go, James Randi! (http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/914-how-to-say-it.html)

[papayahed]

Way to go, James Randi! (http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/914-how-to-say-it.html)

Good for him. Although I wonder what made him decide to write that now?

[Maximilianus]

It's a sad and depressing day...
I hope it got better :nod:

[Heathcliff]

The song 'Imma Be' by the Black Eyed Peas contains very few legitimate words.

Then why do I keep on listening to it?

Because its GROOVY

[Maryd.]

Why do I even try???

[Maximilianus]

The song 'Imma Be' by the Black Eyed Peas contains very few legitimate words.

Then why do I keep on listening to it?

Because its GROOVY
Is that enough a reason to like something? :p


Why do I even try???
I wonder exactly the same. Trying seems just pointless.

[Heathcliff]

Is that enough a reason to like something? :p
Umm... Yes. :nod: At least to like it a little... :D

I wonder exactly the same. Trying seems just pointless.
Serious?
Aw. I like trying. 9.9 out of 10 times I succeed. :hurray:

[Scheherazade]

I wonder exactly the same. Trying seems just pointless.Do... or do not. There is no try.

~ Jedi Master Yoda

[papayahed]

Do... or do not. There is no try.

~ Jedi Master Yoda


:cheers2:

[Hurricane]

I don't understand people. In my Russian class, I have one of the best grades just because I take the time to do the homework, which is 25% of our grade. Class attendance is required, so the professor obviously knows who has and who has not done the homework, and most people don't do it. And then these people are confused that they're getting Ds and Fs on the tests.
This isn't a required course (4 semesters of a language are required for humanities majors, but there's "easier" options like Spanish or French), so I don't know why someone wouldn't at least pretend to care, considering they chose to take that class.

[toni]

The Beatles were cool. Only thing I didn't like was how simple their songs were.
I mean, they were classics for their time, but I just can't put a complex element into them.
Not as awesome as made out to be.

Simple?! The Beatles' music revolved mostly around the themes love & peace and that is what have made them icons, that's what made them legends in music industry. And that explains their universal appeal.
Now if their music is too simple for your tastes, I guess you could enjoy music that you could put a complex element into like, say, (your favorites) Black Eyed Peas' I'ma Be or Fergalicious. Well, enjoy.

[Maximilianus]

Umm... Yes. :nod: At least to like it a little... :D
In my case I need more complex elements :D :lol:


Serious?
Aw. I like trying. 9.9 out of 10 times I succeed. :hurray:
I succeed often too, but not exactly in what I really want :p


Do... or do not. There is no try.

~ Jedi Master Yoda
Ah, I get it http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif Thanks for the tip http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_handshake.gif


I don't understand people. In my Russian class, I have one of the best grades just because I take the time to do the homework, which is 25% of our grade. Class attendance is required, so the professor obviously knows who has and who has not done the homework, and most people don't do it. And then these people are confused that they're getting Ds and Fs on the tests.
This isn't a required course (4 semesters of a language are required for humanities majors, but there's "easier" options like Spanish or French), so I don't know why someone wouldn't at least pretend to care, considering they chose to take that class.
I know about this. At secondary school I had an optional German class to which no one ever paid attention, but they all seemed to be willing to show off a German course certificate... when they couldn't even utter a decent German phrase with relative linguistic decency http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif


(...) I guess you could enjoy music that you could put a complex element into like, say, (your favorites) Black Eyed Peas' I'ma Be or Fergalicious. Well, enjoy.
My goodness, modern regional English again! :lol: Now seriously, Heathcliff said a few posts back that she kept listening to it only because it's groovy, though she couldn't find many legitimate words on it :p

[Heathcliff]

Simple?! The Beatles' music revolved mostly around the themes love & peace and that is what have made them icons, that's what made them legends in music industry. And that explains their universal appeal.
Now if their music is too simple for your tastes, I guess you could enjoy music that you could put a complex element into like, say, (your favorites) Black Eyed Peas' I'ma Be or Fergalicious. Well, enjoy.
I guess I'm just fussy. I suppose it is a matter of opinion anyway.
Still, I'm stuck in a world where songs need to have at least two counter melodies, a ridiculously strong bass line and a French Horn solo.

Yay! BEP!


My goodness, modern regional English again! :lol: Now seriously, Heathcliff said a few posts back that she kept listening to it only because it's groovy, though she couldn't find many legitimate words on it :p
Agreed, I have no idea what I'm talking about. :iagree:

[papayahed]

I don't understand people. In my Russian class, I have one of the best grades just because I take the time to do the homework, which is 25% of our grade. Class attendance is required, so the professor obviously knows who has and who has not done the homework, and most people don't do it. And then these people are confused that they're getting Ds and Fs on the tests.
This isn't a required course (4 semesters of a language are required for humanities majors, but there's "easier" options like Spanish or French), so I don't know why someone wouldn't at least pretend to care, considering they chose to take that class.

Doesn't make sense does it? By the end of the class last year in Spanish only about 4/20 people were doing homework and this is knowing the professor would call on people in class to answer the homework questions..

[Maximilianus]

I guess I'm just fussy. I suppose it is a matter of opinion anyway.
Still, I'm stuck in a world where songs need to have at least two counter melodies, a ridiculously strong bass line and a French Horn solo.

Yay! BEP!

Ah, I have the remedy. All you need is a bunch of higher notes in your head :nod: :p :D

[papayahed]

It stinks when a good guy makes one too many mistakes.

[hoope]

when you give your heart to someone , your not only giving that person the right to love you but also the power to hurt you.

[Heathcliff]

Ah, I have the remedy. All you need is a bunch of higher notes in your head :nod: :p :D
What like having to get to a stupid high G in the soundtrack to Oliver in our school production from a low G? Then back to the low G afterwards.
I can hardly make a high G in a song, and I definitely need a build up and a super sharp set of valves. I know over time it'll get easier to do, despite that I'm yet to achieve it. I can get up to a high B-flat if I squeek it out. Couldn't do it in a song. I can get to a low, well, lower than the one before middle C, B-flat. In a song I can get to a low F. Of course, on horn, seeing as I don't have the mental capacity to translate all of that at this time in the morning, my B-flat is an F. Two things I should do:
- Go and get an AMEB exam like my teacher encourages. She wants me to skip 1, 2 and 3 and just go straight for AMEB 4. I'm sure I could do it, if I practise the songs enough. However I doubt I'll be very good at the sight reading part if it is in anything other than 4/4, 2/4,or 3/4. I've got practically no sense of rhythm, so even something as simple as 4/4 with a heap of dotted crotchets, quavers, dotted quavers and semi-quavers will be absolutely hopeless.
- I should practise. I've got the whole school holidays and rarther than sleep, I should get some physical activity. Oddly enough, French Horn is incredibly strenuous physical activity, especially if I have to squeak out some high notes.

Yea. That's my life story.

[Maximilianus]

when you give your heart to someone , your not only giving that person the right to love you but also the power to hurt you.
Utterly true.


What like having to get to a stupid high G in the soundtrack to Oliver in our school production from a low G? Then back to the low G afterwards.
I can hardly make a high G in a song, and I definitely need a build up and a super sharp set of valves. I know over time it'll get easier to do, despite that I'm yet to achieve it. I can get up to a high B-flat if I squeek it out. Couldn't do it in a song. I can get to a low, well, lower than the one before middle C, B-flat. In a song I can get to a low F. Of course, on horn, seeing as I don't have the mental capacity to translate all of that at this time in the morning, my B-flat is an F. Two things I should do:
- Go and get an AMEB exam like my teacher encourages. She wants me to skip 1, 2 and 3 and just go straight for AMEB 4. I'm sure I could do it, if I practise the songs enough. However I doubt I'll be very good at the sight reading part if it is in anything other than 4/4, 2/4,or 3/4. I've got practically no sense of rhythm, so even something as simple as 4/4 with a heap of dotted crotchets, quavers, dotted quavers and semi-quavers will be absolutely hopeless.
An expert musician has talked. These 2 guys will offer a concert for you: http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_piano.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/mother_goose/MG_180.gif


I should practise. I've got the whole school holidays and rarther than sleep, I should get some physical activity. Oddly enough, French Horn is incredibly strenuous physical activity, especially if I have to squeak out some high notes.

Yea. That's my life story.
I know. I've been reading some technical notes on horns and they say it's a hard instrument... hmmm... good for you for facing it :nod:

[blazeofglory]

when you give your heart to someone , your not only giving that person the right to love you but also the power to hurt you.

This is a powerful tone

[Heathcliff]

An expert musician has talked. These 2 guys will offer a concert for you: http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_piano.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/mother_goose/MG_180.gif
Its hard. I know that it is possible, although I've only been at it for a few years. If I practise a lot I'll get. They don't expect me to be perfect at it.
It is going to be hard though, seeing as most of it is in 6/8, which I am so bad at... :cryin:

I know. I've been reading some technical notes on horns and they say it's a hard instrument... hmmm... good for you for facing it :nod:
Supposedly, the pitching is really difficult. It is, but that isn't my problem, I'm pretty good when it comes to sound production. I can hold a nice firm note as well, it sounds beautiful.
The pitching on the trumpet is bothering me, however I don't really do lessons or anything, I just play a note or two when my brother takes it out. It is easier than horn.

I'd like to learn the guitar first anyway.
If I'm really nice to some of the RE kids they might teach me.

[papayahed]

Do I leave the deer head or not?

[motherhubbard]

this week I had to say "No, cars are not part of the food chain"

[Heathcliff]

I'd like to learn the guitar first anyway.
If I'm really nice to some of the RE kids they might teach me.
One of my friends is teaching me!

Only they can't read music. They can read the tabs though, only that'll be harder for me I think.

I'm also really bad at it.
Astronomically bad.
I don't know what the notes I'm playing are; I cannot define them with letters.
I have no sense of rhythm. Not that I have any rhythm on the French Horn either.
I lack the ability to bend my arm in that direction.
I have no real desire to learn how to play, I just want to be able to contribute to my religious group.

Only I like learning it. And I'm yet to give up. :patriot:

Plus, I'm having a good time.
:party: :ihih:

[Nikhar]

:willy_nilly: is the one of the cuteeeeeeeest emoticons.

[Maryd.]

:willy_nilly: is the one of the cuteeeeeeeest emoticons.

Agreed.

[DanielBenoit]

Slajov Zizek: Omg there really exists a contemporary philosopher who can write really well, has a wicked sense of humor and dares to contradict himself on the very same page? This man is whom I've been looking for since the death of Baudrillard. His essays on violence are stunningly mind-opening.

[Maximilianus]

It must be way too hard to acquire the greeting habit, like "goodbye, see you later".

[Heathcliff]

My life is more like, "You can hide but you can't run."

And I'm loving it!

[Revolte]

Now I have four unfinished drawings on my floor, why can't I finish them?

[Heathcliff]

Now I have four unfinished drawings on my floor, why can't I finish them?

Turn them all upside-down. :D

I like turning things upside down.

I should change my name to Phransesss rather than leaving it as Frances.

[Maximilianus]

At least I still have mom and dad. It's better than having nothing at all.

[lostworld]

What in the world was I thinking?

[Indyben]

One of my friends is teaching me!

Only they can't read music. They can read the tabs though, only that'll be harder for me I think.

I'm also really bad at it.
Astronomically bad.
I don't know what the notes I'm playing are; I cannot define them with letters.
I have no sense of rhythm. Not that I have any rhythm on the French Horn either.
I lack the ability to bend my arm in that direction.
I have no real desire to learn how to play, I just want to be able to contribute to my religious group.

Only I like learning it. And I'm yet to give up. :patriot:

Plus, I'm having a good time.
:party: :ihih:

Trust me, your doing fine. I was worse when i first started. :)

[Heathcliff]

Trust me, your doing fine. I was worse when i first started. :)

Thanks I suppose.

However I much teach you some French Horn. Eventually. So I can laugh... :willy_nilly:

Only I want to go back to that mango tree thing, rather than starting something new. It's pretty.

[Basil]

Once you learn how to say the word waterfall in another language, you might as well go ahead and learn the whole damn language.

[hoope]

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. HELEN KELLER

[Maryd.]

Why is it, some people can be so evil and others not so?

[Beautifull]

I like bacon

[Maximilianus]

I love my Firefox. He's like the brother I never had http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/friends.gif


Turn them all upside-down. :D

I like turning things upside down.

I should change my name to Phransesss rather than leaving it as Frances.
It has a good look :)


Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. HELEN KELLER
Nice thought, hoope. Very profound :nod:


Why is it, some people can be so evil and others not so?
Free will, dear Mary, free will... quite unfortunately... sometimes... though at times I tend to believe they are unaware of what they do and how they do it http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif Though many seem to get much pleasure out of it http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif


I like bacon
Me too :)

[Beautifull]

Why do we have our world running on money?

[Beautifull]

The world spins on an axis supported by an invisible solid force.

[Maximilianus]

*bump*

Seemingly, according to many people, the tremendous ability and unparalleled human quality involved in doing something like the following...

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Funny%20Pix/adancingguy.gif

... determines whether you'll be a suitable "soul mate".

How doomed one can be by not complying with certain standards http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/resent.gif

[Beautifull]

How doomed one can be by not complying with certain standards http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/resent.gif

Oh dear....I know exactly what you mean...and sadly, it's true!

[Scheherazade]

*bump*

Seemingly, according to many people, the tremendous ability and unparalleled human quality involved in doing something like the following...

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Funny%20Pix/adancingguy.gif

... determines whether you'll be a suitable "soul mate".

How doomed one can be by not complying with certain standards http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/resent.gifRather a hasty and judgmental post, don't you think, Max?

"Many" in certain age brackets (teens maybe?). However, I doubt someone in their later years would consider dancing skills essential in their partners (unless they are looking for dance partners, of course).

[papayahed]

I just paid $4.11 for an ounce of cheese and a bottle of water.

[Beautifull]

I got sandpaper eyes today...

[Maximilianus]

Oh dear....I know exactly what you mean...and sadly, it's true!
Thank you, it's good to feel some company :) http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif


Rather a hasty and judgmental post, don't you think, Max?

"Many" in certain age brackets (teens maybe?). However, I doubt someone in their later years would consider dancing skills essential in their partners (unless they are looking for dance partners, of course).
Dear Scher, always showing that skill that's so very much of your own. That particular skill to make people think twice. I should hire you as a personal guru. Let me know if you're ever interested in the job :p :D

Thank you! http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif


I got sandpaper eyes today...
Do you mean you didn't sleep well?

[Beautifull]

Thank you, it's good to feel some company :) http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif
Haha. No problemo!


Do you mean you didn't sleep well?

Yeppa. Back was hurting. and bed seemed harder than usual.

[Scheherazade]

Dear Scher, always showing that skill that's so very much of your own. That particular skill to make people think twice. I should hire you as a personal guru. Let me know if you're ever interested in the job :p :DDear Max,

As intriguing and tempting as the offer sounds, I don't think you can afford it... And I don't mean only financially.

So, with many thanks for the consideration, I will have to decline.

Regards,

Scher

:conehead:

[Maximilianus]

Yeppa. Back was hurting. and bed seemed harder than usual.
Strangely my bed often seems softer than needed, and I have a hard mattress... or maybe I should lose some weight... but I'm often afraid that the wind will carry me to a strange land... of course if I weighed like a feather :p


Dear Max,

As intriguing and tempting as the offer sounds, I don't think you can afford it... And I don't mean only financially.

So, with many thanks for the consideration, I will have to decline.

Regards,

Scher

:conehead:
As you wish :) but let me know if you ever change your mind :thumbsup: :wave:

[Beautifull]

Strangely my bed often seems softer than needed, and I have a hard mattress... or maybe I should lose some weight... but I'm often afraid that the wind will carry me to a strange land... of course if I weighed like a feather :p


:lol: I don't think that's physically possible.And i wouldn't want a softer bed either because then it doesn't support your weight. what I want is one of those tempurpedic mattresses! :p That would solve m problem!

[Maximilianus]

:lol: I don't think that's physically possible.And i wouldn't want a softer bed either because then it doesn't support your weight. what I want is one of those tempurpedic mattresses! :p That would solve m problem!
You sound as having all figured! :p



I read this a few minutes ago:

People often turn to suicide because they are seeking relief from pain. Remember that relief is a feeling. And you have to be alive to feel it. You will not feel the relief you so desperately seek, if you are dead.

It's not my quote, but I thought it may be helpful for anyone feeling compelled to end it all for good. However, I think it would be better to read the full article here: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

[Beautifull]

I read this a few minutes ago:

People often turn to suicide because they are seeking relief from pain. Remember that relief is a feeling. And you have to be alive to feel it. You will not feel the relief you so desperately seek, if you are dead.

It's not my quote, but I thought it may be helpful for anyone feeling compelled to end it all for good. However, I think it would be better to read the full article here: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/

oh my. that is a VERY good point! I like that little excerpt!

[DanielBenoit]

Babies are EXHAUSTING!!!!!

[Beautifull]

This ache solely out of love...how long does it have to last? It can lessen sometimes, and sometimes grow stronger, but does it ever disappear?

[Maximilianus]

oh my. that is a VERY good point! I like that little excerpt!Yes, it hit me too.


This ache solely out of love...how long does it have to last?
Unfortunately, I think it will last until the end of everything.


It can lessen sometimes, and sometimes grow stronger, but does it ever disappear?
I don't think so, unless you lose your memories completely, and even so there are pieces of time and memories that often strike those who have suffered a not-so-severe form of amnesia. Such little pieces of memories are what therapists often use in their treatments to help amnesic people recover their whole memories, when possible. For example when they use hypnosis.

Other than that, forgetfulness is easier on people who haven't really loved, or who have loved less than you. Therefore they find it easier to move on, while you don't, because their level of commitment was smaller, so their pain (supposing they ever feel any) is smaller as well. That's why you will find them swimming in a sea of joy, while you're starving in the Sahara desert.

[Beautifull]

Unfortunately, I think it will last until the end of everything.
Yeah...don't help that some people read too much into it.



I don't think so, unless you lose your memories completely, and even so there are pieces of time and memories that often strike those who have suffered a not-so-severe form of amnesia. Such little pieces of memories are what therapists often use in their treatments to help amnesic people recover their whole memories, when possible. For example when they use hypnosis.

Other than that, forgetfulness is easier on people who haven't really loved, or who have loved less than you. Therefore they find it easier to move on, while you don't, because their level of commitment was smaller, so their pain (supposing they ever feel any) is smaller as well. That's why you will find them swimming in a sea of joy, while you're starving in the Sahara desert.

As always, you have said it very well...I really understand every part of that, and the bad thing though, is that you will drown yourself in the deepest sea of misery and pain just to see them happy. That's what really kills...

[Maximilianus]

I really understand every part of that, and the bad thing though, is that you will drown yourself in the deepest sea of misery and pain just to see them happy. That's what really kills...
Some of us are bound to pain. Such is our karma, unfortunately.

[Beautifull]

Some of us are bound to pain. Such is our karma, unfortunately.

Yeah, I know that too, going through it so much...and yet, I keep on throwing myself right back into the throes of love after I've just released myself from a previous painful one-sided love....but this time, I don't care if the guy is with someone else, all I want is his happiness, which is different from all the other times...he's different.

[hoope]

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.

- John Vance Cheney

[papayahed]

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[Beautifull]

I wish it would rain today like it did yesterday...That would make my day. :p