Random Thought of the Day

[nome1486]

Did you always want to teach? I would have to really want to in order to do it--I know it's a horrible job in every other aspect except the teaching part.

I think if I did teach, I might end up teaching middle school. Everyone I know says that would be their least favorite age group because so many kids are immature and unhygienic at that age, and I know I hated middle school--it's like a bad dream--but that's why it might be worth it, to make the transitional years more endurable. There's something kind of special about the first few teen years; I still love reading books that are written for middle school kids. Maybe in ten years I might not feel the same way.

[simon]

How did you people come by such practical ideas for what you want to do with your life? I've always known that when I grow up I want to be a goat herder in the alps, but there are no majors in that so I doubt my current education will induce that along. But then it is hardly probable that I will endeavor to grow up.

[verybaddmom]

you know, not really. i have always been so indecisive that i didnt really know what i wanted to do. i have wavered though, and thought that i should teach but for some reason i always equated teaching with little kids, and knew that wasnt for me. then i realized that adults and young adults require education and a light sort of went on for me. i just sort of instinctively thought: "that's it!" thats what i should do, at least for now. i am such a gypsy that i have a hard time committing to an apartment, let alone a career, but i think i definitely want to try it out. i think it'll fit, and of course i can travel and teach english too, if that's what i want to do. so....
i know that the job sucks, and the politics are terrible, especially in high schools. there is little to know pay and lots of work to take home. the thing is, im not in it to get rich. i have no aspiration to be wealthy. i just want to be able to do something where i feel that im making a bit of a difference, to someone, and i would like to put my passion for education to use. gut says: teach.

[simon]

Your brave to teach those who often doubt they need teaching.

[nome1486]

simon, lucky you there is no major for what you want to do, you can just go do it! and save your education for back-up. I actually have no practical ideas for what I want to be, like verybaddmom I am indecisive. (I actually used to consider being an architect...now I don't think so)

strangely enough, verybaddmom, from what I can tell from your posts you remind me of my senior year Comp. 110 teacher. Don't worry, that's a compliment; almost everyone loved her.

[nome1486]

And you're right about the politics in high schools. I'm so glad I just escaped the atmosphere; I don't relish returning to that anytime soon. Do you think a doctorate in Agricultural Studies qualifies someone to be a principal?

[verybaddmom]

lol! im not so sure, nome.
and thank you for that compliment. i helped supervise a busload of kids yesterday on a day camp (19 of the little buggers to be exact) and towards the end of the trip was chatting with this little girl, about 12 years old, very smart and articulate. i actually quite liked her (really cute, tiny and tons of freckles) and we were talking about school and stuff, and she said very seriously (when i told her my tentative plan for a career) that she thought i would be a good teacher, cause her teachers were all quote "pretentious know it alls who act like they were never kids" i fell in love with her immediately of course. but i hope that she's right. all i want is to spark a passion for learning in even some of the kids i contact. that would make it all good. and frankly, i have no problem admitting when i dont know something, or when im wrong. i think that'll work in my favor.
simon, i have heard you talk about goat herding before, and wondered if you were serious. now that ive gotten to read a bunch more of your posts and feel like i know you a bit better, i actually believe that you WILL end up in the alps with your flock.

[nome1486]

you're welcome! :)

[ravana]

I had terrible sickness because of I ate something wrong. So it's second day I'm starving. Apple, gatig and tea are what I can have, no any meals and bread. I miss my previos ordinary days. Why we can't take care ourselves as properly?

NISE TO SEE YOU, V.B.MOM!

[verybaddmom]

oh dear ravana, what on earth did you eat that caused you to contract food poisoning? are you feeling better yet?
when my son has upset tummy, sometimes foods that are acidic make him feel better a bit, like stewed tomatoes, flat pop, and yogurt. i dont know if you eat stuff like that, but he got food poisoning once from a pizza that he had at his dad's and that was about all he could eat for about two days. feel better soon!
and btw, nice to see you too.

[ravana]

Oh, thanks, mom, i think it was because of sour-cream. It's not reasonable to eat it in summer. I just forgot that I had same sickness because of having salad with sour-cream last summer. It would be good lesson for me.
Now I feel better. But afraid of eating.
Gatig is like yogurt.You can't picture how my eyes were shining reading stewed tomatoes. I like tomatoes. Thanks for it!

[emily655321]

Poor Ravana! :( I'm glad you feel better. Food poisoning is so awful -- I once got it from fish and chips at a restaurant. I was out to lunch with my dad, and afterwards he wanted to go poke around in the antique store. While we were there I started feeling sick so I went outside to sit on the car and wait for him, and while I sat there I stared at a sign on the building, and realized that I had forgotten how to read. I was that delirious. For the rest of the day I lay on the couch and couldn't even form words to speak, I was just like, "Aauuooggahheerr..." :eek2: Then the next day I was perfectly fine. Weird.
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Two of our orphan kitties went to new homes last night, too. :( They were the two rambunctious ones, so it's really quiet here now. I miss them. But the people who adopted them are young women who work with my mom, and their male counterparts, and they live across the street from one another. :) So the kitties can visit each other whenever, which is great.

[Koa]

Ooooh *imagines the cats going to the other house like they were kids*

Back on careers, I study languages & lit. too, and I have no clue of what to do... I don't like the idea of teaching at all - that's why I chose a specialisation that should be useful for the publishing industry but infact I doubt it will and if I go on with my studies I'll do something totally related to literature and language even if at first I avoided it exactly for fear of ending up having no possibilities but teaching... Now I realised that teaching doesnt necessarily mean teaching to a bunch of hateful kids who dont give the slightest damn about what you're saying, cos there are courses for adults or anyway people who chose to follow that particular course... But still, I'm not sure I like the idea of teaching much, if it's language it's too scientific while I'm not really fond of rules and grammar etc, cos I'm mostly instinctive and often when I help my brother with English for example I can't really explain things cos I learnt them very naturally (uhm maybe for other languages I'm more aware of grammar and difficulties, but if I teach I see it more normal to teach English cos I'm more fluent). Oops I'm going too random...

[emily655321]

Oops I'm going too random...
You're on the right thread for it. ;)

WHEEEEEEE!!! The UPS man just came -- and he bore with him a functional keyboard! :D :D :D I'm back in business, baby!! :banana:

[nome1486]

There are some bacchanal squirrels in the trees out front that are totally trashing our front walk with the leftover chewings of their nut feast. Anyone else find squirrels creepy and gross? (I apologize if you are one)

Speaking of walks, one of my biggest pet peeves: there are hardly any sidewalks around here, narrow streets, crazy drivers, and construction EVERYwhere! AAaah!!

[Miranda]

Just reading your posts about teaching..and inspiring little kids to learn. Do you realise what a great gift enabling someone to read is? Especially kids that are dyslexic and have great problems learning? Let me tell you..its one of the greatest gifts you could give to someone. I know lots of adults that can't read and it affects every sphere of their lives, not only because they can't read, but because of the prejudices they come up against..because if you can't read you are thought to be naturally stupid - and it isn't the case. Even Einstein was dyslexic. Lots of men are violent because they learned to use their fists to earn respect because they can't read and have been 'done down' and insulted at school. Underneath they are lacking in confidence and are hurting - their 'toughness' is a front to hide it.

[Max Whittaker]

Just reading your posts about teaching..and inspiring little kids to learn. Do you realise what a great gift enabling someone to read is? Especially kids that are dyslexic and have great problems learning? Let me tell you..its one of the greatest gifts you could give to someone. I know lots of adults that can't read and it affects every sphere of their lives, not only because they can't read, but because of the prejudices they come up against..because if you can't read you are thought to be naturally stupid - and it isn't the case. Even Einstein was dyslexic. Lots of men are violent because they learned to use their fists to earn respect because they can't read and have been 'done down' and insulted at school. Underneath they are lacking in confidence and are hurting - their 'toughness' is a front to hide it.

That is usually the case. Unfortunately, I know a guy who is actually proud of his illiteracy!!! Can you imagine that? I nearly fell to the floor when I heard that!

But then, this guy seems to value the exact opposite thing I value in every aspect of his life, such as bullying, hazing, etc. He scares me...

That's my random thought of the day! He scares me! :cool: :cool: :cool:

[nome1486]

There are currently 2 members online and 10 guests...I feel like hidden people are spying on me, or I'm inside a glass box that I can't see out of...hello out there!!!

[nome1486]

Oh, only two now? I must have scared off everyone else, just like your illiterate bullying friend, Max. At least you know he can't read what you say about him!

[verybaddmom]

ha ha ha....you think you are being spied upon, and you are right. i am over at my sister in law's place (is that what she is? hmmm...) and i wasnt logged in while i was previewing posts....so i was watching you...

[Koa]

Big Mum Is Watching You! :D :D :D

edit: I typed that all in capitals, and it came out with only capital initials...it's not the first time I see this phenomenon happening...mmm...

[verybaddmom]

i think that is perhaps to keep people from yelling at one another....some sort of censor like that which removes um...foul (fowl) words!

[Miranda]

VBM - do you know that when hens..and chickens argue, they hurl fowl words at each other..ouch!!! Oh dear. What I wanna know is.. what's the difference between a hen and a chicken?

[Koa]

uhm...female and male maybe? that's what my translating mind says...

[verybaddmom]

my fowl words was sort of a pun type joke. i know that bad words are foul words... but i know that the censor sometimes picks up things that are not intended to be foul, like when nome was talking about his shuttle****s..so i was making reference to the fowl that is censored as well as the badness....perhaps that was just totally overexplained, but whatever!
anyhow, hens and chickens are sort of the same thing, i believe....hens are what female chickens are called, and male chickens are called roosters. sort of like a female horse that is full grown is a mare and a male is either a stud or gelding. (baby horses are a different story, collectively they are called foals, while the males are called colts and the females, fillies.....seems excessively complicated)

[nome1486]

That explains a lot about horses, I was always confused on that point! And haha, that's a very clever pun (that's not sarcasm, it's really genuine...I thought it was funny).

[Koa]

(*didn't get the pun* *will look some words up*)

Heey English is complicated... you give too many names to males and fenmales and kids... we often just have a female form (usually from the same root of the male anyway) and an endearment for the kids, except a few exceptions... Well sometimes it's more complicated but it's not words that are commonly used so I'm not meant to know them well ;)
Btw Russian has like 3 different words for young horses, depending on their age or even the period when they're born... And the words vary in different regions so... good job I'm not into those things much ;)

[nome1486]

I don't know if this is the part you didn't understand, but anyway: on the "sig" post I was referring to the giant birdies in my avatar by their actual name, but the last half of the word also happens to be a swear word which also happens to be another name for a rooster. So the fowl/foul joke was pretty funny to me.

Do you know Russian?

[Koa]

Ah I missed that but actually now it's all clear after looking up 'foul' and especially 'fowl' :D

Oh I had missed the question: I'm attempting to learn Russian, but fluency is far away, but at least I got to the funny point when you understand a bit and can say things somehow, which is when learning a language starts to be satisfying.

[nome1486]

Yeah, it's fun when you can start to figure out sentences based on context and try to work out a coherent statement. The only language I know enough of is Spanish, but I never speak it to anyone. I would be too embarrassed even if I had the chance! Are you able to speak Russian with someone? How many languages do you know, anyway?

[Koa]

I don't speak Russian if not at lessons, now that it's holiday I'm trying to keep it with songs (I luckily found a band I like and enjoy translating lyrics), which in my view it's the best way to improve a language, that's how my English started to take off.

Argh, the show off in me likes the question about languages.. I speak Italian as native, obviously...English fluently, French relatively fluently (I manage to read books, I'm impressed myself), Russian at the point I just explained, German probably a bit worse than Russian now that I forgot a lot of it (never been really good at it, I really don't like it), and some basic Spanish cos I've never studied it but I can understand quite a lot and say some basic things just basing on similarities with Italian.

As we're on the random thread and as usual I managed to take the discussion to languages, I want some opinions... I have to take one more language next year at Uni, and I'm in doubt between French and German...I'd choose French cos I already know it and to improve, or German to re-learn it cos it'd be one more language I can say I know and unfortunately in this part of the world it's far too useful... Any thoughts? The fact is that it's just 1 year so maybe even if German was written on my curriculum, I'd actually still know French better, somaybe Franch is better cos at least i'd have on my curriculum something I actually know...
(pardon any extra nonsense, it's half past midnight already!)

[emily655321]

I don't know what to tell you, Koa. I love both French and German. I'm going to take them both in college, but I've been trying to decide which to take first, too. *shrug* I already know basic French (written French, that is -- I'm very bad at understanding spoken languages), and I know tiny bits of German. Is it better to know one language thoroughly and another almost not at all, or only half-know two languages? I can't decide.

[Koa]

Yeah that's the problem... one good, or two somehow? It's an impossible choice...

Me too, I'm very bad at spoken languages... I've recently read a book in French (of course I can understand many words because they're similar to Italian) but didn't manage to watch a film... Also in English, it's often hard for me to understand speaking. Of course it's a matter of practice...

[imthefoolonthehill]

crazy governmental black holes ... where money is light and... nothing else is matter... yeah.

[ajoe]

I used to think I couldn't wait to be an old lady and do nothing but read books. But now I don't want to grow up and yet I'm gonna turn 20 in no time... :(
Why can't we stay 21 forever?

[papayahed]

ajoe - I don't know about anybody else, but it gets way better after 21. Also, love the new avatar.

[verybaddmom]

yes life is better after 21....very much so...

my random rambling? i just found out recently that i have been the victim of identity theft. unfortunately for me, it was not some sort of random thing, it was done by an ex of mine. he used my ID to connect a phone for himself (in a bastardized version of both of our names) in a city i didnt live in. all of this was done EIGHT years ago, but i only just found out when i tried to connect a phone in my new city (just happens it was the city he did it in). its really strange because here it is only TELUS that you can get a phone through, in BC and AB and i had a phone with TELUS in BC right up until recently. it was only when i was trying to change it to Calgary that this was discovered. so now i cant get a phone here until i pay the $696.42 that they figure i owe. even though they admit that it was identity fraud, they insist that it is my problem and i have to either pay it or go to the RCMP (canadian police). this is so bizarre. the acccount was in a name that was NEVER legally mine, in a place i can prove i never lived but i told the woman, that the way things are now, it would cost me far more than that bill in therapy if i had to contact him now and deal with this through the law. frankly that is one door better left closed. but .... now what???

[nome1486]

AAHH! It sounds horribly aggravating and, unfortunately, I can offer no advice better than "sue the pants off of everyone involved."


Would a dancing banana chorus line make you feel any better?

:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[Koa]

I used to think I couldn't wait to be an old lady and do nothing but read books. But now I don't want to grow up and yet I'm gonna turn 20 in no time... :(
Why can't we stay 21 forever?

Actually, I'd choose to never grow older than 19... (cos here everybody wants to be 18, cos you become an adult and can drive, and it's interesting to have those new rights... I know 21 is a big thing in the usa but here it's just an age like the others, so... 19 forever please!!!) (maybe it gets better after 21, but not already at 22 I guess... :D)

and...vbm, that's :eek: :eek: :eek: ... well there's not much more to say really... If you need a professional killer for the guilty of that crime, I volunteer :D

My random thought: I'm leaving to my holiday in England tomorrow. Wish me luck cos I'm visiting my first and only love... it's not love at all anymore, but hoepfully we'd at least get on well enough not to scream at each other 24/7 ... Apart from that, I'll try to be a perfect tourist and see as much Englishness as I can... I love England.
Of course that means I'll be on the forums less frequently, and probably more quickly than now... But I'll probably pop in from time to time :)

[nome1486]

Have fun, Koa! At first I thought you meant England was your first and only love, maybe you should just skip that part of it and spend all your time enjoying England. Just kidding...good luck. :)

[Koa]

oops...should I rephrase that? :blush:

[Sancho]

Here’s sort of a random thought. I got this from Harpers Weekly Reader; they got it from the Shreveport Times.

“In Shreveport, Louisiana, police arrested a man in a wheelchair for shooting a man on crutches who apparently hit the accused over the head with a crutch.”

[emily655321]

LOL! I mean, how awful. :p People are just violent, I guess.

Oh, I missed Koa leave! :( Oh well, have lots of fun, Koa! :D :banana: England is a nice place.

[nome1486]

:bday_2: to you,
:bday_2: to you,
:bday_2: ravana...


:bday_2: to you!

[nome1486]

(and many mooore!)

[amuse]

ooops!!!!!
sorry to have missed this ravana: :bday_2: :) :bday_2: :) :bday_2: :) :bday_2: :)

[amuse]

a child said to me the other day (i'd pointed to the dragonflies above the pond):
"the Dragons are flying."
this was said as if he'd learned a lesson, and was making sure that i knew as well that dragons do, indeed, fly.

[nome1486]

I MUST rant to someone, I got a virus on my computer and while there could have been a lot more damage, it seems that all of our digital pictures are infected and I don't know if we can retrieve them!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

There must be a couple hundred pictures from the past five years. My avatar, which must be saved on this site or something, is the only remnant of these pictures until we can figure out if they're retrievable or not.

:mad: :mad: :mad:

For anyone who's seen the movie Clue, just think of Mrs. White giving her "flames on the side of my face" speech, and that's how I feel.

*deep breath*

Thank you for listening...or reading...you're as good as a therapist.

[subterranean]

i missed my friend's bday celebration some time ago :( :( and today my other friend is haviing a bday and i'm afraid i'd miss it again this time...(damn job !!!)

[nome1486]

Like your new avatar, sub. Sorry about your friend's birthday!

[Isagel]

Are your pictures OK now nome?
Sorry, sub. Hope it works out.

The only small problem I have right now is that ants seem to have made a new anthill in my garden. Right on the lawn. So I´m trying to figure out if I should kill them all , commiting mass ant murder, or live and let live.
I´m a vegetarian and do not really like to kill living beings. On the other hand - they bit me first! And I think they eat my plants. Oh, the agony of ethical dilemmas :-).

A friend has a lizard that eats ants. Perhaps I can borrow that one and let nature have it´s course. That´s the "Live and let a lizard kill them all sollution"

[subterranean]

yea, it's pretty spooky to have some small creatures yet there are thousands of them making nest around your home. but isagel if u borrow the lizard, dont' you think that u do intend to kill those ants though indirectly..i mean u put it there intentionally :)

and i'm trying to be a vegetarian some time ago but failed :( well not really failed, i mean i only eat fish now..how did u do it anyway?

CHeers

[Isagel]

I can just accidently drop the lizard on the ants? Ooops .
I saw this documentary about slaughterhouses and the cruel way they treat animals.
Then I thought,"well - carrots are rather tasty".

[verybaddmom]

isagel, chances are very good that your ants are not eating your plants but they will probably be farming aphids somewhere in the neighborhood. as a rule, ants follow a single path to and from their farm, so maybe try and follow them to see where they are going.
ants and aphids work similar to humans and cattle.
aphids suck sap from your plants (roses especially, but also some garden veggies and other ornamentals) but when they tap into the plant they actually take more fluid from the plant than they can digest, so they secret a honey like stuff from their backsides....
anyhow, the ants LOVE this stuff, so they will protect the aphids from predators and ensure them a source of food in exchange for this "honeydew" (that's what the secretion is called). sort of a symbiotic relationship between them, but negating all of your work in the garden, as the aphids will literally suck the plant dead.
if you actually have that going on there, i would reccomment a little diotomacious earth, which is a dusty type powder that you can sprinkle around the anthill generously. it is completely biological in origin and perfectly harmless to pets and children and the environmnet. it is actually ground up diatoms (so like oyster shells, but not quite). anyhow you could literally eat this stuff with a spoon, if you so desired and it wouldnt do you any harm. however, when the ants crawl across it, which they must if you put it in their path, then it is too abrasive for them, and does permanent damage to their bellies. (do you need more details??). you must reapply the powder every time you get a good rainfall, or wind.
as far as killing other creatures, bear in mind the whole circle of life theory. and really if you are protecting your food source there is nothing malicious in that. animals would do the same, but with less compassion. do what you have to do.....
if all else fails you could be walking through your yard with a huge pot of boiling hot water mixed with cayene pepper and stumble and accidentally spill the whole thing on their hill..what shame.....but accidents happen, dont they?

[subterranean]

thus speak an ants researcher.

Isagel, the thing is i often wonder do plants also scream when farmer take them from the grounds, but we juct can't hear them..? :rolleyes"//// or am i having too much imagination?

[nome1486]

Hey, I remember reading a short story on that topic. A scientist invented a machine that lets him hear plants, but then he starts hearing plants screaming and he's suddenly terrified to hurt anything. I think it was by Roald Dahl, in a collection called Skin. Some of those stories were pretty twisted.

[subterranean]

Thats why i sometimes wonder when some vegetarians stated that they dont eat meat cause they pitty animals...and how bout plants? arent they living creatures as well? i agree that someone only eat veggies cause of healt reason..not really agree with those who use philosophical bases

[nome1486]

Haha, I guess it just comes down to whether or not the thing you're eating once had eyes. By which definition you wouldn't eat potatoes, either :), but I think potatoes with eyes are incredibly disgusting and creepy anyway...I'm twitching just thinking about it.

[nome1486]

Oh yeah, I still don't know about my pictures yet Isagel; thanks for asking. I think that if they are permanently gone I have reconciled myself to the fact...:bawling:

Just kidding ;). These emoticons are addictive. Anyway, I've never owned a camera (they were from my dad's digital one), but on the same day I found out about the virus I bought a nice film camera, which I've been meaning to do for a while. So I made myself feel better :).

I hope your ant problem ends well. I definitely think extermination is justifiable; if they weren't sitting nice and cozy in your backyard they would probably be out in the wild serving as a feast for an anteater (not that I know anything about where anteaters live...)

[verybaddmom]

i dont think it has anything to do with eating things with eyes. my step-dad was a half vegetarian, he would eat chicken and fish, but not pork or beef. so i declared that he would only eat things that never had eyeLASHES.
i think it has to do with how our teeth and digestive systems are set up. we are far more omnivorous than some vegetarians would have you believe, but we definitely do share our digestive and cooling systems with herbivores.
anyhow, more on this later...my son needs computer....

[amuse]

i had ants in my house last year...i didn't like the fact that i used Grant's ant stakes (which worked), so i put a whole mess of brown sugar outside where they were coming into my place. needless to say, they stopped coming in, and festered around the sugar.
highly non-nutritious, i'm sure. :( but not lethal, either...and it was fascinating to see them work. rather like goldfish watching.
i agree, however. your space is your space (vbm re: food source); if they're violating it, tell them to go, and if they don't then you have the right to clear it.

[Koa]

knock knock.... look who's here... ME! :D :banana:

I'm in England and things are fine, I haven't strangled the guy and I've been tempted to really do that only a few times... :D Now I have 90 minutes of pc time as he's watching the football :D (usually I only check mail cos if I start foruming I'd never stop and it'd be a bit rude... ;)). I've been visiting lots of cool places, Nottingham, Birmingham (I absolutely loved it!!!) and Manchester, I'm enjoying the Englishness, I'm overdosing on junk food... Everything ok at the moment, excpet that in 9 days I'll leave this limbo and be back to life again... Oh well, I'll enjoy what's left of this, and hope I don't get too depressed when my holiday is over :D

Now I'll go and check how things are around here... I don't know if I'll check the forum again while I'm here (might depend on the football lol;)) anyway when I'll be home I'll have a couple of weeks of non-life before I leave again, so you'll fine me here I guess :D

*waves to everyone* hey why dont we ever use this emoticon???: :wave: It's cute!

[subterranean]

:wave: Hello..(it is cute Koa)..

this monday morning and am already at the office,,,i always love monday morning case things are easier in monday!! i'm in a very good mood today...though i have 2 acnes in my face :goof: (darn hormone :rage: )..
but i feel happy..hope this feeling will last througout the day

Cheers

[imthefoolonthehill]

i wonder how they make those rumble strips on the side of the highway

[simon]

Probably with a big noisy machine. I am off backpacking good bye all.

[ajoe]

Which reminds me. How do they paint the white stripes in the middle of a road and make them equally straight and long?

[ajoe]

I haven't been keeping up with this thread, or any other threads in this forum, for that matter. :(

[subterranean]

Probably with a big noisy machine. I am off backpacking good bye all.

I dont know there's still a backpacker these days?
Or u were talking about other backpacking?!
my friend insist to be called a "traveller" instead of a backpacker

Cheers

[simon]

Oh I mean in the mountains Sub, as in being a pack horse for five days and not showering and eating freeze dried meals, and getting attacked my mosquitos, huge biting flies and not seein ganybody else except the people who you went in with, for a week and all of the hiking of course ahs to be up hill. And I call it fun.

[subterranean]

that sounds cool...now i'm thinking about going to the beach :)


Cheers

[amuse]

it's 5:04 a.m. and i should be sleeping.

[nome1486]

Tengo un dolor en mi estomago.

[verybaddmom]

im sorry to hear that.....did you try pepto bismol?

[nome1486]

Thanks :) I tried Tums, but I think it was a remaining symptom of a flu bug I caught last week so I don't know if they would have helped any. Anyway, I think I'm better now (knock on wood).

[Shea]

Are humans and cats the only creatures to drink milk after infancy?

[nome1486]

You didn't just watch Meet The Parents, did you?

But you're talking about after infancy. As for that, I've never thought of that before. Interesting question.

[Shea]

Lol, actually, I was just drinking soy milk. I just like the flavor.

[nome1486]

I've always wondered what that tastes like.

[Shea]

Its rather unique. You definately can't think about regular milk the first time you try it, but it's good. I would drink it all the time if it wasn't so expensive. In fact, I use to. For three bizzare months I was lactose intolerant. I couldn't eat anything if any of the ingredients even touched a dairy product. My stomach would tie up into huge painful knots unless I had taken a Lactaid tablet with my food. Then it suddenly went away! Why?

[Taliesin]

Are humans and cats the only creatures to drink milk after infancy?
If I am not mistaken, it is not good for adult cats to drink milk. The reason was something like that they do not have the bacteria that demulsifies lactose. But well, cats were traditionally given milk so it was thought that milk was car's drink, if I am not mistaken.

[verybaddmom]

oh yes..my cat loves all things dairy, but if i give it to him, he walks around the house all day stinking up whatever corner he's in...ewwww

personally i think that human's drinking milk is just wrong. my son drinks soy milk all the time, but i cant even have a glass of milk with cookies. it just makes me feel vampirical (is that a word?? is now!)
i just cant seem to get past its origin, while at the same time i have no problems eating steak. go figure.

[Pickles]

Hummmm Steak................


Ok, shopping on the way home, Hummmmm Steak..........

[papayahed]

I love Milk, there was nothing better than cold pizza with a tall glass of milk. Although as I've gotten older I don't drink it very often. Now, I usually buy Soy Milk.

[poehee99]

don't you guys drink tea with milk?

[ajoe]

Only when I drink boba.

[poehee99]

what's boba?

[ajoe]

boba = bubble tea = milk + tea + chewy black balls :D

[Shea]

Is that some kind of licorice?

I'm rather picky about my tea. I only like it hot, I never put sugar in it, but sometimes I use honey if I'm sick, and I only put cream in it if it's plain black tea, otherwise I drink it straight.

I love Earl Grey!!

[Koa]

don't you guys drink tea with milk?

tea with milk is something most people here have never heard of and we find it disgusting anyway... tea is generally drunk with lemon here... and i've never really heard of soy milk unless it's diet products or something if you have allergy, but it must be rare and expensive...

[ajoe]

Bored out of my wits. So decided to do a survey and share the result with y'all.

88 Ways to Know If You're Chinese [I'm not really Chinese, though.]

1. You look like you are 18. [Well, since I'm 19, I probably don't look to far off.]

2. You like to eat chicken feet. [Nah.]

3. You suck on fish heads and fish fins. [Nah.]

4. You have a Chinese knick-knack hanging on your rear view mirror. [Um.. my parents hang up the knick-knacks all over the house instead.]

5. You sing karaoke. [No, I'm too modest about my singing voice.]

6. Your house is covered with tile. [The kitchen.]

7. Your kitchen is covered by a sticky film of grease. [I have no idea what this means.]

8. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil. [It's true. Isn't everyone's??]

9. You leave the plastic covers on your remote control. [Yea. And if it's ripped off my parents quickly change it with a new plastic cover.]

10. You've never kissed your mom or dad. [No.]

11. You've never hugged your mom or dad. [No. Sad, but true.]

12. Your unassisted vision is worse than 20/500. [What does this mean??]

13. You wear contacts, to avoid wearing your "coke bottle glasses". [As a matter of fact, I have glasses on.]

14. You've worn glasses since you were in fifth grade. [Second.]

15. Your hair sticks up when you wake up. [Unfortunately, my long hair can't stick up.]

16. You'll haggle over something that is not negotiable. [My parents do. I'm not too persuasive.]

17. You love to use coupons. [Yea, and end up buying more and saving less.]

18. You drive around looking for the cheapest petrol. [Not me, but someone I know does.]

19. You drive around for hours looking for the best parking space. [That same someone does.]

20. You take showers at night. [I actually take showers in the afternoon at the peak of horrible summer hotness.]

21. You avoid the non-free snacks in hotel rooms. [True. Bring my own.]

22. You don't mind squeezing 20 people into one motel room. [Maybe. The last time there were only 10 people, though.]

23. Most girls have more body hair than you, if you are male. [This is an insane statement.]

24. You tap the table when someone pours tea for you. [No, not really.]

25. You say "Aiya!" and "Wah!" frequently. [Strange as it is, I do! (And I'm not Chinese!]

26. You don't want to wear your seatbelt because it is uncomfortable. [Yea, I never wear my seatbelt unless I'm the one at the driver's seat.]

27. You love Las Vegas, slot machines, and blackjack. [Actually, no. I was there recently and I hated the trip.]

28. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can reuse the paper. [Again, my parents do. But not me.]

29. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off. [Not necessarily Christmas. I like cheap stuff.]

30. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table. [Yup.]

31. You spit bones and other food scraps on the table. That's why you need the vinyl tablecloth. [I don't really, but I often manage to drop ketchup sauce or coffee on it.]

32. You have stuff in the freezer since the beginning of time. [Yea. I just recently threw everything expired and that was practically half of the freezer.]

33. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack. [Yup.]

34. You have never used your dishwasher. [No. I wash the dishes by hand.]

35. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times. [It's usefull when you want coffee anytime of the day.]

36. You eat all meals in the kitchen. [Actually, I eat anywhere in the house.]

37. You save grocery bags. [And use them as trash bags. Of course. It saves money.]

38. You have a piano in your living room. [Not exactly in my living room, but yea, there is a piano.]

39. You pick your teeth at the dinner table (but you cover your mouth). [No.]

40. You twirl your pen around your fingers. [I can't do that correctly, but I do twirl a pen somehow.]

41. You hate to waste food. [Yes. People who waste food (including fast-food restaurants) need to think of all those people starving in Appalachia.]

42. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing. [True. Eventually they end up inside someone's stomach.]

43. You don't own any real Tupperware - only a cupboard full of used but carefully rinsed margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam jars. [Very few tupperwares and lots of jars (mostly peanut butter Skippy).]

44. You also use the jam jars as drinking glasses. [I did this last year when I was living in the dorm cause I was too lazy to carry around a glass glass.]

45. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel. [My parents.]

46. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes). These snacks are always dried and include dried plums, mango, ginger, and squid. [See the commentary above. Our cars are a wreck.]

47. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it. [Shouldn't we all?]

48. Your dad thinks he can fix everything himself. [Not exactly my dad, but someone in the house. And he actually can fix everything. At least so far.]

49. The dashboard of your Honda is covered by hundreds of small toys. [No, my brother hated it and took off everything.]

50. You don't use measuring cups. [I do. My mom doesn't cause she cooks better.]

51. You beat eggs with chopsticks. [We are most comfortable using forks.]

52. You have a teacup with a cover on it. [My grandma.]

53. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information (*69) costs 50 cents. [Actually, I look up phone numbers cause I didn't know there's a calling information thingy.]

54. You only make long distance calls after 11pm. [Because it's cheaper? Of course!]

55. If you are male, you clap at something funny and if you are female, you giggle whilst placing a hand over your mouth. [No, that's probably my great-grandparents.]

56. You like Chinese films in their original undubbed versions. [I do. I like anime in original Japanese, too.]

57. You love Chinese Martial Arts films. [They're okay.]

58. You've learned some form of martial arts. [Not really.]

59. Shaolin actually means something to you. [The bald boy..?]

60. You like congee with thousand-year-old eggs. [What is congee?]

61. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached. [I don't like shrimps.]

62. You never call your parents just to say hi. [I don't think so. I prefer e-mail.]

63. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight. [True. It's probably because they used to almost starve.]

64. When you're sick, your parents tell you not to eat fried foods or baked goods due to yeet hay. [Maybe, if I know what a yeet hay is.]

65. You know what yeet hay is. [See previous response.]

66. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only 10 feet apart. [Why not? It's convenient.]

67. You use a face cloth. [My grandma.]

68. You starve yourself before going to all you can eat places. [That's true. Want an empty stomach to eat as much as possible.]

69. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics. [Not me, unfortunately.]

70. You save your old Coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again. [My parents do, and I usually secretly recycle them.]

71. You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it. [Probably my mom.]

72. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin. [My parents' work.]

73. You know what moon cakes are. [I think so.]

74. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out. [There's nothing wrong with stocking up.]

75. Your parents know how to launch nasal projectiles. pDon't understand this.]

76. You iron your own shirts. [On the contrary, I never iron any of my shirts.]

77. You play a musical instrument. [Piano, yes. Which fob doesn't?]

78. Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. [Not me.]

79. You've eaten a red bean popsicle. [Nope.]

80. You bring oranges (or other produce) with you as a gift when you visit people's homes. [No.]

81. You fight over who pays the dinner bill. [My parents. I wouldn't mind if someone wants to pay for my dinner.]

82. You majored in something practical like engineering, medicine or law. [I don't know, is dentistry included in medicine? It's practical.]

83. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old (and they prefer it that way). Or if you're married and 30 years old, you live in the apartment next door to your parents, or at least in the same neighborhood. [That's probably going to happen.]

84. You don't tip more than 10% at a restaurant, and if you do, you tip Chinese delivery guys/waiters more. [I like fobs, but I'm usually fair.]

85. You have acquired a taste for bitter melon. [No.]

86. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last piece of food on the table. [Not really. I leave some rice in my bown and eat that last piece.]

87. You know why there are 88 reasons. [That's actually correct.]

88. You see the truth in this and then send it to all your Chinese friends. [Nah. They're gonna kill me.]

[ajoe]

Is that some kind of licorice?

It's completely alcohol-free. Just milk and tea and the chewy black ball things (equivalent to jell-o, I think, only you have to chew them longer before you can swallow them). If you ever pass a Lollicup restaurant, you should stop by and try it. For Taiwanese, Lollicup is almost like Starbucks. :D

[baddad]

....MMMmmmmmm........mooooonnnnn cakessssss.........

[Koa]

at least 3 of that chinese things (not that i've read all of them, but most...i'm curious...) are normal italian things... (eating only in the kitchen, living with parents at 30 and i dont remember what else...oh doing your teeth at the table but with hand to cover your mouth...not sure it's too polite tho...)

[amuse]

*edit...hadn't refreshed, gone too long and didn't see the new pg.

btw, pickles, i dig your new avatar.

[ajoe]

I've been watching too much and now my brain won't absorb words in print.

[Sancho]

Ajoe,
Funny... Go-on wit 'yo bad self.

Where's 'Em?
She must've gone cold-turkey.

[imthefoolonthehill]

so... does the test conclusivly prove if you are chinese or what?

[Taliesin]

I just got a major fright.
It was a link told in a quite nice forum (I won't give the link here, because I am not that evil) At first, it was two almost identical photographs with a writing : find 3 differences. They were beautyful pictures and I searched and searched, but didn't find.
And then .... suddenly a monster face appeared in the screen and a terrible scream was in the headphones.
If I had had a weak heart, I would have had a heart attack.

What kind of a sick, sick mind does these kinds of things?

[amuse]

Taliesin, i am so, so sorry to hear that happened to you. :(

[ajoe]

so... does the test conclusivly prove if you are chinese or what?

More than I claim to be.
Hey, fool, so you're in college now?

[ajoe]

There are way too many books out there and so little time.

[papayahed]

I hear ya sister! I'm contemplating rereading the first 3 books of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series so I can continue with the rest of them. Is it worth it? I could take that time and read something else on my list or I could take that time and paint my living room. Sheesh, decisions decisions decisions......

[Kahrey]

A quote from a good friend of mine: "So many books, so little time."

[ajoe]

^ Hm, very original. ;)
papayahed: I just recently began a list and it makes it kind of easier. I need to get all the books in my first list done first before I move on to the next list.

[Shore Dude]

On three separate occasions this week, at roughly the same place on my commute home from work – I have seen cars that were bearing down on a certain squirrel, only to find that he out-ran each in the nick of time.

I am starting to think that this squirrel is actually a stunt-squirrel ...performing death-defying feats of automobile maneuvers for most likely, other female squirrels.

[caspian]

TABAC,

DOGUM GUNUN KUTLU OLSUN!
Uzr dilerim, bir az gej kaldim. Amma yine de tebrikimi kabul et!

MUTLULUQLAR! CHOK YASHA!

:bday_2:

[trismegistus]

I'm contemplating rereading the first 3 books of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series so I can continue with the rest of them. Is it worth it? I could take that time and read something else on my list or I could take that time and paint my living room.
Easy one! Buy the books on tape and "re-read" them while you paint the living room!

[a lonely weed]

wow. . .
i'm gone for a few months and this place is buzzing, how neat! :D
i don't know if i like the new thing, but it's still neat. . .

so many people . . .

and so many new smileys! :smash: ha-ha these are so cool! :crash: :wave:

[ajoe]

Easy one! Buy the books on tape and "re-read" them while you paint the living room!

For some reason the way you quote "re-read" made me ROFLMAO.

[papayahed]

Easy one! Buy the books on tape and "re-read" them while you paint the living room!

Great Idea!!!! I've never listened to a book on tape.

[ajoe]

And I quote: "Scientists for Health Canada suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer. The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women. To test the finding, 100 men were fed 6 pints of beer each. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessively without making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to think rationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when wrong. No further testing is planned."

[amuse]

teehee :D


s10cr

[Taliesin]

Here's an interesting fact:
You cannot touch your elbow with your tongue.















It is dead sure that you tried it.

[ajoe]

It's also true that you can touch anything with your right hand but your right elbow.

[baddad]

Okay, so I'm touching body parts with my tongue, my right hand and my elbows.....but I'm curious about the looks on the faces of the other people on the elevator.........

[Monica]

Tomorrow my school year begins. Awful. I have to get up at 6 am to be on time at University. I hate it. :(

[simon]

Why so early? Do you have a ****ty bus scheduel like I do? No matter how early I try to catch the bus it is always too full to stop for me.

[amuse]

look at you! triple 7!!

[Taliesin]

Heh! 777 is nothing.
Where were you 111 of his posts ago?

Anyway:
Because a lot of people have randomly guessed my sex and sometimes wrong, I decided to end this with a very simple solution - I added the word "male" to my title. I hope that it prevents confusion. :D
I suggest that other people who can change their title's and have the same problem as I did, do that too. :p


Btw, couldn't the problem be solved technically? Could there be a small icon that tells a person's sex?

[amuse]

666, hunh? will be on the lookout for that magic number now! j.k.

personally, i think it's funny when people (including self) guess, whether they do so correctly or incorrectly. we could start a new thread, though...

[papayahed]

Why is it that I have never seen a live Racoon in my entire life, but within the past week I've seen 2? Is a Racoon a sign for anything? Am I gonna be robbed soon?

[ajoe]

Don't worry about it, I see raccoons every night.

[papayahed]

Has anyone seen that commercial for Burger King? When the guy wakes up in bed and the "Burger King" is sitting in bed too and hands him a sandwich. I think that has to be the most disturbing, creepiest commercial ever. Are there any creepier?

[simon]

look at you! triple 7!!

How quickly that number came and went, but 888 is coming up.

[ajoe]

8 in Chinese is believed to be a lucky number. :D

[ajoe]

Have you always had more posts than me or you're just speeding lately?

[Stanislaw]

"Has anyone seen that commercial for Burger King? When the guy wakes up in bed and the "Burger King" is sitting in bed too and hands him a sandwich. I think that has to be the most disturbing, creepiest commercial ever. Are there any creepier?",

I think the kikoman comercial is pretty disturbing.

[imthefoolonthehill]

I just experimented... and Salt hurts worse than lemon juice when applied directly to open wounds.

[papayahed]

ummmm, why would you put salt on a wound?

[Shore Dude]

How come all pilots have the coolest voices? Not just tone, but inflection. Their phonetics are always awesome.

[Jester]

i think its a training thing so they dont alarm anyone when they have to say, "we're having technical difficulities and must return to ZIA international airport," personally i think riding iN Biman is allready going to scare the living daylights out of anyone and no pilot is going to make that easier...

[imthefoolonthehill]

The best type of yogurt is Breyer's Cream Savers....

[Taliesin]

ummmm, why would you put salt on a wound?
You mean you have never heard of masochism? Where have you been living?
:smash:

Btw. fool, how long have you been into masochism? And about the yoghurt - is that some kind of torture-yoghurt?

[papayahed]

You mean you have never heard of masochism? Where have you been living?

I have heard of it, just never realized it could involve salt. :eek:

[imthefoolonthehill]

lol Taliesin... i just had a really bad day.

[Stanislaw]

Talking about masochism, dont try and bounce pointy sticks off your garage floor if you don't like being stabbed in the foot... a true story

[amuse]

really can't stand poop-up adds (yes i know, spelling) that say i might have spyware, and "click here." i've got a poop-up blocker enabled, after all. nothing even appears on my taskbar to alert me these things when they run in the background

[subterranean]

You mean you have never heard of masochism? Where have you been living?
:smash:

that place which belong to Michael Jackson, what's the name? fairy land..dream land..? I forgot ;)

[Jester]

I dislkie with a passion the Library of Congress system and the fact that my school library has no spereate section for fiction :flare: :rage: :mad: :brickwall: :smash:

[simon]

Library of Congress, what pain it inflicts on poor souls, never before did I think becoming lost in a library was possible until I met the Library of Congress.

[Jester]

very very painful indeed looking for hours on end for a single fiction and no help from a card catolog either...

[Stanislaw]

I am glad I am in canada
:banana:

[Stanislaw]

oh sorry, the name of the ranch is Never land like in peter pan... sick

[simon]

I'm in Canada too but the Library of Congress' has arms that reach far.

[Stanislaw]

Really, How so?

[kushi]

Random thought of the day:
(listening to Mrs. Robinson :p) ahem..ok, My friend coming tomorrow to visit me in NC!! :D i love you all! *mwah*

[Shore Dude]

Why does my mother shop at BJ’s Wholesale Food Stores?

In my kitchen pantry, I have 73 granola bars. In my linen closet, I have a paper-towel castle stacked twelve feet high. In one small plastic container residing in my medicine cabinet, I have enough dental floss to fasten a log raft.

I’ve had that dental floss since 1999.

[Stanislaw]

woaw, sounds like my mom, she bought a 8 gallon vat of olives, what the heck are we gonna do with that many olives, throw them at our neighbores?... crazy, bu she eats them everyday... I don't think that is exactly healthy. :sick:

[Jester]

This is the first time I have gotten an incomplete on any writing assignment ever... :eek: :eek2:

[ajoe]

Eh. This is one of those not-so-great moments. :(

[baddad]

for those in need of a great moment............................take a second to enjoy this one.

[imthefoolonthehill]

so if they actually shot a monkey into the moon, could we have a major monkey colony competeing for colonization of the universe?

[Taliesin]

No, we wouldn't. There's no air on the Moon, so the poor monkeys would die a horrible death there. :bawling:

[Stanislaw]

but what if they were robot monkeys?

[Shore Dude]

They would have a difficult time swinging from trees.

[papayahed]

and picking the nits(little bugs?) out of each others fur.

[ajoe]

Oh My Gosh. Whoever it is playing the saxophone in the middle of the night needs to STOP.

[Stanislaw]

maybe it the robot monkies with their saxophone calls.

[imthefoolonthehill]

or perhaps the robotic monkeys grew DNA and mutated into killer bugs like in Starship Troopers.

[baddad]

....but if ( as the original monkey reference above states ) the monkey's were fired "into" the moon, would we still hear the siren call of their saxaphones, or would the moon's crust muffle the sound until just before the echoes of their cadenced march reach the surface announcing the initial thrust in a multi-pronged attack? Or do physics still count, and we hear nothing due to a lack of an atmosphere?

[Taliesin]

Heh, the robot monkeys would take air there so that everyone could hear their saxophone calls.

They don't need air to breath, but we are forgetting that they are half-organic so that eventually they shall be needing air. And where will they take it from - from Earth, of course.

Viva la robot monkeys!

[imthefoolonthehill]

so should we prepare a star wars defense system to combat oxygen theft?

[Monica]

http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/vega/temp/ponczuszek.swf

i love this site :)

[Shore Dude]

Yeah, but if we shot robot monkeys into space, how are they going to fling dung at each other? Ya know, with the whole loss of gravity thing.

[papayahed]

There is some gravity on the moon, it will just take longer for the dung to hit it's target.

[Stanislaw]

They will fling it at the general vicinity of the sun, so it slingshots around the sun and hits its target with tremendous speed... after all they are ROBOT monkeys, they would be that smart.

[Shore Dude]

Oh man, we should totally make this a screenplay. We can ask that brother of Mark Wahlberg to star in it.

[Riddick]

oh dear God... what is wrong with you guys... way to much spare time.

[papayahed]

If the monkeys are robots, will they still feed on Bananas? and if so where are they gonna find them on the moon? I think we need to start safeguarding our supplies.

[Scheherazade]

Maybe they would feed on artificial bananas instead of organic ones... :P

[Stanislaw]

and since they are robots, mabe they need banana oil?

[simon]

If monkeys were robots then we would need new test subjects, no more monkeys sitting at keyboards typing random letters for some probablity research, or pshycological experiment, what if htey caught wind and demanded rights?

[Shore Dude]

If monkeys were robots then we would need new test subjects, no more monkeys sitting at keyboards typing random letters for some probablity research, or pshycological experiment
This is true, but then they could be used to do our algebra homework. Imagine how cool you would be as the first kid in the neighborhood to have a robot monkey math tutor.

Then we could have pocket robot monkeys. They will be bigger than cabbage patch kids or 'My Buddy'.

[Stanislaw]

yes, and they could help you with homework, battle eachother, attack your teachers... revolt and form a robot monkey utopian society

[Scheherazade]

Hmm, this is starting to sound very much llike 'Planets of Apes' :D

[papayahed]

yes, and they could help you with homework, battle eachother, attack your teachers... revolt and form a robot monkey utopian society


That's why we had to launch them into space!

[Shore Dude]

Oh, those silly robot space monkeys!

[papayahed]

Do you think we could get them into a barrel????

[Isagel]

Today in one of the biggest newspaper in Sweden they report that scientists has proven that underpants with vitamin C does not work.
Just let that sentence slowly sink in.
Yes, someone actually made underpants laced with vitamin C.
And people actually bought them.
Why?
WHY?

[Scheherazade]

Yes, someone actually made underpants laced with vitamin C.
And people actually bought them.
Why?
WHY?

because people thought they would work???

What is 'work' supposed to mean in this context, I have no idea though... :confused:

[Isagel]

They were supposed to work like vitamin C supplements . Instead off eating oranges you could just wear the underpants.

[papayahed]

Sounds irritating.....

[Stanislaw]

Today in one of the biggest newspaper in Sweden they report that scientists has proven that underpants with vitamin C does not work.
Just let that sentence slowly sink in.
Yes, someone actually made underpants laced with vitamin C.
And people actually bought them.
Why?
WHY?

Sounds like a robot monkey money making scheme, so they can raise enough funds to take over the world, starting with gullible people.

[imthefoolonthehill]

What if the Robot monkeys were actually freakin zombie demons from outer space?

[ajoe]

In an attempt to halt the monkey talk... so what do you guys think about the newly-found hobbit-like Flores man?

[amuse]

this has been the gloomiest day of my life. why did i bother turning 18.

[subterranean]

i'm so damn bored..nothing to do....

for God sake's..this is the 7th time i visited this forum :( :(

[papayahed]

I dropped my bar of Clinique soap in the tiolet this morning......I'm wondering if I should throw it out or keep it since it is "soap" and it was a little pricey.

[Taliesin]

In an attempt to halt the monkey talk... so what do you guys think about the newly-found hobbit-like Flores man?

It is a certain proof that Tolkien's Middle-Earth really existed.
Go Tolkien!

By the way, don't you think that a bit strange that the word "hobbit" is now kinda used in science?

[Stanislaw]

Uh they didn't find a whole ton of evidence what if it was just like a midget?, we have this in todays society and don't call them hobbits. And OMG what science nerd has watched lord of the rings and introduced that term into anything remotly real...

movie, reality, movie, reality. common its not that complicated.

[ajoe]

I thought it may be just a kid, then again, I'm scientifically-challenged, so who am I to argue the "real" scientists?

[Stanislaw]

I thought it may be just a kid, then again, I'm scientifically-challenged, so who am I to argue the "real" scientists?

and why not, scientist assume way too much, what will scientists of the future think when they come across the remains of out civilization?

[Taliesin]

Uh they didn't find a whole ton of evidence what if it was just like a midget?, we have this in todays society and don't call them hobbits. And OMG what science nerd has watched lord of the rings and introduced that term into anything remotly real...

movie, reality, movie, reality. common its not that complicated.

Movie? :flare:

Watched a movie? :flare: :flare:

The LoTR is not a movie you watch, it is a book you read.
Do you understand? Yes, I have heard of that thing PJ did, but it is just a movie based on a book. A book. Understand? Book, movie, book, movie. It is really not complicated.

When a person says that LoTR is not a book but a movie then I imagine that that kind of a person is probably illiterate or doesn't read at all. But then, he shouldn't be in a literature forum. Mystery.

Movie? Arrrghh. :flare:

No offence, Stan btw.

But anyway, I have heard that the person was not a midget but a normal person. I think that because there was not much food so that meant that the natural selection selected out the smaller people because they didn't need so much food whic h meant that in time the people were really small.


q.e.d.

The Bard has spoken.

[Stanislaw]

Movie? :flare:

Watched a movie? :flare: :flare:

The LoTR is not a movie you watch, it is a book you read.
Do you understand? Yes, I have heard of that thing PJ did, but it is just a movie based on a book. A book. Understand? Book, movie, book, movie. It is really not complicated.

When a person says that LoTR is not a book but a movie then I imagine that that kind of a person is probably illiterate or doesn't read at all. But then, he shouldn't be in a literature forum. Mystery.

Movie? Arrrghh. :flare:

No offence, Stan btw.

But anyway, I have heard that the person was not a midget but a normal person. I think that because there was not much food so that meant that the natural selection selected out the smaller people because they didn't need so much food whic h meant that in time the people were really small.


q.e.d.

The Bard has spoken.


I would like to understand your post but probably can't read it as I have literacy issues...;)

anywho I did read the books, and see the movies, and was unimpressed by both, I also refeered to the movie, reality thing as in most people associate LOTR with happy bubly short actors, and gender challanged elves prancing around.

Also it could be the case as is with the pygmies in africa.

[Isagel]

Is it just me, or does Crisaors tiger look kind of thoughtful/sad?
What kind of thought is rushing through the striped head?
Is it Blakes dilemma ?

The Tiger

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

[crisaor]

That was nice, Isagel. Thanks.

[Shore Dude]

Why is First Class mail offered by the US Postal Service the slowest possible mailing option? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it Last Class mail?

...To the paradox thread.

[den]

My thought today is ...

why don't they make spray bottles with a trigger thingy that lasts as long as the crap in the bottle? :brickwall :crash:

I now have two bottles of cleaning stuff with sprayers that don't work anymore, so I have to use the spray thing from a third bottle to use on them.

[Stanislaw]

I think you can buy replacement sprayer heads from Canadian tire.

[Jester]

hmmm why is the sky blue?

[amuse]

i know the answer :) do you really want me to tell?

[ajoe]

I've heard the answer so many times thanks to the girlsgotech commercial on a certain radio station.

[Jester]

oh i just keep forgetting the answer, i know it has somethign to do with light and atmospheric projection and what not... but I was just thinking that at the moment...

there are so many corws flying south for the winter, i never noticed them till today :cold:

[amuse]

oh! for a second that was incredibly clever because i read "crows" as "cows."

[Jester]

sorry, my typing will do that.... i forget to reread what ive written.... Today I had to walk about two miles in the foggy cold without soemthing to cover my ears and in heels (not spiked or flimsy but boots with heals on them, yes that was dumb and my mistake too, i depereatly need some closed toe shoes) :goof:

[Stanislaw]

frost bite be not something to flirt with!

[Jester]

definatly...... oooh i can get frostbite, im only in idaho thats not too far north, no wait it is, i was living on the equator, or really just above it and not used to the cold yet. :cold:

Stan i love your avator.... but prefer jack sparrow.... :goof:

[Jester]

wow i had no idea there were three thousand members i only know about maybe twenty of them.... from their posts and have heard abut a lot more so maybe about fifty or so..... wierd

[imthefoolonthehill]

fog is like life. You can't see too far in front of you when you are in the thick of it.


Also, its hard to tell if you are going up or down until after you are through... often times, when its flat, it seems like an uphill battle.

Also, when you have real thick fog its much easier and faster to find someone driving faster than you would normally drive, and be guided by his tail lights... knowing your stopping distance. In this way, leadership is more difficult and dangerous, and following is the safe way to go through life...


(its been foggy in the entire 'treasure valley' (boise, idaho and surrounding area) for the last three or so days...)

[amuse]

wow i had no idea there were three thousand membersi will be Ecstatic the day that the number of posts and members is equal...:blush: i check those numbers more than i care to admit. :D

[Jay]

Az: You mean... 3000 members = 3000 posts? :eek2: WHY? lol
'hi I'm new and I need you to help with my homework, PM or email me to...' would be the posts everywhere :D

[amuse]

well like we have 25 more threads than members, as i write. and i think it would be cool to see that equal just once. but i'm sure i would ruin it by immediately posting a thread saying look people, look! and then the balance would be upset again. don't mind me i'm a nerd. :D

[Jester]

thats okay amuse most of are.... thats why we're sitting at computers instead of outside in this glorious cloudy day....

Hey fool, i didn't know you were in Idaho, treasure valley... I really dislike the fog especially at eight in the morning when i get lost heading for class

Is it bad to eat a warm salad that has been out for about two hours with cheese on it???? If it is, i hope i dont get sick...

[amuse]

i had a happy incident earlier: split my lip. :) you can so tell winter's coming (northern hemisphere here) - it's brisk, cold, windy, and today this little fellow was walking toward me with his mom. we kind of looked at each other as we got closer, little glimmers of light on the sides of our mouths. then he broke into a full-out high-beams on your headlights type of smile and i was so tickled that i just grinned back, and his mom was smiling too, and i tell you. i need to walk around with chapstick. that was marvelous.

[amuse]

eat it! happily, a friend of mine once reported that the french don't refrigerate their cheese. so why should you? no live cultures, right? (not sure if that matters.)

btw, thanks. would you believe i'm trying to read the koran for class and sitting at this thing. better sign off...

[Jester]

ever wonder where blue cheese comes from?

[papayahed]

blue cows?

[simon]

More likely from the critters that visit the fridge at night dying all the edible food inedible colours and injecting them with terrible odors.

[Shore Dude]

blue cows?
I want one.

[Stanislaw]

Personall I want the cows that produce the chocolate milk

[Jay]

And vanilla, and banana, and strawberry... hmmm, yummies ;)

[Stanislaw]

I think mint would also be pretty sweet! :thumbs_up :banana: :thumbs_up

[Jay]

Hmmm... mint milk? Now that's an idea... actually could be edible... hmmmm...

[papayahed]

Chocolate mint would be really good, especially Hot.

[Jay]

Awww come on, have some mercy, ate 9 hours ago! People are hungry here :D

[ajoe]

This forum has become very silly. I like it. :D

[Jay]

Of course, we're all silly, no wonder we've turned the forum silly as well :D, duuh :p

[ajoe]

I used to go here when I wanted to post serious stuff.
I don't know, playing on the stereotype that bookworms = serious, humorless people. :p

[Taliesin]

Hear ye, hear ye!

We find that since this forum is so insane then maybe We should join this madness. From now on We refer to Us in Plural since We are so... so.... who cares, for We are so great. Anyway, Taliesin, as We are calling ourselves, is referring to himselves in the plural now.

Do you understand Us?
We would also like to lead your attention to the fact that there are no smilies in Our post so you couldn't read between the lines.

[Jay]

I resent the idea of no smileys! :eek2:

[papayahed]

That's a great idea Taliesin. I would refer to myself in the third person but I don't think I could keep it up. Papayahed is kinda long.

[Jay]

I concur, so is Scheherezade, subterreanean, imthefoolonthehill, waxmepholosophical... yey

[Scheherazade]

Oh, just because you have a short nick :p

[Jay]

Nope, there's higher posibility of misspelling one's nick if their nicks are like a sentence ;). Not saying your is that bad (long) just ... yeah, I'm saying exactly that, it's long :D

[papayahed]

Is it just me? I haven't accomplished one thing at work today.

[Shore Dude]

I have done next to nothing. And I feel terrific.

[Stanislaw]

I have not done anything greatly productive either. maybe it is contagiouse

[Jester]

Jester went and got mail for the library :P Jester sees that classes may be boring and offered no usefull information to anthropology and instead has been focusing on gathering sleep since insomnia struck again last night. jester is desperatly tired but if sleeps now she'll be up all night like last night which is not good but bound to happen becuase writing makes her hyper and overactive and wide awake despite having lain in bed for two hours after the story first took shape. Anyone else suffers from hyperactivity caused by writing like Jester? Make her think she should write in the monrin instead of the evening but that's when she gets the urge to write....


(third person is so wierd...)

[Stanislaw]

(third person is so wierd...)

arrr try talkin like a pirate, it be fun!

[Jester]

it not be good for me.... i have enough trouble with normal english ;)

[ajoe]

So when/how did this whole pirate thing start anyway?

[Jester]

ask the cap'n

[Stanislaw]

arrr it all started with a bunch a punk ninjas, they won the poll an we went into hiding, now the pirates be back to claim the ... everything.

[Jester]

wverything indeed...

[Scheherazade]

arrr it all started with a bunch a punk ninjas, they won the poll an we went into hiding, now the pirates be back to claim the ... everything.

Take a number, cap'n!

[imthefoolonthehill]

Scheherazade... every time i see your avatar, i think i am seeing a mascarade mask designed to look like a rooster... untill i give it a second glance.

[Scheherazade]

Scheherazade... every time i see your avatar, i think i am seeing a mascarade mask designed to look like a rooster... untill i give it a second glance.

:D :D :D :D :D

[Stanislaw]

Take a number, cap'n!
arrr, okay. *take number*...aww 3245627281.3... .3?!?!

arrr that be me luck.

[Scheherazade]

hmm... that makes you not a whole number but a decimal? 0.3? :goof:

[Jester]

what? :confused: