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| Title | This Side Towards Enemy |
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written Wednesday, August 11 2004 07:50
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I've never heard a single representation of ai as an 'ee' sound, including when it is at the end of a word. 'ae' as 'ay', yes but 'ai' as 'i' -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 13:54
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I think Alec and myself have been more useless than you. Nor can we forget DB and Drakey. I think the difference is quality is largely because finding the Lyceum is harder. Most of the sagots will find this place first. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 13:35
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Kelandon, the Streets aren't really representative of British rap. Mike Skinner is more or less just taking the piss. I find him fairly amusing but don't like his songs. More mainstream British rap and hip-hop is things like Dizzee Rascal and More Fire Crew. I can't claim to know very much about it, since the rhythm tends to make my head hurt (which is strange, because I'm sure the same rhythm covered with guitar fuzz wouldn't do that to me) but I do know that its mostly about London council estates rather than American slums, more concerned with grime than bling and that music journalists extolling its virtues always sound either really condescending or like complete pseuds. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 13:26
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Protection and warmth are very big issues. You do not wander outside in December when the winds are blowing straight from the Arctic without a stitch on your body. I do not have to describe the effect this would produce, I hope. Protection is even more important. Things such as brambles and nettles are going to be that much harder to negotiate if you don't wear clothes and if, like me, you open doors by walking straight into them then it would really hurt if you were naked. Even more important is footwear. There are a million and one different things which will make you wince if you step on them barefoot. Sure, be a nudist if you like. Don't come crying to me when your testicles start retracting, though. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 10 2004 09:54
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Has FBM still not realised TGM meant funny? Guess not. I haven't got the heart to pretend that was a big surprise. The man in the uniform is actually Tito. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, August 9 2004 10:47
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I am of the opinion that goatseing a connections thread is a public service. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, August 9 2004 10:40
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TM, that's not exactly evidence. Very many people like gangster movies. Personally, I don't like much rap or hip-hop. It just tends to make my head hurt. But other people like it, so it's here to stay. And yes, lyrics such as those that Alex suggested are facile. However, music doesn't spread a positive message shouldn't be condemned automatically. And to be honest, most song lyrics are less than profound. I'd also like the record to show that I hate country music too. EDIT: Kelandon said almost exactly what I wanted to say far better than I could have. Run DMC are still responsible for one of the worst tracks ever created, however. [ Monday, August 09, 2004 10:44: Message edited by: Your Unborn Child ] -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, August 9 2004 10:35
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Personally, I would happily settle for FBM not lowering the tone of this board. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, August 9 2004 02:05
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HUAGHUAGHBUAGH  INTERFERING WITH A TROUT -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 07:12
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For some reason, Whyte's post where he quotes Keep twice has the text back to front for me with strange capitalisation. That is to say, the letters are in back to front order, whilst still facing the right way. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, August 8 2004 07:07
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Or you could just call yourself Sagot. There's nothing wrong with unanimity of opinion. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 13:50
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This isn't a livejournal, UA. Do we really need a surfeit of moronic personality quizzes? -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 10:01
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      Discuss. Or post yaoi. Either's good. -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: Never Proved to Be a Contributory Factor to Stomach Cancer Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 09:49
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Because some of us are just cruel and insensitive pyschopaths, Nico. Sorry, I just don't value animals so highly. I was in Athens just before Easter and something really did need to be done. The dogs were everywhere. They were potential vectors for disease and considering the way the average Athenian drives, it's a wonder they didn't cause more traffic accidents (since if two of them got into a fight, the loser would be more scared of the winner than traffic.) Dogs are also very hard to rehome. My family keeps Irish setters from a rescue. These have had homes but had to leave due to deaths, relationship breakdowns and the like. If they've been on the street instead, it's that much harder. Very few people would have wanted those dogs. TNR might be a benefit but long term, the population cap needs to be rather lower to solve the problems. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, August 7 2004 09:21
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On average, I tend to enjoy Lyceum threads more. However, there are more threads here. If I wanted Blades info, I'd be going there. However, I haven't loaded Blades up for about 6 months (and it's not even installed at the moment.) I still try to hang around at the Lyceum, but since it moves rather slower, I find myself only visiting about once a month, and then mostly to lurk. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, August 3 2004 10:20
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The first one wouldn't load, but I guess I'd get avoidant. Second gives me: Disorder | Rating Paranoid: Low Schizoid: Moderate Schizotypal: High Antisocial: Low Borderline: Low Histrionic: Low Narcissistic: Low Avoidant: High Dependent: Low Obsessive-Compulsive: Low Which seems more stable than the last time I took it. So at least my powers of deceit have improved. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, July 10 2004 09:31
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Arancaytar has a point about Arena history being full of anachronisms and cliches, but that's almost entirely down to the nature of its creation. Given the chance, each of us would write completely different backstories, with almost all of those flaws cleared out. However, whilst Arena history has scientific absurdities and cycles which revolved around caricatured villains, Alec has a point in saying that the *i-Drakey-TM storyline differs only in that the anachronisms are political rather than scientific (this of course being more in the sci-fi/fantasy mode) and in that the villains have appeared multiple times, whilst still not being any deeper. Trouble is, both of these future storylines contain considerably less anachronisms than Jeff's fleshings out. Also, Arancaytar, would you care to explain how you're meant to have a society that goes forward somewhere between 3 to 5 millenia from society in the Exiles and still doesn't reach industrialisation? -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 8 2004 11:14
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Personally, if I want absurdism, I'll read Edward Lear. Doctor Seuss just never held the same attraction for me. Horses for courses. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, July 8 2004 11:09
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I'm not going to pass much comment on the past 25 odd posts, except that I found the first half of Creator's post a pretty appealing Utopia, but don't believe humans could maintain it for half an hour, that violence towards others is definitely worse than sex (my main concern with objectification of women is that it seems to legitimise women towards them,) that whilst I don't have a clue about primates, homosexuality in some animals (my dogs) is largely a way of expressing dominance and a substitute for heterosexual sex. Frequently in the living room when my grandparents come round, unfortunately enough. Oh, and that were244 really needs to learn to frame a coherent argument. Alec, the concept of homosexuality did exist rather earlier than you acknowledge. Henry VIII imposed the death sentence for sodomy. I don't believe there were many executions for this and since Shakespeare's lover was the Earl of Southampton, prosecution was still less likely. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 7 2004 12:32
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To give the man credit, Philoctetes is probably the first accurate Goth character ever created. And you can't have a Goth character who you actually want to hear more from. quote:I spy contradiction! -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 7 2004 12:07
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Morgan, autism can fairly safely be said to be a flaw. It doesn't mean that the individual is less of a person, but I doubt you'd disagree that in a perfect world there would be no autism. Don't put words in his mouth. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 6 2004 08:52
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Very few people look at ratings. Myself, I'm rather proud that my rating has been steadily creeping down. I suspect it might be 2 by now if the first few ratings weren't extremely over-weighted. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 6 2004 08:50
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So you should to have to answer immediately when you buzz. It works in every quiz with buzzers I've ever seen or participated in. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 6 2004 08:38
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You're misconstruing my words, or possibly I didn't express myself properly. Shakespeare's target audience, particularly in his early years, was fairly puerile. Obscenity and extreme violence are hallmarks of some of his earlier work. Which is not in the slightest something I have a problem with. He can also write very good plays. I really liked Macbeth. That said, I have a number of gripes. I don't see him as a giant of literature. He was good, but he created few if any original plots (Romeo and Juliet was stolen from an Italian play of fifty years earlier for example.) Again, this isn't necessarily a problem, but it does rather preclude the standard praise given to his plots. He's readable or indeed watchable. He gave a lot of words to the language, or at least is the first attributed user of them. But that's as much due to the ravages of time and the views of the 17th century as it is to his own writing. I hate him for creating Twelfth Night. You may enjoy it, but I would rather knee myself in the face half a dozen times than read it again. Likewise, I consider A Midsummer Night's Dream a serious blot on his record. Daft plots, irritating characters, excruciatingly contrived endings. I'm glad he's survived, but so have some of his contemporaries. Survival has nothing to do with quality anyway. The Spanish War dates from before the birth of Christ and is still with us (albeit not in its entirety) yet its written in really excreable and grammatically incorrect Latin with a narrative which keeps putting itself out of sync when the writer puts in something he forgot to mention earlier. Survival merely means that down the ages, nobody has considered it worth burning. Shakespeare's fame required slightly more. It required some people to value him in each generation. That does not mean one has to agree with them. I like Greek tragedy (although I prefer Greek comedy, history and epic poems) although again, I make exceptions for certain pieces of work. Mostly those by Sophocles. Philoktetes was a horrible play to read. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 6 2004 08:13
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I realise it's not going to resemble an actual Asimov film. But I can live with brainless action thrillers and it seems like a superior example of the type. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |