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- Sun Jan 01, 2017 6:38 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225723
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Ah, now we know why he seems so much crazier now than he did years ago - his intelligence is leaking!
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 2:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 777047
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
I think, out of the different websites I've posted this picture on, you're at least the third person to make this joke.Sglod wrote:Are you the old shirtless bloke in the background?
- Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:45 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 777047
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
nah mate the board used to prune everything, so the earliest stuff we have is 2010. why didn't you keep the pic? I didn't know I'd be looking for it over 7 and a half years later! And I lost a lot of files when my hard drive broke, which must have been around 2012 - I suspect it was on that. It's n...
- Sat Jan 30, 2016 3:37 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 777047
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
Hi, old user dropping in. Do any of the previous ZBB member photos threads still exist in any form? I was hoping to find an old picture of me that I'm certain I posted here - it would have been around June/July 2008.
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
A couple of nights ago, I had a dream that started out with me going to uni (note: in real life, I left uni over a year ago), and I was accompanied by May from Pokémon, who was apparently as old as me and had always walked to uni with me. Then, when I got to uni, I realised that May wasn't with me, ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:42 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
Wait... you could freely switch them? Why did you even do it in the first place?dunomapuka wrote:Later, a girl and I had switched genitals. We wanted to switch them back, but my dick was caught in her bathing suit. I looked for a discreet spot to make the switch, but we were standing on a public sidewalk.
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:22 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 148690
Re: I wish English had a word for this!
I've just found out about the Latin word sopio: a caricature of a man with a large penis, like in graffiti. It's something we see in everyday life but have no name for!
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:50 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
A couple of nights ago, I had a dream where I was on my way to uni, when I encountered two girls (one of which actually went to my old school, the other was an unidentified girl I seemed to know in my dream). They were asking why they couldn't get into a nearby school (that doesn't really exist - it...
- Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:18 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
Anybody else keep a dream diary by their bed? I've been keeping one for years now. I keep thinking of doing something with it, like writing things based on my dreams, but I've never got around to it. ---- At one point in my dream last night, I was in a cross between a bedroom and a changing room, a...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
I was at a bookshop, and decided to buy a book called "Gilbert & Sullivan" (for some reason, in my dream, I thought those were the names of the main characters of The X-Files ). When I started reading it, I realised large parts of it were the same as a Doctor Who book I'd read, and confirmed that th...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653609
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Same here, I think.adder wrote:There's /ɑ/ in <rather> for me. And /æ/ for all the rest.
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:18 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
Last night's dream followed one of the usual patterns I get - I'm in school, I've made a mistake and desperately need to correct it, but I'm finding it impossible to work out which way to go because the school is so maze-like - but the part of the dream I think is most notable is that, while trying ...
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653609
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Wow, I was thinking of contributing to this thread, but judging by the transcriptions here I can't go into anywhere near the expected level of detail... I guess I'll record my voice when I get the chance and just let anyone who's interested "analyse" it... Hey, don't be put off. Just give a phonemi...
- Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:01 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 653609
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Wow, I was thinking of contributing to this thread, but judging by the transcriptions here I can't go into anywhere near the expected level of detail... I guess I'll record my voice when I get the chance and just let anyone who's interested "analyse" it...
- Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:04 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
Umm... vanilla is a plant. "Milk" ice cream would likely be even blander.Soap wrote:I was taking a really long time deciding which three flavors of icecream to have on my cone, so they made me take 5 of them even though I only ate three. One of them was "milk" flavored, which I guess is vanilla.
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:06 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
There was a lot in my last dream, but the most notable points were my friend realising he had six fingers on his left hand, me realising my left glove also had six fingers, and a really dumb guy not understanding that the "make up" part of the phrase "kiss and make up" didn't refer to cosmetics.
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:27 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/envejecerseViktor77 wrote:I had a massive dream about the Spanish verb Envejecerse and how to spell it, especially the past participle for some reason. The only problem is I think Envejecer is never reflexive.
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:44 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The dream thread
- Replies: 1807
- Views: 317141
Re: The dream thread
So, at the start of this dream, I apparently had a "Best of Father Ted " DVD set. I was thinking about the fact that, if I had waited, I could've got a set containing every episode - apparently, that set was only released when the creator of the show (who was apparently Japanese) kept being asked wh...
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 3:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Multi-Person Possession in English
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7111
Re: Multi-Person Possession in English
Something like "the car that's mine and my sister's" sounds okay, or you could avoid the possessive altogether with "the car my sister and I have" (or "the car me and my sister have", but that's a different argument altogether).
- Mon Feb 21, 2011 9:01 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Answering negated polar questions in English
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6025
Re: Answering negated polar questions in English
A similar problem came up today for me, when a girl was clearly thinking about what she generally meant rather than what words she was saying. She picked up the chair next to me, and gestured as if to ask whether she could take it or not. However, what she said was "Is anyone sitting here?" - I repl...
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 4:55 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Blow-blue merger?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2110
Re: Blow-blue merger?
(Note to others: the OP is clearly talking about /phonemes/ here, despite the egregious misuse of [brackets].) Ah, now I understand why the responses were confusing me... I had misrembered the rules on that stuff. (But "gonna" almost sounds like ["gAn@].) I thought that's how Americans pronounced i...
- Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:54 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Blow-blue merger?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2110
Blow-blue merger?
Are there any accents of the English language pronounce [oU] as [u:], so that "blow" sounds like "blue"? Or does it restricted to certain words of some accents? I'm wondering because it seems to be happening at parts of this song by They Might Be Giants (lyrics here ) - it's noticeable in the word "...
- Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:15 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 437846
That's really good!ils wrote:I particularly recommend this one.
- Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:56 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 644169
- Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:04 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 644169