Yay, my thread had lots of lollish things said in it!
Xephyr wrote:
Viktor77 wrote:I never understood the comma as used in Europe. 2,30 cents? It looks like 2, and 30 cents. 2.30 cents makes so much more sense, even mathematically. And then you can't saying 1,555,555,54 cents as in one million...and fifty-four cents whereas 1555555,54 looks compacted but 1,555,555.54 looks just right.
Yeah, and like, what's up with kilometers? They're, like, confusing and stuff.
gsandi wrote:Still earlier, time was truly local, so 12 o'clock in Geneva may have been 12:05 in Lausanne, leading to even more confusion. Oh well, civilization progresses slowly but steadily, North America will no doubt get there too one day, together with quoting prices as they are, not as they are before taxes (my children's favourite peeve about Canada).
Xephyr wrote:Guys, really, Dewrad is right. Don't turn this into a discussion thread. I've seen it happen countless times: threads like this, that are used as repositories for quotes, lists, links, etc etc eventually get bogged down with people DISCUSSING said quotes, lists, links, etc etc that it gets to the point where people can hardly find them if they search through the thread. And so they stop using it, and the thread dies.
Seriously, try to keep a minimum of discussion past this line:
Kuro no Mori wrote:I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the US the most uttered series of sounds is either [f@k], [f@kiN], or [m@D3f@k3].
He forgot /SIt/
/SIt/ isn't funny. However, /fVkiNSIt/ is. Also see /fVkSItfVkSItfVkSIt/ and /SItfVk3/.
/bE3.fVk.3/! /du.ju.nid.@.sIs.tIns/?
After ordering a pint of his favorite ale, Robert was perplexed when the barmaid replied that the fishmonger was next door. The Great English Vowel Shift had begun.
snaka wrote:The night before I went into the ninth grade, I wished that when I woke up I'd magically be transported to some other world, where I would be found by a half-naked, slightly older elf archer boy, with whom I'd travel the world immeasurably, mutually in love for ten million years. At the end of said period, we'd merge into one being, physically die, then become a timeless benevolent spiritual entity.
Also: how to be more like Salmoneus.
Salmoneus wrote:I would suggest that to fulfill your secret wish you:
a) be less bitter and twisted;
b) read a lot more philosophy, particularly Wittgenstein;
and
c) be more left-wing.
Obviously, these three are really three ways of saying more or less the same thing.
Shm Jay wrote:Someone should dream up a conculture where young men and women are presented to each other, for the purposes of seeking mates, in shapeless garments that leave the genitals completely uncovered, but not the face, so that they will be attracted to each other’s genitals and not get distracted by the eyes or the face or the breasts.
They could have a proverb to justify this practice by saying "the eyes trick you, but the genitals know the truth".
Delthayre wrote:I would pity anyone with business on the 189th floor of the Burj Dubai and I would mourn them if any catastrophe should befall the structure, unless, of course, they have parachute stations on the upper floors.
Delthayre wrote:How fascist? I'm not sure. *looks out the window* Doesn't seem to be very much today. Better luck tomorrow.
It's well known that fascism only happens when it rains.
Made me chuckle.
"It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be said, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
– The Gospel of Thomas
And the Lord Jesus took dough, and tossed it, and made of it a circle. And he said, "this is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." Then he took marinara sauce, and spread it upon the bread saying, "this is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you eat of it, in remembrance of me."
