Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

Risla · Post by **Risla** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:08 am

Eight-year-old prank caller.
Great, now I can't stop laughing.

Post by **zompist** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:20 pm

ils wrote:And God, I hope this is an actual movie trailer.

Apparently so:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/

Xocotl · Post by **Xocotl** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:56 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/subway ... index.html
"Oh, Hanukkah. That's The Day The Jews Killed Jesus."

Post by **zompist** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:02 pm

Not sure if this has been posted... a living tableau of a Seurat painting:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldonliner/179379698/

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:35 pm

Xocotl wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/subway ... index.html
"Oh, Hanukkah. That's The Day The Jews Killed Jesus."

Things like this sicken me. All he said was a greeting.

Hate is such an old idea.

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:45 pm

Hokulani wrote:
Xocotl wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/subway ... index.html
"Oh, Hanukkah. That's The Day The Jews Killed Jesus."
Things like this sicken me. All he said was a greeting.

Hate is such an old idea.

This just proves those people were ignoramuses...

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:29 am

19th century porn!

Apparently, the internet has become so sex crazed that I cant even do an innocent Google search for pearls without pornography coming up.

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:39 am

Not funny at all, but perhaps of some interest to some ZBBers: Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's.

Hokulani wrote:19th century porn!

Apparently, the internet has become so sex crazed that I cant even do an innocent Google search for pearls without pornography coming up.

Well, Hokulani, what do you think the internet is for?

(some bad language)

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:44 pm

"AAAHH! What is that?"
"What what where where?"
"It was a weird fleshy thing that seemed to come up from between your legs"

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:33 am

Hokulani wrote:19th century porn!

Believe it or not, I've heard of this periodical. Actually I think it's dirtier than anything could be nowadays, since the language has more complex syntax, even if the content is now quite tame as things go nowadays. Goodness, what with the emphasis being on plain vanilla heterosexual vaginal sex, it's positively queynte.

Some Victorians would have been shocked at The Pearl.
Some Victorians would not have been shocked at The Pearl, but have been shocked that a young woman of your age who isn't a tart could easily read it.
And some Victorians would have found it quite exciting that you saw The Pearl, but would have drawn the wrong conclusions from it.

You know, if the ZBB made conlanging pornographic in some way, they could get a whole new audience for the hobby.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:39 am

Shm Jay wrote:You know, if the ZBB made conlanging pornographic in some way, they could get a whole new audience for the hobby.

I just had an image of Leumihatsan (main female character in my story, speaker of my conlang Thenqol) crying out to Louis (main male, lover (and after husband) of first) :

Kawkír! Kawkír! Kawkír!

Kaw-(kir)
I-(destination)
Do I need to translate?

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:18 pm

Shm Jay wrote:
Some Victorians would have been shocked at The Pearl.
Some Victorians would not have been shocked at The Pearl, but have been shocked that a young woman of your age who isn't a tart could easily read it.
And some Victorians would have found it quite exciting that you saw The Pearl, but would have drawn the wrong conclusions from it.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:01 pm

Hokulani wrote:

They would have assumed that you were "easy".

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:19 am

Easy?

As in, innocent, inexperienced or seduce-able?

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:24 am

Hokulani wrote:

Easy?

As in, innocent, inexperienced or seduce-able?

Probably

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:51 am

Hokulani wrote:seduce-able

Someone who will not be the slightest bit interested in protecting her virtue. Someone who is eager for sexual congress.
(The Victorian readers of the Pearl would have assumed from this you were lower-class.)

Goodness, has "easy" in that sense gone out of the English language?

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:04 am

Shm Jay wrote: Goodness, what with the emphasis being on plain vanilla heterosexual vaginal sex, it's positively queynte.

Now I'm shocked and surprised, Shm Jay. How did you learn what the term "plain vanilla" means in this context?

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:25 pm

Raphael wrote:Now I'm shocked and surprised, Shm Jay. How did you learn what the term "plain vanilla" means in this context?

From this board

Radius Solis · Post by **Radius Solis** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:38 pm

Shm Jay wrote: Goodness, has "easy" in that sense gone out of the English language?

Not entirely, but it's not universally understood anymore either (if it ever was). To me it sounds kinda quaint.

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:18 am

Here, on the other hand, is something that Shm Jay might actually like: Fecal transplants!

- · Post by - » Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:35 pm

Meet the Gomboc, the world's first self-righting object.

Those looking for holiday diversions should check out this handy reference for "non-Christmas" Christmas films.

A Flickr set of magnificient illustrations from the Czech children's book Naměsíc a ještě dál.

Great drinking stories from history.

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:17 pm

(Watch at your own risk)

Who said 17 was a good age to make decisions based on love?
They didnt have to kill her in public
Those animals even had the nerve to CAPTURE IT ALL ON THEIR CELLPHONES

Sometimes you just loose faith in humanity

MOD EDIT: Here's an idea: "Let's all not post snuff films!" Link removed. This is a family board, after all. Even Saturday didn't go that far.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:34 am

Hokulani wrote:(Watch at your own risk)

Who said 17 was a good age to make decisions based on love?
They didnt have to kill her in public
Those animals even had the nerve to CAPTURE IT ALL ON THEIR CELLPHONES

Sometimes you just loose faith in humanity

Sometimes, indeed. This is just horrible. The poor girl. I'd so open the door of my country to those people.

I still have some faith in humanity, but then again, this all depends on what we consider human... Some people don't have a wide definition of human beings...

Praesidium · Post by **Praesidium** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:01 am

Hokulani wrote:(Watch at your own risk)

Who said 17 was a good age to make decisions based on love?
They didnt have to kill her in public
Those animals even had the nerve to CAPTURE IT ALL ON THEIR CELLPHONES

Sometimes you just loose faith in humanity

Old. Also, it was apparently her brother who filmed it. Also, that guy's English is horrible.

http://buffalobeast.com/119/gordon.htm wrote: The girl, Du’a Khalil Aswad, allegedly converted from being Yazidi to the slightly less archaic religion of Islam. This set her family into a typically retarded religious fervor.

Du’a was dragged from her place of worship by nine male relatives and killed in the center of town as a large crowd of onlookers—including uniformed, armed, and indifferent Iraqi police—onlooked.
...
According to Tahsin Saeed Ali, head of the Supreme Yazidi Spiritual Council, “they brutally killed a young Yazidi girl in pursuit of out-of-date tribal rights.”
...
Speaking of Yazidis, who are considered devil-worshipers by their neighbors, over 400 of them got blown up in August by suicide bombers, a direct result of the Iraq-a-mole game we call the Surge.

MOD EDIT: Link removed, as above. Also, can we maybe hold the religious slurs? Describing Yazidi murderers as "typically retarded" is not on.