The Official ZBB Quote Thread

The Unseen · Post by **The Unseen** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:51 am

Shm Jay wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:
Wycoval wrote:It's the newest ~~~~fad~~~~
But what does it mean?

It doesn’t mean anything; it’s a fad. People don’t adopt fads because they mean something.

Pthug is an evil genius, so we ~~~best~~~ copy His Methods Of Doing Things.

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:18 pm

Shm Jay wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:
Wycoval wrote:It's the newest ~~~~fad~~~~
But what does it mean?

It doesn’t mean anything; it’s a fad. People don’t adopt fads because they mean something.

Ugh, orthographical dandruff...

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:23 pm

Some "FYI" about Junes sex on the "polyglottal telephone" thread takes an ugly turn:

rickardspaghetti wrote:
Junes wrote:By the way I'm male
Proove it.

Raluv wrote:Do you really want a picture of his dick that bad?

Nesescosac · Post by **Nesescosac** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:51 am

Jar Jar Binks wrote:
TomHChappell wrote:
Are you a script?
If so, are you open source?
If so, what is your licence?
Are you licenced under the GNU General Public License?

Are you licenced under the GNU Lesser General Public License?

Are you licenced under the Original BSD License?

Are you licenced under a BSD-Style Licence Without Advertising Clause?

Are you licenced under the MIT License?

Are you licenced under Other BSD-style Licence?

Are you licenced under the Apache Software License?

Are you licenced under the Mozilla Public License?

May I see your source code?

In what language were you written?
Were you written in Python?

Were you written in Perl?

Were you written in PHP?

Were you written in Java?

Were you written in Lisp?

Were you written in Scheme?

Were you written in Haskell?

Were you written in C#?

Were you written in C++?

Were you written in C99?

Were you written in Ada?

Were you written in BASIC?

Were you written in Pascal?

Were you written in COBOL?

Were you written in assembly?

Were you punched onto a stack of cards in machine code?

Were you entered into the computer in machine code using flip switches?
Regardless of your answers to my questions, please relay my congratulations to your author; you come remarkably close to resembling a person. But not quite close enough to pass the Turing test.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:08 pm

vampyre_smiles wrote:
Jose wrote:How bout someone tell me exactly what was said, since I'm on dial-up and can't use youtube? Pwease?
The link isn't to Youtube. It's to an article, which says specifically what he said and in what context.

LRN2INTARWEB

I know it's not original, but I really got a kick out of it.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:44 pm

Åge Kruger wrote:
Radius Solis wrote:Okay okay, calm down people, you do not need more than one thread to make fun of Jose in.
Yo, Shm! I'm happy for you, and imma let you finish, but ils had one of the best making fun of Jose threads of ALLTIME. Of ALLTIME.

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:36 pm

Io wrote:
Tarasoriku wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:What's an aspie?
This is Aspie: Hi Aspie!

Awwwwwww, Aspie's soooooooo cute!

Hehe.

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:06 pm

Qwynegold wrote:
Nortaneous wrote:^ Actually, I'd say Somali is more kitchen-sink than Ubykh.
Heh, it looks like someone's been throwing darts on the IPA chart.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:12 pm

Io wrote:What does the middle finger (山) stand for?

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:05 am

In that thread about discusting food:

Salmoneus wrote:mint sauce (or worse, mint jelly, a glowing concentrated radioactive substance that looks like the offchild of agar and kryptonite)

Nortaneous · Post by **Nortaneous** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:36 am

nebula wind phone wrote:(Also, I read "accusinative" as "accuisinartive." It's for possessors, direct objects, and shredding vegetables in a hurry.)

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:42 am

From the "Pthug reminds me of Mr Saturday" thread.

Carrot wrote:Pthug is like a refreshing fart in a room full of roses.

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:38 pm

From the Are these really called rolls?-thread:

TzirTzi wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:Huh, how weird. I thought it was as simple as buns where those roundish things and rolls were anything that had been rolled together, like cinnamon rolls.
Ah, the linguistic naïveté. The english dialects couldn't allow anything so simple and logical to survive.

linguoboy wrote:So, now are we all warmed up to tackle the definitions of "muffin" and "biscuit"?

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:51 am

jal wrote:
Io wrote:Now now, EVERYBODY do shut up on the flag nonsense or start a nother thread. Thanks!
Off-topicness starts to become a common topic here.

JAL

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:36 am

Salmoneus wrote:The UK, for instance, has great swathes of uninhabited wilderness inhabited by dragons and painted people (Scotland, Wales, the West, the North).

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:57 pm

Jose wrote:[12 rambling paragraphs along the lines of...]
Fuck, I am pissed. Now I am mindblowingly ticked off. First off, screw the fucking dictionary. I will never label someone a racist because they think african americans smell bad, or that mexicans are lazy, or that some race is something something. There is, at least to me, a BIG DIFFERENCE between racism and prejudice. Are they related, yes. But someone who is a racist is on a higher level of prejudice that someone who just doesn't take the time to learn about other cultures. Racists deserve hate and disrespect.

Followed by:

Nae wrote:I kinda skimmed your post, but it sounds like your basic problem is that you're racist.

Made me laugh.

Rui · Post by **Rui** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:34 pm

pharazon wrote:
Chibi wrote:
abeygail wrote:I have realised lately that Human contains "Man". I have been wondering if there are any totally gender neutral alternatives for Human besides person, which refers to a sapient being in general.

abeygail wrote:any totally gender neutral alternatives for Human besides person

abeygail wrote:person
What exactly is your issue with the word "person"? Why do we need an additional word if, as you already pointed out, one already exists?
person

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:54 pm

From the Russo-Georgian War thread.

Legion wrote:You know Mos, we people of Europe do not really care about Caucasus, because if we want a montainous region trapped between two seas and full of small countries of various ethnicities, who hate each others and have weird languages which are part of a linguistic union, topped with christian and muslim tensions and some turkic people, we already have the Balkans.

Qwynegold · Post by **Qwynegold** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:35 am

When things had been off-topic:

Wycoval wrote:And besides, this is L&L Museum. Shhhhh! You're being distracting to people looking at the exhibits.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:16 am

Åge Kruger wrote:Whenever I want to a learn a new language, I always ask myself "How will this change my relationship with the Swedish people?".

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:14 pm

Viktor77 wrote:
Io wrote:Io is the essense.
That sounded like some product gimick.

"Io is the best conditioner for soft silky hair...its essence is pure"
-Beauty Weekly

jmcd · Post by **jmcd** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:11 am

Viktor77 wrote:
Åge Kruger wrote:Whenever I want to a learn a new language, I always ask myself "How will this change my relationship with the Swedish people?".

That seems out of context to me. Whole Quote:

Åge Kruger wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:Learn Danish and no Swede will understand you.
Learn Swedish and every Swede will correct you.
Learn Norwegian and every Swede will love you.
Whenever I want to a learn a new language, I always ask myself "How will this change my relationship with the Swedish people?".

Arzena · Post by **Arzena** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:37 pm

On differing perceptions of time:

TomHChappell wrote:
FinalZera wrote:While reading my multicultural communication book the other day, I came across something that still leaves me feeling uneasy and somewhat duped. I can't find the exact page, so I'll recite it from memory. Basically, it said that people in the US and The West are very oriented to short periods of time, while those in China and the East are very oriented to long periods of time. It then stated that an example of this thinking is exemplified by how the Western Zodiac splits the year into 12 smaller parts, while the Eastern Zodiac splits many years into parts. The point being that the Western parts are smaller than the Eastern parts, thus showing their preference to short and long periods of time respectively. Thoughts?
Not even Native Americans are homogeneous that way.
For some, the effects of current decisions fifty years from now, is an everyday part of their discussion and consideration.
For others, tomorrow is too far away to worry about.
And that's only if the individuals concerned were raised in their tribes' cultures and are typical for them.

Western particle physicists look at nanoseconds, picoseconds, femtoseconds, attoseconds, etc. (So do Eastern ones.)
Western palaeontologists look at millenia, megayears, eons, and so on. (And so do Eastern ones.)
Western cosmologists and astrophysicists look at eons (the Big Bang is eons in the past), at trillions of years (the heat-death of the universe is that far in the future), and at Planck times (between 10^-44 and 10^-42 seconds). (So do the Eastern cosmogonists and astrophysicists.)

Serali · Post by **Serali** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:49 pm

Aspie is adorable!

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:29 am

Serali wrote:Aspie is adorable!

Is Aspie available in plush?