My folks REALLY want me to move out (I'm 18, not a crazy stay-at-home-mooch) so I'm officially shopping for an apartment, and I'd rather move to the place I've always wanted to live now then try to do in later in life when I'm strapped down. I figured I'd ask around here where I know/trust/like everybody enough to be more comfortable. But cool thanks. I don't play D'n'D though. I think Guru and company may remember what happened last time I tried.
Well, in any case, I'll know by about April where I'll be living for the next year as that's when I start finding out where (and if) I got accepted.
Edit: Just finished filling out most of my applications. Horrible times. One of them didn't go through at all so I'll have to try later, and one chose the day before they're due to say that it hadn't sent any of the recommendation letter requests that I put in two weeks before! Adgasdfsadfasdf...
Time to go play something that requires lots of killing of innocent squishy blobs.
Remember when I made Remolay eat the evil-death-plant? *teehee*
Remember when I talked you into running head first into a wall? Gotta love that high charisma and a DM who believes in allowing her players to take karma into their own hands.
Just heard from my Boyfriend that in England they are not allowed to say Merry Christmas they have to say Happy Holidays and they are not allowed to say Christmas Tree they have to say Holiday Tree because of the immigrants.
I seriously need to find that image from Japan of a store that displayed a crucified Santa when Christmas was first introduced to the country. I read about that store display in the context of how some countries just don't get certain concepts of Westernization, specifically commercialized religion.
I seriously need to find that image from Japan of a store that displayed a crucified Santa when Christmas was first introduced to the country. I read about that store display in the context of how some countries just don't get certain concepts of Westernization, specifically commercialized religion.
Contacted Android Marketplace support when my phone wouldn't let me install World of Goo because it didn't have sufficient space, which was a load of crap. So on their advice, when all else failed, I formatted my internal SD card. Absolutely no change. So now I get to wait to hear back from them to see what else, if anything, they want me to do, or if they'll give me a refund.
Just heard from my Boyfriend that in England they are not allowed to say Merry Christmas they have to say Happy Holidays and they are not allowed to say Christmas Tree they have to say Holiday Tree because of the immigrants.
Am I the only one who find that slightly stupid?
I say Merry Christmas all the time and all the Christmas ads here say Christmas and not holidays. But that PC "rule" isn't just here American Dad took the piss out of it as well. It's probably in every western country that has people who are waaay too sensitive.
Just heard from my Boyfriend that in England they are not allowed to say Merry Christmas they have to say Happy Holidays and they are not allowed to say Christmas Tree they have to say Holiday Tree because of the immigrants.
Am I the only one who find that slightly stupid?
I found it was the norm in the UK to say "Merry Christmas". But I haven't heard a SINGLE PERSON say it here in the US - it's always "happy holidays".
The whole thing really irritates me. Are people frightened of cultural diversity? Merry Christmas, clue is in the first word - if someone's wishing you a merry whatever, they probably have goodwill in mind. I'm certainly not going to get offended if someone wishes me a happy Hanukkah or a wonderful Divali.
Should a Westerner take it badly if their Chinese friend says "happy new year" in February? Would a despotic tyrant be annoyed to receive a card saying "happy human rights day"? (Ok maybe that last one is a bad example, but the general point stands.) Halloween has both Christian and pagan influences, is that supposed to be covered under "happy holidays" too?
Hey, have you ever noticed how similar the word "holiday" is to "holy day"? That's where it stems from! Oh shit, better start saying "happy period of general celebration and festivities".
Cultural diversity is something to be celebrated, not sterilized and homogenised and squeezed into one bland, generic little phrase. "Happy holidays" is bollocks.
In an awful turn of events I was called into work today. I had to get up early and drive through traffic. As oppossed to my normal routine of wakIng upended whenever I want and doing my work from home.
There's always Shock Art to fall back on, I guess.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to figure out what to buy my family on a budget of $50. That's not "per person." That's total. And I need 4 gifts minimum before I resort to conceptual bull crap that my art degree allows me to get away with.
Just heard from my Boyfriend that in England they are not allowed to say Merry Christmas they have to say Happy Holidays and they are not allowed to say Christmas Tree they have to say Holiday Tree because of the immigrants.
Am I the only one who find that slightly stupid?
As a British person, I can confirm that that's simply not the case. Although I did hear that some schools were teaching kids to sing "Bah Bah Rainbow Sheep" instad of "Black Sheep" to avoid racist undertones! Political correctness gone mad.
Not to mention you can't freaking delete videos you've already watched. Its showing me videos I watched a week ago, and I can't delete it, and its stuck on my page.
I still don't know why it happened. The winds, I mean, not the going to Berkeley. Luckily, I have two cousins who are meteorologists so maybe one of them can explain what the hell is going on.
This coursework is draining my energy away from me.
If it weren't for energy drinks I wouldn't be able to cope.
But it will be over soon, all this group work, and I'll be able to start work on the next stuff over christmas, which should be easier for me at least.
That being said though, the assignment I'm working on, is shaping up to be pretty fantastic really, considering that we've had to find out everything about the company and the industry they work in all from scratch, with no clues.
Even more so, when the other two people in my group are Swedish, and barely know anything at all about the UK.
If it wasn't for my ingenuity, spontinaity, and good old fashioned googling, they would have been stuck bigtime.
And we are a man down. This work is meant for 4 people, and we are only a 3.
I guess that made us work harder. We are always meeting up.
I like those two, great hard working lasses. Pretty too.
But man, you can tell this work is getting to them, probably more than its affecting me.
One of them was all snappy at me on Wednesday.
I am kind of annoying, since I can get sidetracked, and won't immediately type things up and add them in, (something that literally takes me like 5 mins to do at max, so I don't consider it to be a huge deal, when there is a lot of research to get done), and I felt like just telling her to back off and just have some faith, and let me roll the way I do, but I do realise the situation here, and I do appreciate that they really are worried, as the work is due in on Monday, but still, I'm doing the best I can do.
I got my individual element done yesterday, (we all have to do a 500 word newspaper article, and I spent ages getting the design as authentic as possible), so thats one less thing to worry about.
(I hope the girls have their parts done, but if not then thats not so bad, since we can finish of the group element, and just add that in over the weekend)
This should be done by Monday. At the worst I'll just take Saturday off, get up early, and finish it off myself, as there is not a huge amount left to do.
The big issue is the competition. Its hard to do. You see the company operates in a very small niche in the property development market, the higher end houses, appartments, and mansions. We are talking properties in the millions.
So far, I haven't found any other property developer specialising in that niche, and loads of regular proptery developers in the general market.
Its a big hurdle, and its one I'm struggling to get my head around, and the girls are getting mad at me for procrastinating in it, but I am for good reason, as we need to get it right.
Once its out of the way, we can do the rest no problem.
How come there's Mermaids and Mermen but never Mertransexuals?
Oh there probably are, but a sailor couldn't tell the difference.
(I mean they mistake manatees for them all the time, due to poor weather condition and health)
And even if they could there's no guarantee they'd ever tell anyone..
Well, The next Super Sentai series looks like it's going to borrow heavily from Power Rangers instead of the other way around.
It has the plot of Power Rangers RPM. A Device that's part Jungle Fury (While still being a wrist transformer) The device itself is the MorphinBrace. and their transformation call seems to be "It's Morphing Time"
Chris-Chan, The unauthorized biography by Comrade Pants has a nice ring to it, and I'd likely read it for some reason.
If one person would read it for novelty value, then it is well worth the effort. Who knows? There's a vague, outside chance you might like it. For it to be all legal, though, I'd have to get permission from the manchild himself - which seems unlikely - and even then, no major publishing house would touch it.
Well, The next Super Sentai series looks like it's going to borrow heavily from Power Rangers instead of the other way around.
It has the plot of Power Rangers RPM. A Device that's part Jungle Fury (While still being a wrist transformer) The device itself is the MorphinBrace. and their transformation call seems to be "It's Morphing Time"
This is going to be so awkward when they bring it over here.
Oh man! I love it how, despite me not being on a forum for most of a year, the people on there are still hating on me!
(I guess the forums are so dead, they need someone to poke fun at)
I thought I'd break off my self-imposed exile and say hi, (I was waiting until I had something of merit to show off before I'd post there again, but an opportunity like thats was irresistable! XD).
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Remember when I made Remolay eat the evil-death-plant? *teehee*
Well, in any case, I'll know by about April where I'll be living for the next year as that's when I start finding out where (and if) I got accepted.
Edit: Just finished filling out most of my applications. Horrible times. One of them didn't go through at all so I'll have to try later, and one chose the day before they're due to say that it hadn't sent any of the recommendation letter requests that I put in two weeks before! Adgasdfsadfasdf...
Time to go play something that requires lots of killing of innocent squishy blobs.
Remember when I talked you into running head first into a wall? Gotta love that high charisma and a DM who believes in allowing her players to take karma into their own hands.
Am I the only one who find that slightly stupid?
I guess I have no reason to go back to sleep.
Snopes figures this is unlikely.
Oh yeah. I believe we all learned a lesson there. Don't listen to the flame resistant grue.
People have joined and left the group, but I think you're the only one to have been kicked out.
I say Merry Christmas all the time and all the Christmas ads here say Christmas and not holidays. But that PC "rule" isn't just here American Dad took the piss out of it as well. It's probably in every western country that has people who are waaay too sensitive.
I found it was the norm in the UK to say "Merry Christmas". But I haven't heard a SINGLE PERSON say it here in the US - it's always "happy holidays".
The whole thing really irritates me. Are people frightened of cultural diversity? Merry Christmas, clue is in the first word - if someone's wishing you a merry whatever, they probably have goodwill in mind. I'm certainly not going to get offended if someone wishes me a happy Hanukkah or a wonderful Divali.
Should a Westerner take it badly if their Chinese friend says "happy new year" in February? Would a despotic tyrant be annoyed to receive a card saying "happy human rights day"? (Ok maybe that last one is a bad example, but the general point stands.) Halloween has both Christian and pagan influences, is that supposed to be covered under "happy holidays" too?
Hey, have you ever noticed how similar the word "holiday" is to "holy day"? That's where it stems from! Oh shit, better start saying "happy period of general celebration and festivities".
Cultural diversity is something to be celebrated, not sterilized and homogenised and squeezed into one bland, generic little phrase. "Happy holidays" is bollocks.
Put that stuff on the carpet has made them go beserk now.
(of course now they are avoiding the carpet and jumping around everywhere)
Cat needs to have a bath the first time in years. A bath with cat shampoo, then a comb once he's dry, and some fleas stuff on him.
I hope we get rid of the little buggers soon.
Heee.... Good times.
Good luck to you!
This game has name?
I don't think I was kicked out. I think everyone just killed me a whole bunch. And I could never find out when the next session was happening. xP
There's always Shock Art to fall back on, I guess.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to figure out what to buy my family on a budget of $50. That's not "per person." That's total. And I need 4 gifts minimum before I resort to conceptual bull crap that my art degree allows me to get away with.
As a British person, I can confirm that that's simply not the case. Although I did hear that some schools were teaching kids to sing "Bah Bah Rainbow Sheep" instad of "Black Sheep" to avoid racist undertones! Political correctness gone mad.
...Yeah, I was pretty confused, too.
God I don't even know where to begin.
Not to mention you can't freaking delete videos you've already watched. Its showing me videos I watched a week ago, and I can't delete it, and its stuck on my page.
"The true story of the adorable cub who overcame overwhelming odds to survive"... guess no one told Hulu that Knut died this year!
I still don't know why it happened. The winds, I mean, not the going to Berkeley. Luckily, I have two cousins who are meteorologists so maybe one of them can explain what the hell is going on.
This coursework is draining my energy away from me.
If it weren't for energy drinks I wouldn't be able to cope.
But it will be over soon, all this group work, and I'll be able to start work on the next stuff over christmas, which should be easier for me at least.
That being said though, the assignment I'm working on, is shaping up to be pretty fantastic really, considering that we've had to find out everything about the company and the industry they work in all from scratch, with no clues.
Even more so, when the other two people in my group are Swedish, and barely know anything at all about the UK.
If it wasn't for my ingenuity, spontinaity, and good old fashioned googling, they would have been stuck bigtime.
And we are a man down. This work is meant for 4 people, and we are only a 3.
I guess that made us work harder. We are always meeting up.
I like those two, great hard working lasses. Pretty too.
But man, you can tell this work is getting to them, probably more than its affecting me.
One of them was all snappy at me on Wednesday.
I am kind of annoying, since I can get sidetracked, and won't immediately type things up and add them in, (something that literally takes me like 5 mins to do at max, so I don't consider it to be a huge deal, when there is a lot of research to get done), and I felt like just telling her to back off and just have some faith, and let me roll the way I do, but I do realise the situation here, and I do appreciate that they really are worried, as the work is due in on Monday, but still, I'm doing the best I can do.
I got my individual element done yesterday, (we all have to do a 500 word newspaper article, and I spent ages getting the design as authentic as possible), so thats one less thing to worry about.
(I hope the girls have their parts done, but if not then thats not so bad, since we can finish of the group element, and just add that in over the weekend)
This should be done by Monday. At the worst I'll just take Saturday off, get up early, and finish it off myself, as there is not a huge amount left to do.
The big issue is the competition. Its hard to do. You see the company operates in a very small niche in the property development market, the higher end houses, appartments, and mansions. We are talking properties in the millions.
So far, I haven't found any other property developer specialising in that niche, and loads of regular proptery developers in the general market.
Its a big hurdle, and its one I'm struggling to get my head around, and the girls are getting mad at me for procrastinating in it, but I am for good reason, as we need to get it right.
Once its out of the way, we can do the rest no problem.
Chris-Chan, The unauthorized biography by Comrade Pants has a nice ring to it, and I'd likely read it for some reason.
Oh there probably are, but a sailor couldn't tell the difference.
(I mean they mistake manatees for them all the time, due to poor weather condition and health)
And even if they could there's no guarantee they'd ever tell anyone..
It has the plot of Power Rangers RPM. A Device that's part Jungle Fury (While still being a wrist transformer) The device itself is the MorphinBrace. and their transformation call seems to be "It's Morphing Time"
If one person would read it for novelty value, then it is well worth the effort. Who knows? There's a vague, outside chance you might like it. For it to be all legal, though, I'd have to get permission from the manchild himself - which seems unlikely - and even then, no major publishing house would touch it.
This is going to be so awkward when they bring it over here.
They should Sentai-ify it for laughs! XD
(I guess the forums are so dead, they need someone to poke fun at)
I thought I'd break off my self-imposed exile and say hi, (I was waiting until I had something of merit to show off before I'd post there again, but an opportunity like thats was irresistable! XD).
Now to watch the fallout! XD
I may just refuse to do it though, ignorance is bliss and all that. If work found out i'd be in the shit.
I'd read that, the chap needs some sort of neutral documentation. He's many things to many people, but he's certainly fascinating.