PNWI Community Thread version 3.0 (KEEP REFRIGERATED AT ALL TIMES)

[dustindow]

Hehe, yeah. He sounds like a bored MySpace user.

or emo myspace user. Emo myspace user reading out loud the Manifesto!:amaze:

*picture*

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

sometimes I post in
haiku but I swear it's an
accident. I lied

haiku doesn't just mean moving the lie splits you know ;)

[coheneran]

sometimes I post in
haiku but I swear it's an
accident. I lied

Where was the seasonal reference?

[Amit]

This'll keep Amit's attention for a while:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgFzT0k8HP0

3 incredible guitarists, but Paco De Lucia is the best of the three.

hehe already seen it longg time ago

guitar trio rules but paco is obviously second best

[Hababi]

hehe already seen it longg time ago

guitar trio rules but paco is obviously second best

McLaughlin isn't even playing right:smash:

wtf is he using a pick for? It's finger style music. McLaughlin's just like the ultimate fan boy getting to play along side the master.

[Amit]

umm al di meola is using a pick too

the other two most famous acoustic guitar groups, the super guitar trio and strunz & farah, also use picks

way to drop the ball on that one

and paco said many times in interviews that he felt very intimidated by mclaughlin and di meola's prowess in soloing

[Hababi]

umm al di meola is using a pick too

Yeah and he shouldn't be either :p


and paco said many times in interviews that he felt very intimidated by mclaughlin and di meola's prowess in soloing

Yeah that's called humility :p It's like when a great boxer faces a good but lesser boxer but still compliments his opponent. "Yeah he's tough it's gonna be a good challenge yadda yadda" knockout. Paco busts out runs superior to those like he's strumming a C chord.

[Amit]

no

go analyze paco's solos and you can tell he comes from an environment where improvisation is not at all prevalent or emphasized (flamenco)

there is a reason why john is always panned center in the guitar trio albums

with his experience in both flamenco and jazz he helps keep the group together

[coheneran]

Lol, Woody Guthrie's better.

[Hababi]

no

go analyze paco's solos and you can tell he comes from an environment where improvisation is not at all prevalent or emphasized (flamenco)

there is a reason why john is always panned center in the guitar trio albums

with his experience in both flamenco and jazz he helps keep the group together

We're not talking about improv:smash:

A pick makes the sound one dimensional; fingerstyle adds a greater array of textures to the sound.

In this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZrB_FDw4c&mode=related&search=
Di Meola has the most developed solo's, Paco is second and McLaughlin's third.

[Reaganista]

Where was the seasonal reference?
you appear to have
confused haiku with something
else. that it is not

[coheneran]

you appear to have
confused haiku with something
else. that it is not

You're missing the kigo, the word which indicates what season the haiku is set in. A good haiku is supposed to show a daily, sometimes mundane, situation in a new and interesting way. People nowadays write haikus in a second, it takes a lot longer to complete one.

The icicle broke off
And the skin on my hand burned
Though the red blood rushed

Textbook examples are usually like this one.

[Reaganista]

A good haiku is
supposed to be written in
japanese. So what?

[Amit]

We're not talking about improv:smash:

but you are in the next next sentence of your post

A pick makes the sound one dimensional; fingerstyle adds a greater array of textures to the sound.

fingerstyle adds a greater array of notes (maybe that is what you mean by textures?)

but

since paco solos in monophony just like di meola and mclaughlin (and it is very difficult to improvise in polyphony), whatever advantage you think he has is negated

anyway since mclaughlin has done lots of shows where he is the only chordal instrument i think he can accompany quite well even with just a pick even though it is a limiting method for people who suck (but mclaughlin doesn't)

In this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZrB_FDw4c&mode=related&search=
Di Meola has the most developed solo's, Paco is second and McLaughlin's third.

umm that's because it is di meola's song

and di meola's soloing is sooooo boringgg until the mid 90's all he does is diatonic scale runssssss

[coheneran]

A good haiku is
supposed to be written in
japanese. So what?

:lol: No, good poetry can be in any language, but a haiku not only uses a particular structure, it also follows particular techniques and poetic devices.

[Reaganista]

english has a lot
of one syllable words that
have a wide meaning

[Hababi]

fingerstyle adds a greater array of notes (maybe that is what you mean by textures?)

Not just notes (but you're correct about that) but also in the quality of the note. Pick all you can do is hard or soft, basically. With finger style you have a much greater control over the sound of the note itself. There are really no advantages to the pick except that it's, erm, easier to start with.


since paco solos in monophony just like di meola and mclaughlin (and it is very difficult to improvise in polyphony), whatever advantage you think he has is negated

Fingerstyle always has the potential to be faster and cleaner than with the pick. It's just the simple physics of the instrument.



and di meola's soloing is sooooo boringgg until the mid 90's all he does is diatonic scale runssssss

Di Meola is still the weakest of the three guitarists there (his solo at the beginning of the first one was off).

[Amit]

Not just notes (but you're correct about that) but also in the quality of the note. Pick all you can do is hard or soft, basically. With finger style you have a much greater control over the sound of the note itself. There are really no advantages to the pick except that it's, erm, easier to start with.

Fingerstyle always has the potential to be faster and cleaner than with the pick. It's just the simple physics of the instrument.

i know but that only applies to classical guitarists; flamenco guitarists are good but nowhere near the league of classical guitarists

but funny how guitarists like john mclaughlin and al di meola have always been and still are in demand

you have to think about the context in which the method is being played in

Di Meola is still the weakest of the three guitarists there (his solo at the beginning of the first one was off).

no duhhhh

[Hababi]

but funny how guitarists like john mclaughlin and al di meola have always been and still are in demand


What do you mean by in demand? More popular? Sure because their genre's are more popular. McLaughlin helps this by playing in different genre's. But in demand doesn't really mean that much, it just references the level of commercial potential for the music. If flamenco was mad popular then Paco would be really in demand.


you have to think about the context in which the method is being played in


Ok not bad but I personally prefer flamenco :p Plus when you throw in some of the more advanced flamenco techniques (which can in no way be done using a pick), flamenco is by no means a simple style.


no duhhhh

Hey I thought you'd argue that :p I guess you're not the Di Meola fanboy I thought you were :(

[Iskandar]

:lol: No, good poetry can be in any language, but a haiku not only uses a particular structure, it also follows particular techniques and poetic devices.
But haiku is suited better to Japanese. Japanese doesn't arrange words by what we think of as syllables (a couple of consonants and a vowel); they use units of time (morai). The structure of haiku is determined by the number of morai in a line, not syllables.

(I think I went over this a ways back in this thread.)

[coheneran]

english has a lot
of one syllable words that
have a wide meaning

OK, the season word here is obviously "english", meaning the rainy season, late winter, I would say. "One" has a connotation of loneliness to it, and of bravery. In this analysis I will go with the former, since it brings up dark feelings, and for me, so does winter. I'm bored with this.

[Amit]

What do you mean by in demand? More popular? Sure because their genre's are more popular. McLaughlin helps this by playing in different genre's. But in demand doesn't really mean that much, it just references the level of commercial potential for the music.

i mean

despite playing with picks they are still the two most dominating names in jazz/world fusion guitar

so whether one plays with picks or not is kind of irrelevant for their context

If flamenco was mad popular then Paco would be really in demand.

umm he is

flamenco is much more popular than fusion

Ok not bad but I personally prefer flamenco :p Plus when you throw in some of the more advanced flamenco techniques (which can in no way be done using a pick), flamenco is by no means a simple style.

i never said flamenco was a simple style

i went through my flamenco phase and even to this day i am still influenced by their acousticultural tendencies

Hey I thought you'd argue that :p I guess you're not the Di Meola fanboy I thought you were :(

i love di meola's later stuff but almost all of his early playing is garbage

[Hababi]

i never said flamenco was a simple style


Yeah that was Aria who was stupid enough to say that :p

*browsed through the old flamenco threads*

[Reaganista]

flamingo is a pretty simple style, really

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

a haiku would be like

Mozilla firefox
Browsing goes much more smoothly
Install it now please

which is what i sent to the it techs at school

you see that each line is distinct

[coheneran]

A poem with a 5-7-5 structure is not a haiku, it's just a short poem. A haiku uses particular poetic devices and images.

[Iskandar]

A poem with a 5-7-5 structure is not a haiku, it's just a short poem. A haiku uses particular poetic devices and images.
And as I explained a few posts ago, has a structure based on time, not syllables.:)

[coheneran]

In 1904, whatshisface came up with the most accurate way to translate accurately a haiku from Japanese into English, keeping the same rhythm and pace in the translation. It was the 5-7-5 structure. I think.

[dustindow]

Could Dr.Suess be poetry?

[coheneran]

Dr. Suess is poetry.:p

[dustindow]

So inspirational...

[coheneran]

And so concise in tackling the problems of the youth of today. I once found myself walking down a bloffet late at night, and this coffet came out at me and started sclabbering. This traumatized me no end, until I read some of his poems, and now no amount of sascreelatechious briphopany can scare me.

I take too much acid.:upset:

[RockAndRoll]

You guys ruin fun
You are pedantic assholes
stop it now poo face

Let the people haiku how they want to haiku

[coheneran]

There once was a woman from China...

[PerpetualBurn]

A poem with a 5-7-5 structure is not a haiku, it's just a short poem. A haiku uses particular poetic devices and images.

It's important in poetry to understand things like this. It is also important to realise that you can apply poetic structures to your own works, in your own way.

[coheneran]

It's important in poetry to understand things like this. It is also important to realise that you can apply poetic structures to your own works, in your own way.

Of course you can, but don't go around calling them haikus. I can start a martial art where you dress in white and wear different coloured belts depending on your level of prowess, but if it doesn't use the same form and philosophy of karate, it's not karate is it?:p

[PerpetualBurn]

Well it would be a haiku since that is the basis of the meter.

It would just be your own take on it, which is kind of the point of poetry.

[Iskandar]

In 1904, whatshisface came up with the most accurate way to translate accurately a haiku from Japanese into English, keeping the same rhythm and pace in the translation. It was the 5-7-5 structure. I think.
Yeah, but it's not the same.:-/

[coheneran]

Yeah, but it's not the same.:-/

It's as close as it gets. Deal with it.:p

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

And so concise in tackling the problems of the youth of today. I once found myself walking down a bloffet late at night, and this coffet came out at me and started sclabbering. This traumatized me no end, until I read some of his poems, and now no amount of sascreelatechious briphopany can scare me.

I take too much acid.:upset:

Dude i know the feeling

my mum was all like "green eggs and ham ok for dinnner?" and i didn't know how to tell her

[dustindow]

Dude i know the feeling

my mum was all like "green eggs and ham ok for dinnner?" and i didn't know how to tell her

shwa?

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

shwa?

I do not like them in a train! I do not like them in the rain!
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am! I do not like green eggs and ham!

[Lydisk]

ham aint bad

[coheneran]

I think it would have been awesome if Dr. Seuss had rewritten the Manifesto.

I do not like the bourgeoisie, this relationship oppresses me!
I do not like it in the fields! I do not like it in the mills!
I do not like this, not at all! Workers unite, we'll make the call!

[siva_chair]

Atman/eggo and Serenity/ect.: I can't believe you guys are arguing over who is better out of those three. They all ****ing rule and that is all that really needs to be said about that.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

I think it would have been awesome if Dr. Seuss had rewritten the Manifesto.

I do not like the bourgeoisie, this relationship oppresses me!
I do not like it in the fields! I do not like it in the mills!
I do not like this, not at all! Workers unite, we'll make the call!


Dude, if someone had read me that aged 4 I'd be you right now

SO AWESOME

[coheneran]

I might look into doing this for my final project in A-Level literature.

[PerpetualBurn]

I should've done A-level Literature. I would've pissed my way through the course. Plus my school always read A Clockwork Orange, which kicks ***.

[coheneran]

What did you take instead? GNVQ Golf Course Maintenance?

[PerpetualBurn]

Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Maths.

I dropped physics after AS.

Edit: And how could I forget General Studies.

[coheneran]

I can't stand the sciences. Numbers and abbreviations are not a language I can work with.

[PerpetualBurn]

I didn't enjoy them much. But then I only did A-levels to get to Uni, so I think I'd have hated anything I took. Just in retrospect I would've hated English Language and Literature less, and probably could've got the grades much easier.

[Hababi]

Here's one for Amit (and the rest of you): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfz_xhkTmro

Incredible fingerstyle guitar.

[Reaganista]

guitar sucks
post somebody playing kazoo

[PerpetualBurn]

I'm all about harmonica beat boxing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mqM5EWoXBak

[siva_chair]

Here's one for Amit (and the rest of you): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfz_xhkTmro

Incredible fingerstyle guitar.

Yeah, Tuck isn't human. I think he is an alien. You should see one of his instructional videos.

Here is another alien IMO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXN3OLgoqs

[Reaganista]

youtube is so weird

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zPKAAy9anw0&mode=related&search=

[PerpetualBurn]

Oh my god. Cannon in drop d on the kazoo.

[Reaganista]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1B5O7pq9184&mode=related&search=

much better than stupid ****ing guitars

[Amit]

Atman/eggo and Serenity/ect.: I can't believe you guys are arguing over who is better out of those three. They all ****ing rule and that is all that really needs to be said about that.

yeah they all rule

but john mclaughlin is easily the most capable improviser in the group

[siva_chair]

yeah they all rule

but john mclaughlin is easily the most capable improviser in the group

Well I would probably agree with you on that point, but I didn't know we were comparing within a specific field of guitar playing. I thought we were talking about general guitar playing, which I must say I think comparing the three is frivolous and pointless as they have all transcended such comparisons.

[coheneran]

None of those videos were any good but the Led Zeppelin one, which managed to keep me entranced for about 5 minutes. Now this is quality youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niSNEUaffGo

[dustindow]

I just saw Tool for the first time tonight........Amazing.

[(*The Noonward Race*)]

AP -- San Francisco

Astronomers at the local observatory have made a startling discovery. While scanning the outer reaches of the Solar System they happened upon an object that had not been seen in that sector before. The astronomers frantically reviewed the available data and confirmed that this was, indeed, a new object.

Further observations showed that the object was a meteor currently habitating the Kuiper belt. They monitored its movements over the next few weeks and have determined that this object could pose a potential threat to the Earth. It's trajectory puts it on a course to intersect with the Earth's orbit around the sun. The question is, whether or not it will actually impact the Earth itself.

Closer observations of the object have shown it to be of a long, cylindrical, tubular shape. Also, the rock substrate that it is made of seems to reflect the reddish spectrum of light that shines upon it. As such, the astronomers have unofficially dubbed this object, the Oscar-Meyer-23.

The Astronomers will continue to monitor OM-23's progress over the coming weeks. They warn that they will not know for sometime if this object poses any actual threat or not. They estimate that the object will cross into the Earth's orbital path in 5 years.

[YDtoad]

Oh man I got banned, first time in a few years :(

I feel so violated

[Futue te Ipsum]

yeah, these new "you actually get banned now!" rules suck. 4 days ban for a 4 letter post. :(

[YDtoad]

At least mine was only one day :D

[Futue te Ipsum]

was yours a one letter word?

[YDtoad]

Nope, spam thread :(

YD didn't ban me till I started annoying him on AIM, though :p

[PerpetualBurn]

I've never been banned for anything. But that's because I'm so awesome that I'm allowed to call people idiots all day long without fear of retribution.

[Iskandar]

Let's impersonate other members of this forum:

"im a jackass who hates eurocommie scum and punctutucation"

[PerpetualBurn]

When you think as a thinker not as the thought you think you perceive, wholeness is divided into a fragmentation of honesty. This creates an impossibility of the thinker to think as a fully aware observer and observation becomes secondary to division. Such division is incapable of perceiving the constant flux that is reality.

Also, all the fundamental tenets of science can be misinterpreted by me because I'm a moron.

This post only makes sense in ancient Japanese because the translation is not the translated.

[Reaganista]

hey guys I'm an oppressed canadian

I mean, I have all the necessities of life, many luxuries and freedom that very few in human history have ever realized

but the other day I saw a guy driving a brand new Mercedes

and I got really jealous so I figured we should have a revolution

[coheneran]

hey guys I'm an oppressed canadian

I mean, I have all the necessities of life, many luxuries and freedom that very few in human history have ever realized

Lol, when I was a kid they taught us sharing. Guess that doesn't apply in capitalism though...

[PerpetualBurn]

They taught me to share.

They also taught me that my lunch money was for my lunch and not the rest of the school.

[coheneran]

I bet if all the kids in the school put their lunch money together, they could buy surplus rice and vegetables and make a massive stew to last them a good few days. Or, knowing English kids, they could buy a surplus of potatoes and make lots of chips.

[PerpetualBurn]

Us Northern boys had chips and gravy with a pint of bitter every day for 36 years before we were old enough to leave the pits and go to school.

[coheneran]

Lol, you push the Northern lads joke too far.:p

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

you're just jealous because up north, men don't use moisturiser

just don't tell andy i use conditioner, ok? he'd bully me :(

[coheneran]

Lol, I don't use conditioner either, mine is silky smooth by nature. London is better.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

Lol, I don't use conditioner either, mine is silky smooth by nature. London is better.

yeah that's not what your mum said




when i asked her if your hair was silky smooth


that time when i spoke to her




maybe?

[PerpetualBurn]

What Northern jokes?

Today alone I worked 25 hours down the pits.

[Iskandar]

hey guys I'm an oppressed canadian

I mean, I have all the necessities of life, many luxuries and freedom that very few in human history have ever realized

but the other day I saw a guy driving a brand new Mercedes

and I got really jealous so I figured we should have a revolution
See? I knew you had a sense of humour somewhere.

I'll try another one:

What makes this sociofinanical geopolitical analysis patently absurd is the occlusion of overarching portfolio real-time exigency demonstrata. Only one who has, as I blatantly have, exhaustingly studied the inextracabilities of globalopolitifinancial return policy could possible comprehend the inequipability of the aforementioned absurdity.

[coheneran]

See? I knew you had a sense of humour somewhere.

I'll try another one:

What makes this sociofinanical geopolitical analysis patently absurd is the occlusion of overarching portfolio real-time exigency demonstrata. Only one who has, as I blatantly have, exhaustingly studied the inextracabilities of globalopolitifinancial return policy could possible comprehend the inequipability of the aforementioned absurdity.

I understand. In Dragonball Z when Frieza is trying to become a supersega (or whatever they were called) and the Dragonballs are collected by Gohan and Piccollo dies protecting him, that's like the occlusion of overarching portfolio real-time exigency demonstrata.

[Iskandar]

I understand. In Dragonball Z when Frieza is trying to become a supersega (or whatever they were called) and the Dragonballs are collected by Gohan and Piccollo dies protecting him, that's like the occlusion of overarching portfolio real-time exigency demonstrata.
You can't impersonate yourself!:p

[coheneran]

I have no idea what you said and I'm too tired to check the dictionary.:upset:

[Iskandar]

I have no idea what you said and I'm too tired to check the dictionary.:upset:
You mean all that crap about sociofinancial exigencies? I was impersonating Zoroaster.:p Half of the words are real (I have a pretty good vocabulary from wide reading) but a lot are just arbitrary compounds of root words.

Try impersonating another PNWI denizen; it's fun:)

[Reaganista]

I love arbitrary compounds of root words

[coheneran]

I love arbitrary compounds of root words

Lol, Canadian commies just got pwned.

I think this could turn out X way, though keeping in mind some obscure piece of history concerned with this topic, it could also turn out Y. The chances it will turn out Z are unlikely. I feel pretty strongly about this subject, but not too much so that I will seem radical. I am a moderate! Sometimes I lean to the left, sometimes I lean to the right, but I am a moderate!

That was crap, can you guess who it was?

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

This thread is more ridiculous than the theory of evolution

guess who

[coheneran]

DBoon!

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

no!

even more ignorant!

[thedeadwalk!]

Voluminous Flush.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

you win!!

/wonders what an impression of me might look like

[Lydisk]

This thread is more ridiculous than the theory of evolution

guess who

you dont believe in it?

[thedeadwalk!]

He was impersonating another MXer.

[Lydisk]

ok

i have a friend who believes that all evolution was planned

kinda funny

[Amit]

ooo ooo someone impersonate me

[Lydisk]

ooo ooo someone impersonate me

lolz i r brown

johnmclaughlin

eh did i forget to say johnmclaughlin

lol fusion and psytrance ftw

mclaughlin

lol i go to fancy school

india and stuff lol gotta play dem tablas and bansuri ftw

--

that was a pretty bad one

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

ooo ooo someone impersonate me

yeah ok but seriously, brown men ftw

Yeah but the theory of evolution is clearly flawed... humans are perfect for their purpose

only brown men

lets nuke iran

no rly lets not

Anyway capitalism doesn't allow people to go up the ladder

yes it does... my parents started out with hardly nothing and now i am not only a smart, handsome med student, I'm also brown

[PerpetualBurn]

A woman walked into a bar and asked for a double entendre.

So the bartender gave her one.

[Reaganista]

hahaha

[Iskandar]

Lol, Canadian commies just got pwned.
Beh, not really. I wasn't particularly insulted.

I think this could turn out X way, though keeping in mind some obscure piece of history concerned with this topic, it could also turn out Y. The chances it will turn out Z are unlikely. I feel pretty strongly about this subject, but not too much so that I will seem radical. I am a moderate! Sometimes I lean to the left, sometimes I lean to the right, but I am a moderate!

That was crap, can you guess who it was?
... Smokey D? Maybe Atomic Rain/Moaner guy?

[coheneran]

Beh, not really. I wasn't particularly insulted.


... Smokey D? Maybe Atomic Rain/Moaner guy?

At first, I had a plan for it, and it was gonna be awesome. Then my mind wandered and when it came back I couldn't remember what I was gonna right, just that it was gonna be awesome. That's exactly how I got a C in my literature exam instead of an A. It was s'posed to be Med.

[Amit]

yeah ok but seriously, brown men ftw



only brown men



no rly lets not



yes it does... my parents started out with hardly nothing and now i am not only a smart, handsome med student, I'm also brown

:lol:

[coheneran]

I wanna see this film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM

[Amit]

sounds really cool

[PerpetualBurn]

The American (and other developed countries) government know less about the fuel reserves and level of expenditure than the general public. Obviously.

Edit: "We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler

Why are people too stupid to use the word literally properly?
This quote would mean he was ACTUALLY ENCASED IN CEMENT.
What a retard.
Unless he's actually encased in cement, but then the interviewer should probably stop trying to get a soundbyte and help him out.

[coheneran]

The American (and other developed countries) government know less about the fuel reserves and level of expenditure than the general public. Obviously.

Edit: "We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler

Why are people too stupid to use the word literally properly?
This quote would mean he was ACTUALLY ENCASED IN CEMENT.
What a retard.
Unless he's actually encased in cement, but then the interviewer should probably stop trying to get a soundbyte and help him out.

I think he probably meant to say "We're literally stuck up a cement cul-de-sac in an SUV without a fill-up." That would make more literal sense.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

The American (and other developed countries) government know less about the fuel reserves and level of expenditure than the general public. Obviously.

Edit: "We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler

Why are people too stupid to use the word literally properly?
This quote would mean he was ACTUALLY ENCASED IN CEMENT.
What a retard.
Unless he's actually encased in cement, but then the interviewer should probably stop trying to get a soundbyte and help him out.

List of words that should not allowed ot be said by anyone who hasn't planned the sentence in advance:

Ironic
Literally

[PerpetualBurn]

I think he probably meant to say "We're literally stuck up a cement cul-de-sac in an SUV without a fill-up." That would make more literal sense.

You can't precede an obviously exagerrated phrase with "literally".

He wasn't in an SUV without a fill-up, stuck in a cement cul-de-sac. It was just a metaphor, so he shouldn't say literally.

It would be like saying "He literally let the cat out of the bag". That would mean that he had a bag. And the cat was in the bag. And he then let it out. You just can't abuse the word literally that way.

Conversely, it would be similar to if I said "I'm metaphorically using the internet". When I'm literally using the internet.

[coheneran]

You can't precede an obviously exagerrated phrase with "literally".

He wasn't in an SUV without a fill-up, stuck in a cement cul-de-sac. It was just a metaphor, so he shouldn't say literally.

It would be like saying "He literally let the cat out of the bag". That would mean that he had a bag. And the cat was in the bag. And he then let it out. You just can't abuse the word literally that way.

Conversely, it would be similar to if I said "I'm metaphorically using the internet". When I'm literally using the internet.

Fair enough. That's quite ironic dude, lit'rally.

/Irony and literalism, pwned :p

[PerpetualBurn]

It's one of those things that really grates on me.

Like the current trend of people using "then" instead of "than".

[coheneran]

Yeah, that's just bad spelling though, nothing to do with not knowing the meaning of words. Like when people say "Give the dog it's ball" instead of "its ball."

[PerpetualBurn]

Ugh.

So many people fail at apostrophes it's painful.

[coheneran]

Yeah. I feel so ashamed when I accidentally forget to put one in, or not put one in.

[PerpetualBurn]

Typos happen. It's when you read something and realise that the person has absolutely no idea how to use apostrophes properly. Sticking them in plurals and the likes.

[coheneran]

In more interesting news, I've just managed to successfully capo my guitar using a bandana, thus saving a tenner (or however much capos cost).

[PerpetualBurn]

That sounds like it must've been as easy and convenient as using a capo.

Now make a bottle neck slide and you're set.

[coheneran]

What's a bottleneck slide?

I use an acoustic guitar and play folk music (apart from the occasional Highway To Hell). Actually, it was pretty convenient (though I've never used a real capo), I just tied it in a real tight knot on the second fret. I don't know how handy it'd be if I ever wanted to capo the 6th fret, or something wider.

[PerpetualBurn]

A slide made from a bottle neck, surprisingly.

[coheneran]

What's a slide used for?

Is it one of those metal tube dealies you stick on your finger?

[PerpetualBurn]

Metal, glass, or ceramic. Traditionally people would cut/break the end off of a bottle and use it as a glass slide.

You only need to touch the strings rather than fret them, and it gives a really rich harmonic sound. Like, for more obvious examples, if you've ever heard RHCP's (whom I hate) Scar Tissue. the solo on that uses a slide.

[coheneran]

You hate the Chilis?! Wait, do you hate them before Hillel died as well? Don't you like their funkcore stuff?

[PerpetualBurn]

Meh.

They just bore me.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

bah! you call that slide?


I play you some muddy waters or robert johnson

then you find out what a slide is for

[Amit]

or listen to some veena playing

thats what a slide really is for

[PerpetualBurn]

I was just using an example I knew he'd almost certainly have heard.

I have the entire works of Robert Johnson.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

There's a hellhound on my trail!


I too have the full works. This is because he only ever went recording twice! You can fit his entire work on 2 discs.

I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE SAID DISCS

[PerpetualBurn]

As do I.

[Iskandar]

At first, I had a plan for it, and it was gonna be awesome. Then my mind wandered and when it came back I couldn't remember what I was gonna right, just that it was gonna be awesome. That's exactly how I got a C in my literature exam instead of an A. It was s'posed to be Med.
Ah, I see it now. The whole X/Y dichotomy has become a part of him.

[Hababi]

Hey Amit, what disorders cause random jerky head movements? I was sitting next to a girl on the bus today, and she was making all these weird head jerkings and the such. It wouldn't be Parkinson's, because she wasn't really shaking as Parkinson's people do...She was kinda hot so I thought about striking up a conversation (though I didn't have much of a lead in besides offering her a Christian Science Monitor or something lame like that, and then she'd probably think I was a Christian scientist trying to convert her or something :lol: ), but I was a bit wary of the whole head movements thing...and so I ended up not saying anything. I figure it's something neurological :cool:

[Iskandar]

Hey Amit, what disorders cause random jerky head movements? I was sitting next to a girl on the bus today, and she was making all these weird head jerkings and the such. It wouldn't be Parkinson's, because she wasn't really shaking as Parkinson's people do...She was kinda hot so I thought about striking up a conversation (though I didn't have much of a lead in besides offering her a Christian Science Monitor or something lame like that, and then she'd probably think I was a Christian scientist trying to convert her or something :lol: ), but I was a bit wary of the whole head movements thing...and so I ended up not saying anything. I figure it's something neurological :cool:


Whoa! Deadly Sin of lust!

[Hababi]

Whoa! Deadly Sin of lust!

:lol: Hey there's a fine line between interest and lust:naughty: .

and I didn't cross it :cool:

[Iskandar]

:lol: Hey there's a fine line between interest and lust:naughty: .

and I didn't cross it :cool:
Ah, but did you cross yourself?:p

(Life's so much simpler without sins.)

[Hababi]

Ah, but did you cross yourself?:p

(Life's so much simpler without sins.)

Jesus Himself coulda been standing next to me reading my thoughts and I wouldn't have had to blush :cool:

Now if she would've been wearing a suggestive outfit, maybe it would've been different. But then while that's a turn on in the :naughty: way, it's a turn off in the long run. I prefer a cute but not super hot girl who dresses properly to a really hot girl who dresses skankily:chug:

Oh and I took an employment test today at a local college (to be an office worker). 70 Words per minute typing (which qualifies me all the way up to senior secretary level), 82% on word, 88% on excel, 76% on presentations (pretty good considering I've never used it) and 84% on outlook (again, never used it). So I might get a decent job soon

First thing I save up for: Segway scooter

then another guitar, amp and maybe a bass...Then with my credit rating built up, I invest in real estate.

[PerpetualBurn]

She was kinda hot so I thought about striking up a conversation

Did you not think that your hideous bad looks and general aversion to sex would render any relationship insanely unlikely?

[Hababi]

Did you not think that your hideous bad looks and general aversion to sex would render any relationship insanely unlikely?

Quit yer trolling:smash:

[PerpetualBurn]

When you get therapy.

[lfantwister]

Yo. I'm back but for a day
What'd I miss

[dustindow]

I dunoo....so far zero was trying to make it with a girl with autism it seems....j/k.

[Hababi]

I dunoo....so far zero was trying to make it with a girl with autism it seems....j/k.

:lol: Na I don't think it was autism...

though come to think of it, it could've been. Mild autism. Because more severely autistic people can't function without assistance.

[dustindow]

:lol: Na I don't think it was autism...

though come to think of it, it could've been. Mild autism. Because more severely autistic people can't function without assistance.


I say autism because I had autistic people in my class but yeah most need someone there to "guide" them. But would that stop a swooner like you?

[Hababi]

I say autism because I had autistic people in my class but yeah most need someone there to "guide" them. But would that stop a swooner like you?

Haha no. Anything that extends beyond "mild quirkiness" and into "significant impairment" is totally off limits :cool:

[dustindow]

:lol:

Thats a good point. It's hard to have a romantic moment when there guidence is there explaining your actions. *creepy*

[lfantwister]

Zero is serenity? Huh. Wait so I thought you didn't like sex. Or is that just my misinterpretation

[dustindow]

yeah Zero i guess changed his username.....As for the didn't like sex.... I don't know. Does he think hes better than that?

[coheneran]

Do you think sex with God hurts? What about Jesus?

[Hababi]

yeah Zero i guess changed his username.....As for the didn't like sex.... I don't know. Does he think hes better than that?

Yup I did indeed change my name. Buy Firefly and Serenity and you'll discover why.

As for not liking sex, I have no aversion to sex...in the context of marriage :cool:

[lfantwister]

No Moses is best. He has that magic stick, remember?

[lfantwister]

As for not liking sex, I have no aversion to sex...in the context of marriage

PS you are out of your mind your crazy moralist

[coheneran]

But that cane only worked because God made it work. I'd like to make a prono of pre-marital sex with Jesus.

[dustindow]

Yup I did indeed change my name. Buy Firefly and Serenity and you'll discover why.

As for not liking sex, I have no aversion to sex...in the context of marriage :cool:

cant you just tell me without spending money...I'm not even sure what those are.

[Hababi]

cant you just tell me without spending money...I'm not even sure what those are.

One of the greatest tv shows ever, and the best sci fi movie this decade. Even accessible for non sci fi people.

[lfantwister]

But that cane only worked because God made it work. I'd like to make a prono of pre-marital sex with Jesus.

that's like ****ing the invisible hand

[coheneran]

That'd be so hawt.

[dustindow]

that's like ****ing the invisible hand

or using the stranger.

[lfantwister]

How about both--if the whore's expensive you know why

[Reaganista]

I have no aversion to sex
inversion

[coheneran]

:lol: Harsh.

[PerpetualBurn]

I hear Zero was tested for autism.

Turned out the other kids just wouldn't talk to him.

I'm so witty.

[coheneran]

The inversion joke was funnier.

[PerpetualBurn]

A Black Sheep walks into a bar and the bartender says "That's a coincidence, we've got an ale named after you."

The sheep says "What? You've got a beer name Eric?"

[coheneran]

Unless "Eric" has some connotation to it that I don't understand, that's not funny at all.

In other news, I got like 60 rep+ points from Med for my impression of him a couple pages back. Score.

Ninja EDIT: We're also telling jokes in the punk community thread now.

[Hababi]

Perpetual Burn, you suck at trolling :p

Oh, and before you post it, I already know your comeback:
"You suck at life"

Tsk tsk so predictable. I've trolled a troll, you got a lot to learn, son.

[PerpetualBurn]

Unless "Eric" has some connotation to it that I don't understand, that's not funny at all.

In other news, I got like 60 rep+ points from Med for my impression of him a couple pages back. Score.

Ninja EDIT: We're also telling jokes in the punk community thread now.

Surprisingly, Black Sheep is a beer.

Perpetual Burn, you suck at trolling

Oh, and before you post it, I already know your comeback:
"You suck at life"

Tsk tsk so predictable. I've trolled a troll, you got a lot to learn, son.

I don't think I've ever said anything with as little imagination as that.

I was considering a name like "slot badger" or "arsecandle".

[coheneran]

I know black sheep is a beer. That doesn't make the joke funny.

[Hababi]

I don't think I've ever said anything with as little imagination as that.


Yeah, you have. Like every time you tried to troll me :lol:

[coheneran]

What does trolling mean? Is it like flaming?

[Hababi]

What does trolling mean? Is it like flaming?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

The power of wikipedia. Where else is the entry for Internet Troll larger than George Washington's?

[PerpetualBurn]

Yeah, you have. Like every time you tried to troll me :lol:

Nope. It's never happened. And I don't remember having ever been a troll.

[coheneran]

This did not make it any easier:

"JUSTICE KENNEDY: Well, is -- is the troll the scary thing under the bridge, or is it a fishing technique?..."
"MR. PHILLIPS [attorney for eBay]: For my clients, it's been the scary thing under the bridge...."
"JUSTICE KENNEDY: I mean, is that what the troll is?"
"MR. PHILLIPS: Yes, I believe that's... what it is, although...maybe we should think of it more as Orcs, now that we have a new generation."

[Hababi]

Nope. It's never happened. And I don't remember having ever been a troll.

Your memory loss is none of my concern:smash:

Perpetual Burn=guy from Memento, with a tattoo "flame him".

[PerpetualBurn]

Yeah, you have. Like every time you tried to troll me :lol:

Paranoia. I only ever offered legitimate arguments, even if those arguments are intentionally condescending.

[Hababi]

See your memory loss is so severe that you had to reply to the same post twice. Geez man two words: ginko biloba

[Egggo]

well isn't that a little petty

[coheneran]

I'm afraid PB got a little bit burned just there.

[PerpetualBurn]

Why are you trolling me?

I've only made legitimate points even when strongly worded.

And you have no instances of me doing otherwise.

[dustindow]

*eats popcorn and has a small "eric" flag*

[YDtoad]

oh snap banned twice in one week...or was it more than a week?

YD has an itchy trigger finger :o

[coheneran]

Why were you banned?

[YDtoad]

My wonderful pit thread :p

It wasn't a spam thread but YDload said it was :(

[Futue te Ipsum]

TROLL PATROL

Hit me with all you've got, bitches

[coheneran]

Why should we? You're not even worth the effort.

[dustindow]

oh snap!......MX "Yo Momma!"

[AlienEater]

Wow, funny.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=494164

VF resorts to confusing people by putting both the words "chicken" and "egg" in each answer

[stevensonmat2]

if you add enough 'pre's' and 'post's' and "confoundings" you can sound philosophical to dum dums

[Eccles]

well i was reading some Ayn Rand the other day when i

[thedeadwalk!]

Come on. What are you regulars up to? Let's remember we needn't always dress up to post in this lovely place.

:chug:

[Javelin]

yes

[Iskandar]

well i was reading some Ayn Rand the other day when i
Nobody should read Ayn Rand, ever

I'm so hammered

[Eliminator]

Hello forum I rarely post in but read daily.

[thedeadwalk!]

I'm so hammered
Yeah, that's why I resurrected this thread. Vodka, I presume?

Tequila for me.

[PerpetualBurn]

I'm training to beat my personal best for downing a pint of lager. Current standing is 4.13, but I aim to get sub-4 soon.

I also entered a drinking competition with some foreign students. Me and two mates make up team GB. We aim to destroy the two German teams, the Swedish, French, and possibly Turkish team. I do have some concerns about the Swedes. One of their lads can put away stupid amounts of alcohol.

Also, nobody knows where I am, since nobody knows where the hell Keele actually is.

[Futue te Ipsum]

some **** hole near stoke amirite?

[nowhesingsnowhesobs]

stoke, lol

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

I'm training to beat my personal best for downing a pint of lager. Current standing is 4.13, but I aim to get sub-4 soon.

I also entered a drinking competition with some foreign students. Me and two mates make up team GB. We aim to destroy the two German teams, the Swedish, French, and possibly Turkish team. I do have some concerns about the Swedes. One of their lads can put away stupid amounts of alcohol.

Also, nobody knows where I am, since nobody knows where the hell Keele actually is.

/has been to keele once

well, drove past it

[Futue te Ipsum]

I went to the med school open day there. It was very... countryish : /

[coheneran]

I've past through Stoke-on-Trent. People said it was a BNP stronghold, and I thought "There can't be that many fash there." I was on a coach (heading to Ireland) and the coach stopped for ten minutes. I got off to go for a piss, and as soon as I set foot on that rich Yorkshire asphalt, a couple of skins come up to me and start going on about sandniggs and Muslim dogs. That really made me miss Hackney and the East End.

Anarchist Bookfair yesterday, it was well fun. We had three tables for our stall this year, and it wasn't cramped at all (usually is), ****in' ace. Managed to get rid of most of our free stock, and loads of back issues of Organise and Resistance. Also, there's a really cool new anti-ID/anti-bigbrotherstate poster and sticker that looks amazing. I can't find it online though, will have to scan it at some point.

[Iskandar]

Vodka, I presume?
Hehe, that shouldn't come as a surprise.

Posting while drunk is not a good idea....

[griftadan]

we all know its an excelent idea

[thedeadwalk!]

Well, I'm what they call a "functional alcoholic."

[griftadan]

some of histories greatest figures were functional alcoholics. common, alcohol builds character.

[thedeadwalk!]

http://robert.ettinger.com/uploaded_images/The_More_You_Know-775718.jpg

Have any of you caught Metalacolypse? Man, I'm loving this show.

[PerpetualBurn]

I went to the med school open day there. It was very... countryish

The surrounding areas are a bit countryish. Plus, coming from Sheffield, there's only country roads to get to Keele. The student union's really good, and our campus bar is pretty decent. It's a really pleasant University. Well, except for those kids from Stoke that put one of our windows through last night. But we sorted them out.

Also, the politics and philosophy deparment has a good reputation, I would assume that your med school is a lot better than Keele's.

as soon as I set foot on that rich Yorkshire asphalt

Stoke's in Staffordshire.

It's also a bit rough in places. We only really go into Newcastle-under-Lyme since that's a bit better and has some really good pubs.

As a final note. This Thursday: Stoke Beer Festival!

I've got my ticket.

[PerpetualBurn]

Also, I cut my time down last night.

A pint of Snakebite (horrible drink) in 3.59 seconds.

[coheneran]

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

[veggie 3.14]

Hello y'all.

Haven't posted here in a long time... how you all doing? How's life been treating you?

I've just spent a long weekend in Paris on a school trip, which was awesome. The Musee d'Orsay is amazing, and so is the Pompidou centre. Haha.

[spitfirejunky]

I noticed a few old-school posters have returned.

Shitloads of work here as usual. Had to quit WoW to keep up.

Glad to have you back man.

[veggie 3.14]

I noticed a few old-school posters have returned.

Shitloads of work here as usual. Had to quit WoW to keep up.

Glad to have you back man.

I'm old school?!

:cool:

And my heart bleeds for you.

:p

Whatchu doing now?

[griftadan]

i'm retiring adam smith.

[Iskandar]

i'm retiring adam smith.
He sucks anyway. You can't follow the ideology of a dead guy

(Although I did hear an awesome story about his being kidnapped by Gypsies as a kid and rescued by his uncle. That's what state-funded economics education gets you.)

[thedeadwalk!]

St. Patrick was kidnapped by Irish pirates.

[Iskandar]

St. Patrick was kidnapped by Irish pirates.
Did he actually exist?

[pedro durruti]

Indeed!

[griftadan]

You can't follow the ideology of a dead guy

heh

[Iskandar]

heh
Marx vs. Smith, cagematch, now. Marx gets a four-volume set of Das Kapital as a weapon and his signature move is the Soviet Hammer. Smith gets the Wealth of Nations as a weapon and his signature move is the Invisible Hand (of doom). Place your bets, gents!

[Scythe404]

Marx vs. Smith, cagematch, now. Marx gets a four-volume set of Das Kapital as a weapon and his signature move is the Soviet Hammer. Smith gets the Wealth of Nations as a weapon and his signature move is the Invisible Hand (of doom). Place your bets, gents!

Thomas Hobbes with the PRIMAL STATE OF MAN powerup vs. Russell Kirk with the GOD LOL staff.

Do I smell an excellent thread idea slowly being cooked here?

Oh, and yeah, I've recently moved to a new city which leaves me with plenty of free time to post here. Nice to see some oldies still active, including zero (who i still, to this day, delight in tangling with - entirely platonically, your honour).

[griftadan]

Marx vs. Smith, cagematch, now. Marx gets a four-volume set of Das Kapital as a weapon and his signature move is the Soviet Hammer. Smith gets the Wealth of Nations as a weapon and his signature move is the Invisible Hand (of doom). Place your bets, gents!

neither was really an economist anyways

[Futue te Ipsum]

Also, the politics and philosophy deparment has a good reputation, I would assume that your med school is a lot better than Keele's.It spends about twice as much per student, but whether this is inefficiency or it's being spent well is up for debate. I think Keele med is part of Manchester med school anyway.

[Auberge le Mouton Noir]

Did he actually exist?

uh what?



All the saints existed in some form or another

[coheneran]

He was a priest who got kidnapped, and converted the whole of Ireland. He was also supposed to have banished all the snakes from Ireland, while actually there have been no snakes in Ireland since the last ice age, according to science.

The St. Patrick's Brigade is way cooler than St. Patrick could ever hope to be.

[veggie 3.14]

Morning all.

I love the half-term breaks.

:cool:

Anyone here heard of a band called The Blue Nile?

I'm deeply in love with their music...

[Futue te Ipsum]

Eurgh, half term.

I miss that.

[AlienEater]

It's good.

[The_Passenger]

Yeah half-terms are cool. Too much homework though.

[coheneran]

Yeah, I just had a look at one of my assignments, I yawned so hard my head split in half:

"In Bounderby, 'Dickens satirizes that respected Victorian figure, the self-made man'. Is this how you interpret Dickens' presentation of Bounderby in the novel as a whole?"

What?! Is there any other way to interpret it?!

[AlienEater]

What a terrible assignment, I hate Dickens.

[veggie 3.14]

Yeah, I just had a look at one of my assignments, I yawned so hard my head split in half:

"In Bounderby, 'Dickens satirizes that respected Victorian figure, the self-made man'. Is this how you interpret Dickens' presentation of Bounderby in the novel as a whole?"

What?! Is there any other way to interpret it?!

Gutted.

Our essays haven't been too bad.

Either way, all of my coursework for English has been A-A* so far, so I really am not complaining.

[coheneran]

I like Eng Lit, but can't stand Dickens. Anything Victorian just bores me to death.

[AlienEater]

Yeah, I agree. I particularly hate Dickens, though. Not sure why.

[coheneran]

Love MC Lars though:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SiCRi6PaLrU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=68Iy6fN4vzI

[Futue te Ipsum]

It's good.We don't get them at uni :(

in two years time I pretty much wont get holidays either :(

[veggie 3.14]

We don't get them at uni :(

in two years time I pretty much wont get holidays either :(

Teehee.

Sucker.

I love Oscar Wilde, but Dickens is just a wee bit boring.

By a wee bit, I mean extremely.

[thedeadwalk!]

Our Christmas break at uni this year will be about a month long.

[coheneran]

I have a date to go on, was supposed to leave ten minutes ago, but my wages still haven't come through to my account, so I have to wait for my dad to get home so I can borrow some. It sucks.

[PerpetualBurn]

Yeah, I just had a look at one of my assignments, I yawned so hard my head split in half:

"In Bounderby, 'Dickens satirizes that respected Victorian figure, the self-made man'. Is this how you interpret Dickens' presentation of Bounderby in the novel as a whole?"

What?! Is there any other way to interpret it?!

How convincing is Socrates' refutation of Thrasymachus' analysis of justice in Book 1 of The Republic?

Well, since Plato contrived Thrasymachus' argument just so Socrates could shoot it down, it's quite convincing.

I have a choice of 9 others to do 1,500 words on. That's possibly the best one.

[Futue te Ipsum]

Teehee.

Sucker.I'll just have to... enjoy my 4 month long summer holiday.

[veggie 3.14]

I'll just have to... enjoy my 4 month long summer holiday.

:p

I have some maths coursework to do, which is pretty sucky, as the gods of mathematics seem to hate my guts.

:lol:

So what are you all doing at university, those that are there? Long time no speaky.

[spitfirejunky]

I switched comp sci and chemistry to have a comp sci major and chemistry minor. I like it much more in comp sci, but there's like 3 times as many math courses.

You're still in highschool I'm guessing. Judging by "A*", you're doing some GCSE thing?

[veggie 3.14]

I switched comp sci and chemistry to have a comp sci major and chemistry minor. I like it much more in comp sci, but there's like 3 times as many math courses.

You're still in highschool I'm guessing. Judging by "A*", you're doing some GCSE thing?

Yeah, last year of GCSEs. Didn't do too badly in my exams last year, considering how little I revised... Got an A in biology, and a B in physics. Doing the rest this May.

:cool:

What the hell is computer science?!

[spitfirejunky]

Mostly programming, with some stuff oriented towards the electrical aspect of computing.

[veggie 3.14]

Mostly programming, with some stuff oriented towards the electrical aspect of computing.

Ah, I see.

Also, I have recently got a dog. I say recently, it was four months ago. :lol:

Black labrador. Crazy muggerfugger.

[spitfirejunky]

I loooooooove labradors. Smart muggerfuggers as well.

[veggie 3.14]

I loooooooove labradors. Smart muggerfuggers as well.

Yeah, he's an incredibly fast learner.

We're thinking about training him to work on shoots, as he's from working stock, and has the brains in there somewhere.

Oh, btw: he's called Marx. :)

What are people listening to right now?

[thedeadwalk!]

I had a black lab. She was very energetic.

Well, I'm studying sociology and criminology at uni.

[veggie 3.14]

I had a black lab. She was very energetic.

Well, I'm studying sociology and criminology at uni.

Awesome!

What kind of work does that entail?

[funluvinhobo]

i clicked on pnwi by accident so i figuerd i might as well post something
:wave:
that will be all

[AlienEater]

Criminology sounds cool.