Random Rants LX: I wish to register a complaint

[choxorn]

They have had short-scale imposed by those short-changing 'Mericans? Scotland must, no, will be free!
New currency: Scots merk, divided into 23 shillins and those into 19 pence.
Weights: avoirdupois ponds.
Numbers: long scale!
Distance: based on the ell
English: spoken incomprehensibly or no' at all.
Huzzah!

I am now imagining Takhisis speaks with the voice of Groundskeeper Willie.

 

[Takhisis]

Actually, that's comprehensible. I suggest that you watch any interview with Ozzy Osbourne so that you can learn how non-London English people speak; and a film called ‘[wiki=Tickets_(film)]Tickets[/wiki]’ for some non-exaggerated Sco'ish accents.

 

[Arakhor]

Fun fact - I was playing a game of Carcassonne with a very clearly Scottish lady this evening and it turns out that she's been south of the border for 25 years! Some accents never shift, it seems.

 

[Takhisis]

Raves thread is that way---->

 

[Hygro]

damn bullcrap.
Instead of going tonight to the party which one of our students recommended (she'll be there, and I'm a bit interested), I might end up on a 1-on-1 beer with my female colleague, who I don't really dare to touch.
I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it already gives me a headache.
EDIT: Not 1-on-1.

Tak and I made a thread for you http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=551243

 

[Lohrenswald]

After only one week into the new (third) semester it seems completely hopeless to me. And my mother told me that if I was going to think of it as that hopeless I should just give up and quit.

Everything's going down the drain already.

 

[Borachio]

Link to video.

Cold baked beans, served on some bread that looks like it's never even seen a toaster and then eaten with your hands? What travesty is this??

They're mad! Americans are completely mad! It's like they don't even care they're mad.

They've even got some toast shown piled up at the beginning and then they try eating cold baked beans (which I too tried one day when I was parked at the side of the road feeling very hungry with nothing but a tin of cold baked beans, so I know they aren't nice), on untoasted white sliced bread.

It just isn't going to be nice, 'Mericans. No!

Baked beans on toast isn't hard to cook. And it isn't bad at all. I wouldn't call it great. Some chili might help it along enormously.

But cold baked beans on bread, 'Mericans?

U is crazy people! And you've no one to blame but yourselves and your insane desire to pretend that British people are crazier than you.

And look, 'Mericans, just look at this, will you? These are the people who make, yes make, the Baked Beans as featured in your video!

Spoiler :

The H. J. Heinz Company, or Heinz, is an American food processing company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Am I even subscribed to this? Guess I am now. Seems like I mised the thread's opening during my mini-vacation, but now that I'm here, I am angry that it is not more bureaucratic. Registering complaints is a very bureaucratic matter.

 

[Borachio]

After only one week into the new (third) semester it seems completely hopeless to me. And my mother told me that if I was going to think of it as that hopeless I should just give up and quit.

Everything's going down the drain already.

Don't you think it's a little early to quit after one week? Even if it is, as you say, "completely hopeless", I don't see what you'd lose by giving it one more week. Or one more month. Or two.

 

[Lohrenswald]

yes, but I can't imagine things taking a turn for the better either

 

[cardgame]

I realize this is late but I'm still a little upset, listening to it again on Spotify.

Pitch Perfect 2 - Das Sound Machine was the superior group in the finale championship, easily. Also, their debut song in the movie, Uprising, was far superior to their finale song. Two wrongs and then the wrong ending choosing the protag's team.

 

[The_J]

yes, but I can't imagine things taking a turn for the better either

not understanding the stuff, or not motivated (due to lack of interest) to understand it?

 

[Snerk]

Just caught a cold. Hope it's a short one, because I tend to sport marathon colds.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, if your nose starts running for 42 km, maybe you should go and join it.

 

[Snerk]

*golf clap*

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Hearing about the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile never fails to send chills down my spine.

 

[Hygro]

Just caught a cold. Hope it's a short one, because I tend to sport marathon colds.

I got a lingering cough from one I caught a month ago -.-;;

 

[Borachio]

Hearing about the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile never fails to send chills down my spine.

The use of a nuclear engine in the airframe promised to give the missile staggering and unprecedented low-altitude range, estimated to be roughly 113,000 miles (182,000 km) (over four and a half times the equatorial circumference of the earth). The engine also acted as a secondary weapon for the missile: direct neutron radiation from the virtually unshielded reactor would sicken, injure, and/or kill living things beneath the flight path; the stream of fallout left in its wake would poison enemy territory; and its strategically selected crash site would receive intense radioactive contamination. In addition, the sonic waves given off by its passage would damage ground installations.

Hahahahaha. Yeah. Hilarious, in as you say a spine-chilling fashion!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Hearing about the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile never fails to send chills down my spine.

Crazy stuff back then. That's about the same time the army managed to draw like 20,000 MW out of a three MW test reactor...for a really short period of time. Not long after the US military decided to leave nuclear power to the navy and hope for the best.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, if we're going for chilling projects from the Cold War, I'd say nuclear artillery is the one that always impresses me. Someone decided to put in a nuclear missile in a canon, then they did it 7 times in the desert.