Random Rants ': No, YOUR thread titles suck!

[Takhisis]

IIRC Traitorfish once posted a video of his girlfriend in armour/cosplay/something of the sort, so he wouldn't need normal-person clothes for a date.

Appropriate fancy clothing: kilt.
Appropriate music: bagpipes.
This is why you can love Greece.

Vote: Takhisis

As long as he continues to use crappy numerals, I will continue to advocate that he be lynched, because he is clearly a mafia, or a serial killer.

Admit that you just have a sore butt because of my latest overwhelming victory over your side at mafia.

Get that Greek rubbish out of my face

Would you rather I used the so-called ‘Roman’ numerals?

No, it's not okay if Takhisis uses stupid numerals, just like it's not okay if you don't use a subtitle.

But my numerals are not stupid. They are not sapient or sapient.

Rants gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children and post no lolcats. I shall wear no crowns and win no mafia/NOTW games. I shall live and die at my keyboard. I am the poster in the darkness. I am the watcher of the rant/rave thread. I am the shield that guards the sub forums of CFC. I pledge my life and honor to OT, for this night and all the nights to come.

Shots fired!

 

[W|M]

Vhoever came vp vith Roman nvmerals vas clearly more intelligent than vhoever came vp vith Græc nvmerals

 

[gay_Aleks]

he should've paid a visit to India if he was so smart then

 

[azzaman333]

Would you rather I used the so-called ‘Roman’ numerals?

That would be preferable as it makes it significantly more likely that the next thread is numbered correctly.

 

[Takhisis]

Even if I wrote the words ‘65th edition’ right there in the first line of the OP?

 

[gay_Aleks]

what is the point of using Greek numerals then

 

[Takhisis]

The only way in which you can acquire some culture is to expose you to it.

 

[azzaman333]

Even if I wrote the words ‘65th edition’ right there in the first line of the OP?

No one reads the OP.

 

[Takhisis]

Advantage Takhisis, then.

 

[sophie]

Vhoever came vp vith Roman nvmerals vas clearly more intelligent than vhoever came vp vith Græc nvmerals

v's as u's should only be used in Latin when typing in capitals. Otherwise there is no v and everything is to be expressed with a u.

e.g.:

ABAELARDI AD AMICVM SVVM CONSOLATORIA

I. Sepe humanos affectus aut prouocant aut mitigant amplius exempla quam uerba. Vnde post nonnullam sermonis ad presentem habiti consolationem, de ipsis calamitatum mearum experimentis consolatoriam ad absentem scribere decreui, ut in comparatione mearum tuas aut nullas aut modicas temptationes recognoscas et tolerabilius feras.

Spoiler rules :

OF ABAELARD FOR THE CONSOLING OF HIS FRIEND

Quite often examples, rather than words, either provoke or soften human affections. Thus, since I found consolation in speech shared with one present, I have decided to write consoling words to him though absent in the form of those very experiences of my calamities, so that, in comparison to my misfortunes, you might recognize your own to be either nothing at all, or else mild trials, and so make your condition more tolerable.

If you're going to be pedantic in an irritating way the least you could do is be correct about it.

 

[gay_Aleks]

why won't Latin die; we killed it in 476, then we had to kill it in 1453 and finally we stabbed it once more in 1810 just for fun in the HRE

c'mon just die finally kk

 

[W|M]

Neuer!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Rant: Sodium thiosulfate is sneaky. It is as harmless as can be to humans, and I always have it by my side when I'm playing with bromine. It clobbers nasty toxic halogens and reduces them into harmless halide ions in seconds. But it turns out that thiosulfate corrodes steel. I'm not used to things that are corrosive to steel while not corroding humans, so I'd been treating it like it was totally harmless. Now both of the sinks in my apartment have large patches of alternately red and green corrosion.

When I move out, hopefully the landlord mistakenly thinks that the corrosion was natural, like my last landlord apparently thought about the cabinet hinges that were all rusted out after an experiment to find out if tungsten dissolved in aqua regia. I forgot that HCl fumes would be coming out and left the flask uncovered.

I remember the Friday before a long weekend in Grade 10 (probably Thanksgiving weekend). I was taking biology and chemistry that term, and the labs were next to each other in the same hallway.

The biology assignment was dissecting frogs (I still feel guilty about that even after 39 years). The chemistry experiment we were assigned involved bromine.

Neither assignment got finished on Friday. By the time Tuesday rolled around and everyone came back to school... let's just say that hallway was not pleasant to breathe in.

IIRC Traitorfish once posted a video of his girlfriend in armour/cosplay/something of the sort, so he wouldn't need normal-person clothes for a date.

What's abnormal about costumes? (I take it this was a medieval-style outfit?)

I've still got most of my SCA clothes, jewelry and feast gear from back in the '80s/'90s.

why won't Latin die; we killed it in 476, then we had to kill it in 1453 and finally we stabbed it once more in 1810 just for fun in the HRE

c'mon just die finally kk

But then we wouldn't have had marvelous TV shows like I, Claudius or Wayne & Shuster's skit about the murder of Julius Caesar.

 

[Arakhor]

why won't Latin die; we killed it in 476, then we had to kill it in 1453 and finally we stabbed it once more in 1810 just for fun in the HRE

What makes you think you were killing Latin in 1453?

 

[sophie]

Why on Earth would you presume it died in 476?

Rant: people who define nation and language as inherently linked and where one falls so too the other. We still speak German. We still speak Russian. We still speak Japanese. Spanish and French and English are still spoken in their respective former colonies.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I visited the Cheezburger site for the first time in weeks. Found out that yet another of my Cheezfriends is dying.

Damn cancer.

 

[Dachs]

why won't Latin die; we killed it in 476, then we had to kill it in 1453 and finally we stabbed it once more in 1810 just for fun in the HRE

c'mon just die finally kk

...1810? Surely you mean 1806.

Also, honestly, if you're talking about "killing" Latin the most relevant date would probably be either 1965 or 1967. It's not that relevant but it's certainly more important than anything to do with various Roman Empires.

 

[Traitorfish]

brb, travelling back in time to kill Latin in 476 and preclude this whole silly conversation.

 

[Arakhor]

Alas! What a language dies with you.

 

[W|M]

Even when no longer spoken fluently, Latin lives on in the Romance languages, which are all basically Vulgar Latin