Random Raves : Let us eat cake

[metatron]

This thread is quite the exquisite train-wreck. I am left breathless by its sheer majesty.

The fun part is that the "good guys" have already made several (quite sexist) claims contradicted by scientiic evidence in that thread.
You'd think they'd be able to just tear apart the OP and be done with it, but no, they can't let an opportunity to prove their hybris* go to waste.

*This was a German->English fail. But i'm leaving it that way to be save from lectures on octopodes (or what the hell ever).

 

[Joecoolyo]

'How people in Des Moinsed changed or didn't change their opinion on Germans and Germany from 1909 to 1920'? What the hells is that supposed to mean?

To sum up several weeks of research and my 13 page paper into a couple sentences (lol) paragraph, basically from the period of 1909 to 1916, in Des Moines, Iowa you see very little shift in the popular opinion of Germans, German-Americans, and Germany. Germans and German-Americans are still associated with the high culture of Germany, and looked up to because of it. The German Imperial state, even going into World War One, isn't portrayed in a negative manner, it's just another state in Europe at war.

Come 1917 though, you see a very large shift in the perception of all things German. Suddenly, the German state is the enemy, and anything associated with it is conflated to a degree with that status. German-Americans are arrested across the country as "spies" and "foreign aliens," German names are changed to less German sounding names (one case of a Chicago hotel changing the name of two food items on their menu from "German fried potatoes" and "German pot roast" to "American noodles, potatoes, and pancakes"), and people in Des Moines are of the popular opinion that Germany is in need of a "good whipping" (albeit hesitant to actually send American troops to Europe to accomplish said whipping). Buuuuuuuut even though a large amount of people in Des Moines have switched to a very negative perception of Germany and German-Americans, it can not be stressed enough that some people did not. Des Moines had become a regional economic hub and decently sized city at this point, and hosted a wide variety of people with diverse opinions. At the same time German spies were being arrested, Faust was being shown in the 10,000 seat Coliseum in the city center, among other exports of German culture.

Therefore, although opinions on Germans did change radically from 1916 to 1917, the impact German culture had on the area from the decades previous could not be erased in a single year, and some people were perceptive enough to not conflate the German state and German-Americans into a single bunch, separating the two entities. But yadda yadda yadda I can go on for 13 pages about this stuff, and I'm sure you don't want me to.

 

[Takhisis]

Of course I don't want you to! Do people in your country ever study foreign history?

Such as, for example, the invasion of the black cat?

Spoiler :

 

[Joecoolyo]

Of course I don't want you to! Do people in your country ever study foreign history?

It's for a class that was entirely about German history, except for this paper

 

[Perfection]

In normal mode (no undo) it is 32964 and in practice mode (undo) it is 50644. I've gotten a 4096 tile in practice mode in two separate games; the best I've done in normal mode is a 2048 tile and a 1024 tile.

edit: My high score on my phone is 32964, on the website it's 36380.

57900 is my best

 

[GamezRule]

New avatar!

@perf: We need lives.

 

[Takhisis]

It's for a class that was entirely about German history, except for this paper

It's almost like a Jughead argumentation.

New avatar!

@perf: We need lives.

Take them!

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Pub lunch and real ales out in the Peak District. Raves don't come much better than that

 

[Birdjaguar]

George RR Martin and Diana Gabaldon had a live conversation about writing, Q&A and book signing last night. George couldn't answer my question about when the next book would be out. Both were very entertaining and engaging.

 

[madviking]

i went to a uva baseball game and we won

 

[cybrxkhan]

In response to a friend's question on facebook as to whether one should put cereal before milk or vice versa when eating cereal, I typed the following:

Spoiler :

If I mayest interjecteth, kinde and holie sainte, of my opinione, whiche thov mayest accepteth in agreemente or disagreemente as thov pleaseth: methinks it moste proper and befittinge of civilizede peoples, havinge beene tavghte logicke and moralitie moste noble and worthie, to placeth yon cereales firste into yon bowle, before the novrishemente of liqvid milke art addeth. The reasones behinde svche cvstomes doth varie and are manie, and manie hath beene mentioned above, bvt I wisheth to addeth mine owne as welle.

Firstlie, noteth that milke is softe and life-givinge, and is thvs properlie of a feminine natvre, akin to yon delicate maidenes and virgines worth wooing. The cereale, thov may seeth, is opposite, beinge of hardie and rovgh natvre, thvs beffitinge yon manlie and mightie strengthes of mascvline natvre. Becavse men art, by natvre and the descretion of the Almightie, art bestoweth with svperior strengthe bvt inferior gentleness, it art propere thate yon mascvline cereal precedeeth the feminine milke, the former conqveringe yon cereale bowle, thate the latter may novrisheth and vpholde its virtve in safetie.

Secondlie, as scriptvre and yon wisdome of the sages hath revealed, it is a barbaricke cvstome to placeth yon milke firste into yon cereale bowle. This befitteth rvthlesse vandals and villaines, accumstance the men of Tartary or Mozambiqve, or the Saracen heathenes, who hath not anie appreciatione for table manneres.

Whilst I do not wisheth to proclaimeth mine reasoninge svperiore - nay, I proclaimeth the brevetie of wit stated in yon facebooke postes above to be of greater philosophickes - I believeth I hath stated logicke moste plainelie and reasonablie, and hopeth that yon moste holie and noble sainte - thee - wovldst readeth mine moste hvmble and vnworthie wordes with kind accordance that befitteth greatnesse svch as thyselfe.


tl;dr: Cereal before milk because misogyny and you must be a civilized gentlmen. Also I just wasted ~20 minutes of my life and anyone who bothered to read all this wasted ~2 minutes of theres.

I feel proud of myself for doing that, and jolly good do I feel jolly good for doing so.

 

[Antilogic]

Milk before cereal! It's objectively superior.

If there is any disagreement we will have to drop it.

 

[GamezRule]

i went to a uva baseball game and we won

I've completely given up on sports at my school. The only sport on campus that was mediocre was men's wrestling. Everything else sucked.

 

[madviking]

that sucks dude

 

[Takhisis]

In response to a friend's question on facebook as to whether one should put cereal before milk or vice versa when eating cereal, I typed the following:

Spoiler :

If I mayest interjecteth, kinde and holie sainte, of my opinione, whiche thov mayest accepteth in agreemente or disagreemente as thov pleaseth: methinks it moste proper and befittinge of civilizede peoples, havinge beene tavghte logicke and moralitie moste noble and worthie, to placeth yon cereales firste into yon bowle, before the novrishemente of liqvid milke art addeth. The reasones behinde svche cvstomes doth varie and are manie, and manie hath beene mentioned above, bvt I wisheth to addeth mine owne as welle.

Firstlie, noteth that milke is softe and life-givinge, and is thvs properlie of a feminine natvre, akin to yon delicate maidenes and virgines worth wooing. The cereale, thov may seeth, is opposite, beinge of hardie and rovgh natvre, thvs beffitinge yon manlie and mightie strengthes of mascvline natvre. Becavse men art, by natvre and the descretion of the Almightie, art bestoweth with svperior strengthe bvt inferior gentleness, it art propere thate yon mascvline cereal precedeeth the feminine milke, the former conqveringe yon cereale bowle, thate the latter may novrisheth and vpholde its virtve in safetie.

Secondlie, as scriptvre and yon wisdome of the sages hath revealed, it is a barbaricke cvstome to placeth yon milke firste into yon cereale bowle. This befitteth rvthlesse vandals and villaines, accumstance the men of Tartary or Mozambiqve, or the Saracen heathenes, who hath not anie appreciatione for table manneres.

Whilst I do not wisheth to proclaimeth mine reasoninge svperiore - nay, I proclaimeth the brevetie of wit stated in yon facebooke postes above to be of greater philosophickes - I believeth I hath stated logicke moste plainelie and reasonablie, and hopeth that yon moste holie and noble sainte - thee - wovldst readeth mine moste hvmble and vnworthie wordes with kind accordance that befitteth greatnesse svch as thyselfe.


tl;dr: Cereal before milk because misogyny and you must be a civilized gentlmen. Also I just wasted ~20 minutes of my life and anyone who bothered to read all this wasted ~2 minutes of theres.

I feel proud of myself for doing that, and jolly good do I feel jolly good for doing so.

*wooinge

I've completely given up on sports at my school. The only sport on campus that was mediocre was men's wrestling. Everything else sucked.

Play some fitba then.

 

[cybrxkhan]

*wooinge

FORSOOTH, I acknowledgeth that mine wordes writtene above revealeth manie an errore and lacke of civilized speeche dve to haste, bvt I beseecheth thee vnderstande yon circvmstances.

I wondereth whethere thov canst spoteth all vnholie errores procvred in yon textes above.

 

[Takhisis]

I be accvstomede to proofreadinge dve to tvrninge inne Ye worthe of manie scrolls of homeworke. Examinationnes doe happen to be sometimes trovblesome.

 

[azzaman333]

Got some of the funding needed to attend a couple of conferences. Now I just need to write the papers and do the administrative BS required over the next couple of weeks.

 

[Antilogic]

I just beat Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space for the first time.

It's an old DOS game that just savagely beats you into the floor, but I got lucky this time around. Nobody died, but I had my full share of partial-fail missions.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I just got offered a 6-month co-op job in St. Louis making fighter jet parts (F-22's and F-35's ).

I'll have to hang out with phrossak and kaitzilla sometime.


Still waiting to here back from the rocket engine company.