The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XX

[Agent327]

One of many types of centipedes.

 

[shadowplay]

Yeah, looks like the European variety.

The things seriously creep me out. The ones we had in Trinidad were massive and poisonous.

 

[Agent327]

Yup, I know the name in Dutch, but translation only gives me the generic name...

 

[Borachio]

The things seriously creep me out. The ones we had in Trinidad were massive and poisonous.

Isn't there a poisonous centipede used by some species of tailed primate for hallucinatory purposes?

(Hmmm. I wonder where I heard that. I've got a head half-full of half-forgotten things, and the other half full of rubbish.)

 

[The_J]

I'm with Arakhor on this denture lookalike controversy. Braces are expensive and painful, and take years to work... screw that noise.

-> America.
Here braces are covered by the health insurance, so there's in 99.9% of all cases no excuse to have teeth (...okay, 1 tooth) like that.

 

[Disgustipated]

Is Windows 8 worth it?

Actually don't respond here. I only made this post to direct people to the Computers sub-forum and respond in the thread there. That forum is kind of dead, and there's only 1 response in that thread. I'm still trying to decide if I want to get it.

 

[Glassfan]

Here's an interesting article concerning the different perspectives on the issue of hate speech/freedom of speech in Europe and America

http://worldpress.org/link.cfm?http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_article/13028/

 

[Radio Noer]

If anybody here is familiar with the game Diplomacy, how does one capture a province? Do units just have to occupy it for a turn and it becomes yours, or is there some other process?

 

[sophie]

If anybody here is familiar with the game Diplomacy, how does one capture a province? Do units just have to occupy it for a turn and it becomes yours, or is there some other process?

supply centers are re-evaluated between winter and spring of each year. So you theoretically only need to hold it for one turn, but if you take it in spring, you'll have to hold onto it through winter as well.

 

[Radio Noer]

supply centers are re-evaluated between winter and spring of each year. So you theoretically only need to hold it for one turn, but if you take it in spring, you'll have to hold onto it through winter as well.

Ah, gracias.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I've found everything gets better in High School. Just about every student in middle school is a nasty little [censored].

Plus they haven't learned how to curse properly. Little annoys me more than bad cursing.

There is such a thing as proper cursing?

What in the world is "proper cursing"?

 

[Grendeldef]

There is such a thing as proper cursing?

What in the world is "proper cursing"?

Cursing is an art form but the language must support it by offering an adequate vocabulary. Endlessly repeating one word does not make justice to cursing - it's just boring. Unfortunately English language seems to have very limited potential for 'proper' cursing.

G

 

[cardgame]

Rhyming curses with words is good, English can do that

 

[Borachio]

Cursing is an art form but the language must support it by offering an adequate vocabulary. Endlessly repeating one word does not make justice to cursing - it's just boring. Unfortunately English language seems to have very limited potential for 'proper' cursing.

G

Ha!

Just.

Ha!


(Though clearly all the English true cuss words are really Anglo-Saxon.)

 

[Arakhor]

Not only is constantly dropping, say, the F-bomb, thoroughly boring, it also makes you sound like a teenager without his parents or teachers in earshot.

 

[Borachio]

Say that to the average dock worker. I knew one whose every 3rd word was an obscenity. Literally. Someone actually counted one day.

After a bit it's just like any other linguistic tick: you get to filter it out. And it loses all weight.

I find it quite amusing when the cuss word gets embedded in other words.

For example: "I went out shooting kanga-bloody-roos".

 

[Arakhor]

Oh yes, we all know people like that, but teenagers are the other extreme, often turning the air blue simply because they can and no one will tell them off immediately.

 

[Borachio]

Well, it's a rite of passage (sort of). I often pass them (with me looking in another direction) in the street using "language", not particularly inventively. I can't say it bothers me. And what could anyone do about it?

 

[Quackers]

Arakhor morality police of course

 

[Arakhor]

How does pointing out that teenagers swear up a storm when given half a chance make me into the morality police? Do try to be consistent, Quackers.