Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
With all this blether, I'd have pegged you all for bards. 
TIL: Today I Learned
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Actually, they just sound like players.With all this blether, I'd have pegged you all for bards.
Warrior Bards if you please. But Players is better.With all this blether, I'd have pegged you all for bards.
Synobun
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Warrior Bards if you please. But Players is better.
Butt players?
Today I learned that diacetylmorphine was marketed under the trade name Heroin by Bayer Pharmaceuticals and was originally marketed as a cough suppressant before it was finally outlawed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History
gun-howitzer beats MG
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Cat Crossbow FTW
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yung.carl.jung
Hey Bird! I'm Morose & Lugubrious
all drugs start small, don't they? cocaine was advertised as a minor painkiller to children
even pope leo was a big fan of ole nose candy (mixed with alcohol, like a good boy)
amphetamine was first used as a decongestant. it was introduced into the American market under the name Benzedrine where it was used for a whole range of ills, from low blood pressure to low libido.
undergrad psych students in the US were asked to do LSD and describe the effects of the drug. it's intended use (by the psychiatrists) was to treat alcoholism and enhance creativity.
Play the Fallout games and you can get to use all of the above, plus powered armour and a car with a nuclear engine.
This reminds me of how, to this day, cocaine in some parts of the Spañish-speaking world is still called ‘merca’, because it was once marketed by pharmaceutical giant Merck.
It's ironic that Adam West was voicing himself/Catman concurrently, isn't it?Cat Crossbow FTW
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Farm Boy
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No no no no.We old farts are mages, hanging back, hurling fireballs and spells of confusion. Of course, our eyesight isn't the best, and so only the gods know who'll we'll hit.
Holy magic discerns between smiting foes and bolstering allies with the same AoE. Plus, you still get Shining Plate Mail and Massive Concussive Maces of Str!
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With all this blether, I'd have pegged you all for bards.
I'd peg a bard given a chance.
They really played fast and loose regarding which events happened when, and there were some extraneous storylines like a werewolf in the forest and the marriages and affairs of Mary's ladies-in-waiting.
Fizban, is that you?No no no no.
(of course, Fizban being one of the alter egos of the god Paladine, he already knows who Fizban will hit with his fireballs)
*conjures up a Rust Monster, which promptly reduces Birdjaguar's metal weapons... to rust*
One of my DMs once insisted he needed a bard character, and since nobody else wanted to do it, I ended up with the job. He graciously allowed me to choose my own instrument, assuming I'd pick something nice like a flute, or maybe a lute.With all this blether, I'd have pegged you all for bards.
However, I don't know anything about how to play those, and to make my posts more natural (this was a PBP game), I told him I'd have to choose an instrument I am familiar with. Well, toting an organ around wouldn't be feasible, nor would a piano or harpsichord. So I picked the in-game equivalent to the next instrument I'm familiar with.
The DM ended up with a bard who played the concertina.
Bamspeedy
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I would be surprised if they do, I'll have to see if my daughter who is just starting HS still has her '4 year plan' around somewhere. When i was in HS 25 years ago we had 7-8 classes each day, now they have 4-5 (class periods are twice as long), so what would normally be a year long class is now one semester. With all the advanced math and science, foreign language and other classes 'required' if they plan on going to college there isn't as much room for 'electives' and study halls like back in my day (study hall is non existent as far as I can tell, since the class periods have doubled). Algebra I, which I didn't do until HS, now that is covered in middle school, classes I didn't take until grade 12 (if at all) she's taking them by grade 10.
In my high school, we had 4 classes per day, assuming that two of them were the 2-hour 5-credit courses and two were the 1-hour 3-credit courses. Add in noon hour, and that was a 9 am - 4 pm day.
I'm not sure what schedule the vocational students were on, as they didn't mingle much with the rest of us.
We had three trimesters/year. The school year was from the day after Labor Day until June 30.
TIL that during the 2018 World Cup match between Japan and Columbia, water usage surged 24% in Japan during half time as fans ran to the bathroom.
I didn't allow travel time in my case, because I lived so close to the school - just a 5-minute walk, which I shortened by cutting through a couple of yards where the owners didn't mind as long as the dogs didn't and I didn't leave the gate open.
One of the dogs was a really sweet terrier named "Killer". The other was a German shepherd who decided I was okay and not only would he allow me to cut through the yard, he would escort me across the street.
Anyway, the first bell at the school was at 8:50 and we had to be in our classrooms by 8:55. The 2-hour classes were from 9-11 and 2-4. We did get breaks, of course - two 10-minute breaks and two 2-minute breaks. Those were mostly spent either on a bathroom break or just getting from one side of the school to the other (it was a big school of approximately 1200 students). Anyone with back-to-back classes in math/business/physics and French/German/biology/chemistry/English/social studies had to really hurry.
TIL: A monkey throwing darts at a financial paper will build a portfolio that will perform just as well, on average, as a portfolio built by so-called "financial experts".
So if anyone here happens to be a financial advisor I'm sorry to say your job is a scam and you deserve to be unemployed for scamming thousands of hard working people that trust you with their money. If you have a financial advisor you are wasting your money. And if you spend any amount of time trying to analyze the markets, you are wasting your time. You would do just as well in your investments by picking your investments at random or by buying a pet monkey and letting the monkey pick them for you. I guarantee the monkey won't cost nearly as much as the financial advisor you are paying to basically do nothing.
Article for reference: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-can-beat-the-market/#a9f059e630ae
And a snippet from the article:
So if anyone here happens to be a financial advisor I'm sorry to say your job is a scam and you deserve to be unemployed for scamming thousands of hard working people that trust you with their money. If you have a financial advisor you are wasting your money. And if you spend any amount of time trying to analyze the markets, you are wasting your time. You would do just as well in your investments by picking your investments at random or by buying a pet monkey and letting the monkey pick them for you. I guarantee the monkey won't cost nearly as much as the financial advisor you are paying to basically do nothing.
Article for reference: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickferri/2012/12/20/any-monkey-can-beat-the-market/#a9f059e630ae
And a snippet from the article:
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