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Title: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 10:13:38 AM
Right. I told you it would be boring.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: peegai on June 01, 2006, 10:18:12 AM
Why do you think it will be boring when you just started?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on June 01, 2006, 10:53:49 AM
How long have you been married and how many children do you have?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on June 01, 2006, 10:56:56 AM
Did you change your avatar because you felt uncomfortable when people assumed your former avatar was a picture of yourself?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 01, 2006, 11:17:47 AM
odeon,
what does odelay mean?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 11:24:20 AM
peegai: I just thought nobody would bother... :)

Callaway: I've been married 8 years on June 19 (and I'm always the one to remember the actual date) but we've been together for 14 years this fall. We have two children, an 11-yo son and a 9-yo daughter. My son's a lot like me, and my daughter's anything but.

No, I kind of liked Jimmymac (the fat guy) but then Dunc or McJ (um right? my memory is a fragile thing) noticed the picture behind him, on the wall, and thought it looked a lot like the dead Kennedy picture... so it was just the sort of thing I'd do, to change my avatar into that picture.  :D

I don't look anything like him, by the way. my body mass is about 1/8 of his...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 11:25:28 AM
McJ: Should I know the answer to that one  ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on June 01, 2006, 11:28:44 AM
What's your biggest fear?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 11:34:52 AM
What's your biggest fear?

That something would happen to my kids. The first time I ever let my daughter go to the local store by herself was terrifying, and I was on my way there to fetch her a dozen or so times. My wife stopped me every time.

The store is an eight-minute walk from here.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: peegai on June 01, 2006, 11:40:56 AM
Did you PM me from WrongPlanet? There was this lady who PM'd me, who was labelled HFA, and I forgotten who it was and assume it to be you.

EDIT: Oh, wait, you're male. :P (Where do I know you from, then? You seem familiar.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 11:44:09 AM
Nope, peegai, I didn't PM you from WP, and I'm not a lady, and I have AS, not HFA.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: peegai on June 01, 2006, 11:45:27 AM
Nope, peegai, I didn't PM you from WP, and I'm not a lady, and I have AS, not HFA.

Sorry, I must've mixed you up with someone else. My bad.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Merry Widow on June 01, 2006, 11:48:09 AM
if the entire membership of Intensity were ship-wrecked on an island without sufficient food supplies, which member would you nominate to be eaten first and why? also, please state second and third choices and reasons why.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 01, 2006, 12:07:05 PM
McJ: Should I know the answer to that one? ???

think Beck?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 02:30:47 PM
McJ: Should I know the answer to that one  ???

think Beck?

"Beck". Sorry, nothing comes to mind.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2006, 02:37:19 PM
if the entire membership of Intensity were ship-wrecked on an island without sufficient food supplies, which member would you nominate to be eaten first and why? also, please state second and third choices and reasons why.

I just knew this one would pop up.

Fluorescent's first, I think. He claims to have taken good care of his body so the nutritional value's probably pretty good. If memory serves, he's also supposed to be a reasonably large guy and would be enough to feed many mouths.

And, of course, there would be less stalking around the island. ;)

Have to think some before nominating #2 and #3, but MacKenzie also appears to be a healthy guy. So...  ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 02, 2006, 06:24:42 AM
the music artist beck, had an album called odelay.

i think visually it looks similar to odeon, so i figured that you would know what it means.

i know whats happening here.  you are enforcing tough love on me.  making me do my own google search.
thanks i needed that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2006, 08:42:17 AM
Yes; a Google search is usually all it takes. You know I love you, McJ, but you needed to do this.  :-*

(Actually the name "beck" didn't mean a thing to me.  :D)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 02, 2006, 09:24:19 AM
actually, me neither.

i am not a fan.  its just that you know how things stick in your head.  well that ones been bouncing my head for nearly a decade.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 05, 2006, 09:56:42 AM
I would not be smart to attack a big guy.? What if Peter and I team up on you?? I am not saying we would need to, but what if we decided to?? It would not be in a gay way either, or else I would have to kill both of you. If Peter wanted to fuck you, I team up with him first, then I would let him have his way with you. Peter will fuck a dead body, if its fresh enough and the maggots won;t bother him.  He said the rotting flesh bothers him more.  As for stalking, I can move on, there is probably someone better waiting for me. If she says no, that is it.? If I were to keep going, I could not change her mind, or win a friend.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2006, 12:42:22 PM
I think I'd sneak up on you, Fluorescent. Big guy or not, you'd be gone before you even noticed.  ;D
And if you did team up with Peter, I'd have to sneak up on you both, obviously. I'm not a big guy so I fight unfairly to compensate. The important thing would be to have enough food on the table...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 05, 2006, 12:52:35 PM
I don;t think that would work.   I maid you think I was dumb, but not on purpose.  There were outside circumstances, but have gotten better.  If everything is black and white, I would expect you to think I am still dumb. That would work perfectly for this situation.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2006, 01:39:40 PM
BWAHHAHHHAAA!!! (evil laugh)

You have to remember that this is a fantasy. If something as unlikely as the shipwrecked-on-an-island scenario can happen, well, then I can bloody well sneak up on you and finish you off. The question wasn't how; the question was who'd go first.

* You. *
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 05, 2006, 01:51:21 PM
I know its a fantasy, because you could only catch me in one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 05, 2006, 02:55:58 PM
Good one!  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 05, 2006, 03:23:31 PM
Please don;t let my actions fool you.  I am really a nice guy, and I am not a hot head.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 05, 2006, 04:19:39 PM
I got an intresting question.  You said you would eat me, would you eat my cock?

If you want to eat me, you should have a woman do it for you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2006, 09:10:33 AM
Nah, I think I'd not eat it. The nutritional value is doubtful, anyway.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: peegai on June 06, 2006, 09:12:02 AM
Have any interesting hobbies?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2006, 09:15:14 AM
Have any interesting hobbies?

I think all of them are  :D. Middle egyptian, chess, tinkering with my Linux box, film projection (I have a working movie theatre in my garage, hence the name "odeon")... I can make a long list of my hobbies and interests but it's changing constantly.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BeeBee on June 06, 2006, 04:04:43 PM
One of my son's interest is Middle Egyptian too.

Your English is better than most native speakers.  How long have you spoken English and why did you learn it?

BeeBee
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2006, 03:10:05 AM
Long story, BeeBee, but basically I had to learn it on my own in the late 70s because I always missed out English in class. First, I was born in Finland and chose Swedish instead of English, as an extra language (Swedish was far more useful in Finland, at the time, and I was born a native Finnish speaker).

Then, after moving to Sweden when I was 11, I discovered that everyone had to learn English and had been busy doing it for a couple of years by the time I came along. Me, I was busy learning Swedish and missed out even more English because of that. So, eventually I thought that I'd do it on my own instead, more or less.

I helped that my dad was an interpreter and I apparently got most of his language genes, but what really did it was reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. :D

I guess learning languages is pretty easy for me if I'm interested. Which is why I've always failed miserably trying to learn German...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 07, 2006, 07:04:24 AM
BWAHHAHHHAAA!!! (evil laugh)

You have to remember that this is a fantasy. If something as unlikely as the shipwrecked-on-an-island scenario can happen, well, then I can bloody well sneak up on you and finish you off. The question wasn't how; the question was who'd go first.

* You. *

should we eat Jizz's ass.  afterall he volunteered it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 07, 2006, 10:56:02 AM
we just recieved the funding to produce the first annual I? Calender, and you have been selected to model for and represent one month.

Which month would you choose, and why?
and would you pose scantily clad, or bare chested?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2006, 01:34:19 PM
should we eat Jizz's ass.  afterall he volunteered it.

Sure. Consider it free food.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2006, 01:36:19 PM
Which month would you choose, and why?
and would you pose scantily clad, or bare chested?

January. It would spoil the rest of the year for anyone who bought the thing.
Seen in that light, answer #2 is easy: bare-chested.  ;D

/Odeon, the AS poster boy
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on June 07, 2006, 04:56:01 PM
So how many Star Trek FASA books do You have?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 08, 2006, 12:40:39 AM
Well, I have the original RPG box, with the deck plans and all. I have the tactical combat simulator box, that I believe was originally out shortly after The Wrath of Khan (I think they integrated it into the RPG in later versions), a couple of the sourcebooks--I'm looking at the book for The Voyage Home when I write this--and a few of the adventures. Don't know how many, though. I've stashed them away somewhere.

Funny thing, I never actually used them a lot for actual role-playing--the PG friends I had were mostly into GURPS--but I certainly read them a lot. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Nomaken on June 09, 2006, 05:14:52 AM
What is it about the particular way you live your life that makes you most proud?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 09, 2006, 03:37:11 PM
What is it about the particular way you live your life that makes you most proud?

That's a tough question. But also a very good one. I'm proud in that I think I'm providing a reasonably stable environment for my kids to grow in, meaning that the way we live our life is very much unlike what I was subjected to when I was their age. I think I provide continuity, and with that, security, and I desperately want to keep it that way.

I think I'm also more true to myself these days. I don't bother as much with appearances as I used to.

On the other hand, just thinking about your questions makes me doubt myself.  :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 10, 2006, 11:43:33 AM
should we eat Jizz's ass.? afterall he volunteered it.

Sure. Consider it free food.

i would consider it to be a horsey deovre (sound it out)
How is this word actually spelled correct?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 10, 2006, 01:42:15 PM
i would consider it to be a horsey deovre (sound it out)
How is this word actually spelled correct?

hors d'oeuvre, I think. The questions you get in these ask away-threads...  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 10, 2006, 05:44:09 PM
what is the ideal type of movie to watch in your personal cinema?

which is your favorite movie from your personal collection?

what other type of things do you collect?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2006, 04:36:48 AM
1. Any 70 mm print, shot in 65 mm and with its colours intact. The screen is about 3 meters wide, the distance between it and the projector is about 5 meters, and the image, therefore, is the sharpest I've ever seen, anywhere.

But any print with CinemaScope and lots of Dolby Stereo sound will do, if necessary. It's OK to screen a "dialog-oriented" film but screening is more fun if there's sound and images that I can do justice to...

2. I suppose "Titanic". It would have been perfect if that stupid love story had been toned down a bit.  :laugh:

3. Lots of stuff pertaining to old movie theatres, obviously, from projectors to old tickets to movie trailers to blueprints to... I'm sure you get the idea. Books. CDs. Original LPs, EPs, singles by the Beatles or by any of the fab four on their own. Anything having to do with my current interests (so I have some pretty interesting stuff).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 11, 2006, 10:37:01 AM
Do you believe that some form of morality (not the ability to accept morality, but actual moral tendencies) can be, or is, present in humans regardless of what they have been taught and exposed to?  In simplistic terms, are some morals hard-wired in some or all humans?  Elaborate on this your answer as much as you like.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2006, 02:10:02 PM
No, I think most, if not all, of our morals are induced by our upbringing, society, etc.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 16, 2006, 09:41:50 AM
All knowing Odeon, what should go on a pizza?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2006, 11:59:42 AM
Finally an important question!  ;D  Salami. Lots of it. Pizza doesn't get better than that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 16, 2006, 12:21:10 PM
All mighty Odeon, besides salt and sugar, what is your favorite spice?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 16, 2006, 12:36:47 PM
Don't actually have one, but pepper's nice to have.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 18, 2006, 07:24:57 PM
What subjects, in school, did you excel at?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 18, 2006, 10:45:19 PM
If fluorescent has been hiding a great secret about himself from us, what do you think the surprise would be?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2006, 01:26:17 AM
What subjects, in school, did you excel at?

Math, physics, languages (except German).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2006, 01:29:44 AM
If fluorescent has been hiding a great secret about himself from us, what do you think the surprise would be?

Well, since he spends so much time denying he's a gay...  ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 19, 2006, 04:41:06 AM
 Perfect, now I think you will be surprised.

What part of the woman's body auroses you the most?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2006, 07:22:41 AM
What part of the woman's body auroses you the most?

It varies. Currently, breasts.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 19, 2006, 10:33:30 AM
do you think my daughter is darling?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2006, 03:20:00 PM
The girl on your avatar? She's lovely, absolutely lovely. How old is she?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Silk on June 19, 2006, 03:56:32 PM
What's the weirdest inanimate object you've ever spoken to?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 19, 2006, 05:02:11 PM
What's the weirdest inanimate object you've ever spoken to?

I was tempted to suggest my German teacher but there's evidence that he's actually left the spot now.  ;D

I suppose my coffeee mug's next in line.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 20, 2006, 08:45:02 AM
Will you give us a voice recording?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 20, 2006, 04:21:49 PM
My voice? No way.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 20, 2006, 06:08:40 PM
The girl on your avatar? She's lovely, absolutely lovely. How old is she?
the one in question is 8.  she is one of us, AS.
the new one is six.  she is my youngest daughter.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2006, 01:08:40 AM
The girl on your avatar? She's lovely, absolutely lovely. How old is she?
the one in question is 8.  she is one of us, AS.
the new one is six.  she is my youngest daughter.

You're a very lucky man, McJ. They're adorable, both of them.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Hibakusha on June 21, 2006, 01:14:23 AM
1. what do you mostly have in common with most aspers?

2. what do you least have in common with most aspers?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 21, 2006, 01:34:46 AM
The girl on your avatar? She's lovely, absolutely lovely. How old is she?
the one in question is 8.? she is one of us, AS.
the new one is six.? she is my youngest daughter.

You're a very lucky man, McJ. They're adorable, both of them.

you call me lucky, but don't you realize that i only have a few more years to ready them, to protect them from boys that are just like i was.
the great irony, the big hipocrisy.

at least i understand who the enemy is, and the enemy is me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2006, 02:20:20 AM
you call me lucky, but don't you realize that i only have a few more years to ready them, to protect them from boys that are just like i was.

I have a daughter, too. She's nine. I know.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eamonn on June 21, 2006, 02:22:17 AM

you call me lucky, but don't you realize that i only have a few more years to ready them, to protect them from boys that are just like i was.

A few years? Nice try, il give you a year at the most.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2006, 01:24:23 AM
1. what do you mostly have in common with most aspers?

2. what do you least have in common with most aspers?

1. Trouble sleeping, sensory issues, stimming, obsessions, trouble reading social situations... the usual stuff...

2. I'm married and have kids.  ;D I mean, it's not unheard of but unusual.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Silk on June 22, 2006, 11:35:23 AM
Have you ever made a special meal for a special someone? If so describe the meal and the person.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Silk on June 26, 2006, 03:25:01 PM
Why are you not in the chatroom?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2006, 03:30:11 PM
'cause those real time apps freak me out. It's like an ouija board or something, only scarier. MSN freaks me out, too. With message boards, I can still think before answering. Not that I do it all the time, but I can.

Also, I've never really figured out how to configure that stuff in Firefox and Linux.

Re special meals: yeah, I think I have, but since I'm a terrible cook, the meal was fries and chicken or something like that, and the person was my ex. She wasn't my anything yet, at the time, though, so I don't think the meal did any real harm. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jizz on June 26, 2006, 03:32:28 PM
Are you named after the picture house in Ayr?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 26, 2006, 03:35:47 PM
No, after the picture house in my garage.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Hibakusha on June 26, 2006, 05:09:11 PM
Do you have a chat button towards the top of your page, next to the profile and log out buttons?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on June 26, 2006, 06:02:42 PM
you call me lucky, but don't you realize that i only have a few more years to ready them, to protect them from boys that are just like i was.

I have a daughter, too. She's nine. I know.
Have fun now, it starts getting bad soon.  Mine are 15 and 17 and I thought I was prepared. 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on June 26, 2006, 06:10:21 PM
What do you like about living in Sweden?
and
What are your winters like?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 27, 2006, 01:51:40 AM
Hibakusha: Yeah, I have a chat button. Why? :) I'm not gonna touch it.

Triste: Our winters are varied, to say the least. This winter, we had a lot of snow and temperatures well below zero. Other winters have been warmer, without the snow but with our share of rain instead.

Göteborg, where I live, is large enough for a decent bookstore but small enough to not feel crowded. Summers are warm, reasonably sunny, and it's not dark for more than a couple of hours around midnight.

And when I travel, I usually get homesick, so I suppose I'm either used to living here, or it seems like a btter place than others...  ;)

Could be that I hate change, too, and don't like traveling to begin with.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on June 27, 2006, 03:48:42 AM
What do You like or dislike about Sweden?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 27, 2006, 04:00:37 AM
I dislike our government. Can't stand any of them, in fact, and think that they do a lousy job. There's an election coming up, though, so I hope we can take care of this particular nuisance.

I dislike the typically Swedish Big Brother-mentality, where the authorities always know best, where bureaucracy blooms, and where there's always an extra step before anything happens.

I dislike the taxes. They're sky-high, and there's a tax for just about everything.

As for what I like about Sweden, well, this is where I live. The looks, the weather, the soccer team... It's mostly a good place to live.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on June 27, 2006, 06:02:00 PM
How did Sweden do in the World Cup?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 01:33:14 PM
How did Sweden do in the World Cup?

Let's not talk about that.  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Silk on June 28, 2006, 01:34:09 PM
Have you ever wished you could have taken another path in life? And if so what would that path be?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on June 28, 2006, 01:34:35 PM
are swedes neutral?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 01:37:41 PM
Have you ever wished you could have taken another path in life? And if so what would that path be?

Yeah, I wish I would have studied linguistics instead of physics. I wish I would have said yes to a job offer made to me about two years ago. I wish I wouldn't have written a certain document where I spoke my mind about every little thing I thought was wrong where I worked, and I wish above all that I wouldn't have emailed it to my boss, about three years ago.

Don't get me started; it'll be a thread in its own right.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 01:38:20 PM
are swedes neutral?

Supposedly, yes. In reality, no.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on June 28, 2006, 01:38:52 PM
Do you have any nicknames?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 01:41:20 PM
Um, Odeon? ;D

I had one when I was a kid in Finland some 30 plus years ago: Nuuska. But it's a long story, and if you don't speak Finnish, there's no point in explaining...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on June 28, 2006, 02:45:02 PM
Have you ever wished you could have taken another path in life? And if so what would that path be?

Yeah, I wish I would have studied linguistics instead of physics. I wish I would have said yes to a job offer made to me about two years ago. I wish I wouldn't have written a certain document where I spoke my mind about every little thing I thought was wrong where I worked, and I wish above all that I wouldn't have emailed it to my boss, about three years ago.

Don't get me started; it'll be a thread in its own right.
Did you read my response to this question?  It's eerily familiar to yours.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 03:17:53 PM
Yeah, I wish I would have studied linguistics instead of physics. I wish I would have said yes to a job offer made to me about two years ago. I wish I wouldn't have written a certain document where I spoke my mind about every little thing I thought was wrong where I worked, and I wish above all that I wouldn't have emailed it to my boss, about three years ago.

Don't get me started; it'll be a thread in its own right.
Did you read my response to this question?  It's eerily familiar to yours.

No, and still haven't; but I will once I've posted this.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 03:18:58 PM
I did, now.  :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jizz on June 28, 2006, 03:20:05 PM
Is that John Lemon in your avatar?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 03:33:32 PM
No. John Lennon.  ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on June 28, 2006, 03:42:24 PM
How did you first find out about AS?
How old were you at the time?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2006, 04:53:08 PM
I found out about AS when they started talking about my son having that dx. I was 36 at the time, and it took me a night of reading everything i could get my hands on online to realize where those genes came from.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Draggon on June 29, 2006, 06:43:02 PM
Religion: apathetic, agnostic, atheist, believer?
Do you believe in a higher power?
If so what made you believe in it, what form do you think it takes, what makes you believe it takes that particular form?
If not, how do you feel about the people who do believe, whats your general attitude towards them?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on June 30, 2006, 12:47:40 AM
How do You Like Intensitysquared?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 30, 2006, 01:28:17 AM
How do You Like Intensitysquared?

Right now? It passes the time. Yesterday? Loved it. Anything that Ascan finds indefensible's gotta be good, right?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 30, 2006, 01:29:18 AM
Hey, stop messing with the censor filters already!  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on July 10, 2006, 08:25:48 PM
What is your favorite kind of pie?

You live in a big house or little house?

What do you do for work?

What is your favorite carnival ride?

Ever fired a weapon?

What is your favorite sport?

I love to post whore!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on July 11, 2006, 03:23:57 AM
What was the last book you read and what did you think of it?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 11, 2006, 03:31:16 PM
Religion: apathetic, agnostic, atheist, believer?
Do you believe in a higher power?
If so what made you believe in it, what form do you think it takes, what makes you believe it takes that particular form?
If not, how do you feel about the people who do believe, whats your general attitude towards them?

agnostic atheist. I don't really believe, but I'm sufficiently afraid to be wrong to make sure to use a capital G in God.
I was born and raised a Christian but thought that there was no logic in what I was teached.
I think that most religions and beliefs are up to the individual. I respect everyone's right to believe, and I think there's a real possibility that I'm wrong. What I don't accept is when a religion is forced upon you. I've never been able to accept a higher authority, regardless of the level of that authority, and will fight it whenever I come across it.

(Sorry I was late with the reply; I don't know what happened....)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 11, 2006, 03:41:33 PM
What is your favorite kind of pie?

Never liked pie. Sorry. It's the gooey stuff they put in them that puts me off.

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You live in a big house or little house?

Sort of medium-sized. I like it, and it's big enough for me and my family. It's not big enough for house guests but that's mostly because most of them don't respect my need for privacy.

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What do you do for work?

I'm currently an unemployed information analyst, but the job I actually like is my extra work as a movie projectionist. I've screened films for about 20 years and I still love the work.

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What is your favorite carnival ride?

Can't handle most of them. My sensory systems overload and I end up screaming. I'd prefer to avoid amusement parks but with two kids...

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Ever fired a weapon?

No, not the real thing.

Quote
What is your favorite sport?

Golf and soccer. I sometimes do the former, and I often watch the latter.

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I love to post whore!

I know.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 12, 2006, 01:32:03 PM
can i get a picture of the small of your back?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 02:35:56 PM
can i get a picture of the small of your back?

No.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 12, 2006, 02:37:28 PM
how about a picture of your breasts
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on July 12, 2006, 02:51:03 PM
how about a picture of your breasts

Since we've already seen your breasts can we have a picture of the small of your back? ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 03:01:06 PM
how about a picture of your breasts

No.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 12, 2006, 04:26:36 PM
your middle finger?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 04:31:30 PM
You'll just have to imagine my middle finger, McJ. I don't post pictures on forums.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 12, 2006, 04:33:15 PM
bit i asked if i can get a picture.

you could have sent me a private picture.

if i posted it all you had to do was deny it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 04:41:26 PM
Check your email... I did send you a picture, a few days ago, before you asked for pics of middle fingers and such.  :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 12, 2006, 04:45:39 PM
describe for us your perfect day?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on July 12, 2006, 04:54:27 PM
How's your vacation?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 05:08:24 PM
describe for us your perfect day?

I suppose a perfect day would be waking up after a good night's sleep to a sunny summer day spent mostly at home, a part of it writing and reading, and another part doing things with my my family. And it would be nice to end the day by screening a newly restored 70mm print, preferably "Ben Hur" but any good 70mm film will do, at the Draken theatre in Göteborg, getting back home around midnight and be able to fall asleep without having to obsess over stuff for hours on end.

Oh, and a trip to the bookstore sometime during the day would be nice, too. :)

For the record, some of the above happens every now and then, so I consider myself fairly lucky. Also, there's lots of detail that I won't go into here, and stuff that I would like to have resolved for that really perfect day to happen.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 05:14:28 PM
How's your vacation?

It's OK, except that I wasn't really planning on spending the nights reading Intensity through a dial-up connection. It's an obsession of sorts right now. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on July 12, 2006, 05:30:38 PM
I was kind of the same way on my vacation, reading Intensity² and a couple of other sites on my husband's computer late at night while the rest of the family slept.

It can be pretty fascinating reading, can't it?

Are you seeing fun sights or doing fun things in the daytime?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 12, 2006, 05:41:09 PM
I'm spending the days with my family, mostly boating or swimming or both, at my father-in-law's summer place. There's also time to read and do nothing with a beer in hand. And, of course, Intensity when everyone else's asleep. :D

Right now, Intensity's my way of relaxing because while the summer place is nice and all, it's hard to get the time you need for yourself. There's simply not enough room.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Draggon on July 26, 2006, 05:47:53 PM
What do you do when you need to stimulate your creativity?

What up in the hizzy dawg?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2006, 01:15:45 PM
Writing, posting on various forums and newsgroups, reading, tinkering with the Linux box, more writing... As for the second question, could you please rephrase?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 31, 2006, 03:53:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cAcIOV1YI

hi gunther...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 31, 2006, 04:30:43 PM
PMSL! (If that's a question, the answer's no, though!)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Draggon on July 31, 2006, 04:49:48 PM
As for the second question, could you please rephrase?
fo shizzle brizzle

what be goin dizzown in yo hizzouse my main dizzawg?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McJ on July 31, 2006, 05:44:04 PM
odeon, have you ever traded a scent for a dollar ?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 01:30:22 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cAcIOV1YI

hi gunther...

don't go there - i was so appalled when eamonn posted this somewhere else, i emailed my friend with it, and she came back with this (http://www.gunthernet.com/).  astonishingly, her 13 year old boy knew all about gunther...   :o

i still reckon The Pout is cos the wind changed, and he stayed like it.  is he for real?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 01, 2006, 04:37:35 AM
Gunther's for real, yes. Scary, innit?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eamonn on August 01, 2006, 10:20:34 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cAcIOV1YI

hi gunther...

don't go there - i was so appalled when eamonn posted this somewhere else, i emailed my friend with it, and she came back with this (http://www.gunthernet.com/).  astonishingly, her 13 year old boy knew all about gunther...   :o

i still reckon The Pout is cos the wind changed, and he stayed like it.  is he for real?

I remember the 'ding dong song' charted quite well over here and was always on the music channels.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 01, 2006, 10:24:38 AM
kinda reminded me of R-I-C-O  S-U-A-V-E.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 12:50:00 PM
Gunther's for real, yes. Scary, innit?

terrifying.  really.  i cannot stop laughing watching the videos - that POUT !

thank christ i don't listen to the radio (apart from the stuck up ones).  was it some sort of summer hit sensation then, eamonn?  like Aqua, Ace of Base, the Tomato Sauce Twats (or whatever they were called)?  you know what  i mean - novelty records, or something.

i do not want to know anything about rico suave, thank you, mcj. 

erm...

sigh...

go on, then - got a youtube link?

edit:  oh dear - what a sad sack of shit i am...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7hEh4padQ&search=rico%20suave

this is truly dreadful, folks.  really.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 01, 2006, 12:51:58 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp7hEh4padQ

sure thing.

then try this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8M_3w2Blq8
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 12:59:15 PM
now look here, mcj - how the buggerty fuck did you know about rico doodah, eh?

verrrrrrrrry suspect, you closet case.

okay chaps - a tip for you :

Do Not, i repeat NOT, EVER even consider wearing cowboy boots.  never.  NOT EVER.  unless you are an actual cowboy, engaged in your day to day job of work.  cowboy boots make you look like a cunt, and the chest wig (or, in Gerardo's case, the shaven chest - bleurrrrrrrgh!), faux tigerskin duvert cover, mirrors on the ceiling, and medallion are part of the package.  i.e., people will assume you have those too, whether you have or not.

i URGE you to eschew cowboy boots, chaps.  really.

i thank you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 01, 2006, 01:06:09 PM
that was a huge hit here in america about 10 years ago.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 01, 2006, 01:21:58 PM
The Tomato Sauce Twats? Now that's scary.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 01:26:02 PM
oh, it was the ketchup song, or something.  personally, i've never actually heard it, as i manage to avoid anything which might upset me too much.

 ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eamonn on August 01, 2006, 03:39:51 PM

thank christ i don't listen to the radio (apart from the stuck up ones).  was it some sort of summer hit sensation then, eamonn?   



Why, yes, i think it was.Interesting fact alert- I first heard the tomato song while on holiday over in Faliraki and never realised that it was to become a massive hit back in the good ol UK. *pouts over the fact that i am not and will never be Gunther*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 04:08:20 PM
YOU POUTED!!!

it's catching, and YOU've caught it.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!   >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 01, 2006, 04:09:57 PM
Take him away from my thread already! God only knows what damage he can do here!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eamonn on August 01, 2006, 04:12:32 PM
Take him away from my thread already! God only knows what damage he can do here!

Mcjagger, Gunther or Rico Suave?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 04:13:16 PM
/Lucifer takes eamonn's arm gently, and calls over some kind people, to help her lead him away...

"come on, gunth... *cough* eamonn, dear.  let's just see if we can... thaaaat's it - just relax your lips, and you'll feel a little prick (splutter!) in your arm, we'll soon have that nasty pout gone, okay?"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 04:13:29 PM
Take him away from my thread already! God only knows what damage he can do here!

Mcjagger, Gunther or Rico Suave?

all of the above, mainly.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 01, 2006, 04:13:38 PM
Take him away from my thread already! God only knows what damage he can do here!

Mcjagger, Gunther or Rico Suave?

Yes!!!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eamonn on August 01, 2006, 04:15:50 PM
we'll soon have that nasty pout gone, okay?"

Are you for real? Are you a seriously a straight or bi woman? The burds adore the pout. :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 01, 2006, 04:22:52 PM
i am seriously-a-straight-or-bi-woman, and not a burd, which is possibly why i find the pout hilarious, slightly repugnant, and definitely NOT attractive, in any way, shape or form.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 02, 2006, 12:32:02 AM
Take him away from my thread already! God only knows what damage he can do here!

Mcjagger, Gunther or Rico Suave?

Yes!!!

you just made and emo out of me odeon. :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 02, 2006, 01:13:33 AM
awwww, poor love.

/pats mcj, whilst trying not to snigger directly in his face.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2006, 02:26:27 AM
you just made and emo out of me odeon. :'(

There, there, you can stay if you want to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 02, 2006, 12:41:56 PM
you just made and emo out of me odeon. :'(

There, there, you can stay if you want to.
thank you kind sir.

now for the hard questions:

is ascan behaving himself on OTS?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2006, 12:46:16 PM
Yes, sort of. He isn't posting. Nobody is, it seems. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 04, 2006, 12:59:07 AM
Can you give me a sentence in Swedish, and then in Finnish?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 04, 2006, 03:22:03 AM
Ja, visst kan jag ge dig en mening på svenska.
Kyllä voin antaa sinulle lauseen suomeksi myös.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 04, 2006, 08:01:56 PM
I assume 'ja' means yes.  But what does the rest mean?
And do you have to do something different to your computer to type English.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 04:38:16 AM
Ja, visst kan jag ge dig en mening på svenska.
Kyllä voin antaa sinulle lauseen suomeksi myös.

Yes, sure, I can give you a sentence in Swedish/Finnish. (More or less, the languages are differently constructed but that's basically what one would say...)

I assume 'ja' means yes.  But what does the rest mean?
And do you have to do something different to your computer to type English.

No. My computer has a Swedish keyboard, which means that characters like "/", "\", etc, are placed differently since the accented characters ("å", "ä", "ö"--don't know if your browser will display these, though; it depends on the installed fonts) need their own keys. The Swedish--the Finnish is identical to Swedish--alphabet is a superset of the English one. What I had to do was to tell KDE (my window manager of choice in Linux) to use a Swedish keyboard layout to get the Swedish characters to show up.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 05, 2006, 01:24:08 PM
Brilliant.

I was in a Paris train station, waiting to go to Belgium, when I heard John Lennon was shot.  I was devastated.
Where were you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 01:36:39 PM
Walking home from school. I stopped at the newsstand and saw the headlines. The time was about half past three in the afternoon, and I was devastated.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 05:09:46 PM
odeon,
Quote
I take it that you don't consider McJ to be "really fucked up"?

do you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 05:12:54 PM
odeon,
Quote
I take it that you don't consider McJ to be "really fucked up"?

do you?

No, I don't. I like you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 05:17:02 PM
odeon,
Quote
I take it that you don't consider McJ to be "really fucked up"?

do you?

No, I don't like you.

that is not a very kind thing to say. :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 05:20:17 PM
A little quoting mishap there, eh, McJ?  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 05:22:29 PM
 8)

yeah, i read it like that upon first glance.
thought it would be funny to post my initial read.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 05:28:12 PM
8)

yeah, i read it like that upon first glance.
thought it would be funny to post my initial read.

I actually had to check what I wrote. For a second, I thought I had actually written that. :)

Did you really think I'd say that?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 05:33:06 PM
8)

yeah, i read it like that upon first glance.
thought it would be funny to post my initial read.

I actually had to check what I wrote. For a second, I thought I had actually written that. :)

Did you really think I'd say that?


nah, you seem to have a bit of a time frame between placid and boiling points.  i do not think that i have brrought you to that point yet.
but who knows, i may surprise you... ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 05:34:51 PM
You're welcome to try.  ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 05:35:56 PM
don't expect an argument from me, because you are too concerned with facts.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 05:38:13 PM
don't expect an argument from me, because you are too concerned with facts.

The facts have a nasty habit of getting in the way.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 05:44:04 PM
yes,
except i cannot be arsed to adhere to them.

they are interpretable based upon the peron assessing them, and actual facts seem to drift in a new direction every half generation or so.

things are in constant flux.

i only trust my own observations.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 05:56:59 PM
By the way, is it a bad thing, me being so concerned with facts?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 06:00:09 PM
By the way, is it a bad thing, me being so concerned with facts?

no actually i think that we compliment each other well.

i stir the pot, you add the ingredients to make it tasty.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 05, 2006, 06:05:10 PM
In which case you might wonder who's doing the cooking... :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on August 05, 2006, 06:17:10 PM
those that are hungry and select from the menu.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on August 05, 2006, 06:17:50 PM
In which case you might wonder who's doing the cooking... :P

Triste?  :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 06, 2006, 12:09:58 AM
Well, I have some very large coconuts...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 08, 2006, 03:21:06 AM
so, mon petit chou-fleur:  why are you so tired?  up to anything interesting last night, eh?   >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2006, 04:50:32 AM
My daughter couldn't sleep. She's scared of just about anything these days, and tonight was worse than usual.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 08, 2006, 02:50:43 PM
bleurgh.

/sends pats and general reassurance to the Odeonling.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2006, 02:58:38 PM
I like that. "Odeonling".  :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 08, 2006, 02:59:27 PM
i do actually quite like children, really.  i still couldn't eat a whole one, though.

:P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2006, 03:31:22 PM
She's asleep now, miracle of miracles.  :angel:

And you need to rethink your diet.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 08, 2006, 04:07:51 PM
told you!  ;D

and don't you fucking start - i've got enough to contend with, with peter banging on about my digestive choices.    :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 08, 2006, 04:32:24 PM
and don't you fucking start - i've got enough to contend with, with peter banging on about my digestive choices.    :'(

I meant that your eating children isn't exactly PC. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 12:57:07 AM
tut.  im a witch, for fuck's sake!  i have appearances to keep up.  ::)

so, how did the sleep thing go last night?

/crosses fingers, eyes, etc.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2006, 02:18:05 AM
It wasn't as bad as last night, but it wasn't good, either. We're getting help for her, though; this can't go on.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 02:20:08 AM
pants.

i agree about the help - a child not sleeping can frazzle the whole family.  :(

/sends pats/hugs/cyber chocolate/rubber mallet/kava kava/valerian/chamomile/lavender (yes, i can sound like flo, too)...* 

* delete as applicable.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2006, 02:21:29 AM
pants.

i agree about the help - a child not sleeping can frazzle the whole family.  :(

/sends pats/hugs/cyber chocolate/rubber mallet/kava kava/valerian/chamomile/lavender (yes, i can sound like flo, too)...* 

* delete as applicable.

I'm off the herbs now, thank you very much.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 02:22:52 AM
don't blame you, after flo's insanity.  i feel like eating plastic for the rest of my life, to be honest.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2006, 02:26:38 AM
He's almost made me start smoking again, I'll tell you that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 02:28:53 AM
lol.

luckily, i'm too much of a recent convert to do that.  besides, i'm already at the "the smell makes me feel sick" stage - hurrah!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2006, 02:35:25 AM
besides, i'm already at the "the smell makes me feel sick" stage - hurrah!

Yeah, me too. But still... there are times when I'd kill for a smoke, and if Flo provokes me enough, I know just whom I'd kill.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 02:37:31 AM
yay!

can i goad him enough so he will, and then you will, and then i will - jump for joy!

when did you stop smoking?

(and on that note, i'm off to hobble off to the shop, on my sprained-but-not-fractured-thank-fuck ankle).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2006, 03:10:08 AM
I quit one year and 14 days ago. Not that I'm keeping track or anything.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 01:47:53 PM
lol.  at least you're not on the "...and four hours, six minutes and 43 seconds..." trip.  ;D

i had to tell the doctor how long i'd stopped for, yesterday, and i had to stop and work it out.  how bloody pleased with myself am i about that?   :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2006, 03:03:09 PM
I'm actually pretty damned pleased about my one year and 14 days. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 09, 2006, 03:35:52 PM
huzzah for us!

have some karma, my dear chap.  ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 09, 2006, 06:09:55 PM
Congrats, you two.  My quit date is Friday (tomorrow is last day to smoke) and I'm doing it cold turkey.  I will keep you guys in mind for inspiration.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on August 09, 2006, 06:53:45 PM
I take it this is where I sign up for fagash anonymous. I quit as soon as the small pack of drum i'm on runs out, probably friday. wish me luck an all, I'll probably need it...  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 09, 2006, 07:02:14 PM
A package of Drum will last you till Friday?  Good for you.  I buy mine by the pound. 
Anyway, we can be quit buddies. LOL.  Here's a helpful website: 
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/voicesofnicotinerecovery/?yguid=268750043
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on August 09, 2006, 07:14:35 PM
heh. i should probably explain... I'm 10 hours ahead of you, so I've a day and a bit to go before I run out - about thirty fags worth left. I smoke 25-30 a day usually so I'll try and cut back a bit tomorrow, then save a bit for skinning up with on friday night. i better get the pipe out after that, no more evil nicotine.  :D I've quit cold turkey before, but since PI smokes I always end up cadging off her. she'll be stuck in the Dordogne at her mums jonesing for a smoke herself lol - hopefully by the time they get home we'll both have quit yay
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 10, 2006, 01:55:16 AM
hurrah for you two, too!  ;D

go over to the "nicotine gum" (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php?topic=727.msg35721#msg35721) thread, and i'll post some useful stuff (not wanting to hijack, you see).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Triste on August 10, 2006, 04:50:37 AM
I'm 10 hours ahead of you
Okay, that's just scary that you know that.  Anyway, that means you're on Zulu time!  How cool.
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she'll be stuck in the Dordogne at her mums jonesing for a smoke herself lol - hopefully by the time they get home we'll both have quit yay
OMG- I hope she gets along with her Mum.  Nothing screams "give me a cigarette" like being with my mother.

Okay Odeon, back to you.  Thanks for being the inspiration for this quit-smoking ramble.

Question:  Do you have a recipe for swedish meatballs?  Are they even worth making, in your opinion?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2006, 05:55:55 AM
Question:  Do you have a recipe for swedish meatballs?  Are they even worth making, in your opinion?

I'll have to ask my wife. Hers are the best. And yes: they're definitely worth making.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: le travesti angelique on August 14, 2006, 11:45:38 AM
Do you think that being selfish of oneself guarantees a better chance at finding happiness than to act selfless towards others?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 14, 2006, 02:08:47 PM
For me, no. For others, maybe. It all depends on how happiness is defined. If your happiness depends on other people, you can't be all selfish, can you?

I do think that some selfishness is required, though. If you aren't taking care of yourself, how can you take care of anyone else?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tom/Mutate on September 01, 2006, 03:52:15 AM
What kind of movies do you like them most, and what kind of movies do you hate?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 01, 2006, 07:15:14 AM
The movies I hate the most are those with any "message" forced on the moviegoer, films made to satisfy a sponsor, or the kind of talky movies that Ingmar Bergman's famous for (or Woody Allen, for that matter).

Films I love? The ones that make me happy and offer two hours of escape. I know, that's not much of an answer but the only answer I can give since I like a variety of films, from action to Russian drama.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 01, 2006, 09:35:24 AM
i never got woddy allen myself.  i have loathed everything i have ever seen by him.

mel brooks on the other hand is a genius.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 01, 2006, 10:59:45 AM
mel brooks on the other hand is a genius.

Yes, he is.

/me sings "Springtime for Hitler"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 01, 2006, 12:23:57 PM
"high ang...

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XIE-ity!

whenever you're neeeeeeear..."

;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 01, 2006, 12:29:41 PM
mel brooks on the other hand is a genius.

Yes, he is.

/me sings "Springtime for Hitler"

the inquisition, the inquisition.

the etheopian shim sham.

history of the world pt.1 is one of my all time favorite movies.  i must've seen it 100 times.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 01, 2006, 12:31:37 PM
Well, he *is* a genius, after all. Ask any projectionist around here. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 01, 2006, 12:33:12 PM
that campfire scene in blazing saddles had me in stitches.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 01, 2006, 12:42:49 PM
me too - i can never quite forgive myself for finding it so funny, and yet i can never stop laughing, either.  but it's a hard choice between that and the last scenes, where the busby berkley musical number is annexed - that reduces me to a giggling blob every time.   :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 01, 2006, 02:03:06 PM
What time is it in Sweden right now?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 01, 2006, 02:03:28 PM
limpet time!

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 01, 2006, 02:09:20 PM
;D 10 p.m.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 01, 2006, 07:29:39 PM
So how is odeon doing?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2006, 03:32:02 AM
Odeon's doing OK.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 02, 2006, 05:52:01 AM
Thats good. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tom/Mutate on September 02, 2006, 07:03:58 AM
are there any movie which have been too violent or scary for you to watch?   

Do you mind watching films in Pan-and-Scan or do you demand the oringinal aspect ratio?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2006, 08:48:07 AM
are there any movie which have been too violent or scary for you to watch?   

Do you mind watching films in Pan-and-Scan or do you demand the oringinal aspect ratio?

No, no film too scary or violent, but some have bored me to tears.

I can't stand pan & scan. The original aspect ratio is a minimum requirement.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 02, 2006, 08:51:52 AM
i am beginning to think that you are the most intense person here.

what do you think?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2006, 09:53:54 AM
How do you measure "intense"? I think it's for others to decide.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 02, 2006, 09:55:39 AM
i define it as pure honesty!

you give nothing away for free you make people earn every step.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 02, 2006, 09:57:42 AM
too bloody right, mcj!

my knees and elbows are worn to fucking stumps, and my tongue has Repetitive Strain Injury...   :'(

and as for my other, special places...   :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 02, 2006, 10:04:35 AM
 :laugh:

I don't know... Sometimes I think that I'm too harsh on people. OTOH, sometimes I'm too soft. Blame my social skills. ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 01:55:57 AM
what do you think of your new, tousled avatar, then sweetle?  (ooooooh, "tousled"...)

reckon it's the "after" photo, after i've been about, eh?

;)

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 02:15:22 AM
It's an "after" photo, all right... :P

"tousled"....  :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 02:21:34 AM
"suits YOU, sir!  ooh!  OOH!"

 ;)

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 07:04:42 AM
"suits YOU, sir!  ooh!  OOH!"

 ;)



;D :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 03, 2006, 07:07:30 AM
based upon the convo, and the avatar, odeon is some sort of a male whore.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 07:46:09 AM
based upon the convo, and the avatar, odeon is some sort of a male whore.

(+1 without the +1)  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 08:24:07 AM
yeah, but only for me.  and if anyone wishes to say (or try) anything different...

well, better get used to ponds and lily pads, is all i can say.   >:(

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 11:05:38 AM
I do some whoring, of course, but only here. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: thepeaguy on September 03, 2006, 11:18:44 AM
Is esme too much of an attention whore or what?

(Oh wait, esme's just gonna answer that for you. :angel:)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 11:59:39 AM
I am not!

I don't go out of my way to seek attention, it's just that my opinions often bring out the worst in others!

Perhaps having 'an opinion' is a dangerous thing full stop?!    ::)

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: thepeaguy on September 03, 2006, 12:01:51 PM
I am not!

I don't go out of my way to seek attention, it's just that my opinions often bring out the worst in others!

Perhaps having 'an opinion' is a dangerous thing full stop?!    ::)



Opinions? Why, I love having opinions -- they make life interesting. Like when I wasn't completely surprised at the fact that your ex called the police onto you. Who could blame him? :p

Yay for opinions.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 01:00:45 PM
Well top marks for a tediously predictable response to that disclosure!  ::)

I notice that the police callout does seem to have knocked my IT job off the top spot though
so showing a little flexibility of thought there - Well Done!    :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: thepeaguy on September 03, 2006, 01:04:33 PM
Well top marks for a tediously predictable response to that disclosure!  ::)


Well, what can one expect when you were making tedious insults towards people you haven't met because of "oh, my god, bullying!"?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 01:11:32 PM
But what are you doing now then??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: thepeaguy on September 03, 2006, 01:14:57 PM
But what are you doing now then??

When you arrived at this board with your guns blazing, you can't expect everyone not to take it negatively.

Simply put, I wasn't impressed by your antics, so I took the initative to highlight how much of a hypocrite you were being as you were victimising "bullies" to prove your point. You're just as bad as the bullies you were berating.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 01:17:23 PM
But you're being bullying now!



Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: thepeaguy on September 03, 2006, 01:22:08 PM
But you're being bullying now!


You're acting the victim when it's convienient for you. And when you're on full-form, you show no mercy towards the people you were trying to upset. You are like everybody else, including me.

I'm not blaming you for this, though. It's a part of being human, unfortunately.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 01:30:53 PM
I do some whoring, of course, but only here. ;)

/dusts off wand, and hisses quietly to self...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 01:38:08 PM
Bah!

How annoyingly accurate!    :-\

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 02:43:27 PM
Is esme too much of an attention whore or what?

Yes, I suppose she is. I don't doubt her dx, though--she's incapable of realizing that there are autties very different form herself.

Quote
(Oh wait, esme's just gonna answer that for you. :angel:)

And she did. She wasn't able to keep her hands off. :laugh: +1 for you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 02:45:53 PM
But you're being bullying now!

Honey, you're a lousy troll. Face it, and leave.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 02:48:07 PM
No, I like it here  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 02:50:32 PM
You like being pwned?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 02:51:21 PM
what does pwned mean?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on September 03, 2006, 02:53:53 PM
definition... (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 02:57:54 PM
In your opinion, not mine
 
You seem to be giving yourself some kind of elite status on the board - is there anything
to back this up or is it merely delusional?   :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 03:06:25 PM
This wasn't about me, hon. It's what the sign on your forehead says: "pwned". It's what happens when you get flamed. Constantly.

As for my status, I'm just being me. What that's worth is up to the other members.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 03:17:33 PM
I'm not getting flamed constantly though, only by you and peaguy from what I can see

I have had many non-flaming exchanges on this site if you bothered to read them

You need people like me on this site; you seem really jaded
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 03:33:58 PM
Yes, we need more people, even people like you. Or perhaps especially people like you--some folks think so but I'm not convinced. And yes, I've read many or most of your non-flaming exchanges. The thing is just that, as someone pointed out, you like to play the role of a victim--when you're not flaming, that is, in which case you're pretty ruthless. Your behaviour is two-faced, it's that of a Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, and it's not easy to take you seriously when your original intention was war or something therabouts. "Cover me" was the phrase you used at the village, if I remember it correctly.

On Intensity, though, you can expect to be called on that sort of behaviour so you're not off the hook yet.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: esme456 on September 03, 2006, 03:39:44 PM
You don't say!   :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 03:40:45 PM
I think I just did. ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 03:49:05 PM
fuckin' 'ell, you two - get a bloody room !

::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 03:51:10 PM
fuckin' 'ell, you two - get a bloody room !

::)

No need to insult me...  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 03:53:39 PM
pah.  the pair of you sound like squabbling teenagers who secretly fancy each other.  so there, ner (says the highly sophisticated grown up, who happens to be older than both of you, lol).  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 03:58:24 PM
That bad, huh? I'd better stop, then. :P

Esme, sorry, hon, the master's voice and all that...

Can't I just flame her a LITTLE?  :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 03:58:49 PM
gimme a good reason, and i'll consider it.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:02:19 PM
gimme a good reason, and i'll consider it.

 :laugh:

Hey, I already suggested the cuffs. What more do you need?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:03:13 PM
okayit'sadeal

pant, pant...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 03, 2006, 04:05:11 PM
gimme a good reason, and i'll consider it.

 :laugh:

Hey, I already suggested the cuffs. What more do you need?
What kind do You have for Lucifer? ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:05:24 PM
 :laugh:

Is it possible to hijack your own thread?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:06:41 PM
yay!  let's try!

you first... 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:07:04 PM
Hey, I already suggested the cuffs. What more do you need?
What kind do You have for Lucifer? ;D

The nasty kind without the copout lever.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 03, 2006, 04:08:14 PM
:laugh:

Is it possible to hijack your own thread?
Doing a good job at it. ;D :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:09:28 PM
Hey, I already suggested the cuffs. What more do you need?
What kind do You have for Lucifer? ;D

The nasty kind without the copout lever.

Get on the fucking ferry![/b]
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:10:05 PM
 :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:10:52 PM
yeah, right, lol.

:P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 03, 2006, 04:13:43 PM
Hey, I already suggested the cuffs. What more do you need?
What kind do You have for Lucifer? ;D

The nasty kind without the copout lever.

Get on the fucking ferry![/b]
Should I? ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:14:27 PM
Your ferry's going to take a while, though, Kevv. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:15:45 PM
huh?

/goes back to read previous page...

ah.  erm... it was a joke, kevv - long story... 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:19:00 PM
And mostly wet. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 03, 2006, 04:20:23 PM
Your ferry's going to take a while, though, Kevv. :D
Yeah for sure. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:21:01 PM
And mostly wet. :D

cyprine?

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:24:02 PM
And mostly wet. :D

cyprine?



North Sea.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:27:33 PM
sigh.

look it up, please - that was NOT the required response.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:29:20 PM
Apparently I missed completely. :-[
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:30:26 PM
lol.

i won that one!  ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:36:23 PM
It would seem so...  :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:39:45 PM
squelch, squelch...  ;)

 :laugh:

 :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:42:40 PM
Move on, people, nothing to see here...  :police: :laugh:

So, anyway, you were saying...?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:43:51 PM
i think maybe it's bed for me.  before i slide off the stool...

oh, and bring yer sheep, eh?

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:46:17 PM
Baaa-aaaa-aa-aaaaa!  8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 03, 2006, 04:48:03 PM
you baaaaastard!  just cos i'm part Welsh.  :P

i'm off - come on, you, before it gets cold...   :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 03, 2006, 04:48:54 PM
 :-* 'night.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 04, 2006, 03:00:49 PM
fuckin' 'ell, you two - get a bloody room !

::)
i see you have recieved a visit from the green monster...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 04, 2006, 03:01:56 PM
Green? Monster? What are you talking about?  ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 04, 2006, 03:04:52 PM
Your ferry's going to take a while, though, Kevv. :D
you mean fairy, right?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 04, 2006, 03:54:38 PM
Ferry, actually, but it's a private joke between me and Lucifer so...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 05, 2006, 01:40:39 AM
Green? Monster? What are you talking about?  ???

green-eyed monster, hon:  jealousy.

Ferry, actually, but it's a private joke between me and Lucifer so...

yeah, so ner. 

odeon, i do believe we are now a "click"... shudder...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2006, 01:43:36 AM
Green? Monster? What are you talking about?  ???

green-eyed monster, hon:  jealousy.

/me reads the relevant posts again.
'kay... I think I just did an AS thing... ::)

Quote
Ferry, actually, but it's a private joke between me and Lucifer so...

yeah, so ner. 

odeon, i do believe we are now a "click"... shudder...

Yay, we're a click. I always wanted to be a click. ;D

Reminds me of something I read in a tech manual draft I edited:
"Click this button to change the point-of-view of the user."
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 05, 2006, 01:47:25 AM
'kay... I think I just did an AS thing... ::)


Odeon did an AS thing!  Odeon did an AS thing!

 :P :P :P

 :laugh:   I'm acting like a ten year old.   :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 05, 2006, 01:49:27 AM
'kay... I think I just did an AS thing... ::)


Odeon did an AS thing!  Odeon did an AS thing!

 :P :P :P

 :laugh:   I'm acting like a ten year old.   :laugh:

hooray - you're in good company here, then, cos we like doing that too.

Reminds me of something I read in a tech manual draft I edited:
"Click this button to change the point-of-view of the user."

if only it were that simple...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 05, 2006, 03:50:53 AM
why do i laugh evertime i read, "so and so did an AS thing, So and so did an AS thing!"?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tom/Mutate on September 05, 2006, 03:59:01 AM
odeon, what movies do you watch when feeling depressed or down?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 05, 2006, 04:14:59 AM
why do i laugh evertime i read, "so and so did an AS thing, So and so did an AS thing!"?

cos acting like kids is funny.  i do too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2006, 04:34:14 AM
odeon, what movies do you watch when feeling depressed or down?

I don't. I barely have the patience to watch a film when I'm in a good mood, so when I'm down, I usually don't.

Having worked as a projectionist for 20 years, on and off, has resulted in me not being all that interested in watching film. They're all the same, really, with few exceptions.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2006, 04:34:41 AM
why do i laugh evertime i read, "so and so did an AS thing, So and so did an AS thing!"?

cos acting like kids is funny.  i do too.

Yeah, me too. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 05, 2006, 04:51:00 AM
then, flo has left his legasy with us.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 05, 2006, 05:03:57 AM
pfft!  hardly - i've been doing it ever since i became an adult.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 03:24:14 PM
now, what's your problem with "hooray", you?

eh?   >:(

/looks at odeon with narrow eyes, in a way calculated to look dead sexy, so he feels all compelled to say "forget about it"...

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2006, 03:28:21 PM
;D  :angel: Forget about it, why don't you...?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 03:29:40 PM
okay.

so what d'you want to do instead, hmmmmm?

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2006, 03:31:58 PM
A shower. It's for the best. :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 03:35:40 PM
'ere - you haven't got your mother stuffed and in the cellar, have you?

she said, suspiciously...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2006, 03:37:56 PM
'ere - you haven't got your mother stuffed and in the cellar, have you?

she said, suspiciously...

's OK. I tell my mother EVERYTHING.  :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 03:45:24 PM
i bet.  and you dress up like her, eh?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2006, 03:56:29 PM
Quote
Mother do think she's good enough for me
Mother do think she's dangerous to me
Mother will she tear your little boy apart
Oooh aah, mother will she break my heart
Hush now baby, baby don't you cry
Mama's gonna check out all your girl friends for you
Mama won't let anyone dirty get through
Mama's gonna wait up till you get in
Mama will always find out where
You've been
Mamma's gonna keep baby healthy and clean
Ooooh Babe Ooooh Babe Ooooh Babe
You'll always be a baby to me
Mother, did it need to be so high.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 04:14:33 PM
my word...   :-\

okay, so i'll join in:

"Mother the car is here
Somebody leave the light on
Blood chariot for the redhead
Dancing, dancing girl
He's gonna change my name
Maybe you'll leave the light on
Just in, just in case I like the dancing
I can remember where I come from

I escape into
Your escape into
Our very favorite fearscape
It's across the sky
And across my heart
And I cross my legs
Oh my God
First my left foot then my right behind the other
Breadcrumbs lost under the snow"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 04:20:30 PM
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php?topic=1329.0;topicseen

"mmmmmmmph"!!!

/dies...

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2006, 04:34:29 PM
That a question? :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2006, 04:40:28 PM
nope - a request, bordering on a grovelling plea.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2006, 04:52:20 PM
 ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 10, 2006, 10:38:42 PM
 think we should all establish a time (within the next week or so), and have a drunken chat conversation, with several members of I² participating.

shots every ten minutes and a cold beer always in hand (or wine).

we can name a designated log saver, who will post the declining results of the entire session.  that way, the next day, we can all use the blushing emoticon, frequently.

and, we should remember that this is Intensity².  so no holds barred.

also, clothing is optional.




who would be interested in this?

perhaps next sunday between 10pm and midnight british time.

that means i would be drinking by about two in the afternoon.



next sunday sept 18.  would you be interested?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 02:20:51 AM
Next Sunday is September 17.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2006, 02:39:49 AM
perhaps it's the time difference, darl'.  perhaps they have different dates.  anyway, it's america - if they say it's the 18th, then it IS the 18th, or they'll bomb us.  best keep schtum, i'd say.  :-X
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: QuirkyCarla on September 11, 2006, 02:43:00 AM
no, sunday's the 17th here too, mcjagger made a mistake  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 02:48:15 AM
Sure about that? They won't bomb us?  :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: QuirkyCarla on September 11, 2006, 02:49:54 AM
Pretty sure  ;) ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 02:53:30 AM
Or send McJagger to us?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: QuirkyCarla on September 11, 2006, 02:54:28 AM
Now there's an idea.  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 02:55:19 AM
 :o Don't. Please. We'll do ANYTHING.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2006, 03:00:14 AM
:o Don't. Please. We'll do ANYTHING.

pffft!  YOU might do anything.  i am more circumspect, myself.  anyway, you reckon mcj would actually turn up here?  with my reputation?   :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 03:01:50 AM
He just might do it, 'cause you never know. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: QuirkyCarla on September 11, 2006, 03:04:05 AM
 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 06:34:49 AM
your thread has gotten funny.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:02:11 AM
In what way?  :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:03:35 AM
the last several posts tickled my funny bone.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:04:57 AM
We aim to please. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:07:27 AM
NO, you aim to bully, then please.
i think, but if i am wrong, please beg my pardon.  i'd hate for you to get a hardon over me and bully my sorry arse.  because, i am too fragile to take some constructive critcism, and all. 
ooh, i am soory.
sorry, indeed.
forgive?
thanks!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:10:56 AM
Me? I don't do that sort of thing. :angel: But you're forgiven. Now, give me the secret Aspie Elite HandshakeTM and forget about this. This month's handshake, not last month's.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:14:20 AM
up down, stim right, stim left, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, avoid eye contact, stim right (3X), left once.  don't say a word.
done.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:16:29 AM
 :D That's the one!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:20:32 AM
i just did an AS thing.
i made it public.  shall we change it?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:23:29 AM
Nah. The lower-functioning ones will never get it anyway. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 11, 2006, 10:23:44 AM
McJagger did an AS thing!  McJagger did an AS thing!

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2006, 10:25:07 AM
 :laugh:

oh, this is too ridiculous for words - i am giggling like a loon!   :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:25:26 AM
 :laugh:

It still cracks me up when people behave like kids.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2006, 10:26:44 AM
especially us Ancient Old Has-Beens...   >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:27:51 AM
your thread is very readable, IMO, over the last two pages.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:28:06 AM
Now, where did I leave my reading glasses...?  8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:28:39 AM
on top of your head.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:29:51 AM
your thread is very readable, IMO, over the last two pages.

Are you trying to suck up to me? What if Ascan reads this?

(Hi Ascan! Say hello to the orcs from me!)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:30:34 AM
on top of your head.

What's that? Can't find the stuping hearing aid either...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:33:23 AM
what is an orc?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:35:15 AM
Ugly, blood-thirsty creatures created by evil wizards in Lord of the Rings and elsewhere...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 11, 2006, 10:35:50 AM
Odeon, I notice your Karma is at 96.  Do you want it to stay there for awhile, Keeper of the Aspie EliteTM Secret Handshake?

 :laugh:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc

Orc is a word used to refer to various tough and warlike humanoid creatures in various fantasy settings, particularly in the stories of Middle-earth written by J. R. R. Tolkien and derivative fictions. Orcs are commonly portrayed as misshapen humanoids with brutal, warmongering and sadistic, yet quite cowardly characters. They are variously portrayed as physically stronger or weaker than humans, but always high in numbers.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 11, 2006, 10:37:41 AM
Nah, the 69-with-variations is McJ's thing. Whetever happens to it, let it happen. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:40:48 AM
Quote
Orcs are commonly portrayed as misshapen humanoids with brutal, warmongering and sadistic, yet quite cowardly characters

i agree this seems reasonable.

but high in numbers?  i do fear that the disease is spreading to reasonable people, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2006, 10:54:10 AM
i do hope you aren't including me in that description?

"reasonable", i meant.   >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 11, 2006, 10:54:52 AM
you are reason-abled.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 11, 2006, 10:56:30 AM
very good.  for that, i shan't - as i believe the quaint american expression goes - whup your sorry (and strangely hairless) arse.  sorry, "ass", although dragging that poor fucking donkey into it every time is becoming a little predictable...  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 13, 2006, 10:00:11 PM
What do You like about Intensity2 odeon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 14, 2006, 12:51:40 AM
I like the banter and the arguing. It's like Dunc says, it's like a pub. ;D

Of course, I have to provide the beer myself but you can't have it all, can you? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 14, 2006, 02:34:33 AM
Where do You see Intensity2 odeon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 14, 2006, 02:36:05 AM
What do You like about Intensity2 odeon?
I like the banter and the arguing. It's like Dunc says, it's like a pub. ;D

Of course, I have to provide the beer myself but you can't have it all, can you? :P

*cough*...

??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 14, 2006, 03:10:29 AM
What do You like about Intensity2 odeon?
I like the banter and the arguing. It's like Dunc says, it's like a pub. ;D

Of course, I have to provide the beer myself but you can't have it all, can you? :P

*cough*...

??
You would Lucifer. *cough* ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 14, 2006, 07:04:10 AM
Where do You see Intensity2 odeon?

Um, here?  :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 15, 2006, 05:18:18 AM
Quote
"You may like to know that he moderates on at least two fora."
-- Ascan

would you like to make it at least three fora?

will you be running for administrator?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2006, 12:18:30 PM
Sure, why not? It fits my aspie ruling eliteness. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 15, 2006, 12:24:18 PM
oh lawks - does that mean i'll be accused of sucking up to you cos you're an admin, if you're elected?

Lucifer Starfucker.  it's supposed to be Lucifer Lightbringer...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2006, 01:08:32 PM
You may start sucking up to me now, if you wish. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 15, 2006, 01:11:23 PM
i nearly started typing "sucksucksuck", for a moment.  but then i remembered where i was, and thought better of it.

if you get to be admin, will you make me behave, then?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2006, 01:13:59 PM
Do you need... discipline? ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 15, 2006, 01:14:26 PM
mostly.

want to try?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2006, 01:32:01 PM
Why... not?

(Sorry, I screen a William Shatner movie right now, and these pauses seem to come naturally.)
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 15, 2006, 01:38:56 PM
oh, christ - don't you start.  there was enough of that on WP, at one time.

it's not big, it's not clever, and it's certainly not funny.

admit it - you don't luuuurve me anymore, do you?

 :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 15, 2006, 04:47:35 PM
oh, christ - don't you start.  there was enough of that on WP, at one time.

it's not big, it's not clever, and it's certainly not funny.

admit it - you don't luuuurve me anymore, do you?

 :'(

Start what? Did they show Shatner movies at WP, too? :angel:

Of course I luuuurve you.  :-*

ax
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 15, 2006, 11:43:50 PM
gulp...

thank the gods...

phew...

sniff...

 :-*

vx
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 02:40:27 PM
darlin'!  you're here!

(http://www.smileyparadies.de/smilies/liebe/kuss-001.gif) (http://www.smileyparadies.de/smilies/liebe/whip2_1-001.gif) (http://www.smileyparadies.de/smilies/liebe/2151-001.gif)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 02:56:31 PM
The trekkies let me out, eventually. But I have to go back tomorrow, for another three epics. You shoulda seen the costume contest. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 02:57:03 PM
oh, and  :-* :-* :-*

;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 03:04:49 PM
The trekkies let me out, eventually. But I have to go back tomorrow, for another three epics. You shoulda seen the costume contest. :laugh:

i suppose a photo is out of the question?

were they like this...?

(http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2003/02/03/trekkie.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 03:10:50 PM
Oh, gawd, yes!!! PMSL! And +1, I don't care what McJ says. You'd have to see it to understand. At least half of them ARE like that.

But still, I like Star Trek. I grew up with it and loved the original series and some of the first few movies. But these people... ::) :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 03:14:13 PM
i love the original series.  my dad and i used to watch the umpteenth re-run, and take the piss all the way through.  mainly, though, it was cos we were watching The Magic Roundabout reruns, and Star Trek was on afterwards.  oh, and Tom and Jerry - we really loved those, best of all.

must've been late 90s, i reckon, cos i went to my parents' home every wednesday night, as i was rehearsing down the road from them later in the evening.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 16, 2006, 03:14:54 PM
The trekkies let me out, eventually. But I have to go back tomorrow, for another three epics. You shoulda seen the costume contest. :laugh:

i suppose a photo is out of the question?

were they like this...?

(http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2003/02/03/trekkie.jpg)

OOOH, a Klingon! That's a good costume.  What other costumes and species did you have, Odeon?  Vivi, I think you would make a good Betazoid.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 03:19:57 PM
OOOH, a Klingon! That's a good costume.  What other costumes and species did you have, Odeon?  Vivi, I think you would make a good Betazoid.

oooh, what's a betazoid, callaway?  (erm, do i want to know...?   :-\)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 03:25:39 PM
blimey - i like the sound of this:

"At around age 40, Betazoid females enter a period of increased sexual desire called "the phase" [1]. A Betazoid woman's sex drive will typically quadruple in intensity during the phase."

wahey!  (from Wikipedia).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 03:30:20 PM
There was the usual variation of Starfleet uniforms--I rather like the red miniskirts, I must admit :P --and a weird sticky shiny thing I didn't recognize, and a Starfleet insignia, of all things. Quite innovative, that one. And I think there was a Klingon, too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 03:34:56 PM
and a weird sticky shiny thing I didn't recognize...

 :-[
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 16, 2006, 03:41:44 PM
OOOH, a Klingon! That's a good costume.  What other costumes and species did you have, Odeon?  Vivi, I think you would make a good Betazoid.

oooh, what's a betazoid, callaway?  (erm, do i want to know...?   :-\)

Here is a picture of a Betazoid woman:

(http://anomaly.mushpark.com/images/cast/nabrun1.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: QuirkyCarla on September 16, 2006, 03:45:30 PM
Ann Hathaway!!!

(or am I having another face-blind moment??)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 03:56:50 PM
i've had a good ol' google imae search, callaway, and they seem to be v attractive, so yes, i'll be one of those, lol.  although the empathy thing is completely beyond me - i can do their description of "empathy", though...   >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 03:59:01 PM
and a weird sticky shiny thing I didn't recognize...

 :-[

Um, what's the matter? You should look green, not red. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 04:00:35 PM
you are so innocent, my little swedish cherub.  :P

i, on the other hand, am a raddled old roué...  hang on - can women be roués?  ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 04:03:19 PM
I don't think so... but then again, I'm innocent. :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 16, 2006, 04:04:32 PM
come to think of it, who gives a toss if i'm allowed to or not.  if i want to be one, i shall be one, ner.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 16, 2006, 04:05:35 PM
I care. How dare you oppose what the dictionary says?  :police:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 17, 2006, 01:59:55 AM
my dictionary - the concise oxford - didn't specify m or f.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 17, 2006, 04:27:27 AM
OOOH, a Klingon! That's a good costume.  What other costumes and species did you have, Odeon?  Vivi, I think you would make a good Betazoid.

oooh, what's a betazoid, callaway?  (erm, do i want to know...?   :-\)

Here is a picture of a Betazoid woman:

(http://anomaly.mushpark.com/images/cast/nabrun1.jpg)
Betazoid have ridges on there noses I don't see it with Your picture Callaway. ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 17, 2006, 04:48:04 AM
You are thinking of Bajorans, I believe, Kevv.  Major Kira Nerys was a Bajoran.  Are these the ones you are thinking of?

(http://www.campeones.de/3th.JPG)

Betazoids looked just like humans except that they all had black irises and they were telepathic.  Deanna Troi was half-human and half-Betazoid, so she was just empathic, which means she could sense emotions in most other species of humanoids.  I remember Ferengi and a couple of others were exceptions and she could not read their emotions.

(http://www.startrek.nl/images/database/species/betazoid.jpg)

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 17, 2006, 06:19:44 AM
am i allowed to be cool , even if i weren't a trekkie?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on September 18, 2006, 12:33:15 AM
You are thinking of Bajorans, I believe, Kevv.  Major Kira Nerys was a Bajoran.  Are these the ones you are thinking of?

(http://www.campeones.de/3th.JPG)

Betazoids looked just like humans except that they all had black irises and they were telepathic.  Deanna Troi was half-human and half-Betazoid, so she was just empathic, which means she could sense emotions in most other species of humanoids.  I remember Ferengi and a couple of others were exceptions and she could not read their emotions.

(http://www.startrek.nl/images/database/species/betazoid.jpg)


Yeah You right when I saw the B I guess I had Bajoran on My mind not Betazoid.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2006, 03:45:54 PM
when are you going to change your avatar back to the proper one, my dear darling?  and are you paying attention to the incredibly sweet tone of voice i'm using here?  cos we all know what The Sweet Tone means is about 3 cuntiseconds away from emerging, don't we? 

/me starts to growl, very, very quietly...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2006, 03:47:09 PM
 :o You don't like the new(est) one? I chose it just for you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 24, 2006, 03:47:55 PM
cuntiseconds, like being caught doing an AS thing, puts me in stitches everytime. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2006, 03:49:58 PM
Yeah, I like cuntiseconds, too. BUt I LOVE "doing an AS thing". ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2006, 03:50:39 PM
/me growls just a teeny tad more loudly...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2006, 03:52:19 PM
You don't particularly like it, then? Or do you growl because you approve...? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 24, 2006, 03:53:33 PM
if i were an admin, i would change odeons avi back, just to keep lucifer happy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2006, 03:55:21 PM
You don't particularly like it, then? Or do you growl because you approve...? :P

/me growls, which turns into a snarl...

if i were an admin, i would change odeons avi back, just to keep lucifer happy.

/me stops snarling for a cuntisecond, and purrs, and then goes back to growling...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2006, 03:56:39 PM
You're scaring me, so...  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 24, 2006, 03:58:41 PM
*pats odeon on the head*

there, you did the right thing!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2006, 03:59:19 PM
I'm just happy to be alive...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on September 24, 2006, 04:00:04 PM
i am happy you are as well.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2006, 04:00:10 PM
 :-*

in fact:

(http://www.smileyparadies.de/smilies/liebe/sexe.gif)

;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2006, 04:00:37 PM
only without the fags, of course.   :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 01:26:36 AM
hey, gorgeous - notice anything alarming about the following:  if you're The Master, and i'm going to be The Doctor...

noooooooooooooooo!

 :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2006, 02:02:10 AM
Erm... no.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 02:52:58 AM
not a Doctor Who fan, then...  :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2006, 05:31:21 AM
No... I think I've seen an episode or two about twenty years ago or so...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 06:09:33 AM
well, basically, the Master is the Doctor's Arch Enemy.

 :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2006, 06:11:11 AM
I can't say I remember anything about Doctor Who, other than that his clothes were funny.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 06:13:07 AM
(http://www.fanzone50.com/DoctorWho/Doctor_Master.jpg)

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2006, 06:14:35 AM
Doesn't look like the Doctor I saw. ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 06:16:56 AM
there've been 10.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2006, 06:57:21 AM
Sort of explains it, then. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 02:07:35 PM
the Cyber Men used to scare the bejaysus out of me.   :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2006, 02:09:19 PM
And you've been having truama issues ever since, huh? ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2006, 02:31:02 PM
nah - only for a coupe of decades.

 :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 01, 2006, 03:29:34 PM
hello, darl' - i've missed you!   :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2006, 03:55:58 PM
MIssed you too.  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 01, 2006, 03:58:56 PM
 :-[

only 'cos you couldn't aim straight, i bet... :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2006, 04:10:32 PM
Wanna get a foom and you can teach me all about aiming straight? ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 01, 2006, 04:13:45 PM
you don't have to aim, gorgeous - i've been practising that muscle thing, so i can just...

yes.  a foom.  quickly...

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2006, 04:16:21 PM
Right, then, off we go. I'll lead the waaaaayyyyyyy... :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 01, 2006, 04:16:54 PM
race you!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on October 01, 2006, 05:11:35 PM
evrybody close your eyes.

now.

imagine your parents having sex!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 01, 2006, 05:20:58 PM
I'll have to talk to your Mother about this, Robert. I will not tolerate this kind of behaviour.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on October 01, 2006, 05:22:05 PM
 :spank:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: QuirkyCarla on October 01, 2006, 06:19:41 PM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 01, 2006, 11:42:55 PM
evrybody close your eyes.

now.

imagine your parents having sex!

cheeky bastard.  i'm only a few years older than you, my boy, but you can fucking well respect your elders, or i'll make your dream life a misery.  (http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/character/character0136.gif)   :grrr:

anyway it's daft, cos one day, someone will say something similar to dunc and PI's kids...  ;)  lol.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on October 02, 2006, 10:48:43 AM
Our scarily bright (and incredibly nosey) daughter is already disgusted by the thought that her parents might possibly have sex.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on October 02, 2006, 10:53:44 AM
Our scarily bright (and incredibly nosey) daughter is already disgusted by the thought that her parents might possibly have sex.


:LMAO:

How old is she, seven?

My daughter is ten and she is campaigning for me to have another baby because she wants a "sibling".  She brought her How your Body Works book to me and showed me how this objective could be accomplished.

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on October 02, 2006, 10:57:00 AM
Yeah she's 7 and she keeps trying to get me to have another baby cos she wants a sister.  That is so funny that she told you how you could get her a sibling  :LOL:   My mum thinks 7 is too young for her to know the 'facts of life', but I remembered when I was a kid my mum would never tell me anything (I would be going to the shop to buy sanitary towels for her and she still wouldn't tell me what they were for) and it drove me mad.   
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on October 02, 2006, 11:31:04 AM
My parents had "the big talk" with me when I was about nine or ten, but I wanted my daughter to always feel that she could ask me anything, so I have had lots of little talks with her over the years.  That book, How your Body Works, has lots of other topics besides how babies are made, like the heart and circulatory system and why your body needs sleep, for example.  I think I bought it for her when she was four and we have looked at all the different things in it together.  Now more recently she reads it alone, which is fine with me too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 02, 2006, 01:33:50 PM
My daughter is ten and she is campaigning for me to have another baby because she wants a "sibling".  She brought her How your Body Works book to me and showed me how this objective could be accomplished.

/dies

i love your daughter already, callaway.  what a bloody Star !!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on October 02, 2006, 01:37:05 PM
My parents had "the big talk" with me when I was about nine or ten, but I wanted my daughter to always feel that she could ask me anything, so I have had lots of little talks with her over the years.  That book, How your Body Works, has lots of other topics besides how babies are made, like the heart and circulatory system and why your body needs sleep, for example.  I think I bought it for her when she was four and we have looked at all the different things in it together.  Now more recently she reads it alone, which is fine with me too.

I've always wanted my kids to feel the same too-Caitlin has always asked a lot of questions and I have always made sure to give her honest answers (although obviously I tailor it to her level of understanding).  We have a similar book and sometimes she comes to show my stuff in it that she wants to talk about.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 02, 2006, 02:36:04 PM
Thankfully I haven't had that kind of questions from my daughter--I sincerely hope it's the mother's toll.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on October 02, 2006, 05:42:20 PM
Lucky you.   ;)

What about questions from your son?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 02, 2006, 05:49:38 PM
He hasn't discovered sex yet. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: thepeaguy on October 09, 2006, 12:37:55 PM
Do you have any genuine emotional ties with any of the members here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 09, 2006, 02:02:24 PM
One or two.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 09, 2006, 02:14:20 PM
Came to think of it, the number will greatly depend on exactly what you mean. Friendships? I'd say a couple of them.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 15, 2006, 02:46:58 PM
darlin' - we're alone on the board!

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 15, 2006, 03:14:14 PM
No. You're not here either.  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 15, 2006, 03:22:49 PM
oooh!  solipcism - how Bishop Berkley of you...   :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 15, 2006, 03:25:24 PM
Erm, I was merely pointing out that you were offline. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 15, 2006, 03:32:25 PM
shame.  i could've done with some philosophical discussion.  too late now, cos i'm too pissed.   hic.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 15, 2006, 03:37:44 PM
And I'm sober. And awfully bored. ::sigh::
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 15, 2006, 03:45:46 PM
:(

/thinks...

 :-*  ??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tom/Mutate on April 09, 2007, 04:57:55 AM
What do you look like?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on April 09, 2007, 05:06:04 AM
Do you have an odd number of testicles?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2007, 07:54:42 AM
What do you look like?

Watch your email inbox. I do not publish my picture on the Internet.

EDIT: You'll have to keep wondering. The message bounced. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2007, 07:58:28 AM
Do you have an odd number of testicles?

No. Do you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tom/Mutate on April 09, 2007, 08:28:47 AM
my email is now t clockwork add has been shut down
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on April 09, 2007, 08:38:20 AM
Do you have an odd number of testicles?

No. Do you?

I do. I have three.  :weird:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on April 09, 2007, 01:35:21 PM
Do you have an odd number of testicles?

No. Do you?

I do. I have three.  :weird:
no lit, two of those are cysts.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on April 09, 2007, 01:36:35 PM
 :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on April 09, 2007, 01:49:46 PM
look on the bright side.

the hangman rope guy can take care of the one you do have, with just one noose.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on April 09, 2007, 10:36:28 PM
Do you have an odd number of testicles?

No. Do you?

No. I was taught to always maintain an even number.
Something to do with skiing. Seemed important at the time.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2007, 01:59:53 PM
Skiing? I'd have thought "reproduction", but that's just me... :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on April 10, 2007, 02:01:30 PM
name ten famous fat people
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2007, 03:28:13 PM
Why?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on April 10, 2007, 05:43:52 PM
Who's asking the questions around here, and who's answering them?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on April 10, 2007, 07:21:12 PM
Why?
something to do.


i'll start:

1.) jackie gleason
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on April 10, 2007, 07:22:18 PM
2) John Candy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2007, 01:09:22 AM
Who's asking the questions around here, and who's answering them?

Don't you think I have the right to handle my ask away-thread any way I see fit?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on April 11, 2007, 01:28:12 AM
Who was that guy in your first avatar?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2007, 01:37:05 AM
The fat guy? The jpeg claimed "Jimmy-Mac". Other than that, I don't know.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on April 11, 2007, 02:06:28 AM
Who's asking the questions around here, and who's answering them?

Don't you think I have the right to handle my ask away-thread any way I see fit?

I don't really think about such things. I just get disturbed when the world doesn't
seem to work the way it should. Why do you feel that you must answer every
question with another question?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2007, 02:28:14 AM
Who's asking the questions around here, and who's answering them?

Don't you think I have the right to handle my ask away-thread any way I see fit?

I don't really think about such things. I just get disturbed when the world doesn't
seem to work the way it should. Why do you feel that you must answer every
question with another question?

It seemed like a good idea at the time. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on April 11, 2007, 06:10:10 AM
3.) jimmy mac

4.) winston churchill
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: paradox on April 18, 2007, 10:58:03 PM
its probably been asked before (but can u really blame me for not going through the 50+ pages in ur thred)

why Odeon?  The god? or a different reason.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on April 18, 2007, 10:59:53 PM
Odeon's a god?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 19, 2007, 02:10:38 AM
Yes I am. ;D

Seriously, the nick "Odeon" is the name of my home theatre. I have this fully functional 35/70mm cinema in my garage, named Odeon after the classic London theatre.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 08:55:30 AM
you studied at chalmers, yet you run a projector for a living.

why?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2007, 09:15:46 AM
First, I still think working as a projectionist is a lot more fun than physics. Second, it involves fewer people. Third, while I also (frequently) work as a contractor in the IT business, my lack of social skills is a problem--I've been fired from a few places. I have a huge problem with authority figures. I have a big mouth and not nearly enough impulse control. My sarcasm skills are good and I tend to use them.

Oh, and while I did study physics (yes, Lit, quantum physics, too) and astronomy, the there are about twenty full-time spots in astronomy in Sweden. If you want to work in that field, you have to move abroad. A friend of mine moved to Chile to get a job.

The doc that dx'd me said that my career choices were typical for an adult on the spectrum. We tend to be overqualified, underpaid, and either unemployed or stuck doing stuff that aren't suited for our level of education but give us the solitude we need.

That was grossly simplified--she said a lot more--but you get my drift.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 12, 2007, 09:28:20 AM
you studied at chalmers, yet you run a projector for a living.

why?

I was smarter than most adults at the age of 4, according to a doctor, who was one of the best on AS in Sweden after professor Gillberg. I have a verbal IQ of about 200 and I'm better on a test called Högskoleprovet ("högskola" means "university" or "college" in Sweden, not the same as US "high school") than 97.6% of everybody else. I live on about $1000 disability/month. It's the damned Swedish conformism that destroys the lives of most AS people. :grrr:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 12, 2007, 09:30:01 AM
I know it's Odeon's thread, I just simply couldn't let be to rant about NTs in general and Sweden in particular. Cowardly conformistic piece-of-shit country.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 09:30:43 AM
can you become a lomgshoreman?

i have a problem with authority figures, but i generally take jobs that allow me to work without scrutiny.  or, if i prefer to read that day, i take a job where i have alot of downtime and zero scrutiny.
in short, if you perform, no one looks over your shoulder.


my next question:

are you the smartest person here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2007, 09:35:08 AM
can you become a lomgshoreman?

i have a problem with authority figures, but i generally take jobs that allow me to work without scrutiny.  or, if i prefer to read that day, i take a job where i have alot of downtime and zero scrutiny.
in short, if you perform, no one looks over your shoulder.


my next question:

are you the smartest person here?

That's one I cannot answer. I think there are several very smart people here, so you tell me. Your guess is as good as mine.

As for being a longshoreman, around here? Probably not. Being a projectionist is not bad, though. It gives me a lot of time to waste. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 09:38:21 AM
can you become a lomgshoreman?

i have a problem with authority figures, but i generally take jobs that allow me to work without scrutiny.  or, if i prefer to read that day, i take a job where i have alot of downtime and zero scrutiny.
in short, if you perform, no one looks over your shoulder.


my next question:

are you the smartest person here?

That's one I cannot answer. I think there are several very smart people here, so you tell me. Your guess is as good as mine.

As for being a longshoreman, around here? Probably not. Being a projectionist is not bad, though. It gives me a lot of time to waste. :P
i think that i am quite possibly the smartest :angel:.....wonder how sharp i would be if i hadn't abused my mind all those years with drugs. ;)
but there are several people here who are a strong second, icluding you. ;D


in conclusion- all the smart people can safely consider themselves the sharpest tools in the intensity shed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 12, 2007, 09:45:03 AM
I think Odeon is the smartest and that I am the second smartest, but that's what I think. McJagger could be the smartest or at least second smartest as well; hard to tell, since Odeon debates more on a theoretical level and McJagger on a practical. McJagger is very smart, thought, that much I'm sure of.

By the way, ranting about Sweden: saying that you're the smartest in a group, even if it's proven that you are, is one of the worst blasphemies that you can commit in Sweden. Shit-country.  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 09:47:43 AM
I think Odeon is the smartest and that I am the second smartest, but that's what I think. McJagger could be the smartest or at least second smartest as well; hard to tell, since Odeon debates more on a theoretical level and McJagger on a practical. McJagger is very smart, thought, that much I'm sure of.

By the way, ranting about Sweden: saying that you're the smartest in a group, even if it's proven that you are, is one of the worst blasphemies that you can commit in Sweden. Shit-country.  ::)
off the top of my head:
what about PI, callaway, pyraxis or PMS Elle?

can't they be in the top eschelon since they are women?
also, would richard rate higher in your book thatn any of those four ladies?



sorry odeon, but these questions are for lit?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 12, 2007, 09:52:50 AM
I think Odeon is the smartest and that I am the second smartest, but that's what I think. McJagger could be the smartest or at least second smartest as well; hard to tell, since Odeon debates more on a theoretical level and McJagger on a practical. McJagger is very smart, thought, that much I'm sure of.

By the way, ranting about Sweden: saying that you're the smartest in a group, even if it's proven that you are, is one of the worst blasphemies that you can commit in Sweden. Shit-country.  ::)
off the top of my head:
what about PI, callaway, pyraxis or PMS Elle?

can't they be in the top eschelon since they are women?
also, would richard rate higher in your book thatn any of those four ladies?



sorry odeon, but these questions are for lit?

I really don't like Pyraxis, but I think that she is very intelligent, hard to say how intelligent, though. PI and Callaway are also very smart. PMS Elle is smart, but not one of the smartest, or that's what I think; I'm not sure. I am pretty sure, though, that all four of them are smarter than both Richard and Flo.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 09:54:34 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 12, 2007, 09:56:39 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Well, like 99.999% sure, at least.  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 09:58:22 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Well, like 99.999% sure, at least.  ;)
men do have an advantage over women.....they have two heads that they think with.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 12, 2007, 10:02:19 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Both of them put together? All four women asleep?

I'm trying to imagine how the question could emerge.


Are you trying to pad Tig's cross for him?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 10:03:40 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Both of them put together? All four women asleep?

I'm trying to imagine how the question could emerge.
each one.....
fuck it, you know what i meant! :finger:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on May 12, 2007, 10:07:19 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Both of them put together? All four women asleep?

I'm trying to imagine how the question could emerge.


Are you trying to pad Tig's cross for him?


I think he does a good enough job of that himself  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2007, 10:14:19 AM
I think Odeon is the smartest and that I am the second smartest, but that's what I think. McJagger could be the smartest or at least second smartest as well; hard to tell, since Odeon debates more on a theoretical level and McJagger on a practical. McJagger is very smart, thought, that much I'm sure of.

By the way, ranting about Sweden: saying that you're the smartest in a group, even if it's proven that you are, is one of the worst blasphemies that you can commit in Sweden. Shit-country.  ::)
off the top of my head:
what about PI, callaway, pyraxis or PMS Elle?

can't they be in the top eschelon since they are women?
also, would richard rate higher in your book thatn any of those four ladies?



sorry odeon, but these questions are for lit?

Sorry, McJ, but since this is my ask-away, I get to reply anyway:

When you asked, earlier, I considered mentioning PMS, Callaway, and PI. Not necessarily in that order.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 10:15:40 AM
pyraxis?

or am i just thinking with my dick again?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 12, 2007, 10:18:07 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Both of them put together? All four women asleep?

I'm trying to imagine how the question could emerge.
each one.....
fuck it, you know what i meant! :finger:

I just meant that both of them together could not stand up to any of the women you mentioned in their sleep.

(Kind of a compliment to the women and a backhand to the boys.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 12, 2007, 10:20:37 AM
you are pretty sure, but not positive, that they are all smarter than flo or richard?

Both of them put together? All four women asleep?

I'm trying to imagine how the question could emerge.
each one.....
fuck it, you know what i meant! :finger:

I just meant that both of them together could not stand up to any of the women you mentioned in their sleep.

(Kind of a compliment to the women and a backhand to the boys.)
then i didn't know what you meant.
though, you are right.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2007, 01:17:01 PM
pyraxis?

or am i just thinking with my dick again?

You were thinking with your dick. But she is smart.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 12, 2007, 01:22:21 PM
So, a somewhat less subjective question:

Have you ever met anyone you consider smarter
than yourself?

For me, it was quite a shock to realize that there
were such people. When I was young, I simply
found it unacceptable.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2007, 01:26:13 PM
So, a somewhat less subjective question:

Have you ever met anyone you consider smarter
than yourself?

For me, it was quite a shock to realize that there
were such people. When I was young, I simply
found it unacceptable.

There are such people, and I have met a few of them, yes. No big deal. There will always be people smarter than yourself. I didn't accept this when I was younger, but I certainly do now.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 13, 2007, 07:42:31 AM
pyraxis?

or am i just thinking with my dick again?

You were thinking with your dick. But she is smart.

Can you guys explain this a bit? I mean, since when does your dick care whether a woman is smart or not?

... or have your dicks seen pics her, noticed she's a hot babe and it no longer cares if your brains want some, too?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2007, 08:51:42 AM
pyraxis?

or am i just thinking with my dick again?

You were thinking with your dick. But she is smart.

Can you guys explain this a bit? I mean, since when does your dick care whether a woman is smart or not?

... or have your dicks seen pics her, noticed she's a hot babe and it no longer cares if your brains want some, too?

McJ's dick cares. Always.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 13, 2007, 01:35:46 PM

McJ's dick cares. Always.

He has a sensitive prick?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2007, 02:13:53 PM

McJ's dick cares. Always.

He has a sensitive prick?

It's got to be something. His dick always notices, always acts.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 13, 2007, 02:17:04 PM

McJ's dick cares. Always.

He has a sensitive prick?

It's got to be something. His dick always notices, always acts.

Eh, give him a few years.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2007, 02:29:33 PM
Another fifty or so?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 13, 2007, 02:58:26 PM
how do you feel you have done postwhoring today?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2007, 03:24:00 PM
The whoring part has been lacking. Yesterday was a lot better.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 13, 2007, 03:25:02 PM
The whoring part has been lacking. Yesterday was a lot better.
do you feel dirty?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2007, 03:58:27 PM
The whoring part has been lacking. Yesterday was a lot better.
do you feel dirty?

Used. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 13, 2007, 04:15:11 PM
The whoring part has been lacking. Yesterday was a lot better.
do you feel dirty?

Used. :P

You just have to get back in the saddle again,
until you enjoy it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 01:09:35 AM
Are you just playing, to keep
me from dredging more shit up?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:15:41 AM
No. I'm postwhoring. I'll grow tired of it, eventually, because I simply don't have the heart of a whore. Some will probably add that I don't have a heart.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 01:17:00 AM
Did you know that if you eat the heart
of a lion, you get indigestion?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:18:33 AM
No, I didn't know that. How about the heart of a tiger?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 01:20:15 AM
YOU try and get a tiger's heart.


Does post-whoring make you feel cheap?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:29:14 AM
Yes it does. But I can never maintain it. I get tired of it, and log off.

How did you get hold of a lion's heart?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 01:30:30 AM
I didn't. But lion's are pussies.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:54:40 AM
Only the females.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 01:58:44 AM
No. The females have some guts.

"Men who know both the lion and
the tiger claim that the tiger is fiercer.
The tiger has been known to eat Buffalo."

No Lion ever ate a major city.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 02:54:59 AM
Are you saying that the female lions have no pussies? ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 02:59:39 AM
Aren't pussies the holes through
which the guts fall out? I remember
something like this from my trivium
days.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 03:07:17 AM
I have no idea. Biology was never my best subject although I never said no to field work either (re pussies, that is). :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 03:08:57 AM
Ever have sex with a large cat?

Ever want to?

Any other bestiality in your past?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 22, 2007, 05:05:18 AM
Yes it does. But I can never maintain it. I get tired of it, and log off.


is this your excuse that you may soon grow bored of calandale?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 05:05:52 AM
This was the most interest he's shown yet.

My powers are growing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 22, 2007, 05:07:57 AM
This was the most interest he's shown yet.

My powers are growing.
or someone had to burn five minutes and you were convenient.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 05:08:33 AM
The flames are addictive.

You will see, as I leave you in my wake.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:38:15 PM
Ever have sex with a large cat?

Ever want to?

Any other bestiality in your past?

1. No.
2. No.
3. No.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:43:37 PM
Yes it does. But I can never maintain it. I get tired of it, and log off.


is this your excuse that you may soon grow bored of calandale?

It's not an excuse. It's a fact. See what happened today? I engaged in some postwhoring earlier, then lost interest.

This is how it works: I rarely am interested in the person. Instead this whole message board thing is like a game to me, so if I start posting and the replies keep coming in, I continue replying, until there's a pause (game over) or the game itself isn't interesting enough. Think Tetris.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on May 22, 2007, 01:54:54 PM
How's my favourite Swede keeping?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 01:56:30 PM
Who? Lit? Dunno. Ask him. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on May 22, 2007, 02:06:55 PM
Who? Lit? Dunno. Ask him. ;)

:p
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 02:15:15 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on May 22, 2007, 02:15:59 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

You deserve better, oh wise one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 02:16:58 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

You deserve better, oh wise one.

I deserve better too, you Ginger Clown!  >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on May 22, 2007, 02:19:15 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

You deserve better, oh wise one.

I deserve better too, you Ginger Clown!  >:(

Actually, Lit, for once I can sympathise with you over the notion that people underestimate your abilities. I feel that I'm treated like a child in real-life at times. :/
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 02:46:17 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

Ah, that explains why you were more
present. Good luck with it. It's sometimes
hard to get good money while not working.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 02:52:01 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

Ah, that explains why you were more
present. Good luck with it. It's sometimes
hard to get good money while not working.

He lives in Sweden. He'll probably be OK. We should have some benefits for living in this cowardly country with extreme anti-freedom laws.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 02:52:53 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

Ah, that explains why you were more
present. Good luck with it. It's sometimes
hard to get good money while not working.

Thanks. I hope I'll get something to occupy myself with soon. Postwhoring was never enough for me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 02:54:14 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

Ah, that explains why you were more
present. Good luck with it. It's sometimes
hard to get good money while not working.

He lives in Sweden. He'll probably be OK. We should have some benefits for living in this cowardly country with extreme anti-freedom laws.

We do have benefits, actually.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 02:58:05 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 03:06:09 PM
But in case you don't mean him, I'm doing OK. As of yesterday, I'm unemployed--again--but I'll live.

Ah, that explains why you were more
present. Good luck with it. It's sometimes
hard to get good money while not working.

Thanks. I hope I'll get something to occupy myself with soon. Postwhoring was never enough for me.

Nor should it be.
Gods, I'm idiot for wasting yesterday.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 03:09:09 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 03:25:53 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.

Yes, but in those states I could easily make my own justice and not be forced to be a helpless sheep. I'd die, but not as a coward.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 03:28:53 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.

Yes, but in those states I could easily make my own justice and not be forced to be a helpless sheep. I'd die, but not as a coward.

Someone willing to die trying to make their own
justice, won't be stopped by a simple gun law.

You're full of it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 22, 2007, 03:30:18 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.

Yes, but in those states I could easily make my own justice and not be forced to be a helpless sheep. I'd die, but not as a coward.

In many of those places, you'd disappear long before you had the chance to die in public.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 03:30:50 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.

Yes, but in those states I could easily make my own justice and not be forced to be a helpless sheep. I'd die, but not as a coward.

In many of those places, you'd disappear long before you had the chance to die in public.

Damned alien abductions.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 03:39:59 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.

Yes, but in those states I could easily make my own justice and not be forced to be a helpless sheep. I'd die, but not as a coward.

Someone willing to die trying to make their own
justice, won't be stopped by a simple gun law.

You're full of it.

I can get a gun without obeying to this cowardly and insulting anti-freedom laws against guns we have here, but it's not quite easy, since I've been a law-abiding person most of my life. I've actually been offered to buy guns from people here on Intensity, but I found it unrealistic to get them through the customs. But there are other ways. That girl I posted pics of had a stun gun without a cowardly license. But she was an immigrant and not an ordinary cowardly Swede.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 03:41:40 PM
Yes, I don't have to starve, despite the fact that it more or less was the state that put me on disability and let me be bullied for several years. Great benefits.

In quite a few countries, some of which have very liberal gun laws, the state would put you away or let you starve, or both. I'm aware of the shortcomings of this one but you do need to get some perspective.

Yes, but in those states I could easily make my own justice and not be forced to be a helpless sheep. I'd die, but not as a coward.

In many of those places, you'd disappear long before you had the chance to die in public.

In the US too? I think you might be thinking of some Arab countries that have no or extremely liberal gun laws.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 04:13:35 PM
I can get a gun without obeying to this cowardly and insulting anti-freedom laws against guns we have here, but it's not quite easy, since I've been a law-abiding person most of my life. I've actually been offered to buy guns from people here on Intensity, but I found it unrealistic to get them through the customs. But there are other ways. That girl I posted pics of had a stun gun without a cowardly license. But she was an immigrant and not an ordinary cowardly Swede.

All I'm saying is that if you really wanted
to fight, and were willing to die for these
beliefs, you'd manage to get what you need.
Doesn't make a damned bit of difference if
you're in Sweden.

The real danger is that of the ability of the
military to control the populace through superior
weaponry - and, you know what? That's the case
here in the US, as well. The gun laws here make it
VERY difficult for an insurrection. About as hard as
trying to do it with swords.

The technology that the military and the government
could bring to bear is likely to destroy any movement
before it has a chance of gaining popular support. The
actions dramatic enough to attract attention, are assured
to put one in jail.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Litigious on May 22, 2007, 04:27:44 PM

All I'm saying is that if you really wanted
to fight, and were willing to die for these
beliefs, you'd manage to get what you need.
Doesn't make a damned bit of difference if
you're in Sweden.

I don't have a death wish today, but I'd like to be prepared for the worst, and I don't give a damn about the law. The law is the lowest form of Gangsterism, as Dec put it. And on that I fully agree. I have made some attempts to get hold of illegal guns, but not full-hearted ones. It's quite easy if you know the right people, though. The thing is that the ones who sell illegal weapons here only do it to people whom they trust to 100%, which is fully understandable.

Quote
The real danger is that of the ability of the
military to control the populace through superior
weaponry - and, you know what? That's the case
here in the US, as well. The gun laws here make it
VERY difficult for an insurrection. About as hard as
trying to do it with swords.

The technology that the military and the government
could bring to bear is likely to destroy any movement
before it has a chance of gaining popular support. The
actions dramatic enough to attract attention, are assured
to put one in jail.

I know all that. It's a disgrace. No American should fear their government. The government, if abusing its power, should fear the people. I think that private citizens should have the right to have any kind of weaponry that the military has, including cannons, tanks and missiles. It may sound crazy, but I don't see that such weapons in civilian hands would be a greater threat to the US than the government having a "monopoly" on them.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on May 22, 2007, 04:42:44 PM
I don't have a death wish today, but I'd like to be prepared for the worst, and I don't give a damn about the law. The law is the lowest form of Gangsterism, as Dec put it. And on that I fully agree. I have made some attempts to get hold of illegal guns, but not full-hearted ones. It's quite easy if you know the right people, though. The thing is that the ones who sell illegal weapons here only do it to people whom they trust to 100%, which is fully understandable.

And here we come to agreement again. The person who
is not desperate for a weapon, will have difficulty, as their
life is worth more - and they don't wish to risk their comfort.

Quote
I know all that. It's a disgrace. No American should fear their government. The government, if abusing its power, should fear the people. I think that private citizens should have the right to have any kind of weaponry that the military has, including cannons, tanks and missiles. It may sound crazy, but I don't see that such weapons in civilian hands would be a greater threat to the US than the government having a "monopoly" on them.

The problem is that weapons have gotten too
potent (and expensive). Having nukes available to
the public may SEEM a good idea for freedom, but
when it comes down to it, someone like you or I would
end up leveling a city, if we could get them.

Tanks aren't too big a deal, but military planes and
heavy artillery could be pretty damned devastating
as well. Without the full array of weapons available,
and the training (in formation) to use them, no rabble,
is going to be able to stand up to the military. Thus, the
days of the people, with some right to rebellion was actually
over more or less as soon as it began.

So, the question lies not where we'd like it - on the right to
revolt - but on the safety issue. And here, I don't agree that
the world is all that much safer with everyone packing. Though,
they'd probably be more polite, which might be worth it, in and
of itself.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 27, 2007, 11:53:59 AM
odeon, how is the job hunting?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 27, 2007, 05:30:16 PM
odeon, how is the job hunting?

Slow and deliberate. :P Well, slow, at least.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on May 27, 2007, 05:31:30 PM
odeon, how is the job hunting?

Slow and deliberate. :P Well, slow, at least.
by choice, then, i take it.


are you looking for something you can enjoy or are you looking for something in line with your degree?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on July 09, 2007, 06:11:56 AM
Now that posting this won't bump MY thread off the first page:

What other windows do you have open on your computer right now besides this one?

And, as a bonus, a VERY INTIMATE question, to make up for my neglect:

What type of underwear are you wearing right now?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 09, 2007, 07:37:22 AM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 09, 2007, 09:31:42 AM
Now that posting this won't bump MY thread off the first page:

What other windows do you have open on your computer right now besides this one?

And, as a bonus, a VERY INTIMATE question, to make up for my neglect:

What type of underwear are you wearing right now?

I'm SO glad you asked. I have Firefox open, obviously, with Intensity and a job-seeking site in their own tabs. I also have KMail, my email program, and a four-tab Konsole, a four-tabe X terminal program. And, always, Amarok for music.

As for the underwear...

/checks

...appears to be a boxer brief model with beer bottle pics on. Hot, huh?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on July 09, 2007, 12:33:00 PM
/checks

...appears to be a boxer brief model with beer bottle pics on. Hot, huh?
oh, baby!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 09, 2007, 01:11:24 PM
Will you take this test and tell us what results you got?


http://www.pttools.co.uk/asc/asc_wp2.php
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 09, 2007, 01:29:52 PM
/checks

...appears to be a boxer brief model with beer bottle pics on. Hot, huh?
oh, baby!

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 09, 2007, 03:38:55 PM
Will you take this test and tell us what results you got?


http://www.pttools.co.uk/asc/asc_wp2.php

(http://www.pttools.co.uk/asc/asc_wp_gif2.php?rbi=9&si=8&lg=3&poc=6&ir=3.75&rp=6.25&s=5.75&m=4.5)

# Repetitive or restricted Behaviours and Interests (RBI) - Stereotyped, repetitive behaviours and interests
# Social Impairment (SI) - Social understanding
# Language problems (L) - Speech, words and sentences
# Planning, Organization and Concentration problems (POC) - Cognitive skills related to being able to plan, organise and stay focused
# Imaging and Recall problems (IR) - Visualisation, imagination and remembering past events
# Reasoning and Problem solving problems (RP) - Cognitive skills related to rational deduction and working things out
# Sensory problems (S) - Impact of senses
# Motor problems (M) - Control of own movement

RBI =9
SI=8
L=3
POC=6
IR=3.75
RP=6.25
S=5.75
M=4.5

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 19, 2007, 12:27:18 PM
Do you like fluorescent lights?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 19, 2007, 12:31:02 PM
I hate them, especially in rooms with very light or white walls. Can't stand them, they freak me out. I get visual disturbances.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Natalia Evans on July 19, 2007, 12:31:44 PM
I hate them, especially in rooms with very light or white walls. Can't stand them, they freak me out. I get visual disturbances.


How often do you hear them buzzing or humming?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 19, 2007, 12:45:17 PM
Most of the time. My hearing is pretty good. The humming doesn't really bother me, though. The quality of the light does.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 19, 2007, 01:19:44 PM
me too.

on a more interesting note...

what're you doing later?   :eyelash:   :-*

 :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 19, 2007, 03:02:32 PM
me too.

on a more interesting note...

what're you doing later?   :eyelash:   :-*

 :eyebrows:

Stuff. :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 19, 2007, 07:29:45 PM
who or what are you going to stuff?   :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 19, 2007, 07:40:48 PM
squirrel Andy from the Park
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 01:33:23 AM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 04:33:02 AM
who or what are you going to stuff?   :angel:

Björk answered that one. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 04:33:42 AM
weirdo.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 06:15:06 AM
such are these taxiderming fellas.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 06:32:25 AM
i wondered what he was doing with that kapok...   :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 06:44:10 AM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Kapok_tree_Honolulu.jpg/450px-Kapok_tree_Honolulu.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 06:46:14 AM
er, it's a tree, yes...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 06:47:20 AM
it's a kapok. :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 06:48:39 AM
fucking top banananana!  i didn't realise kapok came from a tree!

you genius - i love learning new things.

 :-*

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 06:49:13 AM
blame wikipedia. :laugh:

 :-* :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 10:53:22 AM
I like that tree. 8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 04:47:15 PM
would you like to climb that tree?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on July 20, 2007, 04:48:53 PM
would you like to climb that tree?

Why does that sound like a euphemism to me?  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 04:50:02 PM
cuz you're dirty. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 04:50:30 PM
:laugh:

that makes...er, several of us, then.  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 04:52:06 PM
everybody in the chat.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on July 20, 2007, 04:54:02 PM
Oh yeah, that's it  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 04:54:41 PM
*ushers people*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 05:03:18 PM
would you like to climb that tree?

i would love to climb that tree.

/Euphemisms R Us
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 05:05:47 PM
and which tree is that, exactly, hmm? 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 05:10:07 PM
I could tell you but then it wouldn't be an euphemism anymore. :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 05:11:55 PM
whisper it to me...   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 05:12:21 PM
hey, can we hijack your own thread?  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 05:15:37 PM
/whispers
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 05:24:10 PM
::anti-whispers::

EVERYBODY IN THE CHAT!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 05:26:23 PM
WHY?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 20, 2007, 05:28:33 PM
/whispers

/whispers: can't hear you - come closer...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 05:29:08 PM
we're in the chat already so come join us!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 05:39:43 PM
/whispers

/whispers: can't hear you - come closer...

Do you think they suspect anything?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 05:40:17 PM
we're in the chat already so come join us!!!!!!!!

oh

but it's friday? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 20, 2007, 05:42:53 PM
eviction day. Nicky got evicted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :green:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 06:04:19 PM
k... chats give me headaches, though, so be warned
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: purposefulinsanity on July 20, 2007, 06:34:24 PM
/whispers

/whispers: can't hear you - come closer...

Do you think they suspect anything?

We'd have to be blind and stupid not to :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 20, 2007, 06:35:32 PM
/whispers

/whispers: can't hear you - come closer...

Do you think they suspect anything?

We'd have to be blind and stupid not to :P

So we don't have to worry, then? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 01:27:31 AM
/whispers

/whispers: can't hear you - come closer...

Do you think they suspect anything?

We'd have to be blind and stupid not to :P

So we don't have to worry, then? :P

worry about what?

oh dear - i'm worried, now...   :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 21, 2007, 07:15:46 AM
Yeah, me too. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 07:52:29 AM
quick!  we'd better comfort each other!   :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 21, 2007, 11:13:54 AM
quick!  we'd better comfort each other!   :'(

But how?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 11:16:48 AM
er... patting each other's wrists, and looking concerned?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on July 21, 2007, 12:00:40 PM
just go at it already, you need deflowering! :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 12:08:04 PM
just go at it already, you need deflowering! :laugh:

yeah, like deserts need sand.

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 21, 2007, 01:43:38 PM
just go at it already, you need deflowering! :laugh:

Deflowering? ??? Which means?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 01:52:56 PM
want me to show you?   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 21, 2007, 01:58:20 PM
Yes please. I'm always eager to learn.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 02:51:40 PM
Yes please. I'm always eager to learn.

i noticed.   :eyebrows:

not to mention the tricks you already know.   :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 21, 2007, 02:54:45 PM
Ah, but they're nothing. Really.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on July 21, 2007, 02:56:36 PM
could've fooled me, sexy.  :drool:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on August 09, 2007, 05:15:29 PM
That explains it. Firefox blocks some of the usual keyboard shortcuts.

Ah, any idea of what that translates into? i.e. what the bbs wants to see.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 09, 2007, 05:29:00 PM
NO, sorry. Can't be arsed to find out, right now. Check the Firefox FAQs.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on August 10, 2007, 01:50:41 PM
No biggie. Just wondered if
you had it in your head.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on August 10, 2007, 01:52:55 PM
what do you think about winter?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 10, 2007, 04:06:07 PM
I love winter. That is, a good one, with snow and temperatures below zero. The ones we've had here lately aren't that much fun.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on August 21, 2007, 06:24:33 AM
What is your new TV like?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 07:02:40 AM
One of those big, flat LCD thingies. It's very nice. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 21, 2007, 07:34:05 AM
how do you know?  you haven't even watched it yet!  :LMAO:

:P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 07:46:16 AM
the kids tell me that it's nice... :P  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 21, 2007, 07:49:13 AM
the kids tell me that it's nice... :P  :'(

never mind.  i'll try and organise something more interesting for you to watch than telly, okay? 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 21, 2007, 09:04:01 AM
One of those big, flat LCD thingies. It's very nice. ;D
Plasma or LCD? And how big?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on August 21, 2007, 09:10:19 AM
I love winter. That is, a good one, with snow and temperatures below zero. The ones we've had here lately aren't that much fun.

yeah try Ireland. there is no winter. it's a cold fall instead. there's no frickin snow! once it snowed and it melted away before it hit the ground.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 09:42:03 AM
One of those big, flat LCD thingies. It's very nice. ;D
Plasma or LCD? And how big?

40", and see above. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 21, 2007, 09:48:41 AM
One of those big, flat LCD thingies. It's very nice. ;D
Plasma or LCD? And how big?

40", and see above. :P
Lol, I should pay more attention to what I am writing. You have me jealous with that screen size, my biggest one is only 26"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 02:06:01 PM
One of those big, flat LCD thingies. It's very nice. ;D
Plasma or LCD? And how big?

40", and see above. :P
Lol, I should pay more attention to what I am writing. You have me jealous with that screen size, my biggest one is only 26"

That's not my biggest screen, either. The one in my garage is 3 meters wide. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 21, 2007, 02:28:20 PM
men.  always boasting about size.  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 02:29:13 PM
only because mine is clearly bigger than his. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 21, 2007, 02:30:36 PM
i wouldn't know about hi...

oops.

 :-[
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 02:31:19 PM
:LMAO: :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 21, 2007, 03:07:11 PM
One of those big, flat LCD thingies. It's very nice. ;D
Plasma or LCD? And how big?

40", and see above. :P
Lol, I should pay more attention to what I am writing. You have me jealous with that screen size, my biggest one is only 26"

That's not my biggest screen, either. The one in my garage is 3 meters wide. ;D
Wow, is that a projection one. I so want all these gadgets you have got, but a 3m screen would never fit into my uni room.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 04:50:53 PM
It's for projecting 35 and 70 mm prints. there's a six-channel Dolby system to go with it, too.

(No, not Dolby Digital 5.1; google "Dolby 6-track magnetic sound".)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 21, 2007, 05:10:10 PM
It's for projecting 35 and 70 mm prints. there's a six-channel Dolby system to go with it, too.

(No, not Dolby Digital 5.1; google "Dolby 6-track magnetic sound".)
Wow, that is almost cinema quality kit you have there. *goes green with envy*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 05:25:08 PM
It's for projecting 35 and 70 mm prints. there's a six-channel Dolby system to go with it, too.

(No, not Dolby Digital 5.1; google "Dolby 6-track magnetic sound".)
Wow, that is almost cinema quality kit you have there. *goes green with envy*

Not "almost". It *is* cinema quality. It's a Dolby system that was installed in "my" theatre here in town, before we upgraded, and the projection equipment is a 35/70 mm Zeiss Favorit 70 (see picture), a projector that was commonly found in large-format venues around the civilized world.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 21, 2007, 05:30:21 PM
It's for projecting 35 and 70 mm prints. there's a six-channel Dolby system to go with it, too.

(No, not Dolby Digital 5.1; google "Dolby 6-track magnetic sound".)
Wow, that is almost cinema quality kit you have there. *goes green with envy*

Not "almost". It *is* cinema quality. It's a Dolby system that was installed in "my" theatre here in town, before we upgraded, and the projection equipment is a 35/70 mm Zeiss Favorit 70 (see picture), a projector that was commonly found in large-format venues around the civilized world.
I count the room the equipment is in as part of the acoustics (it makes me sound mean, i know), a garage isnt quite as good as a theatre. Its a bloody nice piece of kit you have there, can you fit loads of people into your garage?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 21, 2007, 05:35:28 PM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 21, 2007, 05:37:19 PM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.
Sounds brilliant. I so wish I had one. It seems an excellent thing especially for an aspie to have.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: mordok on August 21, 2007, 08:04:37 PM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.

I'm no expert on such things, but I would think the acoustics could be improved in various ways if you wanted to put in the effort and expense.  If it's the average cement floored garage, some kind of floor covering might be a good start.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on August 22, 2007, 12:37:56 AM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.
Sounds brilliant. I so wish I had one. It seems an excellent thing especially for an aspie to have.

why especially for an aspie?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 22, 2007, 01:16:15 AM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.
Sounds brilliant. I so wish I had one. It seems an excellent thing especially for an aspie to have.

why especially for an aspie?

When it's one's obsession... ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 22, 2007, 02:59:37 AM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.

I'm no expert on such things, but I would think the acoustics could be improved in various ways if you wanted to put in the effort and expense.  If it's the average cement floored garage, some kind of floor covering might be a good start.
I wouldn't call myself an expert, unless it was an effort to get money from you, but I do know a smidge about the subject of acoustics.

A treatment of wideband absorption in most corners or room junctions, combined with some prime number based dispersion panels breaking up any large reflective surfaces, along with some frequency specific low range absorbing panels (the need for which are determined simply by measuring the dimensions of the room to predict standing waves) to address the room modes related to the actual size of the space and he will have a far more neutral acoustical environment than most theaters any of us are likely to be invited to.

Odeon is a smart guy and he could figure it out. I'm sure he knows that he could address all his theater's acoustical shortcomings at any point and on a small budget. 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on August 22, 2007, 09:44:56 AM
Yes, you're right--a garage has some deplorable acoustic properties. I compensate by projecting a picture that is sharper and more crisp than just about everything that you've ever seen, anywhere.

It's a 12-seat theatre.
Sounds brilliant. I so wish I had one. It seems an excellent thing especially for an aspie to have.

why especially for an aspie?

When it's one's obsession... ;D
And you can fulfil said obsession in a social manner.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lurker on October 03, 2007, 01:16:51 PM
Quote
went to two meetings about my son. the second one, earlier tonight, i had forgotten. i so love talking to teachers and other parents. not.

So what were they about? Does he misbehave???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2007, 01:26:28 PM
Quote
went to two meetings about my son. the second one, earlier tonight, i had forgotten. i so love talking to teachers and other parents. not.

So what were they about? Does he misbehave???

he's on the spectrum as well, so, yes, he misbehaves some. ;) the first meeting, this morning, was with various support people and mostly about how to best help him cope with everyday situations. the second one, tonight, was one of those awful "informal" meetings with his teachers and the parents of his classmates. he's in an autie class and most of this latter type of meetings seem to be about bitching about the weirdness of auties and aspies.

i'm sometimes tempted to tell them that i'm an autistic spaz, too. :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on October 03, 2007, 01:28:29 PM
tell them to shut the fuck up. NTs are weird.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2007, 01:32:56 PM
sometimes i really want to. but i'm not sure that's the best course of action. i've met parents with some v weird opinions in my time. his teachers are mostly ok, though. they've worked with auties for years and know what it's all about.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lurker on October 03, 2007, 01:53:11 PM
so are the educators there in favor of full inclusion for aspie people?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2007, 02:00:47 PM
not sure i understand your question... ??? but let me put it like this: many (most) educators haven't got the slightest idea of what ASDs are about and so assume all the wrong things. it's a constant battle.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on October 03, 2007, 02:32:35 PM
Isnt about time for an avitar change?

You should put your pic up there, and be a man.  If anyone makes fun of you, you just try your best in life, and that is all that matters.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tequila on October 03, 2007, 04:09:01 PM
Have you ever tried sweet potatoes?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on October 03, 2007, 04:36:48 PM
not sure i understand your question... ??? but let me put it like this: many (most) educators haven't got the slightest idea of what ASDs are about and so assume all the wrong things. it's a constant battle.

Totally agree. The battle never ends!
There are three women in our school who have an inkling and I try to keep them close to us, but the rest are idiot know-it-alls who have never encountered a brilliant, genius-level autistic child. Even their best efforts to help are inane and inapplicable.
We are just getting started (my oldest is in third grade) and there are times when I feel essentially defeated by a flood of lamebrained, trifling fools. I just have to try harder, this time.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 03, 2007, 05:30:58 PM
Isnt about time for an avitar change?

nah. i like the one i have. it suits me.

Quote
You should put your pic up there, and be a man.  If anyone makes fun of you, you just try your best in life, and that is all that matters.

good point. :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on October 03, 2007, 06:35:30 PM
Can't quite figure out if Lennon is looking at us or the wad of dough??


Did you enjoy Cinema Paradiso?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2007, 01:27:27 AM
Can't quite figure out if Lennon is looking at us or the wad of dough??


Did you enjoy Cinema Paradiso?

i can't figure it out, either. good picture, though.

never cared much for cinema paradiso. most projectionists i know share more traits with tyler watsisname in fight club than with that old man. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on October 04, 2007, 01:09:17 PM
Suits you?  You mean chicken shit, who won't show his picture?

You learn to adapt, and  that is what you need to do, little by little.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2007, 01:31:58 PM
Suits you?  You mean chicken shit, who won't show his picture?

You learn to adapt, and  that is what you need to do, little by little.

it's got nothing to do with adapting to anything, it's about privacy. i have no problems with how i look - the people i care about consider me to be reasonably attractive, or so i'm told - but i don't wish to have my picture on the internet. why do you find this hard to understand?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 04, 2007, 01:34:07 PM
Suits you?  You mean chicken shit, who won't show his picture?

You learn to adapt, and  that is what you need to do, little by little.

the people i care about consider me to be gorgeous.

fixed.

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on October 04, 2007, 02:01:33 PM
Suits you?  You mean chicken shit, who won't show his picture?

You learn to adapt, and  that is what you need to do, little by little.


^^^anagrams to:


Toadeater Twit.  Ooh Wow!

My "up in it", totally hip title? You uneasy hothead!

Nauseous stench, and now boldly curse.
 
Thickish tit!



I don't know, Odeon. I tried to make sense out of it, but I think he's dis'ing you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 04, 2007, 02:03:57 PM
Suits you?  You mean chicken shit, who won't show his picture?

You learn to adapt, and  that is what you need to do, little by little.


^^^anagrams to:


Toadeater Twit.  Ooh Wow!

My "up in it", totally hip title? You uneasy hothead!

Nauseous stench, and now boldly curse.
 
Thickish tit!



I don't know, Odeon. I tried to make sense out of it, but I think he's dis'ing you.


:LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on October 04, 2007, 02:05:35 PM
being dissed by randy is a bit like dodging monkey shit.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 04, 2007, 02:19:05 PM
i got a PM from him - still trying to work out what he was saying.  or trying to.  or something. 

signed:  bewildered of britain.  ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lurker on October 04, 2007, 09:35:41 PM
not sure i understand your question... ??? but let me put it like this: many (most) educators haven't got the slightest idea of what ASDs are about and so assume all the wrong things. it's a constant battle.
From what I understand, "full inclusion" educators believe that "special" children should be kept in the normal classroom along with everyone else, with whatever additional aid/adjustments they might need. there's a whole different school of thought that is in favor having "aspie only" (or "special" kids only) classes, which they think are more effective and appropriate.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 05, 2007, 01:20:04 AM
no, we don't believe in full inclusion, then. my son's in an autie-only class. he used to be in a "normal" class but that was a bloody nightmare by fifth grade.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lurker on October 07, 2007, 10:46:18 AM
whats your mbti type?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 07, 2007, 10:55:18 AM
what's that? ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 07, 2007, 10:57:45 AM
myers-briggs psychology test.

it puts your four functions of intelligence in order of how much they're developed at the time of the test, vis thinking, sensate, intuitive and emotional intelligence.  and there's also an add-on, which is whether you're predominately perceptive or judgemental.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on October 07, 2007, 10:59:05 AM
It is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Lurker is offline so I thought I would answer. :)

Edit: Ah well, Lucifer got in first.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 07, 2007, 11:00:45 AM
oh... right. i think i've done one of those, a while ago. i posted the result on gestalt, i think.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 07, 2007, 11:02:24 AM
www.humanmetrics.com has a reasonable version of the test (that's off the top of my head, but i think that's the correct address).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 02, 2007, 03:15:44 PM
Whose cruel idea was it for the word “Lisp” to have a “S” in it?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 03:23:03 PM
John McCarthy's, I believe.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 03:23:40 PM
why is "abbreviation" such a long word?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 03:26:14 PM
Because it isn't abbreviated.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 03:27:17 PM
that's a very good answer.   :clap:

okay, so why does the word "menstruation" begin with "men"?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 02, 2007, 03:45:45 PM
John McCarthy's, I believe.

who's that?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 03:48:44 PM
John McCarthy's, I believe.

who's that?

The guy who invented LISP.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 02, 2007, 03:54:20 PM
John McCarthy's, I believe.

who's that?

The guy who invented LISP.

O-KEY DoOh-KEY.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on November 02, 2007, 04:00:54 PM
John McCarthy's, I believe.

who's that?

The guy who invented LISP.
:plus:

But, he fucked up a lot of things,
so maybe he didn't mean the S.

Though, I believe it stands for 'stupid'

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:02:55 PM
Though, I believe it stands for 'stupid'

;D :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:04:21 PM
oh look - geeks bonding.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:05:57 PM
Want the video? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:06:56 PM
no, cos you'll only drone on about the three hundred and fifty thousand codecs i need to view it.  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:07:48 PM
Hey, you want to be *in* it, then? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:09:10 PM
nah - i'm strictly binary.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on November 02, 2007, 04:09:33 PM
Though, I believe it stands for 'stupid'

;D :plus:

I actually like LISP, but I thought the acronym was,
Lots of Insipid Stupid Parenthesis.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:10:02 PM
nah - i'm strictly binary.

Actually, hexadecimal is the "in" thing, these days. :drool:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:11:58 PM
you want me to curse numbers smaller than a whole integer?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:14:47 PM
you want me to curse numbers smaller than a whole integer?

That's the general idea with any maths arithmetics. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:15:36 PM
well, i'm more of an algebra girl myself.  but i'm flexible.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:16:48 PM
Well, you certainly know my number. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:18:22 PM
yep.  about 4.5 (cm), isn't it?

/dies
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:19:27 PM
The *other* number.  :-[
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:23:42 PM
ooooooh.  you mean three and a half minutes?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:24:38 PM
ooooooh.  you mean three and a half minutes?

/dies

No fun doing maths jokes, now.  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:26:00 PM
true.  so how about some hot integration, then?   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:35:24 PM
To sum it all up? :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:36:08 PM
as long as it doesn't involve multiplication, yes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:40:01 PM
I like zero-sum games myself. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:42:14 PM
I like zero-sum games myself. :laugh:

really?  and i thought you were pretty good at products.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:43:35 PM
I like zero-sum games myself. :laugh:

really?  and i thought you were pretty good at products.

What I gain, somebody loses. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:44:41 PM
yeah, you gain fab sex, i lose sleep.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:45:59 PM
Complaining, now? I thought we were discussing mathematics, anyway. :LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:47:10 PM
nah.  i was talking biology.   :eyebrows:

or, possibly, microbiology.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:58:24 PM
Oh, I'll find it, eventually. Would you like to help me? :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 04:59:19 PM
of course.  hang on, and i'll get the dental floss.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 04:59:49 PM
You're such a perv. :drool:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 05:00:33 PM
well, you did pay for the deluxe package.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 05:01:22 PM
dental hygiene is just soooooooooooo important. :LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 02, 2007, 05:02:31 PM
gods, you are pissed, aren't you.

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 02, 2007, 05:03:44 PM
Not enough.  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 04, 2007, 04:35:35 AM
Alright brother

Have you seen Koyaanisqatsi?

(http://www.heyokamagazine.com/koyaanisqatsi.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on November 04, 2007, 04:38:26 AM
koyaanisqatsiii koyaanisqatsiiiiii

i've heard the song. :P or something.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 04, 2007, 04:41:37 AM
Alright brother

Have you seen Koyaanisqatsi?

(http://www.heyokamagazine.com/koyaanisqatsi.jpg)


Oh yes. And the two films following it, and I met the guy who made them. Why?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 04, 2007, 04:53:08 AM
Alright brother

Have you seen Koyaanisqatsi?

(http://www.heyokamagazine.com/koyaanisqatsi.jpg)


Oh yes. And the two films following it, and I met the guy who made them. Why?

No reason I was just discussing it with someone else. Just though you might have seen it being Mr. Celluloid.

Haven't seen the last one, the CGI one, any good?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 04, 2007, 01:10:40 PM
Haven't seen the last one, the CGI one, any good?

Not as good as the first two, but interesting. Me, I prefer Powaqqatsi.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on November 05, 2007, 11:07:02 AM
Haven't seen the last one, the CGI one, any good?

Not as good as the first two, but interesting. Me, I prefer Powaqqatsi.

I've got a machine set up so I can learn Linux.

I wanted to do this last summer when I had more time, but I needed a processor and I had very little money. It's going now though, as of today. I want to install a free version of Linux and go from there. First of all = Which version do you recommend for a greenhorn to install on a dedicated machine.

Can you give me a vague list of apps that I should look for:

Anti-virus
Music playback
Bit torrent
Photo editing
Disk (CD) burning
PDF viewing

... as a starting point.


No real hurry. I can't get back to this, until the weekend.


Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on November 05, 2007, 03:16:41 PM
*butts in*

Install PCLinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxos.com/). All the apps you just requested are there and it comes with most of the shit you could need already installed. It comes as a Live CD you can install to your HD when you're ready, and its a piece of piss for the uniinitiated to get to grips with.

BTW viruses - not really a problem lol, but ClamAV is pretty good.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 05, 2007, 03:29:28 PM
Browse through this list of Linux equivalents (http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html) to get a general idea of which applications to use.

PCLinuxOS seems to be pretty good. Other prefer Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) or some of its variants. I have Debian (http://www.debian.org) but that's usually not a recommended distro for newbies.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on November 05, 2007, 05:11:39 PM

Thanks fellas! I had not seen that index page. Awesome!

I had ordered the PCLinusOS Live CD, but it hit the mailbox about the time my mom visited and I'll be fucked if I know what happened to it.

(doesn't sound good, so far, does it?)

I'm doing this, whether I'm ready or not.

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 06, 2007, 06:47:49 AM
Dunc's right, though. Try a live distro and ease into it. No reason to do it all at once.

I've been running Linux as my main OS for years now and would hate to go back. I always miss the neat shortcuts and tricks, and a good shell.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on November 06, 2007, 11:27:47 AM
Hell yeah. When you've used KDE for a while, the XP interface seems so clunky and inflexible. And all Vista does it make slightly closer in terms of usability to KDE and OS X. There's no going back.  8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on November 06, 2007, 12:58:18 PM
Would you ever try some ginseng? 
Its fun, 156 mg of ginsenosides, panax ginseng.  It helps you to deal with stress, but what happens to a mind that is already calmn? >:D >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 06, 2007, 02:41:33 PM
Ginseng? Nah, I'll pass but thanks for asking.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 06, 2007, 02:43:01 PM
Hell yeah. When you've used KDE for a while, the XP interface seems so clunky and inflexible. And all Vista does it make slightly closer in terms of usability to KDE and OS X. There's no going back.  8)

Still haven't installed Vista anywhere. Didn't see it in the Free Software Foundation's listings... :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on November 06, 2007, 03:21:53 PM
Hell yeah. When you've used KDE for a while, the XP interface seems so clunky and inflexible. And all Vista does it make slightly closer in terms of usability to KDE and OS X. There's no going back.  8)

Still haven't installed Vista anywhere. Didn't see it in the Free Software Foundation's listings... :laugh:

 :laugh: me neither. I saw it on my mate's computer... before he sacked it and installed Linux.  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 08, 2007, 08:54:52 PM
Are you far enough North to see the Northern lights?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2007, 04:28:25 AM
I'm far enough north to get a glimpse, sometimes. However, I was born in a town where the northern lights were (and are, I think) a fairly common occurrence. The town is another 1,500 kilometres closer to the north pole. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 09, 2007, 05:48:15 AM
They are something I have always wanted to see maybe some day I'll go up to Canada
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on November 09, 2007, 05:49:36 AM
Saw them in Montana and Washington.
Really pretty. Worth seeing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on November 09, 2007, 11:28:41 AM
Odeon, its an experience you should not pass up.  Its a nutritive also, rich in minerals.  Ginseng is good for alot of your body.  It increases your immune system, liver, cardiotonic action etc.  Its comparable to the ambiguousness of alfalfa, the grandfather of all herbs.  The ambigousness of umbiquione, CO ENZYME Q 10.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2007, 12:35:39 PM
Thanks for the thought, Randy, but these days I eat even less pills than I used to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 09, 2007, 12:49:59 PM
Odeon, its an experience you should not pass up.  Its a nutritive also, rich in minerals.  Ginseng is good for alot of your body.  It increases your immune system, liver, cardiotonic action etc.  Its comparable to the ambiguousness of alfalfa, the grandfather of all herbs.  The ambigousness of umbiquione, CO ENZYME Q 10.

(http://blog.bernardgomez.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/alfalfa.jpeg)

you eat Alfalfa?  :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on November 09, 2007, 12:57:15 PM
Yes, its a nutritive also.  Benefical for the liver, digestion, colon, pituitary, mood, blood, kidney, bones, and muscle tone.  That is what I remember.  10-30grams daily of the leaf is recommended for cholesterol lower benefits.  Alfalfa is also a source of octoconasol, a photochemical that may enhance athletic  performance.  Spinach has that to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 09, 2007, 01:00:20 PM
Yes, its a nutritive also.  Benefical for the liver, digestion, colon, pituitary, mood, blood, kidney, bones, and muscle tone.  That is what I remember.  10-30grams daily of the leaf is recommended for cholesterol lower benefits.  Alfalfa is also a source of octoconasol, a photochemical that may enhance athletic  performance.  Spinach has that to.

But he's only a little boy. How can you do that?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2007, 01:05:16 PM
Yes, its a nutritive also.  Benefical for the liver, digestion, colon, pituitary, mood, blood, kidney, bones, and muscle tone.  That is what I remember.  10-30grams daily of the leaf is recommended for cholesterol lower benefits.  Alfalfa is also a source of octoconasol, a photochemical that may enhance athletic  performance.  Spinach has that to.

But he's only a little boy. How can you do that?

One bite at a time? :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Randy on November 09, 2007, 01:10:25 PM
Starting with the you :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 09, 2007, 01:38:50 PM
Thanks for the thought, Randy, but these days I eat even less pills than I used to.

:woohoo:

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2007, 01:42:00 PM
:laugh:

Not sure people actually go :woohoo: over my Zoloft withdrawal symptoms.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 09, 2007, 01:43:16 PM
:laugh:

Not sure people actually go :woohoo: over my Zoloft withdrawal symptoms.

no we they don't.  but you're off the bastard fucking zombie pills, which is definitely :woohoo:

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Alex179 on November 09, 2007, 01:47:32 PM
I had pretty bad withdrawal problems with Zoloft myself.   What did it do to you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: SovaNu on November 09, 2007, 01:56:16 PM
apparently it makes people anti-horny. :P i took it once but it didn't matter as i wasn't having sex anyhoo. ::)

i've never seen the northern lights. :( maybe i was too south.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: enronh on November 09, 2007, 02:01:12 PM
I've never seen the girls northern lights. :( Maybe i was down too south. :LOL:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2007, 02:26:40 PM
I had pretty bad withdrawal problems with Zoloft myself.   What did it do to you?

Headaches, dizziness, severe mood swings, restlessness... It's not over yet but I'm getting better. I'm glad to be off it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on November 09, 2007, 03:17:17 PM
sounds like a bitch.  >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Alex179 on November 09, 2007, 04:28:25 PM
I had pretty bad withdrawal problems with Zoloft myself.   What did it do to you?

Headaches, dizziness, severe mood swings, restlessness... It's not over yet but I'm getting better. I'm glad to be off it.
Yeah Zoloft made me drowsy quite a bit actually and it did repress my sex drive a little. 

The withdrawal problems were for me mostly intense depression and sleep deprivation related.   I locked myself in my room for a week and didn't come out.   I tried to go to sleep and then tried drinking myself to sleep.  I cried hysterically for a while too.  Fun times.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 09, 2007, 05:49:23 PM
I've always had problems sleeping so I don't know if Zoloft made it worse or not. :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 14, 2007, 05:29:22 PM
i plussed you to 900!

:woohoo:

 :-*

:heart:

:bananas:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 14, 2007, 05:36:56 PM
:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 12:54:00 AM
cor!  the new title is a bit of a mouthful.

can i call you Codu, for short?   :eyelash:  :-*

anyway, "O Upgrader" hasn't the mellifluous quality of "O Master" - i may sulk.

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2007, 06:59:49 AM
You cannot. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 07:19:48 AM
can i sulk then?

kettle chip and chocolate bsicuit moments coming up later, you know...   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2007, 08:19:30 AM
Oh, sulk away. Kettle chips sounds good. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 11:07:56 AM
just decided - shan't sulk: i'll cook up some delightful (to me) revenge, instead.   :eyelash:

:witch1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2007, 12:22:27 PM
Revenge? For what? :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 12:38:43 PM
er, can't remember.  possibly, just revenge in general.  you know - random revenge, sort of thing.

um... i'll get me coat...

 :-[
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2007, 12:39:43 PM
er, can't remember.  possibly, just revenge in general.  you know - random revenge, sort of thing.

um... i'll get me coat...

 :-[

:laugh:

Random Revenge. I like that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 01:15:04 PM
er, can't remember.  possibly, just revenge in general.  you know - random revenge, sort of thing.

um... i'll get me coat...

 :-[

:laugh:

Random Revenge. I like that.

i bet you will...   :eyebrows:

it could involve, er, empiricism.   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 20, 2007, 03:04:22 PM
er, can't remember.  possibly, just revenge in general.  you know - random revenge, sort of thing.

um... i'll get me coat...

 :-[

:laugh:

Random Revenge. I like that.

i bet you will...   :eyebrows:

it could involve, er, empiricism.   :eyelash:

My kind of science. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 03:25:51 PM
er, can't remember.  possibly, just revenge in general.  you know - random revenge, sort of thing.

um... i'll get me coat...

 :-[

:laugh:

Random Revenge. I like that.

i bet you will...   :eyebrows:

it could involve, er, empiricism.   :eyelash:

My kind of science. :laugh:

ker-CHING!!!

:woohoo:

:bananas:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on December 29, 2007, 06:49:26 PM
How many languages do you speak?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on December 29, 2007, 11:22:44 PM
How many languages do you speak?

You're trying to get his pants down, because you know that he can only count to twenty one after he loweres his pannnts.

 :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2007, 05:51:55 PM
How many languages do you speak?

Depends on your definition but Finnish, Swedish, and English well enough to fool most people, enough German to fool a deaf Russian, some Spanish, and some Middle Egyptian (my pronunciation is probably horrible). Also, I speak some Danish and Norwegian but have no problem understanding what they say because Swedish is similar to them both. Oh, and I understand some Estonian because I speak Finnish (Hungarian's more difficult, though).

So anywhere between 3 and 8. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on December 30, 2007, 08:45:17 PM
Wow. :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on December 31, 2007, 06:02:30 AM
Wow. :plus:

Wow is right I only know English,  a few words in Spanish and how to swear in Serbian
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2007, 09:26:17 AM
Thanks, guys. I'd like to know how to swear in Serbian. :)

My Dad used to work as an interpreter and was very gifted. I suppose I have some of his language genes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on December 31, 2007, 09:34:35 AM
It's an amazing talent.

Did you pick most of it up
when younger, or do you still
study them?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2007, 09:39:21 AM
I picked up Spanish and Middle Egyptian in later years and the others while in my teens. Er, except for Finnish since I was born in Finland.

I'm thinking about learning Russian, too, and maybe Portuguese. There are some good, free FSI courses available.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on December 31, 2007, 10:19:47 AM
Neat. I had assumed that, with your background,
you'd have gotten most of them earlier. I can't
even really imagine being able to learn so many,
so late.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2007, 08:00:13 PM
It was a question of opportunity and interest. We moved to Sweden when I was 11 and I had to learn Swedish by immersion. English came after--I focussed on one language at a time. Also, I wasn't interested at first *because* my father worked as an interpreter. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on December 31, 2007, 09:54:29 PM
 :laugh:

Well, there goes any argument for it NOT
being genetic.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on December 31, 2007, 10:39:41 PM
What language do you think in before you translate it to the spoken or written word.  These things fascinate me
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2008, 06:47:22 AM
What language do you think in before you translate it to the spoken or written word.  These things fascinate me

I think in images or in the language I'm using at the moment. If I'm translating, I normally think in the target language. I tend to default to the language I used last, otherwise.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 01, 2008, 11:46:47 AM
If I started a "Computer questions from stupid fucking idiots and geek wannabees"  thread, would you support it?





(I have a couple of BIOS issues to resolve, trying to revive an old box, but I am semi-confounded. I know it is something simple and in clear view, but I am blind to it. More experience is needed. The old buddy if mine who I have counted on for years has had a severe heart attack and may die, soon. I found out when I tried to call him, last night. He has not been conscious in over three days, now. A story for another time, though.)










Rememmber,we are mostly verry dangerous and adrift in space with our questions.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2008, 12:10:56 PM
If I started a "Computer questions from stupid fucking idiots and geek wannabees"  thread, would you support it?





(I have a couple of BIOS issues to resolve, trying to revive an old box, but I am semi-confounded. I know it is something simple and in clear view, but I am blind to it. More experience is needed. The old buddy if mine who I have counted on for years has had a severe heart attack and may die, soon. I found out when I tried to call him, last night. He has not been conscious in over three days, now. A story for another time, though.)










Rememmber,we are mostly verry dangerous and adrift in space with our questions.

Yes I would. Go ahead and start it. I'm sure others will chime in, too. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 04, 2008, 09:33:07 AM
If I started a "Computer questions from stupid fucking idiots and geek wannabees"  thread, would you support it?





(I have a couple of BIOS issues to resolve, trying to revive an old box, but I am semi-confounded. I know it is something simple and in clear view, but I am blind to it. More experience is needed. The old buddy if mine who I have counted on for years has had a severe heart attack and may die, soon. I found out when I tried to call him, last night. He has not been conscious in over three days, now. A story for another time, though.)










Rememmber,we are mostly verry dangerous and adrift in space with our questions.

Yes I would. Go ahead and start it. I'm sure others will chime in, too. :)

He died this morning. I have another funeral to atttend.
I thank you for your tolerance of diversity.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 04, 2008, 10:25:18 AM
bummer. thats too bad, DD. :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 04, 2008, 10:58:27 AM
bummer. thats too bad, DD. :(

Yeah.
I wonder what will become of his printing business. I was able to get a bit of work through him, when he was bogged down with big jobs and he needed some simple graphics done. I will miss that and his friendship.

His two kids ( one,late twenties and one, early thirties) do not care for his business. I assume it dies with him. He made over one hundred thousand per year as post-tax profit and they don't care to pursue it. I also did some of his menial computer work. He hated dealing with hardware, but I seemed to manage it somewhat better than he did. I put together seven "modern" computers for him over the years.

I will miss him. He has been a good friend. I also wonder what will happen to his dog. His dog, a miniature Doberman and my dog, Snuggles, an overgrown fox terrier, were pals. I would love to give "Hercules" (Herky) a home.

He was two years older than I am, but looked about twenty or more older.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2008, 11:17:33 AM
Sorry to hear it, DD. :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 04, 2008, 11:51:02 AM

Yeah.

Sorry to bring my gloom into your thread.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2008, 11:55:30 AM
Don't worry about it. Life sucks, mainly.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on January 06, 2008, 03:10:16 AM
 :indeed:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 06, 2008, 05:35:37 AM
Has bright spots,
now and then though,
I hope?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 06, 2008, 09:07:08 AM
Every now and then, although I can't say there are too many of them atm.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 08, 2008, 11:12:00 AM
I have a whole bunch of patronizing paddles, could you choose the one you like best?

Ok serious question, what was your favorite subject in school?

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 08, 2008, 11:17:11 AM
I have a whole bunch of patronizing paddles, could you choose the one you like best?

I want the one that stings the most.

Quote
Ok serious question, what was your favorite subject in school?

Math and physics.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 08, 2008, 11:20:34 AM
You gonna spank yourself?  Post pics :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 08, 2008, 11:23:37 AM
Who said I would spank myself?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 08, 2008, 11:37:06 AM
Of course I met with sensors, but you didn't get that for obvious reasons.

Math was one my strong points, and my mom is was bragging about me being able to do physics.  I saw my sister's college chemisty book, it is not that much different than my high school class, just as easy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 08, 2008, 05:39:39 PM
when you hit your thumb with a hammer, which language do you usually swear in?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 08, 2008, 05:54:31 PM
:laugh:

The one I've used last, probably, if I've used more than a word or two. (And dreams count; if I dream in Finnish, I'm likely to swear in Finnish if hitting my thumb is the first thing I do after waking up. Which probably explains why I hit my thumb. I don't do stuff like that right after waking up.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 08, 2008, 06:11:49 PM
Since using a hammer is seldom the
first thing that you do, upon waking,
what is?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 08, 2008, 06:25:32 PM
On school days? Waking the kids. During weekends? Either peeing or checking if there is coffee.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 08, 2008, 06:37:34 PM
:laugh:

The one I've used last, probably, if I've used more than a word or two. (And dreams count; if I dream in Finnish, I'm likely to swear in Finnish if hitting my thumb is the first thing I do after waking up. Which probably explains why I hit my thumb. I don't do stuff like that right after waking up.)
That's funny!
I don't use my Spanish, anymore, and I have lost a lot of fluency, but I can still cuss tears out of a Spanish fencepost when I need to.

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 08, 2008, 06:39:56 PM
You can face CHILDREN before coffee or pissing?  :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 08, 2008, 06:48:30 PM
you don't always get a choice.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 08, 2008, 07:39:38 PM
I'd need a hammer.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 09, 2008, 02:03:55 AM
You can face CHILDREN before coffee or pissing?  :o

It's part of my wake-up script. I don't really need to interact with them at that point; they are as tired as I am. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 09, 2008, 02:09:27 AM
Just don't pour syrup on their heads.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 09, 2008, 02:15:06 AM
:laugh:

The one I've used last, probably, if I've used more than a word or two. (And dreams count; if I dream in Finnish, I'm likely to swear in Finnish if hitting my thumb is the first thing I do after waking up. Which probably explains why I hit my thumb. I don't do stuff like that right after waking up.)
That's funny!
I don't use my Spanish, anymore, and I have lost a lot of fluency, but I can still cuss tears out of a Spanish fencepost when I need to.

:D

A couple of years ago, I happened to have a particularly vivid dream in Finnish. My wife woke me up, probably because I was being noisy and prevented her from sleeping, so I started explaining my dream to her. She said "huh?" and I had to repeat. She said "huh?" again and I thought, "goodness, she's dense this morning", and explained again.

Only after a few more attempts did I realise that I was speaking Finnish. She's Swedish and doesn't understand a word of Finnish. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 09, 2008, 02:58:03 AM
:laugh:

The one I've used last, probably, if I've used more than a word or two. (And dreams count; if I dream in Finnish, I'm likely to swear in Finnish if hitting my thumb is the first thing I do after waking up. Which probably explains why I hit my thumb. I don't do stuff like that right after waking up.)
That's funny!
I don't use my Spanish, anymore, and I have lost a lot of fluency, but I can still cuss tears out of a Spanish fencepost when I need to.

:D

A couple of years ago, I happened to have a particularly vivid dream in Finnish. My wife woke me up, probably because I was being noisy and prevented her from sleeping, so I started explaining my dream to her. She said "huh?" and I had to repeat. She said "huh?" again and I thought, "goodness, she's dense this morning", and explained again.

Only after a few more attempts did I realise that I was speaking Finnish. She's Swedish and doesn't understand a word of Finnish. ;D

 :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 09, 2008, 04:34:22 PM
What's the most erotic thing you've done,
with a member of your own gender?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 09, 2008, 06:06:41 PM
Nothing I can think of, really. I don't associate "erotic" with my own gender.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 14, 2008, 02:41:08 PM
Have you ever pulled an all nighter?

Do you own dirty magazines?, and shame on you if you don't :laugh:  I am not dissing you in anyway.  Damn women too slow, it should be on standby.

Math is strong pt for me also, accelerated algebra, got a b+ with little effort. Highschool physics was not that bad either, mom always bragging I can do that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 14, 2008, 02:52:00 PM
dirty magazines? how last century. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 14, 2008, 03:02:58 PM
Excuse me, Westerly has terrible economy.
Excuse me if the jobs are below me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 14, 2008, 03:19:15 PM
whats that got to do with owt?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2008, 04:08:34 PM
Have you ever pulled an all nighter?

Many times. It happened all the time when I was younger.

Quote
Do you own dirty magazines?, and shame on you if you don't :laugh:  I am not dissing you in anyway.  Damn women too slow, it should be on standby.

/thinks

No dirty mags, unfortunately, but a couple of dirty books. Those count? :laugh:

Quote
Math is strong pt for me also, accelerated algebra, got a b+ with little effort. Highschool physics was not that bad either, mom always bragging I can do that.

Are you planning on doing something that involves math or physics? If you got good grades and like the subjects, you should.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2008, 04:09:30 PM
dirty magazines? how last century. :P

Pretty much my point.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 14, 2008, 04:11:32 PM


No dirty mags, unfortunately, but a couple of dirty books. Those count? :laugh:
.

What kinda books get you moving?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2008, 04:19:15 PM


No dirty mags, unfortunately, but a couple of dirty books. Those count? :laugh:
.

What kinda books get you moving?

One that used to do it when I was younger was that book by Alex Comfort, The Joy of Sex, that used to be found in everyone's bookshelves. Lots of inspirational material in there, and I suspect that one of my kids was conceived with some, um, help from that book. Nowadays it feels more like a manual or something, though. Likewise for a Kama Sutra edition with nice pics that I own.

I have a really dreadful novel by Anne Rice, one of her Sleeping Beauty books. It's supposed to be kinky and hawt, but doesn't really do anything for me. Very disappointing.

But I stray from the subject. Any well-written erotic novel can do it for me, but I wish to emphasise well-written, and also highlight the need for a plot dealing with more than just getting the protagonist laid.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 14, 2008, 04:22:57 PM
Quote from: ChrissandraChrissamba
Bad Sex Award 2007 shortlisted passages
News story: Bad sex contest heats up

Tuesday November 27, 2007

Guardian Unlimited

From Will by Christopher Rush (Beautiful Books) p132-3
O glorious pubes! The ultimate triangle, whose angles delve to hell but point to paradise. Let me sing the black banner, the blackbird's wing, the chink, the cleft, the keyhole in the door. The fig, the fanny, the cranny, the quim - I'd come close to it now, this sudden blush, this ancient avenue, the end of all odysseys and epic aim of life, pulling at my prick now, pulling like a lodestone.

Anne Hathaway's cow-milking fingers, cradling my balls in her almond palm, now took pity on the poor anguished erection, and in the infinite agony of her desire, guided it to the quick of the wound. At the same time I searched wildly with the fingers of my left hand, groping blind as Cyclops, found the pulpy furred wetness, parted the old lips of time and slipped my middle finger into the sancta sanctorum. It welcomed me with soft sucking sounds, syllables older than language, solace lovelier than words. She pulled my hand away, positioned the prick, slid her buttocks deep into the grass, raised her thighs back high, crossed her legs behind my back, dug her heels into my spine and hauled at me savagely and hard. I fell into her.

It was exhilarating, to be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space. But Anne Hathaway was a cruel queen. Her calves crushed my ribs, her crossed heels digging in hard, drawing me in deeper. She responded with those cries that men long to hear, the sweet deep moaning sounds that echo the sigh of oceans, the ebb and flow of fields, the sough of stars. So we drank from one another, clung together on the ship we'd made of ourselves, breasting the irrelevance of time.

All around us nature joined in ... Streamers of heat lashed my back and shoulders and far beneath me now the body of Anne Hathaway began to rage and founder in the rising foam as I clung like a mariner to her heaving haunches, the deep keel of her backbone dipping and lifting through July, through the green surge of growth, till at last the moment came when some colossal wave flung her up high, and I held on for my life, and she screamed loud and long Then O! then O! then O! my true love said and I felt death go through her. Our vessel ran shuddering onto the rocks, a wave of wetness ran through us, the air was rent with screams and I became aware that the bank on which we lay drenched and grounded was journey's end, love's end, the very sea-mark of our utmost sail.

From Apples by Richard Milward (Faber) p 179

She had on no knickers, and my heart went crash-bang-wallop and my eyes popped out. She hadn't shaved, and her fanny looked like a tropical <°)))>< or a bit of old carpet.

'So, you just gonna sit there?' Abi asked, and I laughed nervously. I was hardening up, but it was all a bit of a shock really. All I'd planned that night was listening to a selection of records and maybe some homework. I tried to go down on her, thinking back to the Razzle and how the boys did it in that. But my heart wasn't into it - her cunt smelt a bit like an armpit, and when I pulled the lips open I knew I'd have to shut them numerous times or else I'll die of Aids or I'd fall into it.

From The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson (Hamish Hamilton) p 27-28

Spike doesn't say anything, but she looks at me, and I know she'll be reading my data-chip implant. Everything about me is stored just above my wrist.

'I can't read your data,' she says, reading my mind instead. 'That function is passive while I'm draining.'

'How long will the draining take?'

'A few hours, including questions, then I'm done.'

'You were built entirely for the space mission, right?'

She nods and smiles. She is absurdly beautiful. I start to slip off my jeans and I feel her gaze as I stand in my bra and pants. Why am I embarrassed about taking off my clothes right in front of a robot? I pull the dress over my head like a schoolgirl, untie my hair, and sit down. She is smiling, just a little bit, as though she knows her effect.

To calm myself down and appear in control I reverse the problem. 'Spike, you're a robot, but why are you such a drop-dead gorgeous robot? I mean, is it necessary to be the most sophisticated machine ever built and to look like a movie star?'

She answers simply: 'They thought I would be good for the boys on the mission.'

I am pondering the implications of this. Like a wartime pin-up? Like a live anti-depressant? Like truth is beauty, beauty truth? 'How good? I mean, I'm assuming you're not talking sexual services here.'

'What else is there to do in space for three years?'

'But inter-species sex is illegal.'

'Not on another planet it isn't. Not in space it isn't.' ...

'So you had sex with spacemen for three years?'

'Yes. I used up three silicon-lined vaginas.' ...

p88

We made love by our fire, watching the snow shape the entrance to the cave.

When I touch her, my fingers don't question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am.

She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love.

From The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer (Little, Brown) p67-68

'Are you all right?' she cried out as he lay beside her, his breath going in and out with a rasp that sounded as terrible as the last winds of their lost children.

'All right. Yes. No,' he said. Then she was on him. She did not know if this would resuscitate him or end him, but the same spite, sharp as a needle, that had come to her after Fanni's death was in her again. Fanni had told her once what to do. So Klara turned head to foot, and put her most unmentionable part down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth, and took his old battering ram into her lips. Uncle was now as soft as a coil of excrement. She sucked on him nonetheless with an avidity that could come only from the Evil One - that she knew. From there, the impulse had come. So now they both had their heads at the wrong end, and the Evil One was there. He had never been so close before.

The Hound began to come to life. Right in her mouth. It surprised her. Alois had been so limp. But now he was a man again! His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.

From Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart (Granta) p201

"You wanna pop me?" she said. This must have been some new-fangled youth term. The verb "to pop."

"I wanna bust a nut inside you, shorty," I said. "I wanna make you sweat, boo. Let's do this thing."

I'd like to say that she stepped out of her jeans, but in truth it took a while to maneuver two large dimpled buttocks and the accompanying vaginal wedge out of the hard shell of her Miss Sixty denims. We huffed and sweated; I had her hanging off the edge of the bed while I gripped the cuffs of her jeans; I nearly pulled a groin muscle getting her naked; but through it all I stayed hard, a testament to how much I wanted her. She kept her T-shirt on throughout the initial popping, which is just how I like my sex, infused with a little mystery. I slipped my hands beneath the cotton tee and felt the smooth creamery of her breasts while saving the visuals of those brown glossy globes for later. Her vagina was all that, as they say in the urban media - a powerful ethnic muscle scented by bitter melon, the breezes of the local sea, and the sweaty needs of a tiny nation trying to breed itself into a future. Was it especially hairy? Good Lord, yes it was. Mountains of kinkiness black as the night above the Serengeti with paprika shoots at the edges - the pubic hair alone must have clocked in at half a kilo, while providing the inspiration for two discernible trails of hair, one running up to the navel, the other to the base of the spine.

Naturally, considering my size, she got on top of me. But given her impressive overall body mass and natural resilience, I could see a day when we could broach the missionary position, not that there's anything special in attacking a poor woman that way. After we had fussed with the condom, I reached for her pubes, but she slapped me away. These preliminaries did not interest her. Instead, she just plain mounted me, holding on to my tits for balance, slipping me inside with no effort, both vaginal lips working to usher me into her tightness. I find it clichéd when couples insist that they have "the perfect fit," but between the busted-up, zigzag, Broadway boogie-woogie of my maligned purple khui and the all-encompassing nature of her Caspian pizda, we reached a third way, as it were.

That is to say, she rode me. It was all very classy and contemporary, like a modern-art survey course at NYU. I wanted to have the slogan I RODE MISHA VAINBERG imprinted on her T-shirt. "Yeah, do me," she kept saying, after issuing a few grunts so male and assertive they startled me into a brief homosexual fear, a fear compounded by one of her sharp nails digging into my tight rectum. "Do me, daddy," she said, her eyes closed, her thighs slapping against my upper and lower stomachs, my own tits making wet noises against my frame. "Just like that," she said, stealing a brief glance at me and then turning her head to the side so that I could lick her ear and plunge into her neck. "Just ... like ... that."

"Yeah," I said, "I'm fucking you, boo," but the words did not convince me. "I'm busting my nut tonight," I sang.

"My pussy fills so tight," she sang back in perfect ghetto English.

"Ouch," I said. She was crushing my pubic bone, grinding into it. "Ouch," I repeated. "Baby doll ... ouch."

"Just a minute, pops," she said. "Just give me a minute. Do me right. Just like that."

"Move up a little," I said. "Move up. It hurts. My bone."

"Just ... like ... that," she said.

"My bone hurts," I said. "I'm losing it."

"AW," she shouted. "FUCK ME." She leaned back. I slipped out. Her thighs trembled before me, and I felt a warm, abundant liquid spreading on my own thighs, not sure which of us had issued it. My bedroom was filled with the smell of asparagus and related greenery. "Aw," she said again. "Fuck me."

From Boy Meets Girl by Ali Smith (Canongate)

Her hand opened me. Then her hand became a wing. Then everything about me became a wing, a single wing, and she was the other wing, we were a bird. We were a bird that could sing Mozart. Her beautiful head was down at my breast, she caught me between her teeth just once, she put the nip into nipple like the cub of a fox would.

Was that her tongue? Was that what they meant when they said flames had tongues? I was hard all right, and then I was sinew, I was a snake, I changed stone to snake in three simple moves, stoke stake snake, then I was a tree whose branches were all budded knots, and what were those felty buds, were they antlers? were antlers really growing out of both of us? was my whole front furring over? and were we the same pelt? were our hands black shining hoofs? were we kicking? were we bitten? We were blades, were a knife that could cut through myth, were two knives thrown by a magician, were arrows fired by a god, we hit heart, we hit home, we were the tail of a <°)))>< were the reek of a cat were the beak of a bird were the feather that mastered gravity were high above every landscape then down deep in the purple haze of the heather were roamin in a gloamin in a brash unending Scottish piece of perfect jigging reeling reel can we really keep this up?

From The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark (Viking)

Unhooked by longing, my body arched towards him. When at last he reached in to touch me, there was nothing else left, nothing in the world but his fingers and the delirious incoherent frenzy of pure sensation they sent spiralling through me, as though I were an instrument vibrating with the exquisite hymns of the angels. Did that make him an angel? My toes clenched in my boots and my belly held itself aloft in a moment of stillness as the flame quivered, perfectly bright. I held my breath. In the explosion I lost sight of myself. I was a million brilliant fragments, the darkness of my belly alive with stars. When at last I opened my eyes to look at him, my lashes shone with tears. He raised a finger to his lips and smiled.

From The Late Hector Kipling by David Thewlis (Picador)

This is not pleasurable. How could anyone find having burning hot candle wax dripped onto the flesh of their belly pleasurable? But I don't want to tell her to stop cos the last time I told her to stop I got belted in the mouth. She wears an average of three rings on each finger. God, Mum was right, this lousy settee does stink. No wonder Dad's in hospital. I might well be joining him by the end of the night.

I think I'm still inside her but, quite honestly, it's difficult to tell ...

Avanti!

"You fucker!" she drawls, and brings the flame up close to my left nipple. "You pathetic little fucker," and tries to light it like a wick.

"Ooowwww!" Oh shit, my nipple's on fire. She's poured lighter fluid onto my chest and my tit's gone up in flames like some dessert in a posh restaurant.

"Fuck, Rosa! Aggghhhh! For fuck's sake! Blow it out! Blow it out!"

"OK, baby," she whispers, suddenly gentle, "OK, my angel," and with this she reaches down and pours half a can of Stella over my scorched chest. I'm beginning to regret that I ever invited her in. "How's that?" she says, lowering her head and lapping up the ale. "That nice? That nice, baby?"

"No!" I scream.

"No?"

"No, Rosa, no that is not fucking nice! It bloody kills!"

She cracks me across the face with the back of her hand, grips my throat, spits in my eye and scrapes her nails across my scalded flesh. And that's when I come. Oh yes. That's when the core of my soul spasms and snaps, spilling out its filthy pips.

 :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2008, 04:38:52 PM
Um, er... thank you?  :eh:

My head hurts.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 14, 2008, 04:43:47 PM
Just thought you'd like some samples
of 'good' erotica.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2008, 05:20:29 PM
"O glorious pubes!"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 14, 2008, 05:22:52 PM
 :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Coral on January 15, 2008, 09:58:34 AM
Excuse me, Westerly has terrible economy.
Excuse me if the jobs are below me.

Ever think that with that attitude an employer thinks YOU are the one with nothing to bring to the table? After all you are asking them to pay you to do what they ask, so that attitude will get you nowhere fast (like you are now)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 15, 2008, 03:30:46 PM
You wish :laugh:

I am pretty normal now, trauma gone :laugh:

Ha hah >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 15, 2008, 03:38:44 PM
You wish :laugh:

No. Though I don't always agree
with her tactics, I think she WANTS
you to do better with yourself.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Coral on January 15, 2008, 06:00:30 PM
 :brickwall:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 16, 2008, 01:30:33 AM
Hey, mind the wall. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 16, 2008, 11:30:34 AM
:brickwall:

Don't bitch, I said it nicely at first, I don't need you telling me how to run my life.  You sould like mom, seeing what she wants to see, besides this is Odeon's thread, why not give him the respect he deserves, etiquette remember?


What is your favorite show on t.v.?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on January 16, 2008, 11:33:56 AM
nevermind I'm a twat.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 16, 2008, 11:36:36 AM
Are you a scando or did you have to learn to be stupid?

Are you asking me? This is my ask away-thread, you know, and I'd like to give you the benefit of a doubt before I rip your heart out.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on January 16, 2008, 11:46:17 AM
Are you a scando or did you have to learn to be stupid?

Are you asking me? This is my ask away-thread, you know, and I'd like to give you the benefit of a doubt before I rip your heart out.

Ok so I was being racist. I have Scandinavian friends IRL.
It's just the way in which the English language sounds with a Scandinavian accent, makes the speaker seem a little simple :green:

Really I apologize for that question, it makes me feel rather stupid.
That's why I deleted what I wrote, yet you still managed to quote it!  :bangbang:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 16, 2008, 11:48:23 AM
Are you a scando or did you have to learn to be stupid?

Are you asking me? This is my ask away-thread, you know, and I'd like to give you the benefit of a doubt before I rip your heart out.

Ok so I was being racist. I have Scandinavian friends IRL.
It's just the way in which the English language sounds with a Scandinavian accent, makes the speaker seem a little simple :green:

So, if that's the case, what's YOUR excuse? :finger:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on January 16, 2008, 11:49:38 AM
Well I am simple  :zoinks:















<--------- and a cunt.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 16, 2008, 06:25:50 PM
Odeon, give my sister money and she will go away.  (stripping) :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 16, 2008, 07:56:56 PM
Does everybody in Sweden sleep on a DUX bed the adds here make it seem so ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 05:48:28 AM
Does everybody in Sweden sleep on a DUX bed the adds here make it seem so ::)

:laugh:

No. I sleep on a cheap IKEA bed. It's reasonably comfy, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on January 17, 2008, 06:14:39 AM
Is it true the guy who owns ikea is Sweden's richest person?
I think I heard he was richer than Gatesy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 17, 2008, 06:57:25 AM
We have one of your embassies(IKEA) about ten miles from me and even have stuff form there in our house
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 08:29:29 AM
Is it true the guy who owns ikea is Sweden's richest person?
I think I heard he was richer than Gatesy.

Ingvar Kamprad? Yes, I think he is Sweden's richest person. Don't know if he's richer than gates, tho.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on January 17, 2008, 08:32:26 AM
What is your real name? I bet it's funny sounding :hahaha:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 08:35:10 AM
Sorry, that's private information. To a non-Finnish speaker, it is probably a weird name even though some Greeks may find it acceptable.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 17, 2008, 09:59:02 AM
Excuse me, Westerly has terrible economy.
Excuse me if the jobs are below me.

Ever think that with that attitude an employer thinks YOU are the one with nothing to bring to the table? After all you are asking them to pay you to do what they ask, so that attitude will get you nowhere fast (like you are now)

Why do you continue to pick on your brother? He's a moron: accept it, and move on.

People aren't going to employ him for the way he is, and there's nothing you're going to do that will change him.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 17, 2008, 10:33:15 AM
We have one of your embassies(IKEA) about ten miles from me and even have stuff form there in our house

IKEA runs the consulates?

Must be linked to the royals then.
No wonder they're rich.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 11:15:31 AM
We have one of your embassies(IKEA) about ten miles from me and even have stuff form there in our house

IKEA runs the consulates?

Must be linked to the royals then.
No wonder they're rich.

:laugh:

It wouldn't surprise me. Scare me, maybe.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 17, 2008, 01:32:38 PM
Excuse me, Westerly has terrible economy.
Excuse me if the jobs are below me.

Ever think that with that attitude an employer thinks YOU are the one with nothing to bring to the table? After all you are asking them to pay you to do what they ask, so that attitude will get you nowhere fast (like you are now)


Why do you continue to pick on your brother? He's a moron: accept it, and move on.

People aren't going to employ him for the way he is, and there's nothing you're going to do that will change him.

Do we need to take this outside?  I don't know if I should bother waisting my time with you, you thinking is all screwed up, as bad as my psychotic mom at times, she just jumps to conclusions, I automatically have no emotions what so ever because I won't share them.  Maybe if she tried controlling herself, I may bother to share them with her.

Do you smoke, Odeon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 01:36:20 PM
I used to smoke--about 20 a day--but quit for two and a half years ago.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 17, 2008, 04:52:34 PM
20 what? Cigs?

What are the smoking laws like,
in Sweden?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 04:58:42 PM
20 what? Cigs?

Yes. Mostly Camels or, when I could find them, Gitanes.

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What are the smoking laws like,
in Sweden?  :zoinks:

I suspect pretty much on par with the rest of the Western world. You are no longer allowed to smoke in public places, including pubs, and some employers are introducing limitations on when you can have your smoke.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 17, 2008, 05:00:53 PM
Thanks.

I know Turkey is still good.
(and West Virginia)

But, NYC (and some California counties)
ban it OUTDOORS.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2008, 05:16:00 PM
I think you aren't allowed to smoke near bus stops here. Most people ignore the ban, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 17, 2008, 10:36:14 PM
20 what? Cigs?

Yes. Mostly Camels or, when I could find them, Gitanes.

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What are the smoking laws like,
in Sweden?  :zoinks:

I suspect pretty much on par with the rest of the Western world. You are no longer allowed to smoke in public places, including pubs, and some employers are introducing limitations on when you can have your smoke.

I have almost completely quit trying to smoke at work. They have no specific restrictions other than a specific distance from the front door. I take breaks, but I don't go smoke. The problem is that everyone wants to go with me so they can smell my pipe.  Half of the reason I want to get out of there is to get a BREAK! ... from all of it and from every person and every noise and every DAMN thing. It serves no purpose to have six or seven people follow me out there and make a bunch of fucking noise at me.

... so I have mostly quit trying.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 17, 2008, 10:44:08 PM
I like to walk, while smoking.
Most people can't keep up.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2008, 01:41:50 AM
Walk while smoking? Counter-productive, I'd say.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on January 20, 2008, 01:49:00 AM
Ate some potatoes and a schnitzel, earlier. Eating peanuts and drinking beer now.

Are you fat, Odeon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 20, 2008, 02:01:41 AM
Ate some potatoes and a schnitzel, earlier. Eating peanuts and drinking beer now.

Are you fat, Odeon?

I think that his first avatar was, not him.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2008, 07:19:45 AM
Ate some potatoes and a schnitzel, earlier. Eating peanuts and drinking beer now.

Are you fat, Odeon?

No. I used to be really thin when I was younger, but now I'm fairly normal.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 20, 2008, 03:51:07 PM
Why are you no longer a webmaster?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2008, 04:06:18 PM
I am still a webmaster, as far as I know. Must be some weirdness with the membergroups... Will check.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 20, 2008, 04:07:51 PM
I am still a webmaster, as far as I know. Must be some weirdness with the membergroups... Will check.

It's just that your primary got reset.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 20, 2008, 04:07:56 PM
I am still a webmaster, as far as I know. Must be some weirdness with the membergroups... Will check.

you need to make webmaster your primary Membergroup again. you were a supportar before... dont you want the badge?  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2008, 04:13:20 PM
I thought it would be prudent of me to appear as a webmaster, now that the elections are approaching and I'm handling them. I'll always be a suppohtah, though. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2008, 04:19:51 PM
Thanks for the tip--I had forgotten all about primary membergroups and such... 8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 20, 2008, 04:22:54 PM
I was just worried something malicious had happened.
Then, when I saw you were still a webmaster, it
didn't really matter.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2008, 04:25:04 PM
Thanks for pointing it out. It would have taken me days to see it. :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on January 21, 2008, 10:34:29 PM
Thanks.

I know Turkey is still good.
(and West Virginia)

But, NYC (and some California counties)
ban it OUTDOORS.
When I was in hospital recently they were going to bring in a ban of smoking on all hospital grounds on January 1st this year. I sort of wanted to stay because then I would get to see people go really mental  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 21, 2008, 10:35:26 PM
Most states have that kind of rule,
with hospitals.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 21, 2008, 10:36:53 PM
here too. not that it used to stop me smoking outside.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2008, 01:46:16 AM
It's the same here. People smoke outside, though, and nobody stops them.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 22, 2008, 06:45:52 AM
Do you work in one of the nice old big cinemas or one of the newer ones with tons of screens.  I miss the big ones from when I was young what are your opinions on this?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2008, 03:19:21 PM
A big, single-screen cinema. The best in town. ;D

Have a look at http://www1.tripnet.se/~adler/draken/.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 22, 2008, 03:35:28 PM
I miss the big theaters all the have around here now in those super mega plex things.  Yours looks beautiful
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 28, 2008, 09:22:33 AM
I'm no longer the answer to the question about the universe, life, and everything. :(

yes you are (to certain witchy types, anyway   :-*  :hug: ).

(and how's this for a surprise b'day pressie?  ;) )

happy special day, O-Meister.   :-*

xxx x
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Alex179 on January 28, 2008, 09:24:53 AM
Holy crap.   Lucifer sighting.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2008, 10:28:31 AM
:woohoo:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 12:29:21 PM
Here for the election,
no doubt.

Maybe I should round people
up.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2008, 04:02:54 PM
Here for the election,
no doubt.

Maybe I should round people
up.  :laugh:

Actually she was here because it's my birthday.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 04:29:56 PM
Ah, you don't post that?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 28, 2008, 04:30:21 PM
Here for the election,
no doubt.

Maybe I should round people
up.  :laugh:

Actually she was here because it's my birthday.

listen to the O Meister, you paranoid, narcissistic slug.  you have far too high an opinion of yourself.  :smarty:

besides, how could i let His Special Day go unremarked?  (by myself, i mean, cos obviously i haven't mentioned anything to him anywhere else, no, not at all.  :pinocchio: )

oh, and O-Man: :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2008, 04:44:39 PM
Ah, you don't post that?

Er, post what? My birthday? What?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 04:54:22 PM
It's not on the dates.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 28, 2008, 05:05:52 PM
It's not on the dates.

it is for special people.  perhaps you're simply not special enough.  but don't cry - i'm sure some psychotic maniac body somewhere loves you. and i'm sure that, once you learn how to communicate with non-sentient entities better, you'll have a long and fulfilling relationship.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2008, 05:07:53 PM
It's not on the dates.

OMG, then it can't be my birthday.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 05:12:26 PM
It's not on the dates.

it is for special people.  perhaps you're simply not special enough.

I wanna be speschul too.  :'(


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and i'm sure that, once you learn how to communicate with non-sentient entities better, you'll have a long and fulfilling relationship.

I tried. You still didn't get it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 28, 2008, 05:18:39 PM
It's not on the dates.

it is for special people.  perhaps you're simply not special enough.

I wanna be speschul too.  :'(

try learning to spell.


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and i'm sure that, once you learn how to communicate with non-sentient entities better, you'll have a long and fulfilling relationship.

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I tried. You still didn't get it.

you want a long and fulfiling relationship with me, cal?  if only you'd said before - i could do with a laugh.  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 05:21:42 PM
It's not on the dates.

it is for special people.  perhaps you're simply not special enough.

I wanna be speschul too.  :'(

try learning to spell.

:GA:

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you want a long and fulfiling relationship with me, cal?


Who wouldn't? You're always such a nice and considerate
person.

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if only you'd said before - i could do with a laugh.

A well, like ships passing in the night,
we never had the chance to fully
foul one another.

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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 28, 2008, 05:21:53 PM
you kept that quiet matey. hippo birthday :beergrin: :fiveshots: :party:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 28, 2008, 05:50:16 PM
It's not on the dates.

it is for special people.  perhaps you're simply not special enough.

I wanna be speschul too.  :'(

try learning to spell.

:GA:

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you want a long and fulfiling relationship with me, cal?


Who wouldn't? You're always such a nice and considerate
person.

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

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if only you'd said before - i could do with a laugh.

A well, like ships passing in the night,
we never had the chance to fully
foul one another.
only cos you keep springing a leak (hence your verbal diarrhoea).

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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:

to whom?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 28, 2008, 06:10:06 PM
It's not on the dates.

it is for special people.  perhaps you're simply not special enough.

I wanna be speschul too.  :'(

try learning to spell.

:GA:

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you want a long and fulfiling relationship with me, cal?


Who wouldn't? You're always such a nice and considerate
person.

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.
He wants you to be a tart though. Honest.
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Quote
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if only you'd said before - i could do with a laugh.

A well, like ships passing in the night,
we never had the chance to fully
foul one another.
only cos you keep springing a leak (hence your verbal diarrhoea).
But he isnt sunk. That makes him even more of a ship.
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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:

to whom?
Myself, among others. Please dont say you need a translator now, Vivi...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 28, 2008, 06:16:24 PM

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

I'm a taurean. What's the problem?

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only cos you keep springing a leak (hence your verbal diarrhoea).

What can you expect? You've torn a hole
in my heart.

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Quote
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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:

to whom?

Normally, you seem to understand me
when I'm drinking. Less otherwise.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 28, 2008, 06:25:42 PM

Happy birthday, Odeon.

 :notes: :notes: :notes: :notes:




Hi, Lucifer!

 :flasher:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 12:51:32 AM

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

I'm a taurean. What's the problem?

you're an arsehole.

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only cos you keep springing a leak (hence your verbal diarrhoea).

What can you expect? You've torn a hole
in my heart.

i have?  is it fatal?  now where's that "post something good that happened today" thread...?

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Quote
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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:

to whom?

Normally, you seem to understand me
when I'm drinking. Less otherwise.

only cos i'm used to interpreting people with speech brain impediments.


hi, Dawg!  :hug:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 01:16:20 AM

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

I'm a taurean. What's the problem?

you're an arsehole.

Seems rather suited then,
as you certainly must be constipated
to be so bitchy.


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i have?  is it fatal?  now where's that "post something good that happened today" thread...?

Not fatal. Just means that I shall
persist, until you finally admit your
need for me.

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Quote
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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:

to whom?

Normally, you seem to understand me
when I'm drinking. Less otherwise.

only cos i'm used to interpreting people with speech brain impediments.

Yes. Alcohol does lower me to the
level you are used to. Pity you can't
understand those with average (or above)
abilities.


Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 29, 2008, 02:08:22 AM
It's not on the dates.

OMG, then it can't be my birthday.

That is fucking hilarious! :lol:

+
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 02:21:23 AM

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

I'm a taurean. What's the problem?

you're an arsehole.

Seems rather suited then,
as you certainly must be constipated
to be so bitchy.

sorry, but you appear to be mistaking me for Diaper Girl:  i ain't shitting on anyone, thanks all the same. 

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i have?  is it fatal?  now where's that "post something good that happened today" thread...?

Not fatal. Just means that I shall
persist, until you finally admit your
need for me.

result! - haven't had much target practise recently.  ta.

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  i thought you'd just been at the bottle again.

I made sense?  :laugh:

to whom?

Normally, you seem to understand me
when I'm drinking. Less otherwise.

only cos i'm used to interpreting people with speech brain impediments.

Yes. Alcohol does lower me to the
level you are used to. Pity you can't
understand those with average (or above)
abilities.

ooooh, hit a nerve, did we?  :smarty:    :lol:

now, what was that much over- (and erroneously) used phrase about scoring cheap points...?   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 02:23:02 AM
It's not on the dates.

OMG, then it can't be my birthday.

orly?  then you'd better give me those pressies back, you bloody fraud!  :smarty:

p.s.  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 02:27:00 AM


Seems rather suited then,
as you certainly must be constipated
to be so bitchy.

 i ain't shitting

Yes. As I said.


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result! - haven't had much target practise recently.  ta.

Pissing standing again?
Certainly you didn't hit anything
here.



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ooooh, hit a nerve, did we?  :smarty:    :lol:

Not in the least.
Don't really think
either of us CAN.

Well, so long as I don't
do one of the many things
that upsets you so much.

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now, what was that much over- (and erroneously) used phrase about scoring cheap points...?   :eyelash:

Doesn't apply. This whole thing has been
nothing but cheap points. Just banter,
rather than any serious discussion.

If we were talking about something that
mattered, and one of us did that, as you
so often do, then there would be yet another
notation.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 29, 2008, 02:29:05 AM

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

I'm a taurean. What's the problem?

you're an arsehole.



:LMAO:

 :plus:

Hi, Lucifer.   :-*

I have missed seeing your wit here.

 
:witch1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 02:31:46 AM

you're utterly deluded, sunshine.  i'm a cow.

I'm a taurean. What's the problem?

you're an arsehole.



:LMAO:

 :plus:

Hi, Lucifer.   :-*

I have missed seeing your wit here.

 
:witch1:

 :-*

only popping in cos the O Meister wanted me to* - you know how obedient i am.  ;)   :eyelash:

*not entirely true, cos i whizzed on for his b'day, but he likes me being on here, so i might pop in from time to time...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 02:34:09 AM
Hell, I even enjoy seeing you here.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 29, 2008, 02:36:35 AM
I would say "welcome back", but you should already know how I feel by your presence.  :p
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 02:37:38 AM


Seems rather suited then,
as you certainly must be constipated
to be so bitchy.

 i ain't shitting

Yes. As I said.

dear me - such cherry-picking and misquotation.   :yawn:

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result! - haven't had much target practise recently.  ta.

Pissing standing again?
Certainly you didn't hit anything
here.

you couldn't pay me to piss on you, you silly little man - you might like it.   ::)

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ooooh, hit a nerve, did we?  :smarty:    :lol:

Not in the least.
Don't really think
either of us CAN.

yada yada yada...

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Well, so long as I don't
do one of the many things
that upsets you so much.

well, there's a thing: of course, one can only be upset by people who one respects, or whose opinion one values, so there's no point anyone trying as you're as self-centred and -obsessed as a gyroscope.

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now, what was that much over- (and erroneously) used phrase about scoring cheap points...?   :eyelash:

Doesn't apply. This whole thing has been
nothing but cheap points. Just banter,
rather than any serious discussion.

If we were talking about something that
mattered, and one of us did that, as you
so often do, then there would be yet another
notation.

change the record, cal.  or are you just stuck in a groove, daddio?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 02:38:14 AM
I would say "welcome back", but you should already know how I feel by your presence. 

;)

:hug:

time for a run again soon, then?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 02:38:46 AM
Hell, I even enjoy seeing you here.  :laugh:

ooooh, an attempt at reverse psychology!   :clap:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 02:51:32 AM


dear me - such cherry-picking and misquotation.   :yawn:

All's fair in fun.
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you couldn't pay me to piss on you, you silly little man - you might like it.   ::)

At least there's that.

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Quote
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ooooh, hit a nerve, did we?  :smarty:    :lol:

Not in the least.
Don't really think
either of us CAN.

yada yada yada...

Point proven.

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well, there's a thing: of course, one can only be upset by people who one respects, or whose opinion one values, so there's no point anyone trying as you're as self-centred and -obsessed as a gyroscope.

Really? So you don't mind if I play with your
precious profile anymore? And the word slut
no longer bothers you?

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Quote
Quote
now, what was that much over- (and erroneously) used phrase about scoring cheap points...?   :eyelash:

Doesn't apply. This whole thing has been
nothing but cheap points. Just banter,
rather than any serious discussion.

If we were talking about something that
mattered, and one of us did that, as you
so often do, then there would be yet another
notation.

change the record, cal.  or are you just stuck in a groove, daddio?

Never said anything like that before,
to my knowledge. 'Course, your inability
to deal with more than a one-liner makes
you simply presume that you've seen it before.

But, sometimes large collections of words CAN
have different meanings from other large collections
of words.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 03:02:53 AM


dear me - such cherry-picking and misquotation.   :yawn:

All's fair in fun.

glad one of us is having fun.

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you couldn't pay me to piss on you, you silly little man - you might like it.   ::)

At least there's that.

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Quote
Quote
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ooooh, hit a nerve, did we?  :smarty:    :lol:

Not in the least.
Don't really think
either of us CAN.

yada yada yada...

Point proven.

is it?  how?

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well, there's a thing: of course, one can only be upset by people who one respects, or whose opinion one values, so there's no point anyone trying as you're as self-centred and -obsessed as a gyroscope.

Really? So you don't mind if I play with your
precious profile anymore? And the word slut
no longer bothers you?

i was talking about you, doughnut-brain.   ::)

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now, what was that much over- (and erroneously) used phrase about scoring cheap points...?   :eyelash:

Doesn't apply. This whole thing has been
nothing but cheap points. Just banter,
rather than any serious discussion.

If we were talking about something that
mattered, and one of us did that, as you
so often do, then there would be yet another
notation.

change the record, cal.  or are you just stuck in a groove, daddio?

Never said anything like that before,
to my knowledge
. 'Course, your inability
to deal with more than a one-liner makes
you simply presume that you've seen it before.

/jaw drops in disbelief...

you getting alzheimer's?

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But, sometimes large collections of words CAN
have different meanings from other large collections
of words.

no, really ?!  my goodness, you learn something new every day...

now, surely there must be some paint drying somewhere which i could stare at...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 03:11:08 AM

glad one of us is having fun.

So long as nothing important
is being discussed, you're a
pleasure to bat around. Kinda
like a ball of yarn. Lightweight,
but spreads on the floor nicely.


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well, there's a thing: of course, one can only be upset by people who one respects, or whose opinion one values, so there's no point anyone trying as you're as self-centred and -obsessed as a gyroscope.

Really? So you don't mind if I play with your
precious profile anymore? And the word slut
no longer bothers you?

i was talking about you, doughnut-brain.   ::)

Ah, see the self centered had me convinced you
were speaking of yourself. Easy mistake, you see.  :laugh:

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now, what was that much over- (and erroneously) used phrase about scoring cheap points...?   :eyelash:

Doesn't apply. This whole thing has been
nothing but cheap points. Just banter,
rather than any serious discussion.

If we were talking about something that
mattered, and one of us did that, as you
so often do, then there would be yet another
notation.

change the record, cal.  or are you just stuck in a groove, daddio?

Never said anything like that before,
to my knowledge
. 'Course, your inability
to deal with more than a one-liner makes
you simply presume that you've seen it before.

/jaw drops in disbelief...

you getting alzheimer's?

I really don't remember defending
why banter ISN'T an example of
what you so often do in the midst
of important issues.

See, there's a difference between
mere play, and matters which can
effect things. But, you're inability
to pay attention obviously precludes
you from noticing.
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But, sometimes large collections of words CAN
have different meanings from other large collections
of words.

no, really ?!  my goodness, you learn something new every day...

Glad I could help you there.
Now, I realize my posts are
too much for you; perhaps you
should start with the "Look See"
books?
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now, surely there must be some paint drying somewhere which i could stare at...

Enjoy! But this time, try not to eat so
many of the leaded chips.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 03:18:16 AM

glad one of us is having fun.

So long as nothing important
is being discussed, you're a
pleasure to bat around. Kinda
like a ball of yarn. Lightweight,
but spreads on the floor nicely.

(http://www.metal-yarn.com/image/wire/Barbed_Wire.jpg)

as for the rest of it...

let me know when you've something of interest to say, would you?  this (lead-free) gloss is such fun!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 03:20:14 AM
Just need a bigger cat,
for that kinda yarn.

(http://www.grainfarmer.com/imageA44.JPG)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 29, 2008, 03:21:10 AM
Calandale on Duracell. He keeps rambling and rambling...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 03:22:04 AM
Just need a bigger cat,
for that kinda yarn.

(http://www.grainfarmer.com/imageA44.JPG)

oooooh, help, i'm being bullied by a big macho man!  :hide:

 ::)

Calandale on Duracell. He keeps rambling and rambling...

 :lol:  :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 03:23:29 AM
hey, O Man, i appear to be hijacking your thread.  will you ever forgive me?   :eyelash:   :-*

i promise all sorts of er, "favours" if you do...  :cfm:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 29, 2008, 05:09:55 AM
Calandale on Duracell. He keeps rambling and rambling...
You mean she is the bunny boiler and he is the bunny?
(http://hometown.aol.com/MATS80/cell4.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 05:28:12 AM
you kept that quiet matey. hippo birthday :beergrin: :fiveshots: :party:

Thanks. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 29, 2008, 05:30:46 AM
you kept that quiet matey. hippo birthday :beergrin: :fiveshots: :party:

Thanks. :)

So, what all did you get for your birthday?  Did you have a birthday cake with 43 candles?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 29, 2008, 05:35:52 AM
Calandale on Duracell. He keeps rambling and rambling...
You mean she is the bunny boiler and he is the bunny?
(http://hometown.aol.com/MATS80/cell4.jpg)

Judging by the callout from yesterday, the honour is reserved for me. :p

I love it when you feign a heartfelt welcome only to find that you're back pulling cheap shots on Vivi.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 05:38:09 AM
you kept that quiet matey. hippo birthday :beergrin: :fiveshots: :party:

Thanks. :)

So, what all did you get for your birthday?  Did you have a birthday cake with 43 candles?

I got a new car. :P  Really. Only, round 12 cm long and knitted.

As for other presents, I got chocolate and candles from my children, and will have something "proper", too, once the film festival is over and I'm at home for more than sleep. 8)

The festival management turned up in the booth and I got flowers and cake.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 05:44:25 AM
hey, O Man, i appear to be hijacking your thread.  will you ever forgive me?   :eyelash:   :-*

i promise all sorts of er, "favours" if you do...  :cfm:

Let me think....

OK. :drool:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 05:45:34 AM
Oh, and Richard: :plus: for two brilliant comments.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 29, 2008, 05:46:43 AM
Calandale on Duracell. He keeps rambling and rambling...
You mean she is the bunny boiler and he is the bunny?
(http://hometown.aol.com/MATS80/cell4.jpg)

Judging by the callout from yesterday, the honour is reserved for me. :p

I love it when you feign a heartfelt welcome only to find that you're back pulling cheap shots on Vivi.
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.

Oh, and Richard: :plus: for two brilliant comments.
Its P you muppet.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 05:48:17 AM
Calandale on Duracell. He keeps rambling and rambling...
You mean she is the bunny boiler and he is the bunny?
(http://hometown.aol.com/MATS80/cell4.jpg)

Judging by the callout from yesterday, the honour is reserved for me. :p

I love it when you feign a heartfelt welcome only to find that you're back pulling cheap shots on Vivi.
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.

Oh, and Richard: :plus: for two brilliant comments.
Its P you muppet.

:laugh:

Good one, P.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 29, 2008, 05:56:21 AM
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.


Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.

Or perhaps you will be saying next that you are drunk or someone else is writing your posts for you, Hadron.

 :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 29, 2008, 05:58:00 AM
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.


Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.

Or perhaps you will be saying next that you are drunk or someone else is writing your posts for you, Hadron.

 :lol:
Surprisingly I havent read every post on the site. And I am wasted not drunk, doctors orders and all....
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 06:00:17 AM

Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.



The whole conversation was cheap shots,
as you put it.

Learned that's the only way
to play with her.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 29, 2008, 06:00:46 AM
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.


Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.

Or perhaps you will be saying next that you are drunk or someone else is writing your posts for you, Hadron.

 :lol:
Surprisingly I havent read every post on the site. And I am wasted not drunk, doctors orders and all....

So, under the influence of which drugs are you posting now and why did a doctor order you to do so?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 29, 2008, 06:08:03 AM
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.


Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.

Or perhaps you will be saying next that you are drunk or someone else is writing your posts for you, Hadron.

 :lol:
Surprisingly I havent read every post on the site. And I am wasted not drunk, doctors orders and all....

So, under the influence of which drugs are you posting now and why did a doctor order you to do so?
Strong painkillers so I can get out basically.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on January 29, 2008, 06:10:57 AM
Happy belated Birthday odeon. I am glad you got some good presents. :)
 :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 06:34:33 AM
Thanks. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 29, 2008, 06:35:53 AM

Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.



The whole conversation was cheap shots,
as you put it.

Learned that's the only way
to play with her.

Because your arguments simply aren't enough?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 06:43:54 AM

Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.



The whole conversation was cheap shots,
as you put it.

Learned that's the only way
to play with her.

Because your arguments simply aren't enough?

Not quite the way I'd put it.
She pays not one lick of attention
to them. Either yawns, or makes an
unconnected cheap shot.

I like just playing with her, but she
doesn't put the effort in to be worth
including in an argument. Still has to
deal what she can out, even without
paying any attention though. Which
I don't see as reasonable, at all.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 12:56:09 PM
hey, O Man, i appear to be hijacking your thread.  will you ever forgive me?   :eyelash:   :-*

i promise all sorts of er, "favours" if you do...  :cfm:

Let me think....

OK. :drool:

better start thinking about the favours then, hadn't we...?   :eyelash:

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 12:58:54 PM

Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.



The whole conversation was cheap shots,
as you put it.

Learned that's the only way
to play with her.

Because your arguments simply aren't enough?

Not quite the way I'd put it.

orly?  i'm shocked to my very core.

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She pays not one lick of attention
to them.

can't imagine why...

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Either yawns, or makes an
unconnected cheap shot.

I like just playing with her, but she
doesn't put the effort in to be worth
including in an argument. Still has to
deal what she can out, even without
paying any attention though. Which
I don't see as reasonable, at all.


awwwwww, diddums.  this is intensity, you fucking wuss - if you want reasonable, go and find some white light channellers, or a board where someone gives a toss about you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 29, 2008, 03:35:39 PM
I was perfectly pleasant until she decided to pull cheap shots on Cal.


Perhaps you didn't notice that Calandale pulled cheap shots on her first and she merely responded to those cheap shots.

Or perhaps you will be saying next that you are drunk or someone else is writing your posts for you, Hadron.

 :lol:
Surprisingly I havent read every post on the site. And I am wasted not drunk, doctors orders and all....

So, under the influence of which drugs are you posting now and why did a doctor order you to do so?
Strong painkillers so I can get out basically.

shame they haven't fucked up your ability to type instead of think.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 04:01:37 PM
shame they haven't fucked up your ability to breathe instead of think.

fixed.

:laugh:  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 04:45:52 PM


awwwwww, diddums.  this is intensity, you fucking wuss - if you want reasonable, go and find some white light channellers, or a board where someone gives a toss about you.

There's a HUGE difference between
caring about the person, and caring enough
about the site to put some thought into
decisions which might effect it.

You are the PRIME example of why the WC
killed itself - rather just post your sex play everywhere,
and took no real interest in what effected the site,
BUT, you insisted on being involved in the discussions,
just to damage the arguments of those you didn't like
personally.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 04:47:56 PM
oh, stop posting in the mirror, you knob.

::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 04:48:39 PM
The nice thing about arguing with
you, is that I actually always win.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 29, 2008, 04:50:40 PM
:LMAO:

i...

:LMAO:

/laughing too hard to type anything coherent!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 29, 2008, 04:57:46 PM


/laughing too hard to type anything coherent!

Your usual problem?

See, you don't fight ABOUT the issues
ever. Only the personalities. Thus, you
cannot win.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 03:36:52 AM


awwwwww, diddums.  this is intensity, you fucking wuss - if you want reasonable, go and find some white light channellers, or a board where someone gives a toss about you.

There's a HUGE difference between
caring about the person, and caring enough
about the site to put some thought into
decisions which might effect it.

You are the PRIME example of why the WC
killed itself - rather just post your sex play everywhere,
and took no real interest in what effected the site,
BUT, you insisted on being involved in the discussions,
just to damage the arguments of those you didn't like
personally.

Actually you were the reason to why the WC died. It didn't kill itself, you killed it. You were the one that wanted to transform the place into a site about running the site, remember? Polls, rules, more polls, more rules, mind game after mind game after mind game.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:38:01 AM

Actually you were the reason to why the WC died. It didn't kill itself, you killed it. You were the one that wanted to transform the place into a site about running the site, remember? Polls, rules, more polls, more rules, mind game after mind game after mind game.

Your way of seeing it. Almost everything I did
was about limiting the power of the WC to
do harm.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:14:51 AM
not only odeon's way of seeing it - there were an awful lot of us who thought the same, if you'd bothered to pay attention to anyone apart from yourself.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:18:50 AM
not only odeon's way of seeing it - there were an awful lot of us who thought the same, if you'd bothered to pay attention to anyone apart from yourself.

I was well aware of it.
Doesn't make it true.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 30, 2008, 04:19:47 AM

Actually you were the reason to why the WC died. It didn't kill itself, you killed it. You were the one that wanted to transform the place into a site about running the site, remember? Polls, rules, more polls, more rules, mind game after mind game after mind game.

Your way of seeing it. Almost everything I did
was about limiting the power of the WC to
do harm.

It's not just Odeon's way of seeing it, Calandale.

You are the one who killed the WC with your endless slanted polls to fart.

Pretty much everyone else was tired of your endless polls, but you did not want to stop making them and having them dictate site policy, even if very few people voted in them.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:24:06 AM

Actually you were the reason to why the WC died. It didn't kill itself, you killed it. You were the one that wanted to transform the place into a site about running the site, remember? Polls, rules, more polls, more rules, mind game after mind game after mind game.

Your way of seeing it. Almost everything I did
was about limiting the power of the WC to
do harm.

It's not just Odeon's way of seeing it, Calandale.

You are the one who killed the WC with your endless slanted polls to fart.

Pretty much everyone else was tired of your endless polls, but you did not want to stop making them and having them dictate site policy, even if very few people voted in them.

Without the types of defenses that I
was trying to put into place, awful shit
could (and did) happen. Like the WC overturning
elections that the general membership voted
in. Elections which were decided by less than
half the voters, which could be put aside by
those who voted against the people.

That's just wrong, IMO.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:24:59 AM
christing fuck, cal - change the sodding record, ffs!

::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:28:38 AM
christing fuck, cal - change the sodding record, ffs!

::)

Why do you want me to lie?
So long as people bring it up,
I'll continue to tell the truth.

And even bring it up myself,
when appropriate.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 05:13:04 AM
christing fuck, cal - change the sodding record, ffs!

::)

Why do you want me to lie?
So long as people bring it up,
I'll continue to tell the truth.

And even bring it up myself,
when appropriate.

where did i say i wanted you to lie?

honestly, don't you think it's time you started reading what people write, rather than projecting your own wildly inaccurate interpretations on things?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 30, 2008, 05:25:33 AM

Actually you were the reason to why the WC died. It didn't kill itself, you killed it. You were the one that wanted to transform the place into a site about running the site, remember? Polls, rules, more polls, more rules, mind game after mind game after mind game.

Your way of seeing it. Almost everything I did
was about limiting the power of the WC to
do harm.

It's not just Odeon's way of seeing it, Calandale.

You are the one who killed the WC with your endless slanted polls to fart.

Pretty much everyone else was tired of your endless polls, but you did not want to stop making them and having them dictate site policy, even if very few people voted in them.

Without the types of defenses that I
was trying to put into place, awful shit
could (and did) happen. Like the WC overturning
elections that the general membership voted
in. Elections which were decided by less than
half the voters, which could be put aside by
those who voted against the people.

That's just wrong, IMO.

That wasn't awful shit and it wasn't wrong, Calandale.

The members of the WC had a lot more sense than you were giving them credit for.

You started polls to impeach everyone, but the only person who would have been impeached had he not stepped down was Hadron and he deserved it for adminning Scrapheap to help him cover up the fact that he adminned you when he had already agreed not to ever admin anyone again and also for lying about what he did until it became completely laughable.  Now he has made up some ridiculous story that he did not even write the posts where he eventually admitted it. 

Hadron also threatened to delete the poll reversing your stupid fiat rule:

No, they aren't. Hadron has been made aware that third parties are not to be given admin access - I view giving Scrapheap or anyone else the ability to delete posts in a similar manner. I trust that this will not happen again. I only give so many chances.

btw, the vote to repeal the fucking fiat rule is currently in favour of its repeal. thankfuck.
The fiat poll can be deleted though, before the time is up. The wonders of the fiat rule...

WC members did not vote to impeach someone just because they voted against them in the election.  All the votes for the other admins were in favor of keeping them.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 05:37:28 AM
christing fuck, cal - change the sodding record, ffs!

::)

Why do you want me to lie?
So long as people bring it up,
I'll continue to tell the truth.

And even bring it up myself,
when appropriate.

where did i say i wanted you to lie?

honestly, don't you think it's time you started reading what people write, rather than projecting your own wildly inaccurate interpretations on things?

IF I were to say something other than
the truth, in response, that would be lying.
Or changing my tune.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 05:39:38 AM


WC members did not vote to impeach someone just because they voted against them in the election.  All the votes for the other admins were in favor of keeping them.



The WC would have removed hadron, even
though the fiat rule had given him every right to
do what he was accused of. The very people
who wanted his ouster line up remarkably well
with those who voted for that rule.

One could almost suspect the whole thing
was a form of entrapment.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 05:54:55 AM
And round and round it goes... ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 05:56:43 AM
I'm happy stopping.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 05:57:57 AM
result!

stfu, then.

::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 05:58:37 AM
result!

stfu, then.

::)

Why do you have to be an ass then?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 05:59:17 AM
no, i'm a goat, not a donkey.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 06:02:10 AM
i'd prefer if ewe were a sheep.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 06:04:36 AM
sheep are stupid, which explains a lot.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 06:15:05 AM
indeed. 'twould be a step up,
from where thou art.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 06:16:03 AM
gosh.  how grown up.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 06:17:24 AM
 :zoinks:

Always good for a phail?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 08:36:54 AM
in english?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 30, 2008, 01:18:42 PM


WC members did not vote to impeach someone just because they voted against them in the election.  All the votes for the other admins were in favor of keeping them.



The WC would have removed hadron, even
though the fiat rule had given him every right to
do what he was accused of. The very people
who wanted his ouster line up remarkably well
with those who voted for that rule.

One could almost suspect the whole thing
was a form of entrapment.

Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.

Even if you want to argue that he thought he had that right when he adminned you, it was very clearly explained to him by Dunc that he did not have that right and Hadron agreed never to do it again, just a few hours before he adminned Scrapheap to help him cover up the fact that he adminned you.

Almost everyone on the WC understood this except for you and Hadron.  That's why we voted to impeach him.

If it was entrapment, you were the one who set the trap by making the stupid fiat poll out of spite and interpreting its results the way that you did.  Almost everyone who voted in that poll explained what they were voting for, but you completely disregarded what they said and interpreted the poll the way you wanted to, which was the way that would be most damaging to Intensity.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 01:23:30 PM


WC members did not vote to impeach someone just because they voted against them in the election.  All the votes for the other admins were in favor of keeping them.



The WC would have removed hadron, even
though the fiat rule had given him every right to
do what he was accused of. The very people
who wanted his ouster line up remarkably well
with those who voted for that rule.

One could almost suspect the whole thing
was a form of entrapment.

Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.
Really? You exercised it too.
Quote
Even if you want to argue that he thought he had that right when he adminned you, it was very clearly explained to him by Dunc that he did not have that right and Hadron agreed never to do it again, just a few hours before he adminned Scrapheap to help him cover up the fact that he adminned you.
When you adminned Scrap, not myself
Quote
Almost everyone on the WC understood this except for you and Hadron.  That's why we voted to impeach him.
No you voted to impeach me because you were being a big bunch of crybabies over the pranking. Get a life dear woman, please...
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If it was entrapment, you were the one who set the trap by making the stupid fiat poll out of spite and interpreting its results the way that you did.  Almost everyone who voted in that poll explained what they were voting for, but you completely disregarded what they said and interpreted the poll the way you wanted to, which was the way that would be most damaging to Intensity.
All it showed is that some of the membership on this site are a wee bit on the thick side. Asides, you are just as bad at making spurious polls, like the stack you made on WC entry, when Cal tried to get a compromise.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 30, 2008, 01:33:46 PM
Even if you want to argue that he thought he had that right when he adminned you, it was very clearly explained to him by Dunc that he did not have that right and Hadron agreed never to do it again, just a few hours before he adminned Scrapheap to help him cover up the fact that he adminned you.
When you adminned Scrap, not myself


You are still sticking to that lie, Hadron?

That's sad.

You adminned Scrapheap, and you admitted that you did several times.

Do I need to refresh your recollection?

Are you still taking narcotics, by any chance?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 01:35:37 PM
Even if you want to argue that he thought he had that right when he adminned you, it was very clearly explained to him by Dunc that he did not have that right and Hadron agreed never to do it again, just a few hours before he adminned Scrapheap to help him cover up the fact that he adminned you.
When you adminned Scrap, not myself


You are still sticking to that lie, Hadron?

That's sad.

You adminned Scrapheap, and you admitted that you did several times.

Do I need to refresh your recollection?

Are you still taking narcotics, by any chance?
Yes, but different one this week. Means I can drink more, which is exactly where I am off to right now...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 01:56:16 PM
When you adminned Scrap, not myself

You don't really expect anyone to believe your lies, Hadron?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 02:02:43 PM
is he for real?  there's some major fucking delusion going on there, if he hasn't cottoned on to the fact that everyone knows all about his ridiculous behaviour when he was an admin.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 02:11:43 PM


Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.


Ah yes, because you have no
respect for rules which constrain
your rights to do as you please
to others.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 30, 2008, 02:25:27 PM


Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.


Ah yes, because you have no
respect for rules which constrain
your rights to do as you please
to others.

 :violin:

Go choke on your tobacco.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 02:38:08 PM


Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.


Ah yes, because you have no
respect for rules which constrain
your rights to do as you please
to others.

 :violin:

Go choke on your tobacco.

Ya knows what you can choke on.  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_P on January 30, 2008, 02:40:56 PM


Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.


Ah yes, because you have no
respect for rules which constrain
your rights to do as you please
to others.

 :violin:

Go choke on your tobacco.

Ya knows what you can choke on.  :eyebrows:

No, unfortunately. :(

Anyway, could you be nice enough to shut the fuck up for at least, say, an eternity?

Pwetty pleeease?!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 02:41:49 PM

Anyway, could you be nice enough to shut the fuck up for at least, say, an eternity?

Pwetty pleeease?!

For you?




Nothing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 02:42:33 PM


Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.


Ah yes, because you have no
respect for rules which constrain
your rights to do as you please
to others.

 :violin:

Go choke on your tobacco.

Ya knows what you can choke on.  :eyebrows:

No, unfortunately. :(

Anyway, could you be nice enough to shut the fuck up for at least, say, an eternity?

Pwetty pleeease?!

you can pretend to choke on some of my cake, pea, next time i get it together to make one and invite you round to shove it into your face, eh?  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 02:51:40 PM


Hadron did not have that right, no matter what your stupid fiat rule said, Calandale.


Ah yes, because you have no
respect for rules which constrain
your rights to do as you please
to others.

::)  :minusevil:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 02:52:50 PM
is he for real?  there's some major fucking delusion going on there, if he hasn't cottoned on to the fact that everyone knows all about his ridiculous behaviour when he was an admin.

Realising that he'll never be an admin again, he's now going for the village idiot position.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 02:53:31 PM
no contest: if he were any more stupid, you'd have to water him once a fortnight.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 02:54:25 PM
 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 02:55:56 PM
See, now I'd not stoop to such obvious lies.
Yet, I'm the one who is being an asshole?

No.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 02:57:53 PM
wtf are you on about now, cal?

what lies?  why are you getting your knickers in such a twist about this?   ???

genuine question - it ws such a trivial, throwaway bit of banter, i simply can't understand why you're so exercised about the bloody exchange.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:04:51 PM
wtf are you on about now, cal?

what lies?  why are you getting your knickers in such a twist about this?   ???

I'm obviously not particularly stupid.
But, this is an example. Those who
gather together, see EVERYTHING
said against me as worthy of a  :plus:
sign, and ANY fucking negative thing
that I say as worthy of a  :minusevil:.


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genuine question - it ws such a trivial, throwaway bit of banter, i simply can't understand why you're so exercised about the bloody exchange.

I have NO objection to the banter.
I have an objection to the pack of
hounds which follows it - kissing your
arse (and sucking Callaway's ass clean
of all the shit she spews), and trying to
tear me down.

It's pretty fucking pathetic. I've seen it
here before. A couple of times.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 03:06:23 PM
oh, just let people get on with it, for fuck's sake.  why does it matter so much to you?  as i said on another thread, if you allow people power to upset/get to you, then they will.  why are their opinions so important?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:11:06 PM
oh, just let people get on with it, for fuck's sake.  why does it matter so much to you?  as i said on another thread, if you allow people power to upset/get to you, then they will.  why are their opinions so important?

What IS there other than opinions,
on a message board?

Plus, as I said, this kind of thuggery
bothers me. I've dealt with close enough
before, in my life. It reflects very poorly on
those who practice it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 03:11:51 PM
i give up.

oh, and it's "practiSe".
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 03:15:46 PM
I don't understand what you are so upset about, Cal. What kissing of arse? Do you object to me thinking that this comment was fucking hilarious:

no contest: if he were any more stupid, you'd have to water him once a fortnight.

I'm obviously not particularly stupid.

Nothing obvious about it, right now.

And "thuggery"? Oh, please.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:17:09 PM
i give up.

oh, and it's "practiSe".

My spell checker flags English
usage. It trains me to use american.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 03:18:54 PM
Mine does the same. Somewhat annoying.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 30, 2008, 03:19:58 PM
What is the most amount of cigarettes you smoked in a day, when you did it?

What is difficult to come off them?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:20:14 PM
I don't understand what you are so upset about, Cal. What kissing of arse? Do you object to me thinking that this comment was fucking hilarious:

no contest: if he were any more stupid, you'd have to water him once a fortnight.

I'm obviously not particularly stupid.

Nothing obvious about it, right now.

And "thuggery"? Oh, please.

Actually, I have less to object about
anyone here but Callaway, and her
claims that I am being an ass to
lucifer, when no one is being so
to me.

It's pure fucking BS, and even those
of you in it should see just how deluded
she's become, in regards to anything involving
me.

I stuck my nose in here, and deserve getting
it bitten. But, I also have every right to bite back.

She should learn to look at things fairly,
but I don't think she's capable of ever
seeing beyond her biases, once formed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:21:11 PM
Mine does the same. Somewhat annoying.

On top of that, I had to check, to make sure
I didn't accidentally add the wrong spelling.
Can't figure out how to remove all the errors
I've slipped, and put into it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 03:24:59 PM
get an english spell checker?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:27:03 PM
I'm not in England.
Using the English version
is seen as being a bit pretentious
here. Plus, I don't even know if FF
has one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 03:40:29 PM
What is the most amount of cigarettes you smoked in a day, when you did it?

Around 30 or 40. I didn't count, but when stressed, I smoked a lot.

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What is difficult to come off them?

The habit, the fact that you smoke one after dinner, while on the phone, with your coffee... There was always an excuse, too. So the psychological need was a lot worse than the physiological.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 03:49:57 PM
I don't understand what you are so upset about, Cal. What kissing of arse? Do you object to me thinking that this comment was fucking hilarious:

no contest: if he were any more stupid, you'd have to water him once a fortnight.

I'm obviously not particularly stupid.

Nothing obvious about it, right now.

And "thuggery"? Oh, please.

Actually, I have less to object about
anyone here but Callaway, and her
claims that I am being an ass to
lucifer, when no one is being so
to me.

It's pure fucking BS, and even those
of you in it should see just how deluded
she's become, in regards to anything involving
me.

I stuck my nose in here, and deserve getting
it bitten. But, I also have every right to bite back.

She should learn to look at things fairly,
but I don't think she's capable of ever
seeing beyond her biases, once formed.

An argument can easily be made that you're no more capable of changing your biases once you've formed them, than you claim Lucifer to be. And no, I don't mean the trivial changing of opinions regarding the number of admins or the like; I mean your constant need of games, politics, etc. Pyraxis put it very well in another thread (can't be arsed to go find it) and said, basically, that we're witnessing that classic aspie characteristic  , an obsession that you must share with everyone, again and again, never observing how bored people are, how tired of your games they become.

She put it a lot better than I did, I must say. :)

My point, now, is that people react, and that includes Lucifer. Some are simply more tolerant than others. Why should you be spared when you are on Callaway's case all the time?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 03:57:10 PM


An argument can easily be made that you're no more capable of changing your biases once you've formed them, than you claim Lucifer to be. And no, I don't mean the trivial changing of opinions regarding the number of admins or the like; I mean your constant need of games, politics, etc. Pyraxis put it very well in another thread (can't be arsed to go find it) and said, basically, that we're witnessing that classic aspie characteristic  , an obsession that you must share with everyone, again and again, never observing how bored people are, how tired of your games they become.

Read carefully, I wasn't attacking Lucifer.
I think she's fine, so long as I don't give a
shit about what is being discussed.

As to my own aspie 'obsession', yeah, that's not going
to change. I do view the way things are done as important.
And ethics as important. And that's fundamental to me.

Opinions of people should NOT be so.

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Why should you be spared when you are on Callaway's case all the time?

Spared? Not at all. Reasonable complaints,
I handle reasonably. The hounding is BS.
People with nothing to say, just jumping
to their master's defense.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 03:58:25 PM
back to "reasonable"?  as i said before, this is I2, not a kindergarten, or therapy group.  go and look for reasonable somewhere else.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:00:51 PM
back to "reasonable"?  as i said before, this is I2, not a kindergarten, or therapy group.  go and look for reasonable somewhere else.

No, that's not reasonable either.
I'm simply going to call the shit
when I see it. To hell with being
accused of whining.

Because, the tactics I'm talking about
are FAR more likely seen in kindergarten
than they are in rational discussions.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:03:19 PM
glad that's settled, then.

can we change the subject now?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 04:04:04 PM


An argument can easily be made that you're no more capable of changing your biases once you've formed them, than you claim Lucifer to be. And no, I don't mean the trivial changing of opinions regarding the number of admins or the like; I mean your constant need of games, politics, etc. Pyraxis put it very well in another thread (can't be arsed to go find it) and said, basically, that we're witnessing that classic aspie characteristic  , an obsession that you must share with everyone, again and again, never observing how bored people are, how tired of your games they become.

Read carefully, I wasn't attacking Lucifer.
I think she's fine, so long as I don't give a
shit about what is being discussed.

I need to quote you, obviously:

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She should learn to look at things fairly,
but I don't think she's capable of ever
seeing beyond her biases, once formed.

That's one example of an attack. Fair it's not.

Quote
As to my own aspie 'obsession', yeah, that's not going
to change. I do view the way things are done as important.
And ethics as important. And that's fundamental to me.

Opinions of people should NOT be so.

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Why should you be spared when you are on Callaway's case all the time?

Spared? Not at all. Reasonable complaints,
I handle reasonably. The hounding is BS.
People with nothing to say, just jumping
to their master's defense.


"People"? What people? And which master? And what's different about their hounding as opposed to yours, assuming that there is such a thing happening here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 04:10:15 PM
back to "reasonable"?  as i said before, this is I2, not a kindergarten, or therapy group.  go and look for reasonable somewhere else.
In which case, why did you decide to come back here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:11:49 PM
what's that got to do with the price of fish?  ???

honestly, does he say anything relevant to threads any more?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:20:47 PM


I need to quote you, obviously:

Quote
She should learn to look at things fairly,
but I don't think she's capable of ever
seeing beyond her biases, once formed.

That's one example of an attack. Fair it's not.

I was speaking of callaway, not lucifer.
And it is fair. That is what I've seen.
Once she latches on that someone is
an enemy, for whatever reason, they
remain such. Moreover, she'll pull up
whatever she can to attack, and twist
it to serve her needs - even if it has NOTHING
to do with the topic.

Now, I don't believe that she's honestly that
conniving. I'm giving her the benefit of the
doubt, and presuming that it's some sort of
'moral' calling - from her inability to see nuance,
which leads her to her attacks. Even so, they
are less than honorable.

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And what's different about their hounding as opposed to yours, assuming that there is such a thing happening here?

I do it alone. I don't need a whole pack of dogs.
Thus, mine isn't hounding at all. Call it what you
like, but it isn't that when solitary.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 04:24:45 PM
what's that got to do with the price of fish?  ???

honestly, does he say anything relevant to threads any more?
Lots, you are apparently a market force ::)

Hell, I am curious though, what made you come back here? I am only here because I am wasted half the time, so need somewhere to go without making a complete prat of myself.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:26:21 PM
... so need somewhere to go without making a complete prat of myself.

To take the cheap shot...you fail.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 04:28:01 PM
... so need somewhere to go without making a complete prat of myself.

To take the cheap shot...you fail.
Hardly, I have a stack of people pleading with me to live with them irl next year. Not sure that I am well enough to do so mind...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:29:20 PM
cal, you bastard, you beat me to it.  :laugh:

i came back here for odeon's birthday.  simple as that.  and he likes having me around, and i'm on the pooter a lot cos of the GCSE marking, so i'm hanging around.  might be back permanently, might not.  i'll see how i feel.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 04:33:35 PM
cal, you bastard, you beat me to it.  :laugh:


Had to deprive you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:37:56 PM
so cruel...   :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 04:43:34 PM
cal, you bastard, you beat me to it.  :laugh:

i came back here for odeon's birthday.  simple as that.  and he likes having me around, and i'm on the pooter a lot cos of the GCSE marking, so i'm hanging around.  might be back permanently, might not.  i'll see how i feel.
You never mentioned why you left so abruptly coming to think of it. I am slightly curious tbh.

The GCSE marking seems early though, I thought nearly everyone still sat in May/June.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 04:51:38 PM
it was for personal reasons, as i stated on a couple of threads.

they do still sit in june, but there's also extra science and retakes in january.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 04:53:42 PM
it was for personal reasons, as i stated on a couple of threads.
Feel free to PM me them if you fancy telling me, but its up to you.
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they do still sit in june, but there's also extra science and retakes in january.
I know about the retakes, but I doubt they are very popular.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 05:03:48 PM
i don't know what percentage are retakes, but there's no shortage of candidates - i think it's more or less the same number for jan and june.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 30, 2008, 05:11:09 PM


I need to quote you, obviously:

Quote
She should learn to look at things fairly,
but I don't think she's capable of ever
seeing beyond her biases, once formed.

That's one example of an attack. Fair it's not.

I was speaking of callaway, not lucifer.
And it is fair. That is what I've seen.
Once she latches on that someone is
an enemy, for whatever reason, they
remain such. Moreover, she'll pull up
whatever she can to attack, and twist
it to serve her needs - even if it has NOTHING
to do with the topic.


Ah. My bad. Although I don't think you're being fair to Callaway at all and so IMO my general point about your hounding as opposed to others' stands.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 05:24:11 PM
i don't know what percentage are retakes, but there's no shortage of candidates - i think it's more or less the same number for jan and june.
I forgot about the latest demonstration of dumbed down GCSEs. My bad.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 05:26:04 PM
they're not dumbed down, i can assure you.  one of them is a complete bastard.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 30, 2008, 05:30:07 PM
they're not dumbed down, i can assure you.  one of them is a complete bastard.
I probably could own it, unless it was Biology where I slept for the two years. Have you seen how much physics has been dumbed down, they seem to have been doing their utmost to remove all calculations from it wherever possible.

The A-levels are getting dumbed down too, ICT they halved the coursework for instance.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 30, 2008, 05:40:18 PM
well, there you are, then - it's the biology which is a fucker.  even i struggled to work out the answer to a few of the questions, and i've gt two fucking degrees in the subject (albeit more specialised, so i suppose i'm allowed to have forgotten the physiol).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 06:58:20 PM


Ah. My bad. Although I don't think you're being fair to Callaway at all and so IMO my general point about your hounding as opposed to others' stands.

And again, my point does stand.
She makes points, and fights. Nothing
wrong with that. I disagree with some
things - like her style (using personal
shit when she's got nothing better -
especially disturbing since she doesn't
have the guts to put her own self up
for criticism), and what I see as set
opinions which are never open for
revision, once made, but at least
she WAS usually willing to just
fight things out.

Recently, she's taken to being
a PART of the pack, just agreeing
without saying much. It's the pack
mentality upon which hounding is
predicated. All just congratulating
one another, without saying much.
Hell, I don't even mind being ganged
up upon, so long as y'all have something
of worth to add. It's infuriating to see
the kind of high school clique behavior
though. There's no defense against that
(other than revealing it for what it is).

Claiming that the most pathetic little swipes
PWN someone is ridiculous. Accusing only one
side in a heated exchange of being mean and
unfair is, as well, when both people are dishing
it out well. Lucifer is perfectly capable of handling
herself. 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 30, 2008, 07:02:33 PM
Have you seen how much physics has been dumbed down, they seem to have been doing their utmost to remove all calculations from it wherever possible.

Seems reasonable to me. The ability to
perform mechanical calculations is usually
overemphasized. That's not what really
is important.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 02:48:17 AM


Ah. My bad. Although I don't think you're being fair to Callaway at all and so IMO my general point about your hounding as opposed to others' stands.

And again, my point does stand.
She makes points, and fights. Nothing
wrong with that. I disagree with some
things - like her style (using personal
shit when she's got nothing better -
especially disturbing since she doesn't
have the guts to put her own self up
for criticism), and what I see as set
opinions which are never open for
revision, once made, but at least
she WAS usually willing to just
fight things out.

Recently, she's taken to being
a PART of the pack, just agreeing
without saying much. It's the pack
mentality upon which hounding is
predicated. All just congratulating
one another, without saying much.
Hell, I don't even mind being ganged
up upon, so long as y'all have something
of worth to add. It's infuriating to see
the kind of high school clique behavior
though. There's no defense against that
(other than revealing it for what it is).

Claiming that the most pathetic little swipes
PWN someone is ridiculous. Accusing only one
side in a heated exchange of being mean and
unfair is, as well, when both people are dishing
it out well. Lucifer is perfectly capable of handling
herself. 

You go after Callaway if given half an opportunity, Cal. I've seen it happen time and again. You bringing it up says more about you than it does about her. Callaway using "personal shit" is a claim you often make but haven't been able to prove. The last time, re Scrap's use of Viagra, that you considered "personal", was something he revealed, you made pertinent in the thread in question with your hint, and that Callaway then pointed out, perfectly on topic.

As for "high school clique behavior", since when is it clique-ish to laugh at a point made by a member? Or is it that you don't get that sort of yay's very often?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 03:01:33 AM

You go after Callaway if given half an opportunity, Cal. I've seen it happen time and again. You bringing it up says more about you than it does about her.

Nothing wrong with that. Any more than there would
be with her cleanly attacking aspects of my behaviour.
Here, or otherwise.

Quote
Callaway using "personal shit" is a claim you often make but haven't been able to prove. The last time, re Scrap's use of Viagra, that you considered "personal", was something he revealed, you made pertinent in the thread in question with your hint, and that Callaway then pointed out, perfectly on topic.

1. Something he revealed, but NOTHING to
do with the discussion that they were having.

2. 'hint' nothing. A completely off the cuff joke,
not really targeting anyone. Actually, an attempt
to defuse what was looking like an ugly argument.
One which only turned nastier, with her usage.

But, once she doesn't like someone, she does pull
such points out more often. Sometimes completely
at random. An example is the fact that I am a rapist.
Early on, before she had come to her epiphany moment
(which was the prank I pulled) she more or less allowed this
to remain under the radar, unless I brought it up. She's brought
that, and other things that she considers damning, up since then,
with alarming frequency. I feel completely justified in attacking
her, for her actual style on the site, based upon this. Hell, had
she been always antagonistic about me, after I mentioned such,
I'd have no problem whatsoever about her fixating on attacking
it. Same with other issues (such as my views of my mother). But,
to have blatantly switched as she did - based upon something
completely unrelated - strikes me as unreasonable.

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As for "high school clique behavior", since when is it clique-ish to laugh at a point made by a member? Or is it that you don't get that sort of yay's very often?

When it's funny? Yeah. When every single crappy
assed attempt pulls it? It's just spite. She doesn't
laugh at such attacks in general, unless they are
well done. But, she's been doing so with anything
aimed at me, recently. That's personalities, not any
actual indication of skill. And, it's fucking pathetic,
if you ask me.

Then again, your own desire to defend her,
and not concede any of the points that I'm
making, clearly puts you into just such a clique.
So, it makes sense that you can't see beyond
your biases either.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 03:04:47 AM

You go after Callaway if given half an opportunity, Cal. I've seen it happen time and again. You bringing it up says more about you than it does about her.

Nothing wrong with that.
  etc....

i read all that, and the short response is, "so?"

in other words, why is this germane to the points odeon was asking you to answer?

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 03:17:15 AM
Merely pointing out things that I'm not thrilled
with about her fighting style, and the lack of
relevance to whatever topic she's supposedly
involved with. As well as the actual issue which
changed her view of me. Both points show a
lot about her character. Some may not care.

Others, should be warned. And should know
how her attacks have driven people from here,
by alienating them from the vast majority of the
members. Because, her little cadre of devotees
is quite large here.

Mainly, I'm trying to prevent it from expanding
to those I have some liking for, as I'd rather not
lose their respect, due to her style of attack. I won't
(and maybe can't - especially given that she hides
her own personal information, not being really willing
to share with the members here, probably because
she suspects others would give her a taste of her
own methods - though I doubt many here are
truly that sick) stoop to her style, so this is the
best that I can do, in order to defend myself.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 03:22:01 AM
but defending yourself by trying to slide focus and attention onto someone else is no real defence at all, to anyone with enough brain to recognise it.

you know that, cal.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 03:39:13 AM
but defending yourself by trying to slide focus and attention onto someone else is no real defence at all, to anyone with enough brain to recognise it.

you know that, cal.

Actually, it's rather effective, until called out.  :zoinks:

Why else do politicians go negative.
Hell, even calling attention to it
doesn't kill it entirely.

Just like the mud she's slinging, I too
shall fight with what I can, in my conscience,
manage.

I'm sure she thinks that such attacks are actually
more honorable, even whilst making herself immune,
by not sharing herself with us, as I have. I do trust that
those who aren't already entirely in her camp are more
inclined to think as I do.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 03:39:41 AM

You go after Callaway if given half an opportunity, Cal. I've seen it happen time and again. You bringing it up says more about you than it does about her.

Nothing wrong with that. Any more than there would
be with her cleanly attacking aspects of my behaviour.
Here, or otherwise.

So it's OK when you do it, then? That how I should read this? That it's fine if you get to decide what's "clean"? Thing is, you keep on ranting about this, telliing us how nasty Callaway is, but you never actually back it up. What does that say about your behaviour?

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Callaway using "personal shit" is a claim you often make but haven't been able to prove. The last time, re Scrap's use of Viagra, that you considered "personal", was something he revealed, you made pertinent in the thread in question with your hint, and that Callaway then pointed out, perfectly on topic.

1. Something he revealed, but NOTHING to
do with the discussion that they were having.

2. 'hint' nothing. A completely off the cuff joke,
not really targeting anyone. Actually, an attempt
to defuse what was looking like an ugly argument.
One which only turned nastier, with her usage.

Targeting Callaway, as I remember it. "Scrap's wood" was the off the cuff joke, and it was nothing but innocent, considering how Scrap had made Callaway a target. It was nasty with YOUR usage, Callaway followed suit. Neither you nor Scrap were innocent so don't try to bullshit people now.

Callaway's reply was perfectly on topic.

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But, once she doesn't like someone, she does pull
such points out more often. Sometimes completely
at random. An example is the fact that I am a rapist.
Early on, before she had come to her epiphany moment
(which was the prank I pulled) she more or less allowed this
to remain under the radar, unless I brought it up. She's brought
that, and other things that she considers damning, up since then,
with alarming frequency. I feel completely justified in attacking
her, for her actual style on the site, based upon this. Hell, had
she been always antagonistic about me, after I mentioned such,
I'd have no problem whatsoever about her fixating on attacking
it. Same with other issues (such as my views of my mother). But,
to have blatantly switched as she did - based upon something
completely unrelated - strikes me as unreasonable.

What's the "alarming frequency" here? Prove your point, do your homework. I have not noticed her bringing it up with any frequency at all. I know I did, once, and I still think I was justified.

And since you mention it, YOU brought up the fact that you are a rapist. A lot of people, women in particular, react.

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As for "high school clique behavior", since when is it clique-ish to laugh at a point made by a member? Or is it that you don't get that sort of yay's very often?

When it's funny? Yeah. When every single crappy
assed attempt pulls it? It's just spite. She doesn't
laugh at such attacks in general, unless they are
well done. But, she's been doing so with anything
aimed at me, recently. That's personalities, not any
actual indication of skill. And, it's fucking pathetic,
if you ask me.

Or is it that you feel cornered and lash out? Is it that you, in fact, are getting pwned, that people won't buy your bullshit? And specifically regarding Callaway, why should she be charitable towards you when all you do is to go after her?

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Then again, your own desire to defend her,
and not concede any of the points that I'm
making, clearly puts you into just such a clique.
So, it makes sense that you can't see beyond
your biases either.


I knew you'd bring that up. Accusing people of clique behaviour is typically a knee-jerk reaction of people cornered and unable to back up their shit; rarely is it worth more than questioning someone's dx.

The easier explanation, certainly now and often enough otherwise, is that you don't have any points.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 03:41:19 AM
Others, should be warned. And should know
how her attacks have driven people from here,
by alienating them from the vast majority of the
members. Because, her little cadre of devotees
is quite large here.

Prove it. Again, you're making sweeping accusations but won't back them up.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 03:59:09 AM

So it's OK when you do it, then? That how I should read this? That it's fine if you get to decide what's "clean"? Thing is, you keep on ranting about this, telliing us how nasty Callaway is, but you never actually back it up. What does that say about your behaviour?

I have backed it up. You just can't see it.
I understand that. I'm not going to convince you,
no matter what I do. Callaway could go far beyond
what she's done, and still you'd stick by her. Of this,
I have no question. Hell, you stuck by your friends
over the hounding of lit, you stuck by them when
scrap was driven away, and I'm sure that there were
prior instances, as well.

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Targeting Callaway, as I remember it. "Scrap's wood" was the off the cuff joke, and it was nothing but innocent, considering how Scrap had made Callaway a target. It was nasty with YOUR usage, Callaway followed suit. Neither you nor Scrap were innocent so don't try to bullshit people now.

Scrap and Callaway had entered into an ugly
fight. She and I had no real beef, at that point.
My statement was simply humor. Based upon
the cross. She turned that into an opportunity
to launch a particularly low blow on him. The one
which sticks in my head as the true exemplar of her
fighting style. And, I am consistently noting when
she stoops to it.


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What's the "alarming frequency" here? Prove your point, do your homework. I have not noticed her bringing it up with any frequency at all. I know I did, once, and I still think I was justified.

Why bother? As I said, I'm not trying to reach you.
And those who are not blinded will find their
own examples, just as I did. Though, it certainly
didn't hurt to have my suspicions enhanced by
statements of others, who noticed the same.

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And since you mention it, YOU brought up the fact that you are a rapist. A lot of people, women in particular, react.

Again, I do mention it. Actually, I feel that it is
important for me to do so. Had that been her
beef with me, I'd have little objection. Given
that her primary objection to me didn't sway
anyone, rather than "sounding like a broken
record" and trying to show WHY it bothered
her so much, instead, she sought things which
might bother others.

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Or is it that you feel cornered and lash out?

Of course that's there. It's just like
I did feel in school. When the whole
crowd is picking on someone, just
because the popular kid starts it.
And yeah, I reacted then, and I
react now.

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Is it that you, in fact, are getting pwned, that people won't buy your bullshit?

Actually, I've been rather asking this about her,
of myself. Wondering if this line is actually touching
whatever conscience she has.

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And specifically regarding Callaway, why should she be charitable towards you when all you do is to go after her?

Actually, I feel that my debates with her
were on a higher plane than with most,
and that I showed her a good deal of respect,
even in disagreement, UNTIL she started sniping,
after my prank. Now, I DO understand why she saw
that as such an egregious sin, but don't see why
my explanation wouldn't suffice. No matter; her
attacks, few of which had anything to do with that,
began from that moment. And, with enough low blows,
I've also become a bit more disturbed by her behavior.

I don't know what great evils that others committed
to earn her foul attacks, but I suspect that they were
equally inane.
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I knew you'd bring that up. Accusing people of clique behaviour is typically a knee-jerk reaction of people cornered and unable to back up their shit; rarely is it worth more than questioning someone's dx.

What term would you rather I use
for a group who tends to side together
in any disagreement, and who collectively
mock those outside of it?

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The easier explanation, certainly now and often enough otherwise, is that you don't have any points.

Whatever soothes YOUR conscience. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 05:03:11 AM

So it's OK when you do it, then? That how I should read this? That it's fine if you get to decide what's "clean"? Thing is, you keep on ranting about this, telliing us how nasty Callaway is, but you never actually back it up. What does that say about your behaviour?

I have backed it up. You just can't see it.
I understand that. I'm not going to convince you,
no matter what I do. Callaway could go far beyond
what she's done, and still you'd stick by her. Of this,
I have no question. Hell, you stuck by your friends
over the hounding of lit, you stuck by them when
scrap was driven away, and I'm sure that there were
prior instances, as well.


Rewriting history much? You have no idea of what went on between me and Lit, do you? As for Scrap, just because you say he was driven away doesn't make it so.

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Targeting Callaway, as I remember it. "Scrap's wood" was the off the cuff joke, and it was nothing but innocent, considering how Scrap had made Callaway a target. It was nasty with YOUR usage, Callaway followed suit. Neither you nor Scrap were innocent so don't try to bullshit people now.

Scrap and Callaway had entered into an ugly
fight. She and I had no real beef, at that point.
My statement was simply humor. Based upon
the cross. She turned that into an opportunity
to launch a particularly low blow on him. The one
which sticks in my head as the true exemplar of her
fighting style. And, I am consistently noting when
she stoops to it.

That's YOUR take. But then, you weren't on the receiving end there, were you? I had no problems seeing the relevance of Callaway's reply to you. Apparently you still don't see it.

/shrugs

Not much I can do to help you further, in that case.

It's funny to note that it's still just about the only example of her "fighting style" you bring up. Do your homework, do it now.

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What's the "alarming frequency" here? Prove your point, do your homework. I have not noticed her bringing it up with any frequency at all. I know I did, once, and I still think I was justified.

Why bother? As I said, I'm not trying to reach you.
And those who are not blinded will find their
own examples, just as I did. Though, it certainly
didn't hurt to have my suspicions enhanced by
statements of others, who noticed the same.

Why? Because one would think that you'd want to back some of your bullshit up. Because it's about your credibility. Surely, you're not suggesting that others will have to do your homework for you? "And those who are not blinded will find their own examples, just as I did."

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And since you mention it, YOU brought up the fact that you are a rapist. A lot of people, women in particular, react.

Again, I do mention it. Actually, I feel that it is
important for me to do so. Had that been her
beef with me, I'd have little objection. Given
that her primary objection to me didn't sway
anyone, rather than "sounding like a broken
record" and trying to show WHY it bothered
her so much, instead, she sought things which
might bother others.

Which you still have to point out. Where is that "alarming" frequency? Homework and all that. ::)

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Or is it that you feel cornered and lash out?

Of course that's there. It's just like
I did feel in school. When the whole
crowd is picking on someone, just
because the popular kid starts it.
And yeah, I reacted then, and I
react now.

How's this different when it's someone else on the receiving end? When it's not you? When it's Callaway?

But I was referring to you running out of examples. Poor choice of words, I'll admit, considering how you turn it into being about YOU being bullied when that's what you try to do with Callaway.

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Is it that you, in fact, are getting pwned, that people won't buy your bullshit?

Actually, I've been rather asking this about her,
of myself. Wondering if this line is actually touching
whatever conscience she has.

This line is about you. Not her.

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And specifically regarding Callaway, why should she be charitable towards you when all you do is to go after her?

Actually, I feel that my debates with her
were on a higher plane than with most,
and that I showed her a good deal of respect,
even in disagreement, UNTIL she started sniping,
after my prank. Now, I DO understand why she saw
that as such an egregious sin, but don't see why
my explanation wouldn't suffice. No matter; her
attacks, few of which had anything to do with that,
began from that moment. And, with enough low blows,
I've also become a bit more disturbed by her behavior.

Again, what attacks? What low blows? Vague accusations only get you so far. Prove your points, show us something. Homework, you know.

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I don't know what great evils that others committed
to earn her foul attacks, but I suspect that they were
equally inane.

Homework, etc.

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I knew you'd bring that up. Accusing people of clique behaviour is typically a knee-jerk reaction of people cornered and unable to back up their shit; rarely is it worth more than questioning someone's dx.

What term would you rather I use
for a group who tends to side together
in any disagreement, and who collectively
mock those outside of it?

I'd try to prove that I had a case before thinking of synonyms. Homework, etc.

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The easier explanation, certainly now and often enough otherwise, is that you don't have any points.

Whatever soothes YOUR conscience. :laugh:

Faulty logic. Prove at least some of your points before going for cheap rhetorics. Homework, etc.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 05:12:19 AM
 :brickwall:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 06:13:31 AM
:brickwall:

QFT

I don't think I can get any further. One shouldn't feed a narcissist.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 10:42:35 AM
well, there you are, then - it's the biology which is a fucker.  even i struggled to work out the answer to a few of the questions, and i've gt two fucking degrees in the subject (albeit more specialised, so i suppose i'm allowed to have forgotten the physiol).
Biology was a minor problem when I took it because I had slept though 2 years of lessons. I take it biology has moved on quite a bit since you took your exams in it, maybe that is what is making it appear difficult.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 11:04:40 AM
So would you consider yourself well rested, then?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 12:35:49 PM
Have you seen how much physics has been dumbed down, they seem to have been doing their utmost to remove all calculations from it wherever possible.

Seems reasonable to me. The ability to
perform mechanical calculations is usually
overemphasized. That's not what really
is important.
At present you never use calculus at A-level. How can you dumb it down even further and say it is a good thing?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 12:37:34 PM
So would you consider yourself well rested, then?
That is what school did for me, yup.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 03:03:04 PM
well, there you are, then - it's the biology which is a fucker.  even i struggled to work out the answer to a few of the questions, and i've gt two fucking degrees in the subject (albeit more specialised, so i suppose i'm allowed to have forgotten the physiol).
Biology was a minor problem when I took it because I had slept though 2 years of lessons. I take it biology has moved on quite a bit since you took your exams in it, maybe that is what is making it appear difficult.

everything has moved on since i took exams in science, of course they have, dur.  ::)  i have read things since, though, and not just google or wiki.

however, my point was that it's sometimes a matter of rhetoric - working out what the question is asking, or the answer is supposed to be, rather than lack of knowledge - and, as we all know, that's an AS thing.  just been talking to one of my team leaders, and that's across the board rather than me, btw.

part of why i say that exams haven't been dumbed down is that science has moved on since "my day", and does so continuously, and so the level of sophistication of what's required in the way of knowledge/concepts/level of response et al is higher.

having said all of which, this current attempt to use any excuse/post/subject as a means of trying to score a point against me has failed again, not least because you shot yourself in the foot with yet another contradiction:

they're not dumbed down, i can assure you.  one of them is a complete bastard.
I probably could own it, unless it was Biology

can't you even remember what you've written yourself, and so very recently?  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 03:43:13 PM
Odeon - your main point is that I should dig up examples.
I'm lazy. Not a great defense, so I thought a bit. So long
as I don't bother, she will either make such attacks, proving
my point (as I shall flag them, which I did recently), or her
behavior will change to suit me. She's stopped adding  :pwned:
to every absolutely lame attack on me (I don't mind one bit,
when it's true), by my mere mentioning of that. Each bit of
her style that I attack seems to effect her enough to serve
my purpose. That's sufficient. As I said, this was never directed
at you. I know that you can't learn.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 03:46:35 PM
well, there you are, then - it's the biology which is a fucker.  even i struggled to work out the answer to a few of the questions, and i've gt two fucking degrees in the subject (albeit more specialised, so i suppose i'm allowed to have forgotten the physiol).
Biology was a minor problem when I took it because I had slept though 2 years of lessons. I take it biology has moved on quite a bit since you took your exams in it, maybe that is what is making it appear difficult.

everything has moved on since i took exams in science, of course they have, dur.  ::)  i have read things since, though, and not just google or wiki.
You havent read everything. Naturally you will have missed some of the stuff that shows on something as broad as a GCSE.
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however, my point was that it's sometimes a matter of rhetoric - working out what the question is asking, or the answer is supposed to be, rather than lack of knowledge - and, as we all know, that's an AS thing.  just been talking to one of my team leaders, and that's across the board rather than me, btw.
Exactly, the actual science content has been dumbed down and replaced with guess what nonsense is on the examiners mark scheme. Hence "ipod" being on a physics mark scheme.
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part of why i say that exams haven't been dumbed down is that science has moved on since "my day", and does so continuously, and so the level of sophistication of what's required in the way of knowledge/concepts/level of response et al is higher.
Look at maths then. What was formally O-level is now the bulk part of the core AS modules. Lets just say I learnt maths and further maths from an old single maths textbook, which is a real demonstration of the dumbing down. I know Durham has had to run a big stack of remedial classes for both maths and physics to deal with the problem. Classes that were not there 5-10 years ago. Then there is the fact that they allow graphic calculators in that can virtually sit the exam for you.
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having said all of which, this current attempt to use any excuse/post/subject as a means of trying to score a point against me has failed again, not least because you shot yourself in the foot with yet another contradiction:

they're not dumbed down, i can assure you.  one of them is a complete bastard.
I probably could own it, unless it was Biology

can't you even remember what you've written yourself, and so very recently?  ::)
If I sat it right now then that would be very true. However if I went back over the old stuff for a day or two I could manage it comfortably.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 03:57:36 PM
Odeon - your main point is that I should dig up examples.
I'm lazy. Not a great defense, so I thought a bit. So long
as I don't bother, she will either make such attacks, proving
my point (as I shall flag them, which I did recently), or her
behavior will change to suit me. She's stopped adding  :pwned:
to every absolutely lame attack on me (I don't mind one bit,
when it's true), by my mere mentioning of that. Each bit of
her style that I attack seems to effect her enough to serve
my purpose. That's sufficient. As I said, this was never directed
at you. I know that you can't learn.

One of my points. I take it that you won't do your homework, then? Perhaps that is wise; no point in pwning yourself. As for pointing out attacks when you spot them, no, that is not sufficient.

Another one of my points was that you can only see things flowing in one direction, and a very narrow view it is. Just how narrow was already pointed out by Callaway re her private life. But when you go after her, you don't even stop to think about how what you do is precisely the thing you accuse her of.

But you just don't, or won't, see it. It is you who cannot learn.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 04:10:16 PM

 As for pointing out attacks when you spot them, no, that is not sufficient.

It is, for my purposes.
I don't need your approval.
Much as you want me to.

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Another one of my points was that you can only see things flowing in one direction, and a very narrow view it is. Just how narrow was already pointed out by Callaway re her private life. But when you go after her, you don't even stop to think about how what you do is precisely the thing you accuse her of.

Nah. I was already aware of her proclivity then,
and put that in my dossier.  :laugh: Seriously, sure,
we have biases. But, I've not fought at all, in the
manner that she does.
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But you just don't, or won't, see it. It is you who cannot learn.

Since it seems so important to you,
do your homework, and show me where I
have done to her any of what I'm accusing
her of. I suspect it's merely a matter of differing
morality. Likely there are things which I just don't
see, behind her actions, but I certainly feel that I
have a decent grip on them - and she's not stood
forth to correct my impressions. Whenever someone
accuses me of acting falsely, I DO defend.

If she sees no need to appear as honorable as she
thinks she is, that is something that I truly don't
understand - thus, there are likely misjudgments.
But, from my standpoint, whenever she has a defense,
she seems to use it. So, I suspect that some of my
accusations are actually taking root, where they count,
in her. She's not one to back down from a fight. 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 04:24:35 PM
You go after Callaway in most of your posts here, in my ask away, yet you say that she is the one attacking. Where? When? It's certainly not here. You refuse to point out the *alarming* frequency of posts where she so nastily uses the fact that you are a rapist.

As far as I'm concerned, you have no credibility.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 04:26:43 PM

As far as I'm concerned, you have no credibility.

Not an issue of importance.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 04:27:39 PM
QFT - you really aren't an issue of importance.

:smarty:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 04:29:12 PM
You go after Callaway in most of your posts here, in my ask away, yet you say that she is the one attacking. Where? When? It's certainly not here. You refuse to point out the *alarming* frequency of posts where she so nastily uses the fact that you are a rapist.
Really it just shows Cal has a life of some sort, and is not indexing everything...
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As far as I'm concerned, you have no credibility.
Stop pretending to be some lame authority figure, its about as good as being one of Randy's patrons...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 04:30:00 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 04:32:46 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.
Nah, actually I was attacking your virtual bumchum. Slight difference.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 04:35:45 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.

Getting me aroused though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 04:39:04 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.
Nah, actually I was attacking your virtual bumchum. Slight difference.

er, "bumchum" generally refers to a gay male relationship.  get your facts right, dozy.

as for virtual, there's nothing virtuous going on between odeon and me, thanks.   :evillaugh:

stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.

Getting me aroused though.

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 04:47:37 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.

Getting me aroused though.

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 31, 2008, 04:50:34 PM
You go after Callaway in most of your posts here, in my ask away, yet you say that she is the one attacking. Where? When? It's certainly not here. You refuse to point out the *alarming* frequency of posts where she so nastily uses the fact that you are a rapist.
Really it just shows Cal has a life of some sort, and is not indexing everything...

:LMAO:

You do realise that he's close to 30,000 posts, don't you?

Quote
Quote
As far as I'm concerned, you have no credibility.
Stop pretending to be some lame authority figure, its about as good as being one of Randy's patrons...

Are you mocking Randy now? You brute.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 04:55:23 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.
Nah, actually I was attacking your virtual bumchum. Slight difference.

er, "bumchum" generally refers to a gay male relationship.  get your facts right, dozy.
My facts are right. At least one of you will figure that if you ever meet irl...
Quote
as for virtual, there's nothing virtuous going on between odeon and me, thanks.   :evillaugh:
:laugh:
I knew that neither of you were fans of old fashioned chivalry...

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on January 31, 2008, 04:58:37 PM
stop trying to defend your boyfriend, hadron - it isn't doing him any favours.
Nah, actually I was attacking your virtual bumchum. Slight difference.

er, "bumchum" generally refers to a gay male relationship.  get your facts right, dozy.
My facts are right. At least one of you will figure that if you ever meet irl...
Quote
as for virtual, there's nothing virtuous going on between odeon and me, thanks.   :evillaugh:
:laugh:
I knew that neither of you were fans of old fashioned chivalry...



aww, bless.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 05:03:07 PM
:LMAO:

i have to admit, though - he's never laid his coat over a puddle for me. (might've wiped a few away to prevent staining, of course...   :eyebrows: )
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 05:05:08 PM


:LMAO:

You do realise that he's close to 30,000 posts, don't you?
.

Hey, you think I could post so
much, if I was READING?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 05:06:11 PM
:LMAO:

i have to admit, though - he's never laid his coat over a puddle for me. (might've wiped a few away to prevent staining, of course...   :eyebrows: )

A gentleman licks those up.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 05:06:51 PM
who on earth wants to fuck a gentleman ?

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 05:17:24 PM
who on earth wants to fuck a gentleman ?

:laugh:
:laugh:
Someone who likes the softer touch, and some flexibility down under.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 05:18:58 PM
who on earth wants to fuck a gentleman ?

:laugh:
:laugh:
Someone who likes the softer touch, and some flexibility down under.

nice to get a response from someone with experience of it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 05:20:22 PM
who on earth wants to fuck a gentleman ?

:laugh:
:laugh:
Someone who likes the softer touch, and some flexibility down under.

nice to get a response from someone with experience of it.
It only occurs when you are around, my dearest.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 05:21:13 PM
i make you fuck men?

blimey - i am getting good.

:laugh:  :witch:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 05:21:46 PM
... and some flexibility down under.

personally, I've found that most woman prefer when I can get it up.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 06:11:32 PM
i make you fuck men?

blimey - i am getting good.

:laugh:  :witch:
:laugh:
When your around you make it my only option. Not that I would ever take it, mind.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 06:12:55 PM
 :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on January 31, 2008, 06:13:25 PM
i make you fuck men?

blimey - i am getting good.

:laugh:  :witch:
:laugh:
When your around you make it my only option. Not that I would ever take it, mind.

perhaps i should move in with you, then - save the gene pool from your contamination.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on January 31, 2008, 06:15:10 PM
i make you fuck men?

blimey - i am getting good.

:laugh:  :witch:
:laugh:
When your around you make it my only option. Not that I would ever take it, mind.

perhaps i should move in with you, then - save the gene pool from your contamination.  :P
:rofl: No need, I detest the idea of having kids atm. Not that you would last very long anyway :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 31, 2008, 06:17:07 PM

:rofl: No need, I detest the idea of having kids atm. Not that you would last very long anyway :P

Hope that you don't mean ass to mouth here.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 01:49:03 AM
O Meister - choose some for me!  i can't, i'm too excited.  :laugh:

http://www.monicel.info/2007/12/02/most-weird-shoes-in-the-world/
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 03:10:02 AM
These are really weird:

(http://www.monicel.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/weird_shoes_002.jpg)

These, OTOH, are hawt:

(http://www.monicel.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/toc.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 03:11:38 AM
my two favourites!  :heart:

but i like these too:

(http://www.monicel.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/shoes2.jpg)

(http://www.monicel.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/weird_shoes_018.jpg)

(don't let eclair see the last pair, cos they're flat).

;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 03, 2008, 03:51:16 AM

:rofl: No need, I detest the idea of having kids atm. Not that you would last very long anyway :P

Hope that you don't mean ass to mouth here.

That is bloody terrible Calandale!

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 03, 2008, 03:53:26 AM
See us blokes are fucked in the head.

Years of trying to get girls drunk, buying flowers, remembering special days, and all the other bullshit.

SHOES!! We just need to have an appreciation and budget for shoes.  :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 03:55:21 AM
and chocolate.  and be good at sex.

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eclair on February 03, 2008, 04:02:41 AM
See us blokes are fucked in the head.

Years of trying to get girls drunk, buying flowers, remembering special days, and all the other bullshit.

SHOES!! We just need to have an appreciation and budget for shoes.  :lol:

 :plus:
and chocolate.  and be good at sex.

:laugh:

Sage advice Lucifer.  Be VERY good at sex indeed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 03, 2008, 05:12:31 AM
See us blokes are fucked in the head.

Years of trying to get girls drunk, buying flowers, remembering special days, and all the other bullshit.

SHOES!! We just need to have an appreciation and budget for shoes.  :lol:

 :plus:
and chocolate.  and be good at sex.

:laugh:

Sage advice Lucifer.  Be VERY good at sex indeed.

Meh!
You can be as great in bed as you like but if you are hopelessly socially inept and have a head like a robbers dog, a low-medium paying job, child support payments, no assets to speak of and no prospects for furthering your position..............you are not going to get the opportunity.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 05:14:15 AM
See us blokes are fucked in the head.

Years of trying to get girls drunk, buying flowers, remembering special days, and all the other bullshit.

SHOES!! We just need to have an appreciation and budget for shoes.  :lol:

QFT :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 05:18:15 AM
Meh!
You can be as great in bed as you like but if you are hopelessly socially inept and have a head like a robbers dog, a low-medium paying job, child support payments, no assets to speak of and no prospects for furthering your position..............you are not going to get the opportunity.



A paper bag over your head will help. ;D That, and a few lies. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 03, 2008, 05:34:44 AM
Meh!
You can be as great in bed as you like but if you are hopelessly socially inept and have a head like a robbers dog, a low-medium paying job, child support payments, no assets to speak of and no prospects for furthering your position..............you are not going to get the opportunity.



A paper bag over your head will help. ;D That, and a few lies. ;)

Oh crap! Ignore me I am a little frustrated at my lack of ability to woo a girl at work (we still use the word "woo"right? It is 1955? Good I will continue) and I have been on a drought for a while.  :hahaha:

She likes me and I her. I just think it would be so much easier if I could just club her over the head and take her to a warm cave rather than the agony of posturing and reading secret signals.

Doesn't matter. Just tell me to get fucked and stop bitching. You all need to do that or I get all off on self-involved tangent.  :violin:
So remember "Sir_Les get fucked, stop bitching, get over yourself"  :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Eclair on February 03, 2008, 05:55:34 AM
Meh!
You can be as great in bed as you like but if you are hopelessly socially inept and have a head like a robbers dog, a low-medium paying job, child support payments, no assets to speak of and no prospects for furthering your position..............you are not going to get the opportunity.

A paper bag over your head will help. ;D That, and a few lies. ;)

Oh crap! Ignore me I am a little frustrated at my lack of ability to woo a girl at work (we still use the word "woo"right? It is 1955? Good I will continue) and I have been on a drought for a while.  :hahaha:

She likes me and I her. I just think it would be so much easier if I could just club her over the head and take her to a warm cave rather than the agony of posturing and reading secret signals.

Doesn't matter. Just tell me to get fucked and stop bitching. You all need to do that or I get all off on self-involved tangent.  :violin:
So remember "Sir_Les get fucked, stop bitching, get over yourself"  :lol:

Yes, well, confidence usually helps.  Maybe that's the missing ingredient.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 03, 2008, 06:26:26 AM
Meh!
You can be as great in bed as you like but if you are hopelessly socially inept and have a head like a robbers dog, a low-medium paying job, child support payments, no assets to speak of and no prospects for furthering your position..............you are not going to get the opportunity.

A paper bag over your head will help. ;D That, and a few lies. ;)

Oh crap! Ignore me I am a little frustrated at my lack of ability to woo a girl at work (we still use the word "woo"right? It is 1955? Good I will continue) and I have been on a drought for a while.  :hahaha:

She likes me and I her. I just think it would be so much easier if I could just club her over the head and take her to a warm cave rather than the agony of posturing and reading secret signals.

Doesn't matter. Just tell me to get fucked and stop bitching. You all need to do that or I get all off on self-involved tangent.  :violin:
So remember "Sir_Les get fucked, stop bitching, get over yourself"  :lol:

Yes, well, confidence usually helps.  Maybe that's the missing ingredient.

You know that well rehashed comedy skit with the couple awkwardly fidgetting in silence and then the girl says "Want to have sex?" and it is all on for young and old. I am that bloke.  :lol:
AS my ex said when she tried to stitch me up with one of her Uni mates "Ross my ex is single. He is great in bed but just crap at everything else" (Not really a great endorsement and weirded me out)
My workmates are probably a bit confused too as we are a bit too intimate to be just work colleagues but I don't "close the deal".
I get comments, "Oh so I saw you walking her to her car the other night after the work do....."
"Yeah I did"
"She seems nice"
"Yes she is"
"Right Rossco fair enough"

I need a stand-in
"Hi Rossco is a little socially inept. I am here to work through the social bullshit until you want to go take me....I mean him....back to your place or my.....that is to say his place"
Course that may not work either for some reason....... :lol:

See I told you about the tangents. "Sir_Les get fucked, stop bitching, get over yourself" Much easier.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 06:32:37 AM
See us blokes are fucked in the head.

Years of trying to get girls drunk, buying flowers, remembering special days, and all the other bullshit.

SHOES!! We just need to have an appreciation and budget for shoes.  :lol:

 :plus:
and chocolate.  and be good at sex.

:laugh:

Sage advice Lucifer.  Be VERY good at sex indeed.

Meh!
You can be as great in bed as you like but if you are hopelessly socially inept and have a head like a robbers dog, a low-medium paying job, child support payments, no assets to speak of and no prospects for furthering your position..............you are not going to get the opportunity.

er, you have just described my penultimate boyfriend to a T.

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 06:33:08 AM
See us blokes are fucked in the head.

Years of trying to get girls drunk, buying flowers, remembering special days, and all the other bullshit.

SHOES!! We just need to have an appreciation and budget for shoes.  :lol:

QFT :zoinks:

well, i have to admit, O Man, you have that in spades.

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 06:34:19 AM
we still use the word "woo"right? It is 1955? Good I will continue

:LMAO:

oh, how i love us oldies.  :D

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 07:11:46 AM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 03, 2008, 02:13:53 PM
Btw, my traumas are gone.  Imagined that I was full of energy that makes me stronger, I got a thought to bring a guinea pig trauma to the therapist, and treating that one has generalizing affect on the rest of them.  I was told it was because I didn't go through disassociative states when I started getting traumatized so, He only had to treat the first one.  I had a complete meltdown the day after, getting sad lots worse for others suffering.  It last 3 days, and then it was all gone.

How did you choose to cope with the distress of quiting smoking?
I have to say, wow, from 30 or so cigarrettes, then again, with the training I have had, doing such things doesn't seem so hard now.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 02:18:15 PM
I wanted to quit and decided that it was worth a little suffering.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 03, 2008, 02:18:43 PM
What method did you choose exactly?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 02:25:45 PM
Method? No method. I simply decided that I wasn't going to smoke again.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 03, 2008, 02:32:15 PM
I know of a few... Cutting down gradually with cigarettes alone, patches, gums, and lozenges.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 02:33:07 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on February 03, 2008, 02:33:57 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.
What did Randy miss off? Suicide? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 03, 2008, 02:36:47 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.

I would get more scientific, try to make up body imbalances, things like that have roots in nutrition.  Moms have all kinds of weird cravings when they are pregnant, and perhaps they would not be so weird if their bodies where in  balance before the pregnancy.  I have lost most of my intrest in junkfood already, and the other bit may come after I loose 13.05lbs I need to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 02:37:45 PM
13.05lbs?  could you be a little more exact?

tell me, flo - how much does your head weigh?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 03, 2008, 02:39:47 PM
I am being serious, as if you didn't fix them, you are vunerable to another addiction, and maybe resume cigarrettes.

I will be serious again, on purpose, Brain size doesn't exactly correlate with intellegence, Paul Broca learned that a long time ago.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 02:40:55 PM
i was just wondering if it weighed approx. 13lb.  then there'd be a dead easy solution to your wanting to lose weight.

(explanation for the hard of thinking).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on February 03, 2008, 02:41:50 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.

I would get more scientific, try to make up body imbalances, things like that have roots in nutrition.  Moms have all kinds of weird cravings when they are pregnant, and perhaps they would not be so weird if their bodies where in  balance before the pregnancy.  I have lost most of my intrest in junkfood already, and the other bit may come after I loose 13.05lbs I need to.
Could I have that in metric please?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 03, 2008, 02:43:04 PM
Something like 6.5killograms.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 03, 2008, 02:48:29 PM
i was just wondering if it weighed approx. 13lb.  then there'd be a dead easy solution to your wanting to lose weight.

(explanation for the hard of thinking).


 :lol:

....and after that if he was still over the desired weight......how much does his limbs weigh?..... (at this stage may need someone else to help him lose the extra pounds)

You're terrible Lucifer

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 03, 2008, 02:55:27 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.

I would get more scientific, try to make up body imbalances, things like that have roots in nutrition.  Moms have all kinds of weird cravings when they are pregnant, and perhaps they would not be so weird if their bodies where in  balance before the pregnancy.  I have lost most of my intrest in junkfood already, and the other bit may come after I loose 13.05lbs I need to.

Randy,

I managed to quit without a "method". It worked. If I start smoking again and want to quit, that's how I'll do it.

Have you ever smoked, Flo?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on February 03, 2008, 03:38:44 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.
:clap:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 03:39:43 PM
i was just wondering if it weighed approx. 13lb.  then there'd be a dead easy solution to your wanting to lose weight.

(explanation for the hard of thinking).


 :lol:

....and after that if he was still over the desired weight......how much does his limbs weigh?..... (at this stage may need someone else to help him lose the extra pounds)

You're terrible Lucifer

 :plus:

yep.   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 03, 2008, 03:40:36 PM
best let odeon know all of them, flo, in case he starts and wants to stop again.
:clap:

 :roses:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 04, 2008, 04:02:31 PM
Lucifer, you are terrible, at telling jokes.  It just a matter of exercising that part of the brain. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 04, 2008, 11:12:20 PM
i bow to your greater knowledge and wisdom, o Arbiter of Humour.

:worship:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on February 05, 2008, 04:42:58 AM
Lucifer, you are terrible, at telling jokes.  It just a matter of exercising that part of the brain. :laugh:
Good jokes require that the brain works together. Otherwise it is you that becomes the joke.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Alex179 on February 05, 2008, 10:24:18 AM
Lucifer was saying that you should lose the weight by chopping off your head.   Basically implying that you don't use what is in your head anyways, so might as well chop it off.   She was wondering if it weighed enough for you to lose the 13lbs.   The human head weighs an average of 4.5 to 5kg when cut off at the C3 vert.   So at a little over 11 lbs, he would need to lose another 2 lbs.   Any other suggestions of things he could lob off Lucifer?   Human biomass can be used as fuel, you know.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 05, 2008, 11:14:27 AM
i bow to your greater knowledge and wisdom, o Arbiter of Humour.

:worship:

I think he's an "arbitar", whatever that is.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 11:27:54 AM
Lucifer was saying that you should lose the weight by chopping off your head.   Basically implying that you don't use what is in your head anyways, so might as well chop it off.   She was wondering if it weighed enough for you to lose the 13lbs.   The human head weighs an average of 4.5 to 5kg when cut off at the C3 vert.   So at a little over 11 lbs, he would need to lose another 2 lbs.   Any other suggestions of things he could lob off Lucifer?   Human biomass can be used as fuel, you know.

who gives as fuck, as long as the head goes first?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 11:28:24 AM
i bow to your greater knowledge and wisdom, o Arbiter of Humour.

:worship:

I think he's an "arbitar", whatever that is.

i may have misspelled it originally.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 05, 2008, 02:18:15 PM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 05, 2008, 02:33:25 PM


the HORROR.


the HORROR!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 02:34:32 PM
are you comparing me to Conrad, dawg?

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 05, 2008, 02:48:22 PM
Why is this thread about Flo, now?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on February 05, 2008, 02:50:30 PM
Why is this thread about Flo, now?
Narcissist :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 02:52:37 PM
Why is this thread about Flo, now?
Narcissist :P

:LMAO:

classic!

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 05, 2008, 03:12:23 PM
are you comparing me to Conrad, dawg?

 :-*

Not sure which Conrad, but I was using Brando's "Col. Kurtz" interpretation to demonstrate shock at the notion that you made a spelling related typo.

Your spelling/typing is normally either carved~marble perfect or hilariously shifted to the absurd.

You don't make mistakes.

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 05, 2008, 03:12:46 PM
Whipe your ass, you talk out it so much :laugh:  I am talking about narcisst.  You understand you irritate me into sounding such ways?

Odeon, what is the funniest place you have ever been?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 03:15:18 PM
are you comparing me to Conrad, dawg?

 :-*

Not sure which Conrad, but I was using Brando's "Col. Kurtz" interpretation to demonstrate shock at the notion that you made a spelling related typo.

Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).

Quote
Your spelling/typing is normally either carved~marble perfect or hilariously shifted to the absurd.

You don't make mistakes.

:D

 :-*  thank you, dawg.  that's one of the best compliments someone's said to me for a while.  :hug:  :plus:

(except for You Know Who, obviously, but that's different ;) ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 03:15:42 PM
Whipe your ass, you talk out it so much :laugh:  I am talking about narcisst.  You understand you irritate me into sounding such ways?

Odeon, what is the funniest place you have ever been?

inside your head, fuckwit.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on February 05, 2008, 03:19:04 PM
Whipe your ass, you talk out it so much :laugh:  I am talking about narcisst.  You understand you irritate me into sounding such ways?

Odeon, what is the funniest place you have ever been?

inside your head, fuckwit.
Why is this thread about Flo, now?

Social skills, or do you not have any. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 05, 2008, 03:22:47 PM
Whipe your ass, you talk out it so much :laugh:  I am talking about narcisst.  You understand you irritate me into sounding such ways?

Er... Hadron said that, and it was in reference to me, and it was a pretty damned good joke. It's not all about you, Flo.

Quote
Odeon, what is the funniest place you have ever been?

A cinema running Three Amigos. I nearly died laughing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 05, 2008, 03:25:01 PM
Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).

Apocalypse Now is (very) loosely based on that novel so you're not wrong.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 05, 2008, 03:29:58 PM
are you comparing me to Conrad, dawg?

 :-*

Not sure which Conrad, but I was using Brando's "Col. Kurtz" interpretation to demonstrate shock at the notion that you made a spelling related typo.

Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).


Durrrdrrrdrrdrrdrr  (the sound a a brain fart)

Of course, the basis of the script.

:hide:

Quote
Your spelling/typing is normally either carved~marble perfect or hilariously shifted to the absurd.

You don't make mistakes.

:D
Quote

 :-*  thank you, dawg.  that's one of the best compliments someone's said to me for a while.  :hug:  :plus:

*elegantly tips hat, stumbles over tangled feet*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 03:32:49 PM
Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).

Apocalypse Now is (very) loosely based on that novel so you're not wrong.

well, dawg says i rarely am.  /still glowing from the compliment...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 03:33:17 PM
are you comparing me to Conrad, dawg?

 :-*

Not sure which Conrad, but I was using Brando's "Col. Kurtz" interpretation to demonstrate shock at the notion that you made a spelling related typo.

Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).


Durrrdrrrdrrdrrdrr  (the sound a a brain fart)

Of course, the basis of the script.

:hide:

Quote
Your spelling/typing is normally either carved~marble perfect or hilariously shifted to the absurd.

You don't make mistakes.

:D
Quote

 :-*  thank you, dawg.  that's one of the best compliments someone's said to me for a while.  :hug:  :plus:

*elegantly tips hat, stumbles over tangled feet*

(forget the feet - i'll concentrate on the hat, okay?)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 05, 2008, 03:35:06 PM
 :-*

Thank you, but it's a package deal.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 05, 2008, 03:44:29 PM
Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).

Apocalypse Now is (very) loosely based on that novel so you're not wrong.

well, dawg says i rarely am.  /still glowing from the compliment...

Dawg's rarely wrong. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 03:47:12 PM
Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).

Apocalypse Now is (very) loosely based on that novel so you're not wrong.

well, dawg says i rarely am.  /still glowing from the compliment...

Dawg's rarely wrong. :)

OMFG!  dawg, we are the Correct and Right Aspie Pair!!

(a.k.a. CRAP).

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Rabbit From Hell on February 05, 2008, 03:49:18 PM
Joseph Conrad.  i haven't seen the film, but i believe brando was quoting conrad's most famous novel - "heart of darkness".  (i'm sure the O Meister will correct me if i'm wrong).

Apocalypse Now is (very) loosely based on that novel so you're not wrong.

well, dawg says i rarely am.  /still glowing from the compliment...

Dawg's rarely wrong. :)

OMFG!  dawg, we are the Correct and Right Aspie Pair!!

(a.k.a. CRAP).

:D

please to be explainink wherabouts of pi
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 05, 2008, 03:50:03 PM
it's in my thread.

stop being mainly a knob.  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 14, 2008, 05:06:38 PM
Hey, Odeon,

What do think of this subwoofer design I've been working on for a while.

Sorry the pic is drawn up in Paint, but it just struck me that your comments would be fun.


All the black is solid MDF or filled crevaces loaded with expanding urethane foam.

The cyan color is the sealed compression chamber. It is tapered on all four sides like a pyramid, to remove any possibility of standing waves within the chamber, since there are no constrained parallel surfaces. Shaving the oustide dimensions also completes the expansion of the port/horn to maintain something close to an hyperbolic curve in the cross sectional area.

The magenta color is the tuned chamber, which makes this a fourth order enclosure. There are also no parallels. It is tuned by a simple port, typically, but my design is tuned by a small hyperbolic expansion, folded over itself similar to a horn (the white area).

The green color is actually a sealed isobaric chamber, which acts to couple the two (drivers) moving masses, but in a buffered manner as opposed to directly bolting the drivers face to face as with typical isobaric designs.  The two driver magnets are actually solidly connected by an MDF spacer to reinforce the non-moving structure and keep it as inert, non-resonant and rigid as possible. The isobaric chamber is a very solid, sealed unit with the driver diaphragms firing in opposite directions, but phased so that the diaphragms move as "one single piston".

The red arrows represent the dual airpath and the expansion of the port/horn. The expanding port should have a much broader range of resonance than a typical tube type port.

It's almost done in a half size, using six inch drivers, for a mock-up test.

BTW, I haven't invented anything. All these ideas were first explored by Bell Labs, Westinghouse and a few others in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. I have just combined the ideas into one, no holds barred, enclosure.



Oops. I tried to attach a bitmap. I'll try again.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 14, 2008, 05:13:46 PM
The cyan color is the sealed compression chamber. It is tapered on all four sides like a pyramid, to remove any possibility of standing waves within the chamber, since there are no constrained parallel surfaces. Shaving the oustide dimensions also completes the expansion of the port/horn to maintain something close to an hyperbolic curve in the cross sectional area.

I'll be very interested in seeing this (try a JPEG), but actually knowing that there are no parallel surfaces goes a very long way to ensure quality.

The auditorium of the cinema where I work is saved only by the no parallel surfaces (or straight angles) rules. The walls are way too hard and are anything but "dead", but the sound is just magnificent because of those simple rules.

 :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 18, 2008, 07:40:15 AM
Why?




Why am I so drunk? Dear God why?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 18, 2008, 01:01:07 PM
The cyan color is the sealed compression chamber. It is tapered on all four sides like a pyramid, to remove any possibility of standing waves within the chamber, since there are no constrained parallel surfaces. Shaving the oustide dimensions also completes the expansion of the port/horn to maintain something close to an hyperbolic curve in the cross sectional area.

I'll be very interested in seeing this (try a JPEG), but actually knowing that there are no parallel surfaces goes a very long way to ensure quality.

The auditorium of the cinema where I work is saved only by the no parallel surfaces (or straight angles) rules. The walls are way too hard and are anything but "dead", but the sound is just magnificent because of those simple rules.

 :thumbup:

Do you inderstand whhat I am doing with this boxx?

I forgott to mention that the isobaric chamber is also broken up by smalll pyramids (knot shown in the graphic) of solid wood in a prime derived configuration, truncated from a sphere to the sixe, by volume, that I needed for these small drivers.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 18, 2008, 01:02:01 PM
Why?




Why am I so drunk? Dear God why?

don't call him god - some people on here will froth at the brain again.

;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 18, 2008, 01:02:51 PM
The cyan color is the sealed compression chamber. It is tapered on all four sides like a pyramid, to remove any possibility of standing waves within the chamber, since there are no constrained parallel surfaces. Shaving the oustide dimensions also completes the expansion of the port/horn to maintain something close to an hyperbolic curve in the cross sectional area.

I'll be very interested in seeing this (try a JPEG), but actually knowing that there are no parallel surfaces goes a very long way to ensure quality.

The auditorium of the cinema where I work is saved only by the no parallel surfaces (or straight angles) rules. The walls are way too hard and are anything but "dead", but the sound is just magnificent because of those simple rules.

 :thumbup:

Do you inderstand whhat I am doing with this boxx?

oooooh, that sounds so hannibal lecter-ish.  i think you should put "mwahahahahahaha!" at the end.  :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 18, 2008, 05:15:42 PM
Why?




Why am I so drunk? Dear God why?

You're in the wrong thread. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 18, 2008, 05:16:32 PM
The cyan color is the sealed compression chamber. It is tapered on all four sides like a pyramid, to remove any possibility of standing waves within the chamber, since there are no constrained parallel surfaces. Shaving the oustide dimensions also completes the expansion of the port/horn to maintain something close to an hyperbolic curve in the cross sectional area.

I'll be very interested in seeing this (try a JPEG), but actually knowing that there are no parallel surfaces goes a very long way to ensure quality.

The auditorium of the cinema where I work is saved only by the no parallel surfaces (or straight angles) rules. The walls are way too hard and are anything but "dead", but the sound is just magnificent because of those simple rules.

 :thumbup:

Do you inderstand whhat I am doing with this boxx?

I forgott to mention that the isobaric chamber is also broken up by smalll pyramids (knot shown in the graphic) of solid wood in a prime derived configuration, truncated from a sphere to the sixe, by volume, that I needed for these small drivers.

I understand some of it. I'd still like to see pics.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 18, 2008, 06:20:26 PM
The cyan color is the sealed compression chamber. It is tapered on all four sides like a pyramid, to remove any possibility of standing waves within the chamber, since there are no constrained parallel surfaces. Shaving the oustide dimensions also completes the expansion of the port/horn to maintain something close to an hyperbolic curve in the cross sectional area.

I'll be very interested in seeing this (try a JPEG), but actually knowing that there are no parallel surfaces goes a very long way to ensure quality.

The auditorium of the cinema where I work is saved only by the no parallel surfaces (or straight angles) rules. The walls are way too hard and are anything but "dead", but the sound is just magnificent because of those simple rules.

 :thumbup:

Do you inderstand whhat I am doing with this boxx?

I forgott to mention that the isobaric chamber is also broken up by smalll pyramids (knot shown in the graphic) of solid wood in a prime derived configuration, truncated from a sphere to the sixe, by volume, that I needed for these small drivers.

I understand some of it. I'd still like to see pics.

Oh, of course. I really need a camera.

(FFS!)

Things are turning our way, lately. I should be able to get one soon. Some things I've put off too long still have to come first, though. You know how that shit goes.


Please don't think I'm a totally neglectful parent, though, like the cobbler's shoeless kids or the baker's starving kids. My kids are actually fairly well videographed. I shoot some tape most every week. It's an old analog VTR, though. The video images convert to CD or DVD, OK, but it doesn't make stills worth a crap.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 21, 2008, 11:40:05 PM
one more post, and...

go on, go on!

/waits with bated breath...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on February 22, 2008, 12:01:03 AM
one more post, and...

go on, go on!

/waits with bated breath...

It will be 18,000!

 :woohoo:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 12:20:15 AM
one more post, and...

go on, go on!

/waits with bated breath...

It will be 18,000!

 :woohoo:

thank you, captain obvious.

:smarty:

:D

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 01:43:31 AM
i didn't notice until this morning. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 22, 2008, 06:11:18 AM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 22, 2008, 07:26:39 AM


one more post, and...

go on, go on!

/waits with bated breath...

It will be 18,000!

 :woohoo:

thank you, captain obvious.

:smarty:

:D

:-*

OWW!

*makes quick use of tongue while available*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 07:31:05 AM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 22, 2008, 07:44:56 AM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.

 :plus: for Odeaon for selff esteem.

 :plus: to Sir Les for that burning toe he just dipped into the lava.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 07:46:47 AM
/bows
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 10:12:55 AM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.

that's my line!  :(  so i'll bung in, "and sexy as fuck", okay?   :eyebrows:

but i luuuuurve the serial comma, so perhaps i'll forgive you.  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on February 22, 2008, 12:05:57 PM
one more post, and...

go on, go on!

/waits with bated breath...

It will be 18,000!

 :woohoo:

thank you, captain obvious.

:smarty:

:D

:-*

(http://evula.org/dragoon/pics/captain.obvious.jpg)

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 02:02:23 PM
hey callaway - you look bloody great in those red gauntlets.

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 03:06:57 PM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.

that's my line!  :(  so i'll bung in, "and sexy as fuck", okay?   :eyebrows:

but i luuuuurve the serial comma, so perhaps i'll forgive you.  :-*

Want to get serial with me? :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 03:17:59 PM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.

that's my line!  :(  so i'll bung in, "and sexy as fuck", okay?   :eyebrows:

but i luuuuurve the serial comma, so perhaps i'll forgive you.  :-*

Want to get serial with me? :eyebrows:

only if you promise to hyphenate me.  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 03:24:35 PM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.

that's my line!  :(  so i'll bung in, "and sexy as fuck", okay?   :eyebrows:

but i luuuuurve the serial comma, so perhaps i'll forgive you.  :-*

Want to get serial with me? :eyebrows:

only if you promise to hyphenate me.  :-*

Comma, then, let's put a full stop to this. :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 03:58:59 PM
If I get to 18000 will you still think I am as witty, intelligent, charming, and sophisticated as you do right now Odeon?

Am I supposed to think you're witty (etc) now, or are you asking me if I think that you can be as witty (etc) as I am now?

If the latter is what you meant, you forgot "handsome". :P

:plus: for the serial comma, though.

that's my line!  :(  so i'll bung in, "and sexy as fuck", okay?   :eyebrows:

but i luuuuurve the serial comma, so perhaps i'll forgive you.  :-*

Want to get serial with me? :eyebrows:

only if you promise to hyphenate me.  :-*

Comma, then, let's put a full stop to this. :-*

/releases safety catch...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 05:22:24 PM
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/3746/FigB.jpg)

the colours aren't great, but you can check out all the variations here (http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/).

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 05:31:32 PM
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/3746/FigB.jpg)

the colours aren't great, but you can check out all the variations here (http://www.doctorwhoscarf.com/).

:-*

The original scarf is fab, actually. Don't you think so? It's outrageous (and outrageously long) but I like the colours.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 05:32:39 PM

The original scarf is fab, actually. Don't you think so? It's outrageous (and outrageously long) but I like the colours.

excellent.  it probably won't be that long, cos i have a boredom threshold.  :D

does mean i'll be able to knit and watch dvds, though.  ;)  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2008, 05:36:15 PM

The original scarf is fab, actually. Don't you think so? It's outrageous (and outrageously long) but I like the colours.

excellent.  it probably won't be that long, cos i have a boredom threshold.  :D

does mean i'll be able to knit and watch dvds, though.  ;)  :-*

How long is the real one? Cos it's so cool...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on February 22, 2008, 05:37:24 PM

The original scarf is fab, actually. Don't you think so? It's outrageous (and outrageously long) but I like the colours.

excellent.  it probably won't be that long, cos i have a boredom threshold.  :D

does mean i'll be able to knit and watch dvds, though.  ;)  :-*

How long is the real one? Cos it's so cool...

sigh...  about 13'.

oh, all right, then, seeing as it's you.  ::)

i must be mad.  the things i do for you...

:-*

:heart:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 01:15:01 PM

Mad?  Madly in ... er ...




... uhm, lust?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 01:22:56 PM

Do you know a decent site where I can learn a bit more about computer network systems?

I am trying to get more hours at work and to expand the departments I can work in, I've taken the geek squad test (two hundred seventy nine questions). I almost passed. I missed ten answers, but anything over seven bad answers is TEH fail.

Eight of my wrong answers involved networking.  I need to study some stuff.

Where do you suggest I browse for more smarts?

(I know I should go to school, but I have never been able to do that.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 12, 2008, 01:52:22 PM
Well, a bit hard to say since I don't know how much you know now and how much you actually want to know. There's lots to read on the intergeek.

A good place to start, actually, is Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_networking) for a quick overview. There are articles on various topics related to all things networking, and links to external resources.

A Linux-specific network admin guide (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag2/book/) is freely available on the net. Yes, it's about Linux but the introductory chapters are about networking as such and the principles are the same, regardless of the OS you choose to run.

Linux Networking-concepts HOWTO (http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/networking-concepts-HOWTO.html) also gives a reasonably good overview. Yes, it's from the freely available Linux documentation project, but that's why I like Linux, among other things: the information is freely available, and, for the most part, very accurate. You can't find many freely available MS-specific networking documents out there, as far as I know.

But also try About.com (http://compnetworking.about.com/od/basicnetworkingconcepts/Networking_Basics_Key_Concepts_in_Computer_Networking.htm).  Lots of good stuff there, it seems, even though I tend to go for the Linux Network Admin Guide instead.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on March 12, 2008, 02:51:21 PM
Thanks.

I actually have not tried wiki in a long time and their section is loaded with links and cross references, now, that weren't there a couple of years ago. Some links will prove helpful. Those Linux links will help me with going past the basics. I often end up on forums with conflicting information when I search for Linux info or six million pages of hits to narrow down. Very frustrating Those will certainly help my hobby-level interest.

What we are mostly involved in at work is LAN related, media PC and home office networks, often wireless, and the like, but I never even thought to look at about.com. That site is also well loaded with references I can follow and it is geared to the fast paced lifestyle that our customers are interested in obtaining. Those customers bring money and buttloads of questions that they really don't want the answers to. They just want to walk out with cool stuff that all works together. Thus, the need exists to expand the in-house, media geek department at work.

Those areas of about.com will definitely help in the specific type of low-level knowledge I need to get a foot in the door.  :thumbup:

Again, thanks. That's why I asked you. I knew you could guide my searching.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 12, 2008, 02:55:23 PM

Mad?  Madly in ... er ...




... uhm, lust?

yeah, that too.  ;)

 :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 12, 2008, 03:26:06 PM

Mad?  Madly in ... er ...




... uhm, lust?

yeah, that too.  ;)

 :eyebrows:

You want some networking guidance, too? :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 12, 2008, 04:31:43 PM

Mad?  Madly in ... er ...




... uhm, lust?

yeah, that too.  ;)

 :eyebrows:

You want some networking guidance, too? :eyelash:

only if you're going to be working my net.   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on March 14, 2008, 07:37:28 PM

I am amazed at how well this new shit works. I bought a fifteen dollar router and a hundred dollar :"music bridge"  and it PnP'ed in my system. I have not installed anything, but it works.

I can now throw away the hundred fifty feet of CAT cable that I used to drag out to feed the outdoor system.

(I probably need a better router, though, at some point)

Have you seen the Logitech music server toy?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 09:02:14 AM
No, haven't seen that. Right now, I have a number of other toys to pine for. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 12:52:21 PM
No, haven't seen that. Right now, I have a number of other toys to pine for. :P

 :eyelash:   :eyebrows:   :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 01:28:54 PM
 :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 01:33:36 PM
:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 02:10:22 PM
:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:

:tongue: This one runs well without.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 02:18:56 PM
:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:

:tongue: This one runs well without.

as long as i feed it constant beer, dotty bread and boobs, yes.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 02:48:39 PM
:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:

:tongue: This one runs well without.

as long as i feed it constant beer, dotty bread and boobs, yes.  :laugh:

Surely you're not complaining? :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 04:05:04 PM
:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:

:tongue: This one runs well without.

as long as i feed it constant beer, dotty bread and boobs, yes.  :laugh:

shitty pope?   :eyelash:
Surely you're not complaining? :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 04:07:17 PM
:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:

:tongue: This one runs well without.

as long as i feed it constant beer, dotty bread and boobs, yes.  :laugh:

shitty pope?   :eyelash:
Surely you're not complaining? :eyebrows:

I'll take that as a "no", in spite of the quoting problem. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 04:08:42 PM
what quoting problem?

:LMAO:

(i'm sorry - i have a migraine and can see fuck all.  ::) )




:eyelash:

best get some new batteries for your toy, then.   :eyebrows:

:tongue: This one runs well without.

as long as i feed it constant beer, dotty bread and boobs, yes.  :laugh:

shitty pope?   :eyelash:
Surely you're not complaining? :eyebrows:

I'll take that as a "no", in spite of the quoting problem. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 04:17:11 PM
:( Poor you. Go to bed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 04:18:00 PM
:( Poor you. Go to bed.

you want me to warm the sheets again, eh?   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2008, 04:18:39 PM
:( Poor you. Go to bed.

you want me to warm the sheets again, eh?   :eyebrows:

 :eyelash: Yes, please.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 15, 2008, 04:19:04 PM
 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 24, 2008, 12:16:04 PM
your new custom title!!!

:LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO:

:heart:

:-*

:witch1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2008, 12:17:52 PM
your new custom title!!!

:LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO:

:heart:

:-*

:witch1:

;D

You like?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 24, 2008, 12:18:21 PM
i :heart:

:-*

:hug:

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on March 24, 2008, 07:59:32 PM
Does your name,  odeon mean anything?  Today I noticed a store in New Haven Connecticut by that name not really sure what they do or sell I'll look more tomorrow but it's in with a bunch of boutiques across form the Scientology center
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Sophgay on March 24, 2008, 08:00:54 PM
I think it's the cinemas
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Sophgay on March 24, 2008, 08:02:37 PM
Oxford Rd, Manchester:

(http://www.images.manchester.gov.uk/web/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=4442)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 25, 2008, 03:56:10 AM
i've been there!  :laugh:

used to go to the fleapit on levenshulme road, though, cos it was v near to where i lived at that point, and cheap as chips.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Sophgay on March 25, 2008, 03:58:10 AM
i've never been there
i've been to the cinema at the printworks near urbis - that's the cloesest :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2008, 05:41:40 AM
Yup--the name is cinema-related; specifically, it's what I call the one in my garage. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 29, 2008, 03:34:33 PM
do you think my new avatar looks a bit like me?  well, from a distance...  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 29, 2008, 03:36:24 PM
Yes, now that you say it. It does look a bit like you. I like your wings better, though.

I looove your new avatar. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 29, 2008, 03:42:53 PM
Yes, now that you say it. It does look a bit like you. I like your wings better, though.

I looove your new avatar. ;D

:-*

which wings?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 29, 2008, 03:51:30 PM
The white ones.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 29, 2008, 03:53:14 PM
sigh...

the big white feathered ones, the small white feathered ones, or the big white irridescent ones?  ::)

:P

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on March 31, 2008, 04:23:47 AM
Yup--the name is cinema-related; specifically, it's what I call the one in my garage. ;D

I'm a little jealous.

... just a little, though.


If we lived closer, I ...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on March 31, 2008, 04:25:17 AM
sigh...

the big white feathered ones, the small white feathered ones, or the big white irridescent ones?  ::)

:P

:laugh:

Feathered wings don't hold up well on some of my trips. Leather is stronger and takes more heat.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 31, 2008, 05:48:29 AM
sigh...

the big white feathered ones, the small white feathered ones, or the big white irridescent ones?  ::)

:P

:laugh:

Feathered wings don't hold up well on some of my trips. Leather is stronger and takes more heat.

if i even tried to posit the idea of a combination of wings + leather, he'd blow a gasket.  keep it quiet, ffs - i may never recover!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2008, 05:50:51 AM
Yup--the name is cinema-related; specifically, it's what I call the one in my garage. ;D

I'm a little jealous.

... just a little, though.


If we lived closer, I ...

...would have the opportunity to watch the sharpest projected image you have ever seen? The 70mm projection in my garage is fabulous.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2008, 05:51:46 AM
sigh...

the big white feathered ones, the small white feathered ones, or the big white irridescent ones?  ::)

:P

:laugh:

Yes. :LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on March 31, 2008, 05:52:53 AM
:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on April 01, 2008, 08:33:07 AM
What member of I2 would you most like to join me in a threesome with?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 01, 2008, 09:06:23 AM
Lucifer. You had to ask?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on April 01, 2008, 09:08:26 AM
Lucifer. You had to ask?
Well, it certainly is a given, but I didn't want you to feel left out of my mass-sexual-harassment-april-fools-spamfest.  :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 01, 2008, 09:10:23 AM
:LMAO: :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 01, 2008, 11:27:52 AM
threesome?  i think not.  i do not share.

/sulks.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 01, 2008, 03:51:46 PM
threesome?  i think not.  i do not share.

/sulks.

Don't worry. It's only sexual harassment on her part. :LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on April 02, 2008, 07:32:46 AM
threesome?  i think not.  i do not share.

/sulks.

Don't worry. It's only sexual harassment on her part. :LMAO:
Yeps- and then, only in honor of April fool's.

(Actually, if a man who was in a significant relationship with one of my homegirls tried to put the moves on me, my only moral dilemma would be that I'd assume that girl woduln't actually want me to kill or even severely disable him, but itI fear the impulase might be overwhelming.  Never to fear, Lucifer!)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tristeza on April 02, 2008, 08:44:10 PM
Odeon, I have a few questions for you.

What type of work will you be doing?  Congrats on that, btw.   :)

What made you decide to study Spanish?  Do you visit Spain often?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2008, 01:10:26 AM
Odeon, I have a few questions for you.

What type of work will you be doing?  Congrats on that, btw.   :)

Thanks. :)

I'll be a "documentation specialist", helping various companies and organizations to handle their (mostly technical) information efficiently. Ask me again in a few weeks, but I'll be involved in the whole chain, from presale to analysing information needs, to project management, to just about everything. Pretty cool job, actually. I hope. :laugh:

Quote
What made you decide to study Spanish?  Do you visit Spain often?

I love languages in general, and they've always been one of my obsessions. English is a good example of that. As for Spanish, I screened a number of Latin-American films at a film festival a few years ago and loved the sound of the language. I took a break from studying it, eventually, but started again a few months ago.

I've only visited Spain once--Barcelona, before I got interested in the language. I'd love to go again, it was a beautiful city.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 03, 2008, 02:06:34 AM
i'll go with you!  :-*   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2008, 02:59:41 AM
i'll go with you!  :-*   :eyelash:

:eyelash:

But... but... how will we ever have the time to enjoy the sights? :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 03, 2008, 04:22:57 AM
i'll go with you!  :-*   :eyelash:

:eyelash:

But... but... how will we ever have the time to enjoy the sights? :laugh:

sights?  i get to see the bedroom ceiling, you get to see my bits - what other sights are there worth seeing?  ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2008, 04:55:07 AM
i'll go with you!  :-*   :eyelash:

:eyelash:

But... but... how will we ever have the time to enjoy the sights? :laugh:

sights?  i get to see the bedroom ceiling, you get to see my bits - what other sights are there worth seeing?  ???

Excellent points. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on April 12, 2008, 09:30:26 AM
odeon, can you describe what a day is like at work (I don't really understand your job description, sounds complicated).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2008, 09:48:44 AM
Let's take yesterday, then...

8.30 or so... Participated in a meeting about an authoring tool for technical information that we are considering for the document management system that our company offers. Took about two hours or so, during which I pretty much shot the product down by listing some of its technical problems. I also explained to the sales guy why we don't want it, using terminology he knows (non-technical).

10.30... Talked to the sales guy about the document management system we are selling as a product, and what could be done about it.

11.00... Sat down to continue writing an XSLT stylesheet used to convert a customer's technical documents from the XML format they use to HTML, for publishing on the web. I started writing this on Wednesday.

12... A very quick lunch.

12.20... More stylesheet writing, interrupted by various developers who wanted to know more about what tool to use for an authoring environment with a live database connection.

14... Spent time trying to get a version management system working on my work pooter. Failed several times, after which I decided that the Swedish-language Windows XP was to blame. Talked to the system admin about installing an English-language XP instead. Talked to my boss about buying an English XP license since we don't have it in-house.

15... Went back to writing the stylesheet, trying it on a test document I have created for the purpose. Discovered that the structure of the document source could be better so I redefined the parts I was dissatisfied with, and tested my stylesheet again. Better! Spent the rest of the day by fine-tuning the stylesheet.

Left the office around 16.30...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 12, 2008, 11:54:01 AM
tut. is that all?  ::)

:laugh:

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on April 12, 2008, 01:17:04 PM
How many different countries have you been to
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on April 12, 2008, 02:40:18 PM
So when are we getting an ignore function??   :eyebrows:

Don't make me beg??   :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2008, 03:12:43 PM
How many different countries have you been to

Let's see... Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Canada. So 7, I think
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2008, 03:13:27 PM
So when are we getting an ignore function??   :eyebrows:

Don't make me beg??   :laugh:

Do we need one? ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on April 12, 2008, 03:41:50 PM
What do YOU think?    :deadhorse:  :trollfuck:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2008, 03:45:50 PM
What do YOU think?    :deadhorse:  :trollfuck:

:laugh:

I'll look into it, now that the board seems to be working again. I wanted to make sure that the functionality we have is as it should before adding to it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on April 12, 2008, 03:58:25 PM
How many different countries have you been to

Let's see... Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Canada. So 7, I think

You've been to Canada?

Have you seen the Canadian Rockies?

I spent nine weeks (as an animal, not a tourist) exploring the Continental Divide in Canada. never made it to Alaska, though. I fucking loved it! I got all touchy/feely in Vancouver, though (it's beautiful, there!) and went south again. Stopped in Costa Rica, though. Travel further southward became a problem due to local unrest.



I've not been to many countries, but lots of states.

:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2008, 04:19:18 PM
How many different countries have you been to

Let's see... Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Spain, Canada. So 7, I think

You've been to Canada?

Twice. Vancouver, around ten years ago, and Montreal, five years ago.

Quote
Have you seen the Canadian Rockies?

Yup. Saw them from above, on my way to and from Vancouver. They were amazing.

Quote
I spent nine weeks (as an animal, not a tourist) exploring the Continental Divide in Canada. never made it to Alaska, though. I fucking loved it! I got all touchy/feely in Vancouver, though (it's beautiful, there!) and went south again. Stopped in Costa Rica, though. Travel further southward became a problem due to local unrest.



I've not been to many countries, but lots of states.

:D

I loved Vancouver, too.

Oh, and I forgot--I've also visited the UK, on two occasions.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on April 12, 2008, 08:10:00 PM
So how do You like being the only webmaster?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 13, 2008, 01:18:42 AM
Oh, and I forgot--I've also visited the UK, on two occasions.

::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on April 13, 2008, 02:22:55 AM
8.30 or so... Participated in a meeting about an authoring tool for technical information that we are considering for the document management system that our company offers. Took about two hours or so, during which I pretty much shot the product down by listing some of its technical problems. I also explained to the sales guy why we don't want it, using terminology he knows (non-technical).
You owned that meeting, and the sales guy too.  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 13, 2008, 02:24:00 AM
believe me, you don't want to get on the O Meister's wrong side when he's on one.  ;)

:hide:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2008, 02:56:19 AM
So how do You like being the only webmaster?

It's OK but I miss Dunc. Lots of stuff I realise I'll have to find out about on my own, now. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2008, 02:56:38 AM
believe me, you don't want to get on the O Meister's wrong side when he's on one.  ;)

:hide:

:flame:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2008, 02:58:13 AM
8.30 or so... Participated in a meeting about an authoring tool for technical information that we are considering for the document management system that our company offers. Took about two hours or so, during which I pretty much shot the product down by listing some of its technical problems. I also explained to the sales guy why we don't want it, using terminology he knows (non-technical).
You owned that meeting, and the sales guy too.  :evillaugh:

Pretty much. I hope I didn't scare them away, though.

But it's part of my job, being a specialist. I'm expected to do this sort of thing, at times. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 13, 2008, 04:58:22 AM
believe me, you don't want to get on the O Meister's wrong side when he's on one.  ;)

:hide:

:flame:

the only reason i ply him with sexual favours, obviously.   :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2008, 09:32:45 AM
But of course.  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: duncvis on April 13, 2008, 10:50:26 AM
*delurks*

So how do You like being the only webmaster?

It's OK but I miss Dunc. Lots of stuff I realise I'll have to find out about on my own, now. :laugh:

you can always email me if you get stuck, mate. anyway, working it out is half the fun.  :orly:

and will we be seeing you at my new cyber-pub (i.e. The Drivel) ? :beergrin:

*buggers off again*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 13, 2008, 02:16:46 PM
*delurks*

So how do You like being the only webmaster?

It's OK but I miss Dunc. Lots of stuff I realise I'll have to find out about on my own, now. :laugh:

you can always email me if you get stuck, mate. anyway, working it out is half the fun.  :orly:

This is certainly true.  :toporly:

Quote
and will we be seeing you at my new cyber-pub (i.e. The Drivel) ? :beergrin:

*buggers off again*

:beer:

Coming!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on April 13, 2008, 08:31:02 PM
I just have to ask would there be any reason You would quit being the webmaster?

I just have to ask it.

I think You are doing a very good job. :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2008, 12:11:46 PM
If I didn't want to post here anymore, I probably wouldn't want to be a web monkey either. :-\

But I've just started out (on my own, that is) so give me time. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on April 14, 2008, 12:28:42 PM
How did You like Your baptism of fire?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 14, 2008, 12:29:28 PM
ask him again when he's stopped smouldering.  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on April 14, 2008, 12:33:14 PM
ask him again when he's stopped smouldering.  :laugh:
Okay.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 14, 2008, 01:38:53 PM
's okay, kevv - i was just trying to be funny.  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2008, 02:05:21 PM
What baptism of fire? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on April 14, 2008, 02:16:22 PM
You have not been properely tempered in the flames of lunacy, my son. :flamer: :beware:

Beware the Jabberwock, my son
the jaws that flap
and the spam that gags
Beware the pooping bird
and shun
The foolish no ass wiper.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 14, 2008, 02:17:31 PM
The bird isn't here, it seems. /shrug
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 14, 2008, 02:17:38 PM

Beware the Jabberwock, my son
the jaws that flap
and the spam that gags
Beware the pooping bird
and shun
The foolish no ass wiper.

:LMAO:

brilliant!   :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on April 14, 2008, 04:17:14 PM

Beware the Jabberwock, my son
the jaws that flap
and the spam that gags
Beware the pooping bird
and shun
The foolish no ass wiper.

:LMAO:

brilliant!   :plus:

Thank you, thank you very much......... :elvis:   8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 22, 2008, 12:08:58 PM
Deleted Cal's nonsense from my thread. This is NOT the place where you say "blubba blah" to me and be allowed to stay. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on April 22, 2008, 05:47:21 PM
So does that mean if any of us want anything deleted from our ask anything threads, it will be done?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on April 22, 2008, 11:26:22 PM
Odeon you are a cunt?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 23, 2008, 01:43:11 AM
Odeon you are a cunt?

That is a question, right?

The answer is no, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on April 23, 2008, 02:43:46 AM
Odeon you are a cunt?

That is a question, right?

The answer is no, though.

It is a blah blab.

The answer is in fact blabbah bla.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 23, 2008, 03:56:53 AM
Blubba blah?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 23, 2008, 05:05:46 AM
is it Pentecost already?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 02:21:07 PM
right, i've got these bloody .nrg files, and don't know how the fuck to play/convert them.

c'mon, pooter whizz - help me, pleeeeeeeeease.  :-*

usual rates apply.   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 02:32:45 PM
If you have Nero, you can download a plugin for conversion (http://www.bitburners.com/nero-audio-plugins/).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 02:33:45 PM
bugger.  i've just got rid of nero.  ::)

next?  :laugh:

(but thank you for looking, my finny hero :-* ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 02:36:41 PM
OK. Try this:
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Backup_and_Copy_Utilities/Alcohol_52__Free_Edition.html
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 02:43:02 PM
you're fab - have i told you this, lately?

:heart: :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 02:48:43 PM
Not sure, but I appreciate it. :) :-*

Mind you, I have not tested that software. An NRG file is a Nero CD image, much like an ISO image, though, so what most of these things do is that they "mount" such an image on the HD, instead of you having to burn a CD.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 02:50:31 PM
will i be able to play it in winamp, and bung it on my mp3 player?

i know nuuuuuuthing, meeeeester fawlty!

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 02:55:18 PM
will i be able to play it in winamp, and bung it on my mp3 player?

i know nuuuuuuthing, meeeeester fawlty!

:laugh:

After a mount, you'd have to rip whatever it is that it's on the image. Consider that image to be an unknown music CD--you don't know what it contains or what formats there are.

In other words, what you do when you mount the image, you make it accessible to your media player(s). So my guess is that you probably can play it with Winamp.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 02:56:56 PM
er, right.

why can't people just upload mp3s?  ::)

thank you, Finny the Fab.  :-*

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 03:01:25 PM
er, right.

why can't people just upload mp3s?  ::)

thank you, Finny the Fab.  :-*

:laugh:

Well, what you have is most likely an uncompressed CD, then. How large is the file?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 03:02:52 PM
600+ mbs.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2008, 03:03:39 PM
I know Sweden is a big place and some things may be far away but have you ever gone to see the Vasa
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 03:06:02 PM
I know Sweden is a big place and some things may be far away but have you ever gone to see the Vasa

The boat? The museum's always been closed when I've been around, unfortunately. Some day I will, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on April 26, 2008, 03:08:01 PM
Just read something about it and it looked interesting  hopefully it won't be closed next time
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 03:08:53 PM
oooooh, it's fabulous - me wants to see it, too!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 03:19:37 PM
Just read something about it and it looked interesting  hopefully it won't be closed next time

It is fabulous. I've read lots and lots about it over the years--I own at least two books on the subject, and I've read many more.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 26, 2008, 03:20:12 PM
oooooh, it's fabulous - me wants to see it, too!

There was a picture of the ship in today's paper, as a matter of fact.  :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 03:20:48 PM
when shall we go, then?  they won't dare be closed if I want to see it.  :witch:

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Blasted on April 26, 2008, 03:28:13 PM
will i be able to play it in winamp, and bung it on my mp3 player?

i know nuuuuuuthing, meeeeester fawlty!

:laugh:

I speak Eeeengleesh, I learrn it from a book!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on April 26, 2008, 03:32:14 PM
eees hhhamster, meester fawlty!

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on May 01, 2008, 06:49:12 PM
Since I only occasionally browse this site, what's with this whole "you saved the site from implosion" hooplah??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on May 01, 2008, 07:19:17 PM
Why do I have a hard time believing that you don't really know what happened??    Really, Scrap, this game is getting tiresome!    :grrr:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on May 02, 2008, 02:04:53 AM
Why do I have a hard time believing that you don't really know what happened??    Really, Scrap, this game is getting tiresome!    :grrr:

This may come as a shock to you, but there's a world outside of aspie message boards and the internet. I've been spending my time there. I hardly post on message boards anymore.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Christopher McCandless on May 02, 2008, 04:08:43 AM
Why do I have a hard time believing that you don't really know what happened??    Really, Scrap, this game is getting tiresome!    :grrr:
DICCU won you over? :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on May 02, 2008, 05:59:27 AM
Why do I have a hard time believing that you don't really know what happened??    Really, Scrap, this game is getting tiresome!    :grrr:
DICCU won you over? :o

No, just the usual so many things to do and so little time to do them in.   :yawn:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2008, 01:10:49 PM
Since I only occasionally browse this site, what's with this whole "you saved the site from implosion" hooplah??

The ignore mod I decided to install was welcomed by many, as was me blabberizing Cal. After the ignore function was introduced, IMO people relaxed considerably and the site moved from being Cal's personal playground to a more fun place.

IMO, of course.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 02, 2008, 01:58:14 PM
Since I only occasionally browse this site, what's with this whole "you saved the site from implosion" hooplah??

The ignore mod I decided to install was welcomed by many, as was me blabberizing Cal. After the ignore function was introduced, IMO people relaxed considerably and the site moved from being Cal's personal playground to a more fun place.

IMO, of course.

Can you direct me to the fun parts?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2008, 02:02:04 PM
Since I only occasionally browse this site, what's with this whole "you saved the site from implosion" hooplah??

The ignore mod I decided to install was welcomed by many, as was me blabberizing Cal. After the ignore function was introduced, IMO people relaxed considerably and the site moved from being Cal's personal playground to a more fun place.

IMO, of course.

Can you direct me to the fun parts?

:LMAO:

I just think that people are a little bit more relaxed, now.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 02, 2008, 02:06:53 PM


Yeah and I believe Scr'eap. I have seen a small bit about the Force teams. If he is working, he is busy.


Good for him.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2008, 02:23:47 PM


Yeah and I believe Scr'eap. I have seen a small bit about the Force teams. If he is working, he is busy.


Good for him.

Force teams? ???

I don't think I ever found out what's keeping him busy these days.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 02, 2008, 02:32:55 PM


Yeah and I believe Scr'eap. I have seen a small bit about the Force teams. If he is working, he is busy.


Good for him.

Force teams? ???

I don't think I ever found out what's keeping him busy these days.

were you ever actually interested?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2008, 02:41:29 PM


Yeah and I believe Scr'eap. I have seen a small bit about the Force teams. If he is working, he is busy.


Good for him.

Force teams? ???

I don't think I ever found out what's keeping him busy these days.

were you ever actually interested?

Sort of, since people did mention that he was busy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on May 02, 2008, 02:44:59 PM


Yeah and I believe Scr'eap. I have seen a small bit about the Force teams. If he is working, he is busy.


Good for him.

Force teams? ???

I don't think I ever found out what's keeping him busy these days.

were you ever actually interested?

Sort of, since people did mention that he was busy.

He is a CNC machinist for the John Force racing team, I believe.

http://www.johnforceracing.com/
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2008, 02:47:31 PM
Funny cars indeed. Thanks for the link.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 02, 2008, 03:01:05 PM


Yeah and I believe Scr'eap. I have seen a small bit about the Force teams. If he is working, he is busy.


Good for him.

Force teams? ???

I don't think I ever found out what's keeping him busy these days.

Last time I heard, Scr'eap was a "machinist, etc."  for John Force, who races cars in the NHRA circuit. Force has won multiple championships in his league.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 02, 2008, 04:35:08 PM
Sounds v cool, actually. He'd have to be skilled to work for them, I think.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 02, 2008, 06:54:15 PM
Sounds v cool, actually. He'd have to be skilled to work for them, I think.

One would think so.









(Damn! I can't believe I didn't see Callaway's post, before I posted essentially the same thing without any useful links. )

*has himself measured for a proper fitting Dunce Cap*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on May 03, 2008, 11:41:26 AM
Sounds v cool, actually. He'd have to be skilled to work for them, I think.

One would think so.









(Damn! I can't believe I didn't see Callaway's post, before I posted essentially the same thing without any useful links. )

*has himself measured for a proper fitting Dunce Cap*

I don't know why.  We thought of the same thing at the same time, that's all.  That happens to me often.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2008, 12:30:59 PM
But you're very fast. 8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 03, 2008, 12:54:08 PM
Sounds v cool, actually. He'd have to be skilled to work for them, I think.

One would think so.









(Damn! I can't believe I didn't see Callaway's post, before I posted essentially the same thing without any useful links. )

*has himself measured for a proper fitting Dunce Cap*

I don't know why. We thought of the same thing at the same time, that's all.  That happens to me often.

Because I've been so celfsentered lately that I deserve to kit in the norcer wearing a pointy hat.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on May 03, 2008, 01:01:12 PM
I read that as self-censored.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on May 03, 2008, 01:04:25 PM
Sounds v cool, actually. He'd have to be skilled to work for them, I think.

One would think so.









(Damn! I can't believe I didn't see Callaway's post, before I posted essentially the same thing without any useful links. )

*has himself measured for a proper fitting Dunce Cap*

I don't know why. We thought of the same thing at the same time, that's all.  That happens to me often.

Because I've been so celfsentered lately that I deserve to kit in the norcer wearing a pointy hat.

 :smarty:

OK, if you insist, we already have a dunce cap emoticon.

 :dunce:

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 03, 2008, 01:26:42 PM

OK, I'll wear that little one for my feeble attempts at twyping (combination of wiping and typing), but i believe my latest net clears the price of a decent fitting.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2008, 01:44:08 PM
:popcorn:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 03, 2008, 02:21:39 PM
:popcorn:

Nah, I'll shut up, now.


:hide:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 03, 2008, 02:29:02 PM
:popcorn:

Nah, I'll shut up, now.


:hide:

Why? I need entertainment.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on May 03, 2008, 02:32:50 PM
Nah, I'll shut up, now.


:hide:

You could always rectify it.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 03, 2008, 02:42:12 PM
Nah, I'll shut up, now.


:hide:

You could always rectify it.  :P

How?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on May 03, 2008, 02:48:30 PM
Give the next wave a push? Or does the moon not answer?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on May 03, 2008, 04:01:06 PM
Give the next wave a push? Or does the moon not answer?

 ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on May 03, 2008, 04:09:48 PM
Me, attempting to be poetic. Just ignore it.   :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on May 03, 2008, 04:13:03 PM
Me, attempting to be poetic. Just ignore it.   :-\

I got it and it was poetic!   :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on May 03, 2008, 04:13:36 PM
Give the next wave a push? Or does the moon not answer?

Me likey!!   :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 03, 2008, 08:40:06 PM
Me, attempting to be poetic. Just ignore it.   :-\

Too late to ignore it.

I used to think it did answer, but I began to realize I was just hearing others howling their own moonsong.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 04, 2008, 02:35:51 AM
i liked it too, very much.   :clap:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 05, 2008, 01:04:49 PM
just plussed you to 1500, because i can!  :belly:

how d'you like them banananananas?   :eyebrows:

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 05, 2008, 01:25:07 PM
just plussed you to 1500, because i can!  :belly:

how d'you like them banananananas?   :eyebrows:

:laugh:

:-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 12, 2008, 02:32:27 PM
hei, we're the only ones on here.  what mischief can we get up to?  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2008, 02:56:39 PM
I can think of lots of things. :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 12, 2008, 03:08:27 PM
bugger - they all picked it up through the ether and came to watch.   >:(

(i can Think of lots of Things, too.  have been, for a fair bit of the day...  ;) )
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 12, 2008, 03:35:49 PM
Mmmmmmmmm--  :eyelash:

Hey, you others, get lost! >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 12, 2008, 03:51:49 PM
Mmmmmmmmm--  :eyelash:

Hey, you others, get lost! >:(

it's okay - The Foom has a protection spell on it.  ;)   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on May 12, 2008, 07:46:05 PM
bugger - they all picked it up through the ether and came to watch.   >:(

(i can Think of lots of Things, too.  have been, for a fair bit of the day...  ;) )

*ppeks in, hears snoring*

*takes the wine*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 13, 2008, 02:43:48 AM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2008, 11:20:11 AM
I prefer beer, anyway. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 13, 2008, 12:26:13 PM
olut.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 13, 2008, 12:28:30 PM
Joo.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on May 13, 2008, 12:30:53 PM
varmasti.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on June 17, 2008, 06:39:55 AM
How come you haven't asked me anything in my ask away thread (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,6936.0.html)?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 17, 2008, 02:37:40 PM
How come you haven't asked me anything in my ask away thread (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,6936.0.html)?

Good question. There are a few ask-aways that I haven't posted in, but I can't tell you why. It's nothing personal.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on June 17, 2008, 06:02:33 PM
Time? Or lack there-of?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 18, 2008, 02:54:25 PM
Forgetfulness, I suppose. :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on June 19, 2008, 12:23:38 AM
Ah
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: vodz on July 02, 2008, 10:01:48 AM
What is your job? What is your income?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on July 02, 2008, 10:42:20 AM
Were Vodzy's questions too personal?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 02, 2008, 02:14:07 PM
What is your job? What is your income?

I'm a "documentation specialist" and help companies move to, and use, structured documentation. I'm not going to tell you my income, but it's above average for my chosen field.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 02, 2008, 02:14:34 PM
Were Vodzy's questions too personal?

No, not at all.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on July 03, 2008, 08:55:36 PM
Were Vodzy's questions too personal?

No, not at all.

So why didn't you say your income? (if not too personal, then what?)  :curious:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2008, 05:12:43 AM
Were Vodzy's questions too personal?

No, not at all.

So why didn't you say your income? (if not too personal, then what?)  :curious:

Practical reasons, mostly. I suppose they are personal in that I don't want those numbers on the Internet, but then, a lot of reasons are personal. There's no way I will publish everything about me on the Internet. however, if we met, I would probably tell you my income, if you asked.

I feel that I'm not explaining this well. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on July 04, 2008, 05:47:28 AM
Were Vodzy's questions too personal?

No, not at all.

So why didn't you say your income? (if not too personal, then what?)  :curious:

Practical reasons, mostly. I suppose they are personal in that I don't want those numbers on the Internet, but then, a lot of reasons are personal. There's no way I will publish everything about me on the Internet. however, if we met, I would probably tell you my income, if you asked.

I feel that I'm not explaining this well. :P

Nah that seems adequate :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on July 04, 2008, 06:02:52 AM
Were Vodzy's questions too personal?

No, not at all.

So why didn't you say your income? (if not too personal, then what?)  :curious:

Practical reasons, mostly. I suppose they are personal in that I don't want those numbers on the Internet, but then, a lot of reasons are personal. There's no way I will publish everything about me on the Internet. however, if we met, I would probably tell you my income, if you asked.

I feel that I'm not explaining this well. :P

No, you're not, but you should not have to if you don't want to.
I would never post the details of my income from the past, because, for one thing, no one would believe that I have gone through so much and have so little to show for it. (Fuck that, too! "Showing" has nothing to do with my present interests. I have had a good blast and what I have spent in dollars has come back to me in memorable fun or deep-sound-no-echo, hard earned wisdom and even more memorable experiences.) Mainly, though, I was only legal enough to get past the federal tax code. I am not secure enough to think that a power such as the IRS can nots retro-fuck me in some way.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on July 04, 2008, 06:27:45 AM
What does "deep-sound-no-echo" mean?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on July 04, 2008, 06:33:24 AM
What does "deep-sound-no-echo" mean?

It's a submariner's expression. When they receive no return echo, the protocol is to increase power to the ultrasonic mapping equipment. They call it "sounding." Deep-sounding is extreme use of the power potential of their systems.

No-echo means that you are the ONLY one there.

I have often been the ONLY one there, when I explore limits.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on July 04, 2008, 08:39:55 AM
Where you a submariner?  I went to collage near a base and knew quite a few
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 08, 2008, 12:24:34 PM
oi!!

seeing as you're reading posts and not avidly checking your email.   :smarty:

tell me what laptop i should get, if i decide to get one.  i'm thinking Acer, cos i really don't want to spend more than £300 (yes, i know, i'm a cheapskate :laugh: ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2008, 01:05:32 PM
Acer is a good brand and you won't go wrong with a reasonably modern one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 08, 2008, 01:28:03 PM
Acer is a good brand and you won't go wrong with a reasonably modern one.

tut.

link on dabs.com, please.  :P

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2008, 01:40:00 PM
Acer is a good brand and you won't go wrong with a reasonably modern one.

tut.

link on dabs.com, please.  :P

:laugh:

Try this one (http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=53WX&CategorySelectedId=11105&PageMode=1&NavigationKey=11105,15,50246).

I'll see if there are better ones...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 08, 2008, 01:44:15 PM
ooooh, ta!  there was one for just under £300 - any good?

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 08, 2008, 01:47:37 PM
Acer is a good brand and you won't go wrong with a reasonably modern one.

Acer laptops do sell for cheap over here and they seem pretty good. I really like the curved keyboards.
BB sells as many as they can get, but it seems that we never have enough to meet the demand.
Quite often, a customer is there looking to buy their second or third Acer. Can't say that about any of the "leading brands,"  except maybe those shitty HPs. HP DOES advertise a lot and they give big "discounts" if you get a computer bundled with a shitty All-In-One printer.
:puke:

Just don't buy a Sony. Those twelve hundred dollar paperweights seem to spend a lot of time in the repair shop.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 08, 2008, 01:57:22 PM
thanks, dawg.  i have an HP at the moment, and it's sort of good enough for me, cos i only really use it for the intergeeks and word processing.

bet the O Meister will say otherwise, though.  :hide:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2008, 02:05:25 PM
ooooh, ta!  there was one for just under £300 - any good?

:-*

This one is a lot better. The £50 is well spent, IMO.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2008, 02:06:54 PM
Acer is a good brand and you won't go wrong with a reasonably modern one.

Acer laptops do sell for cheap over here and they seem pretty good. I really like the curved keyboards.
BB sells as many as they can get, but it seems that we never have enough to meet the demand.
Quite often, a customer is there looking to buy their second or third Acer. Can't say that about any of the "leading brands,"  except maybe those shitty HPs. HP DOES advertise a lot and they give big "discounts" if you get a computer bundled with a shitty All-In-One printer.
:puke:

Just don't buy a Sony. Those twelve hundred dollar paperweights seem to spend a lot of time in the repair shop.

:dawg:

Sony is *evil*.

My work laptop is a Lenovo (former IBM) and I have to admit it's pretty good. It could be a fast one, too, with a decent OS.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2008, 02:07:51 PM
thanks, dawg.  i have an HP at the moment, and it's sort of good enough for me, cos i only really use it for the intergeeks and word processing.

bet the O Meister will say otherwise, though.  :hide:

It's better now that you bought more RAM. But there's something wrong with it and I can't figure out what. :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 08, 2008, 02:15:20 PM
thanks, dawg.  i have an HP at the moment, and it's sort of good enough for me, cos i only really use it for the intergeeks and word processing.

bet the O Meister will say otherwise, though.  :hide:

It's better now that you bought more RAM. But there's something wrong with it and I can't figure out what. :-\

me, probably.  :laugh:

but ta for the info.  :-*

 :plus:

(and i plussed DD for his, too :-* ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 08, 2008, 02:26:59 PM
thanks, dawg.  i have an HP at the moment, and it's sort of good enough for me, cos i only really use it for the intergeeks and word processing.

bet the O Meister will say otherwise, though.  :hide:

It's better now that you bought more RAM. But there's something wrong with it and I can't figure out what. :-\

Proprietary BIOS, designed to reject all but their own service codes?


... just a thought.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 08, 2008, 02:28:08 PM
thanks, dawg.  i have an HP at the moment, and it's sort of good enough for me, cos i only really use it for the intergeeks and word processing.

bet the O Meister will say otherwise, though.  :hide:

It's better now that you bought more RAM. But there's something wrong with it and I can't figure out what. :-\

Proprietary BIOS, designed to reject all but their own service codes?


... just a thought.

Could be, and that would explain why some drivers have trouble with it. :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 08, 2008, 03:08:38 PM
you've lost me now, you geekoids.  :P

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 09, 2008, 02:23:03 PM
Proprietary BIOS=bad thing
Bad thing=fucks up computer

;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 09, 2008, 08:30:48 PM

Just don't buy a Sony. Those twelve hundred dollar paperweights seem to spend a lot of time in the repair shop.

Now you tell me, after I already bought a Sony Vaio from your store.

 :smarty:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 09, 2008, 09:14:59 PM

Just don't buy a Sony. Those twelve hundred dollar paperweights seem to spend a lot of time in the repair shop.

Now you tell me, after I already bought a Sony Vaio from your store.

 :smarty:


Sorry, but I don't remember being consulted.

 :smarty:

Honestly, a year ago I did not have the knowledge base of competing brands I now have. Talk about an eye-opening experience!

(I hope yours is a "good" one)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on September 09, 2008, 09:17:21 PM

Just don't buy a Sony. Those twelve hundred dollar paperweights seem to spend a lot of time in the repair shop.

Now you tell me, after I already bought a Sony Vaio from your store.

 :smarty:


Sorry, but I don't remember being consulted.

 :smarty:

Honestly, a year ago I did not have the knowledge base of competing brands I now have. Talk about an eye-opening experience!

(I hope your is a "good" one)

Good point.  My husband picked this one out for me.

I'll consult you when this one breaks.

 :smarty:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2008, 01:52:59 AM
Proprietary BIOS=bad thing
Bad thing=fucks up computer

;)

<geeklet alert>

so the proprietary BIOS is why i can't boot up from my knoppix cd, yes?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2008, 05:29:51 AM
Good question. You *should* be able to boot a CD, simply by telling the BIOS that your CD reader should be the first boot device, before the HDD.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2008, 06:27:02 AM
done that.  it ignores me.  stupid pooter.  ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 10, 2008, 06:38:29 AM
It ignores you!? How is that even possible? It's nigh impossible to ignore Lucifer :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2008, 07:09:01 AM
exactly!

:laugh:

it is obviously a highly sophisticated machine.  :hide:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 10, 2008, 07:13:37 AM
exactly!
:laugh:
it is obviously a highly sophisticated machine.  :hide:

Unlike....Us?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on September 10, 2008, 10:45:51 AM
Yup.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 10, 2008, 01:15:12 PM
Good question. You *should* be able to boot a CD, simply by telling the BIOS that your CD reader should be the first boot device, before the HDD.

In addition, most modern BIOS configurations include the option to select a particular boot device as a one-time choice, without affecting the local, pre-stored settings.

With mine, I press F12 during POST and it asks me which storage device to try first as a boot device. Some even support booting from a USB connected device.

 :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on September 10, 2008, 01:25:48 PM
How can you figure out if your BIOS will boot from a USB device?

Like, say I want to run Linux off my laptop using a new external HD, instead of wiping part of the local drive for a new partition.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 10, 2008, 01:52:56 PM
How can you figure out if your BIOS will boot from a USB device?

Like, say I want to run Linux off my laptop using a new external HD, instead of wiping part of the local drive for a new partition.

Open your BIOS configuration and look?

(I meant, USB boot as a default setting)

Is your USB support part of the BIOS? If it is not, you're fucked. I think Win98 era is when that became part of the chipset standard. Any computer built since the turn of the millennium should certainly be able to do this.

I know some guys use Linux on a flash drive. They stick the little thing into any computer USB port, boot up, do all their work (or rip off files, burn disks, etc.) and leave without any trace of what they have done. The installed operating system never even knows that they were there.
 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2008, 02:53:36 PM
How can you figure out if your BIOS will boot from a USB device?

Like, say I want to run Linux off my laptop using a new external HD, instead of wiping part of the local drive for a new partition.

ditto.  followed all the instructions as per, and it still wouldn't boot up from a cd.  pooters are daft.

How can you figure out if your BIOS will boot from a USB device?

Like, say I want to run Linux off my laptop using a new external HD, instead of wiping part of the local drive for a new partition.

Open your BIOS configuration and look?

(I meant, USB boot as a default setting)

Is your USB support part of the BIOS? If it is not, you're fucked. I think Win98 era is when that became part of the chipset standard. Any computer built since the turn of the millennium should certainly be able to do this.

I know some guys use Linux on a flash drive. They stick the little thing into any computer USB port, boot up, do all their work (or rip off files, burn disks, etc.) and leave without any trace of what they have done. The installed operating system never even knows that they were there.
 :laugh:

that's exactly what i'm trying to do, except i'm using a CD rather than a USB thingy.

sigh...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 10, 2008, 03:23:21 PM
Didn't you say you have an HP?

You don't have a complete computer, then. You only have what they allow you to have, until you flash the BIOS with a standard set of parameters.

A guy at work used to work for Dell and he has (quite illegally, gained from his corporate espionage efforts) a cross-reference to tell him which Dell (lying bastards!) identified BIOS matches up with which standard BIOS chipsets. He can go in and "FIX" some of the bastard Dell machines with this info.

His "lifelong goal" seems to be to acquire all the proprietary cross references, (he also has Compaq, Gateway and IBM but Dell  and Compaq have abandoned this approach, in their newest models and IBM seems to be history) so he can punk all those companies who think that they are more important than the end users of their equipment. I support his efforts one hundred percent, but he has not been able to hack or steal the Hewlett Packard configurations, YET.

It's just a matter of trial and error and error and error, until you find what standard chipset was included in the box (it won't identify itself correctly - it lies and tells you HP bullshit when you ask). Once you do this, a typical update flash will set your computer to the latest configuration, with NONE of the HP nonsense left behind to deal with. (OH, you will have to format your hard drive, too, to get rid of them, completely)

I like your idea of replacing it with an Acer!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 10, 2008, 03:42:44 PM
i've got an HP, yes.

and the idea of formatting the hard drive...  :bigcry:

the idea about getting a laptop is just cos i have some money, cos i've been paid for my work earlier in the "summer".  i don't really need one, so probably won't end up getting one, but a girl can dream.  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 10, 2008, 04:50:50 PM
How can you figure out if your BIOS will boot from a USB device?

Like, say I want to run Linux off my laptop using a new external HD, instead of wiping part of the local drive for a new partition.

Open your BIOS configuration and look?

(I meant, USB boot as a default setting)

Is your USB support part of the BIOS? If it is not, you're fucked. I think Win98 era is when that became part of the chipset standard. Any computer built since the turn of the millennium should certainly be able to do this.

I know some guys use Linux on a flash drive. They stick the little thing into any computer USB port, boot up, do all their work (or rip off files, burn disks, etc.) and leave without any trace of what they have done. The installed operating system never even knows that they were there.
 :laugh:

That's the one, Dawg.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 22, 2008, 07:56:04 PM
What does the average day in the life of odeon consist of?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 23, 2008, 12:07:56 AM
What does the average day in the life of odeon consist of?

Work, various household activities, the family, reading, possibly some telly, the Internets.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 23, 2008, 12:12:37 AM
In that order?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 23, 2008, 12:14:47 AM
In that order?

As a matter of fact, sometimes. :laugh:

Often the reading comes last, late at night.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 23, 2008, 01:28:43 AM
/sulks.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 23, 2008, 02:35:40 PM
/still sulking.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 23, 2008, 02:59:53 PM
???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on September 23, 2008, 04:02:34 PM
Uh Oh, the O-man has blown it!   ::)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 23, 2008, 05:11:27 PM

... funny how "blowing it" and "getting blown" can be so exclusive of one another.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on September 23, 2008, 05:45:57 PM

... funny how "blowing it" and "getting blown" can be so exclusive of one another.

You said a mouthful!   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 23, 2008, 10:09:03 PM
:laugh:  you two crack me up!  The Old Gits Club is alive and kicking!

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 23, 2008, 10:10:18 PM
still sulking, btw.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 23, 2008, 10:10:37 PM
???

It might have something to do with this:

What does the average day in the life of odeon consist of?

Work, various household activities, the family, reading, possibly some telly, the Internets.

no mention of Lucifer.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 23, 2008, 10:19:02 PM
 :thumbup:

well done, Rebus.

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 23, 2008, 10:42:27 PM
Rebus?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2008, 01:19:45 AM
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2008, 01:46:23 AM
Rebus?

detective inspector john rebus, from the ian rankin novels.  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 24, 2008, 01:46:38 AM
:laugh:

AHEM!!!   >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2008, 03:25:53 AM
I don't post everything on the Internets. Told you all a long time ago.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 24, 2008, 04:20:49 AM
Why so?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2008, 04:21:30 AM
Because once it's on the Internet you can never get it off there.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 24, 2008, 04:28:43 AM
You can...It's either really easy, or incredibly hard. But it's not impossible.

But that still doesn't really answer the question: Why don't you want certain stuff on the net, permanently or otherwise?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 24, 2008, 02:45:38 PM
You can...It's either really easy, or incredibly hard. But it's not impossible.

But that still doesn't really answer the question: Why don't you want certain stuff on the net, permanently or otherwise?

Because my private life is only private if I keep it that way.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on September 24, 2008, 06:26:50 PM
Do you ever think your going to get a piece of ass, I am not trying to make fun of you, and I will stick up if someone makes a crack.  I hate people who talk shit, when they eat it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 24, 2008, 06:49:57 PM
My spam=Please, give this some thought. (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,10019.msg429814.html#msg429814)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on September 24, 2008, 07:10:48 PM
Do you ever think your going to get a piece of ass, I am not trying to make fun of you, and I will stick up if someone makes a crack.  I hate people who talk shit, when they eat it.

*Makes Odeon think about "ass," makes fun of Odeon, makes a crack at Odeon, talks shit about Odeon, not eationg any, though*

As logical as I can be, I think Odeon has already had a piece of ass, maybe two or three.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: GalileoAce on September 24, 2008, 10:25:14 PM
Do you ever think your going to get a piece of ass, I am not trying to make fun of you, and I will stick up if someone makes a crack.  I hate people who talk shit, when they eat it.

Do you hate yourself?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2008, 11:38:27 AM
Do you ever think your going to get a piece of ass, I am not trying to make fun of you, and I will stick up if someone makes a crack.  I hate people who talk shit, when they eat it.

I have two kids. What do you think?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2008, 12:53:52 PM
Do you ever think your going to get a piece of ass, I am not trying to make fun of you, and I will stick up if someone makes a crack.  I hate people who talk shit, when they eat it.

*Makes Odeon think about "ass," makes fun of Odeon, makes a crack at Odeon, talks shit about Odeon, not eationg any, though*

As logical as I can be, I think Odeon has already had a piece of ass, maybe two or three.

just the one, thanks.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on September 25, 2008, 01:06:34 PM
Well, guess I wasn't paying attention, too many of my own problems.  These days I find myself more focused on other people, sometimes ways you couldn't imagine :laugh:

Your lucky.

Two kids, are they girls or boys?, do they have aspergers to?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 25, 2008, 01:40:16 PM
My son is autistic. My daughter is NT. And yes, I'm lucky.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on September 25, 2008, 01:44:08 PM
You got lucky :laugh:

The healthier you are, the less the stimulation you provide for yourself, that is improtant for spectrum disorders.  When you have nothing else in your life, having something like that beats the hell out of depression, gives one hope for change.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on September 25, 2008, 02:52:11 PM
You got lucky :laugh:

The healthier you are, the less the stimulation you provide for yourself, that is improtant for spectrum disorders.  When you have nothing else in your life, having something like that beats the hell out of depression, gives one hope for change.

well said, flo.   :thumbup:

 :plus:

but no, i don't want to have sex with you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ozymandias on September 25, 2008, 04:33:09 PM
Are you animal, vegetable or mineral?   :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on September 25, 2008, 04:59:38 PM
This made me think of you hope you like it . I think I bought 2 45 amplifier tubes form him once
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgiQzMjdL0
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2008, 12:35:01 AM
Are you animal, vegetable or mineral?   :P

I think I'm a vegetable. :P

This made me think of you hope you like it . I think I bought 2 45 amplifier tubes form him once

Cool. 8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 07:43:09 AM
feverfew tablets for migraine!  i remembered this (well, had my memory jogged), so putting it here before i forget it again.

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2008, 10:20:14 AM
Eh?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 11:53:11 AM
it's all clear now, isn't it?  ;)  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on October 28, 2008, 01:34:06 PM
What is the luckiest thing ever happened to you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 03:51:56 PM
me!  :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on October 28, 2008, 03:54:00 PM
and me :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 03:54:54 PM
i really, really can't wait to see the O Man's response...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2008, 04:03:26 PM
I won one of those carrot peeling thingies in a lottery. Only thing I ever won. I was twelve.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 04:05:33 PM
I won one of those carrot peeling thingies in a lottery. Only thing I ever won. I was twelve.

wrong answer.

/sulks
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2008, 04:13:21 PM
:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 04:17:29 PM
:LMAO:

you'd better change it, then, or i'm burning the silk scarves.  :smarty:

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2008, 04:20:20 PM
Hey, are you belittling my one and only lottery win, the one that almost restored my faith in the future of mankind? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 04:25:40 PM
Hey, are you belittling my one and only lottery win, the one that almost restored my faith in the future of mankind? :P

well you obviously lost it again, so it was fucking useless on that score.

best stick with me, i reckon.  anyway, i'll peel your carrots for you.  ;)

(and you can take that any way you like :LMAO: ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 28, 2008, 04:28:27 PM
Yeah, baby, peel me, baby... :LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 28, 2008, 04:28:52 PM
Yeah, baby, peel me, baby... :LMAO:

/dies

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on October 28, 2008, 07:28:44 PM
Who can we attract more fresh meat. maybe I'll troll wp some
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on October 28, 2008, 09:37:05 PM
Go for it.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on October 29, 2008, 12:22:48 PM
My dad wins 50's and 20's all the time on scratch off tickets.  I have that luck to.  I found $50 on the store floor,  $20 at the blessing of the fleet, and sometimes I win on tickets when I play them.
I don't peel carrots myself, although, some say you should, because all the vegetables close to the ground, including the potatoe, accumulate the most pesticides.  They get stored in your fatty deposits.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2008, 02:32:03 PM
That a question?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on October 29, 2008, 02:34:27 PM
Of all the things, why would a carrot peeler be an award?  The average person doesn't really appreciate vegetables.  You meant something that could be used to peel a carrot right?

You like carrots or something?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on October 29, 2008, 02:36:57 PM
What is your favorite vegetable?, and ideal meal?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 29, 2008, 02:39:25 PM
Carrots, actually.

And I've always been partial to a good steak.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on October 29, 2008, 03:01:12 PM
And I've always been partial to a good steak.
/me drooools....

Maybe tonight for dinner, porterhouse was half off at the grocery.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 29, 2008, 03:19:18 PM
Carrots, actually.

And I've always been partial to a good steak.

hurumph.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on October 29, 2008, 04:03:54 PM
Who much snow do you get ther
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on October 29, 2008, 04:04:53 PM
Who much snow do you get ther

are you typing in a scots accent, parts?

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on November 15, 2008, 08:21:43 PM
Copied from worldbuilder's thread.

No, that is not where the interesting conversations come from.

Okay, so if drama is almost always a good thing because it increases traffic, but arguments don't create interesting conversations, where do interesting conversations come from?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on November 15, 2008, 08:47:50 PM
Copied from worldbuilder's thread.

No, that is not where the interesting conversations come from.

Okay, so if drama is almost always a good thing because it increases traffic, but arguments don't create interesting conversations, where do interesting conversations come from?

Decent question.

New material is interesting. How about an argument that poses questions that we have yet to consider? Now that would be interesting to me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on November 15, 2008, 08:51:20 PM
Hm. That requires knowing what questions you've already considered. I often make the mistake of thinking that just because a question's new and fascinating to me, it will be to others too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on November 15, 2008, 09:10:18 PM
Hm. That requires knowing what questions you've already considered. I often make the mistake of thinking that just because a question's new and fascinating to me, it will be to others too.


No requirement. A perchance inspiration is far more satisfying.

This is why we continue attempting to exchange. We just don't know where to look, it seems.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 16, 2008, 09:19:31 AM
Copied from worldbuilder's thread.

No, that is not where the interesting conversations come from.

Okay, so if drama is almost always a good thing because it increases traffic, but arguments don't create interesting conversations, where do interesting conversations come from?

You're taking my reply out of its context. I was referring to the non-arguments used by worldbuilder, how he was dodging the real question--that is, the question was actually what kind of world HE would prefer. What happened now, twice, was that he didn't answer, opting instead to use vague references to a "utopia" created by some sharp minds not otherwise defined. And no, "utopia" certainly isn't an answer because one man's utopia is another's daily bullshit, as proven by Hadron & Co in another thread and context.

Arguments can certainly create interesting conversations but the non-arguments worldbuilder was using were designed to manipulate and mind-fuck, rather than actually arguing. And that is exactly what I hold against him and why I don't see a point to arguing with HIM.

NEXT!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on November 16, 2008, 10:17:03 AM
You're reading things between the lines that neither I nor worldbuilder intend.

Worldbuilder is missing things between the lines that are obvious to you.

That said, my question here was more general. If I'm remembering right, you've said before that you want interesting conversations on Intensity. One of the ways I find interesting information is to go after the things I hate - that's one of the reasons I pick so many fights. And the drama provides fodder for my interest in sociology, so people's responses to drama will fascinate me until I learn to predict them. But I'm still figuring out how to connect with others' interests.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on November 16, 2008, 11:17:32 AM
No requirement. A perchance inspiration is far more satisfying.

This is why we continue attempting to exchange. We just don't know where to look, it seems.

Chasing the tail, trying to find the vertebrae that point to the skull?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 16, 2008, 03:36:42 PM
You're reading things between the lines that neither I nor worldbuilder intend.

How do you know what worldbuilder intends?

Quote
Worldbuilder is missing things between the lines that are obvious to you.

Aye, and I expect the opposite to be true as well.

Quote
That said, my question here was more general. If I'm remembering right, you've said before that you want interesting conversations on Intensity. One of the ways I find interesting information is to go after the things I hate - that's one of the reasons I pick so many fights. And the drama provides fodder for my interest in sociology, so people's responses to drama will fascinate me until I learn to predict them. But I'm still figuring out how to connect with others' interests.

Yes, I've said that, and I still want those interesting conversations because generally speaking, they are good for this site. To some degree Intensity is about the banter and the cheap drama, but it is also about differing viewpoints, heated discussion, and intelligent conversation. It's all good for the site, IMHO.

I know you like to shit-stir, and it's often good for this place because it creates drama and sometimes the other bit.

Me, I'm all for drama and bad puns and the occasional serious commentary, because that's the kind of person I tend to be, but there's no reason that should be the case with everyone else. In the end, Intensity is still primarily about enabling the spazes, however we can make that happen.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on November 16, 2008, 03:41:51 PM
How do you know what worldbuilder intends?

Cause I asked him, IRL.

Yes, I've said that (...) In the end, Intensity is still primarily about enabling the spazes, however we can make that happen.

Makes sense. No hard feelings.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 16, 2008, 03:45:28 PM
How do you know what worldbuilder intends?

Cause I asked him, IRL.

Ah, well, then you should know. :laugh:

Quote
Yes, I've said that (...) In the end, Intensity is still primarily about enabling the spazes, however we can make that happen.

Makes sense. No hard feelings.

Certainly not. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 27, 2008, 04:14:49 PM
go to bed!

:laugh:

:P

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2008, 04:15:26 PM
How's that a question?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on November 27, 2008, 04:16:26 PM
i knew you'd say that.  :P

okay, how about, if you go to bed v soon, do you know what wonderful treat you'll have?   :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 29, 2008, 09:01:50 PM
Can you get good prices on Josef Kihlberg staples since they are made in Sweden mine just broke and they are expensive as hell here $390
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 30, 2008, 04:09:51 PM
Can you get good prices on Josef Kihlberg staples since they are made in Sweden mine just broke and they are expensive as hell here $390

Sorry, can't even locate a price list on the net.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 30, 2008, 04:23:48 PM
Can you get good prices on Josef Kihlberg staples since they are made in Sweden mine just broke and they are expensive as hell here $390

Sorry, can't even locate a price list on the net.

Thanks,They are hard to find just thought it was because they are made there they'd be more common 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 30, 2008, 04:50:00 PM
Can you get good prices on Josef Kihlberg staples since they are made in Sweden mine just broke and they are expensive as hell here $390

Sorry, can't even locate a price list on the net.

Thanks,They are hard to find just thought it was because they are made there they'd be more common 

Any pics or other specifics on what you are looking for? I
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 30, 2008, 05:59:34 PM
This is all they say about it

Quote
SKU: JK-680
These are used for applying netting and fabrics. Much quicker and will save you time on all jobs over hand tackers. Shoots up to 1700 staples per minute. Lightweight, easy to adjust and the double length magazine provides large load capacity.
Price: $360.00
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: McGiver on December 02, 2008, 07:27:14 AM
are you still married?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 02, 2008, 02:43:56 PM
yes
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 10, 2008, 03:14:47 AM
we're the only ones on here again, O Man - what mischief shall we create?   :evillaugh:

:-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 10, 2008, 03:21:35 AM
we're the only ones on here again, O Man - what mischief shall we create?   :evillaugh:

:-*

Considering that I'm at work but taking a break, there's only so much we have time to do.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 10, 2008, 04:59:14 AM
i got bored waiting, anyway.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 10, 2008, 04:26:28 PM
fancy a snog?  :-*

(yes, drink *has* been taken, you lucky, lucky bastard ;) ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 10, 2008, 04:55:23 PM
:eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 11, 2008, 03:49:28 AM
:eyebrows:

well that seemed to work -  how about a legover, then?   :eyelash:

(can i just mention that i'm standing in front of my students typing this, while they're doing a writing exercise.  i have no shame  :laugh: ).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Phlexor on December 11, 2008, 07:54:59 AM
:eyebrows:

well that seemed to work -  how about a legover, then?   :eyelash:

(can i just mention that i'm standing in front of my students typing this, while they're doing a writing exercise.  i have no shame  :laugh: ).

No shame is the best shame!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 11, 2008, 02:30:47 PM
:eyebrows:

well that seemed to work -  how about a legover, then?   :eyelash:

(can i just mention that i'm standing in front of my students typing this, while they're doing a writing exercise.  i have no shame  :laugh: ).

No shame is the best shame!

it takes a lot to make me blush, i'll have you know.  ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on December 11, 2008, 03:04:31 PM
Has my post ever triggered your asthma?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 11, 2008, 03:18:34 PM
:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on December 11, 2008, 03:30:09 PM
What is your favorite season?

Steak=zinc commonly low in autism, but your higher functioning aspergers
carrot= vitamin a depleted by a virus of impared immune system.  Same as the above.
I like those to, just about everything :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Royal jelly,  you should try it :laugh:  Supposed to be good for respiratory system, and something else.  Damn where is Callaway :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 11, 2008, 03:31:37 PM
Has my post ever triggered your asthma?

No, but the gag reflexes, on more than one occasion.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on December 11, 2008, 03:35:10 PM
Has my post ever triggered your asthma?

No, but the gag reflexes, on more than one occasion.

Royal jelly triggers dopamine, go tell your wife, and I will mine  sure she will be happy to know :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 11, 2008, 04:13:10 PM
reading your sig, flo...

"descendant"?  are you absolutely sure about this?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 19, 2008, 03:43:10 PM
did you get my text?  :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 19, 2008, 03:44:46 PM
did you get my text?  :-*

No. ???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 19, 2008, 03:45:48 PM
bugger - i'll PM you.

 >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 22, 2008, 05:02:13 PM
i say, O Meister, old chap - where have our toys gone?  lit was last seen slurping (spot the euphemism) over a photo of wotsisname, and hadron was trying to count above 20.

don't they love us anymore?  :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2008, 05:04:09 PM
i say, O Meister, old chap - where have our toys gone?  lit was last seen slurping (spot the euphemism) over a photo of wotsisname, and hadron was trying to count above 20.

don't they love us anymore?  :'(

It doesn't look like it. We'll have to come up with something else to do.

Any ideas? :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 22, 2008, 05:05:13 PM
i say, O Meister, old chap - where have our toys gone?  lit was last seen slurping (spot the euphemism) over a photo of wotsisname, and hadron was trying to count above 20.

don't they love us anymore?  :'(

It doesn't look like it. We'll have to come up with something else to do.

Any ideas? :eyelash:

wild sex?  yet again?  :laugh:

:tongue:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2008, 05:06:27 PM
i say, O Meister, old chap - where have our toys gone?  lit was last seen slurping (spot the euphemism) over a photo of wotsisname, and hadron was trying to count above 20.

don't they love us anymore?  :'(

It doesn't look like it. We'll have to come up with something else to do.

Any ideas? :eyelash:

wild sex?  yet again?  :laugh:

:tongue:

Oh no...

Again! :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 22, 2008, 05:08:10 PM
i say, O Meister, old chap - where have our toys gone?  lit was last seen slurping (spot the euphemism) over a photo of wotsisname, and hadron was trying to count above 20.

don't they love us anymore?  :'(

It doesn't look like it. We'll have to come up with something else to do.

Any ideas? :eyelash:

wild sex?  yet again?  :laugh:

:tongue:

Oh no...

Again! :laugh:

stop running round and flapping, then!  i can't fling myself on a moving target, without fear of injury!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2008, 05:09:30 PM
I'm a spazz, what did you expect?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 22, 2008, 05:11:07 PM
I'm a spazz, what did you expect?

wait for it...

.

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.

spazzy wild sex?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2008, 05:14:10 PM
/thinks for a cuntisecond

OK
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lucifer on December 22, 2008, 05:14:53 PM
blimey - any more of that thinking lark and you too could be an unabomber.

:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 11, 2009, 03:48:11 PM

Odeon, is my eMail address properly hidden from public view?

I am so sick of gettting fucking email,   I am about ready to fucking puke!

I just want to make sure I  did it corrrectly in my profile setttings.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: TheoK on January 11, 2009, 03:54:34 PM
If you log out, you'll see that it is.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2009, 04:28:38 PM

Odeon, is my eMail address properly hidden from public view?

I am so sick of gettting fucking email,   I am about ready to fucking puke!

I just want to make sure I  did it corrrectly in my profile setttings.

I just checked your profile, and yes, it's properly hidden, as far as I can tell. Having trouble with spammers? :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 11, 2009, 04:44:45 PM

It's just pure shit.

I talk here if I want. Not if I choose to NOT.


Thanks for looking. :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2009, 04:53:26 PM
If the spambots are bugging you, you might want to look into SpamAssassin. There is a Windows GUI version called JSpamAssassin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jspamassassin/) that is supposed to be good.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 11, 2009, 04:57:48 PM

Nah, it's people I don't know.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2009, 04:58:21 PM
Bummer.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 11, 2009, 04:59:39 PM


I've learned.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 13, 2009, 08:11:08 AM


Just wondering if you had ever seen this. (http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm)

Very cool.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 13, 2009, 08:25:47 AM


Just wondering if you had ever seen this. (http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm)

Very cool.

WTF??? :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 13, 2009, 10:03:06 AM


Just wondering if you had ever seen this. (http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm)

Very cool.

WTF??? :o

I've often "daydreamed"  of the idea of making a huge concrete sub-bass horn, but this guy actually did it.

:rofl:


I want one incorporated into a hillside which exits beneath the stage of my outdoor amphitheater, music venue.

:headbang:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 13, 2009, 04:35:50 PM


Just wondering if you had ever seen this. (http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm)

Very cool.

WTF??? :o

I've often "daydreamed"  of the idea of making a huge concrete sub-bass horn, but this guy actually did it.

:rofl:


I want one incorporated into a hillside which exits beneath the stage of my outdoor amphitheater, music venue.

:headbang:

Looks very cool, but I couldn't believe someone had actually done anything like it.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 13, 2009, 06:05:05 PM


Just wondering if you had ever seen this. (http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm)

Very cool.

WTF??? :o

I've often "daydreamed"  of the idea of making a huge concrete sub-bass horn, but this guy actually did it.

:rofl:


I want one incorporated into a hillside which exits beneath the stage of my outdoor amphitheater, music venue.

:headbang:

Looks very cool, but I couldn't believe someone had actually done anything like it.  :thumbup:

I suppose my little (fucking puny/embarrassing/minuscule) six - fifteen, bi-amp'ed, EQ'ed twelve hundred watt, LFE system doesn't seem quite so nutty, now, eh?

There's another guy who has twelve or so, eighteen inch drivers in an IB install beneath his house, using the entire crawlspace as an enclosure. The only thing that anyone sees is the grille-work which covers the opening from his "manifold."    Wife Acceptance Factor=very high!

I'll try to find a link to his work.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2009, 01:20:17 AM
Somehow my little sound projects all seem so... little now. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 14, 2009, 03:49:45 PM
Somehow my little sound projects all seem so... little now. :laugh:

... just to make our little projects seem leesss consuming of ourselves to those who have not even Clue Number One about what we do.


Next time someone says you have a nutbreaking obsession, point this guy out!!


:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 14, 2009, 04:17:17 PM
But I got one of these  from a friend today... :woohoo:

(It's a Dolby CP100 cinema sound processor from 1976. It's the first four-channel Dolby processor model made; today it would be called "Dolby Pro-Logic or something...)

(http://gallery.filmvorfuehrer.de/albums/album342/Ein_Dolby_Cinema_Prozesor_CP_100_wahr_im_Cineramakino_in_Z_rich_inbetrieb_und_ich_rettete_das_ding_aus_dem_Alteisen.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: ALLDAYGLOWRANDY on January 14, 2009, 11:16:57 PM
Yes i did it for school report long time ago what is the worst thing someone said to you?  Where you a mischivous child?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Leto729 on January 14, 2009, 11:25:21 PM
Why am I here  :fiveshots:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 15, 2009, 01:08:45 AM
Why am I here  :fiveshots:

Nothing better to do?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 15, 2009, 11:41:37 AM
But I got one of these  from a friend today... :woohoo:

(It's a Dolby CP100 cinema sound processor from 1976. It's the first four-channel Dolby processor model made; today it would be called "Dolby Pro-Logic or something...)

(http://gallery.filmvorfuehrer.de/albums/album342/Ein_Dolby_Cinema_Prozesor_CP_100_wahr_im_Cineramakino_in_Z_rich_inbetrieb_und_ich_rettete_das_ding_aus_dem_Alteisen.jpg)

That thing looks really cool. Not sure that I actually want one, but I certainly want YOU to have one!


It looks like it's made to be modular, as if some options were not included in every "processing scheme."

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 15, 2009, 03:54:58 PM
The CP100 is basically a bunch of modules, yes, and freely configurable. And if you want to modify it more extensively, the back plane is fairly easy to rearrange so you can fit it with just about anything. To be completely honest, though, it's too old to sound good in any configuration. Optical sound in those days had a rapid falloff starting around 9kHz. At 11 kHz there wasn't much left without hf circuits to compensate, but even with those the best you could hope for (with a decent optical soundhead, plus Dolby NR and preamps) was 4-channel (matrixed) sound reproduction to around 12.5 or 13 kHz.

Today, you can replace the light bulb with a laser and fit the soundhead with better optics, and expect no more than 3 dB falloff to 16 kHz. Of course, nobody's using optical sound anyway because there is Dolby Digital with far better dynamics.

But as a piece of history, I think the CP100 is now a valued addition to my collection.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on January 15, 2009, 04:21:19 PM
Noted trombonist and composer Stuart Dempster made a recording in 1995 in which he and a horn section recorded his original compositions in an underground cistern. The CD I heard was extraordinary: sustained tones that overlapped and overlapped to create a phenomenal, hypnotic drone effect.

URL for this fascinating composer/performer:

http://faculty.washington.edu/dempster/

BTW, the CD is called Underground Overlays in the Cistern Chapel
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 15, 2009, 04:39:27 PM
Thanks. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on January 15, 2009, 05:32:03 PM
So odeon how far away from Lit do you live in kilometers or miles?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on January 15, 2009, 08:51:39 PM
Why is 3D in theatres such a big deal again? What technical refinements have been made?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 16, 2009, 01:28:39 AM
So odeon how far away from Lit do you live in kilometers or miles?

Roughly 95 kilometres.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 16, 2009, 01:32:26 AM
Why is 3D in theatres such a big deal again? What technical refinements have been made?

My guess is that it's easier (or at least cheaper) to make them when shooting digitally. The polarisation techniques when merging two slightly different images to one were very costly when printing on film base.

But you're asking the wrong person. Sort of. I don't have stereo vision so I I've not seen a 3D film since I was a kid and didn't know better.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on January 16, 2009, 06:54:01 PM
Yeah - also, if it's an animated feature, it's a relatively minor task to make a second virtual camera with a slight offset and re-render.

The Ant Bully crew had about 200 people at its largest, and about ten were Imax artists whose job was to take the final rendered footage, create the second camera, render it out, and troubleshoot all the problems that weren't visible in 2D. They ranged from things like the camera focus sliding in and out to show great depth (not necessary in 3D), shaders for translucent objects like gemstones which had to be adjusted for refraction, and awkward placement of foreground objects which covered the action in one eye but not the other. So - not trivial, but not show-stopping either.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 17, 2009, 12:08:22 PM
It's definetely an art form, to do that well.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on January 17, 2009, 05:52:58 PM
True. I would also think that ANY method would work better than trying to keep 2 electro-mechanical projectors synchronized.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2009, 04:36:07 PM
True. I would also think that ANY method would work better than trying to keep 2 electro-mechanical projectors synchronized.

Only one was needed. Most 3D techniques use an image that's already "3D", either using red-green or polarised images. The latter requires a special lens that is a bitch to set up properly.

There have been cinema technologies using FOUR synchronised projectors, actually--ever heard of Cinerama? That had nothing to do with 3D, even though the Cinerama commercial tried telling you otherwise.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on January 19, 2009, 11:09:16 PM
If I remember right, Abel Gance used a similar process for parts of NAPOLEON.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2009, 03:31:02 AM
Correct. I doubt there were more than a few screenings of the film with the battle sequences intact, though, because the three-projector system was never widely spread. AFAIK, only the middle third of the last reel was used when the film was distributed. It's one of those films and techniques you can only read about and never experience yourself. :(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 26, 2009, 06:43:57 PM
Do they still have long wave stations near you? The last beacon with voice NUK in gone here
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 27, 2009, 02:33:35 AM
none that I'm aware of.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on January 27, 2009, 03:55:53 AM
If I feel that the volume in a movie theatre is too loud, how should I approach this? Should I talk directly to the projectionist, or to management?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 27, 2009, 06:09:48 AM
You should talk to the usher, preferably while the film is still rolling. Barring that, the management.

But it's tricky these days. When I listen to a film, I always listen to the dialogue first. When the volume of the dialogue is OK, I'm usually satisfied. Fifteen years ago I would have known that the rest of the movie soundtrack will be fine, too, but with the advent of digital sound, there's no telling how loud a film can be mixed and still have a nice, low-key dialogue.

So a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster can still hurt your ears. :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on February 05, 2009, 05:02:15 PM

Interesting eye/ear candy ... (http://www.rpginc.com/products/diffractal/index.htm)

Click on the (http://www.rpginc.com/siteimages/print.gif) (http://www.rpginc.com/products/diffractal/diffract.pdf)  for an eye popping photograph of a really nice diffusion system installation.



Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on February 05, 2009, 05:17:19 PM
If I feel that the volume in a movie theatre is too loud, how should I approach this? Should I talk directly to the projectionist, or to management?
I wear ear plugs
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 06, 2009, 10:10:06 AM
/me wantssssssssssssssss

:plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on February 07, 2009, 07:39:18 AM
preciousssssssessss.... :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on June 10, 2009, 05:46:24 PM

Hey, Odeon, I have another "techie oriented"  question for you. I feel that you have a better chance of advising intelligently in this area than most other people I know.

What freeware windows application would you recommend for converting AAC files to MP3.

A "friend" at work has offered me a hard drive loaded with over twelve thousand songs from iTunes.  Supposedly they have eliminated the "one use"  nonsense from the files already. Most of what I want from her HD is older music, anyway, and the compression will be less of an issue, I feel.

I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Adam on June 10, 2009, 06:01:28 PM
I've been thinking about trying a new position with my boyfriend. Usually I just bend over and let him take me up the arse. But he wants to be more experimental.


I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: RageBeoulve on June 10, 2009, 06:03:49 PM
I've been thinking about trying a new position with my boyfriend. Usually I just bend over and let him take me up the arse. But he wants to be more experimental.


I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?

I think odeon wouldn't mind if I cut in. You see someone asked me something very similar today. And then his mom got scared, and said he was moving in with his auntie and his uncle in bel-air. ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2009, 01:35:40 AM

Hey, Odeon, I have another "techie oriented"  question for you. I feel that you have a better chance of advising intelligently in this area than most other people I know.

What freeware windows application would you recommend for converting AAC files to MP3.

A "friend" at work has offered me a hard drive loaded with over twelve thousand songs from iTunes.  Supposedly they have eliminated the "one use"  nonsense from the files already. Most of what I want from her HD is older music, anyway, and the compression will be less of an issue, I feel.

I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?

Try Free M4a to MP3 Converter (http://www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/index.shtml). I haven't tried it myself because I convert my stuff in Linux (and so far I haven't had too many AACs to convert, anyway), but I've heard good things about it.

The quality is supposed to be very good, better than the average converter, because it's supposed to work with the whole MPEG4 format.

Tell me how things went if you try it. I'm curious.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2009, 01:36:37 AM
I've been thinking about trying a new position with my boyfriend. Usually I just bend over and let him take me up the arse. But he wants to be more experimental.


I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?

I think you should do what your boyfriend suggests. After all, it's not likely that you'll get a new one if this one grows tired of you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on June 11, 2009, 03:11:36 PM

Hey, Odeon, I have another "techie oriented"  question for you. I feel that you have a better chance of advising intelligently in this area than most other people I know.

What freeware windows application would you recommend for converting AAC files to MP3.

A "friend" at work has offered me a hard drive loaded with over twelve thousand songs from iTunes.  Supposedly they have eliminated the "one use"  nonsense from the files already. Most of what I want from her HD is older music, anyway, and the compression will be less of an issue, I feel.

I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?

Try Free M4a to MP3 Converter (http://www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/index.shtml). I haven't tried it myself because I convert my stuff in Linux (and so far I haven't had too many AACs to convert, anyway), but I've heard good things about it.

The quality is supposed to be very good, better than the average converter, because it's supposed to work with the whole MPEG4 format.

Tell me how things went if you try it. I'm curious.


Thanks.


Going to try it tonight. I already have her hard drive in hand. Worst case scenario, I data-copy it and figure this out later. I have the space - no problem.

(I forgot to mention that we closed out 1TB externals for sixty nine bucks last week. I bought four. Two are going to be my MAIN music back up system, but as always, i hesitate to back something up on a brand new drive then delete the drive it had lived on for a year or so.  I need to find courage and accept that two back-ups are probably enough.)

Thanks for the info!!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2009, 03:14:07 PM

Hey, Odeon, I have another "techie oriented"  question for you. I feel that you have a better chance of advising intelligently in this area than most other people I know.

What freeware windows application would you recommend for converting AAC files to MP3.

A "friend" at work has offered me a hard drive loaded with over twelve thousand songs from iTunes.  Supposedly they have eliminated the "one use"  nonsense from the files already. Most of what I want from her HD is older music, anyway, and the compression will be less of an issue, I feel.

I want to give it a try. What do you suggest?

Try Free M4a to MP3 Converter (http://www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/index.shtml). I haven't tried it myself because I convert my stuff in Linux (and so far I haven't had too many AACs to convert, anyway), but I've heard good things about it.

The quality is supposed to be very good, better than the average converter, because it's supposed to work with the whole MPEG4 format.

Tell me how things went if you try it. I'm curious.


Thanks.


Going to try it tonight. I already have her hard drive in hand. Worst case scenario, I data-copy it and figure this out later. I have the space - no problem.

(I forgot to mention that we closed out 1TB externals for sixty nine bucks last week. I bought four. Two are going to be my MAIN music back up system, but as always, i hesitate to back something up on a brand new drive then delete the drive it had lived on for a year or so.  I need to find courage and accept that two back-ups are probably enough.)

Thanks for the info!!

Good luck. :)

I want one of those drives. :o I should have opted for a RAID stack when I bought my new PC last year but I was too much of a cheapskate to do it. :'(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: TheoK on June 11, 2009, 03:15:16 PM
Papa Moomin is pennywise.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2009, 03:19:06 PM
Papa Moomin is pennywise.  :zoinks:

I went over budget with it anyway. A RAID stack is not cheap if it's done properly.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on June 11, 2009, 04:33:53 PM
Papa Moomin is pennywise.  :zoinks:

I went over budget with it anyway. A RAID stack is not cheap if it's done properly.

No, it's not, but, right now, we have 2TB internals in our store from Seagate for $139. They are standard types (7200 RPM, 6ms seek times), but in an array, paralleled, they would probably be fine. Dunno, though - Haven't tried it.

Had I not spent my monthly budget on all those externals, I would probably grab a couple. I really NEEDED those back up drives though.
(I can now get rid of about seven 300GB drives where everything is backed up - or NOT. I can never delete music   ...   :D)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: earthboundmisfit on November 13, 2009, 02:39:08 PM


How drunk are you right now?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2009, 02:40:40 PM
Faiorly. Can't be arsed to read what I wriote andf actively look for new threads to posrt inl. Not my usual mode I'd say. (And I know m,y post count, I'm just efficient.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Blasted on November 13, 2009, 02:42:26 PM
Are you gonna tell us juicy secrets about yourself?  A shameful fetish possibly?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2009, 02:43:40 PM
the peanut butter and the handcuffs you mean? :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on November 13, 2009, 02:44:43 PM
That could wreak havoc if someone had a peanut allergy.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Blasted on November 13, 2009, 02:45:01 PM
That's a good start  :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2009, 02:51:41 PM
peanut butter is optional :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Celticgoddess on November 13, 2009, 03:59:27 PM
The most unusual place you've ever had sex?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2009, 03:59:52 PM
For me or for the others? :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Celticgoddess on November 13, 2009, 04:02:30 PM
Wow, You're good at evading questions even when you're drunk :P Now answer damnit! :green:

And by others, does this mean you've had more than one partner at one time?  :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2009, 04:07:14 PM
Wow, You're good at evading questions even when you're drunk :P Now answer damnit! :green:

:laugh:

Quote
And by others, does this mean you've had more than one partner at one time?  :orly:

No, just one at a time but their unusual place is my usual...

Anyways, a projection booth during a screening.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Celticgoddess on November 13, 2009, 04:13:55 PM
okay, that is totally cool. Check you out Mr. Pervy Odeon.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 13, 2009, 04:15:09 PM
'twas fun. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Blasted on November 30, 2009, 04:45:04 PM
You on the other hand are a douche, did you know that?  Are you happy that you know now?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 01, 2009, 04:29:07 AM
I'm devastated. Your opinion is important to me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Phlexor on December 01, 2009, 04:32:39 AM
Explain to me in great detail what it is that you like about your avatar.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 01, 2009, 04:36:39 AM
Um, it happened because I like Lennon's songs and I'd already had another image of him as my avatar (his White Album mugshot). There was something about him counting money that I thought was funny and weirdly appropriate so I chose this one over the others I'd googled.

Then, of course, I've had it for so long that I don't dare changing it. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on March 31, 2010, 01:32:32 PM
Can you speak Hungarian or Estonian??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2010, 02:37:54 PM
Not really but I understand most of what is said in both languages. Estonian is easier.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2010, 02:43:13 PM
Estonia is :arrr:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 31, 2010, 02:44:03 PM
Well, it has to be.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: TheoK on March 31, 2010, 02:46:59 PM
 :agreed:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 03, 2010, 09:27:33 AM


Still rockin the turbo Volvo wagon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2010, 10:30:23 AM


Still rockin the turbo Volvo wagon?

Yes. Although I'll have to replace it with something newer soon.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2010, 06:55:37 AM
What's a witchlet? Is it a baby witch?  :toporly:


Three generations ----->  :witch:  :goodwitch:  :witch1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 09:35:32 AM
What's a witchlet? Is it a baby witch?  :toporly:


Three generations ----->  :witch:  :goodwitch:  :witch1:


It's a sort of a witch in the making. Lucifer came up with it years ago.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2010, 09:38:14 AM
What's a witchlet? Is it a baby witch?  :toporly:


Three generations ----->  :witch:  :goodwitch:  :witch1:


It's a sort of a witch in the making. Lucifer came up with it years ago.

Cute! For a second there, I thought you meant THE Lucifer! -----> :flame:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 09:47:01 AM
I mean THE Lucifer, but not the Lucifer that most people associate with the name. :laugh:

I was shocked to see my ask away thread revived.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2010, 09:53:39 AM
I mean THE Lucifer, but not the Lucifer that most people associate with the name. :laugh:

I was shocked to see my ask away thread revived.

That word "witchlet" has been making me curious for some time now, and I had no other posts to reply to, so...  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 09:54:33 AM
I mean THE Lucifer, but not the Lucifer that most people associate with the name. :laugh:

I was shocked to see my ask away thread revived.

That word "witchlet" has been making me curious for some time now, and I had no other posts to reply to, so...  :2thumbsup:

...why not revive my ask away. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2010, 10:09:40 AM
I mean THE Lucifer, but not the Lucifer that most people associate with the name. :laugh:

I was shocked to see my ask away thread revived.

That word "witchlet" has been making me curious for some time now, and I had no other posts to reply to, so...  :2thumbsup:

...why not revive my ask away. :P

Exactly!  :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 01:01:42 PM
so that's all, then? Is this thread going to fall into a coma again? :eiffel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 28, 2010, 01:10:52 PM
Must have even more revivals  :laugh:  What color car will you buy when you settle on the right one?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 28, 2010, 03:06:21 PM
Looks like it will be a grey-blue one if everything goes as planned. I would have loved to have a red one but they are rare.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 28, 2010, 03:29:19 PM
so that's all, then? Is this thread going to fall into a coma again? :eiffel:

Come on people, here's your chance! Ask him anything!  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 28, 2010, 06:08:27 PM
so that's all, then? Is this thread going to fall into a coma again? :eiffel:

Come on people, here's your chance! Ask him anything!  :2thumbsup:

We all have threads like this divined upon us from our early attempts to be open and some of us are glad to see those threads die a tragic death.


I suspect that Odeon is more like me (in that he is glad to see his personal thread go away and fall into the annals of historical insignificance) than he tends to admit.


Hell, maybe not. He could possibly jump in here, instantly, and spank me down for understating how much he hates contact.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 28, 2010, 06:21:32 PM
Can you touch the tip of your nose with your tongue
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 01:38:35 AM
Can you touch the tip of your nose with your tongue

Finally an important question! :zoinks:

The answer would have to be... no.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 29, 2010, 05:49:05 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DukeNukem on August 29, 2010, 07:37:01 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO! And give odeon a more realistic question that's not reminiscent of your own man-whore past.

Are you gay?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 29, 2010, 07:41:48 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO! And give odeon a more realistic question that's not reminiscent of your own man-whore past.

Are you gay?

Read the information under the avatar, hykeaswell is female. If you must troll, at least try to have some idea of whom you are trying to insult... :facepalm2:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DukeNukem on August 29, 2010, 08:27:21 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO! And give odeon a more realistic question that's not reminiscent of your own man-whore past.

Are you gay?

Read the information under the avatar, hykeaswell is female. If you must troll, at least try to have some idea of whom you are trying to insult... :facepalm2:

There is no girls on the Internet. That's why I said man-whore, numbskull! :wanker:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on August 29, 2010, 08:33:54 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO!


I can do it.  I can touch the floor with flat hands while bending over standing with straight legs.

You can't do it, Duke?

Here's another question for Odeon.

Can you curl your tongue upward at the sides lengthwise like a taco?

I can and so can my husband, but our daughter can't.  It's very cute to see her try, though.  She curls the tip of her tongue upward at the front.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on August 29, 2010, 08:54:57 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO! And give odeon a more realistic question that's not reminiscent of your own man-whore past.

Are you gay?

You are seeing Gay men where they don't exist and a simple stretching exercise for some gay come-on. Tell me Duke are you finding life difficulty and lonely at the moment and are you in need of male company? You want me to find the answer? I think I will.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I want some social interaction, but it's very hard to come by for me. My family has rejected me, so there's really nothing to fall back on. I need help with certain things in life but I can't just go out there and convince someone to help me! I'm all alone and have no one to help me get my driver's license. Life is nothing but a cruel joke being played on me! :(

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I have no talent or no desire to put any effort into anything. I cannot draw, do any 3D modeling, programming, I cannot play any musical instruments, I failed college, I fail at socializing with anybody online or in real life... Hell, I fail at most of the video games I play! AAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Why does most things that look rather easy for people always become a debilitating difficulty for me?!? Why does everything I do turns out half-baked?!? I can only do the basic of things without screwing them up!

It's a wonder how the hell I have survived living by myself for so long, being so forgetful or ignorant of important things like homework, paying bills on time, keeping good hygiene, and actually trying to gain a little muscle and lose a little weight. And time passes by so damn fast! It's like minutes turn into seconds, and hours turn into minutes, and so forth!

I am on Adderall and Zoloft, but the hell if those meds are actually helping! Adderall helps my concentration a little BIT, but Zoloft just makes it more frustrating to masturbate! I feel like I'm just going to be a homeless failure at the age of 30. I don't even feel ambitious in anything. Any kind of ambition just quickly goes away when it seems hard.

Why can't I just get the motivation to just try to LIVE and not waste time everyday sitting and doing almost nothing on the computer?!? I want to see some self-progress DAMN IT! I don't want to be like my biological father, who doesn't ever do anything and never wants anything!

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
Well, if I could be Duke Nukem instead of some fat, lonely twerp, then things would be easier. Or not.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
Yes, I am. I don't really have any friends or family to speak of.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I have a very low self esteem from being rejected by society in general.

OK we get it. You are a fat retarded reject from your parents and from everyone who knows you IRL. The real question is...."ARE YOU GAY"

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I used to really want to be around people and be a social person, have friends, hang out, play games, and all that stuff. I used to have someone who I could do that with, and ever since I lost contact with him.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I'm shy and I don't really like to talk to guy friends.

You like to hang with guys and play games but not talk....OK.

So this whole thing about Hyke being a gay man which I find hysterical, is you badly trying to find a man to hang out with and play games with but not talk to. (ie bend you over and grunt and groan and play hide the sausage). No wonder you do so badly in communication. That was a terrible effort.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 10:47:44 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

Fingertips.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 10:48:20 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO! And give odeon a more realistic question that's not reminiscent of your own man-whore past.

Are you gay?

No. You'll have to locate a partner elsewhere.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 10:49:14 AM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO!


I can do it.  I can touch the floor with flat hands while bending over standing with straight legs.

You can't do it, Duke?

Here's another question for Odeon.

Can you curl your tongue upward at the sides lengthwise like a taco?

I can and so can my husband, but our daughter can't.  It's very cute to see her try, though.  She curls the tip of her tongue upward at the front.

Yes, I can do that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DukeNukem on August 29, 2010, 01:29:23 PM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO! And give odeon a more realistic question that's not reminiscent of your own man-whore past.

Are you gay?

You are seeing Gay men where they don't exist and a simple stretching exercise for some gay come-on. Tell me Duke are you finding life difficulty and lonely at the moment and are you in need of male company? You want me to find the answer? I think I will.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I want some social interaction, but it's very hard to come by for me. My family has rejected me, so there's really nothing to fall back on. I need help with certain things in life but I can't just go out there and convince someone to help me! I'm all alone and have no one to help me get my driver's license. Life is nothing but a cruel joke being played on me! :(

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I have no talent or no desire to put any effort into anything. I cannot draw, do any 3D modeling, programming, I cannot play any musical instruments, I failed college, I fail at socializing with anybody online or in real life... Hell, I fail at most of the video games I play! AAAAAARRRRRGH!!!

Why does most things that look rather easy for people always become a debilitating difficulty for me?!? Why does everything I do turns out half-baked?!? I can only do the basic of things without screwing them up!

It's a wonder how the hell I have survived living by myself for so long, being so forgetful or ignorant of important things like homework, paying bills on time, keeping good hygiene, and actually trying to gain a little muscle and lose a little weight. And time passes by so damn fast! It's like minutes turn into seconds, and hours turn into minutes, and so forth!

I am on Adderall and Zoloft, but the hell if those meds are actually helping! Adderall helps my concentration a little BIT, but Zoloft just makes it more frustrating to masturbate! I feel like I'm just going to be a homeless failure at the age of 30. I don't even feel ambitious in anything. Any kind of ambition just quickly goes away when it seems hard.

Why can't I just get the motivation to just try to LIVE and not waste time everyday sitting and doing almost nothing on the computer?!? I want to see some self-progress DAMN IT! I don't want to be like my biological father, who doesn't ever do anything and never wants anything!

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
Well, if I could be Duke Nukem instead of some fat, lonely twerp, then things would be easier. Or not.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
Yes, I am. I don't really have any friends or family to speak of.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I have a very low self esteem from being rejected by society in general.

OK we get it. You are a fat retarded reject from your parents and from everyone who knows you IRL. The real question is...."ARE YOU GAY"

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I used to really want to be around people and be a social person, have friends, hang out, play games, and all that stuff. I used to have someone who I could do that with, and ever since I lost contact with him.

Quote from: Duke_Nukem
I'm shy and I don't really like to talk to guy friends.

You like to hang with guys and play games but not talk....OK.

So this whole thing about Hyke being a gay man which I find hysterical, is you badly trying to find a man to hang out with and play games with but not talk to. (ie bend you over and grunt and groan and play hide the sausage). No wonder you do so badly in communication. That was a terrible effort.


 :LMAO:

Hahahahahahahaha! Hide the sausage? Hahahahahahaha! Is that a game you play with your kids?

 :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 29, 2010, 02:06:22 PM
OK, another important question then.

Can your hands reach the floor, if you bend over standing with stretched legs. And if so, is it only the fingertips touching the floor, or your whole hand?


(better try this in a secluded space, if you are not sure)

I'll answer that. NO!


I can do it.  I can touch the floor with flat hands while bending over standing with straight legs.

You can't do it, Duke?

Here's another question for Odeon.

Can you curl your tongue upward at the sides lengthwise like a taco?

I can and so can my husband, but our daughter can't.  It's very cute to see her try, though.  She curls the tip of her tongue upward at the front.

I can do the flat hands with stiff knees as well, but I have been doing that since I was a youngster, and as a young man with a tragic injury to my back, that simple exercise/stretch became a measure of my recovery.

I can also fold my tongue sideways as can all four of us in the family. 

(I had major trouble getting my son to spit, however. Have you ever tried to teach someone to spit? If they or you/we have no concept of the delicacy of this instinctive act, then it is a very difficult thing to teach to someone who does not even get it at all. It honestly took three years of trial and error to teach my son to spit out his toothpaste, instead of swallowing it.   :yikes:)




Back to Odeon:

Can you scratch the middle of your back (and maybe a bit further across you spine) with either hand?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 02:45:41 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 29, 2010, 02:51:36 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 02:53:38 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 29, 2010, 03:01:38 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 03:02:46 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:

I'm pretty sure I know that. My wife's postman friend told me all about how this works.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 29, 2010, 03:08:18 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:

I'm pretty sure I know that. My wife's postman friend told me all about how this works.

Ah, yes.  A professional since he delivers the male?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 29, 2010, 03:10:23 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:

I'm pretty sure I know that. My wife's postman friend told me all about how this works.

Ah, yes.  A professional since he delivers the male?

Hyke might be on later, she could tell us whether this postman sounds professionally credible!  :nerd!:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 29, 2010, 03:12:01 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:

I'm pretty sure I know that. My wife's postman friend told me all about how this works.

Ah, yes.  A professional since he delivers the male?

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 29, 2010, 03:12:54 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:

I'm pretty sure I know that. My wife's postman friend told me all about how this works.

Ah, yes.  A professional since he delivers the male?

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

Scandinavians are very innocent about such matters!  :blonde:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 29, 2010, 04:59:16 PM
Dawg: Yes, I can do that with both hands.

Tough questions but I think I'm holding my own. :zoinks:

Holding your own what?  :zoinks:

This is a family-oriented forum so I can't possibly tell you. :zoinks:

Just a hint, that's not how you make a family.   :eyebrows:

I'm pretty sure I know that. My wife's postman friend told me all about how this works.

Ah, yes.  A professional since he delivers the male?

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

Scandinavians are very innocent about such matters!  :blonde:

Or else their minds move very slowly because of the intensely cold weather.  (I apologize Odeon, honest!)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 29, 2010, 05:06:54 PM
Expert here  :nerd!:

What can one say?

It's all true. All the assumptions. We posties haste us from box to box, some of the boxes have hairy edges, some don't. We aim to please and we want to deliver, even if it takes using the back-door.
Sometimes our loads bring great pleasure, sometimes the consequences are tougher.
It's all in the job.
Sometimes it takes massaging, delicate finger-work and pushing, to shove it in, but, what has to be done has to be done.

It's the talking and the pre- or post- delivery bonding that makes it a hard job.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 29, 2010, 05:10:27 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 30, 2010, 08:41:33 AM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.

Pretty sure I can't do that but there's no way I'm going to try it now. I'm at work. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 30, 2010, 02:09:56 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.

Pretty sure I can't do that but there's no way I'm going to try it now. I'm at work. :zoinks:

Aahh, what a shame for your co-workers, you would have made their day.

I can't do it, my youngest can, she got that from her dad.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 30, 2010, 02:12:49 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.

It helps if you're fat because the fat fills in the space and they can touch when they couldn't touch years ago!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 30, 2010, 02:14:19 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.

It helps if you're fat because the fat fills in the space and they can touch when they couldn't touch years ago!

Doesn't work for me. Guess my fat is in the wrong places then.  :green:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 02:23:23 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but that sounds so easy an old fat man can do it.  

Maybe you should should describe the challenge more fully.

...   or not. WTF do I care. I have done daily stretches since nineteen seventy two. I have not missed many days, either.  For an old fat man, I am more flexible and powerful than I generally appear, at least, until you get to know me and how I react to things.

So, tell us how this particular impossibility works, please.

I can tell you if I can not do it today, I certainly can in three days time or maybe after one good stretch.



...   but I am being centristical-ishly punk-like.

I will set my ego aside for long enough for Odeon to respond.  Perhaps he will understand the challenge.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 02:25:24 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.

It helps if you're fat because the fat fills in the space and they can touch when they couldn't touch years ago!


???
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on August 30, 2010, 02:29:41 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.

It helps if you're fat because the fat fills in the space and they can touch when they couldn't touch years ago!

The moral of the story is, be fat!  :green:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 30, 2010, 03:11:26 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but that sounds so easy an old fat man can do it.  

Maybe you should should describe the challenge more fully.

...   or not. WTF do I care. I have done daily stretches since nineteen seventy two. I have not missed many days, either.  For an old fat man, I am more flexible and powerful than I generally appear, at least, until you get to know me and how I react to things.

So, tell us how this particular impossibility works, please.

I can tell you if I can not do it today, I certainly can in three days time or maybe after one good stretch.



...   but I am being centristical-ishly punk-like.

I will set my ego aside for long enough for Odeon to respond.  Perhaps he will understand the challenge.

You are a cyclist aren't you? It is said to be something cyclist and skaters can do more easily.

I have in the mean time seen that the impossibility is not a fact, my youngest daughter can do both. She can have her hands flat on the floor while she bends over with stretched legs, and she can lay on her back on the floor, and bend her legs sideways, so that her heels touch her hips. And both upper and lower leg are touching each other and are in full contact with the floor. And both legs are closed. Knee to knee. So, she did prove the theory I got told to be not fully true. Heard it from a guy who could not get his hands further than his knees when bending over at PE. Then the teacher had do him this, and he was the only one who could do it in the whole class.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 03:28:49 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but that sounds so easy an old fat man can do it.  

Maybe you should should describe the challenge more fully.

...   or not. WTF do I care. I have done daily stretches since nineteen seventy two. I have not missed many days, either.  For an old fat man, I am more flexible and powerful than I generally appear, at least, until you get to know me and how I react to things.

So, tell us how this particular impossibility works, please.

I can tell you if I can not do it today, I certainly can in three days time or maybe after one good stretch.



...   but I am being centristical-ishly punk-like.

I will set my ego aside for long enough for Odeon to respond.  Perhaps he will understand the challenge.

You are a cyclist aren't you? It is said to be something cyclist and skaters can do more easily.

I have in the mean time seen that the impossibility is not a fact, my youngest daughter can do both. She can have her hands flat on the floor while she bends over with stretched legs, and she can lay on her back on the floor, and bend her legs sideways, so that her heels touch her hips. And both upper and lower leg are touching each other and are in full contact with the floor. And both legs are closed. Knee to knee. So, she did prove the theory I got told to be not fully true. Heard it from a guy who could not get his hands further than his knees when bending over at PE. Then the teacher had do him this, and he was the only one who could do it in the whole class.


No, I am not really a cyclist, until recently (mostly, I have done Tai Chi, stretching and some degree of "martial" kicking and punching on a suspended bag of sand for about thirty years, but I have lost some of my abilities to kick up high on the bag, due to a hip injury a couple of years ago. I can no longer kick a foot above my head with power - just the tag, but at my chin level - around five foot four inches, I am still quite powerful with my kicks) but you have not read me well. I have had a bicycle for about two weeks now, for the first time in about eleven years.  I am just beginning to 'cycle again. I am very sore from trying a bit more than what I am capable, but I love finding muscles sore that I had forgotten to exercise.


I suppose that I still do not understand the essence of your challenge.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 30, 2010, 03:38:09 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but that sounds so easy an old fat man can do it.  

Maybe you should should describe the challenge more fully.

...   or not. WTF do I care. I have done daily stretches since nineteen seventy two. I have not missed many days, either.  For an old fat man, I am more flexible and powerful than I generally appear, at least, until you get to know me and how I react to things.

So, tell us how this particular impossibility works, please.

I can tell you if I can not do it today, I certainly can in three days time or maybe after one good stretch.



...   but I am being centristical-ishly punk-like.

I will set my ego aside for long enough for Odeon to respond.  Perhaps he will understand the challenge.

You are a cyclist aren't you? It is said to be something cyclist and skaters can do more easily.

I have in the mean time seen that the impossibility is not a fact, my youngest daughter can do both. She can have her hands flat on the floor while she bends over with stretched legs, and she can lay on her back on the floor, and bend her legs sideways, so that her heels touch her hips. And both upper and lower leg are touching each other and are in full contact with the floor. And both legs are closed. Knee to knee. So, she did prove the theory I got told to be not fully true. Heard it from a guy who could not get his hands further than his knees when bending over at PE. Then the teacher had do him this, and he was the only one who could do it in the whole class.


No, I am not really a cyclist, until recently (mostly, I have done Tai Chi, stretching and some degree of "martial" kicking and punching on a suspended bag of sand for about thirty years, but I have lost some of my abilities to kick up high on the bag, due to a hip injury a couple of years ago. I can no longer kick a foot above my head with power - just the tag, but at my chin level - around five foot four inches, I am still quite powerful with my kicks) but you have not read me well. I have had a bicycle for about two weeks now, for the first time in about eleven years.  I am just beginning to 'cycle again. I am very sore from trying a bit more than what I am capable, but I love finding muscles sore that I had forgotten to exercise.


I suppose that I still do not understand the essence of your challenge.

Since I can't do it myself, I can not describe from within what needs to be achieved. I only know what it looks like.

The people I have seen doing it, sat down on their knees, knees closely together. Then they had their lower legs slip from underneath to next to the upper-legs, while also letting them slide backwards, till they were fully flat on the floor.

To me, it is a challenge I can't do. Can't make that twist in my hip and knee at the same time.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 03:38:17 PM

....    from what I understand of your description, it sounds exactly like one of the daily exercises I do for the health of my lower back; nothing to do with my Tai Chi, however.

I know I can do what I understand of your description.  I do it in repetition and from both sides of stress on a daily basis to strengthen the ancient injury to by lower back.  It is one of the few ways I can fight back against the  recurrent pain.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 03:39:29 PM




Since I can't do it myself, I can not describe from within what needs to be achieved. I only know what it looks like.

The people I have seen doing it, sat down on their knees, knees closely together. Then they had their lower legs slip from underneath to next to the upper-legs, while also letting them slide backwards, till they were fully flat on the floor.

To me, it is a challenge I can't do. Can't make that twist in my hip and knee at the same time.
It just sounds like flexibility in the joints, honestly.

Some have it, some do not.


I have noticed that I am losing mine.

My son has very little flexibility, unlike me, but my daughter is miles ahead of us all in flexibility. She actually scares me sometimes, because she can bend her joints in ways that seem unnatural.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 30, 2010, 03:47:41 PM
It just sounds like flexibility in the joints, honestly.

Some have it, some do not.

True.

I am flexible in most joints, but not in this combination. My hip/knee/foot are not aligned completely by the book, this combination of knee and hip joints going sideways at the same time not working out for me, makes sense.

But, I've only seen a few people capable of doing this. And most have their major joints aligned more by the book than I have.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 04:02:55 PM
It just sounds like flexibility in the joints, honestly.

Some have it, some do not.

True.

I am flexible in most joints, but not in this combination. My hip/knee/foot are not aligned completely by the book, this combination of knee and hip joints going sideways at the same time not working out for me, makes sense.

But, I've only seen a few people capable of doing this. And most have their major joints aligned more by the book than I have.


That may be the key.

Even as a kid, when I was in trouble at school for being anti-social or attacking someone for having taunted me, I always heard them speaking complements, as they planned to "break me"  and "re-start" me, that I had really good posture.


I have come to despise such a compliment.


"OH, yes, he is a fucktard, can not fit in with others and he needs to die miserabley, but DAMN his corpse will be so pretty due to his perfect posture."
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on August 30, 2010, 04:04:47 PM


I am being a "drama king,"  but that is what I got out of those back handed slapping compliments
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 30, 2010, 06:39:12 PM
What would you do with twenty plus bowling balls :bunny:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on August 30, 2010, 07:06:27 PM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 30, 2010, 07:10:23 PM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:

I have considered it.  I just can't pass them up got six more today
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on August 30, 2010, 07:11:52 PM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:

I have considered it.  I just can't pass them up got six more today
Six trebuchets?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 30, 2010, 07:14:52 PM
I made a catapult that shot golf balls about 200 feet before till it imploded
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on August 30, 2010, 07:17:58 PM
I made a catapult that shot golf balls about 200 feet before till it imploded
:plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 30, 2010, 07:21:41 PM
I made a catapult that shot golf balls about 200 feet before till it imploded
:plus:

It was a real torsion one with rope and it could not handle the strain
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on August 30, 2010, 07:24:38 PM
I made a catapult that shot golf balls about 200 feet before till it imploded
:plus:

It was a real torsion one with rope and it could not handle the strain
Better to have loved and lost than to have never fired golf balls that well.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 31, 2010, 12:39:15 AM
What would you do with twenty plus bowling balls :bunny:

Paint them in vivid colours and put them on display. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 31, 2010, 12:40:33 AM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:

That would be very cool but I doubt I can persuade the rest of the family. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on August 31, 2010, 05:57:56 AM
What would you do with twenty plus bowling balls :bunny:

Paint them in vivid colours and put them on display. :zoinks:

That is what I am thinking of in  patterns
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on August 31, 2010, 10:22:35 AM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:

That would be very cool but I doubt I can persuade the rest of the family. ;D

Yes, but it does wonders for scaring away Jehovah Witnesses and door-to-door salesmen.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DukeNukem on August 31, 2010, 10:43:51 AM
What kind of drink do you mix your jizz with before drinking it? :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on August 31, 2010, 01:13:51 PM
I'm curious, since you can touch the ground with your fingertips if you bend over with stretched legs.

Can you also lay down on your back, flat on the floor with your whole body, but, with your legs bent, in such a way that your calves touch your upper legs? According to some, people who can do this, can't do the touching of the floor with their hands the way you can.
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but that sounds so easy an old fat man can do it.  

Maybe you should should describe the challenge more fully.

...   or not. WTF do I care. I have done daily stretches since nineteen seventy two. I have not missed many days, either.  For an old fat man, I am more flexible and powerful than I generally appear, at least, until you get to know me and how I react to things.

So, tell us how this particular impossibility works, please.

I can tell you if I can not do it today, I certainly can in three days time or maybe after one good stretch.



...   but I am being centristical-ishly punk-like.

I will set my ego aside for long enough for Odeon to respond.  Perhaps he will understand the challenge.

You are a cyclist aren't you? It is said to be something cyclist and skaters can do more easily.

I have in the mean time seen that the impossibility is not a fact, my youngest daughter can do both. She can have her hands flat on the floor while she bends over with stretched legs, and she can lay on her back on the floor, and bend her legs sideways, so that her heels touch her hips. And both upper and lower leg are touching each other and are in full contact with the floor. And both legs are closed. Knee to knee. So, she did prove the theory I got told to be not fully true. Heard it from a guy who could not get his hands further than his knees when bending over at PE. Then the teacher had do him this, and he was the only one who could do it in the whole class.

I'm trying to picture what this looks like.

Is it something like this, where you lie flat on the floor on your back and keeping your knees together slide your feet as close as possible to your behind, so your calves are touching your thighs?
   
 _|\___O

If so, then I can do that, too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 31, 2010, 01:38:04 PM
No, doesn't look like that. Looks like a person flat on the floor. And someone took the lower-legs, and placed them next to the upper-legs. Parallel, and touching the upper-legs. The upper-legs are touching each other too.

It looks like torture, seen from above. As if the legs have been broken at the knee, and then the lower legs placed next to the upper legs. Everything is touching the floor. Everything is placed tightly and perfectly parallel.

From the side, you will not see the upper leg properly, because the lower leg will lay before it. When you squint your eyes, it will look as if the leg has been chopped off at the knee.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on August 31, 2010, 01:39:00 PM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:

That would be very cool but I doubt I can persuade the rest of the family. ;D

Yes, but it does wonders for scaring away Jehovah Witnesses and door-to-door salesmen.

You could offer them to sit down in the comfy garden chair too.  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 31, 2010, 02:59:31 PM
Have you ever considered getting your own trebuchet? Your domicile would appear most distinguished with a Jag in front and a trebuchet in back.  :viking: :eiffel:

That would be very cool but I doubt I can persuade the rest of the family. ;D

Yes, but it does wonders for scaring away Jehovah Witnesses and door-to-door salesmen.

You could offer them to sit down in the comfy garden chair too.  :evillaugh:

:LMAO:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on August 31, 2010, 09:54:15 PM
No, doesn't look like that. Looks like a person flat on the floor. And someone took the lower-legs, and placed them next to the upper-legs. Parallel, and touching the upper-legs. The upper-legs are touching each other too.

It looks like torture, seen from above. As if the legs have been broken at the knee, and then the lower legs placed next to the upper legs. Everything is touching the floor. Everything is placed tightly and perfectly parallel.

From the side, you will not see the upper leg properly, because the lower leg will lay before it. When you squint your eyes, it will look as if the leg has been chopped off at the knee.
I can do this easily even though I don't regularly do it. I am like that person you wrote of, though, who can't touch his toes. My hamstrings must be really tight. I have never managed to get that flexibility.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 13, 2010, 09:18:14 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 13, 2010, 09:20:21 PM
Thank you Semi.  I've been looking for the right place to ask this question.  Odeon, where do ya'll keep Bunny Dear in the winter?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2010, 09:23:57 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?

There are REALLY hidden smileys? Where?   :snowman:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 13, 2010, 09:33:45 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?

There are REALLY hidden smileys? Where?   :snowman:

Typing in random words will give you random smileys. I've found a number of lists of hidden smileys, but there are smileys that are not on any list that I have found.

:headbang:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on December 13, 2010, 09:54:22 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?

There are REALLY hidden smileys? Where?   :snowman:

Typing in random words will give you random smileys. I've found a number of lists of hidden smileys, but there are smileys that are not on any list that I have found.

:headbang:

Like what? I have access to the smiley panel. I can find what you're talking about.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2010, 10:03:48 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?

There are REALLY hidden smileys? Where?   :snowman:

Typing in random words will give you random smileys. I've found a number of lists of hidden smileys, but there are smileys that are not on any list that I have found.

:headbang:

Like what? I have access to the smiley panel. I can find what you're talking about.

Oooo, look, I found  :cat:  and  :apple:  !
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on December 13, 2010, 10:07:41 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?

There are REALLY hidden smileys? Where?   :snowman:

Typing in random words will give you random smileys. I've found a number of lists of hidden smileys, but there are smileys that are not on any list that I have found.

:headbang:

Like what? I have access to the smiley panel. I can find what you're talking about.

Oooo, look, I found  :cat:  and  :apple:  !

Those are on my list.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 13, 2010, 10:17:35 PM
Look, I found Calandale!

:calandale:

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 13, 2010, 11:20:34 PM
Between the regular smileys, the other smileys (under the "More" link), the hidden smileys and the really hidden smileys, how many smileys are there on this site?

I counted 407.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 13, 2010, 11:24:59 PM
Is there a master list somewhere of all of the words/symbols that will create smileys?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 13, 2010, 11:28:44 PM
Is there a master list somewhere of all of the words/symbols that will create smileys?

I think there's more than one list of hidden smileys, but no single "master list".  I made one some time ago when I culled the smileys, and Scrapheap has made one or two.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 13, 2010, 11:31:35 PM
Are all of the smileys currently in existence listed somewhere on this site, or are there really hidden smileys in addition to the hidden smileys.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 13, 2010, 11:35:52 PM
Are all of the smileys currently in existence listed somewhere on this site, or are there really hidden smileys in addition to the hidden smileys.

I think all the really hidden smileys should also be in a list somewhere.

What happened is we got so many, then some people complained about the long loading time for the "more" smileys page, then the list was culled and some of the smileys were hidden and the codes were listed for them, then we added even more smileys, then some people complained about the loading time again, which led to another cull, and another list, etc.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 13, 2010, 11:41:12 PM
I gather that you are one of the administrators of this web site. Parts has the same title as you do, and I am assuming that odeon is involved with site management based on his title (which is why I asked him about the smileys). What is the administrative structure? Are there any moderators?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 13, 2010, 11:50:20 PM
I gather that you are one of the administrators of this web site. Parts has the same title as you do, and I am assuming that odeon is involved with site management based on his title (which is why I asked him about the smileys). What is the administrative structure? Are there any moderators?

renaeden's also an administrator.

We have no moderators but we do have one "modulator" with one forum called the "My Way or the Highway" forum that is "modulated" for laughs as opposed to having moderators as such.  The "modulators" have been taking turns "modulating" this forum, but everyone who posts there does so with the understanding that their posts can be changed at the whim of the current or future "modulators."

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 13, 2010, 11:52:54 PM
Thank you!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on December 14, 2010, 12:11:06 AM
Is there a master list somewhere of all of the words/symbols that will create smileys?

I think there's more than one list of hidden smileys, but no single "master list".  I made one some time ago when I culled the smileys, and Scrapheap has made one or two.

My list SHOULD be the master list. If it isn't, point out the errors to me and I'll fix it.  :police:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 14, 2010, 09:07:04 AM
I gather that you are one of the administrators of this web site. Parts has the same title as you do, and I am assuming that odeon is involved with site management based on his title (which is why I asked him about the smileys). What is the administrative structure? Are there any moderators?

I'm the webmonkey, mostly. I do backups and maintenance. Every now and then, I also upgrade the software, or add or remove modules.

Is there a master list somewhere of all of the words/symbols that will create smileys?

I think there's more than one list of hidden smileys, but no single "master list".  I made one some time ago when I culled the smileys, and Scrapheap has made one or two.

My list SHOULD be the master list. If it isn't, point out the errors to me and I'll fix it.  :police:

Agreed. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 22, 2010, 05:43:40 PM
odeon: How does one resize a picture as displayed in a post without resizing the original picture file? I am referring to images within the main body of the post, not attachments (although knowing how to resize attached pictures, if possible, would also be useful).

For example, at AFF (powered by MyBB), if I want to resize a picture, the code used is:

Code: [Select]
[img=WxH]Image Location[/img]

Where W=width of the image, in pixels, and H=height of the image, in pixels.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2010, 05:55:13 PM
You'd use a width pseudo-attribute:

Code: [Select]
[img width=100]http://pics.com/pic.jpg[/img]
Here's a test:

(http://wizbangpop.com/images/2010/10/John_Lennon_2-1.jpg)
(http://wizbangpop.com/images/2010/10/John_Lennon_2-1.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 22, 2010, 06:38:17 PM
Thank you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2010, 06:41:21 PM
You're welcome. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 26, 2010, 01:44:34 PM
How do you decide how tight to keep the confidence when somebody PMs you with a concern?

Like I've been asked to swear secrecy by someone who believed that if you indirectly betrayed a hint of what you were told, enough that someone figured it out, it was breaking the secrecy just like if you'd told them directly.

But there's also the perspective that under certain circumstances (like if someone's life is in danger, or someone's being abused) secrecy should always be broken.

I guess I'm asking under what circumstances would you break your word?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 26, 2010, 05:44:38 PM
How do you decide how tight to keep the confidence when somebody PMs you with a concern?

Like I've been asked to swear secrecy by someone who believed that if you indirectly betrayed a hint of what you were told, enough that someone figured it out, it was breaking the secrecy just like if you'd told them directly.

But there's also the perspective that under certain circumstances (like if someone's life is in danger, or someone's being abused) secrecy should always be broken.

I guess I'm asking under what circumstances would you break your word?

I'm afraid that on hypothetical grounds, the answer will have to be hypothetical and most likely without any real relevance. But anyway... If someone's life depended on my breaking the trust (in other words, if I could save that life), I would probably do it. Abuse, yes, likewise, but it would depend on a lot of things.

Keeping one's word is important, it's not something to be taken lightly.

But what you are really asking is what, exactly, did I hear from a member and under what circumstances might I break that confidence, aren't you? There is very little going on here where the concerns of a single member would make any difference to the rest of the membership, Pyraxis. It's just a message board. I'm not touching that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 26, 2010, 05:53:47 PM
I tried looking at a Swedish newspaper on line.  Swedes must have the strongest tongues and most agile lips of any nationality.  True?  Also, I think you all probably need glasses from trying to read those tongue-twister words?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 26, 2010, 06:04:50 PM
There was a question in there? :P

No, it's no more difficult to speak or read than English, and the pronunciation is more straight-forward, considering how English thrives on exceptions.

But then, I'm Finnish. What do I know?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on December 26, 2010, 06:53:53 PM
I tried looking at a Swedish newspaper on line.  Swedes must have the strongest tongues and most agile lips of any nationality.  True?  Also, I think you all probably need glasses from trying to read those tongue-twister words?

Odeon Replied:

was a question in there?

No, it's no more difficult to speak or read than English, and the pronunciation is more straight-forward, considering how English thrives on exceptions.

But then, I'm Finnish. What do I know?

The questions was (indirectly) are Swedes good kissers because of the language?

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 26, 2010, 07:33:48 PM
I tried looking at a Swedish newspaper on line.  Swedes must have the strongest tongues and most agile lips of any nationality.  True?  Also, I think you all probably need glasses from trying to read those tongue-twister words?

Odeon Replied:

was a question in there?

No, it's no more difficult to speak or read than English, and the pronunciation is more straight-forward, considering how English thrives on exceptions.

But then, I'm Finnish. What do I know?

The questions was (indirectly) are Swedes good kissers because of the language?



That implied question went riiiiiiiight over my head!    :asthing:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 27, 2010, 02:08:49 AM
Yup, it went over my head too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 27, 2010, 11:31:37 AM
I'm afraid that on hypothetical grounds, the answer will have to be hypothetical and most likely without any real relevance. But anyway... If someone's life depended on my breaking the trust (in other words, if I could save that life), I would probably do it. Abuse, yes, likewise, but it would depend on a lot of things.

Keeping one's word is important, it's not something to be taken lightly.

But what you are really asking is what, exactly, did I hear from a member and under what circumstances might I break that confidence, aren't you?

It does have real relevance to me. I'm not asking about a particular example. I'm trying to get to know you.

As things stand I can't trust you. I want to understand enough to change that.

There is very little going on here where the concerns of a single member would make any difference to the rest of the membership, Pyraxis. It's just a message board. I'm not touching that.

Not touching what? The idea that the concerns of a single member here would make any difference to the rest of the membership? Or the particular example you had in mind?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 27, 2010, 05:42:33 PM
I was trying to say that it's just a message board. It should never be more important than real life, but I sometimes get the feeling that you treat it rather more seriously than that, and that's where I don't want to go. That is what I don't want to touch.

As for trusting me, why should you? Do you need to? I don't trust or distrust you, but I do find your posts entertaining and worthy of thought. Isn't that why we are here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 30, 2010, 03:13:36 PM
I am having trouble with my theme. I currently use the theme "Pn-Pn (for 1.1 RC3)", and I cannot get the shoutbox to appear at the top of my home page. Is there a setting that I need to change, or does this theme simply not include the shoutbox? Changing the theme back to the board default or to Black Rain results in the shoutbox returning, which is why I believe that the problem is theme-specific.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 30, 2010, 03:20:36 PM
I am having trouble with my theme. I currently use the theme "Pn-Pn (for 1.1 RC3)", and I cannot get the shoutbox to appear at the top of my home page. Is there a setting that I need to change, or does this theme simply not include the shoutbox? Changing the theme back to the board default or to Black Rain results in the shoutbox returning, which is why I believe that the problem is theme-specific.

I'm not Odeon, but I think that there were some themes that nobody was using and so the Shoutbox wasn't made to work on those themes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2010, 06:25:30 PM
I am having trouble with my theme. I currently use the theme "Pn-Pn (for 1.1 RC3)", and I cannot get the shoutbox to appear at the top of my home page. Is there a setting that I need to change, or does this theme simply not include the shoutbox? Changing the theme back to the board default or to Black Rain results in the shoutbox returning, which is why I believe that the problem is theme-specific.

Yes, it's theme-specific. Pn-Pn doesn't support the shoutbox. The template was written for SMF 1.0X and it's too much bother to try to get the shoutbox to work with it. I had a look when I went looking for a better shoutbox but there was no easy way to add it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2010, 09:59:31 AM
I was trying to say that it's just a message board. It should never be more important than real life, but I sometimes get the feeling that you treat it rather more seriously than that, and that's where I don't want to go. That is what I don't want to touch.

As for trusting me, why should you? Do you need to? I don't trust or distrust you, but I do find your posts entertaining and worthy of thought. Isn't that why we are here?

Quote from: odeon
Where's the irony?

The irony is that some degree of trust is required when you have a bunch of really stubborn people. All the evidence in the world wasn't resolving this callout between Richard and Callaway. Neither Richard nor Callaway would drop it, even though the horse was ridiculously beyond dead. It was like an endurance game, who could hold onto blind stubbornness longer, or would it get blabberized or locked to stop the madness. And the thing that's missing in all that is trust, simple trust for somebody's word.

I get that it's only a message board to you. I do treat it more seriously than that because I don't see much difference between online life and offline life. It's people on the other end, regardless of whether you can see or hear them. I wouldn't say that a blind and deaf person had less of a life than a sighted and hearing person, because they communicated only through text, and in the same way I won't say that someone in front of their computer has less of a life than someone sitting in a group of friends. (I acknowledge there's as much stupid drama offline as online, it just presents differently, so I don't mean that all stupid drama is of life-threatening import.)

At any rate, trust. I would like to trust you on some level because it would allow me to continue having interesting arguments without it having to devolve to inane tactics like spamming or blabberizing or blatantly disregarding evidence. As the system is currently set up, those things are the inevitable results of arguments where people won't back down. But if there could be some kind of fundamental trust between comrades... not sure what word to use here, since clearly not everyone is friends, but you don't need to be friends with someone to treat them with respect... if it could be acknowledged that a degree of trust is necessary to have a functional community where everyone has the right to say what they want, then I think it would benefit this place as a whole.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 31, 2010, 12:21:18 PM
I am having trouble with my theme. I currently use the theme "Pn-Pn (for 1.1 RC3)", and I cannot get the shoutbox to appear at the top of my home page. Is there a setting that I need to change, or does this theme simply not include the shoutbox? Changing the theme back to the board default or to Black Rain results in the shoutbox returning, which is why I believe that the problem is theme-specific.

Yes, it's theme-specific. Pn-Pn doesn't support the shoutbox. The template was written for SMF 1.0X and it's too much bother to try to get the shoutbox to work with it. I had a look when I went looking for a better shoutbox but there was no easy way to add it.

Thank you anyways. I will probably stay with Pn-Pn for now. There's more than enough mindless drivel on I2 to occupy me without the presence of the shoutbox. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 31, 2010, 01:56:39 PM
I'm afraid that on hypothetical grounds, the answer will have to be hypothetical and most likely without any real relevance. But anyway... If someone's life depended on my breaking the trust (in other words, if I could save that life), I would probably do it. Abuse, yes, likewise, but it would depend on a lot of things.

Keeping one's word is important, it's not something to be taken lightly.

But what you are really asking is what, exactly, did I hear from a member and under what circumstances might I break that confidence, aren't you?

It does have real relevance to me. I'm not asking about a particular example. I'm trying to get to know you.

As things stand I can't trust you. I want to understand enough to change that.

There is very little going on here where the concerns of a single member would make any difference to the rest of the membership, Pyraxis. It's just a message board. I'm not touching that.

Not touching what? The idea that the concerns of a single member here would make any difference to the rest of the membership? Or the particular example you had in mind?

I think your lack of ability to trust Odeon says more about you than it says about him, Pyraxis.

I trust Odeon completely and I believe that you are just not a trusting sort of person. 

Neither is Richard.  He and I have been on friendly terms for years, but when he ignored himself, he immediately jumped to the completely unsubstantiated conclusion that I must have done it.  There's nothing that I can do for him to remedy the years of abuse that led him to be the person that he is.

Neither can Odeon wave a magic wand to make you a more trusting person, IMO.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2010, 03:09:24 PM
That's pretty condescending, Callaway. You've been working side by side with Odeon for several years now, and you've had plenty of opportunity to see what he's like with his guard down, whereas I've only seen the public front he presents in the main body of the site.

I don't know where you got the idea that I'm looking for him to wave a magic wand. I was simply looking for a little direct conversation, because in all the time I've been here, I actually haven't spoken to him much directly.

it's true that I'm not a trusting person, however I have to start somewhere.

As for Richard, it's true that you can not change years of abuse. However you can recognize what's going on and try to stop from compounding the problem.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on December 31, 2010, 04:44:58 PM
As for Richard, it's true that you can not change years of abuse. However you can recognize what's going on and try to stop from compounding the problem.
Sorry to butt in. Most of what you've said is a little confusing to me, but I think people here recognize what's going on with other members very well (not just talking about richard) and everyone reacts in their own individual way.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2010, 04:54:08 PM
Sorry to butt in. Most of what you've said is a little confusing to me, but I think people here recognize what's going on with other members very well (not just talking abour richard) and everyone reacts in their own individual way.

Ok, cool. It's Callaway's way that I was objecting to. I think her approach is particularly ineffective in cases like the crap with Richard.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on December 31, 2010, 04:57:18 PM
The whole thing could be settled with paint. why there so insistant that, it wouldnt solve anything is a little suspicious
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2010, 05:00:15 PM
If someone fixed it with paint and posted it, you would really be ok with that and consider the whole thing resolved?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on December 31, 2010, 05:02:42 PM
Yes. i've already said I would. for the entire day of november 30th. Hit it :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on December 31, 2010, 05:03:35 PM
Sorry to butt in. Most of what you've said is a little confusing to me, but I think people here recognize what's going on with other members very well (not just talking abour richard) and everyone reacts in their own individual way.

Ok, cool. It's Callaway's way that I was objecting to. I think her approach is particularly ineffective in cases like the crap with Richard.
Yes, maybe I read things wrong and you are writing about specifics. The things you wrote about trust read as more general to the membership and kind of idealistic, but after reading again, see you may be writing specific in relation to Odeon. That's understandable, as I've been doing something simalar all along. I'm not a trusting person either, but don't much feel the need to start anywhere. Thanks for your reply.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2010, 05:20:20 PM
The things you wrote about trust read as more general to the membership and kind of idealistic, but after reading again, see you may be writing specific in relation to Odeon. That's understandable, as I've been doing something simalar all along. I'm not a trusting person either, but don't much feel the need to start anywhere. Thanks for your reply.

Ok that makes sense.

I don't know if it's idealistic or not. On one hand, sure, trust is a load of bullshit and I wouldn't ask it from anyone on a site like this. On the other hand, it's kind of staring me in the face right now that something like that is needed. I've been watching the callouts since, gawd I don't know when, when the site was founded I guess. Even when I wasn't posting, earlier this year, I was keeping one eye on the bits of the main event that you can see without logging in. I was thinking of the membership as a whole, since I don't know some of the newer members (you included), but Odeon in particular.

I mean if it's not about some basic level of respect for your opponent, where else are the callouts going to go? Will they always come down to these screaming postwhore tantrums? Probably... but the original idea was meaningful debate. Back up your words, all that jazz. So if I can see ways to encourage that, I will.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on December 31, 2010, 05:23:02 PM
If someone fixed it with paint and posted it, you would really be ok with that and consider the whole thing resolved?

Anything can be altered the fact that paint was used on it already if posted  just proves that.  
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 31, 2010, 05:24:25 PM
Anything can be altered the fact that paint was used on it already if posted  just proves that.  

Yeah I know. The point wasn't whether it could be forged, but whether Richard in particular would trust it, since he was the one asking for it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on December 31, 2010, 05:27:24 PM
I mean really. My goodness, Just piant out ALL the sensative areas and post it already.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on December 31, 2010, 08:05:55 PM
Yes. i've already said I would. for the entire day of november 30th. Hit it :thumbup:

Richard, do you seriously believe that all 4 admins have conspired together, to lie to you about a profile prank that was so subtle, that it had to be pointed out to you, for you even to be aware that it even happened??

:tinfoil:

When I was an admin, I pranked your profile. Callaway jumped on my ass for it because she knew how sensitive you were. That's not consistent with the behavior you're accusing her of.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2010, 09:19:45 PM
I was trying to say that it's just a message board. It should never be more important than real life, but I sometimes get the feeling that you treat it rather more seriously than that, and that's where I don't want to go. That is what I don't want to touch.

As for trusting me, why should you? Do you need to? I don't trust or distrust you, but I do find your posts entertaining and worthy of thought. Isn't that why we are here?

Quote from: odeon
Where's the irony?

The irony is that some degree of trust is required when you have a bunch of really stubborn people. All the evidence in the world wasn't resolving this callout between Richard and Callaway. Neither Richard nor Callaway would drop it, even though the horse was ridiculously beyond dead. It was like an endurance game, who could hold onto blind stubbornness longer, or would it get blabberized or locked to stop the madness. And the thing that's missing in all that is trust, simple trust for somebody's word.

I get that it's only a message board to you. I do treat it more seriously than that because I don't see much difference between online life and offline life. It's people on the other end, regardless of whether you can see or hear them. I wouldn't say that a blind and deaf person had less of a life than a sighted and hearing person, because they communicated only through text, and in the same way I won't say that someone in front of their computer has less of a life than someone sitting in a group of friends. (I acknowledge there's as much stupid drama offline as online, it just presents differently, so I don't mean that all stupid drama is of life-threatening import.)

At any rate, trust. I would like to trust you on some level because it would allow me to continue having interesting arguments without it having to devolve to inane tactics like spamming or blabberizing or blatantly disregarding evidence. As the system is currently set up, those things are the inevitable results of arguments where people won't back down. But if there could be some kind of fundamental trust between comrades... not sure what word to use here, since clearly not everyone is friends, but you don't need to be friends with someone to treat them with respect... if it could be acknowledged that a degree of trust is necessary to have a functional community where everyone has the right to say what they want, then I think it would benefit this place as a whole.

OK... I agree--it would be nice with that sort of trust.  My question was honestly meant, though. Why should you trust me? I think I'm pretty much a WYSIWYG person. This is me, this is how I see things. But obviously people don't always trust me and I don't know how to change that. With Richard the issue is so basic that I don't even know how to approach it. I don't blame him but I also don't know what to do about it. No irony but also no trust.

It's still only a message board but don't think for one second that it isn't important to me. It is. I've met enough people online who've been as important to me as anyone offline, and I do not treat people differently depending on where I've met them. But people generally behave differently here than they would offline so it's different, for better or worse.

Make of that what you will.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 31, 2010, 09:22:58 PM
What is the difference between the groups "News Box Feature" and "News Box Slave"?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2010, 09:29:54 PM
Here's a snapshot of the mod log, sans IP addresses. Now can you let this subject die, Richard?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2010, 09:31:23 PM
What is the difference between the groups "News Box Feature" and "News Box Slave"?

The news box feature group includes those who are the subject of a news item while the news box slave is the person responsible for writing or editing the news in the box.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on December 31, 2010, 09:35:45 PM
Finally. And yes, I can let it die now.

its exhuasting arguing with people online
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2010, 09:41:42 PM
Thank you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Adam on December 31, 2010, 10:05:25 PM
what was that pmselle topic removed ?

Just asking out of curiosity btw, not accusing you of anything :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on December 31, 2010, 10:23:00 PM
What is the difference between the groups "News Box Feature" and "News Box Slave"?

The news box feature group includes those who are the subject of a news item while the news box slave is the person responsible for writing or editing the news in the box.

Is there a list, hyperlink, etc. that links the tagged item with the tagged member? In other words, is there a way to see which news box item is linked with which member (or vice versa) in such a way as to be visible to non-administrators?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on December 31, 2010, 11:24:20 PM
What is the difference between the groups "News Box Feature" and "News Box Slave"?

The news box feature group includes those who are the subject of a news item while the news box slave is the person responsible for writing or editing the news in the box.

Is there a list, hyperlink, etc. that links the tagged item with the tagged member? In other words, is there a way to see which news box item is linked with which member (or vice versa) in such a way as to be visible to non-administrators?

No, not unless the newsbox item happens to have a hyperlink to the post.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on January 01, 2011, 01:40:02 AM
Finally. And yes, I can let it die now.

its exhuasting arguing with people online

Hang on? Weren't you saying that Callaway was lying and that you had proof and so on?

What have you got to say for yourself, Richard, in front of the membership?

I will post thread to help you out, here.

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,16191.msg692892.html#msg692892
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2011, 08:39:26 AM
Yes, seeing this matter dropped would be too much to hope for.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on January 01, 2011, 08:48:16 AM
Yes, seeing this matter dropped would be too much to hope for.

Damn straight. What is the maxim you agree to uphold in logging on each time you visit?

Richard has accused and callout and demanded proof. Then when faced with all of this...did he back himself and remain accountable to what he said?

Nope. He is a long term member and an Elder and knows better. I am just helping him in embracing it. Should not have to. He should do it unasked. But I will stick it to him until he does.

Now look at the maxim. The one rule on www.intensitysquared.com. Now am I being unreasonable? I really don't think so.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on January 01, 2011, 09:34:04 AM
That is not unreasonable at all.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on January 01, 2011, 12:27:00 PM
personally I am still not convinced that she didnt do it. because it seems like to me they can delete entries in that log

but for the sake of not driving most of the good people that post here crazy I'll shut up about it.

And sir les, you dont have to hold me accountable for anything. you arent the fucking internet police

but good luck with that :autism:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 01, 2011, 12:57:13 PM
what was that pmselle topic removed ?

Just asking out of curiosity btw, not accusing you of anything :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2011, 12:58:56 PM
personally I am still not convinced that she didnt do it. because it seems like to me they can delete entries in that log

but for the sake of not driving most of the good people that post here crazy I'll shut up about it.

And sir les, you dont have to hold me accountable for anything. you arent the fucking internet police

but good luck with that :autism:

The name of the "Caretaker Admin" user group should be changed to "Internet Police". :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 01, 2011, 04:17:52 PM
personally I am still not convinced that she didnt do it. because it seems like to me they can delete entries in that log

but for the sake of not driving most of the good people that post here crazy I'll shut up about it.

And sir les, you dont have to hold me accountable for anything. you arent the fucking internet police

but good luck with that :autism:

I knew that you would still not be satisfied that I didn't do anything to your profile even after you saw the mod log, no matter how much you protested that you would be, Richard.

You're too dumb to see the truth even when it's right in your face.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 04:39:07 PM
what was that pmselle topic removed ?

Just asking out of curiosity btw, not accusing you of anything :P

Sorry, I can't tell you, as the author of the thread asked me not to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 04:40:06 PM
personally I am still not convinced that she didnt do it. because it seems like to me they can delete entries in that log

but for the sake of not driving most of the good people that post here crazy I'll shut up about it.

And sir les, you dont have to hold me accountable for anything. you arent the fucking internet police

but good luck with that :autism:

FFS, at least have the guts to admit that you were wrong.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on January 01, 2011, 04:59:15 PM
Can you or anyone else that has access to that area, delete the entries in that log?

If you cant, Then i'll admit i was wrong.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:03:12 PM
Yes, it's possible to delete entries in any logs.

It's a giant conspiracy, you know.  We've planned this for months, that prank. There are secret fora for the pranksters, too, where we discuss what we'll do next. That's how clever we are. :tinfoil:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on January 01, 2011, 05:05:47 PM
Then i'm not apologizing and I'm not wrong. I never said, YOU or anyone else did anything, I specifically said callaway did.

She deleted the entry, that condemd her.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:13:58 PM
Give the fucking thing a rest, will you? I'm getting really sick of your constant accusations. You don't have any proof, you only have the paranoia.

You most likely did it yourself, accidentally. It has been shown how it can be done and I think that's what happened.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on January 01, 2011, 05:16:41 PM
Ok, some advice. Maybe you should disable the delete feature in the moderation logs. Then you'll never have this problem again, Why thats allowed really is kind of crazy. people need to be held accountable for there actions
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:19:43 PM
It's not a problem. Logs grow and need to be pruned regularly.

Here's some advice: Maybe you should drop this fucking thing now.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on January 01, 2011, 05:23:13 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2011, 05:23:40 PM
Yes, it's possible to delete entries in any logs.

It's a giant conspiracy, you know.  We've planned this for months, that prank. There are secret fora for the pranksters, too, where we discuss what we'll do next. That's how clever we are. :tinfoil:

Knowing the members of this forum, I would not be surprised if there is an invitation-only "Pranksters' Forum", or something similar, where select members sit around and talk about good pranks to play on the members who don't have access to that forum.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:24:18 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious



OK. Bye.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:24:52 PM
Yes, it's possible to delete entries in any logs.

It's a giant conspiracy, you know.  We've planned this for months, that prank. There are secret fora for the pranksters, too, where we discuss what we'll do next. That's how clever we are. :tinfoil:

Knowing the members of this forum, I would not be surprised if there is an invitation-only "Pranksters' Forum", or something similar, where select members sit around and talk about good pranks to play on the members who don't have access to that forum.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, we also know who killed Kennedy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 01, 2011, 05:26:04 PM
Yes, it's possible to delete entries in any logs.

It's a giant conspiracy, you know.  We've planned this for months, that prank. There are secret fora for the pranksters, too, where we discuss what we'll do next. That's how clever we are. :tinfoil:

Knowing the members of this forum, I would not be surprised if there is an invitation-only "Pranksters' Forum", or something similar, where select members sit around and talk about good pranks to play on the members who don't have access to that forum.
"something similar"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:29:12 PM
Sorry to disappoint you but there actually aren't. I was joking. :asthing: There is an admin forum but that's about it. The admin forum is usually full of exciting posts such as "deleted xyz, known spammer" and the like.

And now I suppose we'll note that Richard asked to be deleted so unless we hear from him, he is gone in a week's time.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 01, 2011, 05:32:19 PM
There is an admin forum but that's about it.
And the Elder forum.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2011, 05:32:53 PM
There is an admin forum but that's about it.
And the Elder forum.

Ah, yes. True.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2011, 05:43:15 PM
Sorry to disappoint you but there actually aren't. I was joking. :asthing: There is an admin forum but that's about it. The admin forum is usually full of exciting posts such as "deleted xyz, known spammer" and the like.

And now I suppose we'll note that Richard asked to be deleted so unless we hear from him, he is gone in a week's time.

During this whole argument between Richard and Callaway, there has been a lot of discussion about whether or not Callaway actually played a prank on Richard, but not about whether such a thing would be considered an abuse of power. There seems to be a consensus on I2 that, occasionally, administrators can use their administrative powers to play pranks on members (and I also recall reading a "Don't Prank" thread in one of the introductory forums when I first registered). If I were the webmaster of a forum, I would want administrators to record exactly what they did in terms of pranks, both to avoid accusations of abuse of power, and so I could reverse the effects of the prank if something went wrong, technically speaking. Is there a better place to discuss such pranks than an admin forum? :)

I'm assuming that you have to be an administrator to have access to the forum. Is there a general venue for the submission of pranks?


I'm merely curious about the running of the forum; I have no interest in the Richard vs. Callaway debate (except to see it end).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 01, 2011, 06:10:56 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious



You are truelove too high maintenance people went out of their way just to be nice and to help.  Have fun where ever you end up
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on January 01, 2011, 06:49:29 PM
Ok, some advice. Maybe you should disable the delete feature in the moderation logs. Then you'll never have this problem again, Why thats allowed really is kind of crazy. people need to be held accountable for there actions

IRONY!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on January 01, 2011, 06:51:57 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

You should be deleted now you fucking whiny bitch!!!  :finger:

Oh, and odeon, you shouldn't allow him to take that back.

Hold him to it, delete it even IF he changes his mind.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: richard on January 01, 2011, 07:35:55 PM
I've got a great idea. Lets have a moderator log, Only the administraitors can delete anything on that. amazing

Since its still today, My origional statement of wanting to be deleted off of here in a week is valid.

I just want to say, Parts thats fine. I understand your frustration. I also think like an enemy, this bitch is sneaky.

In my opinion, As soon as she found out that I knew what she did, she went right to that log and deleted the entry.
So of course its not going to look like she did anything, but amazingly She's very active in that forum. and I believe she knows this board better than anyone

Anyways, I dont know whay you odeon wouldnt want to keep a good standing trust with your membership. Disable that feature. If you want to prune posts there, that shouldnt be that hard to do with you and the gang. I know one thing. I never thought this was a conspeiracy or anything, and i generally like the most of you. I'm just looking out for #1
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2011, 07:43:08 PM
I've got a great idea. Lets have a moderator log, Only the administraitors can delete anything on that. amazing

Since its still today, My origional statement of wanting to be deleted off of here in a week is valid.

I just want to say, Parts thats fine. I understand your frustration. I also think like an enemy, this bitch is sneaky.

In my opinion, As soon as she found out that I knew what she did, she went right to that log and deleted the entry.
So of course its not going to look like she did anything, but amazingly She's very active in that forum. and I believe she knows this board better than anyone

Anyways, I dont know whay you odeon wouldnt want to keep a good standing trust with your membership. Disable that feature. If you want to prune posts there, that shouldnt be that hard to do with you and the gang. I know one thing. I never thought this was a conspeiracy or anything, and i generally like the most of you. I'm just looking out for #1

Don't presume to speak for the rest of us. As far as I know, you are the only member who has a problem with the administrators' ability to delete items from the moderator log. Furthermore, disabling the feature, if it's even possible, would just create more work for Odeon without enhancing his credibility. After all, how would you know that he isn't in on any other conspiracies?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on January 01, 2011, 08:25:53 PM
Ok, some advice. Maybe you should disable the delete feature in the moderation logs. Then you'll never have this problem again, Why thats allowed really is kind of crazy. people need to be held accountable for there actions

Any particular reason that the Admin should cater this site specifically to your needs, The mighty Sir Sticky Ricky "Food Bank Leech and Internet Masturbator"?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on January 01, 2011, 08:28:06 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

You should be deleted now you fucking whiny bitch!!!  :finger:

Oh, and odeon, you shouldn't allow him to take that back.

Hold him to it, delete it even IF he changes his mind.

 :plus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 01, 2011, 08:35:49 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

You should be deleted now you fucking whiny bitch!!!  :finger:

Oh, and odeon, you shouldn't allow him to take that back.

Hold him to it, delete it even IF he changes his mind.

My usual counterargument: the rules should be the same for everyone, regardless of how annoying any individual person may be to the administrators or other members.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Scrapheap on January 01, 2011, 10:45:30 PM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

You should be deleted now you fucking whiny bitch!!!  :finger:

Oh, and odeon, you shouldn't allow him to take that back.

Hold him to it, delete it even IF he changes his mind.

My usual counterargument: the rules should be the same for everyone, regardless of how annoying any individual person may be to the administrators or other members.

That goes without saying. However, in the case of Richard, he's pulled this stunt before. You know, the boy who cried wolf and all that.

I'd just call his bluff.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 02, 2011, 10:54:58 AM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

You should be deleted now you fucking whiny bitch!!!  :finger:

Oh, and odeon, you shouldn't allow him to take that back.

Hold him to it, delete it even IF he changes his mind.

Nah, he is not an exception to the rules.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 02, 2011, 11:00:04 AM
I've got a great idea. Lets have a moderator log, Only the administraitors can delete anything on that. amazing

Since its still today, My origional statement of wanting to be deleted off of here in a week is valid.

I just want to say, Parts thats fine. I understand your frustration. I also think like an enemy, this bitch is sneaky.

In my opinion, As soon as she found out that I knew what she did, she went right to that log and deleted the entry.
So of course its not going to look like she did anything, but amazingly She's very active in that forum. and I believe she knows this board better than anyone

Anyways, I dont know whay you odeon wouldnt want to keep a good standing trust with your membership. Disable that feature. If you want to prune posts there, that shouldnt be that hard to do with you and the gang. I know one thing. I never thought this was a conspeiracy or anything, and i generally like the most of you. I'm just looking out for #1

The problem with your reasoning is that I had several looks in that log before you started throwing accusations, for reasons unrelated to your paranoia but actually visible in the screenshot, and there was no change made to your profile.

Why are you here now? If you want to be deleted, why continue posting?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 02, 2011, 11:01:42 AM
Well heres some advice. since I cant be assured that this problem will never again happen to me, I want to be deleted off of here in a week. and this time I'm fucking serious

You should be deleted now you fucking whiny bitch!!!  :finger:

Oh, and odeon, you shouldn't allow him to take that back.

Hold him to it, delete it even IF he changes his mind.

My usual counterargument: the rules should be the same for everyone, regardless of how annoying any individual person may be to the administrators or other members.

That goes without saying. However, in the case of Richard, he's pulled this stunt before. You know, the boy who cried wolf and all that.

I'd just call his bluff.

Hell, if I decided to treat him differently form the rest, I would delete him today.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Adam on January 04, 2011, 10:08:08 AM
Where are you up to in Bones? (assuming you still watch it)

I am about to start the 4th series, when amazon gets its arse into gear and send me it
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2011, 02:14:31 PM
Where are you up to in Bones? (assuming you still watch it)

I am about to start the 4th series, when amazon gets its arse into gear and send me it

I've watched seasons 1-5. Thinking about, erm, acquiring the season 6 episodes broadcast so far. It's still entertaining.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 04, 2011, 02:27:17 PM
Where are you up to in Bones? (assuming you still watch it)

I am about to start the 4th series, when amazon gets its arse into gear and send me it

I've watched seasons 1-5. Thinking about, erm, acquiring the season 6 episodes broadcast so far. It's still entertaining.

Why the rush? Wait till the whole season comes out on DVD or Blu-ray!  :police:   :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 04, 2011, 04:19:54 PM
Where are you up to in Bones? (assuming you still watch it)

I am about to start the 4th series, when amazon gets its arse into gear and send me it

I've watched seasons 1-5. Thinking about, erm, acquiring the season 6 episodes broadcast so far. It's still entertaining.

Why the rush? Wait till the whole season comes out on DVD or Blu-ray!  :police:   :P

I would do that anyway, just as I did with season #5. I don't like to wait.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 12, 2011, 07:02:20 PM
Odeon, is the moderator log all-encompassing? That is, does it record all actions ever undertaken through the use of any moderator powers? If not, what does it cover? Does the moderator log cover the actions of non-administrators?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Adam on January 12, 2011, 07:03:50 PM
And can you use it to find out for us if the Jooz did 9/11?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on January 12, 2011, 07:09:36 PM
Odeon, is the moderator log all-encompassing? That is, does it record all actions ever undertaken through the use of any moderator powers? If not, what does it cover? Does the moderator log cover the actions of non-administrators?

Here a quick answer Odeon will know more but the stuff you have done as modulator shows up and I pretty sure all of it.



And can you use it to find out for us if the Jooz did 9/11?

Just checked and indeed they did do it
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 13, 2011, 04:18:04 PM
There are things that it won't register, usually because not every mod writer remembers to do everything by the book, but also because there are bugs and omissions in the board software.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 19, 2011, 08:40:16 PM
Is there a way to mark an entire forum as being "unread"? There is a big button for marking a forum "read", but there is no way to mark one "unread" that I am aware of. It is possible to mark individual topics as being unread, but that would be a very time consuming method for marking an entire forum.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 19, 2011, 09:20:34 PM
Why do you want to mark entire forums as unread?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 19, 2011, 09:22:46 PM
Why do you want to mark entire forums as unread?

Because I accidentally hit the big button to mark them as "read", and I want to undo that action.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 19, 2011, 09:54:25 PM
Why do you want to mark entire forums as unread?

Because I accidentally hit the big button to mark them as "read", and I want to undo that action.

You can't undo the action of the Mark as Read button.  Sorry.  You could click on "recent posts" near the forum stats on the index page for ten pages of the most recent posts, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 19, 2011, 09:56:18 PM
Why do you want to mark entire forums as unread?

Because I accidentally hit the big button to mark them as "read", and I want to undo that action.

You can't undo the action of the Mark as Read button.  Sorry.  You could click on "recent posts" near the forum stats on the index page for ten pages of the most recent posts, though.

Unfortunately, I cannot do this. It appears that the Mark as Read button actually marks all posts throughout all forums as "read".
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on January 19, 2011, 10:00:29 PM
Think she means the recent post link at the bottom of the index page.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 19, 2011, 10:01:23 PM
Why do you want to mark entire forums as unread?

Because I accidentally hit the big button to mark them as "read", and I want to undo that action.

You can't undo the action of the Mark as Read button.  Sorry.  You could click on "recent posts" near the forum stats on the index page for ten pages of the most recent posts, though.

Unfortunately, I cannot do this. It appears that the Mark as Read button actually marks all posts throughout all forums as "read".

You can't see any posts when you click on this link?

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php?action=recent
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 19, 2011, 10:01:50 PM
Think she means the recent post link at the bottom of the index page.

Indeed. I see that you are correct. However, I am interested in unread topics that are not recent.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on January 19, 2011, 10:02:22 PM
Why do you want to mark entire forums as unread?

Because I accidentally hit the big button to mark them as "read", and I want to undo that action.

You can't undo the action of the Mark as Read button.  Sorry.  You could click on "recent posts" near the forum stats on the index page for ten pages of the most recent posts, though.

Unfortunately, I cannot do this. It appears that the Mark as Read button actually marks all posts throughout all forums as "read".

You can't see any posts when you click on this link?

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php?action=recent

Yes, I can, but that does not give me my desired result.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on January 19, 2011, 10:04:58 PM
Think she means the recent post link at the bottom of the index page.

Indeed. I see that you are correct. However, I am interested in unread topics that are not recent.

I understand that you really want to see unread topics as opposed to recent ones, but they are all marked as read for you now.  I clicked "Mark as Read" once trying to test it for someone and there was no way I could find to undo it, unfortunately.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2011, 05:22:50 AM
Nope, there is no way to do it without resetting the posts marked as read for your account directly in the database. I think it requires some SQL but I'm not sure.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 25, 2011, 05:13:15 PM
I hope you will forbear my narcissism, for this is a question more about me than you ...

I have gone to more than one site (2wire, qualcomm, speakeasy) to test my bandwidth, but found similar results. I do realise that the results of any "free test" usually reflect what the company providing the free service is trying to sell.

That being the case, in most cases, speakeasy.com sell various hardware items and services designed especially for VOIP, but their speed test result of my cable service is almost exactly the same as the other two free tests.

I am wondering if this gigantic span between down-  and up-  seems "normal"  to you.

I have recently had an epiphany concerning my "dodgy service" and reset my modem/network properties back to "default settings,"  and no longer allow my anti-virus (Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2011) to adjust or control any of my settings regarding what they think may be actual or imagined security concerns. I gained ten times the down-  speed by doing so, but doing so did not affect my up-  speed.

Does this seem normal to you:



(Oh, I forgot to mention that the blacked out portion of the image is merely my personal information that I chose to not publish. Not trying to hide it from you, just the rest of the world)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 26, 2011, 04:14:26 AM
If you have ADSL2 (which the speeds would indicate), the up speed is a bit low. It should be close to 1Mbps or even 2, depending on your ISP and the general load on the switch closest to you. The down speed is not unreasonably low but on ADSL I'd expect closer to 20.

If the switch is shared by many others, that will affect the up (and down) speed, especially if some run bit torrent clients, VOIP or other bidirectional services.

The distance to the switch is crucial, as is the quality of the cables. At your end, check every cable and make sure that the ADSL splitter is hooked to your household's primary line.

If you have a separate router in addition to the modem, consider getting combined hardware. They are always easier to manage.

If you have a combo, upgrade the firmware to the latest batch (some Netgear HW also accept open source firmware from something called DG Team; if you have one of those, I highly recommend switching to their firmware). In most firmware setup pages, there is a value called MTU that controls the maximum size of data packets. The default is probably around 1500. Try lowering that to ~1200, as this could eliminate some timeouts.

Oh, and as you have already discovered, Kaspersky and similar will affect up- and download speeds. Be particularly wary of anything that functions as a firewall.

And if you have D-Link hardware, there's your problem. Get new HW, preferably from Draytek or similar, and send the old HW to Lit for an explosive and permanent fix. :P

(Some of the above apply even when you're not on an ADSL line. Let me know about your exact hardware setup and I can probably help you better.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on January 26, 2011, 04:46:49 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1128277988.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)

 :lol:

You think this a bit on the slow side Odeon?  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 26, 2011, 06:39:24 AM
Ever so slightly.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 26, 2011, 04:32:09 PM


Thanks for the heads-up, O-Man!

I am fairly sure that I could also benefit by completely replacing the lines to a higher grade, along with the quality of splitters that the company used during the last install. Maybe I should have them come out and check their lines which service my house. Bummed, I am, to think I am missing almost a quarter of my upload speed.

My next order will be to have the cable company come out and test my line, as soon as I get a new all-in-one cable modem router combo.

I can get a decent price on a Motorola or a Netgear.

It seems as if you recommend the Netgear product. Is that correct?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 26, 2011, 04:44:41 PM
Actually I don't recommend Netgear because the hardware is a bit too sensitive to heat, meaning that a Netgear will age significantly in a relatively short time. I'd buy a Draytek, something like the 2820n. They are of much higher quality. The price is higher, too, but you get a lot of bells and whistles for your money.

Motorolas I have no experience of but Cnet seems to dislike them. I'd find out who makes the actual components and go from there--I know that Linksys and Netgear share some of theirs.

As for the lines, you can achieve a lot simply by making sure that any connectors and sockets are OK. Some may need replacing or soldering.

For the exact maximum up speed, check with your ISP. It could well be 1Mbps.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 26, 2011, 04:58:27 PM
Actually I don't recommend Netgear because the hardware is a bit too sensitive to heat, meaning that a Netgear will age significantly in a relatively short time. I'd buy a Draytek, something like the 2820n. They are of much higher quality. The price is higher, too, but you get a lot of bells and whistles for your money.

Motorolas I have no experience of but Cnet seems to dislike them. I'd find out who makes the actual components and go from there--I know that Linksys and Netgear share some of theirs.

As for the lines, you can achieve a lot simply by making sure that any connectors and sockets are OK. Some may need replacing or soldering.

For the exact maximum up speed, check with your ISP. It could well be 1Mbps.


I learned from another guy today, that, because of the fact that my cable run is so far from the pole ( about eighty feet or twenty five meters ), I am already pushing the limits of RG6 (basically, I have twenty something year old cable underground, which has never been updated to a modern standard), due to my cable service being buried underground (is he correct?). He insists that I should be running RG11 from the pole to my house, just to start with, but all my splitters and connections are also to suspected in the search for the best speed.


I do not have a source for Draytek gear, but I found them online, just fine. I will certainly explore further.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 26, 2011, 05:23:53 PM
I *think* he is probably right but I don't have any numbers. RG11 will have lower loss of signal, in any case, but as the diameter is larger, you could experience other problems.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 26, 2011, 05:29:18 PM
I *think* he is probably right but I don't have any numbers. RG11 will have lower loss of signal, in any case, but as the diameter is larger, you could experience other problems.

Such as skin effect?

The cable I looked at today  was in the ballpark of three hundred dollars for the runs I need to re-cable the entire house with RG11.

There is a buried conduit, about three inches diameter in my back yard. Feeding a new cable through that conduit should prove fairly straight forward, I would hope.


What are your concerns. (mine are mechanical, but then I am just learning about this stuff)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 26, 2011, 06:06:19 PM
I was thinking about what a thicker cable does to the signal. I don't know enough of these things, tbh. School was a long time ago.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 26, 2011, 06:48:48 PM
I was thinking about what a thicker cable does to the signal. I don't know enough of these things, tbh. School was a long time ago.

I am not so worried about skin effect as some are. To me it seems as if skin effect is mostly an horror in the transmitting of "higher frequency" signals, such as radio or worse, video, in the analog realm. I still have to find if the larger cable can actually contribute to a significant loss when it is mainly digital media passing down a line that is already nearly saturated with other specific digital media. 

I need to look into this some more.

This is why they sell such expensive cables which have silver plated conductors and teflon insulators, you know. They are fighting against the property of the signal being radially dispersed in phase due to cable gauge. Phase integrity is essential in a transmission line where data must be kept within a certain range of phase differential before distortion and losses add up to a substantial portion of the total signal. Honestly, I may need to find out more, but at eighty feet, before I even separate the cabling into the spaghetti that goes to all my stuff, I can not see how RG11 is itself a problem.

Your instinct that the cable company used shitty splitters (and I know for a fact that they did not install a single amplifier in the entire system) and connectors has me really thinking, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 27, 2011, 01:45:31 AM
Splitters and connectors would be on the top of my list. An ADSL signal is easy to disrupt.

Do you get timeouts or do you simply have a low speed?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on January 27, 2011, 07:39:45 PM


An occasional time out is what made me jump into worrying about it all.

When my new (docsis3 capable) modem began to reset about every ten minutes, I knew something must be terribly wrong.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 28, 2011, 10:35:12 AM
The your problem will most likely by hardware-related but you could try lowering the MTU a bit.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: earthboundmisfit on March 28, 2011, 08:49:28 PM


When are you going to start a thread on your new Jag?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 30, 2011, 01:13:46 AM
Oops. I forgot. :P

I'll try to remember when I get back home.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on June 26, 2011, 06:18:19 PM
Thought Callaway was back but since she's not, might as well ask you too. Has something changed with the status for new members?

thats an odd status under your name

"one"

hmm...
Yes, good catch; usually it says, rookie be kind to me.
Just looked at the member list and members with zero post have zero status, and 1-9 posts have one status, and 10 post have rookie be kind to me. Something must have changed.

Jack has the never ending question of why.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 28, 2011, 01:51:01 PM
Yes, I made two separate groups to locate the older zero-post members. I should have removed them but I forgot.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Osensitive1 on June 28, 2011, 04:08:18 PM
Thanks, Odeon.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on June 29, 2011, 02:21:23 AM
How is your eye lately?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 30, 2011, 11:18:42 AM
It's reddish and more sensitive than the other one. Tear production is a bit iffy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on June 30, 2011, 11:16:59 PM
Do you know if you have more movement with it now than what you did before the operation?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 01, 2011, 12:36:53 PM
Yes, I have. My doctor checked the movement two weeks after the op and said it was much improved. I'll have another check-up after the summer and then he'll decide what to do next.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on July 03, 2011, 11:11:17 PM
Excellent. Amazing what doctors can do. :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 06, 2011, 02:34:45 PM
Yeah. But i'm older and take longer to heal.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 01, 2011, 03:31:53 AM
More research?

Hmmmmm......

Those fucking guests are busy little spies.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 01, 2011, 05:21:13 PM
Sorry, was there a question somewhere in there?  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: The_Chosen_One on August 01, 2011, 06:41:51 PM
Sorry, was there a question somewhere in there?  :laugh:

Nah, a guest was perusing this thread AND printing it, and I thought it was someone doing research for you-know-who.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: punkdrew on August 01, 2011, 10:00:37 PM
glad to hear you're on the mend.

obviously been away a while (will tell more later) so this is first encounter w/ new design. i like it, but what happened to chatbox? did somebody blow it up? (wont name usual suspects...;)

more later!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on August 02, 2011, 01:28:28 AM
glad to hear you're on the mend.

obviously been away a while (will tell more later) so this is first encounter w/ new design. i like it, but what happened to chatbox? did somebody blow it up? (wont name usual suspects...;)

more later!

Hi 'drew, good to see you around again! :) How are you?

The old shoutbox is not compatible with SMF v2. There will be a new one in a few weeks' time, including a chat module, once the mod I want is updated to support the new board software.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 26, 2011, 06:11:21 PM
Are all old projects very loud?  Or is it that when working on one it's just loud because your so close to it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 26, 2011, 06:40:17 PM
Projects? not sure I understand. :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on November 26, 2011, 07:47:27 PM
Projects? not sure I understand. :-\


Eh?  Speak up.  I can't hear you.  I'm deaf from years of sitting next to loud projectors.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Adam on November 26, 2011, 07:57:05 PM
How is your OCD going these days?

unless you're trying not to think about it, then I apologise for bringing it up and feel free to ignore this post :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 26, 2011, 09:11:09 PM
Projects? not sure I understand. :-\


Eh?  Speak up.  I can't hear you.  I'm deaf from years of sitting next to loud projectors.

 :thumbup:  Projectors sorry I misspelled it :hahaha:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2011, 04:09:04 AM
Projects? not sure I understand. :-\


Eh?  Speak up.  I can't hear you.  I'm deaf from years of sitting next to loud projectors.

 :thumbup:  Projectors sorry I misspelled it :hahaha:

I understood once I saw the photo of the 16mm projector.  :thumbup:

They are all different. There is a German model, the Bauer U3, that is very noisy (while actually a decent projector). There are Dutch Philips projectors, OTOH, that are all the exact opposite. People not used to both probably think they are very loud when visiting the booth. A large rectifier makes a lot more noise, though.

The ones I have at my cinema are Italian Prevost machines license-built by Zeiss, and can be very silent if properly maintained. A single damaged sprocket or a badly threaded film strip can change that, however.

What's interesting is that a good projectionist familiar with his equipment will immediately hear if something is wrong, because while they all make some noise, the quality of that noise will change if something happens.

And yes, they are louder when you sit next to them but I'm so used to it that I don't think about it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2011, 04:13:17 AM
How is your OCD going these days?

unless you're trying not to think about it, then I apologise for bringing it up and feel free to ignore this post :laugh:

It's better, all in all (the CBT and the meds both help), but I sometimes have setbacks. I've become good at recognising the signs so usually the setback doesn't have to be all that serious but I still see the therapist because I don't dare to stop.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on November 27, 2011, 06:02:58 AM
Projects? not sure I understand. :-\


Eh?  Speak up.  I can't hear you.  I'm deaf from years of sitting next to loud projectors.

 :thumbup:  Projectors sorry I misspelled it :hahaha:

I understood once I saw the photo of the 16mm projector.  :thumbup:

They are all different. There is a German model, the Bauer U3, that is very noisy (while actually a decent projector). There are Dutch Philips projectors, OTOH, that are all the exact opposite. People not used to both probably think they are very loud when visiting the booth. A large rectifier makes a lot more noise, though.

The ones I have at my cinema are Italian Prevost machines license-built by Zeiss, and can be very silent if properly maintained. A single damaged sprocket or a badly threaded film strip can change that, however.

What's interesting is that a good projectionist familiar with his equipment will immediately hear if something is wrong, because while they all make some noise, the quality of that noise will change if something happens.

And yes, they are louder when you sit next to them but I'm so used to it that I don't think about it.
The tools and machines at work all have there distinctive noises also and that is how I can tell a lot about what they are doing or if something is wrong also
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2011, 07:52:49 AM
You wrote something about having a Kindle so I have a question: Do you read books faster with that? My mum has one and she thinks she gets through books faster on the Kindle.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2011, 09:46:17 AM
Projects? not sure I understand. :-\


Eh?  Speak up.  I can't hear you.  I'm deaf from years of sitting next to loud projectors.

 :thumbup:  Projectors sorry I misspelled it :hahaha:

I understood once I saw the photo of the 16mm projector.  :thumbup:

They are all different. There is a German model, the Bauer U3, that is very noisy (while actually a decent projector). There are Dutch Philips projectors, OTOH, that are all the exact opposite. People not used to both probably think they are very loud when visiting the booth. A large rectifier makes a lot more noise, though.

The ones I have at my cinema are Italian Prevost machines license-built by Zeiss, and can be very silent if properly maintained. A single damaged sprocket or a badly threaded film strip can change that, however.

What's interesting is that a good projectionist familiar with his equipment will immediately hear if something is wrong, because while they all make some noise, the quality of that noise will change if something happens.

And yes, they are louder when you sit next to them but I'm so used to it that I don't think about it.
The tools and machines at work all have there distinctive noises also and that is how I can tell a lot about what they are doing or if something is wrong also

Yes, that's exactly how I know when my temp projectionists are fucking things up. I call them in the middle of a show, listen to the projector in the background and tell them to increase the size of the loop above the film gate with one sprockethole when they rethread the projector. I also tell them which projector is running. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2011, 09:47:55 AM
You wrote something about having a Kindle so I have a question: Do you read books faster with that? My mum has one and she thinks she gets through books faster on the Kindle.

Yes, I'm faster with the Kindle, partly because I'm less tempted to peek ahead a few pages and partly because  can adjust the font size (and there the width of a line of text). I love my Kindle.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 13, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
How old are you? Are you a grandfather? I get a grandfatherly vibe from you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 13, 2012, 01:42:39 PM
I'm 47. No, I'm not a grandfather. Maybe some day, but right now both my kids live at home and (hopefully) have no plans to procreate.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 13, 2012, 08:35:48 PM
 :LOL:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 14, 2012, 12:17:38 AM
No laughing matter, mate. I'd have to kill the father if my 15-yo daughter came home and told me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 14, 2012, 03:57:21 AM
No laughing matter, mate. I'd have to kill the father if my 15-yo daughter came home and told me.

Whereas if my 15 year old boy came home and with the same news, I would have to hide him from the girl's family.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on March 14, 2012, 07:37:10 AM
No laughing matter, mate. I'd have to kill the father if my 15-yo daughter came home and told me.

What would you do if your son came home with similar news?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 14, 2012, 08:14:12 AM
No laughing matter, mate. I'd have to kill the father if my 15-yo daughter came home and told me.

Wouldn't making him and his family pay for the upbringing of the baby be a wiser option?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 14, 2012, 09:24:59 AM
No laughing matter, mate. I'd have to kill the father if my 15-yo daughter came home and told me.

What would you do if your son came home with similar news?

See Al's answer. Daughters and their fathers. ;)

Seriously speaking, I don't think he has discovered girls yet. But even if he had, that specific outcome feels like science fiction to me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: RageBeoulve on March 14, 2012, 03:55:25 PM
No laughing matter, mate. I'd have to kill the father if my 15-yo daughter came home and told me.

Nah the fact that she viewed you as a "grandad" was cute and funny to me, o-man. :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 14, 2012, 04:12:52 PM
Will drugs and alcohol solve my problems? What drugs do you take?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 15, 2012, 06:18:16 AM
Will drugs and alcohol solve my problems? What drugs do you take?

Probably not. They might numb you so you don't care, though.

I don't take drugs unless you include alcohol.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 12:17:53 PM
Are you named after the cinema chain?  :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 12:51:38 PM
Heh. Actually I named the cinema I built in my garage Odeon and then took that name as a nickname when registering at WP. The name stuck.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 12:53:41 PM
Presumably, you called your garage that due to the chain? So, really, that's just a 'yes'?  :lol:
Is it just the same money you're always counting, then?  :mischief:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 12:55:04 PM
Presumably, you called your garage that due to the chain? So, really, that's just a 'yes'?  :lol:
Is it just the same money you're always counting, then?  :mischief:

No, not because of the chain, no. Odeon was a perfectly good name for a cinema long before that chain existed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 12:56:37 PM
OK, where did it come from?  :include:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 01:00:16 PM
OK, where did it come from?  :include:

The Romans, I think. Their music halls were called that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 01:38:18 PM
 :squiddy: odeon 1902, from Gk. oideion building for musical performance, from oide (see ode).
Similar enough? OK, so the garage is a cinema: where's the car go?  :apondering:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:17:37 PM
:squiddy: odeon 1902, from Gk. oideion building for musical performance, from oide (see ode).
Similar enough? OK, so the garage is a cinema: where's the car go?  :apondering:

Outside. Obviously, the cinema can't be placed outside so it had to be the car.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2012, 02:24:39 PM
Where does "The Car" go?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:39:31 PM
Outside. Plenty of room for it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2012, 02:41:49 PM
What did you want to be when you grew up? 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2012, 02:42:37 PM
Outside. Plenty of room for it.

Does it get starting problems in winter?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:42:52 PM
What did you want to be when you grew up? 

An astronomer.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:43:23 PM
Outside. Plenty of room for it.

Does it get starting problems in winter?

No, it's very reliable.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2012, 02:44:37 PM
What did you want to be when you grew up? 

An astronomer.

How coincidental.  I wanted to be an astronomer, archeologist or anthropologist (never got out of the A's.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:47:03 PM
What did you want to be when you grew up? 

An astronomer.

How coincidental.  I wanted to be an astronomer, archeologist or anthropologist (never got out of the A's.)

I wanted to be an archaeologist, too, but in the end I studied astronomy. And ended up being yet another IT consultant.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2012, 02:51:41 PM
Have you done a bit of Archeology?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 02:58:31 PM
For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2012, 03:01:31 PM
For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.

If you ever get the chance, I would really advise you to go for it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 03:03:36 PM
For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.

If you ever get the chance, I would really advise you to go for it.

Because?

I would love to, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 16, 2012, 03:04:39 PM
For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.

If you ever get the chance, I would really advise you to go for it.

Because?

I would love to, though.

You could start digging in Part's, CBC's or Icequeen's houses.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 03:05:27 PM
For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.

If you ever get the chance, I would really advise you to go for it.

Because?

I would love to, though.

You could start digging in Part's, CBC's or Icequeen's houses.

I have my own house to dig in. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 03:09:17 PM
No room in said house for cinema, though? & what make/ model of car?  :include:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 16, 2012, 03:14:52 PM
For real? No, but for a while it was my obsession.

If you ever get the chance, I would really advise you to go for it.

Because?

I would love to, though.

I could participate in an emergency dig up, about 30 years ago. Beaker culture. The experience was awesome. Because it was an emergency dig up, there were just a few professional archaeologists. The rest of the people were interested and willing to be part of it all. And thus we saw from within how an operation like that works, and we got thrilled at finding things ourselves.
The professor leading the whole operation gave us kind of lectures in the evenings too, and, he was an amazing cook on top of that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 03:17:58 PM
No room in said house for cinema, though? & what make/ model of car?  :include:

The garage itself is the auditorium (12 seats) and there is a separate projection booth for the 35/70mm projector, Dolby processor, etc.

The car is a Jaguar S-Type 4.2.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 03:37:18 PM
That's so weird, I was thinking Jag.... Like:
[imghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/2001_Jaguar_S-Type.JPG][/img]
 :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 16, 2012, 03:40:08 PM
That's so weird, I was thinking Jag.... Like:
[imghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/2001_Jaguar_S-Type.JPG][/img]
 :2thumbsup:

Yer IMG link is fucked.









deja vu
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 16, 2012, 04:04:18 PM
Odd, I did exactly the same as usual?  :dunno: :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on March 16, 2012, 04:09:16 PM
Odd, I did exactly the same as usual?  :dunno: :GA:

You missed or misplaced a bracket

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/2001_Jaguar_S-Type.JPG)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2012, 04:32:16 PM
Mine is Jaguar Racing Green and two years younger.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 16, 2012, 10:38:56 PM
Did you get banned from Wrongplanet?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 01:07:21 AM
Odd, I did exactly the same as usual?  :dunno: :GA:

You missed or misplaced a bracket

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/2001_Jaguar_S-Type.JPG)
Ah, must have pasted the link in not quite the right place. Thanks for fixing it for me!  :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2012, 04:33:15 AM
Did you get banned from Wrongplanet?

Yes, I compared the then-current drama to a daytime soap, expecting the obligatory brain tumour, and that was it for Alex. :headbang2:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 06:46:59 AM
Oh, WP has some right drama queens, 'tis true!  :lol: :indeed: :agreed:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 17, 2012, 06:53:01 AM
My ex is giving or otherwise in some conference in Sweden in a few months, you feel like going for a heckling?  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 07:34:30 AM
Is that where you live, Sweden?  :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2012, 05:52:22 PM
My ex is giving or otherwise in some conference in Sweden in a few months, you feel like going for a heckling?  >:D

Tell me where and I'll see what I can do. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2012, 05:52:39 PM
Is that where you live, Sweden?  :lol:

What's funny about it?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 05:56:30 PM
oooh, plenty, just can't think of anything, offhand!  :lol: :include:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 17, 2012, 05:59:06 PM
oooh, plenty, just can't think of anything, offhand!  :lol: :include:

You just pick a smiley that you like?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 06:34:18 PM
Yay! Isn't that what they're for?  :dunno:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 17, 2012, 06:45:16 PM
Hey, chief...can we have some games or an arcade, like they do at ZOMG? :eyelash: :eyelash: :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 17, 2012, 06:46:16 PM
Thanks for having me invited there, btw! You are there, too, then?  :lol: :mischief:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2012, 04:15:22 AM
Hey, chief...can we have some games or an arcade, like they do at ZOMG? :eyelash: :eyelash: :eyelash:

I'll look into it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 18, 2012, 04:26:35 AM
 :coolyo:

I might not have to bother with FB then :2thumbsup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2012, 04:38:36 AM
:-\ The arcade thingy doesn't seem to be compatible with our SMF version.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 18, 2012, 04:46:41 AM
 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

OK,  thanks for looking into it
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 18, 2012, 04:50:57 AM
I haven't given up. Some people seem to be able to run it by installing it in 1.x emulation mode. There is a support thread at the SMF site that discusses it a lot.

My laptop battery is low, though, so it will have to wait.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 18, 2012, 05:39:01 AM
:coolyo:

I might not have to bother with FB then :2thumbsup:
What sort of games do you like? There are quite a few sites around, for free ones? Or emulators, etc? :lol:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pig on March 18, 2012, 10:05:45 PM
Are you the sensitive type?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2012, 12:20:49 AM
No, I'm not.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 19, 2012, 01:50:10 AM
I'm vaguely wondering about this 'karma' here? If I want to give anybody some, what counts as a 'reason'?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 19, 2012, 09:34:38 AM
Whatever reason you think is valid.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 19, 2012, 09:43:40 AM
 :plus:Did that work?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 19, 2012, 10:13:20 AM
you can also give negative karma, too.


ooops, my apologies odeon,  for answering in your thread :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 19, 2012, 10:26:28 AM
Yeah, I saw both & I assume they work the same sort of way! I'm much more likely to be giving a + than a -. You'd have to seriously wind me up & piss me off to get a - from me. lols I can't imagine you doing that!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: P7PSP on March 20, 2012, 02:19:59 AM
Do you think this song sucks? Or do you think it really really sucks?

Len-Steal my sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk04-C_92ME#)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 20, 2012, 02:30:13 AM
Dammit PPK, When will I ever learn to think twice, when watching something you propose.

(OK, you did warn it was shite).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 20, 2012, 02:40:39 AM
What is a Witchlet, please?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2012, 05:15:15 AM
Do you think this song sucks? Or do you think it really really sucks?

It sucks. Mainly.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2012, 05:16:34 AM
What is a Witchlet, please?

A piglet is to a pig what a witchlet is to a witch.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 20, 2012, 05:57:48 AM
Seemed likely. When are you going to become a full witch, then? That take a long time?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2012, 11:58:51 AM
Oh, from the looks of it, in another hundred years or so. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 20, 2012, 01:55:14 PM
Not the sort of witch with a black cat & broomstick, though?  >:D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2012, 01:56:53 PM
Nope, not that kind.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 20, 2012, 03:40:34 PM
Since I'm hardly an expert, what kind, then, please?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 20, 2012, 05:55:04 PM
The :witch: kind. :P

Sorry, messing with you. A very dear friend of mine who is a witch gave me that title. Not sure I can explain her kind of witchery properly right now, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 20, 2012, 08:23:02 PM
What's an elder?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2012, 12:16:48 AM
It's a member group for a hidden, invite-only forum for those who have been here for a while.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 21, 2012, 01:26:31 AM
Wiccan? Might as well ask if Karma can go into negative numbers?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 21, 2012, 04:02:24 AM
Interesting callout combinations you would like to see  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2012, 09:13:31 AM
Interesting callout combinations you would like to see  :zoinks:

You vs Callaway. Pyraxis vs Butterflies. Hubert vs Oddball.

Etc.

I can think of a lot of combinations.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2012, 09:14:00 AM
Wiccan? Might as well ask if Karma can go into negative numbers?

Huh?

No, she is not Wiccan, not really.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 21, 2012, 09:31:34 AM
About the only sort of witch I've heard about, other than in fiction. What sort & how about my karma, please?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 21, 2012, 12:28:26 PM
Oh, you can have negative karma, sure.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 23, 2012, 09:28:16 PM
Have you ever masturbated to nudes on here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tequila on March 23, 2012, 09:29:55 PM
Have you ever masturbated to nudes on here?

(Aside: Have you got some of yours up?)

Are you European?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 23, 2012, 11:13:36 PM
Why did you start this site?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2012, 01:13:48 AM
Have you ever masturbated to nudes on here?

Not that I can remember, no.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2012, 01:14:07 AM
Have you ever masturbated to nudes on here?

(Aside: Have you got some of yours up?)

Are you European?

Yes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 24, 2012, 01:21:43 AM
He has his own theatre.  We send all our potential wank fodder material directly there.   :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2012, 01:22:17 AM
Why did you start this site?

I didn't. http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18560.0.html (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18560.0.html)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 24, 2012, 04:42:27 AM
What happened to them, then?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Walkyra on March 24, 2012, 04:52:17 AM
Oh, from the looks of it, in another hundred years or so. :P

Dost thou walketh the path of the adept?
Dost thou seeket to defy the natural order of the universe and seeketh to become god?

    ^
  /(o)\
/____\

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 24, 2012, 03:20:51 PM
Have you ever masturbated to nudes on here?

(Aside: Have you got some of yours up?)

Are you European?

I am from the US. And no I don't post nudes of myself.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2012, 04:23:26 PM
What happened to them, then?

Who?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 24, 2012, 04:53:24 PM
The people who started this? They still here?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 24, 2012, 04:58:14 PM
The only one still around, every now and then, is McJagger. And of course Neuroman sometimes posts here.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 24, 2012, 06:25:50 PM
How tall are you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 02:25:04 AM
About 5ft 8"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 25, 2012, 03:37:41 AM
And thin?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 09:00:25 AM
Reasonably. I'm middle-aged. I'm not obese.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 25, 2012, 03:49:45 PM
Got grey hair yet?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 03:52:18 PM
Lots of it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 25, 2012, 03:53:56 PM
Children, too?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 03:54:06 PM
Be honest, you're a fat toad.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 03:55:19 PM
The way you are a talented artist?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 04:05:21 PM
I don't lie. I'm autie. I don't know how. No worries. Fat toads are lovable, sometimes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 25, 2012, 04:09:26 PM
Grab your coat, odeon,  you've pulled :eyebrows: :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 04:15:27 PM
I don't lie. I'm autie. I don't know how. No worries. Fat toads are lovable, sometimes.

You don't lie because you are autistic? And you actually believe that? You lie well.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 04:17:22 PM
Grab your coat, odeon,  you've pulled :eyebrows: :eyebrows:

She's not my type. I'm pretty sure her talents aren't in any area I'd be interested in. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 04:20:24 PM
I don't lie. I'm autie. I don't know how. No worries. Fat toads are lovable, sometimes.

You don't lie because you are autistic? And you actually believe that? You lie well.

No, I honestly don't lie well, that's why I don't. I get in trouble for being too honest.

I can put up one of my notan thumbnail value sketches I you want a tiny look but I won't share much else. I do all kinds of art.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 25, 2012, 04:22:05 PM
You just did. But I've witnessed far better lies.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 04:33:56 PM
Calling you a fat toad isn't a lie, dumb dumb. I have no way of knowing whether you are or aren't. Have you posted a pic somewhere I should know about? With that I can also assume you're a dumb fat toad.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Callaway on March 25, 2012, 04:54:02 PM
Just so you know, Odeon is neither fat nor a toad and he's definitely not dumb.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 04:58:23 PM
You're adorable, Callaway!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 25, 2012, 05:21:54 PM
How important is someone's looks on an internet message board??

Unless you have other plans to take it to 'real life' :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 05:40:07 PM
I love Odeon either way!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 25, 2012, 05:44:26 PM
How important is someone's looks on an internet message board??

Unless you have other plans to take it to 'real life' :eyebrows: :eyebrows: :eyebrows:

You think a lot like a Ho!  :apondering:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on March 25, 2012, 06:27:44 PM
Is your happy pill wearing off?

 :vibe: or did you wear the batteries out? :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on March 26, 2012, 02:25:37 AM
God, girl, U've got a 1 track mind! lol
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 26, 2012, 01:47:56 PM
Calling you a fat toad isn't a lie, dumb dumb. I have no way of knowing whether you are or aren't. Have you posted a pic somewhere I should know about? With that I can also assume you're a dumb fat toad.

I don't lie. I'm autie. I don't know how. No worries. Fat toads are lovable, sometimes.

I don't lie. I'm autie. I don't know how. No worries. Fat toads are lovable, sometimes.

You don't lie because you are autistic? And you actually believe that? You lie well.

No, I honestly don't lie well, that's why I don't. I get in trouble for being too honest.

I can put up one of my notan thumbnail value sketches I you want a tiny look but I won't share much else. I do all kinds of art.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 26, 2012, 01:48:40 PM
:yawn:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Meadow on March 26, 2012, 01:53:10 PM
 :yawn:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on March 26, 2012, 05:45:34 PM
How sweet they are napping together :)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on March 26, 2012, 09:57:41 PM
How sweet they are napping together :)

Haha
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pig on April 10, 2012, 08:29:34 PM
Odeon, since Meadow's picture is allowed to be used as someone else's avatar, does that mean I can use your picture as my avatar?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 10, 2012, 09:12:03 PM
Sure, why'd he mind you doing whatever you want with a photo of John Lennon....? Huh?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 10, 2012, 11:23:21 PM
Odeon, since Meadow's picture is allowed to be used as someone else's avatar, does that mean I can use your picture as my avatar?

John Lennon? Don't you think it would confuse people?

Or, if you mean MY picture, no.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on April 11, 2012, 02:56:12 AM
Sure, why'd he mind you doing whatever you want with a photo of John Lennon....? Huh?
Wtf are you doing Bruce?  This isn't your ask away thread.  You can't even answer your own questions in your own thread so who the fuck do you think you are to answer on odeon's behalf?



my apologies to odeon for butting in, too. :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 11, 2012, 03:19:24 AM
I happened to look & I didn't get why Pig was asking such a question! Obviously, using a photo of Odeon, from that thread, as your avatar wouldn't be allowed, so WTF was he thinking?  :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on April 11, 2012, 03:22:17 AM
If Pig wanted to ask you a question,  he would have.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Kapkao on April 11, 2012, 03:46:38 AM
If I were an insomniac, Brucieboy's karma would dissipate in a day.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 11, 2012, 07:36:54 AM
Yeah, so I was asking Pig about his question!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2012, 01:24:01 PM
I happened to look & I didn't get why Pig was asking such a question! Obviously, using a photo of Odeon, from that thread, as your avatar wouldn't be allowed, so WTF was he thinking?  :o

I know you didn't get it. What I don't get it is why you chose to answer for me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 11, 2012, 02:04:14 PM
Thought I'd ease the burden on your overworked shoulders?  :angel:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2012, 02:07:07 PM
I doubt any thought was involved.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on April 11, 2012, 06:28:30 PM
Were you bullied as a child?

What makes you sad?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 11, 2012, 08:54:20 PM
I doubt any thought was involved.
Darn, you see right through me!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: RageBeoulve on April 11, 2012, 08:56:12 PM
I doubt any thought was involved.
Darn, you see right through me!

You dumbass...  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: on April 11, 2012, 09:18:35 PM
Why is photobucket being filtered?

photobucket.com filters to a space and a dot.

i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg

Becomes

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg (http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg)

Thus breaking image posting from photobucket.

y u do dis
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 11, 2012, 09:20:59 PM
Why is photobucket being filtered?

photobucket.com filters to a space and a dot.

i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg

Becomes

http://i162. ./t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg (http://i162. ./t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg)

Thus breaking image posting from photobucket.

y u do dis

 I believe it has to do with image-spamming by BruceCM and/or Kapkao.
 The gif I told you about may have been a deciding factor.  :apondering:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: on April 11, 2012, 09:24:10 PM
Why is photobucket being filtered?

photobucket.com filters to a space and a dot.

i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg

Becomes

http://i162. ./t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg (http://i162. ./t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg)

Thus breaking image posting from photobucket.

y u do dis

 I believe it has to do with image-spamming by BruceCM and/or Kapkao.
 The gif I told you about may have been a deciding factor.  :apondering:

...That makes sense.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 11, 2012, 10:21:28 PM
Do you wish you could hire a hit man to take out some members?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2012, 11:21:06 PM
Were you bullied as a child?

What makes you sad?

Yes, I was bullied. Throughout school, I'd say, but some years were better than others.

What makes me sad? Good question. I honestly don't always know if you disregard the loss of loved ones and such (that still frequently upset me and confuse me rather than making me sad).
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2012, 11:22:00 PM
Why is photobucket being filtered?

photobucket.com filters to a space and a dot.

i162.photobucket.com/albums/t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg

Becomes

http://i162. ./t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg (http://i162. ./t254/pikajedi3/Ammunition/876e56c8.jpg)

Thus breaking image posting from photobucket.

y u do dis

Sorry about that, mate. It's a way to fight the current spam from some members. A cookie if you know who.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2012, 11:22:32 PM
Do you wish you could hire a hit man to take out some members?

Yes, that or simply doing it myself.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 11, 2012, 11:34:09 PM
I've not posted that many photos from there, so it can't be me!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Kapkao on April 11, 2012, 11:53:50 PM
 :evillaugh:

If it didn't add to the menial workload of putting Brucie into -5 karma, I would "yay" that remark for sheer irony.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 12, 2012, 12:08:33 AM
Well, I can find plenty of images to post from other sites & most I have put here are, so blocking PB on my account doesn't make any sense. It'd be Bodie, repeating the same photos in her thread, obviously, anyway....
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Kapkao on April 12, 2012, 12:11:00 AM
Wow yuor fucking stupid.  :wanker:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 12, 2012, 12:21:04 AM
& that turns you on!?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on April 12, 2012, 06:28:50 AM
Do you wish you could hire a hit man to take out some members?

Yes, that or simply doing it myself.

Did you ever receive one of those spare axes from Parts?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on April 12, 2012, 06:39:03 AM
Well, I can find plenty of images to post from other sites & most I have put here are, so blocking PB on my account doesn't make any sense. It'd be Bodie, repeating the same photos in her thread, obviously, anyway....
Really!  If odeon has a problem with my posts i am 100% sure he has the balls to tell me.  Stop deflecting from the question you won't answer about rape!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 12, 2012, 09:06:04 AM
Stop asking!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2012, 12:58:05 PM
Do you wish you could hire a hit man to take out some members?

Yes, that or simply doing it myself.

Did you ever receive one of those spare axes from Parts?

Maybe I should.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2012, 12:59:45 PM
Stop asking!

Answer the question and maybe, just maybe she might stop.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 12, 2012, 01:35:48 PM
Stop asking!

Answer the question and maybe, just maybe she might stop.

 Eh, the question is settled in my mind.  BruceCM is a pedophile.  :thumbdn:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2012, 01:36:46 PM
Stop asking!

Answer the question and maybe, just maybe she might stop.

 Eh, the question is settled in my mind.  BruceCM is a pedophile.  :thumbup:

Yes, that would be the logical conclusion.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: on April 12, 2012, 01:40:34 PM
Stop asking!

Answer the question and maybe, just maybe she might stop.

 Eh, the question is settled in my mind.  BruceCM is a pedophile.  :thumbup:

Yes, that would be the logical conclusion.

Yup. Without evidence to the contrary, the only conclusion that I can reach, based on the image that initiated all this and his continued evasiveness, is that Bruce is a nonce.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 12, 2012, 01:41:51 PM
Which makes me wonder ifwe are somehow enabling him.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 12, 2012, 01:44:52 PM
Which makes me wonder ifwe are somehow enabling him.

 I suspect he enjoys the notoriety.  It may make him feel popular.  :facepalm2:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 12, 2012, 01:59:27 PM
Wow yuor fucking stupid.  :wanker:

Wow, one of the members actually found a sex partner, even one of low intelligence?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: BruceCM on April 13, 2012, 03:08:00 PM
Lulz!
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Post by: Kapkao on April 13, 2012, 03:40:12 PM
you'll need codeine for it by tomorrow, I imagine.  :yarly:
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Post by: midlifeaspie on April 13, 2012, 03:41:21 PM
Besides, my asshole hurts!

Sorry, but I told you I wasn't going to be gentle before we even started.
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Post by: BruceCM on April 13, 2012, 03:48:14 PM
You liar!
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Post by: midlifeaspie on April 13, 2012, 03:55:59 PM
You liar!

I whispered it in your ear, from behind. 
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Post by: BruceCM on April 13, 2012, 03:59:01 PM
You said it wouldn't hurt!
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Post by: midlifeaspie on April 13, 2012, 04:01:14 PM
You said it wouldn't hurt!

I said you should leave, or I would tear you wide open and leave you weeping and dripping on the sidewalk.
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Post by: BruceCM on April 13, 2012, 04:04:36 PM
Liar!
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Post by: midlifeaspie on April 13, 2012, 04:06:15 PM
Liar!

You are taking the analogy too far Mellish  :M
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Post by: 'andersom' on April 13, 2012, 04:40:13 PM
Liar!

You are taking the analogy too far ****  :M

Why the real name?
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Post by: Bastet on April 13, 2012, 06:19:09 PM
Are you Jewish?
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Post by: odeon on April 13, 2012, 06:26:40 PM
No. Why?
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Post by: Bastet on April 13, 2012, 06:32:32 PM
I was checking out the karma of some old members who had negative karma and you seemed to really hate Nazis. I don't particularly care for Nazis myself. I was bullied by them. They are usually ugly, smelly, stupid rednecks anyway who overuse double negatives and listen to Cuntry Music and complain about illegal Mexicans, etc.
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Post by: odeon on April 13, 2012, 06:40:56 PM
I was checking out the karma of some old members who had negative karma and you seemed to really hate Nazis. I don't particularly care for Nazis myself. I was bullied by them. They are usually ugly, smelly, stupid rednecks anyway who overuse double negatives and listen to Cuntry Music and complain about illegal Mexicans, etc.

I particularly hate the kind engaging in genocidal activities or supporting those that do.
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Post by: P7PSP on April 13, 2012, 06:44:00 PM
Why is Bruce sinbined?
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Post by: Bastet on April 13, 2012, 06:45:39 PM
You an animal lover?

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Post by: Bastet on April 13, 2012, 06:46:41 PM
I saw you sending messages. Did you pm pig?
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Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 13, 2012, 06:48:55 PM


I saw you sending messages. Did you pm pig?


he was sending me secksy love notes again
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Post by: Bastet on April 13, 2012, 06:54:25 PM


I saw you sending messages. Did you pm pig?


he was sending me secksy love notes again

Are you a beautiful virgin?
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Post by: earthboundmisfit on April 13, 2012, 06:56:38 PM


I saw you sending messages. Did you pm pig?


he was sending me secksy love notes again

Are you a beautiful virgin?


no and no
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Post by: odeon on April 14, 2012, 01:16:44 AM
Why is Bruce sinbined?

Because I had enough of him.
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Post by: odeon on April 14, 2012, 01:17:22 AM
You an animal lover?

Not exactly, no, but I tend to like dogs and they tend to like me.
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Post by: odeon on April 14, 2012, 01:17:45 AM
I saw you sending messages. Did you pm pig?

No.
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Post by: Scrapheap on February 19, 2013, 02:48:42 PM
How long have you been doing contract work for the military??
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Post by: odeon on February 20, 2013, 12:19:18 AM
It's been years since the last project but I'd say for about ten or fifteen years. I'm not sure I still have a security clearance, though. Those things need to be renewed every now and then.

There have been some interesting assignments from them, I have to say. It's a shame they aren't all that common these days.
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Post by: Bastet on February 20, 2013, 09:03:05 PM
Hmm sounds fun.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 20, 2013, 09:16:35 PM
  I'd love to have security clearance.  Hell, I wasn't even given a key to my parents' house
   till a few months before I moved out, at age 22.  Come on, I'm trustworthy!  :angel:
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Post by: odeon on February 20, 2013, 11:40:32 PM
It's just a label that is acquired a bit uneasily. Men in black have a look at your background and then decide if you should work for them.

Hmm sounds fun.

It is, sometimes.
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Post by: bodie on February 21, 2013, 01:04:32 AM
So how would you start looking at someone's background?  Do you keep digging til you hit dirt?
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Post by: Jack on February 21, 2013, 06:24:45 AM
Men in black have a look at your background and then decide if you should work for them.

Some of the things they want to know are interesting. You must have been a wanted child, Odeon.
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Post by: P7PSP on February 21, 2013, 06:44:25 AM
It's been years since the last project but I'd say for about ten or fifteen years. I'm not sure I still have a security clearance, though. Those things need to be renewed every now and then.

There have been some interesting assignments from them, I have to say. It's a shame they aren't all that common these days.
Can you give a general idea of what you worked on? When I had clearances it either maintaining spy planes or doing depot level rework of Fast Attack submarines.
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Post by: Callaway on February 21, 2013, 08:39:09 AM
So how would you start looking at someone's background?  Do you keep digging til you hit dirt?

I think they start by sending people to talk to your teachers from school and neighbors from all the different places where you have lived, to make sure that you are who you claim to be.
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Post by: odeon on February 21, 2013, 09:57:34 AM
It's been years since the last project but I'd say for about ten or fifteen years. I'm not sure I still have a security clearance, though. Those things need to be renewed every now and then.

There have been some interesting assignments from them, I have to say. It's a shame they aren't all that common these days.
Can you give a general idea of what you worked on? When I had clearances it either maintaining spy planes or doing depot level rework of Fast Attack submarines.

Generally speaking, it was either about documentation systems for various branches of the military or - in a few cases - information modelling for specific situations involving logistics during peacetime. Troop movements, supplies, the right equipment in the right place. That sort of thing.

And there was one really cool project where we modelled a lot more than that. That's about all I'm allowed to say about that particular project, though.

I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

I've also trained people for various information-related tasks.
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Post by: odeon on February 21, 2013, 09:58:36 AM
So how would you start looking at someone's background?  Do you keep digging til you hit dirt?

I think they start by sending people to talk to your teachers from school and neighbors from all the different places where you have lived, to make sure that you are who you claim to be.

That too.
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Post by: bodie on February 21, 2013, 05:33:37 PM
Quote
I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

good subs are very undervalued  :orly:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 21, 2013, 06:14:13 PM
Quote
I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

good subs are very undervalued  :orly:

  I quite agree!   :halitosis:   They make fine lunches!
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 21, 2013, 06:41:41 PM
Quote
I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

good subs are very undervalued  :orly:

  I quite agree!   :halitosis:   They make fine lunches!

Oi, that one hurt.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 21, 2013, 06:42:46 PM
My cousin married a man who eventually went to work for Redstone Arsenal where they develop weapons for the military.
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Post by: odeon on February 22, 2013, 12:06:20 AM
Quote
I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

good subs are very undervalued  :orly:

Bad subs are no fun. They sink.
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Post by: bodie on February 22, 2013, 12:32:16 AM
yes after going down, a good sub should always resurface  :zoinks:
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Post by: odeon on February 22, 2013, 12:40:40 AM
yes after going down, a good sub should always resurface  :zoinks:

This is especially true in the navy. :orly:
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Post by: P7PSP on February 22, 2013, 12:57:51 AM
Quote
I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

good subs are very undervalued  :orly:

Bad subs are no fun. They sink.
:agreed: That little experiment with screen doors on Italy's sub squadron was a big mistake.  :zoinks:
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Post by: odeon on February 22, 2013, 04:45:11 AM
Quote
I was involved in one Navy project, incidentally involving subs.

good subs are very undervalued  :orly:

Bad subs are no fun. They sink.
:agreed: That little experiment with screen doors on Italy's sub squadron was a big mistake.  :zoinks:

:laugh:
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Post by: Al Swearegen on February 22, 2013, 05:08:33 AM
I have often heard the expression "As useful as screen doors on a submarine. Please tell me there was no real basis in this????  :'(
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Post by: odeon on February 22, 2013, 05:14:30 AM
I sincerely hope not.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 22, 2013, 05:58:53 AM
I have often heard the expression "As useful as screen doors on a submarine. Please tell me there was no real basis in this????  :'(

  My favorite is  "as useless as tits on a bull."  :autism:
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 22, 2013, 08:29:32 PM
I have often heard the expression "As useful as screen doors on a submarine. Please tell me there was no real basis in this????  :'(

One of my favorite TV scenes came from Garrison's Gorillas, a 1970's (?) show.  The team is being sent on a mission via a submarine.  The sub is depth charged and one of the guys pulls a gun.  "What do you think you're going to do with that?"

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Post by: El-Presidente on May 12, 2013, 12:42:04 PM
Odeon, excuse my ignorance but do you own I2? Something I'm not clear on.
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Post by: odeon on May 12, 2013, 02:12:21 PM
I pay the bills so I guess you could say that.
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Post by: Parts on August 13, 2013, 05:32:06 AM
With your ocular migraines  is the pain sharp or dull and constant?  I have been getting more headaches lately that have stayed more in the eyes than in the past without the hard sharp throbbing pain but a dull lingering pain and blurry vision which makes me nauseous.  Any thoughts?
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Post by: odeon on August 13, 2013, 11:22:04 PM
I frequently have no headaches with the ocular migraine. The more migrainy version is sharpish and constant, and usually focussed on one side.

I'd say you have a more typical migraine. Do you know in advance when it will hit, and if so, have you tried any of the available preventive meds?

Have you changed something in your diet recently? Red wine, cheese, chocolate, etc? And also, have you checked your vision lately? Stress can trigger migraines, but so can the wrong eyeglasses (or no eyeglasses).

My migraines tend to be periodical in nature. There will not be one but several attacks within a week or ten days.
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Post by: Parts on August 14, 2013, 05:04:18 AM
I have been having traditional migraines with aura since I was 12 but they have become more infrequent since I was about 30.  The ones I have had more recently are more aura than headache but for hours on end disrupting my vision with none of the very sharp pain that used to go with my headaches.  As for meds I never found any that helped and I tried a bunch.  I have been under a bit of stress and expected to be getting headaches just these are different
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Post by: odeon on August 14, 2013, 10:51:58 PM
I think you might want to see a doctor since you have been suffering from migraines for tears and these are different. My bet is still a migraine, though, but I'm not an expert.

What about your eyesight? Have you checked it lately?
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Post by: Parts on August 15, 2013, 04:29:37 AM
I think you might want to see a doctor since you have been suffering from migraines for tears and these are different. My bet is still a migraine, though, but I'm not an expert.

What about your eyesight? Have you checked it lately?

I am supposed to be getting my eyes checked but a lot of stuff has been going on lately but things should settle down some now
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Post by: odeon on August 15, 2013, 12:54:49 PM
Let's hope it's that because the fix is easy.
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Post by: Genesis on August 24, 2013, 01:37:09 AM
Are you Pro-Leprechaun or Anti-Midget?
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Post by: odeon on August 24, 2013, 02:38:07 PM
I'm anti-leprechaun.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on August 24, 2013, 06:27:09 PM
What's the outcome of your 2/5 diet?  (did I get the name right?)
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Post by: odeon on August 25, 2013, 01:53:37 AM
I think they call it 5:2.

The outcome is that I feel a lot healthier and sleep better. I have also lost weight--I am down two sizes and need a new belt.

The fast day is like a cleansing ritual. It actually feels good in itself. Sure, I sometimes do get hungry but it doesn't feel like a problem.
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Post by: renaeden on January 30, 2014, 06:12:11 AM
I read some stuff about the Kindle Fire and it says that battery life is around 10 hours. So that isn't too bad. I found that I read faster using the Kindle than I do reading regular books. So far I have read 4 and a half books. I wondered if that phenomenon was true.
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Post by: odeon on January 30, 2014, 08:13:56 AM
I believe I read faster on my Kindle. I focus better.

It's both its great advantage and its great disadvantage: you can only see one page at a time.
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Post by: renaeden on February 12, 2014, 12:48:04 AM
I agree. It's also harder to just flip back and read a section that was forgotten. I do that all the time with regular books.
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Post by: odeon on February 13, 2014, 01:09:39 AM
I'm very much relying on a good table of contents and plenty of bookmarks to do that on the Kindle.
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Post by: DirtDawg on February 13, 2014, 03:38:40 AM


Have you taken any time to enjoy the Winter Olympics?

I actually have and even though we (locally) have had the worst winter in over one hundred years, I am finding a fight in me against "SADs,"  the typical winter depression I experience every year. 

Call me ghey, but I have really enjoyed the Olympics.

How 'bout you?
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Post by: odeon on February 19, 2014, 12:19:00 AM
I haven't had the time to watch any of it, I'm sorry to say. Ever since before it even began, I've been preparing for (and eventually delivering) a presentation and a demo at a conference, and work has been piling up in the meanwhile. It's been a very busy last few weeks.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 19, 2014, 12:24:21 AM
What's the first movie you can recall seeing in a theatre?
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Post by: odeon on February 19, 2014, 12:26:08 AM
What's the first movie you can recall seeing in a theatre?

This one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066227/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066227/)
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 19, 2014, 12:33:26 AM
I should have guessed.
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Post by: odeon on February 20, 2014, 12:08:03 AM
Why?

Around the same time I also saw "The Aristocats". I think this one was first, though.

I still think the Pippi movies were good children's movies.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2014, 04:35:06 PM
Because it's the only scandivavian children's character I know.  My ignorance.  Therefore it's the only thing I logically could have guessed.
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Post by: odeon on February 20, 2014, 11:28:48 PM
Don't you think a Disney film would have been more likely? :-\
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 21, 2014, 12:25:03 AM
 :include:
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Post by: odeon on February 21, 2014, 12:35:51 AM
:include:

It's OK. Just ask me another question. :P
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 21, 2014, 02:15:24 PM
Do you have a secret, deep-down desire to wear a kilt? 
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Post by: Parts on February 21, 2014, 11:21:17 PM
I saw Surströmming on a show on strange food the other day and wondered if you ever tried it
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Post by: odeon on February 22, 2014, 04:25:58 AM
Do you have a secret, deep-down desire to wear a kilt?

If I have, it's a secret because I don't know about it.
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Post by: odeon on February 22, 2014, 04:29:01 AM
I saw Surströmming on a show on strange food the other day and wondered if you ever tried it

No.  :zombiefuck: The smell alone is enough to steer me away from it. Think miles away.

I have a friend at work who likes it, for some unfathomable reason.
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Post by: El on April 01, 2014, 09:14:17 AM
What gets whipped and beaten without ever squealing?
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Post by: odeon on April 01, 2014, 11:20:33 PM
A mute pig, among other things.
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Post by: El on April 02, 2014, 04:57:12 PM
A mute pig, among other things.
That, or, an egg.
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Post by: odeon on April 02, 2014, 10:34:06 PM
A mute pig, among other things.
That, or, an egg.

I wonder if there are scrambled pigs.
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Post by: El-Presidente on April 05, 2014, 03:35:55 AM
I've never asked and never seen on another post but do you have kids? Do you like being a dad? (I know I do)
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Post by: Pyraxis on April 05, 2014, 03:57:43 PM
A mute pig, among other things.
That, or, an egg.

I wonder if there are scrambled pigs.
They're called sausages.
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Post by: odeon on April 06, 2014, 02:11:08 AM
I've never asked and never seen on another post but do you have kids? Do you like being a dad? (I know I do)

I do have kids, yes. I have two of them, a 19-yo son and a 17-yo daughter. I love being a dad and I'm very proud of them both. They're great kids.
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Post by: odeon on April 06, 2014, 02:11:44 AM
A mute pig, among other things.
That, or, an egg.

I wonder if there are scrambled pigs.

They're called sausages.

 :laugh:
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Post by: DirtDawg on April 06, 2014, 09:36:07 PM

IF all your favorite geeks were making it so that they could all get their best GEEK ON, where would you want to be?

... apart from it all, just a witness?

... aside taking notes?

... heckling to the best of your geekness?

... loving life and just encompassing it all?

... taking over and proving that you are the most geeky?

... starting a new geek cult?

(This is not a single choice question. There are gray areas between each of the questions. LOL)


... but, seriously, what if all your favorites came together to ... I do not know. You decide.

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Post by: odeon on April 06, 2014, 11:04:02 PM
Not sure what you're asking here, but...

...I'd probably do what I always do, which is a bit of everything. I'm not into starting new cults, really, though. If someone wanted to follow me, fine, but that's got to be their decision and not something I'd want to be directly involved in.

Many of my favourite geeks are like me. They wouldn't know what to answer here, either.
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Post by: DirtDawg on April 07, 2014, 03:27:13 AM
Not sure what you're asking here, but...

...I'd probably do what I always do, which is a bit of everything. I'm not into starting new cults, really, though. If someone wanted to follow me, fine, but that's got to be their decision and not something I'd want to be directly involved in.

Many of my favourite geeks are like me. They wouldn't know what to answer here, either.

That is the closest answer I could have expected, let alone wished for.
A bit of everything, indeed.  (Me too!)

Thank you.
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Post by: Parts on April 19, 2014, 10:52:25 AM
Do you wear ear protection when working at the cinema? I find the volume levels unbearable and have worn ear plugs for years when I go they cut it down just enough I can sit though the movie and not miss anything.  You also have the added bonus of blocking out the noise from the other people in the audience
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Post by: odeon on April 19, 2014, 04:01:49 PM
Not in the booth, no. There's just the noise from the projectors which is quite soothing, actually. It's also diagnostically important--I can hear when thing go wrong.

OTOH, while I rarely find the volume to be too loud in the auditorium, I think the audience is too loud. I can't block them out so I'm constantly annoyed by them. I haven't watched a film with an audience in years.
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Post by: Parts on April 19, 2014, 05:01:15 PM
I completely understand the needing to hear the projector,  I do the same with the machines I use at work for the same reasons.
I find the volume almost painful in the auditorium especially with the changing levels.  With the ear plugs in I can hear everything fine and it has the added bonus of blocking all the people noise from the crowd,  my daughter even complained to me yesterday after the movie about the people behind us slurping their drinks and the kid making noises, I head none of it
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Post by: odeon on April 20, 2014, 10:20:07 AM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.
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Post by: Parts on April 20, 2014, 12:53:33 PM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable
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Post by: Queen Victoria on April 20, 2014, 02:49:38 PM
Parts and Odeon I agree whole heartedly with you.  However, a turned-on phone is a necessity for me when out because of PA and the PR's health issues.  In sensitive places it's on vibrate and between my breasts, so instead of a ring tone nearby people are treated to me screaming, jumping up and scrabbling in my bra.  But no ring tone.
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Post by: odeon on April 21, 2014, 11:03:05 PM
Parts and Odeon I agree whole heartedly with you.  However, a turned-on phone is a necessity for me when out because of PA and the PR's health issues.  In sensitive places it's on vibrate and between my breasts, so instead of a ring tone nearby people are treated to me screaming, jumping up and scrabbling in my bra.  But no ring tone.

If it being tucked away between your breasts isn't a sensitive place, then I don't know what is. :P
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Post by: odeon on April 21, 2014, 11:04:37 PM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on April 22, 2014, 08:05:11 AM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.
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Post by: odeon on April 22, 2014, 02:42:38 PM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on April 22, 2014, 03:07:47 PM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.
True.

I'm liking it that most of my family members are "out of reach" now and then. Only the brother who has to be stand by for emergencies always can be reached.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 22, 2014, 10:35:35 PM
I do like my phone as a gadget, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on April 23, 2014, 09:01:25 AM
All the other stuff my phone can do is the only thing that makes it worth carrying 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 23, 2014, 10:37:10 PM
Like Facebook. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on April 24, 2014, 03:15:20 PM
Like Facebook. :zoinks:
:flyingbat:

* like *
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 24, 2014, 11:01:39 PM
(http://thepridepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Facebook-thumbs-up.jpg)

:zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on April 25, 2014, 03:20:19 AM
 :lol1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on May 14, 2014, 06:05:20 AM
Just out of curiousity.
Was your first bed a cardboard box (http://www.goodnet.org/articles/1116?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=outbrain-paid&utm_campaign=outbrain-april-2014)?

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 14, 2014, 10:58:16 PM
Just out of curiousity.
Was your first bed a cardboard box (http://www.goodnet.org/articles/1116?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=outbrain-paid&utm_campaign=outbrain-april-2014)?

It still is. I dislike change. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on May 24, 2014, 04:27:40 PM
Just out of curiousity.
Was your first bed a cardboard box (http://www.goodnet.org/articles/1116?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=outbrain-paid&utm_campaign=outbrain-april-2014)?

It still is. I dislike change. :P

Do you curl up now, or were you brave enough to get yourself a really big cardboard box?



 :apondering:* the massive cardboard box in my shed, would it make a pleasant bed? *
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 25, 2014, 02:10:19 AM
I curl up. As I said, I dislike change. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on May 26, 2014, 02:41:45 AM
I curl up. As I said, I dislike change. :P

You cried, with every inch you grew? And your mother secretly threw away clothes that were to small, replacing them for larger versions of the outgrown ones?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 27, 2014, 01:33:59 AM
I curl up. As I said, I dislike change. :P

You cried, with every inch you grew? And your mother secretly threw away clothes that were to small, replacing them for larger versions of the outgrown ones?

I have truama issues. :tard:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on May 27, 2014, 01:44:10 AM
I curl up. As I said, I dislike change. :P

You cried, with every inch you grew? And your mother secretly threw away clothes that were to small, replacing them for larger versions of the outgrown ones?

I have truama issues. :tard:

I understand what your mother had to endure.  :asthing:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 28, 2014, 04:08:57 PM
I curl up. As I said, I dislike change. :P

You cried, with every inch you grew? And your mother secretly threw away clothes that were to small, replacing them for larger versions of the outgrown ones?

I have truama issues. :tard:

I understand what your mother had to endure.  :asthing:

Me, basically. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on May 28, 2014, 08:05:27 PM
I curl up. As I said, I dislike change. :P

You cried, with every inch you grew? And your mother secretly threw away clothes that were to small, replacing them for larger versions of the outgrown ones?

I have truama issues. :tard:

I understand what your mother had to endure.  :asthing:

Me, basically. :P

And now you have to endure your daughter. The cycle continues. :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 29, 2014, 10:31:00 PM
She also has to endure me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 30, 2014, 02:43:26 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on May 30, 2014, 06:16:47 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

Perhaps he speaks in a Cockney accent now. :moomin:

"Cheerio, Swedish customs officials. Yes, I am a Moomin. No, nothing to declare. Bawk bawk bawk."
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 30, 2014, 08:42:39 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

London was great fun even though it rained pretty much all the time.

Yes, I've been both searched and questioned, at Heathrow and at Schiphol. The latter was scary because the guards were armed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on May 30, 2014, 01:15:10 PM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

London was great fun even though it rained pretty much all the time.

Yes, I've been both searched and questioned, at Heathrow and at Schiphol. The latter was scary because the guards were armed.

Fuck, Schiphol too?

Only knew that from Calais, and way back, crossing the border from the GDR to Western Germany.

Where there dogs too?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 30, 2014, 05:57:47 PM
Yes I had hassle at Schiphol.  Also the central station in Amsterdam.

I took my car one year and the lovely border people at Dover took it apart.   :lol1:

(no intimate body searches though  :P)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El-Presidente on May 31, 2014, 12:37:02 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

London was great fun even though it rained pretty much all the time.

Yes, I've been both searched and questioned, at Heathrow and at Schiphol. The latter was scary because the guards were armed.

You were in London. Hooray! I was closer to you than I've ever been.  :cbc:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2014, 02:57:20 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

London was great fun even though it rained pretty much all the time.

Yes, I've been both searched and questioned, at Heathrow and at Schiphol. The latter was scary because the guards were armed.

Fuck, Schiphol too?

Only knew that from Calais, and way back, crossing the border from the GDR to Western Germany.

Where there dogs too?

At Schiphol, yes. Baskerville's little doggy and friends. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

London was great fun even though it rained pretty much all the time.

Yes, I've been both searched and questioned, at Heathrow and at Schiphol. The latter was scary because the guards were armed.

You were in London. Hooray! I was closer to you than I've ever been.  :cbc:

Where were you? I looked everywhere but couldn't find you. :tard:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 31, 2014, 03:23:07 AM
How was your trip to London?


and have you ever been questioned and searched by the customs people? :laugh:

London was great fun even though it rained pretty much all the time.

Yes, I've been both searched and questioned, at Heathrow and at Schiphol. The latter was scary because the guards were armed.

You were in London. Hooray! I was closer to you than I've ever been.  :cbc:
You mean he didn't go to yours for tea either!  Sat here I was,  in my Sunday best and got my fine china out!  I think he went for crumpets with Lizzy.  Busy with Lizzie :o
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2014, 03:24:23 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 31, 2014, 03:47:56 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2014, 03:50:39 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 31, 2014, 04:16:21 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

You like the 'rainy' seasons then.   We have glorious sunshine up in Birmingham all year round  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on May 31, 2014, 04:17:54 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

You like the 'rainy' seasons then.   We have glorious sunshine up in Birmingham all year round  :zoinks:

I'll remind you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 31, 2014, 04:33:34 AM
I will have to hide my rabbit from El Pres

(that is not a euphemism)  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on May 31, 2014, 06:13:34 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

Is Sweden not cosmopolitan enough for :moomin:? :orly:

I will have to hide my rabbit from El Pres

(that is not a euphemism)  :zoinks:

It should be. :eyelash:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on May 31, 2014, 06:54:53 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

Is Sweden not cosmopolitan enough for :moomin:? :orly:

I will have to hide my rabbit from El Pres

(that is not a euphemism)  :zoinks:

It should be. :eyelash:

Perhaps  'the rabbit is in the warren'
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on May 31, 2014, 11:46:55 PM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

Is Sweden not cosmopolitan enough for :moomin:? :orly:

I will have to hide my rabbit from El Pres

(that is not a euphemism)  :zoinks:

It should be. :eyelash:

Perhaps  'the rabbit is in the warren'

The rabbit is down the rabbit hole. :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2014, 03:28:43 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

Is Sweden not cosmopolitan enough for :moomin:? :orly:

They don't appreciate :moomin: enough.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 01, 2014, 08:33:46 AM
But you were all the way up in Hammond country.

You needed wheels?  I would have sent a carriage for you  :zoinks:

But you were close to El Pres and he boasts the finest rabbit pie

I'll try to remember, the next time I'm in London. Should be in August.

Is Sweden not cosmopolitan enough for :moomin:? :orly:

They don't appreciate :moomin: enough.

Perhaps they should build statues to :moomin:.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 01, 2014, 10:30:04 PM
I think it's a magnificent idea.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2542/3814666967_360dbee755_z.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on June 02, 2014, 04:19:20 AM
I think it's a magnificent idea.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2542/3814666967_360dbee755_z.jpg)

that is cute
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 02, 2014, 07:23:16 AM
I think it's a magnificent idea.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2542/3814666967_360dbee755_z.jpg)

(https://histarchfulbright.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/5010431686_e468ca7414_o.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on June 02, 2014, 02:31:03 PM
Why is it when I sit in an almost empty movie theater does the next group of people who walk in feel the need to sit close by, and does this happen everywhere to everyone or am I just special :autism:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 02, 2014, 10:42:58 PM
Why is it when I sit in an almost empty movie theater does the next group of people who walk in feel the need to sit close by, and does this happen everywhere to everyone or am I just special :autism:

You're not special. Sorry. I've noticed this at every theatre I've ever worked at, including the 700+ seat one.

I suspect it's why when you park your Jag by itself, far away from the idiots, there will always be one more to park right next to you.  :tard:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: bodie on June 03, 2014, 03:29:17 AM
Why is it when I sit in an almost empty movie theater does the next group of people who walk in feel the need to sit close by, and does this happen everywhere to everyone or am I just special :autism:

You're not special. Sorry. I've noticed this at every theatre I've ever worked at, including the 700+ seat one.

I suspect it's why when you park your Jag by itself, far away from the idiots, there will always be one more to park right next to you.  :tard:

I get it whenever i use public transport.  Empty train - so why sit by me?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 03, 2014, 06:08:29 AM
Why is it when I sit in an almost empty movie theater does the next group of people who walk in feel the need to sit close by, and does this happen everywhere to everyone or am I just special :autism:

You're not special. Sorry. I've noticed this at every theatre I've ever worked at, including the 700+ seat one.

I suspect it's why when you park your Jag by itself, far away from the idiots, there will always be one more to park right next to you.  :tard:

Why can't they give you space? :GA:

(http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/fc/fc05c93286e10da65e9f3e3ce36404d997290265b38031ddedabcacfde2ea6fd.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 03, 2014, 06:12:46 AM
How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 03, 2014, 06:16:32 AM
How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.

Odeon is as Finnish as a Moomin. :moomin:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on June 03, 2014, 10:03:34 AM
Why is it when I sit in an almost empty movie theater does the next group of people who walk in feel the need to sit close by, and does this happen everywhere to everyone or am I just special :autism:

You're not special. Sorry. I've noticed this at every theatre I've ever worked at, including the 700+ seat one.

I suspect it's why when you park your Jag by itself, far away from the idiots, there will always be one more to park right next to you.  :tard:

I get it whenever i use public transport.  Empty train - so why sit by me?

That's an easy one, your rather attractive  :eyebrows:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2014, 11:17:46 AM
How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.

It was originally an insult by Lit, yes, as I am Finnish by birth. It stuck.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 03, 2014, 11:18:38 AM
Why is it when I sit in an almost empty movie theater does the next group of people who walk in feel the need to sit close by, and does this happen everywhere to everyone or am I just special :autism:

You're not special. Sorry. I've noticed this at every theatre I've ever worked at, including the 700+ seat one.

I suspect it's why when you park your Jag by itself, far away from the idiots, there will always be one more to park right next to you.  :tard:

I get it whenever i use public transport.  Empty train - so why sit by me?

That's an easy one, your rather attractive  :eyebrows:

Obviously, so are you. :hahaha:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 05, 2014, 06:01:13 AM
How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.

It was originally an insult by Lit, yes, as I am Finnish by birth. It stuck.
So it was just because you're Finnish by birth?

Are Moomins the only Finnish thing of any import?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 05, 2014, 06:12:00 AM
How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.

It was originally an insult by Lit, yes, as I am Finnish by birth. It stuck.
So it was just because you're Finnish by birth?

Are Moomins the only Finnish thing of any import?

Don't forget Nokia, Simo Häyhä and the saunas. Finns love saunas. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24328773)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 05, 2014, 07:36:34 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 12:03:54 PM
Let's hope it's that because the fix is easy.

    Easy, and oh so chic!   :nerdy:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 12:04:55 PM
I'm anti-leprechaun.

    You're on the shit list now, buddy!   :lep:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 12:05:49 PM
I think they call it 5:2.

The outcome is that I feel a lot healthier and sleep better. I have also lost weight--I am down two sizes and need a new belt.

The fast day is like a cleansing ritual. It actually feels good in itself. Sure, I sometimes do get hungry but it doesn't feel like a problem.

  Are you still doing this?  Do you think I could do it?  :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 12:16:16 PM
Parts and Odeon I agree whole heartedly with you.  However, a turned-on phone is a necessity for me when out because of PA and the PR's health issues.  In sensitive places it's on vibrate and between my breasts, so instead of a ring tone nearby people are treated to me screaming, jumping up and scrabbling in my bra.  But no ring tone.

  I'm sure the onlookers appreciate the jiggle.  boobs1 boobs2 boobs1   :oooh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 12:19:38 PM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

  But before cellphones, one would have to wait for hours near a landline waiting for a call from
   a doctor or someone else one really needed to talk to.  I hated that!  Didn't you, or was it worth it?  :orly:
 
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 12:22:57 PM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.

  Next thing you know, they'll have websites where people can leave you messages
  at any time of the day or night, and expect you to write back to them.  That will be really annoying.  :trollface:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 01:04:45 PM
Just out of curiousity.
Was your first bed a cardboard box (http://www.goodnet.org/articles/1116?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=outbrain-paid&utm_campaign=outbrain-april-2014)?

    Finnish babies are  BADASS!   :arrr:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 05, 2014, 01:12:19 PM
I'm anti-leprechaun.

    You're on the shit list now, buddy!   :lep:

Here the weeble leprechaun squad approaches.
(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg.html)(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg.html)(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg.html)(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg.html)(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weebleperchaun_zps8954791b.jpg.html)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 05, 2014, 01:14:55 PM
  ^ Raising forty flavors of Celtic hell!   :lep:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on June 05, 2014, 04:52:51 PM
  ^ Raising forty flavors of Celtic hell!   :lep:
:laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 05, 2014, 10:24:52 PM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:

I'm anti-leprechaun.

    You're on the shit list now, buddy!   :lep:

Kick him in the shins. :arrr:

I think they call it 5:2.

The outcome is that I feel a lot healthier and sleep better. I have also lost weight--I am down two sizes and need a new belt.

The fast day is like a cleansing ritual. It actually feels good in itself. Sure, I sometimes do get hungry but it doesn't feel like a problem.

  Are you still doing this?  Do you think I could do it?  :orly:

Your hunger would give you something to post about. :orly:

Parts and Odeon I agree whole heartedly with you.  However, a turned-on phone is a necessity for me when out because of PA and the PR's health issues.  In sensitive places it's on vibrate and between my breasts, so instead of a ring tone nearby people are treated to me screaming, jumping up and scrabbling in my bra.  But no ring tone.

  I'm sure the onlookers appreciate the jiggle.  boobs1 boobs2 boobs1   :oooh:

At least it's not on vibrate in sensitive places in sensitive places. :orly:

You're encouraging sin, CBC. :M Repent. :pope:

  ^ Raising forty flavors of Celtic hell!   :lep:

There aren't forty flavors in Celtic cuisine. :orly: :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2014, 12:08:56 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:


That's one of the best things about it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 02:45:46 AM
How did you end up with the moomin designation, again?  Until very recently I assumed it was some imaginary thing or insulting word Lit came up with or dragged onto the board from a different dialect.

It was originally an insult by Lit, yes, as I am Finnish by birth. It stuck.
So it was just because you're Finnish by birth?

Are Moomins the only Finnish thing of any import?

Yes, I think it's why, but you'd have to ask Lit.

I can't think of other typically Finnish things to use in insults off the top of my head, so I guess moomins are unique in that respect. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 02:49:35 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

I'm afraid I don't. I would love to add one, though, but the money is needed elsewhere.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 02:53:46 AM
I think they call it 5:2.

The outcome is that I feel a lot healthier and sleep better. I have also lost weight--I am down two sizes and need a new belt.

The fast day is like a cleansing ritual. It actually feels good in itself. Sure, I sometimes do get hungry but it doesn't feel like a problem.

  Are you still doing this?  Do you think I could do it?  :orly:

No, no fast days for me at the moment.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 02:55:37 AM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

  But before cellphones, one would have to wait for hours near a landline waiting for a call from
   a doctor or someone else one really needed to talk to.  I hated that!  Didn't you, or was it worth it?  :orly:


It was sometimes a bother, but OTOH, since people didn't have mobiles, that kind of arrangement was unusual. You'd agree on a time instead.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 02:56:49 AM
These days, the worst are the ones with mobile phones. I don't understand why people can't stay off their bloody phones for two hours. Even those who turn off their phones during the film itself invariably light up their darlings when the end credits are rolling.

I turn mine off in the car and don't put it back on before I get back in it,  I miss the days of being unavailable

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.

  Next thing you know, they'll have websites where people can leave you messages
  at any time of the day or night, and expect you to write back to them.  That will be really annoying.  :trollface:


OMG, you're right. Let's ban the interwebz. :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 02:59:21 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:


That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy. :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2014, 03:13:32 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:


That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy. :orly:

As long as it is cold, it is fine.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:19:56 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:


That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy. :orly:

As long as it is cold, it is fine.

I don't mind warm, actually. The difference in temperature is not what does it for me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 06, 2014, 03:24:23 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:


That's one of the best things about it.

The water doesn't have to be icy. :orly:

As long as it is cold, it is fine.

I don't mind warm, actually. The difference in temperature is not what does it for me.

As a toddler, my mother would bathe me and my younger brother in the same tub. She'd get him out to dry first, for safety reasons. When she would come back to pick me out of the tub, most of the times she would find me sitting in a tub filled with cold water, and me panting: "Zo kan je zo lekker ah-ah-adem halen ". (This way breathing is so so so good)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 03:28:11 AM
It's a trick used in a sauna as well. A scoop with water is very helpful to those who have trouble breathing in a hot sauna.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 06, 2014, 06:30:09 AM
Damn, now I want to visit a sauna, and get the last bit of this bloody cold out of my system, and my mind relaxed.

Do you have a sauna at your home, Odeon?

Go in Finnish style and swim in the icy water afterward. :GA:


That's one of the best things about it.

:snowman:

Me too. I miss the days when it was considered to be perfectly normal that if you want out, you wouldn't actually be available unless you used a pay phone.

Pay phones are near impossible to find around here and when you do they generally do not work.

It's the same here. I think it's a shame. It was a more normal way of being, IMHO. This insane fascination with being connected all the time is just not healthy.

  Next thing you know, they'll have websites where people can leave you messages
  at any time of the day or night, and expect you to write back to them.  That will be really annoying.  :trollface:


OMG, you're right. Let's ban the interwebz. :GA:

We would have to access the mysterious "IRL". :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 06, 2014, 07:58:08 AM
"IRL"? :-\
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 06, 2014, 09:42:03 AM
"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2014, 05:42:00 PM
"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:

  IRL = "In real life."  The mastodon needs to learn to give a straight answer!  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 06, 2014, 09:09:59 PM
"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:

  IRL = "In real life."  The mastodon needs to learn to give a straight answer!  :P

:ghey: :M

This "in real life" concept confuses me. :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 06, 2014, 10:59:30 PM
"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:

  IRL = "In real life."  The mastodon needs to learn to give a straight answer!  :P

:ghey: :M

This "in real life" concept confuses me. :GA:

  That's because "IRL" you are extinct.  :trollface:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2014, 02:31:53 AM
Can somebody please explain what all this means?!?!?!? :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 07, 2014, 05:48:34 AM
"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:

  IRL = "In real life."  The mastodon needs to learn to give a straight answer!  :P

:ghey: :M

This "in real life" concept confuses me. :GA:

  That's because "IRL" you are extinct.  :trollface:

"IRL", I'm so important that I'm in a museum. :M

Can somebody please explain what all this means?!?!?!? :GA:

This is your thread. Why not explain it to us?

Here is the Moomin, explaining: :GA: :cbc: :moomin:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 07, 2014, 03:28:35 PM
That's not how it works, you evil punctuation mark.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 07, 2014, 05:11:40 PM
That's not how it works, you evil punctuation mark.

If that's not how it works, then who explains this thread? :techprob:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 08, 2014, 03:02:26 AM
That's not how it works, you evil punctuation mark.

If that's not how it works, then who explains this thread? :techprob:

Does it have to be explained?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 08, 2014, 05:38:43 AM
"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:

  IRL = "In real life."  The mastodon needs to learn to give a straight answer!  :P

:ghey: :M

This "in real life" concept confuses me. :GA:

  That's because "IRL" you are extinct.  :trollface:

"IRL", I'm so important that I'm in a museum. :M

  IRL, you are in a museum because you are DEAD and STUFFED.  Fantastic!  :clap: :trollface:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 08, 2014, 07:06:13 AM
That's not how it works, you evil punctuation mark.

If that's not how it works, then who explains this thread? :techprob:

Does it have to be explained?

Yes. :GA:

"IRL"? :-\

It's a mysterious concept. :boo:

  IRL = "In real life."  The mastodon needs to learn to give a straight answer!  :P

:ghey: :M

This "in real life" concept confuses me. :GA:

  That's because "IRL" you are extinct.  :trollface:

"IRL", I'm so important that I'm in a museum. :M

  IRL, you are in a museum because you are DEAD and STUFFED.  Fantastic!  :clap: :trollface:

Where do Weebles go after they die? Into scrambled eggs. :hahaha:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 08, 2014, 07:53:46 PM
  Weebles don't die. :cbc: We just wobble off onto a higher plane!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 08, 2014, 08:27:32 PM
  Weebles don't die. :cbc: We just wobble off onto a higher plane!

There you go again. :cbc: Do a barrel roll! :plane:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 10, 2014, 01:14:22 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 10, 2014, 02:22:51 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 10, 2014, 05:14:25 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 10, 2014, 11:19:34 PM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on June 11, 2014, 12:42:59 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?

As a toddler.  :hyke:  With milk, and sugar of course.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 05:00:41 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?

As a toddler.  :hyke:  With milk, and sugar of course.

Aren't toddlers active enough? :GA: Do they need coffee? :spaz:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 11, 2014, 06:21:12 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?

As a toddler.  :hyke:  With milk, and sugar of course.

Aren't toddlers active enough? :GA: Do they need coffee? :spaz:
The legitimately hyperactive toddlers calm right down with a couple shots of espresso.

The rest of 'em have the same response to whiskey.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 06:23:56 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?

As a toddler.  :hyke:  With milk, and sugar of course.

Aren't toddlers active enough? :GA: Do they need coffee? :spaz:
The legitimately hyperactive toddlers calm right down with a couple shots of espresso.

The rest of 'em have the same response to whiskey.

Feed them both whiskey and coffee, to be sure. :arrr: :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 11, 2014, 06:28:44 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?

As a toddler.  :hyke:  With milk, and sugar of course.

Aren't toddlers active enough? :GA: Do they need coffee? :spaz:
The legitimately hyperactive toddlers calm right down with a couple shots of espresso.

The rest of 'em have the same response to whiskey.

Feed them both whiskey and coffee, to be sure. :arrr: :orly:
Cut right to the chase and just give 'em speedballs.   :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 06:41:57 AM
You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

:laugh:

When did you start?

As a toddler.  :hyke:  With milk, and sugar of course.

Aren't toddlers active enough? :GA: Do they need coffee? :spaz:
The legitimately hyperactive toddlers calm right down with a couple shots of espresso.

The rest of 'em have the same response to whiskey.

Feed them both whiskey and coffee, to be sure. :arrr: :orly:
Cut right to the chase and just give 'em speedballs.   :thumbup:

:spaz:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on June 11, 2014, 07:04:05 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 11, 2014, 10:06:52 AM
  Weebles don't die. :cbc: We just wobble off onto a higher plane!

There you go again. :cbc: Do a barrel roll! :plane:

  Why should I do a barrel roll? :cbc: What's in it for me?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 11, 2014, 10:08:14 AM
Out of pure curiousity again, at what age did you start drinking coffee?

It must have been when I was 15 or 16. Something like that.

You surprise me. Thought you would have begun drinking coffee as a toddler.

  Toddler Odeon playing in his cardboard box, cup of coffee nearby ----->   :toy: :tea:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 10:11:47 AM
  Weebles don't die. :cbc: We just wobble off onto a higher plane!

There you go again. :cbc: Do a barrel roll! :plane:

  Why should I do a barrel roll? :cbc: What's in it for me?

Isn't it enough to win at Star Fox? :lurk:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 11, 2014, 10:12:38 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 10:15:22 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:

Drinking coffee at 31? What a troublemaker. :baked: :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 11, 2014, 10:25:02 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:

Drinking coffee at 31? What a troublemaker. :baked: :orly:

  Once I moved out of my childhood bedroom and sleepy little town, there was no stopping me!  :headbang:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 10:58:03 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:

Drinking coffee at 31? What a troublemaker. :baked: :orly:

  Once I moved out of my childhood bedroom and sleepy little town, there was no stopping me!  :headbang:

Now you are out of control, along with the other residents of your town. :GA: Look at this resident, building fireworks:

(http://www.powmadeak47.com/v2scud/goddard.jpg)

Look at this other resident, holding a gun:

(http://img2-2.timeinc.net/ew/img/review/981009/monument.jpg)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 11, 2014, 11:38:24 AM
  We really are a bunch of badasses where I come from.  AND we have a great art museum!  :venus:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 11, 2014, 11:46:54 AM
  We really are a bunch of badasses where I come from.  AND we have a great art museum!  :venus:

Here is the rest of the state, running from you:

:tooledup: :cbc:                    :chores: :bint: :fish: :chores: :bint: :glug:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 11, 2014, 10:51:30 PM
Stop spamming my thread. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 12, 2014, 07:20:56 AM
Stop spamming my thread. :P

I blame CBC. :M
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 12, 2014, 10:44:27 PM
Ask me a proper question instead.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 12, 2014, 10:46:19 PM
Ask me a proper question instead.

What should I ask you?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 12, 2014, 10:49:30 PM
Ask me a proper question instead.

What should I ask you?

There's a thread for this sort of thing, you know. I said *proper*.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 20, 2014, 06:13:11 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:
post recipe pls
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on June 20, 2014, 06:14:04 AM
  We really are a bunch of badasses where I come from.  AND we have a great art museum!  :venus:
You mean the one they keep threatening to shut down?  :P  (Did they shut it down yet?)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 21, 2014, 02:33:35 AM
That's not a question to me. /grumpy
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 21, 2014, 09:30:58 PM
That's not a question to me. /grumpy

You could answer it anyway. :idea:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 12:48:07 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:
post recipe pls

  I was a full-time waitress during that time, so I never actually made this dessert, but I think it was just
   unflavored gelatin, water, and leftover coffee.  The resulting Jell-O was firmer in texture than other kinds.
   It was slightly bitter, but with whipped cream it was quite edible, and it got me started drinking coffee! :coffee:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2014, 01:47:43 AM
Do you take your coffee black?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 01:53:02 AM
Do you take your coffee black?

  Black at home, with milk at work, with cream in a restaurant, but *NEVER* with sweetener! :coffee:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 05:20:47 AM
WolFish got fed coffee ice cream as a kid because he was one of the ones bouncing off the walls. I wouldn't have thought there was enough coffee in that to count.

  We used to make coffee-flavored Jell-O at my workplace.  That was my gateway to coffee.  I was 31.  :apondering:
post recipe pls

  I was a full-time waitress during that time, so I never actually made this dessert, but I think it was just
   unflavored gelatin, water, and leftover coffee.  The resulting Jell-O was firmer in texture than other kinds.
   It was slightly bitter, but with whipped cream it was quite edible, and it got me started drinking coffee! :coffee:


So it's a Jell-O shot, but with coffee instead of alcohol. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 05:50:25 AM
  Yes, you might say that.  Very tasty with the whipped cream.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 05:54:05 AM
  Yes, you might say that.  Very tasty with the whipped cream.  :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Odeon's thread has gone off-topic again. :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 22, 2014, 04:30:15 PM
  Yes, you might say that.  Very tasty with the whipped cream.  :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Odeon's thread has gone off-topic again. :GA:

  Then make yourself useful, by asking him a question.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 22, 2014, 08:55:33 PM
  Yes, you might say that.  Very tasty with the whipped cream.  :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Odeon's thread has gone off-topic again. :GA:

  Then make yourself useful, by asking him a question.  :P

Odeon, what would you do with a trolling Weeble who keeps derailing your thread? :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on June 22, 2014, 10:02:52 PM
Would you prefer to smoke cigarettes, cigars or a pipe?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2014, 10:40:10 PM
  Yes, you might say that.  Very tasty with the whipped cream.  :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Odeon's thread has gone off-topic again. :GA:

  Then make yourself useful, by asking him a question.  :P

Odeon, what would you do with a trolling Weeble who keeps derailing your thread? :P

I'm sure the weeble will see the error in her ways. Not sure about you, though. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 22, 2014, 10:41:11 PM
Would you prefer to smoke cigarettes, cigars or a pipe?

Cigarettes. I still miss smoking.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Semicolon on June 23, 2014, 06:06:03 AM
  Yes, you might say that.  Very tasty with the whipped cream.  :thumbup:

:thumbup:

Odeon's thread has gone off-topic again. :GA:

  Then make yourself useful, by asking him a question.  :P

Odeon, what would you do with a trolling Weeble who keeps derailing your thread? :P

I'm sure the weeble will see the error in her ways. Not sure about you, though. :P

:mwhaha:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on June 23, 2014, 10:06:53 AM
Sorry, is that a question?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on November 23, 2014, 10:34:38 AM
Have you ever had Sahti beer before??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahti)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 23, 2014, 11:40:44 AM
Not that I can remember, no. Banana-like flavour?!?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on November 23, 2014, 03:50:22 PM
Schwelmer Hefeweizen has a banana-like flavor, it's pretty damn good. This might be a good beer of it tastes anything like that.

It looks like there's a few american breweries doing this style. I'll have to try it myself.   :beergrin:    8)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 24, 2014, 01:07:42 AM
I guess I'll have to test it, too. I can't remember having ever seeing it in Finland, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 21, 2015, 01:36:25 PM
Do the dots over vowels in Finnish work the same as an umlaut in German??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 22, 2015, 11:58:12 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Graelwyn on February 24, 2015, 07:40:48 PM
What would be your top ten films you believe everyone should see at least once in their lifetime?
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Post by: odeon on February 25, 2015, 12:11:25 AM
What would be your top ten films you believe everyone should see at least once in their lifetime?

But... there are so many. The list would probably be different if you asked me again in a month.

2001
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
The Return
The Pianist
E.T.
Hope and Glory
Att angöra en brygga
Three Amigos
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

And I could add ten more.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 25, 2015, 10:33:42 AM
Three Amigos

 :zombiefuck:  You have a dopey comedy here but you left out Das Boot??   :scratchhead:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on February 25, 2015, 11:40:17 PM
That could be #11.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Graelwyn on February 25, 2015, 11:47:18 PM
What would be your top ten films you believe everyone should see at least once in their lifetime?

But... there are so many. The list would probably be different if you asked me again in a month.

2001
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
The Return
The Pianist
E.T.
Hope and Glory
Att angöra en brygga
Three Amigos
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

And I could add ten more.


Ah, interesting list. I had to study Citizen Kane at college. Not seen Hope And Glory in a long time, but used to love that film. Also Et and 2001. Not seen The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, but have heard a lot about it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 12:02:54 AM
Three Amigos

 :zombiefuck:  You have a dopey comedy here but you left out Das Boot??   :scratchhead:

Das Boot was produced as a TV series and then cut down to a movie, I believe. Then the movie was expanded to include more of the TV series. I agree that it is brilliant, but it's hard to count it as a movie made for cinemas, which my list is about.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 12:05:30 AM
Three Amigos

 :zombiefuck:  You have a dopey comedy here but you left out Das Boot??   :scratchhead:

Das Boot was produced as a TV series and then cut down to a movie, I believe. Then the movie was expanded to include more of the TV series. I agree that it is brilliant, but it's hard to count it as a movie made for cinemas, which my list is about.
What would be your top ten films you believe everyone should see at least once in their lifetime?

But... there are so many. The list would probably be different if you asked me again in a month.

2001
Citizen Kane
Star Wars
The Return
The Pianist
E.T.
Hope and Glory
Att angöra en brygga
Three Amigos
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

And I could add ten more.


Ah, interesting list. I had to study Citizen Kane at college. Not seen Hope And Glory in a long time, but used to love that film. Also Et and 2001. Not seen The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, but have heard a lot about it.

It's a great film. It's like a painting with a bizarre back story.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 12:33:23 AM
Remember that I listed ten must-see films, not necessarily my ten favourite films of all time.

But other films on such a list might be, say...

The Godfather II (but you have to see I to appreciate II; you might want to see III afterwards because it deserves to be seen in the context of the two others and has a brilliant, brilliant ending)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
Ben Hur
Snow White
Spirited Away
Wild Tales
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
American Graffiti

And the list goes on. I should add The Third Man, too. And Psycho. And The Trouble with Harry.

The problem with making lists such as this one is that ten is just a number based on the number of fingers we have. It is a ridiculous idea to entertain that somehow, a particular list of ten films would somehow fill the needs of a lifetime.

I could add some Indian films. Devdas, for example, should be required watching for anyone who is interested in film, but a film buff should certainly see at least a dozen large-scale Bollywood productions. And BTW, so should most people because they make you happy. They are escapism at its best.

And there's the old Swedish bore, Ingmar Bergman, who, in spite of making some of the last century's most pretentious films also managed to produce both art and entertainment. There's Woody Allen, a director I can't stand without booze, but who certainly is talented and well worth studying (Annie Hall, maybe? Radio Days?). There is Mel Brooks. There's Francois Truffaut. There's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon!).

And there are films that might not make the list but that you should see because of their storytelling techniques--Spielberg's Duel and Always both fall into this category. Duel is brilliant and should perhaps make the list. Always is a cheesy feel-good film with a brilliant cast, brilliant photography and brilliant editing.

Some might point out Lars von Trier, the mad Dane, but I don't really like him at all. His best work remains a TV series, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Etc. Etc. Etc.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Graelwyn on February 26, 2015, 12:41:46 AM
Remember that I listed ten must-see films, not necessarily my ten favourite films of all time.

But other films on such a list might be, say...

The Godfather II (but you have to see I to appreciate II; you might want to see III afterwards because it deserves to be seen in the context of the two others and has a brilliant, brilliant ending)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
Ben Hur
Snow White
Spirited Away
Wild Tales
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
American Graffiti

And the list goes on. I should add The Third Man, too. And Psycho. And The Trouble with Harry.

The problem with making lists such as this one is that ten is just a number based on the number of fingers we have. It is a ridiculous idea to entertain that somehow, a particular list of ten films would somehow fill the needs of a lifetime.

I could add some Indian films. Devdas, for example, should be required watching for anyone who is interested in film, but a film buff should certainly see at least a dozen large-scale Bollywood productions. And BTW, so should most people because they make you happy. They are escapism at its best.

And there's the old Swedish bore, Ingmar Bergman, who, in spite of making some of the last century's most pretentious films also managed to produce both art and entertainment. There's Woody Allen, a director I can't stand without booze, but who certainly is talented and well worth studying (Annie Hall, maybe? Radio Days?). There is Mel Brooks. There's Francois Truffaut. There's Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon!).

And there are films that might not make the list but that you should see because of their storytelling techniques--Spielberg's Duel and Always both fall into this category. Duel is brilliant and should perhaps make the list. Always is a cheesy feel-good film with a brilliant cast, brilliant photography and brilliant editing.

Some might point out Lars von Trier, the mad Dane, but I don't really like him at all. His best work remains a TV series, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Etc. Etc. Etc.


True, I don't think I could list just 10 films myself, but it might have proven arduous to you if I had asked for the 100 films you recommend viewing, or your 100 favourite films, or 10 best films for various categories etc etc.

Have you seen Grave Of The Fireflies? I absolutely love it... I have seen very little anime but that one really sticks with me.
I mention it because you mentioned Spirited Away.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 01:02:41 AM
No, I haven't. Spirited Away I only saw because I screened it dozens of times at the cinema and finally ended up watching it. Normally I wouldn't go anywhere near anime because I don't like the style. I'm more of a Disney person, stylistically, although I have to admit that Spirited Away is a work of art.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Graelwyn on February 26, 2015, 01:05:16 AM
No, I haven't. Spirited Away I only saw because I screened it dozens of times at the cinema and finally ended up watching it. Normally I wouldn't go anywhere near anime because I don't like the style. I'm more of a Disney person, stylistically, although I have to admit that Spirited Away is a work of art.

If you liked Spirited Away, Grave Of The Fireflies is definitely worth a watch. It is on Youtube, I believe.
I love Disney too, but the older ones. I cannot seem to get into the more modern ones like Frozen.
The Lion King is one I particularly favour.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 01:08:39 AM
The Jungle Book is one of my absolute favourites. And Lady and the Tramp.

But on a list of must-see films, Snow White is better suited because it started the whole thing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 26, 2015, 12:32:18 PM
Three Amigos

 :zombiefuck:  You have a dopey comedy here but you left out Das Boot??   :scratchhead:

Das Boot was produced as a TV series and then cut down to a movie, I believe. Then the movie was expanded to include more of the TV series. I agree that it is brilliant, but it's hard to count it as a movie made for cinemas, which my list is about.

What?? I've never seen nor heard of a Das Boot TV series. Do you have links to it??

EDIT: nevermind, I found it. You got it backwards, the movie was released first, then the BBC series in the mid 80's came out a few years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot#List (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot#List)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 26, 2015, 12:49:49 PM
No, I haven't. Spirited Away I only saw because I screened it dozens of times at the cinema and finally ended up watching it. Normally I wouldn't go anywhere near anime because I don't like the style. I'm more of a Disney person, stylistically, although I have to admit that Spirited Away is a work of art.

You should watch Akira. Not only good animation but an absolute mindfuck of a plot. It's developed a huge cult following.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film))
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:44:43 PM
Three Amigos

 :zombiefuck:  You have a dopey comedy here but you left out Das Boot??   :scratchhead:

Das Boot was produced as a TV series and then cut down to a movie, I believe. Then the movie was expanded to include more of the TV series. I agree that it is brilliant, but it's hard to count it as a movie made for cinemas, which my list is about.

What?? I've never seen nor heard of a Das Boot TV series. Do you have links to it??

EDIT: nevermind, I found it. You got it backwards, the movie was released first, then the BBC series in the mid 80's came out a few years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot#List (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot#List)

My bad. Consider it included.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 02:45:44 PM
No, I haven't. Spirited Away I only saw because I screened it dozens of times at the cinema and finally ended up watching it. Normally I wouldn't go anywhere near anime because I don't like the style. I'm more of a Disney person, stylistically, although I have to admit that Spirited Away is a work of art.

You should watch Akira. Not only good animation but an absolute mindfuck of a plot. It's developed a huge cult following.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film))

Will do. I think my son's got it on DVD.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 26, 2015, 04:36:49 PM
Three Amigos

 :zombiefuck:  You have a dopey comedy here but you left out Das Boot??   :scratchhead:

Das Boot was produced as a TV series and then cut down to a movie, I believe. Then the movie was expanded to include more of the TV series. I agree that it is brilliant, but it's hard to count it as a movie made for cinemas, which my list is about.

What?? I've never seen nor heard of a Das Boot TV series. Do you have links to it??

EDIT: nevermind, I found it. You got it backwards, the movie was released first, then the BBC series in the mid 80's came out a few years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot#List (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot#List)

My bad. Consider it included.

As far as dopey comedies go, my vote would be for The Great Race. It has the most epic pie fight in all of cinema history!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 26, 2015, 09:53:47 PM
Das Boot  :2thumbsup:

I enjoyed the German language one with subtitles more than the English version.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2015, 12:00:50 AM
As far as dopey comedies go, my vote would be for The Great Race. It has the most epic pie fight in all of cinema history!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race)

 :thumbup: It's a good one, but Three Amigos has a special place in my heart. :P

I'd also suggest Fletch Lives, a B comedy if there ever was one, but it makes me giggle every time.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2015, 12:03:03 AM
Come to think of it, we should have a thread for the B flicks. Films you like but that will never make any official list.

And films that should have been on such a list, like 1941. A for effort, but that's really it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on April 10, 2015, 09:28:05 PM
I saw this vid on changing the bulb in an IMAX projector and thought of you, have you ever worked with an IMAX or any other projector big enough to require a water cooled bulb?
How many projectionists does it take to change an IMAX bulb? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSIhnR5QzYs#ws)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2015, 01:23:32 AM
I've worked with projectors that have the option but none that actually had Xenon bulb water cooling installed. IMAX is a special case since the frame size is huge in comparison with other formats.

Most projectors I have worked with have water cooling for the film gate, but that's very different. Still interesting if the water cooling clogs up, though
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 11, 2015, 01:24:15 AM
Oh, and :plus: for IMAX.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on September 05, 2015, 08:56:54 AM
At one point you had mentioned a version of Linux that could be run from a thumb drive what was it and is it that difficult?  I am thinking about trying it on my spare laptop if its not that difficult.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 06, 2015, 03:14:10 AM
You can run many Linux distros from thumb drives. I'd recommend Ubuntu or Mint. If you need a more Windows-like user interface, Mint is probably what you want, but both are good bets.

Follow the instructions given here (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows). You also need to download the ISO image for either Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop) or Mint (http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php).

You'll need a 2GB or larger drive.

Both allow you to install the OS once you're done testing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on September 06, 2015, 01:21:51 PM
Thanks I think I'll try that tonight
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Parts on September 18, 2015, 10:12:39 AM
Ever have any luck video recording a 16mm movie? I'm getting mixed results mostly  flicker issues which I would understand more if it was constant but it comes and goes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 18, 2015, 02:16:32 PM
Ever have any luck video recording a 16mm movie? I'm getting mixed results mostly  flicker issues which I would understand more if it was constant but it comes and goes.

It comes and goes because the projector's speed varies--most projector motors vary in speed slightly over time and, depending on the type of motor, the variation will become more noticeable when the motor gets warm. This thread (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4836647) explains some of the usual methods.

The bottom line, unfortunately, is that it's very hard to get rid of flicker completely without professional equipment.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Lord of the Ales on September 26, 2015, 09:25:31 PM
I can highly recommend Mint.  :thumbup:

You'll need to faff about a little bit if you have a decent graphics card though, that goes for most distros. Mint is pretty stable and well put together.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2015, 02:56:44 AM
Mint is nice, I agree. The latest iteration looks great.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 15, 2016, 05:57:34 AM
  What's your favorite of the languages you speak, and why?  :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 15, 2016, 09:11:41 AM
I'd probably pick Finnish, because of the nuances possible. Or English, because I like the grammar and a half million words does offer some variety.

BUt really, I can't decide.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Genesis on January 18, 2016, 09:00:35 PM
Are you aware of the story of the Nuns that scared the Norsemen?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 19, 2016, 01:17:54 AM
No.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on April 03, 2016, 05:59:31 AM
Sorry if this has been asked before, but why did you move from Finland to Sweden?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 03, 2016, 01:54:31 PM
My dad was offered a job at a Swedish radio station (of all things!), I was 11 and had no say.

He didn't manage to keep the new job, and I suspect he lost his last job in Finland in a similar manner, too, but move we did. Later, when I started at the uni (I was the last of us kids to leave home) my parents eventually moved back to Finland.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 03, 2016, 05:53:28 PM
My dad was offered a job at a Swedish radio station (of all things!), I was 11 and had no say.

He didn't manage to keep the new job, and I suspect he lost his last job in Finland in a similar manner, too, but move we did. Later, when I started at the uni (I was the last of us kids to leave home) my parents eventually moved back to Finland.

  Did you stay for the meatballs?  :autism:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2016, 11:43:27 AM
My dad was offered a job at a Swedish radio station (of all things!), I was 11 and had no say.

He didn't manage to keep the new job, and I suspect he lost his last job in Finland in a similar manner, too, but move we did. Later, when I started at the uni (I was the last of us kids to leave home) my parents eventually moved back to Finland.

  Did you stay for the meatballs?  :autism:

Meatballs and IKEA. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on April 06, 2016, 12:09:14 PM
I recently watched an episode of Forensic Files about Victor Gunnarson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gunnarsson).

Do you have any opinion of his involvement in the assassination of Olof Palme??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 06, 2016, 01:32:33 PM
He probably wasn't involved, but who knows?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on July 25, 2016, 10:50:47 AM
Have you watched the 2004 movie "Primer"??  If so what was your opinion??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on July 25, 2016, 10:53:00 AM
No, I haven't. It's a bit of a coincidence that you ask about it now, because it was recommended to me the other day.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Trigger 11 on September 04, 2016, 10:01:56 PM
If you could visit one planet or object in our solar system, which would you choose?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 05, 2016, 01:19:29 PM
Ooh, interesting. There are so many to choose from. Mars, probably. Olympus Mons.

Or Eris, the largest of the dwarf planets. Or...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 29, 2016, 12:26:05 AM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 29, 2016, 01:02:19 AM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

I'd say that the last sentence is key. As Zegh pointed out at the time, Al had a real problem with accepting that my opinions differed from his. It's why he, early on, could not agree to disagree.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 29, 2016, 01:18:31 AM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

Funny thing about that.
Many months ago I did exactly that. I framed it as Odeon picking a side.

The expression "Get a life" is not a literal definition and nor does it require a deeper examination. People when they use it, use it to denounce the object of their derision and are signalling their displeasure at that person's actions.

The expression "Full of shit" is not a literal definition and nor does it require the person requiring a deeper insight into everything someone says. It could be based off one conversation or an impression or a series of actions. It DOES NOT require you have heard or read everything someone says NOR that you are studying them (ie If you watch a couple of interviews with Glenn Beck, you would certainly be in good company saying he is full of shit. There would not be an expectation to watch and read everything he says for the next six months. Nor would you be intellectually dishonest if you proclaimed this after not having watched or read him for 6 month. Only an absolute idiot would argue that point). People use that when they use it, use it to denounce the value of the object of their derision and they are signalling their displeasure at that person.

This all comes back to where I was a few months ago with you. I have a nose for bullshit, Odeon.
There is something bigger here. It never smelled right. This is why I have pursued it as I have. It is not personal, nor upsetting per se. It all seems terribly beneath you intellectually and so I think the reason for you doubling down and denying is something else.

  • Your original claims were NOT JUST about me being intellectually dishonest but of being dishonest as well and of pretending, assuming things, and so on. You since dropped this claims or merged them into your greater claim
  • You raised some point about something I said about Butterflies ("ganging up")and when I addressed it, you tried the crazy argument technique of questioning ME raising it (points for originality)
  • You posted the definition of Intellectual Dishonesty as though I needed that explanation to know what the term meant. In fact I answered every aspect of the term, to show it wanting (something that unto itself, would run against the grain of "transparency" for intellectual dishonesty)
  • You then kept repeating variations of the Mantra "You did not read Zegh, so you can't know for sure, he is full of shit, therefore you are intellectually dishonest". Then admonishing me when I had the temerity to question why this alone makes a case for intellectual dishonesty
  • You tried a new tact and said that I was tiptoeing around DFG. This was an even weaker claim and you soon dropped it
  • Changing tact you suggested I was not Intellectually dishonest afterall and it was a blindspot I had. That premise went nowhere and you gravitated back to the Intellectually dishonest premise again.
  • I then showed a few instances of YOU using the term. Once with Calandale - to whom you could NOT have read everything he said for 6 months either (and so could not have been absolutely sure he was "full of shit" .... as if that was ever an argument worth making) and secondly I showed you casting such sentiments to Dr Bitch to something she said in one of her 18 posts, after having joined the day before. You did not (chose not to?) see the similarity of what you were doing and what you accused me of doing
  • You then tried to reference Zegh as a reference point to support your claims (I just can't tell you how bizarre this is). Not only have I stopped reading him (because he is full of shit) but referencing him after suggesting that I was wrong about my suggestions you were "sticking up for him", you now try to use him as a reference point to your arguments of my feuding with him. No bias?
  • Now I find you telling me to "get a life" and point out the examination of such a generalised insult is stupid and disingenuous AND more importantly, very similar in nature to saying someone is "full of shit". You agreed that get a life was a "mere expression". You have yet to see the hypocrisy.

What all the above tells me is that this line of premise is crap and always was. You likely were not expecting to get challenged, or in the way that I have. You were not expecting or wanting to give ground. You doubled down on what you knew was really weak. You did this for a reason that had NOTHING to do with me being Intellectually Dishonest and I don't think you actually even believed it.

I could be wrong. It does happen. But now trying to sell me on the fact that Zegh now says this or that to support you, is like me trying to evidence you being wrong by referencing something Sol says against you. Yes it is THAT stupid and disingenuous AND that not like you.

You have to have a good reason to act the way you have, and to have done so from the outset. I think it was simply that you were starting to get sick and tired of Zegh and I feuding, me not reading Zegh, spamming Ninja Cats and you were wanting it to stop. You possibly thought that to shame my methods of posting and accuse me of being dishonest, assuming things, being intellectually dishonest, pretending, being intellectually lazy, tiptoeing and use dramatic phrases no matter the consequences. Maybe you thought I would get too distracted or maybe embarrassed or maybe that once pointed out, the rest of the board would join in and I would feel obliged to self-censor. The problem is that it did not work and you have distanced yourself now from everything but the "intellectually dishonest"claim. That claim is looking from where I sit, pretty petty and hypocritical, considering how you use not only other similar general insults and derision BUT also how you use the term itself. I think you wanted to side with Zegh without appearing partisan. Too late for that now.

I honestly believe that this is the case and after having doubled down and given some ground you do not wish to admit what seems transparent to me. I would not have had much of an issue if you had not have just said, "You know, you weren't being intellectually dishonest BUT you were pissing me off and others in I2 were not liking it either. I do blame your part in things more than Zegh and I was just wanting you to stop and hoped by saying something, anything, that you would just drop it." That would seem quite fair. Hell, I may have even considered dropping things with Zegh. No you doubled down again and again after being called on it. So I too will double down with you and with Zegh.

Terrible shame, Odeon. I expected better.

He denounced it for all he was worth. It was clear to me he was focussed exclusively on me, but no, the mere suggestion he was taking a side was so unreasonable. He has other reason aside from that and it was not related.
His efforts then to examine and clarify these positions was a failure of stupendous proportions. Retracting some aspects, redefining definitions, reclarifying positions....

its because the whole thing was bullshit. Odeon lied. Odeon for all his gaslighting WAS picking a side and had no position he believed in. As Cleocatra mentioned rather well tbe type of combative feuding Zegh and I partook against EACH other is no different to the conduct he and others partake in, yet framed it now as me bullying.

I find this re-writing of the narrative really pathetic.

Careful though Pyraxis. He will probably go in with "this conversation stops here" and/or lock the thread. Moderation creep is real. Think how much moderation has taken place in the last 6 months. I think it was more than the previous 5 years.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 29, 2016, 01:22:04 AM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

I'd say that the last sentence is key. As Zegh pointed out at the time, Al had a real problem with accepting that my opinions differed from his. It's why he, early on, could not agree to disagree.

Nice spin, jackass.

My question is why you lied as referenced in my post above?

Also why are you trying to re-write the narrative now? No one is that stupid to believe your re-write of history, why are you acting like they are?


Edited for PSMELLE to see questions asked
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 29, 2016, 09:20:24 AM
Al, GTFO of my ask away thread. I won't allow you spreading your bs all over the board again.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 29, 2016, 10:08:07 AM
Al, GTFO of my ask away thread. I won't allow you spreading your bs all over the board again.

Simply answering Py's question honestly. You couldn't, so I had to step up.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on December 29, 2016, 11:02:09 AM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longrer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

 I was the one who said agree to disagree not him. And I stopped talking to Odeon. But when he made the bullying comment I pointed out the hypocrisy with himself and mla. Initially Benjamin said he had no hard feelings from the past.  He was able to make up with butterflies , but mla and Odeon continued to call him stupid, etc.  Zegh is not blameless even pmed Al, goading him to keep writing about him. He enjoys the attention initially then plays victim when things get too hot for him.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on December 29, 2016, 03:06:28 PM
I wonder if it's time to go Atomic Psycho??   :chin:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on December 29, 2016, 04:37:43 PM
I wonder if it's time to go Atomic Psycho??   :chin:
What does that mean?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 29, 2016, 05:44:05 PM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longrer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

 I was the one who said agree to disagree not him. And I stopped talking to Odeon. But when he made the bullying comment I pointed out the hypocrisy with himself and mla. Initially Benjamin said he had no hard feelings from the past.  He was able to make up with butterflies , but mla and Odeon continued to call him stupid, etc.  Zegh is not blameless even pmed Al, goading him to keep writing about him. He enjoys the attention initially then plays victim when things get too hot for him.

You'd be part of the mob if they still lynched people, DFG. Grow a fucking backbone.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on December 29, 2016, 05:48:11 PM
Sometimes viewing mob mentality as a non-participating observer is very interesting, but sometimes is also very interesting to be the mob.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 29, 2016, 05:51:49 PM
Al, GTFO of my ask away thread. I won't allow you spreading your bs all over the board again.

Simply answering Py's question honestly. You couldn't, so I had to step up.

You wouldn't know honesty if it bit you in the ass. Which, I expect, will happen a some point.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on December 29, 2016, 05:52:31 PM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longrer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

 I was the one who said agree to disagree not him. And I stopped talking to Odeon. But when he made the bullying comment I pointed out the hypocrisy with himself and mla. Initially Benjamin said he had no hard feelings from the past.  He was able to make up with butterflies , but mla and Odeon continued to call him stupid, etc.  Zegh is not blameless even pmed Al, goading him to keep writing about him. He enjoys the attention initially then plays victim when things get too hot for him.

You'd be part of the mob if they still lynched people, DFG. Grow a fucking backbone.

Says the person who uses the admin panel to win an argument. I find it interesting you speak of lynching when your buttbuddy mla has that mentality.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 29, 2016, 05:58:49 PM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longrer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

 I was the one who said agree to disagree not him. And I stopped talking to Odeon. But when he made the bullying comment I pointed out the hypocrisy with himself and mla. Initially Benjamin said he had no hard feelings from the past.  He was able to make up with butterflies , but mla and Odeon continued to call him stupid, etc.  Zegh is not blameless even pmed Al, goading him to keep writing about him. He enjoys the attention initially then plays victim when things get too hot for him.

You'd be part of the mob if they still lynched people, DFG. Grow a fucking backbone.

Says the person who uses the admin panel to win an argument. I find it interesting you speak of lynching when your buttbuddy mla has that mentality.

::sigh::

You entirely missed my point, which is why you would be in that mob in the first place. Not enough brains to stand on your own.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on December 29, 2016, 06:01:07 PM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longrer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

 I was the one who said agree to disagree not him. And I stopped talking to Odeon. But when he made the bullying comment I pointed out the hypocrisy with himself and mla. Initially Benjamin said he had no hard feelings from the past.  He was able to make up with butterflies , but mla and Odeon continued to call him stupid, etc.  Zegh is not blameless even pmed Al, goading him to keep writing about him. He enjoys the attention initially then plays victim when things get too hot for him.

You'd be part of the mob if they still lynched people, DFG. Grow a fucking backbone.

Says the person who uses the admin panel to win an argument. I find it interesting you speak of lynching when your buttbuddy mla has that mentality.

::sigh::

You entirely missed my point, which is why you would be in that mob in the first place. Not enough brains to stand on your own.


Absolutely right! No one understands your brilliance. Everyone you don't like is stupid. Totally! ;)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on December 29, 2016, 06:10:32 PM
I know full well what you mean btw. Lynch mobs are nowhere near the same as arguing in the internet, but to a sensitive snowflake it certainly is. Typical Progressive regressive mentality you have there. Poor zegh tortured by words on a screen while you and mla constantly give each other penis high fives insulting Benjaminbreeg and pappy, you serial killers you!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 29, 2016, 06:42:50 PM
Sometimes viewing mob mentality as a non-participating observer is very interesting, but sometimes is also very interesting to be the mob.


 :agreed:

Be the mob.  :thumbup:

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 29, 2016, 06:48:47 PM
Why is Al no longer an elder?  :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 29, 2016, 06:49:43 PM
Al, GTFO of my ask away thread. I won't allow you spreading your bs all over the board again.

Simply answering Py's question honestly. You couldn't, so I had to step up.

She didn't ask you.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 29, 2016, 07:33:02 PM
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I had the audacity to question both the motives and the methods behind Al's months-long bullying of a member who, as a result, is no longrer posting here. Al, in spite of what you may be led to believe, does not take kindly to criticism.

Is this really why you're feuding with Al? As far as I've seen (haven't read all the crap) this is the first either of you have mentioned it as a direct cause.

 I was the one who said agree to disagree not him. And I stopped talking to Odeon. But when he made the bullying comment I pointed out the hypocrisy with himself and mla. Initially Benjamin said he had no hard feelings from the past.  He was able to make up with butterflies , but mla and Odeon continued to call him stupid, etc.  Zegh is not blameless even pmed Al, goading him to keep writing about him. He enjoys the attention initially then plays victim when things get too hot for him.

You'd be part of the mob if they still lynched people, DFG. Grow a fucking backbone.

Says the person who uses the admin panel to win an argument. I find it interesting you speak of lynching when your buttbuddy mla has that mentality.

::sigh::

You entirely missed my point, which is why you would be in that mob in the first place. Not enough brains to stand on your own.

"Bullying" and "lynch mobs"? Is THAT where you are trying to drive this narrative? You are trying now to pretend situations on I2 when one party is being mean and nasty to another, they are being bullies or that people collectively being incensed and attacking a member on here are a lynch mob? Moreover is there is one person already attacking a member's premise then another one similarly showing outrage, indignation, anger at what a person has said (or Hell even agreeing with the person originally attacking the member) is a risking being a lynch mob......on I2?

Okay, Alex Plank, let's look at every instance where YOU have been a party to more than one member's voices against another member. Hell, I will be happy to go back through I2 and my earliest recollections here in 2007 was you and Lucifer double-teaming all-comers. That was okay though right? But there are plenty more. The fact that DFG brings that up on your Odeon Butthurt thread had you lock it down speaks volumes.

But let's focus things back on me a second. Have I been on both sides? Yup. In fact, I remember a time not too long ago where it was You, Zegh and Butterflies against me and you know what? I don't care. I don't call that bullying. I have read the front page every time I log in. I know the score and so does everyone here.

Re-writing the cultural norms or history or a narrative will not work and think it will, is a slight against every member here because you are essentially telling people that what they have seen and read is at odds with the new narrative. You can play in your Admin Panel and censor as much as you like but it does not change history and nor what people have seen. You can lock threads, say "The conversations stops here" or silence people's voices that you disagree with, but that does not make you right, nor make your narrative believable or believed.

"Zegh was a victim that I bullied so much that he stopped posting".

"I bravely interceded into things because poor little Zegh was beset on all sides by mean old Al."

Nice Narrative.

This Zegh?

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,23207.msg1083709.html#msg1083709

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How much does it bother you, on a scale from 1 to 10, that you are by now too old to develop any new personality traits, and that those you allready posess has given you a long, bothersome divorce, as well as an obsessive need to write block-of-text rants that people have trouble even understanding (You clearly use a flow-of-thought process, which is _extremely impulsive_)

You hate Feminism, because your wife fucked you over. Mystery solved. Loser

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,23194.msg1083601.html#msg1083601

You know what I meant, and you are still debating semantics.

And boo hoo, name calling, was that in contrary to the tradition and culture of I2 political debate?

"Extremely religious people that happen to be Conservative have similar views to extremely fundamental Muslims, no issue." basically what I said, but without those words: semantics.

How on EARTH did you become this obsessive? Was it your ex wife?
Either way, too late for you, old man. You're gonna die a pathetic shit

http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,23228.msg1084486.html#msg1084486

One time I kept mis-reading a sentence in a game, so that the word "Pub" sounded like a person being refered to. Despite correcting myself each time, I begun to imagine that there was a person named Pub around, that I had to look for.

Then I thought.. Pub isn't such a bad name, like, short male name, Bob, Pub and Bill

It wasn't pot though was it? I am thinking really concentrated hash, and you were passing the joint around to Bob, Pub and Bill, to toke on....yet you were the only one there.
Sounds like quite the experience.

Are you gonna follow me around now? :D Go ahead, follow me around!

So... I take it you never tried weed, you have probably not even seen it. What's the matter, are you afraid of getting in trouble? Or did you simply never meet enough people to come across weed?
You're like 60 no? I mean, in all that time... not once? My bet is on scared. Scared of weed :D
Maybe if you touch it, the "concentrated hash" will seep through your skin, and give you hallucination-addictions! :o

No I just like the image. You in a cloud of smoke, eyes like slits and red as Hell, saying "Bob....Bill...Pub. Pub? Why is no-one called Pub? Hey Pub you take a drag and give it to Bill..."

I found the image funny. Its okay dude. Don't be offended. Carry on talking about Pub.

You remind me of those old people who try to refer to that "hippity-hop-music!"
Also, it's cute to see you use the same "tactics" as Buttplug, like the "you are upset, because I say you are" thing. Is this really the best you can do?

I have guessed that your idiotic mysogynistic obsessions come from your aspie inability to even keep a wife, and all you got is my weed-smoking, a habit that I actually enjoy?
I mean... you'd mock Tiger Woods for playing golf? You have absolutely nothing, and it's been like 2 weeks... and you're still trying too.

Suggestion! Make a call-out!

Yes Odeon, look at the dates. He went low and THEN so did I. I did not leave the forum or cry and I did not ask for help and nor did I receive any. But Zegh was no fucking victim. Zegh was NOT bullied and so please tell everyone here why you are lying to them and trying to re-write the history of what exactly occurred. Why do you think the members of I2 are stupid enough to fall for it?

Zegh even said in PM (As DFG points out)

Or a girl.

So, try to "hound" me off the site. Try. Try harder. Try all you can muster. Let me watch you try :]

Zegh was never the victim in this and only a fucking moron would imply that he was or that HE was being bullied. Why did YOU make that implication?

Zegh the self-proclaimed troll decided to get very nasty and personal and quite frankly bit off more than he could chew. He did not HAVE to. In the same way, YOU did not have to take his side and be partisan. He did and so did you. Bad choices that anyone with any brains could have told you was a bad decision. Unfortunately, you have a rather large blindspot in respect to taking responsibility for any damn thing you do or your various hypocrisies or even the volume of lies and misrepresentations you get called out on and so you are that guy who has to keep reinventing the truth to cover for the things previously exposed as false.

This is why you have been more censorious the last 6 months than in the last 5 years. It has a compounding effect. You are effectively digging a fresh hole for the dirt to fill a previous hole, again and again, and grinding your gears to try to find new inventive ways to re-paint your part in things. Yet all it takes is DFG to even suggest that the behaviour that you engaged in was exactly the behaviour you pretended to be against and you lock the thread.

Odeon you are fooling no one. My questions are why did you think you were and did you think I2 membership are that collectively stupid to believe these false narratives?

Edited for PSMELLE to see questions asked
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 29, 2016, 07:34:17 PM
Al, GTFO of my ask away thread. I won't allow you spreading your bs all over the board again.

Simply answering Py's question honestly. You couldn't, so I had to step up.

She didn't ask you.  :zoinks:

 :asthing:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2016, 01:35:09 AM
You are like a broken record, Al, repeating the same tired platitudes, half-truths and insults over and over and over again. Why do you think I locked that thread? It was that or the sinbin for you, and I had hoped you would take the message.

Clearly you didn't.

You're saying that I've moderated I2 more during the last six months than the last, what?, five years? Actually I haven't, but your perception--your opinion of me, basically--has changed. As a result, your entire narrative is flawed. You hate my guts now, so I am Alex Plank now.

Here's the thing, though: you are the one hurting the board now, not me. You take every opportunity to deliver yet another underhanded comment, and you move your broken record here rather than stopping and moving on. If anything, I think I'm showing great restraint for not sinbinning you again. But if it comes to that or the board, guess what I'm going to choose?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 30, 2016, 03:18:47 AM
You are like a broken record, Al, repeating the same tired platitudes, half-truths and insults over and over and over again.


Sounds to me like I am able to show a level of consistency and evidence it with what has been said on here in the past. Whereas you have struggled to do the same. "broken record' sounds fine to me.

Why do you think I locked that thread?

It's clear to everyone why you locked the thread. You locked it directly after a post NOT from me but from DFG who pointed out your own hypocrisy in doing what you condemned in me. You are not good at introspection or taking responsibility. You did not like the torch shined on you.

It was that or the sinbin for you, and I had hoped you would take the message.

The message I suppose, being that having no luck in insulting me, lying about me, misrepresenting my positions, siding against me, modding me, sinbinning me, changing my profile, making threats and ultimatums.....that further threats of further censorship for not kowtowing to you and your shit behaviour, would "induce me" to capitulate? I mean that would seem the likely reading and so I have to question your sanity here. When did that EVER make sense to you?

Clearly you didn't.

Clearly I did not feel overly induced by your shitty treatment to give you any kind of respect, indulgence, gratitude, time of day, and such. Yes THAT would be a reasonable conclusion and if you believed anything other, then you are a complete idiot. I am happy for you to confess to either appraisal.

You're saying that I've moderated I2 more during the last six months than the last, what? five years? Actually, I haven't, but your perception--your opinion of me, basically--has changed. As a result, your entire narrative is flawed. You hate my guts now, so I am Alex Plank now.

Yup, that is exactly what I am saying. In comparable terms and given the level of activity and number of members the amount of censorship and moderation is hardly comparable. Moderation creep is something that only you can reign yourself back from. it has been noticed and not just by me. The things that were moderation worthy 5 years ago are still moderation worthy but things in much more recent times have been moderated that never were before. New undefined infractions not found in any terms of service nor spelt out anywhere. The locking of threads and modding as a way of the Admin having the last word on a discussion and now you are even trying to re-invent the narrative and misrepresent history in ways that can be disproven if anyone cares to look.

Yes, I am absolutely saying that you are censoring and moderating more than you normally would. I imagine that the first time you lie or over-censor or misrepresent, it is difficult to bring yourself to it, but after that, it gets easier and happens more quickly and with less need and so on. Only you can reign yourself back in from your behaviour.

As to, "hating your guts", don't be overly dramatic. I do not "hate your guts". I don't respect you though, and happy to call out your bullshit.

Here's the thing, though: you are the one hurting the board now, not me. You take every opportunity to deliver yet another underhanded comment, and you move your broken record here rather than stopping and moving on. If anything, I think I'm showing great restraint for not sinbinning you again. But if it comes to that or the board, guess what I'm going to choose?

Oh, this is very rich. Look at you go. Stop trying to re-write history, Jackass.

* You decided to ignore all of Zegh's personal lowblows at me and nastiness but chose to insult me and chose Zegh's side, do you think this was a good choice or a bad choice?
* Do you think your choice to dismiss the suggestion that you was choosing a side of one member over another, only to basically admit to it 9 months later, was a good choice or a bad choice?
* Do you think after months of struggling to define your actual position (apart from what now looks like you just being mad and fed up and not actually having an argument as such) and yet alternatively reclarifying yourself, dropping premises, redefining definitions of words you used to be suggestive of some abstract position you could not be pinned on and generally misrepresenting and lying about positions, that not just admitting your real motive, was a good choice or a bad choice?
* Do you think you calling me a bigot was a good choice or a bad choice?
* Do you think that an intelligent person would expect that you doing so would not be taken positively by me or do you think an intelligent person would believe I would accept the insult happily?
* Do you think that it was a good idea to put the mod on me for arguing with you, or do you think that was a bad decision?
* Do you believe that an intelligent person would believe I would appreciate this or not?
* Do you believe that making unqualified and unquantified ultimatums about Peaguy (What are we ACTUALLY allowed to say or reference and what is the specific rule this breaks and what is the punishment and where can we reference all of this?) is a good choice or not?
* Do you believe recently fucking with me with the mod again (and then denying it), was a good choice or a bad choice?
* Do you believe an intelligent person would imagine that this would make me more inclined to believe you and trust you or less?
* Do you believe that sinbinning me recently and changing my avatar, Aspie Elite title and such was a good choice or a bad choice?
* Do you believe an intelligent person would believe that doing this would make me more inclined to be respectful, trusting, kind and courteous of him or less?
* Do you believe your efforts now, trying to re-write the narrative (despite history pointing the fact that the narrative is dishonest) is a good choice or a bad choice?

But in your imaginary world you have been restrained and "I" have been hurting the board. Get your fucking head straight. I have been a member getting along fine. I have been the same combative grumpy old sod I have been for the last 9 years only this last 12 months you have made a series of very bad decisions that have made a very bad situation worse. Your way of rectifying things is to
A) Tell me to drop it (No, go fuck yourself).
B) Double down and take no responsibility for the continual bad decisions you make to exacerbate things.

You have been driving this bus and with 12 or so active members you are warring with one, have ramped up your level of censorship, are now spreading propaganda to the remaining members over things they can check to confirm your misrepresentations and you have your foot flat on the accelerator with the cliff edge looming.

The only reason we are here and that this has gone so very badly is that your ability to manage this forum in the last 12 months has been subpar. You have not managed your members, your emotions, your consistency, your censorship level and transparency.

Hell, do you even see people speaking about Peaguy in code phrases or prefacing everything they say about him with a disclaimer because they fear repercussions and do not know where the line is or what is punishable by what and what will upset you in respect to talk of or about him? No one fucking knows because you are vague about this. Are we allowed to say his name? Are we allowed to reminisce about some good things or mention him generally, talk about something important recently like his mother being operated on for Cancer and given a clean bill of health? Is it just not relaying messages or Youtube? I don't know and no one here does. We just know the threat of censorship is real. That is a bad start for open and free speech. Nor even for this imagined pub setting you have in your mind.

"There are no boundaries here over what may be said, save for one rule - be prepared to back up your words."

..............Except if it upsets Odeon in some way and then you may be banned or modded or sinbinned or your threads locked and we are not sure what those specific trigger words are nor the boundaries around them. He in return can and will say what he likes and sees it as a perk of being an Admin.

Edited for PSMELLE to see questions asked
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on December 30, 2016, 06:07:52 AM
Why do three of the posts on the first page show an edit stamp ten years after the fact? Two of the three were quoted and they don't appear to have been changed at all.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on December 30, 2016, 06:27:27 AM
Why do you think I locked that thread? It was that or the sinbin for you,
These aren't the only options.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2016, 11:03:04 AM
Why do three of the posts on the first page show an edit stamp ten years after the fact? Two of the three were quoted and they don't appear to have been changed at all.

No idea.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2016, 11:03:36 AM
Why do you think I locked that thread? It was that or the sinbin for you,
These aren't the only options.

I could ban him, too. :M
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 30, 2016, 11:15:49 AM
Why do you think I locked that thread? It was that or the sinbin for you,
These aren't the only options.

I could ban him, too. :M

You will. That is your end play. Why did you get me out of the sinbin then? For show. The last magnanimous gesture before you ban me. A "See, I was so nice to him and even gave him a last chance and he squandered it" kind of deal.

But you were not so nice, this was not a one-sided deal. There was plenty of crap on both sides. You just don't own yours. The fact that you have "better tools" simply means that the playing field is skewed to your favour. You were not trying to resolve things, you were just trying to shut me up.

That is because in your arrogance you still denounce any thought of having done anything wrong at all, and point to me as having been the cause of everything. It's pretty transparent. Pretty weak too. I'm far from the only one who sees it. How can we have been at it so long and yet the only side with any responsibility is mine?

The truth, of course, is much less dramatic. You started shit and I retaliated. You wanted me to stop and I would not. You tried to stop me by insulting me, censoring/moderating me, giving me threats and ultimatums and I was not interested. But don't kid yourself, whilst I was no innocent in this, you were both the cause of our feud and exacerbated it every step of the way.

There is not enough in this story to have either of us as the innocent, the victim nor the good guy.

Edit: Called it! (and YES Sinbin is banning without banning. A soft ban. Good old censorship to start the New Year. Does Odeon have the bottle for I2, as per the front page mission statement? Is he punishing people who do?)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2016, 11:20:17 AM
I *did* give you a chance and it's not too late yet. Get over yourself and move on.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 30, 2016, 11:36:00 AM
I *did* give you a chance and it's not too late yet. Get over yourself and move on.

No. You take some responsibility and stop casting everything at my feet and misrepresenting everything.

Only an idiot would imagine having insulted, censored and moderated me and misrepresented and lied about and to me, that now ultimatums will win me over. Are you that big an idiot? Yes or no. It's a simple question.

Edited for PSMELLE to see questions asked
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 30, 2016, 12:48:15 PM
I'm not trying to win you over, I'm trying to give you a way out. Face it, people want this to end. They don't care about any of it, they just want it to end.

But yes, sure, it's an ultimatum, too. This is not something you can win.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on December 30, 2016, 01:28:07 PM
Why do you think I locked that thread? It was that or the sinbin for you,
These aren't the only options.

I could ban him, too. :M
There's the option to simply stop. There's also the option to continue reacting to every single thing he says to or about you; that seems to be working out okay.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 30, 2016, 02:32:32 PM
Why do you think I locked that thread? It was that or the sinbin for you,
These aren't the only options.

I could ban him, too. :M
There's the option to simply stop. There's also the option to continue reacting to every single thing he says to or about you; that seems to be working out okay.

 :indeed:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Bastet on December 30, 2016, 02:50:46 PM
I'm not trying to win you over, I'm trying to give you a way out. Face it, people want this to end. They don't care about any of it, they just want it to end.

But yes, sure, it's an ultimatum, too. This is not something you can win.

You didn't have to pick fights with him those times you did. You chose to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 30, 2016, 04:26:56 PM
I've marked my calendar for March 15, and if this is still going on I plan to create an anniversary thread to commemorate the day this crap all started. I may even be inspired to write a poem. :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 30, 2016, 04:32:00 PM
Why is Al no longer an elder?  :orly:

 :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on December 30, 2016, 04:36:10 PM
I've marked my calendar for March 15, and if this is still going on I plan to create an anniversary thread to commemorate the day this crap all started. I may even be inspired to write a poem. :zoinks:

It's been less than a year?  :laugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on December 30, 2016, 04:39:51 PM
 :lol1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 30, 2016, 06:11:43 PM
I'm not trying to win you over, I'm trying to give you a way out. Face it, people want this to end. They don't care about any of it, they just want it to end.

But yes, sure, it's an ultimatum, too. This is not something you can win.

You didn't have to pick fights with him those times you did. You chose to.

That is exactly right. Of course, I will not win. I do not have an Admin Panel to ban opinions or censor opinions I do not like. It's the Authoritarian "might makes right" approach to moderation, but it is not observing this mission statement is it?

Quote
You have found INTENSITY², the autistic spectrum site everyone loves to hate.

We stand for freedom of expression, combative debate, and the generation of ideas. There are no boundaries here over what may be said, save for one rule - be prepared to back up your words. Or face the wrath of the community.

As such this site is not suitable for children. If you are under 18 please come back when you aren't any more.

If you are over 18 and have the bottle for it,

Odeon does not have the bottle for it.

Equally, as interestingly:
* We know Odeon interceded against me in my feud with Zegh and called it bullying. That is a fact.
* We know that was his motive for interceding despite his assurances in the past that this was not the reason.
* However, we also know that Zegh started the feud and went really personal (and as Jack pointed out, was a bit of an MO).
* So did anyone see where Odeon went after Zegh and with equal commitment? Anyone?
* If not is it beyond unreasonable that Odeon sees his Admin role as at least in part, allowing members to get nasty with each other and then choose sides and gang up "as a member", against one party,  then when the member engages at that level back, to seek to use the Admin panel as an Admin to win the argument and put an end to that ganged up member?
* Anyone else see the problem with that and why the ganged up on member may ACTUALLY have grounds to not accept that as a reasonable exchange, result nor one that ought to be accepted?

C'mon people!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2016, 04:04:08 AM
Why is Al no longer an elder?  :orly:

 :orly:

He should be.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2016, 04:08:08 AM
I'm not trying to win you over, I'm trying to give you a way out. Face it, people want this to end. They don't care about any of it, they just want it to end.

But yes, sure, it's an ultimatum, too. This is not something you can win.

You didn't have to pick fights with him those times you did. You chose to.

What part of the above do you not understand? Or is it that you want this to continue?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on December 31, 2016, 04:38:28 AM
I'm not trying to win you over, I'm trying to give you a way out. Face it, people want this to end. They don't care about any of it, they just want it to end.

But yes, sure, it's an ultimatum, too. This is not something you can win.

You didn't have to pick fights with him those times you did. You chose to.

What part of the above do you not understand? Or is it that you want this to continue?


What part of what DFG just said do YOU not understand? I don't think you do. Can you explain what she means?

Edited for PSMELLE to see questions asked
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 31, 2016, 04:43:36 AM
This just stopped.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: El on January 01, 2017, 10:03:19 AM
So, an actual questions for odeon in the question-thread:

How much money does it cost you to cost this site (or is that someone else's wallet)?
How much of your own time do you at this point spend doing the kind of stuff it takes to keep the site itself functional (updating, upkeep, whatever)?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2017, 11:11:56 AM
So, an actual questions for odeon in the question-thread:

How much money does it cost you to cost this site (or is that someone else's wallet)?
How much of your own time do you at this point spend doing the kind of stuff it takes to keep the site itself functional (updating, upkeep, whatever)?

It's my wallet. The yearly cost, all in all, is around $150. I've been wondering if we need to upgrade to a bigger plan because of the size of the DB, but right now, that's about it, money-wise.

There's usually not that much to do beyond backups, updates and routine maintenance of the site and DB, so I guess a couple of hours per month. Sometimes more, if troubleshooting something. Py's mysterious posting issues, for example, took some time. Annoyingly they didn't lead anywhere.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on January 01, 2017, 11:42:15 AM
Yeah, I'm still having that happen, just trying to ignore it and click through the dialog, but it really doesn't seem like there's anything else that could be done about it server-side.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 01, 2017, 03:42:24 PM
And you haven't tested with a different computer? An iPad or smartphone would work, too.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on January 01, 2017, 04:34:43 PM
Ok, I'm posting this from WolFish's computer....

Edit: Didn't get the popup. I'll take this back to the other thread.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on January 03, 2017, 01:50:34 AM
Why can't Al respond to his own ask away thread?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2017, 11:49:45 AM
He is sinbinned. He should be able to post in the sinbin but that's about it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on January 11, 2017, 04:44:03 AM
Hey, are you working the film festival this year?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 11, 2017, 05:52:26 PM
Hey, are you working the film festival this year?

No, I decided it was enough.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on January 12, 2017, 01:06:59 AM
Yeah, it only caused you stress iirc.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2017, 02:34:43 PM
Yeah, it only caused you stress iirc.

A couple of years ago when we still ran actual film prints rather than today's binary messes on USB disks, the festival could occasionally be fun.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 04, 2017, 03:29:54 AM
Will your children have to join the army, now Sweden changed back to compulsory conscription?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 04, 2017, 03:34:22 AM
Will your children have to join the army, now Sweden changed back to compulsory conscription?

Probably not. My son would definitely be exempted because of his autism dx. My daughter doesn't want to, and from what I've heard they won't be able to draft everyone anyway so there is a good chance that she doesn't have to.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on March 04, 2017, 03:54:51 AM
Which language do you speak at home? Finnish or Swedish?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 04, 2017, 09:51:37 AM
Swedish. I speak Finnish rarely these days. With my brother on the phone, usually.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 04, 2017, 08:33:59 PM
You'll be encouraged to know that The PR can buy a gun now.  I can't wait to see how a mentally challenged adult with anger management issues, depression and suicidal urges is going to manage.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 04, 2017, 11:05:46 PM
can buy a gun now
The correct perspective is, still can own a gun. The federal register rule referenced was an executive order finalized in the last month of Obama's term, and both branches of congress approved to send it to Trump for review. Compliance was to begin December 2018 so the rule was rescinded before ever being enforced. The ACLU apposes the rule for stereotyping people on disability as violent when there's no supporting data to base assumptions they are; in fact data shows the opposite to be true and disabled people are more likely to be victims of violence. The rule directly targeted mentally disabled people who require legal guardianship, so would have to assume the guardian is the responsible and accountable party, similar to circumstances of minors using/owning guns.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Pyraxis on March 04, 2017, 11:07:39 PM
How does that work?

(I mean what law allowed it to happen?)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 04, 2017, 11:12:24 PM
Allowed what to happen?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 04, 2017, 11:31:08 PM
(I mean what law allowed it to happen?)
If you mean the actions of the House and Senate, the congressional review act allows congress sixty days to overrule executive orders written during the end of an outgoing administration. However, Wikipedia says: Because legislative sessions during the 114th Congress often ended before Congress had sixty legislative days, the 115th Congress can target rules passed by the Obama administration as far back as May 2016.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 04, 2017, 11:49:00 PM
(I mean what law allowed it to happen?)
If you mean the rule happening in the first place, it was an executive order, finalized by the Obama administration during the last month of term. Congress can vote to override executive orders, but they are still subject to presidential veto, and overriding a veto requires a two thirds win in both the house and senate, so not easily done. Personally think executive orders reek of fascism, the narcissistic decrees of rulers fancying themselves as dictators or kings, bypassing the civic structure and order of the system and stamping their rulings onto the citizenship without granting their rights of representation. This wasn't a situation, like some recent events, of Trump writing some new executive order to squash Obama's executive order; this was congress doing their job.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 05, 2017, 12:32:34 AM
How come they were allowed to own a gun in the first place?

I guess it's a stupid question, really. I seem to recall a state where blind people were allowed to own one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 05, 2017, 02:15:19 AM
The federal laws pertaining to people who aren't allowed to purchase firearms are specific and don't include handicaps. Though some individual states do have gun controls which are more strict than federal law; they just can't supersede federal laws. Though in looking some states already have laws which specifically restrict mentally retarted people. Queen Victoria's state is one of them, so will correct myself, the correct perspective is, still can't own one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 05, 2017, 02:44:09 AM
I guess it's a stupid question, really. I seem to recall a state where blind people were allowed to own one.
It's not really a stupid question, but more of a matter of stupid unnecessary rules. Let's stop disabled people who don't manage their own benefit income from buying guns because that's a real problem, right? There are ways the federal government could strengthen gun control without imposing on the constitution or needlessly targeting individual groups. For example, license/permits and safety training courses, which are already required for concealed arms; similar to driver's licenses that process excludes people without making specific laws against them. There's also no need for federal laws against blind people driving cars.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2017, 05:30:55 AM
You'll be encouraged to know that The PR can buy a gun now.  I can't wait to see how a mentally challenged adult with anger management issues, depression and suicidal urges is going to manage.

  Has she expressed any interest in buying a gun?  :O_o:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 05, 2017, 07:25:31 AM
The problem isn't specifically that the disabled people can buy a gun, the problem is that pretty much anyone can.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 05, 2017, 01:19:50 PM
The problem isn't specifically that the disabled people can buy a gun, the problem is that pretty much anyone can.
Exactly, and it's unnecessary to target the disabled to rectify that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 05, 2017, 02:55:33 PM
You'll be encouraged to know that The PR can buy a gun now.  I can't wait to see how a mentally challenged adult with anger management issues, depression and suicidal urges is going to manage.

  Has she expressed any interest in buying a gun?  :O_o:

Thank heavens, no.  She has probably seen PA's hand gun, but I don't know where the bullets are and I'm assuming she doesn't either.  This weekend she "tried" to hang herself with a) a sisal rope and b) with a necktie.  I may sound cavalier, but I do respect the seriousness of this and know that her attempts are half-hearted.  I have to step back while teaching her coping mechanisms and methods to manage the anger and depression.  Fortunately, some of them are working for me, so I can share with her my successes.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 05, 2017, 06:21:31 PM
So how do you like Jack crapping her civic pants in your ask-away thread?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2017, 01:06:50 AM
So how do you like Jack crapping her civic pants in your ask-away thread?  :zoinks:

I like Jack and respect her opinions. :M
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on March 06, 2017, 01:10:38 AM
Think Gary was passive aggressively complaining about Jack's behaviour, not her opinions.

How about that?  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 06, 2017, 01:13:40 AM
Think Gary was passive aggressively complaining about Jack's behaviour, not her opinions.

How about that?  :zoinks:

I'm against opinionated gophers, of course. :tard:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 06, 2017, 06:13:49 AM
Think Gary was passive aggressively complaining about Jack's behaviour, not her opinions.

How about that?  :zoinks:

I'm against opinionated gophers, of course. :tard:

  I'm against gophers in general. :gopher: :litigious:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 06, 2017, 07:06:27 PM
 >:(
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 06, 2017, 08:44:17 PM
So how do you like Jack crapping her civic pants in your ask-away thread?  :zoinks:

I like Jack and respect her opinions. :M

A pro-gun person should point out the flaw in my statements.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 07, 2017, 12:42:42 AM
>:(

:hug:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Fun With Matches on March 07, 2017, 02:39:20 AM
>:(

 :-*
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 07, 2017, 06:36:40 PM

A pro-gun person should point out the flaw in my statements.
Jack misses Semicolon.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 07, 2017, 06:38:13 PM

A pro-gun person should point out the flaw in my statements.
Jack misses Semicolon.

      I miss PPK.  :( :litigious:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on March 07, 2017, 06:49:44 PM

A pro-gun person should point out the flaw in my statements.
Jack misses Semicolon.

      I miss PPK.  :( :litigious:
They should come back.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 07, 2017, 06:55:39 PM

A pro-gun person should point out the flaw in my statements.
Jack misses Semicolon.

      I miss PPK.  :( :litigious:
They should come back.

  They should make a grand entrance!  :litigious: :mastodon: We got this!
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 07, 2017, 08:23:26 PM
>:(

:hug:
>:(

 :-*

Aw shucks.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 08, 2017, 01:26:27 AM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2017, 06:13:28 AM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:

  Only you can answer that.  It's your ask-away thread.  :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 08, 2017, 08:50:10 PM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:

I suspected Jack was being a problem.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 08, 2017, 11:21:34 PM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:

I suspected Jack was being a problem.  :zoinks:

  You need to leave this thread right about now!   :police: :gopher: :police:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2017, 01:07:24 AM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:

  Only you can answer that.  It's your ask-away thread.  :P

Order, or you will have to come with us!  :police: :cbc: :police:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 09, 2017, 01:19:49 AM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:

  Only you can answer that.  It's your ask-away thread.  :P

Order, or you will have to come with us!  :police: :cbc: :police:

  You're nattering on about chess in my ask-away thread.  :M :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on March 09, 2017, 01:25:12 AM
Can we have some order in my thread now? :zoinks:

  Only you can answer that.  It's your ask-away thread.  :P

Order, or you will have to come with us!  :police: :cbc: :police:

  You're nattering on about chess in my ask-away thread.  :M :P

I only did it because you're littering mine. :M
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on September 25, 2017, 05:22:03 PM
Have you ever heard of Göran Adamson??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUduwZdrDs
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 26, 2017, 05:01:30 PM
Can't say I have.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on September 26, 2017, 05:35:41 PM

A pro-gun person should point out the flaw in my statements.
Jack misses Semicolon.

      I miss PPK.  :( :litigious:

I miss that old rogue
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 27, 2017, 03:43:35 PM
Agreed.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on September 28, 2017, 09:03:31 PM
He should come back.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on September 28, 2017, 10:00:05 PM
I haven't seen PPK on Facebook for quite a while.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Genesis on September 29, 2017, 03:11:11 PM
Should Trump, and Koi Fish co-exist peacefully?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on September 29, 2017, 04:31:59 PM
I'm not sure Trump knows how to do that.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on September 29, 2017, 09:35:03 PM
Koi keep all their money in the river bank.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 30, 2017, 05:54:55 AM
Koi keep all their money in the river bank.  :zoinks:

  It's too early in the morning for gopher humor. :gopher: :migraine: :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on September 30, 2017, 10:56:02 AM
Koi keep all their money in the river bank.  :zoinks:

That sounds fishy to me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Genesis on September 30, 2017, 06:58:44 PM
I'm not sure Trump knows how to do that.

 :o

Koi keep all their money in the river bank.  :zoinks:

 :lol1:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on January 17, 2018, 06:20:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J24TGZDk960
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 18, 2018, 02:08:19 AM
Did you have a question?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on January 18, 2018, 04:38:34 PM
Yes. If you'd watch the video, I'd be interested on your opinion of it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 19, 2018, 01:52:43 AM
Sorry, not watching videos here.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 19, 2018, 09:34:35 AM
You could just listen to it.


I had my disagreements, because good conversation is simultaneous, and the things
the dude started out with were simplified too much to address anything like reality.
When you abstract away too much, you get something pure - but incorrect.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 20, 2018, 03:33:35 AM
I rarely watch videos here. This is a message board.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 21, 2018, 12:07:28 AM
You could just listen to it.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 21, 2018, 03:20:59 AM
You could just listen to it.


I could but I won't.

Look, this is a message board, not YouTube. We write things and we post them, and the time it should take for me to walk through a post is the time it takes to read it, and it's possible to glance through a post to see if it's actually worth reading in its entirety. Not so with a 10-minute video.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 21, 2018, 04:35:25 AM
Yes. If you'd watch the video, I'd be interested on your opinion of it.

I watched it. Did you?

To summarise:
* most people think they are good at listening but they aren't.
* the speaker recommends an experiment where, when you are having an argument or disagreement with someone, each person needs to restate the other party's previous statement. Both parties must agree that it is an accurate restating.

[troll]Or you could, you know, rely on sweeping and inaccurate statements and just insult anyone who disagrees with you. That works as well. [/troll]
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 21, 2018, 10:04:08 AM
You could just listen to it.


I could but I won't.



Thank you for not just saying you don't want to watch it. :D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 21, 2018, 10:05:45 AM
... each person needs to restate the other party's previous statement.


Does repeating the same text that you wrote, again and again, count? How about if you do it enough?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 22, 2018, 12:59:05 AM
... each person needs to restate the other party's previous statement.


Does repeating the same text that you wrote, again and again, count? How about if you do it enough?

No, you need to restate it in your own words and demonstrate a clear understanding of what the other was saying.

I don't believe that the experiment was intended for typed conversations.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 22, 2018, 02:15:40 AM
I don't believe that the experiment was intended for typed conversations.

Was any of it?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Calandale on January 22, 2018, 12:34:31 PM
... each person needs to restate the other party's previous statement.


Does repeating the same text that you wrote, again and again, count? How about if you do it enough?

No, you need to restate it in your own words and demonstrate a clear understanding of what the other was saying.

I don't believe that the experiment was intended for typed conversations.


If I wrote it in the first place, isn't it my own words?


Why do I care what the other is saying? I'm trying to hear myself think.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on April 03, 2018, 12:14:04 PM
Is it true that almost 80% of Swedish media is owned by a single extended family??
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: DirtDawg on April 03, 2018, 12:25:03 PM
Is it that different from the networks in America, owned and operated by very few people?

One must be smart in their choices of media exposure. OH, and verify, verify, verify everything before you digest it.

It does not matter where you drop your hat or hang your coat. Media is out to corrupt your mind and have you go their way to get money from the advertisers.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 04, 2018, 02:20:06 AM
It's not true, though.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on April 04, 2018, 10:58:38 AM
Then who are these people??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnier_Group
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2018, 12:40:44 AM
All you have to do is click on the link and read. Do you really need me for it?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on April 05, 2018, 03:03:18 PM
The question was rhetorical, obviously.

So how much market share of Swedish media do they hold?

The only number I can find online is 80%.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 05, 2018, 11:42:15 PM
Go find out. It was fairly obvious to begin with that you weren't actually asking me anything and I'm not interested in your internet-induced spasms.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Al Swearegen on April 06, 2018, 11:51:12 AM
Worse than in America
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 07, 2018, 02:16:16 AM
Read my earlier reply and don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on April 07, 2018, 06:15:44 AM
^^^  but believe everything that odeot says.   :tard:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 07, 2018, 10:43:22 AM
They're building a new high-rise apartment building near/in downtown New Orleans named the Odeon.  Any plans to move there?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2018, 12:56:49 AM
^^^  but believe everything that odeot says.   :tard:

I can't force you to be right.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 08, 2018, 12:57:36 AM
They're building a new high-rise apartment building near/in downtown New Orleans named the Odeon.  Any plans to move there?

I think I'll skip it for now.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Queen Victoria on April 08, 2018, 10:17:48 AM
They're building a new high-rise apartment building near/in downtown New Orleans named the Odeon.  Any plans to move there?

I think I'll skip it for now.

You can drive the Jag year round.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on April 09, 2018, 03:53:37 AM
They're building a new high-rise apartment building near/in downtown New Orleans named the Odeon.  Any plans to move there?

I think I'll skip it for now.

You can drive the Jag year round.

This is a very good argument. I will consider it.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on October 16, 2018, 07:37:39 PM
You have over 99 000 posts. Does your ranking change when you get to 100 000?

Also, what kind of editing did you do? Was it in Swedish?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 17, 2018, 09:17:45 AM
You have over 99 000 posts. Does your ranking change when you get to 100 000?

Also, what kind of editing did you do? Was it in Swedish?

I don't think we've defined a ranking for people with 100,000 posts. Maybe we should?

The documents were technical manuals for software, predominantly in English. I also wrote the style guide that described how the manuals should be written.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on October 17, 2018, 03:56:29 PM
I don't think we've defined a ranking for people with 100,000 posts. Maybe we should?
When you were about to reach 50,000 someone suggested a custom rank be added for 50,000 because there wasn't one. Did that ever happen?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 17, 2018, 11:30:28 PM
I don't think we've defined a ranking for people with 100,000 posts. Maybe we should?
When you were about to reach 50,000 someone suggested a custom rank be added for 50,000 because there wasn't one. Did that ever happen?

Thinking it's my current rank (that beyond teh stupid thing) but I'm not sure and can't be bothered to look.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on October 18, 2018, 05:02:51 AM
I don't think we've defined a ranking for people with 100,000 posts. Maybe we should?
When you were about to reach 50,000 someone suggested a custom rank be added for 50,000 because there wasn't one. Did that ever happen?

Thinking it's my current rank (that beyond teh stupid thing) but I'm not sure and can't be bothered to look.
Just looked. Seems that's right.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on October 18, 2018, 09:44:25 AM
Hmm. Maybe there should be an additional level. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Jack on October 18, 2018, 03:56:15 PM
Hmm. Maybe there should be an additional level. :P
Makes sense there would be one.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 02:43:34 PM
Should there be a suggestion thread? The occasion is only 33 posts away.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 02:44:36 PM
What would you have done with your life, without the 100.000 posts here?   :orly:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 03:54:09 PM
What would you have done with your life, without the 100.000 posts here?   :orly:

An excellent question. I might have saved the world.

Seriously, though, I don't want to think about it. Although I find some minor solace in the fact that there are people who've had more online hours here registered. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 03:55:03 PM
Should there be a suggestion thread? The occasion is only 33 posts away.

Start one. Or go ahead in here. Somehow I suspect there won't be many people who belong in that group...
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 03:55:41 PM
Bruce almighty?  :mischief:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 03:56:22 PM
Bruce almighty?  :mischief:

With the  :mischief: of course.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 04:01:16 PM
Bruce almighty?  :mischief:

With the  :mischief: of course.

I don't think it's possible to add the emoticon there. :-\

But let's not. I still can't look at that thing objectively.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 04:08:46 PM
Bruce almighty?  :mischief:

With the  :mischief: of course.

I don't think it's possible to add the emoticon there. :-\

But let's not. I still can't look at that thing objectively.

I didn't realise.  :angel: :eyelash:





 :evillaugh:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 04:16:09 PM
Bruce almighty?  :mischief:

With the  :mischief: of course.

I don't think it's possible to add the emoticon there. :-\

But let's not. I still can't look at that thing objectively.

I didn't realise.  :angel: :eyelash:





 :evillaugh:

I'm SURE you didn't.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 04:16:29 PM
Should there be a suggestion thread? The occasion is only 33 posts away.

Start one. Or go ahead in here. Somehow I suspect there won't be many people who belong in that group...

We need CBC's second youth, with another posting spree lasting years. Otherwise you'd be the one and only, for centuries.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 04:18:22 PM
Should there be a suggestion thread? The occasion is only 33 posts away.

Start one. Or go ahead in here. Somehow I suspect there won't be many people who belong in that group...

We need CBC's second youth, with another posting spree lasting years. Otherwise you'd be the one and only, for centuries.

See if you can lure back McJ or Kevv, too.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 12, 2019, 04:20:38 PM
Beyond teh stupid only solitary confinement can bring solace.  :tard: :grouphug:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 04:33:48 PM
That's got potential.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 12, 2019, 05:32:26 PM
Suggestions:

"Now it's getting ridiculous"

"So many posts that the suggestion 'get a life' loses all meaning"

"Boldly postwhoring where noone has ever postwhored before"

Better pick SOMETHING, only 8 to go!!!!! :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 12, 2019, 05:38:04 PM
How about "get a life"?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 12, 2019, 06:08:12 PM
How about "get a life"?

Not specific enough. It could be perceived as referring to others.

How about "Too late now for me to get a life" or "I need to get a life".
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on January 13, 2019, 01:35:49 AM
"Completely given up on having a life"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 13, 2019, 04:41:56 AM
"entering the abyss"

"Beyond repair"

"Abandoned hope"

"Lost cause"

"Next level is the straightjacket"

"Space, the final frontier"

"Where no man has gone before"

"Have mercy"
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 13, 2019, 08:42:05 AM
Most are too long. :-\ Also, it should include "postwhore" as most levels have that.

Postwhore beyond the abyss?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 13, 2019, 08:48:50 AM
Postwhore into the abyss



Have mercy on this postwhore.


Postwhore beyond repair.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 13, 2019, 08:54:34 AM
Postwhore Beyond Repair sounds good to me. Also, I can't be arsed to think about this any longer. I need to post. :P
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 13, 2019, 09:52:43 AM
See, you are beyond repair.  :autism:


May all higher powers have mercy on you.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: 'andersom' on January 13, 2019, 09:53:18 AM
Congratulations.  :trollskull:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 13, 2019, 11:53:39 AM
Thank you. I think.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Tequila on January 21, 2019, 05:59:27 PM
Is it you who is a nob or someone else?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 21, 2019, 10:31:56 PM
Eh?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on November 18, 2022, 07:53:49 PM
Hey odeon, how have your eyes been? I remember you were prone to infection, definitely hope not now.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on November 27, 2022, 03:38:50 PM
It still happens but not nearly as frequently. It's been 10 years since that surgery so I guess I'm finally healing.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2022, 07:25:01 PM
10 years? It's like it was yesterday.

I'd like to have surgery on my left eye. Wearing prismatic lenses has made it very lazy. When I take my glasses off it is really noticeable.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 03, 2022, 03:33:44 PM
10 years? It's like it was yesterday.

I'd like to have surgery on my left eye. Wearing prismatic lenses has made it very lazy. When I take my glasses off it is really noticeable.

You should consider it, you're still young enough and I don't think you've had as many surgeries as I have. I remember being told that my last one would, in fact, be my last one. A lot of scar tissue and stuff, IIRC.

And yup - 10 years. Time flies.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on December 03, 2022, 07:54:06 PM
I had six surgeries on my eyes by the time I was six. I remember the last one. They stuffed them all up and my parents weren't happy about it.

Unfortunately scar tissue was their reason for not doing more. I don't know if that would still be an issue after all this time. I was hoping it wouldn't be.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 22, 2022, 02:55:42 PM
Oh well. You might want to have the eyes checked, just in case.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on November 11, 2023, 08:18:26 PM
Hey, do you have a Swedish keyboard?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 18, 2023, 02:56:19 PM
Hey, do you have a Swedish keyboard?

Yes. It's not that our character sets are that different - they aren't - but for whatever reason, different keyboards move lots of characters around.

I can live with a UK keymap, having worked for UK companies for a long time. I once got a laptop for a French customer with a French keyboard that was horrible. I pretty much refused to use that one and was glad to eventually hand it over to a colleague.

(I frequently get laptops from the customer I am working with because their systems will only allow me access from their hardware. Got one next to me from a US customer right now.)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: renaeden on December 19, 2023, 08:27:25 PM
It had never occurred to me that different countries had different keyboards. Well of course they would. I've seen a Japanese keyboard, wow.

I don't know if Australians get American or UK keyboards.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on December 20, 2023, 04:07:10 PM
You'd get a US layout, apparently. I just looked it up.

That one always gets me.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Genesis on December 27, 2023, 06:55:34 PM
How much laxatives would it take to control the Republican Populace in the United States? (Don't rule out the Irish Republican Army people... they get a free pass)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 03, 2024, 03:53:26 PM
Hmm... 36 million Republicans, 30 ml or so per day. But to control them, you'd need to do this for a few days, at the very least. Let's say a week. You'd need 0.21 l per person, so 7 560 000 litres. That would do it; they wouldn't leave the house for a few days.

Of course, you'd probably need to do this regularly to keep them off the streets.

I'd focus on legislative bodies to keep the numbers manageable. I'd also consider just bringing down their voting majorities, which might ease the logistical problems.

I'd say your biggest problems have to do with distribution rather than quantities. ;D
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 04, 2024, 05:23:53 PM
How much laxatives would it take to control the Republican Populace in the United States? (Don't rule out the Irish Republican Army people... they get a free pass)

Come out Ye Black and Tans Intensifies. (https://youtu.be/9jfI6F-BOe4?si=000RyoY_uVzXhfT7)
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 04, 2024, 05:56:09 PM
If you just post the url without any tags it will automatically imbed here .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfI6F-BOe4
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 04, 2024, 06:09:33 PM
If you just post the url without any tags it will automatically imbed here .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jfI6F-BOe4

Doesn't always. On some posts it just shows the YT link.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 04, 2024, 06:13:49 PM
I think it matters if it's copied from the url at the top of the page, instead the 'share' link under the video. They're different. Sometimes I forget which is the right one, but if one doesn't work then I try the other.  :dunno:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Arya Quinn on January 04, 2024, 06:15:36 PM
I think it matters if it's copied from the url at the top of the page, instead the 'share' link under the video. They're different. Sometimes I forget which is the right one, but if one doesn't work then I try the other.  :dunno:

Huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6shaDht10A4

Weird as I have used the top of the page thing for all the videos and sometimes it doesn't show. Odd.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 04, 2024, 06:17:15 PM
I think it matters if it's copied from the url at the top of the page, instead the 'share' link under the video. They're different. Sometimes I forget which is the right one, but if one doesn't work then I try the other.  :dunno:

Huh.

https://youtu.be/6shaDht10A4?si=tPcWTfCpzehoqzCh

Edit: Yup, still not working.

Look at the url I posted. It's different. I copied it from the url line at the top of the webpage.
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 04, 2024, 06:19:07 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6shaDht10A4
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Gopher Gary on January 04, 2024, 06:45:14 PM

Weird as I have used the top of the page thing for all the videos and sometimes it doesn't show. Odd.

That's why I said I sometimes get confused which one works. At first I thought the one from the top of the page was the wrong one. If one doesn't work, then the other one will. I'm not really sure if I get confused about it, or if sometimes it just changes.  :dunno:
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on January 06, 2024, 05:40:29 PM
There's a limit to embedded videos per page, I believe.

Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: Genesis on February 20, 2024, 12:54:15 PM
Why is it that Mystery Nior from places like Scandinavia is so well written, yet still incredibly dark?
Title: Re: odeon's ask away-thread
Post by: odeon on February 23, 2024, 12:57:32 PM
Good question. I'd expect it to be a knock-on effect following one or two very successful books and scripts but maybe also the publishers and production companies on the lookout for more.

Some people with scripts in their kitchen drawers got their chance. Others build on that.

I would not think it to be the Scandinavians somehow being special. We don't have a special gift for broody and dark, some of us simply got the opportunity to write and publish stories. Our societal environment plays a part, of course, but that's not why. It's just more of the same.

I'm fairly sure that pretty much anywhere else in the world there will be another genre waiting. Cultural and sociological coincidences will determine if any of those get the chance.