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10-17-2007, 02:38 AM
|  | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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Originally Posted by Ruth Price  my pondering:
on the day someone is going to kill themself, do you think they do their routine stuff beforehand? hang out the washing, brush their teeth etc. | no. I think instead of suiciding they should probably move to las vegas and become a show girl. or perhaps some other radical life change... new hairstyle, minimum. |
10-17-2007, 02:50 AM
|  | Female Chauvinist Pig | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: I am the Rain
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| | | I ponder why Cindy Margolis is the number one most downloaded chick on the internet. Anyone here download her pics?
I have a feeling that she has that designation due to the sheer number of years she has been on the internet (since the late 80s) and she was associated with AOL before people know they actually could go 'all willy nilly' over the internet and do as they chose.
Who here was downloading Cindy Margolis pics in 1997? Who here is still downloading Cindy Margolis pics?
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10-17-2007, 02:53 AM
|  | I'm the hot one. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dying 100 times
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Originally Posted by herekitty no. I think instead of suiciding they should probably move to las vegas and become a show girl. or perhaps some other radical life change... new hairstyle, minimum. | i've always held the opinion that true suiciders are the non-narcissistic ones, thus would care little for a life reinvention. the sorts that see no other avenue than death to escape their predicament.
someone seriously needs to make a documentary of people in the hours prior to their death. this whole fascination is triggered by the fact that people always remove their shoes before jumping off a bridge into water, because its a thing we're taught as children not to get our shoes wet. but you're going to die? so why fucking bother. I think perhaps the calming nature of routine behaviour maybe distracts them from impending doom.
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10-17-2007, 02:59 AM
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the calming nature of routine behaviour... that phrase made me think of this.
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10-17-2007, 03:15 AM
|  | fatontheinside | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia
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| | | I would like to know why when you film a computer screen it looks all liney on camera? I'm so confused by this and I need an answer or I will be forever unfulfilled. |
10-17-2007, 05:44 AM
|  | slow refrain | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: a farm.
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Originally Posted by herekitty So I have a new random pondering. Sorry if it's been asked before, I'm sure it has, but do you think japanese and chinese people get tattoos of english words? | i have heard of this happening, but i don't think it's nearly as widespread as it is here. the japanese do, however, have a bit of a fondness for wearing shirts with random english words and phrases that they don't necessarily understand. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Black Mambo What I really wonder is how the written word came about. I presume it was by the drawing of shapes to resemble objects, and then evolved from there, but it's amazing to think that something so primitive could come to be as precise as it is now, with accepted rules and structures and spellings. | actually that's a reasonably good assumption. i could go on about this at length but i don't think anyone would care. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Ruth Price this whole fascination is triggered by the fact that people always remove their shoes before jumping off a bridge into water, because its a thing we're taught as children not to get our shoes wet. | i didn't know that. that's a bit creepy.
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Originally Posted by DoloresHaze I did not miss the point, I just had a moment where Marilyn's tragedy overwhelmed me. Such a pure creature, she was just light gone too soon. | |
10-17-2007, 06:03 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by sokkar
i didn't know that. that's a bit creepy.
| I'd jump "shoes and all". Taking them off first is daft.
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10-17-2007, 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by bort I'd jump "shoes and all". Taking them off first is daft. | you'd spend all night correcting the atrocious grammar in your manically written suicide note and forget to actually kill yourself  |
10-17-2007, 06:37 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by Ruth Price you'd spend all night correcting the atrocious grammar in your manically written suicide note and forget to actually kill yourself | The grammar in my manically written suicide note would still be perfect, actually. Wanting to die is not a sufficient reason for me to stop being really anal-retentive. I'd never kill myself, but if I did I'd probably be a total cunt and make sure I specifically blamed other people for me killing myself; one last act of vindictive cuntitude!
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
10-17-2007, 06:41 AM
|  | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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Originally Posted by bort The grammar in my manically written suicide note would still be perfect, actually. Wanting to die is not a sufficient reason for me to stop being really anal-retentive. I'd never kill myself, but if I did I'd probably be a total cunt and make sure I specifically blamed other people for me killing myself; one last act of vindictive cuntitude! | the straight dope on whether "anal-retentive" should have a hyphen or not
right up your street |
10-17-2007, 06:46 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by kesh | I don't think it's a truly "standard" term, so I believe there is an element of personal choice when it comes to whether you use a hyphen or not. Given that it isn't really my anus that is doing the retaining (generally), I have somehow gravitated towards the hyphen. I likee velly much.
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
10-17-2007, 06:49 AM
|  | AWAY!!! On Vacation! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Northern California
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Originally Posted by kesh | You obviously don't eat much fiber. |
10-17-2007, 06:56 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by creepyer You obviously don't eat much fiber. | Check your repz. I just gave you a really anal-retentive one!
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
10-17-2007, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by sokkar actually that's a reasonably good assumption. i could go on about this at length but i don't think anyone would care. | I would.
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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait. |
10-17-2007, 10:56 AM
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| | teach us how soks |
10-17-2007, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Ruth Price teach us how soks | How to eat fiber without crapping your pants? |
10-17-2007, 11:07 AM
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10-17-2007, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Black Mambo I would. | sure.
basically we have to go all the way back to about 7000 BC - this is where the earliest forms of "writing" are found. the earliest forms of writing were symbols and ideographs (pictures to represent words) and could certainly hold some kinds of information, but there was no indication of any sort of linguistic information.
out of these evolved the hieroglyphs, which were partly ideographic AND partly phonetic in their most evolved form. a hieroglyph could represent a picture or a sound, but in the primitive stages, there were ideographic. at the same time, cuneiform was developing in sumer. what began as pictures gradually became less concrete and could represent a picture, a number, or a syllable by around 2500 BC.
so pictures stayed pictures but began to represent syllables as writing evolved.
as you may know, the first alphabet as we understand it is the phoenician, which, like the other examples, evolved out of the pictures which became more simplified until they weren't so much picture at all anymore. the names given to the letters (and thus the sounds) came from the meaning of the original hieroglyph. and if you look at the phoenician alphabet, you can see how it evolved into the latin, greek, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic, etc scripts.
that's quite simplified and i'm very sorry if it's a bit muddy or seems too brief. i haven't had to discuss this in a while so a lot of this information is a bit rusty so dates may not be quite exact and things like that. it may help you to actually look at the phoenician script (and its parents) and see how our letter A came from a picture of an ox (or was it a cow? i'm not sure).
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