The Off-Topic Thread

[silverDistortioN]

yeah, don't even try talking about the supposed off-topic paradox... cuz it doesn't even apply.

the topic of the thread is being off topic... so as long as you don't talk about being off topic, you're off topic, and therefore are following the rules of the thread.

...i think. ^.^

[Zedie9]

Grrr... No problem - other than the fact I was going to bring this thread over myself. And the Sound Test Thread. Bah!

[silverDistortioN]

(damn 15 char minimum...)

...boo hoo.

[Kilu]

Silver, the evil thread stealer :) Take him away boys :cop: http://sixty9.servebeer.com/sadfox.gif :cop:

[pikatsu]

:curse:

Curse you pigs!

[Locke Cole]

Do give others a chance to start some of the ol' threads, silver :p Plus, we don't need to bring all of them over, just the useful ones.

A perfect emoticon for this thread can be found in the signs category...

:offtopic:

[silverDistortioN]

bah, c'mon people, there are plenty of other threads to create.

i've really been up for some philosophical debate lately (hint hint), but i can't think of anything to debate.

[Kyari]

My suggestion is that everyone who had a dedicated thread for themselves to recreate it themselves. That's what I'll be doing.

Abruptly switching the topic . . . a debate? How about the ethical questions surrounding cheese soup? Man, that soup. I heard it tried to take over America in a Volkswagon Van hidden in 1964 . . .

[FlashFirer]

Yeah, we really don't need useless random threads... like mine ^^y

P.S.: 450 SMILEYS???????? I'm gonna faint, dude... you stole those. Yes you did.

[silverDistortioN]

what, you guys think this thread is useless? it's my favorite thread! not that i even know what we were talking about last in the old forums... >.>

but anyway... i brought up the philosophical debate thing because i want someone to make a philosophical debate thread since, although i do want to philosophically debate, i don't have anything in particular i feel like debating about.

[Kyari]

Well, I for one liked the old personal threads. Something about them . . . I dunno.

And, YES, Flashfirer, this is an important thread. It keeps the forums clean - we don't have to make a new thread every time we want to screw around. Plus, it's fun! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

Hmm, my space bar and shift key are funky . . .

[Locke Cole]

As long as no one is abusing, its all good. I don't want to see mass useless posts to gain up the new ranks. :)

P.S.: 450 SMILEYS???????? I'm gonna faint, dude... you stole those. Yes you did.

Uhm, stole? Emoticons and game sprites are free and open to the public. You can get them from piles of resource sites. I sifted through 1000's of them and picked the best ones for our forums.

[silverDistortioN]

actually... the game sprites aren't public domain yet, so you stole those.
...thief!

[Zedie9]

:search: Well... I'd be lying if I denied how irritated I was when I showed up on launch date and found two threads I'd originally started already made for me. I could have understood better, I guess, if I weren't a regular poster, or the topics had been off the radar for a while, or I didn't show up for, like, a week after launch of the new boards. And I'd be lying if I denied becoming angry when Silver was not only nonchalant about it, but said the whole "Screw you" bit - especially if you consider my last post in the original Off-Topic Thread: http://www.rpgamers.net/cgi-bin/board/discussion.cgi?forum=10&discussion=306 . :shame:

*sigh* But I'm not going to harp about it endlessly. I'll let bygones be bygones, and if I can't stand it anymore, I can always create it again myself. :evilgrin: And I'm only barely joking. ;)

[pikatsu]

Maybe you can get those dominatrix's to whip him over in the next... session?

Those look like Tifa and Quistis...

[FlashFirer]

Stolen?
Yeah... stolen. Even that is open to public, it continues stolen. Let's discuss the theory of the verbs. Under certain circunstations, a verb don't have the main verbal function activated unless stated otherwise.
Anyways, why don't you just go to deviantart pick up the thousands of emoticons there? So many!

[Kyari]

Quick question . . . how would one go about stating it otherwise?

[Locke Cole]

Emoticons are not "stolen" if they are posted on a site by the creator themselves, telling people to take/use them. As for game sprites, bleh. If you'd all prefer, I'll draw some stick figures and just use those for our icon db. Sites such as rpg-icons.com, rpgpics.com, mysmilies.com - Emoticon and sprite databases, just waiting to be used for things like this. I didn't go around to other forums taking their emoticons, even though you seem to think I have no life and did. I went to a large emoticon site and sifted though it. Bleh

[silverDistortioN]

:search: Well... I'd be lying if I denied how irritated I was when I showed up on launch date and found two threads I'd originally started already made for me. I could have understood better, I guess, if I weren't a regular poster, or the topics had been off the radar for a while, or I didn't show up for, like, a week after launch of the new boards. And I'd be lying if I denied becoming angry when Silver was not only nonchalant about it, but said the whole "Screw you" bit - especially if you consider my last post in the original Off-Topic Thread: http://www.rpgamers.net/cgi-bin/board/discussion.cgi?forum=10&discussion=306 . :shame:

*sigh* But I'm not going to harp about it endlessly. I'll let bygones be bygones, and if I can't stand it anymore, I can always create it again myself. :evilgrin: And I'm only barely joking. ;) yeah, in retrospect, i was way out of line with that comment... i didn't think it would be that big a deal. my logic was it's the posters who make a thread worthwhile, so it shouldn't matter who starts it.

but if you want them that badly, i'm sure Locke could hack the DB to make you the topic starter. or something.

[Zedie9]

:) Nah. It's all settled. Besides, like I said, I can always just create one myself if it begins to drive me crazy. ;)

[Kyari]

I think that by simply creating this thread, instead of Zedie, Silver was being completely off-topic. Thereby staying on the topic of the thread. Thereby doing the opposite of the point of the thread . . .

Shame on you, Silver! XP

[silverDistortioN]

but i wasn't talking about being off topic, so i was off topic, and therefore no violation of thread point had been committed. =)

[Grim]

Pickles are green, oranges are red.
off-topic threads are cooler than the undead.:shades:

Disclaimer:
May or may not be cooler than undead, by reading this you waive your right to sue.

[Locke Cole]

:hungry: I think I'm gonna have spaghetti tonight. Yum!

[Kyari]

Excuse accepted :D .

I have hereby rated this thread as 'excellent.' So let it be written, so let it be done.

[Kilu]

:) Nah. It's all settled. Besides, like I said, I can always just create one myself if it begins to drive me crazy. ;)

Begins? I had the impression that you have been quite crazy for a long long time already :p

[Zedie9]

:emlaugh: Well... I'll rate it after it's been around for a while, and I've gotten used to it. :spin:

[Zedie9]

:nana: I can't get used to it if it dies! :p

[Kilu]

Bah, it's not my fault that there is so many other threads in here already. It's getting hard to keep track of all these happenings. Topic with a topic 'off-topic' (lollorzzzzzzz :zzz: ) is bound to get less attention, atleast in the beginning. Everyone seems to like to post under a more specific topic. Maybe.

[Grim]

has anyone ever noticed that Off Topic can be rearanged to be Poof Fict?

[Kilu]

I personally like Toffo Pic better

like so

http://205.209.144.11/hosting/userfiles/Kilu/toffo.jpg

[Yuffie]

Hey I LOVED toffo!!! Haven't had it for ages, forgot about it. :D

Preferred the original to mint though.

[Mithrandir]

This has to be the best thread ever!!

I'm going to start being off-topic from this moment.

Oh no wait...I'll start by doing my famous impersonations.

"I am James Hook, captain of the Jolly Roger"

[silverDistortioN]

!!!!! XD

anyone see man on the moon? (or maybe Andy Kaufman's bit)
that's what you reminded me of. =)

[Kyari]

tiki tiki kush kush!

I thought the man on the moon was Timothy Leary. He's there with his flesh-eating monkeys.

[Yuffie]

That's a pretty good impression Mith! But who could it possibly be?! :amazed:
I was amused at work the other day, someone had a John Travolta answerphone message. :D

[Charon]

What better thread to start in. :) I'm back. My modem died and I also had a worm, how lovely. Now I'm all set up, I get online and woah! This place. Guess it's gonna take me a little bit to get used to. I notice some of you have already amassed triple figure post counts. >_> Yeah you know who I mean. :p So, bear with me while I catch up.

[silverDistortioN]

...i'm hoping to find out what that elusive 5th rank is...

and btw... when you first said "i also had a worm," i was thinking worm as in parasite. XD
...or was it a parasite? =)

[Charon]

Lol no, the computer type of worm. I'm also interested to see how this rank system is gonna work. Locke left some mysterious messages back on the old thread. We never did discover just what he was planning.

[silverDistortioN]

yeah, i know it was a computer worm. =)
you talked about it a lot in the LG.

...i think i get my new rank within the next few posts... but that's just a guess. =)

[Kyari]

So basically once you hit the fifth rank, your computer is infected with a worm? :D

Someone oughta talk to Locke . . . :dotsign:

[Pezito]

I haven't read a single post in this thread, but since this is the Off-Topic thread I guess I can talk about anything... Like, I've spent the whole day in pajamas ! Amazing uh ? :crazy:

[Yuffie]

Yeah it's fun to do that. :D

I did it once, we had a pyjama day at school. :D

[Zedie9]

:cheers: Charon! I'm glad you finally made it over to the new boards! (And I hope you plan to come over more often. ;)) :dance:

[Pezito]

I like the dancing smiley. :dance:
The w00t one is cool too ! :w00t:

[silverDistortioN]

concerning pajamas: i sleep in my clothes. people tell me that's a bad idea, but i do not see why.

[FlashFirer]

Lucas R. Reis (aka FlashFirer) codiname: Peter Pajamas.
That's because I went to the school in pajamas one day. :D

[Grim]

I usually sleep in my clothes as well....unless I'm wearing pants, then I make a quick change to shorts.

[Locke Cole]

I have to sleep in my clothes, everyone is always barging into my room at random. :o

[Kyari]

I sleep in sweat pants and a t-shirt. So there.

[Charon]

I sleep naked. :D I'll leave you with that "comforting" thought. :P

[Pezito]

Well, nowadays I sleep "topless" most of the time because of the heat ; but I never sleep all naked... I don't like it ! XD

(Probably related to the fact that my room has always been a pathway to my brother's room, and everyone used to rush in just like it wasn't my space but a mere hallway... So I grew cautious. :p ) Actually I did sleep naked recently... but... it was exclusively to please someone. :D

[Kilu]

too much information!

[silverDistortioN]

too much? ...or not enough? Ô.õ

[Kilu]

Way too much.


But if Elhaym at some point comes back here, I wouldn't mind knowing how she sleeps. And Tess is free to share as well. With pictures of course :lick: Actually, now that I think about it, I have this faint memory that Elhaym may have said that in some thread in the old forums.

[Pezito]

Hahaha ! Bear with the mental images now, Kilu... :evilgrin:

[Mithrandir]

So to be completely offtopic, how do you like your beer?

Flat?
With salt?
Normal?
Cold?
Hot?
Mixed with water?

mmmh....a nice cold beer....*gets out*

[FlashFirer]

I don't mind changing subject now. Would you?

[Zedie9]

:D Nope. I'll leave that for someone else to do. ;)

[silverDistortioN]

let's talk about changing the subject!

i find changing the subject completely uncool and bad for the environment.

[Zedie9]

:D I sleep in nothing but my boxers. :p

[Charon]

:offtopic: I was just visiting my site and spotted this in a members signature. Pretty funny I think.

"once upon a midnight dreary, while i porn surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404."

[Mithrandir]

Today I saw a car with a sticker on its bumper and it read:


Jesus may love you, but no body else does
I felt all alone....:bawl:

[Yuffie]

In winter I sleep in pyjamas, I'm not telling any more! :p

[Grim]

I love that Signature Mithrandir :D

[Mithrandir]

Well, since you people seem to be interested in how god sleeps then here it goes.

I usually slep with nothing but my boxers. Only when it's cold (in winter) ikeep t-shirt on. As for when Sophie sleeps with me, that only concerns her and me :p

[Zedie9]

As for when Sophie sleeps with me, that only concerns her and me :p
:D I can make a pretty good guess as to what you 'sleep' in when Sophie sleeps over. ;)

[Kilu]

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/mika/potatoes.gif







I posted this in the lotr thread as well, but I thought I could post it inhere as well :) :D :bouncy:

[Yuffie]

My dad still thinks I sleep in separate rooms whenever I date someone. O.o
I'm surprised he didn't guess when I went on a camping holiday for a week with one of them. :confused:

Then again, his sex education speech goes something like:
"Ok, don't get pregnant...and uh...don't kiss him. You can hug him maybe."

[Charon]

The ever changing Mr Yuffie. Who's this weeks poor sa... I mean, lucky fella. :p

[silverDistortioN]

spare me from your urge to brag about your sexual conquests from now on, please.

[Giea]

My moms speech was like..."Ok mmm.. just call your dad long distance... he might have the answer.. =/"

[Charon]

spare me from your urge to brag about your sexual conquests from now on, please.
0_0
Me?
surely not?

[silverDistortioN]

why, are you getting some? =)

...i was referring to what i interpreted as subtle bragging, cleverly disguised. but i've since changed my mind... (though spare me nonetheless)

...so problems with an ignorant dad, huh Tess? want me to tell him? it would make the world a better place, quite obviously.
actually, i think he probably already knows and either doesn't want to believe it or doesn't want to make a big deal about it.

[Charon]

Hmmm, you read far too much into was was just a little joke about yuffie's many ex's :p

But while we're being all random and offtopic. I was wondering about making a kind of 20 questions thread, called "What's in his pocketses?" :) And as the answers are all yes and no answers, the person holding the item won't just gain tons of rank as the replies are too small. :) What do you think?

[silverDistortioN]

oh, no... i wasn't talking about what you said at all.

but your thread's got my approval.

[Yuffie]

What do you mean many?! I have certainly not had many! :p

If you want someone to brag about their sexual conquests, speak to my sister. -_-

She's breaking up a marriage as we speak!

I'm still waiting for my dad to fall out of the boat. It doesn't seem to happen.

I was asking him about windsurfing today, and how I'd like to try it because he's always saying you should try things when you're young or you'll regret not trying them.............then he said I couldn't try it because he couldn't be arsed to drive me there and because I'm the only crew he has for his boat. O_o

So I'm considering not going sailing with him until he agrees. I don't like sailing with him, he's too controlling and shouts so much you can't enjoy it. :(

He expects you to know how to do things without being shown how they work first then yells if you get it wrong. -_-

I have all this stress from work and I come home and it bubbles over when I meet him, someone send me a punchbag NOW!!!! :realmad:

[silverDistortioN]

what makes you think your sister's so slutty, exactly? new guy every week?
...i dunno, it's just a little odd hearing someone talk about a sibling like that, i suppose.

[Kilu]

someone send me a punchbag NOW!!!! :realmad:

Use Giea, always works. Or Zedie maybe.

[Grim]

a bag of potatoes work good too ;)

[Kilu]

a bag of potatoes work good too ;)
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/mika/potatoes.gif

[silverDistortioN]

http://sixty9.servebeer.com/two-towers-17.jpg

[Zedie9]

I don't like sailing with him, he's too controlling and shouts so much you can't enjoy it. :(

He expects you to know how to do things without being shown how they work first then yells if you get it wrong. -_-

I have all this stress from work and I come home and it bubbles over when I meet him, someone send me a punchbag NOW!!!! :realmad:
:D You and your dad really need to sit down and have a long conversation about these things sometime when you aren't already arguing. :bouncy:

[Yuffie]

Well she is in the process of breaking up a marriage. She could fit her entire wardrobe contents in her handbag. She usually has about 3 boyfriends in circulation. When she was 13 she showed her breasts in the local park for money and that was the start of discovering people would pay for things. Any more questions? :rofl:

She can be a niceish person but usually she just doesn't talk to me. :p

As for my dad, I'd be willing to talk about it but he's not into the whole deep meaningful chat stuff (please refer to his sex education talk). It's just not something he's good at. :p
We tried telling him but he's still always convinced he's right so there's no point.

[silverDistortioN]

Well she is in the process of breaking up a marriage. She could fit her entire wardrobe contents in her handbag. She usually has about 3 boyfriends in circulation. When she was 13 she showed her breasts in the local park for money and that was the start of discovering people would pay for things. Any more questions? :rofl:...just one: who the hell would pay a 13 year old girl to show her breasts?

...i don't know if i mentioned this, but was a juror on a child molestation case last week. there was this 12 year old girl whose stepfather was allegedly having sex with her. the prosecution didn't present enough evidence, so we had to give a not guilty verdict... but i really felt bad about it...
...i saw her crying on my way out...

[Zedie9]

...just one: who the hell would pay a 13 year old girl to show her breasts?:D Boys, especially thirteen year olds. And don't mistakenly assume that all thirteen year old girls are made the same. Wasn't Elle McPherson (spelling?) posing in SI Swimsuit Issues when she was fifteen or sixteen? And she looked :lick:.

...i don't know if i mentioned this, but was a juror on a child molestation case last week. there was this 12 year old girl whose stepfather was allegedly having sex with her. the prosecution didn't present enough evidence, so we had to give a not guilty verdict... but i really felt bad about it...
...i saw her crying on my way out...
:( It really stinks when justice is circumvented because of technicalities, or in this case, it really stinks that the blanket protection to prove everyone guilty allowed what might have been a guilty man to slip through the cracks. I hope the girl has been moved far from him, and that she will be okay. :)

[Giea]

PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!

[Yuffie]

You're right, we're dangerously close to a topic. :p

But my sister was an early developer and wonderbras can fix the rest. :p

My bf and I were...er...happened to find her phone...in her drawer in her room...and just happened to stumble upon the pictures she'd taken with it. :emlaugh:

The only one on there was a picture of her breasts, so what's new? :p
And her background for the phone is a giant candle in her room that looks like a...uh...male...oh use your imaginations! :p

So therefore I put my case that my sister is a slut. :)

...I don't like peanut butter.

[Grim]

I like peanut butter, but I don't like jelly. However, pizza sauce is good on bread with cheese :lick: :hungry:

[Lord Draud]

i like pizza, as for sluts i like em they are the training guys need to be realy good when the time comes that they realy care about someone, other wise they are all like um i have never don't this befor so um what do i do? that how it was for me i was trained and trained and now let just say i WOWED em grin

[Lord Draud]

:offtopic: I was just visiting my site and spotted this in a members signature. Pretty funny I think.

"once upon a midnight dreary, while i porn surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404."

that is from bash.org man its the funnyest site on the net!

[Yuffie]

Women are kinda similar to your theory Draud! :D
They use guys like you to practice on so they can get REALLY good at faking it! :rofl:

[Giea]

girls never fake, they just act dumb lol

[Kilu]

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.

[Cyrano de Hero]

You know, men CAN fake orgasms too.


Just trust in de Hero's wisdom here...O_O

[Zedie9]

:D I want some chocolate ice cream. :lick:

[Yuffie]

Cyrano...are you gay? :p

If we didn't fake orgasms you wouldn't have a relationship left to fake! :p

[Giea]

I got pushed by this stupid kid in 8th grade.. and now i have like all these blood bubbles lol.. but then I slammed him into a house and the neighbor got really mad at him ^.^ lol

[Pezito]

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Hehe, yeah, I just love that quote. :D

About "training", I don't think it adds anything to your "performance" except self-confidence... But if you're confident enough and just act naturally, and if you don't lack imagination (so that you can try and guess how the other feels), you don't need training to do it right. :p

... At least I was told I didn't need training at all ! :blink:

[/perv]

♥ ♥ ♥ flowers flowers teddy bears and birds and clouds and trees and bees ♥ ♥ ♥
:emlaugh:

[Kilu]

Today when I was sitting on a buss on my way to school (yes, saturday :( ) there was a girl in the buss who looked like Alyson Hannigan. How cool is that? Do you believe that there are look-a-likes for everyone in the world?

edit: this was 100TH™
It's so awesome to see those post numbers in there. I wouldn't have noticed this if they weren't there :)

[Yuffie]

I phoned someone today who sounded like Dracula! :D

It was so cool. :)

[silverDistortioN]

Today when I was sitting on a buss on my way to school (yes, saturday :( ) there was a girl in the buss who looked like Alyson Hannigan. How cool is that? Do you believe that there are look-a-likes for everyone in the world?my 10th grade trig/geometry teacher looked like alyson hannigan... i suspect if it weren't so unethical... and socially unacceptable... we would have gone out.

but then again, i wasn't really all there during high school.

[Giea]

Is Buss another way of typing Bus? =)

[Kilu]

Is Buss another way of typing Bus? =)

Do you ever stop?

[Giea]

Do you ever stop?Yes? Is there a problem?

[Yuffie]

There's a really big spider in here. :bawl:

Not that I'm afraid or anything.

[Kilu]

There's a really big spider in here. :bawl:

Not that I'm afraid or anything.
Step on it you wuss.


And Giea, buss is another way of writing bus. Do you really have nothing better to write than lame attempts to make fun of people because they type different than you? Also, not too long ago you were making of fun of Lord Draud for his typos. I'm willing to bet my nuts that you have made fun of TDK as well, eventhough I can't remember.

If you try to be funny, try doing it in more intelligent way. Try doing it so well that someone else might find it funny as well, not just you in your own mind.

Don't be stupid on every reply you make. Unless you can't help it.

[Charon]

There's a really big spider in here. :bawl:

Not that I'm afraid or anything.
Big is it? Yeah right. This is a big spider.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=51536
http://www.tarantulas.ru/photo/Theraphosa_blondi_4_foto.jpg

[Yuffie]

I didn't squish it, I measured it! :D

I've decided I'm rather fond of it because it keeps returning so I've named it Herbert. :)

Anyway the measurements show it's about 7cm from front leg to back leg when standing and if it's legs were spread out it'd be about 10cm.
Still haven't touched it though. :emlaugh:

To be honest I wouldn't mind a big spider like in that picture, they have more weight and can't run as fast. :p
Although I wouldn't fancy holding anything with fangs. :p

It's been scuttling around my room for about a week now so it's found a home. :)

As long as it doesn't breed I don't care. ¬¬


EDIT!!!!

I couldn't squish it because it looked at me with those little puppy eyes. :p

AGH!!! As I typed that my dog just tried to eat it!!! No kidding!!! :amazed:
HERBERT!!!!!!

[Zedie9]

... At least I was told I didn't need training at all ! :emlaugh:
:wonder: ... toilet training...? :angel:

[FlashFirer]

:wall:
:wacky:
:banana:
And all other emoticons ever! Cuz dude, you guys are wacky O_o
Toilet Training would be a great title to amovie. Randoom. ;)

[Mithrandir]

Toilet?!

Fie on the Toilet, its made slaves of you all. I've seen it sitting in there, lazy slothful porcelain lay-about, feeding on other people's doo-doo's while contributing nothing of it's own to society
Family Guy quote :D

Peter: Hey, is the Count a vampire?
Brain: What's that?
Peter: Well, he's got those fangs. Have they ever shown him doing somebody in and then feedin' on them?
Brian: You're, you're asking if they've ever done an episode of Seseme Street where the Count kills somebody and then sucks their blood for sustenance.
Peter: Yeah
Brian: No they've never done that.

[jetblue]

Thats good yuffie that you dont kill Herbert but like I said in the "what are you craving"thread it may be dying. Spiders never leave there web only when they have no choice and hunger and thirst drive it to search for a new spot one last time. Unless its a jumping spider.
This may sound crazy but go right in front of it and take some water in your finger and put it as close as you can by its mouth. You could use a toothpick.
But make sure it sees you.Or even better a small peice of cantaloupe or apple. No citrus fruits. So it can absorb the simple sugars.
Eventually it will leave your apartment.It will go right under the crack of the door. But it may choose to die in your apartment. Let it complete its life cycle. Your place was also its home.
From what you describe from its size its sound old.

[Pezito]

Damn, Jetblue, you're almost succeeding in making spiders look sympathetic to me...
But I HATE THEM !!! XD No way I'd feed them !?! (°_O);

[Yuffie]

*sniff*
I'm sorry Herbert!!!!! :bawl:

I think I'll leave food...close...ish. :p

I haven't even found a web....haven't seen it jump either.

Here's Herbert:

http://205.209.144.11/hosting/userfiles/Yuffie/spider%20%282%29.JPG

[jetblue]

Thats a common hunter spider. They have no permanent webs. I was going to ask you to get a picture because I dont want you to be near a potential poisonus spider. Ive never seen one that color before,what part of the world are you from?
Hunter spiders are wild, outdoor mainly,so scoop it up in a paper cup and leave it in the garden. It probably wandered in your place in search of a mate or prey or just got lost. Over here they are sand colored and eat the wood louse that are every where outside. As soon as I see one in the house I realease it outside to there enviroment.

No more biology lessons.

You could also scoop it up in your hand gently and take it outside. They dont bite. Your not squemish are you? They do move preety fast and might travel up your arm so mabey its best you use a paper cop and cover it with a peice of paper. :D



I forgot,it is a male,the females are much smaller and fatter so you were right in calling it Herbert.

[Yuffie]

Well it's not hungry any more. :D
It ate about 2cm square of apple. :wonder:

I just left it on the floor and when I looked down it had come out to eat. :p

I don't think we even get poisonous spiders here....but wait...you tell me not to touch it in case it's poisonous...AFTER telling me to let it drink water off my finger?! :rofl:

They move really quick and I'm maybe slightly squeamish of fast moving, unpredictable bugs. :p

Sloworms I can handle. :emlaugh:

I'm from the UK by the way. :p

[FlashFirer]

You should take a good care of Herbert, what your not. Shame on you!!
Herbert needs to sleep OK? :realmad:

[Zedie9]

:wonder: Spiders will eat apple? Did you watch it eat? If so, that's pretty neat! :bouncy:

[jetblue]

The U.K. That explains the coloration. I wasnt sure but from the old boards I thought you were from either Britain or Israel.

I was thinkig that if its starting to get cold in the U.K. Herbert might be trying to find a place to hibernate. Thats when hunter spiders sometimes go inside peoples homes. They find a nice corner in the ceilings and spin a small coccon and sleep until spring. In the garden hunter spiders go between the bark of trees or the cracks of rocks to hibernate.
Is it cool in the U.K. like under 70 degrees farenheit?

Spiders are omnivorus,ignore the standard teachings. What fasinates me more about spiders is there memory. I bet Herbert has memorized the entire layout of Yuffies apartment by touch and sight,and remembers where the food was and who gave it to him.

To bad you dont have a small black light or ultaviolet light source. If you were to turn off the lights and look real close at the walls with a small hand flashlight you might see how far Herbert has traveled by his anchor webs. They will glisten like silver. Old webs will look black. Anchor webs are thinner than the other webs they produce. There almost invisable. But if you look in the right angle in the light.

More spider biology. :)
Im getting into to much detail.


I fogot to ask is it true about a species of moth in the U.K. the size of a hand? Also have you heard anything about that Ant supercolony in europe.
Theres so little info on the web. I cant belive that there are so many ant colonies with diffrent queens cooperating and not killing each other. I heard it spans from italy to france and spain. I wish I could see them. I could learn so much.

[Kilu]

The U.K. That explains the coloration. I wasnt sure but from the old boards I thought you were from either Britain or Israel.
Unless my geo is totally wrong, those two are the same thing. Unless you are talking about some other Britain. Great Britain is the only one I know of. :wonder:

[Pezito]

(Kilu, I don't think Jetblue ever indicated he made a difference between UK and Britain... ? :search: )

Jetblue, you probably don't realize it but you've done more for my arachnophobia in a couple posts than I've ever done in several years ! The way you describe the spider makes it look almost... Sympathetic (and maybe the fact that Yuffie named it Herbert :D ). I mean, I'm almost at a point where I'll try feeding a spider next time I see one ! That's insane !!! :wacky:

About the moth (is that what I think it is : "nocturnal butterfly" ?) the size of a hand, it does live in Europe - although very rare. I must've seen such a specimen "in the wild" (= not in captivity ^^) 2 or 3 times at most in my life. Oh by the way - I HATE mothes too... Except those beautiful ones (I'm still not fond of them but I respect them :p ).

As for the ants - have you ever read Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber ? :amazed: If not, I highly suggest that you get that book as soon as you can. People who don't care about ants (= most people :D ) can easily be fascinated by this book, which isn't just "A Bug's Life" on paper but a vast, meaningful, instructive story about humans, ants, philosophy, and many other things. Werber has written two other books in the "ants trilogy" plus several great novels on other themes, with the same intelligence... So I advise anyone to read it, and especially to you if you seem so interested in insects generally, and ants particularly. :)

[Yuffie]

Zedie: Yes I did watch it eat, it was weird!! It had like 2 fangs that worked sort of like a wiggly fork and it scraped at the apple with them and sucked up the juice. I looked at the bit of apple in the morning and there was sort of 2 lines of scrapes. :D

Jet: How do you know so much about spiders? O.o
However you know it's pretty neat! I used to really hate them. :D
Still not got quite to picking up Herbert yet. ;)
Put my hand right by it to feed it more apple though.

As for the temperature, it's still pretty warm but this is the coldest room in the house, it's just a converted garage.

And it's called a house by the way. ;)

A moth crashed into my ear today! Right as I walked through the door from work it just bashed into it and fluttered about for a bit. :rofl:

Pez: Sure you're not thinking of that film...what's it's name..."Antz"? :P


One more thing! :D

....How is Britain in any way similar to Israel...? O.o

[jetblue]

Wow I would love to hold one of those moths. I read stories from time to time but I always thought they were legend. I read that they weave black silk and the catapillar is extreamly poisonus. I even heard they drink the blood from cows and deer. And there eyes are as red as rubies.There is so little information on the giant moth.
The ancient gods speak of them as damned souls that leave tartarus on the full moon to feed on the living. I think there were lots of them in europe in the old days but died out because of mans interfearence and superstition. Theres so many stories about them that I will typing for hours.
Ill keep my eye out for that book, sounds interesting.

I ve always tried to understand how creatures behave and communicate.Insects and spiders are very intelligent and if you observe them you learn what they are saying. If they are hurt,or thirsty or looking for a mate,etc. They can sence with there powerful feelers or sensors if we mean them harm or not.
I really know more about web spiders than I do about mobile spiders like Herbert.

Heres some more info on the hunter spider that Ive learned over the years. In homes there greatest predator is the common house centapede. The bushy kind. Also very intelligent. They have powerful segmented jaws. They remove a spiders legs one by one. Its very gruesome.
Outside the hunter spider is preyed apon by birds or other insects but mainly the spider wasp. There are varoius species of spider wasp. Some are really small. The hunter spider is easy prey because the dont have a defensive web.
The spider wasp lays her eggs in the still living spider. Spider wasps also hunt jumping and trapdoor spiders but outside I see the wasps dragging hunter spiders along the ground all the time. Mabey Herbert went inside your home to escape a wasp.

Also chances are Herbert is not alone. One time when I was younger a hunter spider was in my room and my brother was going to step on it and I tried to stop him. I told him to let me catch it and throw it outside. My brother said retardedly that it will just find a way to come back inside. He steped on it. I went over to pick it up because no one wants a dead spider in there room,when I saw this tiny mite like creature move away from the body then a tiny beatle like insect move then fly away. So mabey Herbert has a couple of passengers. Its common for moving insects to carry one or more tiny insects.I dont think there parasites. They probably protect the host in one way or another or are along just for the ride.


No more biology lessons. Just be kind to all creatures great and small. :D


I forgot to mention theres 2 spiders around here I cant identify. One is in my bath room. Its about 1 inch long,black but has half of its abdomen is bright red,could be a variation. The other is in downtown. I use to work in this office high rise and at night these 3 inch spiders would come out and lay there webs on the window panes outside. They are gray in color with white lines on the top of there abdomens. They cover all the high rises at night about 3 per window. There webs must be really strong to withstand the winds. I cant find them living in any other part of the city.

[Yuffie]

I don't think we even get spider wasps, those centepede things and trapdoor or jumping spiders here. :rofl:

So if you come to visit, don't bring any along! :p

I don't think this spider can leave the ground so it probably can't escape this room as there's a step to get outside. Still, it's working as a way of keeping my sister out of here even when it doesn't show itself.

No giant moths for us either. ;)

I think I got my spider phobia when I went round my friends house for a sleepover when I was about 7 and the window was right by my bed and it was a hot summer so we opened it and all these spiders spilled in and went across the bed and there was like a whole nest of them. >_<
They were kinda golden in colour, had large backsides and I think they were about 2cm long but they might have seemed that big when I was little. :p

[Locke Cole]

....I think I got my spider phobia when I went round my friends house for a sleepover when I was about 7 and the window was right by my bed and it was a hot summer so we opened it and all these spiders spilled in and went across the bed and there was like a whole nest of them. >_<
They were kinda golden in colour, had large backsides and I think they were about 2cm long but they might have seemed that big when I was little. :p
Okay, now I'm never opening a window again. OMG I'm going to have nightmares for a week! :o Icccccccccccckkkkkkkkyyyy!!!!!!!! *runs away screaming like a little girl*

[Yuffie]

Maybe I should find a Herbert2 to give to Locke to help him with his...er...new found phobia. Oops. :emlaugh:

[Zedie9]

One is in my bath room. Its about 1 inch long,black but has half of its abdomen is bright red,could be a variation.:wonder: You mean, like a Black Widow? If it is, be careful, as they are poisonous.


The U.K. That explains the coloration. I wasnt sure but from the old boards I thought you were from either Britain or Israel.


Unless my geo is totally wrong, those two are the same thing. Unless you are talking about some other Britain. Great Britain is the only one I know of. :wonder::D I don't think Jetblue was confusing UK and Britain as seperate places, but instead using Britain as a synonym. I read his sentece as "Ah, England then - that explains the coloration. I thought you were from either England or Israel." :bouncy:

[Charon]

On the subject of moths, which I hate, this is one of the biggest. The atlas moth. If one of these flew at me I really would die of fright.

http://www.dannesdjur.com/bilder/attacus_atlas_3.jpg

[jetblue]

The spider in my bathroom is not a widow. The widows here live mainly in the forests and praires. I did find one in my freinds basement years ago. Fascinating specimen. They weave there webs in a funnel pattern. This one was huge. Could of been living there for 5 or 6 years. I never should of told my freind because a few days later he killed it with a can of hairspray and a lighter.
That bastard.
Thats another thing standard teaching wont tell you. Spiders that spin webs live for a very long time compared to mobile spiders like Herbert that use up alot of energy walking about. The longest I have been able to determin was a chesnut spider that lived at my grandmothers front porch was 10 years old. I preety sure some spiders live a lot longer.Size is a indicator of age. Spiders shed there skin just like there cousins in the ocean every equinox and solstice.
When there younger they shed more because there going through a growth spurt.


Theres a spider in the sahara the ancient egyptians use to speak of that was nocturnal and was gigantic with stilts for legs. They called it the Camel Spider,because it would eat camels. I thought they were complete legend untill 3 years ago a Nature film crew captured them on film. When I saw that Nature program I was stunned. They are more terrifying than I ever thought.Trully the stuff of nightmares. One of there film crew said (I wished they had filmed it)he woke up with a giant camel spider loddge on its face like the face huggers in Aliens. The spider crept up on his face and injected a type of neuro pacifier in his nose so he wouldnt feel any sensation at all so as not to disturb,and drained all the fluid from his nose and cheeks. The film crew continued to film the huge spiders in the night walking towards there tents.If you look on the Internet you might find some pictures. I havent the slightest idea what species they came from. I have never seen there type.Could be a whole new species.But what scares me the most is there eyes. Huge nocturnal eyes. The ancient egyptians say they are fast and if you are alone it the desert they will hunt you down in packs and kill you.
I just thoght I would share this because I am afraid sometimes of spiders. Especially these. If more scientific study was done on the camel spider it would surely be the worlds biggest and ferocious spider. Possibly the most intelligent.If I had one It probably would take me many days to gain its trust and let it know In not a food source. But it can be done . They will remember.


Thats a beuty of a moth. I wish we had those over here. I would catch one and call him Mothra.


Update:4:23 pm
I was just looking on the Internet to find a picture of the camel spider and there a American soldier holding up a dead one. The web site says its a hoax.
The web site says that even the Nature show I saw was a Hoax.
That Nature show was on PBS. Wonders of the Sahara. Is it possible that the Nature show made some animatronic camel spiders?
Either way I go by what the Ancient Texts say. The ancient egyptians drew pictures of it thousands of years ago. It is possible it is extinct and there are remains in the desert. Only one way to find out.... TO THE SAHARA!!!

[Yuffie]

I kinda like the black widow, she mates then she kills. Where's the downside? :D

That gigantic spider has only made me even more determined to visit Egypt despite any fears of spiders. :p
I've never heard of anyone being attacked by them in the desert and quite a few people have camped there and stuff.

It seems the ones pictured are about the size of a grown man's hand. The pic's a bit misleading.

http://www.buckstix.com/camelspider.htm A site about them, with pictures. If you're squeamish don't look!!

However, after looking at several sites some say they eat flesh and are deadly, others say they're good companions like puppies and aren't a threat. O.o

Charon: Just think of it as a squashed bird. ;)

IMPORTANT EDIT!!!!

If you want a better idea of the size, the thing on the right of the spiders is the sleeve of the guy holding them.

[jetblue]

Read my edit update. That picture doesnt look like the ones on the Nature show I saw. They did have long legs but the body is all diffrent. Now Im begining To doubt the Nature show. Mabey I should write PBS a e-mail or better yet George Page the shows narrator because he was right there with them in the sahara.
That program is funded by public funds and for them not to show one of there crewman being eaten alive is suspicious.
TO THE SAHARA!!!!!!!!!!
Also on the way a breif stop at europe to look for the giant moth.

[Yuffie]

Ok, I always wanted a camel ride! :D
Actual camel, not spider...

While we're there can we do amusing Indiana Jones impressions and revive some old gooey mummies?

[jetblue]

I found it!
I was mistaken the program I saw was NOVA on PBS not Nature with George Page.
NOVA is nown for there honesty in public programing.
The episode was
"Lost city of Arabia"
Air date october 8,1996
Narrated by Stacy Keach

The web site has no pictures only transcripts.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2312lost.html
It tells the story of the guy that got bitten on the face.

They re-run NOVA alot here so I will be watching and record and post the REAL picture of the feirsome camel spider. So you can all see there eyes. There haunting eyes.

All the other websites I went to say the show was fake. But Im pretty sure NOVA would of taken it off the air a long time ago.
Still there is the possability they used animatronic spiders.
One website had a Iraqi Kentucky Freid Chicken serving freid camel spiders.
:rofl:
Like there really is a KFC in bagdad.


Does anyone dare me to order some spider eggs from the site Yuffie found?
Ill put those eggs in water so fast and send some to my enemies.
There probably candy coated peanuts.

[Yuffie]

Jet, are you really sure it wasn't alien you were watching..? :p
Or a cheap remake? :rofl:

About the eggs it would explain why they couldn't get wet, they'd just sort of melt...but if they were real what would happen to the postman if it rained?! :amazed:

[Charon]

I kinda like the black widow, she mates then she kills. Where's the downside? :D

That gigantic spider has only made me even more determined to visit Egypt despite any fears of spiders. :p
I've never heard of anyone being attacked by them in the desert and quite a few people have camped there and stuff.

It seems the ones pictured are about the size of a grown man's hand. The pic's a bit misleading.

http://www.buckstix.com/camelspider.htm A site about them, with pictures. If you're squeamish don't look!!

However, after looking at several sites some say they eat flesh and are deadly, others say they're good companions like puppies and aren't a threat. O.o

Charon: Just think of it as a squashed bird. ;)

IMPORTANT EDIT!!!!

If you want a better idea of the size, the thing on the right of the spiders is the sleeve of the guy holding them.
Dammit. Beleive it or not I was looking for those when I came across the goliath. Apparantly their squeal sounds like a baby crying. But with the goliath being in the GBOR, those can't actually be spiders in the genus sense. Hence they belong to a different genus, any ideas?

and moths suck. Spiders I can deal with, they eat flies, wasps, and MOTHS! Yay! but moths serve no purpose but to freak me out and reduce me to a whimpering girl, not a feeling I like. So I hate them, theydeserve to die to preserve my sanity, and my manhood. :)

[Pezito]

At first I read in your last sentence "So I ate them"... XD :rofl:

The pics of those "camel spiders" held by a GI in Iraq is bullshit, a big fat fake. :) I first believed it (except some details like the squealing, which overdid it) but after checking, it proved to be a fake. As I suspected, the things you see on that famous picture are not exactly spiders - don't you think they look like scorpions too ? They're actually something in between, a separate branch in arachnids. Second, the pic is lying about their size because they're shot very close ; but they're not on the same plan as the guy you see behind, so they're not that huge at all. Their maximum speed is about 16 Km/h. The squealing is totally fantasist (NO spiders can squeal, they physically cannot do it), as well as the rumor that they eat camels (or camel livers, depends on the version) or humans or paralyze them to eat them, and so on... Their bite can be extremely painful or cause an infection, but they won't chew you up as they attack animals of their size.

Short, the camel spiders exist and they are big, but the so-called specimens we all saw on the web or via e-mail with those soldiers is a fake.

By the way Yuffie, I noticed a funny thing : the web site you linked to uses as a logo the exact same picture as the SPIDER SOLITAIRE game in Windows ! :rofl: Open it, it's in your Start menu... ;) The guy just inversed the colors of the pic, and voilà - he's selling "camel spider T-shirts" ! OMG. (-_-)

http://www.nahlinder.se/staffan/imgs/spider.gif http://www.buckstix.com/images/spider.jpg
(original) (T-shirt :p )

Charon > I so undertand your fear of moths... I hate them too. But the pic you posted is almost what I was talking about ; those moths so big that they actually scare me less than regular moths. Except the ones I saw were a bit smaller (still very large and the same shape) and their colors were a bit less vivid, more brownish.

Jetblue > Unless you don't like to read, I advise you to not just keep an eye out for that book, but to go buy it as soon as you can. :D

[Charon]

(NO spiders can squeal, they physically cannot do it),

Like I said, they aint spiders. And I saw that pic in a newspaper. now I'm smart enough to realise that the stories in papers are bull shit. but there are laws on pictures.

[Zedie9]

:D I'm not afraid of moths, nor spiders, though I prefer the spiders to not crawl on my person. ;)

[Yuffie]

I'm not afraid of them but don't like them crawling on me. :p

Wouldn't mind it if I chose to hold a spider I'd just rather not turn round and see one crawling up my arm. :rofl:

I respect insects and creatures that aren't familiar to me because if I've never seen them I'd rather not get bitten and poisoned or something. :p
Hence why I leave spiders and things alone and pulverise mosquitoes. :rofl:

[Ality]

Spiders live better underneath my shoe.

oh... Maybe that's why i never see them again...

[Yuffie]

Well considering how shaded it is under there it's probably nice! :D

Awww...hey look it's sleeping!! Kinda...scrunched up...well I guess that's just how spiders sleep. :D

[Zedie9]

:D A spider bit me on the neck at work one night. It wasn't very painful, but itched a bit and swelled some, at worst looking like a large pimple. Unfortunately for the spider, it died for its (and my) pains. :(

[Mithrandir]

A spider bit you on the neck? How big was it? And under which circumstances?

Last time I saw a spider that could bit someone, it was as big as a rat...

[Pezito]

Last time I heard of someone being bit on the neck by a spider, it was...

Hm...

Zedie... You wouldn't happen to be him - would you ??? (°o°)

[Hierlark16]

Arachnapobic... shudder. Can't stand to think about it. Hm... you never have to fight huge ass spiders as bosses in RPGs anymore. You always had to fight one as a boss in a forest or cave in the old school RPGs, and the materia hunter (No, not you Yuffie) or whatever it's called in the mountain in FF7 is like the closest thing for recently. And maybe that unkillable metallic one in FF8. and thank goodness too. With today's graphics I'd be freaked out if you had to fight a big ass tarantula in a more recent game.

[Neuroelectronic]

I'm Selling my Gameboy advance on ebay w/ some oldskewl GB rpg games with it. Some of the games are:

Metriod II: Return of Samus
Final Fantasy Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening
Final Fantasy Legend II
Pokemon Blue
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
Breath of Fire
Plus 9 other non RPG games

If anyone is interested you can check out the auction here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8139617700

[jetblue]

Howdy Neuroelectronic.http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/smile.gif
Thats a sweet collection of gameboy games. I must be hard to part with them.
But that dodge your selling is a beaute. If I could still drive a car I would most likely put a bid. Im a Dodge man. My dad had a Charger.

[Giea]

Hiya Neuroelectronic! I'm Giea, the jester or... *sigh* annoying one here... I love Gameboys and how you spelt old school.. first thing I think you should put that request in the game section ;-) and good luck with your games, and selling them =)

[Pezito]

Arachnapobic... shudder. Can't stand to think about it. Hm... you never have to fight huge ass spiders as bosses in RPGs anymore. You always had to fight one as a boss in a forest or cave in the old school RPGs, and the materia hunter (No, not you Yuffie) or whatever it's called in the mountain in FF7 is like the closest thing for recently. And maybe that unkillable metallic one in FF8. and thank goodness too. With today's graphics I'd be freaked out if you had to fight a big ass tarantula in a more recent game.
Well, Lineage 2 has some nice spiders (though it's an MMORPG, not offline RPG)...

http://lineage2.free.fr/screenshoot/kozen09_big.jpg
http://lineage2.free.fr/screenshoot/03/06.jpg

NB : I'm definitely fond of the dragon-boss (http://lineage2.free.fr/v2_screenshoot_05e.php) in Lineage 2 (look a few pics down)... :love: And most characters / monsters as a matter of fact. I don't play it however, it's too boring ! :D

Ah, otherwise there is Shelob in the Return of the King game by E.A. I fought her as Sam, and man it was a tought fight ! XD But I killed her, hehe... With only 2 pixels of life left. (°_°);;;

http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/10170.jpg

[Giea]

Well, Lineage 2 has some nice spiders (though it's an MMORPG, not offline RPG)...

http://lineage2.free.fr/screenshoot/kozen09_big.jpg
http://lineage2.free.fr/screenshoot/03/06.jpg

NB : I'm definitely fond of the dragon-boss (http://lineage2.free.fr/v2_screenshoot_05e.php) in Lineage 2 (look a few pics down)... :love: And most characters / monsters as a matter of fact. I don't play it however, it's too boring ! :D

Ah, otherwise there is Shelob in the Return of the King game by E.A. I fought her as Sam, and man it was a tought fight ! XD But I killed her, hehe... With only 2 pixels of life left. (°_°);;;

http://img-nex.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/10170.jpg|


hey! cool! my friend plays that game.. he's a gurly dwarf warrior.. cool.. is it fun?

[Zedie9]

:finger: Giea, was it really necessary to leave in Pezzie's pictures when you quoted him? Besides being redundant, the things were big enough the first time, evil thread stretchers! :p

[silverDistortioN]

you have to leave in the pictures when you quote so people know what you were talking about. especially if they're from the post that came IMMEDIATELY BEFORE yours.

[Giea]

:finger: Giea, was it really necessary to leave in Pezzie's pictures when you quoted him? Besides being redundant, the things were big enough the first time, evil thread stretchers! :pWhy the hell am I always blamed? !:realmad:!

[Pezito]

Because you suxxor ? :D ;)

Sorry guys, I'm in 1280 x 1024 and I forgot that the first pic, especially, was too large... I would have linked to it otherwise. :emlaugh:

As for the LotR game, yes, it's a good one (at least The Return of the King - I haven't played the first game). Nicely done and faithful to the film(s), varied gameplay, hard but beatable eventually... I think it's rather good. :)

[FlashFirer]

What does Sux0rz means and what does Rofl means?
Dude, you guys are abreviation maniacs.
Go figure. "tough" here would be pronounced "tâf", "spider" here would be pronounced "spáider"...and this isn't the pronouns fault!!
{[(MWAHAHAHAHAHAH GET IT? PRONOUNCED, PRONOUN!!! MWAHAHAH--oh it wasn't funny...-_-')]}

OBS.: As you can see, the new forums dind't change the fact that I'm schizophrenic. -_-'

[Giea]

Suxorz.. means just that you suck, it's not abbreviated, and ROFL stands for Roll and Floor Laughing. Ok, and you're wrong tough is (tuf) I can't get the weird u though..

[Charon]

Rolling ON the floor laughing. :p

And suxx0rz comes from 1337. Here is a nice article (and quite funny) that explains 1337.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917
Even if you know what 1337 is take a look, it's amusing.

[Giea]

Rolling ON the floor laughing. :p

And suxx0rz comes from 1337. Here is a nice article (and quite funny) that explains 1337.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917
Even if you know what 1337 is take a look, it's amusing.Roll ON floor laughing is what I meant =P, I don't think clearly. Nice article ^.^.

G134 f0r th3 w1n!!

[Astrolounge]

I don't like 1337 writing, It's just annoying to me, no mater what activity you are currently doing. It's just a pain. I do sometimes use the words though, Like "Woot" and "Owned," but I tend to use normal spelling of them, which, as far as I can tell, people find MORE annoying somehow. The only exception being "skillz," which I spell wrong when I don't pay attention.

:flagca:

[Giea]

Well, if you were to read the article "woot" and "owned" aren't really correctly spelt. They're words cut out of words, if that makes sense..

[Astrolounge]

I mean I don't put numbers in their spelling.

I DID read the article. I ment this; I spell it "woot" not "w00t" (no zero's) and I don't put a 3 and such in "owned," also owned IS a word, it's just not normally used in that context.
(ie: "I owned a bike like that a few years ago, but I sold it for booze money.")

[silverDistortioN]

i think it's all a matter of context myself. for example......

..................................

well, i can't think of anything, but odds are i'm right, i think. >.>

[Giea]

You're right owned is a word, but like you said in the context you used it, it ISN'T a word. =)

[silverDistortioN]

actually, it is... you just have to think about how it was originally intended...

for instance, "you got owned!" probably had some subtext along the lines of "big bubba just bought you for a cigarette and now you're his bitch!"
...not to imply it doesn't anymore. >.>

[Kilu]

I don't really see anyone using 'owned' anymore. Unless it's part of some other word, like http://rpgn.lintbox.net/hosting/userfiles/Kilu/stallowned.jpg

It's PWND these days :o It's funny how variation for these words come from simple typos.

[Pezito]

K1Lu is TEH PwnZ !!!1!!11!

[Giea]

1 ju5+ wtfpwned K1lu! =) YAY!

[Mithrandir]

Psh...you guys will never learn. You have to be off-topic in this thread. So I'll start by telling you about how I became prrime minister of Canada...

[Astrolounge]

I'll ready the pie.

J dbo cf b xfjsep upp.

[Astrolounge]

Mmm, Pie.
pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie pie...
YE GODS I LOVE PIE!

I finally got off my ass and played CounterStrike, Better late than never I guess. Oddly, I don't suck at it, normally I blow massive a FPS.
Ahh well, emare.

[Yuffie]

I don't like pie... it looks too savoury for me.

[silverDistortioN]

everything's too savory for you.

[Astrolounge]

I had a pie with savory in it last week.
*Hit's Mithrandir with a cream pie.*

[Astrolounge]

It's things like this, that make me damn happy I live in Canada... :flagca:

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65704,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

[silverDistortioN]

we were talking about this extensively in chat... the wording in that bill really makes me feel like stabbin' some people.

anyway... me and IceBurner decided to start an online mp3 library that would provide streaming media, thereby bypassing the duplication clause.
...unless we, in fact, have no idea what the actual legal wording is, and we made that up... which i do believe we did.

[Mithrandir]

Canada eh? You mean this:

http://etudiants.fsa.ulaval.ca/eehef/0001.JPG

Bah! I was waiting for snow anyway. I can now go to ski!

[Astrolounge]

I live in Whistler, that's not really a snowfall.
Come on, you live in Quebec, you can't call that skiing weather yet.

The army isn't even there yet.

PS: How deep is it on the slopes?

[Mithrandir]

Well I have to say that we really can't beat you on that!

Well, ski resorts have now these snow cannons that "create" snow. So that's not a problem for them. Actually that was the first " real" snow of the season. Some fell before but quickly melted. It's going to snow all week though according to the weather channel...

[Astrolounge]

*Cough*Whistler*cough*

I know all about snow machines, you can actually rent them from the moutain here for private use, but I also know they make pretty crappy snow.
And groomed runs suck.
Snow machines are only really used to create a snow "base" for powder to pile up on. :)

Especially Champagne powder...
For there is no greater powder on earth,
You can't NOT love it to tears.

[Astrolounge]

I was watching a weather report last night and the guy was going through the temperatures, so he has Celcius in Canada and Ferinheit in the States. And I thought, you know...
I wonder if this is how we got the reputation of being a frozen wasteland...

[Mithrandir]

www.slccglobelink.com/main.cfm/ include/detail/storyid/785067.html (http://www.slccglobelink.com/main.cfm/ include/detail/storyid/785067.html)

Just read this link...it's an interesting story


And this one might be hilarious:
http://www.chaser.com.au/show_story.asp?ID=638&ED=68&CAT=6&NAME=diaz

Though the last one I believe it's a fake news...

[Astrolounge]

The second one (if true which I doubt) is possibly comprised of the most moronic people imaginable.

[jetblue]

I wondered about that matrix case. Good for her.
Ewwww Cameron Diaz.

[renshai]

I was watching a weather report last night and the guy was going through the temperatures, so he has Celcius in Canada and Ferinheit in the States. And I thought, you know...
I wonder if this is how we got the reputation of being a frozen wasteland...
actually, the lower the temperature is, the closer fahrenheit and celsius get to one another. so when i tell my american friends that it's -40 outside, they can take it as either fahrenheit or celsius. but when i tell them it's 3 degrees out (which it is), if they thought i meant fahrenheit it would actually be -16.

*looks at sentence* and....that made no sense. oh well. *waves to fellow forumites* hi, i'm totally new.

[Astrolounge]

I'm refering to a group of Americans I actually met who wern't even aware Celcius and Feriheit have a differece at all besides name.
So they think the temperature drops 50 degrees, as soon as you cross the border.

PS: I think your calculations are off a wee smigin.
Oh, and welcome to the forums.

[Astrolounge]

Yup, This is definetely what I'm getting buried in.

http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_oct2004/GeekCoffin.jpg

[jetblue]

WOWhttp://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/eyepopping.gif
Thats better than a pharaoh.

[FlashFirer]

Surely....they don't wrap you in something I just discovered is toilet paper

[Astrolounge]

They wrap you in cloth, but thats not the point. It has a cool neo-techy type cross on which is just damn cool.
Plus people will have FUN at my damn funeral.

[Yuffie]

I still like the Egyptian method! :D
I have my own canopic jars prepared already. :)

One I made when I was 6 in primary school out of a washing up bottle and some clay and one I got for christmas. I think people must just be wanting to hurry up the death process. :p

[Astrolounge]

Dont forget the book of the dead, and the scale for the heart.

[Yuffie]

I have some electric kitchen scales and a lot of books that could bore someone to death. Will that do? :D


Now get to work building my tomb! :realmad:

[Astrolounge]

The book of the dead was an ancient tome of spells and enchantments the Egyptians belived would protect you during your journey through the evil underworld before you got to thier idea of "heaven."

The scale needs to be made of gold, (or more commonly plated with gold) have the Eye Of Horus in the center of it, and be capable of weighing two things at once.
Beyond that, there's no restriction preventing an electronic scale. Although it would be hard to find one with those specifications.

Oh, you would need mumification tools too.

[Yuffie]

Picky picky picky. :p

I just want a solid gold shrine-...no...make that a solid gold pyramid! :D

Admitedly I'll be dead when I get to use it...but that's a minor detail.

I have a dog that looks like Anubis if that counts...but the ears are too floppy. :rofl:

[jetblue]

The pyramid is not important,whats important is what youre taking with you for the afterlife. Jewels,furniture,clothes,cases of Lucozade mabey?




My mom keeps talking about what were going to do when she dies. I keep telling her were going to get 2 coffins. 1 for her and another for her jewlery and stuff. Then we would have both coffins covered in cement to prevent grave robbers like we did for my uncle. My uncles casket is encased in 5 feet of cement. I wonder what he's got buried with him?

[Yuffie]

When my dad dies I'm selling all his steam engines he's wasted our money on over the years.

We already have a loan...so he goes and spends £700 (almost $1400) on a little model engine. :confused:

He has no sense of priority and it's driving my mum nuts with his random spending habits. Ebay has become a curse on our household. :p

[Astrolounge]

You think cement is going to stop somebody who's determined?

[jetblue]

It wont stop them,but it will make alot of noise and alert the grounds keeper.
In the south its common to prevent corpses from being sold to schools or witchcraft as well as treasure seekers. Well thats what my grandma use to say. I think its to stop.....THE ZOMBIES!!!





The other day on my way to my brothers house we were driving on Roosevelt Rd. that has a cemetary one each side by the city limits and as we were passing the jewish cemetary on the right going eastbound you could see by the fence 5 fresh graves. Child size. I thought that was strange. Poor kids.

[Astrolounge]

Getting through cement can be done quietly...
It's just harder, or takes a lot longer.

[FlashFirer]

Why, you already did it?

[Astrolounge]

I have gotten through cement with relative quiet in the past.
Not for robbing a grave though.

[jetblue]

You have! Then let us go to my uncles grave. Its not far from you near Seattle. He was a rich ol fudge packer. Had a big roman signet ring.
But can you handle spirits and mabey a zombie?
And we must not damage the body. He is my uncle.

[Astrolounge]

Well I should mention cutting through concrete quietly takes a LONG time, over a year.
If you use a hydrojet... A few hours tops.

Damn I with I still had that thing.

[Yuffie]

Does it HAVE to be quiet? *packs up some dynamite*

A little noise never hurt anyone. :D

Except maybe white noise...or brown noise...or the noise you get on scratched CDs...or...actually quite a lot of noise.

[FlashFirer]

Dial-up connection noises suck -_-'
At least now I have a modem so everything's fine with 100MB per second, not 33 -_-'

[Yuffie]

UK broadband sucks compared to American, all the adverts are saying how fast ours is then America waltzes in about 3 times as fast, it's NOT FAIR!! :p

And my computer's just a pain anyway! :p

[FlashFirer]

Mine too...lack of memory ¬_¬'

[Astrolounge]

North American web connections are faster for the same reason anything in humanity is done,
to score points with the opposite sex.

[Yuffie]

Well my bf built is a theatre lighting designer so that's pretty smart I guess... that and he's a nice guy I suppose. :p

[Charon]

The pope has died. Just heard about it now. May he rest in peace and find his heaven.


*has a minute of silence*

[Geosgaeno]

yup Pope is gone, wonder what will happen.


anyway this thread makes no sense, how can you have a off topic thread, if it has no topic than whatever you talk about is on-topic???

[Lance Alvein]

Just to bring it back.... I'm officially http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/offtopic.gif :p

[Yuffie]

I just noticed the beginning of my previous post made little to no sense at all. :D

Lance, get off the topic quick!! :amazed:

[Lance Alvein]

I like goat cheese http://www.rpgamers.info/images/smilies/biglaugh.gif off topic enough for you?

[Locke]

I love lamp :p

[Yuffie]

I like hugs. :)
Just thought I'd mention that. :D

[Locke]

Octopus' have 8 tentacled legs, just to clarify for everybody :thumbup:

[Yuffie]

Well I suppose they are legs...kinda....but I'm now somewhat confused upon how to define legs.

I mean...they don't waddle about on land (excluding any films where they clamber over small boats).

[Lance Alvein]

I always thought that they were considered arms...

[chrissii]

I always thought that they were considered arms...
o.O agreed. I've never seen an octopus walk... though it'd certainly be a sight to see if one decided to hop out of the sea for a stroll along the beach or something. XD;

Then again, Ultros (ffvi) could walk, and wasn't he an octopus? hrm... *ponders* :p

[Lance Alvein]

I always thought ultros just floated...

[Locke]

No, he pulled himself along with his tentacles. Think back to the fight in the gave where you get relm to use in battle for the first time. He definently crawls forward slowly there :D

[Yuffie]

Plus didn't he randomly attack from the beams in a theatre at one point...?
Definately no ocean near there. :amazed:

What bored, deranged person thought of having an octopus evil psycho genius? :p

[Locke]

A genius yuffie, an underpaid genius. :)

[Yuffie]

I finally understand my true calling in life...

The underwater prison is only the beginning!!!!

[Locke]

Oh god. Where will it end I ask. WHERE WILL IT END :p

[Yuffie]

That all depends on if I discover the secret of eternal youth... :evilgrin:

[kai]

That one's simple yuffie, if you don't want to become an old woman, kill yourself now. :evilgrin:

[Locke]

Chicken stew with dumplings is good :D

[Yuffie]

Kill myself NOW?! I'm not even old enough to drink in America yet! :p
So I'll bless you all with my presence for a good few years more. :D

[kai]

Oh YIPPIE :bawl:

[Locke]

But are you old enough to drink everywhere's else? Because the beer in the US just isn't worth the money you'd need to spend on it. Canadian beer is so much better :D

[kai]

AMEN TO THAT !!!!!!! :drunk:

[Locke]

I figured I'd get something like that as my reaction :D Although oddly enough Molson Canadian is now owned by Coors :confused: Kinda too bad, really. As soon as coors took over the "I am Canadian" comercials stopped :bawl: :cry: :(

[Tonedeaf]

o canada
our home and native land!!
tru patriot love
from all our hearts commend
from glowing hearts we see thee rights
our true north strong and free

from far and wide
o canada
we stand on guard for thee

god keep our land
glorios and free
o canada we stand on guard
FOR THEE
O CANADA WE STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE!!



GOD BLESS BEER AND BEAVERS!!!

[Locke]

:flagca:
*Clasp's hat to heart, hand holding it there in a closed fist*

God Bless Canada.

[DonQuixote]

Just thinking here, wouldnt the only way to be off topic in a thread called off topic is to stay on topic?

[Vidus]

Just thinking here, wouldnt the only way to be off topic in a thread called off topic is to stay on topic?
You got it right. I just don't know how to do it so no posts from me.

[kai]

umm . . . .. eleventy-two :confused:

[Locke]

Take the 8 and flip it....


ELEVEN...


INFINITY :p

[Mithrandir]

It's time to bring this thread out of the dead!

I say to infinity and BEYOND!!!

No seriously. Infinity.....PLUS ONE!

[Locke]

I say a googleplex. And that's 10000000000000000000000000000, 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000, 000000000000000000 :p

[Ephraim]

To you, Locke, and to you, Mith, I say Pants. Yes, Pants is the thing I said, and no amount of numbers can sway me from this position. Wear pants (http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/) and all will turn out fine.

[Locke]

Oh, you'll get yours Ephraim, you'll get yours :p

Cummupins I mean ;)

[Ephraim]

My comeuppance? Where am i to come up to? I'm near the top of the apartment building as it is, there's not much left to come up to.

Also, fish. Just to say something else random.

[Locke]

Fish eh :p. I say Grizzly Bear :D

[Mithrandir]

Grizzly Adams?

The question is what is a mahna mahna

The question is...

[Locke]

Potpouri?

That's what I'm saying.

Chocolate Coated Sugar Bombs :D

[Ephraim]

No, it's not Grizzly Adams, or potpourri.

It's Ben (http://www.willardmovie.com/ben_video.html#).

Actually, scratch that. Here's Ben (http://www.kyari.net/pics/0256%20Michael%20Jackson%20-%201972%20-%20Ben.mpg).

The first one actually shows Ben. He's the one on the cushion, but he's the subject of both songs.