776

(495 replies, posted in General)

St Augustine the bishop of Hippo

image is "Saint Augustine in his Study" by Sandro Botticelli

777

(7 replies, posted in Politics)

Move for a vote! Move for vote of no confidence!

778

(7 replies, posted in Politics)

is "Are you for real?"  a permissible question

why doesnt anybody ask them that

779

(65 replies, posted in Politics)

Tubii arna tubii dazza kwiztin
Huizir idiz nublir idnamin tuzufir
dazlinzin aruza aatragiuz furtun
irtakup armzaginza ziatrublz
anbai appazindim indim? tudai, tuzlip
namir, anbaiazlip tuzahuind
dahirtakana zahzind natril zhokz
dafliziz hirtu, tizakon zumazhun
diivaatli tubii wizhd.

780

(495 replies, posted in General)

did not know there was that much sunlight at 32 metres

Gwynedd no men are going to recognize a woman's eyes, so your post is sexist

781

(495 replies, posted in General)

50 feet

782

(495 replies, posted in General)

Yeah I know I heard of these guys but I didn't like their comics so much

783

(495 replies, posted in General)

I think i've seen it but I didn't like it

Sjoerd

785

(495 replies, posted in General)

aww I didn't know it was his actually family
I just saw people wearing Ravens gear

786

(495 replies, posted in General)

looks like losers wtih a pro loser

787

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

I lied! I slept in and didn't go to where I have Starship Troopers

788

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

tomorrow I'll get "Starship Troopers" and quote the bit about labor adding nothing to value

789

(9 replies, posted in Feedback)

Valcona wrote:

I'm going to be the referee.
I was the referee in that game.
I'm always the referee.
I could have been referee.

**fixed**

"Coulda, woulda, shoulda-- we didn't!"  - Hillary Clinton

790

(17 replies, posted in Feedback)

sorry I have been put on a shelf until somebody is ready to get around to seeing me regularly

791

(9 replies, posted in Feedback)

actually you can have "ing" after an E, for example refereeing
the rule you are trying to quote is that a silent E is removed before adding a suffix of any type. And in this case, doing so would result  in two I's next to each other so the I of die is turned into a Y.

But in American English we prefer to use "to be" with the noun to avoid the whole issue.

I'm gonna be referee. 
I'm referee. 
I was referee in that game. 
I'm always referee.
I coulda been referee, but I preferred to be sober.

792

(9 replies, posted in Feedback)

/ pins the Grammatik Kreuze 2. Klasse on Valcona
/ salutes

793

(17 replies, posted in Feedback)

so? get an IC boyfriend and have him whisper it to you over the phone

794

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

Although wtf

if you added Farmville Cash and special weapons in Angry Birds for not cashing in your barter credits that week, Xeno would probably be donating his used yachts after the new carpet smell wears off

795

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

I do find it a little disappointing that neither you, The yell nor myself really pulled him up on the definition he used, though we did attack his concept from that position.

Once he promised MORE and then argued MORE could not be quantified, I somewhat lost interest as the answer to any challenge was bound to be "Barter GOOD".

796

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

I think You_Fool was being sarcastic

797

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

I found a screenprint that fell through a wormhole:

"Seven years ago Xeno introduced the WorldBarterBank, which seamlessly values and catalogs real objects all over the world for barter by subscribers.  Everybody cheered, but privately, many of us asked ourselves - "Really? That interface?"

Seven years later WBB is publishing its first real update, and for many it will be too little, too late.

WBB prides itself on low overhead, but clearly it could stand to shunt some values into graphic design.  The site looks like a Web4Tots page.  There are no holographic popups, and there is still no Reading Robot interface -- if you want to hear the website, you have to read it out loud yourself.

One of the basic problems with WBB is that it is no fun.  It is merely an index of items available for barter.  There remains absolutely no way to obtain Crushville Cash for purchases, and realtime on the WBB server does not generate XP for your Orkenfuhrer.  It's as if Barack Obama left the tomb and ordered somebody to put a spreadsheet on the internet.  This site could have been designed in 2013.

If you're the type of droog who loves shopping at warehouses, WBB is for you.  For the other 95% of simian citizens, who value the intangible, nonlinear joy of simulinking our hottime, the mere ordering of freight is a infi downer.  Glag, boys."

798

(91 replies, posted in Politics)

Einstein wrote:

Well duh a coffee stained copy of Enders Game is equal to a Rolls Royce

You can't enjoy a Rolls Royce in the john

Of course what Xeno is actually advocating means that my Rolls is actually worth many copies of Ender's game, which is tracked by his magic box, so whilst I withdraw 1 copy, I have a credit worth (n-1) books, which I may use to get myself a reading lamp, a reading desk and new glasses, and maybe a small house to keep my new (to me) book.

You're being unduly restrictive, you might want to have some hot apple pies or wait a year for your book-related items to come up.

smh


I thought ftw was wtf spelled backwards

800

(18 replies, posted in Politics)

I forgot that "You lose" quote yikes

1st graders will be using that one long after D.C. crumbles into dust