Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 20, 2012 - 4:04pm
Hahaha, bravo.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 20, 2012 - 4:46pm
That is why I'm pro dueling.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 21, 2012 - 2:53am
Speaking of last posts, I wonder if I can have the last post of each thread on the first page ALL AT ONCE! But with a relevant post, not just some crap like this. Let's find out!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:01am
I'm serious about the pro-dueling. I think it would make for a much nicer day to day life.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:08am
You mean like a "20 paces turn and fire" duel?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:12am
Yeah, old school pistols at dawn. Although swords would be better for the passers by.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:15am
Grasp yonder rapier, traveller!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:24am
Well the challenged should get to pick, but yeah.
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:31am
I yield to your posting prowess! There's smoke coming out of my phone, make it stop!
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedFebruary 21, 2012 - 3:39am
Oh you flirt!
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 21, 2012 - 6:35am
I definitely agree we should allow formalized, consensual violence. It would encourage people to really consider the things they say.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 21, 2012 - 9:20am
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 21, 2012 - 9:26am
^^ too true.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:03pm
"At the pinnacle of his career Sirpaul McCartney played with other guys, like Dave Grohl, from Foo Fighters, who had a song in 'Thor'. The crowd lost their shit. But it would have been better if Lil' B from The Pack did a song instead."
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:08pm
is confus
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:09pm
@nk - that was sad and amazing.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:15pm
Well, I wasn't live tweeting the Grammies, so it took me a while to find out, but apparently all the teens and tweens who were live tweeting the Grammies had no idea who Paul McCartney is and they made their confusion public with the hashtag #whothefuckispaulmccartney. A backlash against this ignorance ensued.
Or, typewriter, do you not know who Paul McCartney is? Watch the video, they'll tell you. He's Jesse McCartney's dad.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:18pm
I didn't even know he was on the Grammies.
I think I knew abuot that beach towel though.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:36pm
At first I thought Nick's post was just some alternate reality he was experimenting with for a story. I don't particularly care for the band Paul McCartney was in at the beginning of his career. And this still makes me kinda sad.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 22, 2012 - 2:37pm
I hate Wings.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 22, 2012 - 3:01pm
im british and I dislike modern pop; of course i know who paul mccartney is
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 22, 2012 - 3:10pm
Yeah, I would have been disappointed if the british kid didn't know about mccartney but I was sad enough that americans didn't know. Its the fucking beatles, man.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 22, 2012 - 5:47pm
Thats because tweens are stupid assholes who think Justin Bieber is talented and that the internet has been around since the late 1880's. Queen Elizabeth invented the tweet right before she sat on her twot.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 22, 2012 - 6:12pm
"Queen Elizabeth invented the tweet right before she sat on her twot."
I believe the word you are looking for, is 'twat'.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 22, 2012 - 6:13pm
I don't know if I blame it on age, watching the grammies? talking about shit they are watching on television on twitter? Lil' B from the Pack? There was something in the water. You know the Roman Empire fell apart for a lot of reasons, illegal immigration, religious fanaticism, a mindset of perpetual warfare that forced them into endless asymmetrical conflicts, and of course the fags and godless pagans who were running things with their "educated elite." But there was also a lot of lead in their water. I think that these children have been exposed to something at least as dangerous and tests should be run and a cure needs to be found.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 22, 2012 - 9:15pm
Did you just say fags and godless pagans? Seriously?? I hope you were being ironic.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 22, 2012 - 9:21pm
Of course I was being Ironic. I was just trying to adapt fall of the roman empire stuff to modern right wing armageddon talk (and I couldn't help but laugh at the idea of an ancient era "gay agenda") (But, of course, the fall of the Roman Empire era was when they were coming up with the original draft of Christian Armageddon (not that it was a totally original idea, but that's just where they were when they were writing their version), so it's so easy that it's cheating).
I don't think that it's super-lead in the water either, really.
I thought people would ask about the immigration status of various German tribes instead, I thought that was the funny part.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazFebruary 22, 2012 - 9:28pm
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 22, 2012 - 9:35pm
^ Ha ha the two on the left: British. The one on the right: American.
"Go smoke a fag." Sounds like Brits gearing up for a hate crime...
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 22, 2012 - 10:14pm
I certainly did not intend any offense, as a godless pagan I apologize if my attempt at irony failed.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 22, 2012 - 10:34pm
As a pagan, I forgive you.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesFebruary 22, 2012 - 10:36pm
As a ramen noodle, I'm still offended.
Oh wait, I'm getting my threads mixed up.
Did anyone see the Trashopolis episode about Ancient Rome? Their public toilet situation made me really uncomfortable.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 3:25am
@Meat Seeker
You mean how the scuba dive down there?
Also- as per your other thread.....yeah, KD Lang sucks.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 23, 2012 - 7:41am
naw, you don't say go smoke a fag. You say, "Go on, have a fag." The verb used is "have" when dealing with fags.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 23, 2012 - 7:46am
Do people in the UK even use the word fag like that?
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 7:47am
fag"
Doesn't it mean cigarette?
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 23, 2012 - 7:48am
Yeah over there.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:09am
@Matt: I mean the part where they had these big social public toilets, where it's basically a big bench with a bunch of holes in it, and everyone would chat and do their business. But the part that really freaked me out was since toilet paper was not invented yet, they had a small channel with running water going through it along the ground, and a bunch of sticks with sea sponges stuck on the end, and you would just leave it for the next person when you were done. Too much germ sharing for my liking.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:14am
@Meatseeker! That's soooo werid the Romans had running water, and considered themselves above other peoples because they were cleaner.....I guess those sorts of places were for the Plebs or slaves. Very strange, I'll have to check it out. Seems somehow unRoman.
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:20am
They totally thought because the water was running, that rinsing bum sponges made them cleaner than anyone else. Apparently everyone used those toilets. Nasty.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:32am
It couldn't have been the elites, they paid for running wate. Had to have been slaves and even those shitty (no pun) toilet areas are better than what most others in the Roman world had.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:38am
"It couldn't have been the elites, they paid for running wate. "
She is saying they HAD running water. The water ran.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:40am
"She is saying they HAD running water. The water ran."
No I mean complete with pipes that delivered it to their home so they wouldn't have been forced to go in such places. Everyone had access to running water but the upper crust of Roman society had it in their homes. Everyone else had communal areas.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:44am
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:44am
Sort of like the Japanese now, but grosser.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:46am
I mean, they also had vomitoriums. That was the Romans, right?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:47am
Yes. I'm going to build one of those into my house.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:48am
"Many Roman houses came to have flush toilets and indoor plumbing, and a complex sewer system, the Cloaca Maxima, was used to drain the local marshes and carry waste into the Tiber river."
Hahaha, bravo.
That is why I'm pro dueling.
Speaking of last posts, I wonder if I can have the last post of each thread on the first page ALL AT ONCE! But with a relevant post, not just some crap like this. Let's find out!
I'm serious about the pro-dueling. I think it would make for a much nicer day to day life.
You mean like a "20 paces turn and fire" duel?
Yeah, old school pistols at dawn. Although swords would be better for the passers by.
Grasp yonder rapier, traveller!
Well the challenged should get to pick, but yeah.
I yield to your posting prowess! There's smoke coming out of my phone, make it stop!
Oh you flirt!
I definitely agree we should allow formalized, consensual violence. It would encourage people to really consider the things they say.
^^ too true.
So, who the fuck is Paul McCartney?
"At the pinnacle of his career Sirpaul McCartney played with other guys, like Dave Grohl, from Foo Fighters, who had a song in 'Thor'. The crowd lost their shit. But it would have been better if Lil' B from The Pack did a song instead."
is confus
@nk - that was sad and amazing.
Well, I wasn't live tweeting the Grammies, so it took me a while to find out, but apparently all the teens and tweens who were live tweeting the Grammies had no idea who Paul McCartney is and they made their confusion public with the hashtag #whothefuckispaulmccartney. A backlash against this ignorance ensued.
Or, typewriter, do you not know who Paul McCartney is? Watch the video, they'll tell you. He's Jesse McCartney's dad.
I didn't even know he was on the Grammies.
I think I knew abuot that beach towel though.
At first I thought Nick's post was just some alternate reality he was experimenting with for a story. I don't particularly care for the band Paul McCartney was in at the beginning of his career. And this still makes me kinda sad.
I hate Wings.
im british and I dislike modern pop; of course i know who paul mccartney is
Yeah, I would have been disappointed if the british kid didn't know about mccartney but I was sad enough that americans didn't know. Its the fucking beatles, man.
Thats because tweens are stupid assholes who think Justin Bieber is talented and that the internet has been around since the late 1880's. Queen Elizabeth invented the tweet right before she sat on her twot.
"Queen Elizabeth invented the tweet right before she sat on her twot."
I believe the word you are looking for, is 'twat'.
I don't know if I blame it on age, watching the grammies? talking about shit they are watching on television on twitter? Lil' B from the Pack? There was something in the water. You know the Roman Empire fell apart for a lot of reasons, illegal immigration, religious fanaticism, a mindset of perpetual warfare that forced them into endless asymmetrical conflicts, and of course the fags and godless pagans who were running things with their "educated elite." But there was also a lot of lead in their water. I think that these children have been exposed to something at least as dangerous and tests should be run and a cure needs to be found.
Did you just say fags and godless pagans? Seriously?? I hope you were being ironic.
Of course I was being Ironic. I was just trying to adapt fall of the roman empire stuff to modern right wing armageddon talk (and I couldn't help but laugh at the idea of an ancient era "gay agenda") (But, of course, the fall of the Roman Empire era was when they were coming up with the original draft of Christian Armageddon (not that it was a totally original idea, but that's just where they were when they were writing their version), so it's so easy that it's cheating).
I don't think that it's super-lead in the water either, really.
I thought people would ask about the immigration status of various German tribes instead, I thought that was the funny part.
^ Ha ha the two on the left: British. The one on the right: American.
"Go smoke a fag." Sounds like Brits gearing up for a hate crime...
I certainly did not intend any offense, as a godless pagan I apologize if my attempt at irony failed.
As a pagan, I forgive you.
As a ramen noodle, I'm still offended.
Oh wait, I'm getting my threads mixed up.
Did anyone see the Trashopolis episode about Ancient Rome? Their public toilet situation made me really uncomfortable.
@Meat Seeker
You mean how the scuba dive down there?
Also- as per your other thread.....yeah, KD Lang sucks.
naw, you don't say go smoke a fag. You say, "Go on, have a fag." The verb used is "have" when dealing with fags.
Do people in the UK even use the word fag like that?
Doesn't it mean cigarette?
Yeah over there.
@Matt: I mean the part where they had these big social public toilets, where it's basically a big bench with a bunch of holes in it, and everyone would chat and do their business. But the part that really freaked me out was since toilet paper was not invented yet, they had a small channel with running water going through it along the ground, and a bunch of sticks with sea sponges stuck on the end, and you would just leave it for the next person when you were done. Too much germ sharing for my liking.
@Meatseeker! That's soooo werid the Romans had running water, and considered themselves above other peoples because they were cleaner.....I guess those sorts of places were for the Plebs or slaves. Very strange, I'll have to check it out. Seems somehow unRoman.
They totally thought because the water was running, that rinsing bum sponges made them cleaner than anyone else. Apparently everyone used those toilets. Nasty.
It couldn't have been the elites, they paid for running wate. Had to have been slaves and even those shitty (no pun) toilet areas are better than what most others in the Roman world had.
"It couldn't have been the elites, they paid for running wate. "
She is saying they HAD running water. The water ran.
"She is saying they HAD running water. The water ran."
No I mean complete with pipes that delivered it to their home so they wouldn't have been forced to go in such places. Everyone had access to running water but the upper crust of Roman society had it in their homes. Everyone else had communal areas.
Here is the answer.
Thank you, About.com
Sort of like the Japanese now, but grosser.
I mean, they also had vomitoriums. That was the Romans, right?
Yes. I'm going to build one of those into my house.
"Many Roman houses came to have flush toilets and indoor plumbing, and a complex sewer system, the Cloaca Maxima, was used to drain the local marshes and carry waste into the Tiber river."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome
Huh, cause that kind of sounds like what I just said? LOL
Does anyone watch Portlandia?
@Utah - I'll judge you publicly. But privately I will be jealous.