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Evil Scientist
10:28 / 21.12.06
(special Yuletide thread-rot)

Synthetic blood surely? Cut his-self playing pin-finger.

(special Yuletide thread-rot ends)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:22 / 21.12.06
Yeah, it was synthetic blood--that's how Ripley discovers he's an android.
 
 
Ticker
15:38 / 21.12.06
see?
not clever!
not clever even a small bitness!


perhaps not always...but you make up for it in other ways like being uppity.
Sass is a fine community offering.
 
 
HCE
18:22 / 21.12.06
Alex, are you doing that on purpose? This thread makes me feel paranoid.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
14:45 / 12.01.07
I am currently Barbannoyed with my own freakish compulsion to post something astonishingly petty and catty to one or more of the RAW threads along the lines of "oh well I expect all his fans here will take this opportunity to write about their practical experiences with eg the techniques in Cosmic Trigger, gosh I can't wait."

Which is really funny because of course haha RAW fans NEVER DO ANY MAJICKS HAHAHA and totally okay to post in a thread about the ill-health, penury and death of a relatively blameless human being. I am so funny! Fuck off.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:25 / 12.01.07
Much of my Barbelith time is being spent getting people onto the board, but I can't shake the feeling that perhaps a few sharp pokes in the right place would make it a better place for them to come to.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
01:37 / 13.01.07
"But has he now become a fully contactable godform?" Oh please shut up horrible snide bastard that lives in my head! Not funny! Not any tiny driblet of funny! I don't like this.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
10:10 / 15.01.07
Not specific to the Barb, but there is a horrible business-jargon meme that is going around, and this is it:

"Starter for ten"

i.e. people will come up with something to kick off a meeting or a plan or an idea or whatever, and say "this is just a starter for ten" instead of "this is just a start" or "this is just to start off with"

WHY DO THEY SAY THIS?
WHAT DOES IT ADD?
WHY DO THEY LIKE TO PRETEND THEY ARE ON UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE?

It really, really, really annoys me.
 
 
jentacular dreams
11:44 / 15.01.07
Tis a university challenge reference I believe.
 
 
jentacular dreams
11:45 / 15.01.07
Bah, what's annoying me about barbelith today is my not paying proper attention when reading.
[hangs head]
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:17 / 15.01.07
I suppose the next time someone initiatives (is that something people say? I sometimes wonder if I'm singing from the same hym sheet as everyone else these days,) 'a starter for ten', you could just blush, say 'Im sorry, I don't the answer' and then burst into tears.
 
 
Triplets
14:42 / 15.01.07
Isn't it off something like University Challenge?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:49 / 15.01.07
I think it might be from University Challenge, Whisky Priestess. You get ten points for the first question, which you have to buzz to answer, and then your college gets three questions for five points each, which will be handed over to the opposing team if you answer incorrectly.
 
 
Char Aina
14:52 / 15.01.07
i know it may come as a surprise, but i'm fairly sure it's from university challenge. perhaps the point is these folks want to make sure they sound clever and well read enough to watch UC.

i'm not sure saying 'starter for ten' does that.
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:23 / 15.01.07
There´s also a novel called Starter for Ten, and said novel has been adapted into a film of the same name. Mark Gatiss is one of the actors and it´ll be released in the US and Canada in Spring 2007.

So looks as if you can look forward to more people using that phrase...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:28 / 15.01.07
That's an interesting phrase, Mistoffeles. Do you have any idea where it comes from?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
15:33 / 15.01.07
I believe it's from "University Challenge," Haus.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
15:40 / 15.01.07
Once, walking home late at night with a friend, I was doing an impression of Jeremy Paxman and accidentally shouted 'COME ON!' at a group of drunken, burly men.
They just laughed.
 
 
Mistoffelees
15:59 / 15.01.07
That's an interesting phrase, Mistoffeles. Do you have any idea where it comes from?

Well, I did some further research on the mentioned novel and after sifting through some of the dozens of five starred customer reviews@amazon.co.uk it often was (is?) uttered at a popular British quiz show, "University Challenge" as amourjardin "Huggy" from Cardiff calls it.

Many critics found the phrase, I quote:

'Painfully funny' - Elle
'Relentlessly delightful' - Mil Millington
'A classic...I sniggered, snorted and hooted.' - Jenny Eclaire
 
 
jentacular dreams
16:36 / 15.01.07
...well I'm glad to have brought enjoyment to someone's day....
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
01:05 / 19.01.07
I'm trying to imagine what form Haus's trolling would take, but beyond making snide comments about how bad someone's latin is, I'm coming up empty.

Kinda makes me think of that episode of Family Guy where Peter explains that in england, there are no drive-by shootings, just drive-by arguments, and then you see two british gentlemen in a car, complete with top hats and monocles, and the conversation goes something like this:

Gentleman 1: I say, isn't that young Calloway, the gentleman extolling the virtues of a united commonwealth the afternoon before last?

Gentleman 2: It is! Pull over.

*gentleman 1 pulls over*

Gen2: Oh Calloway!

*Calloway, standing on a street corner, turns and looks*

Gen2: I DISAGREE!

*the pair speeds away, tires screeching*

Yeah, I can't see Haus's trolling being very effective.


I'm Barbannoyed that no one wants to discuss Goswami's theory re: quantum mechanics as a useful paradigm for describing how consciousness works over in the Mind/Body thread in the Lab. I thought it'd be perfect for discussion. I mean it's got modern physics on a macro level, consciousness theories, Douglas Hofstatder's tangled loops, all that jazz. But everyone just seems sick and tired of quantum physics. COME ON PEOPLE I KNOW YOU LIKE HOFSTADTER GET WITH IT ALREADY
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
06:16 / 19.01.07
Hofstadter? Did he present University Challenge before Bambi then?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:43 / 19.01.07
Oh, I meant being trolled, TG, before I deleted the post as probably more trouble than it's worth, rather than trolling. There's a pretty common habit by those who don't want to be pwned, or have been pwned, on Barbelith of moving to sending nasty PMs. It's somewhat like the part where Doctor Strange continues the battle ... on the ASTRAL PLANE.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
08:13 / 19.01.07


BRING ME MY HOFSTADTER!
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
10:51 / 19.01.07
Kinda makes me think of that episode of Family Guy where Peter explains that in england, there are no drive-by shootings, just drive-by arguments...

Those two people who were shot recently on my street must just have been having a difference of opinion on the quality of the mist that night in foggy Old London Towne with the person or persons who gunned them down from a passing car, and it all went horribly wrong.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
11:16 / 19.01.07
(By the way, any irriation in the above post is directed at the writers of The Family Guy, not you, TG)
 
 
grant
13:16 / 19.01.07
(TG -- I'm a faithful reader of that thread, but have little to add. Only MORE GUNS!)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
11:43 / 20.01.07
Yeah, Family Guy writer people. Guns being illegal in Britain != no guns in Britain. It just means a lot of illegal guns, many of them home-made and of dubious reliability in stressful situations such as well I suppose any kind of situation where you'd want to be waving a home-made gun around.

I read where a British man made a gun from a screwdriver.

British people can make guns from anything.
 
 
Char Aina
11:46 / 20.01.07
I read where a British man made a gun from a screwdriver.

that was me!
it was crap, though. it only fired screws, and you had to be really close up. like, close enough to stab the guy with the screwdriver anyway.

i stabbed about five people with it before my mum confiscated it.
 
 
Saturn's nod
12:07 / 20.01.07
People using words for female genitals, and sex workers, as insults. Repeatedly. The one that's been face-stabby this weekend is the Big Brother thread.

I experience it as really unfriendly: even one incidence of it gives the whole of the board a flavour of "unfriendly to women" and makes me less inclined to put my effort here. At a tactic the use of words for women and women's genitals as insults is an assertion of male dominance, and I think usually functions to mark a space as one where women are not valued.

I suspect people wouldn't use homophobic or racist insults in the same way here, but sexist insults seem not to be treated as so offensive.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:16 / 20.01.07
The Big Brother thread, in general, has made me wish quite hard that in a perfect world you could stop people being on your side by force of will.
 
 
penitentvandal
12:34 / 20.01.07
I'd just like to apologise, actually. The thought that I might have contributed, in a small way, to making the board less woman-friendly is quite upsetting to me. I've logged a mod request that all my posts in the CBB thread be deleted, and I probably won't bother posting there again.
 
 
Quantum
12:44 / 20.01.07
Big Brother made me customise my screwdriver into a gun. If I see one more newspaper reporting 'news' about Shilpa or Endemol I will screw my own head off. Seeing the Daly Male screeching 'EVICT TEH RASCIST!' brings a little bit of sick into my mouth.
 
 
Internaut
22:29 / 26.01.07
the boards being perfectly colour-coded, yet i seem completely incapable of finding any threads less than a day old that havent already got about 60 fucking pages of replies.

i know its a very minor complaint, barbeloids, but leave some for the bloody n00bs*.


(*read: me)
 
 
Internaut
22:32 / 26.01.07
i forgot to add that because the threads are already very, very full of replies, theres nothing left for me to say, other than recycle other people posts, which i dont like doing.

this post right here, the one im typing, also brings me to "having to recieve double moderator approval before post editing can be achieved"

although im sure theres a reason for it, it still pisses me off to no end.
 
  

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