Pete_the_Viscous

just try it moron It's been tried, and is BS. There's no need to waste time and money.

Hamburgers. Edinburgh is full of yahs and lager louts, but it has lovely stone buildings. It's small enough to be able to walk anywhere I want, which is nice too.

I live in England. I sleep most nights and spend most days in Scotland, however -- I'm not sure it can be called living.

I think one can turn them off. At least, with other civilization games one has been able to choose the possible methods of victory.

I don't want to die tomorrow -- rather, I want not to die tomorrow (or any time soon) as I wouldn't have achieved all I want in life by that time. Saying that, however, I don't particularly think I am going to die tomorrow, and it would be rather silly for me to spend my time worrying about it instead of doing other things. Other people dying doesn't put life in perspective for me because I'm already aware that people die, and that life is (or at least can be) a fragile thing. That doesn't mean we're all about to snuff it, however. I'm not sure how well received a rogue-like game reference is going to be here, but when (sorry, if) I die, I fully expect to see "Do you want your possessions identified? [y/n]" above my head then a high scores list which I may or may not have made.

I'm not sure it can be called a car wreck if there wasn't at least one car wrecked. In fact, I think of car wreck as meaning the wreckage left after a particularly serious car crash; so, to say that one got into a car wreck conjures up to me the image of a person climbing into a smashed up car. Still, it's always a bit of a shock when that sort of thing happens. I was once being driven home from school when, proceeding down the road (in a northerly direction) passing a line of stationary traffic, the car was smashed into from the side by none other than my history teacher's red Porsche. Seems he didn't see us coming past and pulled out right into us. As I recall his car came off worse, even though ours was (I think) written off.

Neither is your mom. So... your mom as well presumably.

I'm not sure. I once got a waste-paper bin (which I still use). I don't think I've had any hugely unusual presents, however.

I have been known to smoke a pipe occasionally. I've also had two drags of a cigarette, which is something I shan't do again. I don't make a habit of smoking, partly because it's bad for the body, but mainly because it's expensive and I don't find it nice enough to do it more than once in a blue moon.

They were rhetorical questions thankyou.

Are you suggesting we pretend that none of the horrible racist things that happened in history happened at all? Are you suggesting that if people had never heard of racism they wouldn't themselves be racist?

I have the best time when I'm either asleep or learning something I find really interesting or cool. Failing that, I have a good time when I'm with friends amonst whom I can relax, i.e. good friends.

Wiping out everyone who isn't of one particular race would stop racism. It might itself be a racist action, but it would stop racism. At least, there wouldn't be anyone to act racist towards -- people could still hold bigoted oppinions about races that would no longer exist.

While you're at it, start handing out those brand new HD-Telescreen thingies I hear so much about. What exactly is affirmative action (in this context), and how does it stop racism? Yeah -- assuming that by "forget about it" you mean "have those people who are racist forget about their being racist, and stop being racist", but that's not really any better than saying "stop racism by stopping racism". Get me not wrong: I'm not in favour of a lot of the (needless) political correctness or cultural sensitivity, but a lot of people are actively racist instead of simply not making too much of an issue of race.

Not a clue, really. I seem to be going down the Physics and Maths route at the moment, but I don't know where it will lead.

Possibly a thermite reaction. I don't know -- I'm not a chemist.

More to the point, I'd certainly not like to be the guy to say "OK, fire. ... Nope, looks like you just wounded that one in the flank. Never mind off you go after it and finish it off cleanly".

yeah, I thought I had that for a while -- an entire year actually. Turned out I was just really bored.

Quite so. I remember when I couldn't type without looking at the keyboard. I tried to learn to touch-type, but then I realised that that's just a bad way of doing it, and decided to just stop looking at the keyboard and type anyway. That seems to work. Typed without looking at screen or keyoard. No! Fell at the last hurdle.

I'm seriously considering making one to do my work as soon as I actually have time to do it. This term has basically been wasted: I've learnt a huge amount, but I've probably done badly in the exams.

Reminds me of http://www.solardeathray.com/. Thought about making one of these, then I realised I live in Scotland at the moment.

Something called a brain haemorrhage, which was actually quite nice tasting, but looked terrible and had a terrible consistency. Felt like ... something rather nasty slipping down my throat.

Read some poetry. What BlueLancer just said reminded me of an entry in the Devil's Dictionary (which I rather think should be called "Lucifer's Lexicon" (having no guide to diction, but then I guess that's not as catchy):

My alarmclock is a fairly generic radio alarm clock. I use the "beep" function, because I fear that if it played something I'd like to listen to then I'd just stay in bed and listen to it. Occasionally I like to use a plugin I have for Winamp that plays a track or a playlist of one's choice, with the option of fading in from nothing so that it isn't an unpleasant shock when it goes off. Very occasionally I record a message using the Microsoft Narrator thing, such as "get up -- you have things to do today", and edit the file so that it's all epic sounding, then use that.

About a year ago I got a craving to play snakes and ladders. Then chess and scrabble. To me, games like that are mainly about the social aspect involved.