Pete_the_Viscous

Ahh, I can't stand it when people get stuff like that wrong all the time. Whenever someone says "DIStributed", or "BooLEAN", I get really frustrated. Those are the two main culprits of late. I once explained to a class why something was pronounced as it was, and they all understood after that... but then the next day they were back to getting it wrong.

MMMM yes. Shallow and pedantic. EDIT: ! Commited a cardinal sin! Bad grammar in a grammar post! Hahaha. On topic, I find it annoying if someone corrects something that was obviously just a typo. That is, if it's obvious that someone generally knows what they're doing, but made a litle mistake like that, then it is just pedantic to pick them up on it. If it's something consistant, though, like using their, there or they're in the wrong place, then it annoys me and I like people being told what they're doing wrong. I'm generally not bothered about real hard-core grammar things, though. People using less when they should use fewer, for instance, doesn't really bother me; to stupidly split infinitives sort of gets on my nerves, but I don't think it's something for which people should be jumped. To sum up: I don't like grammar nazis, but I quite like the odd grammar... well, what's less extreme than nazi but in the same vein? One of them.

(180 and 0 degrees don't count, presumably).

Yes, I'm frightened that my masculinity is inferior, and that I will be teased by the other children. I take it where you live gym class is compulsory for adults, is it? Also, of what relevence to their performance in class is it whether or not someone is afraid to change in front of others? Would that somehow make them perform worse, or is it that where you go to school it's compulsory to get naked in front of the teacher so they can see you're doing your bit?

I've never really seen an issue with this. I mean, whenever I've stayed in the same room as girls we've all just changed in another room, and asside from that it's just like staying with boys*. *which implies that when I stay with boys I don't go off and change in another room anyway, which of course I do.

I think I'd put it away and try and live frugally on what I had before. Saying that, I'm sure I'd spend a bit of it. Probably on ... Ooo, some sort of guitar. Asside from that, I think that, since I'm coping with money OK at the moment, and having lots of money can't actually improve my current standard of living (which is restricted by accomodation and spare time, not money), I might as well see if I can make that money more worthwhile in the distant future.

...I agree.

If necessary, use your lack of things to say as a talking point, or as the start of a new topic. Conversations often continue longer if both people know that the other actually wants to be talking; saying something to the effect of "I'd like to keep talking but can't think of anything" will show that. I'd talk about something which was nearby (in the sense of either being physically close, or a recent issue*). Anything to get even a short conversation started, which can easilly lead to a longer one as it will jog memories. *I don't mean issue like "abortion" or "terrorism" -- I mean something like (if you are at school) the level of homework, or something.

I haven't been able to put in as much practice with my juggling lately, as I put holes in some of my balls, and only have three left. I've been going to a juggling society meeting lately, though, and am thinking of exploiting an offer they make every now and then for cheap props. The only videos I have of my juggling are from ages ago when I had just that day learnt to do Mills Mess and wanted to show someone it over the internet to check I was doing it right. One of them's quite funny, actually. I can't show them, however, as they both have my face in. That's my party trick, also. I also sort of play the guitar* a bit. *I'm getting to the stage when I'm willing to call it playing as opposed to noisemaking,

Hahaha. Anyway, on topic. I would one day like to have children. That would likely only happen if I were also to get married; not because I feel it is an obligation to be married before having children, but because I would likely already have married someone I was going to have children with. I want to have children for mainly selfish reasons. For one thing, I want a degree of immortality from "my line" being continued. It's also something I think I would enjoy (that is, bringing up children, as opposed to the act of procreation). I am agnostic, (though I tend towards atheism). However, I wouldn't really have much problem with being married in a church unless, of course, they somehow required me to be of their religion, as in Anaesthesia's case. To me, it would be the whole being married thing that was important -- how it is accomplished is less important to me. As I say, though, I would take offence at their requiring something of me in that respect.

I tend to prefer male voices. Female voices are obviously (usually) better at higher ranges. In most cases, though, I don't listen to music which requires that.

Egad, NO! There's scary and there's scary. I don't know if I'll do anything for it. Someone will undoubtedly throw some sort of party, and people will pile into their flat. I know one or two people plan on dressing up -- a friend of mine is going as a devil, which I can only imagine entails a costume like the one Homer Simposon wears to play Evil Homer.

:D Yeah: no pics, no proof. We need to see every skittle from that bag from several angles if we're to tell whether or not you're telling the truth. Make sure to label each skittle appropriately.

I would have done the same. I find that the best thing to do in that situation is to act friendly, and the best thing to do if a child is particularly imaginative and wants you to "join in" is to humor them (but not let it get out of hand).

Hear, hear. Failing that, I think I might go for a machete. Ray Mears is always saying that's the one tool he'd bring with him. Or was it an axe? I forget. Anyway -- something with a hefty blade to it.

About a quarter of people I meet start off calling me by a contraction of my first name. I suppose I just don't really suit it, though: most stop, and end up calling me by my full first name. I don't -- as far as I know -- have any proper nicknames.

Morbo agrees. It was like Tribes3 in that respect. What a silly idea, I think. I think I will probably like BF 2142 more than BF2, just like I liked BF 1942 more than I liked BF2. My reasoning is that BF2 was more... "realistic" than the original, and I think that, while some realism is great, too much makes it the focus of the game (taking my attention away from other things). Just a thought -- not sure if that was why.

There's this thing organised this weekend where I am. Groups of four go round trying to get photos of them completing various tasks -- all to be done within 24 hours of setting off. There's a prize of ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã100 for the team that accrues the most points (points being assigned to tasks relative to their difficulty). I'm not doing it myself, but one of my flatmates is. So far there's one picture of his team in the sea, in which one of them is wearing a dress, and one of them is wearing nothing (but tastefully posed, of course). Other tasks are things like: sit in the driver's seat of a double-decker bus; be shown round the most expensive room of such and such a hotel, get a tattoo, and get a piercing; be photographed with someone famous (extra points if it's the Duke of Edinburgh)... and so on. I somehow doubt anyone's going to get the last one. Not all of them are within Edinburgh, either: one of them is getting photographed at John o'Groats. Anyway -- I think a lot of it is going to be beer fueled and stupid.

I stopped biting my nails many years ago. Perhaps that made it easier (years later) to start playing the guitar; I don't know. My nails are long-ish because I like them like that, however: not because of the guitar.

I registered because I wanted to have a forum like this to look at and post on. I stopped playing runescape long before joining (hence I only look at the off topic and music and movies sections).

In order to save someone I cared about more than the person I was going to shoot, yes. I'd have no qualms with doing that. In a war... in the unlikely event that I was involved in a war (I would make every effort to be elsewhere), I would shoot someone who was trying to kill me, but I don't think I could shoot someone who wasn't actively doing something that I felt required that they get shot. To illustrate that a bit: if I was being shot at, then yes, I'd shoot / otherwise kill someone to stop it happening. I suppose I would (if I could think straight) try and do it without killing people if I could possibly do that (so shooting someone who was coming at me with a knife in some part of the body such that it didn't kill them) but I would be particularly bothered if they died. What I could NOT do, however, is actively seek people out with the purpose of killing them -- so I couldn't be an artillery person, or something like that. This isn't because I have some sort of religious thing about not taking lives -- just because I think it's a hugely serious thing to do, and, as it can hardly be undone, should be avoided when possible.

Yeah -- once I went to bed at about 10, then woke up, looked at my watch and saw that it said 12:00. I started freaking out, thinking I'd slept in, and raced downstairs to start getting ready to go to college. Of course, it was midnight, and I just hadn't woken up sufficiently to realise this.

Yeah, I really like that. Conversely, though, I can't STAND waking up just before the alarm goes off. That's perhaps the most frustrating thing in my life. I feel so cheated. (Just making sure people know I'm still alive -- I've been so busy lately that I've not really had a chance to post).

Same here. Also, not text based really, but this reminds me of Unlimited Adventures. Some of those were hilarious.