Madmanpur3

You don't drown in it. You BOUNCE on it. Ok, so you have a big container of gelatin, cut a hole in it and submerge yourself in it, suffocate and die.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. We had to watch a video about sexual orientation in sex ed, and they interviewed a bunch of parents who had homosexual kids, and all the parents said was that when they found out, they wished it wasn't so. That obviously doesn't mean that they're fundamental Christians or anything like that, but it gives the impression that they'd rather not have a homosexual child, most likely have taught their child some negative things about homosexuality, yet their child ends up gay. Though I agree that a good deal of it is influence, if not genetic. (Which it could be, who knows) However, religion is also heavily influence, yet many kids with religious parents end up atheist. I know, I know...like I said there are a great amount of variables involved. For instance, a kid's parents could preach to him that homosexuality is bad his entire childhood, but if at the same time he is conditioned in a manner to feel the need to rebel against his parents, that would be one way he could do it. But typically, under 'normal' conditions, kids will take after their parents in a majority of their beliefs, ideals, mannerisms, etc. The same can be said about kids and atheism. A kid who's raised by religious parents isn't atheist because they're a true atheist, it's because they're either lazy, rebellious, or both.

One could still drown in a pool of it though.

To those saying this thread is stupid because there's nothing random about anything or whatever the hell you're trying to say...is there a pattern or correlation to the OP's thought about being a dish and what the group was talking about? My guess is no, hence random thought. People have random thoughts, people say random things as a result of those thoughts, and people do random things...if you think otherwise then you should hang out with my friends a little. :lol: Obviously if someone conciously tries to think of something random to say, and does so frequently, they're going to be an annoying person. Fact of the matter tho is that most random thoughts come subconciously - like you'll be daydreaming about something then you'll notice something that's related to it, or vice versa (notice something then daydream about it). P.S. - It is possible to plan randomness. Say you're with a group of friends and you plan to just shout out "BLUE DIGGLE!" at exactly 7pm. Now, is it a random action from your point of view? Nope. Is it a random action from your friends' perspectives? I would hope so, otherwise it means you guys randomly shout "blue diggle". Would they be wrong to say "Um, that was random..."? No, because to all of them, it was random. People need to lighten up and relax a little bit. P.P.S. - It's not so much what is said that's random, it's the person who said it trying to explain their thought process and how they got to that point that's funny.

I'd say I'm a fairly random person and luckily my cousin/best friend is equally as random/spontaneous. Couple summers ago I went on 3,000+ mile road trip to visit some old family friends and to go to one of the daughters' wedding...I decided that it was a really fun trip but there was more to be seen out there (Pacific Coast), so I called up my cousin and asked if he wanted to take a couple weeks and just tour the western US. Ultimately we just packed a [cabbage] ton of clothes and a couple books as well as a DVD player with several movies - for the boring stretches of driving (Nebraska, Nevada, Wyoming, parts of Utah, South Dakota, parts of Montana). In 12 days we covered 5000 miles and 11 states. Unless it's something important, I try not to plan more than a day in advance. Hell even for fairly big things I still don't plan that far ahead....might be going to South Korea sometime this summer and might be going to Italy next Christmas.

The solution to nerves due to audiences is to make it equally/more awkward for the audience themselves. Can be accomplished by making an awkward statement, such as "My dog thinks you're cute" to someone in the front row. That or actually be in your underwear (not just picturing yourself in them ;) ). But seriously, just practice going outside of your comfort zone. If you play an easily mobile instrument, bring it to a mall and practice there (might even make some money in the process :P ). When you're in public, go up to a complete stranger and comment on something they're wearing....you know, things like that. Personally I'm not the best public speaker and I'm taking a course where we're gonna have to do 2-3 presentations/speeches throughout the semester, my plan is to involve the audience by either asking a couple questions throughout or putting humor in my presentation because hearing some laughs will calm me down. - I do fine if I know the subject matter I'm presenting well, but not sure if she's gonna let us pick the topics or not.

Realistically there's a lot of stuff that cannot kill you. The whole point of this thread is to toss aside reality and focus on what's possible - and my point was it's possible for a single drop of water to kill you. Without the drop of water - you don't drown and survive. With the drop of water - you drown and die. Conclusion - that extra drop of water caused you to die. Taking your angle I could just say a penny could not kill you, because pennies cannot move, therefor would have no way of reaching you in order to kill you.

I saw a programme that suggested that boys who have older brothers are more likely to be gay, something to do with less testosterone being available in the womb or something. It's not genetics but still something outside of choice to be homosexual. Personally, I've always been taught and believed that homosexuality isn't a choice at all. What really gets me are parents who run a strictly devout Christian house, scaring the life out of their kids that if they are gay they'll be shunned and sent to hell. If a child so happens to be gay, imagine the torment in their head, the feelings they can't help no matter how hard they try versus their parents who they love telling them these awful things about the consequences of these feelings. Parents who disown their children or who torment and abuse them for being gay is just beyond me. How anyone could ever do that to a child, their own child, I just see nothing but inhumane barbarity, they shouldn't be parents as far as I'm concerned. I'd be willing to bet tho that the odds of parents like that having kids that turn out to be homosexual is very slim, since parents play a huge role in the development of a child. But yeah, I had a teacher a few years ago who said she'd either send her kids away or lock them in a closet (not sure if pun was intended) if they were homosexual...the worse part was she said that to a student who was gay (she didn't know he was). Catholic schools for ya.

Homosexuality is not wrong, and anyone who truly believes otherwise is either very ignorant or very stupid. Saying homosexuality is wrong is borderline equivalent to me saying "Being shy is wrong". Also, it's not certain that homosexuality is genetic...there are many variables that could lead to one being homosexual.

There is a difference between an amount of water that's required to drown a person, and an amount of water that a person could survive - and a single drop of water covers that difference. Making up a figure, let's say it requires 30 mL. Now, you're lying on your back and unconcious when someone decides to pour 29.9 mL of water into your mouth - not enough to kill you. BUT WAIT! By pure coincidence you just so happen to be lying under a sink, and a single droplet of water drips off the facet and into your mouth, thus putting you over the 30 mL mark. You die. P.S. - Can we include location into our answers? Because something like a penny on the opposite side of the earth couldn't kill you. Or can it only be a physical thing? To above poster - there is a size limit that a drop of water can reach (on earth at least) thanks to physics (and it's fairly small).

As I'm at college currently, the motorcycle, civic, and piano are being stored at my parents' place...otherwise I would. Next time my bro gives me a call tho I could ask him.

Enya is the solution to anger.

Uh, not sure exactly on the motorcycle (my bro gave it to me when he moved away), and the civic is a blue-green...has 300,000 miles on it but it runs really well still.

A motorcycle I've never driven nor have a license for, a manual '97 honda civic that I've never driven nor know how to drive (yet), incense made from cow poop, a speeding ticket collection, and probably the thing I get questioned about the most is my Celtic Woman: A New Journey DVD (not gonna lie, they're amazing). Edit - I guess owning a piano that I've got no clue how to play could constitute as unusual too...I won $500 when I was 5 years old so my parents bought a piano with it. XD

I have time to waste, so I waste it. :) The only things I really want to do are outside of the US, so until I'm done with college and financially stable, I have lots of time to waste - whether it be watching tv, runescape, watching movies, taking half hour long showers, hour long dumps...none of it bothers me and I know that I'm pretty much just passing the time. I'm the kind of person who rarely ever wishes time would go faster (well, seem to go faster).

There's a lot of foods here in the US that I wouldn't necessarily call strange, but moreso disgustingly unhealthy. Deep fat fried bacon anyone? A hamburger that uses glazed donuts as buns...yeah, it's a wonder the US is obese.

I haven't traveled enough to try many strange foods but I watch that bizarre foods show on the travel channel quite a bit and I'd definitely be willing to try most if not all of what he tries. I have had live sea urchin, baby octopus, bull testees, peanut butter scrambled eggs...

How was my response a stupid thing to say? Like I said, I wasn't aware this was the place to list off Tipiters we hate -otherwise I would. *updates list*

How does that have anything to do with...anything? I couldn't care less if people knew who I was on these forums. This thread is "Who is your favorite Tipiter?" so one would think it's obvious that you don't start your post with "I hate". P.S. - If my name was the 'bread and cheese' of the "Tipiters you don't know" thread, then obviously they'd all be morons.

:wall: I hate everyone here who claims themselves as their favorite tipiter, nice way to boost your ego. I didn't realize this was a "Tipiters you hate" thread, otherwise I probably would've chipped in a while ago. -.-

People are saying that if you combine brawler gloves with sc items you'll get 8x or 3x xp depending on if you're in the wilderness or not. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe I am clarifying what seems to be a misconception (obviously if I'm wrong it's not a misconception). Brawling gloves and stealing creation items give bonuses separate of one another, meaning they don't combine. It determines the bonus of each and then adds them together (4x for brawling and 2x for sc = 6x bonus) versus combining them (4x and 2x combine for 8x bonus). This means that the brawler glove/sc item combo make out to be 6x and 3.5x bonuses for in the wild and out of the wild respectively. Example - You hit a 25 with melee resulting in 100xp. If you wear brawler gloves in the wilderness and hit a 25, it will be 100*4 xp, or 400xp. If you wear a piece of stealing creation armour and brawling gloves and hit a 25 in the wilderness, it will be 100*4 for brawlers and 100*2 for the stealing creation piece - which is (100*4) + (100*2) = 600xp. Outside of wilderness, that same 25 with brawlers and stealing creation armour would yield (100*1.5) + (100*2) = 350xp. EDIT - Correction: it would be either 8x xp (if I'm wrong) or 5x xp (if I'm right), not 6x - with brawlers and sc in the wilderness. So change the 6x and 3.5x to 5x and 2.5x...my math was a bit off. New example would be 100 base xp from hit, 300 extra xp from gloves, and 100 extra xp from sc item.

This is honestly one of the dumbest posts I've ever seen. Less than 100 "idiots" with 400m+? There's probably 100 tif users alone with more than 400m, and there's thousands if not 10s of thousands of players with 400m+. On top of that, you think that everyone who has money made it unfairly - which tells me that either you're jealous, or simply aren't very well educated on how money is made. *Side note* - The real world traders on the purchasing end are very poor in game, and the real world traders on the selling end are extremely rich in game and they make that money in-game, fairly. So using real world traders as an example was poor in itself. Anywho, you think that prices are correct as they are? The reason Divine/Elysian spirit shields are stuck in the GE is not because there's "100 idiots" stock piling them...it's because they are WORTH more than their GE price, and people are WILLING to pay as much as 300m+ for them...just like how people are willing to sell their partyhats for 50m but the GE won't let them. As for the the usefullness of those shields, if you feel the DFS is better, then you go right ahead and be happy that it's hundreds of millions cheaper - but that's an opinion, not a fact. The stronger opinion however, is that the Divine shield is the best shield for the money bosses (gwd/kq) and the Eylysian shield is better for killing higher level non-boss npcs, and rune defender is better for low-medium level npcs. Now don't get me wrong...for it's price, the DFS probably is the best shield, but for those who have money and want the best of the best equipment, those 2 shields are better than DFS. Also, DFS is the best shield against dragons/wyverns still obviously. Individuals can't change prices, small groups can't change prices...supply and demand is what runs the economy (even in rs) and as of right now, the GE prices are completely failing to reflect the supply and demand of a lot of items properly. P.S. - was writing this before jenova posted...it's nice to see some people have a basic understanding for how things work.

And I don't think anybody's ever claimed otherwise...

Could you clarify something for me? I'm a bit confused when you say archaelogists....are you referring to human archaelogists, or future archaelogists of a different race/species? It doesn't matter. The point is that just because some parts of a book turn out to be true, doesn't mean we can accept the rest. Just because we know that New York City, the Empire State Building, and The USA exist, doesn't mean there's a super powerful alien who can fly and stop bullets roaming around. The same goes that just because we know that some of the historical stuff in the bible is true, doesn't mean there's an all powerful cloud being floating around. We know that some of the historical events that occur in the Odyssey and the Iliad actually happened. Does that mean Poseidon rules the seas and there's nymphs and dryads about? Of course not. It most certainly matters...I have 2 different approaches I can take as far as responding to that. Either you're referring to archaelogists of our current human race and I can explain why that's a silly statement, or you're referring to imaginary archaelogists of a race that comes about after us and I can explain how that's not a good comparison to the bible.

I tried to stupify it down to your level, but it looks like I'll have to go even lower. Attempt number two... You have a rare gem and a thousand clothes pins, the real life GE values the gem at $100,000 and the clothes pins at $1,000 each. You have 1 of two options.... 1) You sell the gem on the real life GE for $105,000 and are left with $105,000 cash and 1,000 clothes pins - with that $105,000 you purchase a very nice car. Total value in the end - $1,105,000. 2) You trade the gem alongside the clothes pins to someone for $1,100,000 cash. Then using that cash, you are able to purchase a very nice car, a house, a boat, and all the food you want. Total value in the end - $1,100,000. Now to repeat myself, you are arguing that option 1 is better since you are left with $5,000 more in the end according to the GE prices....which is (another repeat coming up) RIDICULOUS. Scenario 1 is selling a divine sigil in the ge, scenario 2 is junk trading the divine sigil...you are telling us that scenario 1 is the better choice so we are telling you that you're argument is very, very dumb. [/hide] hey genius i've already said multiple times, if you have the junk, it's better to initiate a junk trade to rid yourself of it, and then start using the G.E. If I had a gem, and 1000 clothes pins, and could sell them together for 1,100,000 i would. However, if I only had the gem, I would sell it by itself rather than trying to find 1000 clothes pins. I don't get what you haven't gotten about that, because I've repeated it multiple times. I'll tell you what I don't get about selling that gem on the ge, the fact that there are many way better options out there - which other players do and would choose to do versus your suggestion of selling it on the ge. Option 1) They sell the gem to a friend because if they're gonna make someone's day, they'd rather make their friend's day versus some random player. Plus, as noted previously in this thread, friends can find ways to pay you back through time. Option 2) Save it and wait until you can get a better price for it. This may take a very long time, but in not selling it for a horrible price you are saving yourself money. Option 3) Train some skills/kill some monsters in order to obtain some junk. All it takes is the difference from the max price of the rare and the market price of the rare in junk in order for that to be more worth it than selling it on the ge. Option 4) Trade your underpriced rare for a different underpriced rare that is more useful to you. If none of those options are available to you, say you absolutely need the cash immediately and don't have a friend willing to buy it and have no junk...then yes, it makes sense to sell it on the ge - otherwise any one of those options is a better, more intelligent alternative than selling it on the ge (and you don't seem to get this).