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Post by Maruno on Jan 16, 2008 10:31:35 GMT
This is the General Chat's Random Chat, home to random bits of conversation that don't really have a thread of their own.
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 17, 2008 18:43:46 GMT
For some reason this thread is giving me dating site and related adverts. I want the ads you had. Okay, back to stop the place going quiet again... For true 'random chat' clearly we need a random topic generator. (If nothing else it'll be interesting to see what ads we get now.) 'During a baby shower on the border between two countries, she's grumpy because of force-feeding the neighbour's kid a scratched-up glass desk.' 'To save the human race at the matins, the koala tamer writes the uninterrupted chronicles of the bridge.' 'As per the instructions of a will without dialogue, a group of adolescent outcasts in the basement sent back the disembodied head of Adolph [ sic] Hitler to a moment prior to the moment after.'
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Navarre
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Post by Navarre on Jan 17, 2008 21:06:02 GMT
I'm getting those dating adverts too. I think the window of oppertunity for interesting adds has closed.
Also; That website challenges me in new and profound ways. That last one about Hitler.... sounds like the plot for a bad teen novel involving time travel. A novel which someone needs to write, now.
Don't worry Mu-chan! Us newbies aren't going anywhere! I for one remain to extol the virtues of minstrels, especially as a tool for bribery and also to laugh loudly at everything funny.
My suggestion for random chat topic, courtesy of Indefinite's link, is 'Why: For the love of cats'
discuss.
EDIT: I just got an add for www [dot] rectel [dot] com, does finding that immensely funny make me childish?
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 17, 2008 21:33:07 GMT
The love of cats may cost you that of Zoogs. (This comment will make no sense if you haven't read The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, but it seems suitably random and a touch oracular.) Oh, heck... 'dating for parents' and 'lesbian chat'. And quoting those here will probably make things worse.
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Post by Maruno on Jan 18, 2008 0:02:20 GMT
Where are you getting these adverts? I can't see any.
Ah, I just checked IE, and there they are. "Download anime" (it says you can rent downloads now, interesting), "Manganovel" ("You can enjoy Manga in English,Portugese,Spanish etc." - Portugese language manga, anyone?) and a rather boring "manga".
Use Firefox. It's good, and there's no adverts. IE went silly with its latest "upgrade", I think. The only thing that doesn't work in Firefox, as far as I've found, is BBC Radio 4's Listen Again function (it does work, but the sound control buttons and the skip 1/15 minutes buttons don't work).
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 18, 2008 9:02:23 GMT
I am using Firefox; I'm one of the people who block really obnoxious stuff (Flash ads, popups) but allow some more restrained ads on ad-supported sites. (Google already know what feeds I read in Google Reader and that I follow attempts to decipher the Voynich Manuscript in the clearing house for mailing lists that is my Gmail account; in spite of which awesome powers of surveillance they still seem to have trouble with relevance. But anyway...)
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 18, 2008 17:39:06 GMT
This chat is becoming non-random! Err... gnomes, pickles and bicycles.
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Navarre
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Post by Navarre on Jan 19, 2008 22:21:28 GMT
For weird ads, how bout: Warden Plastics: Extrusion and Injection Moulding Home of Random Biomedia If someone can tell me what that means, they win a prize!
Soo.... gnomes, pickles and bicycles eh? these are all things that I hate? Gnomes are ugly, pickles are yucky, and bicycles.... well, maybe I don't hate bicycles that much.
For complete randomosityness, I recommend Horses, Skyscrapers and... candy? Everyone loves candy, right?
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 20, 2008 14:09:28 GMT
That's malnourishment from eating nothing but tar. (Yes, there's disagreement about whether the height is seven or seventeen feet. I think this lore originated in a 'What's New With Phil & Dixie' strip from 2002.) Candy... nobody's claimed that character yet.
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Post by Navarre on Jan 21, 2008 15:01:31 GMT
Well, who fits the bill? Candy Kong's attributes seem to boil down to being the token female out of the Kong family, disregarding Wrinkly Kong, which Alfirin has already claimed. Also possibly involved saving of progress and that thing with the instruments in DK64. Luckily the pink leotard is not mandatory, she upgrades to proper clothes in said same game.
And gnomes eating nothing but tar? surely that's only the kind that live underground (with their complicated smif-something or other swedish sounding name), poor old gnomes, I feel bad for them now, although the Gnomish henchmen in Neverwinter Nights were never any help.
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 21, 2008 15:50:20 GMT
Well, who fits the bill? Candy Kong's attributes seem to boil down to being the token female out of the Kong family, disregarding Wrinkly Kong, which Alfirin has already claimed. Quite... she's not that interesting, which is why I'm reluctant to nominate anyone. Maybe the female members other than Alfirin could take turns. If it's a question of being female and active on the fora then... that narrows it down a bit, and I suppose we look at who's been at all active since whenever, break it down by generation and say lelith = Candy and Gracewing = Dixie by default; but I can't say I really wish that on them. Anyway, we're in danger of non-randomness again. Demolition, suffrage and cobblestones.
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Navarre
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Post by Navarre on Jan 21, 2008 16:08:00 GMT
Suffrage made me laugh, I feel bad.
I've got nothing against demolition, as long as its not heritage type stuff, most of the 'modern' tower blocks and stuff from the 70s can just go die, however.
And cobblestones, they're fun, except when I have to drag a suitcase (with wheels) from the station back to college at 6 six in the evening in the rain along them.
Next: Gramaphones, rivers and battlements.
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Post by Maruno on Jan 21, 2008 16:49:24 GMT
You don't have to be quite that random, you know 'Tis hardly chatting if you're changing the topic every post Would anyone be interested in some kind of collaborative story writing project (either here or in real life or wherever)? Just a question, no commitments (yet) or anything.
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Post by Indefinite Description on Jan 21, 2008 16:58:04 GMT
Yay, heritage! (My doctoral research is on cultural heritage ethics. Although it's somehow drifted into the question of how the moral value of objects is associated with the intellectual categories into which they can be placed.) DK destroyed my gramophone. Battlements fell out of architectural fashion too soon; I want some. Living near (mercifully not on) flood plains and so sometimes seeing horses play 'islander', I'm okay with rivers provided they keep themselves to themselves, but too many rivers today have loose morals. Trying to think... (For some reason I have Lord Dunsany on the brain.) 'Delusions, Lemuria and motivational speakers'—made it. 'Tis hardly chatting if you're changing the topic every post Mmmmm... Maybe it's like the game in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue where the object is to utter a word with no connection whatsoever to the previous person's word. I have some non-collaborative bits of writing on the go which I'm having trouble finding time for, so... maybe but I'm making no commitments. (Anyway,as people who knew me back in secondary school English lessons would warn you, that's like inviting Dr. Frankenstein to engage in a spot of collaborative anatomy.)
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Post by Maruno on Jan 21, 2008 17:52:06 GMT
I dunno, how about something like: Here's one I made years and years ago: Does that seem like it'd be any better? 'Tis hardly chatting if you're changing the topic every post Mmmmm... Maybe it's like the game in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue where the object is to utter a word with no connection whatsoever to the previous person's word. Well... no. If it was "Word for Word" (the game you're thinking of, although "Cheddar Gorge" might also be an interesting game to play here), it'd be in the Games section. That's a great radio show, though. I have plenty of half-written (in that I've written some but not all - usually a small fraction thereof) stories lounging around my computer. I keep being distracted from them, and/or losing interest. For me, I need to build up momentum and then keep going at it until I get a result; otherwise (as history seems to say) it'll never get completed.
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