The "whatever's on your mind" thread

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  • edited April 2013
    I should stop looking for public domain stuff. I'm now even looking through Wikipedia to see if there's any story being told in the Swan Lake.

    Yes, it's the ballet performance. I've already read through The Nutcracker.
  • edited April 2013
    why dont game developers hire behavioral psychologists that specialise in game play behaviour, i think it would be a better approach to hire someone with specific qualifications for the problems you are trying to solve instead of trying to figure out things that you need a phd to understand
  • edited April 2013
    *Belting out Oh Sherrie*
  • edited April 2013
    This is on my mind a lot:

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    At least it's nice to look at.
  • edited April 2013
    Is it true that a lot of Americans find British accents attractive? If so, I may have to book a holiday. Lord knows, I'm not getting so much as a sniff over in ol' Blighty.
  • edited April 2013
    Yes, though it greatly depends on the variant of British accent. Cockney... not so much. :)
  • edited April 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Yes, though it greatly depends on the variant of British accent. Cockney... not so much. :)

    That's okay, I've got a middle-class Southern accent. America, here I come. :D
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    Is it true that a lot of Americans find British accents attractive? If so, I may have to book a holiday. Lord knows, I'm not getting so much as a sniff over in ol' Blighty.

    Dashing's going to kill me for this, but, very much yes. British accents are a one-way ticket up the ladder to impressing a woman. Not all, mind you. but many Americans find western European accents attractive.
  • edited April 2013
    Dashing's going to kill me for this, but, very much yes. British accents are a one-way ticket up the ladder to impressing a woman. Not all, mind you. but many Americans find western European accents attractive.

    Tally-ho, hey ,what, what. That's pip and dandy, I say.
  • edited April 2013
    Just be warned, a small subset of the population will just come up to you and start talking in fake British accents because they think it's funny. These probably won't be the women (unless it's me).
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    Tally-ho, hey ,what, what. That's pip and dandy, I say.
    Are you taking the mickey?

    EDIT: or are you just daft?
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    Tally-ho, hey ,what, what. That's pip and dandy, I say.

    No, not this. Gods.
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Are you taking the mickey?

    EDIT: or are you just daft?

    He's certainly taking the piss.
    Just be warned, a small subset of the population will just come up to you and start talking in fake British accents because they think it's funny. These probably won't be the women (unless it's me).

    And this is annoying as fuck all.
  • edited April 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Are you taking the mickey?

    I wouldn't say that I'm taking the mickey, just being playful is all (by extenuating my Englishness in a stereotypical manner).
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    EDIT: or are you just daft?

    Pretty much.
    Just be warned, a small subset of the population will just come up to you and start talking in fake British accents because they think it's funny. These probably won't be the women (unless it's me).

    Hmm. Most Americans absolutely stink at doing a British accent. They seem to take their cues from Dick Van bloody Dyke!
  • edited April 2013
    I was joking.

    And just so you know, "taking the mickey", "daft" and other British slang are not things many people in America would understand. The only reason why I have heard them before is because I've read the UK version of Harry Potter (thanks to the superior audiobooks by Stephen Fry.)
  • edited April 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    I was joking.

    And just so you know, "taking the mickey", "daft" and other British slang are not things many people in America would understand. The only reason why I have heard them before is because I've read the UK version of Harry Potter (thanks to the superior audiobooks by Stephen Fry.)

    I honestly never knew that such phrases were uncommon outside out Britain. A fair few Americans seem to have picked up on "wanker" these past few years, though it's often used in the wrong context.
  • edited April 2013
    To be really American, it would have to be a gun.
  • edited April 2013
    You have to admit, a word like "bangers" which refers to sausage, does sound like it has a sexual connotation (especially when a bunch of guys hanging out together has been know to be called a "sausage party") even though Wikipedia seems to say the origin of that slang term has to do with the popping noise sausage makes when cooked.


    Now then... "yankee doodles"???...

    ...

    Who says that?!?
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    Hmm. Most Americans absolutely stink at doing a British accent. They seem to take their cues from Dick Van bloody Dyke!

    Not me. I take my cues from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.

    I love his voice five times over.
  • edited April 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    You have to admit, a word like "bangers" which refers to sausage, does sound like it has a sexual connotation (especially when a bunch of guys hanging out together has been know to be called a "sausage party") even though Wikipedia seems to say the origin of that slang term has to do with the popping noise sausage makes when cooked.

    You're only just noticing the symbolic connections between sausages and sex? Really?! You don't need to use the word "bangers" to make that connection.

    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Now then... "yankee doodles"???...

    ...

    Who says that?!?

    That was kind of my point.
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    You're only just noticing the symbolic connections between sausages and sex? Really?! You don't need to use the word "bangers" to make that connection.
    No, I'm not just now noticing. But don't think Americans have slang terms for food that would immediately make little kids giggle.
  • edited April 2013
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  • edited April 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    No, I'm not just now noticing. But don't think Americans have slang terms for food that would immediately make little kids giggle.

    I take it you don't have 'toad in the hole' either?
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    I take it you don't have 'toad in the hole' either?

    We call that "piggies in a blanket".

    Also, I take my English accent cues solely from Rowan Atkinson.
  • edited April 2013
    We call that "piggies in a blanket".

    Isn't that sausages wrapped in bacon (that's what we mean when we say "pigs in a blanket")? If so, that's not the same thing as toad in the hole.
  • edited April 2013
    It's more tiny hotdogs wrapped in a flaky pastry.
  • edited April 2013
    It's more tiny hotdogs wrapped in a flaky pastry.
    That sounds about right...

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  • edited April 2013
    Don't blame me for the great pudding famine of 193X.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2013
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    No, I'm not just now noticing. But don't think Americans have slang terms for food that would immediately make little kids giggle.

    Faggots in gravy, anyone?

    (Responsible for me bursting out laughing in a London supermarket)
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    That sounds about right...

    Pigs in a blanket are more like bite-size sausage rolls. Toad-in-the hole has a much greater pastry to sausage ratio.
  • edited April 2013
    puzzlebox wrote: »
    Faggots in gravy, anyone?
    coolsome wrote: »
    Poirot is allergic to faggots but not spotted dick.

    Do you mind watching your language please? I find the use of words such as "gravy" and "spotted" to be highly offensive.
  • edited April 2013
    No spotted person should be allowed to vote.
  • edited April 2013
    Falanca wrote: »
    No spotted person should be allowed to vote.

    Spotist!
  • edited April 2013
    St_Eddie wrote: »
    That sounds about right...

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    Nope.

    These are "pigs in a blanket" (neither I nor anyone I know irl says "piggies"):

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  • edited April 2013
    that looks phallic.

    I approve.
  • edited April 2013
    'Django Unchained' is fantastic.

    'Sightseers' is highly overrated.

    Reviews incoming soon.

    That is all.
  • edited April 2013
    coolsome wrote: »
    Don't blame me for the great pudding famine of 193X.
    Okay.

    Then we preemptively blame you for the great bacon famine of 20X6
  • edited April 2013
    Django Unchained is pretty much my favorite movie that I saw last year. It slightly beat out Avengers due to depth and also Christoph Waltz.
  • edited April 2013
    Thought I'd send Ron Gilbert a screenshot of my game since it's an homage to Lucasarts games. Thought he might get a kick out of it. He didn't say anything about it, so I can only take that to mean he hates it and wants to take soup spoons to his eyes lest he see it again.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2013
    Thought I'd send Ron Gilbert a screenshot of my game since it's an homage to Lucasarts games. Thought he might get a kick out of it. He didn't say anything about it, so I can only take that to mean he hates it and wants to take soup spoons to his eyes lest he see it again.

    Don't take it personally - sounds like it hasn't been a super productive day.

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  • edited April 2013
    Django Unchained is pretty much my favorite movie that I saw last year. It slightly beat out Avengers due to depth and also Christoph Waltz.

    Aye, old Waltz's performance was every bit as exquisite as his turn in 'Inglourious Basterds'. If I were gay, I'd marry him!
    Thought I'd send Ron Gilbert a screenshot of my game since it's an homage to Lucasarts games. Thought he might get a kick out of it. He didn't say anything about it, so I can only take that to mean he hates it and wants to take soup spoons to his eyes lest he see it again.

    :D

    Despite the fact that I'm sure that you're (mostly) joking; the grumpy one must receive endless fan mail and requests to look at this, that and the other. I wouldn't read anything into it (if you ever did at all). Anyway, who knows; maybe he'll get in touch yet.
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