"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I think it's usually the number of credit-hours you're taking that determines whether or not you're considered full time, rather than the number of classes a week.
Because you could have a one-hour class four times a week or a two-hour class two times a week, etc.
I don't know if he'll drop me. This is only the second time I've been absent but it's two weeks in a row now and it's an accelerated course (once a week as opposed to twice like all my other classes), so it might count as four days, which is over the drop limit.
hm... well i've missed a few classes and submitted work late (fortunately the first year doesn't count towards my final grade) and i learned early on that it's usually better to talk to staff about problems than shut them off
it's if they don't hear from you that things can get unpleasant
Best guess is acid caused by a sudden stressful moment (involving financial aid; nothing major though) somehow ending up in my chest cavity. With my limited understanding of biology, acid ending up there seems kind of inexplicable. But the important thing is that the docs ran a test to check if it's heart-related, and it's not (which is good, because it's right above the heart).
Acid reflux is rather common. Painful, but common.
Yeah, but it doesn't feel like a pocket of acid, you know?
so I'm missing an accelerated course for the second week in a row
I'm probably gonna get dropped aren't I
Why are you missing the course? If you're sick or have anxiety or depression or stuff, I think the teachers should understand.
Even if you don't know what's going on and you gain nothing from the class, physically attending is probably better than not attending, if only for attendance itself.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Windows 8.1 download at 31% after like an hour
Perhaps I shouldn't have tried downloading this the day it was released >_<
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
High tea is a light meal taken with tea and marijuana.
my (sixtysome year old) English professor wears crocs. Only person I've ever seen them look good on, and also the person who elucidated to me that they are old person shoes.
Oh my gosh, Lord Vetinari is in the show Merlin. I love Charles Dance, in any role he's in!
He's a bad guy for finding sorcerers and exposing them to King Uther. King Uther has this campaign against magic, and using magic is punishable by death.
To be fair, like, a bunch of the time, the bad guy of the week is a sorcerer who comes to Camelot to do evil (Cornelius, Cedric, Edwin, Nimueh, Sophia, Aulfric, Mary Collins) and the only actual good sorcerers in the show are Merlin, his mentor Gaius, and Morgana. The rest of the time, the bad guy is a normal person who uses magic to fake skill and get ahead by cheating and killing people (Valiant); or someone trying to prove that Gaius and/or Merlin are sorcerors, usually by framing them or planting evidence or lying.
And, well, Charles Dance actually figures out that Gaius, Morgana, and Merlin are sorcerers.
In fact, Merlin and Gwen frame Charles Dance for being a sorceror; and the scene where they figure out his secret (he's giving people hallucinogens to make them think they see magic so he can use them as witnesses in his accusations of people being sorcerors) based on the word of one man, that scene is not really convincing.
Charles Dance is said by the main characters to be framing people; the ironic thing is that he's not framing anybody for a crime they didn't commit; if he's framing people in this episode, he's framing people for things they actually did. The message of the episode seems to be that if Dance had done a legitimate investigation instead of planting evidence and getting people to take hallucinogens so they would think that they saw magic, he would have won.
In fact, the only evidence the audience has that Charles Dance is anything but a legitimate witchfinder doing a legitimate investigation is the word of a skeezy-looking shopkeeper; and the only evidence he is shown to plant is a magic amulet that Gaius denies owning but says that he used to have; and Gaius is not exactly convincing here. Sure, Dance is selling the active ingredient for the hallucinogen to the skeevy-shopkeeper, but from that Merlin and Gwen get this whole idea of "a conspiracy where he gets people to see hallucinations and thus think they saw witchcraft".
In this episode, Merlin sneaks into Dance's room a couple of times; once to break into Dance's stuff so he can find incriminating evidence (there he finds the flower that is the active ingredient of the hallucinogen; but it is stated in the episode that that flower has other, legitimate uses) and then later he breaks into the room so he can plant evidence that Dance is a sorceror. He does a spell to give Dance a cough that makes a frog come out of his throat so that King Uther will go all "Oh noes! Dance is a sorceror! Kill him!" and other spells to make magic amulets fall out of Dance's closets and all that.
Dance, after being declared a sorceror, threatens Morgana in a "let me go or she dies" but is foiled by Merlin using magic to make his knife red-hot so Dance goes al "ouch, aaaaa". And while he is stepping back from his red-hot knife, Dance trips and falls out the window to his death.
In the end, Merlin and co. framed a man for a crime he didn't commit, said framing got that man sentenced to death; and Merlin indirectly caused a man to fall out a window to his death. The alleged conspiracy of that man is not convincing to the viewer, the audience. We are asked to believe too many things on shaky grounds; and it is evil enough for Charles Dance to be a witchfinder; because not all magic-users are evil. Dance's villain of the week is evil enough if he's a legitimate witchfinder; and that's more scary because it means he's just doing his job and is part of the system that Uther, a semi-likable character and sorta the Big Good. The Villain is condemned not for his crimes, which are heinous (exposing non-evil sorcerors to King Uther, thus making good people die) but for those crimes he did not commit (sorcery); crimes which the main characters are "guilty".
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Yes, yes I was: a light meal taken between luncheon and one's evening meal.
Not sure where tea as a substantial meal in the evening fits in relative to supper.
I'm probably gonna get dropped aren't I
this is my own fault I guess, should've dropped it voluntarily and replaced it with something else early on in the semester
if I go under fulltime status my financial aid is going to get cut and my mom'll have to pay it back...
hi CA
I'm constantly lost all the time in college and I never know what I'm doing and it sucks.
we do twitter discussions in this class so I'm hoping if I do some of those he'll maybe give me like, partial credit for being there.
@ Mo :(
there certainly ought to be somewhere you could find out about that, since it's pretty important
the Information desk might be able to point you in the right direction, or Student Services, or whatever equivalent you have
hm... well i've missed a few classes and submitted work late (fortunately the first year doesn't count towards my final grade) and i learned early on that it's usually better to talk to staff about problems than shut them off
it's if they don't hear from you that things can get unpleasant
so
Maybe, I dunno.
i don't see how he can reasonably drop you if this is all the notice you had to give
but good luck
-wants to hug, but thinks better of it- Why are you missing the course? If you're sick or have anxiety or depression or stuff, I think the teachers should understand.
Even if you don't know what's going on and you gain nothing from the class, physically attending is probably better than not attending, if only for attendance itself.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
He's a bad guy for finding sorcerers and exposing them to King Uther. King Uther has this campaign against magic, and using magic is punishable by death.
To be fair, like, a bunch of the time, the bad guy of the week is a sorcerer who comes to Camelot to do evil (Cornelius, Cedric, Edwin, Nimueh, Sophia, Aulfric, Mary Collins) and the only actual good sorcerers in the show are Merlin, his mentor Gaius, and Morgana. The rest of the time, the bad guy is a normal person who uses magic to fake skill and get ahead by cheating and killing people (Valiant); or someone trying to prove that Gaius and/or Merlin are sorcerors, usually by framing them or planting evidence or lying.
And, well, Charles Dance actually figures out that Gaius, Morgana, and Merlin are sorcerers.
In fact, Merlin and Gwen frame Charles Dance for being a sorceror; and the scene where they figure out his secret (he's giving people hallucinogens to make them think they see magic so he can use them as witnesses in his accusations of people being sorcerors) based on the word of one man, that scene is not really convincing.
Charles Dance is said by the main characters to be framing people; the ironic thing is that he's not framing
anybody for a crime they didn't commit; if he's framing people in this episode, he's framing people for things
they actually did. The message of the episode seems to be that if Dance had done a legitimate investigation instead of planting evidence and getting people to take hallucinogens so they would think that they saw magic, he would have won.
In fact, the only evidence the audience has that Charles Dance is anything but a legitimate witchfinder doing a legitimate investigation is the word of a skeezy-looking shopkeeper; and the only evidence he is shown to plant is a magic amulet that Gaius denies owning but says that he used to have; and Gaius is not exactly convincing here. Sure, Dance is selling the active ingredient for the hallucinogen to the skeevy-shopkeeper, but from that Merlin and Gwen get this whole idea of "a conspiracy where he gets people to see hallucinations and thus think they saw witchcraft".
In this episode, Merlin sneaks into Dance's room a couple of times; once to break into Dance's stuff so he can find incriminating evidence (there he finds the flower that is the active ingredient of the hallucinogen; but it is stated in the episode that that flower has other, legitimate uses) and then later he breaks into the room so he can plant evidence that Dance is a sorceror. He does a spell to give Dance a cough that makes a frog come out of his throat so that King Uther will go all "Oh noes! Dance is a sorceror! Kill him!" and other spells to make magic amulets fall out of Dance's closets and all that.
Dance, after being declared a sorceror, threatens Morgana in a "let me go or she dies" but is foiled by Merlin using magic to make his knife red-hot so Dance goes al "ouch, aaaaa". And while he is stepping back from his red-hot knife, Dance trips and falls out the window to his death.
In the end, Merlin and co. framed a man for a crime he didn't commit, said framing got that man sentenced to death; and Merlin indirectly caused a man to fall out a window to his death. The alleged conspiracy of that man is not convincing to the viewer, the audience. We are asked to believe too many things on shaky grounds; and it is evil enough for Charles Dance to be a witchfinder; because not all magic-users are evil. Dance's villain of the week is evil enough if he's a legitimate witchfinder; and that's more scary because it means he's just doing his job and is part of the system that Uther, a semi-likable character and sorta the Big Good. The Villain is condemned not for his crimes, which are heinous (exposing non-evil sorcerors to King Uther, thus making good people die) but for those crimes he did not commit (sorcery); crimes which the main characters are "guilty".
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis