The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i feel uncomfortably lightheaded
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    all my friends are as sharp as razors
    cut you down if you touch the faders
  • 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 know what humanity needs to invent?

    A GPS chip that doesn't kill your phone's battery >:(
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Did you mean: Phone batteries that last longer than a few hours
  • 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
    That would be nice too
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Did you mean: Phone batteries that last longer than a few hours


    i was gonna be all 'i read that in Google's voice'

    and then i was like, wait, what's Google's voice?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    and Google doesn't even say that anymore, does it?

    these days it's all

    Showing results for Phone batteries that last longer than a few hours
    Search instead for A GPS chip that doesn't kill your phone's battery
  • Tachyon said:

    i feel uncomfortably lightheaded

    See if you can lie down and get some water or something. Hope you feel better.
  • 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
    Tachyon said:

    Did you mean: Phone batteries that last longer than a few hours


    i was gonna be all 'i read that in Google's voice'

    and then i was like, wait, what's Google's voice?
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tts
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    thanks Yarrun

    i got some water but i still feel weird

    guess i will lie down
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    so i just bumped into a stack of books and knocked them to the floor

    at which point i reflexively went 'oh tits!' for some reason

    i'm dizzy, maybe i should eat something
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Realisation: I've somehow ended up with identical initials to my birth name (sans one letter). Clearly my subconcious is trying to tell me something.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i'm no expert but i'd imagine that could very well have been an unconscious decision
  • 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
    Sometimes I worry I didn't put enough thought into my female name

    I just took it from one of my favorite children's books

    But Anonus thinks it's perfect for me, so what do I know?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    seems as good a reason as any

    and it was at least a classier choice than Hermione, Bella or Katniss would have been
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    It's funny really. Give someone a chance to choose any name they want, and then you end up with a bunch of Alices. I wonder what the group name for Alices is. An amalgam of Alices.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    it's a nice name

    speaking of that story, i had forgotten how much more of a jerk the Cheshire Cat was in the Disney version compared to the original novel

    in the original he's basically friendly, in the Disney film he nearly gets Alice beheaded
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Still a cryptic jerk though.

    Also Hermione is totally a legitimate name if you're an ancient Greek.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    and in the American McGee games he's the sassiest
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Hermione is actually quite a pretty name, but these days everyone is going to immediately think of Harry Potter
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    That's the one thing I worry about in regards to my middle name. (no it is not hermione). Well, not like you introduce yourself by your full name on a regular basis anyway.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    yeah

    what is your middle name (if it's not a secret)?
  • 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
    Hermione is a great name, but anyone from our generation is going to associate it with Hermione Granger, so I wouldn't name my daughter that or anything (and I like Hermione Granger!)

    My female middle name will be Rae...it's a concession to my family because my male middle name was Ray and I was like the fourth generation of people with that middle name.
  • edited 2013-11-15 11:13:59
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Luna. Feel like it flowed well, and I've always liked the word anyway. Plus, it fits well with my surname. :P And then I remembered the HP character, but eh, whatever. I would have used my grandmother's first names, except those only really work as, well, first names.
  • 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
    Luna's a nice name.
  • 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
    At what point am I allowed to think of Alice as "my" name without feeling like a liar?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^^ Luna is a very nice name

    (i actually thought of the Korean singer, not sure if that's better or worse...)

    ^ fwiw i already think of Alice as your name
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    what does it even mean for something to be 'your name' anyway

    i mean am i lying if i introduce myself as Bobby?  it's what most people call me but it's not what it says on my birth certificate
  • 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 don't know, it's like...

    All my friends (online) call me Alice, and seem to treat it as my name...but everybody I know in real life calls me my male name, because I'm still presenting as male.

    I should talk to Haven about this, he had something insightful to say when I mentioned it to him last year...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    well, you have two names, then, i guess

    i realize this is completely trivial but sometimes i think of myself as tachyon in my 'head voice', and then i feel weird
  • 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 wonder if 999 gets butt-dialed more frequently than 911

    It seems like it would be easier to accidentally press the same key three times than to accidentally press two keys in opposite corners of the keypad in the right order
  • 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
    Tachyon said:

    well, you have two names, then, i guess

    i realize this is completely trivial but sometimes i think of myself as tachyon in my 'head voice', and then i feel weird

    Oh thank god it's not just me

    I often find my internal monologue referring to me as "Central Avenue" as if that's my real name
  • edited 2013-11-15 11:27:13
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ i imagine it would, yeah; it seems like it would be very easily done

    butt-dialing is not a term i heard before but it's a good expression
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    And herein lies the hidden benefit of the name AliceTensei. :p
  • 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

    And herein lies the hidden benefit of the name AliceTensei. :p

    Heh.

    ...It only just dawned on me that I've been Central Avenue for FIVE YEARS now. Whoa.
  • 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'm always amazed at how many Price Is Right contestants don't understand how the $1 bid thing works

    First, you only bid $1 if you think everyone else has overbid

    Second, you only bid $1 if you're the last to bid, or the next person can just bid $2
  • edited 2013-11-15 11:41:20
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ^^ after that much time i expect it feels like you've kinda grown into it?
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i wonder if i should stick with this username for a while

    i never intended it to be a long-term thing but i kinda like it
  • edited 2013-11-15 11:47:43
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    also kind of a weird question but would it bother either of you if i switched back to female pronouns here, at least for a bit, perhaps until we get a gender-neutral option?

    it occurred to me that it could be unwelcome appropriation
  • 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
    ^^ after that much time i expect it feels like you've kinda grown into it?


    Yeah

    It helps that it's the name I was using when I met pretty much all my friends

    since all my friends are internet friends


    also kind of a weird question but would it bother either of you if i switched back to female pronouns here, at least for a bit, perhaps until we get a gender-neutral option?

    it occurred to me that it could be unwelcome appropriation
    It wouldn't bother me. It's not my place to tell people what pronouns they can and can't use...
  • edited 2013-11-15 11:57:04
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    thanks

    it's not really a question of whether it's your place or anyone else's, i just don't want to do anything that's going to be irritating or hurtful

    and i feel that you have more right to any say in this than i have, seeing as it's a female pronoun...

    if it were up to me i wouldn't identify myself in the third person, or if i did i would just use singular they


  • Pronouncing "women" as "wimmen" is incorrect, because the first vowel is not an i.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    that would be true if English used a strictly phonetic alphabet

    but it doesn't
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    tho i do know a girl who pronounces it like 'wu-men'
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    wimminfolk
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Funny thing: Legally speaking, the only thing you have to do to change your name in England is to start using the new name. Of course, in practice, banks and stuff get wary if you start claiming to be Sir Champagne Whiskey Rumbottle III without proof.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    can't think why
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.

    Pronouncing "women" as "wimmen" is incorrect, because the first vowel is not an i.

    Plum-burr. Car-pen-turr. Fi-reh.
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