Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Justice's picture: Yay for recklessly dumping things everywhere!
Relevant random thought: it's a very useful habit to clean up after yourself and avoid messes that can't easily be cleaned. Like that one.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Supposedly, the dye they use to do that is pretty harmless.
I just think it must suck to be some random fish in the Chicago river* and suddenly have your entire world turned green because your neighbors up above don't want other rivers to give their river a pinch.
*Not sure how "clean" it is to begin with, it might already suck, apropos of food dye.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Well, if it really is harmless, then it's a little less of a problem, but still. We should be more careful.
Also, knowing the origin of the "pinch people for not wearing green" tradition makes it even more mean-spirited than it seemed beforehand, and I'm supposed to be part of the religion doing the pinching.
Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle. Green is traditionally worn on St. Patrick's day to honor the Emerald Isle. Tradition holds that on that day, people who do not wear green are pinched as a reminder to wear green to honor the Emerald Isle.
Huh. That's boring. And possibly not accurate. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the tradition or pinching started in the U.S. in the 1700s:
Forgot to wear green on St. Patty’s Day? Don’t be surprised if you get pinched. No surprise, it’s an entirely American tradition that probably started in the early 1700s. St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made one invisible to leprechauns, fairy creatures who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch green-abstainers.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Justice: Really? I thought I heard somewhere that it was related to the conflict between the Irish Catholics and the Anglicans. Guess that was just an urban legend. [/derp lizard]
squid: Of course. I know a lot of people in my face-to-face life who don't fit the stereotypes. Being in a relatively diverse city helps with that, I think.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Speaking as a fellow reptile fanboy, I can understand the temptation to ignore everything else involved in the article writing process in favor of monologuing about how awesome snakes are. But yeah, giving up organization and consistency while risking scaring readers away wouldn't be the best way to go about it.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I wouldn't say Americans in general love the Irish, but there's definitely a fascination with them. I think it might have something to do with the large influx of immigration from Ireland around the 19th century. I know that's part of why I'm here now, at least.
I don't care about the Irish, I like the Scottish. Why don't they have a holiday?
St Andrews Day is the 30th of November IIRC but I'll admit that my perception of Irish people in general is still coloured by growing up at the tail end of the Troubles
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
The closest holiday to my birthday is, I think ... Flag Day (U.S.).
Yeah, not terribly interesting. Though considering what you've been saying, that might be a good thing.
So I decide to check my dA messages, and 'y'know, maybe I'm just better off being a single loser. :P All the women I've ever liked are either emotionally unavailable, crazy, Mormon, or some combination of the three. IT KEEPS HAPPENING. I don't even know why I bother. :P
Maybe, but the thing is, Mormon girls have it drilled into them practically from birth that they have to date only Mormon guys, and I left the church in 1997, so that's not happening. And the one girl I've liked that wasn't completely uninterested in being more than casual friends was literally crazy -- she was SCHIZOPHRENIC and ON RISPERDAL. I was scared to death of her after a few months and stopped talking to her.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Maybe I'm used more liberal Mormons then. I used to live in a pretty heavily populated Mormon area, but this was still the Pacific Northwest, so perhaps pretty removed from the "motherland".
My uncle met a Mormon girl in 1987, converted so he could marry her, and encouraged the rest of us to join after that.
And while I'm sure there's Mormon girls that are okay dating non-Mormons (as evidenced above), the experience I've had is that all the girls I would have gotten along with were practically engaged to someone before they started college. I had enough trouble getting the girls back home to like me, what chance would I have when I was surrounded by women waiting for their alpha-male missionary boyfriends to come back? :P Also,not long after leaving college after two semesters in 1996, I found some non-Mormon friends and gradually lost interest in going to church. I was never terribly religious anyway -- let's fact it, half the time I went because I thought the girls were cute -- so it was no big loss.
Just...I've always wanted a healthy relationship that wasn't based on fantasies or misunderstandings, and I never seem to be able to get it right. Maybe even this reaction is because I'm falling back on my fantasies again, and it's upsetting me. Hell if I know. All I know is that I wish Ally and I were closer. :(
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Fuck the fact that Saint Patrick's Day is an american holiday.
Do you have any idea how annoying it is to be born near a holiday associated with the Irish and be a Dutchman?
After the first 87,000 times, it gets old having people ask you if you're Irish when you tell them you're birthday.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis