The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • kill living beings
    an empire that bordered the song
  • My dreams exceed my real life
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    Everett True is the best superhero ever
  • edited 2015-12-11 02:02:38
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

    i mean i like language history. the meat thing is cool. the long words thing is cool. but english is really not unique as being formed crole-style and we shouldn't say or imply that it is.

    my fave example is when the western xia rushed to adopt something like chinese characters and fucked it up so bad that writing a six takes like ten strokes

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    Jesus Fucking Christ, it's like looking at that art piece where there's a tapestry of characters and all of them are fake words, and it looks impressive from a distance but is all nonsense. It looks wrong. I feel like I should be able to read the words, but I can't.

    I wonder if this isn't like one of those things where the intelligensia class made things super hard so the commoners wouldn't learn it easy or something.
  • kill living beings
    MachSpeed said:

    i mean i like language history. the meat thing is cool. the long words thing is cool. but english is really not unique as being formed crole-style and we shouldn't say or imply that it is.

    my fave example is when the western xia rushed to adopt something like chinese characters and fucked it up so bad that writing a six takes like ten strokes

    image

    Jesus Fucking Christ, it's like looking at that art piece where there's a tapestry of characters and all of them are fake words, and it looks impressive from a distance but is all nonsense. It looks wrong. I feel like I should be able to read the words, but I can't.

    I wonder if this isn't like one of those things where the intelligensia class made things super hard so the commoners wouldn't learn it easy or something.
    i think regular han characters would probably be good enough for that. this just makes it hard on everyone
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    MachSpeed said:

    i mean i like language history. the meat thing is cool. the long words thing is cool. but english is really not unique as being formed crole-style and we shouldn't say or imply that it is.

    my fave example is when the western xia rushed to adopt something like chinese characters and fucked it up so bad that writing a six takes like ten strokes

    image

    Jesus Fucking Christ, it's like looking at that art piece where there's a tapestry of characters and all of them are fake words, and it looks impressive from a distance but is all nonsense. It looks wrong. I feel like I should be able to read the words, but I can't.

    I wonder if this isn't like one of those things where the intelligensia class made things super hard so the commoners wouldn't learn it easy or something.
    i think regular han characters would probably be good enough for that. this just makes it hard on everyone
    heck, isn't the former part of why hiragana and hangul were originally called "women's script" by assholes?
  • kill living beings
    immersing myself in icelandic sagas to avoid thinking about my life is the nerdishiest thing i've done in a while
  • edited 2015-12-11 03:57:27
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    ^^ Yeah, partly.

    There are, incidentally, language scripts in some areas of southern China which are nigh-exclusively used and understood by women which men only know of but cannot read.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Those scripts are cool as hell and I'm glad they're getting preserved.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    "My heart skips a beat," I sing, turning a health-threatening symptom into a cutesy way to express my affection.

    Yeah, there's way more where that came from in pop music.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Also, yes, Tangut script is insane and I don't understand the point beyond, I dunno, magic.
  • meow meow meowtherfuckers
    people can talk shit about using technology as a way to ignore people but when there's a guy following you in his car all like "hey girl where are you going" having a phone in my hand to distract myself and look busy & not look obligated to talk to him is a lifesaver 

    also if you see a girl walking somewhere and she looks purposeful, she probably knows where she's going.

    furthermore, hhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fuck those people.
  • Epitome said:

    people can talk shit about using technology as a way to ignore people but when there's a guy following you in his car all like "hey girl where are you going" having a phone in my hand to distract myself and look busy & not look obligated to talk to him is a lifesaver 


    also if you see a girl walking somewhere and she looks purposeful, she probably knows where she's going.

    furthermore, hhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    :[

    everyone really seems like they're not having a great day
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Ew. And, heyo, Epi.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I've not been having a good few months, to be honest, but distracting myself from my sheer abject failure is actually surprisingly easy.

    Now that I've fully accepted it, I feel great. For you see, today's the day I take the exam for the class I'm already going to fail.
  • No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes!
  • 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

    No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes!

    I recognize that! It's from The Increidbles.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I'm not trying to be a downer or anything, I feel fine. I'm okay. 

    Despite everything, I'm okay.
  • kill living beings

    One day the king called a meeting at Oyr where he made a long and very eloquent speech to urge men to convert. The men of the Nidaros district had collected a small army and maintained they were prepared to do battle with the king rather than convert. The king told them to keep in mind that he had dealt with greater opponents than a bunch of local farmers from Nidaros. This was enough to strike fear into the hearts of the farmers and they all surrendered to him. A great number of people were baptized before the assembly was dissolved.

  • and everyone lived happily ever after, the end
  • kill living beings
    "He ordered the Icelanders to come before him and asked whether they wished to be baptized. Not really, they replied."

    good translation here.
  • edited 2015-12-11 04:50:59
    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
    It's 10 minutes to midnight and I'm eating a cheeseburger. AMA
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    What goes on a cheeseburger?
  • 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
    MachSpeed said:

    What goes on a cheeseburger?

    processed American slices
    Meijer brand mayonnaise
    a bun from Aldi

    ...it's not the classiest burger, but hey, I'm unemployed.
  • 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
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  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    What a good dog.

    What a best friend.
  • It feels so refreshing to be open about being a weenie teenager.

    Well, I'm technically a legal adult, but
  • Acererak said:

    It feels so refreshing to be open about being a weenie teenager.


    Well, I'm technically a legal adult, but
    treman.txt
  • On December 7th, The Force Awakens producer Kathleen Kennedy confirmed in a news conference that Binks would not appear in the upcoming film.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I for one will not be seeing it, then
  • We can do anything if we do it together.
    I still kinda want to see it, but I'm not sure when I will and how I will.
  • kill living beings
    suddenly this story has the first scandinavian member of the varangian guard.

    also,
    Wikipedia said:

    In 988 Basil II requested military assistance from Vladimir I of Kiev to help defend his throne. In compliance with the treaty made by his father after the Siege of Dorostolon (971), Vladimir sent 6,000 men to Basil. Vladimir took the opportunity to rid himself of his most unruly warriors which in any case he was unable to pay. This is the presumptive date for the formal, permanent institution of an elite guard.

  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I can't read "Kathleen Kennedy" without thinking of how she is/was Spielberg's confidant
  • Four hours fibre lecture/tutorial starting at 9am on six hours of sleep

    Going to be fun...
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Yuri Kuma Arashi AU where everyone is straight.
  • meow meow meowtherfuckers

    Yuri Kuma Arashi AU where everyone is straight.

    how coluld you 
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

    important
  • edited 2015-12-11 09:16:35
    I am okay with "these threads"

    I am also okay with people engaging with them

    however I am not really anywhere near the main constituency anyway so whatever

    i mean they just sorta pass me by if i don't want to engage them
  • edited 2015-12-11 09:21:34
    also, i'll be honest, i know not to take ideological justifications for petty grievances seriously, but damn can they be fun and gratifying to make

    but that's because blowing things out of proportion and overdramatizing things is fun

    so i'll shut up now before i step on any more landmines
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    It was foolish to think I could immediately get a seat at a buffet Korean barbecue restaurant on a Friday night.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I should have brought a book, or a portable console.
  • My hair feels soft as fuck right now

    Probably because it's still a little damp...
  • Just once, it would be nice to be able to move my mouth without splitting my scab open.

    At least it actually appears to be healing.

    That is, until the scab splits itself open...
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I've been there. Recently.

    I give up. I'm having beef mac and cheese elsewhere.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    ahahahahaha
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