+Sorana Posted November 24, 2018 Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 9 hours ago, Sunbird said: Great Blue Heron: My favourite picture of those you posted this time. It's so beautiful, how the bird looks, how it stands there. I think I've said this before but you are really talented! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 The song "Last Christmas" bothers me for a number of reasons (it's repetitive and irritating, it's on every station, every artist known to man has covered it and it's STILL ANNOYING) but I've hit on another reason, this one involving the chorus: Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day, you gave it away This year, to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special Note the second line: The very next day, you gave it away. Not you gave it back or you left it cold in the snow or something similar. No, you gave it away. The singer's heart is no longer theirs. They gave it to this unnamed traitor, who immediately turned around and gave it to some unknown party. The singer's heart is no longer in their possession. (My guess is that it's somewhere on the black market.) So, I'm sorry, but you cannot give it to someone special. It is no longer yours to give. The only way to save yourself from tears is to put together a squad of brokenhearted action heroes and go on a search-and-rescue mission for this heart of yours. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidpen Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 15 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: The song "Last Christmas" bothers me for a number of reasons (it's repetitive and irritating, it's on every station, every artist known to man has covered it and it's STILL ANNOYING) but I've hit on another reason, this one involving the chorus: Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day, you gave it away This year, to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special Note the second line: The very next day, you gave it away. Not you gave it back or you left it cold in the snow or something similar. No, you gave it away. The singer's heart is no longer theirs. They gave it to this unnamed traitor, who immediately turned around and gave it to some unknown party. The singer's heart is no longer in their possession. (My guess is that it's somewhere on the black market.) So, I'm sorry, but you cannot give it to someone special. It is no longer yours to give. The only way to save yourself from tears is to put together a squad of brokenhearted action heroes and go on a search-and-rescue mission for this heart of yours. Relevant meme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 20 hours ago, Sorana said: My favourite picture of those you posted this time. It's so beautiful, how the bird looks, how it stands there. I think I've said this before but you are really talented! Aww, thank you! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagliacci Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 I was watching a Patrick H Willems video about shared universes. He discussed how more shared universes should be less like the MCU and only hint at a greater universe, with the occasional reference or character appearance. The whole time I was shouting "THE COSMERE! THE COSMERE! THE COSMERE! THE COSMERE! THE COSMERE!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ammanas Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 I never thought of myself as "old" but I had a experience the other day that caused me to reevaluate that assertion. Talking to someone (around 18 yrs old) about The Oregon Trail and describing it as being on a floppy disc. He looks at me with a puzzled expression and asks, "What's a floppy disk?" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snipexe Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 13 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: The song "Last Christmas" bothers me for a number of reasons (it's repetitive and irritating, it's on every station, every artist known to man has covered it and it's STILL ANNOYING) but I've hit on another reason, this one involving the chorus: Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day, you gave it away This year, to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special Note the second line: The very next day, you gave it away. Not you gave it back or you left it cold in the snow or something similar. No, you gave it away. The singer's heart is no longer theirs. They gave it to this unnamed traitor, who immediately turned around and gave it to some unknown party. The singer's heart is no longer in their possession. (My guess is that it's somewhere on the black market.) So, I'm sorry, but you cannot give it to someone special. It is no longer yours to give. The only way to save yourself from tears is to put together a squad of brokenhearted action heroes and go on a search-and-rescue mission for this heart of yours. My biggest question is why did they give the heart away? Hearts are worth a lot of money. The traitor Twi mentioned missed out on a legitimate business opportunity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 11 minutes ago, Snipexe said: My biggest question is why did they give the heart away? Hearts are worth a lot of money. The traitor Twi mentioned missed out on a legitimate business opportunity. Maybe this traitor planned to do that, but they were already on law enforcement's radar. Before they could list the heart on the black market, they got a tip that doing so would bring a dozen government agents crashing in, and so they simply fobbed it off on the nearest person they could find, cursing the whole while about all the money they were losing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snipexe Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 6 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Maybe this traitor planned to do that, but they were already on law enforcement's radar. Before they could list the heart on the black market, they got a tip that doing so would bring a dozen government agents crashing in, and so they simply fobbed it off on the nearest person they could find, cursing the whole while about all the money they were losing. Perhaps the original owner of the heart was the one who gave the government the tip, and the song is actually about an FBI sting operation. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidpen Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 This conversation makes me so happy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 55 minutes ago, Snipexe said: Perhaps the original owner of the heart was the one who gave the government the tip, and the song is actually about an FBI sting operation. So what about the singer's original heart? Is the heart that was stolen actually a counterfeit, perhaps implanted with a tracking chip so the FBI can monitor its movements and take down the entire heart market in one fell swoop? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snipexe Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: So what about the singer's original heart? Is the heart that was stolen actually a counterfeit, perhaps implanted with a tracking chip so the FBI can monitor its movements and take down the entire heart market in one fell swoop? Obviously the heart is actually an incredibly advanced AI that will hack into its owner’s phone and then trigger last Christmas to play on loop until they turn themselves in. It’s a vicious cycle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted November 25, 2018 Report Share Posted November 25, 2018 9 minutes ago, Snipexe said: Obviously the heart is actually an incredibly advanced AI that will hack into its owner’s phone and then trigger last Christmas to play on loop until they turn themselves in. It’s a vicious cycle Of all the sting operations, I have a feeling this will be the most effective. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 I have Skyward. I'm prologue + a chapter in. And I'm on my computer refreshing Facebook waiting for nothing to happen. Why must I be like this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mestiv Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 3 hours ago, Ooktapus The Fierce said: I have Skyward. I'm prologue + a chapter in. And I'm on my computer refreshing Facebook waiting for nothing to happen. Why must I be like this? Don't know, but stop that refreshing and read the book! It's awesome! Read it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted November 26, 2018 Report Share Posted November 26, 2018 Gotten a couple items from Black Friday deals. Got both Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey for about$25-$30 each which is good considering how new Odyssey is. Also found by chance the BBC miniseries of Hitcherhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Barnes & Noble had Fire & Blood for 40% off for members and if you buy it you get a Pop of Georgie himself half off so I got a great deal here, especially considering it's not even a week old book. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 Found some cute birbs yesterday Quail (4 photos): Spoiler Male: Females: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2 photos): Spoiler This is a VERY tiny birb, barely bigger than a hummingbird. Very hyperactive too, which makes it hard to photograph. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrikerEZ Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 On 11/25/2018 at 7:28 AM, Ammanas said: I never thought of myself as "old" but I had a experience the other day that caused me to reevaluate that assertion. Talking to someone (around 18 yrs old) about The Oregon Trail and describing it as being on a floppy disc. He looks at me with a puzzled expression and asks, "What's a floppy disk?" Okay, that’s just weird. I’m 17 and I still know what a floppy disk is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sorana Posted December 1, 2018 Report Share Posted December 1, 2018 On 28.11.2018 at 0:05 AM, Ookla the Intrepid said: Found some cute birbs yesterday They are really cute! Especially the ruby-crowned kinglet! On a sidenote, I just realized I put on two different socks. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 20 hours ago, Ookla the Clueless said: On a sidenote, I just realized I put on two different socks. That's the best way to wear socks - never wear them with their proper pair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draginon Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 Recently my sister did a DNA heritage test, this wasn't 23&me so don't know how good the place is. Before telling you the results I'll put the ones we know about: On my dad's side we know it's British but nothing else. On my mom's side it's English, Scottish, Irish and German (this ones tricky since it's a region that's part of France today) Heres what her results said: British & Irish ~40% (she was surprised it was that large but in the breakdown it only showed England) followed by ~20% Scandinavian (this makes sense when you remember Viking and British history so I'm not that surprised), Western European (I don't remember the percentage but it was pretty big. We think this corresponds with the French/German side though it didn't break down by region), and with the surprise ones of ~9% Balkan (I could be remembering the percentage wrong but I know it was less than 20%) and 2.5% Jewish. The Jewish I guess makes sense since a majority of Europeans dallied a little with Jews at some point and with the percentage its a distant relative while the Balkan one the percentage means that, to me and my sister, a great grandparent was either from that region or descended from the people there. If you TL;DR that means we thought it was English, Irish, Scottish and French/German but the test says British (specifically English), Broadly Western Europe (this excludes the British Isles), Scandinavian, Balkan and Jewish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 11 hours ago, Draginon said: and 2.5% Jewish. *sighs* Sorry in advance about this mini-rant. My Jew-ness begs to speak up and won't hush. The "Jewish" percentage always bugs me. You can't say Jewish as a race and put it in a percentage since it's a religion. You either are Jewish or you aren't - meaning your mother was Jewish. There is no "I'm half Jewish" or "I'm a quarter Jewish" since that's just how it is. And saying Jewish isn't descriptive at all. Jews have been almost everywhere and are extremely varied. Some are almost completely European and others African. Saying "I'm x% Jewish" literally means nothing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snipexe Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 14 minutes ago, Ookla the [your choice] said: *sighs* Sorry in advance about this mini-rant. My Jew-ness begs to speak up and won't hush. The "Jewish" percentage always bugs me. You can't say Jewish as a race and put it in a percentage since it's a religion. You either are Jewish or you aren't - meaning your mother was Jewish. There is no "I'm half Jewish" or "I'm a quarter Jewish" since that's just how it is. And saying Jewish isn't descriptive at all. Jews have been almost everywhere and are extremely varied. Some are almost completely European and others African. Saying "I'm x% Jewish" literally means nothing. The reason that something like this can happen is because Jewish is considered both an ethnicity and a religion. The name Jew originated because Jew’s trace their ancestry back to the tribe of Judah, correct? Therefore if one has some of this ancestry one can be a percentage ethnically Jewish without being religiously Jewish. This is at least what I have learned, and I might be completely wrong or using the wrong terms, but as far as I am aware this is why people can be 2.5% Jewish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ookla the Skeptical said: The reason that something like this can happen is because Jewish is considered both an ethnicity and a religion. The name Jew originated because Jew’s trace their ancestry back to the tribe of Judah, correct? Therefore if one has some of this ancestry one can be a percentage ethnically Jewish without being religiously Jewish. This is at least what I have learned, and I might be completely wrong or using the wrong terms, but as far as I am aware this is why people can be 2.5% Jewish. Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and some even trace to some others. So that is technically true, but since the two are referred to under the same word sometimes the two get confused and combined into one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blessed peace Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 Your maternal ancestry needs to be Jewish for you to be born Jew, but not to become one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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