soyperson Posted January 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 2 hours ago, Kaymyth said: Huh. @Chaos, did something weird happen with the database again? In other news, I am shamelessly plugging this wee little thing that I just wrote: It's short. Super-short. And it might be a terrible idea, but you know how invasive plot bunnies can get. ...plot bunnies? @Chaos she's right, you are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 5 hours ago, bleeder said: ...plot bunnies? Ideas. Muses. Sparks of story that won't go away. Fanfic and other writing sites use the term. I really liked that story, Kaymyth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 4 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Ideas. Muses. Sparks of story that won't go away. Fanfic and other writing sites use the term. I really liked that story, Kaymyth. Yay. I have a fairly cohesive plot arc that's built up in my head over the past 24 hours. I may have to continue it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 There is a patron who comes in twice a week to ask for Value Line, ask why it hasn't been updated yet, and then tell us how our mail service works. Despite being young enough to be a digital native or close to it, he demonstrates a steadfastness in his resolve to not use the continually and instantly updated online version. I will never understand people. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 3 hours ago, Cognizantastic said: Alright, guys. I have an idea. If I win and go to Texas, I'm going to buy a Mexican poncho and maracas. Why, you may ask? So that I can run into crowded places and yell "I'M HERE FOR YOUR JOBS" while wearing stereotypical garb and shaking the maracas. Hide contents SPOILER: Cog will not, in fact, do this. He doesn't want to be lassoed like a young calf at the rodeo, fun as the yelling might be. No I think you should do this. It will be terrible for everyone involved, but also hilarious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Oh my good golly gosh, I just got the most ridiculous birthday card in the history of birthday cards. Spoiler 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistrunner Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 I love the public education system. You can't have plastic knives, but they can teach you ways to murder people and get away with it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 3 minutes ago, Mistrunner said: You can't have plastic knives ... I. What. It's like that time tweezers were banned from airplanes, and somebody said "if you can hijack a plane with a pair of tweezers, then you almost deserve the plane." 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistrunner Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 9 minutes ago, Slowswift said: ... I. What. It's like that time tweezers were banned from airplanes, and somebody said "if you can hijack a plane with a pair of tweezers, then you almost deserve the plane." I haven't heard that. That's awesome. It is interesting, though, how they ban things like pocketknives but sometimes require things like scissors, which are two knives put together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 minute ago, Mistrunner said: It is interesting, though, how they ban things like pocketknives but sometimes require things like scissors, which are two knives put together. Especially considering that a vast number of pocketknives are tools, not weapons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowLord_Lith Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Maybe that's why they banned them. I mean, what's worse? A weapon that can be easily taken? Or a small tool that dismantle machinery and can DOUBLE as a weapon? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Slowswift said: ... I. What. It's like that time tweezers were banned from airplanes, and somebody said "if you can hijack a plane with a pair of tweezers, then you almost deserve the plane." Somewhat related: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin in Burgundy Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Mistrunner said: I love the public education system. You can't have plastic knives, but they can teach you ways to murder people and get away with it. Same. A bunch of the kids at my school started taking plastic spoons and stabbing people with them, and now we have to sign in to get a spoon from the lunch ladies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 7 minutes ago, Assassin in Burgundy said: Same. A bunch of the kids at my school started taking plastic spoons and stabbing people with them, and now we have to sign in to get a spoon from the lunch ladies. Further proof that prison and school are waaaayy too similar to be healthy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exalted Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 There was also that one school where a kid got suspended for biting a Pop-Tart (I think?) into the shape of a gun and jokingly pointing it at someone. ...America's schools are weird. And dumb. It's...yeah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 2 minutes ago, Slowswift said: Further proof that prison and school are waaaayy too similar to be healthy. Rumor has it that my high school was modeled after a prison, in the sense that it was made up of two levels circling an enclosed courtyard, with the only exits being easily monitored and tightly controlled. I have no idea if that little factoid is true, but once one of my classmates shared that with me, I couldn't unsee it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 1 minute ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said: Rumor has it that my high school was modeled after a prison, in the sense that it was made up of two levels circling an enclosed courtyard, with the only exits being easily monitored and tightly controlled. I have no idea if that little factoid is true, but once one of my classmates shared that with me, I couldn't unsee it. Well, at least it wasn't built like a panopticon. Now, that would be concerning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 One of the buildings at my middle school sure looked like a prison. Boring gray, very few windows. The other building, however, sort of looked like a McDonald's thanks to the checkered red-and-yellow tiles on the outside. XD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 *Taps and lights tobacco in pipe* Well it seems to me *takes a puff from the pipe and blows three smoke rings* that none of you have been to prison. For you see *gestures with pipe* restriction does not equate with imprisonment. And neither do security measures equate confinement in a penal system. *smacks lips* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soyperson Posted January 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Back! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Invested Beard Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 So I just watched the new Ben Hur movie and I can't really wrap my head around why the critics hated it. I thought it was really good and an all around well made movie. I have a suspicion it may have been so panned because it included Jesus or something. No clue what's going on there. I guess at my age I should realize that movie critics are mostly wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlion Blight Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Just now, The Invested Beard said: So I just watched the new Ben Hur movie and I can't really wrap my head around why the critics hated it. I thought it was really good and an all around well made movie. I have a suspicion it may have been so panned because it included Jesus or something. No clue what's going on there. I guess at my age I should realize that movie critics are mostly wrong. Critics would be comparing it to the original one, which also had Jesus in it. So, you know, probably has little to do with that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Invested Beard Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said: Critics would be comparing it to the original one, which also had Jesus in it. So, you know, probably has little to do with that. True, but if I remember correctly Jesus didn't have as prominent a role in the original Heston film. Haven't seen it for a few years though so I may be wrong. Even if that's not the reason, they're still wrong. Edited January 4, 2017 by The Invested Beard 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 12 hours ago, Assassin in Burgundy said: Same. A bunch of the kids at my school started taking plastic spoons and stabbing people with them, and now we have to sign in to get a spoon from the lunch ladies. Oh dear. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Honor Spren Posted January 4, 2017 Report Share Posted January 4, 2017 Lucky for me, I don't go to those prison-education places! I just spend an average of 20-23 hours a day in my house. So, it's more like house arrest 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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