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Bah.

Oh yes...Corsair's argument has MUCH more merit... ^_^

"Bah." Brilliant! George W Bush beware.

Indeed Silverbolt, I have no proper response towards Corsair's argument.  As you have stated and I quote:


Until I can think up a much more logical response, I'll have no course but to stay absolutely silent for the moment being.

Fine, I'll give the longer-winded version.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

Just why do you think it is a hallucination?  Silverbolt came up with a good topic if you ask me, so I provided some ideas that came to my mind.  They are just some thoughts, nothing more.  Just as you suggested the tent or yurt.  I never fully disagreed with you on it, I just stated it might be unnecessary if they weighed too much.  If giving ideas towards a game is your view of a "hallucination"  then how are any games ever made created?  If not by people providing thier own thoughts on to what may go into a game, then how?  Did someone snap their fingers and games such as Morrowind (or any game) just magically come into existence?  Pray tell, share your thoughts with me, unless it will mean you need to hallucinate first.

I like how everyone who disagrees with Corsair is suffering from halucinations. They're frickin' great. I can taste the colours man and all I have to say is: Gimmie more purple.  

Oooh, I see now.  This isn't the first time someone has suffered from a hallucination attack because of thier own idea(s). Your ending reply reminded of an episode of Futurama where Fry goes, "Did everything just taste purple?" hehe love it.  Anyways though, I never completely agreed or disagreed with him on the tent/yurt idea.  My thing was all about a weight factor and nothing else.  If anything, it was he who disagreed with his nice little "Bah" response instead of coming up with something a bit more practical.

It's an old dilbert comic. Nevermind.

1) Don't argue with Cosair, it's not worth it. For proof, check out the KQIX thread.

2)Silverbolt: It's 'Dubya", not W

I sulk in my ignorance of American "culture".  :P  :D randomsmiley

Hehehe.

http://ctyler.com/img/bush-monkey.jpg (http://ctyler.com/img/bush-monkey.jpg)

In order:

Heh...

LOL...

ROTFLMAO!

I take it there is something about that response which seems to amuse you quite a bit.
To Sirus: hehe  Looks to be some kind of family resemblence between the two there if you ask me.

That's just very typical Corsair behavior. 'Bah' is what he says when he either knows you're right but is being stubborn, or when he can't think of anything to say.

You'll see this happen a lot.

A friend of mine prefers "hush you".

Okay, I'll watch out for that in the future.

On a side note.... this, um, this topic seems to strayed off the track somewhat short of being derailed completely from the course.

Happens all the time. Welcome to Hero6.

Indeed, I suppose it is something that can not always be helped. And thank you Swift.

Actually, when a thread has run its course it inadvertedly turns to spam.

This thread has run its course.

Also, I have no idea what "inadvertedly" means or how it's spelled but I used it anyway to feign intelligence.

Spam??? bleh   That's all I need is some canned ham.

As for the word you meant to put:

in·ad·ver·tent
adj.

   1. Not duly attentive.
   2. Marked by unintentional lack of care. See Synonyms at careless.


Found at Dictionary.com, which is where I check my words if I'm not sure of the correct spelling or using the definition appropiately.

I think I was trying to say "inexorably" or something.

Inexorably you say?  hmm, ok then.

in·ex·o·ra·ble  
adj.

    Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless: an inexorable opponent; a feeling of inexorable doom.


inexorably

adv : in an inexorable manner; "time marches on inexorably"


I have no idea which word you meant to type or the correct one for that matter.

Are you having fun? Because I sure as hell am.  ^_^  

fun
n.

   1. A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure.
   2. Enjoyment; amusement: have fun at the beach.
   3. Playful, often noisy, activity.

Oh wait, you were asking me a question. heh Of course I'm having fun, why wouldn't I be? A jolly old time indeed.
 

He's having so much fun he just has to dive for the dictionary every chance he gets. Strange lad.

At least he knows what a dictionary is. If I had ten million dollars for everytime I saw idiots asking what words mean on the Internet... :'(  

Did you know "exhorbant" isn't in the dictionary despite its widespread usage?

I encourage you all to begin using the word more often so that the guys that add words to dictionaries will see it as a new word.  That's how it works, after all; the more people use a word, the higher its chance is of being inducted into the lexicon.

Did you know "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?

Anyway, I really hate it when people use the word "Apocalypse" as "End of the World". It's such a common mistake that it's become almost correct.

Ah, yes, "gullible."  Man, that's so old hat.  I used it three times this morning.

Do you know the meaning of the word "off-topic"? :devil:  

Technically, Off-Topic is not a word, but rather two words linked--oh, wait.

The penny drops.

Doesn't the word Apocalypse refer to the book of revelation, you know, where they describe the end of the world?

Yes, it does, in fact. It refers to the book of "revelation" or "vision" or "premonition" where they DESCRIBE the end of the world. In fact, the end of the World is called "Armageddon". Apocalypse is just a preview of how it'll happen.

"This summer...Keanu Reeves, Robin Williams and Orlando Bloom...

Seven Seals...Four Horsemen...Three Heroes...One Goal.

The Apocalypse - Improperly used

~Coming soon everywhere near you."

(Sorry Swift. I tried to get back on topic. I really did.)

Actually, Jigen (and the rest of you), Apocalypse comes from the Greek, and its meaning is something like "disclosure of private (privileged?) information".


... but, moving on to more serious topics: Hasn't this gone off-topic enough? Can we move the discussion to the OT forum, plz?

Ianfe, that's what the 'Split topic' function is for. Allow me to demonstrate.

Well then, I guess we overfilled the cup on that one. Yes, Ianfe, we waaaaaaay offtopic and that's a nice "split topic" option Swift. Sorry about that you two. AND SILVERBOLT!!! Pray tell, just where exactly in your last post did try to get back on topic, for I see nothing that suggests a thing:


Nope. Nothing. Nada. Zip(padedoda?). Ziltch. hehehe

P.S.  Offtopic is actually in the dictionary both hyphenated and not, but they both bring you to the hyphenated word.

Main Entry:     off-topic
Part of Speech:     adjective
Definition:     differing from the main topic; not relevant
Etymology:     1982-87

:fairy: Aren't I pretty?

There, THAT'S off-topic. =P

Yes, yes indeed, that is quite off-topic. If you happen to look exactly like that smiley, then sure I guess. Except now this is a new thread, so you are going off-topic in a rather off-topic thread. Perhaps this should have been named "Random Rants" (like in a similar forum I go to), "Rants: The Return" or perhaps "Rants: The Second Coming"?

The inner struggle to get back on topic is right there. You have to read between the lines, but my dark side prevailed.

WOE IS ME!

Though, I would LOVE to get that guy who reads movie previews (that voice...you all know it) read that one...

As for the term itself, well, at least I was half right. Apocalypse is NOT the End of the World.

Armageddon is.

Yeah, but they already did a movie named Armageddon.

And one called Titanic which you do NOT want me to get started about...

Soooo, about Titanic.....     Oh wait, that's not why I'm posting. This happens to be why I'm posting:

Ar·ma·ged·don   n.
1. Bible. The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world.
2. A decisive or catastrophic conflict.

And also in my "travels" on the internet dictionary:

a·poc·a·lypse  n.
1.    a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible. The Book of Revelation.
      b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century B.C. to the second century A.D. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.
2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.
3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.

Apocalypse  n.
1: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil 2: the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the apostle [syn: Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation]

It would seem that both the words mean the same thing. Oh, and Silverbolt, you actually are evil. You just try to hide it. hehehe

As I said, Apocalypse has been used improperly for so long that using it as "catastrophe" has become legit. It's sad how movies tend to bastardize languages.

"Pathetic" is not "pitiful", but actually means "passionate".

"Romantic" is something that has to do with "Romantism" which is a literary current and not "Omg flowers and sunsets and love".

The examples are many.

I am not evil. I'm just a messed up kid.

Just like Romance Languages don't have anything to do with love.

Pathetic means passionate? Dang! I liked that insult.

Well, actually, in each definition of Armageddon and Apocalypse, both words have Biblical meanings for the end of the world. Movies had nothing to do with that. And as for the word pathetic. If I called Corsair "pathetic" (just for reference sake, no insult intended), you mean I would actually be calling him "passionate"?

Only technically. Pathetic has been used as "pitiful" for so long that it's now almost correct. It's still not very clear what it means nowadays. It comes from the greek (I think) word "pathos" which, if I'm not mistaken, means passion.

Yup.  It has the same route as "pathological"

I used to think romance languages were called so because they are associated with romantic stuff. :)

Same here. Then I became one of the truly learned.

You know Corsair, funny thing I happened upon. Your name is in the dictionary.

cor·sair   n.

   1. A pirate, especially along the Barbary Coast.
   2. A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction.

While I have no idea how you originally created your name, there it is.

Am I the only one who found that hilarious?

lol
Obviously, SOME liberties were taken on the definition (i.e. he keel-hauled the local linguists, straight away from their lexicons... lethargically)

Yes, I did know that. That's where I got it.

Well that would explain some things then. Just which definition are you using for your name? The one about the pirate ship or the pirate himself?

The Pirate one. I'm not a ship.

Then at least I was half right (even though it was a 50/50 chance). Just what was it about this pirate that you liked so much to use his name? Or did you just like the name itself? On a totally different matter, I was looking at dumblaws of both my country and others.  Apparantly in the UK there are quite a few dumb/weird laws. I'm unsure if any of these are still in effect. I'm going to post a few of them.

United Kingdom's Dumb laws
1. It is illegal to be drunk on Licensed Premises (in a pub or bar).
That, umm, really makes a lot of sense, really! (sarcasm if you can't tell)

2. Damaging the grass is illegal.
So one might as well not go outside, I guess.

3. Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).  (uh huh, yeah, ok pops)

4. You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.    (seriously who thinks these up?)

5. Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
(or this one?)

Hopefully, these "laws" are no longer used or valid in any way and as much as I would like to post certain others, the nature of this site prohibits me to do so.

Apparently you didn't get what I found funny even though I quoted and bolded a piece of text which I found amusing. Let me repeat:


Haha?

Crap, I better duck and cover monday through saturday if I ever go to the UK.

That was only a very few of the dumb laws out there and for other countries.  You should see the ones for Canada, one of them being it's illegal to climb trees.

here's a few dumb laws from various parts of america:

It is illegal for a woman to walk down the highway in a bathing suit without an escort of two police officers or being armed with a club

dogs require permission from the mayor to congregate in groups of three or more

it is illegal for an airplane to fly over one town between 5 and 9 pm

one town requires a license for juggling

et cetera.

One city required for quite some time (like, until the 1970's) that if a woman is driving a car a man must walk out in front of it carrying an orange flag.

Also, I can't remember if it's New Mexico or Federal law, but it's illegal for a civilian citizen to talk to extraterrestrials.

So then, I believe it's safe to assume none of these laws are in effect anymore.  If any of them were, considering the stupidity of them, I think we would all be in trouble.

California city laws

Chico
Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.

Eureka
A man with a moustache may not kiss a woman.

Fresno
No one may annoy a lizard in a city park.
Permanent markers may not be sold in the city limits.

Los Angeles
You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.

Redlands
Motor vehicles may not drive on city streets unless a man with a lantern is wallking ahead of it.

Walnut
Children may not wear a halloween mask unless they get a special permit from the sheriff.

Well, the motor vehicles one isn't really city-specific unless it has a ridiculously late date in which it was repealed, because for a few years it was the law all over the U.S. and England that they had to have a man walking in front of the car either carrying a lantern or waving a flag.

Hmm, the only one I could find about the car and flag one was this:

Louisiana city law

New Orleans
It is illegal for a woman to drive a car unless her husband is waving a flag in front of it.

It doesn't state what type of flag, but you are probably right about it being orange since the color stands out so much.

And what's the matter with talking to aliens??  Maybe they're just asking for directions to the next galaxy or something.

Then don't let the cops find out.

What I want to know is under what circumstances these laws were passed and for what reasons someone instigated their proposal. Some of them are pretty self-explanatory, especially that moustache one.

One interesting Australian law (not sure if this is federal or just for the sate of New South Wales) means that if you ever turn up to a hotel on a horse the hotel still has to legally feed and house it for you.

How, exactly, is the moustache one self-explanatory? In regards to the one about the horse, I could only find one for Canada.

Canada laws

The Queen Elizabeth Hotel must feed your horse freely when you rent a room.

Businesses must provide rails for tying up horses.

If you are released from prison, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so you can ride out of town.

You can't drag a dead horse down Yonge Street on a Sunday.

Wait, wait, wait. You get OUT of jail, and they are legally required to give you a gun. Good thing the canuks don't have the same culture of fear as their neighbours.

As for the moustache rule, read it again and think about it, for what petty reason would anyone (particularly someone without a moustache) would decide that needed to be outlawed.

The example I'll give you is the reason why I suspect bicycles have to ride on the road or cycle path instead of the footpath. See I belive some senator's wife was backing out of her driverway one day and didn't even bother to look and knocked someone off their bike. She whines and moans and her husband caves so to prevent her knocking somone off their bike in the future they make it say in the road rules that a cyclist has to ride on the road rather than the footpath.  

I must say, I like the Nuke one.

Incidentally, does this mean that detonating a nuke elsewhere is legal?

It figures you would like the nuke one, Corsair. Perhaps you should obtain one in some way, somehow, somewhere and put it to the test? Then and only then will we know...

Or not

I suppose I should mention that my previous post consisted of sarcasm in a certain area?

If you must

Well, you didn't seem to realise that there was, indeed, sarcasm.

Australian laws

A life sentence is 25 years.

It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burgular.

It is illegal to walk on the right hand side of a footpath.

Under Australian Communications Authority (ACA) regulations, a modem can't pick up on the first ring.

Taxi cabs are required to carry a bale of hay in the trunk.

Bars are required to stable, water and feed the horses of their patrons.

Only licensed electricians may change a light bulb.

It is illegal to wear hot pink pants after midday Sunday.

You must have a neck to knee swimsuit in order to swim at Brighton Beach.

Jigen, if you happen to know, can you possibly enlighten us as to whether or not any of these are true?