Reveilled

Mentioning it reminded me: Depressing Rock Song - Bob Ricci you can listen to it here.

Spotlight - The Waifs [sung bitterly] "Laughing with friends, Crying alone over false hearts and petty love" Depressing Rock has nothing on Depressing Country music. :D

I used to have a stack of several hundred cards before I realised that I never actually played it with anyone and then just threw them out. I wonder now if chucked any rare and valuable cards in the bin. Ah well.

Such a difficult choice. The three I could narrow it down to would be Megatokyo, The Order of the Stick, or Elf Only Inn. Megatokyo's not been quite so good lately, in my opinion, but it might pick back up. Elf Only Inn, while probably the one I liked best of the three, has sadly lain unupdated for a year now, so I couldn't make it my definite favourite. The Order of the Stick is brilliant if you play a lot of D&D. I'd have to give honourable mentions to Ghastly's Ghastly comic (which I will not link to for the same reasons Kirottu didn't to Sexy Losers), and Questionable Content. EDIT: Oh, globbits. Beaten by 2 minutes.

After all, it's not like Stalin was just misunderstood. I'm quite willing to use "evil" to describe people, because some people are.

Don't go giving him ideas! It would be a horrible world indeed if fourteen year olds like I once was couldn't easily access pornography online.

I was joking and being deliberately absurd. I had hoped that using three smilies might have made that obvious.

Technicallly, iron isn't a smell. " :D Okay, but more seriously, I love the smell of vanilla. I have vanilla airfresheners, vanilla candles, and I drink vanilla coke. In fact, just about the only thing I don't like in vanilla would be Paradox Interactive games. :D

No, it is your argument. You mistakenly inferred that there was no colour black, when in fact both Launch and I were merely stating that technically, there is no colour "black". Sure people refer to the colour black collloquially, this is demonstrably idiomatic. It's not colloquial or idiomatic. If this was the case, you wouldn't find the term used in formal english, when you quite clearly do. The term black as used to describe the colour is not used only in spoken English or in written English attempting to imitate speech. In fact, the term black as used to describe the absence of colour is used almost solely in the Sciences. It is the technical term for the colour which "black clothes" are. Here, on the label of the T-shirt I'm wearing it says: "T-Shirt Small Adult Black" In the clothing industry, T-shirt is the technical term for the clothing this label is attached to. In the clothing industry, Small Adult is the technical term for the size of T-shirt this label is attacked to. In the clothing industry, black is the technical term for the colour of T-shirt this label is attached to. EDIT: Oh, and not forgetting the technical name in HTML for the hex triplet #000000 - Black. Looks like it's a technical term there too... How on earth does my argument have you believe that? I truly cannot fathom how you would come to such a ludicrous conclusion! If this is how you wish to play it, your argument would have us believe that it technically isn't Italian for Black, because almost every Italian speaker on the planet, speaking both formally and colloquially uses the word "Nero" to mean "very, very, very dark grey"! Tell me, mets, what does the word "cleave" technically mean? Does it technically mean "To split with or as if with a sharp instrument" or " To adhere, cling, or stick fast"? Or could it maybe be that both are valid and correct definitions?

Bah. My Royal Mail steel-capped shoes were free (my grandfather was a postman). Beat that for a price tag.

Twelve ounces isn't a colour, but black is. I fail to see the difference between the two different meanings of pound and the two different meanings of black. Technically, black is a colour, as centuries of usage in formal english, artistry, and clothing will attest to. The fact that one particular field of science chooses a different definition of black does not make that definition the technical one. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, there were precious few colours in historical usage, owing to a dearth of methods to create them. That is why such a fuss was made about lapis lazuli, which is mined from a small singlular area in present-day Afghanistan. You will find that there are precious few sources of "black" pigments in nature. For example, there have been ongoing efforts to research a "black" rose; recently there have been "black" tulips and a rose, but if you analyse these flowers you will see that they are darker hues of purples, etc. Nature doesn't have a lot of use for a non-colour, like black. Still you are trying to insist that because there is a general meaning for the word black, that there is not a specific technical meaning for the word, as well. Which is patently nonsensical. Would you insist that a Mole of Gold is a small furry mammal, too? It's your argument that suggests this, not mine! You and DL are the ones insisting that there is one correct and formal definition of a particular word! Technically, a mole is a small furry mammal, and a chemical unit of measurement. Technically, black is a colour that reflects very little light, and the total absence of colour. Using "mole" to mean small furry mammal is not a vulgar colloquialism, is it? Similarly, using black to mean a particular dark colour is not a vulgar colloquialism. It is a technical name for a colour just as much as red, green or blue. It's not the vulgar colloquial. It's a valid alternative meaning, I suppse. When I buy a pack of twelve colour felt-tip pens, the pack does not say "Eleven colour pens and one absence-of-colour pen". <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They don't tell you the make-up of the colours generally, do they? It is a specious and circular argument to say that in the common idiom black is a colour, because in common usage it is regarded as a colour! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's not a circular argument. In English, black is a colour, because the speakers of English have chosen to use the word black to define the colour that could also be referred to as "very, very, very dark grey". You will find the word black used to refer to this colour in both standard and formal english. If the vast majority of the speakers of english chose to use the word "arsenic" to mean this colour, then assuming "arsenic" was used to refer to this colour in standard english also, then technically arsenic would be a colour and an element.

Ah, but twelve (imperial) ounces is not a colour, is it? You are deliberately and disingenuously conflating the meanings of two homonyms. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Twelve ounces isn't a colour, but black is. I fail to see the difference between the two different meanings of pound and the two different meanings of black. Technically, black is a colour, as centuries of usage in formal english, artistry, and clothing will attest to. The fact that one particular field of science chooses a different definition of black does not make that definition the technical one.

Launch is 100% correct. She said: whereas you are trying to refute a specific technical definition (i.e. black is the absence of colour, just as white is the sum total of all colours) with a common idiometric usage. You are correct that in the vulgar colloquial, black is regarded as a colour, but Launchie is correct in saying that technically black is not a colour, but the absence of all colour. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, under a specific, rigid definition restricted to physics, black is not a colour, but black is a colour both coloquially and technically. You'll note that the dictionary definition I provided does not include colloquial beside it, and in formal use black is also a colour. You will find the term black used as the name for a colour in both formal english and in industries such as clothing production. Black is a colour. It is also the absence of all colour. This does not mean that black is technically not a colour any more than a pound is technically not a unit of currency because it also happens to be a unit of weight.

You could be Joseph G

I'm a UK size 7. If you're girly, Kaftan, I must be dwarf girly.

Royal Mail shoes. They last forever, and are good for just about anything except going through a metal detector.

Have to disagree there. English is defined by how people speak it. If the majority of English speakers decide that Black is a colour, then it is in fact a colour. If the dictionary definitions do not allow for this, then either their definition of "Black" or their definition of "Colour" is inadequate. But not to worry, the dictionary does account for it: black adj., 1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.

I voted that I don't know, because I don't. I doubt that I would chase a bomber, but if people were shouting for others to stop him, I might make an attempt to trip him up. If I had to run after one, though, that would probably give me enough time to think about just what I'm doing, and then let my physical cowardliness kick in, at which point I would probably halt any pursuit. I'd like to think that if other people's lives were in danger I'd make an attempt to prevent them getting killed, but ultimately my own highest priority will always be self-preservation, and if I have time to realise that my actions are putting my life in jeapordy, I would most likely stop.

Why not go as a scientist?

I can't believe how long it took me to get that. :">

He was actually slain because he missed her face. " Wouldn't be an Obsidian Forums thread wihtout a bukkake reference now, would it?

That reminded me of this: I imagine most of have already seen this, but try saying the colours the words are out loud (not the actual word).

You silly English aaaa-theest. Your mother was a hamster, and your Father apparently does not exist. Now go away or I shall attempt to convert you a second time. Even Eris hereself is out for personal gratification. She only created mankind because no one invited her to parties. Silly Atheists and Islamo-Judeo-Christians. "

The Vienna Daily January 18th, 1901 Is Austria-Hungary getting the Silent Treatment? It has only been a few short weeks since the Archduke Regent sent envoys to all the major European powers in the hopes of avoiding a possible European war. However, sources inside the Palace say that there have been few replies to the attempts at correspondence, leaving the Archduke disheartened and more than a little paranoid. Rumors of the Archduke's previous bouts with depression seemed to be confirmed today when the Archduke gave the following statement: "Nobody likes me, ev'rybody hates me, I think I'll go and eat worms". Given this revelation, some have questioned whether the Archduke is in fact competent to rule Austria in this potentially troubled time. Anyone seen Nartwak?

...umm, occasionally. But what has that got to do with a thread on Homosexuality?