Agiel Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnM3LYIXX1w Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 4 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 9 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I saw Godzilla vs Bambi once. And only once, because thereafter Bambi was no more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktchong Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Context for people who have not seen Ghostbuster 2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted March 20, 2016 Author Share Posted March 20, 2016 "I got stuck in a perpetual cycle of masturbation after I discovered I have a fetish for wrist pain." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 @Raithe: I don't get that one. Are those supposed to be number related puns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 @Raithe: I don't get that one. Are those supposed to be number related puns? I didn't get it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgambit Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) @Raithe: I don't get that one. Are those supposed to be number related puns? I didn't get it either. use the French words for the numbers and be a little creative - e.g. 7 = Sept -> set or e9 = e + neuf -> enough Edited March 21, 2016 by kgambit 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 4 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Messier-31 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) *deleted* Edited March 21, 2016 by Messier-31 It would be of small avail to talk of magic in the air... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 bilingual girl puts woman in her place So I'm a white Caucasian female, but I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English. Now, looking at me, you wouldn't know I can speak Mandarin, which is why I find it absolutely hysterical to mess with people. Especially when they come through my line at work speaking Chinese, and I understand every word they're saying. My coworkers find it especially hysterical. Okay, so the other day this Chinese couple came through my line, and I asked them (in English) all of the usual questions about bags and if they had their rewards cards, all of that fun stuff. Anyway, I started ringing up their stuff, and the wife said to her husband, "Tell her not to bruise the bananas," in Chinese and I didn't say anything. Then the wife said, "Tell the stupid girl to go faster," in Mandarin. I smiled at her and pretended like I had no idea what she was saying. She kept commenting on how my hair was like a boy's (I have short hair, it's honestly not even that short) and how her grandfather would have gone faster than I was going, all of this in chinese. And then she said, "Make sure she doesn't forget the water," in Chinese. I replied in English, "I won't forget the water." And I watched with enjoyment as a look of sheer terror spread across her face, as she realized I understood everything she had said before. She just stood there with her mouth open and her husband said (in Chinese), "This is why you shouldn't trash talk employees while they're standing right in front of you!" I replied (in English), "He's right, you know." They paid, then the husband apologized and left. After they walked out the door, my manager and coworker and I were laughing so hard. Even though being a cashier sucks, it sometimes makes my day a little brighter when something like that happens. #LANGUAGEGOALS 6 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dog_days Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 @Raithe: I don't get that one. Are those supposed to be number related puns? I didn't get it either. use the French words for the numbers and be a little creative - e.g. 7 = Sept -> set or e9 = e + neuf -> enough Okay. Thanks, I was very confused at just how much of a stretch those puns were in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Thanks 2 kgambit 4 the explanation. L8r. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Thanks 2 kgambit 4 the explanation. L8r. Doesn't work in French. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) Just to help translate then.. http://www.frenchnumbers.org.uk/ Edited March 21, 2016 by Raithe "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Yeah, I'm not going to learn french just so I can get the joke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadedWolf Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgambit Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Yeah, I'm not going to learn french just so I can get the joke. I had to learn it for an overseas job in Cameroon. I'm surprised I still remember that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I could handle Spanish pretty easily, and I can count to 9 in Japanese thanks to a weird childhood mnemonic device. But my exposure to French is pretty much limited to croissants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I work for a French company and everyone that I've met from our Paris office has been a butthead so I refuse to learn French out of spite.... and the fact that I'm terrible with languages Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 Eighty in French is also <<quatre (four) vingt (twenty)>>. Hence, 80 blaze it YOLO 360 no-scope. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 I could handle Spanish pretty easily, and I can count to 9 in Japanese thanks to a weird childhood mnemonic device. But my exposure to French is pretty much limited to croissants. I did French in High School. Unfortunately I did Spanish in college, which meant for awhile I would transition from one to the other (Typically start in spanish, finish in French). I haven't used either for so long I can't remember a lot; wouldn't mind going back and refreshing either though. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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