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I feel the same way when my brother hovers around, although I actually read and re-read Homestuck because I know he dislikes it. (I really wish that worked more often.)

Then again, I guess I don't seem like a Metallica fan either.

That's possibly part of why your supervisor felt the need to ask if you liked Metallica--even with the visible evidence.

Torchwood is clearly the only really different one. I mean, it's British. Totally breaks the pattern.

Everyone says iPyro, but that's just too easy and too obvious a choice, which is why I don't really want to do it.

That's actually a good thing--it's helpful for recognition if you stick to a similar name or "theme" for names.

Change your interests from "the color orange" to "the color blue"! This should basically be your number one priority.

iPyro Hearts Luna?

Aw man, another one? Why?!

It's funny. While it took you five characters to ask that question, I can answer it in one:

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Personally I think the "nex and brezz smooch smooch" one was better. =/

I don't know. It seemed a bit too predictable. The others indicated an actual attempt to make a genuine argument or ask a real question--both backfiring horribly and adding an element of schadenfreude--, whereas most of the rest are just noobish stuff like "omg their in luv!?!?" or "smooch smooch."

In the comments of this post, you said that your next wet mane picture would be "pretty weird," which I took to mean exceptionally odd--even compared to Scootaloo (the wet-mane-ified pony you had posted then).

I was sorely disappointed.

I just find it hilarious that that topic contains little kids getting disgusted over the thought of romance--even as a joke. Also, these are the best two posts from that thread:

Yes, robots can absolutely marry. Because they totally exist.

This was considered abnormally odd? I'd hold that wetmane!Scootaloo is the weirdest one I've seen you post.

Indeed it is. I think that I've read most of it so far, so I think I'll go get caught up.

AW MAN

 

the name "Squishy" is already in use :<

And he hasn't been to BZPower in over four years.

Squishysquish

In addition, Robspierre (I think that's how his name was spelt), was executing people left and right during the Revolution. He wanted a ten day week, 40 day month (I think. I don't recall the exact numbers from my Global History class).Scheduling would face nightmares.

Robespierre. The government under the Committee of Public Safety could actually have you sent to the guillotine for saying "monsieur." But that was after the revolution proper, since by then the Jacobins ruled the country. Also, the Revolutionary Calendar was actually instated; it had ten-day weeks (decades--accent on first e), thirty day months (decadi--accent on e), no religious days of any sort, five to six extra days for a celebration, years numbered from September 22nd of 1797 (the proclamation of the First Republic), and twelve months with names based on the seasons.

Nothing.

Seriously, it's just kind of whenever I feel like it. Totally arbitrary (with the addition of personal interest in the topic at hand).

But once they buy, they'd realize that it messes up their engine horribly, probably spread the word, and also likely sue him.

I can't stand hearing people compliment Inception when I have never gotten a chance to watch the film. I think I'll look it up on some online video site.

Or you could, you know, go to Blockbuster (or whatever) or buy the movie.

I don't really get what there is to not understand. From memory:

Leonardo DiCaprio/Cobb and his original group first enter Ken Watanabe/Saito's dream, going down two "levels." This was something of an "audition," which they fail by not obtaining his secrets (since the carpet was wrong a group of projections entered too soon). It is during the second level of the dream that we first meet Marion Cotillard/Mal. (Oh, and Cotillard has a great first line.) Still, Watanabe offers the job of inception.

DiCaprio gathers a team consisting of JGL/Arthur, Ellen Page/Ariadne (omg symbolism), Tom Hardy/Eames, and Dileep Rao/Yusuf (oh man this is some deep stuff).

Page plays around for a little while to give Christopher Nolan extra interesting footage and to let us know how these dreams work. The audience responds favorably to Page's character not just being a perpetual "how-does-this-work?" machine.

Afterwards, Hardy joins on and DiCaprio confronts Rao about making him a sedative that can go down to a dream within a dream within a dream. There is a chase scene around here that draws on dream imagery, and a man who administers mass dream-things mentions that the line between dream and reality blurs, and asks DiCaprio if he dreams. DiCaprio rushes out but doesn't get to see whether his top falls.

The group reconvenes in Paris to discuss the method of inception. Positive emotion is deemed better.

Page discovers that Cotillard committed suicide while intruding on DiCaprio's drug-induced dream. We hear the first train speech. Page coerces DiCaprio into letting her tag along.

Watanabe buys an airline.

Level One: The group enters the dream with Cillian Murphy/Robert Fischer. They then kidnap him, and a train flies by because DiCaprio has baggage from Cotillard's death.

DiCaprio provides exposition in the form of an angry conversation about the possibility of slipping into Limbo and going scrambled-egg mind. Hardy gets angry. JGL gets angry. They ignore it because they can do nothing else.

Hardy assumes the role of Murphy's father's lawyer or something and insists that Murphy's father always loved him and wanted him to do something more than he (as the father) had.

The group, posing as thugs, go down a level deeper. Rao takes the car and does some cool action movie stuff throughout the next thirty minutes.

Level Two: DiCaprio becomes "Mr. Charles," a protector trying to make Murphy aware of the dream to combat the extractors. A glass breaks. Children laugh and turn away. Murphy willingly goes under, thinking DiCaprio and his group are with him.

Level Three: Page and DiCaprio act conveniently like foolish people, allowing Cotillard into the room where Watanabe and Murphy (and maybe Hardy) are. Cotillard shoots Watanabe, sending him into Limbo (as the drug is so powerful dying does not cause one to wake up).

DiCaprio and Page go down to Limbo. DiCaprio reveals that he actually incepted Cotillard to get her to be willing to leave Limbo, leading to her eventual suicide.

Catharsis.

Page self-administers a kick in the form of jumping off a building.

JGL creates a kick in the form of sending an elevator against the floor through explosives.

Rao creates a kick in the form of driving the van off a bridge.

DiCaprio swears to find Watanabe, leading to the very first scene wherein the two kill themselves as kicks.

The entire cast is awake (probably, assuming it's not all a dream) and exits the plane, leaving the airport. No one's brains are scrambled eggs, and DiCaprio returns home.

The children's actors are different--older--, and the top spins. But that doesn't matter, because DiCaprio has faced his inner demons and believes himself truly to be awake.

(Those of us who watch credits hear the kick music. Oh, that Christopher Nolan sure is funny.)

We realize that we haven't stopped talking about this darned movie for two years and that it's just an entertaining action movie that fortunately has an actual plot that isn't as useless as "Whose Line" points.

Zoma: Except no one would buy stuff like that, and you'd probably get sued (seeing as you hail from the amazingly litigious country of the U.S.).

Five days late. L'esprit de l'escalier level--champion.

Haven't started four-page paper?

Post on BZP about it, and be sure to answer people's questions!

Don't worry, it happened to the Orthodox, too--with Easter. (Yes, even though it's also celebrated by Catholics, the Greek Orthodox places the most emphasis on Easter.)

Isn't it wierd that it's a holiday after a priest who was executed in rome? not to me; I feel like it makes sense the most annoying holiday had to have some wierd and/or stupid reason

It's funny because martyrdom has long been seen as highly important and symbolic for many religions--especially Christianity--and St. Valentine was hardly just "a priest," being someone who was beaten and beheaded over his religious beliefs during a time that what we know now as the world's most practiced religion was heavily persecuted in Rome. That's hardly "stupid" to me.

Do you find it "weird and/or stupid" that Easter comes from the story of the supposed resurrection of Jesus? It certainly has floated from being a religious holiday into being one about bunnies and eggs, just as St. Valentine's Day has become one about candy and hearts. Hey, I guess we'll just have to blame Chaucer for that one.

Also, there were 14 Saints named "Valentine," FTR.

(And I'm not even Christian!)

Furthermore, I'm tempted to ask why Valentine's Day is "the most annoying," but I have an odd feeling it would cause a good deal of bad emotions, so I'll just leave that one alone. (Plus, I get that some people can get very irritating when this time comes around, so yeah.)

Regarding not being about relationships: While that is true, I'd say that that's just about as correct as saying that Christmas isn't about gifts--for many people (and the overall mindset that most encounter), it is.

Of course, Valentine's Day is most commonly interpreted to be a celebration of romantic love, which is of course very different from the other variations of love, but that's just nitpicking and only tangentially related to the actual content of this entry.

I most certainly agree, and would argue that one of the worst reactions to Valentine's Day isn't simply being sad about being single--but rather to make it "Singles Awareness Day" (which is of course humor on some level). This interpretation is fine when accepted as a joke, but it seems rather excessive otherwise; it becomes an exercise in saying "I'm single I don't need someone okay" or drawing undue attention to one's status (which thus comes across as complaining).

Woah, that seems a bit like a rant, doesn't it?

I'm sorry, but I'm your last option?! I'm a person; you can't just number me off. And to think that I had believed I thought we had something!

I've lost my faith in love. *sobs uncontrollably*

oh god what did i just write