BioGio

You aren't awake enough to enjoy it at breakfast.

Most cereal is so flavorful because it's easy to taste in the morning. Any other time, most cereals taste like pure sugar.

Depends.

I personally wouldn't listen to it, but if that were for some reason important to me (e.g., in a medicine class, prone to blood pressure issues), I would.

Why are you going to Maine?

You may have heard mine before. "Do NOT Bypass the word filter."

Pfff. What a prude.

Some time in the future:

"The Previous Entry...

"Was 1000..."

Equivalency?

Blanket term for any way of making up for lost schooling, typically by "testing out" of the courses you missed. In America, we have General Educational Development tests, which assess one's knowledge on a variety of school subjects. You don't have to take courses through any formal schools--just get a sufficient grade on the tests. The tests prove that you have the skills required/expected of a high school graduate.

(At least, that's what I assume Sisen was talking about.)

I agree. There's nothing better than using BZP staff warnings in everyday speech. My catchphrase has long been "Image linked; do not post images over 500 KB in size."

I PARRY THINE GRAPHITE WITHEST MY GIRAFFE!

 

. . . That can't be right.

*THY

*WITH

(Also, one cannot "uplift" a pencil--unless they use very encouraging words.)

What I'm saying is: if you'd like an editor or something like that, I might be able to help. Other than that, I don't think this is really my sort of thing.

And when I see how sad you are

It sort of makes me...

Happy!

(Happy?!)

Sorry, Nicky, human nature-

Nothing I can do!

It's... schadenfreude!

Making me feel glad that I'm not you.

(Well that's not very nice, Gary!)

(I didn't say it was nice! But everybody does it!)

D'ja ever clap when a waitress falls and drops a tray of glasses?

[REDACTED]

And don'tcha feel all warm and cozy,

Watching people out in the rain!

(You bet!)

That's...

Schadenfreude!

People taking pleasure in your pain!

EyRuMAGERD

What language is "bibliotheca"? It's like some bizarre combination of bibliotheque and biblioteca, so... Portuguese?

EDIT: Darn English keyboard.

Yes, we would all like to hear. You should probably say stuff like that in your blog.

Didn't NBC say they were going to broadcast the closing ceremony live?

One of their channels did.

Pictured: NASA's definition of, to quote their website, "water 'bending.'"

Why does it always sound so much better than English?

A few basic possibilities:

a. You don't understand intuitively what's being said.

b. The languages are more "euphonic" than English. Try listening to Mandarin Chinese. It's like using a cheese grater on your ear.

c. You only find the best/most famous examples of foreign music. There's just as much bad or insipid Japanese and Swedish music (although certain different trends and styles can dominate foreign regions, so there's some variety as to the style of bad music). Yes, there's a Swedish Justin Bieber out there; you've just never heard of him because he's not famous outside of Sweden.*

*The reason why people in Sweden have heard of den Biebern is because American music is internationally influential.

(491 KB--just barely making it!)

Wow, those are awesome.

First one seems wrong somehow, though. Wasn't that gem used in another design?

Love the kid looking on like, "That's the man I've heard the legends about. So he is real."

I MUST WATCH THIS IMMEDIATELY

which of NBC's 100 channels is it on?

Wait wat

Obviously Bambi can't yet quantify her enjoyment of the trip. She probably left behind the electrodes that were supposed to hook up to her brain.

Silly memes? Well, "when in Rome..."

That awkward moment when you realize you don't own a single console.

 

Eh, I guess it's not bad.

>owns computer

>claims not to own a single console

I SHIGGY DIGGY

It's a tale that grew in the telling. Makes perfect sense to me. Besides, in my experience, even short books tend to have more material than can fit into two films.

That's why an adaptation, well, adapts. It abridges, condenses, and changes the source for the new medium: a two-hour movie. Adding to the original certainly can be beneficial in some respects. But what's happening with The Hobbit (adding in subplots from the appendices of LOTR) detrimentally ignores the fact that Peter Jackson is making a movie, not an HBO TV series. It's running a huge risk of becoming greatly bloated with unrelated subplots.

Jackson had his chance to tell these bits of backstory in LOTR (where they were relevant), but he didn't. Now, he's making up for this in the prequel. It's bad form, from where I stand.

I thought I may have had a claims or two more to appreciation than merely being EYE BALLOM LASERS, but whatevs.

You do, but not many of them compare to that name.

*appreciates*

What exactly is the deal with this movie? Is it a reboot, or some sort of a weird semi-sequel? I still can't quite puzzle this one out.

GSR's an awesome dude. I that it first became most apparent approximately when he posted this.

*appreciates*