I don't get how lava lamps work. People say that its heated to a certain temperature that causes the blobs of wax inside to radically change shape and flow through the solution, which I assume is water. Can anyone explain this to me?
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I don't get how lava lamps work. People say that its heated to a certain temperature that causes the blobs of wax inside to radically change shape and flow through the solution, which I assume is water. Can anyone explain this to me?
Hmm, so this is why my Lava Lamp has been declining to the bottom lately. Thanks for the find, much appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Why do people browse the forum hidden?
That's a good question, I always believe that members hide because they don't want to be notice or to busy to respond so instead of being notice and wondering why the member who is sign in not posting they just hide themself in the mist of lurkingQuote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
When customers go into the pharmacy they have a tendency to be sick ,"well just majority of them" so why do stores have the pharmacy setup all way in the back of the store? :confused:
it's very inconveient just thinking about perspective of old people having to go way in the back for there meds day in and day out while they sell cigarettes infront of the store making it very convenient for others
because a lot of the things you get at a pharmacy may be things you don't want the world to know you're getting...so they try to set it up such that it can be more discrete.
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Originally Posted by Assertn
now thinking about it your right, especially situations where someone has "something" that don't want the whole world to know
To my knowledge:
1) Pharmacies don't sell cigarettes (In Australia anyway)
2) Setting the dispensary at the back makes people walk through the shop, potentially eying other products.
3) You'll often have to wait for 5-10 minutes to get your prescription.Having people crowd in the back is better than having them crowd the front shop, driving off potential customers.
4) As you said, most people who go to pharmacies are there to get medication. The vast majority of their turnover stock are medicines. Locating the dispensary at the back also eases stock holding and restocking.
5) What Assertn said
Do you accept the excuse "because I'm lazy"? Many people seem to seek out questions that are accompanied by simpleton answers like "'cause I don't want to" or "too much of a hassle". What do you guys think of that? I personally don't get it.
I don't get it. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Nadouku
No really, are you saying you don't get why people give such simple and nonexplanatory answers, or why people ask questions knowing that's how they'll get replied, but ask it anyway?
The former because it's just weird how a querky answer gets used a lot in simple situations.
For example, as you prepare for work, you ask someone to finish the chores that you started. They say, "Yea, I'll do later." For the whole day, after coming back home, you are baffled to see that the chores aren't even done at all. You ask why he or she didn't do it, and he or she replies with, "Because I'm watching TV!" Not the best example, but nevertheless, an example.
It's mostly an answer to something you have none, or where you'd rather not tell the truth. I use it sometimes, though it's often true when I say "Because I'm lazy."Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadouku
Most of the time it's "because I don't feel like it", but then some people ask why.
Basically, an excuse to cover up for why you didn't do it. Thanks for the input!
I disagree. That's honesty. It's no real excuse to say "Because I'm lazy" as it will do nothing but make you look bad and unreliable. A real excuse is something like "I had to finish this other thing first" even if you actually had no other thing to do or it took all three minutes to finish it, and you lazed the rest of the time. Nevertheless, the aim is to make it appear as if you were too busy to handle what you were told to do, and so it wasn't your fault it didn't happen. But being lazy is always your fault.
Besides, it has always kind of bothered me when somebody asks you to do something that isn't urgent at all and it doesn't matter when it happens, yet still expects you to drop your own stuff to do it immediately, instead. And then when they come back and it's not yet done, as you planned to do it later when it's more convenient for you, they don't understand and consider you lazy.
That kind of answer bothers me most when it's in response to something like sending an email.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadouku
Eh, I rather wash dishes before they smell or take out the trash before the house becomes infested with rodents and other bugs, but I do see your point. However, it's not really plausible for something that can be done in, say, 1 minute (taking out the trash). For something else, it depends on the situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Normally on a Saturday, if someone says they'll see you next Saturday, it doesn't matter if they mean the next Saturday, aka coming Saturday, or if they meant it as a short form for next week Saturday (alternatively, Saturday next week).
In the above scenario, both cases point to the same day.
In different scenarios, it causes annoying confusion and repetition.
So how do you guys use the term. Is there a set way? Does its use vary traditionally from country to country (like the "starting" day of the week does?).
Edit: This thread can be a bitch to find. The word filter excludes the words WHAT, I and GET, leaving you with don't, which yields no results.
Hmm, the way I say it is just "See you next Saturday!" Most of the people around my area will understand it as being the next Saturday after today. For Saturdays on the same week, I would say "See you on Saturday!" It would indicate that it would be this upcoming Saturday, and not the next Saturday after the first.
Alternatively, if someone wanted to specify a Saturday, I would normally say the date, like "I'll see you on the 29th!" It could be culturally diverse among different societies, though.
That's pretty much the way it's around here. If the week has already started, you can just say on saturday and everybody knows it's the saturday of the coming weekend. If you happen to be living saturday already, then it would sound strange to say on saturday, and thus you'd say next saturday. If it's friday already, then most would say tomorrow. If you said next saturday it might leave someone wondering whether you meant the next day or a week later.
A friend of mine said this to me:
"Hey, I want you to solve this and get exactly 24 using these numbers: 25, 6, 6, and 8. You can only use +, -, *, and / once, as well as the numbers. Happy hunting!"
I'm stumped now. :(
any brackets? There's also 4 signs, with 4 numbers. Are we allowed to use any of those signs, but any one sign once only, making 3 signs total used? Or do we use them all, and use any of the numbers of our choice?
For those that missed it and don't want to go back:
I asked for more clarification and he replied with this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadouku
"You can only use each sign and number once, and you can only use about three signs, since there are four numbers. You can use the numbers in any order with the signs, so like 25 + 6 - 8 / 6 or 6 + 6 * 25 / 8. You may not use brackets or anything else from the mathematical world; you can only use what you are provided to get the number 24."
So do I have to use every single number?
I mean, I can do 25 - 6/6 = 24
And can I combine numbers?
like 256, 68 etc?
I'm suspecting you can, since if he's intentionally saying "you can only use about three signs, since there are four numbers", he's telling you the maximum, as there are 4 numbers, but didn't clearly say to use 3 signs.
Edit: What about powers? If you use pen and paper, 8^6 is written without a "sign".
No mathematical stuff other than those 4 sings and those numbers, no combination of those numbers etc - that is how i get - back to solving it. if its solvable i will solve it... but no idea when :]
p.s. if i can't "crack" it logically i will use pen and paper brutal force method.
I give up. I brute forced it last night :(
You've got one odd number, and three even numbers. Your final value 24 is an even number. The only way you can get an even from an odd is odd * even = even.
But using that doesn't get you anywhere neither.
lack of brackets annoys me deeply, but if its solvable i will do it(now i need to find another pen/pencil.. old one is dead)
Yea, we'll have to come back into this matter much later, since my friend is being cynical at giving me the solution to the problem. I'll inform you guys when he's being serious. The only thing that was close to 24 was 24.75 from doing 25 * 6 / 8 + 6.
I can only get 24 if I break the rules:
25 - 8^(6/6)
...........Quote:
Originally Posted by Archie
How is a fish okay, but cartoon not? I don't get it.
(...I'm getting the shivers just imagining a blowjob with a fish......)
It's a joke, Buff. He said something intentionally ludicrous, a statement which contradicts that which you would expect him to say, in order to illicit laughter from you, the reader.
Cynical? What, were you taking advantage of him for his riddles or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nadouku
He was being cynical because he gave out the wrong information to me. One of the more notable erroronous information was that the number 25 is actually 0.25, and that you can use each mathematical sign more than once. So, here are the new rules:
- You can use brackets.
- You can only use the numbers 0.25, 6, 6, and 8 once.
- You can only use the signs +, -, *, and /, but you can use them more than once.
Well that makes getting 24 easy
6+6=12
12*8=96
96*.25=24
Here's mine:
(6+6)*(8*0.25)
12*2 = 24
Almost the same as Abdula's, but took a slightly different route. There seems to be a lot of ways to get 24 now with this different set of rules.
Lol, I think he was just screwing with you. This is hardly a riddle now. :p
with brackets is piece of cake (wo)man...
Your gender is still a mystery to us
Louse is to lice as mouse is to mice. So, why is the plural of house....houses?
I don't get why the fuck you're wasting your time worrying about the singular and plural forms of words based in the inherent quirkiness of the english language.
That's what I don't get. Why don't you go use your mind to find the cure for HIV so I can fuck your dirty ass without a condom?
What a Godawful post. Don't do this again. Warned
- XanBcoo
That's why.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stitch
Ugh, I should be able to answer this off the top of my head, but I can't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I'm pretty sure it has to do with The Great Vowel Shift in the English language and just the changes made from Old to Middle to Modern English in general, but I'm too tired to remember the specifics.
I think the older forms of those words would have been different, but changed over time. Some, like house and spouse, didn't change, and some, like mouse and louse, did. I'll give you a more thorough answer when I can.
I was watching Dateline last night and they were going over the whole mortgage meltdown and talking about how all of these people were just pushing through fraudulent loan applications so they could earn commissions, and those were then bought up by wallstreet investors as being valid loans and then the billion / trillion dollar loans become worthless when welfare mom's can't pay their million dollar mortgage...
One thing I don't get, is why they haven't had any publicity about actively trying to put people in jail for this fraud. I think they can trace back alot of those falsified applications and give people jobs at the same time.
Secondly... Especially in california I don't see how somebody can commit to a mortgage when they know they don't make enough money. They had one lady on the show who was making $1,600 / month and while they did falsify her income on the loan apps... she should have realized right away that she couldn't be paying $2000+ per month for a mortgage.
They also had this other lady who they showed as having a negative income and a history of filing for bankruptcy but somehow had over a million dollars worth of mortgages, and she refused to take any responsibility... she was a victim somehow.
I think they need to investigate all the people who were falsifying these documents and give them stiff penalties. I think they also need to re-visit people who have already been evicted because of things like adjustable rate mortgages balooning and give them a home @ a standard fixed rate.
Adjustable rate mortgages would get you beheaded at the local supermarket in front of your own children in Iran or any other middle eastern country.
The Old Testament/Quran are some kooky ass pieces of literature, but some of it is definitely on the money (har har, get my pun?) about what is "sinful."
Anyway, I caught 60 Minutes last night for the Steve Kroft interview with President Barack Obama. That motherfucker Kroft actually had the gumption to catch an attitude and get smart with Obama about smiling and laughing at a time of financial crisis. It was the most asinine question ever when our glorious President was asked if he was punch drunk.
I want to know where this asshole suddenly gets the gumption when he certainly didn't have the balls to catch an attitude and get smart with George W. Bush. That's probably because George W. Bush was a stupid motherfucker who'd never grant an interview in fear of pulling a Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric.
So if Obama is granting you an interview, appreciate the opportunity and ask your questions nicely. And while he's graceful enough to answer your questions, shut your mouth and know your role, jabronie.
The rationale of sub-prime loans was that the equity your house builds would compensate for your sub-par income. This was quite appealing when houses in the area increased in value, say, $50k - 100k per year. Just like the old adage, people are greedy when they should be fearful, and fearful when they should be greedy.
Well, I'm a bit late to this question but....other forum resident linguist to the rescue!Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
Xan, as far as I know, the great vowel shift was a phonetic/phonoligical change, whereas the matter of plurals is a grammatical change. From what I've learned in historical linguistics, English used to have a number of different ways of marking plurals (woman-women, child-children, mouse-mice, sheep-sheep, word-words). Each of these different strategies was used for a certain subset of words, but the -s class was the largest, so over time when people forget what kind of plural a word takes, they make a guess that it takes the -s version. Multiply this by hundreds of years, and you see the -s plural taking over most of the words, and only a few words holding on to their old archaic plurals. Incidentally, the ones that don't change tend to be ones that are used very frequently (like woman and child) whereas the first ones to change are typically words that aren't used so much.
Well, I know that "mice" and "lice" and so on exist because of a phonological change. I may be slightly wrong, but I think the forms were something like (singular first, then plural):
[mu:s] - [mu:si]
and then after time, the [i] from the plural caused the [u] to move farther forward:
[mu:s] - [mysi]
and then at some point the GVS or some other change happened and then the [i] was lost in the plural, resulting in the forms we know today. I think it was something like that at least??
[mu:s] - [mi:s]
[maus] - [mais]
I'm still curious as to why it would affect some words and not others, especially since "house" is such a common word.
another wtf rant brought on by watching dateline.
Dateline did online scams this sunday and highlighted a scam targetting job hunters online in which nigerians are enlisting gullible americans to do their dirty work and send out fake checks to other gullible americans who are then asked to cash the fake check and send the balance minus their "pay'' and then it eventually gets sent back to nigeria.
i actually had this happen from craigslist last year. I was selling a computer, they sent me a probably fake check for $3500 and wanted me to deduct $300 and give them $3200 back. I wasn't about to cash the check...
So, what I don't get, is that all of these scams are now well known. They mostly utilize western union because western union is one of the only ways you can quickly move cash from the US to Africa, or other places like the UK. They know its a problem too... why isn't anything being done to western union to force them to impose some sort of red flag system when they know that it's very unlikely anybody is honestly sending thousands of dollars to nigeria when they have no ties to anyboy in nigeria.
I think western union is liable to some extent for enabling and aiding in this type of fraud that is happening all over the internet.
/wall of text
I think it depends on the order that the processes occurred historically. If the plural [i] was lost before causing the vowels to move forward, that would explain it. I couldn't be sure though without looking at some historical data to be sure that 'house' actually did take the same kind of plural as 'mouse' in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
If the old plural of house didn't take the same kind of plural as mouse in the past, then that's a little less interesting. Still raises the question of why that plural was different in the first place, but I guess that's probably just an issue of it belonging to a certain class of nouns or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by KitKat
I'm taking this sociology class online, and we do a discussion board assignment where you answer questions in forum fashion, then respond, etc. Definitely not the most effective way to learn things in a class.
anyhow, there was no such assignment for this chapter on religion and it just doesn't make sense that you would avoid the topic when you have a class of adults. if such a topic would make people question their beliefs, i think that's the whole idea of the class anyhow.
What does amoxicillin do? I started taking it recently, but I feel no different.
It and other penicillin-family antibiotics prevent bacteria from surviving their divisions by attacking the cell walls, slowing down their spread in your system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-la...Mode_of_action
It's a medium-strength antibiotic, so you don't wreak as much havoc on your healthy systems as the stronger ones do, and there is less of a risk of creating resistant bacteria strains.
It's really only helping you naturally fight off infection. Just make sure you take it all, regardless of when you start to feel better.
Oh, that is really nice information. Guess I'll know the results when I see a change. Thanks!
Why are banned members like GodVIAGRA allowed to sign in? I'll assume they can't post anymore, but is there a rationale in keeping them here? Does it somehow trick them into thinking they're still "functional", and who/whatever's at the other end doesn't try to send any more bots this way?
Is that also what happens when we get banned as well?
Banning rather than deleting them helps so that they can't remake the same account and spam again, since they can't post anything. These bots come at a rather slow pace, but are easy to detect and it will trick them into thinking that they are still functional, like you said.
And we have a new bot coming up too: Phorse
If irony is commonly defined in these simple terms (but not necessarily correct) as a "situation opposite of what the audience expects" and your audience is all-knowing (specifically, your audience are a bunch of intellectuals who expect everything and/or anything to happen and there were not any plot devices that gave away dramatic irony), could your story having irony despite not meeting the requirements of the outlined definition above?
Hmm... Maybe it's because I've always live in a country without much stand-up comedy, but I don't tend to think quite so purely externally about things like irony. You can't control what an audience might or might not predict, so it's a poor technical standard for any definition. A person facing a twisted outcome could easily judge it ironic in RL by him/herself, without any audience. In fiction the ultimate purpose of course remains: It was all written for an audience to witness, but nevertheless it's opposite to what the particular character was expecting, even if a part of the audience predicted it (which probably always happens).
I think the good old Tree of Irony is still a perfect example of irony:
http://forums.gotwoot.net/gallery/fi...reeofirony.jpg
While that is a very good picture of irony right there (shame that PBF has irregular updates), I seem to have derived my conundrum from a difference source, but this example should suffice:
http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/comic157.html
While it is the dentist informs the patient that he is about to "clean his [the patient's] teeth", one initial audience response would immediately think that the dentist would be thinking of performing physical assault on the patient. The other would be inclined to think that the dentist literally does clean up the patient's teeth. The last one would be that the audience would expect anything, including non sequitur humor to occur.
In all three scenarios, according to the poor-technical definition of irony above, they all satisfy the irony presented in the story. I guess that that is the beauty of clever writing - to entangle the threads of double entendre and [double] irony into such a scenario.
Maybe I have been overlooking and analyzing simple literary devices and I should enjoy them for what they are. Thank you, Kraco!
Why music isn't sold everywhere, and has more restrictive region locking than DVDs. At least you can purchase DVDs (in your own regional format).
Try to buy a foreign album. Doesn't matter what language. Japanese, French, Spanish, whatever. Try and buy it legally for it's fair price (ie. not import for 6x the cost of the cd in country of origin). You can't.
I like the album enough to want to give them my money. Try as I might, I literally can't. They have a chance to take my money, and there is no legal avenue that will allow me to purchase the album. I could "import" it, but in many cases it would cost me less to drive to Canada, buy 5 albums, and drive home the same day. I could fly to Japan round trip, buy 15 albums, and it would still cost me less than import those same cds.
I want to give the modern Robber Barons my money, and they will not take it.
I would love to get, for example, Kamelot CDs but well - the only way to get them here is to import them. guess the price for their second from the end CD, nearly 50$ + shipping.
i hope i don't have to mention that usually CD's here cost 3 to 4 times less.
I wouldn't call that irony, its just a play on dramatic context. The classic example my jr high english teacher liked to use was a farside comic where a fuel truck runs out of gas.Quote:
Originally Posted by enkoujin
Expiry dates and manufacturing dates.....
I'm sure I'm not the only one whose ever wondered whether a date printed on certain food items was the manufacturing date or the expiry date.
Logic would dictate that if only one date existed on the packaging, it should be the expiry date, since manufacturing date is possible to track based on batch numbers.
Sometimes though, when you buy a product, go home, then look at the date, you think:
"Heck!....that's the manufactured date, right?"
Is it illegal to sell expired foodstuff (knowingly or not)?
Yes it's illegal to sell food that has past it's "use by" date. However many canned products are marked "best before" meaning they don't have an effective "use by" date because of preservatives etc. Meaning that they should stay edible till you open the packaging (Although there's no guarantee).Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Also by law (Australian at least) all of this should be clearly marked on the packaging. It shouldn't be possible to confuse any of the three dates mention so far (use by, best before, manufacture).
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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Logic sucks.
there's always the case that something goes horribly wrong with the machines one day, and the product from that day needs to be called back.
a manufacturing date is easier for the end consumer to find and recognize than a bunch of number who end in the same string.
imagine that you heard in the news that the food company calls back all products from one day, and there are seven different coding for that day, it'd be a mess to remember all them codes.
In the last couple of weeks, gas here dropped to around $2.17 /gallon from around $2.40 a month or so ago. On my way to work I saw that not only did it go up 12 cents from 2-3 days ago to yesterday, but from yesterday to today another 10 cent increase to $2.39.
So i google to see why gas prices are going up and here is a blurb from the article I find on MSNBC...
"While crude demand hasn't rebounded yet, traders have begun to have more faith that consumption will eventually pick up. "
Why should we pay higher gas prices based on what some random douchebags think and not on actual factors like demand? Sorry to the people in europe that pay $2.40 / litre : ) I'm american !
From what I understand, instead of demand first going up and being reflected in sales, thereby reducing potential profit on the gas sold during the time delay between the demand is realised by the seller, the seller puts up the price in anticipation of the increasing demand to come.
If demand does increase as they predict, then they'll maximise the profit they would have lost if they waited.
They're also betting on demand not dropping off in the meanwhile from the price increase.
As for why you should pay higher gas prices because of what some individual thinks? Well, that individual happens to be the one selling the goods.
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Long answer short, because he thinks you'll pay for it.
There's about a month lapse between fluctuations in crude oil prices and refined gas prices you find locally.
When you load a website and the picture comes out slowly, why is it that it appears blurry at first, then slowly gets more definition before it becomes crystal clear? The entire picture seems to slowly fix itself at the same time, rather than progressively from top to bottom etc.
On the other hand, the banners on gotwoot load pretty fast, and upon refreshing, the new image appears top first, revealing itself down to the bottom, and every step is crystal clear without the need to "fix" the image.
Why does all that happen? In the first case, why doesn't the picture load slowly but perfectly, rather than "fast loading", followed by "fixing"?
I thought the difference is in the web browsers and how they handle the image files based on their compression types, but I'm not too sure :p
That only happens with FF iirc Buff, and even for that I think you can set it load the images completely. IE8 ( or any IE) is set to do this by default.
It is just a different way of loading images.
to answer that question, you should search for information on jpeg interlacing. "progressive image rendering" might be another informative search... if you feel lucky.
Ah, thanks for that guys. From the tips, here's the article I found, for those also interested:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000468.html
To clear the matter up a bit further, the article suggests that this is done by whoever made the compressed JPEG, but also mentioned Internet Explorer, as if the browser also plays a part.
Does that mean:
1) JPEG files are all the same. Browsers decide which method to retrieve the image with resulting bandwidth repercussions.
2) JPEG files are encoded in with "progressive" or "interlaced" method. The browser does not have a choice but to download in said method.
OR
3) JPEG files can be encoded in both "progressive" and "interlaced" format. If a browser was downloading an image in "interlaced" format, it can choose to retrieve it "interlaced" or "progressively". Progressive images can only be retrieved progressively
2. Your browser opens a single linear read of the file on the webserver serving it, the webserver feeds your browser a stream of bytes, the browser can either wait until the data's all there before drawing it, or it can render what it's got. If it renders what it's got in-flight, progressive encoded images will load left to right line by line, and interlaced will fade in. If it waits until it's got all the data to render it, the image will just sort of pop into existence.
Many English dubs for anime sound really over-the-top dramatic. They yell and talk in a distinctively "cartonny" sort of way which is different from TV/movie voices.
Do anime voices sound like that in Japanese to the Japanese?
I also notice they enunciate in anime and live action shows much better than they do in real life conversation. I imagine it's for the sake of viewers from the different parts of Japan where the dialects and speech patterns (and even words sometimes) differ, but it seems exaggerated and unrealistic at times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
It's called voice "acting"
There are american cartoons where people talk exaggeratedly as well.
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Originally Posted by Animeniax
Awkward~~Quote:
Originally Posted by darkshadow
Michael jackson completed a shit ton of songs that he never published, because he wanted his kids to inherit them so they wouldn't be stuck with his debt. He probably would've been shafted by whatever contracts he was under with the music industry if he published them himself.
See, there's this one show called Naruto...Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Does anyone feel a "tinge" like feeling in their blood (in an isolated part of their body) when they feel a strong emotion occasionally?
You mean like when my wiener reacts to a hot girl? Or like when my fingers tingle when I almost fall and catch myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
It is to my understanding that the "tinge" feeling is caused by the increased blood flow and release of adrenaline as a result of emotionally stressful situations. I think the intensity of the feeling depends on how severe the situation is. For instance, occasionally I get a mild "rush" when watching or reading something that I become emotionally invested in. This feeling only lasts for a few seconds and usually feels, at least to me, like a cold chill running through my veins. For me, it usually occurs at points of high drama or actions sequences.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
Hell yeah, I get this all the time and love it.Quote:
Originally Posted by IFHTT
Music, movies, manga, whatever. Though it happens more frequently when I re-watch/listen to/read something.
I don't get it when I'm reading something unless I'm instantly shocked, but I do get a sort of specified and momentary "heat in my veins that I can taste" feeling when I feel strong emotions such as sadness, love, jealousy, infactuation..
Like anywhere, from my hand to my neck/collar bone, to my stomach depending on the feeling.
I only get such odd feelings when I suddenly for a moment believe I just did something catastrophically stupid or realise I am about to do something like that.
Like once back at the university there was the Japanese ambassador to Finland holding a Q&A session and I almost, for some reason, asked one Chinese lady if she isn't going to go to listen to their ambassador.
I think you might be describing a different feeling. Like when you realize you've slept through a final or are 4 hours late for work. Kind of a sinking feeling where you think "I've done something irreparably wrong," and your stomach feels cold and empty? Or maybe a minor version of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Sapphire meant that other feeling when you're emotionally moved by something. I remember getting it during the first Naruto arc, for example. When Zabuza is crying over Haku's death, and Kakashi tosses him the knife to attack Gatou. The second that first guitar chord hits and you see the rage on Zabuza's face, all your hairs stand on end and a chill runs through you for a split second. Really great feeling,
I get a punched-in-the-gut hollow feeling from certain emotionally moving scenes. It depends on the genre of media whether I get that rush of electricity or an empty hole in my sternum.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
I like the way you described the latter feeling. I only get that feeling through fictional mediums on rare occasions. I usually get it upon the realization that I'm in some sort of jeopardy. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ryllharu
I just think it's interesting how the brain can evaluate an event or situation, whether it be something that is happening in real life or in a story while we're physically in a safe, controlled setting, and return identical neurological responses for either stimulus.
Sometimes something screwed up in my dream and I think it's real. Like something that's even physically impossible like flying. And my emotional reaction is as if it's really happening.
Unrelated but awesome.
@Xan: I do get the "icy vein chill" feeling occasionally (like nervousness or intense suspence), but what I mean by tinge is usually a "spill?" feeling, like I can literally feel/taste some sort of substance released and running through a specified part of my body momentarily. It's very very similar to the icy feeling though. Maybe the same thing but feels more like.. a "flavor" than a temperature.
Why the fucking hell do so many villains in anime snap their fingers when ordering someone or some cpu to do something for them (like fire missiles, shoot hidden machine guns, show screen images of the evil plot, make evil BLT sandwiches)?
before I quit my job (two weeks ago, actually), we had an electric door there, so at the end of each day, we would set it to 'exit only'.
and everyday, on my way out, I'd snap my fingers when going through the detector.
you should try it, it's awesome.
I don't get how being nice and not ignoring a girl implies leading said girl on. This has happened to me a few times and is always awkward. Just yesterday I was at a party and a girl pulled me aside and asked why I didn't call her after the first party, then tried to figure out why she wasn't my type. Sigh.
Guys have to deal with this all the time, and I think most of us can usually tell when a girl is just being nice vs being interested. Girls don't tell every guy that advances on them whether or not she likes them and why they feel that way, so why should I have to?
Did you find her physically attractive? Or more importantly, do you think she thinks most guys find her physically attractive? Those are usually the cases where I've experienced that. If it's the former, you may have betrayed that to her subconsciously. If it's the latter, she may have been too overconfident to consider that you were being social, and nothing more. It's not just a girl thing though, I usually see guys falling prey to that.
It's just one of those things you're going to have to deal with. Her reaction to the rejection though was a little much...
I don't think its either. If a girl thinks most guys find her attractive, she's less likely to be proactive about it. She has confidence, but she probably doesn't have guys lining up to date her.
Oh I just remembered, she also asked me if I only date asians. Haha...
What I don't get is, if I only have $300 to spend, should I get a PS3 that I might use occasionally (once or twice a week for 6 hours total) or springs and suspension parts for my car which I drive daily?
I really don't get why commercials keep telling me to "log on" to a website.
I have never "logged on" to anything. I "log in" to certain websites where I'm a member. I "sign in" to my instant messengers. Is that what they mean? Usually these websites are ones that don't require you to "log" in, on, or around anything, so it's just a meaningless term.
Advertisements seem to just use it to mean "go to" or "visit" a website, so I don't know why they just don't say that. It's as if they're stuck in the mid-90s and are still clamoring about this "internet craze," using buzzwords that make no sense at all.
At first I would have blamed the whole "buzzword" thing, as well as people trying to say simple things (visit, go to) in a different, often wrong (log on) way in an attempt to make it sound less "simple", more sophisticated and less boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
One example my teacher used to point out was the use of "in this day and age", whereas "now" or "nowadays" would have sufficed.
However, the fact that you brought up "mid-90s" reminds me of something. Back when broadband was still a relatively privileged technology, people did quite literally have to log in to the web, only to be disconnected when the phone rang.
What I don't get now is why I can't get laid.
Any serious pointers?
Step 1: Clean the cat mess on your floor.Quote:
Originally Posted by enkoujin
Shower daily; smile often; exude confidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by enkoujin
What I don't get is the amount of Church's Chicken advertising in Tekken 6. There's even a Church's coupon in the Instruction Manual. Seriously, how did Tekken and Church's Chicken come together? They couldn't find a better sponsor or something?