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Diane Rehm's voice. (Which is a shame, because I think she's a smart woman who runs a really good radio show with interesting guests and topics. I just can't stand to listen to her.)Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
Can't check the link at work, but my partner used to have a similar reaction to Bill McGlaughlin. I like his radio program, as he has interesting things to say about music, but all my partner hears is a stream of lip-smacking and throat garbles. When it's pointed out to me, I can hear it, but mostly I don't notice.
Speaking of eating alone, lunch break! Back after I get some food.
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Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
It's not exactly the same, but I occasionally become overwhelmingly ooked out by social eating. The insertion of food into gaping red, moist maws, the mastication, the swallowing, the sights, the sounds.... ew, just ew. We don't eliminate socially, why do we ingest socially?
Then I try really hard and get over it.
Aha! The solution is to introduce social elimination!
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Why???Yes, that's Uwe Boll himself playing Hitler.
I am trying to decide if it is better or worse that it is a almost the same movie as Bloodrayne 3. (and I hope it was meant to be a parody of that).
Cool, nekkid Bloodrayne.
I wouldn't put it past Boll to parody his own movies.
I can't decide if I hate Uwe Boll's sloppy filmmaking, or if I actually love his self-aware campiness. His films range from the just plain awful (Bloodrayne and sequels), to so-bad-it's-good (Alone in the Dark), to actually rather well-put-together (Rampage).
hi everyone
~gasp~ The Eldritch Mr. Shiny?!? He EXISTS?!? The myth is REAL?!? ~faints from shock~
~GRINS~
Hey there aeglos.
Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
That one specifically doesn't bug me.
The ones that get me are whispers. For some reason whispering irks me, I can't tolerate it for very long. I blame this stupid flu-medicine commercial that was done in all-whispering narration that came on about a year ago and has yet to die like it should.
Speaking of, about 90% of commercials are narrated by people with voices that make me want to punch them in the face. The rest are done by awesome voices, like the Farmers Insurance guy (aka Cave Johnson from Portal 2, Tenzin from Legend of Korra, and other good voice acting).
~gasp~ The Eldritch Mr. Shiny?!? He EXISTS?!? The myth is REAL?!? ~faints from shock~
~GRINS~
Aren't you supposed to be in solitary? *glare*
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Odd things again from history class, this time a story of the stupidity of others, as told by my professor. Warning: if anyone here is a scholar of antiquity, Greek, or biblical literature, your head may explode.
A friend of my professor's is a scholar of Greek language, and was taking a Greyhound bus from Chicago to New York. Also on the bus was a preacher from Tennessee and his youth group. The Greek scholar, hearing all of the talk about the Bible, turned around and asked:
"Have any of you read the Bible in Greek? It's fascinating."
To which the preacher replied:
"No, we like our Bible straight. You know, in the original English."
Aren't you supposed to be in solitary? *glare*~gasp~ The Eldritch Mr. Shiny?!? He EXISTS?!? The myth is REAL?!? ~faints from shock~
~GRINS~
~hangs my head in shame and then dejectedly heads back to solitary~
"Have any of you read the Bible in Greek? It's fascinating."
To which the preacher replied:
"No, we like our Bible straight. You know, in the original English."
This reminds me of the people who denounce anything that's not the original King James Version... even where the original text disagrees with the KJV due to translation errors or misreadings.
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This reminds me of the people who denounce anything that's not the original King James Version... even where the original text disagrees with the KJV due to translation errors or misreadings."Have any of you read the Bible in Greek? It's fascinating."
To which the preacher replied:
"No, we like our Bible straight. You know, in the original English."
Where is DDH when we need him?
Mrgh.
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Generators, cars, the fridge when it's not running quietly, the washing machine, thunder....really any low grumbly sound. It makes me nauseous because of how it messes up my inner ears.
How do you deal with it when you drive?
Probably in the hospital with a brain aneurysm.Where is DDH when we need him?
I forget who DDH was.
This reminds me of the people who denounce anything that's not the original King James Version... even where the original text disagrees with the KJV due to translation errors or misreadings."Have any of you read the Bible in Greek? It's fascinating."
To which the preacher replied:
"No, we like our Bible straight. You know, in the original English."
Shall I quote from the Parable of the Vinegar?
Generators, cars, the fridge when it's not running quietly, the washing machine, thunder....really any low grumbly sound. It makes me nauseous because of how it messes up my inner ears.How do you deal with it when you drive?
Radio. I have XM so I never have to deal with commercials and can keep the music playing loud enough to mostly cover the engine noise so I can get through the experience. It's becoming more of a problem as my car gets older.
Why???Yes, that's Uwe Boll himself playing Hitler.
I am trying to decide if it is better or worse that it is a almost the same movie as Bloodrayne 3. (and I hope it was meant to be a parody of that).
Cool, nekkid Bloodrayne.
I wouldn't put it past Boll to parody his own movies.
I can't decide if I hate Uwe Boll's sloppy filmmaking, or if I actually love his self-aware campiness. His films range from the just plain awful (Bloodrayne and sequels), to so-bad-it's-good (Alone in the Dark), to actually rather well-put-together (Rampage).
oh my god, that is so offensive on so many levels, even Boll should keep a few precious standards, especally as a fellow german
and you kind of godwin'ed FaWtL ;-)
Oh my f+@&ing god... So I'm taking an ancient history class--Babylon up through Egypt, Greece, Rome, and early Islam. The professor's great, a laid-back and sardonic fellow named, I s#** you not, Craig C. Champion. On the other hand, my fellow students (I use the term loosely) are a bunch of baboons. Some of the great comments from JUST TODAY:
"Nazis were in Germany, right?"
"Does Chinese come from Proto-Indo-European?"
"Are 'Turkians' Arabs or Asians? I mean, what box do they check for 'race' on the census form?"
"You shouldn't call [early Semitic tribes] Hebrews. That's racist."
"Greece isn't in Europe! It's in Greece!"
And so on and so forth. Idiots.
I'm not going to deny it. I've had professors say in class that there are no stupid questions.
But when stuff like that surfaces? I can't contain myself. I will chuckle. OUT LOUD. With a McEnroe 'SERIOUSLY? ARE YOU SERIOUS?' SON I AM DISAPPOINT look on my face.
Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
It's not exactly the same, but I occasionally become overwhelmingly ooked out by social eating. The insertion of food into gaping red, moist maws, the mastication, the swallowing, the sights, the sounds.... ew, just ew. We don't eliminate socially, why do we ingest socially?
Then I try really hard and get over it.
Aha! The solution is to introduce social elimination!
NOT helping!
That's really interesting. I will endeavor to fast forward to the movie part of our "dinner and a movie" date. No popcorn.
Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
It's not exactly the same, but I occasionally become overwhelmingly ooked out by social eating. The insertion of food into gaping red, moist maws, the mastication, the swallowing, the sights, the sounds.... ew, just ew. We don't eliminate socially, why do we ingest socially?
Then I try really hard and get over it.
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Need a dream expert.
I don't get them all the time, but every now and then I dream of gothic churches with beautiful stonework lined up in a row across campuses/blocks and buildings like schools/apartments/rectories/cemeteries/etc done up as nicely. I'm always awed when I walk or drive into these areas, though I'm often wondering where everyone parks to go to these places. They also have expansive lawns/entries to the front of the buildings.
Today's version had an abandoned/crumbling church, but with an up to date apartment/city office type building around the corner. I was trying to collect pieces of fallen/broken stained glass windows.
Not sure if I've ever seen this stuff before. I wish I could draw it out.
It's almost like a college campus made up of multiple churches/denominations along with other buildings. There are different layouts/make ups whenever I dream of them.
Not sure why I dream of this stuff, but I've always loved old buildings.
Easy. You reminisce about what Motown was ... and what Motown is turning out to become and you can't save it despite picking up the broken pieces you can.
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I had an interesting dream last night...
I dreamt I was about 12 years old...and that I was spending the night at a friend's house. Said friend had a WHOLE bunch of minis for D&D/Pathfinder/your game of choice that he was willing to give to me, as he was getting out of gaming. I was looking through them all, and picking out what I wanted and what I didn't want. Halfway through, I found Battletech minis, which came with a funky cool video, which I watched. It was SO realistic, it was a weird hybrid of Mechwarrior/Warhammer 40K, and I ended up picking out a WHOLE bunch of elementals to use as minis for my PCs, and I woke up when the friend's mom walked in and said that I was to spend two days there. I said that it was okay, and that I would leave tomorrow as planned as I had walked with my bike.
It was so real...
Easy. This was about your irrational antipathy toward Whedon and excessive comic book narrative purity demands.
Doctor Double Honors Derek Neve AKA Mairkurion.I forget who DDH was.Probably in the hospital with a brain aneurysm.Where is DDH when we need him?
*facepalm* Right. Forgot about that alias. It's been a while.
No kidding I am bi-curious as well ... you know what they say about curiosity though ...right?
Man I am still bi-curious despite the warnings.
But think of the options.
Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
It's not exactly the same, but I occasionally become overwhelmingly ooked out by social eating. The insertion of food into gaping red, moist maws, the mastication, the swallowing, the sights, the sounds.... ew, just ew. We don't eliminate socially, why do we ingest socially?
Then I try really hard and get over it.
Ah, you went to that site, too?
Psst. It wasn't yogurt. I couldn't believe it wasn't, either.
Then I try really hard and get over it.Aha! The solution is to introduce social elimination!
I'd advise against defecating in public.
Odd things again from history class, this time a story of the stupidity of others, as told by my professor. Warning: if anyone here is a scholar of antiquity, Greek, or biblical literature, your head may explode.
A friend of my professor's is a scholar of Greek language, and was taking a Greyhound bus from Chicago to New York. Also on the bus was a preacher from Tennessee and his youth group. The Greek scholar, hearing all of the talk about the Bible, turned around and asked:
"Have any of you read the Bible in Greek? It's fascinating."
To which the preacher replied:
"No, we like our Bible straight. You know, in the original English."
Somewhere. In San Antonio. A Double Honors Doctorate's head exploded.
I'd advise against defecating in public.Then I try really hard and get over it.Aha! The solution is to introduce social elimination!
It sounds like you've had personal experience...
T M I!!!
I'd advise against defecating in public.Then I try really hard and get over it.Aha! The solution is to introduce social elimination!
It sounds like you've had personal experience...
No, but I do recall an incident down in NOLA during Mardi Gras where people were getting busted left and right for public urination. What law enforcement failed to realize that there were a lot of facilities that were charging those who were not patronizing their premises for food & bevs a fee to use the restroom. And they also lacked available public port-a-potties for them to relieve themselves. There was this one guy who was in the process of whipping it out and got busted and thrown in the back of the paddywagon. He said WTF, he was already going to the drunk tank, so he proceeded to just relieve himself in there ... with the others already in there for whatever infraction they were picked up for.
Besides, excrement smells really bad in the summer heat. And draws flies.
+2. And +1 on what Lynora said.Rape jokes just aren't funny.+1. It disturbs me that there are people out there who don't get that.
+3 and +2
Need a dream expert.
I don't get them all the time, but every now and then I dream of gothic churches with beautiful stonework lined up in a row across campuses/blocks and buildings like schools/apartments/rectories/cemeteries/etc done up as nicely. I'm always awed when I walk or drive into these areas, though I'm often wondering where everyone parks to go to these places. They also have expansive lawns/entries to the front of the buildings.
Today's version had an abandoned/crumbling church, but with an up to date apartment/city office type building around the corner. I was trying to collect pieces of fallen/broken stained glass windows.
Not sure if I've ever seen this stuff before. I wish I could draw it out.
It's almost like a college campus made up of multiple churches/denominations along with other buildings. There are different layouts/make ups whenever I dream of them.
Not sure why I dream of this stuff, but I've always loved old buildings.
Easy. You reminisce about what Motown was ... and what Motown is turning out to become and you can't save it despite picking up the broken pieces you can.
Interesting. Hmmm.... Thanks
Central Reservation by Beth Orton has got to be one of the ten best albums made during the 1990s.
+3 and +2+2. And +1 on what Lynora said.Rape jokes just aren't funny.+1. It disturbs me that there are people out there who don't get that.
+4 and +3
But think of the options.No kidding I am bi-curious as well ... you know what they say about curiosity though ...right?
Man I am still bi-curious despite the warnings.
Oh cute here I was going to apologise and talk about putting my foot in my mouth and all and something about indeed the cat is dead.
Yet levity of our resident Urizen saves the day.
Lindisty I am sorry for bringing up bad memories though that is not cool that the person sent you that and less cool when he makes a faux pas you call him out and then he has the gall to say you are being over sensitive not cool at all.
I feel bad I brought it up and pestered you about what the thing was. I would never turn around and say you were being too sensitive seems like perhaps he felt bad and was covering for his embarassment? I have seen that type of behavior in my 5 year old granddaughter. Again most people grow out of that.
No worries. You crossed no boundaries uninvited. If I weren't willing to talk about it, I wouldn't have posted. It's all good.
Sometimes I think I should carry around notecards that say, "There's a difference between being socially awkward and being a jerk. Learn it."
(This applies in both my personal and professional lives. My profession seems to attract those who are... eclectic and often socially inept. And I'm a geek who hangs out with a lot of geeks, for whom inclusiveness often seems to translate to tolerating jerkish behavior.)
It can be such a razor sharp line sometimes... But there are some things that are not acceptable. The notecards are not a bad idea.
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Does anybody else have sounds that just make their skin crawl for no real reason?
I have discovered that I can't abide the sound of someone eating yogurt or pudding out of those little cups. The sound of the spoon against the plastic container drives me to distraction, especially when they get to the end and they are scraping down the sides of the cup with short rapid movements. Am I the only one who feels this way?
It's not exactly the same, but I occasionally become overwhelmingly ooked out by social eating. The insertion of food into gaping red, moist maws, the mastication, the swallowing, the sights, the sounds.... ew, just ew. We don't eliminate socially, why do we ingest socially?
Then I try really hard and get over it.
I tried to chew with my mouth shut. *sniffles*
Actually, do you find that it is worse with certain foods? Messy things like corn on the cob, bbq ribs, and the like?
It can be such a razor sharp line sometimes... But there are some things that are not acceptable. The notecards are not a bad idea.
Sometimes I think I should carry around notecards that say, "There's a difference between being socially awkward and being a jerk. Learn it."
(This applies in both my personal and professional lives. My profession seems to attract those who are... eclectic and often socially inept. And I'm a geek who hangs out with a lot of geeks, for whom inclusiveness often seems to translate to tolerating jerkish behavior.)
Right. Inclusiveness and diversity in my social circles is important to me, and that means being aware of and accepting different standards of behavior. But to me, part of being inclusive and accepting is understanding that if someone's behavior distresses another member of the social group, the two need to communicate about it and come to some acceptable compromise about what constitutes acceptable behavior between the two of them.
What I notice from a certain subset of geeks with whom I interact is that they get defensive and offended in turn (and sometimes aggressively so) when someone is distressed or harmed by their behavior. To me, that's just being a jerk. And after the third iteration of the same conversation with the same person, the notecards start to feel like a really good idea. :P
+4 and +3+3 and +2+2. And +1 on what Lynora said.Rape jokes just aren't funny.+1. It disturbs me that there are people out there who don't get that.So...did any of you guys laugh at the Sheriff of Rottingham scenes in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights then?
I haven't yet seen a rape joke I'm not troubled by, and that scene is no exception. There's a lot of space between 'not funny', and 'offensive' or 'harmful', though, and this is probably somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, for me. (And again, this is a matter of my personal opinion and emotional landscape, and not about what I think others should think or believe.)