*Shows up at a Renfaire in full migration period equipment*
"You are a thousand years too late to challenge me!"
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Have fun!
Ren Faire tomorrow!
COOL
Wait in manhattan or on long island?
Ren Faire tomorrow!
Us too! Just, you know, in a different state. :)
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Nice zeugma!we had fun and cider
never heard that word (but it is used in german, too)
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preparations for my 40th Birthday party are starting slowly
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did you know that Oktoberfest is in September
I have never been to a Ren Faire. I don't think they have 'em here, unless you count 'going to Rochdale' which is like travelling back in time 600 years ha ha.
I've heard Ren Faires are quite angry and violent. Maybe stick to Stimpy Faires?
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I've heard Ren Faires are quite angry and violent. Maybe stick to Stimpy Faires?
Yit's the bestest game in the whole yide yorld!
Everything.aww come on! Take my advice! What's the worst that could happen?I'm going to drink myself into oblivion and forget all of my problems. Dames, man, dames....boys......should I not tell him my master plan for double dating Betty AND veronica?
Seriously, date both. Live the dream.
I was going to make a snarky comment about them leaving with each other but figured it might be in poor taste.
But yeah seriously, don't take FH's advice, it will not end well.
Or worse they might agree to that...
I've heard that Poland has less hipsters.Sounds like the winter I spent in England.A rainy winter sounds just fine compared to what I'm used to.rain? With no snow? Sounds hellish.Let's see... The Rain, No Cthulhu bar, No Bon-Chon, No Freehold and you will be near Kobold CleaverHeaded home.
Why don't I live in Portland, again?
I did read the whole conversation as "Why don't I live in POLAND"
I wouldn't guess that judging from number of people complaining on hipsters...
While I was in Seattle for my business meetings, one of my vendors told me they have an opening in Portland and have been unable to fill it for several months due to lack of a qualified candidate with adequate pension and investment experience. They basically said its mine if I want it and it pays well. But now is not a good time for us to move anywhere.
Also, John loves the place.
You must arrange for John to visit Portland and see how he will feel there.
13th level in Pillars Of Eternity. Maybe I should go check the new area added in the expansion?
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You must arrange for John to visit Portland and see how he will feel there.While I was in Seattle for my business meetings, one of my vendors told me they have an opening in Portland and have been unable to fill it for several months due to lack of a qualified candidate with adequate pension and investment experience. They basically said its mine if I want it and it pays well. But now is not a good time for us to move anywhere.
Also, John loves the place.
He's been there. He wants to live there even more than I do, I think.
He's been there. He wants to live there even more than I do, I think.You must arrange for John to visit Portland and see how he will feel there.While I was in Seattle for my business meetings, one of my vendors told me they have an opening in Portland and have been unable to fill it for several months due to lack of a qualified candidate with adequate pension and investment experience. They basically said its mine if I want it and it pays well. But now is not a good time for us to move anywhere.
Also, John loves the place.
In Poland?
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as promised I finally made a photo bucket about our riverboat tour through parts of th middle rhine valley,
one of Germanys biggest tourist attractions and maybe the highest density of mediveal castles in the world
password: Aeglos
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Hipsters are cool, but I draw the line at bicycles.
And so where I work is flooded with Polish hipsters..... just like the FaWtL Gypsy said!
if you mean 'fortune teller', just say that.
Just YouTube search Archer just how the old gypsy woman said, I'm at work hiding from the Polish hipsters so I can't :-)
Stop polishing those hipsters and get on with it, Yesterday!
And so where I work is flooded with Polish hipsters..... just like the FaWtL Gypsy said!
You moved to UK?
Hipsters are cool, but I draw the line at bicycles.
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The big one in Tuxedo, NY.Ren Faire tomorrow!COOL
Wait in manhattan or on long island?
buy me a sword! Or Mead from brotherhood winery! Or a walking stick! Or a SWORD!
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Swords are expensive and I have a wedding to plan for.buy me a sword! Or Mead from brotherhood winery! Or a walking stick! Or a SWORD!The big one in Tuxedo, NY.Ren Faire tomorrow!COOL
Wait in manhattan or on long island?
You should totally get a sword FOR the wedding.
Two swords are an integral part of any wedding! How else are you going to exchange the rings?
Also what I was getting at earlier is that 'gypsy' is actually a derogatory term for the Romani, an ethnic group that are practically pariahs in Europe, and were one of the major ethnic groups targeted in the Holocaust. it does not mean fortune teller nor does it mean 'mysterious free-spirited traveling hippy', those are derogatory stereotypes.
Education on cultures and world history through the passive absorption of "common knowledge" from childhood is phenomenally unreliable (being the same source as the idea that vikings wore horns and never washed) so you might not have known.
And now you know.
"You make me angry!"
Nice to know that you feel that you are not responsible for your own emotions, nor for what you do with them
Also what I was getting at earlier is that 'gypsy' is actually a derogatory term for the Romani, an ethnic group that are practically pariahs in Europe, and were one of the major ethnic groups targeted in the Holocaust. it does not mean fortune teller nor does it mean 'mysterious free-spirited traveling hippy', those are derogatory stereotypes.
It might also refer to Irish Travelers. The word itself came from the mistaken belief around 16th century that Romani people came from Egypt.
In fact the word "gipsies" is a legal term in UK law, defined as "persons of nomadic habit of life, whatever their race or origin, but does not include members of an organised group of travelling showmen, or persons engaged in travelling circuses, travelling together as such."
Yep, Irish travelers also.
and yeah the law is full of rubbish. For example I'm legally considered a [ASSIGNED SEX REDACTED] under the US law and probably Polish law also (being a dual citizen), even though for all intents and purposes I do not have a sex.
I wonder if there are any international laws that unconsensually carry over legal sex into a country you are not a citizen.
Yep, Irish travelers also.
and yeah the law is full of rubbish. For example I'm legally considered a [ASSIGNED SEX REDACTED] under the US law and probably Polish law also (being a dual citizen), even though for all intents and purposes I do not have a sex.
I'd say that those are different matters: one is a descriptive term that because of being used as a racist slur gained a negative connotation (and would and should be ok, once the pathological-racist use is stopped*) the other is a matter of conflict between more limited legal options and wider array of sexualities and needless insistence on having closed categories that should serve nothing (because with legal gender equality there is no need for discerning between sexes in law).
I wonder if there are any international laws that unconsensually carry over legal sex into a country you are not a citizen.
Not international law, but I suspect that it simply works by having another country consider you a male/female citizen of another country on the basis of sex marker on your passport/id.
I just checked my ID and because of small speck of dirt it looked like my sex marker showed M+.
*I am generally in favor of trying to (re)claim words for normal usage from their pathological misuse instead of just saying "oh, no that word is unclean now! we should stop its use and never even think it again!". Otherwise after a few thousand years we will go through all the possible combinations of syllables or reasonable length and end without words to use. The Polish words "kobieta" (woman) was rather pejorative terms just four-five hundreds years ago.
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Uh? 81 page views of my blog today? I haven't posted anything... Or are people/bots checking if I posted anything at the end of the month?
I should write something today...
imo reclamation is a process that can't be forced. People cannot reclaim words against their will. For example I reclaim words such as 'heathen' (not really a term I consider derogatory but folks not familiar with the heathen community tend to find my use of the word odd), 'polack' (as in the derogatory english corruption of the word rather than the actual Polish word) and occasionally 'queer' but I do not others and they are words I'm seriously uncomfortable hearing.
So there are some Romani or Pavee who are largely ok with that word, and some who are seriously uncomfortable by that word and do not want to hear it misused. Both opinions are valid.
Another example: Depending on where they may be from or their experiences, I noticed that in general younger generation LGBTQ people reclaim and are comfortable with 'queer' as a general term, while older generation LGBTQ people are much less comfortable with the word, due to having experiences with the word that younger people might not. Both are valid.
Also I didn't know that about kobieta o:
Speaking of, I have this antifascist heathen blog intended to be a source of scholarship that I really want to do something with, but haven't really posted much of anything on it.
I had one quote on there, but ended up removing it when I found out the author was a fraud, so now there's like, nothing.
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I just checked my ID and because of small speck of dirt it looked like my sex marker showed M+.
My god.
Drejk has discovered a way to increase his manliness.
I must improve my own black manliness technology to counter this innovation.
*I am generally in favor of trying to (re)claim words for normal usage from their pathological misuse...
[Clerks 2]Drejk is totally taking it back![/Clerks 2]
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Another example: Depending on where they may be from or their experiences, I noticed that in general younger generation LGBTQ people reclaim and are comfortable with 'queer' as a general term, while older generation LGBTQ people are much less comfortable with the word, due to having experiences with the word that younger people might not. Both are valid.
as I discussed with my new partner at the second job, when you are not part of a community, the verbage seems to change with dizzying speed.
As someone that is directly descended from Romanian gypsies, Irish immigrants, Welsh artists and Swedish hipsters I meant no offense with my gypsy comment, sorry if I offended you Anius or brought up painful memories, wasn't what I wanted :-)
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It's fine, I just have a habit of speaking up if I see something that is unintentionally hurtful to a group of people from someone who generally means well.
On a side note: pls wish me good luck, pray for me, or so forth that the FAA at my college will approve me. It's been worrying me these past several days. :<
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Definitely :-)
I'm sure you will and I totally understand the worrying, no fun, but yes try not to think about it too much, it'll only drive you crazy and ratchet up the stress :-)
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Oh what's this, oh yay what a day!
"Be careful with having such an open mind that your brains fall out."
I met someone who said that to me once. She was an enormous douche. And called me a megalomaniac cause I had to ban her trans-hating ass from a forum I ran at the time. (This was years ago and the forum is long since dead.)
Anyway, in my experience people with a mind so open that their brains fall out are the sort of people who think that banning nazis from your forum infringes on their 'freedom of speech' and that it's a point of view just as valid as any other, the sort of people who think that pedophilia is a sexual orientation and that hating pedophiles is discrimination, that homophobia is actually a phobia and is harmless, and so forth.
And I am definitely NOT one of those people. I hate them. I think they are apathetic, enabling cowards.
Incidentally, a minority of people who make excuses for nazis eventually become nazis themselves. I know because I personally encountered ones who started on that path from a liberal upbringing.
Sorry about pulling a godwin, it's just a topic I happen to know a lot about.