Thought or Rant of the day!!!

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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Bmot » Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:00 pm



I liked her so much more in Victorious, even if it was just a kid's show :P

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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby *Wiro » Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:05 pm

"You know the word mirror has only six letters, and half of them are Rs?" :lol:
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby NancyLee » Mon Mar 02, 2015 10:50 pm

I just found out that vindict and indict don't rhyme. English can be so tricky... Really, guys, do you do it to fool us foreigners?
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Chroma Key » Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:35 pm

I'm just happy that my career in English ended years ago (both studying/teaching wise)... :lol: And goodness knows just how much my accent changed from my first days of uni till it finally settled into whatever it is now.

"One would not be considered shitted" made me laugh, as it's definitely the sort of stuff that I used to write for my legal essays (along with the rest of the students) until I learnt by hard experience in the form of negative marks for "not speaking English", and my train of thought somehow brought me to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/c ... ture.shtml
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I don't live in Sussex, but one of the names on that list shares its name with the area I lived in previously and it sounds like a very nasty word! :P
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Calyx » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:18 am

NancyLee wrote:I just found out that vindict and indict don't rhyme. English can be so tricky... Really, guys, do you do it to fool us foreigners?
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Hahaha, this is brilliant!

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And yes, England is ridiculous. :lol:
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby SekoETC » Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:26 pm

Is vindict a real word? I can't find it in the dictionary.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby computaertist » Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:34 pm

SekoETC wrote:Is vindict a real word? I can't find it in the dictionary.
By my quick search I'd say it's a real Latin word, and thus a good root for English words, but not on it's own a real English one.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby *Wiro » Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:05 pm

Vindiction is, but verdict and indict works as well.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Marian » Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:24 pm

Really really upset with Microsoft right now. Possibly just lost access to all of my character logs because trying to...get this, send an email, with my email account (GASP!) counts as 'suspicious activity' and gets me immediately locked out. The site claimed it was texting me a code but never did even after I requested it several times, and of course there's no way to actually contact a human being in support anywhere on the site.

It's that last part that's more frustrating then anything, even though 'trying to send email from email account' takes the cake for most ridiculous thing to trip some idiotic automated defense...what else does it expect you to do with emails, but send them? :evil:
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby SekoETC » Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:39 pm

I wish there was a way to download all my turn reports. There's thousands of them and I don't have the patience to do it manually.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Marian » Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:49 pm

I've started copying and pasting the logs for my two favorite characters into one big document a week at a time just so I hopefully never run into that problem. Going to start keeping copies of their journal entries too.
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Alladinsane » Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:31 pm

27yrs ago today I married my best friend.

She will never read this...
But its still my thought of the day.
-Every- day.


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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Snickie » Fri Mar 06, 2015 2:49 am

I showed it to her.
She says it's cute. :D

You two should kiss. :lol:
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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby Bmot » Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:12 am

Snickie wrote:I showed it to her.
She says it's cute. :D

You two should kiss. :lol:


Careful! What if they get kids?! :O

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Re: Thought or Rant of the day!!!

Postby SekoETC » Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:10 pm

I was able to leave the apartment for the first time since Tuesday and it felt amazingly good. I did get a coughing bout on the bus but fortunately no one complained. It's annoying when people don't understand that once it starts, I can't control when it stops because my airways are hypersensitive and anything can trigger it.
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