first.

If you set out to get a goal, why the frack quit? and then complain “it was too hard”. no. the correct answer, unless it physically disables you is “i was too lazy”. I don't give a frack who you are. if you set out to do a goal, that will completely improve your life/ quality of living/ your family's lives, and you just stop, because you're “not too good at something” that's just a bullshit excuse.
I've set a goal. a crazily high goal. some might even claim “unreachable”. i was probably the worst wrestler in the entire school's history. Possibly the entire state of Indiana. In basic, my graduation runtime was 11:53, literally one second before the cut off. i couldn't even run further than that, now i do 4 miles at that pace. I get up every morning at 4 in the fracking morning, because there is literally no other time in the day i could put that much effort in going to the gym. but you put 1 hour a week into your goal, and you quit? that says something about you.


secondly.

Why is it, that for every 1 hard worker, who knows his job, there are 30 doing the same job, that combined have half the knowledge of this one man. I've been trying to get information for a week, and kept getting redirected, and asked to return later. i make 1 phone call today, and the guy who picks up the phone (who i had not heard or seen before) answers all my questions literally within a 2 minute phone call.

Speaking of periods, why do Americans call it a period? In Australia we call it a “full stop”. So we're referring to the fact that it's the end of the sentence, whereas the use of the word “period” to describe the same thing would seem to refer to the entire sentence, as in; “this period of connected words is now complete”.

ozoneocean
Speaking of periods, why do Americans call it a period? In Australia we call it a “full stop”. So we're referring to the fact that it's the end of the sentence, whereas the use of the word “period” to describe the same thing would seem to refer to the entire sentence, as in; “this period of connected words is now complete”.

So you replaced one word with two words so you could use said word to describe something there's already a word for (sentence)?

In other definitions, the word “period” refers to a length of time. It seems to me that Australians use the word to refer to the time in which words are spoken, while to Americans, it is the length of time between thoughts.

Or maybe after speaking a sentence, Australians stop completely, while Americans pause and then continue (hence a period of silence, rather than a complete stop).

usedbooks
Or maybe after speaking a sentence, Australians stop completely, while Americans pause and then continue (hence a period of silence, rather than a complete stop).

lol! No, it's from traditional British English; solely referring to written punctuation. Whereas, I suspect the version in the states has more to do with the rhythm of speech.

I wonder when that version of the word “period” came about in general usage? Pre-Webster, surely?

Dictionary.com has this suggestion for that specific use:

“a punctuation mark used at the end of a rhetorical period.” This sense is not recorded in English until 1609,

But this recorded usage of the British English “Full Stop” by the famous American author Ambrose Bierce in its correct sense would hint that even in the US the dominance of the one from was not total:

At that instant a single rifle-shot was heard, away to the front, beyond the skirmish-line, followed, almost attended, by the savage hiss of an approaching bullet which passing through the line, struck audibly, punctuating as with a full stop the captain's exclamation, "What the devil does it mean?

From Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories

It's not only curious how language evolves over time, it's interesting the way splits off and goes in different directions.

i prefer the full stop because it says what it does and because the other one can be confused with a menstral cycle

usedbooks
Or maybe after speaking a sentence, Australians stop completely, while Americans pause and then continue (hence a period of silence, rather than a complete stop).

I've heard Americans use phrases like “That's it, period!”, which I understood to mean“ let's call a halt to the matter”, not “let's pause briefly before continuing the matter”, but I may be talking out of my hat, or possibly out of the side of my neck.

Ozoneocean
traditional British English

Tastes so good - clogs your arteries. :(

Lothar
i prefer the full stop because it says what it does and because the other one can be confused with a menstral cycle

I think if you're bringing up the menstrual cycle it's probably mandatory to do the joke - you know the one. lol!

Tired + no time = a very sad 1337 Master.

for some reason I've been playing pokemon sapphire recently. On my GBA…is that a bad thing? :)

Ironscarf

usedbooks
Or maybe after speaking a sentence, Australians stop completely, while Americans pause and then continue (hence a period of silence, rather than a complete stop).

I've heard Americans use phrases like “That's it, period!”, which I understood to mean“ let's call a halt to the matter”, not “let's pause briefly before continuing the matter”, but I may be talking out of my hat, or possibly out of the side of my neck.

Yeah. Period in American English does refer to a complete stop so you're not just spewing crap from your imagination.

Most things in American English are related to the rhythm of the language. I think in a lot of ways we've come close to creating a more lyrical language derived from English. So much of American English relies on the rhyme and rhythm that it doesn't really seem weird to think of our version of the language eventually becoming a separate language altogether. I mean, a large part of the musical genres pioneered by American musicians like hip hop and jazz are heavily founded in rhythm and rhyming so we're already headed there.

So we're referring to the fact that it's the end of the sentence, whereas the use of the word “period” to describe the same thing would seem to refer to the entire sentence, as in; “this period of connected words is now complete”.

Honest truth, that's probably where it came from. Period was probably originally part of a larger phrase that we shortened for the sake of ease of use.

ozoneocean
Lol! No, it's from traditional British English; solely referring to written punctuation. Whereas, I suspect the version in the states has more to do with the rhythm of speech.

I wonder when that version of the word “period” came about in general usage? Pre-Webster, surely?

Actually, I was thinking about the scientific application. The period of a wave or the period of a pendulum. – Or in history, like the Edo Period or the Triassic Period.

Sorry. My mind is hardwired for science. It makes more sense than language and grammar. XD

Ironscarf
I have to forgive your bad puns because I just had a dream where you showed up, drinking coffee outside some kind of fancy coffee type shop and I was like “omg, famous webcomic person!”. I have no idea what you look like but in this dream, you had the best cool specs.lol!

Also, that's my second dream this month about meeting a DD person. I need to be getting out more.

Oh god that's awesome, i used to have a ton of dreams about DD people. I think it's kind of cool how your brain can make-up a person when all you see of them is an avatar.

I Am The 1337 Master
Tired + no time = a very sad 1337 Master.

for some reason I've been playing pokemon sapphire recently. On my GBA…is that a bad thing? :)

I'm playing Firered :P Getting revved up for the soulsilver/heartgold releases.

I just got finished playing Pokemon Snack on the Nintendo 64. It's where you go hunt for those Pokemon to give to this famous chef, and he'll rate you on its quality and stuff, then make a meal out of it which you get to try and…

Okay. I'm just kidding. My niece loved the Pokemon Snap! game and I kept teasing her about it. Anyways…

Today's my day off, but I've no extra fuel or money to go anywhere, so I pulled out my old Famicom wannabe console and started playing some of my old games. Problem is… I started feeling old. These were games straight from Japan that I played long ago as a teenager. Those were the days… :)

usedbooks and lba
period

Yes. That's exactly what I mean- Period is a word that describes something that happens in time and my feeling is that this is why it came to be used in American English to define a sentence. While the British version functions more to delineate a sentence.
-And lba, I was describing the function, not hinting that it should have more words. :)

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Everyone has started to turn their air-conditioners up too high here. It's been super hot for weeks and weeks and now it's actually lovely and cool and yet these tards STILL have their air conditioners on high as if it was still hot.

You know, I seriously believe that your average person (at least here) is the equivalent of half blind or half deaf when it comes to temperature sense. Their bodies aren't very good at knowing what the atmospheric conditions are unless they're extreme- like the sorts of people that need extremely hot chili and stuff because their sense of taste isn't very good anymore, or like an elderly relative that always has the TV turned up loud enough to shake the windows…
Turn the fricken air-con down you imbeciles! >:\

ozoneocean
You know, I seriously believe that your average person (at least here) is the equivalent of half blind or half deaf when it comes to temperature sense. Their bodies aren't very good at knowing what the atmospheric conditions are unless they're extreme- like the sorts of people that need extremely hot chili and stuff because their sense of taste isn't very good anymore, or like an elderly relative that always has the TV turned up loud enough to shake the windows…
Turn the fricken air-con down you imbeciles! >:\

Or maybe it's really hot over there. My thermometer here reads about 93 degress F and when I go outside I'm sweating bullets. The strange thing is…

It's colder than usual at night. Not cold enough to snow, but it's something I've noticed the past few weeks. Either it's this global warming thing, or the ocean has been soaking up all the heat around us… Even stranger is that it's also a lot windier than normal. Maybe I'm reading too much into it though…

Well, back to playing Mass Effect before I get Mass Effect 2 next week… :)

ozoneocean
Everyone has started to turn their air-conditioners up too high here. It's been super hot for weeks and weeks and now it's actually lovely and cool and yet these tards STILL have their air conditioners on high as if it was still hot.

I have the opposite problem. We've had snow storms and stuff lately but it hasn't been really cold. Our central heating has broken a few times (once back in fall, when I swear we didn't even need it – I kept my window open). And whenever it breaks, my dad freaks out and gets out the space heaters, heating our home to roughly the temperature required to roast a chicken. :-/ As long as the central heating is working, our house stays around 69 or 70 degrees, but if it breaks, our house has to turn into an oven.

Lonnehart
Or maybe it's really hot over there.

No, it was, but now it's cool. People are acting as it it's still hot though in some kind of dinosaur brain-in-the-tail sort of delayed reaction.

usedbooks
my dad freaks out and gets out the space heaters, heating our home to roughly the temperature required to roast a chicken.

That's it exactly! Instead of going by an accurate temperature sense they go by what temperature they think it should be.
Like a malfunctioning “mind over matter” situation. lol!

i.e. “Oh geez, it looks cold! I'll make it hot to compensate!” Or “It was hot the other week and it's summer, so that must mean it's hot now!”

…

waitaminute… I'm not Usedbooks. That heat must have fried a few of your brain cells, Ozone… :)

lol!
See the two different quotes? One is yours (with my response underneath), and one is hers. ;)

ozoneocean
lol!
See the two different quotes? One is yours (with my response underneath), and one is hers. ;)

Now I'm confused… I swear I did say something about my thermometer reading 93 degrees outside and sweating bullets (thanks to Mr. Humidity who happens to be abundant here)…

Oh, well…

Here you are:



Maybe you didn't intend to phrase that the way you did?

ozoneocean

usedbooks
Or maybe it's really hot over there. My thermometer here reads about 93 degress F and when I go outside I'm sweating bullets. The strange thing is…

Um. I didn't say that? *Is confused*

Hey, if I'm being misquoted, does that mean I should go into politics?

Wow… Mass Effect 2… Been reading whatever faqs I can find. Haven't read any of the endings for it yet, but I wouldn't be mind being spoiled with all the romance storyline endings except one…

My version of Shepard was orphaned, then joined the military and became a hero, etc… But as far as romance goes he/she keeps any interested persons away farther than arms length. So that ending I don't want to know about is what happens if he doesn't fix himself up with anybody.

ugh… I hate taking my meds sometimes. The side effects can be a bit much. Let's just say the toilet has been my constant friend hours after I've taken my Metformin…

usedbooks

ozoneocean

usedbooks
Or maybe it's really hot over there. My thermometer here reads about 93 degress F and when I go outside I'm sweating bullets. The strange thing is…

Um. I didn't say that? *Is confused*

Hey, if I'm being misquoted, does that mean I should go into politics?

Doh!
lol! lol! lol!


So that's what Lonne meant.
My copy and pasting fecked up.
Then I thought Lonne was referring to the top part of the quote being to the wrong person. @_@.

All fixed now :P

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And I was right. People ARE temperature deaf! All the road workers and builders were wearing long sleeved shirts or jackets. They're the first to go semi-naked when it's hot.
People are musically deaf too- I just heard that “men at work” have been sued by some opportunist wankers who bought the rights to a 70 year old kid's song 20 years ago: “Kookaburra”
The claim is that the flute rif of that early 80's song matches some of the chorus of Kookaburra. Of course it does not, but you can construct a little story around something like that to convince an idiot that it does and evidently the judge was an idiot.

This means you can buy the rights to something that looks or sounds like something else that made a lot of money years and years ago and retrospectively sue for compensation as long as the judge is a moron.

usedbooks
Or maybe it's really hot over there. My thermometer here reads about 93 degress F and when I go outside I'm sweating bullets.

Bullets eh? That's new to me - kind of implies high velocity sweat, but surely this can't be so?
Ours are no better: where I come from they say sweating cobs, which makes even less sense when I tell you that cobs are small bread rolls. Why would anyone sweat bread rolls? Anyway, kudos to you - not many ladies are prepared to discuss how much sweating they do.

Maybe that judge took a bribe? Or is he really that much of a moron? I hope Men at Work takes this to a higher court. It's really stupid that someone who just recently bought a trademark would be able to act on something that came out a long time ago… Then again, I may not understand everything as I was never a student of law…

Ironscarf

usedbooks
Or maybe it's really hot over there. My thermometer here reads about 93 degress F and when I go outside I'm sweating bullets.

Bullets eh? That's new to me - kind of implies high velocity sweat, but surely this can't be so?
Ours are no better: where I come from they say sweating cobs, which makes even less sense when I tell you that cobs are small bread rolls. Why would anyone sweat bread rolls? Anyway, kudos to you - not many ladies are prepared to discuss how much sweating they do.

Um… she was misquoted… Look a little further up and you'll see that I said that. This confusing mess is Ozone's fault. I'm still pretty sure some of his gray matter got fried by the heat of the day. %)

Oh, great… I can see a joke developing from this. I thought only men could admit to “sweating bullets” though as hot as it was earlier, I'd say I was sweating tank shells… X_X

Darnit. I'm hungry now, so I think I'll go over to McDonalds and buy myself a couple of Mac Wraps. :)

Lonnehart
Um… she was misquoted… Look a little further up and you'll see that I said that. This confusing mess is Ozone's fault. I'm still pretty sure some of his gray matter got fried by the heat of the day. %)

Oh, great… I can see a joke developing from this. I thought only men could admit to “sweating bullets” though as hot as it was earlier, I'd say I was sweating tank shells… X_X

I was already developing an extended jape there, but it really depended on certain individuals not responding to my posts. You spoiled it by disturbing the natural order of post responsiveness! lol!

It's good to sleep in every now and then, but it's not good to go to the gym before going to bed…i'm all stiff now, since i didn't have the whole day to move around…but last night was the only time afforded to me to go to the gym.

I really gotta kick my work outs up a notch to actually be competitive for the job i want. you know what sucks? they hold boards quarterly, and go thru and select people. the people who get selected, go for interviews. and those selected from that go to class. if i do make first round, i'll be notified in may. in june they'll hold the interviews, and i'll be notified on the spot.

if not i'll have to retake the physical test (only good for 6 months) and apply immediatly to make the next quarter.

My girlfriend might be pregnant, i didnt do anything to cause that, shes 2 years younger than me,I know its not my fault and its probibly not gonna happen but im really scared, ive started smoking again, I just want to forget everything and relax, Im really strapped for cash, im really close to putting my tongue in the toaster and im failing my media course.

same
My girlfriend might be pregnant, i didnt do anything to cause that, shes 2 years younger than me,I know its not my fault and its probibly not gonna happen but im really scared, ive started smoking again, I just want to forget everything and relax, Im really strapped for cash, im really close to putting my tongue in the toaster and im failing my media course.

So she had sex with someone else and got pregnant? Because if not then yeah, you totally caused that. Girls don't get pregnant without help. Sorry but the fault comment is just ridiculous…(unless she cheated)

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Ugh, firered elite 4 =__= Stupid double type pokemon complicating things. I can't wait for soulsilver though, it comes out in march which is just plain mean. I wonder when generation 5 will be created?

Skullbie

same
My girlfriend might be pregnant, i didnt do anything to cause that, shes 2 years younger than me,I know its not my fault and its probibly not gonna happen but im really scared, ive started smoking again, I just want to forget everything and relax, Im really strapped for cash, im really close to putting my tongue in the toaster and im failing my media course.

So she had sex with someone else and got pregnant? Because if not then yeah, you totally caused that. Girls don't get pregnant without help. Sorry but the fault comment is just ridiculous…(unless she cheated)

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Ugh, firered elite 4 =__= Stupid double type pokemon complicating things. I can't wait for soulsilver though, it comes out in march which is just plain mean. I wonder when generation 5 will be created?

I said might be. As in there are signs but im not definite yet but yeah it wouldnt be unlike her. She cheated on me 3 times in the first 3 months of the relationship. Now 15 months. I was willing to forgive her aslong as she didnt do it again.

Also double type pokemon are a pain in the butt. And i knew there was a reason i have a ds.

same
She cheated on me 3 times in the first 3 months of the relationship. Now 15 months. I was willing to forgive her aslong as she didnt do it again.

I don't believe it - you are actually living the lyrics of By The Time I Get To Phoenix.

By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin'
'Cause I've left that girl so many times before

By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working
She'll prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'
Off the wall that's all

By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin'
She'll turn softly and call my name out loud
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Tho' time and time I try to tell her so
She just didn't know I would really go.

Well, more like just before the song starts really, since you haven't actually left that girl so many times before yet. You're probably more at the time and time I try to tell her so stage? Are you anywhere near Albuquerque?