Irish is sort of british :)

Made me think of father Ted.

Yep - definitely sounds better with the accent.

I miss father ted.
Best point of the 90's.
Of course I was about 8 while watching it.

Oh well. Atleast it was a positive influence.



Its also made me fear putting on a kettle with barely any water in it.

I always come back when the discussion is over…

Today sucked.

I think that's become my default statement.

Poop…


But yes, I did not have a good day but it's all good because I have a week of vacation now to try and get some stuff done.

Like maybe a comic.

A Reaver
I love how arse and more importantly shite are assumed to be British swear words.
Try saying them with an Irish accent. Makes more sense.

Well Arse comes from there early Saxon (north German) invaders who didn't have much presence in Ireland. So…
Ireland like Britain got the Celts invading and taking over with their strange language, but in Ireland unlike Britain, the Celts stayed in control for a while longer… till the limited Viking raids, Norman immigration and finally Norman British invasion.
-Blame listening to the entire “history of Ireland” radio series aand a furiously Catholic grandmother madly proud of her Irish heritage. :(

It's a strange fact that most swear words used in the English language are from those early Angle and Saxon invaders, and even much of the every day language used in simple conversation today mostly has Angle and Saxon roots.


Oh Man, sorry for that Bravo moment! ^___^

Yes, father Ted was awesome, especially for making it ok to say “Fek Arse” on TV over and over and over.

Well it still sounds best with an Irish accent.

i just broke up a bar fight it was awesome! My buddy crushed the karaoke DJs mic and then tried to fight the DJ when he got mad. LOL He had every right to be angry with us. My friend is kind of a dick tho.

A Reaver
Well it still sounds best with an Irish accent.

Unless it is the sub irish pikey sounding thing like brad pitt imitates well in Snatch.

Genejoke

Aurora Borealis

Genejoke
Do both.

AT THE SAME TIME?!

:)

Yep, and when you are feeling burned out on one go to the other and vice versa.

hmm, actually what this makes me think is going with attempting to do a page of each for both <— wait, does this sentence make any sense?

What I'm trying to say, pencil a page, ink it, letter it (and/or greyscale/tone, if applicable) for one comic. And then do the same for the other one. Or better, go back to my old system where I worked on three pages at once, that is I pencilled a new page, inked the page I pencilled yesterday, and colored/lettered the page from two days ago (used that on first chapter of Din Krakatau).
So it'd be say pencils for pages 3, inks for page 2 and lettering for page 1.

Seeing Project A (and let's call the other Project H) is meant to be drawn in a cleaner art style (and probably with greyscale tones added, perhaps, maybe) it'd be faster to produce. Whereas the Project H is meant to be more hmm… illustrative I guess? I'm pondering lots of crosshatching and detailing and whatnot (that's why this one's the shorter one, only one thick book, haha)

ramlama
Note to self: don't apply this advice to relationships. Well, maybe once or twice, but only if everyone is level about it. Likewise, make sure the comics know about each other. Wouldn't want one to get jealous…

Wise advice :D

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as for the whole swearwords topic…

Kinda heavy (but funny?) so hover at your own risk
Fucksticks, what is this cockforsaken cuntmuppetry!

(don't ask me what that means, I don't know myself, haha)

Shamanic healer?!

I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:



Or possibly this:


But definitely not some art school chancer. >:(

what does one eat for breakfast on a saturday? i haven't been up this early in ages.

Oz and I want to put community projects in the next quackcast, so if you are running a project, then you should read the recent newspost!


On Saturday mornings I eat breakfast sandwiches. A slice of toast for the bottom, half a slice of “American” (Dairylea) cheese, a slice of lunchmeat ham (warm), and a scrambled egg (not too scrambled, so it all holds together). Two of those!

Eat long pig, yum.

ozoneocean

A Reaver
arse

arse

I'm american and I've taken to saying arse all the time now.

My friends are very confused.

Genejoke
Eat long pig, yum.

so much for being hungry.

Genejoke

A Reaver
Well it still sounds best with an Irish accent.

Unless it is the sub irish pikey sounding thing like brad pitt imitates well in Snatch.

I fucking hate Gypsys.
Look at them. All smug and rich.

Oh wait…

why did i purchase a vehicle that's hard to customize the audio?

i've spent my entire birthday cutting my fingers and searching for cables and such just to put an aux cable in. i think i'm just gonna spend the 90 bucks at the dealer and have them install it.

or continue having fun. i seem to need to replace all 10 speakers now as well. apparently. i mean, i can't really tell if they're broken, until i put new ones in…right? it's as good as any excuse i can come up with on my own.

seventy2
i've spent my entire birthday

All at one place? :)

Happy Birthday regardless

I've been gone for nearly a year and nothing has changed. Aside from the things that have gotten worse, like fightsplosion.

Bugger.

Ironscarf
I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:

I would feel so guilty to hire such an authentic-looking healer. The entire time he was failing to heal me, I'd just keep thinking nervously that I had clearly fallen prey to stereotypes.

Ochitsukanai

Ironscarf
I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:

I would feel so guilty to hire such an authentic-looking healer. The entire time he was failing to heal me, I'd just keep thinking nervously that I had clearly fallen prey to stereotypes.

True, but since you know a shamanic healer would fail to heal you in the first place, you'd only be hiring him when you required someone who looked like a shamanic healer, to impress your boss who you knew was into new age claptrap for instance, so your adoption of sterotypes could be forgiven, even praiseworthy.

Of course, you could just play Ebeneezer Goode and hope for the best. :)

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Deaf in one ear with a high pitched whistling noise now? What kind of godforsaken virus is this?

Ironscarf
godforsaken virus

A Fallen Microbe?

Ironscarf
Shamanic healer?!

I just found out some bloke I was at art college with is now a shamanic healer?! O:
If I need a shaman, I don't want some middle aged, balding fat bloke with a public school accent, I want someone who looks like this:

Or possibly this:

But definitely not some art school chancer. >:(

Lol. Try sitting on a committee that includes a handful of Druids, a Dianic Wiccan or two, several Gardnerians, and a bunch of eclectics and universalists. Some days I kinda want to say “so… the only thing we have in common is that our religions are based on shoddy anthropology?” Psh. What good is being the co-chair of a planning committee for a fertility celebration if I can't even get a date? Why do I keep doing this year after year? Rhetorical question, because I'm going to do it anyway ._.

I have about five comic pages I want to finish today in various states of unfinishedness. Two are needed for update schedules but I've been hit by some annoying virus and cannot focus on anything for more than a few minutes.

ramlama
What good is being the co-chair of a planning committee for a fertility celebration if I can't even get a date?

Heh - a case study in irony! lol!

Genejoke, I hope you've not picked up the same thing as we've got: It's now into week 3, I've got tinnitus in one ear, the strength of a paralysed gnat and the mental focus to draw no more than 3 lines a day. :(

Well, thankfully I seem to have come to the end of a marathon migraine session.
I went to bed early on Friday night and had a beautiful 14 hour sleep. Woke up on Saturday morning nice and refreshed…
…But towards the afternoon the relentless heat started to wear me down. So I had hard pressure on both temples, and pain. I took pills, but it just got worse. So I went to bed to try and sleep it off.

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The pills that are most effective for me have 500mg paracetamol, 8mg Codeine phosphate and about 5mg doxylamine succinate (the Codeine and doxylamine succinate dosages vary by brand). Now the Codeine is the true pain killer here and the doxylamine succinate is there to help you sleep. The paracetamol is very mild painkiller that is extremely toxic to your liver, its only function in the pills is to make it harder for people to extract the Codeine to get a mild buzz.
What this means to ME is that I have to wait through at least 4 hours of agony till I can have another two pills so that the paracetamol is safely metabolised and I don't kill my liver (overdoes are fatal). And if I mistake the time when I took the last dosage I have to play it safe and wait MORE hours till I can take more.
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Anyway, slept for about an hour and woke with a worse headache; it had consolidated itself in the right temple in true common migraine fashion…
The entire afternoon, evening and night was spent in fitful 30 minute dozes, and then waiting out another four hours of worsening agony till I could take some more pills. Later on I couldn't recall whether I'd taken more at 2am or not, I didn't think I had, but I had to wait it out anyway to be safe. And I just got worse.
The next day there was the seasickness nausea, accompanied by vomiting. I took two more pills, a sleep aid pill containing 25mg of doxylamine succinate and an anti-nausea pill they'd given me last time when i was hospitalised in a similar condition… And threw the while lot up 1hour later.

So, another wasted weekend. -_-
The full headache has almost completely burned itself out now, just a small pain in my temple.

God I whish it was cooler here!!!!!!

Anyone else see how quickly this Modest Medusa thing just took off? I've actually never seen someone's comic get that popular that fast. It occasionally happens with features, yes but not usually at this level.

It's interesting to me.

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My mom's a pain by the way. She will drive me insane one day.

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Out of 77 games of solitaire, I won 5.

I hate that game…

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Going over my friend's today. Probably going to play a lot of video games (he wants me to play Marvel vs. Capcom 3) and stuff.

—(last rant)

Being in a band isn't all I wanted it to be. No one wants to screw me cause I'm the lead singer (let alone date me). We don't get respected by other bands, and worst of all the only person who really wants me in the band is distracted because he threw my sister in as bassist and he's DATING my sister.
Wish this was easier and I could just say “We play music Joe likes now.”




I don't know…that rant just came…

Ironscarf

ramlama
What good is being the co-chair of a planning committee for a fertility celebration if I can't even get a date?

Heh - a case study in irony!

The best part is that one of the parts I'm heavily involved with are helping find May King and May Queen candidates (for our community, the roles kinda fill a combination of Prom King and Queen, mixed with a rite of passage). So my job description includes actively seeking out young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 and interviewing them. Since I'm only turning 26 this year, you'd think this would work out in my favor…

Course, back at the end of my turn in the role as May King in 2008, the committee rejected the only successor candidate. At the celebration, there're three icons of masculine divine- the maypole, the crown's stand, and the king. We'd rejected the king. During the coronation of the queen, the kings stand fell over three times. And, at the end of the day, when someone climbed the may pole, the thing cracked in half.

I can be erudite and skeptical all I want, but after investing yourself in a set of symbols fer a year- watching a 25 foot symbol of yer penis fall in half still gets to you ._.

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Heh. One of the stranger parts of my day job at the public library is that I swear we have a quota for transexual patrons. Some are obvious, but having been raised in the local LGBT community, I'm pretty good at spotting some of the more feminine mtfs and masculine ftms. Every time a new one comes in, I'm bemused at how we have a disproportionate number of ‘em from the population. Then I remember the overlap between how much of our patronage are in economically poor situations, and how many transexuals end up in that bracket because of losing support from family and friends (especially mtfs- ftms seem to be able to use the butch lesbian stereotype to find a relatively stable community). And my amusement turns into a sort of depression. Yesterday’s transexual didn't seem too bad off.

Edit: mtf is male-to-female, ftm is female-to-male. Silly jargon.

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Today I'm play testing an RPG system I've developed, designed to be a supplement for one of the comics I'm working on ^_^

Ironscarf
It's now into week 3, I've got tinnitus in one ear, the strength of a paralysed gnat and the mental focus to draw no more than 3 lines a day. :(

I didn't mean to mock your suffering with the fallen microbe bit. I had a nasty one-two virus in January that took me about three weeks to get over — ironic that those in recovery are called “patient” – ha! But combined with your posting re shamanic healing, maybe you're right: this may be a case for spiritual cleansing. Calling Dr. Kyupol . . .

— (wildebeests rolling up sleeves)

Seriously, a home remedy that I know has worked for several people when it comes to ear complaints is to put 4-6 drops of garlic oil into your ear and then hold a very warm, moist towel over the ear until the towel returns to room temperature. Two or three treatments during the day.

Garlic is a mild, natural antibiotic, but if there isn't noticeable relief within 24 hours, then you need a stronger antibiotic.

@Ayes- Ironscarf's ear issue sounds like simple wax build-up doe to his virus. In that case garlic oil or any of a number of oils will have some success at helping to dissolve some of the blockage so that it can be lightly syringed out with warm water (Cerumol is a brand name oil that's pretty good).
-Need a rubber ear syringe.
-Be very careful and gentle!!!! Deafness is not something you want to risk.
-It can be very messy and icky depending on what's in there, but if it works the shock of hearing well again is pretty sudden and amazing.

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ramlama
Course, back at the end of my turn in the role as May King in 2008, the committee rejected the only successor candidate. .

The irony here is that any one of the original forms of those groups in their proper temporal and cultural contexts would reject all the others and any rites would be performed following strict rules of tradition or not at all, with no voting or arguing… committees being an anathema to them- such societies tending to be rigid and hierarchical. -at least from what I've gleaned.

But I'm sure you'll all have a fantastic time regardless. Sounds like a hoot really- A good fun thing to be a part off! ^_^
…Grease up that May-pole for added protection and extra lewd sexual conotations!