The Off Topic Topic

[jimmy olsen]

duck and dog- do they really sound the same?
With my friend the other night she was getting very confused and frustrated after I said "oh wow, a duck in the river" and she couldn't see a swimming dog.
To me they sound clearly different....

No, but it depends on your accent, how clearly you said it, and how well she knows English.

[Josquius]

After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer.

The guy from Corona sits down and says, "Hey Senor, I would like the world's best beer, a Corona." The bartender dusts off a bottle from the shelf and gives it to him.

The guy from Budweiser says, "I'd like the best beer in the world, give me 'The King Of Beers', a Budweiser." The bartender gives him one.

The guy from Coors says, "I'd like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water, give me a Coors." He gets it.

The guy from Guinness sits down and says, "Give me a Coke." The bartender is a little taken aback, but gives him what he ordered.

The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask "Why aren't you drinking a Guinness?" and the Guinness president replies, "Well, I figured if you guys aren't drinking beer, neither would I."

[Sheilbh]

Sometimes you just have to admire the honesty of Australians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFELLK8htKM&feature=player_embedded

[Capetan Mihali]

Sometimes you just have to admire the honesty of Australians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFELLK8htKM&feature=player_embedded

  I admire his resolve.

[Barrister]

Little Tim made it through his first night in his big-boy bed without a hitch.

After two nights it is apparent he simply hasn't figured out that he can get out of his bed by himself - before I left he was yelling for "mommy" to come get him out of bed.  Despite the fact he's only about 12 inches off the ground with only a tiny railing, and he was climibing on and off of the bed when we first set it up.   

So last night at bedtime we read a story.  He then wanted to pick up his favourite blankie so I set him down on the ground from my lap.  He picked up the blankie, then scrambled right into his bed with no help from me.

I wonder if he'll still be waiting for mommie to pick him up this morning.

[Admiral Yi]

Mackeral snappers think fucking for money is a mortal sin??

What?

Minnow munchers.
Servants of The Whore in Rome.

[Eddie Teach]

Servants of The Whore in Rome.

The one that danced for Berlusconi? 

[Malthus]

Servants of The Whore in Rome.

The one that danced for Berlusconi? 

 

That's not very specific now, is it?

[Razgovory]

Typing "Zerg Rush" with out the quotation marks gives odd results in Google today.

[Josquius]

huzzah, no work for a week.
Monday I'm off to Ishikawa and Toyama with a brief trip to Fukui and Gokayama in Gifu.
Yet....all I really feel like doing right now is relaxing...

[Ideologue]

Man, I love how comixology touts that they have "20,000 comics" like that was a lot.  I have 20,000 comics, and I'm not a corporation and/or LLC.

[Sheilbh]

Handed in my last piece of coursework.  That was exciting.  Now I've got the dull horror of revision and impending exams

Edit: And I passed legal ethics which I thought I'd failed.  So I can only assume that to fail you need to stab the invigilator or something

[mongers]

Handed in my last piece of coursework.  That was exciting.  Now I've got the dull horror of revision and impending exams

Edit: And I passed legal ethics which I thought I'd failed.  So I can only assume that to fail you need to stab the invigilator or something

Good luck, don't post such lengthy missives on here for a while.

Ah, finals, how I miss them. 

[Ideologue]

Handed in my last piece of coursework.  That was exciting.  Now I've got the dull horror of revision and impending exams

Edit: And I passed legal ethics which I thought I'd failed.  So I can only assume that to fail you need to stab the invigilator or something

Legal ethics/professional responsibility is the easiest thing in the world.  Don't steal, don't lie, don't fuck (your clients), keep secrets when applicable (which is most of the time), don't when not (and it's usually pretty obvious when it's not), and something about conflicts of interest (they're bad, don't have them).

Since you're not a moral retard, there was nothing to fear.

P.S.: do they have doc review in Britain?

[Tamas]

In Poland with some friends, stop. Hotel is very professional, but in middle of fucking nowhere, 10kms from krakow, stop. Apparently polacks don't do English restaurant menus, stop.