The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

I didn't know so many Shoggoths went into Home Econ.

Well, you'd hardly want them in English or Math now, would you?

And they would have an unfair advantage in Gym.

[Anyway, didn't the Old Ones use 'em as servants?]

The winged starfish aliens did.  I forget if they were Old Ones or Elder Things.

And it was a big mistake, as I recall.

For one, they did not take at all well to being made to wear the frilly French Maid outfits.

[Malthus]

Fact: It's a cookbook.

Fact: It's made out of people.

I was hoping for something more along the lines of:

Fact: while in the 19th century sailors marooned in an open lifeboat could claim "custom of the sea" and eat the weakest of their number after a couple of weeks - but being marooned in an elevator for an hour today isn't considered an excuse for businessmen to resort to cannibalism ...

Fact: Parker became suicidally depressed and jumped over the side.  Try proving otherwise, you bastards.

You can't jump over the side of a stuck elevator.   

[Razgovory]

I've seen some you can.

[Razgovory]

I found the survivalist forum but you have to be a member to see their stuff.  I think you might need to pay them.

[Ed Anger]

I was neither a member or paid them.

[Admiral Yi]

Myth:  Human flesh tastes like chicken.

Fact:  It's the chicken that tastes like human flesh.

I've read pork.

[fhdz]

I've read pork.

I've read fish, but it wasn't very interesting.

[Ed Anger]

humans taste like Burger King.

[fhdz]

humans taste like Burger King.

[Ideologue]

Oh, God, there's this French teacher guy on Youtube?  Fifteen minutes in and I had learned three words.

And he kept starting the "oral movements" (lol) with "Avez-vous?"

AVEZ-I WHAT YOU SON OF A FUCKING BITCH?  It's like torture.

On the plus side I can now obtain bread, salt, and rice in France and associated territories.  Hooray.

Some of the other videos I looked at were a lot better, actually teaching basic shit like the conjugation of manger.  (Avez-vous une chatte?  Je tiens a manger.)

That said, is it just the basic words, or do all French words have about 30% more letters than are actually used?  Christ.

[Admiral Yi]

French are big into the silent letters.

[Ideologue]

French are big into the silent letters.

One thing I'll say about the Spanish, they're pretty good about being orthographically coherent.

[Caliga]

This is ... wierd.

Welcome to Kitty City:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX3iLfcMDCw&feature=topvideos_film

Reminds me of Kiddie City, my favorite toy store when I was a kid.  Out of business now.

[Eddie Teach]

One thing I'll say about the Spanish, they're pretty good about being orthographically coherent.

On the other hand, most of their most common words are multi-syllabic, so they talk faster while not conveying any more information than English.

[Ideologue]

Spanish ain't so bad.  Russian is full of ridiculously overrendered crap though.