What is going on here? I provide an open thread for everyone all the time, and that isn’t good enough for some of you…noooooo, you have to go and commandeer another thread altogether and turn it into The Zombie Thread. And then fill it up with…stuff. Unsanctioned, unauthorized, unmonitored stuff.
Well, I know what to do with zombie threads: shoot it in the head. So I did. It’s dead. Now don’t you go resurrecting it, neither.
Double tap.
Braiiiiinnnnnnzzzz
*looks at Daniel Haven, decides he’s not nutritious in that respect*
Don’t let the thread bite you….
You big meanie.
(wait, didn’t you just resurr…)
never mind
He loves you for your braaaiiiinnnn.
Glen Davidson
Danielhaven has definitely NOT risen with any added clarity in writing or communication skills.
Oh, and his flounce score is reduced by 3.
Note the quick link to the zombie thread.
Hmmmm. Isn’t this a case of premature resurrection? Easter is still weeks away.
All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re not creationists
I mean no one’s gonna eat your apes
All we want to do is eat your brains
We’re at an impasse here
Maybe we should compromise
Just wipe off the chalkboard
Open up your heart
And God will eat your brains
That’s not a real pic of DH, he’s got a West Ham emblem, oh, I see, it’s covered in bleck
Sir! Yessir!
But,
He is not dead yet, he can dance and he can sing,
He is not yet dead, he can do the Highland Fling,
chigau,
if you’re interested, email me *cough, cough*
Kids these days! You turn you back for just one second and all hell breaks loose.
Bah, isn’t that why you invented page limits? Could have let it lurch forever!
My favorite dumb line from the dumb troll.
But go for it, your so-called science is not about expanding barriers or learning new things…..it’s just that you evolved from a rock.
Never mind how fucking stupid this particular drivel is. The cluelessness of what the scumbag’s own genocidal manual said about making man is hilarious:
Argh. The first paragraph in the quote was supposed to be by itself. And it’s Genesis 2:27.
I guess the dumbass couldn’t make it that far in his genocidal manual.
So now you can ridicule christslime with, “The babble says we come from dust bunnies!”
LM: We started in the Département Douteux du SciBlogs.
One day it will end there. Until then, victory or undeath!
Time for the zombie song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNqub966Tw
Has my nym changed? Preview says yes. Here goes.
ॐ,
Noted. Thanks!
(heeheee)
I think I like this idea of calling the christers dust bunnies enough to start referring to them as that from now on.
cm’s unchangeable moniker?
Time for better Zombie song.
http://youtu.be/83j3FreaPlM
Yay! Catching up.
What a Maroon, #924 (the so-called #124 would be heretical)
Prophecy!! Truly the Spirit is strong in this one! (Even if the temporal ordering is a bit off.)
—
Oh yeah, footy … Whoa! 3-0. Verily the Stevie is a Wonder.
—
Well to be fair, for explaining science to my kids, you did include me in a list of -isms that included Nazism. Still waiting for an apology, BTW.
—
“shreddies”
WTF?! Raisin Wheats, FFS. (You don’t even need milk, although after this thread, I might have some with vodka.)
Can we do the Shaun of the Dead clips now?
See, click on some random link on FTB, and this is where you wind up! What next, Manchester United Fans ?
Heh. In the Sb era, I was “cm’s csomething msomething” (I’m sure you know/remember). That one got fossilised in the FTB split, but I was never really happy with it. Onwards and downwards!
Even better zombie song:
Fucking splitters.
CM, indeed I do. I was just riffing on it.
BLASPHEMEEEERRRRR!!!!!
Shreddies with a bit of milk and honey right as they start to soften. MMM.
And still you blasphemed! And yea, verily, and forsooth, you brought down the wrath of PZ upon your head!
Repent, sinners, or face an eternity without calamari!
The Livre, Zaphod II, Verse 23:
“23 Yea verily, the ONE TRUE TREAD shall be capped in the head and rise again. Thusly shall ye know it and ye shall forsake all others, for its brainy gore is righteous gore that shall make ye free.”
Deep rifts!!!111!!1!!
I could go for a trough of Shreddies covered in brown sugar dowsed in cereal cream, I could. It’s a quite delicious alternative to Haitian Zombie Powder, danielhaven666.
Nuh-uh.
THIS is the best zombie song.
http://youtu.be/sOnqjkJTMaA
Oh, great. Haitian mythusmage. This is exactly what we need.
—
Why does zombie graphic at top of thread have thorny headgear?
Why is it clickable?
What does resulting video mean?
I hate to be all, “Oh, I totally heard that before he was popular,” but really, there’s only One True Zombie song.
Off topic – perhaps if it can be OT here – but there’s a web poll in need of pharnygulating :
http://ninemsn.com.au/?ocid=iefvrt
VOTE Do you believe homeopathy is effective?
Yes – 17072
No – 23413
Meh. It’s the classics for me.
Grrr! Arrgh!
El Capitan Poopyhead just spliced in another thread (“The five best arguments for creationism ever!”) to this one!
Will “Dr. Primate” and/or “FreedomFreak” come here to
eat the braaaaiiinzzzz of the livingblather bullshit?Are they in fact the same person?
Who knows?
@nigelTheBold (#38)
Comedy. Gold.
O hai, somebody mentioned me in the previous incarnation. Not sure what this is about, or what Shreddies are, but it seems to be something about GRAIIINNNNSSS!
Is Ariaflame around? I am definitely going to Perth in May! (Will check TET, too.) I can be contacted on my gmail under the nym of cajela.
pelamun
I’ll get back to you *cough*.
—
theophontes
Whereinhell are you?
Look what happened!
My silly little take on Jesus and zombies
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb31/Fatboy1973/arisecopy.jpg
Shifty little tyro doesn’t want to be blamed. We are wise, wise I say!
TZT must consume more creationist-brain-stuff to go on living. COME BACK DANIELHAVEN! Don’t let only those mutinous thread-squaters have all the fun.
*folds arms*
*taps feets*
Hey! I done my bit!
Pointed a godbot thisaway, even.
Having taken a small poll for the viability of the TZT, I have been able to find only positive responses so far. Here a short selection from the veritable flood of praise and support:
(Names withheld to protect the innocent.)
@ mikelaing
FIFY: … Ken Ham emblem …
@ chigau
Shhh. In mufti. It appears I am falsely suspected of insurrection. [whisper] Keep your sniny uniform pressed and near at hand.[/whisper]
[looks around]
I have a uniform?
—-
Takamisakari won!
yay!
For some reason the ninemsn poll on homeopathy doesn’t work with firefox (or perhaps some of my plugins), but does with IE.
Alethea – have emailed you.
Shreddies are a malty breakfast cereal (in my experience) in the shape of square lattices. Taste a little reminiscent of all bran. They’re good with hot milk, cold milk, or just eaten out of the packet as snacks, and I think I shall have to hunt through all the ex-pat stores here to find a pack. I saw Alpen in my local IGA of late, but apart from initially when they didn’t know what to charge the prices are on the high side for a packet of muesli.
OK, rectangular lattices. Not square.
Don’t forget Shreddies are now diamond shaped.
@ chigau
Minitrue has a permanent record of all citizens’ doings:
MiniTrue Records: 9 March 2012 at 9:09 am: File/chigao:
Shhh. Don’t believe this blasphemer, sir Mr. Poopyhead the Magnificient. This is a small matter beneath your concerns. I’m sure TZT has no support from the upstanding horde citizenry, and thus has no viability.
This is not the insurrection you are looking for *waves hand in front of face*.
{theophontes, in horse whisper from shadows at stage left}
Have no fear young Woo-monster, I have calculated the current time in Morris to be 02h50 in the morning. We are quite safe for the next few hours.
Make sure to destroy all evidence … don’t leave any traces! Wipe down the interwebz before leaving…
{exeunt}
Shreddies have always been diamond shaped.
TZT has always been and always will be.
THE END OF THE THREAD IS NIGH
REPENT SINNERS AND RECEIVE REDEMPTION
FIVE CENTS FOR YOUR SINS
TEN CENTS IN MICHIGAN
TZTitizens:
I feared this day would come. While on a diplomatic mission to procure much-needed gizmos for our robot horde, I received word that disaster has struck and rushed home. It is clear that our accursed godbot, theophontes, does not praise divinity incoherently enough to aid in our defense against the utter meaninglessness we face as godless heathens. I ask myself whether this could have been avoided if only he had more time to find Jesus, but it is too late. His failures as a godbot will be dealt with soon, I assure you, by now you may have caught news of more pressing matters. There has been official confirmation that theophontes has deliberately provoked the ire of the dread cephalopodian, without question a traitorous act, for he is no true zombie but has always secretly harbored sympathies for invertebrates.
What good can come of this, I ask you? We had broken free of the yoke of oppression, happily eating brains in freedom and dignity, without the tentacles of power robbing from us what we have every right to feast upon. Now once again the poopyhead’s unrelenting wrath has been directed toward us, his eye fixed upon our every move, no doubt concocting a plot to stain this sanctified land with the blood of more innocents than we have to spare, a stain which will require much detergent and many shamwows to wipe clean, without the courtesy to leave behind brain remnants enough to feed even the smallest zombie child.
These are dark times, my friends, which is cause for much despair, but we must act. After much deliberation and cheap beer, it is clear to me that I must anoint myself Pope Zombie XVI. The beer will soon dry, but the stench will remain for as long as it takes to lead our peoples to victory and brains. The Ministry of Robotics will be moved to a secure location under the Basilica compound, to allow our best and brightest robots access to the most sophisticated theologians, to meet the growing demand for nutritious brain sources everyone can afford. Do not listen to lying dogs like “life is like a pitbull with lipstick,” for one day, united in victory, their brains will be ours.
VERILY THEN IT HAS COME TO PASS
FOR IT WAS PROPHESIED
THE NEXT TO LAST POPE WOULD BE ZOMBIE XVI
HARK SINNERS FOR THE END OF THIS SUBTHREAD IS NIGH
VERILY VERILY VERILY VERILY LIFE IS BUT A DREAM
FOLLOWED BY AN ETERNAL NIGHTMARE
Are we paying for them or being paid for them?
And what if it’s a compound sin?
Like, say you had protected, premarital sex with your significant other.
You planned to have sex. (1)
You planned to use protection. (1)
You had sex (1) and used that protection (1)
And you did this without being married (1)
That’s five sins in one go!
That depends on whether you seek redemption!
In HELL, you will pay for your sins!
In Heaven, LORD PAYS YOU!
It’s a pretty good deal.
FREE BILL STICKERS!
all right EVILUTIONISTS if you think you have all the BRAINS
answer me this
if zombies came from humans
then WHY ARE THERE STILL HUMANS
Well I think you need to survive a year in a zombie apocolpse hopefully the infection will wear itself out. Also seriously this numpty is still going?
*pops in, sees Pharyngula zombies, not creobot zombies, pops out*
Ha, mine tubez hath been severed. That’s 2 sinz every 7 seconds!
They’re out of batteries
I think it is Xombie Jeebus. You know, crown of thorns and all that shit.
Rotate 45 degrees. It is now trapezoidal.
With what? Some of the stuff I have seen via image searches there is enough bleach not for.
Damn. I appear to have gotten Yoditis. It computer virus must be.
Is the double fee because of the Youpers or the Trolls?
Ah, the quintifecta!
Breeding stock?
No wonder they don’t have any staying power, and act they their mind is only at half-working-potential.
Gack! Need brain bleach, DH’s incoherence is transmitable.
I was promised a shniny uniform.
Being promised a shniny uniform is not the same as having a shniny uniform.
John Morales mentioned in #40 that there would be a “classic” in his post, but all I found was a song from 2006.
This was very confusing for me; surely you meant to post this little gem?
I’m not big on horror movies, but I liked this zombie movie a lot. (Also, the sex scene was hawt.)
WMDKitty: “And what if it’s a compound sin?”
Case Nightmare Green, I presume?
–
I’d like to nominate this classic for this week’s DH666 Award in the category ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’
Well I don’t know who lobbied for it, but it’s because of the Michigan Vessels of Gold, Silver, Wood and Clay Initiated Law of 1976, commonly known as the Wages of Sin Act.
Which, because of an unintentional homage to Tpyos, was actually promulgated as the Wages of Sine Act. Which explains the lack of Calculus teachers in much of Michigan.
Jokes!
Jokes!
This thread is for serious…
meh
Did you notice the KILL IT WITH FIRE link under the endless thread quicklink?
chigau (√-1):
I did see the KILL IT WITH FIRE link. However, I am relatively unsophistimicated when it comes to computers and I have been unable to figure out how to insert fire into the internet. Therefore, I am attempting to kill it with shitty humour. Or other humours.
Speaking of the Apocalypse
Y’all know this li’l webcomic in which the ‘pocalypse brings us zombies, vampires, human-killing robots and human-eating plants?
http://www.thepocalypse.com
@Daisy Cutter — George Carlin is applicable to so many things…
Day saved.
The Magnificent.
Even the MagnificentBastard.
You’re being awesome today.
Don’t worry. The zombies are working on it.
Because I don’t want to post this on TET, but I want to say it anyway. :)
If Jared Diamond had hired me as editor of Guns, Germs and Steel, it would have had:
1. 33% fewer words,
2. A slightly larger font size,
3. 25% higher profit margins (see [1]: ka-ching!), and
4. An Oxford comma in the title
That’s all.
No worries, cm.
Dual citizenship will get you by… for now.
(When the revolution comes, though, you will need to choose)
John Morales
uuh
We had The Revolution.
This is It.
Yep! All of our revolution is over, and we have won all our objectives. Therefore, due to this concession, we are no threat whatsoever to the Poopyhead or his Evil Overlordship. Long live the Evil Overlord!
*whispers to chigau* Nice going! Now come help me with this stockpile!
I was wondering where everyone was…
@ consciousness
(via ॐ)The Prophecy of the Popes:
More disconcerting than this heaven sent warning are the subtle signs of insurrection at play in the comments… {dials the secret number for anonymous tip-offs at Minitrue}
@ Mikelaing
I see your jeebusbots and raise you NOAHBOTS (Whatever they may be. For sale at the Noah’s Ark in Hong Kong)
@ life is like a pitbull with lipstick
Not on this thread there’s not.
@ chigau
Come the revolution chigau, come the revolution…
@ Peter Jackson
(Link to: In Bad Taste … from ~3:38)
CC(C),OM
*OK!*
[are we putting it under the stairs?
OMG Under the stairs!!!!
Are they still there??]
[/obscure TET reference]
— —-
theophontes 777
I reiterate:
Didn’t we already have the fekin’ revolution???
@ chigau
But sedition and revolt is not tolerated by Teh Ebil Oberlawd! Thoughtcrime!!!one!!2@@1!
{prepares list for secret transmission to Minitrue}
….
The Passion of Zombie Jesus. Note shniny uniforms. (Do not attempt to watch this while sober.)
Of course, they have always been under the stairs! They’re definitely still there and in no way are they hard at work digging a tunnel from TET in which we will … NOT… hide any stockpile or any revolutionary reserves whatsoever!
theophontes
That video was really long.
I fell asleep because I wa…iz’nt sober
@ chigau
Long video? But, … it was only 7 minutes! The masses are called upon to make great sacrifices for the
revolution… fun and games under the stairs [*wink wink*] … it is not right that the leadership have it easy. {theophontes spoons extra caviar onto the truffles while flipping through the yacht broker’s catalog} We of the Inner Party should be as one with the suffering of the lumpen proletariat. {clips end off cigar, calls for more champaign}Business supper in Shenzhen last night. The banquet was tasty, but the wine foul (I mean really foul, blood-of-christ foul). I ended up getting very drunk (I had to toast each of our twenty guests. Do the math – I certainly couldn’t. ) Anyhow, I somehow managed to wake up in my own bed, some 40 kilometers away. (I even managed to clean up around the toilet and bathroom floor after the little “accident”.) Brainless zombie mode really does work!
theophontes
The story of my life.
—-
re all that endless toasting
When you are in charge of the banquet
USE SMALL GLASSES
I figured it out.
The Sumo seems to be running an hour late because
Japan does NOT do daylight saving time!
fucking DST
@ chigau
THEY WERE!
Whatever one does, one is still going to lose. (Death by small cuts turns one into a zombie just as quickly as a big fat crucification.)
@theophontes 777
@ chigau
Mein Gott! Noah-bot Robot applique Shirt a.k.a. Uniformen für den Widerstand!
@ chigau
Cassandra Caligaria (Cipher), OM
And they have a really, really long video: The People Under the Stairs (1991) Hollywood Movie Watch Online
theophontes 777
But…. never bite off more than you can chew, which reminds me, chewing your food 40 times aids proper digestion.
abiogenisis?
You see, danielhaven666, we’ve got a detailed and studied theory about the origins of life, including cool pictures and evolutionary trees for mol*hic moly*hic* Molly *hic* mollykewls *burp* *hic*…here – Ribosomal History Reveals Origins of Modern Protein Synthesis – that includes the very ribosomes that you are using inside you right now.
So, unless you are ready to concede that every little bitty bit of you evolved from a rock, then give us back your ribosomes right now and get back to Forever Blowing Bubbles.
That reminds me, do you remember blowing bubbles when you were a kid? That’s alright, I saw him the other day, and he said to say ‘Hi’
Now we are totally fucked: Zombies can walk on water. (video)
The catholics are being persecuted again (linky):
Oh goody, the marketing department has come across to our side. Let our Ebil International Campaign ™ commence in earnest.
THIS SUBTHREAD WILL END TOMORROW
PLEASE HAVE YOUR PRP PASSPORT
TATTOOED ON YOUR RIGHT HAND
OR ON YOUR FOREHEAD
TO EXPEDITE THE SORTING PROCESS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION
OH HEY ARE WE DOING HOMOPHOBIC JOKES NOW
THAT’S IT
I AM TURNING THIS HANDBASKET AROUND
YOU ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN MISTER
But I’m a leftist!
If God doesn’t like the ad he can do something about it.
The ad linked in theophontes #100.
Aw crap.
That is why you have a forehead. The LORD provides.
@ life is like a pitbull with lipstick
666? We are going to see DH666 again. Oh frabjoyous day, our prayers have been answered!
{does merry little dance}
As I always suspected, ॐ is in league with the Debil!
This is a general warning to the assorted traitors to the Grand Tentacled Poopyhead: Please leave this thread immediately and return to TET. If you do so willingly, your crimes will be pardoned by the Grand Tentacled Poopyhead or the Trophy Wife. This rebellious thread will then be killed with fire and a 12 bore to the head. Oh, and Grand Tentacled Poopyhead sees the tunnel under the stairs. The Grand Tentacled Poopyhead knows where your supplies are. The Grand Tentacled Poopyhead sees everything.
That is all.
Test for
𝔗𝔢𝔥 𝕷𝕺𝕽𝕯!
Now bold tags for
𝔗𝔢𝔥 𝕷𝕺𝕽𝕯!
See comrades, these claims are always made by mere mortals. Have you ever seen the Supreme Tentacled Oberlawd what can see Eberything? No, this is clearly an invention by those who seek to rob us of our freedom!
Where is your GAWD now?
[whisper] Actually, chigau. Teh Oberlawd is on an airplane right now. Don’t tell the others but I suggest erasing the evidence and slipping away quietly. I’ve got first dibs on the Leer jet. [whisper]
@ lilapwlॐ
We can do fonts !!!!!interrobang!????
or is it just that ॐ connections?
or is it just that ॐ has connections?
‽‽‽‽
I can has fonts. Theophontes can has fail.
</smug>
@ chigao
Yup, I told you he was in cahoots with Teh Dark Lawd.
(And my comment denouncing ॐ in #112 mysteriously “disappeared”. I find that extremely suspect. Jedi mind tricks and stuff?)
My droogs, don’t fall for the fancy pants tricks! Keep the faith, we can still pull this off. Surely you are not going to fall for the old “write stuff in Gothic ruse”.
“First they ridicule us … then we win!” Bear that in mind!!one!12@@@!!!
re fonts (not phontes)
*views source code*
aaah. Clever.
One might say Debilishly clever.
If we’re still stockpiling supplies, I have a 25kg bag of gummi bears and a box of the original 1930 batch of Twinkies, created by grand master baker James Alexander Dewar himself.
I also have a fairly fresh box of ladyfinger firecrackers, in case we need explosives.
@ chigau
NOooooo! Do not fall prey to Teh Devious ONe! Do not look straight at the text!!!
(Pro-tip: Use a mirror when viewing demonic text. This will prevent infection by teh ebil.)
ॐ:
This one is for theo
Interesting. Preview worked jes’ fine. Submission ate most of my comment, though. It ate the comment, and belched rudely.
(and can you believe she is only two years old XD It’s time to teach my bio-son an Asian language or two, though one set of grandparents has been teaching him Low German…)
(around the two minute mark, she is singing the famous Tang poem I studied in Classical Chinese 101, and the instructor also made us sing it XD)
Watch out for this A. R “person”‽
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/03/15/museuming/comment-page-1/#comment-287700
@ pelamun
That is pretty much the level of my Mandarin. (Including picking my nose.)
@ nigel
Yeah, the same thing happened to me. Seems to happen when one makes a disparaging remark about ॐ. Obviously there are dark forces at play.
@ chigau
You are on the ball! The myrmidons at Minitrue have opened a large dossier on that one.
This was a stroke of genius:
{taps on calculator} Say one hour traveling “downtown”, three hours in museum, six hours in pub, an hour back to “uptown”. We should have more than enough time to implement our designs! (Sadly I cannot promote you any further up the chain of command.)
theophontes:
I was merely informing ॐ that Jedi font tricks do not work on me.
This is obviously an attempt to stick fingers in ears in an effort to avoid uncomfortable truths.
I must actually leave the house in about an hour.
Can I take my netbook into the shower so I don’t miss anything?
chigau:
Of course you can.
/me sits back and waits for hilarity to ensue
@ chigau
Of course, you just mustn’t turn the water on.
we need a Pharyngula App available on iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android and Chrome, whose one main function would be to have the device make ringing noises like hell whenever someone posts on this thread
then you could put it safely in the bathroom
Hey! The ziplock worked!
@ chigau
*SnarFle*
{{note to self: better keep an eye on chigau. clever people are dangerous to benign dictators for life.}}
theo,
here’s another one, including picking the nose.
ℌ’𝔬𝔨𝔞𝔶, ℑ 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 ℑ 𝔤𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔬𝔴. (ℑ’𝔪 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔶𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔡𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱 𝔟𝔬𝔵.) ℌ𝔬𝔭𝔢… 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔠𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔖𝔲𝔟𝔪𝔦𝔱!
𝔚𝔬𝔬𝔥𝔬𝔬!
𝔈𝔵𝔠𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔪𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔢 ℑ 𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔩𝔶:
𝔄𝔅ℭ𝔇𝔈𝔉𝔊ℌℑ𝔍𝔎𝔏𝔐𝔑𝔒𝔓𝔔ℜ𝔖𝔗𝔘𝔙𝔚𝔛𝔜ℨ
𝔞𝔟𝔠𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔤𝔥𝔦𝔧𝔨𝔩𝔪𝔫𝔬𝔭𝔮𝔯𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔳𝔴𝔵𝔶𝔷
I thought he did Scotch Whiskey?
𝔙𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔩𝔶 𝔫𝔬𝔴, ℑ 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔞𝔨 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔒ℜ𝔇.
𝔐𝔶 𝔣𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔶 𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔦𝔱.
𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔞𝔯𝔤𝔲𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔰𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔞 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔦𝔰𝔥𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱.
life is like:
your fonts don’t work, at least not for me.
Yeah, they won’t show up for everybody.
𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔯
You have to have good Unicode support. I assume you’re on Internet Explorer?
Are you trying to insult me on purpose?
*snerk* I’m really not sure which browser and OS combinations will support it well. So I’m guessing here.
weird. Both Chrome and Safari failed, where Firefox worked.
Internet Explorer, pah!
I’ve had this kind of font trouble only with certain Southern Indian scripts as well as the Cherokee script.
None of which I need for my daily work, so it hasn’t been an issue. Who woulda thought it Fraktur would become a problem..
Oh, I have a Dossier alright, a dossier on Aspic Recipes! And I know how to use it!
Oh you hideous beast you’ve come all over my umbrella.
Louis
Louis: Be glad it wasn’t a whale that did it.
I’m still using explorer and I’m seeing Fraktur.
and I’m jealous.
ॐ do you take bribes?
—
Og
Saran wrap is the work of the devil.
(no offense to anyone here)
But it is far superior to Sarah (Palin) Rap.
Ugh.
Now I have this almost uncontrollable urge to run a search for a Sarah Palin Rap.
Luckily, it not uncontrollable. Only almost uncontrollable.
Supposedly, one of the girls in my middle school got pregnant and she was surprised because ‘Saran wrap was supposed to work just as well.’ In our uni-sex sex-ed classes, one boy did ask if Saran wrap worked as well. He was surprised that the answer was no.
let’s start a good ol’ browser / OS flame war XD
thought that might befit the threadde
Ogvorbis,
I remember my sex ed class in fifth grade.
We had a lot of fun with the diaphragm, and other tools. Well fifth graders would giggle every time the word “traffic” was mentioned (in German the word for traffic also means intercourse)
Unfortunately the teacher doing the class was a misogynistic asshole (I’m not gonna retell his standard joke)
I’ll put in my two cents worth and exclaim that (declaim that?) it all went to hell when we got rid of DOS2.12!
Well, that’s a start, but you might also want to put a stake in its heart, fill its mouth with garlic and salt, cut its head off, and then bury the whole thing head-down at a crossroads. Just to be sure.
And it goes without saying that you should use silver shot.
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Don’t you believe it! Teh Ebil is a plague that originates in Peas, and is then vectored by Horses. Demonic text is, by comparison, a brief cold.
–
Pffff OS flame war. I’m typing this using an abacus. A stone abacus at that. None of your knapped flint either, just bits of rock I found.
You kids with your fancy OSes. GET OFF MAH LAWN.
Louis
P.S. A.R. I shall be intensely grateful.
𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔤𝔞𝔲, ℑ 𝔡𝔬 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔢𝔰, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔞𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢’𝔰 𝔫𝔬 𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔶 𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔦𝔫 ℑ𝔓. ℑ’𝔪 𝔠𝔬𝔟𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬𝔤𝔢𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔞 𝔤𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔶 𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱 𝔟𝔲𝔱 ℑ 𝔡𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔣 𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨 𝔦𝔫 ℑ𝔈.
𝔉𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔴, 𝔶𝔬𝔲’𝔩𝔩 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 ℌ𝔗𝔐𝔏 𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔄𝔩𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔲𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠 𝔖𝔶𝔪𝔟𝔬𝔩𝔰.
𝔄𝔩𝔰𝔬 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫’𝔱 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ’𝔪 𝔱𝔶𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤.
𝔄𝔩𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔲𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠; 𝔞𝔫𝔡 ℑ𝔈 𝔫𝔬𝔱 ℑ𝔅!
ॐ: Any way to get Comic Sans? Imagine if we all could quote trolls PZ style!
ℑ’𝔪 𝔞𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔫𝔬𝔱. 𝔖𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔞𝔤𝔬 ℑ 𝔪𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔞 𝔖𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔢𝔱 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔠 𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔰, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔊𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔶 𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔴𝔥𝔬’𝔳𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱. ℑ𝔱’𝔰 𝔬𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔓𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔶𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔩𝔞 𝔚𝔦𝔨𝔦𝔞 𝔦𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔴𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔯𝔶 𝔦𝔱. ℑ’𝔪 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔣 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔉𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔵𝔢𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥.
Yeah it still works. If you go over to
pharyngula dot wikia dot com/wiki/greasemonkey
you can get it there
ॐ: I saw no comic sans
Have to have the script installed. A few regulars still use it on occasion.
there we go
what, exactly is the code needed to make the script work?
The instructions are in the script headers, but it’s
blockquote cite=”creationist”
q cite=”creationist”
I had to use “cite” because FTB eats most html attributes (take a look at the Allowed Tags above your textarea; they’re very limited).
Thanks. Hmm,
It’s perfect!
Glad you like it. Did Wikia give you any trouble installing it? I was unable to just click on the link and have a Greasemonkey alert pop up this time. I had to cut and paste.
It actually worked quite well.
Good! And now, Gumby Fraktur.
Interesting.
I don’t see Comic Sans.
You can’t has Comic Sans because you has IE.
Well, maybe. There are supposed to be Greasemonkey-compatible plugins for IE, but I don’t know if they work anymore.
Good luck: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=greasemonkey+internet+explorer
“Anonymous” as in “they track your number, and they wrote the phonebook”.
*sings way too loud*
Gongcha-andang, xiang ta-aiyang,
zhaodao na-ali-i –
Oh. PRP passport. My bad.
…We must urgently reintroduce slavery.
Or the Apocalypse will never come.
*evil laugh*
…What the fuck. FtB cuts the comment off at the first occurrence of fancy Fraktur. I was going to say…
░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
Laddies and gentlewomen, this is not a font. It’s a series of special characters with insanely large spacing above and below them. Look at the source text (if you have Firefox)!
Still, I’d like to know which font they come from. Arial Unicode MS, as of Windows XP, only has ℌ, ℑ, ℜ, ℨ and ℭ, without the absurd spacing, and yet, Firefox displays teh entire [LOℜD]. ~:-|
Problem is, vampires do not have a mirror image because they’re preternatural; isn’t demonic text preternatural as well?
What do you think of “one parent-type figure, one language”?
Awesome!
Awesome!
(Yes, I am out of words, why do you ask?)
Boooooo! Where’s the long ſ!?!
ℑ 𝔡𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔶 𝔲𝔫𝔲𝔰𝔲𝔞𝔩 𝔰𝔭𝔞𝔠𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱. ℑ𝔱 𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔩 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢.
𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫’𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔬𝔫𝔢. 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶’𝔯𝔢 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 𝔄𝔩𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔲𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠 𝔖𝔶𝔪𝔟𝔬𝔩𝔰 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢, 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔡𝔩𝔶 𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔡𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤 ſ.
“I don’t know chicken.”
♥♥
*Ahem* Long “S”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
And the mathematicians did so need (well use) it:
<also smug>
D’oh. Misread ſ as “f”. Colour me mildly embarrassed.
Here chigau, I found something that should work for you.
First use this to convert to fraktur. (It only does bold fraktur.) http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi
Then copy and paste the fraktur into this to html-encode it. http://web.forret.com/tools/html_large.asp
That second tool is a bit funky and it has two outputs. You want to take the output on the top which looks more like this:
𝕳𝖎 𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖚.
You don’t want the one that includes “amp;”
well, fuck. That went wrong.
𝕳𝖎 𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖚.damnation
𝕳𝖎 𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖆𝖚.fuck it. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I think FTB’s WordPress setup is working against me.
This stuff, this is what you want to cut and paste, without the spaces and without the amp;s
& #120179; & #120206; & #120200;& #120205;& #120206;& #120204;& #120198;& #120218;.
It shouldn’t work when the “amp;”s are included, but FTB is apparently foolproof, and I’m a fool.
𝕳𝖒𝖒, 𝖘𝖊𝖊𝖒𝖘 𝖙𝖔 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖐𝖘 𝖜𝖊𝖑𝖑.
ॐ
I’m seeing the same thing over and over.
“hi chigau” in the funky font.
—
I think I’ll just bite the bullet and download firefox.
Which version is best?
—-
On another hand, when I look at those posts on the Mac running Safari I see strings of rectangles.
A. R’s posts, too.
𝔠𝔪, ℑ 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔡 𝔦𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔩𝔲𝔡𝔢𝔡 𝔦𝔫 𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯. 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔡𝔦𝔡𝔫’𝔱 𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔩𝔲𝔡𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 ẞ 𝔢𝔦𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯, 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔬𝔟𝔳𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔩𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯.
I know, that’s because I cocked up all the examples. But if you use the two tools I linked in #184, taking the output of the first tool and using it as input for the second, you should have success.
My Greasemonkey script is still buggy, not ready for release. So Firefox won’t help you right now.
10.whatever’s.newest
damn you
this was supposed to say damn you Fraktur using zombies forcing me to fire up Firefox just to see what you are posting.
Fraktur was supposed to be in Fraktur, thus self-ironically referencing the fact that I was calling myself a zombie too, but it didn’t work because FtB ate it up.
Oh well
The spacing looks normal here, too, but if you highlight the letters or paste them into the comment window, strange things happen.
Things you learn from Jin
In pre-modern Japan, breast cancer was called “a rock in your breast”
Also, I don’t know if KG follows the zombie thread, but back in the day they used the term running dog in the final Edo era too. Though somehow the term is no longer used in modern Japanese. (sôku J/zou3gou3 走狗)
𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖍 𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖍 𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖍
ɥɐןq ɥɐןq ɥɐןq
I thought, “Slow night.”
Then I read the Pure Evil thread and the one at B&W…
Huh.
It worked in preview…
/whine.
Owlmirror
ooh jeeez
don’t do it!!‽‽!
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝔃𝓸𝓶𝓫𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓵𝓾𝓻𝓬𝓱
𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭
𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓷𝓸𝔀
𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓭
𝓑𝓾𝓻𝓶𝓪 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮
lol @ Owlmirror
The fancy whatevers don’t show in Chrome except as little squares.
𝔗𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔦𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 , , 𝔢𝔱𝔠. 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔠𝔨𝔰
𝔄𝔅𝔇𝔈𝔉𝔊𝔍𝔎𝔏𝔐𝔑𝔒𝔓𝔔𝔖𝔗𝔘𝔙𝔚𝔛𝔜
𝔞𝔟𝔠𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔤𝔥𝔦𝔧𝔨𝔩𝔪𝔫𝔬𝔭𝔮𝔯𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔳𝔴𝔵𝔶𝔷
𝔑𝔬𝔭𝔢.
And there was much rejoicing \o/
If I get a killfile and put myself in it, what would happen?
You’re trying to tempt someone into trying it, aren’t you chigau? Well I’m wise to your ways mister and/or miz.
You would never again have to read what you write, and you would lose all inhibitions of speech, like someone who’s blacked-out drunk.
c’mon bunny, ya know ya wanna!
——-
ॐ
hhmmm. Aging has already put me on this path.
ℑ’𝔪 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔶 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔪𝔶 𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱 𝔰𝔬 𝔣𝔞𝔯. 𝔄𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔭𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔟𝔢 𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔡𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔱𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫 ℌ𝔗𝔐𝔏 𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱.
𝔒𝔥 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔶𝔢𝔰. 𝔑𝔬𝔴 𝔦𝔱’𝔰 𝔞𝔩𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔫𝔢. 𝔄𝔩𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔱.</i
ð–‚ð•¿ð•±
Eh?????????????
𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱’𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯, 𝔐𝔦𝔨𝔢?
*deploys the stinkeye*
sorry
dr bunny.
(I’ll never use bunny again)
Alright, it’s ready!
Go get the new script, “Fraktur and Friends” at
pharyngula dot wikia dot com/wiki/greasemonkey
How it works:
Type out your message as usual, then go to the Greasemonkey menu, and under “User Script Commands” select Fraktur.
It’ll support other fonts (*sticks out tongue at DDMFM*) later. For now it’s just Fraktur.
It will Frakturize all the text when you use the “User Script Command”.
So if you want some normal text too, you’ll have to run the script and then type or paste in the normal text afterward.
𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔲𝔤𝔰.
A bug was stomped, and it now has a de-Fraktur option also, so you can quote what someone said in Fraktur without the quote getting eaten by FTB.
ॐ: Any chance of non-secret comic sans?
Nope. Such things are locked down here at FTB. It was an option at SB, but I see no way of doing it here. Others have tried too.
Well, I realize it’s a long shot, but if anybody wants to help add other fonts, like this one or Fraktur Bold, or pseudo-Cyrillic, there’s instructions here on how to help:
pharyngula dot wikia dot com/wiki/User_talk:Markovbaines
It’s nothing difficult, just a bunch of copy & paste work. Leave a note here if you’re going to take on a particular block, so nobody duplicates effort.
Huh. That would be “walking dog” in modern Mandarin, right? Or does it specifically have to be zǒu lù?
Thanks, I’ll try as soon as I get Internet at home, which should be… hm. Next week at the latest.
Let’s see, how many script letters are there in Arial Unicode MS… oh. Not many. ℊℋℐℒℓ℘ℛℬℯℰℱℳℴ *sulk*
Man, does it look like Deacon Mushrat has been through here.
Also, I find it hard to believe there is no unicode representation of Comic Sans. That’s just absurd! It’s like not having a clown in your physics class. Unheard-of!
𝔏𝔒𝔏! 𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔣𝔲𝔠𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔩𝔞𝔶 𝔪𝔢, 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔢𝔩. ℑ 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 ℑ’𝔪 𝔤𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔠𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱 “𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔠𝔬𝔫 𝔐𝔲𝔰𝔥𝔯𝔞𝔱” 𝔫𝔬𝔴.
LLPL:
Hey! Did you hijack my laptop’s webcam?
*closes eyes*
iaw#pr’nk\vji
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𝔒𝔥! 𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔰!
𝔇𝔦𝔡𝔫’𝔱 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔞 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔲𝔱𝔢 𝔞𝔤𝔬.
𝔄𝔴𝔢𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢. (𝔖𝔞𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔏𝔒ℜ𝔇.)
Also works on Sb, by the looks of things. This could go viral!
It’s very generic, and should work on most any blog. And maybe webmail, should you be so inclined.
I’m sorta expecting a conflict with Disqus blogs, but who knows.
𝔻𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕖 𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖𝕤.
Missed that one. Well I’m not around enough, I think. I’m more like an uncle, two parents is enough. That way, I also don’t have to get into an argument about baptism.
Though he did get a bilingual picture book that includes audio. I.e. a picture of a dog, you press the button and the book says the word in the language selected.
A cultural difference. Japanese and Chinese do not use the normal word for “walk” for the activity of walking a dog, but rather a word like “saunter” or “spazieren gehen”. In the case of Chinese, it would be
遛狗 liu4gou3
走狗 zou3gou3 “running dog” is not a VO construction but rather it means a traitor to their own country, serving a foreign master. “The running dogs of imperialism”
Now while in modern Mandarin, 走 means either “walk” or “go away” (他走了), in classical Chinese it meant “run”, and it still does in Japanese (hashiru). So you the classical meaning in 走狗.
Ha! Gotcha, your Eurocentrism is showing (kidding)! There is no such cultural notion of “walking your dog” unless you’re influenced by western ideas. If you must express such a notion, it’ll be a longish circumlocution.
Oh damn, the last paragraph about Eurocentrism should have been stricken. This was more based on my own impressions of how dogs are treated in Chinese speaking countries compared to western ones. But can’t say how representative they are, and also there is a more or less direct way of saying it.
Since all of the stuff about scripting is going over my head:
I’d like to nominate “walking the dog” as yet another euphemism for those activities undertaken alone with ones naughty bits.
You can make it happen!
It’s pretty easy now.
1. get Firefox
2. get Greasemonkey
3. get Deacon Mushrat: pharyngula dot wikia dot org/wiki/greasemonkey
4. refresh a Pharyngula page
5. type in some words
6. right-click on the Greasemonkey’s grinning face, select “User Script Commands”, select Fraktur
7. gloat
Hmm, I don’t know. It seems vaguely like work.
It is, vaguely. But I’ll bet if you do the majuscule, someone else will do the minuscule.
Leeds United vs West Ham United Live Streaming
2 hrs to go, danielhaven666. We will see if you are man enough to show up here after Leeds dismantles your sell-out Academy of Hooligans.
(Fucken ISP problems, now can’t connect to gmail, new Noah-bot gravatar works. So pissed off, thinking of kidnapping dh666 and drag him here by the scruff of his neck and feed him to the rabbits. Good work, nigelTheBold to the power of nigelTheBold, that unicode comic-sans search was eating up my limited connectivity. Will keep working on wp hack. life is like a pitbull with lipstick ॐ, what color lipstick should I wear when I leeds the charge on the castle? Theo, chigau (√-1), I need to overthrow something this morning to get over this pissy mood/over)
mikelaing
OK by me but bring us a cup of tea first, would you?
[[Narrator: The dastardly theophontes is ill right now, so I shall use this opportunity to fill you in on its ruse. The bitter truth is that theopontes is not even human, but a tardigrade in a petri-dish that has managed to con a scientist to connect it, via some high-faluting technology, to the internet. It has leveraged itself from a minute, moss infesting Milnesium tardigradum through various nefarious and self-serving tricks and ruses, to the point that it is now able to go out on the internet to create a ruckus. Although it may appear to have some limited intelligence, this is not so much through any effort on it’s part (tardigrades are really not very bright), but more that it ha managed to manipulate the vast repository of somatic knowledge on the interwebs to puff out it’s appearance on line.
Whatever you do, do not have any dealings with any tardigrada, particularly the specimen in question. You shall all rue the day you fall for its tricks.
Unfortunately, as The Narrator, I am reliant on the same communication channels as that wicked droplet dwelling one. Fortunately, because of its small size, tardigrades cannot see over whisper brackets … like ] and [ … so messages are safe if enclosed in these. I best go now in case it stirs. I shall warn you of further frightening facts if I get the chance. In the meantime, be sure to use whisper brackets if you want to communicate safely. Take care now. –Signed: The Narrator.]]
[{I fear that whatever medication theophontes is on for the flu is having some unfortunate “side”-effects}]
[[Narrator: No! Not at all. As a narrator, I must stay fully compost mentist at all times. You must believe me! There is little time! Trust me, here is a real genuine picture to prove it: Picture of theophontes running amok on the interwebs.]]
sweetsuffrin…*cough*|[|what IS that on the plate, two slides to
yourtheophontes’s left?|]|chigau (√-1):
It appears to be Irish soda bread, with jam and cheese.
Toe jam.
Head cheese.
Ḭ ḇḛṯ ḁ ḇṍḭḻḛḏ ṕṍṱḁṭṍ ṫḩḁṭ ḭṭ ḭṣ Ṃḁṛṃḭṭḝ, ḁ ḥḭḑḙᴑᶙṧ ḟᴜṟṟḭṉ ṩṳḇṡṫḁṇḉḙ.
Last-minute equaliser for WHU!
DH666 saves face. mikelaing probably has a glum. *offers beer all round*
Note: I replaced the ampersands with “&” because in preview the characters were showing up instead of their numbers, so you should be able to copy/paste without needing to decode them. Hope this works.
Double-struck/Blackboard bold:
A-Z:
s=s.replace(/A/g,"𝔸"); s=s.replace(/B/g,"𝔹"); s=s.replace(/C/g,"ℂ"); s=s.replace(/D/g,"𝔻"); s=s.replace(/E/g,"𝔼"); s=s.replace(/F/g,"𝔽"); s=s.replace(/G/g,"𝔾"); s=s.replace(/H/g,"ℍ"); s=s.replace(/I/g,"𝕀"); s=s.replace(/J/g,"𝕁"); s=s.replace(/K/g,"𝕂"); s=s.replace(/L/g,"𝕃"); s=s.replace(/M/g,"𝕄"); s=s.replace(/N/g,"ℕ"); s=s.replace(/O/g,"𝕆"); s=s.replace(/P/g,"ℙ"); s=s.replace(/Q/g,"ℚ"); s=s.replace(/R/g,"ℝ"); s=s.replace(/S/g,"𝕊"); s=s.replace(/T/g,"𝕋"); s=s.replace(/U/g,"𝕌"); s=s.replace(/V/g,"𝕍"); s=s.replace(/W/g,"𝕎"); s=s.replace(/X/g,"𝕏"); s=s.replace(/Y/g,"𝕐"); s=s.replace(/Z/g,"ℤ");a-z:
s=s.replace(/a/g,"𝕒"); s=s.replace(/b/g,"𝕓"); s=s.replace(/c/g,"𝕔"); s=s.replace(/d/g,"𝕕"); s=s.replace(/e/g,"𝕖"); s=s.replace(/f/g,"𝕗"); s=s.replace(/g/g,"𝕘"); s=s.replace(/h/g,"𝕙"); s=s.replace(/i/g,"𝕚"); s=s.replace(/j/g,"𝕛"); s=s.replace(/k/g,"𝕜"); s=s.replace(/l/g,"𝕝"); s=s.replace(/m/g,"𝕞"); s=s.replace(/n/g,"𝕟"); s=s.replace(/o/g,"𝕠"); s=s.replace(/p/g,"𝕡"); s=s.replace(/q/g,"𝕢"); s=s.replace(/r/g,"𝕣"); s=s.replace(/s/g,"𝕤"); s=s.replace(/t/g,"𝕥"); s=s.replace(/u/g,"𝕦"); s=s.replace(/v/g,"𝕧"); s=s.replace(/w/g,"𝕨"); s=s.replace(/x/g,"𝕩"); s=s.replace(/y/g,"𝕪"); s=s.replace(/z/g,"𝕫");A-Z reverse:
s=s.replace(/𝔸/g,"A"); s=s.replace(/𝔹/g,"B"); s=s.replace(/ℂ/g,"C"); s=s.replace(/𝔻/g,"D"); s=s.replace(/𝔼/g,"E"); s=s.replace(/𝔽/g,"F"); s=s.replace(/𝔾/g,"G"); s=s.replace(/ℍ/g,"H"); s=s.replace(/𝕀/g,"I"); s=s.replace(/𝕁/g,"J"); s=s.replace(/𝕂/g,"K"); s=s.replace(/𝕃/g,"L"); s=s.replace(/𝕄/g,"M"); s=s.replace(/ℕ/g,"N"); s=s.replace(/𝕆/g,"O"); s=s.replace(/ℙ/g,"P"); s=s.replace(/ℚ/g,"Q"); s=s.replace(/ℝ/g,"R"); s=s.replace(/𝕊/g,"S"); s=s.replace(/𝕋/g,"T"); s=s.replace(/𝕌/g,"U"); s=s.replace(/𝕍/g,"V"); s=s.replace(/𝕎/g,"W"); s=s.replace(/𝕏/g,"X"); s=s.replace(/𝕐/g,"Y"); s=s.replace(/ℤ/g,"Z");a-z reverse:
s=s.replace(/𝕒/g,"a"); s=s.replace(/𝕓/g,"b"); s=s.replace(/𝕔/g,"c"); s=s.replace(/𝕕/g,"d"); s=s.replace(/𝕖/g,"e"); s=s.replace(/𝕗/g,"f"); s=s.replace(/𝕘/g,"g"); s=s.replace(/𝕙/g,"h"); s=s.replace(/𝕚/g,"i"); s=s.replace(/𝕛/g,"j"); s=s.replace(/𝕜/g,"k"); s=s.replace(/𝕝/g,"l"); s=s.replace(/𝕞/g,"m"); s=s.replace(/𝕟/g,"n"); s=s.replace(/𝕠/g,"o"); s=s.replace(/𝕡/g,"p"); s=s.replace(/𝕢/g,"q"); s=s.replace(/𝕣/g,"r"); s=s.replace(/𝕤/g,"s"); s=s.replace(/𝕥/g,"t"); s=s.replace(/𝕦/g,"u"); s=s.replace(/𝕧/g,"v"); s=s.replace(/𝕨/g,"w"); s=s.replace(/𝕩/g,"x"); s=s.replace(/𝕪/g,"y"); s=s.replace(/𝕫/g,"z");@CR, you need github! ;)
Oh! So like laufen in northern German! Here in Berlin I have to constantly remind myself that people mean “walk”, not “run”, when they use that word. (Or when I see Laufgang printed in a bus, LOL.) It means exclusively “run” where I come from, and “walk” is gehen.
I didn’t mean “walking a dog”. I meant “a walking dog” – a dog that walks.
It’ll suck your cells empty, one by one!
Ẇẉễḗḁảẚḱḳḵĸẛ∰ṩẳẫṻḉḝⓔ‼‼‼
Oh. Let’s see what happens with italics ‼
However, laufen does not mean go away
That’s not how Chinese grammar works. Then you need to put a 的 between the modifier and the modified. You can only dispense with that if there is some kind of unitary semantic concept. Like has happened with
走狗
“a dog that runs for its foreign master”
In a sense, the running has become a defining part of this type of dog (also this usually refers to humans, another sign of this being a compound)
But there is no comparable concept for “a dog that walks”. If it’s about a dog that happens to be walking you need to say
正在走路的狗
Likewise,
飛狗 is not a “dog that happens to be flying” but a “flying dog” in the sense that this is a defining aspect of that type of (imagined) dog.
Used as a name by some bus companies.
So the chat here, now, is, like, all real and sensible?
WTF?
𝕋𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔻𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕜𝕖.
Will more people recognize the name “blackboard bold” or “double struck”?
𝔸𝔹ℂ𝔻𝔼𝔽𝔾ℍ𝕀𝕁𝕂𝕃𝕄ℕ𝕆ℙℚℝ𝕊𝕋𝕌𝕍𝕎𝕏𝕐ℤ
𝕒𝕓𝕔𝕕𝕖𝕗𝕘𝕙𝕚𝕛𝕜𝕝𝕞𝕟𝕠𝕡𝕢𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕧𝕨𝕩𝕪𝕫
𝕆𝕜𝕚𝕖 𝕕𝕠𝕜𝕖!
Thanks to consciousness razor, the Deacon Mushrat script has been updated to do double strike / blackboard bold.
Go get it at
pharyngula dot wikia dot com/wiki/greasemonkey
Ah, c’mon. theophontes is a real teddy bear.
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Yeah , I know, not earthshaking, but I need to keep TZT alive.
It. Is. Alive!
And if ya’ll ur gonna start channeling Deacon Mushrat, who gets to be Sarcophagus Macabre?
The weather is nice.
天気がいいです.
Why? By definition, it’s undead.
Ahem:
As you all may have seen in the anti-Caturday thread, I am taking steps to draw further resources to our cause by endorsing the very popular kitties. I feel that the controversy may cause a deep rift that allows us to triumph!
CC(C),OM
I missed your actions on the caturday thread.
Good job!
がんばりました、ね！
Days gen keeka du-saw? 更好在丘吉尔广场
Yes, this is a fantastic idea. Kittehz has fangz AND clawz. Ceiling cat haz biggest!
Se speshul skills of Ceiling Cat
7 iz me hoo switch lights on switch lights off, is me dat purr and dat kill mouses. me ceiling cat is masta of house.8 let wata from broken watapipe come down ceiling, many water come is gudd ! wiss sledgehammer make holez in floor is gudd ! rewire electric cables is GUDD ! ceiling cat is masta of house.
9 u mess with ceiling cat u srsly mess with rong kitteh. u no ceiling cat u hef no skillz. ceiling cat ownz all household ownz lordling ownz mistress. K ?10 ceiling cat not like complainz not like murmur of lordling murmur of se mistress. Not liek any murmur.
11 so is it: i ceiling cat superfurry masta hazz maked Izrahel hazz full visionz knows everithings even tomorro, hazz made all is MASTA CAT !
12 ceiling cat hazz make basket of all kittens, ceiling cat supermasta of all kittens in village. ceiling cat BIG has made heven n urf
None of that cheap stuff, either.
Jam packed with English Fuggles and Goldings, the beer is brewed with as many hops as we can physically get into the copper. We even add more hops using our own unique circulation process to ensure maximum contact between the hops and the body of the beer. All this gives us a final hopping rate of well over 2lbs of hops per barrel, resulting in a beer which throws out ginger notes and flavours of, marzipan which soften into a rich Seville orange marmalade.
Excellent drunk now, even better drunk tomorrow; this is one for laying down – both you and the beer will benefit from it.
A round for the thread, two for dh666!
mikelaing
Churchill Square?‽?
That is, no doubt, because I was extremely stealthy. *nods sagely*
Thanks, comrade!
mikelaing:
That sounds like child-the-tiny, who last night decided the right way to empty the bath was not to pull the plug, but to use a jug to empty it onto the (upstairs) bathroom floor. Flooding, soggy carpets, downstairs drippage, wiring-realated-panic, and shouting ensued. :-/
CC:
It’s too late. They have already triumphed.
(“My” cat’s under my bed: I’m posting on the internet instead of sleeping.)
It just occured to me that we could have a DeepRift™ here if we ever discussed the pronunciation of this thread’s title.
shit shit shit I have neglected my duties
ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔶𝔢, 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔶𝔢!
THIS SUBTHREAD WILL END TOMORROW
AND MAYBE THE WORLD TOO
WHO KNOWS EH
PLEASE FORM TWO SINGLE FILE LINES
SHEEP TO THE RIGHT
GOATS TO THE LEFT
OH AND IF YOU WOULD PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEYS
LET US KNOW IF YOUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED PROMPTLY AND COURTEOUSLY
WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THIS UNIVERSE TO YOUR FRIENDS
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW
AND SO ON AND SO FORTH
ONE LUCKY RESPONDENT WILL WIN A GUIDED TOUR OF NON-EUCLIDEAN SPACE
AND A DINNER DATE WITH CTHULHU
ॐ
“EH”?
So you pronounce it teezedtee?
chigau (√-1)
Zed! Beauty, eh?
I thought you were from edm, for some reason.
(Oh, I finally found out how to log in as my original moniker)
mikelaing
mikmik
I am from edm.
I was just surprised.
This was weird:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/03/a_tiny_bit_of_knowledge_is_a_d.php#comment-6244801
Where hops are involved, I’m a big fan of Shepherd Neame.
Mrs M collapsed some hop bines by driving a quad bike into the end of them.
(No names, no pack drill. Statute of limitations applies.)
I think I should make bread tomorrow.
chigau, nope, it’s zee to me, but the eh is a linguistic kudzu.
TZT is the only thread on FtB I’m reading right now.
SO here’s an ambiguous BBC headline from my news feed:
Male unrest at parliament opening
I did a double take here. Who knows what this is about, without cheating of course!
Right. So I keep feeding it some of my brains. (Historian brains are, however, to brains as Coors Light is to beer.)
ॐ
“linguistic kudzu”. har. Canadians should be proud!
—
pelamun
I googled.
chigau,
I personally think is a case for LanguageLog. I believe they call this type of thing “crash blossoms”.
(though it’s usually more about syntactic ambiguity, as in the original “Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms”)
[[Commentator: The tardigrade has been lying very still. Perhaps if we are lucky it will go into encystation. While I have the opportunity I’ll fill you in:
This creature has a lifespan of a mere two years, but matters are not that simple. It was born thousands of years ago, but has used its cryptobiotic abilities to die for years at a time, then awaken just long enough to get an eye on the state of the world before dying yet again. Its consciousness therefor operates in staccato fashion. All the more reason why it holds humanity in such disdain. You are just so many mayflies from a tardigrade perspective.
But fortunately I have been keeping track of this nefarious and inveterate invertebrate. I shall be able to … er …
hang on a moment, I just want … {pitter patter of little claws on pyrex} … AAAAAAAAAH … {loud pop of a teenzy, ittybit of 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane, sounds of breaking glass in distance, bloodcurdling screams …} ……………………bzzzzZZZ ……. PFFFtttt …..
{gentle lighting on the Chorus,stage left. all twelve are dressed in the robes of old men in the traditional Greek manner and hence look every bit like the apostles of jeebus}
Chorus in unison: “Ye have slain, ye Tardigrade, ye have slain the nightingale, the winged-one of the Muses who sought no man’s pain.”
The above is bad Latin that shout have been in Fraktur.
[meta-meta]
FIFY:
CommentatorNarrator[/meta-meta]
….
[meta]
Narrator[/meta]
AR
Lemme help you with that, A. R.
“𝔇𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔦𝔰, 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔰 𝔇𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔲𝔰 𝔭𝔲𝔭𝔭𝔢 𝔠𝔞𝔭𝔲𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔫𝔞 𝔢𝔦𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔢𝔪, 𝔡𝔬𝔫𝔞 𝔢𝔦𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔢𝔪 𝔰𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔪 𝔦𝔫 𝔰𝔦𝔫𝔲 ℭℜℑ𝔑ℑ𝔖. 𝔐𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔞𝔢𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔪 𝔢𝔵𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔰”
Better?
theophontes, are you by any chance still trying to cut and paste Fraktur letters?
‘twon’t work.
ॐ: Thanks!
Tardigrada regula!
{Damn, that lipsticked pitbull has been wielding teh jedi tricks agin…}
If I weren’t having such a grand time here, I’m sure I should be frightened.
As it is, my amusement is tremendous.
Oh, lawdy… I have tried to read the Deacon Mushrat instructions upthread, but cannot get it to work. Is there a simple instruction somewhere?
(Tardigrade World Dominance depends more on the foibles of humanity than any particular intelligence on our part…)
@ nigel
Warning Video!
How far along in the instructions did you get, theo?
You haz Firefox? You haz Greasemonkey? In Firefox’s Addons-Manager do you see “User Scripts”? Is Deacon Mushrat one of them?
theo:
I just fountained hot coffee out my nose. My sinuses and my keyboard thank you.
@ ॐ
I haz: Firefox, Greasemonkey … there is a Deacon Mushrat ticked in that.
Its Equilibrium is Punctuated?
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@ nigel
{note to self: The humans appear susceptible to humour. Suggest doubling dose to induce loss of consciousness.}
@ chigau
Chorus, in manner of Gregorian chant: “… Death is Punctuated is Life is Punctuaaaatedddd isss…” {repeats endlessly}
{theophontes, as ever, ignores the Chorus completely. They are silly.}
theo, I assume you have the Greasemonkey’s head somewhere in your Firefox toolbars? You should be able to right-click on it and get a menu that says “User Script Commands”, in that menu will be Fraktur. If the monkey head isn’t visible, you can probably find the Greasemonkey menu in Firefox’s usual Tools menu.
You have to type some stuff into the comment box first, then select Fraktur. The conversion happens immediately and doesn’t continue if you keep on typing. So if there’s nothing typed out, nothing happens.
Oh, lawdy… FIFY:
chigaucicely{Mmmmh,
chigau, that is worth pondering upon. Intelligent second-in-commands = dangerous…}𝔗𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔞 ℜ𝔢𝔤𝔲𝔩𝔞!
There seems to have been a delay in activating. Brilliant! (You are interested in a job at Minitrue?)
I didn’t say that!
𝔽𝕖𝕖𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣…
Mwahahahaha.
@ chigau
Oh, you are here… no nothing … let us just walk away from upthread, nothing happening.
Hey – look at all that beautiful fresh space to comment in below!
𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔡𝔬 𝔟𝔬𝔱𝔥, 𝔟𝔶 𝔴𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔬𝔲𝔱 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱, 𝔰𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯,
𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕨𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕓𝕠𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕. 𝕀𝕥 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕖 𝕙𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕜𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕒𝕘𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕞.
There is a kludge coming shortly to handle 0123456789 in blackboard bold. (Fraktur doesn’t have any numeral symbols.)
Speaking of which: Is there any way to get sub and superscript to work?
(As in the Text Formatting Toolbar ™ )
𝕊𝕦𝕓 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕦𝕡? ℕ𝕠𝕥 𝕠𝕗𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕡 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕪 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕. 𝕀’𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕚𝕥.
ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕥𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝟘-𝟡.
𝔸𝔹ℂ𝔻𝔼𝔽𝔾ℍ𝕀𝕁𝕂𝕃𝕄ℕ𝕆ℙℚℝ𝕊𝕋𝕌𝕍𝕎𝕏𝕐ℤ
𝕒𝕓𝕔𝕕𝕖𝕗𝕘𝕙𝕚𝕛𝕜𝕝𝕞𝕟𝕠𝕡𝕢𝕣𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕧𝕨𝕩𝕪𝕫
𝟘𝟙𝟚𝟛𝟜𝟝𝟞𝟟𝟠𝟡
𝟡𝟠𝟟𝟞𝟝𝟜𝟛𝟚𝟙𝟘
Those functions don’t work in Text Format. Perhaps there is a way to add to it so that it works again? (It is hard to write long screeds
to the myrmidonswithout them.)(PS: The script seems to have disappeared from greasemonkey of its own accord. ie: greyed out)
ℌ𝔬𝔩𝔶 ℌ𝔢𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔯!
ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕚𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟…
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕜𝕝𝕦𝕕𝕘𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪; 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕦𝕡𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕!
𝕀𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕖 𝕟𝕦𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖.
𝕀𝕥 𝕒𝕧𝕠𝕚𝕕𝕤 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕓𝕪 𝕚𝕘𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕟𝕦𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕙 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕦𝕡 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕟𝕦𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕒 𝕤𝕖𝕞𝕚-𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕟.
0;
01;
012;
0123;
01234;
012345;
𝟘123456;
𝟘𝟙234567;
Sometimes the tides come in, the tides go out. I can’t explain that.
I haven’t seen this happen, so I don’t know if it’s a problem with my script or Greasemonkey itself.
I don’t use the Text Formatting Toolbar so I’m not sure what it does.
Does it go ahead and add the <sup> and <sub> tags, but they just don’t come through at FTB?
Tardigrada avoid autocannibalisation by never bathing…
Trial: sub and super
[sub] and [sup] added, obviously with < instead of [ etc
To quote KJV:
Wikipedia says:
“Consolidated for cut-and-pasting purposes, the Unicode standard defines complete sub- and super-scripts for numbers and common mathematical symbols ( ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ⁺ ⁻ ⁼ ⁽ ⁾ ₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉ ₊ ₋ ₌ ₍ ₎ ), a full superscript Latin lowercase alphabet except q ( ᵃ ᵇ ᶜ ᵈ ᵉ ᶠ ᵍ ʰ ⁱ ʲ ᵏ ˡ ᵐ ⁿ ᵒ ᵖ ʳ ˢ ᵗ ᵘ ᵛ ʷ ˣ ʸ ᶻ ), a limited uppercase Latin alphabet ( ᴬ ᴮ ᴰ ᴱ ᴳ ᴴ ᴵ ᴶ ᴷ ᴸ ᴹ ᴺ ᴼ ᴾ ᴿ ᵀ ᵁ ⱽ ᵂ ), a few subscripted lowercase letters ( ₐ ₑ ₕ ᵢ ₖ ₗ ₘ ₙ ₒ ₚ ᵣ ₛ ₜ ᵤ ᵥ ₓ ), and some Greek letters ( ᵅ ᵝ ᵞ ᵟ ᵋ ᶿ ᶥ ᶲ ᵠ ᵡ ᵦ ᵧ ᵨ ᵩ ᵪ ). Note that since these glyphs come from different ranges, they may not be of the same size and position, depending on the typeface.”
So, sorta. It’s possible to make a script which will replace all numerals between <sup> and </sup> tags with their Unicode superscript equivalents.
Honestly though, since the alphabet would necessarily be incomplete, this might be something it’s worth learning LaTeX for.
Huh, I didn’t realize blackboard bold had numerals. I remember checking, but I missed it somehow. Thanks.
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕂𝕟𝕠𝕨
They’re not contiguous with the alphabet.
And the script wasn’t yet ready for them anyway.
There is probably a cleaner way of handling them in all cases but I am not so hot with regex, also lazy.
ℙ𝕙𝕦𝕜! 𝕀 𝕨𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕨𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕀 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟. 𝔻𝕠𝕟’𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕚𝕥 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕕𝕙666 𝕠𝕣 𝕫𝕠𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙.
Even when the modifier has just one syllable?
?
I, for one, pronounce it [tz̩t] with a syllabic [z]. Takes some practice, but it’s feasible. :-)
{but speak Doric instead of koiné}
You have always been interested in a job at Minitrue.
YTF?
𝕎𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕖𝕕 𝕒 𝕤𝕔𝕣𝕚𝕡𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕟𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤, 𝕓𝕪 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕙 𝕀 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤.
𝔽𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕒.𝕜.𝕒. “1”, 𝕨𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕠 “1 𝕩 10 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕦𝕤 9𝕥𝕙 𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕪 𝕓𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟” 𝕤𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕒. ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕤 𝕒 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣, 𝕙𝕞𝕞𝕞𝕞.
Hey, sort of like zombies, eh?
You know what else a person could use like 57hundredelebentybazillions times, per post, would be a script that slaps blockquote tags around highlighted text em, st, cite, all that jazz ♬ ♪
Now, now, we were not talking about adjectival modifiers here.
If you want to use a verbal modifier to express the idea of a dog that is walking, the modifier will have to be more than one syllable, namely something like 正在走路的狗, a bare verb stem just won’t cut it. That only works when the verb expresses a property that is definitive for that specific dog, then it would work, as in the examples I already gave.
regarding adjectives, I’d like to refer you to Li and Thompson, 1981, Mandarin Chinese – a functional reference grammar, ch. 4.2.3.B. “Attributive adjectives”, pp. 117-123.
𝔒 𝔡𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔲𝔰 𝔬𝔪𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔓𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔶𝔫𝔤𝔲𝔩𝔞, 𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔠𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔞𝔪 𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔰 𝔠𝔲𝔪 𝔱𝔲𝔞 𝔭𝔬𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔰 𝔤𝔩𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔦!
Testing four levels of boldness.
𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯
𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯, ℌ𝔗𝔐𝔏 𝔟𝔬𝔩𝔡
𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖉
𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖉𝖊 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖉, 𝕳𝕿𝕸𝕷 𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖉
Bold cursive script is next.
There’s still a stupid bug that I missed. The reversal functions don’t work on text that’s been copy&pasted. They only work on HTML-encoded ÒFOO stuff. I’ll get to that.
𝓐𝓑𝓒𝓓𝓔𝓕𝓖𝓗𝓘𝓙𝓚𝓛𝓜𝓝𝓞𝓟𝓠𝓡𝓢𝓣𝓤𝓥𝓦𝓧𝓨𝓩
𝓪𝓫𝓬𝓭𝓮𝓯𝓰𝓱𝓲𝓳𝓴𝓵𝓶𝓷𝓸𝓹𝓺𝓻𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓿𝔀𝔁𝔂𝔃
And there’s no way to get comic sans (just the font, no Gumby) into that script?
𝕭𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 and
𝓑𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 now added.
Next update will be the bugfix.
If you can find Comic Sans somewhere in Unicode, I’ll add it.
(It’s a snipe hunt.)
How do you find your unicode fonts?
The ones we’ve been playing with in this thread, I learned about them here. There is no Comic Sans in Unicode though. So it ain’t happening.
That’s quite sad. Wonder if PZ would allow display of comic sans fro quoting trolls?
I don’t think PZ would have a problem allowing it, if it were as easy or simple as clicking a checkbox or something.
☑ Allow Comic Sans MS in Comments?But it’s not.
Comic Sans is added as either a class (already set up by PZ, called “creationist”), or by allowing “style” in HTML tags. This does not appear to be easy to do, and appears to require access to and modification of the WordPress config files.
(the link in the WordPress FAQ is broken; this works, currently.)
Bleh, that wasn’t clear.
While the class for “creationist” has been set up (and PZ can use it), it would require WordPress config hacking to allow commentators to use it as well. It could also be done if “span style=font-family:Comic Sans MS” were permitted to be used as HTML tags, but again, more config hacking required.
Hm. Moar links.
http://theos.in/wordpress/howto-change-list-of-allowed-html-tags-in-wordpress/
======
(I think these are for PZ’s blogging editor, not the comment box)
http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/functions-php/allow-more-html-tags-in-the-editor/
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/killer-hacks-to-enhance-wordpress-editor
I do not have access to code or some of the input parameters for the site.
I am able to customize the css file, however. If it were possible to add some css class that would give the peons of the commentariat access to comic sans, I’d be willing to add it.
One thought that did occur to me was to “repurpose” one of the allowed tags.
Maybe the [q] tag? It currently doesn’t seem to do anything interesting.
So if the blog custom CSS were changed for [q] to use
font-family:Comic Sans MS;, [q] could be used to cite creationists and other idiots. I think.It might depend on which CSS file takes precedence.
Just noodling.
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more text
And perhaps more to the point, I don’t think anyone uses it for anything.
If I turn off all styles, text within the [q] tag appears in double-quotes.
Whoop.
Presumably this is suppressed by something in the WordPress CSS files.
q now set to use via css. I think. You’ll have to see if it works.
[q]Does this work?[/q]
Hehehe no
As any fool knows!
That’s kind of weird. I guess we peons will need to remember that copying and pasting it inserts quote marks.
Testing:
Thanks PZ!
Copypasta:
consciousness razor: Were you able to get gumby by using q tags, or the secret comic sans script?
There is no gumby. The gumby is a modification to a background, which can only be done with certain tags, and [q] is not among those tags. I’m pretty sure, anyway.
Wouldn’t it be easier, as well as more effective, to just not eat the car in the first place?
–
Can has!!!
woohoo!
–
idea!
(first, a test to see whether blockquote can be nested inside q)
(assuming all DOM parsers allow this)
That was a no.
No and no. This is going to get ugly. Sibling selectors!
OMFG, it’s a !
What’s going on?
idea!
Success! By nesting [q] tags inside [blockquote cite=”creationist’] tags, you can make gumby and comic sans for script owners, and comic sans for non-owners.
You guys remember that last time people were dicking around and pushing the limits of the html, they started scrambling the site formatting and I had to strip out a whole bunch of capabilities?
Don’t do that again. You will piss me off.
I think I’ve found something to hang the Gumby CSS on, reliably.
It’s not pretty though. All that whitespace. But
The HTML for that is:
<code><blockquote></blockquote></code><blockquote>gumby hangs here</blockquote>
And the CSS that should make the Gumby appear in the above blockquote:
code + p + blockquote {background: url("http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/08/tiny_gumby_trans.gif") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
font-family: "Comic Sans MS",MarkerFelt,MarkerFelt-Wide;
}
code + p + blockquote p {
font-family: "Comic Sans MS",MarkerFelt,MarkerFelt-Wide;
}
em, a, or b tags, and probably i and strong but I didn’t test them, could be used instead of code. I just figure code is less likely to get used accidentally.
Unfortunately q, cite, abbr just won’t do it. I don’t know why, but they don’t.
ॐ: No gumby here.
PZ would have to include the CSS from #367 before you would see the Gumby.
Let’s see now. If it was done with <i> instead of <code>, then we could at least use the first blockquote for something.
ah, ok
That’s a little better. Less whitespace. CSS for that one:
i + p + blockquote { background: url("http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2011/08/tiny_gumby_trans.gif") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",MarkerFelt,MarkerFelt-Wide; }i + p + blockquote p { font-family: "Comic Sans MS",MarkerFelt,MarkerFelt-Wide; }
@ mikmik
Try Text Formatting Toolbar on Firefox. Linky here.
@ cicely
It is cruel to expect such a high level of self-restraint of me.
@ AR
Ego BOMBULUM in tu ducis directionem.
(sadly no gothic script on the work computer… at least read above loudly in a heavy Raetoromanisch accent)
theophontes 777: There is only one proper response to that: 𝔑𝔦! 𝔑𝔦! 𝔑𝔦!
I see Gumby! @367
That’s now TWO FF extensions that dunnae wor-r-r-kch! Ye aff yer heid? Evairnoot an now … occh, fairfox, whit ye dain that fur ya wee tool! Thon linky
Thanks, PZ!
But tardigrades are tough. I’m sure that you could give up eating cars anytime, if you really wanted to.
–
ॐ
I’m still on Explorer.
@ mikmik
Och ay! Only a smidgen of Scots in this tardigrade, but then again, better smaa fish than nane. – (theophontes, Clan o’ Stuart)
@ ॐ
Wut? TZT is a mere “ecological niche”?
@ cicely
And hence have to eat other modes of transport? Horse drawn coaches transporting peas are bleeaugh…
@ cicely
Quote from Teh High Priestess:
Inspirational,… we should make this the new national anthem.
@theophontes:
I thought of the same song, but couldn’t decide how much of it to quote…and then I got side-tracked from Rapture to Raptor…and then to a series of stinky-bad puns on the general subject of carnivory….
–
theophontes777
Gotta start somewhere.
Have you forgetten The Plan?
(I know I have.)
Thanks much! :-)
Funnily, when I copied & pasted the above, the <q> tags showed up as formatted quotes!
…or why there’S loads of empty space above but not below it.
Code-blockquote-/blockquote-/code, and then the blockquote tag you actually want. It’s so simple that I don’t understand why it works!
Heh! German typo! ‘ is capital # and just above the long right Shift key.
sgbm/LM/LLPL: Thank you!
In return:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fleck/
(This explains a lot. If anyone disagrees, you are not in the collective.)
(I’ve been “debating” with libertarians. It has been civil but unproductive.)
I’m so glad you asked. :)
If you go install Firebug into Firefox, you can see what I’m talking about, but I’ll try to break it down.
CSS has “sibling selectors” which refer to other nodes in the DOM tree that all have the same parent. There’s “+” which is the next sibling, and “~” which is all following siblings.
If you look at the HTML here, you’ll see this WordPress installation tries to enclose all text in either a <blockquote> or a <p>, which are all children of a <div> that holds your whole comment. So, blockquotes and p’s are siblings, but they apparently have no other siblings.
That make it difficult to use sibling selectors. It’s no good to say “gumbify every blockquote which is the next sibling of a p” or anything like that. There’s no obvious solution.
But DOM renderers do interesting things. Take a look at this:
<p><code><br /><blockquote></blockquote><p></code><br />
<blockquote>Yep. I’m pretty sure this here is safe though. Nothing too fancy.</p></blockquote>
A code tag is typically not allowed to fully enclose a blockquote. The layout engine will “fix” it by pretending that the code tag closed sooner. But just in case there’s something after the blockquote which the user also intended to be enclosed with code tags, it the layout engine will insert a virtual pair of code tags after the blockquote as well. (If you’re looking in Firebug, you’ll see these virtual tags in grey, which indicates they weren’t ever written out in HTML; they’re just simulated.)
Since these are simulated by the browser, and WordPress never got to lay a finger on them, WordPress didn’t get a chance to shove a <p> tag in front of them like it tries to do with everything else. Thus, the virtual tags are direct children of the div, and they are siblings of the other p’s and blockquotes.
And we can use sibling selectors now, to find “a blockquote node which is the next sibling of a p node which was the next sibling of a code node”, like so: code + p + blockquote
The excess white space is from the first, empty blockquote, which we had to use to break up the code tags and force the creation of virtual code tags.
All perfectly easy to understand now? ;)
cm,
Did you go into their lair? They’re almost impervious to reason when they’re surrounded with their own kind. I still like sowing FUD among them, but I never know if it helps much.
FUD = Fear of Urban Develpment?
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cicely, try Googling.
(Yeah, you get off easy, no lmgtfy)
ॐ, as for your admission, it ain’t news to me.
John, mine is funnier.
(At least, to my admittedly questionable sense of humor.)
cicely, :)
(Touché)
It’s news to no one, since just last week I was just bragging about trolling libertarians.
For someone who puts on such a display of care for the meanings of words, you have an odd habit of abusing “admit”.
ॐ, “abusing”?
(You’re suggesting you’re not admitting that? ;) )
Sowing FUD is for fuddruckers and fuddy duddies. Besides, everyone knows libertarians have no emotions, which makes their brains unfit for zombie consumption. They shouldn’t be treated with indifference, however, because they are wasting resources and are of course responsible for the international libertarian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
John, I admit when I am aware of making a mistake. I brag when I am glad for doing what I think is good. I do not see any overlap. I could brag and admit the same fact at different times, but this would necessitate changing my feelings about those facts.
ॐ, relax.
We need people like you, and I quite like you for what you are.
(That I’m not (nor would I like to be) that way is irrelevant)
PS ॐ, I know you’re the heart and soul of the Pharyngula wiki, and I thank you for that.
(Also for the help you’ve given people about HTML trickery)
@ cicely
Can’t blame you there, “Raptor Ready” sounds like much more entertaining fare.
@ cm’s
It was unproductive because it was civil?
@ chigau
No, of course not! Nor the meta-plan nor the meta-meta-plan nor the meta-meta-meta-plan … et cetera ad infinitum.
We at Minipeace (have no fear cicely, Minipeas is a completely different division entirely) have been working through the logistics. Our meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-plan involves breaking out of our current confinement, to wit: TZT, and moving across to fresher threads. We are currently hampered only by working out the logistics of transferring the Gumby Code to the new host and … er … well,… the little issue of the cease-and-desist order:
It looks like some sort of veiled threat against our activities. Somehow the secrecy of Teh Uber-plan ™ has become compromised. (This fax seems to address the contents of our plan too directly to be coincidence.) We have a mole in our midst!
[sneaks out quietly]
@ chigau
[whisper] Don’t look now, but I think I know who has been leaking our secret plans…[/whisper]
{theophontes surreptitiously points with a tiny claw in the direction of a fleeting AR.}
[Shouting faintly]: We haz your plans now! All your threads are belong to us!
{theophontes starts sharpening the icepick}
[whispered hiss] Trotskyist! [/whispered hiss]
I thought the fax (who the feck uses facsimile transmission anymore) sounded like DH666.
Is there something else we need to know about A. R?
{{Like just how many periods (.) and spaces are in xis ‘nym.}}
{presses small button on belt}
{sounds like someone talking with their head in a box}Oh, the fax isn’t from me. That from someone farther up the ladder than me. And it’s A/full stop/space/R
A/full stop/space/R
ooooooohh crap!!!
alert PZ
100K wut ƟƏŦ ŊīƊ ťũ ɯȳ computtter.
@ chigau
{theophontes dives into vast pile of paper in the “IN” box. checks page again.} Oh, wait… it is just a bad photocopy of a page from the theophontes’s homework book. My bad!
@ A.R
{theophontes rolls about on floor snickering} Careful chigau, Teh Ebil A.R are firing LOLcats at us!
Aha! A myrmidon of Almighty Zeus, I might have known! We had better get out the really, really big icepick as well…
Hospitals and doctors (as far as I know).
Possibly because of rulez and stuff.
{Loads LOLcat gun, sets on table next to PZ’s cyberpistol} Now I’m going to bed, but this porcupine over here {points to very large, non-decaying porcupine) is going to watch you until I wake up. {leaves room}
Hmm, I could see gumby/comic sans on my ipad using its inbuilt safari but not on firefox. Then I realised I had to disable my newly installed greasemonkey script to get it to work.
[whisper] Holy Crap! A Porcupine in charge of a LOLcat launching laughgun …
How do we disable that?[/whisper]
Ai iz can be *cough*
I’ll be your human shield if they launch the lolcats.
Thanks brave WMDKitty, but I have another solution to distract the porcupine… all we need to do is get us the pope: Linky to hexplane.
*snork*
That just might work! But, uh… good luck bagging the Pope.
Wait, even he can’t be immune to Teh Cute! And IIRC, Ratzi’s a cat-slave. If we aim the LOL-cannon at him…?
No, no, … the heavily romantic porcupine wants to bag {winks} the pope (if not, we could always get Brownian to step in).
*facepalm* … but the whole problem is that teh porcupine currently has the LOLcat gun in its spiky paws … (You don’t perhaps have your own close at hand?)
@ WMDKitty
If this doesn’t work, then I don’t know anymore… {Lobs a Linky.}
@ ॐ
That was a very valiant attempt.
I would go with this, myself. Military-grade cuteness. *nods*
Thank you porcupine, I’ll take that. Now…
BANG!
John, your last two comments are distractions. I repeat: what you are is someone who puts on a great show of caring about the meanings of words, and yet has a habit of misusing “admit”. I do suggest you consult a dictionary. Note the overtone of conceding, confessing, acknowledging mistakes.
If I were to say that you “admit” playing headgames with the trolls around here, that would suggest contrition on your part, contrition which is neither present, nor in the general view of this community, appropriate.
Why would you want to?
Well, the evangelical right in the US is already teabagging the pope. Does that count?
@ AR
PHOTOSHOPPED! (You are firing blanks.)
@ Ogvorbis
A LOLcatgun-wielding porcupine is not dangerous?
What’s wrong with dangerous animals? Brown bears, bison, elk, mule deer, teal deer, hell, even a chipmunk can be dangerous. If we eliminate this dangerous animal, what’s to stop us sliding down that slippery slope of elimination until all dangerous animals are gone? After all, if we eliminated the most dangerous animal, there would be no people to burn fossil fuels, desertify grasslands through overgrazing, commit genocide, bugger choir boys, build roads all . . . .
Hmm.
Lemme get my crossbow.
@ chigau
[whisper] Did you read that? “Lemme get my crossbow.” We have found just the person to do our bidding. [/whisper]
WUT? Of course they do. How else do you think I can discuss TZT policy secretly with the Second-in-Command?
@ DH666
Here you go. I nice cozy, personalised thread in which you can convince us that your god is in any way real. At your leisure, don’t feel like we are rushing you. Take your time, remember to do a good job. This is for Jesus.
The stage is yours…
Did you know that having 16 tabs open, 14 of them Pharyngula, can cause a cheap netbook to simply stop?
{([*theophontes: you hafta put up the super sekrit brackets. Then They can’t hear us. Especially not People Like Og.*])}
Yes.
So is this just another TET with no topic or a quarantine for topics or what?
Thank you for the invite theophontes 777
Need to catch up on quite a bit of reading (redding) And to MikeLaing, keep looking up.
Will catch up soon….ta
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Wha – wha-at!? Did you type something? Oh, I get it, you are whispering. Tee-heee ;)
Wait! Haz teh protekshunz!
theo:
No. You have just crossed a line. There is a such thing as too evil.
I’m removing you from the ghey secks queue. I’m sorry, but it has to be done.
Ing:
I think this is a pressure-release valve, with the dh666 honeypot attachment.
At least, those are the blueprints that most closely match. theophontes seems to have self-declared as local warlord, and ॐ has been doing some redecorating, so it’s hard to tell for sure.
Just a short start…
As you are sitting there reading this, do you believe that you can achieve more, you have it within yourself to reach out and stretch the boundaries that limit you.
Totally not bugging all of the rebel’s computers
Yes, but not the boundaries imposed by physics.
There is good reason to believe we have no souls, and no good reason to believe otherwise.
danielhaven:
Which boundaries?
I am limited by my intellect. That boundary can be expanded somewhat, but provides an absolute limit at some point, one which I cannot move beyond.
I am limited by my education. I can certainly expand that, and move beyond it.
I am limited by my wealth. I have a certain degree of control over that, but not much.
I am limited by my opportunity. While I may in some ways be able to increase my opportunity (say, through education, or moving to an area in which my skillsets are in greater demand), that too has an absolute limit.
There are other boundaries as well. For example, I really really really want to be a colonist on the moon. That boundary should be obvious.
There are other boundaries that are completely within my control. I drink too often and too much. I often criticize myself severely for poor decisions, some of them decades old. I make bad financial decisions, even while knowing they are bad decisions. All of these are under my control.
So, to which boundaries are you referring, specifically?
無
So, ‘the dh666 honeypot attachment’ is here
I’m going to whisper via a fax…..awfully silent
danielhaven: By switching off about 90% of my cerebral function, I was able to understand what you wrote. Thus, I must ask, why, as a member of a religion that discourages any form of rational thought, and encourages limiting one’s cerebral efforts to contemplating Jeebus, do you ask if we want to “stretch the boundaries that limit [us].”
Do we choose our destiny or are we controled by the hand of fate? Either way man has no choice even in his own will
Fuck it if Danielhaven is just gonna spout nonsense I’m gonna respond with music and media references
Ing:
Uhm, let me check the blueprints.
Looks like we can fit them in, especially if they are amusing references. Fits the decor. Feng Shui and all that.
TO nigelTheBold to the power of nigelTheBold
You are not and never will be limited to your intellect. You are not limited by your education, possibly by the application of what you perceive. There eventually are realistic boundaries and money is money. Nice to have especially if it just gets you through. Bit tough if it doesn’t.
‘All of these are under my control’. We ain’t different, just the focus points us in different directions.
TO Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
That’s not true. Within your circle of life you can control your destiny and that of your family.
Yes, you do have to deal with outside influences (Govt, work, etc) but that SHOULD not be a hardship.
I’m dyslexic asshole. Its a minor mental condition but I had to grow up with constant reminders of how my intellect is limited. Don’t pull that bullshit. I cannot will myself to remember phone numbers or spell better or not drastically misread things at first glance.
To A.R.
I
I
I had to think about this awhile. I actually still do not have an answer for you…..Perhaps you might like the thought that evolutionists are evolving while creationists are stagnating.
TO Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
That is not true. You can will yourself to do it.
Tell that to a woman in Texas or similar who is trying to get an abortion.
And do not even start with any rhetoric about how there should be no abortions. Because you don’t get to decide that. You have no stake in the game and you don’t have that right. I may be jumping the gun here, but given the other blitherings I don’t think so, but do indeed prove me wrong there DH666. Feel free to state that women should be free to get an abortion any time they need it.
We all have some limitations on us. Some are internal. Some are imposed from outside. Some boundaries can be pushed. But none of those limitations have anything to do with any imaginary sky fairies.
@ chigau
{theophontes fetches teeny aluminium stepladder, peers over brackets}
{([* Of course. We must be really careful. As a trained assassin, Og can see through regular whisperbrackets.])}
@ Ing
No, this is a high tech super advanced thread. If this thread was Escherichia coli, it would be noshing citrate (it really is that cool).
No. We have determined that the presence of goddists/trolls/etc encourages mutation in social threads… go with the flow…
@ mikmik
Bulls-eye! If that doesn’t knock teh ebil A.R over we might as well capitulate.
@ nigel
I have waited in this queue for years. I am starting to think I have let people hoodwink me with tales of Paradise “just around the corner”. It is time I take matters into my own paws…
“democratically elected peoples’ oberlawd” – FIFY
@ DH666
Yes exactly. You are beginning to understand.
@ A.R
More incriminating evidence. Your file in Minitrue is growing exponentially.
@ DH666
Oh Lawdy, here we go again.
danielhaven:
Thank you! While I admit my intellect is fairly vast (and quite humble, might I add), it really is a limiting factor. My abilities are defined very much by my intellect. I am quite good at what I do, which is geek stuff.
But, I wanted to be a physicist. Not just any physicist, but a theoretical physicist working on harmonizing quantum mechanics with general relativity. I’d conceived that dream when I was 16 years old.
Unfortunately, as my educational career progressed through university, it became apparent I was not intellectually suited to this path. While calculus was easy, differential equations turned out to be my first stumble. It was hard. As differential equations are required for basic physics (field physics especially, like electromagnetism), those classes turned out to be difficult. While I did not do poorly (in fact, I was above the average in the class, but not by much), my physics advisor suggested I take another route. The career I had chosen would not offer me the rewards I desired with the intellect I had.
CERN does not take folks who are marginally above average in their field.
My wife, who is far more intelligent than I, would have done exceptionally poorly in physics. It’s just not her field. Her intellect is targeted another direction entirely, in ways I can’t even comprehend.
So, yes. I am limited by my intellect. As are you. As is everyone. There are fields entirely cut off from me due to my intellectual limitations.
Some of that is choice. I would’ve been an exceptional biologist. It turns out I’m quite good at it — which I should be, as my mom was a biologist. But I chose something else — computers, my second love after physics. I’d been working with computers, programming them, since I was 12 years old and our school got an Apple ][. (Yeah. I’m that old.)
I find that’s true about most folks, even when they disagree about many things.
theo:
You too?
I thought it was just me. “Geographically distant ghey secks” just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Danielhaven
What the fuck? Who are you? Ron Hubbard’s ghost or something?
Try to realize it’s all within yourself
No one else can make you change
And to see you’re really only very small
And life goes on within you and without you
-St. George
Citation needed. Otherwise, the null hypthesis is that we are limited by our genteic makeup and development, which does limit our intellect. It sure limited yours. For example:
Which is pure drivel.
danielhaven:
You might want to research dyslexia, dh. It is not something you can just will away. It is a real impediment to basic day-to-day life, just like Ing said. How can you memorize numbers if you can’t be sure the numbers you perceive are the numbers written down?
Like migraine headaches, you will not be able to comprehend how it affects you unless you go through it yourself. Me, I can only imagine, but I’ve seen the effects of dyslexia on people I know and care about.
@ DH 666
Nowadays maybe. And now that you have discovered TZT. But before? When the church and apartheid government controlled every aspect of your life? (Would you voluntarily want your friends here to burn in hell? Or would you voluntarily want to kill Angolans?)
It should not be. But sadly it is. Don’t be naive, but rather try and deal with the very real problems.
Actually DH666… Fuck You. That was a really nasty thing to say to Ing.
@ nigel
As consolation, the goddists are into “Historically distant ghey secks”. Somehow that seems worse. At least we know Brownian exists.
But yeah, I am giving up my position in the queue in order to establish … er … wait a minute… [[thinks:”I have a place int the queue to sell!!! :) ]]
{starts new website:” Teh Ghey secks wib Brownian Expediting service . com ™ “}
DanielHaven:
Do you believe that you can start using punctuation that makes sense? Like, oh, I dunno, using a question mark at the end of a question? I can’t gaurantee that proper punctuation will help you to communicate effectively, but it can’t hurt.
TO theophontes 777
It was not a nasty thing to say and there are many inspirational stories that have occurred where people have willed themselves, with support, to become success stories from much worse scenarios. There is nothing that binds us except what we believe binds us.
You are also wrong about the TZT as the church and the Apartheid government had minimum influence (except for taking +2 years).
There has always been an inherent belief within me, and yes at times I rebelled against it, but it has always stood the test of time. Anyone can still look at the detail of religion and scorn it. Yet the concept remains the same.
In September 2011, scientists questioned the speed of light which was verified by two seperate labs. Today it is proven to be garbage. Does Science get a bad name or those who want to manipulate for their own agenda’s (imagine the champagne they drank just after).
As a Troll, simple points and simple decency is on the agenda.
TO Ogvorbis: shameless AND impudent
Obviously, the fact that you pick it up means you understand what was said. Are you speaking for the faceless others that cannot pick it up?
TO nigelTheBold to the power of nigelTheBold
Knew a person with dyslexia who wrote the numbers or letters down as he saw them, then reviewed and transposed the numbers or letters. I understand that if you have to decide in split seconds, which most cannot do anyway, the affliction is prevalent. A person could suffer a mini-stroke and also be affected by split decisions. But they can both work on longer term solutions using their individual will power. Very little is easy in life.
Yes it was a nasty thing to say, though I dont expect you to understand why. You see, some limitations are there and can’t be done away with by simply willing them away. Saying that they can implies that Ing must not be trying hard enough. That’s nasty, Dannieboy.
Uhm… What? What the hell are you talking about?
@ DH666
Woah Safari! Are you trying to tell me that the church and apartheid government only had 2 years influence on our society? Seriously? They fucked up people for life dude. Did you agree with them? [Hint: It is not only about you. Your measly 2 years sucking up to Magnus Malan are beside the point.]
DH666, look up Stockholm Syndrome. You are arguing on behalf of the government and church that has kept you ignorant (and even ignorant of your own ignorance). Can you really say that this is not the long lasting effect of the abuse that you suffered… and yet deny.
Don’t bet on it. Most of what you write makes less sense than Faulkner. To me, at least.
I only speak for myself. Who else can I speak for?
Free “?” looking for good home.
I am mildly dyslexic. I have learned coping strategies that I use. Will has nothing to do with it. And I resent your insinuation that those with dyslexia are weak and have no will.
@ Brogg
Don’t be creeped out by this, but I could fully relate to ol’ Billy.
jeebus, jeeebus, jeeeebus, … ah,ah,ah, ….
You’re out of date. Probably was a faulty wire.
I have been called stupid all my life despite being graded highly in intelligence and reasoning. I have had teachers and students and parents mock me. I have gotten lost in shit hole parts of cities because I missed signs. Fuck you so much. Just fuck you.
Oh don’t you know you can just WILL yourself to remember.
Daniel do me a favor and will yourself a greater capacity for empathy.
TO Ariaflame, BSc, BF, PhD
What year are we living in? Words like PRO-ACTIVE or RE-ACTIVE should surely cut the equation down. It is not just simply a question about the right to abort but the sheer numbers that is occurring. A woman wants her right to terminate as that is her dignified choice, yet most (definitately with many issues), the dignity does not preceed the actual act. As difficult as it may be, the woman should choose before and the man must respect. The many issues are deviances that, if the law worked properly, should be eliminated leaving far fewer choices for women to make. Sounds easy and is not Real. My wife had a miscarraige on our first son and looking at my other two, I can only imagine who he would have been.
And yes, I sympathise with any women who has to go through that process.
Daniel you have shown yourself incapable of even the most basic of sympathy. You don’t sympathize or empathize, you patronize and moralize.
TO theophontes 777
The abuse I suffered was not due to either of those two components you mention. That was easy to deal with.
Within myself, my character is still the same today as at age 7, except a little more cynical (which I am not proud of).
To the others, I have never mentioned weakness in any form and to twist words does no justice. You may be the top golfer in the world but you can still learn something.
@ DH666
If my own mother had chosen to terminate me prior to birth (hell I would have even accepted, say, three years thereafter), I would accept such a situation. This is not a naive or unconsidered position.
Understand this: If I am condemned to an eternity of suffering in hell (as you, as a christian, so happily choose to believe), then an abortion would surely be the preferred choice. What care I (especially in comparison to the revolting xtian option) to die before I am aware of my human circumstance?
If you plan to take on an Almighty God, that icepick had better be +5/+5 or better; and it is suggested that you avoid engaging on that deity’s Home Plane.
This is the voice of experience talking, here.
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I had thought that he was a turbulent priest, but according to the Pffft!, the correct quote would be, “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”, which lacks any of the punch of the more popular forms.
I learn something new (not necessarily important) every day; and I owe it all to Pharyngula.
</un-paid plug>
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Only if they were separate breeding populations, which is not the case.
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Yeah; and I can just will myself to run a marathon, using these hereditarily-shitty knees I’m lurching around on. ‘Cause dyslexia, crippled knees…these are just life-style choices.
And if you even mention surgical replacements, I shall will that you should receive an undead porcupine rectally, incoming at Mach 3.
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It’s always, “Ghey secks with Brownian yesterday, and ghey secks with Brownian tomorrow, but never ghey secks with Brownian today”.
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The implication is clearly there. You asserted that some could overcome dyslexia by force of will. A corollary is that if anyone experiences dyslexia, they must not be exerting enough will. They must either have a weak will, or they must be too lazy to exert their will.
You apparently haven’t thought through the implications of blaming dyslexia on willpower, but others have. You might apologize for your mistake.
@ DH666
Dude, you are essentially confessing to buying into both the lies of apartheid and the lies of the church. Are you seriously telling us that you think apartheid had no negative effects on our country? I experienced it as one great fuck-up. It really did cause a shitload of suffering for 99% of those involved. You where in the 1%? I know for a fact you were not.
Not just your “character” (such as it is), but your intellect seems to be stuck at age 7. In such a case, cynicism is a virtue.
TO life is like a pitbull with lipstick ॐ
TWIST, TWIST, TWIST.
The starting point was anyone. Dyslexia came up later.
If you can honestly say to me that there is not one person on this planet that can do better by applying themselves more (or using willpower), then I do apologise.
But the twist keeps you going.
@ cicely
Naah, one shouldn’t worry. They are all insufferable blowhards.
I CANNOT DO BETTER WITH DYSLEXIA THAN I AM YOU SELFISH PIECE OF SHIT
TO theophontes 777
The effects to the country and the people has always been profound under that system. It may seem different today, but the current system is also causing a lot of stress. That is not just in my country but many countries as more problems are created than problems solved. That does not define you. It defines a scope of opinions but it does not define you. Neither does the church. So your first assessment is way off base.
You have to admit, it is quite cool chatting to a 7 year old on this page.
Put an infant teetering in its crib on a cliff side. It screams with all its might but can’t do a damn thing to keep from falling. Where is the equivelency
You’re not gonna weasle your way out of this, DanielAsshat. Your initial claim implied that any limit can be overcome through force of will. Dyslexia was put forward as something that can’t be simply willed away. Your point has been devoured, crapped out and flushed down the toilet. No doubt some invertebrate now feasts on it.
@ DH666
If you are trying to lie for jeebus, you are doing a bad job:
Quoth DH666:
You could certainly improve through being honest. But making amputated limbs grow back? No imaginary god has ever achieved that. Not even your own imaginary jeebus. Give it a break already.
You should will yourself a better grasp on reality. It would do you and the rest of us a great deal of good.
To cicely (“Intriguingly Odd”)
Who said you had to run? The limitations placed are your own, as are mine. There is not just one answer and one solution to a situation.
TO ing
I too suffer from and had a mild, so scream.
Oh of course Daniel is superiour because he wills himself through the suffering his “mild” causes. Little shit pimple
TO theophontes 777
No-one ever claimed limbs growing back except…..
From nothing, the heart, brain, intestines, eyes, hands andpretty much everything (plants, trees, petals) all just grew.
Exactly as Charles said, you can find them.
It didn’t just happen, it took billions of years and are we at the bottom of perfection, in the middle or like most of you….at the top?
When I mention something about science, you all ignore it.
Why can you not answer simple questions? Do not attempt to twist the question and do not side-track the conversation. You can when you all sit there gleefully attacking something that you know is inside you but vehemently despise.
Such as?
TO Ing: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream So I Comment Instead
I am not competing and I have never been superior at anything.
Your anger is mis-directed but if you want to take your anger out on me, so be it.
TO Rev. BigDumbChimp
Ummmm….Potatoes…..Butter vs Margerine…..to name a few.
When I’ve finished “destroying the Catholic church” as directed by the other thread, and “causing the downfall of civilisation” by means described by Sixdays (Now Banned for Your Amusement), I’m going to get me a very large bag of cannabis and smoke it whilst reading Danielhaven’s comments on this thread.
I fear they will still not make a lick of sense.
Louis
Deep.
Yes, and, then you asserted that some could overcome dyslexia by force of will. A corollary is that if anyone experiences dyslexia, they must not be exerting enough will. They must either have a weak will, or they must be too lazy to exert their will.
You apparently haven’t thought through the implications of blaming dyslexia on willpower, but others have. You might apologize for your mistake.
Biggoted callous stupid poor communicator…daniel what are you good for? Do you do anything but use up resources? To think of the children who starved while you lived….