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One wonders what an adult could have accomplished with those millions.

Of course, someone more impoverished than myself might levy the same criticism against me.

Quote from: Fenrir on April 20, 2012, 03:39:15 pm

I see a cat in a hat and a scarf.

I tend to base my impression of someone else by their avatar. I used to think fllqve (spelling?) was a woman for a long time because he had a picture of what I presumed to be a female.

e: As you may have already guessed, you are both ponies.

I imagine you as an eldritch abomination in a tophat and monocle.

I am most pleased! This made my day.

I see a cat in a hat and a scarf.

I tend to base my impression of someone else by their avatar. I used to think fllqve (spelling?) was a woman for a long time because he had a picture of what I presumed to be a female.

e: As you may have already guessed, you are both ponies.

Does anyone have certain words or phrases that just piss them off? I've got a few.

Yes. I am the grand high master of being pissed off by things other people say.

Do. Yes, do has common, valid uses, but one does not need to use it so much as my kin do. They do the laundry. They do the dishes. They do the chickens—yes, I tell them how that last one sounds. Do do do do. Wash and clean and feed have the same number of syllables as do does, so it would cost little to be specific.

By definition. Some things are true by defintion—if one is talking about linguistics or something, but people use it in places where it does not belong. It implies that, if the definitions change, the truth would change, so, if that is not the case, it is being misused.

Honey. This word seems to have become a generic term for “spouse”. It is dull and trite. One’s spouse has a name—use it.

OK. The worst part is, I use this one myself. Most of the time I think to say “Understood,” or “Acknowledged,” but OK comes out sometimes.

Excessive punctuation. This one is neither a word or phrase, but I do not understand why anyone thinks to use more than one question mark or exclamation point. More question marks do not make the sentence more interrogative, and more exclamation points do not make the sentence more exclamatory. I call it The Law of the Conservation of Exclamation.

Quote from: Reudh on April 19, 2012, 09:57:49 pm

5 year? I thought you were younger than I!

I'm only 20, my friend. I've been through many situations and experienced many things that take a lifetime to go through, and others that would best be left out of one's life. I'd like to think I've grown more mature and strong from my experiences, though it leaves me a bit alienated from those my age.

Folks my age are drinking, partying, screwing everything that moves without a care in the world, and I've been nearly married, managed my own business, have multiple business licenses, have lived in multiple countries, and most importantly, survived through one hell of a fucked-up childhood, if one could dare call it that.

I don’t always drink beer, but, when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.

Fixed that for you.

I had assumed that, if it were about pants, it would have been pants, as there is hardly any need for the ‘u’.

I was also too lazy to Google it.

By Studio Deen, a 13 episode drama anime about the rise and fall of Fenrir's moe-ness.

By Studio Pierrot, a 5000 episode yuri anime about the former glory of Fenrir's yandere stalker.

By White Fox, a 25 episode magical girl anime about Fenrir saving the entire forum from a spammer's pantsu.

I have no idea what a ‘pantsu’ is, but I saved you all from it.

I am in the US

If I were in Korea, 'mechanical pencil' would be translated as 'sharps (or sha-pu)', and 'pencil lead' as 'sharp cores (sha-pu-shim)'. Queer, right? >.> I have no idea whatsoever why they decided to call mechanical pencils as 'sharps'.

In the US, if you ask for a sharps, they’ll point you to the guns-and-ammunition department.