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For the month of August, Im going to post more in "Open Pub" than in "Yammering."
You people in here remind me of the drunk old guy I encountered at a pizza jernt yesterday morning: he was slumped over a can of Busch muttering semi-coherently to himself and, I guess, my family (seeing as we were the only other people there at 10:45am).
We rage against the dying of the light, and the coming winter. I can start threads in here and they never sink to the bottom, it's wonderful!
We all float down here!
These people have let me down. August is revenge against your enemies month in the open pub!
The Open Pub Guns of August.That'll be the title of my CH history tome when I'm a maester.
I appoint you master and commander of the open pub.
And I dub thee King in the North*...in SoFlo.* because, it seems, north got sick of Yammering badinage and scrammed, before I could meet him in Ottawa.
Dammit, I was going to teach him about baseball.
He's prolly waiting for the locks to open on the Rideau Canal. Was he from Ottawa? Or somewhere thereabouts? He was good people.
Ottawa, Toronto, Zaire?I'm going on a religious pilgrimage to save his savage soul.
Hey, did I tell you I went to a baseball game? It wasn't awful. It was boring, but not awful.
Make sure to scold him in a patronizing tone. I think that always plays well.
Juega al beisbol!Me Spanish is impeccable!
We need High Sparrow!
JohnCort and I had a whole "CH as Alice in Wonderland" thing. Maybe there should be "CH as Westeros."
I remembah. Did you watch GoT from the beginning, or did you catch on in later seasons and marathon? I started watching at the tail end of season 2, I was watching before it was cool to watch!
I think it started in 2010? I had read the first three books (and before those, a bunch of other GRRM fiction) before anyone but virgin nerds liked him. I caught part of the first episode while channel-surfing when I was perpetually sick after my kid started daycare. I thought it'd be awful, it wouldn't live up to the books, and the bearded dudes would all look alike to me. But I started watching in the first season. I typically can't stay up late enough for the first-airings, so I've always watched it on-demand.
I wonder if the book series will end very differently than the Teevee show. I've never read GRRM.
Speaking of GoT nerd-dom--do you ever read "Ask the Maester" on The Ringer?It's good, but the guy has paid an incredible amount of attention to the history of Westeros (and other lands). He's impressive, but I lack the energy to that fully immerse myself in any other world, be it westeros, hogwarts, or middle earth.
I read it, it's obvious that he's a Millennial because the nerd factor is very high. I tend to skim because there's just too much detail about the history of GoT. I don't really care about what happened in Westeros 3,000 years ago.
I skim the deep-dive stuff. It's no different than my neighbor who's my age but knows all kinds of obscure stuff about Middle Earth. True geekdom knows no age. But I frikkin love Euron!
A new villain for a new season! Last year it was bastard Ramsey. Cersai and the WW are always the ultimate evil, but it seems like the show likes to create a lesser bad guy for each season. A bad guy that they can kill off in the penultimate episode.
Ramsay was sexy, but Euron ups the camp level. I'd do either of 'em!
How very naughty of you!Shame Shame Shame!
[insert JohnCort Septa Mordane gif]You'd think Cersei's hair would've grown out into a suburban mom bob by now...
I think the short hair works for her. It's grown out some. Qyburn does her hair.
I prefer Dany's fancy wig! I wouldn't have the patience to get my hair done up like that daily!
Does the actress who plays Cersei wear a wig? Like, she has her real hair pinned under the "short" hair?
I think so, actually. I know it was a wig when she was originally shorn.Varys (I forget the actor's name--Conleth Hill?) looks very different *with* hair!
I resolve to only refer to the open pub as the gastropub. Sounds classier!
No gastropods will be consumed here, but afternoon clam juice will be served in lieu of afternoon tea.
How are those resolutions going?
Great! I didn't make any. August isn't when I resolve to do anything except enjoy myself.
Me too!
You people are not resolute.
I'm dissolute.
Let the open pub be yowse playground.
I think you and I have the playground to ourselves! Wanna go on the seesaw?
You'll be up in the air and I'll be on the ground. Let's do swings instead.
Well, it's all about the law of the lever. IAP could fill you in if he were keeping his resolution. Or, I can teach you physics at an 8th-grade level. No calculus involved. You'd be surprised how intuitive it is.
It's been awhile since I've been on a seesaw, I need a refresher.
Up and down, up and down.I'm sure you'd be skilled. There's a playground in the 'nard with a ginormous slide built into the face of a hill (a popular sledding hill in winter). The sled has bumps, like speed bumps, along its length, and for an adult, if you don't stick the landing, you bust your tailbone or tear up your knees landing on the low-grade mulch at the bottom. A guy I knew hurt his back on the speed bumps; I've torn up a knee. All small humans seem to remain unscathed, though my kid has deemed the slide unsafe for grown-ups.Not sure the pic does it justice:
Good lords.I had an accident on the playground in Ocean City when i was about 7 years-old. That's prolly where I got my psychic powers, it's a dead zone thing.
"I see GTL people."I bet you've got a PaulyD 'do!
What's GTL?Is that somethin to do with the Jersey Shore? I could google it, I suppose.
You never watched Jersey Shore??Gym, Tan, Laundry.You don't know who the Situation is, or Pauly D, or Snooki, or JWoww?
I'm pleased and proud to say that I've never watched an episode . I know who they are, because it was all over media and social media a few years back. MTV sucketh.
I watched it when I was on maternity leave, I think. That and the Duggar family show on TLC were always on! It helped numb me on those days when I wondered, "is this day almost over yet?" ...and then looked at the clock to discover that it was only 8 am.
North Korean torture methods include forced viewings of the Jersey Shore and The Duggar Family.
And caring for a small, difficult human. But, in general, I try to stay up to speed on as many different things as possible. It either allows me to talk about anything in social situations or renders me a real-life Bran Stark.
You have gifts.Meanwhile, me, I can do anything i want here. HAHAAHA. Shixt.
You *could* even truly curse! I never do--most folks these days curse because they lack a decent vocabulary. My dad used cursing artfully in daily life, as punctuation. Sadly, my "daily life" often involves seeing parents of my kid's peers, parents of students/former students, or past/present students. It's bad enough that many of me former students work at package stores or as bartenders...they always seem surprised to see a teacher buying snobby beer!
That was my Brutal curse . I have a friend who likes to post articles about how frequent profanity is a sign of intelligence. He also likes to post Oprah-like platitudes and inspirational quotes on his FB wall.
Brutal was never interesting--blues talk and track stars from, like, the 1800s.You should quit FB--it's a circle-jerk of bubbletude!
I bet you got that lame .gif from Facebook
I'm now going to use this forum to make fun of the other forum!
I wouldn't know...this is the only forum I frequent...unless you're talking Open Pub vs Yammering (not CH vs FB). Open Pub is less a forum than a stretch of tumbleweed-strewn desert, like where Snoopy's brother lives.