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Say Anything.

'Say Anything' is a John Cusak/Cameron Crowe 1989 teen flick. ' A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.' This is actually not what this thread is about, but the message is the same.

Actually no it isn't, I just like imdb.com and the title sounded interesting. /snort

This is not necessarily a vent thread - far from it. This is about saying anything - weather, the bird outside your work window, the fundamental differences between Mormons and catholics, how Law and Order Criminal Intent doesn't get the props it deserves, that I always forget whether it's 'it's' or 'its', that my daughter has a beautiful smile and the first guy that breaks her heart - I'm breaking his knees...it's about anything.

So, say anything.

Gongaa 14 years ago

Follow up post:

I also like the gurgling earthworm from Hell noise that Jell-O* makes when it's stuck to the bottom of the bowl. It makes me titter.

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pharren 14 years ago

Spoof of the Miss USA "Should evolution be taught in schools?" video, "Should math be taught in schools?"

[video=youtube;9QBv2CFTSWU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU[/video]

Kelefane 14 years ago

My 8th grade math level says yes.

I was held back my 1st grade year due to the fact that I made a 70 in math. Which is technically passing, but they held me back anyway and ending up putting me into Special Education for mathematics the rest of my school life. Needless to say, my math level is around 8th or 9th grade right now due to it.

Lillaanya 14 years ago

I so suck at keeping up with stuff.

/waves

Jetamio 14 years ago

I also like the gurgling earthworm from Hell noise that Jell-O* makes when it's stuck to the bottom of the bowl. It makes me titter.

This made me giggle.

I got a tax rebate while I was in Canada... the check is out of date now though, so I phoned and to my surprise all I have to do is send it back and they will reissue the check. £512 coming my way! Just as well cos I'm fucking broke. Earning a mere fraction of what I do in Canada :(

Lessa 14 years ago

Lill! Have missed having you around stranger. :D

Lillaanya 14 years ago

Inlaws have finally moved out so I can again use the computer without having people constantly over my shoulder. I basically hid at work or in my room for 9 months so avoid the urge to stab.

Eve 14 years ago

ROFL Glad to hear that news Nikki :hug Miss ya round here ;)

Vulash 14 years ago

Anyone here play music? I've been considering picking up a fiddle, but I don't consider myself musically inclined and I don't currently know how to play anything (including a glass bottle). Am I jumping in over my head? I could be convinced to try banjo or ukulele

pharren 14 years ago

I could be convinced to try banjo

Stick to something simple, like particle physics.

There's a "For Dummies" book for probably every instrument out there, and I doubt you really need to be musically inclined to play anything, if you don't mind sounding like a robot and don't plan on ever making anything original. Shit, Beethoven kept making music even after he went completely deaf. Obviously, he was musically inclined to start, but music is math. If you can keep a beat in your head, the rest should just be the technical stuff of reading sheet music, learning theory, and playing whatever particular note in whatever particular manner the sheet music calls for. As far as your choice of instrument, if that's what interests you, I say go for it... but you might want to start with something cheaper to see if you have the motivation to carry through with the whole learning process... like a harmonica or something, lol. Maybe a kazoo.

Vulash 14 years ago

I'm leaning banjo now. Apparently the fiddle (violin) is one of the harder instruments to learn, and I could probably count on several years of just getting the sounds to come out right before I get to just reading the sheet music. Banjo is on the easier end, and badass as well.

I was hoping to get something while I was stuck up here in New York but I don't think I'll have the money before I'm about to leave.

Anyone in New York?

Gongaa 14 years ago

Of course you can learn it. If you're going to play a bowed, fretless stringed instrument like the violin, though, I would strongly recommend working with an instructor. Not only for the technique (which is very important if you don't want to risk injuring either of your wrists), but if you're not musically inclined, you'll need someone to work with you on your intonation.

And once you've polished up your relative pitch from all that work on your intonation, you too can write symphonies after you go deaf.

Fun fact: There's two ways to play a glass bottle that exploit different mechanisms. The first, and simplest, uses "Helmholtz resonance" - which is the sound you hear when you just blow across the top of the bottle. The other uses the bottle as a resonance chamber (in the standard sense) to build standing waves with the buzzing of your lips serving as the driver. That's the type that jug players in old school jug bands use.

Edit: Oops! Didn't see your next post after Pharren's. Banjo is definitely badass.

Faeini 14 years ago

anyone ever have a problem with no being able to connect to any updating servers for online games??

ROzbeans 14 years ago

Dragon age does that to me all the time.

pharren 14 years ago

Which one is proper grammar: "a STD" or "an STD"? Just curious :X

Lessa 14 years ago

I think the latter? Need to have a "talk" with a girl? :p

Vulash 14 years ago

Gongaa;107958

Of course you can learn it. If you're going to play a bowed, fretless stringed instrument like the violin, though, I would strongly recommend working with an instructor. Not only for the technique (which is very important if you don't want to risk injuring either of your wrists), but if you're not musically inclined, you'll need someone to work with you on your intonation.

And once you've polished up your relative pitch from all that work on your intonation, you too can write symphonies after you go deaf.

Fun fact: There's two ways to play a glass bottle that exploit different mechanisms. The first, and simplest, uses "Helmholtz resonance" - which is the sound you hear when you just blow across the top of the bottle. The other uses the bottle as a resonance chamber (in the standard sense) to build standing waves with the buzzing of your lips serving as the driver. That's the type that jug players in old school jug bands use.

Edit: Oops! Didn't see your next post after Pharren's. Banjo is definitely badass.

I guess the question isn't really can but rather will I progress fast enough for my patience and busy schedule. Two years from now I don't want to have just learned twinkle twinkle little star

pharren 14 years ago

I guess the question isn't really can but rather will I progress fast enough for my patience and busy schedule. Two years from now I don't want to have just learned twinkle twinkle little star

That's why I suggested starting with something cheap... because you also don't want to have spent hundreds of dollars on an instrument that you can only play "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" on.

Jetamio 14 years ago

Which one is proper grammar: "a STD" or "an STD"? Just curious :X

From what I remember, 'a' comes before consonants, 'an' before vowels... but when it comes to acronyms, I don't know lol. 'an' sounds better, but doesn't mean it's right I suppose lol.

Vulash 14 years ago

Well it isn't a word so it really comes down to whether or not you're supposed to say an "es" or a "s".

Pharren I don't know how you have the patience to type huge messages on your phone