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Questions and Answers - Part 3

 
  

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Dr. Argenteum
17:47 / 06.02.06
All About Lily Chou Chou has an internet messageboard as a central feature of the (damn good) film.

Interestingly, some of the kids are friends on the board, but in real life are unknowingly enemies.
 
 
FINKLESTEIN!
06:52 / 07.02.06
What, pray tell, is "pwn"?

As in: Later, he went to the farm of Einar, and totally pwned his ass.

I'm missing something deliciously hilarious here. I just know it.
 
 
Dr. Argenteum
07:17 / 07.02.06
Wikipedia's got a good article on the word pwn.
 
 
Saveloy
11:26 / 07.02.06
Baz and Dr. Argenteum> Excellent suggestions, thank you!
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
12:17 / 07.02.06
Some of the common variations include “own,” “puh-own,” “pun,” “pween,” or, most commonly, “poan,” as rhymed with the original “own.” It can also be pronounced phonetically, as “pwən.”

See, In My Mind it's pronounounced like the noise a small boy makes when imitating cowboy gunshots ricocheting from rocks in western movies, 'Pee-Yown!'
 
 
FINKLESTEIN!
15:15 / 07.02.06
Thanks, Dr. A. You've helped to increase my enjoyment of the comic stylings of the 'lith by at least 5%.

I've been pronouncing it "pwin", but I think I may have to adopt your pronunciation, Quantam. It's a nice elaboration and gives the term some roots in the oooooold-school FPS's. Well done.
 
 
Life Critic
21:22 / 07.02.06
you know, i dont think i even sounded it out in my head before...

i also surf the web using notepad.
 
 
Dr. Argenteum
21:34 / 07.02.06
"Pwn" is one of those words that I have a definite way of saying in my head, but is effectively impossible for me to say out loud. Same with LOL, which doesn't sound right as either "el - oh - el", or "loll".
 
 
doozy floop
11:33 / 08.02.06
Does anyone know of any music festival or events in Eire (of any persuasion of music - new composers, traditional Irish music, great big symphony orchestras, U2, etc etc)? Or alternatively, does anyone know of a resource that would reveal such information?
 
 
Jub
11:45 / 08.02.06
Here you go Doozy!
 
 
doozy floop
13:49 / 08.02.06
You little gem Jub, thanks!
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:55 / 08.02.06
Does anyone know a website with information about and names of tree diseases?
 
 
Jack Fear
14:19 / 08.02.06
Maybe?
 
 
Dead Megatron
(prev. Dance to the Beat)
14:51 / 08.02.06
A few days ago, i wrote in some thread about an acronym coined by Brazilian Gay activists, GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexuals, and Transgenders), and I've been noticing some people using it. Has it been in use before I wrote it and I'm deluding myself, or am I the proud introducer of a new term in Barbelith's (and the international comunity's, for tha matter)lexicon?

I'm asking because I just want to "gloat" (in the lack of a better word) with my gay friends
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
14:54 / 08.02.06
I'm afraid it's been in use around here for a looooong ol' time, Megs.
 
 
Dead Megatron
(prev. Dance to the Beat)
14:59 / 08.02.06
damn it!

oh, well, it's a great term, if you ask me
 
 
Mourne Kransky
15:00 / 08.02.06
LGBT, GLBT, QAIP from Wikipedia for your edification, Dead M.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:01 / 08.02.06
Aye, that tree website looks like just the ticket. Cheers, me dears!
 
 
Saveloy
17:54 / 08.02.06
Southampton 'lithers

I have an online pal who is thinking of moving to Southampton, and has some questions about the place:

"southampton, housing-wise (rented) seems to be nice and cheap, and i wondered if
it's grimly dry for employment?

more specific questions if i may:

do you have a hunch of areas to avoid?
would they generally, down your way, accept people with smoking cats?
or are the flats about a bit posh and all agencies that say you need
to earn a fortune?
if i turned up with a grand, could i rent somewhere for me and the
little four pawed monster without saying yes i have an enormous income
guaranteed for the whole of the year?"


Any answers that I can pass on would be much appreciated.
 
 
Jub
18:05 / 08.02.06
Megatron - also, an acronym is a word which is formed from the initial letter from each of the successive parts of a phrase - eg Nato, Scuba, Laser and so on. Therefore LGBT is not an acronym.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
19:09 / 10.02.06
A few weeks ago while drunkenly scanning the interweb, I stumbled across a form of graphics / calligraphy which played with the typography of any given word so that if you turned it upside down it would still read the same. There was even a web-site belonging to a guy who specialised in this form of graphic manipulation.

Does anyone know what this technique is called? It's driving me crazy trying to remember it.

(Note: there's a little voice in my head saying that I may even have originally heard of this technique via [e.g.] a link within Barbelith thread, so...)
 
 
Dr. Argenteum
19:29 / 10.02.06
They're ambigrams.

 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
19:31 / 10.02.06
Excellent! Much obliged, Dr. Argenteum. That's been bugging me for a while.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
15:48 / 11.02.06
Is it true that iron deposits in the sinus help us to find our way by relating ot the earth's magnetic fields?
 
 
HCE
17:12 / 11.02.06
I have corn, I have beans, and I am under the impression that there is some way of forming said corn and beans into some kind of veggie thing that can be put into a sandwich. As is, they'd fall out, wouldn't they. Any suggestions?
 
 
All Acting Regiment
19:20 / 11.02.06
Put them in a blender? Use a hollow pitta and put them inside? Make a toasty?
 
 
The Freewheeling Convo
19:31 / 11.02.06
Stamp down edges of sandwich with thumb?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:01 / 11.02.06
Use melted cheese to stick corn and beans together. Or honey. Or hummus.

Or refry the beans and enrich with the corn.

Bon appetit!
 
 
HCE
22:58 / 11.02.06
Aha! I think melted cheese will do the trick. I don't have pita, but I do have small, round loaves of bread that could be hollowed.

Thanks folks!
 
 
lekvar
00:47 / 12.02.06
In a recent thread, there was distaste expressed for the term "lady." Could someone explain the reaction to me, or point me to an appropriate thread? Are the class conotations to the word causing offence?
 
 
Boboss
00:51 / 12.02.06
I think it's that lady simply isn't a neutral gender term (if such a thing can be said to exist). IMO, lady has victorian connotations and smacks of a rather unhealthily precious (read: sexist) attitude to women.
 
 
Olulabelle
01:11 / 12.02.06
Yes I think part of the dictionary.com definition suggests why some people might object to the use of the word lady. There's quite a lot but here's a select few bits:

la·dy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ld)
n. pl. la·dies
A well-mannered and considerate woman with high standards of proper behavior.

A woman regarded as proper and virtuous.
A well-behaved young girl.
A woman who is the head of a household.
A woman, especially when spoken of or to in a polite way.


High standards of proper behaviour according to whom?
By that definition a lady probably wouldn't get drunk, or wear her pyjama bottoms to the corner shop on a sunday morning.

It's just a very old-fashioned word.
 
 
Boboss
01:20 / 12.02.06
Nice one, Lula.
 
 
The Freewheeling Convo
00:38 / 13.02.06
Can someone show me different variantions of "my treasure", as in someone I love and care about, in a different language?

Thanks!
 
 
The Freewheeling Convo
00:39 / 13.02.06
Also, Benny, I just saw you found out it was Jenny Eclair I was thinking of. Late cheers!
 
  

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