Buzzkill of the Day

I was actually going to sig that and came in this thread to do so but Imke had beat me to it.

Maybe I'll be able to say something else siggable in the near future.

I'm sigged by two people, too. Amber and Z.

I've been sig'd in the past. By Jaz and Tuffy. I'm still sig'd to this day by someone I can't remember the name of, who doesn't post here anymore, but I remember his avatar is Stewie Griffin with devil horns.

I can't sig that thing Nightrious produced a page back because of some tyrannical forum rule about length and now I'll probably never sig again.

And while we're bragging, someone here once used a picture of me as an avatar. Which was pretty much like sigging my face. Which was so flattering that I would've gone around telling everyone about it if that sentence didn't sound extremely vulgar when said out loud.

You all have my permission to use my face as a signature.

No you don't. You creep. Stop that. Stop it.

Don't even think about.

Speeding ticket. Maybe 3 points on my license and a £60 fine. FFS!

That dude from saved by the bell is at the bar right now and I can't figure out how to turn off the sound on my phones camera. Help so I can snipe him

Stage a toast for the purpose of loud glass clanking to create a noise diversion.

Ask if you can get a picture. Then crop yourself out if you don't want in it.

Just skimmed 4 or 5 pages of this.
Missed so much.

My nose bleed for an hour. Third time this month. Hope nose doesn't spring leak tomorrow. Considering surgery, but family says don't do it. If I don't do something to stop the nose bleeds, I won't qualify for my VA home loan, and I'll get an honorable discharge.

I stuck my hand in a pot of boiling water, by accident.

Not THE Dustin Diamond?

I'm not feeling well at all, but I'm going to work because I don't want to miss out on an important meeting, which was already postponed once.

I'm watching a Brazilian film and I don't understand much, wah! I'm gonna get the Portuguese subtitles, because it's easier if you see the words.

Woow, so much better. In my defense, Brazilian Portuguese is pronounced very differently from the continental variety.

You don't have to defend yourself, if I turned on a film and it was in Portuguese I'd just turn it off again. And I Probably wouldn't even recognise it was in Portuguese.

I've been self-studying it for the past year and a half.

Isn't Dustin's brother Mike D(Diamond) from the Beastie Boys? Saw them at and old lollpaloolza show, and everyone else f'd up and was off their marks, lost, raps sucked. Mike D was playing the drums perfectly, rapping, hitting every mark, generally running the entire show. It didn't matter if they were drunk or high or whatever, it was crappy and they were pretending it was so punk-except Mike who was pure pro. Guess everyone has a bad show now and again,... but damn. Production can really change sound quality for final record, and those guys have a great producer. I've been front row to Fugazi in 91, I kinda know punk(yay, Ian MacKay called our now defunct little Trim Shop the punkest club in nc). Found out later Mike D is, of course, the brains behind the band.

Idk, feel like I should have sold my right arm to see the Paul's Boutique tour, then that could have been the proper deliberation. Just kept thinking, how much better the act would be with Mike D solo. Perhaps he just needs hype people real bad for stage fright and confidence. I still like Adam Yaunch(RIP) and Ad Rock for generally being exceptional human beings.

Always wondered about that. And, how man languages do you speak?

Romanian, English, French and Spanish. I can read Portuguese, Catalan and a bit of German, although I've studied it for 4 years.

That's amazing! You have such a beautiful mind.
I'm not uh, hitting on your mind. I mean I would, but I lean toward Eliza Dushku/Kat Dennings/Cierra/very tan Michelle Rodriguez/Tegan and Sarah type. Wait, that's to specific, isn't it? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Hasn't everyone kissed a girl or two after that damn Katy Perry song? Everyone gets those feelings! Right? RIGHT?!!
Not me, anymore.
This is awkward now, isn't it?
Anyhoo,... how about that baseball *stutter* I mean Project Runway Show? Tim Gunn. Crazy lovin that Andre. Anthony Ryan Auld, sweat! Am I right?! Yeah?...
Speaking of multi verbage, I love speaking German, wish I had someone to practice it with daily. Guess I'll just learn the entire script of Soul Kitchen. I maybe forced to learn French to teach Issy, so she can speak with her grandma(although I kinda don't care, since the old woman hasn't even sent her a post card or a squirt gun since she was born. She just talks to her one the phone every few months if even that-that my husband pays for. Lame.). I'm so very awful at it, but Issy's pronunciation is far better than mine already(which doesn't say much for either of us). So, I'll press on and keep teaching her. Her dad tries to teach her full sentences, and I'm like- stop it! Slow down! At least teach her one of the words in the damn sentence first!

Let him teach her now, and try to make her pronounce correctly. I've read studies that show that if you don't get the pronunciation right by the time you're 12-14, you'll always sound 'foreign'. I don't have a native accent in any of those languages and it sucks. And the French is so beautiful!

I would think it also depends on the language you're trying to learn, as well as what your mother tongue is.

I'll let him babble.
But I will still teach her basics of words and phrases. So she will have a reference point.
Trust me, he babbles in perfect English as well.

Irina, I don't think that's true, exactly. I've heard people who are not French (and I'm pretty sure didn't learn it by 14) but who have lived here a long time and don't have any discernible accent. I think a lot of these statistics about language learning are a bit exaggerated. It's simply a matter of time and practice. If you lived in France long enough and spoke French often enough, I'm sure your accent would change. At least when speaking French. Of course it'll be more difficult for you because you have so many languages that you know.

I don't think the amount of languages you know have much to do with it. Also, time and practice doesn't always make perfect. I will never sound like I'm Norwegian, because there are some sounds that are extremely hard for me to "produce".

Ah, I see what you mean. I guess you're right, it probably does depend on your mother language. I think I've been very lucky, as my accent in English is quite neutral, not having any sort of strong sounds (if we can call them that), so imitating sounds is fairly easy. Though, that's not to say my French accent is anywhere near perfect. And I'm sure there is a language out there somewhere that has sounds that I would find very difficult to reproduce.

That would be Romanian. We have a few sounds that are really difficult to pronounce unless you have something similar in your own language.

And I don't think it has something to do with how many languages you speak, I read it in an essay on language acquisition and they were referring to a foreign language in general. Of course you won't be able to learn too many languages by that age, but what they said was that learning by listening, at first, is preferable to just reading the grammar and vocabulary. Which is basically the opposite of what I am doing with Portuguese, since I don't have anyone to practise with, I'm relying more on books and that is why (aside from sounding different) I found it harder to understand the Brazilian variety. I think from now on I'll switch to watching videos on news websites to get the gist of it.

Back when he had Facebook, my brother's best friend's profile pic was of him and Dustin Diamond, whom he saw randomly at a bar. He asked if he would be in a picture. He did. Simple. Saved By The Bell is literally his favorite show from childhood.

He has another picture of himself wearing a Legends of the Hidden Temple blue baracuda team shirt. Holding up a real piece of the Agro Crag from Guts that he bought for I think 200 dollars on eBay.

Oh no I wish. Zach. The other one. With the foofy hair. I was going to ask him for a picture but there were only like 4 people in the bar and he was talking to the waitress about the exchange rate of Yen. She was flustered and didn't know how to hit on him so she kept telling him that he looks gay.

Left my phone outside and it rained. Major buzzkill.

Dustin used to drink in the bar I frequented at the time. We had beers a couple occasions. This was the early 90's and he was known then only for that show but even then I knew he was doomed.

Come to think of it, that bar was a C-list haven. That really terrible comicbook artist kid also used to drink there then. That guy who doesn't know anatomy. Rob something.

Rob Liefeld?

That's the one.

He sucks. Really hard.

I'd be really surprised if you were fluent enough to tell if someone had an accent. I mean, I know you French as hard as the Frenchiest of them but slight accents are... slight. I know tons of people who move to the US around ages 9-12 and they're now in their 20's and always, always speak with an accent. They never stumble over words but the accent is there.

Also, I speak perfect Spanish. It was my first language and I use it exclusively with family, with many friends, and sometimes for weeks or months at a time when I take trips south of the border. But if I go to Colombia or Mexico or anywhere, they can tell instantly I'm not from there. They can smell it on my vowels or something.

The way I can tell my friend from Minnesota is not from here even though English is her first language and her accent is very subtle?

(I mention this because the mid west coast accent is the one that seems to be held dearest and most proper as far American English goes, it is what is strived for in voice/speech lessons and what is given as the generic accent for Americans in television/movies/et cetera when the part of America they are from is not wished to be made obvious)

I know this was ages ago, but I have to say that the whole stupid cat/men thing was so funny.

That's a good point, my ear is probably not nearly that trained.

I agree.

Shark week. It's hit me like a ton of bricks too! Ouch.

Exactly! I knew there was an easier way to say it.

But probably closer to Nightrious after he's spent ages doing his fiendish thing without speaking. He probably still sounds Canadian. But the other Canadians are like, "I don't know what it is aboot this guy but I think he might not be used to making human sounds with his mouth thing, eh?"

I loved it. I'd really like it if Pepper/Lib/Pete would have fake arguments every day for our entertainment.

Not having a phone is making me crazy! Luckily someone around where I'm working has open wifi, so I can at least use my iPad.

We now call it the narwhalnook. Your narwhalnook is here and it is horrible!

I think it would be fantastic too.

Unfortunately the last time we gave that a go, with real genuine effort and energy, a Snorlaxian Wildebeest with a hamster fetish came along and got so butthurt she almost killed herself then stomped her feet until the thread was deleted.

Hello low blood sugar, I did not need you this week. Not one bit. This means I'm gonna go to bed earlier because it's almost 11 and I can't have a proper dinner at this hour, and unless I want to pass out in my chair I should go sleep or lie down and read something.

And I went to the living room and saw a minute of a tv show about bears. On second thought I'm gonna stay up and read.

That is not how you manage your bloodsugar. That is how you become intimately acquainted with your new friend Diabetic Coma.

Eat a damn bit of damn food.