C
Chessie
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I'm sorry, Tom. This is why I hate the holidays. I hope it gets better for you. x
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I'm sorry, Tom. This is why I hate the holidays. I hope it gets better for you. x
Tom
Istar
Thanks, Chessie. To survive this holiday season, I think I'm just going to have to bite my tongue and broadcast my frustrations on the internet via the phone-under-the-table method.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Holding on tight to the quote attributed to Ernest Hemingway, whom I highly respect:
"The first draft of anything is sh*t."
Because it definitely is right now.
"The first draft of anything is sh*t."
Because it definitely is right now.
Russ
Istar
Don't leave us in suspense...what happened to the truck?
C
Chessie
Guest
Lucky kid got pulled out that night. His jeep was gone by morning.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
I just got a nosebleed, blood streaming down my face...It would have been all over my clothes and the floor had I not been in the bathroom at the time getting ready for a shower with toilet paper close at hand to mop it up. Do normal people get nosebleeds like this??
I need a life.
I need a life.
Tom
Istar
Today I gave a presentation on abstract art and almost died from nerves.
I also refrained from dragging Piet Mondrian when I discussed one of his pieces, which should earn me an automatic A. That took a lot of willpower.
I also refrained from dragging Piet Mondrian when I discussed one of his pieces, which should earn me an automatic A. That took a lot of willpower.
My broken hand has broken free from its cast!
Russ
Istar
I just got a nosebleed, blood streaming down my face...It would have been all over my clothes and the floor had I not been in the bathroom at the time getting ready for a shower with toilet paper close at hand to mop it up. Do normal people get nosebleeds like this??
I need a life.
Actually lots of people get nosebleeds for many reasons. Some people get them due to deficiencies in their diet. You may want to discuss this issue with a physician.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Don't worry, I believe this one was due to recovering from a cold.
Many years ago, I used to get them constantly, though. Not anymore.
I just experienced what I think is my first case of plagiarism. In fairness I'm not even sure if I can call it that, but still...
Whenever I upload a new set to mixcloud I also have to pick out a cover image, and I tend to pick photos I've taken myself (usually with my cell pone).
Today, when checking how my latest set was doing (it gets ranking depending on how many plays it gets) I spotted my cover image on someone else's set. At first I got worried they'd copied the entire thing, music and all, but they hadn't. It's just the picture.
If they'd uploaded my music and claimed credit for it I'd probably have been upset (I paid for the tracks and spent quite a lot of time and effort putting them together). Now though, it's just an image from my archives, and while it feels a bit cheap of them not to say anything I'm still kind of flattered they liked my image enough to use it to represent their own stuff.
It's a weird feeling.
Whenever I upload a new set to mixcloud I also have to pick out a cover image, and I tend to pick photos I've taken myself (usually with my cell pone).
Today, when checking how my latest set was doing (it gets ranking depending on how many plays it gets) I spotted my cover image on someone else's set. At first I got worried they'd copied the entire thing, music and all, but they hadn't. It's just the picture.
If they'd uploaded my music and claimed credit for it I'd probably have been upset (I paid for the tracks and spent quite a lot of time and effort putting them together). Now though, it's just an image from my archives, and while it feels a bit cheap of them not to say anything I'm still kind of flattered they liked my image enough to use it to represent their own stuff.
It's a weird feeling.
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Ummm...how do I upload an avatar? I feel like i had this figured out not too long ago, but now I don't have any idea...
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Ok nvm...the toothless pic is cute, I like.
La Volpe
Sage
So do you usually wait until you make 1000 posts before you upload an avatar?
DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
Heehee, I'm just lazy...
Apparently not too lazy to make 1,000 posts, but too lazy to upload an avatar. That kind of lazy. XD
La Volpe
Sage
Well, it's better than uploading a 1000 different avatars before making a post. So there's that.
La Volpe
Sage
Also, where's Banten? I want to ask him something.
People from the Netherlands being called Dutch in English has always been really weird for me. In my home language, the word for the adjective Dutch is either Nederlands or Hollands. And German is called Duits (which matches with the German Deutsch). So I had to learn Nederlands/Hollands = Dutch, but Duits = German.
Anyway, my question for Banten is: What do you call your country in Dutch? Holland? Nederland? Neither?
People from the Netherlands being called Dutch in English has always been really weird for me. In my home language, the word for the adjective Dutch is either Nederlands or Hollands. And German is called Duits (which matches with the German Deutsch). So I had to learn Nederlands/Hollands = Dutch, but Duits = German.
Anyway, my question for Banten is: What do you call your country in Dutch? Holland? Nederland? Neither?
I've been summoned.
We call our country Nederland. Holland consists of the two most populous provinces: South and North Holland. A commonly cited reason for English speaking people calling the Netherlands Holland is that early english merchants only traded with cities in these provinces and mistakenly thought the entire Netherlands was called Holland. Similarly it is likely that the reason we are called Dutch in English dates back to the middle ages when we spoke a language called Diets or it could be because we were a part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time.
Hope that helped
La Volpe
Sage
Ah. Curiosity satisfied. Thanks, Banten.
