RicOlie_2

DuracellEnergizer said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Wait, she was considered attractive at one point?  I guess I never paid much attention to her because I thought she went straight from looking like a little girl to someone who had done way too many drugs and is in danger of starving to death. 

Shows what I know.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't find teenage girls attractive. I did when I was a teenager, so why wouldn't I now?

That being said, I'm not going to jump in bed with one; even if there weren't statutory rape laws to deal with, few teenage girls have enough taste and intellect to engage me beyond a physical level -- most are idiots, to put it bluntly. 

 Quite right. That's why I hang out with you guys--all my peers are just too dumb for any extended interaction with them to be tolerable. ;)

And we've missed you (certain ones of us despite not ever having interacted with you). I don't suppose life isn't too much in the way nowadays for you to stick around?

DuracellEnergizer said:

34) Not liking comic books.

 Uh-oh...

There are very few comic books I find at all interesting to read. I propose the removal of the adjective "comic" from the above proposed rule (unless it be here used in the sense of "humourous").

This may be an interesting site for some.

If it's not safe for some work spaces, it's just as well it didn't make it in.

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CP3S said:

TV's Frink said:

Oh man how I wish C3PX still posted here.

 Me too...

 Good to see you back! I hope you stick around. :)

ATMachine said:

A little.

Or rather, quelque fois, mais je le flagelle encore.

PS: Pardon my edit.

You speak it a little fluently...or is that fluently a little? Que voulez-vous dire par cela ?

EDIT: I'd like to botch about people posting just before I do, necessitating the addition of a quote. Why can't you just wait five seconds?

Ben oui !

Parlez-vous le français couramment ?

Indeed. It makes me roll my eyes when the prescriptive grammar handed out by l'Académie dismisses constructions or vocabulary used in Québec as "des grossiers barbarismes" or suchlike.

I use "Obi-Wan," simply because that's how I was introduced to him, and that is the name used by multiple people in the OT (at least two, anyway).

Technically, ATM, it's a perfectly valid way to pluralize acronyms/initialisms. It's simply a matter of style and personal preference.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/503/what-is-the-correct-way-to-pluralize-an-acronym

darth_ender said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Read more Shakespeare, and Roman history while you are at it.

You know now that I think about it I don't think it is today, I am pretty sure it is tomorrow that Julius has to worry about.

 But the soothesayer warned the good Emperor the day before, didn't he?  It's been a while and I may have forgotten.

 He certainly did in Shakespeare's play. I can't remember if that has any basis in history or not, however.

Based on what you post in the politics thread, I wouldn't be surprised if you were sleep-posting in the middle of a bad dream.

Warbler said:

This thread seemed the most appropiate thread for this.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/13/392817912/pope-francis-says-his-tenure-at-the-vatican-will-be-short?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr

You have any thoughts about this, RicOlie_2?

 No.

...

Just kidding. I'm not really surprised. I mean, the guy only has one lung, not to mention that he hasn't been afraid to speak out against popular or powerful people, like the Mafia. However, I do hope he lasts a lot longer than he expects to, and doesn't kill himself trying to reform the curia. He's up against a fair bit of opposition there, if I understand the situation correctly, and the Church needs more popes like him: unafraid to reform and saintly. I only hope that either he or his successor is rewarded in their efforts to fix problems with the Church's leadership and his/their work is not undone.

Has jedimasterobiwan mentioned his age? Based on what I've read from him, he seems young—maybe even as young as me—and perhaps Netflix isn't an option because his parents wouldn't allow him to subscribe to it (or he can't afford it)....

msycamore said:

It's sad that even in an interview like that, he isn't able to be sincere when describing the writing process of what is essentially a simple fantasy movie. Instead he needs to burp his programmed "Lucasfilm mythology." The expression on Nolan's face is basically "What the hell are you talking about."

 I read no such expression on Nolan's face, although I will concede that I'm perhaps not as familiar with it (his face, that is) as you may be.

That's a major change? What, were all the minor revisions corrections of typos? :P

Warbler said:

RicOlie_2 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

RicOlie_2 said:

DominicCobb said:

March 10:

A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.

 LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.

 I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.

 Well, it's nice to have someone taking interest for a change. Of course, I've had several people pop by, but none have really been interested in a real conversation about the history.

I only began to take a serious interest in history a couple years ago, having been failed entirely by the public school system in that regard, and did an overview of world history during my two years of homeschooling.

hmm,  I didn't think you'd be a in a public school or be homeschooled.  I assumed you being a Catholic, would be going to a Catholic school.

Actually, I did go to a Catholic school for two and a half years, but the Catholic schools were the public schools in the city I was in, up until a couple years ago. I have homeschooled for a total of six years, for various reasons, but it's fairly common for Christians who are serious about their religion, being that the Catholic schools are only superficially so most of the time. I also lived in a tiny village for the first ten years of my life, and regular school wasn't easily accessible (and we knew/were related to the people running the homeschooling organization in the area).

Not much history gets attention today. Not in schools, anyway. I knew very little besides Canadian history before grade 8 thanks to the wonderful curriculum used in Alberta (which is similar throughout Canada, I'm sure). The only reason I know any now is because I stopped going to school. :P

moviefreakedmind said:

RicOlie_2 said:

DominicCobb said:

March 10:

A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.

 LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.

 I'm interested! If this thread didn't exist then I would have created my own. Not necessarily about specific events tied to the date, but a history discussion thread nonetheless.

 Well, it's nice to have someone taking interest for a change. Of course, I've had several people pop by, but none have really been interested in a real conversation about the history.

I only began to take a serious interest in history a couple years ago, having been failed entirely by the public school system in that regard, and did an overview of world history during my two years of homeschooling. It's amazing how little I knew before then. Over those two years, I made a colour-coded timeline of history in Excel, covering several thousand years and organized further by continent. It has its biases, but it touches on most important things (and I believe has almost 7000 different events, with brief descriptions). 

moviefreakedmind said:

RicOlie_2 - What are some of your favorite historical time periods to study? Mine are the Roman Empire, French Revolution/Napoleonic era, the mid to late 1800s in the U.S. and the World Wars and the Cold War. Everything during and after the 1980s is interesting too but it's getting dangerously close to my birth year so I don't like to think of any of it as history ;)

 It varies, but I take a frequent interest in ancient Middle Eastern history, particularly Egypt and Babylonia. I'm also interested in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Other things I'm interested mostly because one hears relatively little about them, such as Ancient China/Japan (and the rest of the Far East), or what was happening around the world during periods when we tend to focus a lot on one area--usually Europe. Most of the time it's because there isn't really much to be told, but sometimes it's simply because it's less relevant or considered less interesting. For instance, I've hear a fair bit about the colonization period of America, but far less about that of Australia, or South America, or Africa.

DominicCobb said:

March 10:

A.D. 2015: RicOlie2 suddenly realizes how long it's been since he last updated this thread.

 LOL, I stopped after awhile because there was almost no interest in this thread and I things were getting busy.

Well...I'm not at all surprised it was made, but I'd never heard of it, and never thought to check to see whether it had been after reading the OP....

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tobar said:

Getting back to the premise, the idea that the Empire is now rounding up all surviving Alderaanians is a bit of a stretch. I can understand that there'd be concerns over fomenting thoughts of revenge but to act so swiftly to start rounding them up a day after the destruction of the planet is...questionable.

First Luke has a duel with Vader right after ANH, and now this. *sigh*

If Disney had done the smart thing and made the nuEU non-canon like the Star Trek EU, I wouldn't be having any problem with these writing decisions as they'd all be self-contained and have little to no impact on other stories written in the future. As it, though, I'm seeing the nuEU shaping up to be another clusterfuck of poor ideas just like the old EU was.

 I hadn't thought it would be otherwise. I've almost completely lost interest in the EU at this point. I'm not as enthusiastic about Star Wars as I once was, and even the OT no longer holds my interest as strongly as before.