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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 24, 2012 2:10:54 GMT -5
I...anyone else having trouble with the IRC and/or the new forums? I am seeing a lot of guests viewing these forums...
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 3, 2012 10:54:25 GMT -5
I just won a single top-grade soy-egg from a scratch-card that came with my instant noodles!
This is probably the single least exciting prize ever and I can only hope it signifies something else.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 2, 2012 11:07:20 GMT -5
Today I learned what land grant universities are.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 2, 2012 8:02:00 GMT -5
Well, few people are truly evil. They're just looking at a picture from a different angle. Like as not, by that age Mini-palpatine had already started forming the views we hold against him now, and like as not they seemed as sensible and right to him as the opposite does to us.
That said, cute != good, and that there crotchspawn has a killer's stare
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jan 2, 2012 7:40:39 GMT -5
I had a dream about FSTDT last night. I dream there was a thread all about me and it was longer than thread killer.
So, it turns out I may secretly be a complete narcissist?
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Dec 30, 2011 11:33:15 GMT -5
Do you mean games that you can launch from Steam, then? Because I have my Fallout games that do that. Nothing should stop you from reinstalling on a new computer from a disc. Yeah, like that. The problem is, all my discs are hundreds of Ks away, so whilke downloading them would be a pain in the arse, it would be nice to know I can do it without the discs or rebuying the software. Well, I have had a similar problem before, and whilst potentially it might vary depending on teh game in question I was able to reinstall just from the Steam cloud, without the discs.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Dec 30, 2011 5:18:58 GMT -5
Finally finished writing my bloody essay. In hindsight it would have been easier if I hadn't gone on a semi-philosophic rant about the Chinese middle classes, but at least I learnt some sexy new words.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Nov 2, 2011 0:16:25 GMT -5
Today I got an e-mail from my university in the UK telling me that for some reason Student Finance England have not seen fit to actually pay my tuition fee loan. SFE are a nightmarish organisation to deal with at the best of times, but just to add a cherry on top, our beloved masters here have decided that their website needs to be blocked. Fuck my life with a rusty shiv.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Nov 1, 2011 4:09:22 GMT -5
I have become a big tea fan since I gave up coffee. At the minute my holy grail of tea is Lapsang Souchong, the smoky flavour is just perfect. It is, however, very hard to find for cheap here so I have been drinking a lot of wulong tea. A good jasmine tea can never go amiss, and I had a brief love affair with something called "Russian Caravan" when my local teamongers had it in.
I am also a fan of fruit teas, particularly a lot of German brands, which I am sure makes me scum in the eyes of some purists. I'm generally pretty indifferent on the leave vs. bag front, I prefer dried leaves, naturally, but I have no complaint with bags if they are cheaper (they never are).
Edit: I completely forgot about Pu'er! That beautiful salmony tea, man I miss that.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Oct 30, 2011 2:10:00 GMT -5
I reached the point in my life where I need a continuous stream of caffeine to keep myself alive. Joy I had that until I almost suffered a heart-attack, which made me decide to quit. I was dead for two weeks but after a while I found myself much more able to face life and especially early mornings without coffee. I think caffeine ends up making things worse when taken in such huge quantities.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Oct 28, 2011 8:33:03 GMT -5
China is not communist. They have a Communist Party, but they claim the country is socialist. I personally don't call them socialist because: A) the country is just plain capitalist with the government holding a large monopoly B) their rhetoric (if not actions) are based on the peasantry, not workers. Eh? The ascendency of the peasantry in Maoist ideology was never too fully implemented on a wider scale in the CCP, it was primarily only the Khmer Rouge who supported the peasants over the workers, I mean it was not the workers starving to death in the Great Leap Forward. Nowadays anyway there is almost no evidence of the peasant in CCP rhetoric, like most asian communist parties they have reverted to a more nationalist base for support, the same line about "ordinary working [NATIONALITY]" that every far-right party has used at some point (and the CCP is very much a far-right party now, this country is a pure capitalism in a way that America simply cannot claim to be).
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Oct 21, 2011 9:53:09 GMT -5
There is one hour left of the last day on earth here in Beijing Standard Time (GMT+7). This better be an exciting hour.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Oct 18, 2011 10:35:04 GMT -5
I got scouted by a modelling agency. Sure, it's only because I am tall and white, but dammit, I am keeping that ego boost.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Oct 2, 2011 22:55:26 GMT -5
Upside down words in captchas. Captchas with non-phonetic alphabet symbols in them. I got ancient Greek in one the other day, I mean, come ON! Funnily enough that is much easier to read than the calligraphy font a lot of shop signs are written in.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Sept 30, 2011 11:06:31 GMT -5
We get a week off for National day, because the government likes to appear magnanimous. However they are not entirely comfortable with people having an entire week off, so we have to make up for it by working next weekend. Frankly, I would rather just have three days off than have five in a row that have to be earned back.
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