Wow, talking about a cast iron stomach. Goofy neighbors too, if I had a person around that smelled like death I'd shoot them with a power washer when they went out.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I can only say "wow." Maybe with a "holy shit."
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: I can only say "wow." Maybe with a "holy shit."
Pretty much sums it all up right there. Although "creepy" is also at the forefront of my mind.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I recall the a news report the other day about two elderly men who carried their dead friend on a chair just so that they could get his social security check.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I remember reading about that on MSN.ca a month or so ago. There's some really sick and twisted people in this world.
Posted by sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well that sounds like the inspiration for a nightmare-ish CSI episode. Or maybe a comedic episode of HOUSE. " So, you say your roommate smells like dog pheces and has refused to move off of the couch for 8 years. Hmmm.... I suggest a lumbar puncture. Nurse, try to find his lumbar region..... I also suggest you get your sofa re-upholstered."
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Feces
I think House would be the one carrying him 'round to get his check...or rather, to keep collecting pain killers prescribed to the dead guy.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Faeces.
How is it that House is still going? I mean Hugh sold his soul to Satan, made loads of money and proved he can't do an American accent. What more do they have to do?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I didn't find his accent that bad, myself.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Yeah, he sounds rather Yank-ish. Especially compared with his normal accent.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
His accent sounds like he came from the East coast of the U.S. Like Connecticut, or New Hampshire, but not as stuck up sounding as Charles Emmerson Winchester The Third.
Dog crap. Better?
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
No, much worse. I don't have to worry about people poo when I go for a walk. Usualy.
As for the Hughster - I just can't stand that voice he puts on. Dunno, maybe it's because I know he's not an American, and in some sort of snobbish way I'm just a bit peeved that to be in an American showhe feels he can't be British. Or the producers feel that. I dunno.
I'm probably too in agreement with Nick Park (the guy that does Wallace and Grommit). His next film featuring the duo is a 1/2 hour short for the BBC, as he got fed up with producers telling him to take out a joke because they thought some halfwit kid in some US backwater wouldn't understand a joke about Wiggan.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...because they thought some halfwit kid in some US backwater wouldn't understand a joke about Wiggan."
More like no kid in any part of the country would get it. I don't even get it. Neither does the Wikipedia. What the hell is a "Wiggan"? A Wiccan with a speech impediment?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
This is the closest thing i found to that word; From dictionary .com
Wigan A borough of northwest England northeast of Liverpool. An important market town in the Middle Ages, it is an industrial city in a coal-mining region. Population: 81,200
If it means anything else, i dunno chaps
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Side note: Nick Park's brother, Adrian, is one of my profs.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN:
What the hell is a "Wiggan"? A Wiccan with a speech impediment?
I needed that laugh, thank you.
So the Brits make fun of a person at the Department of Mathematics University of South Carolina Columbia?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Or somebody who wears quite a lot of hairpieces, perhaps?
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
You forgot the "Here be dragons" label. Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Anyway I think we've roundly smashed the idea that it's shameful not to know what a Wigan is Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Especially when it's a Wiggan.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Yeah, I'm a bit confused about that too...Is Wiggan a misspelling, or is Wigan?
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Bwuhahahaha! I'll keep you guessing for years!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Perhaps Wigan is the place , but Wiggan is a person that comes from Wigan, like Boston and bostonian, or Buffalo and buffalonian.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Surprisingly, buffalo never roamed the feilds of Buffalo, because buffalo find it a bit too cold in Buffalo when Buffalo hits winter, even though buffalo have thick fur.
Curious, i just looked up the spelling of buffalo, as i thought i spelled it wrong.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Did they yeilds the feilds?
Nope, no spelling erorrs hear!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
No, I no how to spell everything exacktley rite.
Could be worse. english teacher has a sign is his room
2 mch txtng makes u a bad splr
Even though I don't own a cell phone, I agree.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I only don't own a cellphone cuz I have noone to call with it. But I used to, and I typed in full, grammatically correct English...that's what the predictive text feature is *for* people! *sighs sadly and eats a burrito*
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
So, that's what they call it now? Nevermind, I don't want to know.....
I truly do hate the short hand writing, irritates the hell out of me. Typos are one thing, but don't be some fucking lazy!
sean is catching on, that sucks. Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
The whole shorthand thing evolved out of text messages being charged by the character, I believe. Although I've only ever been charged by the message, so I don't know if that's something to do with my network or if the whole system has changed.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I've never heard of by the character charges, always been by the message on the networks I've known. It was just to make them easier to type, quicker for kids in school or people trying to text and drive.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Also, text messages have to be short. The old limit was 150 characters; some carriers now it's higher, but I've still not seen anything more than 260 characters. So if you want to say a lot, you have to compress it. It's actually quite ingenious; a human-computable dictionary-based compression algorithm... Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I get 450 characters on a text.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
You sure about that? Anytime I've gotten over 170 characters or so it splits the message into parts. My phone will allow up to 450 characters, though.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I only know what I see. I open up & I start typing & it counts down from 450. I have never received a text from myself, you see.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
So, mmmm, send each other a 450 character text message and see what happens.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Dispite my dumb looks, I do catch on fast. I still do not understand penguin pr0n, and actually hope I never do.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You'll get it, said the King Penguin as he leered at you, oh yes, you'll get it.
Hey, you have a capitol S now.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yeah, I noticed that my name looked absolutely retarded compared to the likes of Daniel Butler, and Shik, and Ritten... all with capitals. Oh well, I will get it someday great master Ritten..(does japanese style bow)
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Your member number makes me sad for Roy Scheider.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Strange, I just noticed this, but my member number is the year i will Graduate high school, interesting......
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
OMINOUS!
I realized quite early that my named looked retarded cuz it's my *name.* But Mark leaves his name up too, and so does CC, so I'm in good company.
I've just never been good with screennames...When I was 13, I had a Yahoo! mail account (actually I think I was 12 and lied cuz they wouldn't give accounts back then to people under 13) which was... [email protected]. As in, "Yeerk hater _ Animorphs fan." ...Yyyyyeuch.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
Oh, wow. I just opened up my phone to send a text message and it gives me 3000 characters. Holy poo.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
^^ I hate screen names, too.
^^^ Sean, you realize you're half the age of most of the regulars around here?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Do I qualify as a regular? Cuz I'm only...what...2010..grad...18...minus .... carry the one... .... I'm 21. So I'm some count of years older than him and less than twice.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Sean, you maketh me blush. Although, with Lee back from Italy, I will lose my place.
I enlisted in the Army the year you were born, through the Delayed Entry Program. I would have retired six days ago. With little benefits, I am glad I didn't stay in.
Baloo is retired Ari Force isn't he?
So, who else is over 39?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
By the time i am 39... Some of you will have no hair and beer bellies ( those of you who don't already)
computers will be implanted in our brains and we can use our eye movements to surf the interweb
Star Trek 23 will have mostlikely come out, and people will still be bitching about it.
and oh what else...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
ENT reimagined will be the hot show to watch for us 60 something people.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Except by then society will be so liberal and carnal that they'll *show* Trip and T'Pol, and I don't just mean the crack of her ass!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Heres to hoping.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
While she is attractive now I think my then gravity will have taken hold.
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
She's a Vulcan, though. They don't age as quickly.... Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
There is actually not really any conntction between the sagging of boobs and gravity. It is actually just the muscles that hold up the breasts weakening, and since breasts are mostly fat, they sag without support. Wearing a bra does not have any effect on them either. It just makes them more comfotable to have. I watch the discovery channel too much. Damn satellite television...
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I hadn't thought of the Fabrux, you are right indeed.
Technically true, Sean, but in a gravity free society they would not be pulled upon so much.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
*shoves glasses up his nose impatiently* It'sh all academic, guysh, they *did* uzhe grabbity on the Enterprise. Sheesh. *snort*
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
True, but in a gravity present society, like the one we live in, whether you wear a bra or not, they are going to drop down a bit. Once we have hundreds of women in space for a long period of time, maybe we can test the no grav theory.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I would test this theory in my lab, if only I could get women to come to my lab!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well, I may know a few....
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Keywords Sean, pay attention to keywords. He didn't mean lab as in a dog.
I like to open the outter layers like presents.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I do know a few women who would like to go to his lab. They're kinky like that.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Ritten: Presents? Good to know at least someone isn't just getting coal in his stocking...
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Ginger Beacon:
Um, excuse me? That map is missing something. Me!
Christ, Dawn fucking Primarolo. I hate that woman.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
You know, Lee, for some reason (probably the fact that I was obsessed with the books for some count of years) whenever I see your name sitting by your post, I get an image in my head of Lee Jordan from Harry Potter (or at least how I imagine him) - you don't happen to be a young black boy with dreadlocks do you? Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
You don't live in Wigan, do you Lee?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Until I saw the movies, I thought everyone was prepubescent, spoke in un-accented english,(American English) and that lee jordan was a girl.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Right, you damn Yank, I'm glad I was raised half British and know that Lee is a boy's name And well, yeah, prepubescent...until, y'know, they hit puberty, probly around book 3 or 4, maybe earlier for ole Hermione... Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well, I think it had something to do with being 7 when I read the first book, and not knowing what puberty was, and not knowing what "dunno" meant, or how to pronunce it. And I completely agree about Hermione. And knowing that Dumbledore is gay makes me want to re read the books to look for clues.....
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...un-accented english..."
Grr...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I mean horribly improper and completely not understandable english spoken with an improper un british accent. Ummm, Ummmm...................
*Me goes and hides in closet utilizing the fetal position*
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
That's odd. I replied to this thread last night - but it's not here!
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
What, you mean other than the reply quoting the map?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Yes. I'm sure it went through. All it said was something like "I live in Bristol, but if this story received any local prominence, I missed it."
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I guess Bristol's been made Unplottable.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Like 12,Grimmauld Place. I dont know if you can charm things as big as a town... WOW I am a DORK..snort snort.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Bristol.... Lee or Mannion.... One of the two anyway.
You caught that anyway.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
The island Azkaban on is Unplottable, but we don't know how big the island is, of course.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ritten: Lee or Mannion....
Lees you idiot, Lees, add the freaking s!
Uhhg? What?
Dan, so it is not usable as a device?
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
What isn't usable as a device?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
The Isle that Azkaban is on.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Huh? Is that a supermarket joke?
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Nope.
unPLOTable Device.
I see it sinking......
It wasn't just the mayonnaise that went bad.....
Yeah, my humor was with it.....
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Still don't get it.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Cripes.....
If it is unPLOTable it can not be used as a DEVICE.
PLOT DEVICE!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Oohhhhh.....
Cut me some slack, it took me till I was 11 to understand the connection of Kanga and Roo from Winnie the Pooh, and an actuall Kangaroo. Maybe my member status should be changed to KICK ME, I'M THICK
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Be careful what you wish for around here Sean, you just might get it.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
So, where is the magic bottle? Ritten, are you the genie? OH MAWY GAWD!!!! MY DREAMSH HAVE FINALLY COME TRUE!! THERESH A GENIE THAT GRANTSH MY WISHESH * Snorts, and pushes thick plastic glasses up nose)
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Me, no, but I am sure that a willing mod or admin will see that post and grant your wish.
The only special power I have is apparently a pungent aroma that some here have noticed, which is odd, considering I do not believe any of us have met face to face before.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I radiates through your humor.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
You radiates? Through my humor nonetheless. Poor, poor you. My humor is, at times, sick, morbid, terrible, and, yes, sometimes it does stink, but it is one of the few things I can claim as my precious.
Can someone re-rail this thread?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
And continue to talk about what this thread was originally about? Why would we do that? Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
We wouldn't, but Saltah'na took the time to create it so I thought I would give it a try.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Okay then. A guy has been decaying on a sofa for 8 years, and his senile roommate didn't notice. Do discuss.....
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
One thing I don't get is how this whole situation came to be in the first place. The article stated that the dead guy was the previous tenant, so assuming the new tenant was showed the apartment by the landlord, how the hell did he miss that? And what about movers, unless the apartment was listed as fully furnished, you'd think the new tenant would have some personal possessions that would require the use of a moving company.
Honestly, this whole story sounds like a fat steaming load.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I thought it meant the two were roommates and one of them shuffled off his mortal coil and the other one was too batty to notice.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
That's what I thought too.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Wouldn't the body had been quite dry after 8 years? Or did the AC finally give out?
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Well, it may have decomposed before it could dry out, and all those microorganisms growing and living on the corpse might have kept it moisturized. It was probably a slimy pile of mush, with enough bone structure left to be able to make it recognizable as the dead man, or at least a human body.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
Well, at least the man in the other case was senile, and didn't notice his friend had died. This seems like a case of plain ignorance.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I was going to say I refuse to believe nobody could notice in 35 years a dead body in a neighboring apartment. Then I read this:
quote:Residents of her loft building in downtown Zagreb had broken into Golik's flat after deciding that the apartment should belong to them, and not to her. Startled by the remains in bed, they called police.
So, I don't think this is a place where neighbors particularly give a shit if you're dead. I mean..."deciding that the apartment should belong to them and not to her." That's pretty bare-naked selfish greed isn't it? "GIMMIE IT IT'S MINE!"
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
And at the end of the article it looks like they're still squabbling over it.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Ahh, the apex of human nature.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
And I thought bitching over what channel to watch on TV was petty. *sigh*
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Wonderful people- creatures with all the humanity of a cockroach.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Um... no. When have you ever seen cockroaches squabble over property ownership? These people are acting about as human as you can get.
People seem to forget that most of the things we describe as "inhuman" are things that only humans do.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Thank you. Humans are selfish by nature, not good and righteous. Not that I buy into 'original sin' but sure as hell not 'original holiness' either.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Phht...if satan exists, he's taking notes from us.
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