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The Warren [chat]

BobCescaBobCesca Registered User regular
The Warren Cup is a unique silver Roman skyphos (or drinking cup) featuring two representations of homoerotic sexual acts.
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One side depicts a man (the active participant or erastes) engaging in anal sex with a young man (the catamite, eromenos, or passive participant), who lowers himself onto the erastes using a rope or support from the ceiling in roughly the modern sexual position of reverse cowgirl. Meanwhile a boy, perhaps a slave, watches surreptitiously from behind a door — the inferior status of a slave in Roman eyes would make him suitable to this role of voyeur.

The other side depicts the young man making love to the boy who is appears on the opposite side. Both scenes also include draped textiles in the background, as well as a kithara (lyre) in the former scene and auloi (pipes) in the latter. These, along with the careful delineation of ages and status and the wreaths worn by the youths, all suggest a cultured, elite, Hellenized setting with music and entertainment

It is named after its first modern owner, the collector and writer Edward Perry Warren and was acquired by the British Museum in 1999.

[wikipedia has the best descriptions :lol:]

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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    I like the perfict chat

    But this one wins for me.

    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • JamesKeenanJamesKeenan Registered User regular
    Mine was like a colorful, sugared treat. Impulsive and giddy but not that substantive. Something you may even regret later.

    This is like a whole wheat banana nut muffin. Not having the sanguine flavor of the other, but offering more in truth.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    I wish my cups had more bum sex on them.

  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    That is a classy cup.

    If that woman's cleavedge made one more person pick the game up off the shelf, it was a net positive for microprose. And to be blunt, if taking her top off could have increased sales enough to get a sequel, I'd endorse it 100000% because I like playing great games.
  • HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    What kind of anarchy is going on? Is it the end times?

  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    I guess I'm now considering mixing tums and advil. This is Bad Idea, right?

  • EchoEcho Per Aspera Ad Inferi Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    BOBCESCA, I CHOOSE YOU

    because I kept getting server too busy and walked away

  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    You know what is crazy?

    People that put ketchup in the fridge.

    Why would I want to ruin my nice warm french fries with cold ketchup?

    Ketchup doesn't go bad. Go into a resturant, do you see fridges on the tables for all the ketchup? Go to McD's, grab a ketchup packet, did you open a fridge to get it? Is it cold?

    No. Quit putting Ketchup in the fridge you crazies.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Tamin wrote: »
    I guess I'm now considering mixing tums and advil. This is Bad Idea, right?

    Tums sounds like an antacid, those are just calcium carbonate. And Advil is what Americans call paracetamol? Or asprin? It doesn't really matter. Mix away.

  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS
    Ah. One more joins the prestigious club that is the Sheep's Ignore List.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    You know what is crazy?

    People that put ketchup in the fridge.

    Why would I want to ruin my nice warm french fries with cold ketchup?

    Ketchup doesn't go bad. Go into a resturant, do you see fridges on the tables for all the ketchup? Go to McD's, grab a ketchup packet, did you open a fridge to get it? Is it cold?

    No. Quit putting Ketchup in the fridge you crazies.
    even better: don't use ketchup

    ever

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  • BobCescaBobCesca Registered User regular
    I grew up with ketchup being kept in the fridge, though I have now acquiesced to japan's preference for it to be kept in the cupboard.

  • ThomamelasThomamelas Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.Registered User regular
    So Donald Trump is a birther. Has anyone told Mark Cuban? Because I love it when those two have a pissing match.

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    You know what is crazy?

    People that put ketchup in the fridge.

    Why would I want to ruin my nice warm french fries with cold ketchup?

    Ketchup doesn't go bad. Go into a resturant, do you see fridges on the tables for all the ketchup? Go to McD's, grab a ketchup packet, did you open a fridge to get it? Is it cold?

    No. Quit putting Ketchup in the fridge you crazies.

    The packets are likely heat treated and then they are pretty much hermetically sealed. Restaurants will go through much larger amounts, so it's less likely to go off.

    That said, tomato ketchup tends to be pretty loaded with preservatives, so it's probably fine. I wouldn't know though, I don't use the stuff.

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong and a cast of thousands Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    You know what is crazy?

    People that put ketchup in the fridge.

    Why would I want to ruin my nice warm french fries with cold ketchup?

    Ketchup doesn't go bad. Go into a resturant, do you see fridges on the tables for all the ketchup? Go to McD's, grab a ketchup packet, did you open a fridge to get it? Is it cold?

    No. Quit putting Ketchup in the fridge you crazies.
    even better: don't use ketchup

    ever

    :^:

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    Ketchup does go bad. It doesn't go bad very fast, but in restaurants it's also used very fast. At home, that bottle you pull out every other week will be a new civilization in no time if you don't refrigerate it.

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  • Dark_SideDark_Side Registered User regular
    I wouldn't know, I only use catsup.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    I wouldn't know, I only use catsup.

    Finally, an economic use for cats!

  • EchoEcho Per Aspera Ad Inferi Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    When eating at McD/BK I always mix pepper into the ketchup.

    Now there's actually ketchup with pepper in the stores.

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    When eating at McD/BK I always mix pepper into the ketchup.

    Now there's actually ketchup with pepper in the stores.

    You did it! You changed the world.

  • RikushixRikushix Registered User regular
    I hate web design. This is killing me.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    I wouldn't know, I only use catsup.

    Finally, an economic use for cats!

    If you aren't sending your cats to the butcher you get overrun with the danm things in like, 3 hours.

  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT EVERYBODY'S GOT A PRICE! Registered User regular
    Rikushix I hardly believe that web design is killing you, unless the code is wielding knives.

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  • SparvySparvy Registered User regular
    Mojo is very encouraging today

  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    Riku doesn't even see the code anymore.

  • RikushixRikushix Registered User regular
    Rikushix I hardly believe that web design is killing you, unless the code is wielding knives.

    And how do you know that it is not

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  • RikushixRikushix Registered User regular
    Honk wrote: »
    Riku doesn't even see the code anymore.

    I just see blondes, brunettes, redheads.

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  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    Elendil wrote: »
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    You know what is crazy?

    People that put ketchup in the fridge.

    Why would I want to ruin my nice warm french fries with cold ketchup?

    Ketchup doesn't go bad. Go into a resturant, do you see fridges on the tables for all the ketchup? Go to McD's, grab a ketchup packet, did you open a fridge to get it? Is it cold?

    No. Quit putting Ketchup in the fridge you crazies.
    even better: don't use ketchup

    ever

    :^:

    Pretty much solves the entire problem really.

    If that woman's cleavedge made one more person pick the game up off the shelf, it was a net positive for microprose. And to be blunt, if taking her top off could have increased sales enough to get a sequel, I'd endorse it 100000% because I like playing great games.
  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    Feral, have you ever seen files that show up on Windows 7 but not Windows XP?

    They're .pdfs on a CD, and if I copy them to the network with an XP computer, the 7 computers can see them, but they totally can't see them on the CD. They can, however, see the CD, and see some other .pdfs on the CD. And I have "show hidden files" enabled on all of the computers in question.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I put on 1.5 pounds. Completely expected, and I just try harder this week.

    Also, apparently John Spartan doesn't know how to use the three sea shells.

  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Problem with car is depressingly expensive.

    In fairness it is not actually an electrical problem. It is a result of it having sat around not doing much for a fairly long time, which is also probably the reason for its low mileage. So I can live with that.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    i actually made a salad that is too big, too meaty, and too filling

    its salad

    how could that happen

    i dunno if i can finish it

    | Steam & XBL: Shazkar |
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. Registered User regular
    Rikushix wrote: »
    I hate web design. This is killing me.

    You're a programer?

    You don't get to have human emotions.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Birthers are basically racists.

  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    Man I'd tap that <image> ### </image>

  • QuidQuid The Fifth Horseman Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Birthers are basically racists.

    Nonsense.

    If that woman's cleavedge made one more person pick the game up off the shelf, it was a net positive for microprose. And to be blunt, if taking her top off could have increased sales enough to get a sequel, I'd endorse it 100000% because I like playing great games.
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo Tough on mime. Tough on the causes of mime Registered User regular
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Dark_Side wrote: »
    I wouldn't know, I only use catsup.

    Finally, an economic use for cats!

    If you aren't sending your cats to the butcher you get overrun with the danm things in like, 3 hours.

    I think the birthrate has been decreased. Feeding your people solely from the surplus cats doesn't seem possible any more.

  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi Registered User
    i actually made a salad that is too big, too meaty, and too filling

    its salad

    how could that happen

    i dunno if i can finish it

    IR has a tendency to make salads so big my portion is delivered in a serving bowl.

    Damn it, it's fucking noon. I demand to know if Yami shit on a desk yet.
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Birthers are basically racists.

    MORE SHOCKING REVELATIONS AT 11

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