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Happy Rex Manning [chat]!

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  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    I do think those coffee horn things are pretty cool anyway. I like the little sling they come with, and the holder so you can stand them on your desk. I probably don't think they're cool enough for what they likely cost though.

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    'Property of Karl Marx/Frederick Engels' is my tramp stamp

  • DrLoserForHireXDrLoserForHireX Philosopher King The AcademyRegistered User regular
    I always knew @Cinders is as sexy as she is intelligent, and intelligent as she is sexy but a Rex Manning [chat] proves it to the world.

    "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
    "We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    Whelp, lost @Frosteey in their first foray...

    Almost lost @credeiki as well, but, being a jester, they were very nimble and dodged, like, 3 attacks in a row while on Death's Door.

    (Darkest Dungeon)

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    Rex Manning is the fourth manning brother right?
    Right behind Eli, Peyton, and that one whose name no one can remember because he didn't play football

    Bless your heart.
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    P10 wrote: »
    obama killed aerith

    She found out too late that Phoenix Downs are not covered by the HMO suggested by Obamacare.

  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    say no more, mon amore

  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    Dark Souls getting Xbox One compatibility, free with Dark Souls 3 pre-order

    @Sir Landshark @OnTheLastCastle

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  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    that isn't how Phoenix Downs work, he says, springing the trap

  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    P10 wrote: »
    obama killed aerith

    She found out too late that Phoenix Downs are not covered by the HMO suggested by Obamacare.
    Sephiroth is on the Obama death panels.

  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    that isn't how Phoenix Downs work, he says, springing the trap

    because there are no HMOs in FF7

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    TTODewback wrote: »
    Rex Manning is the fourth manning brother right?
    Right behind Eli, Peyton, and that one whose name no one can remember because he didn't play football

    Cooper! One of those things you should know solely for trivia nights

    Or if you're trying to marry into an old Louisiana family I guess

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »
    that isn't how Phoenix Downs work, he says, springing the trap

    because there are no HMOs in FF7

    I'd say those dudes at the gym are at least bi.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    Apothe0sis wrote: »
    simonwolf wrote: »
    that isn't how Phoenix Downs work, he says, springing the trap

    because there are no HMOs in FF7

    I'd say those dudes at the gym are at least bi.

    :O

    *does squats*

  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    MrMister wrote: »
    Each of these thousands of [American Heroin addicts] obtains enough Heroin for several injections each day despite the best efforts of the Narcotics Bureau to prevent smuggling. In fact the Federal Commissioner of Narcotics Harry Anslinger recently testified before a Congressional Committee, "If we had the Army, the Navy, the Coast Guard and the FBI all working together we could not prevent Heroin smuggling through the Port of New York."...

    Unequivocally then I would prophesy for the people of Great Britain, if a Ban on Heroin were ever to be imposed, that you, a nation historically and ethnically allowed to our own, would repeat our unhappy experiences. In a few years your now non-criminal 279 drug addicts (home office figures) would have expanded to many many thousands. Many of your youth, the easiest prey for the addict peddlers, would become enslaved. Your young girls who became addicted would have sold themselves in order to support the ever-increasing cost of their addiction. You too will begin to spend sums approximating to the colossal sum that Heroin costs the United States

    There are other difficulties. The peddlers of narcotics dilute the material repeatedly so that by the time the consumer receives it, it may only be 3 per cent pure. (Average figure in New York City). What happens when the addict by some mischance gets 20 per cent pure heroin? He receives seven times his usual dose and his life is forfeited. Many of them are sickened by the dilutents which are usually non-sterile. The customer may never dare complain. He is threatened with either an interruption in his supply or a "Hot Shot." (one containing poison, usually cyanide. The latter is responsible for many lost lives each year).

    Since Britain no longer exports Heroin, even under conditions of strict control, the presence of the meagre quantities of this material legitimately stocked in your country in no way influences our narcotic problem... Therefore, the argument that the Ban is necessary in order to protect other nations is untenable.

    Were the proposed ban on Heroin to be revived your presently addicted patients would be deprived of the counsel and advice of their physicians... Prohibition would cause them to substitute an underworld character for the one person who could have helped them... Make no mistake, the Narcotic racketeers of the world eagerly awaited the enactment of your prohibitive law. It would have opened an illegitimate income of millions to them. May I ask your indulgence if I repeat: Heroin Addicts will obtain Heroin, ban or no ban.

    Those of us who have interested ourselves in Narcotic Addiction have always admired the British management of the problem... Your heartening experiences to date have been the strongest proof that this medical problem is best managed by physicians. A complicated psychological illness cannot be cured by legislative decrees or by a policeman's truncheon.

    You, in the United Kingdom, have 279 registered narcotic addicts, we number ours by the hundred thousand. You have no criminal problem with addiction; ours is enormous. You know little of the social ravages of drug use, to us it is relatively commonplace.

    —An American doctor writing prophetically to the the Journal of Addiction in 1957

    I keep meaning to write a history thread post about it, but in the leadup to the Opium War China had a big bureaucratic debate over the best way to deal with the opium problem.

    Which basically broke down into three factions: Raise penalties for possession and crack down extremely hard, reduce the criminal penalties so that there will be less incentive for corruption, or finally just legalize and tax it.

    They decided to crack down, raided the foreign traders factories, and destroyed all the stored Opium. But this all yadda yadda yadda'd into a big international incident, and next thing y'know we've got the Opium War and then China's century of humiliation.

    A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

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  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    Phoenix Down's syndrome

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    no because you're referring to individual down feathers of a bird

    pigeon tufts

    or something, maybe the plural of down is just down

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »

    A coworker at the last restaurant I worked at did basically the first part of that video.

    She lost control of the big shoulder tray she was carrying, and half the food slid off, and the light left her eyes and you could see her shrug and think "fuck it", and she just flipped her wrist and dropped the rest of it on purpose.

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  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular

    I always knew Cinders is as sexy as she is intelligent, and intelligent as she is sexy but a Rex Manning [chat] proves it to the world.

    Are

    Are you calling me dumb and ugly?

  • simonwolfsimonwolf i can feel a difference today, a differenceRegistered User regular
    Cinders wrote: »
    I always knew Cinders is as sexy as she is intelligent, and intelligent as she is sexy but a Rex Manning [chat] proves it to the world.

    Are

    Are you calling me dumb and ugly?

    I'll hold your hoops

  • Zen VulgarityZen Vulgarity What a lovely day for tea Secret British ThreadRegistered User regular
    Cinders wrote: »
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    Want

  • Apothe0sisApothe0sis Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    I think it starts off grammatically incorrect and we are applying standard morphology for pluralization

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Eddy wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    no because you're referring to individual down feathers of a bird

    pigeon tufts

    or something, maybe the plural of down is just down

    Hmm

    Phoenix down is probably a mass noun, yeah.

    Though in that universe it probably has come to mean a specific quantity.

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    simonwolf wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    I always knew Cinders is as sexy as she is intelligent, and intelligent as she is sexy but a Rex Manning [chat] proves it to the world.

    Are

    Are you calling me dumb and ugly?

    I'll hold your hoops

    So considerate

  • KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    edited February 2016
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    Pheonibus
    Pheona


    Does phoenix come from phoenicians?

    Kadoken on
  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »

    A coworker at the last restaurant I worked at did basically the first part of that video.

    She lost control of the big shoulder tray she was carrying, and half the food slid off, and the light left her eyes and you could see her shrug and think "fuck it", and she just flipped her wrist and dropped the rest of it on purpose.

    Was she fired?

  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    Welp, I'm finally an official con vendor. I'll be selling comics, swords, and posters at Kami Con in Birmingham next month.

    I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    no because you're referring to individual down feathers of a bird

    pigeon tufts

    or something, maybe the plural of down is just down

    Hmm

    Phoenix down is probably a mass noun, yeah.

    Though in that universe it probably has come to mean a specific quantity.

    Etymology 3 says that the plural is downs but this is a magical universe we're talking about, with a Japanglish translation so it really could be either

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    unable to get dinner with boy because I took the wrong bus in an attempt to get there early and ate up all the time we had trying to figure out how to get back

    hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    What is a unit of phoenix down? Like, how much phoenix down is necessary to revive someone? A "piece"? A "tuft"? A "pile"?

    Choose one, and then it's "I have 3 tufts of phoenix down."

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  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    I have four servings of phoenix down.

    I have seven handfuls of phoenix down.

    I have 10 dead phoenixes worth of phoenix down.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Elki wrote: »
    Dark Souls getting Xbox One compatibility, free with Dark Souls 3 pre-order

    "Sir Landshark" OnTheLastCastle

    What the hell does that mean? That you have to pre-order in order to play the first Dark Souls on X1?

  • ShivahnShivahn Unaware of her barrel shifter privilege Western coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Eddy wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    no because you're referring to individual down feathers of a bird

    pigeon tufts

    or something, maybe the plural of down is just down

    Hmm

    Phoenix down is probably a mass noun, yeah.

    Though in that universe it probably has come to mean a specific quantity.

    Etymology 3 says that the plural is downs but this is a magical universe we're talking about, with a Japanglish translation so it really could be either

    Hmm

    This is important

  • KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    Pheonix downs are a testament to man's arrogance.

  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    emnmnme wrote: »
    emnmnme wrote: »

    A coworker at the last restaurant I worked at did basically the first part of that video.

    She lost control of the big shoulder tray she was carrying, and half the food slid off, and the light left her eyes and you could see her shrug and think "fuck it", and she just flipped her wrist and dropped the rest of it on purpose.

    Was she fired?

    Nah. I don't think a manager saw it, and even if they did I doubt they would have done anything unless they were one of the super strict ones.

    I mean, honestly it was probably better to tell the table that all their food got dropped and get the replacements out at the same time rather than have 3 people with food and 3 people waiting on food, which leads to 3 people waiting for the other 3 people to finish their food.

    It was also pretty fucking funny.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    What is a unit of phoenix down? Like, how much phoenix down is necessary to revive someone? A "piece"? A "tuft"? A "pile"?

    Choose one, and then it's "I have 3 tufts of phoenix down."

    There have been 20 games in the series - surely the plural of Phoenix Down has been used by someone at some point.

  • MilskiMilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    no because you're referring to individual down feathers of a bird

    pigeon tufts

    or something, maybe the plural of down is just down

    Hmm

    Phoenix down is probably a mass noun, yeah.

    Though in that universe it probably has come to mean a specific quantity.

    I wonder, if somebody is dead and you only give them half the dosage of Phoenix Down, what happens?

    I ate an engineer
  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Eddy wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    isn't "phoenix downs" grammatically inaccurate

    no because you're referring to individual down feathers of a bird

    pigeon tufts

    or something, maybe the plural of down is just down

    Hmm

    Phoenix down is probably a mass noun, yeah.

    Though in that universe it probably has come to mean a specific quantity.

    I wonder, if somebody is dead and you only give them half the dosage of Phoenix Down, what happens?

    Have you seen the movie Reanimator?

  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Phoenix Down is the 7th film in the White House Down continuity. In it, Sherrif Joe Arpaio is kidnapped by radical right wing militia members for being "too soft on illegals." The majority of the film is spent in the retirement community where the militia members live, and they eventually blow themselves and Sherriff Joe up while trying to improvise an explosive device. No innocents are harmed and the final shot of the move is immigrant families moving into the now vacant retirement community.

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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