The British government likes putting forward odd legislation I guess. First pissing porn, now this.

I guess you decided to make a new topic for it. I'll repost my retort then, as it's applicable?

At 5/8/08 02:33 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 5/8/08 02:25 PM, Tancrisism wrote: Different strokes for different folks, ja? Philosophy has changed the world on several occaisons, and some of us can't help but think about those useless ideas.

Politics changes the world and is goverbned mainly by mob mentality and now, in our post-modern society, the media. Philosophy itself holds no importance to the natural world.

It depends on the way it's looked at. In certain periods, it was philosophy behind the politics. Some examples:

The philosophy of Hitler and Aryanism (Yes, I played the Hitler card. Es tut mir Leid.)

The philosophy of Communism (although we all can agree this was followed in name only).

The philosophies of various Englightened Despots.

The philosophies (in American culture) of various French and English political philosophers from the 1600-1700s essentially created the US Constitution. This is probably the most concrete example I have at the moment.

It's just one of many, many things which impact society in subtle ways.

In case you don't know who Audie Murphy is, you should look
Him up. Some of the shit he did is like Call of Duty on steroids, such as destroying a machine gun crew and then using their weapons to destroy several other positions, or getting on top of a tank and shooting into the masses in the midst of a losing battle.

And isn't he just adorable?

At 5/8/08 02:33 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 5/8/08 02:25 PM, Tancrisism wrote: Different strokes for different folks, ja? Philosophy has changed the world on several occaisons, and some of us can't help but think about those useless ideas.

Politics changes the world and is goverbned mainly by mob mentality and now, in our post-modern society, the media. Philosophy itself holds no importance to the natural world.

It depends on the way it's looked at. In certain periods, it was philosophy behind the politics. Some examples:

The philosophy of Hitler and Aryanism (Yes, I played the Hitler card. Es tut mir Leid.)

The philosophy of Communism (although we all can agree this was followed in name only).

The philosophies of various Englightened Despots.

The philosophies (in American culture) of various French and English political philosophers from the 1600-1700s essentially created the US Constitution. This is probably the most concrete example I have at the moment.

It's just one of many, many things which impact society in subtle ways.

At 5/8/08 02:29 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 5/8/08 02:29 PM, positively-negative wrote: I really wish to go to some form of meet-up on day.

One day, we can have a NG music lovers meet-up or somat.

I haven't posted much in it but I'd love to join. I'd invite the Floydian society along, but they are mostly Britishers.

Then again, so are you. Perhaps we would need to have it in the Old Country?

At 5/8/08 02:06 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: I'd love too, but I'm on the other side of the continent.

Same here brother.

Next week I will be in New York, but not this week.

Well, maybe two weeks. Whenever Memorial Day is.

At 5/8/08 02:21 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 5/8/08 02:14 PM, CreepInYou wrote: The drugs you speak of are a cash cow. They don't do shit compared to the natural remedies on this earth.

They tend to be extracted from those natural remedies and thus more efficient.

And you don't NEED drugs to see things differently. I see things differently every day, but drugs have been a catalyst to a lot of philosophical ideas, as well as social bonding.

Philosophy is useless and drugs aren't needed to socialise.

Different strokes for different folks, ja? Philosophy has changed the world on several occaisons, and some of us can't help but think about those useless ideas.

At 5/8/08 02:20 PM, Ferris95 wrote: he is an american

DAMNSTRAIGTHSEMPERFEEE

At 5/8/08 02:12 PM, ThePretenders wrote: Drogen sind schlecht, mkay?

Herr Mackey, mmkay.

At 5/8/08 02:13 PM, JackPhantasm wrote: Hahaha I didn't make me crazy. I just notice more shit aesthetically.

Like individual ripples. Like I can see every ripple. Water is like vibrating with those ripples.

My eyes are just more active.

And I love stuff more :)

Haha. I'm afraid of it. I think I'll stick with being slightly miserable.

It's not that other people shouldn't do it, I just don't want to subject my poor brain to it.

At 5/8/08 02:10 PM, ThePretenders wrote: I hate it when people pronounce class 'clarse'. It's pronounce 'klass' like the Nothern English Accent.

You should learn die Deutsche Sprache because you can pronounce everything by ze way you look at it.

Ich weiß. Deustch über alles, aber natürlich.

So far it seems the consensus among Brits is that the North American English accents aren't bad overall, but they have more potential to be.

At 5/8/08 02:04 PM, JackPhantasm wrote:

At 5/8/08 01:57 PM, Tancrisism wrote: I've come to similar ones sober.

Me too.

But they're still fun.

Amen, brother.

I don't wanna trip for forever though.

It's like I look at stuff differently now than I did before I tripped. And I tripped a WHILE ago.

That's exactly why I don't intend to do anything heavier than pot. I don't want anything that distorts my ideas of reality too heavily.

I always remember this sort of thing, but then when I have to put it into practice in communicating with my woman it often drifts back into "Huh???".

The times that I remember we are good, but usually I am much better at understanding her in retrospect, which makes it difficult. She still doesn't understand me for the life of her, but I don't think that bothers her too much.

I've come to similar ones sober.

At 5/8/08 05:48 AM, Kuro wrote:

At 5/8/08 03:33 AM, Tancrisism wrote: Canadian is extremely similar to American, it just sometimes replaces some things. If you've ever seen the movie Fargo that is a good example of its extremities, but usually it is much more mild (to the point of being identical to American).

Fargo isn't set in Canada, you nut.

It's set in Minnesota.

I know this. Have you looked on the map where geographically (especially the Twin Cities and Fargo) they are? And since you felt you HAD to correct me, Fargo is located in North Dakota, so it isn't only in Minnesota. The accents of the heavy Canadian and the heavy Mid-Western are the same.

And British English, and American English are pretty much the same sounding.

Huh.

Though 'aluminium' is much more fun to say than 'aluminum'.

Strong American accents don't sound good to me, but I'm fine with the non-accent accents that are present in the US. Like in New York, or something.

New York is one of the strong accents.

You are incorrect. The amount of continents existing is relative to where you live. Some places feel there are only 5 continents, America, Eurasia, Oceana, Africa, and Antarctica. Others, like the US, feel there are 7, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Antarctica.

So, you are correct to the US' standards, but not other places. So you fail.

At 5/8/08 04:33 AM, Jesse-Ray wrote:

How many ways are there to say this word? I'm pretty sure there isn't, and you're just talking out of your ass. Americans pronounce it phonetically, because itr makes sense anyway: "Oh-reh-gahn-oh"

It's prolly more of the New York accent here, they roll it off like "Oh-rag-an-oh

Doubtful. That appears more southern than New York. New York would be "Uh-reh-ga-no" like most of the US. In this case the New York accent wouldn't put any difference on the overall pronounciation.

And they spell the following wrong:

Mum - Mom

I think the rule here is that depending on how you pronounce it is how you spell it. Since Americans tend to make the short 'o' sound (Mahm) and Brits make the short 'u' sound (Muhm), it all evens out.

I didn't know that Mum was the official usage. We use it occasionally in the US, just not as often as mom. You don't use mom at all?

Gaol - Jail

Does anybody spell it like that? Correction: Does anybody besides Shakesphere spell it like that?

Well exactly America has kind of changed it world wide, I just checked my MacQuarie (Australian Uni) dictionary and it has both spellings in there.

Yeah, I had never seen it spellt like that, so that's a new one to me.

Colour - Color

Americans have already realized that the 'u' is superflous, why haven't you? it's not like it has any bearing on the pronunciation.

It seperates it from sounding like Collar I guess is the main thing, take the u out of superflous then.

The u is still useful in superfluous. It's flu-ous, not superflOUs.

Also, I will admit I prefer the sight of colour better, even though the words are the exact same. It feels more natural. But, c'est la vie.

At 5/8/08 03:59 AM, Redface wrote:

At 5/8/08 03:54 AM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 5/8/08 03:53 AM, Redface wrote: Britans

Britains

I was going to put a second 'i' in there but I didn't know where to put it so I decided against it all together. Honest.

You guys are both wrong, as it's Britons. Britain is the country.

So far it appears that only three have answered the way I was hoping for. Flaming and such is quite welcome, but I'm curious about your opinion as to the sound of the dialect; the way it appeals to you just merely by sound.

Perhaps this would be better asked to someone who isn't a natural speaker. I know one Brazilian who likes British much better.

Yes, we spell things differently. It isn't that it is incorrect, it is just our official dialect thanks to Noah Webster.

This is concerning how the accent sounds and your opinions of it.

At 5/8/08 03:30 AM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 5/8/08 03:21 AM, Tancrisism wrote: I'm just curious if your opinions are as drastic as those towards those other languages. That is, do you find American (Canadian included) English particularly ugly, or just somewhat bland; or anything else?

I find the american changes to the language, silly words, different spellings, drastic pronunciation differences a bit too much of a bastardisation, i don't know how it is in canada.

There also seems to be a lack of differing accents and dialects in America, i know there are, but compare it to england, from where i am living, if you go 20miles up the coast it can be quite difficult to understand what people are saying if they relax into their normal accent.

I personally hate southern english accents aswell :P Northern + Scottish accents are the best.

I don't hate southern English accents so much, but I do agree that Northern and Scottish accents are really nice.

Canadian is extremely similar to American, it just sometimes replaces some things. If you've ever seen the movie Fargo that is a good example of its extremities, but usually it is much more mild (to the point of being identical to American).

And yeah, our dialects aren't quite as rampant as yours, but we do have quite a bit (Boston to New York you'll hear some somewhat different accents). I can't understand what some extreme southern accents are saying.

You say a bastardization, which I can understand, but how do you find it sounds? That's what I meant by making this topic. I apolgize if that wasn't clear.

This is a question for you Brits. Most tongues of their originality sound much better to most, such as Spanish compared to the Mexican dialect, Portuguese compared to the Brazilian, and French compared to the Canadian.

I'm just curious if your opinions are as drastic as those towards those other languages. That is, do you find American (Canadian included) English particularly ugly, or just somewhat bland; or anything else?

If need be I will revive this when more Brits are on. I have a bit of a fever so I can't quite comprehend time zones as well as usual.

Anyway, discuss.

At 2/21/08 07:21 PM, brewbeer wrote: We have clothes in Europe.

Wouldn't you assume that if we didn't have clothes, this would not be a big deal?

DEAR GOD! WHY JESUS WHYYY

At 5/7/08 02:27 PM, JackPhantasm wrote: you could always just be fuck buddies you know

And of course that is always an option.

At 5/7/08 02:30 PM, fli wrote: Listen to mother.
She's telling you exactly what to do... she has been through the mill more than a few times.

Good luck. But, give a second thought.
Why don't you want to get involved? Was she that bad?

Well, she lives in Louisiana, so it wouldn't be involved. And no, it was pretty good actually. There's just someone else.

If you don't like it, go back to Canada you fucking pinko commie.

Truly I don't know how it's going to be, I'm just assuming that she is going to want it to be like that summer. The events are all lining up like they did. But I was thinking that I might just do that.

At 5/7/08 01:21 PM, Hellian00 wrote: Yeah, that's why I don't let my mom make plans for me.

I don't either. I happen to live in her house though, and she invited this girl to stay at her house.

At 5/7/08 01:20 PM, Lorkas wrote: Forget her. Just do it.

Sounds good.

Forget who, and do what?

And I thought the US was more backwards....

So Newgrounds, O ye great conveyer of wisdom! I have a situation which I was wondering what you thought about.

There is this certain girl who I happened to have a fling with a few years ago and still thinks of me fondly (I believe; signs point to this). I do not really think of her the same way (it was nice, but meh). I have my eye on another girl who I am very close to and believe something good could happen with.

Well, it turns out that my mom invited the former girl who I had a fling with to stay for me for a few dyas. Truly the only thing we had was a physical relationship (she didn't have too much to talk about), so our friendship isn't extremely strong. I don't really want to continue that.

What do you think my best choice of action would be to take?