Ennuis

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

And now I believe soccer is the toughest sport on the planet, steroids should be passed out by coaches in Jr. High locker rooms and video games are totally awesome.

Amidoingitritenow?[/quote]

Soccer? I could care less about everything else said in this thread. But really? Soccer?[/quote]
Yep, it is hands down the toughest sport on the entire planet.

Videogames are the absolute best form of entertainment available for children, and are much better than playing real basketball with friends.

If kids were given steroids early, it would save them a lot of effort and hard work in the gym.

Are there lulz within the pages of ye thread?

Not yet. It was more a revival of a long awaited conversation with Emily in her lately rare showings in a now dead thread but some lulz just may pop up yet.

The boards are evidently slow in general so there is hope here for a giggly vampire.

Oh man

Lulz are coming

Yes indeed, yes indeed.

Flat out jokes, meme hijack, funny conversations or flame wars remain to be seen. Or many a combo.

Who… will… log… in…

Muah ha ha haaaaa

Place bets

Prof stirs shit up nicely has he posted here yet?

I don’t know what any of this has to do with Roman poetry.

They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Are there lulz within the pages of ye thread?[/quote]

No my Prince of the Dark Abyss.

There are no lulz here.

Let us away!

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

And now I believe soccer is the toughest sport on the planet, steroids should be passed out by coaches in Jr. High locker rooms and video games are totally awesome.

Amidoingitritenow?[/quote]

Soccer? I could care less about everything else said in this thread. But really? Soccer?[/quote]
Yep, it is hands down the toughest sport on the entire planet.

[/quote]

Define tough?

[quote]Hallowed wrote:

[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Are there lulz within the pages of ye thread?[/quote]

No my Prince of the Dark Abyss.

There are no lulz here.

Let us away!
[/quote]

And The Hallowed makes its exit…

Telling people to “ignore your posts” is specious, imho. It’s not possible anymore than my neighbor telling me to ignore his constant Def Leppard at 11 PM. I just can’t. It’s on a forum, people can’t know it’s personal unless they, you know, actually read it.

It is common courtesy for you to move a 1-on-1 conversation into PM.

It doesn’t have to be done right away but when it’s clearly going there after 4-5 messages, just STFU and do it. I read 3-4 messages but skipped over the quote pyramid. It’s just being a good citizen to take it private and avoid having to make others do the same as I did.

We live in a society. If two people were shouting a conversation at each other, in an office hallway they’d be told to get a conference room or pick up the phone really fast.

As for your threads getting a lot of reads, well, a lot of people watch Jersey Shore. Numbers don’t always equal quality.

Also, drink milk and squat.

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

And now I believe soccer is the toughest sport on the planet, steroids should be passed out by coaches in Jr. High locker rooms and video games are totally awesome.

Amidoingitritenow?[/quote]

Soccer? I could care less about everything else said in this thread. But really? Soccer?[/quote]
Yep, it is hands down the toughest sport on the entire planet.

[/quote]

Define tough?[/quote]
Total sarcasm. You missed an entire thread that you surely would have enjoyed. I fucking hate soccer.

[quote]Christine wrote:
I don’t know what any of this has to do with Roman poetry.

They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius

[/quote]
Haha, a Roman poetry fan?

[quote]Christine wrote:
I don’t know what any of this has to do with Roman poetry.

They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius

[/quote]

LOL I think the thread title was ennuis, plural for ennui, which means a sense of boredom that overwhelms you and leaves you exhausted.

An appropriate title, come to think of it.

[quote]Samir wrote:
Telling people to “ignore your posts” is specious, imho. It’s not possible anymore than my neighbor telling me to ignore his constant Def Leppard at 11 PM. I just can’t. It’s on a forum, people can’t know it’s personal unless they, you know, actually read it.

It is common courtesy for you to move a 1-on-1 conversation into PM.

It doesn’t have to be done right away but when it’s clearly going there after 4-5 messages, just STFU and do it. I read 3-4 messages but skipped over the quote pyramid. It’s just being a good citizen to take it private and avoid having to make others do the same as I did.

We live in a society. If two people were shouting a conversation at each other, in an office hallway they’d be told to get a conference room or pick up the phone really fast.

As for your threads getting a lot of reads, well, a lot of people watch Jersey Shore. Numbers don’t always equal quality.

Also, drink milk and squat. [/quote]

Not sure I agree with all your logic, (it seems to me I wouldn’t have any option in your Def Leppard example) BUT I still give you a TON of credit for expressing a genuine opinion in a series of coherent thoughts. I’ll take that over messy closet guy and the teenager with girly arms series of Tourettes blatherings.

[quote]Samir wrote:
Telling people to “ignore your posts” is specious, imho. It’s not possible anymore than my neighbor telling me to ignore his constant Def Leppard at 11 PM. I just can’t. It’s on a forum, people can’t know it’s personal unless they, you know, actually read it.

It is common courtesy for you to move a 1-on-1 conversation into PM.

It doesn’t have to be done right away but when it’s clearly going there after 4-5 messages, just STFU and do it. I read 3-4 messages but skipped over the quote pyramid. It’s just being a good citizen to take it private and avoid having to make others do the same as I did.

We live in a society. If two people were shouting a conversation at each other, in an office hallway they’d be told to get a conference room or pick up the phone really fast.

As for your threads getting a lot of reads, well, a lot of people watch Jersey Shore. Numbers don’t always equal quality.

Also, drink milk and squat. [/quote]
This place is more like a ball, a bar, a carnival to me than a quiet office with people sequestering off in to silent corners, though I do have some pm strings going too.

IRL social situations, people mill around, bump in to others, groups of friends no doubt form, some float around and you may or may not choose to participate in a particular conversation.

Just like here.

Not specious though I do appreciate your own point of view. Technically shouldn’t have your own post been a pm to me though? I mean it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, at all. Not that I’m complaining just find it odd.

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]LiquidMercury wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

And now I believe soccer is the toughest sport on the planet, steroids should be passed out by coaches in Jr. High locker rooms and video games are totally awesome.

Amidoingitritenow?[/quote]

Soccer? I could care less about everything else said in this thread. But really? Soccer?[/quote]
Yep, it is hands down the toughest sport on the entire planet.

Videogames are the absolute best form of entertainment available for children, and are much better than playing real basketball with friends.

If kids were given steroids early, it would save them a lot of effort and hard work in the gym.[/quote]

I guess not to many people have played in a balls to the wall soccer game. It’s very enduring. Not for the feint of heart.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius

Discuss

Difficulty: incorporate ennui

[quote]BobParr wrote:

[quote]Christine wrote:
I don’t know what any of this has to do with Roman poetry.

They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius

[/quote]

LOL I think the thread title was ennuis, plural for ennui, which means a sense of boredom that overwhelms you and leaves you exhausted.

An appropriate title, come to think of it.[/quote]

Yes. When I first saw this thread, I had to google ‘ennuis’. However, I transposed the ‘u’ and the ‘i’ and I came up with Quintus Ennius.

Anyway, I learned two things from this thread.

The definition of ‘ennui’ and something about the father of Roman poetry.

[quote]Christine wrote:
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius

Discuss

Difficulty: incorporate ennui[/quote]
I’ve caught your tie ins, and like them :slight_smile:

One should strive to study wisdom higher than one has attained, specifically helping an ennui channel time and energies to the pursuit of learning, which is of course a worthwile and interesting endeavour.

However, are we discussing technical knowledge, business sense or, as Mascherano suggested, esoterica and potentially the occult?

Because certain types of applied knowledge are beneficial in their own ways, like expanding a financial portfolio for example, while still having too much free time.