The misbegotten waif thread a/k/a The Fray

[Relique du Madde]

I wish tapa talk allows me to use the dice roller... but oh well...

Sent via cybernetic implant

 

[Praetor]

I have no spare time. At all. Between the amazingly annoying logic puzzles in geometry, the A.P. world chapters, and Cross Country... I have no time to be OOC! So now that I have that rant out of the way, the dice roller is cool. But does anyone on this thread listen to metal or hard rock? Just picked up Avenged Sevenfold's newest album.

 

[Scott DeWar]

let me tap [MENTION=48762]Leif[/MENTION] on the sholder, I would guess that he might.

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

time for the CC update

[sblock=CC update]I got 20.42, which is about 2 minutes faster than my previous time, and 4 seconds slower than my overall time.

After the race, which was at a shooting range, I went scavenging for bullet shells, and found the following:

Rifles
4: .22 short shells
4: .22 long shells
5: 5.56 mm shells
1: 30 caliber round
1: .308 Winchester

Pistols:
4: 10mm pistol rounds
1: 9mm pistol round

Shotguns:
1: 12 ga.
2: 20 ga.[/sblock]

 

[Dragonwriter]

Interestingly (or perhaps not, if you're a jerk ), despite my semi-recent conversion to metal, I haven't heard a single piece from Avenged Sevenfold.
Or if I have, it hasn't stuck. What sub-genre are they? (mostly?)

Most of my metal exposure comes from Pandora, thanks to Southern California really having no metal (or even hard rock) stations. Grrr... The hardest stations are labeled "Alternative Rock" and only dabble with a little nu-metal, then play freakin' Bob Marley! I hate "rock" stations playing Marley, UB40 and other reggae stuff.

 

[GandalfMithrandir]

Praetor is not a jerk, I can personally attest to that, unless he has made a major personality swing in the past two years.

 

[Dragonwriter]

Praetor is not a jerk, I can personally attest to that, unless he has made a major personality swing in the past two years.

It was intended to be a general statement, with "you" in the plural and non-identifying (so it could apply to anyone). Oh, how I love English grammar!

I know of only one other language able to be so confusing... It's a Korean or Vietnamese dialect (or perhaps some other Asian language, as I've only heard of it once in passing) where the subjects of an entire conversation are identified only in the opening of the sentence.
EX: Person 1: Three guys (Joe, John and Jake) are driving in a car.
Person 2: So who was driving?
Person 1: He was.
...and on it goes...

After the identifying is done, the subject(s) are only noted by pronoun-equivalents. You don't want to come into the middle of a conversation in this language.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Gandulf, I am reasonably sure he, Dragonwriter, is not intoneing that your friend, Praetor, is a jerk.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Most of my metal exposure comes from Pandora, thanks to Southern California really having no metal (or even hard rock) stations. Grrr... The hardest stations are labeled "Alternative Rock" and only dabble with a little nu-metal, then play freakin' Bob Marley! I hate "rock" stations playing Marley, UB40 and other reggae stuff.

That's part of the reason why alot of the different music scenes are dying in Los Angeles and Orange County (who knows how San Diego's scene is fairing). I remember during the early 2000s there used to be a huge Goth scene which even included several clubs in OC, now it's only like three clubs maybe four clubs total. I blame all the scene-sters and hipsters.... and Rap/Hip Hop.

Luckily, there appears to be a slight punk scene forming in the barrios, so hopefully that will start resurrecting all the punk off shoots and HOPEFULLY even Metal and it's off shoots.

 

[Leif]

RE: Heavy Metal

let me tap [MENTION=48762]Leif[/MENTION] on the sholder, I would guess that he might.

Well.... I used to be. But what was considered 'heavy metal' back in my day probably just qualifies as 'classic rock' now. I gave up on the 'heay metal' scene about when Metallica appeared. See, my kind of heavy metal is Black Sabbath, Dio, Deep Purple, Ozzy Ozborne and similar bands, and even Ozzy is kinda questionable for me. The "stuff" (insert expletive beginning with the letter 's' here) that passes for heavy metal lately leaves me pretty much heaving my guts out. Now [MENTION=11520]Scotley[/MENTION], on the other hand, was able to make the transition much better than I was.

But, interestingly, I like Metallica now. Go figure...