Beowulf is frustrating because every part of the story builds up to an epic fight scene that lasts all of two lines.Laurencio wrote:Eternal Witcher wrote:
Right, you've had it so much worse.
Try The Canterbury tales, now that's hard.
Has nothing on Beowulf.
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ScottyBoy_1989 wrote:Paulinho wrote:
So, now knowing it makes you look fucking stupid, how about you remove it from your avatar and signature
You don't get rid of things that make you look stupid though?
"I wouldn't have mentioned it at all if I thought people would dislike me for it"
You have a fair point though Scott, the playmaker administrators have left you here, despite how stupid you make this place look
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Paulinho wrote:ScottyBoy_1989 wrote:
You don't get rid of things that make you look stupid though?
"I wouldn't have mentioned it at all if I thought people would dislike me for it"
You have a fair point though Scott, the playmaker administrators have left you here, despite how stupid you make this place look
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lmaoPaulinho wrote:ScottyBoy_1989 wrote:Paulinho wrote:
So, now knowing it makes you look fucking stupid, how about you remove it from your avatar and signature
You don't get rid of things that make you look stupid though?
"I wouldn't have mentioned it at all if I thought people would dislike me for it"
You have a fair point though Scott, the playmaker administrators have left you here, despite how stupid you make this place look
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Eternal Witcher wrote:Zzonked wrote:Eternal Witcher wrote:
Right, you've had it so much worse.
Try The Canterbury tales, now that's hard.
What's wrong with it?
Written in Medieval English.
Fair enough, but at least it probably made sense at one point.
Here is an extract from Ulysses
Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathingsuits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear them I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope Ill never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog smelling my fur and always edging to get up under my petticoats especially then still I like that in him polite to old women like that and waiters and beggars too hes not proud out of nothing but not always if ever he got anything really serious the matter with him its much better for them to go into a hospital where everything is clean but I suppose Id have to dring it into him for a month yes and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the carpet have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe like the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not yes because theyre so weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman to get well if his nose bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one off the south circular when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the sugarloaf Mountain the
It's like one giant post by Alan with no punctuation.
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Paulinho wrote:ScottyBoy_1989 wrote:
You don't get rid of things that make you look stupid though?
"I wouldn't have mentioned it at all if I thought people would dislike me for it"
You have a fair point though Scott, the playmaker administrators have left you here, despite how stupid you make this place look
I lol'ed.
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Zzonked wrote:Eternal Witcher wrote:
Written in Medieval English.
Fair enough, but at least it probably made sense at one point.
Here is an extract from Ulysses
Yes because he never did a thing like that before as ask to get his breakfast in bed with a couple of eggs since the City Arms hotel when he used to be pretending to be laid up with a sick voice doing his highness to make himself interesting for that old faggot Mrs Riordan that he thought he had a great leg of and she never left us a farthing all for masses for herself and her soul greatest miser ever was actually afraid to lay out 4d for her methylated spirit telling me all her ailments she had too much old chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathingsuits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear them I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope Ill never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad to get shut of her and her dog smelling my fur and always edging to get up under my petticoats especially then still I like that in him polite to old women like that and waiters and beggars too hes not proud out of nothing but not always if ever he got anything really serious the matter with him its much better for them to go into a hospital where everything is clean but I suppose Id have to dring it into him for a month yes and then wed have a hospital nurse next thing on the carpet have him staying there till they throw him out or a nun maybe like the smutty photo he has shes as much a nun as Im not yes because theyre so weak and puling when theyre sick they want a woman to get well if his nose bleeds youd think it was O tragic and that dyinglooking one off the south circular when he sprained his foot at the choir party at the sugarloaf Mountain the
It's like one giant post by Alan with no punctuation.
Oh my God.
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that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
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Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
By reading it.
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Paulinho wrote:ScottyBoy_1989 wrote:
You don't get rid of things that make you look stupid though?
"I wouldn't have mentioned it at all if I thought people would dislike me for it"
You have a fair point though Scott, the playmaker administrators have left you here, despite how stupid you make this place look
I was talking about you specifically.
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Cam wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
By reading it.
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Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Right, I had that extract plus a little bit more and I had to write an essay about it. No context or anything, just that.
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Glen Damon wrote:Beowulf is frustrating because every part of the story builds up to an epic fight scene that lasts all of two lines.Laurencio wrote:
Has nothing on Beowulf.
The fact that it's written in Old English also helps making it frustrating.
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Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Maybe you should learn to understand, or that sometimes its not meant for retards and thats why you have never understood.
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Cam wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
By reading it.
Ha?
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Gatsby wrote:Cam wrote:
By reading it.
Ha?
It wasn't a joke, that's how you decipher words on a page.
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I must have read a translated version. I thought it was a great story, though.Laurencio wrote:Glen Damon wrote:Beowulf is frustrating because every part of the story builds up to an epic fight scene that lasts all of two lines.
The fact that it's written in Old English also helps making it frustrating.
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Glen Damon wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Maybe you should learn to understand, or that sometimes its not meant for retards and thats why you have never understood.
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Glen Damon wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Maybe you should learn to understand, or that sometimes its not meant for retards and thats why you have never understood.
I lol'ed again.
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Glen Damon wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Maybe you should learn to understand, or that sometimes its not meant for retards and thats why you have never understood.
Best line ever
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Zzonked wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Right, I had that extract plus a little bit more and I had to write an essay about it. No context or anything, just that.
What's funny is that this is what passes as great literature.
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Glen Damon wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Maybe you should learn to understand, or that sometimes its not meant for retards and thats why you have never understood.
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Is Ulyses by James Joyce? I heard all his books are mental
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who isn'tkyro7 wrote:Eternal I believe you're very fond of Sean deep down.
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Laurencio wrote:Zzonked wrote:Gatsby wrote: that's fucking awful, how do you decipher any of that?
Right, I had that extract plus a little bit more and I had to write an essay about it. No context or anything, just that.
What's funny is that this is what passes as great literature.
Yeah, it's definitely not my sort of thing.
It's hard to believe people actually get joy out of reading that.
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Gatsby wrote:Is Ulyses by James Joyce? I heard all his books are mental
A simple line in my old English text book explains James Joyce perfectly. "He drank heavily".
Zzonked wrote:Laurencio wrote:
What's funny is that this is what passes as great literature.
Yeah, it's definitely not my sort of thing.
It's hard to believe people actually get joy out of reading that.
Indeed, it is quite the mystery. If you wrote something like that to an English teacher you'd get an F
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Everyone has a soft spot for me, I am the Eeyore to the the forums Winnie the Pooh and friends.
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No, I fucking hate you most of the time