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    #272
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I think I'll give up on it. I'll just end up resenting it if I plough on with a book I'm not enjoying.

    Look up the plot on Wikipedia, then tell people you finished the book and keep your opinions on the ending vague.


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    #273
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Antilles wrote: »
    Stage whisper?

    Oh yeah! Thanks.


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    #274
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    Reading a novel at the moment in which the word "ruined" appears so often that I'm beginning to think the writer has some weird obsession with it. Everything is "ruined": ruined clothes, ruined buildings, oh, and some "half-ruined" things too. Seriously, is there a vaguer way of saying that something is in poor condition? Ruined clothes? What are they dirty or are they torn? I'm not even sure that qualifies as ruined - it's nothing a needle and thread and some Radion Automatic won't sort out. Sorry, I'm just starting to hate that word...


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    #275
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    Kinski wrote: »
    Reading a novel at the moment in which the word "ruined" appears so often that I'm beginning to think the writer has some weird obsession with it. Everything is "ruined": ruined clothes, ruined buildings, oh, and some "half-ruined" things too. Seriously, is there a vaguer way of saying that something is in poor condition? Ruined clothes? What are they dirty or are they torn? I'm not even sure that qualifies as ruined - it's nothing a needle and thread and some Radion Automatic won't sort out. Sorry, I'm just starting to hate that word...

    So you'd say the book has ruined the word ruined for you?


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    #276
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    What's with all the spam on the board lately?


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    #277
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    check out the aardvark forum, ant ;)


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    #278
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    bluewolf wrote: »
    check out the aardvark forum, ant ;)

    How long has that existed? I never noticed it until a week ago, and now it's all I can see. I really have the need to talk about aardvarks.


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    #279
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    How long has that existed? I never noticed it until a week ago, and now it's all I can see. I really have the need to talk about aardvarks.

    only set up in the last few days for spammers. check the forum description from the forum listing view.


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    #280
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    ps tomorrow i'm having first cello lesson in years. i'm SO EXCITED :D


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    #281
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    How long has that existed? I never noticed it until a week ago, and now it's all I can see. I really have the need to talk about aardvarks.

    "Fewcifur would never admit to anybody where he got the ideas for his wonderful stories, but the boardsies always had their suspicions..."


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    #282
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    How long has that existed? I never noticed it until a week ago, and now it's all I can see. I really have the need to talk about aardvarks.

    The first rule of the aardvark forum is that you don't talk about aardvarks.


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    #283
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    Antilles wrote: »
    "Fewcifur would never admit to anybody where he got the ideas for his wonderful stories, but the boardsies always had their suspicions..."

    That is brilliant! :D


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    #284
    Blush_01
    Registered Users Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    Sounds like it should be on one of those M.I.L.K. greeting cards/bookmarks/magnets/keyrings.


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    #285
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Antilles wrote: »
    "Fewcifur would never admit to anybody where he got the ideas for his wonderful stories, but the boardsies always had their suspicions..."


    that reminds me of those black & white greeting cards, with the old 50s pictures and funny captions
    oh i love those


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    #286
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    bluewolf wrote: »
    that reminds me of those black & white greeting cards, with the old 50s pictures and funny captions
    oh i love those

    I've just noticed your sig... very good. :)


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    #287
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    I've just noticed your sig... very good. :)

    it was originally one of these

    http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/memes-baseball.jpg

    http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/memes-my-math-teacher-called-me-average-well-thats-just-mean.jpg


    http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/memes-nervous-guitarist-tell-him-to-stop-fretting.jpg


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    #288
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    All joy inducing :)


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    #289
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Going on a 4-day cruise next week. Should get time to finish Diary of the Wolf and maybe Slaugherhouse Five. So far I'm preferring DOTW. Also 5 pages from finishing a reviewable copy of my novel.


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    #290
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    yay! i'll add it to my stack of books when it's ready!


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    #291
    FewFew
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    Going on a 4-day cruise next week. Should get time to finish Diary of the Wolf and maybe Slaugherhouse Five. So far I'm preferring DOTW. Also 5 pages from finishing a reviewable copy of my novel.

    Glad you're enjoying DOTW. I'm a few days off releasing a lil novella that goes in between book 1 and 2, it'll be a freebie and should give more info on the world etc.

    Launch me over a copy of your novel when it's done, when it comes to constructive criticism the kung-fu is strong in me. :)


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    #292
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    Glad you're enjoying DOTW.

    I didn't say that... :pac:


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    #293
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    pickarooney wrote: »
    I didn't say that... :pac:

    That's true. And I do know how much you're struggling with Slaughterhouse, but positive or negative, I do look forward to your review on Amazon ;)


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    #294
    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    It's been ages since I've been on here and I'm under a slightly different alias (damn password - so good even I didn't know it!).

    Back to unemployment, and caught in the need-job-for-experience, need-experience-for-job vicious circle. Want to write some more and thought I'd come back on here to you guys. I like what you've done with the place. :)


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    #295
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Howdy TS!

    Speak any foreign languages? I have a job going :)


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    #296
    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    How long do I have to learn? :P

    I have nothing except a cúpla focal and the odd word of French left in my brain from school, unfortunately. What's the job?


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    #297
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Speak any foreign languages? I have a job going :)

    I'm fluent in English and snark. Will they do?


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    #298
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    i can speak a bit of german. hurray.

    i also finally made cookie monster cupcakes. this will be my future career:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


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    #299
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    bluewolf wrote: »
    i also finally made cookie monster cupcakes. this will be my future career:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

    Finally a job that makes sense to me :D


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    #300
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Is a cupcake the same as a bun?


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    #301
    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    A bun with fancy icing, I think.


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