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  • #122
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


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  • #123
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    Unless you're talking about the popular belief that antidisestablishmentarianism is in fact the longest english word?
    holy! what! huh! i just typed antidisestablishmentarianism wrong and my spelling checker said it is a real word just i spelt it wrong


  • #124
    animan
    Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    SDooM wrote: »
    Thats welsh actually.

    Ooooh I keep forgetting this. I dont think it's antidisestablishmentarianism, or flocinocinihifilipication, but they are up there.

    It's hippopotomonstrosisquipadaliophobia. The fear of long words.


  • #125
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Teutorix wrote: »
    holy! what! huh! i just typed antidisestablishmentarianism wrong and my spelling checker said it is a real word just i spelt it wrong
    Now that's impressive :D


  • #126
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    animan wrote: »
    It's hippopotomonstrosisquipadaliophobia. The fear of long words.
    just to be the annoying person i am. THATS LATIN FOO!


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  • #127
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    I have a postcard with the sign of that Welsh town! :)


  • #128
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    square_igloo wrote: »
    I have a postcard with the sign of that Welsh town! :)
    i had a teacher from there


  • #129
    animan
    Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    Teutorix wrote: »
    just to be the annoying person i am. THATS LATIN FOO!

    Shat up.


  • #130
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Having attended the Nocturnal Beers, I for one disagree with the notion that nerds are unattractive :pac:
    Having not attended (:(), but having seen the photos, I concur...
    Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »
    1.1 degree in electronic and computer engineering, picking that up in october. Might be the only one in the class to have got a 1.1. Nerd ++
    hehe want a job???


  • #131
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #132
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    square_igloo wrote: »
    I have a postcard with the sign of that Welsh town! :)
    "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
    can you pronounce it though?


  • #133
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    SteveC wrote: »
    "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
    can you pronounce it though?
    in everyday speech its shortened to gogogoch.


  • #134
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    SteveC wrote: »
    "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"
    can you pronounce it though?

    :Little known fact- It's pronounced "Sligo".


  • #135
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    SteveC wrote: »
    hehe want a job???

    What you got?
    :cool:


  • #136
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    The longest place name in the World that's not all one word is the capital city of Thailand. It's full name is :

    Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

    We just call it Bangkok :)


  • #137
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Tara, can i have the computer in your sig?


  • #138
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    You seem to be lacking at the moment :P it was a double negative, MizzLolly said intelligence is attractive!

    Indeed, intelligence is attractive.
    square_igloo wrote: »
    That may just have been the alcohol! :D

    LOL you better come to the next one :D
    Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »
    Oh I used to roleplay as an aristocratic vampire heh.

    Heeey, how you doin'? ;)
    LOL!! :D
    Teutorix wrote: »
    no she said nerds are not unattractive. she didnt say their brains turned her on!

    Erm... actually, I didn't say anything about anything turning me on :confused:


  • #139
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Tara, can i have the computer in your sig?
    That's sarcasm, right? :)


  • #140
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Tara, can i have the computer in your sig?
    Are you awesome enough for it, to the max?
    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Heeey, how you doin'? ;) LOL!! :D
    :eek:


  • #141
    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    SDooM wrote: »
    :Little known fact- It's pronounced "Sligo".

    :eek:

    What are you saying Doom? :eek:

    Edit: I am not a nerd! :D


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  • #142
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    When I was a little kid I won money for being able to spell any word from the dictionary with looking at it for only two seconds...won fifty pence for spelling deoxyribonucleic acid when I was 6.. quite the personal achievement..


  • #143
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    OMG ROFLcakes! wrote: »
    That's sarcasm, right? :)
    no actually, its one sexy piece of machine!
    Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »
    Are you awesome enough for it, to the max?
    probably not but i still want it!:P


  • #144
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    takola wrote: »
    :eek:

    What are you saying Doom? :eek:

    Edit: I am not a nerd! :D

    Suuuuuuuuure you're not, moderator of the HHG2TG forum!

    I find the word Sligo intrinsically funny for some reason!

    EDIT: OT but I sent you something about the grotesque in PM.


  • #145
    MizzLolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,556 ✭✭✭MizzLolly


    Tara Le d'Arion wrote: »

    :eek:

    Muhahaha.... :P
    LadyPennyworth wrote: »
    When I was a little kid I won money for being able to spell any word from the dictionary with looking at it for only two seconds...won fifty pence for spelling deoxyribonucleic acid when I was 6.. quite the personal achievement..


    That's pretty damn cool! :eek:


  • #146
    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    SDooM wrote: »
    Suuuuuuuuure you're not, moderator of the HHG2TG forum!

    I find the word Sligo intrinsically funny for some reason!

    My being moderator of the Guide forum merely makes me cool! :D

    Stop laughing at my county! :o


  • #147
    Teutorix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    HHG2TG is ultimate coolness


  • #148
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    MizzLolly wrote: »
    Muhahaha.... :P



    You'll never get me with your joeyesque come ons!
    I'm sophisticated, hmpf. Oh the peasantry.


    lmao @ teutorix. :s


  • #149
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    takola wrote: »
    My being moderator of the Guide forum merely makes me cool! :D

    Stop laughing at my county! :o

    But...but... it's Sligo!


  • #150
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    SDooM wrote: »
    But...but... it's Sligo!

    I know, it's hilarious. hehe, sligo.


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  • #151
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    I like chess
    I like boards.ie
    I want to be a scientist
    I don't care about acting cool
    I am a bit quirky
    I look at things from different perspectives.
    I like maths
    I like I:D


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