8:39
AM Mr. Silver
Really
not sure of what I think of this one:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/legal-in-the-us-watching-pixie-sex-lands-new-zealand-man-in-jail/
"Clearly
young"
The
fairy folk are perfect immortals, some clearly ancient by dress,
claim, or manner.
Even
Tinkerbell, in Disney canon, is born a full grown adult with
an obvious mutual interest in cute guys.
8:42
AM Mr. Blue
Heheh
8:43
AM Mr. Silver
Though
in Barrie canon, his fairies only live a few years...which means,
again, they are adults extremely fast or we'd be out of fairies.
8:44
AM Mr. Blue
Something
tells me pixie porn doesn't stick to any canon.
8:51
AM Mr. Silver
Hehe
Just
a folklorist’s POV
10:07
AM Mr. Silver
This
person just complained to me that "Over 10 years, your service
would cost me $600!"
10:08
AM Mr. Blue
So
would…chewing gum.
10:08
AM Mr. Silver
Heh
"Good
lord! That could go to a few months of your
cigarettes! Better cancel!"
12:47
PM Mr. Blue
I’m
concerned by the degradation of Muslim culture. They used to be
at the head of the pack in terms of science and technology and stuff.
12:47
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yup
12:47
PM Mr. Blue
And
I feel like there are idiots in western society that want us to
devolve the same way.
12:49
PM Mr. Silver
Devo
has been singing about such things since the 70s.
12:51
PM Mr. Blue
Their
society has gone backwards, as have others’. China's tech was
incredible at one point.
How
we're not all speaking Mandarin is beyond me.
12:51
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
12:52
PM Mr. Blue
Cannons,
rifles, bombs, guns, canals, math.
But
by the 1800s they were under complete control by Europeans.
Not
sure what their problem was though. Too much in-fighting?
12:55
PM Mr. Silver
China?
12:56
PM Mr. Blue
Yeah.
How'd they go from basically the greatest nation on earth 2000 years
ago to being lackeys 1800 years later.
12:56
PM Mr. Silver
Well...isolationism...elitism...opium...
There
was a series of civil wars against the last dynasty...didn't help
things much for the divine rulers of China. They were finito by
1912.
12:57
PM Mr. Silver
Oddly
enough, I was thinking about this topic 2 days ago.
If
China had an alphabet, we'd all be Chinese.
1:09
PM Mr. Silver
I
looked up Chinese characters and literacy...bleh.
1:10
PM Mr. Blue
Messy?
1:10
PM Mr. Silver
John
DeFrancis,
in the introduction to his ‘Advanced Chinese Reader’, estimates
that a typical Chinese college graduate recognizes 4,000 to 5,000
characters, and 40,000 to 60,000 words. Jerry
Norman,
in Chinese, places the number of characters somewhat lower, at 3,000
to 4,000.These counts are complicated by the tangled development of
Chinese characters. In many cases, a single character came to be
written in multiple
ways,
in much the same way that English words are sometimes spelled
differently in different regions (e.g., "color/colour").
Imagine
being only able to read and write 10% of the language you know.
1:11
PM Mr. Blue
Japanese
is a pain too.
1:15
PM Mr. Silver
My
point is...say the Chinese had started using the Korean (Gasp!
Barbaric!) alphabet in the 14-1500s...well...we probably would have a
very different history book.
1:19
PM Mr. Silver
I'd
venture it was probably proposed many times earlier than that as
well, by ingenious Chinese scholars. And that those innovators ended
up with their heads separated from their bodies.
1:20
PM Mr. Blue
Nice.
1:21
PM Mr. Silver
"This
writing method is brilliant, doctor. Guards? Kill him.
Also burn down his village and kill anyone he might have shown this
to. We wouldn't want literacy higher than ¼ of 1% now, would
we, doctor?"
1:28
PM Mr. Blue
I
guess that's a good way to control the masses, but not to compete
with the world technologically.
1:46
PM Mr. Blue
Iran
was fairly progressive and forward until the Iranian Revolution it
seems.
They
went backwards. I guess some people just like living under
draconian laws.
1:51
PM Mr. Silver
Turkey
was moving pretty well into the modern world, for the most part,
until WWI.
1:53
PM Mr. Blue
Then
what happened?
1:53
PM Mr. Silver
WWI
1:53
PM Mr. Blue
Ah.
Haha.
2:22
PM Mr. Blue
Just
started this.
2:23
PM Mr. Silver
The
Mesopotamian lawman himself.
Eye
for an eye...tooth for a tooth...butt for a butt…
2:24
PM Mr. Blue
A
goat for 10 goats
If
a doctor operates a patient and the patient dies, the doctor's hand
will be cut off.
I
bet there weren't many doctors back then.
2:25
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yea
I’ll pass on that profession.
2:29
PM Mr. Silver
Loophole...don't
operate.
It’s
possibly just a ban on cutting people open and messing around.
"You're
a doctor! Don't you have any prayers to
the gods in
that bag?!?"
2:33
PM Mr. Blue
Heheh
It’s
also a good way to keep any old schmo from pretending to be a doctor.
Here
are some good ones from the Lipit-Ishtar code:
§34
If a man rented an ox and injured the flesh at the nose ring, he
shall pay one-third of its price.
§35
If a man rented an ox and damaged its eye, he shall pay one-half its
price.
§36
If a man rented an ox and broke its horn, he shall pay one-fourth its
price.
§37
If a man rented an ox and damaged its tail, he shall pay one-fourth
its price.
A
lot of stuff about oxen in there.
I
guess damaged oxen was a big problem back then.
2:40
PM Mr. Silver
Ancient
vehicle laws.
(Oxen
crash head on) "S.O.B.! What were you thinking?
Maaaan...the whole nose is screwed up. Oh well, what's done is
done. Let’s exchange info, I guess. (Pops Ox glove
compartment, rummages for ox insurance info. Other guy peels
out at 3mph.) Hey! HEY!"
2:42
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
2:52
PM Mr. Blue
2:54
PM Mr. Silver
Kidnapping
is minor compared to robbery.
2:55
PM Mr. Blue
I
like the trial by ordeal if accused of sorcery
I
assume you'd need some evidence or everyone would be accusing anyone
they didn't like of sorcery
2:55
PM Mr. Silver
“11. Widows
are fair game”
"21.
This law was made and enforced once."
3:01
PM Mr. Silver
(judge)
"Was the attacker's blade made of copper."
3:04
PM Mr. Blue
"It
was bronze.. but-"
"CASE
DISMISSED!"
I
wonder if one reason virgins were so prized back in those days was
because of STDs. They must have been rampant.
3:17
PM Mr. Silver
Well,
you could also be “sure” your kids were yours. You wouldn't
want to have someone else's kid eat all your food and inherit your
dirt and twigs.
3:21
PM Mr. Amethyst
Right!
Those
twigs are sacred family heirlooms!
3:27
PM Mr. Silver
“Thou
shalt not commit adultery in Mesopotamia, unless you're, like, a
guy.”
So
really, by the time The Ten Commandments rolled around and made the
law non-gender specific, it was a huge stride forward for women's
rights.
3:28
PM Mr. Blue
Yes.
3:29
PM Mr. Silver
I
mean, until they were smashed and they wrote Leviticus instead.
3:29
PM Mr. Silver
"'e
bid ovv by dode!"
"He
bit off your nose?"
"Yed!"
"No
crime. Baliff, remove him, he's getting nose blood all over the
court."
3:30
PM Mr. Amethyst
lol
3:34
PM Mr. Amethyst
What’s
a shekel?
3:34
PM Mr. Silver
A
coin.
3:36
PM Mr. Blue
Initially,
it may have referred to a weight of barley.
“Gimme
all your barley and nobody gets hurt!”
3:39
PM Mr. Silver
Hehe
3:39
PM Mr. Blue
“I
run the barley game in this here town.”
3:39
PM Mr. Silver
The
Great Granary Holdup of 1400BC
3:39
PM Mr. Amethyst
LOL
3:40
PM Mr. Silver
"Everyone
reach for their nose! We've got copper knives and aren't afraid
to cut a nose!"
"Now
I want every grain of barley in these 40 bags! NOW! Any
virgins here? You! Bring her out!"
3:44
PM Mr. Silver
"Awww
MAAAN! I JUST got her. Come on! Cut a bro a break!"
"I'll
cut a NOSE! Hand her over!"
3:46
PM Mr. Amethyst
Hahaha
2:49
PM Mr. Silver
Heh...I
like setting up ship travel in D&D.
There's
usually some fun bargaining for passage.
2:50
PM Mr. Amethyst
I
hope they decide to take the “free” ship: I want to see the
fights.
2:51
PM Mr. Silver
I
like it when the party flashes a lot of cash but insists on el cheapo
tickets.
2:51
PM Mr. Amethyst
Yup
LOL
2:51
PM Mr. Silver
(Amiable
captain) "Why surely,
sirs, ye’ve got yerself a deal! Now you just relax and I'll
have some of the men get all yer fine things aboard! A sunset
dinner and cocktails'll be served for ye, and then we'll be headin'
outside of the shippin' lanes and coaster patrol routes with the
tide."
"If
ye don’t mind me askin’, do any o' yer next o’ kin in the area
have a lot o’ gold too? No? Ah, that's a shame."
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Mr.
Yellow
lol
Ahnkmorepork
Secret Service
I’m
waiting to see if they get it right away or if there is that moment
when one of them says “OMG! We’re agents of A.S.S.!”
I
also need to think of the equipment their Q is going to give them. A
demon camera will be one.
11:16
AM Mr. Silver
(Queue)
"The demon in this camera can see in the dark...Queue Branch
believes you’ll find it very useful in your work..."
11:16
AM Mr. Silver
(Quintuple-O-5)
"How do we see what to photograph?"
11:16
AM Mr. Silver
(Queue)
"... … … hmm... Moving on..."
11:16
AM Mr. Yellow
LOL
yep!
11:28
AM Mr. Silver
(Queue)
"This is the X-43...the cutting edge in agency saddles.
Read the manual please, and TRY to bring them back in one piece,
Quintuple-O-4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. The saddle horn pops open, here,
for your controls. (features pop out) Forward firing repeating
darts... poison gas screen... explosive caltrops. And this red
one is a concealed ejector."
(Quintuple-O-8)
"This is a saddle, Queue...the darts would shoot the horse, the
gas would kill us both, the mines would blow us up, and the ejector
seat would eject ME."
11:29
AM Mr. Silver
(Queue)"...
… ... quite. Hmm... Wilkins? Could you take the
X-43 back to the R&D lab? Thank you."
11:29
AM Mr. Yellow
Haha
3:08
PM Mr. Blue
That
reminds me.
There’s
a guy that followed me on Twitter. He wants to become a
maxipad.
Like…
Just like a person becomes a fireman or a police officer… He wants
to literally become a maxipad.
He
doesn’t seem to understand that he can't, but he's dead-set and
100% serious.
He
has a YouTube channel. His name was Paul but he had it legally
changed to Pad.
He's
obsessed with feminine hygiene products, but not in a sexual way, he
claims
3:11
PM Mr. Gray
Wow
Did
you tell him he needs therapy? LOL
3:12
PM Mr. Blue
I
just keep asking him how he's going to *become" a feminine pad.
3:13
PM Mr. Brown
Ok,
tell him to get 20 pillows and a trash bag.
Rip
the pillows open and fill the trash bag with the contents.
Then
tell him to rub honey all over himself and dump contents of the trash
bag on himself.
Then
he can run around saying “I'm a maxipad!”
They
will put him in insane asylum. Problem solved.
3:14
PM Mr. Gray
You
sure have this thought out, Mr. Brown... Hmmm...
3:14
PM Mr. Blue
He
doesn't want to dress up like one.
He
wants to literally be one in a package and everything, eventually to
be used and discarded.
3:14
PM Mr. Gray
So
he wants to be used, fouled, and discarded by a woman? Tell him
to get a girlfriend. Same thing.
3:14
PM Mr. Blue
LOL
