Pie Serendipity

Alicia Sautereau wrote: PeterCanessa Oh wrote: We really, really, need more hackers, scammers, spammers, and trolls (in reverse order) The forums would be a really interesting place he he he FIFY!

Orca Flotta wrote: the lamest band in britpop genre. Britpop? Who the hell are you talking about? Which makes two major errors. But we'll cut you some slack for the incongruity of the mashup you have offered.

Madeline Blackbart wrote: Luca Coeur wrote: I'd sooo love to see his spell checked versions of the dekalog - handed back for correction - hahah me also. Just for the sheer hilariousness of it. I don't use a spell-checker, ever; I don't need to, especially not to interpret non-existent instructions from an artificial construct of authority fabricated by a bunch of power hungry lying manipulators to keep the great unwashed in their place. Personally, I observe the Eleventh Commandment.

Madeline Blackbart wrote: Pie Serendipity wrote: Madeline Blackbart wrote: you aren't more intelligent then I I love it when that happens. Cool more trolling fun. I love how you spend your time putting others down. I've seen you do this on multiple occasions. This truelly implies that you don't feel very proud of yourself and need to make others feel bad in order to bolster your self esteem. Everyone can see it but i suppose you can't. It's kind of sad really. So you are as bad a psychologist as you are a translator then.

Perrie Juran wrote: Pie Serendipity wrote: Presumably this invitation is for Japanese speakers only. Because literature loses 90%+ of its meaning and relevance to another culture when translated. Take Freud, for example. Two questions: Wouldn't the problem with cultural differences still exist even if the same language is spoken? Would learning and then reading in the original language overcome this difficulty? I have two words for you. Sapir Whorf. It's not true.

LL is going to look really silly reporting me to the police for murdering my father, like I told someone the other day in IM. Because he wasn't really my father, although my mother didn't tell me that until afterwards. Which is why I killed her as well.

Madeline Blackbart wrote: you aren't more intelligent then I I love it when that happens.

Luca Coeur wrote: Great argument :-) Please remind me again, when were you nominated for a nobel prize for literature? I wouldn't accept money from a fund instigated by the man who invented dynamite, and who attempted to assuage his conscience by offering prizes for humanity's better efforts. I am in good company; Shakespeare has also never been nominated for The Nobel Prize In Literature, to give it its ESler-tinged official title, appropriately upper-cased, which you insultingly deny it.

Luca Coeur wrote: They are no subtle pieces of literature... You are obviously an ESLer yourself, and are therefore in no position to make that assessment.

Of course, you could be lying through your teeth, and you are actually a dirty old man in real life who wants to make friends with teenage girls here . . . . . . except the other teenage girls here will probably be more dirty old men.

Madeline Blackbart wrote: Pie Serendipity wrote: Presumably this invitation is for Japanese speakers only. Because literature loses 90%+ of its meaning and relevance to another culture when translated. Take the Bible, for example. I'm gonna disagree here. A good translator knows how to translate a book into a relatable and understandable translation. Often including anictodes to explain what it may have meant culturally where relevant. Also you're example of the bible is debatable at best considering which translation your talking about. But then you're obviousally trying to troll so I don't know why i'm feeding this. I'm not trolling. I sincerely believe that reading a foreign language book in translation is like eating toffee apple without taking the wrapper off, or having sex wearing a condom. You are going through the motions but enjoying a faint shadow of the pleasure of the real thing. Given your own failings (as are partially highlighted here) I can not even be assured you have understood my original post, nor would you be able to appreciate this post; I presume you would not include yourself as a "good translator", although of course to know whether or not someone is a good translator would require that you were an even better translator yourself - which would render the need to read the work in translation redundant, since you would be able to read the original. Remember, we are talking about literature here, not traffic signs, Mister Men books, or instructions on how to set up your wireless broadband router. If the subtleties are removed or replaced by a non-author, then the work is not the author's. If the author does the translation himself, then the work is still a different work from the original. I am not talking from ignorance here. I speak and read French well enough to understand that Baudelaire's poetry is pathetically impotent in ALL the translations I have ever read.

A close friend of mine says you should not believe everything you read on the internet. I hope that the moderators are of the same mind, or you are likely to find your account closed permanently. It's not a good idea to be too honest in these forums. Hardly anybody is.

Kenbro Utu wrote: Not holding my breath. That JIRA was started in 2007. Status is "Closed." BTW, the last entry is: "Alexa Linden added a comment - 27/May/10 12:54 PM Policy issues are not handled." FIFY!

Then, for example, we could move on to Gary Lightbody, from Snow Patrol, with his part -time supergroup project, Tired Pony. And over to you. [Hint: That's REM's Peter Buck on guitar . . .]

I absolutely get off on seeing musicians guesting with other bands, or duetting with artistes you might be surprised to find them associating with. Some of the stuff may seem artificial or have its basis in commercial venality, but still works - Tom Jones and Art of Noise? - sometimes it's a band put together for a celebration, like the 50th anniversary of the Fender Strat, and sometimes it's just 'cos Clarence Clemons was buddies with the saxophonist in Bob Seger's band. Anyway, the point of this thread is to uncover collaborations (which may even never have got put on vinyl - ooops, showing my age there) but were recorded on video and are available to us globally thanks to the wonders of the internet and youtube in particular. The "rule" is that you should post a video in which one of the artistes featured in the previous videos is playing, singing or just messing about with a completely different bunch of guys. I'll start you off with Snow Patrol's classic, Chasing Cars.

Presumably this invitation is for Japanese speakers only. Because literature loses 90%+ of its meaning and relevance to another culture when translated. Take the Bible, for example.

It could be worse, Storm. You might inadvertently be tpd from SL's Coney Island into a gypsy "concert".

I think it inappropriate - and potentially in breach of LL's ToS - for a minor to be able to see the screen when their parent (I nearly said 'a responsible adult' but that would clearly not be the case) is participating in any sort of activity in SL, whatever the rating of the environment. Just as LL has a legal duty of care in respect of safeguarding children, so do adults. That your niece is "mature" is irrelevant. There are moral arguments that less mature individuals (including those with the intellectual level of a child in the body of an adult) should not be permitted to interact with others who might take advantage of them. Maturity is not a concept relevant to LL's adherence to the law in this circumstance. I realise, from public admissions in the SL feeds by irresponsible adults, that they allow their own children to view events in SL, some even encouraging them to "attend" concerts in which they are participating, which is exhibitionism of the highest order, on a par with Cher putting her PRE-TEEN son in a video, replete with phallic symbolism, in which she wore the skimpiest of sluttish costumes and strutted in an unmistakably sexual fashion, baring her butt randomly in front of baying crowds of animalistically animated sailors. Would you put YOUR child in such a situation? Think again, Storm!

Dillon Levenque wrote: You need to buff up your punctuation and notice spelling errors in the posts to which you respond. It wion't make you any more attractive I love it when that happens.

Rose Patel wrote: But now I can walk again!!! I can walk again!!! Soon you'll be trotting, I am sure. Then cantering, after a little practice. And when you are really confident, you can gallop!

Marianne Little wrote: This thread is so dead. :womanwink: No editing on the avatar images, just blurred the line between them. I was too lazy to make a "proper" collage. The dress and clutch is both from The Black Fair 2013. Store is Pure Poison, no 70 on this list. http://theblackfair-sl.blogspot.com.br/ A really hard fair to navigate, it's full and slow. The slurls does not take yu to the right shop, but at least you get a beam to navigate after. I didn't realise Madonna was one of a pair of twins!

Marigold Devin wrote: Thanks everyone for input so far. I've been reading up a lot more about what is and isn't allowed in real life regarding tracking/spying on other people. Knocks the paranoid rants people have about spy gear in Second Life into a cocked hat that's for sure. @ Freya, the links you provided were incredibly eye opening. I know of areas where CCTV has increased a lot, but in spite of their being warnings up that CCTV are in my home area, there are none around. My neighbours do keep getting caught on Google Maps though, luckily doing nothing more sinister than chatting on doorsteps (although they should know better, having lived through a world war - careless talk costs lives, and all that :matte-motes-wink-tongue: ) They could stick surveillance cameras on my brothers house if it would help keep the number of people allowing their mutts to crap outside his back gate down. If I had a gun I could probably do the job myself (half-joking). I remember seeing a demo on the bin spying thing. Crazy world we living in. If those are your neighbours then you DO realise we now know where you live . . .

PeterCanessa Oh wrote: The husband of one of my colleagues pays for his and her iPhones. So he claims the 'right' to use the GPS tracking on hers to see where she is at any time. He is also quoted as saying "I never apologise to people because I never do anything wrong." You have probably already decided whether you like him or not. She obviously does. Or perhaps she just likes his money. Or maybe they are in a mutually acceptable D/s relationship. Or maybe she lies. So if you have already decided whether you like him or not you may be considered precipitously judgmental.

Summer Tison wrote: A3123 wrote: I know the Welsh may find it difficult to comprehend, but Pie is only half the name. Sound it out, you'll see... or rather hear. eich pentref yn eich ar goll Erm, I'm not the only gay in MY village.

I track my kids via their mobile phones. Hell, I'm paying for them! The phones AND the kids!