american guys are the best? haha ive had experience with american guys... :p some are great others... well not so much haha
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to some degree age can be used to determine how sophisticated some ones thinking TENDS to be. This is by no means always accurate but it can help in forming a judgement of someones level of education and thinking. MOst 13 year old kids have not read Sun Tzu or Marcus Aurelius, Even less have studied the Winter campaign's of WWII; and fewer still KNow anything about the battle of Hasting's other then the name.
cr@p!! i'm 27 and i havent even heard of 1/2 that stuff!!
i guss i better put Jane Auston down and learn something usefull
You'd have be insane in the membrane to be using Oil of Olay now that a scientific study (a real scientific study, not some marketing one) has said that Boots No 7 is only one that actually seems to work.
Everyone knows Inuit men are the best. They can make a house in a day, good at making fire, catching fish (which proves they have a great deal of patience) and they can even get you a fur coat. Practically perfect in every way.
I disagree. I find my wits and senses duller than ever. If anything age complicates and convolutes my thought process. I would not necessarily say I was better or wiser. In some areas I am weaker, others stronger. I am certainly not the same person I was when I was 13, and to say that I am more sophisticated would be a gross over simplification. Just because a 13 year old hasn't read the works of Sun Tzu and Marcus Aurelius that doesn't mean you can write them off. Indeed there aren't many of any age who have read both I am sure, myself for one. Personally while I feel The Art of War was an interesting read with plenty of excellent quotes, it is largely only useful now as a text for business management, a subject that I am not fond of. The Battle of Hasting's and the Winter campaigns of WWII's relevance are entirely subjective. I doubt the Battle of Hastings is of any particular importance to those not from the british isles. Whereas you may be more than familiar with it, I doubt you could be equally familiar with the history of the Holy Roman Emperors, or the Capture of Quebec City. What of the history and causes behind The Opium Wars, which I would argue is of much more relevance to our Age than the Battle of Hastings.
Man this got wayyy offtopic since i last been here.
U had all right, i wasn't offended a single second, so don't worry.
It's easy to correct, it's something a friend of mine always does with me in another forum (in Dutch, lol). I literally always make the same mistake (both in Dutch as in English actually - bigger as/bigger than...)
So Candle, don't worry.. it's fine, really :)
As for the Boots no.7 and Oil of Olay, i tend not to read scientific reports, as i'm a bookkeeper, they go way beyond my knowledge.
As for the wars... good point.. BUT..
In general (will no-one please take offense to this) in Europe we think or know that Americans don't know anything apart from how big their next burger has to be. YouTube is overloaded with clips of people being asked where certain places are on the world map. If the educational system seems to be so rotten, how can they know anything about Battle of Hastings or the Opium Wars (to name two). I wonder how many Americans know who Peter Stuyvesant is. I wonder even more how many Americans know how close they were to speaking Dutch instead of English..
But I'm sure that in Europe there is many kids these days that haven't got a clue about these things either. How many Europeans would know the meaning behind Friday the 13th? April Fools Day?
And to a 13yo reading Sun Tzu.. Let a 13yo read in the first place, that lacks, how many 13yo's do you know who actually pick up a book/novel voluntarily and read for fun?
so i can go back to reading jane then? thats a relief.
i did, but thats because the ppl in fiction dont make fun of you. nice escape tatic, you cant get in trobble for it because, well your reading arent you
i havent read Malazan, where would i find it? (fiction, non-fiction, si-fi...)
have you read Melanie Rawn? i realy love 3 of her series the Exile set is the one i started on, but the 3rd book is stuck in limbo somewhere. then she has 2 that run back to back, about dragons.
Heard of her, think i read the first one, but our library here is diddy and if they have a series it's not one of Melanie Rawn..
Another one you SHOULD do, Walter Moers, a German fantasy writer, is translated in English, not sure if u can get it in the States. But his books are truely 'fantastic'
i looked him up on barns and nobel. looks like mystery to me... those are usualy only good for 1 read (i have above average retention lvl).
i'm defanetly going to check out Erikson, he looks good
Moers isn't Mystery at all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Moers
Just have a look there.
ok. i only look at the first 3 books on his list. the first one was the new mystery series "the Long Fall" and the next two were touted as suspencefull.
my tast tends to run more fancifull, and slightly period. one of the things that drew me to this game was the time setting its set in
thats what everyone tells me, but i'd rather be a drudg now then a drudg then. lol
i was worried about that. the refernce is to ppl who were laborers of the lowest class, less then slaves but not enslaved. you know the girl with the leeky bucket scrubbing the pallace foor with a beat up horse hair brush and no selfesteem in stight
Ahh, ok... but i thought u wanted to be a queen? Or is that the fairytale...
In first world nations there is no need for poverty, there is plenty of work and not enough people, it's just that you will have to do everything..
But surely ur not a labourer of the lowest class?
well not quite. i'm a watress part time in the summer even tho i have a Pharmacy Tech's license. so that would be like, what, a moderatly well off farmer? but my pedagree doesnt have a drop of royalty (that i can find anyway) mostly laborers and migrants, farmers, buttlers... no one who would have had access to a vast library and all the free time she could wish to read it. but i'd probably be better at cooking then i am... and i'd an excusse to be as good at crochet ( i never spell that one right) as i am
Somewhere down the line things got modelled up for me. Because of my last name it is certain that around 600 to 700 years ago my ancestors were at least Lords, probably Earl. But as time passed by, too many other influences, so i'm now of the 'poor' side, lol.. More middle-class, government, teachers..
one of the buttlers sons married the kings daughters, but thats not my line. i got the line that stayed buttlers untill they went into farming i think. now i'll have to go look it up again lol
no we were potato farmers when we moved here 4 gen ago. and have been upper-lower class ever sence
i'm actualy the frist female (in a direct line, i have cousens that beat me to it) that finnished college. granted it was a tech school, but still thats got to make you proud right?
I know im late on replying to this but...
I LOVE that series! I really really really wish she would finish it.
*sigh*
If you like her I think you would like Anne Bishop. Realms of blood series :D
As far as ancestry I wish I knew more about mine. Gonna have to go take it up with the mormons as they keep the best geneology records. I think that there was an earl in there somewhere but my last name was quite common.
There are french and indians in it though- guess when it came down to love and war my ancestors chose love ;)
Here is a thought for you, in a world there exsists 2 factories that each make 50,000 paper clips. Together they supply the entire world's need for paper clips.
Then one day someone developers a technology that doubles the efficiency of the paper clip factories. Now what happens..
They could give their works half the time off for leisure, arts, reading, family, while still giving the world all the paper clips they need and still giving food to these families.
Or more likely they would compete, lowing the prices of paper clips, securing deals until one factory is bust. Its workers jobless, struggling to survive, while the workers in the other factory, work the same as before while the owner gets rich.
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The alliance I'm part of ended up being set up because a few of us older players were tired of needless childrens dramatcis and chat spam on the lines of omgplskkthnxelevnty111!!!. I don't object to kids playing...it's a game after all, I just personally choose not to have my alliance chat filled with their musings.
Haha, you're very kind...but I'll be 32 this summer :)
oh my love the comments and nerds boys and nerds girls can be cute they may run the away at the first sign of the oppisite sex however lol