Pain...

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:23 pm

Did you have to wear a big dress for a while like in that episode of Married with Children when Al got it done?

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:06 pm

KittyKatBlack wrote:
Laemkral wrote:
KittyKatBlack wrote: I'm assuming this is a play on words, and a joke.

If not, then you sir, are insane. (No offence. ^_^)
I'm gonna agree with Czar. Ain't nothing like a long hike when it comes to fun and awesome times.

But only if you take proper care of your feet. Which reminds me of a funny story: I'm at a friend's apartment and one of the girls is complaining about some blisters on her feet from high heels. I suggest moleskin to help the blisters heal and she wear something like stockings to reduce the friction of the shoes. She asks all sarcastically: "You ever worn high heels?" "Nope. Combat boots."
You people are weird.

No offence taken, I am quite aware I am of an unusual state of mind.

I love taking on the greens and going out on exercises, be it putting up tents in less than five minutes, tearing them down fifteen minutes later in less than a minute and relocating fifty metres further north before putting them back up, running around with radios trying to call instructions to someone a few clicks away, crawling around on the ground with camo, helmets and combat belt trying not to be seen, running around with compass and map to try to find where we were supposed to be five minutes ago, running around with stretchers to try to get the "injured" we've given first aid to treatment before they bleed out or lying on the shooting range in pouring rain... I love it.

Just this evening we had a small evening-exerise going through, over and about the Swedish Army Standard Issue Assault Rifle (Ak5, (FNC 80), which I'm holding in my avatar). Basic weapon handling, firing stances (standing, crouched, prone), assembling, disassembling, a walktrough of daily maintenance and special maintenance and safety rules. (And I'm still wearing the uniform since it's bloody comfortable).

Last weekend, I went to the range on saturday, shot ten rounds with a sniperrifle at a hundred metres (gave "Ivan" (1/3rd figure) four new nostrils and fired six rounds on circular, precision targets), and a few magazines with the Ak 4b (Homeguard Standard Issue Assault Rifle, H&K G3, with aimpoint).
Then on sunday I crawled around for a bit trying not to be seen.

Hell, yes, I'm ****ing mental!
Especially considering I was turned down for conscription due to being "thin, lightwheight, weak and nearsighted".

... At the very least, I've got a heightened pain-threshold (spelling?) out of it.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:09 pm

Muffo11 wrote:kii-sama wa BAKA-YARO! SHINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--and it's Konichi-wa, not "konnichiwa!" and why are you saying "good day to you" anyway?...

I should point out that I speak Japanse, my wife is Japanese, and you have made several mistakes here.

First off, "konniti wa" or "konnichi wa" or "konnichiwa" is correct. It's a combination of two words (and kanji characters) "kon" meaning "this" and "nichi" meaning "day." The literal meaning is "it's today." Not in any standard romanization system is "konichi-wa" correct. I'm not sure what this latter would mean? "Small day."

"Yaro," in that usage, is actually "yarou" but I'd probably let it slide on it's own given that some "street use" transliterations don't properly set off long vowels. (In Japanese, long vowels are just that--double length pronunciations of short vowels, and are generally written by doubling adding the character for the vowel after the character for the preceding syllable. "o" is the exception in that it's doubled by writing the character for "u" after the syllable. Go figure.) As I said, I would normally let it slide except you felt the need to inaccurately correct another use of Japanese.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:17 pm

The Neko wrote:
Muffo11 wrote:kii-sama wa BAKA-YARO! SHINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--and it's Konichi-wa, not "konnichiwa!" and why are you saying "good day to you" anyway?...
shini means "I die" or "he/she/it dies", and it isn't even good grammar at that.

It's also wrong. Japanese doesn't conjugate for person. (Sounds kinky, doesn't it.) The imperative is "Shine."

If a person is going to use Japanese, they should at least know as much Japanese as a relatively sucessfull first-year student.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:26 pm

rkolter wrote:I have an uncle who was cutting firewood, swung the axe into his leg, managed to get to his truck, and drove for help. No kidding.

Me? As far as personal pain goes, I get angry when I get hurt. Getting angry seems to dull the pain.

Worst things painwise (in no particular order):

1) When a friend let go of the antique box spring mattress (read this as about 400 lbs) we were pushing up the stairs, and the mattress slid down the stairs, hit me, and shoved me out a window.

2) the time I dropped a 50lb printer on my foot.

3) the time some guy in shop class thought he'd smash a hammer near my hand to scare me but I didn't know he was doing it and he connected with my finger.

4) Breaking my finger and having to drive myself to the hospital in a stick-shift was not fun.

5) Pancreatitis. And gallbladder surgery. Outpatient surgery my ASS.

My worst pain incidents have all involved teeth-- breaking a tooth in half (horizontally, right through the pulp) in a bicycle accident, an absess that developed when a tooth "died" (and my then dentist blew me off, and not in the good way, when I tried to talk to him about the pain--he's not my dentist anymore), etc.

Beside those, everything else, even getting hit by a car and waking up with a broken collarbone, don't even rate.

Once when I was reading a novel, there was a torture scene. I was okay right up until the torturer started working on the victim's teeth. I had to stop reading at that point.

Muffo11 · Post by **Muffo11** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 10:17 am

*sigh* You're all so evil....
I know how to say that in japanese, and spelling sucks, lol.. but uhh.. -.-;; i skipped from page 2 to 6 so... i'm assuming that was more yelling at me posts...

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:24 pm

Muffo11 wrote:*sigh* You're all so evil....
I know how to say that in japanese, and spelling sucks, lol.. but uhh.. -.-;; i skipped from page 2 to 6 so... i'm assuming that was more yelling at me posts...

:-?

people yell at you because you have no idea what you're doing. :b At all. Ever.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:42 pm

Not to mention you weren't really speaking Japanese. It's generally uncouth to correct other people when one has minimal knowledge of a subject themselves. Tossing out a few catch phrases does not mean you know much about a language. Me, I've only had a year of Japanese, which in and of itself is minimal....not to mention fading fast since it's been a while...but even I could recognize that.

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:45 pm

MixedMyth wrote:Not to mention you weren't really speaking Japanese. It's generally uncouth to correct other people when one has minimal knowledge of a subject themselves. Tossing out a few catch phrases does not mean you know much about a language. Me, I've only had a year of Japanese, which in and of itself is minimal....not to mention fading fast since it's been a while...but even I could recognize that.

'tis why I rarely ever speak more than an odd word of German or Spanish any more.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 2:36 pm

Plus insulting someone in a foreign language is pointless and juvenile. It's great and all that you can parrot back naughty words you've heard, but they don't really have the same impact. Without knowing the language and the culture near-fluently, the purpose and the intent of the insult are both entirely lost.

This is the same with mindlessly using any foreign word: you remove it from its linguistic and cultural context, plonk it down in your own, and expect it to carry the same weight when it almost certainly cannot. Words are very much a part of culture, they don't exist in a vacuum, and butchering the language because you heard it in some anime will only serve to amplify your ignorance of it.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:05 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:Plus insulting someone in a foreign language is pointless and juvenile. It's great and all that you can parrot back naughty words you've heard, but they don't really have the same impact. Without knowing the language and the culture near-fluently, the purpose and the intent of the insult are both entirely lost.

This is the same with mindlessly using any foreign word: you remove it from its linguistic and cultural context, plonk it down in your own, and expect it to carry the same weight when it almost certainly cannot. Words are very much a part of culture, they don't exist in a vacuum, and butchering the language because you heard it in some anime will only serve to amplify your ignorance of it.

*hugs Merc*
Sniff...you sounded just like an anthropologist.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:50 pm

I'm an amateur langauge geek!

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:57 am

Most Japanese people hate Americans who insert Japanese words into their already-shitty English sentences. It prettymuch grates on them like you wouldn't believe. So yeah, if you go to Japan and can only throw out stupid phrases? They'd murder you if there wasn't a law against it.

Oh yeah, and this:

a retard wrote:kii-sama wa BAKA-YARO! SHINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is jarbled diarrhea of a language. Stop trying to learn Japanese. Period. Do us all a favor and never endeavor to learn a foreign language, until you learn to stop raping it.

Psychoticdesires · Post by **Psychoticdesires** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:36 pm

The Neko wrote:Most Japanese people hate Americans who insert Japanese words into their already-shitty English sentences. It prettymuch grates on them like you wouldn't believe. So yeah, if you go to Japan and can only throw out stupid phrases? They'd murder you if there wasn't a law against it.

Oh yeah, and this:
a retard wrote:kii-sama wa BAKA-YARO! SHINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is jarbled diarrhea of a language. Stop trying to learn Japanese. Period. Do us all a favor and never endeavor to learn a foreign language, until you learn to stop raping it.

when people are just beginning to learn a new language it is good for them to practice it by USING IT. Most language teachers encourage it, especially if the student doesn't know it very well. That is how people learn. So next time you see someone speaking or writing bad japanese give them constructive critisism instead of telling them to stop all-together.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 2:57 pm

psychoticdesires wrote:
The Neko wrote:Oh yeah, and this:
a retard wrote:kii-sama wa BAKA-YARO! SHINI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is jarbled diarrhea of a language. Stop trying to learn Japanese. Period. Do us all a favor and never endeavor to learn a foreign language, until you learn to stop raping it.
when people are just beginning to learn a new language it is good for them to practice it by USING IT. Most language teachers encourage it, especially if the student doesn't know it very well. That is how people learn. So next time you see someone speaking or writing bad japanese give them constructive critisism instead of telling them to stop all-together.

The problem is that he wasn't speaking Japanese. He was speaking Otaku. Poorly spelled an conjugated Otaku at that.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:26 pm

Yeah, the impression is that his point for learning Japanese is so that he could insult people on forums, so in that case the advice was on spot.

Cat42 · Post by **Cat42** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:46 pm

I've tend to find butchering languages fun. I find my self saying "au revoir" more often than good bye sometimes. I found out recently from a friend of mine who is French that the phrase is extremely formal (to the best of my recolection), and she thought it was quite strange when I said it.

I'm also fond of spouting off my crappy, and useless spanish:
"Yo tengo un gato en mis pantalones, por favor"
"Mi cabesa es afuego"
"Yo tengo feo"
"Mi feo carne es en la piscina"
"Yo soy un bano, por favor?"

Badly conjugated gibberish, I'm pretty sure... I think I know what it means, it certainly makes my spanish speaking friends laugh...
if I had friends, I'm so alone

EDIT===
I think I should scream "soy un feo!" at the next person who pisses me off...

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:05 pm

Which is fine, because it's different. You aren't claiming it to be true or real, you're just having a bit of fun. Plus, it isn't an overused cliche.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:09 pm

How's about we all stop beating the crap out of an easy target?

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:41 pm

yeahduff wrote:How's about we all stop beating the crap out of an easy target?

Yeah, if this is fun, I've got a barrel of fish and a shotgun that we can make a weekend out of.