Random Thoughts XII

Good to hear you're feeling better Lilly!

eli_ wrote:

I want rain too!!

I wish I could give you some of ours Eli!

Shanna_ wrote:

Opening night is tonight!

Break a leg!

so my mom does this thing where she's always going on how gorgeous women are, but she never talks about men unless for saying they're sooo gross and annoying, and I'm always like ma, is there something you want to tell me? and she has a thing for the latinas, like the other day she spent 30 minutes gushing about Penelpe Cruz. And today she asks, like out of the blue "what do you think of Jennifer Lopez?"
and I'm like you mean like arstistically?
and she's like no I mean do you think she's hot?
me okayyy Eli be casual. and I'm like "I'm told she has a nice ass"
and she's like EXACTLY! that's the best part! I mean I saw Nicole Kidman naked (where did you see that ma) and she looks like a broomstick!
and then we talked about chicks fow a while, with me saying how unrealistic it is for our society to ask women to look like that, and my mom saying that no man would ever want to grab a woman who looks like she's 16 and underfed.
So basically what I got from this is that my mom would bang JLo over Nicole Kidman.

Span_ski wrote:

Good to hear you're feeling better Lilly!

eli_ wrote:

I want rain too!!

I wish I could give you some of ours Eli!

gimme! gimme! gimme!

eli_ wrote:

so my mom does this thing where she's always going on how gorgeous women are, but she never talks about men unless for saying they're sooo gross and annoying, and I'm always like ma, is there something you want to tell me? and she has a thing for the latinas, like the other day she spent 30 minutes gushing about Penelpe Cruz. And today she asks, like out of the blue "what do you think of Jennifer Lopez?"
and I'm like you mean like arstistically?
and she's like no I mean do you think she's hot?
me okayyy Eli be casual. and I'm like "I'm told she has a nice ass"
and she's like EXACTLY! that's the best part! I mean I saw Nicole Kidman naked (where did you see that ma) and she looks like a broomstick!
and then we talked about chicks fow a while, with me saying how unrealistic it is for our society to ask women to look like that, and my mom saying that no man would ever want to grab a woman who looks like she's 16 and underfed.
So basically what I got from this is that my mom would bang JLo over Nicole Kidman.

omg hahaha

So I have a bed and a couch coming soon! Home theater is installed!

@Eli, that's hilarious!

@Shanna, good luck!

LOL Eli wow...lol I actually giggled when I read that xD

eli_ wrote:

So basically what I got from this is that my mom would bang JLo over Nicole Kidman.

She has a point.

Isa wrote:

So I have a bed and a couch coming soon! Home theater is installed!

So wait... you've got home theater yet not a bed and a couch?

cinco wrote:

Isa wrote:

So I have a bed and a couch coming soon! Home theater is installed!

So wait... you've got home theater yet not a bed and a couch?

Priorities!!!

No, seriously, I bought home appliances and eletronics, but I decided to order the bed and the couch, so that took a bit longer.

Well yeah, you might not sleep comfortable yet you have 5.1 surround sound.

I did it!!! I cut my hair super short


give me another hour and I'll start to regret it

Time to post a pic Eli

MissLilly wrote:

Time to post a pic Eli

how about a drawing instead?

Of course

I'm sure you look super cute with your new hair anyway

this is what I call butching it up
I'm loving it cause I actually look my age now

eli_ wrote:

so my mom does this thing where she's always going on how gorgeous women are, but she never talks about men unless for saying they're sooo gross and annoying, and I'm always like ma, is there something you want to tell me? and she has a thing for the latinas, like the other day she spent 30 minutes gushing about Penelpe Cruz. And today she asks, like out of the blue "what do you think of Jennifer Lopez?"
and I'm like you mean like arstistically?
and she's like no I mean do you think she's hot?
me okayyy Eli be casual. and I'm like "I'm told she has a nice ass"
and she's like EXACTLY! that's the best part! I mean I saw Nicole Kidman naked (where did you see that ma) and she looks like a broomstick!
and then we talked about chicks fow a while, with me saying how unrealistic it is for our society to ask women to look like that, and my mom saying that no man would ever want to grab a woman who looks like she's 16 and underfed.
So basically what I got from this is that my mom would bang JLo over Nicole Kidman.

oh eli. You are seriously hilarious

The drawing lovely Eli but I'm still hoping for a picture...

...ok, here's a pic

WHICH I'M GONNA TAKE DOWN IMMEDIATELY COS UGHHH MY PALE AKWARD FACE.


ETA ok taking it down. bye

you know that feeling when someone gets a haircut and for the first few days you look at them like woah woah what's going on here and then you get used to it and it's not weird anymore? I bet there's a word for it in some other languages

Awwww Eli.. I missed it

I will also make it my mission to find out if there is a word for getting used to someone's haircut.

ha, this is cute. native speakers, can you do this?

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If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

- B. Shaw

Charlie wrote:

Morning!

Hope you're feeling better today, Celia. Where you working, Mike?

Returned to ze factory I worked at last year, except now I'm in the assembly plant instead of the manufacturing plant. It's wayyyy more hectic in a good way; no standing around focusing on how long you've been standing or for counting time. New boss is great too, really friendly and warm.

I'm sure there's a word for that feeling in German or Japonese.

Isa wrote:

I'm sure there's a word for that feeling in German or Japonese.

Pass...

eli_ wrote:

ha, this is cute. native speakers, can you do this?

Quote :

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

- B. Shaw