The Round Stable

(?) · by **Ragnar** (?) » Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:10 pm

More muscles? I don't know, I mean I have so much already. Post pics? Okay, let me just load up google maps.

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:54 pm

-I love videogames. Seriously, I was 1 and a half years old when I saw my first arcade cabinet, and my dad played adventure games/the first Prince of Persia on his PC.
-I'd like to have a closer relationship with my 9-years-younger brother, but he's always been the grumpy gus of the family and hates to unbutton about anything that isn't sports/soccer. :pinkieshrug:

-I tend to yell at any protagonist in any visual media that is doing something idiotic, or else I crack terrible jokes at them. Much to the annoyance of my mother and her soap operas. :gotcha:

(?) · by **PonyAught** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 3:24 am

- I have a giant backlog of Steam games, which seem to elude my playtime. (curse you seasonal sales!)
- I'm a huge firearm safety nazi, whenever I see someone misusing or unsafely handling a gun, even in movies, it annoys me to no end. :-/

- I always have a million tabs open in my browser.

- I watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic :yay:

(?) · by **Ragnar** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 5:21 am

PonyAught wrote:- I watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Isn't that a show for little girls? :rariwhat:

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 1:23 pm

PonyAught wrote:- I have a giant backlog of Steam games, which seem to elude my playtime. (curse you seasonal sales!)
- I'm a huge firearm safety nazi, whenever I see someone misusing or unsafely handling a gun, even in movies, it annoys me to no end.

- I always have a million tabs open in my browser.

- I watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Apart from the firearm safety (which I have no experience of), I think we'll get along pretty well. :ponydrugs:

(?) · by **MetalSonic** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 12:03 am

Mad Surge wrote:
Apart from the firearm safety (which I have no experience of), I think we'll get along pretty well.

Not only you two. :yay:

Oh, and Prince of Persia was awesome, even if the 60 minute timelimit was annoying. And the soap opera thing, I just walk away at this thingies. The best thing is that my dad knows them so well by now, he can almost on spot say when what scene happens. "It´s 15 past 9, there is gonna be the big dramatic car accident in the next couple of minutes."

(?) · by **Headless Horse** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 4:03 am

I love how that sounded in my head. "Firearm safety? THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! RRAGAGHHAAGH :applejargh:

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(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 5:39 am

I love trying to get away with as much sarcasm and comedy as I can in my coursework.

I used this image in my report on tissue engineering:

Science

(?) · by **Ragnar** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 6:12 am

I've yet to meet a professor that doesn't like smartasses and clowns, if the clown and/or smartass is doing the work and knows what he/she's talking about. And isn't disruptive, obviously.

And the interesting thing about college is, 90% is an A, while in the workforce, 90% is the unemployment line. College is a great place for taking risks and fucking up! That's just what I think. What's tissue engineering?

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 6:22 am

A very simplified explanation: Tissue Engineering is stem cell stuff. My report was specifically on creating new organs (etc) for people.

The title of my report was, "HUMAN REFURBISHING THROUGH THE WIZARDRY OF SCIENCE"

(?) · by **Ragnar** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 6:31 am

Ponygoons has a lot of very smart people. :starity:

(?) · by **Octavia** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 8:07 am

Ragnar34 wrote:Ponygoons has a lot of very smart people.

I tend to find that people with an open enough mind to check out a show aimed at little girls also have an open mind to learning :spike101:

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 1:40 pm

Octavia wrote:
I tend to find that people with an open enough mind to check out a show aimed at little girls also have an open mind to learning

Indeed. Also, as a linguist student, this show filled me in on a lot of horse-related vocabulary :ponydrugs:

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 5:11 pm

You really study linguistics? Finally someone I can share my sketch for a horse conlang with!

(?) · by **Headless Horse** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 9:13 pm

U embleer Frith. :facehoof:

(?) · by **Ragnar** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 9:28 pm

I am biased against t-shirts. I see a man in a t-shirt and think, "buttons and collar man, why not?". Especially for the fat or the skinny. A fat guy in good clothes has gravitas, but a fat guy in a t-shirt is undignified.

Second hangup: no hats.

Third hangup. I'm secretly jealous of everyone with a February 13 reg date. 31 minutes, man! If I were slightly smarter or slightly less busy or lazy and I had figured out how to do IRC 32 minutes faster, I'd be a day 1 coolguy.

(?) · by **In West Fillydelphia** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 9:43 pm

I have this compulsion, I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

So there's a door that opens outward from me, and it's every so slightly ajar. In going through this door I have to kick it like some kind of movie badass.

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Fri May 04, 2012 8:14 am

numsOic wrote:You really study linguistics? Finally someone I can share my sketch for a horse conlang with!

I'm more of an interpreter, but linguistics are part of the course. As much as I hate grammar and anything related to it :gotcha:

It's a satellite university of Bologna's university if you're still interested. :yay:

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Fri May 04, 2012 8:43 am

Well, I'm a final-year translation student, so I'm on a similar boat. The linguistics part interested me even before college, though.

(?) · by **londonarbuckle** (?) » Fri May 04, 2012 9:22 am

Hey guys I took a linguistics class once and got an A+.

How much do I remember of it? Occasionally I can read those IPA pronunciation things on wikipedia. Occasionally.

I didn't learn anything in college, is what I'm getting at here.

(?) · by **Stuff** (?) » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:32 pm

Bumping this thread from the abyss since we have new members and older members may have found other weird things since May 2012! It's also the poniless spring.

- I don't drink soda anymore except right now I can't get away from that awesome ginger ale.
- I hate talking about myself to others, but I absolutely love it when people talk about themselves and their daily stuff.
- I'm a clean freak. (proud of that I guess)
- Biggest fear career-wise is working in a cubicle in an office building doing monotonous business shit like Excel spreadsheets and word documents from 8-5 with a 30+ min. commute with a strict dress code requirement and buzzwords being thrown everywhere oh my god make it stop
- Many times, I really do have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just hoping whatever it is I'm doing works in the end.
- I suck at drawing and want to get really good at it.
- I'm pretty short. It's kinda funny, actually.
- I'm scared of driving, especially in heavy traffic. Nothing has happened yet so far...

(?) · by **Snowfire** (?) » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:51 pm

londonarbuckle wrote:Hey guys I took a linguistics class once and got an A+.

How much do I remember of it? Occasionally I can read those IPA pronunciation things on wikipedia. Occasionally.

I didn't learn anything in college, is what I'm getting at here.

Click here to view video.

(?) · by **Hi!** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:36 am

What an interesting thread.

I practice social interactions I think I am likely to have in the forseeable future in my head. A lot. (IE: Something noteworthy happened, and I may have to discuss this with coworkers, or there was some major newsworthy event that occurred, and it will likely come up in conversation, or I am likely to meet someone new, and it's likely I will have to discuss the standard Family Occupation Recreation Dreams topics.)

I will spend like an hour or two practicing the countless scenarios that may or not play out with various people I know I am likely to talk to for any given topic. I do this every day, and if my mind is not occupied doing something I actually have to devote all of my attention to, I will usually be chugging along in my head doing this while doing other things.

This very post took about 45 minutes to write in no small part because I was semi-unconsciously running through possible conversations that may arise from it while writing it, and editing it to match.

I have no idea if this is normal.

(?) · by **Grim** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:40 am

It's normal to me. :twonk:

(?) · by **MetalSonic** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:13 am

I have become obsessive to stuffing my schedule. I don't have time for anything because I wrap myself up in so many projects voluntarily. Also I know now that I have a paralyzing fear of examens, which I have to get rid of.

(?) · by **Cthulhu Inc** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:16 am

I have like 250 tabs open in Firefox Aurora (The alpha release of Firefox, so I have an excuse for when it crashes. Not to be confused with Firefox with a RD skin :v:

).
/aɪ æm aɫ.so ɪn.tɚɹ.stɛd ɪn lɪn.gwɪ.stɪks/
I analayse syllable breaks a bit oddly.
I hate pears.

(?) · by **Twilight** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:35 am

I have a lot. Mine are all dumb, and probably make me look like a freak.

Site specific:
-I refresh this site 24/7 because I'd rather read 1-3 new posts at a time than slog through 30 of them. I love the "Mark all as read" button and couldn't function without it.
-Something about reading old threads... it just doesn't feel right to me. For example, I'd rather this thread just get remade and everyone re-participate. I think this relates to a stigma I have with working on semi-finished things. I hate reloading an old save in a video game that I haven't played for a while, and I would rather just restart even if it's 40 hours of work lost.
-Threads with images drive me nuts because they take forever to load and you can't read the thread while they're loading.
-I get too chatty for my own good.

Mixed:
-Horrible attention span. Just. Awful.

Real life:
-If I have a big looming event in the future, I can't function normally. Like, I want to play a game right now, but I'm too stressed out to bother or focus on it.
-Bananas make me physically ill, but I don't think I'm allergic to them. I just feel like throwing up afterwords. They taste good though!
-I grind my teeth while I sleep. I've caught myself doing it a few times now.
-I have an excellent long term memory, but I play it off like I don't because it gets me out of doing work. "Oh, I was supposed to clean that? I totally forgot :-P

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(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:07 am

Cthulhu Inc wrote:I have like 250 tabs open in Firefox Aurora (The alpha release of Firefox, so I have an excuse for when it crashes. Not to be confused with Firefox with a RD skin ).
/aɪ æm aɫ.so ɪn.tɚɹ.stɛd ɪn lɪn.gwɪ.stɪks/
I analayse syllable breaks a bit oddly.
I hate pears.

You have a funny accent. :allears:

(?) · by **Perrydotto** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:15 am

- I'm a tab hoarder. I have session restores within session restores, all containing at least 30 tabs. People who complain about Firefox taking a lot of RAM know jack shit. :-P

- I have very sharp hearing and am generally geared towards all things sound. Without sounds, I would be nothing. I can't put into proper words just how much they help me orientate, understand and appreciate things. Sounds have colors, forms, even stories for me. I love to draw and all, but I cling to my hearing like nothing else.

- I like smelling my fingers, especially after taking a shower.

- When I'm nervous, I start repeatedly poking the left portion of my ribcage.

- I have next to no sense of thirst. I easily dehydrate if I don't pay attention to how much I've had to drink. It's a damn wonder I've never passed out due to dehydration so far.

- Sometimes I start using a new word or expression just to see if my friends and peers pick it up and start using it to. It's like Animal Crossing in real life, and it fascinates me.

- I don't like sleeping; it feels like a waste of time to me, so I don't like going to bed. When I go lie down, though, I like to imagine stories and characters just to have something to keep me occupied before I eventually fall asleep. Often these tidbits include things I like. You might cycnically call it writing fanfiction in your mind, but to me it's a childhood thing all over again and it soothes me.

- Ticking noises unsettle and annoy me to the point where I have to ask people I stay with to remove all ticking clocks from the rooms.

- If I eat a sandwich and it has stuff hanging down from the sides of the bread, I will nibble on that hanging down portion until it's short and neat.

- I get sick from the smell of sodas, lemonades, and licorice.

- I bite my nails.

- My orientation is so bad that I get lost in videogames. Repeatedly. Even 2D ones. Also, I can't read maps.

- Sometimes I throw myself on my couch and just roll around on it.

(?) · by **Cthulhu Inc** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:39 am

numsOic wrote:You have a funny accent.

Well I can't discern when I use ɨ, so...

Also I accidentally left out a vowel.

I have decided to try to use more pure vowels in my speech rather than bastard dipthongs where the second part is barely audible.
I hate pears.
I just noticed the new penny has 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' printed in a strongly serif'd font.

List of languages I hate:
Korean (no audible release final consonants)
Cantonese (see above)
French (no correlation between pronounciation and spelling. Also they made English words hard to spell.)
Chinese/Japanese (omgwtfbbq writing system)

I hate pears.
Yea verily, to speeke in suche a manner, doth amuse me, fir ic finde it allowen þe idee of fun have.
Did I mention I hate pears?

(?) · by **tuduloo** (?) » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:55 am

browsing:

-Chrome master race reporting in
- I always have some form of video game windowed in the background no matter what. (even now)
-Homepage is Google and i just make a bazillion tabs from there. Too many tabs extension helps a lot.

IRL (because this isn't real life?) :
-I don't drink pop, never have and never will.
-terrible sense of hunger, i can go all day without eating and not feel too hungry.
-I'm so lazy I don't use a calculator because i find it takes too much effort, to take it out of my pocket and use it...
-bad sense of direction, I get driven to town everyday but if i was to do it myself i would get lost at the first intersection.
-socially awkward, but i suppress it with a lot of effort to make it unnoticeable and I'm also pretty quiet.
-I also have a strange memory that only allows me to remember things on the spot when they are talked about.
-It's also why I can't think of anything interesting to write right now.

Hi~ wrote:What an interesting thread.

I practice social interactions I think I am likely to have in the foreseeable future in my head. A lot. (IE: Something noteworthy happened, and I may have to discuss this with coworkers, or there was some major newsworthy event that occurred, and it will likely come up in conversation, or I am likely to meet someone new, and it's likely I will have to discuss the standard Family Occupation Recreation Dreams topics.)

I will spend like an hour or two practicing the countless scenarios that may or not play out with various people I know I am likely to talk to for any given topic. I do this every day, and if my mind is not occupied doing something I actually have to devote all of my attention to, I will usually be chugging along in my head doing this while doing other things.

This very post took about 45 minutes to write in no small part because I was semi-unconsciously running through possible conversations that may arise from it while writing it, and editing it to match.

I have no idea if this is normal.

ARE YOU ME?!?!?!? :twonk:

Edit: If I eat a sandwich and it has stuff hanging down from the sides of the bread, I will nibble on that hanging down portion until it's short and neat.
THIS!^ I also eat like a turtle unless I'm eating poutine, i drink that stuff.

(?) · by **Honeycrisp** (?) » Sat Mar 16, 2013 10:09 am

Hi~ wrote:I have no idea if this is normal.

I work with extremely intelligent but superficially completely asocial kids who do this, it's apparently a coping mechanism often developed independently by high-level autistic spectrum people. The kids in question are not indifferent to other people, nor are they hard of hearing as some overzealous clinic staff have been known to classify them, they just don't respond the polite, prompt way without due consideration first. Not that that means you are autistic, you could just be horribly paranoid :-P

But that's just anecdata, dammit neuroscience hurry up

Cthulhu Inc wrote:Well I can't discern when I use ɨ, so...

Also I accidentally left out a vowel.

I have decided to try to use more pure vowels in my speech rather than bastard dipthongs where the second part is barely audible.
I hate pears.
I just noticed the new penny has 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' printed in a strongly serif'd font.

List of languages I hate:
Korean (no audible release final consonants)
Cantonese (see above)
French (no correlation between pronounciation and spelling. Also they made English words hard to spell.)
Chinese/Japanese (omgwtfbbq writing system)

I hate pears.
Yea verily, to speeke in suche a manner, doth amuse me, fir ic finde it allowen þe idee of fun have.
Did I mention I hate pears?

I like committing etymological fallacies, largely due to the mistaken impression that it preserves meaning/information -- why would you lose dipthongs? unless you are willing to analyse your speech from phonemes and insert hiatuses everywhere, the distinction between dipthongs and vowels seems a bit arbitrary

pears are devious, short-lived and lack the convenience or portability of other commonly cultivated fruit I mistrust them too

french is indeed horrible

This may annoy you

(?) · by **Hi!** (?) » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:57 pm

Honeycrisp wrote:Not that that means you are autistic, you could just be horribly paranoid.

You're actually probably right. I've had most of the symptoms since early childhood, I just never actually got tested for it (and am now too old to particularly care).

Interesting to know, though!

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:23 pm

Honeycrisp wrote:This may annoy you

I was not expecting that. Bill Bailey owns.

(?) · by **Durandal** (?) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:04 am

Hi~ wrote:
You're actually probably right. I've had most of the symptoms since early childhood, I just never actually got tested for it (and am now too old to particularly care).

Interesting to know, though!

Yeah I do the whole "rehearse potential conversations in my head" pretty frequently and I'm pretty sure I rank somewhere near the low end of the autism spectrum. So it's not just you :pinkieshrug:

Luckily I caught just enough of autism to become super intelligent and handsome without any of the bad side effects :-I

(?) · by **Isaak** (?) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 12:59 am

I have the opposite of a fear of heights.

Whenever I'm near the edge of something, say on a balcony, I have the urge to jump off. I'm not sure why exactly, but I've had this since I was young. Fortunately dying is one of my least favourite things so I don't go jumping down every chasm I see.
I need to skydive to get it out of my system... or maybe that'll make it worse. :v:

(?) · by **Mordja** (?) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:03 am

We probably shouldn't have taken you up that tower then. :pcstare:

(?) · by **Cthulhu Inc** (?) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:06 am

Isaak wrote:I have the opposite of a fear of heights.

Whenever I'm near the edge of something, say on a balcony, I have the urge to jump off. I'm not sure why exactly, but I've had this since I was young. Fortunately dying is one of my least favourite things so I don't go jumping down every chasm I see.
I need to skydive to get it out of my system... or maybe that'll make it worse.

I command you to not be killed by the ground. :glare:

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:13 am

Isaak wrote:I have the opposite of a fear of heights.

Whenever I'm near the edge of something, say on a balcony, I have the urge to jump off.

I have both things.

It sucks.

(?) · by **Herr General** (?) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:22 am

Isaak wrote:I have the opposite of a fear of heights.

Whenever I'm near the edge of something, say on a balcony, I have the urge to jump off. I'm not sure why exactly, but I've had this since I was young. Fortunately dying is one of my least favourite things so I don't go jumping down every chasm I see.
I need to skydive to get it out of my system... or maybe that'll make it worse.

Apparently this is kind of common- I was reading an article about something related to it. It's the urge to do the worst possible thing in a given situation, just because you can- like suddenly wrenching the wheel of the car to get in a crash, for example. Edgar Allen Poe called it the imp of the perverse.

That being said, skydiving is hands down one of the greatest activities in the world and I'd recommend it to anyone who isn't afraid of heights. My friend called it "the most fun you'll ever have within five minutes". And there's a few surprising things about it too. For example, you only get that "falling" feeling for maybe three seconds out of the plane- after that, it feels like you're being supported by the air and it seems like you're standing in front of a very strong fan. Another thing is that the wind is ridiculously loud- you can't hear anything other than "whsssssssssssssssh". Pulling the parachute isn't as painful as you would expect- it really jerks on you, but not enough to hurt. After that you just hang there for like four or five minutes, unless you have a fun instructor who does spirals under the canopy. Landing doesn't hurt either unless you land on your butt like I did. :v:

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