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The Flood / Re: Phillip Seymour Hoffman found dead at home
« on: December 29, 2014, 08:58:07 PM »
not sure if trolling, but RIP anyways

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The Flood / Re: Have you ever experience the sensation of "wanderlust?"
« on: December 29, 2014, 08:56:30 PM »
Yes, all the time, it's something that keeps me (relatively, mind you) sane

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The Flood / Re: knights v. snails
« on: December 29, 2014, 08:54:11 PM »
or maybe there were giant fucking snails ravaging the land

My thoughts exactly

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The Flood / knights v. snails
« on: December 29, 2014, 08:48:51 PM »


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"As anyone who is familiar with 13th and 14th century illuminated manuscripts can attest, images of armed knights fighting snails are common, especially in marginalia.  But the ubiquity of these depictions doesn’t make them any less strange, and we had a long discussion about what such pictures might mean.

There has been much scholarly debate about the significance of these depictions of snail combat.  As early as 1850, the magnificently-named bibliophile the Comte de Bastard theorised that a particular marginal image of a snail was intended to represent the Resurrection, since he discovered it in two manuscripts close to miniatures of the Raising of Lazarus.  In her famous survey of the subject, Lilian Randall proposed that the snail was a symbol of the Lombards, a group vilified in the early middle ages for treasonous behaviour, the sin of usury, and ‘non-chivalrous comportment in general.’  This interpretation accounts for why the snail is so frequently seen antagonising a knight in armour, but does not explain why the knight is often depicted on the losing end of this battle, or why this particular image became so popular in the margins of non-historical texts such as Psalters or Books of Hours.

Other scholars have variously described the ‘knight v snail’ motif as a representation of the struggles of the poor against an oppressive aristocracy, a straightforward statement of the snail’s troublesome reputation as a garden pest, a commentary on social climbers, or even as a saucy symbol of female sexuality.  It is possible that these images could have meant all these things and more at one time or another; it is important to remember, as Michael Camille, who devoted a number of pages to this subject, once wrote: ‘marginal imagery lacks the iconographic stability of a religious narrative or icon'."

Source: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/09/knight-v-snail.html

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The Flood / Re: RP as your current avatar in this thread
« on: December 29, 2014, 12:09:01 AM »
How do you prove that you exist...?  Maybe we don't exist...

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The Flood / Re: Do people really think mental illness is cool? Really?
« on: December 29, 2014, 12:05:15 AM »
Too many people wear a superficial coat of depression to be "cool" I suppose.

There's nothing cool about depression.

Perhaps the only thing that's even remotely cool about it lies in the character required to confront the illness everyday.

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The Flood / Re: Least funny user here - DO NOT LOCK
« on: December 28, 2014, 11:48:38 PM »
Least funny is not necessarily a bad thing, it'd be the person I respect the most.

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The Flood / Re: Which users are most intelligent in these categories?
« on: December 28, 2014, 11:30:00 PM »
There should be a greatest wasted potential intelligence section

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The Flood / Re: How close have you came to death?
« on: December 28, 2014, 11:25:13 PM »
yes, plenty of times, I can't really elaborate on it though

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The Flood / Re: BABY CRYING?
« on: December 28, 2014, 11:21:32 PM »
Sounds like the sobs of a silly man roleplaying as a fox

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The Flood / Re: Have you ever stimulated your prostate?
« on: December 28, 2014, 11:19:04 PM »
Have any of you ever dropped a wide fudge after being constipated? Painful at first, but soon after the feeling is quite euphoric.

I hope this does not make me a gay boy

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The Flood / Re: Art Hub
« on: December 26, 2014, 09:44:19 PM »
http://imgur.com/ebbZPXW


Doodles, unfinished, kind of strange, I know

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The Flood / Re: New Years Resolutions
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:59:16 PM »


edit: hardly relevant, I just had to drop this someplace before sleep, I hope you don't mind sir.

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The Flood / Re: and you can have it all
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:57:25 PM »
kek, I'm actually listening to The Downward Spiral right now.

hi mom

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The Flood / Re: and you can have it all
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:48:45 PM »
F-

lmao, my life is wretchedly dreary as it is already, and now Verbatim gives me not just an F, but and F-

Why the minus sign? Just because?

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The Flood / Re: >Demolishes the Japanese Army
« on: December 26, 2014, 08:35:55 PM »
Please tell me I wasn't the only one that felt atrocious for nuking people

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I use tumblr when I feel like dying

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The Flood / Re: >3DPD
« on: December 24, 2014, 09:23:21 PM »
you're the most dedicated role-playing poster ever. you put really put your heart and soul into it. my hat goes off to you

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The Flood / Re: For americans
« on: December 24, 2014, 09:15:24 PM »
I would highly recommend my thread for more information thanks

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The Flood / Re: For Australians
« on: December 24, 2014, 09:13:18 PM »
it's been christmas for like 13 hours mate

Thanks m8 :)

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The Flood / Re: Christmas Preasent Thread
« on: December 24, 2014, 09:12:31 PM »
I asked, "Can I be free?" Adamantly, they refused, because they couldn't see.


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The Flood / For Australians
« on: December 24, 2014, 09:05:55 PM »
Is it Christmas morning yet, it's like nearly midnight for me

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The Flood / Re: and you can have it all
« on: December 24, 2014, 08:50:55 PM »

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The Flood / and you can have it all
« on: December 24, 2014, 08:33:52 PM »
my empire of DIRT

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The Flood / Re: Can you hear it.
« on: December 24, 2014, 08:32:18 PM »
I miss your news from b.net

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The Flood / Re: >tfw no gf
« on: December 23, 2014, 07:16:02 PM »
>tfw you're a sad spooky skeleton and you're already ded  Q.Q

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Serious / Re: Putin support stronger than ever, despite economic woes
« on: December 23, 2014, 07:13:52 PM »
Perhaps this is far-fetched, but perhaps Putin is seeking to increase arm sales by inciting war, which could enhance the Russian economy's health?

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The Flood / Re: When was you
« on: December 23, 2014, 06:54:32 PM »
THE GOOD 'OLE BOYS DRINKING WHISKEY AND WINE


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The Flood / Re: ON THE YEAR 2025 OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, SHREK
« on: December 23, 2014, 06:38:02 PM »
what's up with people with those ultra high beamers? it's so distracting; this isn't f*cking Alaska, silly dolts

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The Flood / Re: I have no motivation to live
« on: December 23, 2014, 06:31:41 PM »
Sometimes I forget to breathe

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