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Kannap
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Postby Kannap » Sat May 02, 2015 8:47 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
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I am excited for college, but I am also starting to get sad thinking about the fact that I won't see a lot of my friends ever again.

Facebook, is actually good for that sort of thing.


Not everybody has Facebook though and some are rarely on it.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:48 am

Kannap wrote:
Jute wrote:The way they write? Like here? From my experiences, boys rarely use the word "cute" when referring to other boys... :P


You clearly don't have a lot of gay male friends.


I was about to say something similar. Great minds think alike.
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:48 am

Ava Ire wrote:
Jute wrote:The way they write? Like here? From my experiences, boys rarely use the word "cute" when referring to other boys... :P

A lot of people confuse me for being a guy on other sites. Like Reddit.
I've found the way you type is no indicator of gender.

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Someone once told me to have a heart. I may have taken that advice a bit far.

Good god!
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Last time you said my mannerism kinda point towards me being male, though :P
Italios wrote:Jute's probably some sort of Robin Hood-type outlaw
Carl Sagan, astrophysicist and atheist wrote:"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 02, 2015 8:48 am

Kannap wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Facebook, is actually good for that sort of thing.


Not everybody has Facebook though and some are rarely on it.


You'll make newer, better friends. Or become hermit.
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Postby Val Halla » Sat May 02, 2015 8:48 am

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Val Halla wrote:Seeing as somebody very kindly gifted me El Dorado, would anybody like to stake a claim in the world?


Meeeeeeee

What area do you want? :3
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:48 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:I've yet to be scared of a person, don't see that ever changing.

Depends on how well they are armed.


Relative to how well armed you are. ;)
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Postby Kannap » Sat May 02, 2015 8:49 am

Jute wrote:
Barboneia wrote:Eh, that makes sense. But he is a guy. I've had the pleasure of learning his name before.

Names alone aren't no any proof. Maria can be used as a male name, for example.


Yeah, if his parents hated him enough to give that name to him.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:49 am

Kannap wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Facebook, is actually good for that sort of thing.


Not everybody has Facebook though and some are rarely on it.

True, but if you suggest it as a way to keep in touch, maybe they will consider it?
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Jute
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:49 am

Barboneia wrote:
Jute wrote:Names alone aren't no any proof. Maria can be used as a male name, for example.

Is Bernard considered feminine? Because I don't think it is.

No, I wouldn't say so either...
Italios wrote:Jute's probably some sort of Robin Hood-type outlaw
Carl Sagan, astrophysicist and atheist wrote:"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy."
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Val Halla
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Postby Val Halla » Sat May 02, 2015 8:49 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Not everybody has Facebook though and some are rarely on it.


You'll make newer, better friends. Or become hermit.

Or you could live under the bridge. Lots of people of FB live there. :D
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Gallade
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Postby Gallade » Sat May 02, 2015 8:49 am

Kannap wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Facebook, is actually good for that sort of thing.


Not everybody has Facebook though and some are rarely on it.

Don't worry, 99.9% of those friends you'll forget within your first year. Uni friends are a far superior breed.
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Big Jim P
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:50 am

Ava Ire wrote:
Jute wrote:The way they write? Like here? From my experiences, boys rarely use the word "cute" when referring to other boys... :P

A lot of people confuse me for being a guy on other sites. Like Reddit.
I've found the way you type is no indicator of gender.

Big Jim P wrote:
Someone once told me to have a heart. I may have taken that advice a bit far.

Good god!
*faints*


The weakness is strong in this one.
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Dyakovo
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Postby Dyakovo » Sat May 02, 2015 8:50 am

Coffee Cakes wrote:
Kannap wrote:
I am excited for college, but I am also starting to get sad thinking about the fact that I won't see a lot of my friends ever again.


High school reunions and Facebook are things, you know. :p :hug:

HS reunions are a stupid thing.
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Postby Barboneia » Sat May 02, 2015 8:50 am

Jute wrote:
Barboneia wrote:Is Bernard considered feminine? Because I don't think it is.

No, I wouldn't say so either...

Uh-huh.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:50 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Depends on how well they are armed.


Relative to how well armed you are. ;)

I am a mediocre shot, I need a grenade.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 am

Jute wrote:
Ava Ire wrote:A lot of people confuse me for being a guy on other sites. Like Reddit.
I've found the way you type is no indicator of gender.


Good god!
*faints*

Last time you said my mannerism kinda point towards me being male, though :P


I assume male as a default.
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Ava Ire
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Postby Ava Ire » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 am

Jute wrote:
Ava Ire wrote:A lot of people confuse me for being a guy on other sites. Like Reddit.
I've found the way you type is no indicator of gender.


Good god!
*faints*

Last time you said my mannerism kinda point towards me being male, though :P

I know that. But if I were to guess at first glance without being familiar with you, I would have said you were a guy.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 am

Jute wrote:
Barboneia wrote:Is Bernard considered feminine? Because I don't think it is.

No, I wouldn't say so either...


In the trans group of friends I had at university, "Bernard" or "Bernadette" was used as the universal shorthand for someone's "old" name (in the form of "they called me by my Bernard!" etc.) True story.
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Kannap » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 am

Val Halla wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Meeeeeeee

What area do you want? :3


Scandinavia.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
Relative to how well armed you are. ;)

I am a mediocre shot, I need a grenade.


I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*
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Jute
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Kannap wrote:
You clearly don't have a lot of gay male friends.


I was about to say something similar. Great minds think alike.

It's what happens when you grow in a small town, I guess.
Italios wrote:Jute's probably some sort of Robin Hood-type outlaw
Carl Sagan, astrophysicist and atheist wrote:"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy."
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Val Halla
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Postby Val Halla » Sat May 02, 2015 8:52 am

Kannap wrote:
Val Halla wrote:What area do you want? :3


Scandinavia.

Sure!
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Jute
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:52 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:
Jute wrote:No, I wouldn't say so either...


In the trans group of friends I had at university, "Bernard" or "Bernadette" was used as the universal shorthand for someone's "old" name (in the form of "they called me by my Bernard!" etc.) True story.

"Bernd" is also the German equivalent to "Anon", apparently.
Italios wrote:Jute's probably some sort of Robin Hood-type outlaw
Carl Sagan, astrophysicist and atheist wrote:"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy."
Check out the Jutean language! Talk to me about anything. Avian air force flag (Source) Definition of atheism Is Religion Dangerous?
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Postby Ava Ire » Sat May 02, 2015 8:52 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Jute wrote:Last time you said my mannerism kinda point towards me being male, though :P


I assume male as a default.

Same here.
I'm a mysterious, sp00ky pink ghost traveling around the NS world. I've visited many regions, and there's a chance I shall visit yours.
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Ethel mermania
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Libertarian Police State

Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:52 am

Gallade wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Not everybody has Facebook though and some are rarely on it.

Don't worry, 99.9% of those friends you'll forget within your first year. Uni friends are a far superior breed.

This is true, I much prefer my college friends. But we keep in contact via facebook.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 



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