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  1. Injury in training Has anyone seen eddage's keeper? 21 years old and 10 skill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!12 aaaaaaaaaaahhhwtf... Still, tactics set. Who wantsa text me the general results?
  2. There was an interesting distinction between those who did it on here and those in real life (as well as those which were done by people I know, such as housemates). Everyone was, to some extent, fairly sure I was going to psychoanalyse the results. While it was strictly a psycholinguistics study, I, of course, did a but of my own wondering. One woman, for instance, basically mentioned dogs somehow for every answer. Another woman was so clearly absolutely bat-shit crazy because her boyfriend just dumped her. But the online responses were generally a lot more casual, and came across as wackier responses. People that I actually know were more comfortable when the test was taken, so they tended to say less stupid stuff. Except for Dan Dare and "advertisement" where he basically obsessed with Mad Men throughout. I only finished it yesterday but already I've forgotten it all.
  3. Addicted. Totally running late because I woke up early and thought I had loads of time so went on THE INTERNET and now, while I have time to make this post, I don't have time to shower before my 8-hour shift. I am going to have cartoon stink lines.
  4. excellent I'll bring bones, jam and invincible around once Huw give it back, along with a couple of his fingers.
  5. Including Chairdriver, I think we have 17 participants so far. That may well be enough. I'm struggling with the writing atm :P
  6. Carmine is the saviour of Gears 2. I rememeber countless occasions where me and Shorty are shouting at the screen for Carmine to Do His Thing and revive us. But this one section (underground, after you've met the worms... er... can't describe it) he just runs down the slope and gets killed too close to the enemies for us to save him (on insane!!). Villan; then continue to stew on the thoughts for a bit. Don't rush - you're only 20. You have at least a couple of years before you need to panic about anything. You lazy, jobless good-for-nothing, you.
  7. dudedazz; that's a rather harsh view of students at uni :P I'm quickly realising that I'm losing the will to argue on these forums because I'm far too aware that everything is connected, thus everything is complicated. I dislike generalisations, and more and more it is clear that nearly everything everyone says is a generalisation. Even this, I suppose. Generalisations just signify ignorance.
  8. I don't really think anyone thinks in words, per se, but this test is designed to focus on the lexicon; the actual store of words that we must have in order to recognose and process the orthographic or the phonetic forms of words. Words aren't formed in isolated blots but in connected memes and schemas, and while we can't say they're distinct from images or feelings, we can still say that words must be connected to one another somehow, otherwise we'd all be illiterate and unable to comprehend one another.
  9. Ashley; so I've been (will have been) a mature student for, like, half of my degree?! I thought a mature student was generally 23+? Villan? how much have you researched into this? A specific college where you want to go, or whatever? Have you been there? Questioned staff? Current pupils? Talk to eddage, he's recently gone back into education (and as you can tell from his generally low attendance rate to this here forum, is extreeeemely busy with it), and it's well worth knowing everything you can.
  10. Paj; I wrote up, printed and handed in teh essay this morning :P No worries But it's always fun to put your own associations under the microscope. Makes you kinda introspective and quizzical.
  11. Can I just play devil's advocate for a second here and point out that most of you people don't have the first idea of what good or bad art is. *points to the devil's advocate bit, just to reiterate*
  12. Paj; that's part of the crit regarding the test. Often people would take the stimuli then 'chain' the associations off of that. I suppose the test asks for the four strongest associations, so if you think "rain" then "man in rain", and the latter is stronger than your thought for "monkeys" then that's ok... But altogether the test is heavily flawed, and really the only way that sort of event is ironed out is by averages. If I get 100 people to take part then your little meander would become insignificant to the results as a whole. Er. yeah. I dunno. It's rather silly.
  13. nightwolf; yeah am Villan; you're not a mature student just yet. Depends on the course you want to study as well as your previous qualifications. When you say you know katakana and hirigana, what do you mean? Like, really, really well? Even so, start with the beginner's stage to at least get to grips with the form of the course. As for media; what draws you to it? Are you expecting to sit around watching adverts and movies all day? Even while this may be true for some courses, if you want to get something out of it, you should at least know what. Do you want to work in media? In what capacity? Is there not an advisor to discuss these things with?
  14. I can't even remember if I finished season 1. I think I did. I remember thinking the pilot was fail, but being suitibly attached to enough of the characters by the 5th episode. Must trade this box set with a friend's friend. Shorty (if you even read this post)! Let me know in advance when you next see brafe so I can give him his stuff and he can give me mine!
  15. I hate religion debates these days, because it is simply so damn clear that nobody involved actually knows what they're talking about.
  16. Supergrunch pwns us all. So my dad gave me £40 today, so I spent £30 on some great food that should last me a good week, plumping me up a bit for the troubles ahead. Council sent me a letter asking for £250 that they claim to have paid me in unnecessary housing benefits. I guess I just add it to the pile of lols. I also treated myself to a £5.99 Swann smoking kit - comes with about 500 filters, 700 rizlas, two lighters, smoking tin and a rolling maching. So cool. Also spent more time with housemates tonight. Played some Borderlands co-op but they didn't like it much, and the cramped screen annoyed. Gears of War 2 on insane... well we seem to get through about 3 checkpoints each time we give it a go. Currently Carmine is running off and getting killed. Very annoying. So! Finishing my cider (tis nice to be rich when you want to celebrate), and then going to watch some Sons of Anarchy through my shitty laptop speakers as I have no headphones (been borrowing them from a housemate and he wants them back)... so yeah. Work at 10.30. boo.
  17. Sorry Rummy. I owe you a pint.
  18. You think they'll not be 'in control' when the April 23rd (or whenever) moment rolls around?! That's just silly!
  19. Just to say the advice here in this thread is top-notch. If I had started my assignment when y'all told me so then I would've been able to go meet hot girl. Will use this service again.
  20. Ok, got you! But! As I said; it's not clear precisely how people experienced the flashforwards. Ep.9 has a great example that essentially suggests that the flashforwards were hazy, and not entirely clear like actual right-now experience is. Just... watch the rest before I accidentally say something spoilar! There's a good debate to be had about all this (when is there not, with time travel?) once you have more of the show to use as questions/answers. (I'm not saying they've totally covered their asses with everything, and I'm not even saying that they will when the season's complete -- I'm fairly sure they won't because they'll want a second season. But I hear that the book opens with precisely describing how and what is going on, so if you really want to know then I'm sure there's answers out there)
  21. I'm pretty sure my mum's going to get me the 5+ recent pratchett books I've not got, despite not particularly wanting them. My dad's on holiday for both xmas and my birthday so I probably won't get anything from him. However I do actually already have a couple of wrapped gifts here from my mum, awaiting a christmas tree to go under.
  22. During the word association experiment I just FINISHED (kick-ass), I would say teh word "Salt" to people and they'd think I had said "Sort". Mind you, I'm slightly sure that I have a problem saying L and R sounds...
  23. Not bad points at all There are occasions in latter episodes which suggest reasons for why that logic-feedback-loop isn't necessarily as straight-forward as that. But also, I think the way flashforwards have been shown potentially denies us of full comprehension. We're lacking a context, and we don't have access to mosaic ourselves so we can't check everyone on the planet's flashforwards. Maybe there are people whose flashforward was a giant "Hey it's the flashforward party that we saw in our flashfoward!" party... They've been very loose about specifically how the flashforwards were experienced consciously. Are you a spectator? A passenger? In the drivers seat? is it like a movie, or a video game, or like a mis-mash of images, tones, emotions, feelings? I don't understand why the pregnant woman would know the sex of her child -- her flashforward was her having a scan. Maybe she was finding out then, or maybe she just asked not to know... :| I do think it'll be interesting to see your rationality facing certain parts of this show :P
  24. I don't understand why you're putting 'gays' and 'heteros' in apostrophes like that. Civil partnerships were introduced to give gay couples legal rights similar to that of marriage, seeing as the church(es) refused to offer teh same services. If you've been with your partner for 40 years, for example, and they kick the bucket, you have no legal right to their belongings, no legal 'next of kin' status. If you're married, you do. The government did a great thing introducing a legal equivolent for 'the gays'. These people are being ridiculous.
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