"Temporary" Venting Thread II - Page 25

***Earniel*** · 09-25-2006, 02:57 PM

Yeah, I thought it was a bit odd you wouldn't know this. Sorry for just assuming so.

I reckon Lief may have seen this article .

BeardofPants · 09-26-2006, 03:56 AM

Top five things one should never inflict upon a hearing aid:

Drop Hearing Aid on Hard Surface
Feed Hearing Aid to Dog
Sit on or stand on Hearing Aid
Drop Hearing Aid in Water
Melt Hearing Aid in Oven after doing any of the Above

List of things I have inflicted upon my Hearing Aid:

Dropped Hearing Aid on Hard Surface... multiple times
Fed Hearing Aid to Dog... at least twice
Sat and stood on Hearing Aid... once a day
Dropped Hearing Aid in Water... erm....
Melted Hearing Aid in Oven after doing any of the Above... well, that was more my mother than me.

That's right folks, after having the damned things for 26 years, I've finally completed the list. I ****ing dropped one of the stupid waxy things into a bucket full of water/napisan. I managed to NOT do it my whole damned life and NOW I do it. Feh!

***Jonathan*** · 09-26-2006, 06:18 AM

Wow.

Sometimes it's really hard not to laugh at someone's misfortune - especially when they put it like that

Sorry anyway BoP

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 11:51 AM

I agree with Jonathong's last sentence.

hectorberlioz · 09-26-2006, 11:59 AM

Honestly BoP, there's a good reason why Beethoven preferred the Ear Trumpet

...you can do all those things to it, and it'll still be usable.

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 12:13 PM

Really? I should just try feeding one to a random dog, sometime.

Spock · 09-26-2006, 12:20 PM

I want the Roman numerals back on the Teacup

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 12:22 PM

Can't you make it so?

Spock · 09-26-2006, 12:25 PM

Faster than I could get back to checking new posts, Earniel has waved her magic wand and changed it back. Ahh, Serenity Now.

Nerdanel · 09-26-2006, 05:26 PM

I might be going to the US over christmas to visit a good friend of mine.. Now I'm just thinking about in which different ways my mum can kill me when I tell her. And I guess she has the right to, I mean.. I'm crazy. I, a poor student, will use almost all the money I have on a trip to the other side of the planet to be with someone I've never met in person. I guess she either has to kill me or realize that her daughter is crazy, and likes it.

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 05:47 PM

I have a good friend at college from Slovakia; he was crazy to come but here he is.

Nerdanel · 09-26-2006, 06:08 PM

yes.. i don't mind being crazy, but my mum just might.. X)

Grey_Wolf · 09-26-2006, 09:33 PM

Woke up at 0240 am CET this morning and cant go back to sleep!

Arien the Maia · 09-26-2006, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf

Woke up at 0240 am CET this morning and cant go back to sleep!

I tend to do that alot these days! probably b/c I drink so much caffeine during the day

I can sympathize with you though!

Grey_Wolf · 09-26-2006, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arien the Maia

I tend to do that alot these days! probably b/c I drink so much caffeine during the day

I can sympathize with you though!

Thanks. And Ive been at it for a week now. Waking up between 0330 - 0430. So today is gonna be a looooooooooooong weary day.

Gwaimir Windgem · 09-26-2006, 09:53 PM

I have the opposite problem; I sleep too late!

Though the end of that one is in sight...

***Tessar*** · 09-28-2006, 03:33 AM

I'm almost not unhappy... almost. It's sort of a love/hate thing

.

I've gotten my voice from being unable to hit middle C to being able to hit the G above it, and I can do all sorts of things with my voice that I used to not be able to, and that most untrained singers can't.

I'm proud of what I've done.

On the other hand, tonight I auditioned for a part in the gospel choir I just joined and... blech. I know, I know--I'm a white boy doing gospel, and I'm a classical singer not a gospel singer. But damn, I got blown out of the water.

Not only were the other singers older than I am, but they'd had more training, and were all pop-style singers. Damn good ones, too.

But still... little depressed that I've worked so hard, and these other people who have such a talent for singing, and have had lots of training, are so much better than me. While my voice might've been a little smoother than some of them, I can't sing riffs like they can, and since my voice is a little smaller than an average voice, I can't belt as well as they can.

Again, I was going up against 'the best', but still. I wish I was a better singer

.

***Earniel*** · 09-28-2006, 04:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tessar

But still... little depressed that I've worked so hard, and these other people who have such a talent for singing, and have had lots of training, are so much better than me. While my voice might've been a little smoother than some of them, I can't sing riffs like they can, and since my voice is a little smaller than an average voice, I can't belt as well as they can.

I so know the feeling, not with music but with art. You spend all this time working on something you think is a killer drawing, and yes, it does look good. But then you see something from another group or artists and their work still overclasses yours the big way. Better control of colours, smarter compostion and the whole nine yards. To quote Qui-Gon Ginn: There's always a bigger fish.

Butterbeer · 09-28-2006, 04:10 AM

But is it a smarter fish?

If ye canna be the biggest fish - be the smartest fish - use your strengths to their best, rather go up against leviathans.

glad the singin is on the up Tessar

BeardofPants · 09-28-2006, 04:47 AM

Hah, the karmic boot-stomp of death missed me. Neener neener. A good couple of days with some of those silica gel beads, and the hearing aid is as good as new, albeit REALLY clean. Yeehaw.

09-25-2006, 02:57 PM	#481
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Yeah, I thought it was a bit odd you wouldn't know this. Sorry for just assuming so. I reckon Lief may have seen this article . __________________ We are not things.

09-26-2006, 03:56 AM	#482
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Top five things one should never inflict upon a hearing aid: Drop Hearing Aid on Hard Surface Feed Hearing Aid to Dog Sit on or stand on Hearing Aid Drop Hearing Aid in Water Melt Hearing Aid in Oven after doing any of the Above List of things I have inflicted upon my Hearing Aid: Dropped Hearing Aid on Hard Surface... multiple times Fed Hearing Aid to Dog... at least twice Sat and stood on Hearing Aid... once a day Dropped Hearing Aid in Water... erm.... Melted Hearing Aid in Oven after doing any of the Above... well, that was more my mother than me. That's right folks, after having the damned things for 26 years, I've finally completed the list. I ***ing dropped one of the stupid waxy things into a bucket full of water/napisan. I managed to NOT do it my whole damned life and NOW I do it. Feh! __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords Last edited by BeardofPants : 09-26-2006 at 03:58 AM.*

09-26-2006, 06:18 AM	#483
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Wow. Sometimes it's really hard not to laugh at someone's misfortune - especially when they put it like that Sorry anyway BoP __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

09-26-2006, 11:51 AM	#484
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09-26-2006, 11:59 AM	#485
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09-26-2006, 12:13 PM	#486
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Really? I should just try feeding one to a random dog, sometime. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-26-2006, 12:20 PM	#487
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I want the Roman numerals back on the Teacup __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-26-2006, 12:22 PM	#488
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Can't you make it so? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-26-2006, 12:25 PM	#489
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Faster than I could get back to checking new posts, Earniel has waved her magic wand and changed it back. Ahh, Serenity Now. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

09-26-2006, 05:26 PM	#490
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	I might be going to the US over christmas to visit a good friend of mine.. Now I'm just thinking about in which different ways my mum can kill me when I tell her. And I guess she has the right to, I mean.. I'm crazy. I, a poor student, will use almost all the money I have on a trip to the other side of the planet to be with someone I've never met in person. I guess she either has to kill me or realize that her daughter is crazy, and likes it. __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

09-26-2006, 05:47 PM	#491
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I have a good friend at college from Slovakia; he was crazy to come but here he is. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-26-2006, 06:08 PM	#492
Nerdanel Spammer of the Happy Thread Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 3,512	yes.. i don't mind being crazy, but my mum just might.. X) __________________ "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. " - C. Sagan My (photography) website My Flickr page

09-26-2006, 09:33 PM	#493
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	Woke up at 0240 am CET this morning and cant go back to sleep!

09-26-2006, 09:53 PM	#496
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I have the opposite problem; I sleep too late! Though the end of that one is in sight... __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

09-28-2006, 03:33 AM	#497
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I'm almost not unhappy... almost. It's sort of a love/hate thing . I've gotten my voice from being unable to hit middle C to being able to hit the G above it, and I can do all sorts of things with my voice that I used to not be able to, and that most untrained singers can't. I'm proud of what I've done. On the other hand, tonight I auditioned for a part in the gospel choir I just joined and... blech. I know, I know--I'm a white boy doing gospel, and I'm a classical singer not a gospel singer. But damn, I got blown out of the water. Not only were the other singers older than I am, but they'd had more training, and were all pop-style singers. Damn good ones, too. But still... little depressed that I've worked so hard, and these other people who have such a talent for singing, and have had lots of training, are so much better than me. While my voice might've been a little smoother than some of them, I can't sing riffs like they can, and since my voice is a little smaller than an average voice, I can't belt as well as they can. Again, I was going up against 'the best', but still. I wish I was a better singer . Last edited by Tessar : 09-28-2006 at 03:36 AM.

09-28-2006, 04:10 AM	#499
Butterbeer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: here and there Posts: 3,514	But is it a smarter fish? If ye canna be the biggest fish - be the smartest fish - use your strengths to their best, rather go up against leviathans. glad the singin is on the up Tessar

09-28-2006, 04:47 AM	#500
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Hah, the karmic boot-stomp of death missed me. Neener neener. A good couple of days with some of those silica gel beads, and the hearing aid is as good as new, albeit REALLY clean. Yeehaw. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords