I have been searching for the perfect pair of red heels for ages now. I've yet to find the right ones. It saddens me deeply.

Why so coy Mootilda? Fuck is a good word. Plenty of history behind it. Can't you bring yourself to type it? How odd.

I am more of a slob than a snob, but I am not adverse to a bit of snobbery. I certainly never buy value brand sausags. *sniffs*

coconnor: Mire's post is pretty standard practice in the self-pudding threads. No need to leap down her throat.

That sounds fun. I guess it's only right I live up to my stupidweasel name.

You registered less than an hour ago and you've already started two HALP PLZ threads? MATY is not your special eds coordinator.

She's a YA.
Top Traits:
Clumsy
Flirt
Slob
Hot-Headed
Bookworm
GSOH

Other appropriate traits:
Excitable
Commitment Issues
Daredevil
Couch Potato
Natural Cook

UnSoozish Traits:
Athletic
Green-Thumb
Can't Stand Art
Un-Flirty
Workaholic
Perfectionist

Suitable LTWs (or whatever EAxis is calling them these days) include Illustrious Author and the Journalism/Political ones. Journalism and Politics are also Sooze approved careers, as well as Law Enforcement. Non science-based careers are preferred, but to be honest you can do whatever you want with her. It's not like I can stop you.

I too thought Mire was a guy. I assumed the pancake fucking was of the American Pie variety. This whole pancake-as-dildo is far more icky, for some reason.

What relevance does this have to The Horror? Why are you posting this here? The Horror is already cluttered up with plenty of random crap, no need to add your superfluous rubbish to the mix. WDC.

That's more like it LV, now keep up the good work what ho!

Generally, we get frowned upon for handing in anything that's not Times New Roman. A few of the profs might let an Ariel or two slip by, but they tend to be the zanier ones, teaching Twentieth Century Dramatic Lesbianism or what not.

The bane of my academic life is footnoting. Or, to be more accurate, formatting footnotes correctly. I once neglected to put an author's first name in a footnote. Ruh-roh.

I've seen Bold used for lots of TV show titles. The Guardian (UK newspaper) for instance uses this format in its TV guide.

ETA: Jelly may disparage tv guides as evidence of correct grammar usage, but presumably The Guardian has a style guide it adheres to throughout its publications. Perhaops it's not the best example, but it's lying open in front of me so it sprang to mind swiftly.

Aww, man rub it in why don't you? I hope you didn't engage him in any form of mortal combat.

I found some exciting looking fox poo today. Oh, and there's a daddy-long-legs on the windowsill. David Attenborough eat your heart out.

*throws a Roget's Thesaurus into the mix for good measure*

As for animals roaming the streets in SA, I once counted 84 sizeable piles of dung on the road during a particularly boring 2 hour car journey there. Make of that what you will.

I'm totally jealous of all these exciting critters you guys all seem inundated with. All we have here in blighty is the occaisional fox and a smattering of pheasants. Oh, and on the subject of my homeland, I totally take offence at that jibe out our dental hygiene Audrey.** Watch out or I'll be sending round the football holligans to sort you out.

**Besides, everyone knows that it's Scotland's where the truly atrocious teeth are. It's all that tablet and fried Mars bar they're so fond of.

Gotcha. That'll save me a few squid then. I'll probably go for Windows 7, as I'd no doubt be upgrading to it later anyway.

Ah, that's my bad I'm afraid. I just copypastad from the site. All the parts on the list that are followed by -------- are components I'm not getting. I already use Avast, Open Office etc.

Hmm, I hadn't considered that. How difficult is it to install all the various drivers yourself? I'm not completely technically illiterate but I'm no whizz kid either.

Also, thanks for the heads up on the link. D'oh, must have had a bit of a stupid moment there.

I'm not entirely sure where this should go - it's a technical question but not directly related to either TS2 or TS3 so I plumped for RL.

I have to buy a new PC, as my laptop died on me the other week. (No Doms for Sooze, alas!). I want a decent rig which which will allow for upgrades in the future. I'll be using it to store music, watch TV/DVDs, surf the net, and for casual gaming. I only really play TS2, TS3, Oblivon and Civ 4 at the moment, but I'd like to be able handle more demanding games like Fallout 3. The very upper limit of my budget is £800, but I really don't want to be spending that much (poor student is poor).

So far this build is appealing to me:
--Intel Gaming Custom Built PC-- (from www.ginger6.com)
- 00 - CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (2x 3.00GHz) 1333, 6mb
- 00 - CPU Cooler - Standard Intel CPU Cooler
- 01 - Case - Cooler Master RC335 Elite Black
- 01 - Case Fans - Standard case fans
- 01 - Power Supply - 650w PowerCool 80+
- 02 - Motherboard Asus P5Q - P45 Chipset
- 03 - Memory - 4gb Kingston DDR2 800mhz CL6.0
- 04 - Hard Drive 1 - 500gb SATA2 Hard Drive
- 04 - Hard Drive 2 - ----------------
- 04 - Hard Drive 3 - ----------------
- 05 - Optical Drive 1 - 20x Dual Layer DVDRW Drive (Lightscribe)
- 05 - Optical Drive 2 - ----------------
- 06 - Floppy - ----------------
- 07 - Graphics - 512mb Nvidia GeForce 9800GT
- 08 - PCI Slot 1 - 54mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
- 08 - PCI Slot 2 - Digital TV Tuner Card
- 09 - Keyboard & Mouse - ----------------
- 10 - Speakers - ----------------
- 11 - Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit)
- 12 - Office - ----------------
- 13 - Antivirus - ----------------
- 13 - Other Software - ----------------
- 14 - Monitor - 22" Asus Wide TFT Black 5ms
- 14 - Monitor 2 - ----------------
- 15 - Warranty - 12 Months RTB Warranty
- 17 - External Hard Drive - ----------------

What do you think? Is underpowered? Overpowered? An exquisite example of my fine taste or a pile of crap? It costs £758.84; so if you can see any areas where I can cut some cost without losing out too much on performance then that'd be awesome.

Edited to remove non-functioning link (Thanks Skadi)

What forums do you frequent? I've never been on one which favours double posting. Bundling responses doesn't make it any harder for people to read feedback and replies, as long as they're not complete idiots. We all manage it, and so do all the other forums I've ever been on. Also, you clearly need to go back to the drawing board and LURK MOAR if you think MATY is going to avoid something because it's 'socially rude'.

Zazazu politely told you to stop double posting and yet you proceeded to triple post straight away. You are swiftly plummeting from noob status to tard status. Congratulations. It's not as if MATY's rules on double posting are particularly difficult to comprehend. Just stop it.

Oh look, rufio has diversified and is now sharing his grammar learnings (or lack thereof) in more than just his mother tongue. Non English speakers the world over will now rejoice that they no longer have to follow his ramblings with subtitles. Huzzah!

Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.

HY, you're a known 12 - why on earth did you make yourself a YA?

Oh dear, oh dear. Thank God I've not had to put up with nonsense like that, I'd most likely have punched the idiot. I did have a heated argument at A-Level with someone in my Lit class who insisted that homosexual readings of Shakespeare ruined the perfectly innocent notion of the "bro-mance" (he didn't call it that exactly, as I'm not sure the term had been coined then). That's about as close to such a debate as I've got. I guess I must be lucky to go to uni at a reasonably progressive place. Mind you, with resident experts in Queer theory, and modules like Early Modern Sexualities, anyone expecting nice heteronormative readings should really go elsewhere.

There are some lecturers who obviously have a bee in their bonnet about certain issues. I've yet to meet a female English professor who isn't strongly interested in feminism for instance. Perhaps that's because most of my lecturers were undergrads during the 70's and early 80's when feminism was all the rage. Or perhaps it's just because femenist readings of literature are particularly interesting. But if you're at a decent uni, then you should be intelligent enough to sift through the personal agendas of any professors and work out your own opinions. My A Level Economics teachers used to espouse their free-market capitalist ideologies virtually every lesson. Despite their concerted efforts they failed to indoctrinate me, and we were still wide-eyed 12s back then.

There's no need to signpost your tense. We are not illiterate. Unless that's meant to be a joke, in which case it majorly fails. Here's a question for the floor: if you know that what you're going to say is stupid and pointless, why on earth would you bother to post it?

Wow JonaBullshit you really are exceedingly speshul aren't you? This thread wasn't set up for you, but thanks for turning it into the 'zomg look at meeeee' show. Congrats.

As has already been pointed out, this is not your forum. If you don't like the rules here then you are under no obligation to stick around. In fact, I'd strongly advise you to get the fuck out. Stop acting like a wronged hero - in the grand scheme of things you're a mere speck in MATY's history. I doubt we'll even remember you in a month's time. Just do us all a favour and go back to the BBS, where you quite clearly belong.

Edited for spelling

Cheers for those Zazazu. Interesting viewing for those of us still lacking in TS3.