Subject: Joining Esh's protest here.
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Posted on: 2016-12-01 17:52:00 UTC
Here, if you'd talk about a "menorah" people would think you're talking about a lightbulb (or a lamp), not the nine-branched candle-thingy that is used as part of the rituals in Hanukkah. They're definitely not the same thing and it won't be any different to calling the host of the Eucharist "pita".
"Running Laps in an Escher Room" A White card that any Drill Sergeant/Fitness Instructor (Perhaps Skarm's Whitney?) had to have utilize a some point.
That sounds mildly dangerous, and yet funny. I like it! ^_^
~Neshomeh
So, most of those are pretty mean. That would be fine for CAH in general, but also, none of them have anything at all inherently to do with the PPC. Iiii... think I'm gonna pass. {= /
However, a reminder to everyone: You can always build your own deck. You can log in to Cardcast using your Google account, if you have one, and I think your Facebook account, and possibly some other things, too. You're only slaves to my whims if I'm the game host. {= )
~Neshomeh
Those are always harder to come up with. I seem to be maintaining a fairly consistent 1:2 ratio of black cards to white cards, though. Who knows why.
Today I learned what a Christingle is. {= ) I dunno if I'm comfortable characterizing Lux as following that practice (and therefore being Christian), but on the other hand, it certainly does have a suggestive shape that I reckon she'd find appealing for its own sake. *eg*
~Neshomeh is learning a lot in this thread.
Lux was just the first agent to pop into my head when I was thinking it up. Or you could change it to:
What inappropriate item was found on a Christingle in the cafeteria?
Although the exact location could be changed (ie 'outside my RC', 'outside the SO's office' or something like that)
I never said it would be used in THAT way, though. That was one of those cards whose image is, and I quote, "best left to your imagination." X'D
Sounding with an actual Christmas tree, whether real or artificial, is actually quite easy - fir branches are quite thin, with only the buds at the end causing any mischief. The problem is the leaves, which add quite a lot of nastiness, not least the fact that Christmas trees drop needles like a quilting bee in an earthquake. If anything, it's worse with artificial trees, since while they're less likely to come off and get lodged, they're also generally sharper, especially aluminium ones.
Also, not sure I can get behind you calling anyone engaging in sounding play "dumb". YKINMK, after all.
...and then there's shoving things into places that require surgical removal.
...to end up injuring yourself.
Because seriously, if you need surgery to remove something you shoved in your body, you probably don't know what you're doing.
...that the guy who needed surgical removal obviously didn't know what he was doing. Hence, being an idiot.
That's what my point is. Not that all people who enjoy sounding are idiots. Just the ones who try it with no idea how to do it without severely injuring themselves.
While this thread is one of the rare sometimes-NSFW ones on-Board, this discussion is kinda off-topic and in no way kiddie-friendly. It's also making me go "squick" and "do not want" a bit too much in my opinion, and no doubt that it's also squicky to other people... can you please take it to email or whatever?
And she has her pet electronics/gadget projects, too - with obviously mixed results.
She is also known for having accidentally caused way too many sentient consoles.
Ripper and Backslash both like working with technology, and Falchion, being me, is presumably a really good drawer. I don't know if they could work, but... maybe?
...Sarah's stated at least once that she's good at baking, and her partner Cupid is an amazing cook, so there's that too!
The Guardsman and Naya have extensive experience in building/designing things and spend quite a lot of time repairing their equipment and their robotic partner after a rough day in the field. Naya is more specialized in mechanics while the Guardsman is trained as a TARDIS engineer (and everything that goes with it: electronics, Vortex physics, multidimensional superstructures, system management, etc.).
Terabyte likes to cook.
Will does magic! Some shiny objects that distract and are shiny is no problem. (No cursed object, he promises!)
Agent!Matt (more info soon ;D) cooks.
Alex tinkers in his spare time, Zeb bakes, Ix and the Aviator both sew. I could see them making toys, treats, and costumes for the Nursery kids for Christmas.
He's probably learned enough about electronics by now to wire things up with basic lights and sounds, as long as someone else provides the body of whatever's getting wired. He'd be all for it, too. {= )
~Neshomeh
This is never getting out of my head now. You're welcome.
He has one; I just haven't written about it yet. I've got this whole idea involving the courtship of Alice and a Valinorian stallion from one of Adagio's missions, with the framing device of them telling the story of how it happened to Ilraen. It's just kinda low on the priorities list. {= /
~Neshomeh
Black:
-"Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel! I made you out of _____."
~DF
:P
(giant inflatable dreidel is real. I don't own it, but I got to toss one around for a while yesterday. It's pretty fun.)
~DF
Would you mind, though, if I use "menorah" instead of "chanukiah"? I think most of us are more familiar with the former; I had to look up the latter, and it seems as though they refer to the same thing. Correct me if I'm wrong, though!
~Neshomeh
Here, if you'd talk about a "menorah" people would think you're talking about a lightbulb (or a lamp), not the nine-branched candle-thingy that is used as part of the rituals in Hanukkah. They're definitely not the same thing and it won't be any different to calling the host of the Eucharist "pita".
I don't think I've ever heard an American Jew talk about a chanukiah (and I have known a fair number; I might ask!), but unless some of them turn up on the Board, I will bow to the wishes of the local population. I don't mind making people look things up occasionally. {= )
~Neshomeh
But I think I use "chanukiah" more often.
--Key
Chanukiah it is! One person said the words were basically interchangeable, whereas the other said that if you're Jewish and speaking Jewishly you definitely want "chanukiah," and I trust the latter more, so I'm sold. And now I know how to pronounce it, too. ^_^
~Neshomeh learned something today.
"Chanukiah" is pronounced (IPA) ꭓanukija, with a voiceless uvular fricative, not the h-sound most English-speakers pronounce it as.
Hey man, I'm a choir girl. I've had to wrap my vocal apparatus around all kinds of sounds I don't use on a daily basis. I got this.
~Neshomeh
"You can't possibly pronounce it" and more "English speakers tend to butcher Hebrew pronunciation, did you get the real one".
Hebrew as spoken in Israel (I don't think there's enough of a difference to merit an Israeli/American split like you have British English and American English) was less influenced by non-Semitic languages, so it's less far from the Biblical Hebrew than Hebrew as it is spoken in the States — at least the Hebrew I heard from Americans (even Americans who made Aliyah, since they tend to retain their accents).
"Inappropriate use of candy canes in slashfic."
"Who's being slashed in this Christmas oneshot? ____ and ____."
Seriously, it's like a disease. I've seen it in Harry Potter, in Code Geass, heck, I've seen the Hitachiin twins slashed in one or a couple!
