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That's certainly a positive mental attitude Rena. :) Wish I could do that more easily.

Kite said:
As in run-down once you cone of the main street.

Its a maze of tour bus operators, people trying to sell you their demo tapes, lots of cheap & nasty tourist rubbish, lots of overpriced tourist rubbish as well. $25 for a tee-shirt with the Hollywood sign printed on it.

Of the beaten path I found a rather nice ents store, had a good selection of anime, nothing jumped out at me as it was overpriced. $30 for a 13 episode half season, when Rhee complete series can be purchased on amazon UK for £14../quote]]/quote]
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Missed this post, sorry Kite.

If you haven't already, be sure to check out Amoeba Music. Has to be one of the greatest shops on the planet if you like music and video. When I went to California I virtually filled another suitcase with purchases from there and Rasputin Records in San Francisco.
 
I always look on the bright side on things, and I always have a smile on my face. In the charity shop I volunteer at, some of the customers say as I'm always smiling, they like coming back in the shop to buy stuff because of my smile.
 
Hahahaha I only said that because it made me laugh. I don't actually eat dates because I don't like them.

But I can't imagine not pooing would alter my life a great lot.
 
Good luck in your job search, Rena, I'm sure something will turn up if you keep looking. :)

Joshawott said:
Today something awesome happened.
You know that girl who turned me down because she only saw me as a friend that I was going on about a while ago? Well, me and her were hanging about in town today and we went to ASDA to get some things. She paid for her things first and I noticed that the male cashier was hitting on her, in that "too subtle for her to know, but obvious enough that every guy knows" way. Then, the second she turned around to talk to me, the cashier's personality completely changed, he got all tongue-tied and wouldn't keep his eyes off me - never looking back at her.
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So, did he eventually work up the courage to ask you out, or... ?

ayase said:
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Prepare yourselves for the Night of a Thousand Posts.
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:D

Look man, I'm reserved. I waited until today for the bombardment!
 
ayase said:
That's certainly a positive mental attitude Rena. :) Wish I could do that more easily.

Kite said:
As in run-down once you cone of the main street.

Its a maze of tour bus operators, people trying to sell you their demo tapes, lots of cheap & nasty tourist rubbish, lots of overpriced tourist rubbish as well. $25 for a tee-shirt with the Hollywood sign printed on it.

Of the beaten path I found a rather nice ents store, had a good selection of anime, nothing jumped out at me as it was overpriced. $30 for a 13 episode half season, when Rhee complete series can be purchased on amazon UK for £14../quote]]/quote]]/quote]
Missed this post, sorry Kite.

If you haven't already, be sure to check out url=https://plus.google.com/100246217007485873329/about?gl=uk&hl=en]Amoeba Musicc/url]. Has to be one of the greatest shops on the planet if you like music and video. When I went to California I virtually filled another suitcase with purchases from there and Rasputin Records in San Francisco.
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Did rasputin today, amoeba is on my list tomorrow. Route 71 goes right pass the hotel so its an easy trip
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I raise the train geeks with the SanFrancisco underground :p

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I've just noticed the max price for this room in this hotel (market street in San Francisco near civic centre is $599 a night...

Beats the 500 dollars a night in hull MA. Although I bet its not often they charge that amount.
 
Rena Ryuugu said:
I always look on the bright side on things, and I always have a smile on my face. In the charity shop I volunteer at, some of the customers say as I'm always smiling, they like coming back in the shop to buy stuff because of my smile.
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I have to say, from this sentence you seem like an utterly admirable person. Though I always got the impression you were a pretty positive and content type of person from your posts anyway. As with Ayase, I sort of wish I could be this genuinely positive, I mean, I sort of do tend to look on the positive side of things, but at the same time I'm not sure that I'm really quite as content as I usually tell myself I am haha. My brother described me recently as someone who's "a weird mix of a highly quixotic person who also never feels the need to complain, and a manic depressive" :eek: . I can't say I fully agree with him, as I honestly don't think I'm depressive at all haha, but at the same time, I sort of know what he's trying to say...hmm...
 
(avoiding multiple quotes because of the ability of the bug to confuse matters)

@Kite - Awesome. BART is pretty cool, Muni cable cars and streetcars are better. I stayed in one of the districts of SF that has a bit of a dodgy reputation - Whenever I mentioned this fact I was constantly bemused by how afraid native San Franciscans seemed of an area that to me, seemed pretty tame. So it was a bit run down and there were a few tramps hanging around who ask for spare change - it's not as though you were likely to get mugged or gunned down on a main street. The hoteliers of my cheap and cheerful accommodation were friendly enough, I could spare a buck or two for passing tramps (who always seemed grateful) and I didn't feel in the least bit insecure. Weird how paranoid some people are - I started to wonder if the people talking about the district in question had ever even set foot there.

@Vash - I did a BBC Labs survey the other day and had to laugh when I got this result for how I view positive / negative perceptions of time:

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A fairly accurate depiction of how I think the past was crap, the future's going to be crap, so I might as well just enjoy myself in the present. It's interesting because the more detailed explanation presumes I think that the future being crap is a bad thing, which I think isn't entirely true. I take a sort of perverse joy in that thought because part of me thinks people deserve for the future to be crap. Which is probably a bit unfair, but meh.
 
ayase said:
A fairly accurate depiction of how I think the past was crap, the future's going to be crap, so I might as well just enjoy myself in the present. It's interesting because the more detailed explanation presumes I think that the future being crap is a bad thing, which I think isn't entirely true. I take a sort of perverse joy in that thought because part of me thinks people deserve for the future to be crap. Which is probably a bit unfair, but meh.
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You not much of a conversationalist either, that entire paragraph was full of crap.
 
A fairly accurate depiction of how I think the past was crap, the future's going to be crap, so I might as well just enjoy myself in the present. It's interesting because the more detailed explanation presumes I think that the future being crap is a bad thing, which I think isn't entirely true. I take a sort of perverse joy in that thought because part of me thinks people deserve for the future to be crap. Which is probably a bit unfair, but meh
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:lol: Well, I guess the main thing is that you emphasize the present, as it's not usually a great idea to get too caught up in the past or future. So there's sort of something positive you can take from that.

By the way, do we have any resident grammar Nazis here? I decided to brush up a bit and finally learn how to use that dastardly semi colon. But one supposedly helpful website is confusing the **** out of me (http://www.scribophile.com/academy/corr ... olon-usage). Here the author uses this as an example of the semi colon replacing the full stop: "Now, Professor Hardwigg, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of man; he is, however, choleric and original." and later adds " If you were to rewrite the second part as, "but he is choleric and unoriginal," it would become a dependent clause because it wouldn't be able to stand on its own as a sentence. In that case, you'd replace the semicolon with a comma."

OK, perfect, I understand all that. But then she confuses me and seemingly contradicts herself when she says "You can also use a semicolon between two sentences (as in Rule #1) when a comma appears in either sentence. However, this semicolon must be used with a conjunction, unlike the semicolon in Rule #1." and uses this as an example: ""His cast-iron features puckered into a smile of the richest drollery, and his eyes twinkled with the wickedest fun; but no undignified giggle escaped the portal of those majestic lips."

WHAT?! Has she not just contradicted herself, or am I missing something here? At this rate I'm tempted to jump on the "semi colon is a pretentious middle class piece of grammar" band wagon and give up on it...
 
vashdaman said:
resident grammar Nazis
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I am wont to use the symbol quite liberally; whensoever I wish for a secondary clause to provide an elaboration on the first, my finger is apt to depress the glyph's key. You may heed the author you cite at your leisure; there is leeway for disagreement within the scope of differing transatlantic trends.
 
....I know, but I'm just trying to grasp, is there any difference between the two example sentences she gives? Because I can see no difference, but for some reason the second example is allowed to have a semi colon precede a conjunction when the first is not. and she states :

"You can also use a semicolon between two sentences (as in Rule #1) when a comma appears in either sentence. However, this semicolon must be used with a conjunction, unlike the semicolon in Rule #1."

But there were commas present in the first sentence too, but that one didn't require nor was allowed to have a conjunction follow the semi colon. I just want to understand the author's logic!
 
Using a semicolon before "but" seems daft to me. I'd question the use of a comma before "and" in the second example as well. I tend to avoid semicolons where possible anyway now, preferring to use -

Sod grammar anyway. Other fallible humans made it all up, what's anyone going to do about it if we get it wrong?
 
So my laptop bluescreened, wouldn't load the graphics drivers on boot and refused to start in anything other than safe mode. So, graphics drivers removed and re-installed, it now agrees to boot normally again.

Except for some reason, it now takes (no exaggeration) about TEN MINUTES to boot into Windows. Joy.
 
ayase said:
Well, I thought it would make a change from talking bollocks.
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Is that the male version of The Vagina Monologues? :lol: .
Anyway on a serious note, I'm trying to find out some info on the song Bokura wa Minna Ikiteiru. It's the song that's sung by the tanks at the end of GITS SAC2 and I want to know more about it but all I can find are Youtube video responses and a film of the same name.
Any info greatly received.
Noodle.
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