Bonjour, from a new member.
 

Just thought I should introduce myself as a new member. A few quick facts:

I'm newly 16, I don't drink (beer tastes gross), smoke (and if you smoke around me I'm likely to grab the cigarette out of your mouth and stomp on it. I prefer not to die of lung cancer), or do drugs (I rather like my brain cells intact). I'm a scientist (and an artist at heart, even though I can't sing/draw/paint/dance/act/etc) and I don't eat seafood for the same reason vegetarians don't eat all kinds of meat. I'll eat meat, though, just not seafood. I wish I was French. Or British. Any sort of European, really. I have a phobia of needles. I'm gay/straight (read: bi) and I believe in true love.

So that's me. Hello. Oh, and you can call me Renn.

Welcome!What reason is that? I mean, I also don't eat seafood, but it's not for any reason that I would consider vegetarian - I think it smells and tastes bad.

16 eh?

that makes it legal over here....

Hello, Renn. If you touch my cigarette ,I'll put you over my knee and..... well, it just gets better from there. ;)

Well, we sure do sound a lot alike...

Musically speaking, where do you stand?

And I think you failed to mention your gender...

Well, you sure do come on strong. all upfront about your 'stances' and shit. who cares if you eat seafood? or if you go both ways? Just remember that it's my reality your inserting yourself into. I prefer it when people are a little more mysterious. If you give it all up within an introduction, you leave little to interpretaition of the unsaid, and end up pidgeon holed before you ever get rolling. show. don't tell.

since you're newly 16, i can understand the mistake, but do us a favor and learn from it. now...if you;d like, i'll administer the quiz. it has been a good long whle since i've given one, and you may consider it an honor. or you can decide that i'm an ass and ignore me. your choice.

I, for one, prefer to know a persons background before talking with them. Often this makes the difference between a reaction of :whofart: and :thumb2: when reading someones argument. You say you're a scientist, interesting statement for a sixteen yearold but I'll bite, my screenname and bio say enough about my involvement with it. Your desire to be European is an interesting jumping-off point I think, most scientists have their eyes set on the other side of the globe.

how often is there honesty in someone's self perception. especially online? if you asked me to tell you about myself, i'm sure i would put my best foot forward too. not interested in that, im afraid. i like people like brianna. shes fucking honest

You are at the bottom of the sea and don't eat seafood? And I don't get how one can use the vegatarian's logic to abstain from seafood but not the very food it addresses.

I'll take a wild guess that you are from Halifax.

And dying of cancer could easily be the least of your worries if you are inclined to grab a cig out of someone's mouth.

But, that aside, welcome to the Cellar.

Welcome.

People who think beer tastes bad have only tasted bad beer.

If you still feel that way after you've had good beer, there is always wine and whisky to check out.

Of course, you should wait until you attain your legal majority for that.

And once again, if you grab my cigarette out of my mouth, cancer is the least of your worries.

I'm going with Portland. I'd say Austin, but nobody in Austin really gives a crap about seafood unless it's sushi. The fact that it's mentioned seems to indicate to me that the topic comes up a lot for him/her (and for the record, my money's on "her.")

Haha, well Clodfobble got it right, I am a her.

And I'm from Cleveland, OH.

Happy Monkey: I don't eat seafood because I'm an ichthyologist/marine biologist, and so I feel bad eating any animal from the sea. It just doesn't feel right to me. We've screwed up stuff enough on land, do we have to mess with the oceans, too? It's not our world down there, and I think we should leave it be.

Bruce, Wolf: Seeing as how we're separated by computer, I think it's safe to say that all of your cigarettes are safe. But the cilia on the cells in your trachea is not.

Ibram: How do you mean, musically speaking? What kind of music I like?

Lumberjim: What kind of quiz? I'm game. And as for just putting my best foot forward just cause I'm online- Here are three bad things about me:
1) I have a problem with having to be right, and don't take being wrong well.
2) I'm overweight. Not obese, but still.
3) I'm too self conscious, scared, and worried about what other people think to come out to my friends or family. The only one who knows I'm bi is my mom, and that's cause she guessed.

Wolf: Beer tastes gross, but wine coolers and Mike's Hard Lemonade is good. But I'm liable to get drunk in only about 2 sips. So my mom doesn't let me try hers that often... And, yeah, I think I'll stay legal.

9th Engineer: I have an eye for science. You could say it's my religion. (BTW, I'm a Deist/Rationalist. Think Benjamin Franklin.) Like I mentioned before, I'm primarily into Marine Biology and fish, but I also have a thing for genetics. And I think most Americans are uncultured and just rawr. I'm probably biased coming from a high school population, but my family doesn't help at all. And I don't agree with a lot of America's politics and foreign issues right now. But anyway.

Anything else?

Personally, I'd recommend holding off on calling yourself "an ichthyologist/marine biologist" unless you have a degree, or perhaps are in some sort of very special program for 16-year-old "scientists." At the very least, I would expect you to work during the summer at Sea World. :) Being very interested in something is enough credibility for now, studying to be something is just fine. But you never know when a professional ichthyologist might be reading the board, and take offense. :)

Hey, an ichthyologist is someone who studies fish. I study fish. I may not have a degree (yet), but that doesn't mean I can't study them.

I'll give you the title once you're in university, there's no way you can study fish in highschool in the manner of a scientist unless you go to one of those super-curriculum enhanced ones. Even so, there's alot more that goes into that just studying the fish, I would expect you to have the knowlege base of a true ichthyologist before you give yourself full airs. Even with myself I append my claim of being a Bioengineer with the fact that I'm still a student, even though I do the research (In a real academic lab) and write the papers (for journals) to back up my claim.

Ick. I don't claim to be a full-blown ichthyologist. I mean it in the literal sense- Someone who studies fish. I have fish tanks. I have research books. I study my fish. I study how they move, how they behave, how/when they eat, what happens if I increase the pH, decrease the temperature- not enough to kill the fishlings, of course. But still. I consider myself an ichthyologist.

Lol, when I posted, I didn't think the ichthyologist thing would be what I got the most dissenting posts about.

Eh, we're just real big on presenting yourself honestly, that's all.

Me, I study how gross things give people religious experiences. I'm an Ick Theologist. Nyuck nyuck nyuck...

Yeah, I did mean what kind of music you listen to. You sound really rad, but I'mn a total rock snob, so thats prettymuch the first question I ask everybody.

Hm. Well, I don't so much like genres as I like particular bands/groups/singers. I like a lot of classic rock, and I'm a huge musical theatre geek. The only thing I don't like is country. There's maybe 2 and a half country songs I like.

Classic Rock = good

Showtunes = bad.

oh well, the CR makes up for the showtunes.

Where you from?

Yep. You sure don't want to come off as somebodies backup personality here.

Hey now! Showtunes aren't bad... Besides, I'm mostly into rock opera. Think Rent.

And I'm from a Cleveland suburb, in the most amazing and interesting state of Ohio. Gag.

And I intend to be the real me on here. I'm not trying to fake any of you guys out.

Nice to meet you... I agree, you have only had bad beer. I would suggest you not grab my cigar or pipe... something else would be stomped most likely.
The parts per million of second hand smoke it would take to give you cancer is far less than what you expose yourself to around your car. Get serious.

Yeah, but that doesn't mean I like people smoking around me. It makes me cough, irritates my eyes, and plus it's just gross. And as long as you're in a public place outside your cigarette's safe, but when you're smoking in a specifically no-smoking zone... it's not.

And I get to choose to expose myself to car smoke, which probably doesn't have half the amount of shit a cigarette does. Or at least different shit. But if you want to kill yourself with the rat poison in cigarettes, it doesn't mean you need to do it around me. Soapboxsoapboxsoapbox. Okay, I'm done.

But... seeing as how we're only connected by a computer screen so your evil evil second-hand smoke can't actually get me... we're good.

Ok, hands up who knew what an Ichthyologist was without using Google
Wlecome to the nuthouse Vrai.. :D

An icthyologist is someone who is paid to study fish*.

Currently you are either a hobbyist, fancier, or have an avocation.


* be-bop, I knew this without looking it up, because I read Jaws when I was in Junior High School and briefly wanted to be one.

Ick, I can't STAND Rent, cause the basic premise is something along the lines of "Hey, we try as hard as we can to all be different in the same way, so we should get a free house!"

But I LOVE Angel. S/he is the coolest character in the whole movie. By a long shot. All the rest suck.

Ah, being paid has nothing to do with the definition.

Geez, why is this such an argument?

Ah, I'm such a Renthead. Mostly on principle. But te music's amazing... And the whole premise of them being starving artists who generally suck at what they do. But the movie sucked. Go see the actual show. It's tons better.

I would totally marry Angel. But Collins owns me. So.

And I would totally do Anthony Rapp if he weren't gay.

I tried very hard to enjoy RENT. But all I could think of was the opening number from Team America: World Police.

I also don't do well with people that are that self-absorbed.

I don't know. Rent hits a lot of people different ways. A lot of people see them as self-absorbed, selfish people who just want to get out of paying their rent, but a lot of other people see them differently.

The only really self-absorbed one, IMO, is Maureen. But that's the point of her character, lol.

And. It's not so much that they don't want to pay their rent as that Benny stiffed them on their agreement. So.

I knew what it meant. I can't see the word without thinking of one of my biology TA's in college... she claimed she was a "streamologist," because she was an ichthyologist who only did research on fish in streams. She was dead serious.

Lol, being a streamologist is only about half a step up from being an Ick Theologist.

a renthead on principle? have'nt you kinda mised the point there?

(or did you mean rentbo....sorry, bites tongue....)

and just how does a 16 year old sprog get to be the voice of truth?

I'd probably take offense if I understood that...

Because I said so. x.x Also because I like pronouncing 'voix de vérité'.

*shrugs* take offence if you like - it's your choice.

(lesson number one. You cannot be offended - you can only take offence)


Thanks the Lord the Internet is silent....... *shudders* at the thought of 'voix de verite' in mid-west accent...

Hey now. I have a passable French accent, if I try. I'm not like the other kids in my french class who try to americanize the language.

'Pardanez-mwah, silver-plates', anyone?

mmmm..... didn't you just 'americanise' English? How well is will 'la franzoire' fare?

Yeah, sure, the principle of Rent as just a buncha queer (or at least seemingly queer) people hanging out, doing art, and singing to eachother about having AIDS, is kinda cool, cause I love queer people (and since I'm sure you didnt read it on one of the other threads, I'm bi), but I just dont like the way they all have that 'we try as hard as we can to be different in the same way as eachother' vibe. For me, at least. They just seem like theyre trying way too hard to be weir... i mean, uh, 'bohemian'.

Maybe you could start a thread about fish and shit can this one.

Welcome.

Hm. Well, I heart Rent. Doesn't mean you have to. I probably just like it more cause I have the whole Jonathan Larson story behind it.

I would totally start a thread about fish if anyone cared... lol

Welcome!
so are you into anadromy like our bud Ibram?

:wink:

Cleveland, huh? I wasted the best four years of my life in that hell-hole. Well, I did get a degree out of it, but the rest was a waste. Oh, and a husband. But boy, was I glad to get back to Jersey!*

* Bet you thought you'd never hear that sentence.

Ah but aren't you in the second-best* section of New Jersey? The 10-15 miles that separate metropolitan Philly from metropolitan New York?

If they finally pave that section over, it's all one big city, from then on. Call it New Phork, or something.

*best is the southern shore from Ocean City to Cape May. They say there is a nice section of NJ in the north as well, but that's just rumor.

Our World
 

Well, vrai, if you're a "scientist," you would know that we all came from the sea originally. It's just as much "our" world as any other part, dry or wet.

Oh yeah, welcome BTW.

I love seafood, but I have a problem with prawn farming and fish "farming" in general.

Cleveland? Maybe you can go scuba diving in Lake Erie.:neutral:

Yeah, but humans have evolved since we came from the ocean. Now we're creatures of the land, even if our predecessors weren't.

Cleveland sucks. Why were you in Cleveland for four years? College, I guess? Where'd you go?

I went snorkeling in the Bahamas on a school trip. Best week of my life.

Anadromy... Only definition I know is a fishy definition. I'm a little scared of what you meant.

Anadromy?
 

I can't speak for Ibram, but I think anadromy relates to being born in fresh water, living in the ocean, and going back to spawn in the fresh water. Like salmon, sturgeon, etc. Eels do it in reverse...Maybe they meant "androgony.":neutral:

I've been snorkling in St. John in the Virgin Islands for work and snorkling for fun in Brazil.:earth: Very nice...

Hey Pie, did you go to Case W?

Yeah, that's the anadromy I know...

Nothing beats the Bahamas. Andros Island, babee.

Case has a good campus... I took a class there over the summer. But I don't think I'd go there.

Androgeny! Yeah, that's it!

BTW: is it OK if I call you fishhead?

cuz my francophone is on the fritz...

:wink :wink <----- (means I'm just pullin' yer fins)

Fishhead's fine. A step up from fish hugger... Or maybe a step down. I don't know/care.

^_^

Are you roly-poly?

Wha?
 

I don't always agree with 9th, but you are indeed sounding a bit big for your britches young lady. Wait until you've snorkled around the world before you make such definitive declarations.:neutral:

Fine. Nothing in my experience beats the Bahamas. Better?

I tend to use hyperboles. So sue me.

Roly-poly? Um... sure? msnzg.

a question: is the title of this thread pronounced "saluD" or "sah-lutt"? not being rude, just curious

'Saloo'. Informal French for hello.

Young Lady!


(in best Leslie Phillips accent).....

Well, pardon my french and hellllllooo therrrre......

Done.



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at 16? surely not, Pie.......

*sighs* too late again......

I didn't see this one earlier -- yes I did. Class of 1996, with a BSc. in Physics. Are you a Casie?:eyebrow:

:confused: