What draws you back to the Cellar?

I'm sure this has been addressed sometime in the past, but there are lots of us newer folks so i'm curious - why are you here? What is it that made the Cellar stick in your head enough that you repeatedly come back? What do you get out of the Cellar to make the time spent here a worthwhile investment?

I've really been thinking about this one, because I obviously spend quite a bit of time here. I will post my thoughts in awhile, but I am curious about the rest of you.

I'm just a glutton for punishment. :D

its sorta like that cool neiborhood bar you stumble up on ever now and then , where the mix of folks range from collage profecers and brick layers to net geeks ( no offence intended ) and electritions . collage prof's and brick layers haveing a drink and a friendly argument about politics , or economics , or the best way to fry cat fish . :D
An intresting mix of folks with MANY view points and opinions .

If I had to pick a top, number one reason? It's because you guys make me laugh. I appreciate nothing more than a good, dry wit, and there are several here.

I'm doing research on my PhD thesis on life amongst the dregs of humanity. :D

I come back to the Cellar just to give Lookout a hard time. :3eye:

Plus, this place is just strangely addictive. I have yet to figure it out.

I have nothing better to do...and someone's gotta keep you bitches in line. :)

The sparkling personalities.

Y'know, I think the IotD got me here in the first place (it was linked in someone's sig at Slashdot, probably UT). I spent my first couple of days here going through the IotD archives. I kept coming back because I found the people fascinating and, as Clodfobble pointed out, funny. My first post was, I think, about something I had heard on NPR about a Muslim(?) holy day during which people bloodied themselves up pretty good. I half expected Dave to send me packing, but no one gave me grief so I hung around.

Actually, I hang around because I just *live* for Tomas' Friday posts.

garnet wrote:

I come back to the Cellar just to give Lookout a hard time. :3eye:

You and me both, girlfriend! :beer:

Mostly boredom to be honest, too much time spent stuck places without much to do that and the 1-in-100 thread that really sparks my interest.

Good question. I think it's probably one of the few places I can go and get the right wing perspective in a way that doesnt make my skin crawl .....ouch did I just say that? Apparently I did. I sometimes find myself drawn back to try and set something straight, usually when I percieve an unfair balance of power in an issue......But I am also drawn because I think most cellarites are smart in some area, myself included and that makes for an interesting exchange of ideas. I have on a few occasions been made aware of a different analysis of issues I thought I knew well enough and that has given my own perspective on those things a little more depth I think.

Most of the people here are also funny. By which I mean amusing, not bitchy, though hell they can be that too. As of course can I. Be bitchy I mean, Id leave others to judge humour.

Ultimately though I suppose I have become accustomed to your [cyber]faces

All I can say is most of you have the same opinions as I about:

Whiskey
Women
In-laws
Outlaws
Drug Laws
Gun Laws
Sex
Social libertarianism
Being an attention whore and not getting shit about it

and last but not least: Naked Twister

I love you guys!

I like bitching about politics

the fresh sticky buns.

I come to The Cellar time and again simply because it is the one place where I can be as psychotic as I want and everyone thinks I'm just being clever.

Pictures and knowledge, damn cheap.
Don't forget to tip the toad. :blunt:

Oh,.....and to annoy bitchy women without giving up everything I own.

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

Pictures and knowledge, damn cheap.
Don't forget to tip the toad. :blunt:

Oh,.....and to annoy bitchy women without giving up everything I own.

And we love dishing it right back at you, Bruce; but we all still love you, anyway! :p

Geez B, nobody's gonna tip me now that I've said there's a tiny chance I could be in something *really* money-making.

(Or if I don't put the paypal button back up.)

I guess I should clarify that the multi-multi-billionaire stuff is pretty long odds and at the moment I *am* still struggling to pay the mortgage of this pretty nice place.

This dude said to me yesterday aren't you a successful entrepreneur? not yet

i stumbled down the stairs at the suggestion of someone who no longer visits here when he realized i like to discuss just about anything under the sun. my first venture in saw me get lit up by LJ and i've been here ever since.
i like the fact that i can discuss touchy issues with my real thoughts without worrying about offending someone or possibly sending clients running for the hills. because we aren't al drinking buddies, we don't feel the need to all go along and get along. it makes for interesting enlightening discussions. i guess it all boils down to the fact that we are all allowed to be extremely honest here.

except for the fact that i'm not a 30 year old financial advisor, i'm really a 14 year old girl in study hall. other than that, i'm perfectly honest about everything here.

lookout123 wrote:

except for the fact that i'm not a 30 year old financial advisor, i'm really a 14 year old girl in study hall. other than that, i'm perfectly honest about everything here.

Hey! I'm actually a 15 year old boy on detention! Do U have pic? :D

i stumbled down the stairs

That's awesome.

I find the alternate viewpoints from the members here a good read -- its always interesting to listen to others, especially in regards to current events and politics.

You're all wrong, but I still like reading it.

Undertoad wrote:

Geez B, nobody's gonna tip me now that I've said there's a tiny chance I could be in something *really* money-making.

(Or if I don't put the paypal button back up.)

I guess I should clarify that the multi-multi-billionaire stuff is pretty long odds and at the moment I *am* still struggling to pay the mortgage of this pretty nice place.

This dude said to me yesterday aren't you a successful entrepreneur? not yet

Great read, BootyCall is a friend of yours, no? :haha:

well... my local BBSs' had all gone to crap... and I stumbled down the stairs one day whilst @ idleworm.com and the next thing you know.. i have somewhere else to say nothing important.. heh luv ya all... thanks.. really

What draws you back to the Cellar?

Sometimes I need a broader view, you people provide that. Oh and some of you b:)st:)rds are too funny.

I guess I should clarify that the multi-multi-billionaire stuff is pretty long odds and at the moment

If it doesn't involve the following terms, good luck and keep us up to date when it all goes public:

Social Software
Semantic Web
MetaCommunity
Knowledge Network
Database Filesystem
Metadata
B2B
Grid Computing

If it does, you might want to sacrifice a goat or something. If it involves one of the above with one of the following..

Wireless
Mesh Network
P2P
RSS
Mobile

Consider very carefuly indeed.

I followed a link here from someplace, but for the life of me I can't remember where. The other message board where I (used to) post went to pay subscription, which was fine, but it seemed like the mods and admins also got huge sticks up their asses about the same time and ran many of my favorite posters off, making it decidedly un-funner.
I keep coming back here for the wit, sarcasm, yelling and profanity. And there are a few regulars here whose posts I seek out intentionally, knowing they will always have something interesting to say, and some whose principles I agree with. The boards always run quickly and smoothly, but there aren't so many threads that it's impossible to keep up.
I like this place. :)

What draws me back to the Cellar?, i keep on posting, and posting, and posting, and nobody here freakin' reads me.

i believe thats what draws me back here.

We read it.
You leave us speechless. ;)

Everything about this place drew me in, and keeps me here. I love it.

Pale blue is addictive.... so blue.... so pale....

Hey Jane Says... are you a Jane's Addiction fan?

I like it because it's not full of teenagers, the people are mostly intelligent and witty, um, and that's it.

superbaton wrote:

I keep on posting, and posting, and posting, and nobody here freakin' reads me.

:tinfoil: Whew, I thought that just applied to me. I started calling myself "the Thread-Killer". Okay, who else here has self-esteem issues? Wolf, do you want to moderate? :)

What keeps me lurking here? The people the people the people. ^_^

IotD and the Cellar taglines I keep coming back for too.

The Cellar banzai!

It's the smell. I love it. DO you smell that? man! what a great smell.

howdy all - apparently it is a thread that i started that draws me back. i haven't been around lately as i've been busy with little lookout. the little bugger has been pretty sick and the doc can't figure it out. he has had between a 99 and 104 degree temp for nearly a month and a sinus infection that won't give up. one round of amoxicillin barely put a dent in it before it came back stronger than before. he's had chest xrays, sinus xrays, blood tests, urine tests, strep tests, mono tests... pretty much everything but a calculus test.

everything has come back negative - except for a sinus infection. the doc says "there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with him - other than he spikes 103.5 every other night." the doc is good, attentive, and proactively seeking answers - so it isn't that the doc isn't interested in looking for the cause - it's just that we haven't found it yet.

LL was born a month premie after spending 5 months being held in by a circlage that forced my wife into 24/7 bedrest (5 months!) during that time she was in constant labor, so they had to pump her full of steroids and other fun stuff to strengthen his lungs as quickly as possible so that if he came out too early he had a fighting chance. he has minor allergies, and minor asthma but has been otherwise healthy. until now.

so there you have - why i come back to the cellar. the ability to disappear for extended periods of time, drop back in, vent, and get back on with life. i have to go rock my son now.

Pie wrote:

:tinfoil: Whew, I thought that just applied to me. I started calling myself "the Thread-Killer". Okay, who else here has self-esteem issues? Wolf, do you want to moderate? :)

[just]I don't think you're worth it.[/kidding]

*very evil grin*

(I'm a professional, kids. Don't try this at home.)

lookout123 wrote:

i have to go rock my son now.

Blessings, hugs, and healing. I'll keep LL and your family in my prayers.

I am keeping you and yours in my prayer too Lookout. Stay positive he will get through this and be okay. From a mom of 3 girls...Amoxicillin sucks. It does nothing. He is so little they probably don't want to try anything stronger but it sounds like this sinus infection needs a bit stronger medicine to kick it's ass. Keep us posted.

I come back here for the abuse. The people in my everday life make me feel relatively smart. I need to come here for my reality check.

Pie wrote:

:tinfoil: Whew, I thought that just applied to me. I started calling myself "the Thread-Killer". Okay, who else here has self-esteem issues? Wolf, do you want to moderate? :)

I'm with you. that's what keeps me coming back. The hopes that someday *sigh* someone will answer one of my witty posts with a laughing smiley face.

That and I come here for the music.

Man. I know that the IotD brought me here when I was still living in Vegas. That was Pre LJ and during the last dying throes of Dave-ness.

I lurked for a few months, then got my toes wet and was promptly smacked down. I tried to quit once, tried the "alternate name" thing (for about 2 posts), and then found my balance.

I come back because:

.all of the different points of view in one place.
.so many people know so much more than I do about lots of stuff, and I try to learn from them.
.someone usually has it worse than me, and I can lend an encouraging word
.when I need some support or advice, folks here will usually offer me an encouraging word, or at least their opinion.
.there is an ignore function. :D
.there are no avatars.
.UT isn't one of those admins that you have to agree with (which I respect the hell out of and appreciate)
.I have no RL friends.

Well.....I appear to have wandered back into the Cellar again :P Lookout, hope the doctors figure it out soon and put your mind at rest.

I just come here for the sex and the drugs.

I thought you brought them.

Why do I come back here? I'm not sure...where the hell am I, anyway?

Keeping up the good vibes for healing for the little one...

I come here because I like you guys. You know, except for Pie. Nobody likes Pie! (Pie, that's a joke, coz I like you, too, :)

the only person I have it out for is SteveDallas as I have NOT forgotten his slavish adherence to grammar issues in another thread. :)

And, Lookout, I will send along good vibes, too, and I did wonder where the hell you'd gone.

if it wasn't for this place, i would've not gotten drunk last weekend in Paragould with Zippyt! that and y'all are a great group of guys!

Hobbs wrote:

I'm with you. that's what keeps me coming back. The hopes that someday *sigh* someone will answer one of my witty posts with a laughing smiley face.

That and I come here for the music.

:lol:

I come here to catch up on everything I have been missing out on for too many years - while I was married, while I was sick, and while I was living in Fresno :blush:

Fresno can't really be that bad, can it?

Yes it can. It didn't used to be one of the armpits of the world, it took about 20 years to get it to this point. If you ignore most of the laws of economics, sociology, development, government, and civic engineering for that period of time, YOU TOO can produce a Fresno. But please don't.

It's Kalifornia. I think that says nearly enough ... other than it's not Ellay, SanFran, or Sacrimento.

Not enough that the governator is Ahnold, WE have Bubba (Alan Autry) as our mayor. But the laws of logic do not apply here and Mr. Autry is actually doing a BETTER job than anybody has done for such a long time that we totally support him. Well, until he decided to go to NO on the City credit cards with the goal of "recruiting" 400 of the leftover dispossessed to come and live in Fresno. Forget that nobody has yet figured out what to do with the 3,500 Hmong the Feds sent us from Thailand since last year, who don't have homes, or jobs, or good health, or can read or speak English. Fortunately, when the Feds heard that Mayor Bubba was considering putting the new 400 in the baseball stadium until more permanent arrangements could be made, they nixed it.

The Hmong will learn to speak English and eventally get jobs. The people from Louisiana won't.

The refresh button.

plthijinx wrote:

if it wasn't for this place, i would've not gotten drunk last weekend in Paragould with Zippyt! that and y'all are a great group of guys!

Maybe Tony could get an endorsement from a distillery. :drunk:

smoothmoniker wrote:

the fresh sticky buns.

Hey! I'll have you know I shower every day, or at least hit the Refresh button. :p

Actually, I've been on the Cellar since the dial-up days. As far as I know, it's the oldest Philadelphia area BBS still in existence. I have seen some very interesting characters, some of who actually made it onto my 'ignore' list.

Actually, I would love to see a live debate among some of our more opinionated denizens past and present, some of whom I actually agree with most of the time.

Let's see, we would have to find Barak, invite Radar to come east, call up TW.... :eek:

ok, so a 103 degree temp is not supposed to fucking happen after nearly a @Q#$!! month on antibiotics. he's four. when a fucking four year old says "i don't know why i'm sick daddy. i'm sorry, i keep trying to get better." my instinct is to gut someone - but there is no one to blame. FUCK! viral infection my ass. the kid is rarely sick so he hasn't built up a tolerance to amoxicilin. he took a full schedule of that for two weeks. no change. the doc upgrades (downgrades) him to augmentin and the only difference is that the boy shits himself if he laughs, sneezes, coughs, or thinks too hard. then he cries and says, "i'm sorry for making a mess daddy." i would gladly take his place, hell i'd kill my own mother to make him feel 50% better!

every single blood, urine, enzyme, xray, (you name it, he's had it) test has come back clean except for a sinus infection. the kid begs me not to "let them poke any more holes in him." my ped actually had me bring him over to his house because it was closer than the office this morning and the kid goes into near hysterics if we say "we're going to the dr's" now.

FUCK!




[SIZE=1]thanks for reading my rant.[/SIZE]

l123, I know, I've been there. **I** would trade with the little guy. I remember the frustration when our kids were that little, and sick. Hearing them apologize for being sick just broke my heart. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm hanging in there with you as much as I can through this connection in the cellar.

I pray LL will be well. I pray for peace for you and your wife. I pray for wisdom for the doctors. I pray for strength for LL.

It sucks right now, and I'm sorry.

Nice discussions, nice people.. I really hope to chat with everybody here.. this is really a cool site!

lookout123 wrote:

ok, so a 103 degree temp is not supposed to fucking happen after nearly a @Q#$!! month on antibiotics. he's four.

I'm sorry man. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Hang in there, Lookout.

lookout---my prayers are with you and your family. God bless you.

Has the tyke had a (sorry to say it) spinal tap? Sounds like every other fluid has been assessed...strength, my friend. And, health.

The story of my eldest son's woes is too long to tell (and it depresses me to the point of becoming suicidal), but...when he was in the worst throes of his brain injury, he ran an inexplicable temperature for weeks. They put him on a cooling system, it was so high.

They searched for every infectious cause they could think of, and to no avail. In the end, it was a manifestation of the brain injury. His hypothalmus was out of whack, and was unable to regulate his body temp.

I'm sure there's no reason to think that your child has any sort of injury, Lookout, but I wonder if there couldn't be some endocrinal cause to all of this? Has an endocrinologist been consulted?

Hang in there, man. I am *so* with you. PM me if you want to defrag with someone who spent nearly a year in four different hospitals with his sick child.

Lookout, I'm so sorry. It's very frustrating when you just don't have the power to make it better for him. For what it's worth, I agree with Elspode. I don't have a lot of faith in the average pediatrician (though yours sounds pretty cool letting you come over to his house.) I'd just start taking him to every specialist I could think of, you never know what you'll find.

I'm new here. I bookmarked it because I noticed most of you can spell. That's somewhat unusual nowadays.

SmartAZ wrote:

I'm new here. I bookmarked it because I noticed most of you can spell. That's somewhat unusual nowadays.

Hay, thangks!

Lookout, how awful. Nothing worse than sick a littleun and no manifest reason for it. You have my sympathy and thoughts.

Knot ownly ken wee spel gud, butt are grammers iz impeckabull.

God, Elspode, evrybuddy knowz Impeckabubble is spelled with a captical I, you's so stupd

SmartAZ wrote:

I'm new here. I bookmarked it because I noticed most of you can spell. That's somewhat unusual nowadays.

On occasion we even manage to get to the level of thoughtful discussion.

If the spelling thing is amazing to you, you might want to take The Cellar in smaller doses until you're acclimated ... don't want you fainting when you see actual philosophy being discussed.

I come back for the free dishes. I'm hoping for a gravy boat soon. :D

You've already got the conjoined cruets w/stainless steel rack? You lucky dog, you.

I came here because the people were smarter than in AoL Chat. They still are.

Some are just as wrongheaded, but they still are.

Brianna wrote:

lookout---my prayers are with you and your family. God bless you. Has the tyke had a (sorry to say it) spinal tap? Sounds like every other fluid has been assessed...strength, my friend. And, health.

Lookout - I echo everyone else's hopes, thought and prayers... and I agree with Bri's suggestion on the spinal tap - not pleasant, but you gotta get an answer. Also maybe another opinion from another Dr...? Good luck!

I'm not a doctor, but have you considered allergies? Has something changed in diet, laundry detergent, new carpet, etc?

It's a long shot, but if no infection can be found, it's a possibility.

i think you all know why i come back. and if you don;t i'm sure as hell not telling you



oh, and .........COCK!

That's it. LJ's just here for the cock.

We knew it. We always knew it. We just never said it out loud.

Much.

i'm here to share the cock. you know you love the cock.

I come back because
I enjoy reading MrNoodle’s explanation about terrorism and how other people react, Brianna and xoxoxoBruce’s sense of humor, Marichiko’s opinion, and all the others I forget… :)
I can defend French fries against US empire and improve my English / US slang.

And because all the database belongs to me (it’s written ;) )

Lookout123 : I’m not a doctor, only just a former sick person that acupuncture helped a lot (scoliosis, other spinal column problems, stiff neck, allergy, sinusitis…). This medicine has a completely different logic than official one. Before I had to swallow a lot of drugs and now none, it removed everything. If it can help you ?…

In France it’s not well regulated. Some acupuncturists can get their diploma in 2 years despite it needs 10 years to be a good professional. So we must inquire for choosing a good one.

I know there’s a meridian called “Triple warmer” (French translation) that is responsible of body heat. Coming from each annular, he follows the arms, shoulders, neck, around ears and finally reach side of eyes.
When it’s not working well, it can also be linked with hurt in shoulder, cry without reason.
Emotionally it’s linked with tenderness, friendship, feeling state and deep understanding of events of the life. (you can ask him questions about such event like if for example one of his friend had moved away, lost of a pet, a divorce… and make him say what he felt)

I'm here for LJ's cock, and everyone else's cock.
Intelligent, well-spelt cock from across the Atlantic, and Billy's pictures of China.
Cock from a different angle.
It's interesting.
I dream of one day wearing my Cellar T-shirt out somewheres and someone walking up to me and saying ... "You're a dwellar too?! ..."

Cock is pretty addictive...

Any forum with standards low enough to accept me as a member deserves me as a member. :)

I found this place through the pic of the day of the girl with two heads. that was years ago, and I have popped back in at least once a week since, just checking out the pic of the day. Then, one day, I discovered so much more here, and just had to join the community. I still haven't made it all the way through the interesting discussions.

kelliekd wrote:

I still haven't made it all the way through the interesting discussions.

That's funny, it should be pretty easy because there are so few.
:D

It's the uninteresting discussions I have a problem with. :cool:

lumberjim wrote:

you know you love the cock.

God help me, but I do.

I come back for the spelling lessons. I still feel deep gratitude to Wolf for pointing out the difference to me between "lose" and "loose." It has spared me countless moments of embarassment on other boards. Now if she would only help me with my other spelling mistakes...

Hey, Wolf! Would you be my proof reader? Pretty please?

And Lookout, I so hope LL is doing better. I'd be sick for him myself if I could. Hang in there, big guy!

Mari, I will give you the same advice that I give everyone.

Buy a fucking dictionary.

Use it.

That is my amazing, magic secret, revealed for all the world to see.

wolf wrote:

Mari, I will give you the same advice that I give everyone.

Buy a fucking dictionary.

Use it.

That is my amazing, magic secret, revealed for all the world to see.

Damn, there's always a catch! :D

wolf wrote:

Mari, I will give you the same advice that I give everyone.

Buy a fucking dictionary.

Use it.

That is my amazing, magic secret, revealed for all the world to see.

My advise is similar, but cheaper. Merriam-Webster Online

If it's on the internet, people don't take it as seriously. There is something satisfying about sitting with an eight pound book on your lap, leafing through it to find a variety of treasures other than that which you seek! The experience of directly interacting with a printed dictionary is so very different than using the search engines provided for the online varieties — No, perhaps I didn't actually mean "noodle" or "nodding," and if I need to establish that "frog" is an obscure definition for "paddock" I am totally out of luck.

It means that too? I always thought "frog" was that part in the bottom of a horse's foot :o

As far as "use the dictionary", uh-uh. That's why God invented Spellcheck, hee, hee. I own 35 dictionaries, swear that's the truth, but they are all Spanish-English. I even have 3 specialized dictionaries which help you translate obscenities, curse words, and abnormal bodily functions used in all Spanish-speaking countries of the world back to English. One of the perqs of the office ;)

Spellcheck is not context sensitive.

I use it, but do not rely upon it.

Yore mileage mai very.

I even have 3 specialized dictionaries which help you translate obscenities, curse words, and abnormal bodily functions used in all Spanish-speaking countries of the world back to English.

Oh I bet that can be fun around the office , cussing sombody out and calling them "poopy head " in a forien language .

I picked up a few obscure words over-seas in the marines , they ALLways make folks look at me funny when I pull them out !!!

I like to try out words and phrases I have learned from Scritch's multilingual swear list, a most excellent and accurate resource.

I made our Filipina doctor blush.

wolf wrote:

Mari, I will give you the same advice that I give everyone.

Buy a fucking dictionary.

Use it.

That is my amazing, magic secret, revealed for all the world to see.

wolf gives (extra)marital advice now? Whoa.

Oh I bet that can be fun around the office , cussing sombody out and calling them "poopy head " in a forien language

On the first day of school, they had an orientation meeting where all the teachers told us what to expect to learn and how the classes would be conducted. The judge teaching the module on court procedures warned that people who are being tried rarely have "polite" vocabularies, yet we would have to translate whatever they said into exactly comparable English, no matter how vile it was. We would also have to interpret autopsy results and rape testimony. Therefore, he said, we would have to learn AND REPEAT ALOUD IN COURT every possible obscene or anatomical word, both in English and Spanish, and if we did not feel we were prepared to do this we had better leave now and not continue with the class. Two people actually did gather up their things and leave. One of them later told the judge that she planned on becoming a nun and doing missionary work in Latin America and she did not want to find out that such words even existed!

The real "fun" of having learned all these words is that nobody can post anything obscene or make up a disgusting screen name, no matter how oblique, which I can't catch and delete on our forum. Likewise if some chicano makes a crude comment and I turn around and tell him what he can do with it, they just about faint from shock :lol2:

I come to the cellar in waves. I'll be really interested in it for a few months, then kind of meh for a week or two, then come back. I think I left for a few months once, can't remember why. I come back because the people here never fail to make me either laugh or want to kill something. Even when no one's talking about anything that I find interesting, it's still fun to watch the dialogue.

Pretty much just the wide variety of people on here that I normally most likely would not get a chance to speak to, or hear opinions from.

Plus I love when ya'll fight.. I go grab a bag of chips, sit back and watch the fire burn.. mmm. Reminds me of Fight Club.. a bit wierd but overall very worth your time.

Spelling lesson of the moment: weird and seize ignore the "I before E except after C, and when sounded like A, as in neighbor and weigh" orthographic rule.

Now if only we can keep everyone mindful of the rule that possessive nouns are formed with 's and possessives of pronouns never use an apostrophe but just an S. This is there to prevent confusion between possessives of pronouns and contractions with pronouns, whose meaning is utterly different -- in case no one's ever explained that to you. Confuses native speakers every day of the week, but that's mostly because they never got it, for whatever reason, in elementary school.

If I wanted a grammar lesson, I'd be taking grammar 101 now wouldn't I...

Swearing in Russian can be particularly entertaining to an English speaker. Russian mat' -- and they "yo'-mama" a lot -- seems polarized about thirty degrees left of what English uses. Not only does it sound fierce to those innocent of Russian, it amuses and bemuses those who are students of it. In no small part because the very favorite, indeed utterly hackneyed but still taken as fighting words, interjection that gets used -- well, we end up being unsure of the actual tense of the verb: is it the past tense or the imperative? They sound and are spelled alike, and it takes a bold and specialized reference work to sort the matter. Said works, such as Maledicta, though their scope is global: dirty words in every known language, have even collected specifically Soviet-era cusswords and phrases, the use of which now may be so dated as be classicist.

Most reference works on Russian verbs skip the verb "ebat'" and etymologically-related ones like "abutit'" with predictable results for us non-native speakers. Guess they don't want us sounding as practiced and nuanced as a pissed-off army starshina. We're left rote-remembering "ëb' tvoyu mat'" or downgrading it to just "ëb' tvoyu" leaving the mat' to be readily understood -- good if you're cussing in a hurry, I suppose -- or euphemistically coming up with any pair of words that begin with E and M, and letting him who hath understanding get it. Example: ëlki matalki, which literally means "fir twigs/laths"... It gets weird about the time the swearer starts using diminutive forms of the E-M words -- and Russian can stack one diminutive on top of another until the desired degree of sugary cutesiness is achieved, presumably leaving the woebegone recipient of such phraseology under the impression it is not his morality that is being attacked, but the enamel of his teeth.

Bullitt wrote:

If I wanted a grammar lesson, I'd be taking grammar 101 now wouldn't I...

I amount to Grammar 101; take me as I am. :cool:

BigV wrote:

wolf gives (extra)marital advice now? Whoa.

:lol2: Only on the Cellar....

DAMN... I didn't realize I was still here.........

mrnoodle wrote:

... or want to kill something ...

Like a kitten? :eyebrow:

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, limey. :lol2:

I decided to sign up here after reading a thread that was linked from OCAU and the forum has a broad range of sections. The people seem nice too :)

Welcome to the cellar, Kittiew0k! I'm sure you won't be disappointed. Pissed off, amused, entertained, educated, misled, stimulated, embarassed, enraged, entranced and stuck here, probably, but never disappointed. ;)

hey there and welcome Kittiewok, where bouts in Oz you from?

I'm at work right now, that pretty much guarantees being pissed off ;) Ahh the joys of helpdesk :(

Ooh and I'm located about 1 hour north of Sydney city (If you're doing 160KMs/H), on the coast. Bit of a commute to get to work, but unless you go the city you won't find any nice jobs :)

Kittiew0k wrote:

I decided to sign up here after reading a thread that was linked from OCAU and the forum has a broad range of sections. The people seem nice too :)

By the way, what's this?

KittiewOk: Stir fried infantile feline?

Just jokin'..... again.

welcome to the Cellar, Mate.

BigV wrote:

By the way, what's this?

Someone linked to the thread about the giant pink bunny being erected, the one located here, that's when I first saw The Cellar in action :p

It was mentioned in this thread on OCAU, it got a laugh :)

Edit: OCAU is Overclockers Australia, a Computer based forum with a few other sections.

Stir fried infantile feline?

It's like you've known me all my life!!! (But now I think about it Kittiew0k is a rather disturbing name.)

Kittiew0k wrote:

The people seem nice too :)

Oh..yea, were all nice here. A bunch of giant pink bunnies we are. Come on in, we won't hurt you.


Muuuuhhaahahahahha!

BigV wrote:

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, limey. :lol2:

Why, thank you , sir :o .

Hi again, y'all.

lookout123 wrote:

What is it that made the Cellar stick in your head enough that you repeatedly come back?

It's the attraction of people that you **almost** know. You know this and that about them (or what they want you to believe about them) and might share a chuckle or common thought here and there...but they arent close enough to you in the real world to actually waste your time with face to face conversations and social encounters.

This keeps one out of trouble with the law for physically assaulting those you dont like as well. Of course, there's also the option of the ignore feature.

For the most part people are civil here. The further you get away from here the more you can appreciate that.

There are some very kind people here that also help out fellow members in real world bad times. I've been the recipient of such a gesture and I know others here have too. It's truly amazing considering that for all practical purposes, we're all just lines of text here.

The cellar also allows people to socialize in many different areas in their own way. I dont relate well to people in real life. I know, you're shocked. It's true though. I dont like being around real live people. Coming here I can pretend that I'm interested in other people and that I want to share mildly interesting things of my own life and thoughts.

But that's just me, my, mine, myself and I.

slang wrote:

But that's just me, my, mine, myself and I.

Don't forget your imaginary friend.

Or did you kill him and hide the body?

Slang killed God? :mg:

marichiko wrote:

Slang killed God? :mg:

twice.

wolf wrote:

Don't forget your imaginary friend.

Or did you kill him and hide the body?

He's just a voice in my head so I'd have to kill myself and hide the body, which makes things just a bit tricky.

I could hide the body and then kill you ... would that resolve the dilemma?

:love: You're so sweet Wolf....it's not everyday a woman offers to kill me..


no wait :blush:

Kill you and hide the body. Only a true friend...

....AND collect the insurance ;)

I really havent been here long enough to understand why I keep coming back, trying to find acceptance in a land of total strangers. I will however continue on my search and get back to you, if I find some reasonable, logical explanation for my pattern of behaviour. As an aside I did also want to mention that since waundering into the Cellar I have 1) turned 39 2)bought my first handgun and way too much ammo for my long guns 3)decided to hoard nearly 40 gallons of gasoline in my barn 4)spent way too much money on food that I have crammed our big freezer and cabinets with 5) began investing money in precious metals 6) ... you guys are really making a difference here, do I seem like Im starting to blend in?

Don't forget to add stabilizer or rotate that gas, shoot.

way too much ammo for my long guns

That's not possible. :lol:

There is no such thing as "too much ammo."

"I'm here for LJ's cock, and everyone else's cock.
Intelligent, well-spelt cock from across the Atlantic, and Billy's pictures of China.
Cock from a different angle."

I'm definately here for cock

I'm definately here for cock

Yow! THERE'S Steve Dallas' new tag line :)

quick update: little lookout is fine. fever gone. no symptons. just woke up one day and is better. i don't understand it, but i am grateful for it.

I'm very glad to hear it.

Hooray!!

Thank goodness, lookout123. I'm so glad all is well. Thanks for the report.

wolf wrote:

There is no such thing as "too much ammo."

Oh yeah? How about if you cant get into the bathroom for the ammo stacked up?


Then what? Too much? :blush:

Yippee Yip Yi OH, Lookout! Most good news!

Slang, you need to move out of that dinky apartment and find a nice group of survivalists in Waco. :D

slang wrote:

Oh yeah? How about if you cant get into the bathroom for the ammo stacked up?


Then what? Too much? :blush:

No, it just means it's time to move it into the fridge. Winter's coming and you won't need to keep it plugged in anyway. Just put the frozen peas out on the windowsill like always.