Let's party!
Oct. 8th, 2019 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartPeople who've known me for a longer time know that I'm throwing a virtual birthday party every year. It starts on October 1 and closes on October 9 (my actual birthday) at midnight, sharp. When I checked my LJ calendar, I realized with a mild shock that I've been doing this for the last 12 years! Where has the time gone?
Unfortunately, last year's attempt failed, big time, so I decided that I'll throw just a very small party this year. Starting tonight and closing tomorrow at midnight. Just so that the tradition won't get lost entirely, with all the people who have abandoned LJ (and me) in the course of all those years.
The goal, as always, is to make as many collapsed threads on as many pages as possible; only that this year we'll do everything in a little more than one day. Hopefully, LJ won't crash the party, as it happened in one year when the comments became too many for it to handle. (My heart bled...)
Let's talk about things we're interested in, let's post pictures just for fun, link videos or whatnot. I'm getting older and need fun (and love) to go on. *g*
I'll open a few topics below, just to start the fun, but everyone is entitled to open a topic of their own; we need 25 first-level comments for one page, IIRC.
Feel free to spread the word on your own journal, new guests are always welcome. It isn't exactly a friendzy, but meeting new people is always delightful.
Unfortunately, last year's attempt failed, big time, so I decided that I'll throw just a very small party this year. Starting tonight and closing tomorrow at midnight. Just so that the tradition won't get lost entirely, with all the people who have abandoned LJ (and me) in the course of all those years.
The goal, as always, is to make as many collapsed threads on as many pages as possible; only that this year we'll do everything in a little more than one day. Hopefully, LJ won't crash the party, as it happened in one year when the comments became too many for it to handle. (My heart bled...)
Let's talk about things we're interested in, let's post pictures just for fun, link videos or whatnot. I'm getting older and need fun (and love) to go on. *g*
I'll open a few topics below, just to start the fun, but everyone is entitled to open a topic of their own; we need 25 first-level comments for one page, IIRC.
Feel free to spread the word on your own journal, new guests are always welcome. It isn't exactly a friendzy, but meeting new people is always delightful.
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Date: 2019-10-08 05:20 pm (UTC)So, have some virtual birthday cake. It has no calories, so you can take as many pieces as you want... but you'll have to post another cake pic in the comments. *g*
Home-made red velvet cake:
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Date: 2019-10-08 05:22 pm (UTC)Tell me about something funny that's happened to you lately - or that keeps happening to you.
Here is mine: Pinterest regularly mails me pins about which they think I would like. They're not actually wrong; the hilarious part is, though, that more often than not they mail me my own pins. Just yesterday, they mailed me 14 pins of cakes and cookies - every single one was mine!
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Date: 2019-10-08 05:47 pm (UTC)Small-cakes in Marrakech.
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Date: 2019-10-08 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-10-08 06:26 pm (UTC)Or maybe I'm actually full as I just had my second helping of noodles...
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Date: 2019-10-08 06:30 pm (UTC)"I was so stuffed from the very stodgy American food (which i invariably could never finish) that I could only manage the hole from a bacon topped donut. Tasted exactly as you would expect, sweet, slightly doughy-squodgey donut topped with dry and not particularly flavourful bacon. After the anticipation of how good bacon and maple-syrup pancakes could be, this was disappointing.
2 out of 10"
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Date: 2019-10-08 07:47 pm (UTC)Is there something you want to know about me? (Unlikely though that sounds... *g*) You can ask me any question you want, as long as you remember that this is a public post. ;0))
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Date: 2019-10-08 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2019-10-08 10:24 pm (UTC)I can't believe it has been a year already, in some ways, but in others it seems to have been a very long time.
It is late here, but I hope to be around tomorrow, which I am hoping will be a calmer day than today.
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Date: 2019-10-09 03:01 am (UTC)I drink plunger (French press) coffee at home, with almond milk. At a cafe, I will order a cafe latte most frequently, although occasionally I will drink a macchiato. All with almond milk, of course.
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Date: 2019-10-09 06:03 am (UTC)Give me some good, juicy, well used and well beloved Hungarian swearwords. Ideally translated, graded for profanity and in a suitable context for use.
Anyone else up for filling me in with their language or slang most welcome!
For example. In the UK saying "they're taking the piss" is mild. Same as taking the micky.
"For fucks sake" is middling. Commonly used as an expression of exasperation.
"Hey twatface!" A term of endearment used jokingly to the face of a jovial chum
"Utter cockwomble" not a term of endearment, you think the person is a twat, an arse, you don't like them at all and think them foolish or dimwitted. Mild, mocking and intended to make the listener or reader chuckle. (At the expense of the person being mocked.) Cockwomble comes of a venerable tradition of mashing profanities and nonprofanities together for comedic effect. Bonus points for originality and wittiness.
"He's a complete and utter cunt." This person is beyond horrible and unbearable... such a person that... "I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire." That last term is middling, humourous but also shocking and very adequately describes the contempt you have for that person.
In the context of the use of "the C-word" the meaning of the word is secondary, pretty much overlooked. The power of the word is in its delivery, Short, punchy and with a hard K. This word is punched out of the chest in rage. Similar words that tap into punchy fury with a hard K are Cock! Fuck! (K)Cunt! These are words you yelp for relief if you smash your toe. That's the reason they have endured so well for centuries.
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