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Zenan Plains - Site Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: x_XTacTX_x on April 15, 2008, 05:45:47 pm
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I have to eat breakfast at school, right? Well, I was I was carrying my Toast... Pancake... Substance? Back to my table to meet my friends, a few kids ran by and one accidentally ran into me, causing me to stain my awesome Iron Maiden jacket. ;_;
I tried washing it when I got home today, but nothing works. Does anyone know an effective syrup remover?
Seriously, that jacket was damn expensive.
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Just regular syrup? You'd think hot water would be enough, really...I mean, it's just sugar, basically...>_>
What kind of material is it?
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It wasn't berry syrup was it?
Try using one of those stain removing sticks. I think Tide makes some. You just rub it on, let it set for 10 minutes, then run them through a normal wash cycle with regular detergent. You might have to do it multiple times too.
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Water is the only good stain remover.
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Aye, basic [aka, "mayple"] syrup should come right out with hot water and a little soap. But if it were from a fruit or berry, then that is trickier (and you aren't really fighting a syrup stain). I've always found "shout" to be a good one, and those Tide pen thingies are quite popular among brides, or so I am told, as it seems to get almost anything out of white dresses.
... you know, I never expected to discuss stain removal on the internet, much less in a video game forum. Home Economics meets Home Entertainment, I guess.
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Yeah, now that you mention it... The fact that I've been on the fringe of a stain removal discussion PERIOD is interesting enough...
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Thanks, I ran up to CVS after school today and picked up one of those Tide sticks. Worked like a charm.
And yeah, it was like... Rasberry or Strawberry or something.
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... if you can't tell if the syrup is rasbery or strawberry, then you're school food scares me.
Not quite as much as the green corndogs, bouncing chicken (it literally bounced better than a rubber ball), and french toast sticks that we used as darts, from when I was a young'un subject to school food, but that still scares me nontheless.
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Turning from the religion thread to this is a breath of fresh air. Nobody accusing each other of being syrup nazis or syrupy sexists, or opining on the many ways syrup harms the world.
Hurray for syrup! Hurray for Tact!
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Well I think Firefly (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Firefly) put it best:
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me the wickedness of my ways?
Book: I brought you some supper, but.… if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepared. Sin, and hellfire… one has lepers.
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Turning from the religion thread to this is a breath of fresh air. Nobody accusing each other of being syrup nazis or syrupy sexists, or opining on the many ways syrup harms the world.
That's why I always stay the hell outta God threads! It never does anyone any good and you never really convince anyone of anything...people need to just have ideas, not beliefs...ideas are easy to change, beliefs are trickier. SO SAID CHRIS ROCK IN DOGMA AND SO SHALL IT BE!!! >_>
Syrup is good on waffles.
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Turning from the religion thread to this is a breath of fresh air. Nobody accusing each other of being syrup nazis or syrupy sexists, or opining on the many ways syrup harms the world.
Hurray for syrup! Hurray for Tact!
DEATH TO THE SYRUP NAZIS.
Lawl, thanks :3
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Loved Dogma...
Heck, I love anything Kevin Smith...
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I never watched the entire thing.. I think I saw bits and pieces as a kid. Should I rent it or something?
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Some religious people are offended by it... It's more satirical than anything, but it does promote some DOGMAtastic themes towards Christianity...
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Well, being agnotic I doubt I'd really be offended.. I'll check it out sometime.
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The you'd probably find it incredibly funny. In fact, I did know some extremely religious people who loved it...
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Well, it must be good if religious extremists can enjoy it. They don't enjoy anything, ususally...
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Ain't it the truth!
Have you poked your head in the "Oh No. Oh God." thread?
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Ahaha! Yes, yes I have...
Wait... I have an excellent idea. Give me like, 5 minutes and check the General Discussion forum.
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Oh gosh... That's not going to go over well. Good luck and Godspeed!
:D
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Well, you'd think SOME religious people would still enjoy Dogma...seeing how Kevin Smith himself is Catholic...I'm fairly sure...I may be getting religions wrong (i'm bad at that).
But, anyways...Jersey Girl...not Kevin Smith's best work...>_> That's all I'm gonna say about it!
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YOU'RE ALL SYRUP NAZIS!
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Krispin, don't you fucking make assumptions about my syrup preferences.
Lawl, I remember Zeality said something like that and it even set me off. O.o
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Buddy Christ, best religious icon ever. AND... he would make a great syrup bottle. Or maybe a jam jar, for Ableskivers.
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I showed my parents the Buddy Jesus and they were offended.
Then again, they also got pretty pissed when they found out I had read The His Dark Materials Trilogy a few years back (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass).
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Why were your parents offended by Buddy Jesus? It is like combining our Lord and Savior with the Fonz!
>.>
<.<
His Dark Materials was an interesting series, but not much to get upset over. Now if it were a well-written series, that might be a different story ;) A little motivation for the characters would have gone a long way.
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I showed my parents the Buddy Jesus and they were offended.
Then again, they also got pretty pissed when they found out I had read The His Dark Materials Trilogy a few years back (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass).
Did your parent's feel the same way about Harry Potter? If so, they should meet my Grandma.
"That Harry Twathead is a high offense against The only Lord and Savior we can turn to! Might as well get the Government on that British bitch. We can accomplish anything with Bush's son in office. There's a man who get's stuff done!"
(I'm sorry grandma. I love you and all, but just give it a break.)
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Okay, The Golden Compass = great story, great book.
The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass = crock of shit. Except for the Melufa; I loved those things.
Pullman isn't that great. I agree 100% that his story and characters had no real motivation for anything. Any story that deals with a multiverse usually end up over their head and sucking. For instance, as much as I loved The Dark Tower, by the end I was dragging my feet praying to God that it was gonna get better before it ended.
And then it ended and I was pissed.
But the Epilogue made up for that...A LITTLE BIT.
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I saw the Golden Compass movie, and that makes me want to read the Subtle Knife/ Amber Spyglass.
And what's The Dark Tower? I've never heard of it, is it any good?
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It's Stephen King's 7-novel opus that ties ALL of his books together into one "universe". It's a great series and has so much more left to tell - here's to hoping that King will write some more. He wrote the 7 books over a course of, like, 20-something years and they're a quasi-post apocalyptic/fantasy/western series... Read the first book, "The Gunslinger" and then decide if it's worth reading any more. It's about 5000 pages total, so it's a lot...
But it IS a great series. I hated Stephen King until The Dark Tower series.
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At least I'll give Pullman some props (please do imagine that I just said that with a British accent) for making premarital hanky-panky the thing that save all existance.
"That Harry Twathead is a high offense against The only Lord and Savior we can turn to! Might as well get the Government on that British bitch. We can accomplish anything with Bush's son in office. There's a man who get's stuff done!"
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http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20051212.html
http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080102.html
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At least I'll give Pullman some props (please do imagine that I just said that with a British accent) for making premarital hanky-panky the thing that save all existance.
"That Harry Twathead is a high offense against The only Lord and Savior we can turn to! Might as well get the Government on that British bitch. We can accomplish anything with Bush's son in office. There's a man who get's stuff done!"
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http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20051212.html
http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20080102.html
ROFL
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so true.... so true....
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It's Stephen King's 7-novel opus that ties ALL of his books together into one "universe". It's a great series and has so much more left to tell - here's to hoping that King will write some more. He wrote the 7 books over a course of, like, 20-something years and they're a quasi-post apocalyptic/fantasy/western series... Read the first book, "The Gunslinger" and then decide if it's worth reading any more. It's about 5000 pages total, so it's a lot...
But it IS a great series. I hated Stephen King until The Dark Tower series.
I read the ending on the internet.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I knew a lot of people who were pissed at the ending... I love it.
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If Roland didn't have the horn, I would have hated the ending. As it was, I thought it was very fitting & complimented his mostly tragic character.
I loved the Dark Tower...The Gunslinger and Wizard & Glass are two of Stephen King's best...The Talisman, which connects a lot w/the DT is also great & one of his best.
If you need to feed that Tower junkie inside of you, there's the new run of comics The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=92159514&blogID=362009627).
From what I read, it's basically about the trip back to Gilead after the events of Wizard & Glass/The Gunslinger Born. Sounds neat, eh? New Dark Tower material!! I hope this eventually leads up to a comic that'll fill us in on some of the more intricate details of the battle on Jericho Hill. Robin Furth, writer of Stephen King's Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance happens to be the co-author of the DT comics (this one & The Gunslinger Born)! SK's overseeing everything and Robin Furth probably knows more about the DT series than HE does!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I knew a lot of people who were pissed at the ending... I love it.
Yea, it is understandable, considering the time and effort put into reading that many pages, to have that kind of ending. But I don't mind it, mainly because I only read 1 out of 5000 pages, and that kind of ending is a-ok with me.
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Golden Compass was ok. Subtle Knife was awesome. Amber Spyglass...not so good.
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Golden Compass was ok. Subtle Knife was awesome. Amber Spyglass...not so good.
The Subtle Knife was utterly ruined for me by [spoiler] Lyra's reason for trusting Will. Essentially, she said, "Oh, I can trust him because he's a murderer." Now I generally try not to swear, but this is a time when it is appropriate. What the fuck?! Why couldn't Pullman have been nice and just said "If it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." It would have been easier on my sanity and made just as much, if not more, sense. Even using marzipan as a justification for atheism was better than that. [/spoiler]
Actually... I think I might like the series, if it wasn't for that book. Ah well, to each his own.
Out of curiosity, why did you like the Subtle Knife more than the Amber Spyglass?
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Yeah, that sort of intrigues me. I thought The Subtle Knife was by far the weakest book.
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Raymond E. Feist's "Riftwar Saga" (& all of the series surrounding those worlds) and Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" are good (though I'm not through either series).
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It isn't a Fantasy series, but has anyone read James Patterson's "Alex Cross" series? Those books rock.
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:lol:
Those web comics were great!
So I have the Golden Compass, but haven't even started to read it yet. I bought it like 6 month ago lol. Maybe I'll start reading this summer, since I won't have as much school work.