So...

Mmmm, Pocky! I love Pocky!

...What's Pocky? (It sounds very familiar, though.)

Kind of a thin cookie stick, coated in chocolate. It's sold in packs of like, 20.

What's a cookie stick? Do you mean wafers?

It's like an eighth of an inch in diameter and about 6 inches long. It actually has the consistency of a cracker, but the taste of a wafer. And the upper 5 inches are coated in chocolate.

EDIT: Pic

Is it like those Keebler cookie wafer things but covered in chocolate?

Dunno. I don't think I've ever had them. Suprising, because I've sampled most Keebler products. (My dad used to work for them when I was little)

Oh, I think I've had stuff like that, but instead of chocolate, it was some kind of fruit flavoring.

Strawberry Pocky?

That stuff's even better.

Pocky really isn't all that great. =\

It was some Asian thing, and it was really good. I don't know if there was a cookie in the middle, maybe it was good taste all the way through. I don't remember.

phattonez wrote:Yeah, it wasn't really off at all.

Anyone know Japanese?

Watashi-wa L desu. (God I love Death Note) My best friend is studying Japanese, I just watch lots of anime.
Or, for a random Latin phrase, "Omnia Galia in tres partes divisa est. Quid quid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."
Baruch attah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam.
My mother's from Russia, I really should know how to speak it, but I don't. I'm a terrible son.

And pocky's awesome. It's like tiny pretzel sticks covered in sweet toppings.
In fact, that's exactly what it's like.

Feasul wrote:Watashi-wa L desu. (God I love Death Note) My best friend is studying Japanese, I just watch lots of anime.
Or, for a random Latin phrase, "Omnia Galia in tres partes divisa est. Quid quid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."
Baruch attah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam.
My mother's from Russia, I really should know how to speak it, but I don't. I'm a terrible son.

And pocky's awesome. It's like tiny pretzel sticks covered in sweet toppings.
In fact, that's exactly what it's like.

sans salt crystals

That is, indeed, an important qualifier.

Ok so my mom's surgery went well. She was released from the hospital Friday. Before she went into surgery Monday my g/f (now ex at the moment) Had a nasty fight and I ended up breaking the relationship the next day. Well now she all wants me back. She was boo hooing to my aunt and I realized I fucked up cause the proof that I had she was up to no good was false. So her and I talked about it. I asked her back out now she says I want to think about it first. Meh Woman... You woman confuse the living shit out of us guys sometimes.

Feasul wrote:Watashi-wa L desu. (God I love Death Note) My best friend is studying Japanese, I just watch lots of anime.
Or, for a random Latin phrase, "Omnia Galia in tres partes divisa est. Quid quid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."
Baruch attah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha-olam.
My mother's from Russia, I really should know how to speak it, but I don't. I'm a terrible son.

And pocky's awesome. It's like tiny pretzel sticks covered in sweet toppings.
In fact, that's exactly what it's like.

Wow, you're the first russian here besides me that I remember. :O

Also, pocky is so lame. I'm sick of the whole anime-otaku thing. Otaku means a seriously filthy obsessed shut-in. It also means house. Why are people praising it so much?

As for if anyone speaks japanese, Sute can. She stopped about a year or two ago, because of all the fucking kawaii bullshit. Honestly, do you otaku kids really think that japanese people just watch and draw anime all day while eating their ramen and pocky? Just like how americans have nice luscious green lawns in the suburbs, with their 2.5 kids and their dog, eating hotdogs and drinking coca-cola? Yeah okay.

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In other news, I got a new zippo two days ago, and haven't put it down since. Its utterly amazing some of the tricks people can do with them. I myself have been practicing rolling it between my fingers, and have pretty much mastered the Twilight Zone trick [where you give off the mirage that you seal the flame in your hand with the flame vanishing from the lighter, and then however you wish to do so, make the flame reappear.]

Its a ton of fun.

I was gonna say, what's the trick? But then I saw the part about coming back on.

Anybody know anything about Kant? I have to write a paper about him and I have no idea what his justification is for his ideas on ethics. Seriously, why does language have to be so complex?

So I just took the practice ACT and got an average of a 32. I'm somewhat excited, needless to say. Highest was Science with a 34, at only one question wrong due to misreading a chart.
Lowest was Math at 30, where one question I misunderstood (It was asking for perimeter, I put area), and four at the end that were on stuff I hadn't even heard of before.

Yay me. :kawaii:

Wow, those are pretty good scores. :thumbsup:

Master Sword Ultima wrote:
Also, pocky is so lame. I'm sick of the whole anime-otaku thing. Otaku means a seriously filthy obsessed shut-in. It also means house. Why are people praising it so much?

As for if anyone speaks japanese, Sute can. She stopped about a year or two ago, because of all the fucking kawaii bullshit. Honestly, do you otaku kids really think that japanese people just watch and draw anime all day while eating their ramen and pocky? Just like how americans have nice luscious green lawns in the suburbs, with their 2.5 kids and their dog, eating hotdogs and drinking coca-cola? Yeah okay.

Oh, my God, yes! It scares me now, it really does. Last year my schools Japan club actually had people interested in Japanse culture. This year...I almost want to kill myself. If I wasn't a board member, I'd leave. The guys are all mecha and game otakus, and the girls are all raving fangirls.
"OMG, like, did you see Naruto last night?" "Oh, I know, Gaara is soooo hot."

*Gets depressed*

No, I never read Kant. I've read Mill, Marx, Rousseau, Hobbes, Plato, Hegel, and Locke. Although I never read Mill's stuff on ethics (except the harm principle) so I probably can't help you there either.

Uh, good luck? Ethics philosophy sucks.

Oh snap, page 100. :O Roar. So anybody know any good hacks for phpBB2 boards, other than the points/shop hacks, and the experience/leveling up hacks?

I remember somebody here made a godly RPG Battle mod, DarkWolf or something like that [Not DarkFlameWolf, mind you].

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And yeah, I'm just sick of the whole wannabe Japanese fad all together. I wish these kids would do something seriously cool, like bring the 80's back, since I've noticed that I'm getting into a lot of grunge lately. Collective Soul and Green River, oh man.

MasterSwordUltima wrote:Oh snap, page 100. :O Roar.

MSU: They like sounding like ten year old Japanese girls and thinking that's a) cultured and b) how people really speak Japanese.

Then you actually have classes on Japanese culture, politics, etc and those never fill. Japanese language does but that's just so otakus can read their import games and perform the most honourable act in the otaku social structure: watching anime without dubs or subtitles. Some even aspire to make their own subtitles, although generally that involves too much actual work.

Otakus also believe selling panties in vending machine is the best thing ever.

Amaster42 wrote:So I just took the practice ACT and got an average of a 32. I'm somewhat excited, needless to say. Highest was Science with a 34, at only one question wrong due to misreading a chart.
Lowest was Math at 30, where one question I misunderstood (It was asking for perimeter, I put area), and four at the end that were on stuff I hadn't even heard of before.

Yay me. :kawaii:

Yeah, practice tests are always easier than the real thing. I got a 195(0) on the PSAT, but I got an 1890 on the real thing. Just yesterday I retook the SAT. But still, good job on that.

Critical reading always kills me, though.

Kant? uh...It's been a year since my Ethics course...but Wasn't he the guy who belived in strict moral rules? Where if you have a choice between running over 10 people or running over your own mom, you should run over your own mom?

Aegix Drakan wrote:Kant? uh...It's been a year since my Ethics course...but Wasn't he the guy who belived in strict moral rules? Where if you have a choice between running over 10 people or running over your own mom, you should run over your own mom?

You can never lie because the principal behind it cannot exist if everyone acted upon that principle. Yeah, very very strict. It would be nice if it was realistic.

This is why I hate philosophers. They make ridiculous claims then say they've "proved" them when they haven't done anything near it.

I think 90% of the reading I did last quarter was some asshole (Rousseau, marx, etc... see previous post) saying how he proved something he didn't.

I wonder if the mathematician's idea of a proof is any better, though. Normally I read it and go "what the fuck?". That will probably change as my math education continues though. Or so one would hope.

Math and philosophy are pretty similar. We know that 2+2=4 through experience and observation, but it is impossible to prove. From these unprovable facts we can expand upon things and find the truth.

The difference is that philosophers never agree on anything.

Yeah, I know. A lot of mathematicians were also philosophers (or the other way around if you want to look at it that way). The thing is social phenomenon have way more variables (which are often hard to identify) than most physics or engineering problems. Which makes most social analysis flawed.

Plus the concept of making starting definitions and expanding from there, while successful in mathematics, is more difficult in philosophy due to the limitations of language. Mathematics is very precise and even the best philosophers have a hard time using their own definitions consistently (Thomas Hobbes, I'm looking at you. Of course, Hobbes was also great at pseudomathematics.)

The thread is begining to get too intellectual. Allow me to fix that.

So I'm eating some crumb cake. Its pretty good, although the only thing I have to drink is coca-cola and rootbeer, which do not mix well with it. Its like eating brownies and drinking water.