[Mezla PigDog]

Briar King, on 23 October 2013 - 05:31 PM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 23 October 2013 - 08:45 AM, said:

Briar King, on 23 October 2013 - 12:29 AM, said:

Haha it's my high schools Homecoming Week so everyone is out rolling houses. 3 of my neighbors got hit last night lmao.

Dare I ask what "rolling houses" means?

And while I'm at it, what the fuck does "Homecoming" mean in US High School parlance?

Rolling: taking toilet paper rolls and throwing them up in the trees, wrapping rolls around bushes and yard items, general just a fun gag that takes place for a week. It was a busy night in my neighborhood. They were out till around 1 hitting people.

Homecoming usually refers to Football(NFL) during the week the team has their home game after they played away games. There's a dance on Sat to close the week out and a King and Queen are chosen.

I kind of assumed rolling had something to do with people living in trailers........ Either way, must be lots of cleaning up to do

There must be lots of Home Comings then. In the UK, football is away at least every other week. Or do NFL teams play all their away games in one go?

amphibian, on 24 October 2013 - 01:20 AM, said:

This place builds friends. Real ones.

Speak for yourself. Some of us got Cougar and Mal!!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Homecoming has nothing to do with the NFL. It is a high school and college tradition. It's a bigger deal in high school even though the tradition was started at a college. Typically homecoming is the first home game after a long stretch on the road, but really it can be any home game. For high schools there are festivities all week, like pep rallies and bonfires and stuff like that.

It all culminates with the big game Friday night, followed by a school dance followed by a party. There is a homecoming queen and King elected at halftime. Even people not actually interested in football often get in on the fun. Because of all the festivities, it's considered a bigger deal whether the team wins or loses the game, and it is great fun as the visiting team to spoil the other team's homecoming by beating them.

Only one home game out of the season is designated homecoming. On the college level homecoming is still observed but mostly is just an excuse to drink more before, during, and after the game. Fraternities and sororities continue having festivities but no one else really does much but drink.

This post has been edited by Raymond Luxury Yacht: 25 October 2013 - 07:53 AM

[Obdigore]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 25 October 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

Homecoming has nothing to do with the NFL. It is a high school and college tradition. It's a bigger deal in high school even though the tradition was started at a college. Typically homecoming is the first home game after a long stretch on the road, but really it can be any home game. For high schools there are festivities all week, like pep rallies and bonfires and stuff like that.

It all culminates with the big game Friday night, followed by a school dance followed by a party. There is a homecoming queen and King elected at halftime. Even people not actually interested in football often get in on the fun. Because of all the festivities, it's considered a bigger deal whether the team wins or loses the game, and it is great fun as the visiting team to spoil the other team's homecoming by beating them.

Only one home game out of the season is designated homecoming. On the college level homecoming is still observed but mostly is just an excuse to drink more before, during, and after the game. Fraternities and sororities continue having festivities but no one else really does much but drink.

I believe he meant, by stating (NFL), that it was American Football, not actually related to the NFL. But yes, your explanation is better than his in either case.

[Tiste Simeon]

Silencer, on 24 October 2013 - 10:19 AM, said:

Adjutant Stormy~, on 24 October 2013 - 10:06 AM, said:

It sucks. But it doesn't have to!

There a tons of 3rd party products to fix what ails ya for Win8

One can but hope they're all free.

However, why bother fixing an inherently flawed, testbed, bugged, and soon-to-be-irrelevant, hybrid-interface system (because that bit there...that was always going to be the problem), when you can get an off-the-shelf sorted and stable OS which works how you like it to, and doesn't need "fixing" (i.e. patching to make it do what it should) OS for either a small sum relative to the cost of your computer or indeed, free, if you *ahem* happen to have one lying around somewhere?

I mean, really. Never mind the inevitable compatibility issues with said third-party products when either they stop updating them or Windows 8 starts trying to shut them out. >.>

Meh. I don't know enough about OS's (OSii??) to bother messing with it now. I'll stick with and see how it pans out. The cross-desktopping is something I can live with and I like that the PC itself is fast!

[tiam]

This

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Obdigore, on 25 October 2013 - 10:16 AM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 25 October 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

Homecoming has nothing to do with the NFL. It is a high school and college tradition. It's a bigger deal in high school even though the tradition was started at a college. Typically homecoming is the first home game after a long stretch on the road, but really it can be any home game. For high schools there are festivities all week, like pep rallies and bonfires and stuff like that.

It all culminates with the big game Friday night, followed by a school dance followed by a party. There is a homecoming queen and King elected at halftime. Even people not actually interested in football often get in on the fun. Because of all the festivities, it's considered a bigger deal whether the team wins or loses the game, and it is great fun as the visiting team to spoil the other team's homecoming by beating them.

Only one home game out of the season is designated homecoming. On the college level homecoming is still observed but mostly is just an excuse to drink more before, during, and after the game. Fraternities and sororities continue having festivities but no one else really does much but drink.

I believe he meant, by stating (NFL), that it was American Football, not actually related to the NFL. But yes, your explanation is better than his in either case.

I think you are right. For anyone who doesn't know, NFL only refers to the professional league of American football.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Obdigore, on 25 October 2013 - 10:16 AM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 25 October 2013 - 07:49 AM, said:

Homecoming has nothing to do with the NFL. It is a high school and college tradition. It's a bigger deal in high school even though the tradition was started at a college. Typically homecoming is the first home game after a long stretch on the road, but really it can be any home game. For high schools there are festivities all week, like pep rallies and bonfires and stuff like that.

It all culminates with the big game Friday night, followed by a school dance followed by a party. There is a homecoming queen and King elected at halftime. Even people not actually interested in football often get in on the fun. Because of all the festivities, it's considered a bigger deal whether the team wins or loses the game, and it is great fun as the visiting team to spoil the other team's homecoming by beating them.

Only one home game out of the season is designated homecoming. On the college level homecoming is still observed but mostly is just an excuse to drink more before, during, and after the game. Fraternities and sororities continue having festivities but no one else really does much but drink.

I believe he meant, by stating (NFL), that it was American Football, not actually related to the NFL. But yes, your explanation is better than his in either case.

I think you are right. For anyone who doesn't know, NFL only refers to the professional league of American football.

[Centzon Totochtin]

Was flown across the country for work for 2 days which went really well. Then spent the weekend with friends which was awesome, just got home and am getting Indian food delivered
Tiste - The friends I spent the weekend with have a very stable windows seven desktop thingy for their windows 8 computers, I can get the details if you would like?

[Tiste Simeon]

If you want to pm me the details that would be great though I don't currently hate it as much as I thought I would.

[Gothos]

Two Steps From Hell is bloody epic.

[Imperial Historian]

Submitted my thesis! Woo!

[worry]

What's your thesis on? (If you would, please sum it up in like 5 to 10 words.)

[Tiste Simeon]

Gothos, on 28 October 2013 - 11:26 AM, said:

Two Steps From Hell is bloody epic.

Truth! I love them, and so does the wfie so we actually have something to stick on in the car! In a related epic-music-that-totally-blows-my-mind post, I am listening to the new 65daysofstatic album and I blinking love it! Saw them live earlier this year and they are so freaking cool...

[Imperial Historian]

worry, on 28 October 2013 - 08:22 PM, said:

What's your thesis on? (If you would, please sum it up in like 5 to 10 words.)

Making stuff out of carbon dioxide.

Summarises the whole thing pretty well.

[worry]

The dark art of Science! From a Historian?! Now I've heard everything.

[Gothos]

Yesterday had a dream where there were people from several eras of history like in cloud atlas, but humans from the future plucked them out of time and brought into the future. They convinced the specials that experiments need to be concluded in order to save humanity, very painful ones. Eventually the champions discover that the solution was already known and the researchers kept it secret to continue funding.
Then there were aliens or something.

Today, I had a dream where I moved to Phuket and joined a marine corps there. Pretty weird, that; boot camp had some retarted tasks, but hey, dream! Beautiful landscapes. Also, rain into some friends of old there for a night of debauchery.

Cool stuff.

[worry]

Were you Bill or were you Ted in that excellent dream?

[Gothos]

What Bill what Ted?

[worry]

Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted "Theodore" Logan.

[HiddenOne]

I get it even if he doesn't