[Aptorian]

Terez, on 20 April 2010 - 11:22 AM, said:

Can you pronounce it Apt?

Also, Gothos....Polish names can be just as bad! hehe...and I'm reminded of one of Chopin's letters, to a friend back home, complaining about how foreigners pronounce Polish names.

Besides being a very long name and an unfamiliar string of syllables compared to normal Danish names, I could probably pronounce it easily, but it would probably also sound like a horrible accent to an Icelander.

Garak, on 20 April 2010 - 11:28 AM, said:

Where did you find that picture anyway?

Reddits picture section:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 20 April 2010 - 11:31 AM

[Gothos]

har har advertising!

[Use Of Weapons]

I can pronounce it, and I'm Irish!

Mind you, I've had practice.

[Abyss]

Kanubis, on 20 April 2010 - 08:05 AM, said:

Gothos, on 20 April 2010 - 08:02 AM, said:

That would've been win. No more Elijah Woods!

Yeah, but Sean Astin was in the Goonies and Memphis Bell, and is therefore not expendable.

he was also in White Water Summer with... KEVIN BACON!


- Abyss, is fairly sure the proper pronunciation for Eyjafjallajökull is 'Nyarlathohep'.

[Aptorian]

Rush Limbaugh is a jackass

[Jusentantaka]

summary? My Proxy doesn't let me see that page (shocking, I knows!)

[Aptorian]

This is the text accompanying the audio clip:

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On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh blamed the volcanic eruption in Iceland on the passage of health care reform in the United States. While talking about Obama’s claims that health care reform has not brought about Armageddon, Limbaugh said, “I think the Earth may have opened up. God may have replied.” God is punishing Europe for the health care bill in America.

Limbaugh said, “You know a couple of days after the health care bill was signed Obama was walking around saying hey you know I am looking around the Earth hasn’t opened up, no Armageddon out there the birds are still chirping. I think the Earth may have opened up. God may have replied. This volcano in Iceland has grounded more airplanes. Air space has been more affected than even after 9/11 because of this plume, because of this ash cloud.”
Rush Limbaugh has now thrown any bit on sanity that he had left out of the window. Let’s play along here for a second and ask ourselves, if God really was angry about the passage of health care reform, probably because there is a man power shortage in heaven, why would he punish the more socialistic countries in Europe for the passage of a watered down health care bill that contains no nationalization, in the United States?

You would think that if God had enough to even care about domestic policy in the United States, and he was really mad, he might, oh, I don’t know, punish the United States and not Europe. This is all part of Limbaugh’s rampant Obama paranoia. He is now blaming Barack Obama’s policies for natural disasters on other continents. What’s next Obama’s allowing of same sex couple hospital visits caused the Chinese earthquake? This is the kind of farcical nonsense that the right wing’s hatred of Obama has driven them to.

[Garak]

Wow, that is seriously loony.

[Jusentantaka]

When the apocalypse comes, we'll start a war to be the first to kick his corpse.

[Abyss]

He'll have to duke it out with the nutjob in Iran who's insisting promiscuous women caused the earthquake. http://news.bbc.co.u...ast/8631775.stm


- Abyss, is not to blame for the earthquake.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Abyss, on 20 April 2010 - 06:38 PM, said:

He'll have to duke it out with the nutjob in Iran who's insisting promiscuous women caused the earthquake. http://news.bbc.co.u...ast/8631775.stm


- Abyss, is not to blame for the earthquake.

Guess the earth really DID move then.....

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Cocoreturns, on 20 April 2010 - 09:28 PM, said:

Abyss, on 20 April 2010 - 06:38 PM, said:

He'll have to duke it out with the nutjob in Iran who's insisting promiscuous women caused the earthquake. http://news.bbc.co.u...ast/8631775.stm


- Abyss, is not to blame for the earthquake.

Guess the earth really DID move then.....

I saw this in the paper, titled "Sexy women rock."

Thanks for the update...

[Jusentantaka]

And my flight has been recancelled. Time to sink Iceland me thinks.

[Aptorian]

I'm waiting for the first airplane crashed caused by the air lines ignoring damage to the engines and keeping it secret from the public. It's going to be great, the drama will last for weeks. Then Katla goes sky high and the air line industry goes belly up and Obama and the Jews get the blame.

[MTS]

I wonder who's laughing at Peter Griffin's volcano insurance right now...

[caladanbrood]

Aptorian, on 22 April 2010 - 08:19 AM, said:

I'm waiting for the first airplane crashed caused by the air lines ignoring damage to the engines

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It's going to be great

You didn't seriously just say that?

[Gothos]

cold, dude.
still, this IS teh internets. nobody will believe you give a shit about people anyway.

[Aptorian]

caladanbrood, on 22 April 2010 - 10:53 AM, said:

Aptorian, on 22 April 2010 - 08:19 AM, said:

I'm waiting for the first airplane crashed caused by the air lines ignoring damage to the engines

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It's going to be great

You didn't seriously just say that?

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Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique, or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance that goes strikingly beyond the most simple and evident meaning of words or actions. Verbal and situational irony is often intentionally used as emphasis in an assertion of a truth. The ironic form of simile, or the irony of sarcasm or litotes may involve the emphasis of one's meaning by deliberate use of language that states the direct opposite of the truth, or drastically and obviously understates a factual connection.

In fictional dramatic irony, the artist causes a character, acting as a mouthpiece, to speak or act in a way intentionally contrary to the truth. This again is a method that highlights the literal facts by giving the example of a fictional persona who is strikingly ignorant of them.

In certain kinds of situational or historical irony, that occur outside works of fiction, a certain factual truth is highlighted by some person's complete ignorance of it, or belief in the opposite of it—however, this contrast does not occur by human design. In some religious contexts, such situations have been seen as the deliberate work of divine providence to emphasize facts, and taunt or toy with humans for not being aware of them in situations where they could easily have been enlightened (this is similar to human use of irony). Such ironies are often more evident, or more striking, when viewed retrospectively in the light of later developments that make the truth of past situations obvious to all.

Almost all irony involves commentary that heightens tension naturally involved in the state and fate of a person (in the present, or the past) who badly needs to know a given fact they could easily know but does not.

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.

[Illuyankas]

IT'S LIKE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY
IT'S LIKE A SONG ABOUT IRONY THAT GIVES EXAMPLES THAT AREN'T IRONIC

[Aptorian]

Silly chicken. A song about irony, using examples that aren't ironic, is irony. Alanis Morisette uses meta irony, it is super effective.

There's some post on Reddit some where analysing that song, it becomes circular, if the irony is not irony then it is irony upon irony infinitum.