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Recommendation: Dwarfs

#41 Kruppe's snacky cakes

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Posted 14 February 2013 - 11:18 PM

So, just to clarify, pants = awful?

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That's a British-ism, I presume. We used to use UK-developed QA software at work. Lots of whilsts and shan'ts and other words that make you hungry for tea and crumpets...

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#42 worry

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Posted 14 February 2013 - 11:36 PM

Pants refers to underpants, not "trousers", in the lands of the godforsaken. Their overriding fear of "private parts" had an unfortunate domineering effect on the development of their slangs and vernaculars.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#43 Macros

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 10:56 AM

Pants means shit yes.

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#44 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 03:53 PM

Macros, on 15 February 2013 - 10:56 AM, said:

Pants means shit yes.

But not "Shit, yes!"

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

#45 Abyss

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 04:23 PM

Tho it should.

What were we talking about?

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#46 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 04:54 PM

Underwear, I think.

#47 Kruppe's snacky cakes

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 06:01 PM

I don't know if I can associate British underpants with "awful." It makes me think of Mr. Bean changing into his swimming trunks, and that is pure joy.

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#48 worry

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Posted 15 February 2013 - 09:02 PM

Keep in mind though that the British use, without compunction, any "pants" they are currently wearing as adult diapers. Night, day, public, private, at work, at play, young, old, and in-between. It's just their culture.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 08:45 PM

Non-GW (because they a re being baggah-douches about the term Space Marine)Dwarf themed novels.

Although, at this point I started reading SciFi instead of fantasy (please no GW-Squat themed stories).

“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards