Although that French is really bad and could be indeed to mislead me, as he has frequently done in the past. He might just be from Senegal, where they do speak French but that is then also as much civilisation as they got there.
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Although that French is really bad and could be indeed to mislead me, as he has frequently done in the past. He might just be from Senegal, where they do speak French but that is then also as much civilisation as they got there.
Ah come on, say it. You're being a tease and that's for females or gays (have nothing against either of them, although I don't like the last to flirt with me)... :-PQuote:
And I orgiginally was planning to say something about the Dutch and French, but thought you wouldn't appreciate it.
But there ain't much to say I guess. The french ***** on the dutch because the french get the drugs here. The beautiful thing is, 95% of our drugs get imported from french hahaha so actually the french are very stupid. First they drive to the netherlands to drop of the drugs. Then they come to the netherlands to buy drugs and bring it back.
But, that's probably not what you wanted to point out hehe.
That's also why I didn't want to say that. :D But it is true, I do like to tease people. For the record, I'm not gay though, despite me, Xeon and Platinum Plus making allusions on it about each other. :D And what I meant was that Belgians have the impression Dutch people know very little French in comparison to Belgians, and I've heard the French don't like the Dutch because of their poor knowledge of French and because of the fact that if they do know, they tutoye (incorrect, but don't know the translation) them.Quote:
Ah come on, say it. You're being a tease and that's for females or gays.
Didn't know that, and would surprise me if true.Quote:
The beautiful thing is, 95% of our drugs get imported from french hahaha so actually the french are very stupid.
More and more, they come to Belgium instead. It's becoming a problem.Quote:
Then they come to the netherlands to buy drugs and bring it back.
Is speaking French a sign of civilisation ? In Egypt, they did not speak French :rolleyes:Quote:
He might just be from Senegal, where they do speak French but that is then also as much civilisation as they got there.
The dutch hate french yeah... For the simple reason that the french don't like to speak any other language. They think french is it, the most wonderful language on the earth and then they come here and they expect EVERYONE to speak french because their language is the most beautiful on earth (or so they think, cuz i don't like it). They come here asking directions to the coffeeshop (the store where you can buy soft-drugs) in french?! Then you tell them you can tell them in english no no it must be french. You tell them again you don't speak french but you can speak english, no no it must be french. Then you tell them to **** off and find the shop on their own and then english will do... If all else prevails, english will do. **** em, they came here....
PS, I'm not generalising, that's just how it usually goes. Not all french people are like that and education also has something to do with it. Newer generations want to learn english, but the old ones can't teach it, nor do they want to learn how to teach it. So all the english they get is writing and reading. If you hear them speak english you'll laugh (not that my pronouncement is all that great) because they NEVER heared english in their entire lives. All movies are synchronised (yuck yuck bloody yuck (subtitles here)) and in school they don't get it. And the worsed part it... a lot of french/english words are the same, when used as verbs n stuff they change. However, the speech is so different you won't recognize it unless written down :/
I like France btw, it's a beautiful country. Just don't like a lot of the inhabitants (cause of lingual reasons, I'm sure they're great as persons, there's just this we don't wanna communicate thing between dutch n french ppl, wonder who will give in first). Ah heck, you can see it in Quebec how the french are. Every year they'll vote if they'll become totally french and every year they loose by an inch. Why doesn't the whole world just speak english? :-( It's easy, it's easy and most of all, it's really friggin' easy...
What's up with all this guessing where he's from anyway? Why not just ask? Here let me.
Hey Platinum, where you from dude? :-)
We shouldn't type too much in 1 message. This thread is supposed to become the one with the most messages and as of yet it has a hard time catching up with the where are we from thread.
Hmmz... we should figure out a way to measure how much work time is totally wasted here. It would be fun to know hehe..
Africa !Quote:
Originally posted by freaky_NL
What's up with all this guessing where he's from anyway? Why not just ask? Here let me.
Hey Platinum, where you from dude? :-)
True in general, indeed. But you haven't been to Italy yet. It is as bad. Nearly nobody speaks English or does an effort, yet Italian has never been a widespread language as French.Quote:
Originally posted by freaky_NL
For the simple reason that the french don't like to speak any other language.
We say that about France and Afghanistan too: it would be a beautiful country, if it weren't for the inhabitants. :DQuote:
Originally posted by freaky_NL
I like France btw, it's a beautiful country. Just don't like a lot of the inhabitants.
No, that was just a test. I searched your posts a bit, and in one of them you claimed to be Senegalais. I was just trying to insult a bit so I could see by the fierceness of your reaction whether that is true, just as you can check whether somebody is really 15 on the web by "mistakingly" calling him/her 14 years old. I think it is just another one of your false claims, just as the Chinese, Spanish, French and Swahili thingy. Can I ask you a question? Are you a mythomaniac?Quote:
Originally posted by Platinum Plus
Is speaking French a sign of civilisation ? In Egypt, they did not speak French.
Are you an agent of some sort ?Quote:
No, that was just a test.
If I were, I would have had your IP number already and tell from that where you are from.Quote:
Originally posted by Platinum Plus
Are you an agent of some sort ?
Trainee agent then :(
Whow, you didn't do anything nasty now did you Platinum? :-) But uh, what's all the fuss about guessing where he's from anyways? And why didn't u answer my question? :-PQuote:
Are you an agent of some sort ?
I did ... Africa. It's a place or is it not :confused:Quote:
And why didn't u answer my question? :-P
Yeah right. And ofcourse, you know fluently French, Spanish, Chinese AND Swahili. Come on. Even if you are, you've lost all credibility.
Ok Simon:
I did French at school for only one year (14 years ago)
I have a friend who learnt in Cuba and knows some Spanish
I cannot even tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese
My grandma speaks Swahili and I only know a few words
I followed Senegal a lot at the World Cup (though I don't remember mentioning it )
The third rock from the sun Simon :rolleyes:Quote:
I don't care any more what rock you came crawling under from and where this rock is located.
I enjoyed your arguments though :D :D :D
Apparently I didn't scroll up and read it incorrectly from this post. I read it "as Senegalais" while this is the user name of the thread starter, I didn't scroll up. My mistake.
And your Cuban friend isn't by accident called Fidel C. isn't he? :D The coolest old dictator on earth.
From Freaky_NL:
Whoa! Really direct? Assume you're a hypocrite.(I know you're probably not, but just an example! :))Quote:
We dutchies are pretty direct usually and when anyone ****s up we usually aren't subtile about it. Other people might think we're offensive but usually we're just pointing out something, see it as possitive feedback. That you're (<- no one in particular) a ****head doesn't mean I like you less :-)
If u're a Dutch and I tell that to your face, will u be offended?
If not, then I think that's real gallant and cool! Whoa!
And yeah, conclusion :
Platinum is from Africa. Case closed.
By the way, Platinum pal.......are u a black? I never had the chance to talk with a person of true native African origin, and it's real cool if u're. But if you're not, you're still out li'l Platty cutie baby who's totally soft and cute to hug, k? :):):D:o
No ofcourse not :-). It's like, we just say what we think, we don't wait until we're totally pissed off or so annoyed we could shoot you, in contradiction to some other cultures where they don't want to offend anyone and talk between the lines. Most people don't mind once they know how we work... Atleast... a lot of people used to be like that, times are changing tho'.Quote:
If u're a Dutch and I tell that to your face, will u be offended?
They don't succeed because they can't, because we have a constitution that prohibits anything like that, and therefore they don't. They don't grab any chance because there is no chance. I have to live in this country every day, I know what goes on here.Quote:
I said they grab any chance to be able to forbid them, so they try but do not necessarily and luckily succeed
Alors, ecrivez quelque chose en francais et vous pouvez voir s'il comprends et connait le francais. C'est tres simple. (Pardonnez moi, ce n'est pas ma langue naturel)Quote:
you can't conclude [that Plat isn't French]
I've never heard of a country called Africa... where in Africa? South Africa? If so, do you know Joe?Quote:
Africa !
I'll settle this argument once and for all:
Otto a éclaté dans la piscine. Les dauphins tendent Ã* être intelligents. Infestez la pauvre veuve avant le 14 juillet!!!!
So there!
Tom
Oh that made a lot of sense...Quote:
Originally posted by Tom Frohman
Otto a éclaté dans la piscine. Les dauphins tendent Ã* être intelligents. Infestez la pauvre veuve avant le 14 juillet!!!!
What the hell was Otto doing?
The truth about Otto:
Ist die eine Ente auf Ihrem Kopf, oder sind Sie gerade froh, in Las Vegas zu sein? Nein, mag ich Kaffee in der Dusche trinken, aber mein Radio ist defekt.
Tom
you are quite a polyglot
You're lucky Sonu is not around. Who the h*ll drinks coffee under the shower? That will be pretty weak coffee if you ask me. And why does his broken radio prevent him from doing that? And what is the duck flying around his head (could be an expression though) ? Did you just put some German words in a more or less random but syntacticly correct order? Not to mention your senseless French.
Fidel C# :pQuote:
And your Cuban friend isn't by accident called Fidel C. isn't he?
Let me see if I understand correctly.Quote:
You're lucky Sonu is not around.
From some of the discussion in the General Discussion area , slamming Americans, French and random talk of international hatred isn't offensive. Talk of mass slaughter with nuclear weapons, conventional bomming and snipers isn't offensive.
However, random babble is offensive? Hmmm.
I didn't mean Sonu would KILL you, you know. What I meant was that he would be in a good position to put you on the test about that German phrase or excerpt.
Say it Simon :D :D Better bad French than senseless French ... I think :rolleyes:Quote:
Did you just put some German words in a more or less random but syntacticly correct order? Not to mention your senseless French.
Here's a really funny site which does that (but in English): Random sentencesQuote:
Did you just put some German words in a more or less random but syntacticly correct order?
This site makes sense to me.:p
Pick a topic, any topic.
Okay... how bout music?
Does anyone play an instrument?
What about favorite musician/group/style?
Pick me! Pick me!
I play guitar and keyboard. I use to sing for a post-punk/industrial band... My favorite scale used to be the enigmatic scale, but now I think I am falling in love with the pentatonics because I can only get songs from it that sound like its directly out the orient.
What are your favorite composition programs? Mine is Logic Platinum. Its great for remixing and composing!
I've never used any such program, but one day I will write a program where you can play an instrument into the microphone and it will write the music you played, complete with rhythm, pitch, meter, scale, etc. I'll probably be 200 years old when I'm done :).Quote:
Originally posted by galathaea
What are your favorite composition programs? Mine is Logic Platinum. Its great for remixing and composing!
As for me personally, I play the marimba (it's like a xylophone but sounds really nice) and the piano (I love this the most). In the past I have played the violin and guitar, but I really hated the violin :(.
NO!!!!!!! I didn't think he would actually get around to it, but after three and a half weeks... :( Ladies and gentlemen, this is a sad, sad, sad day for the long thread.Quote:
Originally posted by Brad Jones on October 2
By the way, at some point, the threads in this category (General Discussion) will be taken off the top list on the front page of codeguru (www.codeguru.com), so that the more technical threads will appear instead.
Brad!
You have a very big project ahead of you (as I see you know well by your estimate)! Respect. I can't wait till you'r done as I need exactly that for some of my most recent projects. Logic has a cheap little attempt at computing notes from an audio file, but it rarely works right no matter how much I fidget with it. It even sometimes will put three notes when only one is played. I hear MOTU has a product out that does some of these things, but I haven't gotten around to checking it out (I hear thats where they got their name -- Mark Of The Unicorn, referring to the audio spikes when a note envelope sounds), and I am fairly confident it cannot do all of what you want in your program. I could really use something that would try to figure out tempo and time signature through a more intelligent look at the audio, for remixing and dj'ing.Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
I've never used any such program, but one day I will write a program where you can play an instrument into the microphone and it will write the music you played, complete with rhythm, pitch, meter, scale, etc. I'll probably be 200 years old when I'm done :).
As for me personally, I play the marimba (it's like a xylophone but sounds really nice) and the piano (I love this the most). In the past I have played the violin and guitar, but I really hated the violin :(.
So you play piano too? What type do you work on (upright, baby grand, grand, player:)). What brand? I wish I had a yamaha acoustic, but I only have a clavinova and an old upright I got from a university sale(which is actually waiting in my old town -- I haven't moved it to my new place yet).
And what is your favorite scale? Lately, I've been messing around with E minor pentatonic and finding all sorts of wacky oriental and middle eastern harmonies...
It's not something I'm currently working on. I don't know when (or if) I'll get around to it.Quote:
You have a very big project ahead of you (as I see you know well by your estimate)! Respect. I can't wait till you'r done as I need exactly that for some of my most recent projects.
A yamaha upright ;).Quote:
So you play piano too? What type do you work on (upright, baby grand, grand, player:)). What brand?
I would have to say C major is good enough for me :). But seriously, whatever scale gets the job done. I've played a lot of music by Gershwin, and if you know his style, it would be a stretch to say it's even in a scale.Quote:
And what is your favorite scale?
ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!! ALERT!!!!
For everyone living on mars and related solar satellites: TORI AMOS' NEW ALBUM IS OUT NOW!!!! Its a beautiful representation of the goddess incarnate (in carne?).
Back to the sobering reality of this thread...
About scales: for some reason I am constantly getting into these obsessions with certain scales. Some of the songs I have written include some BASIC scale changes, and I've even tried twelve-tone (but I get lost in the freedom... maybe sometimes I just need to be tied down :eek: ?). Anyway, I do like to mess around with some jazz scales (is that an oxymoron?) sometimes, but I usually find that I will mess around with a 5-7 note scale for a while because each one gives me a new emotional canvas to mess around with.
Off topic:TORI AMOS HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT TODAY!!! IF YOU DO NOT BUY IT, THE GODDESS WILL PUNISH YOU MIGHTILY!!!!
Oh Solarflare: I'll trade you my old upright for your yamaha... even steven... I won't even ask you to pay me the extra!
Did anyone get the notice about Scarlet's Walk? Do a google search...
Hahahaha... If Cradle Of Filth would punish me for not bying their record I would feel some fear, but that red-headed dwarf woman. :DQuote:
Originally posted by galathaea
TORI AMOS HAS A NEW ALBUM OUT TODAY!!! IF YOU DO NOT BUY IT, THE GODDESS WILL PUNISH YOU MIGHTILY!!!!
I've never tried to compose anything serious... I'd rather play music that has stood the test of time, proving it to be worth playing, rather than something that was created out of my own sick mind.Quote:
Originally posted by galathaea
About scales: for some reason I am constantly getting into these obsessions with certain scales. Some of the songs I have written include some BASIC scale changes, and I've even tried twelve-tone (but I get lost in the freedom... maybe sometimes I just need to be tied down :eek: ?). Anyway, I do like to mess around with some jazz scales (is that an oxymoron?) sometimes, but I usually find that I will mess around with a 5-7 note scale for a while because each one gives me a new emotional canvas to mess around with.
I find that playing music can be highly relaxing. Part of that is its predictability. If you know what's coming next, and you hear it, it's very satisfying and relaxing. When you play a song, you know exactly what you expect to hear, and you hear it, but you're also not just sitting down listening. It's more active: you're physically making the music, so it's like you're very much a part of the relaxing aura around you.
So... today's Halloween (except, by the time you read this it will be Nov. 1)! What traditions or customs do you or your country have? And if you could dress up as one line of code, what would it be?
Imported traditions. :mad: Everyone is talking about America invading Iraq, but about the pumpkins everywhere oh no. I feel like smashing them. :D But ebough about bad music. If I could dress up as one line of code, it would be format c:\ :cool: :rolleyes: :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
So... today's Halloween (except, by the time you read this it will be Nov. 1)! What traditions or customs do you or your country have? And if you could dress up as one line of code, what would it be?
And Simon when you are done, I could boil them and make me a nice pot of porridge ;)Quote:
solar says So... today's Halloween
Simon answers Imported traditions... and he's mad
he goes on to say about the pumpkins everywhere oh no. I feel like smashing them.
While Not poor Make_Money .... :D:D:DQuote:
if you could dress up as one line of code, what would it be?
Quote:
Originally posted by solarflare
if you could dress up as one line of code, what would it be?
Just think of the utter simplicity yet necessity of this line!Code:cout<<endl;
:rolleyes: :cool: :D
Today, it would be:
AfxMessageBox("I need a strooooong drink!", MB_ANDQUICK);
Solar, your subscription fees are due.
By tomorrow, please deliver a chicken chop set meal + 1 cute **** to me; thank you. :D
Anyway, to make this thread live longer.......does anyone knows how Halloween came about?
I'm kinda curious to know it's origin. Was it something related to St. Augustine and the witches and the chicken chop set meals in the witches house or something?
I believe Halloween used to be called "Hallow Eve". Since Hallow means divine/holy, it gotta have something to do with saints and such, but I wonder how and why the theme of Halloween has changed to ghosts, ghouls, Beasts(666), Satan/Devil, spirits and souls, vampires and imps instead.
:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
you're a pretty tough landlord.Quote:
Originally posted by Xeon
Solar, your subscription fees are due.
By tomorrow, please deliver a chicken chop set meal + 1 cute **** to me; thank you. :D
I don't know entirely, but here's what I do know:Quote:
Anyway, to make this thread live longer.......does anyone knows how Halloween came about?
There used to be some holiday (from Ireland or something) on November 2nd, but the church outlawed it and made "All Hallow's Day" on November 1st to prevent people from celbrating that other holiday (don't ask me how it worked), and then All Hallow's Eve(ning) is the night before, when people scared evil spirits away to prepare for All Hallow's Day.
I could be entirely wrong, but this is what I've heard.