The official Festivus 2011 thread

[eduardo89]

She can stay if she polishes my pole in silence.

Do women like that exist?

 

[amy31416]

WTF are you talking about, woman? I un-gayed it at post 113.

Oh...my bad. All those posts with you guys yapping on about your poles was definitely not gay. Carry on, sorry to interrupt.

 

[eduardo89]

Oh...my bad. All those posts with you guys yapping on about your poles was definitely not gay. Carry on, sorry to interrupt.

Maybe you can settle this for us...whose got a better pole, HB or me?

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Oh...my bad. All those posts with you guys yapping on about your poles was definitely not gay. Carry on, sorry to interrupt.

The pole is an extremely important part of Festivus. Festivus is serious business. Now, make yourself useful and cook or clean something. Or participate in a feat of strength with me.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Do women like that exist?

Amish and Mormon women tend to behave that way, as I understand.

 

[eduardo89]

Amish and Mormon women tend to behave that way, as I understand.

Hmmm that's interesting to know. Amish women seem a bit out of reach, but Mormons, maybe that could work.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Hmmm that's interesting to know. Amish women seem a bit out of reach, but Mormons, maybe that could work.

Yup. I betcha it's possible to use hypnosis and Pavlovian training to make any woman behave that way. I haven't tested this yet, though.

 

[eduardo89]

Yup. I betcha it's possible to use hypnosis and Pavlovian training to make any woman behave that way. I haven't tested this yet, though.

I tried Pavlovian training on my roommate in boarding school...not for the same reasons as what we're discussing (just to be clear)

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I tried Pavlovian training on my roommate in boarding school...not for the same reasons as what we're discussing (just to be clear)

How well did it work?

 

[eduardo89]

How well did it work?

Sadly I wasn't able to carry the experiment out till the end. Somehow he figured it out after about a week.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

One Eduardo will especially appreciate:

 

[eduardo89]

Gracias amigo. Te deseo un feliz festivus a ti también!

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Gracias amigo. Te deseo un feliz festivus a ti también!

Пожадуйста, мой друг! Я так рад вам её нравиться.

 

[eduardo89]

Пожадуйста, мой друг! Я так рад вам её нравиться.

¡Me gusta mucho!

Just curious, when you type in Cyrillic, do you use a phonetic keyboard or did you actually learn the Russian layout? I could never do the latter, always used a custom phonetic layout I made for myself.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

¡Me gusta mucho!

Just curious, when you type in Cyrillic, do you use a phonetic keyboard or did you actually learn the Russian layout? I could never do the latter, always used a custom phonetic layout I made for myself.

I have a bilingual keyboard, but I've almost memorized the layout. It takes some getting used to because the extra letters in the russian alphabet are placed where punctuation marks are on an english keyboard. Вы говорит по-русский? Если да, молодец!

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Festivus fail:

 

[amy31416]

Answer me this, my foreign language speaking friends--how the heck does texting work in Asian languages? How about programming?

 

[eduardo89]

Answer me this, my foreign language speaking friends--how the heck does texting work in Asian languages? How about programming?

I would think Chinese use pinyin and Japanese use romanji, just like Cyrillic-language texters romanize what they write.

Also found this:

They use Hiragana (Japanese alphabet) to compose a text.

When you type a word in Hiragana, your phone shows you all the possible combinations of Kanji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji).　

This video from youtube shows you how it actually works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIoFp4lzik

On a non-smart phones, there are two ways of typing.

A. Traditional method
5 Hiragana chracters are assigned to each key (0-9, #, *). It's just like how a phone in English has "a - c" assigned to "1" button. If you wanna type the 5th character on key 1, you simply press "1" five times.

B. Two touch input
With this method, each Hiragana characters are assigned in a grid.
You choose a character by specifying a row and a column number.
(e.g. for Hiragana "Ki (き)" you type 2 2)
This method is much faster for typing out Hiragana, because you only need to press keys twice for any characters.

This video shows you how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgXFUe5K9io

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Answer me this, my foreign language speaking friends--how the heck does texting work in Asian languages? How about programming?

Dunno about asian languages, but in Russian it works the same way, as long as the device can read cyrillic font codes (such as KOI-8R). I have friends in Russia who use SMS on their phones, so it works somehow.

 

[eduardo89]

Dunno about asian languages, but in Russian it works the same way, as long as the device can read cyrillic font codes (such as KOI-8R). I have friends in Russia who use SMS on their phones, so it works somehow.

Yeah there's no problem texting in Cyrillic as long as your phone has a Cyrillic dictionary. Most people use the Latin alphabet to text though in my experience. Transliteration is very easy.