In which Latin is mocked, attempts to run and hide, and then realises it is even more pathetic than originally thought.

[Please note that the following is drawn entirely from Gmail Chat status messages...]

Me:
Dear Latin: Eeeeeverybody hates you. Including people you haven't met. Please feel free to go cry in a corner, lonely and unloved.

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I was out drinking with goblinpaladin and areyoustrange tonight in Newtown, which seems to have become a semi-regular Friday night event. I also bumped into highlyeccentric which was a rather pleasant surprise and led to discussions on a range of topics...but back on track ( Read more... )

How could things get any better?!

I love the cold. And I love the wet. This is due in part to growing up in the Southern Highlands but since I don't really like the Highlands at all it's probably because I have a complexion that would make your average vampire look like a tanned surfer.

So I don't really like the sun. Or sunny days in general.

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I don't understand some scholars. They just don't make sense.

Also, 'received opinion' needs to be taken out the back and beaten with the stick of thinking. Citing someone as 'great' when they are patently wrong repeatedly is stupid. It's particularly bad when they were taken to task for their mistakes fifty years before you started to gush about ( Read more... )