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[Angel Of Death]

I'm 130 kg at 6.1. Probably 6.2. Goddamn weight...

Anyway, I've been scrolling through older threads. I even found the original RAAAGE thread! This makes me happy.

[Simmura McCrea]

Huh, according to Wolfram Alpha, my BMI's in a normal range. I think that's the first time in my life.

[iceball3]

By my guesstimate, ~140 lb and ~>5'6". I've probably gotten taller since I've last been measured vertically. Maybe.

[Scaraban]

Pizza rolls for breakfast! except I haven't slept in a couple days, so what meal is this? Are meals decided by time of day or how many meals you have eaten in a waking period?

[Kay12]

182cm and a bit under 70kg, or about six feet and 150 pounds. I think that may even classify as slightly underweight, but any pounds I've gained beyond this have always melted away within a few months for no particular reason so that's probably just the natural state of my body.

[Mindmaker]

You people are SO weird.

Hey! We also worked on some wolrdshaking global issues there!
One of the topics that we discussed at great length was, how you correctly call a female anthropologist in polish.
I came up with a lot of ridiculous ones (antropologiczka, antropologówka etc.). Hell, I don't even remember what we agreed upon.

However later I remembered that there is a polish trend, when it comes to those issues, since even the Poles themselves are quite troubled.
I guess the correct version is "Pani Antropolog" (meaning "Miss Anthropologist").

In other news, I had one of those "Oh Poland, you're just awesome!"-moments, but more on that later.

[Vector]

Hahaha, okay.

Yeah, I remember learning that there is no word in Russian for a female mathematician (and many, many other jobs).  You add -ka to the end and it means "wife of a guy who works in that profession" =/

[Kay12]

Interesting!

Here in Finland we don't have such limitation, for the feminine suffixes for different professions are used very rarely. However, some professions and titles end with the word -mies which means "man" - just like "fireman", for example. Someone tried to lobby for changing those words officially (fireman -> fireperson etc), but I think everyone just got bored or found more acute problems to worry about.

[Vertigon]

Late entry to the height/weight conversation, I'm 5 feet 5 inches and weigh 101 pounds. My BMI is 16.8, which is "underweight; moderate thinness".

Interesting!

Here in Finland we don't have such limitation, for the feminine suffixes for different professions are used very rarely. However, some professions and titles end with the word -mies which means "man" - just like "fireman", for example. Someone tried to lobby for changing those words officially (fireman -> fireperson etc), but I think everyone just got bored or found more acute problems to worry about.

Americans have changed most of those kinds of words, but there's a few changes that irk me. Actor and actress mean "one who acts" and "woman who acts", respectively. Is actress not a redundant word? Why do we need a new one for women when we don't have one for men? Same with waiter and waitress.

[Cthulhu]

I had a dream about a D&D campaign and part of me wants to talk about it but part of me isn't sure it wouldn't make a good actual campaign.  Maybe that's just the whole "I just woke up and silly stuff seems less silly to me" thing talking.

Anyway, there was some kind of incomprehensible race or force attacking the world, corrupting everything it touched and sending the resulting mutants and undead out to menace the lands.  Shit was real bad.  As it turned out, it was some race from another planet that tried to use its magic to travel somewhere (Maybe from one dimension to another?) and the spell failed, teleporting them to the campaign world where they fucked everything up just by being there.

[Akigagak]

I had a dream about a D&D campaign and part of me wants to talk about it but part of me isn't sure it wouldn't make a good actual campaign.  Maybe that's just the whole "I just woke up and silly stuff seems less silly to me" thing talking.

Anyway, there was some kind of incomprehensible race or force attacking the world, corrupting everything it touched and sending the resulting mutants and undead out to menace the lands.  Shit was real bad.  As it turned out, it was some race from another planet that tried to use its magic to travel somewhere (Maybe from one dimension to another?) and the spell failed, teleporting them to the campaign world where they fucked everything up just by being there.

I think that's heavily supported by "canon", so you can probably just go for it. D&D (3.5) has it's own version of the the Lovecraft mythos*, beings that are so old and terrible and etc etc that they screw around with stuff just by being nearby. They tend to be Epic level fights, though, so it wouldn't be a low-power game.

*By this I mean they largely stole the Lovecraft mythos and renamed some things and added magic.

[Aklyon]

Bad Apple using traditional Japanese instruments.

Has to be seen to be believed.


Also, I'm arguing with someone online about St. Augustine.  This makes me quite happy.

That sound pretty nice.

[Leafsnail]

Americans have changed most of those kinds of words, but there's a few changes that irk me. Actor and actress mean "one who acts" and "woman who acts", respectively. Is actress not a redundant word? Why do we need a new one for women when we don't have one for men? Same with waiter and waitress.

Yeah, some publications (such as the newspaper I read) explicitly tell their staff not to use words like actress.

[Il Palazzo]

I guess the correct version is "Pani Antropolog" (meaning "Miss Anthropologist").

The feminist movement in Poland tries very hard to change this trend by replacing Ms Profession by a feminine noun, regardless of how weird it might sound. Thus e.g.Pani Sędzia(Ms Judge; Pani~=Ms, Sędzia=Jugde in masculine) got replaced by Sędzina or Pani Sędzina.
While both might be considered correct from the purely linguistic point of view, the progressive trend is to go for the latter.
With Ms Anthropologist, the progressive form would be (Pani) Antropolożka.

But seriously, we only talked about Vector's bruises.

[Mindmaker]

Antropolożka

 
...
I'm not drunk enough for that discussion.
Maybe we would have figured that out after a third beer.

Edit:
Also, Sędzina sounds like you're talking about a group of people, or the meat of judges.
Just saying.