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[Aseaheru]

Mountain lakes get you drunk on dreams

Ooh, thats good.

[hops]

Edit: There's a jar with a pickled two-faced kitten in the Bio lab.

Is a pickled cat wearing a bat suit going to fight it?

perhaps, in an alternate earth inhabited by psychic stillborn kittens.

[Flying Dice]

Mountain lakes get you drunk on dreams

Ooh, thats good.

Fairly true, too, from what I remember of Loch Lomond.

[Owlbread]

Yeaaaah, no. This is part of a contest being held by VisitScotland.com to solicit suggestions for Mandarin equivalents for Scottish stuff, to encourage Chinese tourists.

This disappoints me enormously.

The most common Mandarin phrase I can find is gāodì yùndònghuì, which literally means "high/tall land sports competition". Part of the art of finding Mandarin phrases for things is trying to find one that captures the gist while also sounding roughly the same. My Mandarin name, for instance, is Pan Luoyi, which is a pretty good phonetic approximation of my English name. I sometimes used Pan Luoli, which sacrificed a bit of phonetic fidelity for the in-joke that "Luoli" is the Mandarin pronunciation for Raleigh, the city I used to live in.

Anyways.....from the Beeb, here's a list of other top choices as submitted by Chinese speakers:

I can see why gāodì yùndònghuì wouldn't be as attractive to tourists as "Strong Man-Skirt Party".

    Kilt - (科特短裙) - Ke-te short skirt (homophone for "kilt")
    The Willow Tea Rooms - (唯乐茶屋) - Always happy tea room
    Malt Whisky Trail - (香酒巷) - Fragrant liqueur lane
    The Wallace Monument - (勇者心碑)- Monument to brave heart
    Glenfinnan Viaduct - (天堑飞虹) - Highland rainbow
    Royal Mile - (融蕴美径) - A beautiful street with long history and profound culture
    Balmoral Castle & Estate -(唯爱城堡) - One true love castle (sounds like Victoria I)
    Loch Ness Monster - (尼斯魅影) - Phantom of Loch Ness
    The Kelpies - (铠魄巨马) - Glorious armoured giant horses (homophonic with Kelpies)
    Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park - (山湖怀抱醉梦乡) - Mountain lakes get you drunk on dreams
    Cairngorms National Park - (云原雪岭) - Snow mountains reaching into sky

I wonder how Charles Rennie Mackintosh would have felt about his tea rooms getting called the "Always Happy Tea-Rooms". For those that don't know, Mackintosh was a Scottish architect and interior designer active in the early 20th century who was greatly inspired by art from the far-east; especially Japan. A Japonist, as it were.

Spoiler: This is an example of the kind of stuff you find in the tea-rooms (click to show/hide)

I love the name for the Trossachs National Park though, it's a beautiful part of the country.

I have to say, "glorious armoured giant horses" sounds like a good tourist draw.

Spoiler: I'll tell you, having seen them in person they're not that far off: (click to show/hide)

I was very impressed by them when I saw them the other day. They light up at night and everything.

[Darvi]

Majestic.

[hops]

Just wait until Andrew Hussie amass enough wealth to buy it and ship the place to America.

[Triaxx2]

Definitely the dark version of the forum not working correctly. Definitely a WTF moment.

[Bohandas]

Pale Moon already lags like the world's going to end with just three tabs.

Sometimes it helps to turn off javascript

[Graknorke]

Reading this article on some trademark bullshit. The content isn't actually important, what staggers me is the number of people in the comments who don't know that fallout is a real word that has a meaning, rather than just being a brand name.

[scrdest]

Reading this article on some trademark bullshit. The content isn't actually important, what staggers me is the number of people in the comments who don't know that fallout is a real word that has a meaning, rather than just being a brand name.

Eh, unlike Scrolls, I'm sorta on the fence here. With the name, it does kind of sound like a lazy-ass mobile title Bethesda would whip out if they wanted to cash in on the mobile gamers.

Actually, Fallout as a base-building RTS, with Raiders and NCR and Enclave and Legion and BoS and whatnot as factions... I'd play that.

[Aseaheru]

That does sound awesome, but I wouldent see the word 'fortress' being anywhere near that sort of game.

And frankly, when I saw the words 'fortress fallout' I thought it was somesorta base building against a ever-increasing amount of fallout and all it brings.

[Mechatronic]

I imagined you were a loyal manservant in an medieval fortress. Algal growth due to dank fortress conditions made it quite difficult to avoid falling out of. You could order servants to clean up the algae but they would slack off if you left them alone for long. So you would have to run about as fast as possible ordering them to work without falling out of the fortress.

Yeah, spent most of the day cleaning the house.

[Il Palazzo]

How about a tower defence game, where you try do defend increasingly copyright-risque game names from the legal fallout.

[BlackFlyme]

Noticed I hadn't taken my medication in almost a week. Turns out my mom threw them out.

I know that it didn't seem to be helping any, but that is just a waste. Why can't I handle my own medications?

Shit, it's like I'm still a child.

[BlackFlyme]

And some outright refuse to believe it happens.

She still helps me get my coat on in the morning.

She took my medication because apparently I can't be trusted to keep track of it, but when she's in charge, I had to remind her almost every night that I hadn't taken it.