@Kawaii- nice summer colours. I still wear black most of the time- office wear. I look forward to when it's hot enough here that I can wear shorts to work again (damn this long spring…), then I'll be wearing Tan shorts with black shirts mostly- I love that colour combination, Black and Tan, but I always feel a bit wrong about it since that was what a rather brutal troop of British soldiers were called who did some bad stuff in Ireland during the troubles. -My Grnadmother was a staunch Irish Catholic and made sure I learned all about that stuff… family hiritage and all that.
Black and tan is the mixture of beers or certain breeds of dogs. No need to go into painful historical nastiness like the Irish Constabulary.
Have a beer and fuck the English. @kawaii: you discovered teal! I remember in 1988-9 when aqua/pink combinations were HUGE in menswear. We had a whole spinner of aqua/pink/grey ties in the store. Frightful things but at the same time beautiful with a pink shirt and grey slacks. Be a real man without a doubt of his manliness and wear pink! I had a whole drawer of teal and pink sports shirts too. Pink shirt and teal tie also looks great with a black suit. Maybe a little mobster-esque but still sharp.
As I sit here in my monotone navy blue style-less security uniform. Sometimes I miss dressing to impress as opposed to dressing to intimidate.
Haha! I had to look up the Black and Tans in Ireland just now.
I am sitting here wondering where I have seen the pink and teal combination before and, of course, it is the color scheme of the page design, diner, and uniforms in Bottomless Waitress!
The reason I am going to avoid pairing my yellow clothes and green blue clothes together, is because it will closely resemble the color scheme of Drunk Duck. Maybe staring at the forums and main page have finally started to influence my own color choices.
I really REALLY want to try the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's.
Just one small thing stopping me…
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I'm deathly afraid of animatronic creatures. In fact, this is one reason I avoid going to Chuck E Cheeses and circuses (the other reason being CLOWNS)…
bravo1102 wrote: Have a beer and fuck the English.
Yes - we are up for it!
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Working this online job is a little disorientating. It's hard to distinguish between working and not working sometimes. I sit in front of my monitor with a cup of tea, clicking through a selection of random websites, then when my work is done, I do exactly the same thing. I'm having to go for long walks every morning, just to remind myself there's a real world too.
Accent laughs???? I'm not sure if they do y'know? Laughs are weird, people change them over time. I laugh like an idiot. You can change your laugh while you're laughing thoug and make it sound stange- I'm talking REAL laughing here, not fake laughing. If you think about it while you ARE doing a real laugh thoughh you can get sme interesting results. Deepening your laugh, making it higher, taking all its breath away…
heh… It's hard to show accents in writing I think. All those nuances are lost when translating from actual sound to printed word. Ah fahnd it verei difficult sometahms.
And now… I'm not doing that again.
Oh… and any tips on designing uniforms? I'm gonna redo my old Battle Fortress comic, but when it comes to designing military uniforms I'm stumped. I could use the uniforms from either Wing Commander or Macross as a template, but I'd like to be different.
Come to think of it, where does the idea for the Macross "normal" dress uniform come from? And when there's a combat alert, do they strip it down for the flight suit, or are those things worn under the flight suits?
Hmm… Maybe when designing those so called "normal" uniforms (what soldiers are wearing when they're not flying) I should take that into account. Of course this means I'll have to avoid skirts for any female fighter pilots (it'd be really hard to stuff yourself into a flight suit while wearing one). Thanks to the inertial/G cancellers built into the fighters G force is something they won't have to worry about…
There's also the question about military rank. Clearly navy ranks are used when we talk about space ships and such. But the pilots are also taught how to use ground maneuvers like what the Marines/Army use (due to their fighters transforming into a humanlike form thought they wield pistols instead of rifles), so I may have to use army ranks too?
And as far as female hairstyles go I'll probably be more relaxed about that, though I'll have to explain how they get all that hair inside their helmets…
Lonne- Your thing with the Battlefortress comic was sexy girls. Take that and run with it! That means short skirts and thigh-highs baby, no need for realistic uniforms in an anime inspired comic. If the skirts are short enough they won't hinder a flight suit worn over the top. ;)
As for ranks, go for US Marine ranks- They fight on land, sea, AND the air.
Have skirts so short they wear same colored panties under them and can throw themselves into a flight suit. Look at how short that skirt is. It'd fit under a flight suit no problem. OR have short skirts and jackets over a skin tight flight suit. I did that for the Aordian uniforms in Battle of the Robo-femoids. It's a short black jacket over a skin tight suit. A mini skirt is optional and is usually worn when the alternate thigh high boots are worn. There are also cool over coats that are an excursion uniform or alternate dress uniform over the undress trousers and turtleneck as worn in Tales of SIG. https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/Battle_of_the_Robofemoids/5393262/ https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/Tales_of_SIG/5466461/ If you noticed in Tales of SIG I felt that Star Trek_TOS skirts were too short so I added black skirts underneath! For ranks you could use Technician and chief for enlisted and naval ranks for officers. Something neat about commanders and a captain as a ship commander as opposed to a captain leading a company and a colonel commanding a ship? Or you could just have marines and fleet with both ranks represented. The fleet does ground support but the marines specialize in ground combat. So you'd have marine pilots and naval pilots operating together but marines being the ground troops but often with naval officers. (like the Royal Navy. In WWII Admiral Mountbatten commanded ground troops who worked in combined operations with the navy) By the way although the USAF kept army ranks for officers it uses technicians and chiefs (though offically sergeants) conversely the RAF uses naval style officer ranks (flight leader and squadron commander) with army enlisted ranks.
Lonnehart wrote: And as far as female hairstyles go I'll probably be more relaxed about that, though I'll have to explain how they get all that hair inside their helmets…
I think this problem is best solved by making the hair and the helmets one and the same, as they do on the moon.
I think this problem is best solved by making the hair and the helmets one and the same, as they do on the moon.
And that SHADO Moonbase outfit converts into a jumpsuit by zipping on sleeves and legs! A great costume design by Sylvia Anderson. I have the whole UFO series on DVD.
HAHAHA!!! That's a lot of hair gel. I can imagine a meteor striking her hair… only to be stopped.
Heh… I think instead of running away with the idea of cute and lovely women in the Zephyr crew I should add a few beautiful men as well. The Bridge Bunny thing and a mostly female ship crew is something that I think is way too overdone in anime. Then again they somehow sell the series.
And now that makes me think of Go Nagai. He doesn't treat his women very well in his anime. Especially in his giant robot anime Mazinger Z and everything related to it. He did make an all female giant robot team, but while the male robot got lots of detail and weaponry, the female robots… not so much. And the female bots got destroyed a lot and were often equipped with ineffective weaponry (Aphrodite A had boob missiles… and that was it)…
The way the heat is set up in my house is so stupid. My room is the furthest away from the furnace, and by the time the heat gets to me it's just a weak little gust of room-temperature air that makes my room feel drafty more than anything. Being on the North side of the house doesn't help either.
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I got kind of a crappy hair cut today. I could have sworn the salon gave me a different name, but when I showed up it was the same woman I had last time (who also did a crappy job then). I showed her this picture of what I wanted, and came home with this. I mean, I understand she can't do exactly the same thing but my hair honestly looks worse than when I just roll out of bed and part it in the morning (my usual routine). She didn't even try to style it with the same kind of curls as the model…it basically just looks messy. I could tell it was going to go poorly from the beginning, because she didn't even bother to ask what side I part it on.
That's a hard style to match; mostly a temporary look you get through styling? It looks like all you're missing is the extra body in the top portion. Couldn't that be achieved with mousse , back brushing and a dryer?
I've not got much recent experence with that sort of thing since I became a long haired yahoo. But when I was in my early teens It was all the rage to go through hairspray, mousse, and jars of brightly coloured hair gel.
At one time my hair was a variation on this theme:
ozoneocean wrote: That's a hard style to match; mostly a temporary look you get through styling? It looks like all you're missing is the extra body in the top portion. Couldn't that be achieved with mousse , back brushing and a dryer?
No, definitely. I maybe didn't explain too well…I also paid her to style my hair, not just cut it. I wasn't expecting it to look like the model when it just dries naturally or whatever. What's going on in that picture was apparently her best attempt at recreating the look with all the tools at her disposal. It's a pretty upscale place, too, so at the very least I should have come home with smooth curls and no flyaways. The cut itself also doesn't allow me to style it similarly to the photo, though…it's missing the longer layers around my ears and the shorter layers around my face. I might go back and get it fixed, but I feel like it would be really embarassing if she were there.
I actually think you would look good with sticky-uppy hair, by the way! Maybe a little more modernized, though…
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Also, brand new rant. I got a weird email from my mom this morning saying that she can't handle Christmas this year (i.e. isn't coming to visit or giving gifts). She has really bad Christmas memories from childhood so I got the feeling that's what she was referring to, and emailed her back saying that it was too bad but we understood and she should do whatever is best for her own well-being. Then I told my Dad about it, and he seemed to think she was upset because she had to share us with him over the holidays and that I should have told her that we did want her to come visit. Which also makes sense, but if she genuinely feels like Christmas is too difficult for her I don't want to guilt her into something she isn't happy with. So I don't know. I'm not sure if this is the kind of situation where I'm meant to take her at her word, or if she's secretly hoping that we protest. It's freaking ridiculous that I'm supposed to be decoding messages from one of my parents.
@Hippie- In the past when I walked into hair salons with reference pictures, I only ended up with a hairstyle exactly how I wanted when the hairstylist spoke minimal English. Sometimes I just ask for the best cut for my face shape. I think the haircut you received looks cute, it is very Marion Cotillard-esque. Your eyebrows look GREAT and nicely shaped and good color. I have a hard time trusting that a haircut will be worth the $35+ price, so I resort to DIY techniques to remove split ends and trim bangs with a razor. I think I found a winning technique that I will be using from now on.
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On Friday, I celebrated the first day of my last year as a twenty-something. It was cool because I spent it at an arcade and playing the same driving game I used to play when I was twenty. The only difference was that my reflection in the video game monitor glass bears a stronger resemblance to that of a thrity-something.
A lot of the time, people are afraid of growing older and losing that youthful spark. I think that is a bunch of nonsense. When I was younger, I really thought things would be different. I thought I would be married by twenty-eight, but now I have so much more to offer in ways of experience. Just this week, I deboned and deskinned an entire whole chicken, I failed miserably at the same task in my early twenties. I baked a batch of brownie bites from scratch and sprinkled homemade powdered sugar on them. I feel that most of the challenges from one decade ago are still present, but I am much more prepared to handle them. I would not want to go back in time and trade everything I have learned so far in exchange for less gray hairs.
Happy Birthday kawaii! Great to read your thoughtful…well, thoughtful thoughts on the subject. I wouldn't want to go backwards to a younger age, either.
I get you now Hippie! That reminds me of the short haircut I got last year (or was it the year before???). It was all wrong and cut really awkward so I couldn't even style it. It only looked good at random… SO good to have real long hair again! I would do those Duran Duran styles again… but only for a short time. That was way too much maintaince. I do not miss all the time I spent preening in the mirror with brush, comb and styling products. urrrrr… The way Adam Sandler looked in Don't Mess with the Zohan made me miss it.
If I were you I'd go to a different place. Shop around. If you go to the same one they like to hand you back to the person who did your hair last because they imagine your "hers" and it's really awkward to ask for someone else. -_- Your hair doesn't match the model but it's not bad nevertheless. You can make it work in spite onf not likning the style :D
kawaiidaigakusei wrote: @Hippie- In the past when I walked into hair salons with reference pictures, I only ended up with a hairstyle exactly how I wanted when the hairstylist spoke minimal English. Sometimes I just ask for the best cut for my face shape. I think the haircut you received looks cute, it is very Marion Cotillard-esque. Your eyebrows look GREAT and nicely shaped and good color.
Haha, you have no idea how much I appreciate that compliment! My eyebrows are naturally almost flat and practically invisible (same with my eyelashes…the hardships of being gingerish), so I'm forever battling with them.
I find when I let the hairstylist do whatever they like they tend to do something pretty generic/whatever's in style. Although the truly disastrous haircuts are always when I ask for something more specific. :P
A lot of the time, people are afraid of growing older and losing that youthful spark. I think that is a bunch of nonsense. When I was younger, I really thought things would be different. I thought I would be married by twenty-eight, but now I have so much more to offer in ways of experience. Just this week, I deboned and deskinned an entire whole chicken, I failed miserably at the same task in my early twenties. I baked a batch of brownie bites from scratch and sprinkled homemade powdered sugar on them. I feel that most of the challenges from one decade ago are still present, but I am much more prepared to handle them. I would not want to go back in time and trade everything I have learned so far in exchange for less gray hairs.
Happy birthday! That's a great feeling - to reflect on something that was difficult/impossible in the past when it seems so easy now. I find myself doing that a lot with pre- and post-panic disorder Hippie Van.
ozoneoceanwrote: If I were you I'd go to a different place. Shop around. If you go to the same one they like to hand you back to the person who did your hair last because they imagine your “hers” and it's really awkward to ask for someone else. -_-
That's probably a good idea. My whole family has been going to this place since I was little and I think it's gone downhill quite a bit, most of the hairdressers who I really liked are gone now.
Happy birthday, Kawaii!!! I guess that's another year lived. I think that's why we celebrate birthdays. Long ago it was all too easy to be taken out by disease, predators, or our fellow man. So we celebrated every year we're alive.
Okay… now I feel old. It's best not to let life pass you by. You could regret it later…
Now I have Five Nights at Freddys, but I want my sister to play it. Apparently motherhood has made it so she's no longer affected by horror movies. In fact, she's entertained by them. And I'm reading a lot of opinions of the game and most gamers feel that it's not a horror game at all. Makes me wonder if people are now so desensitized by video games that they've been rendered fearless…
Oh, well… back to playing Pocket Trains. It's a business simulation game based on railroads. Y'know… you go to a station, pick up a shipping job, take to its destination and get paid. Then you use that money to buy more trains and expand your railroad… And the best thing about that game? You don't need a constant internet connection to play it though you can still purchase their currency/items for real world currency if you want.
Happy B-day Kawaii! You share the same week of November as my wife, Sally Field and two of my ex-girlfriends.
@hippievan: your mother's problem has a name Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. They say it's caused by the shortening of the days and lack of sunlight. I say it's half that and how nasty people can be to each other when you're supposed to be happy. Holiday cheer! Bah humbug work sucked today and you spend too much money and the turkey is overcooked and you spoil the kids blah, blah…
I usually had a fever every holiday season as a little kid so most of my early holiday memories are of fever-sweat soaked flannel pajamas, cough medicine and a mountain of arguments to ignore. I got into the habit of waiting to answer mealtime until after the smoke od the verbal battle had settled. Even if that meant eating cold food. I don't have pleasant memories of the holidays otuside of Rankin/Bass specials, March of the Wooden Soldiers and A Christmas Carol. I force myself into a holiday mood by watching endless versions of A Christmas Carol and wondering at the change in Scrooge and why can't we be like that every day?
@Lonne: I downloaded Pocket Trains because of you! It's the kind of simple game that I find too distracting, though…I might have to delete it until this semester's crunch time is over. :P
bravo1102 wrote: your mother's problem has a name Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. They say it's caused by the shortening of the days and lack of sunlight. I say it's half that and how nasty people can be to each other when you're supposed to be happy. Holiday cheer! Bah humbug work sucked today and you spend too much money and the turkey is overcooked and you spoil the kids blah, blah…
Nah, we're pretty familiar with SAD this far North (we even had one of those sunlight lamps when I was a kid) and that's not the issue. My mom had a really, really horrible childhood and actually functions amazingly well considering. But Christmas is just especially hard.
I force myself into a holiday mood by watching endless versions of A Christmas Carol and wondering at the change in Scrooge and why can't we be like that every day?
That's why Scrooge promises to try to keep the holiday spirit alive all year round! http://youtu.be/Bpb9EbmvM5M Muppet Christmas Carol is my personal making-it-Christmas movie. ^_^
Happy birthday Kawaii! I totally missed that post. Thanks hippie for quoting it or I'd have never seen it. Damn these forums… I have some strands of grey at the temples, they blend with the blond so they're hard to notice usually. When I first got one back in 2011 I was quite shocked and pulled it out! Now I don't really care though. I did notice more grey there during my recent trip with Bianka- I think she's a stressful person to be around so that probably contrubted, or it's just sun damage: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/06/10/3778375.htm The research is inconclusive to me!
Grey pubes are what you have to watch for though :D
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