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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)

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abcd_z said:
I just realized something. Maybe I missed it, but I have no idea how Paul got the job of criticizing the Justice League.

I mean, think about it: Batman shows up and goes, "Paul, we need you to do an in-depth analysis of our League members. We need you to be the person to do this, because..." and here's where my brain screeches to a halt. I can't think of a single reason why Paul would be asked to perform such a task in the first place, or why he would be chosen over somebody else. Additionally, he'd be an outsider telling the League how to do their job better, which (as anybody who's ever suffered under an incompetent manager will know) can be incredibly grating.

EDIT: I mean, out-of-character it makes total sense, because this is Zoat's story and of course he has some opinions of the Justice League that he wants to share, but in-character it makes no sense.

Also, please stop hugging me. It gives me no useful feedback about the quality and content of my post.
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Hug.
 
BrambleThorn said:
When in doubt, assume it is a euphemism for a something to do with sex.

So just translate "You shoved too hard and now the 'mechanism' is broken," into Norse in the most lewd way possible. Because you know they have words for those. Every human language in existence does.
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Actually, like a lot of ancient peoples, the Norse didn't bother with euplamisms. Oh, they used metaphor, but not for something as natural and utterly mundane as sex.
 
Avernus said:
OL seems to think it's meant that Klarion and/or that Nazi wizard has returned.
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I'm blaming Nabu. Either he dumped everyone he was holding back onto the planet, or he went and killed them. Killing the wizard might be the release trigger to let the Einh... vikings return to their senses (as they said, "If he fell in battle..."). Paul did make a point about Nabu not killing Klarion...
 
gladiusone said:
Actually, like a lot of ancient peoples, the Norse didn't bother with euplamisms. Oh, they used metaphor, but not for something as natural and utterly mundane as sex.
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No, I mean when in doubt, treat it as a euphemism, so when you translate it to norwegian, if you do not know the norwegian word for mechanism, just go with "the mechanism is my penis," because they have got to have a word for that.

Also, pretty sure they have euphemisms, because this is the religion of Thor.
Just like Eskimos are said to have 40 different words for 'Ice,'
The Norse need to have 37 different jokes whose punchline is "The Hammer is my Penis"
Because Reasons.
 
BrambleThorn said:
No, I mean when in doubt, treat it as a euphemism, so when you translate it to norwegian, if you do not know the norwegian word for mechanism, just go with "the mechanism is my penis," because they have got to have a word for that.

Also, pretty sure they have euphemisms, because this is the religion of Thor.
Just like Eskimos are said to have 40 different words for 'Ice,'
The Norse need to have 37 different jokes whose punchline is "The Hammer is my Penis"
Because Reasons.
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.. You do know that the thing about Inuits and snow is a myth, right?
 
gladiusone said:
.. You do know that the thing about Inuits and snow is a myth, right?
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Are there really 50 Eskimo words for snow?

"The latest evidence, however, suggests that Boas was right all along."


Copied from Wikipedia since I can't access the full article: Eskimo words for snow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Yet Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Washington DC believes that Boas was careful to include only words representing meaningful distinctions. Taking the same care with their own work, Krupnik and others have now charted the vocabulary of about 10 Inuit and Yupik dialects and conclude that there are indeed many more words for snow than in English (SIKU: Knowing Our Ice, 2010). Central Siberian Yupik has 40 such terms, whereas the Inuit dialect spoken in Nunavik, Quebec, has at least 53, including matsaaruti, wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for the crystalline powder snow that looks like salt. For many of these dialects, the vocabulary associated with sea ice is even richer."
 
Tiroth said:
You know that English has at least a half-dozen words for rain? And probably more that I'm not personally familiar with?

When you get a lot of something, you start finding ways to describe it a bit more accurately.
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"I've seen drier days on Ferenginar. And we have a hundred seventy-eight different words for rain. Right now it's glebbening out there. And that's bad."
- Quark
 
gladiusone said:
.. You do know that the thing about Inuits and snow is a myth, right?
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daimahou said:
"The latest evidence, however, suggests that Boas was right all along."
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In my defense, I specifically phrased it as "said to have" instead of stating it as a fact to avoid this.

Tiroth said:
You know that English has at least a half-dozen words for rain? And probably more that I'm not personally familiar with?
When you get a lot of something, you start finding ways to describe it a bit more accurately.
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Semi-OT:
In the ancient standards of Norse hospitability, what foods would have the most cultural significance to the undead Vikings? Venison? Mutton? Suckling pig?

Just because the undead don't need to eat food doesn't mean they can't taste and savor it.

Mister Cake: "I wasn't sure what meat you preferred, so I cooked a little of everything."
Viking: (insert poetic verse about 'generous hosts')
Mister Cake: :grin:

Of course, asking "what kind of mead do you prefer?" would likely kick off an argument that'd escalate into a station-wide brawl.

"Michelob!"
"Pabst Blue Ribbon!"
"Bud Lite Lime!"
(*crowd gasps*) "HERESY!!!"

 
Dr. Bob Doom said:
Are we getting comic book vikings, or are we getting the fashion conscious, carry-around-a-mirror-and-comb vikings?
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They are more or less historical, but they are Odin's chosen warriors. Best of the best, and most of them have been drilling in expectation of eventually fighting giants for a very long time. And their spectral bodies have fairly fixed shapes anyway.
 
Blight said:
So the fact that cloning is on morally shaky grounds (as in, people IRL debate the ethics of it) is insulting... how, exactly?
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Mostly by self-reference. Continuing an earlier analogy: At some point the Flat Earth advocate is going to open his mouth and insult himself by saying he actually believes the world is flat, and further insult himself by saying what lines of denial and critical thinking failures he actually employed to reach that conclusion, and that all of the above is true of him. He may even go on further to insult Flat Earthers in general by saying they all follow the same defective reasoning as he did, and reached their conclusions in similar ways. And maybe yes, this will cause a debate as some people are likely to care enough about him to wish him to not be wrong about the shape of the Earth. And even if he asserts as fact that the shape of the Earth is unresolved because people like himself still debate it, this will still not affect the actual shape of the Earth.
 
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It's always fun when the main debate is about a comment a character made 2 chapters ago. Especially when said debate is mostly off topic and kind of a dead horse in the first place.
 
rkyeun said:
Mostly by self-reference. Continuing an earlier analogy: At some point the Flat Earth advocate is going to open his mouth and insult himself by saying he actually believes the world is flat, and further insult himself by saying what lines of denial and critical thinking failures he actually employed to reach that conclusion, and that all of the above is true of him. He may even go on further to insult Flat Earthers in general by saying they all follow the same defective reasoning as he did, and reached their conclusions in similar ways. And maybe yes, this will cause a debate as some people are likely to care enough about him to wish him to not be wrong about the shape of the Earth. And even if he asserts as fact that the shape of the Earth is unresolved because people like himself still debate it, this will still not affect the actual shape of the Earth.
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If only there was a 'dislike' button...

GodKiller999 said:
It's always fun when the main debate is about a comment a character made 2 chapters ago. Especially when said debate is mostly off topic and kind of a dead horse in the first place.
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Hey, I abandoned trying to convince people of my point of you earlier, but people keep bringing it back up.
 
Are we seriously going to need to get a mod called in here to stop a religion debate? Come on guys, we're better than this. Can we at least avoid playing to the stereotype? If we're going to derail the thread with an argument, let's at least make sure it's one that hasn't been done yet.

I hate Oreos. Fight me. (Please don't)
 
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I like the golden oreos. I can stand the regular ones. I hate the more gimmicky ones.
 
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The_Letter_K said:
Sometimes when I'm feeling like I'm being too optimistic, I'll google "novelty oreos" to come back down. I mean, Strawberry Shortcake? Blueberry Pie? FRUIT PUNCH? What have we become?
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There's an entire channel on YouTube devoted to the bullshit flavors of KitKat from Japan. Some are good. Some are very very wrong. Half of them are flavors of tea. And some of them are just... why would you WANT that flavor?
 
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