Li, Nar, and Other Nonsenses
A Guide to Nicole and Suzanne Manifest Destiny
Saturday, February 27, 2010
"The Group of People That We Don't Have a Name for Yet"
So lately we've been discussing a group of people that we have found to be on the rise lately. Because we couldn't think of a proper name for them, we've named them "that group of people that we don't have a name for " by default. Because this is now an official category of people, I decided that we should lay down the general characteristics of these people. I am in close contact with this category of people on almost a daily basis so I will start the list and you can add to it what ever you think belongs there. Remember, to fit into this category a person does not need to fit all descriptions, just a majority of them.
- Really into video games and computer games, basically "gamers". The games that they're into are usually ones that are stereotypical "nerd" games; like Halo, World of Warcraft, ect. These games usually involve signing online and interacting with people all over the world. These games are addictive and usually consume a person's life once they get really into it. When they play they're games, they devote entire days to them and sit in the same room for hours on end, completely dead to the outside world. Also, these people are often into Nintendo games, like Super Smashbrothers, but those are usually played on the side and are not life-consuming addictions.
- Bad taste in clothing. You can usually find them wearing a shirt that is from some kind of video game (for example a picture of a mushroom from Mario that says "1-up" on the back). Or they will wear shirts with stupid, not funny phrases on them. They often times wear the same clothing for days at a time, usually due to the fact that they do not regularly bathe.
- Poor or unusual sleeping/eating habits. These kids stay up to like 5 am (on weekdays and weekends) and sleep until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. They stay up late because they're playing WOW, not because they're studying or doing anything else productive. When they eat, they go all out and order extra-large pizzas with wings and cheesy bread. After they eat it all, the boxes from it stay littered around their rooms (or dorms). This adds to their over-all low level of personal cleanliness.
- Sense of humor that includes Japanese video game mistranslations, obscure movie quotes, references to Adult Swim television shows and other things that the general public does not understand or care about. Usually, one of them will randomly break into a 5 minute-long quote form some old movie and the rest of them will join in, so that other people that they're with and everybody else around them stares at them with "what are they talking about" expressions, giving them the attention that they strive for. When they're trying to be funny, they maintain a serious, sober expression, so you don't know if they're joking or not. This adds to the witty sarcasm that they claim to possess and their self-satisfaction with the fact that they possess an intelligence level that is above everybody around them and an uncanny ability to latch onto things that are outside of the mainstream of popular culture. Because apparently, being obscure equates to personal intelligence. They look down upon people who follow trends, but really, they're only conforming to different sub-level of popular culture. A culture that strives to be set apart, but is really the same as "mainstream culture" because of its wide-spread cult-like following.
- Poor social graces. These guys are horrible with making friends with people that aren't just like them, and are even worse with girls. Therefore, they only date girls that also fit into this category and are only friends with their own kind. They attempt to act like they're outcasts because people don't understand them, but in reality, they push people away with their eccentric behavior and odd sense of smugness.
- Weird taste in music. They only listen to Japanese techno music, video game soundtracks, Weird Al or any other obscure band that nobody in the United States listen to. They have a fondness for music that is in different languages (usually German, Japanese or Russian).
- Mild interest in Anime, although this isn't as uniform as the other factors. There is, however, a large attraction to Pokemon, mostly because of it's widely-held association with nerdiness. There is a common practice of collecting Pokemon cards, playing Pokemon on Gameboy and owning Pokemon merchandise (T-shirts, blankets, underwear, figurines, stuffed animals, ect).
- Weird hobbies. These include: card games (Magic Cards, Pokemon, ect), Rubix cubes, building things out of Connex (spelling?), collecting comic books, basically anything considered by most to be "uncool"
- Obsession with Adult Swim
- Obsession over internet crazes, usually YouTube videos that are overplayed and not that amusing. They like to find YouTubes that other people haven't seen yet, but once they find them, they become just as popular as all the other ones, defeating the original purpose. These videos often play into their sense of humor, as they will quote them whenever a situation arises that is relates even remotely to the video.
- HUGE use of the word "fail", both as a noun and an adjective. For example: "You FAIL!", "Epic Fail!", "*place any object or action* Fail", "You will fail!", you get the idea. You can make the word fit into almost any scenario.
- Use of the word "win" as the opposite of "fail". Also used as several different parts of grammar and in a wide range of situations.
- Extreme talent in the Guitar Hero, Rock Band and other similar games. This is due to the fact that it is one of the only things they do.
- General laziness.
- Self-proclaimed nerdiness. However, they are usually not stripey at all, and often times do poorly in school. They're "Nerddom" is in reference to social acceptance, not academic achievement. However, they're life goal is to fit the stereotype of "nerd" or "gamer", so they're not nerdy by nature, it is done on their own account. However, they tend to be fact books when it comes to history, usually military history.
- Obsession with zombies and zombie invasions. They read stupid blogs entitled "What to do in case of a zombie invasion" and take stupid Facebook quizzes that are called "How long would you survive in a zombie attack". Yeah, I don't get it.
- Like of rap music, but mostly to be funny and use quotes from said rap music to put on the air of "I pretend to be ghetto, even though I know I'm not, so that people will find me funny and ironic".
- Jewish/Nazi/Holocaust/Hitler jokes.
- Ginger, sexist (Get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich, woman!), racist, homophobic and other "I can't believe he just said that!" jokes. Mostly, if not always for shock value.
- Occasional drinkers or pot smokers, but straight edge for the most part
- Trips to comic book conventions
- Use of phrases like "I hate stupid people" or "Stupid people should be sterilized" although they themselves are not that intelligent.
- Obsession of popular websites such as: LOL cats and dogs, Failblog, FML, TFLN, and MLIA. They enjoy posting these things on each other's Facebook walls or using them as statuses.
- Usually at least a mild liking for Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek and other sci-fi phenomenons. They do, almost uniformly, hate Twilight though.
- Use of photoshop to make pictures that make fun of their friends or political figures. Their specialties include adding penises to pictures or making the person in the picture depict Hitler in some fashion.
That's all I can think of for now, add some that I have missed!
Monday, February 22, 2010
Narlish 2........ It needs a new name???
Okay, so here is our new language. It'll take some time to speak it quickly, but after a bit of practice, it will be easy. Basically, what we do is break down the word into letters, as we do in Narlish. The sound for each letter is determined by the last-ish syllable in the childhood word for remembering the letter. Such as "A is for apple". For "A", the sound is "pple", like "pull".
Here's the alphabet, and their sounds
A for Apple ----- ple
B for Boy
C for Cat ----at ------ at
D for Dog
E for Egg -------- ga
F for Fish
G for Girl -----irl
H for Hand
I for Icecream ------- ream
J for Jet
K for Kite -------ite
L for Lamp
M for Man --------an
N for Nose
O for octupus ---------- us
P for Pen
Q for Queen ----- een
R for Rain
S for Sugar -------- gar
T for Tree
U for Umbrella -------- ella
V for Violin ------ lin
W for Water -------ter
X for Xray
Y for Yellow -----low
Z for Zoo ------- oo
EXAMPLE:
AndReam GarEllaOoPleOseOseGa!
Ream AmpUsLineGa ReeAndGa OseGaTer OsePleAinAmpReamGarAnd….
OseUs-UsOseGa TerReamAmpAmp OyGa PleOyAmpGa ReeUs IshReamIrlEllaAinGa ReamRee UsEllaRee!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
A Typical “Ben Weekend”
The weekend of the legendary snow storm was filled with things that would make Ben proud. Although it was fun and adventurous, I don’t think I could live the “Ben lifestyle” everyday. Here is my story.
As the snow started falling, I noted to Michael how pretty it looked. We were staying at his house. An hour later, there was a foot of snow on the ground, and I was starting to get worried. There was no way we were making it back to my house to get my text books I needed.
As the snow continued to fall, the lights in the house started to flicker, but would keep flickering back on. Around 1 in the morning, the lights flickered off, but never came back on. I used the light of my laptop to navigate around the house. When my laptop’s battery finally died, I went to bed.
I awoke to Michael telling me the plan: We were going to walk a long way through the snow to a place where his aunt could pick us up, and we would stay at her house. So I packed up all the essentials and put them, not in a plastic bag, but my book bag. And we started walking.
We walked for a while, until we met his aunt and grandfather, and I was just some random person there. They asked me questions about my major, but I was still quite a mystery to them. Who was this random person that we are letting stay at our house?
We all went to his grandparents house, where his grandmother cooked us all dinner. Then I got an idea. We could stay in Lincoln’s apartment, on campus! So I texted Lincoln and he said he would ask his room mates, which eventually said it was okay.
So I packed my bags again, and we were off! Lincoln’s apartment required a key to let us in, so he lent us his to use for the weekend. We were hungry and tired, so we decided to go eat somewhere on campus. I got chicken with ranch and hot sauce.
Since we would be staying at Lincoln’s all weekend, we decided to grab some groceries. We got a box of cereal, 5 cans of spaghettios, bottles of mountain dew, and a bag of chips. I also bought new underwear at Walmart, cause I had been wearing the same clothes for many days.
So I spent most of the weekend eating canned food, in the same clothes, and being stared at by Lincoln’s room mates as they walked by (probably thinking to themselves “Who is that person and what is she doing here?”).
I slept on the couch in the living room, and charged my phone on the plug in the wall. I used balled up clothes as a pillow, and my coat as a blanket. When I ate my spaghettios, I didn’t microwave them, or put them in a bowl. I ate them straight out of the can with a fork. I didn’t shower all weekend, and I wore the same clothes everyday.
Although it was fun to live in Ben’s shoes for the weekend, I don’t think I could do it everyday. I’ve learned a lot about Ben by living his lifestyle, and learned that living like that is not as easy as it seems. The end.
As the snow started falling, I noted to Michael how pretty it looked. We were staying at his house. An hour later, there was a foot of snow on the ground, and I was starting to get worried. There was no way we were making it back to my house to get my text books I needed.
As the snow continued to fall, the lights in the house started to flicker, but would keep flickering back on. Around 1 in the morning, the lights flickered off, but never came back on. I used the light of my laptop to navigate around the house. When my laptop’s battery finally died, I went to bed.
I awoke to Michael telling me the plan: We were going to walk a long way through the snow to a place where his aunt could pick us up, and we would stay at her house. So I packed up all the essentials and put them, not in a plastic bag, but my book bag. And we started walking.
We walked for a while, until we met his aunt and grandfather, and I was just some random person there. They asked me questions about my major, but I was still quite a mystery to them. Who was this random person that we are letting stay at our house?
We all went to his grandparents house, where his grandmother cooked us all dinner. Then I got an idea. We could stay in Lincoln’s apartment, on campus! So I texted Lincoln and he said he would ask his room mates, which eventually said it was okay.
So I packed my bags again, and we were off! Lincoln’s apartment required a key to let us in, so he lent us his to use for the weekend. We were hungry and tired, so we decided to go eat somewhere on campus. I got chicken with ranch and hot sauce.
Since we would be staying at Lincoln’s all weekend, we decided to grab some groceries. We got a box of cereal, 5 cans of spaghettios, bottles of mountain dew, and a bag of chips. I also bought new underwear at Walmart, cause I had been wearing the same clothes for many days.
So I spent most of the weekend eating canned food, in the same clothes, and being stared at by Lincoln’s room mates as they walked by (probably thinking to themselves “Who is that person and what is she doing here?”).
I slept on the couch in the living room, and charged my phone on the plug in the wall. I used balled up clothes as a pillow, and my coat as a blanket. When I ate my spaghettios, I didn’t microwave them, or put them in a bowl. I ate them straight out of the can with a fork. I didn’t shower all weekend, and I wore the same clothes everyday.
Although it was fun to live in Ben’s shoes for the weekend, I don’t think I could do it everyday. I’ve learned a lot about Ben by living his lifestyle, and learned that living like that is not as easy as it seems. The end.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Idea Time!
I have an idea!
I think we should come up with an alphabet for Narlish, so that people can't figure it out so easily when it's written.
The only problem is that Narlish is basically a spoken language. Also the only time we use it when writing is in text messages or on the computer, and we wouldn't have the characters for it then.
But I still think it would just be a fun thing to do.
Let me know what you think!
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