[Jane Sherwood]

I don't mind the length, but the English major in me is screaming. Three guesses why.

[Bond]

bond's are really short,.whats your point (emphasis mine)

First guess?

[SimeSublime]

PRT: Isn't the Internet a bitch?

No, Emu's a lovely person. Leave her alone.


PRT: I was using the term RPG the other day, and I was wondering if it should follow an 'a' or an 'an'. That is, should I say "a RPG" or "an RPG"? RPG starts with a consonant, so the rules would say I should use 'a', but RPG is an acronym and when used in acronym form it's pronounced "Arepeegee" which starts with a vowel, hence making 'an' a preferable option. I guess it's a case of do we follow the letter of the law, all consonants use 'a', or the spirit of the law, all vowel sounds use 'an'?

[Cobnat]

No, Emu's a lovely person. Leave her alone.

@Bond: Just incase you don’t get the joke, Emu’s title is “the internets”.

PRT: I was using the term RPG the other day, and I was wondering if it should follow an 'a' or an 'an'. That is, should I say "a RPG" or "an RPG"? RPG starts with a consonant, so the rules would say I should use 'a', but RPG is an acronym and when used in acronym form it's pronounced "Arepeegee" which starts with a vowel, hence making 'an' a preferable option. I guess it's a case of do we follow the letter of the law, all consonants use 'a', or the spirit of the law, all vowel sounds use 'an'?

"I just played an RPG" sounds better then "I just played a RPG".

Putting “an” before RPG is slang.

This post has been edited by Cobnat: 13 August 2007 - 03:39 AM

[Bond]

PRT: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far distant from me. In vain, they worship me, teaching as my commandments rules taught by man. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder.

EDIT: It's from Isaiah, if you were wondering.

This post has been edited by Bond: 13 August 2007 - 02:39 PM

[looktothesky]

PRT: I was using the term RPG the other day, and I was wondering if it should follow an 'a' or an 'an'. That is, should I say "a RPG" or "an RPG"? RPG starts with a consonant, so the rules would say I should use 'a', but RPG is an acronym and when used in acronym form it's pronounced "Arepeegee" which starts with a vowel, hence making 'an' a preferable option. I guess it's a case of do we follow the letter of the law, all consonants use 'a', or the spirit of the law, all vowel sounds use 'an'?

It flows nicely off of the tongue. That's all that matters.

[Bond]

True, very true...

[SimeSublime]

@Bond: Just incase you don’t get the joke, Emu’s title is “the internets”.

I'm pretty sure Bond spends enough of his time here to realise that Cobnat, even if Emu is the poster child for quality over quantity posting.

My, that comment was rather more caustic then I had anticipated it being

[Bond]

I wasn't calling Emu a b*tch, just the Internet as a whole...

[Mirithorn]

PRT: African Americans have suffered from many unfortunate stereotypes over the years. But recently, I've noticed a new one- a portrayal of black men in the media as God.

Recently, I noticed that EVERY time I have seen God actually portrayed in a movie, television show, or commercial, he has been black. This stereotype was present in Bruce/Evan Almighty, The Sarah Silverman Program, and even a Verizon commercial in which a man mistakes a black tech support guy in a white bucket for God. Now, maybe many black men are in fact God. But a common trait becomes a stereotype when that trait is attributed universally to members of a group an unreasonably large amount of the time. In the movie.... some room number, I can't remember it- you know, the one based off a story by Stephen King- the main character talks with the manager of the hotel, and the manager- a black man with grey hair- tries to warn him about the room. Later, when the main character was trapped in the "evil room", I was formulating hypotheses about what would happen, and the first thing that sprung to my mind was that the hotel manager was God. I made this judgement based almost solely on the color of his skin, because of my media conditioning. After all, I've never seen a white portrayal of God.

A frightening new trend?

[Bond]

No. Are you afraid of black people, in some way?

[looktothesky]

After all, I've never seen a white portrayal of God.

A frightening new trend?

Are you serious?

Creation of Adam, anyone?

This post has been edited by looktothesky: 15 August 2007 - 09:18 AM

[Jane Sherwood]

What about Alanis Morissette in Dogma? She's white, and female.

[Bond]

Besides, God on The Sarah Silverman Show was a parody of those Bruce Almighty films. Silverman even uses one of Stephen Colbert's lines (the "black friend" one) to get her point across.

[Mirithorn]

Ok, so by some coincidence I managed to miss seeing lots of films with a white god in them.

It's quite possible I'm the only one in the world with that experience. It just seems hilariously bizarre that by a series of coincidences, my exposure to television and movies resulted in that assumption.

This is my second instance on these forums of sounding racist, but I argue based on the precedent of Little Bunny Foofoo v. The Kind Woodland Fairy that I should get another chance.