GaiusIuliusCaesar

congratulations, I hope the revenue exceeds your traveling expenses.

"I could be well moved if I were as you. If I could pray to move, prayers would move me. But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks. They are all fire and every one doth shine, But there’s but one in all doth hold his place. So in the world. 'Tis furnished well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive, Yet in the number I do know but one That unassailable holds on his rank, Unshaked of motion. And that I am he Let me a little show it even in this: That I was constant Cimber should be banished, And constant do remain to keep him so." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar denying the request to resend publius cimber's banishment. I tried to recite that one from memory too but I kept getting distracted by an episode of star trek I'm watching.

I discovered it a few years ago at a convention called Nauticon. Its used for a challenge shot at the barfleet social club which operates there. The shot consists of 1 part spirytus, 2 parts yukon jack, and 1 part permafrost. The latter is no longer in production so the drink's days are unfortunately numbered, though I've found it possible to substitute permafrost for rumplemintz. As for titration, much like when determining the end point of an acid base reaction the trick is slow consistent addition of solution. I find it helps to eat every now and again, slows the absorption rate.

I wish I was a lightweight, I have to try pretty hard to get actually drunk, and even harder to get really drunk. 192 proof polish vodka helps

so far I have only ever been hung over once and I was basically trying that night, I got cut off at one point but I had friends in high places and long story short they cut me back on.

I already have, it comes with the territory.

its all about the spirytus... which I need to get more of because I am running low.

I am at one with the spirit of the world.

No when I am sober I hate everyone and everything. drunk me = hippy sober me = misanthrope

Because I am intoxicated. discuss.

I have two incredibly simple answers to that, 1. we as a society, need to stop being so freaked out and offended regarding nudity 2. sexuality, should cease to be a concern by which we judge our existence. If you are attracted to a person, you are attracted to them, it shouldn't matter what is in their pants, or how long their hair is, or anything else regarding their gender idenity. also I'm drunk, in tc at the moment. I'd have something more profound and wordy if not for that.

Alexander Pope, his translation is my favorite.

"who so daring in your aid to move or lift his hand against the force of Jove? Once in your cause I felt his matchless might, hurr'led down from the ethereal heights, tossed all day in rapid circles round, nor till the sun descended and touched the ground. breathless I fell in giddy motions lost, the sinthians raised me upon the lemnian coast." Vulcan in the Iliad speaking to Juno in contestation with Jupiter.

Actually they are essentially clones but there are minor mutations that occur both in development and throughout life, moreover gene expression is an expanding field of study and is far from being understood in enough detail to make a determination on this particular case. It is fascinating though, I do hope they do fully peer reviewed twin studies on these two. I doubt we will discover anything significant but every little bit of data helps.

he mentioned three literate civilizations, I simply expanded on what he pointed out. The tradition of homo and bi sexuality among the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Japanese, and various other cultures too numerous to list is not in dispute or up for debate, I am not making you seem uneducated, on this subject you clearly are.

I've mentioned it several times in tinychat, my basic premise for that is a study of roman emperors, who are probably the most well known group of people from that time period, and also the group of people most likely to behave in whatever way they damn well pleased. Of all of them prior to the adoption of Christianity, only two weren't bisexual, Claudius who was strait, and mocked for it by biographers, and Hadrian who was gay, and also mocked for it. But as Mochi pointed out all literate societies had pretty tolerant attitudes toward sexuality. A few non literate ones also had orally transmitted concepts that convey the existence of non strait people as a non controversial subject. Really if you want to find out this information you could try and do the research yourself, its kind of unfair to expect mochi or myself to educate you. Its readily available material, you could just google lgbt ancient history. or check a forum on cultural anthropology for a sexuality thread. Also my name is spelled Giuliano.

I challenge that premise with the following example, a person needs to drive a nail into a piece of wood, they have a hammer, and a flat rock, they decide to use the rock and succeed in driving the nail into the wood. I would call that extremely stupid, but clearly it worked. Kind of like how you insist on opening beer with a key loop instead of a bottle opener.

well obviously it doesn't mean that, the simple fact that we have no idea what causes homosexuality means it is impossible to prevent. The current standing hypothesis as I am aware of it is that its a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Obviously the environmental exposure of genetically identical individuals was sufficiently distinct that one expressed a homosexual phenotype. There are so many factors that govern environmental behavioral changes that trying to pin down a cause of something as extreme as sexuality would be akin to finding the specific atom that shifts first in a landslide. Or to isolate the first water molecule in a hurricane. But ignorant christian barbarians are incapable of understanding any of that, they are usually too busy grunting at each other and siring more offspring than they can properly raise.

Its slightly better now than it was in 2012 when I left, but that could just be because most of us are riding a nostalgia buzz, which when it wears off could lead to a significant reduction of posts. That said more old users are returning and the board is a work in progress so while I don't anticipate things getting to where they were 8 years ago, things are likely to improve beyond what they currently are.

well pox means open sores, and veneralia is the festival of venus, which was yesterday. Not clear on the other ranks, probably just random shit that sounded funny at the time.

well they swapped my name with mochi's for about 20 minutes and we each pretended to be each other until they changed it back. That was kind of fun. then I went to bed and when I woke up there was all that obnoxious music so I stayed off the boards until today. As for everything else, like I said on my facebook profile. "The inherent flaw with a holiday devoted to pranks is that any reasonably intelligent person would simply disbelieve any significant announcement or claim made on the day in question."

Everyone likes me, or else.

It was fun for the first few minutes and then it became boring and I stopped interacting with it.

we really ought to do something for Saturnalia, traditionally it involved role reversal. so maybe for one day everyone who isn't a mod becomes one, or at least a fake mod rank that we pretend is real. Kind of like how slaves were allowed to order around their masters but not really.

open sores, and a roman festival celebrating venus on april first. I feel like my rank would have been funnier if it read "pox venerealis" Though kudos to whoever knew april fools day had a roman origin.