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I struggle with corvids...
Any ornithologists on the forum ?
I mean.....Would you really put a ring on a crow ?
(A raven, I could understand.)
Cheers - Phil
There's a nursery rhyme, isn't there? Ring-a ringa crowsies....
Alternately, one is saying to the other "You know nuthin', John Crow."
From the beak shape I'd say those are ravens.
Which makes that an attempted unkindness :)
Then the tag is "You are stark, raven mad."
Can someone explains this to me ?
Explanations - IN HERE :'( :d
IanS
I could but I won'y lol
I've sent you the code-book, Yann. Check your inbox.
Love it!
Barbarian - the picture appears to be of two ravens.
However the caption refers to the collective name for crows - a murder of crows.
Two crows probably don't count as a group, hence "attempted murder"
However the collective name for ravens is an unkindness of ravens.
I'm sure you're not the only one wondering!!
What did I say about the difficulty even native English speakers sometimes have on this (and many another) forum? :D
Wot's da kolletive wossname for wargamers?
A table?
A base? (though we'd all disagree about that.)
A sabot?
A sprue? (Na! mogglers!)
A charge?
A disagreement? (Friendly, of course.)
A discord?
A bombast?
What ever floats your goat!
Quote from: fsn on 03 July 2015, 02:51:25 PM
Wot's da kolletive wossname for wargamers?
An Oik ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
A quick shufti on the interwebz suggests that the collective noun for wargamers is either "an argument" or "a pontification."
Personally I'd go with a weirdness of wargamers :)
In this heat, would it be a "Ripe" of gamers?
A whiff of wargamers, perhaps?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 July 2015, 03:59:58 PM
A whiff of wargamers, perhaps?
Quote from: toxicpixie on 03 July 2015, 03:58:51 PM
In this heat, would it be a "Ripe" of gamers?
Unfortunately for a number of wargamers they cannot even use this heat as an excuse as they are still giving off an aroma in the midst of winter
A shower of gamers ?
Are they really that bad nowadays ? (I have met a couple, in the past.......But they were in a tiny minority.)
Cheers - Phil
The difference between crows and ravens is a matter of a pinion.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 July 2015, 01:54:01 AM
The difference between crows and ravens is a matter of a pinion.
Go away, please.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 July 2015, 01:54:01 AM
The difference between crows and ravens is a matter of a pinion.
Very good. ;D
(There were two ravens strolling up the drive early this morning.....I know
those were ravens, because they were so bloomin' enormous.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 06 July 2015, 05:10:06 AM
Very good. ;D
(There were two ravens strolling up the drive early this morning.....I know those were ravens, because they were so bloomin' enormous.)
Cheers - Phil
Flowering Ravens ?????? :o :-*
Quote from: Techno on 03 July 2015, 08:27:55 AM
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I struggle with corvids...
Any ornithologists on the forum ?
I mean.....Would you really put a ring on a crow ?
(A raven, I could understand.)
Cheers - Phil
Probably wrong, they're probably from The Tower of London:
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This photo of Tower of London is courtesy of TripAdvisor
Couldn't find the exact picture on Google, but there are a few of Ravens on a suspiciously similar perch ;)
Cheers!
Meirion
That makes a great deal of sense, Meirion. :)
The little 'perches' look very, very similar.....(I assume that in the grounds of the Tower of London, there would be a number of these for them to hop on to.) :-\
I can't make up my mind as to whether I can see rings on their legs, in the TripAdvisor image, or not......(but I think I can.)
Anyway.....I think we can say for absolute certainty now, that those are Ravens and not Crows.....So the "Attempted Murder" caption is just plain wrong !! ;)
Cheers - Phil
OK, so, we've got the crow/raven collective noun thing sorted.
Now for the more tricky wargamer collective noun 'debate'. Perhaps we will need to break it down into typological distinctions?
A reek of wargamers (for the sweatered variety)?
A bicker of wargamers?
A bristle of wargamers? (Bringing in the double meaning of the frictions of rules-disputes, and the prevalence of unkempt facial hair)
A Featherstone of wargamers? (For the Old Guard)
A magniloquence of wargamers? (For the sneering purists)
An impoverishment of wargamers? (For the Evil Empire enslaved youngsters)
It's a dissimilitude of wargamers, but you probably won't agree with that.
Very good ! :)
I do rather like "A bicker" from Lud's list. :)
Cheers - Phil
I know a certain forum where wargamers come togheter daily, and i think they described it as madhouse. :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D :d
So i vote for; a madhouse of wargamers
=O =O =O =O
You're suspended for being a smart-a*se. ;)
Very good suggestion, Peter. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
But Peter I'm NOT MAD, I have a certificate to prove it.
IanS
Certificates downloaded from the intraweb don't count, Ian ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 11 July 2015, 06:12:41 AM
Certificates downloaded from the intraweb don't count, Ian ;)
Cheers - Phil
Aw... I was gonna my to complete my set in myPerelli album!
Phil - dont forget to dry your hand in the microwave :d
IanS
A collective noun of Ravens is 'an unkindness'.
Maybe that should also be applied to members of this forum when Phil and Nobby post? ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 11 July 2015, 06:21:13 AM
Phil - dont forget to dry your hand in the microwave :d IanS
I'll give that one a miss :P.....Though now we've got a new microwave, I want to try am experiment with the old one, before it goes to the tip.
(One of THOSE experiments which comes with the caveat, "Don't try this at home, children."
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 July 2015, 06:23:34 AM
A collective noun of Ravens is 'an unkindness'.
They certainly
are unkind to a sick member of their 'flock'.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 11 July 2015, 06:54:05 AM
Though now we've got a new microwave, I want to try am experiment with the old one, before it goes to the tip.
(One of THOSE experiments which comes with the caveat, "Don't try this at home, children."
Like this?
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2015, 07:17:52 AM
Like this?
That's quite impressive :o
Other things NOT to do with a microwave might include:
A half-dozen eggs - with the faces of "certain forum members" drawn on ;)
A tin-foil take-away box - with or without curry!
A glass bottle full of liquid with the cap on nice and tight...
Make sure to video any results for posterity...
From a safe distance...
Cheers!
Meirion
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2015, 07:17:52 AM
Like this?
I don't think my experiment will be quite so explosive, Nobby.....But IF I try it....I'm doing it outside....(Just in case.)
Cheers - Phil
Tin foil, grapes, CDs and soap.
Just saying.
Nope.....None of the above. :P
(It may turn out to be an 'urban myth'......But it sounds SO much fun if it works)
Cheers - Phil
Microwaves can reduce our waste you know?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bcfp5_8bz4
I looked up 'my' experiment, and did find a couple of examples on youtube.
Quite impressive.....But Mrs Techno has forbidden me to try it, on pain of pain. (Even outside, using an extension cord). :'(
Cheers - Mr Sulky. :(
Quote from: Techno on 12 July 2015, 07:50:47 AM
I looked up 'my' experiment, and did find a couple of examples on youtube.
Quite impressive.....But Mrs Techno has forbidden me to try it, on pain of pain. (Even outside, using an extension cord). :'(
Cheers - Mr Sulky. :(
Stand up to her. Explain that Your the man of the house (Since you were married by Thomas a Beckett , She probaly agreed to Love Honour and OBEY ). Then go ahead and do your experiment.
You can sleep in one of the barns while you wit for the swelling to go down ;D
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 13 July 2015, 11:13:43 AM
She probaly agreed to Love Honour and OBEY ).
Oh, no, she didn't ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
My grandfather used to wonder at what point the lovely, blushing, demure, innocent brides turned into nagging, shrieking, control freak wives. (Yes, I have cleaned that up.)
I suspect in his case, the answer was sometime when he was on the Indian Ocean bound for somewhere exotic.
Probably after a few experiences of husbands' staying out boozing until they returned home too late for sex.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 July 2015, 01:00:44 AM
Probably after a few experiences of husbands' staying out boozing until they returned home too late for sex.
Yep I would go with this. I had a colleague a few years ago who went to the Pub every lunchtime. this mellowed him enough to be amenable to an after work Drink 3 or four times a week . This inevitably led to several more and he tuirned up home around 9pm to find his dinner in the oven but inedible and his wife less than impressed.
One Saturday we were working and the doorman called him down stairs where he was served an order that prevented him from going home .The bloke only had the clothes he stood up in.
I had to keep my mouth shut when he was moaning loudly "why has she done this, whta heve I DONE?).
Found out later she had got so fed up with his drunken antics she had taken a lover and moved him in