Sunday, 5 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
Current topic:
Risk (the board game)
Pet peeves
Date: March 18, 2007
Categories: Ideas, Life, The Universe
I hate it when people don’t notice rather obvious things, and also when you’re talking, if people just stop paying attention. Grr.
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Hmmm. I’m peeved by ranch dressing. Ugh it smells so gross. This all comes from the people who sit in our lunch spot before us never cleaning up their mess. Grrr.
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cool. new threAD.
*gets arrested by the POPOPO*
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I hate it when people don’t take advantage of the education they’re given and sit around all day getting F’s when their parents pay good money in taxes to make sure they can get a life when they grow up.
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I hate spelling something wrong and only realizing I’ve done so after I am unable to rectify the situation.
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i dont know where to put this, so ill just put it here: it was my birthday 2 days ago!
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I also hate making dumb mistakes on math tests and kicking myself later about it.
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6- Happy late birthday!!
When teachers don’t erase something compleatly from the dry erase board.
*dies*
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I hate it when a test is so easy I breeze through and forget to answer one or two problems and don’t get a perfect score! 
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When people scrape their nails across a chalkboard. Just thinking about the sound gives me the shivers!
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– BWA-HA-HA! I WILL TORTURE DAVIDUDE!
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee………..
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Hey!
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10- Me too.
GAPAs, will you pleeeeaaase make a thread about Risk? The game, I mean.
Or else will somebody tell me how to change the topic? I’m planning to hijack this thread.
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I hate people who think Deicide is a 14 year old trying to annoy his parents and don’t feel the pure anger at a hypocritical religion and the glorification of life. And I agree with dlod whole heartedly. People are just stupid and don’t know bollocks.
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crowded places. i’m not claustrophobic or anything, but it’s so annoying to trip on 50 backpacks just trying to get out of the lunchroom.
13 – just request a topic change. that’s all there is to it.
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It says Risk (the board game), but… I have a pet peeve. Easy pointless homework.
9- I hate that, when it’s so easy that I make little careless mistakes.
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among other things, smarmy idiots who think they are smart and are too dumb to realize they are really stupid, and who think they are better than you because they are conservatives and juniors when you are liberal and a freshman (yes there is a particular kid in my school who really really bugs me!!)
6. Happy belated birthday!!
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I LOVE risk! (Yes, here I am appearing out of hiding to say I love risk….) My friend plays it all the time at lunch, (the game never completely ends) and I think he’s actually planning to take over the world….
Or at least become a billionaire.
0.o
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13- Risk is fun. Wouldn’t it be cooler, though, if it had the actual countries? I know that would make it highly impractical and boring to play, but it could be a teaching thing. I was wishing real countries followed the Risk board when I had to memorize the countries in Africa for social studies.
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HEY! we need an April thread! i got mine 2day. get that april thread up here pronto, please! hey, i just thought of a new thread idea. an alliteracy thread. Please, people, page pronto! perhaps page is precisely perfect. peace!
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my birthday’s comin’ up. apr. 22. i’m gonna be 13. i’ll listen to Birthday by the Beatles all day. just so’s ya know
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19- You could make a Risk board! I have two homemade Risk boards that I’ve never got to play on, but they’re fun to look at.
One of them is named after perfumes from this one perfume company, and would mean almost nothing to almost anyone who was looking at it. It’s very much an inside joke. Also it’s not completely finished, since the continents are not yet named.
The other is way more random, and since I like lists, I’m going to make a list of all the countries and continents.
The Lost Continent
Fogg
The Lost City
Frustratia
Squiggle. Based on the moons of Jupiter.
Io
Calliope
Europa
Leda
Ganymede
Jiggle. Based on the moons of Saturn. Get it?
Helene
Pheobe
Janus
Pan
Titan
Calypso
Dutch-Shoe. It was originally shaped like a dutch shoe, purely by accident, but then we had to add another country.
Flanders
Antwerp
Normandie
Brussels
Hornblower. The man I was making it with had some book about Hornblower’s voyages, so we took places and words out of it, to use as countries.
Horatio
Rugen
Bertheame
Navassa
Santiago
Gibraltar
Windward
Blue
Indigo
Navy
Marine
Cobalt
Azure
Cerulean
Sky-Blue
Sky (Bit redundant I know, but I forgot I’d already used it.)
Turquoise
Saga
Fantasy
Legend
Fable
Tale
Myth
Story
Constelliatoriastan
Draco
Casseopia
Corvus
Pleiades
Orion
Perseus
Leo
Triangulum
Ursa Major
Ursa Minor
I am enormously proud of this Risk board.
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At my school we’re playing this human game of Risk that’s going to go on for the the rest of the year. We were divided up into teams that include kids from other classes, and we’ll be able to get armies/weapons/territory. It’s going to be so cool! Except, our class is REALLY competitive.
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I think someone should invent Museican Risk.
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hey!
i want that risk board!
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I dislike Risk greatly. It takes more than 4 hours to play, and my father always wins. Always. No one else ever has even the slightest of chance because when you think your doing well he comes in and because he has all of the rest of the board he defeats you in one or two moves. I hate risk. sorry.
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But what is Risk? I’ve never heard of the game before, or how to play it.
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26-I’ve never actually played it before.
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Risk is a game where players try to conquer “territories” using cards, dice, and little plastic pieces. It takes forever to set up and play. Sorry, I’ve just realized this will not be very helpful. Maybe someone else will explain?
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Does anybody know a good online Risk? I know they exists, but I can’t find any that you don’t have to pay for.
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I love Risk! We don’t actually have the board game, but THF and I made it ourselves – out of paper and colored pencils. I looked at a picture of the board on the internet, and I spent about 2 hours drawing it, making sure it looked PERFECT. So now we have Risk! And it’s really fun to play!
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Risk? It’s kinda boring to watch. I never really learned how to play…
Museican Risk? What a splendiferous idea!
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23- That sounds so fun!
My only real problem with Risk, aside from the amount of time it takes to play, is I’m too nice! It’s infuriating. I can’t attack anyone who’s not doing well, and as a result I don’t do well. I’m hoping Diplomacy, (another board game, that I’ve never played) will cure that. It’s supposed to have a lot of backstabbing.
27- The standard board is the world, with a lot of countries that don’t nessecarily correspond with the real world. It takes a lot of people, three at least, and everyone gets a set number of “armies” (little plastic pieces that look nothing like real armies) and lays them out on the board, claiming their territories. Then you attack other people in adjacent territories, by rolling dice. The goal is to rule the world.
Yep. It’s fun.
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Huge w00t for Risk! Last summer my friends and I stayed inside for hours playing Risk, and when we got bored, we decided to spice it up with meteor showers and earthquakes. Those little plastic guys hurt like the devil if you step on them in bare feet though. *wince*
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I love Risk! The only problem is I’m way to aggressive. I’ll keep on attacking until I only have 1 battalion in every territory. Then someone kills me. We should totally make a Museican Risk-oh carp I’m late for school. 
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Since the other Round Robin (W)riting thread is already in full swing, can we have another?
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36 – What about this one? It’s relatively short so far, so it wouldn’t take long to read it and add on.
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=675
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SOMEBODY! ENTER A RANDOM POST UNDER MY BLOG NAME ON THE RANDOM THREAD! SEE IF YOU CAN SEE MY UNMODERATED POSTS!
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We’re all in favor of curiosity, but this particular feature (or shortcoming) of WordPress software doesn’t seem awfully important.
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Oh…sorry.
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39-Well, curiosity killed the cat.
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23 – Uhoh….
24 – I’d buy it.
Yep, even thogh i’ve never played risk, I have a really fr00dy LOTR set. I’ve yet to actually use it though…..
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that sucks for the cat
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42-It makes history class REALLY interesting.
43-Yeah…especially since I’m the cat.
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41+43- I hate it when people forget the second part of the rhyme; “but satisfaction brought it back.” So it promotes curiosity, not discourages it.
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45-Really? I’ve never heard that part before. I guess it’s been lost.
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45-That’s way cool; I always didn’t like that saying cuz it bashed curiousity.
In other news…
This thread should morph into travel/where people want to go/where people have been.
Just an idea
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Ah…risk.Our family goes to tears over that game. Mom threatens to make dad sleep on the couch, sibling does the whole puppy eyes and ‘Don’t you love me?” gag, I threaten to kill them all while they sleep and make treaties with everyone so I can get more territory… Fun times, fun times. We havn’t played in forever, though.
It’s funny, cause one of my ambitions is to rule the world. Seriously, I even made up a plan to get me in power. A realistic one, which is more than the people who tell me ‘no, I’m going to rule the world!’ do. I even wrote “Jadestone, the Soon-To-Be Utimate Ruler of the Universe” on most of my papers last year. Really scared y English teacher with that one, heh heh heh.
But back to the topic… after I lose because I get bored and decide to go out with a bang! and invade everywhere and end up only having one figure per place, Iget anailated(sp?). Then I establish the country of Narnia on the table with all the leftover peices and thraten to blow everyone up unless they surrender to me. 
Funfunfun.
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I play risk with my friends. I really like it for the first 30 mins. (at most) then i get bored and attempt to ruin the game…so basically I have a blast for the whole game but everyone playing with me usually ends up annoyed….
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Yikes! Scary. Don’t ever let me play with you.
My little sister is a really poor loser, so she tries to make treaties with me that end on her turn, whenever she has enough armies to kill me.
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50 ditto. my little bro is like that too
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CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT, BUT SATISFACTION BROUGHT IT BACK. Happy, Julieb?
50- EVERYBODY is like that with me. But only with Monopoly.
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I play risk/monopoly for days on end, over the phone, obsessively.
My mom doesn’t want me to play Risk with my dad because he’s “intense”. Something about his roommate in college.
My brother says to: Choose colors that will blend in with the main continent you occupy, and choose warm, fuzzy colors to make everybody happy while you kill them. He usually ends up hiding in Australia though, hoping he can recover.
Julieb- I never knew why anyone would want to say that, but now I see the whole picture! THANK YOU!
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53-Warm fuzzy colors? 0.0
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53- Choose colors? For your armies?
I need some clarification.
How do you now what continent you will occupy beforehand?
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risk takes long time. i like throwing the players at people. hehheh.
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never played risk- is it fun?
I think I have a peeve that goes with what people seem to be talking about- I have NEVER been able to finish a game of monopoly with any of my friends before, because they go nuclear bomb like on the board whether they’re winning or not. Even if I’m the one losing, they just can’t let there be closure to the game!
:'( It makes the Evie very sad.
I sympathize with those who have already mentioned similar issues… and who experience them but have not already mentioned them.
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I’ve tried to play risk, but my friends and I never get through the game. In fact, we’ve never started. Just setting up our pieces takes 3 hours, and then they usually have to go home. I’ve only played once, at the beach about 4 years ago. Uhg. Anybody have tips for how to play faster?
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I’ve tried to play risk, but my friends and I never get through the game. In fact, we’ve never started. Just setting up our pieces takes 3 hours, and then they usually have to go home. I’ve only played once, at the beach about 4 years ago. Uhg. Anybody have tips for how to play faster?
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I like the new message, gapas.
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59- Castle Risk is supposed to be quicker.
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risk is amazing. my trick for going faster is not playing with my dad 
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Stoopid queston:
What’s Risk? I’ve heard of it, but I don’t recall ever playing it…
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63- See post 33.
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I love Risk! I once had a game going with my dad for over a year, on and off.
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How can you have a board game going on for a YEAR (even if it was on and off?)
Fellowmuser is depressed by all of the rain.
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Poor fellowmuser…
Evie is depressed by the snow. She likes rain, but not snow.
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I am peeved by people who are peeved by Peeves! (from Harry Potter)
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65- Well, you probably had it set up somewhere and wrote down whose turn it was right?
What are you doing for break?
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Jadestone likes the rain. It smells nice.
Looking back, that sounded slightly weird. But it really does, here at least.
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70- It does.
What sounds weird? Rain smells nice?
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Rain smells like rice- now THAT’S ‘slightly’ weird.
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Well, I said hat once and people gave me funny looks and told me water doesn’t smell. If I wasn’t so tired/blah I would have remembered you all are musers and droped the last bit of that post.
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70-I originally read that as “Jadestone is like the rain. It smells nice.” which is really weird. But as it is it’s only slightly odd.
72-now that’s weird.
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74/73- I always manage to find places/groups-at-school like this were weird things happen/are said and it’s considered the norm.
Thank you Emma. It would be nice if rain smelled like rice, though.
Oooooooooo rhyme!
Jade DO you smell like the rain?
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I like the smell of rain too.
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I pity people who don’t like the smell of rain. Just because it must be really miserable whenever it rains.
I finally find out the secret of this place, and now I have to go.
I’ll be back later, maybe. Or tomorrow in the very least.
You are all awesome people of sweetnessity…
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74- I hate to say I don’t smell like rain. Though that would be nice, in my opinion. I don’t often smell that good, esspecally after hockey practice… I doubt any of you would smell any better, though.
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I really like the smell of rain! Especially the smell outside after it rains. Everything just smells so clean and happy!
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78- I think I have a neutral smell… does that make sense?
I really really wish I smelled like rain…
You play hockey? I figure skate. Is hockey much much harder? I’ve never tried it but it looks like basic hockey requires more skill than basic figure. (Not even going to touch professionalism…)
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78- I smell good when I wear perfume. : )
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I play soccer.
Unfortunately, I don’t know if our middle school has a soccer program, so I end up playing with the elementary schoolers.
Which is alright I guess, since some of the fifth graders are half again my size.
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Rain smells like rain. End of story.
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82-Soccer pwns. I play it too. In fact, I was at a tournament just today. ^^
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64 – Gasp! Thank you so much! I’ve never played Risk, but it sounds like an excellent strategy game to introduce to my mates at Pirate Club at skool.
Well, looks like a change of topic! We’re no longer on Risk, we’re talking about…
Smells and Sports (not necessarily related to each other)
GAPAs, take note of this!
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Time is passing fast,
who will post here last?
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Rain does smell nice, when it’s not humid-hot-sticky outside. Winter coming and spring coming smell too. I prefer winter and snow.
59- Don’t try to play faster. There was an article in the newspaper today about how companies were coming out with faster ways of playing Monopoly and Life and stuff like that. It’s sacrelige! Nothing is wrong with them. It’s killing them. It reminds me of that article in the March Wired about snack culture and that radio station or something that was shortening songs.
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I like the way sunny das smell, especially if you’re in someplace rocky or dusty- it kind of smells like everything’s baking. I usually cant smell snow because my nose is too frozen *commiserates with others who posess noses somewhat on the generous side* but spring smells nice. Unless your next door neighbor decides to put down fertilizer. Then it doesn’t smell so nice.
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*something is seriously wrong with Otzi’s spelling right now
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And Risk? I usually end up pwning the world at Risk. Base yourself in a landlocked country. Not Japan. Japan is not a good country to base from…
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