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  1. Arthgon

    Arthgon Well-Known Member

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    That could be what I meant. I have this backache all day (I have made this morning a wrong movement, while moving a fucking heavy repaired door from the workplace to someons third floor, via a lot of cramped stairs.) Oh well, lives goes on.

    PS: Dark Elf, you are absoluty right, that's the word that I was looking for, thanks.

    PSP: So, the right sentance would be 'I threw my back today.' ? Thanks for helping me out with sort of things. Also, is it difficult to learn to speak, read, write Swedish?
     
  2. TheDavisChanger

    TheDavisChanger Well-Known Member

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    Perhaps other English-speakers can back me up on this, but one doesn't often hear the phrase "I threw my back" without the accompanying preposition "out."

    In this case, "Arthgon threw his back out whilst carrying a heavy door up a cramped staircase."

    Originally, I thought Arthgon had simply left a word out of his statement: "I went through my back (surgery) today..."
     
  3. rroyo

    rroyo Active Member

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    Here in the States the usual phrase is "I threw out my back" or "I threw my back out of (whack, joint, order, etc.)" but I have heard "I threw my back" used by a few people - mostly younger ones, now that I think about it.
     
  4. TheDavisChanger

    TheDavisChanger Well-Known Member

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    rroyo's "I threw out my back" is correct; it is inexcusable to end a phrase with a preposition!

    With what manner of feeble young people do you associate?
     
  5. rroyo

    rroyo Active Member

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    Me?
    The twenty-somethings the company sends to assist me when I get back-logged on turn-overs.
    The same ones who find every excuse in the book to avoid coming back. (slightly sadistic smile)

    Hey, I just set the pace and expect them to keep up. Most of them are half my age and if they can't cut it.....
     
  6. Zanza

    Zanza Well-Known Member

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    Down under you tend to hear "I did my back" or "Ow, my farking back". Yes the a is how they pronounce it.
     
  7. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    Fixed.
     
  8. papa_dog_1999

    papa_dog_1999 Well-Known Member

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    I have the heart of a man half my age.
    I use it as a pencil holder.
     
  9. Zanza

    Zanza Well-Known Member

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    No I believe I was right the first time Darkfool.
     
  10. papa_dog_1999

    papa_dog_1999 Well-Known Member

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    If DF gets Admin/Mod powers the natural progression of things get rather grim.
    • DF gets access to power.
    • I have to be given the same power to counter-balance DF
    • I share said powers to Xiao because, well, yeah. It’s right there in my title.
    • Xiao drops the hammer on anyone that says Twilight without a sneer in their voice.
    • There’s wide-ranging rioting in the streets.
    • Nuclear winters seem inevitable.
    • Uwe Boll makes a good movie.
    • Basic end of the world stuff.
     
  11. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    And in answer to Arthgon's idea we already made rroyo a mod and gave him the almighty database passwords a while back but he got over it and retired.
     
  12. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    I suppose that's just further proof that rroyo is the sanest man on board.
     
  13. GrimmHatter

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    So Arthgon's gone then? *whew*
    I can feel the wrinkles in my brain relaxing as I click the Submit button.
     
  14. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    Zanza Well-Known Member

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    I'm going to miss Arthgon, shame he is gone now.
     
  16. Grakelin

    Grakelin New Member

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    Your list has a fatal flaw in that giving you mod powers doesn't counter-balance DarkFool at all. It would make more sense to give mod powers to somebody who was the complete opposite of DarkFool in every way.
     
  17. DarkFool

    DarkFool Nemesis of the Ancients

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    and Rroyo already had mod powers, therefore, we should give them to me. Keeps things balanced. :)
     
  18. GrimmHatter

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    Unfortunately, he has a point. Though I always thought DF had a penis. Hey everyone's wrong once in a while, right?
     
  19. papa_dog_1999

    papa_dog_1999 Well-Known Member

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    Charles??
     
  20. Muro

    Muro Well-Known Member

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    Nah, Charles is a (hopefully dead) troll, DF used to be one as well. A troll is not an opposite of a redeemed troll. What we're searching for is an anti-troll, hell, a pure anti-troll, one who was once an embodiment of lawful, but at a point got corrupted and became a pure chaotic troll.

    Hm...

    Drog fits. Even the fact that DF created more and more accounts while Drog disintegrated his own fits. Humorous.
     
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