The hot Arabic chick thread

[MatthewVett]

I adore playing GO. I think those feathery topped stockings would be just the right thing to wear for GO playing, don't you? I like Mahjong, too. I like whistling to keep the evil spirits out of the game when you close the walls off, and the pretty garden tiles.

I want to learn go. Any online recommendations?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I think you'd be better off buying a book and then joining a club. Big Blue managed to play chess very well. It's going to be a while before a computer can play GO. The variations in play are infinite.

 

[MatthewVett]

I quite agree.

I never got my head round chess; nobody in my family played stuff like that.
Now, a card game was another thing all together (and I was bad at most of those, too).

I suspect that Terry Pratchett loosely based the idea of THUD on GO.

Thud is actually based on an entirely different family of games, Tafl games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablut It's a pretty fun game; have you played it? I have a hard version of it. I love Terry Pratchett.

I now see that voluptuary manque beat me to it, but I'll leave my own answer up for the links.

As for chess, now that I'm home, I can share some photos.

As for mahjong, the picture reminds me of this painting: http://econintersect.com/b2evolutio...erotic-oil-painting-with-a-profound-worldview I'd also love how to learn how to play that game. Lust, Caution made it look pretty fun.

 

[JackLuis]

Oh My! The things you learn when your looking for pussy.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I want to learn go. Any online recommendations?

I will play online with you, dahlink, purrrrr.

Oh! you mean Go. LOL, no I just play online in here. Board games I do with hard pieces.

Those chess piccies are really lovely, Matthew! What great sets. Of chess pieces!

, Dampy.

JackLuis, you are just a great big pussy-cat yourself, LOL.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Protest in Iran.

Kurdish men and women in Iran have cross-dressed to protest a ‘sexist’ punishment where a man was sentenced to be paraded down the street in female clothing

...

The campaign's tagline reads: ‘Being a woman is not a way for humiliation or punishment.’

 

[JackLuis]

I will play online with you, dahlink, purrrrr.


JackLuis, you are just a great big pussy-cat yourself, LOL.

I can be mean too.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I can be mean too.

Of course you can, wuzzza lovely lovely puddy tat. *cuddle cuddle*

 

[Handley_Page]

Either of those girls could help me with my Chess game - any time.

 

[MatthewVett]

Non-Arabic, but another more smart-lookin' nude, I reckon.

Have you managed to find The Asian Mystique, yet, Naoko?

 

[TxRad]

Either of those girls could help me with my Chess game - any time.

And what color were their chest pieces?

 

[Handley_Page]

And what color were their chest pieces?

Chest : Normal colour
Chess : Black & White.

I wanted to make a chess set from empty cartridge cases, but could not get the long .455 beasts for the Kings. Pawns were .22, of course.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Non-Arabic, but another more smart-lookin' nude, I reckon.

Have you managed to find The Asian Mystique, yet, Naoko?

Ohhhhh. I love the cello. I'm seriously thinking about taking it up. I would so love to play the cello. If I get a regular income I might do it instead of having a cleaner, but I can't if I only get income some of the year, can I.

Actually, I've got The Asian Mystique on order! Now that I've had my salary, and paid the lads for cleaning out my guttering , I can place my order. I have to use Steve44UK's cool book order website, and it's a bit unclear when they will get it for me. But I also have to finish off The Iliad before I can start another book so I think that'll be OK. I promise to go on about it at length here when I've read it.

 

[MatthewVett]

Ohhhhh. I love the cello. I'm seriously thinking about taking it up. I would so love to play the cello. If I get a regular income I might do it instead of having a cleaner, but I can't if I only get income some of the year, can I.

Actually, I've got The Asian Mystique on order! Now that I've had my salary, and paid the lads for cleaning out my guttering , I can place my order. I have to use Steve44UK's cool book order website, and it's a bit unclear when they will get it for me. But I also have to finish off The Iliad before I can start another book so I think that'll be OK. I promise to go on about it at length here when I've read it.

I'm a terrible classicist: I never read the Iliad. I read the Odyssey and Aeneid, but never the Iliad. I've always preferred historical documents, anyway: Herodotus, Polybius, Plutarch... How are you finding it so far? I just checked out a book of ghost stories from the library, so that's my next read.

 

[TxRad]

I've always preferred the braille system myself:

 

[MatthewVett]

I've always preferred the braille system myself:

I certainly wouldn't mind feeling for the bumps in that picture...

 

[Handley_Page]

Amen to that, Matthew.

I wonder if there's a version of 'Playboy' magazine in Braille ?

 

[NaokoSmith]

I'm a terrible classicist: I never read the Iliad. I read the Odyssey and Aeneid, but never the Iliad. I've always preferred historical documents, anyway: Herodotus, Polybius, Plutarch... How are you finding it so far? I just checked out a book of ghost stories from the library, so that's my next read.

Sorry, Matthew. I had to go and take a, a, um ... I had to have a shower. Sorry it took so long.

I'm really enjoying The Iliad, which I'm reading in a verse translation. I do like epic poetry and I love reading about the Trojans, tamers of horses, and the strong-greaved Achaeans. There's a lot of battles and blood and spears going right through body parts, which I'm afraid I enjoy immensely. I'm wondering if the sex has been cleaned up, since I think Patroklus and Achilles are supposed to be lovers but there hasn't been as much MM action as I was hoping for. Still, they are described in fine detail and very fine their bodies appear to be too. We gurrls are not supposed to know about naughty Classics of course, so my Classical education is a bit patchy.

I mean to move on to The Odyssey which I would dearly love to read while holidaying in Kefalonia. I would of course go to Ithaca. I went to Kefalonia once before all the Captain Corelli's Mandolin madness. It was absolutely beautiful although unfortunately I had gone with my psychotic ex girlfriend who spoilt things by being neurotic and boring. Now that I've long ditched her, I'd love to go back there.

 

[MatthewVett]

We gurrls are not supposed to know about naughty Classics of course, so my Classical education is a bit patchy.

Did someone say naughty Classics? Sounds like you need to read Lysistrata. Not only did Aubrey Beardsley do hilariously wonderful illustrations for it, http://matthewvett.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lacedaemonian-ambassadors.jpg?w=584&h=828, but it's an excellent play about the women of Greece going on a sex strike to bring an end to a war. It's also available free online to read: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/lysistrata.htm It's such a good play; and hilarious, too. I love Aristophanes. In Plato's Symposium, he's the one who tells the story about people once being four-armed and -legged beings who were split by the gods in jealousy, and now we go looking for our other halves to be complete once again!

As for other naughty classics, you're not likely to find anything explicit in the old epics. You'd want some of the younger Latin poets. Ovid's Art of Love is quite nice. http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/Artoflovehome.htm He even gives advice on which sexual position women should choose depending on their body type. I also like his advice to men that they should be seen to support Venus, in order to convince women of their love of love.

 

[NaokoSmith]

Matthew, I'm overcome! Actually, after checking that Aubrey Beardsley illustration fresh from inspecting JackLuis's latest heroine's embonpoint in Naked Party, I am totally overcome and fumbling my sunglasses on and off in a pathetic panting state.

LOL, thank you, I will read all of these, once I have finished beta reading JackLuis's and TxRad's pieces of classic and poetic art.

I think I went to a reinterpretation of Lysistrata once by David Lan in Cambridge. (I've never quite figured out if he is the same David Lan who wrote the ethnography of Zimbabwean soldiers, Guns and Rain, but I should think he probably is.) I ought to read passages of Lysistrata aloud on video on Youtube, perhaps. If only I looked like Teresa .

 

[damppanties]

I ought to read passages of Lysistrata aloud on video on Youtube, perhaps.

I support this project. Everybody in favor, drool.

 

[Saxon_Hart]

I support this project. Everybody in favor, drool.

Need a drool icon on here. Kermie there is the closest I could find.

 

[Handley_Page]

I support this project. Everybody in favor, drool.

Agreed, but do you mind if I clean up before going shopping please?
A wet shirt-front looks bad in the Supermarket, I think.

 

[MatthewVett]

I'm honestly considering trying to read some Machiavelli in the vein of Hysterical Literature for a story entry. Now I just need a good toy. I feel like it wouldn't work as fun alone...

 

[Handley_Page]

I think I went to a reinterpretation of Lysistrata once by David Lan in Cambridge. I ought to read passages of Lysistrata aloud on video on Youtube, perhaps.
If only I looked like Teresa .

Teresa Who?. Sure Not Mother Theresa ?
Now there's an image not to have on a dark & wild night.

But WHY re-interpret ?
I've never quite understood this Thespian keenness to 'do it different'.

I recall seeing a televised Mozart Opera [don't ask the title; I've forgotten].
It was set in modern New York which struck me as odd. But what made me switch it off was the translation. Our Hero [?] is waxing lyrical about how nice he thought her feet were, and the translated crap on screen said "they really turn me on".
Now, I realise that there are differing views on the import of words, but that stuck me as being odd-ball beyond logic.
Even the most modern of translators would surely not stoop so low?
I reached for the remote.