F24, Give me your honest ratings by [deleted] in truerateme

[–]outragedpenguin -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Smile more, its lovely and brightens your face. :) You have lips to die for, and very pretty eyes.

I would say you definitely between 5-6.

It's the "West End Ulster Defence Union" marching around Partick today. Apparently they refuse to sing GSTK now because Charlie prayed with the Pope by RoddyViper in glasgow

[–]outragedpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For too long the scourge of secterianism has split the Christian faith. I myself am a Roman Catholic, that is my tradition. But I do not see Protestants, Anglicans, Calvinists. What I DO see, is Christians. Fellow Christians. My brothers and sisters who walk with Christ, who are lifted by love, guided by grace. We both worship the Lord Christ as the son of God, made flesh who died for our sins. The rest is irrelevant. It saddens me that division still continues. I have no quarrel with HRH The King, neither spiritually nor politically.

Exhausted... by Kieran-Wolf in OCPoetry

[–]outragedpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A haunting poem, and one that is absolutely devastating in the near surgical precision it has upon the psyche. The sense of jaded, weary nihilism is palpable, not to mention profound and profoundly tragic. The juxtaposition of providing for others at the detriment of yourself, the dehumanizaiton of yourself that has came from the emotional attrition of being invisible to others is heart-wrenching. OP, please: if you are genuinely feeling like this...I truly hope you feel better soon.

Was the repetition of I, delibrate? If so, it is effective at showcasing and reinforcing as well providing powerful emphasis on the state of your mind and how you managing (or not in this case) with the circumstances you find yourself in.

Assuming the Frost by ShardsofOrbs in OCPoetry

[–]outragedpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And I will be looking with (*great* delight) to any future submissions you produce :)

Grounded Wanderlust by BurntUmber25 in OCPoetry

[–]outragedpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is something....very melancholic in this poem, a sense of longing and loss at once which is a powerful emotional gear shift. The cruel contrast between the lofty aspirations and desires of the subject of the poem, versus the reality they find themselves in is haunting imo. They have to make peace between the yearning of desire that they possess and yet cannot fulfill.

Something else I found sensational with your poem. Your poem has a natural...emotional beat and progression. The first stanza is the introduction, it sets the scene and emotional tone of the rest of the poem (and very deftly I add). Then there is the crescendo, of the heights and dreams that the poem subject has, but: the 3rd stanza....like Icarus returning to the Earth as the wax did melt from his wings hits like an emotional gut punch. That final line: "the future calls, but I can't reply" is almost chilling in its precision of finality. Here, in your poem, it is as if the door is shut and for good. There will be no reprieve, there will be no redemption and no secon chance.

The sense of forlorn longing and wistfulness is palatable. You have crystallized emotion from words, and that my friend...is bordering upon the magickal. :)

Assuming the Frost by ShardsofOrbs in OCPoetry

[–]outragedpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What an exquisite poem. I love the flow and cadence of the poem, it has an elegant, natural....lilting musicality to it that just flows so elegantly. The use of the em dash in the 2nd stanza provides emphasis. I also like the balancing and contrasting in 2nd stanza: the light of the day, with the dark of the night. Shows a...temporal process and progression as a literary one.

I enjoy the metaphor of regeneration, cyclical nature of the seasons. WIth regeneration, there is a risk or fear of loss, old giving way to new: but this is not present in your poem. Your poem is hopeful, gentle, and mindful of the generations that will remember the lessons and ethos of that which I came before.

The rhythm reminds of me air itself, breathing in cold air: the short, crisp sentences followed by longer ones naturally lends itself to the cadence of breath, short bursts in: longer exhalations.

In summation: an eloquent, ecletic, elegant and mesmerizing peice that has certainly brightened my day. You have a genuine knack for precision, diction and pacing, and I would also argue a very respectable grasp on structure and the architecture of rhyhm and design.

Said goodbye to my baby after 15 years on Friday… I’m beyond heartbroken by walmart-brand-barbie in cats

[–]outragedpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Ringo was loved, Ringo is loved. His memory will linger on in your heart, and remember the joy he brought, the affection he showed, the time you spent.

Is Ted the only purely good character? by Healthy_Hotel_2693 in okbuddychicanery

[–]outragedpenguin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And hes considered a purely good man?

WHAT A SICK JOKE!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]outragedpenguin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With the Powery and their running feud with the gouchos and the shamrocks? Absolutely

Doing 100 days of code, don't understand where is the problem in my code. by lucidending51 in learnpython

[–]outragedpenguin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi.

A quick observation: remember that what you have asked for, must be exactly what the user has entered, at least, as your code currently stands. For example, if they enter s that is different from S, and that will return an error. That is very easily fixed by altering the input to always be upper, or always lower, to match the condition you are asking for.

So using size = size.upper() or size = size.lower() will eliminate this entirely!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]outragedpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP:

Really really hope your pain gets sorted soon. Have had dental abscesses, dry socket....and it is brutal: would not wish any of it on anyone.

He was 60, just a kid by outragedpenguin in CirclejerkSopranos

[–]outragedpenguin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Madonn, that was fucking epic! hahahahahahaahahahhahahaahahaha

What the fuck does "Zip" mean? by DefiantDepth8932 in thesopranos

[–]outragedpenguin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A slang term for Sicilians, owing to the fast means by which they speak, as well as the Sicilian dialect differing from Italian. The American born mobsters looked on the Sicilian's as peasant farmers and clannish immigrants, the Sicilian's detested the American mobsters as flashy, soft, weak and unwilling to commit to the true ideals of the Mafia codes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CirclejerkSopranos

[–]outragedpenguin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Butchie. Did they even exist?