User: Kandou

I think Orodreth is a Brit, based on what he's said previously, and the term isn't unheard of over here, even though it isn't exactly common (Or at least, isn't in this part of the UK)

(Sorry for the extreme necromancy here, was just browsing your comments and stumbled across this one)

I've always readily acknowledged translation errors, etc, and that the Bible is, at best, a human transcription of the word of God (and as such open to all the flaws any human written book is) rather than divinely dictated. And I no longer consider myself a Christian (eventually things just got too complex for me to continue labelling myself that way with an 'although I disagree with Christian theology on these lines')

However - My favourite translation of the Bible is the Good News Bible, which is simply because I prefer the text of it.

A few ways that I know of, none guarantee nudity, but some have the stripping aspect separate to the winning aspect which can produce games which, when analysed, look very strange indeed.

Firstly, just to clarify: Pawns are not considered 'pieces'. The pieces are rooks, knights, queens, bishops and kings. The pieces come in two flavours, minor and major. Knights and bishops are minor, rooks, queens and kings major.

One is for your opponent to remove an item of clothing whenever you check him.

Another is for a piece of clothing to be removed when a piece is captured or checkmate is given.

A more complex variant of this takes into account the relative 'strengths' from capture: equal rank (pawn takes pawn, minor takes minor, major takes major) = 1 item, capturing a rank above (pawn takes minor, minor takes major) = 2 items, two ranks above (pawn takes major) = 3 items. Checkmate is considered a major capture.

Naturally the first can be combined with either, and you can adjust the clothing amounts everything represents as desired.

Also, in some variants, it's an option between putting clothing on yourself and removing clothing from your opponent when you capture pieces. I'd highly recommend playing this way with the second variant of the capture = clothing removal.

Changing the penalty for being checkmated from clothing removal to something more 'interesting' (run round the block in whatever you've got left on, for example), could produce some interesting endgames: Someone who's losing while wearing very little might be trying to force a checkmate simply so that they're at least somewhat covered while they pay the loss penalty, while their opponent might be trying to prolong actual victory for as long as possible while cleaning up their remaining pieces.

Or you could just play 'loser strips', but that loses the fun of strip games, imo, which I feel is the slow stripping effect.

When it's raining I tend to be wearing one of my normal coats, but I don't really consider either one to be rain wear, since I wear both under non-wet circumstances.

flip-flops/sandles, t-shirt and long pants otherwise.

Some "traditions" need to be abolished so that school can be a positive learning and socialization experience rather than a daily ordeal.

...Within mainstreme society, I do not believe there is such a thing as a 'positive socialization experience'.

As for learning? At school? Schools are more about regurgitating what gets told to you and mindless obedience than actual education.