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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Divide by Zero on 25 May 2008, 14:02
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I don't like Thai food. I never have. But you don't hear me saying that spicy food is crap and I have no clue how anybody could ever enjoy it.
Yet whenever I see people arguing about music on this forum or elsewhere (moreso elsewhere), people do just that.
PERSON 1:"MCR is awful! I don't know how anybody can like them."
PERSON 2:"Are you kidding me? Their musicianship is excellent, their vocals are superb, and their lyrics are very well-crafted."
PERSON 1:"Are you thirteen years old or just stoned?"
Or,
PERSON 1:"Call me crazy, but Queen never really did it for me."
PERSON 2:"You're fucking crazy. Seriously, you don't like Queen?"
Or,
PERSON 1:"There is not one song on that album that does not suck."
PERSON 2:"That's my favorite album by them, you know."
Is it so hard to understand that just because you personally don't like something, that doesn't mean it sucks?
EDIT: In case it wasn't clear, the parts in quotations are supposed to be sample dialogs.
EDIT 2: Made it perfectly clear by making them more than just quotes.
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BURN THE WITCH!!! He is speaking LIES!
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what.
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I've had duck, it's not really my favorite. Rabbit is much better.
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I remember a TV show or a movie or something depicting Peking Duck being sold at a baseball game. For the longest time I thought this was something you could actually do.
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We had my ex-wife and her hubby to dinner last week; we cooked them guineafowl. And I didn't murder her at all; can't say we agreed on everything, though (now there's a surprise!).
Paul
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Murder seems to be a forum theme today. In the wee hours of the morning I made two drunk posts, both of which threatened killing.
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Johnny that peking duck thing might have been from the Simpsons.
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Dr. Obvious to the OR, Dr. Obvious to the OR. We have something urgent but we're already sure what it is and we need you to tell us again.
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Why is it still called Peking duck, when Peking has long since been changed to Beijing?
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Why is it still called Peking duck, when Peking has long since been changed to Beijing?
And what's the deal with French Fries? [/Seinfeld]
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I liked Peking duck, before it got all popular
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And what's the deal with pop music? Doesn't it mean popular? I mean, aren't Slayer pop? What's the deal?? [/Seinfeld]
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You can get these Peking Duck flavoured potato chips from asian grocery stores around here. They are fucking awesome! Also Wasabi Lobster, which is possibly even better.
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Speaking of crisps, this dude where I work brought in these blue crisps. It was really freaky. The potato is actually, factually, naturally blue when it grows. But they just taste normal. It's fucking weird is what it is.
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Apparently potatoes produce cyanide as an anti-herbivore thing.
Did your crisps taste like cyanide?
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aside from this rediculous tangent of epic proportions, i think its true how no one takes 10 extra seconds to compile an actual reason on why they like or dislike something on the threads latley, im sure i've done it at least once but it bothers me how people think that saying " Morphine is a horrible band, good had one song worth listening to out of all their albums." actually makes them seem like they understand what their talking about. for anyone who argues their points like this, i say this sincerely, Congratulations my friend, you are an asshole!
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What the hell are "crisps".
SPEAK ENGLISH YOU CUNTS.
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What the hell are "crisps".
SPEAK ENGLISH YOU CUNTS.
no need to be hostile
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Duck? Are you thirteen or just stoned?
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Duck? Are you thirteen or just stoned?
13 and ston3d
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Duck is alright. Do you genuinely not like rabbit? Man, a proper rabbit stew chili is some good stuff.
Speaking of weed... I'm not stoned enough. The Mars Volta doesn't sound good yet.
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i hope you feel special
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I was makin' fun of the original post in this thread.
Then I guess we're even, you rogue.
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I quite like duck, though i've never had rabbit. I hear rabbit can be quiet gamey though
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What the hell are "crisps".
SPEAK ENGLISH YOU CUNTS.
The irony of this amuses me to end. I know it was intentional, and I haven't decided if it's funnier despite that or because of it.
I quiet like duck, though i've never had rabbit. I hear rabbit can be quiet gamey though
There's no need to be quiet about it. You may proclaim your taste for duck loudly; we're all friends here.
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Man, how fucking good is duck? Am I right? I just can't get enough of it.
man, you are so wrong. i got food poisoning from eating duck once so i am just going to avoid it forever from now on.
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You know you can get crispy skin duck in plum sauce, that isn't actually duck? It's molded tofu. We're living in the future, no doubt about it. They can make pretty much anything out of tofu these days.
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I quiet like duck, though i've never had rabbit. I hear rabbit can be quiet gamey though
There's no need to be quiet about it. You may proclaim your taste for duck loudly; we're all friends here.
Haha thanks for pointing out the stupid typo :lol:
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I really don't dig on duck, its just way too fatty for me to be able to enjoy, the texture always reminds me of food that has already been chewed.
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What the hell are "crisps".
SPEAK ENGLISH YOU CUNTS.
does FREEDOM-SIZED PIZZA SHAPED POTATOES make you feel more comfortable?
I believe the correct term are "Freedom Chips" or "Freedom Slices" And since when do chips look like pizza? What scary kind of pizza's are you eating. I understand that they're circular...but beyond that you've lost me.
Dude, trekkies love tofu, they go all like "OMG THAT'S WHAT THE STARFLEET CAN USE TO SYNTHESIZE FOOD FOR YOU!!!!" before they look at 7 of 9 and touch themselves.
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Man, how fucking good is duck? Am I right? I just can't get enough of it.
man, you are so wrong. i got food poisoning from eating duck once so i am just going to avoid it forever from now on.
A lady dumped me once. I NEVER WANT TO HAVE SEX.
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Man, how fucking good is duck? Am I right? I just can't get enough of it.
man, you are so wrong. i got food poisoning from eating duck once so i am just going to avoid it forever from now on.
A lady dumped me once. I NEVER WANT TO HAVE SEX.
A lady dumped me twice. I NEVER WANT TO SPEAK TO WOMEN AGAIN.
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i say this sincerely, Congratulations my friend, you are an asshole!
I get it now, irony :-D
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Perhaps that's not valid for some people, I guess, Their opinions are just that..opinions.
However, my thoughts are completely infallible. People who disagree with me are wrong; it's pretty obvious, really.
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This thread is funnier when read right after the Talent/Techno thread.
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Apparently some people actually like Deerhoof.
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This thread is funnier when read right after the Talent/Techno thread.
Totally, that's what I did.
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Did your crisps taste like cyanide?
Cyanide tastes like bitter almonds.
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What the hell are "crisps".
SPEAK ENGLISH YOU CUNTS.
I think what you meant to say was, 'speak our corruption of English, you cunts.'
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I love how most of the posts trying to make fun of me only served to help illustrate my point, which is that the kind of arguing I was talking about is idiotic and pointless.
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I love how most of the posts trying to make fun of me only served to help illustrate my point, which is that the kind of arguing I was talking about is idiotic and pointless.
!! BUT PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean THEY SUCK. Seriously.
Also: no one has really said anything that illustrates your point. Everyone's talking about eating ducks and whatnot.
..For the record, I find duck meat to be a bit dry. Chicken is the best bird to eat.
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I can't honestly say I've tried duck often enough in enough different styles to really give a good opinion on it.
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The only duck I've ever tried was at a French restaurant my sister worked at, and it was a bit cold, and a bit fatty, so that's tempered my opinion on the air-beast. I do love rabbit though, and to the poster above, EMU is the best bird to eat.
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I've never eaten duck, but whenever I think of it as a meal, I picture that scene in A Christmas Story, where they go to a chinese restaurant for christmas and they chop the duck's head off at their table
What I am trying to say here is A Christmas Story sucked
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I kinda lost respect for my mother in law over something like this. She said (and argued) that Notorious BIG was just as shitty as New Kids On the Block. She was serious about this and maintains that anyone who doesn't agree is a retard.
Look, I don't like the Rocketman, but that doesn't mean that I can't admit that he is a good musician. He just makes music that I don't care about at all.
-MDSL
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Chicken is the best bird to eat.
fuck yes
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Chicken is the best bird to eat.
You're a dick.
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Duck is best braised in a red wine sauce.
Also: isn't it funny how poverty food sometimes becomes a fancy thing? Example: duck confit is duck salt cured and then preserved in its own fat. It can be found on the menu at lots of fancy French restaurants. It was used by peasants to keep meat for a long time without need for refrigeration, but it also happens to be real friggin' tasty, if done right.
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Lobster was also a poverty food, until it became almost extinct due to the fact that the slaves were just lovin' it so damn much. Prices for it went up and voila! New fancy food.
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crispy duck wraps
fuck yeah
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Paella is another case of those, sooooo good, maybe my favorite dish. Duck is one of my favorite foods. Its just so good in so many ways. I'm not the biggest on chicken fried, because I have that basically everyday at school, but Cornish Game Hens are terrific though.
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Little Tokyo in Leeds does an amazing mock duck in mango sauce bento box. If the real thing is as good as the fake then it's a thoroughly edible bird.
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The sauce is called Hoi Sin.
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No, that's Chinese. This was different (I think). Definitely not called hoi sin at any rate.
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since trying it for the first time little over a week ago, duck has become my favourite food. It's a pretty expensive habit to get into though, it might be cheaper to smoke instead.
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Cheaper to smoke what, exactly?
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Cigarettes.
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I figured, but I wasn't sure.
What's the cost of a pack up to where you are? The taxes just keep going up and up in New York where I am. I'm so glad I don't smoke.
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About £5 for a carton of 20, £3 for a carton of 10.
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I'd ask what that is in dollars, but with the exchange rates being what they are, that's pointless.
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Anyone who smokes tobacco and doesn't roll their own is an idiot. Fact.
Good rolling tobacco is massively cheaper than buying manufactured cigarettes. In the US, good rolling tobacco - fresh Amsterdam or London Shag, or even pre-packaged Bali Shag, is about $3-$4 for a half ounce. That's in the neighborhood of 50 cigarettes worth for less than the price of one pack of 20 manufactured.
Additionally, good rolling tobacco has far less in the way of additives, it is actually tobacco whereas most cigarettes are chips of pressed tobacco dust dried and crumbled up, it is fairly high in nicotine so you smoke less to get the same effect, and on and on...
Seriously, people.
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Anyone who smokes tobacco and doesn't roll their own is an idiot. Fact.
No, opinion.
There are people for whom cost is not an issue, or is overriden by the convenience factor. Additives are moot; you're intentionally ingesting carcinogens. You could argue that it's "more harmful" but that's about it, and again the convenience factor still wins most cases.
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Additionally, good rolling tobacco has far less in the way of additives.
Yeah, you wouldn't want to risk your health, now, wouldja? :wink:
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Holy fucking shit, i just read through this thread and i think I'm officially more dumb now. Way to derail this shit ultimately. Actually, anyone who can derail this thread this much deserves a tip of the hat.
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There are people for whom cost is not an issue, or is overriden by the convenience factor.
Yes. I call them "rich twats".
Additives are moot; you're intentionally ingesting carcinogens.
Oh, I see. So by that logic if I'm going to drink alcohol at all I might as well drink a liter of vodka every single day. Makes perfect sense.
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Additives are moot; you're intentionally ingesting carcinogens.
It's like the difference between drinking white cider and real ale. I mean, you're intentionally poisoning yourself! Why should you care about quality?
Rollies are cheaper, easier on the throat, less full of sulphur and tar, taste better, smell better, stain the teeth, lips and hands less, don't burn down on their own, and yeah seriously why would you smoke straights?
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Because you prefer them.
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Do you take one of your pack of lucky strikes whenever you get a new one, and turn it upside down relative to the others in the pack and have that as your 'lucky cigarette'?
Because that is a fairly obnoxious habit.
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@ Khar
I never got why people did that. Is that the only reason? Because that is a dumb reason.
Also Jens, fight you and your country for still having Luckies. Those are damn good.
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Yes. I call them "rich twats".
I'd like to take issue with this statement! Most people I know who smoke cigarettes can't afford to eat.
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Oh, then they're just idiots.
Also fact: smoking makes you look cool. You cannot deny this. It's basically the only valid reason to smoke, actually.
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OiC: You seriously don't have Luckies any more? I thought that was like one of the big established ones?
I have not see Luckies on this side of the Atlantic in ages. I think they were discontinued over here or something like that.
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Where are we talking about? They still sell filtered and non-filtered Lucky Strikes in America.
I always found it odd when people say that nicotine, a powerful stimulant, calms them down. I've smoked for 13 years and the first cigarette of any day still makes me jittery.
Though, I basically only smoke when I drink and am in public. Sometimes that's every night for 5 days, sometimes that means I don't smoke for a week at a time. I never got the hang of being addicted to the point of physical craving.
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Where are we talking about? They still sell filtered and non-filtered Lucky Strikes in America.
I may have to just look harder then because I do not see Lucky Strikes here anymore. Odd.
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Lucky Strikes can be hard to find. I'm not sure why, because up until 5 years ago or so they were everywhere (before I rolled my own, when cigarettes were still cheap, I smoked unfiltered Luckies or Pall Malls).
Actually it seems like right around when they first made filtered Luckies available in the US is when they became hard to find.
Also: Filtered Luckies and Pall Malls are shit even by normal cigarette standards.
@tommy: Perhaps I should say it's the only valid reason to START smoking. You can't enjoy something you've never tried. That's one reason I tell people to never try Ecstasy.
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It's like coffee calming people down, I guess. It kind of has that effect on me. In fact, sometimes the only way I can get to sleep is to have a nice hot cuppa.
Are we done talking about duck? The first time I had some, it was for free at a Chinese restaurant 'round hereabouts, because the owner was a really cool guy and almost definitely in the Chinese mafia (based simply on his very very strange behaviour) and had a gay crush on my cousin, so he gave us free food all the time. Good stuff. Then I had it in Beijing, and it was even better.
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Apparently I look a lot like Spider Jerusalem, according to an ex. She's always bugging me to read that. I still haven't. Is it really that good? Not that I don't trust her taste. But, well, she is the person who showed me 4chan.
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4chan is the single worst thing to ever come onto the internet.
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okay, i've never been to 4chan and admittedly, don't really know what it's all about but it doesn't like it's all bad:
Around midnight on September 11, 2007, a student posted photographs of mock-pipe bombs and another photograph of him holding them whilst saying he would blow up his high school at 9:11 a.m. on Sept. 11. People on 4chan helped track him down by finding the perpetrator's father's name in the Exif data of a photograph he took, and contacted the police. He was arrested before school began that day.
that's pretty impressive.
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4chan is the single worst thing to ever come onto the internet.
Eh, I think there is much worse, honestly.
OK, not that much worse.
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ugh maybe it's just the random or "/b/" part of 4chan. The guys on that part of it kept calling this one girl until it got to the point where she started crying every night. one of her friends goes on the random part of 4chan and tells them they respond "The fact that your friend cries herself to sleep everynight makes our dicks hard"
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4chan is the single worst thing to ever come onto the internet.
O RLY?
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Smoking only makes you look cool if you put them out on your tongue.
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since trying it for the first time little over a week ago, duck has become my favourite food. It's a pretty expensive habit to get into though, it might be cheaper to smoke instead.
Try and find a chinese bbq/butcher, it's the cheapest way to get good duck. They'll have rows and rows of bbq'ed ducks hanging from the roof, also sides of pork. You can get a half duck cut up with a cleaver and drizzled with mystery sauce for pretty cheap, usually.
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Smoking only makes you look cool if you put them out on your tongue.
Or in the palm of your hand.
And while the question of whether or not 4chan is the single worst thing to come onto the Internet is a debate of its own, one thing's for certain: It certainly did come on the Internet. All over the Internet. And then it told the Internet that the Internet enjoyed it.
I'll stop now.
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And the Internet so loved the world that It gave Its only 4chan...
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One time I put a cigarette out with the palm of my hand. I was drunk, and yes, there was some epic regret. I still have a scar.
I imagine it looked damn cool, though.
EDIT: SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX POSTS
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One time I put a cigarette out with the palm of my hand. I was drunk, and yes, there was some epic regret. I still have a scar.
I have a friend who has cigarette burns on the top of each of his hands, near the wrist. He did it on purpose.
He is a fucking moron.
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4chan is the single worst thing to ever come onto the internet.
Pussy.
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4chan is the single worst thing to ever come onto the internet.
I'm pretty sure "blood show" is the worst thing. Ever. Not kidding.
*Disclaimer: do not go here. I'd never have known about it if a friend of mine hadn't found it. Terrible idea =/
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One time I put a cigarette out with the palm of my hand. I was drunk, and yes, there was some epic regret. I still have a scar.
At a party one time, a friend of mine asked me to pass him an ashtray to put out his cigarette. I had just opened a beer and still had the cap in my hand, so I cupped my hand with the cap in it, and said "Here, just put it out in my hand." He glanced over, understood immediately, and squished out the smoke. No one else could see the bottle cap, and I just emptied my hand into a nearby ashtray which already had plenty of butts and more than a few bottlecaps in it. It's surprising how people react to something like that. I was going for exactly the effect you got, only, you know, without the pain part.
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Apparently I look a lot like Spider Jerusalem, according to an ex.
Marry me.
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Yeah, smoking does look cool, don't know why, though. It might be the intentional self-destruction, and the devil-may-care attitude that it suggests. Or maybe it is just because you are holding fire in your mouth. If likelihood of getting cancer/addiction from smoking is hereditary, I would probably be fine, but I don't really feel like risking it. I would be interested in finding out what factors change the damage that smoking does to you, there are probably foods that help from the nutrients they give, other habits that strengthen the lungs to counteract the smoking, I would think someone has done studies by now.
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ugh maybe it's just the random or "/b/" part of 4chan. The guys on that part of it kept calling this one girl until it got to the point where she started crying every night. one of her friends goes on the random part of 4chan and tells them they respond "The fact that your friend cries herself to sleep everynight makes our dicks hard"
4chan never harasses someone for no reason. I'm not exactly condoning harassment but she must have done some seriously stupid shit to earn their mocking wrath.
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Try and find a chinese bbq/butcher, it's the cheapest way to get good duck. They'll have rows and rows of bbq'ed ducks hanging from the roof, also sides of pork. You can get a half duck cut up with a cleaver and drizzled with mystery sauce for pretty cheap, usually.
Why can't the rest of you be this useful?
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Yeah, smoking does look cool, don't know why, though.
Half a century's worth of advertising campaigns with obscene amounts of money spent on making them look that way?
Of course, lighting the cigarette is what really looks cool. More so than smoking it does. If you read Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, you'll notice that Desire spends a lot more time lighting cigarettes than smoking them.
I plan on someday soon putting together a special herb mixture and rolling my own from that. I bounce around ideas in my head for what I'll put in it--Sweetgrass, damiana, vanilla bean powder... I just want the look and a sweet smell that's also an aphrodesiac for those who inhale it. I don't want tobacco.
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I would think inhaling all that crap can't be much better for you, you might as well smoke tobacco or weed and actually get something for the damage.
oh yeah, Ive never had duck, but turkey sucks. I hate it, even on thanksgiving, i eat pasta, even if i have to cook it myself. I can't understand turkey eaters. Its the worst bird to eat, well thats normally eaten anyway, i imagine theres fouler fowl out there.
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divide by zero (need to figure out a nickname for that, maybe /0?) has a point there, it is the lighting that looks badass, which also explains why zippos add more to the badass factor than cheapo bics. Course, I wouldn't call Desire a badass.
Actually, I think it is solely the fire, the lighting is coolest because that is when the most fire is involved. That seem right to everyone else?
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why bother finding a nickname, his name is undefined/meaningless.
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4chan never harasses someone for no reason. I'm not exactly condoning harassment but she must have done some seriously stupid shit to earn their mocking wrath.
Actually, they harass people for barely any reason all the time. The critical mistake is to take anything they say to heart, or to react to them. The normal trajectory of getting arse-reamed by anonymous involves you replying indignantly to a troll on your myspace or youtube or whatever, leading to an escalating situation as you become known as a lulzcow. Apart from in a few cases, anonymous is generally after the reactions of the people it targets more than anything else. If this girl was crying at nights then she was probably reacting hysterically to whatever anonymous was doing, which only prompts them to do it more.
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Goddamn anonymous and their goddamn bus-exploding shenanigans.
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...But it was a van.
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I don't care what any of you think, smoking does not make you look cool. I absolutely refuse to date a smoker. It's gross.
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I disagree. I'd be in two minds about dating a smoker, but I think without doubt the image of someone smoking can be reeeeeally cool looking. I'd use it in artwork or a video/film if I was a director or summat.
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Smoking makes you cool! smoking makes you rule! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Aiertq53A0A)
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I think you meant Don't Smoke! (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aTQ8o-Mrp_Q)
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I absolutely refuse to date a smoker. It's gross.
Anybody worth dating would agree not to smoke around you.
I mean, really, would you want to date someone who wouldn't give up something as non-essential as cigarettes for you?
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There's still "the breath issue". Sure, you can OD on mints, but isn't it easier to start out not having your mouth smell like burnt paper and plants?
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I'm seriously starting to think that is a myth. Even just a glass of water gets rid of the 'smoker breath'.
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Yeah seriously, before I smoked I kissed smokers and didn't notice anything off-putting at all, and I've dated non-smokers who were more than happy to kiss me even immediately after I'd smoked a cigarette. Either it's not an issue for most people or it's largely a myth or some people are smoking magic cigarettes that have far more lingering smell than I've ever experienced.
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I don't care what any of you think, smoking does not make you look cool. I absolutely refuse to date a smoker. It's gross.
Smokers don't smoke 24/7. It's not like the guy is going to put an ashtray on your back during intimate times.
Not always, anyway.
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Maybe it's because I used to smoke and am now "extra aware" or something. Some people I work with come over to ask me a question or just talk, and it's on their clothes and yes, it's on their breath as well. There's times when I know they've come by before I even turn around because I can smell them. When they sidle up to me to say something quietly, something not politically correct or whatever, I almost gag sometimes from the smell. I guess they're smoking the magic cigarettes (no not that magic kind; the extra-smelly kind zerodrone mentioned).
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Or, they've not yet had a glass of water/eaten anything since they smoked, as previously suggested, because while if I'm close to them my co-workers smell of smoke immediately after their smoking break, once they drink a glass of water/walk around a bit it's not an issue unless they're uncomfortably close in the first place.