I wish I could get my Muse published.
3-4 solid stories floating around in my skull.
Then I guess you're not going to start an e. e. cummings appreciation thread?
;)
I hate topics that are all in small letters.StUdLyCaPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studly_caps) are far worse.
I've been watching Prime Minister's Questions (from the UK and Australia) and it's way more interesting than anything that happens in the U.S. Congress. Only once in a short while does a Congressman give an animated speech, and disputes between parties play out in long, boring speeches or in press conferences. But in Parliamentary systems there's a built in procedure for yelling right at each other. It's brilliant.The U.S. Congress could always go back to the old way of settling disputes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner)
EDIT: Jamaica may be the winner though. You come outside and say that! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWZAh6sh0c)
I know. May made the topic in my post look like that. Because she's mean. :xI hate topics that are all in small letters.StUdLyCaPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studly_caps) are far worse.
I've been watching Prime Minister's Questions (from the UK and Australia) and it's way more interesting than anything that happens in the U.S. Congress. Only once in a short while does a Congressman give an animated speech, and disputes between parties play out in long, boring speeches or in press conferences. But in Parliamentary systems there's a built in procedure for yelling right at each other. It's brilliant.The U.S. Congress could always go back to the old way of settling disputes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner)
EDIT: Jamaica may be the winner though. You come outside and say that! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWZAh6sh0c)
edit -- The one from 1858 is pretty funny. (I guess except for the postscript that most of the people involved in the fight died in the Civil War.) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_violence#United_States)
Allow me to suggest the following song as an educational tool.
Then taking him to the appropriate fine shops and have him pick out an appropriate pair of fighting trousers.
Do not however show him this link: http://www.steamgirl.com/ NSFW and lovely in it.
I wish I could get my Muse published.
It's weird.That doesn't answer my question :roll:
Babies can't help crying, but their parents can do things about it - feeding a baby on a flight is a good way to get them calm. Small children can help kicking the back of seats and if their parents aren't stopping them, they're crap parents.
itis: Suffix meaning inflammation. For example, colitis is literally colon inflammation or figuratively inflammation of the colon. The ending -itis is one of the building blocks derived from Greek (in this case) or Latin used to construct medical terms.
-osis
a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states ( hypnosis; leukocytosis; osmosis ), especially disorders or abnormal states ( chlorosis; neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis ).
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Checking the phone is almost like a reflex.
Anyone else get the phantom buzz against your leg (or wherever you usually keep you phone)?Often. And often a few seconds before the alarm actually goes off.
Even when it's not on vibrate...
"I want someone to exercise a moral influence on [my fifteen year old daughter]. She is not normal".
"Thymus gland?", hinted Ann.
THYMUS-CENTRED TYPE
As already mentioned, the thymus has a great influence upon the sex characteristics and sexual life of each person. It lies at the base of the throat at the upper chest, and in early childhood (up to six or seven) is very large and active. Sometimes, however, it does not become as inactive as it should, and we then have hyperthymus persons.
These people carry childhood traits into adult life. Their skin is soft and rounded, there is little sex differentiation, as the organs have been retarded in their development. Thus the thymus-centred male will lack the aggressiveness and dominant emotional attitude of the balanced man, while the women seem sexless and lack the retiring disposition.
The thymus-centred person is often one in whom unbalanced attraction towards his or her own sex is a pathological situation, and not a development from mental or emotional disturbance. The sex organs of such people have been retarded in their normal development, and thus their body is not receiving sufficient male or female hormones to polarise and stabilise them in their own sex.
One also finds that their moral nature does not become mature, and also, because of a pathological cause, they can sometimes become inveterate liars or even criminals.
Yeah I do that, my brother had a song he really liked and it had a sound in it that made me check my phone every single time, despite knowing that it was the song.
Just know that I am on my way (know that i am on my way)
It doesn't matter where or when there's trouble
If ya just call my name
Okay, I dont know where to put it.It seems you have bigger problems than references to glands you're not getting...
Have some deep thoughts.How U-U of you!
being in Cleveland Ohio is probably what kissing your second cousin at a family reunion is like, it only lasts a moment but the regret lasts a lifetimeI spent a pleasant night with a second cousin. Lots of hanky minus PIV panky, and it was sort of a lifetime ago -- Thanksgiving 1962 comes to mind. No regrets.
being in Cleveland Ohio is probably what kissing your second cousin at a family reunion is like, it only lasts a moment but the regret lasts a lifetimeI spent a pleasant night with a second cousin. Lots of hanky minus PIV panky, and it was sort of a lifetime ago -- Thanksgiving 1962 comes to mind. No regrets.
Sometimes I think about the possibility that there is just nothing after death and I freak out a little bit.Me too.
If anything I hope there's nothing after death because the only religion I've come close to believing in would send me to hell.Basically this.
If anything I hope there's nothing after death because the only religion I've come close to believing in would send me to hell.Just become jewish and everything becomes negotionable.
What are these near-imperceptibly tiny flying bugs that are swarming the hot summer air - and after I opened my window, my room - by the thousands? They're almost too tiny to squash and there's too many of them!Gnats.
Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
Gnats.Looked them up, and their appearance doesn't match. These things look nothing like flies, they're are about half as wide as a pinhead and about twice the length. They're completely black and appear to be wingless, and they're so small that they're practically invisible in flight.
Sometimes I think about the possibility that there is just nothing after death and I freak out a little bit.I've never been able to shake some of the Christian teachings I learned since childhood, although I'm not a churchgoer. I've said this before elsewhere in the forum: When my wife of 40 years died in 2011, I realized that even if mankind had never invented religion, grieving people would have invented an afterlife as a matter of necessity. How can a person you love deeply just disappear?
Nope. Because they can never be buggered at all.Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
Emoroffle and Nekowafer's names merged in my brain and created Emowaffle.
How can a person you love deeply just disappear?
What are these near-imperceptibly tiny flying bugs that are swarming the hot summer air - and after I opened my window, my room - by the thousands? They're almost too tiny to squash and there's too many of them!
Yeah, not enough forIt's not enough for me, but I still don't believe in an afterlife, although like I said earler...sometimes I wish I did.somemost. That's why there's such a strong afterlife belief around the world.
Midges actually look like super-tiny mosquitoes, and yeah, the dirt thing.
Some varieties bite.
That, and hedgehogs have this inescapable dilemma, that personally I'd like to get out of.Nope. Because they can never be buggered at all.Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
I agree. Would it apply to May's cauliflower, though?
Someone mentioned that they didn't like beer, and I thought of this: "Saying you don't like beer after having a Bud Light or something similar is like saying you don't like juice after drinking the dishwater that was used to wash a juice glass in which the last dregs were left in a warm room to go mouldy."
Someone mentioned that they didn't like beer, and I thought of this: "Saying you don't like beer after having a Bud Light or something similar is like saying you don't like juice after drinking watered down orange drink."
Sad thing as that at least in my part of the US (where we actually have access to a metric shit-ton of good craft beers), Stella is generally considered one of the "fancier" options. It does make me laugh rather sardonically, but yeah, I'd rather drink well G&Ts than Stella.
I have in the past. When I use the direct approach he basically takes it as 'try again 2 weeks later'
The important thing is you've tried them. My objection is when people decide all beer is the same and that they hate it after trying a particularly shitty one.Someone mentioned that they didn't like beer, and I thought of this: "Saying you don't like beer after having a Bud Light or something similar is like saying you don't like juice after drinking watered down orange drink."
I've tried some pretty good quality beers, thanks, and while I could taste the quality being much higher than say, Stella Artois, it still tasted absolutely rancid.
How direct are you being? I get the impression from the other threads that you can be quite socially anxious and so likely aren't a fan of confrontation. Have you explored actually just telling him to fuck off and leave you alone because you're sick of his bullshit? I understand if you're too sweet-natured to do that.
Out of interest, and obviously being that you're quite new here you may not want to answer any of this, why do you still even talk to him in any format?
My answers have ranged from just a flat out no, saying that I'm not interested in him in that way any longer, and actually explaining to him why a couple times when he asked. It's hard to tell him to fuck off completely because usually this stuff comes out of left field from an innocent conversation.
After dealing with this multiple times and having to explain why I don't like him like we're in middle school or something, I've stopped initiating contact with him. I didn't go to his birthday when he invited me because when he mentioned it in the past he hinted about fooling around on his bed, something I'm not really interested in dealing with in front of his friends that I don't know. Every once and a while he talks to me on facebook and I think he still has my number so he could text me if he wanted to.
Yeah, I *know*, which is why I tend to laugh when I see someone order one… Especially since one of my local pubs has a great drinks selection, and another is a dedicated beer shop with about 20 on draught.Sad thing as that at least in my part of the US (where we actually have access to a metric shit-ton of good craft beers), Stella is generally considered one of the "fancier" options. It does make me laugh rather sardonically, but yeah, I'd rather drink well G&Ts than Stella.
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I'm sorry, let me just compose myself.
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Over here Stella is considered to be so classy that it's a byword for domestic violence.
Wait, really? I don't think Stella is great, but I wouldn't call it bad by any means.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.Time to get a Worry Hat.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.Hellooo, new sigquote :P
I haven't seen a strain identified in the news, but they keep saying 90% so it's either Zaire, or sources aren't saying and the news people are assuming the worst for ratings (more likely).
Either way, it's blood borne, so it shouldn't pose much of an infection risk in a first world medical environment.
Honestly, there are so many threats to the planet's existence at the moment that it's hard to pick just one to panic about.There are threats to us, sure, but there are no threats to the planet's existence short of the sun exploding.
What about the rest of you? Which personage would you like to have a sit down with?I would like to make tea for Master Hsu Yun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsu_Yun).
There are threats to us, sure,
What about the rest of you? Which personage would you like to have a sit down with?I would like to make tea for Master Hsu Yun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsu_Yun).
But change is always on the cards; the only issue is the extent to which we can be held directly responsible for influencing or even driving some aspect of it.
Who caused it isn't the issueFinding out who caused it is the issue if they refuse to stop causing it.
By the end of this month, I'll be in my late twenties. Whoa.
I've never been invited to a baby-eating.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuiJWh2CIAAGs9M.jpg)
Quite informative, especially WRT the process involved. (Someone step up and launch a funding drive to get this guy a 3D printer)
The guy with the stick (and I'm glad it's obvious it's a stick) is Miyamoto Musashi
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I dunno much about the art of tube stroking.
Could be worse. The AF base I was stationed at had a bomb range where they could drop MOABs.
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
That's so weird to me. I know I come from a very different academic background (my school didn't actually have grades) but it just seems like that is asking for students to view each other as competition and to overvalue grades over actual learning.The implicit assumption here is that somehow good grades are divorced from actual learning. It is certainly possible for "grade focus" to be harmful if it leads to rote learning in high-school and beyond, but that has a great deal to do with poor teaching, bad test design, and poor incentive/assessment schemes for teachers. How much creativity is involved in learning functional literacy in your native language, or the sort of mathematics needed for 99% of later life?
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.My parents would not have given you any argument. Except they'd have regarded your 5% as ridiculously over-liberal. :laugh:
*I'm embarrassed to admit it, but resentment was a powerful spur. Behind a polite facade, I was one angry little girl.
That's ridiculous. What if different students are aiming towards different goals? Or starting from different points? What's far more important is knowing where you are compared to where you want to be, and how to get there.
"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.My parents would not have given you any argument. Except they'd have regarded your 5% as ridiculously over-liberal. :laugh:
About your signature:Even then, with a thousand cats the chances are good that some of them will not notice, not care, not like that particular brand or simply be asleep.Quote"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
Have you tried opening a can of cat food?
MY children, however, are required to be in the top 5% of their class.
Otherwise, I will restrict them from all other non-academic activities.
Or high on catnip, or chasing invisible insects, or shredding/pissing on something that you rather like (It's much easier to reply once someone else has taken the trouble of writing about half of what I would have written).About your signature:Even then, with a thousand cats the chances are good that some of them will not notice, not care, not like that particular brand or simply be asleep.Quote"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
Have you tried opening a can of cat food?
You could always just not do it... it's not like you're required.
The rules say if you skip the ice water you donate $100, if you do the ice water you donate $10Those are more guidelines, really. You should donate whatever you can/wish to whether you ice or not. If you don't want to do the ice, donating $30 is still very helpful.
The rules say if you skip the ice water you donate $100, if you do the ice water you donate $10Those are more guidelines, really. You should donate whatever you can/wish to whether you ice or not. If you don't want to do the ice, donating $30 is still very helpful.
Carpets are warm and soft.
Carpets are warm and soft.Aye, but they can be a nasty source of friction burns.
Ok, here's what I don't get. The metric system, for the most part, makes sense. The only thing that seems unnecessarily complicated is the definition of a meter as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second." Ok, if that's how you're going to measure a meter, and you already know how generally long it is, why not define a meter as an even 1/300,000,000th of a light second?Because then the length of the meter would have changed by about 100 microns. It doesn't sound like a whole lot, but that amount matters.
Are dudes in tight pants a negative?
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So, an acquaintance of mine married on Wednesday (civil, church and Klingon law).And here I am, thinking that you're roughly my age (plus a few), and I never even had a relationship yet. Yup, definitely weird.
People roughly my age (+3 years or so) are getting married and get kids (although at least the latter is accidental in the two cases I know of).
This is all kinds of weird.
For example, you could have no toy soldiers.
I wish I did.
Hell, I wish I hadn't had to sell the Van!
Either that, or a bunch of rather strange people frequent this place.
Yeah, the "measure twice, cut once" is carpentry, where wood is cheaper than rifled barrels.
Then again, as my grampa once said in the middle of a project, "Damn! That's twice I cut it off, and it's still too short!"
APPLE WATCH
I doubt I'm going to get a terribly good grade on this initial project.
Lol I just had a Random Thought:Random indeed.
You're all calling me dreamy, so I guess that makes me McDreamy, right?
Also makes Patrick McSteamy
A pipe dream, perhaps. But giving any oxygen to the concept at a high political level fosters a breeding ground that, once unleashed, becomes difficult to contain.
This forum doesn't seems to have a favicon set and so my browser has random public wi-fi favicons assigned to various pages. The main page is something that is a Giant 'A', Chatter is Tim hortons, and some thread somewhere is Starbucks (the rest are blank). I think it's funny, but also I think it contributes to my having the forum open in multiple tabs.
Does that mean I have to stop dogging my own painting skills? Cause I still think I suck.The feeling that one can do better is the mother of progress.
Does that mean I have to stop dogging my own painting skills? Cause I still think I suck.The feeling that one can do better is the mother of progress.
"I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing." Paul Cezanne
I don't understand why birthday cards sometimes say 'congratulations' on them.The vast majority of humans is dead. If you are one of the six percent that is alive, isn't that worth celebrating?
'Congratulations on continuing the compulsory aging process!'
'Congratulations on not being dead yet!'
You've not achieved anything except not dying, which everyone who isn't dead has achieved.
It makes-ah-no-sense-ah to me-ah.
Do catbuses go feral? If so, is it a good idea to spay or neuter them?
Yep. Tolerances range from .002 thousandths to .10 thousandths depending on the part in question or even areas on the same part.How the fk do you even measure that?
Oh. Well, still, I've never seen such a request in a public toilet before.
In other news hand filing to super tight tolerances (thousandths of an inch) is hardcore bullshit.Nearly... nearly... nearly... Shit! Yeah... Even on a lathe you can do this.
What happens if you file too far? Is the whole thing scrapped?
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t34.0-12/10714595_867534286605167_1040414311_n.jpg?oh=70775c10ad1134f0ee4ae03b91778415&oe=5427251B&__gda__=1411789195_b52b387dd4d17b67ef56be5de61a9485)I've been using public rest rooms for seven decades, and nowadays I think I may be unclear on the concept. I see guys pass up an unused urinal to go into a stall, close the door, stand and pee into a toilet. What's wrong with the urinal? Are they shy because someone might see their penis? I don't recall seeing that behavior in my adolescence and young adulthood. Why did it start? And peeing through the seat instead of raising it? When did that begin? That's not how the people who had to clean our toilets in our childhood -- our mothers -- taught us. What changed? How much of the change in behavior comes from avoiding contact with contaminated things like seats and flush handles? Oh yeah -- when did adults stop flushing toilets and urinals?
Saw this in the loo at a restaurant today. First of all...no. Second of all...why? To avoid a mess? Wouldn't "clean up after yourself" suffice?
In other news hand filing to super tight tolerances (thousandths of an inch) is hardcore bullshit.Nearly... nearly... nearly... Shit! Yeah... Even on a lathe you can do this.
My biggest personal metalworking fuck-up was snapping off a tap flush in a hole I'd spent a long time carefully drilling in a steel bike part I had hand cut and filed from bar stock, ruining the piece so that I had to start again from scratch. My Dad was all "Well, you'll be more careful next time, won't you, Elder Daughter?"
I was ready to die. :claireface:
And peeing through the seat instead of raising it?What's wrong with this? It's a sufficiently large hole and why would I want to touch that seat if I don't have to? I still flush, of course...with my foot. If it's not an automatic, that is.
I could, but like I said, it's unnecessary. I take care to aim and not hit the seat, so why is it a problem if I don't lift it?In case you sneeze mid-piss.
This we do that others might live.
people with fish bumper stickers staring at you.People with fish bumper-stickers stare at me anyway...
Still remains that there was a LOT of religious violence back and forth their Grog, so characterizing that as a prayer against a religious group is not outlandish. England at the time being mostly Christian, the various pagan forms of faith were mostly stamped out, Scandinavia being the last serious bastion of Germanic Paganism left. (There really wasn't much of that in a "pure strain" in England to start with. The Celts had some very rich pagan traditions of their own that we've lost far too much of sadly)
The Vikings were scary because A. they were incredibly effective military forces and B. they were pagans back when Christians still burned people at the stake for that.
I have glasses now (for close focus - so basically whenever I'm using a computer, studying, reading a book, watching TV or pretty much almost all the time!) and the way I can tell that they are working is that when I take them off, the world is fuzzy and curves towards me in the middle of my field of vision. It is weird.
Is this a bad time to boast that I have 20/15 vision in both eyes, and my hearing is acute enough to hear up to about 20KHz? Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.
Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.I couldn't disagree more. Then again, maybe that's because my sense of smell is really good. My sight's pretty good and my hearing's ok, I guess, but my sense of smell is as far as I can tell way above average. It also gives me more enjoyment than sight or sound, probably (although I can't imagine parting with any of them).
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Well, IIRC, those of us who aren't blind receive about 70% of their sensory information through sight. There's a lot too with hearing. I have problems being touched, so I won't get into that sense, but as far as they go, smell is fairly expendable. I can even be a good cook without it, though I do have to taste all the time. And I know that my ability to taste is weakened by my weak sense of smell. Still, if I'm going to nuke one sense, the one I get from my nose is the one to go.Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.I couldn't disagree more. Then again, maybe that's because my sense of smell is really good. My sight's pretty good and my hearing's ok, I guess, but my sense of smell is as far as I can tell way above average. It also gives me more enjoyment than sight or sound, probably (although I can't imagine parting with any of them).
"Whatever anxiety might arise at the failure of our actions is nothing compared with the terror of having to recalibrate our perceptions."
What happens if you file too far? Is the whole thing scrapped?
Video compression is inherently more compressed and lossier. So there's less information present in the source material prior to resizing it.
No butt jokes, is the point.
The Oklahoma City airport has free wifi, but to use it you have to watch a video about how great Texas is. :psyduck:
I hope this is the right place to post this, but if it isn't, oh well. I need to say this.
I really enjoy reading this forum. You guys don't throw hate around, and if something does happen that is offensive, the mods and members are not quick to be incredibly angry. Instead, everyone here is pretty civil and more than willing to explain things- whether it be about forum rules, or sexuality, or music or vegan-ism- it doesn't matter what the topic is. Everyone is okay expressing their own opinions (from what I've seen so far).
This is a pretty cool place to hang out, even if, as a member, you don't post too often and just like to read what other people say. So thanks to everyone for just being awesome dudes and ladies. :-)
Honestly, because of Luke's recent post when you mentioned "buzzing" I thought that was going to go in a whole other direction :roll:... me too.
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Just saw an American Express commercial with Tina Fey and it has a close up of her swiping her card...backwards :psyduck:
http://qz.com/273255/how-american-parenting-is-killing-the-american-marriage/
I found this a fascinating piece.
http://qz.com/273255/how-american-parenting-is-killing-the-american-marriage/Why did you post the same link twice?
Interesting theory. I've certainly seen large chunks of it in practice.
You won't BELIEVE what this Marine does next, it will BLOW YOUR MIND
"Hold my beer and watch this" stories.Famous last words in the US South.
Well...no, by "backwards" I mean they swiped the side of the card without the magstripe.Just saw an American Express commercial with Tina Fey and it has a close up of her swiping her card...backwards :psyduck:
This works on most card readers. When I worked retail, if a card was being finicky about being swiped, swiping it backwards would often work better than forwards.
After six years with AT&T I switched to T-Mobile almost on a whim. I had a few reasons, but I hope I don't regret this.If your experience with AT&T was anything like mine with Verizon, you won't regret it.
As for miscellanousness:
Dear Brazilian metal band I've never heard of,
I was not the drunken gringo who extremely awkwardly asked you for an autograph tonight. I was however the drunken gringo sitting at the bar laughing at the drunken gringo who asked you for your autograph.
Sincerely,
cesium133
So out of boredom today I Wikipedia-ed vampire folklore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region) and it was amazing. I can see why the east european ones sparked Dracula way back when. They are very intricate. In turn looked up dhampire which is basically Blade.Sadly the book hasn't been published in English but if you happen to speak German you should look to get your hands on a copy of "Kinder des Judas" by Markus Heitz. One of my favorite books ever and the different species of vampires he creates are all based on east european vampire lore. It's a great read.
I really like the different coloured triangles for Mod-speak as demonstrated in the new thingy about people's private parts. Makes me wonder how many colours there are, whether that number can be enlarged and randomised. It's very ... christmass-y.
edit -- incidentally, when the name "RoboCop" is spoken in Portuguese, it sounds to an English speaker like "HoboCop."
Lucifer sits back on his throne if one could call it that, an obsidian chair raised no higher then any others in the great hall. "I am the Bright and Morning Star, as the humans have called me. Another translation of my many names is "light bringer". Humanity survives because I went to them and gave them what God would not. Reason, curiosity, the sweet succour and poison of knowledge. Without reason, without knowledge then free will is nothing. For what use is the freedom to make choices without knowledge and the ability to reason the impact of those decisions? This is the war humanity has been waging it's entire existence. The war between Heaven and Hell in microcosm, each human able to be Angel and Demon in equal amounts, and both of those beings capable of terrible and wonderful things. Freedom or control, justice or law, dogma or wisdom... this is the battleground in which you have found yourself elevated to young angel and you have come into your enemy's camp."(This paragraph IS copyrighted and part of an ongoing writing project, please do not reprint or repost elsewhere without asking)
I know he's around, I still miss him around these parts.I think a lot of us have someone who they miss around their parts :claireface:
Don't Jinx it. We're thirty years in. Some would argue for much longer though they tend to get smacked down by their peers.In such matters, beginnings are defined variously, for self-interested reasons. Consensus, and who gets smacked down, is just a matter of which set of prejudices is more widely held among those drawing the lines, and who has the power to draw them.
There's tons of response to that that I might type up later but can't be arsed to now.
For those who may have self-esteem or jealousy issues - if you discover your partner masturbating to pornography without your prior consent or awareness, which is more insulting:
- A porn star who looks a whole lot like you but, and heavy emphasis on the quotation marks here, 'sexier'
- A porn star who looks absolutely nothing like you?
I've been thinking about this lately (no idea why) and it occurred to me that maybe it's actually less offensive for the porn star to bear no resemblance, because that implies there's lust there but no love, whereas if the porn star does look like you, there's an implication that your partner has a 'type' but you're not good enough/sexy enough for them.
Obviously these are all largely irrational and unhealthy thought processes, but hey, that don't mean they don't happen, amirite?
Noone gets my dirty mind.I know he's around, I still miss him around these parts.I think a lot of us have someone who they miss around their parts :claireface:
Noone gets my dirty mind.I know he's around, I still miss him around these parts.I think a lot of us have someone who they miss around their parts :claireface:
I'm more interested in why anyone would need their partners consent to masturbate.Yeah, this was also confusing to me.
Come to 'Straya, GM! The only gun-nuts we have here are crazy/stupid, it'd be nice to have a (moderately) rational one down here :emotrex: :emotrex: :emotrex:
I think I know how to spend my money better than other people spending it for me, and hold the radical opinion that you are entitled to the sweat of your brow.
Metope, at least your country's leader isn't threatening to literally crash tackle Vlad the Impaler...Tony Abbott vs. Vladimir Putin has a certain appeal. I mean... Triathlete and university boxer vs. KGB-trained hard man? We might get a new PM out of it. Horrorshow!
Horrorshow!
Never really been comfortable with the (humourous?) notion of killing politicians. Even if their politics are terrible, they're generally people, with families and such.
Maybe I'm just squeamish.
they're generally people,
That style of topical humor might be one step below puns.
Depends on if you happen to have some topical ointment to help clear up the topical humor. :claireface:I was going to respond with tropical humor, but a coconut fell on my head. :claireface:
Quantity has a quality all it's own.
DOWN WITH PUNS!!You're saying you won't put up with them? :claireface:
I dunno, maybe they're right? Maybe it is time to put puns to the side.
CONTAIN YOURSELVES!!!! :claireface:
How does a recycling bin have a monthly charge?
Not that we don't allow the use of real names if you wish, but it is the internet, after all...Wait...your name isn't actually Carl?
No, it's Fritz
Uh, Noxx? Real name in that screenshot.
I hear that. Anyone really wants my identity they get my 60k in student loans with it. :-P
Not that we don't allow the use of real names if you wish, but it is the internet, after all...There are all sorts of creeps on the internet.
I've spent an absurd amount of time keeping my name out of this place. For no good reason, either.
Not that we don't allow the use of real names if you wish, but it is the internet, after all...There are all sorts of creeps on the internet.
I've spent an absurd amount of time keeping my name out of this place. For no good reason, either.
I mean, I know I'm a creep, at least.
Oh, I usually browse the forum with Tapatalk these days. Signatures are off by default.Uh, Noxx? Real name in that screenshot.
Yeah, my facebook with my real name is linked in my sig too. I ain't got enough to bother stealin
I've known people who have and they say that generally they're a pretty decent employer.Apparently they give benefits at 20 hours, which is enough for me to say hell yes if they offer me the job, even if it means two separate commutes some days ("main" job by train, Starbucks would be by car).
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Oh look. It's Fuckthisshito'clock . Corporal Nathan Cirillo, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, this drink's for you mate. Rest well.
You do realize that 50 years ago the word #### was not used in polite society?How do you pronounce ####?
Hehehe he said pound.
You do realize that 50 years ago the word fuck was not used in polite society?They were bigger than Jesus, polite society would've dealt with it :roll:
You do realize that 50 years ago the word #### was not used in polite society?
And as for the infamous statement in "Hey Jude" - I always thought Lennon was saying "Take it out" as if George Martin could take his vocal track out of the mix.
People in pre-industrial times tended to be shorter than people are in more recent times, so they probably were bigger than Jesus. Even I'm probably bigger than Jesus.You do realize that 50 years ago the word fuck was not used in polite society?They were bigger than Jesus, polite society would've dealt with it :roll:
GarandMarine, do not open this link with pictures on (http://www.capitalwired.com/an-entomologist-found-puppy-sized-goliath-spider/24185/).
I changed my ringtone for the first time in two years. It's so much better now.I changed mine from the Parks and Recreation theme song to the Game of Thrones theme song. Except for Sarah, she still has the P&R so I know it's her ^_^
My ringtone is a recording of my kid. This makes me happy.That's adorable, Gavin.
See, I used to think that. But now I have a slightly more forgiving rule. My ringtone will never have words in it.
I would totally use the TARDIS materialization sound if my phone could accept custom ringtones. Just to see how many people would look around when they hear it going off. :)
Hell, I'd call myself just for that. :D
I alternate between 'Trololo' and the Leekspin song.
Akima has argued passionately for using UTC to coordinate such things.
Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
Many moons ago when I was kinda doing project management and working with coders in the Philippines, Ukraine and Bangladesh (sometimes all of the above at once), it was a lot easier to set everything up -- meetings, deadlines, etc. -- by GMT than by trying to keep track of everybody's time zones.Tell me about it, and at least all those locations are in the Northern Hemisphere:
One thing I do find irritating is people who can't (or at least won't) understand time in 24-hour format. Twelve-hour format is fine for everyday, casual use, but not when scheduling events across multiple countries, in several time-zones, with various daylight-saving rules, in hemispheres with reversed seasons so that daylight-saving-time changes go in opposite directions. Frankly, I'd prefer to use a single fixed time reference like Zulu time, so everyone only has to worry about their own single local offset, but no... Instead I'd get e-mails from colleagues in America telling me that some system was going down for maintenance at "12pm EST". In July. And they'd get all butt-hurt when I replied asking: "Do you really mean EST, or would that be EDT seeing as it's your summer? And by the way, is that 12pm noon or midnight?" I mean OK, some of these systems only processed transactions worth millions of dollars an hour, and kept factories running (and workers in jobs) on five continents, so it's not like they were important or anything! EEE-HAH EEE-HAH! (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=755)
That all made sense except for "is that 12pm noon or midnight?" 12pm is always noon, 12am is always midnight, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.
That all made sense except for "is that 12pm noon or midnight?" 12pm is always noon, 12am is always midnight, and anyone who suggests otherwise is wrong.Not according to the NIST, which simply lists 12pm and 12am as "ambiguous (http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/times.cfm)". Wrong or otherwise, I have frequently encountered people who use 12pm to mean midnight. IBM used to recommend, and might still do for all I know, that events should never be scheduled for noon or midnight to avoid these problems of ambiguous usage.
Owing to the ambiguity of whether UTC or UT1 is meant, and because timekeeping laws usually refer to UTC, GMT is avoided in careful writing.
In the community of Greenwich, GMT (in the form of UTC) is the official time only during winter (during summer the time in Greenwich is British Summer Time rather than "GMT").
My gender is Currently Unspecified.
Even though I don't personally need it, I think a gender option of "Nunya"would come in handy.(click to show/hide)
It's both actually. "Garand Motherfucker Danger MarineYour parents must have hated you.
It's both actually. "Garand Motherfucker Danger MarineYour parents must have hated you.
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What about Welu?
P.S. I prefer gender neutral terms. My gender is Currently Unspecified.
No, no. GMT stays the same, but is only the official UK time for half the year.I thought so too, but apparently, not everyone agrees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time#Summer_time).
We've had forum members in the past (and perhaps some in the present) who identify as genderfluid -There are also folks who identify as neutrois (http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Neutrois) or Genderqueer (http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Genderqueer).
You can weld material with explosives. I am excited.
Help, my bed is holding me hostage
Do Australian people ever use the phrase "It'll be a cold day in July before ____"?And here I thought that Australia was like Arrakis in terms of climate. (Okay, kidding, 'cept for the part where I wouldn't be surprised if there were giant sand worms).
Do Australian people ever use the phrase "It'll be a cold day in July before ____"?No.
And here I thought that Australia was like Arrakis in terms of climate.Nah! There are a few small areas that are a bit dry.
... for Shai'Hulud.“Bless the Maker and His water.
Meh
Stick a Tank in the front yard, then we'll talk.
So I still don't really get why it's a thing, and I don't know anyone who uses it as far as I know but I finally downloaded snapchat out of curiosity.
Oh, I downloaded it a few days ago and set up an account, but haven't actually used it on account of not knowing anyone who has it. I'd probably just send people the occasional picture of Teddy (my pup).So I still don't really get why it's a thing, and I don't know anyone who uses it as far as I know but I finally downloaded snapchat out of curiosity.
4 hour old post, can I assume your sick of it already?
Iroh because he likes to fuck around.This. He is funny and a deep character (cf eg the Tales of Ba Sing Se, or the time he meets Toph)
Count me in for Iroh as well. He's got the wisdom and the skills, but more importantly the man has an absolutely wonderful sense of humor and believes in slowing down and appreciating life.Iroh because he likes to fuck around.This. He is funny and a deep character (cf eg the Tales of Ba Sing Se, or the time he meets Toph)
Oh, I downloaded it a few days ago and set up an account, but haven't actually used it on account of not knowing anyone who has it. I'd probably just send people the occasional picture of Teddy (my pup).So I still don't really get why it's a thing, and I don't know anyone who uses it as far as I know but I finally downloaded snapchat out of curiosity.
4 hour old post, can I assume your sick of it already?
Married once is the new virginity
If you can hear them, but you can't shoot them, you can probably grenade them.
If you can hear them, but you can't shoot them,they must have some damn good camouflage.
Yes! I've seen footage... but... yeah... I mean I got to go to a shuttle launch, I've been space happy since I was a pup, but this is the first time I've gotten to see a new spacecraft launch (the shuttle program was over 30 years old when I was born) and of course capsule splash down.You're less than 15 years old?
As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.
As much as Mana claimed to have invented the whole "gothic lolita" thing, I'm pretty sure that Strawberry Switchblade did it first.
I honestly don't think there's a traceable origin point for Gothic Lolita. Somewhere deep in Shinjuku ward, or perhaps Harajuku itself.
gawthThis spelling is just utterly confusing.
Explains speed limits. *braces for shitstorm*
"Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them"If a FPP doesn't meet a quota of prisoners, they lose their operating license. They certainly don't want law abiding citizens, that's bad for business.
Subaru, the money they make is peanuts compared to the revenue generated by the state via their enforcement arm.Which is a bad idea. From last weeks edition of The Economist:
In Ferguson, bad policies help to explain why distrust turns to anger. Take, for example, the way the town is financed. In 2013 a fifth of Ferguson’s general revenues—some $2.6m, in a city of 21,000 people—were derived from fines and asset confiscation. That is equivalent to $124 a year for every man, woman and child in the city. Paying fines, even for minor traffic offences, can involve queuing for hours. Those who miss court dates can be jailed until they pay, accumulating more fines along the way. Slowly but surely, the justice system has become an elaborate mechanism for criminalising poverty.
A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that Shakespeare's lead characters often have somewhere else to be during most of Act IV so that the actor can have a break.And in season 4 of The Wire, McNulty spends most of it drunk off screen. COINCIDENCE?
Romeo spends Act IV in Mantua. Hamlet, save for a brief scene, is in England. Macbeth has the witch's prophecy scene at the beginning but then the rest of the act is at Duncan's castle and about half of Act V is without him as well.
I just randomly remembered a very fun night with one of my friends. We watched a terrible sci-fi movie called Sci-Fighters starring Rowdy Roddy Piper, made in 1994 and set in 2009. It was 2010 when we watched it, which amused us greatly. Any time we saw some kind of futuristic technology, we'd respond with 'I don't think you could do that with a laser, but then, this is the distant future of... 2009.' I never stopped finding it funny.
Rowdy Roddy Piper makes everything funny. Admittedly, I think the only one of his movies that I have seen in full is "They Live", which has a fight scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns) that is an even more effective rebuttal than the one from "The Quiet Man" to complaints about long unrealistic fights in wuxia cinema.
Yeah it's hard being the good guy. It's supposed to be. It's not easy to maintain your morals and standards in the face of scumbags who have none, but when you become them, when you abandon your standards, you've already lost.Outdated? If so, I must be too; I couldn't have put it better myself. I believe this is right, not for the sake of the scumbags of this world, but for our own sakes. We demonstrate that we are not like our enemies by refusing to treat them the way they treat their victims. The idea that we are of such inherent worth that our actions become acceptable, no matter how base they may be, is a step onto a very slippery slope.
I just passed a sign that forbids me to drive faster than sixty miles per hour.
I thought they used km/h instead of mph on the Autobahn.I converted for the
It's just like Nietzsche's "he who fights monsters" bit.
Wait... 60 MPH is slow as hell. Isn't the Autobahn supposed to be super fast?Not all of it. Some parts have no speed limit, while others do, the most common ones being 100, 120 and 140 km/h.
The Marlboro Man died of Cancer.
Are those cigarettes or amarillos?
I thought they used km/h instead of mph on the Autobahn.I converted for thebackwards, non-scientific people who still use imperial unitsUSAsians onthe forum.
One of them wanted to date me and even sent me nudes. It was true love.
"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.""there is no strong coffee, only weak people"
I did not know that. It might explain something that has always puzzled me a little. I don't drink a lot of coffee, being mainly a tea snob (big surprise, right?), but when I do drink coffee it is always a "short black" (espresso) or a "long black (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_black)", to use Australian coffee-shop terminology. Both are strongly flavoured and dark, and yet I have not noticed myself getting twitchy, and can get a good night's sleep even if I have an espresso after dinner. Or maybe I'm just habituated, because there is caffeine in tea too.
The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.
The days are about to start getting brighter. The mornings, not so much (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149).The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.
In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?
Would it help for me to say that we just passed the longest day of the year, and that it is 29C (84F) outside?
The days are about to start getting brighter. The mornings, not so much (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149).The days have been getting shorter for months and it's getting really bad. I don't know how much more of this trend I can take.
In Britain today is the solstice, which means the days will start getting longer again, is that not the case where you are?
So, I've had a lot of spam bots on the forums I help admin (a gaming community with a few hundred members or so), you guys ever get those here?
I cannot confirm that any contents of the article is true. I cannot confirm that I have ever been to the nation of PRONA, or that the United States performs any of this training. I cannot confirm that I STILL fucking hate and have odd reactions to that fucking Kipling poem. I cannot confirm that this is one of the most in depth and accurate descriptions of SERE East that I have ever read.
War Criminal 131 signing off.
http://www.wearethemighty.com/sere-school-just-tortured-2014-12?utm_content=buffer3f4a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Doesn't work like that, privilege is what you are given through no action of your own, doesn't matter what norms you do or don't have.
Oh, you mean the Gods of War ad with Justin Verlander's girlfriend - that I see at the bottom of this page when I'm on Tapatalk? :psyduck:I didn't know who that was, but apparently he's Kate Upton's boyfriend. Lucky bastard.
Yeah, I'm guessing that one is targeted at horny teenage boys...
I don't know who or what Pewdiepie is, and with a name like that, I don't think I'll google it.He's one of those new media celebrities that anyone over the age of 25 can't figure out why the hell they got their fame. The answer to that is "by filming yourself being funny while playing videogames". That's all you really need or want to know about it...
The answer to that is "by filming yourself being funny while playing videogames". That's all you really need or want to know about it...
I don't know who or what Pewdiepie is, and with a name like that, I don't think I'll google it.He's one of those new media celebrities that anyone over the age of 25 can't figure out why the hell they got their fame. The answer to that is "by filming yourself being funny while playing videogames". That's all you really need or want to know about it...
At this point I would declare my absolute incapability of understanding why My Little Pony is likable to anyone, but GM is on the forum and something tells me that saying so would get my head sniped.
other than legal retaliation or for stopping corruption in the landThe problem here is with the bolded part. That can be used to justify almost anything. Of course, you have that sort of cherry picking lines and interpreting them to justify awful behavior in every religion.
And Bulldog's pants fall down.
The MOP suit is a coat and pants that go over your uniform and are buckled together, and Bulldog's buckles weren't done right. The TI takes a deep breath to rip into Bulldog, and before he can, Bulldog does the only thing he can do. He flops on the ground, and pretends to seize and die from nerve agents.
Do computer industry workers there have SHIT jobs?Hey, ITSH a gig, alright?
You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.In Japan, you can have a whale sandwich. Bon appetit!
My issue with the horseburger scandal was always that we then didn't know what our food had in it. I have no problem eating horse, because as you said, it's better for you.
I still feel guilty (prolly mentioned this before) about using a dash of fish sauce in a dish I prepared for a vegetarian.I remember your posting on this, and you did it unintentionally, so don't beat yourself up too hard.
You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.In Japan, you can have a whale sandwich. Bon appetit!
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials. I avoid watching TV commercials the other 364 days of the year, why should this day be any different?Because they bring their A-game* this time of year since they have more of an audience than any other time.
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials.Does anyone actually do that?
Well, there are people in the west that object to food like lamb, veal, and pork. Not as many as the number of people that object to eating dolphin, but they're still here. Personally, I don't have a problem with the actual consumption of any kind of meat, though I can certainly understands the protests against unnecessary animal cruelty in the farming/hunting process. Admittedly, I have very few moral or ethical objections to things that other people have serious problems with, so I'm a poor judge of this sort of thing, but I can see the logic in the various arguments made by others. As far as I'm concerned, someone has the right to believe or protest against whatever they want, as long as they're consistent about it. If meat is murder, don't just protest about the cute ones, and if murder is delicious, let people eat anything and everything, not just the meat that your culture deems acceptable. PETA should throw paint on leather-wearing bikers as well as little old ladies wearing fur coats, and it's ridiculous to look down on a culture for eating certain kinds of meat when you enjoy a bacon cheeseburger.
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials.Does anyone actually do that?
I don't actually care about football of any kind, and professional sport is possibly the worst industry of all for discrimination against women (http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/#tab:overall), so should I buy products advertised by companies that buy into this cult of male superiority? :-D
Some animals are also tastier than others.
Eh, I have my own ethics for meat and I admit they're not always consistant. My main view is that if you kill something you should eat it, dont just kill something to be a dick. And, if it harms the ecosystem (by eating it, not getting into cattle farming or whatnot, so like eating certain types of fish) then I dont do it (also if the animal is unjustly treated, but that's where my ethics get inconsistant).
Basically, I just refuse to eat veal, certain seafoods, animals with a threatened or close to threatened status, apex predators or domestic animals. I'm not joining any rally against those things though
PETA should throw paint on leather-wearing bikers as well as little old ladies wearing fur coatsHostility to fur coats but not leather jackets, like hostility to fox-hunting but not angling, is more about class warfare, I think, than animal welfare.
PETA should throw paint on leather-wearing bikers as well as little old ladies wearing fur coatsHostility to fur coats but not leather jackets, like hostility to fox-hunting but not angling, is more about class warfare, I think, than animal welfare.
My girlfriend is a pescetarian and only eats animals she thinks she could kill with her bare hands in an 'in the wild' type situation. I kinda like that attitude.
Does it have to be bare hands? I know how to make a proper spear without access to tools.
, I just refuse to eat veal, certain seafoods, animals with a threatened or close to threatened status, apex predators or domestic animals.Veal is god damn delicious, but I get not eating it. Why not apex predators*, though? I'd feel less bad about eating a predator than anything else, as long as it wasn't endangered.
Leopold's conviction towards the wolf was changed forever on the day in his youth when he saw a wolf die. Aldo Leopold and a friend of his opened up on the wolves, never wanting to pass up a chance to kill a wolf in those days. When their rifles were empty, the old wolf was down. They reached the old wolf in time to watch "that fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then," wrote Leopold, "and have known ever since -- that there was something new to me in those eyes -- something known only to her and the mountain." He saw the green fire in the wolf's eyes die, and since then he recognized his brutal error.
Leopold wrote that since that day, he has seen the wolves driven to the brink of extinction and the wolfless mountains defoliated by the exploding deer herds. And he suspected, just as the deer herd lived in mortal fear of its wolves, so does the mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while the buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a deer's range pulled down by too many deer, may never be replaced. In essence: The wilderness we hunt is the salvation of the world, to paraphrase Thoreau. It must not be destroyed.
Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known by the mountain, but seldom understood by men. Just as Leopold came to realize, so must we: that wildlife populations are a part of a bigger picture, and that no matter what new game laws are passed, wildlife populations will not improve until the carrying capacity of the land that supports them improves.
In his last paragraph, Leopold reels the reader in. To paraphrase: In our lives, we all think about that which will better ourselves and secure ourselves, but those who look for a little temporary safety instead of wildlife understanding deserve neither. We should look to help secure the blessings of wildlife before we secure the blessings of ourselves because "in wildness is the salvation of the world."
I actually wouldn't really worry too much about those two. Wolves, bears, large sharks, large cats (any feline really, but I think most of that has to do with many of them being endangered); stuff like that.Except for house cats, they are contributing a fair amount to the extinction of species themselves. :laugh:
But they're so cute when they kill things.I actually wouldn't really worry too much about those two. Wolves, bears, large sharks, large cats (any feline really, but I think most of that has to do with many of them being endangered); stuff like that.Except for house cats, they are contributing a fair amount to the extinction of species themselves. :laugh:
Actually, python needs "C" salt.
Had an idea this morning for a car movie set on the streets of Boston during a snowstorm. It's called Slow and Furious.
Prank #11: Boston
Boston? Slow and Furious applies to a nice sunny day there too.(click to show/hide)
I just realised depending on the length of my post, my avatar points at the Doge in my signature.
... Think it's time for a change.
I just realised depending on the length of my post, my avatar points at the Doge in my signature.
... Think it's time for a change.
If you plan on still being the pointer outer of dicks, it's quite possible that it'll keep happening. Unless you get a dick pointer that points upwards or left.
I just realised depending on the length of my post, my avatar points at the Doge in my signature.
... Think it's time for a change.
...and just noticed that he is also in Better Call Saul! Now I'm excited!
When I saw Megamind with a few friends we struggled to place the voice actor for one of the characters. It wasn't till the credits came up we all exclaimed at the same time, "Jonah Hill!!" So now any time we struggle to recognise an actor or voice we say they're Jonah Hill till proven otherwise.
One theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :-o
SATAN? >:DOne theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :o
SANTANA?SATAN? >:DOne theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :o
SANDIEGO?SANTANA?SATAN? >:DOne theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :o
(http://imgs.l4lmcdn.com/2013/12/Santana-1024x768.jpg)
Hostility to fur coats but not leather jackets, like hostility to fox-hunting but not angling, is more about class warfare, I think, than animal welfare.Though I've never understood fox hunting's appeal, at least in the British style that's usually meant. The 'hunters' don't actually do anything but ride their horses through the woods real fast, following a bunch of barking dogs, who do the actual hunting under the direction of an employee. I just don't see the point in involving the fox; surely one could just get a bunch of friends together and ride horses fast through the woods? You could even still follow a pack of dogs, who will be happy to charge off through the woods barking their heads off, I'm quite certain.
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So here's a thought, why do we call people homophobes? If someone hates someone else it's usually an ism and they're called an ist, like racist, sexist, etc. Is it just the way that it sounds because gayist (or whathaveyou) sounds silly?Gay is used to describe a sexuality, and if you want to put -ist after something it's usually after the more general term. Calling a homophobe 'gayist' is like calling a KKK member 'blackist'. If we wanted an -ism for gay it'd have to be sexualityist or orientationist, but the latter sounds more like someone you'd ask along on a hiking trip. Xenophobia would become otherist. Islam is the name of a religion, not exactly a category, so that doesn't work either. The -ist in islamist is a whole different -ist, the one that's also in arsonist.
I just realized that when I typed gayist, it's like gayest. Calling homophobes "gayist" would be so much irony I'd choke on my laughter.
I digress, is it because hate and fear are similar? Because I guess we also use words like xenophobes and islamophobes.
Random thoughts...
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
Damned cyclist fundies ruining our roads and making it unsafe for cars and pedestrians alike. :-Dhttp://satwcomic.com/this-is-bikeland
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
How would one go about cycling dogmatically, anyway?
Running down skateboarders?Icelanders?
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
How would one go about cycling dogmatically, anyway?
Yeah, you'd just go around in circles.An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
How would one go about cycling dogmatically, anyway?
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
An <something>-ist is someone who takes <something> to its extremes as a dogma.I am a typist, a cyclist, and a Buddhist. I will leave judgement on how extremely dogmatic I am about any of those things to you. :laugh:
Or typing your chants whilst cycling... "Nam myoho renngeejh -- dammit. Namm myo40 r3ng -- shit. Nam myoho reenie -- oh, the hell with it."
I never could get along with those anti-Church-and-State separationists.
Could be weirder. Could be a tinder ad for 9/11 truthers.
:roll:
Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.
Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.
Once I was going camping, around the same time I started rebuilding the transmission for my mom's car and I needed supplies for both.
I ended up buying:
rubber gloves,
rope,
a survival knife,
ether (a.k.a. carb cleaner),
huge box of paper towels,
a tarp,
heavy duty soap,
bailing wire,
screwdrivers,
camping stove and propane,
concrete stain remover,
a hamburger grinder,
and an ax.
The 3rd season of Dexter was on sale at the time, but I'm pretty sure the cops would've been called if they saw that at the checkout counter.
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
To get rid of what? Tapatalk, or Windows Phone?
Yeah, if everyone's gonna bring that up again I'm outta here.As much as I'm anti-M$, I do have one friend with a Windows phone. I actually found the interface rather intuitive and it looked like it would provide a better user experience than either my Android, or the Crackberry that it replaced. But given the low market penetration, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the software was more glitchy on that platform than Android or iOS.
How often these days do Oscars get won for roles that don't scream 'FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION' under the fucking trailers?
I mean I knew Michael Keaton never really had a shot, but I'd really love it if somebody won an Oscar for such an obscure, strange part.
I mean I knew Michael Keaton never really had a shotDid you? I fully expected him to win. Honestly, I would've been much less surprised with him winning and the movie not getting Best Picture than I was with this result.
I mean I knew Michael Keaton never really had a shotDid you? I fully expected him to win. Honestly, I would've been much less surprised with him winning and the movie not getting Best Picture than I was with this result.
I just saw the worst example of male privilege ever and it's disgusting and makes me be embarrassed of my manliness.
You kidding? We had someone going full retard* to play Stephen Hawking. He never had a chance.
*SATIRE
But he didn't go full retard. That's why he won.
You kidding? We had someone going full retard* to play Stephen Hawking. He never had a chance.
*SATIRE
I don't agree either, the girl I've been with for a year greeted me with it at the start of our second date. We're a bit more liberal about that word over here, but it's a LOT stronger in the US than it is over here.
I don't agree either, the girl I've been with for a year greeted me with it at the start of our second date. We're a bit more liberal about that word over here, but it's a LOT stronger in the US than it is over here.
Have you heard an American say it? Our accent(s) make it sound like a physical assault.
Well, it's a terrible word. Like moist.There is nothing wrong with that word.
The guy is thirty years old. He frequently gives me shit on how immature I apparently behave. He lectures me on how I'm not a good friend to him. That was funny because up until that moment I wasn't even aware he saw us as friends. He was just roommate to me.
Stupid hypocrite [mod snip]
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I don't get it, what's wrong with moist?
Some 18th-century European cultivars were yellow or white and resembled goose or hen's eggs, hence the name "eggplant".[
The usual word in Italian remains melanzana.[13] An alternative Italian etymology is "mela insana", insane apple.
I'm now dancing in public
Y'know, this Tapatalk guy really needs to get out of peoples phones. That has to be uncomfortable, if not also a massive invasion of privacy.I kicked his arse out of my phone.
Listening to Get Lucky on earphones in public was not a good idea as I'm now dancing in publicYou've come too far to give up who you are.
sdgfhfiouikjrhedfsgfhgfjghkAnd it was able to spell the name of an Icelandic volcano. That's impressive.
This message was typed by an orange striped cat walking across the keyboard of a mac laptop in the living room of an orange house in south-eastern Norway.
"Ya know that stuff ain't no good for ya, right?"
"Ya know that stuff ain't no good for ya, right?""Neither is sticking your nose into other people's business." Seems like an appropriate response.
Yes, threatening people, how wonderful.I don't threaten people.
(http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tellmemore.png?w=655)Oh, the word "trenchant." How I loathe it. When I took the GRE, the computerized test figured out I didn't know the meaning of the word and ended up using it repeatedly.
Yes, threatening people, how wonderful.I don't threaten people.
I make statements of observation and let them take it how they will.
Intimidation is probably a better word for it. :)
100 Simple Cures for ComplexityI...didn't know "complexity" was a disease. Am I missing something?
Asbestos is bad; definitely get the one on the right. Wait -- this one over here has no swine flu! Now I can't decide.
The sign at the supermarket next to the eggs said "gluten free".
Those who are engaged in creative endeavors,
Have you ever had an idea for a song/painting/story/play [what it is in my case], etc. that was so depressing that you absolutely don't want to write it. But then you feel like because it gives you that response that's all the more reason to go through with it?
I think what dr. nervioso says gets to something else, 94ssd. A lot of it's going to come down to what feels right to you. If it makes you uncomfortable, examine where the discomfort comes from. If it's uncomfortable because it's forcing you to take yourself and your work somewhere you've never been, that can be a good thing. If, on the other hand, you feel uncomfortable because you'd feel like you're working within a form, medium, or subject that doesn't fit because it's not you or not the right reasons, you may just end up resenting yourself later. If it comes from an authentic place and you approach it in a spirit of openness and honesty, it's worth doing. If not... well, that's really a call only you can make.
Those who are engaged in creative endeavors,
Have you ever had an idea for a song/painting/story/play [what it is in my case], etc. that was so depressing that you absolutely don't want to write it. But then you feel like because it gives you that response that's all the more reason to go through with it?
I miss seeing May in the forum.
Wait, wait, wait.
There's a 6 am as well?
If you took a whole chicken and cooked it guts and all.
When you tore it to pieces would you find a hard boiled egg inside?
Surely the egg would be cooked no matter how the chicken was cooked?
A chicken lays one egg every day give or take some hours.
As soon as it's laid one egg it's started on the next. So the chances are good that there'll be one inside.
Semantics. :)
You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an eggThat sounds like a metaphor for something.
You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an eggThat sounds like a metaphor for something.
So ... you're saying I should... Eat more ... Red meat?
My Mammy bought a handwash that smells exactly like cola bottle sweets and for some reason I've been thinking about this for over two hours now. Only now has it occurred to me a brightly coloured non-edible substance that smells exactly like sweets and children have easy access to seems like a terrible idea.
I was happy with it because it's the kind of present that if you tell someone what it is ('a soap dispenser!') without any context it sounds like an appalling present when in fact it was meaningful and she loved it.
Gareths G comes in as a square for me though. He is now squareth
Huh, I am important enough to have my name flipped. I approve.
Not for me!
I didn't know it was possible to take a worse drivers license photo than the one I had the last time I renewed my license, but it is.
Random Thought: I love the Interstellar soundtrack.
When you get your (semi)permanent WI drivers license, you'll wonder if it's real, because they sorta look and feel counterfeit.
Off to the pun thread with ye.
When you get your (semi)permanent WI drivers license, you'll wonder if it's real, because they sorta look and feel counterfeit.
You have experience in these matters? Hmmmmmmm? :police:
The hard part is getting the blood out of one's clown suit.
Just went to the farmers market, and I got a bag of cheese curds while I was there. I'm going to gain so much weight living here. :psyduck:
They're supposed to squeak.
You need to get out more, chaos. ;)
I created an email address that is just my full name for the express purpose of applying for jobs. I set up auto-forwarding to my main account but became concerned that a response to an application could still get lost in the junk folder. Thus I have set up the following filter.
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Hey, it's not my problem if the South likes old cheese. :roll:They're supposed to squeak.
So are mice. Who eat cheese. Here in the south, cheese don't squeak unless there's something living inside it.
Suspicious cheese is suspicious.
It's an intelligent algorithm. It determined that they were buttholes for not hiring you, and sorted appropriately.I created an email address that is just my full name for the express purpose of applying for jobs. I set up auto-forwarding to my main account but became concerned that a response to an application could still get lost in the junk folder. Thus I have set up the following filter.
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Apparently I failed, because gmail just sent a job application response (it's a no, eat dicks Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) to spam, and nowhere in the email wishing me the best of luck in all my future endevaours were there any iterations of the word butthole.
I created an email address that is just my full name for the express purpose of applying for jobs. I set up auto-forwarding to my main account but became concerned that a response to an application could still get lost in the junk folder. Thus I have set up the following filter.
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Apparently I failed, because gmail just sent a job application response (it's a no, eat dicks Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) to spam, and nowhere in the email wishing me the best of luck in all my future endevaours were there any iterations of the word butthole.
The phrase, "Makes my teeth curl," makes my teeth curl.
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.Or a field of dreams.
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.Or a field of dreams.(click to show/hide)
That describes the Wausau Curling Club's new World-Class facility on the southeast side of the city.
When you get your (semi)permanent WI drivers license, you'll wonder if it's real, because they sorta look and feel counterfeit.Wow, you weren't kidding. I don't think it would look any more counterfeit if the name on it was McLovin'.
At least they do compared to the previous ones I had before this new design.
But Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
Words you do not want to hear from an electrician inspecting your wiring: "Oh, I see this all the time. I do fire investigations."
Brangequaylesh: Brangelina hooks up with the Bush/Quayle presidential ticket. :psyduck:
Nobody wears a monocle while on vacation.Peter Wimsey? And PWH lives in the locale of Gaudy Night. Well, the same city anyway...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-D_gP7hR6Q
Why would "actor" require a female form, when "doctor" does not (at least in English - dottoressa is a thing in Italian).
But in theatre, there is still a gender separation because it generally determines what roles you'll play.So? The roles may be different, but you're still both doing the exact same thing...acting.
But in theatre, there is still a gender separation because it generally determines what roles you'll play.So? The roles may be different, but you're still both doing the exact same thing...acting.
I'm not talking about then, I'm talking about now. Why do we still use the term different words for people who act?
Nope, like you just said, the verb doctor has nothing to do with being a doctor. Although I have heard people use "lawyering", which is just weird, so I guess you can use "doctoring" in the same sense.
I am living in a porn right now.Did someone just deliver a pizza?
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The only thing I know about North is that Roger Ebert hated it.
I believe they are also in the same universe as the CSI franchise as well.
Except for some reason, the Los Angeles in NCIS: LA looks a lot like Las Vegas... :roll:
Ahh, right. You don't teach, do you?
In 1895, the age of consent in Delaware was 7.
Pornography, a relatively latter developmentPornography is much older than Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus), it is probably older than civilisation.
Pornography, a relatively latter developmentPornography is much older than Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus), it is probably older than civilisation.
I said "they're just fucking with us" in front of my 5th graders this week. They're city kids. Didn't even phase them.
I know a lass who answered a phone taking it out of her bikini top so clearly they aren't digitally dependent. Which is good because now I know you're a lot less likely to end up on Embaressing Bodies talking about how you suffer from finger-cock.
I once played Cards Against Humanity with some high school kids I was substitute teaching for. I don't remember what words I used, but I'm pretty sure some swear words were inevitable. (shrugs)I said "they're just fucking with us" in front of my 5th graders this week. They're city kids. Didn't even phase them.
How.
Really.
How.
I called a 10th grader a dickhead after he crash-tackled another 10th grader into me and lungs were shat. It was even mid-impact startled exclamation.
Cats are effectively liquid.
Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
what the eff
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Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
See, that's why the root folder of the porn section of a drive is typically named "New Folder 1"
... Cathal?
Is there any such thing as too easy?
Mathematically, there's a 50% chance of a drunk dude putting his shirt on backwards.
Let's be real. It's 100%
Mathematically, there's a 50% chance of a drunk dude putting his shirt on backwards.
Let's be real. It's 100%
Though, I used to have a six-pack, so maybe that was why.
i have a one pack.As they say here, a full barrel is better than a six pack.
i have a one pack.It's called a keg. (I have one, too)
but it's ok because after i die, i will recover like i always do.YOU LIVE! YOU DIE! YOU LIVE AGAIN!
YOU LIVE! YOU DIE! YOU LIVE AGAIN!
Thwow him to the floor.
THWOW him to the floor!
Biggus Dikkus.
bwahahahaha.
Ouch
My advice, stick to Mentos and Cola bottles
dammit thai food! why must you be so good, but hurt stomach with your spicyness so bad!
Maybe it's just the three years of Latin I took in HS, but I never refer to it as "persons". I usually go with personae.
It's more annoying when it's a dumb animal that causes the accident, IMNSHO and experience.
It's a shame my boyfriend was already married once, otherwise we should have totally engraved our wedding bands with #yowo
You just told us what it said! Why are you showing us???Evidence that the tweet was actually made, and the columnist didn't just make it up? Even if it is subsequently deleted? Rather as that public shaming (http://publicshaming.tumblr.com/) Tumblr thing does?
We're in a fairly interesting period in the development of digital social media where the masses are learning that they can hold people to account faster than they're leaning that they can be held accountable. It's happened before with TV and radio and live broadcasting, except the thing that the majority haven't really got to grips with is that this really can affect absolutely anyone, anywhere, at anytime.
What amuses me is that this new era has given rise to the notion of a "keyboard warrior" where people are accused of hiding behind a veil of digital anonymity that allows them to say anything they like without consequences. That is, to an extent, a truism. But the flip side of that is that what is dismissively classed as "saying anything they like" also very much includes "saying exactly what they think". Part of what is shocking and upsetting us these days is the blunt, unadulterated, unfiltered truth. We've given people the means to shed social conventions and they've used it.
Perhaps this, more than many others, is a situation deserving of one of my favourite catchphrases: "How did you think this was going to end?"
What about the problems it would cause with turning?Is that a problem when they're mounted on the back wheels? I can see how making the front wheels heavier would make them harder to turn while moving, but on the other hand, this seems like an easy variable for account for. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in modern cars the force applied to the wheels to make them turn is multiple steps away from the degree to which the steering wheel is turned, right? That's regulated by the onboard computer for safety reasons, I assume. Adding proportionally more force for the weight of the flywheel and the speed of the vehicle seems rather simple.
I ordered something last week, and it shipped on the 6th, out of Milwaukee. The "estimated delivery date" is the 17th. Milwaukee is 1 hour by car from here... :psyduck:i had something being delivered to me at work.
Which one?
My computer concepts class today required us to make a powerpoint for a presentation on Galileo. We had to insert photos, from the internet if possible, but my computer could only use clip art.
This is how I learned QC shows up when you search 'Philosopher.'
I don't know how this happened, but a nine year old strip appeared, between Dora and Marten, and it made me very happy.
My computer concepts class today required us to make a powerpoint for a presentation on Galileo. We had to insert photos, from the internet if possible, but my computer could only use clip art.
This is how I learned QC shows up when you search 'Philosopher.'
I don't know how this happened, but a nine year old strip appeared, between Dora and Marten, and it made me very happy.
I'm betting it was 976.
Isis is the name of the main river through Oxford (it's called the Thames elsewhere, but let's not quibble over such things - both names are formed from the same Latin root anyway).I thought it was the Cherwell, but it seems I was wrong. It probably comes from learning about Oxford from Gaudy Night.
DeGassing?It was a grad student in the lab I used to work in asking how long he should de-gas an ion gauge.
Nobody was sent to New Zealand, since it was never a penal colony. Treating NZ's history as the same as Australia's is as silly as treating Canada's as the same as the USA's.
Anybody mind if I steal all of these observations for song lyrics? No one has stolen any of it have they?I mean I may not be the first one to say what I said (in fact I almost certainly wasn't) but I didn't get it from anywhere.
There's nothing new under the sunshine, processed or otherwise.
There's nothing new under the sunshine, processed or otherwise.
Hmmmmmmmmm. I just noticed that I have spent 364 days, 12 hours, and 42 mnutes on this forum.Wow, much more than me. 136:05:31.
And made 2506 posts.
I am not sure just exactly what this means, though, except for spending a lot of time here.
For each of my posts I've spent a little under 14 minutes on the forum.Hmmmmmmmmm. I just noticed that I have spent 364 days, 12 hours, and 42 mnutes on this forum.Wow, much more than me. 136:05:31.
And made 2506 posts.
I am not sure just exactly what this means, though, except for spending a lot of time here.