Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Jun 2014, 18:47
Post by: Grognard on 18 Jun 2014, 20:04
3-4 solid stories floating around in my skull.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 18 Jun 2014, 23:08
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I wish I could get my Muse published.
3-4 solid stories floating around in my skull.
Well. You have some time at the moment. Get thee writing.
Post by: Zebediah on 19 Jun 2014, 04:50
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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.
Post by: Thrillho on 19 Jun 2014, 06:13
Post by: ChaoSera on 19 Jun 2014, 11:57
Post by: jwhouk on 19 Jun 2014, 12:30
;)
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Post by: Jimor on 20 Jun 2014, 04:07
Then I guess you're not going to start an e. e. cummings appreciation thread?
;)
One thing that puzzled me during my bookstore days was how publishers were VERY inconsistent on their typography of his name. Several books had E. E. Cummings on the spine and title page, and I can't remember exactly why, but other indications seemed to suggest that it wasn't simply out of ignorance, but circumstantial depending on context of how his name was used in that instance.
Post by: 94ssd on 20 Jun 2014, 05:56
EDIT: Jamaica may be the winner though. You come outside and say that! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXWZAh6sh0c)
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Someone please tell me this is true
Post by: Akima on 20 Jun 2014, 06:01
I hate topics that are all in small letters.StUdLyCaPs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studly_caps) are far worse.
Post by: lepetitfromage on 20 Jun 2014, 06:08
It sounds pretty amazing. (http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/wus-holland-dementia-village/)
Post by: cesium133 on 20 Jun 2014, 06:15
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)
Post by: ChaoSera on 20 Jun 2014, 06:16
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.
Post by: 94ssd on 20 Jun 2014, 07:09
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)
I learned from that article that a few months ago The Ukrainian Parliament (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8SpihSawM0) broke out into a schoolyard brawl because of the Crimea issue.
Scotland's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBVJsCXRyyY) is actually interesting because the independence referendum is an issue of such gravitas.
Post by: J on 20 Jun 2014, 19:57
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.
Post by: Patrick on 21 Jun 2014, 02:44
I wish I could get my Muse published.
I know this has nothing to do with what you're talking about, but fuck the band Muse, they are stupid.
Post by: Loki on 21 Jun 2014, 13:59
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I'm not saying new parents shouldn't fly... But I am saying I'd pay extra for infant free flight guarantees.
Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Jul 2014, 20:23
Post by: Masterpiece on 02 Jul 2014, 14:20
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/07/12/uzu7yte5.jpg)
Why.
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Jul 2014, 15:33
Post by: Masterpiece on 02 Jul 2014, 16:14
Random Thought: I hate making Spritesheets.
edit: But I'm finally finished.
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Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Jul 2014, 16:54
It's weird.That doesn't answer my question :roll:
Post by: bryntheskits on 03 Jul 2014, 02:25
(http://i.imgur.com/7DR6I1H.jpg) (http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-responses-to-sexism-that-just-make-everything-worse/)
I chuckled.
(http://i.imgur.com/himZD0M.gif)
Post by: Metope on 03 Jul 2014, 04:46
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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.
A lot of infant crying on flights is due to pressure changes, parents (and everyone for that matter) should perform or induce a Valsalva maneuver.
Post by: Barmymoo on 03 Jul 2014, 09:03
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Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Jul 2014, 05:59
Post by: LTK on 04 Jul 2014, 14:09
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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.
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-osis
a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states ( hypnosis; leukocytosis; osmosis ), especially disorders or abnormal states ( chlorosis; neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis ).
The psyche cannot be inflamed.
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 04 Jul 2014, 15:26
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Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Jul 2014, 20:59
Wha
Post by: Loki on 07 Jul 2014, 23:26
Just watch it :parrot: It has very nice visual effects (including Leonardo DiCaprio :mrgreen:) if nothing else.
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Post by: Carl-E on 09 Jul 2014, 08:11
She's able to come and go as she pleases for the first time in 5 years.
I know, not quite the same thing, but they do sometimes get lumped together.
Post by: 94ssd on 09 Jul 2014, 09:20
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Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Jul 2014, 17:02
Like Fallout Boy. Nobody likes Milhouse, why should anyone like them?
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Jul 2014, 18:18
edit (to avoid double posting)--
I was flipping channels on the TV and came across a baseball game (Anaheim Angels vs. Texas Rangers). The announcer said, "The runner is about 27 feet from the base and the pitcher throws the ball to the first baseman. How fast does the runner have to run to get back to the base? You gotta be a mathematical genius to figure that out. It must be like 200 miles per hour." :psyduck:
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Jul 2014, 19:59
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Post by: Grognard on 10 Jul 2014, 20:53
... dead skin is nasty.
Post by: LTK on 11 Jul 2014, 05:15
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(That hypothesis has not yet been conclusively disproven.)
Post by: Masterpiece on 11 Jul 2014, 09:57
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Post by: Noxx on 11 Jul 2014, 11:36
Checking the phone is almost like a reflex.
When I was a boy, if you wanted to check the phone you had to go home and look in the kitchen, dagnabbit :wheelchair:
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Jul 2014, 11:30
Even when it's not on vibrate...
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Jul 2014, 11:42
Post by: Noxx on 12 Jul 2014, 11:43
Post by: BeoPuppy on 12 Jul 2014, 11:46
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...
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Jul 2014, 12:33
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"I want someone to exercise a moral influence on [my fifteen year old daughter]. She is not normal".
"Thymus gland?", hinted Ann.
Anyone know what specifically this refers to? So far I found out that the purpose of the thymus gland was largely unknown and it was blamed for all sorts of problems, up to sudden infant death syndrome (cf "The thymus: from past misconception to present recognition" by one John C. Leonidas) I assume it got blamed for hormonal changes in teenagers?
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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.
http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/glandular-types/
(of course this particular group of ideas seem to be more recent than your story, but perhaps your story refers to their antecedents?)
Post by: Thrillho on 13 Jul 2014, 03:16
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.
There is a moment in 'The Perfect Drug' by Nine Inch Nails where I swear to fucking God it sounds like someone saying my name. When I was younger and still using a tape player for my walks to school it drove me crazy on a daily basis.
Post by: Loki on 13 Jul 2014, 03:31
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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
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689826/Bedrooms-fallen-Haunting-black-white-photos-offer-rare-glimpse-lives-young-soldiers-killed-action.html
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
Post by: ChaoSera on 13 Jul 2014, 08:45
Okay, I dont know where to put it.It seems you have bigger problems than references to glands you're not getting...
Post by: Loki on 13 Jul 2014, 15:15
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Have some deep thoughts.
Post by: Loki on 18 Jul 2014, 23:57
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Jul 2014, 08:30
Have some deep thoughts.How U-U of you!
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Post by: Kugai on 19 Jul 2014, 14:20
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Jul 2014, 16:57
And no, not really. IIRC it was more of a Buddhist version of "The Screwtape Letters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters)".
Post by: Method of Madness on 20 Jul 2014, 18:09
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Post by: Method of Madness on 22 Jul 2014, 14:38
But since you mentioned Cleveland...
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Post by: Redball on 22 Jul 2014, 14:49
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.
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I will say I fully expect that line to haunt me. Whether I use it or not, if I make it at stand up, my first big show, for whatever fucking reason, will be Colombus, Ohio. If Comedy Central ever does a special for me, it will be there. An entire city as my personal albatross, dangling about my neck as I paddle towards comedic doom.
Post by: Redball on 22 Jul 2014, 15:09
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And don't say "pics or it didn't happen." The understanding I have with these folks is that there won't be pics. Dammit.
Post by: Kugai on 22 Jul 2014, 16:34
Post by: jwhouk on 22 Jul 2014, 16:57
Detroit is currently ahead, but Cleveland has Johnny Manziel.
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Post by: Thrillho on 23 Jul 2014, 03:30
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.
HIGH FIVE!
Post by: Redball on 23 Jul 2014, 08:13
There were five buggies and 25-30 Amish folks. Unexpectedly, they brought cake and ice cream. Amish ice cream is hand made, chilled with ice they've stored since last winter's ice harvests in nearby lakes. The vanilla had a hint of vanilla; vanilla pudding mix was one of the ingredients. The strawberry was better, but not quite enough strawberries either for flavor or color.
A little like the cherry pies from this family: Nice red filling, but sometimes without any cherries at all.
That's OK. A good time was had by all, and the dozen or more wet towels have been washed and dried. Along with some teenage girl's underskirt/slip.
Those teen girls don't have the modesty I'd expect from "English" girls their age. They wore white T-shirts over bare breasts and underpants, near as I could tell without leering, so areolae and bottoms are quite visible. They're obviously comfortable among family members, and my presence apparently didn't intrude.
But their moms didn't get in the pool this year. At their last visit, three of those women in their 30s did go in, passing over the shorts and shirts I thought they might wear instead of stuff from dresser drawers. Anna, I realized later, had worn my navy blue thermal underwear.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 23 Jul 2014, 08:42
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 23 Jul 2014, 09:48
Can they come over and build me one as well?
Post by: Redball on 23 Jul 2014, 11:12
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 24 Jul 2014, 06:48
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Jul 2014, 10:31
(Hey, if you've got a flying Harrier, will anyone really question whether the weapon systems work? :evil:)
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Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Jul 2014, 18:30
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Post by: Thrillho on 25 Jul 2014, 03:11
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Jul 2014, 03:34
Sometimes I think about the possibility that there is just nothing after death and I freak out a little bit.Me too.
Post by: Detachable Felix on 25 Jul 2014, 03:56
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.
I came to terms with there being nothing after death a long time ago. It was absolutely terrifying as a concept for 11-year old Luke.
But, if anything, it makes me appreciate the life I have even more.
(He says, sitting on his fat ass in front of a screen)
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Jul 2014, 04:01
Post by: hedgie on 25 Jul 2014, 04:09
I'm basically in that same boat. I don't believe, but I don't have enough conviction of the contrary to deny. Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.
Post by: LTK on 25 Jul 2014, 04:40
Post by: BeoPuppy on 25 Jul 2014, 04:55
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.
Post by: cesium133 on 25 Jul 2014, 06:00
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.
Post by: Detachable Felix on 25 Jul 2014, 06:27
Personally, I would hope that I could get reincarnated as a rather spoilt cat.Not as a rather spoilt hedgehog? :P
Post by: LTK on 25 Jul 2014, 06:53
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.
It's funny, until today I always thought that gnats were small rodents, like gerbils. It's like a portmanteau of gnaw and rat.
Post by: Redball on 25 Jul 2014, 07:04
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?
Post by: BeoPuppy on 25 Jul 2014, 07:25
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
Post by: nekowafer on 25 Jul 2014, 07:38
Emoroffle and Nekowafer's names merged in my brain and created Emowaffle.
I had a ferret named Waffle and now I am thinking of him with long emo bangs and eye makeup and it is adorable
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Post by: Carl-E on 25 Jul 2014, 10:23
How can a person you love deeply just disappear?
They don't. They are with you, always.
No, I don't mean metaphysically or anything. A love that deep changes you. So long as you are who you are, the memory of that love survives within.
Yeah, not enough for
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!
Midges?
Post by: LTK on 25 Jul 2014, 10:27
Post by: Carl-E on 25 Jul 2014, 10:39
(http://cairngormwanderer.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/027.jpg)
Some varieties bite.
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Jul 2014, 10:44
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.
Post by: LTK on 25 Jul 2014, 10:44
Midges actually look like super-tiny mosquitoes, and yeah, the dirt thing.
Some varieties bite.
Yet you can clearly see the wings on those, and they look about one and a half times as big as the bugs I'm seeing. They're also higher up on their legs, whereas these ones are totally flattened against the surface they're on.
This is bothering me more than it has any right to.
Post by: Noxx on 25 Jul 2014, 10:45
Post by: Carl-E on 25 Jul 2014, 10:55
By all thine eyes have told me, think on me.
When hearts are lightest, when eyes are brightest, when griefs are slightest,
Think on me.
In all thine hours of gladness, think on me.
If e’er I soothed thy sadness, think on me.
When foes are by thee, when woes are nigh thee, when friends all fly thee,
Think on me.
When thou hast none to cheer thee, think on me.
When no fond heart is near thee, think on me.
When lonely sighing o’er pleasure flying,
When hope is dying,
Think on me.
- Misattributed to Mary, Queen of Scots. Most likely written by Scottish poet and composer Lady John Scott, c. 1910
Post by: Barmymoo on 25 Jul 2014, 11:38
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Post by: dr. nervioso on 25 Jul 2014, 12:39
Maybe I'm just a romantic, maybe I just say this so my nightmarish anxiety about death and the apocalypse don't come leaking out from my childhood.
But in any case, I do know this: When you die, you will have affected the lives of all those you have ever loved and all that have loved you. I think if anything, you do live on, you live on in all the love you have ever shared with the world. This is the reason why I strive to express love freely and have sworn to fight against hate. It's why i have decided to leave my mark on the world through love and kindness.
(Oh dear, it would seem I'm getting sappy again. Forgive me, I'll go back and lurk in the shadows).
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Post by: hedgie on 26 Jul 2014, 14:58
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
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Post by: Thrillho on 27 Jul 2014, 05:17
I agree. Would it apply to May's cauliflower, though?
I fucking love you Bob.
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Jul 2014, 19:54
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 29 Jul 2014, 00:07
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."
ftfy
Post by: Thrillho on 29 Jul 2014, 00:52
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.
Post by: hedgie on 29 Jul 2014, 01:11
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 29 Jul 2014, 01:51
(Had to re-read your post. Didn't catch the 'on' in one go.)(And then I wondered how that 'terrible conversationalist' thing would help against being hit. It was a weird moment in my head.)
Post by: Nyithra on 29 Jul 2014, 02:14
Post by: Thrillho on 29 Jul 2014, 02:49
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.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*cough*
I'm sorry, let me just compose myself.
AAAAAAAAAAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Over here Stella is considered to be so classy that it's a byword for domestic violence.
I have in the past. When I use the direct approach he basically takes it as 'try again 2 weeks later'
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?
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 Jul 2014, 03:39
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.
Post by: Welu on 29 Jul 2014, 11:07
Post by: LocoJoe on 29 Jul 2014, 11:28
But if I go to any other place and they don't serve any of the beer I mentioned I'm usually like :psyduck:.
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Post by: Nyithra on 29 Jul 2014, 13:53
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.
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.
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?
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.
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Post by: dr. nervioso on 29 Jul 2014, 16:30
Now there was this one time when my friend made me a margarita with a bottle of corona tipped into it. That I would drink again.
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 Jul 2014, 19:43
Post by: Thrillho on 30 Jul 2014, 00:58
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.
Well if the option is it being difficult to say and him continuing to do it against your will and with it making you uncomfortable, maybe it's time to disregard whether it's out of left field and just straight up tell him to fuck off.
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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.
Sounds to me like he needs to be cut off from every means of contact, with an explanation beforehand noting how many times you've tried to get this across to him and that you're sick to the back teeth with it.
You don't deserve having to spend every conversation just batting away unwanted advances, imagine if this were in real life - I think any one of us would have alarm bells going off in our heads, but just because it's via social media rather than face-to-face he gets away with it not seeming as creepy.
If you don't work with him and go to different schools, I think you can relatively easily drop this guy like a bad habit and be cordial but not friendly to him in any real life social situations you encounter him in.
I hope this helps.
Post by: Barmymoo on 30 Jul 2014, 09:33
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Post by: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 15:12
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.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*cough*
I'm sorry, let me just compose myself.
AAAAAAAAAAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Over here Stella is considered to be so classy that it's a byword for domestic violence.
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2014, 21:08
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Post by: Thrillho on 31 Jul 2014, 00:59
Wait, really? I don't think Stella is great, but I wouldn't call it bad by any means.
Oh I'm completely serious. You tend to get wifebeating jokes when people are seen drinking Stella.
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Jul 2014, 17:37
Post by: Grognard on 31 Jul 2014, 21:11
bleah.
oddly, I've never had Miller.
Post by: Noxx on 31 Jul 2014, 22:41
Post by: Kugai on 31 Jul 2014, 23:42
Have drunk:
Tui
Lion Brown
DB Bitter
Steinlager
Macs Dark Gold
Ice Beer
And, of course, Guinniss.
Post by: Detachable Felix on 01 Aug 2014, 00:05
Tonight's brew is a stout that's been aged in a shiraz barrel. A modest 10.5% and mein gott, it's incredible
Post by: BeoPuppy on 01 Aug 2014, 01:33
Bit of a screamer, so no fun for the neighbours, but the girl can suck a golfball through a garden hose.
Now go to the beer thread!
Post by: Carl-E on 01 Aug 2014, 03:40
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/new.png)
Post by: ev4n on 01 Aug 2014, 13:17
I can't imagine actually enjoying any beer I've ever tried. But then, I'm not much of a drinker, so no big loss.
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Post by: hedgie on 01 Aug 2014, 15:58
Edit: One of the reasons for the spread of this outbreak is people refusing to believe that there even is a virus, and rural clinics without proper facilities. Unfortunately, this will continue as long as Ebola patients are up and running around, essentially killing others.
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Post by: Noxx on 02 Aug 2014, 00:05
Either way, it's blood borne, so it shouldn't pose much of an infection risk in a first world medical environment.
Post by: Barmymoo on 02 Aug 2014, 05:42
Post by: jwhouk on 02 Aug 2014, 05:49
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.
For some reason, I like this quote. It pretty much sums up life as we know it.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 02 Aug 2014, 05:54
Heart flutters in the middle of the night about your own and your child's mortality are mandatory.
Post by: hedgie on 02 Aug 2014, 05:57
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.
Post by: Detachable Felix on 02 Aug 2014, 06:01
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
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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.
It's Zaire from what I've seen.
Blood AND fluid born. Bile, spittle, urine, feces, and especially the legendary Black Vomit. If it was a fluid in the host body it is potentially lethal.
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What about the rest of you? Which personage would you like to have a sit down with?
Post by: Grognard on 03 Aug 2014, 21:36
the other half would like break bread with Alexander the Great.
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Post by: Akima on 04 Aug 2014, 02:34
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).
Post by: pwhodges on 04 Aug 2014, 04:24
There are threats to us, sure,
Threats to the current state of the biosphere is how I'd perceive it. Other species may also feel it (extinctions, anyone?), though we are the ones that are conscious of it.
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.
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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).
A fascinating man, I think he'd be interesting to have a conversation with as well. Albeit there is no shortage of such people through out the centuries.
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Post by: Carl-E on 04 Aug 2014, 19:20
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.
I think the only issue is the extent to which we can mediate that change and preserve what's left. Who caused it isn't the issue - who (and how) are we gonna fix it?
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Aug 2014, 20:23
Who caused it isn't the issueFinding out who caused it is the issue if they refuse to stop causing it.
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The diorama is based on this statue
(http://sky.geocities.jp/soramitsuyamato/kanmonhakata/kettou.jpg)
But the posing is a little different and I added a scenic base to add some color and variety to what would have been a very simple duel scene on sand otherwise.
Edit: And I just painted a hamon on Sasaki's katana blade. I am slightly worried about my own mental state. :psyduck:
For those not familiar with the finer points of the Japanese sword...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Katana_-_showing_alternating_layers.jpg)
The wavy silver bit that goes from the edge towards the back of the blade? That's the hamon. It's found in the finest of Japanese swords and should have a natural, organic look to it. One way to tell if a katana you're looking at is ass or not. Acid etched "fake" hamons are relatively easy to spot, and it's one of those things that once you can see it you can't UNsee it.
For those who are interested in learning more about swords, Japanese swords in particular, or perhaps in purchasing a katana of your own, I suggest you check out Sword Buyer's Guide: http://sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com/custom-katana.html
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Post by: Noxx on 06 Aug 2014, 00:03
By the end of this month, I'll be in my late twenties. Whoa.
Die in a fire junior.
Post by: Barmymoo on 06 Aug 2014, 01:40
Post by: hedgie on 06 Aug 2014, 02:07
However, okay… hmm… constructive criticism for the photography is that for one thing, as a rule of thumb, one doesn't want to go with a lighter background than the subject. It's distracting as it draws the viewer's eye away from the (no pun intended) focus. Framing and composition are a bit off, as well. For example, the 4th image might work better if rotated about 15-20° anticlockwise, and he got a bit lower. So probably a bit lower, and mid-way b/n images 4 and 5 for rotation. The use of bokeh is good, though, and fits the scene very well. Yes, I'm slightly nit-picking, since I studied photography before my first major-change.
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The guy with the stick (and I'm glad it's obvious it's a stick) is Miyamoto Musashi, a famous samurai and duelist. He's most known for his "Book of Five Rings" and the sword fighting style he created (Niten Ichi Ryu, Two Heavens United As One Style). Musashi was more of a rough and tumble kind of guy, he came from a common background and was a very practical warrior as well as a brutal fighter. His opponent Sasaki Kojiro was another master swordsman, and according to legend Musashi's rival at many points through their lives. He's commonly depicted in art (and here) in a full kamishimo, the standard garb for samurai. My one error that I've found so far painting wise actually lies with Kojiro's kamishimo. The kamishimo includes a garment called a kataginu which is essentially a large sleeveless vest with exaggerated shoulders, with a look similar to a doublet for European clothing. So Kojiro's sleeves are part of his kimono, but I painted them like his kataginu. I have corrected that.
Any way, Musashi is sculpted here and commonly depicted as well as wandering around in clothes more common for a workman like a yukata as opposed to the full formal kimono, he had a reputation as a wild man, and as an aesthetic later in life, and he regularly practiced psychological warfare against his opponents. Combat in the age of the Samurai was a formal affair, especially duels like this one. You wore your best clothes, carried your best weapons, bathed and groomed impeccably. There was a formality and ritual to it all that Musashi delighted in ignoring. Even his weapon at this duel was designed to A. attack his opponent's mental state. as well as B. provide an effective counter against Kojiro's fighting technique. As Hedgie said, Musashi brought a big fucking stick, a bokken (wooden sword specifically) that he'd carved from an oar on the boat ride to the island where the duel was to take place.
So excessive detail aside the process is roughly as such:
Assemble the mini(s) and in some cases base them
Prime with a neutral color (I like gray for most of mine)
Painting is a more personal pattern, but I paint big things and colors and work down to small things and colors, so Musashi's yukata gets painted first, and so on till you're doing details like headbands.
Depending on the colors involved I'll do a watered down layer of a lighter color or darker color to get more depth to the material and the color. Kojiro's hakama (the rich red) and the green of the bamboo reeds were accomplished in this manner. The water actually took four layers of paint total.
Washing: Various colored ink washes can be applied to add depth and shadow to models and terrain, I used a black wash on Kojiro, Musashi and the Bamboo and then a brown earth shade wash on the sand
Drybrushing: This is what I did to finish off the sand and rocks, taking a lighter color, much like highlighting and getting as little paint on the brush as possible then lightly running it over so the bristles are just barely kissing the upper surfaces I want to put paint on, I think the effect speaks for itself.
Highlighting: Now you take lighter shades, either made via mixing or through selections from your pile'o paint and get a very light amount of paint on your brush, there's lines in cloth and other parts of the mini, whether built in folds or just natural composition lines, when you highlight you follow these "high" points to bring out more contrast to both the darker areas you created with your wash, and the "normal" areas.
Then you take some pictures, get feed back while you sleep on it for a bit, then you seal it.
Which is why the photos are rough, I don't have a photo box any more and these were rough and dirty for critique and touch ups, not the presentation just yet.
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And done! Just gotta seal it!
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Aug 2014, 04:07
Post by: ev4n on 08 Aug 2014, 10:52
if a visual of a baby eating disgusts you, the problem is probably on your end.
sincerely,
me
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Post by: cesium133 on 08 Aug 2014, 11:48
I've never been invited to a baby-eating.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuiJWh2CIAAGs9M.jpg)
The look of fear on that child's face. He knows the mayor is hungry and plans to feed.
Post by: Loki on 08 Aug 2014, 14:56
In a small enough society, a Leviathan seeking to impose itself without force, and without agreement of the society to be ruled, is destined to fail.
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Aug 2014, 15:12
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Post by: hedgie on 08 Aug 2014, 16:07
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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Then he did it one day in his underwear, and realized it was his knee.
That was 40 years ago, and no, it didn't get better.
My knees are OK, thank god, but my spine sounds a bit like popcorn when I bend over to leash the dogs, or touch my toes in the morning. The spinal injuries range from spectacular bicycle wrecks 30 years ago to being knocked down by a car four winters ago to a half dozen falls on the ice just last winter. It's a wonder I can stand at all, let alone walk upright.
And my shoulder... lifting my right arm can be a challenge
I've learned that one can fight a lot of this sort of thing, or at least stave it off, but it takes a certain amount of activity to do so. Use it or lose it - if you nurse it too much, inactivity wins.
YMMV. Void where prohibited. Certain restrictions may apply. Please sign the release form before going any further. Discontinue use if you feel any of the following; pain, sorrow, loss, euphoria, contentment, manic episodes, the blues, the hots, the trots, or start seeing spots.
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I am very high mileage >.>;
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I will remind everyone I was critically injured and discharged medically before I could deploy.
Much to my significant disappointment.
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Post by: Grognard on 11 Aug 2014, 05:46
You Marines....
I just wanted to go to the Sandbox for the MONEY.
+$25K for an 8 week deployment, in excess of my standard salary.
Stupid Navy/US Gov people who don't know how to manage a contract :( :(
Not to mention + $$$ to trade in Afghani semi precious stones: I had contacts and everything.
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Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) duels Sasaki Kojiro (佐々木 小次郎) at Ganryu Island (巌流島). This is the final piece after sealing it and of course adjusting a few small mistakes I made during the initial painting. I believe I am now prepared for the Nan Desu Kan painting competition! かかってこいよ!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10608218_10152695331305815_3556478362672910432_o.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t31.0-8/10497111_10152695331110815_6965949300352476705_o.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t31.0-8/10507154_10152695331260815_8312210074859978448_o.jpg)
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It's a super small detail, but I'm immensely proud of the fact that I was able to paint in the rayskin same under the cotton ito wrap. (Those itty bitty white dots in the grip of Musashi's wazikashi) They're almost pointless except to people who are seriously looking, and easily get lost next to the brass kashira (pommel) and tsuba (guard) but I felt bad ass doing it. Also I don't know why Sasaki-san's hair is getting white tracings there, pretty sure it's just light reflecting, because the colors aren't there when I go look...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10362746_10152695331385815_1807662247293837719_o.jpg)
Imma go get my whompin stick!
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Aerial view of Sasaki Kojiro moments before getting whomped with a stick.
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Post by: Carl-E on 11 Aug 2014, 16:38
Jefferson would just be appalled.
Adams would just roll over and say, "I told you so!"
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2014, 18:53
Post by: Grognard on 11 Aug 2014, 20:30
probably Reservists.
with Mortars.
BIG FUCKING Mortars..
not sure where the impact area is...
but the house jumps like an earthquake ...4.0-ish... about every fucking 90 seconds.
jeeeeeeeeeeeez-sus!
and the windows rattle and the lights flicker.
not kidding and not exaggerating either.
FUCK.
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Aug 2014, 20:41
Post by: Grognard on 11 Aug 2014, 20:52
I'm in town.
They are actually firing AWAY from us, but those are HUGE mortar rounds.
I can clearly hear them launching from the tubes: sounds like 10 ga. shotguns...
bwhop. bwhop. bwhop.
and then...
then..
Wha.a..m!! Wha.a..m!! Wha.a..m!!
about 6-9 seconds between launch and impact.
fuck.
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Post by: nekowafer on 12 Aug 2014, 07:49
I dunno much about the art of tube stroking.
lies
Post by: Grognard on 12 Aug 2014, 10:22
Could be worse. The AF base I was stationed at had a bomb range where they could drop MOABs.
and when we lived in West Germany, our guesthaus was directly under the flightpath where the KC135s took off.
in the 80s.
when water injection boost and JATOs were the favorite thing to get a max load tanker in the air.
aaaannnnd... the boys in green are STILL blasting away. :roll:
it's pouring rain, FFS! give it a break. my cats are going spaztic.
Post by: cesium133 on 12 Aug 2014, 22:54
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 13 Aug 2014, 10:22
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28776184 (http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28776184)
Post by: Grognard on 13 Aug 2014, 11:56
but then, there are castles here in the USofA that need love too.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/photos/photos-10-american-castles-sale-18222336/image-20892325
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* - 12 if you're in Canada, eh.
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(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p122/InfernoRed_2006/FindX.jpg?t=1192785863)
Post by: Akima on 20 Aug 2014, 19:02
I mean... 3,4,5 was known as a rule of thumb by ancient Egyptian builders long before Pythagoras (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1E7I7_r3Cw). How can anybody not reel that off in their sleep?
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Post by: Grognard on 20 Aug 2014, 20:29
...makes me sick.
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.
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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.
Does their school actually publish class rankings?
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.
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Post by: Akima on 21 Aug 2014, 15:30
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.
Post by: Grognard on 21 Aug 2014, 15:51
and college level 'intro to Statistics"... I'd have better luck learning Greek from a Mandarin teacher.
the local schools only break down the top 25% of class ratings by 5% blocks. And they only report the top 25%. :(
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....oh. sorry if that is a trigger. (hides behind large internet shield)
Post by: hedgie on 21 Aug 2014, 15:58
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.
Taking different courses may have something to do with it, as well. I know I didn't rank as "highly" in terms of grades as many of my peers, but I was also taking far more challenging courses, including earning a bunch of university credit by the time I finished school. Had I stuck with the "easy" courses, I probably wouldn't have been fighting with my parents so much about what the reports said because I chose to challenge myself.
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"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?
Post by: pwhodges on 21 Aug 2014, 16:55
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:
Most of my school classes were 20 pupils, so the top 5% would be top of the class. If that was insufficiently ambitious, I guess your classes were bigger than mine!
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Post by: ChaoSera on 21 Aug 2014, 21:44
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?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 21 Aug 2014, 23:07
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.
Be careful. Non-academic activities are important in supporting the progress of academic activities. Play for children being very different than it is for adults.
Post by: hedgie on 22 Aug 2014, 00:37
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?
Post by: Barmymoo on 22 Aug 2014, 03:43
I don't think it'll surprise anyone who has been around here more than five minutes to hear that I am opposed to the entire concept of grading children's achievement. There is a place for exams and rankings, but I don't think that place even starts to exist before the age of about 10, and probably not really until 15.
Post by: ev4n on 22 Aug 2014, 08:18
Around here, universities keep track of graduation averages and student successes from high schools across the country. It's always been known that getting good grades at certain schools is easier than at others, turns out those higher marks are quite meaningless.
Post by: Welu on 22 Aug 2014, 08:30
Yeah, fuck that specific school. I seem to just get more bitter about it as time goes on.
Post by: Noxx on 22 Aug 2014, 08:33
Frankly leaving college and getting on with the world was one of my few wise life choices.
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Post by: Kugai on 22 Aug 2014, 14:24
I've improved since then, but it took a few years before I got good enough that I didn't need to carry a calculator with me everywhere. Still have some issues (multiplication etc) but at least I don't need a calculator when I'm out shopping etc.
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Also holy fuck there is a GODDESSDAMN CLAIRE FACE EMOJI! :claireface:
:psyduck:
Post by: 94ssd on 23 Aug 2014, 09:20
I don't want to just dump ice on my head without donating, but I also have almost nothing to donate. I could probably fork over $30 or so?
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Post by: 94ssd on 23 Aug 2014, 09:50
You could always just not do it... it's not like you're required.
There isn't a reason for me not to, really.
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Aug 2014, 11:08
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.
Post by: 94ssd on 23 Aug 2014, 11:24
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.
Nothing about the ice part of it worries me. I didn't know that $10 was the rule. I was suggesting doing the ice bucket part and donating $30.
Which it looks like I'll be doing, because I was just challenged by that friend I mentioned
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Aug 2014, 11:48
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Pros:
All the exterior doors are card access.
It comes with a microwave for some reason, and it's a really nice commercial-sized one too.
Adjustable shower heads.
The closet is gigantic.
I live very close to the laundry room.
I live in the back part of the building, which means the view out of my window is of the woods. People who live in the front get a lovely view of a carpark.
Cons:
My apartment is on the first floor, which partially negates the benefits of the doors.
The closest exterior door is the one by the dumpsters.
God damn the bathroom is really small
There is no carpet
I'm pretty sure this oven is from the 70s.
I don't think the thermostat does anything.
Apparently we share a breaker panel with the apartment next door.
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Post by: 94ssd on 24 Aug 2014, 12:13
Carpets are warm and soft.
I agree, the hardwood is cold as ice. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMqfWoFjgto)
Post by: hedgie on 24 Aug 2014, 15:07
Carpets are warm and soft.Aye, but they can be a nasty source of friction burns.
Post by: Detachable Felix on 24 Aug 2014, 15:20
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Post by: cesium133 on 25 Aug 2014, 15:15
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.
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Aug 2014, 15:17
That is, was the meter that length, and people made the connection to the light second after the fact? Or was the meter always measured in connection with it?
Post by: cesium133 on 25 Aug 2014, 15:22
edit -- and in between the arbitrary metal rod and the speed of light definition, they defined it in terms of an emission line in Krypton-86. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter)
edit 2 -- Akima beat me to linking to the Wikipedia article.
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(~73.2 inches instead of ~72.4)
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Post by: Thrillho on 27 Aug 2014, 06:03
Are dudes in tight pants a negative?
...
Can be for the guy.
Post by: lepetitfromage on 27 Aug 2014, 06:20
I hate that most of my pants fit me great in the legs but then are too loose in the waist. Then I have to keep hiking them up through the day. Or I find ones that actually DO fit in the waist (and stretch slightly to fit my legs) and then I put them in the dryer because they've stretched from being worn but then after drying they are too tight.
Oh wait, this is not the complaints thread. Whooops. :-P
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Aug 2014, 06:13
However, the next size down ones in the back of the closet are still a bit uncomfortable. They're 2 inches smaller in the waist - I sorta skipped a size on the way up...
Post by: Papersatan on 28 Aug 2014, 19:56
(http://www.kicksculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tumblr_me2t1o1CIy1qgdg0r.gif)
but obvs no one wants the waist band to be uncomfortable.
Post by: Loki on 29 Aug 2014, 13:42
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.
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Post by: ankhtahr on 29 Aug 2014, 21:46
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.
Post by: Grognard on 29 Aug 2014, 22:13
For example, you could have no toy soldiers.
HERESEY!
ALL!
must.
have.
toy.
soldiers.
mine are made of metal Crak and resemble walking tanks. :-D
Post by: nekowafer on 30 Aug 2014, 19:31
At least I finally have a car.
Post by: Kugai on 30 Aug 2014, 21:24
Hell, I wish I hadn't had to sell the Van!
Post by: LTK on 31 Aug 2014, 15:05
I'm keeping it specific to chocolate because it just takes such a long time to get sick of the taste. Before that it's basically a positive feedback loop of "I just ate some chocolate. I should eat more chocolate." Other things like liquorice tastes worse the more you eat of it, which ends the loop much sooner.
Post by: Grognard on 31 Aug 2014, 18:03
I wish I did.
Hell, I wish I hadn't had to sell the Van!
You know it was for the best... :angel:
(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/yz5302a648.jpg)
Post by: Grognard on 31 Aug 2014, 18:05
(http://www.geekologie.com/2012/01/11/star-wars-van-1.jpg)
it's so cool.
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(http://img3.visualizeus.com/thumbs/41/e6/aerodynamic,crazy,custom,van,japanese,spaceship,van-41e69b591de1854c4f0c95d7e9b0835f_h.jpg)
I guess.
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(http://sportandmotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/custom-japanese-truck.jpg)
In fact, considering the Japanese home in the background I'd say that's almost certain.
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There were several others, most of them just misfortune generators.
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The difference between politeness and tact. “Imagine you inadvertently enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked under the shower, Politeness requires that you quickly close the door and say, ‘Pardon, Madame!’, whereas tact would be to quickly close the door and say: ‘Pardon, Monsieur!’"
-Delphine Seyrig, Baisers volés, 1968
Post by: Loki on 05 Sep 2014, 16:17
You are supposed to pretend you didn't recognise her as a woman in hopes of making it less awkward?
Post by: BeoPuppy on 06 Sep 2014, 05:11
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Post by: 94ssd on 07 Sep 2014, 18:07
"F - The test failed to match you to a Kinsey Type profile. Either you answered some questions wrong, or you are a very unusual person."
Post by: hedgie on 07 Sep 2014, 18:15
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Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Sep 2014, 19:20
Makes sense, I guess. I don't avoid watching gay porn, because that's not something one has to avoid. You either watch it or you don't.
Post by: 94ssd on 07 Sep 2014, 20:55
Either that, or a bunch of rather strange people frequent this place.
Well that much was not in question.
Post by: Grognard on 07 Sep 2014, 21:39
oh, never mind. just means I'm exclusively hetro
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrQHfHbIYAEaTEM.jpg)
Related, the book was recalled by the library, and I left my card in it with a note asking the desperate borrower to contact me, because if they were in such a hurry to read this book, the two of us probably had a lot we could talk about. They never replied. :(
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Post by: Detachable Felix on 08 Sep 2014, 00:59
Mods, can this part of the tread get shifted into DISCUSS/Trans*? I have a lot of feelings on this.
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Post by: Welu on 08 Sep 2014, 14:18
Also when I did that test last year I got a 1 and this time I got a 3. Neat.
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Post by: Carl-E on 09 Sep 2014, 12:32
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!"
Post by: Masterpiece on 09 Sep 2014, 14:25
No, it's not called iSheep anymore, it's called Apple Sheep! #iRant
— The Masterpiece (@masterpiece_911) September 9, 2014
Yes, this is inspired by this tweet:
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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!"
Eh. Fucking up steel is just keeping iron miners and foundries in business.
The result of 5 and 1/2 man hours of blood sweat and tears today? A very shiny square. That's about it. I doubt I'm going to get a terribly good grade on this initial project.
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APPLE WATCH
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Post by: Carl-E on 09 Sep 2014, 17:03
I doubt I'm going to get a terribly good grade on this initial project.
Depends - was the assignment a shiny square?
I think you'll be fine.
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Post by: Grognard on 09 Sep 2014, 18:22
I'm getting shelled again.
jeeeeez.
and some lucky saps got to make a LALO jump in pissing rain today.
.... which is probably why they're
mortaring the fuck outta the neighborhood.
it wouldn't be so bad if I could get some trigger time on one of those .50s I hear bumping away....
gawd-DAMN!
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while I love the sound of Freedom ('Murica!FuckYeah!) ... I do wish they would implement a cease fire so I can get some sleep.
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hope they've called it a night.
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Post by: Masterpiece on 14 Sep 2014, 06:02
You're all calling me dreamy, so I guess that makes me McDreamy, right?
Also makes Patrick McSteamy
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Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Sep 2014, 19:34
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
Wait, who called Patrick Steamy? Also, what would that make me?
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Sep 2014, 20:01
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Sep 2014, 20:03
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 14 Sep 2014, 21:41
Quote from: user Richard Cranium (get it?) on Daily Kos
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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 14 Sep 2014, 22:45
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If I've sold commissioned pieces, and have pieces of paper showing I've won awards for art...
Does that mean I have to stop dogging my own painting skills? Cause I still think I suck. One of my friends said the above makes me a pro... but I don't think so. I mean... I don't make my living off of doing this.
Well. Wait. Tradecraft, so theoretically in a non-painting field once I get good enough you could call me a professional artisan as a gunsmith, but this is painting toy soldiers...
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There seem to be various definitions: belonging to "a profession" which has a complex definition of its own; doing something as a paid occupation rather than a hobby, or doing something with the attitude which one would expect from someone belonging to "a professional". So I'd say you can definitely consider yourself a professional artist if you wish to (but it doesn't sound like you do).
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side note from the HHJJ thread. The fact that I am recognized as an ordained minister with full license to marry and bury is proof that the sanctity of marriage argument is bullshit.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 16 Sep 2014, 00:34
... wait, what?
Post by: FunkyTuba on 16 Sep 2014, 11:04
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.
Mine looks like Facebook (whoomp whoomp)
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What would happen if the victorious party (any election, assuming a clear winner, nothing going wrong, etc.) didn't want to form a government?
Post by: Akima on 17 Sep 2014, 03:01
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
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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
Truth! Though I was having dinner with my actual mother last night and she made the fair point that self criticism is good and healthy, but the kind of more negative stuff I can do above is not.
Post by: Carl-E on 18 Sep 2014, 23:06
I imagine you're somewhere between those two. The yell isn't drowning everything out, but it's a little too loud, and the list of the things you didn't like that made you use those very words was probably overinflated.
'cause it looks really good to me!
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Post by: Thrillho on 19 Sep 2014, 07:41
'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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 19 Sep 2014, 09:11
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Post by: LTK on 19 Sep 2014, 10:11
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.
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The time has come to regrow my beard I think.
Post by: Kugai on 19 Sep 2014, 15:09
Disturbing.
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Post by: Active Madness on 23 Sep 2014, 04:05
Do catbuses go feral? If so, is it a good idea to spay or neuter them?
I've got no idea, but I'm just imagining the cone of shame...
Would you need a vet or a mechanic? Or some kind of biomechanical wizard?
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Sep 2014, 17:46
A plumber.
:roll:
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Post by: pwhodges on 25 Sep 2014, 07:43
I keep my phone in my back jeans pocket, and therefore sit on it regularly...
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(http://i.imgur.com/CE3Li68l.jpg)
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Inmate in hell or a hero in prison, soldier in Auschwitz, who knows his name? locked in a cell raging war from a prison, hiding in Auschwitz, who hides behind 4859?
In other news hand filing to super tight tolerances (thousandths of an inch) is hardcore bullshit.
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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?
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Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Sep 2014, 13:17
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?
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Post by: Loki on 25 Sep 2014, 16:12
Oh. Well, still, I've never seen such a request in a public toilet before.
Whut? They are uncommon? Those are totally commonplace in Germany.
Post by: Akima on 25 Sep 2014, 17:01
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:
Post by: cesium133 on 25 Sep 2014, 17:07
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 25 Sep 2014, 17:11
What happens if you file too far? Is the whole thing scrapped?
To restore it to the necessary dimensions, you just have to spend some time defiling it. :claireface:
Post by: Redball on 25 Sep 2014, 17:40
(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?
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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:
I imagine your father and some of my senior instructors have the same exact look on their face and tone when telling us we've fucked up. Except for SSgt. One of my junior instructors is a Marine SSgt and we're bros. So he's cool vs. taking a perverse pleasure in my fuck ups.
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This is an almost complete shotgun choke tube wrench. Each "step" on the "wings" represents one of the six common gauges. The tolerances on the various widths of the working surfaces is .002 thousandths. The width of the working surfaces is .68 thousandths with the same tolerance. This is attempt.... five or six I think. We'll see how my grade is.
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Sep 2014, 20:47
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.
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Post by: Orkboy on 25 Sep 2014, 21:14
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.
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This is why I don't want socialized medicine in the end. I have it. Right now, as do many of my brothers... and it's no exaggeration to say it's killing us.
Post by: nekowafer on 26 Sep 2014, 07:52
Post by: Carl-E on 26 Sep 2014, 08:01
Y'know, they happen, The world ain't perfect. But they can be prevented.
I can understand an aversion to sitting if you don't have to, but at least raise the seat, as described, with your toe. Then when the unforeseen happens, you just splash the floor & surroundings, not where the next person sits. It's just considerate, OK?
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Wait. No, nevermind, I keep forgetting that we were crazy mofos.
Post by: Akima on 26 Sep 2014, 18:15
people with fish bumper stickers staring at you.People with fish bumper-stickers stare at me anyway...
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From the fury of the Northmen, deliver us, O God.
When a religion has actual prayers against your religion... it can honestly give you a warm n' fuzzy <3
Post by: Grognard on 26 Sep 2014, 20:54
paganism had been alive and well in England, it was the Viking of the Scandanavian/Nordic peoples what had the priests praying for deliverance.
my mother's family originally hailed from Cimbria.
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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.
Post by: Orkboy on 27 Sep 2014, 06:29
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.
And C, they actually bathed, so they got all the English girls. There's actually letters from some minor English noble complaining to the church that Scandinavian merchants coming through his town were marrying all the English women and leaving behind a town full of English bachelors.
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Post by: jwhouk on 28 Sep 2014, 05:23
Pics or it didn't happen. :angel:
Post by: Thrillho on 28 Sep 2014, 06:58
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.
I first got my glasses when I was 11 and only needed them for the same things you describe, but I just wore them all the time, because honestly, when was I not using a computer, reading a book, watching a TV, or needing to actually fucking SEE things?
Post by: Barmymoo on 28 Sep 2014, 08:32
Post by: Carl-E on 28 Sep 2014, 19:35
"Where?", I asked.
"On the stairs, getting into the plane" they said.
"What plane?"
We were maybe 200 feet away from it.
Everything for me gets blurry beyond about 3 cm. After a few meters or so, it's all one big blob. With my glasses, I'm about 20/40, good enough to drive, at least...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6434380609_070c07c68a_o.jpg)
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Sep 2014, 19:39
Post by: hedgie on 28 Sep 2014, 22:52
Post by: Barmymoo on 29 Sep 2014, 00:54
Post by: BeoPuppy on 29 Sep 2014, 03:29
Post by: Thrillho on 29 Sep 2014, 05:31
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.
Not at all. I like my glasses. If I ever got my vision to the point of not needing them, I'd be sad.
I like my face furniture, I like how I look with them and generally dislike how I look with them off, and my eyes being quite majorly off level with each other is hidden slightly by my glasses but a lot harder to hide without my glasses on.
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Post by: lepetitfromage on 29 Sep 2014, 06:47
I tend to go for a few months with contacts, switch to glasses for a while and then switch back once my glasses start to annoy me- usually on rainy days. :-P
I don't know what my 20/whatever numbers are either but my eyesight is terrible. I've been using corrective lenses of some sort since the 2nd grade- started out just for reading and I'd always forget to have them with me, then I ended up needing them all the time. Almost every time I've gone to the eye doctor my prescription has gotten worse. Not this past visit, though! Exciting times. :roll: The prescription for my contacts are -9.5 and -10.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 29 Sep 2014, 07:50
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Post by: Thrillho on 29 Sep 2014, 14:44
This drives me crazy, and to try and avoid such in the future, I have written a list to myself of the subject matter of some of the songs that my best friend and I have written together or that I have by myself (including his is kinda pointless since it's about my self-assessed artistic merit on this occasion), to try to remind myself that I'm not always a complete hack.
Song subjects have included:
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And that's just missing out songs of mine that I do love but have less original subject matter. I think some days I need to look at this list a bit more closely.
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 Sep 2014, 20:05
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).
Post by: Carl-E on 29 Sep 2014, 20:13
Song subjects have included:
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- Cannibals running a takeaway in Lancashire
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I need to hear this.
Post by: hedgie on 29 Sep 2014, 21:07
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).
Post by: Papersatan on 30 Sep 2014, 00:34
Quote from: Jordan B. Petterson in Three Forms of Meaning and the Management of Complexity
"Whatever anxiety might arise at the failure of our actions is nothing compared with the terror of having to recalibrate our perceptions."
Post by: ChaoSera on 30 Sep 2014, 00:49
Post by: Orkboy on 30 Sep 2014, 07:56
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Post by: Thrillho on 01 Oct 2014, 09:42
Random thought of the day: A compliment is meaningless if you have no respect for the person giving it to you. Slightly zen life lesson I taught myself today.
Post by: Welu on 01 Oct 2014, 10:19
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Post by: Is it cold in here? on 01 Oct 2014, 16:47
What happens if you file too far? Is the whole thing scrapped?
You shout "Curses! Filed again!".
Post by: BeoPuppy on 02 Oct 2014, 12:34
Post by: Pilchard123 on 02 Oct 2014, 13:56
Post by: BeoPuppy on 02 Oct 2014, 15:31
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Post by: ev4n on 03 Oct 2014, 07:34
Post by: Fig on 03 Oct 2014, 08:43
Post by: LTK on 03 Oct 2014, 08:47
Video compression is inherently more compressed and lossier. So there's less information present in the source material prior to resizing it.
In this case I'm trying to configure the capture software to record in a lower resolution without compromising the quality of the video, which doesn't seem possible unless I directly manipulate the resolution of the frame it's being captured from. I guess that's to be expected, given that video recording is too intensive to be able to accurately blend blocks of identical pixels on the fly.
Another random thought: I wonder if public domain porn exists.
Post by: Masterpiece on 03 Oct 2014, 09:14
Post by: Pilchard123 on 03 Oct 2014, 12:09
No butt jokes, is the point.
Yet. :V
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Oct 2014, 15:19
Post by: Orkboy on 03 Oct 2014, 16:33
The Oklahoma City airport has free wifi, but to use it you have to watch a video about how great Texas is. :psyduck:
What. :psyduck:
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Oct 2014, 17:26
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Oct 2014, 18:20
Incidentally, I'm currently in the United customer "service" line at O'Hare because they overbooked my connecting flight...
Post by: Carl-E on 03 Oct 2014, 22:31
Post by: cesium133 on 04 Oct 2014, 08:01
The Wi-Fi in the airport in São Paulo is painfully slow, though.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 04 Oct 2014, 08:48
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I found this a fascinating piece.
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Oct 2014, 11:56
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Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Oct 2014, 12:21
Post by: Detachable Felix on 07 Oct 2014, 00:45
- Put down a deposit on a PA system
- Locked down another paid gig ( a wedding this time :D )
- raced a pair of vibrators along a counter at my girlfriend's workplace.
... Today has been a good day.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 07 Oct 2014, 01:24
Post by: Detachable Felix on 07 Oct 2014, 03:50
Post by: jwhouk on 07 Oct 2014, 07:04
Post by: Carl-E on 07 Oct 2014, 09:10
Post by: grouchygizmo on 07 Oct 2014, 11:07
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. :-)
Post by: Thrillho on 07 Oct 2014, 11:12
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. :-)
Shut up, n00b.
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I agree. I returned to this forum after a long absence in late 2012 and it has now become like a support group, friendship group, family, debate society, source of jokes, encyclopedia...
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 Oct 2014, 11:56
Post by: Fig on 07 Oct 2014, 14:52
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Oct 2014, 16:24
Glad you got the wasp out of there before it stung you!
Post by: Masterpiece on 07 Oct 2014, 21:51
Post by: BeoPuppy on 07 Oct 2014, 23:19
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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Interesting theory. I've certainly seen large chunks of it in practice.
Post by: Jimor on 08 Oct 2014, 03:54
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.
Post by: hedgie on 08 Oct 2014, 04:14
Post by: Masterpiece on 08 Oct 2014, 04:40
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.
Post by: Detachable Felix on 08 Oct 2014, 04:48
(...Sorry Erik)
Post by: Thrillho on 08 Oct 2014, 05:56
Post by: Masterpiece on 08 Oct 2014, 06:14
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You won't BELIEVE what this Marine does next, it will BLOW YOUR MIND
Remind me to tell you some of my "Hold my beer and watch this" stories. My favorite is one of my Marines was riding around on a dirtbike in the desert (American Southwest) and was riding next to a train.... then proceeded to ride over a 30ft drop. :psyduck:
Post by: hedgie on 08 Oct 2014, 06:32
"Hold my beer and watch this" stories.Famous last words in the US South.
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Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Oct 2014, 11:05
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.
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Oct 2014, 13:00
Post by: cesium133 on 08 Oct 2014, 20:59
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
Post by: Orkboy on 08 Oct 2014, 21:03
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
I kind of want to know what metal sounds like in Portuguese.
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Post by: Loki on 09 Oct 2014, 14:36
Almost four years ago, I was with my first girlfriend, at a movie evening of her friend M. We were having a Pirates of the Carribean movie marathon with a sleepover. There were the two of us, the host M plus her boyfriend and C, a male friend of the group.
Eventually, M's BF left. There were four of us left, M started snuggling up to C, and when we were done watching the movies, everyone just quietly accepted me + my GF would sleep in the one room and M + C in the other.
Apparently, some heavy petting happened that night. (To his credit, he didn't brag *a lot* the following morning.)
We were younger, more confused and less mature back then. I also was somewhat attracted to M, and thought M + C would make a better couple than what M+her BF had. So I didn't say anything.
Nowadays, I'd have behaved differently. I think. I still had minor stings of conscience, so this led me to my first non-comic related post in this forum:
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29639.msg1004946.html#msg1004946
To the best of my knowledge, M is still with her boyfriend from back then. We don't have contact anymore.
The thing is, in the PotC movies, there are a few moments where you think Elizabeth might get together with Jack instead of Will. I thought the plot of the movies reflected what was going on in real life rather... mystically. There are the drunk almost-makeouts, the regret in the morning, the attraction to the "wrong" person... I am probably not making a lot of sense, am I.
I also learned a few things, maybe not that night, but in retrospect. Such as that the world isn't always black and white when it comes to relationships.
I also learned to trust the people judgment of a friend of mine, D, who had warned me about M prior to all of this. D was later bound to become my second relationship and is still my best friend. (Her people judgment has been confirmed many times since, but I think this is the first instance of it I remember.)
Eventually, D and me broke up after an argument we had while watching a movie.
That movie was PotC 1.
I also learned things about myself that night, which are rather difficult to put into words. I guess that I was not, in fact, such a paragon of virtue as I liked to think myself of as.
Also, in terms of experiences made that night: having M's parents' king size bed to ourselves was rather nice :mrgreen:
Incidentally, Ankh, if you are reading this: M was (probably still is) a really charismatic girl, making the world spin around her. She was the main, if not the sole, inspiration for the post I made when discussing your Pinkie Pie Problem:
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,29624.msg1255216.html#msg1255216
So I guess that experience of mine was helpful to somebody else as well, which is nice to know.
Post by: Papersatan on 09 Oct 2014, 14:58
Post by: LeeC on 09 Oct 2014, 16:32
Post by: LTK on 09 Oct 2014, 17:56
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I should go to bed.
Post by: ChaoSera on 10 Oct 2014, 00:49
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.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 10 Oct 2014, 02:12
Post by: pwhodges on 10 Oct 2014, 02:58
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.
In principle the colours are:
Each can use the ones above, though, so an admin can distinguish whether they are speaking with an "admin" voice or a "mod" voice. Loki is the only non-global mod (by his request); but I might have enabled blue triangles for him anyway - I can't actually remember.
It's also possible to change the heading:
I suppose I could invent green and lilac triangles if I could be bothered; but I've no reason to, so I won't.
Post by: cesium133 on 10 Oct 2014, 07:05
edit -- incidentally, when the name "RoboCop" is spoken in Portuguese, it sounds to an English speaker like "HoboCop."
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edit -- incidentally, when the name "RoboCop" is spoken in Portuguese, it sounds to an English speaker like "HoboCop."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_pair
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This is what happens when I write Satan:
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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)
And now some thoughts.
It spreads like disease.There's no sign of peace. Religion and greed, cause millions to bleed. Three decades of war.
Originally about the 30 Years War, this song's been weighing heavy on me recently as we approach the anniversary of the 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut Lebanon that took the lives of 220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, along with the lives of 58 French paratroopers and further wounding 143 troops. Most historians and military strategists mark this as the opening shot of "The Long War" against Extremist Islam that has now lasted for over three decades. I'm not really going any where with this, but the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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In other news: Sigh. This is going to go well.
In a gaming group bitching about a box of female minis. The sprues are fiddly and complex as all fucking hell for seemingly no good reason. Some people jump in and agree, or laugh at the "letter" I wrote to the designer, which I will probably have to include in the vitriolic letters thread. Then because there's always that one guy, the word "tranny" is used to describe this company's normal female faces. Roll a "Fuck this Guy" check and decide "No. Not sitting this one out" and point out that it's a slur and can we please not use it? as nicely as I can because I like some of these people at least.
Response 1: "It's meant as a slur, to GW. Up until this point (exception for the Juan Diaz Daemonettes from 6th Ed), all of their female face sculpts have looked like men in drag."
My Response: Yes, but it's an actual slur, to actual people. Also drag queens aren't trans gender individuals. It's fine to acknowledge that GW can't sculpt female faces to save their lives (I'm a Sisters of Battle player, I have a fucking CASE of examples) but there's better language with which to do it.
Response 2: "Feel free to take inordinate offense at this, but ignore all the absurd Slaanesh memes in this group."
My Response: Maybe I've just missed the ones that involved transgender slurs, but be sure to point them out to me and I'll make sure I say they're utter bollocks as well. This isn't me taking offense, or even being upset, this is me saying we can and should aspire to better language than words that are and have been used to hurt a small group of people with precious few people on their side.
Conversation's ongoing, but I'm being reasonable so I doubt it's going to go anywhere useful. Though it does kinda bring up a thought I haven't really considered, does the depiction of a hermaphrodite or "female/feminine character with male genitalia" be that an alien species, anthropomorphic hyenas or a certain genre of Japanese porn's obsession with Futas instantly relate back to trans persons as a venue for offense or injury? For those unfamiliar with 40k Lore Slaanesh is the Chaos God of Excess, and while excess can go a lot of interesting ways, music, art, gluttony, all manner of indulgence, including a Daemon Prince who's excess is literally perfection to a standard that would shame Narcissus. However because Games Workshop and 14 year olds are big fans of a little pandering, the depiction of Slaaneshi forces generally involves a fair amount of sex appeal and tentacles. Though Workshop's backed off on that in the official fluff in the last couple years because parents started paying attention to the shit their sprogs want for Christmas, but it remains in the community and in *shudder* fan art, and a common mutation for the various demons and servants of Slaanesh is a cock where there shouldn't be one based on the rest of the body, a modified dick, extra dicks, tentacles, wahey.
So... I dunno. Zoe beacon any one?
She's like Batman right? Mysterious, reclusive, donating batorangs of knowledge to the mentally underprivileged of subjects within her sphere of knowledge?
In still other news, I can hear an owl outside.
Post by: hedgie on 12 Oct 2014, 02:10
Post by: LTK on 12 Oct 2014, 06:52
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Oct 2014, 07:38
Sure, I could solve it by putting "I" in front of it, but I shouldn't have to, damn it :roll:
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Post by: Grognard on 12 Oct 2014, 22:38
;)
Post by: Detachable Felix on 12 Oct 2014, 22:48
(http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140629153553/fantendo/images/3/3d/No,_this_is_Patrick!.png)
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Post by: Grognard on 12 Oct 2014, 22:56
?really?
Post by: Loki on 12 Oct 2014, 23:16
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:
Post by: Carl-E on 13 Oct 2014, 05:14
Bleah, I'm getting old. Not just older, but old. :-P
Post by: Welu on 13 Oct 2014, 13:20
Post by: Akima on 13 Oct 2014, 15:19
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.
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Post by: Noxx on 13 Oct 2014, 23:50
Been trying to get these ever since the DMV went online, they always bounce. Guess someone finally released them, because they processed right through without a hitch.
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/10/13/63bece0528ecb782afbddb3e5faef335.jpg)
Post by: Thrillho on 14 Oct 2014, 02:20
- 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?
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Post by: Noxx on 14 Oct 2014, 04:06
There's tons of response to that that I might type up later but can't be arsed to now.
Because you're busy masturbating? :psyduck:
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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?
The former. That strikes me as REALLY insulting actually.
Post by: nekowafer on 14 Oct 2014, 07:43
Post by: Loki on 14 Oct 2014, 07:53
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:
Post by: Thrillho on 14 Oct 2014, 08:16
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 got it. I just didn't reply for some reason??
Post by: Masterpiece on 14 Oct 2014, 12:56
YESSSSSSSSSSS!
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Oct 2014, 17:19
I'm more interested in why anyone would need their partners consent to masturbate.Yeah, this was also confusing to me.
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Staff Sergeant Oldschool is my spirit animal.
Post by: Akima on 15 Oct 2014, 16:19
If that's your spirit animal, get it stuffed and stick it in a museum.
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But I too am broken, angry and need whiskey and cigarettes to avoid being utterly consumed by my hatred of all things.
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Oct 2014, 18:13
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In far lighter news ZoeB is helping me look for potential work in Australia. So far it looks like the $5 Million AUSD Visa is my best option >.>; still having one of those moments where it feels like senpai has noticed me.
(http://i.imgur.com/jSLtcWr.jpg)
No I'm not sure if either of us is kidding.
Also Zoe thought I was 50. She had a good recovery, but still. Not sure how to feel about that. *slinks off to be old and smell of whiskey*
Post by: Method of Madness on 15 Oct 2014, 20:00
Edit: Just looked it up and...pretty much!
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Post by: Metope on 16 Oct 2014, 05:52
Then again, at least the rich are taxed and at least disabled people get subsidies... It's just heading slowly in the wrong direction.
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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:
A reminder that I'm a moderate if not a bit left of center on about everything BUT guns.
The first thing I'd do is write the head of the current pro gun types and tell him I believe in keeping what I kill and challenge him to a trial of possession for his or her position. My life's work would then be adding a Class M permit to Aussie gun permitting. A Class M would be comparable to a Class C permit requirements wise but be specifically for a list of military surplus firearms, including historically relevant semi-autos (Currently only obtainable under a D permit) such as the M1 Garand, and military sidearms ranging from the 1911 to the Webley Service Revolver. (Why yes, I have actually been investigating moving down under for a long while, how did you know?*)
So that'd piss a lot of people off whether I'm successful or not. :P
I'd also need to find a way to work two jobs. Gunsmithing (Cause, y'know, kinda my trade) and pest control in the outback so I can get my Class D permit.
*Also having looked into moving to several nations, any one bitching about how draconian U.S. Immigration law is needs to be subjected to the fish slapping dance. It's easy as hell to come here in comparison. :psyduck:
Doesn't Norway have one of the highest tax burdens in the world for EVERYONE?
America's is actually pretty harsh on our top 10%
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Sauce: http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/812008051P1T013.XLS
Is it fair for the rich, rich though they might be to pay more in taxes than their percentage of their total share of income, higher than many European nations, where the rich pay a bit fairer amount of their fair share (An amount of taxes equal to their percentage of total income, that is to say the top 10% of country x receive 25% of the country's total income per annum, paying 25% of the country's total taxes is therefore is an equitable and "fair" share. Of course where things usually get crossed up is capital gains tax, which is different from income tax and could probably use some reform
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Post by: Metope on 16 Oct 2014, 06:15
Also I don't think the anecdotal description works that well for Norway at least (maybe people really are that selfish in the states, I don't know), I've never met anyone who's actually reacted that way. Seems like it's fairly similar to what just happened in Norway, and no one are mad at the "rich guy", they're all mad at the government... or the bartender, it that story, I guess. It's not about people being mad because rich people are richer, it's about people being mad because where will the money the government needs to support us come from now?Since the government are getting a lot less in taxes from people, what'll happen to the hospitals, roads, libraries and other public institutions? And taking money from people who can't work at all is the icing on the cake, really.
This isn't Discuss though, so that's probably it for now.
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Post by: Metope on 16 Oct 2014, 06:30
...fuck what am I doing with my life :-(
Post by: 94ssd on 16 Oct 2014, 06:37
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 16 Oct 2014, 06:40
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.
Yebbut, this only works if there is a mechanism that means the polluter pays.
Here I am working in an intervention programme for high risk domestic violence and if, there were lower taxes, I don't see a lot of people volunteering their cash to fund the programme. Alas victims are rarely in a position to drop the kind of money needed to keep this sort of programme running. The catch comes that intervention programmes across the board almost always cost less than their absence. Alas this kind of financial system really isn't understood but the public at large and the topic is a bit more uncomfortable than they want to hear about in a pitch for their cash.
So under your system, my ass is going to be out of a job and, because of the nature of my current job, I've become a bit toxic to the private sector. So can I have some welfare please? Oh, and all of the other people funded by public money in positions that are a bit less sexy than fire services and roads infrastructure building and maintenance.
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Much of government is work government has created for itself and takes great pleasure in charging us for, the work is only required because our government has the pleasure of making it do.
Post by: Masterpiece on 16 Oct 2014, 10:37
Post by: Welu on 16 Oct 2014, 15:12
(http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/145057072-woman-weighing-herself-at-home-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=2r1WW%2FVA8%2FFCP3CNoKwhHbnxY10%2B17iP3KUIsG4w33I%3D) (http://91ef69bade70f992a001-b6054e05bb416c4c4b6f3b0ef3e0f71d.r93.cf3.rackcdn.com/full-length-portrait-of-a-woman-wrapped-in-towel-100158915.jpg)
Towel meets around the cleavage area, but the thing that's bugging me is the towel is straight. The meeting point is totally vertical.
I have never been able to wrap a towel like that around myself, whether it meets in the middle of my chest or to my side, the meeting point ends up really slanted. Is this just a prominent boob thing or does media just hate slanted lines? Although I notice in both those images the women are holding the top of the towel so they probably aren't actually tucked and if they let go the towel wouldn't stay. Or I just don't know how to wrap myself in a towel.
Post by: snarkyone on 16 Oct 2014, 15:22
Post by: Akima on 16 Oct 2014, 15:38
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!
Post by: Majicou83 on 16 Oct 2014, 15:43
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Post by: Metope on 16 Oct 2014, 16:24
Would watch.
Post by: snarkyone on 16 Oct 2014, 16:36
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Post by: Carl-E on 16 Oct 2014, 23:29
Horrorshow!
Thankee, me droog!
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Post by: ev4n on 17 Oct 2014, 06:04
Maybe I'm just squeamish.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 17 Oct 2014, 06:57
Mind you, he as a wanker, so I personally don't miss him ...
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Post by: Carl-E on 17 Oct 2014, 08:41
Post by: Welu on 17 Oct 2014, 09:45
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.
I don't like when anyone says they'll kill or attack someone, even when I know it's hyperbole and out of frustration. I don't consider myself squeamish but wishing violence on real people rubs me the wrong way.
Post by: Papersatan on 17 Oct 2014, 11:21
they're generally people,
Generally. :D
Post by: Pilchard123 on 17 Oct 2014, 11:26
Post by: Detachable Felix on 17 Oct 2014, 12:44
Q: How many MRAs does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Not all men! :mrgreen:
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Post by: snarkyone on 17 Oct 2014, 15:26
That style of topical humor might be one step below puns.
I suspect you and I will get along really well. DOWN WITH PUNS!!
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Post by: cesium133 on 17 Oct 2014, 15:33
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:
Post by: snarkyone on 17 Oct 2014, 15:54
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Post by: RedWolf4 on 18 Oct 2014, 06:33
Post by: MooskiNet on 18 Oct 2014, 14:33
Quantity has a quality all it's own.
That's what he said.
Always with the equality, I am.
Post by: LeeC on 19 Oct 2014, 09:05
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Oct 2014, 15:38
DOWN WITH PUNS!!You're saying you won't put up with them? :claireface:
Post by: RedWolf4 on 19 Oct 2014, 16:01
Post by: 94ssd on 19 Oct 2014, 16:44
I dunno, maybe they're right? Maybe it is time to put puns to the side.
I think it would be best if the puns were just left alone.
Post by: RedWolf4 on 19 Oct 2014, 16:58
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Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Oct 2014, 18:17
Post by: hedgie on 19 Oct 2014, 18:44
Post by: 94ssd on 19 Oct 2014, 19:17
CONTAIN YOURSELVES!!!! :claireface:
Honestly! I think this thread has lost all sense of direction.
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Fuck this guy and his connections. Gets strings pulled to get him his commission in the first place THEN pops hot for blow? Fuck.
Meanwhile ISIS has allegedly acquired some MiGs.
Every American fighter pilot's face when:
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First chance for a little air to air combat in roughly two decades if not more.
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 20 Oct 2014, 01:01
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 20 Oct 2014, 06:14
Post by: downtowneddie on 20 Oct 2014, 21:22
Carry on...
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Post by: Grognard on 21 Oct 2014, 17:06
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Oct 2014, 17:08
Post by: Grognard on 21 Oct 2014, 17:09
and now I feel mildly stupid ...
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Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Oct 2014, 17:40
Post by: Noxx on 21 Oct 2014, 17:41
How does a recycling bin have a monthly charge?
Magic?
It belongs to them, they won't empty it if you use one that doesn't, and they charge you to rent it.
It's fuckin ridiculous
Post by: Loki on 21 Oct 2014, 18:10
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Oct 2014, 18:20
I've spent an absurd amount of time keeping my name out of this place. For no good reason, either.
Post by: Loki on 21 Oct 2014, 18:22
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Oct 2014, 18:25
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?
Post by: Kugai on 21 Oct 2014, 18:32
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Oct 2014, 18:37
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Oct 2014, 18:39
No, it's Fritz
Wait, how....????
Dammit, now I have to burn everything down and start over again. :x
Post by: Noxx on 21 Oct 2014, 18:47
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
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Post by: lepetitfromage on 21 Oct 2014, 18:58
Post by: Noxx on 21 Oct 2014, 19:01
I hear that. Anyone really wants my identity they get my 60k in student loans with it. :-P
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Post by: cesium133 on 21 Oct 2014, 20:40
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.
Post by: Noxx on 21 Oct 2014, 21:17
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.
Would you like a tour of my '78 Dodge van?
Post by: Loki on 21 Oct 2014, 23:59
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
Re van comment: :/
Post by: Method of Madness on 22 Oct 2014, 19:34
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Post by: jwhouk on 23 Oct 2014, 07:44
Coward. Glad he got shot when he tried to do some #### at Parliament.
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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.
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Oct 2014, 17:24
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).
Post by: Noxx on 23 Oct 2014, 23:30
(https://scontent-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10307395_10152879316615815_4176280589607663109_n.jpg?oh=308d384d5da2ef49f2da527539a79b19&oe=54F43643)
Oh look. It's Fuckthisshito'clock . Corporal Nathan Cirillo, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, this drink's for you mate. Rest well.
Nom
Post by: BeoPuppy on 24 Oct 2014, 04:17
Post by: Masterpiece on 24 Oct 2014, 04:35
Post by: jwhouk on 24 Oct 2014, 07:20
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.
Post by: cesium133 on 24 Oct 2014, 07:43
You do realize that 50 years ago the word #### was not used in polite society?How do you pronounce ####?
Post by: Masterpiece on 24 Oct 2014, 07:47
Post by: MooskiNet on 24 Oct 2014, 08:08
Post by: nekowafer on 24 Oct 2014, 08:42
Post by: pwhodges on 24 Oct 2014, 08:56
Post by: ev4n on 24 Oct 2014, 11:52
Post by: Kugai on 24 Oct 2014, 13:54
Hehehe he said pound.
Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Oct 2014, 19:42
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:
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Oct 2014, 19:45
Society is terrible at dealing with many things.
Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Oct 2014, 19:48
Post by: Thrillho on 25 Oct 2014, 09:38
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.
Oh yes it was. Just not in much popular music, which ain't polite society.
Post by: cesium133 on 25 Oct 2014, 10:00
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:
Post by: SubaruStephen on 25 Oct 2014, 11:29
GarandMarine, do not open this link with pictures on (http://www.capitalwired.com/an-entomologist-found-puppy-sized-goliath-spider/24185/).
Dawwww, it's so cute and fuzzy.
Post by: Masterpiece on 25 Oct 2014, 15:36
Post by: Metope on 25 Oct 2014, 15:40
Post by: Metope on 25 Oct 2014, 16:46
Post by: Carl-E on 25 Oct 2014, 19:36
I IZ PROTECTED!!!
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Oct 2014, 22:08
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 ^_^
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 25 Oct 2014, 22:30
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tones.png) (http://xkcd.com/479/)
My newest phone didn't have an option for that. The closest it came was a beeping sound. So I located the built-in tones directory from the old phone and copied it over to the additional tones on the SDcard for the new one. Because when my phone rings, it's going to goddamn ring.
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Oct 2014, 22:43
Post by: BeoPuppy on 26 Oct 2014, 00:06
Post by: Detachable Felix on 26 Oct 2014, 00:51
My ringtone is a recording of my kid. This makes me happy.That's adorable, Gavin.
My folks both have me playing piano as their ringtones.
My own one is Dead Man In My Bed by Nick Cave because it terrifies the shit out of everyone else when they hear it.
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 26 Oct 2014, 01:32
See, I used to think that. But now I have a slightly more forgiving rule. My ringtone will never have words in it.
I'm not completely reactionary. My first cell used a song as tone for a week. I missed a lot of calls that week. My most recent phone had the default ring song for a day, because I didn't think the change it, after getting all of the other settings set. I almost missed the one call I got, but someone else thought their phone was ringing.
I'm from the age where phones rang. Apparently, I need retraining to function with something other than a bell. I won't say I've grown inflexible, because I haven't. But the technology allows me to make it sound any noise I want, and it's one less thing to worry about. I don't have any kids or other sentimental reasons to personalize the sound, and few enough people use ringing these day that I can be reasonably certain that sound is my phone. When it isn't, I know there's a kindred spirit near (or someone with a really old cell phone).
Post by: Masterpiece on 26 Oct 2014, 02:59
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But I don't hear it much, phone is usually on vibrate. Text message tone is a sonar ping since it's one of the few tones I can still really hear...
Post by: Noxx on 26 Oct 2014, 08:31
Post by: Neko_Ali on 26 Oct 2014, 09:03
Hell, I'd call myself just for that. :D
Post by: snarkyone on 26 Oct 2014, 09:39
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
What kind of phone do you have? I could put custom sounds on a phone as old as a razr
Post by: Neko_Ali on 26 Oct 2014, 13:45
Post by: Welu on 26 Oct 2014, 14:24
My ringtone will not surprise those who know my old avatar:
Post by: Papersatan on 26 Oct 2014, 14:27
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Post by: Detachable Felix on 26 Oct 2014, 18:32
But, I'm thinking of changing it to this: (ignore the terrifying video)
Post by: SubaruStephen on 26 Oct 2014, 18:57
(http://2damnfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Forever-Alone-Meme-Forgets-To-Pay-Phone-Bill.jpg)
Post by: Pilchard123 on 27 Oct 2014, 02:11
Dead man in my bed
Tra la la la la
There's a dead man in my bed
Tra la la la la la
Dead man in my bed
Tra la la la la
He looks like he's been there many days
(with apologies to Boney M)
Post by: Detachable Felix on 27 Oct 2014, 03:28
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Post by: Aziraphale on 28 Oct 2014, 20:43
I alternate between 'Trololo' and the Leekspin song.
I just got a new phone, so I have to either port over my old ringtones or make a new set of them. "Trololo" was my all-purpose ringtone, but I also used "Telephone and Rubber Band," and They Might Be Giants' "Minimum Wage" (that was for calls from work). I got some funny looks when my phone rang...
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Post by: Is it cold in here? on 01 Nov 2014, 23:35
Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Nov 2014, 23:40
25 hours.
(Well, tomorrow for the western US)
Post by: jwhouk on 02 Nov 2014, 05:40
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Post by: Is it cold in here? on 02 Nov 2014, 13:47
Post by: Aziraphale on 02 Nov 2014, 15:34
Akima has argued passionately for using UTC to coordinate such things.
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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 02 Nov 2014, 17:15
Post by: ev4n on 03 Nov 2014, 07:44
Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
Protip: Don't assume I'm going to read two successive posts consecutively. I may read them hours, days, or even week apart.
Post by: Masterpiece on 03 Nov 2014, 09:28
Post by: Aziraphale on 03 Nov 2014, 09:34
Protip: Don't quote a post if it's the one immediately preceding your own.
I wouldn't normally, but when posting in a thread that bounces around only slightly less than your average pinball machine, sometimes it helps for clarity's sake. Sorry if I've inadvertently caused an issue.
Post by: Akima on 03 Nov 2014, 18:17
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)
Post by: Grognard on 03 Nov 2014, 20:29
I swear! All maintenance is scheduled by 24H GMT.
don't come clobber me.
I didnt do it!
but if you want to come to the DC Metro area, you're welcome....
but we're all broke as fuck, so you'd probably have to buy your own drinks.
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Nov 2014, 21:13
Post by: Loki on 03 Nov 2014, 23:05
Post by: Thrillho on 04 Nov 2014, 01:27
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.
Yes, and people are wrong all the time, and that will likely include people Akima works or socialises with. Just last week I had a schedule for a work day that listed the late morning session as '11.00am to 12.00am' which seemed a little excessive for an anxiety workshop.
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Post by: Akima on 04 Nov 2014, 18:39
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.
Using 12am for midnight makes no sense, since it suggests that the first hour of a day is actually the last hour of the day before. Neither does making midnight in the twenty-four hour clock 24:00 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Midnight_00:00_and_24:00), another strange habit I have encountered, which is apparently justified on the odd idea that there are two midnights in a day, something that could easily lead to the temporal equivalent of fencepost errors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error#Fencepost_error).
GMT is ambiguous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time#Ambiguity_in_the_definition_of_GMT), obsolete in technical contexts, and not synonymous with UTC, as GM points out.
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Nov 2014, 20:15
Post by: pwhodges on 05 Nov 2014, 02:31
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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.
Source (http://www.diffen.com/difference/GMT_vs_UTC)
UTC and GMT (UT1) never differ by more than 0.9s.
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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").
So GMT theoretically changes. UTC never does.
Post by: pwhodges on 05 Nov 2014, 07:45
Post by: ev4n on 05 Nov 2014, 08:15
Post by: Loki on 05 Nov 2014, 08:38
https://twitter.com/GreenwichMean
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 05 Nov 2014, 12:53
Post by: Welu on 05 Nov 2014, 14:59
P.S. I prefer gender neutral terms. My gender is Currently Unspecified.
Post by: Welu on 05 Nov 2014, 15:00
Post by: osaka on 05 Nov 2014, 15:16
My gender is Currently Unspecified.
That reminds me of the gender options in a forum from a team in a game. "Male, Female, Undisclosed, Other".
This might sound worse than I want it to sound, but WHICH OTHER THO?
Post by: ReindeerFlotilla on 05 Nov 2014, 15:45
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Post by: Loki on 05 Nov 2014, 16:28
http://disruptingdinnerparties.com/2014/04/08/take-the-red-pill-the-truth-behind-the-biology-of-sex/
Post by: osaka on 05 Nov 2014, 16:40
Of course this can come from my limited understanding of the world (and the fact that I'm studying to be a sysadmin and I'd like to keep that as a yes/no field on future databases), but I really don't see how someone would be adressed in a different way - hell, as far as I know, Spanish language doesn't have another gender.
Post by: Aziraphale on 05 Nov 2014, 17:06
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Even though I don't personally need it, I think a gender option of "Nunya"would come in handy.(click to show/hide)
And that's what "undisclosed" covers, as far as I know.
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Post by: osaka on 05 Nov 2014, 23:44
And I agree with you Garand. "Motherfucker" as a pronoun is something that should be considered more often.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 06 Nov 2014, 00:44
It's both actually. "Garand Motherfucker Danger MarineYour parents must have hated you.
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Nov 2014, 01:12
It's both actually. "Garand Motherfucker Danger MarineYour parents must have hated you.
Or really liked him.
Depends how you look at it...
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Post by: osaka on 06 Nov 2014, 06:17
(http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/691/691575.jpg)
THIS SO MUCH OH MY GOD WHERE HAS MOTHERFUCKER BEEN ALL MY LIFE.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 06 Nov 2014, 06:20
What about Welu?
P.S. I prefer gender neutral terms. My gender is Currently Unspecified.
My sincerest apologies. I'm certain that at some point I had picked up on a gender specification but that was probably the product of some misunderstanding, misinterpretation or other form of confusion that I'm prone to. I shall revert to non-specific terms until further notice.
Post by: Welu on 06 Nov 2014, 08:55
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Post by: Aziraphale on 06 Nov 2014, 10:40
Looks like we know where Steve will be taking his next vacation.
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Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Nov 2014, 15:59
Post by: Akima on 06 Nov 2014, 16:57
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).
I thought "fictive" was a made up Tumblr word, but according to my dictionaries it's been in use since the 17th century.
Post by: Dalillama on 06 Nov 2014, 17:27
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).
(No quotes in URLs :roll: -Method)
Post by: Grognard on 06 Nov 2014, 18:46
You can weld material with explosives. I am excited.
I believe
!found it! http://youtu.be/fGi0w7ycRKk
tootallly cooool.
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 06 Nov 2014, 23:17
Explosive welding, nature got there first.
The strike also fed back to the secondary distribution point and knocked out half the neighbourhood. When I spoke to the customer about a week later to discuss progress on repairs, he told me that the house still smelt of melted battery.
Post by: osaka on 06 Nov 2014, 23:26
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Post by: jwhouk on 07 Nov 2014, 18:23
Help, my bed is holding me hostage
...I almost want to snag this as a signature line...
Post by: Masterpiece on 08 Nov 2014, 10:27
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 10 Nov 2014, 09:28
Post by: osaka on 10 Nov 2014, 10:02
Also that's a horribly low bar. Here in Cantabria, where the weather is randomized, that shit happens.
Post by: hedgie on 10 Nov 2014, 11:38
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).
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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.
(http://i.imgur.com/fL1K0ir.jpg)
Post by: BeoPuppy on 11 Nov 2014, 01:38
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Post by: hedgie on 11 Nov 2014, 07:26
... for Shai'Hulud.“Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people. ”
And yes, anything Dune-related is always on topic for QC stuff.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 14 Nov 2014, 04:12
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Post by: Kugai on 14 Nov 2014, 12:46
Stick a Tank in the front yard, then we'll talk.
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Post by: Noxx on 14 Nov 2014, 15:30
Meh
Stick a Tank in the front yard, then we'll talk.
We don't have a tank, but sometimes we lay out on the roof with rifles, that count?
Post by: Kugai on 14 Nov 2014, 21:31
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Post by: osaka on 15 Nov 2014, 12:12
And that's also why I'm kinda embarrassed that I like rap music.
Post by: Method of Madness on 16 Nov 2014, 08:54
...right? :psyduck:
That being said, I would love to hear Kendrick Lamar rap about jello pudding...assuming he hasn't already.
Post by: osaka on 16 Nov 2014, 10:35
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Nov 2014, 17:10
Post by: Noxx on 18 Nov 2014, 21:17
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?
Post by: explicit on 18 Nov 2014, 23:35
Post by: osaka on 18 Nov 2014, 23:57
Thankfully, it appears to be not that much of a thing here in Spain. But that only means that the dicks are passed around on Whatsapp groups at 5am.
Post by: explicit on 19 Nov 2014, 01:22
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Post by: osaka on 19 Nov 2014, 10:42
That point is labeled "The very moment we realize we can watch porn in our phones"
Post by: explicit on 19 Nov 2014, 14:05
Post by: osaka on 19 Nov 2014, 14:11
Which is still marginally less gross than masturbating in the college library, as at least one person is known to have done in my university.
Post by: LeeC on 19 Nov 2014, 15:18
Yoda (Star Wars)
(http://stephendpalmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/yoda.jpg)
Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)
(http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110709224255/kungfupanda/images/1/14/OogwayNight.jpg)
Uncle Iroh (Avatar)
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Post by: osaka on 19 Nov 2014, 15:21
Post by: explicit on 19 Nov 2014, 16:08
And until I had my own room my porn was always on silent. When I turned the volume on for the first time I was like, HOLY FUCK, those words coming out of your mouth are disgusting! I was surprised, is what I'm getting at... I still have trouble talking during sex...
Post by: osaka on 19 Nov 2014, 16:13
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Nov 2014, 17:16
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?
Post by: Loki on 19 Nov 2014, 17:41
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)
Post by: kryptoknight on 19 Nov 2014, 17:55
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)
Post by: BeoPuppy on 20 Nov 2014, 05:13
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Post by: Welu on 20 Nov 2014, 17:45
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?
A bunch of forum ones have it.
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Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Nov 2014, 18:27
Welu: Oh? Well anyone who has it feel free to PM me.
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Post by: SubaruStephen on 03 Dec 2014, 20:16
Married once is the new virginity
So that would make "never married" what? Gelded? :?
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Post by: jwhouk on 05 Dec 2014, 08:45
A NASA space capsule splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
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Post by: osaka on 05 Dec 2014, 17:19
If you can hear them, but you can't shoot them, you can probably grenade them.
Life tips.
Post by: SubaruStephen on 05 Dec 2014, 17:34
If you can hear them, but you can't shoot them,they must have some damn good camouflage.
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Dec 2014, 18:08
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?
(The Space Shuttle program was proposed in 1969...)
Post by: Kugai on 05 Dec 2014, 18:15
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Dec 2014, 18:35
I vaguely remember Apollo 17, but mostly remember Apollo/Soyuz and Skylab.
The last time any sort of "splashdown" occurred of a NASA-launched vehicle was 24 July 1975, when Apollo/Soyuz Test Project landed in the Pacific.
I was actually a bit giddy about this whole thing when I got up this morning.
Post by: hedgie on 05 Dec 2014, 21:38
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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.
Post by: hedgie on 05 Dec 2014, 22:53
SS:
The latter is Mana from Malice Mizer:
(http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/11800000/Mana-malice-mizer-11894681-227-351.jpg)
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.
See above, I think SS did it first, and they were out of Scotland. Edit: They were also a lot bigger in Japan than they were back home, so they may have had more of an influence there.
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Dec 2014, 23:00
gawthThis spelling is just utterly confusing.
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Explains speed limits. *braces for shitstorm*
Actually it explains most every little law that doesn't really do any harm to another person. Including the law that got Eric Garner killed.
Subaru, the money they make is peanuts compared to the revenue generated by the state via their enforcement arm. Especially with modern Asset Forfeiture, which basically means if a cop likes your stuff, he can and will take your stuff, and unless you have a stupid amount of money, you won't get it back. Homes, cash, cars. Whatever.
Post by: SubaruStephen on 07 Dec 2014, 20:44
"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.
And I agree with you on Asset "Forfeiture", that's just theft-by-cop masquerading as legal action.
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Post by: Akima on 07 Dec 2014, 23:04
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:
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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.
And where poverty is closely correlated with race... :-(
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Post by: 94ssd on 09 Dec 2014, 09:08
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.
Post by: ankhtahr on 09 Dec 2014, 10:34
And I noticed that the recipe is missing the ginger, after baking the cookies.
Post by: cesium133 on 09 Dec 2014, 10:46
No. No, I neither want to read your articles nor be pleased by you. :psyduck:
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Dec 2014, 15:28
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.
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Post by: 94ssd on 10 Dec 2014, 09:30
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.
Hey, don't blame science fiction writers for setting their goals too high. Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest authors ever, thought in 1968 that we'd have cryogenic chambers, moon bases, and homicidal super computers by the years 2001.
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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.
He is amazing in They Live, also funny in Hell Comes To Frogtown where he is one of the last potent men left on Earth and is sold to the state for breeding purposes.
In Sci-Fighters he makes things funny simply by putting more into stupid fucking lines than he reasonably should - ('Why are you here so late?' 'I'm queer for evidence rooms.')
Post by: Akima on 10 Dec 2014, 18:49
And I quite agree, GM, but I am a fellow fan.
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Now I have been informed, mostly by guys who look like they spend more time with airsoft guns and at the local sammich shop then in the military, studying geopolitics and the methods and theories of armed conflict between nation states and non-state actors, that my ideals of upholding our convictions the right way, and not stooping to the level of the gaks we're fighting is a pipe dream. How about that? Apparently, to defeat the enemy, we need to wallow in that mud, throw out our humanity, take a leak on any concept of honor and just start glassing countries. Now I will absolutely joke about glassing the Middle East. That Ground Zero Ocean meme has to be over a decade old now and I giggle every time, but there's a lot of people in the Middle East, and even with the rise of ISIS not even a majority of them desperately need a case of acute onset lead poisoning. I even know some of them. I have friends in Jordan and Kuwait that I treasure greatly. I've even read the book a lot of people are so damn hung up about over there, and you know... with all the men I've buried, I still haven't seen, heard or read one damn thing that makes me say to myself "Yeah, feth it. Let's go burn a village and torture some fethers and see if anything comes out of it. Not like it matters."
Maybe I'm just outdated though.
Post by: explicit on 11 Dec 2014, 00:43
Anyway, you're right, we portray ourselves as the good guys and we should act like it. Regardless of the merits behind torture (which are mixed, cause the whole false evidence thing that happens a lot), we're supposed to be... you know... not dicks.
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Post by: explicit on 11 Dec 2014, 01:07
And I guess when you feel the way I do about most people in the government I could not like one and they could still be one of my favorites. The bar is not set very high, is what I'm getting at.
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Post by: Akima on 11 Dec 2014, 03:02
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.
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I'd say Hedgie's on point, I was thinking Nietzsche... or you know, die the hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Nolan.
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- Torture is worse than useless as an intelligence-gathering tool. We've known it for sixty years, the CIA knew it twenty years ago, and it's just been proven again that torture gets you no actionable intelligence, corrupts what once might have been viable sources of intelligence and produces false intelligence. Since it doesn't actually help us do anything, anyone who says that we "needed" to torture anyone is a fucking idiot.
- The CIA tortured at least two prisoners to death - one by beating him to death, one by use of exposure to the elements as a torture device.
- The CIA tortured two of their own spies for 24 hours before they bothered to translate the messages they had been sending to the CIA and realised who they were torturing.
- The CIA was recruiting abusers to act as torturers - these are not hard men making hard decisions for the good of the country, they are sick bastards who like inflicting pain on people who can't fight back.
- Waterboarding is torture, but anyone who tells you that this is the worst thing the CIA did to these people is lying. To paraphrase one particularly odious quote from the report, CIA medical officers wrote "Sure, an IV is a safe and effective way of hydrating prisoners who refuse to drink, but we're impressed with how subjecting them to anal rape makes them stop refusing to drink."
The CIA's torturers produced no useful intelligence, produced a lot of white noise, destroyed sources of intelligence, raped, killed, turned allies into enemies and broke international and American law. They have used no methodology and produced no intelligence that could benefit us by being kept classified to keep it out of the hands of the enemy, and deserve to be remembered as men who sold their souls - and were subsequently executed - for nothing.
Post by: Noxx on 11 Dec 2014, 08:56
Post by: Masterpiece on 11 Dec 2014, 12:22
Addendum: I'm not driving, don't worry.
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Dec 2014, 12:34
Post by: Pilchard123 on 11 Dec 2014, 13:57
I just passed a sign that forbids me to drive faster than sixty miles per hour.
Didn't that hurt? :psyduck:
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Post by: Masterpiece on 11 Dec 2014, 17:41
I thought they used km/h instead of mph on the Autobahn.I converted for the
(it's supposed to be a pastiche of the stereotype we Europeans have when thinking of the imperial system. But imperial units are still bad and you should feel bad for using them)
Post by: SubaruStephen on 11 Dec 2014, 18:29
It's just like Nietzsche's "he who fights monsters" bit.
My grandpa once told me "Just because the Bad Guy is your enemy, that doesn't automatically make you the Good Guy."
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To quote Jon Stewart, Good McCain is back baby!
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Post by: ChaoSera on 12 Dec 2014, 02:31
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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 12 Dec 2014, 09:56
The sign I was referring to was a 130 sign and I just thought that was 60 miles per hour. Curse you and your imperial units.
Random Thought: I will be seeing ChaoSera again, later this evening. There will be plenty of beers.
Post by: osaka on 12 Dec 2014, 10:03
I do have an absurdly quick mind for conversions. Living in Spain, I have my date set up with the ISO standard (It is, after all, the right way to write dates), my thermometers on Fahrenheit and usually express height in ft. I like the numbers better that way, and I don't have a problem switching to the other system for somebody else.
That also leaves very little space for anything closely resembling useful in my head. Oh well.
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(http://i.imgur.com/13P0Fnr.jpg)
No, most of you can't have any.
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They're for my father, not for me.
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Post by: Aziraphale on 16 Dec 2014, 08:03
The Marlboro Man died of Cancer.
Slight clarification: a few of them did. And at least one died of complications from HIV/AIDS.
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Post by: Pilchard123 on 16 Dec 2014, 09:39
Are those cigarettes or amarillos?
Surprisingly difficult to find a copy sans-paedophiles.
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 17 Dec 2014, 00:09
He watches you in bed,
He likes to take stalkerish pictures of you
And put them on the internet.
You'd better watch out ...
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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.
The correct term is 'mericans, and those are Standard Freedom Units™ you're referring to.
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One of them wanted to date me and even sent me nudes. It was true love.
Gareth is a spam bot???? :evil:
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Post by: FunkyTuba on 19 Dec 2014, 11:36
"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"
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Post by: Metope on 19 Dec 2014, 17:27
I had roasting explained to me with a ketchup analogy once: Roasting beans to death masks the flavor of the beans but brings out the flavor of roasting in itself which many people actually like, so it's a good way of roasting beans if the beans are of poor quality and don't taste very good to begin with. If you have great quality beans, you should do a light roast since the good flavor is preserved. Kinda like how people put ketchup on fast food to make it taste better, but if you have good quality food, ketchup would make it worse.
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Post by: hedgie on 19 Dec 2014, 18:37
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.
Metope is right on this one. I used to work at a coffee shop where we roasted our own stuff. Even the espresso was a light-medium roast to give it a better flavour. Most espresso is burnt to hell, as is any "French Roast", or "Italian Roast" for that matter. If you actually want to taste the coffee, order a light or medium roast.
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Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Dec 2014, 20:07
I don't get people who like being single. I'm not saying they're wrong, I just don't get it.
Edit: Whoa, I hit 12,000 posts!
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Post by: Thrillho on 21 Dec 2014, 16:52
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?
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Post by: cesium133 on 21 Dec 2014, 17:20
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?
Post by: jwhouk on 21 Dec 2014, 17:45
Would it help for me to say that we just passed the longest day of the year, and that it is 29C (84F) outside?
Uhm, no.
But we'll remember you come June.
Post by: Thrillho on 21 Dec 2014, 17:52
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?
Man, you guys are really doing a great job shitting on my attempt to cheer cold up a little bit.
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Dec 2014, 18:43
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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
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following its permanent lead
Where the air tastes like snow music
Where grass smells like fresh-born Eden
I would pass no man, no stranger, no tragedy or rapture
I would bathe in a world of sensation
Love, goodness and simplicity
Post by: pwhodges on 24 Dec 2014, 00:50
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?
An update for you:
Spam bots don't get through the comprehensive defences we have set up. What we have been seeing for several weeks now is a sustained attempt to post spam by humans, in Ukraine I think. They can answer the check questions (I changed those to check that they weren't simply bots programmed with the answers), and the point at which they get stopped is a lookup on a crowd-sourced database of email and IP addresses that have been seen to originate spam; this is stopping dozens of new accounts every day - but occasionally one will slip through (and get added to the database to save others).
Post by: explicit on 24 Dec 2014, 00:55
Some of the bots were posting child porn so... ... regular spam is one thing, but we cannot have that shit going on.
Post by: Loki on 24 Dec 2014, 03:38
"I have been celibate for months and haven't gotten pregnant, so I guess I don't need to use condoms next time?"
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 27 Dec 2014, 12:23
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
Just wondering. Given the number of servicemen who go through SERE, has anyone ever made it through the evasion phase? It seems the probability exists that at least one by incidence has managed to slip through the cordon. Either by luck, judgement or a mix of the two.
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The only other places I've found that meet my needs (close to campus, private bathroom) are located in old-as-shit buildings and also don't have the benefit of all-inclusive rent.
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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.
I more meant the assumption of privilege. "Well he's white so he has to have it better then me."
Post by: cesium133 on 02 Jan 2015, 17:10
1) Sad-looking kitties want your money.
2) Sad-looking children want your money.
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3) Ads for Facebook games that "YOU CAN DOWNLOAD NOW FOR FREE*"
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Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Jan 2015, 19:45
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.
Post by: Pilchard123 on 02 Jan 2015, 23:42
Yeah, I'm guessing that one is targeted at horny teenage boys...
See also Evony (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Evony).
(TVTropes link because even I'm not horrible enough to link to the game)
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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...
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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...
Which is different to "being funny while standing on a stage" or "being funny and writing it down"?
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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...
For a very long time I thought Pewdiepie was the name of a My Little Pony. Then I discovered Game Grumps and he was mentioned in passing or something, and then I recall a news article about all the monies he has. Still haven't watched any of his stuff.
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Jan 2015, 18:38
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I suppose the target audience might find cute ponies to be cute. That's about 95% of what I see in it.
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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.
I honestly just like the facial expression on that pony. It matches my own deeply sarcastic and snide "Really?" face quite nicely. My brother's a sailor and he likes the ponies. He, and other military brony types have basically informed me that it comes down to the innocence of the world presented, most media, and most children's programming has a cynical air to it these days, this show keeps it's eyes open, especially to young men and women who have seen the worst of the world this "childhood lost" perspective can be quite perceptive as why some populations turn to the show.
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Jan 2015, 12:12
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We had a recruit in our platoon the DI called Stump, short guy by any standard. Well one day late in 1st Phase, Stump approaches our Drill Hat, and reports that he has lost his sling keeper. "Well. This recruit would like a new one." "...You'd like a new one huh?" Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Cobb's voice is calm at this point. "Well recruit, I don't have one, so what you're going to do is, when we go to chow tonight, I don't want you to take any food. I want you to get a big pile of spoons. No forks or knives those might fuck up your guts. Then I want you to eat those spoons, so tonight, in the squad bay, you'll shit out metal pellets, then after lights out, you can forge yourself a new sling keeper. Understand?" Stump gave his best "Yes Sir!" with a confused look on his face and hopped back in formation.
Right around that same time one of the other recruits, Z, was a couple seconds behind on pretty much every drill movement and order we received. So Gunny Cobb stops the formation. "Recruit Z. Is the hamster on the wheel?" "Sir?" "You heard me. Is the hamster on the wheel? See, I don't think he is. Name your hamster recruit." "Sir, this recruit's hamster's name is Gordy." Gunny Cobb leaps into Recruit Z's face with a knife hand "Well you tell Gordy to stop fucking hydrating, and get the fuck back on the wheel!" and from then on, Gunny would correct Recruit Z, and remind him to tell Gordy to stop hydrating and get on the wheel.
My other favorite boot camp story, the one where we all, as a platoon and our DIs truly lost our shit laughing. We're up at Edson Range aboard Camp Pendleton, Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Cobb put on his black belt the day before, and he and Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Starky, now a Chief Drill Instructor for those fucks over at G Company, are both away, which means we're left with Drill Instructor Staff Sergeant Raphael and Swan respectively. Let the games begin. We're forming up for chow. "Get out of my barracks right now. Zero! Get in my barracks right now. Zero. Formation outside right now." and so on, when Swan yells "Run to the chow hall right now!" we scramble towards the chow hall "Zero! Formation right now!" scramble back. The DIs have a new game. So we do that for a little bit, in and out of the barracks trying to get online or get a formation, we're all mostly having fun at this point, it had been a relatively slow day, then SSgt Raphael yells "Run to MCRD right now!" and everyone stops for a second and looks at each other like "Where the fuck is MCRD from here?" and the whole platoon scatters to the four winds. SSgt yells "Zero!" and pulls his cover down and steps back inside the barracks with SSgt Swan because they're both laughing too hard and most of the platoon is "frozen" laughing our collective asses off.
*Zero is the command word to instantly and immediately freeze in place, if you're in midair you're expected to hover.
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-The Quran, sūrat l-māidah 5:32
I learned this verse by memory before I enlisted (along with reading from a guide on critical verses from the Quran itself) when I went to boot camp America was still deep in the middle of the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, being on the ground and fighting inside of six months from your ship date wasn't uncommon, and I determined if I was going to fight people who were determined to kill me for their beliefs I wanted to know more about those beliefs. I grew up with muslim friends, the S sisters who took martial arts with me, the class was mostly male, and involved hand to hand contact as expected in full spectrum martial arts, I later learned after I gained seniority and discussed such things with my instructor, that it took a lot of personal effort on the S sister's father's part to accept this different cultural norm. I didn't think of the S sisters as muslim of course, I thought of them as my friends and training partners (and when I was in a sour mood after getting whupped on, as both were extremely proficient fighters as "the bitch with the round house from hell" and "the bitch with the right cross that will make you see god" respectively). So I studied, because propaganda and thinking about things too lightly go hand and hand on strolls towards the uglier side of humanity.
There are many reprehensible rules, outdated social mores, standards and ideals on display in the Quran. I won't shy away from that. Those same darker ideas have been stretched and twisted further still, Jihad in the proper usage referring far more to the struggle any individual must face to keep true to their religion or self imposed morality as opposed to say... machine gunning a satirical French newspaper.
I memorized this verse, which I found on accident while doing my readings, as touchstone, a reminder that there's good in this particular group, and most groups too. It seems relevant recently with the conversations I've been overhearing in public and seeing on FB and some other forums recently.
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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.
(Of course, I don't think there should be an "other than" at all other than defending oneself or others directly, but that's another topic.)
Post by: Kugai on 10 Jan 2015, 16:00
Muslim they may be, but Pashtun by nature they are. And with the Pashtuns, tribal affiliation is just as paramount as adherence to Islam. Indeed, in some locations that Tribalism may be more important than anything else.
But then, Afghanistan has always been a basket case. Even Rome learned that, and Alexander may have conquered the region, but just how long did that control last once he kicked the bucket.
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Post by: Orkboy on 12 Jan 2015, 12:44
So, the hats that Air Force Training Instructors (TIs) wear have this leather strap in the back that hangs down below the brim a bit, and generally makes the hat fit better. All the TIs get something tooled into the leather, usually their callsign. For example, in one squadron, there were two NCOs with the last name of Stone, one little guy and one huge guy, so their hats said Big Rock and Little Rock. My TI had a hat that said Master Jedi. Being such a Star Wars nerd, he had us march to the Imperial March, aka Darth Vader's theme music. But not on speakers or anything. We had to hum it, and he kept yelling at us to hum loud enough for everyone to keep step.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep a straight face while furiously humming Star Wars music in unison with 50 guys?
The flight across the squad building had it worse, though. One of their trainees had the last name of, no shit, Batman. Pronounced Batman, spelled Batman, his name was fucking Batman. And one of the other trainees kinda looked like the Penguin as played by Danny Devito. Short, pale, roundish, bald, pointy nose. So, every time they were given the order to halt, the next order was always "Penguin, report!" And then this short little penguin-y guy runs out in front of the flight, shakes his fist angrily and yells "I'll get you next time, Batman!" then runs back to his spot. And god help you if you cracked up.
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"Martin, what are you doing?"
"Um, pooping, sir?
"Why aren't you sitting correctly? Left hand on left knee, right hand on right knee, why isn't your back straight?"
This went on for a little while before the DI stated that if my brother did not finish pooping in 10 seconds he was going to be all sorts of messed up. Despite his best effort my brother did not finish quick enough. To which my brother wrote, "and that was the day I found out that don't poop fast enough".
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Also funny how the catch was ruled incomplete due to the Calvin Johnson rule.
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Post by: Carl-E on 13 Jan 2015, 10:07
They're also the colors of all of Pittsburgh's sports teams. In particular, the Pirates, who use a very-nearly block letter P as one of their logos.
Since moving into the orbit of Pittsburgh, I am asked if it's a Pirates' ring about two or three times a year.
Yeah, I used to be a bat boy. After 20 years you get a ring :roll: :-D :wink:
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Da da da da dum da da da da da da da daaaaa LEFT! RIGHT!
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For those of you unfamiliar with AF basic training, Warrior Week is a week of simulated combat experience, so Airmen won't be completely freaked the fuck out while trying to repair planes during mortar fire and shit like that. About half of it revolves around staying alive during a chemical/biological attack. That particular portion culminates in a full MOP-level 4 drill, complete with fortified guard posts manned by the trainees and sprayers loaded with dye to see who's dead and Airmen can look at the chempaper to see what they got sprayed with (it changes color for different types of chemical weapon). MOP-level 4 means you're wearing all four pieces of your chemwarfare gear: suits, boots, mask, and gloves. Worn properly, it'll stop pretty much anything chemical from killing you. Well, because the gear is so encumbering, your wingman checks your suit to make sure the straps and buckles are on properly. Getting into the full gear and strapping in takes under a minute, but it's not easy to tell if everything is done right on your own suit for the same reason that it's hard to check out your own ass. Bulldog is in his suit, his wingman says everything's good, and Bulldog has to run to HQ to report that everyone at his position was still alive and not dead from nerve agents. So there's this short stocky guy, hauling ass down the hill to the command tent, when he runs past one of the Training Instructors who was on his way to find someone who fucked up so he can yell at them.
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.
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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.
Fail for the WIN! :lol: :-D
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I only follow on less dramatic weeks. :-D
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 24 Jan 2015, 23:42
Does there need to be a separate discipline of Information Technology for the Southern Hemisphere?
Do computer industry workers there have SHIT jobs?
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Jan 2015, 09:32
Cold - Only if they went to South Harmon.
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Post by: LeeC on 29 Jan 2015, 11:39
I have to admit I have a load of Steam games that I have either not played or never finished. Not because they don't look fun, its just too many on my plate and not enough time to play.
Post by: downtowneddie on 29 Jan 2015, 12:17
OK, carry on.
Post by: Orkboy on 30 Jan 2015, 00:02
You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.
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Do computer industry workers there have SHIT jobs?Hey, ITSH a gig, alright?
Post by: Akima on 30 Jan 2015, 00:32
You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.In Japan, you can have a whale sandwich. Bon appetit!
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Very Harried Butcher: "I can assure that it isn't that sort of meat, sir."
Customer: "Then what sort is it?"
Now Very Exasperated Butcher: "The sort that asked too many questions!"
(Dunno why, the conversation made me think of this old joke for some reason.)
Post by: hedgie on 30 Jan 2015, 04:09
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.
Agreed, one ought to know what's in their food. There are things like allergies, intolerances, ethical choices and whatnot that matter. I still feel guilty (prolly mentioned this before) about using a dash of fish sauce in a dish I prepared for a vegetarian.
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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.
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You can have a dinosaur sandwich whenever you want one.In Japan, you can have a whale sandwich. Bon appetit!
And Dolphin too.
Charming.
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 31 Jan 2015, 00:36
And of course, if you eat meat, you can hold no ethical objections to the well managed, high welfare farming of cute little, playful, happy puppies for food.
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Post by: Method of Madness on 01 Feb 2015, 19:36
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.
*Well, in theory
Post by: Akima on 02 Feb 2015, 04:01
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
Post by: Aimless on 02 Feb 2015, 04:15
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.
*shrug* Some animals are more equal than others.
Post by: explicit on 02 Feb 2015, 04:27
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
Post by: Thrillho on 02 Feb 2015, 06:02
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.
Post by: Carl-E on 02 Feb 2015, 06:56
I never really understood the point of watching the Super Bowl for the commercials.Does anyone actually do that?
[raises hand]
The commercials and the halftime show.
Can't stand football, but the rest of the family enjoys it. I leave the room and work on something else.
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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
Who says I'm buying anything? A good commercial is entertaining. The cleverer, the better.
Post by: Aziraphale on 02 Feb 2015, 12:34
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
Which obliquely brings up another point: if you're dealing with an invasive species that's threatening an ecosystem (carp, nutria, etc.), then eating the invasive species should be allowed.
Of course, taking that to its logical conclusion, that would also mean cannibalism, so I'm aware there are some holes in that argument as well... :psyduck:
Post by: explicit on 02 Feb 2015, 12:42
Yeah (the people stuff aside :D ) an example would be that while you're in the Gulf you're encouraged to eat lionfish. The little fuckers have no natural predators (although marine biologists are teaching certain sharks to eat them) and just eat so many other fish. They have poison needles so people think they're inedible, but as long as you remove the needles they're fine to eat.
Post by: Akima on 02 Feb 2015, 12:58
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.
Post by: Orkboy on 02 Feb 2015, 14:08
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.
That, and no one is dumb enough to throw paint on the Hell's Angels.
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.
Post by: Kugai on 02 Feb 2015, 14:17
That is all.
Post by: explicit on 02 Feb 2015, 14:26
Does it have to be bare hands? I know how to make a proper spear without access to tools.
I can punch a dolphin in the mouth.
(http://theawesomer.com/photos/2011/03/030311_5_very_good_reasons_2.jpg)
And PETA can eat a dick. I swear they harm the cause of animal rights more than they help.
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Feb 2015, 14:38
, 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.
*Besides Randy Orton, of course
Post by: Welu on 02 Feb 2015, 14:48
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Post by: explicit on 02 Feb 2015, 14:59
I'll paraphrase an Aldo Leopold story for this in his short story "Thinking Like a Mountain" from his collection of short stories from The Land Ethic. (I could be slightly wrong in my recalling of this story, if so I apologize, but the moral is still the same) EDIT - Just took the summary from someone else who wrote it pretty well.
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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."
TL;DR, carrying capacity of populations that apex predators limit will be exceeded when Apex predators are removed, ultimately leading to the destruction of both the land and the animal populations.
Post by: Orkboy on 02 Feb 2015, 16:21
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Post by: LTK on 03 Feb 2015, 07:17
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:
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Feb 2015, 19:19
Post by: hedgie on 03 Feb 2015, 23:33
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:
Post by: Pilchard123 on 03 Feb 2015, 23:59
Actually, python needs "C" salt.
No, a salt should be random and unique, not a fixed single character.
Post by: Masterpiece on 04 Feb 2015, 03:57
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Post by: SubaruStephen on 05 Feb 2015, 18:16
Had an idea this morning for a car movie set on the streets of Boston during a snowstorm. It's called Slow and Furious.
Boston? Slow and Furious applies to a nice sunny day there too.
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Post by: explicit on 05 Feb 2015, 18:20
Post by: Masterpiece on 05 Feb 2015, 19:02
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Feb 2015, 20:50
Quote from: hovertext
Prank #11: Boston
Post by: Kugai on 06 Feb 2015, 21:01
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Post by: Welu on 10 Feb 2015, 09:23
... Think it's time for a change.
Post by: 94ssd on 10 Feb 2015, 09:48
Boston? Slow and Furious applies to a nice sunny day there too.(click to show/hide)
I know my way around Manhattan after visiting there for a combined total of around two months. I lived in Boston for two years growing up and fuck if I could give you directions on how to get across the street.
Post by: Zebediah on 10 Feb 2015, 10:03
Post by: osaka on 10 Feb 2015, 14:51
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.
Post by: jwhouk on 10 Feb 2015, 15:57
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.
Aw, don't bring politics into this...
;)
(+1 to the House of whoever gets that reference)
Post by: Masterpiece on 10 Feb 2015, 16:54
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Post by: Orkboy on 10 Feb 2015, 18:16
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.
You could replace the doge with Richard Nixon.
Post by: Carl-E on 10 Feb 2015, 18:39
...and just noticed that he is also in Better Call Saul! Now I'm excited!
My daughter and I have a mutual hobby of spotting bit actors in various movies and TV shows. We're alweays going, "Wasn't that the person who played..."
But it goes way back...
When my wife and I were honeymooning in NYC, we saw an off-Broadway show called The Foreigner, by Larry Shue. It happened to be the last performance of the original run, and the title character was played by a gentleman whose name completely eluded me. But I never forget a face!
A few years later, I saw that face again in a Matthew Broderick movie (no idea which one). He actually had no speaking lines, just provided several reaction faces in a couple of scenes.
Then, about 12 years later, we saw our first (and only) Broadway show, with the kids, Beauty and the Beast.
I wasn't sure I believed my eyes when Cogsworth made his appearance... it was him. Again.
Ah, found him (http://www.mccarter.org/ticketoffice/artistdetail.aspx?artist_id=99975496&event_id=2509). It took a while to track him down. The internet's a wonderful tool, isn't it?
Well, that's my miscellaneous musing for the day!
Post by: Loki on 10 Feb 2015, 19:10
Re people complaining about Boston: You'd hate some of the European cities founded in the Middle Ages.
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Aachen/@50.7760265,6.0834784,15z/
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Feb 2015, 19:18
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Post by: Carl-E on 10 Feb 2015, 19:41
It became his default when he had no idea of what the answer was.
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The actor who plays "DuLaque" in The Librarians used to be Max Headroom. He was also the father (Frank?) in a Dawn of the Dead, gets bitten and killed when he changes.
Do we need a separate thread for this game?
Post by: Thrillho on 11 Feb 2015, 01:31
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.
Love this because it's the kind of joke I make.
Post by: osaka on 11 Feb 2015, 02:22
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Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Feb 2015, 17:55
Post by: Orkboy on 11 Feb 2015, 18:01
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Feb 2015, 18:10
Post by: explicit on 11 Feb 2015, 18:42
Survives nuclear blast, okay, they got the auto-pilot working (apparently, somehow) and he jumped out. However, no one noticed that the billionaire playboy is walking around even though everyone suspected he died? He was on magazines!
Post by: Orkboy on 11 Feb 2015, 18:45
"You know, you look a lot like that guy on the news who died."
"The rich guy? Yeah, I get that a lot."
Besides, the first one established that people outside of Gotham don't recognize him when he did the disappearing thing and wandered the world getting arrested.
Post by: Kugai on 11 Feb 2015, 19:41
Ask Lord Lucan.
Post by: explicit on 11 Feb 2015, 19:53
The ending reminds me of the ending to Dexter. It makes no sense that they're alive and it would have been better if he stayed dead.
Post by: Kugai on 11 Feb 2015, 19:58
Post by: explicit on 11 Feb 2015, 19:59
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Feb 2015, 19:59
One theory that did the rounds back then was that a certain individual with a big red 'S' on his chest saved himSanta!? :-o
Post by: Kugai on 11 Feb 2015, 20:02
More than likely, with that last scene with Lucius and the Autopilot, he bailed (pun intended) and let it fly off on it's own once he was out of view.
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 Feb 2015, 20:05
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
Post by: SubaruStephen on 11 Feb 2015, 20:19
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)
Post by: cesium133 on 11 Feb 2015, 20:24
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)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Carmen_Sandiego.png/250px-Carmen_Sandiego.png)
Post by: Thrillho on 12 Feb 2015, 03:38
For a taster here is an article in which I touch on it briefly:
http://pronomo.co.uk/2013/01/28/film-feature-gareths-top-x-of-whenever/
Post by: Masterpiece on 12 Feb 2015, 10:01
When will we start to see websites that load advertisements but not the actual content as what they are: Scammers?
— The Masterpiece (@masterpiece_911) February 12, 2015
Post by: Dalillama on 12 Feb 2015, 11:51
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.
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Feb 2015, 12:19
Post by: osaka on 12 Feb 2015, 12:21
When will we start to see websites that load advertisements but not the actual content as what they are: Scammers?
— The Masterpiece (@masterpiece_911) February 12, 2015
In unrelated news, you just got a new follower.
Post by: explicit on 12 Feb 2015, 14:53
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...
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 Feb 2015, 15:23
Post by: LTK on 12 Feb 2015, 15:35
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...
The immediate exception that springs to mind is misogynist/misandrist but those have the mis- prefixes. So maybe an islamophobe could be called a misislamist.
Post by: Carl-E on 12 Feb 2015, 15:41
Post by: Loki on 12 Feb 2015, 15:49
Post by: Dalillama on 12 Feb 2015, 15:49
Post by: Akima on 12 Feb 2015, 19:26
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:
Post by: hedgie on 12 Feb 2015, 19:37
Yes, I'm joking, but living in a university town, I *do* see too many people on bikes who don't understand basic traffic laws.
Post by: Aziraphale on 12 Feb 2015, 19:39
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?
Post by: explicit on 12 Feb 2015, 20:17
Post by: hedgie on 12 Feb 2015, 20:22
Post by: SubaruStephen on 12 Feb 2015, 20:39
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?
http://satwcomic.com/n00bs-off-the-road
http://satwcomic.com/how-to-use-a-bike
Post by: looktall on 12 Feb 2015, 20:41
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?
well they tend to hunt in packs for a start.
Post by: Loki on 13 Feb 2015, 00:29
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?
Post by: pwhodges on 13 Feb 2015, 03:33
Post by: lepetitfromage on 13 Feb 2015, 07:00
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:
That sounds incredibly dangerous. (Especially if you decide to be all of those things simultaneously!) :-P
For an alternative to homophobe.....I present to you......heterosexualist. One who is aggressively pro-heterosexuality. Which seems fitting, considering that most people to cling to that mindset are also opposed to women's reproductive rights, thus enforcing the very serious business of being a procreating heterosexual.
Post by: Thrillho on 13 Feb 2015, 14:29
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:
AND JUST WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE AGAINST TYPING?
You should be more typographically sensitive.
Post by: Kugai on 13 Feb 2015, 14:36
Post by: Aziraphale on 13 Feb 2015, 15:02
Post by: explicit on 13 Feb 2015, 15:25
Or typing your chants whilst cycling... "Nam myoho renngeejh -- dammit. Namm myo40 r3ng -- shit. Nam myoho reenie -- oh, the hell with it."
All of a sudden, "fuck it, I'm an atheist now. That's what did it."
Post by: SubaruStephen on 13 Feb 2015, 20:36
:meh:
:-(
:?
:oops:
What the phuque....
I just saw a 50 shades of grey style ad....for Kia.
Post by: explicit on 13 Feb 2015, 20:54
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Feb 2015, 21:23
Post by: jwhouk on 13 Feb 2015, 22:28
I never could get along with those anti-Church-and-State separationists.
FTFY. :roll:
Post by: explicit on 13 Feb 2015, 22:29
Could be weirder. Could be a tinder ad for 9/11 truthers.
Yeah, I'd watch that.
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Feb 2015, 22:34
Post by: explicit on 13 Feb 2015, 22:40
Post by: Carl-E on 13 Feb 2015, 23:04
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Feb 2015, 07:16
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2015, 07:44
Code: [Select]
:roll:
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Feb 2015, 07:46
Also...lopsided?
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2015, 07:51
My poor eyesight is a superpower, apparently....
Post by: LTK on 14 Feb 2015, 08:14
Post by: Masterpiece on 14 Feb 2015, 17:11
Post by: Method of Madness on 14 Feb 2015, 17:15
Post by: explicit on 14 Feb 2015, 17:17
.... ha
Post by: cesium133 on 14 Feb 2015, 19:28
Seriously... I lived in dorms my entire time in college, and I've lived in the university-owned apartments all through grad school. What the hell was I thinking.
Post by: explicit on 14 Feb 2015, 19:30
Post by: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2015, 20:34
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Post by: Carl-E on 14 Feb 2015, 22:36
Post by: LeeC on 16 Feb 2015, 19:18
Ness = Link
Paula = Saria
Jeff = Zelda
Poo = Skull-kid???
Or some sort of amalgamation of that. Or hell, play as Zelda from the begging and Link becomes the first party member followed by Navi then another person.
Post by: SubaruStephen on 16 Feb 2015, 19:24
Post by: Kugai on 16 Feb 2015, 20:40
Post by: explicit on 17 Feb 2015, 20:53
Post by: ChaoSera on 18 Feb 2015, 01:12
Post by: explicit on 18 Feb 2015, 01:15
ahem, I banned him for being an asshole (calling people names, etc.), his name just happened to be <3 which I found to be slightly ironic, because love usually doesn't involve assholery (and if it does it's usually someone's birthday :roll:)
Post by: Orkboy on 18 Feb 2015, 08:30
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 18 Feb 2015, 08:54
I'll go with
an anemometer
half a jar of potted shrimp
a Rammstein DVD
Post by: Loki on 18 Feb 2015, 11:32
Post by: explicit on 18 Feb 2015, 11:37
two things: sleeping pills. A coathanger.
That one makes people mad sometimes...
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Feb 2015, 12:20
Post by: FunkyTuba on 18 Feb 2015, 12:38
http://www.xkcdb.com/882
Post by: Aziraphale on 18 Feb 2015, 15:18
I think my personal choice for weirding out the cashier would have to be condoms, peanut butter, and a dog's chew toy.
Post by: explicit on 18 Feb 2015, 15:22
1.) Mayonnaise, 2.) Women's Home and Garden, 3.) Heavy duty soap.
Post by: Aziraphale on 18 Feb 2015, 15:29
Post by: Papersatan on 18 Feb 2015, 16:21
Post by: explicit on 18 Feb 2015, 16:57
And I've never bought condoms at the grocery store, there's just something about going into 7-11 and only buying condoms that makes me feel special.
Post by: looktall on 18 Feb 2015, 21:34
i needed them for a perfectly valid, non sexual reason.
Post by: Thrillho on 19 Feb 2015, 01:04
As an adult I simply enjoy doing it without a hint of shame and enjoying the bafflement. Buying lube from somewhere that isn't Ann Summers is also entertaining.
Post by: explicit on 19 Feb 2015, 01:13
Post by: Thrillho on 19 Feb 2015, 01:14
Post by: Welu on 19 Feb 2015, 09:08
When I worked in the shop, a few times when a man was buying condoms, he'd try to embarrass me. They'd ask my favourite types and laugh about having a good time tonight. Looking back that's even more skeezy considering that happened when I was as young as seventeen from lads in their thirties or forties.
Post by: 94ssd on 19 Feb 2015, 09:13
Post by: Aziraphale on 19 Feb 2015, 09:16
Post by: Pilchard123 on 19 Feb 2015, 09:43
Post by: explicit on 19 Feb 2015, 12:44
Post by: Papersatan on 19 Feb 2015, 13:34
I guess I'm old enough now that people would judge me less, but I'd still be nervous that they'd try to small talk with me about it.
Post by: Metope on 19 Feb 2015, 13:52
Post by: Masterpiece on 19 Feb 2015, 16:57
Nintendo, letting the whole world play catch up since 1998. Ocarina of time is a Masterpiece.
— The Masterpiece (@masterpiece_911) February 19, 2015
This message is coming from Tapatalk inside my phone!
Post by: Kugai on 19 Feb 2015, 18:13
Post by: SubaruStephen on 19 Feb 2015, 23:39
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.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 20 Feb 2015, 06:35
It's like she doesn't even listen.
Post by: Masterpiece on 20 Feb 2015, 07:13
Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
Post by: cesium133 on 20 Feb 2015, 07:15
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
Post by: Aziraphale on 20 Feb 2015, 08:26
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.
...and we have a winner!
Post by: Kugai on 20 Feb 2015, 13:42
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.Time to Exorcise your phone then.what, why?
Also, never.
I didn't
Post by: Pilchard123 on 20 Feb 2015, 15:04
Post by: osaka on 20 Feb 2015, 15:20
To get rid of what? Tapatalk, or Windows Phone?
Ew, that's gross on several levels dude.
(Correct me if I'm wrong on "dude")
Post by: Masterpiece on 20 Feb 2015, 15:24
Post by: Pilchard123 on 20 Feb 2015, 15:28
@osaka: wut?
Post by: osaka on 20 Feb 2015, 15:29
(I am, you might have noticed, being completely unserious)
Post by: hedgie on 20 Feb 2015, 19:22
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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 21 Feb 2015, 03:25
Post by: Thrillho on 23 Feb 2015, 09:46
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.
Post by: Aziraphale on 23 Feb 2015, 10:29
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.
Yeah, they don't give Oscars for eccentricity, unless the eccentricity comes in tandem with a disease or disorder, or an actor (or, more frequently, actress) "bravely" plays someone average-looking.
Post by: Masterpiece on 23 Feb 2015, 10:43
Post by: Welu on 23 Feb 2015, 14:50
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Feb 2015, 15:06
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.
Post by: Thrillho on 23 Feb 2015, 15:10
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.
You kidding? We had someone going full retard* to play Stephen Hawking. He never had a chance.
*SATIRE
Post by: Method of Madness on 23 Feb 2015, 15:15
*the nickname for him that I just made up and will now call him nothing else
Post by: Masterpiece on 23 Feb 2015, 17:43
Post by: explicit on 23 Feb 2015, 17:46
I just saw the worst example of male privilege ever and it's disgusting and makes me be embarrassed of my manliness.
What was there a, "you can only work here if you have testicles" sign or something? I apologize if I sounded flippant, I am genuinely interested in what it could be. It's like opening a Christmas Present that kinda smells weird. You're not sure you wanna know, but you just gotta know.
Post by: Aziraphale on 23 Feb 2015, 17:46
Post by: looktall on 24 Feb 2015, 03:04
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.
Post by: Thrillho on 24 Feb 2015, 03:22
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
According to the I Am Sam Rule, you are correct. I just wanted to use that joke. And make the point that if you play someone with a disability or is 'ugly' or is a 'real person' instead of a character, you may as well just install an Oscar shelf as soon as the movie wraps.
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Post by: Masterpiece on 24 Feb 2015, 03:57
Hold on, no, that is not what happened, he "heard" that woman had made out with me (which is not true and he should have known that, he was on the same party!) and promptly WROTE HER, not spoke to her or anything, no he cowardly wrote her that "he couldn't take it anymore" and that "she was dead to him" and that he "couldn't even get over the fact that she would make out with me (Masterpiece) but not with him, cause he's such a nice guy" and apparently he sees me as some sort of ass.
My roommate, everybody!
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Post by: Masterpiece on 24 Feb 2015, 04:02
Stupid hypocrite [mod snip]
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Post by: explicit on 24 Feb 2015, 04:04
I had a roomate like that as well. I "may" have beaten him up and only felt kinda bad about it (I specifically beat him up for calling my friends [mod snip] and just being a douchebag in general).
Post by: Thrillho on 24 Feb 2015, 04:06
Out of mod mode, the guy does sound like he's gone flying into MRA territory pretty sharply. He sounds awful, you have my sympathies for living with someone like that.
Post by: explicit on 24 Feb 2015, 04:10
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 24 Feb 2015, 05:02
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Post by: explicit on 24 Feb 2015, 05:09
EDIT - In any case, I did just adamantly suggest we perma-ban (it was originally for a week) a person from my community's gaming server (it's a counter-strike server), for telling someone else "Die F----t". with a few more die other horrible words thrown in there. As someone's whose brother has died recently I get FUCKING PISSED whenever someone ever suggests someone else die (unless it's like... Bin Laden type evil I guess). Goddamn it, I needed to go to bed forever ago and now I need to hit stuff.
Post by: Metope on 24 Feb 2015, 09:30
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Post by: Carl-E on 24 Feb 2015, 14:31
I could clearly hear what he said, and though it was meant as background, I was amazed that it made it past the censors.
But it was the BBC radio version I was listening to... and I'm pretty sure that it didn't make it into the book or any other version.
Post by: cesium133 on 24 Feb 2015, 21:12
Post by: SubaruStephen on 24 Feb 2015, 21:55
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.
Post by: hedgie on 24 Feb 2015, 22:05
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Post by: Thrillho on 25 Feb 2015, 01:03
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.
Yes, numerous ones, and in truth I think it actually sounds more aggressive in our various dialects (although not all).
Post by: LeeC on 25 Feb 2015, 10:40
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Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Feb 2015, 11:45
Well, it's a terrible word. Like moist.There is nothing wrong with that word.
Post by: explicit on 25 Feb 2015, 11:48
Post by: Aziraphale on 25 Feb 2015, 12:00
Post by: LeeC on 25 Feb 2015, 12:11
The cake is quite moist.
Take a moist cloth and gently wipe the tv screen of dust.
etc.
Its only questionable, in my opinion, when used for sexual innuendo.
Post by: explicit on 25 Feb 2015, 12:36
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Post by: Kugai on 25 Feb 2015, 13:16
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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Know where you're coming from. Had a friend like that, and after nearly 20 years, he finally blew it with me two years back
Haven't spoken to him since.
Post by: Method of Madness on 25 Feb 2015, 13:19
Post by: ChaoSera on 25 Feb 2015, 23:14
Post by: explicit on 26 Feb 2015, 00:26
I don't get it, what's wrong with moist?
It sounds icky. Just as a word. Though its meaning doesn't help much.
Post by: hedgie on 26 Feb 2015, 01:03
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 26 Feb 2015, 02:21
Fortunately I rarely encounter a moist aubergine in an oubliette.
I need to go and throw up a little now.
Post by: Method of Madness on 26 Feb 2015, 07:11
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 26 Feb 2015, 07:32
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Some 18th-century European cultivars were yellow or white and resembled goose or hen's eggs, hence the name "eggplant".[
However, it also gives us this delightful little nugget:
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The usual word in Italian remains melanzana.[13] An alternative Italian etymology is "mela insana", insane apple.
This pleases me no end.
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I'm now dancing in public
This is a problem?
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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.
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Feb 2015, 07:15
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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 27 Feb 2015, 21:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GLuydiMe4
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Post by: cesium133 on 27 Feb 2015, 22:40
Aw crap, we've come full circle.
Post by: pwhodges on 28 Feb 2015, 00:22
This message has become sentient, and will start posting in its own right.
Post by: Loki on 28 Feb 2015, 02:14
This message was sent channeling the spirits of those who no longer roam this place.
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Post by: looktall on 28 Feb 2015, 03:42
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.
Post by: explicit on 28 Feb 2015, 03:45
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Post by: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 28 Feb 2015, 07:52
This message is coming from an empty space. It's coming from a region which is intuitively known yet defies understanding. We are born into this world with its name imprinted upon our minds, but age and learning strip it away. It is the unconscious knowing. It is the dreaming state. It is the void of the before times. This message is coming from my ancient Dell laptop in my bedroom.
Post by: cesium133 on 28 Feb 2015, 09:07
This message unlocks the door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. This message came from a 12-year-old Gateway computer running Ubuntu 14.04 in... the Twilight Zone!
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Feb 2015, 09:21
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Post by: cesium133 on 28 Feb 2015, 14:14
Post by: explicit on 28 Feb 2015, 14:30
"Ya know that stuff ain't no good for ya, right?"
"Well I need something to get the taste of meth out of my mouth."
Wonder what he'd say then?
Post by: looktall on 28 Feb 2015, 15:42
"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.
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Feb 2015, 15:54
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Post by: Method of Madness on 28 Feb 2015, 16:08
Post by: looktall on 28 Feb 2015, 17:11
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. :)
Post by: cesium133 on 28 Feb 2015, 17:16
(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.
Anyway, out of curiosity I used Google Maps to measure the distance I would have to walk if I wanted to walk from the apartment I'll be moving into in Madison to the physics building at the university, and it turns out it's 3.14159 miles. I swear I did not pick out the apartment for that reason. I should've gone for the one that was 1.61803 miles away, even though it was more expensive :roll:
Post by: Kugai on 28 Feb 2015, 17:32
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. :)
Post by: explicit on 05 Mar 2015, 13:37
Post by: Kugai on 05 Mar 2015, 13:53
Absolutely none whatsoever.
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 Mar 2015, 14:01
Post by: Grognard on 05 Mar 2015, 21:09
I found it interesting.
http://100simple.tumblr.com/
so I thought, "why not share?"
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Mar 2015, 09:38
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100 Simple Cures for ComplexityI...didn't know "complexity" was a disease. Am I missing something?
Post by: Grognard on 06 Mar 2015, 16:51
sometimes, opening a printed book and relaxing to read, is one of the best ways I know to unwind.
complexity can be a disease. at the least, a condition.
Post by: Kugai on 06 Mar 2015, 19:42
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Mar 2015, 08:04
Post by: Loki on 07 Mar 2015, 13:49
Post by: Grognard on 07 Mar 2015, 22:05
when it happens a 2nd time, I yell.
I'm sure the vehicle can take it, but it JARS my nerves.
Post by: Masterpiece on 08 Mar 2015, 17:16
AWKWARD. She was all "oh, I know who you are!" when we last met.
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 08 Mar 2015, 21:30
What's next?
Gluten free gasoline? Gluten free concrete blocks? Gluten free electrical conduit? Gluten free nuclear weapons?
Post by: explicit on 08 Mar 2015, 21:32
That, or somehow we've been injecting gluten into things without my knowledge.
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Mar 2015, 21:53
Quote from: hovertext
Asbestos is bad; definitely get the one on the right. Wait -- this one over here has no swine flu! Now I can't decide.
Post by: explicit on 08 Mar 2015, 21:55
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Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Mar 2015, 22:39
(click to show/hide)
(obligatory blowhole joke)
Post by: looktall on 08 Mar 2015, 22:41
The sign at the supermarket next to the eggs said "gluten free".
there are two companies (one bread, one dairy) where i live that have taken the light hearted approach of advertising their milk and bread as free range.
http://www.harveyfresh.com.au/freerange/
Post by: Kugai on 08 Mar 2015, 23:00
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 10 Mar 2015, 11:28
Post by: LTK on 10 Mar 2015, 14:47
Maybe the 'de-' was left out so that defecation and urination have the same number of syllables.
Post by: 94ssd on 11 Mar 2015, 13:13
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?
Post by: Aziraphale on 11 Mar 2015, 13:18
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?
Yes, and yes. Hasn't always been my best stuff, mind you, but it was worth doing -- and worth coming back to some time later to see what my mind was telling me, which wasn't always apparent at the time. Besides, having had creative blocks that've lasted for long periods of time, I don't tend to turn my nose up at ideas when I do get them, even if they don't always come from a happy place.
Post by: Thrillho on 11 Mar 2015, 14:01
But yeah, I write some dark shit, and that is often my best shit.
Post by: dr. nervioso on 11 Mar 2015, 20:40
But looking back on all the art I have ever done, I liked making that drawing than any sketch of still life. That crap destroys my soul
Post by: Aziraphale on 11 Mar 2015, 21:07
Post by: chaospersonified on 11 Mar 2015, 21:45
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.
This is one of those posts I WISH I could've clicked 'like' on, but I'n d
Sad to see I cannot
Post by: Masterpiece on 12 Mar 2015, 05:13
Post by: pwhodges on 12 Mar 2015, 05:36
If people want to discuss the future of the Like button, then it's probably best to continue in the previous thread (https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=30446.0) to keep stuff together. I've changed the poll there accordingly.
Post by: Masterpiece on 12 Mar 2015, 05:48
Post by: Welu on 12 Mar 2015, 08:07
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?
Yeah, I've been there. I also tend to find it really good therapy to put dark feelings to creative use.
Post by: lepetitfromage on 12 Mar 2015, 08:30
Also worth noting- growth is never comfortable.
Post by: Welu on 12 Mar 2015, 12:56
Post by: Grognard on 12 Mar 2015, 19:32
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Mar 2015, 20:04
I miss seeing May in the forum.
Me too. :(
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Mar 2015, 07:21
(Seriously though, she's awesome and her absence is felt)
Post by: lepetitfromage on 13 Mar 2015, 07:25
Post by: explicit on 15 Mar 2015, 04:12
Post by: looktall on 15 Mar 2015, 05:03
There's a 6 am as well?
Post by: chaospersonified on 15 Mar 2015, 05:30
Wait, wait, wait.
There's a 6 am as well?
I've heard rumors, but they always come from morning people, so unreliable sources all around
Post by: osaka on 15 Mar 2015, 06:33
Now this morning people and their waking up super early. Disgusting.
Post by: explicit on 15 Mar 2015, 12:47
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Post by: looktall on 20 Mar 2015, 04:23
When you tore it to pieces would you find a hard boiled egg inside?
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Mar 2015, 04:31
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?
Only if you boiled it, and only if it was in the process of laying an egg when you threw it into the pot.
Post by: looktall on 20 Mar 2015, 04:48
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.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 20 Mar 2015, 04:57
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Mar 2015, 04:59
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.
You specified hard boiled egg. You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an egg
Post by: looktall on 20 Mar 2015, 05:36
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Mar 2015, 06:37
Semantics. :)
:-D
Post by: LTK on 20 Mar 2015, 06:39
You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an eggThat sounds like a metaphor for something.
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Mar 2015, 06:57
You can't chuck a chicken into a fire and boil an eggThat sounds like a metaphor for something.
I could do that. I could find a way to justify it as a metaphor for the progress of industry at the expense of the environment, using the egg as the earth. LITERARY ANALYSIS IS FUN
Post by: looktall on 20 Mar 2015, 07:04
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Mar 2015, 07:18
So ... you're saying I should... Eat more ... Red meat?
Took the words right out of my mouth? You gotta remember, literary analysis is basically just bullshit tied to a theme that you can defend
Post by: Welu on 20 Mar 2015, 17:20
Post by: looktall on 20 Mar 2015, 19:33
It was horrible.
Edit: I should add that it wasn't meant to smell like tobacco. That's just the scent I got from it.
Post by: Active Madness on 21 Mar 2015, 01:38
Thinking back on it, I had a terrible taste in scents.
Post by: Welu on 21 Mar 2015, 01:45
Also I love the smell of petrol. I'm sure if you looked there'd be petrol scented products but it's not something I'd want me of my home to smell like regularly.
Post by: LTK on 21 Mar 2015, 01:48
Post by: hedgie on 21 Mar 2015, 02:09
Post by: Aziraphale on 21 Mar 2015, 09:15
Post by: Thrillho on 21 Mar 2015, 10:36
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.
My girlfriend loves the smell of that stuff but hated the packaging so she never bought. For valentine's I got her a pretty soap dispenser along with that soap, so she can use it without the icky packaging.
I was pretty happy with that boyfriending :D
Post by: Welu on 21 Mar 2015, 10:40
Post by: Thrillho on 21 Mar 2015, 10:44
And yeah a nice soap dispenser is a good way to go but it's the kind of thing I'd only get for myself once I own a property.
Post by: chaospersonified on 21 Mar 2015, 10:52
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.
Yeah it definitely sounds like something you give to a smelly guy to send a message
Post by: Masterpiece on 01 Apr 2015, 14:56
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Post by: pwhodges on 01 Apr 2015, 15:27
:-D
I suppose you haven't been in the comic forum today, either.
Post by: explicit on 01 Apr 2015, 17:21
Post by: pwhodges on 01 Apr 2015, 22:03
Post by: Loki on 01 Apr 2015, 23:19
Post by: Thrillho on 02 Apr 2015, 00:55
Gareths G comes in as a square for me though. He is now squareth
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Apr 2015, 01:28
Huh, I am important enough to have my name flipped. I approve.
Time's up, though...
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Apr 2015, 20:32
Post by: chaospersonified on 02 Apr 2015, 21:20
Not for me!
Ain't you a special fuckin' snowflake.
Know what happens to snowflakes?
Post by: chaospersonified on 02 Apr 2015, 21:21
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Post by: Masterpiece on 04 Apr 2015, 19:27
Post by: cesium133 on 13 Apr 2015, 16:41
Post by: chaospersonified on 13 Apr 2015, 17:16
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.
Law of nature: you can ALWAYS take a worse driver's license photo.
Post by: cesium133 on 13 Apr 2015, 18:56
Post by: SubaruStephen on 14 Apr 2015, 04:56
At least they do compared to the previous ones I had before this new design.
Post by: Masterpiece on 15 Apr 2015, 11:16
Post by: chaospersonified on 15 Apr 2015, 11:37
Random Thought: I love the Interstellar soundtrack.
Would you say it was... out of this world??? :claireface:
Post by: Masterpiece on 15 Apr 2015, 12:46
Post by: Pilchard123 on 15 Apr 2015, 13:05
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:
Post by: chaospersonified on 15 Apr 2015, 13:11
Off to the pun thread with ye.
I already made 44% of the comments in that last page of that thread. I need to get my fix somehow
Post by: Masterpiece on 15 Apr 2015, 13:57
Post by: Masterpiece on 15 Apr 2015, 13:58
Chaospersonidied, re: your last blog post:
The sun is the same in the relative way, but it's sinking
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Apr 2015, 14:46
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:
Actually, he's right. They issue you a paper license until your real one is mailed to you.
Post by: Pilchard123 on 15 Apr 2015, 14:52
Post by: hedgie on 15 Apr 2015, 15:03
Post by: Pilchard123 on 15 Apr 2015, 15:17
ARE YOU A FUN-MURDERER?
Post by: Kugai on 15 Apr 2015, 15:20
Post by: hedgie on 15 Apr 2015, 16:13
Post by: chaospersonified on 15 Apr 2015, 17:20
The hard part is getting the blood out of one's clown suit.
Which is why you rent from your friend Henry's creepy uncle Leroy!
Post by: 94ssd on 15 Apr 2015, 22:18
matches: -buttholes
action: Never send it to spam
Post by: cesium133 on 18 Apr 2015, 09:27
Post by: Masterpiece on 18 Apr 2015, 10:15
Post by: osaka on 18 Apr 2015, 11:15
Post by: SubaruStephen on 18 Apr 2015, 12:17
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:
Hate to break it to you....we've got FRIED cheese curds too. :-D
Post by: cesium133 on 18 Apr 2015, 12:23
Post by: jwhouk on 18 Apr 2015, 13:49
Post by: cesium133 on 18 Apr 2015, 13:50
Post by: chaospersonified on 18 Apr 2015, 14:39
Post by: jwhouk on 18 Apr 2015, 16:39
You need to get out more, chaos. ;)
Post by: Masterpiece on 18 Apr 2015, 18:39
This message is coming from Tapatalk inside my phone!
Post by: cesium133 on 18 Apr 2015, 18:52
It's unaged cheese. In Québec they use it to make Poutine.
Post by: chaospersonified on 18 Apr 2015, 19:39
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.
Post by: chaospersonified on 18 Apr 2015, 19:43
You need to get out more, chaos. ;)
I've been outside. It was damp. Had a hobo take up residence in my tent one time. True story.
I'm happy staying in from now on. That hobo later overdosed on hand sanitizer, also true*
*he lived, but was fired from his job
Post by: 94ssd on 18 Apr 2015, 20:56
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.
Post by: cesium133 on 18 Apr 2015, 21:11
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.
Post by: Thrillho on 19 Apr 2015, 00:19
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.
'Brah, you don't need to hear this shit.'
Post by: Welu on 19 Apr 2015, 15:04
Post by: chaospersonified on 19 Apr 2015, 15:48
The phrase, "Makes my teeth curl," makes my teeth curl.
Who the hell says that and how do teeth do that
Post by: Welu on 19 Apr 2015, 16:03
Post by: lepetitfromage on 19 Apr 2015, 17:10
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Post by: Pilchard123 on 20 Apr 2015, 00:09
Post by: Thrillho on 20 Apr 2015, 01:10
MY SQUICKY SENSE IS TINGLING
Post by: Detachable Felix on 20 Apr 2015, 03:50
that's an awkword if ever there were one. Like 'moist'...
Post by: jwhouk on 20 Apr 2015, 05:14
Post by: LTK on 20 Apr 2015, 05:15
Post by: Detachable Felix on 20 Apr 2015, 05:55
Post by: Method of Madness on 20 Apr 2015, 07:36
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)
Post by: Aziraphale on 20 Apr 2015, 09:45
Now you're making me imagine curling played on a field of skin instead of ice.
Now all I can picture is Gulliver being aggressively swept by a bunch of tiny Canadians.
Post by: jwhouk on 20 Apr 2015, 11:35
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.
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Apr 2015, 12:29
That describes the Wausau Curling Club's new World-Class facility on the southeast side of the city.
Read that as Wiseau Curling Club. The Wiseau Curling Club does not exist. Everyone betray me! I fed up with the world.
Post by: Method of Madness on 20 Apr 2015, 12:40
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 20 Apr 2015, 14:13
Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
Post by: cesium133 on 21 Apr 2015, 16:40
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.
Post by: Kugai on 21 Apr 2015, 16:49
But Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
Lisa, Lisa will curl us apart again.
She's breaking up!! She's braking up!!
Post by: explicit on 22 Apr 2015, 18:25
Post by: chaospersonified on 22 Apr 2015, 18:46
Then reconsider everything about how you told it because you meant to get a different response.
Post by: explicit on 22 Apr 2015, 20:50
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Post by: sitnspin on 23 Apr 2015, 20:34
Post by: explicit on 23 Apr 2015, 20:39
It was my first time leading a meditation, just as it was my first time talking to kids about disabilities. I get that they're emotional topics for some people, but damn, 5 out of my 10 kids this week.
Post by: chaospersonified on 24 Apr 2015, 07:49
The coffee machine at my last job was actually named after me. Not even joking there, the guy who bought it for the campe dedicated it to me because he knew how much I liked my morning coffee.
Now, I haven't had any for three days. I'm the one at work who buys the grounds, brews the coffee every morning, and we ran out on Monday. Seeing as I've known for about a week that today would be my last day, I figured I wasn't about to spend part of my last paycheck on coffee for the rest of the clinic.
It's like being hungover, only for me, it's worse, because I've never had a bad hangover before.
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 27 Apr 2015, 16:47
Post by: Method of Madness on 27 Apr 2015, 19:16
Post by: Kugai on 27 Apr 2015, 21:42
Post by: chaospersonified on 28 Apr 2015, 07:20
Words you do not want to hear from an electrician inspecting your wiring: "Oh, I see this all the time. I do fire investigations."
Ouch. My grandfather did the wiring in our house. Electricians charge extra because no one quite gets what the hell he was doing
Post by: cesium133 on 28 Apr 2015, 07:36
(That doesn't excuse my brother, though. If you see an extension cord and you don't know what it's doing, don't plug it in.)
Post by: chaospersonified on 28 Apr 2015, 08:29
Post by: jwhouk on 28 Apr 2015, 19:21
The panel was made before many of you were even born. I think even Mr. Hodges would look at this thing and say, "Wow, that's an old piece of equipment."
I'm just surprised that the thing burnt out now.
Post by: Loki on 29 Apr 2015, 15:58
:-P
Post by: osaka on 29 Apr 2015, 16:54
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Post by: Thrillho on 30 Apr 2015, 01:25
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Apr 2015, 01:58
(https://cassland.org/images/PaulCuba.jpg)
No monocle; just bifocals.
Post by: osaka on 30 Apr 2015, 02:18
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Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Apr 2015, 09:16
Also, everything else that's wrong with this!
Post by: cesium133 on 30 Apr 2015, 09:18
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Post by: lepetitfromage on 30 Apr 2015, 09:46
Post by: LeeC on 30 Apr 2015, 12:24
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 30 Apr 2015, 12:44
Post by: cesium133 on 30 Apr 2015, 13:06
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Post by: Kugai on 30 Apr 2015, 15:03
Brangequaylesh: Brangelina hooks up with the Bush/Quayle presidential ticket. :psyduck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-D_gP7hR6Q
Post by: Akima on 30 Apr 2015, 15:26
Nobody wears a monocle while on vacation.Peter Wimsey? And PWH lives in the locale of Gaudy Night. Well, the same city anyway...
Post by: pwhodges on 30 Apr 2015, 15:34
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4518353197_bf60917fcb_b.jpg)
Post by: Masterpiece on 30 Apr 2015, 16:37
I'm a bad dream that I just had today
and you shake your head and said it's a shame
This message is coming from Tapatalk inside my phone!
Post by: Grognard on 30 Apr 2015, 21:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-D_gP7hR6Q
the Audio is Wrong....
Post by: Kugai on 01 May 2015, 13:27
Post by: 94ssd on 02 May 2015, 11:25
I was awarded a scholarship for having the highest GPA in the theatre design/tech major. But to receive the money, I have to write a thank you letter to the donors. The donors in many cases are older alumni or generally wealthy donors. I have to write to the parents who set up this scholarship in memory of their daughter, who died of brain cancer over 20 years ago while a student here. And I'm seriously having a hard time figuring out what I'm supposed to say to sound gracious and respectful. And I want them to think that their money is going to someone who deserves it, but I can't be boastful.
This is difficult for me.
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 May 2015, 11:28
Post by: cesium133 on 02 May 2015, 12:00
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Post by: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 02 May 2015, 15:41
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 04 May 2015, 12:28
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Post by: Akima on 04 May 2015, 15:43
Post by: celticgeek on 04 May 2015, 15:44
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 04 May 2015, 22:58
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 May 2015, 23:04
Post by: Akima on 04 May 2015, 23:46
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 05 May 2015, 00:13
Actress/aviatrix is more complicated. Both are functional suffixes to denote a feminine form of thier root words. I suspect it's to do with the route each word took into the English language. Actress will have been about long before the advent of powered flight so if actrix existed it may simply have fallen out of use. Language is like that sometimes.
Of course the other interesting question is why didn't a feminine form of doctor make it into the language? As Akima points out, it has existed in other languages.
For the record, I see no need for feminised job/occupation/profession titles. The only exception being for awards like the Oscars where tge industry is under-represented by women despite equal contribution.
Post by: Method of Madness on 05 May 2015, 06:41
Post by: Detachable Felix on 11 May 2015, 15:25
(@rawkandindie if any of you chumps want to follow btw)
Post by: osaka on 11 May 2015, 18:11
Post by: 94ssd on 11 May 2015, 18:17
Why would "actor" require a female form, when "doctor" does not (at least in English - dottoressa is a thing in Italian).
There's are two inter-related historical reasons, unlike the medical field in many societies, acting has had men and women participating heavily in it since the 1600s.
Second is that for occupations that have been historically male-dominated, "doctor", "lawyer", etc., once women starting working those jobs, they are pretty much doing the same things as men. Assuming your not a sexist, your going to believe that a female doctor is qualified to all the things a male doctor can do and vice-versa. But in theatre, there is still a gender separation because it generally determines what roles you'll play. Even today, when "cross-gender" casting has become somewhat common, you still can't do it without being seen as "making a statement."
I don't know if that makes sense to anyone except me, but yeah. Also those are just historical reasons for why the language is like that, and doesn't mean we still need separate terms today.
Post by: Method of Madness on 11 May 2015, 21:48
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.
Then again, actors act, but doctors don't doct*. Maybe that has something to do with it.
*I kinda wanna see a doctor (in lab coat because duh) doing the "haters gonna hate" walk with the caption "doctors gonna doct".
Post by: Half Empty Coffee Cup on 11 May 2015, 22:08
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Post by: 94ssd on 12 May 2015, 06:52
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.
That's the attitude now yes. But again, women acting began in the 1600s, a time when a. the English language was still very fluid, b. parts written for women in theatre were very different, and c. views on gender were not exactly the same as they are now.
Post by: Method of Madness on 12 May 2015, 06:54
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 12 May 2015, 07:00
I'm not talking about then, I'm talking about now. Why do we still use the term different words for people who act?
Habit. It's a common human trait that can be applied to a lot of things that aren't really in our best interests. It's more a case of why haven't we been motivated to change rather than why are we still doing it.
Post by: chaospersonified on 12 May 2015, 09:45
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 feel like that definition of 'doctor' came from an earlier one where the word just meant 'to take care of.' I feel like I read in an old book somewhere about a person doctoring a wound. I'm pretty sure I read this before photoshop was a common thing, though I could be wrong.
If I'm right, it's just a matter of language shifting, and of words taking on new definitions.
Post by: Masterpiece on 13 May 2015, 18:39
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Post by: osaka on 13 May 2015, 18:48
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 May 2015, 19:34
I am living in a porn right now.Did someone just deliver a pizza?
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(http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5005bfe4e4b0d377efbfefe9/5005e770e4b0f8fa5fb7e179/5005e771e4b0f8fa5fb7e571/1331669540041/?format=750w)
Post by: Thrillho on 14 May 2015, 00:44
Post by: explicit on 14 May 2015, 21:49
(http://40.media.tumblr.com/692839a5f3a1484199cbf8565f7c9c2e/tumblr_no6nliFjAl1u7dqbso6_1280.png)
Post by: explicit on 16 May 2015, 14:13
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Post by: Thrillho on 17 May 2015, 04:22
Funnily enough one of my students was working at a pizza place I went to the other night and we commented on how amusing it was that in that context, I could now swear and he couldn't.
Post by: Method of Madness on 17 May 2015, 09:59
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Post by: Thrillho on 18 May 2015, 01:07
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 May 2015, 04:11
Post by: Thrillho on 18 May 2015, 05:54
The only thing I know about North is that Roger Ebert hated it.
He hated that movie. He hated, hated, hated, hated, hated that movie. He hated every audience-insulting second of that movie.
Post by: Kugai on 18 May 2015, 15:00
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 May 2015, 17:11
Post by: LeeC on 19 May 2015, 04:48
Post by: jwhouk on 19 May 2015, 05:46
Except for some reason, the Los Angeles in NCIS: LA looks a lot like Las Vegas... :roll:
Post by: Aziraphale on 19 May 2015, 08:30
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:
I could be forgetting something, but I don't think I've ever seen an NCIS/CSI crossover episode. Then again, I stopped watching NCIS about a year ago and I haven't watched CSI since back when Gary Dourdan was still on the show, so take that with a grain of salt.
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 May 2015, 15:10
Post by: BeoPuppy on 19 May 2015, 23:53
(http://i.imgur.com/UyNxJiv.jpg)
https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/the-master-list/
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 May 2015, 12:40
In other news, allergies, if that's what this is, are horrific. I've been cutting grass a lot the last few days, and now... Ugh
Post by: Masterpiece on 23 May 2015, 03:49
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Post by: Thrillho on 28 May 2015, 03:41
Ahh, right. You don't teach, do you?
Missed this. No, I don't. But I do run sessions with the students on various things. Largely extra-curricular.
Anyway, random thought I had walking home today - in the UK, the age of consent for having sex is 16, but the age for being able to watch porn (or even some movies) is 18.
So, if you wanted to, at age 16, you could have a 14-person, golden-shower-themed gang-bang... you just wouldn't be allowed to watch a video of it on the internet. This baffles me.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 28 May 2015, 03:43
Anyway, the UK used to have a different age of consent for gay men anyway, so why so surprised?
Post by: Thrillho on 28 May 2015, 03:47
I'm not surprised, it isn't new information. Just something that I occasionally ponder on and still get confused by.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 28 May 2015, 04:01
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_reform#United_Kingdom
Nah, 2000. Much better. By the way: In 1895, the age of consent in Delaware was 7.
Post by: Method of Madness on 28 May 2015, 04:17
Post by: pwhodges on 28 May 2015, 05:10
In 1895, the age of consent in Delaware was 7.
"Be a 'good boy' now, Elmer"
"Yes, daddy..."
Post by: osaka on 28 May 2015, 05:16
Although then again how is a kid going to sue their parents in 1895.
Post by: pwhodges on 28 May 2015, 05:36
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 28 May 2015, 05:46
Pornography, a relatively latter development was assessed for age restriction without such considerations, as was homosexual sexual activity. So on it's own merits it was judged appropriate for people age 18 and over, similar to driving being assessed for people age 17 and over. I suspect the arguments for each have been lost in the mists of time but were deemed sound at the time and no one has provided a sufficiently compelling argument to eitehr raise or lower them.
From what I can remember, the general compelling argument against lower the age for pornography is that, like movie ratings, if you can watch it, you can make it and that introduces a whole raft of moral and legal issues that would need to be resolved first. At the end of the day, without a strong public interest do to so, going through the efforts to make the changes or otherwise deal with the unexpected consequences of trying to do so simply isn't worth the efforts. And because this would be a legislative issue, you can guarantee it would be political suicide to do so. No shortage of political careers were curtailled in the long effort to afford LGBTs sexual equality. Nobody is going to put their career on the line for mucky ladies on the internet who aren't happy.
Post by: Akima on 28 May 2015, 06:09
Pornography, a relatively latter developmentPornography is much older than Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus), it is probably older than civilisation.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 28 May 2015, 06:18
Post by: chaospersonified on 28 May 2015, 08:19
Pornography, a relatively latter developmentPornography is much older than Christianity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin_Erotic_Papyrus), it is probably older than civilisation.
Further back even than that, it's been suggested by some that the Venus figurines, going back to between 22-28 THOUSAND years ago, the oldest ceramics known, had some arousing purpose.
They were definitely fertility symbols, that much is obvious, and if we had the same standards of beauty now that they had then, I'm pretty sure people would get off to them. Had a conversation about this on a different message board, seems some people do anyway, though it apparently requires you to squint and use one hell of a lot of imagination.
Point is, porn is old. Long as we've had hands and imaginations, tools to create images, I'd wager we've done what we could to show what we were into.
Post by: Thrillho on 29 May 2015, 02:41
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Post by: Active Madness on 29 May 2015, 05:25
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.
Post by: Active Madness on 29 May 2015, 05:28
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.
Would it be better to have a finger for a dick, or a dick for a finger?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 29 May 2015, 05:32
On the left hand would be funniest.
Post by: Metope on 29 May 2015, 08:36
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Post by: Is it cold in here? on 29 May 2015, 16:18
Post by: Method of Madness on 29 May 2015, 18:27
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.
Post by: hedgie on 29 May 2015, 22:13
Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 29 May 2015, 23:26
Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
Yes, the saying I fits, I sits is incorrect. The proper description is I pours, I snores.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 30 May 2015, 03:19
Post by: Masterpiece on 30 May 2015, 04:29
This message is coming from Tapatalk inside my phone!
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 May 2015, 06:59
Post by: Pilchard123 on 30 May 2015, 08:28
what the eff
You do realize that's a hoax that's been going around for nearly fifteen years?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten
Post by: LTK on 30 May 2015, 16:46
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Post by: The Seldom Killer on 31 May 2015, 06:23
Post by: Thrillho on 31 May 2015, 06:29
I don't want my real name associated with what I post on here any more - I need an extra layer of deniability.
My employer and exes/former friends have proven themselves to be supremely petty in the past, and much of what is posted on here is public.
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 May 2015, 07:04
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Post by: Thrillho on 31 May 2015, 09:33
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 May 2015, 09:59
Quote from: first article on first link
review: blur – the magic whip
by (your full name)
Quote from: first article on second link
Who is Pete Townshend anyway?
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Post by: Thrillho on 31 May 2015, 10:56
Post by: Kugai on 31 May 2015, 15:23
Post by: looktall on 01 Jun 2015, 20:52
Cats are effectively liquid.
Quite true. They take the shape of whatever container you put them in.
Post by: chaospersonified on 03 Jun 2015, 06:01
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Jun 2015, 06:14
Post by: chaospersonified on 03 Jun 2015, 06:49
If it was JUST porn, I'd have taken it as lost.
Porn is replaceable, classwork less so.
Post by: osaka on 03 Jun 2015, 07:24
Post by: chaospersonified on 03 Jun 2015, 07:44
I woke up at 6:00. I never do that. I was at the library when it opened.
This flash drive has my name attached to it, and the porn, and a decent chunk of my semi-erotic fiction.
I'm just glad the lady didn't feel a need to verify it was mine. I was running scenarios the whole forty-minute drive
"Can you tell me the names of any files or folders?"
"Umm... I think I have 'Bi-racial BBW bukkakke-blowout'* on there? Parts 1-3?"
*No, that is not a thing that's on the flash drive. I have an affinity for alliteration.
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Jun 2015, 07:46
Post by: osaka on 03 Jun 2015, 08:40
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Jun 2015, 08:42
Today's forecast: Mostly sunny, high 75F, south wind 5 mph.
Tonight's forecast: Slight chance of bukkake, low 45F.
Post by: osaka on 03 Jun 2015, 08:44
Although I can see the same scenario: "I gotta find my kid, and I'll go through ANY number of perverted high schools to get to him"
Post by: Welu on 03 Jun 2015, 09:39
Post by: BeoPuppy on 03 Jun 2015, 10:25
Post by: chaospersonified on 03 Jun 2015, 10:26
See, that's why the root folder of the porn section of a drive is typically named "New Folder 1"
I mean, I didn't name a folder that or anything, but I know me, and I couldn't resist the temptation to make things incredibly awkward. I could name the schoolwork files and folders, but why would I do that when I could make an old lady librarian aware of my personal tastes in pornographic video?
Post by: chaospersonified on 03 Jun 2015, 10:28
They'd be in one hell of a hurry to let me have my flash drive back, that's for damn sure
Post by: Welu on 03 Jun 2015, 15:24
... Cathal?
Common Irish name. More common than I thought apparently.
Post by: BeoPuppy on 04 Jun 2015, 06:17
Post by: Masterpiece on 04 Jun 2015, 11:07
(http://i.imgur.com/VaW6d6v.png)
Post by: osaka on 04 Jun 2015, 11:47
Post by: chaospersonified on 04 Jun 2015, 13:00
Realistically, I was through yesterday by 3:00.
Had the first test today. I left the classroom, totally finished, by 1:30.
Professor asked me later in the hall if the test was too easy.
I like to think I'm an honest person.
I was not an honest person today.
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Jun 2015, 13:18
Post by: chaospersonified on 04 Jun 2015, 13:29
Is there any such thing as too easy?
The test took fifteen minutes. Including my (admittedly spotty) double-checking.
I saw the dude ten minutes after I was finished. Meaning the entire class was finished in less than half an hour, he had had time to walk back to his office, then start his way back to the room, in what should be about 20% of a class period.
Grades-wise, I'm with you.
Education-wise, it ain't rocket science to know that a person walking 2 miles per hour can walk four miles in two.
I'm fine with it because it's gonna get crazy soon enough. Boring shit comes first, and we're literally a week into class.
Post by: osaka on 04 Jun 2015, 14:51
And yes this is actual requirements. We've been specifically told to do this.
I kind of love the hardware division of my university. They stopped giving a fuck years ago.
Post by: Method of Madness on 04 Jun 2015, 15:23
Post by: Masterpiece on 04 Jun 2015, 17:16
AS SOON AS I HEARD THE SOUNDTRACK I WAS SUPER ANXIOUS.
When I was a wee boy, my best friend had a N64 and we'd always play Super Mario on it. I suppose hearing the Bowser level music must have woken up some very latent memories of hardship and excitement.
I am literally crying over this right now. It feels like my brain is making jokes to me. But this fucking song appeared out of nowhere and dropped a tactical emotional outburst on my head.
Post by: chaospersonified on 04 Jun 2015, 20:40
Let's be real. It's 100%
Post by: chaospersonified on 04 Jun 2015, 20:42
As far as you fucks know, I'm road-testing stand-up.
You are a fucking terrible audience.
I hope you're proud.
Post by: hedgie on 04 Jun 2015, 21:29
Mathematically, there's a 50% chance of a drunk dude putting his shirt on backwards.
Let's be real. It's 100%
It's like USB ports. You try to put the plug in, and it won't go in. Then you turn it around, and the same thing happens. Finally you switch it back around the first way and it works. I do not understand this phenomenon.
Post by: explicit on 04 Jun 2015, 22:08
Mathematically, there's a 50% chance of a drunk dude putting his shirt on backwards.
Let's be real. It's 100%
Drunk me used to be shirtless me. Though, I used to have a six-pack, so maybe that was why.
Post by: looktall on 05 Jun 2015, 00:15
Post by: Pilchard123 on 05 Jun 2015, 00:21
Though, I used to have a six-pack, so maybe that was why.
No, that was why you were drunk.
Post by: MegaBarrakuda on 05 Jun 2015, 00:59
Post by: Metope on 05 Jun 2015, 01:49
Post by: Loki on 06 Jun 2015, 14:01
i have a one pack.As they say here, a full barrel is better than a six pack.
Post by: Method of Madness on 06 Jun 2015, 19:22
i have a one pack.It's called a keg. (I have one, too)
Post by: osaka on 09 Jun 2015, 14:30
And now that I got that horrible joke out of my chest I feel in deeper communion with mankind as a whole.
Post by: looktall on 09 Jun 2015, 18:15
not the proper flu, (i've had the proper flu twice ,including the swine, so i know what that's like) but rather the illness people get which they call the flu because they've never actually had the real flu, so probably just a bad cold.
being a man this means that it is most likely a fatal illness.
but it's ok because after i die, i will recover like i always do.
what i can't understand though is why do i get sore eyes when i have a cold.
they really ache.
especially when moving them around.
i could understand if it were sinus pressure or something but right now my head is actually quite clear, it's mostly sitting in my chest.
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Jun 2015, 18:21
but it's ok because after i die, i will recover like i always do.YOU LIVE! YOU DIE! YOU LIVE AGAIN!
Alternative:
"I had the flu, it killed me."
"It killed you?"
"...I got better."
Post by: looktall on 09 Jun 2015, 18:22
YOU LIVE! YOU DIE! YOU LIVE AGAIN!
it's what jesus would do.
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Jun 2015, 18:28
Mary Magdalene: A cross?
Jesus: ...I got better.
Post by: chaospersonified on 09 Jun 2015, 20:45
I've seen that damn movie about 157 times. Will the 158th be that much better? Will I see that much more truth in the grammar section? Will I catch something new from Biggus Dickus?
After extensive research, nope.
Post by: Kugai on 10 Jun 2015, 16:43
Post by: chaospersonified on 10 Jun 2015, 17:43
Post by: 94ssd on 11 Jun 2015, 08:13
Post by: chaospersonified on 11 Jun 2015, 08:55
Thwow him to the floor.
I'm sorry, what?
Post by: Kugai on 11 Jun 2015, 16:33
Post by: jwhouk on 11 Jun 2015, 17:13
"On any given message board on the internet, if it has been around long enough, there will eventually be Monty Python jokes."
Post by: looktall on 11 Jun 2015, 20:26
THWOW him to the floor!
Post by: Grognard on 13 Jun 2015, 08:00
bwahahahaha.
Post by: chaospersonified on 13 Jun 2015, 09:34
Biggus Dikkus.
bwahahahaha.
What's so funny about Biggus Dikkus?
I have a gweat fwiend in Wome cawwed Biggus Dikkus!
Post by: osaka on 13 Jun 2015, 11:06
Post by: ChaoSera on 13 Jun 2015, 13:41
Post by: Kugai on 13 Jun 2015, 14:28
Post by: chaospersonified on 13 Jun 2015, 18:27
He was nominated for 'Worst Actor,' but I mean, he didn't actually win, so I figure it's fine.
Post by: explicit on 13 Jun 2015, 22:09
Post by: chaospersonified on 13 Jun 2015, 22:13
Post by: Kugai on 13 Jun 2015, 22:19
Post by: explicit on 14 Jun 2015, 08:49
Post by: Kugai on 14 Jun 2015, 12:47
My advice, stick to Mentos and Cola bottles
Post by: explicit on 14 Jun 2015, 13:02
Post by: chaospersonified on 14 Jun 2015, 16:44
Ouch
My advice, stick to Mentos and Cola bottles
This was literally my Phys Sci lab this past Wednesday
Post by: chaospersonified on 18 Jun 2015, 20:50
Post by: explicit on 18 Jun 2015, 23:17
Post by: chaospersonified on 18 Jun 2015, 23:28
dammit thai food! why must you be so good, but hurt stomach with your spicyness so bad!
Because Thailand is silly. Why should it pronounce it's name as such? The obvious pronunciation is fucking sexy. I'd visit thigh-land all the goddamn time. The booty is attached to the thighs is the most attractive part to the person!
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Jun 2015, 07:40
Post by: pwhodges on 19 Jun 2015, 08:16
Neither OED nor Merriam-Webster gives "people" as the plural of "person", even informally. However, many writers have used people as the plural form of person, and nowadays it is widely accepted. Notice that legal and very formal texts still use persons as the plural form.
It would certainly sound wrong to describe the trinitarian Christian God as "three people" rather than "three persons".
Post by: Method of Madness on 19 Jun 2015, 13:20
Post by: explicit on 19 Jun 2015, 13:40
Post by: jwhouk on 19 Jun 2015, 14:47
Post by: 94ssd on 19 Jun 2015, 19:23
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.
How very dramatic of you.
Post by: cesium133 on 19 Jun 2015, 19:27
Post by: chaospersonified on 19 Jun 2015, 20:15
Post by: jwhouk on 20 Jun 2015, 09:06
Post by: chaospersonified on 20 Jun 2015, 11:13
It's more annoying when it's a dumb animal that causes the accident, IMNSHO and experience.
At least then you don't have to deal with panicking, hyperventilating, locking your keys in the car alongside your insurance information, and ultimately having to leave your (somehow broken down after only denting the sideboard behind the back wheel) car about 500 yards from the police station. It was a bad day.
Post by: 94ssd on 21 Jun 2015, 19:02
(https://q2qcomics.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/q2q-1981.png)
Then again, considering that one semester I took Arabic class and a course on international terrorism at the same time, my internet searches have probably already put me on the NSA's list. Why not add the DEA too?
Post by: Masterpiece on 22 Jun 2015, 01:41
(http://i.imgur.com/2wtDrvz.png)
I have succeeded.
Post by: chaospersonified on 23 Jun 2015, 11:00
Paraphrase, really, but she was correct in what she said, so I mean, I'm not going to be citing her as my source, it just happens that her monologue is what gave me the idea to include a whole slide on how paint dries.
Post by: Metope on 27 Jun 2015, 15:32
Post by: looktall on 28 Jun 2015, 20:47
It's a shame my boyfriend was already married once, otherwise we should have totally engraved our wedding bands with #yowo
what if you went and got married to someone else first and then got divorced?
then you could have #yowt
Post by: Akima on 29 Jun 2015, 17:15
Post by: Thrillho on 30 Jun 2015, 01:32
You just told us what it said! Why are you showing us???
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jun 2015, 07:35
Oh wait, no, I just looked and it's a picture of the tweet. Ok, that's fucking stupid.
Post by: Welu on 30 Jun 2015, 14:15
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jun 2015, 15:33
Post by: Welu on 30 Jun 2015, 16:30
Post by: Akima on 30 Jun 2015, 18:23
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?
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 01 Jul 2015, 02:37
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?"
Post by: jwhouk on 01 Jul 2015, 07:03
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?"
It's too bad we don't have a "LOVE IT!" button on this forum, because this post deserves one.
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 01 Jul 2015, 09:05
I'm hoping someone will come along and do the usual and say it better and say more.
Post by: Thrillho on 04 Jul 2015, 12:21
Lately, people are just... getting to me.
I have no problem with people lacking intelligence. It can't be helped, and it's not a personality flaw. Some of the nicest people I've ever met are incredibly stupid and/or uneducated, some of the biggest arseholes I've ever met have been super intelligent. So I don't want to be like 'I am sick of internet stupidity'.
First of all, Facebook is a cesspit. Top trending story the other day - Jennifer Lawrence wears a pencil skirt and crop top. That was it. THAT WAS FUCKING IT. And the third from top? Someone I've never heard of posing topless on the front of W magazine, which I've also barely heard of. And everything is minion memes, or inspirational bullshit, or trendy charitable causes, or complaints about minion memes. I really want to delete my Facebook, but outside of the Newsfeed it's such a perfect central point for contacting friends of mine around the globe.
I've also been idiotically reading Amazon reviews lately, and Asda ones, actually. This is an example of stupidity which is actually... well, I don't want to say malignant, but could be damaging.
Products on Amazon being reviewed, and the review is like one star out of five, 'arrived late, when it arrived it was perfect.' THAT'S A REVIEW OF THE SELLER NOT THE PRODUCT. I'm sure plenty of people, like me, don't even click on a product we're considering unless it's four stars or up, and if it's a small seller, your idiotic one star review of their delivery NOT their product, could have a serious effect on their income.
It doesn't matter so much on Asda, but their home delivery app is relatively new, so some products only have one review, and the reviews are just... someone gave some chocolate bars one star out of five because the pack they got sent was a month out of date. How is that a review of the product? Is ever single chocolate bar in every single star a month out of date? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
Post by: BeoPuppy on 04 Jul 2015, 12:32
Post by: Metope on 04 Jul 2015, 12:37
Post by: Thrillho on 04 Jul 2015, 12:51
And previous times, I've seen people giving bad reviews for a Limp Bizkit hits collection because of it having too many covers on. That's a legit criticism, except it's painfully obvious they didn't listen to the album, because almost every single one listed 'My Generation,' which is not a cover of the Who song, but an original Bizkit composition of the same name.
Post by: osaka on 04 Jul 2015, 15:21
The point being that people end up having similar titles because there's a limited number of words in a language.
Post by: Thrillho on 06 Jul 2015, 01:30
In April 2006.
They wrote to point out that Murder Ballads came out after The Good Son.
I had used the phrase 'murder ballads,' which was of course, a pre-existing phrase before Nick Cave released an album named after them. I replied to the comment about three minutes later saying almost exactly that, except I used the word 'neologism' just to appear as up my own arse as possible. I also pointed out that the review was from nine fucking years ago.
Post by: looktall on 06 Jul 2015, 15:36
Post by: Thrillho on 08 Jul 2015, 02:09
In other news - it amuses me how the different faculties in my college are each competent or incompetent in different flavours.
- There's the faculty that will do everything immaculately.
- There's the faculty that will do everything immaculately - if it directly benefits them. Otherwise they'll refuse to do it flat out.
- There's the faculty that will enthusiastically attempt to do anything you ask, but fuck it up.
- And there's the faculty that never do what you ask of them because they don't check their emails and their managers are complete dick.
Circle of life I suppose.
Post by: LTK on 08 Jul 2015, 14:59
Post by: Pilchard123 on 08 Jul 2015, 15:35
Post by: osaka on 08 Jul 2015, 15:47
Then there's Nissan's LMP1 vehicle and a 7kg flywheel that caused a nightmare on the setup, but that's talking about extremes.
Post by: LTK on 08 Jul 2015, 16:27
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.
If not, flywheels on the back don't have this problem, do they? The force that makes the car turn when the wheels turn should be vastly stronger than the additional gyroscopic force from the flywheels that counteracts turning. Unless I'm underestimating the weight of the flywheel. Do they have to meet a certain minimum weight in order to be effective?
Post by: cesium133 on 12 Jul 2015, 14:16
Post by: jwhouk on 12 Jul 2015, 18:43
Where it sits at the shipping hub in Madison until they can find a driver to miss your place of delivery because he's being paid minimum wage and it's hot out.
Post by: looktall on 12 Jul 2015, 20:13
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.
it was being drop shipped from the vendor's warehouse.
i checked the tracking at 8am and it said it was on the truck for delivery.
it was finally delivered at 430pm.
the vendors warehouse is literally visible from my place of employment.
Post by: osaka on 12 Jul 2015, 20:20
Thankfully, I don't have troubles with shippings because I never have money to order anything. Being poor had to have a perk.
Post by: chaospersonified on 13 Jul 2015, 12:33
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.
Post by: Method of Madness on 13 Jul 2015, 13:44
Post by: chaospersonified on 13 Jul 2015, 14:00
Which one?
It was sometime in 2006, and Marten was complaining to Dora, and it turned philosophical, that's all I can remember. There wasn't a comic #, and there wasn't a title visible. They did some kind of cropping thing that could've cut off the top.
Post by: explicit on 13 Jul 2015, 15:44
Post by: osaka on 13 Jul 2015, 15:49
Post by: Thrillho on 14 Jul 2015, 01:08
One of my favourite Bob Dylan songs is called Isis.
In a few years' time, no one will remember this ISIS.
Post by: LTK on 14 Jul 2015, 02:05
Anyway, hasn't everyone settled on calling it IS now?
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Jul 2015, 02:13
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Jul 2015, 06:26
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.
Post by: chaospersonified on 14 Jul 2015, 09:43
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.
Nope. It was just Marten and Dora, and it's not showing up today, for some reason.
Post by: cesium133 on 14 Jul 2015, 09:57
Post by: chaospersonified on 14 Jul 2015, 15:27
Post by: Kugai on 14 Jul 2015, 15:29
Post by: chaospersonified on 14 Jul 2015, 15:30
Post by: Akima on 14 Jul 2015, 15:39
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.
Post by: cesium133 on 14 Jul 2015, 15:48
DeGassing?It was a grad student in the lab I used to work in asking how long he should de-gas an ion gauge.
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Jul 2015, 16:06
Isis is also the name of the second Oxford boat in the Boat Race (Cambridge's is called Goldie). Cherwell is the name of a student newspaper which was notable for continuing to be published through the General Strike in 1926.
Other river names to be careful of: the Thame joins the Thames at Dorchester, a little South of Oxford; there are rivers called Avon and Stour all around the country, so you often need to check which is being talked about.
Post by: jwhouk on 14 Jul 2015, 18:33
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 15 Jul 2015, 10:40
Of course when whatever actually counts for being British became cohesive enough to be an occupying force itself, we just did the same thing to whichever poor sods we were rampantly territorialising at the time. And because traditions are important, it seems like the Americans may have been doing the same again in its recently occupied territories.
Post by: Kugai on 15 Jul 2015, 13:42
Post by: jwhouk on 15 Jul 2015, 15:14
Post by: Akima on 15 Jul 2015, 18:01
Post by: chaospersonified on 15 Jul 2015, 18:36
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.
I love this analogy so much. Our hat had a history before we knew her, we don't judge her for that.
Post by: hedgie on 15 Jul 2015, 18:38
Post by: ChaoSera on 16 Jul 2015, 01:02
(click to show/hide)
Post by: Metope on 16 Jul 2015, 02:27
(http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/20530/thor.jpg)
Post by: Welu on 16 Jul 2015, 07:52
Post by: 94ssd on 17 Jul 2015, 20:12
It's the sign for hammering a nail, but with the right hand forming the letter "D" (the first letter in my name)...because I'm the one building the set.
Post by: explicit on 19 Jul 2015, 12:15
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Post by: explicit on 19 Jul 2015, 12:29
Post by: Kugai on 19 Jul 2015, 12:31
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Post by: Kugai on 19 Jul 2015, 12:39
Post by: celticgeek on 19 Jul 2015, 12:55
Post by: Grognard on 19 Jul 2015, 14:38
Post by: explicit on 19 Jul 2015, 15:08
Post by: cesium133 on 19 Jul 2015, 15:09
Post by: osaka on 19 Jul 2015, 16:55
Post by: Welu on 21 Jul 2015, 10:53
45% are people I met online. I find that really cool.
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Jul 2015, 11:37
Post by: Loki on 26 Jul 2015, 05:48
Post by: ChaoSera on 26 Jul 2015, 08:31
Post by: Kugai on 26 Jul 2015, 14:59
Post by: Method of Madness on 26 Jul 2015, 17:13
Post by: 94ssd on 29 Jul 2015, 07:02
Post by: Masterpiece on 30 Jul 2015, 02:42
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 30 Jul 2015, 10:00
Post by: LTK on 30 Jul 2015, 10:02
We also eat elements that are heavier than iron, so the claim holds up if you consider nuclear fusion through supernova explosions to be 'processed sunshine' as well.
Post by: cesium133 on 30 Jul 2015, 10:35
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2015, 10:54
Everyone you fuck is processed Big Bang :parrot:
Post by: Thrillho on 30 Jul 2015, 11:48
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2015, 11:55
Post by: explicit on 30 Jul 2015, 14:32
Post by: Thrillho on 30 Jul 2015, 15:33
Post by: The Seldom Killer on 30 Jul 2015, 15:51
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2015, 17:48
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.
Post by: Masterpiece on 30 Jul 2015, 19:18
Post by: Method of Madness on 30 Jul 2015, 19:19
Post by: chaospersonified on 30 Jul 2015, 21:18
There's nothing new under the sunshine, processed or otherwise.
Would this imply also, that the sun itself is un-new? Or just everything it shines upon? I appreciate the Ecclesiastes reference, btw, my favorite biblical book, but I do wonder. The book itself is rather florid, I can't be sure what you intend
Post by: Thrillho on 31 Jul 2015, 00:48
There's nothing new under the sunshine, processed or otherwise.
Litigious musicians often say otherwise - tell that to George Harrison, or even Robin Thicke.
Anyway I might just keep the line I said.
Post by: pwhodges on 31 Jul 2015, 01:13
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Jul 2015, 11:14
Post by: cesium133 on 31 Jul 2015, 11:42
Assuming I continue at my current rate, I'll hit 10,000 in 2022, and 20,000 in 2032. Also assuming the forum is still here, I'm still alive, and I haven't been banned or something by then.
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Jul 2015, 12:00
Post by: celticgeek on 31 Jul 2015, 14:06
And made 2506 posts.
I am not sure just exactly what this means, though, except for spending a lot of time here.
Post by: Kugai on 31 Jul 2015, 15:30
Post by: jwhouk on 31 Jul 2015, 18:41
I don't think I've started a WCDT in years...
Post by: 94ssd on 31 Jul 2015, 20:40
Apparently the power outage I mentioned above was the result of 'human error' during a line repair, causing 50,000 people to be without power for over 2 hours.
Now the question I'm wondering is - is that employee fired, or did they just have to deal with a lot of shit from their buddies back at the office.
Post by: Method of Madness on 31 Jul 2015, 20:41
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.
Post by: Kugai on 31 Jul 2015, 22:26
8.226 Posts
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