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    Default One Decade of FTR

    I've been an FTR member for 10 years.

    Observations:
    -From the very first few posts you can tell who has the potential to be great
    -If you ask dumb questions you are dumb
    -One has be a bit delusional to achieve greatness
    -For the vast majority of people poker should be a hobby and not their life's work
    -Emotional control comes from not expecting anything from anyone, no one owes you shit in poker or in life
    -People are forgotten until they are remembered
    -Everyday you stress about your job is wasted, the moment you quit you won't give a fuck
    -Fuck the haters
    -Know your place, but never accept it if you want to advance
    -If you can learn something in 3 months chances are it isn't as valuable as you think it is
    -If everyone you meet is an asshole, chances are you're the asshole
    -Most well reasoned arguments started as an emotional decision that was then supported by "logic"
    -People don't know what they want, tell them and you own them
    -The more misery you feel the better you can understand art
    -You are luckier than you give yourself credit for
    -Your success propels you into an area where your old skills are useless, realize and adapt
    -Shadiest people care the most about appearing honest
    -If you are going to suck cock, make sure you do it correctly
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    -!luck is not lucky

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    How can you be sure you are sucking cock correctly unless you try?
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    There is one glaringly obvious way to know if you are sucking cock correctly. If you have no idea what that is you have neither had your cock sucked correctly nor sucked one close to correctly.
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    lol

    dick sucking = brown nosier = kissing ass

    If you are going to stoop make sure you know how to do it, cause doing it wrong gives you nothing but a dirty noise

    nothing to do with sexuality, at least that's was my intention and any offense on that front is unintended.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bikes View Post
    -!luck is not lucky
    lol, i wonder what it means that you interrupt that as unlucky, i'm probably the luckiest person you have ever heard of.
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    There's 2 kinds of luck, ya know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    There's 2 kinds of luck, ya know.
    go on
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    the good and the bad
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    Quote Originally Posted by bikes View Post
    -!luck is not lucky
    ~!luck is very lucky
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    (='.'=)
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    I nominate !luck to be the official distributor of FTR-branded fortune cookies.
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    Except they should be called !lucky cookies?
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    Quote Originally Posted by !Luck View Post
    I've been an FTR member for 10 years.

    Observations:
    -From the very first few posts you can tell who has the potential to be great
    -If you ask dumb questions you are dumb
    Well, my first few threads/posts ended with this message from Spenda:

    Quote Originally Posted by spenda
    That is enough of these ridiculous threads and the obv post-whoring that goes on in them.
    Quote Originally Posted by spenda

    If anyone posts a thread that obviously has been discussed 50+ times before your thread will be locked.

    There is a search function, stickies in every forum, and more than likely, the same exact thread on the front page of each forum. Failure to use these tools will result in your thread being locked.
    So I guess I could've saved you all 6 years of drivel right then and there ...
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    "I don't think he's in any trouble," I say. "I would like to ask him about Bitcoin. This man is Satoshi Nakamoto."

    "What?" The police officer balks. "This is the guy who created Bitcoin? It looks like he's living a pretty humble life."
    Anyone else find this exchange super impossible to believe? I'm a casual observer of bitcoin, which I believe is more than 99% of the population and I had no clue what the name is of the guy credited with creating it. But this police officer instantly knows who he is and is blown away. I find it hard to believe he even knew what I bitcoin is. Yes I generalize, but still.

    Also, why did you post in this thread?


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    I don't get why you insist on stacking off with like jack high all the time.
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    The first five years were some really great memories with some people around here. I made a ton of money, spent a lot of time chatting, on ventrillo etc... with some interesting people. I am grateful that I found this place in 2004.
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    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
    "It really is a form of sexual harassment. It's a violation for the person who is unknowingly getting their body photographed,"

    Can you call it harassment when the person it happens to is unknowing?

    Whatever... the fact that we have courts ruling that being a general perv who turns a public space into a hostile environment for women is not against the law... that fact is the most upsetting.
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    Well, I obviously believe that what the guy did should be against the law and Massachusetts should immediately outlaw it and any other state whose laws allow for this same loophole should patch it up immediately, but as far as I can tell, I agree with the court's decision. The court's role in the legal system isn't to be policy makers but to enforce the law as it's written. They shouldn't try to fix the mistakes of the legislative branch by pretending that woman wearing a skirt is partially nude in the eyes of the law or whatever forced interpretation it would have taken to get this guy in jail. They should rule as the law says, and in the written opinion, say "The lawmakers fucked up here. I strongly urge that you fix this immediately."

    This is not only a strict adherence to the judge's job, it's also effective. It's the Ruth Bader Ginsburg philosophy of judgement, which is when a law is wrong, you rant and rave about how wrong it is and serve it over to the people who have actual power to actually fix it in a sensible way instead of botching the problem with some nonsensical precedent that makes the law run well enough that it loses media attention but still doesn't work.

    On the sexual harassment quote: as far as sexual misconduct goes, I don't know if this could be further from harassment. I more-or-less agree with the connotation that this is a sexual {criminally bad something or other}, and I know that people hate semantics, but whatever the words we use matter. It's not sexual terrorism, sexual perjury, sexual DUI, sexual tax evasion or sexual parking in a loading zone between the hours of 8am and 6pm. When the loophole gets closed, it'll probably fall under invasion of privacy or something and will get the penalty appropriate to that crime.

    When you use your words so carelessly, then you muddle everything into a connotation more than actually a specific idea, and it ends up doing every crime you apply it to a disservice. Sexual harassment is such a perfect word to use for illuminating the horror of someone being persistently forced to endure comments/touches/jokes/etc in an inescapable context like the workplace, where they have to friggin spend most of their week if they don't want their children to starve. Why would you turn such a perfect incapsulation of that misery into a catch-all mush of a word that means nothing more than {something that's at least vaguely sexual that has something about it that's at least vaguely bad}. For that matter, why would you associate women having their vaginas unknowningly photographed and having to wonder for what purposes those photographs are being used and where it's been sent to and who's been masturbating to them etc to getting hit on by the fat, sweaty guy at the office? They're completely different sexual crimes with completely different types of associated misery for the victims. Why are we so quick to muddle it all together?

    Anyway, that's the end of my semantics rant. TL;DR: the guy is a sexual miscreant. This doesn't necessarily mean that he harassed women. There are a lot of ways to victimize women without being incessant.

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