I never found Seinfeld funny. Simpsons was more my speed.
02-20-2015 04:35 PM
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I never found Seinfeld funny. Simpsons was more my speed. | |
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02-20-2015 04:42 PM
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Fruitlessly searching for funny Simpson's clips reminded me to this | |
Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 02-20-2015 at 04:45 PM. | |
02-20-2015 04:46 PM
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Even that hasn't aged well, opening ATC isn't that rare HU and waiting for hands is a terrible strat to counter it. |
02-20-2015 07:10 PM
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I think you're missing the point if you judge the quality of that video on the poker advice therein. | |
02-20-2015 08:13 PM
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I've been getting into the idea of systems (as opposed to goals) a lot recently. I was talking about it with a non-FTR poker guy, and he recommended me this: How to Overcome Self Improvement Problems. The basic idea is kind of similar, and I've done sort of similar stuff in the past myself. | |
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02-20-2015 08:27 PM
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I think Seinfeld has aged better than any other comedy. |
02-21-2015 03:35 AM
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02-22-2015 02:04 PM
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If you like Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara you might like this new Canadian comedy, Schitt's Creek. http://www.cbc.ca/schittscreek/episodes/ | |
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02-22-2015 11:56 PM
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Surely you can't be serious. Why is a comedy best judged on the ROFLs scale? I don't really ROFL with Leslie Nielsen comedies but they are among the funniest ever. The same goes for Seinfeld. It's a clever comedy with jokes that'll live on for another 20 years. The ROFL scale sucks my ass. | |
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02-23-2015 11:07 AM
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02-23-2015 11:21 AM
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NC go hard | |
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02-23-2015 11:39 AM
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02-23-2015 11:57 AM
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02-23-2015 12:14 PM
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My problem is that I don't think surely and Shirley sound alike enough for the joke to work. It's stupid. When I see other people chirp this line, I tend to groan. It's even less funny when it's not Leslie Nielson saying it. | |
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02-23-2015 01:20 PM
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02-23-2015 01:58 PM
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One rhymes with early, the other rhymes with poorly. Which one are you saying wrong? | |
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02-23-2015 02:54 PM
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Cr'eek' vrs Cr'ick' | |
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02-23-2015 02:57 PM
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http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/o...dden-internet/ | |
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02-23-2015 02:58 PM
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Surely like poorly sounds like shore-ly. Shore, I'd love to go to the movies... give me a break. | |
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02-23-2015 03:55 PM
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What makes this scene funny to me is what makes every Leslie Nielson movie funny. It's that Leslie Nielson isn't funny. Most comedic actors: very funny people. Gene Wilder: very funny, John Cleese: very funny, Robin Williams: hysterical. Leslie Nielson... not very funny at all. In fact I imagine something like the Liam Neeson sketch in Life's too Short happening during Leslie Nielson's audition for Airplane! Incidentally very similar names. | |
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02-23-2015 04:18 PM
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I like the "I am serious. And stop calling me Shirley." line for the above reasons (including the groan induction), and also one more: | |
02-23-2015 04:26 PM
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This conversation for some reason reminds me of the movie Dragnet, which I'm possibly alone in thinking was a great movie and kinda reminds me of the naked gun films. | |
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02-23-2015 04:28 PM
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02-23-2015 05:02 PM
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02-23-2015 05:14 PM
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02-23-2015 05:18 PM
#16751
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The article's not bloated. It's played up a bit by the author, but I like what he's on about. | |
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02-23-2015 05:51 PM
#16752
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A Jewish person attacking herself and blaming racist people? Shirley not. | |
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02-23-2015 06:34 PM
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02-23-2015 06:46 PM
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I tripped at the Museum of Natural History on Saturday and saw Bill De Blasio with his son there. There was a used pad on the bathroom floor and a middle-age man tried to hit on me by asking me if I was a warrior after giving me an unprompted explanation of neolithic weaponry. The lady at the coat check-in didn't know a) what an iPad was and b) if it qualified as an electronic (apparently you are not allowed to check them in). | |
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02-23-2015 06:46 PM
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02-23-2015 07:15 PM
#16756
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02-23-2015 09:27 PM
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02-23-2015 09:30 PM
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02-24-2015 01:35 AM
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02-24-2015 02:57 AM
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1) Not making laws against everything that is in poor taste or could be considered a personal vice by some (drugs, gambling, prostitution, abortion, fatty foods, incandescent light bulbs, hot water heaters, dildos, etc). | |
02-24-2015 08:15 PM
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An excellent job is producing wealth. Any serious economic historian would agree that basically all of the wealth created in the world has been through market forces, not government direction. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 02-24-2015 at 08:20 PM. | |
02-25-2015 04:41 AM
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Oil. | |
Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 02-25-2015 at 05:12 AM. | |
02-25-2015 04:45 AM
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The interesting aspect of that article was how people and a market place without one central thuggish enforcer eventually needs to invite thuggishness into the fold. That's an argument I stumbled into and I like it sourced from the Italian mob side of things. | |
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02-25-2015 04:56 AM
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IMO: | |
Last edited by Jack Sawyer; 02-25-2015 at 05:02 AM.
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02-25-2015 05:50 AM
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Further inspection of the silk road article has him just blatantly making shit up about Ross Ulbricht and other things that happened. Some of what he has to say about the problems of total anonymity make a lot of sense, but if a black market weren't necessary for the goods being sold, anonymity wouldn't be so necessary either. So yeah when you completely subvert the free market, don't expect the black market to work as well as it might have worked as a white one. | |
Last edited by Renton; 02-25-2015 at 05:54 AM. | |
02-25-2015 07:40 AM
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Woo capitalism woo. | |
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02-25-2015 08:47 AM
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If you outlaw something, you will inevitably be creating a black market because demand for the product in question will not just cease. That is why the people most interested in having something not ve legal, and therefore not regulated, are the providers if such black markets. Case in point, many people made a killing during the prohibition era.many people are making a killing nowadays with coke and weed. These are the same which would never want these products to ever be legal nor regulated. | |
Last edited by Jack Sawyer; 02-25-2015 at 08:58 AM.
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02-25-2015 09:02 AM
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02-25-2015 09:56 AM
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I basically agree with most of this. I just think the leftist answer of "but if only we fixed the system!" is inadequate when there is so much evidence and theory to support the fact that the system is inherently hurtful to people. Yeah I'm sure there are reforms to make the government less of a societal parasite and, believe me, I'm for those reforms, but the pro-regulation folks aren't willing to even admit what an uphill battle they have on their hands. | |
02-25-2015 04:09 PM
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A resource with which governments have close to fuckall ability to create wealth. All their technology to do so comes out of the private sector. The only governments that have sustained profitability with oil for several decades are the ones where it's really, really cheap by default. All the other ones, where they need to innovate to compete, get crushed on the regular. Most notably, that which crushes them is private enterprise creating new sources through technology. |
02-25-2015 04:25 PM
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The pro-state argument: the people with the least information about you or connection to you are those who are in the best position to make decisions regarding you. |
Last edited by wufwugy; 02-25-2015 at 04:30 PM. | |
02-25-2015 05:07 PM
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Sorry for so long of posts. I wanted to address specific things. I hope there is sense to be made in them. |
02-25-2015 05:08 PM
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This is ridiculously funny: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heathe...b_6595428.html | |
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02-25-2015 05:10 PM
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02-25-2015 05:16 PM
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02-25-2015 05:24 PM
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If you're not looking for sustainability, then you can isolate like you have and make a claim that when prosperity levels are abysmal, it is possible for government to make it slightly less abysmal. Of course, we can't do that because sustainability is a necessary factor in wealth creation. |
02-25-2015 05:29 PM
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Seems more like she's acknowledging that she went the wrong way about it out of a misguided assumption that it was all about sex. "I chastised myself -- a once smart, confident woman -- for being so ridiculous." | |
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02-25-2015 05:31 PM
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My other point isn't gov't versus some theoretical optimal, it's looking back through time and seeing gov'ts everywhere and wondering why that is and settling on - probably because it's the end game of man's violent nature. | |
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02-25-2015 05:38 PM
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02-25-2015 05:41 PM
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"Every time I saw him, I pounced. He was confused at first, but went along with it like a child reluctant to turn away free ice cream" this is just the saddest goddamn thing I've ever read. | |
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02-25-2015 05:43 PM
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>And it's predicated on this retarded notion that sex is the sole thing that drives him because he is a man, and that it could be some magic solution to dissolving his connection to this other person. | |
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02-25-2015 05:46 PM
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02-25-2015 05:47 PM
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it didn't though, he just aloofly banged her after deciding it wasn't worth being too perplexed over because hey, my wife is fucking me all the time, and she just ended up feeling like even more of an asshole and left anyway. and he kept connecting with the other girl the whole time anyway so it was a through and through fail. | |
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02-25-2015 05:51 PM
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02-25-2015 05:58 PM
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Last edited by Galapogos; 02-25-2015 at 06:01 PM.
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02-25-2015 06:14 PM
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I don't think it's the endgame but the beginning. States exist for the purposes we see with why there are alpha gorillas and alpha chimpanzees. Those societies are very primitive. Primitive human societies proved to be no different, and the state rose out of the threat of violence. |
02-25-2015 06:15 PM
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Why cant y'all talk about fun shit so I can numb my brain while I'm in class? | |
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02-25-2015 06:23 PM
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I guess what I'm saying is that fundamentally it didn't change anything, which seems clear regardless of it only being her side because a) they aren't together and b) her checking his messages to see that he was still engaging in that kind of connection seems pretty cut and dry. | |
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02-25-2015 06:23 PM
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I remember you introduced me to Robert Sapolsky. I think he's where I was pretty much sold on the fact that we're naked apes. | |
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02-25-2015 06:25 PM
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btw I'm enjoying our sleuth-like speculation on this pointless story. | |
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02-25-2015 06:27 PM
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02-25-2015 06:30 PM
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a) Staying a couple requires agreement between the pair. She left. That says nothing about him. | |
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02-25-2015 06:34 PM
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02-25-2015 06:45 PM
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The man is legit. |
02-25-2015 06:53 PM
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This thread reminds me of that wikipedia game where you pick two things and see how many clicks it takes to go from A to B but here it's always from A to free markets in 1 click. |
02-25-2015 06:56 PM
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From the first wiki link of the google search of your user name + wiki to free market | |
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02-25-2015 07:03 PM
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800 pound gorilla > American English > British colonization of the Americas > British Empire > Slavery > Labour economics (via wage slavery) > Market (economics) > Free market | |
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02-25-2015 07:29 PM
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Nothing shows up for imsavy so using imsavvy |
02-25-2015 08:32 PM
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He should have been seeking out other relationships with other women considering his wife was a fatass who didn't keep a house and didn't keep him sexually satisfied. She tried to manipulate him with sex, he played it perfectly, and now it's wah wah look at me being an attention whore. | |
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02-26-2015 02:22 AM
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