Randomness thread, part two.

[spoonitnow]

Trolling is illegal in the UK - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29678989

[a500lbgorilla]

Is it trolling to point out their lawmakers are pedos?

[spoonitnow]

[bikes]

for the record

florence welch > adele

[Chelle]

I'm iffy on that record.

[a500lbgorilla]

Gamergate is getting interesting.

http://gamergate.me/2014/11/war-on-humanism/

[wufwugy]

Fantastic article on how nationalist culture is confused with rape culture

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/12/rape_culture_or.html

Also I suspect the popularity of a bullshit concept like "rape culture" has a negative correlation with the growth in power of proponents of the veracity of said bullshit concept.

[OngBonga]

for the record

florence welch > adele

What, the shouty bird from Florence and the Machine? Better than Adele? Are you higher than me? It's not even a contest. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Adele or anything, but she at least sounds nice. Then again I'm sure I've seen you say Coldplay are better than Radiohead. I shouldn't be surprised. You literally have the worst possible music taste.

[OngBonga]

Meanwhile, Alice Russell pisses over both them bitches.

[oskar]

What is this 48fps nonsense? I just learned that they are doing this, and all the opinions you read on it online are way off. It's not too high, it's too low. I have never been more aware of every single frame than I am watching these samples.
http://www.hfrmovies.com/high-frame-...xample-videos/
You increase shutter speed, you decrease motion blur and you end up with an epilleptic slide show. Wait until you can do 120+ you monkeys. And not everything needs to be in focus. I still remember when Peter Jackson used to do good movies. wtf is this?

[bikes]

What, the shouty bird from Florence and the Machine? Better than Adele? Are you higher than me? It's not even a contest. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Adele or anything, but she at least sounds nice. Then again I'm sure I've seen you say Coldplay are better than Radiohead. I shouldn't be surprised. You literally have the worst possible music taste.

"We aren't better musically, but we are much more attractive" - Chris Martin on Radiohead.

also i don't believe coldplay > radiohead.

[OngBonga]

also i don't believe coldplay > radiohead.

Oh, in which case I rescind my accusation that you have the nut low in music taste, and apoligise unreservedly.

As for your Chris Dickhead quote. I'm 100% hetrosexual, so the lust I feel for all members of both bands is exactly zero. Therefore, their relative attractiveness can only be determined by talent alone, which makes Radiohead infinitely more attractive than Coldplay. Chris should stfu and be a bin man or something.

[MadMojoMonkey]

In Chris Dickhead's defense, he said more "attractive" and not more "sexy".

Being attracted to something is much more broadly encompassing of human emotions than merely encompassing broads.

[aubreymcfate]

lolllllllllllllllllll 5evr at the mere notion of coldplay being better than radiohead

[eugmac]

[bikes]

whole lotta coldplay hate itt.

[Galapogos]

Pretty sure there actually was some bikes and Radiohead controversy a while ago. Can't remember what it was about though. While taste in music is subjective, his view on Radiohead, whatever it was, was just flat out wrong though.

[Galapogos]

Here it is - http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...27#post2070427

And it was about him saying Coldplay is better. Kids these days...

[aubreymcfate]

omg. bikes.




bikes.





























bikes.

[oskar]

wp eug.

[wufwugy]

im assuming yall niggas aint heard one of the worst vocalized songs in music history

[wufwugy]

Since I have actually heard one or two listenable coldplay songs, the score is +2 coldplay, -999999999 radiohead

[wufwugy]

To be less trolly about it: I don't have an opinion about either band, since honestly I never listen to them. But I was blown away at the awfulness of that Radiohead track. It's like people don't believe singing is a thing anymore. All you have to do is strain your voice then hit any ol chord progression without skipping the beat and you're a rockstar!

The real question is who between David Lee Roth and Tom Petty gets the trophy for worst vocalist of all time.

[boost]

Dylan, Hendrix, and Waits are all awful "vocalist".

What exactly is your point?

[rong]

Radiohead is more about the overall sound and mood they create than just a tune and a pretty voice.


Plus lyrics like "I'll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches".

Can't help but love that.

[baudib]

I'm not sure how culturally aware Wuf, or even how old he is. But no version of "Creep" can be considered worse than any Coldplay recording ever. I think as a society we were over Radiohead like 10 years ago, but still.

The great thing about that song is that drunk white guys try to sing it at karoake and it's just a TURRIBLE idea.

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-0...rytelling-game

Mafia (Werewolf) on NPR. Get the bug, figs.

[oskar]

To be less trolly about it: I don't have an opinion about either band, since honestly I never listen to them. But I was blown away at the awfulness of that Radiohead track. It's like people don't believe singing is a thing anymore. All you have to do is strain your voice then hit any ol chord progression without skipping the beat and you're a rockstar!

The real question is who between David Lee Roth and Tom Petty gets the trophy for worst vocalist of all time.

That song is from Pablo Honey. Their 1992 demo tape. Let's go ahead and judge the entire Zappa catalog based on Freak Out. Radiohead was big when Blue by Eiffel 5 and Baby One More Time topped out the charts, and that's why they're important. They moved things along. You don't have to like them to appreciate that.

[wufwugy]

Dylan, Hendrix, and Waits are all awful "vocalist".

What exactly is your point?

The point? I'm a fucking hater

[boost]

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-0...rytelling-game

Mafia (Werewolf) on NPR. Get the bug, figs.

I heard this, and it totally made me want to organize a live werewolf/mafia game. On the forum it's great, and probably has elements that would be lost in person, but I believe the opposite is certainly true, and there have to be some crazy dynamics brought about in live play.

The point? I'm a fucking hater

Well then, carry on.

[wufwugy]

FWIW my opinion on that Radiohead song is because it popped up on my Pandora feed. Quite regularly for a while

So I just assumed people love that version

[wufwugy]

kinda love this

[spoonitnow]

Lena Dunham is a lying piece of shit who lied about being raped.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rt-claims.html

[wufwugy]

The one thing that fascinates me about Girls is how different all the characters are than I am. NYC is just a place all by itself. Like Fargo. I'm more like Fargo though

[baudib]

You're not a 20-something chick living in the hipster part of Brooklyn? strange.

[bikes]

the hipster part of brooklyn is far too mainstream for late 20's chick wuf wu goo guy.

[a500lbgorilla]

Lena Dunham is a lying piece of shit who lied about being raped.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rt-claims.html

UVa girl lied about being gang raped.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...-was-misplaced

[a500lbgorilla]

I've deleted this statement twice now because it pisses me off to think about but it's becoming the case that you have to assume a girl is lying when they say they were raped because the number of girls willing to lie about this stuff, for whatever reason dwarfs the number who were raped and able to talk about it (this is ignoring the girls actually raped and silent about it).

[spoonitnow]

I've deleted this statement twice now because it pisses me off to think about but it's becoming the case that you have to assume a girl is lying when they say they were raped because the number of girls willing to lie about this stuff, for whatever reason dwarfs the number who were raped and able to talk about it (this is ignoring the girls actually raped and silent about it).

Exactly. Actual rape victims who have been through some horrible shit are getting fucked over because these dumb fucking bitches want to do dumb fucking bitch shit. It makes me sick.

[a500lbgorilla]

I heard this, and it totally made me want to organize a live werewolf/mafia game. On the forum it's great, and probably has elements that would be lost in person, but I believe the opposite is certainly true, and there have to be some crazy dynamics brought about in live play.

Yeah, I gotta figure out how to find a real life game. Memory over re-reads, body language over word-choice and sentence structure... it's gonna be ugly.

[a500lbgorilla]

What this guy experienced, it ain't sexy...



But it's pretty damn awesome.

edit cut to 28m20s. FTR doesn't seem to support the extended time start url.

[baudib]

I actually got introduced to WW during the WSOP with some baller poker players. It's a lot like comparing online poker to live poker.

[a500lbgorilla]

[MadMojoMonkey]

Jibbers Crabst

So many lols. Thanks.

All y'all better click the link, or your missing out on some good times.

Watching the sign-language translator deal with the phrase, "An 8-legged vagina that gives you a boner till you die" was possibly the greatest thing in comedy this year.

[a500lbgorilla]

Watching the sign-language translator deal with the phrase, "An 8-legged vagina that gives you a boner till you die" was possibly the greatest thing in comedy this year.

Of so many best parts, that was the best part.

[jyms]

His attempt to describe faith was awesome

[MadMojoMonkey]

I got my telescope.
I got my microscope.
I got an oscilloscope.
I got a stethascope.
I got some Scope.

and I did 45 minutes of solid science.

[aubreymcfate]

i got my first ever surprise bday party thrown for me last friday ;____; feelz.

[Renton]

I had one for my 20th birthday and got surprisingly emotional. One of those things I'll remember forever.

[rong]

I listened to an interesting talk on the radio today by Dr Atul Gawande about healthcare for people who are going to die. I think it's a Ted talk also, a Reith lecture or something. An interesting point made was how initially the focus is on gaining long-term quality of life against short term pain and sacrifice of time. Where as once you know you can't be helped its a switch to short term quality of life often with the sacrifice of time. It was quite emotional.

Not the kind of thing I'd typically seek out but was surprisingly interesting.

[a500lbgorilla]

Last week, I heard one morning that 1 in 6 college women will be sexually assaulted before they graduate. The next day, it was 1 in 5. By the end of the week, I saw one source recounting that a full 1/3rd of college women will face sexual assault.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double...e_efforts.html


The Sexual Victimization of College Women, a 2000 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, is the basis for another widely cited statistic, even grimmer than the finding of CSA: that one in four college women will be raped. (An activist organization, One in Four, takes its name from the finding.) The study itself, however, found a completed rape rate among its respondents of 1.7 percent. How does a study that finds less than 2 percent of college women in a given year are raped become a 25 percent likelihood? In addition to the 1.7 percent of victims of completed rape, the survey found that another 1.1 percent experienced attempted rape. As the authors wrote, “[O]ne might conclude that the risk of rape victimization for college women is not high; ‘only’ about 1 in 36 college women (2.8 percent) experience a completed rape or attempted rape in an academic year.”


But the authors go on to make several assumptions that ratchet up the risk. The study was carried out during the spring and asked women to describe any assaults experienced during that academic year. The researchers decided to double the numbers they received from their subjects, in order to extrapolate their findings over an entire calendar year, even as they acknowledged that this was “problematic,” as students rarely attend school for 12 months. That calculation brought the incidence figure to nearly 5 percent. Although college is designed to be a four-year experience, the authors note that it takes students “an average” of five years, so they then multiplied their newly-arrived-at 5 percent of student victims by five years, and thus they conclude: “The percentage of completed or attempted rape victimization among women in higher educational institutions might climb to between one-fifth and one-quarter.”

[a500lbgorilla]

I listened to an interesting talk on the radio today by Dr Atul Gawande about healthcare for people who are going to die. I think it's a Ted talk also, a Reith lecture or something. An interesting point made was how initially the focus is on gaining long-term quality of life against short term pain and sacrifice of time. Where as once you know you can't be helped its a switch to short term quality of life often with the sacrifice of time. It was quite emotional.

Not the kind of thing I'd typically seek out but was surprisingly interesting.

Sounds like no one wants to acknowledge Death as part of the equation, so we focus entirely on beating it back. Once he sets up shop and we know the jig is up, fuck it let's party.

[JKDS]

But the authors go on to make several assumptions that ratchet up the risk. The study was carried out during the spring and asked women to describe any assaults experienced during that academic year. The researchers decided to double the numbers they received from their subjects, in order to extrapolate their findings over an entire calendar year, even as they acknowledged that this was “problematic,” as students rarely attend school for 12 months. That calculation brought the incidence figure to nearly 5 percent. Although college is designed to be a four-year experience, the authors note that it takes students “an average” of five years, so they then multiplied their newly-arrived-at 5 percent of student victims by five years, and thus they conclude: “The percentage of completed or attempted rape victimization among women in higher educational institutions might climb to between one-fifth and one-quarter.”

I skimmed some parts of the article, and skimmed more of the survey it spoke of.

Interestingly, multiplying the number by 5 wasnt that bad of an estimate. If the 2.8% number is accurate and reliable, over five years there'd be a 13% chance of rape/attempted rape. With 5%, a ~23% chance. (1-(norape^years))

I thought the most interesting point about this though, was that the number would be akin to rapes in the Congo. This doesnt seem right, but I dont see obvious fault in the 2.8% value (they ignore repeat victims, for instance, only including the first incident).

It leads me to believe there must be some error in how the questions were asked, or the answers given, or the data obtained from the answers. The study claims to account for variances due to answers from students from 2yr or 4yr universities, and from rural/urban/etc areas, but perhaps it did so incorrectly?

Then again, with how strict our rape laws are, perhaps it is unsurprising that so many people are 'victims' of 'rape'.

But...it was a study from a decade ago...where laws were less harsh and people were less tumblr feminazi 'stop eye raping me'. So idk.

[rong]

How does that compare with a chick that age (say18-25) who isn't a student?

Could be just the incentive we need to stop these spoilt kids devaluing our degrees.

[aubreymcfate]

I had one for my 20th birthday and got surprisingly emotional. One of those things I'll remember forever.

yes, I was so moved. I can't stop watching the video of it. 25 shall be a good year

i also gave a bday speech about throwing up on myself, so hopefully that indicates an auspicious new year

[spoonitnow]

yes, I was so moved. I can't stop watching the video of it. 25 shall be a good year

i also gave a bday speech about throwing up on myself, so hopefully that indicates an auspicious new year

There's a good throwing up story in my AMA.

[aubreymcfate]

There's a good throwing up story in my AMA.

where?? don't see it

[aubreymcfate]

there's apparently a video of my speech, once i find it i'll post it. i had literally just thrown up on myself while talking to people and just exited the bathroom when they all came at me with the cake, and since i was already fucked up i decided it was a good idea to tell no one and just regale them with what just happened

[eugmac]

Can you guys figure it out?

[spoonitnow]

where?? don't see it

ctrl+f throw

or post 9

[aubreymcfate]

ctrl+f throw

or post 9

i did exactly that, and some other words. you mean the dec 2014 one right?

[spoonitnow]

i did exactly that, and some other words. you mean the dec 2014 one right?

You're really bad at this. Yeah I mean the one in my signature. It's like post #9.

[aubreymcfate]

The word was "threw" and it was post 10. also took up a line so it was very easy to miss.

I hope you got on the ground and licked it all up after!

[oskar]

Can you guys figure it out?

Maybe I'm missing something but if we can't remove the bill this doesn't seem very interesting at all. it's 0.5 for anyone to find the bill so it's. 0.5^100 to find it and since the payout isn't all the money in the world, I'd say you don't want to take the bet.

ok, so there's an answer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-I...ature=youtu.be
Which makes no sense to me.

The key to their 'solution' isn't given in the original video either. So even if their answer is correct, you still can't find it with the information given in the first video. Unless someone can confirm to me that their approach actually works, I'm not going to expand any more brain power on this. It sounds like complete bs to me.

[oskar]

nvm, this actually works, lol.

[Chelle]

mannnnn, i got some anger issues.

[spoonitnow]

The word was "threw" and it was post 10. also took up a line so it was very easy to miss.

I hope you got on the ground and licked it all up after!

I have to make you work for it or you won't respect me.

[MadMojoMonkey]

The key to their 'solution' isn't given in the original video either. So even if their answer is correct, you still can't find it with the information given in the first video. Unless someone can confirm to me that their approach actually works, I'm not going to expand any more brain power on this. It sounds like complete bs to me.

nvm, this actually works, lol.

What happened in that 30 minutes? Was oskar brainwashed by the illuminati?

'Cause I was pretty much in line with your above post, except unlike some people, when I decide to stop expending brain power on something, god damn it, I mean it.

But if you tell me what you did, then I can spend brain power judging your methods, which is wholly different than divining my own methods.

[oskar]

I can't math this, but I did reduce it to 10 and played around with some paper scraps and the success rate is insane.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem

[kingnat]

I feel like have potentially entered the inner circle of douchebaggery... I now own an iPhone 6+.

[jyms]

Those feels are genuine

[aubreymcfate]

I own a 5S whose screen I cracked pretty badly at an In and Out burger place. Nothing says living on the edge like tapping your fingers on jagged glass all day.

[spoonitnow]

I feel like have potentially entered the inner circle of douchebaggery... I now own an iPhone 6+.

I got my first smartphone today, an iPhone 5s.

[jyms]

You people are all too smart and capable to have iPhones.

[rong]

I can't math this, but I did reduce it to 10 and played around with some paper scraps and the success rate is insane.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem

I'd never have got there, but that's pretty damn interesting.