I'm not Dr Ong, by the way. I'm Doctor Bongwater.
https://twitter.com/DrBongwater
04-12-2020 05:08 PM
#27901
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I'm not Dr Ong, by the way. I'm Doctor Bongwater. | |
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04-12-2020 06:28 PM
#27902
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So is your mum happy now she didn't go on the cruise? | |
04-12-2020 06:49 PM
#27903
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She's not dwelling on it. It's not all bad, it was pretty expensive and they've been refunded, so they have extra money. It's a shame for my Stepdad, his 60th birthday will be in lockdown. | |
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04-13-2020 03:43 PM
#27904
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04-13-2020 05:43 PM
#27905
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04-17-2020 01:02 PM
#27906
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04-17-2020 06:48 PM
#27907
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Don't be such a drama queen. His 60th birthday would have been spent alive anyway. | |
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04-18-2020 05:30 AM
#27908
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Another child star ruined by drugs and alcohol. | |
04-21-2020 07:48 AM
#27909
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Well. | |
04-21-2020 08:12 AM
#27910
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South Korea and China have both dismissed claims he's gravely ill, but haven't denied he has had heart surgery. I would be more inclined to listen to those two countries where NK is concerned, rather than USA. | |
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04-21-2020 08:16 AM
#27911
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He's in his twenties though, no? What is he having heart surgery for? I know he's a big fat fuck, but stilll - smells like a coup to me. | |
04-21-2020 09:20 AM
#27912
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Well this isn't the first time he's disappeared and people thought there was a coup. He turned up after 40 days with a cane, and people speculated that he had gout. | |
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04-21-2020 09:40 AM
#27913
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04-21-2020 09:46 AM
#27914
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Failed coup that resulted in him needing a cane? Viable. | |
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04-21-2020 07:47 PM
#27915
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How many circles in this image? | |
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04-23-2020 02:40 PM
#27916
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Guy is in a coma about to die and the world only cares about what is going to happen to his mostly dysfunctional nukes. | |
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04-23-2020 03:40 PM
#27917
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Ho Jack, hope you're well. | |
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04-23-2020 03:42 PM
#27918
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Lots of speculation on Twitter but can't find anything solid. | |
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04-25-2020 07:22 PM
#27919
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China sent a medical team to help KJU. | |
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04-25-2020 09:40 PM
#27920
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Well if Twitter is to be believed, they should send a coroner and an undertaker. | |
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04-26-2020 02:20 AM
#27921
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Chess is just a two player Rubik's cube; fight me. | |
04-26-2020 07:13 AM
#27922
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1. e4 | |
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04-26-2020 10:26 AM
#27923
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Both games are tedious and I don't have the patience for either. | |
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04-26-2020 10:32 AM
#27924
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Rubik's cubes are tedious, but chess is wonderful. Wash your mouth out. | |
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04-26-2020 11:07 AM
#27925
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Mouthwash is a marketing scam. | |
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04-26-2020 12:44 PM
#27926
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04-26-2020 03:28 PM
#27927
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At the risk of poking a sleeping bear, some people would argue it's a fact that mouthwash has medical benefits. Some of those people might even be dentists. Poop you could very easily have not known better and taken issue with mojo's claim, citing "experts". | |
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04-26-2020 03:34 PM
#27928
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Is there where I'm supposed to say everything I think I know about CV deaths and what works in slowing the spread of infectious disease in a population is wrong? | |
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04-26-2020 05:10 PM
#27929
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Well I wouldn't know if you're wrong or not, but even experts can get it wrong. So unless you're an expert expert, then you should at least consider the thought. | |
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04-27-2020 01:43 AM
#27930
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By "experts" I meant all of the various titles of dental doctors, oral surgeons, and other professional tooth people. | |
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04-27-2020 01:58 AM
#27931
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Seemingly is the operative word here I think. Kind of like how many of the early global warming deniers were meteorologists. Experts on local short scale weather patterns, but with no expertise in climate. | |
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04-27-2020 03:21 AM
#27932
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I used to have gum swelling here and there and this stopped completely when I started rinsing my mouth daily with listerine about a year ago. I have other anecdotal evidence as well that it works, so it's good enough for me. | |
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04-27-2020 12:28 PM
#27933
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The wildlife taking over the exclusion zone at Chernobyl is mostly unaffected by the radiation there. | |
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04-27-2020 01:51 PM
#27934
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Surely it would be a great place to build a town for old people to retire to. If it's safe for regular people to visit for a day, tourism would be huge and would easily pay for the best retirement home on the planet. | |
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04-27-2020 02:53 PM
#27935
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lol | |
04-27-2020 03:10 PM
#27936
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Chess is solved, whether mouthwash works or not is still a mystery. | |
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04-27-2020 04:54 PM
#27937
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Chess is solved? News to me. | |
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04-27-2020 04:55 PM
#27938
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04-27-2020 04:59 PM
#27939
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Closed system game is solvable. Multivariate-based efficacy of minty alcohol on vaguely-defined health variable unsolvable. | |
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04-27-2020 05:50 PM
#27940
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I made a couple small imgur albums from my vacation. | |
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04-27-2020 05:57 PM
#27941
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Oh ok. I mean solved and solvable are different things, but I see your point. Chess won't be solved until we have quantum computers, though. And AI might be able to solve the mouthwash problem one day, who knows? At the very least it will give us a mouthwash that is actually beneficial. | |
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04-27-2020 05:58 PM
#27942
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Dubai looks amazing, I'd love to take a walk around with a spliff and a woman showing her ankles. | |
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04-27-2020 06:00 PM
#27943
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04-27-2020 06:03 PM
#27944
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It would have to solve it differently for every person, and the solution would change over time due to physiological conditions of each person changing - e.g., diet, age, etc.. So, while it may be 'solvable' in some sense, it's not solvable in a practical sense. The best we could hope for practically is to determine some average and range of benefits/costs for a population. | |
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04-27-2020 06:14 PM
#27945
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There's only 7 billion people in the world. That number is so fucking puny compared to the number of potential chess positions. Solving mouthwash should be a walk in the park in comparison. | |
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04-27-2020 06:39 PM
#27946
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04-27-2020 07:29 PM
#27947
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I guess, and I don't doubt you're right that it explodes into actual large numbers rather than numbers we can get our puny heads around, but believe me, chess does to. And while diet and all these individual factors play important roles, much of it is similar between person to person. Although chess has the same simplicity in that most of the "potential" positions are not actually likely, for example nobody will deliberately give up their queen immediately, so why even bother analysing the 10^whatever positions where that happens? Same with humans and all these factors, really. Maybe one person eats dog shit sandwiches and mouthwash won't be solved for them any time soon, but most people eat potatoes, or rice. So yeah I get that it might not be 100% solved for everyone, but for 99%+ it will. | |
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04-27-2020 08:03 PM
#27948
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yeah, chess has combinatorial explosion as well, but is still a limited system. Your possible moves on any given turn is limited unless you play on a board with infinite squares. And like you say, a lot of the possible moves are provably dumb. | |
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04-27-2020 08:14 PM
#27949
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The spliff would be difficult. I didn't see or smell any spliffs the entire week. | |
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04-27-2020 08:41 PM
#27950
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04-27-2020 08:45 PM
#27951
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mojo, smoking spliffs is definitely a huge problem in UAE. I was perhaps being a little dramatic with the ankles comment, I appreciate UAE is a lot more western-friendly than, say, Saudi Arabia, but it's still very easy for a liberal minded westerner to get into trouble. I'd love to go, but I never will. | |
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04-27-2020 08:46 PM
#27952
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Regarding fake old buildings: Many European cities whose architecture looks hundreds of years old actually are ~70 years old. They were rebuilt after WWII in a concerted effort to "save" what was lost in the mass air raids. | |
04-27-2020 08:47 PM
#27953
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Funny thing is, I found it in a cute little Egyptian souk where I was literally handed off from merchant to merchant like I was being introduced to my own distant relatives. | |
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04-27-2020 08:53 PM
#27954
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This is mostly how it is here too, but I hate it. If there's foot traffic, then either be patient or pick a better spot that doesn't require strangers to participate in the dumb forced composition of your dumb photo. You're going to die, you're not posting new content, so people will never look at your Instagram again, and your cellphone is locked so no grandkid of yours will stumble upon the equivalent of an old leather bound album and take a walk down your uneventful memory lane. Go fuck yourself. | |
04-27-2020 09:15 PM
#27955
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Yeah I mean my politeness only extends so far. I live in a touristy town, and we have people standing in the middle of the pavement taking photos of old buildings, while locals are trying to get about. Fucking imbeciles. And if you don't get out of shot, they look at you like you're the cunt. The best thing you can do is to pull a stupid face as you walk past in the hope it gets captured. It's not as fun in the digital age, since they can view the image immediately and delete it, but it's still amusing. | |
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04-27-2020 11:16 PM
#27956
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At sleep away camp when everyone had disposable film cameras, we'd grab kid's while they were sleeping and take a picture of our naked butts or our junk. It's the greatest punchline that you only got to enjoy in your imagination: some poor kid's parents develop their kid's roll of film expecting to see fishing and tug of war and archery, and instead they get a bunch of pre-teen cocks and butts. | |
04-28-2020 01:44 AM
#27957
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04-28-2020 02:51 AM
#27958
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Haha, yeah I had a similar experience in Istanbul where a young guy approached me in a plaza near the Hagia Sofia and started talking to me about it and then turned the conversation around to rugs and then took me to his uncle's rug store and blah blah blah'd me for about 15 minutes about rugs and I didn't want a rug anyways so I never bought one. | |
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04-28-2020 06:22 AM
#27959
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Probably get reported to the police in today's age. And the cops would probably arrest a 14 y/o boy for it and give him a good talking to at the station. I miss the 80's, life was so much simpler. I'm really glad I went to school at a time when everyone didn't have digital cameras. | |
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04-28-2020 06:01 PM
#27960
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I think it would be much worse than "a good talking to" | |
04-28-2020 06:32 PM
#27961
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Pre-teens should be forgiven for acting their age. But nowadays, there's always at least one person going all arrrrrggghgh about anything even remotely out of line. | |
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04-29-2020 12:34 AM
#27962
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Damn kids and their rock music. | |
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04-29-2020 07:08 AM
#27963
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I've been living in Dubai for several years and it exists but is very rare, because the UAE is basically a police state. The CID has snitches everywhere, to crack down on radicals but everything else too. But some Africans do manage to bring it in. Street value is about 500 dirhams or $135 per gram. | |
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04-29-2020 08:49 AM
#27964
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£135 per gram holy fucking shit, that's around £100 and is basically how much cocaine costs here. If I were to buy a gram of weed, I'd expect to pay £10, but if I buy in bulk which I usually do then it's cheaper. | |
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04-29-2020 08:55 AM
#27965
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I don't think a 14 y/o will get prosecuted for taking a pic of his junk in the same shot as a sleeping teenager. Maybe if it went viral they might make an example out of him, but still, a 14 y/o shouldn't get a permanent record for it. But expelled from school might be a realistic punishment, which is worse than a talking to, so you're probably right. | |
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04-29-2020 08:58 AM
#27966
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Yeah. Kids going through puberty are naturally going to act in sexually weird ways. Even at 14 you know you can't force yourself on people, kids that age have to have this moral position enforced on them, but what we're talking about here is just inappropriate fun. Sometimes it does drift into serious behaviour, and that has to be dealt with, but you've definitely got to cut a kid more slack than an adult when it comes to this kind of behaviour. | |
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04-29-2020 09:40 AM
#27967
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04-29-2020 04:02 PM
#27968
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NPR voice is worse than vocal fry, fight me. | |
04-30-2020 06:58 AM
#27969
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Still no word on whether Kim Jong Un is dead or alive. Cue Shrodinger jokes. | |
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04-30-2020 10:03 AM
#27970
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04-30-2020 11:53 AM
#27971
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04-30-2020 11:57 AM
#27972
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04-30-2020 11:58 AM
#27973
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Given that there is no credible news source out of NK, I regard all of that as tabloid rumors until something substantive comes out. | |
Last edited by oskar; 04-30-2020 at 12:02 PM.
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05-02-2020 05:02 AM
#27974
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The fat fuck is back! | |
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05-02-2020 06:03 AM
#27975
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Thank fuck for that, I haven't been sleeping well worrying about him. | |
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