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http://i.minus.com/ibs7gmvcLCTN7p.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
Jesus fucking Christ boog!
Mainly was just using it very broadly. About jeans specifically, looser than normal used to be normal, now tighter than normal is.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
Bell bottoms. Not fashionable and not easy to find. "In fashion" means all sorts of things in different contexts. My point was that when they have a whole row of carpenter jeans at the store it's because they're fashionable enough to sell. Ofc some might like to say they're "out of fashion", but that's mainly just referring to youth trendsQuote:
Um, yeah, of course they do. Why would we have language (fashionable, in style, etc.) to distinguish between what is and isn't in fashion if it was, as you seem to think, near impossible to be "out of fashion?"
I've been wearing the same style of jeans forever. The trend used to be towards these jeans, but now it's not, but one day it will again be
I've a friend who wears nothing but cargo shorts and plaid shirts. Looking ridiculous hurts him none.
Aren't carpenter jeans......... Just jeans?
Carpenter jeans are the ones with that extra set of big pockets, presumably for storing tools.
yesQuote:
Originally Posted by rong
unless you're below the age of 22. then they're baggy, because anything that doesn't suck the air out of the spaces between cloth and skin is baggy
made the mistake of asking my calculus tutor what religion he is (hey he said he got baptized and he's russian so i thought maybe i met my first eastern ortho). dude is hardcore fundamentalist pentacostal. why is it so easy for engineers to call evolution and cosmology bad science?
anyways i had to play everything down because he helps me a ton and there's a decent chance he would hold being an atheist against me
I don't think it's ever occurred to me to ask someone what religion they are.
im guessing you didnt grow up religious
Fun Fact: Actual carpenters don't wear those pants because all of the pockets and hooks are fucking useless.Quote:
Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
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Originally Posted by rong
I'm guessing you weren't raised with a social compass? Asking one's religion is a faux pas.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Also, Catholic school for 12 years so don't use the being raised religious route.
they are useless. carpenters wear tool belts. only while workingQuote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
ofc it is. until they volunteer information. he said "i got baptized" so i said "in what". kinda standard. the problem was that i forgot that people who volunteer religious information tend to love talking too much about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BooG690
catholics are religious at church or mass or whatever. protestants are religious all the damn timeQuote:
Also, Catholic school for 12 years so don't use the being raised religious route.
yes i know that's not strictly true
Stereotype is pretty spot on.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I have a weird WW hangover where I want to argue about things. I'll leave this out of the commune.
Also, I'm in the mood to drink.
you and me both.
i cant seem to drink much anymore tho. im only an alcoholic when im depressed
Does this mean I'm always depressed, or I can just drink whenever the I want?Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
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Originally Posted by wufwugy
Bell bottoms are not exactly in fashion, but they can be fashionable if worn right. Mom jeans are not fashionable and never will be, yet they are, were, and likely always will be available.
Also, youth culture does not dictate all fashion. What's fashionable in the suit world may at times be influenced by youth culture, but I can't see how you'd claim it's a driving force-- and again, there are always out of style or just plain unfashionable suits for sale.
I mean, look, you wear cargo shorts and carpenter pants or whatever. I don't begrudge you for it, and I'm not claiming to be some fashion expert, but watching you pontificate on the topic makes me cringe.
cliffs: You're out of your fucking element, Donny.
It's a cool hat, but I was super disappointed when no one thought it was funny when I referred to you as Carmen Sandiego.Quote:
Originally Posted by aubreymcfate
i laughed so hard i blasted ass right through my jeans and then had to hit boost up for some skinnies. shit changed my life
boost is a stand up guy, he'd give you the sticker right off of his cap.
I decided to wear a 3 piece suit to a legal job interview. They laughed at me while telling me how brave I was to do that.
Fashion matters
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
You can easily were a three piece suit and look dam fine doing it imo.
This is why FTR needs a like button. This shit right here is what keeps the commune aliveQuote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
gimme a showdown between pogos and kiwi and i could die happy
Great wait but why post. Not been there in a while but was pleased to find this.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artifi...olution-1.html
Wait.
Is wait but why even widely known? I've no idea. But is should be, even if there are many like it, 'cos this one is fine.
Was wufwuggy the editor on this?Quote:
Originally Posted by rong
Too many words per thought for my taste, but interesting thought.
The thing he fails to realize is that exponential growth is frequently pinned to an exponential decay. There are physical limits of what can be made for a given power input, and material limits on how much power can be transmitted through something before the power flow tears is apart.
I don't know what the limit is, but the current sizes of the worlds smallest NPN junction is 9 atoms across. The benefits gained by making things smaller, so they can be closer together, so signals pass quickly and for low energy requirements... that point is upon us.
Without real quantum computers, the rate of increase can not continue to double.
Wow. What a post from me.
Current technology can only be improved a finite amount by making it smaller and cramming more of it into the same sized box. Eventually, the physical limits of atoms will not allow further shrinking of a given architecture.
New architectures tend to provide small improvements, OR to provide massive size increases for nominal speed increases. Size increases correspond to power increases. Power increases correspond to increases in heat. When we're putting things together with the accuracy of atom-by-atom construction, keeping the temperature low is vital.
So that ever-sharply increasing prediction is going to slow down and eventually flatline.
I don't think anyone has a practical prediction of what quantum computers will be capable of. Ultimately the same principle will apply at some point.
This all says nothing to whether computers will outsmart the peoples
No fucking way
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Candy...t-year_id66011
Candy Crush Saga is a free download from the major app stores. That is free as in no cost to the buyer. Yet, the mobile game brought in the amazing sum of $1.33 billion last year for its developer, King.
The freemium business model has killed mobile gaming. While good for bored housewives and big game developers, it's no good for people that actually like good games.
More on AI coming for our jerbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
It leans towards a need a the basic minimum wage once we no longer need to work. We all know this won't happen anyway so prepare some riot gear, guys!
Yeah we should totally give a required minimum wage to people who lost their jobs because now we have machines to pick cotton.
Oh wait, we do.
1.3 billion is almost half the revenue of my company. And we build things.
Someone'll have to design the designers. Here's my resume.Quote:
Originally Posted by BooG690
I may be able to address this more later, but for now:Quote:
Originally Posted by BooG690
One of the main responses to wage floor increases is mechanization. The intuitive response to low incomes is to arbitrarily raise them through policy mandates, but macroeconomics is counter-intuitive. The one thing that policymakers and the public think will help us is instead a primary driver in worsening things for us
Price the marginal worker out of the market and you have created higher unemployment and more mechanized services. Not to mention that innovation in service suffers too. Without wage floors and bad welfare policies and regulatory policies, people get hired to do all sorts of experimental things. But with them, well, hiring is a huge risk, and only the most qualified tend to get hired in an attempt to marginalize the cost of hiring
The faster job automation comes, the better. To NOT automate a job just for job security sake is so ridiculously inefficient, it hurts me.
That guy in the booth at the subway station who sits there and watches me buy Metrocards from a machine need not be there. He gets paid for doing nothing and can find a better way to contribute to society if only he be slapped with the hard truth that his job is not needed.
TBH I think mechanization is a great thing in that it creates better jobs by way of technicians.
A 1:1 increase of production and employment would be a disaster since it wouldn't raise living standards that well. What we want is a world where production increases as well as marginal jobs are eliminated. But some people don't believe this -- many wish to stay in their low-skill, low-effort jobs forever -- so we get regressive policy that tries to stall living standard increases instead of people simply increasing their productivity
It's a little ironic that the left-wing supports higher education and minimum wage. The entire point of the former is to learn new skills and increase ones productivity, which is a stark contrast to the latter being about trying to keep people from having to learn new skills or increase their productivity (even though it fails at that goal)
Damnit, I was hoping to get into an argument with Wuf. But nooooooo, we hadddd to agree.
sorry can't help but post this:
http://www.vice.com/video/love-indus...igital-sex-669
teledildonics... as in - using a dildo via a long-distance.Quote:
the Dutch enthusiastically enlist the use of "teledildonics" to enhance their long-distance relationships
I'll wait for them to work the kinks out. Hya-cha-chah
Cheap self-promotion. I was interviewed about the online gambling industry, and it turned out to be pretty good: http://www.cassaon-casino.com/interv...esse-eddleman/
Why are you dressed like a waiter, Jerry?
lol... is that a selfie at a gas station?Quote:
Originally Posted by oskar
Carmen Sandiego... nice
Nah, chick took it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Good stuff, spoonQuote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
So I'm staying in an apartment for a couple of nights, kids free break in a nice little town. We decide to eat in and fancy some steaks so I head out to the local butcher. I really like going to small local butchers and chatting with the guy about what's good and how best to cook it etc. I just miss them and they're closed so I go to the supermarket instead, a little disappointed .
I go up to the butcher counter and there's a range of meats and a big sign saying ask us anything. Nobody is behind the counter and I check out the various steaks and the following encounter happens which seemed like a scene from a very dry sitcom.
Him - hi there, how can I help.
Me - hi there, that sirloin at the back, how big is that?
Him - I dunno (picks up up with tongs and shows it to me), about that big.
Me - yeah but how big is it?
Him - what?
Me - well how much does it weigh?
Him - dunno (slaps it in scales) 297g.
Me - well what's that in English?
Him - what?
- in ounces?
- I dunno.
- what? Steak's always sold in ounces.
- well I'd guess that's about half a pound.
- you'd guess?
- yeah it's about that.
- so how many ounces?
- dunno. How many ounces in a pound? 12? 14?
- errr right. Ok. Never mind that. Any particular recommendation with the steaks?
- I dunno. It's just luck really. You never know what you're gonna get.
- what? That's your answer? What about this sign here, "ask me anything"?
- well I'm not the butcher.
- what?
- I'm a Baker, you can tell by the colour of stripe on my head.
- dude, what the fuck?!
- I'd just get a sirloin from the aisle mate, I'm always happy with those.
At this point I wall away.
Are you ok?
@ronk... that really belongs in a letter to the store manager.
Also, there must be a butcher near you that would love to have a customer as interested as you.
omg I love that guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by rong
There aren't nearly enough people who don't give a fuck on this planet. These are the good people. You might not get the steak you want, rong, but you should thank him for squatting the time and space that could otherwise be taken up by some over archiving troublemaker.
that really does sound like something stephen merchant would be involved in
Yeah I struggled not to laugh ad I was walking away. The guy seemed quite thick but quite enthusiastic.
Heh.
I remember once finding a member of staff who cares in a supermarket. Long time ago, that was.
That supermarket conversation is British customer service in a nutshell.
all this time i didnt realize british humor is the same thing as british reality
Yeah just what the world needs, more half-assing idiots.
Why do you think we're such a miserable bunch of cunts? It's not just the weather and food.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Centuries of inbreeding.Quote:
Originally Posted by OngBonga
You're right, we do have an extensive history.Quote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
John wick has some of the best shoot em up deaths ever. It's worth watching just for the shoot outs. Actually that's pretty much all there is to it.
This is so fucking cool I wish I understood any of it.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015...found-at-last/
It means the NSA has your nudes.
http://i.imgur.com/eujXl8A.jpg
i live in marquette. why do i live in marquette?
Where's Pittsburg?
My interest continues to arouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
So, throughout my life, I saw my teachers as idiots (well, most authority figures actually). Obviously, nothing positive results from me viewing teachers as absolute morons. I have to remind myself that they are, in fact, not dumbasses and that it's probably my problem with authority flaring up again.
This semester, two of my professors are babbling idiots. Almost going out of their way not to teach. Usually, I'd just teach myself the material but one professors actually DOESN'T let us stray from the EXACT algorithm steps (and implementation) she outlines in class. This causes a problem since I think there are more optimal ways of implementing the algorithm (in terms of memory and time). So now, my brain isn't sure if she really is a mouth breather or I should learn to respect what she says.
You have to do both. Some teachers are brilliant, some are dolts. Few are capable of being truly wonderful since the system is schizophrenic. Its internal pressure is the scholastic pursuit, but its external pressure is application. The ultimate creator of this schizophrenia is government subsidization, but that's a story for a different time. For the time being, we have to cope with the muddy merger of two diametrically opposed philosophies
Most of what we should learn in school isn't that hard. Most of what we're taught is very hard. Personally, calculus would be easy as balls if we didn't waste time being taught every single one of those stupid "you don't need to know this, but you have to be taught it" things. The institution hates change and hates progress. It believes inherent to advancement is a gritting of teeth. It couldn't be more wrong
Explain to her in intricate detail why she's wrong and you're right, whilst simultaneously imagining placing your penis into her mouth.
Excellent advice, although "imagining" should clearly be omitted.
Wuf, why don't you ever end your paragraphs with a period? It drives me fucking nuts.
lollllllllll
if you look closely, i'll use a period about 20% of the time.
i think lack of periods arises out of instant message norms.
all these periods. just for you.
so, uh, why all the hate for dumb n dumber to? correct me if im wrong, but it's pretty much the same movie as the original. same jokes, same timing, i laughed just as much.
perhaps people forget that the original was beyond idiotic. view it with any sort of skeptical eye or in the wrong mental state, and it would be terrible.
You bite your fucking tongue. Dumb & Dumber is top 3 greatest comedies of all-time.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Oh don't get me wrong. I don't disagree with that. I was trying to say that the humor is much stupider than I think people remember. The characters are just as goofy and ridiculous
I didn't mean idiotic as in bad, but idiotic as in wacky
Anyone who thinks Dumb & Dumber is top three all time comedy has seen exactly three comedies.
Oh dear god, cannot unsee!Quote:
Originally Posted by BooG690
Two reasons, first would be that they seemed to have trouble falling into their characters again. It feels way more like they're playing a sketch of the original characters. I'm not an acting guy, but that's the best I can explain it, it's like the delivery tried to be extra stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
The other is they're no longer characters with heart. In the first one they were idiots but you emphasized for them. They did dumb shit but there was no intended harm to others, they were just going about trying to live their life as these friendly happy idiots. In the second one they're just oblivious assholes. You don't care if things pan out for them.
That's the best way I can explain it, I found it hard to put my thumb on why it doesn't work but I think that covers it. Yeah the gags are the same kind of deal (still not as funny as the first imo), but those character issues really kills the movie. I don't hate the movie, I'd rank it as it's an alright comedy to watch on Netflix, but it doesn't even come close to the first one.
Shut it, Brit. Monty Python is overrated.Quote:
Originally Posted by OngBonga
http://consumerist.com/2015/02/17/ph...liver-mocking/
The actions of Big tobacco seem to be even more fucked up than I could imagine
I'd be offended by this if you hadn't already showed you know very little about comedy by describing Shit and Shitter as top three all time comedy.Quote:
Originally Posted by BooG690
Actually it's only just occured to me that maybe you're a comedy genius, and you said that to troll me, knowing that I'd rate the three Python films as numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Touche.
ok so i got that far and was thinking , thats a bit harsh, boog and ong ain't that bad .Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I wasn't a huge fan of the original, but there were some funny parts. It was just overall too "dumb" for me.
When people start losing their shit over McDonalds to the same degree that they lose their shit over tobacco companies, then I'll care.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
I don't disagree that much with this, but I don't think it makes it bad. The first was incredible, the second is knocked down a notch or two to great or just pretty good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
Also I think the points against it are still debatable. Overacting was the name of the game for the original. It's a little strange to think that overacting didn't work for the second. I think what happened is we idolized the original and then grew up and still idolized it and that informs our judgement on the new one.
The 90s adored ridiculousness. The current era hates it. Given how close to the original part two is, my first guess for why the masses don't like it is user error
i am unconvinced that monty python films are comedies. aren't those things supposed to be funny?
I think we both agree on the quality of the movie. But some people may have taken the things I didn't like about the movie much more seriously to the point it ruined the movie for them. That, plus the idealizing of the first film you mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I personally didn't think there was much over acting in the first (aside from Jim Carrey doing his Jim Carry'isms), they played the roles of a couple ridiculously stupid guys, but that's pretty much how I would think someone that dumb would act. In the second it was like they took that stupid character then added the classic, "Uh duhhh..." before each line. Yeah they didn't literally do that but it's the best analogy I can think of to explain what I feel was wrong with the character portrayals this time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Actually here's kind of an exaggerated example of what it was like. You've probably seen Goodwill Hunting or at least have seen the Harvard bard scene with the douchebag. Then in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back there's a scene where Affleck and Damon are filming a sequel and are revisiting that scene bar scene. The way Ben Affleck acts in that scene is him playing his old character with some heavy handed satire. It's an extreme example but it felt a lot like that, like in Dumb and Dumber they were unintentionally satirizing their characters.
Nee!
Tis but a flesh wound.
HOW ELSE WOULD YOU EXPLAIN MY OUTRAGEOUS ACCENT
I haven't even watched that much of Monty Python's material but it's pretty easy to tell these guys were 2cleverby4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDjCqjzbvJY
I remember some 5th graders doing the dead parrot sketch in the talent show when I was in 3rd grade. Shit was tight.
If you don't find that funny you have something wrong with you.
Trying to explain to a woman why social proof is so important for B2B marketing shouldn't be this difficult considering she won't shut the fuck up about the earrings her man bought her for Valentine's Day.
Well there's your problem right here.Quote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
I hate this argument. They're not funny. Monty Python fans find Monty Python funny because, well, God forbid they think otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by rong
Here's a popular Monty Python sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPN3KTtrnZM
It makes me cringe to think people find this to be "classic." Ugh, it's so bad. It's awful. It's not funny. Monty Python is overrated and are caught in a circle jerk. They're thought to be good because it's blasphemous to think otherwise for some odd reason.
You can throw The Eagles, Green Day and U2 to the group of things caught in this circle jerk. They're also bad.
Alright, let's call it a draw.
Boog does have a point. It is blasphemous to not find Python funny.
Let's stone him.
I'm not a huge money python fan. I find a lot of their stuff boring. But the link rilla put up, I'd never even seen before, and because of my general dislike of monty python, expected to not find funny, yet laughed out loud.
I'm not defending monty python, I'm defending that sketch.
Dookie was great. The rest of their stuff is dull. Green day, obv.
In fairness, I'm defending Holy Grail, and Life of Brian. They're the classics. The rest is open to interpretation, granted.