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Just hit it for old times sake.
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Originally Posted by Warpe
Two completely different girls. Maybe I worded the other post badly. I just found his new situation amusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
A few of us were drinking at my brother's place the other night and I was asking her about it and she fucking hates it when it's brought up. Even she doesn't believe in the Illuminati.
I think the terms of the break up would factor a lot into this. Not that you need to share, but it would play a pivotal role in decision making imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
who, shaquielle oneal?Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Just watched an episode of true blood with my gf tonight. What is this shit? I saw 2 minutes of it once before. It's nothing but smut, terrible acting, and just retarded shit. How the fuck do people watch this?
most people that I've encountered who watch it say "it was a lot better but went downhill fast." From the little bits I've seen (very little) it seems like it was mediocre at best, and for such a loyal fanbase to pretty much admit that it is now trash means they did indeed tank the show something awful.
i took lsd the first time the other day. wow what an experience luhlz
Yeah, don`t get the vampire thing. Breaking Bad and The Killing, on the other hand, are sucking me in.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigred
ya, season 4 of BB is really starting to get going, I'm behind and ep, prob won't get to watch it for a few days... can't wait..
share some cliff notes! lots of good stuff usually comes from it. i also found that trying to explain it in words make me remember a whole bunch of other stuff that i had forgotten. and i want to lols, been a long time for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by lolpwnt
WHAT UP top 2 abs visible again
So I went to the meet, and I managed to keep up my pokerface. Others were there, so it was impossible to sneak to somewhere to "remember the old times" privately. Thankfully, she isn't as banging now as I remember her being back in the late 90's/ early millennium. Apparently, I haven't changed (for better or worse).
The whole encounter went kinda boring, but more importantly I wasn't disappointed I let that one go/how things ended up. So in the perverse end, I guess I win ;)
DAMN RIGHT YOU WIN!
Were you slowly disappearing, Back-to-the-Future-style?Quote:
Originally Posted by bikes
What do we need to do to get the other ones showing?
We need to get Tyson and Xianti to share their first kiss at the Fish under the Sea Dance.Quote:
Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
at first I was like waitwat.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
but then I was like openmouthsmileguy.jpg
A 5.8 earthquake is quite random
Didn't feel it. I'm hard of feeling.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmind
Yeah, that was crazy. I heard it's epicenter was around Charlottesville so the version we got was probably more subtle than yours. But fuck, that scared the shit out of me for second.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmind
I was on a conference call in my apartment when the building started shaking. I was like uh, hold on, I think a pipe burst again (recall the mid town explosion a few years back). Someone on the call was like "hold on, NYC earthquake is trending on twitter...that's where you live right?"
Good times.
By "conference call in my apartment", you mean you set up your dolls and action figures tea party style, amirite?
Finger sammiches are yummy.
http://www.givememyleg.com/images/wtffffff-fu.jpg
it's shit like this that just off me piss.
Just respond withQuote:
Originally Posted by givememyleg
"Geophysics + human socioeconomic behavior = ecological extinction event"
Nah, monetize this. 100 bucks straight up says Jesus doesn't descend before 2013.
THE WORLDS GONNA END IN 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
a perfect excuse for me to go full out hedonist
I was trying to start a riot and looting earlier when there was a ton of confusion, but nobody else joined in.
Where the fuck do you think you live? Britain?Quote:
Originally Posted by DropTheBanana
http://i.imgur.com/4nYvx.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by bigred
Man that's awful but I can't stop laughing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warpe
Anyone feel any aftershocks? I was the only one in my house that did.
Banana - yeah where do you live? I thought you were a fellow Virginian. I'm in Richmond.
bahaha @ mjf
Nah, I'm back in NC after living in FL for a few years after school.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmind
I do have some family up around the Roanoke area and there is something about the way VA is run (can't quite put my finger on it) but I couldn't ever see myself living up there. No offense obviously.
None taken at all. I plan to move to NC in a few years.
I tried to edit the Republican Party wiki page to "fuck the poor", but it didn't work
no double postingQuote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
BooG took offense but then he realized you said Virginian.Quote:
Originally Posted by DropTheBanana
I feel like I have a pretty good sense of being fair and unbiased, even when many or most other people would be influenced in situations with preconeived notions. This may have been influenced by being a former successful poker player. Being a negative sum game where say, 95% of players are long term losers, it's a tremendous advantage to be able to objectively analyze how you are playing even in the face of confounding variables like ego and tilt. It carries over to other situations as well, for example in the NFL threads over the years I have been critical of many of the Browns moves while defending other disliked franchises based on merits as opposed to emotions.
With all that being said, this is a politically unbiased post.
This post reminds me of a few points I have been meaning to make mostly in general, but you are a good example of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
1. I think in general and the reason for the seemingly odd opening paragraph, most people are incapable of objectively analyzing situations that they are emotionally invested in. I've made this point in many situations, from being in 'love' to defending ones favorite sports team or political/religious affiliation and in the overwhelmingly large majority of cases, people will make passionate cases defending their positions. To be more direct, I think this applies to you as well. Very important: I've made the same argument to both overt liberals and conservatives and the point isn't in the idea but moreso in the thought process.
2. The political situation in the U.S. is ugly not necessarily because we are too liberal (as right wingers say) or too conservative (as left wingers say), but because there is generally such utter hatred and disagreement between the sides. Look no further than any of your own posts on politics. They are all pretty much condescending or insulting and the end message is always one of the following: the rich fuck us all, the poor are poor because of other people being assholes, women are all evil lying schemers and the current wealth distribution is the cause of all of our problems. Add in a plethora of swear words and condescending sexual descriptions for illustrative purposes.
3. Blunt observation: Most of the population doesn't give a shit about poor people. I suspect that there are evolutionary reasons for this, i.e. it seems generally prudent to befriend the rich and shun the poor, and this probably has some carry over to modern day politics. Repubs and its affiliates (FOX) take advantage of this to great effect; think about the connotation of the word 'handout'. The Demo counter seems to be attacking the rich and I'd argue based on the above that this is ineffective and I'd say that current favorable laws to the ultra rich demonstrate rather conclusively that I'm right. I would argue a more effective strategy for liberals would be to attack the lowest members of the right (lowest being loosely defined as what the average person might think), just like the right does to the left.
With that in mind, here is effective progoganda:
If you're a republican: queue up a video beggars, robbers, thugs etc
If you're a democrat: queue up a video of beer drinking trailer park trash beating their wife
In lieu of making a longer post, I believe that your points 2 and 3 lead to a more generalized question. Do you believe that Democracy works in America? This question comes bundled with: Can democracy work, should democracy work, etc etc.
I don't knowQuote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Something I'm not sure about myself. It's one of the central pillars that America as an idea is built upon and I don't know that you can really assume that 'democracy works'.
you know the commune is downswing when politics invades the randomness thread.
true datQuote:
Originally Posted by bikes
I hereby give myself a 1 day ban from FTR, starting now.
lol nopeQuote:
Originally Posted by bikes
you just know that bikes is expecting things other than politics in the randomness thread.
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by bikes
I like sometimes being abrasively matter-of-fact while at the same time adding facetiousnessQuote:
Originally Posted by Lukie
Most people make the mistake of thinking we're dealing with opinion. We're not. Social sciences are science just as much as biology. It just so happens that exhaustive case work is very hard to make while ulterior motives are rampant
If that's how I'm interpreted, I may need to reform behavior. But again, this is a tough thing because almost everybody thinks we're dealing with opinions. We're not. When somebody claims 3+3= 14, I'm allowed to say that's wrong. When they espouse policy that assumes 3+3=14 and the indirect consequences of such poor accounting are suffering people, I should probably point that outQuote:
2. The political situation in the U.S. is ugly not necessarily because we are too liberal (as right wingers say) or too conservative (as left wingers say), but because there is generally such utter hatred and disagreement between the sides. Look no further than any of your own posts on politics. They are all pretty much condescending or insulting and the end message is always one of the following: the rich fuck us all, the poor are poor because of other people being assholes, women are all evil lying schemers and the current wealth distribution is the cause of all of our problems. Add in a plethora of swear words and condescending sexual descriptions for illustrative purposes.
You're equating Dems and liberals. There are not that many liberals in the country. The national stage GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of specific corporate interests, the Democrats are like a 85% owned subsidiary of specific corporate interests. Strong liberal representation in the Democratic Party is <5%Quote:
3. Blunt observation: Most of the population doesn't give a shit about poor people. I suspect that there are evolutionary reasons for this, i.e. it seems generally prudent to befriend the rich and shun the poor, and this probably has some carry over to modern day politics. Repubs and its affiliates (FOX) take advantage of this to great effect; think about the connotation of the word 'handout'. The Demo counter seems to be attacking the rich and I'd argue based on the above that this is ineffective and I'd say that current favorable laws to the ultra rich demonstrate rather conclusively that I'm right. I would argue a more effective strategy for liberals would be to attack the lowest members of the right (lowest being loosely defined as what the average person might think), just like the right does to the left.
I'll leave it at that. Full explanations and understanding would require a lot of back and forth
Just for the sake of being a dweeb, I'm now going to add other political wufisms of recent
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Originally Posted by wufwusocialist
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I, for one, do not approve of pulling a rich man's dick out of a poor man's ass
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Word is that Canadian border security are absolute dickheads to Americans. Obviously because they don't want us to get second ideas about moving to their Rich People Are Not The Only People That Matter Utopia
The two main differences between US and other democracies are racial differences and economic wealth/position. Virtually all other differences are negligible IMOQuote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Basically, my theory on why democracies work in places like Norway quite well but not in US is that US being at one time the economic monolith of the world gravitated more savvy and successful businesses. This made corporations more powerful here than other nations, and now we see cascading effects of that power
The other aspect is the strategic political aptness of racism. I've made the example before: that Norway has lots of great social programs because they're all Norwegians, and the subtle psychology of them all be Norwegians helps them care about their neighbors. If you're Norwegian and you see poor, down-trodden people, they're also Norwegian, and in your mind they're somewhat related to you and that could even be you. But in the US, the poor and down-trodden are mostly blacks and hispanics and immigrants. We have lost the subtle psychological benefits of nationality, patriotism, unification, etc. And we lack social programs that benefit everybody because it's easy to fight against them by making voters feel like they're subsidizing people that are of not their ilk.
^^^^ more anus speak
Thoughts?:
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Yes that is a good point
I dunno. If we're breaking from this 200 yr experiment, I'd like to break into something new. This seems like a small fix while ignoring what could be systemic weaknesses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warpe
Maybe we could have a country where states could fail and the federal gov't is basically a united military to make sure states don't or can't wage war on each other. Something where innovation comes from a system which can iterate attempts at governance and has some forcing for quality. As it is right now, bringing in a PM would not resolve the problem of "who speaks for America" by any measure.
Probably takes more than 30 minutes of thinking on it, though.
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+ this for politics in general:Quote:
Originally Posted by bikes
http://i35.tinypic.com/2z4eot5.jpg
This is the randomness thread, not the whine about what's in the randomness thread thread.
WTF?!?! U don't call a giant turd random enough?!?!
What if it were a giant space turd from Mars?
If it were a giant space turd from mars, that would be awesome.
In truth though, I was just saying that it seems like people are complaining that politics belongs somewhere other than the randomness thread so I was complaining that complaints about politics belonging somewhere other than the randomness thread belong somewhere other than the randomness thread.
Speaking of complaining about the Randomness thread: Why do we never talk about fresh, new summer salad recipes?
YAY hurricane panic. Wanted to go get a few random groceries and the store was packed. Never seen so many clueless, old people in one place.
the irony of politics sucking is that it sucks because people who claim it sucks do not pay as much attention to it as the people responsible for making it suck
fypQuote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
^one thunderous LOL
I ate a deep fried risotto ball today and now I need a refractory period.
I'd tweet that but I'm too sleepy.
Plus only the twitter servers would know about it.
It's funny because it's true.
I would argue politics suck because it is a negative sum game in the sense that say, on any given issue maybe half the people will agree with you and half the people will disagree with you. Obviously this is over simplified but it often holds true with the dynamics of a decisive party line split. It's negative sum because those that agree with you tend to so with a metaphorical head nod while those that disagree tend to do so vehomently and sometimes hatefully.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
With that being said, I agree that politics should gently make its way out of this otherwise fantastic thread.
I just ate a massive stirfry and until now forgot about going to dinner at my mom's in an hour
ffffffffffffff
Whilst working 8 hours more than any man should on a Friday, I get this email: Reminder- How to access email via the internet
Engineers, man... more clever than most... stupider than most.
I'd say it's the other way around.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
I know, right? How cleverest am I?
#LukieProblems
Hear Irene could wipe out Jersey Shore. Sounds good to me.
snap ordering food as soon as the delivery service opens at 9am. something might be wrong with me
i vividly recall thinking of 'white people problems' memes while making that postQuote:
Originally Posted by lolzzz_321
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This world doesn't work the way you'd expect. Dot co dot uk, though. Everything from that place is probably bs.
Is there anyone who can get me "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn" on DVD or torrent?
this is some funny shit...
Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail Again - YouTube
After reading the pictures lol thread and this...congrats on catching up on SMBC
So I just checked out Tyler the Creator - Yonkers after watching the VMAs last night. WTF? This shit is terrible.
Also, anyone who likes lil wayne, please line up outside my apartment so I can stab you in the face.
FYPQuote:
Originally Posted by bigred
Odd Future and Tyler got played out quick. The kid has good writing skills, just not very versatile. I have a lot of respect for him publicly pissing off the majority of pop culture though.
Lil Wayne has always been garbage.
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what a fucking idiot
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I said, 'This is a napkin. A napkin is what a napkin is. It isn't a paper towel. It isn't a car.' You can call a napkin a car, but it doesn't make it a car. You can call a paper towel a chair, but it doesn't make it a chair. Marriage is what marriage is.
baby number 2 is coming tomorrow morning! due date was monday, but since its a girl she is already causing me trouble
She's busy getting ready.
Birth well. Hold that hand the best you can.
i got stuck holding a leg last time and the doc kept asking me if I was going to pass out. I can only hope for holding a hand this time.
Buddy, it's like baseball. If you don't get your uniform dirty, you're not doing it right.
Grats bode!
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the host of blue clues now.
Tonight yo
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*edit: congrats bode-ist!
Bode, congrats man. Also, saw your fb post. I'm in Indy almost every week for the next few months. Lemme know when you want to meet up.
In fact, Mrs. Bigred (aka my girlfriend) will be visiting me in Indy next week. I believe Flomo is the only one who's met her before so if you want to join an elite crew let's grab a drink sometime next week. I typically stay at the JW Marriott.
How do you ever end up with a leg? There are so many opportunitities to say "I'll just stand over there" before you find yourself staring down at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bode
I had a dream last night that I got married to bigred. It was very confusing. I kept asking Dave why I married bigred/Ben (can't remember which one he was in the dream) and he kept saying he didn't know why :?
Gogogo, bigred.
Was there a honeymoon portion to the dream?
Me love you long time!
don't you hate those dreams? the ones where you wake up and wish the dream was real and realizing it wasn't reality? reminds me of the dream where i won the wcoop and quit my job, back when i worked fast food. i never felt so good, until i woke up. i imagine it was similar for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by courtiebee
I always just try to enjoy the feeling instead of wallow in the fact that it's not real.
You've had dreams you were married to bigred too?Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
you haven't?Quote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
I always wake up as soon as my dreams get good
lol'd at GMML, boost, and Galapogos... u guys are so awesome
p.s. Sean I even went back to check that I spelled your damn SN right cuz I always get it wrong
Do most ppl like dreams? I'd be happy if I never had them. I just don't like them at all, good or bad.