Randomness thread, part two.

[MadMojoMonkey]

im black

confirmed silver spoons.

Does that make wufwugy Carlton?

[wufwugy]

yes

[d0zer]

F'n privileged wuggy. I was born white, male, and urban.


Merry Christmas everyone! I started drinking this morning earlier than I normally wake up. Rum in coffee mmmmm

[d0zer]

fek that was 12 hrs ago. still drinking.

[d0zer]

wait this isn't the drunk thread. whar am i?

[boost]

drinking is tomorrow holmes

Not if you live in Polish america.

[spoonitnow]

Robertson back on for the next season. He's a pretty moderate Christian. A&E was just covering their ass.

[d0zer]

I guess it's fairly normal in your neck of the woods to care about that hillbilly nonsense.

[spoonitnow]

A+ once again daven.

I really like the political maneuvering side of things tbh.

[givememyleg]

why does season 2 of house of cards have to be so far away?

[wufwugy]

til beards serve the evolutionary purpose of attracting females and scaring males. god i wish i could beard

[Chelle]

My body is weird. It does weird things that could have killed me.

bleh. I hate not being able to function at 100% and having to ask for help. Yay for changing on that, but, emotions on top of emotions on top of healing from an emergency surgery, on top of emotions about said surgery, this shit ain't for the birds.

[givememyleg]

powerful.

[kingnat]

I just bought a Vitamix.

[jyms]

Living the dream. I wish I had a vitamix

[Jack Sawyer]

I just bought a Vitamix.
I

Which one did you get?

by the way, you're awesome

[spoonitnow]

why does season 2 of house of cards have to be so far away?

Dude I fucking know right

[MadMojoMonkey]

powerful.

Whoa. I was not expecting that. That should've come with a warning.

[kingnat]

Which one did you get?

by the way, you're awesome

5200. Cheers buddy!!

[Luco]

Whoa. I was not expecting that. That should've come with a warning.

I clicked the link after reading this post. fookin hell

[rong]

That made me cry a li'l bit.

[Savy]

Had a shred of hope that it was going to be a well disguised don't kids say the funniest things routine.

[MadMojoMonkey]

That made me cry a li'l bit.

Me, too... multiple times. I get a bit misty just thinking about it.

It makes me feel hopeful for the future that there are men like this in the world.

[Chelle]

jesus christ remind me not to watch a video like that within the next forever. even though ill probably do it anyway.

blergh. went to the hospital after having severe cramping/sharp pains after having the emergency surgery last week. my emotions are fucking shot. i feel like life has took a hammer and busted up my heart and then used the pointy ends to cut into my fucking soul.

i was just getting adjusted to just everyday emotions and reactions and then this shit happens. shit that people that deal with daily emotions already have difficulty dealing with.

anyway. happy new years eve, folks.

[OngBonga]

I hope next year is a better one for you chelle.

Anyway, more powerful shit...

http://www.fearnet.com/news/news-art...animal-testing

[Chelle]

besides the last 2 weeks 2013 has been great.

i'm more mentally healthy than ever. i'm back doing art. i'm doing modeling that i've always wanted to do but was too scared. i'm back to 100 lbs. my hair is longer, and i found the guts to dye it all sorts of fun colors. i mean yesterday was good till i started having really bad cramping. boyfran and i have our own car, that has like 69k miles on it and was kept up amazingly.

just since the 20th-21st of this month things have been an emotional mess because of a situation that i had 0 control over and that i was literally in the less than 1% of women that this happens to.

what i can say is that 2013 has been one of those years where you learn a lot, live a lot, and realize how much you've grown from the previous years.

oh, the other day i started and finished a painting in about 3 hours, which is a big deal for me, since it usually takes me days/weeks. the quality is shit, but here it is. oh, and the paint was still wet when i took the pic, so that's why it's shiny looking.

[aubreymcfate]

^^ dude crazy, i was just watching that recently. it was super similar to a lot of fetish bdsm porn, lol. eerily so. anyway though, pretty powerful. animal testing for cosmetic purposes is just flat out wrong.

someone on fb posted about this dying italian girl that got death threats by militant animal rights activists because she thanked research that included experimentation on animals that helped her live longer.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...lian-girl.html

"At 18, her doctors told her she couldn’t be cured, but this year, she had survived another birthday and simply wanted to say thanks. “I am 25 thanks to genuine research that includes experiments on animals. Without research, I would have been dead at nine. You have gifted me a future.”

Simonsen’s comments, on the heels of a hotly contested national telethon in Italy soliciting money for medical research, triggered a flurry of hate comments from animal-rights extremists. “You could die tomorrow, I wouldn’t sacrifice my goldfish for you,” a poster named Giovanna wrote on the Facebook page “A Favore Della Sperimentazione Animale” (In Favor of Animal Experimentation). Another wrote, “If you had died as a child, no one would have given a damn.” In all, Simonsen received 30 death threats and 500 cruel insults, which are being investigated by local police."

[aubreymcfate]

i was referencing ong's post btw.

chelle i hope things are better for you next year too! and i'm glad you got the guts to dye your hair - the pink looks amazing. i'm still trying to amass the hair dye guts, wanna go for the sailor neptune look but my hair is just so dark and resistant to dye and bleaching is bleh. damn you natural blondes. also the link to your art doesn't work - pls fix.

2013 was the year i learned that i'm way too trusting and that men are fartknockers. woohoo!

[Chelle]

i was referencing ong's post btw.

chelle i hope things are better for you next year too! and i'm glad you got the guts to dye your hair - the pink looks amazing. i'm still trying to amass the hair dye guts, wanna go for the sailor neptune look but my hair is just so dark and resistant to dye and bleaching is bleh. damn you natural blondes. also the link to your art doesn't work - pls fix.

2013 was the year i learned that i'm way too trusting and that men are fartknockers. woohoo!

ty ty. my hair is pretty against being bleached as well. my hair color from what the last stylist said is a dark blonde with red tones. where i admit lightening my hair is easier than lightening a level 1 hair [black, dark brown], it still takes a lot of time and patience and coconut oil.

also link/pic is fixed.

the only way to learn you're too trusting is to be trusting in the first place, and all people have the possibility of being fartknockers, sadly. also, fartknockers is an awesome word.

[Chelle]

^^ dude crazy, i was just watching that recently. it was super similar to a lot of fetish bdsm porn, lol. eerily so. anyway though, pretty powerful. animal testing for cosmetic purposes is just flat out wrong.

someone on fb posted about this dying italian girl that got death threats by militant animal rights activists because she thanked research that included experimentation on animals that helped her live longer.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...lian-girl.html

"At 18, her doctors told her she couldn’t be cured, but this year, she had survived another birthday and simply wanted to say thanks. “I am 25 thanks to genuine research that includes experiments on animals. Without research, I would have been dead at nine. You have gifted me a future.”

Simonsen’s comments, on the heels of a hotly contested national telethon in Italy soliciting money for medical research, triggered a flurry of hate comments from animal-rights extremists. “You could die tomorrow, I wouldn’t sacrifice my goldfish for you,” a poster named Giovanna wrote on the Facebook page “A Favore Della Sperimentazione Animale” (In Favor of Animal Experimentation). Another wrote, “If you had died as a child, no one would have given a damn.” In all, Simonsen received 30 death threats and 500 cruel insults, which are being investigated by local police."

i want to hug this gal and make shit better for her.

[OngBonga]

Yeah you've got the art! You're a much better artist than I am! I tried it when I was with my ex, who is a brilliant artist. I'm shit. But I like that of yours.

aubrey, yeah there's pretty powerful arguments on boths sides of the animal testing debate. I'm not remotely a fan of the extremists, who seem to value animal life over human life. But I can have nothing but repsect for someone who is willing to go through torture to simply make her opinion heard. I think we should be at the point now where animal testing is purely medicinal, and zero cosmetic. We have safe make up and shampoo, there's no need to test this stuff on animals any more. But when it comes to saving human lives, it's kind of the lesser of two evils. I'm always going to value human life over other animals, with the possible expection of my own dog, if I had one!

[MadMojoMonkey]

Dude... There are people using 3d printers to print stem cells into "micro-tissues" and "micro-organs". Animal testing is about to be a thing of the past. Why bother testing on an animal when you can test on real human cells, tissues and organs?

Even better: they can take your own stem cells and test a drug on you for known side-effects before they even prescribe you the drug.

There's only going to be animal testing for animal products soon.

[wufwugy]

What Aubrey's hair looks like now



What she wants her hair to look like

[bikes]

peace out 2013.

[aubreymcfate]

What Aubrey's hair looks like now



What she wants her hair to look like

n00b

i said neptune, not mercury

[aubreymcfate]

Dude... There are people using 3d printers to print stem cells into "micro-tissues" and "micro-organs". Animal testing is about to be a thing of the past. Why bother testing on an animal when you can test on real human cells, tissues and organs?

Even better: they can take your own stem cells and test a drug on you for known side-effects before they even prescribe you the drug.

There's only going to be animal testing for animal products soon.

are you saying that equally effective alternatives exist for all animal testing, even in the case of that italian girl?

[MadMojoMonkey]

are you saying that equally effective alternatives exist for all animal testing, even in the case of that italian girl?

I'm saying they will exist soon. I've read articles about this use of 3d printers, and it's in the proof-on-concept stage. They've shown that this technique can be used to print tissues and organs, at least on a small scale, using stem cells.

So far, the exact potential uses are speculation, but the group who's doing the research (in Holland, IIRC?) are looking into what I mentioned above, and are doing research on the issue which they expect to yield data in 2014.

If what they describe is accurate, i.e. printing tissues and organs with stem cells being a viable method to test drugs, then it would be a far superior method of drug testing than using animals.

[rong]

I dunno man. If I'm about to buy a new aftershave I wanna know that that shit has been sprayed on a chimp and that that chimp got some serious action from the lady chimps.

[wufwugy]

til rong wants some serious action from lady chimps

[bikes]

wat

[aubreymcfate]

til rong wants some serious action from lady chimps

lol irl

[bikes]

having seen dan arong irl i can confirm he is james mcavoy in disguise.

[bikes]

i am drunk so it's time to break otut he musics.

[bigred]

So the villa I'm staying at in Bali has two internet providers due to shoddy service. One of them has FTR blocked. Not this one though!

[givememyleg]

i said brrrrr, it's cold up hurr.

edit: that's -32 C for all the foolish metric practitioners.

[bigred]

You need gas, bro

[bikes]

the guy with 2 dicks is doing a reddit ama.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...o_penises_ama/

i am witnessing history.

[givememyleg]

You need gas, bro

you're a towel

[Luco]

You need gas, bro

Is this an Auschwitz quote?

[oskar]

Do you guys still have freerange children where you live? I remember when I was 6 I started going to school by myself and we were always out, but I don't see kids below 12 out alone anymore. What happened?

[aubreymcfate]

i thought freerange children was a myth concocted by the creators of rocket power and rugrats

[Chelle]

people are scared now. plus, they have internet.

[Lukie]

i said brrrrr, it's cold up hurr.

edit: that's -32 C for all the foolish metric practitioners.

I remember a few years ago it hit something like -18 F here (near record low, below 0 F might only happen a couple times a year at most) and I remember that day very vividly because I went to the gym bundled up and there were a couple people leaving with shorts on.

Actually it's supposed to get down that low again (-17) early next week. It would be the coldest day of the year by far.

[Lukie]

I can pretty seamlessly switch between pounds and kilograms in my head (at least using 1kg = 2.2lb which is accurate enough for most applications) but farenheit/celsius conversion really fucks me up. I would have to look up the exact formula but it has something to do with adding/subtracting 32 and 9/5 or 5/9 or some bullshit


edit:

°C x 9/5 + 32 = °F
(°F - 32) x 5/9 = °C

[bigred]

Do you guys still have freerange children where you live? I remember when I was 6 I started going to school by myself and we were always out, but I don't see kids below 12 out alone anymore. What happened?

Why don't you have a seat...

[boost]

the guy with 2 dicks is doing a reddit ama.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...o_penises_ama/

i am witnessing history.

[rpm]

Is this an Auschwitz quote?

thanks for the laugh

[aubreymcfate]

i also lol'ed at that luco

i'm reading this awesome book right now, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William Shirer. dude was a journalist and war correspondent during the war. it's super interesting if anyone's.. like.. interested.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-.../dp/1451651686

[jackvance]

i also lol'ed at that luco

i'm reading this awesome book right now, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William Shirer. dude was a journalist and war correspondent during the war. it's super interesting if anyone's.. like.. interested.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rise-Fall-.../dp/1451651686

You should go to piratebay and download "Triumph of Will". One of the most famous resources of nazi footage. A lot of movies took inspiration from scenes from this movies, such as Starship Troopers and The Lion King.

Another thing to understand is that propaganda basically did not exist befor that time. If you read Mein Kampf, there is a whole bunch of nonsense about how jews are evul but the rest reads like a how-to guide for propaganda. Not at all what I was expecting, even though I had no idea what to expect.

Also, you might like this:

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/fw2-17.htm

Women & Germany's Reich. Try to read it while taking the message at face value and see what you think.

WW2 probably had the biggest impact on current day western culture, in profound ways that very few people fully realize. Propaganda. Unseen technological advancement on both the axis and allies sides. The nuclear bomb, which changed warfare forever. Our perception of left wing and right wing ideologies. And here is something else that is interesting. It's the kind of stuff that you won't find written anywhere but I remember hearing it talked about often when I was in high school. Did germany really lose the war? After WW1 they were crippled by economic measures imposed on them. Now they are the strongest economic power in europe. Heck, the EU scolded germany only a few weeks ago for having an economy that is TOO strong, they have so much surplus that it is hurting the economies of many other european countries. If Russia, Poland and a bunch of other eastern european countries would have had their way after the nazi's surrendered, germany would have been raized to the ground. But this did not happen. We blamed Hitler and nazi ideology and then moved on. All very interesting in and of itself.

[eugmac]

??

So much of Germany WAS razed to the ground. Compare photos of Hiroshima and Berlin and you'd be hard pressed to tell one from the other. Recent literature suggests Stalin had realistic hopes of not only conquering a portion of Germany, but the whole thing - and eventually entire Europe. It seems the Soviets made assumptions that a bit of indoctrination here and there would be enough to get Germans to voluntarily construct a united Soviet Germany, and greatly underestimated the German resistance to it. Americans were interested in seeing a strong West Germany (and Europe in general) to help stop the spread of Soviet influence. The revival of west German industry was key to an overall recovery of the entire European economy.

[JKDS]

the guy with 2 dicks is doing a reddit ama.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...o_penises_ama/

i am witnessing history.

Holy shit, hes got two dicks!

[eugmac]

i just don't understand how he's not making lots of money in the porn industry.

[oskar]

Where are they going to find a lady with two vaginas?

[oskar]

Well, ok, never mind:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2...s-not-so-rare/

[jackvance]

Americans were interested in seeing a strong West Germany (and Europe in general) to help stop the spread of Soviet influence. The revival of west German industry was key to an overall recovery of the entire European economy.

These were 2 very strong reasons for why the aftermath of the war went the way it did. It's the complex diplomacy of a worldwide war which was new, and the technological advancements which reshaped the world forever. I'm not sure why you are comparing Berlin to Hiroshima though as both were leveled during and as part of the war.

[aubreymcfate]

jv, i had a feeling you were going to respond with a buttload of awesome shit for me to check out. thanks so much.

that article about women in the third reich is an interesting read, not necessarily surprising by any means though. i would've been shocked if she thought women had any other role than to foster the perfect nazi family and home (and by extension, society). the way she views male and female roles (public sphere and private sphere, respectively) is pretty standard.

totally bookmarking that page though, that's awesome.

[wufwugy]

Germany lost the war, but it has always been the most populous European state, geographically important, and the US had paramount interest in rebuilding it. Not to mention there was great incentive by all parties to keep another world war from beginning in Europe

Germany's dominance (pseudo-dominance) of Europe today isn't particularly unpredictable. A population map of Europe will show it was inevitable. Belgium and Netherlands were always top dogs but their populations were just too small. England is mainly about London, France is mainly about Paris, Italy is about the Po Basin. But Germany has big cities everywhere, and it has ever since Germany became a part of western culture -- the Holy Roman Empire, all the free imperial cities, etc. The world wars had a lot to do with Germany finally realizing it was naturally the most powerful state in Europe. So it started acting like it.

[jackvance]

jv, i had a feeling you were going to respond with a buttload of awesome shit for me to check out. thanks so much.

that article about women in the third reich is an interesting read, not necessarily surprising by any means though. i would've been shocked if she thought women had any other role than to foster the perfect nazi family and home (and by extension, society). the way she views male and female roles (public sphere and private sphere, respectively) is pretty standard.

totally bookmarking that page though, that's awesome.

Happy to share =).

Germany lost the war, but it has always been the most populous European state, geographically important, and the US had paramount interest in rebuilding it. Not to mention there was great incentive by all parties to keep another world war from beginning in Europe

Germany's dominance (pseudo-dominance) of Europe today isn't particularly unpredictable. A population map of Europe will show it was inevitable. Belgium and Netherlands were always top dogs but their populations were just too small. England is mainly about London, France is mainly about Paris, Italy is about the Po Basin. But Germany has big cities everywhere, and it has ever since Germany became a part of western culture -- the Holy Roman Empire, all the free imperial cities, etc. The world wars had a lot to do with Germany finally realizing it was naturally the most powerful state in Europe. So it started acting like it.

Another strong factor was the fact that Germany missed the boat on the colony expansions (nice pun!), which turned countries like Spain, France and the Netherlands into empires. In fact the Brittish empire is the largest empire the world has ever seen. So germany was collectively thinking "wait, we know we're awesome.. but we have nothing to show for" which made them very susceptible to the kind of national pride Hitler was preaching.

Oh and I bolded Belgium there in your text because it made me chuckle you'd be so polite as to mention us. All throughout our history we've been serially occupied by different european countries, in WW2 we met the same fate as in WW1: Germany blitzkrieged through Belgium as if noone was even there to bypass the French maginot line and conquered France with a speed noone had deemed possible. Our location is pretty good I'll have to admit that (and it's awesome to live here) but we profoundly lack a strong national identity and historical significance..

[wufwugy]

I didn't mean to say that Belgium was ever a military power, but, for reasons I don't yet know, Belgium has always been a part of the economic core of Europe. I was trying to make a contrast between some of the other states, like France, where if it wasn't for Paris, it would be poor; or Italy, which other than the Po Valley, is poor. Europe is full of countries that thrive on just one or two cities. Germany is the only big exception in this regard. Belgium has some sort of mix where it's small enough that it doesn't appear to have the kinds of differences that, say, Italy has. Belgium doesn't quite have something as big as the Randstad or Po Valley, but it's right there in the core nonetheless

If I had to make a controversial point, I would say that the Netherlands has the second most fortunate geography of Europe, right behind Denmark. The Randstad is situation right in the sweet spot between England and the continent, has great coasts and rivers. Denmark only wins out because if you want to traverse to or from North and Baltic Seas, you have to go through it. People born there hit the jackpot. Anyways, Belgium, even if it doesn't have great coasts for ports (I don't know if it does, but I assume it doesn't since it never became a huge maritime empire), sits right in the middle of the most economically active region in the history of the world

[wufwugy]

Just a really fantastic AMA with a retired US colonel. He has a sobering understanding of geopolitics, as should be expected of people like him, yet we never hear about since the political punditry sphere is full of nothing but blowhards

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...ansoor_former/

[Chelle]

since the surgery i've been having to take pain meds and nausea meds, and holy fuck damn does that shit fuck me up. it's like i have zero tolerance. i think i was asking at one point if anyone has ever thought to make penguins sweaters because they are probably cold. oh, and also asked if elephants cry.

i honestly hate taking pain meds, or well, any meds for that matter. i have a weird hangover feeling the next morning, and i highly dislike this, but, me high on pain meds/nausea meds is highly entertaining to everyone and sometimes myself.

[eugmac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Sen1HTu5o

[a500lbgorilla]

I just watched that Blackfish movie for the first time. It is heavy.

I mean shit, after watching it I'm almost questioning the dark sides of dog domestication.

Cats are probably fine since those assholes are basically wild.

[a500lbgorilla]

Just a really fantastic AMA with a retired US colonel. He has a sobering understanding of geopolitics, as should be expected of people like him, yet we never hear about since the political punditry sphere is full of nothing but blowhards

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...ansoor_former/

Dude, A+ AMA

[boost]

I just watched that Blackfish movie for the first time. It is heavy.

I mean shit, after watching it I'm almost questioning the dark sides of dog domestication.

Cats are probably fine since those assholes are basically wild.

Yeah, dog domestication is one of those subjects, which when breached, elicits all sorts of irrational responses from dog owners.