2 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:16:43pm |
Very unlikely. It’s tough to run in water.
3 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:19:19pm |
re: #2 eclectic infidel
Very unlikely. It’s tough to run in water.
Wrong.
The kids had webbed feet.
//
4 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:20:02pm |
5 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:22:20pm |
I have misplaced my phone somewhere in my stupid little apartment. Having no actual friends to call upon, I must plead with the denizens of the internet to call my phone so that I might have a slim hope of finding the damned thing. What shall I do?
7 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:23:37pm |
Did the T-Rex ever think to himself (or herself), “my arms are too short.”
/
8 | Alaska Kim Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:24:23pm |
re: #5 negativ
I haven’t had a cell phone in 5 years….. it’s possible to survive without it.
9 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:24:36pm |
re: #5 negativ
That was quick. Intertubes to the rescue.
10 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:25:19pm |
re: #5 negativ
I have misplaced my phone somewhere in my stupid little apartment. Having no actual friends to call upon, I must plead with the denizens of the internet to call my phone so that I might have a slim hope of finding the damned thing. What shall I do?
[Link: www.wheresmycellphone.com…]
They might give out your number to telemarketers, if you’re desperate give it a try.
11 | Stan the Demanded Plan Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:25:39pm |
Watch the UF GA game right now! (swamp brought me here)
12 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:26:04pm |
re: #8 Alaska Kim
I haven’t had a cell phone in 5 years… it’s possible to survive without it.
I’ve never had one.
13 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:26:33pm |
re: #7 Gus 802
Did the T-Rex ever think to himself (or herself), “my arms are too short.”
/
Go ahead- make fun of the disabled.
/
14 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:26:44pm |
15 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:27:03pm |
Even better: Find your cell phone with Google Maps’ click-to-call
16 | Alaska Kim Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:27:29pm |
re: #12 Killgore Trout
makes me wonder how folks survived without them 20 years ago.
17 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:27:42pm |
re: #8 Alaska Kim
I haven’t had a cell phone in 5 years… it’s possible to survive without it.
I once left my place w/o my cell and I panicked. I cannot fathom how we as a society survived with mere land lines.
18 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:28:48pm |
I just remembered that tomorrow is Halloween. I’m cooking double dinner tonight so I can turn off the lights and hide tomorrow night. No candy handouts here.
19 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:29:26pm |
re: #18 Killgore Trout
I just remembered that tomorrow is Halloween. I’m cooking double dinner tonight so I can turn off the lights and hide tomorrow night. No candy handouts here.
really….I hate candy too
20 | Alaska Kim Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:29:59pm |
re: #17 eclectic infidel
the power goes out here quite often due to weather…. so even then my land line doesn’t work. I love it.
21 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:30:03pm |
Okay guys my first page is up however since the pics can only be 200K large and most of the ones my dad took are like 10MB I’m gonna go upload them to dev art and then link to them and do a second page based around that….
22 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:30:24pm |
23 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:31:18pm |
re: #21 jamesfirecat
Okay guys my first page is up however since the pics can only be 200K large and most of the ones my dad took are like 10MB I’m gonna go upload them to dev art and then link to them and do a second page based around that…
Link?
24 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:31:20pm |
re: #16 Alaska Kim
makes me wonder how folks survived without them 20 years ago.
Ubiquitous payphones that charged a dime a call.
25 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:31:44pm |
re: #22 Slumbering Behemoth
What is this, MTVs “Pimp my Pimf”?
I’d like to blame it on fatigue, because I am tired and had to get up early this morning, but at this point it seems like a lame excuse.
26 | wrenchwench Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:31:59pm |
re: #4 Killgore Trout
The Valley of Gwangi
[Video]
Classic
“Professor, there’s a big lizard back there and he’s coming this way, now get aboard!”
27 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:32:13pm |
28 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:32:24pm |
re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth
Ubiquitous payphones that charged a dime a call.
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I’ll get back to you.
/
29 | Alaska Kim Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:33:46pm |
I wish people talked as much to their kids as they do on their cell phones.
30 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:34:14pm |
31 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:35:02pm |
32 | Stan the Demanded Plan Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:35:32pm |
All hail Florida hail!
Click my nic
33 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:35:36pm |
Meh. The phone bill used to be 10 buck and you always got long distance available albeit the latter was more expensive. Now you have to pay about 30 bucks for local. I don’t need a cell phone.
34 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:36:42pm |
I’ve got a cell phone with goodies but no land line. Cable internet. To each their own though.
35 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:36:46pm |
36 | reine.de.tout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:37:23pm |
re: #18 Killgore Trout
I just remembered that tomorrow is Halloween. I’m cooking double dinner tonight so I can turn off the lights and hide tomorrow night. No candy handouts here.
aw, Killgore - give the kids some candy!
Dress up as something scary.
Get a pot with dry ice in it so it looks smoky.
Go sit out in your front yard and pass out candy.
37 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:37:32pm |
38 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:38:19pm |
re: #29 Alaska Kim
I wish Dio was still alive.
39 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:38:34pm |
re: #36 reine.de.tout
aw, Killgore - give the kids some candy!
Dress up as something scary.
Get a pot with dry ice in it so it looks smoky.
Go sit out in your front yard and pass out candy.
No dice, money is tight and I don’t like kids.
41 | PhillyPretzel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:38:53pm |
I usually hand out pennies but I cashed in all of my change so I have nothing to hand out. My lights will be off tomorrow.
43 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:40:01pm |
re: #28 Gus 802
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I’ll get back to you.
/
OMG haven’t seen The Rockford Files in probably 20 years.
*Runs off to check Netflix*
44 | Killgore Trout Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:40:05pm |
re: #40 jaunte
Kids love oatmeal.
I tried to give a kid pistachios once. She turned to her mom and said “I don’t want pistachooooooooes!”
lol
45 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:40:16pm |
re: #34 eclectic infidel
I’ve got a cell phone with goodies but no land line. Cable internet. To each their own though.
Yeah. But they got people hooked. Now we have a sizable portion of the population that will feel compelled to update their “phone” every year. Each forking out 200 bucks per year for the rest of their lives to talk about what shirt they wore to the club last night. :)
46 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:40:20pm |
re: #41 PhillyPretzel
I usually hand out pennies but I cashed in all of my change so I have nothing to hand out. My lights will be off tomorrow.
I’m in an apt building - well protected.
47 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:41:26pm |
48 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:41:53pm |
re: #17 eclectic infidel
I once left my place w/o my cell and I panicked. I cannot fathom how we as a society survived with mere land lines.
I just ditched my land line for good the other day. I had barely used it at all since July, and pretty much stopped using it once grad school started. My iPhone is pretty much all I need so I figured paying for two phones was redundant and a waste of cash.
49 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:42:13pm |
re: #45 Gus 802
Yeah. But they got people hooked. Now we have a sizable portion of the population that will feel compelled to update their “phone” every year. Each forking out 200 bucks per year for the rest of their lives to talk about what shirt they wore to the club last night. :)
I’ve got unlimited anytime minutes for $70/mo. On a personal note, I prefer a cell phone and every two years I get a new free phone.
50 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:42:44pm |
51 | JamesWI Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:43:31pm |
Over at Gateway Pundit (I won’t link to the post), Jim Hoft posted a “comparison” of the Glen Beck and Stewart rallies. I already pointed out how the area of land photographed in the two pictures was completely different, and how, you know, there was a reflection pool in the middle of the Beck rally.
But then I looked at the pictures a little more closely, and I noticed an even more blatant example of dishonesty in those pictures. I’ll just copy and paste my post from there over here - if you want to look at the picture, it won’t be too hard to find.
Look at his comparison picture. Do you see that second building on the right? The one that looks like it has ridges, or is 4 smaller things coming out? The one that is halfway up the photo?
That’s the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. That building above it, with the circular thing on the roof, is the National Museum of the American Indian. On the left side of the photograph, you have the buildings of the the National Gallery of Art.
Why am I pointing these things out? Because, according to that little oval Hoft put in there to supposedly illustrate the area photographed, none of those buildings should be visible, let alone that high up in the photograph.
At the bottom right, you can see a bit where the road/path curves into the park. That would be in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building and the Museum of African Art.
That curve starts about 2 blocks closer to the Washington Monument than where Hoft says that picture ends.
Pretty pathetic attempt at manipulation there, Mr. Hoft.
52 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:43:38pm |
re: #50 albusteve
Pitiful? We’re talking about Dio, not the Stones. :P
53 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:44:17pm |
re: #49 eclectic infidel
I’ve got unlimited anytime minutes for $70/mo. On a personal note, I prefer a cell phone and every two years I get a new free phone.
Roger. If I was busier I’d get one. Heard I can get broadband and a cellphone for less than what I’m paying for the land line and DSL (70 bucks) and that’s not including LD. Then that would make sense.
54 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:45:57pm |
re: #51 JamesWI
So basically, Hoft is living up to his title as the dumbest man on the Internet?
No surprise there. =P
55 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:46:03pm |
re: #45 Gus 802
I missed that scene altogether. I still have the same no-frills POS Motorola I bought a few years back. Pre-paid minutes only. I only use the stupid thing when it’s needed.
56 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:48:14pm |
re: #53 Gus 802
Roger. If I was busier I’d get one. Heard I can get broadband and a cellphone for less than what I’m paying for the land line and DSL (70 bucks) and that’s not including LD. Then that would make sense.
If you want just dsl, you can request a “dry line” where you just pay for dsl and dont have a land line if that helps.
57 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:48:32pm |
re: #55 Slumbering Behemoth
I missed that scene altogether. I still have the same no-frills POS Motorola I bought a few years back. Pre-paid minutes only. I only use the stupid thing when it’s needed.
One of these?
/
58 | JamesWI Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:48:44pm |
re: #54 Lidane
So basically, Hoft is living up to his title as the dumbest man on the Internet?
No surprise there. =P
Well, that isn’t an example of him being dumb. It is an example of him posting a blatant lie.
Though I guess the fact that he lied about it, when all you have to do notice that lie is to see the 4 giant buildings that are in the photograph that he would have you believe aren’t there, is extremely dumb.
59 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:50:49pm |
60 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:51:15pm |
Bleh. 65 and sunny for the next 7 days. Boring. What happened with fall?
61 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:52:01pm |
re: #57 Gus 802
Heh. Not one that old. I think I bought mine around ‘06 or ‘07.
62 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:52:37pm |
re: #58 JamesWI
Though I guess the fact that he lied about it, when all you have to do notice that lie is to see the 4 giant buildings that are in the photograph that he would have you believe aren’t there, is extremely dumb.
Wingnuts always seem to get tripped up by things like geography and landmarks. I read what you described and immediately thought of Fox News when they used that footage from one rally to try and boost the numbers for a different rally in a different city.
63 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:54:09pm |
re: #61 Slumbering Behemoth
Heh. Not one that old. I think I bought mine around ‘06 or ‘07.
I’ve got a slight older cellphone around here somewhere. Maybe from 2005. Never set it up. A family member sent it to me. Right now I’m getting a zillion robo-calls on my landline.
64 | Vicious Babushka Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:55:12pm |
65 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:55:21pm |
re: #63 Gus 802
Right now I’m getting a zillion robo-calls on my landline.
Heh. That’s an advantage to being cell phone-only. They only call land lines, so I’ve managed to avoid all the political robocalls this election season. :D
66 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:56:21pm |
re: #65 Lidane
Heh. That’s an advantage to being cell phone-only. They only call land lines, so I’ve managed to avoid all the political robocalls this election season. :D
Yeah, but President Obama called me the day before yesterday!
/
67 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:58:20pm |
re: #66 Gus 802
Yeah, but President Obama called me the day before yesterday!
/
Bah. Both he and Joe Biden have been e-mailing me damn near every day for months now, asking for money and volunteer time that I don’t have. =P
68 | wrenchwench Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:58:33pm |
re: #66 Gus 802
Yeah, but President Obama called me the day before yesterday!
/
He and his henchmen email me a couple of times a week.
69 | Winny Spencer Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:58:46pm |
re: #51 JamesWI
Hoft really is the dimmest bulb on the Internet.
71 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 4:59:54pm |
re: #45 Gus 802
Yeah. But they got people hooked. Now we have a sizable portion of the population that will feel compelled to update their “phone” every year. Each forking out 200 bucks per year for the rest of their lives to talk about what shirt they wore to the club last night. :)
That would sound strange in your 80s…
73 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:00:56pm |
re: #63 Gus 802
I get the occasional spanish language robo-call on my cell. It’s an illegal immigrant plot, I tells ya.
/
74 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:01:15pm |
75 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:06:45pm |
Rally to restore Sanity Page 2 up this one with pictures!
76 | Eclectic Infidel Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:22:03pm |
New photos on:
77 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:22:57pm |
Good grief some of the photo spreads in the Daily Mail. Who would have thought that this “scientific paper” that was so instrumental in reporting on “Climategate” could have sunken so low.
//
78 | JeffFX Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:23:26pm |
re: #33 Gus 802
Meh. The phone bill used to be 10 buck and you always got long distance available albeit the latter was more expensive. Now you have to pay about 30 bucks for local. I don’t need a cell phone.
I used to waste about $100/mo on cell phone service with data.
Since I lost my sweet 90K job in the recession, and learned the value of a dollar, I now pay $10 for 3 months of service at $.14/minute for US calls. The $10 goes toward those minutes. It’s through a 3rd party carrier that leases space on AT&Ts network.
I use the phone very lightly, so it’s just costing me $3.3333333333…/mo for cellular service.
79 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:25:57pm |
re: #28 Gus 802
Just my luck, Netflix has the entire Rockford Files available for streaming. After I get tired of Rockford, I think I’ll check out Sanford & Son, and The Jeffersons.
THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.
80 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:27:31pm |
re: #79 negativ
Just my luck, Netflix has the entire Rockford Files available for streaming. After I get tired of Rockford, I think I’ll check out Sanford & Son, and The Jeffersons.
THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.
They have a bunch on Hulu. Although I imagine the ones on Netflix are better quality. Great show. One of the best ever IMO.
81 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:29:05pm |
Can anyone explain why A&E airs all day episodes of the Billy the Exterminator show?
82 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:31:36pm |
re: #81 researchok
Can anyone explain why A&E airs all day episodes of the Billy the Exterminator show?
Because they ran out of shows about Hitler?
83 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:33:20pm |
84 | joest73 Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:33:46pm |
86 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:35:56pm |
re: #84 joest73
They’ve been around four years now (I think) so it seems pretty promising.
87 | Nervous Norvous Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:36:17pm |
I am sitting outside. waiting for the tour group I’m. guiding to get done with the next station. why am I outside? so I wont yell bullshit at the paranormal group giving the tour. the things I do for my wife
88 | Dom Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:37:35pm |
Charles,
I have XP on this laptop. I have just tried this on a desktop with XP. Whichever browser I use LGF is very, very slow-loading. I sent a message about this when it happened a few weeks back. Briefly things did seem better but, it is happening again. Even when it does load, like now as I type this comment, it is still trying to load something or other. I am not getting this on other sites. The ratings and expandable things are also slow but maybe that is not the same issue.
Every respect, just hoping this is useful feedback and wondering if anyone else has that problem.
89 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:40:23pm |
re: #81 researchok
Can anyone explain why A&E airs all day episodes of the Billy the Exterminator show?
Because there are only so many addicts they can feature on Intervention. Or compulsive packrats on Hoarders.
90 | joest73 Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:40:51pm |
re: #78 JeffFX
I used to waste about $100/mo on cell phone service with data.
Since I lost my sweet 90K job in the recession, and learned the value of a dollar, I now pay $10 for 3 months of service at $.14/minute for US calls. The $10 goes toward those minutes. It’s through a 3rd party carrier that leases space on AT&Ts network.
I use the phone very lightly, so it’s just costing me $3.3333333333…/mo for cellular service.
Sometime I see all of these people with smartphones and wonder “what recession”?. I am sticking to my grandfathered t-mobile plan for as long as I can. I have 2 lines with unlimited data and text for less than $80/month.
You can still go out an find a used iphone (edge only) or a nexus one (3g) and get the lowest everything plus plan for $49.99 and have them add the $5/month data.
91 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:42:01pm |
re: #89 Lidane
Because there are only so many addicts they can feature on Intervention. Or compulsive packrats on Hoarders.
New series coming up- Compulsive Commenters.
//
92 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:43:42pm |
re: #91 researchok
Honestly? I’m waiting for them to start branching out on Intervention. Instead of drug addicts and alcoholics, they’ll start showing people obsessed with Twitter, or gaming addicts who can’t quit Farmville or World of Warcraft.
It’s only a matter of time.
93 | Political Atheist Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:44:22pm |
re: #88 Dom
Hi
Don’t think we have spoken before, but if I may… I also run XP, and with politico & LGF I find the bottle neck is the servers at the advertisers. Especially politico,when the facebook toolbar appears at the bottom. The other thing I did was go to zedo.com and “opt out” of the pop ups. I only get a couple a day now.
I did subscribe here, and since I did it’s really fast. Proved to me the advertisers are the bottleneck. Even huge threads with spy in another tab.
94 | joest73 Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:44:57pm |
re: #86 Amory Blaine
They’ve been around four years now (I think) so it seems pretty promising.
Well I had another VOIP company (Sunrocket) go bankrupt one year in on a 2-year prepaid contract. Ooma’s business model is a little better now but I think they will still run into trouble eventually.
95 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:46:47pm |
re: #82 jamesfirecat
Because they ran out of shows about Hitler?
That’s the History Channel. A&E only has gardening shows.
96 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:47:10pm |
re: #88 Dom
My internet speed in general has been for shit these last couple of days.
97 | JeffFX Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:48:07pm |
re: #90 joest73
Sometime I see all of these people with smartphones and wonder “what recession”?.
I’m one of the smartphone people, only with a prepaid sim in the phone and no data plan. It’s still very useful without internet access, and now costs me $12/yr instead of $1,200/yr.
98 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:49:39pm |
re: #94 joest73
Damn that sucks I remember when that happened. Almost pulled the trigger on that myself. I jumped in with OOma when I did because when they came out with the new models, you have to pay fees and taxes, but old model was grandfathered and reduced in price.
99 | HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:50:14pm |
re: #8 Alaska Kim
I haven’t had a cell phone in 5 years… it’s possible to survive without it.
hey stranger! Hope you are well..Long time..
You can’t survive without a Cellphone..In fact the world would end
/.
100 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:51:02pm |
re: #92 Lidane
Honestly? I’m waiting for them to start branching out on Intervention. Instead of drug addicts and alcoholics, they’ll start showing people obsessed with Twitter, or gaming addicts who can’t quit Farmville or World of Warcraft.
It’s only a matter of time.
I can tell you there has already been clinical work and research on that.
Seriously.
101 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:52:48pm |
I had an old friend that would drone on about chip implants that the “government” would do to us. Years later I looked at my cell phone and thought of him. Why would they need implants when we carry it around willingly anyways ;).
102 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:54:07pm |
re: #91 researchok
New series coming up- Compulsive Commenters.
//
Better still: Trollers. A look at weirdos who obsessively post on and stalk websites where they are not wanted. Rodan will be featured in the premier episode.
103 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:54:24pm |
re: #101 Amory Blaine
When I’m not using mine, I wrap it in tinfoil, seal it in a ziploc baggie, and hide it in the toilet tank.
/
104 | joest73 Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:54:48pm |
re: #98 Amory Blaine
Damn that sucks I remember when that happened. Almost pulled the trigger on that myself. I jumped in with OOma when I did because when they came out with the new models, you have to pay fees and taxes, but old model was grandfathered and reduced in price.
I have the original hub. Just bought another refurb hub from frys.com for $129.99 shipped. It is OOS now but it should come back in stock. Great price for the service.
105 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:55:01pm |
re: #100 researchok
University of Pittsburgh
Good paper.
INTERNET ADDICTION:
THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW CLINICAL DISORDER
106 | Dom Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:55:18pm |
Slumbering Behemoth, that sounds pretty annoying.
RWC, I think we have spoken before, way back. Thanks for that. Since others don’t seem to be struggling terribly with LGF I wonder if it is either to do with ads responding badly somehow to my location, or to do with this ISP. There is a reason I don’t have a subscription account but that reason may be obsolete soon. :)
107 | HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:55:24pm |
re: #101 Amory Blaine
I had an old friend that would drone on about chip implants that the “government” would do to us. Years later I looked at my cell phone and thought of him. Why would they need implants when we carry it around willingly anyways ;).
I couldn’t live without my crackberry..I’ve been on the golf course having fun and doing work stuff..It doesn’t get any better
108 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:55:29pm |
re: #102 Dark_Falcon
Better still: Trollers. A look at weirdos who obsessively post on and stalk websites where they are not wanted. Rodan will be featured in the premier episode.
That made me laugh!
109 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:55:35pm |
re: #102 Dark_Falcon
Better still: Trollers. A look at weirdos who obsessively post on and stalk websites where they are not wanted. Rodan will be featured in the premier episode.
Speaking of which, any choice tibits regarding the rally from places man was not meant to surf?
110 | joest73 Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:57:42pm |
re: #101 Amory Blaine
I had an old friend that would drone on about chip implants that the “government” would do to us. Years later I looked at my cell phone and thought of him. Why would they need implants when we carry it around willingly anyways ;).
Google owns me… they are watching me through my Nexus One phone.
111 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:58:34pm |
One more:
The Relationship Between Depression and Internet Addiction
See this site. It is a pretty good resource.
112 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:58:37pm |
re: #106 Dom
I’m just chalking it up to increased network load due to the upcoming elections. Youtube is taking forever to load vids.
113 | Lidane Sat, Oct 30, 2010 5:59:16pm |
re: #100 researchok
I can tell you there has already been clinical work and research on that.
Seriously.
Oh, I know. Believe me. I used to be an MMORPG gamer myself, and over the years I’ve seen what can happen when people get addicted to those games. Hell, the whole reason I quit playing them ages ago was because I started noticing I was spending more and more time playing a computer game instead of going out and socializing and having a real life.
I was being sarcastic about the Twitter thing, but gaming addiction is all too real. All you have to do is read about those stories of people who get so caught up in what they’re doing that their family suffers, or they die at the keyboard.
114 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:00:43pm |
re: #109 jamesfirecat
Speaking of which, any choice tibits regarding the rally from places man was not meant to surf?
I just witnessed some of it on CSPAN….what a pathetic display…this is where America is going and why I jumped ship…politics turning on rallies, ratings and phony bluster…anybody happy with that juvenile claptrap garbage needs their head examined
115 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:00:59pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Right. Raising an online family of avatars while their kids starve. I’ve heard of that.
116 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:01:18pm |
re: #114 albusteve
I just witnessed some of it on CSPAN…what a pathetic display…this is where America is going and why I jumped ship…politics turning on rallies, ratings and phony bluster…anybody happy with that juvenile claptrap garbage needs their head examined
Could you give me some examples about what was so pathetic about exactly?
117 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:01:21pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Oh, I know. Believe me. I used to be an MMORPG gamer myself, and over the years I’ve seen what can happen when people get addicted to those games. Hell, the whole reason I quit playing them ages ago was because I started noticing I was spending more and more time playing a computer game instead of going out and socializing and having a real life.
I was being sarcastic about the Twitter thing, but gaming addiction is all too real. All you have to do is read about those stories of people who get so caught up in what they’re doing that their family suffers, or they die at the keyboard.
I’ve seen some stuff on that, but I have no more than a cursory knowledge.
I’m a behavioral analyst- a whole other ballgame.
118 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:01:54pm |
re: #115 Amory Blaine
Right. Raising an online family of avatars while their kids starve. I’ve heard of that.
I wish you were being sarcastic about that.
119 | Amory Blaine Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:03:52pm |
re: #118 researchok
Here’s a link to one. Disturbing how easy it was to find…
120 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:03:55pm |
re: #116 jamesfirecat
1. No one invited him.
2. The Rotting Stones weren’t there.
/
Love ya, Steve.
121 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:04:00pm |
re: #116 jamesfirecat
Could you give me some examples about what was so pathetic about exactly?
it’s a matter of appealing to the Gen XY and Z crowd…I saw the skit with the Comedy Central guys and Cat/Ozzie…just awful, doing their best to cop a woody for the press this week…shameful
122 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:05:25pm |
re: #120 Slumbering Behemoth
1. No one invited him.
2. The Rotting Stones weren’t there.
/
Love ya, Steve.
no the Stones were not there…they would never keep that sort of company….fucking amateurs
123 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:05:27pm |
re: #109 jamesfirecat
Speaking of which, any choice tibits regarding the rally from places man was not meant to surf?
I’ll check.
124 | HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:06:08pm |
I don’t have performance issues here..In fact i’m a subscriber here but asked Charles not to turn off the ads cause I like poking around ads…
My desktop has 8 chips but only one does any work…What a rip-off!
125 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:06:13pm |
re: #121 albusteve
it’s a matter of appealing to the Gen XY and Z crowd…I saw the skit with the Comedy Central guys and Cat/Ozzie…just awful, doing their best to cop a woody for the press this week…shameful
You make a good point.
I wondered why they were hauling out acts their parents listened to.
You’d think more contemporary artists would have been front and center.
126 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:06:48pm |
re: #122 albusteve
they would never keep that sort of company…
Not without their walkers, anyway.
/
Ok, I’ll stop with the elderly jokes. Sorry everyone.
127 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:08:10pm |
re: #126 Slumbering Behemoth
Not without their walkers, anyway.
/Ok, I’ll stop with the elderly jokes. Sorry everyone.
yeah?…I’ve been using a walker for the last 11 weeks…try it sometime (groovin to Start Me Up)
128 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:08:12pm |
re: #121 albusteve
it’s a matter of appealing to the Gen XY and Z crowd…I saw the skit with the Comedy Central guys and Cat/Ozzie…just awful, doing their best to cop a woody for the press this week…shameful
What’s wrong with seeing it simply as what Jon Stewart said it was? A chance for people who feel that political discourse in the nation has become painfully polarized and everyone needs to take a few deep breaths and calm down before we do to ourselves what the terrorists never could?
129 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:08:20pm |
re: #122 albusteve
no the Stones were not there…they would never keep that sort of company…fucking amateurs
If they were there, the crowd would have been 200,000 plus. People would have camped out for a week for a chance to see a live show from the Stones.
/Not a joke, they are still that big a draw.
130 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:08:59pm |
This is the LGF Security Advisory System.
We are now under Threat Level: Sourpuss
131 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:09:07pm |
re: #129 Dark_Falcon
If they were there, the crowd would have been 200,000 plus. People would have camped out for a week for a chance to see a live show from the Stones.
/Not a joke, they are still that big a draw.
The Crowd already was 200,000 plus Dark.
132 | joest73 Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:09:24pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Oh, I know. Believe me. I used to be an MMORPG gamer myself, and over the years I’ve seen what can happen when people get addicted to those games. Hell, the whole reason I quit playing them ages ago was because I started noticing I was spending more and more time playing a computer game instead of going out and socializing and having a real life.
I was being sarcastic about the Twitter thing, but gaming addiction is all too real. All you have to do is read about those stories of people who get so caught up in what they’re doing that their family suffers, or they die at the keyboard.
An oldie from SNL: Alan the Video game junkie:
[Link: www.gametrailers.com…]
133 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:10:00pm |
re: #128 jamesfirecat
What’s wrong with seeing it simply as what Jon Stewart said it was? A chance for people who feel that political discourse in the nation has become painfully polarized and everyone needs to take a few deep breaths and calm down before we do to ourselves what the terrorists never could?
donks are as polarizing as anyone…get real
134 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:10:37pm |
Them young whipper snappers watching Jon Stewart. Who the hell do they think they are. Don’t they know what they’re watching!?
You kids get off my lawn!
/
135 | simoom Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:10:40pm |
re: #51 JamesWI
Over at Gateway Pundit (I won’t link to the post), Jim Hoft posted a “comparison” of the Glen Beck and Stewart rallies. I already pointed out how the area of land photographed in the two pictures was completely different, and how, you know, there was a reflection pool in the middle of the Beck rally.
Here’s a better overview photo of rally (based on the direction the folks on the walkways are facing, maybe it’s as the rally started to disperse?):
136 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:11:03pm |
re: #129 Dark_Falcon
If they were there, the crowd would have been 200,000 plus. People would have camped out for a week for a chance to see a live show from the Stones.
/Not a joke, they are still that big a draw.
a million people saw them a few years back in Rio….chew on that Ozzie
137 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:11:51pm |
re: #127 albusteve
yeah?…I’ve been using a walker for the last 11 weeks…try it sometime (groovin to Start Me Up)
I used one after my hernia surgery, but not for 11 long weeks. I wasn’t groovin to anything, and the stupid pain pills had me blocked up for a week.
138 | goddamnedfrank Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:12:04pm |
re: #114 albusteve
I just witnessed some of it on CSPAN…what a pathetic display...this is where America is going and why I jumped ship…politics turning on rallies, ratings and phony bluster…anybody happy with that juvenile claptrap garbage needs their head examined
You jumped ship from America? Interesting, no wonder you hate the feds, the troops, liberals, life in general.
139 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:12:40pm |
re: #138 goddamnedfrank
You jumped ship from America? Interesting, no wonder you hate the feds, the troops, liberals, life in general.
Jon Stewart’s fault.
//New one.
/
140 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:13:03pm |
re: #134 Gus 802
Them young whipper snappers watching Jon Stewart. Who the hell do they think they are. Don’t they know what they’re watching!?
You kids get off my lawn!
/
who is Jon Stewart and what does he contribute to the narrative?…what is his expertise or background? and why would anybody even care?
141 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:13:22pm |
re: #125 researchok
You make a good point.
I wondered why they were hauling out acts their parents listened to.
You’d think more contemporary artists would have been front and center.
My response would be that the Rally to Restore Sanity could arguably be aimed in a way most poignantly at people of the same age as Jon Stewart and my parents, the first President I was old enough to pay attention to was Bill Clinton…. to me hyper partisanship has always been a way of life in America it’s just gotten more visible, they on the other hand are old enough to remeber a time when Democrats and Republicans could work together to pass an important piece of legislature… that in turn was being opposed by slightly less large numbers of democrats and republicans working together….
142 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:14:34pm |
re: #138 goddamnedfrank
You jumped ship from America? Interesting, no wonder you hate the feds, the troops, liberals, life in general.
presumptuous?…stick to your own life Bluto, you know little of mine
143 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:15:14pm |
re: #140 albusteve
who is Jon Stewart and what does he contribute to the narrative?…what is his expertise or background? and why would anybody even care?
It was just a rally and you’re making it sound like it was “the last word on all things political”. Entertaining and Jon Stewart’s final words were pretty darn good. People didn’t go there to see the tired and cliched old Stones. They went to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
144 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:16:18pm |
re: #143 Gus 802
It was just a rally and you’re making it sound like it was “the last word on all things political”. Entertaining and Jon Stewart’s final words were pretty darn good. People didn’t go there to see the tired and cliched old Stones. They went to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
they must feel abused….all that hassle to see those hacks?
145 | researchok Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:16:18pm |
re: #134 Gus 802
Them young whipper snappers watching Jon Stewart. Who the hell do they think they are. Don’t they know what they’re watching!?
You kids get off my lawn!
/
Dad? Is that you?
147 | HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:16:37pm |
re: #142 albusteve
presumptuous?…stick to your own life Bluto, you know little of mine
Steve..Long time..Are you doing ok? are you healing well?
148 | jamesfirecat Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:17:19pm |
re: #140 albusteve
who is Jon Stewart and what does he contribute to the narrative?…what is his expertise or background? and why would anybody even care?
Jon Stewart is a political comedian and like all comedians because people watch him for the laughs he is not beholden to hist political guests that he “interviews” to determine his raitings, or at least not to keep his raitings high enough to secure his show.
Because of this, and the fact that Jon Stewart is on a network that makes no claims towards being an eastblished news network, he is free to speak truth to power without fear of reprisal from those above even when the truth of the mater is painfully partisan, such as when 3/4ths of the Republicans in the Senate (and exactly 0 democrates) vote that companies should be able to make women sign away their right to sue if they’re raped by their fellow employees of said company.
The King’s Royal Jester has always been able to say to the King what no one else could for fear of offending his majesty.
Jon Stewart continues this tradition today and does our country a great service by making the news entertaining and interesting in a way “real” newsmen fail at so very, very, very baddly.
149 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:17:41pm |
Oh noz the next thread is about a sign from the Stewart/Colbert Rally! Time to air more grievances on it there!
//
150 | goddamnedfrank Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:17:46pm |
re: #142 albusteve
presumptuous?…stick to your own life Bluto, you know little of mine
Let the hatred flow through you.
151 | HoosierHoops Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:18:21pm |
re: #148 jamesfirecat
Like Bob Hope.. He trashed every president…Loved that man
152 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:19:26pm |
re: #150 goddamnedfrank
Let the hatred flow through you.
lively imagination you have there…not good stable ground to launch an attack from…pretty funny tho
153 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:19:35pm |
You guys don’t get it. Whatever you like, Steve will hate it. Like air? Well you suck. Like water? You’re all wet.
He got me once. Never again.
154 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:20:05pm |
re: #153 Slumbering Behemoth
You guys don’t get it. Whatever you like, Steve will hate it. Like air? Well you suck. Like water? You’re all wet.
He got me once. Never again.
I love the Stones!
/
155 | Dark_Falcon Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:21:26pm |
re: #150 goddamnedfrank
First you go after me, then you go after Floral Giraffe, and now you go after Albusteve. Antisocial, aren’t you?
157 | albusteve Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:23:15pm |
re: #155 Dark_Falcon
First you go after me, then you go after Floral Giraffe, and now you go after Albusteve. Antisocial, aren’t you?
probably has to do with some insecurity…when all else fails, attack
158 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:24:01pm |
re: #149 Gus 802
Oh noz the next thread is about a sign from the Stewart/Colbert Rally! Time to air more grievances on it there!
//
And it’s full of… old people. :shhh:
/
160 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:27:07pm |
re: #159 Gus 802
I don’t think you’re near as old as the dude in that pic, are you?
161 | Gus Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:29:02pm |
re: #160 Slumbering Behemoth
I don’t think you’re near as old as the dude in that pic, are you?
No. But I bet his neck is in better shape.
162 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Oct 30, 2010 6:30:28pm |
re: #134 Gus 802
Them young whipper snappers watching Jon Stewart. Who the hell do they think they are. Don’t they know what they’re watching!?
You kids get off my lawn!
/
Heh. I think it was on the Conan O’Brian show a handful of years ago where he announce a new Stones album. They showed the cover, which was a pic of Mick Jagger in golfing pants and a cardigan, swinging a cane and getting halfway out of a lawn chair.
The title track was “Hey! Hey! You! You! Get offa my lawn”.