This wild piece by Ewan Dobson goes through a million changes, with an almost metronomic precision. And I want to congratulate him for losing the weird masks and psychedelic background effects. Much better without, dude. (If you’ve seen his other videos you know what I mean.)
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wrenchwench Fri, Jan 13, 2012 5:58:58pm |
I’m going to save this for tomorrow morning.
Later, lizards.
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engineer cat Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:02:23pm |
he is picking so fast it makes me Sor
or maybe Albeniz
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Randall Gross Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:12:23pm |
Nice work here, impressive and unlike some technical tour d’ force pieces, enjoyable to listen to.
I’ll second what Charles said about the hats and masks — Ewan doesn’t need ‘em.
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Stanghazi Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:12:29pm |
Jesus ( I say it hay soos) Charles the flack you get on twitter. Who is John Nolte?
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:17:13pm |
Just saw the entire original series of Twilight Zone was on Netflix. Breaking in the kids now.
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Kronocide Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:17:59pm |
re: #5 Stanley Sea
Jesus ( I say it hay soos) Charles the flack you get on twitter. Who is John Nolte?
Dufus editor and Big Journalism. Charles inferred he was bloodthirsty and Nolte runs with ‘Charles calls Marines bloodthirsty.’
Give Derp a chance.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:19:38pm |
re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Just saw the entire original series of Twilight Zone was on Netflix. Breaking in the kids now.
“That’s not fair. That’s not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed…! That’s not fair!”
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Stanghazi Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:23:58pm |
re: #7 BigPapa
Dufus editor and Big Journalism. Charles inferred he was bloodthirsty and Nolte runs with ‘Charles calls Marines bloodthirsty.’
Give Derp a chance.
They are pitiful.
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Political Atheist Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:26:10pm |
Truly magnificent skill there. Many thanks for that catch Charles.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:27:40pm |
How do I know it’s Friday at LGF? Because it clears out like a bar after last-call before 9pm EST.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:30:27pm |
re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Just saw the entire original series of Twilight Zone was on Netflix. Breaking in the kids now.
Required:
It’s a Good Life
The Obsolete Man
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
Long Distance Call
He’s Alive
Shadow Play
Elegy
A World of Difference
Nightmare as a Child
gaah, just watch them all. But those are some of my favorites. I have every last episode digitized, and very often put them on “shuffle” and play them as lullaby background at night.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:31:38pm |
HAWT DAMN, that was awesome!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:33:52pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:36:27pm |
A new conspiracy theory has been born tonight. Because I tweeted that Breitbart blogger John Nolte is “way more bloodthirsty than the US Marines,” he’s now tweeting that I’m a “troop-hater.”
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EdDantes Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:40:07pm |
re: #8 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
“Time enough at last”, starring Burgess Meredith. I have seen them all and it is my favorite.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:41:25pm |
re: #16 Charles
Mark Levin was ranting about that earlier, claiming that he was, so far, the only one willing to take a “pro-pissing on corpses” stand. I guess he doesn’t get the interwebs in his bunker.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:42:55pm |
re: #16 Charles
A new conspiracy theory has been born tonight. Because I tweeted that Breitbart blogger John Nolte is “way more bloodthirsty than the US Marines,” he’s now tweeting that I’m a “troop-hater.”
A “troop-hater”? For what, thinking our soldiers should be held to a higher standard?
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EdDantes Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:43:11pm |
re: #12 negativ
/But does Twilight Zone compare with the great TV shows we have nowadays?
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:44:04pm |
re: #19 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Logic is not a job requirement at Big Hollywood.
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:45:39pm |
re: #16 Charles
A new conspiracy theory has been born tonight. Because I tweeted that Breitbart blogger John Nolte is “way more bloodthirsty than the US Marines,” he’s now tweeting that I’m a “troop-hater.”
Either you support our troops pissing on corpses or you hate America. Its one or the other, no middle ground.
/
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palomino Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:45:42pm |
re: #16 Charles
A new conspiracy theory has been born tonight. Because I tweeted that Breitbart blogger John Nolte is “way more bloodthirsty than the US Marines,” he’s now tweeting that I’m a “troop-hater.”
Troop hater, America hater, God hater…it’s all the same to the nativists who populate the blogs attacking you.
The self-proclaimed “real America” often has no tolerance for critiques of America, regardless of the form they take. To these folks, winning is all that matters. The notion of winning with dignity, while not violating one’s core principles, means nothing to them.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:50:15pm |
Yes, that’s right. Despite many years of sincere support of America’s military at LGF, I’m now labeled a “troop-hater” by the Breitbart crew.
For being disgusted at the desecration of bodies on a battlefield.
Gotta love today’s right wing.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:54:45pm |
re: #25 Charles
Yes, that’s right. Despite many years of sincere support of America’s military at LGF, I’m now labeled a “troop-hater” by the Breitbart crew.
For being disgusted at the desecration of bodies on a battlefield.
Gotta love today’s right wing.
What do you expect, most of them are armchair generals who have no clue what it really means to be a soldier. The closest they’ve been to a battlefield is playing Call of Duty.
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 6:57:52pm |
re: #25 Charles
Gotta love today’s right wing.
They’ve devolved into just a stinkin’ pile of hate and dissonance.
Listened to the radio for the first time in several weeks while I was out and about last Tuesday, tuned in the local hate-radio stations with the usual hosts, and was struck about how ugly it all seemed.
I used to listen to some of these people 15 years ago… and it didn’t seem so ugly then. No doubt I have changed some, but I have to believe the hate-industry has grown darker and stinky-er.
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JAFO Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:01:12pm |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:01:35pm |
re: #22 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Either you support our troops pissing on corpses or you hate America. Its one or the other, no middle ground.
/
If you send them to war for dubious reasons in equipment so ill-suited to the environment they have to weld scrap metal onto it in a makeshift attempt at upgrading the armor, then you’re supporting the troops.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:02:24pm |
re: #30 negativ
If you send them to war for dubious reasons in equipment so ill-suited to the environment they have to weld scrap metal onto it in a makeshift attempt at upgrading the armor, then you’re supporting the troops.
Well…you know…go with the army you have and all that biz…
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:03:09pm |
re: #30 negativ
If you send them to war for dubious reasons in equipment so ill-suited to the environment they have to weld scrap metal onto it in a makeshift attempt at upgrading the armor, then you’re supporting the troops.
We speak to the Great Man in the Sky to intercede on their behalf. What other support to they need?
/
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:03:44pm |
Prof. Hamilton broaches an important topic:
Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
Comments there range from enlightening to disingenuous (but that has become normal where the Reason-oids show up.)
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:04:26pm |
re: #32 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
We speak to the Great Man in the Sky to intercede on their behalf. What other support to they need?
/
Yes, and we kill men on the other side of the planet because they talk to the wrong Great Man in the Sky.
/
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:05:25pm |
re: #28 freetoken
There are a lot of people who don’t dare say a word against their bosses in real life, so they love the fantasy of being as big a dick as they want. The talk-jocks are competing for a share of this new Walter Mitty junk-yard dog fantasist demo.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:06:36pm |
re: #25 Charles
You’re staying on the side of the Angels, Charles.
Keep it up.
The “not batshit” right.
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:06:58pm |
re: #34 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Yes, and we kill men on the other side of the planet because they talk to the wrong Great Man in the Sky.
/
They are the sneetches with no stars upon thars.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:08:20pm |
re: #27 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
What do you expect, most of them are armchair generals who have no clue what it really means to be a soldier. The closest they’ve been to a battlefield is playing Call of Duty.
I hear the favorite XBox game in that crowd is “Tom ClanceyTM’s Fat Stoner on a Couch Who Thinks He’s a Navy SEALTM”. True story.
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:10:25pm |
I’m pondering on how to get more views to my Pages… wondering if I should go into posting stories from AVN or something.
If Twitter and PrezHilton are any indication, I ought to write a Page titled “Big Show will #askSteve about Sarah Harding and Lady Gaga sex romp”. That will show up in a few google hits for sure.
Modern American society - what can one say?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:12:48pm |
re: #39 freetoken
Neads moar tits.
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palomino Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:12:55pm |
We all know that brutal unspeakable things happen in the realm of warfare. I can even picture myself in a furious disoriented state in which I might be so out of control that I participated in desecration of a dead body.
But for God’s sake, why on earth would we celebrate this? Not only is it grotesque, but it’s the absolute opposite of trying to win hearts and minds, if such a thing is even possible now. The video has almost certainly further inflamed a population that’s largely ambivalent, at best, concerning our presence. And yet, a lot of righty pundits and others just want to rub the noses of our enemies in shit. Not an honorable way to conduct war.
We all know we could totally destroy most of our enemies in the region through superior firepower. But that’s not our real challenge. The overriding challenge is to win, or achieve acceptable peace terms, while NOT betraying our principles regarding just war, since those principles are what give us the moral high ground to begin with.
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:16:43pm |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:17:43pm |
re: #39 freetoken
I’m pondering on how to get more views to my Pages… wondering if I should go into posting stories from AVN or something.
If Twitter and PrezHilton are any indication, I ought to write a Page titled “Big Show will #askSteve about Sarah Harding and Lady Gaga sex romp”. That will show up in a few google hits for sure.
Modern American society - what can one say?
“Justin Bieber rushed to hospital (insert outrageous and/or disgusting and/or hilarious reason)”
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:18:25pm |
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:19:11pm |
re: #35 jaunte
The talk-jocks are competing for a share of this new Walter Mitty junk-yard dog fantasist demo.
Lots of Walter Mitty wanna-bes out there.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:20:01pm |
I think it’s a sign of how cynical I’ve become in the last few years that one of my first thoughts when I heard that the video had gotten out because the dumbasses involved were flashing it around once they got back stateside was to facepalm and wonder what kind of moron thinks “pissing on corpses” is such cool shit that he not only had to film it, but then show it around as some kind of “war trophy.”
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Four More Tears Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:36:35pm |
So, we’re still talking about water sports…?
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:38:29pm |
re: #47 JasonA
So, we’re still talking about water sports…?
Never could get into them. I mean, the whole speed/distance bits are interesting, but competitive diving just doesn’t do it for me and water polo is just weird.
//
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:40:33pm |
re: #47 JasonA
The closest I’ve ever come to that was when my then gf got drunk, passed out, and pissed my bed. That should have been a sign.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:44:12pm |
re: #41 palomino
We all know we could totally destroy most of our enemies in the region through superior firepower. But that’s not our real challenge. The overriding challenge is to win, or achieve acceptable peace terms, while NOT betraying our principles regarding just war, since those principles are what give us the moral high ground to begin with.
There’s also the small matter of not doing things that actively recruit more enemies. Some redneck preacher wanting to burn a bunch of Korans a while back earned a call from the SECDEF urging him not to do it for the same reason.
I hate the Taliban as much as any other atheist who believes religion on the whole is a detrimental and maladaptive force. I wish to see them destroyed. But it is particularly important to me that, in destroying them, we are shown to be so utterly different from them that anyone attempting to make claims of moral equivalence looks unarguably absurd. I want people to feel ashamed to be fundamentalist militants. I want people who might be inclined to feel supportive, sympathetic, or at least indifferent towards Taliban or AQ among their friends, family, and neighbors to come to replace those feelings of support with feelings of revulsion and disgust.
I don’t think the way to make that happen is to make people feel ennobled and drawn to revenge martyrdom by deliberately insulting behavior on the part of people wielding force on my behalf.
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Four More Tears Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:44:14pm |
re: #49 Slumbering Behemoth
The closest I’ve ever come to that was when my then gf got drunk, passed out, and pissed my bed. That should have been a sign.
A college friend once was pissed on by a blitzed roommate. So glad I commuted.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:49:24pm |
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Stanghazi Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:51:14pm |
re: #41 palomino
We all know that brutal unspeakable things happen in the realm of warfare. I can even picture myself in a furious disoriented state in which I might be so out of control that I participated in desecration of a dead body.
But for God’s sake, why on earth would we celebrate this? Not only is it grotesque, but it’s the absolute opposite of trying to win hearts and minds, if such a thing is even possible now. The video has almost certainly further inflamed a population that’s largely ambivalent, at best, concerning our presence. And yet, a lot of righty pundits and others just want to rub the noses of our enemies in shit. Not an honorable way to conduct war.
We all know we could totally destroy most of our enemies in the region through superior firepower. But that’s not our real challenge. The overriding challenge is to win, or achieve acceptable peace terms, while NOT betraying our principles regarding just war, since those principles are what give us the moral high ground to begin with.
THAT is the interesting question. Are we, really, really that different? Prob not. Just much richer.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:51:27pm |
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:52:55pm |
Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’
“…commercial beekeepers have seen average population losses of about 30 percent each year since 2006…”
“…their demise would create an outsized problem for the food system by placing the more than 70 crops they pollinate — from almonds to apples to blueberries — in peril.”
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:54:36pm |
re: #55 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
BURN THE HERETIC!
//
Empty threat, that is. You’ll never find me, as I am hiding in the vicinity of va-jay-jays.
:P
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:56:20pm |
re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth
Empty threat, that is. You’ll never find me, as I am hiding in the vicinity of va-jay-jays.
:P
You can’t hide forever!
/
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:56:27pm |
re: #54 Stanley Sea
THAT is the interesting question. Are we, really, really that different? Prob not. Just much richer.
Tennessee Taliban at the link.
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Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:56:36pm |
re: #57 Slumbering Behemoth
Empty threat, that is. You’ll never find me, as I am hiding in the vicinity of va-jay-jays.
:P
Your mom and sister don’t count./
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:58:54pm |
re: #60 Atlas Fails
Your mom and sister don’t count./
Not to me, no. But to nerd-gamers? I may as well be in the Fortress of Solitude*.
/*Oh Snap! Nerd Slap!
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 7:59:59pm |
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Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:00:18pm |
re: #59 jaunte
Tennessee Taliban at the link.
From the link:
Floyd strongly believes a man does not belong inside a women’s restroom or dressing room, not matter the circumstances.
“I don’t care for what reason, how depraved their mind is, how perverted their mind is, or for what reason they think a man has a right to go into a women’s bathroom, or dressing room to try on clothes,” Floyd said.
His proposed bill would require a birth certificate to prove which restroom a person would be required to use.
*Facepalm*
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Stanghazi Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:00:43pm |
re: #15 Slumbering Behemoth
Don’t forget the meth and the razor wire.
Dude. Just groceries and toiletries. Incl dental floss.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:00:51pm |
re: #61 Slumbering Behemoth
Not to me, no. But to nerd-gamers? I may as well be in the Fortress of Solitude*.
/*Oh Snap! Nerd Slap!
I’m not a nerd, I’m a geek. There is a difference.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:00:52pm |
re: #59 jaunte
“Proposed State Bathroom Bill Would Limit Transgender Options”
Wait, there’s more than two? Where the fuck have I been?
///
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:01:51pm |
re: #63 Atlas Fails
He’s apparently worried about dog marriage, too.
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Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:07:52pm |
re: #67 jaunte
He’s apparently worried about dog marriage, too.
Yeah, this Floyd character could give Louie Gohmert a run for his money in the “they’d be funny if they didn’t hold positions of power” department.
“Already people are on national blogs talking about this. Tennesseans are embarrassed that we’re moving in this directions instead of talking about job creation and economic growth,” Richmond said.
“I could care less what they think, I could care less what they think,” said Representative Floyd.
A real deep thinker, this one. A real deep thinker, this one.
He feels so strongly about this issue, because he considers it just another example of how a few are dictating to the masses.
“I’m just sick and tired of society having to adjust to every little alternate life style, or little whim or someone who thinks they’re different,” said Floyd.
No, dumbass, not people who “think they’re different,” people who you want to publicly denigrate and humiliate because you see them as different.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:09:26pm |
re: #65 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
I’m not a nerd, I’m a geek. There is a difference.
Stage One. Get past it.
/:P
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:18:10pm |
re: #68 Atlas Fails
New class of minimum wage job in TN: Birth certificate checker in clothing store changing rooms. Retail sales plunge, online sales skyrocket.
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Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:21:42pm |
re: #70 jaunte
New class of minimum wage job in TN: Birth certificate checker in clothing store changing rooms. Retail sales plunge, online sales skyrocket.
Okay, that literally made me laugh out loud. But seriously, how does this cockhole think this law of his would be enforced?
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:23:43pm |
re: #69 Slumbering Behemoth
Stage One. Get past it.
/:P
Allow me to educate, my son.
WikiHow: How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks
/
| 74 |
Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:25:31pm |
re: #72 jaunte
I don’t think he’s really thought it out.
Sometimes I wonder why we don’t just have unisex bathrooms. I mean, stalls people; they’re not that hard to figure out.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:26:57pm |
re: #28 freetoken
They’ve devolved into just a stinkin’ pile of hate and dissonance.
Listened to the radio for the first time in several weeks while I was out and about last Tuesday, tuned in the local hate-radio stations with the usual hosts, and was struck about how ugly it all seemed.
I used to listen to some of these people 15 years ago… and it didn’t seem so ugly then. No doubt I have changed some, but I have to believe the hate-industry has grown darker and stinky-er.
I don’t think so. They have sounded the same to me since I was a frickin’ kid.
Same hate, same supremacy/superiority issues, same self-loathing…they haven’t even bothered to change their epithets, or rhetoric.
Same old lazy, dumb bigots, now just with more air waves and Web 2.0.
| 76 |
OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:28:04pm |
re: #63 Atlas Fails
From the link:
*Facepalm*
Hey, maybe he can get me my original, unaltered one. Would be nice to have it but it’s illegal in most states. /
/soapbox
| 77 |
jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:28:08pm |
re: #74 Atlas Fails
Love the way he uses his wife, daughter and grandchildren as a cover for his own fears.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:28:40pm |
re: #77 jaunte
Love the way he uses his wife, daughter and grandchildren as a cover for his own fears.
Fears, or more likely, desires.
| 80 |
jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:33:43pm |
| 81 |
Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:43:43pm |
re: #80 jaunte
The upper-right definitely does, right down to the somewhat Muppet-esque eyebrows.
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Surabaya Stew Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:46:04pm |
re: #73 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Allow me to educate, my son.
WikiHow: How to Tell the Difference Between Nerds and Geeks
/
Absolutely wonderful article! For years now I’ve considered myself a Nerd, but the deffinitions in the article indicate that I’m closer to being a Geek.
Excuse me while I redefine myself….
| 83 |
Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:52:23pm |
re: #82 Surabaya Stew
Absolutely wonderful article! For years now I’ve considered myself a Nerd, but the deffinitions in the article indicate that I’m closer to being a Geek.
Excuse me while I redefine myself…
Huh, I guess I’m a geek. I’m not a gamer, but other than that, I match the description pretty well. Oh, and thanks to a couple posters on this site (can’t remember who), I’ve recently gotten into contemporary geek music, namely Radiohead. I’m still listening to some of their earlier stuff, but I’m loving it. OK Computer may be my new favorite album.
| 84 |
freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:53:01pm |
The Atlantic posts a misleading article that just begs for Sarah Palin to cry “DEATH PANELS!!!”:
5% of Americans Made Up 50% of U.S. Health Care Spending
When it comes to America’s spiraling health care costs, the country’s problems begin with the 5%. In 2008 and 2009, 5% of Americans were responsible for nearly half of the country’s medical spending.
Of course, health care has its own 1% crisis. In 2009, the top 1% of patients accounted for 21.8% of expenditures.
The figures are from a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services, which examined how different U.S. demographics contributed to medical costs. It looked at the $1.26 trillion spent by civilian, non-institutionalized Americans each year on health care.
The top 5% of spenders paid an annual average of $35,829 in doctors’ bills. By comparison, the bottom half paid an average $232 and made up about 3% of total costs.
Aside from the fact that such a tiny fraction of the country was responsible for so much of our expenses, it also found that high spenders often repeated from year to year. Those chronically ill patients skewed white and old and were twice as likely to be on public health care as the general population.
[…]
This just reeks of stupidity… an obsession with what I’ll call “percentage-itis”. It’s an obsession with the language of OWS/leftists and class warfare applied idiotically to other situations.
Of course a minority of the population consumes the a large share of all medical costs. Otherwise our society would cease to exist. Most people remain relatively healthy the first 4 decades of their lives - otherwise we couldn’t reproduce enough to grow.
Yes, old people are very expensive, medically speaking. That’s because accumulated damage cascades as we age and different parts of the body begin to fail. Finding ways around that costs money and it is the major outlay of medical costs.
The writer of that Atlantic article ought to whipped with a used catheter.
| 85 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:55:38pm |
re: #82 Surabaya Stew
Absolutely wonderful article! For years now I’ve considered myself a Nerd, but the deffinitions in the article indicate that I’m closer to being a Geek.
Excuse me while I redefine myself…
Everyone thinks I’m an asshole, but I’m really just a skull bongo.
| 86 |
freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 8:59:39pm |
The Atlantic has a real mixed bag of writers. Some of them, like Ta-Nehisi Coates will turn out thoughtful essays regularly, but others just spew words into articles that reek of trendy attempts to play along with whatever the in-crowd appears to be doing.
| 87 |
Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:01:47pm |
re: #84 freetoken
The Atlantic posts a misleading article that just begs for Sarah Palin to cry “DEATH PANELS!!!”:
5% of Americans Made Up 50% of U.S. Health Care Spending
This just reeks of stupidity… an obsession with what I’ll call “percentage-itis”. It’s an obsession with the language of OWS/leftists and class warfare applied idiotically to other situations.
Of course a minority of the population consumes the a large share of all medical costs. Otherwise our society would cease to exist. Most people remain relatively healthy the first 4 decades of their lives - otherwise we couldn’t reproduce enough to grow.
Yes, old people are very expensive, medically speaking. That’s because accumulated damage cascades as we age and different parts of the body begin to fail. Finding ways around that costs money and it is the major outlay of medical costs.
The writer of that Atlantic article ought to whipped with a used catheter.
The thing about it is, even Obama acknowledged during the early days of the Affordable Care Act that much of the spending on health care is done in the last years of life. And what did he get for pointing this out? Cries of “Death Panels!” and accusations of his desire to “Unplug Grandma.”
| 88 |
Atlas Fails Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:04:18pm |
re: #86 freetoken
The Atlantic has a real mixed bag of writers. Some of them, like Ta-Nehisi Coates will turn out thoughtful essays regularly, but others just spew words into articles that reek of trendy attempts to play along with whatever the in-crowd appears to be doing.
I’m not a regular reader, but I saw a cover of theirs a few months back that bitched about the NCAA’s “exploitation” of student-athletes. It’s bad enough when some brain-damaged former jock on ESPN starts bemoaning such non-problems, but when it makes the cover of what’s supposed to be a serious political and societal publication? Ugh, gag me.
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:05:06pm |
re: #87 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
It’s just all so obvious, and stupid.
As a society we’ve implicitly or explicitly come to the conclusion that we don’t want to send our old folk out to the Soylent Green factory so we take care of them, and being a rich nation we spend a non-trivial share of our wealth doing this.
To then turn around as if this is some sort of revelation, or is some sort of imminent crises that requires drastic attention, is just grandstanding for the sake of getting attention.
Just accept that as we get old we need more medical attention. That costs.
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Achilles Tang Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:09:29pm |
re: #84 freetoken
Yes it is a stupid conclusion, otherwise called an oxymoron. Not to worry however, the writer will be in the 5% in due course.
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HoosierHoops Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:14:31pm |
Good evening Lizards..Back home from the lodge…Had a blast singing with the locals and sharing a pint in Oklahoma..
So I have made arrangements for Winston here while I go for SuperBowl Week in Indy..It’s like 999 dollars for the Rolling Stones party..They can kiss my ass..Even if Madonna is there..They are filling up Victory field with Sand and heaters also…I’ll be there..Cheap thrills downtown…
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JAFO Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:21:31pm |
I saw in last night’s overnight thread that Rightwingconspirator is switching to Uverse. They disconnected his DSL today but aren’t installing Uverse till Monday. That is strange. I just got Uverse two days ago and my DSL was only down for about 90 minutes during the switchover. Sucks to be him. I think I would be climbing the walls if I had no internet for 3 days.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:21:59pm |
re: #89 freetoken
It’s just all so obvious, and stupid.
As a society we’ve implicitly or explicitly come to the conclusion that we don’t want to send our old folk out to the Soylent Green factory so we take care of them, and being a rich nation we spend a non-trivial share of our wealth doing this.
To then turn around as if this is some sort of revelation, or is some sort of imminent crises that requires drastic attention, is just grandstanding for the sake of getting attention.
Just accept that as we get old we need more medical attention. That costs.
In so many ways, it looks like an effort to find the “cause” of higher health care costs in recent years. What better way to do that than to point to the elderly, to those with chronic illnesses/diseases, and say “They’re the problem, we have to ‘deal’ with them!”
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dragonath Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:25:21pm |
re: #86 freetoken
It’s hard for me to take any Atlantic economic article seriously seeing how Megan McArdle is a senior editor there. The difference between her blog and Ta-Nehisi’s is astounding. Especially in the comment sections.
The magazine really changed a lot when it moved from Boston to Washington, D.C.
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Interesting Times Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:27:17pm |
re: #89 freetoken
As a society we’ve implicitly or explicitly come to the conclusion that we don’t want to send our old folk out to the Soylent Green factory so we take care of them, and being a rich nation we spend a non-trivial share of our wealth doing this.
Do you ever think (or, perhaps, fear?) that what we consider “morals” and “ethics” in our society may be little more than luxuries afforded by abundance? When food/water scarcities become reality the world over, one would think the elderly and chronically ill would be first to get thrown under the bus…
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:32:01pm |
re: #63 Atlas Fails
From the link:
*Facepalm*
Will this provide employment, as every restroom in the country has a ‘piss lady’ at the door, checking birth certificates to make sure that transpeople don’t enter the restroom of their new gender?
(Note, I am NOT taking the job. I don’t care HOW bad the job market is.)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:32:08pm |
re: #92 mracb
I saw in last night’s overnight thread that Rightwingconspirator is switching to Uverse. They disconnected his DSL today but aren’t installing Uverse till Monday. That is strange. I just got Uverse two days ago and my DSL was only down for about 90 minutes during the switchover. Sucks to be him. I think I would be climbing the walls if I had no internet for 3 days.
They still sell dirty magazines at liquor stores, ya know.
/
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:33:09pm |
re: #95 publicityStunted
Do you ever think (or, perhaps, fear?) that what we consider “morals” and “ethics” in our society may be little more than luxuries afforded by abundance? When food/water scarcities become reality the world over, one would think the elderly and chronically ill would be first to get thrown under the bus…
And they generally are. It’s due to the economic and political bounty we’ve enjoyed in the last century that we’ve been able to run programs like Social Security and Medicare to take care of our elderly and infirm. Even a century ago, if you were elderly and had no family able to care for you, then you were SOL. And even if you did have family, if they couldn’t afford the care you needed, then the best a doctor could do was prescribe painkillers and advise the family to make grandma as comfortable as possible in her last days.
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:34:58pm |
re: #93 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
In so many ways, it looks like an effort to find the “cause” of higher health care costs in recent years.
Agree. There is a whole news industry that needs “causes” and “crises” to support ad nauseam their talking heads yakking away.
It sucks to get old, at least physically speaking. There is no way around that one, other than dying young.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:35:51pm |
re: #71 Atlas Fails
Okay, that literally made me laugh out loud. But seriously, how does this cockhole think this law of his would be enforced?
He thinks it will be enforced when some cis chick freaks out because a trans chick wants to use the ladies room, and said trans chick can then be thrown out, or better, taken to court and humilated for trying to use the ladies’ room when her birth certificate says that her parents named her “Anthony”, ‘cause the doctors said it was a boy.
I can think of no possible reason a translady should not use the ladies room, and several reasons why she should NOT use the men’s room.
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:39:27pm |
re: #95 publicityStunted
Do you ever think (or, perhaps, fear?) that what we consider “morals” and “ethics” in our society may be little more than luxuries afforded by abundance?
Oh, certainly. We’re not tested until pushed to the brink, and I think that applies collectively as well as individually.
One doesn’t have to look far to find stories of people doing horrendous actions out of desperation.
I do fear that what we now see around us as “elder care” and frankly also “education” (for the young or not so young) will vanish as our wealth is frittered away during this century. Frittered over counterproductive wars, grandiose projects to soothe our wounded pride, or just evaporated as our great reservoir of stored solar energy (aka “fossil fuels”) gets consumed up.
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jaunte Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:40:19pm |
Scientists discover color of galaxy, can only describe it in poetry
“New spring snow,
an hour after dawn
or an hour before sunset”
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:42:32pm |
re: #99 freetoken
Agree. There is a whole news industry that needs “causes” and “crises” to support ad nauseam their talking heads yakking away.
It sucks to get old, at least physically speaking. There is no way around that one, other than dying young.
It’s like so much else, the media feels it must “condense” everything to “cause/effect/resolution,” with the details either buried below the fold or simply left out to editorialize.
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Interesting Times Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:44:22pm |
re: #101 freetoken
…as our wealth is frittered away during this century. Frittered over counterproductive wars, grandiose projects to soothe our wounded pride, or just evaporated as our great reservoir of stored solar energy (aka “fossil fuels”) gets consumed up.
On an even less hopeful note, the BAU-plus-burn-every-forest-down scenario you presented the other day brings me back to the Permian thing - if all the world’s major forests are gone, wouldn’t that alone be enough to pooch the planet’s oxygen supply for complex life?
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:48:58pm |
re: #103 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
It’s like so much else, the media feels it must “condense” everything to “cause/effect/resolution,” with the details either buried below the fold or simply left out to editorialize.
The simple formula is present for a simple minded audience. Ok, so now I’m sounding elitist…
Whilst I’m ranting curmudgeonly… and related to the is consumerist ideology of simple formulas for simple minds… just watched the latest “Top Chef” and it is another Restaurant Wars episode. Since the contestants have to decorate their restaurant they show one team at the local restaurant supply store, and a contestant says they need some “art work” and picks up some pre-framed prints of various sorts at the warehouse.
Sorry, but if you buy it from a bin at a restaurant supply warehouse it is not art work.
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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:50:41pm |
re: #105 freetoken
The simple formula is present for a simple minded audience. Ok, so now I’m sounding elitist…
Whilst I’m ranting curmudgeonly… and related to the is consumerist ideology of simple formulas for simple minds… just watched the latest “Top Chef” and it is another Restaurant Wars episode. Since the contestants have to decorate their restaurant they show one team at the local restaurant supply store, and a contestant says they need some “art work” and picks up some pre-framed prints of various sorts at the warehouse.
Sorry, but if you buy it from a bin at a restaurant supply warehouse it is not art work.
Now now, you’re just picking nits. //
Ah well, think that’s enough for me tonight. BBL
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freetoken Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:51:06pm |
re: #104 publicityStunted
On an even less hopeful note, the BAU-plus-burn-every-forest-down scenario you presented the other day brings me back to the Permian thing - if all the world’s major forests are gone, wouldn’t that alone be enough to pooch the planet’s oxygen supply for complex life?
I don’t expect the native forests to remain standing in any large continuous blocks. However, humans do plant other trees and many plants. That may not be enough to replace the O2 production from the native forest, but a great portion of the oxygen in our atmosphere comes from the single celled plants/cyano-bacteria in the ocean.
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:51:27pm |
Well, I’m finally all caught up on Venture Bros, so I have that going for me.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 9:57:51pm |
re: #105 freetoken
Sorry, but if you buy it from a bin at a restaurant supply warehouse it is not art work.
Indeed. Neither is buying a trinket, plopping it in a jar of urine, and taking a picture of it. Bold statement, maybe, but not art work.
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Interesting Times Fri, Jan 13, 2012 10:06:20pm |
re: #107 freetoken
…but a great portion of the oxygen in our atmosphere comes from the single celled plants/cyano-bacteria in the ocean.
And we’re doing a wonderful job of buggering that all up as well :(
Funny how our perspectives work out - you’re more pessimistic than me in that you seem to think humans will never deal with AGW successfully, while I hold out (an albeit small) hope for a “come to Gaia” moment and/or geo/genetic-engineering miracle (e.g. super-cyano-bacteria that sucks up CO2 like no one’s business, non-destructive mass food production, etc)
On the other hand, I’m more pessimistic than you in that, if neither “miracle” I describe above comes to pass, I believe total doomsday (i.e. Earth reduced to a near-lifeless wasteland reminiscent of The Road) will happen much sooner than anyone thinks, e.g. inside of the next 100-200 years. Too many things are going wrong all at once, and at unprecedented speeds.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 13, 2012 10:31:31pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:02:53pm |
re: #71 Atlas Fails
Okay, that literally made me laugh out loud. But seriously, how does this cockhole think this law of his would be enforced?
Lol my BC claims my adoptive parents are my birth parents.
I know people like him are actually stupid enough to believe that.
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:33:37pm |
re: #112 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Lol my BC claims my adoptive parents are my birth parents.
I know people like him are actually stupid enough to believe that.
He probably thinks we can just force people to wear armbands, maybe pin labels to their clothes so the purity police can quickly ID unwanted members of the populace.
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:41:05pm |
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OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:42:27pm |
re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
He probably thinks we can just force people to wear armbands, maybe pin labels to their clothes so the purity police can quickly ID unwanted members of the populace.
Or just enforce male/female signs on bathrooms the way his kind did white/colored signs on, well, everything. /
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:43:03pm |
re: #114 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Progress!!
And all it took was for the Bachmann, Cain, and Perry campaigns to go tits up for it to happen.
HUZZAH!
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Kragar Fri, Jan 13, 2012 11:45:28pm |
re: #115 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Or just enforce male/female signs on bathrooms the way his kind did white/colored signs on, well, everything. /
Yeah, but how do you check that on the really good traps?
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JAFO Sat, Jan 14, 2012 12:01:20am |
re: #117 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Do you remember that bar scene in Crocodile Dundee?
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engineer cat Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:09:26am |
well, that was a waste of time and money
this dating service matched me up with a tableful of women i didn’t really like
that’s the first three of thirty six
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freetoken Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:10:21am |
re: #119 engineer dog
that’s the first three of thirty six
Three women in one night …. you’re a better man than me.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:14:22am |
re: #116 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
And all it took was for the Bachmann, Cain, and Perry campaigns to go tits up for it to happen.
HUZZAH!
Very interesting article—Santorum’s YEC/homeschooling stand(s) were always confusing, but the Evangelo-Catholic ‘hybrid’ meme makes sense. His religious and political ideologies really don’t matter though, because the sweater-vest makes him look like the 10 yr-old with his lunch money in one hand and a violin case in the other.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:17:59am |
Rhino horns are made of zebra candy, apparently.
/I have reached the end of the internet. Goodnight.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:23:05am |
re: #122 freetoken
A very young Paul Anka:
[Video]
That was fairly hideous, and I’m of his generation. For a long time, his ‘Diana’ was considered the best R&R song evah.
Here’s a very classicalish treatment of a pop classic ripped from the classical bins half a musical generation later:
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sagehen Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:47:02am |
re: #120 engineer dog
well, that was a waste of time and money
this dating service matched me up with a tableful of women i didn’t really like
that’s the first three of thirty six
Did you at least get a good meal? And did the women you didn’t like each say something that will make for an amusing anecdote when recounting your multidate to others?
Then your time and money were well-spent, in spite of you not wanting to see any of them again.
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:53:11am |
SOPA And PIPA Sponsors Caving Into Opposition
Good Cold morning everyone.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:55:58am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 2:57:56am |
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:00:18am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:02:03am |
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:04:10am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:12:45am |
Piracy & PC Gaming
From Brad Wardell, CEO Stardock.
Old, but pertinent.
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engineer cat Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:22:19am |
re: #127 sagehen
Did you at least get a good meal? And did the women you didn’t like each say something that will make for an amusing anecdote when recounting your multidate to others?
Then your time and money were well-spent, in spite of you not wanting to see any of them again.
well, the food was good
:-(
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Decatur Deb Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:23:23am |
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:24:47am |
re: #135 engineer dog
well, the food was good
:-(
There are plenty of bugs in the air.
Or was it fish in the crock pot???
:)
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sagehen Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:29:26am |
re: #136 Decatur Deb
“Amusing anecdote”=”Dating service FAIL”.
My worst dates have been some of my best stories.
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engineer cat Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:31:16am |
re: #137 Varek Raith
There are plenty of bugs in the air.
Or was it fish in the crock pot???:)
did you ever try to sort through a million random bugs trying to find one you liked and that liked you back?
your hands get sticky with bug juice. and some of them bite
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abolitionist Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:31:47am |
re: #118 mracb
Do you remember that bar scene in Crocodile Dundee?
I think you are referring to the “trust but verify” moment at a party. The bar scene involved a wager about not spilling beer.
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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:41:10am |
Santorum was right! :(
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abolitionist Sat, Jan 14, 2012 3:46:06am |
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Kronocide Sat, Jan 14, 2012 4:03:59am |
Amongst all this Piss Twitter patter, a very telling comment by Breitbart:
Moral relativism on fire: Same people who ignored serial #Occupy rapes now outraged that person posited desecrating sub-human terrorists.
I think it’s clear that dehumanizing people and calling them subhuman is a method to cope with conflict. It justifies the hate. I see little difference between Breitbart and previous political parties that deemed it’s enemies or useful targets ‘sub-human.’ It’s clear he’s no different.
His response would likely to be that I sympathize or empathize with the enemy. Which is an odd thing to say: I sympathize and empathize with him and his savage thinking just the same I do the Taliban.
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 4:06:44am |
Morning Peoples!
re: #142 abolitionist
Looks like it’s just playful wrestling.
/
He’s giving him a hug
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 4:21:48am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:35:07am |
LGF has been silent for longer than an hour?
Everybody just having a little private Tebow time?
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Obdicut Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:37:01am |
re: #146 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I am drowning in work and have no time to be witty.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:39:07am |
re: #147 Obdicut
“Drowning in work” beats “not drowning in work” by a long shot. But, I’m kind of a workaholic.
Enjoy.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:51:04am |
re: #146 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
LGF has been silent for longer than an hour?
Everybody just having a little private Tebow time?
Dog’s gotta be walked.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:52:46am |
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:52:54am |
re: #148 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I was drowning in work last week…this weekend I’m doing a little research trying to find a new tv tuner for the pc I bought. My old one won’t fit so I’m using a cheap USB tuner I had for my laptop. It doesn’t have near the options of my old one and it’s pissing me off! It only runs through win media center which forces a 3-4 second delay making it difficult to use my DVR or watch sporting events.
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Decatur Deb Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:58:29am |
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 5:59:55am |
Anyone have any experience with pci cards vs. usb tuners? I can get a USB tuner today. I’d have to order a low profile pci card and wait but if it would be worth it in performance I guess I can wait although I’d like to be able to watch the games this weekend on it.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:03:37am |
re: #146 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
LGF has been silent for longer than an hour?
Everybody just having a little private Tebow time?
No
We’re all just experimenting on how exactly someone can drop a cell phone into a cup o’ joe!
/
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:06:52am |
I don’t know whether to be impressed or repulsed
Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded.
[Link: www.thesmokinggun.com…]
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:08:45am |
Hackers deface Israel fire service website
JERUSALEM: Hackers claiming to be from the Gaza Strip defaced the website of the Israel Fire and Rescue services, posting a message saying “Death to Israel,” a spokesman told AFP on Friday.
Fire service spokesman Yoram Levy said that attackers who identified themselves as the “Gaza Hackers Team” struck its website late on Thursday and posted a picture of Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon with footprints over his face.
“There was some writing in Arabic and a picture of Danny Ayalon,” Levy said, adding that by Friday morning the site was largely back to normal.
Gaza’s own Anonymous nerds strike!
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NJDhockeyfan Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:09:09am |
re: #156 sattv4u2
I don’t know whether to be impressed or repulsed
Cops Believe North Carolina Inmate Hid 10-Inch Revolver In His Rectum. Luckily, It Was Unloaded.[Link: www.thesmokinggun.com…]
Where did he hide the bullets?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:23:05am |
((from a freind via FaceBook))
A husband and wife are shopping in their local Wal-Mart. The husband picks up a case of Miller Lite and puts it in their cart.
‘What do you think you’re doing?’ asks the wife. ‘They’re on sale, only $10 for 24 cans’, he replies. ‘Put them back, it’s a waste of money’, demands the wife, and so he does and they carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along, the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket.
What do you think you’re doing?’ asks the husband… “It’s my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,’ replies the wife.
Her husband retorts: ‘So does 24 cans of Miller Lite and it’s half the price….’
HUSBAND DOWN, AISLE 7 !!!!!!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:28:19am |
re: #158 NJDhockeyfan
Where did he hide the bullets?
His cell mates had better be careful when he jacks off.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:28:42am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:31:13am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:32:44am |
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:34:33am |
Driver guilty of Christmas DUI manslaughter sues victim
David Belniak had drugs in his system and never braked when he slammed into the back of a family’s car stopped at a red light on Christmas Day 2007. Three people died.
In August, Belniak pleaded guilty to three counts of DUI manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He never said a word in court, not even when the victims’ children begged him for an apology.
But he is voicing his opinion now.
He’s saying he’s not responsible for the crash.
And he wants to be paid for his suffering.
[Link: www.tampabay.com…]
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:34:49am |
re: #164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Wait! Ten inch?
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10
HENCE ,, my I don’t know whether to be impressed or repulsed
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:38:57am |
I am really not understanding why I can’t open certain websites at the lieberrie.:(
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:40:38am |
re: #168 Cannadian Club Akbar
I am really not understanding why I can’t open certain websites at the lieberrie.:(
user error, most likely!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:41:33am |
re: #169 sattv4u2
user error, most likely!
I’m kinda wishing it wouldn’t let me open this one right about now.
///
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:42:19am |
re: #170 Cannadian Club Akbar
I’m kinda wishing it wouldn’t let me open this one right about now.
///
We’re finally in agreement!!
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:42:53am |
re: #168 Cannadian Club Akbar
Have you tried using a proxy?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:44:19am |
re: #172 RogueOne
Have you tried using a proxy?
No. I can get on places using the computers here but not with mine. Also, what’s a proxy.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:44:22am |
Woman says her fake penis got her fired
[Link: articles.philly.com…]
Pauline Davis, 45, wore the device to the J&J Snack Foods plant in Moosic, Lackawanna County, while she contemplated a gender change
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:45:13am |
re: #174 sattv4u2
“I got fired for putting my fingers into a pickle slicer
The pickle slicer got fired too”
Ron White
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:46:34am |
re: #174 sattv4u2
I can’t believe you haven’t been fired for wearing your fake penis. What?
/
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:48:04am |
A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident.
Read more: [Link: www.dailymail.co.uk…]
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:48:39am |
re: #173 Cannadian Club Akbar
No. I can get on places using the computers here but not with mine. Also, what’s a proxy.
…then you shouldn’t need a proxy. Are you trying to get to https sites like Gmail?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:50:28am |
re: #176 Cannadian Club Akbar
I can’t believe you haven’t been fired for wearing your fake penis. What?
/
I never wear the gaudy one there, only the small cheap one
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:50:40am |
re: #178 RogueOne
…then you shouldn’t need a proxy. Are you trying to get to https sites like Gmail?
I can’t get onto FB, hotmail, yahoo, and another place I can get the page to load but not the link I need that’s on the front page.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:51:34am |
re: #179 sattv4u2
I never wear the gaudy one there, only the small cheap one
MY fake one doubles as a flask.
/GAK!!
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:52:10am |
re: #177 Cannadian Club Akbar
A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident.
Read more: [Link: www.dailymail.co.uk…]
Next story
Wood Chipper Manufacturer sued by dead mans family for not having a warning label stating “Do Not Stick Your Head In This End”
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:52:50am |
re: #180 Cannadian Club Akbar
https sites. Check your wifi/firewall settings. If it’s set to “Public” it’s probably blocking them for you.
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:54:55am |
re: #177 Cannadian Club Akbar
A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident.
Read more: [Link: www.dailymail.co.uk…]
Best movie of 2011
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
wood chipper
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Flounder Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:58:31am |
re: #184 RogueOne
I worked with a guy who got his arm caught in a hay bailer, put his other arm in to stall the motor. Tough as nails these NY farmers.
Also, I know in NY, chippers have to have a device to shut down if you are inside the “box” (where the dead guys torso is in the vid clip)
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:59:09am |
re: #183 RogueOne
https sites. Check your wifi/firewall settings. If it’s set to “Public” it’s probably blocking them for you.
I stopped something on my antivirus but still not working. And I don’t have time to fuck with it right now. I’ll just use a liberrie computer. It will only take me 5 minutes to do what I need to do. This lieberrie only has 15 computers. The one I usually go to has 46.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:00:48am |
re: #186 Cannadian Club Akbar
It will only take me 5 minutes to do what I need to do
Does that include 4 1/2 minutes of foreplay?
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:01:47am |
re: #187 sattv4u2
It will only take me 5 minutes to do what I need to do
Does that include 4 1/2 minutes of foreplay?
Foreplay for me is getting the shower to the right temperature. Wait. What?
/
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:02:14am |
Even Leanord Maltin loved the movie:
It’s available for streaming on Netflix, if you haven’t watched it and you like slasher flicks you have to see it. Best horror parody since Evil Dead.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:06:45am |
I applied for a job but didn’t get it back in November (they were gonna open December 5) They now has an ad on Craig’s List for help and they will be opening next week. Nice planning there, douchebags.:)
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:08:58am |
re: #190 Cannadian Club Akbar
I applied for a job but didn’t get it back in November (they were gonna open December 5) They now has an ad on Craig’s List for help and they will be opening next week. Nice planning there, douchebags.:)
Swallow your pride and send them a message that you’re tanned rested and ready!
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:13:27am |
re: #191 sattv4u2
Swallow your pride and send them a message that you’re tanned rested and ready!
I have a job I kinda like with the exception of having 4 different people telling me the correct way to do something four different ways.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:15:18am |
Alrighty. Gonna hit the lieberrie computers and get back home. See y’all Tuesday-ish.:)
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:15:40am |
re: #192 Cannadian Club Akbar
I have a job I kinda like with the exception of having 4 different people telling me the correct way to do something four different ways.
In that case, when they do that, just nod sagely with a blank expression on your face
What will happen in time is that two (or more) of them will tell you their way at the same time. Just sit back and let them have at it!
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:27:19am |
SPD dash-cam video shows questionable conduct by officers
[Link: www.komonews.com…]
KOMO News uncovered what the American Civil Liberties Union calls a classic case of “contempt of cop.” This type of contact, which starts off as a minor stop and quickly escalates to use of force and arrests, is at the heart of what critics say is wrong with Seattle police.
Officer Harris was suspicious when he saw two dock workers, a mother and her son, sitting in a parked car for more than ans hour. They were waiting for a work call-out.
Harris and another officer approached the pair, and the situation quickly turned violent when the son appeared to to ignore the officer’s demands for ID.
“You’re gonna get Tased,” an officer is heard saying.
….and he does! It’s like the officer’s psychic.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:28:07am |
No coffee in the house
Need coffee
Hitting the shower and then going to get coffee
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:39:33am |
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:41:54am |
Tim Tebow to Jesus Christ,
Tim Tebow to Jesus Christ,
Commencing countdown,
Hut-hut-hike…
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:45:49am |
re: #177 Cannadian Club Akbar
A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident.
Read more: [Link: www.dailymail.co.uk…]
Was he hurt bad?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:47:44am |
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:48:43am |
re: #198 darthstar
I’m not a big fan of Jimmy Fallon but that’s brilliant
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:51:16am |
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:52:51am |
re: #201 RogueOne
I’m not a big fan of Jimmy Fallon but that’s brilliant
Hopefully the Pats will win (It’s my wife’s family’s favorite team) and the Saints will put the 49ers out of my misery.
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:53:47am |
Friday the 13th beats the shit out of man in MO:
Pedestrian hit twice after crash into plow
[Link: www.columbiatribune.com…]
A 31-year-old Columbia man was in critical condition this morning at University Hospital after crashing head-on into a snowplow yesterday while driving on Highway 63 and then being struck by two vehicles while walking.
“I’ve never seen anything like this, at least not to the result where he was still alive,” said Trooper Matt Broniec of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. “People usually don’t survive this.”
The trio of incidents began to unfold around 4:30 a.m. yesterday just south of Lake Road near Finger Lakes State Park, according to highway patrol reports. Cory R. Speaks crashed his 1992 Chevrolet head-on into a Missouri Department of Transportation snowplow while driving northbound in the southbound lane, Broniec said.
The plow driver, Marlin Gessling, 52, of Columbia, refused treatment for minor injuries. Both vehicles were declared totaled.
Speaks, who was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, got out of his vehicle into the winter storm and began walking north in the southbound lane, Broniec said. Five minutes later, Speaks was struck by a 2011 Ford driven by Moberly resident Charles F. Sanger, 51, while walking in the roadway, he said. Sanger was not injured.
Somehow, Speaks continued walking in the wrong direction on Highway 63 — in falling snow and subfreezing temperatures — for another five minutes before he was struck by an 18-wheeler truck, Broniec said. The truck’s Illinois driver was not injured.
Everything was fine until he got hit by that damn truck
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 7:55:03am |
re: #203 darthstar
Hopefully the Pats will win (It’s my wife’s family’s favorite team) and the Saints will put the 49ers out of my misery.
Hate to root against Brees but Harbaugh has been the lone bright spot for me as a colts fan. I’m concerned that if the Niners don’t win, they’ll end up getting completely blown out.
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:03:19am |
re: #177 Cannadian Club Akbar
A tree trimmer was decapitated after getting sucked head first into an industrial wood chipper in a freak accident.
Read more: [Link: www.dailymail.co.uk…]
One should always carry a knife while doing yardwork, fishing, etc.
Yikes.
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:03:22am |
re: #204 RogueOne
Friday the 13th beats the shit out of man in MO:
Pedestrian hit twice after crash into plow
[Link: www.columbiatribune.com…]Everything was fine until he got hit by that damn truck
The guy’s lucky to be alive…get it? I’m killing myself here…hit by two cars….lucky…ha!
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RogueOne Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:04:32am |
re: #207 darthstar
I bet the next Fri 13th he hides under his bed for the day
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:06:56am |
re: #206 Varek Raith
One should always carry a knife while doing yardwork, fishing, etc.
Yikes.
It would have been even cooler if he’d been beheaded by a wood chipper while fishing on Friday the 13th…((Jason…Jason…Jason..))
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:10:21am |
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Killgore Trout Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:11:13am |
Nasrallah responds to Ban: Hezbollah won’t disarm
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah shot back at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Saturday, saying that Hezbollah will not give up its weapons and that the top UN official’s concern over its armament “pleases” him.
During a visit to the Lebanese capital over the weekend, Ban said he was “deeply concerned about the military capacity of Hezbollah and … the lack of progress in disarmament.” Nasrallah responded a day later, “We want you (the UN), the US and Israel to be concerned.”
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The Ghost of a Flea Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:15:00am |
re: #109 Slumbering Behemoth
Indeed. Neither is buying a trinket, plopping it in a jar of urine, and taking a picture of it. Bold statement, maybe, but not art work.
I can’t believe I’m about to defend Serrano, but…have you seen “Piss Christ”? I mean, I was expecting to hate it, but as a work I actually think it’s good. And the use of urine had no desecratory intent by the photographer…he was using different natural fluids for their light diffraction properties for a series of photos. I’ve seen others from the same series…it’s actually a very interesting set of photos.
It’s actually a rathering moving piece of photography. With the filtering and color selection plus the enlargement, it makes the tiny crucifix somehow grand and cosmic.
[Also, Sister Wendy defended it as valid artistic expression, and I totally love that nun and her art criticism.]
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:19:07am |
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:37:01am |
Morning all!
It’s freakin’ cold in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland. Sunny, brisk and freakin’ cold.
How are you?
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Obdicut Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:43:52am |
re: #215 ggt
For some reason, art decided to change the dimensions (but not luckily the relative scale) of the images, so I have to re-orient everything.
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Varek Raith Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:44:50am |
re: #216 Obdicut
For some reason, art decided to change the dimensions (but not luckily the relative scale) of the images, so I have to re-orient everything.
Well that’s rude.
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:45:41am |
re: #216 Obdicut
For some reason, art decided to change the dimensions (but not luckily the relative scale) of the images, so I have to re-orient everything.
what about the occident?
does it have to re-?
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:47:32am |
| 221 |
albusteve Sat, Jan 14, 2012 8:52:13am |
very nice piece on Brian Wilson
[Link: www.cnn.com…]
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wrenchwench Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:01:46am |
re: #2 wrenchwench
I’m going to save this for tomorrow morning.
It was worth the wait.
This one is worth the wait for Ry’s turn:
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albusteve Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:07:18am |
re: #222 wrenchwench
It was worth the wait.
This one is worth the wait for Ry’s turn:
[Video]
and Bonnie Raitt, a very close personal friend of John Lee
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albusteve Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:10:54am |
re: #223 albusteve
and Bonnie Raitt, a very close personal friend of John Lee
and Charlie Musselwhite, Santana…some others….cool vid
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wrenchwench Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:12:21am |
re: #224 albusteve
and Charlie Musselwhite, Santana…some others…cool vid
And they all get quiet when it’s Ry’s turn.
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albusteve Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:14:31am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:25:21am |
I have an appointment today with someone who does not speak Murikan.
Not to disparage folks who don’t speak Murikan, but what the fuck am I supposed to do?
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wrenchwench Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:25:44am |
I had no idea there was so much money in baby wipes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say they’ve seized $92,000 in undeclared U.S. currency from a woman headed for Mexico aboard a commercial bus.
Officers at the Dennis DeConcini Port selected an 18-year-old female passenger from Mexico for additional questioning Thursday night.
When the woman’s luggage was inspected, officers discovered four packages of cash hidden in a package of baby wipes.
Authorities say the money was seized and the woman arrested and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
The woman’s name and hometown in Mexico wasn’t released.
She’s going to need protection. Failure in a job like that gets you killed.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:27:04am |
re: #228 wrenchwench
Could be worse. She could be an Iranian sailor plucked out of the water by the USN.
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wrenchwench Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:29:22am |
re: #227 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I have an appointment today with someone who does not speak Murikan.
Not to disparage folks who don’t speak Murikan, but what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Photos and dollar amounts?
Usually when I’m in that situation, there’s a bilingual kid nearby.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:31:39am |
re: #231 Obdicut
Spanish. I know how to order a vegetarian meal, but, I’m not sure it will help me design a kitchen.
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:31:46am |
re: #227 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I have an appointment today with someone who does not speak Murikan.
Not to disparage folks who don’t speak Murikan, but what the fuck am I supposed to do?
what language do they speak —can you “phone a friend” while on the call?
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darthstar Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:32:04am |
re: #227 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I have an appointment today with someone who does not speak Murikan.
Not to disparage folks who don’t speak Murikan, but what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Hold the rake in your hand, gesture to yourself and then the lawn, and get to work.
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:32:47am |
re: #232 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Spanish. I know how to order a vegetarian meal, but, I’m not sure it will help me design a kitchen.
Kitchen talk is universal. You’ll be fine.
Spanish speaking people, IMHO, are usually very friendly and fun. Make your language disability a joking matter and try to learn their words for the specifics.
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Obdicut Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:33:11am |
re: #232 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Ah. Well, my usual tactic is just finding a bilingual person to help me, which I think is probably easier in SF or New York.
Is it for a countertop?
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:36:08am |
Smile and say Hola when you first meet them.
I get great responses from that AND then when they learn it’s all you know of their language, they usually understand you are trying and are very helpful.
Most of language is facial expression and intonation. It will work out.
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wrenchwench Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:38:17am |
re: #237 ggt
Smile and say Hola when you first meet them.
I get great responses from that AND then when they learn it’s all you know of their language, they usually understand you are trying and are very helpful.
Most of language is facial expression and intonation. It will work out.
I learned to say “I do not speak Greek” in such flawless Greek that nobody would believe me.
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:38:38am |
re: #238 wrenchwench
I learned to say “I do not speak Greek” in such flawless Greek that nobody would believe me.
I did the same with French.
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:40:36am |
Hola! is a great word.
I get the biggest smiles from non-white people when I greet them with Hola. All non-whites. It’s bizarre.
It is a feel good word for me. Rolls off the tongue in a way that makes me smile. I really think it will become part of the official Murikan language.
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:41:29am |
I’ve also tried to learn the word for thank you in the various languages of my customers over the years.
People seem to really appreciate it.
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lawhawk Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:52:31am |
re: #211 darthstar
No, I said that’s the starboard side that has the water views. /
Seriously though, that’s one seriously screwed up incident and I can’t wait to see who frakked up and who was responsible. At a minimum, how the ship was able to leave port without holding emergency drills and that the crew didn’t know what to do should raise questions on the cruise line’s operations.
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Kronocide Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:54:11am |
I had a ‘friend’ (read: sonofabitch maddening arch nemesis debater) remind me of posts I made in 2008, espousing opinions of which have evolved or no longer hold.
One opinion of which I would downding the hell out of myself if I held today.
What are friends for?
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PhillyPretzel Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:54:43am |
OT: Just posted a page on a probe that is about to crash into Earth. [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
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jaunte Sat, Jan 14, 2012 9:58:56am |
Nate Silver:
Romney-Obama: No Popularity Contest
Unfavorables: Challenger 42% vs. Incumbent 49%
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FemNaziBitch Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:02:34am |
re: #244 BigPapa
I had a ‘friend’ (read: sonofabitch maddening arch nemesis debater) remind me of posts I made in 2008, espousing opinions of which have evolved or no longer hold.
One opinion of which I would downding the hell out of myself if I held today.
What are friends for?
Proof that change is possible.
*ducks*
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Alexzander Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:04:57am |
On CNN right now “CAPITALISM: ON TRIAL!!!!!!!”
Lots of one percent discussion ahead.
More evidence that the Occupy movement shifted the dialogue.
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Lidane Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:12:08am |
They’re about six months too late to have an effect, but whatever:
Social Conservatives Officially Unite on Rick Santorum as Romney Alternative
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:13:51am |
re: #245 PhillyPretzel
OT: Just posted a page on a probe that is about to crash into Earth. [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
I’m ready, ESPECAILLY if it happens tonight !!
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:16:09am |
re: #248 Alexzander
On CNN right now “CAPITALISM: ON TRIAL!!!”
Lots of one percent discussion ahead.
More evidence that the Occupy movement shifted the dialogue.
I cannot be reminded of anything other than the debate on Communism in the late 60’s: ideological purity vs. “socialms with a human face”.
Up to now the debate has been dominated by ideological purists defending unfettered free-market capitalism who shout down anyone who wants “capitalism with a human face” as some sort of Trotskyite renegade who deserves an ice pick in his skull…
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:22:06am |
re: #246 jaunte
Nate Silver:
Romney-Obama: No Popularity ContestUnfavorables: Challenger 42% vs. Incumbent 49%
it is probably worth watching how Mr. Romney’s favorably ratings evolve as he undergoes a torrent of attacks from his Republican opponents. The attacks could presage what is likely to be one of the nastiest and most negative general election campaigns ever.
Oh ,, goody
I can just see the commercials from both sides now
“Vote for ME,, I’m slightly less repugnant than the other guy!!”
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Lidane Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:28:06am |
re: #252 sattv4u2
Isn’t that how most elections play out anyway?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:29:48am |
re: #253 Lidane
Isn’t that how most elections play out anyway?
It gets worse and worse each election cycle and sadly, I don’t see it improving!
Why??
it works!!
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Lidane Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:30:59am |
This would be a HUGE win for SOPA opponents. I honestly hope it happens:
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Lidane Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:31:40am |
re: #254 sattv4u2
It gets worse and worse each election cycle and sadly, I don’t see it improving!
Why??it works!!
Well, that and now we’ve got Citizens United, which means a lot more money for negative ads. Oh joy.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:32:56am |
re: #256 Lidane
Well, that and now we’ve got Citizens United, which means a lot more money for negative ads. Oh joy.
The trend was going that way well before Citizens United and would have continued the downward spiral without it
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:37:00am |
No attacks on the “other” side, just saying what they would try to do re: the issues of the day
[Link: www.livingroomcandidate.org…]
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Lidane Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:42:22am |
re: #257 sattv4u2
The trend was going that way well before Citizens United and would have continued the downward spiral without it
Except that the trend got punched forward by several orders of magnitude with Citizens United. Oh, and this doesn’t help either:
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jaunte Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:44:00am |
Phil Plait:
This morning I was at my computer, just settling down with my coffee and a ton of emails to get through, when the dogs started barking upstairs. It wasn’t their usual “Alert! Alert! The neighbors are outside!” or “Wake up! A truck drove by!” bark — it was urgent and non-stop. Wondering what it could be, I got up, walked over to the back door, and HOLY CRAP THERE’S A HAWK EATING ANOTHER BIRD THREE METERS FROM MY DOOR!
[Link: blogs.discovermagazine.com…]
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:45:02am |
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sattv4u2 Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:46:44am |
re: #260 jaunte
Phil Plait:
heh,,, just came back from doing an errand
On the side of the road about 1 1/2 miles from my subdivision there were at least 20 turkey vultures feasting on a deer that had been hit last night
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Interesting Times Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:52:01am |
re: #261 sattv4u2
It’s all one sides fault!
Check the thread right upstairs. That is the GOP’s fault (or, the fault of their propaganda/corporate masters, whom they follow slavishly). And remember how Bush had an approval rating in the 90s shortly after 9/11? That could only have happened if left-leaning people/Democrats united behind him, which they did. The GOP never, ever, ever extended the same bipartisan grace to Obama, and never will, under any circumstances.
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Stanghazi Sat, Jan 14, 2012 10:53:40am |
re: #260 jaunte
Phil Plait:
That is awesome. We have tons of red tail hawks here but they are always perched or circling high. I would love to see one up close.
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