Random Post - New and Improved

[Michael]

Welcome to the ever-popular Random Post thread.

Nothing is ever 'off-topic' in this thread. :)

This version is new and improved!

Here are the links to earlier versions of this thread...

Random Post (http://www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3)

Random Post - The Sequel (http://www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=775)

Random Post - The Plot Thickens (http://www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1312)

[Michael]

Does anyone know why Margot would name her cat Thunderballs? :ummm:

[Margot]

Does anyone know why Margot would name her cat Thunderballs? :ummm:

That was Donk's first and only suggestion. :ummm:

I think he's just sad that his cat never had the chance to be Thunderballs.

[The Drunk Guy]

That was Donk's first and only suggestion. :ummm:

I think he's just sad that his cat never had the chance to be Thunderballs.
It'll always be Thunderballs to me. :sad:

[Americano]

It'll always be Thunderballs to me. :sad:

Now that you've planted the seed I'm too lazy to go back and find which name was finally used. Thunderballs it is.

[Donkey]

Now that you've planted the seed I'm too lazy to go back and find which name was finally used. Thunderballs it is.

Heh heh heh.

[The Drunk Girl]

Hail to Thunderballs :notworthy:

[Michael]

Hail to Thunderballs :notworthy:

And thus, a new meme is born! :lol:

[Margot]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs021.snc6/165178_1588576989782_1096530101_31398308_63614_n.j pg

Meet Yuri, my cosmonaut and cuddle-boo.

[The Drunk Guy]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs021.snc6/165178_1588576989782_1096530101_31398308_63614_n.j pg

Meet Yuri, my cosmonaut and cuddle-boo.Thunderballs in his golden glory! All hail Thunderballs!

[The Drunk Girl]

Just for the hell of it



THUNDERBALLS

[The Drunk Girl]

School starts tomorrow. Until 02/14 my schedule is Tuesday/Wednesday. I have OB and MedSurg clinicals on those days and then straight into lecture. After the 14th, I have clinicals on Monday/Wednesday with lecture on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Yes, this is pointless to describe but I am freaking out about seeing a baby come out of a vagina. Go ahead and laugh, but the film The Miracle of Life scarred me. I will be learning IVs and trachs right off the bat... I believe that should cover my "basic" skills considering I know how to administer meds, give shots (ID, SQ, IM), perform wound care and insert a catheter.

[Donkey]

Childbirth is pretty gross.

[Michael]

It does seem odd that EVERY single US media site and political blog is filled, wall-to-wall with breathless coverage of the Arizona shooting.

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of US media sites and blogs all posting the same limited information over and over again.

Looks like the 'plane-crash' dynamic in play.

[Donkey]

It does seem odd that EVERY single US media site and political blog is filled, wall-to-wall with breathless coverage of the Arizona shooting.

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of US media sites and blogs all posting the same limited information over and over again.

Looks like the 'plane-crash' dynamic in play.

For once I feel like this one is actually kind of important.

[evanescence]

School starts tomorrow. Until 02/14 my schedule is Tuesday/Wednesday. I have OB and MedSurg clinicals on those days and then straight into lecture. After the 14th, I have clinicals on Monday/Wednesday with lecture on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Yes, this is pointless to describe but I am freaking out about seeing a baby come out of a vagina. Go ahead and laugh, but the film The Miracle of Life scarred me. I will be learning IVs and trachs right off the bat... I believe that should cover my "basic" skills considering I know how to administer meds, give shots (ID, SQ, IM), perform wound care and insert a catheter.

It is rather uncomfortable. :lol:

I start classes Thursday. I'm getting into my first science classes.

[Margot]

School starts tomorrow. Until 02/14 my schedule is Tuesday/Wednesday. I have OB and MedSurg clinicals on those days and then straight into lecture. After the 14th, I have clinicals on Monday/Wednesday with lecture on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Yes, this is pointless to describe but I am freaking out about seeing a baby come out of a vagina. Go ahead and laugh, but the film The Miracle of Life scarred me. I will be learning IVs and trachs right off the bat... I believe that should cover my "basic" skills considering I know how to administer meds, give shots (ID, SQ, IM), perform wound care and insert a catheter.

Hey man, at least she's going for a vaginal birth. I cannot describe to you the depth of my annoyance at any woman who goes cesarean for non-medical reasons.

[The Drunk Girl]

Hey man, at least she's going for a vaginal birth. I cannot describe to you the depth of my annoyance at any woman who goes cesarean for non-medical reasons.

:lol: I have battled with the idea of both. You know which one would I find better fitting once TDGuy and I get to that point in our lives. But, shit! Once you start hearing about ripping your asshole, Sitz baths, hemorrhoids...from a vag birth I dunno. I don't want to be split open either so I guess I will just have to wait it out and see

[evanescence]

Ripping assholes doesn't often happen, I'd imagine.:lol: But the sitz bath thing is just a minor annoyance. That's only required if there was an episiotomy.

[Greendruid]

:lol: I have battled with the idea of both. You know which one would I find better fitting once TDGuy and I get to that point in our lives. But, shit! Once you start hearing about ripping your asshole, Sitz baths, hemorrhoids...from a vag birth I dunno. I don't want to be split open either so I guess I will just have to wait it out and see

All thanks to our super-large brains and bipedalism.

[The Drunk Guy]

All thanks to our super-large brains and bipedalism.
Yes, I'd imagine it would be much easier if she had a litter of puppies or kittens. But NOO!! She wants a human child, the elitist bitch. :rofl:

[Americano]

Yes, I'd imagine it would be much easier if she had a litter of puppies or kittens. But NOO!! She wants a human child, the elitist bitch. :rofl:
When orphanages are full of unwanted children. Not too selfish.

[The Drunk Girl]

Apparently, Florida was the only state yesterday to not have snow. Margot, you bitch ;):lol:

Source (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/11/snow-present-in-49-of-the-50-u-s-states/)

[Margot]

Same time last year the only state without snow was Hawaii.

I would gladly trade for any other state.

[Donkey]

Apparently, Florida was the only state yesterday to not have snow. Margot, you bitch ;):lol:

Source (http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/11/snow-present-in-49-of-the-50-u-s-states/)
Mountains are a funny thing.
Same time last year the only state without snow was Hawaii.

I would gladly trade for any other state.
Well yeah. Because Florida is the hellmouth.

[The Drunk Girl]

Same time last year the only state without snow was Hawaii.

I would gladly trade for any other state.

It's colder than a well digger's ass here. I'm not fond of it being this cold.

School was on a two-hour delay this morning and clinicals were canceled. A fucking contingency already the second day of school. :mad: I swear if I have to do that damn assessment packet I will flip the fuck out!

[Greendruid]

It's colder than a well digger's ass here. I'm not fond of it being this cold.

That's one of my favourite Tom Waits' lines. Another is "It's colder than a ticket-takers smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night"

[Michael]

Best line of the day (from yesterday)

Today has been set aside to honor the victims of the Tucson massacre. And Sarah Palin has apparently decided she's one of them.
:rofl:

From Josh Marshall at TPM

That woman has no sense of shame at all. :shrug:

[Michael]

I've been out driving around at lunchtime a few times over the last week.

I keep wondering about all those poor, lonely crossing guards. They are everywhere, one standing on every block throughout the city, three times a day.

No one has seen a child walking to school in years though.

I wonder what those poor lonely crossing guards do sitting there in the cold with nothing to do for so many years?

[Margot]

I've been out driving around at lunchtime a few times over the last week.

I keep wondering about all those poor, lonely crossing guards. They are everywhere, one standing on every block throughout the city, three times a day.

No one has seen a child walking to school in years though.

I wonder what those poor lonely crossing guards do sitting there in the cold with nothing to do for so many years?

Three times? Don't tell me, your little kids get to go to home for lunch?

BAH. Spoiled.

[evanescence]

Best line of the day (from yesterday)


:rofl:

From Josh Marshall at TPM

That woman has no sense of shame at all. :shrug:

:lol:

[Michael]

Three times? Don't tell me, your little kids get to go to home for lunch?

BAH. Spoiled.

They used to. But by the looks of the loney crossing guards, I'm thinking that if mommy doesn't come to pick up the kids for lunch in the SUV, the kids are stuck at school.

Also keep in mind that I live in an urban metropolis. We have elementary schools on every other block, so no one ever has to send their kid to school that is more than an 1/8th of mile away and the vast majority it is only a couple hundred yards. But I certainly do see school buses lined up to pick up kids to drive them 100 yards to the school on the next block.

Btw, I walked home for lunch every day from Grade 1 to Grade 8. And I don't think I ever saw one of those crossing guard people until I was an adult. They didn't have them when I was a kid (when EVERYONE walked to and from school).

[dilettante]

So this looks like a curious bit of brouhaha north of the border:

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' Deemed Offensive In Canada, Can't Air (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/13/dire-straits-money-ruled-offensive-canada/?test=faces)

and

In protest, three Canadian FMs will play "Money For Nothing" for 1 solid hour (http://www.radio-info.com/news/in-protest-three-canadian-fms-will-play-money-for-nothing-for-1-solid-hour).

[Donkey]

So this looks like a curious bit of brouhaha north of the border:

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' Deemed Offensive In Canada, Can't Air (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/13/dire-straits-money-ruled-offensive-canada/?test=faces)

and

In protest, three Canadian FMs will play "Money For Nothing" for 1 solid hour (http://www.radio-info.com/news/in-protest-three-canadian-fms-will-play-money-for-nothing-for-1-solid-hour).

I think radio censorship is stupid, but that seems as good a word to censor as any.

[evanescence]

So this looks like a curious bit of brouhaha north of the border:

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' Deemed Offensive In Canada, Can't Air (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/13/dire-straits-money-ruled-offensive-canada/?test=faces)

and

In protest, three Canadian FMs will play "Money For Nothing" for 1 solid hour (http://www.radio-info.com/news/in-protest-three-canadian-fms-will-play-money-for-nothing-for-1-solid-hour).

:rolleyes: And I had considered moving to Canada for its ... freedoms. Jeez is there anywhere I can go to escape the political correctness??

[The Drunk Guy]

So this looks like a curious bit of brouhaha north of the border:

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' Deemed Offensive In Canada, Can't Air (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/13/dire-straits-money-ruled-offensive-canada/?test=faces)

and

In protest, three Canadian FMs will play "Money For Nothing" for 1 solid hour (http://www.radio-info.com/news/in-protest-three-canadian-fms-will-play-money-for-nothing-for-1-solid-hour).
Didn't they hear that they changed the definition? According to this (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/254821/change-the-definition), it now is a reference to douchey bikers.

[evanescence]

:weed: :ummm:

[Michael]

So this looks like a curious bit of brouhaha north of the border:

Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' Deemed Offensive In Canada, Can't Air (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/01/13/dire-straits-money-ruled-offensive-canada/?test=faces)

and

In protest, three Canadian FMs will play "Money For Nothing" for 1 solid hour (http://www.radio-info.com/news/in-protest-three-canadian-fms-will-play-money-for-nothing-for-1-solid-hour).

When I first heard this, I thought the CRTC had lost its head. Then I read that it wasn't the CRTC (Government body much like FEC).

This seems a bit weird. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council is industry-run. It is their self-regulatory body (not Government). One rarely hears anything about them.

As always, I consider censorship absurd. Indeed, like the FEC in the USA, it is weird the way these bodies object to minor things (wardrobe malfunctions, or song lyrics) yet don't seem to care about the massive quantity of brutal violence that is routinely broadcast.

I consider the violence routinely permitted in hockey games to be far more offensive than a pop-song using the word "faggot". Indeed, one can hear that word used routinely in every context EXCEPT in songs on the radio? That's absurd.

In many cases, the violence in a routine game of hockey would get you arrested if you weren't actually playing hockey. There are lots of things I consider far more offensive than any silly word - they are all routinely ignored.

[Michael]

:rolleyes: And I had considered moving to Canada for its ... freedoms. Jeez is there anywhere I can go to escape the political correctness??

Canada has never been famous for 'freedoms' and that's not what we strive for or pride ourselves on up here. We prefer 'peace, order and good government'. :)

We occasionally mangle that combination, but generally speaking, this is the goal we strive for.

[evanescence]

Canada has never been famous for 'freedoms' and that's not what we strive for or pride ourselves on up here. We prefer 'peace, order and good government'. :)

We occasionally mangle that combination, but generally speaking, this is the goal we strive for.

I despise political correctness. And I also can't stand nosy people who complain when they don't like something someone else is saying. Why the hell would anyone complain about a 20 year old song-I mean after all these years, someone starts bitching about it and then they ban it. Dumb. Really dumb.

[Americano]

I despise political correctness. And I also can't stand nosy people who complain when they don't like something someone else is saying. Why the hell would anyone complain about a 20 year old song-I mean after all these years, someone starts bitching about it and then they ban it. Dumb. Really dumb.

Unless you take up residence in a cave and limit your social contact to going for basic supplies twice a year you'll experience those aggravations no matter where you live. Ignoring them is the best solution.

[The Drunk Guy]

I despise political correctness. And I also can't stand nosy people who complain when they don't like something someone else is saying. Why the hell would anyone complain about a 20 year old song-I mean after all these years, someone starts bitching about it and then they ban it. Dumb. Really dumb.
They're still arguing about Tom Sawyer. Its what assholes do when they have drove off all family and friends from their incessant bitching. :shrug:

[Americano]

They're still arguing about Tom Sawyer. Its what assholes do when they have drove off all family and friends from their incessant bitching. :shrug:

The ignore feature wasn't developed for or limited to Internet forums. Why do people pay attention to such crap?

[The Drunk Girl]

The ignore feature wasn't developed for or limited to Internet forums. Why do people pay attention to such crap?

Because it's a big goddamn deal! Haha

[Americano]

Because it's a big goddamn deal! Haha

A matter of opinion. The author is dead.

[Margot]

A matter of opinion. The author is dead.

Flagrant posthumous editing jeopardizes all documents, literature or otherwise. How very Orwellian of you!

[Americano]

Flagrant posthumous editing jeopardizes all documents, literature or otherwise. How very Orwellian of you!

What else could one expect from a creationist state like Alabama? Facts?

[Michael]

Flagrant posthumous editing jeopardizes all documents, literature or otherwise. How very Orwellian of you!

Both the Bible and the US Constitution have been subjected to flagrant posthumous editing.

[Zarquon]

Both the Bible and the US Constitution have been subjected to flagrant posthumous editing.
The US Constitution was written to be amendable, so its not "flagrant editing that jeopardizes the document" in its case.

[Americano]

The US Constitution was written to be amendable, so its not "flagrant editing that jeopardizes the document" in its case.

Try that on a hard core conservative.

[Margot]

Try that on a hard core conservative.

It appears that they're always attempting to amend it the most. :shrug:

[Zarquon]

Here's a good piece on the Originalist fallacy (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/weekinreview/09rosen.html?_r=1&sq=if%20scalia%20had%20his%20way&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all).
Regardless, I think the Constiution a hopelessly outdated document, and y'all would be better of framing a new one.

[Americano]

Here's a good piece on the Originalist fallacy (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/weekinreview/09rosen.html?_r=1&sq=if%20scalia%20had%20his%20way&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all).
Regardless, I think the Constiution a hopelessly outdated document, and y'all would be better of framing a new one.

Not a viable proposal when manipulation allowing or not allowing a SCOTUS interpretation for any occasion can be achieved by the ruling elite. (sarcasm).

Who would compose a new one? Academia is ideologically split by funding sources, the judicial system is corrupt and a majority of laymen require heroes plus religion to merely function.

[evanescence]

Unless you take up residence in a cave and limit your social contact to going for basic supplies twice a year you'll experience those aggravations no matter where you live. Ignoring them is the best solution.

They're still arguing about Tom Sawyer. Its what assholes do when they have drove off all family and friends from their incessant bitching. :shrug:

The ignore feature wasn't developed for or limited to Internet forums. Why do people pay attention to such crap?

I don't want to live in a country where other people get to tell me how to live and what I can and can't listen to-THAT's Orwellian. It starts with a twenty year old song, and who knows what else they might ban. But I agree. This shit's not going away. Stupidity is here to stay, and Canada is still a better country to live in as far as I can tell so far. The ultimate question is this: Where do I want my descendants to live? USA? -definitely not.

[Michael]

Happy MLK Day.

[Margot]

Happy MLK Day.

I hate this holiday with a passion. No banks, no mail, no presents.

Well, OK, some good things have come of it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz-bu84-hWA)

[The Drunk Girl]

I hate this holiday with a passion. No banks, no mail, no presents.

Well, OK, some good things have come of it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz-bu84-hWA)

"I'm proud to be a ginger, just like you all are proud to be black!" :lol:

Poor, poor gingers.

On another note, half of me still wants my reparations while the other half says, "fuck that shit."

[Michael]

Poor, poor gingers.
I've never understood how gingers ended up at near the bottom of the social totem pole. It makes no sense. :shrug:

On another note, half of me still wants my reparations while the other half says, "fuck that shit."
You can't be serious.

You are choosing between 'status quo' and 'civil war'.

[The Drunk Girl]

You can't be serious.

You are choosing between 'status quo' and 'civil war'.

Of course I am not serious. If I was all about those kinds of things I'm sure I would have brought them up before. You know black people always find a way to relate things back to their oppression(s)...much like a former professor of mine :rofl:

[Margot]

I've never understood how gingers ended up at near the bottom of the social totem pole. It makes no sense. :shrug:



Of course it does! Red is the least common hair color in the world (and "ginger"-dome is even less common). When have people not singled out outliers in a population?

I mean, don't you remember elementary school? The tall kid got picked on, the short kid got picked on, the kid with glasses, the ginger...

[Americano]

Of course it does! Red is the least common hair color in the world (and "ginger"-dome is even less common). When have people not singled out outliers in a population?

I mean, don't you remember elementary school? The tall kid got picked on, the short kid got picked on, the kid with glasses, the ginger...

As a chubby ginger the You Tube commentator must have taken some serious flak in school.

[evanescence]

Is auburn considered ginger?:erm:

[The Drunk Girl]

Is auburn considered ginger?:erm:

I want to say "yes" and come up with some elaborate definition on the spectrum of gingers, but I would lying.

Gingers are typically pale kiddos with red/orange hair. Freckles are generally included.

[Michael]

Of course it does! Red is the least common hair color in the world (and "ginger"-dome is even less common). When have people not singled out outliers in a population?

I mean, don't you remember elementary school? The tall kid got picked on, the short kid got picked on, the kid with glasses, the ginger...

I generally agree with the point about schoolyards and a tendency to pick on loners, misfits and queer-looking folk (minorities), but blondes are also usually a minority outside of Sweden and they never are picked on for being ugly and redheads usually aren't either. It is a specific thing with 'gingers'.

Indeed, both blondes and redheads are generally considered attractive in society and actual redheads are certainly as rare as gingers.

As a chubby ginger the You Tube commentator must have taken some serious flak in school.
Case in point. ;)

But a chubby kid is going to take flak in school to begin with, regardless if he's a ginger, redhead or an average brunette.

Is auburn considered ginger?:erm:
I don't think so. Auburn seems to be a natural crossbreed of the redheads and the brunettes. ;)

My mother originally had auburn hair (from northern England). I say "had" only because it shifted to brown as she got older, and is now grey. :)

I want to say "yes" and come up with some elaborate definition on the spectrum of gingers, but I would lying.

Gingers are typically pale kiddos with red/orange hair. Freckles are generally included.
Yes, pale or pink, with orange hair, freckles usually included, but not the true redheads. Redheads are redheads, not gingers.

What is often called 'strawberry blonde' should be considered a ginger, as they almost always have with that same pale/pink complexion as well.

My point is, look at hollywood or the history of Playboy Bunnies - I'm betting there are quite a few famously sexy/beautiful gingers.

I just don't see where this odd point of culture comes from. In reality, gingers are generally fairly attractive. There has to be some particular reason that gingers are picked on the way they are picked on for being gingers, as if this type of hair-coloring is associated with retardedness or something. :shrug:

Like I said, I just don't understand this one. :ummm:

[evanescence]

Thankfully, I don't have freckles just auburn highlights. My sperm donor was mostly of Scot/Irish descent.

[Donkey]

Happy MLK Day.

Aka Free Museum Day!

[Greendruid]

"I'm proud to be a ginger, just like you all are proud to be black!" :lol:

Poor, poor gingers.

On another note, half of me still wants my reparations while the other half says, "fuck that shit."

I had no idea you were half ginger! Didn't know about the reparations either. :ummm:

[The Drunk Girl]

I had no idea you were half ginger! Didn't know about the reparations either. :ummm:

No, no that is what the ginger said in the clip Margot posted. However, I am half white and half black/Negro/African American. Take your pick, it doesn't matter to me.

[The Drunk Girl]

Mr. Greendruid take a look at my picture on my profile. It's pretty obvious I am mixed;):lol:

[Zarquon]

Mr. Greendruid take a look at my picture on my profile. It's pretty obvious I am mixed;):lol:
Its not that obvious, though; you look merely tanned or Hispanic rather than 'milk chocolate':shrug:

[The Drunk Girl]

Its not that obvious, though; you look merely tanned or Hispanic rather than 'milk chocolate':shrug:

:rofl::rofl: milk chocolate. I forget that races other than blacks pick up on that. I swear every (and I mean every black person) I have encountered says, "girl you're mixed aren't you?". I have learned not to ask them how they know anymore because according to blacks I have " mixed hair"... The initial giveaway. I don't fucking get it but oh well. Other than that, I have a "white" nose and "tan" skin.

Just give me my goddamn reparations and call it a day


(Zarquon, you are the second person in my life to say I resemble a Hispanic )

[Donkey]

Its not that obvious, though; you look merely tanned or Hispanic rather than 'milk chocolate':shrug:




(Zarquon, you are the second person in my life to say I resemble a Hispanic )
Well you do.

Given that a huge portion of Hispanics are essentially a mix of European and Black African. Fricken most of the Spanish speaking Caribbean (i.e. Puerto Rico, Cuba and Dominica) are varying shades of that black-white mix.

[evanescence]

Its not that obvious, though; you look merely tanned or Hispanic rather than 'milk chocolate':shrug:

I would say Hispanic. Half ginger? No way. :lol:

[Greendruid]

Mr. Greendruid take a look at my picture on my profile. It's pretty obvious I am mixed;):lol:

I was kidding - but that doesn't always come across in print :erm: My wife and I joke that we're an inter-racial couple because she's American and I'm Canadian. Race is a funny, funny thing.

[Margot]

:rofl::rofl: milk chocolate. I forget that races other than blacks pick up on that. I swear every (and I mean every black person) I have encountered says, "girl you're mixed aren't you?". I have learned not to ask them how they know anymore because according to blacks I have " mixed hair"... The initial giveaway. I don't fucking get it but oh well. Other than that, I have a "white" nose and "tan" skin.

Just give me my goddamn reparations and call it a day


(Zarquon, you are the second person in my life to say I resemble a Hispanic )

Ain't you just really tan, girl?

[Michael]

So Drunk Girl is half-ginger? :ummm:

[The Drunk Girl]

I was kidding - but that doesn't always come across in print :erm: My wife and I joke that we're an inter-racial couple because she's American and I'm Canadian. Race is a funny, funny thing.

I figured you were joking...and you are an anthropology professor, right?:ummm:

Ain't you just really tan, girl?

:lol: I guess I told you about TDGuy's dumbass friend. I ramble so much to you I forget what stupid shit I tell.

If I have mentioned this story here, my apologies in advance...

A co-worker of TDGuy's comes over one day to play some video games. It was warm so I was in a sundress and had just attended a Mary Kay party (go ahead and laugh). As soon as the guy walks in, he looks at me and says, "Damn, you're tan!" My response: "No shit! That's what fucking happens when you have a white mom and a black dad." Fucking guy. Seriously, who the fuck says that kind of shit within 10 seconds of meeting someone?

So Drunk Girl is half-ginger? :ummm:

I'm a half-ginger who looks Hispanic.

[Margot]

I'm a half-ginger who looks Hispanic.

I google image searched "tan ginger" but all I got were pictures of chinchillas, so, you know, you're that, too.

[The Drunk Girl]

I google image searched "tan ginger" but all I got were pictures of chinchillas, so, you know, you're that, too.

Thanks, you're too sweet

[The Drunk Girl]

Lindsey Drunk-As-Shit Lohan might be the only existing tan ginger

[Margot]

Thanks, you're too sweet

No. You're too sweet:

http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2010/09/baby_chinchilla_feeding-600x450.jpg

[Greendruid]

No. You're too sweet:

http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2010/09/baby_chinchilla_feeding-600x450.jpg

I especially enjoyed this picture with your forum signature at the end Margot - priceless!

[The Drunk Guy]

No. You're too sweet:

http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2010/09/baby_chinchilla_feeding-600x450.jpgWe had a chinchilla once. Ché was a little bastard. Just when I thought he was enjoying my petting him, he'd bite the fuck out of my finger. Rodents are good for one thing: feeding pet snakes.

[Michael]

Well you do.

Given that a huge portion of Hispanics are essentially a mix of European and Black African. Fricken most of the Spanish speaking Caribbean (i.e. Puerto Rico, Cuba and Dominica) are varying shades of that black-white mix.

Agreed. Latinos generally originate as Spanish/black mix (and they look it). Very different than "Spanish" looking.

Btw, the Quebecois (French-Canadians) generally originate as a similar French/native mix.

[Donkey]

Agreed. Latinos generally originate as Spanish/black mix (and they look it). Very different than "Spanish" looking.

.

Some of them. Those originating in more continental regions are more indigenous looking than black.

[Americano]

Some of them. Those originating in more continental regions are more indigenous looking than black.

In Mexico my cultural exposure definitely placed most Mestizo and pure indigenous in a glass ceiling position when compared to those with only Spanish ancestry. Appearance was a dominate factor.

[Donkey]

In Mexico my cultural exposure definitely placed most Mestizo and pure indigenous in a glass ceiling position when compared to those with only Spanish ancestry. Appearance was a dominate factor.

Damn fuckin' straight it is. Latin America is racist from Arizona to Tierra del Fuego.

[Americano]

Damn fuckin' straight it is. Latin America is racist from Arizona to Tierra del Fuego.

Tell me somewhere that isn't. The US has toned down for public display purposes but that hasn't changed anything for a majority of the victims.

I was too lazy to start a new thread.

[Margot]

Tell me somewhere that isn't. The US has toned down for public display purposes but that hasn't changed anything for a majority of the victims.

I was too lazy to start a new thread.

Speaking of, they found a bomb in Spokane on the MLJ Day parade route. Apparently Spokane is the home of the Aryan Nations.

Keepin' it classy...

[Greendruid]

Speaking of, they found a bomb in Spokane on the MLJ Day parade route. Apparently Spokane is the home of the Aryan Nations.

Keepin' it classy...

I think you meant klassy.

[The Drunk Guy]

I think you meant klassy.
As in "Klassy Killer Klowns Party Store"? :ummm:

[Michael]

As in "Klassy Killer Klowns Party Store"? :ummm:

I'd venture to guess that it is more of a reference to the 'fascist' passion for substituting "k" for "c" in many words - as in Amerika (or the Klan).

[Americano]

Speaking of, they found a bomb in Spokane on the MLJ Day parade route. Apparently Spokane is the home of the Aryan Nations.

Keepin' it classy...

Not to be confused with the Aryan Brotherhood (a big and completely different deal), the Aryan Nation has been pretty well scattered. The former headquarters was in Hayden Lake, ID (it was considered a joke, I used to drive by it) but the feds and a civil award took that away in 2001. There are outposts in PA and SC but nothing that I'm aware of in Spokane, WA.

Almost sounds like yet another DHS 'publicity' endeavor to keep the citizenry aware of terrorism and DHS diligence in protecting them. Who but a government agency is dumb enough to place a bomb on a bench with wires hanging out?

[Michael]

Not to be confused with the Aryan Brotherhood (a big and completely different deal), the Aryan Nation has been pretty well scattered. The former headquarters was in Hayden Lake, ID (it was considered a joke, I used to drive by it) but the feds and a civil award took that away in 2001. There are outposts in PA and SC but nothing that I'm aware of in Spokane, WA.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Spokane in eastern Washington State, and rather close to the Idaho border? Spokane looks like the 'nearest' point of civilization for much of northwestern Idaho.

Almost sounds like yet another DHS 'publicity' endeavor to keep the citizenry aware of terrorism and DHS diligence in protecting them. Who but a government agency is dumb enough to place a bomb on a bench with wires hanging out?
That's always possible. Security theater is big business and always popular with the DHS set. :shrug:

[Americano]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Spokane in eastern Washington State, and rather close to the Idaho border? Spokane looks like the 'nearest' point of civilization for much of northwestern Idaho.

Spokane, WA is the the nearest large city (200,000) to what's known as Idaho's 'Panhandle'. Coeur d'Alene, ID (pop. 44,000) is the largest city in Idaho's Panhandle and about 30 miles from Spokane.

Coeur d'Alene has the largest concentration of retired law enforcement personnel in the US and ironically enough is only six miles from Hayden Lake, the former home of the Aryan Nation. Some of the most beautiful country in the US (not Spokane).

[The Drunk Girl]

From the US to China (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google-dd&utm_medium=ha)

Look at number 46 :lol:

[Zarquon]

From the US to China (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-google-dd&utm_medium=ha)

Look at number 46 :lol:
Kayak across the pacific ocean! :rofl:
Your link just takes you to the maps btw, and one has to enter USA to China for directions.

[Michael]

Kayak across the pacific ocean! :rofl:
Your link just takes you to the maps btw, and one has to enter USA to China for directions.

Thor Heyerdahl famously made the journey on a reed raft from South America to Polynesia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki

[Donkey]

Thor Heyerdahl famously made the journey on a reed raft from South America to Polynesia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki

Great story, and a great book. Makes you wish his theory held water.

[The Drunk Girl]

Kayak across the pacific ocean! :rofl:
Your link just takes you to the maps btw, and one has to enter USA to China for directions.

Yes I noticed that, but I figured everyone here was smart enough to plug the locations in ;)

[Michael]

Yes I noticed that, but I figured everyone here was smart enough to plug the locations in ;)

I wasn't. I clicked your link and saw the basic Google map intro page.

I didn't see any "route 46" listed so I just closed the link and waited for someone else to comment on that.

Punching "USA to China" into google-maps isn't something that would occur to me to do since that's absurd and unlikely to produce any meaningful information. :shrug:

[The Drunk Girl]

I wasn't. I clicked your link and saw the basic Google map intro page.

I didn't see any "route 46" listed so I just closed the link and waited for someone else to comment on that.

Punching "USA to China" into google-maps isn't something that would occur to me to do since that's absurd and unlikely to produce any meaningful information. :shrug:

It is absurd and I was surprised that Google maps actually had "directions" for it.

Someone had showed me that so I thought I would share since it is so ridiculous. "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean" is pretty hilarious.

Oh well...one should never assume.

[Michael]

It is absurd and I was surprised that Google maps actually had "directions" for it.

Someone had showed me that so I thought I would share since it is so ridiculous. "Kayak across the Pacific Ocean" is pretty hilarious.

Oh well...one should never assume.

I guess I'm just jaded when it comes to links since so many of them are deadends. :shrug:

[Americano]

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=a3048f124756f5be7abfc94ac6f372b6&w=900.0

[Michael]

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=a3048f124756f5be7abfc94ac6f372b6&w=900.0

Here it is...

http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=a3048f124756f5be7abfc94ac6f372b6&w=900.0

Fucking brilliant humor! :rofl:

[Americano]

I've long been addicted and subscribe to cartoonists who make valid social or political statements.

[Donkey]

I've long been addicted and subscribe to cartoonists who make valid social or political statements.

Everything I know about the 80s I learned from Doonesbury and Bloom County.

[Non Sequitur]

Everything I know about the 80s I learned from Doonesbury and Bloom County.

:agree:

[Americano]

I don't follow Bloom County but Doonesbury has been successful in graduating to contemporary viewpoints for several decades. I consider it more of a cartoon strip soap opera but most often enjoyable if one has followed the characters evolution.

[Donkey]

I don't follow Bloom County but Doonesbury has been successful in graduating to contemporary viewpoints for several decades. I consider it more of a cartoon strip soap opera but most often enjoyable if one has followed the characters evolution.

I don't currently read either, but we had a couple of 80s anthologies of both. Bloom County was more a parody of middle-America society than politics (although obviously those merged plenty).

[Michael]

Everything I know about the 80s I learned from Doonesbury and Bloom County.

Really? I admit that Bloom County was funny (I loved Opus the Penguin), but overall, I didn't think that comic had much substance. Nothing to compare with Calvin & Hobbes or Far Side.

Doonsbury has never been my taste and I've always hated that comic strip - way too 'insidery' for me and rarely ever funny. Never liked the politics either, though I didn't know the politics 'evolved' over time - that would help the comic. When I first discovered it, it was way too rightwingy anti-left for my taste and just came across like Fox News crap.

[Americano]

Really? I admit that Bloom County was funny (I loved Opus the Penguin), but overall, I didn't think that comic had much substance. Nothing to compare with Calvin & Hobbes or Far Side.

Doonsbury has never been my taste and I've always hated that comic strip - way too 'insidery' for me and rarely ever funny. Never liked the politics either, though I didn't know the politics 'evolved' over time - that would help the comic. When I first discovered it, it was way too rightwingy anti-left for my taste and just came across like Fox News crap.

Rightwingy? I've followed it since it became widely syndicated in the '70s and would never think of it as an anti-left cartoon. Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doonesbury)

[Michael]

Rightwingy? I've followed it since it became widely syndicated in the '70s and would never think of it as an anti-left cartoon. Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doonesbury)

Yes, I figured I was going to get hit for saying that. Rightwingish seems like the wrong term, but I can't think of a better one.

How about the kind of ideology-free bullshit that inherently supports rightism with the jaded 'know-it-all' attitude of hipster posers?

Vaguely leftish, but not in any positive way. Considered leftwing only because it critiques the establishment.

How's that? :D

(Indeed, I have several friends who are highly educated lefties and they scare me with their 'common sense' politics as they only follow half the picture and they don't seem to think through all the consequences and end up favoring policies that in the long run essentially enhances elite rule - Doonsbury comic always reminds me of them).

[Michael]

So, is tomorrow Groundhog Eve? :lol:

[Michael]

Trying to eliminate the 'double-space' after the end of a sentence is very difficult to do when that is how one was trained to type (on a typewriter).

Given that I 'sight-type' without ever looking at a keyboard and am pretty damn fast - almost all of my typing skills are essentially 'subconscious' - including the automatic habit of hitting the spacebar twice at the end of a sentence.

I've been trying to stop doing it for over a year now - I just can't stop doing it. My fingers are trained to automatically make that motion without me 'commanding' it. Trying to uncommand them is very difficult. At best, I can only go through a passage after I type it an remove the 2nd spaces (which is very tedious and a silly waste of time).

[The Drunk Guy]

Trying to eliminate the 'double-space' after the end of a sentence is very difficult to do when that is how one was trained to type (on a typewriter).

Given that I 'sight-type' without ever looking at a keyboard and am pretty damn fast - almost all of my typing skills are essentially 'subconscious' - including the automatic habit of hitting the spacebar twice at the end of a sentence.

I've been trying to stop doing it for over a year now - I just can't stop doing it. My fingers are trained to automatically make that motion without me 'commanding' it. Trying to uncommand them is very difficult. At best, I can only go through a passage after I type it an remove the 2nd spaces (which is very tedious and a silly waste of time).
I have the same habit. Even on my phone, I have to fight the urge to double space on my QWERTY pad as a space takes up one of my precious 160 characters.

So, why are you trying to break a perfectly respectful habit. If I wanted to break a habit, I could think of a thousand vice habits I would nix before I got around to typing style.

[Donkey]

I have the same habit. Even on my phone, I have to fight the urge to double space on my QWERTY pad as a space takes up one of my precious 160 characters.

So, why are you trying to break a perfectly respectful habit. If I wanted to break a habit, I could think of a thousand vice habits I would nix before I got around to typing style.

How did you develop the habit? I understand it on a typewriter, I guess, but when has it ever been necessary on a computer?

[The Drunk Guy]

How did you develop the habit? I understand it on a typewriter, I guess, but when has it ever been necessary on a computer?
I learned keyboarding on a typewriter. Before that, I used computers, but typed with my fingers and didn't know any better. Besides, I love the clean look of that extra space between sentences. It may not be efficient, but I can sacrifice for a nice looking type-written page.

[Donkey]

I learned keyboarding on a typewriter. Before that, I used computers, but typed with my fingers and didn't know any better. Besides, I love the clean look of that extra space between sentences. It may not be efficient, but I can sacrifice for a nice looking type-written page.

Bizarre!

Am I showing my age? ;)

[The Drunk Guy]

Bizarre!

Am I showing my age? ;)
Actually, I was shocked that we had typewriters in high school. But, that's what happens when you go to high school in one of the nation's twenty poorest counties.

[Michael]

Bizarre!

Am I showing my age? ;)

Yes. :D

Heck, I remember the computer lab in high school having punch cards! :lol:

I'm sure some around here will say that shows my age since they didn't have 'computer labs' in high schools back then!

And yes, we had 'typing' classes in high school. It was a option, and not surprisingly, it was always filled with girls. Anyway, I'm glad I took the class as the skills it gave me have been enormously useful over the years. I can honestly say that I can type way faster than I could possibly write. Indeed, typing is as much an 'ingrained' skill as learning to write.

(Hence the difficulty of adjusting a habit)

As for 'why', I guess I'm just going along with what a bunch of people bitch about - apparently it annoys the heck out of a lot of people. Though I must agree, that it is visually pleasing overall and I do like it. :)

[Michael]

Non Sequitur...

I normally don't preview stuff, but here's a link to an article I haven't read yet, but looks very interesting. I figured I might share it since I have a rather large backlog of such links right now and time is pressing... if the article is any good, I will probably make a thread about it...

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/adam_lewis/persuasive.html

[Michael]

Heck, since I'm on the topic, here's a short list of interesting links that I haven't read yet, but intend to. All are possible discussion threads on diverse topics (including moustaches!!!). I always have a list like this lying around. :)

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20110124/000722.html

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/commentary/4909/the_occult_moustache.html

http://exiledonline.com/we-the-spiteful/

http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/01/life-after-capitalism/

http://canadiandimension.com/articles/3621/

http://chinascope.org/main/content/view/3291/92/

[The Drunk Girl]

Bizarre!

Am I showing my age? ;)

I think you are a little younger than me (:ummm:) and the only typewriter I remember was one my grandmother had. She even had an old cash register. Anywho, the first computer I remember using are what I would consider the "old school" Macs. Being in elementary school and having to type in commands was well...nothing I really remember how to do.

You remember playing computer games on those big ol floppy discs?! It wasn't long after that, teachers were showing us educational flicks on those big ass DVDs that were the size of a damn pizza (I have drawn a blank on the name).

[The Drunk Guy]

I think you are a little younger than me (:ummm:) and the only typewriter I remember was one my grandmother had. She even had an old cash register. Anywho, the first computer I remember using are what I would consider the "old school" Macs. Being in elementary school and having to type in commands was well...nothing I really remember how to do.

You remember playing computer games on those big ol floppy discs?! It wasn't long after that, teachers were showing us educational flicks on those big ass DVDs that were the size of a damn pizza (I have drawn a blank on the name).
Laserdiscs. They're our generation's Betamax.

In elementary, my fourth grade year was spent in the 'gifted' class, so we had ALL the tech...that being two Commodore 64s and two Apple IIs. Our class was in the building my mother went to elementary school in (and perhaps my grandmother).

In fifth grade, I elected to return to 'normal' classes where the school shared a computer room filled with Apple IIs. We didn't see another PC until high school when we were offered the elective Computers course, which was the easiest A ever since I had had a home PC since middle school.

[Greendruid]

Every Tuesday and Wednesday my wife bakes for the H.E.A.L. market (healthy eating and living) held at our regional hospital on Thursday afternoons. Table fee is free for vendors, which is something we can afford. The house smells of fresh bagels, flat breads, gluten-free muffins and fat-free muffins. It's hard being married to a kitchen witch :D

[Americano]

Every Tuesday and Wednesday my wife bakes for the H.E.A.L. market (healthy eating and living) held at our regional hospital on Thursday afternoons. Table fee is free for vendors, which is something we can afford. The house smells of fresh bagels, flat breads, gluten-free muffins and fat-free muffins. It's hard being married to a kitchen witch :D

Wonderful aromas.

[Michael]

Every Tuesday and Wednesday my wife bakes for the H.E.A.L. market (healthy eating and living) held at our regional hospital on Thursday afternoons. Table fee is free for vendors, which is something we can afford. The house smells of fresh bagels, flat breads, gluten-free muffins and fat-free muffins. It's hard being married to a kitchen witch :D

If you've gained a pound, I'd be surprised! :D

(for those who don't know, Greendruid is probably one of the skinniest guys I've ever met in my life)

Btw, that's one of the things I like about making soup - it really kicks out a nice aroma that makes 'a house feel like a home'. :)

Anything bread-like is also a lovely and pleasing kitchen aroma - as is anything with butter & garlic!

[The Drunk Guy]

If you've gained a pound, I'd be surprised! :D

(for those who don't know, Greendruid is probably one of the skinniest guys I've ever met in my life)

Btw, that's one of the things I like about making soup - it really kicks out a nice aroma that makes 'a house feel like a home'. :)

Anything bread-like is also a lovely and pleasing kitchen aroma - as is anything with butter & garlic!
Realtors have said the two best odors to help smell a home are fresh baked apple pies and frying bacon.

Yeah, that's probably from Wisconsin.

[Michael]

Realtors have said the two best odors to help smell a home are fresh baked apple pies and frying bacon.

Yeah, that's probably from Wisconsin.

Around here, I've heard that it is all about fresh-cut flowers and those artificial air-fresheners.

Rusting cars parked on front lawns (and/or discarded old appliances) are considered a real detriment to selling a house in the city. ;)

[Americano]

Realtors have said the two best odors to help smell a home are fresh baked apple pies and frying bacon.

Yeah, that's probably from Wisconsin.

If my wife Miss Tidy walked into a for sale house smelling of fried bacon her first thought would be 'the entire kitchen will require new cupboards and repainting to get rid of the grease residue and smell'. We use the oven to cook bacon. No mess, no odor.

[Michael]

If my wife Miss Tidy walked into a for sale house smelling of fried bacon her first thought would be 'the entire kitchen will require new cupboards and repainting to get rid of the grease residue and smell'. We use the oven to cook bacon. No mess, no odor.

I agree - the smell of greasy fried bacon would have me running out of that house pretty damn fast.

That being said, everyone I know uses the microwave to cook [side] bacon since it is so fast and easy. :shrug:

Rather like vegetables - the microwave is particularly good for some things.

Real Canadians eat back bacon though (aka 'Canadian bacon' for the American types) - a far superior product!!! :D

[Zarquon]

I agree - the smell of greasy fried bacon would have me running out of that house pretty damn fast.

That being said, everyone I know uses the microwave to cook [side] bacon since it is so fast and easy. :shrug:

Rather like vegetables - the microwave is particularly good for some things.

Real Canadians eat back bacon though (aka 'Canadian bacon' for the American types) - a far superior product!!! :D
And healthy people don't eat red meat:p

[Americano]

I agree - the smell of greasy fried bacon would have me running out of that house pretty damn fast.

That being said, everyone I know uses the microwave to cook [side] bacon since it is so fast and easy. :shrug:

Rather like vegetables - the microwave is particularly good for some things.

Real Canadians eat back bacon though (aka 'Canadian bacon' for the American types) - a far superior product!!! :D

We formerly used a microwave for bacon and vegetables until discovering an oven produces better vegetables as it doesn't break down the tissue like the microwave. Broccoli, brussels sprouts, etc. sprinkled with a little olive oil, seasoned and baked at 350° in an oven can't be beat.

[Michael]

And healthy people don't eat red meat:p

That's what people say. And I agree that people who eat nothing but red meat probably aren't very healthy, but like everything else, eating protein rich foods in moderation is good for human physiology.

That being said, the few people I do find that are the least healthy (those prone to never ending colds, flu's and various minor ailments) are the vegetarians that I know (who also happen to be clean freaks, so that might explain it).

Also, diets that are very heavy with vegetables are just fart-city and I think that's annoying and something to avoid. I don't want to be a cow. In my opinion, everything in moderation seems to be the best rule for food intake.

[Donkey]

And healthy people don't eat red meat:p

Like hell we don't.

Just not in excess.

[Michael]

Like hell we don't.
Indeed.

My doctor thinks I'm a freak the way I have been a drinker, smoker and pot smoker since I was 14 years old, yet I apparently have the lung capacity of the average 30 year old non-smoker. I also have a fitness level and body-fat level that puts most of my own age-circle to shame. I also have perfectly normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels (apparently at the low end of the scale). I'm certainly a red meat eater, though not in excess (once or twice a week max).

Just not in excess.
Yes, that's the real lesson about red meat (or red wine, or anything else!).

[The Drunk Guy]

Indeed.

My doctor thinks I'm a freak the way I have been a drinker, smoker and pot smoker since I was 14 years old, yet I apparently have the lung capacity of the average 30 year old non-smoker. I also have a fitness level and body-fat level that puts most of my own age-circle to shame. I also have perfectly normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels (apparently at the low end of the scale). I'm certainly a red meat eater, though not in excess (once or twice a week max).


Yes, that's the real lesson about red meat (or red wine, or anything else!).
I didn't know you smoked the non-whacky-tobaccy. :shrug: I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU! :mad:


My health has decreased dramatically since I started working in a cubicle last year. I've plumped on around 50 pounds and get winded much more easily than what I used to. Its hard to motivate myself to exercise when its either so hot outside I can't breathe or so fucking cold I can't feel my face. To be fair, I've never been one to 'work out', so that's not new.

Its just that I could maintain my slightly healthier 'chubby' body with a decent workout through my work, allowing me to eat pretty much as I wanted. That's becoming a problem now (along with my 30pack a week habit).

With a little luck, though, I'll be back to sweating my ass off with physical labor and keeping away from the beer at a new job within a month. I'm interviewing Monday to manage a Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I would say "Wish me luck," but I need that as much as I need your prayers. ;) Some professional interview tips would be nice, though.

[Michael]

I didn't know you smoked the non-whacky-tobaccy. :shrug: I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU! :mad:
The two do tend to go together...

My health has decreased dramatically since I started working in a cubicle last year. I've plumped on around 50 pounds and get winded much more easily than what I used to. Its hard to motivate myself to exercise when its either so hot outside I can't breathe or so fucking cold I can't feel my face. To be fair, I've never been one to 'work out', so that's not new.

Its just that I could maintain my slightly healthier 'chubby' body with a decent workout through my work, allowing me to eat pretty much as I wanted. That's becoming a problem now (along with my 30pack a week habit).

With a little luck, though, I'll be back to sweating my ass off with physical labor and keeping away from the beer at a new job within a month. I'm interviewing Monday to manage a Habitat for Humanity ReStore. I would say "Wish me luck," but I need that as much as I need your prayers. ;) Some professional interview tips would be nice, though.

I stopped drinking beer casually at home since I figured that was a real risk for weight gain since everyone I knew who was drinking beer at home every night was just getting fat.

One thing I do to keep active (since I do work at a desk all my life) is to NEVER use an elevator or escalator if stairs are available. And yes, I use the stairs in my building most of the time (I live on 29th floor). I also never use office telecom systems at work. If I have a question for someone, I get up and go ask them.

I also never do any formal 'work-out' thing. I do simple calisthenics at home (pushups, situps and kneebends). That is plenty enough exercise if you do it regularly.

[Americano]

The two do tend to go together...



I stopped drinking beer casually at home since I figured that was a real risk for weight gain since everyone I knew who was drinking beer at home every night was just getting fat.

Depends on dietary habits and exercise. I'm a beer drinker but limit my intake of sugar (zilch), colas (zilch), starches, saturated and trans fats (almost zilch) while keeping a close eye on the daily calorie intake. I do normally get a decent amount of exercise but the calorie intake and type of food is equally important.

One thing I do to keep active (since I do work at a desk all my life) is to NEVER use an elevator or escalator if stairs are available. And yes, I use the stairs in my building most of the time (I live on 29th floor). I also never use office telecom systems at work. If I have a question for someone, I get up and go ask them.

I also never do any formal 'work-out' thing. I do simple calisthenics at home (pushups, situps and kneebends). That is plenty enough exercise if you do it regularly.

[Americano]

Household Tip

We use and very much like these automatic soap dispensers in the kitchen and bathrooms. Try one and you'll never go back to pumps.

The only deterrent is cost and inconvenience of the refill cartridges, $3.49 here for a couple of ounces. I put a ½" hole in the tops of used cartridges and now simply refill them (without removing the cartridges) from a $1.97 64 ounce container of soap.

[Margot]

Household Tip

We use and very much like these automatic soap dispensers in the kitchen and bathrooms. Try one and you'll never go back to pumps.

The only deterrent is cost and inconvenience of the refill cartridges, $3.49 here for a couple of ounces. I put a ½" hole in the tops of used cartridges and now simply refill them (without removing the cartridges) from a $1.97 64 ounce container of soap.

The folks I work for have those. I hate 'em. They give waaaaayyyy too much soap for my tiny hands.

I prefer pump soap still.

[Americano]

The folks I work for have those. I hate 'em. They give waaaaayyyy too much soap for my tiny hands.

I prefer pump soap still.

My wife has tiny hands and she hasn't complained so I haven't looked at flow adjustment. If it was a problem I'd likely go to a fully adjustable commercial model to retain the convenience.

[The Drunk Girl]

So I will be a damn softy and say it: Happy Valentine's Day. Possibly a silly day, but fun nonetheless.

Love to all:smooch::love:

[Americano]

So I will be a damn softy and say it: Happy Valentine's Day. Possibly a silly day, but fun nonetheless.

Love to all:smooch::love:
That's one event I never miss as it would make my wife cry, something I can't handle. I do the gushy card, a dozen red roses, a few truffles and every year a different teddy bear. Makes me happy.

Here's this year's bear:

[Donkey]

^Curmudgeon fail.

[Americano]

^Curmudgeon fail.

You'll have to interpret that for me.

[The Drunk Girl]

^Curmudgeon fail.

:rofl:

[The Drunk Guy]

You'll have to interpret that for me.
He's saying that even though you spend 364 decrying the pathetic notions of unnecessary sentiment, you can't be considered a proper curmudgeon because you buy flowers and candy and teddy bears on Valentine's. Those are the three softest holiday gifts on Earth.

In other words....

Curmudgeon - 0
Hopeless Romantic - 1

[Donkey]

He's saying that even though you spend 364 decrying the pathetic notions of unnecessary sentiment, you can't be considered a proper curmudgeon because you buy flowers and candy and teddy bears on Valentine's. Those are the three softest holiday gifts on Earth.

In other words....

Curmudgeon - 0
Hopeless Romantic - 1

Exactly. And not a damn thing wrong with it. :)

GF and I largely ignored Valentine's this year. We went out to a nice dinner the night before (ostensibly to celebrate us both getting jobs), and just took it easy yesterday.

[Americano]

Life's very pleasant for me with worthy rewards when making birthdays and Valentine's Days special events. Surprise roses also create special events.

[The Drunk Girl]

Life's very pleasant for me with worthy rewards when making birthdays and Valentine's Days special events. Surprise roses also create special events.

Nothing wrong with spoiling your wife.

[Americano]

Nothing wrong with spoiling your wife.

Nope. She spoils me and I love it.

[Margot]

Can I just say, for the record, that I hate Rick Scott.

[The Drunk Girl]

Any of you men need a testicular exam? :lol:

[Americano]

Can I just say, for the record, that I hate Rick Scott.

Corporate criminals elected to office are loved by their political base.

[Margot]

Any of you men need a testicular exam? :lol:

I couldn't respond sooner: LOL

[Greendruid]

Any of you men need a testicular exam? :lol:

Please tell me they ... shortened ... the anatomy to facilitate concentration on the specific area!!! Then again, seem to me to do two things:

1) Draw attention to the fact that there's not a realistic penis there.
2) Make the testicular exam falsely easier without the rest of the anatomy ... getting in the way - that's not the right phrase I'm looking for but I think you know what I mean.

Both of these things the exact opposite of what I'd expect in a nursing programme.

[Margot]

Please tell me they ... shortened ... the anatomy to facilitate concentration on the specific area!!! Then again, seem to me to do two things:

1) Draw attention to the fact that there's not a realistic penis there.
2) Make the testicular exam falsely easier without the rest of the anatomy ... getting in the way - that's not the right phrase I'm looking for but I think you know what I mean.

Both of these things the exact opposite of what I'd expect in a nursing programme.

Meh. It's not like any of that's important, anyway.

[The Drunk Girl]

Please tell me they ... shortened ... the anatomy to facilitate concentration on the specific area!!! Then again, seem to me to do two things:

1) Draw attention to the fact that there's not a realistic penis there.
2) Make the testicular exam falsely easier without the rest of the anatomy ... getting in the way - that's not the right phrase I'm looking for but I think you know what I mean.

Both of these things the exact opposite of what I'd expect in a nursing programme.

Yes, it was an intentional shortage of the penis. We have been discussing oncology and this, along with the breast model had lumps so we would know what to feel for and/or teach to patients (e.g. the epididymis is normal, but can seem abnormal to a male who has not performed a self exam before).

I was actually being serious in this picture. I was following directions in the pamphlet and attempting to hold the testicles properly.

[Michael]

I'm back. :erm:

Looks like thinks have been lively in Wisconsin! I'll have to catch up on some reading in the morning!

Anyway, I'm all tanned and relaxed again. All is good with the world. :)

[Americano]

I'm back. :erm:

Looks like thinks have been lively in Wisconsin! I'll have to catch up on some reading in the morning!

Anyway, I'm all tanned and relaxed again. All is good with the world. :)

What better way to start a new job?

[Americano]

Curiosity; other than public workers and banks who in the US has tomorrow, President's Day, as a holiday from work/school?

[The Drunk Girl]

Curiosity; other than public workers and banks who in the US has tomorrow, President's Day, as a holiday from work/school?

I will be up at 5:45 am for clinicals

[Donkey]

Curiosity; other than public workers and banks who in the US has tomorrow, President's Day, as a holiday from work/school?

Not me.

[Zarquon]

"Virtue or excellence is a characteristic involving choice…observing a mean relative to us…the mean by reference to two vices: the one of excess and the other of deficiency."- Aristotle

[Michael]

"Virtue or excellence is a characteristic involving choice…observing a mean relative to us…the mean by reference to two vices: the one of excess and the other of deficiency."- Aristotle

Also known as "Aristotle's golden mean". It is often asserted that for Aristotle, moderation in all things (including moderation itself) was the highest virtue.

[Michael]

Btw, being out on the 'left coast' and the time differences, it now occurs to me that Americano must get up REALLY early in the morning. :lol:

[Donkey]

Also known as "Aristotle's golden mean". It is often asserted that for Aristotle, moderation in all things (including moderation itself) was the highest virtue.

I can't speculate on whether it's virtuous, but it's certainly wise.

[Zarquon]

Had an ethics quiz in the morning, hence the quote.

[Americano]

Btw, being out on the 'left coast' and the time differences, it now occurs to me that Americano must get up REALLY early in the morning. :lol:

~4-5am. Sleep time is normally 10pm. When I was younger with a different metabolism 4-5 hours of sleep was all I ever required. If I was partying on the weekends a couple of hours would suffice and then die for eight hours on Sundays. Everyone's sleep requirements are different and dependent on a wide range of factors.

[The Drunk Girl]

I'm a lazy (and bitter) bitch this evening, so I didn't want to take the time to find the "What Are You Listening To" thread.

Anyways, I found these two little gems, at least in my opinion over the past week. If I'm late on hearing of either of the two well, you can go sit on it

Mumford&Sons: Little Lion Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLJf9qJHR3E)

Patrick Sweany: Them Shoes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Jgn7_MEYY&playnext=1&list=PLD0F060CA1F444C3D)

[Non Sequitur]

Ash Wednesday is today. Today marks the beginning of the 40 days of Lent.

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return

[Greendruid]

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return

Upon that point I think we can all agree! :thumbsup:

[Margot]

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return

Yes. Quite. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9dEAx5Sgw)

[Non Sequitur]

Upon that point I think we can all agree! :thumbsup:

I think we can all agree on our own mortality

[The Drunk Guy]

I think we can all agree on our own mortality
Maybe for you mere humans! :lol:

[Margot]

Florida is batshit insane. (http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/1246/BillText/Filed/HTML)

[Donkey]

Florida is batshit insane. (http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2011/1246/BillText/Filed/HTML)

That's not insanity. It's deliberate protection of big-ag.

[Michael]

That's not insanity. It's deliberate protection of big-ag.

Yes, and the reasons are entirely legalistic. Nothing surprising there at all.

Pictures offer 'proof' that can be shown in the media or a courtroom. And when your corporate profits come from breaking laws, hiding the evidence is very important - buying legislation to protect your ass (and profits) is relatively cheap.

[Americano]

Yes, and the reasons are entirely legalistic. Nothing surprising there at all.

Pictures offer 'proof' that can be shown in the media or a courtroom. And when your corporate profits come from breaking laws, hiding the evidence is very important - buying legislation to protect your ass (and profits) is relatively cheap.

On that note I enjoyed the attached cartoon. While the characters are fictional, I felt the message was directed at a US general public which worships a variety of belief systems including government benevolence.

[Greendruid]

That's not insanity. It's deliberate protection of big-ag.

I don't know the origins of this piece of legislation, but I do know that one of the ways big-ag actually causes a lot of headaches for small farmers whose crops get contaminated with GMO seed is by raiding their properties illegally and taking video and photographic evidence of the "violations" of GMO patents. In other words, this law could be turned around in favour of a small farmer very easily from what I'm seeing here.

[Greendruid]

I don't usually become conscious of the times when I see an ad on the Internet anymore because they are so ubiquitous. However, this time I was on my toes. Note the ad above the headline :rofl:

[Michael]

I don't usually become conscious of the times when I see an ad on the Internet anymore because they are so ubiquitous. However, this time I was on my toes. Note the ad above the headline :rofl:

The funny thing is that particular ad was specifically placed there because it was content specific to the news story. Nothing random about that! :lol:

That's Google at its very best!

[Michael]

I don't know the origins of this piece of legislation, but I do know that one of the ways big-ag actually causes a lot of headaches for small farmers whose crops get contaminated with GMO seed is by raiding their properties illegally and taking video and photographic evidence of the "violations" of GMO patents. In other words, this law could be turned around in favour of a small farmer very easily from what I'm seeing here.

That would be a wonderful 'unintended consequence' of such legislation, but don't count on it until you see it. Big-Ag is relentless and rarely makes stupid legalistic moves that could hurt their financial interests.

[Americano]

That would be a wonderful 'unintended consequence' of such legislation, but don't count on it until you see it. Big-Ag is relentless and rarely makes stupid legalistic moves that could hurt their financial interests.

The Justice thread.

[Michael]

On that note I enjoyed the attached cartoon. While the characters are fictional, I felt the message was directed at a US general public which worships a variety of belief systems including government benevolence.

Priceless! :rofl:

[Margot]

So, Wikileaks is currently punching Bank of America in the face.

[Michael]

So, Wikileaks is currently punching Bank of America in the face.

That sounds nice. Couldn't happen to a nicer corporation I guess. ;)

Got a link for this news? I haven't seen/heard much about it.

[Margot]

http://i.imgur.com/TnUA0.jpg

[The Drunk Girl]

http://i.imgur.com/TnUA0.jpg

Do you put the bears in timeout for something like this?

[Greendruid]

The real question is, were they she-bears?

[The Drunk Guy]

Now we know who keeps pushing all those deer out into the road. :rofl:

[Donkey]

The real question is, were they she-bears?

You gettin' Biblical? :)

[Greendruid]

You gettin' Biblical? :)

I know the Bible better than most Christians I know. Like Non, I was en route to seminary as a young man!

[The Drunk Girl]

Grilled salmon and asparagus with a zucchini, mushroom, and onion medley. Pretty damn good.

[Zarquon]

Got an A on an essay for a course I shouldn't even be taking.

[Americano]

grilled salmon and asparagus with a zucchini, mushroom, and onion medley. Pretty damn good.

yum yum!

[Margot]

Grilled salmon and asparagus with a zucchini, mushroom, and onion medley. Pretty damn good.

That looks absolutely delicious!

[Margot]

Got an A on an essay for a course I shouldn't even be taking.

What's the course and what do you mean "shouldn't even be taking?"

Also, congrats!

[Michael]

Got an A on an essay for a course I shouldn't even be taking.

What's the course and what do you mean "shouldn't even be taking?"

Also, congrats!

Can I snag the opportunity to brag here? In my 2nd year Intro to Political Theory course, I got my major paper back as an "A++++++++++++" (12 of them) followed by "please come see me!". I met with the Professor and afterwards we went for a beer in the faculty club (very weird experience that was!) :erm:

That paper got entered into some undergrad essay contests or whatever, but didn't win anything. :shrug:

I did end up getting the single highest mark in any class I ever took in university though! :)

[Greendruid]

Michael's pet prof Howie Aster. I remember that well. I only heard about it after the fact though. Went for breakfast at his house at that point didn't you? :lol:

[Margot]

Can I snag the opportunity to brag here? In my 2nd year Intro to Political Theory course, I got my major paper back as an "A++++++++++++" (12 of them) followed by "please come see me!". I met with the Professor and afterwards we went for a beer in the faculty club (very weird experience that was!) :erm:

That paper got entered into some undergrad essay contests or whatever, but didn't win anything. :shrug:

I did end up getting the single highest mark in any class I ever took in university though! :)

That's awesome!

It's strange to think how...uninvolved...your professors must have been in your life. I mean, I'm friends with four of my favorite professors on Facebook (two of whom friended me; cue songbirds in my soul!). I talk to them all on a regular basis. We invite each other to events, etc.

The internet is ridiculous that way. I found an awesome link the other day and sent it along to a professor I'd never really even spoken to outside of the classroom. She wrote back congratulating me on my graduation, saying that she'd come across my Facebook.

Anyway, I never had twelve pluses on my "A" paper, but I did have one professor demand a meeting to discuss my future and how I ought not to squander it. Dropped the ball on that one!

[Donkey]

I know the Bible better than most Christians I know. Like Non, I was en route to seminary as a young man!
Actually, non-religious people generally know more about religion than religious people.
Grilled salmon and asparagus with a zucchini, mushroom, and onion medley. Pretty damn good.

Um. Yum.

[The Drunk Girl]

If you guys were semi-smart and cool you would have professors invite you to their house for their annual Christmas party to bartend and then offer you drinks afterwards.:lol:

[The Drunk Girl]

Can I snag the opportunity to brag here? In my 2nd year Intro to Political Theory course, I got my major paper back as an "A++++++++++++" (12 of them) followed by "please come see me!". I met with the Professor and afterwards we went for a beer in the faculty club (very weird experience that was!) :erm:

That paper got entered into some undergrad essay contests or whatever, but didn't win anything. :shrug:

I did end up getting the single highest mark in any class I ever took in university though! :)

I imagine it went something like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8L86Z8YgeQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

[Michael]

I imagine it went something like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8L86Z8YgeQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

Yeah, something like that! :lol:

That teacher does a mean "Howie" impression - but I'm hardly the Ralphie type.

My TA said "holy shit" when he was handing them out - a few of my fellow students started leaning over to see what the TA was swearing about - figuring it was a big F or something on my paper! :lol:

[Michael]

Michael's pet prof Howie Aster. I remember that well. I only heard about it after the fact though. Went for breakfast at his house at that point didn't you? :lol:

Yes, I miss Howie. He was a rather colorful character! :D

His lectures were something else - he had a way with using the blackboard that defies explanation or description! We didn't call it the "Astral Lecture" series for nothing!

That being said, I never went to Howie's house, though I went out for beers with him several times. I did go to Goldstein's house a couple times and he would drive me home from school all the time. :) (Professor Goldstein was the Marx specialist in the philosophy department - and he looked almost exactly like Karl Marx! He was my 2nd pet professor!)

[Donkey]

If you guys were semi-smart and cool you would have professors invite you to their house for their annual Christmas party to bartend and then offer you drinks afterwards.:lol:

*coughboobscough*


;)

[The Drunk Girl]

*coughboobscough*


;)

It was a female professor. :wanker:

;)

( I'm sure you could make a good deal with TDGuy to cop a feel or rest your head upon them haha)

[Donkey]

It was a female professor. :wanker:

;)

( I'm sure you could make a good deal with TDGuy to cop a feel or rest your head upon them haha)

Well you are pretty maternal, what with whiskey care packages and all.

I am a strong believer in having a good relationship with your professors. Especially if you go to a small school. That is, after all, precisely what you are paying for. They are an excellent resource for anything from academic references and finding jobs, to every day advice for personal issues.

[Michael]

*coughboobscough*


;)
I thought your comment was quite amusing when I first saw it. It is only now after TDGal shot it down that seems lame. :)

Well you are pretty maternal, what with whiskey care packages and all.

I am a strong believer in having a good relationship with your professors. Especially if you go to a small school. That is, after all, precisely what you are paying for. They are an excellent resource for anything from academic references and finding jobs, to every day advice for personal issues.
Excellent recovery spin. You are made for politics my friend. :D

[Donkey]

Born and bred. :D

[The Drunk Girl]

Well you are pretty maternal, what with whiskey care packages and all.



If you want maternal, I would suggest you make a deal about lying your head on my 36DDs ;)

[Greendruid]

If you want maternal, I would suggest you make a deal about lying your head on my 36DDs ;)

:popcorn:

[Zarquon]

What's the course and what do you mean "shouldn't even be taking?"

Also, congrats!
The course in question is English 201. I was exempted form all writing requirements due to my SAT score, but my my previous adviser enrolled me into English 101 without checking my DARS(Degree Audit Report System) report. And just to be 'consistent' and complete the unnecessary sequence, I followed up by signing up for English 201.:o

That was stupid of me, as I could've done Economics 205:Money and Banking or CSE 115:Intro to Computer Science. The former is not available till next fall :(, the latter I can take in the summer.

[Donkey]

The course in question is English 201. I was exempted form all writing requirements due to my SAT score, but my my previous adviser enrolled me into English 101 without checking my DARS(Degree Audit Report System) report. And just to be 'consistent' and complete the unnecessary sequence, I followed up by signing up for English 201.:o

That was stupid of me, as I could've done Economics 205:Money and Banking or CSE 115:Intro to Computer Science. The former, is not available till next fall:(, the latter I can take in the summer.

English sounds more interesting. :P

[Zarquon]

English sounds more interesting. :P
Its fun but not necessary, and I feel like I'm wasting my parent's money on this and the Intro to Ethics I'm taking, which signed up for as I had mistaken notions of there being a prospect of my becoming a lawyer in this country; And thus pursuing a philosophy of law minor.:o
Now I'm more interested in Physics, Calculus, Economics, and Computer Science, and hope to combine all of them into some program.

[Donkey]

Its fun but not necessary, and I feel like I'm wasting my parent's money on this and the Intro to Ethics I'm taking, which signed up for as I had mistaken notions of there being a prospect of my becoming a lawyer in this country; And thus pursuing a philosophy of law minor.:o
Now I'm more interested in Physics, Calculus, Economics, and Computer Science, and hope to combine all of them into some program.

Well... I don't think English, philosophy, etc. classes are ever (or rarely) a waste. A lot of people at my school would complain about being forced to take non-major relevant courses. But that's what liberal arts is all about.

I had to take hard sciences and labs, even though it had nothing to do with my majors, and I think I'm better for it.

[Margot]

The course in question is English 201. I was exempted form all writing requirements due to my SAT score, but my my previous adviser enrolled me into English 101 without checking my DARS(Degree Audit Report System) report. And just to be 'consistent' and complete the unnecessary sequence, I followed up by signing up for English 201.:o

That was stupid of me, as I could've done Economics 205:Money and Banking or CSE 115:Intro to Computer Science. The former is not available till next fall :(, the latter I can take in the summer.

I was exempt from English(/Composition) 1 and 2, too. While I'm super glad I didn't have to waste my time and money on them, I think I probably could have gotten something out of them (confidence wielding the semicolon, perhaps?). It was definitely strange being an English major without ever having taken Comp 1 or 2.

When you take your computer science courses please tell me how you like them. I've become very interested in programming lately.

[Michael]

Random thought of the day:

I've always wondered if I'm a post whore? :ummm:

I mean, I can just log on this forum (or any other forum) and fire off a dozen posts/replies on a dozen different topics, just about every day.

But other 'seemingly normal' people just don't do that. Seems that most 'normal' people don't feel all that inclined to share their statements, thought and/or opinons on whatever. That has always seemed odd to me. :shrug:

So am I a post whore? Honest opinions are welcome. :)

[Greendruid]

Random thought of the day:

I've always wondered if I'm a post whore? :ummm:

I mean, I can just log on this forum (or any other forum) and fire off a dozen posts/replies on a dozen different topics, just about every day.

But other 'seemingly normal' people just don't do that. Seems that most 'normal' people don't feel all that inclined to share their statements, thought and/or opinons on whatever. That has always seemed odd to me. :shrug:

So am I a post whore? Honest opinions are welcome. :)

Gemini in the third house you say?

I can remember many, many long days in during 1994-1995, sitting on what we called the Burlington hill or downing pints in the Phoenix, talking for hours and missing classes that I was supposed to be in while Michael held court with a few of us who were less inclined to sit through a tutorial run by a pre-Socratic nitwit and more inclined to understand the term "liberal arts education" in its broadest manifestations. You have always been attracted to communicating with people to find out their ideas and interests no matter how different they were from you. You didn't suffer fools though, that's where you drew your line :lol: Communication excites you and draws your interest. I see your attention to detail in having conversations via this medium as an extension of that.

[Non Sequitur]

Random thought of the day:

I've always wondered if I'm a post whore? :ummm:

I mean, I can just log on this forum (or any other forum) and fire off a dozen posts/replies on a dozen different topics, just about every day.

But other 'seemingly normal' people just don't do that. Seems that most 'normal' people don't feel all that inclined to share their statements, thought and/or opinons on whatever. That has always seemed odd to me. :shrug:

So am I a post whore? Honest opinions are welcome. :)

Well i just don't think i have the broad knowledge in so many topics that you do. You're not a post whore, just extremely well read in a lot of topics.

[The Drunk Girl]

Random thought of the day:

I've always wondered if I'm a post whore? :ummm:

I mean, I can just log on this forum (or any other forum) and fire off a dozen posts/replies on a dozen different topics, just about every day.

But other 'seemingly normal' people just don't do that. Seems that most 'normal' people don't feel all that inclined to share their statements, thought and/or opinons on whatever. That has always seemed odd to me. :shrug:

So am I a post whore? Honest opinions are welcome. :)

You are The Herder of Cats so....you are kinda "obligated" to be involved. I'm not intending that to sound bad. You keep the forum going on all levels.

I do agree with Non. You are edumacated on several topics which adds to your diversity. Not a bad thing :)

Someone said this awhile ago about getting the news around the world here on the forum. I do that frequently. Good sources. Good opinions. I soak it in quietly :lol:. Seriously though. I do.

On a side note, I don't think people hang around because a majority of the members here don't placate and make people feel good about the issues going on. I like that. People like for hot air to be blown up their asses. You're not going to find that here. I guess the old saying, "if it's too hot, then get out of the kitchen" applies here. I could be wrong. The world is fucked up and for the most part, we (those who hang around) have the same mindset of what is going on/what is going to happen. Those that join and don't hang around just do not have that. They want to feel good about whatever/whoever. Here it ain't like that.

Correct me if I am wrong

[Michael]

Gemini in the third house you say?
Actually, Gemini is my 1st house, and my moon is there too with my chart ruler in the 3rd, so that's actually a much stronger form of the same concept! :D

I also have a grand mutable cross which includes my moon in Gemini and sun in Sagittarius (yes, I was born under a full moon!).

I can remember many, many long days in during 1994-1995, sitting on what we called the Burlington hill or downing pints in the Phoenix, talking for hours and missing classes that I was supposed to be in while Michael held court with a few of us who were less inclined to sit through a tutorial run by a pre-Socratic nitwit and more inclined to understand the term "liberal arts education" in its broadest manifestations. You have always been attracted to communicating with people to find out their ideas and interests no matter how different they were from you. You didn't suffer fools though, that's where you drew your line :lol: Communication excites you and draws your interest. I see your attention to detail in having conversations via this medium as an extension of that.
Those were the good ole days weren't they? Its a wonder that any of us managed to graduate given how many classes we skipped! :D

I do miss the Pheonix - wonderful bar that was! :cheers:

[Michael]

Well i just don't think i have the broad knowledge in so many topics that you do. You're not a post whore, just extremely well read in a lot of topics.
That's a nice way of saying that although I am a post whore, I do give good posts! :D

You are The Herder of Cats so....you are kinda "obligated" to be involved. I'm not intending that to sound bad. You keep the forum going on all levels.

I do agree with Non. You are edumacated on several topics which adds to your diversity. Not a bad thing :)

Someone said this awhile ago about getting the news around the world here on the forum. I do that frequently. Good sources. Good opinions. I soak it in quietly :lol:. Seriously though. I do.

On a side note, I don't think people hang around because a majority of the members here don't placate and make people feel good about the issues going on. I like that. People like for hot air to be blown up their asses. You're not going to find that here. I guess the old saying, "if it's too hot, then get out of the kitchen" applies here. I could be wrong. The world is fucked up and for the most part, we (those who hang around) have the same mindset of what is going on/what is going to happen. Those that join and don't hang around just do not have that. They want to feel good about whatever/whoever. Here it ain't like that.
Yes, that's a good point about the activity level here. People do like to have their biases reinforced and generally don't enjoy having them deconstructed.

That being said, I really do like to have my own biases challenged. There is always an open invitation for that! That indeed is probably why I do post so much - I want to give people lots of ammunition to help them attack my biases.

I may not make it easy for people to do that, but I do welcome and respect thoughtful attempts! :D

Correct me if I am wrong
You can be sure of it. It is apparently in my genes (or my stars) to do so. :)

[Margot]

Random thought of the day:

I've always wondered if I'm a post whore? :ummm:

I mean, I can just log on this forum (or any other forum) and fire off a dozen posts/replies on a dozen different topics, just about every day.

But other 'seemingly normal' people just don't do that. Seems that most 'normal' people don't feel all that inclined to share their statements, thought and/or opinons on whatever. That has always seemed odd to me. :shrug:

So am I a post whore? Honest opinions are welcome. :)

Perhaps. Or perhaps you're just more interested in more things than I am/we are.

I don't post in threads that don't interest me. If a conversation gets tiresome I don't try to bring it back on course. I'm just sort of here. Existing. Passively.

Either way, you make a good Dear Leader.

[Americano]

The ultimate tool belt (http://www.kotulas.com/deals/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10602&storeId=10152&productId=19551&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=&top_category=).

[Michael]

The ultimate tool belt (http://www.kotulas.com/deals/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10602&storeId=10152&productId=19551&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=&top_category=).

Not really ideal.

1. It holds only cans and canned beer sucks.
2. Wearing it will heat up the beer and/or chill your belly.

[Michael]

We're coming up on the 40,000th (official) post. As with previous milestones, a free "custom user title" will be granted to the poster of that milestone post.

Speaking of which, it does look like TDGuy and dilettante are closing in on the 1500 post mark and thus will get the ability to create their own "custom user title". :)

[Americano]

Not really ideal.

1. It holds only cans and canned beer sucks.
2. Wearing it will heat up the beer and/or chill your belly.

I agree canned beer sucks. I have known beer drinkers who would be ready for a reload before anything became warm.

[Michael]

I agree canned beer sucks. I have known beer drinkers who would be ready for a reload before anything became warm.

That's perhaps due to the fact that American mass-market beer is so incredidbly watery and very low in alcohol content.

[dilettante]

Speaking of which, it does look like TDGuy and dilettante are closing in on the 1500 post mark and thus will get the ability to create their own "custom user title". :)

My mother always told me that one day I'd do something great!

[Donkey]

Not really ideal.

1. It holds only cans and canned beer sucks.
2. Wearing it will heat up the beer and/or chill your belly.

Actually, there are some great cAnned beers coming from out west. It's a bit weird.

[The Drunk Guy]

We're coming up on the 40,000th (official) post. As with previous milestones, a free "custom user title" will be granted to the poster of that milestone post.

Speaking of which, it does look like TDGuy and dilettante are closing in on the 1500 post mark and thus will get the ability to create their own "custom user title". :)I guess I have something to show for dattaswami's assault. :rofl:

Actually, there are some great cAnned beers coming from out west. It's a bit weird.As long as its cold, I rarely complain. However, I do get more foam on my stomach when drinking from a can....a good beer glass takes care of that, though. ;)

[Michael]

We're coming up on the 40,000th (official) post. As with previous milestones, a free "custom user title" will be granted to the poster of that milestone post.
Tom Palven's post #40634 was the official 40,000th post! :welldone:

:clap: :bounce: :party: :bigclap: :drink: :smooch: :hatoff: :music: :cheers:

[evanescence]

Tom Palven's post #40634 was the official 40,000th post! :welldone:

:clap: :bounce: :party: :bigclap: :drink: :smooch: :hatoff: :music: :cheers:


:hatoff:

Now let's celebrate.
:weed:


oh crap..I'm all out..:mad:

[Michael]

:hatoff:

Now let's celebrate.
:weed:


oh crap..I'm all out..:mad:

All out? That's a foreign concept to me! :lol:

Canada does have some benefits over the USA. This is certainly one of them!

[Michael]

Btw, for anyone who does have a "custom user title", I just figured out that I can make the title bold and/or italic.

If you want the bold/italic thing, just say so. :)

[evanescence]

All out? That's a foreign concept to me! :lol:

Canada does have some benefits over the USA. This is certainly one of them!


damn you're lucky. i'm bored without it. :sad:

what are the prices up there?

[Michael]

what are the prices up there?
Not discussed in public.

[evanescence]

ok. that's cool.

[Greendruid]

Just starting to get over a VERY nasty insta-flu that the boy brought back from his trip down south. I figure someone decided it was a good idea to travel with this disease and infected a bunch of people on the plane/in the aeroport. It hit him three days after returning home and hit me and his mother two days after that. We were both out of commission and needed a small team of friends to come over just to watch him and handle the farm animals. What a nightmare. It is hopefully all done with now. I rarely get the flu and am almost never sick. Children offer new possibilities over your previous health track record.

[Americano]

ok. that's cool.

Go online. Street prices are published for virtually every city everywhere. Take 25% off street price for regular customers.

[The Drunk Girl]

Starting nicotine patches in the morning :)

[Donkey]

Starting nicotine patches in the morning :)
Good luck!

[Zarquon]

Well-researched and thorough expose (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all) on Scientology by the New Yorker.

[Americano]

Well-researched and thorough expose (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all) on Scientology by the New Yorker.

Money flowing upward in exchange for a belief system. Pretty standard.

[Michael]

Well-researched and thorough expose (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_wright?currentPage=all) on Scientology by the New Yorker.

Greendruid and I did some field research on the Church of Scientology for an undergrad course on "Cults".

Our conclusion based on the evidence was that it was a money-making profit-driven organization.

[Americano]

Starting nicotine patches in the morning :)

What about TDGuy? Reformed smokers are somewhat......edgy about people smoking around them. .