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findgretta | It's another way to say tl;dr but better. | It's another way to say tl;dr but better.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caq2wba | It's another way to say | but better. |
gynoceros | Actually, I find that the best ELI5 answers are pretty verbose because you have to explain while you're explaining in order to make it accessible to a neophyte.
But I do agree with the TL;DR comparison. | Actually, I find that the best ELI5 answers are pretty verbose because you have to explain while you're explaining in order to make it accessible to a neophyte.
But I do agree with the TL;DR comparison.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqeock | Actually, I find that the best ELI5 answers are pretty verbose because you have to explain while you're explaining in order to make it accessible to a neophyte.
But I do agree with the | comparison. |
BuleDKI | An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence.
The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best solution."
The physicist is next. He creates a circular fence of infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd."
The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside."
TL;DR If there's a bad mathematician joke, I haven't heard it. | An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence.
The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best solution."
The physicist is next. He creates a circular fence of infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd."
The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside."
TL;DR If there's a bad mathematician joke, I haven't heard it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cavrdwu | An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are shown a pasture with a herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the smallest possible amount of fence.
The engineer is first. He herds the sheep into a circle and then puts the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will use the least fence for a given area, so this is the best solution."
The physicist is next. He creates a circular fence of infinite radius around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight around the herd, declaring, "This will give the smallest circular fence around the herd."
The mathematician is last. After giving the problem a little thought, he puts a small fence around himself and then declares, "I define myself to be on the outside." | If there's a bad mathematician joke, I haven't heard it. |
Carwheel | My family has a running joke involving my aunt. We go on a family vacation to a Spanish-speaking country every year for New Years and every New Years Eve we go to the same restaurant. As such, we've become very friendly with the staff. A few years back, as we're leaving the restaurant, my aunt decides she wants to say thanks and see you next year, but in Spanish. Spoiler: my aunt is not good at Spanish. She ends up blurting out "Gracias! See you mañana ano!" We've been saying it ever since and constantly bring it up, laughing about "that time she said tomorrow year." It was only recently, while recounting the story to a friend, that I learned the difference between "ano" and "año."
TL;DR - Tomorrow anus | My family has a running joke involving my aunt. We go on a family vacation to a Spanish-speaking country every year for New Years and every New Years Eve we go to the same restaurant. As such, we've become very friendly with the staff. A few years back, as we're leaving the restaurant, my aunt decides she wants to say thanks and see you next year, but in Spanish. Spoiler: my aunt is not good at Spanish. She ends up blurting out "Gracias! See you mañana ano!" We've been saying it ever since and constantly bring it up, laughing about "that time she said tomorrow year." It was only recently, while recounting the story to a friend, that I learned the difference between "ano" and "año."
TL;DR - Tomorrow anus
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caq9v2i | My family has a running joke involving my aunt. We go on a family vacation to a Spanish-speaking country every year for New Years and every New Years Eve we go to the same restaurant. As such, we've become very friendly with the staff. A few years back, as we're leaving the restaurant, my aunt decides she wants to say thanks and see you next year, but in Spanish. Spoiler: my aunt is not good at Spanish. She ends up blurting out "Gracias! See you mañana ano!" We've been saying it ever since and constantly bring it up, laughing about "that time she said tomorrow year." It was only recently, while recounting the story to a friend, that I learned the difference between "ano" and "año." | Tomorrow anus |
Oxirane | 01 in binary is 1 in base 10 (what people use).
10 in binary is 2 in base 10.
From 0-10 in base 10, here's the binary numbers:
0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010
If you care to translate them, from right to left, each bit's value is:
8 4 2 1
So 0110 = (8x0) + (4x1) + (2x1) + (1x0) = 6.
TL;DR: 10 == 2, 01 == 1. 0101 == 5, 1010 == 10. | 01 in binary is 1 in base 10 (what people use).
10 in binary is 2 in base 10.
From 0-10 in base 10, here's the binary numbers:
0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010
If you care to translate them, from right to left, each bit's value is:
8 4 2 1
So 0110 = (8x0) + (4x1) + (2x1) + (1x0) = 6.
TL;DR: 10 == 2, 01 == 1. 0101 == 5, 1010 == 10.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqvmjy | 01 in binary is 1 in base 10 (what people use).
10 in binary is 2 in base 10.
From 0-10 in base 10, here's the binary numbers:
0000 0001 0010 0011 0100 0101 0110 0111 1000 1001 1010
If you care to translate them, from right to left, each bit's value is:
8 4 2 1
So 0110 = (8x0) + (4x1) + (2x1) + (1x0) = 6. | 10 == 2, 01 == 1. 0101 == 5, 1010 == 10. |
AmpleWarning | You can use any number of different base systems. It's mainly a matter of how big your basic "set" of values can be. We use base ten primarily because we have ten fingers, and our computers use binary because the core principle is a system of on/off switches. If there was a sentient species out there with seventeen fingers/claws/tentacles, it's highly likely that its numbering system would be base 17, unless its basis for mathematical learning did not present itself organically.
TL;DR: tentacles | You can use any number of different base systems. It's mainly a matter of how big your basic "set" of values can be. We use base ten primarily because we have ten fingers, and our computers use binary because the core principle is a system of on/off switches. If there was a sentient species out there with seventeen fingers/claws/tentacles, it's highly likely that its numbering system would be base 17, unless its basis for mathematical learning did not present itself organically.
TL;DR: tentacles
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | capvc70 | You can use any number of different base systems. It's mainly a matter of how big your basic "set" of values can be. We use base ten primarily because we have ten fingers, and our computers use binary because the core principle is a system of on/off switches. If there was a sentient species out there with seventeen fingers/claws/tentacles, it's highly likely that its numbering system would be base 17, unless its basis for mathematical learning did not present itself organically. | tentacles |
Levy1704 | If the first one didnt want a beer he would've answered "no" because the question was "Does everyone want a beer?", which would be false if he didnt want a beer. Because he wants a beer and doesn't know if the 2 others want a beer he can only answer "I don't know".
The same is true for the second.
The third can now either say yes if he wants a beer as well, because if the two before him didnt want a beer they would've said no, or he can say no if he doesn't want a beer.
tl;dr: the first two can only answer "I don't know (I want a beer, but I don't know about the others)" or "no" and the last can say "yes" (Because the others wouldve said so if they didnt want a beer) or "no" | If the first one didnt want a beer he would've answered "no" because the question was "Does everyone want a beer?", which would be false if he didnt want a beer. Because he wants a beer and doesn't know if the 2 others want a beer he can only answer "I don't know".
The same is true for the second.
The third can now either say yes if he wants a beer as well, because if the two before him didnt want a beer they would've said no, or he can say no if he doesn't want a beer.
tl;dr: the first two can only answer "I don't know (I want a beer, but I don't know about the others)" or "no" and the last can say "yes" (Because the others wouldve said so if they didnt want a beer) or "no"
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | capxz7e | If the first one didnt want a beer he would've answered "no" because the question was "Does everyone want a beer?", which would be false if he didnt want a beer. Because he wants a beer and doesn't know if the 2 others want a beer he can only answer "I don't know".
The same is true for the second.
The third can now either say yes if he wants a beer as well, because if the two before him didnt want a beer they would've said no, or he can say no if he doesn't want a beer. | the first two can only answer "I don't know (I want a beer, but I don't know about the others)" or "no" and the last can say "yes" (Because the others wouldve said so if they didnt want a beer) or "no" |
Lerker- | In CS, when you count, most things start at 0. So if you have a response from a signal that is "1, 2, 3, 4" then response 0 is the number 1, response 1 is the number 2. Also, lots of loops start counting at 0, and some use "less than" while others use "less than or equal to" for ending conditions, which means that 1 extra step is taken sometimes.
You also end up with some things that start counting at 1.
TL,DR: Off-by-1's are just kind of bitches.
If you want to read more, [here's]( the Wikipedia page. | In CS, when you count, most things start at 0. So if you have a response from a signal that is "1, 2, 3, 4" then response 0 is the number 1, response 1 is the number 2. Also, lots of loops start counting at 0, and some use "less than" while others use "less than or equal to" for ending conditions, which means that 1 extra step is taken sometimes.
You also end up with some things that start counting at 1.
TL,DR: Off-by-1's are just kind of bitches.
If you want to read more, [here's]( the Wikipedia page.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | capytk2 | In CS, when you count, most things start at 0. So if you have a response from a signal that is "1, 2, 3, 4" then response 0 is the number 1, response 1 is the number 2. Also, lots of loops start counting at 0, and some use "less than" while others use "less than or equal to" for ending conditions, which means that 1 extra step is taken sometimes.
You also end up with some things that start counting at 1. | Off-by-1's are just kind of bitches.
If you want to read more, [here's]( the Wikipedia page. |
Sirge | A scientist and a farmer walk into a bar
The bartender asks the scientist "what would you like to drink?"
The man then replies: "just some H2O" at that point the farmer adds: "I'll have some H2O2" The farmer then drinks his beverage and dies.
TL;DR H2O2 is not the same as water. | A scientist and a farmer walk into a bar
The bartender asks the scientist "what would you like to drink?"
The man then replies: "just some H2O" at that point the farmer adds: "I'll have some H2O2" The farmer then drinks his beverage and dies.
TL;DR H2O2 is not the same as water.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | capzuna | A scientist and a farmer walk into a bar
The bartender asks the scientist "what would you like to drink?"
The man then replies: "just some H2O" at that point the farmer adds: "I'll have some H2O2" The farmer then drinks his beverage and dies. | H2O2 is not the same as water. |
gossypiboma | Since this is a thread for intellectual jokes, I feel I have to correct an error in this joke which I feel ruins it.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes are set from the late 1800 to 1914 (When Holmes was about 60 years old). The discovery that galaxies were not gravitationally bound to the Milky Way was first made in 1912 by Vesto Slipher. The existence of other galaxies outside the Milky Way is probably not something Dr. Watson, a medical doctor, would know about. He might refer to them as galaxies, but he would not think of them as we do today, and he would have no basis to conclude that there are millions of them.
[More info](
Also, you can only observe about 3500 stars with the naked eye. And, assuming Holmes and Watson is on the Northern Hemisphere, in Great Britain, only a handful of galaxies, even with perfect conditions and vision.
Nitpicking: The quarter past three is a bit precise, but he might have been doing some stargazing lately. When I do a lot of stargazing I tend to be able to tell the time with an error of about half an hour, but once I take a break it takes a while to learn the positions again.
tl;dr: I'm a joyless asshole who can't enjoy a joke. | Since this is a thread for intellectual jokes, I feel I have to correct an error in this joke which I feel ruins it.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes are set from the late 1800 to 1914 (When Holmes was about 60 years old). The discovery that galaxies were not gravitationally bound to the Milky Way was first made in 1912 by Vesto Slipher. The existence of other galaxies outside the Milky Way is probably not something Dr. Watson, a medical doctor, would know about. He might refer to them as galaxies, but he would not think of them as we do today, and he would have no basis to conclude that there are millions of them.
[More info](
Also, you can only observe about 3500 stars with the naked eye. And, assuming Holmes and Watson is on the Northern Hemisphere, in Great Britain, only a handful of galaxies, even with perfect conditions and vision.
Nitpicking: The quarter past three is a bit precise, but he might have been doing some stargazing lately. When I do a lot of stargazing I tend to be able to tell the time with an error of about half an hour, but once I take a break it takes a while to learn the positions again.
tl;dr: I'm a joyless asshole who can't enjoy a joke.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caq28cx | Since this is a thread for intellectual jokes, I feel I have to correct an error in this joke which I feel ruins it.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes are set from the late 1800 to 1914 (When Holmes was about 60 years old). The discovery that galaxies were not gravitationally bound to the Milky Way was first made in 1912 by Vesto Slipher. The existence of other galaxies outside the Milky Way is probably not something Dr. Watson, a medical doctor, would know about. He might refer to them as galaxies, but he would not think of them as we do today, and he would have no basis to conclude that there are millions of them.
[More info](
Also, you can only observe about 3500 stars with the naked eye. And, assuming Holmes and Watson is on the Northern Hemisphere, in Great Britain, only a handful of galaxies, even with perfect conditions and vision.
Nitpicking: The quarter past three is a bit precise, but he might have been doing some stargazing lately. When I do a lot of stargazing I tend to be able to tell the time with an error of about half an hour, but once I take a break it takes a while to learn the positions again. | I'm a joyless asshole who can't enjoy a joke. |
omgsus | It was a joke dexter (from dexter's lab) told deedee which seemed to be random nonsensical science terms to make a different kind of joke, but ends up being an actual joke about a headache returning due to the breakdown of medicine. But in reality it's not the hydroxyl ions that are giving him the headache, it's his wife.
Tl:dr, his wife is giving him a headache.
Typed from mobile walking from a train station. Sorry for the dump of text that may not make sense.... | It was a joke dexter (from dexter's lab) told deedee which seemed to be random nonsensical science terms to make a different kind of joke, but ends up being an actual joke about a headache returning due to the breakdown of medicine. But in reality it's not the hydroxyl ions that are giving him the headache, it's his wife.
Tl:dr, his wife is giving him a headache.
Typed from mobile walking from a train station. Sorry for the dump of text that may not make sense....
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caq78dd | It was a joke dexter (from dexter's lab) told deedee which seemed to be random nonsensical science terms to make a different kind of joke, but ends up being an actual joke about a headache returning due to the breakdown of medicine. But in reality it's not the hydroxyl ions that are giving him the headache, it's his wife. | his wife is giving him a headache.
Typed from mobile walking from a train station. Sorry for the dump of text that may not make sense.... |
badjuice | ...and we're back:
> Belief in God as professed by the Creed of the Holy Roman Catholic Church is a choice, which is exactly how we believe He wants it. I consider these responsibilities for my happiness/wellness/sanity, which is all I am able to directly act on, anyway.
This predisposes a belief in 'Him'. I have not met 'Him', though I have read many books about 'Him'. Based upon those books, 'He' is not a good person, based upon the opinions that I am able to consider, but more than that, based upon the opinions I have been able to consider, I cannot say that 'He' is knowable or even existent, and I will not posit negative or positive affirmations upon that point, but an opinion based upon logical deduction comes to the consideration that 'He' is imaginary. An opinion based upon feeling would very likely posit that 'He' exists, but our feelings are trained things (or so I must believe if my goal of separating myself from my emotional core is to be attainable).
> Do you think it is fundamentally the right thing to do, increasing cognition to encompass all?
No, because I cannot suppose a fundamental 'right' or 'wrong'. I only suppose a fundamental 'is' or "isn't". In consideration, I personally find it good to expand one's view points as much as possible, to consider as many opinions as possible, to retain malleability of those view points and opinions, and to adjust them as necessary. As for what 'increasing cognition to encompass all?' means, I have to apply logical deduction:
increasing: the state of accumulation of a quantifiable thing.
cognition: mental process, aka, understanding, or at least capability to understand
increasing cognition: to accumulate more ability to understand
encompass: to surround or contain
all: everything, aka, the universe.
> increasing cognition to encompass all?
To accumulate more ability to understand the universe ( as contained within that understanding )
Yes, that is perhaps a noble goal, one which I would call 'mindfulness'. It is a difficult thing, containing many trials and problems, constantly requiring adjustment. However, I do not think it is possible for a smaller thing to contain a bigger thing, so while the goal is noble, there is perhaps no chance for success.
However, I have also found that the pursuit of goodness matters more than the attainment of goodness (however that is measured), that the individual steps we take towards a goal are more important than the goal, and in that, I do believe one should understand as much as possible, free from (but aware of) limiting opinions.
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And to be sure, none of us are free from opinion. I have many opinions, and it is a difficult thing to know what they all are. I find myself often stuck inside opinions that I was not aware were limiting me until somebody else or something else made me consider and question those opinions. I try not to let opinions control my perception, but it happens because my opinions and perceptions influence each other.
However, I do not consciously ever impose my opinion upon my perception, because that limits me, and is a form of willful ignorance. I seek to find my native ignorance so that I may learn, I do not seek to impose ignorance upon myself, which strangely enough, requires me to 'know' something before I can do so.
**TL:DR;** I'm not sure of anything.
| ...and we're back:
> Belief in God as professed by the Creed of the Holy Roman Catholic Church is a choice, which is exactly how we believe He wants it. I consider these responsibilities for my happiness/wellness/sanity, which is all I am able to directly act on, anyway.
This predisposes a belief in 'Him'. I have not met 'Him', though I have read many books about 'Him'. Based upon those books, 'He' is not a good person, based upon the opinions that I am able to consider, but more than that, based upon the opinions I have been able to consider, I cannot say that 'He' is knowable or even existent, and I will not posit negative or positive affirmations upon that point, but an opinion based upon logical deduction comes to the consideration that 'He' is imaginary. An opinion based upon feeling would very likely posit that 'He' exists, but our feelings are trained things (or so I must believe if my goal of separating myself from my emotional core is to be attainable).
> Do you think it is fundamentally the right thing to do, increasing cognition to encompass all?
No, because I cannot suppose a fundamental 'right' or 'wrong'. I only suppose a fundamental 'is' or "isn't". In consideration, I personally find it good to expand one's view points as much as possible, to consider as many opinions as possible, to retain malleability of those view points and opinions, and to adjust them as necessary. As for what 'increasing cognition to encompass all?' means, I have to apply logical deduction:
increasing: the state of accumulation of a quantifiable thing.
cognition: mental process, aka, understanding, or at least capability to understand
increasing cognition: to accumulate more ability to understand
encompass: to surround or contain
all: everything, aka, the universe.
> increasing cognition to encompass all?
To accumulate more ability to understand the universe ( as contained within that understanding )
Yes, that is perhaps a noble goal, one which I would call 'mindfulness'. It is a difficult thing, containing many trials and problems, constantly requiring adjustment. However, I do not think it is possible for a smaller thing to contain a bigger thing, so while the goal is noble, there is perhaps no chance for success.
However, I have also found that the pursuit of goodness matters more than the attainment of goodness (however that is measured), that the individual steps we take towards a goal are more important than the goal, and in that, I do believe one should understand as much as possible, free from (but aware of) limiting opinions.
And to be sure, none of us are free from opinion. I have many opinions, and it is a difficult thing to know what they all are. I find myself often stuck inside opinions that I was not aware were limiting me until somebody else or something else made me consider and question those opinions. I try not to let opinions control my perception, but it happens because my opinions and perceptions influence each other.
However, I do not consciously ever impose my opinion upon my perception, because that limits me, and is a form of willful ignorance. I seek to find my native ignorance so that I may learn, I do not seek to impose ignorance upon myself, which strangely enough, requires me to 'know' something before I can do so.
TL:DR; I'm not sure of anything.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqa9l3 | and we're back:
> Belief in God as professed by the Creed of the Holy Roman Catholic Church is a choice, which is exactly how we believe He wants it. I consider these responsibilities for my happiness/wellness/sanity, which is all I am able to directly act on, anyway.
This predisposes a belief in 'Him'. I have not met 'Him', though I have read many books about 'Him'. Based upon those books, 'He' is not a good person, based upon the opinions that I am able to consider, but more than that, based upon the opinions I have been able to consider, I cannot say that 'He' is knowable or even existent, and I will not posit negative or positive affirmations upon that point, but an opinion based upon logical deduction comes to the consideration that 'He' is imaginary. An opinion based upon feeling would very likely posit that 'He' exists, but our feelings are trained things (or so I must believe if my goal of separating myself from my emotional core is to be attainable).
> Do you think it is fundamentally the right thing to do, increasing cognition to encompass all?
No, because I cannot suppose a fundamental 'right' or 'wrong'. I only suppose a fundamental 'is' or "isn't". In consideration, I personally find it good to expand one's view points as much as possible, to consider as many opinions as possible, to retain malleability of those view points and opinions, and to adjust them as necessary. As for what 'increasing cognition to encompass all?' means, I have to apply logical deduction:
increasing: the state of accumulation of a quantifiable thing.
cognition: mental process, aka, understanding, or at least capability to understand
increasing cognition: to accumulate more ability to understand
encompass: to surround or contain
all: everything, aka, the universe.
> increasing cognition to encompass all?
To accumulate more ability to understand the universe ( as contained within that understanding )
Yes, that is perhaps a noble goal, one which I would call 'mindfulness'. It is a difficult thing, containing many trials and problems, constantly requiring adjustment. However, I do not think it is possible for a smaller thing to contain a bigger thing, so while the goal is noble, there is perhaps no chance for success.
However, I have also found that the pursuit of goodness matters more than the attainment of goodness (however that is measured), that the individual steps we take towards a goal are more important than the goal, and in that, I do believe one should understand as much as possible, free from (but aware of) limiting opinions.
And to be sure, none of us are free from opinion. I have many opinions, and it is a difficult thing to know what they all are. I find myself often stuck inside opinions that I was not aware were limiting me until somebody else or something else made me consider and question those opinions. I try not to let opinions control my perception, but it happens because my opinions and perceptions influence each other.
However, I do not consciously ever impose my opinion upon my perception, because that limits me, and is a form of willful ignorance. I seek to find my native ignorance so that I may learn, I do not seek to impose ignorance upon myself, which strangely enough, requires me to 'know' something before I can do so. | I'm not sure of anything. |
ape_unit | I have a BA in linguistics and I'm going to give this a shot, though I invite input from more qualified linguists. But I'd say this isn't actually a pluperfect subjunctive at all.
First of all, I'd say the subordinate clause *where I can get scrod* is an example of the passive voice using *get* (rather than the more classic *be*), introduced with a modal verb, *can*. And so yes, as a result, *scrod* would be an irregular passive participle in this case, similar to what you say.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but to me **it's pretty clear that the clause in question is not an example of the perfect**. It is neither in the perfect aspect, which would be *have got scrod*, nor the pluperfect, *had got scrod*. English linguistics is not my specialty, but all analyses of English I'm aware of would require the perfect aspect to be introduced with a form of the verb *to have*, which this clearly isn't.
I would actually argue that **this also doesn't constitute an example of the subjunctive mood in English**, but some linguists may disagree. /u/joemama19 has a good analysis of why this might be considered by some to be a valid subjunctive: basically, the complementizer *where* creates a subordinate clause which would be in subjunctive mood in Latin. However, English only distinguishes its subjunctive and indicative forms in a handful of situations (the "indicative" being the name for mood simple non-subjunctive clauses generally use). On the fly I can't construct a hypothetical, structurally parallel example of a clause introduced by *where* in which there would be an actual marked distinction between subjunctive and indicative. If that's indeed the case, you could have grounds to argue that this is simply not a situation in which the subjunctive-indicative mood distinction is employed in English. Frankly, these things can often be analyzed in several different ways, and there may be a standard way in which the situation is parsed by linguists who specialize in English - I just don't know.
On that note, when comparing English to other languages, it's worth noting that **tense, aspect and mood are specific forms a verb has which are used to carry meanings, but are not meanings in and of themselves**. For example, we can use the present tense to convey the future ("next year we go to Europe") - that doesn't mean the sentence is in the future tense, just that it has a future-related meaning. The basic takeaway is that just because a sentence in Latin and a sentence in English have the same meaning does not mean they will employ the same grammatical forms. This applies particularly to the subjunctive in the example above.
I apologize for the dense explanation, and a lot of it kind of glosses over some things which linguists would probably discuss. I've also left some linguistics terminology in there with little explanation (like the terms aspect and mood, versus tense), but I hope that it can be understood in context.
So, while this isn't a bad joke, but it's not as good an example of an intellectual joke as some of the others, which require actual knowledge of the field to understand. In this case, actual knowledge of the field prompts you to write an obnoxious wall of text, as above.
tl;dr is **I think the phrase in question is not a pluperfect, and quite possibly not a subjunctive.**
(Expect minor edits as I notice mistakes, I had to write this in a rush.) | I have a BA in linguistics and I'm going to give this a shot, though I invite input from more qualified linguists. But I'd say this isn't actually a pluperfect subjunctive at all.
First of all, I'd say the subordinate clause where I can get scrod is an example of the passive voice using get (rather than the more classic be ), introduced with a modal verb, can . And so yes, as a result, scrod would be an irregular passive participle in this case, similar to what you say.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but to me it's pretty clear that the clause in question is not an example of the perfect . It is neither in the perfect aspect, which would be have got scrod , nor the pluperfect, had got scrod . English linguistics is not my specialty, but all analyses of English I'm aware of would require the perfect aspect to be introduced with a form of the verb to have , which this clearly isn't.
I would actually argue that this also doesn't constitute an example of the subjunctive mood in English , but some linguists may disagree. /u/joemama19 has a good analysis of why this might be considered by some to be a valid subjunctive: basically, the complementizer where creates a subordinate clause which would be in subjunctive mood in Latin. However, English only distinguishes its subjunctive and indicative forms in a handful of situations (the "indicative" being the name for mood simple non-subjunctive clauses generally use). On the fly I can't construct a hypothetical, structurally parallel example of a clause introduced by where in which there would be an actual marked distinction between subjunctive and indicative. If that's indeed the case, you could have grounds to argue that this is simply not a situation in which the subjunctive-indicative mood distinction is employed in English. Frankly, these things can often be analyzed in several different ways, and there may be a standard way in which the situation is parsed by linguists who specialize in English - I just don't know.
On that note, when comparing English to other languages, it's worth noting that tense, aspect and mood are specific forms a verb has which are used to carry meanings, but are not meanings in and of themselves . For example, we can use the present tense to convey the future ("next year we go to Europe") - that doesn't mean the sentence is in the future tense, just that it has a future-related meaning. The basic takeaway is that just because a sentence in Latin and a sentence in English have the same meaning does not mean they will employ the same grammatical forms. This applies particularly to the subjunctive in the example above.
I apologize for the dense explanation, and a lot of it kind of glosses over some things which linguists would probably discuss. I've also left some linguistics terminology in there with little explanation (like the terms aspect and mood, versus tense), but I hope that it can be understood in context.
So, while this isn't a bad joke, but it's not as good an example of an intellectual joke as some of the others, which require actual knowledge of the field to understand. In this case, actual knowledge of the field prompts you to write an obnoxious wall of text, as above.
tl;dr is I think the phrase in question is not a pluperfect, and quite possibly not a subjunctive.
(Expect minor edits as I notice mistakes, I had to write this in a rush.)
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqb6si | I have a BA in linguistics and I'm going to give this a shot, though I invite input from more qualified linguists. But I'd say this isn't actually a pluperfect subjunctive at all.
First of all, I'd say the subordinate clause where I can get scrod is an example of the passive voice using get (rather than the more classic be ), introduced with a modal verb, can . And so yes, as a result, scrod would be an irregular passive participle in this case, similar to what you say.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but to me it's pretty clear that the clause in question is not an example of the perfect . It is neither in the perfect aspect, which would be have got scrod , nor the pluperfect, had got scrod . English linguistics is not my specialty, but all analyses of English I'm aware of would require the perfect aspect to be introduced with a form of the verb to have , which this clearly isn't.
I would actually argue that this also doesn't constitute an example of the subjunctive mood in English , but some linguists may disagree. /u/joemama19 has a good analysis of why this might be considered by some to be a valid subjunctive: basically, the complementizer where creates a subordinate clause which would be in subjunctive mood in Latin. However, English only distinguishes its subjunctive and indicative forms in a handful of situations (the "indicative" being the name for mood simple non-subjunctive clauses generally use). On the fly I can't construct a hypothetical, structurally parallel example of a clause introduced by where in which there would be an actual marked distinction between subjunctive and indicative. If that's indeed the case, you could have grounds to argue that this is simply not a situation in which the subjunctive-indicative mood distinction is employed in English. Frankly, these things can often be analyzed in several different ways, and there may be a standard way in which the situation is parsed by linguists who specialize in English - I just don't know.
On that note, when comparing English to other languages, it's worth noting that tense, aspect and mood are specific forms a verb has which are used to carry meanings, but are not meanings in and of themselves . For example, we can use the present tense to convey the future ("next year we go to Europe") - that doesn't mean the sentence is in the future tense, just that it has a future-related meaning. The basic takeaway is that just because a sentence in Latin and a sentence in English have the same meaning does not mean they will employ the same grammatical forms. This applies particularly to the subjunctive in the example above.
I apologize for the dense explanation, and a lot of it kind of glosses over some things which linguists would probably discuss. I've also left some linguistics terminology in there with little explanation (like the terms aspect and mood, versus tense), but I hope that it can be understood in context.
So, while this isn't a bad joke, but it's not as good an example of an intellectual joke as some of the others, which require actual knowledge of the field to understand. In this case, actual knowledge of the field prompts you to write an obnoxious wall of text, as above. | is I think the phrase in question is not a pluperfect, and quite possibly not a subjunctive.
(Expect minor edits as I notice mistakes, I had to write this in a rush.) |
Gufnork | Yeah, this is the prime example of a joke appearing to be intellectual, but only to people who aren't. If all you know about Heisenberg is the name uncertainty principle but not what it means, it's funny. If you completely misinterpreted the Incompleteness Theorem, it's funny. If you don't realize that the optimal version of this joke isn't necessarily funny (ie if no version of the joke is funny, then it's not funny), then it's funny. If you understand either or all of these things, it's actually utter nonsense.
TL;DR This is a joke people laugh at because they don't want people to know that they don't get it. | Yeah, this is the prime example of a joke appearing to be intellectual, but only to people who aren't. If all you know about Heisenberg is the name uncertainty principle but not what it means, it's funny. If you completely misinterpreted the Incompleteness Theorem, it's funny. If you don't realize that the optimal version of this joke isn't necessarily funny (ie if no version of the joke is funny, then it's not funny), then it's funny. If you understand either or all of these things, it's actually utter nonsense.
TL;DR This is a joke people laugh at because they don't want people to know that they don't get it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqh1dy | Yeah, this is the prime example of a joke appearing to be intellectual, but only to people who aren't. If all you know about Heisenberg is the name uncertainty principle but not what it means, it's funny. If you completely misinterpreted the Incompleteness Theorem, it's funny. If you don't realize that the optimal version of this joke isn't necessarily funny (ie if no version of the joke is funny, then it's not funny), then it's funny. If you understand either or all of these things, it's actually utter nonsense. | This is a joke people laugh at because they don't want people to know that they don't get it. |
velit | Indeed, I'm kind of annoyed that no one else in the comments has a problem with the joke. If you translate the joke naively to code you'll get a generic "get twelve of something", no language that I know of supports implicit operations on objects or variables that were referenced earlier in code on a syntax level.
The only other option is to interpret the language in the joke to either mean get twelve loaves of bread or get twelve eggs, and no programmer would interpret the sentence to mean get twelve loaves of bread unless they are separately an idiot.
**TL;DR** The joke has zero basis on programmers specifically; there is nothing in programming languages that would influence people to interpret the sentences in the way the joke is presented. The while-loop joke which is the top reply to this joke on the other hand works and is a blast. | Indeed, I'm kind of annoyed that no one else in the comments has a problem with the joke. If you translate the joke naively to code you'll get a generic "get twelve of something", no language that I know of supports implicit operations on objects or variables that were referenced earlier in code on a syntax level.
The only other option is to interpret the language in the joke to either mean get twelve loaves of bread or get twelve eggs, and no programmer would interpret the sentence to mean get twelve loaves of bread unless they are separately an idiot.
TL;DR The joke has zero basis on programmers specifically; there is nothing in programming languages that would influence people to interpret the sentences in the way the joke is presented. The while-loop joke which is the top reply to this joke on the other hand works and is a blast.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqnm5q | Indeed, I'm kind of annoyed that no one else in the comments has a problem with the joke. If you translate the joke naively to code you'll get a generic "get twelve of something", no language that I know of supports implicit operations on objects or variables that were referenced earlier in code on a syntax level.
The only other option is to interpret the language in the joke to either mean get twelve loaves of bread or get twelve eggs, and no programmer would interpret the sentence to mean get twelve loaves of bread unless they are separately an idiot. | The joke has zero basis on programmers specifically; there is nothing in programming languages that would influence people to interpret the sentences in the way the joke is presented. The while-loop joke which is the top reply to this joke on the other hand works and is a blast. |
piusbovis | Fair enough. Whenever I hear that I can only think of the mounties in Canadian Bacon:
Mountie #1: Hello, who goes there. Now I must ask you to leave the park immediately and go back to where you came from.
Mountie #2: Sir. You can't end your sentence with a preposition.
Mountie #1: Oh really. Well, what would you say?
Mountie #2: Well, I guess I'd say either, "Go back from where you came", or the preferred Queen's English, "Go back, thee, from whence thou came."
**tl;dr Canadian mounties are always welcome at the pedantic party.** | Fair enough. Whenever I hear that I can only think of the mounties in Canadian Bacon:
Mountie #1: Hello, who goes there. Now I must ask you to leave the park immediately and go back to where you came from.
Mountie #2: Sir. You can't end your sentence with a preposition.
Mountie #1: Oh really. Well, what would you say?
Mountie #2: Well, I guess I'd say either, "Go back from where you came", or the preferred Queen's English, "Go back, thee, from whence thou came."
tl;dr Canadian mounties are always welcome at the pedantic party.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | carb00n | Fair enough. Whenever I hear that I can only think of the mounties in Canadian Bacon:
Mountie #1: Hello, who goes there. Now I must ask you to leave the park immediately and go back to where you came from.
Mountie #2: Sir. You can't end your sentence with a preposition.
Mountie #1: Oh really. Well, what would you say?
Mountie #2: Well, I guess I'd say either, "Go back from where you came", or the preferred Queen's English, "Go back, thee, from whence thou came." | Canadian mounties are always welcome at the pedantic party. |
Citricot | This is incorrect. The limit of the series (not sequence) of 1/2n is infinite. Although the sequence has a limit of zero, the series does not, as any series that is C * 1/n has a limit of infinity (or negative infinity if c is negative), provided that c is a numerical constant not equal to zero. The series 1/(n^2), on the other hand does have a finite limit, and I can see where one could err in confusing the two or not understanding that the former has no finite limit.
Sources:
An A average in calculus BC,
TL:DR - math stuff. Read it, I typed it on my tiny apple touchscreen.
| This is incorrect. The limit of the series (not sequence) of 1/2n is infinite. Although the sequence has a limit of zero, the series does not, as any series that is C * 1/n has a limit of infinity (or negative infinity if c is negative), provided that c is a numerical constant not equal to zero. The series 1/(n^2), on the other hand does have a finite limit, and I can see where one could err in confusing the two or not understanding that the former has no finite limit.
Sources:
An A average in calculus BC,
TL:DR - math stuff. Read it, I typed it on my tiny apple touchscreen.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caq80l8 | This is incorrect. The limit of the series (not sequence) of 1/2n is infinite. Although the sequence has a limit of zero, the series does not, as any series that is C * 1/n has a limit of infinity (or negative infinity if c is negative), provided that c is a numerical constant not equal to zero. The series 1/(n^2), on the other hand does have a finite limit, and I can see where one could err in confusing the two or not understanding that the former has no finite limit.
Sources:
An A average in calculus BC, | math stuff. Read it, I typed it on my tiny apple touchscreen. |
Taldoable | That's the Most effective TL;DR I've ever read | That's the Most effective TL;DR I've ever read
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | capvlj8 | That's the Most effective | I've ever read |
crankdant | Lacan's Hommelette
Copy Pasting from [Here]( Because I can't be bothered to re write it.
At some time between six and eighteen months, the baby sees its image, generally in a mirror, and realises that what it is seeing is somehow itself. This recognition causes great confusion and ‘libidinal dynamism’ (Lacan, 1977) as the pre-linguistic infant struggles with its first identity conflict.
With the boundary-formation of identity comes separation, and the image is perceived as distinct Other. Separation also creates a sense of loss and a lifelong desire to regain the jouissance of the connected wholeness.
The image seems to be perfect, an ‘imago’ (Lacan, 1949), an ‘ideal ego’ that is appealing, to be loved and emulated in an enduring narcissistic fantasy. The perfect other also creates envy and dislike and hence further confusion and tension between these polar opposites. It also may seem to be asking questions or making demands of the child who may wonder what it wants and what it will do.
An early sense of jubilation at recognizing its wholeness is followed by a fear that the infant will regress to its previous state of being in 'bits and pieces'. The mirror does not reflect feelings and 'lies' about the apparent independence of the image that the baby does not have.
This misrecognition or méconnaissance (Lacan, 1949) is compounded when, in taking the subject position of the image and looking back on its actual self, the baby contrasts what it sees with the ‘ego ideal’. This casts itself as imperfect and inferior, thus exaggerating the difference and cementing the trauma of imperfection and self-loathing and the desire to become the unattainable ideal (Leader and Groves, 2000).
The desire for the connected whole and the desire for individual perfection represent a tension between non-identity and identity that is perhaps related to Freud’s death and life drives.
Within the ‘imaginary order’ of this stage, the child continues to build its self image, oscillating between alien images and fragments of the real body. From surreal paranoia, the ego starts to emerge as an unconscious construction. Somewhat wittily, Lacan called this the ‘hommelette’ : the little man, made out of broken eggs. When a baby sees itself in a mirror, it both recognizes itself and misrecognizes itself. The image seems to be psychologically integrated and physically coordinated in a way that the baby does not feel.
Adults still feel uncomfortable about themselves as integrated and whole individuals. Self-images continue through their lives to cause narcissistic fascination and/or discomfort in that the image somehow does not look like 'me'.
Extremely stupid TL;DR: A baby is a broken egg. AKA Hommelette.
| Lacan's Hommelette
Copy Pasting from [Here]( Because I can't be bothered to re write it.
At some time between six and eighteen months, the baby sees its image, generally in a mirror, and realises that what it is seeing is somehow itself. This recognition causes great confusion and ‘libidinal dynamism’ (Lacan, 1977) as the pre-linguistic infant struggles with its first identity conflict.
With the boundary-formation of identity comes separation, and the image is perceived as distinct Other. Separation also creates a sense of loss and a lifelong desire to regain the jouissance of the connected wholeness.
The image seems to be perfect, an ‘imago’ (Lacan, 1949), an ‘ideal ego’ that is appealing, to be loved and emulated in an enduring narcissistic fantasy. The perfect other also creates envy and dislike and hence further confusion and tension between these polar opposites. It also may seem to be asking questions or making demands of the child who may wonder what it wants and what it will do.
An early sense of jubilation at recognizing its wholeness is followed by a fear that the infant will regress to its previous state of being in 'bits and pieces'. The mirror does not reflect feelings and 'lies' about the apparent independence of the image that the baby does not have.
This misrecognition or méconnaissance (Lacan, 1949) is compounded when, in taking the subject position of the image and looking back on its actual self, the baby contrasts what it sees with the ‘ego ideal’. This casts itself as imperfect and inferior, thus exaggerating the difference and cementing the trauma of imperfection and self-loathing and the desire to become the unattainable ideal (Leader and Groves, 2000).
The desire for the connected whole and the desire for individual perfection represent a tension between non-identity and identity that is perhaps related to Freud’s death and life drives.
Within the ‘imaginary order’ of this stage, the child continues to build its self image, oscillating between alien images and fragments of the real body. From surreal paranoia, the ego starts to emerge as an unconscious construction. Somewhat wittily, Lacan called this the ‘hommelette’ : the little man, made out of broken eggs. When a baby sees itself in a mirror, it both recognizes itself and misrecognizes itself. The image seems to be psychologically integrated and physically coordinated in a way that the baby does not feel.
Adults still feel uncomfortable about themselves as integrated and whole individuals. Self-images continue through their lives to cause narcissistic fascination and/or discomfort in that the image somehow does not look like 'me'.
Extremely stupid TL;DR: A baby is a broken egg. AKA Hommelette.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | capwhqq | Lacan's Hommelette
Copy Pasting from [Here]( Because I can't be bothered to re write it.
At some time between six and eighteen months, the baby sees its image, generally in a mirror, and realises that what it is seeing is somehow itself. This recognition causes great confusion and ‘libidinal dynamism’ (Lacan, 1977) as the pre-linguistic infant struggles with its first identity conflict.
With the boundary-formation of identity comes separation, and the image is perceived as distinct Other. Separation also creates a sense of loss and a lifelong desire to regain the jouissance of the connected wholeness.
The image seems to be perfect, an ‘imago’ (Lacan, 1949), an ‘ideal ego’ that is appealing, to be loved and emulated in an enduring narcissistic fantasy. The perfect other also creates envy and dislike and hence further confusion and tension between these polar opposites. It also may seem to be asking questions or making demands of the child who may wonder what it wants and what it will do.
An early sense of jubilation at recognizing its wholeness is followed by a fear that the infant will regress to its previous state of being in 'bits and pieces'. The mirror does not reflect feelings and 'lies' about the apparent independence of the image that the baby does not have.
This misrecognition or méconnaissance (Lacan, 1949) is compounded when, in taking the subject position of the image and looking back on its actual self, the baby contrasts what it sees with the ‘ego ideal’. This casts itself as imperfect and inferior, thus exaggerating the difference and cementing the trauma of imperfection and self-loathing and the desire to become the unattainable ideal (Leader and Groves, 2000).
The desire for the connected whole and the desire for individual perfection represent a tension between non-identity and identity that is perhaps related to Freud’s death and life drives.
Within the ‘imaginary order’ of this stage, the child continues to build its self image, oscillating between alien images and fragments of the real body. From surreal paranoia, the ego starts to emerge as an unconscious construction. Somewhat wittily, Lacan called this the ‘hommelette’ : the little man, made out of broken eggs. When a baby sees itself in a mirror, it both recognizes itself and misrecognizes itself. The image seems to be psychologically integrated and physically coordinated in a way that the baby does not feel.
Adults still feel uncomfortable about themselves as integrated and whole individuals. Self-images continue through their lives to cause narcissistic fascination and/or discomfort in that the image somehow does not look like 'me'.
Extremely stupid | A baby is a broken egg. AKA Hommelette. |
hexaflexag0n | It's pretty obvious you've never played on a triple-screen rig before. Those side screens rarely get looked at directly. That would be very impractical. The screens get used as peripheral vision. It's a minor advantage paid for in framerate. I have a dual 680 SLI rig (I hear the game isn't using SLI yet, either) and playing this game in 3x screen does affect my framerates. This easily negates any advantage it gives me.
Really, this is more about immersion. Triple-screen makes the action on the screen feel more present because it fills your entire field of view.
I suspect you're just going to tell me I want to cheat, too. Were you calling widescreen monitors 'hacks' 5+ years ago? Is TrackIR a 'hack'? High resolution mouse? 7.1 positional surround sound? I'm conjecturing, but I imagine anything but the hardware you personally own is an 'unfair hack'.
TL;DR: You just compared having a high screen resolution to being an aimbot. You fail. | It's pretty obvious you've never played on a triple-screen rig before. Those side screens rarely get looked at directly. That would be very impractical. The screens get used as peripheral vision. It's a minor advantage paid for in framerate. I have a dual 680 SLI rig (I hear the game isn't using SLI yet, either) and playing this game in 3x screen does affect my framerates. This easily negates any advantage it gives me.
Really, this is more about immersion. Triple-screen makes the action on the screen feel more present because it fills your entire field of view.
I suspect you're just going to tell me I want to cheat, too. Were you calling widescreen monitors 'hacks' 5+ years ago? Is TrackIR a 'hack'? High resolution mouse? 7.1 positional surround sound? I'm conjecturing, but I imagine anything but the hardware you personally own is an 'unfair hack'.
TL;DR: You just compared having a high screen resolution to being an aimbot. You fail.
| Planetside | t5_2s48x | caq1gpu | It's pretty obvious you've never played on a triple-screen rig before. Those side screens rarely get looked at directly. That would be very impractical. The screens get used as peripheral vision. It's a minor advantage paid for in framerate. I have a dual 680 SLI rig (I hear the game isn't using SLI yet, either) and playing this game in 3x screen does affect my framerates. This easily negates any advantage it gives me.
Really, this is more about immersion. Triple-screen makes the action on the screen feel more present because it fills your entire field of view.
I suspect you're just going to tell me I want to cheat, too. Were you calling widescreen monitors 'hacks' 5+ years ago? Is TrackIR a 'hack'? High resolution mouse? 7.1 positional surround sound? I'm conjecturing, but I imagine anything but the hardware you personally own is an 'unfair hack'. | You just compared having a high screen resolution to being an aimbot. You fail. |
Viper711 | -**Zerg Version**-
Any Zerg in a tight situation will turn to infestors as a fail safe method to turn the game into their favor.
Base trade situation? No problem. I'll just hold 6 infestors at my base and not even micro and manage to wipe out an entire army.
I feel that Infestors require such little skill for what they provide for Zerg.
-**Protoss Version**-
Any Protoss in a tight situation will turn to DTs as a fail safe method to turn the game into their favor.
Base trade situation? No problem. I'll just add a DT into his army and not even micro and manage to wipe out the whole thing.
I feel that DTs require such little skill for what they provide for Protoss.
tl;dr - Whining is easy. | - Zerg Version -
Any Zerg in a tight situation will turn to infestors as a fail safe method to turn the game into their favor.
Base trade situation? No problem. I'll just hold 6 infestors at my base and not even micro and manage to wipe out an entire army.
I feel that Infestors require such little skill for what they provide for Zerg.
- Protoss Version -
Any Protoss in a tight situation will turn to DTs as a fail safe method to turn the game into their favor.
Base trade situation? No problem. I'll just add a DT into his army and not even micro and manage to wipe out the whole thing.
I feel that DTs require such little skill for what they provide for Protoss.
tl;dr - Whining is easy.
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | caq0mfz | Zerg Version -
Any Zerg in a tight situation will turn to infestors as a fail safe method to turn the game into their favor.
Base trade situation? No problem. I'll just hold 6 infestors at my base and not even micro and manage to wipe out an entire army.
I feel that Infestors require such little skill for what they provide for Zerg.
- Protoss Version -
Any Protoss in a tight situation will turn to DTs as a fail safe method to turn the game into their favor.
Base trade situation? No problem. I'll just add a DT into his army and not even micro and manage to wipe out the whole thing.
I feel that DTs require such little skill for what they provide for Protoss. | Whining is easy. |
Jaded_Jackalope | Unless this is built into the software by the companies that make the integrated library systems, that's bullshit. Most ILSs don't save patron history except for a) what they currently have checked out and b) what they have extant fines for. So, if Patron Bob checks out Mein Kampf and returns it on time you can't pull up his record the next day and see that he's checked out the book in the past. If the same user returned the book late and hasn't payed his $0.50 fine then it still shows up in the system.
One big reason the systems don't save patron check out history is privacy. So when a cop or federal agent comes to the library and says 'I want to see what Patron Bob has been reading,' the librarians can honestly say 'sorry, we don't keep that information.'
There are no doubt some exceptions, but the majority of libraries in the United States take the [American Library Association Code of Ethics]( seriously.
**tl;dr - Pretty much anytime a murder mystery or cop drama shows an investigator pulling up a suspect's reading history the book/show/movie is bullshitting you.** | Unless this is built into the software by the companies that make the integrated library systems, that's bullshit. Most ILSs don't save patron history except for a) what they currently have checked out and b) what they have extant fines for. So, if Patron Bob checks out Mein Kampf and returns it on time you can't pull up his record the next day and see that he's checked out the book in the past. If the same user returned the book late and hasn't payed his $0.50 fine then it still shows up in the system.
One big reason the systems don't save patron check out history is privacy. So when a cop or federal agent comes to the library and says 'I want to see what Patron Bob has been reading,' the librarians can honestly say 'sorry, we don't keep that information.'
There are no doubt some exceptions, but the majority of libraries in the United States take the [American Library Association Code of Ethics]( seriously.
tl;dr - Pretty much anytime a murder mystery or cop drama shows an investigator pulling up a suspect's reading history the book/show/movie is bullshitting you.
| movies | t5_2qh3s | caq54jb | Unless this is built into the software by the companies that make the integrated library systems, that's bullshit. Most ILSs don't save patron history except for a) what they currently have checked out and b) what they have extant fines for. So, if Patron Bob checks out Mein Kampf and returns it on time you can't pull up his record the next day and see that he's checked out the book in the past. If the same user returned the book late and hasn't payed his $0.50 fine then it still shows up in the system.
One big reason the systems don't save patron check out history is privacy. So when a cop or federal agent comes to the library and says 'I want to see what Patron Bob has been reading,' the librarians can honestly say 'sorry, we don't keep that information.'
There are no doubt some exceptions, but the majority of libraries in the United States take the [American Library Association Code of Ethics]( seriously. | Pretty much anytime a murder mystery or cop drama shows an investigator pulling up a suspect's reading history the book/show/movie is bullshitting you. |
ramblingpariah | In terms of the US Congress, the "complaint" from "dems" (and anyone who's familiar with how the filibuster has been/is intended to be used as opposed to how it's been used in the Senate for the last 4 years or so) is that they've (the filibusters) been used to effectively change the minimum number of votes needed to move legislation forward from 51 (a simple majority) to 60, and that it's being used constantly, significantly more (an understatement) than ever before.
tl;dr - big, big difference in using it once and using it all the dang time. | In terms of the US Congress, the "complaint" from "dems" (and anyone who's familiar with how the filibuster has been/is intended to be used as opposed to how it's been used in the Senate for the last 4 years or so) is that they've (the filibusters) been used to effectively change the minimum number of votes needed to move legislation forward from 51 (a simple majority) to 60, and that it's being used constantly, significantly more (an understatement) than ever before.
tl;dr - big, big difference in using it once and using it all the dang time.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | caqpb5k | In terms of the US Congress, the "complaint" from "dems" (and anyone who's familiar with how the filibuster has been/is intended to be used as opposed to how it's been used in the Senate for the last 4 years or so) is that they've (the filibusters) been used to effectively change the minimum number of votes needed to move legislation forward from 51 (a simple majority) to 60, and that it's being used constantly, significantly more (an understatement) than ever before. | big, big difference in using it once and using it all the dang time. |
Vlayue | Can we...like...seriously drop this? Ever since the update yesterday I can't walk outside, go on my facebook, anything, without seeing "OH MANS IT MIGHT BE HAFF LYFES TREE".
When they announce it finally..it'll still be months after that that it'll be released..why not wait to freak out about it when we know for sure instead of data mining and poking around?
You know that it actually has caused some devs to become annoyed and slow their process even more when users poke around that avidly, right? I'm not joking. There were a few instances I remember (vaguely) where devs would run an update to an MMO or something else with a large player base, players would data mine t he fuck out of it and ruin the surprise. Hell, I remember that crap users pulled on Gaben after datamining the fuck out of MvM. They even sent a message that said something like "because of a bunch of party poopers" or "nosey nellys" or something cute.
For me it's just that, it ruins the surprise. It'd be like every day sitting at home, waiting for your wife to come home and the minute she walks through the door you're up her ass asking if she has a party planned for you. Maybe one day she comes home with a veggie tray and suddenly you're all like "OH MAN A VEGGIE TRAY?! SURPRISE PARTY CONFIRMED!". When really veggie trays are just fucking awesome and she bought one.
Eventually one would get tired, callous, maybe even a bit resentful toward said wife for not having thrown said party. Then, if the party actually happens, one loses a sense of wonderment and it becomes a "bout fucking time" as oppose to "Woooo! Ya! Partay!".
These things take TIME, gentlemen. Yes, it's been a long time and from a few different sources it looks like things might actually be rolling for HE 3 between Alyx's voice actor apparently submitting tweets about "getting back in the booth" and a few other random things.
But honestly...take it all with a grain of salt...remember this is a sensitive process. If we keep pushing for something we're going to get something like Duke Nukem 3D..and we all know how that went.
TL:DR; Stop rushing this. I know it's taken forever but srsly...this is the one thing in my life I need to go right (HE3)..pathetic as it sounds half life has encapsulated my whole life, played it as a kid, and 2 as a teenager/young adult. It's pretty much the last series I rely on to be worth a shit. | Can we...like...seriously drop this? Ever since the update yesterday I can't walk outside, go on my facebook, anything, without seeing "OH MANS IT MIGHT BE HAFF LYFES TREE".
When they announce it finally..it'll still be months after that that it'll be released..why not wait to freak out about it when we know for sure instead of data mining and poking around?
You know that it actually has caused some devs to become annoyed and slow their process even more when users poke around that avidly, right? I'm not joking. There were a few instances I remember (vaguely) where devs would run an update to an MMO or something else with a large player base, players would data mine t he fuck out of it and ruin the surprise. Hell, I remember that crap users pulled on Gaben after datamining the fuck out of MvM. They even sent a message that said something like "because of a bunch of party poopers" or "nosey nellys" or something cute.
For me it's just that, it ruins the surprise. It'd be like every day sitting at home, waiting for your wife to come home and the minute she walks through the door you're up her ass asking if she has a party planned for you. Maybe one day she comes home with a veggie tray and suddenly you're all like "OH MAN A VEGGIE TRAY?! SURPRISE PARTY CONFIRMED!". When really veggie trays are just fucking awesome and she bought one.
Eventually one would get tired, callous, maybe even a bit resentful toward said wife for not having thrown said party. Then, if the party actually happens, one loses a sense of wonderment and it becomes a "bout fucking time" as oppose to "Woooo! Ya! Partay!".
These things take TIME, gentlemen. Yes, it's been a long time and from a few different sources it looks like things might actually be rolling for HE 3 between Alyx's voice actor apparently submitting tweets about "getting back in the booth" and a few other random things.
But honestly...take it all with a grain of salt...remember this is a sensitive process. If we keep pushing for something we're going to get something like Duke Nukem 3D..and we all know how that went.
TL:DR; Stop rushing this. I know it's taken forever but srsly...this is the one thing in my life I need to go right (HE3)..pathetic as it sounds half life has encapsulated my whole life, played it as a kid, and 2 as a teenager/young adult. It's pretty much the last series I rely on to be worth a shit.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | caqqrmp | Can we...like...seriously drop this? Ever since the update yesterday I can't walk outside, go on my facebook, anything, without seeing "OH MANS IT MIGHT BE HAFF LYFES TREE".
When they announce it finally..it'll still be months after that that it'll be released..why not wait to freak out about it when we know for sure instead of data mining and poking around?
You know that it actually has caused some devs to become annoyed and slow their process even more when users poke around that avidly, right? I'm not joking. There were a few instances I remember (vaguely) where devs would run an update to an MMO or something else with a large player base, players would data mine t he fuck out of it and ruin the surprise. Hell, I remember that crap users pulled on Gaben after datamining the fuck out of MvM. They even sent a message that said something like "because of a bunch of party poopers" or "nosey nellys" or something cute.
For me it's just that, it ruins the surprise. It'd be like every day sitting at home, waiting for your wife to come home and the minute she walks through the door you're up her ass asking if she has a party planned for you. Maybe one day she comes home with a veggie tray and suddenly you're all like "OH MAN A VEGGIE TRAY?! SURPRISE PARTY CONFIRMED!". When really veggie trays are just fucking awesome and she bought one.
Eventually one would get tired, callous, maybe even a bit resentful toward said wife for not having thrown said party. Then, if the party actually happens, one loses a sense of wonderment and it becomes a "bout fucking time" as oppose to "Woooo! Ya! Partay!".
These things take TIME, gentlemen. Yes, it's been a long time and from a few different sources it looks like things might actually be rolling for HE 3 between Alyx's voice actor apparently submitting tweets about "getting back in the booth" and a few other random things.
But honestly...take it all with a grain of salt...remember this is a sensitive process. If we keep pushing for something we're going to get something like Duke Nukem 3D..and we all know how that went. | Stop rushing this. I know it's taken forever but srsly...this is the one thing in my life I need to go right (HE3)..pathetic as it sounds half life has encapsulated my whole life, played it as a kid, and 2 as a teenager/young adult. It's pretty much the last series I rely on to be worth a shit. |
zorilla | I'm a huge RSL fan and have been since the beginning. But I've never liked "Real Salt Lake" as a name, and I can't stand the logo with "Real" in it. Remember the 2005 jerseys, which said Real on the shirt and then Real on the logo too? [Horrible](
I would love a re-brand, but I do love the colors and the interlocking RSL logo is pretty badass. I wonder if there's a chance to rename, now that Checketts is no longer involved with the team. In the epic bigsoccer threads before the team had a name, I suggested Salt City SC and Wasatch SC. However, I do like the crown/lion thing we have going on - but we could always keep that and call ourselves Lions as a nickname or something. I'm rambling.
It's a shame, because everything else about this team is top-notch.
TL;DR - Here's one big RSL fan who admits to not liking the name "Real." | I'm a huge RSL fan and have been since the beginning. But I've never liked "Real Salt Lake" as a name, and I can't stand the logo with "Real" in it. Remember the 2005 jerseys, which said Real on the shirt and then Real on the logo too? [Horrible](
I would love a re-brand, but I do love the colors and the interlocking RSL logo is pretty badass. I wonder if there's a chance to rename, now that Checketts is no longer involved with the team. In the epic bigsoccer threads before the team had a name, I suggested Salt City SC and Wasatch SC. However, I do like the crown/lion thing we have going on - but we could always keep that and call ourselves Lions as a nickname or something. I'm rambling.
It's a shame, because everything else about this team is top-notch.
TL;DR - Here's one big RSL fan who admits to not liking the name "Real."
| MLS | t5_2rbnb | caqv5ya | I'm a huge RSL fan and have been since the beginning. But I've never liked "Real Salt Lake" as a name, and I can't stand the logo with "Real" in it. Remember the 2005 jerseys, which said Real on the shirt and then Real on the logo too? [Horrible](
I would love a re-brand, but I do love the colors and the interlocking RSL logo is pretty badass. I wonder if there's a chance to rename, now that Checketts is no longer involved with the team. In the epic bigsoccer threads before the team had a name, I suggested Salt City SC and Wasatch SC. However, I do like the crown/lion thing we have going on - but we could always keep that and call ourselves Lions as a nickname or something. I'm rambling.
It's a shame, because everything else about this team is top-notch. | Here's one big RSL fan who admits to not liking the name "Real." |
abeisgreat | I was sleeping on bunk beds with a buddy when we were kids. I was the top bunk, he was bottom. He was fast asleep and I was watching TV. I hear him make a quick movement then say "Abe, someone just grabbed my hand!" I replied that he was dreaming and that he was welcome to check under the bed. He replied "I'm not looking under the fucking bed! You look!" I told him that I wasn't getting up. He just said "okay." Then was back asleep.
TL;DR There was probably a serial killer under the bed, we should have checked. | I was sleeping on bunk beds with a buddy when we were kids. I was the top bunk, he was bottom. He was fast asleep and I was watching TV. I hear him make a quick movement then say "Abe, someone just grabbed my hand!" I replied that he was dreaming and that he was welcome to check under the bed. He replied "I'm not looking under the fucking bed! You look!" I told him that I wasn't getting up. He just said "okay." Then was back asleep.
TL;DR There was probably a serial killer under the bed, we should have checked.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caqzdfi | I was sleeping on bunk beds with a buddy when we were kids. I was the top bunk, he was bottom. He was fast asleep and I was watching TV. I hear him make a quick movement then say "Abe, someone just grabbed my hand!" I replied that he was dreaming and that he was welcome to check under the bed. He replied "I'm not looking under the fucking bed! You look!" I told him that I wasn't getting up. He just said "okay." Then was back asleep. | There was probably a serial killer under the bed, we should have checked. |
ExistentialEnso | Let's be clear on something, because people seem to be missing the real issue here: **the Voting Rights Act was not overturned.**
The clause that determines which states are subject to more scrutiny and oversight was overturned. Is this problematic? Yes, because, without this clause, no extra oversight will be given until Congress can pass a new standard to determine which states should receive it, and in our notoriously unproductive Congress, I'm skeptical of that happening any time soon.
However, the actual protections and rights guaranteed by the Voting Rights Act remain completely unchanged.
tl;dr - The Voting Rights Act's protections are still valid, they are just going to be harder to enforce. | Let's be clear on something, because people seem to be missing the real issue here: the Voting Rights Act was not overturned.
The clause that determines which states are subject to more scrutiny and oversight was overturned. Is this problematic? Yes, because, without this clause, no extra oversight will be given until Congress can pass a new standard to determine which states should receive it, and in our notoriously unproductive Congress, I'm skeptical of that happening any time soon.
However, the actual protections and rights guaranteed by the Voting Rights Act remain completely unchanged.
tl;dr - The Voting Rights Act's protections are still valid, they are just going to be harder to enforce.
| ainbow | t5_2tcpq | caqwfoj | Let's be clear on something, because people seem to be missing the real issue here: the Voting Rights Act was not overturned.
The clause that determines which states are subject to more scrutiny and oversight was overturned. Is this problematic? Yes, because, without this clause, no extra oversight will be given until Congress can pass a new standard to determine which states should receive it, and in our notoriously unproductive Congress, I'm skeptical of that happening any time soon.
However, the actual protections and rights guaranteed by the Voting Rights Act remain completely unchanged. | The Voting Rights Act's protections are still valid, they are just going to be harder to enforce. |
CottonInsider | For me, I was not raised in a household where religion was an issue. I went to a private college that required 4 religion classes. I also took 2 philosophy classes and 40 credit hours of science classes. I wanted to believe in God. I work at church. I sought out answers, I went to 15 different churches searching for this truth, for this higher power... The more I inquired, the less sense anything made. I still feel this desire for more, but trying to fill it with God just didn't work. My brain can't justify it, even/especially after all I learned.
Tl;dr: Searched in college for answers...landed either further from 'God'. | For me, I was not raised in a household where religion was an issue. I went to a private college that required 4 religion classes. I also took 2 philosophy classes and 40 credit hours of science classes. I wanted to believe in God. I work at church. I sought out answers, I went to 15 different churches searching for this truth, for this higher power... The more I inquired, the less sense anything made. I still feel this desire for more, but trying to fill it with God just didn't work. My brain can't justify it, even/especially after all I learned.
Tl;dr: Searched in college for answers...landed either further from 'God'.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | caqutwg | For me, I was not raised in a household where religion was an issue. I went to a private college that required 4 religion classes. I also took 2 philosophy classes and 40 credit hours of science classes. I wanted to believe in God. I work at church. I sought out answers, I went to 15 different churches searching for this truth, for this higher power... The more I inquired, the less sense anything made. I still feel this desire for more, but trying to fill it with God just didn't work. My brain can't justify it, even/especially after all I learned. | Searched in college for answers...landed either further from 'God'. |
sapfi004 | was asking *TLDR writer* | was asking TLDR writer
| DecidingToBeBetter | t5_2tand | carvqil | was asking | writer |
Thaliana | Just realized I posted this in the /r/dubstep thread but here is my response.
I don't think there is one person you can really point to. There's lots of big names who carved out individual styles. One of the biggest hallmarks of dubstep early on was that it could be almost anything you wanted it to be within a few guidelines half step about 140 emphasis on bass etc. So really I think it's a fools errand to try to anoint one person as the most influential.
Kode9 is obviously a big one, lots of vocals on tracks and done in a way I've never heard anyone else do.
Mala and Shackleton have both got insane percussion, although their music is very different.
Distance brought a lot of metal influences to the genre.
Coki showed just how ridiculous you can go while still being deep.
Vex'd brought breaks and dubstep together, keeping it very hard but still deep.
Then there's people like Neil Landstrum and Milanese who are often overlooked but really opened my eyes to what dubstep could sound like or indeed cannot sound like.
Then you can talk about Headhunter, Pinch, Appleblim, Plastician, Ramadanman, Untold, Joker, Randomer, Sukh Knight, The Widdler, El-B, Tes La Rok, Ital Tek, The Bug, DZ, Matty G, Kryptic Minds etc who all had major influences on the landscape.
There are some big names I've left out here on purpose to illustrate my point. Dubstep was/is a melting pot, there's no originator just a big movement of people exploring a new flavour of music that you can come at from many different backgrounds (reggae, jungle, garage etc). As such there is no most influential producer.
Even with Skrillex would he ever have started making what he did had it not been for people like Excision and Datsik (sorry I don't like this sound very much so they may not be as important in this sound as I believe) showing that there was a dirty side to be looked at with tunes like Swagger and Havoc?
TL;DR Dubstep is too diverse for there to be one most influential producer. | Just realized I posted this in the /r/dubstep thread but here is my response.
I don't think there is one person you can really point to. There's lots of big names who carved out individual styles. One of the biggest hallmarks of dubstep early on was that it could be almost anything you wanted it to be within a few guidelines half step about 140 emphasis on bass etc. So really I think it's a fools errand to try to anoint one person as the most influential.
Kode9 is obviously a big one, lots of vocals on tracks and done in a way I've never heard anyone else do.
Mala and Shackleton have both got insane percussion, although their music is very different.
Distance brought a lot of metal influences to the genre.
Coki showed just how ridiculous you can go while still being deep.
Vex'd brought breaks and dubstep together, keeping it very hard but still deep.
Then there's people like Neil Landstrum and Milanese who are often overlooked but really opened my eyes to what dubstep could sound like or indeed cannot sound like.
Then you can talk about Headhunter, Pinch, Appleblim, Plastician, Ramadanman, Untold, Joker, Randomer, Sukh Knight, The Widdler, El-B, Tes La Rok, Ital Tek, The Bug, DZ, Matty G, Kryptic Minds etc who all had major influences on the landscape.
There are some big names I've left out here on purpose to illustrate my point. Dubstep was/is a melting pot, there's no originator just a big movement of people exploring a new flavour of music that you can come at from many different backgrounds (reggae, jungle, garage etc). As such there is no most influential producer.
Even with Skrillex would he ever have started making what he did had it not been for people like Excision and Datsik (sorry I don't like this sound very much so they may not be as important in this sound as I believe) showing that there was a dirty side to be looked at with tunes like Swagger and Havoc?
TL;DR Dubstep is too diverse for there to be one most influential producer.
| realdubstep | t5_2s9pu | car71gc | Just realized I posted this in the /r/dubstep thread but here is my response.
I don't think there is one person you can really point to. There's lots of big names who carved out individual styles. One of the biggest hallmarks of dubstep early on was that it could be almost anything you wanted it to be within a few guidelines half step about 140 emphasis on bass etc. So really I think it's a fools errand to try to anoint one person as the most influential.
Kode9 is obviously a big one, lots of vocals on tracks and done in a way I've never heard anyone else do.
Mala and Shackleton have both got insane percussion, although their music is very different.
Distance brought a lot of metal influences to the genre.
Coki showed just how ridiculous you can go while still being deep.
Vex'd brought breaks and dubstep together, keeping it very hard but still deep.
Then there's people like Neil Landstrum and Milanese who are often overlooked but really opened my eyes to what dubstep could sound like or indeed cannot sound like.
Then you can talk about Headhunter, Pinch, Appleblim, Plastician, Ramadanman, Untold, Joker, Randomer, Sukh Knight, The Widdler, El-B, Tes La Rok, Ital Tek, The Bug, DZ, Matty G, Kryptic Minds etc who all had major influences on the landscape.
There are some big names I've left out here on purpose to illustrate my point. Dubstep was/is a melting pot, there's no originator just a big movement of people exploring a new flavour of music that you can come at from many different backgrounds (reggae, jungle, garage etc). As such there is no most influential producer.
Even with Skrillex would he ever have started making what he did had it not been for people like Excision and Datsik (sorry I don't like this sound very much so they may not be as important in this sound as I believe) showing that there was a dirty side to be looked at with tunes like Swagger and Havoc? | Dubstep is too diverse for there to be one most influential producer. |
JustGimmeSomeTruth | It's sort of a step in the right direction, but c'mon, prohibition is just indefensible as a policy or position. It's non-sensical and self-defeating, not to mention authoritarian and a collective violation of our human rights.
I mean, look at this [this map]( it's **pathetic** that the "Live Free or Die" state is the only blank in a sea of green New England states that have decriminalized to varying degrees. How absurd that you could stand by the border and a matter of a few feet could mean the difference between a misdemeanor and a mere fine? It's going to be increasingly difficult for them to prevent the flow across borders anyway....
Also, I will reproduce a relevant comment I made on an WMUR story about the bill:
With Colorado now and Vermont decriminalizing, I don't see how opponents can keep making their arguments with a straight face. It's clear the tide is turning. It's clear prohibition has always been a failure of a policy. I can think of nothing more anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-NH/Live Free or Die than the criminalization of marijuana.... forget medicinal, if you are against full legalization then you do not truly value liberty.
Marijuana is one of nature's most benign and useful PLANTS- such hubris to think we humans could "outlaw" something natural that has been around far longer than we have. It is just absurd on its face. (Imagine a community of rabbits outlawing a certain kind of carrot.... rounding up any rabbits who eat that carrot and putting them in makeshift cages for half their lives.... RIDICULOUS, right??)
It is immoral to deny sick patients free access to their medicine, and perhaps less so, but still immoral, to deny citizens the freedom to decide to alter or not to alter their own consciousness. It's time we called it what it is-- a fundamental human right on par with freedom of expression and religion. No state power should have the right to control the very chemistry of our own brains.
People claim it is to "protect the children," but this argument holds no water. It is self-serving willful ignorance and corruption that is keeping the status quo in place, not "protecting the children." In fact, ironically, the legalization/regulation model is FAR better at keeping substances out of the hands of children-- look at alcohol and cigarettes.... much harder for kids to get than black-market substances. That is a FACT. What valid argument could possibly dispute that??
I want to ask those who are against legalization if they are comfortable with being DIRECTLY responsible for MORE kids having access to marijuana-- because that's exactly what they are doing whether they realize/admit it or not. They are causing to happen the very thing they supposedly are against and use to justify their backwards position.
**TL;DR** - Medical can be seen as a step in the right direction, but full legalization needs to happen, it is immoral and illogical to continue with prohibition. | It's sort of a step in the right direction, but c'mon, prohibition is just indefensible as a policy or position. It's non-sensical and self-defeating, not to mention authoritarian and a collective violation of our human rights.
I mean, look at this [this map]( it's pathetic that the "Live Free or Die" state is the only blank in a sea of green New England states that have decriminalized to varying degrees. How absurd that you could stand by the border and a matter of a few feet could mean the difference between a misdemeanor and a mere fine? It's going to be increasingly difficult for them to prevent the flow across borders anyway....
Also, I will reproduce a relevant comment I made on an WMUR story about the bill:
With Colorado now and Vermont decriminalizing, I don't see how opponents can keep making their arguments with a straight face. It's clear the tide is turning. It's clear prohibition has always been a failure of a policy. I can think of nothing more anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-NH/Live Free or Die than the criminalization of marijuana.... forget medicinal, if you are against full legalization then you do not truly value liberty.
Marijuana is one of nature's most benign and useful PLANTS- such hubris to think we humans could "outlaw" something natural that has been around far longer than we have. It is just absurd on its face. (Imagine a community of rabbits outlawing a certain kind of carrot.... rounding up any rabbits who eat that carrot and putting them in makeshift cages for half their lives.... RIDICULOUS, right??)
It is immoral to deny sick patients free access to their medicine, and perhaps less so, but still immoral, to deny citizens the freedom to decide to alter or not to alter their own consciousness. It's time we called it what it is-- a fundamental human right on par with freedom of expression and religion. No state power should have the right to control the very chemistry of our own brains.
People claim it is to "protect the children," but this argument holds no water. It is self-serving willful ignorance and corruption that is keeping the status quo in place, not "protecting the children." In fact, ironically, the legalization/regulation model is FAR better at keeping substances out of the hands of children-- look at alcohol and cigarettes.... much harder for kids to get than black-market substances. That is a FACT. What valid argument could possibly dispute that??
I want to ask those who are against legalization if they are comfortable with being DIRECTLY responsible for MORE kids having access to marijuana-- because that's exactly what they are doing whether they realize/admit it or not. They are causing to happen the very thing they supposedly are against and use to justify their backwards position.
TL;DR - Medical can be seen as a step in the right direction, but full legalization needs to happen, it is immoral and illogical to continue with prohibition.
| newhampshire | t5_2rmnf | casrsyg | It's sort of a step in the right direction, but c'mon, prohibition is just indefensible as a policy or position. It's non-sensical and self-defeating, not to mention authoritarian and a collective violation of our human rights.
I mean, look at this [this map]( it's pathetic that the "Live Free or Die" state is the only blank in a sea of green New England states that have decriminalized to varying degrees. How absurd that you could stand by the border and a matter of a few feet could mean the difference between a misdemeanor and a mere fine? It's going to be increasingly difficult for them to prevent the flow across borders anyway....
Also, I will reproduce a relevant comment I made on an WMUR story about the bill:
With Colorado now and Vermont decriminalizing, I don't see how opponents can keep making their arguments with a straight face. It's clear the tide is turning. It's clear prohibition has always been a failure of a policy. I can think of nothing more anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-NH/Live Free or Die than the criminalization of marijuana.... forget medicinal, if you are against full legalization then you do not truly value liberty.
Marijuana is one of nature's most benign and useful PLANTS- such hubris to think we humans could "outlaw" something natural that has been around far longer than we have. It is just absurd on its face. (Imagine a community of rabbits outlawing a certain kind of carrot.... rounding up any rabbits who eat that carrot and putting them in makeshift cages for half their lives.... RIDICULOUS, right??)
It is immoral to deny sick patients free access to their medicine, and perhaps less so, but still immoral, to deny citizens the freedom to decide to alter or not to alter their own consciousness. It's time we called it what it is-- a fundamental human right on par with freedom of expression and religion. No state power should have the right to control the very chemistry of our own brains.
People claim it is to "protect the children," but this argument holds no water. It is self-serving willful ignorance and corruption that is keeping the status quo in place, not "protecting the children." In fact, ironically, the legalization/regulation model is FAR better at keeping substances out of the hands of children-- look at alcohol and cigarettes.... much harder for kids to get than black-market substances. That is a FACT. What valid argument could possibly dispute that??
I want to ask those who are against legalization if they are comfortable with being DIRECTLY responsible for MORE kids having access to marijuana-- because that's exactly what they are doing whether they realize/admit it or not. They are causing to happen the very thing they supposedly are against and use to justify their backwards position. | Medical can be seen as a step in the right direction, but full legalization needs to happen, it is immoral and illogical to continue with prohibition. |
KneeltoNeil | This story takes place in a rural walmart just after my father and I ate at a local mexican food joint...I was about 13 years old. For a thirteen year old, I was quite tall, about 5'10''. While my father was off looking at fishing equipment, I went to pick out an alarm clock, which was for the following morning as our cabin did not have one. It was then when I was standing in front of the many many options for alarm clocks that my stomach started rumbling. I mean, really getting angry with what I had eaten. A few seconds later, my colon about dropped out of my pants: I had to fart so bad! Realizing I was in public, I figured I should be discrete about this. So, I look over my left shoulder, no one there. I do the same for the right, and no one. Just to be double sure, I repeated both steps. By this time I was confident no one was within an ears reach of what was about to happen, so I breathed in, slightly lifted up my leg, and let her rip.... This, by far, was THE most refreshing fart I have ever had, to this day... or so I thought. Mid way through the controlled release, I hear this rustling behind me. It was a MIDGET! Are you freaking kidding me? How did she get there? Her head had to have been no more than three feet from ground zero. I felt terrible, yet wasn't able to say "I'm sorry." Lesson learned, don't forget to look down before farting in public.
TL;DR: I farted in a midget's face. | This story takes place in a rural walmart just after my father and I ate at a local mexican food joint...I was about 13 years old. For a thirteen year old, I was quite tall, about 5'10''. While my father was off looking at fishing equipment, I went to pick out an alarm clock, which was for the following morning as our cabin did not have one. It was then when I was standing in front of the many many options for alarm clocks that my stomach started rumbling. I mean, really getting angry with what I had eaten. A few seconds later, my colon about dropped out of my pants: I had to fart so bad! Realizing I was in public, I figured I should be discrete about this. So, I look over my left shoulder, no one there. I do the same for the right, and no one. Just to be double sure, I repeated both steps. By this time I was confident no one was within an ears reach of what was about to happen, so I breathed in, slightly lifted up my leg, and let her rip.... This, by far, was THE most refreshing fart I have ever had, to this day... or so I thought. Mid way through the controlled release, I hear this rustling behind me. It was a MIDGET! Are you freaking kidding me? How did she get there? Her head had to have been no more than three feet from ground zero. I felt terrible, yet wasn't able to say "I'm sorry." Lesson learned, don't forget to look down before farting in public.
TL;DR: I farted in a midget's face.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | car3idc | This story takes place in a rural walmart just after my father and I ate at a local mexican food joint...I was about 13 years old. For a thirteen year old, I was quite tall, about 5'10''. While my father was off looking at fishing equipment, I went to pick out an alarm clock, which was for the following morning as our cabin did not have one. It was then when I was standing in front of the many many options for alarm clocks that my stomach started rumbling. I mean, really getting angry with what I had eaten. A few seconds later, my colon about dropped out of my pants: I had to fart so bad! Realizing I was in public, I figured I should be discrete about this. So, I look over my left shoulder, no one there. I do the same for the right, and no one. Just to be double sure, I repeated both steps. By this time I was confident no one was within an ears reach of what was about to happen, so I breathed in, slightly lifted up my leg, and let her rip.... This, by far, was THE most refreshing fart I have ever had, to this day... or so I thought. Mid way through the controlled release, I hear this rustling behind me. It was a MIDGET! Are you freaking kidding me? How did she get there? Her head had to have been no more than three feet from ground zero. I felt terrible, yet wasn't able to say "I'm sorry." Lesson learned, don't forget to look down before farting in public. | I farted in a midget's face. |
bigbangtheorylol | Not me, but my cousin. She went into Walmart looking for some Easter candy, when at the door, she was greeted by a smiling employee who beamed, "Hello Ethel!" My cousin is not Ethel. Not even close. The employee dragged over an electric scooter chair and got it set up for "Ethel". My cousin, not one to miss an opportunity, smiled, sat down, and wizzed around Walmart. She said it was the best day of her life.
TL: DR, Mistaken for old lady, scooter ride. | Not me, but my cousin. She went into Walmart looking for some Easter candy, when at the door, she was greeted by a smiling employee who beamed, "Hello Ethel!" My cousin is not Ethel. Not even close. The employee dragged over an electric scooter chair and got it set up for "Ethel". My cousin, not one to miss an opportunity, smiled, sat down, and wizzed around Walmart. She said it was the best day of her life.
TL: DR, Mistaken for old lady, scooter ride.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | car4d3j | Not me, but my cousin. She went into Walmart looking for some Easter candy, when at the door, she was greeted by a smiling employee who beamed, "Hello Ethel!" My cousin is not Ethel. Not even close. The employee dragged over an electric scooter chair and got it set up for "Ethel". My cousin, not one to miss an opportunity, smiled, sat down, and wizzed around Walmart. She said it was the best day of her life. | Mistaken for old lady, scooter ride. |
phrynne | It didn't happen to me, but right in front of me... One woman had left her cart in the middle of the aisle. Her infant was asleep in his car seat in the cart. Another woman came by and tried to squeeze her cart past the one in the middle of the aisle, but just barely taps it as she passes. All of a sudden the mother comes barreling down from further down the aisle and starts screaming, "You hit my baby! You apologize for hitting my baby!" The other woman looks shocked and tries to scurry away without saying a word. The mother followers her screeching "You apologize for hitting my baby!" over and over again, until she gets close enough and actually grabs the woman by the clothes at the back of her neck, and pulls her back. They both lose balance and fall sideways into a display of comforters, which fall everywhere. They both slide to the ground and wrestle for a moment while the mother continues yelling, then security arrived and pulled them apart and escorted the mother (and her infant who slept through the whole damn thing) from the store.
TL;DR Baby-mama loses her shit, attacks another shopper. | It didn't happen to me, but right in front of me... One woman had left her cart in the middle of the aisle. Her infant was asleep in his car seat in the cart. Another woman came by and tried to squeeze her cart past the one in the middle of the aisle, but just barely taps it as she passes. All of a sudden the mother comes barreling down from further down the aisle and starts screaming, "You hit my baby! You apologize for hitting my baby!" The other woman looks shocked and tries to scurry away without saying a word. The mother followers her screeching "You apologize for hitting my baby!" over and over again, until she gets close enough and actually grabs the woman by the clothes at the back of her neck, and pulls her back. They both lose balance and fall sideways into a display of comforters, which fall everywhere. They both slide to the ground and wrestle for a moment while the mother continues yelling, then security arrived and pulled them apart and escorted the mother (and her infant who slept through the whole damn thing) from the store.
TL;DR Baby-mama loses her shit, attacks another shopper.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | car4pb5 | It didn't happen to me, but right in front of me... One woman had left her cart in the middle of the aisle. Her infant was asleep in his car seat in the cart. Another woman came by and tried to squeeze her cart past the one in the middle of the aisle, but just barely taps it as she passes. All of a sudden the mother comes barreling down from further down the aisle and starts screaming, "You hit my baby! You apologize for hitting my baby!" The other woman looks shocked and tries to scurry away without saying a word. The mother followers her screeching "You apologize for hitting my baby!" over and over again, until she gets close enough and actually grabs the woman by the clothes at the back of her neck, and pulls her back. They both lose balance and fall sideways into a display of comforters, which fall everywhere. They both slide to the ground and wrestle for a moment while the mother continues yelling, then security arrived and pulled them apart and escorted the mother (and her infant who slept through the whole damn thing) from the store. | Baby-mama loses her shit, attacks another shopper. |
Awsomedude04 | While drunk, I was paying for my vodka just before 3am, when Walmart stops selling booze, and I realized the piss I hade been holding the whole ride to Walmart and the entire time running through the isles trying to make the 3am deadline could wait no longer. I looked at the bathrooms right in front of me, just beyond the blue rope and the poor fellow waxing the floor behind it. I asked the cashier, the transaction almost complete, if there was another bathroom. As the word no came out of her mouth, about a pint of vodka and soda spewed from my half chubbed firehouse down my left pant leg and into a puddle on the floor. I froze. Tried to stop. Couldn't. Looked at her I see her face change as she could hear the urine pooling on the freshly waxed linoleum. As my stream weakened I was able to move my shaky legs and, while still dribbling profusely, I snatched my bottle off the counter and high tailed it for the door, leaving behind a puzzled and disgusted sweet 65 year old lady, a trail of piss, and my change.
TL;DR: Pissed while paying | While drunk, I was paying for my vodka just before 3am, when Walmart stops selling booze, and I realized the piss I hade been holding the whole ride to Walmart and the entire time running through the isles trying to make the 3am deadline could wait no longer. I looked at the bathrooms right in front of me, just beyond the blue rope and the poor fellow waxing the floor behind it. I asked the cashier, the transaction almost complete, if there was another bathroom. As the word no came out of her mouth, about a pint of vodka and soda spewed from my half chubbed firehouse down my left pant leg and into a puddle on the floor. I froze. Tried to stop. Couldn't. Looked at her I see her face change as she could hear the urine pooling on the freshly waxed linoleum. As my stream weakened I was able to move my shaky legs and, while still dribbling profusely, I snatched my bottle off the counter and high tailed it for the door, leaving behind a puzzled and disgusted sweet 65 year old lady, a trail of piss, and my change.
TL;DR: Pissed while paying
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | car566w | While drunk, I was paying for my vodka just before 3am, when Walmart stops selling booze, and I realized the piss I hade been holding the whole ride to Walmart and the entire time running through the isles trying to make the 3am deadline could wait no longer. I looked at the bathrooms right in front of me, just beyond the blue rope and the poor fellow waxing the floor behind it. I asked the cashier, the transaction almost complete, if there was another bathroom. As the word no came out of her mouth, about a pint of vodka and soda spewed from my half chubbed firehouse down my left pant leg and into a puddle on the floor. I froze. Tried to stop. Couldn't. Looked at her I see her face change as she could hear the urine pooling on the freshly waxed linoleum. As my stream weakened I was able to move my shaky legs and, while still dribbling profusely, I snatched my bottle off the counter and high tailed it for the door, leaving behind a puzzled and disgusted sweet 65 year old lady, a trail of piss, and my change. | Pissed while paying |
rayray21 | I had a mentally challenged adult assault me in the frozen foods section. He was walking with his mom and dad who are in their 70's. Apparently, I looked like someone he had a problem with in his younger days. I had my head in the frozen pizza section, and he lunged at me while I had the glass door open. I caught a quick look at him as he cam at me and dodged enough to ONLY catch a fist to the side of the face. The rest of his body was carried by momentum and easily shattered the glass door I had opened. At this point, I had no idea he was mentally challenged, and threw him backwards into the bread section and away from where I was standing. In that time, his parents jumped between us and began apologizing profusely. Walmart security was on us in a flash after that, and took him away. I continued my shopping with an icepack on my face and filed a police report in the parking lot when it was all over.
TLDR; Clean-up in the bread aisle! | I had a mentally challenged adult assault me in the frozen foods section. He was walking with his mom and dad who are in their 70's. Apparently, I looked like someone he had a problem with in his younger days. I had my head in the frozen pizza section, and he lunged at me while I had the glass door open. I caught a quick look at him as he cam at me and dodged enough to ONLY catch a fist to the side of the face. The rest of his body was carried by momentum and easily shattered the glass door I had opened. At this point, I had no idea he was mentally challenged, and threw him backwards into the bread section and away from where I was standing. In that time, his parents jumped between us and began apologizing profusely. Walmart security was on us in a flash after that, and took him away. I continued my shopping with an icepack on my face and filed a police report in the parking lot when it was all over.
TLDR; Clean-up in the bread aisle!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | car9hqp | I had a mentally challenged adult assault me in the frozen foods section. He was walking with his mom and dad who are in their 70's. Apparently, I looked like someone he had a problem with in his younger days. I had my head in the frozen pizza section, and he lunged at me while I had the glass door open. I caught a quick look at him as he cam at me and dodged enough to ONLY catch a fist to the side of the face. The rest of his body was carried by momentum and easily shattered the glass door I had opened. At this point, I had no idea he was mentally challenged, and threw him backwards into the bread section and away from where I was standing. In that time, his parents jumped between us and began apologizing profusely. Walmart security was on us in a flash after that, and took him away. I continued my shopping with an icepack on my face and filed a police report in the parking lot when it was all over. | Clean-up in the bread aisle! |
dageekywon | Was standing in the checkout lane right across from the customer service area. A guy comes in with a pool (one of those ones you put on the ground that stands on its own) that has obviously been used for the entire summer. You can tell because the top of it is sun-bleached, and the bottom has caked on dirt and dead grass on it. Also, its the end of September.
He tells the girl behind the counter he wants to return it. The girl, seeing the pool, calls the manager. The manager comes out and basically tells him politely....uh, no, its used. Guy starts getting loud, insists on talking to someone above this manager, etc.
The store manager comes out and basically tells the guy to leave. Thats when the guy pulls this machete looking knife out from behind his pants that was under his shirt and starts threatening him.
Just then the cops walk in (I'm guessing they hit some kind of panic alarm) and suddenly we have cops with guns out telling this guy to get on the ground and drop the weapon. He does so, they take him into custody.
5 minutes later the guy is being escorted out while the cops are still talking to the manager and everything continues as usual in the checkouts, now that its over. The assistant manager walks the shopping cart with the pool outside and onto a grassy area and calls someone to come clean up the puddle of dripping water/mud that dripped down while all of this is going on.
I don't know if the guy ever got charged, but I never saw anything in the paper about it. I'm guessing he was banned on the spot as well.
Probably about the only time I've really been entertained in Walmart. The usual people in pj's shopping and large people wearing things 10 sizes too small is so common you don't even think about it anymore.
tl;dr guy brings used pool in after the summer, manager says no, pulls machete-type knife on him, cops show up and take him down/escort him out. | Was standing in the checkout lane right across from the customer service area. A guy comes in with a pool (one of those ones you put on the ground that stands on its own) that has obviously been used for the entire summer. You can tell because the top of it is sun-bleached, and the bottom has caked on dirt and dead grass on it. Also, its the end of September.
He tells the girl behind the counter he wants to return it. The girl, seeing the pool, calls the manager. The manager comes out and basically tells him politely....uh, no, its used. Guy starts getting loud, insists on talking to someone above this manager, etc.
The store manager comes out and basically tells the guy to leave. Thats when the guy pulls this machete looking knife out from behind his pants that was under his shirt and starts threatening him.
Just then the cops walk in (I'm guessing they hit some kind of panic alarm) and suddenly we have cops with guns out telling this guy to get on the ground and drop the weapon. He does so, they take him into custody.
5 minutes later the guy is being escorted out while the cops are still talking to the manager and everything continues as usual in the checkouts, now that its over. The assistant manager walks the shopping cart with the pool outside and onto a grassy area and calls someone to come clean up the puddle of dripping water/mud that dripped down while all of this is going on.
I don't know if the guy ever got charged, but I never saw anything in the paper about it. I'm guessing he was banned on the spot as well.
Probably about the only time I've really been entertained in Walmart. The usual people in pj's shopping and large people wearing things 10 sizes too small is so common you don't even think about it anymore.
tl;dr guy brings used pool in after the summer, manager says no, pulls machete-type knife on him, cops show up and take him down/escort him out.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | carat5y | Was standing in the checkout lane right across from the customer service area. A guy comes in with a pool (one of those ones you put on the ground that stands on its own) that has obviously been used for the entire summer. You can tell because the top of it is sun-bleached, and the bottom has caked on dirt and dead grass on it. Also, its the end of September.
He tells the girl behind the counter he wants to return it. The girl, seeing the pool, calls the manager. The manager comes out and basically tells him politely....uh, no, its used. Guy starts getting loud, insists on talking to someone above this manager, etc.
The store manager comes out and basically tells the guy to leave. Thats when the guy pulls this machete looking knife out from behind his pants that was under his shirt and starts threatening him.
Just then the cops walk in (I'm guessing they hit some kind of panic alarm) and suddenly we have cops with guns out telling this guy to get on the ground and drop the weapon. He does so, they take him into custody.
5 minutes later the guy is being escorted out while the cops are still talking to the manager and everything continues as usual in the checkouts, now that its over. The assistant manager walks the shopping cart with the pool outside and onto a grassy area and calls someone to come clean up the puddle of dripping water/mud that dripped down while all of this is going on.
I don't know if the guy ever got charged, but I never saw anything in the paper about it. I'm guessing he was banned on the spot as well.
Probably about the only time I've really been entertained in Walmart. The usual people in pj's shopping and large people wearing things 10 sizes too small is so common you don't even think about it anymore. | guy brings used pool in after the summer, manager says no, pulls machete-type knife on him, cops show up and take him down/escort him out. |
willemdehoe | Mind you, I was under the age of 10 when this happened - probably 7 or 8. My mother and I were there during the holiday season, and on one of the shelf endcaps there were seasonal soap dispensers. You know, snowflakes and stockings and reindeer and shit. So I went over to look at them, and was intrigued by the weird translucent plasticky hat one of the reindeer was wearing. I leaned in closer, investigating. My mother yelled from the center aisle, "DON'T TOUCH THAT," but it was too late. I touched it. It was slimy. It was a condom. It was gross.
**TL;DR** As a child, I touched an open (possibly used) condom someone wrapped around some reindeer antlers. | Mind you, I was under the age of 10 when this happened - probably 7 or 8. My mother and I were there during the holiday season, and on one of the shelf endcaps there were seasonal soap dispensers. You know, snowflakes and stockings and reindeer and shit. So I went over to look at them, and was intrigued by the weird translucent plasticky hat one of the reindeer was wearing. I leaned in closer, investigating. My mother yelled from the center aisle, "DON'T TOUCH THAT," but it was too late. I touched it. It was slimy. It was a condom. It was gross.
TL;DR As a child, I touched an open (possibly used) condom someone wrapped around some reindeer antlers.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cargiti | Mind you, I was under the age of 10 when this happened - probably 7 or 8. My mother and I were there during the holiday season, and on one of the shelf endcaps there were seasonal soap dispensers. You know, snowflakes and stockings and reindeer and shit. So I went over to look at them, and was intrigued by the weird translucent plasticky hat one of the reindeer was wearing. I leaned in closer, investigating. My mother yelled from the center aisle, "DON'T TOUCH THAT," but it was too late. I touched it. It was slimy. It was a condom. It was gross. | As a child, I touched an open (possibly used) condom someone wrapped around some reindeer antlers. |
QuestionsonDrugs | For your first trip on shrooms, measure out 2g and find a nice safe setting along with a few friends who are interested or have done it before. Setting and group have a big influence on how the trip can go, especially for your first. 2g will give you mild visuals; fractals, pattern breathing, etc. - but it won't be overwhelming.
About an hour in you should be getting some giggle fits if you're talking with your friends. As in everything is fucking hilarious and you can't stop grinning. Now's a good time to decide whether you want to stay wherever you're at or go adventuring.
I have had ABSOLUTE BLAST walking around back alleys and parking lots of downtown in the middle of a snowstorm. Again, you tell that to any "sober" person and they'll think you're crazy. Everything felt like an adventure. Walking up and down new alleys I've driven past hundreds of times but have never walked through, absolutely crazy. The light and shadows cast by the street lamps was amazing. Friends and I had conversations about what kind of movies would go well in particular parking lots.
Walks in nature are also great. Stop and stare at a tree, like really stare at it, and take it all in. Pause at the edge of a lake and try to see what's over on the other side. Things you thought you had "figured out" you re-evaluate and you're like "man that's really fucking cool".
Adverse effects correlate greatly with higher doses. My recommendation is start with 2g for the first 2-3 trips and make sure you have somewhat of a handle on what to expect. From there try going up .5 at a time for your next trips. Even go down to lower doses. You can find some good info on the shroomery forum about low dose trip reports (people like them).
If you go heroic with your dose you may find yourself curled up in the fetal position, accepting your own death, and have given up on life. Hasn't happened to me yet, but I've seen it, and again I try to know feel out where my limits are.
Lastly, similar to LSD, when things start to get visual you just have to "go with it". Don't fight it, just be like "ok the rug is breathing, that's pretty fucking awesome," smile a bit, and go see what else is different. Buddy had a similar thing come up with his first LSD trip, things were a bit too crazy until he just went with it.
Some people complain about the taste of shrooms. I don't mind them at all. In fact I chalk it up to everyone's first time with beer. The first time you try beer, you're like "damn that shit's nasty, who would want to drink that" and then after you realize what a buzz it gives you, the taste grows on you (also like coffee). You can also make tea with shrooms or put them in chocolate.
Shrooms are easy enough to grow on your own. Startup costs are less than $100 and you can easily grow 100g+ from a small setup. Unlike cannabis, you don't need expensive lights or ventilation systems. You can literally grow them under your bed or in the closet. If you're not the DIY type, you can buy them from a dealer you trust.
MDMA is a bit tougher. I've tried to source MDMA locally and everything I've found.... hasn't been real MDMA. Methylone is a popular knockoff since it's 1/10 the cost to produce and is legal in China. I've also found DXM which tastes awful and requires a much higher dose to become euphoric (400+mg).That motivated me to get onto the silk road. (/r/SilkRoad can help you if you're interested). Straight MDMA is pretty much all good feelings and 100% contentment with life. I actually prefer a bit of amphetamine mixed in with my MDMA to really give it a kick of energy (for going out). If you get straight MDMA or reputable stuff in a pill, aim for 120-150mg. Do not go for the stuff that claims to have 200-300+ mg. That's WAYYYYY too much. If you need that much to roll, your brain is broken and you need to give it a rest. Also, too much MDMA and you will get floored. These are those people you see at festivals who are sitting on the floor and can't get up or at worst have passed out. Again, some amphetamine helps with this.
TL;DR > ENJOY | For your first trip on shrooms, measure out 2g and find a nice safe setting along with a few friends who are interested or have done it before. Setting and group have a big influence on how the trip can go, especially for your first. 2g will give you mild visuals; fractals, pattern breathing, etc. - but it won't be overwhelming.
About an hour in you should be getting some giggle fits if you're talking with your friends. As in everything is fucking hilarious and you can't stop grinning. Now's a good time to decide whether you want to stay wherever you're at or go adventuring.
I have had ABSOLUTE BLAST walking around back alleys and parking lots of downtown in the middle of a snowstorm. Again, you tell that to any "sober" person and they'll think you're crazy. Everything felt like an adventure. Walking up and down new alleys I've driven past hundreds of times but have never walked through, absolutely crazy. The light and shadows cast by the street lamps was amazing. Friends and I had conversations about what kind of movies would go well in particular parking lots.
Walks in nature are also great. Stop and stare at a tree, like really stare at it, and take it all in. Pause at the edge of a lake and try to see what's over on the other side. Things you thought you had "figured out" you re-evaluate and you're like "man that's really fucking cool".
Adverse effects correlate greatly with higher doses. My recommendation is start with 2g for the first 2-3 trips and make sure you have somewhat of a handle on what to expect. From there try going up .5 at a time for your next trips. Even go down to lower doses. You can find some good info on the shroomery forum about low dose trip reports (people like them).
If you go heroic with your dose you may find yourself curled up in the fetal position, accepting your own death, and have given up on life. Hasn't happened to me yet, but I've seen it, and again I try to know feel out where my limits are.
Lastly, similar to LSD, when things start to get visual you just have to "go with it". Don't fight it, just be like "ok the rug is breathing, that's pretty fucking awesome," smile a bit, and go see what else is different. Buddy had a similar thing come up with his first LSD trip, things were a bit too crazy until he just went with it.
Some people complain about the taste of shrooms. I don't mind them at all. In fact I chalk it up to everyone's first time with beer. The first time you try beer, you're like "damn that shit's nasty, who would want to drink that" and then after you realize what a buzz it gives you, the taste grows on you (also like coffee). You can also make tea with shrooms or put them in chocolate.
Shrooms are easy enough to grow on your own. Startup costs are less than $100 and you can easily grow 100g+ from a small setup. Unlike cannabis, you don't need expensive lights or ventilation systems. You can literally grow them under your bed or in the closet. If you're not the DIY type, you can buy them from a dealer you trust.
MDMA is a bit tougher. I've tried to source MDMA locally and everything I've found.... hasn't been real MDMA. Methylone is a popular knockoff since it's 1/10 the cost to produce and is legal in China. I've also found DXM which tastes awful and requires a much higher dose to become euphoric (400+mg).That motivated me to get onto the silk road. (/r/SilkRoad can help you if you're interested). Straight MDMA is pretty much all good feelings and 100% contentment with life. I actually prefer a bit of amphetamine mixed in with my MDMA to really give it a kick of energy (for going out). If you get straight MDMA or reputable stuff in a pill, aim for 120-150mg. Do not go for the stuff that claims to have 200-300+ mg. That's WAYYYYY too much. If you need that much to roll, your brain is broken and you need to give it a rest. Also, too much MDMA and you will get floored. These are those people you see at festivals who are sitting on the floor and can't get up or at worst have passed out. Again, some amphetamine helps with this.
TL;DR > ENJOY
| Drugs | t5_2qh7l | cars06f | For your first trip on shrooms, measure out 2g and find a nice safe setting along with a few friends who are interested or have done it before. Setting and group have a big influence on how the trip can go, especially for your first. 2g will give you mild visuals; fractals, pattern breathing, etc. - but it won't be overwhelming.
About an hour in you should be getting some giggle fits if you're talking with your friends. As in everything is fucking hilarious and you can't stop grinning. Now's a good time to decide whether you want to stay wherever you're at or go adventuring.
I have had ABSOLUTE BLAST walking around back alleys and parking lots of downtown in the middle of a snowstorm. Again, you tell that to any "sober" person and they'll think you're crazy. Everything felt like an adventure. Walking up and down new alleys I've driven past hundreds of times but have never walked through, absolutely crazy. The light and shadows cast by the street lamps was amazing. Friends and I had conversations about what kind of movies would go well in particular parking lots.
Walks in nature are also great. Stop and stare at a tree, like really stare at it, and take it all in. Pause at the edge of a lake and try to see what's over on the other side. Things you thought you had "figured out" you re-evaluate and you're like "man that's really fucking cool".
Adverse effects correlate greatly with higher doses. My recommendation is start with 2g for the first 2-3 trips and make sure you have somewhat of a handle on what to expect. From there try going up .5 at a time for your next trips. Even go down to lower doses. You can find some good info on the shroomery forum about low dose trip reports (people like them).
If you go heroic with your dose you may find yourself curled up in the fetal position, accepting your own death, and have given up on life. Hasn't happened to me yet, but I've seen it, and again I try to know feel out where my limits are.
Lastly, similar to LSD, when things start to get visual you just have to "go with it". Don't fight it, just be like "ok the rug is breathing, that's pretty fucking awesome," smile a bit, and go see what else is different. Buddy had a similar thing come up with his first LSD trip, things were a bit too crazy until he just went with it.
Some people complain about the taste of shrooms. I don't mind them at all. In fact I chalk it up to everyone's first time with beer. The first time you try beer, you're like "damn that shit's nasty, who would want to drink that" and then after you realize what a buzz it gives you, the taste grows on you (also like coffee). You can also make tea with shrooms or put them in chocolate.
Shrooms are easy enough to grow on your own. Startup costs are less than $100 and you can easily grow 100g+ from a small setup. Unlike cannabis, you don't need expensive lights or ventilation systems. You can literally grow them under your bed or in the closet. If you're not the DIY type, you can buy them from a dealer you trust.
MDMA is a bit tougher. I've tried to source MDMA locally and everything I've found.... hasn't been real MDMA. Methylone is a popular knockoff since it's 1/10 the cost to produce and is legal in China. I've also found DXM which tastes awful and requires a much higher dose to become euphoric (400+mg).That motivated me to get onto the silk road. (/r/SilkRoad can help you if you're interested). Straight MDMA is pretty much all good feelings and 100% contentment with life. I actually prefer a bit of amphetamine mixed in with my MDMA to really give it a kick of energy (for going out). If you get straight MDMA or reputable stuff in a pill, aim for 120-150mg. Do not go for the stuff that claims to have 200-300+ mg. That's WAYYYYY too much. If you need that much to roll, your brain is broken and you need to give it a rest. Also, too much MDMA and you will get floored. These are those people you see at festivals who are sitting on the floor and can't get up or at worst have passed out. Again, some amphetamine helps with this. | ENJOY |
Omnipotent420 | Yes. Most "fans" just follow the hive-mind and really haven't watched many games. Think of the situation he was put in first. Going onto a team that expects championship or bust. Starting the job a couple weeks into the season so not having any time to get to know player styles and how to properly work them. So of course as any one should've seen coming the Lakers struggled during his first few weeks also add that it wasn't even his coaching staff it was mostly Mike Browns do to him wanting not to shake things up to much. So even his assistants aren't the best fit since they aren't his selections. Then realize the amount of injuries on the team when your original starting 5 only start I believe 7 games together all season it's hard to get the team chemistry up. With all the new faces on the team you need to feel the chemistry on the court to succeed.
After the Memphis game they had a very impressive record and mounted a serious comeback to make the playoffs(believe they were 2nd worst in West at one point). At the end of the season Pau / Howard were working together extremely well. So Pringles finally found the way to make it work so if they both return next season we have that. /r/lakers all year trashed the nearly the entire bench Morris / Duhon / Ebanks / Meeks(depending on what side of his streak he was on) and besides Meeks most of those players started to rarely see playing time and /r/lakers rejoiced. Then later it became he has a short rotation players look tired. True (mainly do to injuries) and who can blame him for wanting to have Duhon/Morris/Sacre on the court for the least amount of time possible.
TL:DR Just a lot of circlejerk hate over D'Antoni. For what he was given he did a great job for the Lakers. Injured / benchless / old team from near last place in the West to 7th seed and in the playoffs with no training camp / inconsistent starting roster.
PS: Phil was given the chance to coach the Lakers he was given until midnight on the Saturday he didn't respond so they went and got D'Antoni mid season can't really blame the Lakers for wanting to get a coach NOW. | Yes. Most "fans" just follow the hive-mind and really haven't watched many games. Think of the situation he was put in first. Going onto a team that expects championship or bust. Starting the job a couple weeks into the season so not having any time to get to know player styles and how to properly work them. So of course as any one should've seen coming the Lakers struggled during his first few weeks also add that it wasn't even his coaching staff it was mostly Mike Browns do to him wanting not to shake things up to much. So even his assistants aren't the best fit since they aren't his selections. Then realize the amount of injuries on the team when your original starting 5 only start I believe 7 games together all season it's hard to get the team chemistry up. With all the new faces on the team you need to feel the chemistry on the court to succeed.
After the Memphis game they had a very impressive record and mounted a serious comeback to make the playoffs(believe they were 2nd worst in West at one point). At the end of the season Pau / Howard were working together extremely well. So Pringles finally found the way to make it work so if they both return next season we have that. /r/lakers all year trashed the nearly the entire bench Morris / Duhon / Ebanks / Meeks(depending on what side of his streak he was on) and besides Meeks most of those players started to rarely see playing time and /r/lakers rejoiced. Then later it became he has a short rotation players look tired. True (mainly do to injuries) and who can blame him for wanting to have Duhon/Morris/Sacre on the court for the least amount of time possible.
TL:DR Just a lot of circlejerk hate over D'Antoni. For what he was given he did a great job for the Lakers. Injured / benchless / old team from near last place in the West to 7th seed and in the playoffs with no training camp / inconsistent starting roster.
PS: Phil was given the chance to coach the Lakers he was given until midnight on the Saturday he didn't respond so they went and got D'Antoni mid season can't really blame the Lakers for wanting to get a coach NOW.
| nba | t5_2qo4s | care9jm | Yes. Most "fans" just follow the hive-mind and really haven't watched many games. Think of the situation he was put in first. Going onto a team that expects championship or bust. Starting the job a couple weeks into the season so not having any time to get to know player styles and how to properly work them. So of course as any one should've seen coming the Lakers struggled during his first few weeks also add that it wasn't even his coaching staff it was mostly Mike Browns do to him wanting not to shake things up to much. So even his assistants aren't the best fit since they aren't his selections. Then realize the amount of injuries on the team when your original starting 5 only start I believe 7 games together all season it's hard to get the team chemistry up. With all the new faces on the team you need to feel the chemistry on the court to succeed.
After the Memphis game they had a very impressive record and mounted a serious comeback to make the playoffs(believe they were 2nd worst in West at one point). At the end of the season Pau / Howard were working together extremely well. So Pringles finally found the way to make it work so if they both return next season we have that. /r/lakers all year trashed the nearly the entire bench Morris / Duhon / Ebanks / Meeks(depending on what side of his streak he was on) and besides Meeks most of those players started to rarely see playing time and /r/lakers rejoiced. Then later it became he has a short rotation players look tired. True (mainly do to injuries) and who can blame him for wanting to have Duhon/Morris/Sacre on the court for the least amount of time possible. | Just a lot of circlejerk hate over D'Antoni. For what he was given he did a great job for the Lakers. Injured / benchless / old team from near last place in the West to 7th seed and in the playoffs with no training camp / inconsistent starting roster.
PS: Phil was given the chance to coach the Lakers he was given until midnight on the Saturday he didn't respond so they went and got D'Antoni mid season can't really blame the Lakers for wanting to get a coach NOW. |
imonlyhalfazn | This is an interesting topic that my husband and I had to sort out after we got married (prior to marriage, we were NOT living together).
We both have very different hobbies- my husband likes to play his video games while I like to be out and about, although the catch here is that when I do things, I want to SHARE the *experiences* with him.
This is probably something that may be causing your GF some grief, as she wants you both to do things together (while that is not ALWAYS possible), it's probably her hope that in moving in together, this is how the majority of your time will be spent.
My husband suggested that I could take up a hobby that would get my interest (examples: baking, scrapbooking, pilates, knitting, video games of my own!!), something I could do in "down time"- so I took up random crafts I've been piling away on Pinterest and work on those when he wants to game for a couple hours. His suggestion was a good one because while I didn't have any real **interests** that sparked my fancy, I was assuming that marriage (or- a deeper relationship in your case), would fill this void...which of course, it didn't.
My husband has made an effort on his part to remind me that even though he likes to play his computer games, that I am still most important to him. He does this in ways like: every so often will get up just to come over and kiss me or he will take a couple seconds just to say something like, "Lovvvve you wifey!"
Although what he is doing is completely unnecessary, I can't help but smile on the inside to know that he is so thoughtful.
The most important thing to remember, is that when taking a serious step like moving in together, you do it with the knowledge that you must be mindful of one another's needs. Being on your computer for 10 hours straight may be an issue for her (as I know it would for me), if I was itching to spend some quality time with my SO.
The best suggestion I can give is to try setting boundaries....**example:** "I'm going to spend some time on my computer this morning, but after lunchtime, it's all you and me baby!"
THEN, try to plan out something that is not TV watching- pull out a board game, go to the park, or window shop. Please note, I don't mean this EVERYTIME- just every now and again, say once every week or two...just to keep things fresh :) Anything to get you out of the usual mundane rut that can happen.
TL;DR- understand your GF may be hopeful that moving in together will mean doing everything together. Gently remind her that while you love her, you both should take time to follow your own individual interests/passions (hey- even doing "nothing" is warrented at the end of a long day!).
Best wishes OP!! | This is an interesting topic that my husband and I had to sort out after we got married (prior to marriage, we were NOT living together).
We both have very different hobbies- my husband likes to play his video games while I like to be out and about, although the catch here is that when I do things, I want to SHARE the experiences with him.
This is probably something that may be causing your GF some grief, as she wants you both to do things together (while that is not ALWAYS possible), it's probably her hope that in moving in together, this is how the majority of your time will be spent.
My husband suggested that I could take up a hobby that would get my interest (examples: baking, scrapbooking, pilates, knitting, video games of my own!!), something I could do in "down time"- so I took up random crafts I've been piling away on Pinterest and work on those when he wants to game for a couple hours. His suggestion was a good one because while I didn't have any real interests that sparked my fancy, I was assuming that marriage (or- a deeper relationship in your case), would fill this void...which of course, it didn't.
My husband has made an effort on his part to remind me that even though he likes to play his computer games, that I am still most important to him. He does this in ways like: every so often will get up just to come over and kiss me or he will take a couple seconds just to say something like, "Lovvvve you wifey!"
Although what he is doing is completely unnecessary, I can't help but smile on the inside to know that he is so thoughtful.
The most important thing to remember, is that when taking a serious step like moving in together, you do it with the knowledge that you must be mindful of one another's needs. Being on your computer for 10 hours straight may be an issue for her (as I know it would for me), if I was itching to spend some quality time with my SO.
The best suggestion I can give is to try setting boundaries.... example: "I'm going to spend some time on my computer this morning, but after lunchtime, it's all you and me baby!"
THEN, try to plan out something that is not TV watching- pull out a board game, go to the park, or window shop. Please note, I don't mean this EVERYTIME- just every now and again, say once every week or two...just to keep things fresh :) Anything to get you out of the usual mundane rut that can happen.
TL;DR- understand your GF may be hopeful that moving in together will mean doing everything together. Gently remind her that while you love her, you both should take time to follow your own individual interests/passions (hey- even doing "nothing" is warrented at the end of a long day!).
Best wishes OP!!
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | carewfv | This is an interesting topic that my husband and I had to sort out after we got married (prior to marriage, we were NOT living together).
We both have very different hobbies- my husband likes to play his video games while I like to be out and about, although the catch here is that when I do things, I want to SHARE the experiences with him.
This is probably something that may be causing your GF some grief, as she wants you both to do things together (while that is not ALWAYS possible), it's probably her hope that in moving in together, this is how the majority of your time will be spent.
My husband suggested that I could take up a hobby that would get my interest (examples: baking, scrapbooking, pilates, knitting, video games of my own!!), something I could do in "down time"- so I took up random crafts I've been piling away on Pinterest and work on those when he wants to game for a couple hours. His suggestion was a good one because while I didn't have any real interests that sparked my fancy, I was assuming that marriage (or- a deeper relationship in your case), would fill this void...which of course, it didn't.
My husband has made an effort on his part to remind me that even though he likes to play his computer games, that I am still most important to him. He does this in ways like: every so often will get up just to come over and kiss me or he will take a couple seconds just to say something like, "Lovvvve you wifey!"
Although what he is doing is completely unnecessary, I can't help but smile on the inside to know that he is so thoughtful.
The most important thing to remember, is that when taking a serious step like moving in together, you do it with the knowledge that you must be mindful of one another's needs. Being on your computer for 10 hours straight may be an issue for her (as I know it would for me), if I was itching to spend some quality time with my SO.
The best suggestion I can give is to try setting boundaries.... example: "I'm going to spend some time on my computer this morning, but after lunchtime, it's all you and me baby!"
THEN, try to plan out something that is not TV watching- pull out a board game, go to the park, or window shop. Please note, I don't mean this EVERYTIME- just every now and again, say once every week or two...just to keep things fresh :) Anything to get you out of the usual mundane rut that can happen. | understand your GF may be hopeful that moving in together will mean doing everything together. Gently remind her that while you love her, you both should take time to follow your own individual interests/passions (hey- even doing "nothing" is warrented at the end of a long day!).
Best wishes OP!! |
funkme1ster | Honestly, I'm in full agreement with you.
In my undergrad days, I followed student politics - partially because I was sincerely interested in having a say in things that directly affected my student life, and partially because it was better than reality TV because the stakes were rock bottom and people put more effort into it than you could imagine - and that was my biggest gripe.
We always had two "slates" (there were no parties perse, but a slate consisted of candidates for each position on the executive who had aligned themselves with each other): one which was comprised of the incumbents and friends of the incumbents, and one which had as its platform dislodging the incumbents. The former always won because they were more and more crooked over the years, and because it was really impossible to vote for someone based on the grounds of "we're not them" and nothing else.
It got to the point when I graduated that nobody even gave a shit about individual platforms or ideas or characters, it was "do I want the same people or people who don't like those people?" Campaign posters were rarely more than candidacy titles and slate branding.
For the records, student voter turnout was an abysmal ~10% on average.
**tl;dr** - I agree, fuck parties and tell me why you're the most qualified man for the job and not who your friends are. | Honestly, I'm in full agreement with you.
In my undergrad days, I followed student politics - partially because I was sincerely interested in having a say in things that directly affected my student life, and partially because it was better than reality TV because the stakes were rock bottom and people put more effort into it than you could imagine - and that was my biggest gripe.
We always had two "slates" (there were no parties perse, but a slate consisted of candidates for each position on the executive who had aligned themselves with each other): one which was comprised of the incumbents and friends of the incumbents, and one which had as its platform dislodging the incumbents. The former always won because they were more and more crooked over the years, and because it was really impossible to vote for someone based on the grounds of "we're not them" and nothing else.
It got to the point when I graduated that nobody even gave a shit about individual platforms or ideas or characters, it was "do I want the same people or people who don't like those people?" Campaign posters were rarely more than candidacy titles and slate branding.
For the records, student voter turnout was an abysmal ~10% on average.
tl;dr - I agree, fuck parties and tell me why you're the most qualified man for the job and not who your friends are.
| canada | t5_2qh68 | carrhuj | Honestly, I'm in full agreement with you.
In my undergrad days, I followed student politics - partially because I was sincerely interested in having a say in things that directly affected my student life, and partially because it was better than reality TV because the stakes were rock bottom and people put more effort into it than you could imagine - and that was my biggest gripe.
We always had two "slates" (there were no parties perse, but a slate consisted of candidates for each position on the executive who had aligned themselves with each other): one which was comprised of the incumbents and friends of the incumbents, and one which had as its platform dislodging the incumbents. The former always won because they were more and more crooked over the years, and because it was really impossible to vote for someone based on the grounds of "we're not them" and nothing else.
It got to the point when I graduated that nobody even gave a shit about individual platforms or ideas or characters, it was "do I want the same people or people who don't like those people?" Campaign posters were rarely more than candidacy titles and slate branding.
For the records, student voter turnout was an abysmal ~10% on average. | I agree, fuck parties and tell me why you're the most qualified man for the job and not who your friends are. |
red_raconteur | Bahhh, fun story time.
So, exactly a year ago, I took a trip to London. It was glorious and many fun times were had.
Anyway, I'd gotten a ton of money in pounds at Bank of America before leaving on the trip. They said I could go to any Barclays and use my BofA card there due to a partnership they had, but it was easier to just carry the money on me (don't worry, I kept it safe).
It's my second to last day in London and I've run out of the money I'd withdrawn, but I still need to eat. The bill comes at the end of lunch and I pull out my BofA card in the hopes that they'll take it.
The poor waitress had to explain that the pub did not have any way to accept magnetic strip cards and that I needed to pay with cash. Thankfully they took my boyfriend as collateral while I ventured off to find a Barclays ATM.
TLDR-- America is dumb and we need chip and pin cards
Oh, but Costa Coffee accepted my BofA card. I <3 you Costa. | Bahhh, fun story time.
So, exactly a year ago, I took a trip to London. It was glorious and many fun times were had.
Anyway, I'd gotten a ton of money in pounds at Bank of America before leaving on the trip. They said I could go to any Barclays and use my BofA card there due to a partnership they had, but it was easier to just carry the money on me (don't worry, I kept it safe).
It's my second to last day in London and I've run out of the money I'd withdrawn, but I still need to eat. The bill comes at the end of lunch and I pull out my BofA card in the hopes that they'll take it.
The poor waitress had to explain that the pub did not have any way to accept magnetic strip cards and that I needed to pay with cash. Thankfully they took my boyfriend as collateral while I ventured off to find a Barclays ATM.
TLDR-- America is dumb and we need chip and pin cards
Oh, but Costa Coffee accepted my BofA card. I <3 you Costa.
| TalesFromRetail | t5_2t2zt | cary8iq | Bahhh, fun story time.
So, exactly a year ago, I took a trip to London. It was glorious and many fun times were had.
Anyway, I'd gotten a ton of money in pounds at Bank of America before leaving on the trip. They said I could go to any Barclays and use my BofA card there due to a partnership they had, but it was easier to just carry the money on me (don't worry, I kept it safe).
It's my second to last day in London and I've run out of the money I'd withdrawn, but I still need to eat. The bill comes at the end of lunch and I pull out my BofA card in the hopes that they'll take it.
The poor waitress had to explain that the pub did not have any way to accept magnetic strip cards and that I needed to pay with cash. Thankfully they took my boyfriend as collateral while I ventured off to find a Barclays ATM. | America is dumb and we need chip and pin cards
Oh, but Costa Coffee accepted my BofA card. I <3 you Costa. |
monkite | I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to say - I've done my fair share of tripping and have always regarded it with the same level of scepticism that I use to regard everything else. When I say "distortions", all I mean is that they're deviations from what you normally perceive. It doesn't necessarily have to mean that they're an adulterated version of what is "real" or "normal", although it definitely could if you like to think you know the definition of reality. For my own part, I have no idea if this is the real world or if the world I see when I'm tripping is more real, although I love to speculate on the subject... for example, the notion that the world we normally see is a carefully constructed collage that we've created to make sense of the world, and that the world of unimaginably complex fractal patterns and seemingly molecular-scale matrixes that you see whilst tripping is actually the true nature of the world deconstructed in your head by the drug, is an idea that I absolutely love! However, as there is no real scientific research to point to and as the only real evidence in favor of that hypothesis is a collection of trip experience reports (my own included) and minor psychoanalysis studies, I feel I have to regard it with little credence. Because of this, having any other "agenda" than to convey what I know to be relevant and true would be to incorporate my own beliefs and feelings about the subject, which I don't see as being very useful or relevant to the question that OP posed.
All that being said, there are few things I enjoy more than to take a good dose of LSD, mushrooms or DMT and enjoy the beautiful, complex, intricate world that I'm presented with. It's also interesting to note how psychedelics can help some people gain a more profound understanding of such topics as arts, science, history, psychology and many more. Some of the most profound ideas on which I now base my personal philosophies have been attained through an altered state of consciousness brought on by psychedelics. It's got to be one of the best things a human being can experience in a lifetime.
Tl;dr there is much more to hallucinating than can be explained in simple terms, but I didn't feel they were necessary details in regards to OP's question. | I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to say - I've done my fair share of tripping and have always regarded it with the same level of scepticism that I use to regard everything else. When I say "distortions", all I mean is that they're deviations from what you normally perceive. It doesn't necessarily have to mean that they're an adulterated version of what is "real" or "normal", although it definitely could if you like to think you know the definition of reality. For my own part, I have no idea if this is the real world or if the world I see when I'm tripping is more real, although I love to speculate on the subject... for example, the notion that the world we normally see is a carefully constructed collage that we've created to make sense of the world, and that the world of unimaginably complex fractal patterns and seemingly molecular-scale matrixes that you see whilst tripping is actually the true nature of the world deconstructed in your head by the drug, is an idea that I absolutely love! However, as there is no real scientific research to point to and as the only real evidence in favor of that hypothesis is a collection of trip experience reports (my own included) and minor psychoanalysis studies, I feel I have to regard it with little credence. Because of this, having any other "agenda" than to convey what I know to be relevant and true would be to incorporate my own beliefs and feelings about the subject, which I don't see as being very useful or relevant to the question that OP posed.
All that being said, there are few things I enjoy more than to take a good dose of LSD, mushrooms or DMT and enjoy the beautiful, complex, intricate world that I'm presented with. It's also interesting to note how psychedelics can help some people gain a more profound understanding of such topics as arts, science, history, psychology and many more. Some of the most profound ideas on which I now base my personal philosophies have been attained through an altered state of consciousness brought on by psychedelics. It's got to be one of the best things a human being can experience in a lifetime.
Tl;dr there is much more to hallucinating than can be explained in simple terms, but I didn't feel they were necessary details in regards to OP's question.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | cat4wf1 | I think you misunderstand what I'm trying to say - I've done my fair share of tripping and have always regarded it with the same level of scepticism that I use to regard everything else. When I say "distortions", all I mean is that they're deviations from what you normally perceive. It doesn't necessarily have to mean that they're an adulterated version of what is "real" or "normal", although it definitely could if you like to think you know the definition of reality. For my own part, I have no idea if this is the real world or if the world I see when I'm tripping is more real, although I love to speculate on the subject... for example, the notion that the world we normally see is a carefully constructed collage that we've created to make sense of the world, and that the world of unimaginably complex fractal patterns and seemingly molecular-scale matrixes that you see whilst tripping is actually the true nature of the world deconstructed in your head by the drug, is an idea that I absolutely love! However, as there is no real scientific research to point to and as the only real evidence in favor of that hypothesis is a collection of trip experience reports (my own included) and minor psychoanalysis studies, I feel I have to regard it with little credence. Because of this, having any other "agenda" than to convey what I know to be relevant and true would be to incorporate my own beliefs and feelings about the subject, which I don't see as being very useful or relevant to the question that OP posed.
All that being said, there are few things I enjoy more than to take a good dose of LSD, mushrooms or DMT and enjoy the beautiful, complex, intricate world that I'm presented with. It's also interesting to note how psychedelics can help some people gain a more profound understanding of such topics as arts, science, history, psychology and many more. Some of the most profound ideas on which I now base my personal philosophies have been attained through an altered state of consciousness brought on by psychedelics. It's got to be one of the best things a human being can experience in a lifetime. | there is much more to hallucinating than can be explained in simple terms, but I didn't feel they were necessary details in regards to OP's question. |
taalmahret | It widely began back in the day with ... the [BBS]( Ya. Iniquity was my board of choice for years....now...I stick to [Synchronet](
And then not to be outdone by the retiring titans of the 80's we finally discovered [IRC]( I spent years surfing the DCC chats and developer channels to dig at the more difficult code methods and newer languages of programming...but i digress... onward to emule.
[eMule]( was a very fleeting platform for filesharing that only stayed widely popular for mainstream file distribution between around 2002 and 2005, yet, the platform itself is now open source software and has been rebranded and repurposed many times.
Generally the assumption could be made that the younger generation adopted other more readily point and click platforms for file sharing such as TPB and other torrent related technologies and sites.
TL;DR Dude, I was joking. Love and Peace, enjoy your day. | It widely began back in the day with ... the [BBS]( Ya. Iniquity was my board of choice for years....now...I stick to [Synchronet](
And then not to be outdone by the retiring titans of the 80's we finally discovered [IRC]( I spent years surfing the DCC chats and developer channels to dig at the more difficult code methods and newer languages of programming...but i digress... onward to emule.
[eMule]( was a very fleeting platform for filesharing that only stayed widely popular for mainstream file distribution between around 2002 and 2005, yet, the platform itself is now open source software and has been rebranded and repurposed many times.
Generally the assumption could be made that the younger generation adopted other more readily point and click platforms for file sharing such as TPB and other torrent related technologies and sites.
TL;DR Dude, I was joking. Love and Peace, enjoy your day.
| Minecraft | t5_2r05i | casb39j | It widely began back in the day with ... the [BBS]( Ya. Iniquity was my board of choice for years....now...I stick to [Synchronet](
And then not to be outdone by the retiring titans of the 80's we finally discovered [IRC]( I spent years surfing the DCC chats and developer channels to dig at the more difficult code methods and newer languages of programming...but i digress... onward to emule.
[eMule]( was a very fleeting platform for filesharing that only stayed widely popular for mainstream file distribution between around 2002 and 2005, yet, the platform itself is now open source software and has been rebranded and repurposed many times.
Generally the assumption could be made that the younger generation adopted other more readily point and click platforms for file sharing such as TPB and other torrent related technologies and sites. | Dude, I was joking. Love and Peace, enjoy your day. |
delirium_triggens | I was in the same place you are two years ago. I work in insurance, and thought I wanted to give it up to be a chef. Got a job in a restaurant/brewpub starting out doing prep and line. Did this for about 8 months while still working my white collar job. I busted my ass with a bunch of mexican dudes for 8 bucks an hour, basically working 80 hour weeks between the two jobs.
At the end of the day, I realized that I really liked working in the kitchen, but it's hard work and I wasn't ready to give up my life (both financial stability i was used to and social life(or lack thereof)). Basically, I quit the restaurant and went back to work having proved to myself that I could "hack it" in a large kitchen. We did about 400 covers a night, and I worked my way up from prep to grill/pizza/garde mangier.
TL;DR If you like having a social life, going out at normal people hours, and having money, don't be a chef! | I was in the same place you are two years ago. I work in insurance, and thought I wanted to give it up to be a chef. Got a job in a restaurant/brewpub starting out doing prep and line. Did this for about 8 months while still working my white collar job. I busted my ass with a bunch of mexican dudes for 8 bucks an hour, basically working 80 hour weeks between the two jobs.
At the end of the day, I realized that I really liked working in the kitchen, but it's hard work and I wasn't ready to give up my life (both financial stability i was used to and social life(or lack thereof)). Basically, I quit the restaurant and went back to work having proved to myself that I could "hack it" in a large kitchen. We did about 400 covers a night, and I worked my way up from prep to grill/pizza/garde mangier.
TL;DR If you like having a social life, going out at normal people hours, and having money, don't be a chef!
| Cooking | t5_2qh7f | cas3dwo | I was in the same place you are two years ago. I work in insurance, and thought I wanted to give it up to be a chef. Got a job in a restaurant/brewpub starting out doing prep and line. Did this for about 8 months while still working my white collar job. I busted my ass with a bunch of mexican dudes for 8 bucks an hour, basically working 80 hour weeks between the two jobs.
At the end of the day, I realized that I really liked working in the kitchen, but it's hard work and I wasn't ready to give up my life (both financial stability i was used to and social life(or lack thereof)). Basically, I quit the restaurant and went back to work having proved to myself that I could "hack it" in a large kitchen. We did about 400 covers a night, and I worked my way up from prep to grill/pizza/garde mangier. | If you like having a social life, going out at normal people hours, and having money, don't be a chef! |
Gustyarse | I worked in the industry for about 15 years, both front of house and in the kitchen.
I don't wish to be mean, but I feel you have a romantic vision of what working in catering really means.
Your best bet might be to take a p/t waitressing job in a decent restaurant and simply observe the kitchen for a bit.
I think you'll be in for a shock.
Most kitchens are full of alcoholics and addicts and of course, illegal immigrants. I've seen attempted murder, and plenty of smaller, violent incidents. They work up to 80 hours a week for a 40 hour paycheck.
You will be extremely lucky in your first decade to make a quarter of what you do now. You will work every special occasion, so no more Valentine's nights, or New Years and possibly if you're unlucky, no more Christmas days with family. The only nights off you'll get are Sundays, Mondays and maybe Tuesdays. You will never get a weekend night off.
Your typical working day will start about 10am and finish about 11pm, so basically for 6 days a week you do nothing but work and then drink/sleep. Your one day off is generally spent being exhausted and trying to get your laundry done and other basic stuff you don't get the chance to do during the week.
Being a chef is a way of life, not just a job. Most chefs do it because they don't know anything else. Very, very few ever make the sort of money you're making now. Those who do tend to have very thick skin and the capacity to dominate others - a kitchen is an incredibly macho, chauvinistic place.
TL,DR: get a part-time job as a waitress in a decent restaurant, observe the kitchen. Then be incredibly glad you've an education and a well-paid job. | I worked in the industry for about 15 years, both front of house and in the kitchen.
I don't wish to be mean, but I feel you have a romantic vision of what working in catering really means.
Your best bet might be to take a p/t waitressing job in a decent restaurant and simply observe the kitchen for a bit.
I think you'll be in for a shock.
Most kitchens are full of alcoholics and addicts and of course, illegal immigrants. I've seen attempted murder, and plenty of smaller, violent incidents. They work up to 80 hours a week for a 40 hour paycheck.
You will be extremely lucky in your first decade to make a quarter of what you do now. You will work every special occasion, so no more Valentine's nights, or New Years and possibly if you're unlucky, no more Christmas days with family. The only nights off you'll get are Sundays, Mondays and maybe Tuesdays. You will never get a weekend night off.
Your typical working day will start about 10am and finish about 11pm, so basically for 6 days a week you do nothing but work and then drink/sleep. Your one day off is generally spent being exhausted and trying to get your laundry done and other basic stuff you don't get the chance to do during the week.
Being a chef is a way of life, not just a job. Most chefs do it because they don't know anything else. Very, very few ever make the sort of money you're making now. Those who do tend to have very thick skin and the capacity to dominate others - a kitchen is an incredibly macho, chauvinistic place.
TL,DR: get a part-time job as a waitress in a decent restaurant, observe the kitchen. Then be incredibly glad you've an education and a well-paid job.
| Cooking | t5_2qh7f | cas7acy | I worked in the industry for about 15 years, both front of house and in the kitchen.
I don't wish to be mean, but I feel you have a romantic vision of what working in catering really means.
Your best bet might be to take a p/t waitressing job in a decent restaurant and simply observe the kitchen for a bit.
I think you'll be in for a shock.
Most kitchens are full of alcoholics and addicts and of course, illegal immigrants. I've seen attempted murder, and plenty of smaller, violent incidents. They work up to 80 hours a week for a 40 hour paycheck.
You will be extremely lucky in your first decade to make a quarter of what you do now. You will work every special occasion, so no more Valentine's nights, or New Years and possibly if you're unlucky, no more Christmas days with family. The only nights off you'll get are Sundays, Mondays and maybe Tuesdays. You will never get a weekend night off.
Your typical working day will start about 10am and finish about 11pm, so basically for 6 days a week you do nothing but work and then drink/sleep. Your one day off is generally spent being exhausted and trying to get your laundry done and other basic stuff you don't get the chance to do during the week.
Being a chef is a way of life, not just a job. Most chefs do it because they don't know anything else. Very, very few ever make the sort of money you're making now. Those who do tend to have very thick skin and the capacity to dominate others - a kitchen is an incredibly macho, chauvinistic place. | get a part-time job as a waitress in a decent restaurant, observe the kitchen. Then be incredibly glad you've an education and a well-paid job. |
faortiz | Do you enjoy using your DS but want money for the Wii U? Or maybe even a 3DS in the future?
I was in the same situation last year. I have a DSi and when the Wii U was about to launch I traded in my old Wii and lot of other games for different systems just to get the Wii U. I contemplated trading the DSi but decided to wait until I wanted a 3DS because I would rather have a Wii U and a DSi than just the Wii U. Fast forward a couple of months and here I am with a Wii U and I've already purchased my 3DS XL after selling my DSi. No reason to have it as well as a 3DS.
**TL;DR:** If you want a Wii U and possibly a 3DS, I would only sell or trade the DS for the 3DS. If you don't want a 3DS then by all means sell it for money on the Wii U *(though you won't get much)*. | Do you enjoy using your DS but want money for the Wii U? Or maybe even a 3DS in the future?
I was in the same situation last year. I have a DSi and when the Wii U was about to launch I traded in my old Wii and lot of other games for different systems just to get the Wii U. I contemplated trading the DSi but decided to wait until I wanted a 3DS because I would rather have a Wii U and a DSi than just the Wii U. Fast forward a couple of months and here I am with a Wii U and I've already purchased my 3DS XL after selling my DSi. No reason to have it as well as a 3DS.
TL;DR: If you want a Wii U and possibly a 3DS, I would only sell or trade the DS for the 3DS. If you don't want a 3DS then by all means sell it for money on the Wii U (though you won't get much) .
| wiiu | t5_2sjnz | cas8dlu | Do you enjoy using your DS but want money for the Wii U? Or maybe even a 3DS in the future?
I was in the same situation last year. I have a DSi and when the Wii U was about to launch I traded in my old Wii and lot of other games for different systems just to get the Wii U. I contemplated trading the DSi but decided to wait until I wanted a 3DS because I would rather have a Wii U and a DSi than just the Wii U. Fast forward a couple of months and here I am with a Wii U and I've already purchased my 3DS XL after selling my DSi. No reason to have it as well as a 3DS. | If you want a Wii U and possibly a 3DS, I would only sell or trade the DS for the 3DS. If you don't want a 3DS then by all means sell it for money on the Wii U (though you won't get much) . |
Chloeinthepm | 1)No he can't. If he plays lights out and gets a max contract every re-up, he will still be out exactly that much money (plus what he lost by being forced to play for free last year), which is a lot. This is a y-intercept issue no matter what and potentially a slope issue if he is not renegotiating at max levels.
2)Just because he makes a lot doesn't mean that he can be fucked out of salary. It's easy to say that because he makes a lot that he will be fine, but keep in mind that he only gets about 15 years (tops) to earn money for his entire life. He can work another job, sure, but these are his peak earning years. If he makes $100 million over his career and another 3 million for 30 more years of work until retirement age (100k * 30), he only averages a salary of 2 million a year (pre-tax), which is a lot, but not exactly the hyper-wealthy image we make NBA players out to have. Keep in mind that this is also taxed unfairly because so much of it is earned over so few years and therefore taxed at the highest bracket.
3) Fans and normal people aren't getting the money that he lost, billionaire owners are. So basically we are acting like this poor kid from a shitty part of Boston shouldn't be pissed that he is handing over a literal ton of money (that he will rightfully earn by selling tickets) to even wealthier people who chose to buy a vanity asset (which they still expect to make profit from). These are the same people who demand millions of dollars from municipalities for stadium improvements that never help an economy as promised and mostly serve to increase franchise values.
Tl;dr: this probably won't cause Noel to starve but he has every right to be pissed about the shitty system that he is forced to participate in.
P.S. Don't get me started on FIBA/NBA's plans to re-amatuerize the olympics and create a world cup of basketball. | 1)No he can't. If he plays lights out and gets a max contract every re-up, he will still be out exactly that much money (plus what he lost by being forced to play for free last year), which is a lot. This is a y-intercept issue no matter what and potentially a slope issue if he is not renegotiating at max levels.
2)Just because he makes a lot doesn't mean that he can be fucked out of salary. It's easy to say that because he makes a lot that he will be fine, but keep in mind that he only gets about 15 years (tops) to earn money for his entire life. He can work another job, sure, but these are his peak earning years. If he makes $100 million over his career and another 3 million for 30 more years of work until retirement age (100k * 30), he only averages a salary of 2 million a year (pre-tax), which is a lot, but not exactly the hyper-wealthy image we make NBA players out to have. Keep in mind that this is also taxed unfairly because so much of it is earned over so few years and therefore taxed at the highest bracket.
3) Fans and normal people aren't getting the money that he lost, billionaire owners are. So basically we are acting like this poor kid from a shitty part of Boston shouldn't be pissed that he is handing over a literal ton of money (that he will rightfully earn by selling tickets) to even wealthier people who chose to buy a vanity asset (which they still expect to make profit from). These are the same people who demand millions of dollars from municipalities for stadium improvements that never help an economy as promised and mostly serve to increase franchise values.
Tl;dr: this probably won't cause Noel to starve but he has every right to be pissed about the shitty system that he is forced to participate in.
P.S. Don't get me started on FIBA/NBA's plans to re-amatuerize the olympics and create a world cup of basketball.
| nba | t5_2qo4s | casc35q | 1)No he can't. If he plays lights out and gets a max contract every re-up, he will still be out exactly that much money (plus what he lost by being forced to play for free last year), which is a lot. This is a y-intercept issue no matter what and potentially a slope issue if he is not renegotiating at max levels.
2)Just because he makes a lot doesn't mean that he can be fucked out of salary. It's easy to say that because he makes a lot that he will be fine, but keep in mind that he only gets about 15 years (tops) to earn money for his entire life. He can work another job, sure, but these are his peak earning years. If he makes $100 million over his career and another 3 million for 30 more years of work until retirement age (100k * 30), he only averages a salary of 2 million a year (pre-tax), which is a lot, but not exactly the hyper-wealthy image we make NBA players out to have. Keep in mind that this is also taxed unfairly because so much of it is earned over so few years and therefore taxed at the highest bracket.
3) Fans and normal people aren't getting the money that he lost, billionaire owners are. So basically we are acting like this poor kid from a shitty part of Boston shouldn't be pissed that he is handing over a literal ton of money (that he will rightfully earn by selling tickets) to even wealthier people who chose to buy a vanity asset (which they still expect to make profit from). These are the same people who demand millions of dollars from municipalities for stadium improvements that never help an economy as promised and mostly serve to increase franchise values. | this probably won't cause Noel to starve but he has every right to be pissed about the shitty system that he is forced to participate in.
P.S. Don't get me started on FIBA/NBA's plans to re-amatuerize the olympics and create a world cup of basketball. |
TK421isAFK | That's not entirely true. Only wood sold recently, and directly through consumer-based stores like Home Depot and Lowes, sell non-arsenic preserved wood. Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) treated lumber can still be purchased at lumber yards. They are exempt because they primarily sell to contractors who are supposed to know where CCA lumber can and can not be used, according to EPA rules set forth in 2004.
Identifying non-CCA lumber is fairly easy; it "shall be brown in color so as to distinguish it from current or previous manufacturing and preservation methods", according to the same rule. If you've been to Home Depot in the last few years, you've seen the dark-brown pressure-treated wood. It's usually marked "CA-C"
The dark brown lumber is treated with copper ethanolamine, and a small amount of formaldehyde. You decide if you want to eat it, but I can at least give you this:
The copper is not bound as strongly in CA-C lumber as it is with CCA, especially in the presence of acidic soil. This means not only does the copper dissociate into cupric oxides, it also leaves ethanolamine to leach into the soil. Here's some fun reading about it:
My concern is that the wood the OP used does not appear to be dark brown. Perhaps it once was, but if so, that just further demonstrates that the preservative is decomposing.
I'm sure the guy at Home Depot told him it was safe. I mean, what do I know? My degree in chemical engineering pales in comparison to the 10-minute pep talk the guy at Home Depot got from a lumber company rep.
**Conclusion? Use redwood. The cost is the same as pressure-treated wood, and it's grown right here in the US. It's sustainable, supports jobs here in the US.**
**tl;dr** - OP has really pretty sunflowers, and my 7-year old daughter loved seeing his pic. She's inspired to grow her own. | That's not entirely true. Only wood sold recently, and directly through consumer-based stores like Home Depot and Lowes, sell non-arsenic preserved wood. Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) treated lumber can still be purchased at lumber yards. They are exempt because they primarily sell to contractors who are supposed to know where CCA lumber can and can not be used, according to EPA rules set forth in 2004.
Identifying non-CCA lumber is fairly easy; it "shall be brown in color so as to distinguish it from current or previous manufacturing and preservation methods", according to the same rule. If you've been to Home Depot in the last few years, you've seen the dark-brown pressure-treated wood. It's usually marked "CA-C"
The dark brown lumber is treated with copper ethanolamine, and a small amount of formaldehyde. You decide if you want to eat it, but I can at least give you this:
The copper is not bound as strongly in CA-C lumber as it is with CCA, especially in the presence of acidic soil. This means not only does the copper dissociate into cupric oxides, it also leaves ethanolamine to leach into the soil. Here's some fun reading about it:
My concern is that the wood the OP used does not appear to be dark brown. Perhaps it once was, but if so, that just further demonstrates that the preservative is decomposing.
I'm sure the guy at Home Depot told him it was safe. I mean, what do I know? My degree in chemical engineering pales in comparison to the 10-minute pep talk the guy at Home Depot got from a lumber company rep.
Conclusion? Use redwood. The cost is the same as pressure-treated wood, and it's grown right here in the US. It's sustainable, supports jobs here in the US.
tl;dr - OP has really pretty sunflowers, and my 7-year old daughter loved seeing his pic. She's inspired to grow her own.
| gardening | t5_2qhkh | casn75q | That's not entirely true. Only wood sold recently, and directly through consumer-based stores like Home Depot and Lowes, sell non-arsenic preserved wood. Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) treated lumber can still be purchased at lumber yards. They are exempt because they primarily sell to contractors who are supposed to know where CCA lumber can and can not be used, according to EPA rules set forth in 2004.
Identifying non-CCA lumber is fairly easy; it "shall be brown in color so as to distinguish it from current or previous manufacturing and preservation methods", according to the same rule. If you've been to Home Depot in the last few years, you've seen the dark-brown pressure-treated wood. It's usually marked "CA-C"
The dark brown lumber is treated with copper ethanolamine, and a small amount of formaldehyde. You decide if you want to eat it, but I can at least give you this:
The copper is not bound as strongly in CA-C lumber as it is with CCA, especially in the presence of acidic soil. This means not only does the copper dissociate into cupric oxides, it also leaves ethanolamine to leach into the soil. Here's some fun reading about it:
My concern is that the wood the OP used does not appear to be dark brown. Perhaps it once was, but if so, that just further demonstrates that the preservative is decomposing.
I'm sure the guy at Home Depot told him it was safe. I mean, what do I know? My degree in chemical engineering pales in comparison to the 10-minute pep talk the guy at Home Depot got from a lumber company rep.
Conclusion? Use redwood. The cost is the same as pressure-treated wood, and it's grown right here in the US. It's sustainable, supports jobs here in the US. | OP has really pretty sunflowers, and my 7-year old daughter loved seeing his pic. She's inspired to grow her own. |
A_sexy_black_man | You haven't met in person. If there's on thing I know it's anything said through text or over the phone doesn't take balls.. If you think he would expect sex the first time you guys meet you could be right. If you think he's gonna make a move for it the first time you're probably wrong.
TL;DR Chillax | You haven't met in person. If there's on thing I know it's anything said through text or over the phone doesn't take balls.. If you think he would expect sex the first time you guys meet you could be right. If you think he's gonna make a move for it the first time you're probably wrong.
TL;DR Chillax
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | casikwi | You haven't met in person. If there's on thing I know it's anything said through text or over the phone doesn't take balls.. If you think he would expect sex the first time you guys meet you could be right. If you think he's gonna make a move for it the first time you're probably wrong. | Chillax |
tgdm | do you have access to a server or something? setting up something like [this thing for gw2]( is pretty lightweight and does a lot of good.
the problem with with making a LFG subreddit is that you're going to have a lot of super old posts whereas people tend to want instantaneous grouping. I can't provided statistics, but I'm fairly certain most people give up on looking for a group after 5-10 minutes. Writing a bot could help you delete all the older posts to keep it fresh.
tl;dr: If you want to make a LFG subreddit, you need a good bot more than you need moderators | do you have access to a server or something? setting up something like [this thing for gw2]( is pretty lightweight and does a lot of good.
the problem with with making a LFG subreddit is that you're going to have a lot of super old posts whereas people tend to want instantaneous grouping. I can't provided statistics, but I'm fairly certain most people give up on looking for a group after 5-10 minutes. Writing a bot could help you delete all the older posts to keep it fresh.
tl;dr: If you want to make a LFG subreddit, you need a good bot more than you need moderators
| CubeWorld | t5_2t4bs | casrq6s | do you have access to a server or something? setting up something like [this thing for gw2]( is pretty lightweight and does a lot of good.
the problem with with making a LFG subreddit is that you're going to have a lot of super old posts whereas people tend to want instantaneous grouping. I can't provided statistics, but I'm fairly certain most people give up on looking for a group after 5-10 minutes. Writing a bot could help you delete all the older posts to keep it fresh. | If you want to make a LFG subreddit, you need a good bot more than you need moderators |
M1s4n7hr0p3 | I feel like there is a mindset involved as well. I love powerfucking my girlfriend (she loves it too). When I orgasm its good (I'm on top of the world!), hers is great(Yeah, I did good! Who's the man and has two thumbs? *THIS GUY*!). If the tables were turned and she was giving me a blowjob I tend to have a much more powerful (and even sometimes full-body) orgasm with the drunken effect you described. I think its the difference between being focused on giving vice being primed to receive. When I'm actively focused on pleasing her, my arousal is less my priority and more a consequence of action. When she goes down on me I am free of any responsibility to perform and am more keenly aware of the ebb and flow of my arousal level and just *how fucking amazing this feels*. Plus, she likes to play they long game down there so I just hold back til I can't possibly any more, at which point the release is near blackout level, which I never come close to with PIV.
TL;DR Three-Six Mafia said it best: I love having sex, but I'd rather get some head. | I feel like there is a mindset involved as well. I love powerfucking my girlfriend (she loves it too). When I orgasm its good (I'm on top of the world!), hers is great(Yeah, I did good! Who's the man and has two thumbs? THIS GUY !). If the tables were turned and she was giving me a blowjob I tend to have a much more powerful (and even sometimes full-body) orgasm with the drunken effect you described. I think its the difference between being focused on giving vice being primed to receive. When I'm actively focused on pleasing her, my arousal is less my priority and more a consequence of action. When she goes down on me I am free of any responsibility to perform and am more keenly aware of the ebb and flow of my arousal level and just how fucking amazing this feels . Plus, she likes to play they long game down there so I just hold back til I can't possibly any more, at which point the release is near blackout level, which I never come close to with PIV.
TL;DR Three-Six Mafia said it best: I love having sex, but I'd rather get some head.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cat64yr | I feel like there is a mindset involved as well. I love powerfucking my girlfriend (she loves it too). When I orgasm its good (I'm on top of the world!), hers is great(Yeah, I did good! Who's the man and has two thumbs? THIS GUY !). If the tables were turned and she was giving me a blowjob I tend to have a much more powerful (and even sometimes full-body) orgasm with the drunken effect you described. I think its the difference between being focused on giving vice being primed to receive. When I'm actively focused on pleasing her, my arousal is less my priority and more a consequence of action. When she goes down on me I am free of any responsibility to perform and am more keenly aware of the ebb and flow of my arousal level and just how fucking amazing this feels . Plus, she likes to play they long game down there so I just hold back til I can't possibly any more, at which point the release is near blackout level, which I never come close to with PIV. | Three-Six Mafia said it best: I love having sex, but I'd rather get some head. |
onesie_warrior | I see this one fine lady who lives in another city from me every now and then. For whatever reason (I have several theories in development at this time), sex with her always results in mind blowing orgasms that make sex with other people pale in comparison.
TLDR; if you generalize about how other people experience a complex sensation/behavior/activity you're going to have a bad time. | I see this one fine lady who lives in another city from me every now and then. For whatever reason (I have several theories in development at this time), sex with her always results in mind blowing orgasms that make sex with other people pale in comparison.
TLDR; if you generalize about how other people experience a complex sensation/behavior/activity you're going to have a bad time.
| AskMen | t5_2s30g | cat79cn | I see this one fine lady who lives in another city from me every now and then. For whatever reason (I have several theories in development at this time), sex with her always results in mind blowing orgasms that make sex with other people pale in comparison. | if you generalize about how other people experience a complex sensation/behavior/activity you're going to have a bad time. |
SuperHoosier | I dont doubt that if AI had a better attitude, rather than having a chip on his shoulder, he would have reached great things and probably remained one of the greatest PG of all time with multiple rings.
Having said that, since Dwade is more of a "big boy" id rather have him than the unstable AI...
TLDR: AI had a much higher ceiling, but never reached it because of his bad atitude | I dont doubt that if AI had a better attitude, rather than having a chip on his shoulder, he would have reached great things and probably remained one of the greatest PG of all time with multiple rings.
Having said that, since Dwade is more of a "big boy" id rather have him than the unstable AI...
TLDR: AI had a much higher ceiling, but never reached it because of his bad atitude
| nba | t5_2qo4s | catchw8 | I dont doubt that if AI had a better attitude, rather than having a chip on his shoulder, he would have reached great things and probably remained one of the greatest PG of all time with multiple rings.
Having said that, since Dwade is more of a "big boy" id rather have him than the unstable AI... | AI had a much higher ceiling, but never reached it because of his bad atitude |
Doctor_Beard | I guess that means her body is disconnected...
EDIT: for those who don't know what I'm talking about, connectedness is a topological property; let's view OP's body as a set, which we'll call B. The set of OP's eyes, E, is a proper subset of B. Recall that a set is connected iff it has no nonempty proper clopen subsets. Since E is clopen and E is a proper subset of B, B is disconnected. **TL;DR** math joke. | I guess that means her body is disconnected...
EDIT: for those who don't know what I'm talking about, connectedness is a topological property; let's view OP's body as a set, which we'll call B. The set of OP's eyes, E, is a proper subset of B. Recall that a set is connected iff it has no nonempty proper clopen subsets. Since E is clopen and E is a proper subset of B, B is disconnected. TL;DR math joke.
| mildlyinteresting | t5_2ti4h | cat5c1k | I guess that means her body is disconnected...
EDIT: for those who don't know what I'm talking about, connectedness is a topological property; let's view OP's body as a set, which we'll call B. The set of OP's eyes, E, is a proper subset of B. Recall that a set is connected iff it has no nonempty proper clopen subsets. Since E is clopen and E is a proper subset of B, B is disconnected. | math joke. |
Thisismyredditusern | I think the advice already given is good. I would only add a couple points to consider. I think buying a pair of black shoes would be a good idea. They are fairly versatile. Also, at places you know for a fact don't care (Facebook, etc.) wear what you feel comfortable in as long as you don't look sloppy.
If you are interviewing at old, established, stodgy places (IBM, Lockheed), wear the suit with a tie. It may be the only time you ever need to wear it with that company. But it won't make you look foolish and removes any possibility of the "who is this guy and what was he thinking?" that might happen if you look like you aren't taking the interview seriously.
[edit: I should add that I am not an engineer and it has been sometime since I was personally involved in interviewing for entry level position. I have worked at some heavily engineering intensive businesses, though, and have both managed the hiring function generally and personally interviewed and hired many different people.
What you wear will never get you the job and will very rarely be the deciding factor in your not getting the job. What you want to do is remove as many obstacles as possible from what will land you an offer. If they really have any take away on what you were wearing, rather than whether you were a good fit for the position, your clothes were too distracting. Some few places might hold a suit against you as indicating you are too conservative. Most places though will cut you slack for being overdressed but not necessarily for being underdressed.
Tl:dr - generally better to overdress than underdress, but best is for outift to not make huge impression either way.] | I think the advice already given is good. I would only add a couple points to consider. I think buying a pair of black shoes would be a good idea. They are fairly versatile. Also, at places you know for a fact don't care (Facebook, etc.) wear what you feel comfortable in as long as you don't look sloppy.
If you are interviewing at old, established, stodgy places (IBM, Lockheed), wear the suit with a tie. It may be the only time you ever need to wear it with that company. But it won't make you look foolish and removes any possibility of the "who is this guy and what was he thinking?" that might happen if you look like you aren't taking the interview seriously.
[edit: I should add that I am not an engineer and it has been sometime since I was personally involved in interviewing for entry level position. I have worked at some heavily engineering intensive businesses, though, and have both managed the hiring function generally and personally interviewed and hired many different people.
What you wear will never get you the job and will very rarely be the deciding factor in your not getting the job. What you want to do is remove as many obstacles as possible from what will land you an offer. If they really have any take away on what you were wearing, rather than whether you were a good fit for the position, your clothes were too distracting. Some few places might hold a suit against you as indicating you are too conservative. Most places though will cut you slack for being overdressed but not necessarily for being underdressed.
Tl:dr - generally better to overdress than underdress, but best is for outift to not make huge impression either way.]
| malefashionadvice | t5_2r65t | catfl7q | I think the advice already given is good. I would only add a couple points to consider. I think buying a pair of black shoes would be a good idea. They are fairly versatile. Also, at places you know for a fact don't care (Facebook, etc.) wear what you feel comfortable in as long as you don't look sloppy.
If you are interviewing at old, established, stodgy places (IBM, Lockheed), wear the suit with a tie. It may be the only time you ever need to wear it with that company. But it won't make you look foolish and removes any possibility of the "who is this guy and what was he thinking?" that might happen if you look like you aren't taking the interview seriously.
[edit: I should add that I am not an engineer and it has been sometime since I was personally involved in interviewing for entry level position. I have worked at some heavily engineering intensive businesses, though, and have both managed the hiring function generally and personally interviewed and hired many different people.
What you wear will never get you the job and will very rarely be the deciding factor in your not getting the job. What you want to do is remove as many obstacles as possible from what will land you an offer. If they really have any take away on what you were wearing, rather than whether you were a good fit for the position, your clothes were too distracting. Some few places might hold a suit against you as indicating you are too conservative. Most places though will cut you slack for being overdressed but not necessarily for being underdressed. | generally better to overdress than underdress, but best is for outift to not make huge impression either way.] |
bjos144 | Good models work very hard. My best friend is a model and she has to book her own gigs, come up with a bunch of the ideas for the shoots, and then follow the directions of very picky photographers. She has to have people poke and paint every intimate spot on her face/body sometimes (depending on the gig) and she can be standing in high heels and a bikini for 16 straight hours without food and maybe 1 bathroom break. One gig nearly blinded her for making her stay under murky water for 5 hours (they brought scuba tanks to keep her down there as long as they could) with her eyes held WIDE open for prolonged periods of time. She makes maybe 40K a year and is considered to be in the top echelon of models working in the biz. Once in a while a model lands a gig that pays a bunch, but 99 percent of it is at the level of about 20 an hour when you average it out.
Furthermore, she has to have a strict work ethic, create contacts that want to work with her, move her body in specific ways (it's actually awesome to watch her work, she transforms her body into a modern art piece), understand artistic visions and how her look fits into them, know what angles her face and body look good at, deal with rejection and disrespect from every angle, have people assume she can be grabbed and groped because of her job and a billion other stresses you havent considered. She adopts a specific way of moving and looking when she has to be in front of a camera. There are lots of strong people, not all of them get paid to play football. She has to have skills and genetic qualities combined. And she has to not be a huge bitch so people want to work with her. She's a professional through and through.
Her look has helped sell millions of dollars of products. People look at certain photos of her (often that she designed the concept for and bought the clothes herself) and they are just struck by it. The angle, the concept, etc. There are a million pretty faces, but ever see a picture of a face and it just grabs you? There is skill in that.
It's not just looks. There is a professional network, punctuality, creativity, the ability to follow directions, the willingness to deal with weird and uncomfortable situations and outfits, a constant supply of unknown weirdness and, on several occasions, she has been screwed out of her days wage because her industry provides few legal protections for working models so people can actually 'steal' her time. She is constantly turning down jobs where people would take advantage of her in one wya or another, and she is constantly asked to do porn, and runs the risk that walking into a new job might be dangerous to her health (she texts me addresses before she walks in because that's what smart girls do) She has to deal with these risks because that's the way her job goes. She loves it and works very hard to be good at it. She easily puts in 60 hours every week. No contest.
TL;DR: They dont pay her enough, and she's one of the lucky ones that can do this full time for a living. She brings her own ideas, clothes and puts up with people groping and touching her. She can move in a very specific way (like tai chi but for a camera) and deals with a lot of fucking weirdos to get opportunities. I really think you have no idea what you're talking about.
PS: For comparison, I'm a physicist and have a very technical job. She probably works harder than I do. | Good models work very hard. My best friend is a model and she has to book her own gigs, come up with a bunch of the ideas for the shoots, and then follow the directions of very picky photographers. She has to have people poke and paint every intimate spot on her face/body sometimes (depending on the gig) and she can be standing in high heels and a bikini for 16 straight hours without food and maybe 1 bathroom break. One gig nearly blinded her for making her stay under murky water for 5 hours (they brought scuba tanks to keep her down there as long as they could) with her eyes held WIDE open for prolonged periods of time. She makes maybe 40K a year and is considered to be in the top echelon of models working in the biz. Once in a while a model lands a gig that pays a bunch, but 99 percent of it is at the level of about 20 an hour when you average it out.
Furthermore, she has to have a strict work ethic, create contacts that want to work with her, move her body in specific ways (it's actually awesome to watch her work, she transforms her body into a modern art piece), understand artistic visions and how her look fits into them, know what angles her face and body look good at, deal with rejection and disrespect from every angle, have people assume she can be grabbed and groped because of her job and a billion other stresses you havent considered. She adopts a specific way of moving and looking when she has to be in front of a camera. There are lots of strong people, not all of them get paid to play football. She has to have skills and genetic qualities combined. And she has to not be a huge bitch so people want to work with her. She's a professional through and through.
Her look has helped sell millions of dollars of products. People look at certain photos of her (often that she designed the concept for and bought the clothes herself) and they are just struck by it. The angle, the concept, etc. There are a million pretty faces, but ever see a picture of a face and it just grabs you? There is skill in that.
It's not just looks. There is a professional network, punctuality, creativity, the ability to follow directions, the willingness to deal with weird and uncomfortable situations and outfits, a constant supply of unknown weirdness and, on several occasions, she has been screwed out of her days wage because her industry provides few legal protections for working models so people can actually 'steal' her time. She is constantly turning down jobs where people would take advantage of her in one wya or another, and she is constantly asked to do porn, and runs the risk that walking into a new job might be dangerous to her health (she texts me addresses before she walks in because that's what smart girls do) She has to deal with these risks because that's the way her job goes. She loves it and works very hard to be good at it. She easily puts in 60 hours every week. No contest.
TL;DR: They dont pay her enough, and she's one of the lucky ones that can do this full time for a living. She brings her own ideas, clothes and puts up with people groping and touching her. She can move in a very specific way (like tai chi but for a camera) and deals with a lot of fucking weirdos to get opportunities. I really think you have no idea what you're talking about.
PS: For comparison, I'm a physicist and have a very technical job. She probably works harder than I do.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | catw9ql | Good models work very hard. My best friend is a model and she has to book her own gigs, come up with a bunch of the ideas for the shoots, and then follow the directions of very picky photographers. She has to have people poke and paint every intimate spot on her face/body sometimes (depending on the gig) and she can be standing in high heels and a bikini for 16 straight hours without food and maybe 1 bathroom break. One gig nearly blinded her for making her stay under murky water for 5 hours (they brought scuba tanks to keep her down there as long as they could) with her eyes held WIDE open for prolonged periods of time. She makes maybe 40K a year and is considered to be in the top echelon of models working in the biz. Once in a while a model lands a gig that pays a bunch, but 99 percent of it is at the level of about 20 an hour when you average it out.
Furthermore, she has to have a strict work ethic, create contacts that want to work with her, move her body in specific ways (it's actually awesome to watch her work, she transforms her body into a modern art piece), understand artistic visions and how her look fits into them, know what angles her face and body look good at, deal with rejection and disrespect from every angle, have people assume she can be grabbed and groped because of her job and a billion other stresses you havent considered. She adopts a specific way of moving and looking when she has to be in front of a camera. There are lots of strong people, not all of them get paid to play football. She has to have skills and genetic qualities combined. And she has to not be a huge bitch so people want to work with her. She's a professional through and through.
Her look has helped sell millions of dollars of products. People look at certain photos of her (often that she designed the concept for and bought the clothes herself) and they are just struck by it. The angle, the concept, etc. There are a million pretty faces, but ever see a picture of a face and it just grabs you? There is skill in that.
It's not just looks. There is a professional network, punctuality, creativity, the ability to follow directions, the willingness to deal with weird and uncomfortable situations and outfits, a constant supply of unknown weirdness and, on several occasions, she has been screwed out of her days wage because her industry provides few legal protections for working models so people can actually 'steal' her time. She is constantly turning down jobs where people would take advantage of her in one wya or another, and she is constantly asked to do porn, and runs the risk that walking into a new job might be dangerous to her health (she texts me addresses before she walks in because that's what smart girls do) She has to deal with these risks because that's the way her job goes. She loves it and works very hard to be good at it. She easily puts in 60 hours every week. No contest. | They dont pay her enough, and she's one of the lucky ones that can do this full time for a living. She brings her own ideas, clothes and puts up with people groping and touching her. She can move in a very specific way (like tai chi but for a camera) and deals with a lot of fucking weirdos to get opportunities. I really think you have no idea what you're talking about.
PS: For comparison, I'm a physicist and have a very technical job. She probably works harder than I do. |
Ent_Guevera | There is Irish-American history month. White people are totally allowed to have pride in their ethnicity. The "white" race itself is actually just a conglomeration of ethnicities that were put into one group "superior" to all other groups in America. Segregation was done along these racial lines, even though people like Italians and Irish were only admitted to the "white club" after years of mistreatment.
Tl:dr- black history month is essentially a celebration of ethnicity - the history and culture of African-Americans. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an Irish-history month or an Irish-American club for exactly the same reasons. A "white" club celebrating whiteness is more a celebration of American segregation than anything else.
| There is Irish-American history month. White people are totally allowed to have pride in their ethnicity. The "white" race itself is actually just a conglomeration of ethnicities that were put into one group "superior" to all other groups in America. Segregation was done along these racial lines, even though people like Italians and Irish were only admitted to the "white club" after years of mistreatment.
Tl:dr- black history month is essentially a celebration of ethnicity - the history and culture of African-Americans. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an Irish-history month or an Irish-American club for exactly the same reasons. A "white" club celebrating whiteness is more a celebration of American segregation than anything else.
| rage | t5_2qil2 | catri59 | There is Irish-American history month. White people are totally allowed to have pride in their ethnicity. The "white" race itself is actually just a conglomeration of ethnicities that were put into one group "superior" to all other groups in America. Segregation was done along these racial lines, even though people like Italians and Irish were only admitted to the "white club" after years of mistreatment. | black history month is essentially a celebration of ethnicity - the history and culture of African-Americans. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an Irish-history month or an Irish-American club for exactly the same reasons. A "white" club celebrating whiteness is more a celebration of American segregation than anything else. |
Ent_Guevera | Because, like I said, the history of this country has been "white" and "everyone else."
"Caucasian" and "white" are terms that refer to many different "white" ethnicities. Because these people were historically defined as full, 100% "Americans," whereas everyone else was some kind of immigrant or second class person.
It's definitely not because there's some anti-white conspiracy in our forms. Census forms go back to times when there were boxes for "mulatto" and "octoroon."
Tl:dr- racial "boxes" were invented to determine whether someone had rights or not. "Whites" as a group of European ethnicities, were the people who had rights, so it was important to distinguish between them and everyone else. This is something you should have learned in school.
| Because, like I said, the history of this country has been "white" and "everyone else."
"Caucasian" and "white" are terms that refer to many different "white" ethnicities. Because these people were historically defined as full, 100% "Americans," whereas everyone else was some kind of immigrant or second class person.
It's definitely not because there's some anti-white conspiracy in our forms. Census forms go back to times when there were boxes for "mulatto" and "octoroon."
Tl:dr- racial "boxes" were invented to determine whether someone had rights or not. "Whites" as a group of European ethnicities, were the people who had rights, so it was important to distinguish between them and everyone else. This is something you should have learned in school.
| rage | t5_2qil2 | cau8est | Because, like I said, the history of this country has been "white" and "everyone else."
"Caucasian" and "white" are terms that refer to many different "white" ethnicities. Because these people were historically defined as full, 100% "Americans," whereas everyone else was some kind of immigrant or second class person.
It's definitely not because there's some anti-white conspiracy in our forms. Census forms go back to times when there were boxes for "mulatto" and "octoroon." | racial "boxes" were invented to determine whether someone had rights or not. "Whites" as a group of European ethnicities, were the people who had rights, so it was important to distinguish between them and everyone else. This is something you should have learned in school. |
Serotone | You know I personally find this subreddit refreshing. It's somewhere between a circlejerk and a circlebroke. The nature of the subject makes coming up with OC harder but personally I prefer it like it is. Take a look at, in my opinion, the best circlejerk sub, /r/magicskyfairy. Things are a bit different recently but before the new /r/atheism moderation it was 90% crossposts. That made it way funnier because it was impossible to distinguish between what's genuine and what's satire. There not a more scathing indictment of a subreddit than the fact that you can fill out a circlejerk sub with nothing but exactly the same content.
tl;dr - We don't need to jerk because /r/movies does it for us. | You know I personally find this subreddit refreshing. It's somewhere between a circlejerk and a circlebroke. The nature of the subject makes coming up with OC harder but personally I prefer it like it is. Take a look at, in my opinion, the best circlejerk sub, /r/magicskyfairy. Things are a bit different recently but before the new /r/atheism moderation it was 90% crossposts. That made it way funnier because it was impossible to distinguish between what's genuine and what's satire. There not a more scathing indictment of a subreddit than the fact that you can fill out a circlejerk sub with nothing but exactly the same content.
tl;dr - We don't need to jerk because /r/movies does it for us.
| moviescirclejerk | t5_2tfdo | catuwul | You know I personally find this subreddit refreshing. It's somewhere between a circlejerk and a circlebroke. The nature of the subject makes coming up with OC harder but personally I prefer it like it is. Take a look at, in my opinion, the best circlejerk sub, /r/magicskyfairy. Things are a bit different recently but before the new /r/atheism moderation it was 90% crossposts. That made it way funnier because it was impossible to distinguish between what's genuine and what's satire. There not a more scathing indictment of a subreddit than the fact that you can fill out a circlejerk sub with nothing but exactly the same content. | We don't need to jerk because /r/movies does it for us. |
ChronicBuddha | I can step out of my window and then i am on the roof but my moms balcony is just 3 meters to my left so i gotta be careful. Anywho got super stoned one night but couldnt help but wonder "what if my mom is sitting down on her balcony" because i cant see the whole balcony my part of the roof is a little lower. I could see her laptop was playing weeds but i thought she wasn't there. I finish my joint and go all ninja and climb across the slanted roof and in my mind i am saying telling my self how pointless it is that i am checking considering she probably isn't there. So i get to the balcony hoist myself up so i can look over and when i do my head was about 30 centimeters above hers. I freaked the fuck out. She was laying down on her balcony floor with pillows watching weeds. But i made it back safe :D
TL;DR : Smoking a joint out on my roof find out my mom is 3 meters away.
I am now on vacation and i have windows that allow me to go outside. Everynight at midnight | I can step out of my window and then i am on the roof but my moms balcony is just 3 meters to my left so i gotta be careful. Anywho got super stoned one night but couldnt help but wonder "what if my mom is sitting down on her balcony" because i cant see the whole balcony my part of the roof is a little lower. I could see her laptop was playing weeds but i thought she wasn't there. I finish my joint and go all ninja and climb across the slanted roof and in my mind i am saying telling my self how pointless it is that i am checking considering she probably isn't there. So i get to the balcony hoist myself up so i can look over and when i do my head was about 30 centimeters above hers. I freaked the fuck out. She was laying down on her balcony floor with pillows watching weeds. But i made it back safe :D
TL;DR : Smoking a joint out on my roof find out my mom is 3 meters away.
I am now on vacation and i have windows that allow me to go outside. Everynight at midnight
| trees | t5_2r9vp | catpkct | I can step out of my window and then i am on the roof but my moms balcony is just 3 meters to my left so i gotta be careful. Anywho got super stoned one night but couldnt help but wonder "what if my mom is sitting down on her balcony" because i cant see the whole balcony my part of the roof is a little lower. I could see her laptop was playing weeds but i thought she wasn't there. I finish my joint and go all ninja and climb across the slanted roof and in my mind i am saying telling my self how pointless it is that i am checking considering she probably isn't there. So i get to the balcony hoist myself up so i can look over and when i do my head was about 30 centimeters above hers. I freaked the fuck out. She was laying down on her balcony floor with pillows watching weeds. But i made it back safe :D | Smoking a joint out on my roof find out my mom is 3 meters away.
I am now on vacation and i have windows that allow me to go outside. Everynight at midnight |
NukeproofKFC | Actually I wasn't even on. Conor was going to watch the fight between Cooke and BV in case you guys tried to gank Cooke.
You tried and it failed miserably.
Conor then said that he typed in chat he was there to watch. He then shouted that you were attacking him unprovoked. THEN I logged in and helped chase you away.
TL;DR BV arranged a 1v1, you both tried to gank Cooke1623 and failed miserably due to our luck of having logged there last night. | Actually I wasn't even on. Conor was going to watch the fight between Cooke and BV in case you guys tried to gank Cooke.
You tried and it failed miserably.
Conor then said that he typed in chat he was there to watch. He then shouted that you were attacking him unprovoked. THEN I logged in and helped chase you away.
TL;DR BV arranged a 1v1, you both tried to gank Cooke1623 and failed miserably due to our luck of having logged there last night.
| minerapocalypse | t5_2tc3u | cattq73 | Actually I wasn't even on. Conor was going to watch the fight between Cooke and BV in case you guys tried to gank Cooke.
You tried and it failed miserably.
Conor then said that he typed in chat he was there to watch. He then shouted that you were attacking him unprovoked. THEN I logged in and helped chase you away. | BV arranged a 1v1, you both tried to gank Cooke1623 and failed miserably due to our luck of having logged there last night. |
twodollaz | This is a topic near and dear to my heart so please excuse the coarse language...
I got one of the newer phones and had it for maybe 2 months after being a blackberry user for about 6 years. IT WAS A PEICE OF SHIT. BBRY can go fuck itself. Worst peice of shit phone I have ever had. I was smiling when I paid the $480 to replace that damn thing. I now have an iPhone 5 and couldn't possibly be happier. FUCK Research in Motion.
tl;dr: I think shorting this one might be a good move. | This is a topic near and dear to my heart so please excuse the coarse language...
I got one of the newer phones and had it for maybe 2 months after being a blackberry user for about 6 years. IT WAS A PEICE OF SHIT. BBRY can go fuck itself. Worst peice of shit phone I have ever had. I was smiling when I paid the $480 to replace that damn thing. I now have an iPhone 5 and couldn't possibly be happier. FUCK Research in Motion.
tl;dr: I think shorting this one might be a good move.
| StockMarket | t5_2qjuv | cau462p | This is a topic near and dear to my heart so please excuse the coarse language...
I got one of the newer phones and had it for maybe 2 months after being a blackberry user for about 6 years. IT WAS A PEICE OF SHIT. BBRY can go fuck itself. Worst peice of shit phone I have ever had. I was smiling when I paid the $480 to replace that damn thing. I now have an iPhone 5 and couldn't possibly be happier. FUCK Research in Motion. | I think shorting this one might be a good move. |
Skywolf111 | I call it the naked man story. Back when I was about eleven, and spent my summers at my fathers house, I returned to my mothers house that was now surround by a larger iron fence. My mother told me it was because they wanted more space for the dogs to roam but the truth came out after listening to my sister talk to her friend on the phone. The story of what really happened fascinated me and I went to every member of the family who was involved and I have put their stories together to create this one. You don't have to believe me, as the story is pretty crazy and unbelievable, but it a true story. Late one night my sister, who had already moved out of the house but was visiting and sleeping on the couch, awoke to strange humming and whimpering coming from "the dog room" (a room we kept our dogs) she crossed the kitchen and pressed her ear to the food. She could hear the dogs long nails scratch on the tile floor as the whimpered and ran around the room. But she also heard this deep humming that couldn't possibly be the dogs. She threw open the door, and there he was, A large naked man who was enjoying peeing on our dogs, a task that was made more fun because they were trying to avoid the stream. My sister then had the reaction one might expect had the happened to stumble across a large naked stranger urinating on their beloved pets, and she screamed. The naked man whirled around, I'll let you dwell on the image for a moment.....okay, and he instantly wanted to comfort this screaming girl. He put up is hands and yelled, "it's okay! It's okay! I'm just watering the flowers!" Believe it or not this offered little comfort to my sister and she ran screaming across the kitchen down the hall and started banging on my parents room. "There's a naked man in the house! There's a naked man in the house!" She screamed as she pounded on the door. But, like the boy who cried wolf, if you knew anything about my sister you would understand that when she says things like, "there's a naked man in the house!" My family doesn't exactly spring to action. My mom stumbled out of bed and threw on a bathrobe. She opened the and before she could get any more information my sister rushed passed her grabbed the cordless house phone (ah nostalgia) and locked her self in the connecting bathroom calling 911. Needless to say this sparked my mothers curiosity. While all this was going on the naked man must have learned that there were more rooms in this mystical house of moving flowers because when my mom made her way out of her room he was standing in all his naked glory in our kitchen admiring our plates, which coincidently enough had flowers on them. My mother shared the same reaction as my sister and she scream. The naked man whirled around again to another screaming woman but this time, oh this time, he knew that screaming woman. It was his long lost love Rosetta and he was so happy to see her that he couldn't help but to profess his feelings to her right then and there, "Rosetta! Rosetta, it is me Kylie! I've missed you Rosetta don't you recognize me?". I would like take a brief moment to explain that my mothers name is not Rosetta it is Marie and this police report revealed that this guys name wasn't Kylie it was Steve.....back to the story. "Rosetta!! I love you!" He approached my mother and tried to grab her and reach out for her. My mother kept repeating, "you have the wrong house." But nothing could stifle Kylie's love. My mother backed away back towards her room with The naked man in "hot" pursuit. It was about this time my stepfather, who takes a little longer to wake up than my mother, stumbles out of the room and sees this naked man trying to feel up his wife. My mother rushes past my stepfather back into her room, and the naked man tried to follow. It was at this time my stepfather's instincts kicked in and he tried to wrestle the naked man into submission. His attempt failed for the following two reasons 1) there isn't a lot to grab onto a naked man 2) he was slimy which lead us to believe had shed his clothing to enjoy a nice swim in the lake in the park in our back yard. He managed to push his way past my stepfather and get into the room with my mother he slammed the door shut and locked leaving my still half asleep stepfather on the other side wondering what the hell just happened. Inside the room my mother was stuck between Kylie trying to explain to Rosetta how much he loved her and my sister locked in the bathroom having a frantic conversation with a 911 operator. She did the only thing she could think of and opened a window hoping that my stepfather would go out through the front door and come in through the window....my stepfather however was still standing outside the door feeling rather confused. What did happen though is the naked man had a sudden moment of clarity. He went from, "Rosetta! Rosetta!" To "......what the fuck am I doing here" and he escaped out the window. His moment of clarity was pretty short though and he walked back in through our front door and had another wrestling match with my stepfather. My mom told me that at this moment she was thinking, "where's John? Where's John?" John is my older brother who was dealing with the desire to be a woman by over compensating and making himself into an overly muscled man who's hobby was making crazy ass weapons in his room and listening to screamo music. Well John had heard everything that was going on and he was taking his time. He had laid out all of his weapons and was deciding which one he actually wanted to use. He chose a lead pipe that he sauttered (sp?) sharp computer parts to loos enough that when you flesh the computer parts would lodge themselves into the skins but break off the lead pipe. Once he was finally satisfied he ran out of room an started rage screaming at the naked man, "I'm going to kill you! You're going to die! I'm going reach down through and pull out your spline!...ect." It actually sounded a lot like the music he listened to. The poor naked man didn't know what to do he evening of lake swimming and moving flowers had turned into a nightmare of screaming women and men trying to hurt him so he did the only thing he could as tool off running down the street. Didn't stop my brother though, who continued to chase after him eager to use his weapon. He said the last thing he heard was my mom screaming down the street "John! Don't kill him!" The cops picked him up down the road and that is the real reason our house was surrounded by a fence.
TL:DR a naked man broke into my house and terrorized my family...well we may have terrorized him. | I call it the naked man story. Back when I was about eleven, and spent my summers at my fathers house, I returned to my mothers house that was now surround by a larger iron fence. My mother told me it was because they wanted more space for the dogs to roam but the truth came out after listening to my sister talk to her friend on the phone. The story of what really happened fascinated me and I went to every member of the family who was involved and I have put their stories together to create this one. You don't have to believe me, as the story is pretty crazy and unbelievable, but it a true story. Late one night my sister, who had already moved out of the house but was visiting and sleeping on the couch, awoke to strange humming and whimpering coming from "the dog room" (a room we kept our dogs) she crossed the kitchen and pressed her ear to the food. She could hear the dogs long nails scratch on the tile floor as the whimpered and ran around the room. But she also heard this deep humming that couldn't possibly be the dogs. She threw open the door, and there he was, A large naked man who was enjoying peeing on our dogs, a task that was made more fun because they were trying to avoid the stream. My sister then had the reaction one might expect had the happened to stumble across a large naked stranger urinating on their beloved pets, and she screamed. The naked man whirled around, I'll let you dwell on the image for a moment.....okay, and he instantly wanted to comfort this screaming girl. He put up is hands and yelled, "it's okay! It's okay! I'm just watering the flowers!" Believe it or not this offered little comfort to my sister and she ran screaming across the kitchen down the hall and started banging on my parents room. "There's a naked man in the house! There's a naked man in the house!" She screamed as she pounded on the door. But, like the boy who cried wolf, if you knew anything about my sister you would understand that when she says things like, "there's a naked man in the house!" My family doesn't exactly spring to action. My mom stumbled out of bed and threw on a bathrobe. She opened the and before she could get any more information my sister rushed passed her grabbed the cordless house phone (ah nostalgia) and locked her self in the connecting bathroom calling 911. Needless to say this sparked my mothers curiosity. While all this was going on the naked man must have learned that there were more rooms in this mystical house of moving flowers because when my mom made her way out of her room he was standing in all his naked glory in our kitchen admiring our plates, which coincidently enough had flowers on them. My mother shared the same reaction as my sister and she scream. The naked man whirled around again to another screaming woman but this time, oh this time, he knew that screaming woman. It was his long lost love Rosetta and he was so happy to see her that he couldn't help but to profess his feelings to her right then and there, "Rosetta! Rosetta, it is me Kylie! I've missed you Rosetta don't you recognize me?". I would like take a brief moment to explain that my mothers name is not Rosetta it is Marie and this police report revealed that this guys name wasn't Kylie it was Steve.....back to the story. "Rosetta!! I love you!" He approached my mother and tried to grab her and reach out for her. My mother kept repeating, "you have the wrong house." But nothing could stifle Kylie's love. My mother backed away back towards her room with The naked man in "hot" pursuit. It was about this time my stepfather, who takes a little longer to wake up than my mother, stumbles out of the room and sees this naked man trying to feel up his wife. My mother rushes past my stepfather back into her room, and the naked man tried to follow. It was at this time my stepfather's instincts kicked in and he tried to wrestle the naked man into submission. His attempt failed for the following two reasons 1) there isn't a lot to grab onto a naked man 2) he was slimy which lead us to believe had shed his clothing to enjoy a nice swim in the lake in the park in our back yard. He managed to push his way past my stepfather and get into the room with my mother he slammed the door shut and locked leaving my still half asleep stepfather on the other side wondering what the hell just happened. Inside the room my mother was stuck between Kylie trying to explain to Rosetta how much he loved her and my sister locked in the bathroom having a frantic conversation with a 911 operator. She did the only thing she could think of and opened a window hoping that my stepfather would go out through the front door and come in through the window....my stepfather however was still standing outside the door feeling rather confused. What did happen though is the naked man had a sudden moment of clarity. He went from, "Rosetta! Rosetta!" To "......what the fuck am I doing here" and he escaped out the window. His moment of clarity was pretty short though and he walked back in through our front door and had another wrestling match with my stepfather. My mom told me that at this moment she was thinking, "where's John? Where's John?" John is my older brother who was dealing with the desire to be a woman by over compensating and making himself into an overly muscled man who's hobby was making crazy ass weapons in his room and listening to screamo music. Well John had heard everything that was going on and he was taking his time. He had laid out all of his weapons and was deciding which one he actually wanted to use. He chose a lead pipe that he sauttered (sp?) sharp computer parts to loos enough that when you flesh the computer parts would lodge themselves into the skins but break off the lead pipe. Once he was finally satisfied he ran out of room an started rage screaming at the naked man, "I'm going to kill you! You're going to die! I'm going reach down through and pull out your spline!...ect." It actually sounded a lot like the music he listened to. The poor naked man didn't know what to do he evening of lake swimming and moving flowers had turned into a nightmare of screaming women and men trying to hurt him so he did the only thing he could as tool off running down the street. Didn't stop my brother though, who continued to chase after him eager to use his weapon. He said the last thing he heard was my mom screaming down the street "John! Don't kill him!" The cops picked him up down the road and that is the real reason our house was surrounded by a fence.
TL:DR a naked man broke into my house and terrorized my family...well we may have terrorized him.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | catyrm1 | I call it the naked man story. Back when I was about eleven, and spent my summers at my fathers house, I returned to my mothers house that was now surround by a larger iron fence. My mother told me it was because they wanted more space for the dogs to roam but the truth came out after listening to my sister talk to her friend on the phone. The story of what really happened fascinated me and I went to every member of the family who was involved and I have put their stories together to create this one. You don't have to believe me, as the story is pretty crazy and unbelievable, but it a true story. Late one night my sister, who had already moved out of the house but was visiting and sleeping on the couch, awoke to strange humming and whimpering coming from "the dog room" (a room we kept our dogs) she crossed the kitchen and pressed her ear to the food. She could hear the dogs long nails scratch on the tile floor as the whimpered and ran around the room. But she also heard this deep humming that couldn't possibly be the dogs. She threw open the door, and there he was, A large naked man who was enjoying peeing on our dogs, a task that was made more fun because they were trying to avoid the stream. My sister then had the reaction one might expect had the happened to stumble across a large naked stranger urinating on their beloved pets, and she screamed. The naked man whirled around, I'll let you dwell on the image for a moment.....okay, and he instantly wanted to comfort this screaming girl. He put up is hands and yelled, "it's okay! It's okay! I'm just watering the flowers!" Believe it or not this offered little comfort to my sister and she ran screaming across the kitchen down the hall and started banging on my parents room. "There's a naked man in the house! There's a naked man in the house!" She screamed as she pounded on the door. But, like the boy who cried wolf, if you knew anything about my sister you would understand that when she says things like, "there's a naked man in the house!" My family doesn't exactly spring to action. My mom stumbled out of bed and threw on a bathrobe. She opened the and before she could get any more information my sister rushed passed her grabbed the cordless house phone (ah nostalgia) and locked her self in the connecting bathroom calling 911. Needless to say this sparked my mothers curiosity. While all this was going on the naked man must have learned that there were more rooms in this mystical house of moving flowers because when my mom made her way out of her room he was standing in all his naked glory in our kitchen admiring our plates, which coincidently enough had flowers on them. My mother shared the same reaction as my sister and she scream. The naked man whirled around again to another screaming woman but this time, oh this time, he knew that screaming woman. It was his long lost love Rosetta and he was so happy to see her that he couldn't help but to profess his feelings to her right then and there, "Rosetta! Rosetta, it is me Kylie! I've missed you Rosetta don't you recognize me?". I would like take a brief moment to explain that my mothers name is not Rosetta it is Marie and this police report revealed that this guys name wasn't Kylie it was Steve.....back to the story. "Rosetta!! I love you!" He approached my mother and tried to grab her and reach out for her. My mother kept repeating, "you have the wrong house." But nothing could stifle Kylie's love. My mother backed away back towards her room with The naked man in "hot" pursuit. It was about this time my stepfather, who takes a little longer to wake up than my mother, stumbles out of the room and sees this naked man trying to feel up his wife. My mother rushes past my stepfather back into her room, and the naked man tried to follow. It was at this time my stepfather's instincts kicked in and he tried to wrestle the naked man into submission. His attempt failed for the following two reasons 1) there isn't a lot to grab onto a naked man 2) he was slimy which lead us to believe had shed his clothing to enjoy a nice swim in the lake in the park in our back yard. He managed to push his way past my stepfather and get into the room with my mother he slammed the door shut and locked leaving my still half asleep stepfather on the other side wondering what the hell just happened. Inside the room my mother was stuck between Kylie trying to explain to Rosetta how much he loved her and my sister locked in the bathroom having a frantic conversation with a 911 operator. She did the only thing she could think of and opened a window hoping that my stepfather would go out through the front door and come in through the window....my stepfather however was still standing outside the door feeling rather confused. What did happen though is the naked man had a sudden moment of clarity. He went from, "Rosetta! Rosetta!" To "......what the fuck am I doing here" and he escaped out the window. His moment of clarity was pretty short though and he walked back in through our front door and had another wrestling match with my stepfather. My mom told me that at this moment she was thinking, "where's John? Where's John?" John is my older brother who was dealing with the desire to be a woman by over compensating and making himself into an overly muscled man who's hobby was making crazy ass weapons in his room and listening to screamo music. Well John had heard everything that was going on and he was taking his time. He had laid out all of his weapons and was deciding which one he actually wanted to use. He chose a lead pipe that he sauttered (sp?) sharp computer parts to loos enough that when you flesh the computer parts would lodge themselves into the skins but break off the lead pipe. Once he was finally satisfied he ran out of room an started rage screaming at the naked man, "I'm going to kill you! You're going to die! I'm going reach down through and pull out your spline!...ect." It actually sounded a lot like the music he listened to. The poor naked man didn't know what to do he evening of lake swimming and moving flowers had turned into a nightmare of screaming women and men trying to hurt him so he did the only thing he could as tool off running down the street. Didn't stop my brother though, who continued to chase after him eager to use his weapon. He said the last thing he heard was my mom screaming down the street "John! Don't kill him!" The cops picked him up down the road and that is the real reason our house was surrounded by a fence. | a naked man broke into my house and terrorized my family...well we may have terrorized him. |
Mission145 | I didn't even notice your nose. Also, I think some time in the sun will do some good. Get out and have fun. You look like you have been cooped up inside :/. Make sure you drink lots of water and don't be too tough on yourself.
Also, a haircut will do a world of good!
TL;DR : You aren't ugly, but you look sick. Make sure you look after yourself. | I didn't even notice your nose. Also, I think some time in the sun will do some good. Get out and have fun. You look like you have been cooped up inside :/. Make sure you drink lots of water and don't be too tough on yourself.
Also, a haircut will do a world of good!
TL;DR : You aren't ugly, but you look sick. Make sure you look after yourself.
| amiugly | t5_2rgjh | caukiro | I didn't even notice your nose. Also, I think some time in the sun will do some good. Get out and have fun. You look like you have been cooped up inside :/. Make sure you drink lots of water and don't be too tough on yourself.
Also, a haircut will do a world of good! | You aren't ugly, but you look sick. Make sure you look after yourself. |
8lackbird | Smoked, unsalted Almonds & seedless Red Grapes. Prediction: You will shove them into your mouth by the fistful.
tl;dr Almonds & Red Grapes
Edit: Title Case | Smoked, unsalted Almonds & seedless Red Grapes. Prediction: You will shove them into your mouth by the fistful.
tl;dr Almonds & Red Grapes
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| trees | t5_2r9vp | cau2llk | Smoked, unsalted Almonds & seedless Red Grapes. Prediction: You will shove them into your mouth by the fistful. | Almonds & Red Grapes
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MrDubious | I was one of the first sites to launch a test instance of Google+ comments (using code, not the plugin), and Google+ engineer Yonatan Zunger explained that you MUST be using the authorship system with the comments. When you do, it gives you moderation ability. I can delete or report any comment on my site, and most spam comments are auto moderated by the system.
tl;dr he's doing it wrong. | I was one of the first sites to launch a test instance of Google+ comments (using code, not the plugin), and Google+ engineer Yonatan Zunger explained that you MUST be using the authorship system with the comments. When you do, it gives you moderation ability. I can delete or report any comment on my site, and most spam comments are auto moderated by the system.
tl;dr he's doing it wrong.
| Wordpress | t5_2qhjq | caubnjm | I was one of the first sites to launch a test instance of Google+ comments (using code, not the plugin), and Google+ engineer Yonatan Zunger explained that you MUST be using the authorship system with the comments. When you do, it gives you moderation ability. I can delete or report any comment on my site, and most spam comments are auto moderated by the system. | he's doing it wrong. |
SewerCider_ | I say to smurf because if they are that bad at hooking then they might work in the company they are in as opposed to playing in high/ vhigh MMR games where they will be destroyed and called out for ruining games.
I know its a dick move o smurf but in this instance you are putting your self at that level because that is where the skill you are playing with in this circumstance.
Bots are good too, but they are so polarized, some will stand still and let you walk into position in front them and hook, and then others will somehow know your perfectly timed hooks through fog of war. Real people are the best to practice on and if your skill is that bad with it, then I dont see smurfing as that big a deal
TL:DR smurf isnt that big a deal in this circumstance | I say to smurf because if they are that bad at hooking then they might work in the company they are in as opposed to playing in high/ vhigh MMR games where they will be destroyed and called out for ruining games.
I know its a dick move o smurf but in this instance you are putting your self at that level because that is where the skill you are playing with in this circumstance.
Bots are good too, but they are so polarized, some will stand still and let you walk into position in front them and hook, and then others will somehow know your perfectly timed hooks through fog of war. Real people are the best to practice on and if your skill is that bad with it, then I dont see smurfing as that big a deal
TL:DR smurf isnt that big a deal in this circumstance
| DotA2 | t5_2s580 | cav777w | I say to smurf because if they are that bad at hooking then they might work in the company they are in as opposed to playing in high/ vhigh MMR games where they will be destroyed and called out for ruining games.
I know its a dick move o smurf but in this instance you are putting your self at that level because that is where the skill you are playing with in this circumstance.
Bots are good too, but they are so polarized, some will stand still and let you walk into position in front them and hook, and then others will somehow know your perfectly timed hooks through fog of war. Real people are the best to practice on and if your skill is that bad with it, then I dont see smurfing as that big a deal | smurf isnt that big a deal in this circumstance |
StraxAttack | Have you been to a therapist? I know lots of people don't like the idea of going to a psychologist, but IMO every single person should do it. The fact is that a person's ability to live a satisfying life depends on having certain skills, and those skills can be very difficult to learn because they are dependent on self-awareness and evaluation. Human beings are not at all good at either of those two things - and I think that there's a really good reason for that, but that's a whole other topic - and so it's usually necessary to rely on another person for feedback to learn certain behaviors and skills. Lots of the time this feedback comes from trusted friends, but if a person doesn't have any of those or if their friends don't have those skills either, then it's wise to turn to someone else.
I'm talking about skills like conversation, flirting, being a good friend, taking personal responsibility, conflict resolution, being aware of the effects of your behavior on others, prioritizing things that are emotionally important to you and others, learning how to maximize your enjoyment of life. People tend to think of these things as just things that you know or you don't, but they can be learned.
You may think that you have all the necessary skills already, but the evidence indicates that you do not. If you have ruled out all of the obvious reasons (like being a liar, thief, drug addict, stinky person, bigot, etc.) then it's likely some other skill that's difficult to self-evaluate. My father is a great example of this. He is actually a great guy. He's funny, intelligent, successful, healthy, and all of that obvious stuff. The problem is, he's a jerk. He doesn't listen, jokes about things that are offensive, and is generally rude. However, he doesn't recognize that because he is terrible at reading other people's reactions and empathizing. In fact, he is totally cringe-worthy and he has no idea. Since he's been seeing a therapist, he's gotten a lot better, but he's nearly 70 so there's only so much re-learning that he's going to do at this point.
TL;DR: If you needed to learn to swim, you'd take swimming lessons. Since you need to learn how to have friends, go see a therapist. Not to change who you are, but to learn important social skills that allow you to be a more desirable friend. | Have you been to a therapist? I know lots of people don't like the idea of going to a psychologist, but IMO every single person should do it. The fact is that a person's ability to live a satisfying life depends on having certain skills, and those skills can be very difficult to learn because they are dependent on self-awareness and evaluation. Human beings are not at all good at either of those two things - and I think that there's a really good reason for that, but that's a whole other topic - and so it's usually necessary to rely on another person for feedback to learn certain behaviors and skills. Lots of the time this feedback comes from trusted friends, but if a person doesn't have any of those or if their friends don't have those skills either, then it's wise to turn to someone else.
I'm talking about skills like conversation, flirting, being a good friend, taking personal responsibility, conflict resolution, being aware of the effects of your behavior on others, prioritizing things that are emotionally important to you and others, learning how to maximize your enjoyment of life. People tend to think of these things as just things that you know or you don't, but they can be learned.
You may think that you have all the necessary skills already, but the evidence indicates that you do not. If you have ruled out all of the obvious reasons (like being a liar, thief, drug addict, stinky person, bigot, etc.) then it's likely some other skill that's difficult to self-evaluate. My father is a great example of this. He is actually a great guy. He's funny, intelligent, successful, healthy, and all of that obvious stuff. The problem is, he's a jerk. He doesn't listen, jokes about things that are offensive, and is generally rude. However, he doesn't recognize that because he is terrible at reading other people's reactions and empathizing. In fact, he is totally cringe-worthy and he has no idea. Since he's been seeing a therapist, he's gotten a lot better, but he's nearly 70 so there's only so much re-learning that he's going to do at this point.
TL;DR: If you needed to learn to swim, you'd take swimming lessons. Since you need to learn how to have friends, go see a therapist. Not to change who you are, but to learn important social skills that allow you to be a more desirable friend.
| offmychest | t5_2ranw | cauny21 | Have you been to a therapist? I know lots of people don't like the idea of going to a psychologist, but IMO every single person should do it. The fact is that a person's ability to live a satisfying life depends on having certain skills, and those skills can be very difficult to learn because they are dependent on self-awareness and evaluation. Human beings are not at all good at either of those two things - and I think that there's a really good reason for that, but that's a whole other topic - and so it's usually necessary to rely on another person for feedback to learn certain behaviors and skills. Lots of the time this feedback comes from trusted friends, but if a person doesn't have any of those or if their friends don't have those skills either, then it's wise to turn to someone else.
I'm talking about skills like conversation, flirting, being a good friend, taking personal responsibility, conflict resolution, being aware of the effects of your behavior on others, prioritizing things that are emotionally important to you and others, learning how to maximize your enjoyment of life. People tend to think of these things as just things that you know or you don't, but they can be learned.
You may think that you have all the necessary skills already, but the evidence indicates that you do not. If you have ruled out all of the obvious reasons (like being a liar, thief, drug addict, stinky person, bigot, etc.) then it's likely some other skill that's difficult to self-evaluate. My father is a great example of this. He is actually a great guy. He's funny, intelligent, successful, healthy, and all of that obvious stuff. The problem is, he's a jerk. He doesn't listen, jokes about things that are offensive, and is generally rude. However, he doesn't recognize that because he is terrible at reading other people's reactions and empathizing. In fact, he is totally cringe-worthy and he has no idea. Since he's been seeing a therapist, he's gotten a lot better, but he's nearly 70 so there's only so much re-learning that he's going to do at this point. | If you needed to learn to swim, you'd take swimming lessons. Since you need to learn how to have friends, go see a therapist. Not to change who you are, but to learn important social skills that allow you to be a more desirable friend. |
bringindabacon | It's not. Vanguard is a broker, a fiduciary is an advisor who makes decisions for you and thus has the responsibility to act on your best interest. Advisors are only fiduciaries if they are executing orders on your behalf without your consent - this generally only happens with high net worth individuals.
Tldr: op made a move that wasn't necessarily bad but was done for the wrong reasons. | It's not. Vanguard is a broker, a fiduciary is an advisor who makes decisions for you and thus has the responsibility to act on your best interest. Advisors are only fiduciaries if they are executing orders on your behalf without your consent - this generally only happens with high net worth individuals.
Tldr: op made a move that wasn't necessarily bad but was done for the wrong reasons.
| investing | t5_2qhhq | cauryfo | It's not. Vanguard is a broker, a fiduciary is an advisor who makes decisions for you and thus has the responsibility to act on your best interest. Advisors are only fiduciaries if they are executing orders on your behalf without your consent - this generally only happens with high net worth individuals. | op made a move that wasn't necessarily bad but was done for the wrong reasons. |
HothMonster | I have a user that will call us 2-4 times for stupid/pebkac/nonexistent problems between 430 and 5. We will fix them or tell her to stop being stupid. Then she clocks a few hours OT and does all the work. If HR questions she says her machine was broke all day and she couldn't do it earlier but it needed to be done so she had to stay instead of doing it the next morning.
Finally HR confronted us about it. We pulled her call log and internet history. 6 hours of shopping, lunch, an hour making up issues and the 3 hours work on OT pay.
Tl;Dr She does 3 hours of work and gets paid for 11, blames IT. | I have a user that will call us 2-4 times for stupid/pebkac/nonexistent problems between 430 and 5. We will fix them or tell her to stop being stupid. Then she clocks a few hours OT and does all the work. If HR questions she says her machine was broke all day and she couldn't do it earlier but it needed to be done so she had to stay instead of doing it the next morning.
Finally HR confronted us about it. We pulled her call log and internet history. 6 hours of shopping, lunch, an hour making up issues and the 3 hours work on OT pay.
Tl;Dr She does 3 hours of work and gets paid for 11, blames IT.
| computertechs | t5_2soz7 | cauq3ou | I have a user that will call us 2-4 times for stupid/pebkac/nonexistent problems between 430 and 5. We will fix them or tell her to stop being stupid. Then she clocks a few hours OT and does all the work. If HR questions she says her machine was broke all day and she couldn't do it earlier but it needed to be done so she had to stay instead of doing it the next morning.
Finally HR confronted us about it. We pulled her call log and internet history. 6 hours of shopping, lunch, an hour making up issues and the 3 hours work on OT pay. | She does 3 hours of work and gets paid for 11, blames IT. |
SamuraiAlba | I have a client, that EVERY month, calls and complains I never UNINSTALLED uTorrent, Frostwire, and Bearshare. EVERY month I show it was reinstalled _3_ to _5_ days after I logged the work on the machine at HIS HOUSE. I also had logging running and showed it was his DAUGHTER'S login and SOMEONE (HIM) gave her acct admin access to this Windows 7 box.
TL;DR? He still blames me and wants a discount. | I have a client, that EVERY month, calls and complains I never UNINSTALLED uTorrent, Frostwire, and Bearshare. EVERY month I show it was reinstalled 3 to 5 days after I logged the work on the machine at HIS HOUSE. I also had logging running and showed it was his DAUGHTER'S login and SOMEONE (HIM) gave her acct admin access to this Windows 7 box.
TL;DR? He still blames me and wants a discount.
| computertechs | t5_2soz7 | caxkj70 | I have a client, that EVERY month, calls and complains I never UNINSTALLED uTorrent, Frostwire, and Bearshare. EVERY month I show it was reinstalled 3 to 5 days after I logged the work on the machine at HIS HOUSE. I also had logging running and showed it was his DAUGHTER'S login and SOMEONE (HIM) gave her acct admin access to this Windows 7 box. | He still blames me and wants a discount. |
jdps27 | Yes, let's move on. Or regress, and make it ok to call niggers niggers. I don't really care which one we do. All I know is that when I'm called a cracker, I don't get pissed off because I'm being called someone who cracks a whip (or corn, whichever floats your boat). I get pissed off because the degenerate shit calling me a cracker is most likely adding "racist" to the insult while simultaneously being racist towards me by using a derogatory racist insult. If I were to say nigger, spic, or some other racist term, I would probably be beaten, called a racist, and I might even be prosecuted for a hate crime, depending on the asshole-ness of the law enforcement in the region. It sets a double standard, and that's bullshit.
TL;DR, Most whites get pissed because it sets a double standard, not because of what the word is supposed to mean. | Yes, let's move on. Or regress, and make it ok to call niggers niggers. I don't really care which one we do. All I know is that when I'm called a cracker, I don't get pissed off because I'm being called someone who cracks a whip (or corn, whichever floats your boat). I get pissed off because the degenerate shit calling me a cracker is most likely adding "racist" to the insult while simultaneously being racist towards me by using a derogatory racist insult. If I were to say nigger, spic, or some other racist term, I would probably be beaten, called a racist, and I might even be prosecuted for a hate crime, depending on the asshole-ness of the law enforcement in the region. It sets a double standard, and that's bullshit.
TL;DR, Most whites get pissed because it sets a double standard, not because of what the word is supposed to mean.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cauw4ku | Yes, let's move on. Or regress, and make it ok to call niggers niggers. I don't really care which one we do. All I know is that when I'm called a cracker, I don't get pissed off because I'm being called someone who cracks a whip (or corn, whichever floats your boat). I get pissed off because the degenerate shit calling me a cracker is most likely adding "racist" to the insult while simultaneously being racist towards me by using a derogatory racist insult. If I were to say nigger, spic, or some other racist term, I would probably be beaten, called a racist, and I might even be prosecuted for a hate crime, depending on the asshole-ness of the law enforcement in the region. It sets a double standard, and that's bullshit. | Most whites get pissed because it sets a double standard, not because of what the word is supposed to mean. |
ApplicableInfo | This might not be on topic with the whole Egypt thing, but I think that the N word is worse then cracker. If it was even up for debate they would't have said cracker, instead they would have said the c word
Edit:Read current thread, realized someone already made this point, which is reasonable considering it is common sense.
TLDR:Sorry for the inadvertent repost
| This might not be on topic with the whole Egypt thing, but I think that the N word is worse then cracker. If it was even up for debate they would't have said cracker, instead they would have said the c word
Edit:Read current thread, realized someone already made this point, which is reasonable considering it is common sense.
TLDR:Sorry for the inadvertent repost
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | cauy2i3 | This might not be on topic with the whole Egypt thing, but I think that the N word is worse then cracker. If it was even up for debate they would't have said cracker, instead they would have said the c word
Edit:Read current thread, realized someone already made this point, which is reasonable considering it is common sense. | Sorry for the inadvertent repost |
kThanks | It's representitive of their own regrets and dissatisfaction with how marriage has worked for them. They take their own experience as all the evidence they need to condemn the entire institution, and then pass along that little platitude to you.
TL;DR - "I'm unhappy, so you'll be unhappy, too." | It's representitive of their own regrets and dissatisfaction with how marriage has worked for them. They take their own experience as all the evidence they need to condemn the entire institution, and then pass along that little platitude to you.
TL;DR - "I'm unhappy, so you'll be unhappy, too."
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | caukzh8 | It's representitive of their own regrets and dissatisfaction with how marriage has worked for them. They take their own experience as all the evidence they need to condemn the entire institution, and then pass along that little platitude to you. | I'm unhappy, so you'll be unhappy, too." |
magzillas | Thomson's violinist analogy, I think, succeeds in making a case for allowing abortion for rape victims. It highlights a philosophical nuance that I think many - on both sides of the debate - do not consider: that the fetus's right to life (which Thomson does not dispute) does not necessarily entitle the fetus to whatever *equipment* it needs to achieve life (e.g. the faculties of the womb). Similarly, the violinist has the right to life, but that does not entitle him to utilize another's body to facilitate his own survival.
For people who become pregnant through an act of their own volition, it's a little more tricky. The analogy would basically be rewritten such that the person keeping the violinist alive opts into the situation willingly. The question then becomes: are they culpable for the violinist's death if they decide halfway through that they're not up for it anymore. I'm still tangling with this personally, but currently I'm in the camp that says they are.
Marquis has an interesting perspective on exactly *why* killing a fetus is wrong, but I find it unsatisfying. Philosophical commentary on Marquis's piece has spawned a number of objections, some of which I echo here:
* Is the "wrong" greater than the "wrong" highlighted by Thomson's analogy?
* One could argue that gametes (sperm and egg) also have potential for life, yet millions are lost even in the act of consensual intercourse. Marquis's logic would suggest that this is wrong.
* His logic suggests that murders are unequal in moral turpitude; a murder of a 100 year old (limited potential remaining) is not as bad a murder of a 10 year old (great potential remaining). This seems to conflict with our intuitive sense that all murders are equally reprehensible.
**TLDR: Marquis argument faces a number of potentially problematic objections. Thomson's violinist analogy in particular makes a case for abortion in cases of rape; not so much in cases of consensual intercourse. That's my opinion, and you're welcome to your own.** | Thomson's violinist analogy, I think, succeeds in making a case for allowing abortion for rape victims. It highlights a philosophical nuance that I think many - on both sides of the debate - do not consider: that the fetus's right to life (which Thomson does not dispute) does not necessarily entitle the fetus to whatever equipment it needs to achieve life (e.g. the faculties of the womb). Similarly, the violinist has the right to life, but that does not entitle him to utilize another's body to facilitate his own survival.
For people who become pregnant through an act of their own volition, it's a little more tricky. The analogy would basically be rewritten such that the person keeping the violinist alive opts into the situation willingly. The question then becomes: are they culpable for the violinist's death if they decide halfway through that they're not up for it anymore. I'm still tangling with this personally, but currently I'm in the camp that says they are.
Marquis has an interesting perspective on exactly why killing a fetus is wrong, but I find it unsatisfying. Philosophical commentary on Marquis's piece has spawned a number of objections, some of which I echo here:
Is the "wrong" greater than the "wrong" highlighted by Thomson's analogy?
One could argue that gametes (sperm and egg) also have potential for life, yet millions are lost even in the act of consensual intercourse. Marquis's logic would suggest that this is wrong.
His logic suggests that murders are unequal in moral turpitude; a murder of a 100 year old (limited potential remaining) is not as bad a murder of a 10 year old (great potential remaining). This seems to conflict with our intuitive sense that all murders are equally reprehensible.
TLDR: Marquis argument faces a number of potentially problematic objections. Thomson's violinist analogy in particular makes a case for abortion in cases of rape; not so much in cases of consensual intercourse. That's my opinion, and you're welcome to your own.
| Conservative | t5_2qh6p | cavua22 | Thomson's violinist analogy, I think, succeeds in making a case for allowing abortion for rape victims. It highlights a philosophical nuance that I think many - on both sides of the debate - do not consider: that the fetus's right to life (which Thomson does not dispute) does not necessarily entitle the fetus to whatever equipment it needs to achieve life (e.g. the faculties of the womb). Similarly, the violinist has the right to life, but that does not entitle him to utilize another's body to facilitate his own survival.
For people who become pregnant through an act of their own volition, it's a little more tricky. The analogy would basically be rewritten such that the person keeping the violinist alive opts into the situation willingly. The question then becomes: are they culpable for the violinist's death if they decide halfway through that they're not up for it anymore. I'm still tangling with this personally, but currently I'm in the camp that says they are.
Marquis has an interesting perspective on exactly why killing a fetus is wrong, but I find it unsatisfying. Philosophical commentary on Marquis's piece has spawned a number of objections, some of which I echo here:
Is the "wrong" greater than the "wrong" highlighted by Thomson's analogy?
One could argue that gametes (sperm and egg) also have potential for life, yet millions are lost even in the act of consensual intercourse. Marquis's logic would suggest that this is wrong.
His logic suggests that murders are unequal in moral turpitude; a murder of a 100 year old (limited potential remaining) is not as bad a murder of a 10 year old (great potential remaining). This seems to conflict with our intuitive sense that all murders are equally reprehensible. | Marquis argument faces a number of potentially problematic objections. Thomson's violinist analogy in particular makes a case for abortion in cases of rape; not so much in cases of consensual intercourse. That's my opinion, and you're welcome to your own. |
N64Overclocked | While I agree with you completely that most of this is for Karma, it IS an important issue. And I think part of the problem with American politics is that shit like this happens and everybody just forgets about it a few months later. (For example, when HSBC admitted to having spent something like 7 billion dollars on funding drug cartels and anti-american organizations. A lot of people saw it. Nothing was done. ['MURICA!](
While I hate the commercializing of a serious political issue (even for fake internet points), this is something that Americans need to be thinking about daily. Americans should at some point in their day think "shit the NSA isn't respecting my privacy. I wonder if anything is being done about it?" That leads them to restorethefourth.org or /r/restorethefourth and gives them more people for the peaceful protests.
TLDR; I hate this stupid karma-whoring also, but it is a neccessary evil to keep this issue a hot one. | While I agree with you completely that most of this is for Karma, it IS an important issue. And I think part of the problem with American politics is that shit like this happens and everybody just forgets about it a few months later. (For example, when HSBC admitted to having spent something like 7 billion dollars on funding drug cartels and anti-american organizations. A lot of people saw it. Nothing was done. ['MURICA!](
While I hate the commercializing of a serious political issue (even for fake internet points), this is something that Americans need to be thinking about daily. Americans should at some point in their day think "shit the NSA isn't respecting my privacy. I wonder if anything is being done about it?" That leads them to restorethefourth.org or /r/restorethefourth and gives them more people for the peaceful protests.
TLDR; I hate this stupid karma-whoring also, but it is a neccessary evil to keep this issue a hot one.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | cav21mb | While I agree with you completely that most of this is for Karma, it IS an important issue. And I think part of the problem with American politics is that shit like this happens and everybody just forgets about it a few months later. (For example, when HSBC admitted to having spent something like 7 billion dollars on funding drug cartels and anti-american organizations. A lot of people saw it. Nothing was done. ['MURICA!](
While I hate the commercializing of a serious political issue (even for fake internet points), this is something that Americans need to be thinking about daily. Americans should at some point in their day think "shit the NSA isn't respecting my privacy. I wonder if anything is being done about it?" That leads them to restorethefourth.org or /r/restorethefourth and gives them more people for the peaceful protests. | I hate this stupid karma-whoring also, but it is a neccessary evil to keep this issue a hot one. |
goodtoy | I actually like her as an actress, I just think that she was given sort of the worst plot line and writing for most of her time on the show. I haven't rewatched her season recently so I'm probably leaving out stuff and I may be wrong on some of the details.
For example, I loved her in Smith and Jones, the Family of Blood episodes, the season 3 finale (although I have problems with that finale itself but not her performance) and in her appearances after season 3. In those episodes she was allowed to be her own person, and she had a really strong, cool personality. In a lot of the other episodes in season 3, her defining characteristic was that she was quietly pining over the doctor. For me, that's just not interesting to watch and, frankly, having unrequited love as the defining aspect is going to make almost any character look at least a little pathetic.
I loved her first episode because she was smart and capable. I really liked her in Family of Blood because she was on her own for a lot of it and I feel like we got to see more of her character and how resourceful she could be. Most of all, [I loved her exit because](#s "she was the only companion in New Who to leave on her own terms.") I also really liked the moments in her season when she would call the doctor out on stuff.
In her appearances after season 3 (when she's gotten over her crush) I think she's a pretty cool character because she took her time with the doctor to make a new life for herself and do her part to protect the world.
**TL;DR: I just wish that the writers hadn't made her unrequited love for the doctor *the* central aspect of her character or at least made it a little more subtle because she has so many other awesome attributes that get overshadowed by this.**
Edit: added spoiler tag just to be safe | I actually like her as an actress, I just think that she was given sort of the worst plot line and writing for most of her time on the show. I haven't rewatched her season recently so I'm probably leaving out stuff and I may be wrong on some of the details.
For example, I loved her in Smith and Jones, the Family of Blood episodes, the season 3 finale (although I have problems with that finale itself but not her performance) and in her appearances after season 3. In those episodes she was allowed to be her own person, and she had a really strong, cool personality. In a lot of the other episodes in season 3, her defining characteristic was that she was quietly pining over the doctor. For me, that's just not interesting to watch and, frankly, having unrequited love as the defining aspect is going to make almost any character look at least a little pathetic.
I loved her first episode because she was smart and capable. I really liked her in Family of Blood because she was on her own for a lot of it and I feel like we got to see more of her character and how resourceful she could be. Most of all, I loved her exit because I also really liked the moments in her season when she would call the doctor out on stuff.
In her appearances after season 3 (when she's gotten over her crush) I think she's a pretty cool character because she took her time with the doctor to make a new life for herself and do her part to protect the world.
TL;DR: I just wish that the writers hadn't made her unrequited love for the doctor the central aspect of her character or at least made it a little more subtle because she has so many other awesome attributes that get overshadowed by this.
Edit: added spoiler tag just to be safe
| doctorwho | t5_2qhek | cav9fot | I actually like her as an actress, I just think that she was given sort of the worst plot line and writing for most of her time on the show. I haven't rewatched her season recently so I'm probably leaving out stuff and I may be wrong on some of the details.
For example, I loved her in Smith and Jones, the Family of Blood episodes, the season 3 finale (although I have problems with that finale itself but not her performance) and in her appearances after season 3. In those episodes she was allowed to be her own person, and she had a really strong, cool personality. In a lot of the other episodes in season 3, her defining characteristic was that she was quietly pining over the doctor. For me, that's just not interesting to watch and, frankly, having unrequited love as the defining aspect is going to make almost any character look at least a little pathetic.
I loved her first episode because she was smart and capable. I really liked her in Family of Blood because she was on her own for a lot of it and I feel like we got to see more of her character and how resourceful she could be. Most of all, I loved her exit because I also really liked the moments in her season when she would call the doctor out on stuff.
In her appearances after season 3 (when she's gotten over her crush) I think she's a pretty cool character because she took her time with the doctor to make a new life for herself and do her part to protect the world. | I just wish that the writers hadn't made her unrequited love for the doctor the central aspect of her character or at least made it a little more subtle because she has so many other awesome attributes that get overshadowed by this.
Edit: added spoiler tag just to be safe |
imnotacrazyperson | Once I made a slight mistake when dialing my husband's cell number. I hit a 4 instead of the 5. A very drunk man answered. I tell him I realized I had the wrong number, that I'm sorry, and I hung up.
And he called back.
He says something like, "Hey wait, I wasn't done talkin' to you, what makes you think you can call me and just end that conversation lady?" I tell him I had the wrong number, I'm sorry, won't happen again.
He calls back, he tells me "You aint getting off that easy, who are you?" I refuse to tell him my name, apologize again for the wrong number call and then he replies, "Yeah you done tripped into my hornets nest lady, you aint getting outta this one."
He calls me 4 more times and I refuse to answer.
The calls stop.
The next night, exact same time, the calls start again. Now he's leaving messages telling me he's gonna teach me not to prank call people.
He calls 10 times in a row, I'm going crazy at this point, the phone just rings and rings and rings. I answer, I yell "Stop calling me asshole!" He tells me "Make me."
So I call the police.
My town cop shows up, takes his number - runs it in his laptop and comes up with the guy's information. He's on probation and lives in the next town over, he has a history of domestic violence, public intox, and DWI. The cop tells me he knows the guy, knows his PO too. So he calls him up using his own cell and tells the guy to leave me alone.
Creep talks to the cop for a while and tells him I'm really his ex-wife's best friend and I've been calling and pranking him for days,he just now got my phone number because I was too dumb to block it and he's not letting it go. The cop asks me a bunch of questions about who I am and who I know and all that shit, when he can't prove I'm the ex's friend, he calls the guy a dumbass and tells him to leave me alone or find himself on the receiving end of small town justice.
Last I heard of him.
Nobody wants to be taken out into a dark field and be beaten within an inch of his life by police officers.
**TLDR: I dialed the WRONG number.**
| Once I made a slight mistake when dialing my husband's cell number. I hit a 4 instead of the 5. A very drunk man answered. I tell him I realized I had the wrong number, that I'm sorry, and I hung up.
And he called back.
He says something like, "Hey wait, I wasn't done talkin' to you, what makes you think you can call me and just end that conversation lady?" I tell him I had the wrong number, I'm sorry, won't happen again.
He calls back, he tells me "You aint getting off that easy, who are you?" I refuse to tell him my name, apologize again for the wrong number call and then he replies, "Yeah you done tripped into my hornets nest lady, you aint getting outta this one."
He calls me 4 more times and I refuse to answer.
The calls stop.
The next night, exact same time, the calls start again. Now he's leaving messages telling me he's gonna teach me not to prank call people.
He calls 10 times in a row, I'm going crazy at this point, the phone just rings and rings and rings. I answer, I yell "Stop calling me asshole!" He tells me "Make me."
So I call the police.
My town cop shows up, takes his number - runs it in his laptop and comes up with the guy's information. He's on probation and lives in the next town over, he has a history of domestic violence, public intox, and DWI. The cop tells me he knows the guy, knows his PO too. So he calls him up using his own cell and tells the guy to leave me alone.
Creep talks to the cop for a while and tells him I'm really his ex-wife's best friend and I've been calling and pranking him for days,he just now got my phone number because I was too dumb to block it and he's not letting it go. The cop asks me a bunch of questions about who I am and who I know and all that shit, when he can't prove I'm the ex's friend, he calls the guy a dumbass and tells him to leave me alone or find himself on the receiving end of small town justice.
Last I heard of him.
Nobody wants to be taken out into a dark field and be beaten within an inch of his life by police officers.
TLDR: I dialed the WRONG number.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cav08iq | Once I made a slight mistake when dialing my husband's cell number. I hit a 4 instead of the 5. A very drunk man answered. I tell him I realized I had the wrong number, that I'm sorry, and I hung up.
And he called back.
He says something like, "Hey wait, I wasn't done talkin' to you, what makes you think you can call me and just end that conversation lady?" I tell him I had the wrong number, I'm sorry, won't happen again.
He calls back, he tells me "You aint getting off that easy, who are you?" I refuse to tell him my name, apologize again for the wrong number call and then he replies, "Yeah you done tripped into my hornets nest lady, you aint getting outta this one."
He calls me 4 more times and I refuse to answer.
The calls stop.
The next night, exact same time, the calls start again. Now he's leaving messages telling me he's gonna teach me not to prank call people.
He calls 10 times in a row, I'm going crazy at this point, the phone just rings and rings and rings. I answer, I yell "Stop calling me asshole!" He tells me "Make me."
So I call the police.
My town cop shows up, takes his number - runs it in his laptop and comes up with the guy's information. He's on probation and lives in the next town over, he has a history of domestic violence, public intox, and DWI. The cop tells me he knows the guy, knows his PO too. So he calls him up using his own cell and tells the guy to leave me alone.
Creep talks to the cop for a while and tells him I'm really his ex-wife's best friend and I've been calling and pranking him for days,he just now got my phone number because I was too dumb to block it and he's not letting it go. The cop asks me a bunch of questions about who I am and who I know and all that shit, when he can't prove I'm the ex's friend, he calls the guy a dumbass and tells him to leave me alone or find himself on the receiving end of small town justice.
Last I heard of him.
Nobody wants to be taken out into a dark field and be beaten within an inch of his life by police officers. | I dialed the WRONG number. |
Ymirism | Welcome to the fold. Discovering the Total War series for the first time as a strategy fan is amazing, isn't it? Feel free to plop down on one of our comfy armchairs and regale us with tales of your conquests, we all love sharing warstories here.
Seeing your interest in the period history, take a look at the links in the sidebar. History behind total war is a lovely series of posts by /u/probablynotlying with lots of great imagery and information. The big list of recommended reading should give you some tips on reading material for your history needs.
With regards to what games to get:
Sadly you just missed the Grandmaster Collection sale, where you'd get everything for 33 dollars. These show up pretty regularly though, so keep an eye on this sub or /r/gamedeals if this interests you. If you like the prospect of fighting TW games regardless of time period, get the grandmaster collection as Rome, Medieval 2, Empire, Napoleon and Shogun 2 all are very well worth your time and attention.
These are all good games, so unless you specifically like or dislike certain time periods I'd personally recommend you get them all.
Each plays the same and yet different, because of the ways in which wars are fought.
Each game will see you managing your cities, building structures and mucking with taxes and troop training, but each game also does things differently in places.
For instance, Rome has tons more building options than Shogun2, which simply gives you an x amount of slots to build in per province. Both systems work well though, and I can't say I prefer one over the other.
Medieval2 has similar building options as Rome, where you can build without slot limitations. Empire and Napoleon use a similar system to Shogun2, although Empire and Napoleon are a bit different in the details. Cities there have several fixed options (Barracks, cannon range and such) which you can upgrade and also buildings spread through the actual provinces which you can upgrade.
Shogun2 in comparison gives you x slots and y options to build, making your choices per region a lot more important.
TL;DR: Grandmaster Collection next time it goes on sale, or Medieval2/Empire/Napoleon/Shogun2. | Welcome to the fold. Discovering the Total War series for the first time as a strategy fan is amazing, isn't it? Feel free to plop down on one of our comfy armchairs and regale us with tales of your conquests, we all love sharing warstories here.
Seeing your interest in the period history, take a look at the links in the sidebar. History behind total war is a lovely series of posts by /u/probablynotlying with lots of great imagery and information. The big list of recommended reading should give you some tips on reading material for your history needs.
With regards to what games to get:
Sadly you just missed the Grandmaster Collection sale, where you'd get everything for 33 dollars. These show up pretty regularly though, so keep an eye on this sub or /r/gamedeals if this interests you. If you like the prospect of fighting TW games regardless of time period, get the grandmaster collection as Rome, Medieval 2, Empire, Napoleon and Shogun 2 all are very well worth your time and attention.
These are all good games, so unless you specifically like or dislike certain time periods I'd personally recommend you get them all.
Each plays the same and yet different, because of the ways in which wars are fought.
Each game will see you managing your cities, building structures and mucking with taxes and troop training, but each game also does things differently in places.
For instance, Rome has tons more building options than Shogun2, which simply gives you an x amount of slots to build in per province. Both systems work well though, and I can't say I prefer one over the other.
Medieval2 has similar building options as Rome, where you can build without slot limitations. Empire and Napoleon use a similar system to Shogun2, although Empire and Napoleon are a bit different in the details. Cities there have several fixed options (Barracks, cannon range and such) which you can upgrade and also buildings spread through the actual provinces which you can upgrade.
Shogun2 in comparison gives you x slots and y options to build, making your choices per region a lot more important.
TL;DR: Grandmaster Collection next time it goes on sale, or Medieval2/Empire/Napoleon/Shogun2.
| totalwar | t5_2rq9c | cav41ib | Welcome to the fold. Discovering the Total War series for the first time as a strategy fan is amazing, isn't it? Feel free to plop down on one of our comfy armchairs and regale us with tales of your conquests, we all love sharing warstories here.
Seeing your interest in the period history, take a look at the links in the sidebar. History behind total war is a lovely series of posts by /u/probablynotlying with lots of great imagery and information. The big list of recommended reading should give you some tips on reading material for your history needs.
With regards to what games to get:
Sadly you just missed the Grandmaster Collection sale, where you'd get everything for 33 dollars. These show up pretty regularly though, so keep an eye on this sub or /r/gamedeals if this interests you. If you like the prospect of fighting TW games regardless of time period, get the grandmaster collection as Rome, Medieval 2, Empire, Napoleon and Shogun 2 all are very well worth your time and attention.
These are all good games, so unless you specifically like or dislike certain time periods I'd personally recommend you get them all.
Each plays the same and yet different, because of the ways in which wars are fought.
Each game will see you managing your cities, building structures and mucking with taxes and troop training, but each game also does things differently in places.
For instance, Rome has tons more building options than Shogun2, which simply gives you an x amount of slots to build in per province. Both systems work well though, and I can't say I prefer one over the other.
Medieval2 has similar building options as Rome, where you can build without slot limitations. Empire and Napoleon use a similar system to Shogun2, although Empire and Napoleon are a bit different in the details. Cities there have several fixed options (Barracks, cannon range and such) which you can upgrade and also buildings spread through the actual provinces which you can upgrade.
Shogun2 in comparison gives you x slots and y options to build, making your choices per region a lot more important. | Grandmaster Collection next time it goes on sale, or Medieval2/Empire/Napoleon/Shogun2. |
ToneWashed | Eh, the 13s thing is really misleading. He talked about trying really heavy strings at one point; 18s or something. He may have used some oddball set of 13s early on, before he recorded Texas Flood. They just aren't meant for bending.
He did advertising for GHS, with his signature string set being their [part number 1300]( Gauges: 11-15-19-28-38-58. Note the really heavy low E. I've yet to find any set from any other company with those gauges.
Now check out [ which lists exactly the same gauges, but with the 11 switched to a 13. And again there's no known set with those gauges. Clearly *someone's* trying to keep the myth alive... even if there were such a set, all five other strings are from a pack of 11s. Obviously his signature tone didn't come from just the high E.
If you're still not convinced, buy a regular pack of 13s, and a hydraulic press to bend them with, and try some of the full step, low fret, G string bends in Texas Flood. See if your neck doesn't snap before you bend it all the way. Also consider that SRV, while worth every drop of legend that surrounds him, was in fact human.
**tl;dr** - If you want SRV's tone, get a pack of pure nickel 11s and tune down a half, or get a pack of pure nickel 10s if you tune to standard. | Eh, the 13s thing is really misleading. He talked about trying really heavy strings at one point; 18s or something. He may have used some oddball set of 13s early on, before he recorded Texas Flood. They just aren't meant for bending.
He did advertising for GHS, with his signature string set being their [part number 1300]( Gauges: 11-15-19-28-38-58. Note the really heavy low E. I've yet to find any set from any other company with those gauges.
Now check out [ which lists exactly the same gauges, but with the 11 switched to a 13. And again there's no known set with those gauges. Clearly someone's trying to keep the myth alive... even if there were such a set, all five other strings are from a pack of 11s. Obviously his signature tone didn't come from just the high E.
If you're still not convinced, buy a regular pack of 13s, and a hydraulic press to bend them with, and try some of the full step, low fret, G string bends in Texas Flood. See if your neck doesn't snap before you bend it all the way. Also consider that SRV, while worth every drop of legend that surrounds him, was in fact human.
tl;dr - If you want SRV's tone, get a pack of pure nickel 11s and tune down a half, or get a pack of pure nickel 10s if you tune to standard.
| Guitar | t5_2qi79 | cavis00 | Eh, the 13s thing is really misleading. He talked about trying really heavy strings at one point; 18s or something. He may have used some oddball set of 13s early on, before he recorded Texas Flood. They just aren't meant for bending.
He did advertising for GHS, with his signature string set being their [part number 1300]( Gauges: 11-15-19-28-38-58. Note the really heavy low E. I've yet to find any set from any other company with those gauges.
Now check out [ which lists exactly the same gauges, but with the 11 switched to a 13. And again there's no known set with those gauges. Clearly someone's trying to keep the myth alive... even if there were such a set, all five other strings are from a pack of 11s. Obviously his signature tone didn't come from just the high E.
If you're still not convinced, buy a regular pack of 13s, and a hydraulic press to bend them with, and try some of the full step, low fret, G string bends in Texas Flood. See if your neck doesn't snap before you bend it all the way. Also consider that SRV, while worth every drop of legend that surrounds him, was in fact human. | If you want SRV's tone, get a pack of pure nickel 11s and tune down a half, or get a pack of pure nickel 10s if you tune to standard. |
VinceAutMorire | If you want to check out a build after the most recent changes, check out some of the ones that are using Guard: you get swiftness and regen from it(plus it helps your pet stay alive by going invisi). If you combine Guard with a Fern Hound, Healing Spring, Dwayna(or +boon duration runes), any of the +regen/duration traits, etc you end up having very VERY high uptime on: swiftness, regen(highest I've applied myself is 2m 11s), and vigor.
tl;dr: You can obtain basically the same survival(if not better) with a condi bunker build as you could before the patch by swapping around a few traits. | If you want to check out a build after the most recent changes, check out some of the ones that are using Guard: you get swiftness and regen from it(plus it helps your pet stay alive by going invisi). If you combine Guard with a Fern Hound, Healing Spring, Dwayna(or +boon duration runes), any of the +regen/duration traits, etc you end up having very VERY high uptime on: swiftness, regen(highest I've applied myself is 2m 11s), and vigor.
tl;dr: You can obtain basically the same survival(if not better) with a condi bunker build as you could before the patch by swapping around a few traits.
| Guildwars2 | t5_2r9po | cav9b2a | If you want to check out a build after the most recent changes, check out some of the ones that are using Guard: you get swiftness and regen from it(plus it helps your pet stay alive by going invisi). If you combine Guard with a Fern Hound, Healing Spring, Dwayna(or +boon duration runes), any of the +regen/duration traits, etc you end up having very VERY high uptime on: swiftness, regen(highest I've applied myself is 2m 11s), and vigor. | You can obtain basically the same survival(if not better) with a condi bunker build as you could before the patch by swapping around a few traits. |
Sandbox47 | Alright, you are clearly set in your mind that I am wrong and you are right and I want you for a moment to backtrack. It's not a difficult concept to understand but clearly I explained it poorly. Allow me to try again. For the purposes of a level discussion, don't speak until you've thought through everything I said, as opposed to hanging yourself up on every individual sentence.
At first I made a point about humour being harder to write than drama, tragedy, death and such, which are all things that make you churn inside and wound and stab us.
Keep that in mind for a moment.
Now here's the thing. I could claim that I am an expert in greek mythology. I could make a very convincing argument and show several degrees and papers that would back my point. I could google-fu the ass off of a real expert in greek mythology and I could successfully convince people that I am, indeed, an expert in greek mythology.
I am not an expert in greek mythology. I could convince people that I am but that would still not make me an expert in greek mythology. What *would* make me an expert in greek mythology? I could write a book about greek mythology, detailing specifics and facts that were verifiable by other people through simple means.
So someone might pick up this book, read it, and without ever meeting me, assess that I am an expert at greek mythology. If they doubt my word, they can cross refrence info to make sure that I didn't lie about anything.
Einstein is dead. Why do we say he is a genius? Because the work he left behind revolutionized physics, it allowed for efficient ways of producing energy and exploiting atomic materials. He described the theory of relativity and his mathematical formulas are used in modern GPS navigation algorithms.
So I don't know Einstein, I never met him. But I can tell, from his work, that he was a genius.
I don't know Kafka, I never met him. And from his work I can deduce that he was good at writing monotone stories. His work does not convince me that he was good at writing humorous stories. His assessment that humorous and light-hearted stories are not worth reading leads me to draw the conclusion that he was exasperated with the topic, probably because he wasn't good at it.
There I say that he was arrogant and a bit of a pussy. That's all I meant.
Tl;dr Your work speaks for you more clearly than you ever could.
| Alright, you are clearly set in your mind that I am wrong and you are right and I want you for a moment to backtrack. It's not a difficult concept to understand but clearly I explained it poorly. Allow me to try again. For the purposes of a level discussion, don't speak until you've thought through everything I said, as opposed to hanging yourself up on every individual sentence.
At first I made a point about humour being harder to write than drama, tragedy, death and such, which are all things that make you churn inside and wound and stab us.
Keep that in mind for a moment.
Now here's the thing. I could claim that I am an expert in greek mythology. I could make a very convincing argument and show several degrees and papers that would back my point. I could google-fu the ass off of a real expert in greek mythology and I could successfully convince people that I am, indeed, an expert in greek mythology.
I am not an expert in greek mythology. I could convince people that I am but that would still not make me an expert in greek mythology. What would make me an expert in greek mythology? I could write a book about greek mythology, detailing specifics and facts that were verifiable by other people through simple means.
So someone might pick up this book, read it, and without ever meeting me, assess that I am an expert at greek mythology. If they doubt my word, they can cross refrence info to make sure that I didn't lie about anything.
Einstein is dead. Why do we say he is a genius? Because the work he left behind revolutionized physics, it allowed for efficient ways of producing energy and exploiting atomic materials. He described the theory of relativity and his mathematical formulas are used in modern GPS navigation algorithms.
So I don't know Einstein, I never met him. But I can tell, from his work, that he was a genius.
I don't know Kafka, I never met him. And from his work I can deduce that he was good at writing monotone stories. His work does not convince me that he was good at writing humorous stories. His assessment that humorous and light-hearted stories are not worth reading leads me to draw the conclusion that he was exasperated with the topic, probably because he wasn't good at it.
There I say that he was arrogant and a bit of a pussy. That's all I meant.
Tl;dr Your work speaks for you more clearly than you ever could.
| writing | t5_2qh2n | cawouf2 | Alright, you are clearly set in your mind that I am wrong and you are right and I want you for a moment to backtrack. It's not a difficult concept to understand but clearly I explained it poorly. Allow me to try again. For the purposes of a level discussion, don't speak until you've thought through everything I said, as opposed to hanging yourself up on every individual sentence.
At first I made a point about humour being harder to write than drama, tragedy, death and such, which are all things that make you churn inside and wound and stab us.
Keep that in mind for a moment.
Now here's the thing. I could claim that I am an expert in greek mythology. I could make a very convincing argument and show several degrees and papers that would back my point. I could google-fu the ass off of a real expert in greek mythology and I could successfully convince people that I am, indeed, an expert in greek mythology.
I am not an expert in greek mythology. I could convince people that I am but that would still not make me an expert in greek mythology. What would make me an expert in greek mythology? I could write a book about greek mythology, detailing specifics and facts that were verifiable by other people through simple means.
So someone might pick up this book, read it, and without ever meeting me, assess that I am an expert at greek mythology. If they doubt my word, they can cross refrence info to make sure that I didn't lie about anything.
Einstein is dead. Why do we say he is a genius? Because the work he left behind revolutionized physics, it allowed for efficient ways of producing energy and exploiting atomic materials. He described the theory of relativity and his mathematical formulas are used in modern GPS navigation algorithms.
So I don't know Einstein, I never met him. But I can tell, from his work, that he was a genius.
I don't know Kafka, I never met him. And from his work I can deduce that he was good at writing monotone stories. His work does not convince me that he was good at writing humorous stories. His assessment that humorous and light-hearted stories are not worth reading leads me to draw the conclusion that he was exasperated with the topic, probably because he wasn't good at it.
There I say that he was arrogant and a bit of a pussy. That's all I meant. | Your work speaks for you more clearly than you ever could. |
solistus | For the Pro, last time I checked, yeah - you can put any old 2.5" SSD in, or even replace the disk drive with a second HDD or SSD.
The SSD in an Air probably can't be replaced, and if it could, you would need a very expensive PCI-E mounted drive. AFAIK, Samsung is the only company manufacturing such a drive for notebooks, and they aren't selling them retail, so Apple is one of the only companies in the world selling this hardware at any price.
If you ignore the price of the 128gig drive you're upgrading from (and if you bought your own aftermarket replacement, you'd be eating the cost of that 128gig drive anyway): you can pay $200 to get a 256gig upgrade, or $500 to get a 512gig upgrade (it's a build-to-order option on the 256gig model for another $300).
A quick browse through Newegg tells me that you'd be hard pressed to find a decent 256gig SSD, even a regular 2.5" drive, for under $200. You can get a decent 512gig drive for more like $400, so that's a bit of a markup, but only if you compare to the cheapest 2.5" drives money can buy.
PCI-E is a *lot* faster than SATA, and these Air SSDs have about double the I/O throughput of those 2.5" drives. Even if you could just replace the Air's drive with a $400 512GB SSD, I think $100 is a small price to pay for substantially better performance, not to mention not having to do a complex, warranty-voiding installation process.
A Google search for 512GB PCI-E SSDs found a Samsung replacement part for over $800, and a full sized desktop version from OCZ for over $2000.
TL;DR: Apple is selling you new, super fast SSDs that you can't even buy at retailers yet, and they're charging barely more than the cheapest generic alternatives would cost for a normal, user replaceable SSD slot. Apple gets a bad rap for their past practices of gouging for HDD and RAM upgrades, but the Air storage upgrades are priced really well. | For the Pro, last time I checked, yeah - you can put any old 2.5" SSD in, or even replace the disk drive with a second HDD or SSD.
The SSD in an Air probably can't be replaced, and if it could, you would need a very expensive PCI-E mounted drive. AFAIK, Samsung is the only company manufacturing such a drive for notebooks, and they aren't selling them retail, so Apple is one of the only companies in the world selling this hardware at any price.
If you ignore the price of the 128gig drive you're upgrading from (and if you bought your own aftermarket replacement, you'd be eating the cost of that 128gig drive anyway): you can pay $200 to get a 256gig upgrade, or $500 to get a 512gig upgrade (it's a build-to-order option on the 256gig model for another $300).
A quick browse through Newegg tells me that you'd be hard pressed to find a decent 256gig SSD, even a regular 2.5" drive, for under $200. You can get a decent 512gig drive for more like $400, so that's a bit of a markup, but only if you compare to the cheapest 2.5" drives money can buy.
PCI-E is a lot faster than SATA, and these Air SSDs have about double the I/O throughput of those 2.5" drives. Even if you could just replace the Air's drive with a $400 512GB SSD, I think $100 is a small price to pay for substantially better performance, not to mention not having to do a complex, warranty-voiding installation process.
A Google search for 512GB PCI-E SSDs found a Samsung replacement part for over $800, and a full sized desktop version from OCZ for over $2000.
TL;DR: Apple is selling you new, super fast SSDs that you can't even buy at retailers yet, and they're charging barely more than the cheapest generic alternatives would cost for a normal, user replaceable SSD slot. Apple gets a bad rap for their past practices of gouging for HDD and RAM upgrades, but the Air storage upgrades are priced really well.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | cavmj8w | For the Pro, last time I checked, yeah - you can put any old 2.5" SSD in, or even replace the disk drive with a second HDD or SSD.
The SSD in an Air probably can't be replaced, and if it could, you would need a very expensive PCI-E mounted drive. AFAIK, Samsung is the only company manufacturing such a drive for notebooks, and they aren't selling them retail, so Apple is one of the only companies in the world selling this hardware at any price.
If you ignore the price of the 128gig drive you're upgrading from (and if you bought your own aftermarket replacement, you'd be eating the cost of that 128gig drive anyway): you can pay $200 to get a 256gig upgrade, or $500 to get a 512gig upgrade (it's a build-to-order option on the 256gig model for another $300).
A quick browse through Newegg tells me that you'd be hard pressed to find a decent 256gig SSD, even a regular 2.5" drive, for under $200. You can get a decent 512gig drive for more like $400, so that's a bit of a markup, but only if you compare to the cheapest 2.5" drives money can buy.
PCI-E is a lot faster than SATA, and these Air SSDs have about double the I/O throughput of those 2.5" drives. Even if you could just replace the Air's drive with a $400 512GB SSD, I think $100 is a small price to pay for substantially better performance, not to mention not having to do a complex, warranty-voiding installation process.
A Google search for 512GB PCI-E SSDs found a Samsung replacement part for over $800, and a full sized desktop version from OCZ for over $2000. | Apple is selling you new, super fast SSDs that you can't even buy at retailers yet, and they're charging barely more than the cheapest generic alternatives would cost for a normal, user replaceable SSD slot. Apple gets a bad rap for their past practices of gouging for HDD and RAM upgrades, but the Air storage upgrades are priced really well. |
ZenLikeCalm | Only 95%? I thought it would be more than that.
Seriously though, OP. /u/TehFalchion is right. Your dislike of a particular character is your opinion, and most of us here respect other's opinions. It's the method you used to communicate that opinion that would be the reason for the hate.
TL:DR: /r/mylittlepony hates 'Advice Animal' posts. | Only 95%? I thought it would be more than that.
Seriously though, OP. /u/TehFalchion is right. Your dislike of a particular character is your opinion, and most of us here respect other's opinions. It's the method you used to communicate that opinion that would be the reason for the hate.
TL:DR: /r/mylittlepony hates 'Advice Animal' posts.
| mylittlepony | t5_2s8bl | cavq94u | Only 95%? I thought it would be more than that.
Seriously though, OP. /u/TehFalchion is right. Your dislike of a particular character is your opinion, and most of us here respect other's opinions. It's the method you used to communicate that opinion that would be the reason for the hate. | r/mylittlepony hates 'Advice Animal' posts. |
NigzStillNiggin | Good god, Trayvon didn't punch zimmerman in the back of the head, he smashed his head off the floor. Trayvon had fucked up knuckles from punching GZ's nose, that doesn't immediately mean there will be blood under Trayvons fingernails.
I'd like to meet this youtuber, lay him on the ground, then punch him a few times in the face. Lets see if his head bangs off the ground behind him.
tldr, people are retarded. | Good god, Trayvon didn't punch zimmerman in the back of the head, he smashed his head off the floor. Trayvon had fucked up knuckles from punching GZ's nose, that doesn't immediately mean there will be blood under Trayvons fingernails.
I'd like to meet this youtuber, lay him on the ground, then punch him a few times in the face. Lets see if his head bangs off the ground behind him.
tldr, people are retarded.
| TrayvonMartin | t5_2tsst | caw1l8g | Good god, Trayvon didn't punch zimmerman in the back of the head, he smashed his head off the floor. Trayvon had fucked up knuckles from punching GZ's nose, that doesn't immediately mean there will be blood under Trayvons fingernails.
I'd like to meet this youtuber, lay him on the ground, then punch him a few times in the face. Lets see if his head bangs off the ground behind him. | people are retarded. |
ZappyKins | Um, no, because it is an essential oil and it is too strong for your skin. IT is an unsafe thing for you to do. You might get away with it for a while, but soon you will develop a chemical sensitivity to it and never be able to use it again.
If you want, you should dilute it in a carrier (pressed) oil. I would recommend coconut or sweet almond oil.
Think of it this way, if you have a headache and take a Tylenol, it goes away right? For a bad one, say you take 10. Then you need a new liver.
TL/DR Do not apply undiluted essential oils to your skin or you are asking for trouble. | Um, no, because it is an essential oil and it is too strong for your skin. IT is an unsafe thing for you to do. You might get away with it for a while, but soon you will develop a chemical sensitivity to it and never be able to use it again.
If you want, you should dilute it in a carrier (pressed) oil. I would recommend coconut or sweet almond oil.
Think of it this way, if you have a headache and take a Tylenol, it goes away right? For a bad one, say you take 10. Then you need a new liver.
TL/DR Do not apply undiluted essential oils to your skin or you are asking for trouble.
| wicked_edge | t5_2s46m | cbvqhqq | Um, no, because it is an essential oil and it is too strong for your skin. IT is an unsafe thing for you to do. You might get away with it for a while, but soon you will develop a chemical sensitivity to it and never be able to use it again.
If you want, you should dilute it in a carrier (pressed) oil. I would recommend coconut or sweet almond oil.
Think of it this way, if you have a headache and take a Tylenol, it goes away right? For a bad one, say you take 10. Then you need a new liver. | Do not apply undiluted essential oils to your skin or you are asking for trouble. |
_pi | Speaking as someone with a lax Jewish up bringing and who's personally an atheist, all religions consider themselves "chosen"(where in reality the real word differs). Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have the same type of clauses. The Qur'an actually justifies the existence of Islam by saying that Mohammad was chosen as the prophet because of the failure of the previous Abrahamic prophets/religions. Christianity has a muddled view of the "Old Covenant".
Tl;dr being "chosen" is an aspect of faith which is why so many people here are pretty much saying "we just are, don't worry about it." | Speaking as someone with a lax Jewish up bringing and who's personally an atheist, all religions consider themselves "chosen"(where in reality the real word differs). Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have the same type of clauses. The Qur'an actually justifies the existence of Islam by saying that Mohammad was chosen as the prophet because of the failure of the previous Abrahamic prophets/religions. Christianity has a muddled view of the "Old Covenant".
Tl;dr being "chosen" is an aspect of faith which is why so many people here are pretty much saying "we just are, don't worry about it."
| Judaism | t5_2qi67 | cawef9m | Speaking as someone with a lax Jewish up bringing and who's personally an atheist, all religions consider themselves "chosen"(where in reality the real word differs). Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have the same type of clauses. The Qur'an actually justifies the existence of Islam by saying that Mohammad was chosen as the prophet because of the failure of the previous Abrahamic prophets/religions. Christianity has a muddled view of the "Old Covenant". | being "chosen" is an aspect of faith which is why so many people here are pretty much saying "we just are, don't worry about it." |
Beor | Ok kids, Meatball-fan time so listen up.
Points per game... I'll give ya. But what about an inability for an offense to score and how it affected the "greatness" of a Defense?
Keeping the fact that the 77 Falcons and 85 Bears played a different number of games, the strength of opponent/schedule was vastly different.
In their 14 games, the 77 Falcons played teams with an average Offensive PPG of 15.791 and those opponents had a combined .449 winning percentage. The 85 Bears played teams with an average Offensive PPG of 21.043 and a combined .473 winning percentage (given their respective schedules, this turns into more than 1 extra win on the record of an average opponent facing the Bears)
Added to that Offensive PPG stat is that the lowest PPG for any team the Bears played in 85 was (coincidentally enough) the 85 Falcons, with 17.625 PPG. In the 77 Season the Falcons played only 3 teams (4 games) with a higher PPG: The Rams at 21.571 (twice), The Patriots at 19.857 PPG and The Bears at 18.214 PPG.
Could it be that Offenses were just worse in 77 or that rules changes allowed an Offense to be better in 85? Possibly the rules, as there were about 7 major rule changes from 78 through 85 that could hinder a Defenses performance including:
1978 - Defenders are permitted to make contact with receivers only to a point of five yards beyond the line of scrimmage, applying only to the time before the ball is thrown, at which point any contact is interference.
The penalty for intentional grounding is reduced from a loss of down and 15 yards to a loss of down and 10 yards from the previous spot (or at the spot of the foul if the spot is 10 yards or more behind the line of scrimmage).
1979 - Players cannot use their helmets to butt, spear, or ram an opponent. Any player who uses the crown or the top of his helmet unnecessarily will be called for unnecessary roughness.
1980 - Players are prohibited from striking, swinging, or clubbing to the head, face, or neck. The personal foul could be called whether or not the initial contact was made below the neck.
1985 - Goaltending (leaping up to deflect a kick as it passes through the goal posts) is illegal.
Now I said I wouldn't use the 16 game schedule as a means for judging points per game, but the fact that these guys had to extend their season by an extra two games undeniably would have an affect on them. Ask anyone who played that 77 season to compare it to the 78 season what they think of those extra two games and I'm sure most were not be in favor of the additional physical toll it took.
TL;DR, The 77 Falcons look better on paper because they played weaker teams with looser rules, thus allowing them to hold opponents to an average of 9.2 PPG over 14 games, compared to the 85 Bears allowing 12.375 PPG over 16 games.
| Ok kids, Meatball-fan time so listen up.
Points per game... I'll give ya. But what about an inability for an offense to score and how it affected the "greatness" of a Defense?
Keeping the fact that the 77 Falcons and 85 Bears played a different number of games, the strength of opponent/schedule was vastly different.
In their 14 games, the 77 Falcons played teams with an average Offensive PPG of 15.791 and those opponents had a combined .449 winning percentage. The 85 Bears played teams with an average Offensive PPG of 21.043 and a combined .473 winning percentage (given their respective schedules, this turns into more than 1 extra win on the record of an average opponent facing the Bears)
Added to that Offensive PPG stat is that the lowest PPG for any team the Bears played in 85 was (coincidentally enough) the 85 Falcons, with 17.625 PPG. In the 77 Season the Falcons played only 3 teams (4 games) with a higher PPG: The Rams at 21.571 (twice), The Patriots at 19.857 PPG and The Bears at 18.214 PPG.
Could it be that Offenses were just worse in 77 or that rules changes allowed an Offense to be better in 85? Possibly the rules, as there were about 7 major rule changes from 78 through 85 that could hinder a Defenses performance including:
1978 - Defenders are permitted to make contact with receivers only to a point of five yards beyond the line of scrimmage, applying only to the time before the ball is thrown, at which point any contact is interference.
The penalty for intentional grounding is reduced from a loss of down and 15 yards to a loss of down and 10 yards from the previous spot (or at the spot of the foul if the spot is 10 yards or more behind the line of scrimmage).
1979 - Players cannot use their helmets to butt, spear, or ram an opponent. Any player who uses the crown or the top of his helmet unnecessarily will be called for unnecessary roughness.
1980 - Players are prohibited from striking, swinging, or clubbing to the head, face, or neck. The personal foul could be called whether or not the initial contact was made below the neck.
1985 - Goaltending (leaping up to deflect a kick as it passes through the goal posts) is illegal.
Now I said I wouldn't use the 16 game schedule as a means for judging points per game, but the fact that these guys had to extend their season by an extra two games undeniably would have an affect on them. Ask anyone who played that 77 season to compare it to the 78 season what they think of those extra two games and I'm sure most were not be in favor of the additional physical toll it took.
TL;DR, The 77 Falcons look better on paper because they played weaker teams with looser rules, thus allowing them to hold opponents to an average of 9.2 PPG over 14 games, compared to the 85 Bears allowing 12.375 PPG over 16 games.
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | cawl3oa | Ok kids, Meatball-fan time so listen up.
Points per game... I'll give ya. But what about an inability for an offense to score and how it affected the "greatness" of a Defense?
Keeping the fact that the 77 Falcons and 85 Bears played a different number of games, the strength of opponent/schedule was vastly different.
In their 14 games, the 77 Falcons played teams with an average Offensive PPG of 15.791 and those opponents had a combined .449 winning percentage. The 85 Bears played teams with an average Offensive PPG of 21.043 and a combined .473 winning percentage (given their respective schedules, this turns into more than 1 extra win on the record of an average opponent facing the Bears)
Added to that Offensive PPG stat is that the lowest PPG for any team the Bears played in 85 was (coincidentally enough) the 85 Falcons, with 17.625 PPG. In the 77 Season the Falcons played only 3 teams (4 games) with a higher PPG: The Rams at 21.571 (twice), The Patriots at 19.857 PPG and The Bears at 18.214 PPG.
Could it be that Offenses were just worse in 77 or that rules changes allowed an Offense to be better in 85? Possibly the rules, as there were about 7 major rule changes from 78 through 85 that could hinder a Defenses performance including:
1978 - Defenders are permitted to make contact with receivers only to a point of five yards beyond the line of scrimmage, applying only to the time before the ball is thrown, at which point any contact is interference.
The penalty for intentional grounding is reduced from a loss of down and 15 yards to a loss of down and 10 yards from the previous spot (or at the spot of the foul if the spot is 10 yards or more behind the line of scrimmage).
1979 - Players cannot use their helmets to butt, spear, or ram an opponent. Any player who uses the crown or the top of his helmet unnecessarily will be called for unnecessary roughness.
1980 - Players are prohibited from striking, swinging, or clubbing to the head, face, or neck. The personal foul could be called whether or not the initial contact was made below the neck.
1985 - Goaltending (leaping up to deflect a kick as it passes through the goal posts) is illegal.
Now I said I wouldn't use the 16 game schedule as a means for judging points per game, but the fact that these guys had to extend their season by an extra two games undeniably would have an affect on them. Ask anyone who played that 77 season to compare it to the 78 season what they think of those extra two games and I'm sure most were not be in favor of the additional physical toll it took. | The 77 Falcons look better on paper because they played weaker teams with looser rules, thus allowing them to hold opponents to an average of 9.2 PPG over 14 games, compared to the 85 Bears allowing 12.375 PPG over 16 games. |
Diet_Doctor_Thunder | Actually, running the outriggers down would have made it much worse. They can basically become ice skates on smooth hills like this one, especially once the machine has already gained a lot of momentum. It would also take away from the operators control (you can't steer outriggers).
And by the sound of it, the engine was not running and the whining that you hear is actually the weight of the crane turning the transmission and engine over. Yes, these machines are generally underpowered for travel as they are off-road and moved from job to job via low-boy trailer.
Tldr; Running floats down would make it worse.
Source: I work for a crane company and operate cranes and heavy equipment.
EDIT: Words. | Actually, running the outriggers down would have made it much worse. They can basically become ice skates on smooth hills like this one, especially once the machine has already gained a lot of momentum. It would also take away from the operators control (you can't steer outriggers).
And by the sound of it, the engine was not running and the whining that you hear is actually the weight of the crane turning the transmission and engine over. Yes, these machines are generally underpowered for travel as they are off-road and moved from job to job via low-boy trailer.
Tldr; Running floats down would make it worse.
Source: I work for a crane company and operate cranes and heavy equipment.
EDIT: Words.
| nononono | t5_2w1gn | ccd839y | Actually, running the outriggers down would have made it much worse. They can basically become ice skates on smooth hills like this one, especially once the machine has already gained a lot of momentum. It would also take away from the operators control (you can't steer outriggers).
And by the sound of it, the engine was not running and the whining that you hear is actually the weight of the crane turning the transmission and engine over. Yes, these machines are generally underpowered for travel as they are off-road and moved from job to job via low-boy trailer. | Running floats down would make it worse.
Source: I work for a crane company and operate cranes and heavy equipment.
EDIT: Words. |
PumbaBear | RNG isn't fun and hasn't ever been fun except for the small handful of people it benefits in the short term. In my opinion it is terrible game design that makes me not care about what I'm working towards.
Should be more skill based for rewards but that doesn't cater to the big crowd of casuals that actually bring in the money.
TL:DR I don't want RNG at all but my demographic in wow is too small anymore to really give a fuck about. | RNG isn't fun and hasn't ever been fun except for the small handful of people it benefits in the short term. In my opinion it is terrible game design that makes me not care about what I'm working towards.
Should be more skill based for rewards but that doesn't cater to the big crowd of casuals that actually bring in the money.
TL:DR I don't want RNG at all but my demographic in wow is too small anymore to really give a fuck about.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | cawlemt | RNG isn't fun and hasn't ever been fun except for the small handful of people it benefits in the short term. In my opinion it is terrible game design that makes me not care about what I'm working towards.
Should be more skill based for rewards but that doesn't cater to the big crowd of casuals that actually bring in the money. | I don't want RNG at all but my demographic in wow is too small anymore to really give a fuck about. |
geekcroft | Hate to say it, but just wait - you will have reasons for it to go in - common issues with the R56 S at least below;
1) Tension Chain Pin - AKA Death Rattle.
2) Turbo Intake/Outlet pipe Oil Leak
3) Boot Lid malfunction (due to Corrosion under the Number Plate I believe)
4) Engine Carbon buildup.
However, and its a big however - the car is still 110% worth all the above.
TL:DR - OP get an S. It's got niggles but worth it. Gloryhunter91, be prepared for some bills but put up with it, shes a top car after all ;)
| Hate to say it, but just wait - you will have reasons for it to go in - common issues with the R56 S at least below;
1) Tension Chain Pin - AKA Death Rattle.
2) Turbo Intake/Outlet pipe Oil Leak
3) Boot Lid malfunction (due to Corrosion under the Number Plate I believe)
4) Engine Carbon buildup.
However, and its a big however - the car is still 110% worth all the above.
TL:DR - OP get an S. It's got niggles but worth it. Gloryhunter91, be prepared for some bills but put up with it, shes a top car after all ;)
| MINI | t5_2rutj | cawmcgc | Hate to say it, but just wait - you will have reasons for it to go in - common issues with the R56 S at least below;
1) Tension Chain Pin - AKA Death Rattle.
2) Turbo Intake/Outlet pipe Oil Leak
3) Boot Lid malfunction (due to Corrosion under the Number Plate I believe)
4) Engine Carbon buildup.
However, and its a big however - the car is still 110% worth all the above. | OP get an S. It's got niggles but worth it. Gloryhunter91, be prepared for some bills but put up with it, shes a top car after all ;) |
legallynerd | If you're looking for usefulness, may I suggest that you either minor in Computer Science/Digital Humanities or in Statistics alongside Sociology?
Sociology uses quite a bit of statistics for it's quantitative research.
Digital Humanities (DH) partly teaches you how to visualize data, as well as to collect data.
Computer Science (CS) would also be helpful as it would give you a background in programming, which is also extremely useful. My professor/supervisor wishes she had a CS background. It's the difference between using tools to study Sociology and making the tools to study Sociology.
DH/CS would also be useful for history; I know Masters students at Western who use DH.
**TL;DR** Take stats, digital humanities, and computer science. | If you're looking for usefulness, may I suggest that you either minor in Computer Science/Digital Humanities or in Statistics alongside Sociology?
Sociology uses quite a bit of statistics for it's quantitative research.
Digital Humanities (DH) partly teaches you how to visualize data, as well as to collect data.
Computer Science (CS) would also be helpful as it would give you a background in programming, which is also extremely useful. My professor/supervisor wishes she had a CS background. It's the difference between using tools to study Sociology and making the tools to study Sociology.
DH/CS would also be useful for history; I know Masters students at Western who use DH.
TL;DR Take stats, digital humanities, and computer science.
| sociology | t5_2qhbo | cawzjwt | If you're looking for usefulness, may I suggest that you either minor in Computer Science/Digital Humanities or in Statistics alongside Sociology?
Sociology uses quite a bit of statistics for it's quantitative research.
Digital Humanities (DH) partly teaches you how to visualize data, as well as to collect data.
Computer Science (CS) would also be helpful as it would give you a background in programming, which is also extremely useful. My professor/supervisor wishes she had a CS background. It's the difference between using tools to study Sociology and making the tools to study Sociology.
DH/CS would also be useful for history; I know Masters students at Western who use DH. | Take stats, digital humanities, and computer science. |
robert8119 | PhD in a public school here. If they would pay us, I'd be there in a moment. I only stay in public education b/c they actually pay much better than Charter / private schools in my area. I see the future of education being online or in a privatized setting. The miscreants will overrun the public setting. Honestly, there are a lot of great learners and educators around. The public school system is still salvageable, but it will take a vast fiscal effort on the part of the state's (any state) lawmakers to begin to offer salaries equitable with what Master's degree graduate holders can procure in the private sector.
TL;DR - Great minds will not be drawn to teaching. Education will move to online areans.
Edit: Removed the irony. | PhD in a public school here. If they would pay us, I'd be there in a moment. I only stay in public education b/c they actually pay much better than Charter / private schools in my area. I see the future of education being online or in a privatized setting. The miscreants will overrun the public setting. Honestly, there are a lot of great learners and educators around. The public school system is still salvageable, but it will take a vast fiscal effort on the part of the state's (any state) lawmakers to begin to offer salaries equitable with what Master's degree graduate holders can procure in the private sector.
TL;DR - Great minds will not be drawn to teaching. Education will move to online areans.
Edit: Removed the irony.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cawscx8 | PhD in a public school here. If they would pay us, I'd be there in a moment. I only stay in public education b/c they actually pay much better than Charter / private schools in my area. I see the future of education being online or in a privatized setting. The miscreants will overrun the public setting. Honestly, there are a lot of great learners and educators around. The public school system is still salvageable, but it will take a vast fiscal effort on the part of the state's (any state) lawmakers to begin to offer salaries equitable with what Master's degree graduate holders can procure in the private sector. | Great minds will not be drawn to teaching. Education will move to online areans.
Edit: Removed the irony. |
MrCassiBro | Hi-Jacking top comment to explain in case some people might not speak English as their first language or just don't get it:
The bus represents the game lobby, and the first poster says he's forced to make the decision: "Do I deal with this maniac actually trolling, and have to potentially spend 20 minutes ingame with this troll and lose the LP, or do i just dodge now and settle for -10 and the wait 30 mins for the next queue?". Riotpls fix this by letting people in lobby vote to kick certain people if they behave like this.
**RiotYmir responds with:**
Imagine you could vote whenever someone said "Mid or Feed" to kick them from lobby, and re-queue. This would start a cycle of "Nope. Kick him." Imagine going into lobby with a 3 man premade "You're first pick, but my buddy isn't getting ADC teemo? Vote." That's at least 3/4 votes against you already. Sure someone else in the lobby may want to play, but they can't (or won't) speak up, or the vote just jumps to them. No queue will ever go through, realistically there aren't that many sensible people in every game lobby. Most lobbies will just end with kicks, nobody will even get into a game. The chances of everyone getting the role they seek are so low, it's almost bound to never happen. The League will never be the same.
**Super tl;dr:** Voting in lobby might sound good, but it really isn't. Read either post if you really want to know why.
edit: for those saying 3/4 votes against you isn't possible in ranked, i was also taking normal queues into consideration. | Hi-Jacking top comment to explain in case some people might not speak English as their first language or just don't get it:
The bus represents the game lobby, and the first poster says he's forced to make the decision: "Do I deal with this maniac actually trolling, and have to potentially spend 20 minutes ingame with this troll and lose the LP, or do i just dodge now and settle for -10 and the wait 30 mins for the next queue?". Riotpls fix this by letting people in lobby vote to kick certain people if they behave like this.
RiotYmir responds with:
Imagine you could vote whenever someone said "Mid or Feed" to kick them from lobby, and re-queue. This would start a cycle of "Nope. Kick him." Imagine going into lobby with a 3 man premade "You're first pick, but my buddy isn't getting ADC teemo? Vote." That's at least 3/4 votes against you already. Sure someone else in the lobby may want to play, but they can't (or won't) speak up, or the vote just jumps to them. No queue will ever go through, realistically there aren't that many sensible people in every game lobby. Most lobbies will just end with kicks, nobody will even get into a game. The chances of everyone getting the role they seek are so low, it's almost bound to never happen. The League will never be the same.
Super tl;dr: Voting in lobby might sound good, but it really isn't. Read either post if you really want to know why.
edit: for those saying 3/4 votes against you isn't possible in ranked, i was also taking normal queues into consideration.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cawsdiu | Hi-Jacking top comment to explain in case some people might not speak English as their first language or just don't get it:
The bus represents the game lobby, and the first poster says he's forced to make the decision: "Do I deal with this maniac actually trolling, and have to potentially spend 20 minutes ingame with this troll and lose the LP, or do i just dodge now and settle for -10 and the wait 30 mins for the next queue?". Riotpls fix this by letting people in lobby vote to kick certain people if they behave like this.
RiotYmir responds with:
Imagine you could vote whenever someone said "Mid or Feed" to kick them from lobby, and re-queue. This would start a cycle of "Nope. Kick him." Imagine going into lobby with a 3 man premade "You're first pick, but my buddy isn't getting ADC teemo? Vote." That's at least 3/4 votes against you already. Sure someone else in the lobby may want to play, but they can't (or won't) speak up, or the vote just jumps to them. No queue will ever go through, realistically there aren't that many sensible people in every game lobby. Most lobbies will just end with kicks, nobody will even get into a game. The chances of everyone getting the role they seek are so low, it's almost bound to never happen. The League will never be the same.
Super | Voting in lobby might sound good, but it really isn't. Read either post if you really want to know why.
edit: for those saying 3/4 votes against you isn't possible in ranked, i was also taking normal queues into consideration. |
Frubzors | I hate to be the guy that has to say it, but I believe that if this was ever implemented it would only ever work in Ranked matches.
It would never work in Normals. Blind Pick/Draft, you can have more than two people queueing up together. This makes it so they can troll whoever the fuck they want to troll in whatever way they can. This can already cause problems for solo players because then the teamed up players can just mess with the solo player(s).
If this is implemented in a ranked queue, you have a max of two people queueing together. With a max of one duo queue per team. Meaning there are two people that may be playing together, and then three solo players. Two people can't make a vote by themselves. They have to convince at least one other person to go along with them. And as long as somebody isn't being toxic, they have no worries. The other players won't mob mentality that because there's only five of them total. Mob mentality can't apply there. Two people can't really start it happening in such a short amount of time. And if the duo queue partners start being toxic about it, the other three have the power to veto them out of the game. Which is important.
TL;DR This system can't work in Normal games due to more than two people queueing together. It CAN work in ranked because there is a max of one duo queue with three solo players.
Still, that doesn't mean this isn't a flawed system. | I hate to be the guy that has to say it, but I believe that if this was ever implemented it would only ever work in Ranked matches.
It would never work in Normals. Blind Pick/Draft, you can have more than two people queueing up together. This makes it so they can troll whoever the fuck they want to troll in whatever way they can. This can already cause problems for solo players because then the teamed up players can just mess with the solo player(s).
If this is implemented in a ranked queue, you have a max of two people queueing together. With a max of one duo queue per team. Meaning there are two people that may be playing together, and then three solo players. Two people can't make a vote by themselves. They have to convince at least one other person to go along with them. And as long as somebody isn't being toxic, they have no worries. The other players won't mob mentality that because there's only five of them total. Mob mentality can't apply there. Two people can't really start it happening in such a short amount of time. And if the duo queue partners start being toxic about it, the other three have the power to veto them out of the game. Which is important.
TL;DR This system can't work in Normal games due to more than two people queueing together. It CAN work in ranked because there is a max of one duo queue with three solo players.
Still, that doesn't mean this isn't a flawed system.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cawsqtz | I hate to be the guy that has to say it, but I believe that if this was ever implemented it would only ever work in Ranked matches.
It would never work in Normals. Blind Pick/Draft, you can have more than two people queueing up together. This makes it so they can troll whoever the fuck they want to troll in whatever way they can. This can already cause problems for solo players because then the teamed up players can just mess with the solo player(s).
If this is implemented in a ranked queue, you have a max of two people queueing together. With a max of one duo queue per team. Meaning there are two people that may be playing together, and then three solo players. Two people can't make a vote by themselves. They have to convince at least one other person to go along with them. And as long as somebody isn't being toxic, they have no worries. The other players won't mob mentality that because there's only five of them total. Mob mentality can't apply there. Two people can't really start it happening in such a short amount of time. And if the duo queue partners start being toxic about it, the other three have the power to veto them out of the game. Which is important. | This system can't work in Normal games due to more than two people queueing together. It CAN work in ranked because there is a max of one duo queue with three solo players.
Still, that doesn't mean this isn't a flawed system. |
idontknowhattodohere | Well, to answer your question, we need to delve into the question of, "What is *average* ? " Finding an *average* would be to insinuate that there is such a thing. Statistically speaking, I would say, on average, the age that enjoys most content would be ages 20-30. I have links that will prove this theory, however do not actually have these. These *average* redditors are just looking for an escape from their lives; a way to express themselves without having thorns to face afterwards. With that being said, I think the average redditor is just like you and I. The person looking for a way to glorify themselves in karma, the person to share their skills or their humor, the person to upload hundreds of pictures of cats. There's the problem with finding the *average* redditor. There is no *average*.
**TL;DR** : **They all rule**
Edit 1: Except the ones who say they have ovarian cancer, yet don't really have it. They all suck.
| Well, to answer your question, we need to delve into the question of, "What is average ? " Finding an average would be to insinuate that there is such a thing. Statistically speaking, I would say, on average, the age that enjoys most content would be ages 20-30. I have links that will prove this theory, however do not actually have these. These average redditors are just looking for an escape from their lives; a way to express themselves without having thorns to face afterwards. With that being said, I think the average redditor is just like you and I. The person looking for a way to glorify themselves in karma, the person to share their skills or their humor, the person to upload hundreds of pictures of cats. There's the problem with finding the average redditor. There is no average .
TL;DR : They all rule
Edit 1: Except the ones who say they have ovarian cancer, yet don't really have it. They all suck.
| casualiama | t5_2sxwp | cawsu5z | Well, to answer your question, we need to delve into the question of, "What is average ? " Finding an average would be to insinuate that there is such a thing. Statistically speaking, I would say, on average, the age that enjoys most content would be ages 20-30. I have links that will prove this theory, however do not actually have these. These average redditors are just looking for an escape from their lives; a way to express themselves without having thorns to face afterwards. With that being said, I think the average redditor is just like you and I. The person looking for a way to glorify themselves in karma, the person to share their skills or their humor, the person to upload hundreds of pictures of cats. There's the problem with finding the average redditor. There is no average . | They all rule
Edit 1: Except the ones who say they have ovarian cancer, yet don't really have it. They all suck. |
gesssssss | So you know that every single person who dropped out, did so due to laziness or lack of wits?
I battled mental illness (II Bipolar, Rapid cycling) & physical abuse by my teachers, and barely made it to the end of school. I came out partially blinded in one eye, and riddled with RSI from many years of constant line writing ( funny enough, writing lines does not motivate the depressed, Does help stunt your social growth and limit your support network though)
The single most frustrating issue was being a left hander forced to use my right hand (yay catholic schooling)
I was able to finish my GCSEs & move on due to the advantage of having well off enough parents. Without that advantage I wouldn't have done so. Mums a narcissist, dads a workaholic but at least they have bank eh?
Despite all of the above, luck got me to the end, had my parents been broke and unable to afford the mentors that changed my worldview about education (and convinced me that I was in fact, not evil)? I do not dare even think about that.
TL;DR shove it up your condescending arse, How dare you make light of struggles you clearly know fuck all about.
/Time for the next throwaway
| So you know that every single person who dropped out, did so due to laziness or lack of wits?
I battled mental illness (II Bipolar, Rapid cycling) & physical abuse by my teachers, and barely made it to the end of school. I came out partially blinded in one eye, and riddled with RSI from many years of constant line writing ( funny enough, writing lines does not motivate the depressed, Does help stunt your social growth and limit your support network though)
The single most frustrating issue was being a left hander forced to use my right hand (yay catholic schooling)
I was able to finish my GCSEs & move on due to the advantage of having well off enough parents. Without that advantage I wouldn't have done so. Mums a narcissist, dads a workaholic but at least they have bank eh?
Despite all of the above, luck got me to the end, had my parents been broke and unable to afford the mentors that changed my worldview about education (and convinced me that I was in fact, not evil)? I do not dare even think about that.
TL;DR shove it up your condescending arse, How dare you make light of struggles you clearly know fuck all about.
/Time for the next throwaway
| news | t5_2qh3l | cax9jif | So you know that every single person who dropped out, did so due to laziness or lack of wits?
I battled mental illness (II Bipolar, Rapid cycling) & physical abuse by my teachers, and barely made it to the end of school. I came out partially blinded in one eye, and riddled with RSI from many years of constant line writing ( funny enough, writing lines does not motivate the depressed, Does help stunt your social growth and limit your support network though)
The single most frustrating issue was being a left hander forced to use my right hand (yay catholic schooling)
I was able to finish my GCSEs & move on due to the advantage of having well off enough parents. Without that advantage I wouldn't have done so. Mums a narcissist, dads a workaholic but at least they have bank eh?
Despite all of the above, luck got me to the end, had my parents been broke and unable to afford the mentors that changed my worldview about education (and convinced me that I was in fact, not evil)? I do not dare even think about that. | shove it up your condescending arse, How dare you make light of struggles you clearly know fuck all about.
/Time for the next throwaway |
subjectiveoco | Totally agree with you.
I would also add that we need to examine WHY there is a lack of exposure of non-white people in the media and other places.
I used to intern as a script reader for Hollywood, for example. 90% of the scripts are written to appeal to young white males... hence protagonists are all white males. Once I remarked about this to my boss, arguing that protagonists can be non-white and still appeal to a wide audience. After all, I've related to non-Asian protagonists in movies even though I'm Asian. He just shrugged his shoulders and told me they don't want to take a risk like that. (Don't even get me started on women: TLDR: there are hardly any real women characters anywhere in Hollywood, just sex props. For the same reason that producers are looking for the widest appeal possible)
What I'm getting at is there are systematic causes of why a racially diverse USA seems so white in the media. It isn't just because Asians only make a small percentage of the population, there are choices being made that systematically exclude them (and other minorities) from certain positions. | Totally agree with you.
I would also add that we need to examine WHY there is a lack of exposure of non-white people in the media and other places.
I used to intern as a script reader for Hollywood, for example. 90% of the scripts are written to appeal to young white males... hence protagonists are all white males. Once I remarked about this to my boss, arguing that protagonists can be non-white and still appeal to a wide audience. After all, I've related to non-Asian protagonists in movies even though I'm Asian. He just shrugged his shoulders and told me they don't want to take a risk like that. (Don't even get me started on women: TLDR: there are hardly any real women characters anywhere in Hollywood, just sex props. For the same reason that producers are looking for the widest appeal possible)
What I'm getting at is there are systematic causes of why a racially diverse USA seems so white in the media. It isn't just because Asians only make a small percentage of the population, there are choices being made that systematically exclude them (and other minorities) from certain positions.
| gaybros | t5_2tdzg | caxoko6 | Totally agree with you.
I would also add that we need to examine WHY there is a lack of exposure of non-white people in the media and other places.
I used to intern as a script reader for Hollywood, for example. 90% of the scripts are written to appeal to young white males... hence protagonists are all white males. Once I remarked about this to my boss, arguing that protagonists can be non-white and still appeal to a wide audience. After all, I've related to non-Asian protagonists in movies even though I'm Asian. He just shrugged his shoulders and told me they don't want to take a risk like that. (Don't even get me started on women: | there are hardly any real women characters anywhere in Hollywood, just sex props. For the same reason that producers are looking for the widest appeal possible)
What I'm getting at is there are systematic causes of why a racially diverse USA seems so white in the media. It isn't just because Asians only make a small percentage of the population, there are choices being made that systematically exclude them (and other minorities) from certain positions. |
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