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JackDostoevsky | When it comes to piracy (having pirated in the past, but making an attempt to pirate as little as possible these days) I agree that stealing is stealing -- if someone creates a movie, or music, or a video game or what have you, that they deserve to be paid back for their hard work. However, I do not agree with the methods through which copyrights are put in place and enforced. TPB, while certainly frequented by many, many people who simply do not want to pay, tends to be inflated to a certain degree by the obtuse methods by which publishers enforce their copyrights.
**tl;dr** WikiLeaks presents a more defensible position for freedom of speech. It's much harder to justify piracy as freedom of speech. | When it comes to piracy (having pirated in the past, but making an attempt to pirate as little as possible these days) I agree that stealing is stealing -- if someone creates a movie, or music, or a video game or what have you, that they deserve to be paid back for their hard work. However, I do not agree with the methods through which copyrights are put in place and enforced. TPB, while certainly frequented by many, many people who simply do not want to pay, tends to be inflated to a certain degree by the obtuse methods by which publishers enforce their copyrights.
tl;dr WikiLeaks presents a more defensible position for freedom of speech. It's much harder to justify piracy as freedom of speech.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | c17vw23 | When it comes to piracy (having pirated in the past, but making an attempt to pirate as little as possible these days) I agree that stealing is stealing -- if someone creates a movie, or music, or a video game or what have you, that they deserve to be paid back for their hard work. However, I do not agree with the methods through which copyrights are put in place and enforced. TPB, while certainly frequented by many, many people who simply do not want to pay, tends to be inflated to a certain degree by the obtuse methods by which publishers enforce their copyrights. | WikiLeaks presents a more defensible position for freedom of speech. It's much harder to justify piracy as freedom of speech. |
eviljebus | [Let Me See Here...](
Hmmm 2 million viewers, lots of awards, and lots of praise from critics.
TLDR; yes. | [Let Me See Here...](
Hmmm 2 million viewers, lots of awards, and lots of praise from critics.
TLDR; yes.
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | c17xvu5 | Let Me See Here...](
Hmmm 2 million viewers, lots of awards, and lots of praise from critics. | yes. |
Slashmonkey | McDonalds is a publicly traded corporation, and the owner of this particular McDonalds location is acting as a representative of the company as a whole with his actions. This guy putting up something that suggests a preference for christianity over other religions and views on his store could also impact business at other McDonalds locations and give them a bad name in places where christianity is not the favoured religion.
TL;DR: This franchise owner shouldn't express any views under the McDonalds brand name unless it is expressly approved by the head office. | McDonalds is a publicly traded corporation, and the owner of this particular McDonalds location is acting as a representative of the company as a whole with his actions. This guy putting up something that suggests a preference for christianity over other religions and views on his store could also impact business at other McDonalds locations and give them a bad name in places where christianity is not the favoured religion.
TL;DR: This franchise owner shouldn't express any views under the McDonalds brand name unless it is expressly approved by the head office.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c17ycwi | McDonalds is a publicly traded corporation, and the owner of this particular McDonalds location is acting as a representative of the company as a whole with his actions. This guy putting up something that suggests a preference for christianity over other religions and views on his store could also impact business at other McDonalds locations and give them a bad name in places where christianity is not the favoured religion. | This franchise owner shouldn't express any views under the McDonalds brand name unless it is expressly approved by the head office. |
bryanramone | someone came in and was a dick to me because of some sale, I smiled and tried hard to make it better but the guy was getting worse. he finished and left.
a few minutes later the phone rings and I answer, its the guys voice.
"I NEED TO SPEAK TO THE MANGER ON DUTY NOW!"
"one second" put on hold for 2 min. and answer it again,
"this is bryanramone can I help you?"
"I WAS JUST IN THERE A FEW MINUTES AGO AND I BOUGHT SUCH AND SUCH AND THE CASHIER WAS BEING A COMPLETE ASSHOLE TO ME."
"Ahh, i see, well maybe you shouldn't have been such a dick to him, SIR."- I Hang up.
TL;DR: being a shift supervisor and having less than 2 weeks left is awesome.
| someone came in and was a dick to me because of some sale, I smiled and tried hard to make it better but the guy was getting worse. he finished and left.
a few minutes later the phone rings and I answer, its the guys voice.
"I NEED TO SPEAK TO THE MANGER ON DUTY NOW!"
"one second" put on hold for 2 min. and answer it again,
"this is bryanramone can I help you?"
"I WAS JUST IN THERE A FEW MINUTES AGO AND I BOUGHT SUCH AND SUCH AND THE CASHIER WAS BEING A COMPLETE ASSHOLE TO ME."
"Ahh, i see, well maybe you shouldn't have been such a dick to him, SIR."- I Hang up.
TL;DR: being a shift supervisor and having less than 2 weeks left is awesome.
| fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu | t5_2qqlo | c180kz7 | someone came in and was a dick to me because of some sale, I smiled and tried hard to make it better but the guy was getting worse. he finished and left.
a few minutes later the phone rings and I answer, its the guys voice.
"I NEED TO SPEAK TO THE MANGER ON DUTY NOW!"
"one second" put on hold for 2 min. and answer it again,
"this is bryanramone can I help you?"
"I WAS JUST IN THERE A FEW MINUTES AGO AND I BOUGHT SUCH AND SUCH AND THE CASHIER WAS BEING A COMPLETE ASSHOLE TO ME."
"Ahh, i see, well maybe you shouldn't have been such a dick to him, SIR."- I Hang up. | being a shift supervisor and having less than 2 weeks left is awesome. |
Nard_Dawg | I don't really think that sleeping in the same bed as one of my close friends is gay... I've done it before because you just get hamboned and it's like, "I've known you for 9 years dude I'm not sleeping on the floor." I think it's a stupid thing to consider as gay, it's like thinking that lying beside your friend on the beach when you're both in bathing suits is gay. Frankly, guys need to get over this, "Holy shit what if people think I'm gay" worry over drinking cosmos or something else typically considered gay. I don't think it's a case of needing to "embrace your gayness" I think it's an issue of, hold on a second, am I just taking this way too seriously.
It's kind of like how straight guys sometimes say, "There's a gay guy at this party? He better not hit on me or else I'll beat the shit out of him." It demonstrates a gung-ho, I'd better not be even peripherally associated with anything gay, attitude. Plus, it's stupid because do we straight guys hit on every girl we come across? No, we don't, just ones we find sexually attractive, and I'm sure most gay guys feel that the guy who showed up to the party covered in cheeto dust isn't very attractive. Also, it assumes that straight guys automatically are able to beat up gay guys, which isn't the case.
Tl;dr maybe not even worth reading, but it isn't a case of embracing your gayness, just realizing that some of this shit isn't actually gay and not worrying about being remotely associated with it. Also don't assume gay guys find you irresistible and can't fight. | I don't really think that sleeping in the same bed as one of my close friends is gay... I've done it before because you just get hamboned and it's like, "I've known you for 9 years dude I'm not sleeping on the floor." I think it's a stupid thing to consider as gay, it's like thinking that lying beside your friend on the beach when you're both in bathing suits is gay. Frankly, guys need to get over this, "Holy shit what if people think I'm gay" worry over drinking cosmos or something else typically considered gay. I don't think it's a case of needing to "embrace your gayness" I think it's an issue of, hold on a second, am I just taking this way too seriously.
It's kind of like how straight guys sometimes say, "There's a gay guy at this party? He better not hit on me or else I'll beat the shit out of him." It demonstrates a gung-ho, I'd better not be even peripherally associated with anything gay, attitude. Plus, it's stupid because do we straight guys hit on every girl we come across? No, we don't, just ones we find sexually attractive, and I'm sure most gay guys feel that the guy who showed up to the party covered in cheeto dust isn't very attractive. Also, it assumes that straight guys automatically are able to beat up gay guys, which isn't the case.
Tl;dr maybe not even worth reading, but it isn't a case of embracing your gayness, just realizing that some of this shit isn't actually gay and not worrying about being remotely associated with it. Also don't assume gay guys find you irresistible and can't fight.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1896h8 | I don't really think that sleeping in the same bed as one of my close friends is gay... I've done it before because you just get hamboned and it's like, "I've known you for 9 years dude I'm not sleeping on the floor." I think it's a stupid thing to consider as gay, it's like thinking that lying beside your friend on the beach when you're both in bathing suits is gay. Frankly, guys need to get over this, "Holy shit what if people think I'm gay" worry over drinking cosmos or something else typically considered gay. I don't think it's a case of needing to "embrace your gayness" I think it's an issue of, hold on a second, am I just taking this way too seriously.
It's kind of like how straight guys sometimes say, "There's a gay guy at this party? He better not hit on me or else I'll beat the shit out of him." It demonstrates a gung-ho, I'd better not be even peripherally associated with anything gay, attitude. Plus, it's stupid because do we straight guys hit on every girl we come across? No, we don't, just ones we find sexually attractive, and I'm sure most gay guys feel that the guy who showed up to the party covered in cheeto dust isn't very attractive. Also, it assumes that straight guys automatically are able to beat up gay guys, which isn't the case. | maybe not even worth reading, but it isn't a case of embracing your gayness, just realizing that some of this shit isn't actually gay and not worrying about being remotely associated with it. Also don't assume gay guys find you irresistible and can't fight. |
dados | This comes as no surprise to me; this past summer, I was enrolled in an international language school in Spain and one of my classmates was a 23-year old Saudi, the son of an oil elite. That guy loved to dance, and told me exactly about these kind of events. As he described them to me, he and maybe a group of a couple dozen friends would go outside of Riyadh to a secluded house where they could party- just dance and have a good time. He's a devout Muslim who abstains from alcohol, but like cigarettes, so he and his other friends would risk torture, extortion, jail time, and of course family shame just so they could dance a bit.
It really changes how you think of dancing; something so indispensable to one's culture could be taboo in another.
The guy also raises, owns, and bets on horses, in addition to being as horny as any young man in a repressed-Islamic nation would be.
/cool story, bro
**TL;DR** :EDIT : I met a Saudi this summer who is the son an oil elite who went to secret dance parties like this one outside of Riyadh and faced dire consequences, all so he could **dance**.
P.S.- I'd like to send him this cable to read, but don't wish him any harm, I just don't know the situation with Saudi Arabia's censorship of wikileaks' mirrors...any ideas reddit? | This comes as no surprise to me; this past summer, I was enrolled in an international language school in Spain and one of my classmates was a 23-year old Saudi, the son of an oil elite. That guy loved to dance, and told me exactly about these kind of events. As he described them to me, he and maybe a group of a couple dozen friends would go outside of Riyadh to a secluded house where they could party- just dance and have a good time. He's a devout Muslim who abstains from alcohol, but like cigarettes, so he and his other friends would risk torture, extortion, jail time, and of course family shame just so they could dance a bit.
It really changes how you think of dancing; something so indispensable to one's culture could be taboo in another.
The guy also raises, owns, and bets on horses, in addition to being as horny as any young man in a repressed-Islamic nation would be.
/cool story, bro
TL;DR :EDIT : I met a Saudi this summer who is the son an oil elite who went to secret dance parties like this one outside of Riyadh and faced dire consequences, all so he could dance .
P.S.- I'd like to send him this cable to read, but don't wish him any harm, I just don't know the situation with Saudi Arabia's censorship of wikileaks' mirrors...any ideas reddit?
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c18ahws | This comes as no surprise to me; this past summer, I was enrolled in an international language school in Spain and one of my classmates was a 23-year old Saudi, the son of an oil elite. That guy loved to dance, and told me exactly about these kind of events. As he described them to me, he and maybe a group of a couple dozen friends would go outside of Riyadh to a secluded house where they could party- just dance and have a good time. He's a devout Muslim who abstains from alcohol, but like cigarettes, so he and his other friends would risk torture, extortion, jail time, and of course family shame just so they could dance a bit.
It really changes how you think of dancing; something so indispensable to one's culture could be taboo in another.
The guy also raises, owns, and bets on horses, in addition to being as horny as any young man in a repressed-Islamic nation would be.
/cool story, bro | EDIT : I met a Saudi this summer who is the son an oil elite who went to secret dance parties like this one outside of Riyadh and faced dire consequences, all so he could dance .
P.S.- I'd like to send him this cable to read, but don't wish him any harm, I just don't know the situation with Saudi Arabia's censorship of wikileaks' mirrors...any ideas reddit? |
RollerDoll | In a vacuum, I would agree with you. Asian, East Indian, and white men usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to affirmative action. And many people who benefit from affirmative action policies disagree with the practice because they want to succeed by their own merit and not because of their race/gender/class, etc.
But.... being born the gender/class/race you are in the neighborhood you are is either your good luck or your rotten luck. Because of the way schools are funded, poverty and wealth perpetuate themselves. A good alternative to affirmative action would be levy equalization, where all taxes to fund schools were dumped in a giant state pot and divied up among all schools so that the same amount of money was spent per student (although that wouldn't solve all the problems, because family life is just as important as school and parents of kids would already have been disadvantaged by the old system).
I understand and admire the notion of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps," but I think success is the exception rather than the rule. Not because of lack of determination, but simply because there's only so much you can do for yourself without a good education.
Affirmative action is flawed, and school levy equalization is better... but I'll take what I can get. One of the problems with affirmative action is that it benefits a few minority families who are able to build wealth, and then they flee their old neighborhoods for places with better schools and less crime and nothing changes overall for the community. The end goal in my view is to level the economic playing field by building wealth so that there aren't such stark differences between "good neighborhoods" and "bad neighborhoods." (Visit Memphis, TN sometime).
I don't think there is a lot of racism compared to 30, 40 years ago. But I think the racism that still exists is based on preconceived stereotypes about different classes of people.... and those stereotypes are reinforced because wealth and poverty are perpetuated by the disparity of our school systems.
I'm going off on a tangent though -- I'll get back to this particular LGBT case. Someone else on this thread mentioned that H.D. probably uses this information to make sure the pool of applicants proportionally matches the pool of hires. I see no problem with that, and it's pretty refreshing to see LGBT folks to be added to that list.
Not all LGBT kids grow up in an accepting community where their sexual orientation is a non-issue. And in the case of LGBT issues, I think it's less a case of economic parity than an exposure one. I don't think people should be "out" unless they want to, and I don't think every LGBT person should be an activist if they don't want to. But I do think we've been able to get as far as we have in the US over the past ten years because of visibility. People are much less likely to be homophobes if they like and respect people they know who are LGBT.
TL;DR It's easy to be against affirmative action if you came from a middle-class or wealthy white, Asian, or East Indian family. School levy equalization is more effective than affirmative action, but widespread efforts for that have gotten nowhere. | In a vacuum, I would agree with you. Asian, East Indian, and white men usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to affirmative action. And many people who benefit from affirmative action policies disagree with the practice because they want to succeed by their own merit and not because of their race/gender/class, etc.
But.... being born the gender/class/race you are in the neighborhood you are is either your good luck or your rotten luck. Because of the way schools are funded, poverty and wealth perpetuate themselves. A good alternative to affirmative action would be levy equalization, where all taxes to fund schools were dumped in a giant state pot and divied up among all schools so that the same amount of money was spent per student (although that wouldn't solve all the problems, because family life is just as important as school and parents of kids would already have been disadvantaged by the old system).
I understand and admire the notion of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps," but I think success is the exception rather than the rule. Not because of lack of determination, but simply because there's only so much you can do for yourself without a good education.
Affirmative action is flawed, and school levy equalization is better... but I'll take what I can get. One of the problems with affirmative action is that it benefits a few minority families who are able to build wealth, and then they flee their old neighborhoods for places with better schools and less crime and nothing changes overall for the community. The end goal in my view is to level the economic playing field by building wealth so that there aren't such stark differences between "good neighborhoods" and "bad neighborhoods." (Visit Memphis, TN sometime).
I don't think there is a lot of racism compared to 30, 40 years ago. But I think the racism that still exists is based on preconceived stereotypes about different classes of people.... and those stereotypes are reinforced because wealth and poverty are perpetuated by the disparity of our school systems.
I'm going off on a tangent though -- I'll get back to this particular LGBT case. Someone else on this thread mentioned that H.D. probably uses this information to make sure the pool of applicants proportionally matches the pool of hires. I see no problem with that, and it's pretty refreshing to see LGBT folks to be added to that list.
Not all LGBT kids grow up in an accepting community where their sexual orientation is a non-issue. And in the case of LGBT issues, I think it's less a case of economic parity than an exposure one. I don't think people should be "out" unless they want to, and I don't think every LGBT person should be an activist if they don't want to. But I do think we've been able to get as far as we have in the US over the past ten years because of visibility. People are much less likely to be homophobes if they like and respect people they know who are LGBT.
TL;DR It's easy to be against affirmative action if you came from a middle-class or wealthy white, Asian, or East Indian family. School levy equalization is more effective than affirmative action, but widespread efforts for that have gotten nowhere.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c18kccp | In a vacuum, I would agree with you. Asian, East Indian, and white men usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to affirmative action. And many people who benefit from affirmative action policies disagree with the practice because they want to succeed by their own merit and not because of their race/gender/class, etc.
But.... being born the gender/class/race you are in the neighborhood you are is either your good luck or your rotten luck. Because of the way schools are funded, poverty and wealth perpetuate themselves. A good alternative to affirmative action would be levy equalization, where all taxes to fund schools were dumped in a giant state pot and divied up among all schools so that the same amount of money was spent per student (although that wouldn't solve all the problems, because family life is just as important as school and parents of kids would already have been disadvantaged by the old system).
I understand and admire the notion of "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps," but I think success is the exception rather than the rule. Not because of lack of determination, but simply because there's only so much you can do for yourself without a good education.
Affirmative action is flawed, and school levy equalization is better... but I'll take what I can get. One of the problems with affirmative action is that it benefits a few minority families who are able to build wealth, and then they flee their old neighborhoods for places with better schools and less crime and nothing changes overall for the community. The end goal in my view is to level the economic playing field by building wealth so that there aren't such stark differences between "good neighborhoods" and "bad neighborhoods." (Visit Memphis, TN sometime).
I don't think there is a lot of racism compared to 30, 40 years ago. But I think the racism that still exists is based on preconceived stereotypes about different classes of people.... and those stereotypes are reinforced because wealth and poverty are perpetuated by the disparity of our school systems.
I'm going off on a tangent though -- I'll get back to this particular LGBT case. Someone else on this thread mentioned that H.D. probably uses this information to make sure the pool of applicants proportionally matches the pool of hires. I see no problem with that, and it's pretty refreshing to see LGBT folks to be added to that list.
Not all LGBT kids grow up in an accepting community where their sexual orientation is a non-issue. And in the case of LGBT issues, I think it's less a case of economic parity than an exposure one. I don't think people should be "out" unless they want to, and I don't think every LGBT person should be an activist if they don't want to. But I do think we've been able to get as far as we have in the US over the past ten years because of visibility. People are much less likely to be homophobes if they like and respect people they know who are LGBT. | It's easy to be against affirmative action if you came from a middle-class or wealthy white, Asian, or East Indian family. School levy equalization is more effective than affirmative action, but widespread efforts for that have gotten nowhere. |
sofaking812 | There were a few good points in there, but over all I have to say fuck this article. It criticizes many of the points about the show that I found to be good. Remember, as Kirkman has said in a number of interviews I don’t feel like linking to, the show will be different. Comic fans need to work on embracing this a little better, while still calling out the show on its shit (i.e., T-dawg and the Latino Nursing Posse).
First, the good points in the article:
**More Day-To-Day Survival**
I wanted to see more of this because I feel like seeing the day-to-day survival scenes in the camp is what made the group of survivors feel closer to one another. It let the readers get to know the characters better. Right now in the tv show they just don’t have that sense of ragtag family like they did in the book at this point. I’m hoping this will be fixed early in the second season. Putting scenes like this in place of the Latino Nursing Posse would have been a great service to developing the character.
**More Dale**
> Perhaps if we spent more time with this guy, we'd understand why he felt so close to Amy and Andrea.
I agree that Dale’s budding relationship with Andrea seemed a little forced at the end of the season; however, there is still plenty of time to make up for that at during the second season.
> His character spends a lot of time in the comic trying to protect different characters from themselves. In fact he's the first survivor to warn Rick about the Bermuda love triangle he's about to enter:
Again, plenty of time to fix this during the second season. I think Dale will still have his moment to talk with Rick and Lori.
Now the disagreement begins:
**Instead of "Wife Beater" and "Red Neck Racist," how about Donna, Alan and the Twins?**
Yes, including Allen and family in the show would have been neat. Remove some extra characters (Latino family, Jacqui, T-dog, and some other perhaps) and bring in Allen and family. Having these extra characters actually took away from closeness that is felt by the camp survivors. I think it actually prevented viewers from getting closer to the core survivors (those still alive, minus T-dawg).
*However*, leaving out “"Wife Beater" and "Red Neck Racist"” remove two of the best new additions to the show.
> Ed, the wife-beating jerk, was just that: a wife-beating jerk.
I thought the inclusion of Ed was an awesome idea. It expanded upon the character of Carol greatly, and frankly made her more interesting than she is in the book at this point. I think adding scenes/plots like this to characters already in the book is what makes the show even more interesting for fans of the comic. We got to see the life that Carol and Sophia came from. This was only briefly touched upon in the book. Plus, we got that great scene of Shane beating the hell out of Ed and Carol bashing in dead Ed’s skull.
> Instead of… “Red Neck Racist”
And excluding Merle and Daryl? Seriously, fuck off. Daryl was actually an interesting new character to add to the show. Merle, for his limited screen time, has given us an answered question to speculate over. This in new territory for fans of TWD and I honestly welcome it. I’m genuinely curious to see how/if Merle comes back up in the second season and what path Daryl will take in the show.
> T-Dog was merely a plot device for Merle to go full-blown racist, thus allowing Grimes to play the bad ass.
While I will be the last one to defend T-dawg, his character is just boring, he was not “merely a plot device for Merle to go full-blown racist, thus allowing Grimes to play the bad ass.” A number of other character on the roof or in the building could have been used for this (Glenn, the latino dude, the black lady). Just call T-dawg what he is, a boring character.
**Less Rapist Shane, More Idiotic Shane**
I have really liked what the show has done with the Shane/Rick/Lori triangle, better than in the comic actually. I felt like Shane was an extremely predictable and one dimensional character in the book. The show has made the character of Shane much deeper and more interesting. I think the Shane/Lori attack scene actually showed how crazy Shane is for Lori. Plus, the awesome scene of him leaving Rick at the hospital, thinking he was dead, added a lot of complexity to the triangle. I think it justified Lori getting with Shane in a way the book glossed over as “a time of loneliness and weakness.” I also like that Rick and Lori’s relationship was established as a little rocky before everything went down. Again, I am looking forward to seeing how this will play out differently from the comic.
** Instead Of The CDC, Why Not The Wiltshire Estates?** and **More Mystery, Less Subject TS-19**
> Sadly, my biggest problem with the trip to the CDC was demystifying the zombie outbreak. Jenner basically spells it out that once the victim goes full zombie, they are no longer human. He even charts it out for those still confused, thus changing all the gray morality of Walking Dead to simple black and white.
I don’t mind knowing about the cause of the outbreak. Yes, some things in the CDC were hokey (talking computer and explosion), but the wider tv audience might expect some answers. I know it was really bothering some of my friends not knowing what happened. I think the TS-19 computer animation and explanation was pretty neat and well done. It gave just enough answers to people wanting to know how it happened, while not making the sole focus of the episode on the how.
I do not see how this leads to the next assertion in the article:
> This also eliminates future plot possibilities on the farm with Hershel Greene (a character we haven't been introduced to on the show yet). Hershel is morally against killing the undead and keeps them inside his barn, which is a great risk for his family and other survivors. This plot could still be executed, but now the "what-if" debate is seemingly dead.
The “what-if” debate can still happen. In fact, a major part of Hershel’s case is what if they find a cure or they change back one day. It's still not so black and white. Maybe I’m being thick, but I just think this is a nonsense point.
tl:dr – this article had some good points, but glossed over many of the good points about the show in an attempt to make a case for the “missing scenes” from the comic.
| There were a few good points in there, but over all I have to say fuck this article. It criticizes many of the points about the show that I found to be good. Remember, as Kirkman has said in a number of interviews I don’t feel like linking to, the show will be different. Comic fans need to work on embracing this a little better, while still calling out the show on its shit (i.e., T-dawg and the Latino Nursing Posse).
First, the good points in the article:
More Day-To-Day Survival
I wanted to see more of this because I feel like seeing the day-to-day survival scenes in the camp is what made the group of survivors feel closer to one another. It let the readers get to know the characters better. Right now in the tv show they just don’t have that sense of ragtag family like they did in the book at this point. I’m hoping this will be fixed early in the second season. Putting scenes like this in place of the Latino Nursing Posse would have been a great service to developing the character.
More Dale
> Perhaps if we spent more time with this guy, we'd understand why he felt so close to Amy and Andrea.
I agree that Dale’s budding relationship with Andrea seemed a little forced at the end of the season; however, there is still plenty of time to make up for that at during the second season.
> His character spends a lot of time in the comic trying to protect different characters from themselves. In fact he's the first survivor to warn Rick about the Bermuda love triangle he's about to enter:
Again, plenty of time to fix this during the second season. I think Dale will still have his moment to talk with Rick and Lori.
Now the disagreement begins:
Instead of "Wife Beater" and "Red Neck Racist," how about Donna, Alan and the Twins?
Yes, including Allen and family in the show would have been neat. Remove some extra characters (Latino family, Jacqui, T-dog, and some other perhaps) and bring in Allen and family. Having these extra characters actually took away from closeness that is felt by the camp survivors. I think it actually prevented viewers from getting closer to the core survivors (those still alive, minus T-dawg).
However , leaving out “"Wife Beater" and "Red Neck Racist"” remove two of the best new additions to the show.
> Ed, the wife-beating jerk, was just that: a wife-beating jerk.
I thought the inclusion of Ed was an awesome idea. It expanded upon the character of Carol greatly, and frankly made her more interesting than she is in the book at this point. I think adding scenes/plots like this to characters already in the book is what makes the show even more interesting for fans of the comic. We got to see the life that Carol and Sophia came from. This was only briefly touched upon in the book. Plus, we got that great scene of Shane beating the hell out of Ed and Carol bashing in dead Ed’s skull.
> Instead of… “Red Neck Racist”
And excluding Merle and Daryl? Seriously, fuck off. Daryl was actually an interesting new character to add to the show. Merle, for his limited screen time, has given us an answered question to speculate over. This in new territory for fans of TWD and I honestly welcome it. I’m genuinely curious to see how/if Merle comes back up in the second season and what path Daryl will take in the show.
> T-Dog was merely a plot device for Merle to go full-blown racist, thus allowing Grimes to play the bad ass.
While I will be the last one to defend T-dawg, his character is just boring, he was not “merely a plot device for Merle to go full-blown racist, thus allowing Grimes to play the bad ass.” A number of other character on the roof or in the building could have been used for this (Glenn, the latino dude, the black lady). Just call T-dawg what he is, a boring character.
Less Rapist Shane, More Idiotic Shane
I have really liked what the show has done with the Shane/Rick/Lori triangle, better than in the comic actually. I felt like Shane was an extremely predictable and one dimensional character in the book. The show has made the character of Shane much deeper and more interesting. I think the Shane/Lori attack scene actually showed how crazy Shane is for Lori. Plus, the awesome scene of him leaving Rick at the hospital, thinking he was dead, added a lot of complexity to the triangle. I think it justified Lori getting with Shane in a way the book glossed over as “a time of loneliness and weakness.” I also like that Rick and Lori’s relationship was established as a little rocky before everything went down. Again, I am looking forward to seeing how this will play out differently from the comic.
Instead Of The CDC, Why Not The Wiltshire Estates? and More Mystery, Less Subject TS-19
> Sadly, my biggest problem with the trip to the CDC was demystifying the zombie outbreak. Jenner basically spells it out that once the victim goes full zombie, they are no longer human. He even charts it out for those still confused, thus changing all the gray morality of Walking Dead to simple black and white.
I don’t mind knowing about the cause of the outbreak. Yes, some things in the CDC were hokey (talking computer and explosion), but the wider tv audience might expect some answers. I know it was really bothering some of my friends not knowing what happened. I think the TS-19 computer animation and explanation was pretty neat and well done. It gave just enough answers to people wanting to know how it happened, while not making the sole focus of the episode on the how.
I do not see how this leads to the next assertion in the article:
> This also eliminates future plot possibilities on the farm with Hershel Greene (a character we haven't been introduced to on the show yet). Hershel is morally against killing the undead and keeps them inside his barn, which is a great risk for his family and other survivors. This plot could still be executed, but now the "what-if" debate is seemingly dead.
The “what-if” debate can still happen. In fact, a major part of Hershel’s case is what if they find a cure or they change back one day. It's still not so black and white. Maybe I’m being thick, but I just think this is a nonsense point.
tl:dr – this article had some good points, but glossed over many of the good points about the show in an attempt to make a case for the “missing scenes” from the comic.
| thewalkingdead | t5_2rygv | c18fky0 | There were a few good points in there, but over all I have to say fuck this article. It criticizes many of the points about the show that I found to be good. Remember, as Kirkman has said in a number of interviews I don’t feel like linking to, the show will be different. Comic fans need to work on embracing this a little better, while still calling out the show on its shit (i.e., T-dawg and the Latino Nursing Posse).
First, the good points in the article:
More Day-To-Day Survival
I wanted to see more of this because I feel like seeing the day-to-day survival scenes in the camp is what made the group of survivors feel closer to one another. It let the readers get to know the characters better. Right now in the tv show they just don’t have that sense of ragtag family like they did in the book at this point. I’m hoping this will be fixed early in the second season. Putting scenes like this in place of the Latino Nursing Posse would have been a great service to developing the character.
More Dale
> Perhaps if we spent more time with this guy, we'd understand why he felt so close to Amy and Andrea.
I agree that Dale’s budding relationship with Andrea seemed a little forced at the end of the season; however, there is still plenty of time to make up for that at during the second season.
> His character spends a lot of time in the comic trying to protect different characters from themselves. In fact he's the first survivor to warn Rick about the Bermuda love triangle he's about to enter:
Again, plenty of time to fix this during the second season. I think Dale will still have his moment to talk with Rick and Lori.
Now the disagreement begins:
Instead of "Wife Beater" and "Red Neck Racist," how about Donna, Alan and the Twins?
Yes, including Allen and family in the show would have been neat. Remove some extra characters (Latino family, Jacqui, T-dog, and some other perhaps) and bring in Allen and family. Having these extra characters actually took away from closeness that is felt by the camp survivors. I think it actually prevented viewers from getting closer to the core survivors (those still alive, minus T-dawg).
However , leaving out “"Wife Beater" and "Red Neck Racist"” remove two of the best new additions to the show.
> Ed, the wife-beating jerk, was just that: a wife-beating jerk.
I thought the inclusion of Ed was an awesome idea. It expanded upon the character of Carol greatly, and frankly made her more interesting than she is in the book at this point. I think adding scenes/plots like this to characters already in the book is what makes the show even more interesting for fans of the comic. We got to see the life that Carol and Sophia came from. This was only briefly touched upon in the book. Plus, we got that great scene of Shane beating the hell out of Ed and Carol bashing in dead Ed’s skull.
> Instead of… “Red Neck Racist”
And excluding Merle and Daryl? Seriously, fuck off. Daryl was actually an interesting new character to add to the show. Merle, for his limited screen time, has given us an answered question to speculate over. This in new territory for fans of TWD and I honestly welcome it. I’m genuinely curious to see how/if Merle comes back up in the second season and what path Daryl will take in the show.
> T-Dog was merely a plot device for Merle to go full-blown racist, thus allowing Grimes to play the bad ass.
While I will be the last one to defend T-dawg, his character is just boring, he was not “merely a plot device for Merle to go full-blown racist, thus allowing Grimes to play the bad ass.” A number of other character on the roof or in the building could have been used for this (Glenn, the latino dude, the black lady). Just call T-dawg what he is, a boring character.
Less Rapist Shane, More Idiotic Shane
I have really liked what the show has done with the Shane/Rick/Lori triangle, better than in the comic actually. I felt like Shane was an extremely predictable and one dimensional character in the book. The show has made the character of Shane much deeper and more interesting. I think the Shane/Lori attack scene actually showed how crazy Shane is for Lori. Plus, the awesome scene of him leaving Rick at the hospital, thinking he was dead, added a lot of complexity to the triangle. I think it justified Lori getting with Shane in a way the book glossed over as “a time of loneliness and weakness.” I also like that Rick and Lori’s relationship was established as a little rocky before everything went down. Again, I am looking forward to seeing how this will play out differently from the comic.
Instead Of The CDC, Why Not The Wiltshire Estates? and More Mystery, Less Subject TS-19
> Sadly, my biggest problem with the trip to the CDC was demystifying the zombie outbreak. Jenner basically spells it out that once the victim goes full zombie, they are no longer human. He even charts it out for those still confused, thus changing all the gray morality of Walking Dead to simple black and white.
I don’t mind knowing about the cause of the outbreak. Yes, some things in the CDC were hokey (talking computer and explosion), but the wider tv audience might expect some answers. I know it was really bothering some of my friends not knowing what happened. I think the TS-19 computer animation and explanation was pretty neat and well done. It gave just enough answers to people wanting to know how it happened, while not making the sole focus of the episode on the how.
I do not see how this leads to the next assertion in the article:
> This also eliminates future plot possibilities on the farm with Hershel Greene (a character we haven't been introduced to on the show yet). Hershel is morally against killing the undead and keeps them inside his barn, which is a great risk for his family and other survivors. This plot could still be executed, but now the "what-if" debate is seemingly dead.
The “what-if” debate can still happen. In fact, a major part of Hershel’s case is what if they find a cure or they change back one day. It's still not so black and white. Maybe I’m being thick, but I just think this is a nonsense point. | this article had some good points, but glossed over many of the good points about the show in an attempt to make a case for the “missing scenes” from the comic. |
bluewasabi | I have my american history final in less than thirty minutes.
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TL;DR: FUCK GEN EDS. | I have my american history final in less than thirty minutes.
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| funny | t5_2qh33 | c18eym9 | I have my american history final in less than thirty minutes.
I spent most of the night reading at reddit/[discovering new music]( | FUCK GEN EDS. |
BrainKatana | * If you're attracted to her physically but not emotionally, fuck her. She has a kid. It's can be really hard for single moms to get a good sexin'.
* Consider that by being a really great friend who she is really into but has not reciprocated her feelings, you might be hurting her in a different way.
* Don't go into it expecting her to be crazy afterward, but don't be surprised if it happens.
* Stop compartmentalizing your relationship. If you're physically attracted to her and genuinely care about her, you're great friends that get along, etc, and you spend a decent amount of time with her, you're just a couple without a label who hasn't fucked yet.
TL;DR
Do her. At worst you get laid, at best you have a great time with someone who you already know pretty well (who will maybe let you keep having a great time until you're ready to move on and try out someone new). |
If you're attracted to her physically but not emotionally, fuck her. She has a kid. It's can be really hard for single moms to get a good sexin'.
Consider that by being a really great friend who she is really into but has not reciprocated her feelings, you might be hurting her in a different way.
Don't go into it expecting her to be crazy afterward, but don't be surprised if it happens.
Stop compartmentalizing your relationship. If you're physically attracted to her and genuinely care about her, you're great friends that get along, etc, and you spend a decent amount of time with her, you're just a couple without a label who hasn't fucked yet.
TL;DR
Do her. At worst you get laid, at best you have a great time with someone who you already know pretty well (who will maybe let you keep having a great time until you're ready to move on and try out someone new).
| sex | t5_2qh3p | c18gcmz | If you're attracted to her physically but not emotionally, fuck her. She has a kid. It's can be really hard for single moms to get a good sexin'.
Consider that by being a really great friend who she is really into but has not reciprocated her feelings, you might be hurting her in a different way.
Don't go into it expecting her to be crazy afterward, but don't be surprised if it happens.
Stop compartmentalizing your relationship. If you're physically attracted to her and genuinely care about her, you're great friends that get along, etc, and you spend a decent amount of time with her, you're just a couple without a label who hasn't fucked yet. | Do her. At worst you get laid, at best you have a great time with someone who you already know pretty well (who will maybe let you keep having a great time until you're ready to move on and try out someone new). |
polkadot123 | I think what you are missing is that perhaps the parents should be happy that their child can experience one of the senses that they can't, as opposed to not wanting a child that cannot hear. I definitely do not think it can be equated to ethnicity--each ethnicity is different, so if you want a child in your ethnicity that is fine. But no ethnicity is particularly disabled in some way--it's not like Asian people have one leg, or Italians can't taste. Deaf people are great and the fact that they have formed a culture is also great--but not wanting the best for their child (and that is the ability to experience all the senses) is cruel, I think. The child will still learn sign language and communicate with the deaf community--the ability to hear shouldn't leave them out. They will share the same language, they will just also know another one. It will give them many more opportunities in life. Deaf people also have many opportunities, but it shouldn't be up to the parents what disability their child has. Sorry for the rant, just felt strongly about it.
TLDR: Parents should want better for their children | I think what you are missing is that perhaps the parents should be happy that their child can experience one of the senses that they can't, as opposed to not wanting a child that cannot hear. I definitely do not think it can be equated to ethnicity--each ethnicity is different, so if you want a child in your ethnicity that is fine. But no ethnicity is particularly disabled in some way--it's not like Asian people have one leg, or Italians can't taste. Deaf people are great and the fact that they have formed a culture is also great--but not wanting the best for their child (and that is the ability to experience all the senses) is cruel, I think. The child will still learn sign language and communicate with the deaf community--the ability to hear shouldn't leave them out. They will share the same language, they will just also know another one. It will give them many more opportunities in life. Deaf people also have many opportunities, but it shouldn't be up to the parents what disability their child has. Sorry for the rant, just felt strongly about it.
TLDR: Parents should want better for their children
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c18nl1u | I think what you are missing is that perhaps the parents should be happy that their child can experience one of the senses that they can't, as opposed to not wanting a child that cannot hear. I definitely do not think it can be equated to ethnicity--each ethnicity is different, so if you want a child in your ethnicity that is fine. But no ethnicity is particularly disabled in some way--it's not like Asian people have one leg, or Italians can't taste. Deaf people are great and the fact that they have formed a culture is also great--but not wanting the best for their child (and that is the ability to experience all the senses) is cruel, I think. The child will still learn sign language and communicate with the deaf community--the ability to hear shouldn't leave them out. They will share the same language, they will just also know another one. It will give them many more opportunities in life. Deaf people also have many opportunities, but it shouldn't be up to the parents what disability their child has. Sorry for the rant, just felt strongly about it. | Parents should want better for their children |
cwm9 | You have to be VERY careful when you are talking about entropy, because the definition of entropy does not really include any information about the CURRENT state of affairs in a system, but rather talks about what COULD be the state of affairs in a free to evolve system at equilibrium.
What I mean by this is that entropy is a basically a measure of how many different ways there are to assemble a system, but doesn't talk about how the system is currently assembled.
You can't, for instance, talk about the entropy of a system frozen in time. If a system is frozen in time then the position of every particle is completely deterministic: the entropy would be zero.
Here's a concrete example:
Suppose you have one particle that can occupy one of two positions, left or right, with equal probability.
The entropy of that system is (neglecting Boltzmann's constant): -(.5 * ln(.5)) + -(.5 * ln(.5)) = -ln .5 = .7
Note that if you freeze the system in time and separate the two halves into two separate systems, then test each position, the particle has to be SOMEWHERE. Let's say it's in the right slot. It doesn't make sense to talk about the entropy of the left slot, since it contains no particles, but the entropy of the right slot is -(1 * ln(1)), or 0.
So if you freeze the system in time and separate it, you know that one side is completely empty and one side is completely full, which would basically mean there is no entropy in the system, but if you let the system evolve, the entropy rises to .7.
The key here is that it makes no sense to talk about a system at a moment in time when you are talking about statistical thermodynamics.
Think about a coffee cup with coffee and milk in it. It is highly unlikely that the coffee and milk would separate. But if it did, and you could freeze the system in time and then separate the two systems, the sum of the two systems would have a lower entropy than the system had before you did this. But if you DON'T freeze the system -- and that is the only thing allowed when you are talking about thermodynamics -- the coffee and milk will immediately remix in the next instant in time.
The key here is to realize that an unmixed cup of coffee and milk (in the same cup and not separated from each other) has the SAME (high) entropy as a MIXED cup of coffee and milk IF YOU CONSIDER THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE AND NOT FROZEN IN TIME. It is a special microstate, to be sure, but the system will evolve away from that special microstate very quickly.
A separate cup of milk and a separate cup of coffee have low entropy because no matter how long you leave them, they will not intermix. The locations in the cup of coffee are not available to the particles of milk in the milk glass and the locations in the milk glass are not available to the particles of coffee in the cup of coffee.
So no, entropy, as a measure of statistical possibilities without regard to time, can never go down -- but that does not mean the system cannot take on an unusual configuration, and does not mean that an intelligent entity cannot interfere and separate a system at just the right moment to make two separate systems with a lower entropy.
Things CAN unmix, and if you catch them at that moment and separate them, you can cause total entropy (of those two systems) to go down, but the entropy of a non-frozen, non-separated system can never go down.
Of course, while unmixing does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, that does not say anything about the probability of a system doing so: The odds of this happening are so absurdly low as to be completely discounted by physicists. If you believe in an oscillating universe (where the universe collapses only to be reborn), you will be waiting through many oscillations before you get to see a single drop of water unmix itself.
TL; DR: A system which spontaneously unmixes does NOT have a lower entropy than it did before it unmixed because entropy does not consider fixed moments in time and the system will immediately remix in the next instant in time.
| You have to be VERY careful when you are talking about entropy, because the definition of entropy does not really include any information about the CURRENT state of affairs in a system, but rather talks about what COULD be the state of affairs in a free to evolve system at equilibrium.
What I mean by this is that entropy is a basically a measure of how many different ways there are to assemble a system, but doesn't talk about how the system is currently assembled.
You can't, for instance, talk about the entropy of a system frozen in time. If a system is frozen in time then the position of every particle is completely deterministic: the entropy would be zero.
Here's a concrete example:
Suppose you have one particle that can occupy one of two positions, left or right, with equal probability.
The entropy of that system is (neglecting Boltzmann's constant): -(.5 ln(.5)) + -(.5 ln(.5)) = -ln .5 = .7
Note that if you freeze the system in time and separate the two halves into two separate systems, then test each position, the particle has to be SOMEWHERE. Let's say it's in the right slot. It doesn't make sense to talk about the entropy of the left slot, since it contains no particles, but the entropy of the right slot is -(1 * ln(1)), or 0.
So if you freeze the system in time and separate it, you know that one side is completely empty and one side is completely full, which would basically mean there is no entropy in the system, but if you let the system evolve, the entropy rises to .7.
The key here is that it makes no sense to talk about a system at a moment in time when you are talking about statistical thermodynamics.
Think about a coffee cup with coffee and milk in it. It is highly unlikely that the coffee and milk would separate. But if it did, and you could freeze the system in time and then separate the two systems, the sum of the two systems would have a lower entropy than the system had before you did this. But if you DON'T freeze the system -- and that is the only thing allowed when you are talking about thermodynamics -- the coffee and milk will immediately remix in the next instant in time.
The key here is to realize that an unmixed cup of coffee and milk (in the same cup and not separated from each other) has the SAME (high) entropy as a MIXED cup of coffee and milk IF YOU CONSIDER THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE AND NOT FROZEN IN TIME. It is a special microstate, to be sure, but the system will evolve away from that special microstate very quickly.
A separate cup of milk and a separate cup of coffee have low entropy because no matter how long you leave them, they will not intermix. The locations in the cup of coffee are not available to the particles of milk in the milk glass and the locations in the milk glass are not available to the particles of coffee in the cup of coffee.
So no, entropy, as a measure of statistical possibilities without regard to time, can never go down -- but that does not mean the system cannot take on an unusual configuration, and does not mean that an intelligent entity cannot interfere and separate a system at just the right moment to make two separate systems with a lower entropy.
Things CAN unmix, and if you catch them at that moment and separate them, you can cause total entropy (of those two systems) to go down, but the entropy of a non-frozen, non-separated system can never go down.
Of course, while unmixing does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, that does not say anything about the probability of a system doing so: The odds of this happening are so absurdly low as to be completely discounted by physicists. If you believe in an oscillating universe (where the universe collapses only to be reborn), you will be waiting through many oscillations before you get to see a single drop of water unmix itself.
TL; DR: A system which spontaneously unmixes does NOT have a lower entropy than it did before it unmixed because entropy does not consider fixed moments in time and the system will immediately remix in the next instant in time.
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | c18nfp0 | You have to be VERY careful when you are talking about entropy, because the definition of entropy does not really include any information about the CURRENT state of affairs in a system, but rather talks about what COULD be the state of affairs in a free to evolve system at equilibrium.
What I mean by this is that entropy is a basically a measure of how many different ways there are to assemble a system, but doesn't talk about how the system is currently assembled.
You can't, for instance, talk about the entropy of a system frozen in time. If a system is frozen in time then the position of every particle is completely deterministic: the entropy would be zero.
Here's a concrete example:
Suppose you have one particle that can occupy one of two positions, left or right, with equal probability.
The entropy of that system is (neglecting Boltzmann's constant): -(.5 ln(.5)) + -(.5 ln(.5)) = -ln .5 = .7
Note that if you freeze the system in time and separate the two halves into two separate systems, then test each position, the particle has to be SOMEWHERE. Let's say it's in the right slot. It doesn't make sense to talk about the entropy of the left slot, since it contains no particles, but the entropy of the right slot is -(1 * ln(1)), or 0.
So if you freeze the system in time and separate it, you know that one side is completely empty and one side is completely full, which would basically mean there is no entropy in the system, but if you let the system evolve, the entropy rises to .7.
The key here is that it makes no sense to talk about a system at a moment in time when you are talking about statistical thermodynamics.
Think about a coffee cup with coffee and milk in it. It is highly unlikely that the coffee and milk would separate. But if it did, and you could freeze the system in time and then separate the two systems, the sum of the two systems would have a lower entropy than the system had before you did this. But if you DON'T freeze the system -- and that is the only thing allowed when you are talking about thermodynamics -- the coffee and milk will immediately remix in the next instant in time.
The key here is to realize that an unmixed cup of coffee and milk (in the same cup and not separated from each other) has the SAME (high) entropy as a MIXED cup of coffee and milk IF YOU CONSIDER THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE AND NOT FROZEN IN TIME. It is a special microstate, to be sure, but the system will evolve away from that special microstate very quickly.
A separate cup of milk and a separate cup of coffee have low entropy because no matter how long you leave them, they will not intermix. The locations in the cup of coffee are not available to the particles of milk in the milk glass and the locations in the milk glass are not available to the particles of coffee in the cup of coffee.
So no, entropy, as a measure of statistical possibilities without regard to time, can never go down -- but that does not mean the system cannot take on an unusual configuration, and does not mean that an intelligent entity cannot interfere and separate a system at just the right moment to make two separate systems with a lower entropy.
Things CAN unmix, and if you catch them at that moment and separate them, you can cause total entropy (of those two systems) to go down, but the entropy of a non-frozen, non-separated system can never go down.
Of course, while unmixing does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, that does not say anything about the probability of a system doing so: The odds of this happening are so absurdly low as to be completely discounted by physicists. If you believe in an oscillating universe (where the universe collapses only to be reborn), you will be waiting through many oscillations before you get to see a single drop of water unmix itself. | A system which spontaneously unmixes does NOT have a lower entropy than it did before it unmixed because entropy does not consider fixed moments in time and the system will immediately remix in the next instant in time. |
BrickSalad | It's not actually a *law*, per se. It was a law in classical thermodynamics, but nowadays we just call it a law because it might as well be. In a very small number of particles, it is in fact likely be violated. Just to give you a basic idea (this isn't actually how it works), imagine 2 particles (A and B) and 2 pieces of energy. Our possibilities and 2 in A, 2 in B, or 1 in each. The chances of all energy being in one state is 2/3. Now, what about 6 pieces of energy? There are 6 possibilities: *A6 (6 in A), A5B1 (5 in A, 1 in B), A4B2, A3B3, A2B4, A1B5, and B6*. So, for all the energy to be in one state is at a probability of 1/3.
Now, let's add another particle (C) to the mix. We have 28 possibilities now: *A6, A5B1, A5C1, A4B2, A4B1C1, A4C2, A3B3, A3B2C1, A3B1C2, A3C3, A2B4, A2B3C1, A2B2C2, A2B1C3, A2C4, A1B5, A1B4C1, A1B3C2, A1B2C3, A1B1C4, A1C5, B6, B5C1, B4C2, B3C3, B2C4, B1C5, and C6*. Now, for all energy to be in one state, the probability is reduced to 3/28. Just adding one particle to the system reduced the probability of all energy being in one state from 33% to 11%. But that's not all. Look for the 5s in that distribution. You should see 6 of them, right? That means you are twice as likely to find the particles in a state where only 5 pieces of energy are in one particle as a state where all 6 are in one particle. We can keep playing this game; look for 4s now. If you're a good eye, you should find 9 of them. 3s? Well, you'd expect to find 12, but a few of them double up (like A3B3, for example), so you end up with 9 again. However, there's 13 2s, 15 1s, & 18 0s. So what I'm getting at is that the less energy there is in a particle, the more likely you are going to find it in these states.
So, we can play this game over and over again, adding more particles, more energy states, or whatever. I'm not going to do it here because it's way too much work, but you should be able to pick up on the trend that the more particles and energy we talk about, the less likely the energy is to be heavily distributed in one particle. As you can probably tell, really quickly you need to start applying statistical magic, and shit gets complicated. Also, this model I just showed you is really really simplified. But I hope it gets the picture across. Heat flowing backwards is going from a likely state to an unlikely state, and once we're talking realistic sizes (say 10^23 particles), then basically we going from a probable state to a nigh impossible state.
**Tl;dr:** It's not a law but a statistical statement. Flip a bunch of coins, do you expect to get mostly heads or mostly tails? Pull skittles out of a bag, you expect to pull out mostly reds? Of course not. | It's not actually a law , per se. It was a law in classical thermodynamics, but nowadays we just call it a law because it might as well be. In a very small number of particles, it is in fact likely be violated. Just to give you a basic idea (this isn't actually how it works), imagine 2 particles (A and B) and 2 pieces of energy. Our possibilities and 2 in A, 2 in B, or 1 in each. The chances of all energy being in one state is 2/3. Now, what about 6 pieces of energy? There are 6 possibilities: A6 (6 in A), A5B1 (5 in A, 1 in B), A4B2, A3B3, A2B4, A1B5, and B6 . So, for all the energy to be in one state is at a probability of 1/3.
Now, let's add another particle (C) to the mix. We have 28 possibilities now: A6, A5B1, A5C1, A4B2, A4B1C1, A4C2, A3B3, A3B2C1, A3B1C2, A3C3, A2B4, A2B3C1, A2B2C2, A2B1C3, A2C4, A1B5, A1B4C1, A1B3C2, A1B2C3, A1B1C4, A1C5, B6, B5C1, B4C2, B3C3, B2C4, B1C5, and C6 . Now, for all energy to be in one state, the probability is reduced to 3/28. Just adding one particle to the system reduced the probability of all energy being in one state from 33% to 11%. But that's not all. Look for the 5s in that distribution. You should see 6 of them, right? That means you are twice as likely to find the particles in a state where only 5 pieces of energy are in one particle as a state where all 6 are in one particle. We can keep playing this game; look for 4s now. If you're a good eye, you should find 9 of them. 3s? Well, you'd expect to find 12, but a few of them double up (like A3B3, for example), so you end up with 9 again. However, there's 13 2s, 15 1s, & 18 0s. So what I'm getting at is that the less energy there is in a particle, the more likely you are going to find it in these states.
So, we can play this game over and over again, adding more particles, more energy states, or whatever. I'm not going to do it here because it's way too much work, but you should be able to pick up on the trend that the more particles and energy we talk about, the less likely the energy is to be heavily distributed in one particle. As you can probably tell, really quickly you need to start applying statistical magic, and shit gets complicated. Also, this model I just showed you is really really simplified. But I hope it gets the picture across. Heat flowing backwards is going from a likely state to an unlikely state, and once we're talking realistic sizes (say 10^23 particles), then basically we going from a probable state to a nigh impossible state.
Tl;dr: It's not a law but a statistical statement. Flip a bunch of coins, do you expect to get mostly heads or mostly tails? Pull skittles out of a bag, you expect to pull out mostly reds? Of course not.
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | c18nsj2 | It's not actually a law , per se. It was a law in classical thermodynamics, but nowadays we just call it a law because it might as well be. In a very small number of particles, it is in fact likely be violated. Just to give you a basic idea (this isn't actually how it works), imagine 2 particles (A and B) and 2 pieces of energy. Our possibilities and 2 in A, 2 in B, or 1 in each. The chances of all energy being in one state is 2/3. Now, what about 6 pieces of energy? There are 6 possibilities: A6 (6 in A), A5B1 (5 in A, 1 in B), A4B2, A3B3, A2B4, A1B5, and B6 . So, for all the energy to be in one state is at a probability of 1/3.
Now, let's add another particle (C) to the mix. We have 28 possibilities now: A6, A5B1, A5C1, A4B2, A4B1C1, A4C2, A3B3, A3B2C1, A3B1C2, A3C3, A2B4, A2B3C1, A2B2C2, A2B1C3, A2C4, A1B5, A1B4C1, A1B3C2, A1B2C3, A1B1C4, A1C5, B6, B5C1, B4C2, B3C3, B2C4, B1C5, and C6 . Now, for all energy to be in one state, the probability is reduced to 3/28. Just adding one particle to the system reduced the probability of all energy being in one state from 33% to 11%. But that's not all. Look for the 5s in that distribution. You should see 6 of them, right? That means you are twice as likely to find the particles in a state where only 5 pieces of energy are in one particle as a state where all 6 are in one particle. We can keep playing this game; look for 4s now. If you're a good eye, you should find 9 of them. 3s? Well, you'd expect to find 12, but a few of them double up (like A3B3, for example), so you end up with 9 again. However, there's 13 2s, 15 1s, & 18 0s. So what I'm getting at is that the less energy there is in a particle, the more likely you are going to find it in these states.
So, we can play this game over and over again, adding more particles, more energy states, or whatever. I'm not going to do it here because it's way too much work, but you should be able to pick up on the trend that the more particles and energy we talk about, the less likely the energy is to be heavily distributed in one particle. As you can probably tell, really quickly you need to start applying statistical magic, and shit gets complicated. Also, this model I just showed you is really really simplified. But I hope it gets the picture across. Heat flowing backwards is going from a likely state to an unlikely state, and once we're talking realistic sizes (say 10^23 particles), then basically we going from a probable state to a nigh impossible state. | It's not a law but a statistical statement. Flip a bunch of coins, do you expect to get mostly heads or mostly tails? Pull skittles out of a bag, you expect to pull out mostly reds? Of course not. |
Shamensyth | I don't know which I would say is my first car. Technically (for insurance reasons I suppose) I've never actually owned a car.
In highschool my dad picked up an old work truck from his employer for 50 bucks. It was a 1993 Chevy 3500 long box extended cab (2nd largest body style available, and larger than 95% of other regular vehicles on the road). He put a lot of money into it, getting the interior redone and getting it fixed up and road worthy. It was basically there for me to drive, since my parents already had a vehicle and my brothers weren't old enough to drive yet. I spent my last year of highschool as 'the guy with the big truck'. It guzzled gas through that 5.7L engine like a champ (4km/L or 9mpg city milage). I went through my first year of university, and the truck mostly just sat unused at home while I was gone. I got to borrow it for a few weekends to perform beer runs of epic proportions. Now it just sits in our driveway waiting to be sold.
This year, I got 'my' first car, and I say that because it's in my mom's name (yay cheaper insurance) but I paid for it and I own it in all but name. It's a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria, Police Interceptor. Just got that this year in august for my 2nd year of university where I no longer live in residence. People mistake me for a cop all the time and hilarity often ensues on the highway.
TL;DR Used to drive a 1 ton pickup, now drive an ex-cop car. V8s all the way. | I don't know which I would say is my first car. Technically (for insurance reasons I suppose) I've never actually owned a car.
In highschool my dad picked up an old work truck from his employer for 50 bucks. It was a 1993 Chevy 3500 long box extended cab (2nd largest body style available, and larger than 95% of other regular vehicles on the road). He put a lot of money into it, getting the interior redone and getting it fixed up and road worthy. It was basically there for me to drive, since my parents already had a vehicle and my brothers weren't old enough to drive yet. I spent my last year of highschool as 'the guy with the big truck'. It guzzled gas through that 5.7L engine like a champ (4km/L or 9mpg city milage). I went through my first year of university, and the truck mostly just sat unused at home while I was gone. I got to borrow it for a few weekends to perform beer runs of epic proportions. Now it just sits in our driveway waiting to be sold.
This year, I got 'my' first car, and I say that because it's in my mom's name (yay cheaper insurance) but I paid for it and I own it in all but name. It's a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria, Police Interceptor. Just got that this year in august for my 2nd year of university where I no longer live in residence. People mistake me for a cop all the time and hilarity often ensues on the highway.
TL;DR Used to drive a 1 ton pickup, now drive an ex-cop car. V8s all the way.
| Autos | t5_2qhr3 | c190qa2 | I don't know which I would say is my first car. Technically (for insurance reasons I suppose) I've never actually owned a car.
In highschool my dad picked up an old work truck from his employer for 50 bucks. It was a 1993 Chevy 3500 long box extended cab (2nd largest body style available, and larger than 95% of other regular vehicles on the road). He put a lot of money into it, getting the interior redone and getting it fixed up and road worthy. It was basically there for me to drive, since my parents already had a vehicle and my brothers weren't old enough to drive yet. I spent my last year of highschool as 'the guy with the big truck'. It guzzled gas through that 5.7L engine like a champ (4km/L or 9mpg city milage). I went through my first year of university, and the truck mostly just sat unused at home while I was gone. I got to borrow it for a few weekends to perform beer runs of epic proportions. Now it just sits in our driveway waiting to be sold.
This year, I got 'my' first car, and I say that because it's in my mom's name (yay cheaper insurance) but I paid for it and I own it in all but name. It's a 2001 Ford Crown Victoria, Police Interceptor. Just got that this year in august for my 2nd year of university where I no longer live in residence. People mistake me for a cop all the time and hilarity often ensues on the highway. | Used to drive a 1 ton pickup, now drive an ex-cop car. V8s all the way. |
racer_ohms | might as well copy/paste my story here. i wrote it up a lil while ago for a job application (they wanted a writing sample)...and yeah its a bit long heh.
When I was 15, I had $500 saved up for my first car. My dad bought me a spiffy Grant steering wheel, and my stepdad a Hurst T shifter, to put in whatever old, rusty, and most likely 4 door example of Detroit iron i'd wind up buying. My mom brought me brochures for neons and cavaliers (cars not even worthy of initial capitalization), promising to pay for a lease on one, hoping to keep her son out of a "death trap." My grandma gave me another $500 just before passing away (spoiling me to the end). I combed Special Interest every Thursday (that's when the new issue came out, and yes, this is just before the internet) and circled anything under a grand. My folks took me to check out a primered Nova with shag carpet on the dashboard and a 305 swapped from an 80s Monte SS. There were countless 4door Valiants and Darts. But reality set in and after a few months, I was a jaded boy. I knew "it runs" and "mechanic's dream" were cars that were going to be too much work. I'd be parking on the street, and needed something that could be driven the moment I bought it. That's why I didn't circle this one-liner ad:
1969 Camaro - automatic. runs. $1000. (718) XXX-XXXX
It was that part of the evening when I'd hand off the Sharpie'd-to-hell copy of Special Interest to my mom, for her to review which cars were too far away to check out in person.
"Oh my god! A Camaro! Why didn't you circle this one, dummy?! You love Camaros! And Christ, it's a sixty-"
"Mom, it's gotta be a piece of crap. No need to bother with it." Although I was happy to see her so excited about an old car, my 15 year old know-it-all self was sure her excitement was misplaced here - that Camaro would be a heap.
"Well I'm going to call anyway, you're stupid not to at least try."
I went into my room, not even wanting to hear the phone call, because it would only break my heart more; I worshipped 1969 Camaros (a very likely side-effect of reading so much Car Craft). It was easier to dismiss the car without having to hear it only needed this or that, things that if I had a garage, I'd be able to address. I could only hear the faint murmur of the phone conversation from my room. It was lasting longer than I expected.
"OMAR!!! COME!!!! HE WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!!!! HE'S THE ORIGINAL OWNER AND IT RUNS AND DRI-"
You bet your ass I ran like fucking hell to my mom and that phone.
Vince had the classic warm-and-gentle/stern-and-strong grandfatherly tone of voice. He quizzed me on how often oil changes should be done, how to handle a skid, and if I liked driving with my arm resting on the door (he hoped I did). I was to see him at 7am Saturday morning, because everyone else already made appointments after that. He promised he would be up bright and early just for me, and that I better not sleep in that day as "kids my age were wont to do." I didn't sleep that night.
He lived near Shea Stadium, it was easy enough to find. We got there a little before 7, and Vince was walking down the block as we pulled up to his house. He jogged back over to us; it was obvious I was the car crazy kid with his parents he spoke to on the phone. He was 77 years old and surprisingly athletic. We all panicked a bit and told him to slow down, but he laughed and kept hustling toward us. He took of his giant sunglasses and his eyes were very white; he was selling the Camaro because his cataracts had worsened rapidly. For the last month or so, his visiting nurse started the Camaro up and drove around the block to keep her in running condition. He brought us into his house (very dimly lit, since it hurt his eyes), and we met his wife Maggie. Vince and Maggie were true high school sweethearts. After school, they became a vaudeville dancing duo, and joined a troupe. Maggie showed us a photo of them in Paris. They travelled the world, a young attractive couple in love, living life to the fullest. After visiting New York for the 1963 (i think it was) World's Fair, they decided this was where they wanted to settle down and raise a family, and moved into the very house we were standing in. He got a steady gig at a Chevy dealership. She became a dance instructor. And they bought the Camaro as a Sunday driver (their daily was an Impala). As they got older and drove less, they sold the Impala. They were never able to have children, so the Camaro was their baby. As Maggie told us their story, her voice was soft and steady, but it would go high pitch for a lone syllable here and there. She was crying, just. Being a man who needed no lesson in chivalry, Vince cut in and said it's about time we go out the back of the house and see the car. Just then I realized I didn't ask him any of the basic questions (e.g., how many miles, what color is it) I asked any other seller. Hell, I had no idea what this 1969 Camaro was, besides an automatic.
And until that day, I never even saw an actual 1969 Camaro. But there one was, facing the back fence with her two-skinny-rectangular-taillights-and-a-blue-bowtie-between-them butt pointed at me. Cortez silver, with a black vinyl top. No spoiler, flat hood. Tall and skinny 14" bias plys on steelies with dog dish caps. Black vinyl bucket seats, no console, column shift. 230 cube inline six, Powerglide, standard coupe. Vince was talking, but I couldn't hear him. I was Moses by the burning bush, having an epiphany, surrounded by nothing; it was just me standing on a cloud and a 168,000 mile one owner '69 floating in the sapphire sky with me. He started her up, and gave me NPD and The Paddock catalogs and showed us everything on the car. Then he told my parents he wanted to speak with me alone. We sat in the car and rolled up the windows, and he made me promise 2 things: I would drive her regularly, and I would come back to him a year from then and give him and Maggie a ride around the block. I was a good kid, but still had some selfish tendencies (hey, I was 15), and asked if it would be ok if I repainted her or souped her up in any way. He laughed, and said she was his baby, but now she's my baby, and it's time she made new memories and had a new life with someone else. I handed him my $1000. Maggie had come out of the house by this time, and we were all just about ready to part ways (Vince was cool with me driving her home with his plates still on the car). Two guys showed up with a truck and a trailer, and said they'd beat my price, but Vince pointed at me and said "It's his car. Ask him," flashing a cheshire cat smile because he knew he found someone who wouldn't sell her off like that - he found his Camaro a home, not just an owner. As I drove her down his driveway, Vince and Maggie were holding each other and waving goodbye. To the Camaro, and to me. They were crying, I was crying, my parents were crying.
Weeks, months. Driving her here and there, my dad and stepdad knew I'd be a better driver than most, since I was managing manual steering and manual 4 wheel drums. And all those years of reading Car Craft, well, now I was actually working on a car and fixing things I previously only knew about in theory. I took apart the dash and got the fuel gauge to work. Painted her Arrest-Me-Red. I drove her to Hunt's Point and misspent my youth, let's just say. I got the passenger side floorpan patched up (hey, so she was pretty rusty). I installed a tape deck. Got some AR-CP200 daisy rims. Time passed, and my promised appointment was coming up. A couple weeks in advance, I called up Vince. No answer. I tried again a week before the big day. Number disconnected. I drove to the house and met the new inhabitant who gave me an out of state phone number to contact "the thin elderly woman who used to live here." I called and it was a hospice nurse or doctor or something, I can't remember. I pleaded to the point of sobbing for him to tell me where Vince and Maggie were, that I wanted to take them for a drive, that even though I'm wasn't kin and only saw them one day, that I had to know. He told me Vince passed away 2 months before our appointment. Maggie couldn't bear to live in their house alone and moved into the hospice. She fell ill soon after, and followed her Vince.
I still have my Camaro. And no, she's not for sale.
**tldr, and current status of car** - got my first car, a 69 camaro, for $1000 in 1996, and still have her. parents and gf, despite it making all the financial sense in the world to sell her, have supported me keeping her. i dont have the money to turn her into the pro-touring monster i want, so i do things bit by bit, year by year. shes getting there. currently at a shop getting the brake lines redone and a new windshield (i dont have a garage or storage space, so i try to keep her driveable and do whatever work i can that is possible to do with her parked on the street - not much now since its getting cold outside). hope you enjoyed my story! | might as well copy/paste my story here. i wrote it up a lil while ago for a job application (they wanted a writing sample)...and yeah its a bit long heh.
When I was 15, I had $500 saved up for my first car. My dad bought me a spiffy Grant steering wheel, and my stepdad a Hurst T shifter, to put in whatever old, rusty, and most likely 4 door example of Detroit iron i'd wind up buying. My mom brought me brochures for neons and cavaliers (cars not even worthy of initial capitalization), promising to pay for a lease on one, hoping to keep her son out of a "death trap." My grandma gave me another $500 just before passing away (spoiling me to the end). I combed Special Interest every Thursday (that's when the new issue came out, and yes, this is just before the internet) and circled anything under a grand. My folks took me to check out a primered Nova with shag carpet on the dashboard and a 305 swapped from an 80s Monte SS. There were countless 4door Valiants and Darts. But reality set in and after a few months, I was a jaded boy. I knew "it runs" and "mechanic's dream" were cars that were going to be too much work. I'd be parking on the street, and needed something that could be driven the moment I bought it. That's why I didn't circle this one-liner ad:
1969 Camaro - automatic. runs. $1000. (718) XXX-XXXX
It was that part of the evening when I'd hand off the Sharpie'd-to-hell copy of Special Interest to my mom, for her to review which cars were too far away to check out in person.
"Oh my god! A Camaro! Why didn't you circle this one, dummy?! You love Camaros! And Christ, it's a sixty-"
"Mom, it's gotta be a piece of crap. No need to bother with it." Although I was happy to see her so excited about an old car, my 15 year old know-it-all self was sure her excitement was misplaced here - that Camaro would be a heap.
"Well I'm going to call anyway, you're stupid not to at least try."
I went into my room, not even wanting to hear the phone call, because it would only break my heart more; I worshipped 1969 Camaros (a very likely side-effect of reading so much Car Craft). It was easier to dismiss the car without having to hear it only needed this or that, things that if I had a garage, I'd be able to address. I could only hear the faint murmur of the phone conversation from my room. It was lasting longer than I expected.
"OMAR!!! COME!!!! HE WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!!!! HE'S THE ORIGINAL OWNER AND IT RUNS AND DRI-"
You bet your ass I ran like fucking hell to my mom and that phone.
Vince had the classic warm-and-gentle/stern-and-strong grandfatherly tone of voice. He quizzed me on how often oil changes should be done, how to handle a skid, and if I liked driving with my arm resting on the door (he hoped I did). I was to see him at 7am Saturday morning, because everyone else already made appointments after that. He promised he would be up bright and early just for me, and that I better not sleep in that day as "kids my age were wont to do." I didn't sleep that night.
He lived near Shea Stadium, it was easy enough to find. We got there a little before 7, and Vince was walking down the block as we pulled up to his house. He jogged back over to us; it was obvious I was the car crazy kid with his parents he spoke to on the phone. He was 77 years old and surprisingly athletic. We all panicked a bit and told him to slow down, but he laughed and kept hustling toward us. He took of his giant sunglasses and his eyes were very white; he was selling the Camaro because his cataracts had worsened rapidly. For the last month or so, his visiting nurse started the Camaro up and drove around the block to keep her in running condition. He brought us into his house (very dimly lit, since it hurt his eyes), and we met his wife Maggie. Vince and Maggie were true high school sweethearts. After school, they became a vaudeville dancing duo, and joined a troupe. Maggie showed us a photo of them in Paris. They travelled the world, a young attractive couple in love, living life to the fullest. After visiting New York for the 1963 (i think it was) World's Fair, they decided this was where they wanted to settle down and raise a family, and moved into the very house we were standing in. He got a steady gig at a Chevy dealership. She became a dance instructor. And they bought the Camaro as a Sunday driver (their daily was an Impala). As they got older and drove less, they sold the Impala. They were never able to have children, so the Camaro was their baby. As Maggie told us their story, her voice was soft and steady, but it would go high pitch for a lone syllable here and there. She was crying, just. Being a man who needed no lesson in chivalry, Vince cut in and said it's about time we go out the back of the house and see the car. Just then I realized I didn't ask him any of the basic questions (e.g., how many miles, what color is it) I asked any other seller. Hell, I had no idea what this 1969 Camaro was, besides an automatic.
And until that day, I never even saw an actual 1969 Camaro. But there one was, facing the back fence with her two-skinny-rectangular-taillights-and-a-blue-bowtie-between-them butt pointed at me. Cortez silver, with a black vinyl top. No spoiler, flat hood. Tall and skinny 14" bias plys on steelies with dog dish caps. Black vinyl bucket seats, no console, column shift. 230 cube inline six, Powerglide, standard coupe. Vince was talking, but I couldn't hear him. I was Moses by the burning bush, having an epiphany, surrounded by nothing; it was just me standing on a cloud and a 168,000 mile one owner '69 floating in the sapphire sky with me. He started her up, and gave me NPD and The Paddock catalogs and showed us everything on the car. Then he told my parents he wanted to speak with me alone. We sat in the car and rolled up the windows, and he made me promise 2 things: I would drive her regularly, and I would come back to him a year from then and give him and Maggie a ride around the block. I was a good kid, but still had some selfish tendencies (hey, I was 15), and asked if it would be ok if I repainted her or souped her up in any way. He laughed, and said she was his baby, but now she's my baby, and it's time she made new memories and had a new life with someone else. I handed him my $1000. Maggie had come out of the house by this time, and we were all just about ready to part ways (Vince was cool with me driving her home with his plates still on the car). Two guys showed up with a truck and a trailer, and said they'd beat my price, but Vince pointed at me and said "It's his car. Ask him," flashing a cheshire cat smile because he knew he found someone who wouldn't sell her off like that - he found his Camaro a home, not just an owner. As I drove her down his driveway, Vince and Maggie were holding each other and waving goodbye. To the Camaro, and to me. They were crying, I was crying, my parents were crying.
Weeks, months. Driving her here and there, my dad and stepdad knew I'd be a better driver than most, since I was managing manual steering and manual 4 wheel drums. And all those years of reading Car Craft, well, now I was actually working on a car and fixing things I previously only knew about in theory. I took apart the dash and got the fuel gauge to work. Painted her Arrest-Me-Red. I drove her to Hunt's Point and misspent my youth, let's just say. I got the passenger side floorpan patched up (hey, so she was pretty rusty). I installed a tape deck. Got some AR-CP200 daisy rims. Time passed, and my promised appointment was coming up. A couple weeks in advance, I called up Vince. No answer. I tried again a week before the big day. Number disconnected. I drove to the house and met the new inhabitant who gave me an out of state phone number to contact "the thin elderly woman who used to live here." I called and it was a hospice nurse or doctor or something, I can't remember. I pleaded to the point of sobbing for him to tell me where Vince and Maggie were, that I wanted to take them for a drive, that even though I'm wasn't kin and only saw them one day, that I had to know. He told me Vince passed away 2 months before our appointment. Maggie couldn't bear to live in their house alone and moved into the hospice. She fell ill soon after, and followed her Vince.
I still have my Camaro. And no, she's not for sale.
tldr, and current status of car - got my first car, a 69 camaro, for $1000 in 1996, and still have her. parents and gf, despite it making all the financial sense in the world to sell her, have supported me keeping her. i dont have the money to turn her into the pro-touring monster i want, so i do things bit by bit, year by year. shes getting there. currently at a shop getting the brake lines redone and a new windshield (i dont have a garage or storage space, so i try to keep her driveable and do whatever work i can that is possible to do with her parked on the street - not much now since its getting cold outside). hope you enjoyed my story!
| Autos | t5_2qhr3 | c19g7u3 | might as well copy/paste my story here. i wrote it up a lil while ago for a job application (they wanted a writing sample)...and yeah its a bit long heh.
When I was 15, I had $500 saved up for my first car. My dad bought me a spiffy Grant steering wheel, and my stepdad a Hurst T shifter, to put in whatever old, rusty, and most likely 4 door example of Detroit iron i'd wind up buying. My mom brought me brochures for neons and cavaliers (cars not even worthy of initial capitalization), promising to pay for a lease on one, hoping to keep her son out of a "death trap." My grandma gave me another $500 just before passing away (spoiling me to the end). I combed Special Interest every Thursday (that's when the new issue came out, and yes, this is just before the internet) and circled anything under a grand. My folks took me to check out a primered Nova with shag carpet on the dashboard and a 305 swapped from an 80s Monte SS. There were countless 4door Valiants and Darts. But reality set in and after a few months, I was a jaded boy. I knew "it runs" and "mechanic's dream" were cars that were going to be too much work. I'd be parking on the street, and needed something that could be driven the moment I bought it. That's why I didn't circle this one-liner ad:
1969 Camaro - automatic. runs. $1000. (718) XXX-XXXX
It was that part of the evening when I'd hand off the Sharpie'd-to-hell copy of Special Interest to my mom, for her to review which cars were too far away to check out in person.
"Oh my god! A Camaro! Why didn't you circle this one, dummy?! You love Camaros! And Christ, it's a sixty-"
"Mom, it's gotta be a piece of crap. No need to bother with it." Although I was happy to see her so excited about an old car, my 15 year old know-it-all self was sure her excitement was misplaced here - that Camaro would be a heap.
"Well I'm going to call anyway, you're stupid not to at least try."
I went into my room, not even wanting to hear the phone call, because it would only break my heart more; I worshipped 1969 Camaros (a very likely side-effect of reading so much Car Craft). It was easier to dismiss the car without having to hear it only needed this or that, things that if I had a garage, I'd be able to address. I could only hear the faint murmur of the phone conversation from my room. It was lasting longer than I expected.
"OMAR!!! COME!!!! HE WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!!!! HE'S THE ORIGINAL OWNER AND IT RUNS AND DRI-"
You bet your ass I ran like fucking hell to my mom and that phone.
Vince had the classic warm-and-gentle/stern-and-strong grandfatherly tone of voice. He quizzed me on how often oil changes should be done, how to handle a skid, and if I liked driving with my arm resting on the door (he hoped I did). I was to see him at 7am Saturday morning, because everyone else already made appointments after that. He promised he would be up bright and early just for me, and that I better not sleep in that day as "kids my age were wont to do." I didn't sleep that night.
He lived near Shea Stadium, it was easy enough to find. We got there a little before 7, and Vince was walking down the block as we pulled up to his house. He jogged back over to us; it was obvious I was the car crazy kid with his parents he spoke to on the phone. He was 77 years old and surprisingly athletic. We all panicked a bit and told him to slow down, but he laughed and kept hustling toward us. He took of his giant sunglasses and his eyes were very white; he was selling the Camaro because his cataracts had worsened rapidly. For the last month or so, his visiting nurse started the Camaro up and drove around the block to keep her in running condition. He brought us into his house (very dimly lit, since it hurt his eyes), and we met his wife Maggie. Vince and Maggie were true high school sweethearts. After school, they became a vaudeville dancing duo, and joined a troupe. Maggie showed us a photo of them in Paris. They travelled the world, a young attractive couple in love, living life to the fullest. After visiting New York for the 1963 (i think it was) World's Fair, they decided this was where they wanted to settle down and raise a family, and moved into the very house we were standing in. He got a steady gig at a Chevy dealership. She became a dance instructor. And they bought the Camaro as a Sunday driver (their daily was an Impala). As they got older and drove less, they sold the Impala. They were never able to have children, so the Camaro was their baby. As Maggie told us their story, her voice was soft and steady, but it would go high pitch for a lone syllable here and there. She was crying, just. Being a man who needed no lesson in chivalry, Vince cut in and said it's about time we go out the back of the house and see the car. Just then I realized I didn't ask him any of the basic questions (e.g., how many miles, what color is it) I asked any other seller. Hell, I had no idea what this 1969 Camaro was, besides an automatic.
And until that day, I never even saw an actual 1969 Camaro. But there one was, facing the back fence with her two-skinny-rectangular-taillights-and-a-blue-bowtie-between-them butt pointed at me. Cortez silver, with a black vinyl top. No spoiler, flat hood. Tall and skinny 14" bias plys on steelies with dog dish caps. Black vinyl bucket seats, no console, column shift. 230 cube inline six, Powerglide, standard coupe. Vince was talking, but I couldn't hear him. I was Moses by the burning bush, having an epiphany, surrounded by nothing; it was just me standing on a cloud and a 168,000 mile one owner '69 floating in the sapphire sky with me. He started her up, and gave me NPD and The Paddock catalogs and showed us everything on the car. Then he told my parents he wanted to speak with me alone. We sat in the car and rolled up the windows, and he made me promise 2 things: I would drive her regularly, and I would come back to him a year from then and give him and Maggie a ride around the block. I was a good kid, but still had some selfish tendencies (hey, I was 15), and asked if it would be ok if I repainted her or souped her up in any way. He laughed, and said she was his baby, but now she's my baby, and it's time she made new memories and had a new life with someone else. I handed him my $1000. Maggie had come out of the house by this time, and we were all just about ready to part ways (Vince was cool with me driving her home with his plates still on the car). Two guys showed up with a truck and a trailer, and said they'd beat my price, but Vince pointed at me and said "It's his car. Ask him," flashing a cheshire cat smile because he knew he found someone who wouldn't sell her off like that - he found his Camaro a home, not just an owner. As I drove her down his driveway, Vince and Maggie were holding each other and waving goodbye. To the Camaro, and to me. They were crying, I was crying, my parents were crying.
Weeks, months. Driving her here and there, my dad and stepdad knew I'd be a better driver than most, since I was managing manual steering and manual 4 wheel drums. And all those years of reading Car Craft, well, now I was actually working on a car and fixing things I previously only knew about in theory. I took apart the dash and got the fuel gauge to work. Painted her Arrest-Me-Red. I drove her to Hunt's Point and misspent my youth, let's just say. I got the passenger side floorpan patched up (hey, so she was pretty rusty). I installed a tape deck. Got some AR-CP200 daisy rims. Time passed, and my promised appointment was coming up. A couple weeks in advance, I called up Vince. No answer. I tried again a week before the big day. Number disconnected. I drove to the house and met the new inhabitant who gave me an out of state phone number to contact "the thin elderly woman who used to live here." I called and it was a hospice nurse or doctor or something, I can't remember. I pleaded to the point of sobbing for him to tell me where Vince and Maggie were, that I wanted to take them for a drive, that even though I'm wasn't kin and only saw them one day, that I had to know. He told me Vince passed away 2 months before our appointment. Maggie couldn't bear to live in their house alone and moved into the hospice. She fell ill soon after, and followed her Vince.
I still have my Camaro. And no, she's not for sale. | and current status of car - got my first car, a 69 camaro, for $1000 in 1996, and still have her. parents and gf, despite it making all the financial sense in the world to sell her, have supported me keeping her. i dont have the money to turn her into the pro-touring monster i want, so i do things bit by bit, year by year. shes getting there. currently at a shop getting the brake lines redone and a new windshield (i dont have a garage or storage space, so i try to keep her driveable and do whatever work i can that is possible to do with her parked on the street - not much now since its getting cold outside). hope you enjoyed my story! |
strongbad3689 | The officiating is awful and inconsistent throughout every game, there's no denying that.
However, as much as a conspiracy as it sounds like, I have to believe that the Pens DO receive beneficial treatment. I'm not basing that on any stat; I'm basing it from games I've seen. Granted, I've only seen a few Penguins games/plays, and I'm basing most of my argument watching Rangers/Pens games, but the refs do appear to favor the Pens. Intentional or not, that's the way it looks to me. And before anyone says "Oh, just another Ranger fan with his blue shades on," I do have to say that the refs have favored the Pens more than any team I've seen.
Maybe the coaches and leaders on the team do a better job of talking to the refs. Maybe the refs really do have a "protect-the-stars" agenda (lots of talent on that team). Maybe there really is some kind of crazy conspiracy. Whatever the reason, the way it appears to me is that the Pens are favored in the penalty department in basically every game. I see the Pens get a bunch of PPs early in the game and take control. Then I see some "makeup calls" by the refs in late the third when the game is already over, thus skewing the stats to make it appear as if the Pens acquire a very similar amount of PIM as their opponents. I've seen some dirty plays by a Penguin go uncalled/unsuspended and ridiculous calls. I don't know; maybe I just hate the Penguins so much I really am blinded.
tl;dr: I feel like the Pens get preferential treatment, whether it's intentionally done by the refs or not, based on what I've seen in games, not off some crazy stats. | The officiating is awful and inconsistent throughout every game, there's no denying that.
However, as much as a conspiracy as it sounds like, I have to believe that the Pens DO receive beneficial treatment. I'm not basing that on any stat; I'm basing it from games I've seen. Granted, I've only seen a few Penguins games/plays, and I'm basing most of my argument watching Rangers/Pens games, but the refs do appear to favor the Pens. Intentional or not, that's the way it looks to me. And before anyone says "Oh, just another Ranger fan with his blue shades on," I do have to say that the refs have favored the Pens more than any team I've seen.
Maybe the coaches and leaders on the team do a better job of talking to the refs. Maybe the refs really do have a "protect-the-stars" agenda (lots of talent on that team). Maybe there really is some kind of crazy conspiracy. Whatever the reason, the way it appears to me is that the Pens are favored in the penalty department in basically every game. I see the Pens get a bunch of PPs early in the game and take control. Then I see some "makeup calls" by the refs in late the third when the game is already over, thus skewing the stats to make it appear as if the Pens acquire a very similar amount of PIM as their opponents. I've seen some dirty plays by a Penguin go uncalled/unsuspended and ridiculous calls. I don't know; maybe I just hate the Penguins so much I really am blinded.
tl;dr: I feel like the Pens get preferential treatment, whether it's intentionally done by the refs or not, based on what I've seen in games, not off some crazy stats.
| hockey | t5_2qiel | c18zy2y | The officiating is awful and inconsistent throughout every game, there's no denying that.
However, as much as a conspiracy as it sounds like, I have to believe that the Pens DO receive beneficial treatment. I'm not basing that on any stat; I'm basing it from games I've seen. Granted, I've only seen a few Penguins games/plays, and I'm basing most of my argument watching Rangers/Pens games, but the refs do appear to favor the Pens. Intentional or not, that's the way it looks to me. And before anyone says "Oh, just another Ranger fan with his blue shades on," I do have to say that the refs have favored the Pens more than any team I've seen.
Maybe the coaches and leaders on the team do a better job of talking to the refs. Maybe the refs really do have a "protect-the-stars" agenda (lots of talent on that team). Maybe there really is some kind of crazy conspiracy. Whatever the reason, the way it appears to me is that the Pens are favored in the penalty department in basically every game. I see the Pens get a bunch of PPs early in the game and take control. Then I see some "makeup calls" by the refs in late the third when the game is already over, thus skewing the stats to make it appear as if the Pens acquire a very similar amount of PIM as their opponents. I've seen some dirty plays by a Penguin go uncalled/unsuspended and ridiculous calls. I don't know; maybe I just hate the Penguins so much I really am blinded. | I feel like the Pens get preferential treatment, whether it's intentionally done by the refs or not, based on what I've seen in games, not off some crazy stats. |
dorklogic | I think there's a lot of interest building in this, but I would caution level 85 players against going in thinking they're going to steamroll hard modes. There are some mechanics in ICC that still account for not standing in bad shit, and a Banshee is still going to drop you and your 110k hitpoints off of the edge if nobody switches to kill it.
Another Case: People standing in clouds during the yogg fight. 1 or 0 light achievement requires everyone to dance with clouds perfectly or become overwhelmed with adds.
TL;DR: This is possible, a good idea, and would be fun with the right group. An overconfident group looking to get some drakes by overgearing/leveling T10 and even T8 content will still run into substantial road blocks. | I think there's a lot of interest building in this, but I would caution level 85 players against going in thinking they're going to steamroll hard modes. There are some mechanics in ICC that still account for not standing in bad shit, and a Banshee is still going to drop you and your 110k hitpoints off of the edge if nobody switches to kill it.
Another Case: People standing in clouds during the yogg fight. 1 or 0 light achievement requires everyone to dance with clouds perfectly or become overwhelmed with adds.
TL;DR: This is possible, a good idea, and would be fun with the right group. An overconfident group looking to get some drakes by overgearing/leveling T10 and even T8 content will still run into substantial road blocks.
| redditguild | t5_2reym | c18xk6l | I think there's a lot of interest building in this, but I would caution level 85 players against going in thinking they're going to steamroll hard modes. There are some mechanics in ICC that still account for not standing in bad shit, and a Banshee is still going to drop you and your 110k hitpoints off of the edge if nobody switches to kill it.
Another Case: People standing in clouds during the yogg fight. 1 or 0 light achievement requires everyone to dance with clouds perfectly or become overwhelmed with adds. | This is possible, a good idea, and would be fun with the right group. An overconfident group looking to get some drakes by overgearing/leveling T10 and even T8 content will still run into substantial road blocks. |
jeffp12 | Okay, check this out:
AFC:
Pats
Steelers
Chiefs
Texans
Dolphins
Ravens
The Jets, Ravens, Raiders, and Chargers tie at 9-7. Ravens get the last wild-card. Texans win the south via 3-way tie at 8-8(Colts, Texans, Jags)
NFC:
Falcons
Giants
Packers
49ers
Saints
Bucs
49ers win the west at 7-9 (3-way tie with Rams and Seahawks), while the Bears (10-6) and Eagles (11-5) miss the playoffs.
tl;dr 5 teams with winning records miss the playoffs, while the 8-8 Texans and 7-9 49ers HOST a playoff game. | Okay, check this out:
AFC:
Pats
Steelers
Chiefs
Texans
Dolphins
Ravens
The Jets, Ravens, Raiders, and Chargers tie at 9-7. Ravens get the last wild-card. Texans win the south via 3-way tie at 8-8(Colts, Texans, Jags)
NFC:
Falcons
Giants
Packers
49ers
Saints
Bucs
49ers win the west at 7-9 (3-way tie with Rams and Seahawks), while the Bears (10-6) and Eagles (11-5) miss the playoffs.
tl;dr 5 teams with winning records miss the playoffs, while the 8-8 Texans and 7-9 49ers HOST a playoff game.
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | c190egy | Okay, check this out:
AFC:
Pats
Steelers
Chiefs
Texans
Dolphins
Ravens
The Jets, Ravens, Raiders, and Chargers tie at 9-7. Ravens get the last wild-card. Texans win the south via 3-way tie at 8-8(Colts, Texans, Jags)
NFC:
Falcons
Giants
Packers
49ers
Saints
Bucs
49ers win the west at 7-9 (3-way tie with Rams and Seahawks), while the Bears (10-6) and Eagles (11-5) miss the playoffs. | 5 teams with winning records miss the playoffs, while the 8-8 Texans and 7-9 49ers HOST a playoff game. |
miketdavis | Not me. I've been to family court. I don't know why men bother with lawyers.
They end up fucked in the ass no matter what. I once was waiting for my own case in court and had an opportunity to listen to another dudes case. He was forced to pay child support to his ex-wife for periods of time where he actually had the child. He was ordered to pay like $550 per month FOR ONE CHILD, which he dutifully paid for the 9 months a year the child was with the mother.
3 months a year, he had the child and didn't pay. She was suing in family court for arrears - to force him to pay child support for the time HE had the child!! And the judge agreed and I instantly lost all faith in family courts.
tl;dr men get fucked in family court. its a universal law. | Not me. I've been to family court. I don't know why men bother with lawyers.
They end up fucked in the ass no matter what. I once was waiting for my own case in court and had an opportunity to listen to another dudes case. He was forced to pay child support to his ex-wife for periods of time where he actually had the child. He was ordered to pay like $550 per month FOR ONE CHILD, which he dutifully paid for the 9 months a year the child was with the mother.
3 months a year, he had the child and didn't pay. She was suing in family court for arrears - to force him to pay child support for the time HE had the child!! And the judge agreed and I instantly lost all faith in family courts.
tl;dr men get fucked in family court. its a universal law.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c198qgq | Not me. I've been to family court. I don't know why men bother with lawyers.
They end up fucked in the ass no matter what. I once was waiting for my own case in court and had an opportunity to listen to another dudes case. He was forced to pay child support to his ex-wife for periods of time where he actually had the child. He was ordered to pay like $550 per month FOR ONE CHILD, which he dutifully paid for the 9 months a year the child was with the mother.
3 months a year, he had the child and didn't pay. She was suing in family court for arrears - to force him to pay child support for the time HE had the child!! And the judge agreed and I instantly lost all faith in family courts. | men get fucked in family court. its a universal law. |
reodd | I'm a stepfather.
My stepson is now 8. I had an advantage that I met him when he was 18 months old, but here's the deal.
Always listen to him. If he's rambling about whatever stupid movie he just watched, he wants you to pay attention. If you pay attention to what is important to him, he will not only like you, he will respect you, because he'll know you care.
My stepson thinks I'm the shit. I'm actually very strict, but if you ask him, I'm the nicest guy in the world (more so than his father, who he sees 50% of the time). Why? Because I talk with him, and take the time to listen and explain stuff when he has questions.
TL;DR Listen and pay attention. The rest of it will come naturally. If he doesn't want to talk, don't make him. If he wants to play, do it. | I'm a stepfather.
My stepson is now 8. I had an advantage that I met him when he was 18 months old, but here's the deal.
Always listen to him. If he's rambling about whatever stupid movie he just watched, he wants you to pay attention. If you pay attention to what is important to him, he will not only like you, he will respect you, because he'll know you care.
My stepson thinks I'm the shit. I'm actually very strict, but if you ask him, I'm the nicest guy in the world (more so than his father, who he sees 50% of the time). Why? Because I talk with him, and take the time to listen and explain stuff when he has questions.
TL;DR Listen and pay attention. The rest of it will come naturally. If he doesn't want to talk, don't make him. If he wants to play, do it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c19cgqr | I'm a stepfather.
My stepson is now 8. I had an advantage that I met him when he was 18 months old, but here's the deal.
Always listen to him. If he's rambling about whatever stupid movie he just watched, he wants you to pay attention. If you pay attention to what is important to him, he will not only like you, he will respect you, because he'll know you care.
My stepson thinks I'm the shit. I'm actually very strict, but if you ask him, I'm the nicest guy in the world (more so than his father, who he sees 50% of the time). Why? Because I talk with him, and take the time to listen and explain stuff when he has questions. | Listen and pay attention. The rest of it will come naturally. If he doesn't want to talk, don't make him. If he wants to play, do it. |
Astrixtc | I don't really think that there is much difference in midi controller brands. It's kind of like asking what kind of keyboard you want for your computer. If you play tons of games, you want a nice one with a number keypad (extra nobs or sliders). If you do tons of typing, you might go for the ergonomic model (weighted keys). If you are short on space, get the small fold out model (25 key). Just match your model with your needs. The brand doesn't really matter. Buy it used if you can, it's not like the midi software will be upgraded at some point and you will need a faster processor on your controller.
TL;DR: don't worry too much about it. Midi controllers are pretty inexpensive, and just about all the same. | I don't really think that there is much difference in midi controller brands. It's kind of like asking what kind of keyboard you want for your computer. If you play tons of games, you want a nice one with a number keypad (extra nobs or sliders). If you do tons of typing, you might go for the ergonomic model (weighted keys). If you are short on space, get the small fold out model (25 key). Just match your model with your needs. The brand doesn't really matter. Buy it used if you can, it's not like the midi software will be upgraded at some point and you will need a faster processor on your controller.
TL;DR: don't worry too much about it. Midi controllers are pretty inexpensive, and just about all the same.
| WeAreTheMusicMakers | t5_2qmah | c19dnhy | I don't really think that there is much difference in midi controller brands. It's kind of like asking what kind of keyboard you want for your computer. If you play tons of games, you want a nice one with a number keypad (extra nobs or sliders). If you do tons of typing, you might go for the ergonomic model (weighted keys). If you are short on space, get the small fold out model (25 key). Just match your model with your needs. The brand doesn't really matter. Buy it used if you can, it's not like the midi software will be upgraded at some point and you will need a faster processor on your controller. | don't worry too much about it. Midi controllers are pretty inexpensive, and just about all the same. |
taranaki | No no it doesnt. It has to do that there are a bunch of horny sexually repressed people out there who have authority and are willing to wield it on the vulnerable. People are not going around quoting the bible as the fuck the shit out of little kids.
Also atheism provides no age of consent framework either, by its very nature of being a non belief.
TLDR: You're the type of atheist I hope my family and friends never meet so that I dont have to give the whole, Im not a total asshole just becauseim atheist, talk | No no it doesnt. It has to do that there are a bunch of horny sexually repressed people out there who have authority and are willing to wield it on the vulnerable. People are not going around quoting the bible as the fuck the shit out of little kids.
Also atheism provides no age of consent framework either, by its very nature of being a non belief.
TLDR: You're the type of atheist I hope my family and friends never meet so that I dont have to give the whole, Im not a total asshole just becauseim atheist, talk
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c19jk1o | No no it doesnt. It has to do that there are a bunch of horny sexually repressed people out there who have authority and are willing to wield it on the vulnerable. People are not going around quoting the bible as the fuck the shit out of little kids.
Also atheism provides no age of consent framework either, by its very nature of being a non belief. | You're the type of atheist I hope my family and friends never meet so that I dont have to give the whole, Im not a total asshole just becauseim atheist, talk |
APphilosophy | Pardon my rant, but yeah... i think we all can agree, fuck the banks. And it pains me to say this, but also fuck the people working for them. i have friends that work in banks, i know its a good job. but seriously, if you have any self respect, quit and do something positive for your community. its to a point where i will/can not open an account and find the risk of theft to be better then the risk of sudden insurmountable debt. For example, at one point in time i was working full time at an ok job and things got jumbled up. i went into a negative amount and had no feasible way to pay it. i am not saying that i am completely absolved of fault here, its just that's how things went. what piss's me the fuck off is that, instead of having any sense of fairness or logic to it, they insist that i must keep my account open at a negative balance for 90 days, incurring after 2 weeks a $7 a day charge for having a negative balance. in the end, it made a some 2000 bucks in debt in that account. So tell you what bank, how about i charge you every time we do buisnes, as my time is just as valuable as yours and my rates make no sense either. long story short, burned the bank on the account for bullshit charges and have said ever since, fuck those fucking fuckers.
tl;dr edit: the only purpose of the banks is the keep you poor if your poor and keep themselves rich at the top of there fucking ponzy scheme. | Pardon my rant, but yeah... i think we all can agree, fuck the banks. And it pains me to say this, but also fuck the people working for them. i have friends that work in banks, i know its a good job. but seriously, if you have any self respect, quit and do something positive for your community. its to a point where i will/can not open an account and find the risk of theft to be better then the risk of sudden insurmountable debt. For example, at one point in time i was working full time at an ok job and things got jumbled up. i went into a negative amount and had no feasible way to pay it. i am not saying that i am completely absolved of fault here, its just that's how things went. what piss's me the fuck off is that, instead of having any sense of fairness or logic to it, they insist that i must keep my account open at a negative balance for 90 days, incurring after 2 weeks a $7 a day charge for having a negative balance. in the end, it made a some 2000 bucks in debt in that account. So tell you what bank, how about i charge you every time we do buisnes, as my time is just as valuable as yours and my rates make no sense either. long story short, burned the bank on the account for bullshit charges and have said ever since, fuck those fucking fuckers.
tl;dr edit: the only purpose of the banks is the keep you poor if your poor and keep themselves rich at the top of there fucking ponzy scheme.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c19z08c | Pardon my rant, but yeah... i think we all can agree, fuck the banks. And it pains me to say this, but also fuck the people working for them. i have friends that work in banks, i know its a good job. but seriously, if you have any self respect, quit and do something positive for your community. its to a point where i will/can not open an account and find the risk of theft to be better then the risk of sudden insurmountable debt. For example, at one point in time i was working full time at an ok job and things got jumbled up. i went into a negative amount and had no feasible way to pay it. i am not saying that i am completely absolved of fault here, its just that's how things went. what piss's me the fuck off is that, instead of having any sense of fairness or logic to it, they insist that i must keep my account open at a negative balance for 90 days, incurring after 2 weeks a $7 a day charge for having a negative balance. in the end, it made a some 2000 bucks in debt in that account. So tell you what bank, how about i charge you every time we do buisnes, as my time is just as valuable as yours and my rates make no sense either. long story short, burned the bank on the account for bullshit charges and have said ever since, fuck those fucking fuckers. | edit: the only purpose of the banks is the keep you poor if your poor and keep themselves rich at the top of there fucking ponzy scheme. |
remaxx | Protip: Don't call people a circle-jerk when you don't know what your talking about.
Also, I just bought the game 3 days ago, and no, I don't look up to him like a god. I do understand what he's been through, with the DDOS attacks and the rapid fanboys forcing him to shove out updates.
**TL;DR** it's not his fault that he's new to this. | Protip: Don't call people a circle-jerk when you don't know what your talking about.
Also, I just bought the game 3 days ago, and no, I don't look up to him like a god. I do understand what he's been through, with the DDOS attacks and the rapid fanboys forcing him to shove out updates.
TL;DR it's not his fault that he's new to this.
| Minecraft | t5_2r05i | c1a13to | Protip: Don't call people a circle-jerk when you don't know what your talking about.
Also, I just bought the game 3 days ago, and no, I don't look up to him like a god. I do understand what he's been through, with the DDOS attacks and the rapid fanboys forcing him to shove out updates. | it's not his fault that he's new to this. |
eramos | >With Child Benefit, Housing Benefit, and Jobseekers/Incapacity benefit (with no medical bills and free prescriptions),
Are those anything like unemployment benefits, Tuition Assistance Program, Section 8 housing assistance, FAFSA, social security/disability income, food stamps, and Medicaid? Probably not - Medicaid has free dental too.
>its just nowhere near as widespread as it is in the US due to our socialist safety net.
BRITAIN, FUCK YEAH ONLY 40% OF CHILDREN IN POVERTY. I guess "rare" amounts of poverty to you is slightly less than half.
How about this [woman]( is she totally living high off your fat socialist programs? Everyone gets a dirty blanket and a corner on the street, eh? Truly a paradise you've got going.
> its just nowhere near as widespread as it is in the US due to our socialist safety net.
Citation? No, I thought not. Here's one for you:
US - 12%
UK - 14%
tl;dr Your accusations are a load of ignorant nationalistic bullshit. But enjoy watching all your "amazing" benefits get slashed even more by your piece of shit Tory government. Maybe soon more than half of children in your country will live in poverty. | >With Child Benefit, Housing Benefit, and Jobseekers/Incapacity benefit (with no medical bills and free prescriptions),
Are those anything like unemployment benefits, Tuition Assistance Program, Section 8 housing assistance, FAFSA, social security/disability income, food stamps, and Medicaid? Probably not - Medicaid has free dental too.
>its just nowhere near as widespread as it is in the US due to our socialist safety net.
BRITAIN, FUCK YEAH ONLY 40% OF CHILDREN IN POVERTY. I guess "rare" amounts of poverty to you is slightly less than half.
How about this [woman]( is she totally living high off your fat socialist programs? Everyone gets a dirty blanket and a corner on the street, eh? Truly a paradise you've got going.
> its just nowhere near as widespread as it is in the US due to our socialist safety net.
Citation? No, I thought not. Here's one for you:
US - 12%
UK - 14%
tl;dr Your accusations are a load of ignorant nationalistic bullshit. But enjoy watching all your "amazing" benefits get slashed even more by your piece of shit Tory government. Maybe soon more than half of children in your country will live in poverty.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1a2eez | With Child Benefit, Housing Benefit, and Jobseekers/Incapacity benefit (with no medical bills and free prescriptions),
Are those anything like unemployment benefits, Tuition Assistance Program, Section 8 housing assistance, FAFSA, social security/disability income, food stamps, and Medicaid? Probably not - Medicaid has free dental too.
>its just nowhere near as widespread as it is in the US due to our socialist safety net.
BRITAIN, FUCK YEAH ONLY 40% OF CHILDREN IN POVERTY. I guess "rare" amounts of poverty to you is slightly less than half.
How about this [woman]( is she totally living high off your fat socialist programs? Everyone gets a dirty blanket and a corner on the street, eh? Truly a paradise you've got going.
> its just nowhere near as widespread as it is in the US due to our socialist safety net.
Citation? No, I thought not. Here's one for you:
US - 12%
UK - 14% | Your accusations are a load of ignorant nationalistic bullshit. But enjoy watching all your "amazing" benefits get slashed even more by your piece of shit Tory government. Maybe soon more than half of children in your country will live in poverty. |
opinionatedfish | Wait. In Fapping. The only consent needed is from your own hand.
Oh, the United States, where child pornography doesn't even have to have an actual child in it.
18 U.S.C. § 1466A (2008)
(c) Nonrequired element of offense. It is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exist.
Of course, there is a clause for artistic representation. So, if you say that this picture of a 17 year old has the soul of an 18 year old (or older) through the timeless gesture of good will toward a charity.. we can fap to it and say we are doing so for the CHARITY of the event. Because charity is timeless.
tl:dr: if you Fap, say you are fapping to the good will of the situation. Charity is ageless. | Wait. In Fapping. The only consent needed is from your own hand.
Oh, the United States, where child pornography doesn't even have to have an actual child in it.
18 U.S.C. § 1466A (2008)
(c) Nonrequired element of offense. It is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exist.
Of course, there is a clause for artistic representation. So, if you say that this picture of a 17 year old has the soul of an 18 year old (or older) through the timeless gesture of good will toward a charity.. we can fap to it and say we are doing so for the CHARITY of the event. Because charity is timeless.
tl:dr: if you Fap, say you are fapping to the good will of the situation. Charity is ageless.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1a9s19 | Wait. In Fapping. The only consent needed is from your own hand.
Oh, the United States, where child pornography doesn't even have to have an actual child in it.
18 U.S.C. § 1466A (2008)
(c) Nonrequired element of offense. It is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exist.
Of course, there is a clause for artistic representation. So, if you say that this picture of a 17 year old has the soul of an 18 year old (or older) through the timeless gesture of good will toward a charity.. we can fap to it and say we are doing so for the CHARITY of the event. Because charity is timeless. | if you Fap, say you are fapping to the good will of the situation. Charity is ageless. |
ripjoestrummer | That's pretty awesome of the cashier, I used to (kind of still do, LOA) work retail, and I always just moved those kinds of assholes along. I just wanted to avoid the fight, and things typically went faster when I just checked them out instead of making a big fuss.
Tl;dr Congrats to the cashier for having bigger balls than me.
| That's pretty awesome of the cashier, I used to (kind of still do, LOA) work retail, and I always just moved those kinds of assholes along. I just wanted to avoid the fight, and things typically went faster when I just checked them out instead of making a big fuss.
Tl;dr Congrats to the cashier for having bigger balls than me.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1a9cic | That's pretty awesome of the cashier, I used to (kind of still do, LOA) work retail, and I always just moved those kinds of assholes along. I just wanted to avoid the fight, and things typically went faster when I just checked them out instead of making a big fuss. | Congrats to the cashier for having bigger balls than me. |
Price-Of_Flesh | I went to Ross the other day (just a slight step above Walmart) and when I went to get in line I saw they had 6 lines, all with 1 or 2 peeps, and a huge line at the first line. I just assumed maybe they were returns (as that is the only one thats does returns). Anyway, I get in one of the smaller lines. When another teller calls out she will take the next person not doing a return. I pause, look at the big line, see no movement so I figured wtf and head over. When I get there, the cashier says to me: Sorry sir, but I just called the next person up. and I look over to see someone coming up from behind. I apologized profusely, as I was kind of embarrassed, feeling I rudely jumped the gun. I let them go and waited patiently. It got to be my turn and I told the cashier that I appreciated her telling me that I was not next and helping who actually was. And again apologized. She seemed to be absolutely flabbergasted that I was understanding and pleasant about the matter. So much so that she ended up giving me 10% off for my "kindness". I tried to tell he she didn't have to do that but she insisted. Thanked her and left. All I could think is, damn, what have her customers done to her? Where doing what is right and civilized is unusual and unexpected behavior.
tl:dr cashier politely informed me I had accidentally cut in line, I apologized, and politely corrected the behavior, and was rewarded with shock and then 10% off. | I went to Ross the other day (just a slight step above Walmart) and when I went to get in line I saw they had 6 lines, all with 1 or 2 peeps, and a huge line at the first line. I just assumed maybe they were returns (as that is the only one thats does returns). Anyway, I get in one of the smaller lines. When another teller calls out she will take the next person not doing a return. I pause, look at the big line, see no movement so I figured wtf and head over. When I get there, the cashier says to me: Sorry sir, but I just called the next person up. and I look over to see someone coming up from behind. I apologized profusely, as I was kind of embarrassed, feeling I rudely jumped the gun. I let them go and waited patiently. It got to be my turn and I told the cashier that I appreciated her telling me that I was not next and helping who actually was. And again apologized. She seemed to be absolutely flabbergasted that I was understanding and pleasant about the matter. So much so that she ended up giving me 10% off for my "kindness". I tried to tell he she didn't have to do that but she insisted. Thanked her and left. All I could think is, damn, what have her customers done to her? Where doing what is right and civilized is unusual and unexpected behavior.
tl:dr cashier politely informed me I had accidentally cut in line, I apologized, and politely corrected the behavior, and was rewarded with shock and then 10% off.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1a9n90 | I went to Ross the other day (just a slight step above Walmart) and when I went to get in line I saw they had 6 lines, all with 1 or 2 peeps, and a huge line at the first line. I just assumed maybe they were returns (as that is the only one thats does returns). Anyway, I get in one of the smaller lines. When another teller calls out she will take the next person not doing a return. I pause, look at the big line, see no movement so I figured wtf and head over. When I get there, the cashier says to me: Sorry sir, but I just called the next person up. and I look over to see someone coming up from behind. I apologized profusely, as I was kind of embarrassed, feeling I rudely jumped the gun. I let them go and waited patiently. It got to be my turn and I told the cashier that I appreciated her telling me that I was not next and helping who actually was. And again apologized. She seemed to be absolutely flabbergasted that I was understanding and pleasant about the matter. So much so that she ended up giving me 10% off for my "kindness". I tried to tell he she didn't have to do that but she insisted. Thanked her and left. All I could think is, damn, what have her customers done to her? Where doing what is right and civilized is unusual and unexpected behavior. | cashier politely informed me I had accidentally cut in line, I apologized, and politely corrected the behavior, and was rewarded with shock and then 10% off. |
paulipauli | One time I was in Wal-Mart check out line and a man in a full body banana suit sprinted all the way across the entire front of the store and out into the parking lot. This was one of those massive Wal-Marts, and I happened to notice him just as he ran in the door at the far end. Following him, close behind and sprinting like his life depended on it, was a man in a giant gorilla suit. I swear none of the shoppers in the store noticed except me. True story.
**TL;DR Man in gorilla suit chases man in banana suit through Wal Mart as I watch, wondering if I'm dreaming**
| One time I was in Wal-Mart check out line and a man in a full body banana suit sprinted all the way across the entire front of the store and out into the parking lot. This was one of those massive Wal-Marts, and I happened to notice him just as he ran in the door at the far end. Following him, close behind and sprinting like his life depended on it, was a man in a giant gorilla suit. I swear none of the shoppers in the store noticed except me. True story.
TL;DR Man in gorilla suit chases man in banana suit through Wal Mart as I watch, wondering if I'm dreaming
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1a9nc0 | One time I was in Wal-Mart check out line and a man in a full body banana suit sprinted all the way across the entire front of the store and out into the parking lot. This was one of those massive Wal-Marts, and I happened to notice him just as he ran in the door at the far end. Following him, close behind and sprinting like his life depended on it, was a man in a giant gorilla suit. I swear none of the shoppers in the store noticed except me. True story. | Man in gorilla suit chases man in banana suit through Wal Mart as I watch, wondering if I'm dreaming |
AllDesperadoStation | My family was very mild Catholic, we are not religious at all anymore. My parents, I suspect, made us go to church for a while "for our own good" as it was very popular in the community I grew up in. After the kids were grown, nobody gave a shit about it anymore. I can't even imagine us being religious during Christmas, that would ruin the whole thing. I live in a large city in the midwest. Most of my friends are either engineers, IT professionals, musicians, or artists. I like to talk about my strict atheist views. Nobody gives a damn about religion. Thank you God.
TL;DR: Not all Americans are hung up on religion. I hardly ever see it. | My family was very mild Catholic, we are not religious at all anymore. My parents, I suspect, made us go to church for a while "for our own good" as it was very popular in the community I grew up in. After the kids were grown, nobody gave a shit about it anymore. I can't even imagine us being religious during Christmas, that would ruin the whole thing. I live in a large city in the midwest. Most of my friends are either engineers, IT professionals, musicians, or artists. I like to talk about my strict atheist views. Nobody gives a damn about religion. Thank you God.
TL;DR: Not all Americans are hung up on religion. I hardly ever see it.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1aei6n | My family was very mild Catholic, we are not religious at all anymore. My parents, I suspect, made us go to church for a while "for our own good" as it was very popular in the community I grew up in. After the kids were grown, nobody gave a shit about it anymore. I can't even imagine us being religious during Christmas, that would ruin the whole thing. I live in a large city in the midwest. Most of my friends are either engineers, IT professionals, musicians, or artists. I like to talk about my strict atheist views. Nobody gives a damn about religion. Thank you God. | Not all Americans are hung up on religion. I hardly ever see it. |
microwave_safe_bowl | as a man, i appreciate the difficulty of turning down sex after you ready to go but nothing is worse than an STD scare. forget getting a girl pregnant, there are worse things, scared about getting dickrot is horrible. my best friend hooked up with a girl we knew from college and moments before they were about to have sex but after they were naked and fooling around, she hit him with 'oh, by the way, i have herpes'. i was getting frantic calls from around the clock for a month. *that* was enough to scare the fuck out of me and wasnt even my junk on the line.
tl;dr - use a condom, jackass | as a man, i appreciate the difficulty of turning down sex after you ready to go but nothing is worse than an STD scare. forget getting a girl pregnant, there are worse things, scared about getting dickrot is horrible. my best friend hooked up with a girl we knew from college and moments before they were about to have sex but after they were naked and fooling around, she hit him with 'oh, by the way, i have herpes'. i was getting frantic calls from around the clock for a month. that was enough to scare the fuck out of me and wasnt even my junk on the line.
tl;dr - use a condom, jackass
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1aet1w | as a man, i appreciate the difficulty of turning down sex after you ready to go but nothing is worse than an STD scare. forget getting a girl pregnant, there are worse things, scared about getting dickrot is horrible. my best friend hooked up with a girl we knew from college and moments before they were about to have sex but after they were naked and fooling around, she hit him with 'oh, by the way, i have herpes'. i was getting frantic calls from around the clock for a month. that was enough to scare the fuck out of me and wasnt even my junk on the line. | use a condom, jackass |
n99bJedi | I never open imgur pics in new windows, but for this, i made an exception and did zoom in at that same point.
**tl;dr: mensfocalpoint has a point.
** | I never open imgur pics in new windows, but for this, i made an exception and did zoom in at that same point.
tl;dr: mensfocalpoint has a point.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1afbkr | I never open imgur pics in new windows, but for this, i made an exception and did zoom in at that same point. | mensfocalpoint has a point. |
House_of_Suns | Serious question: How did you get so much Karma by being an ass? (ER, not OP)
tldr: ass | Serious question: How did you get so much Karma by being an ass? (ER, not OP)
tldr: ass
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1amlsp | Serious question: How did you get so much Karma by being an ass? (ER, not OP) | ass |
karnim | I disagree. I've worked a full-time job in the "real world", and I would very much prefer it to my education. Sadly, I need the education to get the job for reals, but a real job is something you can count on, for the most part. Regular hours, a wage, and the ability to leave work at your workplace, for the most part. Sure, lay-offs and whatnot happen, especially in this economy, but that's about as uncertain as things get.
University provides none of those. Maybe you get an easy week, which is great. You can get extra work done, or maybe hang out with friends, or deal with other responsibilities. Maybe you're stuck on campus for 12 hours a day for 3 weeks and still have to come back to study and do homework so that you can pass the classes that you have to pay for, so you don't have to pay for them again. Maybe sleep and food can fit in too, if you've actually managed to understand the new chapter of material you're on this week in each class, and don't need to learn something completely new. God help you if you're in a club or two trying to be well-rounded, let alone in a leadership position. Then you need a part-time job to pay for gas, insurance, tuition, rent, and all of those other bills. Then the entire 4 months of work ends in a week of hellish exams which, for the most part, determine your grades, and essentially your worth to your future employers, if there are even jobs available.
So yes, most kids are spoiled and do little work. I'm not excluded, honestly. But having been on both sides of this line recently, university is much more mentally taxing than a real job, so give us some time to relax. A lot of kids can barely afford to come home for break, and though we recognize that it would be nice to help the family, we sleep instead. Sometimes, we even dream about seeing a platypus, since they're kinda awesome.
/rant
Let the downvotes roll in, but maybe some real conversation if you actually read this?
tl:dr - Platypuses are pretty cool. | I disagree. I've worked a full-time job in the "real world", and I would very much prefer it to my education. Sadly, I need the education to get the job for reals, but a real job is something you can count on, for the most part. Regular hours, a wage, and the ability to leave work at your workplace, for the most part. Sure, lay-offs and whatnot happen, especially in this economy, but that's about as uncertain as things get.
University provides none of those. Maybe you get an easy week, which is great. You can get extra work done, or maybe hang out with friends, or deal with other responsibilities. Maybe you're stuck on campus for 12 hours a day for 3 weeks and still have to come back to study and do homework so that you can pass the classes that you have to pay for, so you don't have to pay for them again. Maybe sleep and food can fit in too, if you've actually managed to understand the new chapter of material you're on this week in each class, and don't need to learn something completely new. God help you if you're in a club or two trying to be well-rounded, let alone in a leadership position. Then you need a part-time job to pay for gas, insurance, tuition, rent, and all of those other bills. Then the entire 4 months of work ends in a week of hellish exams which, for the most part, determine your grades, and essentially your worth to your future employers, if there are even jobs available.
So yes, most kids are spoiled and do little work. I'm not excluded, honestly. But having been on both sides of this line recently, university is much more mentally taxing than a real job, so give us some time to relax. A lot of kids can barely afford to come home for break, and though we recognize that it would be nice to help the family, we sleep instead. Sometimes, we even dream about seeing a platypus, since they're kinda awesome.
/rant
Let the downvotes roll in, but maybe some real conversation if you actually read this?
tl:dr - Platypuses are pretty cool.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1aot2z | I disagree. I've worked a full-time job in the "real world", and I would very much prefer it to my education. Sadly, I need the education to get the job for reals, but a real job is something you can count on, for the most part. Regular hours, a wage, and the ability to leave work at your workplace, for the most part. Sure, lay-offs and whatnot happen, especially in this economy, but that's about as uncertain as things get.
University provides none of those. Maybe you get an easy week, which is great. You can get extra work done, or maybe hang out with friends, or deal with other responsibilities. Maybe you're stuck on campus for 12 hours a day for 3 weeks and still have to come back to study and do homework so that you can pass the classes that you have to pay for, so you don't have to pay for them again. Maybe sleep and food can fit in too, if you've actually managed to understand the new chapter of material you're on this week in each class, and don't need to learn something completely new. God help you if you're in a club or two trying to be well-rounded, let alone in a leadership position. Then you need a part-time job to pay for gas, insurance, tuition, rent, and all of those other bills. Then the entire 4 months of work ends in a week of hellish exams which, for the most part, determine your grades, and essentially your worth to your future employers, if there are even jobs available.
So yes, most kids are spoiled and do little work. I'm not excluded, honestly. But having been on both sides of this line recently, university is much more mentally taxing than a real job, so give us some time to relax. A lot of kids can barely afford to come home for break, and though we recognize that it would be nice to help the family, we sleep instead. Sometimes, we even dream about seeing a platypus, since they're kinda awesome.
/rant
Let the downvotes roll in, but maybe some real conversation if you actually read this? | Platypuses are pretty cool. |
gko2408 | It's a matter of caring for the people that care about you. I don't mind doing the lawn work either, but I went out and did it without being asked. Not because I wanted to see a clean lawn in and of itself, but because my parents, who spent much of their adult life working the type of blue-collar, laborious work one would expect out from F.O.B. immigrants, and who sacrificed just a little bit, the little bit that's needed to raise a child, and who remembers what it was like to live in an apartment with drug dealers and gangbangers working at the corner store below them so they cherish, maybe to the point of excess, how well-kept the front lawn is,
of course, this isn't very likely as a scenario for your family or any other families, but unless your parents are like [this lady]( they care about you way more than you realize, to the extent that they will do things for you not because they have any personally vested interest, but because you care about it.
and so when you're being "guilt-tripped" (and I want to tangentially note here that up to my 1st college year I was bitterly annoyed at my parents for this also, and am now convinced every 13-18 y.o. born post korean war feels this way every winter) it may not necessarily be them trying to "guilt" you, but their reaction instead to seeing you in your bed and/or complaining about having to shovel snow/mow the lawn.
**TL;DR** Foregoing **YOUR** interests and **YOUR** schedule and **YOUR** comforts show you care about your parents more than you realize. | It's a matter of caring for the people that care about you. I don't mind doing the lawn work either, but I went out and did it without being asked. Not because I wanted to see a clean lawn in and of itself, but because my parents, who spent much of their adult life working the type of blue-collar, laborious work one would expect out from F.O.B. immigrants, and who sacrificed just a little bit, the little bit that's needed to raise a child, and who remembers what it was like to live in an apartment with drug dealers and gangbangers working at the corner store below them so they cherish, maybe to the point of excess, how well-kept the front lawn is,
of course, this isn't very likely as a scenario for your family or any other families, but unless your parents are like [this lady]( they care about you way more than you realize, to the extent that they will do things for you not because they have any personally vested interest, but because you care about it.
and so when you're being "guilt-tripped" (and I want to tangentially note here that up to my 1st college year I was bitterly annoyed at my parents for this also, and am now convinced every 13-18 y.o. born post korean war feels this way every winter) it may not necessarily be them trying to "guilt" you, but their reaction instead to seeing you in your bed and/or complaining about having to shovel snow/mow the lawn.
TL;DR Foregoing YOUR interests and YOUR schedule and YOUR comforts show you care about your parents more than you realize.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1arm6o | It's a matter of caring for the people that care about you. I don't mind doing the lawn work either, but I went out and did it without being asked. Not because I wanted to see a clean lawn in and of itself, but because my parents, who spent much of their adult life working the type of blue-collar, laborious work one would expect out from F.O.B. immigrants, and who sacrificed just a little bit, the little bit that's needed to raise a child, and who remembers what it was like to live in an apartment with drug dealers and gangbangers working at the corner store below them so they cherish, maybe to the point of excess, how well-kept the front lawn is,
of course, this isn't very likely as a scenario for your family or any other families, but unless your parents are like [this lady]( they care about you way more than you realize, to the extent that they will do things for you not because they have any personally vested interest, but because you care about it.
and so when you're being "guilt-tripped" (and I want to tangentially note here that up to my 1st college year I was bitterly annoyed at my parents for this also, and am now convinced every 13-18 y.o. born post korean war feels this way every winter) it may not necessarily be them trying to "guilt" you, but their reaction instead to seeing you in your bed and/or complaining about having to shovel snow/mow the lawn. | Foregoing YOUR interests and YOUR schedule and YOUR comforts show you care about your parents more than you realize. |
Earthmamahippychick | This is fantastic! I'm off to build my ultimate front page. Thank you for such clear well explained directions. I can visualize each part as I read it :) okay, I do have one last question, any chance you could explain trolling, upvoting/downvoting, points and gold, or what those crazy abbreviations mean? Like tl;dr?? Or is there somewhere thAt gives a tutorial or welcome info? I just joined and I was IN hahaha...just kinda dove headfirst reading stories and poSts without realizing how to work this site. Thanks for even taking the time to read this!!! | This is fantastic! I'm off to build my ultimate front page. Thank you for such clear well explained directions. I can visualize each part as I read it :) okay, I do have one last question, any chance you could explain trolling, upvoting/downvoting, points and gold, or what those crazy abbreviations mean? Like tl;dr?? Or is there somewhere thAt gives a tutorial or welcome info? I just joined and I was IN hahaha...just kinda dove headfirst reading stories and poSts without realizing how to work this site. Thanks for even taking the time to read this!!!
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1atzg9 | This is fantastic! I'm off to build my ultimate front page. Thank you for such clear well explained directions. I can visualize each part as I read it :) okay, I do have one last question, any chance you could explain trolling, upvoting/downvoting, points and gold, or what those crazy abbreviations mean? Like | Or is there somewhere thAt gives a tutorial or welcome info? I just joined and I was IN hahaha...just kinda dove headfirst reading stories and poSts without realizing how to work this site. Thanks for even taking the time to read this!!! |
sagnessagiel | I don't want regulation on the internet either, but **that makes it even more important to get REAL Net Neutrality passed, which prevents any messing with the internet whatsoever.**
Before the FCC stepped in, **ISPs were about to throttle traffic to sites they hate by getting rid of Net Neutrality.** Basically, if Comcast doesn't like Youtube because it's stealing views from Hulu, they can make Youtube as slow as molasses, and give Hulu the fast lane.
[Basically, shit like this can happen.]( This would be the end of the internet.
TL;DR: No one here wants total FCC regulation. That would also destroy the internet. But no one here wants companies doing the same, **which is what they were about to do until Net Neutrality was passed.**
As I said before, Goverment and Corporations must be in equilibrium, or else one of them will have no opposition to screwing normal citizens. | I don't want regulation on the internet either, but that makes it even more important to get REAL Net Neutrality passed, which prevents any messing with the internet whatsoever.
Before the FCC stepped in, ISPs were about to throttle traffic to sites they hate by getting rid of Net Neutrality. Basically, if Comcast doesn't like Youtube because it's stealing views from Hulu, they can make Youtube as slow as molasses, and give Hulu the fast lane.
[Basically, shit like this can happen.]( This would be the end of the internet.
TL;DR: No one here wants total FCC regulation. That would also destroy the internet. But no one here wants companies doing the same, which is what they were about to do until Net Neutrality was passed.
As I said before, Goverment and Corporations must be in equilibrium, or else one of them will have no opposition to screwing normal citizens.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1axs1x | I don't want regulation on the internet either, but that makes it even more important to get REAL Net Neutrality passed, which prevents any messing with the internet whatsoever.
Before the FCC stepped in, ISPs were about to throttle traffic to sites they hate by getting rid of Net Neutrality. Basically, if Comcast doesn't like Youtube because it's stealing views from Hulu, they can make Youtube as slow as molasses, and give Hulu the fast lane.
[Basically, shit like this can happen.]( This would be the end of the internet. | No one here wants total FCC regulation. That would also destroy the internet. But no one here wants companies doing the same, which is what they were about to do until Net Neutrality was passed.
As I said before, Goverment and Corporations must be in equilibrium, or else one of them will have no opposition to screwing normal citizens. |
jamovies | > That's fucking bullshit. Who the fuck upvoted this? When you pay for x bits/second you should be able to download x * 2.6mb per month.
If you're paying for an unlimited connection, that's certainly true. This letter is stating that he's not on an unlimited connection any more. That's like a restaurant changing from all-you-can-eat to charging per item, and then someone complaining that it should still be all-you-can-eat simply because it used to be.
> 25gb/month basically works out to 76 kbps that's barely faster then a 56k modem!!
Do we need to have the explanation of the difference between speed, latency, and bandwidth again? ("Do you know the speed limit is 55 miles per hour?" "Yes, officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long...")
> Second of all there are totally legitimate reasons to download that much. For example, watching lots of youtube and netflix movies instead of television. Why shouldn't someone be able to do that?
According to the numbers elsewhere in this thread, that's false. Even streaming 720p video 24/7 wouldn't amount to 824GB a month.
(But anyway: if you want to stream 1440p video 24/7, you can do that, but if you're using 10 times as much of a shared resource as me, why shouldn't you pay for it?)
> It blows my mind how many people are willing to stand up and defend people who are going out of their way to screw them.
ISTM that the people downloading an order-of-magnitude (or more) data than a typical person, and then insisting on the same fees, are the ones going out of their way to screw me. Trucks pay higher tolls than cars, too.
> The reason they have to put these caps in place is because they over-sold their network when there wasn't as much available content. Now that there actually is (totally legit) content available, they are suddenly putting in caps instead of actually giving people what they've paid for.
But they can't just "give people" that, since you just admitted they "oversold their network". So instead of just complaining, what's your solution? Downgrade everybody to 500Kbps so everyone can saturate their network connections 24/7 and be happy knowing they'll never pay overages? Spend a ton of money upgrading all parts of your networks so everybody can saturate tens-of-megabits (hundreds?) of bandwidth 24/7 and then pass along the higher cost to everyone, even though 99.9% of people would never use it and only see the higher fees? I think charging the extreme users more money is perfectly reasonable.
tldr: If you use more of a finite resource, you pay more. That's how shit works. | > That's fucking bullshit. Who the fuck upvoted this? When you pay for x bits/second you should be able to download x * 2.6mb per month.
If you're paying for an unlimited connection, that's certainly true. This letter is stating that he's not on an unlimited connection any more. That's like a restaurant changing from all-you-can-eat to charging per item, and then someone complaining that it should still be all-you-can-eat simply because it used to be.
> 25gb/month basically works out to 76 kbps that's barely faster then a 56k modem!!
Do we need to have the explanation of the difference between speed, latency, and bandwidth again? ("Do you know the speed limit is 55 miles per hour?" "Yes, officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long...")
> Second of all there are totally legitimate reasons to download that much. For example, watching lots of youtube and netflix movies instead of television. Why shouldn't someone be able to do that?
According to the numbers elsewhere in this thread, that's false. Even streaming 720p video 24/7 wouldn't amount to 824GB a month.
(But anyway: if you want to stream 1440p video 24/7, you can do that, but if you're using 10 times as much of a shared resource as me, why shouldn't you pay for it?)
> It blows my mind how many people are willing to stand up and defend people who are going out of their way to screw them.
ISTM that the people downloading an order-of-magnitude (or more) data than a typical person, and then insisting on the same fees, are the ones going out of their way to screw me. Trucks pay higher tolls than cars, too.
> The reason they have to put these caps in place is because they over-sold their network when there wasn't as much available content. Now that there actually is (totally legit) content available, they are suddenly putting in caps instead of actually giving people what they've paid for.
But they can't just "give people" that, since you just admitted they "oversold their network". So instead of just complaining, what's your solution? Downgrade everybody to 500Kbps so everyone can saturate their network connections 24/7 and be happy knowing they'll never pay overages? Spend a ton of money upgrading all parts of your networks so everybody can saturate tens-of-megabits (hundreds?) of bandwidth 24/7 and then pass along the higher cost to everyone, even though 99.9% of people would never use it and only see the higher fees? I think charging the extreme users more money is perfectly reasonable.
tldr: If you use more of a finite resource, you pay more. That's how shit works.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1axs76 | That's fucking bullshit. Who the fuck upvoted this? When you pay for x bits/second you should be able to download x * 2.6mb per month.
If you're paying for an unlimited connection, that's certainly true. This letter is stating that he's not on an unlimited connection any more. That's like a restaurant changing from all-you-can-eat to charging per item, and then someone complaining that it should still be all-you-can-eat simply because it used to be.
> 25gb/month basically works out to 76 kbps that's barely faster then a 56k modem!!
Do we need to have the explanation of the difference between speed, latency, and bandwidth again? ("Do you know the speed limit is 55 miles per hour?" "Yes, officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long...")
> Second of all there are totally legitimate reasons to download that much. For example, watching lots of youtube and netflix movies instead of television. Why shouldn't someone be able to do that?
According to the numbers elsewhere in this thread, that's false. Even streaming 720p video 24/7 wouldn't amount to 824GB a month.
(But anyway: if you want to stream 1440p video 24/7, you can do that, but if you're using 10 times as much of a shared resource as me, why shouldn't you pay for it?)
> It blows my mind how many people are willing to stand up and defend people who are going out of their way to screw them.
ISTM that the people downloading an order-of-magnitude (or more) data than a typical person, and then insisting on the same fees, are the ones going out of their way to screw me. Trucks pay higher tolls than cars, too.
> The reason they have to put these caps in place is because they over-sold their network when there wasn't as much available content. Now that there actually is (totally legit) content available, they are suddenly putting in caps instead of actually giving people what they've paid for.
But they can't just "give people" that, since you just admitted they "oversold their network". So instead of just complaining, what's your solution? Downgrade everybody to 500Kbps so everyone can saturate their network connections 24/7 and be happy knowing they'll never pay overages? Spend a ton of money upgrading all parts of your networks so everybody can saturate tens-of-megabits (hundreds?) of bandwidth 24/7 and then pass along the higher cost to everyone, even though 99.9% of people would never use it and only see the higher fees? I think charging the extreme users more money is perfectly reasonable. | If you use more of a finite resource, you pay more. That's how shit works. |
floatablepie | Already over 2300 comments, so nobody will see this BUT --
Nova Scotia apparently has become better than the rest of the country! I have ALWAYS complained about Eastlink, the local Telecom, but they will not be implementing any caps on their normal service. Their fast services will get a 250GB cap some time this year, but the regular one does not.
And "Aliant", owned by Bell, will follow suit, since otherwise they would lose all their business. For once in my life, I am happy to be paying the Bragg family (Eastlink was formerly Bragg Communications, still owned by the family).
TL;DR - Somehow Bell sucks so much, they make Eastlink look awesome :) | Already over 2300 comments, so nobody will see this BUT --
Nova Scotia apparently has become better than the rest of the country! I have ALWAYS complained about Eastlink, the local Telecom, but they will not be implementing any caps on their normal service. Their fast services will get a 250GB cap some time this year, but the regular one does not.
And "Aliant", owned by Bell, will follow suit, since otherwise they would lose all their business. For once in my life, I am happy to be paying the Bragg family (Eastlink was formerly Bragg Communications, still owned by the family).
TL;DR - Somehow Bell sucks so much, they make Eastlink look awesome :)
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1aybu7 | Already over 2300 comments, so nobody will see this BUT --
Nova Scotia apparently has become better than the rest of the country! I have ALWAYS complained about Eastlink, the local Telecom, but they will not be implementing any caps on their normal service. Their fast services will get a 250GB cap some time this year, but the regular one does not.
And "Aliant", owned by Bell, will follow suit, since otherwise they would lose all their business. For once in my life, I am happy to be paying the Bragg family (Eastlink was formerly Bragg Communications, still owned by the family). | Somehow Bell sucks so much, they make Eastlink look awesome :) |
tararabbit111279 | During the Clinton gore administration, The big phone companies of the times pushed for de-regulation. This allowed them to enter long distance markets, (which the regulation prohibited them from doing), ultimately bankrupting long distance companies (anyone remember MCI or having to have a company on their land lines for long distance). The de-regulation also allowed them to raise prices for their services.
The phone companies promised that the profits they made from entering the long distance markets, raising prices, and local and federal subsidies would be used to invest in infrastructure upgrades. 20 years later we are still waiting for that infrastructure. In fact, Veriozon in the only carrier company I know of doing the infrastructure upgrades to the point that they are putting fiber optics into homes directly.
ATT may have some fiber somewhere in it's network, but their U-verse and other services are still being delivered into your house via the old copper infrastructure. Look up the laws of bulk conduction - this will cause a data bottleneck.
TL;DR - phone companies and carriers made a fuck ton of money with de-regulation and government subsidies and promised to upgrade our infrastructure. They pocketed the money, did as little as possible, and want to charge us ridiculous fees for what we use. Privatizing infrastructure we all depend on fucks over everyone. | During the Clinton gore administration, The big phone companies of the times pushed for de-regulation. This allowed them to enter long distance markets, (which the regulation prohibited them from doing), ultimately bankrupting long distance companies (anyone remember MCI or having to have a company on their land lines for long distance). The de-regulation also allowed them to raise prices for their services.
The phone companies promised that the profits they made from entering the long distance markets, raising prices, and local and federal subsidies would be used to invest in infrastructure upgrades. 20 years later we are still waiting for that infrastructure. In fact, Veriozon in the only carrier company I know of doing the infrastructure upgrades to the point that they are putting fiber optics into homes directly.
ATT may have some fiber somewhere in it's network, but their U-verse and other services are still being delivered into your house via the old copper infrastructure. Look up the laws of bulk conduction - this will cause a data bottleneck.
TL;DR - phone companies and carriers made a fuck ton of money with de-regulation and government subsidies and promised to upgrade our infrastructure. They pocketed the money, did as little as possible, and want to charge us ridiculous fees for what we use. Privatizing infrastructure we all depend on fucks over everyone.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1aycds | During the Clinton gore administration, The big phone companies of the times pushed for de-regulation. This allowed them to enter long distance markets, (which the regulation prohibited them from doing), ultimately bankrupting long distance companies (anyone remember MCI or having to have a company on their land lines for long distance). The de-regulation also allowed them to raise prices for their services.
The phone companies promised that the profits they made from entering the long distance markets, raising prices, and local and federal subsidies would be used to invest in infrastructure upgrades. 20 years later we are still waiting for that infrastructure. In fact, Veriozon in the only carrier company I know of doing the infrastructure upgrades to the point that they are putting fiber optics into homes directly.
ATT may have some fiber somewhere in it's network, but their U-verse and other services are still being delivered into your house via the old copper infrastructure. Look up the laws of bulk conduction - this will cause a data bottleneck. | phone companies and carriers made a fuck ton of money with de-regulation and government subsidies and promised to upgrade our infrastructure. They pocketed the money, did as little as possible, and want to charge us ridiculous fees for what we use. Privatizing infrastructure we all depend on fucks over everyone. |
tararabbit111279 | Because the large companies shut them down. I have to look it up but there was a case where TWC sued to shut down a local ISP. Basically a community floated bonds to build their own fiber optic infrastructure and created a locally government run company to provide internet service. The local company was cheaper, more reliable (less outages) and faster than TWC, and was still able to be profitable enough where the company would be able to pay back the bonds over time.
TL;DR - these mega corporations will use all sorts of legal tricks to take small companies to court. They have the resources to do this and outlast small companies that can't afford extended litigation.
Edit - [story here]( | Because the large companies shut them down. I have to look it up but there was a case where TWC sued to shut down a local ISP. Basically a community floated bonds to build their own fiber optic infrastructure and created a locally government run company to provide internet service. The local company was cheaper, more reliable (less outages) and faster than TWC, and was still able to be profitable enough where the company would be able to pay back the bonds over time.
TL;DR - these mega corporations will use all sorts of legal tricks to take small companies to court. They have the resources to do this and outlast small companies that can't afford extended litigation.
Edit - [story here](
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1ayckj | Because the large companies shut them down. I have to look it up but there was a case where TWC sued to shut down a local ISP. Basically a community floated bonds to build their own fiber optic infrastructure and created a locally government run company to provide internet service. The local company was cheaper, more reliable (less outages) and faster than TWC, and was still able to be profitable enough where the company would be able to pay back the bonds over time. | these mega corporations will use all sorts of legal tricks to take small companies to court. They have the resources to do this and outlast small companies that can't afford extended litigation.
Edit - [story here]( |
unsensible | No, DSL doesn't use dedicated lines. The connection from your house may get back to the ISP office in a few different ways. The way my employer does it usually is this: A copper cable with hundreds, maybe even a few thousand pairs of 24awg cable is ran to a destination, say a subdivison. So anyone who is in need of service taps one of those pairs. Your DSL connection goes back to the office, where there is a rack of tens of thousands of pairs of cable.(these things are huge) Your pair of cable is then connected to a DSLAM, which is what basically creates the DSL itself. That DSLAM is then connected via fiber to a transport switch. ISPs who say DSL is better because of the dedicated line are not telling the full truth. Cable has "nodes" which are located anywhere they are needed (outside of the cable office) The only difference in DSL and cable is that the DSL node is inside the office, while the cable node is inside. Both of these then share bandwidth across a pipe to the ISPs router. You truly only get a dedicated line with Dedicated Internet Access connections such as T1, PRI, etc.
TLDR; You **kind of** have a dedicated line with DSL, but technically **no** | No, DSL doesn't use dedicated lines. The connection from your house may get back to the ISP office in a few different ways. The way my employer does it usually is this: A copper cable with hundreds, maybe even a few thousand pairs of 24awg cable is ran to a destination, say a subdivison. So anyone who is in need of service taps one of those pairs. Your DSL connection goes back to the office, where there is a rack of tens of thousands of pairs of cable.(these things are huge) Your pair of cable is then connected to a DSLAM, which is what basically creates the DSL itself. That DSLAM is then connected via fiber to a transport switch. ISPs who say DSL is better because of the dedicated line are not telling the full truth. Cable has "nodes" which are located anywhere they are needed (outside of the cable office) The only difference in DSL and cable is that the DSL node is inside the office, while the cable node is inside. Both of these then share bandwidth across a pipe to the ISPs router. You truly only get a dedicated line with Dedicated Internet Access connections such as T1, PRI, etc.
TLDR; You kind of have a dedicated line with DSL, but technically no
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1aydlj | No, DSL doesn't use dedicated lines. The connection from your house may get back to the ISP office in a few different ways. The way my employer does it usually is this: A copper cable with hundreds, maybe even a few thousand pairs of 24awg cable is ran to a destination, say a subdivison. So anyone who is in need of service taps one of those pairs. Your DSL connection goes back to the office, where there is a rack of tens of thousands of pairs of cable.(these things are huge) Your pair of cable is then connected to a DSLAM, which is what basically creates the DSL itself. That DSLAM is then connected via fiber to a transport switch. ISPs who say DSL is better because of the dedicated line are not telling the full truth. Cable has "nodes" which are located anywhere they are needed (outside of the cable office) The only difference in DSL and cable is that the DSL node is inside the office, while the cable node is inside. Both of these then share bandwidth across a pipe to the ISPs router. You truly only get a dedicated line with Dedicated Internet Access connections such as T1, PRI, etc. | You kind of have a dedicated line with DSL, but technically no |
Fiend | Both of the above arguments are irrelevant as the OP was on an unlimited connection. He did not use more than his fair share as it was defined as "unlimited". Primus did what they should have done from the get go if their infrastructure couldn't handle people using their connections to the fullest. It does suck, but it is not the OP's "fault". Also, it is a non-issue what the OP was using his connection for.
On a side note, Primus handled it way better than Comcast who just started arbitrarily throttling certain protocols (bittorrent) with zero warning.
I currently live in Chattanooga, TN which made the news recently for 1Gbps fiber from our local power company, EPB. They offer zero bandwidth caps and no throttling. I average 500GB - 600GB a month of transfer (on a 30/30) and it's fine. EPB's infrastructure can handle it and thus there is no issue.
TL;DR The OP's bandwidth limitations were defined as unlimited. It is not his fault Primus does not have the infrastructure for their users to fully utilize the connection they are provided with to the **advertised** limit or lack thereof. | Both of the above arguments are irrelevant as the OP was on an unlimited connection. He did not use more than his fair share as it was defined as "unlimited". Primus did what they should have done from the get go if their infrastructure couldn't handle people using their connections to the fullest. It does suck, but it is not the OP's "fault". Also, it is a non-issue what the OP was using his connection for.
On a side note, Primus handled it way better than Comcast who just started arbitrarily throttling certain protocols (bittorrent) with zero warning.
I currently live in Chattanooga, TN which made the news recently for 1Gbps fiber from our local power company, EPB. They offer zero bandwidth caps and no throttling. I average 500GB - 600GB a month of transfer (on a 30/30) and it's fine. EPB's infrastructure can handle it and thus there is no issue.
TL;DR The OP's bandwidth limitations were defined as unlimited. It is not his fault Primus does not have the infrastructure for their users to fully utilize the connection they are provided with to the advertised limit or lack thereof.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1aypcg | Both of the above arguments are irrelevant as the OP was on an unlimited connection. He did not use more than his fair share as it was defined as "unlimited". Primus did what they should have done from the get go if their infrastructure couldn't handle people using their connections to the fullest. It does suck, but it is not the OP's "fault". Also, it is a non-issue what the OP was using his connection for.
On a side note, Primus handled it way better than Comcast who just started arbitrarily throttling certain protocols (bittorrent) with zero warning.
I currently live in Chattanooga, TN which made the news recently for 1Gbps fiber from our local power company, EPB. They offer zero bandwidth caps and no throttling. I average 500GB - 600GB a month of transfer (on a 30/30) and it's fine. EPB's infrastructure can handle it and thus there is no issue. | The OP's bandwidth limitations were defined as unlimited. It is not his fault Primus does not have the infrastructure for their users to fully utilize the connection they are provided with to the advertised limit or lack thereof. |
Travesura | It was two animal enforcement officers, with two real cops backing them up. They told me that a dog had been killed and they were looking for an air rifle. The animal control people consisted of one fat dike-ey looking lady and her Barney Fife sidekick. They turned the place inside out for two hours and found thousands of rounds of ammunition, primers, two cans of black powder marked EXPLOSIVES, several military style rifles and handguns. The animal control idiots thought that they had caught a terrorist. The cops were very professional, polite, and restrained. They thought my guns were cool, and wanted to know what they were. We talked for an hour and a half about the best handgun for combat, the pros and cons of .45, .40, and 9mm, etc. while the others sacked my house. The Animal control people took out various weapons and photographed them all, even my clear plastic Airsoft. They knew nothing about handling guns, and at one point they picked up a loaded 1911 and started fiddling around with it, and I asked the cops "Do these guys know how to handle that?" The cop asked if it was loaded, and I said "It's not much good if it is not." Then he told them to be careful because it was loaded, and they put it down.
Tl;Dr: The Animal control folks were bumbling idiots. The cops were polite (yet stern, at first) and professional. | It was two animal enforcement officers, with two real cops backing them up. They told me that a dog had been killed and they were looking for an air rifle. The animal control people consisted of one fat dike-ey looking lady and her Barney Fife sidekick. They turned the place inside out for two hours and found thousands of rounds of ammunition, primers, two cans of black powder marked EXPLOSIVES, several military style rifles and handguns. The animal control idiots thought that they had caught a terrorist. The cops were very professional, polite, and restrained. They thought my guns were cool, and wanted to know what they were. We talked for an hour and a half about the best handgun for combat, the pros and cons of .45, .40, and 9mm, etc. while the others sacked my house. The Animal control people took out various weapons and photographed them all, even my clear plastic Airsoft. They knew nothing about handling guns, and at one point they picked up a loaded 1911 and started fiddling around with it, and I asked the cops "Do these guys know how to handle that?" The cop asked if it was loaded, and I said "It's not much good if it is not." Then he told them to be careful because it was loaded, and they put it down.
Tl;Dr: The Animal control folks were bumbling idiots. The cops were polite (yet stern, at first) and professional.
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | c1b1vb4 | It was two animal enforcement officers, with two real cops backing them up. They told me that a dog had been killed and they were looking for an air rifle. The animal control people consisted of one fat dike-ey looking lady and her Barney Fife sidekick. They turned the place inside out for two hours and found thousands of rounds of ammunition, primers, two cans of black powder marked EXPLOSIVES, several military style rifles and handguns. The animal control idiots thought that they had caught a terrorist. The cops were very professional, polite, and restrained. They thought my guns were cool, and wanted to know what they were. We talked for an hour and a half about the best handgun for combat, the pros and cons of .45, .40, and 9mm, etc. while the others sacked my house. The Animal control people took out various weapons and photographed them all, even my clear plastic Airsoft. They knew nothing about handling guns, and at one point they picked up a loaded 1911 and started fiddling around with it, and I asked the cops "Do these guys know how to handle that?" The cop asked if it was loaded, and I said "It's not much good if it is not." Then he told them to be careful because it was loaded, and they put it down. | The Animal control folks were bumbling idiots. The cops were polite (yet stern, at first) and professional. |
gaso | I don't own any guns as I don't plan on killing anyone or anything.
But, if I did have a gun and someone kicked in my door at 3am without warning, I'd have a strong inclination to shoot them before they murder me, rape my wife, and rob my house. Because that is what I assume is three seconds away if someone kicks in my door at 3am. A no knock raid has nothing to do with a deputy serving a routine warrant.
Yes, the situation is unlikely. You do not prepare for an incorrectly executed no knock raid, you prepare for defending against a home invasion. These two scenarios happen to be very closely related, where you have an actively hostile and armed presence force its way into your home unannounced with the intention of immobilizing you as quickly as possible. The difference is one hopefully ends with the misunderstanding cleared up (and some incompetent fuck fired and publicly disgraced, but the idea of any kind of accountability is the true fantasy here), the other ends up with a criminal having their way with you.
I do agree that /r/guns occasionally involves Rambo fantasies. Honestly, however, I'm to the point as an otherwise law abiding pacifist, that I'm hoping some people (like systemlord suggests) do start to snap and mete out justice as they see fit. Our government has failed, police (force) and corporate CEOs (money) have eclipsed the noble ideal of liberty, and it is time to start a more perfect union using the lessons we've learned about the weak points in our current system. The founding fathers knew that the government would eventually weaken against corruption and lust after power for power's sake, and I strongly suspect they'd be very disappointed we haven't had a revolution thus far. Boy did I get off track...
tl;dr: Because the world is an imperfect and unfair place, if you have the ability to defend yourself then might makes right. | I don't own any guns as I don't plan on killing anyone or anything.
But, if I did have a gun and someone kicked in my door at 3am without warning, I'd have a strong inclination to shoot them before they murder me, rape my wife, and rob my house. Because that is what I assume is three seconds away if someone kicks in my door at 3am. A no knock raid has nothing to do with a deputy serving a routine warrant.
Yes, the situation is unlikely. You do not prepare for an incorrectly executed no knock raid, you prepare for defending against a home invasion. These two scenarios happen to be very closely related, where you have an actively hostile and armed presence force its way into your home unannounced with the intention of immobilizing you as quickly as possible. The difference is one hopefully ends with the misunderstanding cleared up (and some incompetent fuck fired and publicly disgraced, but the idea of any kind of accountability is the true fantasy here), the other ends up with a criminal having their way with you.
I do agree that /r/guns occasionally involves Rambo fantasies. Honestly, however, I'm to the point as an otherwise law abiding pacifist, that I'm hoping some people (like systemlord suggests) do start to snap and mete out justice as they see fit. Our government has failed, police (force) and corporate CEOs (money) have eclipsed the noble ideal of liberty, and it is time to start a more perfect union using the lessons we've learned about the weak points in our current system. The founding fathers knew that the government would eventually weaken against corruption and lust after power for power's sake, and I strongly suspect they'd be very disappointed we haven't had a revolution thus far. Boy did I get off track...
tl;dr: Because the world is an imperfect and unfair place, if you have the ability to defend yourself then might makes right.
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | c1b2bnx | I don't own any guns as I don't plan on killing anyone or anything.
But, if I did have a gun and someone kicked in my door at 3am without warning, I'd have a strong inclination to shoot them before they murder me, rape my wife, and rob my house. Because that is what I assume is three seconds away if someone kicks in my door at 3am. A no knock raid has nothing to do with a deputy serving a routine warrant.
Yes, the situation is unlikely. You do not prepare for an incorrectly executed no knock raid, you prepare for defending against a home invasion. These two scenarios happen to be very closely related, where you have an actively hostile and armed presence force its way into your home unannounced with the intention of immobilizing you as quickly as possible. The difference is one hopefully ends with the misunderstanding cleared up (and some incompetent fuck fired and publicly disgraced, but the idea of any kind of accountability is the true fantasy here), the other ends up with a criminal having their way with you.
I do agree that /r/guns occasionally involves Rambo fantasies. Honestly, however, I'm to the point as an otherwise law abiding pacifist, that I'm hoping some people (like systemlord suggests) do start to snap and mete out justice as they see fit. Our government has failed, police (force) and corporate CEOs (money) have eclipsed the noble ideal of liberty, and it is time to start a more perfect union using the lessons we've learned about the weak points in our current system. The founding fathers knew that the government would eventually weaken against corruption and lust after power for power's sake, and I strongly suspect they'd be very disappointed we haven't had a revolution thus far. Boy did I get off track... | Because the world is an imperfect and unfair place, if you have the ability to defend yourself then might makes right. |
Siofsi | That's not feminism at all, this thing is just bullshit. It's trying to be feminist but *failing* miserably at it and giving feminism a bad name. Feminism should never be about removing a woman's responsibility to look after herself, it's about giving her the chance to look after herself in all situations freely without fear or guilt. This just advocates turning women into children. A child cannot choose, a woman most certainly can.
tl;dr helplessness is not empowerment! | That's not feminism at all, this thing is just bullshit. It's trying to be feminist but failing miserably at it and giving feminism a bad name. Feminism should never be about removing a woman's responsibility to look after herself, it's about giving her the chance to look after herself in all situations freely without fear or guilt. This just advocates turning women into children. A child cannot choose, a woman most certainly can.
tl;dr helplessness is not empowerment!
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c1b1r93 | That's not feminism at all, this thing is just bullshit. It's trying to be feminist but failing miserably at it and giving feminism a bad name. Feminism should never be about removing a woman's responsibility to look after herself, it's about giving her the chance to look after herself in all situations freely without fear or guilt. This just advocates turning women into children. A child cannot choose, a woman most certainly can. | helplessness is not empowerment! |
bitwize01 | Pale skin is a result of a vitamin D deficiency that occurred when people first settled in northern Europe.
With the reduced sunlight present in Northern Europe (UV index less than 3, light very rarely in the 270–300 nm range) early settlers likely had to deal with conditions like Rickets, as their bodies were no longer able to perform the chemical photosynthetic reaction required to create vitamin D3, incredibly important in bone growth.
Without a ready source of Vitamin D (fatty fish, liver, milk) the new inhabitants of countries like Finland and Norway would be doomed to die a slow death and see their children malformed (this is why you see so many ancient fishing villages in these areas, and why historically the Nordic peoples were such amazing sailors and fishermen). With these foods being the only way to get vitamin D at those latitudes, their dark skin, rich with a pigment no longer being used to filter UV light, was extraneous - and, in actuality, harmful: As melanin filters UV light, what chance irradiation that did occur was reduced by this dark pigment. Like many other extraneous / disadvantageous features of man's past (large canines, claws, tails, fur) large amounts of melanin (the pigment that give people their color) became less and less prevalent in future generations. Which lead to blonde hair and blue eyes.
**tl;dr: BLOND PEOPLES EAT ROTTEN SHARKS** | Pale skin is a result of a vitamin D deficiency that occurred when people first settled in northern Europe.
With the reduced sunlight present in Northern Europe (UV index less than 3, light very rarely in the 270–300 nm range) early settlers likely had to deal with conditions like Rickets, as their bodies were no longer able to perform the chemical photosynthetic reaction required to create vitamin D3, incredibly important in bone growth.
Without a ready source of Vitamin D (fatty fish, liver, milk) the new inhabitants of countries like Finland and Norway would be doomed to die a slow death and see their children malformed (this is why you see so many ancient fishing villages in these areas, and why historically the Nordic peoples were such amazing sailors and fishermen). With these foods being the only way to get vitamin D at those latitudes, their dark skin, rich with a pigment no longer being used to filter UV light, was extraneous - and, in actuality, harmful: As melanin filters UV light, what chance irradiation that did occur was reduced by this dark pigment. Like many other extraneous / disadvantageous features of man's past (large canines, claws, tails, fur) large amounts of melanin (the pigment that give people their color) became less and less prevalent in future generations. Which lead to blonde hair and blue eyes.
tl;dr: BLOND PEOPLES EAT ROTTEN SHARKS
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1balbz | Pale skin is a result of a vitamin D deficiency that occurred when people first settled in northern Europe.
With the reduced sunlight present in Northern Europe (UV index less than 3, light very rarely in the 270–300 nm range) early settlers likely had to deal with conditions like Rickets, as their bodies were no longer able to perform the chemical photosynthetic reaction required to create vitamin D3, incredibly important in bone growth.
Without a ready source of Vitamin D (fatty fish, liver, milk) the new inhabitants of countries like Finland and Norway would be doomed to die a slow death and see their children malformed (this is why you see so many ancient fishing villages in these areas, and why historically the Nordic peoples were such amazing sailors and fishermen). With these foods being the only way to get vitamin D at those latitudes, their dark skin, rich with a pigment no longer being used to filter UV light, was extraneous - and, in actuality, harmful: As melanin filters UV light, what chance irradiation that did occur was reduced by this dark pigment. Like many other extraneous / disadvantageous features of man's past (large canines, claws, tails, fur) large amounts of melanin (the pigment that give people their color) became less and less prevalent in future generations. Which lead to blonde hair and blue eyes. | BLOND PEOPLES EAT ROTTEN SHARKS |
futuremaude | I recently gained a good deal of weight and turned 35. I think the weight is mostly a shift in my metabolism due to age, and also eating dinner at my parents', which I hadn't been doing when I lived 3,000 miles away from them a year and a half ago. Sometimes it bums me out that I now need a 10 or 12 rather than a 4 or 6, but I'm also kind of enjoying being bigger.
Whenever I have that little lamenting thought about how little I was and now am not, I remind myself of the feminist theories that identify our value of thinness in women as being a social desire for women to be "small" and take up little space, which is one of the ways we as women internalize and perform our "place" in the world. Now I'm reminding myself to revel in the space I take up.
I also bought four new pairs of rockin' jeans yesterday that my beautifully bigger butt looks fantastic in, and that are so comfortable I can sleep in them. And I donated oodles of itty-bitty clothes to charity, liberating closet space for my new and fabulous wardrobe.
tl;dr: Question the desire to be smaller and buy great fitting jeans for your body as it looks now. | I recently gained a good deal of weight and turned 35. I think the weight is mostly a shift in my metabolism due to age, and also eating dinner at my parents', which I hadn't been doing when I lived 3,000 miles away from them a year and a half ago. Sometimes it bums me out that I now need a 10 or 12 rather than a 4 or 6, but I'm also kind of enjoying being bigger.
Whenever I have that little lamenting thought about how little I was and now am not, I remind myself of the feminist theories that identify our value of thinness in women as being a social desire for women to be "small" and take up little space, which is one of the ways we as women internalize and perform our "place" in the world. Now I'm reminding myself to revel in the space I take up.
I also bought four new pairs of rockin' jeans yesterday that my beautifully bigger butt looks fantastic in, and that are so comfortable I can sleep in them. And I donated oodles of itty-bitty clothes to charity, liberating closet space for my new and fabulous wardrobe.
tl;dr: Question the desire to be smaller and buy great fitting jeans for your body as it looks now.
| TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c1bchqy | I recently gained a good deal of weight and turned 35. I think the weight is mostly a shift in my metabolism due to age, and also eating dinner at my parents', which I hadn't been doing when I lived 3,000 miles away from them a year and a half ago. Sometimes it bums me out that I now need a 10 or 12 rather than a 4 or 6, but I'm also kind of enjoying being bigger.
Whenever I have that little lamenting thought about how little I was and now am not, I remind myself of the feminist theories that identify our value of thinness in women as being a social desire for women to be "small" and take up little space, which is one of the ways we as women internalize and perform our "place" in the world. Now I'm reminding myself to revel in the space I take up.
I also bought four new pairs of rockin' jeans yesterday that my beautifully bigger butt looks fantastic in, and that are so comfortable I can sleep in them. And I donated oodles of itty-bitty clothes to charity, liberating closet space for my new and fabulous wardrobe. | Question the desire to be smaller and buy great fitting jeans for your body as it looks now. |
LynzM | The writing style is hard to get through, but he makes some very excellent points.
**"Look,** I'm not above begging, if that's what it takes. Please, please stop hurting yourselves and everyone else. Stop all of this killing, exploiting, enslaving, and self-serving blindness. It's not "necessary," it's not "just the way life is," and there ARE alternatives - an infinite number of alternatives, or at least as many as six billion free and sane human minds can come up with. Your insistence on imagining that utter self-destruction and planet-wide injustice is "just the way things have to be" is so painful."
**"You MUST stop** all of this hatred and division. Not for me, and not only for yourselves, but for ALL LIFE. Do you understand that ALL LIFE is what you really are? No, of course you don't, because your crazy world has denied you this knowledge - but it remains true nonetheless. Can you understand that there is NO SUCH THING as an isolated, truly "independent" being on this world or on any other in this infinite Universe? Every living thing is your brother or sister. KNOW NOW, right now, that this is not some recycled hippie New Age John Lennon "kumbaya" bullshit I'm trying to sell you. That's how you are denied this truth in your crazy world - it is lumped into those tired old dismissive categories and swept out of your sight, never to trouble you again. But nonetheless, it remains true that not even GOD HIMSELF can alter the fact that unity and interconnection is the ACTUAL TRUTH of all existence. It's a fact, a complete, stone cold concrete FACT, and the only fact that matters."
**"Most importantly**, you are angry because you live in a world that is killing, enslaving, and destroying itself in a state of total self-satisfied, smug arrogance, and by God (or Darwin), you've had it up to here. You aren't just a little miffed or vaguely disappointed at the sorry shape the human race is in. That's for people who don't care much, and don't intend to let such small stirrings of conscience disrupt their TV time. No, that route is not open to you anymore."
**"If you have allowed love** and compassion to take firm root in your heart, do not be surprised or dismayed that you are quite capable of becoming enraged, livid, and furious at the insanity of it all. This does not mean you are a "spiritual failure" as the phony, self-seeking "gurus" of the world would have you believe. It means precisely the opposite. You have the capacity for great anger because you have the capacity for great compassion. They are co-identical, like the Taoist concepts of yin and yang, and neither occurs without implying the co-existence of the other. **Thousands of children are starving to death every day, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that you may begin to feel absolutely outraged over it. On the contrary - what's so horribly wrong with the world is that everyone else doesn't.**"
**"If you dare, decide right now** to be "in the world but not of it." Yeah, I know Jesus and some other scary religious people said this, but I can't help that. They said it because they had to. There's no other way to give you any chance of becoming sane. "I am the way, the truth, and the life" doesn't mean that I personally (as in the author of this webpage) am some special awesome being you have to obey and listen to just because I'm The Lord of Lords, Captain America, or even Rick James. Hell no, and please get that crazy rubbish out of your head. Instead, it simply means that this message (the message of compassion) is the only way to actual sanity and a better world - and it meant exactly the same thing when Jesus said it, too. "I, the message of compassion, am the way, the truth, and the life." Sorry about your bad luck, but no man comes to the Father (your true nature) but through me (the message of compassion). Got it now? Okay, good - and don't blame me, meaning "me" as in the imperfect human being who is being used as a vehicle for these truths. I didn't make the rules, and neither did Jesus, Buddha, the Dalai Lama, or anybody else who has tried to carry the message to you."
**"Aim high and never take "no" for an answer.** Don't let anyone tell you you're setting your sights too high. Man's reach must always exceed his grasp or we're all wasting our time doing absolutely nothing. Don't be fooled by those who tell you to "be practical." They only want to kill their consciences by excusing and rationalizing away their own unwillingness to act. Dream big. Resolve to save the whole suffering world and get busy doing it. By doing that, you'll already have succeeded. As Gandhi put it, BE the change. That's all - nothing less, nothing more."
**TL;DR**: Compassion and non-violence are the only sanity in an insane world that teaches and accepts otherwise. | The writing style is hard to get through, but he makes some very excellent points.
"Look, I'm not above begging, if that's what it takes. Please, please stop hurting yourselves and everyone else. Stop all of this killing, exploiting, enslaving, and self-serving blindness. It's not "necessary," it's not "just the way life is," and there ARE alternatives - an infinite number of alternatives, or at least as many as six billion free and sane human minds can come up with. Your insistence on imagining that utter self-destruction and planet-wide injustice is "just the way things have to be" is so painful."
"You MUST stop all of this hatred and division. Not for me, and not only for yourselves, but for ALL LIFE. Do you understand that ALL LIFE is what you really are? No, of course you don't, because your crazy world has denied you this knowledge - but it remains true nonetheless. Can you understand that there is NO SUCH THING as an isolated, truly "independent" being on this world or on any other in this infinite Universe? Every living thing is your brother or sister. KNOW NOW, right now, that this is not some recycled hippie New Age John Lennon "kumbaya" bullshit I'm trying to sell you. That's how you are denied this truth in your crazy world - it is lumped into those tired old dismissive categories and swept out of your sight, never to trouble you again. But nonetheless, it remains true that not even GOD HIMSELF can alter the fact that unity and interconnection is the ACTUAL TRUTH of all existence. It's a fact, a complete, stone cold concrete FACT, and the only fact that matters."
"Most importantly , you are angry because you live in a world that is killing, enslaving, and destroying itself in a state of total self-satisfied, smug arrogance, and by God (or Darwin), you've had it up to here. You aren't just a little miffed or vaguely disappointed at the sorry shape the human race is in. That's for people who don't care much, and don't intend to let such small stirrings of conscience disrupt their TV time. No, that route is not open to you anymore."
"If you have allowed love and compassion to take firm root in your heart, do not be surprised or dismayed that you are quite capable of becoming enraged, livid, and furious at the insanity of it all. This does not mean you are a "spiritual failure" as the phony, self-seeking "gurus" of the world would have you believe. It means precisely the opposite. You have the capacity for great anger because you have the capacity for great compassion. They are co-identical, like the Taoist concepts of yin and yang, and neither occurs without implying the co-existence of the other. Thousands of children are starving to death every day, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that you may begin to feel absolutely outraged over it. On the contrary - what's so horribly wrong with the world is that everyone else doesn't. "
"If you dare, decide right now to be "in the world but not of it." Yeah, I know Jesus and some other scary religious people said this, but I can't help that. They said it because they had to. There's no other way to give you any chance of becoming sane. "I am the way, the truth, and the life" doesn't mean that I personally (as in the author of this webpage) am some special awesome being you have to obey and listen to just because I'm The Lord of Lords, Captain America, or even Rick James. Hell no, and please get that crazy rubbish out of your head. Instead, it simply means that this message (the message of compassion) is the only way to actual sanity and a better world - and it meant exactly the same thing when Jesus said it, too. "I, the message of compassion, am the way, the truth, and the life." Sorry about your bad luck, but no man comes to the Father (your true nature) but through me (the message of compassion). Got it now? Okay, good - and don't blame me, meaning "me" as in the imperfect human being who is being used as a vehicle for these truths. I didn't make the rules, and neither did Jesus, Buddha, the Dalai Lama, or anybody else who has tried to carry the message to you."
"Aim high and never take "no" for an answer. Don't let anyone tell you you're setting your sights too high. Man's reach must always exceed his grasp or we're all wasting our time doing absolutely nothing. Don't be fooled by those who tell you to "be practical." They only want to kill their consciences by excusing and rationalizing away their own unwillingness to act. Dream big. Resolve to save the whole suffering world and get busy doing it. By doing that, you'll already have succeeded. As Gandhi put it, BE the change. That's all - nothing less, nothing more."
TL;DR : Compassion and non-violence are the only sanity in an insane world that teaches and accepts otherwise.
| FindTheOthers | t5_2s6so | c1bffiq | The writing style is hard to get through, but he makes some very excellent points.
"Look, I'm not above begging, if that's what it takes. Please, please stop hurting yourselves and everyone else. Stop all of this killing, exploiting, enslaving, and self-serving blindness. It's not "necessary," it's not "just the way life is," and there ARE alternatives - an infinite number of alternatives, or at least as many as six billion free and sane human minds can come up with. Your insistence on imagining that utter self-destruction and planet-wide injustice is "just the way things have to be" is so painful."
"You MUST stop all of this hatred and division. Not for me, and not only for yourselves, but for ALL LIFE. Do you understand that ALL LIFE is what you really are? No, of course you don't, because your crazy world has denied you this knowledge - but it remains true nonetheless. Can you understand that there is NO SUCH THING as an isolated, truly "independent" being on this world or on any other in this infinite Universe? Every living thing is your brother or sister. KNOW NOW, right now, that this is not some recycled hippie New Age John Lennon "kumbaya" bullshit I'm trying to sell you. That's how you are denied this truth in your crazy world - it is lumped into those tired old dismissive categories and swept out of your sight, never to trouble you again. But nonetheless, it remains true that not even GOD HIMSELF can alter the fact that unity and interconnection is the ACTUAL TRUTH of all existence. It's a fact, a complete, stone cold concrete FACT, and the only fact that matters."
"Most importantly , you are angry because you live in a world that is killing, enslaving, and destroying itself in a state of total self-satisfied, smug arrogance, and by God (or Darwin), you've had it up to here. You aren't just a little miffed or vaguely disappointed at the sorry shape the human race is in. That's for people who don't care much, and don't intend to let such small stirrings of conscience disrupt their TV time. No, that route is not open to you anymore."
"If you have allowed love and compassion to take firm root in your heart, do not be surprised or dismayed that you are quite capable of becoming enraged, livid, and furious at the insanity of it all. This does not mean you are a "spiritual failure" as the phony, self-seeking "gurus" of the world would have you believe. It means precisely the opposite. You have the capacity for great anger because you have the capacity for great compassion. They are co-identical, like the Taoist concepts of yin and yang, and neither occurs without implying the co-existence of the other. Thousands of children are starving to death every day, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that you may begin to feel absolutely outraged over it. On the contrary - what's so horribly wrong with the world is that everyone else doesn't. "
"If you dare, decide right now to be "in the world but not of it." Yeah, I know Jesus and some other scary religious people said this, but I can't help that. They said it because they had to. There's no other way to give you any chance of becoming sane. "I am the way, the truth, and the life" doesn't mean that I personally (as in the author of this webpage) am some special awesome being you have to obey and listen to just because I'm The Lord of Lords, Captain America, or even Rick James. Hell no, and please get that crazy rubbish out of your head. Instead, it simply means that this message (the message of compassion) is the only way to actual sanity and a better world - and it meant exactly the same thing when Jesus said it, too. "I, the message of compassion, am the way, the truth, and the life." Sorry about your bad luck, but no man comes to the Father (your true nature) but through me (the message of compassion). Got it now? Okay, good - and don't blame me, meaning "me" as in the imperfect human being who is being used as a vehicle for these truths. I didn't make the rules, and neither did Jesus, Buddha, the Dalai Lama, or anybody else who has tried to carry the message to you."
"Aim high and never take "no" for an answer. Don't let anyone tell you you're setting your sights too high. Man's reach must always exceed his grasp or we're all wasting our time doing absolutely nothing. Don't be fooled by those who tell you to "be practical." They only want to kill their consciences by excusing and rationalizing away their own unwillingness to act. Dream big. Resolve to save the whole suffering world and get busy doing it. By doing that, you'll already have succeeded. As Gandhi put it, BE the change. That's all - nothing less, nothing more." | Compassion and non-violence are the only sanity in an insane world that teaches and accepts otherwise. |
BlindDevil | it's not trolling since they approached you; if anyone is, it's them. ask them if they follow only what's strictly in the bible then show them this series from an apostate ex-JW turned atheist:
JW doctrine is becoming harmful/irrational dogma handed down from the governing body ex: refusal of blood transfusions; you'd be doing them a life saving favor. in the end though, it's chancy dealing with cognitive dissonance; you may just have your house tagged in their books for apostasy. good luck.
tl;dr trolling? they drew first blood | it's not trolling since they approached you; if anyone is, it's them. ask them if they follow only what's strictly in the bible then show them this series from an apostate ex-JW turned atheist:
JW doctrine is becoming harmful/irrational dogma handed down from the governing body ex: refusal of blood transfusions; you'd be doing them a life saving favor. in the end though, it's chancy dealing with cognitive dissonance; you may just have your house tagged in their books for apostasy. good luck.
tl;dr trolling? they drew first blood
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1beif9 | it's not trolling since they approached you; if anyone is, it's them. ask them if they follow only what's strictly in the bible then show them this series from an apostate ex-JW turned atheist:
JW doctrine is becoming harmful/irrational dogma handed down from the governing body ex: refusal of blood transfusions; you'd be doing them a life saving favor. in the end though, it's chancy dealing with cognitive dissonance; you may just have your house tagged in their books for apostasy. good luck. | trolling? they drew first blood |
nandhp | Oh. I see. Yes, there should be an option for this, but there isn't. I found this closed bug: [Support user stylesheets in Chrome](
Since web browsers do not generally ignore page style attributes on their own, I am assuming that your K-Meleon and Firefox are already configured to ignore colors specified in webpages, and possibly also to use a custom stylesheet. Opera and IE let you set this up in Preferences and Internet Options, respectively. In Chrome, it's not so easy.
I found a closed bug "[Support user stylesheets in Chrome]( which was closed as a result of adding an experimental user stylesheet support (its use is vaguely outlined in the bug report). A user stylesheet like this one might produce a similar effect:
* { background: black !important; color: white !important }
*:link { color: blue !important }
*:visited { color: purple !important }
**Edit:** [Screenshot tells 1000 words](
More concerning for Chrome's usability on a high contrast theme, however, is [bug 92]( -- that's right, the **92nd** bug ever reported -- which states that the Options dialog is unreadable on Windows in a high contrast theme. ~~Sometimes, ~~Chrome's developer community makes me sad.
tl;dr: You can make this happen in Chrome and Opera too, but it doesn't happen automatically, and Chrome isn't trying very hard. | Oh. I see. Yes, there should be an option for this, but there isn't. I found this closed bug: [Support user stylesheets in Chrome](
Since web browsers do not generally ignore page style attributes on their own, I am assuming that your K-Meleon and Firefox are already configured to ignore colors specified in webpages, and possibly also to use a custom stylesheet. Opera and IE let you set this up in Preferences and Internet Options, respectively. In Chrome, it's not so easy.
I found a closed bug " Support user stylesheets in Chrome . A user stylesheet like this one might produce a similar effect:
* { background: black !important; color: white !important }
*:link { color: blue !important }
*:visited { color: purple !important }
Edit: [Screenshot tells 1000 words](
More concerning for Chrome's usability on a high contrast theme, however, is [bug 92]( -- that's right, the 92nd bug ever reported -- which states that the Options dialog is unreadable on Windows in a high contrast theme. ~~Sometimes, ~~Chrome's developer community makes me sad.
tl;dr: You can make this happen in Chrome and Opera too, but it doesn't happen automatically, and Chrome isn't trying very hard.
| chrome | t5_2qlz9 | c1bn8kf | Oh. I see. Yes, there should be an option for this, but there isn't. I found this closed bug: [Support user stylesheets in Chrome](
Since web browsers do not generally ignore page style attributes on their own, I am assuming that your K-Meleon and Firefox are already configured to ignore colors specified in webpages, and possibly also to use a custom stylesheet. Opera and IE let you set this up in Preferences and Internet Options, respectively. In Chrome, it's not so easy.
I found a closed bug " Support user stylesheets in Chrome . A user stylesheet like this one might produce a similar effect:
* { background: black !important; color: white !important }
*:link { color: blue !important }
*:visited { color: purple !important }
Edit: [Screenshot tells 1000 words](
More concerning for Chrome's usability on a high contrast theme, however, is [bug 92]( -- that's right, the 92nd bug ever reported -- which states that the Options dialog is unreadable on Windows in a high contrast theme. ~~Sometimes, ~~Chrome's developer community makes me sad. | You can make this happen in Chrome and Opera too, but it doesn't happen automatically, and Chrome isn't trying very hard. |
Bouda | No, no, no. Seriously, stay away from this shit of a game. It's still on a massive boycott from it's players, especially after the game was hacked.
Thing is, player base tried helping this game off the ground with massive volunteer work going into it. Everyone that helped on the project had their work stolen by the mods, credit deleted. If that person(s) protested the theft, they were banned. Mods would simply respond with "ALL work or deviation of, is property of PWO" to back up their credit theft claim. Not even a "thanks for the help! here's a free pikachu!" or at least a thanks. It was really insane. Both me and a colleague had work stolen by a couple mods and were banned for life when we protested.
As for the hacks... the mods pissed off the wrong people, I assume. Someone found a hack, what we love to refer to as the MissingNo glitch, and ruined the market for the game. $10mil items could now be bought for $1 (seriously).
The Elite 4 was never finished. Johto never was either. Incomplete and buggy quests. Really bad bugs in the game; instead of fixing them, they instead worked on a new battle GUI that lagged even more. -facepalm-
The game used to be full with a server max of 700+ each night. Now, there are barely 30 on because of this bullshit. Expect to battle lvl 100+ pokemon with your lvl 3 pidgey. (you can't advance past lvl 100 any more) Expect unexpected server rollbacks where your lvl 90 Charizard reverts back to lvl 60 overnight, with no compensation or help from mods.
Also... no ultrarares. Try playing pokemon while missing all the good content. Ain't worth it.
Paypal eventually banned them, back in Sept., for mistreating their players. I really don't see a much longer life for this game. They also recently had to downsize their server.
tldr - stay away. the mods steal ideas and content from their fans and call it theirs. Game is forever bugged and unfinished.
Edit - Old email from owner, backing up his mods after I demanded my work be reinstated and credited (providing hard evidence that it was mine and copied exactly an hour later, then deleted by another mod to cover up her tracks):
"Due to your the way in which you presented your claim (Demanding Is Never A Good Option), I will do nothing. I'm sorry that this happened, however, given that both of you made it, chances are likely that she heard mention of it and made one without considering to check (Assuming that non still existed).
Beyond that, I will say nothing more. Good Day." | No, no, no. Seriously, stay away from this shit of a game. It's still on a massive boycott from it's players, especially after the game was hacked.
Thing is, player base tried helping this game off the ground with massive volunteer work going into it. Everyone that helped on the project had their work stolen by the mods, credit deleted. If that person(s) protested the theft, they were banned. Mods would simply respond with "ALL work or deviation of, is property of PWO" to back up their credit theft claim. Not even a "thanks for the help! here's a free pikachu!" or at least a thanks. It was really insane. Both me and a colleague had work stolen by a couple mods and were banned for life when we protested.
As for the hacks... the mods pissed off the wrong people, I assume. Someone found a hack, what we love to refer to as the MissingNo glitch, and ruined the market for the game. $10mil items could now be bought for $1 (seriously).
The Elite 4 was never finished. Johto never was either. Incomplete and buggy quests. Really bad bugs in the game; instead of fixing them, they instead worked on a new battle GUI that lagged even more. -facepalm-
The game used to be full with a server max of 700+ each night. Now, there are barely 30 on because of this bullshit. Expect to battle lvl 100+ pokemon with your lvl 3 pidgey. (you can't advance past lvl 100 any more) Expect unexpected server rollbacks where your lvl 90 Charizard reverts back to lvl 60 overnight, with no compensation or help from mods.
Also... no ultrarares. Try playing pokemon while missing all the good content. Ain't worth it.
Paypal eventually banned them, back in Sept., for mistreating their players. I really don't see a much longer life for this game. They also recently had to downsize their server.
tldr - stay away. the mods steal ideas and content from their fans and call it theirs. Game is forever bugged and unfinished.
Edit - Old email from owner, backing up his mods after I demanded my work be reinstated and credited (providing hard evidence that it was mine and copied exactly an hour later, then deleted by another mod to cover up her tracks):
"Due to your the way in which you presented your claim (Demanding Is Never A Good Option), I will do nothing. I'm sorry that this happened, however, given that both of you made it, chances are likely that she heard mention of it and made one without considering to check (Assuming that non still existed).
Beyond that, I will say nothing more. Good Day."
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1bkzlu | No, no, no. Seriously, stay away from this shit of a game. It's still on a massive boycott from it's players, especially after the game was hacked.
Thing is, player base tried helping this game off the ground with massive volunteer work going into it. Everyone that helped on the project had their work stolen by the mods, credit deleted. If that person(s) protested the theft, they were banned. Mods would simply respond with "ALL work or deviation of, is property of PWO" to back up their credit theft claim. Not even a "thanks for the help! here's a free pikachu!" or at least a thanks. It was really insane. Both me and a colleague had work stolen by a couple mods and were banned for life when we protested.
As for the hacks... the mods pissed off the wrong people, I assume. Someone found a hack, what we love to refer to as the MissingNo glitch, and ruined the market for the game. $10mil items could now be bought for $1 (seriously).
The Elite 4 was never finished. Johto never was either. Incomplete and buggy quests. Really bad bugs in the game; instead of fixing them, they instead worked on a new battle GUI that lagged even more. -facepalm-
The game used to be full with a server max of 700+ each night. Now, there are barely 30 on because of this bullshit. Expect to battle lvl 100+ pokemon with your lvl 3 pidgey. (you can't advance past lvl 100 any more) Expect unexpected server rollbacks where your lvl 90 Charizard reverts back to lvl 60 overnight, with no compensation or help from mods.
Also... no ultrarares. Try playing pokemon while missing all the good content. Ain't worth it.
Paypal eventually banned them, back in Sept., for mistreating their players. I really don't see a much longer life for this game. They also recently had to downsize their server. | stay away. the mods steal ideas and content from their fans and call it theirs. Game is forever bugged and unfinished.
Edit - Old email from owner, backing up his mods after I demanded my work be reinstated and credited (providing hard evidence that it was mine and copied exactly an hour later, then deleted by another mod to cover up her tracks):
"Due to your the way in which you presented your claim (Demanding Is Never A Good Option), I will do nothing. I'm sorry that this happened, however, given that both of you made it, chances are likely that she heard mention of it and made one without considering to check (Assuming that non still existed).
Beyond that, I will say nothing more. Good Day." |
KokoriFado | As a child, my friend and I were walking down the street of his neighborhood when we saw a few younger kids playing the Pokemon card game. We had gotten "too old" for Pokemon the year before, and my friend, Mark, walked up to check out the game. When he noticed one of the kids had the 1st Edition Charizard in his hand, he let on that there was a special icon inside any card that had the holographic background. The kid asked if he was serious, and upon Mark's reassurance, the kid ripped the card in two. That day, I learned the sound of true human suffering.
TL;DR: I watched a friend ruin the rest of some kid's life. | As a child, my friend and I were walking down the street of his neighborhood when we saw a few younger kids playing the Pokemon card game. We had gotten "too old" for Pokemon the year before, and my friend, Mark, walked up to check out the game. When he noticed one of the kids had the 1st Edition Charizard in his hand, he let on that there was a special icon inside any card that had the holographic background. The kid asked if he was serious, and upon Mark's reassurance, the kid ripped the card in two. That day, I learned the sound of true human suffering.
TL;DR: I watched a friend ruin the rest of some kid's life.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1bmhlt | As a child, my friend and I were walking down the street of his neighborhood when we saw a few younger kids playing the Pokemon card game. We had gotten "too old" for Pokemon the year before, and my friend, Mark, walked up to check out the game. When he noticed one of the kids had the 1st Edition Charizard in his hand, he let on that there was a special icon inside any card that had the holographic background. The kid asked if he was serious, and upon Mark's reassurance, the kid ripped the card in two. That day, I learned the sound of true human suffering. | I watched a friend ruin the rest of some kid's life. |
Eddie_Stilson | Long ago I had a dream for a Pokémon MMO that I knew would never be realized.
It would be a 3D MMO, of course, from the third person. It would be based on the original game as much as it could, with some changes to fit the MMO classification. Here are just a few of my ideas that I would
go berzerk over.
First, YOU CAN BE A GYM LEADER. Once you gain your own status in the game, you may "apply" to open your own gym, or take over another one. You may design your own badge and everything. In the same regard, you may also be a member of the Elite Four, or whatever the equivalent may be. There would obviously be multiple lands for multiple gyms and Pokémon leagues.
The second isn't really a new feature as it is, well, what it is: NO CHEATING. I love Pokémon and all, but one major gripe I have with the game is all the cheating there is. I know, I know, it's a kids game, gtfo and such, but I'm serious. If you attempt to battle online on the DS, there's always teams of Giratina and Arceus at crazy levels, and anyone can just cheat the world however they want. In a moderated MMO, however, obviously that shit won't fly.
Third, I just want to see the damn thing. And I mean see. I want to look at a 3D Pokémon world. I don't mean all the Colosseum crap. I want to see the WORLD. Tall grass in your face. Other real-life trainers around the corner. Your team FOLLOWING YOU if you so choose. I want to SEE my scyther cut down the tree in front of me. I want to SEE my skarmory pick me up onto its back and fly over the world. I want to SEE Charizard fight that Blaziken, without changing screens, right fucking there where I ran into that other trainer. That would be amazing.
I probably would never go outside again.
tl;dr- In a PKMN MMO I want to be a gym leader, I don't want cheating, and I want awesome new visuals and mechanics.
| Long ago I had a dream for a Pokémon MMO that I knew would never be realized.
It would be a 3D MMO, of course, from the third person. It would be based on the original game as much as it could, with some changes to fit the MMO classification. Here are just a few of my ideas that I would
go berzerk over.
First, YOU CAN BE A GYM LEADER. Once you gain your own status in the game, you may "apply" to open your own gym, or take over another one. You may design your own badge and everything. In the same regard, you may also be a member of the Elite Four, or whatever the equivalent may be. There would obviously be multiple lands for multiple gyms and Pokémon leagues.
The second isn't really a new feature as it is, well, what it is: NO CHEATING. I love Pokémon and all, but one major gripe I have with the game is all the cheating there is. I know, I know, it's a kids game, gtfo and such, but I'm serious. If you attempt to battle online on the DS, there's always teams of Giratina and Arceus at crazy levels, and anyone can just cheat the world however they want. In a moderated MMO, however, obviously that shit won't fly.
Third, I just want to see the damn thing. And I mean see. I want to look at a 3D Pokémon world. I don't mean all the Colosseum crap. I want to see the WORLD. Tall grass in your face. Other real-life trainers around the corner. Your team FOLLOWING YOU if you so choose. I want to SEE my scyther cut down the tree in front of me. I want to SEE my skarmory pick me up onto its back and fly over the world. I want to SEE Charizard fight that Blaziken, without changing screens, right fucking there where I ran into that other trainer. That would be amazing.
I probably would never go outside again.
tl;dr- In a PKMN MMO I want to be a gym leader, I don't want cheating, and I want awesome new visuals and mechanics.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1bmhxk | Long ago I had a dream for a Pokémon MMO that I knew would never be realized.
It would be a 3D MMO, of course, from the third person. It would be based on the original game as much as it could, with some changes to fit the MMO classification. Here are just a few of my ideas that I would
go berzerk over.
First, YOU CAN BE A GYM LEADER. Once you gain your own status in the game, you may "apply" to open your own gym, or take over another one. You may design your own badge and everything. In the same regard, you may also be a member of the Elite Four, or whatever the equivalent may be. There would obviously be multiple lands for multiple gyms and Pokémon leagues.
The second isn't really a new feature as it is, well, what it is: NO CHEATING. I love Pokémon and all, but one major gripe I have with the game is all the cheating there is. I know, I know, it's a kids game, gtfo and such, but I'm serious. If you attempt to battle online on the DS, there's always teams of Giratina and Arceus at crazy levels, and anyone can just cheat the world however they want. In a moderated MMO, however, obviously that shit won't fly.
Third, I just want to see the damn thing. And I mean see. I want to look at a 3D Pokémon world. I don't mean all the Colosseum crap. I want to see the WORLD. Tall grass in your face. Other real-life trainers around the corner. Your team FOLLOWING YOU if you so choose. I want to SEE my scyther cut down the tree in front of me. I want to SEE my skarmory pick me up onto its back and fly over the world. I want to SEE Charizard fight that Blaziken, without changing screens, right fucking there where I ran into that other trainer. That would be amazing.
I probably would never go outside again. | In a PKMN MMO I want to be a gym leader, I don't want cheating, and I want awesome new visuals and mechanics. |
ronbag | I used to be on the top staff of this game for a period of like 6 months. Back then (over 2 years ago now) the game and community were wonderful. I barely ever banned anybody and we all (the other staff members) worked hard daily to keep it growing and more fun to play.
Then it all went to hell.
Then the main coder left, and a new guy, who happends to be a complete forever alone came along. He was given the top spot without earning it like the rest of us and saw it fit to give girls he thought was hot powerful pokemon. 99% of these hot girls turned out to be guys faking and tricking him. I deleted all of those powerhouses and told him to fuck off, even though he was my superior. He couldnt demote me for doing the right thing, so offered a person i trusted my job in exchange for dirt. Thats a whole other story.
I did some research with my friends and it turns out the main developers were making money off the game, thousands. They also started to include Zango, a virus, to make even more money. All while not developing the young beta game whatsoever. Once the people realised nothing would happen and the money stream went dry, the game turned just unbearable. There was no staff whatsoever, they hired a team of random people they didnt even know and let them govern in their place.10-14 year olds with a hammer is not a good thing.
Paypal ended up banning them and their servers have been down for like a half a year.
I stopped coming whatsover about 2 years ago but I still keep in contact with some people from it, which is how i know all this.
TL;DR Its not even running and theres no development for like 2 years. No money to even host a server and no staff to manage anything. only staff is a bunch of kids given authority due to the long absence of any real staff. | I used to be on the top staff of this game for a period of like 6 months. Back then (over 2 years ago now) the game and community were wonderful. I barely ever banned anybody and we all (the other staff members) worked hard daily to keep it growing and more fun to play.
Then it all went to hell.
Then the main coder left, and a new guy, who happends to be a complete forever alone came along. He was given the top spot without earning it like the rest of us and saw it fit to give girls he thought was hot powerful pokemon. 99% of these hot girls turned out to be guys faking and tricking him. I deleted all of those powerhouses and told him to fuck off, even though he was my superior. He couldnt demote me for doing the right thing, so offered a person i trusted my job in exchange for dirt. Thats a whole other story.
I did some research with my friends and it turns out the main developers were making money off the game, thousands. They also started to include Zango, a virus, to make even more money. All while not developing the young beta game whatsoever. Once the people realised nothing would happen and the money stream went dry, the game turned just unbearable. There was no staff whatsoever, they hired a team of random people they didnt even know and let them govern in their place.10-14 year olds with a hammer is not a good thing.
Paypal ended up banning them and their servers have been down for like a half a year.
I stopped coming whatsover about 2 years ago but I still keep in contact with some people from it, which is how i know all this.
TL;DR Its not even running and theres no development for like 2 years. No money to even host a server and no staff to manage anything. only staff is a bunch of kids given authority due to the long absence of any real staff.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1bmny1 | I used to be on the top staff of this game for a period of like 6 months. Back then (over 2 years ago now) the game and community were wonderful. I barely ever banned anybody and we all (the other staff members) worked hard daily to keep it growing and more fun to play.
Then it all went to hell.
Then the main coder left, and a new guy, who happends to be a complete forever alone came along. He was given the top spot without earning it like the rest of us and saw it fit to give girls he thought was hot powerful pokemon. 99% of these hot girls turned out to be guys faking and tricking him. I deleted all of those powerhouses and told him to fuck off, even though he was my superior. He couldnt demote me for doing the right thing, so offered a person i trusted my job in exchange for dirt. Thats a whole other story.
I did some research with my friends and it turns out the main developers were making money off the game, thousands. They also started to include Zango, a virus, to make even more money. All while not developing the young beta game whatsoever. Once the people realised nothing would happen and the money stream went dry, the game turned just unbearable. There was no staff whatsoever, they hired a team of random people they didnt even know and let them govern in their place.10-14 year olds with a hammer is not a good thing.
Paypal ended up banning them and their servers have been down for like a half a year.
I stopped coming whatsover about 2 years ago but I still keep in contact with some people from it, which is how i know all this. | Its not even running and theres no development for like 2 years. No money to even host a server and no staff to manage anything. only staff is a bunch of kids given authority due to the long absence of any real staff. |
hifiDesign | OK start. My $.02...
* Your rules are too thick.
* Whole site is difficult to read due to low contrast between type color, text box container color, and page bg color. You want the areas behind your dark text to be much lighter and just a hint of texture
(TL;DR - Too much sauce!) | OK start. My $.02...
Your rules are too thick.
Whole site is difficult to read due to low contrast between type color, text box container color, and page bg color. You want the areas behind your dark text to be much lighter and just a hint of texture
(TL;DR - Too much sauce!)
| design_critiques | t5_2roqr | c1blyr6 | OK start. My $.02...
Your rules are too thick.
Whole site is difficult to read due to low contrast between type color, text box container color, and page bg color. You want the areas behind your dark text to be much lighter and just a hint of texture
( | Too much sauce!) |
eqwood | I'm fairly sure it's part of the uniform. No joke. Some bagpipers at my granduncle's funeral were wearing kilts, and after the fact, it came to my dad's attention that the men lacked undergarments. The pipers were respectful enough, but my dad reflects had he known at the time, he would of been less than thankful at their performance.
TL;DR no one's wearing anything under their kilts. | I'm fairly sure it's part of the uniform. No joke. Some bagpipers at my granduncle's funeral were wearing kilts, and after the fact, it came to my dad's attention that the men lacked undergarments. The pipers were respectful enough, but my dad reflects had he known at the time, he would of been less than thankful at their performance.
TL;DR no one's wearing anything under their kilts.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1bqgur | I'm fairly sure it's part of the uniform. No joke. Some bagpipers at my granduncle's funeral were wearing kilts, and after the fact, it came to my dad's attention that the men lacked undergarments. The pipers were respectful enough, but my dad reflects had he known at the time, he would of been less than thankful at their performance. | no one's wearing anything under their kilts. |
GTbulldog | Yeah, any type of money issue, especially with it being intra-family, is especially tough. If it were me, I'd ask some of my closest friends what they would do, since they may know the situation better than we redditors.
Other than that, I would suggest your two parents and the four of you (siblings) get together and have a roundtable, and make her confront her desires openly.
tl;dr Call the Italian mob. | Yeah, any type of money issue, especially with it being intra-family, is especially tough. If it were me, I'd ask some of my closest friends what they would do, since they may know the situation better than we redditors.
Other than that, I would suggest your two parents and the four of you (siblings) get together and have a roundtable, and make her confront her desires openly.
tl;dr Call the Italian mob.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1bqgqe | Yeah, any type of money issue, especially with it being intra-family, is especially tough. If it were me, I'd ask some of my closest friends what they would do, since they may know the situation better than we redditors.
Other than that, I would suggest your two parents and the four of you (siblings) get together and have a roundtable, and make her confront her desires openly. | Call the Italian mob. |
beedeecee | Like rjcarr said, the 'oe' is a replacement for 'ö', which is a [close-mid near-front rounded vowel]( Unfortunately, we don't have this sound in English. Basically, it's the first part of vowel in "bake", but with the lips rounded. To me, it sounds more like the vowel in "book" than the vowel in "bake", but his family (or family's post-immigration neighbors) must have thought otherwise.
tl;dr: We don't have the right vowel in English for a "true" pronunciation, so whatever his family says is cool. | Like rjcarr said, the 'oe' is a replacement for 'ö', which is a close-mid near-front rounded vowel must have thought otherwise.
tl;dr: We don't have the right vowel in English for a "true" pronunciation, so whatever his family says is cool.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c1bwzp2 | Like rjcarr said, the 'oe' is a replacement for 'ö', which is a close-mid near-front rounded vowel must have thought otherwise. | We don't have the right vowel in English for a "true" pronunciation, so whatever his family says is cool. |
ctolsen | I feel like I have to repeat this over and over, but speaking as a Scandinavian, Sweden, or any other Scandinavian or Western European country is *not* socialist. Stop thinking otherwise.
In fact, Sweden has been run by a right wing coalition government now in its second term.
It's true that there's an existence of socialist *parties* in Scandinavia, and the Labour parties traditionally have a socialist wing, but the grand total is maybe 15% of the population. The traditional social democratic thinking is for high government expenditure, for sure, but that mixed with well-placed classical liberal and conservative parties make for a pretty good mix in terms of policy towards business and such.
Personally, I think our public spending needs to be cut somewhat, but it doesn't make anyone disagreeing with me a socialist. Just some of them, and they're not that many.
While the US has something under 40% public expenditure, and Sweden passes 50%, the numbers for public debt are mostly switched around and even worse for the US, which also has to be taken into account.
**TL;DR**: Stop saying Scandinavian countries are socialist, for fucks sake. They're not. | I feel like I have to repeat this over and over, but speaking as a Scandinavian, Sweden, or any other Scandinavian or Western European country is not socialist. Stop thinking otherwise.
In fact, Sweden has been run by a right wing coalition government now in its second term.
It's true that there's an existence of socialist parties in Scandinavia, and the Labour parties traditionally have a socialist wing, but the grand total is maybe 15% of the population. The traditional social democratic thinking is for high government expenditure, for sure, but that mixed with well-placed classical liberal and conservative parties make for a pretty good mix in terms of policy towards business and such.
Personally, I think our public spending needs to be cut somewhat, but it doesn't make anyone disagreeing with me a socialist. Just some of them, and they're not that many.
While the US has something under 40% public expenditure, and Sweden passes 50%, the numbers for public debt are mostly switched around and even worse for the US, which also has to be taken into account.
TL;DR : Stop saying Scandinavian countries are socialist, for fucks sake. They're not.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c1bx1ux | I feel like I have to repeat this over and over, but speaking as a Scandinavian, Sweden, or any other Scandinavian or Western European country is not socialist. Stop thinking otherwise.
In fact, Sweden has been run by a right wing coalition government now in its second term.
It's true that there's an existence of socialist parties in Scandinavia, and the Labour parties traditionally have a socialist wing, but the grand total is maybe 15% of the population. The traditional social democratic thinking is for high government expenditure, for sure, but that mixed with well-placed classical liberal and conservative parties make for a pretty good mix in terms of policy towards business and such.
Personally, I think our public spending needs to be cut somewhat, but it doesn't make anyone disagreeing with me a socialist. Just some of them, and they're not that many.
While the US has something under 40% public expenditure, and Sweden passes 50%, the numbers for public debt are mostly switched around and even worse for the US, which also has to be taken into account. | Stop saying Scandinavian countries are socialist, for fucks sake. They're not. |
cookieguy10 | I disagree with your notion(among other things) in your blog that religions have good qualities. Fuck their good qualities if they MAYBE have them. Its not a reasonable tradeoff IMO that you ignore that it is a lie they are spreading, all the while enslaving minds and bogging down our societies potential. As far as being an asshole, yeah as an atheist (I personally am an atheist) I am disgusted by religions & their history of autrocities I am not willing to forgive those historical action documented in their holy books. Seems though you are willing to pretend that somehow that has changed.. google "Eygpt church bombing". It the same old same old. I emplore you to stop making excuses for the deplorable.
**TL;DR**
fuck religions, I'm happy to be an asshole | I disagree with your notion(among other things) in your blog that religions have good qualities. Fuck their good qualities if they MAYBE have them. Its not a reasonable tradeoff IMO that you ignore that it is a lie they are spreading, all the while enslaving minds and bogging down our societies potential. As far as being an asshole, yeah as an atheist (I personally am an atheist) I am disgusted by religions & their history of autrocities I am not willing to forgive those historical action documented in their holy books. Seems though you are willing to pretend that somehow that has changed.. google "Eygpt church bombing". It the same old same old. I emplore you to stop making excuses for the deplorable.
TL;DR
fuck religions, I'm happy to be an asshole
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1bydts | I disagree with your notion(among other things) in your blog that religions have good qualities. Fuck their good qualities if they MAYBE have them. Its not a reasonable tradeoff IMO that you ignore that it is a lie they are spreading, all the while enslaving minds and bogging down our societies potential. As far as being an asshole, yeah as an atheist (I personally am an atheist) I am disgusted by religions & their history of autrocities I am not willing to forgive those historical action documented in their holy books. Seems though you are willing to pretend that somehow that has changed.. google "Eygpt church bombing". It the same old same old. I emplore you to stop making excuses for the deplorable. | fuck religions, I'm happy to be an asshole |
garoorag | More hassle to organize, I know, but I think it'd be better next time to announce the theme at least 24 hours before creating the actual thread where people will upload their photos — so that everybody's got time to prepare their photos in advance, and the first submitters, who happened to be in front of both Reddit and their PS3 when the theme was announced, don't end up with more votes just by virtue of being first and of having more people see their submission and vote on it.
tl;dr Reddit's comment rating system is a rather terrible interface for such a contest :) | More hassle to organize, I know, but I think it'd be better next time to announce the theme at least 24 hours before creating the actual thread where people will upload their photos — so that everybody's got time to prepare their photos in advance, and the first submitters, who happened to be in front of both Reddit and their PS3 when the theme was announced, don't end up with more votes just by virtue of being first and of having more people see their submission and vote on it.
tl;dr Reddit's comment rating system is a rather terrible interface for such a contest :)
| GT5 | t5_2s463 | c1bzu2l | More hassle to organize, I know, but I think it'd be better next time to announce the theme at least 24 hours before creating the actual thread where people will upload their photos — so that everybody's got time to prepare their photos in advance, and the first submitters, who happened to be in front of both Reddit and their PS3 when the theme was announced, don't end up with more votes just by virtue of being first and of having more people see their submission and vote on it. | Reddit's comment rating system is a rather terrible interface for such a contest :) |
gooddaysir | That's why people need to remember that karma doesn't matter. When the idiots get you down, just say "fuck that" and stand your ground. Everyone with a backbone should have several posts with a lot of downvotes. It just means the hivemind disagreed with you and you were comfortable with your opinion.
Instead, most people fold up like a wet napkin and delete their unpopular posts like they're ashamed. Fuck that, if someone deletes their post, they shouldn't be able to post for a day. If someone wants to delete their account for privacy or personal reasons, that's one thing. But if it's just for karma, it ruins threads.
TL;DR stop being pussies and stand behind your beliefs. If you realize you're legitimately wrong, that's one thing, but don't be bullied by the hivemind. (Unless you're religious, then you're destroying the world.) | That's why people need to remember that karma doesn't matter. When the idiots get you down, just say "fuck that" and stand your ground. Everyone with a backbone should have several posts with a lot of downvotes. It just means the hivemind disagreed with you and you were comfortable with your opinion.
Instead, most people fold up like a wet napkin and delete their unpopular posts like they're ashamed. Fuck that, if someone deletes their post, they shouldn't be able to post for a day. If someone wants to delete their account for privacy or personal reasons, that's one thing. But if it's just for karma, it ruins threads.
TL;DR stop being pussies and stand behind your beliefs. If you realize you're legitimately wrong, that's one thing, but don't be bullied by the hivemind. (Unless you're religious, then you're destroying the world.)
| fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu | t5_2qqlo | c1c08hn | That's why people need to remember that karma doesn't matter. When the idiots get you down, just say "fuck that" and stand your ground. Everyone with a backbone should have several posts with a lot of downvotes. It just means the hivemind disagreed with you and you were comfortable with your opinion.
Instead, most people fold up like a wet napkin and delete their unpopular posts like they're ashamed. Fuck that, if someone deletes their post, they shouldn't be able to post for a day. If someone wants to delete their account for privacy or personal reasons, that's one thing. But if it's just for karma, it ruins threads. | stop being pussies and stand behind your beliefs. If you realize you're legitimately wrong, that's one thing, but don't be bullied by the hivemind. (Unless you're religious, then you're destroying the world.) |
Stingray88 | I'm going to agree and disagree here... yes it is true that every subreddit has it's zealots and assholes. But it is certainly not the case that is is equal across the board. The thing is that you just might be blind to it, because you are a part of it. Now, I'm not trying to say anything about 2XC as I have never been there myself, so I won't make judgements... but let me give you an example. Reddit always says that r/atheism is full of zealots and assholes, but quite frankly, I don't see it at all. I attribute this to the fact that I am an Atheist, and I find religion to be quite retarded. So maybe I'm one of the zealots? Now again I'm not going to make claims about 2XC, but consider the fact that you might be seeing less zealotry because you relate better to the zealots than some of the people disagreeing with you here. Of course these people disagreeing need to consider the reverse as well... they are probably seeing more zealotry because they don't fit in with the general mindset over there. Another example where I've been on the outskirts is r/minecraft. I browse that subreddit as I really love Minecraft, however I personally feel that subreddit is full the worst circlejerky nothch worshippers in existance... if you have a rational disputing opinion, you get downvoted and people tell you to "stop fucking complaining", then they also assume I'm just a minecraft/notch hater. If I try to discuss this with anyone, most people think I'm crazy and say that r/minecraft is an extremely welcoming community.
I think my general point is that yes, every subreddit does have it's zealots and assholes... but no one can clearly say what the percentages are because it varies from perspective to perspective. You may see 2XC has being pretty standard, where as some of the more frequent visitors over there might say it is less zealotry and more level headed than most subreddits... and then you'll have the other end of the spectrum saying that its the craziest subreddit out there.
TL;DR: What people define as crazy is 100% subjective in relation to their beliefs/mindset. | I'm going to agree and disagree here... yes it is true that every subreddit has it's zealots and assholes. But it is certainly not the case that is is equal across the board. The thing is that you just might be blind to it, because you are a part of it. Now, I'm not trying to say anything about 2XC as I have never been there myself, so I won't make judgements... but let me give you an example. Reddit always says that r/atheism is full of zealots and assholes, but quite frankly, I don't see it at all. I attribute this to the fact that I am an Atheist, and I find religion to be quite retarded. So maybe I'm one of the zealots? Now again I'm not going to make claims about 2XC, but consider the fact that you might be seeing less zealotry because you relate better to the zealots than some of the people disagreeing with you here. Of course these people disagreeing need to consider the reverse as well... they are probably seeing more zealotry because they don't fit in with the general mindset over there. Another example where I've been on the outskirts is r/minecraft. I browse that subreddit as I really love Minecraft, however I personally feel that subreddit is full the worst circlejerky nothch worshippers in existance... if you have a rational disputing opinion, you get downvoted and people tell you to "stop fucking complaining", then they also assume I'm just a minecraft/notch hater. If I try to discuss this with anyone, most people think I'm crazy and say that r/minecraft is an extremely welcoming community.
I think my general point is that yes, every subreddit does have it's zealots and assholes... but no one can clearly say what the percentages are because it varies from perspective to perspective. You may see 2XC has being pretty standard, where as some of the more frequent visitors over there might say it is less zealotry and more level headed than most subreddits... and then you'll have the other end of the spectrum saying that its the craziest subreddit out there.
TL;DR: What people define as crazy is 100% subjective in relation to their beliefs/mindset.
| fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu | t5_2qqlo | c1c0zlr | I'm going to agree and disagree here... yes it is true that every subreddit has it's zealots and assholes. But it is certainly not the case that is is equal across the board. The thing is that you just might be blind to it, because you are a part of it. Now, I'm not trying to say anything about 2XC as I have never been there myself, so I won't make judgements... but let me give you an example. Reddit always says that r/atheism is full of zealots and assholes, but quite frankly, I don't see it at all. I attribute this to the fact that I am an Atheist, and I find religion to be quite retarded. So maybe I'm one of the zealots? Now again I'm not going to make claims about 2XC, but consider the fact that you might be seeing less zealotry because you relate better to the zealots than some of the people disagreeing with you here. Of course these people disagreeing need to consider the reverse as well... they are probably seeing more zealotry because they don't fit in with the general mindset over there. Another example where I've been on the outskirts is r/minecraft. I browse that subreddit as I really love Minecraft, however I personally feel that subreddit is full the worst circlejerky nothch worshippers in existance... if you have a rational disputing opinion, you get downvoted and people tell you to "stop fucking complaining", then they also assume I'm just a minecraft/notch hater. If I try to discuss this with anyone, most people think I'm crazy and say that r/minecraft is an extremely welcoming community.
I think my general point is that yes, every subreddit does have it's zealots and assholes... but no one can clearly say what the percentages are because it varies from perspective to perspective. You may see 2XC has being pretty standard, where as some of the more frequent visitors over there might say it is less zealotry and more level headed than most subreddits... and then you'll have the other end of the spectrum saying that its the craziest subreddit out there. | What people define as crazy is 100% subjective in relation to their beliefs/mindset. |
Stingray88 | Well I obviously can't make a really strong judgement only spending 30 minutes over there... but I'll report my findings...
Not what I was expecting at all. From what I had heard of 2XC I was expecting it to be like a feminist thread (Not femnazis, just feminists). But it's really just a subreddit for women talking about woman stuff! Not only that but there was very obviously a lot of men on there as well. I read a lot of submissions and comments and found VERY little downvoting or hating on dissenting opinions.
Not my cup of tea really as I'm a dude that isn't into girly things at all... I even date a girl that might be more of a man than I am. Call me immature... but I particularly don't like to hear about anything period related... my girlfriend doesn't like to talk about that shit either, so I know I'm not being sexist about that. I'm also the kind of guy that doesn't like it when girls embellish the fact that they burp/fart... but that's because I don't like it when guys do either! I burp with my mouth closed. But there were a few submissions that very much interested me (mostly the relationship/sex advice).
All in all, it seems like a fine subreddit and some of the forever alones over here are just being what they are... forever alones. I wouldn't bother arguing with them much honestly... F7U12 in my opinion is one of the worst subreddits as far as trolls go, but I guess that just comes with the territory.
TL;DR: I was expecting [this]( and found [this]( | Well I obviously can't make a really strong judgement only spending 30 minutes over there... but I'll report my findings...
Not what I was expecting at all. From what I had heard of 2XC I was expecting it to be like a feminist thread (Not femnazis, just feminists). But it's really just a subreddit for women talking about woman stuff! Not only that but there was very obviously a lot of men on there as well. I read a lot of submissions and comments and found VERY little downvoting or hating on dissenting opinions.
Not my cup of tea really as I'm a dude that isn't into girly things at all... I even date a girl that might be more of a man than I am. Call me immature... but I particularly don't like to hear about anything period related... my girlfriend doesn't like to talk about that shit either, so I know I'm not being sexist about that. I'm also the kind of guy that doesn't like it when girls embellish the fact that they burp/fart... but that's because I don't like it when guys do either! I burp with my mouth closed. But there were a few submissions that very much interested me (mostly the relationship/sex advice).
All in all, it seems like a fine subreddit and some of the forever alones over here are just being what they are... forever alones. I wouldn't bother arguing with them much honestly... F7U12 in my opinion is one of the worst subreddits as far as trolls go, but I guess that just comes with the territory.
TL;DR: I was expecting [this]( and found [this](
| fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu | t5_2qqlo | c1c13d0 | Well I obviously can't make a really strong judgement only spending 30 minutes over there... but I'll report my findings...
Not what I was expecting at all. From what I had heard of 2XC I was expecting it to be like a feminist thread (Not femnazis, just feminists). But it's really just a subreddit for women talking about woman stuff! Not only that but there was very obviously a lot of men on there as well. I read a lot of submissions and comments and found VERY little downvoting or hating on dissenting opinions.
Not my cup of tea really as I'm a dude that isn't into girly things at all... I even date a girl that might be more of a man than I am. Call me immature... but I particularly don't like to hear about anything period related... my girlfriend doesn't like to talk about that shit either, so I know I'm not being sexist about that. I'm also the kind of guy that doesn't like it when girls embellish the fact that they burp/fart... but that's because I don't like it when guys do either! I burp with my mouth closed. But there were a few submissions that very much interested me (mostly the relationship/sex advice).
All in all, it seems like a fine subreddit and some of the forever alones over here are just being what they are... forever alones. I wouldn't bother arguing with them much honestly... F7U12 in my opinion is one of the worst subreddits as far as trolls go, but I guess that just comes with the territory. | I was expecting [this]( and found [this]( |
brentwatson | I started out the same (6' @ 130pounds). I've tried a few different programs and tracked progress from each, thus far. I would recommend the following things for you:
1. EAT. Track calories & protein using something like www.dailyburn.com or I've heard that training is 40% workouts and 60% nutrition... this is much more true for us skinny guys (maybe 75% nutrition).
2. Try one of the following programs:
Starting Strength:
Strong Lifts 5x5:
3. Search "Ectomorph" for more stuff.
TL;DR: A H.I.T. program, and a LOT of food.
Good luck! | I started out the same (6' @ 130pounds). I've tried a few different programs and tracked progress from each, thus far. I would recommend the following things for you:
EAT. Track calories & protein using something like www.dailyburn.com or I've heard that training is 40% workouts and 60% nutrition... this is much more true for us skinny guys (maybe 75% nutrition).
Try one of the following programs:
Starting Strength:
Strong Lifts 5x5:
Search "Ectomorph" for more stuff.
TL;DR: A H.I.T. program, and a LOT of food.
Good luck!
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | c1bzxtn | I started out the same (6' @ 130pounds). I've tried a few different programs and tracked progress from each, thus far. I would recommend the following things for you:
EAT. Track calories & protein using something like www.dailyburn.com or I've heard that training is 40% workouts and 60% nutrition... this is much more true for us skinny guys (maybe 75% nutrition).
Try one of the following programs:
Starting Strength:
Strong Lifts 5x5:
Search "Ectomorph" for more stuff. | A H.I.T. program, and a LOT of food.
Good luck! |
blackertai | Grew up listening to Oldies Radio in North Atlanta, and bought my first album when I got a copy of Weird Al's "The Food Album" in late Elementary school. From there I grew to a big fan of classic rock, mainly the Grateful Dead, Zep, and the Allman Brothers. Found a concert with Ben Harper playing Hendrix covers, and got really into him. From him, I found a greater appreciation for "modern" music, and having gone to school in Athens, GA, I developed a love of Elephant 6 related bands. I've gone from that into a wider modern music scene, with interests in dubstep, sludge metal, indie, folk and jambands. I'd say I've got pretty wide ranging tastes. I started enjoying rap in the late 90's when someone gave me a Jurassic 5 album, and I went from their to DJ Shadow then into more turntablist material, and I now enjoy PB Wolf, Madlib, Aphex Twin (and his many Alter Egos) and other electonic based music.
TL;dr : Beatles>BenHarper>Neutral Milk Hotel>Mastodon>Diplo | Grew up listening to Oldies Radio in North Atlanta, and bought my first album when I got a copy of Weird Al's "The Food Album" in late Elementary school. From there I grew to a big fan of classic rock, mainly the Grateful Dead, Zep, and the Allman Brothers. Found a concert with Ben Harper playing Hendrix covers, and got really into him. From him, I found a greater appreciation for "modern" music, and having gone to school in Athens, GA, I developed a love of Elephant 6 related bands. I've gone from that into a wider modern music scene, with interests in dubstep, sludge metal, indie, folk and jambands. I'd say I've got pretty wide ranging tastes. I started enjoying rap in the late 90's when someone gave me a Jurassic 5 album, and I went from their to DJ Shadow then into more turntablist material, and I now enjoy PB Wolf, Madlib, Aphex Twin (and his many Alter Egos) and other electonic based music.
TL;dr : Beatles>BenHarper>Neutral Milk Hotel>Mastodon>Diplo
| Musictalk | t5_2s9ir | c1c3nr2 | Grew up listening to Oldies Radio in North Atlanta, and bought my first album when I got a copy of Weird Al's "The Food Album" in late Elementary school. From there I grew to a big fan of classic rock, mainly the Grateful Dead, Zep, and the Allman Brothers. Found a concert with Ben Harper playing Hendrix covers, and got really into him. From him, I found a greater appreciation for "modern" music, and having gone to school in Athens, GA, I developed a love of Elephant 6 related bands. I've gone from that into a wider modern music scene, with interests in dubstep, sludge metal, indie, folk and jambands. I'd say I've got pretty wide ranging tastes. I started enjoying rap in the late 90's when someone gave me a Jurassic 5 album, and I went from their to DJ Shadow then into more turntablist material, and I now enjoy PB Wolf, Madlib, Aphex Twin (and his many Alter Egos) and other electonic based music. | Beatles>BenHarper>Neutral Milk Hotel>Mastodon>Diplo |
srika | What usually ends up happening is that most people have two levels of belief.
1. You go to all temples, and since people these days have very less time, temples are turning into multiplexes. Lots of smaller temples, and whenever people find the time on quiet evening, they can go to a 4-5 temples one after the other, each of them dedicated to another god.
2. However, there is usually one god that every individual has a special affinity for. My dad for example, is crazy about [Lord Venkateshwara, also called Balaji]( who is headquartered in Tirumala Hills.
I grew up with an adoration of the god, Balaji. However, when I started growing disillusioned with organized religion, it was easier for me to stop going to multiplexed temples, but a thousand times more difficult to detach myself from Balaji. It was similar to the disillusionment you face when you have been let down by a parent.
tl;dr - For most Indians, one particular god is like a parent, the rest of the gods are like an extended family you meet at reunions. Easier to snap ties with the rest of the family than to snap ties with your parent. | What usually ends up happening is that most people have two levels of belief.
You go to all temples, and since people these days have very less time, temples are turning into multiplexes. Lots of smaller temples, and whenever people find the time on quiet evening, they can go to a 4-5 temples one after the other, each of them dedicated to another god.
However, there is usually one god that every individual has a special affinity for. My dad for example, is crazy about [Lord Venkateshwara, also called Balaji]( who is headquartered in Tirumala Hills.
I grew up with an adoration of the god, Balaji. However, when I started growing disillusioned with organized religion, it was easier for me to stop going to multiplexed temples, but a thousand times more difficult to detach myself from Balaji. It was similar to the disillusionment you face when you have been let down by a parent.
tl;dr - For most Indians, one particular god is like a parent, the rest of the gods are like an extended family you meet at reunions. Easier to snap ties with the rest of the family than to snap ties with your parent.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1c249n | What usually ends up happening is that most people have two levels of belief.
You go to all temples, and since people these days have very less time, temples are turning into multiplexes. Lots of smaller temples, and whenever people find the time on quiet evening, they can go to a 4-5 temples one after the other, each of them dedicated to another god.
However, there is usually one god that every individual has a special affinity for. My dad for example, is crazy about [Lord Venkateshwara, also called Balaji]( who is headquartered in Tirumala Hills.
I grew up with an adoration of the god, Balaji. However, when I started growing disillusioned with organized religion, it was easier for me to stop going to multiplexed temples, but a thousand times more difficult to detach myself from Balaji. It was similar to the disillusionment you face when you have been let down by a parent. | For most Indians, one particular god is like a parent, the rest of the gods are like an extended family you meet at reunions. Easier to snap ties with the rest of the family than to snap ties with your parent. |
Wuped | Last time I was at a bar there was 6 of us we had a few(to many) Jagerbombs. We were in walking distances of one of my friends houses so we figured we could get drunk as shit keep in my mind it's winter and there's quite alot of snow on the ground. None of us remember the walk back among the items lost: 2 purses, 4 wallets(2 of them in the purse), a passport, one pair of shoes and one singular shoe(yep somehow walked through snow without 2 shoes). We retraced our steps and recovered all of the lost stuff eventually the really funny part was you could see marks in the snow where we fell.
TL;DR : Jagerbombs are fucking evil. | Last time I was at a bar there was 6 of us we had a few(to many) Jagerbombs. We were in walking distances of one of my friends houses so we figured we could get drunk as shit keep in my mind it's winter and there's quite alot of snow on the ground. None of us remember the walk back among the items lost: 2 purses, 4 wallets(2 of them in the purse), a passport, one pair of shoes and one singular shoe(yep somehow walked through snow without 2 shoes). We retraced our steps and recovered all of the lost stuff eventually the really funny part was you could see marks in the snow where we fell.
TL;DR : Jagerbombs are fucking evil.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1c6iqd | Last time I was at a bar there was 6 of us we had a few(to many) Jagerbombs. We were in walking distances of one of my friends houses so we figured we could get drunk as shit keep in my mind it's winter and there's quite alot of snow on the ground. None of us remember the walk back among the items lost: 2 purses, 4 wallets(2 of them in the purse), a passport, one pair of shoes and one singular shoe(yep somehow walked through snow without 2 shoes). We retraced our steps and recovered all of the lost stuff eventually the really funny part was you could see marks in the snow where we fell. | Jagerbombs are fucking evil. |
troncmaster | This is very true. I have pondered this paradox long and hard and have come to the following conclusion.
If I'd had the children by a different woman, being as I don't own an alternative dimension travel machine, I would be blissfully unaware of the children I might have had by the first truly despised woman.
I would add that it would be entirely likely that had I had different children by a different woman that I would be similarly devoid of all regret for their existence.
In fact at times when I ponder it really hard I imagine all of the alternative dimensions that do exist and of those the ones in which I've had children with entirely different women. Although to be frankly honest it usually ends up with me thinking more about the actual attempting to have children part, accidental or otherwise, than the children themselves.
tl;dr non existent children aren't worth the bother | This is very true. I have pondered this paradox long and hard and have come to the following conclusion.
If I'd had the children by a different woman, being as I don't own an alternative dimension travel machine, I would be blissfully unaware of the children I might have had by the first truly despised woman.
I would add that it would be entirely likely that had I had different children by a different woman that I would be similarly devoid of all regret for their existence.
In fact at times when I ponder it really hard I imagine all of the alternative dimensions that do exist and of those the ones in which I've had children with entirely different women. Although to be frankly honest it usually ends up with me thinking more about the actual attempting to have children part, accidental or otherwise, than the children themselves.
tl;dr non existent children aren't worth the bother
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1ci0z7 | This is very true. I have pondered this paradox long and hard and have come to the following conclusion.
If I'd had the children by a different woman, being as I don't own an alternative dimension travel machine, I would be blissfully unaware of the children I might have had by the first truly despised woman.
I would add that it would be entirely likely that had I had different children by a different woman that I would be similarly devoid of all regret for their existence.
In fact at times when I ponder it really hard I imagine all of the alternative dimensions that do exist and of those the ones in which I've had children with entirely different women. Although to be frankly honest it usually ends up with me thinking more about the actual attempting to have children part, accidental or otherwise, than the children themselves. | non existent children aren't worth the bother |
exxxidor | "I was already in a bad mood and didnt feel like being all happy..."
Um. That's your damn job. If you cant muster the will to even act like you give a shit then go find a job in a factory or out in a field.
But when you work at "the happiest place on earth" and you somehow think that the mere fact of being born entitles you to behave however you want because you feel personally justified by the mood that you are in then YOU are the problem.
tl;dr: stop being such a bitch and do your damn job or go home | "I was already in a bad mood and didnt feel like being all happy..."
Um. That's your damn job. If you cant muster the will to even act like you give a shit then go find a job in a factory or out in a field.
But when you work at "the happiest place on earth" and you somehow think that the mere fact of being born entitles you to behave however you want because you feel personally justified by the mood that you are in then YOU are the problem.
tl;dr: stop being such a bitch and do your damn job or go home
| funny | t5_2qh33 | c1cfqod | I was already in a bad mood and didnt feel like being all happy..."
Um. That's your damn job. If you cant muster the will to even act like you give a shit then go find a job in a factory or out in a field.
But when you work at "the happiest place on earth" and you somehow think that the mere fact of being born entitles you to behave however you want because you feel personally justified by the mood that you are in then YOU are the problem. | stop being such a bitch and do your damn job or go home |
spikeparker | I was aboard a cruiser headed for Viet Nam back in '66. Someone came around and asked each of us what religion should be stamped on our dog tags. There was a list of acceptable responses. One of the guys told the person asking, "None!". He was told, in no uncertain terms that he **had** to choose one. In desperation (not wanting to get written up) he selected Buddhist and moved on. He was a DJ on the ships radio and yukked it up pretty good telling the entire ships crew that since he couldn't select "none" that he was now the resident Buddhist.
tl:dr The crazy religion-in-the-military bull shit has been around forever. | I was aboard a cruiser headed for Viet Nam back in '66. Someone came around and asked each of us what religion should be stamped on our dog tags. There was a list of acceptable responses. One of the guys told the person asking, "None!". He was told, in no uncertain terms that he had to choose one. In desperation (not wanting to get written up) he selected Buddhist and moved on. He was a DJ on the ships radio and yukked it up pretty good telling the entire ships crew that since he couldn't select "none" that he was now the resident Buddhist.
tl:dr The crazy religion-in-the-military bull shit has been around forever.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1cpvaj | I was aboard a cruiser headed for Viet Nam back in '66. Someone came around and asked each of us what religion should be stamped on our dog tags. There was a list of acceptable responses. One of the guys told the person asking, "None!". He was told, in no uncertain terms that he had to choose one. In desperation (not wanting to get written up) he selected Buddhist and moved on. He was a DJ on the ships radio and yukked it up pretty good telling the entire ships crew that since he couldn't select "none" that he was now the resident Buddhist. | The crazy religion-in-the-military bull shit has been around forever. |
syllabelle | Last year someone had the brilliant idea to forward a (link to a) file that appeared to be their "ICE" *in case of emergency* information. (Some people call it a "JIC" *just in case* file, but whatever.) It was a file with almost every identifying piece of info on this person, including scanned images of driver licenses for he and his wife, their social security cards (and those of their children), scanned images of birth certificates and passports, as well as deeds, mortgage papers, and so much financial information it made my head spin (not to mention medical information for the whole family as well.)
I admit that I'm a nosy bitch and I looked at ALL of it. I also admit that I thought for a couple of hours about all the evil things I could do with it. Ultimately, I had the "do unto others..." thought weighing heavy on my mind, and I emailed the guy to tell him that his email had landed in my inbox and not his own, that I was going to delete it, and that he should be far more cautious with such things in the future.
I should mention that I'm pretty sure the way I ended up with this email is that we have almost identical names. While my email is something like "[email protected]" his was something like "[email protected]" so it was clearly a typo/slip of a finger error. I can't imagine for the life of me why he would send the information to himself that way, because that's what safe deposit boxes are for...but whatever.
TL;DR - Got a TMI file by mistake. Deleted it. | Last year someone had the brilliant idea to forward a (link to a) file that appeared to be their "ICE" in case of emergency information. (Some people call it a "JIC" just in case file, but whatever.) It was a file with almost every identifying piece of info on this person, including scanned images of driver licenses for he and his wife, their social security cards (and those of their children), scanned images of birth certificates and passports, as well as deeds, mortgage papers, and so much financial information it made my head spin (not to mention medical information for the whole family as well.)
I admit that I'm a nosy bitch and I looked at ALL of it. I also admit that I thought for a couple of hours about all the evil things I could do with it. Ultimately, I had the "do unto others..." thought weighing heavy on my mind, and I emailed the guy to tell him that his email had landed in my inbox and not his own, that I was going to delete it, and that he should be far more cautious with such things in the future.
I should mention that I'm pretty sure the way I ended up with this email is that we have almost identical names. While my email is something like "[email protected]" his was something like "[email protected]" so it was clearly a typo/slip of a finger error. I can't imagine for the life of me why he would send the information to himself that way, because that's what safe deposit boxes are for...but whatever.
TL;DR - Got a TMI file by mistake. Deleted it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1cr2wg | Last year someone had the brilliant idea to forward a (link to a) file that appeared to be their "ICE" in case of emergency information. (Some people call it a "JIC" just in case file, but whatever.) It was a file with almost every identifying piece of info on this person, including scanned images of driver licenses for he and his wife, their social security cards (and those of their children), scanned images of birth certificates and passports, as well as deeds, mortgage papers, and so much financial information it made my head spin (not to mention medical information for the whole family as well.)
I admit that I'm a nosy bitch and I looked at ALL of it. I also admit that I thought for a couple of hours about all the evil things I could do with it. Ultimately, I had the "do unto others..." thought weighing heavy on my mind, and I emailed the guy to tell him that his email had landed in my inbox and not his own, that I was going to delete it, and that he should be far more cautious with such things in the future.
I should mention that I'm pretty sure the way I ended up with this email is that we have almost identical names. While my email is something like "[email protected]" his was something like "[email protected]" so it was clearly a typo/slip of a finger error. I can't imagine for the life of me why he would send the information to himself that way, because that's what safe deposit boxes are for...but whatever. | Got a TMI file by mistake. Deleted it. |
mericaftw | I agree with number two at the end.
Seriously. All of the "damn bro my horo-tat no longer applies" fb posts are obnoxious as hell. You don't need to correct the religious/superstitious on the little things and show it to us, but if you have something awesome worth contributing, by all means, do!
And I'd add a third request: if its long, make the title a TL;DR. Don't say "discussion with theist friend", and then I click on it, and I'm like, SOLID WALL OF FUCKING TEXT OH MY GOD *click to save for Religion class the next day*
That said, yes, good job mates. | I agree with number two at the end.
Seriously. All of the "damn bro my horo-tat no longer applies" fb posts are obnoxious as hell. You don't need to correct the religious/superstitious on the little things and show it to us, but if you have something awesome worth contributing, by all means, do!
And I'd add a third request: if its long, make the title a TL;DR. Don't say "discussion with theist friend", and then I click on it, and I'm like, SOLID WALL OF FUCKING TEXT OH MY GOD click to save for Religion class the next day
That said, yes, good job mates.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1cu70o | I agree with number two at the end.
Seriously. All of the "damn bro my horo-tat no longer applies" fb posts are obnoxious as hell. You don't need to correct the religious/superstitious on the little things and show it to us, but if you have something awesome worth contributing, by all means, do!
And I'd add a third request: if its long, make the title a | Don't say "discussion with theist friend", and then I click on it, and I'm like, SOLID WALL OF FUCKING TEXT OH MY GOD click to save for Religion class the next day
That said, yes, good job mates. |
marquis_of_chaos | The connection between banks and nuclear reactors is not obvious to most bankers but to engineers, psychologists and even sociologists – the connection is obvious.
A system that is both complex and “tightly coupled” has dangerous potential as small changes to the system can have dramatic and unforeseen consequences. In these tightly controlled systems once reactions are started they can be difficult to stop.
Many people would say that to make a system safer you should add safety measures but this can in fact make a system more prone to failure by adding in "failure points" or unexpected ways for a system to go wrong.
The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs)were financial safety systems that offered exciting new ways to blow things up. The repackaged mortgages, especially when the repackaging was repeated several times, made the behavior of the risks as incomprehensible as a malfunctioning nuclear reactor.
The pessimistic theory of “normal accidents” says any sufficiently complex, tightly coupled system will fail sooner or later and that all you can do is simplify the system, decouple it, or reduce the consequences of failure.
Human error by regulators during the financial crisis failed to uncouple the failing financial system as, like engineers looking at the wrong screen during a meltdown, they received contradictory or inadequate information and so failed to realize what was happening until it was too late to avert the crisis.
TL:DR: The banking and nuclear industry are both examples of complex systems that can be prone to failure with catastrophic results. The nuclear industry has learnt lessons on information and risk management that the financial industry would do well to study. | The connection between banks and nuclear reactors is not obvious to most bankers but to engineers, psychologists and even sociologists – the connection is obvious.
A system that is both complex and “tightly coupled” has dangerous potential as small changes to the system can have dramatic and unforeseen consequences. In these tightly controlled systems once reactions are started they can be difficult to stop.
Many people would say that to make a system safer you should add safety measures but this can in fact make a system more prone to failure by adding in "failure points" or unexpected ways for a system to go wrong.
The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs)were financial safety systems that offered exciting new ways to blow things up. The repackaged mortgages, especially when the repackaging was repeated several times, made the behavior of the risks as incomprehensible as a malfunctioning nuclear reactor.
The pessimistic theory of “normal accidents” says any sufficiently complex, tightly coupled system will fail sooner or later and that all you can do is simplify the system, decouple it, or reduce the consequences of failure.
Human error by regulators during the financial crisis failed to uncouple the failing financial system as, like engineers looking at the wrong screen during a meltdown, they received contradictory or inadequate information and so failed to realize what was happening until it was too late to avert the crisis.
TL:DR: The banking and nuclear industry are both examples of complex systems that can be prone to failure with catastrophic results. The nuclear industry has learnt lessons on information and risk management that the financial industry would do well to study.
| Foodforthought | t5_2rete | c1cvm6k | The connection between banks and nuclear reactors is not obvious to most bankers but to engineers, psychologists and even sociologists – the connection is obvious.
A system that is both complex and “tightly coupled” has dangerous potential as small changes to the system can have dramatic and unforeseen consequences. In these tightly controlled systems once reactions are started they can be difficult to stop.
Many people would say that to make a system safer you should add safety measures but this can in fact make a system more prone to failure by adding in "failure points" or unexpected ways for a system to go wrong.
The residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs)were financial safety systems that offered exciting new ways to blow things up. The repackaged mortgages, especially when the repackaging was repeated several times, made the behavior of the risks as incomprehensible as a malfunctioning nuclear reactor.
The pessimistic theory of “normal accidents” says any sufficiently complex, tightly coupled system will fail sooner or later and that all you can do is simplify the system, decouple it, or reduce the consequences of failure.
Human error by regulators during the financial crisis failed to uncouple the failing financial system as, like engineers looking at the wrong screen during a meltdown, they received contradictory or inadequate information and so failed to realize what was happening until it was too late to avert the crisis. | The banking and nuclear industry are both examples of complex systems that can be prone to failure with catastrophic results. The nuclear industry has learnt lessons on information and risk management that the financial industry would do well to study. |
RAWRstatus | You can call me crazy, but... one way to interpret this piece is to think that the creatures are actually evil people, with high functions in society (suits and ties). And they thrive on a devastated world or actually creating it (living on the storm clouds so they can reach the sunlight but destroys the world), so they can live a good life (sunshine). But the "beautiful" world they're living in, is showing cracks (creatures crumbling down).
TL;DR: Selfish president is screwing citizens to live a good life. | You can call me crazy, but... one way to interpret this piece is to think that the creatures are actually evil people, with high functions in society (suits and ties). And they thrive on a devastated world or actually creating it (living on the storm clouds so they can reach the sunlight but destroys the world), so they can live a good life (sunshine). But the "beautiful" world they're living in, is showing cracks (creatures crumbling down).
TL;DR: Selfish president is screwing citizens to live a good life.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1cwf5i | You can call me crazy, but... one way to interpret this piece is to think that the creatures are actually evil people, with high functions in society (suits and ties). And they thrive on a devastated world or actually creating it (living on the storm clouds so they can reach the sunlight but destroys the world), so they can live a good life (sunshine). But the "beautiful" world they're living in, is showing cracks (creatures crumbling down). | Selfish president is screwing citizens to live a good life. |
cheney_healthcare | - Obama extends the patriot act.
- Obama extends wars, and ups military budget.
- Obama okays killing of US citizens without trial.
- Obama continues to allow warantless wiretapping, even though he said he would stop it.
The Tea Party
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- Isn't a monolithic organism
- Many do believe in civil liberties
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Stop treating the tea party like they are rednecks, and maybe they will stop treating liberals like stalin/communists.
LISTEN TO CHOMSKY!
"Noam Chomsky on why we shouldn't be ridiculing the right. "
TL;DR: This article and title are bullshit.
|
Obama extends the patriot act.
Obama extends wars, and ups military budget.
Obama okays killing of US citizens without trial.
Obama continues to allow warantless wiretapping, even though he said he would stop it.
The Tea Party
Isn't a monolithic organism
Many do believe in civil liberties
Stop treating the tea party like they are rednecks, and maybe they will stop treating liberals like stalin/communists.
LISTEN TO CHOMSKY!
"Noam Chomsky on why we shouldn't be ridiculing the right. "
TL;DR: This article and title are bullshit.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c1cz180 | Obama extends the patriot act.
Obama extends wars, and ups military budget.
Obama okays killing of US citizens without trial.
Obama continues to allow warantless wiretapping, even though he said he would stop it.
The Tea Party
Isn't a monolithic organism
Many do believe in civil liberties
Stop treating the tea party like they are rednecks, and maybe they will stop treating liberals like stalin/communists.
LISTEN TO CHOMSKY!
"Noam Chomsky on why we shouldn't be ridiculing the right. " | This article and title are bullshit. |
JeanLucPicante | Most drugs are clear from the system after 5 days. Pot is 7-30. Abusers know this and will plan accordingly because the tests aren't random.
So, basically it is a complete waste of money.
Just because someone smoked a joint, doesn't mean they used their own resources to get it. So they are punishing someone(and potentially children) who doesn't abuse the system.
Alcohol is probably by far the worst drug problem for these people, yet it is not addressed.
Basically the end result will be millions of dollars being funneled off to a testing agency with very little savings. The offset of the savings would never cover the cost of testing and would create a "starving class" dependent on NGO support. That will take away resources for other people with more short term problems.
TL;DR It can't work because it's too easy to game. The net cost benefit won't cover the cost of this.
| Most drugs are clear from the system after 5 days. Pot is 7-30. Abusers know this and will plan accordingly because the tests aren't random.
So, basically it is a complete waste of money.
Just because someone smoked a joint, doesn't mean they used their own resources to get it. So they are punishing someone(and potentially children) who doesn't abuse the system.
Alcohol is probably by far the worst drug problem for these people, yet it is not addressed.
Basically the end result will be millions of dollars being funneled off to a testing agency with very little savings. The offset of the savings would never cover the cost of testing and would create a "starving class" dependent on NGO support. That will take away resources for other people with more short term problems.
TL;DR It can't work because it's too easy to game. The net cost benefit won't cover the cost of this.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c1czog0 | Most drugs are clear from the system after 5 days. Pot is 7-30. Abusers know this and will plan accordingly because the tests aren't random.
So, basically it is a complete waste of money.
Just because someone smoked a joint, doesn't mean they used their own resources to get it. So they are punishing someone(and potentially children) who doesn't abuse the system.
Alcohol is probably by far the worst drug problem for these people, yet it is not addressed.
Basically the end result will be millions of dollars being funneled off to a testing agency with very little savings. The offset of the savings would never cover the cost of testing and would create a "starving class" dependent on NGO support. That will take away resources for other people with more short term problems. | It can't work because it's too easy to game. The net cost benefit won't cover the cost of this. |
hbirdgirl | I will be working on my gag reflex, and trying the thumb trick mentioned. My problem comes from just an issue with non-edibles in general. When I was in high school drama the teacher had us practice lines with a pencil in our mouth like a bit, and even that took me a while to get comfortable with. This is why the idea of tape or the half hood appeals to me. However, I did get used to the pencil, and so I will work toward desensitizing my gag reflex thanks to the encouragement here. Up till now it had not been a huge issue. This should be an update on the post, but my app won't do that and I'm not home right now.
TLDR: will work on it | I will be working on my gag reflex, and trying the thumb trick mentioned. My problem comes from just an issue with non-edibles in general. When I was in high school drama the teacher had us practice lines with a pencil in our mouth like a bit, and even that took me a while to get comfortable with. This is why the idea of tape or the half hood appeals to me. However, I did get used to the pencil, and so I will work toward desensitizing my gag reflex thanks to the encouragement here. Up till now it had not been a huge issue. This should be an update on the post, but my app won't do that and I'm not home right now.
TLDR: will work on it
| BDSMcommunity | t5_2r9tk | c1d4tdc | I will be working on my gag reflex, and trying the thumb trick mentioned. My problem comes from just an issue with non-edibles in general. When I was in high school drama the teacher had us practice lines with a pencil in our mouth like a bit, and even that took me a while to get comfortable with. This is why the idea of tape or the half hood appeals to me. However, I did get used to the pencil, and so I will work toward desensitizing my gag reflex thanks to the encouragement here. Up till now it had not been a huge issue. This should be an update on the post, but my app won't do that and I'm not home right now. | will work on it |
surprisemotherfucker | While me and a friend were sitting on a near-by playground watching a mutual friend play soccer, a little girl had fallen on her face and was crying and running to her mum. As she walked between us and the soccer game, she stopped and sneezed. Not just a typical in-the-tissue-wipe-toss, I'm talking face and shirt *completely* covered in snot; this kid looked like she just came out of the womb. We were laughing & crying for so long and so loudly that we interrupted the soccer game. Every time either of us tried to tell the story to anyone we would just burst out into laughter and fail to tell the story, the imagery was too much.
tl;dr: little girl executes a close range mucus explosion causing me & a friend to interrupt a soccer game laughing. | While me and a friend were sitting on a near-by playground watching a mutual friend play soccer, a little girl had fallen on her face and was crying and running to her mum. As she walked between us and the soccer game, she stopped and sneezed. Not just a typical in-the-tissue-wipe-toss, I'm talking face and shirt completely covered in snot; this kid looked like she just came out of the womb. We were laughing & crying for so long and so loudly that we interrupted the soccer game. Every time either of us tried to tell the story to anyone we would just burst out into laughter and fail to tell the story, the imagery was too much.
tl;dr: little girl executes a close range mucus explosion causing me & a friend to interrupt a soccer game laughing.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1d1kap | While me and a friend were sitting on a near-by playground watching a mutual friend play soccer, a little girl had fallen on her face and was crying and running to her mum. As she walked between us and the soccer game, she stopped and sneezed. Not just a typical in-the-tissue-wipe-toss, I'm talking face and shirt completely covered in snot; this kid looked like she just came out of the womb. We were laughing & crying for so long and so loudly that we interrupted the soccer game. Every time either of us tried to tell the story to anyone we would just burst out into laughter and fail to tell the story, the imagery was too much. | little girl executes a close range mucus explosion causing me & a friend to interrupt a soccer game laughing. |
ImpatientSoul | Bunch of us guys were hanging out in one of friends dorm playing video games and hanging out. usually somehow we bring bring up girls we know and we rate how they look like a boss ( i know i know ). So this girl's name came up, well that summer her and i had thing for couple of days before i blew it like a boss, and i noticed some scars with her breast, and she told me she had breast reduction, because her back was having problems. She was skinny yet with big breast. I suppose i was the only from us that knew this secret, so i wanted say it to my buddies as immature way of getting back at her by revealing her secret to my friends ( she publicly says she had, she is not ashamed, i was not aware ). Anyway, well i was about to say she had breast reduction, but before i say what i said, you have to know i am from iran, i grew up 13 years in iran, 10 years in US, and since you still think in mother language, somethings have messed up translation to english, and what came out of my mouth, "She cut her breast over the summer". Since i always get shit for using funny way of describing things, everyone was rolling on the ground. even i laughed, at times i stop and feel stupid, but then i would laugh even more!
TL,DR: Hang out with a foreigner time to time, they say funny thing unintentionally. | Bunch of us guys were hanging out in one of friends dorm playing video games and hanging out. usually somehow we bring bring up girls we know and we rate how they look like a boss ( i know i know ). So this girl's name came up, well that summer her and i had thing for couple of days before i blew it like a boss, and i noticed some scars with her breast, and she told me she had breast reduction, because her back was having problems. She was skinny yet with big breast. I suppose i was the only from us that knew this secret, so i wanted say it to my buddies as immature way of getting back at her by revealing her secret to my friends ( she publicly says she had, she is not ashamed, i was not aware ). Anyway, well i was about to say she had breast reduction, but before i say what i said, you have to know i am from iran, i grew up 13 years in iran, 10 years in US, and since you still think in mother language, somethings have messed up translation to english, and what came out of my mouth, "She cut her breast over the summer". Since i always get shit for using funny way of describing things, everyone was rolling on the ground. even i laughed, at times i stop and feel stupid, but then i would laugh even more!
TL,DR: Hang out with a foreigner time to time, they say funny thing unintentionally.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1d1mo1 | Bunch of us guys were hanging out in one of friends dorm playing video games and hanging out. usually somehow we bring bring up girls we know and we rate how they look like a boss ( i know i know ). So this girl's name came up, well that summer her and i had thing for couple of days before i blew it like a boss, and i noticed some scars with her breast, and she told me she had breast reduction, because her back was having problems. She was skinny yet with big breast. I suppose i was the only from us that knew this secret, so i wanted say it to my buddies as immature way of getting back at her by revealing her secret to my friends ( she publicly says she had, she is not ashamed, i was not aware ). Anyway, well i was about to say she had breast reduction, but before i say what i said, you have to know i am from iran, i grew up 13 years in iran, 10 years in US, and since you still think in mother language, somethings have messed up translation to english, and what came out of my mouth, "She cut her breast over the summer". Since i always get shit for using funny way of describing things, everyone was rolling on the ground. even i laughed, at times i stop and feel stupid, but then i would laugh even more! | Hang out with a foreigner time to time, they say funny thing unintentionally. |
felimz | Most engineering Ph.D. work is not applied in nature. I suggest you read some literature, and you will be pleasantly surprised that some of "the latest developments in Science" are brought forth by engineers.
I am a structural engineer. We build bridges, right? Well, I am publishing papers in the signature characterization of acoustic emission waveforms of corrosive materials. You'll see that this has nothing to do with building bridges. However, our research sets up a *scientific* foundation for engineering design.
TL;DR: Engineering depends on science; a lot of engineers do science. | Most engineering Ph.D. work is not applied in nature. I suggest you read some literature, and you will be pleasantly surprised that some of "the latest developments in Science" are brought forth by engineers.
I am a structural engineer. We build bridges, right? Well, I am publishing papers in the signature characterization of acoustic emission waveforms of corrosive materials. You'll see that this has nothing to do with building bridges. However, our research sets up a scientific foundation for engineering design.
TL;DR: Engineering depends on science; a lot of engineers do science.
| science | t5_mouw | c1d7hvy | Most engineering Ph.D. work is not applied in nature. I suggest you read some literature, and you will be pleasantly surprised that some of "the latest developments in Science" are brought forth by engineers.
I am a structural engineer. We build bridges, right? Well, I am publishing papers in the signature characterization of acoustic emission waveforms of corrosive materials. You'll see that this has nothing to do with building bridges. However, our research sets up a scientific foundation for engineering design. | Engineering depends on science; a lot of engineers do science. |
thehorrorofnonbeing | I originally went to college for mechanical engineering, but a bit less than two years through decided I wanted to do graphic design and illustration. Now I'm trying to work with what I can at the large, non-art-focused state school I'm at (I have too many credits to transfer to many other colleges), and teach myself as much as I can. My hope is to improve my draftsmanship, avail myself of the design courses that I can, and study independently so that I can enroll in a BFA program that focuses on design after graduation from my current school. At least I'll only be 22 after all this nonsense.
tl;dr yeah, me too. | I originally went to college for mechanical engineering, but a bit less than two years through decided I wanted to do graphic design and illustration. Now I'm trying to work with what I can at the large, non-art-focused state school I'm at (I have too many credits to transfer to many other colleges), and teach myself as much as I can. My hope is to improve my draftsmanship, avail myself of the design courses that I can, and study independently so that I can enroll in a BFA program that focuses on design after graduation from my current school. At least I'll only be 22 after all this nonsense.
tl;dr yeah, me too.
| Design | t5_2qh78 | c1d65zk | I originally went to college for mechanical engineering, but a bit less than two years through decided I wanted to do graphic design and illustration. Now I'm trying to work with what I can at the large, non-art-focused state school I'm at (I have too many credits to transfer to many other colleges), and teach myself as much as I can. My hope is to improve my draftsmanship, avail myself of the design courses that I can, and study independently so that I can enroll in a BFA program that focuses on design after graduation from my current school. At least I'll only be 22 after all this nonsense. | yeah, me too. |
Gripe | Apparently we've placed high in quality of living studies, happiness studies and low in corruption figures. If that makes us a utopia, fine enough. It's not really. Then again there are very very few countries i would think of moving to, and i've been to a fair few.
TL;DR A Finn here, some say we're an utopia, we ain't, but we good enuff for me. | Apparently we've placed high in quality of living studies, happiness studies and low in corruption figures. If that makes us a utopia, fine enough. It's not really. Then again there are very very few countries i would think of moving to, and i've been to a fair few.
TL;DR A Finn here, some say we're an utopia, we ain't, but we good enuff for me.
| AMA | t5_2r4eo | c1dbrel | Apparently we've placed high in quality of living studies, happiness studies and low in corruption figures. If that makes us a utopia, fine enough. It's not really. Then again there are very very few countries i would think of moving to, and i've been to a fair few. | A Finn here, some say we're an utopia, we ain't, but we good enuff for me. |
milleribsen | The seattle freeze. Ah yes.
First, I don't think Seattleites are socially backward, that's just rude, I just think the makeup of the people who can survive in this city make for a strange confluence of social interaction.
Seattle, until the late eighties and early nineties, was a very blue collar city. With fishing, shipping, aerospace, and logging being the major industries in the area. The city was actually dying, there used to be a sign on 5 south that said "if you're last to leave seattle, please turn the lights off." Due to many circumstances (the ability to chave cheap energy due to hydro being one of them) the technology industries began to come to the city, bringing with them people relocating from the likes of southern california.
People who have spent their lives in southern california are uniquely unequiped to deal with living in the PNW. Used to sun and comfortable temperatures year round they discovered the need for flannel and discovered the pitfalls of Seasonal Affective Dissorder. There is a reason Grunge came from Seattle.
When grunge hit it big suddenly people from all over the country were looking to Seattle as the place to live. The dream of the 90's was born here, coffee culture, and academia took strong hold.
As the 90's progressed and the world woke up from it's heroin induced grunge phase the focus of the cultural zietgeist shifted, jumping from place to place for a while, and the non-committed seattleites left.
Meanwhile, the tech companies grow more and more bringing in people from overseas (generally east Indian) who move into the 'burbs adding yet another layer of culture to our fair corner of the country.
All this time those of us born and raised in Washington were raised in the manner expected in a place so close to Canada. As people moved into the area, meating locals, they realize that people are polite here, and adopt the same social norms.
Now we have a confluence of the old timers who worked in factories or other blue collar jobs, those southern californians who moved here and promptly holed themselves into their homes to avoid rain and tend to their SAD, aged hipsters who still atend live shows but didn't want to leave seattle for whatever reason, those local kids who were raised by locals and the above turning us into one of the fiercest hipster youths in the country, recent immigrants, and those people who have moved here because they like rain and clouds and natural beauty with their urban experience.
All of these people have one reason or another to not be friendly, they'll be polite to no end, but friendly does not come easily.
However, the youngin's are a whole new generation that's willing to be friendly, but you need to ptu yourself out there, make the first move. We're a different and quirky people, so go out, grab a micro, and plant yourself somewhere social.
tl;dr: SAD, Hipsters, Immigrants, polite but not friendly, but get over it and get out there. | The seattle freeze. Ah yes.
First, I don't think Seattleites are socially backward, that's just rude, I just think the makeup of the people who can survive in this city make for a strange confluence of social interaction.
Seattle, until the late eighties and early nineties, was a very blue collar city. With fishing, shipping, aerospace, and logging being the major industries in the area. The city was actually dying, there used to be a sign on 5 south that said "if you're last to leave seattle, please turn the lights off." Due to many circumstances (the ability to chave cheap energy due to hydro being one of them) the technology industries began to come to the city, bringing with them people relocating from the likes of southern california.
People who have spent their lives in southern california are uniquely unequiped to deal with living in the PNW. Used to sun and comfortable temperatures year round they discovered the need for flannel and discovered the pitfalls of Seasonal Affective Dissorder. There is a reason Grunge came from Seattle.
When grunge hit it big suddenly people from all over the country were looking to Seattle as the place to live. The dream of the 90's was born here, coffee culture, and academia took strong hold.
As the 90's progressed and the world woke up from it's heroin induced grunge phase the focus of the cultural zietgeist shifted, jumping from place to place for a while, and the non-committed seattleites left.
Meanwhile, the tech companies grow more and more bringing in people from overseas (generally east Indian) who move into the 'burbs adding yet another layer of culture to our fair corner of the country.
All this time those of us born and raised in Washington were raised in the manner expected in a place so close to Canada. As people moved into the area, meating locals, they realize that people are polite here, and adopt the same social norms.
Now we have a confluence of the old timers who worked in factories or other blue collar jobs, those southern californians who moved here and promptly holed themselves into their homes to avoid rain and tend to their SAD, aged hipsters who still atend live shows but didn't want to leave seattle for whatever reason, those local kids who were raised by locals and the above turning us into one of the fiercest hipster youths in the country, recent immigrants, and those people who have moved here because they like rain and clouds and natural beauty with their urban experience.
All of these people have one reason or another to not be friendly, they'll be polite to no end, but friendly does not come easily.
However, the youngin's are a whole new generation that's willing to be friendly, but you need to ptu yourself out there, make the first move. We're a different and quirky people, so go out, grab a micro, and plant yourself somewhere social.
tl;dr: SAD, Hipsters, Immigrants, polite but not friendly, but get over it and get out there.
| Seattle | t5_2qhad | c1dioxj | The seattle freeze. Ah yes.
First, I don't think Seattleites are socially backward, that's just rude, I just think the makeup of the people who can survive in this city make for a strange confluence of social interaction.
Seattle, until the late eighties and early nineties, was a very blue collar city. With fishing, shipping, aerospace, and logging being the major industries in the area. The city was actually dying, there used to be a sign on 5 south that said "if you're last to leave seattle, please turn the lights off." Due to many circumstances (the ability to chave cheap energy due to hydro being one of them) the technology industries began to come to the city, bringing with them people relocating from the likes of southern california.
People who have spent their lives in southern california are uniquely unequiped to deal with living in the PNW. Used to sun and comfortable temperatures year round they discovered the need for flannel and discovered the pitfalls of Seasonal Affective Dissorder. There is a reason Grunge came from Seattle.
When grunge hit it big suddenly people from all over the country were looking to Seattle as the place to live. The dream of the 90's was born here, coffee culture, and academia took strong hold.
As the 90's progressed and the world woke up from it's heroin induced grunge phase the focus of the cultural zietgeist shifted, jumping from place to place for a while, and the non-committed seattleites left.
Meanwhile, the tech companies grow more and more bringing in people from overseas (generally east Indian) who move into the 'burbs adding yet another layer of culture to our fair corner of the country.
All this time those of us born and raised in Washington were raised in the manner expected in a place so close to Canada. As people moved into the area, meating locals, they realize that people are polite here, and adopt the same social norms.
Now we have a confluence of the old timers who worked in factories or other blue collar jobs, those southern californians who moved here and promptly holed themselves into their homes to avoid rain and tend to their SAD, aged hipsters who still atend live shows but didn't want to leave seattle for whatever reason, those local kids who were raised by locals and the above turning us into one of the fiercest hipster youths in the country, recent immigrants, and those people who have moved here because they like rain and clouds and natural beauty with their urban experience.
All of these people have one reason or another to not be friendly, they'll be polite to no end, but friendly does not come easily.
However, the youngin's are a whole new generation that's willing to be friendly, but you need to ptu yourself out there, make the first move. We're a different and quirky people, so go out, grab a micro, and plant yourself somewhere social. | SAD, Hipsters, Immigrants, polite but not friendly, but get over it and get out there. |
marshal_mellow | As a native to the great state of Washington here is why we hate outsiders.
**1)** You have umbrellas, they look silly, they don't work well in the wind, they take up precious sidewalk space, and in 21 years of existence I have been hit by at least 4 flying umbrellas that I remember. Theres this thing called wind and it likes to ruin your shit, get a water proof jacket, or a set of testicles and flannel shirt.
**2)** You bitch about the rain on days when I would say "Oh hey lets walk to *wherever* it's not really raining". Seriously. It gets on my fucking nerves. I can always tell you aren't from around here when you say "Is it raining?" and I say "No, not really anyway" and you respond "What does that mean? is it raining or not?" then I say "A light mist is falling from the sky" to which you say "Maybe we should wait for it to stop"
Guess what imaginary person!? I have places to be before 3 days from now when the sun will come out for five minutes. Shut the fuck up and lets roll you aren't the wicked witch, you aren't the alien from that god awful Shyamalan film where mel gibson plays a preacher turned atheist who gets his faith back! you're gonna get slightly damp, too bad we never invented indoor heating or laundry up in the pacific north west.
Understand that we native Seattlites have skin too. We can tell water is falling from the sky, oh well it's gonna be that way for a while. You bitching about it annoys us in the same way a repost of an image macro bitching about all the reposts annoys redditors.
**3)** You bitch about the "Seattle Freeze" you can often get away with it because a lot of people are also non-natives like yourself. However imagine if I went to your hometown (I will be calling it amiseville) and kept saying "Man it's hard to make friends here everyone is so cold, they won't make eye contact, sometimes they act like they aren't even aware of me. Guess what they call them 'Amiseville Autistics'"
It's generally good taste to avoid stereotypes of the people who live in the area where you are trying to make new friends. I wouldn't go to Texas and ask why everyone there was a racist fuck who was pro death penalty, and wanted to fuck their siblings (because it's not true and while douchebags would agree with me and think I was funny many people would realize that Texas like every other place on earth has dumb asses and smart people.)
Now, any fucking questions? Something other than "WHY ARE SEATTLE PEOPLE SO HARD TO BEFRIEND?" unless you are going to provide specific fucking examples.
**TL;DR** I respond to your stereotype of the people in a geographic area with my stereotypes of people who aren't from that geographic area. If you only read one read three. | As a native to the great state of Washington here is why we hate outsiders.
1) You have umbrellas, they look silly, they don't work well in the wind, they take up precious sidewalk space, and in 21 years of existence I have been hit by at least 4 flying umbrellas that I remember. Theres this thing called wind and it likes to ruin your shit, get a water proof jacket, or a set of testicles and flannel shirt.
2) You bitch about the rain on days when I would say "Oh hey lets walk to wherever it's not really raining". Seriously. It gets on my fucking nerves. I can always tell you aren't from around here when you say "Is it raining?" and I say "No, not really anyway" and you respond "What does that mean? is it raining or not?" then I say "A light mist is falling from the sky" to which you say "Maybe we should wait for it to stop"
Guess what imaginary person!? I have places to be before 3 days from now when the sun will come out for five minutes. Shut the fuck up and lets roll you aren't the wicked witch, you aren't the alien from that god awful Shyamalan film where mel gibson plays a preacher turned atheist who gets his faith back! you're gonna get slightly damp, too bad we never invented indoor heating or laundry up in the pacific north west.
Understand that we native Seattlites have skin too. We can tell water is falling from the sky, oh well it's gonna be that way for a while. You bitching about it annoys us in the same way a repost of an image macro bitching about all the reposts annoys redditors.
3) You bitch about the "Seattle Freeze" you can often get away with it because a lot of people are also non-natives like yourself. However imagine if I went to your hometown (I will be calling it amiseville) and kept saying "Man it's hard to make friends here everyone is so cold, they won't make eye contact, sometimes they act like they aren't even aware of me. Guess what they call them 'Amiseville Autistics'"
It's generally good taste to avoid stereotypes of the people who live in the area where you are trying to make new friends. I wouldn't go to Texas and ask why everyone there was a racist fuck who was pro death penalty, and wanted to fuck their siblings (because it's not true and while douchebags would agree with me and think I was funny many people would realize that Texas like every other place on earth has dumb asses and smart people.)
Now, any fucking questions? Something other than "WHY ARE SEATTLE PEOPLE SO HARD TO BEFRIEND?" unless you are going to provide specific fucking examples.
TL;DR I respond to your stereotype of the people in a geographic area with my stereotypes of people who aren't from that geographic area. If you only read one read three.
| Seattle | t5_2qhad | c1dj4li | As a native to the great state of Washington here is why we hate outsiders.
1) You have umbrellas, they look silly, they don't work well in the wind, they take up precious sidewalk space, and in 21 years of existence I have been hit by at least 4 flying umbrellas that I remember. Theres this thing called wind and it likes to ruin your shit, get a water proof jacket, or a set of testicles and flannel shirt.
2) You bitch about the rain on days when I would say "Oh hey lets walk to wherever it's not really raining". Seriously. It gets on my fucking nerves. I can always tell you aren't from around here when you say "Is it raining?" and I say "No, not really anyway" and you respond "What does that mean? is it raining or not?" then I say "A light mist is falling from the sky" to which you say "Maybe we should wait for it to stop"
Guess what imaginary person!? I have places to be before 3 days from now when the sun will come out for five minutes. Shut the fuck up and lets roll you aren't the wicked witch, you aren't the alien from that god awful Shyamalan film where mel gibson plays a preacher turned atheist who gets his faith back! you're gonna get slightly damp, too bad we never invented indoor heating or laundry up in the pacific north west.
Understand that we native Seattlites have skin too. We can tell water is falling from the sky, oh well it's gonna be that way for a while. You bitching about it annoys us in the same way a repost of an image macro bitching about all the reposts annoys redditors.
3) You bitch about the "Seattle Freeze" you can often get away with it because a lot of people are also non-natives like yourself. However imagine if I went to your hometown (I will be calling it amiseville) and kept saying "Man it's hard to make friends here everyone is so cold, they won't make eye contact, sometimes they act like they aren't even aware of me. Guess what they call them 'Amiseville Autistics'"
It's generally good taste to avoid stereotypes of the people who live in the area where you are trying to make new friends. I wouldn't go to Texas and ask why everyone there was a racist fuck who was pro death penalty, and wanted to fuck their siblings (because it's not true and while douchebags would agree with me and think I was funny many people would realize that Texas like every other place on earth has dumb asses and smart people.)
Now, any fucking questions? Something other than "WHY ARE SEATTLE PEOPLE SO HARD TO BEFRIEND?" unless you are going to provide specific fucking examples. | I respond to your stereotype of the people in a geographic area with my stereotypes of people who aren't from that geographic area. If you only read one read three. |
brodiemanthe1st | personally, i think that as a city, Seattle is:
* tech heavy and therefore less face-to-face
* in a wetter and chillier region therefore more inside living
* more left-y and so therefore less IN YO FACE
* has crappy traffic and parking, so people stay put more
but thats just me. and im also a transplant who never had problems meeting people once i stopped trying to meet people the same as when i lived elsewhere.
**TL;DR**: different places require different approaches. | personally, i think that as a city, Seattle is:
tech heavy and therefore less face-to-face
in a wetter and chillier region therefore more inside living
more left-y and so therefore less IN YO FACE
has crappy traffic and parking, so people stay put more
but thats just me. and im also a transplant who never had problems meeting people once i stopped trying to meet people the same as when i lived elsewhere.
TL;DR : different places require different approaches.
| Seattle | t5_2qhad | c1djhyb | personally, i think that as a city, Seattle is:
tech heavy and therefore less face-to-face
in a wetter and chillier region therefore more inside living
more left-y and so therefore less IN YO FACE
has crappy traffic and parking, so people stay put more
but thats just me. and im also a transplant who never had problems meeting people once i stopped trying to meet people the same as when i lived elsewhere. | different places require different approaches. |
UnfortunatelyMacabre | Take this with a grain of salt.
Each Believer can interpret this differently, so I will share a quick overview of my beliefs. You may make your own decision.
This falls under the catagory of ways that Christians believe they can "Lose" their faith. I personally don't believe you can. I believe when you read this verse, the reference isn't that if you deny God as your savior that you'll be forgotten by God, it's that if you deny God, you probably just aren't save. It's a way God gives us to discern between people who claim to be Christians and those who don't.
In the same way, there are references to sins that the Bible frequently gives a standard "If you do this, you are not saved." That should be taken very carefully. You can still sin and be saved, it's the people who do them, do not repent, and continue in the sin with no remorse. The Bible is saying that those people just weren't saved in the first place. I interpret those things as guiders God gives us to discern between true believers and wolves in sheeps clothing.
TL;DR - You don't have to worry about losing your salvation because you don't run out and tell everyone right now. Just start learning how to be strong in your faith. Speaking out comes with strength. | Take this with a grain of salt.
Each Believer can interpret this differently, so I will share a quick overview of my beliefs. You may make your own decision.
This falls under the catagory of ways that Christians believe they can "Lose" their faith. I personally don't believe you can. I believe when you read this verse, the reference isn't that if you deny God as your savior that you'll be forgotten by God, it's that if you deny God, you probably just aren't save. It's a way God gives us to discern between people who claim to be Christians and those who don't.
In the same way, there are references to sins that the Bible frequently gives a standard "If you do this, you are not saved." That should be taken very carefully. You can still sin and be saved, it's the people who do them, do not repent, and continue in the sin with no remorse. The Bible is saying that those people just weren't saved in the first place. I interpret those things as guiders God gives us to discern between true believers and wolves in sheeps clothing.
TL;DR - You don't have to worry about losing your salvation because you don't run out and tell everyone right now. Just start learning how to be strong in your faith. Speaking out comes with strength.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | c1dk558 | Take this with a grain of salt.
Each Believer can interpret this differently, so I will share a quick overview of my beliefs. You may make your own decision.
This falls under the catagory of ways that Christians believe they can "Lose" their faith. I personally don't believe you can. I believe when you read this verse, the reference isn't that if you deny God as your savior that you'll be forgotten by God, it's that if you deny God, you probably just aren't save. It's a way God gives us to discern between people who claim to be Christians and those who don't.
In the same way, there are references to sins that the Bible frequently gives a standard "If you do this, you are not saved." That should be taken very carefully. You can still sin and be saved, it's the people who do them, do not repent, and continue in the sin with no remorse. The Bible is saying that those people just weren't saved in the first place. I interpret those things as guiders God gives us to discern between true believers and wolves in sheeps clothing. | You don't have to worry about losing your salvation because you don't run out and tell everyone right now. Just start learning how to be strong in your faith. Speaking out comes with strength. |
brianbrianbrian | I am an atheist, and I will start by saying that I don't despise Christians, I despise Christians who use God as an excuse to be horrible to other people and not take any blame for it.
You've obviously put a lot of thought into it, and I hope your family and friends surprise you with their acceptance. Some of my greatest friends have been extremely religious, and while I don't agree with them, I can see how religion has helped them in good times and bad, and they have never wavered in their kindness to others.
tl;dr - Atheist wishes you well on your journey of self-improvement. | I am an atheist, and I will start by saying that I don't despise Christians, I despise Christians who use God as an excuse to be horrible to other people and not take any blame for it.
You've obviously put a lot of thought into it, and I hope your family and friends surprise you with their acceptance. Some of my greatest friends have been extremely religious, and while I don't agree with them, I can see how religion has helped them in good times and bad, and they have never wavered in their kindness to others.
tl;dr - Atheist wishes you well on your journey of self-improvement.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | c1dkbd4 | I am an atheist, and I will start by saying that I don't despise Christians, I despise Christians who use God as an excuse to be horrible to other people and not take any blame for it.
You've obviously put a lot of thought into it, and I hope your family and friends surprise you with their acceptance. Some of my greatest friends have been extremely religious, and while I don't agree with them, I can see how religion has helped them in good times and bad, and they have never wavered in their kindness to others. | Atheist wishes you well on your journey of self-improvement. |
cjazz108 | Hey, its nice to hear. I'm struggling with that acknowledgement myself I think.
I feel as if I've been moving towards that conclusion almost against my better judgement :-) I've recently realized that its really hard to talk about, and come out as Christian - as its not the intellectually cool way to be.
I'm going to piggy back if that's okay and tell my version of what's happening for me. I was brought up Buddhist, science based, and through growing and working on myself started to see the actions and the words differently. Basically I came to a point where I did something that wasn't exactly my fault - but was undeniably bad because I hurt someone. I just had this feeling of "forgiveness" that was apart from anything that I'd felt before - like something that I couldn't explain to others but, I allowed myself to just "be forgiven", without any explanation, or negotiation with my conscience.
I still consider myself to be very open minded, but I have more respect for open minded christians also, in that every person who considers themselves a christian - is on a path, is looking and searching how to make themselves better, and that I respect and am completely okay honoring.
Personally I'm not completely clear on how I interpret the bible yet - and kinda think that being an athiest is allowable as a christian from everything that I read, although I do feel drawn to appreciating a purpose and greater consciousness that I allow myself to name god.
All that being said - I also understand your understanding of athiesm - as I was told many times I was going to hell because of my Buddhist beliefs as a kid. I know I still have some hurt and anger and resentment to work on regarding that - which is why acknowledging my own Christian leanings is so difficult.
I guess the thing that I feel the most encouraged by, is that reading and learning and understanding the teachings of "the messiah" is just as complex and interesting as understanding the dual nature of consciousness to me as spoken by Buddhist teachers. I don't think I could give that knowledge up even if I tried, but adding real forgiveness is amazing too, and something I do need faith to have.
I have to have faith that I am meant to be forgiven, I basically have to have faith that I am a good person - and deserve forgiveness, especially in the times I don't feel that way. It always comes to pass that my faith is well founded, but there are many times where I can't do anything except believe it to be true - before it comes to pass.
Anyway. Sorry - don't mean to hijack your thread.
TL;DR; Thanks, me too. | Hey, its nice to hear. I'm struggling with that acknowledgement myself I think.
I feel as if I've been moving towards that conclusion almost against my better judgement :-) I've recently realized that its really hard to talk about, and come out as Christian - as its not the intellectually cool way to be.
I'm going to piggy back if that's okay and tell my version of what's happening for me. I was brought up Buddhist, science based, and through growing and working on myself started to see the actions and the words differently. Basically I came to a point where I did something that wasn't exactly my fault - but was undeniably bad because I hurt someone. I just had this feeling of "forgiveness" that was apart from anything that I'd felt before - like something that I couldn't explain to others but, I allowed myself to just "be forgiven", without any explanation, or negotiation with my conscience.
I still consider myself to be very open minded, but I have more respect for open minded christians also, in that every person who considers themselves a christian - is on a path, is looking and searching how to make themselves better, and that I respect and am completely okay honoring.
Personally I'm not completely clear on how I interpret the bible yet - and kinda think that being an athiest is allowable as a christian from everything that I read, although I do feel drawn to appreciating a purpose and greater consciousness that I allow myself to name god.
All that being said - I also understand your understanding of athiesm - as I was told many times I was going to hell because of my Buddhist beliefs as a kid. I know I still have some hurt and anger and resentment to work on regarding that - which is why acknowledging my own Christian leanings is so difficult.
I guess the thing that I feel the most encouraged by, is that reading and learning and understanding the teachings of "the messiah" is just as complex and interesting as understanding the dual nature of consciousness to me as spoken by Buddhist teachers. I don't think I could give that knowledge up even if I tried, but adding real forgiveness is amazing too, and something I do need faith to have.
I have to have faith that I am meant to be forgiven, I basically have to have faith that I am a good person - and deserve forgiveness, especially in the times I don't feel that way. It always comes to pass that my faith is well founded, but there are many times where I can't do anything except believe it to be true - before it comes to pass.
Anyway. Sorry - don't mean to hijack your thread.
TL;DR; Thanks, me too.
| Christianity | t5_2qh6c | c1do2p2 | Hey, its nice to hear. I'm struggling with that acknowledgement myself I think.
I feel as if I've been moving towards that conclusion almost against my better judgement :-) I've recently realized that its really hard to talk about, and come out as Christian - as its not the intellectually cool way to be.
I'm going to piggy back if that's okay and tell my version of what's happening for me. I was brought up Buddhist, science based, and through growing and working on myself started to see the actions and the words differently. Basically I came to a point where I did something that wasn't exactly my fault - but was undeniably bad because I hurt someone. I just had this feeling of "forgiveness" that was apart from anything that I'd felt before - like something that I couldn't explain to others but, I allowed myself to just "be forgiven", without any explanation, or negotiation with my conscience.
I still consider myself to be very open minded, but I have more respect for open minded christians also, in that every person who considers themselves a christian - is on a path, is looking and searching how to make themselves better, and that I respect and am completely okay honoring.
Personally I'm not completely clear on how I interpret the bible yet - and kinda think that being an athiest is allowable as a christian from everything that I read, although I do feel drawn to appreciating a purpose and greater consciousness that I allow myself to name god.
All that being said - I also understand your understanding of athiesm - as I was told many times I was going to hell because of my Buddhist beliefs as a kid. I know I still have some hurt and anger and resentment to work on regarding that - which is why acknowledging my own Christian leanings is so difficult.
I guess the thing that I feel the most encouraged by, is that reading and learning and understanding the teachings of "the messiah" is just as complex and interesting as understanding the dual nature of consciousness to me as spoken by Buddhist teachers. I don't think I could give that knowledge up even if I tried, but adding real forgiveness is amazing too, and something I do need faith to have.
I have to have faith that I am meant to be forgiven, I basically have to have faith that I am a good person - and deserve forgiveness, especially in the times I don't feel that way. It always comes to pass that my faith is well founded, but there are many times where I can't do anything except believe it to be true - before it comes to pass.
Anyway. Sorry - don't mean to hijack your thread. | Thanks, me too. |
braveliltoaster1 | I see your Sky blue sky and raise you one impossible Germany
Seen them live twice. Both times were amazing. And saw Tweedy on his solo tour. He has a hilarious on stage persona. He jokes between songs and is incredibly honest. Favorite moment had to be on his solo tour. In between songs people would shout requests for songs at one point it got quiet and one person coudl be heard yelling:
"Is that the thanks i get?"
Jeff responded with "I dunno, maybe?"
Everyone laughed and he said "honestly if that is one of my songs, i'm sorry I forget the names all the time." About two songs later he glanced at his set list and said "oh the thanks I get, is one of my songs and its on my set list." He played it a few songs later.
tl;dr - I have a wilco obsession, tweedy is funny on stage. | I see your Sky blue sky and raise you one impossible Germany
Seen them live twice. Both times were amazing. And saw Tweedy on his solo tour. He has a hilarious on stage persona. He jokes between songs and is incredibly honest. Favorite moment had to be on his solo tour. In between songs people would shout requests for songs at one point it got quiet and one person coudl be heard yelling:
"Is that the thanks i get?"
Jeff responded with "I dunno, maybe?"
Everyone laughed and he said "honestly if that is one of my songs, i'm sorry I forget the names all the time." About two songs later he glanced at his set list and said "oh the thanks I get, is one of my songs and its on my set list." He played it a few songs later.
tl;dr - I have a wilco obsession, tweedy is funny on stage.
| Music | t5_2qh1u | c1dqt1l | I see your Sky blue sky and raise you one impossible Germany
Seen them live twice. Both times were amazing. And saw Tweedy on his solo tour. He has a hilarious on stage persona. He jokes between songs and is incredibly honest. Favorite moment had to be on his solo tour. In between songs people would shout requests for songs at one point it got quiet and one person coudl be heard yelling:
"Is that the thanks i get?"
Jeff responded with "I dunno, maybe?"
Everyone laughed and he said "honestly if that is one of my songs, i'm sorry I forget the names all the time." About two songs later he glanced at his set list and said "oh the thanks I get, is one of my songs and its on my set list." He played it a few songs later. | I have a wilco obsession, tweedy is funny on stage. |
He_Himself | The worst is when some asshat accuses you of scamming because you don't take their offer. I had some kid who added me off of r/tf2items the other day, who wanted to trade for my Dapper Topper. I wish that I saved the convo for posterity, but it consisted mainly of him offering me an Ellis hat, me saying no, him bumping it to the generous offer of 1 refined "because he neeeeeeeedsssss this hat for his main class", me saying no again, him bawwwing in chat for a few minutes before he asked me what I traded for it in the first place. I answered honestly and said that I met one guy who had purchased an ungodly amount of Gentlemann's Business Pants and Salmon paint, thinking that the price would skyrocket, only to be stuck with something nobody wants. He sold me 2 of them for a reclaimed and some of the new weapons (we both acknowledged how bad a deal it was, but he wanted to recoup losses). I then traded the paint and a reclaimed for the hat. The kid then removes his refined, puts in a Natascha and a crate, and says "OK, now you can make up for being a SCAMMER", spams SCAMMER into the trade and general chat, and when I disconnect him, keeps on doing it until kicked.
tl;dr
Hats are srs bsnss, and not agreeing to every trade makes you a bad person. | The worst is when some asshat accuses you of scamming because you don't take their offer. I had some kid who added me off of r/tf2items the other day, who wanted to trade for my Dapper Topper. I wish that I saved the convo for posterity, but it consisted mainly of him offering me an Ellis hat, me saying no, him bumping it to the generous offer of 1 refined "because he neeeeeeeedsssss this hat for his main class", me saying no again, him bawwwing in chat for a few minutes before he asked me what I traded for it in the first place. I answered honestly and said that I met one guy who had purchased an ungodly amount of Gentlemann's Business Pants and Salmon paint, thinking that the price would skyrocket, only to be stuck with something nobody wants. He sold me 2 of them for a reclaimed and some of the new weapons (we both acknowledged how bad a deal it was, but he wanted to recoup losses). I then traded the paint and a reclaimed for the hat. The kid then removes his refined, puts in a Natascha and a crate, and says "OK, now you can make up for being a SCAMMER", spams SCAMMER into the trade and general chat, and when I disconnect him, keeps on doing it until kicked.
tl;dr
Hats are srs bsnss, and not agreeing to every trade makes you a bad person.
| tf2 | t5_2qka0 | c1duxdh | The worst is when some asshat accuses you of scamming because you don't take their offer. I had some kid who added me off of r/tf2items the other day, who wanted to trade for my Dapper Topper. I wish that I saved the convo for posterity, but it consisted mainly of him offering me an Ellis hat, me saying no, him bumping it to the generous offer of 1 refined "because he neeeeeeeedsssss this hat for his main class", me saying no again, him bawwwing in chat for a few minutes before he asked me what I traded for it in the first place. I answered honestly and said that I met one guy who had purchased an ungodly amount of Gentlemann's Business Pants and Salmon paint, thinking that the price would skyrocket, only to be stuck with something nobody wants. He sold me 2 of them for a reclaimed and some of the new weapons (we both acknowledged how bad a deal it was, but he wanted to recoup losses). I then traded the paint and a reclaimed for the hat. The kid then removes his refined, puts in a Natascha and a crate, and says "OK, now you can make up for being a SCAMMER", spams SCAMMER into the trade and general chat, and when I disconnect him, keeps on doing it until kicked. | Hats are srs bsnss, and not agreeing to every trade makes you a bad person. |
dorbin2010 | Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see a problem with the lack of LAN play. I just go onto battle.net and meet all my friends in a private room and game on with little to no lag.
Six years ago I might have given a damn, but all of my friends have dispersed to different areas of the country. Even when we're all together, if we want to play SC2 it comes down to the extra step of having internet, and we've all had broadband since the late 90's.
TL;DR - The idea of boycotting based on a lack of LAN play is kind of silly given the invention of..the internet. | Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see a problem with the lack of LAN play. I just go onto battle.net and meet all my friends in a private room and game on with little to no lag.
Six years ago I might have given a damn, but all of my friends have dispersed to different areas of the country. Even when we're all together, if we want to play SC2 it comes down to the extra step of having internet, and we've all had broadband since the late 90's.
TL;DR - The idea of boycotting based on a lack of LAN play is kind of silly given the invention of..the internet.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c1dy1ry | Maybe it's just me, but I don't really see a problem with the lack of LAN play. I just go onto battle.net and meet all my friends in a private room and game on with little to no lag.
Six years ago I might have given a damn, but all of my friends have dispersed to different areas of the country. Even when we're all together, if we want to play SC2 it comes down to the extra step of having internet, and we've all had broadband since the late 90's. | The idea of boycotting based on a lack of LAN play is kind of silly given the invention of..the internet. |
AJarOfAlmonds | Depending on your ISP, (internet service provider, e.g. Cablevision, Verizon, etc.) the outside world probably only sees one IP address for your entire house. What a home router does is give your home computers different local IP address, so that traffic doesn't collide. Jagex (and the rest of the internet for that matter) are only able to see your external IP address. If there were many people in the same house who all played RuneScape, that's all perfectly fine in Jagex's eyes. We conclude that Jagex must be willing to accept multiple accounts signed on using the same IP address. Otherwise, they'd have to limit accounts to one per household, which is certainly not fair.
You can use a proxy if it will make you feel any better, but it would make no difference as Jagex sees it.
TL;DR: Jagex only sees one IP for your whole house, you don't need to use another computer or even a proxy. | Depending on your ISP, (internet service provider, e.g. Cablevision, Verizon, etc.) the outside world probably only sees one IP address for your entire house. What a home router does is give your home computers different local IP address, so that traffic doesn't collide. Jagex (and the rest of the internet for that matter) are only able to see your external IP address. If there were many people in the same house who all played RuneScape, that's all perfectly fine in Jagex's eyes. We conclude that Jagex must be willing to accept multiple accounts signed on using the same IP address. Otherwise, they'd have to limit accounts to one per household, which is certainly not fair.
You can use a proxy if it will make you feel any better, but it would make no difference as Jagex sees it.
TL;DR: Jagex only sees one IP for your whole house, you don't need to use another computer or even a proxy.
| runescape | t5_2qwxl | c1e6k3a | Depending on your ISP, (internet service provider, e.g. Cablevision, Verizon, etc.) the outside world probably only sees one IP address for your entire house. What a home router does is give your home computers different local IP address, so that traffic doesn't collide. Jagex (and the rest of the internet for that matter) are only able to see your external IP address. If there were many people in the same house who all played RuneScape, that's all perfectly fine in Jagex's eyes. We conclude that Jagex must be willing to accept multiple accounts signed on using the same IP address. Otherwise, they'd have to limit accounts to one per household, which is certainly not fair.
You can use a proxy if it will make you feel any better, but it would make no difference as Jagex sees it. | Jagex only sees one IP for your whole house, you don't need to use another computer or even a proxy. |
Zkdog | She should be exhaling through her nose when she is under water and inhaling through her mouth. This keeps all water out of your nose. Air coming out = no water coming in.
TL;DR - I spent way too many years teaching swimming. | She should be exhaling through her nose when she is under water and inhaling through her mouth. This keeps all water out of your nose. Air coming out = no water coming in.
TL;DR - I spent way too many years teaching swimming.
| fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu | t5_2qqlo | c1e5ydz | She should be exhaling through her nose when she is under water and inhaling through her mouth. This keeps all water out of your nose. Air coming out = no water coming in. | I spent way too many years teaching swimming. |
silverhydra | You are looking at an encyclopedia for bodybuilding. Aside from making a statement which cannot be proven (too many factors come into play when it comes to muscle repair rates), you are not doing a bodybuilding routine. You are doing a strength routine. There is a world of difference in volume for those two routines.
It's good you don't want to injure yourself, but it's not like you will go to the gym one day and snap in half. If your muscles are not fully recovered they will slowly nag you, your lifts will stop progressing, and then you should rest accordingly. Until you get to the point where your lifts stall and you actually start hurting outside workouts, just push through.
Tl;Dr. The facts you are reading are not facts, just an opinion. | You are looking at an encyclopedia for bodybuilding. Aside from making a statement which cannot be proven (too many factors come into play when it comes to muscle repair rates), you are not doing a bodybuilding routine. You are doing a strength routine. There is a world of difference in volume for those two routines.
It's good you don't want to injure yourself, but it's not like you will go to the gym one day and snap in half. If your muscles are not fully recovered they will slowly nag you, your lifts will stop progressing, and then you should rest accordingly. Until you get to the point where your lifts stall and you actually start hurting outside workouts, just push through.
Tl;Dr. The facts you are reading are not facts, just an opinion.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | c1echuq | You are looking at an encyclopedia for bodybuilding. Aside from making a statement which cannot be proven (too many factors come into play when it comes to muscle repair rates), you are not doing a bodybuilding routine. You are doing a strength routine. There is a world of difference in volume for those two routines.
It's good you don't want to injure yourself, but it's not like you will go to the gym one day and snap in half. If your muscles are not fully recovered they will slowly nag you, your lifts will stop progressing, and then you should rest accordingly. Until you get to the point where your lifts stall and you actually start hurting outside workouts, just push through. | The facts you are reading are not facts, just an opinion. |
nobleexperiment | I blame the NBA on ABC/ESPN for the lack of excitement that makes the NBA boring. I know the NBA on TNT is great, but in the NBA's heyday of the 90s, NBC loved to hype MJ, Showtime in the early Lakers dynasty of the 2000s and the Knicks/Heat rivalry. The NBA on NBC was without a doubt the best coverage that made the NBA exciting making basketball fans out of casual fans.
You know, I'm a Lakers fan and what excites me the most over the past 5 years is not the Lakers vs. whatever team they face against. I'm really, really liking the NHL. The NHL has held steady for the past 15 years, but if Gary Betteman is smart to hold it's contract with NBC til the NBA's TV contracts end with ABC/ESPN in 2017, I think the NHL will overtake the NBA in ratings.
An another perspective is being a spectator at the game. The Clippers and Lakers games at Staples have been as exciting as watching paint thinner smell like pine sol. It gets boring until the last three minutes or if one team is winning by 20 points. At that point, I'm out to the club or the bar. I've gone to Anaheim Ducks games for the past 5 years and I've never had this much fun at a sporting event to watch in a while.
tl;dr - Blame ABC/ESPN and enjoy Hockey. | I blame the NBA on ABC/ESPN for the lack of excitement that makes the NBA boring. I know the NBA on TNT is great, but in the NBA's heyday of the 90s, NBC loved to hype MJ, Showtime in the early Lakers dynasty of the 2000s and the Knicks/Heat rivalry. The NBA on NBC was without a doubt the best coverage that made the NBA exciting making basketball fans out of casual fans.
You know, I'm a Lakers fan and what excites me the most over the past 5 years is not the Lakers vs. whatever team they face against. I'm really, really liking the NHL. The NHL has held steady for the past 15 years, but if Gary Betteman is smart to hold it's contract with NBC til the NBA's TV contracts end with ABC/ESPN in 2017, I think the NHL will overtake the NBA in ratings.
An another perspective is being a spectator at the game. The Clippers and Lakers games at Staples have been as exciting as watching paint thinner smell like pine sol. It gets boring until the last three minutes or if one team is winning by 20 points. At that point, I'm out to the club or the bar. I've gone to Anaheim Ducks games for the past 5 years and I've never had this much fun at a sporting event to watch in a while.
tl;dr - Blame ABC/ESPN and enjoy Hockey.
| sports | t5_2qgzy | c1edhy0 | I blame the NBA on ABC/ESPN for the lack of excitement that makes the NBA boring. I know the NBA on TNT is great, but in the NBA's heyday of the 90s, NBC loved to hype MJ, Showtime in the early Lakers dynasty of the 2000s and the Knicks/Heat rivalry. The NBA on NBC was without a doubt the best coverage that made the NBA exciting making basketball fans out of casual fans.
You know, I'm a Lakers fan and what excites me the most over the past 5 years is not the Lakers vs. whatever team they face against. I'm really, really liking the NHL. The NHL has held steady for the past 15 years, but if Gary Betteman is smart to hold it's contract with NBC til the NBA's TV contracts end with ABC/ESPN in 2017, I think the NHL will overtake the NBA in ratings.
An another perspective is being a spectator at the game. The Clippers and Lakers games at Staples have been as exciting as watching paint thinner smell like pine sol. It gets boring until the last three minutes or if one team is winning by 20 points. At that point, I'm out to the club or the bar. I've gone to Anaheim Ducks games for the past 5 years and I've never had this much fun at a sporting event to watch in a while. | Blame ABC/ESPN and enjoy Hockey. |
Deanglow | I agree; the NBA is as exciting today as it was in the 90s but not because of the "gaykers" or cool shoes. The league hit a lull in the late 90s and early 2000s when Jordan retired and people got tired of seeing the Lakers and Spurs win every damn championship series virtually uncontested.
The league is also way more stacked than it used to be. There are just a ton of superstars: Lebron, Durant, Dwight, Wade, Kobe, Gasol, D-West, Boozer, Westbrook, Paul, Nash, Bosh, D-Williams, Rose, Melo, Amar'e, Dirk, Blake, Love, and pretty much the entire Celtics and Spurs starting 5.
Almost every single team has a reason to watch. Sacramento has Tyreke, Cousins, Udrih, Landry. GSW has Monta, Curry, and Wright. Before injuries, Cleveland's Verejao, Moe, and Powe made them watchable. Memphis is rolling out Randolph, Gay, Conley, Marc Gasol, with OJ Mayo and T Allen coming off the bench and will probably miss the playoffs. Wat
tldr; A lot more great teams and players | I agree; the NBA is as exciting today as it was in the 90s but not because of the "gaykers" or cool shoes. The league hit a lull in the late 90s and early 2000s when Jordan retired and people got tired of seeing the Lakers and Spurs win every damn championship series virtually uncontested.
The league is also way more stacked than it used to be. There are just a ton of superstars: Lebron, Durant, Dwight, Wade, Kobe, Gasol, D-West, Boozer, Westbrook, Paul, Nash, Bosh, D-Williams, Rose, Melo, Amar'e, Dirk, Blake, Love, and pretty much the entire Celtics and Spurs starting 5.
Almost every single team has a reason to watch. Sacramento has Tyreke, Cousins, Udrih, Landry. GSW has Monta, Curry, and Wright. Before injuries, Cleveland's Verejao, Moe, and Powe made them watchable. Memphis is rolling out Randolph, Gay, Conley, Marc Gasol, with OJ Mayo and T Allen coming off the bench and will probably miss the playoffs. Wat
tldr; A lot more great teams and players
| sports | t5_2qgzy | c1ed9fy | I agree; the NBA is as exciting today as it was in the 90s but not because of the "gaykers" or cool shoes. The league hit a lull in the late 90s and early 2000s when Jordan retired and people got tired of seeing the Lakers and Spurs win every damn championship series virtually uncontested.
The league is also way more stacked than it used to be. There are just a ton of superstars: Lebron, Durant, Dwight, Wade, Kobe, Gasol, D-West, Boozer, Westbrook, Paul, Nash, Bosh, D-Williams, Rose, Melo, Amar'e, Dirk, Blake, Love, and pretty much the entire Celtics and Spurs starting 5.
Almost every single team has a reason to watch. Sacramento has Tyreke, Cousins, Udrih, Landry. GSW has Monta, Curry, and Wright. Before injuries, Cleveland's Verejao, Moe, and Powe made them watchable. Memphis is rolling out Randolph, Gay, Conley, Marc Gasol, with OJ Mayo and T Allen coming off the bench and will probably miss the playoffs. Wat | A lot more great teams and players |
eyeothemastodon | This is a great question, and I'd have to say it was a build up for me, with some nights having bigger steps than others. What's unique about the CYC material is that it teaches you ways of creating your own group by way of activities, parties, and campus life. You learn how to become and maintain alpha status with the group and inspiring people to come to you whenever they want to have some fun. The bar scene at college is different than any other bar scene in that because of how tight the social environment is at college, the entire bar must be considered a single set. Because of this, going out to the bars is not a good way to *try* to meet women, it is a lot better to think of bar hopping to be an activity that you and your friends do. You go out and have fun, and in college, the people that do this are sought out. The women will come to you, through introductions, through proximity, and through curiosity. Also, your social calendar will start to fill up as you attract connected people and you are invited to events and parties.
I realize that I didn't directly answer your question, since I don't see the bar scene as a large portion of my game. I actually much prefer house parties, much more intimate since everybody *has* to be connected to be there. However, what really clicked at the bar scene for me was when I shed all approach anxiety. If a girl gives me any IOI, its now a reflex to smile and say hello. If I see something that I think is crazy, I don't tell my friend 15 feet away, I tell the most interesting looking person right next to me, and if its a hot girl, I'm all the more excited to let her know. Basically, you want to talk to everyone in the bar as if they're part of your set; because in college, this is the truth.
I had a real stroke of luck very early in learning game that taught me some of the most important facets of bar game in college, especially in respect to social proof. Coincidentally, this was another 21st birthday party, and I went with a yet another large group of girls, of which I knew about 5 or 6 of them. I wasn't just drinking that night either, I was trying for the first time partying on aderall, which for those who are familiar, can make you really chatty and sociable. [ I strongly urge you NOT to use drugs to improve your game. Not even alcohol. My rule of thumb for drinks is 2 an hour, any more and my game suffers ] So with the drinks, the drugs, the large group of friends I was with, I had a lot of people to talk to, and soon enough I just started going through the entire bar talking to every set whether I knew them or not. I was having a blast and it was noticeable to anyone watching. As the bar was approaching close, I slowed my roll and was standing chatting one on one with my roommate and best friend. While we were talking, someone taps me on the shoulder and I turn around to see two good looking girls, a shorter smiley blonde, and a tall shy swede. I could tell instantly that they were even a little nervous to be talking to me, but I was real excited to meet them. It took them less than 5 minutes to ask my roommate and me to go back to their place with them, and if I asked you to use your imagination for the rest of the story, you probably wouldn't be too far off. ;-)
So TLDR; the entire bar is one single set when you're in the college environment, and if you can get enough of the set to like you, game isn't work any more. | This is a great question, and I'd have to say it was a build up for me, with some nights having bigger steps than others. What's unique about the CYC material is that it teaches you ways of creating your own group by way of activities, parties, and campus life. You learn how to become and maintain alpha status with the group and inspiring people to come to you whenever they want to have some fun. The bar scene at college is different than any other bar scene in that because of how tight the social environment is at college, the entire bar must be considered a single set. Because of this, going out to the bars is not a good way to try to meet women, it is a lot better to think of bar hopping to be an activity that you and your friends do. You go out and have fun, and in college, the people that do this are sought out. The women will come to you, through introductions, through proximity, and through curiosity. Also, your social calendar will start to fill up as you attract connected people and you are invited to events and parties.
I realize that I didn't directly answer your question, since I don't see the bar scene as a large portion of my game. I actually much prefer house parties, much more intimate since everybody has to be connected to be there. However, what really clicked at the bar scene for me was when I shed all approach anxiety. If a girl gives me any IOI, its now a reflex to smile and say hello. If I see something that I think is crazy, I don't tell my friend 15 feet away, I tell the most interesting looking person right next to me, and if its a hot girl, I'm all the more excited to let her know. Basically, you want to talk to everyone in the bar as if they're part of your set; because in college, this is the truth.
I had a real stroke of luck very early in learning game that taught me some of the most important facets of bar game in college, especially in respect to social proof. Coincidentally, this was another 21st birthday party, and I went with a yet another large group of girls, of which I knew about 5 or 6 of them. I wasn't just drinking that night either, I was trying for the first time partying on aderall, which for those who are familiar, can make you really chatty and sociable. [ I strongly urge you NOT to use drugs to improve your game. Not even alcohol. My rule of thumb for drinks is 2 an hour, any more and my game suffers ] So with the drinks, the drugs, the large group of friends I was with, I had a lot of people to talk to, and soon enough I just started going through the entire bar talking to every set whether I knew them or not. I was having a blast and it was noticeable to anyone watching. As the bar was approaching close, I slowed my roll and was standing chatting one on one with my roommate and best friend. While we were talking, someone taps me on the shoulder and I turn around to see two good looking girls, a shorter smiley blonde, and a tall shy swede. I could tell instantly that they were even a little nervous to be talking to me, but I was real excited to meet them. It took them less than 5 minutes to ask my roommate and me to go back to their place with them, and if I asked you to use your imagination for the rest of the story, you probably wouldn't be too far off. ;-)
So TLDR; the entire bar is one single set when you're in the college environment, and if you can get enough of the set to like you, game isn't work any more.
| seduction | t5_2qhrv | c1esxcs | This is a great question, and I'd have to say it was a build up for me, with some nights having bigger steps than others. What's unique about the CYC material is that it teaches you ways of creating your own group by way of activities, parties, and campus life. You learn how to become and maintain alpha status with the group and inspiring people to come to you whenever they want to have some fun. The bar scene at college is different than any other bar scene in that because of how tight the social environment is at college, the entire bar must be considered a single set. Because of this, going out to the bars is not a good way to try to meet women, it is a lot better to think of bar hopping to be an activity that you and your friends do. You go out and have fun, and in college, the people that do this are sought out. The women will come to you, through introductions, through proximity, and through curiosity. Also, your social calendar will start to fill up as you attract connected people and you are invited to events and parties.
I realize that I didn't directly answer your question, since I don't see the bar scene as a large portion of my game. I actually much prefer house parties, much more intimate since everybody has to be connected to be there. However, what really clicked at the bar scene for me was when I shed all approach anxiety. If a girl gives me any IOI, its now a reflex to smile and say hello. If I see something that I think is crazy, I don't tell my friend 15 feet away, I tell the most interesting looking person right next to me, and if its a hot girl, I'm all the more excited to let her know. Basically, you want to talk to everyone in the bar as if they're part of your set; because in college, this is the truth.
I had a real stroke of luck very early in learning game that taught me some of the most important facets of bar game in college, especially in respect to social proof. Coincidentally, this was another 21st birthday party, and I went with a yet another large group of girls, of which I knew about 5 or 6 of them. I wasn't just drinking that night either, I was trying for the first time partying on aderall, which for those who are familiar, can make you really chatty and sociable. [ I strongly urge you NOT to use drugs to improve your game. Not even alcohol. My rule of thumb for drinks is 2 an hour, any more and my game suffers ] So with the drinks, the drugs, the large group of friends I was with, I had a lot of people to talk to, and soon enough I just started going through the entire bar talking to every set whether I knew them or not. I was having a blast and it was noticeable to anyone watching. As the bar was approaching close, I slowed my roll and was standing chatting one on one with my roommate and best friend. While we were talking, someone taps me on the shoulder and I turn around to see two good looking girls, a shorter smiley blonde, and a tall shy swede. I could tell instantly that they were even a little nervous to be talking to me, but I was real excited to meet them. It took them less than 5 minutes to ask my roommate and me to go back to their place with them, and if I asked you to use your imagination for the rest of the story, you probably wouldn't be too far off. ;-)
So | the entire bar is one single set when you're in the college environment, and if you can get enough of the set to like you, game isn't work any more. |
worufu | >people say once a cheater always a cheater..
Don't worry about that too much. During university (~ 21 years old) I was cheating a lot on my then girlfriend (which I am really **not** proud of). Had a relationship which lasted more than 5 years with that girl. When she broke up with me (for a totally unrelated reason) I confessed to her what I did. Initially I did not want our relation to end but that is how I unintentionally made sure there was no chance that she would come back.
Months later I had the chance to do an internship abroad on which I got to know my now wife. Told her everything about my shitty behaviour in the past but she was still interested in me. She trusted me and I took that second chance. This is our seventh year of marriage and we have two phantastic little kids. Never have been unfaithful again.
In the end I think I was a big douche for not breaking up with my girlfriend before enjoying university life. I don't know what would have happened if we came back together. But it surely would have been really difficult (next to impossible) to restore the trust. I think it was better to let it be. Took some time to be ready for a new relationship. But was totally worth waiting.
tl;dr: don't listen to others. you can change.
| >people say once a cheater always a cheater..
Don't worry about that too much. During university (~ 21 years old) I was cheating a lot on my then girlfriend (which I am really not proud of). Had a relationship which lasted more than 5 years with that girl. When she broke up with me (for a totally unrelated reason) I confessed to her what I did. Initially I did not want our relation to end but that is how I unintentionally made sure there was no chance that she would come back.
Months later I had the chance to do an internship abroad on which I got to know my now wife. Told her everything about my shitty behaviour in the past but she was still interested in me. She trusted me and I took that second chance. This is our seventh year of marriage and we have two phantastic little kids. Never have been unfaithful again.
In the end I think I was a big douche for not breaking up with my girlfriend before enjoying university life. I don't know what would have happened if we came back together. But it surely would have been really difficult (next to impossible) to restore the trust. I think it was better to let it be. Took some time to be ready for a new relationship. But was totally worth waiting.
tl;dr: don't listen to others. you can change.
| confession | t5_2qo2a | c1enrth | people say once a cheater always a cheater..
Don't worry about that too much. During university (~ 21 years old) I was cheating a lot on my then girlfriend (which I am really not proud of). Had a relationship which lasted more than 5 years with that girl. When she broke up with me (for a totally unrelated reason) I confessed to her what I did. Initially I did not want our relation to end but that is how I unintentionally made sure there was no chance that she would come back.
Months later I had the chance to do an internship abroad on which I got to know my now wife. Told her everything about my shitty behaviour in the past but she was still interested in me. She trusted me and I took that second chance. This is our seventh year of marriage and we have two phantastic little kids. Never have been unfaithful again.
In the end I think I was a big douche for not breaking up with my girlfriend before enjoying university life. I don't know what would have happened if we came back together. But it surely would have been really difficult (next to impossible) to restore the trust. I think it was better to let it be. Took some time to be ready for a new relationship. But was totally worth waiting. | don't listen to others. you can change. |
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