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biglou | Once a friend of mine and I were in a car. He was speeding in a residential zone. My friend had been driving 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, then he turned and drove across somones lawn to put tire marks in the lawn, at this point we notice the police officer following us aggressively.
My buddy pulls over. We get the standard out the car get on your kneees hand behind head routine.(not the worst run in just a funny one im posting) I already knew my friend had...Suspended License....Expired Registration....NO INSURANCE.....
Officer discovers all of this......asks how far we are going.....only two streets, so he says fine.....you boys can go this time, but I had to drive the rest of the way....now i had never driven a Manual before (i was 16 at the time)..but we agree non the less.
I get in the car, put on our seat belts. turn the key, press down the clutch...try to shift into 1st gear....the Car rolls back down the small incline and BANG.......cracks the bumber of the Squad car.....
I have never yelled FUck So loud even to this day
tl:dr Friend driving pulled over....despite many reason to arrest him..lets me drive home only to damage police car... | Once a friend of mine and I were in a car. He was speeding in a residential zone. My friend had been driving 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, then he turned and drove across somones lawn to put tire marks in the lawn, at this point we notice the police officer following us aggressively.
My buddy pulls over. We get the standard out the car get on your kneees hand behind head routine.(not the worst run in just a funny one im posting) I already knew my friend had...Suspended License....Expired Registration....NO INSURANCE.....
Officer discovers all of this......asks how far we are going.....only two streets, so he says fine.....you boys can go this time, but I had to drive the rest of the way....now i had never driven a Manual before (i was 16 at the time)..but we agree non the less.
I get in the car, put on our seat belts. turn the key, press down the clutch...try to shift into 1st gear....the Car rolls back down the small incline and BANG.......cracks the bumber of the Squad car.....
I have never yelled FUck So loud even to this day
tl:dr Friend driving pulled over....despite many reason to arrest him..lets me drive home only to damage police car...
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1eppmp | Once a friend of mine and I were in a car. He was speeding in a residential zone. My friend had been driving 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, then he turned and drove across somones lawn to put tire marks in the lawn, at this point we notice the police officer following us aggressively.
My buddy pulls over. We get the standard out the car get on your kneees hand behind head routine.(not the worst run in just a funny one im posting) I already knew my friend had...Suspended License....Expired Registration....NO INSURANCE.....
Officer discovers all of this......asks how far we are going.....only two streets, so he says fine.....you boys can go this time, but I had to drive the rest of the way....now i had never driven a Manual before (i was 16 at the time)..but we agree non the less.
I get in the car, put on our seat belts. turn the key, press down the clutch...try to shift into 1st gear....the Car rolls back down the small incline and BANG.......cracks the bumber of the Squad car.....
I have never yelled FUck So loud even to this day | Friend driving pulled over....despite many reason to arrest him..lets me drive home only to damage police car... |
Dead_Rooster | Had a LAN party at my place with about 15 people. All of us were drinking fairly heavily, pretty drunk. All of a sudden, the power goes out. Now what in the hell can you do at a LAN party whent here's no power? Nothing. So we all load ourselves up with beers for the road and go for a walk to see if we can see why the power's out.
We get to the end of the street and find a power cable busted an sparking on the ground. There's a reasonable crod standing around at a safe distance just watching it. We stand at watch it for a while then keep walking to see if there's anything else going on.
We come to a major intersection not far from my house and find a car crashed into a transformer (presumably what cused the power cut) and a seemingly drunk guy sitting on the ground enarby getting questioned by the police. We stand on a traffic island in the middle of the road and watch this guy getting arrested. It wasn't that exciting, but eventually we got told to go home by the cops. We decided not to go home, but to watch from a bit further away.
While we're watching a few of the guys had gone up to a gas station nearby where the power was also out. They walked back behind us, each with a 12 pack of imitation coke. They said the gas station was giving them away for free.
The rest of us head up to the gas station where we find the clerk standing outside with the place looked up. The drinks are in a display outside so they're not locked up. We tell the clerk that we heard the dirnks were free and he says that we can take some because he doesn't care. Us, figuring "why not?" each grab one or two packs each and start walking off, happy with our score. Then the clerk tells us we can't take that many so we turn and start putting a lot of them back.
All of a sudden a cop car comes screaming around the corner lights flashing, sirens blazing and yells over his megaphone "Noboby move!"
We all stop in our tracks, I even (probably from watching to many movies) start to put my hands up. The cop rushes out of my car towards my two friends who are the only ones with dirnks still in their hands and handcuffs them to each other facing opposite directions so they couldn't run away.
He starts questioning the rest of us and eventually there's 6 cop cars around and about ten cops. We ebegin explaining what happened, but this arrogant cop's not having a bar of it and is constantly telling us we're going to be arrested.
After ten minutes or so of this an older and seemingly more experienced cop shows up and listens to our story. He explains to us how it looked but nsaid that he believed us.
As it turned out a lady looking at the accident scene across the road had seen us making off with the dirnks, but hadn't seen us putting them back and told the police we were looting, prompting the cop to come try arrest us.
After about 25 minutes of back and forth my friends get uncuffed and we're told to go home and we're not being charged with anything. We're all happy and start leaving. Then the young arrogant first cop yells at us, "If I see you out again tonight I'm going to arrest you all!" To which we're just like, WTF? But we head off home anyway, hoping the power's gonna come back on soon so we can keep gaming.
We get back to my place where we find the other guys with the drinks they'd successfully made off with. We all had one and celelbrated a bit then the power came on and we played some Counter-Strike.
Best LAN party I've ever been to.
TL;DR: Got arrested for looting at a LAN party. | Had a LAN party at my place with about 15 people. All of us were drinking fairly heavily, pretty drunk. All of a sudden, the power goes out. Now what in the hell can you do at a LAN party whent here's no power? Nothing. So we all load ourselves up with beers for the road and go for a walk to see if we can see why the power's out.
We get to the end of the street and find a power cable busted an sparking on the ground. There's a reasonable crod standing around at a safe distance just watching it. We stand at watch it for a while then keep walking to see if there's anything else going on.
We come to a major intersection not far from my house and find a car crashed into a transformer (presumably what cused the power cut) and a seemingly drunk guy sitting on the ground enarby getting questioned by the police. We stand on a traffic island in the middle of the road and watch this guy getting arrested. It wasn't that exciting, but eventually we got told to go home by the cops. We decided not to go home, but to watch from a bit further away.
While we're watching a few of the guys had gone up to a gas station nearby where the power was also out. They walked back behind us, each with a 12 pack of imitation coke. They said the gas station was giving them away for free.
The rest of us head up to the gas station where we find the clerk standing outside with the place looked up. The drinks are in a display outside so they're not locked up. We tell the clerk that we heard the dirnks were free and he says that we can take some because he doesn't care. Us, figuring "why not?" each grab one or two packs each and start walking off, happy with our score. Then the clerk tells us we can't take that many so we turn and start putting a lot of them back.
All of a sudden a cop car comes screaming around the corner lights flashing, sirens blazing and yells over his megaphone "Noboby move!"
We all stop in our tracks, I even (probably from watching to many movies) start to put my hands up. The cop rushes out of my car towards my two friends who are the only ones with dirnks still in their hands and handcuffs them to each other facing opposite directions so they couldn't run away.
He starts questioning the rest of us and eventually there's 6 cop cars around and about ten cops. We ebegin explaining what happened, but this arrogant cop's not having a bar of it and is constantly telling us we're going to be arrested.
After ten minutes or so of this an older and seemingly more experienced cop shows up and listens to our story. He explains to us how it looked but nsaid that he believed us.
As it turned out a lady looking at the accident scene across the road had seen us making off with the dirnks, but hadn't seen us putting them back and told the police we were looting, prompting the cop to come try arrest us.
After about 25 minutes of back and forth my friends get uncuffed and we're told to go home and we're not being charged with anything. We're all happy and start leaving. Then the young arrogant first cop yells at us, "If I see you out again tonight I'm going to arrest you all!" To which we're just like, WTF? But we head off home anyway, hoping the power's gonna come back on soon so we can keep gaming.
We get back to my place where we find the other guys with the drinks they'd successfully made off with. We all had one and celelbrated a bit then the power came on and we played some Counter-Strike.
Best LAN party I've ever been to.
TL;DR: Got arrested for looting at a LAN party.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1epk2k | Had a LAN party at my place with about 15 people. All of us were drinking fairly heavily, pretty drunk. All of a sudden, the power goes out. Now what in the hell can you do at a LAN party whent here's no power? Nothing. So we all load ourselves up with beers for the road and go for a walk to see if we can see why the power's out.
We get to the end of the street and find a power cable busted an sparking on the ground. There's a reasonable crod standing around at a safe distance just watching it. We stand at watch it for a while then keep walking to see if there's anything else going on.
We come to a major intersection not far from my house and find a car crashed into a transformer (presumably what cused the power cut) and a seemingly drunk guy sitting on the ground enarby getting questioned by the police. We stand on a traffic island in the middle of the road and watch this guy getting arrested. It wasn't that exciting, but eventually we got told to go home by the cops. We decided not to go home, but to watch from a bit further away.
While we're watching a few of the guys had gone up to a gas station nearby where the power was also out. They walked back behind us, each with a 12 pack of imitation coke. They said the gas station was giving them away for free.
The rest of us head up to the gas station where we find the clerk standing outside with the place looked up. The drinks are in a display outside so they're not locked up. We tell the clerk that we heard the dirnks were free and he says that we can take some because he doesn't care. Us, figuring "why not?" each grab one or two packs each and start walking off, happy with our score. Then the clerk tells us we can't take that many so we turn and start putting a lot of them back.
All of a sudden a cop car comes screaming around the corner lights flashing, sirens blazing and yells over his megaphone "Noboby move!"
We all stop in our tracks, I even (probably from watching to many movies) start to put my hands up. The cop rushes out of my car towards my two friends who are the only ones with dirnks still in their hands and handcuffs them to each other facing opposite directions so they couldn't run away.
He starts questioning the rest of us and eventually there's 6 cop cars around and about ten cops. We ebegin explaining what happened, but this arrogant cop's not having a bar of it and is constantly telling us we're going to be arrested.
After ten minutes or so of this an older and seemingly more experienced cop shows up and listens to our story. He explains to us how it looked but nsaid that he believed us.
As it turned out a lady looking at the accident scene across the road had seen us making off with the dirnks, but hadn't seen us putting them back and told the police we were looting, prompting the cop to come try arrest us.
After about 25 minutes of back and forth my friends get uncuffed and we're told to go home and we're not being charged with anything. We're all happy and start leaving. Then the young arrogant first cop yells at us, "If I see you out again tonight I'm going to arrest you all!" To which we're just like, WTF? But we head off home anyway, hoping the power's gonna come back on soon so we can keep gaming.
We get back to my place where we find the other guys with the drinks they'd successfully made off with. We all had one and celelbrated a bit then the power came on and we played some Counter-Strike.
Best LAN party I've ever been to. | Got arrested for looting at a LAN party. |
beefwich | Pulled over in Bunkie, Louisiana while traveling across the state with my friend's band. The cop, a Big Boss Man-looking motherfucker, pulls us out. I'm familiar with the routine. We each surrender our license and he tells us to stay put-- he's going to ask the search the van next.
There were six of us standing on the side of the road in the scorching summer sun, not one single breeze or bit of shade. After twenty minutes, we started getting antsy. It's hot and the mosquitoes are eating us alive.
My friend Chris steps toward the car to see what the hold-up is. The cop cuts on the bullhorn, *"Don't come over here! Stay on the line. All of you, stop talking."*
Thirty minutes of blistering silence pass. The cop is sitting in his car and it doesn't even look like he's doing anything. Chris, a notorious hot-head, is getting angry. *"I'm not standing here like a goddamn moron in this heat. I'm getting some water out of the van. Anyone else want anything?!"*
He doesn't even take his second step before the bullhorn is cut back on, *"DON'T TOUCH THE VAN! BACK ON THE LINE! I WILL ARREST YOU!"*
Another twenty minutes pass, it's now been an hour of standing on a strip of blacktop in 100+ southern heat. The cop finally gets out of the car. At this point, I don't give a shit. Let me go, take me to jail, fucking shoot me-- just let me get out of the heat.
*"Alright. Looks like the other officer isn't coming."*
He hands us our IDs back.
*"Get your muffler looked at, it's hanging in the back. And when a cop tells you to do something, you need to shut up and do it-- whether it's right or wrong."*
The last line really stuck in my craw as I thought we'd indulged this moron for longer than any reasonable person should. The "shut up and do it" part pretty much planted the seed for my mistrust or extreme caution towards law enforcement officers for the rest of my life.
TL;DR-- stopped, had to stand in the heat while he waited for another cop, given the most twisted piece of advice from an authority figure I've ever heard. | Pulled over in Bunkie, Louisiana while traveling across the state with my friend's band. The cop, a Big Boss Man-looking motherfucker, pulls us out. I'm familiar with the routine. We each surrender our license and he tells us to stay put-- he's going to ask the search the van next.
There were six of us standing on the side of the road in the scorching summer sun, not one single breeze or bit of shade. After twenty minutes, we started getting antsy. It's hot and the mosquitoes are eating us alive.
My friend Chris steps toward the car to see what the hold-up is. The cop cuts on the bullhorn, "Don't come over here! Stay on the line. All of you, stop talking."
Thirty minutes of blistering silence pass. The cop is sitting in his car and it doesn't even look like he's doing anything. Chris, a notorious hot-head, is getting angry. "I'm not standing here like a goddamn moron in this heat. I'm getting some water out of the van. Anyone else want anything?!"
He doesn't even take his second step before the bullhorn is cut back on, "DON'T TOUCH THE VAN! BACK ON THE LINE! I WILL ARREST YOU!"
Another twenty minutes pass, it's now been an hour of standing on a strip of blacktop in 100+ southern heat. The cop finally gets out of the car. At this point, I don't give a shit. Let me go, take me to jail, fucking shoot me-- just let me get out of the heat.
"Alright. Looks like the other officer isn't coming."
He hands us our IDs back.
"Get your muffler looked at, it's hanging in the back. And when a cop tells you to do something, you need to shut up and do it-- whether it's right or wrong."
The last line really stuck in my craw as I thought we'd indulged this moron for longer than any reasonable person should. The "shut up and do it" part pretty much planted the seed for my mistrust or extreme caution towards law enforcement officers for the rest of my life.
TL;DR-- stopped, had to stand in the heat while he waited for another cop, given the most twisted piece of advice from an authority figure I've ever heard.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1epl0u | Pulled over in Bunkie, Louisiana while traveling across the state with my friend's band. The cop, a Big Boss Man-looking motherfucker, pulls us out. I'm familiar with the routine. We each surrender our license and he tells us to stay put-- he's going to ask the search the van next.
There were six of us standing on the side of the road in the scorching summer sun, not one single breeze or bit of shade. After twenty minutes, we started getting antsy. It's hot and the mosquitoes are eating us alive.
My friend Chris steps toward the car to see what the hold-up is. The cop cuts on the bullhorn, "Don't come over here! Stay on the line. All of you, stop talking."
Thirty minutes of blistering silence pass. The cop is sitting in his car and it doesn't even look like he's doing anything. Chris, a notorious hot-head, is getting angry. "I'm not standing here like a goddamn moron in this heat. I'm getting some water out of the van. Anyone else want anything?!"
He doesn't even take his second step before the bullhorn is cut back on, "DON'T TOUCH THE VAN! BACK ON THE LINE! I WILL ARREST YOU!"
Another twenty minutes pass, it's now been an hour of standing on a strip of blacktop in 100+ southern heat. The cop finally gets out of the car. At this point, I don't give a shit. Let me go, take me to jail, fucking shoot me-- just let me get out of the heat.
"Alright. Looks like the other officer isn't coming."
He hands us our IDs back.
"Get your muffler looked at, it's hanging in the back. And when a cop tells you to do something, you need to shut up and do it-- whether it's right or wrong."
The last line really stuck in my craw as I thought we'd indulged this moron for longer than any reasonable person should. The "shut up and do it" part pretty much planted the seed for my mistrust or extreme caution towards law enforcement officers for the rest of my life. | stopped, had to stand in the heat while he waited for another cop, given the most twisted piece of advice from an authority figure I've ever heard. |
pleasebequiet | Haha, well, this is a long one..
When I was a Sophomore in high school, this girl I liked invited me and about ten other guys and girls in our class to her mom's apartment one night when her mom was out of town.
One of the "cooler" guys, Hector, told me earlier in the day that he was going to try to get drunk there. I had never drank alcohol before, but I had an older brother who was old enough to buy liquor, so I thought I could make myself look cool by bringing a bunch of beer. I get there about 9PM, and find, to my dismay, everyone is pissed at me for bringing beer, with the exception of Hector, who is already drunk. The girl tells me not to bring the beer inside, so Hector and I go downstairs to a table in the grassy park area of the apartment complex. We each open a beer, and Hector, who is inexplicably paranoid about getting caught underage drinking, says to me,
"Man, I swear if I see any cops I am going to bolt."
I take one sip of my beer, my first sip of a beer ever, and look up. Behind Hector, about a hundred yards away in the parking of the complex, I see flashing police lights. I tell Hector to look. He sees the lights, turns back to me with a panicked look on his face, and then starts running. Frenetic and scared, I just start running too, following Hector.
We run out to the other parking lot, adjacent to a major street, and as we are running East, we see a line of police cars speeding West down the major street toward the complex. They turn in to the parking lot and one car speeds straight toward Hector and myself. Hector darts right, I dart left, and the cop car follows me to a dead end. The driver exits the vehicle, draws gun, and screams for me to get on the ground. I do so, and am handcuffed and roughly thrown in the back of a police car.
I'm in the car for about ten minutes when the cop comes back and pulls me out. He starts rubbing my knuckles.
"Do you knuckles hurt? Do your hands hurt? Why don't you tell us about what happened tonight son? You been getting into fights tonight?"
I seriously have no idea what's going on at this point. I'm put back in the car. Ten more minutes and the officer comes back, now with more officers.
"Why are you lying to us? You're only making the situation worse. We showed the kid you beat up your I.D. and he identified you. Why don't you just tell the truth?"
At this point I'm seriously like WTF. 16 years old, never been in trouble, first time EVER drinking, and about to piss my pants. I'm pulled out of the cop car and another cop car shines it's spotlight on me. After a few minutes, a cop comes back.
"You're lucky son, he said it wasn't you. Where do you live?"
The cop proceeds to take me home, explaining along the way that they were there because of a crazy party in that complex (completely separate from the small get together I was going to) got really out of hand and a few guys got jumped and bloodied up pretty bad. Apparently one of the victims was shown my I.D. and in his concussed state identified me as the attacker. The cop brings me home to my mom's house, and my older brother answers the door with a look of sheer fright-- he had warrants for his arrest at the time and thought I had ratted him out for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. My mom came and talked to the cop while my brother went and hid in the other room. The cop basically just told my mom not to let her son drink and that I was an idiot.
The next day I find out the girl I liked and everyone else at her apartment saw me getting arrested and I was really very embarrassed. Hector got away by literally hiding in the bushes until 4 in the morning.
TL;DR - My first time ever drinking as a teenager led to me getting handcuffed and accused of beating up someone I had never met.
*edited for clarity | Haha, well, this is a long one..
When I was a Sophomore in high school, this girl I liked invited me and about ten other guys and girls in our class to her mom's apartment one night when her mom was out of town.
One of the "cooler" guys, Hector, told me earlier in the day that he was going to try to get drunk there. I had never drank alcohol before, but I had an older brother who was old enough to buy liquor, so I thought I could make myself look cool by bringing a bunch of beer. I get there about 9PM, and find, to my dismay, everyone is pissed at me for bringing beer, with the exception of Hector, who is already drunk. The girl tells me not to bring the beer inside, so Hector and I go downstairs to a table in the grassy park area of the apartment complex. We each open a beer, and Hector, who is inexplicably paranoid about getting caught underage drinking, says to me,
"Man, I swear if I see any cops I am going to bolt."
I take one sip of my beer, my first sip of a beer ever, and look up. Behind Hector, about a hundred yards away in the parking of the complex, I see flashing police lights. I tell Hector to look. He sees the lights, turns back to me with a panicked look on his face, and then starts running. Frenetic and scared, I just start running too, following Hector.
We run out to the other parking lot, adjacent to a major street, and as we are running East, we see a line of police cars speeding West down the major street toward the complex. They turn in to the parking lot and one car speeds straight toward Hector and myself. Hector darts right, I dart left, and the cop car follows me to a dead end. The driver exits the vehicle, draws gun, and screams for me to get on the ground. I do so, and am handcuffed and roughly thrown in the back of a police car.
I'm in the car for about ten minutes when the cop comes back and pulls me out. He starts rubbing my knuckles.
"Do you knuckles hurt? Do your hands hurt? Why don't you tell us about what happened tonight son? You been getting into fights tonight?"
I seriously have no idea what's going on at this point. I'm put back in the car. Ten more minutes and the officer comes back, now with more officers.
"Why are you lying to us? You're only making the situation worse. We showed the kid you beat up your I.D. and he identified you. Why don't you just tell the truth?"
At this point I'm seriously like WTF. 16 years old, never been in trouble, first time EVER drinking, and about to piss my pants. I'm pulled out of the cop car and another cop car shines it's spotlight on me. After a few minutes, a cop comes back.
"You're lucky son, he said it wasn't you. Where do you live?"
The cop proceeds to take me home, explaining along the way that they were there because of a crazy party in that complex (completely separate from the small get together I was going to) got really out of hand and a few guys got jumped and bloodied up pretty bad. Apparently one of the victims was shown my I.D. and in his concussed state identified me as the attacker. The cop brings me home to my mom's house, and my older brother answers the door with a look of sheer fright-- he had warrants for his arrest at the time and thought I had ratted him out for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. My mom came and talked to the cop while my brother went and hid in the other room. The cop basically just told my mom not to let her son drink and that I was an idiot.
The next day I find out the girl I liked and everyone else at her apartment saw me getting arrested and I was really very embarrassed. Hector got away by literally hiding in the bushes until 4 in the morning.
TL;DR - My first time ever drinking as a teenager led to me getting handcuffed and accused of beating up someone I had never met.
*edited for clarity
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1epmzx | Haha, well, this is a long one..
When I was a Sophomore in high school, this girl I liked invited me and about ten other guys and girls in our class to her mom's apartment one night when her mom was out of town.
One of the "cooler" guys, Hector, told me earlier in the day that he was going to try to get drunk there. I had never drank alcohol before, but I had an older brother who was old enough to buy liquor, so I thought I could make myself look cool by bringing a bunch of beer. I get there about 9PM, and find, to my dismay, everyone is pissed at me for bringing beer, with the exception of Hector, who is already drunk. The girl tells me not to bring the beer inside, so Hector and I go downstairs to a table in the grassy park area of the apartment complex. We each open a beer, and Hector, who is inexplicably paranoid about getting caught underage drinking, says to me,
"Man, I swear if I see any cops I am going to bolt."
I take one sip of my beer, my first sip of a beer ever, and look up. Behind Hector, about a hundred yards away in the parking of the complex, I see flashing police lights. I tell Hector to look. He sees the lights, turns back to me with a panicked look on his face, and then starts running. Frenetic and scared, I just start running too, following Hector.
We run out to the other parking lot, adjacent to a major street, and as we are running East, we see a line of police cars speeding West down the major street toward the complex. They turn in to the parking lot and one car speeds straight toward Hector and myself. Hector darts right, I dart left, and the cop car follows me to a dead end. The driver exits the vehicle, draws gun, and screams for me to get on the ground. I do so, and am handcuffed and roughly thrown in the back of a police car.
I'm in the car for about ten minutes when the cop comes back and pulls me out. He starts rubbing my knuckles.
"Do you knuckles hurt? Do your hands hurt? Why don't you tell us about what happened tonight son? You been getting into fights tonight?"
I seriously have no idea what's going on at this point. I'm put back in the car. Ten more minutes and the officer comes back, now with more officers.
"Why are you lying to us? You're only making the situation worse. We showed the kid you beat up your I.D. and he identified you. Why don't you just tell the truth?"
At this point I'm seriously like WTF. 16 years old, never been in trouble, first time EVER drinking, and about to piss my pants. I'm pulled out of the cop car and another cop car shines it's spotlight on me. After a few minutes, a cop comes back.
"You're lucky son, he said it wasn't you. Where do you live?"
The cop proceeds to take me home, explaining along the way that they were there because of a crazy party in that complex (completely separate from the small get together I was going to) got really out of hand and a few guys got jumped and bloodied up pretty bad. Apparently one of the victims was shown my I.D. and in his concussed state identified me as the attacker. The cop brings me home to my mom's house, and my older brother answers the door with a look of sheer fright-- he had warrants for his arrest at the time and thought I had ratted him out for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. My mom came and talked to the cop while my brother went and hid in the other room. The cop basically just told my mom not to let her son drink and that I was an idiot.
The next day I find out the girl I liked and everyone else at her apartment saw me getting arrested and I was really very embarrassed. Hector got away by literally hiding in the bushes until 4 in the morning. | My first time ever drinking as a teenager led to me getting handcuffed and accused of beating up someone I had never met.
*edited for clarity |
ValeDurandal | I'm sure (and I've heard) a lot of people see me as a man of few words, but also as a person that's fun to be around that's kind, generous, and reliable. The kind of person that, no matter the situation, would always be able to do something, even if that meant only saying encouraging words and giving a hug.
The following definitely goes under "something that would cause people to feel differently about" me.
There's something else that very few other people know about. I don't mind talking about it because no one else I know uses reddit or knows my username that I wouldn't want to see this. Since I was very young, as long as I could remember (since I was 4), I've had... well, I guess you could call them flashes... of violence against people. And I mean all people. I could just be walking down the hallway at elementary school and have a vision of myself punching someone in the face over and over again until blood was streaming down their face. A random person that just walked by me, not someone that's bullied me or done anything to me (never did get bullied, surprisingly). Afterwards, I don't feel anything except a bit distressed that I was thinking of that in the first place. I couldn't say how often it happens, but fairly consistently since I was 4 (20 now).
Other than that, I have a voice in my head. No, it doesn't order me to do things and it for sure isn't a voice that represents my conscience. It sounds almost completely different from myself, but I can still tell that it's part of me. It's always nasty when it talks of other people, always is pessimistic, and always manages to get that punch in the gut when I'm already down. It is almost always a dissenting voice. I eventually gave it a name, Durandal, naming it after a character from the Marathon series (by Bungie), because it just seemed to fit just perfectly whenever I thought of that name.
Now, the good news. For both the visions and the voice, they've become less and less, especially once I stopped trying to just ignore them (push them to the back of my mind) and recognized them for what they were: a part of me. Embracing them has been the best thing I could do. I consider both to be a result of Durandal. To represent this "other" side of me that exists, I even got a [tattoo]( that, to me, is a symbol that represents Durandal and reminds me of him. It's on my back, indicating that he's in a location that, without aid, cannot be "seen." It made me ultimately feel much more... complete... when I got it done. It wasn't something that I got in the spur of the moment, I had been sitting on it for a good 3 years.
I've only told two other people about this. I shared it with my ex-girlfriend when she told me about her own struggles with mental issues. And then with my brother, who had some problems of his own to talk about.
EDIT: Just to clear it up, I've never hurt anyone and the most violent I've been is a few times of punching a friend in the shoulder a bit too hard. I've never felt the need to take any of these kinds of actions that have been thought about in my head and make them into reality.
EDIT2: TL;DR I've had visions of violence against people since I can remember randomly and a voice that never orders me around, but does like to put in its opinion quite often. Sometimes happens more often or less often. Has become less often lately. Came to terms with it in the past few years and have embraced it as a part of me. Never been a violent person. | I'm sure (and I've heard) a lot of people see me as a man of few words, but also as a person that's fun to be around that's kind, generous, and reliable. The kind of person that, no matter the situation, would always be able to do something, even if that meant only saying encouraging words and giving a hug.
The following definitely goes under "something that would cause people to feel differently about" me.
There's something else that very few other people know about. I don't mind talking about it because no one else I know uses reddit or knows my username that I wouldn't want to see this. Since I was very young, as long as I could remember (since I was 4), I've had... well, I guess you could call them flashes... of violence against people. And I mean all people. I could just be walking down the hallway at elementary school and have a vision of myself punching someone in the face over and over again until blood was streaming down their face. A random person that just walked by me, not someone that's bullied me or done anything to me (never did get bullied, surprisingly). Afterwards, I don't feel anything except a bit distressed that I was thinking of that in the first place. I couldn't say how often it happens, but fairly consistently since I was 4 (20 now).
Other than that, I have a voice in my head. No, it doesn't order me to do things and it for sure isn't a voice that represents my conscience. It sounds almost completely different from myself, but I can still tell that it's part of me. It's always nasty when it talks of other people, always is pessimistic, and always manages to get that punch in the gut when I'm already down. It is almost always a dissenting voice. I eventually gave it a name, Durandal, naming it after a character from the Marathon series (by Bungie), because it just seemed to fit just perfectly whenever I thought of that name.
Now, the good news. For both the visions and the voice, they've become less and less, especially once I stopped trying to just ignore them (push them to the back of my mind) and recognized them for what they were: a part of me. Embracing them has been the best thing I could do. I consider both to be a result of Durandal. To represent this "other" side of me that exists, I even got a [tattoo]( that, to me, is a symbol that represents Durandal and reminds me of him. It's on my back, indicating that he's in a location that, without aid, cannot be "seen." It made me ultimately feel much more... complete... when I got it done. It wasn't something that I got in the spur of the moment, I had been sitting on it for a good 3 years.
I've only told two other people about this. I shared it with my ex-girlfriend when she told me about her own struggles with mental issues. And then with my brother, who had some problems of his own to talk about.
EDIT: Just to clear it up, I've never hurt anyone and the most violent I've been is a few times of punching a friend in the shoulder a bit too hard. I've never felt the need to take any of these kinds of actions that have been thought about in my head and make them into reality.
EDIT2: TL;DR I've had visions of violence against people since I can remember randomly and a voice that never orders me around, but does like to put in its opinion quite often. Sometimes happens more often or less often. Has become less often lately. Came to terms with it in the past few years and have embraced it as a part of me. Never been a violent person.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1eryno | I'm sure (and I've heard) a lot of people see me as a man of few words, but also as a person that's fun to be around that's kind, generous, and reliable. The kind of person that, no matter the situation, would always be able to do something, even if that meant only saying encouraging words and giving a hug.
The following definitely goes under "something that would cause people to feel differently about" me.
There's something else that very few other people know about. I don't mind talking about it because no one else I know uses reddit or knows my username that I wouldn't want to see this. Since I was very young, as long as I could remember (since I was 4), I've had... well, I guess you could call them flashes... of violence against people. And I mean all people. I could just be walking down the hallway at elementary school and have a vision of myself punching someone in the face over and over again until blood was streaming down their face. A random person that just walked by me, not someone that's bullied me or done anything to me (never did get bullied, surprisingly). Afterwards, I don't feel anything except a bit distressed that I was thinking of that in the first place. I couldn't say how often it happens, but fairly consistently since I was 4 (20 now).
Other than that, I have a voice in my head. No, it doesn't order me to do things and it for sure isn't a voice that represents my conscience. It sounds almost completely different from myself, but I can still tell that it's part of me. It's always nasty when it talks of other people, always is pessimistic, and always manages to get that punch in the gut when I'm already down. It is almost always a dissenting voice. I eventually gave it a name, Durandal, naming it after a character from the Marathon series (by Bungie), because it just seemed to fit just perfectly whenever I thought of that name.
Now, the good news. For both the visions and the voice, they've become less and less, especially once I stopped trying to just ignore them (push them to the back of my mind) and recognized them for what they were: a part of me. Embracing them has been the best thing I could do. I consider both to be a result of Durandal. To represent this "other" side of me that exists, I even got a [tattoo]( that, to me, is a symbol that represents Durandal and reminds me of him. It's on my back, indicating that he's in a location that, without aid, cannot be "seen." It made me ultimately feel much more... complete... when I got it done. It wasn't something that I got in the spur of the moment, I had been sitting on it for a good 3 years.
I've only told two other people about this. I shared it with my ex-girlfriend when she told me about her own struggles with mental issues. And then with my brother, who had some problems of his own to talk about.
EDIT: Just to clear it up, I've never hurt anyone and the most violent I've been is a few times of punching a friend in the shoulder a bit too hard. I've never felt the need to take any of these kinds of actions that have been thought about in my head and make them into reality.
EDIT2: | I've had visions of violence against people since I can remember randomly and a voice that never orders me around, but does like to put in its opinion quite often. Sometimes happens more often or less often. Has become less often lately. Came to terms with it in the past few years and have embraced it as a part of me. Never been a violent person. |
mdohrn | I am an idealist at heart. I look around and I can *see* how the world should be, it seems. Or at least, I can look out and see a whole bunch of problems I think someone ought to do something about.
On the other hand, I recognize this as a desire to impose my will on others, and so I restrain it because I know deep down that I and nobody else are smart enough to know these things without a careful study of empirical evidence on the topic.
I am a very polite, carefully-spoken man on my face, a sign of the battle of pragmatism vs. idealism and its status, pragmatism firmly holding the chain round idealism's neck. Idealism is important and a great thing, but to let it run my life is to live in a fantasy land where *people ought to do things and I have no dern-blasted idea why they won't*.
It's human nature and we like to think we're very civilized and advanced and not really still wet behind the ears after just coming down out of the trees a few hundred thousands of years ago. We're humans and we're animals, and we have this crazy thinking brain that nothing else seems to have like we do and all our biases and blind spots, our morals and our depravities, our quirks and our foibles. Idealism ignores that and says "Be This Way." Idealism needs the chain.
**TL;DR If you've never checked out an [8] rant, here's your chance.** | I am an idealist at heart. I look around and I can see how the world should be, it seems. Or at least, I can look out and see a whole bunch of problems I think someone ought to do something about.
On the other hand, I recognize this as a desire to impose my will on others, and so I restrain it because I know deep down that I and nobody else are smart enough to know these things without a careful study of empirical evidence on the topic.
I am a very polite, carefully-spoken man on my face, a sign of the battle of pragmatism vs. idealism and its status, pragmatism firmly holding the chain round idealism's neck. Idealism is important and a great thing, but to let it run my life is to live in a fantasy land where people ought to do things and I have no dern-blasted idea why they won't .
It's human nature and we like to think we're very civilized and advanced and not really still wet behind the ears after just coming down out of the trees a few hundred thousands of years ago. We're humans and we're animals, and we have this crazy thinking brain that nothing else seems to have like we do and all our biases and blind spots, our morals and our depravities, our quirks and our foibles. Idealism ignores that and says "Be This Way." Idealism needs the chain.
TL;DR If you've never checked out an [8] rant, here's your chance.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1erfrk | I am an idealist at heart. I look around and I can see how the world should be, it seems. Or at least, I can look out and see a whole bunch of problems I think someone ought to do something about.
On the other hand, I recognize this as a desire to impose my will on others, and so I restrain it because I know deep down that I and nobody else are smart enough to know these things without a careful study of empirical evidence on the topic.
I am a very polite, carefully-spoken man on my face, a sign of the battle of pragmatism vs. idealism and its status, pragmatism firmly holding the chain round idealism's neck. Idealism is important and a great thing, but to let it run my life is to live in a fantasy land where people ought to do things and I have no dern-blasted idea why they won't .
It's human nature and we like to think we're very civilized and advanced and not really still wet behind the ears after just coming down out of the trees a few hundred thousands of years ago. We're humans and we're animals, and we have this crazy thinking brain that nothing else seems to have like we do and all our biases and blind spots, our morals and our depravities, our quirks and our foibles. Idealism ignores that and says "Be This Way." Idealism needs the chain. | If you've never checked out an [8] rant, here's your chance. |
bassitone | I am seen as the most stable, responsible, mature guy what few friends I have know. They always come to me for advice, and I feel natural giving it.
Deep down, I'm insecure as fuck. I always think people are judging me, even if I've never met them and will likely not run into them again. If they're talking amongst each other, they're putting me down in some way. If they're walking by me, they'll start whispering to each other about me as soon as I'm out of earshot. And so on and so forth... This is all based on a series of events in my childhood that I won't say any more about even behind a throwaway account and seven proxies. Only one person knows about a good portion of it other than me, and even then she doesn't know most of it; only the "better" parts which isn't saying much at all now I think of it.
The advice from above? It weighs on me; I may look fine, but it affects me deep down when I hear about their problems. To the point where I feel personally responsible if it gets fucked up and something unintended or unforeseen happens. Never mind just hearing their problems gets me depressed to the point where I need to go talk with someone about *my* issues. As a result, I'm almost always in a fog or feeling dim on life for whatever reason. I suspect I may meet the definition of depression, but I convince myself that I need to be strong for everyone else.
Wow I didn't intend for this to be an essay! I understand if y'all TL;DR it. I'd probably do the same. Unfortunately, there's no neat way to summarize this. | I am seen as the most stable, responsible, mature guy what few friends I have know. They always come to me for advice, and I feel natural giving it.
Deep down, I'm insecure as fuck. I always think people are judging me, even if I've never met them and will likely not run into them again. If they're talking amongst each other, they're putting me down in some way. If they're walking by me, they'll start whispering to each other about me as soon as I'm out of earshot. And so on and so forth... This is all based on a series of events in my childhood that I won't say any more about even behind a throwaway account and seven proxies. Only one person knows about a good portion of it other than me, and even then she doesn't know most of it; only the "better" parts which isn't saying much at all now I think of it.
The advice from above? It weighs on me; I may look fine, but it affects me deep down when I hear about their problems. To the point where I feel personally responsible if it gets fucked up and something unintended or unforeseen happens. Never mind just hearing their problems gets me depressed to the point where I need to go talk with someone about my issues. As a result, I'm almost always in a fog or feeling dim on life for whatever reason. I suspect I may meet the definition of depression, but I convince myself that I need to be strong for everyone else.
Wow I didn't intend for this to be an essay! I understand if y'all TL;DR it. I'd probably do the same. Unfortunately, there's no neat way to summarize this.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1er0v6 | I am seen as the most stable, responsible, mature guy what few friends I have know. They always come to me for advice, and I feel natural giving it.
Deep down, I'm insecure as fuck. I always think people are judging me, even if I've never met them and will likely not run into them again. If they're talking amongst each other, they're putting me down in some way. If they're walking by me, they'll start whispering to each other about me as soon as I'm out of earshot. And so on and so forth... This is all based on a series of events in my childhood that I won't say any more about even behind a throwaway account and seven proxies. Only one person knows about a good portion of it other than me, and even then she doesn't know most of it; only the "better" parts which isn't saying much at all now I think of it.
The advice from above? It weighs on me; I may look fine, but it affects me deep down when I hear about their problems. To the point where I feel personally responsible if it gets fucked up and something unintended or unforeseen happens. Never mind just hearing their problems gets me depressed to the point where I need to go talk with someone about my issues. As a result, I'm almost always in a fog or feeling dim on life for whatever reason. I suspect I may meet the definition of depression, but I convince myself that I need to be strong for everyone else.
Wow I didn't intend for this to be an essay! I understand if y'all | it. I'd probably do the same. Unfortunately, there's no neat way to summarize this. |
dneronique | 24 year old software engineer specializing in financial software. I read primarily magazines, non-fiction and reddit. The magazines are read are 30% for interesting articles, 10% fiction (short stories ftw), 20% mindless tripe (top ten tech trends to watch, interviews on what xx thinks about yy), 20% restaurant/bar/wine/food reviews, 10% misc.
There's no one issue I feel extra concerned with, but I do donate to the ACLU monthly and occasionally to [the smile train]( I'm also active in a few communities that promote math, tech and science to young female students. Gotta represent!
On politics: I cannot stand sensationalism and will not take it seriously. It's for this reason that I dislike most political editorials. I also dislike reading most interviews, although thats mostly because I feel like the candidate always gives overly-practiced responses that don't tell me anything.
On feminine topics: Maybe its just because I'm in such a male dominated field, but I never feel like articles written by females for females are at any way meant for me. My interests actually align must closer to what I see in city-specific publications (in nyc) - restaurant/wine/show/book reviews, interior decorating, domestic and international travel, life hacks. I also like video game/tv/movie reviews. And gadget reviews. I'm a sucker for reviews.
Non-fiction: If its well written, the topic doesn't matter. What I choose to read is sometimes random, but I almost always read it if its history, health, tech or world news related.
Fiction: 1000k words or less. Once again, as long as its well written, any genre goes (including chick-lit).
Misc: Sudoku and crossword puzzles, please. I also like really short tidbits of random info in random places. "The more you know" or "TIL" or "YSK" kind of random stuff.
The coolest things I ever buy are non-durable and are usually consumed immediately. That '93 Cab from Sonoma. That $$$ bill on a fancy restaurant with a famous chef. Those radiohead tickets. Oh! Also one of those panda hats. I'm also a sucker for adorable hats.
Weekends are spent sleeping, avoiding cleaning, watching tv shows/movies/video games, and then going out drinking/eating/general debauchery with friends* (Note that most of my friends are males from reddit).
I speak english. Do programming languages count?
I fine Jack White to be one of the most interesting people out there. Also Hunter S. Thompson. As for females, I really like Karen MacNeil (wine GENIUS), Julia Child and Ada Lovelace - true masters of their crafts.
8-10 years ago... I knew I wanted to be in tech, but I didn't have a strong enough idea in my head to really know where I'd be in 10 years. All in all, I think my 14 year old self would be stoked.
tl;dr: [the atlantic]( meets [time out new york]( | 24 year old software engineer specializing in financial software. I read primarily magazines, non-fiction and reddit. The magazines are read are 30% for interesting articles, 10% fiction (short stories ftw), 20% mindless tripe (top ten tech trends to watch, interviews on what xx thinks about yy), 20% restaurant/bar/wine/food reviews, 10% misc.
There's no one issue I feel extra concerned with, but I do donate to the ACLU monthly and occasionally to [the smile train]( I'm also active in a few communities that promote math, tech and science to young female students. Gotta represent!
On politics: I cannot stand sensationalism and will not take it seriously. It's for this reason that I dislike most political editorials. I also dislike reading most interviews, although thats mostly because I feel like the candidate always gives overly-practiced responses that don't tell me anything.
On feminine topics: Maybe its just because I'm in such a male dominated field, but I never feel like articles written by females for females are at any way meant for me. My interests actually align must closer to what I see in city-specific publications (in nyc) - restaurant/wine/show/book reviews, interior decorating, domestic and international travel, life hacks. I also like video game/tv/movie reviews. And gadget reviews. I'm a sucker for reviews.
Non-fiction: If its well written, the topic doesn't matter. What I choose to read is sometimes random, but I almost always read it if its history, health, tech or world news related.
Fiction: 1000k words or less. Once again, as long as its well written, any genre goes (including chick-lit).
Misc: Sudoku and crossword puzzles, please. I also like really short tidbits of random info in random places. "The more you know" or "TIL" or "YSK" kind of random stuff.
The coolest things I ever buy are non-durable and are usually consumed immediately. That '93 Cab from Sonoma. That $$$ bill on a fancy restaurant with a famous chef. Those radiohead tickets. Oh! Also one of those panda hats. I'm also a sucker for adorable hats.
Weekends are spent sleeping, avoiding cleaning, watching tv shows/movies/video games, and then going out drinking/eating/general debauchery with friends* (Note that most of my friends are males from reddit).
I speak english. Do programming languages count?
I fine Jack White to be one of the most interesting people out there. Also Hunter S. Thompson. As for females, I really like Karen MacNeil (wine GENIUS), Julia Child and Ada Lovelace - true masters of their crafts.
8-10 years ago... I knew I wanted to be in tech, but I didn't have a strong enough idea in my head to really know where I'd be in 10 years. All in all, I think my 14 year old self would be stoked.
tl;dr: [the atlantic]( meets [time out new york](
| TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c1etrd0 | 24 year old software engineer specializing in financial software. I read primarily magazines, non-fiction and reddit. The magazines are read are 30% for interesting articles, 10% fiction (short stories ftw), 20% mindless tripe (top ten tech trends to watch, interviews on what xx thinks about yy), 20% restaurant/bar/wine/food reviews, 10% misc.
There's no one issue I feel extra concerned with, but I do donate to the ACLU monthly and occasionally to [the smile train]( I'm also active in a few communities that promote math, tech and science to young female students. Gotta represent!
On politics: I cannot stand sensationalism and will not take it seriously. It's for this reason that I dislike most political editorials. I also dislike reading most interviews, although thats mostly because I feel like the candidate always gives overly-practiced responses that don't tell me anything.
On feminine topics: Maybe its just because I'm in such a male dominated field, but I never feel like articles written by females for females are at any way meant for me. My interests actually align must closer to what I see in city-specific publications (in nyc) - restaurant/wine/show/book reviews, interior decorating, domestic and international travel, life hacks. I also like video game/tv/movie reviews. And gadget reviews. I'm a sucker for reviews.
Non-fiction: If its well written, the topic doesn't matter. What I choose to read is sometimes random, but I almost always read it if its history, health, tech or world news related.
Fiction: 1000k words or less. Once again, as long as its well written, any genre goes (including chick-lit).
Misc: Sudoku and crossword puzzles, please. I also like really short tidbits of random info in random places. "The more you know" or "TIL" or "YSK" kind of random stuff.
The coolest things I ever buy are non-durable and are usually consumed immediately. That '93 Cab from Sonoma. That $$$ bill on a fancy restaurant with a famous chef. Those radiohead tickets. Oh! Also one of those panda hats. I'm also a sucker for adorable hats.
Weekends are spent sleeping, avoiding cleaning, watching tv shows/movies/video games, and then going out drinking/eating/general debauchery with friends* (Note that most of my friends are males from reddit).
I speak english. Do programming languages count?
I fine Jack White to be one of the most interesting people out there. Also Hunter S. Thompson. As for females, I really like Karen MacNeil (wine GENIUS), Julia Child and Ada Lovelace - true masters of their crafts.
8-10 years ago... I knew I wanted to be in tech, but I didn't have a strong enough idea in my head to really know where I'd be in 10 years. All in all, I think my 14 year old self would be stoked. | the atlantic]( meets [time out new york]( |
Boston_Pinay | 30 something engineer. To be honest, I wouldn't be interested in reading a magazine geared *toward* women as much as I would be interested in reading *about* women. I'd like to know of other women in business/science/engineering that are good at their jobs and are creating solutions for our planet.
tl;dr: Don't tell me about new waterproof mascara; tell me about the woman who invented it. | 30 something engineer. To be honest, I wouldn't be interested in reading a magazine geared toward women as much as I would be interested in reading about women. I'd like to know of other women in business/science/engineering that are good at their jobs and are creating solutions for our planet.
tl;dr: Don't tell me about new waterproof mascara; tell me about the woman who invented it.
| TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c1ewsfi | 30 something engineer. To be honest, I wouldn't be interested in reading a magazine geared toward women as much as I would be interested in reading about women. I'd like to know of other women in business/science/engineering that are good at their jobs and are creating solutions for our planet. | Don't tell me about new waterproof mascara; tell me about the woman who invented it. |
KallistiEngel | I didn't like beer for years, until I went to Greece. I was more of a whiskey drinker when I went out to bars prior to my trip. But when a shot is gonna cost you 5 Euros (~$7) and a beer will cost you 2 Euros (~$3), you're gonna go with the beer. I got used to drinking a beer or 3 a day there and now it's hard for me to order anything else when I'm out at the bar. I like beer now, mostly mircobrew stuff but I can actually drink lower quality mass produced beers now too with no problem (PBR comes to mind...).
I'm similar with coffee. I used to drink it with a TON of cream and sugar because I liked the energy, but not the taste. Then I worked a strenuous, draining job and ditched the cream because I thought it made me more tired and the sugar because my dad was diagnosed as diabetic and I want to prevent it in myself any way possible. Black is about the only way I can drink my coffee now.
TL;DR: These are known as "acquired tastes". Once you go black, you can't go back. | I didn't like beer for years, until I went to Greece. I was more of a whiskey drinker when I went out to bars prior to my trip. But when a shot is gonna cost you 5 Euros (~$7) and a beer will cost you 2 Euros (~$3), you're gonna go with the beer. I got used to drinking a beer or 3 a day there and now it's hard for me to order anything else when I'm out at the bar. I like beer now, mostly mircobrew stuff but I can actually drink lower quality mass produced beers now too with no problem (PBR comes to mind...).
I'm similar with coffee. I used to drink it with a TON of cream and sugar because I liked the energy, but not the taste. Then I worked a strenuous, draining job and ditched the cream because I thought it made me more tired and the sugar because my dad was diagnosed as diabetic and I want to prevent it in myself any way possible. Black is about the only way I can drink my coffee now.
TL;DR: These are known as "acquired tastes". Once you go black, you can't go back.
| trees | t5_2r9vp | c1f07ai | I didn't like beer for years, until I went to Greece. I was more of a whiskey drinker when I went out to bars prior to my trip. But when a shot is gonna cost you 5 Euros (~$7) and a beer will cost you 2 Euros (~$3), you're gonna go with the beer. I got used to drinking a beer or 3 a day there and now it's hard for me to order anything else when I'm out at the bar. I like beer now, mostly mircobrew stuff but I can actually drink lower quality mass produced beers now too with no problem (PBR comes to mind...).
I'm similar with coffee. I used to drink it with a TON of cream and sugar because I liked the energy, but not the taste. Then I worked a strenuous, draining job and ditched the cream because I thought it made me more tired and the sugar because my dad was diagnosed as diabetic and I want to prevent it in myself any way possible. Black is about the only way I can drink my coffee now. | These are known as "acquired tastes". Once you go black, you can't go back. |
Dabigo | Ten minutes into our first session, one of my players landed his character in jail for summoning a giant badger to attack the other PCs. His character being a large breasted female gnome, he decided to try and seduce the guards.
The gnome proceeds to remove her shirt, grab a handful from the chamber pot in her cell, and massage feces onto her breasts, saying "I'm bi-po-lar..." And then he rolls for seduction. The guards get a nat 1 for their save
They unlock the cell and rush in to the gnome. Said gnome makes no attempt whatsoever to run out, and is grappled by the ravenous guards. After failing 2 extra grapple checks that I allow the player, I look him in the eye and say: "It happens"
TL:DR I had a shit covered gnome horribly prion raped | Ten minutes into our first session, one of my players landed his character in jail for summoning a giant badger to attack the other PCs. His character being a large breasted female gnome, he decided to try and seduce the guards.
The gnome proceeds to remove her shirt, grab a handful from the chamber pot in her cell, and massage feces onto her breasts, saying "I'm bi-po-lar..." And then he rolls for seduction. The guards get a nat 1 for their save
They unlock the cell and rush in to the gnome. Said gnome makes no attempt whatsoever to run out, and is grappled by the ravenous guards. After failing 2 extra grapple checks that I allow the player, I look him in the eye and say: "It happens"
TL:DR I had a shit covered gnome horribly prion raped
| rpg | t5_2qh2s | c1f04oz | Ten minutes into our first session, one of my players landed his character in jail for summoning a giant badger to attack the other PCs. His character being a large breasted female gnome, he decided to try and seduce the guards.
The gnome proceeds to remove her shirt, grab a handful from the chamber pot in her cell, and massage feces onto her breasts, saying "I'm bi-po-lar..." And then he rolls for seduction. The guards get a nat 1 for their save
They unlock the cell and rush in to the gnome. Said gnome makes no attempt whatsoever to run out, and is grappled by the ravenous guards. After failing 2 extra grapple checks that I allow the player, I look him in the eye and say: "It happens" | I had a shit covered gnome horribly prion raped |
lameth | My players had heard a rumor of a country whose borders had recently been sealed, so they decided to investigate. When they got to the border to the country they were met with a high wall and many guards. One of the guards, who acted quite weird towards the party, actually informed the characters that the country had been in seclusion since the assassination of the soon-to-be Queen of the Country.
Through distraction and magic the players found themselves in the countryside, making their way to the capitol city. Once there, they heard rumors of how much of a bastard the king had been since the death of his Queen, and how he had begun hoarding magic items in a monastery a few miles from the city. The players went to the monastery, found quite a few demons on their way to the catacombs, where they found a portal. Based on a few of the remnants of a log they'd found, they pieced together that this was a time-travel device. Not seeing the king, they decided to jump through the portal.
They players now found themselves in the past, the day of the Wedding, where the soon-to-be Queen was assassinated. They bumped into the unusual guard that had been kind to them when they had approached the main gates before, a half-elf. This is where they found out what the celebration was about. They decided to warn him about the assassination, and to try and find out more information. They found the aging King (from the future), and decided to help him get into the castle. They managed to get there in time for the ceremony, and at the last minute prior to the Queen getting shot, the King warned his past self, who jumped in front of the crossbow bolts, sacrificing himself for his Queen.
The adventurers became queezy at this point, as the (future) king had vanished, so they made their way back to the monastery. They jumped back through the portal to find themselves back in a desolate present, where bands of demons ruled the country, and made slaves of the current population. They were able to find the head guard, who was drunk and confused: it was his men that were to assassinate the queen, as she was a demon and led the demon armies, just as they'd told him. As soon as she'd been crowned, she had sent for her armies to invade. The players, confused by the captain regarding their own role, quickly made their way back to the time-travel device, which at this point was going haywire. They jumped back in, hoping to at least stave off the invasion.
This time they found themselves in the past, a week before the wedding. They again used coercion and magic to gain access to the castle, and began gathering evidence against the queen. They sought out the captain of the guard, and at the appropriate day and time waylaid the (future) king when he traveled to the past. They showed him all of the evidence, and he agreed that yes, it was for the best. He was told to find the other part of them, tell them that all would be well, and then the wedding, and assassination, happened as it always had, except this time the (older) king stayed the younger king's hand, not allowing himself to die. The king vanished again, and the players made their way through the portal.
When they appeared back in the present this time, the portal and device were gone. They made there way back to the city, and found the populace in better spirits, road and trade had been open all along. They were arrested, and brought before the king. The captain of the guard, whom they'd met three times now, was standing at attention next to the king, who appeared glad to see the players. He informed them that they, with the help of the elite shadow dancers, had saved the kingdom from demonic invasion. It had been the elite guard that had done the assassination all along. They'd found the evidence, but this time the king heard the evidence they presented him.
They had been the ones that caused the initial assassination, and subsequent blockade of the country. The only thing that changed were they were actual able to fix it in a way the king knew it was for the best. They were stunned that I'd designed the adventure as run, and that I knew they'd screw up trying to stop the assassination the first time around, and that they'd trust the captain of the guard each time.
They sat stunned for a few minutes, and couldn't really play after that for that session. Probably one of my crowning achievements as a DM.
**TL;DR** Convinced my players to cause an assassination that, when it went awry, caused demon hoards which they had to use time travel to fix. | My players had heard a rumor of a country whose borders had recently been sealed, so they decided to investigate. When they got to the border to the country they were met with a high wall and many guards. One of the guards, who acted quite weird towards the party, actually informed the characters that the country had been in seclusion since the assassination of the soon-to-be Queen of the Country.
Through distraction and magic the players found themselves in the countryside, making their way to the capitol city. Once there, they heard rumors of how much of a bastard the king had been since the death of his Queen, and how he had begun hoarding magic items in a monastery a few miles from the city. The players went to the monastery, found quite a few demons on their way to the catacombs, where they found a portal. Based on a few of the remnants of a log they'd found, they pieced together that this was a time-travel device. Not seeing the king, they decided to jump through the portal.
They players now found themselves in the past, the day of the Wedding, where the soon-to-be Queen was assassinated. They bumped into the unusual guard that had been kind to them when they had approached the main gates before, a half-elf. This is where they found out what the celebration was about. They decided to warn him about the assassination, and to try and find out more information. They found the aging King (from the future), and decided to help him get into the castle. They managed to get there in time for the ceremony, and at the last minute prior to the Queen getting shot, the King warned his past self, who jumped in front of the crossbow bolts, sacrificing himself for his Queen.
The adventurers became queezy at this point, as the (future) king had vanished, so they made their way back to the monastery. They jumped back through the portal to find themselves back in a desolate present, where bands of demons ruled the country, and made slaves of the current population. They were able to find the head guard, who was drunk and confused: it was his men that were to assassinate the queen, as she was a demon and led the demon armies, just as they'd told him. As soon as she'd been crowned, she had sent for her armies to invade. The players, confused by the captain regarding their own role, quickly made their way back to the time-travel device, which at this point was going haywire. They jumped back in, hoping to at least stave off the invasion.
This time they found themselves in the past, a week before the wedding. They again used coercion and magic to gain access to the castle, and began gathering evidence against the queen. They sought out the captain of the guard, and at the appropriate day and time waylaid the (future) king when he traveled to the past. They showed him all of the evidence, and he agreed that yes, it was for the best. He was told to find the other part of them, tell them that all would be well, and then the wedding, and assassination, happened as it always had, except this time the (older) king stayed the younger king's hand, not allowing himself to die. The king vanished again, and the players made their way through the portal.
When they appeared back in the present this time, the portal and device were gone. They made there way back to the city, and found the populace in better spirits, road and trade had been open all along. They were arrested, and brought before the king. The captain of the guard, whom they'd met three times now, was standing at attention next to the king, who appeared glad to see the players. He informed them that they, with the help of the elite shadow dancers, had saved the kingdom from demonic invasion. It had been the elite guard that had done the assassination all along. They'd found the evidence, but this time the king heard the evidence they presented him.
They had been the ones that caused the initial assassination, and subsequent blockade of the country. The only thing that changed were they were actual able to fix it in a way the king knew it was for the best. They were stunned that I'd designed the adventure as run, and that I knew they'd screw up trying to stop the assassination the first time around, and that they'd trust the captain of the guard each time.
They sat stunned for a few minutes, and couldn't really play after that for that session. Probably one of my crowning achievements as a DM.
TL;DR Convinced my players to cause an assassination that, when it went awry, caused demon hoards which they had to use time travel to fix.
| rpg | t5_2qh2s | c1f0m96 | My players had heard a rumor of a country whose borders had recently been sealed, so they decided to investigate. When they got to the border to the country they were met with a high wall and many guards. One of the guards, who acted quite weird towards the party, actually informed the characters that the country had been in seclusion since the assassination of the soon-to-be Queen of the Country.
Through distraction and magic the players found themselves in the countryside, making their way to the capitol city. Once there, they heard rumors of how much of a bastard the king had been since the death of his Queen, and how he had begun hoarding magic items in a monastery a few miles from the city. The players went to the monastery, found quite a few demons on their way to the catacombs, where they found a portal. Based on a few of the remnants of a log they'd found, they pieced together that this was a time-travel device. Not seeing the king, they decided to jump through the portal.
They players now found themselves in the past, the day of the Wedding, where the soon-to-be Queen was assassinated. They bumped into the unusual guard that had been kind to them when they had approached the main gates before, a half-elf. This is where they found out what the celebration was about. They decided to warn him about the assassination, and to try and find out more information. They found the aging King (from the future), and decided to help him get into the castle. They managed to get there in time for the ceremony, and at the last minute prior to the Queen getting shot, the King warned his past self, who jumped in front of the crossbow bolts, sacrificing himself for his Queen.
The adventurers became queezy at this point, as the (future) king had vanished, so they made their way back to the monastery. They jumped back through the portal to find themselves back in a desolate present, where bands of demons ruled the country, and made slaves of the current population. They were able to find the head guard, who was drunk and confused: it was his men that were to assassinate the queen, as she was a demon and led the demon armies, just as they'd told him. As soon as she'd been crowned, she had sent for her armies to invade. The players, confused by the captain regarding their own role, quickly made their way back to the time-travel device, which at this point was going haywire. They jumped back in, hoping to at least stave off the invasion.
This time they found themselves in the past, a week before the wedding. They again used coercion and magic to gain access to the castle, and began gathering evidence against the queen. They sought out the captain of the guard, and at the appropriate day and time waylaid the (future) king when he traveled to the past. They showed him all of the evidence, and he agreed that yes, it was for the best. He was told to find the other part of them, tell them that all would be well, and then the wedding, and assassination, happened as it always had, except this time the (older) king stayed the younger king's hand, not allowing himself to die. The king vanished again, and the players made their way through the portal.
When they appeared back in the present this time, the portal and device were gone. They made there way back to the city, and found the populace in better spirits, road and trade had been open all along. They were arrested, and brought before the king. The captain of the guard, whom they'd met three times now, was standing at attention next to the king, who appeared glad to see the players. He informed them that they, with the help of the elite shadow dancers, had saved the kingdom from demonic invasion. It had been the elite guard that had done the assassination all along. They'd found the evidence, but this time the king heard the evidence they presented him.
They had been the ones that caused the initial assassination, and subsequent blockade of the country. The only thing that changed were they were actual able to fix it in a way the king knew it was for the best. They were stunned that I'd designed the adventure as run, and that I knew they'd screw up trying to stop the assassination the first time around, and that they'd trust the captain of the guard each time.
They sat stunned for a few minutes, and couldn't really play after that for that session. Probably one of my crowning achievements as a DM. | Convinced my players to cause an assassination that, when it went awry, caused demon hoards which they had to use time travel to fix. |
Corund | So much villainy and dickishness in here, it's so beautiful.
The worse thing I ever managed to pull that I can remember, and keeps getting thrown back in my face at parties - when I'm invited to parties - was during a homebrew 3.5 game. I put the game on hiatus for a couple of weeks and made them roll a set of sideshow characters for the duration. I told them that:
* Your PCs will not be directly affected by these secondary characters (a bit of a lie), and,
* Half of the XP earned with the secondary characters will be taken over to the primaries (to give them some incentive)
The primary characters were stuck in a city that was snow-logged, they were facing down an unknown enemy who'd unleashed an ancient evil (would you believe it, that shit's always going down) in the form of seven titans, created by the God of Law to freeze the world in endless winter. The God of Law since relented and as this was a long time ago, the primal gods had since departed leaving the world in the hands of a bunch of squabbling lesser gods, one of who thought it would be really funny to release the titans from their imprisonment and see what happened.
To do this, he set up a bunch of adventurers to do the deed for him... You can see where I'm going with this.
TL:DR; turns out I made the Adventuring Party rp releasing the cause of the snowy devastation laying waste to the world. | So much villainy and dickishness in here, it's so beautiful.
The worse thing I ever managed to pull that I can remember, and keeps getting thrown back in my face at parties - when I'm invited to parties - was during a homebrew 3.5 game. I put the game on hiatus for a couple of weeks and made them roll a set of sideshow characters for the duration. I told them that:
Your PCs will not be directly affected by these secondary characters (a bit of a lie), and,
Half of the XP earned with the secondary characters will be taken over to the primaries (to give them some incentive)
The primary characters were stuck in a city that was snow-logged, they were facing down an unknown enemy who'd unleashed an ancient evil (would you believe it, that shit's always going down) in the form of seven titans, created by the God of Law to freeze the world in endless winter. The God of Law since relented and as this was a long time ago, the primal gods had since departed leaving the world in the hands of a bunch of squabbling lesser gods, one of who thought it would be really funny to release the titans from their imprisonment and see what happened.
To do this, he set up a bunch of adventurers to do the deed for him... You can see where I'm going with this.
TL:DR; turns out I made the Adventuring Party rp releasing the cause of the snowy devastation laying waste to the world.
| rpg | t5_2qh2s | c1f0pfz | So much villainy and dickishness in here, it's so beautiful.
The worse thing I ever managed to pull that I can remember, and keeps getting thrown back in my face at parties - when I'm invited to parties - was during a homebrew 3.5 game. I put the game on hiatus for a couple of weeks and made them roll a set of sideshow characters for the duration. I told them that:
Your PCs will not be directly affected by these secondary characters (a bit of a lie), and,
Half of the XP earned with the secondary characters will be taken over to the primaries (to give them some incentive)
The primary characters were stuck in a city that was snow-logged, they were facing down an unknown enemy who'd unleashed an ancient evil (would you believe it, that shit's always going down) in the form of seven titans, created by the God of Law to freeze the world in endless winter. The God of Law since relented and as this was a long time ago, the primal gods had since departed leaving the world in the hands of a bunch of squabbling lesser gods, one of who thought it would be really funny to release the titans from their imprisonment and see what happened.
To do this, he set up a bunch of adventurers to do the deed for him... You can see where I'm going with this. | turns out I made the Adventuring Party rp releasing the cause of the snowy devastation laying waste to the world. |
gregtron | Pretty much into low diamond you can get by with just a good grasp on the fundamental macro style of each race, and three solid, flexible standard openings. But, even if you're an awesome player, it's an uphill battle when, say, you and your opponent both know 15 solid builds inside and out because only 5 of yours apply at any given time.
The "macro macro macro" mentality is great for getting you into the higher leagues, but it eventually falls apart when you begin to play people who can not only macro like mother fuckers, but know how to counter specific builds and unit compositions, understand positioning, and are able to micro units effectively. Gaining incremental advantages is much harder when you're trying to learn three times as much as the next guy.
TL;DR: RANDO IS HARD, GUYS | Pretty much into low diamond you can get by with just a good grasp on the fundamental macro style of each race, and three solid, flexible standard openings. But, even if you're an awesome player, it's an uphill battle when, say, you and your opponent both know 15 solid builds inside and out because only 5 of yours apply at any given time.
The "macro macro macro" mentality is great for getting you into the higher leagues, but it eventually falls apart when you begin to play people who can not only macro like mother fuckers, but know how to counter specific builds and unit compositions, understand positioning, and are able to micro units effectively. Gaining incremental advantages is much harder when you're trying to learn three times as much as the next guy.
TL;DR: RANDO IS HARD, GUYS
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | c1f0w6k | Pretty much into low diamond you can get by with just a good grasp on the fundamental macro style of each race, and three solid, flexible standard openings. But, even if you're an awesome player, it's an uphill battle when, say, you and your opponent both know 15 solid builds inside and out because only 5 of yours apply at any given time.
The "macro macro macro" mentality is great for getting you into the higher leagues, but it eventually falls apart when you begin to play people who can not only macro like mother fuckers, but know how to counter specific builds and unit compositions, understand positioning, and are able to micro units effectively. Gaining incremental advantages is much harder when you're trying to learn three times as much as the next guy. | RANDO IS HARD, GUYS |
eric22vhs | Possibly, but let's not bash too much. Anyone who's a certain mild level of tech savvy develops their own preferences, and doesn't buy into commercials like these.
These commercials = for 30+ not so tech savvy people.
Apple commercials = for 20 something not so tech-savvy people who don't need expensive computers, but want to be fashionable.
If they were marketing to people who knew what they were doing, they would be telling you what's in the computer, not telling a joke, or showing a clip of a mom being able to easily do something perceived as complicated.
tldr: We're really all on the same team. | Possibly, but let's not bash too much. Anyone who's a certain mild level of tech savvy develops their own preferences, and doesn't buy into commercials like these.
These commercials = for 30+ not so tech savvy people.
Apple commercials = for 20 something not so tech-savvy people who don't need expensive computers, but want to be fashionable.
If they were marketing to people who knew what they were doing, they would be telling you what's in the computer, not telling a joke, or showing a clip of a mom being able to easily do something perceived as complicated.
tldr: We're really all on the same team.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | c1f25fo | Possibly, but let's not bash too much. Anyone who's a certain mild level of tech savvy develops their own preferences, and doesn't buy into commercials like these.
These commercials = for 30+ not so tech savvy people.
Apple commercials = for 20 something not so tech-savvy people who don't need expensive computers, but want to be fashionable.
If they were marketing to people who knew what they were doing, they would be telling you what's in the computer, not telling a joke, or showing a clip of a mom being able to easily do something perceived as complicated. | We're really all on the same team. |
dallashoosier | First off, I posted this because I wanted to generate a discussion. Whether I like this stuff being reported or not, it is, and I think it's worth talking about, even if the discussion veers towards talking about whether we should be talking about it in the first place. The great thing about Reddit is that if people disagree, they can vote stuff done - and a lot of links I post are voted down. This one has 15 upvotes and 26 comments as of this moment, so I guess others agreed that it was worthy of discussing. I am a blogger, and I enjoy presenting topics that will get people talking. I figured this would. That's why I posted.
Second, go ahead and report me to anyone. After what happened in r/fantasyfootball, I changed how I use Reddit to completely avoid even the appearance of impropriety. As many people know, I run the sports blog Midwest Sports Fans. It automatically gets put into the spam filter anytime I submit from it, which I am fine with. I still submit things from the site, though certainly not as often as before (trying to stick with only "the best" stuff) and email the mods to request that they consider it, which they sometimes do and sometimes don't. From that point, if it moves it moves, and I don't do anything to influence the vote. You are welcome to investigate me if you wish. I stand by my history. I am a very active member of both the r/nfl and r/sports communities and try to submit interesting links every day.
Yes, at one time I looked at Reddit as a potential source of traffic to my own sites as much as a place to browse and discuss and use as intended. I soon realized that a) this was not appreciated or accepted here; and b) it was a foolish and myopic view for me to take. Look back at my submission, vote, and comment history and you'll see the transition. You are welcome to "report" me again, though I don't know what you'd report me for. Being on Reddit for hours a day? Submitting interesting links? Participating in conversations?
tl;dr: I will "keep it up" because I do nothing wrong. If someone wants to "report" me, go right ahead. You'll find nothing inappropriate about how I use Reddit. | First off, I posted this because I wanted to generate a discussion. Whether I like this stuff being reported or not, it is, and I think it's worth talking about, even if the discussion veers towards talking about whether we should be talking about it in the first place. The great thing about Reddit is that if people disagree, they can vote stuff done - and a lot of links I post are voted down. This one has 15 upvotes and 26 comments as of this moment, so I guess others agreed that it was worthy of discussing. I am a blogger, and I enjoy presenting topics that will get people talking. I figured this would. That's why I posted.
Second, go ahead and report me to anyone. After what happened in r/fantasyfootball, I changed how I use Reddit to completely avoid even the appearance of impropriety. As many people know, I run the sports blog Midwest Sports Fans. It automatically gets put into the spam filter anytime I submit from it, which I am fine with. I still submit things from the site, though certainly not as often as before (trying to stick with only "the best" stuff) and email the mods to request that they consider it, which they sometimes do and sometimes don't. From that point, if it moves it moves, and I don't do anything to influence the vote. You are welcome to investigate me if you wish. I stand by my history. I am a very active member of both the r/nfl and r/sports communities and try to submit interesting links every day.
Yes, at one time I looked at Reddit as a potential source of traffic to my own sites as much as a place to browse and discuss and use as intended. I soon realized that a) this was not appreciated or accepted here; and b) it was a foolish and myopic view for me to take. Look back at my submission, vote, and comment history and you'll see the transition. You are welcome to "report" me again, though I don't know what you'd report me for. Being on Reddit for hours a day? Submitting interesting links? Participating in conversations?
tl;dr: I will "keep it up" because I do nothing wrong. If someone wants to "report" me, go right ahead. You'll find nothing inappropriate about how I use Reddit.
| nfl | t5_2qmg3 | c1f61e0 | First off, I posted this because I wanted to generate a discussion. Whether I like this stuff being reported or not, it is, and I think it's worth talking about, even if the discussion veers towards talking about whether we should be talking about it in the first place. The great thing about Reddit is that if people disagree, they can vote stuff done - and a lot of links I post are voted down. This one has 15 upvotes and 26 comments as of this moment, so I guess others agreed that it was worthy of discussing. I am a blogger, and I enjoy presenting topics that will get people talking. I figured this would. That's why I posted.
Second, go ahead and report me to anyone. After what happened in r/fantasyfootball, I changed how I use Reddit to completely avoid even the appearance of impropriety. As many people know, I run the sports blog Midwest Sports Fans. It automatically gets put into the spam filter anytime I submit from it, which I am fine with. I still submit things from the site, though certainly not as often as before (trying to stick with only "the best" stuff) and email the mods to request that they consider it, which they sometimes do and sometimes don't. From that point, if it moves it moves, and I don't do anything to influence the vote. You are welcome to investigate me if you wish. I stand by my history. I am a very active member of both the r/nfl and r/sports communities and try to submit interesting links every day.
Yes, at one time I looked at Reddit as a potential source of traffic to my own sites as much as a place to browse and discuss and use as intended. I soon realized that a) this was not appreciated or accepted here; and b) it was a foolish and myopic view for me to take. Look back at my submission, vote, and comment history and you'll see the transition. You are welcome to "report" me again, though I don't know what you'd report me for. Being on Reddit for hours a day? Submitting interesting links? Participating in conversations? | I will "keep it up" because I do nothing wrong. If someone wants to "report" me, go right ahead. You'll find nothing inappropriate about how I use Reddit. |
theonemankliq | I dunno, I mean...not to belabor the point about comic books, but it is sort of similar. Think about it - comic book nerds are kind of weird. The dedication to their favorite form of entertainment is kind of strange to people who may not like comics, and even people who happen to like things that are *like* comic books (not exactly sure what this is in this analogy...just bear with me). Ditto trekkies. Ditto Whovians. Ditto Star Wars fans. (I'm 2 and a half out of four here)
The point is, it doesn't make sense to you because you're not into it. I know, this is sort of a tautology, but that's sort of it. There are millions of different tastes out there; it just so happens that my tastes in entertainment happens to include a blend of acting, athletics and theatrics.
Completely unnecessary TL;DR - We like it because we like it. I don't like Lost, doesn't make me a bad person. | I dunno, I mean...not to belabor the point about comic books, but it is sort of similar. Think about it - comic book nerds are kind of weird. The dedication to their favorite form of entertainment is kind of strange to people who may not like comics, and even people who happen to like things that are like comic books (not exactly sure what this is in this analogy...just bear with me). Ditto trekkies. Ditto Whovians. Ditto Star Wars fans. (I'm 2 and a half out of four here)
The point is, it doesn't make sense to you because you're not into it. I know, this is sort of a tautology, but that's sort of it. There are millions of different tastes out there; it just so happens that my tastes in entertainment happens to include a blend of acting, athletics and theatrics.
Completely unnecessary TL;DR - We like it because we like it. I don't like Lost, doesn't make me a bad person.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | c1f9zp6 | I dunno, I mean...not to belabor the point about comic books, but it is sort of similar. Think about it - comic book nerds are kind of weird. The dedication to their favorite form of entertainment is kind of strange to people who may not like comics, and even people who happen to like things that are like comic books (not exactly sure what this is in this analogy...just bear with me). Ditto trekkies. Ditto Whovians. Ditto Star Wars fans. (I'm 2 and a half out of four here)
The point is, it doesn't make sense to you because you're not into it. I know, this is sort of a tautology, but that's sort of it. There are millions of different tastes out there; it just so happens that my tastes in entertainment happens to include a blend of acting, athletics and theatrics.
Completely unnecessary | We like it because we like it. I don't like Lost, doesn't make me a bad person. |
argv_minus_one | Examples of drastically different configuration file formats:
* ISC tools (`dhcpd.conf`, `named.conf`, etc): C-like curly-braces-and-semicolons syntax. Strings are in quotes; most other data types (including things like host names) are not.
* OpenSSH
* `ssh_config`, `sshd_config`: Mostly flat key-value. `ssh_config` has `Host` blocks with no block-introducing syntax other than the word `Host`, which will have to be special-cased by the parser.
* Key list files: In `authorized_keys`, each line has three parts—key format, Base64-encoded key data, and comment, separated by spaces. In `known_hosts`, each line has four parts—a list of comma-separated hostnames (possibly hashed), a space, and then the other three from the `authorized_keys` format.
* Private keys: `-----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY-----`, line break, Base64-encoded key data, line break, `-----END DSA PRIVATE KEY-----`. The only good reason I know of to encode something like this is so that it's easy to email, but private keys should never be emailed!
* Private keys *again*: `.keystore` files. Resembles Windows INI format. Section names are some kind of hash; keys are again Base64 encoded.
* Unix
* `passwd`, `group`, `shadow`, `gshadow`: Fields separated by colons.
* `fstab`, `mtab`: Fields separated by whitespace. `$DEITY` help you if you have a volume label with a space in it.
* Apache: Key-value with blocks that have a vaguely HTML-like syntax.
* `xorg.conf`: Key-value, but some special keys introduce blocks, which are terminated with `End`. Parsing this format properly without knowing its complete vocabulary must be a nightmare.
Notice how each format is used by only, at most, a small family of programs/libraries. Also notice that some have *more than one* configuration file format—Unix sort of has an excuse in that it is a large family of operating systems, but OpenSSH just suffers from massive amounts of legacy cruft.
And those are just some major ones. Try writing something esoteric like `ntp.conf` from scratch.
tl;dr: You're full of it. | Examples of drastically different configuration file formats:
ISC tools ( dhcpd.conf , named.conf , etc): C-like curly-braces-and-semicolons syntax. Strings are in quotes; most other data types (including things like host names) are not.
OpenSSH
ssh_config , sshd_config : Mostly flat key-value. ssh_config has Host blocks with no block-introducing syntax other than the word Host , which will have to be special-cased by the parser.
Key list files: In authorized_keys , each line has three parts—key format, Base64-encoded key data, and comment, separated by spaces. In known_hosts , each line has four parts—a list of comma-separated hostnames (possibly hashed), a space, and then the other three from the authorized_keys format.
Private keys: -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- , line break, Base64-encoded key data, line break, -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY----- . The only good reason I know of to encode something like this is so that it's easy to email, but private keys should never be emailed!
Private keys again : .keystore files. Resembles Windows INI format. Section names are some kind of hash; keys are again Base64 encoded.
Unix
passwd , group , shadow , gshadow : Fields separated by colons.
fstab , mtab : Fields separated by whitespace. $DEITY help you if you have a volume label with a space in it.
Apache: Key-value with blocks that have a vaguely HTML-like syntax.
xorg.conf : Key-value, but some special keys introduce blocks, which are terminated with End . Parsing this format properly without knowing its complete vocabulary must be a nightmare.
Notice how each format is used by only, at most, a small family of programs/libraries. Also notice that some have more than one configuration file format—Unix sort of has an excuse in that it is a large family of operating systems, but OpenSSH just suffers from massive amounts of legacy cruft.
And those are just some major ones. Try writing something esoteric like ntp.conf from scratch.
tl;dr: You're full of it.
| linux | t5_2qh1a | c1fdgk0 | Examples of drastically different configuration file formats:
ISC tools ( dhcpd.conf , named.conf , etc): C-like curly-braces-and-semicolons syntax. Strings are in quotes; most other data types (including things like host names) are not.
OpenSSH
ssh_config , sshd_config : Mostly flat key-value. ssh_config has Host blocks with no block-introducing syntax other than the word Host , which will have to be special-cased by the parser.
Key list files: In authorized_keys , each line has three parts—key format, Base64-encoded key data, and comment, separated by spaces. In known_hosts , each line has four parts—a list of comma-separated hostnames (possibly hashed), a space, and then the other three from the authorized_keys format.
Private keys: -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- , line break, Base64-encoded key data, line break, -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY----- . The only good reason I know of to encode something like this is so that it's easy to email, but private keys should never be emailed!
Private keys again : .keystore files. Resembles Windows INI format. Section names are some kind of hash; keys are again Base64 encoded.
Unix
passwd , group , shadow , gshadow : Fields separated by colons.
fstab , mtab : Fields separated by whitespace. $DEITY help you if you have a volume label with a space in it.
Apache: Key-value with blocks that have a vaguely HTML-like syntax.
xorg.conf : Key-value, but some special keys introduce blocks, which are terminated with End . Parsing this format properly without knowing its complete vocabulary must be a nightmare.
Notice how each format is used by only, at most, a small family of programs/libraries. Also notice that some have more than one configuration file format—Unix sort of has an excuse in that it is a large family of operating systems, but OpenSSH just suffers from massive amounts of legacy cruft.
And those are just some major ones. Try writing something esoteric like ntp.conf from scratch. | You're full of it. |
Optimal_Joy | I love this game, I played it today for a few hours and eventually reached the limit of the game where it won't let you get any more gun points.
I built a few cool ships with all kinds of configurations.
Eventually, I realized that the beam weapons were ridiculously powerful and could pretty much kill anything very quickly. You just hold down the mouse button and it kills everything.
So, I built a tank with a couple of those bad boys on there, but unfortunately the game just pretty much froze up when I tried to use it. It was completely unusable.
I have a pretty powerful computer, it's brand new, with an Intel Core i7 Quad core with HT, and a pretty powerful Nvidia video card and I can play all kinds of 3D games with buttery smooth frame rates with very high detail settings.
I tried Firefox, Opera, IE, Chrome.. all with the latest Flash. No joy. Very disappointing.
I don't have this problem with other configurations, only when I use the beam weapons. So it's still a lot of fun, but that particular weapon seems to be broken.
TL;DR: I find it pretty sad that this little 2D flash game brought my pretty decent gaming rig computer to its knees. | I love this game, I played it today for a few hours and eventually reached the limit of the game where it won't let you get any more gun points.
I built a few cool ships with all kinds of configurations.
Eventually, I realized that the beam weapons were ridiculously powerful and could pretty much kill anything very quickly. You just hold down the mouse button and it kills everything.
So, I built a tank with a couple of those bad boys on there, but unfortunately the game just pretty much froze up when I tried to use it. It was completely unusable.
I have a pretty powerful computer, it's brand new, with an Intel Core i7 Quad core with HT, and a pretty powerful Nvidia video card and I can play all kinds of 3D games with buttery smooth frame rates with very high detail settings.
I tried Firefox, Opera, IE, Chrome.. all with the latest Flash. No joy. Very disappointing.
I don't have this problem with other configurations, only when I use the beam weapons. So it's still a lot of fun, but that particular weapon seems to be broken.
TL;DR: I find it pretty sad that this little 2D flash game brought my pretty decent gaming rig computer to its knees.
| WebGames | t5_2qhoa | c1fez2x | I love this game, I played it today for a few hours and eventually reached the limit of the game where it won't let you get any more gun points.
I built a few cool ships with all kinds of configurations.
Eventually, I realized that the beam weapons were ridiculously powerful and could pretty much kill anything very quickly. You just hold down the mouse button and it kills everything.
So, I built a tank with a couple of those bad boys on there, but unfortunately the game just pretty much froze up when I tried to use it. It was completely unusable.
I have a pretty powerful computer, it's brand new, with an Intel Core i7 Quad core with HT, and a pretty powerful Nvidia video card and I can play all kinds of 3D games with buttery smooth frame rates with very high detail settings.
I tried Firefox, Opera, IE, Chrome.. all with the latest Flash. No joy. Very disappointing.
I don't have this problem with other configurations, only when I use the beam weapons. So it's still a lot of fun, but that particular weapon seems to be broken. | I find it pretty sad that this little 2D flash game brought my pretty decent gaming rig computer to its knees. |
lUseToLikeDogFort | This is the kind of reply that makes the concept of TLDR an abomination. | This is the kind of reply that makes the concept of TLDR an abomination.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | c1fkna2 | This is the kind of reply that makes the concept of | an abomination. |
jello_aka_aron | First, and always : **big hugs**
Wow... I can tell you, I've been there. For many, many years.
What got me out of that rut was finding a group through a common interest. Just hanging out in bars and stuff can be very difficult. Pick something you like... anime, reading, comics, bowling, rock climbing, whatever... and find a club/group/org that meets and does something with it. Since you'll have something to discuss and participate with those folks you'll find it a *lot* easier to make a connection.
I didn't even have a girlfriend at all until I was 22. Then I found myself in a good group of MST3k fans. Over the next two years I met *loads* of good folks there, had three fairly serious relationships and met the woman who would eventually become my wife.
**tl;dr - You're stuck in a rut and it's making you feel like shit. The problem isn't you, it's the rut. Find new outlet for your energy/time and it will get better!** | First, and always : big hugs
Wow... I can tell you, I've been there. For many, many years.
What got me out of that rut was finding a group through a common interest. Just hanging out in bars and stuff can be very difficult. Pick something you like... anime, reading, comics, bowling, rock climbing, whatever... and find a club/group/org that meets and does something with it. Since you'll have something to discuss and participate with those folks you'll find it a lot easier to make a connection.
I didn't even have a girlfriend at all until I was 22. Then I found myself in a good group of MST3k fans. Over the next two years I met loads of good folks there, had three fairly serious relationships and met the woman who would eventually become my wife.
tl;dr - You're stuck in a rut and it's making you feel like shit. The problem isn't you, it's the rut. Find new outlet for your energy/time and it will get better!
| lgbt | t5_2qhh7 | c1flq11 | First, and always : big hugs
Wow... I can tell you, I've been there. For many, many years.
What got me out of that rut was finding a group through a common interest. Just hanging out in bars and stuff can be very difficult. Pick something you like... anime, reading, comics, bowling, rock climbing, whatever... and find a club/group/org that meets and does something with it. Since you'll have something to discuss and participate with those folks you'll find it a lot easier to make a connection.
I didn't even have a girlfriend at all until I was 22. Then I found myself in a good group of MST3k fans. Over the next two years I met loads of good folks there, had three fairly serious relationships and met the woman who would eventually become my wife. | You're stuck in a rut and it's making you feel like shit. The problem isn't you, it's the rut. Find new outlet for your energy/time and it will get better! |
pedropants | You've been swapped to hell, my good sir! You're using more RAM than you have.
"126739(0) pageouts" means over the course of your uptime, over 495MB of RAM has been paged out to disk. VM (especially in OS X, sadly) is so horrendously slow, that it very quickly brings the system to its knees. Even after you've quit the apps using all the RAM, lots of pages are still on disk, so when you, say, click on a menu whose contents were in RAM, suddenly you have to wait for those pages to be swapped back in before the menu can appear.
2GB is NOT enough these days, on Mac OS. Even 4GB is really a bare minimum.
Get thee to crucial.com (or your favorite memory dealer) and buy the max amount that will fit.
Ever since I've upgraded to 8GB, I see "0(0) pageouts" unless I've really gone hog wild and opened too many things at once.
I tend to leave Activity Monitor.app open all the time, with the pie-chart memory usage graph in my dock. On the System Memory tab the two values to look for are "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" -- any time those grow to a sizeable amount, it's time to either reboot, or at least log out and back in.
I really wish Apple had done more work on VM performance. If you think about it, in the background, the OS could realize when you have free RAM, and copy back pages that are stuck in swap, but leave them in the swap file so that if you run out of pages it doesn't have to write them out, just know they're already there. Many other tricks can be used, too.
OS X also tries WAY too hard to keep upwards of 25% of your RAM for use as a disk cache, and there's no way for the user to adjust that. The blue "inactive" RAM on the pie chart is usually disk cache, and the system will prefer to swap out instead of just use that RAM for better use. It's silly.
TL;DR: 2GB is laughably too little RAM these days. 4GB is the bare minimum, and 8GB is very comfortable for most users. Sad, but true.
| You've been swapped to hell, my good sir! You're using more RAM than you have.
"126739(0) pageouts" means over the course of your uptime, over 495MB of RAM has been paged out to disk. VM (especially in OS X, sadly) is so horrendously slow, that it very quickly brings the system to its knees. Even after you've quit the apps using all the RAM, lots of pages are still on disk, so when you, say, click on a menu whose contents were in RAM, suddenly you have to wait for those pages to be swapped back in before the menu can appear.
2GB is NOT enough these days, on Mac OS. Even 4GB is really a bare minimum.
Get thee to crucial.com (or your favorite memory dealer) and buy the max amount that will fit.
Ever since I've upgraded to 8GB, I see "0(0) pageouts" unless I've really gone hog wild and opened too many things at once.
I tend to leave Activity Monitor.app open all the time, with the pie-chart memory usage graph in my dock. On the System Memory tab the two values to look for are "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" -- any time those grow to a sizeable amount, it's time to either reboot, or at least log out and back in.
I really wish Apple had done more work on VM performance. If you think about it, in the background, the OS could realize when you have free RAM, and copy back pages that are stuck in swap, but leave them in the swap file so that if you run out of pages it doesn't have to write them out, just know they're already there. Many other tricks can be used, too.
OS X also tries WAY too hard to keep upwards of 25% of your RAM for use as a disk cache, and there's no way for the user to adjust that. The blue "inactive" RAM on the pie chart is usually disk cache, and the system will prefer to swap out instead of just use that RAM for better use. It's silly.
TL;DR: 2GB is laughably too little RAM these days. 4GB is the bare minimum, and 8GB is very comfortable for most users. Sad, but true.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | c1fqmr3 | You've been swapped to hell, my good sir! You're using more RAM than you have.
"126739(0) pageouts" means over the course of your uptime, over 495MB of RAM has been paged out to disk. VM (especially in OS X, sadly) is so horrendously slow, that it very quickly brings the system to its knees. Even after you've quit the apps using all the RAM, lots of pages are still on disk, so when you, say, click on a menu whose contents were in RAM, suddenly you have to wait for those pages to be swapped back in before the menu can appear.
2GB is NOT enough these days, on Mac OS. Even 4GB is really a bare minimum.
Get thee to crucial.com (or your favorite memory dealer) and buy the max amount that will fit.
Ever since I've upgraded to 8GB, I see "0(0) pageouts" unless I've really gone hog wild and opened too many things at once.
I tend to leave Activity Monitor.app open all the time, with the pie-chart memory usage graph in my dock. On the System Memory tab the two values to look for are "Page outs:" and "Swap used:" -- any time those grow to a sizeable amount, it's time to either reboot, or at least log out and back in.
I really wish Apple had done more work on VM performance. If you think about it, in the background, the OS could realize when you have free RAM, and copy back pages that are stuck in swap, but leave them in the swap file so that if you run out of pages it doesn't have to write them out, just know they're already there. Many other tricks can be used, too.
OS X also tries WAY too hard to keep upwards of 25% of your RAM for use as a disk cache, and there's no way for the user to adjust that. The blue "inactive" RAM on the pie chart is usually disk cache, and the system will prefer to swap out instead of just use that RAM for better use. It's silly. | 2GB is laughably too little RAM these days. 4GB is the bare minimum, and 8GB is very comfortable for most users. Sad, but true. |
verusisrael | so I agree with the hivemind, it was pretty poor and not my taste. HOWEVER my uncles wife, the quintessential fox womans demographic of "american idol" and "desperate house wives" mom type, LOVED it. and so did all the other simple minded people in the room.
TL/DR: the majority of america is stupid, you **are** the hive-mind, you **are** superior! | so I agree with the hivemind, it was pretty poor and not my taste. HOWEVER my uncles wife, the quintessential fox womans demographic of "american idol" and "desperate house wives" mom type, LOVED it. and so did all the other simple minded people in the room.
TL/DR: the majority of america is stupid, you are the hive-mind, you are superior!
| offbeat | t5_2qh11 | c1ft963 | so I agree with the hivemind, it was pretty poor and not my taste. HOWEVER my uncles wife, the quintessential fox womans demographic of "american idol" and "desperate house wives" mom type, LOVED it. and so did all the other simple minded people in the room. | the majority of america is stupid, you are the hive-mind, you are superior! |
FyreWulff | The weapons are not hitscan, but the bullet travels the maximum distance possible in one frame in the engine for the DMR, Pistol, and Sniper Rifle. It's similiar to hitscan in that leading is not required with these weapons, but it has all the advantages of true bullet simulation like Halo 3 did. IE, no sweep sniping, no clients getting free hits, and the host doesn't automatically win if two people simultaneously hit each other on the host box.
In Halo 3, the only weapon that behaved like hitscan was the Spartan Laser (as it's maximum distance and first frame shot range were basically longer than any map that was ever shipped for 3). The BR, Pistol and every other weapon had bullet travel, which meant you had to lead your shots. People couldn't understand this and the bloom was not communicated via the HUD, hence the new way the DMR and Pistol work and the representation of bloom via the HUD.
tl;dr the DMR/Pistol/Sniper behave somewhat like hitscan, but the engine does not use hitscan for various reasons. | The weapons are not hitscan, but the bullet travels the maximum distance possible in one frame in the engine for the DMR, Pistol, and Sniper Rifle. It's similiar to hitscan in that leading is not required with these weapons, but it has all the advantages of true bullet simulation like Halo 3 did. IE, no sweep sniping, no clients getting free hits, and the host doesn't automatically win if two people simultaneously hit each other on the host box.
In Halo 3, the only weapon that behaved like hitscan was the Spartan Laser (as it's maximum distance and first frame shot range were basically longer than any map that was ever shipped for 3). The BR, Pistol and every other weapon had bullet travel, which meant you had to lead your shots. People couldn't understand this and the bloom was not communicated via the HUD, hence the new way the DMR and Pistol work and the representation of bloom via the HUD.
tl;dr the DMR/Pistol/Sniper behave somewhat like hitscan, but the engine does not use hitscan for various reasons.
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c1gbv4t | The weapons are not hitscan, but the bullet travels the maximum distance possible in one frame in the engine for the DMR, Pistol, and Sniper Rifle. It's similiar to hitscan in that leading is not required with these weapons, but it has all the advantages of true bullet simulation like Halo 3 did. IE, no sweep sniping, no clients getting free hits, and the host doesn't automatically win if two people simultaneously hit each other on the host box.
In Halo 3, the only weapon that behaved like hitscan was the Spartan Laser (as it's maximum distance and first frame shot range were basically longer than any map that was ever shipped for 3). The BR, Pistol and every other weapon had bullet travel, which meant you had to lead your shots. People couldn't understand this and the bloom was not communicated via the HUD, hence the new way the DMR and Pistol work and the representation of bloom via the HUD. | the DMR/Pistol/Sniper behave somewhat like hitscan, but the engine does not use hitscan for various reasons. |
urb4n | Yeah why should people be able to do what they want to have fun?
Oh wait because when you don't block others from exercising their rights, you are entitled to yours.
tl;dr- you're a douche | Yeah why should people be able to do what they want to have fun?
Oh wait because when you don't block others from exercising their rights, you are entitled to yours.
tl;dr- you're a douche
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1g1atl | Yeah why should people be able to do what they want to have fun?
Oh wait because when you don't block others from exercising their rights, you are entitled to yours. | you're a douche |
CogsAndGears | Just as ignorance is a gift, faith is a gift too, I'd say. Same thing actually.
Not being able to care about the intricate workings of the world around one is a blessing. A mixed one, for sure, but it definitely makes ones life easier.
Life is more carefree and basically nicer and less frustrating if one accepts everything on the basis of "devine plan" and "because God did it", rather than having to think about complicated scientific stuff like physics, math, geology and so on.
Also, having an unmoving religious source of "knowledge" removes the need for continuous education, as the sciencentific pool of knowledge keeps on growing on a almost daily basis. Grab yourself a bible or a qur'an and your knowledge is always up to date, as it has been for about 2000 years after all.
**TL;DR:** Ignorance is a gift too. | Just as ignorance is a gift, faith is a gift too, I'd say. Same thing actually.
Not being able to care about the intricate workings of the world around one is a blessing. A mixed one, for sure, but it definitely makes ones life easier.
Life is more carefree and basically nicer and less frustrating if one accepts everything on the basis of "devine plan" and "because God did it", rather than having to think about complicated scientific stuff like physics, math, geology and so on.
Also, having an unmoving religious source of "knowledge" removes the need for continuous education, as the sciencentific pool of knowledge keeps on growing on a almost daily basis. Grab yourself a bible or a qur'an and your knowledge is always up to date, as it has been for about 2000 years after all.
TL;DR: Ignorance is a gift too.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1g33dv | Just as ignorance is a gift, faith is a gift too, I'd say. Same thing actually.
Not being able to care about the intricate workings of the world around one is a blessing. A mixed one, for sure, but it definitely makes ones life easier.
Life is more carefree and basically nicer and less frustrating if one accepts everything on the basis of "devine plan" and "because God did it", rather than having to think about complicated scientific stuff like physics, math, geology and so on.
Also, having an unmoving religious source of "knowledge" removes the need for continuous education, as the sciencentific pool of knowledge keeps on growing on a almost daily basis. Grab yourself a bible or a qur'an and your knowledge is always up to date, as it has been for about 2000 years after all. | Ignorance is a gift too. |
spitfire8125 | I agree with you that anyone who can and has looked into the LP should donate. Third parties can't do anything without financial support, and every bit counts.
But I think it should be pointed out that many people who are just being introduced to libertarianism will be fed up with political parties in general, and leery to affiliate themselves with the LP, let alone make a donation.
The battle for political influence is almost impossible for the LP right now. For the party to gain enough members and money to truly have a chance of winning elections, more people need to understand and identify with libertarianism. I have a hunch that there are a LOT of people out there who would be libertarians, if they knew what it meant. Unfortunately, the understood American political dynamic is red vs. blue, Republican vs. Democrat, right vs. left, conservative vs. liberal. Once people understand that there is another spectrum, libertarianism vs. statism, they'll understand their discontent with both major parties.
Like I said before, the LP is a worthy cause, but personally my action is education. Telling everyone I know, "Hey! Fed up with political parties? Ever heard of libertarianism? Here's why its great!" is a good way of explaining the ideas without aggrevating people's cynicism about political parties in general.
TL;DR - The LP is good, but many are leery of political parties. Be active through education. People need to understand lower-case libertarianism before they become upper-case Libertarians.
| I agree with you that anyone who can and has looked into the LP should donate. Third parties can't do anything without financial support, and every bit counts.
But I think it should be pointed out that many people who are just being introduced to libertarianism will be fed up with political parties in general, and leery to affiliate themselves with the LP, let alone make a donation.
The battle for political influence is almost impossible for the LP right now. For the party to gain enough members and money to truly have a chance of winning elections, more people need to understand and identify with libertarianism. I have a hunch that there are a LOT of people out there who would be libertarians, if they knew what it meant. Unfortunately, the understood American political dynamic is red vs. blue, Republican vs. Democrat, right vs. left, conservative vs. liberal. Once people understand that there is another spectrum, libertarianism vs. statism, they'll understand their discontent with both major parties.
Like I said before, the LP is a worthy cause, but personally my action is education. Telling everyone I know, "Hey! Fed up with political parties? Ever heard of libertarianism? Here's why its great!" is a good way of explaining the ideas without aggrevating people's cynicism about political parties in general.
TL;DR - The LP is good, but many are leery of political parties. Be active through education. People need to understand lower-case libertarianism before they become upper-case Libertarians.
| Libertarian | t5_2qh63 | c1g8x3p | I agree with you that anyone who can and has looked into the LP should donate. Third parties can't do anything without financial support, and every bit counts.
But I think it should be pointed out that many people who are just being introduced to libertarianism will be fed up with political parties in general, and leery to affiliate themselves with the LP, let alone make a donation.
The battle for political influence is almost impossible for the LP right now. For the party to gain enough members and money to truly have a chance of winning elections, more people need to understand and identify with libertarianism. I have a hunch that there are a LOT of people out there who would be libertarians, if they knew what it meant. Unfortunately, the understood American political dynamic is red vs. blue, Republican vs. Democrat, right vs. left, conservative vs. liberal. Once people understand that there is another spectrum, libertarianism vs. statism, they'll understand their discontent with both major parties.
Like I said before, the LP is a worthy cause, but personally my action is education. Telling everyone I know, "Hey! Fed up with political parties? Ever heard of libertarianism? Here's why its great!" is a good way of explaining the ideas without aggrevating people's cynicism about political parties in general. | The LP is good, but many are leery of political parties. Be active through education. People need to understand lower-case libertarianism before they become upper-case Libertarians. |
Bonerificus | I don't like this. As far as I can tell, no problems are solved here. Protoss balls aren't particularly powerful on LT, and nerfing them really cripples a key stage of protoss play.
I don't like the third base location for Protoss or Zerg at all either. This is another crutch on the Protoss Ball, but weakens Zerg macro much more.
The Zel'Naga change, in my opinion, doesn't solve anything either. It punished a player for delaying siege tech, but didn't put the nail in their coffin. Now we don't get to see as much drop play or other midgame shenanigans.
The rocks are fantastic. It gives all three races a decent tool which can be taken advantage of, and also allows for stellar play and micro from the defenders. The only problem I see is a possible full tank push from the rock's path against Z with drops in the main, but that won't be very common.
TL; DR: Nerfs in the wrong places, discourages macro, and really doesn't help Z spawn reliance. The backdoor rocks are a positive in that they allow for balanced dynamic in play.
| I don't like this. As far as I can tell, no problems are solved here. Protoss balls aren't particularly powerful on LT, and nerfing them really cripples a key stage of protoss play.
I don't like the third base location for Protoss or Zerg at all either. This is another crutch on the Protoss Ball, but weakens Zerg macro much more.
The Zel'Naga change, in my opinion, doesn't solve anything either. It punished a player for delaying siege tech, but didn't put the nail in their coffin. Now we don't get to see as much drop play or other midgame shenanigans.
The rocks are fantastic. It gives all three races a decent tool which can be taken advantage of, and also allows for stellar play and micro from the defenders. The only problem I see is a possible full tank push from the rock's path against Z with drops in the main, but that won't be very common.
TL; DR: Nerfs in the wrong places, discourages macro, and really doesn't help Z spawn reliance. The backdoor rocks are a positive in that they allow for balanced dynamic in play.
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | c1g6hra | I don't like this. As far as I can tell, no problems are solved here. Protoss balls aren't particularly powerful on LT, and nerfing them really cripples a key stage of protoss play.
I don't like the third base location for Protoss or Zerg at all either. This is another crutch on the Protoss Ball, but weakens Zerg macro much more.
The Zel'Naga change, in my opinion, doesn't solve anything either. It punished a player for delaying siege tech, but didn't put the nail in their coffin. Now we don't get to see as much drop play or other midgame shenanigans.
The rocks are fantastic. It gives all three races a decent tool which can be taken advantage of, and also allows for stellar play and micro from the defenders. The only problem I see is a possible full tank push from the rock's path against Z with drops in the main, but that won't be very common. | Nerfs in the wrong places, discourages macro, and really doesn't help Z spawn reliance. The backdoor rocks are a positive in that they allow for balanced dynamic in play. |
Cadamar | I still feel like this.
Particularly when the group is going down, I die, reincarnate, pop Earth Elemental totem (and apparently I can also pop Fire Elemental at the same time as of 4.0.6?), spam chain heal, thunderstorm and earthquake and save the day.
Later on I'll drop Far Sight for kicks.
tl;dr I still feel like a Swiss Army Knife, moreso than on any other class. | I still feel like this.
Particularly when the group is going down, I die, reincarnate, pop Earth Elemental totem (and apparently I can also pop Fire Elemental at the same time as of 4.0.6?), spam chain heal, thunderstorm and earthquake and save the day.
Later on I'll drop Far Sight for kicks.
tl;dr I still feel like a Swiss Army Knife, moreso than on any other class.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | c1gdb8b | I still feel like this.
Particularly when the group is going down, I die, reincarnate, pop Earth Elemental totem (and apparently I can also pop Fire Elemental at the same time as of 4.0.6?), spam chain heal, thunderstorm and earthquake and save the day.
Later on I'll drop Far Sight for kicks. | I still feel like a Swiss Army Knife, moreso than on any other class. |
RAW-BERRY | As a resto shaman, heroics were terrible for me at first. I jumped right into it as soon as possible, and actually healed through my first heroic entirely w/o a wipe. However, I got kicked from about 3 straight groups after that, but not because I was bad at healing, but because there was no CC, and the CC I put up always got broken. So, I eventually got to the point where I just started giving out CC orders if no one else did. (Kind of unusual for me) And thus far, things have been great as a shaman healer.
tl;dr It gets better as you go and learn. Just make sure people are using their CC's. | As a resto shaman, heroics were terrible for me at first. I jumped right into it as soon as possible, and actually healed through my first heroic entirely w/o a wipe. However, I got kicked from about 3 straight groups after that, but not because I was bad at healing, but because there was no CC, and the CC I put up always got broken. So, I eventually got to the point where I just started giving out CC orders if no one else did. (Kind of unusual for me) And thus far, things have been great as a shaman healer.
tl;dr It gets better as you go and learn. Just make sure people are using their CC's.
| wow | t5_2qio8 | c1ge9rj | As a resto shaman, heroics were terrible for me at first. I jumped right into it as soon as possible, and actually healed through my first heroic entirely w/o a wipe. However, I got kicked from about 3 straight groups after that, but not because I was bad at healing, but because there was no CC, and the CC I put up always got broken. So, I eventually got to the point where I just started giving out CC orders if no one else did. (Kind of unusual for me) And thus far, things have been great as a shaman healer. | It gets better as you go and learn. Just make sure people are using their CC's. |
windoze9x | For some reason (maybe the steel wool filters or you aren't burning the dmt) smoking out of a real vaporizer or the machine gives you a pretty gentle smoke. If you smoke out of an oil burner or anything else you will probably end up with very harsh smoke. Harsh as in lungs on fire. I used a machine at first but found it not to be as efficient as the vapor genie I have now. If you end up doing dmt for the long haul the glass vapor genie is highly recommended.
tl;dr: real vapes save you some pain, the machine is cheap, glass vapor genie = one of the best. | For some reason (maybe the steel wool filters or you aren't burning the dmt) smoking out of a real vaporizer or the machine gives you a pretty gentle smoke. If you smoke out of an oil burner or anything else you will probably end up with very harsh smoke. Harsh as in lungs on fire. I used a machine at first but found it not to be as efficient as the vapor genie I have now. If you end up doing dmt for the long haul the glass vapor genie is highly recommended.
tl;dr: real vapes save you some pain, the machine is cheap, glass vapor genie = one of the best.
| Psychonaut | t5_2qplv | c1ja7r5 | For some reason (maybe the steel wool filters or you aren't burning the dmt) smoking out of a real vaporizer or the machine gives you a pretty gentle smoke. If you smoke out of an oil burner or anything else you will probably end up with very harsh smoke. Harsh as in lungs on fire. I used a machine at first but found it not to be as efficient as the vapor genie I have now. If you end up doing dmt for the long haul the glass vapor genie is highly recommended. | real vapes save you some pain, the machine is cheap, glass vapor genie = one of the best. |
p1nkfl0yd1an | I'm fairly convinced this is what happened to my Dad. Long story short he was an awesome guy. Taught me how to throw a football, was a great husband to my mom, and considered my sister and me to be his most important priorities.
One night on his way home from work he totaled his truck. It was rainy, late, and he was tired. As he came over the crest of a large hill there were two black angus cows getting it on in the middle of the road. Once he came over the hill and saw two cows literally fucking, there was barely time to slam on the brakes before impacting them at 55 miles per hour.
He woke up a short while later, and thought he was dead. The combination of rain pouring down on him, and the frightened voices of a newlywed couple who had happened upon the scene brought him back to consciousness. At first he thought he had died. One minute behind he was behind the wheel of his F-150, the next suddenly being rained upon in the company of strangers.
He was never the same after eventually returning home. He'd never undergone any cat scans, x-rays, or psych evaluations after his accident. The EMT's that eventually arrived on the scene decided he'd just been ejected from the truck (wearing a seatbelt), hit his head, and luckily sustained no *serious* head injuries. Within a few weeks he started cheating on my Mom, and quit showing up to my performances. He went from a talkative, outgoing guy with an awesome sense of humor to a dull, boring person with NO ability to detect sarcasm or exaggeration.
Sorry for the long preface, but do you feel that your experience has led to you being unable/unwilling to treat people you cared about in the same manner you always had before? In some of my offhand googling, I've read that even a simple 5mph fender bender can result in *slight* brain injury that completely changes a person's behavior. I do know my Dad feels very guilty about the literal fact that he no longer *really* cares about what happens to my family. He knows he's supposed to, but there's just been a disconnect ever since the accident.... anyway I'm rambling.
TL;DR - Even slight head trauma can result in extreme personality shifts. Has your experience led to you being uninterested in the people who you had previously been closest to? It happened to my Dad and I've been struggling with the consequences ever since. I would greatly appreciate some insight from someone who recognizes that a head injury has permanently altered their psychology. | I'm fairly convinced this is what happened to my Dad. Long story short he was an awesome guy. Taught me how to throw a football, was a great husband to my mom, and considered my sister and me to be his most important priorities.
One night on his way home from work he totaled his truck. It was rainy, late, and he was tired. As he came over the crest of a large hill there were two black angus cows getting it on in the middle of the road. Once he came over the hill and saw two cows literally fucking, there was barely time to slam on the brakes before impacting them at 55 miles per hour.
He woke up a short while later, and thought he was dead. The combination of rain pouring down on him, and the frightened voices of a newlywed couple who had happened upon the scene brought him back to consciousness. At first he thought he had died. One minute behind he was behind the wheel of his F-150, the next suddenly being rained upon in the company of strangers.
He was never the same after eventually returning home. He'd never undergone any cat scans, x-rays, or psych evaluations after his accident. The EMT's that eventually arrived on the scene decided he'd just been ejected from the truck (wearing a seatbelt), hit his head, and luckily sustained no serious head injuries. Within a few weeks he started cheating on my Mom, and quit showing up to my performances. He went from a talkative, outgoing guy with an awesome sense of humor to a dull, boring person with NO ability to detect sarcasm or exaggeration.
Sorry for the long preface, but do you feel that your experience has led to you being unable/unwilling to treat people you cared about in the same manner you always had before? In some of my offhand googling, I've read that even a simple 5mph fender bender can result in slight brain injury that completely changes a person's behavior. I do know my Dad feels very guilty about the literal fact that he no longer really cares about what happens to my family. He knows he's supposed to, but there's just been a disconnect ever since the accident.... anyway I'm rambling.
TL;DR - Even slight head trauma can result in extreme personality shifts. Has your experience led to you being uninterested in the people who you had previously been closest to? It happened to my Dad and I've been struggling with the consequences ever since. I would greatly appreciate some insight from someone who recognizes that a head injury has permanently altered their psychology.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c1gpxbq | I'm fairly convinced this is what happened to my Dad. Long story short he was an awesome guy. Taught me how to throw a football, was a great husband to my mom, and considered my sister and me to be his most important priorities.
One night on his way home from work he totaled his truck. It was rainy, late, and he was tired. As he came over the crest of a large hill there were two black angus cows getting it on in the middle of the road. Once he came over the hill and saw two cows literally fucking, there was barely time to slam on the brakes before impacting them at 55 miles per hour.
He woke up a short while later, and thought he was dead. The combination of rain pouring down on him, and the frightened voices of a newlywed couple who had happened upon the scene brought him back to consciousness. At first he thought he had died. One minute behind he was behind the wheel of his F-150, the next suddenly being rained upon in the company of strangers.
He was never the same after eventually returning home. He'd never undergone any cat scans, x-rays, or psych evaluations after his accident. The EMT's that eventually arrived on the scene decided he'd just been ejected from the truck (wearing a seatbelt), hit his head, and luckily sustained no serious head injuries. Within a few weeks he started cheating on my Mom, and quit showing up to my performances. He went from a talkative, outgoing guy with an awesome sense of humor to a dull, boring person with NO ability to detect sarcasm or exaggeration.
Sorry for the long preface, but do you feel that your experience has led to you being unable/unwilling to treat people you cared about in the same manner you always had before? In some of my offhand googling, I've read that even a simple 5mph fender bender can result in slight brain injury that completely changes a person's behavior. I do know my Dad feels very guilty about the literal fact that he no longer really cares about what happens to my family. He knows he's supposed to, but there's just been a disconnect ever since the accident.... anyway I'm rambling. | Even slight head trauma can result in extreme personality shifts. Has your experience led to you being uninterested in the people who you had previously been closest to? It happened to my Dad and I've been struggling with the consequences ever since. I would greatly appreciate some insight from someone who recognizes that a head injury has permanently altered their psychology. |
Midtronic | Well, I hadn't heard that about the design of the LP.
The original 78s could hold 4 minutes of music per side (I have been told that this may be responsible for short pop singles).
Then there were the 33 1/3, which could do 11 minutes per side
Victor took the rotation speed and increased time to 15 minutes a side
Columbia soon developed a way to hold 20 minutes a side
CBS followed up with 78 rpm and 22.5 minutes a side, which is about where technological development ended.
So, you know what, looking at the Beethoven symphonies, I'm wondering if there were cases where the first two movements would fit onto the disk only if a repeat wasn't taken to save an extra 2 minutes.
There are numerous ways to increase the amount of time you have on an LP, and numerous tradeoffs you need to take into account when doing so. You can make the grooves smaller, so there's more recording surface, but this loses fidelity and may hurt your needle. You can equalize in such a way as you remove a bunch of frequencies, which again hurts fidelity but allows longer recording time.
TL;DR - We'd need to ask Karajan or the recording engineer :-)
| Well, I hadn't heard that about the design of the LP.
The original 78s could hold 4 minutes of music per side (I have been told that this may be responsible for short pop singles).
Then there were the 33 1/3, which could do 11 minutes per side
Victor took the rotation speed and increased time to 15 minutes a side
Columbia soon developed a way to hold 20 minutes a side
CBS followed up with 78 rpm and 22.5 minutes a side, which is about where technological development ended.
So, you know what, looking at the Beethoven symphonies, I'm wondering if there were cases where the first two movements would fit onto the disk only if a repeat wasn't taken to save an extra 2 minutes.
There are numerous ways to increase the amount of time you have on an LP, and numerous tradeoffs you need to take into account when doing so. You can make the grooves smaller, so there's more recording surface, but this loses fidelity and may hurt your needle. You can equalize in such a way as you remove a bunch of frequencies, which again hurts fidelity but allows longer recording time.
TL;DR - We'd need to ask Karajan or the recording engineer :-)
| classicalmusic | t5_2qhyq | c1h0jbq | Well, I hadn't heard that about the design of the LP.
The original 78s could hold 4 minutes of music per side (I have been told that this may be responsible for short pop singles).
Then there were the 33 1/3, which could do 11 minutes per side
Victor took the rotation speed and increased time to 15 minutes a side
Columbia soon developed a way to hold 20 minutes a side
CBS followed up with 78 rpm and 22.5 minutes a side, which is about where technological development ended.
So, you know what, looking at the Beethoven symphonies, I'm wondering if there were cases where the first two movements would fit onto the disk only if a repeat wasn't taken to save an extra 2 minutes.
There are numerous ways to increase the amount of time you have on an LP, and numerous tradeoffs you need to take into account when doing so. You can make the grooves smaller, so there's more recording surface, but this loses fidelity and may hurt your needle. You can equalize in such a way as you remove a bunch of frequencies, which again hurts fidelity but allows longer recording time. | We'd need to ask Karajan or the recording engineer :-) |
DebtOn | More or less, yes. See, in California, our methods of production and distribution are already pretty established without the help of the government. However, now they want a piece of this enormous cash crop now, so they're looking for ways to regulate and tax it. Growers and their friends are very concerned that this will put them out of business, that they'll go down for not paying taxes, or that mass production will drive prices so low they can't stay in business, or that the government will require expensive permits that are prohibitively expensive for an operation of their size. In fact, that's exactly what Oakland wants to do: sell permits in excess of $100,000 for massive grow operations.
Personally, I can't imagine that the black market is going away any time soon, these channels are too well established for a few laws to just make them go away overnight. There will just be more options. Prices may come down as supply goes up, but that's to be expected, prices have been going down here anyway. And I'd rather be dodging tax evasion charges than drug enforcement agents any day.
TL;DR Yeah, they don't like economies of scale for their marijuana because it needs to be local and organic. Welcome to California. | More or less, yes. See, in California, our methods of production and distribution are already pretty established without the help of the government. However, now they want a piece of this enormous cash crop now, so they're looking for ways to regulate and tax it. Growers and their friends are very concerned that this will put them out of business, that they'll go down for not paying taxes, or that mass production will drive prices so low they can't stay in business, or that the government will require expensive permits that are prohibitively expensive for an operation of their size. In fact, that's exactly what Oakland wants to do: sell permits in excess of $100,000 for massive grow operations.
Personally, I can't imagine that the black market is going away any time soon, these channels are too well established for a few laws to just make them go away overnight. There will just be more options. Prices may come down as supply goes up, but that's to be expected, prices have been going down here anyway. And I'd rather be dodging tax evasion charges than drug enforcement agents any day.
TL;DR Yeah, they don't like economies of scale for their marijuana because it needs to be local and organic. Welcome to California.
| cannabis | t5_2qhg2 | c1h8175 | More or less, yes. See, in California, our methods of production and distribution are already pretty established without the help of the government. However, now they want a piece of this enormous cash crop now, so they're looking for ways to regulate and tax it. Growers and their friends are very concerned that this will put them out of business, that they'll go down for not paying taxes, or that mass production will drive prices so low they can't stay in business, or that the government will require expensive permits that are prohibitively expensive for an operation of their size. In fact, that's exactly what Oakland wants to do: sell permits in excess of $100,000 for massive grow operations.
Personally, I can't imagine that the black market is going away any time soon, these channels are too well established for a few laws to just make them go away overnight. There will just be more options. Prices may come down as supply goes up, but that's to be expected, prices have been going down here anyway. And I'd rather be dodging tax evasion charges than drug enforcement agents any day. | Yeah, they don't like economies of scale for their marijuana because it needs to be local and organic. Welcome to California. |
1_player | Very exhaustive.
> Caffeine still makes my thought "shotgun" and become harder to focus, but I can still do tasks to completion.
Yep, I do not like coffee now, too edgy, can't keep my feet still, I have to redose after a couple of hours and by the end of the day I've shouted at someone or I've got a bad stomach-ache.
> Downsides: But first, in case you didn't know, adrafinil takes longer to work since your it goes through your liver which is when it becomes modafinil.
30 minutes with Modafinil and 90 minutes with Adrafinil, the latter being about 1/10th of the cost. I can wait.
> Anyway, downsides I've noticed are times where I zone out. I'm thinking and I'm awake, but I just zone out really bad. Maybe that's just sleepiness catching up with me.
I think this is normal to happen. There are days when I'm just a bit down. We're human.
> Time seems to fly by faster. I guess that could be seen as good or bad.
To me it is good. 9 hours at work can be *really* long if you're bored. Now I'm focused and time flies, so it is good the day is over, I've done my job and I'm still mentally active.
> It fucks up your sleep schedule if you let it.
Indeed, I've read of people using it constantly to stay awake 3 days. Actually, the army invented it for this reason, but in my case I need about 8 full hours of sleep to feel refreshed, and I usually can't sleep more than 6.5 on average on weekdays. On weekends I sleep till 11 to reset the little sleep deprivation.
> TL;DR modafinil makes you ramble away for half an hour when you ment to make a couple sentence comment.
Hahah, yes, my last two posts on Reddit are poems. | Very exhaustive.
> Caffeine still makes my thought "shotgun" and become harder to focus, but I can still do tasks to completion.
Yep, I do not like coffee now, too edgy, can't keep my feet still, I have to redose after a couple of hours and by the end of the day I've shouted at someone or I've got a bad stomach-ache.
> Downsides: But first, in case you didn't know, adrafinil takes longer to work since your it goes through your liver which is when it becomes modafinil.
30 minutes with Modafinil and 90 minutes with Adrafinil, the latter being about 1/10th of the cost. I can wait.
> Anyway, downsides I've noticed are times where I zone out. I'm thinking and I'm awake, but I just zone out really bad. Maybe that's just sleepiness catching up with me.
I think this is normal to happen. There are days when I'm just a bit down. We're human.
> Time seems to fly by faster. I guess that could be seen as good or bad.
To me it is good. 9 hours at work can be really long if you're bored. Now I'm focused and time flies, so it is good the day is over, I've done my job and I'm still mentally active.
> It fucks up your sleep schedule if you let it.
Indeed, I've read of people using it constantly to stay awake 3 days. Actually, the army invented it for this reason, but in my case I need about 8 full hours of sleep to feel refreshed, and I usually can't sleep more than 6.5 on average on weekdays. On weekends I sleep till 11 to reset the little sleep deprivation.
> TL;DR modafinil makes you ramble away for half an hour when you ment to make a couple sentence comment.
Hahah, yes, my last two posts on Reddit are poems.
| Nootropics | t5_2r81c | c1h5hy5 | Very exhaustive.
> Caffeine still makes my thought "shotgun" and become harder to focus, but I can still do tasks to completion.
Yep, I do not like coffee now, too edgy, can't keep my feet still, I have to redose after a couple of hours and by the end of the day I've shouted at someone or I've got a bad stomach-ache.
> Downsides: But first, in case you didn't know, adrafinil takes longer to work since your it goes through your liver which is when it becomes modafinil.
30 minutes with Modafinil and 90 minutes with Adrafinil, the latter being about 1/10th of the cost. I can wait.
> Anyway, downsides I've noticed are times where I zone out. I'm thinking and I'm awake, but I just zone out really bad. Maybe that's just sleepiness catching up with me.
I think this is normal to happen. There are days when I'm just a bit down. We're human.
> Time seems to fly by faster. I guess that could be seen as good or bad.
To me it is good. 9 hours at work can be really long if you're bored. Now I'm focused and time flies, so it is good the day is over, I've done my job and I'm still mentally active.
> It fucks up your sleep schedule if you let it.
Indeed, I've read of people using it constantly to stay awake 3 days. Actually, the army invented it for this reason, but in my case I need about 8 full hours of sleep to feel refreshed, and I usually can't sleep more than 6.5 on average on weekdays. On weekends I sleep till 11 to reset the little sleep deprivation.
> | modafinil makes you ramble away for half an hour when you ment to make a couple sentence comment.
Hahah, yes, my last two posts on Reddit are poems. |
sp1kermd | My understanding is that schedule F are all prescription drugs. Part I of the act covers drugs that are prescription for humans AND animals, and part II is drugs that are prescription for humans but not for animals (as long as they are sold in a non-human-friendly form).
tl;dr - you need a prescription. | My understanding is that schedule F are all prescription drugs. Part I of the act covers drugs that are prescription for humans AND animals, and part II is drugs that are prescription for humans but not for animals (as long as they are sold in a non-human-friendly form).
tl;dr - you need a prescription.
| Nootropics | t5_2r81c | c1h46st | My understanding is that schedule F are all prescription drugs. Part I of the act covers drugs that are prescription for humans AND animals, and part II is drugs that are prescription for humans but not for animals (as long as they are sold in a non-human-friendly form). | you need a prescription. |
smakusdod | 9+ works.
*edit - I'm not debating browser popularity, or the merits of IE. I'm merely pointing out the info listed on this dude's own blog. He says IE 9+, and next version is working on compatibility. tldr - dont kill the messenger you fucking douchebags* | 9+ works.
edit - I'm not debating browser popularity, or the merits of IE. I'm merely pointing out the info listed on this dude's own blog. He says IE 9+, and next version is working on compatibility. tldr - dont kill the messenger you fucking douchebags
| programming | t5_2fwo | c1h71vt | 9+ works.
edit - I'm not debating browser popularity, or the merits of IE. I'm merely pointing out the info listed on this dude's own blog. He says IE 9+, and next version is working on compatibility. | dont kill the messenger you fucking douchebags |
SmartassStrongNThis1 | Let me tell you about the best thing ever. Four of us used to get each other $40-$50 bottles of single malt scotch for Christmas. A few years ago one of them got an idea. Lets pool all the $$s we would have spent on those bottles, and buy a couple of *really* great bottles of scotch. OMFG, I would not have thought a $200 bottle could be that much better than a $50 bottle. And I was wrong! 42 yo Glen Grant with a sherry finish. I can't afford that every day, but we had such a great time that we formed a club. We each pitch in $25 a month, and at the end of each quarter we go shopping and have a scotch night. I look forward to that night all quarter long! This is a way to try things that are out of your price range, and an excuse to have a "guys night" too!
tl;dr Get some buddies, pool your $$$s and get some really high end scotch. It will rock your world! | Let me tell you about the best thing ever. Four of us used to get each other $40-$50 bottles of single malt scotch for Christmas. A few years ago one of them got an idea. Lets pool all the $$s we would have spent on those bottles, and buy a couple of really great bottles of scotch. OMFG, I would not have thought a $200 bottle could be that much better than a $50 bottle. And I was wrong! 42 yo Glen Grant with a sherry finish. I can't afford that every day, but we had such a great time that we formed a club. We each pitch in $25 a month, and at the end of each quarter we go shopping and have a scotch night. I look forward to that night all quarter long! This is a way to try things that are out of your price range, and an excuse to have a "guys night" too!
tl;dr Get some buddies, pool your $$$s and get some really high end scotch. It will rock your world!
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1h8qbu | Let me tell you about the best thing ever. Four of us used to get each other $40-$50 bottles of single malt scotch for Christmas. A few years ago one of them got an idea. Lets pool all the $$s we would have spent on those bottles, and buy a couple of really great bottles of scotch. OMFG, I would not have thought a $200 bottle could be that much better than a $50 bottle. And I was wrong! 42 yo Glen Grant with a sherry finish. I can't afford that every day, but we had such a great time that we formed a club. We each pitch in $25 a month, and at the end of each quarter we go shopping and have a scotch night. I look forward to that night all quarter long! This is a way to try things that are out of your price range, and an excuse to have a "guys night" too! | Get some buddies, pool your $$$s and get some really high end scotch. It will rock your world! |
deathbytray | Why would you mix a 12 year old whiskey with coke? For shame!
TL;DR: Try younger. | Why would you mix a 12 year old whiskey with coke? For shame!
TL;DR: Try younger.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1h91tq | Why would you mix a 12 year old whiskey with coke? For shame! | Try younger. |
Nheuk | I understand completely.
it was my experience, taught to me by a Korean liquor store owner, how to properly savor the flavor of the Laphroaig. Which he did by opening a $250 dollar bottle of the Cask Strength limited release, rinsing a glass, pouring me two fingers and said if you make a face while drinking this i'll force you to buy it (showing me the price tag)
I fought back tears, took in what was a very good glass of scotch but so very peaty and mediciney in taste that it was hard to breath.
we chatted for an hour or so, he taught me a lot. I ended up buying a bottle anyway, for my father at least. and kept telling myself the price whenever i poured a glass for he and I.
That bottle gone and done with, i bought a bottle of their 10 year, for 50 bucks, and never looked back. after tasting the liquid horrors to come from that cask strength bottle, overpowering my senses for an astronomical price, i was ~~ruined~~ experienced by it. everything else just goes down smoother.
Tl;Dr
So that is my recommendation, find a Korean to get you drunk, drop 2bits on a bottle of overpowering scotch, force yourself to drink the contents with not one twinge of a facial muscle, and then dial it back down to a level you're more comfortable with. | I understand completely.
it was my experience, taught to me by a Korean liquor store owner, how to properly savor the flavor of the Laphroaig. Which he did by opening a $250 dollar bottle of the Cask Strength limited release, rinsing a glass, pouring me two fingers and said if you make a face while drinking this i'll force you to buy it (showing me the price tag)
I fought back tears, took in what was a very good glass of scotch but so very peaty and mediciney in taste that it was hard to breath.
we chatted for an hour or so, he taught me a lot. I ended up buying a bottle anyway, for my father at least. and kept telling myself the price whenever i poured a glass for he and I.
That bottle gone and done with, i bought a bottle of their 10 year, for 50 bucks, and never looked back. after tasting the liquid horrors to come from that cask strength bottle, overpowering my senses for an astronomical price, i was ruined experienced by it. everything else just goes down smoother.
Tl;Dr
So that is my recommendation, find a Korean to get you drunk, drop 2bits on a bottle of overpowering scotch, force yourself to drink the contents with not one twinge of a facial muscle, and then dial it back down to a level you're more comfortable with.
| Scotch | t5_2qq65 | c1h9xs5 | I understand completely.
it was my experience, taught to me by a Korean liquor store owner, how to properly savor the flavor of the Laphroaig. Which he did by opening a $250 dollar bottle of the Cask Strength limited release, rinsing a glass, pouring me two fingers and said if you make a face while drinking this i'll force you to buy it (showing me the price tag)
I fought back tears, took in what was a very good glass of scotch but so very peaty and mediciney in taste that it was hard to breath.
we chatted for an hour or so, he taught me a lot. I ended up buying a bottle anyway, for my father at least. and kept telling myself the price whenever i poured a glass for he and I.
That bottle gone and done with, i bought a bottle of their 10 year, for 50 bucks, and never looked back. after tasting the liquid horrors to come from that cask strength bottle, overpowering my senses for an astronomical price, i was ruined experienced by it. everything else just goes down smoother. | So that is my recommendation, find a Korean to get you drunk, drop 2bits on a bottle of overpowering scotch, force yourself to drink the contents with not one twinge of a facial muscle, and then dial it back down to a level you're more comfortable with. |
Trenks | Well the key here is the "try" part. Just because you've tried everything doesn't mean anything. If you "try" p90x for 2 days you will get no results. If you try it for 90 days, you'll probably shed a pound or two. That's a bad example because I''m guessing only like 2% of people who start p90x finish it. But if they say "I tried to eat 2000 calories only a day and worked out 3 times a week for an hour a piece for a year and it didn't work!" than they are lying. They probably tried a diet for a week and didn't lose 10 lbs so they gave up.
Most of the weight loss guru's out there demand too much and set unrealistic expectations. That being said, pick any of them out there or any stupid machine or shake weights etc. If you use it 3-4 times a week and eat less for 3 months, you'll see results.
TLDR: "Try" for a year and you'll get results. | Well the key here is the "try" part. Just because you've tried everything doesn't mean anything. If you "try" p90x for 2 days you will get no results. If you try it for 90 days, you'll probably shed a pound or two. That's a bad example because I''m guessing only like 2% of people who start p90x finish it. But if they say "I tried to eat 2000 calories only a day and worked out 3 times a week for an hour a piece for a year and it didn't work!" than they are lying. They probably tried a diet for a week and didn't lose 10 lbs so they gave up.
Most of the weight loss guru's out there demand too much and set unrealistic expectations. That being said, pick any of them out there or any stupid machine or shake weights etc. If you use it 3-4 times a week and eat less for 3 months, you'll see results.
TLDR: "Try" for a year and you'll get results.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1hl3b0 | Well the key here is the "try" part. Just because you've tried everything doesn't mean anything. If you "try" p90x for 2 days you will get no results. If you try it for 90 days, you'll probably shed a pound or two. That's a bad example because I''m guessing only like 2% of people who start p90x finish it. But if they say "I tried to eat 2000 calories only a day and worked out 3 times a week for an hour a piece for a year and it didn't work!" than they are lying. They probably tried a diet for a week and didn't lose 10 lbs so they gave up.
Most of the weight loss guru's out there demand too much and set unrealistic expectations. That being said, pick any of them out there or any stupid machine or shake weights etc. If you use it 3-4 times a week and eat less for 3 months, you'll see results. | Try" for a year and you'll get results. |
Trenks | How ironic you make such statements and say other people have ignorance and rudimentary knowledge on health. Sure, calories in calories out is a good ballpark, but it is not the whole truth. For example, 2000 calories of sugar does not to the same thing as 2000 calories of protein. Similar to the whole "a lb. of muscle is better than a lb. of fat" reasoning. Your body reacts to different chemicals in very different ways. There is a reason a low carb (aka low sugar as bread breaks down into glucose) diet works initially. If you stick with a low carb diet you will lose weight. The problem is people only stick with it for a month or so then get bored of the diet.
So if say, you eat 2000 calories and 300 come from grains/sugars as opposed to 1000/2000 from grains/sugars you will lose weight by eating the same amount of calories.
And last point, you can't just teach someone exactly how weight loss works than expect them to do it. It's like painting the proverbial garage. Even when people know how, they still often don't do something. You have to find the root of the problem and change the lifestyle. Sheer force of will works only for some people, not all.
TLDR: not all calories are created equal. calories in - calories out is not the whole truth. | How ironic you make such statements and say other people have ignorance and rudimentary knowledge on health. Sure, calories in calories out is a good ballpark, but it is not the whole truth. For example, 2000 calories of sugar does not to the same thing as 2000 calories of protein. Similar to the whole "a lb. of muscle is better than a lb. of fat" reasoning. Your body reacts to different chemicals in very different ways. There is a reason a low carb (aka low sugar as bread breaks down into glucose) diet works initially. If you stick with a low carb diet you will lose weight. The problem is people only stick with it for a month or so then get bored of the diet.
So if say, you eat 2000 calories and 300 come from grains/sugars as opposed to 1000/2000 from grains/sugars you will lose weight by eating the same amount of calories.
And last point, you can't just teach someone exactly how weight loss works than expect them to do it. It's like painting the proverbial garage. Even when people know how, they still often don't do something. You have to find the root of the problem and change the lifestyle. Sheer force of will works only for some people, not all.
TLDR: not all calories are created equal. calories in - calories out is not the whole truth.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1hl5jw | How ironic you make such statements and say other people have ignorance and rudimentary knowledge on health. Sure, calories in calories out is a good ballpark, but it is not the whole truth. For example, 2000 calories of sugar does not to the same thing as 2000 calories of protein. Similar to the whole "a lb. of muscle is better than a lb. of fat" reasoning. Your body reacts to different chemicals in very different ways. There is a reason a low carb (aka low sugar as bread breaks down into glucose) diet works initially. If you stick with a low carb diet you will lose weight. The problem is people only stick with it for a month or so then get bored of the diet.
So if say, you eat 2000 calories and 300 come from grains/sugars as opposed to 1000/2000 from grains/sugars you will lose weight by eating the same amount of calories.
And last point, you can't just teach someone exactly how weight loss works than expect them to do it. It's like painting the proverbial garage. Even when people know how, they still often don't do something. You have to find the root of the problem and change the lifestyle. Sheer force of will works only for some people, not all. | not all calories are created equal. calories in - calories out is not the whole truth. |
SumoSizeIt | Do consider how many 'smart' electronics have as regular updates as iOS devices. I think a lot of people still use the 'dumb' phone mentality of the phone working the same as it did from day one, because it was never updated or tweaked. The iPhone 3G would probably be the same way if you never updated it.
Consider slapping OS 10.5 on a PPC Mac. Many people have told me Tiger performs much better on that processor, and we know Snow Leopard doesn't even support PPC chips anymore. Can we fault Apple because their later OSes don't work on 5-year-old hardware? Maybe, but what we cannot fault them for is the inevitability of hardware becoming outdated and software improvements being made that eventually do not support that hardware.
TL;DR - If you want the phone to run like it did when you took it out of the box, run the software it had when you took it out of the box. | Do consider how many 'smart' electronics have as regular updates as iOS devices. I think a lot of people still use the 'dumb' phone mentality of the phone working the same as it did from day one, because it was never updated or tweaked. The iPhone 3G would probably be the same way if you never updated it.
Consider slapping OS 10.5 on a PPC Mac. Many people have told me Tiger performs much better on that processor, and we know Snow Leopard doesn't even support PPC chips anymore. Can we fault Apple because their later OSes don't work on 5-year-old hardware? Maybe, but what we cannot fault them for is the inevitability of hardware becoming outdated and software improvements being made that eventually do not support that hardware.
TL;DR - If you want the phone to run like it did when you took it out of the box, run the software it had when you took it out of the box.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | c1hnkyx | Do consider how many 'smart' electronics have as regular updates as iOS devices. I think a lot of people still use the 'dumb' phone mentality of the phone working the same as it did from day one, because it was never updated or tweaked. The iPhone 3G would probably be the same way if you never updated it.
Consider slapping OS 10.5 on a PPC Mac. Many people have told me Tiger performs much better on that processor, and we know Snow Leopard doesn't even support PPC chips anymore. Can we fault Apple because their later OSes don't work on 5-year-old hardware? Maybe, but what we cannot fault them for is the inevitability of hardware becoming outdated and software improvements being made that eventually do not support that hardware. | If you want the phone to run like it did when you took it out of the box, run the software it had when you took it out of the box. |
noonelikeskat | This is all very well, but you would expect to be able to do a few updates without sacrificing too much of your phone's CPU - BUT you would also expect to downgrade if it jut isn't working very well. Apple doesn't let you do this, and this is where the problem lies.
TL;DR - apple won't let you downgrade, making your phone useless. | This is all very well, but you would expect to be able to do a few updates without sacrificing too much of your phone's CPU - BUT you would also expect to downgrade if it jut isn't working very well. Apple doesn't let you do this, and this is where the problem lies.
TL;DR - apple won't let you downgrade, making your phone useless.
| apple | t5_2qh1f | c1ho9x1 | This is all very well, but you would expect to be able to do a few updates without sacrificing too much of your phone's CPU - BUT you would also expect to downgrade if it jut isn't working very well. Apple doesn't let you do this, and this is where the problem lies. | apple won't let you downgrade, making your phone useless. |
patienceinbee | What I am saying is that the umbrella paradigm (much like the "trapped" paradigm used before that) is fatally flawed in that it is a clumsy and exclusive approach to understanding the discrete relationships of sex, sexuality, and performativity of gender — both the conscious and unconscious performances.
Its clumsiness is manifest by a lack of consensus by people who are not empowered as spokespersons for transgender concerns. It also excludes a place within its framework for cisgender people — as well as a place for cissexual and intersexed bodies *as* just bodies. As well, the umbrella paradigm does exclude some sexualities even as it attempts the inclusiveness of others. In short, the umbrella paradigm is weighed down by too many exception clauses for it to remain a viable framework.
As for gender itself, its foundation as a language is established once one begins to interact with the outside world — well before even one can talk. The principal dialects of gender — masculine, feminine, or neuter for many cultures — are discerned through the social structures of the culture(s) in which we are reared.
We as people respond to the outside world — that is, the world outside ourselves — by communicating with the dialect of gender that instinctively makes sense to how we interact with, respond to, and are perceived by other people and their own basic dialect of performativity. As we sexually mature, we separately manifest our sexuality through attraction to other people. Attraction is a complicated beast without unquestioned consensus from everyone, and it is a matter best left for another discussion somewhere else.
As we grow up, we fine-tune our dialect to adjust to social situations for necessities of peer acceptance, social comprehension, or even basic survival. As adults, we discern this even further through mutable accents which are suited for specific social situations. Different accents may be used for a workplace, in a night club, with one's own family, or with a lover. Using these accents — and the dialects upon which they are founded — happens irrespective whether one has a cissexual, transsexual, or intersexed body.
So within this model, a cisgender person maintains a consistent dialect of gender throughout their lives, irrespective of their body. A transgender person, meanwhile, may not maintain a consistent dialect of gender throughout their lives. They might do this by contravening (challenging) the basic dialect they previously used from childhood in order to communicate with or relate themselves to other people.
tl;dr — As an unfamiliar paradigm, it's complicated, but once the basic paradigm is grasped, it's relatively straightforward. Be patient: break it down to its components, one at a time, before looking at the whole model. | What I am saying is that the umbrella paradigm (much like the "trapped" paradigm used before that) is fatally flawed in that it is a clumsy and exclusive approach to understanding the discrete relationships of sex, sexuality, and performativity of gender — both the conscious and unconscious performances.
Its clumsiness is manifest by a lack of consensus by people who are not empowered as spokespersons for transgender concerns. It also excludes a place within its framework for cisgender people — as well as a place for cissexual and intersexed bodies as just bodies. As well, the umbrella paradigm does exclude some sexualities even as it attempts the inclusiveness of others. In short, the umbrella paradigm is weighed down by too many exception clauses for it to remain a viable framework.
As for gender itself, its foundation as a language is established once one begins to interact with the outside world — well before even one can talk. The principal dialects of gender — masculine, feminine, or neuter for many cultures — are discerned through the social structures of the culture(s) in which we are reared.
We as people respond to the outside world — that is, the world outside ourselves — by communicating with the dialect of gender that instinctively makes sense to how we interact with, respond to, and are perceived by other people and their own basic dialect of performativity. As we sexually mature, we separately manifest our sexuality through attraction to other people. Attraction is a complicated beast without unquestioned consensus from everyone, and it is a matter best left for another discussion somewhere else.
As we grow up, we fine-tune our dialect to adjust to social situations for necessities of peer acceptance, social comprehension, or even basic survival. As adults, we discern this even further through mutable accents which are suited for specific social situations. Different accents may be used for a workplace, in a night club, with one's own family, or with a lover. Using these accents — and the dialects upon which they are founded — happens irrespective whether one has a cissexual, transsexual, or intersexed body.
So within this model, a cisgender person maintains a consistent dialect of gender throughout their lives, irrespective of their body. A transgender person, meanwhile, may not maintain a consistent dialect of gender throughout their lives. They might do this by contravening (challenging) the basic dialect they previously used from childhood in order to communicate with or relate themselves to other people.
tl;dr — As an unfamiliar paradigm, it's complicated, but once the basic paradigm is grasped, it's relatively straightforward. Be patient: break it down to its components, one at a time, before looking at the whole model.
| asktransgender | t5_2r4b9 | c1hy72q | What I am saying is that the umbrella paradigm (much like the "trapped" paradigm used before that) is fatally flawed in that it is a clumsy and exclusive approach to understanding the discrete relationships of sex, sexuality, and performativity of gender — both the conscious and unconscious performances.
Its clumsiness is manifest by a lack of consensus by people who are not empowered as spokespersons for transgender concerns. It also excludes a place within its framework for cisgender people — as well as a place for cissexual and intersexed bodies as just bodies. As well, the umbrella paradigm does exclude some sexualities even as it attempts the inclusiveness of others. In short, the umbrella paradigm is weighed down by too many exception clauses for it to remain a viable framework.
As for gender itself, its foundation as a language is established once one begins to interact with the outside world — well before even one can talk. The principal dialects of gender — masculine, feminine, or neuter for many cultures — are discerned through the social structures of the culture(s) in which we are reared.
We as people respond to the outside world — that is, the world outside ourselves — by communicating with the dialect of gender that instinctively makes sense to how we interact with, respond to, and are perceived by other people and their own basic dialect of performativity. As we sexually mature, we separately manifest our sexuality through attraction to other people. Attraction is a complicated beast without unquestioned consensus from everyone, and it is a matter best left for another discussion somewhere else.
As we grow up, we fine-tune our dialect to adjust to social situations for necessities of peer acceptance, social comprehension, or even basic survival. As adults, we discern this even further through mutable accents which are suited for specific social situations. Different accents may be used for a workplace, in a night club, with one's own family, or with a lover. Using these accents — and the dialects upon which they are founded — happens irrespective whether one has a cissexual, transsexual, or intersexed body.
So within this model, a cisgender person maintains a consistent dialect of gender throughout their lives, irrespective of their body. A transgender person, meanwhile, may not maintain a consistent dialect of gender throughout their lives. They might do this by contravening (challenging) the basic dialect they previously used from childhood in order to communicate with or relate themselves to other people. | As an unfamiliar paradigm, it's complicated, but once the basic paradigm is grasped, it's relatively straightforward. Be patient: break it down to its components, one at a time, before looking at the whole model. |
SickZX6R | Related story: A few years ago, my buddies and I moved into an apartment without a garage. When winter came, we drove our sport bikes down a flight of stairs, through the public laundry room, and into our apartment. The bikes (2005 Kawi ZX6R, mine, and a 2005 Honda CBR600RR, my roommate's) stayed nice and warm for the winter in our kitchen. We put a board over the two bikes as a beer pong table. In the spring, I drove the ZX6R up the stairs with the help of a couple people guiding, no problem. When it came time to drive the 600RR up the stairs, we had three guys helping but it wouldn't get past the first couple. I ended up leaving a big burnout mark on the laundry room floor when I gunned it to get up the stairs. Eventually we got it up no problem, both bikes unscathed. Management charged us $182.50 for the burnout mark. Still cheaper than getting storage.
TL,DR; my roommate and I were too cheap to get a storage shed and drove our sport bikes down a flight of stairs through a laundry room for the winter. | Related story: A few years ago, my buddies and I moved into an apartment without a garage. When winter came, we drove our sport bikes down a flight of stairs, through the public laundry room, and into our apartment. The bikes (2005 Kawi ZX6R, mine, and a 2005 Honda CBR600RR, my roommate's) stayed nice and warm for the winter in our kitchen. We put a board over the two bikes as a beer pong table. In the spring, I drove the ZX6R up the stairs with the help of a couple people guiding, no problem. When it came time to drive the 600RR up the stairs, we had three guys helping but it wouldn't get past the first couple. I ended up leaving a big burnout mark on the laundry room floor when I gunned it to get up the stairs. Eventually we got it up no problem, both bikes unscathed. Management charged us $182.50 for the burnout mark. Still cheaper than getting storage.
TL,DR; my roommate and I were too cheap to get a storage shed and drove our sport bikes down a flight of stairs through a laundry room for the winter.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1i1gxu | Related story: A few years ago, my buddies and I moved into an apartment without a garage. When winter came, we drove our sport bikes down a flight of stairs, through the public laundry room, and into our apartment. The bikes (2005 Kawi ZX6R, mine, and a 2005 Honda CBR600RR, my roommate's) stayed nice and warm for the winter in our kitchen. We put a board over the two bikes as a beer pong table. In the spring, I drove the ZX6R up the stairs with the help of a couple people guiding, no problem. When it came time to drive the 600RR up the stairs, we had three guys helping but it wouldn't get past the first couple. I ended up leaving a big burnout mark on the laundry room floor when I gunned it to get up the stairs. Eventually we got it up no problem, both bikes unscathed. Management charged us $182.50 for the burnout mark. Still cheaper than getting storage. | my roommate and I were too cheap to get a storage shed and drove our sport bikes down a flight of stairs through a laundry room for the winter. |
gr4fix | I will admit that while I was never obnoxious about it, I didn't understand the child-free mentality until recently. I was always good with kids, loved babysitting and teaching. If I was at a family or neighborhood party, the kids would naturally congregate around me and I'd happily keep an eye on them so their parents could relax. I always figured I'd grow up and get married and have two kids, just like my parents had done.
In the last few weeks, I've had cause to step back and consider what my life would be like if I didn't go that route. I haven't made a decision either way yet, as I'm only 23, but it's been interesting to think about and I feel like I've learned a lot about myself. I'm also more excited for my future in general, no matter how my life turns out.
TL;DR: I'm undecided, but I understand where you're coming from and I'm glad you're happy. :) | I will admit that while I was never obnoxious about it, I didn't understand the child-free mentality until recently. I was always good with kids, loved babysitting and teaching. If I was at a family or neighborhood party, the kids would naturally congregate around me and I'd happily keep an eye on them so their parents could relax. I always figured I'd grow up and get married and have two kids, just like my parents had done.
In the last few weeks, I've had cause to step back and consider what my life would be like if I didn't go that route. I haven't made a decision either way yet, as I'm only 23, but it's been interesting to think about and I feel like I've learned a lot about myself. I'm also more excited for my future in general, no matter how my life turns out.
TL;DR: I'm undecided, but I understand where you're coming from and I'm glad you're happy. :)
| TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c1i1qd9 | I will admit that while I was never obnoxious about it, I didn't understand the child-free mentality until recently. I was always good with kids, loved babysitting and teaching. If I was at a family or neighborhood party, the kids would naturally congregate around me and I'd happily keep an eye on them so their parents could relax. I always figured I'd grow up and get married and have two kids, just like my parents had done.
In the last few weeks, I've had cause to step back and consider what my life would be like if I didn't go that route. I haven't made a decision either way yet, as I'm only 23, but it's been interesting to think about and I feel like I've learned a lot about myself. I'm also more excited for my future in general, no matter how my life turns out. | I'm undecided, but I understand where you're coming from and I'm glad you're happy. :) |
ejector_crab | The power cord on my 4.5-year old MacBook pro recently frayed and was a clear safety hazard. I found an article on the Apple support website that said some chargers with frays would be replaced, even if out of warranty. I called Apple support to try to get in on this, because a new one costs about $70. The guy from Apple said that it would likely be replaced and that I needed to take it into either an Apple Store, or an authorized repair center. There are not Apple Stores near me, so I took it to an authorized dealer. Gave me a bunch of shit, plugged my serial number into a claim system, and told me to call the next day. I called and he told me Apple denied it. Got on the phone with Apple again, and got a supervisor who led me to believe that the guy didn't do shit. After getting my charger back from the reseller/repair center, Apple sent me a brand new replacement. Again, my MacBook Pro is almost 5 years old.
tl;dr: Authorized reseller didn't go to bat for my replacement, apple just went ahead and replaced it for free.
Edit: details | The power cord on my 4.5-year old MacBook pro recently frayed and was a clear safety hazard. I found an article on the Apple support website that said some chargers with frays would be replaced, even if out of warranty. I called Apple support to try to get in on this, because a new one costs about $70. The guy from Apple said that it would likely be replaced and that I needed to take it into either an Apple Store, or an authorized repair center. There are not Apple Stores near me, so I took it to an authorized dealer. Gave me a bunch of shit, plugged my serial number into a claim system, and told me to call the next day. I called and he told me Apple denied it. Got on the phone with Apple again, and got a supervisor who led me to believe that the guy didn't do shit. After getting my charger back from the reseller/repair center, Apple sent me a brand new replacement. Again, my MacBook Pro is almost 5 years old.
tl;dr: Authorized reseller didn't go to bat for my replacement, apple just went ahead and replaced it for free.
Edit: details
| apple | t5_2qh1f | c1i4yuv | The power cord on my 4.5-year old MacBook pro recently frayed and was a clear safety hazard. I found an article on the Apple support website that said some chargers with frays would be replaced, even if out of warranty. I called Apple support to try to get in on this, because a new one costs about $70. The guy from Apple said that it would likely be replaced and that I needed to take it into either an Apple Store, or an authorized repair center. There are not Apple Stores near me, so I took it to an authorized dealer. Gave me a bunch of shit, plugged my serial number into a claim system, and told me to call the next day. I called and he told me Apple denied it. Got on the phone with Apple again, and got a supervisor who led me to believe that the guy didn't do shit. After getting my charger back from the reseller/repair center, Apple sent me a brand new replacement. Again, my MacBook Pro is almost 5 years old. | Authorized reseller didn't go to bat for my replacement, apple just went ahead and replaced it for free.
Edit: details |
laurie_ann | While I wouldn't go so far as to say that you were being unfaithful, you definitely crossed a line IMO. It doesn't seem like you had intentions of entertaining cheating thoughts about your ex, but it certainly could look like you were.
>I stood up for the ex at the expense of my current relationship.
I don't understand why you would do that, especially to a girl you intend to marry. Her feelings should come *before* an ex's. It also looks incredibly shady that you let these (even you describe them as) "intimate messages" continue for three years after dating your current ex. It could easily look like you still have feelings for your ex, especially since you're now accusing your ex of being controlling. You should really try to see this from your girlfriend's perspective.
At some point you need to cut the cord and move on from your ex. Not to say that you can't have a healthy friendship later on, but that's obviously **not** what you have right now. It's not appropriate for your ex to attempt to invite herself over and push boundaries with you, and you shouldn't feel comfortable talking to her until she stops.
TL,DR: It simply comes down to a matter of what's important to you. Would it be worth it to you to lose your girlfriend for the sake of a "friendship" with your ex, who also has a boyfriend? Your girlfriend's comfort and trust should come first. If they don't, I don't think it would be smart to marry her. | While I wouldn't go so far as to say that you were being unfaithful, you definitely crossed a line IMO. It doesn't seem like you had intentions of entertaining cheating thoughts about your ex, but it certainly could look like you were.
>I stood up for the ex at the expense of my current relationship.
I don't understand why you would do that, especially to a girl you intend to marry. Her feelings should come before an ex's. It also looks incredibly shady that you let these (even you describe them as) "intimate messages" continue for three years after dating your current ex. It could easily look like you still have feelings for your ex, especially since you're now accusing your ex of being controlling. You should really try to see this from your girlfriend's perspective.
At some point you need to cut the cord and move on from your ex. Not to say that you can't have a healthy friendship later on, but that's obviously not what you have right now. It's not appropriate for your ex to attempt to invite herself over and push boundaries with you, and you shouldn't feel comfortable talking to her until she stops.
TL,DR: It simply comes down to a matter of what's important to you. Would it be worth it to you to lose your girlfriend for the sake of a "friendship" with your ex, who also has a boyfriend? Your girlfriend's comfort and trust should come first. If they don't, I don't think it would be smart to marry her.
| relationships | t5_2qjvn | c1i735v | While I wouldn't go so far as to say that you were being unfaithful, you definitely crossed a line IMO. It doesn't seem like you had intentions of entertaining cheating thoughts about your ex, but it certainly could look like you were.
>I stood up for the ex at the expense of my current relationship.
I don't understand why you would do that, especially to a girl you intend to marry. Her feelings should come before an ex's. It also looks incredibly shady that you let these (even you describe them as) "intimate messages" continue for three years after dating your current ex. It could easily look like you still have feelings for your ex, especially since you're now accusing your ex of being controlling. You should really try to see this from your girlfriend's perspective.
At some point you need to cut the cord and move on from your ex. Not to say that you can't have a healthy friendship later on, but that's obviously not what you have right now. It's not appropriate for your ex to attempt to invite herself over and push boundaries with you, and you shouldn't feel comfortable talking to her until she stops. | It simply comes down to a matter of what's important to you. Would it be worth it to you to lose your girlfriend for the sake of a "friendship" with your ex, who also has a boyfriend? Your girlfriend's comfort and trust should come first. If they don't, I don't think it would be smart to marry her. |
joshinmn | 1) $100,000 for a person who is meant to educate my child is well worth it. I had some incredible teachers in elementary/middle/high school that truely changed my life. I also had a few that sucked, but for the most part, all of the teachers in the district were phenomenal.
2) This needs to be advertised more. Let people know that there are real benefits to being a teacher. Hopefully this provides more competition for teaching positions, so that the quality gets higher and bad teachers are moved out for poor performance.
3) By absolutely no means should the amount of money at the end of the day compensating teachers be lowered. If so, the country is asking for a shittier quality of education. People can argue whatever stupid talking point they want, but for all you true libertarians out there, paying more brings more demand for a job, and educating our populace should be a top priority. Sure, remove the collective bargaining and pension plans, but then pay those teachers $100,000 a year.
3) As was pointed out, assuming a class size of 25, $100,000/year comes out to $4,000/student. Multiply by 3 for school costs, administration, lunch ladies, etc - and you've got $12,000/student/year. I challenge anyone to find a private school worth a shit that will take that low of a fee.
TL;DR: Removing collective bargaining is one thing. Me personally, I think people are free to form unions, and the state is free to decide not to hire union labor. I could really give a crap one way or the other. However, the real issue for me is lowering the total budget allocated to the teaching profession - and slashing that has real negative consequences on the ability to attract quality educators. | 1) $100,000 for a person who is meant to educate my child is well worth it. I had some incredible teachers in elementary/middle/high school that truely changed my life. I also had a few that sucked, but for the most part, all of the teachers in the district were phenomenal.
2) This needs to be advertised more. Let people know that there are real benefits to being a teacher. Hopefully this provides more competition for teaching positions, so that the quality gets higher and bad teachers are moved out for poor performance.
3) By absolutely no means should the amount of money at the end of the day compensating teachers be lowered. If so, the country is asking for a shittier quality of education. People can argue whatever stupid talking point they want, but for all you true libertarians out there, paying more brings more demand for a job, and educating our populace should be a top priority. Sure, remove the collective bargaining and pension plans, but then pay those teachers $100,000 a year.
3) As was pointed out, assuming a class size of 25, $100,000/year comes out to $4,000/student. Multiply by 3 for school costs, administration, lunch ladies, etc - and you've got $12,000/student/year. I challenge anyone to find a private school worth a shit that will take that low of a fee.
TL;DR: Removing collective bargaining is one thing. Me personally, I think people are free to form unions, and the state is free to decide not to hire union labor. I could really give a crap one way or the other. However, the real issue for me is lowering the total budget allocated to the teaching profession - and slashing that has real negative consequences on the ability to attract quality educators.
| Libertarian | t5_2qh63 | c1i9s7b | 1) $100,000 for a person who is meant to educate my child is well worth it. I had some incredible teachers in elementary/middle/high school that truely changed my life. I also had a few that sucked, but for the most part, all of the teachers in the district were phenomenal.
2) This needs to be advertised more. Let people know that there are real benefits to being a teacher. Hopefully this provides more competition for teaching positions, so that the quality gets higher and bad teachers are moved out for poor performance.
3) By absolutely no means should the amount of money at the end of the day compensating teachers be lowered. If so, the country is asking for a shittier quality of education. People can argue whatever stupid talking point they want, but for all you true libertarians out there, paying more brings more demand for a job, and educating our populace should be a top priority. Sure, remove the collective bargaining and pension plans, but then pay those teachers $100,000 a year.
3) As was pointed out, assuming a class size of 25, $100,000/year comes out to $4,000/student. Multiply by 3 for school costs, administration, lunch ladies, etc - and you've got $12,000/student/year. I challenge anyone to find a private school worth a shit that will take that low of a fee. | Removing collective bargaining is one thing. Me personally, I think people are free to form unions, and the state is free to decide not to hire union labor. I could really give a crap one way or the other. However, the real issue for me is lowering the total budget allocated to the teaching profession - and slashing that has real negative consequences on the ability to attract quality educators. |
SoPoOneO | I agree that the drug laws are draconian and ridiculous, but just because a crime is non-violent does not necessarily mean it should carry only a low penalty. Moving chemical weapons around could be considered non-violent.
tldr: I agree with your conclusion, but not your argument. | I agree that the drug laws are draconian and ridiculous, but just because a crime is non-violent does not necessarily mean it should carry only a low penalty. Moving chemical weapons around could be considered non-violent.
tldr: I agree with your conclusion, but not your argument.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | c1ie63l | I agree that the drug laws are draconian and ridiculous, but just because a crime is non-violent does not necessarily mean it should carry only a low penalty. Moving chemical weapons around could be considered non-violent. | I agree with your conclusion, but not your argument. |
trancelogix | It goes both ways. Having large, pendulous breasts are not what they're cracked up to be. Ever take off your bra to find bruises on your shoulders? Or try to jog and find out that no sports bra/duct tape will allow you to do it well?
Having big boobs sucks equally, if not more, than having small ones. I'd get a reduction in a second if I had the money/insurance.
Tl;dr: I'm jealous of you all.
| It goes both ways. Having large, pendulous breasts are not what they're cracked up to be. Ever take off your bra to find bruises on your shoulders? Or try to jog and find out that no sports bra/duct tape will allow you to do it well?
Having big boobs sucks equally, if not more, than having small ones. I'd get a reduction in a second if I had the money/insurance.
Tl;dr: I'm jealous of you all.
| TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c1ig93q | It goes both ways. Having large, pendulous breasts are not what they're cracked up to be. Ever take off your bra to find bruises on your shoulders? Or try to jog and find out that no sports bra/duct tape will allow you to do it well?
Having big boobs sucks equally, if not more, than having small ones. I'd get a reduction in a second if I had the money/insurance. | I'm jealous of you all. |
darkmooninc | I want to write a compelling story about a young man faced with the ethical choices of losing his humanity and becoming amoral. Of a young man accompanied by a Succubus and a following of various fey / demons who get ostracized by society and start to wondering if letting mankind be wiped away is such a bad thing.
I want to write about social drama and ethical grey areas.
I just...want it to sell and if someone like Stephenie Meyer can regurgitate garbage and sell it then why can't I? The YA market is booming. I read the article about James Frey and the scandalous truth of I Am Number Four and just thought it might be an interesting market to access.
In the end I am just going to write the novel as it is in limited third person and hope that it's marketable. Somewhere around 60% in most of my stories end up with tentacle rape and lolis with machine guns, or giant Heinlein inspired space orgies. I figure if I shoot for YA it'll at least be PG instead of NC17.
tl;dr - Third person. | I want to write a compelling story about a young man faced with the ethical choices of losing his humanity and becoming amoral. Of a young man accompanied by a Succubus and a following of various fey / demons who get ostracized by society and start to wondering if letting mankind be wiped away is such a bad thing.
I want to write about social drama and ethical grey areas.
I just...want it to sell and if someone like Stephenie Meyer can regurgitate garbage and sell it then why can't I? The YA market is booming. I read the article about James Frey and the scandalous truth of I Am Number Four and just thought it might be an interesting market to access.
In the end I am just going to write the novel as it is in limited third person and hope that it's marketable. Somewhere around 60% in most of my stories end up with tentacle rape and lolis with machine guns, or giant Heinlein inspired space orgies. I figure if I shoot for YA it'll at least be PG instead of NC17.
tl;dr - Third person.
| writing | t5_2qh2n | c1ik9ur | I want to write a compelling story about a young man faced with the ethical choices of losing his humanity and becoming amoral. Of a young man accompanied by a Succubus and a following of various fey / demons who get ostracized by society and start to wondering if letting mankind be wiped away is such a bad thing.
I want to write about social drama and ethical grey areas.
I just...want it to sell and if someone like Stephenie Meyer can regurgitate garbage and sell it then why can't I? The YA market is booming. I read the article about James Frey and the scandalous truth of I Am Number Four and just thought it might be an interesting market to access.
In the end I am just going to write the novel as it is in limited third person and hope that it's marketable. Somewhere around 60% in most of my stories end up with tentacle rape and lolis with machine guns, or giant Heinlein inspired space orgies. I figure if I shoot for YA it'll at least be PG instead of NC17. | Third person. |
Hank_fight_Hank | I think what he is saying is sometimes what you may be hearing as ' could of' is actually the person saying 'could've.' They do sound remarkably similar, especially hearing the words in a casual conversation.
tl;dr -- stop dying inside, those voices in your head may be using proper grammar after all. | I think what he is saying is sometimes what you may be hearing as ' could of' is actually the person saying 'could've.' They do sound remarkably similar, especially hearing the words in a casual conversation.
tl;dr -- stop dying inside, those voices in your head may be using proper grammar after all.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1ijzpy | I think what he is saying is sometimes what you may be hearing as ' could of' is actually the person saying 'could've.' They do sound remarkably similar, especially hearing the words in a casual conversation. | stop dying inside, those voices in your head may be using proper grammar after all. |
sheep1e | If you have C++ experience that includes familiarity with an object-oriented programming style, you can think of Java as being quite a bit like C++ but with automatic memory management (garbage collection), and much of the non-OO stuff inherited from C stripped out.
So for example, the basic approach to classes and methods is the same in Java and C++, but in Java there's no such thing as a standalone function outside of a class. (You can simulate that with a static method, though.)
One concept that Java adds that's important to idiomatic Java code is that of the "interface", which is basically the equivalent of a purely abstract class in C++, i.e. a class with only pure virtual methods and no actual implementation.
To explain how this fits into the bigger picture: unlike C++, Java has only single implementation inheritance - a class can only have one parent class. But it can declare that a class "implements" any number of interfaces. E.g. a class definition like this in Java:
class UniversalCollection extends SomeCollection implements List, Set, Stack
...says that the UniversalCollection class inherits its implementation from SomeCollection, but also that it implements all the methods defined by the List, Set, and Stack interfaces. In C++, you could implement essentially identical semantics by multiply inheriting from four classes, three of which would be purely abstract base classes.
The consequences of this approach are quite pervasive in Java code, although describing how is beyond the scope of this comment...
tl;dr: Java is like a simplified C++, and you can pretty much map any Java concept fairly directly onto C++, although idiomatic usage can be a bit different because of some of the design decisions.
| If you have C++ experience that includes familiarity with an object-oriented programming style, you can think of Java as being quite a bit like C++ but with automatic memory management (garbage collection), and much of the non-OO stuff inherited from C stripped out.
So for example, the basic approach to classes and methods is the same in Java and C++, but in Java there's no such thing as a standalone function outside of a class. (You can simulate that with a static method, though.)
One concept that Java adds that's important to idiomatic Java code is that of the "interface", which is basically the equivalent of a purely abstract class in C++, i.e. a class with only pure virtual methods and no actual implementation.
To explain how this fits into the bigger picture: unlike C++, Java has only single implementation inheritance - a class can only have one parent class. But it can declare that a class "implements" any number of interfaces. E.g. a class definition like this in Java:
class UniversalCollection extends SomeCollection implements List, Set, Stack
...says that the UniversalCollection class inherits its implementation from SomeCollection, but also that it implements all the methods defined by the List, Set, and Stack interfaces. In C++, you could implement essentially identical semantics by multiply inheriting from four classes, three of which would be purely abstract base classes.
The consequences of this approach are quite pervasive in Java code, although describing how is beyond the scope of this comment...
tl;dr: Java is like a simplified C++, and you can pretty much map any Java concept fairly directly onto C++, although idiomatic usage can be a bit different because of some of the design decisions.
| androiddev | t5_2r26y | c1itl6q | If you have C++ experience that includes familiarity with an object-oriented programming style, you can think of Java as being quite a bit like C++ but with automatic memory management (garbage collection), and much of the non-OO stuff inherited from C stripped out.
So for example, the basic approach to classes and methods is the same in Java and C++, but in Java there's no such thing as a standalone function outside of a class. (You can simulate that with a static method, though.)
One concept that Java adds that's important to idiomatic Java code is that of the "interface", which is basically the equivalent of a purely abstract class in C++, i.e. a class with only pure virtual methods and no actual implementation.
To explain how this fits into the bigger picture: unlike C++, Java has only single implementation inheritance - a class can only have one parent class. But it can declare that a class "implements" any number of interfaces. E.g. a class definition like this in Java:
class UniversalCollection extends SomeCollection implements List, Set, Stack
...says that the UniversalCollection class inherits its implementation from SomeCollection, but also that it implements all the methods defined by the List, Set, and Stack interfaces. In C++, you could implement essentially identical semantics by multiply inheriting from four classes, three of which would be purely abstract base classes.
The consequences of this approach are quite pervasive in Java code, although describing how is beyond the scope of this comment... | Java is like a simplified C++, and you can pretty much map any Java concept fairly directly onto C++, although idiomatic usage can be a bit different because of some of the design decisions. |
chxrs | I used to work at a gas station ( one of those big cafe/grocery store ones) from 10pm to 7am. Went to university in the daytime.
Most weeknights I'd be rostered to work by myself which would have been fine if the place had a night pay drawer. Instead, we were supposed to let people into the store (to pay for gas, etc).
Most nights were alright but we'd have trouble every weekend (drunks, druggies, all sorts of dodgy fuckers). Eventually I quit.
tl:dr GY shifts are shit. | I used to work at a gas station ( one of those big cafe/grocery store ones) from 10pm to 7am. Went to university in the daytime.
Most weeknights I'd be rostered to work by myself which would have been fine if the place had a night pay drawer. Instead, we were supposed to let people into the store (to pay for gas, etc).
Most nights were alright but we'd have trouble every weekend (drunks, druggies, all sorts of dodgy fuckers). Eventually I quit.
tl:dr GY shifts are shit.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1itacl | I used to work at a gas station ( one of those big cafe/grocery store ones) from 10pm to 7am. Went to university in the daytime.
Most weeknights I'd be rostered to work by myself which would have been fine if the place had a night pay drawer. Instead, we were supposed to let people into the store (to pay for gas, etc).
Most nights were alright but we'd have trouble every weekend (drunks, druggies, all sorts of dodgy fuckers). Eventually I quit. | GY shifts are shit. |
RPR1983 | Your wife is going to be the child's mother. She has at least as much say in it's religious education as you do. It's more important to teach your children critical thinking skills than to make sure they don't join a religion. If your kid does join a religion it won't, I suspect, make any difference in how you feel about him/her or your wife. You're still a family.
- I find sex education to be analogous to the issue of religious education. If you tell them religion is bad and try to keep them ignorant about it... you're just making them more vulnerable to it.
- Teach him or her about the foundations of religions and expose them to as many different faiths as you can. Of course expose them to secular traditions of philosophy, science, rhetoric, and freethought as well.
- That way, when they're exposed to religion, they'll be able to make informed decisions and use the proper protection.
**TL;DR:** *Education is, as it usually is, the answer.* | Your wife is going to be the child's mother. She has at least as much say in it's religious education as you do. It's more important to teach your children critical thinking skills than to make sure they don't join a religion. If your kid does join a religion it won't, I suspect, make any difference in how you feel about him/her or your wife. You're still a family.
I find sex education to be analogous to the issue of religious education. If you tell them religion is bad and try to keep them ignorant about it... you're just making them more vulnerable to it.
Teach him or her about the foundations of religions and expose them to as many different faiths as you can. Of course expose them to secular traditions of philosophy, science, rhetoric, and freethought as well.
That way, when they're exposed to religion, they'll be able to make informed decisions and use the proper protection.
TL;DR: Education is, as it usually is, the answer.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | c1is4q5 | Your wife is going to be the child's mother. She has at least as much say in it's religious education as you do. It's more important to teach your children critical thinking skills than to make sure they don't join a religion. If your kid does join a religion it won't, I suspect, make any difference in how you feel about him/her or your wife. You're still a family.
I find sex education to be analogous to the issue of religious education. If you tell them religion is bad and try to keep them ignorant about it... you're just making them more vulnerable to it.
Teach him or her about the foundations of religions and expose them to as many different faiths as you can. Of course expose them to secular traditions of philosophy, science, rhetoric, and freethought as well.
That way, when they're exposed to religion, they'll be able to make informed decisions and use the proper protection. | Education is, as it usually is, the answer. |
EmperorNortonI | my mom, a middle school civics and reading teacher, is up every day at 5:30, drives a 30mins-1hr commute to get to school by 7:30, and teaches until 2:30. she packs leftover soup for her 40-minute lunch hour, which is spent grading assignments. during that 7:30-2:30 working period, she's teaching, designing lesson plans, meeting with individual students, helping younger teachers, meeting with administrators, and dealing with the near-weekly "kid brought a weapon to school" incident--and hers is considered one of the safer schools in the city. after 2:30, she meets with more students and/or parents (usually until about 3:30, but basically not until she's dealt with all the miscellaneous daily necessities), and then prepares for tomorrow's lessons. there's at least one after-school faculty/department meeting per week, and she's the moderator of the after-school "homework club" (tutoring/making sure students do their work). in the summer, she works on the curriculum-planning committee. oh, and she also happens to be the school's union representative. when she retires in a couple years, she'll probably need to take a job in a parochial school to supplement her pension and savings.
the most amazing thing about all this is that this level of commitment is the norm for teachers in her school. and the type of work they're doing isn't the type of work you can give 50% effort to. there's little, if any, down time, and you have to be a special subset of "people people" to connect with young students. many of whom, by the way, are coming from horrible conditions at home.
i don't know how any sane person who knows a teacher could think teachers are overpaid. if anything, we need to pay these people more, and find ways to attract college graduates to teaching jobs, because there simply aren't enough people willing to do the work nowadays. it confuses and sickens me that politicians and commentators could pick *teachers* as the problem in society.
**tl;dr:** i'm way lazier than my mom, an overworked, underpaid middle school teacher.
**EDIT:** oh, by the way, she's not a pro-class-warfare bolshevik, as these people might have you think. she's a republican. | my mom, a middle school civics and reading teacher, is up every day at 5:30, drives a 30mins-1hr commute to get to school by 7:30, and teaches until 2:30. she packs leftover soup for her 40-minute lunch hour, which is spent grading assignments. during that 7:30-2:30 working period, she's teaching, designing lesson plans, meeting with individual students, helping younger teachers, meeting with administrators, and dealing with the near-weekly "kid brought a weapon to school" incident--and hers is considered one of the safer schools in the city. after 2:30, she meets with more students and/or parents (usually until about 3:30, but basically not until she's dealt with all the miscellaneous daily necessities), and then prepares for tomorrow's lessons. there's at least one after-school faculty/department meeting per week, and she's the moderator of the after-school "homework club" (tutoring/making sure students do their work). in the summer, she works on the curriculum-planning committee. oh, and she also happens to be the school's union representative. when she retires in a couple years, she'll probably need to take a job in a parochial school to supplement her pension and savings.
the most amazing thing about all this is that this level of commitment is the norm for teachers in her school. and the type of work they're doing isn't the type of work you can give 50% effort to. there's little, if any, down time, and you have to be a special subset of "people people" to connect with young students. many of whom, by the way, are coming from horrible conditions at home.
i don't know how any sane person who knows a teacher could think teachers are overpaid. if anything, we need to pay these people more, and find ways to attract college graduates to teaching jobs, because there simply aren't enough people willing to do the work nowadays. it confuses and sickens me that politicians and commentators could pick teachers as the problem in society.
tl;dr: i'm way lazier than my mom, an overworked, underpaid middle school teacher.
EDIT: oh, by the way, she's not a pro-class-warfare bolshevik, as these people might have you think. she's a republican.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | c1ivq2m | my mom, a middle school civics and reading teacher, is up every day at 5:30, drives a 30mins-1hr commute to get to school by 7:30, and teaches until 2:30. she packs leftover soup for her 40-minute lunch hour, which is spent grading assignments. during that 7:30-2:30 working period, she's teaching, designing lesson plans, meeting with individual students, helping younger teachers, meeting with administrators, and dealing with the near-weekly "kid brought a weapon to school" incident--and hers is considered one of the safer schools in the city. after 2:30, she meets with more students and/or parents (usually until about 3:30, but basically not until she's dealt with all the miscellaneous daily necessities), and then prepares for tomorrow's lessons. there's at least one after-school faculty/department meeting per week, and she's the moderator of the after-school "homework club" (tutoring/making sure students do their work). in the summer, she works on the curriculum-planning committee. oh, and she also happens to be the school's union representative. when she retires in a couple years, she'll probably need to take a job in a parochial school to supplement her pension and savings.
the most amazing thing about all this is that this level of commitment is the norm for teachers in her school. and the type of work they're doing isn't the type of work you can give 50% effort to. there's little, if any, down time, and you have to be a special subset of "people people" to connect with young students. many of whom, by the way, are coming from horrible conditions at home.
i don't know how any sane person who knows a teacher could think teachers are overpaid. if anything, we need to pay these people more, and find ways to attract college graduates to teaching jobs, because there simply aren't enough people willing to do the work nowadays. it confuses and sickens me that politicians and commentators could pick teachers as the problem in society. | i'm way lazier than my mom, an overworked, underpaid middle school teacher.
EDIT: oh, by the way, she's not a pro-class-warfare bolshevik, as these people might have you think. she's a republican. |
istillhatecraig | I actually didn't mind the movie. That being said I was terribly disappointed when I saw it because it was promoted as a comedy with Robin Williams using humor to become President. A comedian becoming president wasn't remotely what the movie was about and furthermore, it certainly wasn't a comedy!
Watching the movie without the pre-conceived notion that you are about to watch a funny movie makes it much better. I say this regardless of the fact that the "computer programming error" or whatever that was would have taken some insanely ridiculous programming just to make happen, it certainly wouldn't have been a simple oversight from a programmer.
TL;DR I liked the movie, even though the bug was idiotic. | I actually didn't mind the movie. That being said I was terribly disappointed when I saw it because it was promoted as a comedy with Robin Williams using humor to become President. A comedian becoming president wasn't remotely what the movie was about and furthermore, it certainly wasn't a comedy!
Watching the movie without the pre-conceived notion that you are about to watch a funny movie makes it much better. I say this regardless of the fact that the "computer programming error" or whatever that was would have taken some insanely ridiculous programming just to make happen, it certainly wouldn't have been a simple oversight from a programmer.
TL;DR I liked the movie, even though the bug was idiotic.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | c1iznqa | I actually didn't mind the movie. That being said I was terribly disappointed when I saw it because it was promoted as a comedy with Robin Williams using humor to become President. A comedian becoming president wasn't remotely what the movie was about and furthermore, it certainly wasn't a comedy!
Watching the movie without the pre-conceived notion that you are about to watch a funny movie makes it much better. I say this regardless of the fact that the "computer programming error" or whatever that was would have taken some insanely ridiculous programming just to make happen, it certainly wouldn't have been a simple oversight from a programmer. | I liked the movie, even though the bug was idiotic. |
Squackula | Upvoted just for being one of the few to not pollute Reddit with a rage comic or meme. Also I like your statements after the TL;DR. True indeed! | Upvoted just for being one of the few to not pollute Reddit with a rage comic or meme. Also I like your statements after the TL;DR. True indeed!
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c1iymxm | Upvoted just for being one of the few to not pollute Reddit with a rage comic or meme. Also I like your statements after the | True indeed! |
thetreece | Do more. The thing that helped me a lot was a high volume session of pull-ups. I would do 5 a minute, for 20 minutes straight (for a total of 100). Doing this once or twice a week really helped my numbers. I went from being able to get 13 in a max set to 20.
I would suggest trying to do 1 a minute for 20 minutes. If it is too easy, do 1 each minute, but on the 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th "sets", do 2 instead. Progress like that until you can do 2 a minute for 20 minutes.
tl;dr Do a shit load of pull-ups with time constraints. | Do more. The thing that helped me a lot was a high volume session of pull-ups. I would do 5 a minute, for 20 minutes straight (for a total of 100). Doing this once or twice a week really helped my numbers. I went from being able to get 13 in a max set to 20.
I would suggest trying to do 1 a minute for 20 minutes. If it is too easy, do 1 each minute, but on the 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th "sets", do 2 instead. Progress like that until you can do 2 a minute for 20 minutes.
tl;dr Do a shit load of pull-ups with time constraints.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | c1iwjcq | Do more. The thing that helped me a lot was a high volume session of pull-ups. I would do 5 a minute, for 20 minutes straight (for a total of 100). Doing this once or twice a week really helped my numbers. I went from being able to get 13 in a max set to 20.
I would suggest trying to do 1 a minute for 20 minutes. If it is too easy, do 1 each minute, but on the 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th "sets", do 2 instead. Progress like that until you can do 2 a minute for 20 minutes. | Do a shit load of pull-ups with time constraints. |
Apples_That_Scream | It seems that you have lost your touch due to lack of practice. First, make sure you have the correct pair of boots for the position you want to take. Second thing to do is work on your form, especially in each type of shot you are looking for. Now it is time to go out and line up a few balls on the 18 yard line and start practicing your shots. You need to get back into form so that you are comfortable enough to know where the ball will go before you strike it **through your proper form.**
TLDR: Practice the fuck out of your shots so that youre completely comfortable. | It seems that you have lost your touch due to lack of practice. First, make sure you have the correct pair of boots for the position you want to take. Second thing to do is work on your form, especially in each type of shot you are looking for. Now it is time to go out and line up a few balls on the 18 yard line and start practicing your shots. You need to get back into form so that you are comfortable enough to know where the ball will go before you strike it through your proper form.
TLDR: Practice the fuck out of your shots so that youre completely comfortable.
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | c1iyqft | It seems that you have lost your touch due to lack of practice. First, make sure you have the correct pair of boots for the position you want to take. Second thing to do is work on your form, especially in each type of shot you are looking for. Now it is time to go out and line up a few balls on the 18 yard line and start practicing your shots. You need to get back into form so that you are comfortable enough to know where the ball will go before you strike it through your proper form. | Practice the fuck out of your shots so that youre completely comfortable. |
Faltriwall | Just to be clear, Witnesses believe that almost everyone who has lived and died has gone to hell, including Jesus and many of those who eventually go to Heaven and every Witness that dies now. But they believe *everyone* in hell get out. (Rev 20:11-15)
Witnesses believe that Hell and "the Lake of Fire/Gehenna are not places of torture. Death and "the Second Death" are viewed as dreamless sleep or coma. Second Death viewed as 'eternal coma' What atheists and agnostics expect to happen to them when they die, is exactly what Witnesses expect will happen to them too.
tl;dr: Witnesses don't believe in hellfire, but do believe anyone who Jehovah deems wicked to be forever asleep after death.
Edit: Oh, and They believe that governments of the world will destroy all religions (except JWs), and those religion's *ardent* supporters. Then the governments of the world will turn on JWs as a group and individually. And that Jesus will lead destruction on "the world" when governments unitedly try to destroy Witnesses. | Just to be clear, Witnesses believe that almost everyone who has lived and died has gone to hell, including Jesus and many of those who eventually go to Heaven and every Witness that dies now. But they believe everyone in hell get out. (Rev 20:11-15)
Witnesses believe that Hell and "the Lake of Fire/Gehenna are not places of torture. Death and "the Second Death" are viewed as dreamless sleep or coma. Second Death viewed as 'eternal coma' What atheists and agnostics expect to happen to them when they die, is exactly what Witnesses expect will happen to them too.
tl;dr: Witnesses don't believe in hellfire, but do believe anyone who Jehovah deems wicked to be forever asleep after death.
Edit: Oh, and They believe that governments of the world will destroy all religions (except JWs), and those religion's ardent supporters. Then the governments of the world will turn on JWs as a group and individually. And that Jesus will lead destruction on "the world" when governments unitedly try to destroy Witnesses.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c1j23tn | Just to be clear, Witnesses believe that almost everyone who has lived and died has gone to hell, including Jesus and many of those who eventually go to Heaven and every Witness that dies now. But they believe everyone in hell get out. (Rev 20:11-15)
Witnesses believe that Hell and "the Lake of Fire/Gehenna are not places of torture. Death and "the Second Death" are viewed as dreamless sleep or coma. Second Death viewed as 'eternal coma' What atheists and agnostics expect to happen to them when they die, is exactly what Witnesses expect will happen to them too. | Witnesses don't believe in hellfire, but do believe anyone who Jehovah deems wicked to be forever asleep after death.
Edit: Oh, and They believe that governments of the world will destroy all religions (except JWs), and those religion's ardent supporters. Then the governments of the world will turn on JWs as a group and individually. And that Jesus will lead destruction on "the world" when governments unitedly try to destroy Witnesses. |
evildeadxsp | Yes. Thank you. Understandably, it's a choice on whether to join Mint or not - but I have no issue with the service - and actually prefer they target their advertising for me. It makes sense. I would not mind at all if they got all GroupOn on me and said "You spend $300 on "Alcohol/Bars" each month - here are some coupons for beer. That's not creepy. That's convenient (and awesome).
I'm much more objected to Facebook security, because I'm more worried about what my peers/acquaintances and other employers find out about me. **tl;dr** - I am not as worried as someone collecting my spending data as opposed to my emotional data. | Yes. Thank you. Understandably, it's a choice on whether to join Mint or not - but I have no issue with the service - and actually prefer they target their advertising for me. It makes sense. I would not mind at all if they got all GroupOn on me and said "You spend $300 on "Alcohol/Bars" each month - here are some coupons for beer. That's not creepy. That's convenient (and awesome).
I'm much more objected to Facebook security, because I'm more worried about what my peers/acquaintances and other employers find out about me. tl;dr - I am not as worried as someone collecting my spending data as opposed to my emotional data.
| Frugal | t5_2qhbe | c1jcua2 | Yes. Thank you. Understandably, it's a choice on whether to join Mint or not - but I have no issue with the service - and actually prefer they target their advertising for me. It makes sense. I would not mind at all if they got all GroupOn on me and said "You spend $300 on "Alcohol/Bars" each month - here are some coupons for beer. That's not creepy. That's convenient (and awesome).
I'm much more objected to Facebook security, because I'm more worried about what my peers/acquaintances and other employers find out about me. | I am not as worried as someone collecting my spending data as opposed to my emotional data. |
Skippo | a few friends of mine started playing rift. one of their dad's & his wife play, they ran one of the biggest guilds in EQ. the dad doesn't play games like most people, he likes to explore. while playing he instructs my friend on how to get up this mountain in which the friend dies several times getting to the top. so he gets to the top and the dad shows him a chest and inside the chest: bam, epic piece for his level. i guess there are such chests in each zone.
tl;dr morrowind
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holy shitttttttttttttt | a few friends of mine started playing rift. one of their dad's & his wife play, they ran one of the biggest guilds in EQ. the dad doesn't play games like most people, he likes to explore. while playing he instructs my friend on how to get up this mountain in which the friend dies several times getting to the top. so he gets to the top and the dad shows him a chest and inside the chest: bam, epic piece for his level. i guess there are such chests in each zone.
tl;dr morrowind
also
holy shitttttttttttttt
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c1jhh8f | a few friends of mine started playing rift. one of their dad's & his wife play, they ran one of the biggest guilds in EQ. the dad doesn't play games like most people, he likes to explore. while playing he instructs my friend on how to get up this mountain in which the friend dies several times getting to the top. so he gets to the top and the dad shows him a chest and inside the chest: bam, epic piece for his level. i guess there are such chests in each zone. | morrowind
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holy shitttttttttttttt |
autobahn | Typically paper filters work best in terms of actual cleaning ability. Also, the stock airbox provides some sort of measure in reducing the dust and particulate matter from getting to the filter in the first place.
Personally, I wouldn't run a CAI with a cone filter on a car that's going to see a lot of dusty roads. Especially if it's an ACTUAL CAI and has the filter located down towards the bottom of the car, open to the elements. There are 2 reasons for this: first, most oiled element filters simply don't filter as well as a paper filter does. Second, if you're running it on dusty roads, it will most likely quickly clog with dirt and dust and lower your performance. If it's just a filter on a stick that sits in the engine bay, it's probably doing you no good anyway (hot air intake). Most of the VW airboxes in the MK4s and up are good for quite a bit of horsepower, regardless, so CAIs, especially on forced induction cars, do basically nothing as the air is heated up by being compressed anyway.
TL;DR: IMO, if it's just an aFe filter element, ditch it and put a MANN paper filter in. If it's a CAI system, rip it out, sell it on ebay/craigslist/vwvortex/tdiclub and put a stock airbox in.
| Typically paper filters work best in terms of actual cleaning ability. Also, the stock airbox provides some sort of measure in reducing the dust and particulate matter from getting to the filter in the first place.
Personally, I wouldn't run a CAI with a cone filter on a car that's going to see a lot of dusty roads. Especially if it's an ACTUAL CAI and has the filter located down towards the bottom of the car, open to the elements. There are 2 reasons for this: first, most oiled element filters simply don't filter as well as a paper filter does. Second, if you're running it on dusty roads, it will most likely quickly clog with dirt and dust and lower your performance. If it's just a filter on a stick that sits in the engine bay, it's probably doing you no good anyway (hot air intake). Most of the VW airboxes in the MK4s and up are good for quite a bit of horsepower, regardless, so CAIs, especially on forced induction cars, do basically nothing as the air is heated up by being compressed anyway.
TL;DR: IMO, if it's just an aFe filter element, ditch it and put a MANN paper filter in. If it's a CAI system, rip it out, sell it on ebay/craigslist/vwvortex/tdiclub and put a stock airbox in.
| cars | t5_2qhl2 | c1jjg3l | Typically paper filters work best in terms of actual cleaning ability. Also, the stock airbox provides some sort of measure in reducing the dust and particulate matter from getting to the filter in the first place.
Personally, I wouldn't run a CAI with a cone filter on a car that's going to see a lot of dusty roads. Especially if it's an ACTUAL CAI and has the filter located down towards the bottom of the car, open to the elements. There are 2 reasons for this: first, most oiled element filters simply don't filter as well as a paper filter does. Second, if you're running it on dusty roads, it will most likely quickly clog with dirt and dust and lower your performance. If it's just a filter on a stick that sits in the engine bay, it's probably doing you no good anyway (hot air intake). Most of the VW airboxes in the MK4s and up are good for quite a bit of horsepower, regardless, so CAIs, especially on forced induction cars, do basically nothing as the air is heated up by being compressed anyway. | IMO, if it's just an aFe filter element, ditch it and put a MANN paper filter in. If it's a CAI system, rip it out, sell it on ebay/craigslist/vwvortex/tdiclub and put a stock airbox in. |
blinkus | Um, well, heh, setting your language aside... I think you misinterpreted my post... It was meant to be somewhat facetious.
I intended to point out that discomfort with the kind of culture that arises out of the racial/economic conditions seen in the video is often accused of being racist, *whether or not* that is actually true.
So tl;dr, no, I don't really think it's racist... just, complicated. | Um, well, heh, setting your language aside... I think you misinterpreted my post... It was meant to be somewhat facetious.
I intended to point out that discomfort with the kind of culture that arises out of the racial/economic conditions seen in the video is often accused of being racist, whether or not that is actually true.
So tl;dr, no, I don't really think it's racist... just, complicated.
| videos | t5_2qh1e | c1jt1n1 | Um, well, heh, setting your language aside... I think you misinterpreted my post... It was meant to be somewhat facetious.
I intended to point out that discomfort with the kind of culture that arises out of the racial/economic conditions seen in the video is often accused of being racist, whether or not that is actually true.
So | no, I don't really think it's racist... just, complicated. |
tomfiend | I might just interject here that unless he intends on climbing a corporate ladder to the top, finding a job isn't much of a problem for the modified world. Not like it was a decade ago.
Personally, I'm 21 years old, have a mohawk (obviously washed out for work), am visibly tattoo'd and generally don't have much color in my wardrobe. However I hold down a 48k a year full time job in the finance sector. Its obviously not the best job in the world, but its certainly more than livible. Before that I was at an IT company for 2 years with a similar appearance.
Its gotten to the point where, if an employer says "I don't want people with visible modifications", we can say "well if thats the kind of person you are, I don't want your shitty job"
Tl;dr Modified people don't really have that much trouble finding jobs. | I might just interject here that unless he intends on climbing a corporate ladder to the top, finding a job isn't much of a problem for the modified world. Not like it was a decade ago.
Personally, I'm 21 years old, have a mohawk (obviously washed out for work), am visibly tattoo'd and generally don't have much color in my wardrobe. However I hold down a 48k a year full time job in the finance sector. Its obviously not the best job in the world, but its certainly more than livible. Before that I was at an IT company for 2 years with a similar appearance.
Its gotten to the point where, if an employer says "I don't want people with visible modifications", we can say "well if thats the kind of person you are, I don't want your shitty job"
Tl;dr Modified people don't really have that much trouble finding jobs.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c1jnir1 | I might just interject here that unless he intends on climbing a corporate ladder to the top, finding a job isn't much of a problem for the modified world. Not like it was a decade ago.
Personally, I'm 21 years old, have a mohawk (obviously washed out for work), am visibly tattoo'd and generally don't have much color in my wardrobe. However I hold down a 48k a year full time job in the finance sector. Its obviously not the best job in the world, but its certainly more than livible. Before that I was at an IT company for 2 years with a similar appearance.
Its gotten to the point where, if an employer says "I don't want people with visible modifications", we can say "well if thats the kind of person you are, I don't want your shitty job" | Modified people don't really have that much trouble finding jobs. |
plancton | I am a foreigner, I can speak some french and I can understand a little bit of flemish and I can "order bread at a bakery". I worked in Halle for approximately 1 year and I personally never had any major problems, although my communication with the folks in Halle was resumed to ordering something at a restaurant/shop or a ticket at the train station.
I had some small issues in Halle (with the mutualite). I went to their offices for some formalities and they didn't speak english and they refused to speak french (luckily i was accompanied by a dutch speaker).
Another thing I witnessed was at the train station when a belgian french guy tried to order a ticket in french and the sales guy didn't want to give him a ticket unless he spoke dutch.
Ah yeah and I also heard that there is a pool in Halle where there is a huge banner with "we swim in dutch".
tl;dr you might have problems if you don't speak dutch | I am a foreigner, I can speak some french and I can understand a little bit of flemish and I can "order bread at a bakery". I worked in Halle for approximately 1 year and I personally never had any major problems, although my communication with the folks in Halle was resumed to ordering something at a restaurant/shop or a ticket at the train station.
I had some small issues in Halle (with the mutualite). I went to their offices for some formalities and they didn't speak english and they refused to speak french (luckily i was accompanied by a dutch speaker).
Another thing I witnessed was at the train station when a belgian french guy tried to order a ticket in french and the sales guy didn't want to give him a ticket unless he spoke dutch.
Ah yeah and I also heard that there is a pool in Halle where there is a huge banner with "we swim in dutch".
tl;dr you might have problems if you don't speak dutch
| belgium | t5_2qhe6 | c1jqlim | I am a foreigner, I can speak some french and I can understand a little bit of flemish and I can "order bread at a bakery". I worked in Halle for approximately 1 year and I personally never had any major problems, although my communication with the folks in Halle was resumed to ordering something at a restaurant/shop or a ticket at the train station.
I had some small issues in Halle (with the mutualite). I went to their offices for some formalities and they didn't speak english and they refused to speak french (luckily i was accompanied by a dutch speaker).
Another thing I witnessed was at the train station when a belgian french guy tried to order a ticket in french and the sales guy didn't want to give him a ticket unless he spoke dutch.
Ah yeah and I also heard that there is a pool in Halle where there is a huge banner with "we swim in dutch". | you might have problems if you don't speak dutch |
cjspike1357 | My friend who lives in old Louisville was robbed at gunpoint while walking to class at UofL close to his home. He returned home later that day to find that his house (more specifically his room) was broken into and robbed in a, what was believe to be, separate incidence.
tl;dr - Join a gang or fight the toughest guy who lives in old Louisville your first day so you seem like you would put up a fight. | My friend who lives in old Louisville was robbed at gunpoint while walking to class at UofL close to his home. He returned home later that day to find that his house (more specifically his room) was broken into and robbed in a, what was believe to be, separate incidence.
tl;dr - Join a gang or fight the toughest guy who lives in old Louisville your first day so you seem like you would put up a fight.
| Louisville | t5_2qqvg | c1jtlbh | My friend who lives in old Louisville was robbed at gunpoint while walking to class at UofL close to his home. He returned home later that day to find that his house (more specifically his room) was broken into and robbed in a, what was believe to be, separate incidence. | Join a gang or fight the toughest guy who lives in old Louisville your first day so you seem like you would put up a fight. |
KantStopTheRock | I know sometimes people do this type of thing, but you misinterpret my particular motives. The overshadowed comment refers to the mainstream (LAMEstream, get it?) media, which likely won't give these rallies much play. You may have heard that tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in Ohio, but this received press hardly comparable to the Wisconsin coverage. I posted because, like one comment already pointed out, many Floridians may not have any idea this is happening, yet would love to participate.
TL;DR Sometimes people post things for like... real life, rather than made up karma.
*Edit* Spelling. | I know sometimes people do this type of thing, but you misinterpret my particular motives. The overshadowed comment refers to the mainstream (LAMEstream, get it?) media, which likely won't give these rallies much play. You may have heard that tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in Ohio, but this received press hardly comparable to the Wisconsin coverage. I posted because, like one comment already pointed out, many Floridians may not have any idea this is happening, yet would love to participate.
TL;DR Sometimes people post things for like... real life, rather than made up karma.
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| politics | t5_2cneq | c1jv9w2 | I know sometimes people do this type of thing, but you misinterpret my particular motives. The overshadowed comment refers to the mainstream (LAMEstream, get it?) media, which likely won't give these rallies much play. You may have heard that tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating in Ohio, but this received press hardly comparable to the Wisconsin coverage. I posted because, like one comment already pointed out, many Floridians may not have any idea this is happening, yet would love to participate. | Sometimes people post things for like... real life, rather than made up karma.
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big_cil | It depends. Roma has added very minimal depth over the last year primarily due to the Sensi family being in litigation to sell the club. If you look at the number of games they play versus the number of players in the squad compared to Milan or Inter they look like minows. Roma just doesnt have the depth or enough quality to play 2 games a week during the bulk of the season and be competitive throughout. I'm not looking for a blockbuster deal over the summer window, but I would like to see some depth on the wings (provided they play a 4-2-3-1) an extra central defender (regardless of whether Mexes leaves, since the three CBs take too many cards) and a RB. To get to the Champs Lge is a huge amount of money compared to the Europa Lge and the same number of games, so I would prefer a fourth place finish, more money for the same number of games. Yes, the cup is important and I would love to squash those arrogant, money spending, non-Italian pricks of Inter in the next round and take down the shady politician in the final.
TL;DR - Rambling, finish 4th, win the cup, add depth in the summer | It depends. Roma has added very minimal depth over the last year primarily due to the Sensi family being in litigation to sell the club. If you look at the number of games they play versus the number of players in the squad compared to Milan or Inter they look like minows. Roma just doesnt have the depth or enough quality to play 2 games a week during the bulk of the season and be competitive throughout. I'm not looking for a blockbuster deal over the summer window, but I would like to see some depth on the wings (provided they play a 4-2-3-1) an extra central defender (regardless of whether Mexes leaves, since the three CBs take too many cards) and a RB. To get to the Champs Lge is a huge amount of money compared to the Europa Lge and the same number of games, so I would prefer a fourth place finish, more money for the same number of games. Yes, the cup is important and I would love to squash those arrogant, money spending, non-Italian pricks of Inter in the next round and take down the shady politician in the final.
TL;DR - Rambling, finish 4th, win the cup, add depth in the summer
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | c1jyls3 | It depends. Roma has added very minimal depth over the last year primarily due to the Sensi family being in litigation to sell the club. If you look at the number of games they play versus the number of players in the squad compared to Milan or Inter they look like minows. Roma just doesnt have the depth or enough quality to play 2 games a week during the bulk of the season and be competitive throughout. I'm not looking for a blockbuster deal over the summer window, but I would like to see some depth on the wings (provided they play a 4-2-3-1) an extra central defender (regardless of whether Mexes leaves, since the three CBs take too many cards) and a RB. To get to the Champs Lge is a huge amount of money compared to the Europa Lge and the same number of games, so I would prefer a fourth place finish, more money for the same number of games. Yes, the cup is important and I would love to squash those arrogant, money spending, non-Italian pricks of Inter in the next round and take down the shady politician in the final. | Rambling, finish 4th, win the cup, add depth in the summer |
don_homer | Why does this debate always centre around promoting women to boards as opposed to top leadership positions in their respective industry (eg partner in law/accounting/engineering firm)? I assume they mean promoting women to being executive directors on boards. Those are the ones who earn the big bucks usually and are selected internally by the corporation on the basis of merit if its a private company or fucking VOTED in if its a public company (so shareholders get out there and vote for more women if you want them in!).
Many directors on boards are non executive directors and are paid a token fee (usually in the range of $10k but as little as $1) for their service but actually have permanent employment elsewhere. Non executive directors are usually specialists in certain critical areas of business, eg law, accounting and banking and finance. They are there to give token board level advice in relation to their area of expertise. They do not make commercial business decisions - only the executive directors do that. Because AT PRESENT more men than women are leaders in these areas, more men than women are represented as non executive directors on boards. If the ASX figures people keep citing includes the number of non executive directors on boards then the figures are fucking misleading.
The number of women moving into key leadership positions within many areas relevant to business (particularly law, with something like 65% of law grads being female and far more women than men now studying at tertiary level) is increasing every year. These women will likely go on to be the non executive directors of tomorrow.
The change is happening organically if we just fucking leave it alone. You want to get more women onto boards, keep going with the work/life balance incentives like paid parental leave or subsidised child care.
I think it's fucking atrocious that people assume that women can't make this change happen themselves. Most of the women I work with and know are extremely good at their jobs, dedicated and ambitious. If they want something they'll get it. They certainly don't want a fucking pity promotion because their darling pretty little selves couldn't get it otherwise.
**TL;DR the fucking ASX figures are inflated because they count non executive directors who are typically male because men AT PRESENT dominate key leadership positions in areas like law, finance and accounting. Women are steadily increasing their presence in these areas and will be the future non executive directors of tomorrow thus reducing the gender imbalance organically.** | Why does this debate always centre around promoting women to boards as opposed to top leadership positions in their respective industry (eg partner in law/accounting/engineering firm)? I assume they mean promoting women to being executive directors on boards. Those are the ones who earn the big bucks usually and are selected internally by the corporation on the basis of merit if its a private company or fucking VOTED in if its a public company (so shareholders get out there and vote for more women if you want them in!).
Many directors on boards are non executive directors and are paid a token fee (usually in the range of $10k but as little as $1) for their service but actually have permanent employment elsewhere. Non executive directors are usually specialists in certain critical areas of business, eg law, accounting and banking and finance. They are there to give token board level advice in relation to their area of expertise. They do not make commercial business decisions - only the executive directors do that. Because AT PRESENT more men than women are leaders in these areas, more men than women are represented as non executive directors on boards. If the ASX figures people keep citing includes the number of non executive directors on boards then the figures are fucking misleading.
The number of women moving into key leadership positions within many areas relevant to business (particularly law, with something like 65% of law grads being female and far more women than men now studying at tertiary level) is increasing every year. These women will likely go on to be the non executive directors of tomorrow.
The change is happening organically if we just fucking leave it alone. You want to get more women onto boards, keep going with the work/life balance incentives like paid parental leave or subsidised child care.
I think it's fucking atrocious that people assume that women can't make this change happen themselves. Most of the women I work with and know are extremely good at their jobs, dedicated and ambitious. If they want something they'll get it. They certainly don't want a fucking pity promotion because their darling pretty little selves couldn't get it otherwise.
TL;DR the fucking ASX figures are inflated because they count non executive directors who are typically male because men AT PRESENT dominate key leadership positions in areas like law, finance and accounting. Women are steadily increasing their presence in these areas and will be the future non executive directors of tomorrow thus reducing the gender imbalance organically.
| australia | t5_2qh8e | c1k3f9w | Why does this debate always centre around promoting women to boards as opposed to top leadership positions in their respective industry (eg partner in law/accounting/engineering firm)? I assume they mean promoting women to being executive directors on boards. Those are the ones who earn the big bucks usually and are selected internally by the corporation on the basis of merit if its a private company or fucking VOTED in if its a public company (so shareholders get out there and vote for more women if you want them in!).
Many directors on boards are non executive directors and are paid a token fee (usually in the range of $10k but as little as $1) for their service but actually have permanent employment elsewhere. Non executive directors are usually specialists in certain critical areas of business, eg law, accounting and banking and finance. They are there to give token board level advice in relation to their area of expertise. They do not make commercial business decisions - only the executive directors do that. Because AT PRESENT more men than women are leaders in these areas, more men than women are represented as non executive directors on boards. If the ASX figures people keep citing includes the number of non executive directors on boards then the figures are fucking misleading.
The number of women moving into key leadership positions within many areas relevant to business (particularly law, with something like 65% of law grads being female and far more women than men now studying at tertiary level) is increasing every year. These women will likely go on to be the non executive directors of tomorrow.
The change is happening organically if we just fucking leave it alone. You want to get more women onto boards, keep going with the work/life balance incentives like paid parental leave or subsidised child care.
I think it's fucking atrocious that people assume that women can't make this change happen themselves. Most of the women I work with and know are extremely good at their jobs, dedicated and ambitious. If they want something they'll get it. They certainly don't want a fucking pity promotion because their darling pretty little selves couldn't get it otherwise. | the fucking ASX figures are inflated because they count non executive directors who are typically male because men AT PRESENT dominate key leadership positions in areas like law, finance and accounting. Women are steadily increasing their presence in these areas and will be the future non executive directors of tomorrow thus reducing the gender imbalance organically. |
KingOfAllBlacks | A loose rule I use is:
Wet Season - Wipe down and lube every 2/3 rides.
Dry Season - Wipe down and lube every 1-2 weeks or when dirty
TL;DR - If your bike is dirty clean it.
As for replacement of gear, syncsynchalt seems to have some good advice. | A loose rule I use is:
Wet Season - Wipe down and lube every 2/3 rides.
Dry Season - Wipe down and lube every 1-2 weeks or when dirty
TL;DR - If your bike is dirty clean it.
As for replacement of gear, syncsynchalt seems to have some good advice.
| bicycling | t5_2qi0s | c1k6v4h | A loose rule I use is:
Wet Season - Wipe down and lube every 2/3 rides.
Dry Season - Wipe down and lube every 1-2 weeks or when dirty | If your bike is dirty clean it.
As for replacement of gear, syncsynchalt seems to have some good advice. |
TheUKLibertarian | What I was trying to say in regard to the first point you disagree with is that many "liberal types" (I really don't like to use these collective terms because everybody is different but I hope you know what I mean) are already on board that *some* government programs can be bad and destructive. My experience is that if people arrive at libertarianism it is the social programs like welfare and public education that are the most difficult ones for people to let go of intellectually so to speak. This is my explanation for why most people who don't agree with things like welfare tend to be libertarian (though not always): if they no longer believe in welfare they've probably previously already given up their support of most other programs which inevitably puts them either at the libertarian position or leaning that way.
I agree with you that poverty is inherently arbitrary and ideas of poverty change over time (a person considered living in poverty in the USA today would be considered wealthy compared to a person living in poverty in the Sudan) but this doesn't really make a case against the argument. All the poverty statistics come from the government and government's are the people who decide what threshhold constitutes "poverty"... using their own metrics their own social programs have failed but personally I don't even believe somebody who has a roof over their head and food should be considered in poverty at all. But that's a personal thing, I realise setting an arbitrary line can be useful for some purposes.
I don't think I said that libertarianism is increasing, can you point to where I did say that? Either way I *do* believe it is increasing but I also agree with you that socialist (or perhaps "anti-capitailst") views seem to be on the rise. I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. As various countries like the USA and the UK begin to get into worse situations the people recognise that something is wrong. As discomfort increases people look for answers. In that climate people could move towards libertarianism *or* socialism from their previous position of not really paying attention which would mean both movements would gather steam.
In my opinion history shows socialism doesn't work and freedom does, just from a practical stand point. I also happen to think there is a moral argument that convinces me libertarianism is the consistent and right position, but I know a lot of people are more persuaded by utilitarian arguments and to those people I think honest examination of economics, history and philosophy leads to the conclusion that libertarianism is far better than redistribution/regulation/controls etc.
Just to reply to something you said to shaurz
>A well educated, well informed populace is the best protection against tyranny. There are people who will be brainwashed by whoever attempts to brainwash them (the state, the media, their teachers, whoever) and those who will not. Those who will not are still better off with the education.
Many libertarians (and certainly myself) would argue that the state does the opposite of educating people. Rather it kills creativity, teaches a lot of meaningless facts and biased pro-state history, completely fails to promote critical thinking or economics which are critical in order to form coherent political opinions... the list goes on. And this isn't an opinion either, the facts speak for themselves: the state has been spending more and more over the past 30 years whilst at the same time graduating less and less educated kids. Many children are coming out of *12 years* of state education without the ability to even read or write properly. At the same time private institutions, which are competing with something that is *being given away for free* (always a difficult task) are educating kids to a far higher standard for *less than half the cost*.
People often talk a lot about how Sweden shows how socialism is a good thing, but the truth is Sweden actually has more of a free market in education than the United States: in Sweden the government does give money to parents for their kids education but the parents can decide which private school to send those kids to. The UK on the other hand shares the USA model. As a UK resident I recently spent some time in Sweden and the difference between intelligence in the young people was scary. Simply allowing free markets and *choice* for parents quickly and radically improves education.
TL;DR: If you want an "educated populace" the last thing you want is government controlling the education. | What I was trying to say in regard to the first point you disagree with is that many "liberal types" (I really don't like to use these collective terms because everybody is different but I hope you know what I mean) are already on board that some government programs can be bad and destructive. My experience is that if people arrive at libertarianism it is the social programs like welfare and public education that are the most difficult ones for people to let go of intellectually so to speak. This is my explanation for why most people who don't agree with things like welfare tend to be libertarian (though not always): if they no longer believe in welfare they've probably previously already given up their support of most other programs which inevitably puts them either at the libertarian position or leaning that way.
I agree with you that poverty is inherently arbitrary and ideas of poverty change over time (a person considered living in poverty in the USA today would be considered wealthy compared to a person living in poverty in the Sudan) but this doesn't really make a case against the argument. All the poverty statistics come from the government and government's are the people who decide what threshhold constitutes "poverty"... using their own metrics their own social programs have failed but personally I don't even believe somebody who has a roof over their head and food should be considered in poverty at all. But that's a personal thing, I realise setting an arbitrary line can be useful for some purposes.
I don't think I said that libertarianism is increasing, can you point to where I did say that? Either way I do believe it is increasing but I also agree with you that socialist (or perhaps "anti-capitailst") views seem to be on the rise. I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. As various countries like the USA and the UK begin to get into worse situations the people recognise that something is wrong. As discomfort increases people look for answers. In that climate people could move towards libertarianism or socialism from their previous position of not really paying attention which would mean both movements would gather steam.
In my opinion history shows socialism doesn't work and freedom does, just from a practical stand point. I also happen to think there is a moral argument that convinces me libertarianism is the consistent and right position, but I know a lot of people are more persuaded by utilitarian arguments and to those people I think honest examination of economics, history and philosophy leads to the conclusion that libertarianism is far better than redistribution/regulation/controls etc.
Just to reply to something you said to shaurz
>A well educated, well informed populace is the best protection against tyranny. There are people who will be brainwashed by whoever attempts to brainwash them (the state, the media, their teachers, whoever) and those who will not. Those who will not are still better off with the education.
Many libertarians (and certainly myself) would argue that the state does the opposite of educating people. Rather it kills creativity, teaches a lot of meaningless facts and biased pro-state history, completely fails to promote critical thinking or economics which are critical in order to form coherent political opinions... the list goes on. And this isn't an opinion either, the facts speak for themselves: the state has been spending more and more over the past 30 years whilst at the same time graduating less and less educated kids. Many children are coming out of 12 years of state education without the ability to even read or write properly. At the same time private institutions, which are competing with something that is being given away for free (always a difficult task) are educating kids to a far higher standard for less than half the cost .
People often talk a lot about how Sweden shows how socialism is a good thing, but the truth is Sweden actually has more of a free market in education than the United States: in Sweden the government does give money to parents for their kids education but the parents can decide which private school to send those kids to. The UK on the other hand shares the USA model. As a UK resident I recently spent some time in Sweden and the difference between intelligence in the young people was scary. Simply allowing free markets and choice for parents quickly and radically improves education.
TL;DR: If you want an "educated populace" the last thing you want is government controlling the education.
| bestof | t5_2qh3v | c1kb822 | What I was trying to say in regard to the first point you disagree with is that many "liberal types" (I really don't like to use these collective terms because everybody is different but I hope you know what I mean) are already on board that some government programs can be bad and destructive. My experience is that if people arrive at libertarianism it is the social programs like welfare and public education that are the most difficult ones for people to let go of intellectually so to speak. This is my explanation for why most people who don't agree with things like welfare tend to be libertarian (though not always): if they no longer believe in welfare they've probably previously already given up their support of most other programs which inevitably puts them either at the libertarian position or leaning that way.
I agree with you that poverty is inherently arbitrary and ideas of poverty change over time (a person considered living in poverty in the USA today would be considered wealthy compared to a person living in poverty in the Sudan) but this doesn't really make a case against the argument. All the poverty statistics come from the government and government's are the people who decide what threshhold constitutes "poverty"... using their own metrics their own social programs have failed but personally I don't even believe somebody who has a roof over their head and food should be considered in poverty at all. But that's a personal thing, I realise setting an arbitrary line can be useful for some purposes.
I don't think I said that libertarianism is increasing, can you point to where I did say that? Either way I do believe it is increasing but I also agree with you that socialist (or perhaps "anti-capitailst") views seem to be on the rise. I don't think these things are mutually exclusive. As various countries like the USA and the UK begin to get into worse situations the people recognise that something is wrong. As discomfort increases people look for answers. In that climate people could move towards libertarianism or socialism from their previous position of not really paying attention which would mean both movements would gather steam.
In my opinion history shows socialism doesn't work and freedom does, just from a practical stand point. I also happen to think there is a moral argument that convinces me libertarianism is the consistent and right position, but I know a lot of people are more persuaded by utilitarian arguments and to those people I think honest examination of economics, history and philosophy leads to the conclusion that libertarianism is far better than redistribution/regulation/controls etc.
Just to reply to something you said to shaurz
>A well educated, well informed populace is the best protection against tyranny. There are people who will be brainwashed by whoever attempts to brainwash them (the state, the media, their teachers, whoever) and those who will not. Those who will not are still better off with the education.
Many libertarians (and certainly myself) would argue that the state does the opposite of educating people. Rather it kills creativity, teaches a lot of meaningless facts and biased pro-state history, completely fails to promote critical thinking or economics which are critical in order to form coherent political opinions... the list goes on. And this isn't an opinion either, the facts speak for themselves: the state has been spending more and more over the past 30 years whilst at the same time graduating less and less educated kids. Many children are coming out of 12 years of state education without the ability to even read or write properly. At the same time private institutions, which are competing with something that is being given away for free (always a difficult task) are educating kids to a far higher standard for less than half the cost .
People often talk a lot about how Sweden shows how socialism is a good thing, but the truth is Sweden actually has more of a free market in education than the United States: in Sweden the government does give money to parents for their kids education but the parents can decide which private school to send those kids to. The UK on the other hand shares the USA model. As a UK resident I recently spent some time in Sweden and the difference between intelligence in the young people was scary. Simply allowing free markets and choice for parents quickly and radically improves education. | If you want an "educated populace" the last thing you want is government controlling the education. |
severedfragile | My dad was in occasional correspondence with some guy in Manchester several years ago. I think their interaction was limited to a few casual comments to each other, they were both on a mailing list (I've mentioned before that my dad is, lamentably, a Man Utd fan). Anyway, he was in England for work and had a couple days off, so he stopped by Manchester. He'd mentioned this on that mailing list, and so the guy he'd been talking to invited him to meet him at the stadium. OT was closed, but the guy had called some people and managed to convince them to give my dad a mini-tour around the stadium and trophy room. Was a pretty nice gesture from a guy he'd never met.
tl;dr My Manchester United-supporting father got access to a closed Old Trafford with the help of another United fan he barely knew. | My dad was in occasional correspondence with some guy in Manchester several years ago. I think their interaction was limited to a few casual comments to each other, they were both on a mailing list (I've mentioned before that my dad is, lamentably, a Man Utd fan). Anyway, he was in England for work and had a couple days off, so he stopped by Manchester. He'd mentioned this on that mailing list, and so the guy he'd been talking to invited him to meet him at the stadium. OT was closed, but the guy had called some people and managed to convince them to give my dad a mini-tour around the stadium and trophy room. Was a pretty nice gesture from a guy he'd never met.
tl;dr My Manchester United-supporting father got access to a closed Old Trafford with the help of another United fan he barely knew.
| soccer | t5_2qi58 | c1kgu5b | My dad was in occasional correspondence with some guy in Manchester several years ago. I think their interaction was limited to a few casual comments to each other, they were both on a mailing list (I've mentioned before that my dad is, lamentably, a Man Utd fan). Anyway, he was in England for work and had a couple days off, so he stopped by Manchester. He'd mentioned this on that mailing list, and so the guy he'd been talking to invited him to meet him at the stadium. OT was closed, but the guy had called some people and managed to convince them to give my dad a mini-tour around the stadium and trophy room. Was a pretty nice gesture from a guy he'd never met. | My Manchester United-supporting father got access to a closed Old Trafford with the help of another United fan he barely knew. |
Marzhall | Actually, if we recycled it like Japan and France do, instead of taking it out of use after a government-mandated time limit because "TERRORISTS!", we'd have far, far less waste to worry about - specifically, 96% less ( Most nuclear waste is still usable, but since the Carter administration the government has been afraid to recycle it because they fear it getting "into the wrong hands" - as if terrorists would get it from the US and not Korea or Iran. As for storage, we already have Yucca mountain, but people are still afraid of it because "OMG RADIASHUN FROM NUKE-U-LUR THINGS!"
tl;dr: We have the ability to re-use and store waste, the population is just too ill-educated to not be afraid of it, and the politicians follow what the people want, or think they want. | Actually, if we recycled it like Japan and France do, instead of taking it out of use after a government-mandated time limit because "TERRORISTS!", we'd have far, far less waste to worry about - specifically, 96% less ( Most nuclear waste is still usable, but since the Carter administration the government has been afraid to recycle it because they fear it getting "into the wrong hands" - as if terrorists would get it from the US and not Korea or Iran. As for storage, we already have Yucca mountain, but people are still afraid of it because "OMG RADIASHUN FROM NUKE-U-LUR THINGS!"
tl;dr: We have the ability to re-use and store waste, the population is just too ill-educated to not be afraid of it, and the politicians follow what the people want, or think they want.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | c1kljc1 | Actually, if we recycled it like Japan and France do, instead of taking it out of use after a government-mandated time limit because "TERRORISTS!", we'd have far, far less waste to worry about - specifically, 96% less ( Most nuclear waste is still usable, but since the Carter administration the government has been afraid to recycle it because they fear it getting "into the wrong hands" - as if terrorists would get it from the US and not Korea or Iran. As for storage, we already have Yucca mountain, but people are still afraid of it because "OMG RADIASHUN FROM NUKE-U-LUR THINGS!" | We have the ability to re-use and store waste, the population is just too ill-educated to not be afraid of it, and the politicians follow what the people want, or think they want. |
Godcall | I come from the Ohio Valley, and nuclear is way less radioactive than coal. I watched plants, fowl, and wildlife die under coal-fired powerplants in the 80's. That Lil' nuke Generator? No worries, bummer, but no worries.
TLDR: We got worse here....... | I come from the Ohio Valley, and nuclear is way less radioactive than coal. I watched plants, fowl, and wildlife die under coal-fired powerplants in the 80's. That Lil' nuke Generator? No worries, bummer, but no worries.
TLDR: We got worse here.......
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | c1kjlbv | I come from the Ohio Valley, and nuclear is way less radioactive than coal. I watched plants, fowl, and wildlife die under coal-fired powerplants in the 80's. That Lil' nuke Generator? No worries, bummer, but no worries. | We got worse here....... |
lyddea | You should check the editor's note they have added to the story: "As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage."
What that means is that nuclear waste is far, far more radioactive over a much, much longer time. However, after being put into radioactively shielded containers, the shielded waste emits 100x less radioactivity then fly ash at the moment of release. Over its radioactive lifetime even shielded waste that is never disturbed, and whose containment never degrades, will still emit several orders of magnitude more radiation than fly ash, however.
TLDR: Coal might suck, but nuclear waste is far, far more radioactive than coal waste. | You should check the editor's note they have added to the story: "As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage."
What that means is that nuclear waste is far, far more radioactive over a much, much longer time. However, after being put into radioactively shielded containers, the shielded waste emits 100x less radioactivity then fly ash at the moment of release. Over its radioactive lifetime even shielded waste that is never disturbed, and whose containment never degrades, will still emit several orders of magnitude more radiation than fly ash, however.
TLDR: Coal might suck, but nuclear waste is far, far more radioactive than coal waste.
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | c1kjqmk | You should check the editor's note they have added to the story: "As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage."
What that means is that nuclear waste is far, far more radioactive over a much, much longer time. However, after being put into radioactively shielded containers, the shielded waste emits 100x less radioactivity then fly ash at the moment of release. Over its radioactive lifetime even shielded waste that is never disturbed, and whose containment never degrades, will still emit several orders of magnitude more radiation than fly ash, however. | Coal might suck, but nuclear waste is far, far more radioactive than coal waste. |
Davisourus | This is silly. This is on par for why do coal power plants not have insurance from domestic terrorists. It's just not financially equitable to insure for catastrophic failure of a large system. The company would be bankrupt either way, so paying X millions per year would only make the power more expensive and not realize any gains in case of failure. On the other hand with the proper security systems essentially their engineering department IS their insurance company. Nuclear power plants have huge amounts of paperwork and quadruple checks for their system testing (even testing concrete strength several times a year).
**TL;DR: They do have an insurance company, it's their engineering (QA/RCI) departments** | This is silly. This is on par for why do coal power plants not have insurance from domestic terrorists. It's just not financially equitable to insure for catastrophic failure of a large system. The company would be bankrupt either way, so paying X millions per year would only make the power more expensive and not realize any gains in case of failure. On the other hand with the proper security systems essentially their engineering department IS their insurance company. Nuclear power plants have huge amounts of paperwork and quadruple checks for their system testing (even testing concrete strength several times a year).
TL;DR: They do have an insurance company, it's their engineering (QA/RCI) departments
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | c1klrab | This is silly. This is on par for why do coal power plants not have insurance from domestic terrorists. It's just not financially equitable to insure for catastrophic failure of a large system. The company would be bankrupt either way, so paying X millions per year would only make the power more expensive and not realize any gains in case of failure. On the other hand with the proper security systems essentially their engineering department IS their insurance company. Nuclear power plants have huge amounts of paperwork and quadruple checks for their system testing (even testing concrete strength several times a year). | They do have an insurance company, it's their engineering (QA/RCI) departments |
Kerrigore | In my apartment complex, the washer only takes about 30min while the dryers take around an hour. This can be a problem if the dryers are going when you want to put yours in the wash and the people don't get their stuff out of the dryers in time. For some reason I feel weird just leaving my laundry sitting around wet in a basket, so generally I just leave it in the washer and check back every 10min or so until the stuff is out of the dryer.
Recently, this happened. I came back about 10min and someone was taking my stuff out of the washer. I'd like to say I handled it well, but in reality I immediately turned around and left. I rationalized this as having to go back to my apt to get quarters instead of loonie + quarter because one of the washing machines takes the loonie + quarter while the other takes only 5 quarters. Thinking I was going to put my next load in the wash as I moved the other into the dryer, I was planning on using the loonie + quarter. Anyways, I waited like 5min and went back, put my stuff in the dryer, my other stuff in the washer... but yeah. Awkward. Yet ultimately it was all because the first people didn't get their stuff out of the dryer, though in retrospect I probably should have just left my stuff in the basket. Of course, the person who moved my laundry could have used the open washer (the fact that one was free was one of the reasons I didn't take mine out), but I guess they didn't have the 5 quarters either.
TLDR: I'm a reluctant laundry asshole. | In my apartment complex, the washer only takes about 30min while the dryers take around an hour. This can be a problem if the dryers are going when you want to put yours in the wash and the people don't get their stuff out of the dryers in time. For some reason I feel weird just leaving my laundry sitting around wet in a basket, so generally I just leave it in the washer and check back every 10min or so until the stuff is out of the dryer.
Recently, this happened. I came back about 10min and someone was taking my stuff out of the washer. I'd like to say I handled it well, but in reality I immediately turned around and left. I rationalized this as having to go back to my apt to get quarters instead of loonie + quarter because one of the washing machines takes the loonie + quarter while the other takes only 5 quarters. Thinking I was going to put my next load in the wash as I moved the other into the dryer, I was planning on using the loonie + quarter. Anyways, I waited like 5min and went back, put my stuff in the dryer, my other stuff in the washer... but yeah. Awkward. Yet ultimately it was all because the first people didn't get their stuff out of the dryer, though in retrospect I probably should have just left my stuff in the basket. Of course, the person who moved my laundry could have used the open washer (the fact that one was free was one of the reasons I didn't take mine out), but I guess they didn't have the 5 quarters either.
TLDR: I'm a reluctant laundry asshole.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1ko31v | In my apartment complex, the washer only takes about 30min while the dryers take around an hour. This can be a problem if the dryers are going when you want to put yours in the wash and the people don't get their stuff out of the dryers in time. For some reason I feel weird just leaving my laundry sitting around wet in a basket, so generally I just leave it in the washer and check back every 10min or so until the stuff is out of the dryer.
Recently, this happened. I came back about 10min and someone was taking my stuff out of the washer. I'd like to say I handled it well, but in reality I immediately turned around and left. I rationalized this as having to go back to my apt to get quarters instead of loonie + quarter because one of the washing machines takes the loonie + quarter while the other takes only 5 quarters. Thinking I was going to put my next load in the wash as I moved the other into the dryer, I was planning on using the loonie + quarter. Anyways, I waited like 5min and went back, put my stuff in the dryer, my other stuff in the washer... but yeah. Awkward. Yet ultimately it was all because the first people didn't get their stuff out of the dryer, though in retrospect I probably should have just left my stuff in the basket. Of course, the person who moved my laundry could have used the open washer (the fact that one was free was one of the reasons I didn't take mine out), but I guess they didn't have the 5 quarters either. | I'm a reluctant laundry asshole. |
danbfree | Sorry, there is no such thing as first come first serve when it comes to LEAVING your finished clothes in a machine in a shared laundry facility, period. YOU are the original asshole for leaving your shit in there, I am gonna put it on the table or basket (nicely, not on the floor or anything) the second I need the machine if you aren't there. If that makes me the asshole, then too bad you feel that way. YOU can worry about buying a house, using a laundromat OR set a timer/alarm and be there to get your clothes on time if you don't like it.
tl;dr: Sorry, but I will move your clothes nicely if you aren't there and won't feel a damn bit guilty for doing it. | Sorry, there is no such thing as first come first serve when it comes to LEAVING your finished clothes in a machine in a shared laundry facility, period. YOU are the original asshole for leaving your shit in there, I am gonna put it on the table or basket (nicely, not on the floor or anything) the second I need the machine if you aren't there. If that makes me the asshole, then too bad you feel that way. YOU can worry about buying a house, using a laundromat OR set a timer/alarm and be there to get your clothes on time if you don't like it.
tl;dr: Sorry, but I will move your clothes nicely if you aren't there and won't feel a damn bit guilty for doing it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1ko3uw | Sorry, there is no such thing as first come first serve when it comes to LEAVING your finished clothes in a machine in a shared laundry facility, period. YOU are the original asshole for leaving your shit in there, I am gonna put it on the table or basket (nicely, not on the floor or anything) the second I need the machine if you aren't there. If that makes me the asshole, then too bad you feel that way. YOU can worry about buying a house, using a laundromat OR set a timer/alarm and be there to get your clothes on time if you don't like it. | Sorry, but I will move your clothes nicely if you aren't there and won't feel a damn bit guilty for doing it. |
PurpleSfinx | A few years ago my sister bought a dog. Whenever I was at her house I'd suggest that instead of letting it poop and piss on the floor, maybe, just maybe, they could think about trying to house train it. They never did.
Anyway, when the inevitable happened and she moved back in with our parents and me\*\*\*\*, it pissed everywhere. I loathed it. I was quite vigilant in keeping my bedroom door shut, but of course once in a while I'd forget or not quite shut it properly, and that little demon would get inside.
One day this occurred, and when I returned I found that he had specifically picked out the one item touching the floor that it was most important he *did not* piss on: My Xbox. It's like the little bastard had intelligently picked out the one thing that would piss me off the most and showered it was his vile stench. Cue trolldog image.
I quite firmly ordered my sister to *clean it the hell up*. Before I go on, let me assure you that this was not some freak, one off occurrence. This was not some crazy, unlikely coincidence that she could not have foreseen. For literally months I had been reminding her weekly that she needed to teach that thing some rules or it would continue to enstench\* her every possession. And every week she ignored me. And every day he did so, and she or her boyfriend\*\* would pick him up, and tell him in the warmest, most cutesy, babyish voice, that he was *such a naughty boy, yes he wass, yes he WASSSS!!!*.
Now the problem with dogs is that understanding English is not one of their strong points. Especially when sarcasm or inappropriate tone it used. Even if he was human, he wouldn't have been old enough to understand such nuanced language. And so he took their words as praise and continued to systematically\*\*\* recolour their carpet from a dull off white to lively yellow. Point is, she **fucking knew** he did this and made *no attempt to stop him*.
Anyway. So she's in my room doing the most half-assed job in the world of cleaning this stuff up. Barely cleaning it one bit, making excuses, obviously trying to get out of this in any way possible. I tell her that she's clearly *not* done and I'd like my floor disinfected. She sees an out, and grabs hold tightly - telling me that somehow *I'm the one being an asshole* and that she *doesn't give a shit that it's her fault*, and she's *not cleaning jack shit*, and storms out.
I'm not the calmest person in the world when people piss me off, but this time I kept surprisingly cool. I simply went to where her nearly dry laundry was hanging up, took her pyjamas, and used them as my rag to soak up the remaining dog piss before neatly hanging them back up where they were and disinfecting the hell out of my hands.
\*Yeah I make up words.
\*\*Who was a douche.
\*\*\*His system was to randomly spray an endless torrent of urine over it until reaching the desired result.
\*\*\*\*Yes I live with my parents; despite the free room I still believe I have the right to a reasonable level of hygiene.
Every time I tell this story it blows out to way longer than it should. I get like that when I'm angry. Anyway, tl;dr - sister's dog pissed in my room, she refused to clean it, so I did - with her clothes. | A few years ago my sister bought a dog. Whenever I was at her house I'd suggest that instead of letting it poop and piss on the floor, maybe, just maybe, they could think about trying to house train it. They never did.
Anyway, when the inevitable happened and she moved back in with our parents and me****, it pissed everywhere. I loathed it. I was quite vigilant in keeping my bedroom door shut, but of course once in a while I'd forget or not quite shut it properly, and that little demon would get inside.
One day this occurred, and when I returned I found that he had specifically picked out the one item touching the floor that it was most important he did not piss on: My Xbox. It's like the little bastard had intelligently picked out the one thing that would piss me off the most and showered it was his vile stench. Cue trolldog image.
I quite firmly ordered my sister to clean it the hell up . Before I go on, let me assure you that this was not some freak, one off occurrence. This was not some crazy, unlikely coincidence that she could not have foreseen. For literally months I had been reminding her weekly that she needed to teach that thing some rules or it would continue to enstench* her every possession. And every week she ignored me. And every day he did so, and she or her boyfriend** would pick him up, and tell him in the warmest, most cutesy, babyish voice, that he was such a naughty boy, yes he wass, yes he WASSSS!!! .
Now the problem with dogs is that understanding English is not one of their strong points. Especially when sarcasm or inappropriate tone it used. Even if he was human, he wouldn't have been old enough to understand such nuanced language. And so he took their words as praise and continued to systematically*** recolour their carpet from a dull off white to lively yellow. Point is, she fucking knew he did this and made no attempt to stop him .
Anyway. So she's in my room doing the most half-assed job in the world of cleaning this stuff up. Barely cleaning it one bit, making excuses, obviously trying to get out of this in any way possible. I tell her that she's clearly not done and I'd like my floor disinfected. She sees an out, and grabs hold tightly - telling me that somehow I'm the one being an asshole and that she doesn't give a shit that it's her fault , and she's not cleaning jack shit , and storms out.
I'm not the calmest person in the world when people piss me off, but this time I kept surprisingly cool. I simply went to where her nearly dry laundry was hanging up, took her pyjamas, and used them as my rag to soak up the remaining dog piss before neatly hanging them back up where they were and disinfecting the hell out of my hands.
*Yeah I make up words.
**Who was a douche.
***His system was to randomly spray an endless torrent of urine over it until reaching the desired result.
****Yes I live with my parents; despite the free room I still believe I have the right to a reasonable level of hygiene.
Every time I tell this story it blows out to way longer than it should. I get like that when I'm angry. Anyway, tl;dr - sister's dog pissed in my room, she refused to clean it, so I did - with her clothes.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kocz3 | A few years ago my sister bought a dog. Whenever I was at her house I'd suggest that instead of letting it poop and piss on the floor, maybe, just maybe, they could think about trying to house train it. They never did.
Anyway, when the inevitable happened and she moved back in with our parents and me****, it pissed everywhere. I loathed it. I was quite vigilant in keeping my bedroom door shut, but of course once in a while I'd forget or not quite shut it properly, and that little demon would get inside.
One day this occurred, and when I returned I found that he had specifically picked out the one item touching the floor that it was most important he did not piss on: My Xbox. It's like the little bastard had intelligently picked out the one thing that would piss me off the most and showered it was his vile stench. Cue trolldog image.
I quite firmly ordered my sister to clean it the hell up . Before I go on, let me assure you that this was not some freak, one off occurrence. This was not some crazy, unlikely coincidence that she could not have foreseen. For literally months I had been reminding her weekly that she needed to teach that thing some rules or it would continue to enstench* her every possession. And every week she ignored me. And every day he did so, and she or her boyfriend** would pick him up, and tell him in the warmest, most cutesy, babyish voice, that he was such a naughty boy, yes he wass, yes he WASSSS!!! .
Now the problem with dogs is that understanding English is not one of their strong points. Especially when sarcasm or inappropriate tone it used. Even if he was human, he wouldn't have been old enough to understand such nuanced language. And so he took their words as praise and continued to systematically*** recolour their carpet from a dull off white to lively yellow. Point is, she fucking knew he did this and made no attempt to stop him .
Anyway. So she's in my room doing the most half-assed job in the world of cleaning this stuff up. Barely cleaning it one bit, making excuses, obviously trying to get out of this in any way possible. I tell her that she's clearly not done and I'd like my floor disinfected. She sees an out, and grabs hold tightly - telling me that somehow I'm the one being an asshole and that she doesn't give a shit that it's her fault , and she's not cleaning jack shit , and storms out.
I'm not the calmest person in the world when people piss me off, but this time I kept surprisingly cool. I simply went to where her nearly dry laundry was hanging up, took her pyjamas, and used them as my rag to soak up the remaining dog piss before neatly hanging them back up where they were and disinfecting the hell out of my hands.
*Yeah I make up words.
**Who was a douche.
***His system was to randomly spray an endless torrent of urine over it until reaching the desired result.
****Yes I live with my parents; despite the free room I still believe I have the right to a reasonable level of hygiene.
Every time I tell this story it blows out to way longer than it should. I get like that when I'm angry. Anyway, | sister's dog pissed in my room, she refused to clean it, so I did - with her clothes. |
Fratm | My first wedding was court house, shorts and t-shirts, just a couple witnesses and the officiant. It was okay, and I always said I would never change a thing.. Years passed and it seemed less special.. Maybe because we fell out of love, who knows. We divorced after 18 years..
My second marriage, my wife and I wanted to do something special.. We had a medium sized wedding, about 90 people, all close friends and relatives.. She did the white dress, I wore a tux had a best man and a grooms man.. etc..etc.. We took this chance to celebrate our love for each other, and to share that love with our friends and family.. It was a great time, and way more memorable than the first.
Getting dressed up was fun, I am a t-shirt and shorts kind of guy, it gave me an opportunity to see what it's like to dress all fancy. My wife looked beautiful in her dress..
Forcing others to dress up, well that didn't happen, except for the groomsmen and the brides maids.. But they all enjoyed it too, they enjoyed picking out the dresses and helping to pick out the suits.
Being the center of attention was weird, but enjoyable, because I knew it was for a good thing, having my friends and family speak about us at the dinner was neat, I never knew someone of them though of us that way. It actually strengthened the bond with some of us, and my father, whom I have hated since I could speak actually said some wonderful things about me, that I don't think he would have ever been able to say otherwise. Because of that our relationship is healing, and I like that..
Just remember you are the center of attention because your friends and family are there because they love you and your fiance. They want to be a part of this union between the two of you, and if they didn't want to be, they wouldn't RSVP that they are coming :)
TL;DR -- Experienced both types of weddings, and prefer the big wedding/ceremony over a court house elopement.
| My first wedding was court house, shorts and t-shirts, just a couple witnesses and the officiant. It was okay, and I always said I would never change a thing.. Years passed and it seemed less special.. Maybe because we fell out of love, who knows. We divorced after 18 years..
My second marriage, my wife and I wanted to do something special.. We had a medium sized wedding, about 90 people, all close friends and relatives.. She did the white dress, I wore a tux had a best man and a grooms man.. etc..etc.. We took this chance to celebrate our love for each other, and to share that love with our friends and family.. It was a great time, and way more memorable than the first.
Getting dressed up was fun, I am a t-shirt and shorts kind of guy, it gave me an opportunity to see what it's like to dress all fancy. My wife looked beautiful in her dress..
Forcing others to dress up, well that didn't happen, except for the groomsmen and the brides maids.. But they all enjoyed it too, they enjoyed picking out the dresses and helping to pick out the suits.
Being the center of attention was weird, but enjoyable, because I knew it was for a good thing, having my friends and family speak about us at the dinner was neat, I never knew someone of them though of us that way. It actually strengthened the bond with some of us, and my father, whom I have hated since I could speak actually said some wonderful things about me, that I don't think he would have ever been able to say otherwise. Because of that our relationship is healing, and I like that..
Just remember you are the center of attention because your friends and family are there because they love you and your fiance. They want to be a part of this union between the two of you, and if they didn't want to be, they wouldn't RSVP that they are coming :)
TL;DR -- Experienced both types of weddings, and prefer the big wedding/ceremony over a court house elopement.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kqg7z | My first wedding was court house, shorts and t-shirts, just a couple witnesses and the officiant. It was okay, and I always said I would never change a thing.. Years passed and it seemed less special.. Maybe because we fell out of love, who knows. We divorced after 18 years..
My second marriage, my wife and I wanted to do something special.. We had a medium sized wedding, about 90 people, all close friends and relatives.. She did the white dress, I wore a tux had a best man and a grooms man.. etc..etc.. We took this chance to celebrate our love for each other, and to share that love with our friends and family.. It was a great time, and way more memorable than the first.
Getting dressed up was fun, I am a t-shirt and shorts kind of guy, it gave me an opportunity to see what it's like to dress all fancy. My wife looked beautiful in her dress..
Forcing others to dress up, well that didn't happen, except for the groomsmen and the brides maids.. But they all enjoyed it too, they enjoyed picking out the dresses and helping to pick out the suits.
Being the center of attention was weird, but enjoyable, because I knew it was for a good thing, having my friends and family speak about us at the dinner was neat, I never knew someone of them though of us that way. It actually strengthened the bond with some of us, and my father, whom I have hated since I could speak actually said some wonderful things about me, that I don't think he would have ever been able to say otherwise. Because of that our relationship is healing, and I like that..
Just remember you are the center of attention because your friends and family are there because they love you and your fiance. They want to be a part of this union between the two of you, and if they didn't want to be, they wouldn't RSVP that they are coming :) | Experienced both types of weddings, and prefer the big wedding/ceremony over a court house elopement. |
y3rs1n | I agree that the wedding isn't for you, it's for your family. We had a wedding for our parents, my grandmother, aunts, uncles, etc. However, we didn't want it big and expensive. We had the ceremony done in our back garden by my dad, and the "reception" was a potluck that I put my mother and mother-in-law in charge of.
You pay more for things titled "wedding" - our wedding cake was just a nice cake from a baker I like, my wedding dress was just a nice dress, and we spent less than $500 on the whole thing, including invitations and announcements.
TL;DR We hated the attention but parents/grandparents needed the event. It was informal, at home, and cheap yet still gave them the memories and satisfaction. Winning!
Edited for formatting but still one big blob o text. WTF. | I agree that the wedding isn't for you, it's for your family. We had a wedding for our parents, my grandmother, aunts, uncles, etc. However, we didn't want it big and expensive. We had the ceremony done in our back garden by my dad, and the "reception" was a potluck that I put my mother and mother-in-law in charge of.
You pay more for things titled "wedding" - our wedding cake was just a nice cake from a baker I like, my wedding dress was just a nice dress, and we spent less than $500 on the whole thing, including invitations and announcements.
TL;DR We hated the attention but parents/grandparents needed the event. It was informal, at home, and cheap yet still gave them the memories and satisfaction. Winning!
Edited for formatting but still one big blob o text. WTF.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kpam3 | I agree that the wedding isn't for you, it's for your family. We had a wedding for our parents, my grandmother, aunts, uncles, etc. However, we didn't want it big and expensive. We had the ceremony done in our back garden by my dad, and the "reception" was a potluck that I put my mother and mother-in-law in charge of.
You pay more for things titled "wedding" - our wedding cake was just a nice cake from a baker I like, my wedding dress was just a nice dress, and we spent less than $500 on the whole thing, including invitations and announcements. | We hated the attention but parents/grandparents needed the event. It was informal, at home, and cheap yet still gave them the memories and satisfaction. Winning!
Edited for formatting but still one big blob o text. WTF. |
pmmlordraven | Totally!!! me and my wife did this and have NO regrets. We both aren't in any financial situation for an elaborate waste of a few grand.
We also didn't have to deal with appeasing famility members who could not care any less about you, but an elaborate party thrown to their specifications.
There was no dressing up, but we wore decent clothes (what we wore on our first date), got a justice of the peace and our private vows.
Marriage is about two people and committing to each other, not a ceremony.
tl:dr its all about what you and your future spouce want for each other
| Totally!!! me and my wife did this and have NO regrets. We both aren't in any financial situation for an elaborate waste of a few grand.
We also didn't have to deal with appeasing famility members who could not care any less about you, but an elaborate party thrown to their specifications.
There was no dressing up, but we wore decent clothes (what we wore on our first date), got a justice of the peace and our private vows.
Marriage is about two people and committing to each other, not a ceremony.
tl:dr its all about what you and your future spouce want for each other
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kpc10 | Totally!!! me and my wife did this and have NO regrets. We both aren't in any financial situation for an elaborate waste of a few grand.
We also didn't have to deal with appeasing famility members who could not care any less about you, but an elaborate party thrown to their specifications.
There was no dressing up, but we wore decent clothes (what we wore on our first date), got a justice of the peace and our private vows.
Marriage is about two people and committing to each other, not a ceremony. | its all about what you and your future spouce want for each other |
chuck_the_plant | When we got married, we sent letters to our respective families that we’re going to get married, and we’d like to keep it intimate. We arranged a trip to Vienna (just an hour flight from where we lived then), invited two friends (the witnesses to the marriage) and had a nice, sunny day, getting married in the morning and eating ice cream and touring the city in the afternoon.
When we arrived back home, we had three more small informal celebrations: One with my wife’s family (~10 people, ~1 hr away), one with my family (~6 ppl, ~6 hrs away) and about a month later we threw a small party for some local friends.
Very, very relaxed, no one needed to get dressed up more than he/she wanted to, and it wasn’t over on a day but was drawn out over several weeks (wedding was in autumn, and the last party in December), which was very nice.
*TL;DR* A++++ would do it again | When we got married, we sent letters to our respective families that we’re going to get married, and we’d like to keep it intimate. We arranged a trip to Vienna (just an hour flight from where we lived then), invited two friends (the witnesses to the marriage) and had a nice, sunny day, getting married in the morning and eating ice cream and touring the city in the afternoon.
When we arrived back home, we had three more small informal celebrations: One with my wife’s family (~10 people, ~1 hr away), one with my family (~6 ppl, ~6 hrs away) and about a month later we threw a small party for some local friends.
Very, very relaxed, no one needed to get dressed up more than he/she wanted to, and it wasn’t over on a day but was drawn out over several weeks (wedding was in autumn, and the last party in December), which was very nice.
TL;DR A++++ would do it again
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kpddq | When we got married, we sent letters to our respective families that we’re going to get married, and we’d like to keep it intimate. We arranged a trip to Vienna (just an hour flight from where we lived then), invited two friends (the witnesses to the marriage) and had a nice, sunny day, getting married in the morning and eating ice cream and touring the city in the afternoon.
When we arrived back home, we had three more small informal celebrations: One with my wife’s family (~10 people, ~1 hr away), one with my family (~6 ppl, ~6 hrs away) and about a month later we threw a small party for some local friends.
Very, very relaxed, no one needed to get dressed up more than he/she wanted to, and it wasn’t over on a day but was drawn out over several weeks (wedding was in autumn, and the last party in December), which was very nice. | A++++ would do it again |
areReady | I am a humanist celebrant. I have married a few couples at this point, experiencing both small ceremonies, medium-sized receptions and a gigantic affair with like 14 in the wedding party and people flying in from all over the country. The following is my perspective having experienced weddings from that angle:
1) People love weddings. It's a perfect excuse to leave the kids with grandma or a neighbor, skip out of work and have a long weekend (for the married folks). A lot of people will drop a lot of things and come to a wedding when they wouldn't come for just any old party. Not everyone loves weddings, obviously, but it's almost certainly going to be a fun occasion.
2) One of the lines I say in my ceremony, directly to the bride and groom, can be paraphrased as, "Look at all of the people here, all the of the important people from each of your lives. This group of people will, in all likelihood, never be gathered in the same place, ever again. And they're all here for you." It really is true. Weddings are basically the gathering of all the people most important in the lives of the two people getting married. Maybe it's selfish to want to gather all those people together, but I think it's an honor to them, too.
With those insights, combined with the fact that I'm an atheist who has no desire for big ceremonies, here's what I would want to do (with the caveat that the woman I end up marrying will obviously have a big say in how this goes):
- No tuxes. If anything, I'll buy a new suit. Bride can do whatever she wants.
- No wedding party. I don't want to be choosing between my friends and my brothers for who is the best man or who is a groomsman or who is an usher (the adopted stepchild of wedding parties).
- Short wedding ceremony, performed by a friend. I have several friends who are humanist celebrants, and I would be overjoyed if one of them would perform the ceremony. I had the privilege of marrying one of my best friends to her now-husband, and it was fantastic.
- Ceremony to be immediately followed by huge party. This is where I'd spend all the money - all on great food and good booze and probably a keg of some really rare beer I have to order months and months ahead of time. I want a shuttle service so nobody has to drive anywhere, babysitting for any kids that are brought along and generally everything to be taken care of so that everybody can really let loose and have the time of their lives.
- No retreating back to the hotel room with the bride at midnight or whatever. The reality is that, if I'm going to be married, I'll have had sex with the lady in question previously. No reason to make the wedding night about going back and having exhausted sex after a very long day. I want the plan to be going around the hotel everyone is staying at as a couple, visiting parties of friends and families alike until we're the last two people awake, at which point we can go back and pass out, too exhausted to do anything but crawl into bed. I think the wedding night is more about the people who are there for you than about being with each other. The couple has a long, long time to be together, provided everything goes well. Those people will never be around all together again. Why not stay up all night with them?
tl;dr: Weddings are special mostly because of the people who come to them, not the couple getting married. Make it a huge party and celebrate that the most important people in your lives are there. | I am a humanist celebrant. I have married a few couples at this point, experiencing both small ceremonies, medium-sized receptions and a gigantic affair with like 14 in the wedding party and people flying in from all over the country. The following is my perspective having experienced weddings from that angle:
1) People love weddings. It's a perfect excuse to leave the kids with grandma or a neighbor, skip out of work and have a long weekend (for the married folks). A lot of people will drop a lot of things and come to a wedding when they wouldn't come for just any old party. Not everyone loves weddings, obviously, but it's almost certainly going to be a fun occasion.
2) One of the lines I say in my ceremony, directly to the bride and groom, can be paraphrased as, "Look at all of the people here, all the of the important people from each of your lives. This group of people will, in all likelihood, never be gathered in the same place, ever again. And they're all here for you." It really is true. Weddings are basically the gathering of all the people most important in the lives of the two people getting married. Maybe it's selfish to want to gather all those people together, but I think it's an honor to them, too.
With those insights, combined with the fact that I'm an atheist who has no desire for big ceremonies, here's what I would want to do (with the caveat that the woman I end up marrying will obviously have a big say in how this goes):
No tuxes. If anything, I'll buy a new suit. Bride can do whatever she wants.
No wedding party. I don't want to be choosing between my friends and my brothers for who is the best man or who is a groomsman or who is an usher (the adopted stepchild of wedding parties).
Short wedding ceremony, performed by a friend. I have several friends who are humanist celebrants, and I would be overjoyed if one of them would perform the ceremony. I had the privilege of marrying one of my best friends to her now-husband, and it was fantastic.
Ceremony to be immediately followed by huge party. This is where I'd spend all the money - all on great food and good booze and probably a keg of some really rare beer I have to order months and months ahead of time. I want a shuttle service so nobody has to drive anywhere, babysitting for any kids that are brought along and generally everything to be taken care of so that everybody can really let loose and have the time of their lives.
No retreating back to the hotel room with the bride at midnight or whatever. The reality is that, if I'm going to be married, I'll have had sex with the lady in question previously. No reason to make the wedding night about going back and having exhausted sex after a very long day. I want the plan to be going around the hotel everyone is staying at as a couple, visiting parties of friends and families alike until we're the last two people awake, at which point we can go back and pass out, too exhausted to do anything but crawl into bed. I think the wedding night is more about the people who are there for you than about being with each other. The couple has a long, long time to be together, provided everything goes well. Those people will never be around all together again. Why not stay up all night with them?
tl;dr: Weddings are special mostly because of the people who come to them, not the couple getting married. Make it a huge party and celebrate that the most important people in your lives are there.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kq2lj | I am a humanist celebrant. I have married a few couples at this point, experiencing both small ceremonies, medium-sized receptions and a gigantic affair with like 14 in the wedding party and people flying in from all over the country. The following is my perspective having experienced weddings from that angle:
1) People love weddings. It's a perfect excuse to leave the kids with grandma or a neighbor, skip out of work and have a long weekend (for the married folks). A lot of people will drop a lot of things and come to a wedding when they wouldn't come for just any old party. Not everyone loves weddings, obviously, but it's almost certainly going to be a fun occasion.
2) One of the lines I say in my ceremony, directly to the bride and groom, can be paraphrased as, "Look at all of the people here, all the of the important people from each of your lives. This group of people will, in all likelihood, never be gathered in the same place, ever again. And they're all here for you." It really is true. Weddings are basically the gathering of all the people most important in the lives of the two people getting married. Maybe it's selfish to want to gather all those people together, but I think it's an honor to them, too.
With those insights, combined with the fact that I'm an atheist who has no desire for big ceremonies, here's what I would want to do (with the caveat that the woman I end up marrying will obviously have a big say in how this goes):
No tuxes. If anything, I'll buy a new suit. Bride can do whatever she wants.
No wedding party. I don't want to be choosing between my friends and my brothers for who is the best man or who is a groomsman or who is an usher (the adopted stepchild of wedding parties).
Short wedding ceremony, performed by a friend. I have several friends who are humanist celebrants, and I would be overjoyed if one of them would perform the ceremony. I had the privilege of marrying one of my best friends to her now-husband, and it was fantastic.
Ceremony to be immediately followed by huge party. This is where I'd spend all the money - all on great food and good booze and probably a keg of some really rare beer I have to order months and months ahead of time. I want a shuttle service so nobody has to drive anywhere, babysitting for any kids that are brought along and generally everything to be taken care of so that everybody can really let loose and have the time of their lives.
No retreating back to the hotel room with the bride at midnight or whatever. The reality is that, if I'm going to be married, I'll have had sex with the lady in question previously. No reason to make the wedding night about going back and having exhausted sex after a very long day. I want the plan to be going around the hotel everyone is staying at as a couple, visiting parties of friends and families alike until we're the last two people awake, at which point we can go back and pass out, too exhausted to do anything but crawl into bed. I think the wedding night is more about the people who are there for you than about being with each other. The couple has a long, long time to be together, provided everything goes well. Those people will never be around all together again. Why not stay up all night with them? | Weddings are special mostly because of the people who come to them, not the couple getting married. Make it a huge party and celebrate that the most important people in your lives are there. |
oneautumnday | My husband and I are getting "married" in a week, but we actually wandered off and got hitched at the courthouse about 8 months ago. Our close friends and family know, but not everyone does; we didn't want to "cheapen" the whole wedding event for people.
Our ceremony is more or less a mutual friend talking about how awesome we are, and then an exchange of self-written vows and rings (if they come in time - and that is a whole NOTHER story). It will last, including processional and recessional, all of 12 minutes.
THEN WE PARTY.
tl;dr We just want a chance to celebrate our love in front of friends and family and this is the best way to do it. | My husband and I are getting "married" in a week, but we actually wandered off and got hitched at the courthouse about 8 months ago. Our close friends and family know, but not everyone does; we didn't want to "cheapen" the whole wedding event for people.
Our ceremony is more or less a mutual friend talking about how awesome we are, and then an exchange of self-written vows and rings (if they come in time - and that is a whole NOTHER story). It will last, including processional and recessional, all of 12 minutes.
THEN WE PARTY.
tl;dr We just want a chance to celebrate our love in front of friends and family and this is the best way to do it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kq3u0 | My husband and I are getting "married" in a week, but we actually wandered off and got hitched at the courthouse about 8 months ago. Our close friends and family know, but not everyone does; we didn't want to "cheapen" the whole wedding event for people.
Our ceremony is more or less a mutual friend talking about how awesome we are, and then an exchange of self-written vows and rings (if they come in time - and that is a whole NOTHER story). It will last, including processional and recessional, all of 12 minutes.
THEN WE PARTY. | We just want a chance to celebrate our love in front of friends and family and this is the best way to do it. |
KevenM | (abridged to leave out boring details) After nearly 5 years of being engaged my fiancée just up and asked, why don't we do it next week? So we did. City Hall, two witnesses, one suit, one off the rack wedding dress (just as beautiful as custom but way less $) and the whole thing was done. On one hand parents had some disappointment, but also I detected some relief that they wouldn't have to go through prep and all the usual stuff. Also know they're happy (as are we) at being able to keep saved $ which we will be putting towards a house.
TL;DR A++++++ Highly Recommended, would elope again!!! | (abridged to leave out boring details) After nearly 5 years of being engaged my fiancée just up and asked, why don't we do it next week? So we did. City Hall, two witnesses, one suit, one off the rack wedding dress (just as beautiful as custom but way less $) and the whole thing was done. On one hand parents had some disappointment, but also I detected some relief that they wouldn't have to go through prep and all the usual stuff. Also know they're happy (as are we) at being able to keep saved $ which we will be putting towards a house.
TL;DR A++++++ Highly Recommended, would elope again!!!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kqcd0 | abridged to leave out boring details) After nearly 5 years of being engaged my fiancée just up and asked, why don't we do it next week? So we did. City Hall, two witnesses, one suit, one off the rack wedding dress (just as beautiful as custom but way less $) and the whole thing was done. On one hand parents had some disappointment, but also I detected some relief that they wouldn't have to go through prep and all the usual stuff. Also know they're happy (as are we) at being able to keep saved $ which we will be putting towards a house. | A++++++ Highly Recommended, would elope again!!! |
Kerrigore | My sister did something similar, except she took it one step further.
Both she and her bf had birthdays in January, so they often did a combined birthday party. Most of the time I'd get an invitation maybe 2 weeks in advance. Last year I got it about a month in advance. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I was just impressed at how organized she was being. They'd decided to rent out the upstairs of a local place, get them to do a custom menu, invite about 10-20 close family & friends for dinner, then have a larger party afterwards for extended family/friends. No one really thought much of it.
Then, during dinner, her bf proposed to her. Everyone was really blown away, especially my parents. I actually didn't see it because I was talking to someone else and not paying attention, which I was kind of bummed about. Dinner ended, more people started arriving. Since it was now an engagement party, many a friend was phoned. Once most of the people were there, my sister made an announcement: not only was it their birthday, and now their engagement party, but they would be getting married later that night.
They went to get changed, and about an hour later, a justice of the peace arrived, some witness papers were signed, and a brief ceremony with custom vows took place. All very sudden. Very few people knew ahead of time, basically only people who had to travel long distances to be there, and my cousin who runs a freelance video production business and so they got him to bring his good camera (which kind of tipped him off a bit). My parents had no idea beforehand. They paid for the entire thing themselves.
TBH I think it was the best wedding I've ever been to, and I hope to some day do something similar.
TLDR: My sister threw a surprise wedding, everything went better than expected. | My sister did something similar, except she took it one step further.
Both she and her bf had birthdays in January, so they often did a combined birthday party. Most of the time I'd get an invitation maybe 2 weeks in advance. Last year I got it about a month in advance. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I was just impressed at how organized she was being. They'd decided to rent out the upstairs of a local place, get them to do a custom menu, invite about 10-20 close family & friends for dinner, then have a larger party afterwards for extended family/friends. No one really thought much of it.
Then, during dinner, her bf proposed to her. Everyone was really blown away, especially my parents. I actually didn't see it because I was talking to someone else and not paying attention, which I was kind of bummed about. Dinner ended, more people started arriving. Since it was now an engagement party, many a friend was phoned. Once most of the people were there, my sister made an announcement: not only was it their birthday, and now their engagement party, but they would be getting married later that night.
They went to get changed, and about an hour later, a justice of the peace arrived, some witness papers were signed, and a brief ceremony with custom vows took place. All very sudden. Very few people knew ahead of time, basically only people who had to travel long distances to be there, and my cousin who runs a freelance video production business and so they got him to bring his good camera (which kind of tipped him off a bit). My parents had no idea beforehand. They paid for the entire thing themselves.
TBH I think it was the best wedding I've ever been to, and I hope to some day do something similar.
TLDR: My sister threw a surprise wedding, everything went better than expected.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kqen0 | My sister did something similar, except she took it one step further.
Both she and her bf had birthdays in January, so they often did a combined birthday party. Most of the time I'd get an invitation maybe 2 weeks in advance. Last year I got it about a month in advance. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I was just impressed at how organized she was being. They'd decided to rent out the upstairs of a local place, get them to do a custom menu, invite about 10-20 close family & friends for dinner, then have a larger party afterwards for extended family/friends. No one really thought much of it.
Then, during dinner, her bf proposed to her. Everyone was really blown away, especially my parents. I actually didn't see it because I was talking to someone else and not paying attention, which I was kind of bummed about. Dinner ended, more people started arriving. Since it was now an engagement party, many a friend was phoned. Once most of the people were there, my sister made an announcement: not only was it their birthday, and now their engagement party, but they would be getting married later that night.
They went to get changed, and about an hour later, a justice of the peace arrived, some witness papers were signed, and a brief ceremony with custom vows took place. All very sudden. Very few people knew ahead of time, basically only people who had to travel long distances to be there, and my cousin who runs a freelance video production business and so they got him to bring his good camera (which kind of tipped him off a bit). My parents had no idea beforehand. They paid for the entire thing themselves.
TBH I think it was the best wedding I've ever been to, and I hope to some day do something similar. | My sister threw a surprise wedding, everything went better than expected. |
nafin | My wife and I had a whirlwind relationship and were married around one year after meeting. We both agreed at that time that we didn't want a traditional “big wedding” and instead went to the San Francisco courthouse (which is beautiful by the way - if you want a courthouse wedding that is the one) and had a great moment together at the top of steps. It was just my wife, myself, a friend of ours who had recently returned from Iraq (witness) and the judge. It was special to us. However – since no other family or friends were there, our marriage was never fully qualified in their eyes. For years we were treated as if we were just dating. Over time we regretted not having at least SOMETHING a little more involved. I agree that other people shouldn’t be “forced to dress up and stare” as the OP had put it – but honestly I believe that there needs to be some celebration between friends and family to mark this change in your life. If your friends can't be bothered to come together and wipe the crumbs out of their beards to celebrate your marriage, they need to hit the bricks. I never wanted a “big wedding” but at this point, I honestly regret not having a wedding at all. Years later, friends of ours were married at the same San Francisco courthouse. They dressed up, had a photographer, a small group of friends/family, etc - they didn't spent a lot, but it made a HUGE difference.
TL;DR – Didn’t have a traditional wedding – wished we would have had something small to mark the importance of the event.
| My wife and I had a whirlwind relationship and were married around one year after meeting. We both agreed at that time that we didn't want a traditional “big wedding” and instead went to the San Francisco courthouse (which is beautiful by the way - if you want a courthouse wedding that is the one) and had a great moment together at the top of steps. It was just my wife, myself, a friend of ours who had recently returned from Iraq (witness) and the judge. It was special to us. However – since no other family or friends were there, our marriage was never fully qualified in their eyes. For years we were treated as if we were just dating. Over time we regretted not having at least SOMETHING a little more involved. I agree that other people shouldn’t be “forced to dress up and stare” as the OP had put it – but honestly I believe that there needs to be some celebration between friends and family to mark this change in your life. If your friends can't be bothered to come together and wipe the crumbs out of their beards to celebrate your marriage, they need to hit the bricks. I never wanted a “big wedding” but at this point, I honestly regret not having a wedding at all. Years later, friends of ours were married at the same San Francisco courthouse. They dressed up, had a photographer, a small group of friends/family, etc - they didn't spent a lot, but it made a HUGE difference.
TL;DR – Didn’t have a traditional wedding – wished we would have had something small to mark the importance of the event.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kqfsu | My wife and I had a whirlwind relationship and were married around one year after meeting. We both agreed at that time that we didn't want a traditional “big wedding” and instead went to the San Francisco courthouse (which is beautiful by the way - if you want a courthouse wedding that is the one) and had a great moment together at the top of steps. It was just my wife, myself, a friend of ours who had recently returned from Iraq (witness) and the judge. It was special to us. However – since no other family or friends were there, our marriage was never fully qualified in their eyes. For years we were treated as if we were just dating. Over time we regretted not having at least SOMETHING a little more involved. I agree that other people shouldn’t be “forced to dress up and stare” as the OP had put it – but honestly I believe that there needs to be some celebration between friends and family to mark this change in your life. If your friends can't be bothered to come together and wipe the crumbs out of their beards to celebrate your marriage, they need to hit the bricks. I never wanted a “big wedding” but at this point, I honestly regret not having a wedding at all. Years later, friends of ours were married at the same San Francisco courthouse. They dressed up, had a photographer, a small group of friends/family, etc - they didn't spent a lot, but it made a HUGE difference. | Didn’t have a traditional wedding – wished we would have had something small to mark the importance of the event. |
layam | I do that all the time, I'll often find myself going best of 3 if the first toss isn't to my liking.
tldr; If the first toss doesn't satisfy, do it twice more. | I do that all the time, I'll often find myself going best of 3 if the first toss isn't to my liking.
tldr; If the first toss doesn't satisfy, do it twice more.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c1kp55p | I do that all the time, I'll often find myself going best of 3 if the first toss isn't to my liking. | If the first toss doesn't satisfy, do it twice more. |
iampayette | On cultural dependency. I'm not referring to "ethnic" or any group of people NOT organized by their geographic/economic positions. And I am not saying it's a culture's fault for becoming dependent.
For example, Native Americans on reservations. During the 50's there was a government attempt to break up the reservations and give them welfare, and send them to cities or subsidize rural farming etc. This was an attempt to assimilate the culture of that ethnic group. It resulted in a catastrophic destruction of native culture that has been under seige for hundreds of years.
Now, reservations are epicenters of some of the worst poverty in the nation.
Welfare, especially ethnically targeted welfare, is a terrible system.
As for corporate bailouts, those were absolutely terrible. And Bush is about as guilty as Obama for them, he started TARP. The banks have NOT been responsible with the bailout money, and they simply used it to pad their books and keep their investors from jumping ship.
Why else is the stock market artificially doing well, while unemployment is going up rather than down? Because corporate bailouts do absolutely nothing for the people in poverty that do need help.
**TL;DR:** People in poverty need economic help. Welfare does the exact opposite of help. It suppresses their economic options. Education, and employment are the best way to help.
Welfare on a small scale, such as disability, or temporary unemployment is a good safety net. Our current welfare state targets ethnic groups, and is a corrupt vote farm. Why are inner city schools terrible, while the welfare infrastructure works?
Bailouts are just payoffs to keep rich people rich when they fail at capitalism and economics. | On cultural dependency. I'm not referring to "ethnic" or any group of people NOT organized by their geographic/economic positions. And I am not saying it's a culture's fault for becoming dependent.
For example, Native Americans on reservations. During the 50's there was a government attempt to break up the reservations and give them welfare, and send them to cities or subsidize rural farming etc. This was an attempt to assimilate the culture of that ethnic group. It resulted in a catastrophic destruction of native culture that has been under seige for hundreds of years.
Now, reservations are epicenters of some of the worst poverty in the nation.
Welfare, especially ethnically targeted welfare, is a terrible system.
As for corporate bailouts, those were absolutely terrible. And Bush is about as guilty as Obama for them, he started TARP. The banks have NOT been responsible with the bailout money, and they simply used it to pad their books and keep their investors from jumping ship.
Why else is the stock market artificially doing well, while unemployment is going up rather than down? Because corporate bailouts do absolutely nothing for the people in poverty that do need help.
TL;DR: People in poverty need economic help. Welfare does the exact opposite of help. It suppresses their economic options. Education, and employment are the best way to help.
Welfare on a small scale, such as disability, or temporary unemployment is a good safety net. Our current welfare state targets ethnic groups, and is a corrupt vote farm. Why are inner city schools terrible, while the welfare infrastructure works?
Bailouts are just payoffs to keep rich people rich when they fail at capitalism and economics.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c1kvipn | On cultural dependency. I'm not referring to "ethnic" or any group of people NOT organized by their geographic/economic positions. And I am not saying it's a culture's fault for becoming dependent.
For example, Native Americans on reservations. During the 50's there was a government attempt to break up the reservations and give them welfare, and send them to cities or subsidize rural farming etc. This was an attempt to assimilate the culture of that ethnic group. It resulted in a catastrophic destruction of native culture that has been under seige for hundreds of years.
Now, reservations are epicenters of some of the worst poverty in the nation.
Welfare, especially ethnically targeted welfare, is a terrible system.
As for corporate bailouts, those were absolutely terrible. And Bush is about as guilty as Obama for them, he started TARP. The banks have NOT been responsible with the bailout money, and they simply used it to pad their books and keep their investors from jumping ship.
Why else is the stock market artificially doing well, while unemployment is going up rather than down? Because corporate bailouts do absolutely nothing for the people in poverty that do need help. | People in poverty need economic help. Welfare does the exact opposite of help. It suppresses their economic options. Education, and employment are the best way to help.
Welfare on a small scale, such as disability, or temporary unemployment is a good safety net. Our current welfare state targets ethnic groups, and is a corrupt vote farm. Why are inner city schools terrible, while the welfare infrastructure works?
Bailouts are just payoffs to keep rich people rich when they fail at capitalism and economics. |
duckybutt | Same idea as OP. Was with a controlling abusive boyfriend for 5 years (all throughout my teenage years). Broke up with him. Reconnected with the high school friends that I wasn't allowed to hang out with. Went through hell with missing him and toying with the idea of getting back together with him. I met a guy through my new group of friends that I was interested in but didn't put too much stock into. My ex-boyfriend came over my house the day after x-mas with the intent of proposing to me (found out later through family) but I couldn't get the other guy out of my head so I kicked my ex-boyfriend out of my house. I haven't spoken to or seen my ex-boyfriend since. I am now living with my new boyfriend (the one that I was interested in) and happier than I have ever been.
TL;DR Ex-boyfriend is a douche bag. Happier now with new boyfriend. | Same idea as OP. Was with a controlling abusive boyfriend for 5 years (all throughout my teenage years). Broke up with him. Reconnected with the high school friends that I wasn't allowed to hang out with. Went through hell with missing him and toying with the idea of getting back together with him. I met a guy through my new group of friends that I was interested in but didn't put too much stock into. My ex-boyfriend came over my house the day after x-mas with the intent of proposing to me (found out later through family) but I couldn't get the other guy out of my head so I kicked my ex-boyfriend out of my house. I haven't spoken to or seen my ex-boyfriend since. I am now living with my new boyfriend (the one that I was interested in) and happier than I have ever been.
TL;DR Ex-boyfriend is a douche bag. Happier now with new boyfriend.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1kqyqp | Same idea as OP. Was with a controlling abusive boyfriend for 5 years (all throughout my teenage years). Broke up with him. Reconnected with the high school friends that I wasn't allowed to hang out with. Went through hell with missing him and toying with the idea of getting back together with him. I met a guy through my new group of friends that I was interested in but didn't put too much stock into. My ex-boyfriend came over my house the day after x-mas with the intent of proposing to me (found out later through family) but I couldn't get the other guy out of my head so I kicked my ex-boyfriend out of my house. I haven't spoken to or seen my ex-boyfriend since. I am now living with my new boyfriend (the one that I was interested in) and happier than I have ever been. | Ex-boyfriend is a douche bag. Happier now with new boyfriend. |
xrx66 | I don't think fear-based arguments are suitable for use with even mildly intelligent people.
That said, I do agree with your TL/DR. Flies, honey, vinegar. It's not exactly rocket science.
| I don't think fear-based arguments are suitable for use with even mildly intelligent people.
That said, I do agree with your TL/DR. Flies, honey, vinegar. It's not exactly rocket science.
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | c1kzzeb | I don't think fear-based arguments are suitable for use with even mildly intelligent people.
That said, I do agree with your | Flies, honey, vinegar. It's not exactly rocket science. |
renegade1861 | Use my argument: "If you don't want to own guns, that's your choice. Just don't take mine, because then I can't provide cover fire while you are running for your life."
My experience with the average anti-gun opinionated person is that they generally have never really held an intelligent conversation on gun rights with someone from the opposite side of the fence. Case in point, while on vacation with my family, I met a native of New York City, a really "Average Joe"-type, almost stereotypical older New Yorker. (I'm from Mississippi and about 20 years younger, by the way. Hom much further apart on the spectrum can you get?) After about 20 minutes of polite conversation, I had him convinced that gun control was not feasible as a way to reduce crime, that the definition of an "assault weapon" would outlaw the majority of hunting rifles used today should a ban ever be pushed through, and that the only reason the government would have to take away the right of the citizens to arm themselves is to prevent them from fighting back against that government. Of course, some sheople will never be convinced because they are afraid of personal responsibility and think the government best knows how to take care them and would never agree to my above statements.
**TL/DR:** It's not always what you say, it's how you say it. And you'll never win over everybody.
**EDIT:** It was a freakin' joke people, learn to loosen up and you might have more success with your arguments. That's the one I pull out on the hardcore gun restriction supporter that thinks only the police and military should be armed. They can never be convinced anyway, so a useless argument based upon a fear scenario is a perfectly legitimate response at that point in the conversation. Now, thanks for coming out, don't forget to tip the wait staff and I'll be here all week. | Use my argument: "If you don't want to own guns, that's your choice. Just don't take mine, because then I can't provide cover fire while you are running for your life."
My experience with the average anti-gun opinionated person is that they generally have never really held an intelligent conversation on gun rights with someone from the opposite side of the fence. Case in point, while on vacation with my family, I met a native of New York City, a really "Average Joe"-type, almost stereotypical older New Yorker. (I'm from Mississippi and about 20 years younger, by the way. Hom much further apart on the spectrum can you get?) After about 20 minutes of polite conversation, I had him convinced that gun control was not feasible as a way to reduce crime, that the definition of an "assault weapon" would outlaw the majority of hunting rifles used today should a ban ever be pushed through, and that the only reason the government would have to take away the right of the citizens to arm themselves is to prevent them from fighting back against that government. Of course, some sheople will never be convinced because they are afraid of personal responsibility and think the government best knows how to take care them and would never agree to my above statements.
TL/DR: It's not always what you say, it's how you say it. And you'll never win over everybody.
EDIT: It was a freakin' joke people, learn to loosen up and you might have more success with your arguments. That's the one I pull out on the hardcore gun restriction supporter that thinks only the police and military should be armed. They can never be convinced anyway, so a useless argument based upon a fear scenario is a perfectly legitimate response at that point in the conversation. Now, thanks for coming out, don't forget to tip the wait staff and I'll be here all week.
| guns | t5_2qhc8 | c1kzlzv | Use my argument: "If you don't want to own guns, that's your choice. Just don't take mine, because then I can't provide cover fire while you are running for your life."
My experience with the average anti-gun opinionated person is that they generally have never really held an intelligent conversation on gun rights with someone from the opposite side of the fence. Case in point, while on vacation with my family, I met a native of New York City, a really "Average Joe"-type, almost stereotypical older New Yorker. (I'm from Mississippi and about 20 years younger, by the way. Hom much further apart on the spectrum can you get?) After about 20 minutes of polite conversation, I had him convinced that gun control was not feasible as a way to reduce crime, that the definition of an "assault weapon" would outlaw the majority of hunting rifles used today should a ban ever be pushed through, and that the only reason the government would have to take away the right of the citizens to arm themselves is to prevent them from fighting back against that government. Of course, some sheople will never be convinced because they are afraid of personal responsibility and think the government best knows how to take care them and would never agree to my above statements. | It's not always what you say, it's how you say it. And you'll never win over everybody.
EDIT: It was a freakin' joke people, learn to loosen up and you might have more success with your arguments. That's the one I pull out on the hardcore gun restriction supporter that thinks only the police and military should be armed. They can never be convinced anyway, so a useless argument based upon a fear scenario is a perfectly legitimate response at that point in the conversation. Now, thanks for coming out, don't forget to tip the wait staff and I'll be here all week. |
Happened_In_A_Movie | I met a girl once after I had gotten into some trouble with the law and they ordered that I start seeing a therapist. I was pretty insecure about the relationship because she came from money and I'm kind of a poor city kid. We were really getting along, but I finally broke if off when she had to move across the country for medical school and I refused to go with her.
I was pretty disappointed the relationship ended, I think, but I swallowed hard and didn't let it get to me. My therapist told me I might grow up never really knowing anybody if I abandon everyone that gets close to me. That kind of shook me up, but then he gets up and keeps saying "It's not your fault. It's not your fault" over and over again and I finally break down and start crying as all the emotions of my miserable childhood come out. After that, I decided to go see about the girl.
TL;DR I refused a job at the NSA to hook up with a girl in California. | I met a girl once after I had gotten into some trouble with the law and they ordered that I start seeing a therapist. I was pretty insecure about the relationship because she came from money and I'm kind of a poor city kid. We were really getting along, but I finally broke if off when she had to move across the country for medical school and I refused to go with her.
I was pretty disappointed the relationship ended, I think, but I swallowed hard and didn't let it get to me. My therapist told me I might grow up never really knowing anybody if I abandon everyone that gets close to me. That kind of shook me up, but then he gets up and keeps saying "It's not your fault. It's not your fault" over and over again and I finally break down and start crying as all the emotions of my miserable childhood come out. After that, I decided to go see about the girl.
TL;DR I refused a job at the NSA to hook up with a girl in California.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1l3byc | I met a girl once after I had gotten into some trouble with the law and they ordered that I start seeing a therapist. I was pretty insecure about the relationship because she came from money and I'm kind of a poor city kid. We were really getting along, but I finally broke if off when she had to move across the country for medical school and I refused to go with her.
I was pretty disappointed the relationship ended, I think, but I swallowed hard and didn't let it get to me. My therapist told me I might grow up never really knowing anybody if I abandon everyone that gets close to me. That kind of shook me up, but then he gets up and keeps saying "It's not your fault. It's not your fault" over and over again and I finally break down and start crying as all the emotions of my miserable childhood come out. After that, I decided to go see about the girl. | I refused a job at the NSA to hook up with a girl in California. |
FKRMunkiBoi | I like achievements and all, but it's rare that I'll play something to 100% completion!
Dead Rising broke me of the habit when I learned what I would have to go through for a measley 20 points! (7-day survivor, etc). This is valuable time I could spend with other games!
TL;DR If it's fun, I'll play to 100% completion. If it's a total grind-fest, then Fuck It! | I like achievements and all, but it's rare that I'll play something to 100% completion!
Dead Rising broke me of the habit when I learned what I would have to go through for a measley 20 points! (7-day survivor, etc). This is valuable time I could spend with other games!
TL;DR If it's fun, I'll play to 100% completion. If it's a total grind-fest, then Fuck It!
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c1l46j9 | I like achievements and all, but it's rare that I'll play something to 100% completion!
Dead Rising broke me of the habit when I learned what I would have to go through for a measley 20 points! (7-day survivor, etc). This is valuable time I could spend with other games! | If it's fun, I'll play to 100% completion. If it's a total grind-fest, then Fuck It! |
whatsmypasswordagain | I, too, would like to know the real story, but here is what gets me...
It may or may not have been the wrong choice, I have no basis to make such a claim, but Haley did nothing wrong (as in illegal). People are attempting to stir the political issue pot simply because they don't like the decision, and because they don't like Haley.
First, adding the "Tea Party" to the title is only helping to enrage those who don't care for the "Tea Party." From all we can tell in the story, this has nothing to do with the Tea Party.
Second, using the word "unjustifiably" is attempting to imply Haley performed some illegal act. She did not. She doesn't have to justify it, as it was well within her right at Governor to do so.
Third, $4500 is nothing in terms of political fundraising or donations. As Warlizard point out, the person who was removed pledged $70M. To me this sounds the decision to remove Moore was more person on Haley's part than it was political.
Realistically, a more accurate (non-political spewing) headline for this submit would be **SC Governor Nikki Haley removes respected woman who from USC Board of Trustees, replacing her with Lexington attorney.**
What I see here (in this title) is what's wrong with politics today. Everyone wants to whip up anger and demonize the other side. Stick to the issue, not the emotion. Use the facts to make the point.
TL;DR: This is not a "political or left v. right issue." I'm not saying don't be enraged. I'm saying be enraged for the right reasons and use the facts to make the point.
| I, too, would like to know the real story, but here is what gets me...
It may or may not have been the wrong choice, I have no basis to make such a claim, but Haley did nothing wrong (as in illegal). People are attempting to stir the political issue pot simply because they don't like the decision, and because they don't like Haley.
First, adding the "Tea Party" to the title is only helping to enrage those who don't care for the "Tea Party." From all we can tell in the story, this has nothing to do with the Tea Party.
Second, using the word "unjustifiably" is attempting to imply Haley performed some illegal act. She did not. She doesn't have to justify it, as it was well within her right at Governor to do so.
Third, $4500 is nothing in terms of political fundraising or donations. As Warlizard point out, the person who was removed pledged $70M. To me this sounds the decision to remove Moore was more person on Haley's part than it was political.
Realistically, a more accurate (non-political spewing) headline for this submit would be SC Governor Nikki Haley removes respected woman who from USC Board of Trustees, replacing her with Lexington attorney.
What I see here (in this title) is what's wrong with politics today. Everyone wants to whip up anger and demonize the other side. Stick to the issue, not the emotion. Use the facts to make the point.
TL;DR: This is not a "political or left v. right issue." I'm not saying don't be enraged. I'm saying be enraged for the right reasons and use the facts to make the point.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c1l8j4t | I, too, would like to know the real story, but here is what gets me...
It may or may not have been the wrong choice, I have no basis to make such a claim, but Haley did nothing wrong (as in illegal). People are attempting to stir the political issue pot simply because they don't like the decision, and because they don't like Haley.
First, adding the "Tea Party" to the title is only helping to enrage those who don't care for the "Tea Party." From all we can tell in the story, this has nothing to do with the Tea Party.
Second, using the word "unjustifiably" is attempting to imply Haley performed some illegal act. She did not. She doesn't have to justify it, as it was well within her right at Governor to do so.
Third, $4500 is nothing in terms of political fundraising or donations. As Warlizard point out, the person who was removed pledged $70M. To me this sounds the decision to remove Moore was more person on Haley's part than it was political.
Realistically, a more accurate (non-political spewing) headline for this submit would be SC Governor Nikki Haley removes respected woman who from USC Board of Trustees, replacing her with Lexington attorney.
What I see here (in this title) is what's wrong with politics today. Everyone wants to whip up anger and demonize the other side. Stick to the issue, not the emotion. Use the facts to make the point. | This is not a "political or left v. right issue." I'm not saying don't be enraged. I'm saying be enraged for the right reasons and use the facts to make the point. |
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