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Sarcasm detection fail. But then again, this should be specified here in Brazil too, and I doubt there's a place where at least some retards won't actually do it.
Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.
Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)
brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!
LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.
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which is the precise reason the church of satan should go after the cult of scientology... we don't want the special benies religions get... If we fuck with scientology we have pretty much nothing to loose.Draco_Argentum wrote:If they charge a fee for tuition they're a business.
This sort of shit is why its hard to attack scientology though. Fuckbags know they can't weaken the protection that religion gives without hurting their own ability to be raging arseholes.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
My state drinks a lot more than the others. Also, more drugs, more transit accidents, more AIDS ... and more income and more education than most. WTF?
Prak: you might have "goverment sections stamping down on you" as a loss. But I'm definitely not saying it couldn't be worth the risk.
Prak: you might have "goverment sections stamping down on you" as a loss. But I'm definitely not saying it couldn't be worth the risk.
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Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.
Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)
brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!
LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.
? What government sections? I think it could actually work.. on a lot of levels... we have virtually nothing to loose, several of our most basic tenants speak against the idiots of that cult, and the last few people who haven't seen the scientologists for what they are should go "Holy crap, even the satanists are against these guys? Maybe they are bad..."Bigode wrote:Prak: you might have "goverment sections stamping down on you" as a loss. But I'm definitely not saying it couldn't be worth the risk.
Hell, if I were to ever get elected I'd establish a "wear whatever the hell you want, I'm sure going to" rule, and very probably conduct meetings in Pjs or bondage pants and a t-shirt...Koumei wrote:...a dress code that, from the sound of it, was only put in place by Bush. So even if you don't think that any decision of Bush is objectively bad, it's still hardly a long-standing tradition.
I'm waiting for "shorts, sandals and tank tops" personally.
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Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Well, I don't know which sections specifically were overrun by Christianists including Scientologists. Also, "tenets" - or are you guys renting land in Hell? But (way) more seriously, I don't think things would work quite like that - I think once people notice the "evil" side's fighting something, many'll assume the latter to be "good", not "worse", especially when the already so-called evil side happens to be named "Church of Satan", of all things.Prak_Anima wrote:? What government sections? I think it could actually work.. on a lot of levels... we have virtually nothing to loose, several of our most basic tenants speak against the idiots of that cult, and the last few people who haven't seen the scientologists for what they are should go "Holy crap, even the satanists are against these guys? Maybe they are bad..."
Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.
Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)
brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!
LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.
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Stories that make me cry:
President Obama does <stuff>
For example
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleash ... adopt.html <Obama adopts dog>
http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/money ... obama.html <Obama watches Superbowl>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/2241251 <Obama might use cell phone>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... 2&from=rss <Obama uses cell phone, that was a close one!>
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... ident.html <Obama dances with his wife, some celebrity sings>
I especially like the double-standard of how many of these weren't stories when Bush was president. I personally know the guy that worked on President Bush's Blackberry security codings. And I can't escape them. Normally I escape politics by not reading them, but Obama is on Slashdot, and is on every TV I walk by, and every radio that I turn on. I mean I like that the people have elected a president that they are enamored by, but can we give it a rest?
President Obama does <stuff>
For example
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleash ... adopt.html <Obama adopts dog>
http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/money ... obama.html <Obama watches Superbowl>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/13/2241251 <Obama might use cell phone>
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 ... 2&from=rss <Obama uses cell phone, that was a close one!>
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... ident.html <Obama dances with his wife, some celebrity sings>
I especially like the double-standard of how many of these weren't stories when Bush was president. I personally know the guy that worked on President Bush's Blackberry security codings. And I can't escape them. Normally I escape politics by not reading them, but Obama is on Slashdot, and is on every TV I walk by, and every radio that I turn on. I mean I like that the people have elected a president that they are enamored by, but can we give it a rest?
Well, I think it's because your nation takes ridiculously long to just about anything involving the electoral process.
Up here in Canada (minority governments aside), election periods are like, 6 weeks long. That's it. And getting the new Prime Minister in takes like, MAYBE a week. Where Obama has been 'president elect' since the beginning of November. Cut down the year long election campaigns and the 3 month transferal period, and we might have less inane media attention. Or not, since they normally don't care about real news.
Edit: Typo. Stupid cut finger...
Up here in Canada (minority governments aside), election periods are like, 6 weeks long. That's it. And getting the new Prime Minister in takes like, MAYBE a week. Where Obama has been 'president elect' since the beginning of November. Cut down the year long election campaigns and the 3 month transferal period, and we might have less inane media attention. Or not, since they normally don't care about real news.
Edit: Typo. Stupid cut finger...
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Who is we?FrankTrollman wrote:We drink more beer than any of you. By a lot.
Czech, or Europe in general? American?
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On the other hand, the US President has far more power than the Canadian Prime Minister, to the point that comparing the two positions is utterly ridiculous.Meikle641 wrote:Well, I think it's because your nation takes ridiculously long to just about anything involving the electoral process.
Up here in Canada (minority governments aside), election periods are like, 6 weeks long. That's it. And getting the new Prime Minister in takes like, MAYBE a week. Where Obama has been 'president elect' since the beginning of November. Cut down the year long election campaigns and the 3 month transferal period, and we might have less inane media attention. Or not, since they normally don't care about real news.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090202/w ... ns_nuclear
Not sure which emotion best suits this one. Duck and cover I guess
Not sure which emotion best suits this one. Duck and cover I guess
The internet gave a voice to the world thus gave definitive proof that the world is mostly full of idiots.
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While Australia has some beer drinking facts to boast about (their former Prime Minister Bob Hawke has the world record for quaffing a yard of ale, and the first batch of Australian settlers consumed more beer per person than any community of people in human history), the fact remains that the current record for per capita beer drinking is held by the Czech Republic. By quite a margin.
Like, if you doubled the per capita beer consumption of Canada it wouldn't come especially close to the Czechian total. Like, you'd seriously have to drink an extra beer every day for over a month just to make up the lead that people in Czechia have over their closest competitor: the Irish.
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Like, if you doubled the per capita beer consumption of Canada it wouldn't come especially close to the Czechian total. Like, you'd seriously have to drink an extra beer every day for over a month just to make up the lead that people in Czechia have over their closest competitor: the Irish.
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And oh, what cheerful and driven people they are. Amazing cultures.FrankTrollman wrote:Like, you'd seriously have to drink an extra beer every day for over a month just to make up the lead that people in Czechia have over their closest competitor: the Irish.
Why, look at what they've accomplished in the course of European history:
• Alcoholism
• Invaded by wankers
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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It's been in the -15 to -20's range for a while here, even living beside lake ontario as a moderator for temperature (it's part of my place's backyard). When I go out for walks with my brother and sister I usually wear longjohns, so I'm fine.FrankTrollman wrote:It was negative fourteen out last night. It was so cold that I put on pants.
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When it was in the -20 to -30 range I broke down and started putting on a second pair. I was tired of all of my leg getting cold. Usually just my knees are cooler than the rest of my leg, at -25, the cold doesn't much care that you're wearing two layers of cloth around your legs.
Most days I'm just in a car and then spend the rest of the day in a building, so boots to school and changing them for a pair of shoes I've got in my locker works out fine.
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God, I love a sub-tropical climate. It's 46 here, at four o'clock in the afternoon. This morning, it was in the twenties.Judging__Eagle wrote:It's been in the -15 to -20's range for a while here, even living beside lake ontario as a moderator for temperature (it's part of my place's backyard). When I go out for walks with my brother and sister I usually wear longjohns, so I'm fine.FrankTrollman wrote:It was negative fourteen out last night. It was so cold that I put on pants.
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When it was in the -20 to -30 range I broke down and started putting on a second pair. I was tired of all of my leg getting cold. Usually just my knees are cooler than the rest of my leg, at -25, the cold doesn't much care that you're wearing two layers of cloth around your legs.
Most days I'm just in a car and then spend the rest of the day in a building, so boots to school and changing them for a pair of shoes I've got in my locker works out fine.
And this is held to be exceptionally cold for Southern Alabama, especially that part of it around the thirtieth parallel.
On a related note, last night's local news mentioned that even with the economy going down the shitter, the local tourism/vacationing is going up. It's reasons that the snowbirds aren't going as far as southern Florida this year, what with gas prices and all. They had a blurb with a nice elderly couple from Michigan, with her saying, "We've been coming down here for the winter for 18 years, and it's always so nice here!" Well, yes. I suppose it is, compared to Michigan this time of year.
Anyway, the best part is tomorrow I don't have class. I don't even have a job right now, so I get to stay home in the warm and be lazy.[/i]
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Yesterday it was 59 degrees here. Pretty nice considering we live further north than most of Michigan.
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Yeah, I know. It's terribly provincial, but it's what I default to for estimation of the temperature. I can function with metric measurements (2.2 pounds to a kilogram and 3 meters to 10 feet), but I haven't yet gotten around to teaching myself to figure the temperature conversion in my head.FrankTrollman wrote:I just realized that you guys were talking in Fahrenheit.
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Edit: Oh, this looks helpful...http://www.xkcd.com/526/
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Hey! President Obama did something newsworthy other than wear long sleeves in the Oval Office!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 78FiCCibdA
So executives of companies which got the bailout can't make more than a paltry half-a-million? Sounds reasonable.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... 78FiCCibdA
So executives of companies which got the bailout can't make more than a paltry half-a-million? Sounds reasonable.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!