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RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:25 am

It's not an image macro, but I had to post today's SMBC.

Prak_Anima wrote:
John Carter of Mars

Goddammit. My wife wanted to rent 40 Year Old Virgin last night! I only partially watched it, so it doesn't count! Last full movie I watched was Inglourious Basterds. If I don't get to choose which character I am, I have probably over a 90% chance of being fucked.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:52 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:
John Carter of Mars

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.

With commentary.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:09 pm

For me it'd be the Motorcycle Diaries.

So mine is actually kind of a life story, just not MY life story.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:40 am

Prak_Anima wrote:

In Time, which was a crazy mixed up nonsensical metaphor for the economic realities of working for an hourly wage with debt and without health insurance - so sadly pretty spot on, even down to the felon girlfriend with daddy issues (although unfortunately for me, not the big money family)

koz · Post by **koz** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:26 am

Prak_Anima wrote:

Contraband. So yeah, incredibly fucked, because that whole film is an exercise in bad acting, bad storytelling, bad filmmaking, bad dialogue... not since 4e have I been witness to such a good idea turned to such utter shit by a complete lack of talent.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:58 am

Joe Nickell

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/e ... politics2/

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:51 am

Rhetological fallacies
as applied to cardinal O'Brien's article on same-sex marriage
Links, not embeds, because those charts are huuuuuge.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:30 pm

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:36 pm

Step 1: cut a hole into the box . . .

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:57 pm

Step 2: Put your junk in that box

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:48 pm

Gentlemans Guide to Amputation spoilered for the faint of Heart.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:26 pm

Er, handy to know, of course, but you may want to hold off on the brandy if you've just had a limb amputated.

Edit: that said, i have a new character archetype to play in zombie games...

rampaging-poet · Post by **rampaging-poet** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:18 pm

Given that the brandy was likely the only anesthetic available, you really wouldn't. Of course, you'd want to have some before some guy sawed your arm off, but after works too.

Then again, I'm not a doctor. I really don't know how likely someone is to survive a one-two combo of massive blood loss and alcohol poisoning. All I know is that people used to do that whether it was a good idea or not.

Edit: I also don't know enough about historical clothing to determine if that's actually the time period I was thinking of or not.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:30 pm

Alcohol thins the blood and inhibits healing. You really don't want to drink alcohol at any point that surgery is even being discussed. Of course: before the invention of morphine, getting shitfaced drunk was the only way you were going to not die of pain, which is an actual thing people can do. So there's that.

-Username17

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:36 pm

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:25 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:Alcohol thins the blood and inhibits healing. You really don't want to drink alcohol at any point that surgery is even being discussed. Of course: before the invention of morphine, getting shitfaced drunk was the only way you were going to not die of pain, which is an actual thing people can do. So there's that.

-Username17

Yeah, before, definitely, after, not so much. In fact, I think the alcohol was about the only way people would actually let someone with more training as a barber than a doctor amputate their limbs.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:38 am

Prak_Anima wrote: Yeah, before, definitely, after, not so much. In fact, I think the alcohol was about the only way people would actually let someone with more training as a barber than a doctor amputate their limbs.

Then again, if President McKinley had been left to recuperate rather than have doctors who didn't use sterile technique in probing for the bullet, he may have survived a good deal longer. Depending upon the era, a doctor isn't necessarily much better than a barber.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:10 am

I know most people here can stomach stuff like that, but for those of us lightweights, would you please put that stuff in spoiler tags?

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:56 am

mean_liar wrote:
Kaelik wrote:So wait, when your chancellor presses a claim, it uses your diplomacy + his? Or are you saying give the +100 Diplo trait to the chancellor?
Either works, but it is based on the sum of your stats.

It turns out this is completely fucking wrong, and that it is 100% based on your stupid chancellors stats and 0% based on your character stats, so I have to find out my stupid chancellors ID and add the trait to him to get above a shitty fuck shit fuck 40 year claim gather.

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:45 pm

Huh. I clearly didn't know that, and I'm a little surprised. Anyway.

Search the save game file for his name. In his character data there'll be a field for liege = X and host = X, where X is your character's ID; I can't remember but something may mark him as your Chancellor as well. So, the name search may turn up about twenty hits or so, but only a few are going to be in your court (ie., have a liege/host = X).

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:33 pm

Not a macro, but who gives a shit.
spoilered by request. Yahoo Answer in response to someone asking how to manually please a woman.

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:35 pm

spoiler tags, please.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:44 am

I'd have to concur on the spoiler tags here.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 3:13 pm

The Bloom Picayune

By the by, I actually have a physical, original copy of the paper. I also have every original Bloom County collection (alas, I do not have the Billy and the Boingers Bootleg LP. A sad day for America and the Sensorite nation.

)

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 5:32 pm

I remember the day I lost it... or, are we talking about the same thing? The floppy album with the Billy and the Boingers book?