News that makes us laugh, cry, or both

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:52 pm

They mean "drink lots of water", not "drink lots of alcohol".

Granted, in Australia you should really specify this so idiots don't go "Okay!" and die of dehydration from all of the booze.

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:56 pm

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.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:15 pm

We drink more beer than any of you. By a lot.

-Username17

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:20 pm

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.

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.

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:22 pm

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 · Post by **Prak** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:30 pm

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.

? 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..."

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.

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...

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:45 pm

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..."

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.

SunTzuWarmaster · Post by **SunTzuWarmaster** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:32 pm

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?

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:47 am

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...

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:53 am

FrankTrollman wrote:We drink more beer than any of you. By a lot.

Who is we?
Czech, or Europe in general? American?

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:47 am

SunTzuWarmaster wrote:I especially like the double-standard of how many of these weren't stories when Bush was president.

I wouldn't call them stories now either. Only very stupid people care about Obama watching the superbowl.

Neeeek · Post by **Neeeek** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:34 am

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.

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.

ckafrica · Post by **ckafrica** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:39 am

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090202/w ... ns_nuclear
Not sure which emotion best suits this one. Duck and cover I guess

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:05 pm

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.

-Username17

SunTzuWarmaster · Post by **SunTzuWarmaster** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:45 pm

CNN had a story on "Obama eats out" this morning. Ugh.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:35 am

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.

And oh, what cheerful and driven people they are. Amazing cultures.
Why, look at what they've accomplished in the course of European history:

• Alcoholism
• Invaded by wankers

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:12 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:Shoe Thrower still in jail, gets monument in Saladin's home town.

-Username17

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Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:31 pm

Cheney Lays Groundwork for next terrorist attack

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:44 pm

Bin Laden, Eric Rudolph, and Timothy McVeigh all got their training and/or funding through the Republican Party. It is therefore unsurprising to see Cheney warning of an upcoming attack. He would, after all, know.

-Username17

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:05 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:It was negative fourteen out last night. It was so cold that I put on pants.

-Username17

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.

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.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:12 pm

Judging__Eagle wrote:
FrankTrollman wrote:It was negative fourteen out last night. It was so cold that I put on pants.

-Username17
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.

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.

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.

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]

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:38 pm

Yesterday it was 59 degrees here. Pretty nice considering we live further north than most of Michigan.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:46 pm

I just realized that you guys were talking in Fahrenheit.

-Username17

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:57 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:I just realized that you guys were talking in Fahrenheit.

-Username17

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.

Edit: Oh, this looks helpful...http://www.xkcd.com/526/

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:06 am

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.