One on of my favourite games is Carmageddon. I do not drive, do not own a car, have no driver's license. I do enjoy driving a virtual car and mowing down old ladies, cops and various other pedestrians and cows. Should I get a driver's license and buy (or rent) a car to find out what real life driving is actually like? This guy is a tool.
True, it is always difficult to diagnose invented conditions, diseases etc. But sure, there is money to be made from other people's misery. Diagnose at will!
If a complete stranger offers his/her opinion in a caustic way it really doesn't affect me. Why should it? However, if a friend/family member does the same thing it does affect me. Then we can hopefully discuss the issue and agree to disagree if that's how it has to be. Big difference. If you respect the opinion of trolls enough to get all teary eyed and suicidal about it, you have WAY bigger problems. When it comes to young people dealing with this stuff, I think the way to handle it is to help them deal with the inevitable negativity rather than try to block the trolls and over-protect the little kiddies. I say this as a dad. There are bad people. Bad things happen. Learn to live with it. I'm not saying that slavery, genocide, murder, rape etc. are acceptable - you know what I mean...
How about over-specialization? Being good at just one thing is not really something to applaud, is it? I'm not going to call a plumber because my toilet won't flush properly. I'll fix it myself if I can. I'll unblock my own sink if it becomes blocked. I'll assemble shelves etc. Basic stuff that anyone should be able to do.
I was pretty confused when suddenly dinosaurs were considered to have been all sorts of different colours. When I was a kid they were pretty much green, greyish or brown depending on the illustration. Now they are thought to have been orange, purple, blue etc. AND covered in feathers! What next! I know. They could talk, and sing and dance. Yes!
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One on of my favourite games is Carmageddon. I do not drive, do not own a car, have no driver's license. I do enjoy driving a virtual car and mowing down old ladies, cops and various other pedestrians and cows. Should I get a driver's license and buy (or rent) a car to find out what real life driving is actually like? This guy is a tool.
Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat...
True, it is always difficult to diagnose invented conditions, diseases etc. But sure, there is money to be made from other people's misery. Diagnose at will!
and he was not the least bit funny.
If a complete stranger offers his/her opinion in a caustic way it really doesn't affect me. Why should it? However, if a friend/family member does the same thing it does affect me. Then we can hopefully discuss the issue and agree to disagree if that's how it has to be. Big difference. If you respect the opinion of trolls enough to get all teary eyed and suicidal about it, you have WAY bigger problems. When it comes to young people dealing with this stuff, I think the way to handle it is to help them deal with the inevitable negativity rather than try to block the trolls and over-protect the little kiddies. I say this as a dad. There are bad people. Bad things happen. Learn to live with it. I'm not saying that slavery, genocide, murder, rape etc. are acceptable - you know what I mean...
I for one welcome our troll overlords
Why not B.O. wolf?
How about over-specialization? Being good at just one thing is not really something to applaud, is it? I'm not going to call a plumber because my toilet won't flush properly. I'll fix it myself if I can. I'll unblock my own sink if it becomes blocked. I'll assemble shelves etc. Basic stuff that anyone should be able to do.
Really? Calling Irish people 'potato eaters' is not an insult? Again, you are a douchebag.
Queen Victoria loved to eat licorice. Perhaps that's why she spent so long on the throne. It is a laxative, you know.
Those 'huts' are called cells, actually.
I don't think you will find any bogs on Sceilig Mhichíl.
I take umbrage at you slur on my people, douchebag.
Shame on xkcd. Those are not fractions, they are percentages.
So typical of the BBC to anglicise the name of the island. It is correctly Sceilig Mhichíl. Brit arseholes.
Just guessing now, but maybe he is talking about basic skills everyone should have like, simple plumbing, carpentry, cooking, gardening etc.
He who is tired of London is tired of shite. Mmm. Maybe i don't remember the quote correctly.
? So?
That's cheating. They could fly. Poor defenseless moa...
I was pretty confused when suddenly dinosaurs were considered to have been all sorts of different colours. When I was a kid they were pretty much green, greyish or brown depending on the illustration. Now they are thought to have been orange, purple, blue etc. AND covered in feathers! What next! I know. They could talk, and sing and dance. Yes!
Plenty big!
Is that an umlaut? If so, slash code doesn't seem to like them. Let's see if this works: ü?
Surely you are thinking of Einsturzende Neubaten? Art of Noise didn't use tools, did they?
Whoosh!
followed by Marmite, then Vegemite. Then Bovril, Oxo, Herbox, Knorr and Maggi.