It's like Seventeen for executives. Seventeen does pointless lists of the cutest boys and best dressed actresses, Forbes does pointless lists of the richest boys and totally awesomest briefcases.
I know it sounds like I'm joking, but it's only funny because it's true.
Most illegal drugs were banned early on before the market solidified. As was demonstrated in the 20s, outlawing alcohol isn't feasable until other criminal fields are profitable enough that the new alcohol market doesn't destablize their power structure. That sort of thing causes a sort of runaway inflation for the mafia. Prostitution and gambling crash in relative value, so everybody is forced to move into alcohol distribution to maintain their power base, something the alcohol market simply can't bear. Hence all the shooting. Other drugs are unpredictable and spread-out enough that they aren't that distruptive, but either alcohol or tobacco would be too dangerous to outlaw, even today.
Now quit asking questions that you already know the answer to.
Da, Comrade. Is all part of secret plan to spread love of Glorious People's Tea.
Seriously, if your coffee tastes so awful you need to heat it to the point where you can't taste it anymore just to choke it down, why bother? Boiling water and dirt is like $1 a gallon cheaper. Look, I don't even care if you burn your nuts off or not, it just pisses me off when people pull shit like setting cheap steak on fire, pouring black pepper all over it and acting like they're fucking Emeril. I'll "BAM!" you, you goddamn freak.
Some things? Hell, most things are more important than people. And I'm not even talking about how my Powerbook is worth 500 lives in measles vaccines. I mean, here, box "A" has a little Korean boy in it, box "B" has a Mustang convertible. At the end of the day you get to take one home to keep in your garage. What the hell are you even going to do with the kid? Ok, if he's still a citizen you could probably use him to get into Korea without much hassle, but you probably don't even speak Korean, and how the hell are you supposed to pick up chicks once you get there without the Mustang?
Now, if by "any person" you mean "Rebecca Romijn" and by "any thing" you mean "that sofa in the basement that smells like pee" then I agree wholeheartedly.
Instead of a narrator, you just have the Guide chip in with an internal monologue every once and awhile. That's what Fight Club did to keep all their clever wordplay in. Admittedly, they had it easier since FC's first-person to start with, but most of the good stuff in H2G2 is cleverly-worded exposition, so it's no problem to just have the Guide say most of it.
Honestly, I don't see how that's a bad thing. I always thought the Star Wars sets were a bad idea, no matter how neat it is to have a little Lego Emperor. You get the kid a model kit if he wants a model Millenium Falcon. Lego's for building stuff without instructions. Sure, sell the sets, it keeps the kids busy for the rest of Christmas day, but at least pretend you can take it apart and turn it into something else. What's your kid supposed to do when he takes the thing apart the next day and all he has are irregular slanty bricks with Rebel Alliance logos printed on them and Millenium Falcon hull sections? You can't very well go and build castle turrets out of R2D2's head.
That's interestingly exactly what this mars-news.de guy wants. He wants them to go back to the wrong color-balance that had the sky blue and the ground yellowish-teal.
The crazy German guy complains about those too. In the real world, those weren't actually adjusted that way for any real reason. They were just the very first pictures they had from Viking, and the engineers assembled them and tossed them into the press room at 4 in the morning after not sleeping for 2 days before any of the scientists could tell them that they'd screwed it up. Carl Sagan went off into a big thing about our chauvanism for trying to make Mars look like Earth and stuff.
Yeah, but a Mars base would provide the same raw materials plus water and carbon and has enough gravity not to exile the astronauts from earth under penalty of heart failure if they spend more than 5 years out there. Mine the moon if you want, robots are more than capable of it, but if you want a backup home for humanity Mars is a much better choice.
Ah, but that's why he's paired this with the Medicare drug coverage! With the money Phizer will be pulling in, designing a fabulously addictive new form of crack made from moon dust will be a cakewalk!
I think it odd for us to thik this chage should lead to an ever stable temperature and perfectly preserved artic ice shelves..
We don't thik that, dumbass.. We think that if the ice melts then everything from New York to New Orleans is underwater, leading us to conclude that spending a few billion now to buy even a 1% possibility of saving a few hundred trillion later is not only a good math, it's the only course of action that isn't mind-bogglingly idiotic.
Somebody seriously needs to make the Republic of Texas happen. If their government is anything like their web page, they might be the first place more entertaining to watch from afar than Florida. I mean, they're claiming credit for Thanksgiving! It's brilliant, it'll be like having the CCCP back!
We are talking about the same journalists, aren't we? Short, weasely little things? Live in caves, spend a lot of time worrying about Marylin Manson and which common household items are made of deadly poison? Hang around the White House filling their humps with doughnuts and coffee for the summer migration to Florida and waiting for the press secratary to finish writing their articles for them?
My anecdotal evidence indicates that the phone's worse. Take those fuckers that wander around the grocery store talking to their family on the phone rather than making a fucking list like a normal person. I've been rammed by cart-wielding maniacs 3 times in my life, once in 1995 by a pothead so stoned his eyes were about to start dripping blood, and twice in the last 6 months by stupid fuckers on phones.
No matter how engrossing the conversation with your supermarket buddy, you're not gonna ram people in the ankles with the damn cart while talking. Only a phone can get you that fucking high.
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Why do people read Forbes?
It's like Seventeen for executives. Seventeen does pointless lists of the cutest boys and best dressed actresses, Forbes does pointless lists of the richest boys and totally awesomest briefcases.
I know it sounds like I'm joking, but it's only funny because it's true.
Well, except in the electric car that doesn't idle and has no gears.
Most illegal drugs were banned early on before the market solidified. As was demonstrated in the 20s, outlawing alcohol isn't feasable until other criminal fields are profitable enough that the new alcohol market doesn't destablize their power structure. That sort of thing causes a sort of runaway inflation for the mafia. Prostitution and gambling crash in relative value, so everybody is forced to move into alcohol distribution to maintain their power base, something the alcohol market simply can't bear. Hence all the shooting. Other drugs are unpredictable and spread-out enough that they aren't that distruptive, but either alcohol or tobacco would be too dangerous to outlaw, even today.
Now quit asking questions that you already know the answer to.
Seriously, I'd take a few cocks up the ass if it meant I didn't have to wear wool in the middle of a fucking desert.
Da, Comrade. Is all part of secret plan to spread love of Glorious People's Tea.
Seriously, if your coffee tastes so awful you need to heat it to the point where you can't taste it anymore just to choke it down, why bother? Boiling water and dirt is like $1 a gallon cheaper. Look, I don't even care if you burn your nuts off or not, it just pisses me off when people pull shit like setting cheap steak on fire, pouring black pepper all over it and acting like they're fucking Emeril. I'll "BAM!" you, you goddamn freak.
Some things? Hell, most things are more important than people. And I'm not even talking about how my Powerbook is worth 500 lives in measles vaccines. I mean, here, box "A" has a little Korean boy in it, box "B" has a Mustang convertible. At the end of the day you get to take one home to keep in your garage. What the hell are you even going to do with the kid? Ok, if he's still a citizen you could probably use him to get into Korea without much hassle, but you probably don't even speak Korean, and how the hell are you supposed to pick up chicks once you get there without the Mustang?
Now, if by "any person" you mean "Rebecca Romijn" and by "any thing" you mean "that sofa in the basement that smells like pee" then I agree wholeheartedly.
you_think_I'm_dumb!
Yes, but only because you keep saying stupid things.
We don't really give a shit about the jokes, we just like to listen to you people talk funny.
Blade Runner-style, g.
Instead of a narrator, you just have the Guide chip in with an internal monologue every once and awhile. That's what Fight Club did to keep all their clever wordplay in. Admittedly, they had it easier since FC's first-person to start with, but most of the good stuff in H2G2 is cleverly-worded exposition, so it's no problem to just have the Guide say most of it.
Please, "youse" is plural. Like ustedes in spanish. "You's gonna sleep with the fishes", however, is acceptable.
I do.
Honestly, I don't see how that's a bad thing. I always thought the Star Wars sets were a bad idea, no matter how neat it is to have a little Lego Emperor. You get the kid a model kit if he wants a model Millenium Falcon. Lego's for building stuff without instructions. Sure, sell the sets, it keeps the kids busy for the rest of Christmas day, but at least pretend you can take it apart and turn it into something else. What's your kid supposed to do when he takes the thing apart the next day and all he has are irregular slanty bricks with Rebel Alliance logos printed on them and Millenium Falcon hull sections? You can't very well go and build castle turrets out of R2D2's head.
You're confusing the US with Texas. In Texas you can light his ass up, in New York they call that manslaughter.
That's interestingly exactly what this mars-news.de guy wants. He wants them to go back to the wrong color-balance that had the sky blue and the ground yellowish-teal.
The crazy German guy complains about those too. In the real world, those weren't actually adjusted that way for any real reason. They were just the very first pictures they had from Viking, and the engineers assembled them and tossed them into the press room at 4 in the morning after not sleeping for 2 days before any of the scientists could tell them that they'd screwed it up. Carl Sagan went off into a big thing about our chauvanism for trying to make Mars look like Earth and stuff.
Yeah, but a Mars base would provide the same raw materials plus water and carbon and has enough gravity not to exile the astronauts from earth under penalty of heart failure if they spend more than 5 years out there. Mine the moon if you want, robots are more than capable of it, but if you want a backup home for humanity Mars is a much better choice.
Ah, but that's why he's paired this with the Medicare drug coverage! With the money Phizer will be pulling in, designing a fabulously addictive new form of crack made from moon dust will be a cakewalk!
I think it odd for us to thik this chage should lead to an ever stable temperature and perfectly preserved artic ice shelves..
We don't thik that, dumbass.. We think that if the ice melts then everything from New York to New Orleans is underwater, leading us to conclude that spending a few billion now to buy even a 1% possibility of saving a few hundred trillion later is not only a good math, it's the only course of action that isn't mind-bogglingly idiotic.
Somebody seriously needs to make the Republic of Texas happen. If their government is anything like their web page, they might be the first place more entertaining to watch from afar than Florida. I mean, they're claiming credit for Thanksgiving! It's brilliant, it'll be like having the CCCP back!
Well, then don't fuck with people with a lot more deterrence than you. Either way, you still get 28,000 Viagra spams.
That's Utah for you. So much barren wasteland that you can't even see your neighbors, so little to do that you end up painting all the rocks teal.
We are talking about the same journalists, aren't we? Short, weasely little things? Live in caves, spend a lot of time worrying about Marylin Manson and which common household items are made of deadly poison? Hang around the White House filling their humps with doughnuts and coffee for the summer migration to Florida and waiting for the press secratary to finish writing their articles for them?
How to remove a man's liver with our bare hands.
Tssssssssssss!
My anecdotal evidence indicates that the phone's worse. Take those fuckers that wander around the grocery store talking to their family on the phone rather than making a fucking list like a normal person. I've been rammed by cart-wielding maniacs 3 times in my life, once in 1995 by a pothead so stoned his eyes were about to start dripping blood, and twice in the last 6 months by stupid fuckers on phones.
No matter how engrossing the conversation with your supermarket buddy, you're not gonna ram people in the ankles with the damn cart while talking. Only a phone can get you that fucking high.