Why is it that everybody assumes that anything a man says might offend ONLY women? I'd think that some homophobic male might get way more upset at being told to eat a mangina than I ever would.
The P.C. weenie phenomenon knows no gender.
Por ejemplo: There's a small group of very Catholic men where I work, and it's not hard to cross a line with them just in conversation, never mind gaming.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
All these replies are missing the point. Maybe I rambled a bit but the idea I was trying to get across is that "hidden cameras don't make up for bad parenting."
(You were correct in pointing out my bad choice of grammar to describe my philosophy on evolution. We are all subject to it but some folks are in denial of the law of survival of the fittest; I was merely trying to point out that I am not one of those people. If I am stupid enough to drink Windex I deserve to get sick.)
And for those who nit-picked, my Honda has automatic seatbelts. It was just a freakin' example. Can we get back to talking about the student tracking now?
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
more dumbed down adults who will be even LESS equipped to deal with stressful situations and to survive on their own than now
Exactly. We are not sheep, but a majority of us certainly fit the description...
We put warning labels on everything, sue restaurants for serving us hot coffee, and make ridiculous laws for the 'sake of the children.' In my state you can get a ticket for not wearing your seat belt. A cop can pull you over JUST FOR THAT. Why? What if I WANT to fly through my windshield?
An above poster mentioned watching a father having to try to save his son after a nasty bout with alcohol. Sorry, that doesn't tug my heartstrings. I am a firm follower of evolution and Darwinism. (Go listen to a few George Carlin albums.) People do stupid things. It's a function of evolution that people who do stupid things DIE so their stupid genes don't spread around the pool and irritate the rest of us.
We don't need to monitor our kids. If parents (and teachers) were worth anything themselves, the kids would have a decent head on their shoulders and wouldn't need supervision. Hidden cameras won't make up for bad parenting.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
According to Babelfish (which I'm finding less and less useful for translating things like Rammstein lyrics):
"As a former English major I must agree. Only if it is not lazy and to skip loose, doing your own research, but, if you have not even the brains REWORD the material, steal then you are burgers for some years easily to strike, until you decide that you are ready for use, to be a real class participant."
ha!
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
As a former English major, I have to agree. Not only is it lazy and slack to skip doing your own research, but if you don't even have the brains to REWORD the stuff you're stealing then you ought to flip burgers for a few years until you decide you're ready to be a real student.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
What you'd really need to watch out for, though, is getting arrested for shouting "I'm gonna frag your ass, you sorry fsck!" while running through the outdoor atrium of your local mall. Would you shoot your imaginary gun at the cops as they chased you down, and further, could they add that to the list of charges?;-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Pay phones in my area are always occupied by people from nearby low-cost housing neighborhoods who I guess can't afford a phone. What sounds like happened in your town is that somebody noticed there were a large group of melanin-enhanced folks hanging around the pay phone at the local Taco Bell where the yuppie kids always go on school nights and it upset some parents. Bullshit.
This story is premature, anyway, pay phones are in no danger yet. Fluff.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Needless to say, popularizing SF and exposing it to the masses would never do
This has already happened, to an extent. Most of the prime time shows on the Sci-fi channel are nothing more than soap operas with aliens. I can divide my friends and co-workers into 2 camps: those who watch 'Sex and the City' and those who watch 'Farscape'. True mind-expanding sci-fi, though, which I guess Matrix would have to fall under, is scarce - but how many people who saw it enjoyed it on that philosophical level? "Carrie is hot!!!" Duh. You can popularize sci-fi all you want, but you can't ever make people get it. Simply exposing people to brilliance doesn't make them enlightened. You have nothing to worry about, geeky sweetie: I think most folks would take the blue pill.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I don't usually defend myself, but... mathematically speaking, what this tells us is that some rapists read pr0no AND the bible. And I never said anything about them not having a changed perception of females; wouldn't they have to have in order to rape in the first place?
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Don't remember where I saw this, but I'm sure it's legit: "Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."
Rape a feminist for Jesus!
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I wish Williams would hurry up and finish the Otherland series so I can stop buying the damn things. I don't like them anymore,
I haven't read anything of his since picking up Caliban's Hour at the Dollar Store. I thought, 'hey, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn kicked ass! This novel is only a buck, must be my lucky day!'...but no, there was a reason it was at the Dollar Store.
Was that his only flop? I never read any of the Otherland stuff. (I'll likely download this serial thingie, though, it sounds cool...)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
This leaves you with a singularity that exploded for no apparent reason and existed for no apparent reason. Where did it come from? Why did it explode?
After skimming through The Elegant Universe I became a subscriber to the theory that there are multiple 'universes', so I don't see ours as a singularity, but rather an offspring of any one of millions of other 'universes'...
While that may answer you on one level, you could then ask where the MegaMultiverse came from. Can't help you there. But if God had anything to do with it, I think s/he was on some good blotter at the time.;-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
...after a few more years, the novelty of the 'net will fade, and it will become a standard part of our lives. People won't see the need to have their own website anymore, unless they really are trying to share something with the world that is worthwhile.
No offense, but bullshit. Did the novelty of the Polaroid fade? Are the only people who have an interest in photography these days folks like Ansel and Maplethorpe? No! Now we have disposable cameras and sticky film.
Personal pages will be around as long as somebody's giving away free hosting in exchange for ad banners... Now if you want to debate the certain death of the ad banner, that's different.:-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Think about your friends - do anywhere near 40% of them work for the gov't? Do even 10%?
Well if you count the military and govt. contract work, yes. Just because you might not think you know anyone who fits that description doesn't mean it isn't accurate. I live in the middle of one of the largest military areas in the nation and I'd say a lot more than 40% of the folks I know are paid by the govt. one way or another.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I have to add, though, that oftentimes people in working-class situations can't do all this stuff. They just don't have the time.
Well I'll get beaten down for this but... if you don't have time to be a parent you shouldn't have kids. I know I'm a selfish person and would be a horrible mother, so I've chosen to let my gene pool stagnate. Half in jest, I offer this link:
www.vhemt.org.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Slashdot Mirror
"EAT MY FUCKING MANGINA, BITCH"
Why is it that everybody assumes that anything a man says might offend ONLY women? I'd think that some homophobic male might get way more upset at being told to eat a mangina than I ever would. The P.C. weenie phenomenon knows no gender.
Por ejemplo: There's a small group of very Catholic men where I work, and it's not hard to cross a line with them just in conversation, never mind gaming.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
All these replies are missing the point. Maybe I rambled a bit but the idea I was trying to get across is that "hidden cameras don't make up for bad parenting."
(You were correct in pointing out my bad choice of grammar to describe my philosophy on evolution. We are all subject to it but some folks are in denial of the law of survival of the fittest; I was merely trying to point out that I am not one of those people. If I am stupid enough to drink Windex I deserve to get sick.)
And for those who nit-picked, my Honda has automatic seatbelts. It was just a freakin' example. Can we get back to talking about the student tracking now?
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
more dumbed down adults who will be even LESS equipped to deal with stressful situations and to survive on their own than now
Exactly. We are not sheep, but a majority of us certainly fit the description...
We put warning labels on everything, sue restaurants for serving us hot coffee, and make ridiculous laws for the 'sake of the children.' In my state you can get a ticket for not wearing your seat belt. A cop can pull you over JUST FOR THAT. Why? What if I WANT to fly through my windshield?
An above poster mentioned watching a father having to try to save his son after a nasty bout with alcohol. Sorry, that doesn't tug my heartstrings. I am a firm follower of evolution and Darwinism. (Go listen to a few George Carlin albums.) People do stupid things. It's a function of evolution that people who do stupid things DIE so their stupid genes don't spread around the pool and irritate the rest of us.
We don't need to monitor our kids. If parents (and teachers) were worth anything themselves, the kids would have a decent head on their shoulders and wouldn't need supervision. Hidden cameras won't make up for bad parenting.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
El Seed? Who cares? I want to know who the hell can pull off Chairface Chippendale without the use of CG??! :-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I don't mod. But if I did, you'd get a 'Funny' out of me for that one.
:-)
Your assignment now is to draw up a movie poster for that. Maybe you can get it filmed - that's a Troma title if ever I heard one.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
What you say?!
:-)
For Great Translation!
ugh...
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
According to Babelfish (which I'm finding less and less useful for translating things like Rammstein lyrics):
"As a former English major I must agree. Only if it is not lazy and to skip loose, doing your own research, but, if you have not even the brains REWORD the material, steal then you are burgers for some years easily to strike, until you decide that you are ready for use, to be a real class participant."
ha!
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Yeah, I'm still waiting on my delivery from Torgo's Pizza. ;-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
As a former English major, I have to agree. Not only is it lazy and slack to skip doing your own research, but if you don't even have the brains to REWORD the stuff you're stealing then you ought to flip burgers for a few years until you decide you're ready to be a real student.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
So will spray-paint stick to that fancy carbon shit? Cuz we ain't gonna let Whitey forget they roots, nowahmsayn?
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Has anyone tried that 'eat right for your type' stuff, where they tell you what you should eat based on your blood type - ?
:-)
And on the subject of exercise - have more sex.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
What you'd really need to watch out for, though, is getting arrested for shouting "I'm gonna frag your ass, you sorry fsck!" while running through the outdoor atrium of your local mall. Would you shoot your imaginary gun at the cops as they chased you down, and further, could they add that to the list of charges? ;-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Exactly. I'm ashamed I clicked on the link to this story. :-)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Don't go putting ideas in their heads!
*shiver*
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Pay phones in my area are always occupied by people from nearby low-cost housing neighborhoods who I guess can't afford a phone. What sounds like happened in your town is that somebody noticed there were a large group of melanin-enhanced folks hanging around the pay phone at the local Taco Bell where the yuppie kids always go on school nights and it upset some parents. Bullshit.
This story is premature, anyway, pay phones are in no danger yet. Fluff.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Needless to say, popularizing SF and exposing it to the masses would never do
This has already happened, to an extent. Most of the prime time shows on the Sci-fi channel are nothing more than soap operas with aliens. I can divide my friends and co-workers into 2 camps: those who watch 'Sex and the City' and those who watch 'Farscape'. True mind-expanding sci-fi, though, which I guess Matrix would have to fall under, is scarce - but how many people who saw it enjoyed it on that philosophical level? "Carrie is hot!!!" Duh. You can popularize sci-fi all you want, but you can't ever make people get it. Simply exposing people to brilliance doesn't make them enlightened. You have nothing to worry about, geeky sweetie: I think most folks would take the blue pill.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I don't usually defend myself, but... mathematically speaking, what this tells us is that some rapists read pr0no AND the bible. And I never said anything about them not having a changed perception of females; wouldn't they have to have in order to rape in the first place?
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Don't remember where I saw this, but I'm sure it's legit: "Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible."
Rape a feminist for Jesus!
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I wish Williams would hurry up and finish the Otherland series so I can stop buying the damn things. I don't like them anymore,
...but no, there was a reason it was at the Dollar Store.
I haven't read anything of his since picking up Caliban's Hour at the Dollar Store. I thought, 'hey, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn kicked ass! This novel is only a buck, must be my lucky day!'
Was that his only flop? I never read any of the Otherland stuff. (I'll likely download this serial thingie, though, it sounds cool...)
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Take all that anger and do something constructive with it: webstandards.org
Down with crap-ass workarounds!
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
have sex at any point in the female's menstrual cycle (except that really yecchy part.)
*ahem* Some folks like the yecchy part, too...
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
This leaves you with a singularity that exploded for no apparent reason and existed for no apparent reason. Where did it come from? Why did it explode?
;-)
After skimming through The Elegant Universe I became a subscriber to the theory that there are multiple 'universes', so I don't see ours as a singularity, but rather an offspring of any one of millions of other 'universes'...
While that may answer you on one level, you could then ask where the MegaMultiverse came from. Can't help you there. But if God had anything to do with it, I think s/he was on some good blotter at the time.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
...after a few more years, the novelty of the 'net will fade, and it will become a standard part of our lives. People won't see the need to have their own website anymore, unless they really are trying to share something with the world that is worthwhile.
:-)
No offense, but bullshit. Did the novelty of the Polaroid fade? Are the only people who have an interest in photography these days folks like Ansel and Maplethorpe? No! Now we have disposable cameras and sticky film.
Personal pages will be around as long as somebody's giving away free hosting in exchange for ad banners... Now if you want to debate the certain death of the ad banner, that's different.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
Think about your friends - do anywhere near 40% of them work for the gov't? Do even 10%?
Well if you count the military and govt. contract work, yes. Just because you might not think you know anyone who fits that description doesn't mean it isn't accurate. I live in the middle of one of the largest military areas in the nation and I'd say a lot more than 40% of the folks I know are paid by the govt. one way or another.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton
I have to add, though, that oftentimes people in working-class situations can't do all this stuff. They just don't have the time.
Well I'll get beaten down for this but... if you don't have time to be a parent you shouldn't have kids. I know I'm a selfish person and would be a horrible mother, so I've chosen to let my gene pool stagnate. Half in jest, I offer this link: www.vhemt.org.
"Smear'd with gumms of glutenous heat, I touch..." - Comus, John Milton