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  1. Re:I dunno about you... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but I don't piss on my hands when I urinateDo you piss on other people's hands when you urinate?

  2. Re:I dunno about you... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Honestly my junk is probably cleaner than my hands it's been locked up in clean underwear while my hands have handled money and all kind of other unsanitary things. Wash your hands before you take a whiz.

    My life coach told me that urine is sterile, so i just take a whiz on my hands.

  3. Re:You can feel the water on your face on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I avoid these dryers now, even if it means using my pant legs to dry my hands.

    Or, you can just do like me and dry your hands on someone else's pant leg.

  4. Re:I dunno about you... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Yes, but the person who only rinses their hands and then uses one of these spreads whatever was on their hands all over the place.

    The person who only rinses his hands after going to the bathroom should not be allowed to mix with the rest of us. If you don't have some skin disease that prevents you from using soap, then please wash your goddamn hands.

  5. The most common definition I see is those born from about 1980 to 2000.

    Here you go:

    noun
    plural noun: millennials; plural noun: Millennials
    a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000; a Generation Yer.
    "the industry brims with theories on what makes millennials tick"

  6. Speaking as a millennial, this is total bullshit.

    A 22 year-old is not a millennial. I hate to be pedantic (not really), but I must point out that the definition of a millennial is someone who reached "young adulthood" around the year 2000. A 22 year-old was like six or seven years old in 2000. Now maybe that's considered "young adulthood" for the purposes of age of consent in certain parts of the US, but where I come from, a 7 year old is not a young adult.

  7. Re:Base 10 on Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on painkillers for my back at the moment, so.

    I hope you brought enough for the whole class, Mr BronsCon.

  8. Re:What a stupid bitch on Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to start a feminist VS. black empowerment war, my good friend?

    No, I'm trying to show that cultural appropriation is one of the best things that humans do, when it's done respectfully. And when it's not done respectfully, it's usually a disaster.

    To take it one step further, did you know that at the turn of the 20th century, there was a phenomenon of black people imitating white people imitating black people? Early popular black musicians copied the over-the-top behavior of the racist black-face minstrel shows who were copying the actual black minstrel performers. It was an interesting cultural jujitsu. Similar in a way that the black Amos & Andy show took the original "black-face" radio Amos & Andy and created something that was popular with blacks and led in a (slow) way to empowerment to black performers who incrementally became more acceptable to white audiences.

    Jazz is a very interesting case study in the way ideas mix and permeate cultures. It flies in the faces of the stormfronter "borders/language/culture" people who believe there is such a thing as pure, enduring culture. Such a thing just doesn't exist and has never existed.

  9. Build a wall on Zika Virus Officially Causes Rare Microcephaly Birth Defects, CDC Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need to put screen doors in the wall on the southern border to keep the mosquitoes out.

    And make Aedes aegypti pay for it.

  10. So a meta study on several crappy papers with significant methodological problems can yield a sterling paper?

    Science!

    I know, right? Science is all BS.

  11. Well, I looked at the horizon. And then I held up something straight to compare it to (the handle of my hockey stick). Looks flat to me. Check mate!

    Does the horizon really look flat to anyone? Show of hands, please.

  12. Re:What a stupid bitch on Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 2

    but what Bolden was playing, "jass", was just a new orleans style of ragtime

    No, there are other, qualitative differences between ragtime and what Bolden was playing. They have the syncopation in common, but that's about where the similarity ends. Bolden added the harmonic substitutions, the iconic progressions and most important, the improvised solo voices that make jazz jazz.

    I realize that your post was just an excuse to post a racist image, but I don't want erroneous information to go unchallenged.

    Also, did you know that most ragtime music was written by white women? Yes, the originators were black, but it was quickly taken up as parlor music by white women, who penned most of the published ragtime.

  13. Re:What a stupid bitch on Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah,, everyone knows jazz is nigger music.

    Trump 2016

  14. Re:What a stupid bitch on Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Black people didn't invent jazz.

    There are talented black jazz musicians, but there were no negroes in the Hot Club in Paris playing with Stepane Grapelli and Django Reinhardt and their crazy gypsy buddies.

    The Hot Club in Paris was founded in 1931. Django didn't even start playing guitar until 1928. King Oliver was playing jazz in New Orleans in the mid-1910s. But Buddy Bolden had already been playing jazz in New Orleans as early as 1905. That was before the term "jazz" was even invented, and before Stephane Grapelli or Django Reinhardt had even been born.

    Buddy Bolden is considered by jazz musicians, historians and musicologists as having started the first band that played improvised music of the type later known as "jazz".

    Now, don't you feel a little bit stupid?

  15. Win or lose, people are going to remember Trump.

    That's a pretty low bar. You know who else people remember?

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/ima...

    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi...

    They weren't "bought and paid for" either.

  16. Re:LOL! The Guardian invites open civil discourse. on The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    yours isn't the first example of a left-wing person suggesting that the commenter above them is stupid.

    I'm doing more than just suggesting, my friend.

  17. Wait, what is the point you're making here? Trump is a high visibility white guy with controversial opinions and so attracts a lot of identity-focused hostile comments.

    Yes, that's the point I'm making.

    I'm also making the point that high visibility white guys have had controversial opinions forever and it was all considered normal. And blacks and women don't require controversial opinions to draw identity-focused hostile comments. They get them just for existing.

  18. Re:Opportunity missed on The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    My guess is that high visibility blacks and women are highly correlated with either controversial opinions and/or controversial subjects.

    That's right. They just don't know how to behave, like us white males.

    Trump 2016.

  19. Re:LOL! The Guardian invites open civil discourse. on The Guardian Publishes Comment Abuse Stats, Invites Debate On Moderation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    well, they block anything that mentions race, so there's not a chance of having a civil discourse

    Your notion of civil discourse runs the gamut from A to A.

  20. Don't judge us until you've wanked a mile in our socks.

    Well, you've got me there. Honestly, I haven't heard about xHamster before this, either. And why someone would want to visit a site that has hamster porn is beyond me. Oh well, different strokes, as they say.

  21. https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]

    Wait a minute, did you just cite your own comment? That takes a fair amount of panache, almost flamboyance.

    I think I'm starting to get why the gay guy kept hitting on you. I mean, besides the fact that you kept putting bofa his nuts in your mouth.

  22. A porn site I've never heard of...

    We're all friends here. You don't have to pretend with us.

  23. Re:Choice... on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am not against anyone's lifestyle choice,

    When someone starts a comment that way, you know it's the windup for something really homophobic.

    You can find it filed directly under, "I've got nothing against black people..."

  24. Gender is a biological fact, not a matter of personal opinion.

    OK, pop quiz: If this woman rubs your leg, will your "biological fact" pop a boner, or what?

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

    You think she should be forced to use the men's bathroom at the Wilco-Hess #315 Truck Stop outside of Asheboro, North Carolina? It might cause a riot.

  25. Re:It's the 21st century, folks on Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this is the first time I've yet heard the 20th century referred to as some backward bygone era, rather than more-or-less the present.

    I get it. I'm an old man living in the past, too.