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Post by Starmaker » Thu May 16, 2013 6:27 am

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Post by Chamomile » Thu May 16, 2013 8:23 am

Unfortunately I do not own a single article of A&F clothing. Maybe I can give my little sister a call, because this sounds hilarious and I want to see it take off.
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Post by Maj » Fri May 17, 2013 3:04 am

I really liked this one. Anyone who plays soccer can benefit.
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Post by Ancient History » Tue May 21, 2013 10:34 am

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott ... -hog-farms
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Post by Maj » Sat May 25, 2013 9:30 pm

Spanish teacher uses the word "negro" in her lesson about colors and gets fired. I hope she wins her lawsuit against the school district.
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Post by Chamomile » Sat May 25, 2013 9:55 pm

That's insane. I hope this works out alright for her. This is the worst possible sort of political correctness gone wrong.
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Post by Maxus » Sat May 25, 2013 11:15 pm

Abercrombie and Fitch's CEO discovers consumers really don't like douchebags, gives 'apology' that says he's sorry his words were interpreted in a way to make him sound like a douchebag
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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Post by Maxus » Sun May 26, 2013 11:28 am

Therapist to London bankers talks about how poor they are, how they're unfairly maligned and suffering great stress from poor public opinion of their trade.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by Ancient History » Thu May 30, 2013 11:37 am

http://news.yahoo.com/move-over-tequila ... 31780.html
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Post by Koumei » Fri May 31, 2013 1:11 am

So according to a report, Australia is the happiest country in the world. I assure you this is false. But it soon showed the reasoning: when you're going around asking as many people as possible how happy they are on a day to day basis over the course of a year, you can get a decent idea (and Scandinavia holds its throne). If you look at rates of depression, or incidents of people glassing each other, you can probably get an idea as well.
This study, like most US studies on what makes a good country, looked at economic strength and such. As though the strength of our dollar makes a fucking difference in our happiness when all imports have a "fuck Australia" tarrif of up to 100% and most people still price things as though our dollar is worth half a US one. It's also based on how good our mining industry has been doing (when most Australians would be happier if the owners of said industry were broke and, indeed, on fire).

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Post by Whipstitch » Fri May 31, 2013 3:31 am

I keep meaning to try baijiu but that article title bugs me anyway because I love me some tequila.
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Post by Koumei » Fri May 31, 2013 3:49 am

I don't like tequila when I'm sobre, it's not a good drink for starting a binge, but when I'm already drunk enough to be able to drink straight spirits I'm happy to do a bunch of tequila shots. And it mixes well enough, like in Charizards.

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Post by Maj » Wed Jun 05, 2013 6:03 pm

I'm posting this here because it's about a new scientific study, not the politics surrounding the thing being studied.
CO2 not responsible for global warming. CFCs are.
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Post by Surgo » Wed Jun 05, 2013 6:25 pm

> Maj wrote:I'm posting this here because it's about a new scientific study, not the politics surrounding the thing being studied.

You may want to read this first. Plus, he tried this same thing back in 2009 -- and nobody bought it then either.
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Post by echoVanguard » Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:09 pm

Move over cyberware, here comes Rigging!
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Post by Whipstitch » Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:51 pm

> Koumei wrote:I don't like tequila when I'm sobre, it's not a good drink for starting a binge, but when I'm already drunk enough to be able to drink straight spirits I'm happy to do a bunch of tequila shots. And it mixes well enough, like in Charizards.

Yeah, there's some mellower tequilas out there that are surprisingly decent for kicking off the night but you can always count on Americans to equate more with better, so much like craft beers it often seems like only the super charged tequilas* get any play at affordable prices stateside, which leads me to suspect that even buying a dead simple cheapie tequila like Espolon probably costs a hojillion dollars in Ausfailia.
*By that, I mean ones that are unaged OR aged in old Jack Daniels barrels for some reason.
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Post by Maj » Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:49 pm

People into BDSM might be psychologically healthier
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Post by Prak » Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:34 pm

Warner Bros. pitching Man of Steel to churchs
Yeah, WB is basically going around, offering pastors free screenings and pre-written sermons. Because blatantly making MoS a rip off of the shittiest story ever told wasn't enough.
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Post by RobbyPants » Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:37 pm

> Prak_Anima wrote:Warner Bros. pitching Man of Steel to churchs
> Yeah, WB is basically going around, offering pastors free screenings and pre-written sermons. Because blatantly making MoS a rip off of the shittiest story ever told wasn't enough.

So, I know next to nothing about Man of Steel. Is he a Jesus stand in for the movie, or something?
I fully support Jesus' water -> wine policy, but he would have been cooler if he could fly and shoot lasers out of his eyes.
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Post by John Magnum » Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:12 pm

A lot of times people looking to make Superman deeper notice that he's kind of a savior figure, and therefore bludgeon him into a Christological mold. Usually you don't get a lot of substantive parallels, because there's actually a big thematic difference between "God sent Jesus to Earth because he loved Earthlings and wanted to save them" and "Jor-El sent Kal-El into deep space because Krypton was blowing up and he wanted to save Kal-El" and the kind of saving Superman does is pretty different from the kind of saving depicted in the Bible. But it's really easy to make superficial parallels like having Superman be 33 or strike cruciform poses. And you can scratch a little below the surface by emphasizing a dual alien/human nature. So, hey, if you want a ton of Christians to latch onto your movie and get mad at anyone who criticizes it, you can work those in.
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Post by Whipstitch » Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:41 pm

I think the single biggest thing that always gets Supes crammed into the Christian paradigm is the fact that the ol' bible bangers are constantly trying to make sense of the problem of evil, which is understandable given that said problem is one of the biggest turds floating in their theological punch bowl. That makes it really easy for Christians to furiously fap to a hero who espouses vague bullshit about letting us humanity find its own destiny even if that means letting Lex Luthor run around being the biggest douche in the universe.
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Post by Prak » Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:10 pm

Lex is far from the biggest douche in the universe-- he just wants to kill GodSuperman.
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> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Whipstitch » Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:55 pm

There's versions of the Lex Luthor character I like and I know you're big on furiously masturbating to moral relativism, but the evidence for Lex actually being an OK guy doesn't hold up well under scrutiny.
Let's go down the line of his character motivation for hating Superman over the years:
1. OG megalomaniac Lex. This is a constant in his character, but it was at its purest in the earliest days back when he hated Superman for no other reason than Supes foiling his plot to take over Europe via lasers and a floating city. This was just cops and robbers on a large scale. Hating someone because they won't let you be a tyrant is the oldest dick move.
2. Petty, jealous asshole Lex. In the '60s they expanded Lex's background so he knew Superman much earlier in life. In this, he hates Superman because as a young, bumbling scientist Supes repeatedly "humiliates" Lex by saving him and others from Luthor's own fuckups. Some writers in particular like to emphasize that Luthor blames Supes for his baldness.
3. '80s capitalist Lex. This guy is seriously an unvarnished attack on capitalist exceptionalism. He's a self-made man who murdered his parents and hates Superman because he refused to sign on as a thug in order support Lex's wolves>sheep interpretation of freedom. Also, takes time out of his day to seriously fuck with regular people, because he can. For no reason.
4. Modern Lex. Like number 3, but toned down a pinch with a bit of the ol' mad scientist bit mixed in. This version of Lex people like to defend by saying he has a point when he says humanity needs to be capable of defending itself. He still falls down on the point where he proactively goes after Superman in particular and in general he still suffers from a serious case of "Can't get the fuck over himself" and lacks the discipline and humility necessary to recognize that he can be, you know, wrong about stuff and that maybe his shit stinks like anyone else's.
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Post by Prak » Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:22 pm

Not moral relativism, just killing god. Also, just the fact that the Joker and, well, most of Batman's villains, exist in the same universe means he's not the biggest douche in the DC universe. Hell, sure, he propositioned a married woman and let her consider cheating on her husband/leaving him for a month for $1 million. But so far as I know, he's never rape'n'murdered anyone, murdered sure, but not raped before hand, which alone sets Joker above him on the scale of douchebaggery.
Also I was being facetious. And I like the thought of killing god.
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> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by Koumei » Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:31 am

Also, Luthor stole forty cakes when nobody was looking, what a prick.

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