It's Personal...

Count Arioch the 28th · Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:36 pm

My friends have retarded friends.

A friend of my cousin is seriously arguing that schools should eliminate a program that gives a free lunch to impoverished children because she "shouldn't have to pay for someone else's kids", another (a woman) is arguing that feminism is the causes of corporate greed, the myth that modern life is worse than it was during the 70's (lolwut?) and that it never helped her or any woman. (Suffrage? Laws against spousal abuse? Jobs for women other than schoolteacher and whore?)

sabs · Post by **sabs** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:06 pm

People are retarded.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:27 pm

When people criticize feminism, they are never talking about feminism as a whole, they are talking about specifically the stuff that active feminists where making a big deal about when they first noticed the movement.

So when a 20something college student says that feminism never did anything for her, she means that when she ran into feminism for the first time, it was talking about gender neutral pronouns, and how that hasn't done anything for her, and she assumes therefore, that feminism has always been about side job trivial bullshit issues.

It's especially bad for women who first encountered feminism in college in the 90s, because the 90s was the heyday of feminism, which like the heyday of d20 systems meant there were eleven thousand different types, and 90% of them sucked. 90s academia feminism was kind the breeding ground where the idea of matriarchy for a few thousand years as punishment for the patriarchy and "you must be a lesbian, because no self respecting feminist could love a man, and sex is an inherently patriarchal act" type of weird shit that would mostly flare up, and then die off when it couldn't hold any women who where mostly sane past the initial stages of rage against past injustices.

So in conclusion, if you just said, "And how exactly did women's suffrage, women having jobs, and general gender equality come to exist again?" Her response would be something like "But that's not feminism! Feminism is [some thing that once pissed her off said by a feminist]."

PS, the correct unknown gender pronoun is themself/they/ect. Ignore people who will tell you the correct English form as per the society of language guys who make the rules, and all the weird obscure "gender neutral" pronouns that are either designed to sound like a variation of it (in which case just use it) or designed to sound like the female version of the word, because... see "matriarchy as punishment or patriarchy."

EDIT: Also, what sabs said.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:34 pm

I have found out that I love fruity dessert wines.

Riesling, Rheinhessen and Plum wine have quickly become my favorite.

Plum wine was only truly discovered two days ago. In college, i had tried it but I was too hooked on rum and gin. But Palm rice wine is delicious. And it has a pretty decent ABV for wines.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:22 am

Kumquats are fuckin' delish. Thank you, Nature.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:44 am

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:My friends have retarded friends.

A friend of my cousin is seriously arguing that schools should eliminate a program that gives a free lunch to impoverished children because she "shouldn't have to pay for someone else's kids", another (a woman) is arguing that feminism is the causes of corporate greed, the myth that modern life is worse than it was during the 70's (lolwut?) and that it never helped her or any woman. (Suffrage? Laws against spousal abuse? Jobs for women other than schoolteacher and whore?)

to be fair suffrage probably hasn't really helped anyone.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:02 am

I wish we could descend back into Barbarism. With my massive build and pent up rage, I would make Chief's Man in no time flat! Unfortunately, whomping heads in modern times doesn't seem to work.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:49 am

I wish we could descend back into Barbarism

it is the inevitable end-stage product of globalization, once we realize that we sold our souls for one final justin bieber concert

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:20 am

Eh, that's not quite as cool as actual barbarism. See, post-globalization the rich will have all the wealth and be living in their citadels with elite guards and guns and explosives and crap while everyone else has rocks and sticks. That seems far less fun than good ol' fashion Iron-Age style Swordery.

Count Arioch the 28th · Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:06 pm

My elbow seems to have locked up again. This is a time where I miss the ex GF because she was good at popping it back in place.

I don't miss her often, but when I have an itch I can't reach, or my elbow is seized up, or when I want a sandwich, I do miss her a bit.

PoliteNewb · Post by **PoliteNewb** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:23 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:My elbow seems to have locked up again. This is a time where I miss the ex GF because she was good at popping it back in place.

I don't miss her often, but when I have an itch I can't reach, or my elbow is seized up, or when I want a sandwich, I do miss her a bit.

If you ignore everything after the word "because", this becomes inadvertently hilarious.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:42 pm

PoliteNewb wrote:
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:My elbow seems to have locked up again. This is a time where I miss the ex GF because she was good at popping it back in place.

I don't miss her often, but when I have an itch I can't reach, or my elbow is seized up, or when I want a sandwich, I do miss her a bit.
If you ignore everything after the word "because", this becomes inadvertently hilarious.

That would be wrist.

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:01 am

I suppose that depends on technique and physiology.
Neither of which am I going to enquire about.

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:56 am

Maj wrote:Kumquats are fuckin' delish. Thank you, Nature.

This statement would have been awesome back in the Nifty days.

Game On,
fbmf

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:04 am

It seems that it is in fact frowned upon at the FLGS to bring in snacks to game, and the owner has let me know in no uncertain terms to not do that anymore.

For unrelated reasons, we're moving the game to my house due to two players dropping out (who were the reason I was gaming 40 miles away...)

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:09 am

I finally close on my house in mid July after almost a year and a half of trying to sell. Finally! Selling at a big loss but I do not even care anymore. Just want it over.

Wife and I have nearly settled on next home and might move in by August or even late July if all goes well.

Almost made a colossal error with a foreclosed house that happened to have an abandoned oil tank underneath in the crawl space. Apparently that can be crazy expensive to remove/deal with. An inspector's words were "Run away. Run away fast. Do not buy this house even for $7,500". Oy. *sigh* I really liked that place too. There were a menagerie of other problems with the house but I was prepared to deal (i.e. Pay to fix) with them until this final straw broke that resolve tonight.

Feels like my life has been on hold since so many things have gone on the back burner. It will be so liberating once our move is finally over.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:13 am

It seems that it is in fact frowned upon at the FLGS to bring in snacks to game, and the owner has let me know in no uncertain terms to not do that anymore.

your FLGS seems to have exchanged Fs with another word

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:35 pm

So, I've been bummed the past couple of days. Losing my wallet, shit at work.

I was seriously moping. And you have to understand. It's hard for me to be in a bad mood for more than two days running. Even a solid day is a bit of a stretch.

I was thinking about the rules of behavior that I try to follow, because I wish other people would, too. Trying take into account the possibility of being dead wrong, just because you feel something doesn't mean you have to act on it (after all, you might just be feeling pissy or childish or petty or something else not good). Things like that.

So, I started trying to crack jokes in Sam's Club. First went kind of flat. Then I pointed out a "heavy duty craftsman's bench!" to my mom (she's fifty years old and five-foot three. I am 24 and, according to the tape measure the other day, a hair short of six feet tall. I gladly do heavy lifting on her behalf, and if you shop at Sam's Club, it WILL be heavy lifting. Most of the clerks I see there have some pretty nice muscle definition), and how the illustration on the box indicated I could kick a hole in it without much too effort. "That doesn't inspire much confidence, really."

By the time we got to the house, I rolled into the living room with an ice chest of meat. My little sister (well, little in the sense she's 14 years old. She's 5'7" and I think she's still growing some) jumped a mile about dropped the phone when I roared, "AVAST, YE SCURVY SWAB! HELP UNLOAD THE GROCERIES!"

I feel a lot better than I did two hours ago.

Funny how that works out.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:41 pm

Behold the super power of smiling {OK, TED, Smiles, Science,

}

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:21 am

Maj wrote:Behold the super power of smiling {OK, TED, Smiles, Science, }

I've heard of that. Smiling felt too forced. So I got the Snark Engine running and proceeded to look for the funny in everything I saw.

If you've ever seen a jar containing five pounds of cheese balls or pork rinds, this is not hard.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:51 am

My intention was more of congratulations because you got the the smile. I just failed to type what I meant.

Silly me.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:08 am

I have been in Sweden for about 26 hours and I've already had two guys try to pick me up. It seems I am irrestiable to gay swedes. And to be honest, they were way more attractive than I would have thought I could attract.

Also, czech beer is in fact really good (Sporoprna? Something like that, I forget exactly). One 0.5 L was 70 kronor, but it got me as drunk as 3 American beers so I'm not complaining.

I am at the World Transplant games in Goteborg with my father (who is a competitor). So far, it's been pretty interesting. goteborg is a beautiful city, the people are friendly, and we are having little problems not knowing the language (which is good, because I know exactly enough Swedish to be even more confused than if I didn't know anything). Despite some travel issues (was stuck in Detroit for a day because of weather related crap), I've been having a good time.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:33 pm

Kaelik wrote:So in conclusion, if you just said, "And how exactly did women's suffrage, women having jobs, and general gender equality come to exist again?" Her response would be something like "But that's not feminism! Feminism is [some thing that once pissed her off said by a feminist]."

It's important to know that things change over time, often come from multiple sources and often carry baggage.

Women's Sufferage clearly came from 19th century feminism. On the other hand, that same movement also gave us prohibition.

Women in the job market (and I mean REAL JOBS) really came about out of the necessity of WWII. Not just the "Rosie the Riviter" but the WACS who were essecial in triangulating the Atlantic U-Boats.

But the biggest gains didn't come from any movement; they came from real hard working determined women who didn't have the aid and benefit of a "movement" to help them advance in what they believed in. They only had themselves. Sometimes they failed, but advanced enough so others could succeed after them.

tzor · Post by **tzor** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:46 pm

You might have noticed that I haven't been posting in the past week. I'm sure you are probably dissapointed(*). I was on a "road trip" which started out when a former co-worker and friend decided we should both visit our favorite teams at his favorite place; He's a Cubs fan and I'm a Yankee Fan, so he got two tickets to the Friday Day game at Wrigley Field. Between that event and last week mission creep happened. Two more games (against the Brewers) from the upper deck and the bleechers, and a Tuesday visit to the Museum of Science and Industry where there is a nice U-Boat (U-505) that one can tour. Naturally, we had to DRIVE there, from Long Island. (A 16 hour drive.) And we took the tour of the field as well.

Some notes:

Wrigley field is ... the best place I've ever seen. (Didn't see the club houses, but they are probably a dump, from what I've been told. The press box is way way up high and having walked to it, I state that from experience, but it clearly doesn't tire out the organist who has to go up there as well and who has to play before and during the game.)

Old Style Beer is ... actually good.

The footlong buffalo hot dog is ... very good.

The foam bear club claw ... ugly ... fortunately very few fans get them.

One last thought. Perhaps a real baseball field doesn't need a jumbotron after all. And the scoreboard should be "manned" literally by men who have to change the scores for all the games currently being played.

(*) In the fact that I am posting again.

That wasn't clear from the post.

Count Arioch the 28th · Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:00 am

Tzor, if you were in goteborg right now i'd totally make it my mission to get you laid. I think it would help.

Some dude bought me a bunch of shots at an irish pub. A surreal experience: at an irish pub in sweden listening to american music while shooting the shit with a pakistani.

Referring to Americna beers as horse piss ingratiates you to the locals.

My got swedish women are sexy. I would totally be fucking 5 right now if I didn't have crippling self esteem issues. they are so friendly an so nice and in shape and so tall. I wish I could have someone that treated me nivcce.\