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  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    Disney is way too fond of thinking that a celebrity actor necessarily means a good voice actor.

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    August 11, 1999 | ISSUE 35•28

    OCALA, FL—In the latest act of youth violence to shock the nation, 14-year-old home-schooler Jeffrey Kunz opened fire on the family breakfast nook Monday, killing three and injuring two. "We were just about to start Jeffrey's algebra lesson when I heard several loud pops," said Iris Kunz, 44, the assailant's mother/teacher and one of the injured. "But then I saw blood on Jeffrey's sister Melissa and realized someone was shooting." The gun-wielding teen, who was eventually subdued by SWAT-team agents, was said to be angry at his mother over a science grade.

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    I watch things in their original language if I can, unless I have a good reason not to.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Dynagrip wrote:
    man, what they charge for used Hondas is just ridiculous. 100k miles on a 2005 civic and you want $8000? yeah, think I'll pass.

    Not my fault they are amazing cars. I love my honda. But yeah you can get a new Civic for 16k with 0 miles on it.

    Or at least I did some how.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote:
    man, what they charge for used Hondas is just ridiculous. 100k miles on a 2005 civic and you want $8000? yeah, think I'll pass.

    Not my fault they are amazing cars. I love my honda. But yeah you can get a new Civic for 16k with 0 miles on it.

    Or at least I did some how.

    It's actually your fault, Mazzyx. I just called up my local Honda dealer and asked them "who's fault is it that your 2005 civic Hondas with 100k miles on it are priced around $8000 dollars?" and they said one word: "Mazzyx."

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  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »

    D:

    That's sooooo sad!

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Of course, they pronounced "Mazzyx" like "well, sir, the Honda civic is an excellent, well-built model and still worth that much even with 100k miles on it, but my name is David and I would be willing to discuss the pricve with you if you just come to our dealership on 5th and Amsterdam. I'm here till 9 o'clock." I mean, that's what it sounded like, but I think that was just his American dialect - I know he really just said "Mazzyx."

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote:
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Shouldn't it all just be God's fault? : P

    I remember watching a show, about scientists who also practiced Islam, and how in the more hard-line areas of the middle east they basically can't say "hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water", but instead have to say "Allah allows hydrogen and oxygen to combine to form water because it pleases him." And I realized, that's where we're headed, where fundie Christianity is headed, or already has arrived to. When you go to the hospital and the doctor saves your life it's not "Oh the doctor was so skilled and performed life saving surgery" it's "Oh thank God it's a miracle, God was guiding the doctor's hand."


    In short, I don't want to live on this planet any more.

    That's not very hard-line islam; a lot of muslims say inshallah and similar constantly. It's a language thing as much as a religious thing for many.

    It wasn't in a "God be praised for these results" fashion though. Literally, trying to say hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water without Allah's explicit permission, trying to make it out as a natural process, was forbidden. They weren't doing "science" so much as they were discovering the things Allah allowed to happen that they were ignorant of.

    It's never in a praising god fashion. If a muslim talks of things in the future, he will probably add "if god wills it" and when it does happen, "god willed it." Islam is a very logical religion that way - everything that is and happens is because god has willed it so. That doesn't really stop you from doing science.

    Science is just discovering the things that happen that we were ignorant of. If you're muslim, those things happen because god has willed it.

    In islam there are no such thing as a "natural process" that is not due to god. Which is the logical conclusion to a universe created by an omniscient and omnipotent god.

    Going to add to this it is a lot of just how the language in the Middle East works. Also there are pretty strong trends in Islam to fund natural science research and study. Though they might state, "God willed it" they are still doing good lab work. The religion when it comes to the natural sciences sees it as a duty to learn how the universe works including things like biology and physics.

    Basically it is a culture that can have science and good research and have a strong religious bent. It really doesn't have the strong anti-science bent that Christianity has had through its history. But since we come from a culture with the latter we get pretty freaked out by any sort of religion being mentioned in our secular science.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Drez wrote:
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote:
    man, what they charge for used Hondas is just ridiculous. 100k miles on a 2005 civic and you want $8000? yeah, think I'll pass.

    Not my fault they are amazing cars. I love my honda. But yeah you can get a new Civic for 16k with 0 miles on it.

    Or at least I did some how.

    It's actually your fault, Mazzyx. I just called up my local Honda dealer and asked them "who's fault is it that your 2005 civic Hondas with 100k miles on it are priced around $8000 dollars?" and they said one word: "Mazzyx."

    I'm a super villain what can I say?

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  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Wawiwewo Rarirurero

    Sweet. I just came up with an anime character name!

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    So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
  • SarksusSarksus Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    I'm very close to paying my Civic off and it hasn't even reached 70k : >

    Gonna drive this thing for 10 more years.

    Sarksus on
  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    I'm very close to paying my Civic off and it hasn't even reached 70k : >

    Gonna drive this thing for 10 more years.

    It's your Civic duty.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Just right it out a billion times. I am not sure how it sticks but it just started sticking in my head. It was really weird.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    MyDcmbr wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »

    D:

    That's sooooo sad!

    it goes to such a dark place

    the kid digging holes in the ground to visit his father made me lose my shit though

    laughing

    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I fucking hate you Canadians.
  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Sarksus wrote:
    I'm very close to paying my Civic off and it hasn't even reached 70k : >

    Gonna drive this thing for 10 more years.

    I pay mine off this October, it has 11k miles on it. Going to run till I die!

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  • descdesc Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology Registered User regular
    wow these avengers trailers are breathtakingly boring

  • DynagripDynagrip destroy everything you touch Registered User, ClubPA regular
    gonna get my lifting on today. better not fuck up my back. stupid back.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    Oh yeah I have to work out an exercise regimen.

    They tried to sell me on personal trainers and I'm like naaaaah.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Just right it out a billion times. I am not sure how it sticks but it just started sticking in my head. It was really weird.

    Yeah that's probably what I'll have to do, the other ones I only had to write out about 40-50 or so times and then flash cards to get, but for some reason those ones just aren't sticking.

    Oh well, I gotta plenty of time to myself at work today it seems, so time to hammer out some writing.

    I am pretty excited about moving on to kanji once I get hiragana down, or do you think it would be better to do katakana first? Or can I kinda fake it with the katakana if I know hiragana? Being able to read is probably more important than being able to write for me.

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  • SarksusSarksus Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote:
    I'm very close to paying my Civic off and it hasn't even reached 70k : >

    Gonna drive this thing for 10 more years.

    I pay mine off this October, it has 11k miles on it. Going to run till I die!

    Man you don't drive a lot!

  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    what is even up with the chinese and japanese writing systems

    they seem really impractical

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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    I want one of the first generation Honda Insights, but people want like 6,000 for ones with 275 kilomiles on them. That haven't had new batteries put in. Or 8,000 for ones with 130,000 miles. Again, with eleven year old batteries.

    Screw you guys! I will just wait until someone posts one with a new battery and reasonable price.

  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    Oh yeah I have to work out an exercise regimen.

    They tried to sell me on personal trainers and I'm like naaaaah.

    Run on things, lift heavy things, punch hanging things

    There you go.

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    So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
  • DynagripDynagrip destroy everything you touch Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    I'm very close to paying my Civic off and it hasn't even reached 70k : >

    Gonna drive this thing for 10 more years.

    My 2004 Mazda 3 was so close to reaching 100k but then I passed out on the freeway and killed it, alas. I'm now driving a 2008 sonata that had 45 k miles on it when I bought it. I paid about $11k total in cash. the buying/research process was very rushed because i was hemorraghing money because i was in a rental car with no other options. should have borrowed a car from my parents and taken my time. i think they were out of town though most likely. oh wells. it's not a bad car but it doesn't have a ton of personality.

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  • Nova_CNova_C Sniff Sniff Snorf Yellowknife, NTRegistered User regular
    I've had my Subaru for over 2 years, nearly halfway through paying for it and I'm almost to 30,000 kms.

  • MyDcmbrMyDcmbr Registered User regular
    My 2010 has 40k miles on it.

    I still have 3 years to pay on it too.

    D:

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    So we get stiff once in a while. So we have a little fun. What’s wrong with that? This is a free country, isn’t it? I can take my panda any place I want to. And if I wanna buy it a drink, that’s my business.
  • descdesc Variable Architecture Synthesis Technology Registered User regular
    MyDcmbr wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Wawiwewo Rarirurero

    Sweet. I just came up with an anime character name!

    shipping your character

  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Just right it out a billion times. I am not sure how it sticks but it just started sticking in my head. It was really weird.

    Yeah that's probably what I'll have to do, the other ones I only had to write out about 40-50 or so times and then flash cards to get, but for some reason those ones just aren't sticking.

    Oh well, I gotta plenty of time to myself at work today it seems, so time to hammer out some writing.

    I am pretty excited about moving on to kanji once I get hiragana down, or do you think it would be better to do katakana first? Or can I kinda fake it with the katakana if I know hiragana? Being able to read is probably more important than being able to write for me.

    Do katakana first for a billion reasons. One of which being a lot are based on the hiragana. The other ones being basically that you'll never be done with kanji and also fuck kanji so hard.

    Then Skype me or something (seriously, I've been wanting someone to practice Japanese with for ages >.>)
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    what is even up with the chinese and japanese writing systems

    they seem really impractical

    Japanese has three systems. Two of them are NOT impractical - they're phoenetic and have forty characters or so. It's like if English made more sense.

    The third is the adopted Chinese system, which is... impractical, as you said.

  • SarksusSarksus Registered User regular
    Not having to make that car payment is going to be fucking amazing. And my insurance goes down again when I turn 25 in September!

  • Nova_CNova_C Sniff Sniff Snorf Yellowknife, NTRegistered User regular
    Sarksus wrote:
    Not having to make that car payment is going to be fucking amazing. And my insurance goes down again when I turn 25 in September!

    Whipper snapper!

    And yeah, I'm looking forward to having no car payment and no student loan payment.

  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    August 11, 1999 | ISSUE 35•28

    OCALA, FL—In the latest act of youth violence to shock the nation, 14-year-old home-schooler Jeffrey Kunz opened fire on the family breakfast nook Monday, killing three and injuring two. "We were just about to start Jeffrey's algebra lesson when I heard several loud pops," said Iris Kunz, 44, the assailant's mother/teacher and one of the injured. "But then I saw blood on Jeffrey's sister Melissa and realized someone was shooting." The gun-wielding teen, who was eventually subdued by SWAT-team agents, was said to be angry at his mother over a science grade.

    What the fuck?

  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Just right it out a billion times. I am not sure how it sticks but it just started sticking in my head. It was really weird.

    Yeah that's probably what I'll have to do, the other ones I only had to write out about 40-50 or so times and then flash cards to get, but for some reason those ones just aren't sticking.

    Oh well, I gotta plenty of time to myself at work today it seems, so time to hammer out some writing.

    I am pretty excited about moving on to kanji once I get hiragana down, or do you think it would be better to do katakana first? Or can I kinda fake it with the katakana if I know hiragana? Being able to read is probably more important than being able to write for me.

    Learn katakana first. You need to know both of the phonetic systems first. Kanji has two types of reading, one of those is in katakana. Also katakana is different enough that you can't fake it also it is super fucking useful for daily life. Lots of menus are and signs are in katakana, any loan word is also in katakana. Building names and you write your name in katakana.

    Basically don't start kanji till you can read and write the two phonetics. Then start kanji.

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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Shivahn wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote:
    Ahhh I can't keep any of the hirgana for the wa, wi, we, wo and ra, ri, ru, re, ro

    FRUSTRATION!

    Just right it out a billion times. I am not sure how it sticks but it just started sticking in my head. It was really weird.

    Yeah that's probably what I'll have to do, the other ones I only had to write out about 40-50 or so times and then flash cards to get, but for some reason those ones just aren't sticking.

    Oh well, I gotta plenty of time to myself at work today it seems, so time to hammer out some writing.

    I am pretty excited about moving on to kanji once I get hiragana down, or do you think it would be better to do katakana first? Or can I kinda fake it with the katakana if I know hiragana? Being able to read is probably more important than being able to write for me.

    Do katakana first for a billion reasons. One of which being a lot are based on the hiragana. The other ones being basically that you'll never be done with kanji and also fuck kanji so hard.

    Then Skype me or something (seriously, I've been wanting someone to practice Japanese with for ages >.>)
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    what is even up with the chinese and japanese writing systems

    they seem really impractical

    Japanese has three systems. Two of them are NOT impractical - they're phoenetic and have forty characters or so. It's like if English made more sense.

    The third is the adopted Chinese system, which is... impractical, as you said.

    having three systems is the epitome of hilariously impractical

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    August 11, 1999 | ISSUE 35•28

    OCALA, FL—In the latest act of youth violence to shock the nation, 14-year-old home-schooler Jeffrey Kunz opened fire on the family breakfast nook Monday, killing three and injuring two. "We were just about to start Jeffrey's algebra lesson when I heard several loud pops," said Iris Kunz, 44, the assailant's mother/teacher and one of the injured. "But then I saw blood on Jeffrey's sister Melissa and realized someone was shooting." The gun-wielding teen, who was eventually subdued by SWAT-team agents, was said to be angry at his mother over a science grade.

    What the fuck?

    it's from the onion

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  • ShivahnShivahn Registered User regular
    Oh, also, Inqi, don't bother stressing over wi or we.

    I studies Japanese for four years in high school and another two quarters in college, and I have never seen those ever until I looked them up on Wikipedia.

  • LeitnerLeitner Registered User regular
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    gonna get my lifting on today. better not fuck up my back. stupid back.
    Finally got access to a gym (one of the best in the country actually).

    Going to throw together a routine by next week, and already upped the protein in my diet. Just need to kick my ass to do it whilst working seven days a week.

    P. damn hyped for it actually.

  • LaOsLaOs Registered User regular
    Inqi: When I took Japanese in HS, we learned the Hiragana and then the Katakana and then had some basic/common Kanji. It seemed the Katakana was only really used to phonetically spell out romaji (words they just use from English instead of translating), so you might see a fair bit of it. I'd probably recommend you get a handle on the Hiragana and Katakana before focusing too much on the Kanji, just because they're the basics before moving to the advanced.

  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    That's surprisingly dark for an Onion article.

  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited March 2012
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    August 11, 1999 | ISSUE 35•28

    OCALA, FL—In the latest act of youth violence to shock the nation, 14-year-old home-schooler Jeffrey Kunz opened fire on the family breakfast nook Monday, killing three and injuring two. "We were just about to start Jeffrey's algebra lesson when I heard several loud pops," said Iris Kunz, 44, the assailant's mother/teacher and one of the injured. "But then I saw blood on Jeffrey's sister Melissa and realized someone was shooting." The gun-wielding teen, who was eventually subdued by SWAT-team agents, was said to be angry at his mother over a science grade.

    What the fuck?

    it's from the onion

    with home-school shootings being as common as they are, noticing that it's satire isn't easy

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