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A Stately [chat] Dome
Jacobkosh
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced;
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves:
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 't would win me
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Alf, the sacred river
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And a nice literary chat..
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mind you, the haircut came with a scalp/shoulder massage, a real shave, a multi step shampoo, hot towel, and it happened in a kickass darkwood interior old style barber shop, with leather and brass chairs and really good barbers.
It was right before I had corporate pics taken. Best haircut I have ever had.
I was going to treat all of my groomsmen to that shit before the wedding.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
A dome without thunder? It will never catch on.
also also, embarrasing fun fact: I didn't think of the "drip it from the stirring implement onto the tea spoon for tasting, instead of using five tea spoons" trick until like, four years ago
carry on
It's actually pronounced "Wooster".
We need to get a pool going on how long until he renounces US citizenship.
The survey was done in 2008 and 2009, and was over 450,000 people.
The two categories were "Daily Mood" and "Life Assessment." Life assessment was one's view of their own happiness. While Daily Mood was just that. Their mood day to day.
Daily mood simply doesn't differ significantly at higher incomes. You're still just a monkey, with more money. A monkey with a million bananas doesn't have to worry about being hungry, but there's still a limit to how many bananes one can really enjoy in a day.
What does change with more income is your assessment of your life and happiness. What you think about it. But that just kind of makes sense. Regardless of how happy you are, you have more stuff, so you judge your own station as better.
The hell it is, ya slack-jawed Texan!
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!?
You probably hit that baseline happiness at 40,000 dollars in rural Missouri, but really need over 100,000 in Manhattan.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Happy fucking valentine's day.
Moods are for cattle and love play.
god
Oh, sure. I didn't mean to imply it was 75k flat for everyone, period. I was just defending my initial claim that "I read an article" rather than pulling it out of my ass. A single bachelor will need less to hit "that mark" than, say, a guy with 5 kids. I just meant that I wasn't making it up, that the average for a lot of people really is just $75k and not, say, $500,000.
wut
We are deploying Piers Morgan to make uninformed comments about US political matters and will not desist until Penn shuts the hell up.
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my fiancee has a job interview tomorrow
receptionist at a dental office type gig
that'd be nice
god were cunning
I think it depends on the complaints. Complaining about the complainers tends to add less noise than the initial complainers, imo. For instance, staunch anti-valentine's view seems more obnoxious than, "less talking, more sexy rumpus".
YOU DONT SAY