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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    And the stuff children read now adays has nothing on stuff that they read hundreds of years ago and stuff other cultures read.

    Have you read any Buddhist's childrens stories? One of them is about a magic dildo that when the command word is spoken fucks the shit out of you, it is a nuns prized posession, but when a man accidently uses it he is so upset he breaks it and the nun is very sad.
    Grimm's Fairy Tales were all much more gruesome before Disney got a hold of them.

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  • AlectharAlecthar Alan Shore We're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Starcross wrote: »
    Alecthar wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    Starcross wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    does ron paul even still have supporters?

    i don't know these things

    i was just trying to think of something insulting to level at a man

    I imagine some of his cult are still around. I still have absolutely no idea why this man was so massively popular with nerds on the internet.

    Because nerds on the internet have a tendency to be middle class self-entitled libertarians?

    That's my new rhetorical question response.

    "Do you think I'll need some more money?"

    "Do nerds on the internet have a tendency to be middle class self-entitled libertarians?"

    "Yeah, I guess you're right, movies are pretty expensive these days."

    Do nerds on the internet shit in the woods?

    Exactly.

    Alecthar on
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Echo wrote: »
    The brain's capability for pattern recognition is pretty amazing.

    It really is.

    If you take the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" and mix the lines up randomly, 95% people who have never read the poem together can re-assemble it together perfectly, line for line.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ludious wrote: »
    Point being children of the 80's and early 90's grew up on much more violent and scarey media and I think we're better for it.

    That Dora the Explorer crap would not fly when WE were 6.

    I don't think they had television designed for two year olds in the 80s-90s other than on PBS...

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    I'm reading my political science paper from last semester and I'm kind of getting a boner. I wonder if I can persuade the people at Columbia to read it, because I think it would give them a good indication of my ability to write political papers.

    Would it hurt my chances of being accepted if I included a link to an online archive of my academic papers in a cover letter or something I send along with the application?

    I don't see how

    Do they ask for a writing sample? Then you could just send one hard copy

    They ask for an autobiographical essay, which will be 6-8 pages long to begin with. My political science paper is 9 pages, excluding bibliography and cover sheet. I think I'm going to do this. I have an English paper on progressive taxation that I can clean up and host online with the polisci paper, too. And this semester I'm doing a persuasive argumentative paper on the necessity of government intervention in the economy and society for English Comp II. So I can add that, as well.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Even crappy Scholastic kids literature was better when we were kids in terms of violence and mayhem.

    Yes, Harry Potter is an exception, however the Good guys still won out in that.

    Whereas the Animorphs? Like 200 books and the good guys lose in the end.

    Ludious on
  • AlectharAlecthar Alan Shore We're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Cinders wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    And the stuff children read now adays has nothing on stuff that they read hundreds of years ago and stuff other cultures read.

    Have you read any Buddhist's childrens stories? One of them is about a magic dildo that when the command word is spoken fucks the shit out of you, it is a nuns prized posession, but when a man accidently uses it he is so upset he breaks it and the nun is very sad.

    What is this story called?

    I totally was not about to ask that question.

    Really, I wasn't.

    Don't judge me.

    Alecthar on
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Kagera wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    Gooey wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    i've lost 15 pounds in a month and a half!

    what's my secret?

    i'm broke and living off welfare and the foodbank!

    i eat about one meal a day if i'm lucky!

    wb oboro

    wut

    (i don't get it)

    Last I heard Oboro was homeless and starving to death.

    didn't he/she also have a serious drug problem?

    yeah, that's not me

    i just got an unfortunate circumstance and i'm waiting until my disability cheques start coming in

    the process for making a disability claim takes 2-3 months so in that time i am sitting on welfare, which gives me barely enough to cover my rent, so i've had to go to the food bank to get food

    Pony on
  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Echo wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    Johannen wrote: »
    4. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn\'t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

    Fcuk yaeh metohr fkcuer!

    Spammers took this knowledge to heart.

    Smpamres are awyals top of the lnie!

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  • AlectharAlecthar Alan Shore We're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ludious wrote: »
    Even crappy Scholastic kids literature was better when we were kids in terms of violence and mayhem.

    Yes, Harry Potter is an exception, however the Good guys still won out in that.

    Whereas the Animorphs? Like 200 books and the good guys lose in the end.

    Really? They did? Fuck me! I stopped reading them, but I was sure they'd win. Wow...that actually makes me really sad.

    Alecthar on
  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Incenjucar wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    Point being children of the 80's and early 90's grew up on much more violent and scarey media and I think we're better for it.

    That Dora the Explorer crap would not fly when WE were 6.

    I don't think they had television designed for two year olds in the 80s-90s other than on PBS...
    Nick Jr. was around in the early 90's.

    I like how the "classic" Sesame Street DVDs carry a "not suitable for children" label now too.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Cinders wrote: »
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    And the stuff children read now adays has nothing on stuff that they read hundreds of years ago and stuff other cultures read.

    Have you read any Buddhist's childrens stories? One of them is about a magic dildo that when the command word is spoken fucks the shit out of you, it is a nuns prized posession, but when a man accidently uses it he is so upset he breaks it and the nun is very sad.

    What is this story called?

    I'm forgetting the name, my buddhism teacher read it to us, I could probably email him and find out. I know it was Uncle "something". And the something was like, tanpa or tampa or some-such.

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  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Echo wrote: »
    The brain's capability for pattern recognition is pretty amazing.

    A lot of brains seem to recognize patterns that aren't there, though. Is it a capability for pattern recognition or a need to fit things into patterns to convince itself that they make sense?

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    I'm reading my political science paper from last semester and I'm kind of getting a boner. I wonder if I can persuade the people at Columbia to read it, because I think it would give them a good indication of my ability to write political papers.

    Would it hurt my chances of being accepted if I included a link to an online archive of my academic papers in a cover letter or something I send along with the application?

    I don't see how

    Do they ask for a writing sample? Then you could just send one hard copy

    They ask for an autobiographical essay, which will be 6-8 pages long to begin with. My political science paper is 9 pages, excluding bibliography and cover sheet. I think I'm going to do this. I have an English paper on progressive taxation that I can clean up and host online with the polisci paper, too. And this semester I'm doing a persuasive argumentative paper on the necessity of government intervention in the economy and society for English Comp II. So I can add that, as well.

    Sarks, you should have a little web portal with an online CV and then links to your papers, make sure it looks nice if you're going to link it in your application

    also if you put them online do em as read only PDFs and put your name and "copyright you date" on them

    Medopine on
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Starcross wrote: »
    Do nerds on the internet shit in the woods?

    Wi-Fi Willing.

    Incenjucar on
  • GimGim a tall glass of water Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Haha! The state of California finally came through on my unclaimed property fund check. I am now a couple hundred dollars richer. I will proceed to blow it all on the cheapest strippers and the weakest wines!

    Gim on
  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    Sarksus wrote: »
    I'm reading my political science paper from last semester and I'm kind of getting a boner. I wonder if I can persuade the people at Columbia to read it, because I think it would give them a good indication of my ability to write political papers.

    Would it hurt my chances of being accepted if I included a link to an online archive of my academic papers in a cover letter or something I send along with the application?

    I don't see how

    Do they ask for a writing sample? Then you could just send one hard copy

    They ask for an autobiographical essay, which will be 6-8 pages long to begin with. My political science paper is 9 pages, excluding bibliography and cover sheet. I think I'm going to do this. I have an English paper on progressive taxation that I can clean up and host online with the polisci paper, too. And this semester I'm doing a persuasive argumentative paper on the necessity of government intervention in the economy and society for English Comp II. So I can add that, as well.

    Sarks, you should have a little web portal with an online CV and then links to your papers, make sure it looks nice if you're going to link it in your application

    Of course. It will be a pretty princess once I'm finished with it.

    Thanks for the input, Medopine and Alecthar.

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  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Inquisitor wrote: »
    I'm forgetting the name, my buddhism teacher read it to us, I could probably email him and find out. I know it was Uncle "something". And the something was like, tanpa or tampa or some-such.

    I need to find this story after work and share it with my buddhist girlfriend. :winky:

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    anyway I guess tax hawk is legit I shall do my taxes tonight

    Medopine on
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    There we go! Google pulls throgh!

    It's Tibetan Literature and the character is Uncle Tompa, I'm not sure exactly which story of his it is, however.

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  • SarksusSarksus ATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Taxhawk sounds like conservatives who want to take yo monay.

    Sarksus on
  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Ludious wrote: »
    Even crappy Scholastic kids literature was better when we were kids in terms of violence and mayhem.

    Yes, Harry Potter is an exception, however the Good guys still won out in that.

    Whereas the Animorphs? Like 200 books and the good guys lose in the end.

    they LOSE? I stopped reading.

    it was probably my fault.

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    What the hell is Animorphs?

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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Alecthar wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    Even crappy Scholastic kids literature was better when we were kids in terms of violence and mayhem.

    Yes, Harry Potter is an exception, however the Good guys still won out in that.

    Whereas the Animorphs? Like 200 books and the good guys lose in the end.

    Really? They did? Fuck me! I stopped reading them, but I was sure they'd win. Wow...that actually makes me really sad.

    Lud is being silly again.
    They won but then she didn't want to end it with "YAY" so it fast forwards a few years and the good guys are going looking for Aximili, who went missing in the far reaches of space. They get hit by powerful lazers, and the book ends as the fight starts. She even said she wanted them to go out fighting.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    I had a friend call me last year to ask what would happen if he didn't file his taxes. He was annoyed at how much he had to pay online.

    I told him to file his damn taxes.

    Medopine on
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    man, someone sent me an e-mail that i want to post here anonymously and just change out all the names, but now the PA forums get search indexed like whoa
    do things in spoiler tags get excluded or what

    no, you should host it somewhere else, link it here, and take it down later

    http://pastebin.com/

    You can manually delete it, or let it expire.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    really don't want to do work today

    Medopine on
  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Good-guys should usually lose in the end. They're outnumbered, outgunned, and their objectives are exponentially more difficult to accomplish than the bad-guys'. There also isn't any bias in distribution of skills or intelligence across a good/bad line.

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Tsss... If you're paying taxes you're not sufficiently rich.

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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Hm, not the same story but here's one that illustates what the dude is all about. Called "Uncle Tompa Sleeps with a Virgin"

    " Uncle Tompa was very good at weaving woolen fabrics for making clothes. Tibetan families often invite weavers into their homes to weave for them. Once Uncle Tompa was invited into a family where there was only a mother and daughter. The daughter was a virgin and very pretty.

    Uncle had been weaving for several days. He tried to seduce the virgin girl a few times, but he could not manage it. At last he figured out a way.

    While Uncle was sitting at the loom weaving in the entrance of the house, he noticed the girl walking downstairs to go to the bathroom. As soon as he saw her coming down, he sped up his weaving so that he was working very fast. When the girl saw the rush of weaving, she asked him,"Why are you in such a hurry?"

    Uncle replied, "Well, I have to go to the bathroom, but I must finish this yarn before I go, that's why."

    Uncle asked her, as he continued working very quickly, "Where are you going?"

    She replied, "I am going to the bathroom."

    "Since you are going to the bathroom, could you please carry my urine with you?"

    She thought about it and answered, "Why not?" So Uncle asked her to take off her clothes and he had sex with her.

    As soon as he was through, Uncle continued his weaving, and the girl went to the bathroom, thinking she was carrying Uncle's urine for him. When she returned, she went to help her mother in the kitchen. She told her the whole story about the favor she did for Uncle Tompa by carrying his urine to he bathroom.

    As soon as her mother heard the impossible story of Uncle's trick, she yelled, "No! No! How can anyone send his urine through someone else? He did not send his urine, he screwed you, that's what he did to you!"

    She thought. "That's right; that must be so! I must go and yell at him!"

    So she went back to Uncle and shouted, "You did not give me your urine, you screwed me!"

    Uncle said, "No! No! I really did send my urine with you." The argument went on for awhile, then suddenly Uncle said, "If you are that concerned about it, let me have my urine back so you don't have to be worried."

    The girl thought, "It would be better if I returned his urine; I shall be clean." She said, "Yes, why don't you take it back."

    So Uncle took her clothes off and had sex with her once again."

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  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    really don't want to do work today

    Should have gone into academia.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    I had a friend call me last year to ask what would happen if he didn't file his taxes. He was annoyed at how much he had to pay online.

    I told him to file his damn taxes.
    You can actually file them online for free this year. It's not as easy as an H&R Block-style program, but the IRS will let you fill out and file the forms for free on their website.

    Thanatos on
  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Good-guys should usually lose in the end. They're outnumbered, outgunned, and their objectives are exponentially more difficult to accomplish than the bad-guys'. There also isn't any bias in distribution of skills or intelligence across a good/bad line.

    Go read some nonfiction, you party pooper.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    man, someone sent me an e-mail that i want to post here anonymously and just change out all the names, but now the PA forums get search indexed like whoa
    do things in spoiler tags get excluded or what

    no, you should host it somewhere else, link it here, and take it down later
    good idea

    here, everyone, read this:
    http://docs.google.com/View?revision=_latest&docid=dcgzgrnc_34cfzj3wg2&hl=en

    Shazkar Shadowstorm on
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  • AlectharAlecthar Alan Shore We're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Her other series, Everworld or something, was pretty fucked up for young adult lit. A kid with OCD, a kid with a drinking problem, and a crazy witch (of both the bitchy and magic wielding qualities) who uses sex and the weaknesses of their personalities against the other characters. I remember being pretty stunned at 12.

    Alecthar on
  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2009
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    I had a friend call me last year to ask what would happen if he didn't file his taxes. He was annoyed at how much he had to pay online.

    I told him to file his damn taxes.
    You can actually file them online for free this year. It's not as easy as an H&R Block-style program, but the IRS will let you fill out and file the forms for free on their website.

    nice

    this website will let me do it for free too because I made a certain amt of money, but next year I will prob use the IRS site

    Medopine on
  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    After all these years, The Shadow is still an awesome movie.

    Wash on
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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Medopine wrote: »
    I had a friend call me last year to ask what would happen if he didn't file his taxes. He was annoyed at how much he had to pay online.

    I told him to file his damn taxes.
    That friend: Tom Daschle

    Bama on
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    So Uncle Tompa likes to rape retards.

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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Medopine wrote: »
    I had a friend call me last year to ask what would happen if he didn't file his taxes. He was annoyed at how much he had to pay online.

    I told him to file his damn taxes.
    You can actually file them online for free this year. It's not as easy as an H&R Block-style program, but the IRS will let you fill out and file the forms for free on their website.

    Can you do that with a full 1040 or just the 1040EZ?

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