I get one new suit maybe once a decade at this point. The damn things are just too expensive. Oh and I didn't mind wearing it. The Brooks Brothers one I got in 2001 that was tailored had the most comfortable pants I owned ever. But, between work and my lifestyle, there was just no time to really wear it outside of special occasions. And funny enough, for me its not the suits that I mind as a garment. I just tend to dislike "dress up" occasions and places. Snazzy restraunts with low lighting where people speak quitely drive me nuts and no one likes funerals. So the unfortunately, suits simply have an association with me with things that I don't enjoy.
But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
Snazzy? yes please
Snazzy restaurant? Even better
Snazzy restaurant with low lighting? what other sort of lighting would you want? This is great!
people speaking quietly in a snazzy restaurant with low lighting? this sounds perfect!
... drives me nuts?
wat
You are a broken man.
No. I am not. This was actually kind a recent revalation between my wife and I.
I have always hated her favorite restraunt in Atlanta. It's a place called Cafe Intermezzo. Its mostly a drink and dessert place with low lighting that you see a ton of well dressed people on dates and such. Well we recently tried this new Japanese restraunt in our neighborhood. We currently live in a really nice area and so this place ended up being very nice, dimly lit and everyone speaking quitely. I hated it. That's when I really thought about why I was so often miserable in places like that and what it had in common with other places I didn't care for.
I think it comes down to comfort. I don't like snazzy, rich type places cause I'm not and I hate having to pretend like I am. I hate the idea of putting on airs. The whole thing just makes me miserable. I feel like I have to sit there and be quiet. Ugh.
you do!
i mean you have to keep your voice to a reasonable volume anyways.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
So, we have the Gadsden flag: The use of a snake symbol was meant to symbolize how the British colonies should work together as one united whole. In the Gadsden flag, the snake is one living animal, as opposed to Ben Franklin's original cartoon where the snake was split apart into pieces (each representing a colony), with that split symbolizing death. Just as the snake can only survive through unity, the colonies can only survive if they unite.
Then we have two competing contemporary uses:
The Tea Party: An organization that hates the federal government and thinks the states should function as separately as possible.
Obamacare: Legislation where individuals work together to ensure quality healthcare can become affordable and available to all. The healthcare system can only survive if individuals unite.
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I'm curious, but why would that make you angry? Is it the image or the statement?
I am possibly jaded by the extent to which UK political groups engage in pointed ridicule.
So the flag itself has a history going back to the Revolutionary war. It's a powerful icon of the ideals of the Revolution and the rejection of tyranny.
And yeah, the Tea Party has appropriated it and that upsets people who don't like the Tea Party appropriating iconography from the Revolution in support of goals they don't agree with or maybe even think run counter to the American ideal.
But reworking it to champion a massive Federal government subsidy program that comes complete with its own state-enforced mandatory punishments for citizen noncompliance, the very antithesis of the individualism represented by the flag, and especially for Obama's personal "grassroots" organizing group to do so, upsets me very much.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
2:30 Tech returns with an even more ancient laptop. It has been described as a "loaner". They are performing rituals of purification on my old laptop and transferring the knowledge that can be salvaged on a new laptop (that is only 1 year old!)
The loaner PC was loaded with two front end applications that I do not use, Microsoft office, and IE
So...I still cannot do any work, but I can fart around on the internet and LOOK like Im doing work!
2:30 Tech returns with an even more ancient laptop. It has been described as a "loaner". They are performing rituals of purification on my old laptop and transferring the knowledge that can be salvaged on a new laptop (that is only 1 year old!)
The loaner PC was loaded with two front end applications that I do not use, Microsoft office, and IE
So...I still cannot do any work, but I can fart around on the internet and LOOK like Im doing work!
cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
I like boobs [chat], Marriage [chat], Animated [chat], Olde [chat], and Vidya [chat]. Mostly cause at least its something I'm somewhat knowledgable in. Though I can read Mazzy + Econodog foreign affairs or global ecomomics [chat] cause its interesting.
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I'm curious, but why would that make you angry? Is it the image or the statement?
I am possibly jaded by the extent to which UK political groups engage in pointed ridicule.
So the flag itself has a history going back to the Revolutionary war. It's a powerful icon of the ideals of the Revolution and the rejection of tyranny.
And yeah, the Tea Party has appropriated it and that upsets people who don't like the Tea Party appropriating iconography from the Revolution in support of goals they don't agree with or maybe even think run counter to the American ideal.
But reworking it to champion a massive Federal government subsidy program that comes complete with its own state-enforced mandatory punishments for citizen noncompliance, the very antithesis of the individualism represented by the flag, and especially for Obama's personal "grassroots" organizing group to do so, upsets me very much.
The flag itself goes back to the Revolutionary war.
The snake, though, is a symbol that goes back further and means individual parts working together for a common cause (whether it's fighting a non-democratic government thousands of miles way as in the Gadsden flag, or providing affordable and quality healthcare to the masses as in Obamacare).
The Gadsden flag might be appropriate for Tea Partiers to use if they weren't allowed to vote. As is, DC citizens are about the only people who get to use the Gadsden flag to protest the tyranny of the federal government.
I get one new suit maybe once a decade at this point. The damn things are just too expensive. Oh and I didn't mind wearing it. The Brooks Brothers one I got in 2001 that was tailored had the most comfortable pants I owned ever. But, between work and my lifestyle, there was just no time to really wear it outside of special occasions. And funny enough, for me its not the suits that I mind as a garment. I just tend to dislike "dress up" occasions and places. Snazzy restraunts with low lighting where people speak quitely drive me nuts and no one likes funerals. So the unfortunately, suits simply have an association with me with things that I don't enjoy.
But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
Snazzy? yes please
Snazzy restaurant? Even better
Snazzy restaurant with low lighting? what other sort of lighting would you want? This is great!
people speaking quietly in a snazzy restaurant with low lighting? this sounds perfect!
... drives me nuts?
wat
You are a broken man.
No. I am not. This was actually kind a recent revalation between my wife and I.
I have always hated her favorite restraunt in Atlanta. It's a place called Cafe Intermezzo. Its mostly a drink and dessert place with low lighting that you see a ton of well dressed people on dates and such. Well we recently tried this new Japanese restraunt in our neighborhood. We currently live in a really nice area and so this place ended up being very nice, dimly lit and everyone speaking quitely. I hated it. That's when I really thought about why I was so often miserable in places like that and what it had in common with other places I didn't care for.
I think it comes down to comfort. I don't like snazzy, rich type places cause I'm not and I hate having to pretend like I am. I hate the idea of putting on airs. The whole thing just makes me miserable. I feel like I have to sit there and be quiet. Ugh.
you do!
i mean you have to keep your voice to a reasonable volume anyways.
That way, everyone gets to talk with their dinner companions without yelling.
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1. Guy clothes
2. Bass music
3. Sad girls
4. Getting swole
5. The fine arts
1. snobbish literature
2. free will, determinism, and post-humanist philosophy
3. sree fai fo
4. menswear
5. the culinary delights
6. oneupsmanship with horrifying sexual dysphemisms
7. vidya
1. Food.
2. Doge
3. Vidja
4. Cost of Living
5. Booze
2:30 Tech returns with an even more ancient laptop. It has been described as a "loaner". They are performing rituals of purification on my old laptop and transferring the knowledge that can be salvaged on a new laptop (that is only 1 year old!)
The loaner PC was loaded with two front end applications that I do not use, Microsoft office, and IE
So...I still cannot do any work, but I can fart around on the internet and LOOK like Im doing work!
that sucks
IT fail
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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I get one new suit maybe once a decade at this point. The damn things are just too expensive. Oh and I didn't mind wearing it. The Brooks Brothers one I got in 2001 that was tailored had the most comfortable pants I owned ever. But, between work and my lifestyle, there was just no time to really wear it outside of special occasions. And funny enough, for me its not the suits that I mind as a garment. I just tend to dislike "dress up" occasions and places. Snazzy restraunts with low lighting where people speak quitely drive me nuts and no one likes funerals. So the unfortunately, suits simply have an association with me with things that I don't enjoy.
But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
Snazzy? yes please
Snazzy restaurant? Even better
Snazzy restaurant with low lighting? what other sort of lighting would you want? This is great!
people speaking quietly in a snazzy restaurant with low lighting? this sounds perfect!
... drives me nuts?
wat
You are a broken man.
No. I am not. This was actually kind a recent revalation between my wife and I.
I have always hated her favorite restraunt in Atlanta. It's a place called Cafe Intermezzo. Its mostly a drink and dessert place with low lighting that you see a ton of well dressed people on dates and such. Well we recently tried this new Japanese restraunt in our neighborhood. We currently live in a really nice area and so this place ended up being very nice, dimly lit and everyone speaking quitely. I hated it. That's when I really thought about why I was so often miserable in places like that and what it had in common with other places I didn't care for.
I think it comes down to comfort. I don't like snazzy, rich type places cause I'm not and I hate having to pretend like I am. I hate the idea of putting on airs. The whole thing just makes me miserable. I feel like I have to sit there and be quiet. Ugh.
you do!
i mean you have to keep your voice to a reasonable volume anyways.
Ha! It frustrates my wife to no end. She can't stand it when my normally very conversation happy self just sits there quitely waiting to finish dinner and leave.
There was a pensive looking young lady in a black hoodie and black skinny jeans sitting at the table next to mine in this food court and I didn't say hi
2:30 Tech returns with an even more ancient laptop. It has been described as a "loaner". They are performing rituals of purification on my old laptop and transferring the knowledge that can be salvaged on a new laptop (that is only 1 year old!)
The loaner PC was loaded with two front end applications that I do not use, Microsoft office, and IE
So...I still cannot do any work, but I can fart around on the internet and LOOK like Im doing work!
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I'm curious, but why would that make you angry? Is it the image or the statement?
I am possibly jaded by the extent to which UK political groups engage in pointed ridicule.
So the flag itself has a history going back to the Revolutionary war. It's a powerful icon of the ideals of the Revolution and the rejection of tyranny.
And yeah, the Tea Party has appropriated it and that upsets people who don't like the Tea Party appropriating iconography from the Revolution in support of goals they don't agree with or maybe even think run counter to the American ideal.
But reworking it to champion a massive Federal government subsidy program that comes complete with its own state-enforced mandatory punishments for citizen noncompliance, the very antithesis of the individualism represented by the flag, and especially for Obama's personal "grassroots" organizing group to do so, upsets me very much.
/looks at actual historical explanations of the Gadsden flag given above.
Solo, whatever else Obamacare is, it is most emphatically not people working together for a common good.
It is people being forced to participate, and though the goal is laudable, let's not pretend there's any voluntary component or community-oriented thought involved. You're doing Obamacare in this country whether you like it or not.
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I'm curious, but why would that make you angry? Is it the image or the statement?
I am possibly jaded by the extent to which UK political groups engage in pointed ridicule.
the gadsten flag appropriation by conservatives was basically cheap ridicule/ criticism of the obama administration by likening them to king george's tyrannical colonial gov't.
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I don't see how OFA using the gadsden flag is any more offensive than the tea party using it.
EDIT: Honestly I think it kind of drives home a point about what is freedom in the modern word. Liberty, or security?
Yes, it does drive home that point, but not the way you think.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I'm not even sure what you mean by this?
I see it this way:
The traditional idea was that liberty from regulation/taxation was freedom. That's the thrust behind the original flag and the american revolution. (The romanticized versions, anyway.) "Don't take away my liberty!", essentially.
I don't think this applies in the modern world. I don't think liberty is the most important part of freedom, but security. So the message is subverted. "Don't take away my security!"
Granted, it's always going to be a balancing act between the two. You must have some of both, but I will contend that in the US there is far to much liberty. Enough for the rich to do as they please and for the poor to hang themselves.
Aioua on
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
I get one new suit maybe once a decade at this point. The damn things are just too expensive. Oh and I didn't mind wearing it. The Brooks Brothers one I got in 2001 that was tailored had the most comfortable pants I owned ever. But, between work and my lifestyle, there was just no time to really wear it outside of special occasions. And funny enough, for me its not the suits that I mind as a garment. I just tend to dislike "dress up" occasions and places. Snazzy restraunts with low lighting where people speak quitely drive me nuts and no one likes funerals. So the unfortunately, suits simply have an association with me with things that I don't enjoy.
But I also have zero sense of fashion so that probably doesn't help either.
Snazzy? yes please
Snazzy restaurant? Even better
Snazzy restaurant with low lighting? what other sort of lighting would you want? This is great!
people speaking quietly in a snazzy restaurant with low lighting? this sounds perfect!
... drives me nuts?
wat
You are a broken man.
No. I am not. This was actually kind a recent revalation between my wife and I.
I have always hated her favorite restraunt in Atlanta. It's a place called Cafe Intermezzo. Its mostly a drink and dessert place with low lighting that you see a ton of well dressed people on dates and such. Well we recently tried this new Japanese restraunt in our neighborhood. We currently live in a really nice area and so this place ended up being very nice, dimly lit and everyone speaking quitely. I hated it. That's when I really thought about why I was so often miserable in places like that and what it had in common with other places I didn't care for.
I think it comes down to comfort. I don't like snazzy, rich type places cause I'm not and I hate having to pretend like I am. I hate the idea of putting on airs. The whole thing just makes me miserable. I feel like I have to sit there and be quiet. Ugh.
you do!
i mean you have to keep your voice to a reasonable volume anyways.
Ha! It frustrates my wife to no end. She can't stand it when my normally very conversation happy self just sits there quitely waiting to finish dinner and leave.
That's weird.
You're being weird.
If everyone else is talking in that place why do you feel you have to sit there quietly? Just match the din of the environment and enjoy yoself, son.
SW-4158-3990-6116
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Solo, whatever else Obamacare is, it is most emphatically not people working together for a common good.
It is people being forced to participate, and though the goal is laudable, let's not pretend there's any voluntary component or community-oriented thought involved. You're doing Obamacare in this country whether you like it or not.
Snake symbolism: "Join or die"
Obamacare: "Join or get a small fine"
That actually pisses me off a lot. I am legitimately angry at that. Trolling successful! Also, OFA demonstrates the all worst instincts of the progressive caucus, in a single image.
I don't see how OFA using the gadsden flag is any more offensive than the tea party using it.
EDIT: Honestly I think it kind of drives home a point about what is freedom in the modern word. Liberty, or security?
Yes, it does drive home that point, but not the way you think.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I'm not even sure what you mean by this?
I see it this way:
The traditional idea was that liberty from regulation/taxation was freedom. That's the thrust behind the original flag and the american revolution. (The romanticized versions, anyway.) "Don't take away my liberty!", essentially.
I don't think this applies in the modern world. I don't think liberty is the most important part of freedom, but security. So the message is subverted. "Don't take away my security!"
Granted, it's always going to be a balancing act between the two. You must have some of both, but I will contend that in the US there is far to much liberty. Enough for the rich to do as they please and for the poor to hang themselves.
I think this is chilling, and mildly dangerous. If you were running for office on this platform I would expend every ounce of energy I could muster to prevent you from succeeding.
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cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
2:30 Tech returns with an even more ancient laptop. It has been described as a "loaner". They are performing rituals of purification on my old laptop and transferring the knowledge that can be salvaged on a new laptop (that is only 1 year old!)
The loaner PC was loaded with two front end applications that I do not use, Microsoft office, and IE
So...I still cannot do any work, but I can fart around on the internet and LOOK like Im doing work!
that sucks
IT fail
Unfortunately loaners are usually the left over old machines that were returned in the first place. They're like getting the shittiest Geo Metro while you're waiting for your Jag to be fixed. It sucks.
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you do!
i mean you have to keep your voice to a reasonable volume anyways.
But didn't you get the 40 acres and a mule? I mean, mules are slow, but they'll get you there.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
followed only by those in which someone is confused as to why people are horrified at their horrific opinion
Then we have two competing contemporary uses:
The Tea Party: An organization that hates the federal government and thinks the states should function as separately as possible.
Obamacare: Legislation where individuals work together to ensure quality healthcare can become affordable and available to all. The healthcare system can only survive if individuals unite.
Which contemporary use sounds more appropriate?
Edit: Dammit Pants!
So the flag itself has a history going back to the Revolutionary war. It's a powerful icon of the ideals of the Revolution and the rejection of tyranny.
And yeah, the Tea Party has appropriated it and that upsets people who don't like the Tea Party appropriating iconography from the Revolution in support of goals they don't agree with or maybe even think run counter to the American ideal.
But reworking it to champion a massive Federal government subsidy program that comes complete with its own state-enforced mandatory punishments for citizen noncompliance, the very antithesis of the individualism represented by the flag, and especially for Obama's personal "grassroots" organizing group to do so, upsets me very much.
The loaner PC was loaded with two front end applications that I do not use, Microsoft office, and IE
So...I still cannot do any work, but I can fart around on the internet and LOOK like Im doing work!
i hope i can manage a third
Worst [chat]s are bugs and math.
The flag itself goes back to the Revolutionary war.
The snake, though, is a symbol that goes back further and means individual parts working together for a common cause (whether it's fighting a non-democratic government thousands of miles way as in the Gadsden flag, or providing affordable and quality healthcare to the masses as in Obamacare).
The Gadsden flag might be appropriate for Tea Partiers to use if they weren't allowed to vote. As is, DC citizens are about the only people who get to use the Gadsden flag to protest the tyranny of the federal government.
That way, everyone gets to talk with their dinner companions without yelling.
to be fair
this is much much easier when you live in a place that has basically the same political beliefs as you do
i was constantly angsty and upset in lubbock
and then somewhat less so in nova
and in cambridge i never even have to think about politics
everyone here pretty much is right-thinking already
except for the occasional recent-grad SJ shouter i guess
1. Doges
2. Boobs
3. Butts
4. Weiners
5. Vidya
that sucks
IT fail
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Ha! It frustrates my wife to no end. She can't stand it when my normally very conversation happy self just sits there quitely waiting to finish dinner and leave.
What is wrong with me
@dasuberedward beat me up pls
My favorite part of upstate New York is all the anti-abortion billboards and signs.
im starting at 3PM, basically
/looks at actual historical explanations of the Gadsden flag given above.
It is people being forced to participate, and though the goal is laudable, let's not pretend there's any voluntary component or community-oriented thought involved. You're doing Obamacare in this country whether you like it or not.
that's very nice. but also scary as fuuuuuuuu
the gadsten flag appropriation by conservatives was basically cheap ridicule/ criticism of the obama administration by likening them to king george's tyrannical colonial gov't.
it's all a giant whatever.
I'm not even sure what you mean by this?
I see it this way:
The traditional idea was that liberty from regulation/taxation was freedom. That's the thrust behind the original flag and the american revolution. (The romanticized versions, anyway.) "Don't take away my liberty!", essentially.
I don't think this applies in the modern world. I don't think liberty is the most important part of freedom, but security. So the message is subverted. "Don't take away my security!"
Granted, it's always going to be a balancing act between the two. You must have some of both, but I will contend that in the US there is far to much liberty. Enough for the rich to do as they please and for the poor to hang themselves.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Pray he does not sig you further
HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT
I NEVER SAW THAT COMING
That's weird.
You're being weird.
If everyone else is talking in that place why do you feel you have to sit there quietly? Just match the din of the environment and enjoy yoself, son.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
The rattlesnake was selected because "Its cool and its a snake and GET YOUR BOOT OFF ME OBAMA!"
I'm fine with that. Not "ironically" fine, just fine. Pick your political images based on their modern appeal.
I'm also fine with OFA releasing a mockery of it, for largely the same reasons.
It's good background watching
It's a good balance between Jerry Springer and Intervention
That describes a great deal of modern society.
Snake symbolism: "Join or die"
Obamacare: "Join or get a small fine"
I think this is chilling, and mildly dangerous. If you were running for office on this platform I would expend every ounce of energy I could muster to prevent you from succeeding.
Unfortunately loaners are usually the left over old machines that were returned in the first place. They're like getting the shittiest Geo Metro while you're waiting for your Jag to be fixed. It sucks.
1.Doge
2.Comic
3.Vidya
4.FP/IR/IS talk
5.History nerd stuff
6.Food
I mean there are other things, but these are things I enjoy the most because I can contribute a good amount.