Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
one of my good friends from college has his birthday today. I sent him a text, and as it went through I noticed the last text exchange between the two of us was exactly 1 year ago when I last wished him a happy birthday
hmm
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered Userregular
one of my good friends from college has his birthday today. I sent him a text, and as it went through I noticed the last text exchange between the two of us was exactly 1 year ago when I last wished him a happy birthday
hmm
Text #2: APRIL FOOLS I DONT REALLY CARE HAHA
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
one of my good friends from college has his birthday today. I sent him a text, and as it went through I noticed the last text exchange between the two of us was exactly 1 year ago when I last wished him a happy birthday
hmm
*delete contact*
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
I don't put anything on my car because in my experience random assholes will jump at any excuse to fuck with your shit
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one of my good friends from college has his birthday today. I sent him a text, and as it went through I noticed the last text exchange between the two of us was exactly 1 year ago when I last wished him a happy birthday
hmm
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Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
one of my good friends from college has his birthday today. I sent him a text, and as it went through I noticed the last text exchange between the two of us was exactly 1 year ago when I last wished him a happy birthday
hmm
*delete contact*
meh, people have a habit of bouncing back in and out of my life. No need to write anyone off unless Landshark is so incredibly popular that deleting this person would minimize the burden of sorting through his e-Roledex.
Bumper stickers such as “Make Love, Not War” and “More Trees, Less Bush” speak volumes about a vehicle's driver — but maybe not in the way they might hope. People who customize their cars with stickers and other adornments are more prone to road rage than other people, according to researchers in Colorado.
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The researchers recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos and even plastic dashboard toys. They also asked questions about how the participants responded to specific driving situations.
To keep the participants from realizing that the team was collecting information about aggressive driving, questions such as “If someone is driving slow in the fast lane, how angry does this make you?” were interspersed with decoy questions such as “What kind of music do you listen to in the car?”. Szlemko's team used a pre-existing scale called “Use of vehicle to express anger” to diagnose the presence of road rage in their participants.
People who had a larger number of personalized items on or in their car were 16% more likely to engage in road rage, the researchers report in the journal <i>Applied Social Psychology</i>
I am extremely skeptical of the 'daily routines' infographic that was posted earlier this thread.
Is it their stated routine? Their actual routine? If it is there actual routine how was it deduced? How strictly was it adhered to? At what age and period of their life was this routine maintained and for how long?
pretty much this
I don't know, I think I buy the one for Kant.
That dude was a workaholic and totally fastidious.
Didn't hang out much or anything. Dude was boring as shit, I bet.
I do not doubt the amount that each of those figures worked. A highly productive individual in the prime of his intellectual/professional life could easily work the majority of the day every day.
I doubt that
1) The hours are as accurate as the infographic implies, particularly for the pre-industrialization luminaries. I've read plenty of material that suggests that prior to industrialization (and in preindustrialized cultures today) there's a +/-30m margin of error for timekeeping (perhaps as little as 10m if we're talking about people who would have had access to an accurate clockwork pocketwatch, eg Ben Franklin). Saying "I work from 9am to 2pm" might actually mean "I work from 9:15ish to 2ish."
2) The hours did not shift from day to day, again particularly for pre-industrialization figures. I think it's more likely that most of these folks woke up X hours before or after dawn, which means the exact time would have shifted from season to season.
3) The hours are as unbroken as the infographics imply. People self-report that they "work" or "sleep" from X to Y, but most people can't work productively for 6-8 hours at a time, and lots of people (especially, again, pre-industrialization) don't have unbroken sleep from X to Y. I think it's more likely that most of those people had undeclared breaks in their work & sleep patterns that aren't reflected there.
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.
Wonderful, having to explain how faxes are linear connections and that it's physically impossible to get page 3 before page 1, or just page 3 is a wonderful time.
You can get pages 1-3, 1-2, or 1, but never just 3.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Bumper stickers such as “Make Love, Not War” and “More Trees, Less Bush” speak volumes about a vehicle's driver — but maybe not in the way they might hope. People who customize their cars with stickers and other adornments are more prone to road rage than other people, according to researchers in Colorado.
...
The researchers recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos and even plastic dashboard toys. They also asked questions about how the participants responded to specific driving situations.
To keep the participants from realizing that the team was collecting information about aggressive driving, questions such as “If someone is driving slow in the fast lane, how angry does this make you?” were interspersed with decoy questions such as “What kind of music do you listen to in the car?”. Szlemko's team used a pre-existing scale called “Use of vehicle to express anger” to diagnose the presence of road rage in their participants.
People who had a larger number of personalized items on or in their car were 16% more likely to engage in road rage, the researchers report in the journal <i>Applied Social Psychology</i>
Huh, not The Onion.
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I am now committed to RPGs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week. Gonna get my nerd on.
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
I am now committed to RPGs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week. Gonna get my nerd on.
Try not to get stuffed into any lockers!
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"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
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HOLY JEEZ this was an education in how people basically do not read instructions or OPs at all
Like I love most of you and I have special mommy-and-daddy hug love for Gooey but some doods were not really giving me the infos I needed and I had to infer a lot of things. Like when someone goes "EST. I work on Saturdays" I had to just kind of assume that he meant he was only free Sundays. And then there were dudes who listed a bunch of games that weren't in the OP and not a single one that was. Those people may be disappointed and I feel kind of bad but also like...sorry bro
when I read/hear stuff like this I always worry it's about me
i don't think it is this time though, my problem is usually giving too much info
Among the Oxford English Dictionary's list of "new word entries" for March 2014 are the following four adjectives:
cunted
cunting
cuntish
cunty
In what has turned out to be a rather cunt-happy month at the OED, these "subentries" were added as well:
cunt lapper
cunt-bitten
cunt-sucker
If cunted sounds crude, it nevertheless has a place in a lexicon that comfortably embraces labels like cocksucker, dickhead, and even asshole. The fact is that much of modern English has been influenced by writers like Shakespeare, whose Malvolio slyly spells out C-U-N-T in Twelfth Night, and Chaucer, who used the more quaint-looking queynte. As New York-based journalist Lauren Davidson noted recently, "It really does seem only fair that if Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence—a bunch of old white men—could use it rather joyfully, why shouldn't we?"
Chanus on
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VanguardBut now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
I am extremely skeptical of the 'daily routines' infographic that was posted earlier this thread.
Is it their stated routine? Their actual routine? If it is there actual routine how was it deduced? How strictly was it adhered to? At what age and period of their life was this routine maintained and for how long?
pretty much this
I don't know, I think I buy the one for Kant.
That dude was a workaholic and totally fastidious.
Didn't hang out much or anything. Dude was boring as shit, I bet.
I do not doubt the amount that each of those figures worked. A highly productive individual in the prime of his intellectual/professional life could easily work the majority of the day every day.
I doubt that
1) The hours are as accurate as the infographic implies, particularly for the pre-industrialization luminaries. I've read plenty of material that suggests that prior to industrialization (and in preindustrialized cultures today) there's a +/-30m margin of error for timekeeping (perhaps as little as 10m if we're talking about people who would have had access to an accurate clockwork pocketwatch, eg Ben Franklin). Saying "I work from 9am to 2pm" might actually mean "I work from 9:15ish to 2ish."
2) The hours did not shift from day to day, again particularly for pre-industrialization figures. I think it's more likely that most of these folks woke up X hours before or after dawn, which means the exact time would have shifted from season to season.
3) The hours are as unbroken as the infographics imply. People self-report that they "work" or "sleep" from X to Y, but most people can't work productively for 6-8 hours at a time, and lots of people (especially, again, pre-industrialization) don't have unbroken sleep from X to Y. I think it's more likely that most of those people had undeclared breaks in their work & sleep patterns that aren't reflected there.
Sure but I think the response I posted last night still holds.
Bumper stickers such as “Make Love, Not War” and “More Trees, Less Bush” speak volumes about a vehicle's driver — but maybe not in the way they might hope. People who customize their cars with stickers and other adornments are more prone to road rage than other people, according to researchers in Colorado.
...
The researchers recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos and even plastic dashboard toys. They also asked questions about how the participants responded to specific driving situations.
To keep the participants from realizing that the team was collecting information about aggressive driving, questions such as “If someone is driving slow in the fast lane, how angry does this make you?” were interspersed with decoy questions such as “What kind of music do you listen to in the car?”. Szlemko's team used a pre-existing scale called “Use of vehicle to express anger” to diagnose the presence of road rage in their participants.
People who had a larger number of personalized items on or in their car were 16% more likely to engage in road rage, the researchers report in the journal <i>Applied Social Psychology</i>
Does that mean that people with a load of crap on their desks are angrier as well?
Because my Lego scenario and bobblehead could be an indication of my desk rage.
HOLY JEEZ this was an education in how people basically do not read instructions or OPs at all
Like I love most of you and I have special mommy-and-daddy hug love for Gooey but some doods were not really giving me the infos I needed and I had to infer a lot of things. Like when someone goes "EST. I work on Saturdays" I had to just kind of assume that he meant he was only free Sundays. And then there were dudes who listed a bunch of games that weren't in the OP and not a single one that was. Those people may be disappointed and I feel kind of bad but also like...sorry bro
when I read/hear stuff like this I always worry it's about me
i don't think it is this time though, my problem is usually giving too much info
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That was the only thing on her car until it was stolen (the fish, not the car).
I've been doing my murdering all wrong!
this amused me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w19sqGjmNlY
hmm
Text #2: APRIL FOOLS I DONT REALLY CARE HAHA
*delete contact*
I have a Tampa Bay Lightning license plate and the parking decal for the university I went to and that's it.
What kind of elitist, college-educated fucker follows hockey in Florida?
*keys car*
That will teach him.
http://imgur.com/BCwfoJB
And then I don't notice my bookmarks have changed until days later.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
THIS ONE'S FOR CALLAHAN
*smashes mirror*
at a party I really didn't want to attend
so happy he is getting married to a really great guy, they're a fantastic pair and the proposal was really sweet
but FML aside from that I had a miserable night.
meh, people have a habit of bouncing back in and out of my life. No need to write anyone off unless Landshark is so incredibly popular that deleting this person would minimize the burden of sorting through his e-Roledex.
My favorite is still (from a while ago) the new World of Warcraft class: the Bard.
With a UI completely ripped from Guitar Hero
the best part being the reveal had full class details, equipment, spells, and talent trees
Including "Axe Specialization"
Just that level of dedication to getting extra puns in the small details
so good.
Seriously, though, who's this schlub you sent to the Rangers in a St. Louis jersey under false pretenses?
what a load of carp
I loved their fake Black Temple attunement
Bumper stickers reveal link to road rage
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I do not doubt the amount that each of those figures worked. A highly productive individual in the prime of his intellectual/professional life could easily work the majority of the day every day.
I doubt that
1) The hours are as accurate as the infographic implies, particularly for the pre-industrialization luminaries. I've read plenty of material that suggests that prior to industrialization (and in preindustrialized cultures today) there's a +/-30m margin of error for timekeeping (perhaps as little as 10m if we're talking about people who would have had access to an accurate clockwork pocketwatch, eg Ben Franklin). Saying "I work from 9am to 2pm" might actually mean "I work from 9:15ish to 2ish."
2) The hours did not shift from day to day, again particularly for pre-industrialization figures. I think it's more likely that most of these folks woke up X hours before or after dawn, which means the exact time would have shifted from season to season.
3) The hours are as unbroken as the infographics imply. People self-report that they "work" or "sleep" from X to Y, but most people can't work productively for 6-8 hours at a time, and lots of people (especially, again, pre-industrialization) don't have unbroken sleep from X to Y. I think it's more likely that most of those people had undeclared breaks in their work & sleep patterns that aren't reflected there.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
you mackerel me laugh
You can get pages 1-3, 1-2, or 1, but never just 3.
Huh, not The Onion.
It's like a buzzfeed list, but without the jokes.
Try not to get stuffed into any lockers!
"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
when I read/hear stuff like this I always worry it's about me
i don't think it is this time though, my problem is usually giving too much info
i quoted the good bits
Sure but I think the response I posted last night still holds.
Does that mean that people with a load of crap on their desks are angrier as well?
Because my Lego scenario and bobblehead could be an indication of my desk rage.
What do you mean? Be more specific
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I think I missed it?
Or else I'm not sure which response you're referring to...
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
BARRISTER: How was the defendant when you saw him that evening?
WITNESS: He was pretty f***** up
BARRISTER: May I remind you about the use of language in this court
WITNESS: Sorry, he was pretty f***** up… Your Honour
They actually suggest that as a possibility
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