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    DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    Vanguard wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Vanguard wrote: »
    man fuck mcsorely's

    nah man, mcsorely's is cool.

    they be hella sexist all up ins

    gothamist i take it?
    yeah, forty one years ago. big whoop

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    Oh hello are we talking about the Gadsen flag?

    I still need to get @Blameless Cleric‌ one for her dorm.

    You want to make her a pariah in the cold socialist north?

    Surely the deep and abiding wellspring of tolerance found in her progressive institution would lead them to accept a replica of a historic moment in American history in the spirit it is intended!

    Also, the possibility that it will be stolen in "Steal This Book" style and passed around campus as an icon of irony / freedom is very high.

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    VanguardVanguard But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake.Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    TTODewback wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    y'know I watched a whole movie about the texan revolution but I never got why or if I'm supposed to want the rebels to win

    You're not.
    The whole thing was us being assholes.
    And look at Texas now. Looks like Mexico was the real winner

    Yeah, this is kinda fucked up, especially in the context of Texas public schools mandating Texas History classes.

    It was basically just white people barging in to sovereign Mexico and annexing it, Mexico fucking their shit up, and then dirtbag politicians ginning up the racist rabble about them Mexicans killin' white folks so there would be a reason to send the military in.

    today we're going to learn about the war of northern aggression

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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2015
    That said, I will still tell my son the game is cowboys and indians, even though the people fighting the indians from inside the lincoln log fort will really be members of the army, most likely, not cowboys or gunslingers. Sometimes tradition is more important than accuracy.

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    There are few areas of the world that would 'lose' a fight against the northern half of mexico.

    Steam: SanderJK Origin: SanderJK
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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Do kids even still play cowboys and indians?

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    @Mazzyx‌ Alt response:

    ... as if those liberals even know what a cannon looks like.

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

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    RichyRichy Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Why does everyone always refer to gunslingers as cowboys? Gunslinger is a way cooler word. Who would want to be a boy of cows instead of a slinger of guns?

    Subset of cowboys.

    No. Cowboys are the guys that ride on horses to keep the cows on track when they are being moved to different areas to graze or to be sold. I don't think cowboys even have guns. A gunslinger could have any job imaginable. He is just good at shooting people in duels.

    I would expect them to have guns, otherwise I expect very few of those cows (and boys) ever made it to their destinations.

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    zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Why does everyone always refer to gunslingers as cowboys? Gunslinger is a way cooler word. Who would want to be a boy of cows instead of a slinger of guns?
    Cowboy is the base class. You need to kill 50 banditos to class up to gunslinger.

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    SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

    A cowboy with injured shooting arm is a slinggunner then?

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    Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    spool32 wrote: »
    Deebaser‌ my pseudonym DEFCON level has been raised to: 2

    Accidentally left my Penny Arcade mug a conference room, luckily no one was in there when I went to get it.

    Told one of my staff today that I was going to San Antonio on Friday, he goes "oh, PAX South?"

    IF YOU'RE LURKING YOU BETTER COME CLEAN

    My coworkers know I spend time on this website but they are too old to put it all together. They often ask questions like "What's with that gorilla picture that's always on your laptop?" or "is that a hedgehog it's so cute" but they don't particularly know how it works.

    One time: "Isn't that the pokemon? why is it so sweaty and fat?"

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    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Why does everyone always refer to gunslingers as cowboys? Gunslinger is a way cooler word. Who would want to be a boy of cows instead of a slinger of guns?

    Subset of cowboys.

    No. Cowboys are the guys that ride on horses to keep the cows on track when they are being moved to different areas to graze or to be sold. I don't think cowboys even have guns. A gunslinger could have any job imaginable. He is just good at shooting people in duels.

    I would expect them to have guns, otherwise I expect very few of those cows (and boys) ever made it to their destinations.

    guns are expensive and cowboys were just very lowly paid farmhands

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    I am a minor celebrity among dk's coworkers

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    GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    Do kids even still play cowboys and indians?

    i played the fuck out of cowboys and indians

    i had my cap gun 6 shooter and everything

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    DeebaserDeebaser on my way to work in a suit and a tie Ahhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Deebaser‌ my pseudonym DEFCON level has been raised to: 2

    Accidentally left my Penny Arcade mug a conference room, luckily no one was in there when I went to get it.

    Told one of my staff today that I was going to San Antonio on Friday, he goes "oh, PAX South?"

    IF YOU'RE LURKING YOU BETTER COME CLEAN

    My coworkers know I spend time on this website but they are too old to put it all together. They often ask questions like "What's with that gorilla picture that's always on your laptop?" or "is that a hedgehog it's so cute" but they don't particularly know how it works.

    One time: "Isn't that the pokemon? why is it so sweaty and fat?"

    my alt+tab game is strong.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Do kids even still play cowboys and indians?

    probably not. Western movies aren't exactly everywhere like they used to be

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Why does everyone always refer to gunslingers as cowboys? Gunslinger is a way cooler word. Who would want to be a boy of cows instead of a slinger of guns?

    Subset of cowboys.

    No. Cowboys are the guys that ride on horses to keep the cows on track when they are being moved to different areas to graze or to be sold. I don't think cowboys even have guns. A gunslinger could have any job imaginable. He is just good at shooting people in duels.

    I would expect them to have guns, otherwise I expect very few of those cows (and boys) ever made it to their destinations.

    guns are expensive and cowboys were just very lowly paid farmhands

    still need to go heels, though. Snakes, wolves / coyotes, Comanches, rustlers... also you gotta eat.

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    RichyRichy Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    TTODewback wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    y'know I watched a whole movie about the texan revolution but I never got why or if I'm supposed to want the rebels to win

    You're not.
    The whole thing was us being assholes.
    And look at Texas now. Looks like Mexico was the real winner

    Yeah, this is kinda fucked up, especially in the context of Texas public schools mandating Texas History classes.

    It was basically just white people barging in to sovereign Mexico and annexing it, Mexico fucking their shit up, and then dirtbag politicians ginning up the racist rabble about them Mexicans killin' white folks so there would be a reason to send the military in.

    Replace "Mexican" by a generic non-American placeholder term and you've summed up most events in US history.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    we never had a theme

    it was just two groupings of kids, a forest with a bunch of WWII bunkers, a lot of sticks, and no mercy

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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Why does everyone always refer to gunslingers as cowboys? Gunslinger is a way cooler word. Who would want to be a boy of cows instead of a slinger of guns?

    Subset of cowboys.

    No. Cowboys are the guys that ride on horses to keep the cows on track when they are being moved to different areas to graze or to be sold. I don't think cowboys even have guns. A gunslinger could have any job imaginable. He is just good at shooting people in duels.

    I would expect them to have guns, otherwise I expect very few of those cows (and boys) ever made it to their destinations.

    guns are expensive and cowboys were just very lowly paid farmhands

    still need to go heels, though. Snakes, wolves / coyotes, Comanches, rustlers... also you gotta eat.

    People were shooting snakes with 6 shooters? That is amazing.

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    Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

    Because they made Singapore slings?

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    TehSlothTehSloth Hit Or Miss I Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered User regular
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

    bakers in the old west were known as bun slingers

    FC: 1993-7778-8872 PSN: TehSloth Xbox: SlothTeh
    twitch.tv/tehsloth
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    Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Deebaser‌ my pseudonym DEFCON level has been raised to: 2

    Accidentally left my Penny Arcade mug a conference room, luckily no one was in there when I went to get it.

    Told one of my staff today that I was going to San Antonio on Friday, he goes "oh, PAX South?"

    IF YOU'RE LURKING YOU BETTER COME CLEAN

    My coworkers know I spend time on this website but they are too old to put it all together. They often ask questions like "What's with that gorilla picture that's always on your laptop?" or "is that a hedgehog it's so cute" but they don't particularly know how it works.

    One time: "Isn't that the pokemon? why is it so sweaty and fat?"

    10/10 would awesome again

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    First, their members contributed more equally to the team’s discussions, rather than letting one or two people dominate the group.

    Second, their members scored higher on a test called Reading the Mind in the Eyes, which measures how well people can read complex emotional states from images of faces with only the eyes visible.

    Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men. Indeed, it appeared that it was not “diversity” (having equal numbers of men and women) that mattered for a team’s intelligence, but simply having more women. This last effect, however, was partly explained by the fact that women, on average, were better at “mindreading” than men.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/why-some-teams-are-smarter-than-others.html

    reading the mind in the eyes test: https://www.questionwritertracker.com/quiz/61/Z4MK3TKB.html

    I scored 29/36 (avg score = 26.2)

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    we never had a theme

    it was just two groupings of kids, a forest with a bunch of WWII bunkers, a lot of sticks, and no mercy

    Its messed up when you think about it to give kids toy guns and have their play be shooting each other, but its actually less violent than hitting each other with sticks or wrestling or whatever, which is what will happen if they don't have the toy gun enforcing distance as part of the play battle.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Singapore slings are, well, not disappointing, because they were exactly what I was expecting, but it's just overly sweet nonsense

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    nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Most of the old west had pretty strong gun control laws.

    Like it was fairly ordinary to have to turn your weapon into local law enforcement when you arrived in a town

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    skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

    bakers in the old west were known as bun slingers

    prostitutes were bum slingers

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Richy wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Why does everyone always refer to gunslingers as cowboys? Gunslinger is a way cooler word. Who would want to be a boy of cows instead of a slinger of guns?

    Subset of cowboys.

    No. Cowboys are the guys that ride on horses to keep the cows on track when they are being moved to different areas to graze or to be sold. I don't think cowboys even have guns. A gunslinger could have any job imaginable. He is just good at shooting people in duels.

    I would expect them to have guns, otherwise I expect very few of those cows (and boys) ever made it to their destinations.

    guns are expensive and cowboys were just very lowly paid farmhands

    still need to go heels, though. Snakes, wolves / coyotes, Comanches, rustlers... also you gotta eat.

    People were shooting snakes with 6 shooters? That is amazing.

    It's not a tough shot from a few feet away if you have a moderate level of experience. If you can shoot a can off a fencepost from 5 yards away, you can hit a rattlesnake preparing to strike. They don't move much at all.

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    RichyRichy Registered User regular
    TehSloth wrote: »
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

    bakers in the old west were known as bun slingers

    HR job recruiters in the old west were known as slinger slingers.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    we never had a theme

    it was just two groupings of kids, a forest with a bunch of WWII bunkers, a lot of sticks, and no mercy

    Its messed up when you think about it to give kids toy guns and have their play be shooting each other, but its actually less violent than hitting each other with sticks or wrestling or whatever, which is what will happen if they don't have the toy gun enforcing distance as part of the play battle.

    there was actually a lot of mercy

    we were basically just playfencing with the sticks with the vague aim of breaking the other kids' stick

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    spacekungfumanspacekungfuman Poor and minority-filled Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    I refuse to believe that kids wouldn't still love these guys:

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    zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Most of the old west had pretty strong gun control laws.

    Like it was fairly ordinary to have to turn your weapon into local law enforcement when you arrived in a town
    Unless you shoot the local law enforcement. Then visitors turn their guns into you.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    well maybe not a lot

    the army I was general for was smaller, we could not afford such things as mercy

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    spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    TehSloth wrote: »
    fun fact: doctors in the old west were known as sling slingers

    bakers in the old west were known as bun slingers

    edit: damn u skoopy

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    bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    I refuse to believe that kids wouldn't still love these guys:

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    They sell the Toy Story branded bucket at Disney still for about 4X what they should cost.

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    AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
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