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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: July 18, 2012, 09:16:11 am »
Quote from: mainiac on July 18, 2012, 09:08:38 am
I think observing any high school english class will show that it is quite easy indeed to ignore the obvious intent of an essay's author.
Can you imagine a major politician's position with an actual bullet point reference list, and then the response papers similarly equipped? Naturally, the sources would be publicly and easily accessible! Sometimes I think I dream about that. It would be amazing~

Maybe once TV finishes dying off it'll become more of a possibility. A person can dream.

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: July 18, 2012, 08:55:44 am »
Yeah, an edit replacing "that" with "those roads" would have been more clear. As you noticed, though, if he'd been referring to the businesses instead of the roads with that that, the message would have been quite ridiculous and, as maniac noted, at odds with the rest of what th'fellow said. Chalk it up to the vagrancies of the spoken word, I guess.

Some days I thnk it'd be nice if we got more essays than transcripts, but I've picked up enough info on the rate of low-capability readers and the illiterate in the states (many million... it's actually a fairly hefty voting block, if the volunteer tutor information they're throwing around is accurate) to know that's probably not going to happen :-\

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General Discussion / Re: American Election Megathread
« on: July 18, 2012, 08:27:05 am »
Reading comprehension. The "that" in that sentence referred to the roads. Not the business. In context, it's fine. It's only when you strip the sentence of context and attempt to cherry-pick the sentence into meaning something else entirely that it's a "terribly poor choice of words." The context is kinda' important. He's specifically saying "you had help along the way" in that speech. It only looks different when you tear out a specific sentence and misconstrue its meaning due to th'whole lacking of context thing.

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General Discussion / Re: The first lawnmower was a cow.
« on: July 18, 2012, 08:01:26 am »
Re: why lawns: We have cut lawns nowadays to cut down on vermin issues (particularly re: snakes -- an overgrown yard in some places can be damn dangerous -- but there's some other critters it helps with, too.) and reduce fire hazards in crowded areas. S'not just aesthetics. Can depend on how high grass/undergrowth normally gets for your area, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« on: July 18, 2012, 12:19:50 am »
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on July 17, 2012, 11:43:57 pm
Which is why I haven't bought anything at a Wal☆Mart for a few months, and don't intend to ever again. Sure, other stores might be just as bad ethically, but at least their owners aren't already so ludicrously wealthy.
Wish to hell there was a better alternative for food-that-I-eat in my area, price wise. Much as Wally disgusts me, I save a good few hundred dollars a year grocery shopping there which... makes a damn sight of a difference, re: essentials (shelter, transport, health). Regularly price scope other shops, but when what they sell is $.20 or more higher per unit... it comes out to saving twenty, thirty bucks a month at minimum, which adds right the buggery up. Hopefully the next move I make'll put me in range of something near cost that's not quite as reprehensible :-\


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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 17, 2012, 09:23:50 pm »
Quote from: The Merchant Of Menace on July 17, 2012, 09:11:41 pm
Potato farls are the true king of breakfast.
Th'buggery is a potato farl? *googles*

Oh... hey. I think I've ate those before. Kinda' crispy on the outside but like mashed potatos inside? Also, I know what the next non-routine thing I cook is. If that's actually what I ate, it is in fact the king of all meals, not just breakfast.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 17, 2012, 09:03:55 pm »
... actually prefer grilled or baked bacon to fried. S'mostly 'cause I've been trying to cut back in the fried stuff, though. Too much grease just makes me sick nowadays, bleh, and it's easier to siphon some of it off if you're not frying. And hell, it's still bacon and tastes great.

Don't think I've tried broiled bacon yet, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you RRAAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: VROOM VROOM! Edition
« on: July 17, 2012, 08:28:08 pm »
What... what about wattage? And altitude?

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General Discussion / Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: July 17, 2012, 05:44:07 pm »
Made me feel stressed just reading the bloody things. Point about the price differential between local and not is kinda' hard hitting, though. Even with non-free shipping, a lot of things cost less ordered than bought (semi-)local, especially if you factor in the transportation cost of driving, say, a hour or two round-trip. S'more of an issue for rural folk like m'self, but...

S'a bit of a catch twenty-two when you can neither afford to (because it's probably damning you or those close to it) nor afford not to (because you either save every damn penny or you don't eat) support those kind of conditions.

More than anything, makes me worry about eventually ending up in the situation something like that's the only option... me, I literally couldn't work in those kind of conditions. Just don't have the back for it anymore, after early schooling fucked me up (thanks backpacks!).

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: July 17, 2012, 12:19:52 pm »
Alarm clock! Biggest boost to effectiveness I ever found: Put the damn thing out of arm's reach. If you want snooze or off, make it so you have to actually get up, navigate to wherever the clock is (preferably obscured in some way -- buried under something, behind a door, whatever. Don't make it easy.), turn it off, and then manage to get back to bed. Nine out of ten times, you're awake by that point.

Computer alarm clock particularly effective. You can have multiple programs or instances of the same program, set to different times and different sounds, and no easily accessed off button. Make it loud enough and jarring enough, and by the gods you (and possibly everyone else in the residence :-\) you will wake up. I recommend Peatbog Faeries -- they've got a few songs that start off nice and slow, and ramp up into techno bagpipes. Then flat out noise music for the backup -- if you manage to sleep through that, someone else is probably going to come wake you up :P Maybe the neighbors.

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General Discussion / Re: Cartoon/Western Animation Thread. -- Please be a vampire!
« on: July 16, 2012, 11:53:44 pm »
I read that and go: "If it makes a good base for fan fiction, it's an excellent cartoon."

Gummi Bears, your civil war and so on stands tall once again.

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General Discussion / Re: [WAN WAN WAN] Things Yasuna kept doing too long again thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: July 16, 2012, 11:44:59 pm »
Rain at midnight! Probably won't last, but it's nice anyway~

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Other Games / Re: Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup. Or: THAT DAMN SIGMUND.
« on: July 16, 2012, 11:18:54 pm »
... it's pretty damn boring to run in more-or-less a straight line for like a half hour, though, without anything particularly interesting happening. I've done that (multiple thousand turns without encountering portal or anything actually dangerous), more than once, in the abyss.

It could use some work, and maybe some adjustment to the coloring. Bloody thing occasionally gives me headaches, when it's particularly noisy.

I'll just say, as far as preference goes, if the abyss buggered off and never came back, I would not shed a single tear :P

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Other Games / Re: Mabinogi - Now with a B12 guild! - Lore update, up!
« on: July 16, 2012, 08:15:30 pm »
Horatio's cornrolls are one of the greatest things to happen to a shakespeare retelling, ever. I never did actually finish going through the shakespeare stuff, but what I did was pretty awesome, though more in the older sense of awesome than the newer.

Bishie Hamlet will forever be Best Hamlet.

Now, what it does to the rest of mab's storyline? Eehhh.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 16, 2012, 04:19:50 pm »
Quote from: MorleyDev on July 16, 2012, 04:13:47 pm
Quote from: Frumple on July 16, 2012, 04:09:49 pm
"Excessive consumption may cause a laxative effect in sensitive persons."

The chemical used as a replacement for sugar is a laxative in high doses. Suger free Polos and Chewing Gum has the same effect if you take too much of it (though it does have to be a lot).
That... why? Why? How is "may give runs" an acceptable side effect of "not sugar but still sweet"? And... why not use something without that side effect? This is where the WTF comes from :-\

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