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Heres minehttpimgurcomaXaHLjpgA Unix beard according to Urban DictionaryhttpwwwurbandictionarycomdefinephptermUnix20beard isgt Facial hair that all Unix experts are mysteriously compelled to grow The length bushiness and unkemptness of the Unix beard are all directly proportional to the owners expertise Having a Unix beard is a great way to ensure that you never get laidgtgt Bobs a true Unix genius just look at the size of his Unix beard | This is from a few years ago httpwwwccaorgdvaxdavejpgI would like to point out that this is not merely a Unix Beard but is clearly a BSD Beard I let my girlfriend trim it last year and wound up looking like a Linux user but its back to a reasonable length now Instantly reminded me of the famous Dilbert cartoonhttpwww2usituionoitunixunixkurshoustondilbertunixpng Unfortunately for me I cant grow a beard However its not the beard on the outside that counts its the beard on the inside made thishttpiimgurcomUsvIZjpg as a joke for my unix beard bearing boyfriend to keep him in line Just a reminder to display all of the pictures on this page javascript20var20x20contentfindaeachfunctionvar20hrefthisattrhrefifthishasClassdrowsapMorphed20ampamp20thisnextdrowsapMorphedlength020ampamp20href20ampamp20hrefindexOfimgurgt02020hrefindexOfjpeggt02020hrefindexOfjpggt0202020hrefindexOfpnggt0var20ext20hrefindexOfimgurgt020ampamp20hrefindexOfjpglt020ampamp20hrefindexOfpnglt02020jpg2020var20img2020lta20classdrowsapMorphed20hrefhref20targetblank20styledisplayblockgtltimg20styledisplayblockmaxwidth780px20srchref20ext20gtltagtthisafterimg httpstaticfsforgfsforgimgmattljpg which is a little less than the boss httpstaticfsforgfsforgimgrmswebjpgI also think ours are technically NotUnix beards MinehttpimgurcomefCPIjpgThis is my winter beard I usually keep it shorter in the summer and grow it out about like this once the temperatures get well below freezing httpiimgurcomrwEGyjpgIts a cell phone picture in poor office lighting cropped to remain somewhat anon but it gets the point across Just taken I havent shaved since Thursday I had a meeting and my bosswife made me shave httpimgurcomJvgLs I shaved my beard off so all I have is an MSDOStachehttpomploaderorgvM2Roeg Plus a bit of stubble because Im overdue a shave This helpfully labelled monstrosityhttpimgurcomAShdUjpg is the result of early exposure to APL programming Let it be a warning to you httpphotosaakfbcdnnethphotosaksnc1hs134snc1574012133684247650776747628494453950206njpgam running too many awks pss and tops to imgur do what you will with my fb account also ive been racially abused for being a hasidic jew muslim and mormon with that beard i am none of the above This is me from last year or whateverhttpwwwflickrcomphotostermie3393722296inset72157616044454732 i dont use unix that much outside of work but heres my beard anywayshttpimgurcomyWz33jpg Last spring httppiolongstaircommiscpiocarrizoJPG Its a bit longer now My neighbor plays in a metal band and his is down to his belly button I gotta keep up with the Joneses i grew a UNIX beard in 1994 then trimmed it back to become a Linux beard in 1999 Yes there is a differenceHow about a show us your ponytails subreddit |
I submit to you that the reconomics community views its subject chiefly as a cudgel with which to advance a neopopulist political point of view producing a content stream that is hopelessly skewed and not useful to people with a general interest in economicsThe Federal Reserve is certainly an important topic within economics but just as political and theological matters are crucially important to science rscience still manages to cover its topic with breadth and genuine interest that go beyond the superficial utility of winning political and theological fightsWhy is rscience healthier than reconomics 200K readers versus 40K probably helps diversify the content Ratheism boasts 68K readers and absorbs much of the scienceish content that is redundant amateurish frivolous etc Rscience exhibits respect for mainstream ideas and trusted sources first It has its share of crackpots but its also blessed with working professionals who are happy to explain the mainstream rudiments of their work with us and help quash the more sophomoric commenters who think they can make up in confidence what they lack in rigor AND rscience has enough folks like me who know to look for those quality comments and send karma their wayAny community has a potential dark side I wouldnt want to be a conservative constitutional scholar in this era that every tea partying nutcase thinks theyre one too Maybe reconomics needs more members maybe it needs less by siphoning people off into a neopopulism redditI really dont have the expertise to help reconomics out of its current state I joined out of general interest So Ill be getting my content elsewhere namely NPRs Planet Money and Marketplace and the regular updates from beagov and The Conference Board Of course Ill be checking in especially if this post goes anywhere And if anybody does read this I hope it at least gives you pause before submitting the next hyperbolic redundant sensationalized essay of political persuasion as economics content We have enough of that | Please dont encourage the zealots to migrate over to rscience Keep them here in reconomics the dismal subreddit Im sorry you feel this way I hope you consider staying and helping us improve the placeIf you find anything that does not belong here please click report or send a message to me Please do also send me ideas on how to improve this reddit I agree entirely reconomics seem to have been overrun with people busily content with either attacking the Federal Reserve for the sake of attacking the Federal Reserve or expounding conspiracy theories about how the world is run Im frustrated Im not smart or articulate enough to take these people on with this kind of thing but have to grumble to myself about how much of a circlejerk it seems Im sorry Politics ruins every field it touches look at what happened with Global Warming and climatology I always regret posting comments in rEconomics It seems like there is always someone who responds without considering what I said Which of course encourages me to respond again trying to clarify my position This never helps Im an economist and it kinda bothers me too to see so many news attacking the Fed in reconomics but Im interested in many other articles I find there even some of the ones about the Fed Maybe thats caused but the fact that Im not from the USIm not a group dynamics specialist but I guess thats what happens when you share a group like this one I dont think this subject will go on forever so just suck it up and hide the submissions youre not interested in If everyone would drop out everytime a majority or minority of users consistently submit stuff about something theyre not interesting in reddit would probably not survive I dont think it is so much a function of the number of readers as a lack of good economics pieces Most content related to economics are papers and books which dont lend themselves well to Reddit Compound that with the fact that most quick reads are just parroted from other MSM sources you can see why the content doesnt seem rich Finally science probably has a wider readership and community since it is taught more universally than economics in school Many people only have brief interactions with economics and it was probably not pleasant I find it a bit funny though that you rail against neopopulist political point of view producing a content stream that is hopelessly skewed and turn around and say you will get your news from NPR News flash they are as skewed as the rest While I dont agree with your post and I feel like you are what you rail against I would prefer you contribute than leave gt Rscience exhibits respect for mainstream ideas and trusted sources firstevery tea partying nutcase thinks theyre one too Clearly you want an authority figure to look up to and tell you what is and isnt correct thinking What constitutes a trusted source and belonging to an opposing opinion group are all subjective opinions It appears that you dont like the opinions of those that disagree with yours gtll be getting my content elsewhere namely NPRs Planet Money and MarketplaceI watch this channel specifically because it has the rare austrian viewpoint If I wanted the same rehashed garbage about how the US has proven it can avoid recession through monetary and fiscal policy exact quote from PBS Nightly Business Report I can literally go anywhereIt wasnt the traditional economistshttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv9QpD64GUoXw that saw the recession coming and its not traditional economists that are saying the worst is yet to comeMaybe if the Austrians are proven right and a new more spectacular recession comes within the next couple years youll come back and give the fringe a chance You mean you want to back to only reading and watching sources that said in 2006 and 2007 that the US economy was fineI would bet you are college educated and at least moderately successful Ill take a shot in the dark and say you are James Loewen theorizes that education and success socialize people You are benefiting from our system so you are much less likely to want to admit the system is flawed because it would mean you would have to admit that your success is not completely of your own doingNow it also would point to the idea that unsuccessful people like myself will be MORE likely to jump on the idea that our system is biased and benefits the rich more than the poor Most people would easily agree to this idea but not the idea that successful people will be biased towards the status quo What do you think about politics and history Ive read many books that point out HUGE censorship and bias in American History and Politics Would you say Noam Chomsky was a conspiracy theorist And yet if someone applied your post to the politics subreddit they would remove it from their front page for having these silly non mainstream view stories submitted I disagree with a lot of the libertarian and econ submissions but to purposely ignore opposing viewpoints is not healthy wouldnt you agree You are actively narrowing your sources of information to ensure you only get information that fits into your preconceived biases Anyone should admit that is not healthy Economics has never been a scienceand it is even less now than a few years ago Paul SamuelsonEconomics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists John Kenneth Galbraith The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable John Kenneth Galbraith All economics is voodoo Wave a chicken at it and see what happens me you do realize you are making a serious comment about a social news aggregator right this isnt an economics journal or some established financial news source its a tool to sift through what other people find interesting to sharefor the record your concern over subscriberssubmission quality and political spin is more ridiculous than any of the articles in this reddit this is the internet and no one gives a fuck about your petty gripes In a way its because economics is a field with lower barriers to entry Not everyone has an opinion on what asteroid AB78 is up to but everyone has something to say about how the government is spending their tax dollars Its closer to peoples daily lives and that tends to attract more rantingThat being said I agree with rightc0ast and brainburger forking is probably not the solution rScience is successful at least partly because of how many users it has A subreddit where new links come in only once every few days is pretty depressing im in a few and tends to slowly grind to a halt I agree with everyone saying post more of what you like and Im going to start doing that too From the comments here theres quite a few of us whod like to see some more variety and your post definitely helped stir things up I say stick around a bit longer see where this goes Oh no how dare people disagree with the main stream view and government decisions Yes get your updates from the government instead along with government FCC approved sources such as CNN and FOX NewsThey could tell you there was no problem with low interest rates and there was no housing bubble gt I wouldnt want to be a conservative constitutional scholar in this era that every tea partying nutcase thinks theyre one tooDude you basically ruined a good post youve bought the leftist media narrative hook line and sinkerJudge Andrew Napolitano constitutional expert speaks at many of these tea parties If you are interested in current releases you should take a look at Econodayhttpmameconodaycom It lists all of the most followed releases each week and shows consensus forecasts then the official numbers It also includes great short descriptions of the relevance of each indicator and an explanation of how the numbers are interpreted I agree with OPPeople need to stop posting random current events crap omg the rich are at it again and more actual academic economics not boring studies but actual articles by economic professorsAnd if nothing else get this Matt Taibbi should never ever make an appearance here What he says has nothing to do with economics This linkhttpwwwredditcomrEconomicscommentsatt6hjusttotallyawesometheeverythingisokguysin is the exact reason Im bailing on reconomics Just omg lulz bullshit Thanks for the upvotes and the many comments A lot of the critical comments have been in a similar vein so rather than saying the same things many times heres an omnibus reply I think reconomics should be a welcome place for Austrians and political scientists just not to the exclusion of wideeyed nonpartisan economics enthusiasts I dont think NPR and the BEA are perfect which is why I came here in the first place Yes you can separate politics from economics for instance when you talk about game theory Some of that but not all would be great But there is also a difference between discussing the political side of economics and using the latest economic news to proclaim that your politics have now been vindicated Thanks for the recommendations of more focused economics reddits Ill check them out |
Im trying to figure out a good way to send my friend a MASSIVE single file Anyone know of an uploading site that would handle something this large or a program that can break it into several smaller onesEDIT Someone on anybodyouttherecom found me a site that can do files of any size httphost02pipebytescom | HFShttpwwwrejettocomhfs is a 600 Kb HTTP file server that is a single executable no installation required and it works straight out of the box Simply share a folder in it and send your IP address to your friend who will be able to access that folder Since the file is so large I would suggest that you use Winrar to split it into smaller chunks and your friend would also benefit from using a download manager that supports resume You dont want to send anything that big as single file over http If it gets corrupted during the transfer youd have to resend the entire fileIf you can keep your computer constantly on you could torrent the file Use embedded tracker and email the torrent file to your friend if you want to keep it private Torrents have error checking so you dont have to worry about data getting corruptedOr if not you can split the file rar zip or even something like hjsplit if you want to keep it really simple and then upload the individual files pretty much anywhere you want If a single split part gets corrupted youd only have to reupload that part HTTP HFS httpwwwrejettocomhfsFTP FileZilla httpfilezillaprojectorgBuy a USB stick or SD Card and mail ithttplmgtfycomqsendlargefilesZip it into multiple segments to make it easier to handle |
Link to my pictures as always be brutal hahaPic1 httpimgurcomfl7pNjpghttpimgurcomfl7pNjpgPic2 httpimgurcoms8y1Ujpghttpimgurcoms8y1Ujpg | You look like a guy thatd be a blast to hang with by your second picture I think the polo is working for ya too Very cute especially the second one where youre smiling I usually hate all forms of facial hair but yours is definitely working for you |
Sorry Im new to at home recording and specifically using mics and just bought myself a MXL 770 Ive scoured the instruction manual and found nothing as well as doing quite some Googling so Im just wondering what these two switches are used fora the two icons are and the second b the two options are 0db and 10dbThanks | A the first is a bass roll off in the second position it will apply a high pass filter usually around 75150hz depending on the mic 150Hz on the MXL 770 B The second is a 10db output cut or pad less signal to the mixing desk |
Hey RedditIm planning to eventually within the next 2 or 3 years move out to the Bay Area Im going into computer science and my boyfriend wants to work on robotics so we figure Silicon valley is a great place for us both to find work Plus I just love the vibe of San Francisco But it seems like theres so much more to the Bay Area than just that city and I dont have the faintest clue what the difference is between say San Mateo and Palo AltoI have a few priorities in terms of what Im looking for but I also just want to hear what peoples subjective opinion is of different citiessuburbs in the areaFor me the following is important Being close to mass transit Itd be nice to be able to go into San Francisco without using a car Living in a relatively low crime area Being somewhat close to or in a bustling area for example having good restaurants around continuing ed classes fun groups like dorkbot etcIdeasedit formatting | The answer to your question depends on where you will workgo to schoolThe absolutely ideal choice is in SF proper and I would ignore anyone that tells you otherwiseUnfortunately most jobs are in Silicon Valley Many people make the mistake of thinking that the 12 hour commute is doable but you wont be able to keep it up I promiseI wont bother listing the Caltrain stops or how long they take as google maps does a good job of thatOne tip is that the east bay is loads cheaper than the west bay Lastly places you should not visit let alone live are Richmond Oakland and East Palo Alto Do not confuse East Palo Alto with Palo Alto They are similar only in nameI will probably get downvoted by some resident of the above 3 cities because they grew up there or they happen to live in a decent part Its true there are less rough parts and even nice parts but you generally want to stay away There is a small part of North Oakland that is basically Berkeley and that is ok just lots of bums and studentsSan Jose doesnt compare to San Francisco but its far more bustling than any of the stops in between Its a lot better than it used to be in that regard There are a lot of pubs and nonpretentious hangouts no hipsters SJSU and several collegesThird is going to be Palo Alto and its way behind San Jose but is a 45 min train ride to SF you will take advantage of this less than you think so dont let it sway you too much Take a drive down University Ave and youve seen Palo AltoWYSIWYG thereUnless you are 35 and boring dont even look at SunnyvaleMountain ViewCupertinoSanta Clara if you dont have to Ive spent a lot of time in all of them and they are all terrible if you like to leave your apartment Expensive and nothing to doMost wellknown geekgrouphangout of choice is probably Noisebridgetldr If you can find a job in SF that pays enough so that you can afford to live there you win the Bay Area I have lived in the bay area all my life There are areas that are considered the bay area that really arent ranging from some people who consider walnut creek to not be part of the bay area all the way to some people who consider tracymodesto part of the bay area I assume you mean major metro areas Marin is very rich They have so much money they pay taxes to bart to keep it out of marin so the poor cant commute into their county Richmond the areas around international ave in oakland and the tenderlointendernob are going to be the sketchiest parts of the bay area I have been to some bad parts of Louisiana and felt just as scared there as being lost in the loin at 18 12 years ago There are nice parts of most towns in the bay area there are just lots of cities with reasonable places to liveNorth oaklandberkeley is great all the way up to el cerrito near the richmond border I am living in that area now and I have access to great schools amtrack bart county busses which all suck in the bay area except for muni in sf The rent is doable in this area and there is parking if you plan on having your own car If you dont plan on owning a car and you want to live on a budget san francisco is now open to you Keep in mind though from downtown berkeley to SF it is a 15 minute bart ride SF has 30k a month suites all the way down to 500 dollar a month closets with a shared bathroom Lots of nice neighborhoods and shitty places a block away from what you might have considered nice The city must be explored and understood There is simply no way of saying SF is or isnt the right place for youI lived in San Jose for 2 years it was the most boring experience I have had in the bay area Some people might disagree but I will deal with commuting 1 hour each way from oakland to SJ every day rather than living in SJ Your mileage may vary depending on if you like ghetto dance clubs or cracker whitebread suburban livingThe peninsula is one of the areas in the bay I am not very familiar with however menlo parkstandford is one giant mall or so expensive you would have to earn 200k to live there comfortably combined household income Student living in that area might be possible San lorenzomilpitas san jose sunnyvale any of these areas are not good places to live unless you want to settle down have a family and focus on a career Which might be what you want to do My suggestion for someone between the ages of 20 and 30 looking to go to school work and have a social life that includes the arts music and easy to afford culture SF to north oakland on the east west downtown oakland to el cerrito on the north south is what I would suggest Good luck the bay has lots to offer Dont discount any of the places I suggest not to live They might be right up your ally provided we have different kinds of allies that we prefer I think Palo Alto is the best place to live in the Bay Area Its a small town but with a lot of culture Some say it has a yuppie vibe others say it has too many rich old people but I like it The houses are nice looking there are two downtowns two indie movie theaters many ethnic restaurants a mall albeit a smaller one closeby bikefriendly lots of pretty trees and houses Right halfway between SF and Santa Cruz beach town Caltrain can take you to SF College town bc of Stanford Lots of independent businesses but the big box stores in neighboring towns are easy to get to as well Its very expensive to live there though I would pick anything around the peninsula bc its closer to the city and to forests and beaches over the cities more east east san jose fremont livermore etc but I hear the places more up north walnut creek etc are nice too San Mateo is ass Palo Alto is a mall Oakland is sketchy except for the hills and a zone around the auto row and you cant afford the hills Parts of Berkeley might be OK Id suggest the mission though Its not pristine but it is bustling Go to your prospective neighborhood at night so youll know if you can handle it or not Ive lived in the bay area my whole life Grew up in palo alto went to college at cal and am back livingworking in palo alto and spending most of my weekends in SF but occasionally Berkeley or Santa CruzBerkeley is great because there is a lot of stuff going on there bars good cheap food etc it has a very nice relaxed liberal vibe diverse population and its really close to the city like a 20 minute BART ride Plus the UC is right there if you want to take extension classes or something The school is right in the middle of the city so there are lots of young people around everywhere Its not the lowest crime area but its not intolerable at all Rent is not cheap but its not outrageous either If you can get a job in the east bay Id really try to live herePalo Alto is OK but its significantly wealthier older and somewhat more pretentious It also takes 25x as long to get to SF than from berkeley Still it is the most happening city between SF and San Jose and there is a fairly active nightlife which attracts people who dont want to deal with the commutehassle of either larger city Stanford is there but it sits apart from the city itself so it doesnt feel like youre surrounded by college kids If you need to work in silicon valley its a good spot to liveSF is great Its like a giant version of berkeley that costs more My GF lives here and I spend my weekends up here Obviously as its a huge city theres just a shitfuckton of stuff happening all the time and its all really easy to get to once youre here already I love it and would move up if I wouldnt have to commute an hour each way during rush hour if you want to be close to the Silicon Valley be near public transit and be able to travel to San Francisco youre going to want to live near a Caltrain station caltraincom I live near the Redwood City station and if I want to go to the city I can just take the train to the SF stop near ATT park or transfer to BART bartgov at the Millbrae stop and go pretty much anywhere important in the city Public transit isnt the best Im not going to lie but its not too bad You can get anywhere you need to go without a car I recommend Palo Alto though there is a pretty good downtown right near Stanford and its a good midway point between SF and Silicon Valley so any communting wouldnt be too bad Good luck The Bay Area is very nice but yes it became incredibly expensive to live here in the past 10 15 years or so My parents 1400 sq ft houses value is quadruple what they bought it for 24 years ago Ive always wanted to live in Los Gatos small town good schools nice little shops and nice houses Its a backdoor community with a lot of character Funny thing is though its expensive relative to the rest of the Bay Area The three most expensive cities to live in in the southern bay area are Saratoga Los Altos and Los GatosI think you might be interested in Mountain View A lot of startups are there and you are always close to mass transit I dont quite know what the crime rate is though I think you might fare better if you focused this more specifically about how involved you want to be with SF itself All of the other parts of the Bay Area have their unique and valuable merits but most probably itll always be secondbest emotionally if you havent gotten SF out of your system yet and it was the primary draw for you moving to the Bay Area in the first placeThe reality with living outside of the city regardless of how close BART or Caltrain stations may be is that youll always face the commute in More often than not itll be a mental hindrance that will shift your trips to the city into oneoff nights or weekends Regularly facing a 45min ride just to grab some dinner and drinks or to see a show will get old pretty quickly unless youve got mass amounts of cityenthusiasm to spare which may or may not be the caseAdmittedly more tech jobs are in SV but it also tends to be much more mellow in nearly all dimensions This may be a good or bad thing Most of the major cities in the BA have downtown bustling areas so theres always unique shops and restaurants to check out just without the same diversity and density as one will find in SFCities along the peninsula are closer to the Santa Cruz mtns and thus offer lots of beaches and hiking mtn biking within easy reachSouth Bay cities are in the heart of SV for ease of work commute and a short hop over the hill to Santa CruzLower East bay is an economical choice but more oriented towards families and lacking on the cultural side Upper East bay has Berkeley and parts of Oakland and Emeryville for cultural source and the neighborhoods range from pricey to ghettoVisit Marin county once and youll know instantly whether you want to live there or not theres very little grey area to those townstldr If you want to live the city experience just move to SF If youre ok with SF being more like an oddnight out weekend tourist attraction most anywhere else is fine just depending upon your interests and needsps regarding crime arguably the main places to avoid are East Palo Alto West Oakland Downtown San Jose and Hunters Point Bay View Bay Shore in SF though there are probably some casebycase situations that prove to be an exception to these Listen Im Marin born and raised I love the place and to the fucktardhttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsal5xwwhatsthebestplacetoliveinthebayareac0i5v3b who said that we payed to keep bart out isnt the case Pre bart marin had the best commute options out there then bart came in and theres no way to get it across the bridge wo major spendingThe issue behind that is state doesnt see a reason to spend all that money for low pop suburbs to get a bart connection into the city What we do have comming in the next few years is a train linking the entire north bay from santarosa south which gets you the the ferry and into sf easy no carIf you live in marin you pay the price of living in marin but you dont have all the bs that you have in palo alto you dont have the retarded parking of the city the shittyness that is every other block of berkley the confusion of the city and its horrible parking and overpriced tiny rat holes Its 100 not oakland Its marin its something like 70 green space Birth place of mountain biking for a reason If you like to hikebike etc there isnt a better place in the world for it The fog rolls in at night keeps it cool and clears off in the day for warmth Yea its pricey but it has amazing eateries is close to napa SF east bay airports country mountains less conjestion than any where else in the bay amazing schools some of the best in the state both public and private its a great safe place for a family Its not your standard tract house suburb BS every where either its soo close to the city Also the Comunity Colleges are great Here is my guide to the Bay Area after living here all my life This is in order going from South to North Anything before Palo Alto is not worth it Even San Jose sucks literally Their nightlife is awful Technically I can ask What nightlife So lets move on shall we I mean sure Mountain View has free Google Wifi bastards but hey unless youre like my boyfriend and I where our idea of a Friday Night is sitting on our computers looking at Reddit then you should probably look into NOT moving there Palo Alto is full of frat boystramps Theyre like vampires they come out at night and suck all the fun out of everything One guy handed me his business card and said Call me when CLEARLY I had a boyfriend No we did not exchange any business pleasantries just him trying to eye rape me Atherton is great but expensive so throw that out My grandparents live thereMONEEYYY Cept they bought their house when it was relatively inexpensivedamn you housing growthMenlo Park is nicemeh At your age fuck that Id go crazy Keplers books is fun and there is nice shopping but lets be realnoRedwood City is becoming more and more gentrified but it has two completely different sides to itthe white side and the latino side I wish theyd just integrate it into one giant happy Spanglish community but they wont Sigonias is an awesome awesome grocery store A little expensive but super coolSan Carlos keep walking Nothing to see hereliterallyBelmont Shoot me I lived there for about 6 months before I hightailed it back to FCSan Mateo is pretty cool bad parts yes boring yes Not much of a downtown and the Hillsdale mall is AWFUL Take this from someone who spent her childhood there AWFULBurlingameehhare you rich Are you snobby Do you like to push around your kids in bentley strollers and be an asshole pedestrian Well then do I have the place for you This includes Hillsborough which is gorgeous but FILTHY richMillbrae has nothing except an InampOut The lights at the Millbrae AveBart station intersection rape you by taking your picture and ticketing you for being 1 inch over the white line Its fucking ridiculousAnything between Millbrae and San Franciscoavoid Justavoid it Its foggy and gross San Franciscoif you have questions about the different sections then ask away I am almost an expert My top three picks are Castro Russian Hill Nob Hill A little expensive but completely worth it Easily accessible by transit take the F from Castro to Bart take Bart to Millbrae transfer to Caltrain etcetcetcOakland Now Ive never lived here but Ive driven through it enough to feel like running red lights just to get out of there quicker Alameda If you REALLY want to feel secludedgo hereTreasure Island If you really want to feel secluded AND want to be exposed to toxic chemicals while simultaneously sinking as well as surrounded by a lowincome population then I found your new homeAnywhere else is not really worth your trouble if you want to be around SV for realsHope that helps |
My brother used to play years ago and got out of Magic when he sold his complete set of Beta p9 and all He wants to play again when he comes up to visit soon and Id like to make a deck for him with all the worst cards in Magic Should be fun I recently came across Tomb of Uramihttpmagiccardsinfochken285html and thought it might actually be the worst card in magic but then I remembered Mirror of Fatehttpmagiccardsinfom10en215html Here are some other of my favorite picks for this deck Personal Incarnationhttpmagiccardsinfo4een290html Nameless Racehttpmagiccardsinfodken12html Wood Elementalhttpmagiccardsinfolgen129html North Starhttpmagiccardsinfolgen233html Sorrows Pathhttpmagiccardsinfodken116html Tolariahttpmagiccardsinfolgen253html and all the Legendary Bands with other legendshttpbetamagiccardsinfoqueryqo3Abandso3Awitho3Aotherampvcardampscname lands Masticorehttpbetamagiccardsinfoqueryqo3Abandso3Awitho3AotherampvcardampscnameWhat are your picksEDIT my link to Masticore was wrong meant to link HEREhttpwwwstarcitygamescomphpnewsarticle6699html Also for anyone actually getting bent out of shape about thishttpwwwredditcomrmagicTCGcommentsalwrphelpmeoutimmakingaworstcardsinmagicdeckc0i9u6c please read all the way to the end of the linked article | Even a deck with the worst cards in all of Magic still needs creatures Dont forget about Chimney Pimphttpmagiccardsinfomien59html Masticore rulesBut Id have to suggest Tidal Flats and Balm of Restoration I like Fallen Empires but those are some awful cardsIf were going for new cards I think that Acolyte of Xathrid and Mindless Null are the worst cards of their respective sets One With Nothing is the ultimate groaner rare if you want to throw that in Firstly Masticore is not bad It was in a ton of artifact based decks in Urza Block Standard Teferis Isle Great Wall Rats of Rath Aladdins Lamp Sorrows Path is the single most hilarious card in history There was a thing a while back where pros were asked to make the best deck they could using four of them and using a strategy that revolved around them The best decks involved donating it and tapping it using icy manipulator and ridishan port Some guy decided to Combo out with a bunch of enkor creatures and mogg maniac it was the best format to watch ive ever seen What the hell is wrong with you Tomb of Urami is not a bad card Not even remotely close Play monoblack aggro wait until Im out of steam EOT make a 55 flier you cant deal with untap swing you dieAlso Masticore is a stupidly good card Youre just terrible at card evaluationIf you want bad cards look no further than Chimney Imp and One With Nothing You saw the OP Great Wall DeckhttpwwwessentialmagiccomDecksViewaspID170272 posted in this reddit right |
Ive always been afraid of lying in a pool of my own blood waiting minutes to bleed out or drowning or something gory but never really cared about not doing the things I have to live for I mean when youre dead thats it right | Im more worried about waking up and finding myself very very old and wondering where the time went Even if I looked back and thought Wow I did a lot of cool things all I would think is I wish I could do them again This is how I feel right now looking back at the past So many good memories so many bad onesIts the looking back at the expanse of years that bothers me I cant go back years or decades any more than I can go back one second Every moment we have is rapidly fleeting and sometimes that scares me in ways I cant even describe If I die the ride is over cest la vie But while Im still alive all I want to do is live I dont ever feel like Im doing enough Especially recently but I wont go into that Im cool with death Ive had a good run no regrets I lost my Grandma two very good friends and the best dog ever in a two month stretch at the beginning of last year The part of death I worry about is the grieving of those I leave behind My fear of death is more related to the fact that I wouldnt be able to experience the new things to come The movie youve been waiting for all your life the book you still havent gone around reading yet that flying car weve been promised for decades etc |
Im the studio manager at a radio station and next week Im putting Linux on the machine were currently hosting the ShoutCast plugin on and replacing it with a Barix InStreamerwhich is a hardware streaming audio encoder With a PC freed up we want to use it to record the total output of the radio station from 7AM to 9PM for auditing purposes We have an M Audio Delta 2496 sound card in it and a shit load of hard drive spaceIf anyone can recommend a distro which would handle this kind of thing better than another youd be helping us take that final step towards being a Microsoft free zoneas the only machine left in the loop after that will be getting replaced with an iMac some time in the next 6 months | Ive used Rotterhttpwwwaeliuscomnjhrotter to record 50 hours straight with no problemIts designed for logging radio stations so its great pick for you All the files are broken up into precisely 1 hour segments automatically named and filed with no downtime at the gap It records directly to mp3 at any bitrate you want but you can record to WAV or FLAC if you likeAs a bonus the file that it is currently recording can be played back in another program without interrupting recording I use that feature for instant replays |
The TV ad in question 20 sec VID httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvFftZtDwhQThe reason I ask is because of this report on newscomauhttpwwwnewscomauworldkfcadlabelledracistbyuscommentatorsstorye6frfkyi1225816554071 | Quote on the subject from a Administrator of thephoranet forumKFC has been using the West Indian cricket team to market their fried chicken in NZ and Australia for decadesThey used to have a jingle that went we dont like chicken we love it a play on the reggae song we dont like cricket we love itI think this is a genuine case of cultural differences Fried chicken just isnt associated with racial stereotypes of Black people in Australia and NZ the way it is in America I dont know why this is even a stereotype if you dont like chicken there is something wrong with youI am an Aussie and dont find this racist in the least KFC the sponsor of cricket Australia who also have sponsorship deals with the West Indies makes an add showing an aussie supporter in amongst some rowdy windie fansand trust me what was shown is pretty tame who we have had a friendly cricket rivalry with since about the 70s so the guy shares his chicken to make friends and ease the awkward fan rivalry situation For a bit more context this is just coming up to a series of matches where Australia plays the West Indies in some pretty important gamesIf anything this is the complete opposite of racist White man shares dinner with fellow cricket fans who are black Im Australian and I dont understand what the hell black people and fried chicken is about Or black people and is it watermelon Did black people in America used to eat a lot of fried chicken This ad is about the West Indies not AmericansThese commentators should check out the ads featuring the Indian chefs attempting to overload an Australian cricketers food with spices and the followup ad where he turns the tablesIts all taking the piss America would do well to start doing a bit of it themselves NoAs an outsider that immigrated to the US 10 years ago here are my observations about our sensitivity to racism correct me if Im wrong Three generations ago racism was rampant and racism was the norm Two generations ago people realized racism shouldnt be the norm and started fixing it One generation ago civil rights and liberties became the norm America in general become more accepting of racial diversity through weed Children are taught to not judge one by their race Current generation the US overcompensates for the crimes of the past and mainstream society treat anything and everything that is remotely insensitive in a racial manner as completely and utterly terrible applying the label of racism rather liberally sometimes appropriately Barack the magic negrohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvNfxVkLhlu5s sometimes misguided said KFC adhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvFftZtDwhQ and sometimes deliberately as a political weapon John Black Hole Pricehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvoc1zGRUPztc A flustered guy gets out of an awkward situationwhich in this case appears to mean being stuck in a crowd of happy cheering fans who is supporting a team that the original fan isnt supporting He defuses the tension of buying tickets for the wrong seats by ordering in fried chicken for himself and the neighbors around him At least thats how Id defuse this race card time bomb for KFCKFC American offices are going to have to throw KFC Aus under the bus for this one I dont understand why people associate fried chicken solely with black people Im white and that shits deliciousI mean I know its some antiquated notion based around chicken being a staple meatas it was the cheapest way back when But those days are long since gone so should that thinking be I dont think so Those seem to be carribeans so I dont see any link to the chicken other than it being a crowd pleaser |
Usually I would checkout the CIAs world factbook but they havent updated thus far However this also leads me to another query where do their numbers come from I mean there has to be a central source that gives these numbers to the CIA World Bank and other relevant agencies Any help would be appreciated | Best sources of timely basic national statistics are Central Bank sites Just google for Central Bank countryname and go from site to site collecting what you need Most of the countries that comply with IMF reporting rules pretty much all of G20 have English versions of macro tables availableEdit To answer the second question IMF gets the macro reports mentioned above and WB probably gets ccd also Besides that all the organizations you mentioned have regional offices with staff dedicated to collecting and processing national statistics published inside the regions countries for domestic consumption |
I have tried posting several things and they show up in my history but nowhere in the reddit Even in the new section | Welcome to the wacky wild wonderful world of intentional reddit censorship Ive had this problem myself ie disappeared posts scripted downvotes What is so galling is that some my posts get disappeared even on the narrowly circumscribed weakly attended subreddits reddit free speech zones that have been deemed by reddit as being the most appropriate for some posts Israel 911 Truth Coinspiracy Economics World PoliticsWant some fun Try to see how long you last on this subreddit before youre 86edhttpwwwredditcomrRacistReddit |
I wanted to put my pingpong table down there but it is too cumbersome Im not a frat guy so nothing douchey and not Buffalo Bill so nothing creepy Just looking to get some use out of the space | hookah lounge low comfortable couchesfutons beanbags tons of pillow cool tapestries mood lighting star projectorhttpwwwgooglecomproductscataloghlenampqstarprojectorampved0CB8QzAMwAAampcid8986145523605723322ampsaimagep incense sound system with lots of chillout and good music mini fridge full of delectable beverages and exotic fruits mahogany EVERYWHERE |
Hey I am a Male 21 58 and 155lbs Ive been exercising casually and regularly on and off and am in pretty decent shape The only two things that I am not totally satisfied with my self is that I havent been able to shed off enough body fat to really show of my abs Right now my abs are visible only if I really flex my stomach I was wondering what should I do to really get on my way of achieving my goal of getting solid abs | Making your abs visable while NOT flexing sounds like a hell of a featBut the strategy to do it is very simpleIf your 21 then you probably buying your own groceries One thing ive noticed about myself is that i wont be able to resist junk food once i buy it but its pretty easy to resist it for the 5 seconds that i pass the potato chips isle If you dont buy junk then you cant eat junk I fight my battles at the super market |
I saw the request for someone who lost their virginity last nightNot many people fit the bill but I had my first sexual encounter last night I had never touched or seen anything sexual first hand no pun intendedThe extent of the encounter I gave oral amp manual received manual Before last night it was simply making out and suchthis is a throwaway account just so ya know i doubt this is verifiable so just trust me on this one ehOh yeah Im a guy and she isntIm back Continue your onslaught of questions | Good job Im 20 and Im still a virgin havent ever kissed or had a sexual expierence Youre in much better straights than I am You played it like a pro Take care of her first and the world is your oysterJust hint at her reciprocating Also hop over to rsex for various info stories protips so are you a female or a male This is pretty much on everyones mindand was the other party female or male In a world where it seems everyone around me was fucking before high school its nice to see another person who didnt have a sexual encounter until they were 17 So thanks Tell her to give you a bj I think oral on girls has to be far grosser than on guys You deserve it Im sorry to be getting into the logistics here but Ill need them for a future experience1 What car were you in sedanmom vancoupe2 Where did you make out in the back seatsfront seats If in the front seats how did she bend down Must have been very difficult for both of you3 How to find a dark parking lot4 Was she enjoying it when you performed it on her I mean was she faking itThanks dude and remember shes 18 |
Id absolutely buy them again if steam put them up for sale I loved those games they had great puzzles that I think could still be challenging for a 23 year old | Yes Dr Brain was the reason I schooled the rest of my class in quizzes on element abbreviations and Roman numerals I am Dr Thaddeus P Brain the third The P stands for puzzles I am the PUZZLE MASTER Always ready for the master experiment Nothing can go wronghttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvie7IIAufMzIt23s Oh that brings back memories 2nd game I ever bought once I had my very own computer Id bought plenty of games but its different when the computer is yours and youve helped upgrade it to the point it can play games DIf you have a DS and havent already check out the Professor Layton games very much in the same vein |
Im about to buy new power tubes for my Marshall JCM 900 100 watt 212 combo I will probably get Groove Tubes EL34s Medium rating because thats all Ive ever had in this amp Anyone have any other suggestions I play rock | Tip Dont bother with matched tubes or different ratings Matched tubes are what youd expect in a precision instrument which the guitar amp isnt Matching is a waste of money Groove tubes just slaps their name on some mfrs tube anywayCurrent manufacturers are New Sensor Russia branded as Sovtek Electro Harmonix TungSol Mullard Svetlana in USA Svetlana Russia branded as Winged C in USA Tesla Czech JJ Slovakia and Shuguang Not an exhaustive list Note that Groove Tubes and Ruby Tubes are NOT manufacturersThe thing you have to worry about with EL34s is that they can be fragile in some circuits At a quick glance Electro Harmonix EL34s sell for about 13 each from Antique Electronics or 52 quartet which is fairly inexpensive These probably even come from the same factory as some of the Groove Tubes which cost more like 7080 quartetThe truth is that theres not a whole lot of difference between different individual tubes Any differences are totally swamped by differences in playing style speakers amp settings and amp circuitry Heck changing your strings more often has a bigger effect on sound The only audible benefit to matched tubes is that the hum rejection is slightly but very slightly better if your amp doesnt have separate bias for each side of tubes JCM900 falls into this categoryIve done some trials swapping NOS and modern tubes out of my amps and I dont think the difference is significant |
K Im very qualified gt95 in 5AS levels 98 in 4A2 levels 9As GCSEsI go to Cambridge and study Computer Scienceit has its moments when I make a crazy algorithm to solve a problem and it works I feel happy But for most of the time I feel out of my league and I dont enjoy many aspects of the course Im not looking forward to going back as Im gonna get pwned in the mock exams I feel like Computers are more a fun hobby as opposed to a career path I dont see myself working at googlemicrosoft or doing anything serious just making fun games with XNAC I applied to CS as I got cold feet about medicine aced UKCAT already cancelled BMAT on a whim Very little thought went into itI keep thinking about medicine nowadays Im jealous of all my medic friends who are cutting up cadavers and learning about neurons etc I always end up reading about diseases etc on wiki instead of revising maths They complain of it being hard but i know I could ace a medicine course Sure there are aspects which require logic but I hope youd agree when I say the majority of medicine is memorization I am ace at memorization pi to 300dp at one point in my life which is why I feel like I duped my way into Cambridgebut memorization isnt enough for a Tripos course and Im finding that out the hard way A part of me just wants to say it leave and reapply for medicine at ICUCLKCLSG etcAnother part of me just wants a break I thought uni would be less intense then school But I feel like its schoolx200 Im 8am 677 days a week depending on whether Ive got a Sunday supervision Im learning physicsmaths and CS even though Im really not interested in physics I worked my butt off at GCSE AS and A Ive run out of steamIve got 5 days before I go back and the thought of dropping out spending a year and a bit working out doing work experience at hospitals programming my awesome C game seeing friends learning up for the application ie BMATtopics for personal statement etc is very appealingOr maybe I should just stick it outHelpThanks Reddit Update 1Thanks for the replies guys and sorry for any connotations of arrogance in my writing above unintentionalI would update this with replies but Im tired Ill do it tomorrow But thanks again | 1 Expertise comes from having more experience than many of the people around you2 there is a tremendous need for people with expertise in computer sciences and something else like medicine etc 3 there is the danger that you will drop out and never go back and onceif you go back it will be all that more difficult to get back into the groove This would be bad for your career Medicine computer is a really great field to get into Seems like thats where most money is being driven anyways techwiseIf anything we need more tech oriented people in medical research |
Im hoping for something special maybe something that would remind me of better times or maybe something special to show me he still cares What are you going to give the special someone in your life Are you going to give them something romantic something to remember good times or something to show them how much you care | Seriously chaps the hate in this thread is a bit much If you have issues with the Christian overtones see it as the pagan festival Its all well and good to go on about making every day special and being edgy and anti commercial but I dont see why yuo cant just take a bit of perspecitve on the commercial elements of the thing and see it as an opeprtunity to do somethign nice for your significant other You dont have to go to an expensive resteraunt and buy a cheesey card It might sound great to not just save all that up for one day but in the end it doesnt work out like that I see no issue in spending a few days a year specificly noting that I think my girlfriend is awesome Why not do bothI will be buying my girlfriend a big glass jar full of her favourite old school sweets cooking her a nice meal and monging out for they day watching Dr Who all day her favourite which I am currently downloading for her I dont get all the Valentines hate here Yes its a manufactured commercial holiday but its also a reminder to spend a day appreciating your partner Even for those who do that frequently its not a bad idea and for those who need a little shove a holiday designated for lovers provides itI havent decided entirely on what Ill be giving yet but itll be something nerdy plus some special chocolates My girlfriend is a cookie monster so I always make her some fresh cookies and spell out something cheesy with some red icing on them Include that with some nice flowers and Im good to go when I asked this last I got downvoted and flamed which is stupid Heres an upvote I want answers too Taking my special lady out on a romantic boat ride with dinner and champagne Then going back to a hotel room with a jacuzzi in it If you love somebody dont wait for an excuse to be nice I would rather take you out to an expensive restaurant on a random Tuesday night than I would on Valentines Day Ive never once had a girl to be with on Valentines day not once but I imagine I would like to one day give that girl something very personal and dear not like a manufactured box of candy but like an old ticket from first date or a locket with our picture Romantic gifts seem like they would be fun Our first Valentines together and the only time we celebrated VDay my boyfriend gave me a large box of crayons and hand wrote on each one a different reason why he lovedliked meIt was the most personal and touching gift that he has ever given to me Even if you are just looking for a fun love gift NOT for silly V Day it would be a fabulous idea my girl and I decided that each Valentines day we will get a gift for someone who doesnt have anyone to celebrate the holiday with We show our love for each other every day of the year and dont need a special day I couldnt begin to tell you guys how loved i felt when i saw her bday plan for me unfold This year were gonna do something nice for her brother he needs it |
EDITIts a bit long but a good readEDIT 2Sorry that I havent responded sooner Ive had midterms and papers this whole week Ill respond in detail later tomorrow Friday night but a short summary from the majority of the questions Ive seenremember1 I am dependent on my parents Sucks but what can I do Ill be going for my drivers license soon so that should help a LOT 2 Tom is my boyfriend has been for four years Sorry for any confusion 3 Im a senior in college applied to graduate school and waiting to find out Already planning on moving in with my bf in September thats when his current lease is up4 I believe I came across wrong I dont think that one extreme or the other is necessarily correct either naturalism all the way or taking medications for every little thing wrong with you Instead I believe a nice balance is in order good diet exercise and taking medications that are right for YOU if all else fails if you and your doctor talk and agree what is best for YOU What I hate is people pushing their beliefs onto you when youve explained time and again why you are doing what you are doing in a logical way why it is good for you how you respect them but would prefer not to talk to them about certain things anymore Granted this goes both ways but Im not getting any respect here5 Thank you all for the bc recommendations Ive done a little research and have decided that the male condoms and an IUD would be best for me and my bf both in terms of cost ease of use and reliability Also my schools health insurance covers the IUD I just have to get over the whole insertion phobia6 My vaginismus came up with my mom because I brought it up with her before I realized I had it I had been having problems for a while and remembered that my mom and greatgrandma havehad a tilted uterus and was wondering if the same could be true of the vagina My family is weird I was willing to ignore it not bring it up again but she saw a segment on Dr Oz about vulvodynia and thought it may help me an excellent segment btw but not what I had And the conversation continued from thereI think thats about it One more paper and presentation to go END EDIT 2 EDIT 3 Thank you all for your kind words They mean the world to me I am working on overcoming this and trying to deal with my mom as best I can I shall post an update later to let you know how I am doing I wish the best of luck to you all END EDIT 3 So where to start Methinks Ill just let go and type Ive hid it from so many people over the years that its nice to talk to someone about it Also started telling some of my friendsNote My younger sister is 19 soon to be twenty in a few months will be important later When I was two and four I had tubes put in my ears because I had a lot of ear infections as a kid I was also put on a lot of antibiotics as a result from the time I was a year old to about 56 Its a wonder Im not allergic to any of them I hopeYears down the line I start getting acne yay puberty at about 9 mostly all over my upper arms I have a lot of scarring now and some acne there still a bit self conscious about it but no where near as much as I used to be My mom blamed the acne on the antibiotics as well as my early puberty 8 on them as well Granted they may have some effect to early onset puberty but as a country we are much more well nourished now than ever before so that is an affect tooI grow older and the acne gets worse When I hit 16 she takes me to see a naturopath see httpenwikipediaorgwikiNaturopath and httpenwikipediaorgwikiComplementaryandalternativemedicine to see if he can help Id tried lots of different productsbrands before this He looks into my eyes bc parts of the irisretina dont remember which one it was correspond to different parts of my bodyNow I know the brain is set up like that but I highly doubt that the eyes are tooMaybe there is some merit to it Whatever He also pricks my finger to get a drop of blood to see how my blood looks He then places it on a microscope and flips a switch so my mom and I can look at it He says I have bad blood and then explains that there are a lot of things wrong with me and I need to take a lot of herbs etc to fix itOh I also have to avoid LOTS of food And when I say LOTS I mean LOTS No bread yeast chocolate grains coffee or alcohol not a problem at that time but still No dairy certain nuts no red meat etc etc only fresh fruit and produce I believe some fish and raw nuts and the like Im still going through puberty at this point and am a growing young woman and I need you know FOODCue my downward sprial into an almost eating disorder and body issues I keep seeing this guy about every three months from the time I enter my senior year in high school well into my sophmore year of college Although by the tail end of it its about 56 months apartDuring this time I keep getting bombared with the messages that drugs of any kind are bad for you that good eating and exercise will fix anything and that everyone would be a whole lot better off if they just took probiotics and stopped taking antibiotics She also starts watching this guy httpwwwknowthecausecom on a regular basisI am throughly brainwashed at this time thinking that fungus causes cancer and because of this I need to avoid peanuts and corn because they are dirty plants I had my first jar of peanut butter last quarter after five years I hid it in my dresser A jar of peanut butter Let that sink inI head off to the Mount with my mom continually pumping these lies into me It gets to the point where I think my professors are wrong and that she a person with a high school education from 1981 and some random guy on tv are right Somewhere inside myself I know this is wrong and refuse to bring up the questions that my mom wants me to ask my professorsI started to break free from this during my junior year of college By this time I am thrououhly depressed and suicidial I learn my mom did speed during her late teens early twenties depression runs in my family and that my grandpa tried to kill himself in the early eighties I find this out a week or two before finals I call Tom to tell him this and Im down right hystericalSo I transfer to UCR Things are good but Im still depressed During the summer I go in to see a psychiatrist and am diagnosed with moderate depression and generalized anxiety disorder Cue crying in the office Im relieved that Im not going crazy and am ready but still scared to go on medication I inform my parents and they go ballisticDad says I need to work on getting on a regular exercise schedule and that the meds will mess me up One of his brothers was on them but he didnt get better Dad said they just threw pills at him and let him be on his merry wayMom is insane with worry saying I need to just take magnesium because it helps is involved with 500 things in the bodyIn my own way I tell her to go fuck herself and that Im taking these pillsStill get crap from that occasionally Also that I should take calcium and magnesium because my muscles get sore I have random body achesShe bought a 200 air filter to purify the air in my room Its smaller than my textbooks but just as thickI have a spray that smells clean to me but to her it smells like bleach She told me I shouldnt sleep in my room because she thinks the air filter is trying to clean the room with bleachMy zombie dreams are a result of my sleeping in a stuffy impure roomMy sister who has epilepsy ADHD should be on some type of behavioral medication She is on Prevagen some type of jellyfish extract She doesnt need the meds for epilepsy anymore doctors approval Cheryl is getting better grades and concentrating more so the Prevagen is helping Meanwhile she has moodswings every fucking day or at least it seemsMy mom has brainwashed my dad I believe that antibiotics are bad He is taking penicillin for a couple of weeks for a tooth infection My dad says that he is worse off on the antibiotics because they have side effects and that the probiotics worked better for him because there were no side effectsMy sexual problems came up with my mother I told her I have vaginismus One of the things she asked me is if I remember it saying anywhere that it was the result of taking large amounts of antibiotics earlier in my life I wanted to kill herOh The brainwashing is also why Im scared to go on birth control Yay Because birth control is mostly made of chemicalshormones that can wreck your body Also it gave my aunt a brain tumor Logic My aunt took bc for years She developed a tumor gained bunches of weight and now has a lot of problems Ergo the bc caused it I emailed my aunt last year and asked what kind of bc she had been on she told me and said she didnt really have any side effects grumblesProbably be hard for me to take the pill the same time every day anyway Id rather go for the IUD its idiot proof But first got to get through the discomfort of having things inside me So thats about it Any questions Thoughts Comments Tldr My mom is a naturopath and is forcing her views on me and it is driving me crazy brainwashed me for most of my life I cant move out yet and am financially dependent on my parents I am currently undergoing treatment for this and other issues | OyIm sorry you and your sister didnt get proper medical care from your parents That sucksYou probably cant change their minds unfortunately If and when they become interested in understanding how medicine actually works you could provide them with information if you have it Until then though you have to step back and let them make their own mistakes Theyre adults and theyre allowed to do stupid thingsI might have missed it but are living with andor financially dependent on your parents at this point If so and you cant become independent you may need to tread lightly Quietly seek your own medical care and just tune them out when they start rambling about bullshit If youre not dependent on them you could consider taking a harder line by say making discussions of your health and medical care off limitsBoth my stepdad and my stepmom are way into alternative medicine My stepmom has always been willing to both argue and listen without getting defensive or taking it personally so she and I can discuss altmed My stepdad really cant so whenever he brings it up I essentially say Hmm thats interesting and change the subject Passiveaggressive Yes but hes a lonely middleaged guy with few friends or family so Ive chosen the less hurtful pathedit If youre interested in learning about actual medicine consider bookmarking and reading some science medicine or skeptical blogs I unintentionally learned a lot about clinical trials strength of evidence and logical fallacies from reading Respectful Insolence including the comments There are other good ones and I can find links if you want Wow Im so proud of you for breaking away and allowing yourself to have original individual thoughts Its good to question things even if you know youll stick with your previous ways at least youre considering other options I think the worst thing you could do right now is turn a 180 treating drugs and antibiotics and medicine the way your mom treats natural remedies It will be very important for you to develop a balance of the two mindsets of bodily care Your mom has some good points ie magnesium is necessary for a multitude of bodily functions but sometimes obviously drugs are necessary Just find the balance that works for youThe pill is great It makes life a lot simpler and after a month or two you get used to the daily time The hormones WILL affect you I have not tried a pill yet that I havent felt just a little bit different from It is trial and error and you should prepare to work through it Ive never had an IUD so I cant speak for those But it would be nice to never have to worry about itSo sorry for all the hard stuff youve been through Life gave you lemons hope you can make some yummy lemonade Acetaminophen aka Tylenol comes from Willow trees Actually many drugs on the market are made from extracts or synthesized versions of organic material Either way I feel bad for you But let me share my story and maybe itll make you feel a bit betterI had a lot of sinus issues as a kid I had my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was 11 I also have asthma I also have strange acne on my arms My mother has her conspiracies and believes in naturopathy but she wasnt as crazy about it as your mom My mom simply believes that the stuff on my arm is from strep staff and that I was infected in the hospital and because of the antibiotics I have taken the bacteria has become immuneUV exposure being in the sun helps to control the acne on my arms I also use simple sensitive skin products on my arms and face to exfoliate and that helps too I found that tea tree oil helps tons and the Body Shop makes a really nice toner with itI am very keen on keeping healthy eating the right stuff and not taking prescription medication However I still use Advil for migraines pain in moderation I have been taking BC since I was 15 a standard and gentle form I do and will take antibiotics Why Antibiotics are made from natural stuff Sure we have reactions but some people are allergic to many things because of the natural and organic substances that grow in them Believing that peanuts are dirty or corn which contains essential amino acids is silly by farFood is food and if it grows in the ground its probably good for you Geneticly modified products like corn or soybeans are something worth avoiding and not supporting on an economic and moral level for reasons I wont get into But avoiding all corn is silly and denying yourself of things you needAlso caffiene is not bad Go and get some green tea and drink that Its been known to help your mood and contains an amino acid that your nervous system can use There have been studies that it helps you concentrate and they have been testing it on people with Depression Alzheimers and several other nervoussystembased issuesNow there is no need to go on a junk food kick because junk food is called that for a reason but do eat anything that you feel is safe to consume and try to get your mothers words out of your headNow most importantly everything and anything you put in your body can potentially make you ill There are things we cannot see and maybe not know about what we consume However we run this same risk when we breathe in air or go swimming or leave our homes YOu only live once and living your entire life in fear and in lies isnt really living at allTell your mom you love her but she needs to let you make your own decisions for your own life I doubt you can convince her otherwise for her own decisions but she cannot make decisions for you It might be hard telling her this but for your own sanity it is necessaryMy mother had a psychotic episode when I was 14 If I did not make the decision to hospitalize her after she had told me the horrors of the drugs they would give her I would not have a mother nor would I have been able to grow up with my siblings because we would have been put into foster care The medications she was given in the hospital brought her out of psychosis and saved my mom Its been 8 years since that happened wow exactly 8 years my mom no longer takes medication and lives a quiet happy life and is still raising my younger brotherModern medicine is not evil entirely it is still driven by greedy pharmaceutical companies But you cannot see the world in black or white Either way go and educate yourself and make your own decisions I am glad you have already taken steps to stand up for yourself You should be proud of yourself Smile I too am sorry that you were influenced with some different views on health care I agree with Muddie either read up on everything you can online or even go into a doctors office and bombard them with questions I feel a lot of sympathy for you my mom was also strange in her own way Manchausen so I hope you get more and more freedom and independence from her as time goes on Hey First sounds like youve had a really hard time and you need to give yourself some credit for that dont beat yourself up and be proud of where youve come from and for deciding to think for yourselfIt sounds like theres a lot of things going on for your family the mental illness depression at the very least but potentially a bit more for your mom Ultimately though the only thing you can control is yourself and your own actions Youre on the right path but you will not be taking the path of least resistance for your family so it wont always be easy I would focus on yourself and frankly your medical actions arent anyone elses businessesI think naturalalternative medication can be fine BUT it is not a replacement for main stream doctors or medications Unfortunatley it sounds like your mom went to a quack and drank the koolaid while she was there Your job in taking care of yourself is to research and inform yourself Find a family doctor that you can trust and talk to them about your health concerns and also alternatives There will be times when an herbal supplement will perform the same function as a synthetic drug and there will be times when the best thing for you is the synthetic option The only way to know is to act in consultation with a medical professional and to do your research For example I traveled in a third world country and picked up a parasite eww I know My doctor said I had two options the medication would kill all bacteria and the parasite in my intestine but was very hard on the system and could have potential consequences or I could try probiotics to help boost the good bacteria and help my body kill off the parasite We started with the probiotics and have monitored and testedRegarding birth control I personally do not take the pill but use alternative methods always condom as well I dont thinkt he pill is for everyone but its certainly good for a great many people and theres no one pillSo if you find a reaction to one your doctor can monitor the dosage or try a different type If your history makes you even more leery about the pill look into other alternatives in the meantime At the very least always use a condom part of being healthy is preventative and if youre not ready for a baby you better be carefulIt sounds like the doctor your mom relies on twists logic Yes food and excersize plays a huge role in your health And the acne could very well have been partially caused by a food reaction I hope as you start this journey towards reclaiming your own health that you dont let his bad advice colour your understanding of the parts that were grounded in truth prior to being twisted in his own logicI know youre probably worried about your sister but shes an adult now too and you cant make decisions for her or force her to see the fallacy of what shes learned The best you can do is lead by example show them how you can be happy and healthy Build a relationship with her so she will start to question just as you areWhew sorry its long good luckPS I do get the dislike of taking pills My mom worked in a doctors clinic so I never saw a doctor Shed just rifle through the samples in the drawer and selfmedicate me from there It took me a long time to trust a doctor |
Any advice is greatly appreciated Ive heard that many become depressed knowing they can never eat certain foods again mac n cheese for example EDIT You guys are truly awesome thanks so much for all the advice and food suggestions | Celiac isnt as uncommon as you might think High quality glutenfree foods are readily available even macaroni |
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Who are the most respected guncontrol proponentsThe lobbyists My senator My representatives Celebrities | Its a very very small thing to do but Ive mentioned it elsewhereIn addition to lobbying your government representatives and supporting groups with what you believe to be the right approach to pursuing gun rights consider writing down logical coherent arguments and supporting evidenceEither print this in an easy to read pamphlet form and give it to friendscolleagues pamphleteering was once a very respected form of communicating political arguments or commit it to memory If youre not pushy or forceful youll have plenty of opportunities to engage others in conversations not arguments about the topic It may sound a bit silly but your goal can be to make people think about the issue and to provide them with interesting approaches to it without coming across as a dogmatic singleissue idiot Many antigun types see gun rights advocates as lunatics so if you can dispel that image with even a few people thats worth somethingI actually got a colleague at work to think about my arguments for a bit and managed to convince him And other people do vote |
This is based on the 360 version not the PCSo far the opinion I see on rgaming is that BC2 is better than MW2 at least for the multiplayer so far since there is no way to judge the single player yet Now I agree that BC2 gives a much more satisfying experience with their multiplayer than MW2 Heres my list of the top three reasons why BC2 is better than MW21 Dynamic battlefield You can destroy almost anything in the map Is there a particular building that you keep getting sniped from Blow that fucker up with a tank C4 RPG Grenade launcher Chopper or any number of other tools that will be unlocked in the full game Also the fact that the area of combat constantly changes unless the teams are insanely unbalanced or the defense is just really good In the demo map you start in one area and by the end of the match have reached a whole new area with each zone offering different obstacles and the ability for different tactics 2 The movement This sounds like a stupid thing to base a decision on but really Dice and the whole BF series just really tackle movement in a great way It feels like you are really controlling a real person MW2s character movement always seems really static bland and just not real Im not only talking about the way they animate your avatar as it runs around but the way you have to move through out the match Do you take a vehicle Jump in a chopper then parachute down Or just leg it to the combat zone Unlike MW2 where you just sprint around a small area BC2 has you actually thinking about troop movements and placements gtEDIT ON POINT 3 about starting guns in MW2 vs Older BF games Realized I was mistaken about MW2s starting guns This point is more about how BC2 improved on their fault 3 Weapons Unlocking MW2 I feel has taken on the old problem BF games had Namely the fact that the starting guns were pretty much average and the unlocked guns were just over powered and took a long time to unlockin BF games MW2s starting guns are more powerful At least from what Ive seen in the demo most of the guns are pretty evenly matched with just minor advantages and disadvantages attributed to them unlike in older BF games like 2142 where the Zellers sniper was way better than the starting sniper Take the two sniper rifles for example The starting rifle is a standard bolt action rifle that is very powerful but takes forever to reload This makes it good for long range attacks but if youre trying to move around you are really limited to one shot with the rifle then trying to use your pistol to finish an enemy off The unlocked rifle however is semi auto has a shorter range and is a bit weaker Not so good for long range attacks although still usable but great for mid range and you can somewhat hip fire with itWhen it comes to the unlocking systems in MW2 vs BC2 I feel BC2 did it better In MW2 its mainly a grind to just unlock weapons as you go along Get X amount of exp and reach Y level to unlock Z gun regardless of whether or not you want that gun I didnt really like this system but didnt really have anything to compare it too I hadnt played a BF game since 2142 and had forgotten about how BF did it In BC2 it feels more natural If you play Engi or Assault mainly you unlock guns that help you with that class and its job You just unlock them by doing your job I got the SCAR for engi by killing tanks with the RPG and repairing Vehicles Unlike MW2 where you just grind EXP and get whatever gun is on the list I use mainly SMGs in MW2 but half the time I unlock guns I dont use dont want and that dont help me do what I do although in MW2 your only job is kill enemies most of time unless you play the objective play lists where even though the goal is different everyone still plays it as deathmatch with a secondary goal In BC2 I get rewarded for doing a particular job with weapons that help me do that job gtAnother edit to clarify another point that people keep commenting on About unlocking Guns vs AttachmentsThis is just about the base guns in the game Ive heard that there will be unlockable attachments in BC2 but so far in the Demo I havent found a way to do it or its not in the demo yet But I do like the way you unlock most basic attachments for guns in MW2 ie use the gun and get stuff for it Im kinda ambivalent in the ways it has you unlock some attachments by performing X type of kill to get Y attachment Like with the Heartbeat monitor you need silencer kills I get that both help sneakier players but the HB monitor is useful period not just as a sneaking class attachment Same with extended mags Why do I need to use FMJ and get penetration kills to get more ammo That one doesnt flow as well as silencergtHb monitor Well have to see about how BC2 does it but I assume it will be similar Now there are other reasons such as you not having to worry about fucking bitch classes at least not yet like a marathon pro hardline pro commando pro with tac knife and carepackage marker But for the most part these are the reasons why I like BC2 so much better than MW2 gtOne more editI can sum up my feelings like this MW2 arcade game BC2 simulation MW2 is simple and kinda flat when it comes to gameplay and the kind of tactics you can use BC2 seeks to suck you into a simulation of a battle with each person taking on a role and giving you an atmosphere of more realistic battle with many more tactics at your disposal | httpimgurcomo3vUJpngI think that sums it up nicelyThis is literally why I didnt buy MW2 and am instead playing BFBC2 Team play End of story I can play MW2 with 3 friends and it doesnt mean shit for our team I can play BFBC2 or any BF game and the four of us can lead a coordinated charge or set up an ambush on defense Teamwork is what does it for meThat and the guns arent outofcontrol powerful I like shooters where the fight isnt determined almost entirely by who saw who first Here is my best analogy mw2 is a Micheal Bay war epic bc2 is a Stephen Speilberg war epic Both are completly awesome but it all boils down to if you like plot twists and awesome explosions or realism and slower paced I dont like either above the other but I can apprieciate the fact that millions obviously will You have to think alot in bc2 so the problem is that will attract AND ward off equal numbers of people Do yourself a favor and enjoy them both if youre a fan of realistic modern warfare shooters neither is to be missed I havent played much MW2 but this is what I like from BC2 You can blow almost EVERYTHING up There is literally almost nothing that will be standing after a tank shell explodes on it Every class compliments each other You need an assault class to resupply your ammo a medic to heal up your squad an engineer to take out those pesky tanks and a recon to snipe and C4 your way through buildings All of these rolls are really fun to play In MW2 however everybody pretty much just tries to kill as much as they canThats pretty much all I can say so far as I havent played it too much and I dont own MW2 2 I always felt the opposite Call of Duty is where you actually feel like your the dude Blo Strawberry jam soaking the screen watching your hands as you mantle over cover All that jazz Bad company 2 is the first battlefield that actually feels like your a dood not a pair of hands holding a gun which is good3 MW2s UMP45 is arguably the best gun in the game You can pretty much just slam the enter button through multiplayer and your very first spawn will be with one of the most powerful guns in the gameAlmost all weapons in Bad Company 1 and 2 are in one of the Modern Warfare games both cod4 and MW2 and TBQH the ones that are in both games feel exactly the same IE the F2000 oversized SMG to the maxor the UMP the uber gunOh and the AK in MW2 is hardly overpowered the only overpowered gun was the 1887s and only when dual wielding It might feel that way if you dont have it unlocked but any gun in CoD or Bad Company is overpowered in the hands of a skilled playerAm I the only person who likes having a whole lot of guns that are difficult to unlock I like having something fun to look forward to which is why prestige mode in CoD is cool When I hit General in Bad Company 1 I slowly lost interest in the gameOh and believe me it will take a long time to unlock all of the guns in Bad Company At least IW didnt give you weapons for buying the game early or crap like thatNow dont get me wrong I love bad company For the longest time about a 3 month span it and world of warcraft were the only two games Id play often at the same time Both of the games are great but comparing them is like comparing an orange and a slightly different orangeHowever Reddit will disagree with me because PC gamers are the majority of Reddit and Bad Company has dedicated servers Mind you I hardly call it an advantage when you have to pay EA for the servers BC2 is far from a simulation if anything it is an arcade game exactly like cod but with different aspects I like the BC2 Beta but if BF3 if it does ever come out is anything like BC I will be very disappointed Ive always been a big fan of both the COD and BF series My heart goes out more to BF but I stopped playing BF2 after COD4 came out And then MW2 came out and there were a lot of improvements but also a lot of things that were made worse Its really fun when you dont get jolted out of immersion by lag griefers or host migrationBC2 Holy shit I cant even begin to explain how amazing this game is Because of the scope and scale of the maps along with the paradoxical interplay between the ridiculously tight teamplay and coordination and the sheer chaos of everything going around you it really feels like the first in the next generation of PC FPS gamesAnd this is just from one map and one game mode in the beta Holy shit Ive already played 17 hours and theres just so much you can do You can stealthily rush objectives with the recon and clandestinely blow them up with C4 or you can be an engineer and alternate between repairing the main battle tank you stole from the enemy and playing the turret gunner on top taking care of the infantry as they try to blow you up Or you can just go to the frontlines as a medic or an assault and duke it out as cover and trees blow up all around you forcing you to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE while reviving your downed teammates so they can help keep you aliveGoing back to MW2 after this is like playing Wolfenstein after going to Guadalcanal for the first time in BF1942 MW2s far more about the individual and what he can do to other individuals BC2s far more about the squads and what they can do to the environment around them as they face multimodal threats MW2 is still fun but its not even fair to compare the two games If I want 15 minutes of fun Ill take MW2 If I want 36 hours of incredible gaming pleasure Ill take BC2But thats only if you have a good squad you can SkypeVent with Otherwise the game is really different I cant believe how few medics revive each other or assaults drop ammo or engis repair vehicles Sigh To me they are borderline two separate genres MWMW2 follow much more closely games like Counter Strike Battlefield is much more in the tradition of something like Tribes The first is a twitch shooter set with real weapons The second leans more towards the tactical For my money I think MW2 just does things that are old hat to me Ive done the twitch shooter thing years ago and rehashing the same thing over and over again on new maps just isnt that interesting to me anymore Something like BC2 with tactical choices vehicles destructible landscapes etc It feels fresh yet familiar in that its roots are still visible BC2 is far from the simulation you mention but still closer to it than the likes of MW2 EDIT Also little things like bullet physics instead of hitscan go a long way with me You see the MW2 players complaining the BC2 feels unresponsive but thats because they are used to to paraphrase Yahtzee a point and click adventure game where the only action is use gun on man that is to say instant feed back as soon as you shoot The reason BC2 feel sluggish to a lot of these players is because actions that take time actually TAKE TIME in BC2 I mean they are games so its not like one is better than the other in some sort of objective sense but they are very different and in the end BC2 is just tons more enjoyable as a total experience for me at this point in my gaming career You missed one huuge partSoundThe sound effects in this game are just absolutely pristineIn MW2 all the gun and explosion sounds are half assed Ive heard AR15s fire in the air The m16a4 just does no justice to the whole thingThe BC2 you feel absolutely immersed into a battlefield As you hear bullets flying and shells drop you immediately hit the floor and your ears begin to almost bleed from the shellsEvery explosion and gun sound is done to best of DICEs ability without truely screwing up your ears The game really makes you appreciate silence in a battlefield after an hour of straight explosionsOh and yeah its great to just naturally blow things up to get passed them |
I was surprised to see this on Amazon being that Royden died over 15 years ago and the last edition of the book was published in 88 Ive never read the original but it is traditionally the required text for my universitys 4th year real analysis course which I will be taking in the fall So this question is more out of curiosity than anything else | I worked on it with Dr Fitzpatrick who did the rewrite Its a good book He made a lot of changes that I think are pretty necessary Also the index is much improved which if youve used the 3rd editions index is a very good thing I can answer more specific questions if you likeEdit removed a statement until I can back it up with facts |
My boss is a great cook and is looking to quit his current job and open up a restaurantbar here in town He is still trying to figure out a name He will be opening his place in AggievillehttpenwikipediaorgwikiAggieville and my coworkers and I have been trying to think up a cool name for itReddit what are some cool names you can think up It will be mostly college students and drunk ones at that who would come to this place so anything collegeexperience related would be a bonus My idea was Sloppy Seconds which I think is a great name but probably wouldnt be the bestAs requestedHis first name is Dave and he was originally thinking of calling his place Bolltrons Bolltron is a play on his last name and is his handle for anything online that he does As far as food goes think bar food I havent discussed his menu in detail with him but I know hes gonna have slidersburgers hot and cold sandwiches etc etc Aggieville itself is literally right across the street from campus and is kinda famous or even infamous perhaps locally as a place for students to go out and party | The Library Mom Im at the library tonight or maybe the Study Group Dad Im meeting my friends in the Study Group or maybe Im At Work Keep on keeping on |
I fully expect a jailbreak to be out within no time and we have yet to see what apps will be created to make our lives easier When I first heard about the device that will change the world I assumed it would be a portable remote control computer for your whole home network I still have high hopes once the apps hit the market Remote is currently one of my favorite apps on my phone and Im willing to bet the iPad will bring even more | I am not concerned at all I look forward to getting mine to replace the lap top that I use around the house The AUD250000 MacBook was overkill for what I need email and the internet when away from my iMac No I think most of these limitations are being exaggerated by people who are trying desperately to compare it to something else rather than just looking at it for what it is and what its meant to do Remember the first iteration of the iPod the one from 2001 Think about where we are now This is the promise of the iPad Its first iteration IS a really big iPod Touch plus 3G if you want it But all those complaints of it doesnt have this or that be patient the iPad introduced in 2015 will In the mean time I want my giant Touch I have an app on my iPhone that will control all of my Macs remotely The problem screen size of the iPhone The one thing that I have on my list is a remote type app But I have to shop around |
She is 35 recently divorced 8 month ago two kids 34 years old and I am 32 single no kids We are both selfemployed she runs a cam girl website and I am a marketing counselor We met at the local tax office exchanged numbers workrelated met a few times at her place I helped her with accounting and other stuff I got interested in her told her about it she played the just friendscard and I was fine with it at that point We got to know each other better watched movies went to the park with her kids went to concerts etc and I developed stronger feelings and guessed it was the same for her One evening we talked on the phone and the time felt right for me to tell her about it again She said that she thinks she feels the same and we talked for many hours from about the weather all up to our sexual fantasies until she fell asleep at 3 am She called me right in the morning invited me over and after maybe 30 minutes of talking we started to cuddle and had sex Later we collected her kids from kindergarten and ate lunch together By the the time I got home 20 minutes I already got a mail from her She wrote that she didnt want what happened and that she really really likes me just as a friend I called her we talked about it agreed that it was a nice adventure and to be just friends from now on Three days later I went over to her to actually help her out with some minor workrelated problem but and it didnt take much more than a greetinghug to end up in bed again When I went home a mail from her was already there again She wrote that she likes me so much that we can talk about everything that I get on so well with her kids but she is very sorry because she just isnt looking for a relationship and she really hopes I can understand it I called her again and we eventually agreed on casual sex from time to time Soon the talking ended up in phone sex and she asked me to drive right back over to her to spend the night together Things went great for about four month and although she insisted to call it a special friendship it really was a relationship We saw each other 45 times a week did all sorts of activities together even told each other I love you sometimes and were constantly holding hands and kissing whereever we went To our friends families and her kids who already started to call me Dad we were a couple right from the start One evening after her daughters birthday party however I got another mail from her To my great surprise she wrote that she wants this to end before one of us falls in love I thought we were both beyond that already that us being special friends ruins our friendship and that we shouldnt see each other for some time For me this came out of nowhere I tried to call her but she didnt answer so I wrote back asking her what the matter is if I did something wrong and that I love her and be very fond of her kids The next day she wrote back stating that me loving her would be the problem that she never made a secret out of just wanting to be friends with me and if I wouldnt finally understand that we couldnt see each other ever again I really didnt know how to react to this so I just agreed that we shouldnt see each other for a while and secretly hoped she would write back or call me soon and maybe just try to give us a chance Now this was more than two weeks ago and I guess I already missed the perfect time to get in touch with her again I am very uncertain as to what to do now since this wouldnt be the first time I would be making things even worse by acting wrong so I figured I should take advice first I love her and want to be together with her but if that really means she would break up the contact altogether then it wouldnt be worth to push it or would it I really dont know and I dont know if a normal friendship with her would even work after all of this I guess it would be very hard for me to move on still being around her and her kids I think that she loves me too and that she is anxious about a new relationship due to her divorce Maybe she even has still feelings for her ex too since they were married for six years and he left her for another woman but I really dont want to assume too much Perhaps its something else I already made the mistake of thinking for her in my last relationship So what is the best thing I could do now How should I approach her mail call showing up on her doorstep What should I say Thank you for your time and help Edit I called her and asked how she and the kids were doing and if she wants to see me She was peeved at me for some reason and asked if I really think that my behavior was ok I tried to figure out what she means which got her kind of angry and before I would get angry as well I eventually just got to the point It went like this I want to talk to you about us There is no us I think there could be I told you that I just want to be friends with you Look I like you and your kids and I am sorry but I now know that being just friends with you is not an option for me as I would only hurt myself I think that you considered a relationship with me at some point too and that I messed it up I dont know how but I know that I am serious about wanting to be together with you sighs Ok I told you that being just friends was ok for me and I thought that it would work It didnt I didnt plan to fall in love with you but you cant make me apologize for that I I dont want you to apologize for anything Why do you always have to make things so complicated I dont feel ready for a new relationship and I told you this and if you push things you force me to back out but we already had a relationship didnt we We You really dont understand I hoped you would but you just dont get it No I dont but I dont think that I am the one making things complicated Why dont you just explain it to me I am tired of talking to you and have other things to do right now than having pointless discussions Have a nice evening Bye Well I guess thats pretty much it then Thank you all for your advices and kind words I will leave it at that and try to move on Perhaps its just not meant to be Maybe someone can point out how exactly I messed that up once again but I can live with she just really doesnt want to best | Women with children are looking at a lifetime of commitment Their main priority and path is laid out and what they need to do is generally very clear to them However children just cant fulfill the needs of an adult So my guess is when she played the Just Friends card she was actually playing the Are you strong enough to be my partner card Falling in love is sweet and nice and all but she is not going to invest emotionally in that like a younger woman without kids would She wants you to be the man which means you take control on some level you control your emotions so they dont interfere with or distract her from her life priorities Its confusing to her and you because she still has the need for love and good sex But my guess is she is afraid of losing her focus and of acquiring another emotional burden of a starstruck lover YOUIf you want to be with her stop talking about it prove that you are committed for a lifetime dont say it earn her trust A couple of weeks isnt anything when you are looking at the big picture so show her that you are not going to get all floppy and emotional over her otherwise enjoy the unattached fling and move on Chances are shes still reading any emails that you send her shes just not replying Heres the thing shes obviously hesitant to get into this relationship and it sounds like you have no idea why She may not either but Im sure youd like to talk to her about itHeres what Id do Id send her an email or drop a letter in her mailbox and start off acknowledging her feelings I understand that you dont want an intimate relationship with me right now and I respect that and will not pursue anything more This is important to set her at ease before jumping into the rest At this point I really just want to understand your hesitation and why you feel that intimacy would damage our friendship I know that I would like to continue to be friends for both you and your kids as you all mean very much to me But you have to be okay with these terms If youre not then move onIve made the mistake before of getting into a relationship with certain terms and then once I was in it wanting to accelerate things to the next level It sabotaged the whole thing and got me nowhere My emotions took over Hopefully youll have more self control than I do |
INFOWARShttpwwwinfowarscom is listed as a permanent link on the homepage of the Drudge Reporthttpwwwdrudgereportcom Im not a fan of the Drudge Report by any means but just think about how many people that site reaches daily Keep up the good fight people | Alex Jones Really Really really And people wonder why I criticize 11 votes up and 2 down so far Says it all look it turns a lot of people onto Ron Paul even free market economics sometimesso overall its good |
Inspired by thesehttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsamad2whatwasyourmostfavoritetvshowthatwas threadshttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsambx3whatwasyourfavoritecartoonasakidFor me it was Beavis and Butthead I later found out that my parents didnt have a problem with the show really But they were afraid of getting angry calls from teachers and parents if I repeated what was said in the episodes | My mom never wanted to watch The Simpsons because she always associated it with Bart being a bad influence back when he was the star of the showFunny thing is wed frequently make her watch it anyway while we had pizza Sundays and shes laugh her butt off D Then shed go right back to hating it to save face I wasnt allowed to watch captain planet my dad was a farmer and he felt it was hippy environmentalist bull crap |
Windows and Microsoft Office 2003 Each of the modules is broken into sections which when completed will provide the student with a good understanding and introduction to the overall operations of a computer system and to some of the available software applications and functions of the computing environment Each module includes various activities assignments and quizzes for assessment purposes Students who are considering a career in the Information Technology IT field or in any profession involving highend computer applications would benefit from the user skills IT120 is designed to develop Although there are no prerequisites basic keyboarding skills would be an asset for students taking this courseThe Windows module introduces the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems Software and the features of this popular computing environmentThe Microsoft Office 2003 module includes five software sections MS Word 2003 data processing MS Excel 2003 spreadsheet MS PowerPoint 2003 presentation MS Outlook 2003 email and MS Access 2003 database The units combined will fully introduce the complete Microsoft Office 2003 Suite to students | As a student getting to play with hardware for example taking apart a desktop computer and putting it back together was pretty interesting Especially learning something like replacing RAM which can save you 40 or so in service fee depending on where you go As an instructor its not a very difficult thing to teach Beforehand show them all the major parts of a desktop on a Powerpoint and then let them go at it Id say computer security basics would be nice keep your software up to date dont download from anywhere that cant be trusted what is phishing scan your computer with antivirusesantimalware and the difference between them etc Offer extra credit for exploring a linux livecd its not something that you likely could require but might give motivated students a chance to learn how to rescue a windows computer or corrupted hard drive using a livecdAlso the differences between Windows Linux and Mac and the proscons of each operating systemFinally what the numbers on a computer advertisement mean Why having a computer with a 1 TB hard drive doesnt mean that its faster Not sure if this quite falls in the scope of your course maybe compare to other IT courses at the school but I think internet knowledge is crucial to kids going forwardWhat the internet IS how things are connected how theyre stored what makes it possible for me to sit down at my computer in California and read the New York Times or see the picture my friend took in Boston yesterday and uploaded to Flickr Why its not a series of tubes Why its not technically correct to say My internet is broken How wifi worksHow to USE the internet How to do an effective Google search How to use Wikipedia clue not by editing the penis page to include a picture of your best friend How to tell a reliable source from an unreliable one online maybe how to use snopescom to verify that email your aunt forwarded you before you send it on to everyone else you know Nettiquette What not to put on your Facebook page and why What not to put on your blog What not to tell strangers in a chat room Why comment anonymously doesnt mean be an assholeAlso probably a good idea to teach them about IP law and music piracy You dont need to be judgmental about it and take a moral stance on one side or the other but let them know what their rights currently are and what the potential consequences could be if they download music illegally and happen to be the poor schmuck that gets sued by the RIAA Open up a case and show them the partsShow them different web browsers and some web page sourceHow to GoogleHow to back up their work |
It gets worse a lot worsebut let me start at the beginningTwo months ago my girlfriend had her mind set to move in with me At the time I was living in a shabby little room in a basement suite with low ceilings and no ventilation She didnt want to live there with me but she did want to live with me so we looked on Craigslist for a room to share togetherNormally when you rent a room youre concerned first of all with the place itself and only secondarily with the tenants We wanted to do things the other way around we would find some good people to live with and then any flaws in the place itself we would just fixSo on this basis we set out looking Note that both my girlfriend and I are living on student loans a student loan budget in BC allocates 500 a month for rent so thats what we each were at most willing to pay We went through several ordeals in this processfrom the people that told us that we were perfect for the place and then gave it to someone else while we were wandering around the neighborhood looking at the location to the creepy unkempt place owned by a usedcar salesman type who talked us into signing for a damage deposit before we had even had a chance to think about it thus putting us out 300 for nothing at all Finally though we found itThe place itself looked great when I first came to look at it The people were nicean older valleygirlwholostthepopularitycontest type of girl and a huge wellbuilt guy with tattoos who was quiet at first but turned out to be a geek We signed for it immediately I asked if there would be a damage deposit She said there would be no need but that they would lower the rent from 950 to 850 if we would take the place immediately So we took it on the 28th of NovemberMy girlfriend was living with her parents at the time so she couldnt move out until at least the month after but she gave me her half of the rent for the place anyway She figured shed be over enough that it was worth it Also being students we were both 20 we didnt own any furniture but the place was completely furnished so that was alrightthey even provided a bed with one of those memoryfoam things We unpacked everything on December 1st and thus did I have a roomDecember was uneventful Two important things happened though first I met the landlord around December 13th when he came to deliver a heater as apparently the central heating just wasnt strong enough He asked me who I was and I told him my name and that I was living at the place He seemed to pay it no mind Second I found out that the guy and girl I was subletting from had only lived at the place themselves for a monthCome January all sorts of things started to go wrong with the place The ownerprovided dryer broke there was a water leak that flooded my room it got fixed the fireplace turned out to not be up to code and was disallowed from being used And the guy and girl complained about the place even more than that apparently the floor in the living room wasnt level and when a vacuum cleaner was plugged into the wall in their bedroom the circuit breaker would flip The seemed unhappyOn January 5th they came to me with this We have bad news and even worse news The bad news is that the water leak may have been even worse than we thought according to the plumber and so we have to move everything out of your room and the living room That brings us to the worse newser well worse for you we were bidding on a house in Surrey and we gave a really low bid that we completely didnt expect to get but we got it anyway So instead of just shifting all our stuff to one side of the house were moving out TomorrowAt this point I could have myself moved out I should have However my girlfriend and I had just spent a month looking for a place and we didnt want to do it again We wanted to stay I asked them how they paid their rentthey said its automatically withdrawn from our account at the beginning of the month Since it was the 5th this would mean that they had already paid for this month so I gave them my rent for the monthin cashand watched them move out knowing that I would have this place for another monthJust then school started In the rush to get all of my stuff out of their furniture I hadnt even registered for courses so it took me the next two weeks to get everything straightened out I lived in the place alone sleeping on the floor for two weeks with my parents intending to bring furniture from their housea few hundred miles outin the following month The place was damned dirty the guy and girl hadnt cleaned up after themselves after moving out My girlfriend and I bought cleaning supplies and did as best we could to make everything livable but we didnt have the time really I was going to try to get it done this weekend So that brings me to yesterdayI came home yesterday Friday to find a notice on my door apparently posted at noon that your last cheque has bounced and we have been unable to get in contact with you for two weeks If you do not vacate the premises by noon tomorrow we will be forced to enter your house by force MgmtMy girlfriend called the number posted on the door it was the first contact information we had found for the landlord until then we had no idea how we were going to get into contact with him and told him that we wanted to begin renting the place in February but this only made him angrier He then gave us these facts The guy and girl had signed a lease with him promising to stay for a year They didnt so their contract was nullified whether or not they payed this last debt Even if they had stayed apparently their contract with him disallowed them from subletting the place So they had been in breach of contract from the moment I moved in on December 1st When he had asked the guy who I was he had said I was his brother and was just staying for a few daysI also went to a neighbour who was renting from the same landlordthey owned more than one property in the area and asked her about them Apparently she had heard that they werent living in Surrey now but in North Vancouver with the girls parents because the guy had lost his job Theyve taken my money and disappeared I never even got their phone number I also dont have any proof that I was paying them to live there although I do have plenty of people that visited and witnessed me living in a room thereWhat do I do I dont know anyone in this city I need to keep going to school And I need to be out by tomorrow | 6046601020 or 6042550546 call them now In British Columbia renters have a huge amount of rights even for subletting I dont know all your details those numbers are for the Residential Tenancy Branch of the BC GovernmentAs far as Im away they cant give you one days notice it has to be at least 1month Even if you are illegally subletting Make sure the landlord knows your contacting the RTB if nothing but to give yourself more time to get outhttpwwwrtogovbcca is their official website I have known a woman who acted exactly like you and she was 34 thenWorse she did it again several times for renting houses or buying carsYou are naive a lot or you trust people too easilyWhen dealing with real estate rent or buy you need written agreementsAt least try not to get tricked once more Never ever again Good luck This is why you need a rock solid contract If you dont have everything in writing Im afraid your best option is to move out and count it as a learning experience unless the landlord lets you take over their contract |
So Im 16 have finished my schooling for my first semester and have a couple weeks off until my new semester begins Is it normal for someone my age to be bored with life right now What are some things I can do to make things better | Cultivate interests and hobbies Take risks by stepping outside of your comfort zone And it is normal for people your age to be bored with life Isnt that every 16 year olds slogan Im bored Totally normal Get a girlfriend or two Highschool doesnt matter if you get good grades Feel free to get into trouble if its fun and doesnt involve jail time punk rock kept me from getting bored if you find the music appealing find yourself a venue with a pretty good calendar and have fun there I was about sixteen when I first started going to shows High school has a tendency to dull your nerves Things get more interesting once you get the fuck out of there trust me Have you tried psilocybin mushrooms Other than that yepthis is all there is Enjoy it while it lasts I assume you still live with your parents The Real World can be pretty sweet Of course youll likely look back when youre older and wish you were idlebored againEdit And this is meant inspirationally as it was back then but my grandmas stock reply when wed complain that we were bored was Only stupid people get bored |
I have this httpwwwrondomusiccomspadblackhtmlAnd I like itWhen I bought it I read around and heard that all I had to do was change the pickups to get a really good sound out of itA couple months later and I think I can finally afford to buy new pickups But I dont know ANYTHING about guitar hardwareSo could anyone help me out as to what I should buy or what I should be looking for I like classic rock sounding guitar but I dont want to feel completely limited I dont really know what I wantI know I have to change the pickups but what should I look for or does anyone have any recommendations As well as some place to order themIf I bought a new set of pickups could I install them myself If so how hard would it be Or should I take it to a luthier Here in my country Puerto Rico there are apparently two well known and apparently good guitar luthiers I know where one of them is and the other one probably isnt that hard to find as wellIm not really rich Im a college student And I dont know how much ordering two pickups could cost me as well as factoring in installation and tuneupIn another note my guitar is giving back a lot of feedback I cant turn up the volume too much Its not the amps fault because with other guitars both my amps Roland Micro Cube and a Marshall 10watt it sounds fine and I can even turn the volume up to the maximum if I feel like itThanks very much for all answers I appreciate it | Seymour Duncan JB for the bridgeSeymour Duncan Jazz for the neckReally great pickups that can cover basically any style that guitar looks awesome unfortunately pickups worth purchasing as an upgrade will cost close to about the price of your guitarCeramic pickups like the ones that seem to be included in your guitar are generally higher output but are not as versatile in clean or low gain threshold of breaking up situationsGibson 498t i think this is the model number whatever the les paul studios come with or seymour duncan JB for the bridge are pretty versatile rock guitar pickups These both sound similar they are both hot alnico magnets and well priced 8090 USDA lot of people with basswood body guitars like EMG active pickups I cant comment as i dont own a guitar made of basswoodIf you want something a little more vintage sounding seymour duncan pearly gates are pretty cool To be honest you cant go wrong with any pickup in the 80 USD range as they will most likely all be a significant improvement over whats in there now I wouldnt get too caught up in trying to decide what to get There are just too many choices out there and almost all of them are goodAs far as installation it shouldnt be too hard even if you have little to no soldering experience There are plenty of great videos online that demonstrate what you need to knowGood luckEDIT you may also consider changing the volume and tone pots if theyre crummy pickup MFGer or online community boards can recommend some Having had a couple of the Rondo guitars they are nice Never had one of the douglas models but I assume they are similar to the SX stuff Basically GiantStonedBot is correct get a set of Alnico magnet pickupsSeymour Duncans gibsons hell any of them will most likely be a huge improvementThese are cheap and decent GuitarFetishhttpstoreguitarfetishcompickupshtml I have a vintage FAT PAF in a Agile 335 mockoff that I leave at the practice room sounds pretty darn goodInstalling 1 do you have any idea how to soldier Or Are you mechanically inclined1a Are you good at following directionsIf yes to both then you need a couple tools screwdriver pliers and a soldering iron A pencil typehttpwwwamazoncomSolderingIronSolderPencilCraftdpB001KVW7CCrefsr11ieUTF8ampshiampqid1262637464ampsr81 and a little bit of solder resin core type This is a very simple job There are tonshttpwwwgooglecomsearchhlenampsourcehpampqinstallingguitarpickupsampaqfampaqiampoqampemsgNCSRampeiRlJCS4nzHo3sMdbSqKIF of qualityhttpwwwseymourduncancomsupportchoosinginstallinginstallingpick resources onlineTo do this 1 before you unsolder anything draw a detailed diagram of how it is make sure you know what is gonna go where on the new pickupsHumbuckers will have 2 or 4 wires if you just want humbuckers and no split coil you then solder 2 of the wires together so now it is all have 2 wires So really you are talking 4 wires to solder 12 screws 4 per pickup frame 2 per pickup mount x 2 this is an easy job really google up a storm Also there are reviews out the YingYang at Harmony CentralhttpreviewsharmonycentralcomreviewsElectricGuitarPickup One further note A vintage Hot pickup is hot enough to do some metal type stuff and mellow enough to do clean stuff and you go down in output the extreme performance generally goes down and as you go down in output the hot performance goes down these are general rulesI have a MIJ 62 Strat with Rio Grandes which will do 80s thrash with single coils and sounds stupendous clean and amazing everywhere in between It will not do Extreme MetalPickups will customize the sound of a solid body electric about as much as anything you can do have fun but every choice is a compromise Id check out that Fat PAF from Guitarfetish as well If you know which end of a soldiering iron to hold you can install pickups Also check out httpwwwagileguitarforumcom theres a great community of shadetree luthiers there that are fairly OCD about Rondo guitars Theyll help you out in a pinch Ive built many many electric guitars looking for the right sound I was barking up the wrong tree Its the amplifier You are not going to get the sound you are looking for with those amps no matter what you spend on pickups If you really must go that way let me know and Ill mail you some spares for nothing Youll need a soldering iron and be fairly handy with tools thoughLikely what you are getting from your amp is microphonic feedback from the pickup Many pickups are dipped in hot wax so that the coils cannot reverberate The ones on your guitar maybe not so much Back off on the highs or stand further away from the ampIf you are looking for a distorted sound maybe you should go tube I bought a 1 watt Blackheart Ant from Amazon for like 129 Its great for slide practice because you can turn it all the way up for full on distortion and its no louder than TV volumeGood luck and youre welcome to the pickups if you want them |
The scarf is finally done It took my wife forever to do it but she got excited near the end and worked really hard on it I hope she creates some more and maybe tries a different design so that each one is individual and special Let me know what you thinkReversible BaconReddit Scarf Finalhttptwitpiccomwryd6Bacon sidehttptwitpiccomwryymBacon side full viewhttptwitpiccomwrz1aAs of right now I dont think she as any kind of pattern available to post for those that were interested She did it all from scratch and I think she went to 500 in terms of the knits She literally just did it from scratch but Ill see what info I can get from her | You know its considered normal to sell knitted goods for about twice the cost of materials not that your wife would need that information until she sets up a way for redditors to start ordering themAlso if she can make a pattern Ravelryhttpwwwravelrycomtourpeek They love their geeky items over therehttplunastrixaeblogspotcom200601fsmsightedhtml would be a fantastic place to put it but really the opportunity to make money exists here |
Hes a mid twenties male Were clearly both very attracted to each other and Im a pretty active lover but he couldnt keep it hard Happened the first two times we tried to have sex This was last two days Is this more likely something Im doing wrong or is this a common problem for some peopleeditThanks Reddit | Its not you This happens to more guys than are willing to admit it All it takes is it happening once or twice then it starts hitting your confidence and you may even start avoiding sex to avoid the soulcrushing disappointment of going soft during sex If you let it get out of hand it can really start affecting both of your confidence Just take the pressure off engage in more foreplay and be patient And remember its not you Its never the woman though you can help himIts nearly always nerves If it was a common problem I doubt the guy would initiate sex at all for fear of it happening all the timeWhen it happened to me with a girl twice too inside I was beating myself up something terrible which only makes the problem worseYou just go back to foreplay Hell be embarrassed but just get off him give him a quick handjob till it is rock hard not just kind of hard ROCK FUCKING HARD and then start up again If you do it before he is absolutely solid then it just wont go in hell lose the sensation and itll go floppy Ill tell you the worst thing to do and thats nothing When I was trying to get it on with the girl I mentioned above she just lay there next to me watching me trying to stimulate myself Almost certainly not It happens its embarrassing because it makes you less of a man RWAR and then it feeds back into getting in your own head The best you could do it just make sure that hes comfortable and lower the pressure of the situationIf it keeps up get him a cock ring or Viagra unfortunate that theyre necessary but whatevs keep up the lovin As a male I have encountered this in the past and it sucks Its all in his head he was probably anticipating this for a while and now that the time has come hes nervous or just has too much going on in his head Which means he likes you a lot Play it off like its no big deal and let time take its course Things will come around sooner than you know it Try not to let this fuck w his head Poor guy Doesnt have anything to do with you unless possibly he finds you intimidating in bed He could be going off early and then getting soft or it could be ED or something similar A cock ring or viagra would probably help and a cock ring would be less damaging to his ego This happens sometimes It can be him being turned off distracted dehydrated over stimulated from very frequent sex related to medication etc It could be you or something youre doing but dont necessarily assume thats the issue Its probably nerves you just met after all His mind is swimming with thoughts of if hes being decent and good at it too much to just enjoy itJust dont express disappointment It will make him feel like shit Encourage him with your hands and mouthIf still nothing take a breakCome back at him in 30 minutes or so lick his earlobe and whisper Wanna try again Make him know you find him desireable even with his poor prior performance That will make him feel like youre not going to judge him for it and hell be more comfortable and let go of some of his nervousness Dont make a big deal out of this I had a similar problem with my last bf it usually happened when he was tired or stressed out or highly strung that day He was all wtf this never happens and I could tell it was an issue for him and something he was embarassed about I just said not a big deal lets just go to sleep I honestly dont think its a big deal if it just happens every so often because of outside causes I highly doubt that its you not to put a dampner on your attraction with your bf Im sure you are a sexy lady who he is attracted to if hes dating you but most guys would get hard for sex in general even if the lady in question wasnt all that attractive Im sure it isnt you Just be understanding and hope the problem works itself out If it doesnt he might consider seeing a doctor |
My earliest memory is me asking my mother why she was crying It was back when she had shoulder length curly hair and their bedroom was purple Then I remember when I closed my finger in the car door it was on the hinge side by the plastic dashboard and I was only 5 or so so I didnt break it I remember my dad taught me how to ride a bike in that lot across the street I remember Davids boat I remember when David asked me to come close because he had some candy for me I remember when my dad had to pick me up at Judys house my mom didnt sit for a month I remember when I drew on my shoes my mom yelled at me my dad threw them out the car window and yelled at me some more but not about the shoes then I went home on my socks I remember my dad said to say it my mom is a fucking cunt he yelled say it I said it I remember my dad reported that I moved and got me kicked out of school I remember when Adrian and i played college kids and we got caught I remember when Samantha and I played and we didnt get caught I remember when I took a sip of my uncle Bobs funny tasting orange juice he said no no not that one this one is yours I remember when my mom told me that papa died she didnt let me see her cry that time but it would have been OK if she did I remember papa on the roof fixing the leak I held the ladder I remember the pizza place do you think a single mom hired a cop to sock a dad in front of his son only my dad has the balls to think that only my dad would have the balls to do that I vaguely remember the fights but i remember the silence well when i just sat in the hall didnt talk and waited for my mom I remember camp when i pulled out my penis and got sent home I remember when I was dared to do it again I mocked like I was gonna everyone looked away and jeered to the councilor it looked like I did it I was sent home again I remember Alice I think I trusted her I remember the other guy he asked me who was better at taking out splinters if I was a dog which dog house would I go to I remember he finally unmasked the question and asked who do you want to live with when he asked why I said I wanted to live with my dad because he had a pool my dad was mad i said that I remember hitting Tom with the music stand he had me pinned but no one believed me I remember socking JD I wish I hit every girl that whined at me about how I hurt his pretty face I remember the girl that moved when I did and she recognized me in the hall one day I remember writing the letter to the judge I remember talking with her the court reporter must have asked me to speak up 30 times i was so shy I remember when I told my dad he had Dunlaps disease because his belly done lapped over his belt I was hysterical he was not happy I remember sitting in Boston Market not talking just eating he was mad I remember lying to the police I remember I said the gun was black and he said he couldnt remember the color I remember skipping school just to escape I remember the time I ended up at some kids house and everyone was doing x and coke I remember senior year when I had some real fun while skipping class I remember that Tuesday we had a hella time I remember Ashley we should have stayed friends I remember the last day of high school when I realized I could drop out or come back next year I remember drinking drinking so much that I dont remember I remember the girls sometimes two at once but never one twice I remember when my friends all left i was so alone I remember Sarah the freedom the growing the plans and then the end I am 23 years old my name is Josh I have Aspergers syndrome or some form of highfunctioning autism mild OCD and ADD I like women but not sex I am unemployed and flat broke I am interested in computers politics accounting and real estate I spent my day today listening to Relapse by Eminem and trolling on Omegle Thank you for listening | Most people on Reddit do not have to go through a sliver of what you have just described Having experienced part of what you have written I know how you feel or more accurately dont feel I currently feel very little due to what happened Im only consoled by the fact that I was able to protect my younger brother from what was my childhood Reddit will bitch about your syntax grammar and spelling Monocles will shatter at such blatant colloquialisms and lack of regard for prescriptive grammar Fuck them Know that one person understands I dont have any diagnosed illnesses but I do remember taking a punch to the diaphragm from my dad to protect my mom Im pretty sure the vast majority of us have had fucked up childhoods we dont like to talk about I wish I could tell you not to sweat it i caused most of my sycosis sniffing stuff cant remember some things others are vived i want to go back and start over Youve gone through 13rd of your life You have 23rds left to try and make the best of the rest of your life What can I say as a random stranger on the internet more than good luck and make the best out of every moment |
My professor uploads his lecture slides in PDF format and I want to fill them in with information during class Is it a pipedreamThank you for your time | If youre okay with just annotating the PDFs youd be fine using okular in KDE The annotations are stored locally and will not follow the file if you transfer it to another computer The good news is that it wont mess with the original file but the bad news is that the annotations arent permanentHope this helps |
RedditIve got Nintendo NES copyright 1985 Two Controllers but one does not work Nintendo Zapper Light gunand these games Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt The Legend of Zelda gold cartridge Super Mario Bros 3 PaperBoy The Adventures of Bayou Billy Wheel of FortuneEverything works except one of the two controllers which might only need to be opened up and soldered or something And the RF switch thingy was cut and mended by its previous ownerIm not in to old console stuff but I know other people really like this sort of thing Does anyone want to trade something for itIll entertain anything really but for shipping or reallife trade purposes I live in southern New Hampshire in the US For ideas of what Id like Ill just say Im a 21 year old college student who doesnt own much of anything except a camera car and computer clearly the three essential Csedit Ill put up a photo soon here you go httpimgurcomM3KH7jpgedit2 Im not sure what Id be willing to trade for but heres a short list of things I find interesting Game theory cognitive science philosophy strategy games books of all kinds antique things artrelated things sculptures computer things pentaxrelated camera things or things that you think would make a good gift for my girlfriend who is also artistically inclined | Iv got a crapton of brand new never opened books and book boxed sets mostly computer philosophy and scienceiv also got a few ps23 gmes I dont want I would be willing to trade those Ask me for more info What sort of things would you be willing to trade for Heres some things I would possibly offer in exchange choose oneFifteen dollarsSettlers of Catan board game maybeSome booksIf you have a desktop Id give you one of these old computer parts for it Nvidia Geforce 7950 an old ATI PCI tvtuner card or 2 gb ddr ram |
Im white and I know a lot of white people Earlier today I was noting to myself that despite cracker being the typical racial slur for white neither I nor anyone I know has ever been offended it Is there anyone out there who is offended Anyone who goes gasp when they hear someone referred to as a crackerCorollary question are there any nonwhite people who are under the impression that it is a particularly hurtful term | No there is no word that offends white people in the same way other words offend people in other races because there is no recent memory of subjugation to make any word particularly painful Hell no As George Carlin RIP pointed out its just a word I know Im a blueeyed devil honky cracker Dont bother my ass none No I think the word racist is offensive when used to collectively describe white people or most of white people No I dont think there is a single word that will offend me just because of the word it all depends on the use Not really White trash would be more insulting IMHO as it implies stupidity inbreeding and filth I was talking to a black friend of mine about how ridiculous this word is and how it doesnt offend anyone and I boldly stated that no one even used it anymore Cut to three hours later when we were walking down the sidewalk and overheard this black fellow call some white fellow a stupidass cracker True story |
I didnt know which subreddit to post this in but I figured this would be the best choiceMy mom is cleaning out the house and she has boxes of material most of it is unwearable clothing too stained too torn etc She cant just throw it out she wants to donate it to some place that can use it or just scrap it and recycle it to make new clothing I have already called up Good Will and the Salvation Army and neither want it It seems so wasteful to just throw it out Do you have any suggestions or ideas of where I may be able to donate itI live in New Jersey Edit Thanks for all of your help I am going to call up some of those drop off boxes if I can get a number and find out Id just hate to throw it all out if some good can come of themEdit 2 Thanks for all of your suggestions My mom found a church to give it to so now the problem is solved They are going to sell it for a few cents a pound to someone who will recycle it so they make a little money on it and we get rid of it Everybody wins | alot of the charities that collect clothes through drop off boxes at parking lots and roadside are not collecting for usable clothes but for rag material They sell the rag bulk to raise money for food and education where they are ultimately operating Or at least that was the explanation when I worked for for a couple of charities in Orlando Try calling sme of those to make sure If she has some free time on her hands she may be able to make some money off of them by making rag rugshttpcrochetaboutcomlibraryweeklyaa092599htm and reselling them Alternatively she may be able to find someone near her who makes rag rugs and sell or donate the material to them |
Are you aMinarchist AnarchoCapitalistVoluntaryistNone of the aboveExplain your position and how you came to the conclusion that your side is right | VoluntaryistI think the name is cumbersome but I believe all human interaction should be voluntary An abolition of all slavery I listened to FTL as a minarchist and the ideas blew me awayI reject anarchocapitalist because while I believe free market capitalism is the best method of resource distribution I dont believe people should be forced into capitalism if they dont want itAnd minarchists are unprincipled fence sitters Just kidding I think theyre just short sighted on the end goal More interested in states rights than Libertarianism but neither Democrats nor Republicans nor reddit seem interested in the idea of govern at the lowest level possible AnarchocapitalistIts the logical extension of wanting pure freedom for all people and a total rejection of collectivism I consider myself an AnarchoCapitalist but honestly I wouldnt care if every last person on earth joined some commune as long as they were not forced into doing so Perhaps I am better described as a voluntaryistI dont see private property as an absolute but rather a socially reinforced preference I dont think violence is warranted for its defense except under very specific situations such as armed robbery or cases where the deprivation of property could endanger ones life Otherwise society could very well find other ways of encouraging its respect Organized social ostracism could be very effective Libertarian Socialist if I have to label myself currently No individual or small group should privately own any means of production thus the means of production should be managed and owned by society Anarchist I used to be a Progressive Democrat because thats what my parents are but I eventually got fed up with capitalism and government I believe the law should be determined by the market I would purchase libertarian law So Im an anarchistpanarchistpluralistI dont like the term Anarchocapitalist because it implies that there is only one kind of anarchy and that it is capitalist and never mind the fact that capitalism is a very misunderstood word on all sides and that the most popular social arrangements are specifically not capitalistI came to my position when I realized that law was just as arbitrary as everything else |
So my friend just got two of these guyshttpimgurcomR0lm0 Theyre called Cheech and Chong Any advice or tips about keeping rats Is there anything in particular about them thats different than keeping other rodents | Rats are very intelligent and very social Theyre not like hamsters or mice They need a lot of space stimulation and companionship in order to stay healthy First off a suitable habitat They CANNOT live in an aquarium or small cage The bigger the better Get something with levels hammocks like those made for ferrets and toys try ferret and bird toys Never use wood bedding as the fumes are toxic to small animals Look for Carefresh or kitty litter like Yesterdays News Health They are super prone to respiratory problems If you notice any red discharge around their eyes or nose they need to see a vet immediately and get some antibiotics Spaying females will reduce the risk of mammary tumors VERY prevalent and neutering males makes them a little less crazy Its a good idea to find a vet that has experience with rats before an emergency comes up For food order lab blocks like Harlan Teklad or Oxbow Regal made specifically for rats They should never be fed that generic store rodent mix crap Rats are also easily litter trained for poop so get them a litter box with different bedding than what you use elsewhere I personally use junk towels to line my cage and Yesterdays News in the litter panPlaytime Rats love treats and it makes great motivation for them learning tricks Mine can walk on their hind legs spin in circles play fetch etc They should get lots of out of cage time in a safe environment Try letting them play in a bathroom a partitionedoff kitchen or lay towels on a couch in case they pee once or twice Putting a kiddy wading pool up on a table is a good idea They can jump 23 feet so keep that in mind The rats I had impressed me as being very devoted I have had a ton of guinea pigs and theyre very sweet but rats seem to be on a higher intelligence level They choose to stay with you will happily share your cereal or sandwich I did learn however that my housing arrangements were too small for 2 males cause one New Years Eve one male slashed the other wide open and we took him to the emergency vet and he glued the wound togetherbut anywaysyeskeep them in a LARGE habitat Let them run around outside of their cage every day It helps them develop their intelligence and lets you see their personalities I had one that was a real explorer and climber and one that always tries to find soft things and steal them rats are very prone to cancer special care must be taken in that regard stress is a contributing factor to cancer of course so is exposure to chemicalshere is a good link on pet ratshttptherealownercomsmallfurryunusualpetsrats |
mines Mockets False pockets that serve no other purpose than to cause annoyanceedit please include a definition if you have one so we know what youre talking about | Alanyhttpwwwurbandictionarycomdefinephptermalany Drop it into conversation sometimes Proboobility N The odds of seeing boobsWill I enjoy this movie Its highly proboobleSee also stitistics i actually hate made up words because usually theres an actual word with the same definition but with that said my kids routinely crack me up with their approximations of words theyre learning a few examples construction action exercising action sizing periscope pirate scope sledding sliding backing up beeping up think commercial truckone of my nephews calls patio umbrellas sunbrellasedit spelling all suckass Preponed Opposite of postponed Way more easier than saying The appointment has been scheduled to take place earlier than originally planned Also automagically Damn useful in explaining how a comp fixes itself after a reboot Robotics From the Czech word robota meaning to work A study of machines that do work Originally coined by Isaac Asimov in his short story collection I Robot Vomitose The state of feeling like one must vomit Coined by my pregnant wifeEeeeehhhhhhh Im feeling vomitose Snard the grey brownish icesnow chunk that adheres to your cars mudflap andor bottom of car frame in the winter These are all reminiscent of Rich HallshttpenwikipediaorgwikiRichHall creation SnigletshttpenwikipediaorgwikiSniglet A word that doesnt appear in the dictionary but should Does anyone remember seeing these |
Im looking for lesser known games mostly There will be 68 people there most of the night We have a lot of the more common games covered Warcraft Starcraft etc Id prefer nonRTSs A few people people have horribly outdated computers so most really recent games are out Several people have really short attention spans so anything with a long learning curve is out tooSo anyone know any obscure games that would be fun to screw around with for a few hoursEdit Thanks for the tips Ill look into some of these | For LAN we usually hit up the followingRTS Starcraft Age of Empires 3 Worldshift lesser known but fun coop Mech Commander 2FPS Borderlands coop Serious Sam The Second Encounter coop Unreal Tournament 2004 Unreal Tournament Quake online Farcry with coop mod Doom 3 with coop mod Half Life 1 amp 2 Can play deathmatch but coop with Svencoop mod is betterRacing V8 Supercars 1 amp 2 Insane Good to play destruction derby Flatout 1 amp 2 If you get too drunk playing the side games are good Big Red Racing OLDRPG Neverwinter Nights IMO 1 is way better than 2 Baldurs Gate 1 amp 2Hack amp Slash Diablo 1 amp 2 expansions Titan Quest expansions Sacred 1 amp 2Other of note Mechwarrior 3 amp 4 Vengeance and Mercenaries Vengeance has a coop mod Giants Citizen kabuto coop FreelancerIll post more as I think of themEDIT Big thanks to blzed for help with formatting IF you want first person shooters that are FREE try World of Padman httpwwwworldofpadmancom this game is very entertaining to playNexuiz httpwwwalientraporgnexuiz QuakeUnreal type FPSTremulous httptremulousnet a base defenseFPS game with humans VS aliens Left4Dead Starcraft pictionary in MS paintsounds dumb but you have no clue how fucking great it is UT2004 is a lot of fun and runs on almost anything but it takes a long time to install Have people installing and patching in the background while another game is goingFor the most part the game works on one CD key If you have any issues we found renaming UT2004exe to UT2004xexe makes it work for a reason we have not yet been able to explain Also sometimes the game complains if you dont run the original exe at least once before patching Just preemptively troubleshooting The game is permanently 10 on Good Old Gameshttpwwwgogcomengamecardunrealtournament2004ece so if your friends have fun Im sure you can entice them to pick up a copy so that setup will be shorter next time Baldurs Gate 1 Baldurs Gate 2 Icewind Dale Icewind Dale 2 Neverwinter Nights Neverwinter Nights 2 Warsow is an awesome multiplayer shooter The specs are low but it looks great and gameplay is an absolute blastOh its free and its PC and Mac compatible httpwwwwarsownet |
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its not Nightmare on Elm street its not a horror more like actionthriller they can control their dreamsI remember one scene where a guy goes into a room below someone elses room who is sleeping and he tries to fall asleep under them and enter their dream so he can fightcofront them | Dreamscapehttpwwwimpawardscom1984postersdreamscapejpg with Dennis Quaid He helps a kid in his dream by fighting a giant snake man |
Ok so first a little background I have been in my current relationship for 7 years and finally popped the question she said yes She is a beautiful girl with a great sense of humor Early on in the relationship I got her to give Star Trek a chance Within the first 3 years of our relationship we made it through all of TOS TNG and DS9 We watched them all in consecutive order on DVD We watched most of Enterprise when it originally aired but never got around to Voyager since I dont own it on DVD Anyway she is a convert and I cant pull her away from the tv if an episode of TNG is on We are having a non religious ceremony and we are trying to decide on the readings We are looking at different pieces literature but the other day she mentioned that she wouldnt mind having something from Star Trek as one of the readings I need help finding something to use I know of plenty of quotes about love but nothing longer than like a sentence I was hoping there would be a Kirk monologue or something that I am overlooking I have done some searching on my own but havent found anything I know the Star Trek Experience used to do Star Trek Weddings and apparently they had some sort of Star Trek readings so if anyone here had or has been to a Star Trek wedding please let me know I would prefer a Kirk quote or something from TNG or DS9 as those were our favorites but I would be open to anything if that is not doable Also it should be about loveman and womanfamily something like that I would not mind going outside of canon and quoting something from the Star Trek books if I cant find something elsetldr My fiance is letting me have a Star Trek reading at our wedding ceremony help me find the perfect quote | I suggest you revisit DS9 you are cordially invited herehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvoAlOLZL2g8 is the wedding ceremony between Worf and Dax A nice qoute does your heart beat only for this woman instead of those stupid little flowers my fiance is letting me and my grooms men wear Starfleet emblems My wife and I had a reading from Star Trek at our wedding It was a modified version of Spocks funeral speech from Wrath of Kahn We changed it so it was about a new beginning Here is the unmodified original cant be bothered to check video to see our versionWe are gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead But it should be noted that this death takes place in the shadow of new life the sunrise of a new world a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings Of my friend I can only say this of all the souls I have encountered in my travels his was the most human infinite diversity in infinite combinationsin iconic formhttpuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen119STVulcanIDICjpg worn by Spock This image also shows up as art in his quarters in Star Trek VI |
Suppose we manage to create a new lifeform a new typekind of sentienceWe wouldnt be gods to them because even though we would have created them we are mortal Quite not godlikewould we be able to take the heat so to speak accept the responsibility and how of creating something that knows it exists like us and knows it will cease to exist like us remember there is no permanencedisclaimer not trying to be very rigorous here i am knowingly ignoring certain important details perception of time for instance im a physicist not a philosopher but i imitate one on reddit | Depends on how you define gods but probably not The word tends to imply something supernatural and we probably cant do anything supernatural To answer the original question No I dont believe that any being we would create would consider us gods unless we taught them what a god was and then manipulated them into thinking that we were such When you think about creating another sentient species things get tricky Suppose through some unbelievable advancement in technology we are able to create this sentient species I think a shitstorm would break out as to what we do with the species then Some people might want to just keep them in labs to study Some might want to use them as labor tools ie slaves or cheap labor It gets really complicatedBy the fact that we are human and have our everpresent limitations I dont think a being could truly believe in us being gods Weird question but fun to think about what about if the life span of the creatures was just one month Then to them it would seem like we are immortal as we live past many hundreds of their generations |
Saw some people posting this in the vibrating cell phone thread and got curious as to what the average setup is For me its Front left Cell phone Front right Keys USB drive and LED flashlight on keyringPocketknife Back Left Walletedit for keyring accessories | Ugh I have an SeV jackethttpwwwscottevestcomv3storeEvolutionJacketshtml which has about ten billion pockets and cable passthroughs so this is gonna be complicated Front right pocket mints Front left pocket USB battery pack with cable going through the cable passthrough to Left inside clear pocket iPod Right inside clear pocket cell phone Digital camera pocket secondary camera for when I cant take my DSLR with me Travel documents pocket wallet Eyeglasses pocket sunglasses and chamois on clip Left handwarmer pocket left hand folded headphones Right handwarmer pocket right hand keys and compass on key ring can of soda or tea Upper left sleeve pocket GPS Lower left sleeve pocket map candy snack bars Right sleeve pocket Game Boy Advance SP Gigantic inside left pocket one or two books soda or tea DSLR sometimes its kind of uncomfortable so I only put it inside my jacket when it rains unexpectedly multitool binoculars 2 Dcell LED flashlight any amount of other stuff Gigantic back pocket laptop magazines etc sometimes Whoah careful with the wallets in the back pockets there kids Front Left Keys Front Right Wallet and Mobile Left Breast iPod No no Its Back Right Wallet Also well done with the edits I had enough faith to F5 until it all worked itself out there Neckerchief LED flashlight Swiss Army knife no particular order except for cell phone in shirt pocket |
For those of you who dont get The Bobs reference it is from Office SpaceIn a nutshell I work for a company that provides outsourcing solutions in the ITCommunications field I lead the technical teams for the projects I work on and have overall design responsibility for what the future state looks like Part of my job is often to determine the employees well keep vs the ones that will be separated I typically do this for large corporations and have worked five of these projects in the last two years | Dear SirFck YouYou are part of the problem wherin in American corporations are pursuing short term profits over long term stabilityWe need more H1Bs because there are no qualified local candidatesWhen you keep importingexporting labor of course the local joes just starting out will not get experienceEDIT I should qualify by saying that every time I have had to deal with outsourced IT in India or some other country I have wanted to CLAW MY FCKING EYES out Amazon customer service or the brief time I was on ATampT dialup and they had just outsourced In both cases I got people who were incapable of solving my problem What is sad was that BEFORE ATampT outsourced I could get ahold of a tech on their CS line and he could lookup the status of the local modem bank I was dialing into and go Yup its down The Indian ones could only read from a script made for Windows 95 even when I told them I was running Linux and I just wanted to confirm that the problem was on their end with their systemsAnd I just got laid off from a job where the company we were contract developing for had outsourced stuff to India and that staff was useless as well OMG YOURE A MONSTER BLAH BLAH BLAH1While Im not sure I could stomach doing a job like yours no I dont think youre a monster Im curious as to how your industry works Is your company national or regional What are the names of some of the bigger firms that do what you do Do most people you work with come from an IT background or from management consulting What is the typical length of time you are on each project before making the staffing decisions and what do you take into consideration first Ive watched alot of highly paid executives that were utterly useless to their corporation get fired last year and it made me happy sadly I saw a few really efficient hard workers loser their jobs too Do you have any stories of how someone with a crazy salary was barely doing any work |
Im at this point in my life where I have a desire to better myself as a person What book have you read that has improved your life Anything from a better brain to a better personality to being a happier personI will start What Dale Carnegies How to Win Friends and Influence People This book is amazing Read it last year it changed my thought process when dealing with people It should be called How to simply be a better human being Every point is explained with real life examples and every point can be applied to everything from business to meeting friends to talking to girls Main point People care about themselves If you can genuinely care about them and make them happy it will be mirrored How Many ways Read it Multiple timesBook Im reading now Making a Good Brain Great by Daniel Amen Only read the intro so I cant comment on it yet Title sounds delicious | The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Aurelius Last good emperor of Rome expounds his reflections on stoicism and explains how even in the face of divine intervention we are in charge of our own destinies His ideas about personal responsibility truly inspired me to be more introspective and to have integrity and stirred in me an independence from divine providence that ultimately led to my atheism The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are and The Wisdom of Insecurity both by Alan Watts Taught me that reality isnt some objective unyielding monster and that I am in no way alienated from it |
I was asked this question sometime back and I have to say I was quite taken aback by it Maybe it has been posted on here before if so my apologies However it is a very interesting question and I thought I would see what peoples responses were To answer my own post I realized I was an adult when I just turned 18 I had just moved into my own crappy little house and after moving furniture in I plopped down on the couch It was there in silence and with my tasks completed and a wry sense of accomplishment that I realized I was the one in control of my life and responsible for whether I eat or starve Have a good one all | Im a 38yearold married homeowner with kids in school and no surviving parents and I still feel like a kid who managed to sneak into the grownups party and is nervously looking around for someone to notice and send me back to bed I had just returned back from a camping trip with my class in my final year of school On that day I had just turned 17 The trip back to school was a long tiresome one We had such an adventure away Fishing hiking making fires eating tinned beef sipping hot chocolate singing Kumbaya playing Uno masturbating one another canoeing canoodling you know boys stuff Eventually got back to the school premises for our parents to pick us up we had arrived earlier than expected I went to the school lavatories to release some cock juice At the urinal I found myself thinking about gay sex Ive never wanted to have sex with a man before and I havent but sometimes I think about gay sex I heard the squeak of the bathroom doors being opened and the light from the outside came flooding in Standing in the entrance was Miss Griffiths our teacher and camp master She came walking towards me Pissing Frank she asked somewhat disgusted I didnt know what to say Yes maam I replied Well you little runt Its your birthday When youve stopped pissing let me touch you On that day I became a man When I read a newspaper article that started with A 19 year old man was I was 23 then and I realized I signed a couple of sheets of paper and they gave me a motherfucking house A house Most expensive thing I owned before that was my shitkicked PC I didnt feel like an adult when I turned 18 or 21 or when I joined the military or when I got married It was when I felt my unborn child moving inside of my wife I felt like an adult and a father When my father cut my credit cards in to with a pair of scissors and said You are now officially on your ownEven though Id rarely used them it was still a grand symbolic gesture that put some fear and anxiety about the future into my heart Plus it was sad to me because it kind of meant that my childhood was officially over It had to have been when my girlfriend of 15 years who I lived with broke up with me and I moved out of her apartmentI then proceeded to get drunk as fuck and sit and think the thought that finally crossed my mind and stuck with me was that no matter what happens I can only rely on myselfIt was a scary thought and still is to this day but it made me realize that I am now independent and an adult The day I talked my aunt out of killing herself helped the cops track down her violent and abusive daughter visited my mother at the hospital where she was recovering from being run over by her nieces car and took care of dinner for my younger brother and sisterThat is when I date it even if I was 15 at the time 30 and still dont feel like an adult Lived independently overseas for numerous years encountered different adult things like pregnancy but no kids Spent a year or so travelling solo on my bike through countries including Albania and Valencia but no still feel way to immature to be an adult However I do notice I do do adult like things like enjoy reading the newspaper and not just the comics xkcd did ithttpxkcdcom616 repeatedlyhttpxkcdcom150 and againhttpxkcdcom219 |
I have served in following United Nations Peacekeeping MissionsUNFICYP Cyprus 198485 UNPROFOR Yugoslavia 199596 as a United Nations Military Observer UNMO UNAMSIL Sierra Leone 200001 as an UNMO UNMISET East Timor 200203 as an UNMO UNOMIG Georgia Caucasus 200708 as an UNMO and currently serving in UNMIS Sudan as an UNMO I have been to many places seen a lot of faces and met a lot of great colleagues | Why do you keep getting sent on Peacekeeping missionsDo you volunteerAre you in a military that does not get out much Or have you developed skills that make it easier to just send you instead of someone new I imagine that you see a lot of disturbing things How do you sleep at night Have you ever wondered why you even went into it Does the native population treat UN peacekeepers differently based on their race Eg Are European peacekeepers perceived to be bettermore ethical than say Bangladeshi ones |
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Lately Ive been buying a lot of books on abebookscom for generally around 5 each They take about 2 weeks to get to me but its usually a good deal But they take up a lot of space and Im thinking I would like to try using a Kindle So I ask is it worth it What are your experiences using one Are there good sources of free books out there that are actually worth readingEdit Thanks for all the opinions Im going to sit on it for a week or two and reevaluate but right now Im leaning towards buying one for the portability access to multiple books at once and ability to use Calibrehttpcalibreebookcom to put just about anything on there | I Love My KindleSrsly I find myself reading more now that I have it Its smaller than a book and easier to hold Plus I have cats that always want to get up in my shit and try to eat my book No such problem with the kindle I adore it As a poor college student not only is the upfront cost massive but I save MASSIVE amounts buying used books on amazon which you cant do on a Kindle I should warn you that Im a bit of a fanboy over the thing This post is probably going to see a bit sales pitchishNot really something I think anyone can really give you a firm yes or no on They seem to fall pretty heavily into a love em or hate em with people depending on their reading and travel habits Personally though I consider it to be one of the single best buys in my life I love reading and I usually want to keep them for rereading or research later on So libraries are pretty much out The end result is a huge amount of books And its been bugging me more and more as the size has grown Especially since at various points in my life Ive wound up losing large amounts of them in a single shot Even more when I began traveling a lot and so often found myself traveling and being annoyed at not having a particular book to look something up inThe kindle did an amazing job of helping with that At current count I have over 200 books on the thing Which is a pretty big space gain Not to mention that its also 200 books that I now have available at any time on a trip Even better 200 books which I can actually do keyword searches within Its really awesome to find something interesting in one book and then be able to search in all my other books for additional information on it I also love that I can just buy books on the device itself More than once Ive been on a long trip finished a novel and been able to buy and start reading the sequel in a matter of seconds The samples go along with that and are also great If theres a book you think you might be interested in most if not all available for the kindle will have a chapter or so available for free Then if you like that its just a click or two on the kindle to buy the full text The internet part is also great In theory with the cost of purchase you also get free internet access with it as long as amazons still in business And while browsing the web with an eink device isnt the most pleasing of things in the world if theres nothing else around its great Gmails a bit of a pain but Ive used it on there before Reddit rendered surprisingly well on it last I tried And of course theres wikipedia which I think xkcdhttpxkcdcom548 did a pretty good job showing the utility of on there Another neat thing is the syncing with other services You can take notes or make highlights in a book youre reading and then have access to them from any web browser And you can stop reading at one spot in a book sync and then continue reading the book on any computer that can run the kindle desktop application or on an iphonetouch The eink is really the killer feature I really dont think people appreciate it until theyve been using it a while I scoffed at the idea on first hearing about it Same on first time trying it After really playing with someone elses for a while though it hit me how much easier on my eyes it was And the gain in battery life is amazing I think the time between charges is closer to one week than two for me but in any case its long enough that I cant remember the last time I wound up draining it from regular use as opposed to with network activity There are a few cons though I have a 1st gen and I wish the screen was just slightly bigger for manga I think the newer models take care of that though And that might not be something you care about Using the net on it drains the battery pretty quickly and the browser itself is rather clumsy Not to mention that web sites really werent thought out to be displayed on whats essentially a book Mine locks up every now and then Not very often perhaps once every three months or so But often enough that I keep a paperclip in its cover in case I need to do a hard reboot Flipping pages in manga is significantly slower than in a normal book even with processing options turned off Though since reading them at all the way I do isnt even a supported feature I probably shouldnt complain too much Still its just blindly fast doing it with the same images on my sony reader compared to on the kindle Bit more bulky than some other readers because of the internet stuff and keyboard And the case itself feels a bit flimsy Though Ive dropped it inside the case more than a few times without any damage Someone pointed out the lack of a backlight and I do agree with that Or if not backlight at least some kind of light Back front whatever It shouldnt be on by default and wouldnt even have to be that good But theres something really annoying about having to use a flashlight to read an electronic device if the powers out gtAre there good sources of free books out there that are actually worth readingWell theres free and then theres free You can toss anything from project gutenberg on there which can be nice But when I think of free what really comes to mind is how much pirated material there is out there Theres masses of them out there I think the largest Ive seen is a scifi ebook torrent which had about 5000 or more books That said when possible I really prefer just to buy from amazon Both in terms of wanting to support authors I like and wanting to vote with my wallet for the viability of ebooks in general While a lot of stuff will eventually find its way online illicitly I vastly prefer it doing so officially on the day of release instead of having to wait for someone interested to scan it And of course there is the occasional rare author wholl just have his books available online for free Off the top of my head I think I read blindsight and down and out in the magic kingdom that way Not shockingly this doesnt happen all that often though If youre into manga I was kind of shocked at how well it does with that on free content Theres a few sites like onemanga that have semilegal manga translations Not all but most of them render pretty well on the kindle with a little bit of preprocessing Not officially supported but amazon left a neat little trick for reading them in the kindle Edit Wanted to add a light complain in there as well When I get open source without drm and reduced prices since its only digital no publishing required then I will buy an eReader Kindle 2 and Kindle DX owner hereMost of the arguments against buying a Kindle are OMG REAL BOOKS ARE BETTAR This is easily solved by realizing the Kindle doesnt replace real books I read on my Kindle in addition to reading real books Sometimes I buy a real book because I really liked it after having read it on the Kindle Other times Im glad I saved the money The Kindle is a convenience thing for me I dont have to leave the house to start reading a book Im interested inI use the DX for textbooks primarily It has worked out quite well with everything except my math book The reason why and something to consider is flipping back to look at examples and stuff is a huge pain I ended up just using bookmarks If you flip back pages a lot to reread sections of a novel or something youll probably be annoyed with the KindleLastly just get the Kindle Only by having one in your hands will you know if you like it or not Everything everyone has said here will just confuse the senses including what Ive said When you get it you have 30 days to decide if you hate it As long as you dont ruin it you can send it back to Amazon for a full refund Kindle Return PolicyhttpwwwamazoncomgphelpcustomerdisplayhtmlnodeId200144510Edit Grammar fix Well I cant say for Kindles but I myself have the Barnes amp Noble Nook and I absolutely adore it My biggest fear was that it would be a strain on the eyes to read but the display is a dream and I have found myself actually reading more then before As for book sources there are a lot of good sites where you can obtain free ebooks from but my two preferred sources areManyBookshttpmanybooksnetThe Gutenberg ProjecthttpwwwgutenbergorgwikiMainPageBoth deal in out of print books those that no longer have applicable copyright in the US so they are free to reproduce On them you can find many of the classics Dracula The Origin of Species Sherlock Holmes etc and both sites allow you to download the books in a multitude of formats Got one for my mom for christmas She is about as techchallenged as you can get She loves it uses it CONSTANTLY Can go through books much faster and easierShe doenst have great eye sight so being able to increase the font size is a HUGE plus And makes the ipod touch a nonoption I love mine Kindle 2 Rarely needs to be charged books are fairly easy to find online and where I would normally be too lazy to look up words in a hardcopy book on the kindle I just move the cursor to the word and it tells me the definition I want to know about e readers as well My wife reads a lot of those paperback romance novels and shit like that Would an e reader be a good gift for her Sony PRS505 owner here They digital vs physical both have their drawbacks and youll have to determine which is more suited for yourselfI think eReaders are definitely a good investment The address two of your concerns delivery of content and space Look up a few of the future books you want to purchase from amazon and take a look at the prices Maybe it will be worth purchasing maybe not You have to read a lot to make up for the deviceMy book collection went from a couple hundred hardbacks to nothing It freed up a lot of space that was collecting dustso that is a huge plusOne of the drawbacks though is when you purchase a bookyoure purchasing a digital copy of the book There is no resale value to it whatsoever You can not loan it to a friendfamily without actually providing them with the device Why the Kindle It is a great device there are a lot of differences between digital readers though Like most Kindle owners I love mine Highly recommended If you read one hardcover per month it pays for itself in about two years But dont buy it based purely on the financials I am reading more now than I ever did before I attribute that to two things 1 I can read on both the Kindle device and iPhone so my book is ALWAYS with me and 2 I can immediately get another book as soon as I finish my current one no waiting to get to a book storeBut the thing that really makes it worthwhile is its size Compare Steven Kings new book Under the Dome That thing is 1100 pages about four inches thick and weighs about six pounds My kindle by comparison is about as thick as a magazine and weighs only slightly more Which would you rather carry around Four words Reading on my side Ive read a fuckton of books and I believe that Im fully qualified to make the statement that there is no comfortable way to read laying on your side Period Best argument for a ebook reader download Calibrehttpcalibreebookcom select some RSS feeds and read full articles from newspapers and websites on your daily commute |
Thank you so much for the extremely thoughtful Secret Santa gifts The effort you put into this touched me the most You nailed me 100The Dirty Little Limericks book is special to me because it reminds me of something my dad who died in 2003 would carry around and recite Thanks again And Happy HolidaysRoPS If anyone knows her please show her this link All I know is that her name is Julie and the return address was ThinkGeek in NJI posted a pic herehttpredditgiftscompresentsbestgiftever3 | Well you should write this where you posted the gift at RedditGiftscom Theres a better chance that she will see it there Hopefully she is scanningtracking the gallery to see when her gift is postedAlso obligatorygt You nailed me 100Thats what she said |
I am taking Japanese in Uni and we are learning the three systems I have so far learned Katakana to the point I can read it and recognize all the character Hiragana is waaaaaaaaay harder I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to better memorize it This class moves fast and it is a bit overwhelmingThanks | looks like a tennis ricket looks like a knee looks like a keg looks like a bird going coo looks like a key looks like shes got long hair actually looks like ta looks like a toe with the nail bent back looks like noodles looks like hes smiling looks like Mt Fuji looks like 21 the age when its all about me looks like a cow going moo you catch more fish with worms on your hook looks like the profile of a rabit looks like reeds in a pondI used to have a menmonic for most all of them but Ive long forgotten the rest Best of luckEdit formatting didnt come out like I expected |
For me its the obsession with cats I mean I love cats as much as the next person unless the next person is a redditor Yes I did use Ricky Gervaiss joke he pulled on Mel Gibson | Witty comments are upvoted and intelligent replies are downvoted or sit at 1 vote Sometimes I have knowledge on a subject area and I think about replying but just say screw it because no one is going to read my reply anyway When people reply to the top comment with something unrelated to the comment they just want to be heard and know it will have a better chance of being seen there Pet pictures Great you have a dog that looks like it smiles when it pants like every other dog I dont carePretty much any sort of obsessing over things to me is obnoxious bacon narwhals FSM I guess Im a little over the internet culture the downvotes if you mention the word god or religionim an open minded person and i respect atheists for their way of thinking but they get so offended by the fact that other people disagree with their viewsgets ready for it |
Hey all Ive been trying to track down a pinball game for about 5 years now and I cant seem to find ANY information on it on the internetI believe the game is called World Cup Pinball and im not sure who the manufacturer is It is NOT World Cup Pinball 94 httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvmsfNibVrZ8 The game worked differently than most pinball games in that you had a time limit and had infinite balls There was an LCD display and you could select what team you wanted to play as and the goal of the pinball game was to knock down some barriers at the top of the playing field and score a goal into a net You accumulated points and the more points you got the higher your scoreThis game was in the Winnipeg and Calgary airport around 2000 2001 I never saw this game in any other locations They were gone before I ever got to write down any information about themAnybody know what im talking about Id love to track down some info video or even a real machine if possibleAny help would be appreciatedThanks | Its definitely the Capcom Flipper FootballI think I know where one is in Sacramento CA Not sure if its for sale A buddy of mine sold it to him a couple months ago and I think he has it in an arcade in a mall but Im in Kansas City so I dont know for sure But you are definitely describing Flipper Football |
My wife and I are looking to have another threesome with a woman Our first was a few years back in Amsterdam with a professional and it was OK Now we would like to share another experience but not sure how to find a third without hiring someone We have had a few friends express interest but were not sure if a close friend is the way to go or if we should have someone who is a more casual acquaintance Any advice from people who have had goodbad experiences EDIT One thing that we did not like about the last threesome in Amsterdam was the transactional nature of things We want to be able to take our time and enjoy ourselves Also we have joined and tried swinger websites but my wife isnt into swapping which would make this a LOT easier I have no double standards when it comes to seeing her with another man | True story A friend of mine asked his wife if they could do a threesome She was hesitantly agreeable and they decided it should be with someone of her choosing since she was just doing it to please him She selected someone They all liked it and it worked out so well that they made it a regular occurrence All was good until a few months later when his wife informed him that she really really enjoyed being with a woman a lot and had decided she would probably be far happier if he were out of the picture completely Their marriage didnt survive and last I heard his exwife was happily living with her new girlfriend not the threesome galHe told me that it was fun while it lasted but that his ego took a huge hit when the breakup happened It was about 10 years before he trusted a woman enough to have a long term relationshipGuess what Im trying to say is be very very careful in selecting the person who will join you two The one that joined them was just a casual acquaintance from her work Maybe your wife just wants another European vacation and this is her way of proposing it Take me to Europe and you can do two chicks at the same time Winwin all around Depends on what kind of threesome you wantNo strings no emotion sexswing clubs reply your location and I will send you the best onesEmotion Close friends My girl and I prefer it this way but still do the other way to get more girls to become close friends We are really good I guess the question you need to ask yourself is will a threesome potentially make seeing this person too awkward The thing you need to be careful with is the potential loss of a close friendI personally would chose a relatively casual aquaintance but someone you feel you can trust Its the best of both worlds if possible Then again the close friend could result in the threesome happening more oftenJust be careful and thorough with your decision gt I have no double standards when it comes to seeing her with another manWow you a are a far less jealous man than I Hats off to you |
Hey Reddit Serious business hereIve been experiencing a dull ache in my left testicle periodically for the past 5 or 6 months Ive seen a doctor had him stick his finger in my ass and all that jazz He found no real problemIts starting to become uncomfortable again and I am wondering if this is something most dudes just have to deal withNote The ache goes all the way up into what feels like my lower intestines The lower abdomen discomfort is more notable than the groin | Sounds like a hernia I had one Find another doc and ask for a hernia check Hell ask you to drop your pants and hell check your scrotum with a latex glove by pushing through it on your intestinal wall checking for weakness A 10000 surgery later insurance paid for most and it was fixed and I never had any problems You have a hernia I had one except it seems much worse Then again I had it when I was fourYour doctor is an idiot Go get it fixed then sue him He needs to be sued because he did his job so poorly that it kept you in pain for 56 months And I will soon be hopefully a physician you should see a doctor you may have an inguinal herniation that is my recommendation as a doctor I read down there that some members of your family had hernias at the same age Risk is higher if family members had hernias Depends How hard is she squeezingSeriously tho see a uralogist amp switch to briefs if ok with doc |
Ive been doing some research and all Ive found are scary Christian rightwing nuts saying how horrible weed is and how completely damaging it is to a developing fetus I know this is false but cant find anything to support otherwise that is based on factId like to be able to manage my back pain safely since this little sprout is going to be doing some fun things to my spine Im going to see a neurologist on monday but doubt that theres many options for me at this point that will at least let me stay conscious AND painfree Thanks | My gut instinct is to tell you to quit for the period of your pregnancy You say you know that the claims about marijuana being damaging to the fetus are false but that you cant find anything to support your belief Well then how do you really know You dont It seems like youre hoping well just say Fuck it youre fine Go ahead but thats really not the right thing to say here My advice would be to talk to a doctor about it dont be afraid to talk about weed with your doctor they cant rat you out There are documented issues for weed negatively affecting the developing brains of adolescents so I would be cautious and generally abstain as much as possible However I do recall reading a report on here from another pregnant ent who was having terrible pain and morning sickness who found that weed made their pregnancy far better Imho if you have a sensitive little being dependent on you for all their needs to an unequaled extreme I would say a drastic reduction of pot consumption is in order with the occasional exception in the case of extreme pain or nausea ie dont make a habit of it but ymmv |
I definitely am motivated to get up and run because I know Ill be annoyed with myself all day if I dont Also I always see references to the runners high but Ive never felt it Ive been running for 20 years and I feel exhilarated after a hard run but never any kind of high Is that a real thing | I only run because of the high Maybe you are just used to the exhilaration so it doesnt seem like much Youve developed a tolerance From my experience and understandingnot much it seems that runners high is just a feeling of well being and confidence in yourself caused by the release of endorphins which the bodybrain releases to combat the pain of physical stress caused by exercise |
Okay so while Ive been apartment hunting craigslist I ran across an ad for a really nice apartment So I emailed and got this emailhttpimgurcomrEqxwjpg back in returnawesome its a scamSo reddit lets think of some real good ways I can completely fuck with this guydont let me down | Step 1 Tell him that you need to pay in cash but youre willing to pay extra Step 2 Tell him you also need to move in immediatelyStep 3 Ask him for an address to mail the moneyStep 4 Sign him up for every magazine offer and such you can find If you can manage to do it COD even betterStep 5 Step 6 Profit Convince him that you are a girl Then try to get him to fall in love with you Flirt send risque pictures ask to meet Create an online relationship for at least a year always with the promise of the best sex hes ever had Then meet him in a dark alley and rape him AHAHAAHAHAH MUWHAHAHAAH ha ha woooo ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh As a former scambaiter I have some questions Does he know who you are Could he know who you are Are you using your personal email Are you aware that 95 of all email services send your ip with every email you send Have you given him any real info like a phone number or anythingIf so stop responding Create a new email account preferably gmail or hushmail no ips Recheck this listScammers dont like to be messed with If you do it which admittedly can be quite good fun do it anonymously |
I personally cannot get into any game on a console I own an Xbox360 and have started games like Morrowind Mass Effect 1 and Fallout 3 on it just to abandon them half way into the game I just lose all the interest and move on However Ive later played these games on PC and have finished them with great satisfactionDoes this happen to anyone else | I only game on my PC unless theres a game it cant handle Bioshock for instance That game is total shit on my computer for some reason so I have to play it on my 360 Which doesnt make sense because I can run Crysis decently Maybe its just me Does anyone else have problems with Bioshock on the PC |
When I was in high school I used to have mindblowingly painful cramps Im talking about doubled over in the bathroom cold sweats tunnel vision kind of painful Thankfully that stopped after a couple of years and everythings been greatBut this month its kinda bad again Not as bad as high school but the pain has me stuck in bed today Ive been taking ibuprofen every so often and using the heat from my laptop charger as a heating pad because I keep it classy but it just wont stopWhat do you do to relieve the pain Any home remedies or OTC meds you would recommend | Is it just me or are period pains the most awful thing invented Im 20 havent done childbirth yet Headaches and normal belly aches I can take easily but with period pains I become desperate to make them go away For me they are a combination of being really queasy exhaustion and lots of painWhen I was younger Id used to have really bad ones The kind where you have to go lay down easiest ones or end up puking one way or another worst ones My mother wouldnt let me go on birth control for it and being miles away from my GP I didnt have the chance to go without getting a lift from someone After I moved out though and to a larger city I went to a doctor for a prescription ASAP The pains are nearly all gone now thanks to the pill I feel like the biggest wuss when it comes to period pains because the debilitating exhausting pain drives me up the wall Im a big fan of painkillers and even though I know of the bad sideeffects of the pill I wouldnt go off it I just know the horrible pains I had before would return Shudders I put 15 cups of rice in a sock tie the end then microwave it for 40 seconds It make a nice little heating beanbag sort of thing Dont laugh but orgasms help they really do But be prepared those minicontractions will release a lot more blood also Painkillers and marijuana My cramps only give me lower back and tummy pain though so my methods might not work so well for you hormonal birth control every kind ive used pills patch nuvaring has made mine totally disappear not everyone is a fan of hormonal birth control for various reasons but if youre not opposed to it it might be worth trying Mine are excruciating sometimes Im curled up on my bed in the fetal position hoping to dieI take Midol and it helps a bit I have the kind of cramps you mention Birth control helped these IMMENSELY Heat helps but as much as anything if you can get up and walk around the muscle groupings actually start to relax out a bit I know it sounds like THE most retarded idea when youre right in the middle of it but when you get done youll feel better Bonus Exercise releases happyendorphins from your brain I take an Aleve I forgot the main ingredient but Ive read that it helps with depression and anxiety So if you have the PMS blahs Aleve will help Be careful not to take it all the time it could be bad for your liver or kidneys |
I cant get a straight answer from either Google or Tmobile on this Do I have to terminate my account with Tmobile and then reenlist as a customer to get the same deal as everyone else | I dunno I just shelled out full price for an unlocked Nexus and went from payasyougo to 500 minutesno textsunlimited data If you want to keep your number you can port it to a cheap nonTmobile prepaid SIM card and then sign up for TMobile as a new customer and port the number back Or you could stop being a cheap ass and realize you can get the same plan for 60 a month instead of 80 a month making the costs530 60 24 1970 over 2 years with no binding contract vs179 80 24 2099 over 2 years with a 2 year contract |
Hey rtrees I got a bubbler about 5 weeks ago and i want to clean it because im going to my brothers house and blaze it up with some friends just wondering what the fastest way to clean a bubbler is i will take my time if i have to i just want a quick way This would greatly help me a have a good time tonight | wash it with hot water then use a few cents worth of rock or sea salt a few cents worth of rubbing alcohol higher the better 70 is good and a few cents of shaking carefully wash out again with hot water and slowly cool the glass so it doesnt crack should do the trick |
My friend and I also a redditor just bought an old fixerupper sailboat and we almost decided on Bay Gull for the name because a the boat is docked in a bay b Its funnyDouble entendres like this one are good but anything fun clever and boaty is what we are afterThanks | Switch the G and the B Gay BullSeriously look for the ceremony for renaming a boat Its considered really bad luck to just rename them Naming a boat after something that is supposed to have a hole in it might not be the best way to go Though if she did sink it would make for a great headline Me and my friends had a cheap sailboat a few years ago The Sea Weezle But you know what they say Theres nothing more expensive than a cheap boatFun story The sail came off of the main mast im not a sailor i dont know the terminology on the maiden voyage from the sellers condo to the marina We used the trolling motor for the rest of the voyageBack in the day I read a few instructables about free fixerupper boats you may enjoy them if you have yet to read tem onehttpwwwinstructablescomidTheFreeYachtSaga and twohttpwwwinstructablescomidFreeYachtVolume2name it the shrimpin aint easy That was one of my backup names |
A good amount of people dont seem to like defense posts but I tend to find that they give users perspective on the more challenging or useful aspects of the class Further they hint at what other classes should do to aide the defended class | I like the defense posts if anything it adds more content for discussion in this subreddit I have yet to see one for the sniper thoughSniper is my most played class in arena mode I almost always get first blood I average about 15 kills per death sometimes I get no kills sometimes I get 6 in arena The razorback would be decent if a spy couldnt shoot you to death before you exit your scope I only wish people would cover us more often if they are nearby doing nothing Remember earlier when that heavy was about to roll you and his head suddenly exploded Yea that was me Same with the person who headshot the engineer who kept repairing the sentry that nobody could do enough damage too Overall theres not much to complain about most people know the importance of a good sniper on the team Badwater is the best sniping map in the game and lumberyard if my favorite arena map for sniping Watchtower is so bleh |
tlwr too long wont read When I told my best friend I was in love with him he proceeded to flaunt his new relationship in front of me and repeatedly betray my trust in him He made a bad broken heart far worse because though he called himself my best friend he never tried to comfort me except briefly by email and in fact negligently or maliciously I cant tell made the whole situation far more painful Im not sure what to do now as our lives are very much socially and practically intertwinedExcessive detailIm gay and I was in love with or at least severely crushing on my straight best friend for a year or so He finally got a girlfriend last year actually a friend of mine who I introduced to him Their first kiss hilariously happened when we were all heaped in a drunken pile and they both mistook my hand accidentally touching both their faces for each others Im not even going to go into the blood nose I caused her a few minutes earlier by accidentally kicking her in the face because FREUDIAN Anyway a few days after their first drunken bloody kiss I decided to tell him about my crush on him in order mostly to get him to be kind when they were together so I could cope with it better He was also importantly only the second person I came out to Immediately however he told his new girlfriend who hed known for three or four weeks everything effectively outing me to her and through her several other people of my acquaintance Every time I saw them together for the next few weeks including at social events I stupidly organised they would make out for extended periods of time in front of me at one point only a few days after I told him they spent a good ten minutes going at it across from me at a small bar table So he decided that it was more important to him to kiss her then and there and thereby breaking my heart and dancing on the resulting pieces than it was to merely delay the kissing until I was out of the room This happened A LOT even when I was visibly upset He has since then occasionally told friends of mine about the entire situation even after I asked him not to He made no effort to patch things up when I was visibly upset with him In fact he sent an email in which he claimed that my not talking to him as much was and I quote exactly frustrating and worse yet boring At my twentieth birthday he made out with a mutual male friend of ours and then told that mutual friend that I had been in love with him for years That mutual friend then announced to a room full of my friends what he had been told Last night a similar thing happened when the bastard told another lot of my friends about it Our social groups are incredibly intertwined and I am forced to see him nearconstantly at university doing the same small course Ive thusfar been dealing with it by ignoring him But Ive grown really close to his girlfriend in spite of him and I feel incredibly guilty when she gets sad about my ignoring him She forgives him everything unconditional love is a destructive force in society and believes him when he says that he misses me and cares about me which is all very well for him to say to the girl whos giving him sex but is completely contradicted by his actions which indicate only complete apathy My ignoring him is socially awkward as well when small groups are organised and my friends have to factor in my displeasure at his existence I dont want to be excluded from social events for what I feel is his wrongdoing but I dont want to lie and act as though Im his friend because I feel he doesnt deserve it and that he deserves to be punished for how much worse he made a bad situation for me And I dont know how to make him realise that Im not angry at him because he didnt love me back but that Im angry at him because hes a fucking tosspot Most of all I dont know how to make him suffer when hes never betrayed even the slightest sympathy for me The issue cant be resolved by his action because his previous inaction has proven that he simply doesnt care about me So there are social reasons to be nice to him but emotional and logical reasons to dislike him and act accordingly I dont know what to do now Is it possible or wise to be friends or friendly with someone who you trust neither with your privacy or your happiness Doesnt he deserved to be punished for his insensitivity But how can I maintain that when I am so constantly forced into his company How can I deal with the difference between how he deserves to be treated and how I am socially obligated to treat himNoting of course that forgiveness is entirely unscientific as it is simply the ignoring of data gathered in previous tests in the hope you wont be forced to do another test on the subject Ive been hurt enough times by that before | Have you asked him why he outed you to these people Making out with his girlfriend without regard to his surroundings is perhaps a little more understandable from my admittedly limited perspective but it seems he should at least have some kind of motive or naivete to explain the restTo venture a guess Id say your confession scared him and he started trying to push you away Perhaps he thought the friendship would be too awkward to keep going or perhaps he has some tendencies hes not ready to face himself You did say that he made out with a guy once yesBut yeah ask him for some kind of explanation Or maybe his girlfriend Nonconfrontational would probably be better or at least less likely to cause him to kick it up a notchI realize this is rough for you but keep your chin up Most of us have had inadvisable crushes in the past and its something that you get over with time Would it be socially feasible to cut off contact from the two of them If so I would highly recommend it as have the others Hes treating your completely inexcusablyBut judging from your post it seems like thats easier said than done So if its not feasible to completely cut off contact from himIs there a reason you havent come out publicly yet Do you live in a place where it would be accepted Note that Im speaking from an inexperienced straight persons point of view when I say this It seems to me like if you came out publicly eg Facebook it would remove some of the tension he has a lot less power over you if the secret of yours that hes revealing is both already known and doesnt hurt you My sense is that his doing it is partially a powercontrol play if you preempt him hell lose his power Obviously only you can decide ifwhenhow to come out but it seems to me like this could solve some of your problems It also seems like this might relieve some of the tension between you and your friend if its no longer a secret he might feel burdened lessAnd as others have said theres no point in punishing him he deserves it but itll only make matters worse Taking away his weapon against you without directly addressing it to him is a much more constructive way of dealing with it |
I see this every week on craigslist Someone is giving away a washerdryer but after you contact them you get an email asking you to submit your phone number for a raffle I actually work at craigslist as a tech and Im going to use our Automated Phone SystemMore details in this linkhttpaluaoinfoautologinwmcimg0027jpgSo whats the scam Are they just pulling phone numbers | Occasionally Craigslist asks people to verify their user accounts via phone It works like this You log in enter your phone number get a secret code via voice or text and enter itScammers need as many verified accounts as they can get their slimy hands on in order to post more scam ads on Craigslist Thus they need just as many phone numbers and secret codes They call you and tell you to send the secret code to them under the guise of rafflesdonotcall registriesbeing a craigslist employeeetc Funny I actually have some appliances listed on CL but not free To be honest Id gladly give them away to be rid of them Now How can I get in on this scam thing |
Just wondered if anyone is like me and have a list of unfinished games that I promise myself ill go back and complete sometime Obviously Im not talking about games that are just crappy I mean games that you enjoyed whilst playing just for some reason you didnt get round to finishingMy list is1 BioShock Enjoyed it right up until the Would you kindly bit then realised the game wasnt going to be any different to the end so lost interest2 STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl keep picking this one up playing a bit and putting it down I do like the game but it doesnt keep my attention3 HalfLife 2 Epsiode One YEAH I KNOW one day ill find the time | Latest for me is Borderlands Found it too repetitive without anything to really keep me interested Far Cry 2Repetitive tasks just werent that interesting and the whole malaria thing just drove me nutsBrutal LegendWas expecting a straight forward hack n slash and got some steaming pile of shit rts insteadWarcraft IIIJust never got around to finishing it Dragon AgeIt just didnt engross me Maybe it was the cinematic dialog maybe it was the inventory or party selection stuff but i enjoyed it about as much as doing taxes which is funny because the games that I like MOO2 especially have often been compared to doing taxes Ive got so many I found this nifty website Backloggeryhttpbackloggerycommainphpusersatertek that keeps track of them allIt tells me 61 of the games I own are unbeaten so website usually saves me money The guilt of unbeaten games couldnt compete with the Steam holiday sale thoughas I now go to adding the deluge of games I bought to my unbeaten list I am certain the list of games I have abandoned is at least ten times the length of games I have completedMost recently I have given up onDragon Age I was really enthused when I first started I loved the tactics and the engine Then I had to slog through endless sequences of repetitive battles with very very little to do outside of that realm Maybe that wouldnt have been a problem if there was something to do besides watching ability meters recharge or if the die rolling mmoesque nature of the fights had been a little less obvious but I felt like most of the challenge came from preventing moronic companions from crossing arbitrary aggro circle and luck on crit rolls I suppose I should have known thats what I was getting but I cant help but feel like that style of combat has slipped into the realm of the tediousThe play the character you want is a little misleading The Origin stories were cool but for the amount of time I played after the unique intros were complete I didnt see a single instance where it felt like my choice of character had made all that much of a difference As for the main quest I felt like I was being led by the hand the whole time The overall difficulty of the game made me feel too much pressure to minmax my character and in the end I was just bored by itTorchlight Well done for what it is but after a few assnumbing hours bashing it started to leave a bad taste in my mouth I think I would have liked to see Dragon Age quality story with Torchlight style combat Also fishing to transform my pet into something more than a backpack with legs is a lame concept Sit there for ten seconds watching two circles converge then CLICK for your shot at a random fish Or maybe nothing Fuuuuck you The more I type and think about games I give up on the more afraid I am that Im just getting tired of games in general Seems like for every original and entertaining idea I encounter I must sift through exponentially larger pricier heaps of sparklier shit I suppose this is a function of the demand for better graphics and more art and that makes me sad For example I would much rather pay 50 for a rudimentary sprite engine and a gui on top of Dwarf Fortress Im too dumb for the clunky interface in its current state than the next 10 versions of SimElf or GunTotingSpaceMan Heres another tip for you developers out there I dont care if your engine is so amazing that I can see hairs growing out of a mole at five paces when every third guy has the same mole Doubly so when I am still playing the same old me vs up to five enemies at a time behind crates shit I was doing ten years ago I have an imagination Let me worry about the shadows and you worry about making this feel like something newtldr Dragon Age and Torchlight were boring and derivative That seems to be the way things are going these daysEDIT tl dr GTA IV Really enjoyed the series up until 4 Didnt find the story very engrossing Add to that the phone calls to go bowling and all the other repetitive crap your friends call you for I had to quit Zelda Twilight Princess is the one nagging me right now I have a few others but they are currently in the process of being beaten slowly I havent touched Zelda in a few years I will make my way back to it eventually Shadow of the Colossus I dont want to finish it because then it will be done and then I will be sad Assassins Creed I was so pumped for this game but the quests were way too repetitive and I only enjoyed assassinating the actual target which was about five minutes of two hours of gameplay After giving up with the quests I repeatedly stabbed beggars for a few days until I got tired of it and stopped playing Now it just sits thereAlso Bioshock I enjoy and FPS with multitudes of enemies that runs at a fast pace something Bioshock couldnt provide It wasnt a bad game I just wasnt having much fun Pretty much every game Ive every played in my entire lifeI think the only games I have finished are Golden Eye Diablo II CoD4 MW andthat really might be itand Ive owned a lot of games but just dont finish them I also am more of a fan of online sports games single player strategy games ie Civilization Alpha Centauri Sim City Latest one for me is Brutal Legend I knew it had RTS bits in it but there wasnt enough leadup to them I did alright at them until the fight over that bridge Felt like someone threw a brick at my faceI later found it was because I wasnt upgrading my units but the game never told me I could Either that or I missed the hint quip FFVIII just got too boring for me 7 9 10 12 I was able to finish even if the plot got slow but something about 8 just made me stop playing and never look back Maybe it was all the magic draws my OCDness told me I had to have 99 of or the lack of ability to grind stats without using what one summons eat ability on specific impossible to find monstersNormally when I play FF games i grind for a bit while my mind is elsewhere and then enjoy the plot after the games bad guys are below my level FFVIII made it a little hard to grind and a plot that didnt keep my attentionps FFXIIs gambit ability made the entire game a non issue as far as battles concerned My brother and Is motto at boss time was to put the control down and see if we would win only one boss took actual human intelligence to beat 1 Dragon Age Origins I thought Id get Baldurs Gate kinda gameplay nope I got bored 20 hours into it It felt incoherent I wanted more freedom I didnt like the gameworld2 Bioshock I thought Id get System Shock 2 kinda gameplay nope I got bored 10 hours into it It didnt feel original enough it wasnt believable like System Shock 2 was I hated the simplicity of everything3 Hellgate London I thought Id get Diablo 2 kinda gameplay nope I got bored 20 hours into it It started repeating itself I didnt find the story interesting enough to care about continuing it felt like grinding4 Unreal Tournament 3 I thought Id get UT99 kinda gameplay nope I got bored 5 hours into it It felt gimmicky it felt cluttered and riddled with only eyecandy it had no fragging soul5 DeusEx I thought Id get UT99 amp System Shock 2 kinda gameplay nope I got bored 2 hours into it Ive started it again like 5 times and I cannot get past the initial feeling that this game just isnt the awesome experience that it is for others Theres nothing there for me I never finished HalfLife 2 but I started playing again and fully intend to take my time and finish it HL2 I cant get past the abandoned town with the saw blades and the zombiesDownvoting Seriously In order of most recently abandonedDragon Age Origin 360 does this game get any good ever The raving about it made me excited when I got this for Christmas my brother has put 80 hours into it on PC I clocked 40 hours tonight and Im just not into it like I expect I should be I kept giving it a chance as it was a gift and so on but seriously this is a lauded gameTorchlight PC didnt play the demo never played Diablo went on recommendations on Reddit played 15 mins cant see the point havent loaded since Do you just keep clicking on the baddies And thats itGTA4 360 Played 50 through but save game refuses to load previous save is the kill the gay chap in the cafe mission Realised not worth playing back to where I wasHL2 Ep2 PC loved it violent motion sickness on all Source engine games if played over 3 hours stopped this one at the point of a narrow bridge and a charging ant lion queen Will go back when Ep3 is outOblivion 360 not enough direction for me so I wasnt entirely sure what to do or how to do it started it 3 times with different character but never played more than 2 hoursSTALKER Clear Skies buggy crashed on opening marshes level gave up was fun when workingSTALKER Shadow of Chernobyl 10 in like it somehow managed to get to a point where I was surrounded and always died but auto save was for just before the enemies surrounded me couldnt escapeMany others on DS Wii PC and some on 360 Lots of games I tend not to finish some because of boredom some because of tedium and a select few because of difficulty It often happens that I get distracted by another game then by the time I come back to the game I left Ive forgotten where I was in the game what I was doing or Ive forgotten the controls Doom 3 I really pushed to beat this game when I first bought it and I got about halfway through Unfortunately I reinstalled Windows without backing up the save file so I had to get a fresh start Have not yet finishedEven when I was playing the game regularly though I could only play for at max an hour before needing a break Some sessions would only be a few minutes The game is really scary It gets criticised for being mostly monster closets but the reason the monster closets work so well is because the whole game creates an atmosphere of tension Theres never any point in the whole game where you feel even slightly safe or comfortable Diablo Clicking a trillion times isnt my idea of fun Im could get shanked for saying that here but there it isBaldurs Gate II Throne of Bhall Expansion It was a shitty expansion with no story that focused entirely on nexttoimpossible fightsRoller Coaster Tycoon Whatever part makes people good at that game Im obviously missing I couldnt get past level 5 or 6 Any game where I die a bunch at a single point I never can care enough to deal with the frustration God Damn Dead SpaceGot to the asteroid section actually enjoyed the game up to then and could never get passed the stupid asteroid section Its been collecting dust since Pretty much every final fantasy ever except for X I always get sidetracked and then when I come back forgot the story so I restart And the cycle repeats itself forever and ever until the end of the world Too many to list SeriouslyWelcome to adulthood where you have the money to buy pretty much any game you want but no free time to play them gtThat said I have made a concerted effort to catch up over Christmas and new year Im currently playing through STALKER Max Payne 12 Deus Ex yes I know Im extremely late to the party Assassins Creed 1 so I can start AC2 and also Mass Effect Dawn of War 2 I keep playing multiplayer but never have the incentive to go back and finish the single player After the 8th mission or so it all start to run together Halo 3 I bought it when it first came out I promptly got the RRoD on my Xbox I havent played it since because I dont want to chance breaking the xbox again Resistance 2 didnt like it as much as the first felt really gumby EDIT Chinatown wars on the DS cant beat the ambulance mission with the tapping the heart thing for some reason Homeworld It looks like an awesome game and i really want to like it Everytime i see it mentioned i want to find it reinstall it and try to like it I tried it years ago so i cant really remember exactly what it was that i didnt like about it I think it was the controls and i found the gameplay too slow Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker Okay I beat all the dungeons fought the bosses time to fight Ganondorf Oh wait you want me to sail around until I find randomly scattered pieces of the Triforce Fuck that noiseShuts off gamecubeGrabs dick |
And no I dont mean that in the figurative senseBasically Ive been contemplating meeting a girl from an ad on Craigslist for a while Usually they end up being spam or fat ugly trolls This is a goodlooking 21 year old and I found out she lives about 3 minutes awayOther than say a religious moral objection does going through with this make me a freak Has anyone else done it and if so how do you feel about itgt | Ive paid for sex I got the girls from craiglist too There was this one blonde russian lady with amazing tits that I had incredible sex with I still remember the times we spent together She would casually stare at her naked body in the mirror for about a minute after she took a shower and was getting ready to get dressed It was a beautiful moment You could tell she loved her body and it was with good reasonThere was another girl who mocked her other whore friends who she said would get feelings for some of their johns Just be a whore No big deal she would say There was a special gleam in her eyes while we did it You could tell she enjoyed itBut sometimes its horrible There was the one that stank of cigarettes and asked me to listen to her sing and play the guitar before we went at it I suffered through one song and when she asked me if I wanted to hear another I instantly yelled NO before regaining my composure and finishing with ehm sorry Its getting late for me The look on her face was so sad Really killed me inside Felt like a scumbag but I still stayed for the sex as I had already paid There was another time where I actually had to wash my mouth with soap after giving oral to this one girl I swear she tasted like those extrasour candies except it never got sweet She was the one that made me feel the most like a scumbag because at some point I realized she was too young and naive to be doing this I dont really think she was underage but still I stopped very soon after herLike I said many times you end up feeling like a scumbag afterwards despite rationalizations And then you realize you are paying to do this to your psyche Plus with STDs and sketchy people out there I have Twice so farI frequent a chatroom for people in my area About two weeks ago I got a private message from a girl She told me what she did for a living and asked if I was interested I was interested but worried it was some kind of scam but the thought of finally getting laid won out in the end Up until that point I was a 34 year old virgin Im not hideous just very shy and socially useless Yes Im a loser Ive seen her twice now and will do so againAfter the first time I felt a little ashamed that it had come to me visiting a prostitute and I felt bad for her that this is what she does for a living However Ive talked to her and she seems to be a perfectly nice well adjusted human being and shes totally at ease with it Which made me feel better I think Im trying to justify it to myselfThe ironic thing is that Im bisexual and I also hooked up with a guy the same week so had my first guy on guy experience too not for money by the way So in the last two weeks of 09 I got laid four times Four times more than ever beforeId still rather have a girlfriend someone who actually cares but I guess you get what you can Ive discovered that sex without feelings and affection is rather hollow and has kind of left me wanting something more something real Not what I expected at all and all rather depressing Never in the pro senseI have no problem dating or getting girls within my acceptable range which has widened with age I actually know a girl who is hot as hell who is a high class escort who has let me know shed be game for some fun times and I cant bring myself to go alongA major dealbreaker is that I love going down on women and with a pro its a nono I know that with any woman who is not a prude there is some risk but with a pro Also I like foreplay and waking up with a woman at my side breakfast and silly shit like that Just plain sex is not that much fun for me I like the little things too Im a bit confused here you seem to be saying two different things Thisgt Basically Ive been contemplating meeting a girl from an ad on Craigslist for a while Usually they end up being spam or fat ugly trolls This is a goodlooking 21 year old and I found out she lives about 3 minutes awaymakes it sound like youre talking about the Casual Encounters section of Craigslist They dont actually charge for sex there unless its explicitly mentioned in which case it almost always gets flagged as spam immediately Instead its just a heavily competitive environment where you have a slimtonil chance of actually getting any response to your adsemails if youre a guySo on the assumption that its really just some horny girl and youre confused about how things work I have actually had a good experience with Casual Encounters In fact I met my girlfriend of a year so far that way Great sex and were both nerds who hang out on Reddit Id suggest you do itHowever if it really is paying for sexwell I dont see why not Most of the girls posting outside the designated areas of Craigslist are nonpro and have only had sex as many times as an average girl that age Youre not really asking has anyone here ever paid for sex with a prostitute in this case just has anyone ever gave some slacker girl her rent money for the month in exchange for a night of lukewarm unpracticed lovinNow on the third hand if you are asking if you should go pick up a prostitute and your Craigslist story is a lie then reply and Ill tell you the experience Ive had with that I have I dont see what the big deal is as paying for it is not indicative of an inability to get laid just that you want to get laid with a minimum of fuss I never used Craigs though I used to live down the street from a notorious strip club where the girls gladly went down for the right price I dont care what Chris Rock says if the place is lowrent enough there is sex in the champagne room My friends philosphy is that paying for sex and sex with a gf is pretty much the same as you spend the same if not more on ur gf he also says that when you pay for it your not so much paying for the sex more so paying for them to leave Personally and as a feminist I do not think prostitution is morally wrong as long as everyone is treated fairly and with respect and the woman or I suppose man is choosing the trade because its what she wants Basically the way a dominatrix works actually HiThe best thing you can do is be prepared Do a little research first Try this website httpbitchesofcraigslistcomblogtop10craigslistescortsAnd also become familiar with the slang the girls use in their ads httpbitchesofcraigslistcomblogneedakeyforacronymsFigure out how much you are able to pay any special requests you might have and most importantly be polite and have good hygiene Treat the girl with respect and you will have a good experience No this does not make you a freak People have a basic need for sex Have a good time Ive never done it personally but if I knew you in real life and knew what you did I wouldnt care one bit We all pay for sex in one way or another Through marriage or through your local redlight districttwo things in life are certain Death and Poon Tax |
In the past few days we have had two members of our community post some short erotic fiction Both were fairly well received and I am ecstatic that they wanted to share with us As some of you may already know a month or so ago the creator of rbdsm offeredhttpwwwredditcomrBDSMcommunitycommentsa7h4ldoesthemoderatorofthissubredditwantrbdsm up his subreddit Since then it has been sitting on the backburner while our lovely mod squad cleans up the mountains of spam and recovers from the holidays Subscriptions there have been dropping off and rBDSMcommunity surpassed the amount of readers from there very quickly We really need to breathe some new life into that place and revive itHere are my questions for you Do you think erotica is better posted in rBDSMcommunity in rbdsm or do you not care either way Are you subscribed to both subreddits Why or why not Do you have any suggestions to make this place better Any suggestions for rbdsm Thanks for your time bondagegirl | I think stories fiction or otherwise should be on rbdsm personally I like the idea of Community being a place for personal occurrencesinquiries it makes it feel like a community rbdsm seems more the place for literary and visual erotica Maybe fiction authors should use rbdsm while irl evening romps can stay on Community Im at a loss for suggestions but Ive been following BDSMcommunity for the past couple of weeks and finally decided to stop lurking and join reddit the other day I love whats been going on in Community I belong to both reddits though dont check rbdsm as often because I am much more interested in real life questionssituationsexperiences that people share on rbdsmcommunity I love brendhans idea of posting not only written erotica but bdsmrelated photography movies or music to rbdsm Not only would it be a great way to see other redditors reviews but to come across new things As far as erotica written by fellow redditorspersonally i love the idea of having communities seperated rbdsm for fantasybased stuff rbdsmcommunity for IRL stuff But then I ask myself shouldnt the stories written by our fellow members be put in rbdsmcommunity because its coming right from the same people were asking personal questions and advice from at times I mean wouldnt we all like to get a little insight into the perverted minds of our fellow kinky redditors Its a hard decisionI guess whether or not I would post selfwritten erotica in which community would be based on how much i think Im actually going to be sharing my written stories with the rest of reddit If its something i do once in a blue moon or hardly ever Id post it on rbdsmcommunity But if i wrote erotica pretty often and while i wanted to share my stories with reddit I didnt want to spam up the community page with my fantasies Id post to rbdsmwell I R stuck all i have to say is good luck mods lol Warning slightly bias point of view here I am subscribed to both subreddits I like the sense of community in rbdsmcommunity I am in favor of keeping it that flavor I think the rbdsm would be a great place for the erotica I think it would be better served there it would also help spring a little life into it I think it deserves the chance I personally am amazed by how well the rbdsmcommunity is doing even for one that is three months old and caters to a niche area I think in some ways it would be a small bit of a disservice to put erotic fantasy into a reality based bdsm community that is trying to educate those who are new and trying to learn to separate the facts from fantasy The exchange should be that reality based posts should be directed here to rbdsmcommunity Currently there is a post about latex catsuits that basically lingered in rbdsm Part of it getting buried by the spam filter and part of due to even lower traffic movement in rbdsm Now what I would think would be very cool is for cross posting to say hey I wrote something posted in rbdsmcommunity that linked to erotica in rbdsm I love good erotica I think there are a few people in here with wonderfully perverted minds and I would love to see them cut loose with their creativity We could even if you liked the idea look into an annual writing contest with some different categories For an overall to rbdsm we have a much broader area that can be placed in their than in even rbdsmcommunity I think as people get more comfortable with the erotica we can branch into more areas Such as bdsm book and movie reviews I think a discussion in rbdsm on the Story of O would be a great place to start There is quite a bit of anime and manga out there also Okay I need to sleep now and stop babbling Dedit because bold and italics were screwed up I personally dont mind the literotica especially since the traffic here isnt all that heavy Im subscribed to both subreddits but only because now and then someone posts a self post to bdsm and I check for those I dont know how to improve either subreddits though sorry My opinion is that they would be better posted either in a 3rd subreddit or somewhere else Im not subscribed to rbdsm I think I was once but I unsubbed for some reason probably spamAnyway if stories are posted here it dilutes what is here now it means that if I consider the story postings overbearing then I have to give up the stories AND the community aspect by unsubscribing to the whole subreddit It makes the proposition an all or nothing affair whereas a seperate subreddit for stories could be subbed or unsubbed depending on tasteThere are many subreddits Ive unsubbed from over the years simply because theyve become too noisy I dont mind having a handful of posts on my frontpage from a subreddit but if the frontpage is dominated by useless posts that dont interest me then I have to toss away the whole subreddit from my list WATMM got dumped from my list after a few weeks because of that I agree with brendham The value here is in real persons getting real reactions to real questionsexperiencestriumphs etc Ive been amazed at the quality of concern everyone offers here While erotica is key for a lot of us I think in THIS reddit it would be like having the TV on in the background while were trying to talk seriously Im subscribed to both but the only reason Im subscribed to rbdsm is because I was made a mod and I feel bad as I havent actually done any modding there still not entirely sure of my modly duties Id understand if my modship were to be revoked as the others are doing a sterling job without me Though I do like how reading down the page the initials of rBDSMs mods spell boobTruth be told Ive pretty much stopped bothering with Reddit except this lil community as I got tired of all the repetition of the same old questions in other subreddits but that hasnt really been an issue here and I love chatting about BDSM related stuff rBDSM is a great idea in theory but I never go there and Im not all that interested in clicking the links Id prefer if someone had placed a link or written a self post here in the community that included links in the text and then we discussed it In rBDSM and rBDSMNoSpam theres rarely any commentary going on except a couple of people to say thats hot or something Its not very interesting however informative the links might be I mean its mostly links to peoples blogs discussing various BDSM things Id much rather someone came to BDSMCommunity and started a thread about whatever issues than wrote it in a blog and linked to it You know I like the friendly discussionbased aspect of Reddit not the idea of using it as a noticeboard to pin advertisements to Its one of my pet peeves about the internetsocial sites that these days people seem to mainly use their various accounts facebook twitter etc to whore out their various other wareswebsites It just gives the impression of cluttering up the place I know I sound like a grumpy old woman I do agree with the people who think rBDSM is a better place for erotica than here for similar reasons to the above and it would make that place more worth visiting So long as its not full of grammatical errors that is My boyfriend and I have written loads of storiesextracts for each other but theyre too long to post on here plus a bit too personal for me to feel comfy posting online even anonymously but its always good to read wellwritten BDSM fiction It just doesnt generate discussion as much as Id like for this particular forum On the other hand though I think theres a lot of overlapping It sounds good to put discussions about booksmovies etc on rBDSM to liven up the place but I feel that would be equally at home here some of the first posts here including one I wrote are regarding BDSM in fictionmedia Its quite good having things all in one place Just as long as those bloggers dont start posting their links in BDSMCommunity Im happy enough for other BDSM discussions to take place here Dont really mind either way though whatever floats peoples boats I think we should have everything in one spot and heres why Just like the community of kinksters people will come for certain parts and wont be interested in others but what has always been important to me was the feeling of inclusion of all aspects of what we do Secondly if we The more traffic there is in a reddit the more likely people are to staybecome involved and I think thats pretty important too I havent read all the responses yet because I wanted to give my opinion and then talk it out with the group and hear what everyone else has to say Im certainly open to the idea of two groups Im just not sure its the best thing for either subreddit I dont subscribe to the BDSM reddit but I would suggest if we decide to merge the two into one we keep which ever one has more traffic to begin with |
EDIT If you just came and want a taste of what the discussion has turned into this chain of commentshttpwwwredditcomrIAmAcommentsardsgiama17yroldlegalimmigrantnonpermanentc0j0a62 sums it up pretty wellLegal immigration how come we never hear about that I emigrated from China 6 years ago I am now 17 in senior year of high school My parents are H1B and I am an H4 dependent I walk along my peers each day not too different from everyone else unless you force me to utter an SSN which I dont have People always asked why I am not a citizen or dont have my green card It seemed to everyone that maybe my family and I have really been slacking off on clearing out a morning on our daily agenda to drive down to the Town Hall or Social security office to ask a clerk behind the counter to take a test and get our citizenship status in the afternoon Usually people are flabbergasted when I try to explain that we wont receive anything back about the permanent resident application we submitted a year ago until 2012 If naturalization is our next step we probably wont be able to do so before 2020 I understand my peers lack of knowledge in this area since everyone whos already here with proper status take it for granted No one should have to be well versed in the complex regulations and codes of immigration rulesI am making this IAMA because I have been trying to take courses at a local university I was expecting to pay about 1000 for 6 credit hours 150cr plus fee but the bill showed something tripling that price because I do not qualify for residency Little stuff like this gets me sometimes and it has started since day one we were in America It was devastating slightly for me to learn as a 11yearold prepubescent child that I was ineligible for those cereal box giveaways because I dont have the right status After then I realized that most fine prints on applications are written for people like me So I learned to just skip to the last section of anything official I read first to see if theres some kind of residency requirementI am not well knowledgeable of the exact legal stuff about my status but here are the things I am denied of Work legally no employment full or part time SSN Owning guns FAFSA Voting at 18 still have to register to serve For Alaska No Permanent Fund DividendI do have Drivers license Library card Debit cardThese are the only things I can think of right now the only things I care slightly about I have given a lot of thoughts about my life and my relation to others in this country to people in my country to immigrants like me in the US to secondgeneration immigrants born in this country I have a 3yearold sister born in the US shes American Truly I thought coming to America at 11 was a liberation from the seemingly cruel Chinese system Despite my relatively good grades at the time it seemed like remaining there and competing with literally millions of people would be difficult My father was offered a position as a masters degree candidate at a state university my mother found a similar opportunity in 05 after being here for 2 years The early days were tough especially when we only survived off my fathers meager scholarship stipend around 1000 for 3 people We were always too close of getting deported A lot of times my parents were forced to do seemingly irrational things to keep us in the country Hence my mom took up her degree when my dad couldnt find a job when he got his degree and consequently he took up a PhD Luckily my father found an engineer position in a decent Canadian company operating in the US and we began to live like middle class American since last yearOn the personal side I have been impacted deeply by this whole transition I was the typical extroverted social butterfly in 6th grade back in China but the language barrier shut me off for a few years and I only snapped out of my forced introversion starting the middle of sophomore year My view of my parents have changed tremendously also from a deep admiration and unconditional acceptance in the first few years to a feeling characterized by distance and misunderstanding especially after the advent of my 3yearold sister My life is too ordinary because I do not feel like I have encountered anything traumatic like some people I have met However I do feel like I have been under a constant low dose of anxiety that has crippled me to do a lot of the things I enjoy Partly my status my familys finance and my selfinduced cultural identity disorderI just finished studying for a Spanish test tomorrow I submitted a bunch of financial aid applications as an international student to the 8 colleges to which I have applied I might be going to sleep but I will answer all questions if you wantEDITOh what the hell Heres the kicker I lived in Alaska 100mi below the Arctic circle for the first 5 years Now I am in Anchorage AlaskaEDIT Its kind of late 241AM to be exact I will come back tomorrow Thanks for your questions D | Yeah its kind of messed up that in a number of places convicted felons become disenfranchisedhttpssecurewikimediaorgwikipediaenwikiFelonydisenfranchisement Convicted felons have paid their debt to society as one I can tell you that you deserve more rights but so do felons I live in India Cannot drive till the age of 18 Cannot own a gun ever Even though I can work Id only earn 100 per month In places like McDonalds KFC not the usual Dhabasroad side restaurants This should also explain why Indians need to graduate with a bachelors High school is not enough for a better job in fact high school graduates get lt10 more than those who have never been to school I dont see the point in voting when most of the candidates are mafiarelated and have cases pending against them murder rape etc However this does not I wont vote Porn is illegal Gay marriage is legal Anal sex is not The education system is PATHETIC This is in private schools I wont even talk about government schools The teachers are demotivating and have never actually understood the subject they teach Cant blame them they get about 550 per month for 11th 12th grade I realize that everything in India is cheaper however if this figure were to be converted in spending power it would be much lower than that of the average American teacher Tired of how shitty life can get Well you better succeed the first time because if you FAIL at killing yourself you will be sentenced to 3 years Public transportation Mumbai is a pain literally The other day I missed a stop because I could traverse the 5 meters to the door of the train No cycling lanes no crossing and no traffic discipline You will have to bribe everyone for everything that involves legal paperwork Lost your arm in an accident because it was entirely the companys fault Didnt get machinery serviced proper safety equipment not provided After a 3 4 year case you might be awarded 1000 Lost your life Again after some 7 years your family will rejoice when the court hands them 4000 Based on actual court casesThats all I can think of for nowTLDR I live in India My better half is a legal permanent resident and I can say with authority that if any US citizen had to routinely deal with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services it would be disbanded in about 5 minutes Some of the stuff that agency does makes the IRS look wellreasoned and competent A tip You qualify for naturalization once youve held a green card I551 for five years so maybe that moves up to a whopping 2017I wish you good luck and would also like to point out that this system isnt intended to harm you it was put in place because like all other good ideas it got abused People would get an H1B then promptly overstay and apply for LPR status which violated the intent of the visa Even after years of cracking down unscrupulous businesshttpwwwbusinessweekcommagazinecontent0941b4150034732629htm still poke holes in the systemSo to keep this as an AMA Even knowing how the system has treated you would you still like to stay America would love to have you You also write better English then most convicted felons Actually you write better than most natives Good job Keep it up gtConvicted felons have more rights than I dohave you thought about becoming a convicted felon That may solve your problems Am I supposed to be surprised that a legal minor has fewer rights than some other set of American citizens HEY OP When I was in 7th grade my mother told me this and her exact words were translated This is not your country After living here for 21 yearsI am a legal resident and I can get citizenship however I do not find it necessary the older I get the more I realize I need to leave In 2020 when you naturalize as a citizen PM me if we are both still on reddit and if you are within 1000 miles I will drivefly out possibly with a family in tow who knows with a batch of red white and blue cupcakes and help you celebrate your new status Well its not isolated to America OPI am in Japan as a Canadian I am legally required to carry a card calling me a Registered Alien I cannot vote read contracts I need to sign in my own language have a credit card have a drivers license without paying a few thousand dollars get a loan of any kind get health insuranceForeigners here have their own special unemployment office where you have to sit for 6 hours to see a representative who is supposed to hand you a few papers These papers are essentially job listings like youd find in a newspaper elsewhereThing is I was with the woman I loved Now because of this recession the finance guys caused I havent seen her in months You can get a employable SSN with your visa when you turn 18 Also spend some money to get an immigration lawyer they can definitely make a green card application much faster I moved in 2001 and got my residency in 2005 6 months after I petitioned Edit You cant get an SSN with H4 BUT you can get one once you file for permanent residency Ok kidwithshirt Heres my takeI came to the US in 2005 on a F1 visa During this time I was able to work on campus to do any admin jobs tours workstudy whatever This is possible from the age of 18 and up you are only one year away so its not that bad Once you are in college make sure you get an oncampus job so that you can go to the SS office and get that SSN It will improve your life a LOT Apply for a secured credit card given that you are responsible with your finances and start building up your credit That will save you a lot of hassle when you graduate and need to rent your own apartment and buy a car get loans in your name etc If work is such a big issue now and you mention needing to pad up your resume you can get a bunch of under the table jobs It CAN be done Anyway once youre in college you should be able to apply for CPT or OPT Optional Practical Training depending on your course This will allow you to work for a total of 1 year on F1 visa spread out or all at once in the field of the major you chose So that could be for an internship for example What I did was use 3 months for my junior year internship and then 9 months after college I used for my job 12 months totalOnce youre done with college you would hopefully have a company willing to sponsor your H1B which is what happened with me If you prove to your company that youre a valuable asset and that youll stay with them they will apply for your green card And then all your problems are solved Listen its time to take it in your own hands and be lucky you have your parents around I didnt even have that and had to go through those same things as you without my parents help so again it CAN be done You have to put the effort in talk to lawyers counselors and do whatever it takes if you want to succeed here The opportunity is waiting for people like you who are hard working and willing to give it their all I was a resident elsewhere before and if you think you dont have rights here PM me if you want to know what its like in other countries I have lived in 4 countries Thats why I wouldnt want to be anywhere else despite all the hassles I came to the US when I was two years old from Argentina I am now 21 years old and I also am still a temporary legal resident Cant get a legal job vote get FAFSA which includes work study jobs on campus all because I was born elsewhere My siblings one of which is just three years younger has absolutely no problems and has never dealt with immigration because she was born here Its a bitch A lot of us just dont fall into any category to get permanent residency which is necessary for citizenship Common sense like hey hes lived here 19 years speaks fluent English and gets above average grades he should be allowed to live here now unfortunately has no place in the matter of immigration issues The obvious question then is Why emigrateIt seems you were probably young and didnt make the choice yourself but if all those things you said were true Im a bit skeptical about the not being able to legally work part and I dont see how not having a SSN is a bad thing directly what reason would there be for someone to emigrate Wrong about guns Let me quotehttpwwwvrolykorggunsalienlawshtml a couple things for you to look upgt In general nonimmigrant aliens are forbidden to possess any firearms or ammunition But there is a big exception for a legal alien whogt is in possession of a hunting license or permit lawfully issued in the United Statesgt See Title 18 USC Chapter 44 Section 922 part y2httpfrwebgateaccessgpogovcgibingetdoccgidbnamebrowseuscampdocidCite18USC922 for detailsgt Greencard holders and immigrant aliens who do not yet have their green card are both okay under federal law although many people including gun dealers law enforcement officers etc are not aware of the distinction or the hunting license exception and erroneously think that either you have a green card or you cant have gunsgt Also noncitizen cannot purchase a firearm from a federally licensed firerams dealer unless they have been a resident of their state for 90 days So no tourists on short visits cannot walk into guns stores to get protection during their trip Sorry Ive been asked that multiple times Ill assume you have not lost your native Chinese language skillsand say Dudeyou are going to be so freaking rich Get a degree in business and be the China liaison for the company of your choice and name your priceAmericans arent bothering to learn Chinese so the field is wide openYes I know about the guy who DID learn the language and makes a lot of money but statistically he doesnt exist Join the Air Force or other branch for a couple years minimum Army contract is 18 months if you dont want to fight become a tech or something Theyll pay for school youll get a discount on tuition Veterans Preference for any federal jobs and your citizenship lickity splitBy Executive Order Number 13269 dated July 3 2002 President Bush declared that all those persons serving honorably in activeduty status in the Armed Forces of the United States at any time on or after September 11 2001 until a date to be announced are eligible to apply for naturalization in accordance with the service during hostilities statutory exception in Section 329 of the INA to the naturalization requirements This means that individuals with even one day of honorable active duty service can apply for citizenship regardless of how long they have been a resident Note Under this provision individuals who apply for citizenship after discharge must present a DD Form 214 with service characterized as Honorable or General Those with other characterizations including Entry Level Separation are not eligible What is your proposed solution to the problemMany people want to come to the USA but the country has a hard enough time handling services including tuition assistance for the current population and expanding the immigration system to allow everyone who wants to come have the easy access is really unreasonable from a technical standpointIm not really against allowing more immigrants although 17 unemployment and underemployment and many states completely bankrupt makes this a really bad time to expand immigration but Ive yet to see a logical or even halfway fair way of dealing with this You are merely describing the differences between a citizen and a noncitizen Convicts are citizens and therefore they enjoy many of the rights and priviledges etc that other citizens enjoy while you might not you not being a citizenYou say your parents did seemingly irrational things to keep us in the country Did those things not include applying for US citizenship Lets say it was easy to get citizenship How many Chinese or Indian people would move to America immediatelyThere is a process All countries have a process to full citizenship and there are laws and rules to follow along the way You cant own guns What the fuck is the point in living in America thenThat was a rhetorical question |
What are the masterpieces of design that you are aware of What truly stands above all else in its field What is the best designed thing you can think ofAlso whats the worst designed thing you can think ofhttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsaubz0whatistheworstdesignedthingyoucanthinkof | AK47 When I was in the navy we used a variant of it called RK95 Literally every little thing on that assault riffle has a use or multiple things you can use it for It is really hard to break it I think this is why it is still the most used assault riffle today even though it was designed back in 1947 It is so well designed that even a child can use it which sucks Everytime a see a bicycle I cant help but think that theyre freaking awesome Theyre perfect little cruizers for our bipedial selvesThishttpwwwplanetizencomfilesu1299EinsteinBikejpg somehow says it all PaperclipHad an introductory lecture on Engineering Design this morning and one part of it focused on how perfectly designed the original paperclip was No matter how many times people try and reproduceslightly modify it they never quite match the qualityThe length of wire used is the shortest possible to keep all the papers securely fastened together while not risking too large a bending stress at the curved partThe two spiky bits at the end are slightly different lengths so as to not tear the paper as you pull it off Honda Civic especially the engine The only thing wrong with it was that it used a plastic water pump which would occasionally fail Most OEM replacements are metal though A Jet I cannot think of any one creation that incorporates so many different types of physical science Electrical Mechanical Materials you name itI truly believe the creation of the jet engine and its reliability is a testament to engineering progress in the last 100 years The zipperAlso in some software applications the way CtrlZ undo is set such that itll capture the activities of a few seconds and let you undo them en masse like you might try some code that does one thing add a little to that then say fuck it and revert and boom there you go with a single CtrlZ the pencil Simple beautiful easy to useunderstand Clearly the optimum in terms of designThere is also that story about the US developing a multimillion dollar pen that could write in space and the soviets just gave their cosmonauts pencils Apple products in general I generally dont buy apple products since they are overpriced and hard to customise Im a Linux guy myself but I have set some up and used some and I own an iPhone and they seem to just work without faffing aboutThey have perfected usability the only issues I have aside from the price is the refusal for iPods and what not to work with Linux and that damn lowercase i which they prefix to everything The Treadmobilehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvr0gsaDxK884 is probably the best designed product I have seen Ive always had a fondness for swiss army knives So many damn tools in such a neat compact package 360 Controller Perfectly shaped and comfortable I find that if you arent used to the Playstation controller you will knock thumbs in many games Making Geometry Wars incompatible with the PS3 Also Project Gotham Racing where the game originated is Xbox only Differential Gear is on the TophttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvK4JhruinbWcAK47 stupid fps but great vidhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvlQe864rGLykWhiphttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvZDFu3GbG0X0Nokia 6310i The 3 ring systemhttpenwikipediaorgwiki3ringreleasesystem for parachutes A brilliant bit use of leverage that allows a 14 piece of material x2 to withstand several thousands pounds of force yet disconnect in a heartbeat with almost zero force Those aliens did a pretty nifty job inventing the human brain I only wish someone had kept the users manual The Book Its damn near perfect It allows random access to any piece of information contained within the book It can if properly maintained last over a thousand years Its shape allows multiple books to be stored together with minimal space wastage It is a design that has withstood thousands of years of innovation without once changing form until the nature of data itself changed |
So Ive been playing demoknight for the past month What I have a problem with is the Eyelander Lets break this thing down You get the buff for each head the increased melee range and the health decrease In most games I am only averaging a few at most heads a life I am simply not getting above the normal health but I guess the speed is nice At the same time the 150 health makes me vulnerable to bodyshot snipers The increased melee range is nice and all but whenever I go all melee I die from something that uses bullets where I would have been better using pills at a distance and charging more sparingly I find myself charging single targets and then running out which brings me to the question why use the eyelander Besides looking ing awesome and making my eye glow I seem to only see drawbacks I was just wondering what other people think about it Am I just too willing to die on suicide runs when I have heads racking upEDIT The TF2httptf2wikinetwikiDemoman wiki only confirms this for me Charging both melee crit for the same damage although the bottle retains the capacity to crit randomly and do more or less damage per hit | Eyelander Not a fan I dont even like the way it looks its cliche and uninteresting The bottle has style I think it adds a nice depth to the class It makes his defensive style like that of a viper You spit from range they come within striking distance and you close for the kill You just cant get over zealous with your sword combat To be a good demoknight you HAVE to be good with pipes simple as that If you chuck a few pipes into a pack and get some splash damage you are never going to be successful You have to be able to get good consistant direct hit pipes 100 damage at any range you can get a direct hit is many times better than a soldier and throwing them onto a cart full of people bunched together does huge damage Once you have this down use the chargesword as an alternative when the oppertunity arises eg throw 1 pipe into most enemys and then charge and swing even if you dont get the mini crit you can 1 or 2 shot them Or if a pyro has already been through a pack of people taking them down to 12 health its a good oppertuntity to start taking headsLike every class it has its strengths and weaknesses its not going to be suited for every map so dont expect it to work all the time This setup is also more suited to 1 on 1 encounters or taking positions with cover ie chuck 4 pipes out take cover reload go again |
The last I found out about his extradition charges and prosecution was herehttpwwwsottnetarticlesshow179985OutcomeofthefirstunusualDVDcourtcase | Nice job guys two downvotes without commentsIf you read about his case he was extradited from Ireland to the UK under charges relating to him sending his movie the British equivalent of loose change to the judge presiding over the case of the 77 bombers Google shows me nothing about what happened next nothing from two days before his trial in march 09 I think this a valid question and the right place to ask itSo any other downvoters please say why you want this buried Yes i too would like to find out what ever happened As far as i know he was from Kells in the Irish Republic a very small town Im from the North but i lived down their a few years ago He also sent the vid to the jury But whats so fucked up is basically his movie was a compilation of TV News clips and Newspaper Reports with his voice over Nothing that wasnt already in the public domain So it could never have contaminated the jury which was the case i think the UK Gov was trying to make Very good movie would love to know what happened to himHes maybe away for REEDUCATION In 1 of those CIA Black prisons in Eastern EuropePaki ISI Detention Facility courtesy of MI6 |
STToS episode Arena is my first TV memory so you can pretty much call me a Trekkie for life I have been waiting for this MMO for quite a while and I can tell you that it was worth the wait Glitches and typical beta bugs aside what are your thoughts so far of STO open beta | Found some time to actually give some input so here goes Within the first 30 or so minutes I was a little wary The ground combat is quite different from what I was used to in WoW I kind of just fumbled around and shot stuff but after a while I really got to like the ground combat It is fairly straight forward but when you actually start to use your kits avoidance tactics like rolling to avoid attacks and running it actually got pretty fun and you can take on a whole whackload of enemies if youre smart about it The ground combat really got in my good graces when I beamed down with a full party for the first time Commanding them all to focus your target is really neat and their AI is pretty spot on Your AI party members are not dumb and in the way as I had feared The AI performs just as well as other captains do when Ive accepted to do a ground mission with other people Impressive stuffThe space combat however is the real selling point of this game You need to really be mindful of ship placement which is incredibly fun You have shields surrounding your ship each from a different emitter This means that all four sides of your ship have different shield levels As you take damage you have the option to allocate more power to defenses weapons engines or balance them all You can also allocate shield power from other shield grids to protect sections under heavy fire With that in mind comes your weapon arcs Certain weapons can only be fired at ships in a given radius Some thing to think of in ship combat are while you are protecting certain shields emitters from enemy fire to ensure you do not take hull damage trying to keep a certain side of your enemy in weapons range so you can knock down their shields making sure that you have them in your photon arc so you can use your photons on their bare hull when their shields fail allocate power to defenses if you are taking heavy damage or allocating to weapons if you have an unshielded area of their ship in your photon arc to go for the killing blow Loosely translated HOLY FUCKING FUNThe missions are pretty engaging Scout this sector seeblow up Gorn attacking some station escort some ship to somewhere inquire about mining workers grievances lol talk to this dude and so on have not felt like grinding at all Now THAT is a welcome change to WoWI hope this gives some insight into what open beta is like so far If you take nothing else away from this post please take this I am having a hell of a blast commanding my starship D I got into the open beta with a key from MassivelyThe only MMO I played was Star Wars Galaxies I quit after 2 or 3 months Wasnt for meAnyway I am thoroughly disappointed with Star Trek Online As an MMO it might be decent but as a Star Trek game it sucks You cant be inside your ship When you go to space YOU ARE the ship You cant just walk around the bridge You cant hail other player ships You cant assemble a team of players go to the bridge of your ship and have each player handle a console as if it were a true star trek episode When you communicate with other shipsNPCs you dont see them on the bridges viewscreen since you cant go inside your ship You cant set a course and go warp 5 engage You have to manually steer your ship into another system There are no warp speeds to speak ofSo really if you think about it this game isnt all that Star Trek If you replace the uniforms the ships races etc with something else it becomes a very generic game that does not feel anything like Star TrekBottomline if youre into MMOs I guess this is just another one If youre expecting that Star Trek experience youve always wanted forget it I love how they are calling it an open beta Each site had roughly 1000 KeysSo between the 10 sites thats 10000 people How the hell is that openI wish I could play I just find the game as far from Star Trek as possible Every mission milestone is fed to you You warp in and there are some Klingons who want to talk to you but your mission is already kill the klingons so why bother talkingTheres no alternate way of doing any of the missions What if I want to talk to the Klingons and perhaps work things out peacefully Too damn bad Want to beam into a situation at a different more tactical spot Too damn bad The space battles are okay but simplistic No Star Fleet Command here Oh and so far I have not been able to boink any Orion slavegirls no busty Triskelion warriors no cute lab scientists Just thought of another thing the game is based on the Champions Online engine and they seem to have reused some of the graphics for various ingame icons Annoying Also theres a cute bug that had either my vulcan avatar walking around with the starships like some type of giant god or had my starship walking around with the humans Knowing Cryptic and their betas dont expect any of those problems to be fixed anybody know where I can get a key for the open beta I cant seem to find a site that has any left Ive noticed that quite a few people do not know thta they can set a target system in sector space and be flown there automaticallyHit M click on the sector list double click it You are now on auto pilotDo not blame the game because you did not take the time to look at your map P |
Aside from the communication basis like email and instant messaging what do you think is the best part of the internet Links to the most impressiveuseful sites would be awesome | Typing an error message into google and getting 20 forum posts with solutionsMy life depends on this Instant mapsmapping The internet has also made travelling and travel research immensely easier The internet is the cheapest and the most powerful platform which acts as a stage for struggling artists of all types whose creativity would otherwise take a painfully long time to reach the world It has helped countless people in mustering up the courage they need to pursue their creative side If it wasnt for the internet I highly doubt that I would have been exposed to a lot of the music I have or books I read |
Im taking a course in computer graphics developing applications using OpenGL My teacher is using Visual Studio and gluthttpwwwopenglorgresourceslibrariesglut but we are allowed to use whatever IDE we want Is there an equivalent for Arch | You might be better off asking this in rlinux Youd get a bigger audience and its not really particular to Arch umm what about vimmonos c compiler If you are fluent in vim or want to become its a really good choice This guyhttpwwwcatonmatnetblogvimpluginsnerdtreevimutmsourcefeedburneramputmmediumfeedamputmcampaignFeed3Acatonmat28goodcoderscode2Cgreatreuse29 has a series on handy vim plugins which may be interesting Especially snipMate |
I cant find any science on the internet about it Is there a more technical medical term for itHeres the best I can find but they dont reference any studieshttpenwikipediaorgwikiWhitey28drugs29Im just curious because I got what I believe was the whities in Amsterdam once and I thought I was going to die The best way I can describe it is a profoundly unpleasant trippy delirium I only recently found out that theres a thing stoners call the whities and Im curious to know what the science is | You might try rdrugscience and request some info They have some pretty well educated people there who are willing to help |
Hey there I have a slushy left shoulder button on 1 controller as well as an X button which isnt as responsive as its brethren Ive looked into opening up the controllers but it was a wierd looking hexscrew on it Anyone have any tips on how to fix this Im sure someone out there has been clever and resourceful enough to fix this problem in the past Thanks for any input | Id soak the bastard in Metholated spirits for a while to losen up any grit then slosh it around and scrub the outside with a tootchbrush Then get the Hex key I bought online to pull it apart taking photos of every part every step of the wayThen I would check the small rubber dodads that lurk under the buttons that make the button bounce back up If it is worn out I would swap the dodads from X to B as B is used less than XThen I would put it back together very carefully and let it dry for a dayIf it is still buggered I would consider how long I have had it for Since launch day Played for hundreds of hours I got my moneys worth Time to get a new oneHad it for only a few months Sucks to be me Go buy a new oneIf I were an asshole willing to take a risk and this were a nonlaunch controller grey bit at bottom is silverish I could buy a new controller Then take back my busted one claiming it is the new one and then bitch and moan about warranty Id do this to a store that wronged me somehow if I were said assholeEither way considering the time you will spend fucking around it will be better to buy a new one And not a 3rd party controller thats just asking for a big steaming plate of bullshittldr Buy a new controller Not worth it |
The next APP council vote is less than two months away to ensure that you are ready for the vote begin paying attention to each of the members and gather a list of your favorite nominees | Honestly Im more interested in discussing ideas for a while than focusing on correct representation too early But that might be just meSurprisingly many seems to need someone there to tell them what to do |
Alright boys and girls this one is super simple and uber tasty It may not sound like it I admit I was a bit worried myself before trying it but give it a try Boil ramen noodles per directions on package discard seasoning packet or save it for another day Drain ramen and toss noodles in a hot skillet with butteroil Crack 23 eggs on top of ramen and scramble Once eggs begin to solidify toss in a handful or two of shredded cheese and mix together Cook until doneVoila | This recipe is the result of a demented madmans experiments in his basement one night in January half a decade ago It works better with Velveeta |
I discovered reddit about a week ago and ever since I seem to do nothing else at work I still accomplish what Im supposed to do and it hasnt impacted what people think of my job performance but damn sometimes it floors me if I tallied my time up I am pretty sure I am on reddit more than I am actually doing workMy job I sit behind a computer in a distribution warehouse and do all the paperwork for outgoing shipments as well as miscellaneous other things I get 15hr to browse reddit in other words | i have a theory on this the job market is over inflated that is to say only a few people working 40 hours a week could sustain many this is due to technology the answer in my opinion is dramatically lowered working hours if everyone worked 40 hours a week we would make so much shit that we would become wastefulloh shit already happened our consumer economy is proof communism came too early it would have worked with computers and lack of corruption so to reiterate if everyone put in about 10 hours a week we could sustain society and quality of living without having to pretend to work just to clock in 40 hours hell i would clean shit out of toilets for 10 hours a week if it meant that i could live comfortably it will never happen in our lifetime though people are too greedy and corruptedit too vs to had to correct it it is one of my only grammar pet peves Right here buddy I surf the web drink tea not a coffee fan and on very rare occasion read an email and respond I also go to meetings Check out the software RescueTime and see what you actually do when youre at your pc it records how long youve been on different web pages and how long youve been using word outlook etc and presents it in nice graphs Depressing stuff but really interesting |
I met this girl in class and immediately liked her shes quirky and sarcastic and loving and cerebral I asked her out to coffee once and it was one of the most fun insightful nights Ive ever shared with anyone But it was somewhat dampened by the fact that niether of us had declared romantic intent so nothing really came of itFinally a while ago I was drinking with my pals and whoever was my handler that night lapsed for a moment and let me touch a computer I proceeded to send her a message confessing my crush The next day much to my surprise she sent me back a beautifully worded missive telling me about how awkward she is with guys and how much she enjoyed the coffee date and how we might work were it not for the fact that she and just about everyone she knows are very religious and I am for lack of a better word a hereticIm sure theres probably no good way of defusing this and turning the situation in to one in which we can persue a relationship because both of us respect the other and the others beliefs far too much to ever attempt converting them the funny thing is that we for the most part believe very much the same things just label them differently But I thought I would at least give the fine folks of reddit a try and see if you guys have any advice Or downvotes for asking stupid questions Im not really in the position to complainAlso Sorry for the spelling errors if any Im cold its late and apparently Epiphany doesnt have a spellchecker | Dont worry about changing her beliefs you cant do it If you really like her and respect her beliefs she cant change for you either Realizing from the start that this is a boundary is a good way to start a relationship I never understood why spiritual beliefs or lack of matter in a relationship You even stategtwe for the most part believe very much the same things just label them differentlyUnless youre already thinking about how to raise the kidsIt seems like the only problem you would have is if one of you began to push your beliefs on the other In which case you would probably find this trait pushiness controlling attitude to be unbearably unattractive anyway |
My husband works with this girl well call her Alice She has had multiple boyfriend problems including abuse and hes been there for her He listens gives advice a shoulder to cry on you name it They were so close for a while that I really worried He told me it was more of a brothersister type of relationship and that he didnt find her attractive So I let it go Anyway this past week my husband has been under an immense amount of stress Job review new apartment lease fighting with his family and other things I have been there for him as much as I can but he vents to his friend about problems and she usually is a good listener Now hes telling me that Alice has completely shut off She recently went through another breakup and he told her she should not jump into another relationship for a while She agreed and seemed great until yesterday She blew up at him told him off and ignored him for the rest of the day Today was not much better in that she ignored him accused him of lying to her and that she was looking for a friend not someone else that judges her My husband hasand often I have been nothing but constantly supportive and helpful to her I have never ever seen my husband so depressed My question is this Should I be hurt by the fact that hes so bothered by losing this obvious loser Or should I just STFU and be there for him And should he continue to try to help this girl when its obvious she wont be there for him | This is a great opportunity to steer your husband away from this unhealthy relationship If shes saying leave me alone that is best for everyone |
In another thread a few of us were posting about stuff we made using Legos and it prompted me to post this imagehttpimgurcomRAT3Cjpg of my rendition of the Epoch from Chrono Trigger complete with detachable wings and seating for three This got me wondering what other cool stuff Redditors have made using Legos and maybe even still have lying aroundPlease share Tell us what awesome stuff youve made with Legos and if you have pictures all the better | I like to build videogame spriteshttpwwwflickrcomphotosconradoplgsets72157622637190807I was thinking on building a Epoch too yours is neat but please wash your LEGO D this guy made a whole househttpwwwdailymailcouknewsarticle1214729JamesMaysizeLegohousewantshtml Hello CaspianX2 I want to play a game You can see that you are shackled to the floorFor years you have tinkered with Lego Now it is time for the Lego to toy with you When you lifted your head from the floor you simultaneously played this recording and activated my trap Carbon monoxide is slowly being released into this room and you will only have enough oxygen to breath for ten minutesIn the box to your right there are many pieces of Lego and several razor blades You must find the longer pieces of Lego and connect them in order to reach the key at the end of the room Once you have released yourself you can deactivate the trap You will then be free to go Now it is time to see if you have indeed earned your right to live as a Lego master HerehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvnjirypwroDs is my Lego NXT 20 Robot It plays the Mario tune This was done for AI class Ive never made anything cool One cool thing made of lego that I have seen which I did not make is an automated lego car factory that really workshttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvGQ3AcPEPbH0Anyone know of anything else like this I made a rubber mold of a car stereo dial I used the Legos to build a rectangular frame and poured the liquid rubber into itDoes that count |
I received a cast iron skillet for christmas and having a gas stove was finally excited to be able to have some controllable heat Unfortunately I have created a pretty sticky situation literally and figuratively while trying to season it The skillet claimed to be preseason but I took that with a grain of salt and decided to start the seasoning process with some bacon I made a half a pound of bacon and then scrapped the gunk and residue out and wiped it down leaving a smooth film of grease I allowed the skillet to cool and then added a little bit of canola oil and then baked the skillet at 400F for about an hour I now have a sticky tar like substance in the bottom of the skillet that does not want to come out at all Can someone please give me some good advice on how to clean this mess up and properly season this thingThank You | When you bake the skillet try baking it upside down in the oven so any residue can drip out instead of settling You may end up with a gunky mess in your oven but its better then a gross pan I found an antique cast iron skillet years ago that was in bad shape rust AND unidentifiable gunk I revived it by putting it in the fireplace in a substantial amount of hot coals and leaving it for a few hours rinsing off all the ash and rubbing the soot off with moist paper towels drying it thoroughly by heating it on the stove reseasoningAfter the hot coal and rinsing treatment it looked very similar to a brandnew skillet I could even read the manufacturers imprint on the bottomedit bullets Your mistake was using too much oil Next time coat the pan with oil then use a paper towel to wipe away all the excess oil leaving just a tiny bit The pan should feel oily to the touch but there should not be a pool of oil sitting in the pan Then bake the pan again at around 450F for at least an hourEDIT Ive never tried this but I bet rubbing the pan with a strip of raw bacon would get just the right amount of fat From my experience you made two mistakes1 You used too much heatYou often hear 400F but the reality is that you should be at 250300F2 You used canola oilDont use a liquid vegetable oil They are one of the leading causes of the sticky surfaceYou actually had it right when you used the bacon for the grease That is perfect Dont add any other oil just save some of the bacon fat clean the pan with salt and then rub it down with the reserved bacon fat so it is smooth but not excessively greasy Wipe it down well with a paper towel to get rid of the excessAs others have mentioned on here you should also place the pan in the oven upside down although done properly this is an unnecessary stepI recommend cleaning the skillet with salt as an abrasive and starting over get rid of it put it in the freezer when its nice and cold add some whip cream and eat with a spoonSO GOOD Spray a bunch of carburetor cleaner into the bottom of the pan in a poorly ventilated room of your house take a wire scrubber and scour the bottom of the pan until the gunk is loose in the pool of carburetor cleaner solution and then toss a lit match into the bottom of the pan Once the flames subside your new cast iron pan will be perfectly seasoned I have the same issue but i just take hot water and a metal scrubber to it and it comes out fine My problem seems to be keeping it seasoned I have to do this every month or so to keep it it top nonstick shape If you dont feel like scrubbing at it and you have a selfcleaning oven you can always toss the pan into the oven during a cleaning cycle Youll have to reseason it when it comes out of course Baking soda and water should get all the gunk out When I seasoned my cast iron skillet I used the outdoor grill so it didnt mess up my oven or smoke up the house Good Luck Rule 1 Dont use canola to season your cast iron pan Corn oil is fine Clarified butter is fine Lard is fine Bacon is fine Canolablack gum |
Deep within a forest a little turtle began to climb a tree After hours of effort he reached the top jumped into the air waving his front legs and crashed to the ground After recovering he slowly climbed the tree again jumped and fell to the groundThe turtle tried again and again while a couple of birds sitting on a branch watched his sad efforts Finally the female bird turned to her mateDear she chirped I think its time to tell him hes adopted | A woman is shopping at a grocery store She picks up a half gallon of skim milk 2 loaves of wheat bread one dozen organic eggs and some carrots She goes to the checkout line You must be single the clerk says Amazed at the flattering insight of the clerk the woman says Yes I am How could you tell Because youre ugly So this pirate got a new eye patch and everyone onboard gets super jealous They all start getting the same damn eye patch He gets ahold of his buddy the inventor and says Can you make me a better eye patch everyone onboard is copying me After months and months of anticipation the inventor comes and delivers the new invention and its just 4 eye patches taped together The pirate says What the hell is this I call it the eyePad Q Where do you find a dog with no legsA Right where you left himBefore anyone gets mad just know that in college we actually adopted a dog with no legs We didnt realize when we went to adopt that the dog had no legs cause it just looked like he was laying down We fell in love with him took him home took care of him he was an amazing friend and a great dog We actually named him cigarette and everyday would take him out for a drag Two statues stood in a park for years and years one male one female For season after season people from all over would come to the park and marvel at their beauty and artfulness and they brought smiles and joy to thousandsOne day an Angel descends from the heavens stands before the two statues and claps his hands Suddenly the two statues spring to life and look around bewildered I have brought you two to life for the great service your have done for this community and the world You bring such joy and happiness that you can live among the world for 30 minutes to do whatever you please said the Angelthe man and the woman look and each other blushing before grasping eachothers hands and sprinting off to the bushes After twenty minutes of giggling strange noises and breaking twigs the couple emerged from the bushes flushed and smiling You still have ten minutes Said the Angel smilingSo the man turned to the woman and said Great Now this time YOU can hold the bird and ILL shit on its head One day a guy dies and finds himself in hell Walking around he runs into the devilDevil Why are you so sadGuy Why do you think Im in hellDevil Hells not so bad We actually have a lot of fun down here You a drinkin manGuy Sure I love to drinkDevil Well youre gonna love Mondays then On Mondays all we do is drink Whiskey tequila Guinness wine coolers Diet Tab We drink until we throw up and then we drink some moreGuy Gee that sounds greatDevil You a smokerGuy You better believe itDevil All right Youre gonna love Tuesdays We get the finest cigars from around the world and smoke our friggin lungs out If you get cancer its okay youre already deadGuy GollyDevil I bet you like to gamble tooGuy Yes as a matter of fact I doDevil Good because Wednesday is gambling day Craps blackjack horse races youname it You like to do drugsGuy Yes I love to do drugs You dont meanDevil Thats right Thursday is drug day Help yourself to a great big bowl of crack Smoke a doobie the size of the Titanic You can do all the drugs you want and youll never die youre already deadGuy Neat I never realized hell was such a happenin placeDevil You gayGuy NoDevil Oh youre gonna hate FridaysAlmost clean A man comes home burst through the door and shouts to his wife Honey pack your bags I won the lotteryThats amazing his wife says What should I packAnd the man says Everything Get the heck out A duck walks into a bar and asks Got any Bread Barman says No Duck says Got any bread Barman says No Duck says Got any bread Barman says No we have no bread Duck says Got any bread Barman says No we havent got any bread Duck says Got any bread Barman says No are you deaf We havent got any bread and if you ask me again and Ill nail your dang beak to the bar you irritating dang duck Duck says Got any nails Barman says No Duck says Got any bread A lonely guy decides to buy a pet centipede to keep him company He buys a little centipede house for it and the next day he asks the centipede if hed like to go for a walk The centipede doesnt say anything So he goes for a walk alone The next day he asks the centipede if hed like to go bowling Nothing So he goes alone The next day he asks the centipede if he wants to go to the zoo No reply Hes a little upset and says Hey I got you so I wouldnt be so lonely Arent you ever gonna hang out A tiny little voice comes from the house I heard you the first time Im putting on my shoes Two cows are standing out in a field The first cow turns to the other and says Hey man you worried about this mad cow disease thing thats going around The second cow looks at him and says Why should I care Im a helicopter Q Whats Green has four legs is fuzzy and if it fell from a tree it could kill youA a pool table Saul is working in his store when he hears a booming voice from above Saul sell your business He ignores it It goes on for days Saul sell your business for 3 million After weeks of this he relents sells his store The voice says Saul go to Las Vegas He asks why Saul take the 3 million to Las Vegas He obeys goes to a casino Voice says Saul go to the blackjack table and put it down all on one hand He hesitates but knows he must Hes dealt an 18 The dealer has a six showing Saul take a card What The dealer has Take a card He tells the dealer to hit him Saul gets an ace Nineteen He breathes easy Saul take another card What TAKE ANOTHER CARD He asks for another card Its another ace He has twenty Saul take another card the voice commands I have twenty Saul shouts TAKE ANOTHER CARD booms the voice Hit meSaul says He gets another ace Twenty one The booming voice goes unfuckingbelievable The director of homeland security wants to know what the best law enforcement agency is so he calls the CIA FBI and NYPD together near a forestThe director tells them he released a rabbit in the woods and and the first agency to find the rabbit winsFirst the CIA goes into the woods and after two weeks they report back We put electronic surveillance everywhere and we found the rabbit they tell the directorBullshit the director tells them you didnt find shitThan the FBI goes into the woods and a week later they come back and say we put up surveillance posts and followed a lot of people and well we found the rabbitBullshit the director tells them you didnt find shitFinally the NYPD goes into the woods and 2 hours later they come back with a bear thats has got wounds and bruises all over him sayingOke oke Im a rabbit Im a rabbit a man is sitting in a bar and enjoying his beer when he hears a voice saying your hair is so sexy he looks around but doesnt see anyone hes alone at the bar except for the bartender he thinks nothing of it and continues sipping his beer then he hears is again your tie is really great really brings out your eyes the guy is getting a little weirded out now wondering who keeps talking to him especially since hes the only one in the bar then someone speaks once again do you work out you look so strong thats it the guy thinks hes losing it so he calls the bartender over and explains i keep hearing these voices but its not all that bad because they keep saying really nice things to me the bartender replies oh that dont worry about it its the peanuts they are complimentary A man comes home from work and says to his wife honey bring me a beer its about to start So the wife brings him a beer He drinks it and yells to his wife honey hurry and bring me another beer its about to start So she brings him a beer and he drinks it He calls to his wife and says honey hurry and bring me another beer its about to start She looks at him and launches into a tirade telling him how hard she works all day and she isnt his maid or hand servant and he can get his own damn beers and maybe he could do something for her someday or help with the chores and do some errands sometimes The man says forget it it just started What the zen master say to the hot dog vendor Make me one with everythingThe hot dog vendor says sure that will be 3 The zen master hands over a 20 and receives his hot dog he stands around for a while then says Dont you owe me some change The hot dog vendor replies No change must come from within Okay so this might be a bit funnier in my language Oh well here goesThere was an American an Englishman and a Dane all eating brunch with their girlfriend All of a sudden the Englishman being the gentleman he is asks his significant other Would you pass me the honey honey The American not wanting his girlfriend to feel unwanted quickly asks her Hand me the sugar sugar Of course the Dane has to jump in and be nice too but he has no idea what to say He looks around the table for some pun to play on and finally looks at the jug of milk with a smile Give me the milk you cow Two sausages are frying in a pan one says to the other Its getting kind of hot in here The second replies AAaugh a talking sausage A Bear walks into a bar and says i want a gintonicthe bartender asks why the pausethe Bear says Im a Bear Its a long one but it always gets a good response for meSo a man walks into a bar and orders a whole bottle of the most expensive scotch The bartender tells him Listen I know times arent so great all around so Im going to need some cash up front for this The customer pulls out a wallet stuffed with bills and lays a handful of hundreds on the table and tells the bartender to keep the change Shocked the bartender apologizes for coming across as rude and quickly fetches the bottleWhen he returns he asks the man What is it you do anyway Thats a lot of money to be bringing in a place like this The customer pouring himself a glass says Im a professional gambler its a pretty good living Confused the bartender asks him Surely that cant be it you cant have made all that money gambling people lose all the time Ah the gambler says but I only bet on sure things thats my game The bartender more confused than before asks him But thats not possible you cant be right all the time On the contrary the customer says for instance Ill make a bet with you right now if youre interestedThe bartender is hooked now Ill bite he says what should we bet on The gambler takes a sip puts a couple bills on the table and says Ill bet you two hundred dollars I can bite my eye Taken aback the bartender agrees and slaps another two hundred down The man takes out his glass eye and bites itThe bartender howls with laughter You got me good I can see what you mean about sure things Surely you cant have made all that money 200 at a time Of course not the gambler agrees In fact if youd like a chance to make your money back and then some Ill bet you four hundred dollars that I can bite my other eye The bartender laughs and pulls out more money from the register Well I know you walked in here on your own and I know you saw that you pulled out exactly two hundred dollars without help so you cant have two glass eyes Youre on The man quietly takes out a set of false teeth and bites his other eye with them The bartender is rolling with laughter at this point despite having just lost over half a thousand dollars Okay youve fleeced me good I can see how you do it The gambler smiles and takes his bottle off to a corner to relaxMuch later in the evening the gambler staggers back up to the bar clearly drunk after having drunk half the bottle of scotch Hey he yells to the bartender you want to make your money back The bartender wary asks him That depends what do you have in mind The man tells him Listen hey Ill bet I bet I can you can slide a beer glass down the rail and Ill pee in it Ill pee in it without spilling a drop The bartender laughing even harder than before tells him Youre on you can barely stand Ill bet you a thousand dollars you cant do itThe gambler agrees and slowly gets up on the bar but not after stumbling a few times The bartender unable to keep from snickering slides the glass down the rail The gambler try as he might cant even get a drop in the glass He pees all over the bar and the floor and even a little on the bartender who is laughing too hard to even care Ha the bartender yells You do lose from time to time The man still smiling hands over a thousand dollars without missing a beatPointing to a group of about a dozen people he said Its alright I bet all of them two thousand dollars a piece that I could pee on you and all over your bar and youd just laugh about it Wanna hear a dirty jokea kid fell in the mudWanna hear a clean jokea kid took a bath with bubblesWanna hear a dirty jokebubbles is the girl next door So a serial killer is taking a little kid into the woodsThe little kids says Mister Im scared of the darkThe serial killer replies How do you think I feel I have to walk back to the car by myself Someone told me this joke todaySo there is an engineer a physicist and a mathematician in prison each in their own cell They cannot see or hear one another as the cells are those big reinforced ones The jailer is a pretty funny guy and one day decides to play a prank on the three of them by tossing a can of soup in each of their cells for food No utensils ways of opening it just the can of soupSo he comes back a few days later and checked on the engineer Being resourceful the engineer managed to make a can opener from items laying around his cell and ate his soupHe then went to the physicists cell and saw him holding the can of soup in his hand with an intense look of thought upon him Suddenly he shouts Of course FMA and throws the can of soup as hard as he can at the wall This causes the can to break open and he then licks the soup off the groundNext the jailer checks on the mathematician only to find him stone dead in his cell He is laying on the ground with crumpled up pieces of paper all around him but the jailer notices the last piece of paper he wrote on crumpled in his hand So he goes over and picks up the paper uncrumples it and it reads Assume the can is open A blind man walks into a store with his seeing eye dog He gets to the middle of the store picks up his dog above his head and starts spinning in circles The guy behind the counter has no idea what is going on and runs out and asks the guy if he can help him The guy says No thanks I am just looking around A guy goes into a bar sits down and says Bartender bring me a beerThe bartender brings the guy a beer and the guy guzzles it Looks in his shirt pocket and says nope not yet Bring me another beer The bartender brings the man another beer and the man guzzles it looks in his shirt pocket and says nope not yet Bring me another beer This happens about four more times and the bartender finally says hey whats going on here You order a beer you slam it Then you look in your pocket and say no not yet Whats going on Whats in your pocketThe man repliesIts a picture of my wife When she looks good I go home As an engineer walks past a stream a frog calls out to him Help me Im a princess enchanted by a witch Kiss me and the spell will be broken The engineer smiles picks up the frog and keeps walkingKiss me please says the frog Im enchanted A kiss will break the spell The engineer drops the frog into his shirt pocket and keeps walkingThe frog pokes her head out of his pocket and says Cant you hear me Im a beautiful princess Kiss me break the spell and Ill be your girlfriendThe engineer pokes her back down in his pocket and says Look Im an engineer I dont have time for a girlfriend But a talking frog is cool How do you know youre talking to an extroverted engineer Because hes staring at your feet instead of his own Whats the difference between beer nuts and deer nutsBeer nuts are 275 Deer nuts are under a buckHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Pavlov is hanging at a bar having a beer when all of a sudden The phone rings and he just goes Oh shit i have to go feed the dogs A little boy develops a penchant for trains He absolutely loves them He acquires tons of model trains and toy trains and constantly plays with them His greatest aspiration is to become a train conductor He grows up and as he does so he constantly rides the train whenever he can If he can find an excuse for taking the train he does so and takes the train He studies trains and learns how they operate all sorts steam diesel bullet trains he knows it all Eventually he gets his certification and becomes a train conductor and its the happiest day of his life His first position is as conductor on none other than the Japanese Shinkansen He is the best conductor the railway has ever seen and his train never runs late But he has one problem he hates the Japanese One day he sees a Japanese man on the tracks and although there is little he can do to avoid the man anyway he actually speeds up and deliberately kills the man He is apprehended for his malicious intent and fail to stop after obliterating the man and appears before a judgeThe man is found guilty and the judge sentences him to death Before the sentence is carried out the Judge asks the man if he has any last requests The man says I would like a grape pleaseA grape is furnished and the man eats it He resigns himself to his sentence and sits down in the electric chair The power is fired and the chair fizzles out the man is unharmedAstonished the judge orders the chair to be fixed and the execution to be carried out once again but again the chair fails to kill the man who is then let goThe man takes on a new job as a train conductor in the American Midwest moving freight Again he is clearly a skilled conductor and is easily the most efficient of all the other operators in the region He never misses a deadline But problematically he hates cows One day he sees a cow on the tracks and cannot help himself He speeds up the freight train and plows over the cow reveling in the slaughter Unfortunately for him it is illegal to treat cows in such a way and so he is apprehended yet againHe is found guilty before the same judge who tried him after the incident in Japan The judge again asks him for a final requestThe man says I would like a grape pleaseA grape is furnished and the man eats it He resigns himself to his sentence and sits down in the electric chair The power is fired and the chair fizzles out the man is unharmedThe judge cannot believe it He orders again for the chair to be inspected and repaired and the execution to be attempted again and it still fails Exasperated the judge lets the man walk free againNow the man is having difficulty finding work In the end the best job he can find is as a train conductor for a scale model train in a mall giving rides to children He is undoubtedly the best scale model train operator ever seen by this mall or any His rides are always thrilling and delightful for the children Unfortunately this man has a problem he hates children One day a small child is on the tracks and the man cannot help himself He throttles the scale model engine up to top speed and hits the small child causing minor injuries This behavior is of course reprehensible and the man is again apprehendedNaturally he is tried before the same judge found guilty and sentenced to death The judge asks him if he has a final request once morehe man says I would like a grape pleaseA grape is furnished and the man eats it He resigns himself to his sentence and sits down in the electric chair The power is fired and the chair fizzles out the man is unharmedThis time the judge does not order the execution to be attempted once more He firmly believes this man is not meant to die Instead he offers the man future immunity on all charges Before you go says the judge I have one question Why did you always request a grape before your execution Is that your secret to surviving the chairOh that says the man I asked for grapes because I like grapesThen why didnt the chair work inquires the judgeI dont know I guess Im just a bad conductor A teacher is teaching her class about different things they can do when they grow up For an example she asks a boy what his father does for a living Nothing says the boy My dad doesnt do anythingWhy doesnt your father do anything Is he lazy The teacher asksHes not lazy says the boy Hes dead He died when my house burned downNow the teacher knows she should just leave this kid alone that shes already insulted his dead father but shes had a long day and she doesnt feel like backing down from a student and she keeps pressing him Well then she says what did your father do before he diedThe boy begins running in circles waving his arms frantically yelling It burns it burns oh god it burns A SCOTSMAN walks into the bedroom with a sheep on a leash and saysHoney this is the cow I make love to when you have a headache The wife lying in the bed reading a book looks up and says If you werent such an idiot youd know thats a sheep Not a cow The guy replies If you werent such a presumptuous bitch Youd realize I was talking to the sheep A guys leaving a bar at closing time and sees a very drunk guy fall off his stool and start pulling himself towards the door He makes repeated attempts to help the guy up but he just keeps falling so he decides to drive the guy home He carries the drunk to his car and after struggling to understand the slurred directions gets the drunk to his home Still unable to walk the guy carries the drunk to his front door and rings the door The drunks wife answers the door with a shocked look on her face OMG where the hell is his wheelchair How many ears did Davey Crockett haveThree His left ear his right ear and his wild front ear A pasthisprime magician is having trouble making ends meet so he begrudgingly takes a gig aboard a cruise ship Things go as well as can be expected for a few days but eventually the captains pet parrot an exceptionally smart creature starts interrupting his showBawwwk The cards up his sleeveBawwwk Theres a rabbit hidden in a panel inside the hatBawwwk Theres another lady hiding inside the box Nobodys getting cut in half BawwwkThe crowd thinks its hilarious but the magician is furious Just as hes about to perform his finale a boiler fails triggering an explosion and sinking the ship Several hours later the magician regains consciousness and realizes hes floating on a piece of driftwood with nothing else in sightexcept the parrot whos sitting on the other end of the plankFor days they drift about in silence nothing but pure hatred exchanged between the two of them Finally the parrot speaksBawwwk All right all right I give Wheres the damn boat There are two types of people those who understand recursion and those who dont understand that there are two types of people a bat flies into the cave with blood all over his head and mouth all the other bats come around asking him where he got the blood he tries to tell them to go away let him sleep but they wouldnt leave him alone finally he relents oh all right ill show you follow me so they all follow him out of the cave over the hills over the valley up the canyon he finally stops on the edge of a ravine he says see that tree over there yea yea yeago on they all answered well i didnt Bacteria walks into a bar the bartender says Youre not allowed in here the bacteria replies Dont worry Im staph So a pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel on his crotch The bartender notices him walk in and curiously asks him Hey buddy whats up with the steering wheel The pirate responds Arr its driving me nuts My favorite clean joke I heard it here on reddit bout a year ago posted by numlokhttpwwwredditcomusernumlokAt a world brewing convention in the States the CEOs of various Brewing organizations retired to the bar at the end of each days conferenceBruce CEO of Fosters shouted to the Barman In Strylya we make the best bladdy beer in the world so pour me a Bladdy Fosters mateBob CEO of Budweiser calls out next In the States we brew the finest beers in the world and I make the King of them all gimme a BudHans steps up next In Germany ve invented das beer verdamt Give me ein Becks ya ist Der real King of beers dankePaddy CEO of Guinness steps forward Barman would ya give me a doyet coke wid ice and lemon TanksThe others stare at him in stunned silence amazement written all over their faces Eventually Bruce asks Are you not going to have a Guinness PatPaddy replies Well if you fookin pansies arent drinkin then neither am I Q What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in the oceanA BobQ What do you call a man with no arms and no legs hanging on a wallA ArtQ What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a pile of leavesA Russell What did the zero say to the eight Nice belt What do you call a deer with no eyes No idea What do you call fish with no eyes Fsh Why do we need armies To keep our handies on I remember my high school teacher saying thisQ Did you see Stevie Wonders new hatA Neither did he A cowboy walks into a bar in Texas orders three mugs of Bud and sits in the back room drinking a sip out of each one in turn When he finishes them he orders three more The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy You know a mug goes flat after I draw it from the beer tap It would taste better if you bought one at a time The cowboy replies Well I have two brothers Ones in Australia the others in Dublin and Im in Texas When we all left home we promised wed drink this way to remember the days we drank together So I drink one for each of my brothers and one for myself The bartender admits this is a nice custom The cowboy becomes a regular and always drinks the same way He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn One day he comes in and orders two When he comes back to the bar for the second round the bartender says I dont want to pry but I wanted to offer my condolences on your lossThe cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment then he laughs Oh no everybodys just fine he explains Its just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church so I had to quit drinking A man and a giraffe walk into a bar and order many rounds of beer After getting very drunk they pay the tab and start stumbling towards the door The giraffe falls flat in the middle of the bar and the man too drunk to care continues towards the door The bartender saw this and yelled over to the man Hey you cant leave that lying there To which the man replied Its not a lion its a giraffe XD IDK it gets me every time A woman and a cowboy are sitting in a bar when the woman turns to the cowboy and says excuse me sir are you a real cowboy to which the cowboy replies yes mam then the woman asks how do you know youre a cowboy and the cowboy answers well in the when i wake up i go out and check the herd all day i guide the cattle over hundreds of treacherous miles i take care of the cows before i eat dinner and i check em again before i got to sleep So i figure since i spend my whole day taking care of my cows that would make me a cowboy the woman thinks about this for a moment and says well i think youve just helped me to understand something about myself when i wake up i think about beautiful women all day long i think about beautiful women when im eating working or relaxing i still think about beautiful women So i must be a lesbian the woman thanks the cowboy and leaves then a man walks up and sits next to the cowboy before to long he asks excuse me sir are you a real cowboy the cowboy replies you know i always thought so but i just found out im a lesbian its long but dont pick apart the detailsA man named Johnson was drafted to serve in WWII After training camp he was sent off to the front lines in Germany His first day of duty the Sergeant called for the men to line up and receive their arms Johnson was the last man in line and when the SRGT came to him he was out of guns Hold on a minute said the SRGT and returned with a broom Now when you see the enemy hold up your broom and yell bangity bangity bangityAgain the SRGT went to distribute bayonets but was one shy He told Johnson Wait right there and ran off to get some string With the string tied to the end of the broomstick the SRGT told Johnson to use this when the enemy was very close and to yell stabbity stabbity stabbityOn the front lines Johnson witnessed all kinds of things and fought bravely As the dust and smoke settled Johnson looked around and saw that he was the only allied troop left Over the horizon he could see a German soldier running at he full speed Johnson held up his broombangity bangity bangityhe tried this over and over the German never stoppingFinally when the German was within reach Johnson shouted stabbity stabbity stabbity and thrust his broomstick towards the soldier But the soldier never slowing down ran over Johnson As Johnson looked up he heard the soldier puffing tankity tankity tankity Two muffins are cooking in an oven One muffin says to the other wow its hot in here The other muffin says AHHHHHHH A talking muffin What do you call a cow with two legs Lean beefWhat do you call a cow with no legs Ground beefIm hilarious I know So a while ago i was sitting on my couch when i hear a knockingI open the door only to find a little snailI pick the snail up and throw it across the street into my neighbors yardthree years later I hear a knocki look down its the snail and he yells WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT A polar bear wanks into a barPolar Bear Id like a gin and tonicBarterder Why the big pausePolar Bear I was born with them 2 hats on a hat rack one says to the other Ill see you later Im going on a head ahead a couple was driving in the country when they hit and killed a cat there was only one farmhouse there and the wife said they should go tell the people they killed their cat they knock an old lady answers the door excuse me miss we think we killed your catoh what did it look like make a face with head sideways tongue lolling outno no says the old lady what did it look like BEFORE you killed itoh raise your hands up to your head fingers clawsspread out eyes WIDE open surprise look I saw a pirate movie last weekendIt was rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR One woman comes upset with her friend and tells her that the cat she has bought gets her out of her nerves so her friend suggests her to getting rid of him leaving him in the city dump The next day she arrives sad again the friend asks what happened to the animalThe damn cat returned home and did not got lost This time go to the dump below youll find a lake give him two laps and leave it in the tree next to the lake and youll see that the cat never comes back to your houseThe next day comes again sad The damn cat returned home Well this time you go to the dumpgo twice around the lake go to the tree go through the bridge go across a tunnel that is there on the way out go down the stairs that take you to the zoo walk thirty steps go out by the emergency doorleave it in the well and youll see that the cat will never return home The next day her friend comes and asks what happenedand she answers If it wasnt for that damn cat Ill be lost nowsorry for the translationI tell this joke very well in Spanish Did you hear about the quadriplegic Native American that helped Lewis and Clark on their journey west They called her Sacapotatos A guy walks into a barthe next guy ducksA duck walks into a bar and orders a beerput it on my bill Q What do you call a deer that has had its eyes poked outA No eye deerQ What do you call a dead deer that has its eyes poked outA Still no eye deer Paddy was driving around in a carpark trying to find a park for what felt like hours He thought that he should pray to God to help him find a park He says God Im not usually a praying man but if you find me a carpark I will go to church every Sunday for the rest of my life and be a good honest man As he rounded the corner suddenly a carpark appeared Paddy looked up and said doesnt matter I found one Did you hear about the circus that is in townI heard it was in tents wait for it wait for it hahahaha you got it didnt you A man walks into a talent agents office and he says to the guy I have this fantastic act that you cant live without its called The Aristocrats |
I am a huge fan of chicken caeser salad but it isnt my favorite anymore I recently tried a baby spinach sweet potato walnut and houlumi cheese salad I hope thats how you spell it Anyway it was delicious and has a balsamic vinegar and honey type dressing I really wish I knew the recipe properly Whats your favorite Id love to tase some new salads | spinach sweet or green onion walnuts raisinsdried cranberries goat or blue cheese balsamic and oil Im a huge fan of Cobb or well anything with BaconAvocado in it I love gorgonzola or blue cheese on my salads as well Caprese in all its glory whether traditional with slices of Mozz and Tomato with a balsamic vinaigrette as an hors doeuvre cherry tomatoes and cliegine on toothpicks with basil and dressing or my current favorite a deconstructed version with baby spinach cherry tomatoes ciliegine basil chiffonade and plenty of Balsamic dressing Alternately Im a fan of thai beef salad and hawaiian Lomi Lomi which could be seen as a salad is pretty amazing and surprisingly easy to make Oh and Pai HuangGua crushed cucumbers briefly sauteed in garlic and sesame oil possibly with chili pepperschili oil depending on where its from served chilled Stick a bunch of baby beetroots whole in a casserole with a goodly amount of balsamic vinegar a teaspoon of sugar and just a little salt and cover Cut up chunks of pumpkin brush with olive oil and place on a baking dish Cook both in hot oven for 3045 minutes Wearing rubber gloves peel the beetroot the skins just slip off and allow to cool Splosh a little extra vinegar in the casserole if required should be sticky but pourable and retain as the dressing Cut beetroot and pumpkin into bitesize pieces and arrange on plates with small cubes of feta walnuts and rocket Drizzle over balsamic glaze from casserole and serve Baby spinach medium rare steak feta cheese and blackberries in a blackberry balsamic vinaigrette It is pretty dang tasty Grilled peach lettuce parma ham goat cheese and yoghurtvinegar dressing httpwwwjamieolivercomrecipesbeefrecipesgrilledpeachsaladwithbresaola Pasta salad is my favorite and mine doesnt have any condensed milk or a whole tub of mayo in it I take tricolored rotini and toss it with sliced black olives cheddar cheese crumbles pepperoni broccoli florets and some decent italian dressing Then add some sesame seeds poppy seeds garlic powder grated parm and saltpepper Toss together and chow I like what sometimes gets called an Oregon salad baby greens or spinach dried cranberries blue cheese or goat cheese and hazelnuts Enough variety to make it good as a meal I usually do a simple mustard vinaigrette to go on top |
So I get into this debate all the time with my coworker Its about the value of virus checking is this really a problem Does the problem justify running a real time scannerHome use Corporate use What do you thinkPersonally I believe its a real problem and needs to be run at home and corporate You take the hit in performance for the insurance that the workstation will run reliably when you need it to run My coworker feels that to have to clean infected machine is worth it for the added performance | I love seeing this question asked asked Virus scanners are to malware what condoms are to STDs Sure you might be smart You might be experienced But picking up chicks at the bar and not wearing a condom is just asking for your dick to rot off Im a computer savvy user but I still run nod32 Its amazing It sits in the background updates itself and doesnt bog down anythingIf the reason you dont want an AV is because of maintenance or performance get nod32 At home its not as big of an issue but it also depends on how computer savvy you and your family are In the office Absolutely required My company of around 200 employees has at least 2 virus alerts daily They are all successfully cleaned by the antivirus program 90 of the time so it definitely saves the desktop guys and myself a heap of trouble fixing cleaning or reissuing machines all the timeAlso in a corporate environment there can be a lot of sensitive data flying around so security becomes an issue as well If its an MS operating system then just install MS Security Essentials Its free and doesnt interfere like the third party ones Office desktop to semipersonal notebook make them install it In my opinion AntiVir Personalhttpwwwfilehippocomdownloadantivir Avast Free Antivirushttpwwwfilehippocomdownloadavastantivirus AVG Free Editionhttpwwwfilehippocomdownloadavgantivirus are good for antivirus solutions and they are free for general usageMalwarebyteshttpwwwfilehippocomdownloadmalwarebytesantimalwareis also pretty pro for malwarespyware cleaning I agree antivirus protection is necessary but the real problem nowadays are the fucking fake antivirus malwares that the realtime antivirus scanners fail to blockhttpenwikipediaorgwikiRoguesecuritysoftware I see one actual virus infection for every 200 rogue security app infections When I see Antivirus 2010 running on a client workstation I want to hunt down the creators of that crap and do very bad things to them like make that watch that shitty live action Dungeons amp Dragons moviehttpenwikipediaorgwikiDungeonsampDragons28film29 The damn things get buried in the Windows registry and subsystems and are a major pain in the ass to get rid of unless I get lucky and Malwarebytes scrubs it out Man I hate those things |
Every so often I will have a dream that involves everything I do in the morning waking up taking a shower getting dressed brushing teeth eating breakfast waiting for bus going to class At some point I will then wake up and realize that I was just sleeping and still need to do all those things Its kind of a bummerDo other people have dreams like this | Man I wish I had dreams that I woke up took a shower got dressed ate breakfast and then went to my respective classes at school in order Finally on the drive home from school Id wake up only to find that I would have to do it all over againThe start of a bad dayhttpwwwsanandnetcalvinandhobbeshtml19871129 |
Ok so Ive had this problem for the past few years or at least thats how long Ive been aware of it Before I go into details about the problem let me give some details that I think are relevantI have been with my partner for over 8 years and she really is a great partner We work really well together we have great discussions have similar beliefs are there for each other everything that you would expect from a happy couple I am a straight male and she considers herself genderqueer She identifies as female for the most part but is incredibly butch and would prefer not to be easily identified as male or female She began the transition to this gender identity after we had been together for a few years before which time she was identifiably female and femme although with some butch characteristics During that time she has also gained some weight so have I and I still find her attractive and we dont have sex as often as we used to once every 1 or 2 months for about the last 45 yearsAlthough I really dont think this is directly related to the above context although Im sure many of you will state that they are in the past couple of years I have noticed that I have less patience for my partner I look forward to having alone time and I even think of leaving her sometimes although for no real reason She has been a great partner and leaving her for anyone else would be like playing blackjack and hitting on 20 i already have an almost perfect hand why throw it away for the incredibly slim chance at having something thats only slightly better if thatHere is the problem I am constantly pursuing or thinking about pursing other women Its this horrible obsession usually focused on one person but really intense It ranges from just constantly fantasizing about asking a woman out not usually any sexual fantasies about the person to actively flirting with the object of my affection In 2008 it actually went so far that I kissed someone else I told my partner about this almost right after it happened we spent many weeks trying to work things out and eventually did I obsess so much about some of these women that I sometimes start to believe that I am in love with them sometimes without really even knowing them or having barely talked to them I have fantasies about revealing my feelings in some suitably dramatic way and then having those feelings reciprocated and we drive across the country and live on a farm for the rest of our lives I write this with a slightly sardonic tone as I know how absurd it sounds but at the time I am constantly jumping back and forth between the absurd reality and the powerful desire for the fantasy I honestly believe that there is a possibility that the fantasy could come true while still understanding the incredible unliklihood of it happening Does that make sense at allI love my partner and she really is quite perfect for me But these obesessions about other women are happening more and more frequently and its getting harder and harder to stop them from snowballing into cheating I dont want to hurt my partner and I always feel like a horrible selfish person for feeling the way I do But for some reason it doesnt stop me for thinking what I think and worse acting on those feelings Its like this intense desire to fuck up my life Ive looked at some mental health websites and tried to self diagnose The closest I can come is some sort of relational dependencytype disorder However every time I start to think that something is wrong with me the other side of me what I internally refer to as my romantic side kicks in and I start thinking that theres nothing wrong with me Im just passionate and fall in love easily Then I start chatising myself for pathologizing loveIve told my partner about this it was too hard to go into this much detail as I can see how much it hurts her to hear me talk about this and she says that I should think about seeing someone if I think theres something wrong with me or alternatively being more open with her about when I start to have these feelings I just cant bear to explain to her that I have these feelings all the time Sometimes about one person other time about another but its just about always there In fact I just met a girl this week weve been spending lots of time together and I can tell she likes me Its killing me not to tell her how I feel and try to kiss her but I havent However I keep putting myself in situations that are not helpful like a walk around a lake at night going over to her place to watch a movie picking the most romantic movie to watch etc Im sorry if this is redundant and long I just find it really hard to explain this Maybe I should post twice once as the person who sees my actions as being an assole the other as the side of me thats justifying itIve seen AskReddit help so many people and Im so torn as to what to do that Im hoping you can help me too Help me Reddit youre my only hope | Theres an Aesop fable about a dog that has a bone in its mouth He looks in the river and sees another dog with a bone in its mouth He barks at the other dog and loses his own bone in the river It turns out the other dog was just his reflectionThe moral Dont write so much that people get tired of reading it Forgive me for saying this but it sounds like your love for your partner is becoming more like siblinglove than anything else Although any love in this world is a profound gift and should be appreciated as such it may not be everything you need to be a fulfilled personYou apparently desire something more passionbased and sexually driven as is common during any longterm monogamous relationship as soon as the honeymoon is over shall we sayThe question you have to ask yourself is what is more important to me security or passionThere is no way for anybody on this forum to answer that question for youOne thing I can tell you is that people that are miserable make everybody around them miserable If you stay with this person and end up regretting your decision you will eventually resent her for it and will accordingly treat her like shit although you may not even know that you are doing soWeigh your options and consider if these desires are deep routed or just passing fancyIn the words of Shakespeare to thine own self be true It seems to me that your partner being genderqueer has left you with the desire to associate with women who dont posess that particular trait Youre a man who likes women and you dont share her blurring of the lines Im not sure why you think this is strangeI think youre denying your identified preferenceneed for hers That said I hope youd break it off before you acted on anything I identify a lot with your girlfriend and I also had a longterm relationship almost 8 years with a guy a lot like you I dont think its abnormal for you to be tempted by other women on occasion but having sex once every one or two months isnt really what Id call normal For most people the physical intimacy reflects the emotional intimacy so I suspect that perhaps you and she may be drifting apart so to speak Im sure you care about her a great deal but if you are fantasizing about discovering that another woman has feelings for you sounds to me like your emotional intimacy with your girlfriend just isnt what it should be Your fantasies about discovering some reciprocated feelings from other women seem to show that you obviously havent experienced anything novel and exciting with her at least enough to really stimulate you the way that your fantasies do in quite some time I had that problem in my relationship and ended up dumping my boyfriend because of it He never wanted to have sex and toward the end I began to realize that he was more concerned with other aspects of his life than he was with me I feel really bad about dumping him but I honestly didnt feel like our relationship could be fixed any more How you feel about someone is a complicated thing and if you just cant bridge the gap any more or keep your sexual and emotional intimacy at the peak of excitation any more dont feel bad about doing what you have to do in order to be happy tldrIm in a great relationship but think I can have a better relationship with someone I met recently |
I decided to get over some of my shyness and share some images instead of just erotica tonighthttpimgurcomQ4JBCjpghttpimgurcomyMr1qjpghttpimgurcomsqUJgjpg | you and that outfit are both stunning Please share where you purchased Id like to find one for myself |
Long story short I smoked pot last night Second time in my life that Ive ever done it and when I came home from the party at 130am I showered crawled into bed and said Can I tell you something and you try not to get madMy fiance is pretty antidrug He said he thought I would have stronger will to resist doing something like this I couldnt explain that it wasnt a matter of will it was something I wanted to try since my first smoking experience was fucked up and with people I didnt trust How can I talk to him about this I didnt sleep at all last night and have been nauseous most of today I want to be able to explain to him why I did it and have him understand More than anything I want him to not have the perception that I have become less than him At the very least I want him to not be disappointed anymoreHe is 22 I am 21 and we have been together for going on 4 yearsAnyoneEDIT Man this is getting a lot of attention Before I go through and start answering everybody I wanted to throw this up here when I came home from work there was a very long well thought out letter sitting on my desktop It honestly hurt me pretty badly but when I went in our bedroom he was waiting for me I cried he cried and now we are ok He and I were both fairly angry and confused this morning but being apart helped I really appreciate what everyone has said you guys are amazing | If I were him Id be struggling with the fact that you have really different priorities regarding marijuana and that you didnt respect me enough to talk about it with me until afterIf I were you Id be struggling with the fact that he is disappointed in you for holding different opinions Youre different people You arent going to agree about everything itd be rather boring if you didSo what happens when you disagree Do you hide your actual opinions until you get the chance to act and then go for it Or do you talk about your differences in an effort to understand each other better Does he reject you with disappointment Or do you talk about your differences in an effort to understand each other betterFrom way over here it looks like youre both being unfair Dont make him responsible for how you feel about your choices Dont deny him the chance to understand your thinking Do talk to him Do own your mistake Do be honest about your actual thoughts about drugs and anything else you disagree about I understand It sounds like you were drawn to try it again to move past some previous bad experiences It wasnt like you have been secretly smoking everyday or something You are worried that you have lost his trust and appreciation I dont think this is about him at all Its all about you You chose to do this knowing that it would probably upset him but your reasons for going ahead were stronger Now really its none of his business youre not coming home stoned nor from the sound of it are you interested in including marijuana in your day to day life If so then for obvious reasons your relationship will probably fail My suggestion is instead of trying to get him to understand your position or try and change him in any way Take a moment and look at it from his perspective First of all he is probably afraid at some level that you will go off the deep end but also may feel left out from your life on some level It is hard when your partner chooses to do things which you can not or will not do His first reaction sounds like anger and disappointment but you can bet there are other emotions under those So my advice is for the time being dont attempt to defend yourself you made a choice stand by it no apologies Instead find out what he is really feeling take a moment and empathize with him let him express his anger or disappointment without trying to change him Guys are super sensitive when it comes to things like that they dont want to be changed or convinced that they feel anything other than what they do If you stay strong and stand by your choice but make sure he knows that you understand how disappointed he is about it then you stay on equal ground While most will think he is being unreasonable I am assuming this is something you have talked about before and he made himself pretty clear how he felt You knew he was going to be upset about this and yet you still went ahead and did it Whether or not his views on drugs and marijuana are right or wrong this is an issue he feels strongly about and by being committed to this relationship you should respect that Now if you cant deal with that then you should think long and hard about being in this relationship because this is likely something he will never come around on If you want this to work then just be honest tell him how awful you feel about disappointing him and how you never want to feel like this again Good luck Dont try to give him justification Apologize for hurting him not the action and move on If he cant get over it there are bigger issues Look its your body your brain its your choice Is he telling you cant do it If so thats controlling and he has no right If its just that hes disappointed in you well that is his prerogative Just as you get to make your own choices which he cannot control he gets to have his own feelings which you cannot control If hes trying to guilt and manipulate you into making different choices then just stand tall be firm explain it had nothing to do with willpower You wanted to smoke it a second time so you did You didnt cave or anything like that Meanwhile respect his right to be disappointed to disapprove and to not be very happy about your choice OK so let me get this straight he had expectations you knew these expectations and you consciously did something that caused you not to meet those expectations Now you want him to somehow not be disappointed in you and think this is somehow reasonableAre you high right now OP Just spell it out I was curious about pot and wanted to try it The feeling of disappointment will stop eventually However Id suspect that if you want to be with him forever that you wont be able to smoke pot anymore and certainly not do any harder drugs Youll need to tackle it today if possible or ASAP He was probably more annoyed that you came home late woke him up and then told him something bad rather than the act Plus hes going to be scared that youre going to start smoking pot regularly If you want to do that then youll probably be finishing your relationship it sounds like a deal breakerDo you feel remorse for doing it or do you feel bad because youve disappointed him Theres a difference there Reddit Get over yourself Not everybody thinks weed should be legalised and not everybody thinks its safe A couple of posts on here are totally ignoring the OPs plight and are attacking her bf for having his views This is not the marijuana subreddit she wants advice Tell him to take a chill pill Smoking pot is like drinking booze It wears off quicker however and doesnt destroy your liver Better youre smoking than drinking IMHO Its pot tell him to man up and get a grip but realise the commitment youve made to each other by getting engaged means that you should be taking his feelings into account before doing something If your pissed about the consequences then tough you knew how he felt before you smoked it yet you disregarded how it would make him feel Deal with the situation you knowingly entered his disappointment is valid and deserved because you put smoking pot before how it makes him feel youve been with him 4 years and plan on being with him forever right i hope you realize how absurd this situation is not your question but the whole greater issue of how can you be so blindly judgmental of someone you love and want to spend your life with wow does he drink do you why is he so antidrug as if pot even counts jeez that you feel you cant honestly explain that you wanted to try something harmless out of sheer curiosity if you think of it like an illness the pot issue is just a symptom but the real disease is that 1his antidrug stance dying to know more specifics on this btw is apparently stronger than his love acceptance and tolerance for you and 2 you dont feel securecomfortableclose enough to be open and honest whether this is a general feeling towards him or specifically related to this one incident is my question ps so being high didja like it before you came home and felt guilty that is or did you feel so guilty while you were doing it that you couldnt enjoy it id imagine this would be the case All issues about pot aside I think this really boils down to how you want to handle disagreements about morals Since no two people are exactly alike on all their moral stances you have to find a way to negotiate them and many compromises of various degrees will be made Its not fair or reasonable for him to expect you to fall in line with all his morals This seems like a really good opportunity to have a conversation about the things you both take a hard line on and the things youre willing and unwilling to compromise Commit yourselves to being honest and open and free of judgement in this conversation And definitely do it before you tie the knot |
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