Randomness thread, part two.

[Galapogos]

Congrats sir. Now you can keep the bloodline pure.

Rarely does one cross the line while keeping it funny, you do fine work sir.

[eugmac]

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

why do i sense this will be Cube 2.0?

[eugmac]

and congrats d0zer!

[givememyleg]

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

lol that thing is fugly.

[Chelle]

My second spawn just entered the world. So far I approve of her. She's inquisitive, sleeps well, only protests for good reason and seems to like me. Also, she's healthy, has all her digits and is supercute. That is all.

D'awwwwe, congratulations!

[givememyleg]

lol that thing is fugly.

this was obv both to the new mac and new d0zer spawn.

[Lukie]

Go Spurs

[d0zer]

this was obv both to the new mac and new d0zer spawn.

meh...all newborns are fugly.

I think the edgy crown goes to dranger who commented "dibs" on my facebook birth announcement. While kiwi's incest angle is worse of course, it's buried in this thread instead on being displayed prominently on my family's facebook feed.

[a500lbgorilla]

Way to breed!

[d0zer]

Way to breed!

Thanks! It took all my cunning and guile.

[boost]

lol that thing is fugly.

I thought so too, until I realized it's dimensions. It's not just a round version of a server tower-- the thing is tiny.

meh...all newborns are fugly.

I think the edgy crown goes to dranger who commented "dibs" on my facebook birth announcement. While kiwi's incest angle is worse of course, it's buried in this thread instead on being displayed prominently on my family's facebook feed.

Wow, well played Doctor. That is superb.

[kiwiMark]

Especially when you consider that fastforward to when dranger's 40 and davenette is 17 if they met he'd 100% be able to talk himself into it not being bad form to take a swing at it

happy fathering!

[Lukie]

This is a great game, much more enjoyable than game 2

[eugmac]

I thought so too, until I realized it's dimensions. It's not just a round version of a server tower-- the thing is tiny.

still looks like something that sits on your desk to hold pens.

[kiwiMark]

not like that sexy box look normal towers have going for them

[boost]

ugh, I misused it's. And it's weird, because I could swear that I remember checking myself as I was typing it, and being satisfied with what I had done. I try not to be a huge grammar nazi, but the misuse of your/you're/their/they're/there/it's/its really bothers me.

[Lukie]

ugh, I misused it's. And it's weird, because I could swear that I remember checking myself as I was typing it, and being satisfied with what I had done. I try not to be a huge grammar nazi, but the misuse of your/you're/their/they're/there/it's/its really bothers me.

The combination of rage/drunk typing and not double checking leads to some pretty comical (note: not comincal) typos and misuse of words, even when you know better.

[rong]

I think I may be gay, because I love this

[rong]

Where the fuck is my embedded video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj9xsSuczes

[Lukie]

Pop from last year's playoffs, still as good as ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=M5xM8Z618zI

[rong]

I love the contrast of the last two videos posted in this thread.

[Lukie]

I like mine a lot better.

[Jack Sawyer]

Congrats on the baby d0zer!

[boost]

Where the fuck is my embedded video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj9xsSuczes

This. Is. Amazing.

[Galapogos]

ugh, I misused it's. And it's weird, because I could swear that I remember checking myself as I was typing it, and being satisfied with what I had done. I try not to be a huge grammar nazi, but the misuse of your/you're/their/they're/there/it's/its really bothers me.

I don't get annoyed but I definitely lose a little respect for people that can't figure out when to use your/you're/their/they're/there. However, I find if I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing I often fuck up their/there which really annoys me because I totally understand when either is to be used but somehow that slips by me from time to time if I don't look things over.

[wufwugy]

their their, it's not you're fault. we all do it

[rong]

I don't get why it pisses people off. If someone is trying to explain something to me and their poor grammar makes it difficult to understand then it would annoy me. But then I just listen to rhythm of life and feel happy again.

[Chelle]

their their, it's not you're fault. we all do it

...ohgod i twitched.

[jackvance]

I don't get why it pisses people off. If someone is trying to explain something to me and their poor grammar makes it difficult to understand then it would annoy me. But then I just listen to rhythm of life and feel happy again.

What you're saying is you smoke weed?

[d0zer]

I smoke weed and I agree with rong.

[Galapogos]

I don't get why it pisses people off. If someone is trying to explain something to me and their poor grammar makes it difficult to understand then it would annoy me. But then I just listen to rhythm of life and feel happy again.

I think it's because that is something we're taught in like grade 4 or somewhere around that. Teachers constantly correct us for getting those mixed up. Then somehow all these people made it through 8 more years of required English classes still not understanding the difference. Plus, I grew up with a grammar nazi for a father.

[d0zer]

I also had a grammar nazi father. He would rant angrily about people making up words by appending common suffixes to any noun or verb willy-nilly. When the texting craze begun he was certain the apocalypse wasn't far behind.

I don't have a problem with politely correcting people if the time and place is right, but people who get legitimately upset about poor grammar, or are cunty about it can fuck off. Half the time it's English majors upset that they don't have a marketable degree and are looking to feed their ego at the expense of others.

There's plenty of more important things in this world to get upset about, why add something so relatively trivial?

[Galapogos]

I don't have a problem with politely correcting people if the time and place is right, but people who get legitimately upset about poor grammar, or are cunty about it can fuck off. Half the time it's English majors upset that they don't have a marketable degree and are looking to feed their ego at the expense of others.

There's plenty of more important things in this world to get upset about, why add something so relatively trivial?

While I appreciate the sage advice, in case you're referring to me, I never said I get upset when other people do it.

[bikes]

I also had a grammar nazi father. He would rant angrily about people making up words by appending common suffixes to any noun or verb willy-nilly. When the texting craze begun he was certain the apocalypse wasn't far behind.

I don't have a problem with politely correcting people if the time and place is right, but people who get legitimately upset about poor grammar, or are cunty about it can fuck off. Half the time it's English majors upset that they don't have a marketable degree and are looking to feed their ego at the expense of others.

There's plenty of more important things in this world to get upset about, why add something so relatively trivial?

how very tantalizing.

[rong]

A lack of capital letters and punctuation annoys me. Not if it's like one sentence or something, or if someone forgets a capital letter, but a complete disregard is quite upsetting.

[wufwugy]

A lack of) Capital lEtters and pUNCtuation; annoys me.

Well fine then

[Savy]

I like it when people don't bother using paragraphs.

[eugmac]

A lack of capital letters and punctuation annoys me. Not if it's like one sentence or something, or if someone forgets a capital letter, but a complete disregard is quite upsetting.

I notice that I sometimes type with the shift key (uppercasing) and other times I just won't bother. I don't know why and I dont' think there's any pattern to it.

[eugmac]

i find lack of periods at the end of posts ala kiwi totally awful though. that much destruction of structure i just can't deal with.

[d0zer]

While I appreciate the sage advice, in case you're referring to me, I never said I get upset when other people do it.

My last two paragraphs was me speaking generally about the cuntiest of grammar nazis, I don't know that you fall into that category. Sorry, it does kinda sound like I was directing that at you because of how I started, but I was actually just digressing into frustrations about dicks.

[Lukie]

I notice that I sometimes type with the shift key (uppercasing) and other times I just won't bother. I don't know why and I dont' think there's any pattern to it.

same here

[kiwiMark]

I do everything perfectly and for effect at all times. Y'all need to step up your game.

[Chelle]

made fish tacos tonight for the first time, as well as pico de gallo. oh, and made flour tortillas from scratch.

haven't even ate any of em yet.

[a500lbgorilla]

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-vi...ts-of-physics/

Pretty interesting article, especially the Douglas stuff about how cultures deal with ambiguity and the limits of language.

In a nutshell, Douglas notes that all languages parse the world into categories; in English, for instance, we call some things ‘mammals’ and other things ‘lizards’ and have no trouble recognising the two separate groups. Yet there are some things that do not fit neatly into either category: the pangolin, or scaly anteater, for example. Though pangolins are warm-blooded like mammals and birth their young, they have armoured bodies like some kind of bizarre lizard. Such definitional monstrosities are not just a feature of English. Douglas notes that all category systems contain liminal confusions, and she proposes that such ambiguity is the essence of what is seen to be impure or unclean.

Whatever doesn’t parse neatly in a given linguistic system can become a source of anxiety to the culture that speaks this language, calling forth special ritual acts whose function, Douglas argues, is actually to acknowledge the limits of language itself. In the Lele culture of the Congo, for example, this epistemological confrontation takes place around a special cult of the pangolin, whose initiates ritualistically eat the abominable animal, thereby sacralising it and processing its ‘dirt’ for the entire society.

‘Powers are attributed to any structure of ideas,’ Douglas writes. We all tend to think that our categories of understanding are necessarily real. ‘The yearning for rigidity is in us all,’ she continues. ‘It is part of our human condition to long for hard lines and clear concepts’. Yet when we have them, she says, ‘we have to either face the fact that some realities elude them, or else blind ourselves to the inadequacy of the concepts’. It is not just the Lele who cannot parse the pangolin: biologists are still arguing about where it belongs on the genetic tree of life.

[jackvance]

Yup a nice read.

[Jack Sawyer]

The new Daft Punk album is pretty awesome. I like "Moroder" and "Lose yourself to dance".

Case in point: http://youtu.be/TBXv37PFcAQ

[BennyLaRue]

Kari Wuhrer

[wufwugy]

So I've fixed a lot of my body pain problems, and this has allowed me to exercise again. I've been taking it really slow and mainly just farting around with pull ups since that's the movement I neglected the most when I used to exercise, and after around two months my max chin ups have gone from 1 to 10 at maybe 25% bodyfat

I'll definitely be able to do one-arm pull ups when I get back down to 10%

[kiwiMark]

sounds like you're moving in the wrong direction, how soon till 3arm pullups?

[jackvance]

Bought a new laptop with poker winnings, and it comes with windows 8. A bit pissed how they force you to take it and you can't choose windows 7. But all in all it looks to be fine, a little getting used to but so far it seems ok. What really pisses me off though is what they did to skype. When you're logged in with your microsoft account (which you have to make or you can't use windows 8), and this account is linked to your skype (it seems to do this automatically when you start, or atleast advises you strongly to do it), then it is in fact impossible to log off! The only way to close it, if you don't want to make a new windows account just to get rid of skype, is ALT+F4. I had to google just to be able to close the damn thing. That's completely unacceptable forced behavior imo!

[Lukie]

So I've fixed a lot of my body pain problems, and this has allowed me to exercise again. I've been taking it really slow and mainly just farting around with pull ups since that's the movement I neglected the most when I used to exercise, and after around two months my max chin ups have gone from 1 to 10 at maybe 25% bodyfat

I'll definitely be able to do one-arm pull ups when I get back down to 10%

if you are talking about a true one-arm pull up, doubtful

happy to hear you are doing better though. just lay off the near max effort squats, snatches, etc

[wufwugy]

if you are talking about a true one-arm pull up, doubtful

happy to hear you are doing better though. just lay off the near max effort squats, snatches, etc

We'll see. This is what I mean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MB4PIdlXjs

I'm pretty much at that level of muscle mass, but significantly fatter. He looks like he's at about 8%, I'm somewhere between Fedor and Roy Nelson. I'm not sure I've ever gotten below 12% though. I can put on mass like nobody's business, but getting really lean is tough

[ChipEaterMan]

[d0zer]

Can someone please edit this video to make all his responses "hodor hodor hodor..."

[rong]

Wtf is going on in Brazil?

I have a friend who lives in Sao Paulo who says the media is understating the level of discontent and protest and the level of police brutality. They're likening it to Turkey.

[Jack Sawyer]

If you want to shed a few tears

[Jack Sawyer]

Wtf is going on in Brazil?

I have a friend who lives in Sao Paulo who says the media is understating the level of discontent and protest and the level of police brutality. They're likening it to Turkey.

Yeah. It's fucked up. Of course what you see in int'l media is not even close to what is happening on the ground.

[ChipEaterMan]

The Brazilians who receive the minimum salary have to use half of it to pay the monthly fees of public transport to get to their jobs.
Public transport in Sao Paulo is the second most expensive in the world in relation to the minimum salary.
Brazilians say the goverment is investing to much money in the construction of new stadiums for the 2014 football world championship

[Jack Sawyer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ef=mostpopular

[ChipEaterMan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...ef=mostpopular

Interesting. But may attract gay pervs now

[ChipEaterMan]

I thought japanese were more pervert than chinese

http://www.locoinyokohama.com/2011/1...on-the-trains/

[eugmac]

as somebody of japanese descent i guess i should pipe in - i think there's pervs everywhere but there's a weird "ima gonna mind my own business, dat's not my problem... gonna look away and pretend i saw nothin" kind of mentality that's pretty rampant which is pretty harmful to society.

[eugmac]

*in japan, i mean.

[eugmac]

pretty sure functional society depends upon people just speaking their minds and calling people out when they're wrong and always doing what they think is right. i can understand why my dad moved away from there when he was young (although he's gone back since my mom died). he's a misfit tho. like, japanese people are ridiculously orderly in public and behave and all that shit, but obv there are gonna be anti-social types who are gonna jump the queue and get on the train first and shit like that. most japanese would just kind of mumble something to themselves and do this holier than thou bs but my dad makes a point of shouting at them going "HEY YOU THE BACK OF THE LINE IS OVER THERE" which is like omg so blunt and rude by japanese standards. i think my dad's not so bad a guy really.

[eugmac]

pretty sure all this belongs in the drunk thread, or not. this is the random thread where every post is given equal prioritiez.

[rong]

Good article on the situation in Brazil for those that are interested

http://www.economist.com/blogs/ameri...rotests-brazil

[jackvance]

Wow, first Turkey now this. Power of social media?

[rong]

Well, first the whole Arab spring thing. The world keeps changing.

[Lukie]

Miami -280 put as much money on this as you can afford (if you can legally do so, of course)

[bikes]

good fucking game.

[boost]

Miami -280 put as much money on this as you can afford (if you can legally do so, of course)

wtf, Miami was handicapped? I know next to nothing about sports betting, but finding a book that was handicapping Miami seems like a gold mine.

[Lukie]

wtf, Miami was handicapped? I know next to nothing about sports betting, but finding a book that was handicapping Miami seems like a gold mine.

Miami -280 means you would have to bet $280 on Miami to win $100. It might have been something like -265 before gametime. Either way I thought it was a great bet on Miami, for a variety of reasons.

[WillburForce]

So I've fixed a lot of my body pain problems, and this has allowed me to exercise again. I've been taking it really slow and mainly just farting

Solid regime bro.

[boost]

oh, wow, yeah I know absolutely nothing about sports betting.

[boost]

In less than one week of release, “Man of Steel” has grossed $242 million worldwide.

RottenTomatoes Man of Steel score: 57%

Man, Hollywood is a crazy business...