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[ { "body": "I wear a watch infrequently, so my phone is my primary means of determining the time. If I happen to see someone look at their phone, I have two thoughts:\n\n* I haven't checked the time lately, I wonder if I'm going to be late.\n* Has the cellular network broken down as part of the first stage of a nuclear apocalypse?\n\nSo I check my phone to sate both these thoughts.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "i normally do it if someone i was talking to gets out their phone mid-conversation with me, mainly because I think it's a bit rude, and also because I then look like an idiot with no-one left to talk to.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Just ask her out to go do something - see a movie, get a coffee, whatever. That gives you plenty of time to feel her out/up on the subject.\n", "score": 16 }, { "body": "1. Write a note with 2 check boxes. The first box should have a caption saying \"Check this box if you like me\". The second box should have a caption saying \"Check this box if you do not like me\". Make sure it is clear that the note is from you.\n\n2. ???\n\n3. Profit", "score": 9 }, { "body": "If she is so impassioned about gay rights it is unlikely there would be major repercussions for asking her out. Just go up to her and ask her if she is wants to go out sometime. For help with phrasing say something like this:\n\n\"Hey, [insert name here]. I think you are really cute would you wanna go out for coffee sometime?\" \n\nYou can really choose any activity like dinner and a movie not just coffee.", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "If by \"work out\" you mean ride around aimlessly through the city on my bike, then yes, I like it very much.\n\nIf by \"work out\" you mean run as fast as I can from the police through the ghetto, then no, sir I don't like it.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Yessir. But never lifting weights (to scary) or going to the gym (too crowded/paranoia sets in...) Bong rip, 3 sets up 15 push ups, rest, 3 sets of 15 sit ups, bong rip. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I love to hike and bike baked. going to the gym...eh not so much. i usually smoke after going to the gym. awesome way to relax. btw are you a female toker?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I typically save smoking until after a workout session. Helps you relax and in most cases amplifies that \"runner's high,\" if you can feel that sort of thing--I most certainly do.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "trick is to having something to phase out with... music, tv, book... whatever wil capture your attention and then time spent on cardio will fly. I can do an hour on the stairclimber and it seems like 5 min if I have a good book... if I focus on the exercise, it takes an eternity.\n\nor, get out of the gym and go for a nice hike, bike, etc", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Heres what you should do [my perspective]\r\n\r\n1. If you work out regularly and know exactly what to do? Go ahead and be blazed. Its just like getting in front of a crows (not talking about stage fright). If you know what you are doing you will be able to do it better while high, but if you don't do what you intend to do skillfully beforehand, chances are you will just end up slowing yourself down. Yet for a person like me who tends to be a bit ADHD, it helps. :D\r\n\r\n2. If you're working out in an aerobic sense (ie. Sports) you should wait until that clouded feeling in your head goes away. For me this is the time of day where I can learn things better, do things quicker, pwn more un-righteous bones at Halo 3 etc. For some reason its a time when your mindset, as long as you are happy, to basically do or try anything. Like when you are playing basketball and you're not sure if you should shoot that three pointer and embarrass yourself. That light feeling of high is calming enough to make you be comfortable and just say fuck it (likely helping you get at least a slight bit closer to that game winner).\r\n\r\nside note: I used the 2nd technique not for sports, but for the classroom (college) and i brought my GPA from a 2.8 to a 3.75. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Gee, thanks for pointing us to all the other great deals we COULD have gotten, after we could have gotten them. This is much better than you posting actual links during the actual sales. Thanks again.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "GOG gave away a free game? I'd been checking them periodically over the holidays and I totally missed that. What was it?", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I completely agree with what you said, in fact, I used http://www.steamgamesales.com/all/?sort_by=Savings&order_by=DESC for a lot of sales. I think it was made by a fellow Reddit member. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "check out the recommended reading and links from the SANS Netwars site:\n\nhttp://www.sans.org/netwars/", "score": 23 }, { "body": ">First of all I apologise if this is in the wrong place.\n\nI don't think there is a more right place to post this.\n\nI really recommend reading [this](http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson/dp/1593271441/ref=pd_sim_b_5). He takes you from the beginning to how exploits happen, to getting significantly more advanced with his attacks. He won't hold your hand, and assumes some programming knowledge, but he doesn't immediately talk over your head either.\n\n> Computer Science seems more geared towards programming in general but I have been struggling to see any more relevant subjects\n\nYou need to know how to program. I've heard this disputed which is partially true. You can get a decent paying job running nessus scans on networks, printing out the reports, and having a very boring life. Please don't be a human nessus scanner though. They are very boring people. I would recommend learning C or C++ (assembly eventually), and a scripted language like ruby/python/c# that will let you quickly build code. C or C++ will give you a good grasp on how pointers and memory work. Also, a lot of common security tools are written in those languages. Being able to understand how those programs are built can help. Most exploit code will require a basic knowledge of assembly. If you ever wanted to touch on reverse engineering engineering, you will need assembly.\n\nFor having fun with wireless, read up on aircrack. Read up how it works, read the whitepapers on the attacks you use. The whitepapers are very important because too many people don't understand what is going on when they run those.\n\nKeep an eye on http://www.milw0rm.com/. This will keep you up to date on what exploits are currently out in the wild, as well as give you the the code for them. As always, understand the code before you run it. If something blows up in your face that you executed blindly from that site, you're just going to get laughed at.\n\nAlso, [Metasploit](http://www.metasploit.com/) is an exploit framework you should be familiar with. Once you can write exploits, this is a great way to be able to use them.\n\nIf you really start enjoying this, start going to Defcon. Aside from it being blackhat's afterparty, you will learn a lot.\n\nI'm kind of rambling things that were interesting to me, but you should certainly pick something specific you enjoy about security and learn the hell out of it. I can probably point you in the right direction if you have anything more specific. Netsec is a more broad field than you would think. I know people that specialize in fuzzers, wireless, and hardware security.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "> I was also wondering what sort of subject is relevant in university. Computer Science seems more geared towards programming in general but I have been struggling to see any more relevant subjects (I am in the UK).\n\nUnless your university specifically advertises \"hacking classes\", then computer science is probably your best bet. At an absolute minimum, you need to know:\n\n* How to count and do basic math in different bases (binary, hex).\n* the fundamentals of programming.\n* The RAM-model of computing (preferably, learn the other models as well, such as Determinisitc Finite Automata, Turing Machines, etc.)\n\nMore realistically, you'll also need to learn:\n\n* Theory of computation (to really \"get\" the idea that data and instructions are one and the same).\n* C (to be able to read and spot buffer overflow vulnerabilities)\n* PHP & SQL (to be able to read and spot injection attacks)\n* HTML, JavaScript (to be able to read and spot cross-site attacks).\n* HTTP, TCP/IP (so you can dissect and reverse engineer packets).\n\nDon't neglect social engineering, though I've never heard of a university directly offering to teach anything related to this.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "If you want to start with actual NETWORK security, I highly advise starting with a solid network foundation. To get that, I'd get the Cisco Press books for passing the CCNA certification. 2 books are in the set. The first focuses on networking itself, and the second on configuring Cisco devices with the ideas from the first. You can then move on to more advanced ideas (firewalls, IDP/IDS, etc).\n\nAnd it's NEVER to late to learn.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Learn why a network functions the way it does. Don't ask how to secure it. Understand it from the ground up; from OSI layer 1 to layer 7. Then learn how a network could be adversely affected in any way. There's your start. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Build a unix variant box at home and play with it. Get some solid networking skills, some scripting maybe and use various open source security tools and become proficient in them.\n\nYou could do this on Windows too (not really) but you would have to deal with a lot of crap that doesn't add anything to what you're trying to accomplish. (On windows repeating the same exact thing N times will result in N outcomes as opposed to getting consistent results every time on Unix allowing you to concentrate on the task at hand.)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I went to a community college and got my degree in Network Management so I could get the basics. From there you kind of fall into your specialty. (Sys Admin, Net Sec, Network Ops, etc) If you're serious about learning and want to make a career out of it, this is the best way to do it. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Holy hell. I thought this was a FF behavior as well, I had no clue it was All-in-ones fault. Well, that fixes A gripe I have had for a while.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It turns out that Year One is actually pretty funny if you're familiar with Genesis. \n\nI thought Dogma was a pretty strong statement in support of faith and religion. The overriding theme of the story was that God loves everyone, no exceptions, including marauding angels of death, divorced barren women who work at abortion clinics, and Jason Mewes. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I wonder how safe the creators of a movie that poked fun at Islam would be? That's probably one reason there hasn't been too much around that makes fun of Islam.\n\nThere is a lot around that makes fun of Christianity though.\n\nOf course most big movies come from America, so it's not that surprising that if any religion is mocked, it's the one they're most familiar with.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It's high time for a really biting film about Islam. It'd have to be completely viral because no cinema would even dare show it, that's how far gone we are with regard to the 'religion of peace'.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is excellent. Kind of like how I hijacked [/r/karmanaut](http://reddit.com/r/karmanaut). Nice work, willis.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My MP's office is next to a convenience store where I often go in and buy milk. I've physically confronted him twice in the last week on why he's letting his party's Prime Minister prorogue parliament. He won't answer me, the cock.\n\nEDIT: So I saw him again today after I went to go get some Doritos. Being told to fuck off by your MP really sucks.\n\nEDIT2: I think the dude who told me to fuck off could've been his secretary. He was wearing a bigass coat and I was about 15 feet away when I asked him, as I was just walking out of the convenience store. Just making sure everyone knows that.", "score": 32 }, { "body": "The idea I've been playing around with is \"Not my Canada\". It's based on the idea of a non-partisan approach to responding to the undemocratic moves that this government has made. The Arar affair, the Afghan torture issue, the proroguing of Parliament, the institution of partisan senators (when the party ran on a platform eliminating this concept) - all of these things are things that would not happen in my (and hopefully your) Canada.\n\nThe creation of the CPC has alienated the left, the middle, and a good chunk of common-sense fiscal conservatives as well. These people need a voice and need to express and associate with other like minded Canadians to ensure a more accurate representation of our populace in parliament. It's my hope that by creating messages that bring more attention to the things that I (and hopefully others) consider to be un-Canadian, that more people will see them, consider them, and hopefully do their own research and draw their own conclusions.\n\nI think the idea would be best served with an informative site, some YouTube videos documenting the more undemocrative moves by the current government (as well as the ramifications of those moves), perhaps a Facebook page and a hashtag (it may sound silly, but the low cost of entry for those platforms can make it friendly for people to get involved).\n\nStarting from a place of honest and integrity - the idea of informing people and asking them to think - is, in my opinion, the best way to lead an effort like this. A quiet, mature approach is the most Canadian way to approach things. If you say things worth listening to, people will hear you and will follow.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "One of the things I have read about the Iranian protest movement is that they write anti-government slogans on currency, which seems to me a great way to get your message distributed. Maybe we should start circulating bills with anti-proroguing slogans. ", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "For me, good sci-fi is about really exploring interesting ideas which would otherwise be impossible to explore in any other genre. For example, the ideas explored in Solaris would not work in a crime thriller or action movie or historical epic - only sci-fi can do that.\n\nAlso, no damn little kids. Make your character **over** the age of **at least** 25. Please, don't think of the children.\n\nKeep the exposition to a minimum - less is so much more as Cormac McCarthy demonstrated with The Road. People who read sci-fi like to use their imagination, not be spoon fed. Put Chris Foss picture on the cover of the book and call it good. \n\nKeep things as realistic as possible. Yeah, it's sci-fi, but that doesn't mean characters can all of a sudden act like morons in a story or deus-ex-machina is something that happens every other page. \n\n[Put a little sex in it too.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTQF04jxRc)\n\n", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Good sci-fi literature is defined by the same things that define good literature in general. Good writing, plot and character development. Ditto for good sci-fi movies/tv. Good art is good art regardless of genre.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Focus on a good STORY that uses sci-fi (or fantasy) as a setting, and doesn't try to beat me about the head with how awesome the setting itself is.\r\n\r\n*Star Wars: A New Hope* is good sci-fi. *Star Wars: The Phantom Menace* is most assuredly not.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "To be successful as science fiction it *absolutely* must have:\n\n1. A sense of wonder\n\n\nIt should also include any one, or more, of the following:\n\n2. Speculation about future technology.\n\n3. Speculation about undiscovered scientific principles.\n\n4. Speculation about minds which are as smart as human, but aren't human.\n\nBeyond that, the definitions and possibilities of what makes good scifi are completely open.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Basically, the opposite of anything JJ.Abrams made would make good Sci Fi.\n\nSomething cool, with actual meaning, actual science fiction, believable characters - more like \"Pitch Black\", less like \"Chronicles of Riddick\".\n\nMore like \"Dune\", \"Zardoz\", \"District 9\", \"Hyperion\", \nless like \"Lost\", \"Star Trek: all the series\", \"Torchwood\" etc.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "IMO the most important aspects are originality, respect to real world science, and creation of a complete rich world. \n\nI'm also interested in writing some short sci-fi stories, I've started a few I have a hard time writing as I am overly critical of myself. I'd be happy to share what I've been working on when I get to that point, as well as read anything you'd like an opinion on.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I mangle the occasional Science Fiction short story under a different name. It is my goal to surprise the reader, and possibly teach them some science they weren't previously aware of but only if the story requires it. If the story doesn't require something, I leave it out. It's painful sometimes, some of my favourite passages end up on the floor, but the story's always better for it - or at least my beta-readers usually say so.\n\nIf you would like a beta-reader, I've some experience at that and would be glad to help out. (Be warned though, I don't hold back. Good or bad.)\n\nYou can easily guess my gmail account.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Take something that is happening in our world (one thing- animal research, environmentalism, political polarism, religion), and extract it to a logical conclusion. It's considerably more difficult to write scifi that's 50 years in the future rather than 3000. Don't forget about basic human character traits and historical trends- it's unlikely that religion or money or love of progeny (or their substitutes) are going to disappear in the foreseeable future. If you're writing hard SF, make sure that you know your facts and get them checked out by experts. There's nothing wrong with non-hard SF, but make sure that you know the difference. \n\nWhen it comes right down to it, nothing that you do will make a difference if your characters and world(s) aren't believable and interesting. Check out some of the great world-building resources online- if you're going to have a utopian society, who takes out the garbage? Children are raised in creches until they're 12? Wonderful- how do they learn social skills if they only come into contact with 3 adults during their childhood? \n\nI'll read almost any type of SF (and enjoy it) as long as it's internally consistent. I've read a lot of SF, but I'm not a science expert by any means. Give me something that makes sense, with interesting characters and a compelling plot, and I'll keep reading. \n\nFantasy's different (at least for me)- if you're going to have magic, you HAVE to make sure that there's a rationale for it. I have zero interest in wizards who study for 12 years to learn how to throw fireballs if they can just pick up a burning branch instead. If you're going to have heroes with inherited powers that they don't find out about until they go on a quest, make sure that you've built a non-democratic society which will accept them. Watch out for ethical systems and magic- it's great if someone can change the weather, but what about the poor peasant who's just lost his crop because you've made a cloud move 20 miles away from him so that you can cover your hero from his enemies? Make your enemies believable- there's nothing more boring than a horde of demons who are just pure evil and want to destroy everything good blah blah blah Pick an adversary who truly believes that he/she/it is fighting for good, and you've got a much more interesting story. If you're going to have dragons, either pay attention to the physics of flight or come up with some reason that they don't apply (same goes for unicorns). And know your mythology- there are so many different mythologies already that you're going to draw on them unconsciously whether you like it or not, so at least use them wisely. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Trees is awesome, but this is mostly just a popularity contest. Secret Santa has more members, and we would never be able to beat them. \n\nSeems like this is more a contest for the biggest community rather than the best..", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I'm torn between /r/Trees and /r/Favors. Both were born out of a genuine interest to better the reddit experience for everyone, be it through helping each other out or just offering a happy, fun place to share insight and knowledge.\n\nYou treeple are pretty awesome. =)", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "I would almost say that ADD is a defining attribute of most INTPs. I've been diagnosed with it. Didn't care and just went on with my life. It hasn't really affected me negatively. I just realize my nature and try to work around it.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "No ADD: I would say the opposite in fact - concentrating on one thing to the exclusion of all else. No OCD either. My dysthymia and depression are, however, becoming more problematic.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Almost all of the INTPs that I know (including myself) have self-diagnosed some OCD issues, but I don't know anyone who has actually gone and get checked out, at least yet. The OCD issues I would say I experience are very mild and actually kind of fun to deal with. Like a brain puzzle or something.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Are we all just going to drug ourselves so we can fit the mold that society has determined to be correct?\n\nI understand and agree with taking drugs if one finds they benefit in doing so. And I think it's great that we even have that choice.\n \nBut just because I'm not a social butterfly (I can fake it quite well though I don't have the social stamina my wife does) and have what some here are calling 'hyper focus' doesn't mean that I find my quality of life lacking in anyway, I like who I am.\n\nThere's no real point to this post, I just thought I would just throw the question out there.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I have to agree with everyone else. Reformat the computer and reinstall Windows (or the OS of your choice). I know that if I were in your son's place, that's what I'd want my family to do. Why? Because I'd rather my mother **not** stumble upon my porn collection.\n\nYour son's last bit of privacy lies behind that password, so do him the courtesy of destroying all of the data on that computer and starting over.", "score": 71 }, { "body": "Jesus this is blatantly obvious. What I'm trying to figure out is if it's a troll or just someone who wants to spy on their spouse/brother/sister", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Format. Or if you want the information on it, just slap the drive into another computer as a slave drive and copy the information off it. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Sorry for your loss. I am assuming it is a Windows XP machine. If so you can download the ultimate boot cd, http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/, burn the ISO to a CD, boot to the CD, and overwrite the administrator password. Once you boot from the CD you will select NTFS tools, then \"Offline NT Password & Registry Editor\".\n\nAdditional instructions:\n\nhttp://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/forgot-your-windows-password-no.html", "score": 11 }, { "body": "If you do find a practical solution to cracking into the system, I recommend that you let your Son's best friend go in first and erase anything embarrassing.\n\nMy best friend has instructions to incinerate my computer when I die. Then he is to soak the ashes in acid. \n", "score": 11 }, { "body": "dude, I am sorry for your lost, but for what I know, you might be a burglar trying to enter someone else computer.\n\nLet your grandson fix it, it would be much easier for them to pull it out.\n\nAnd if he leave a damn password on the damn computer, maybe it was because he wanted nobody to see the damn things he was into, goddamn it!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "There is a Linux program called \"Log in Now\" Google it. Select boot from the cd drive. It will load a linux shell which will enable you to change or delete the password. However, are you sure you want to intrude upon your son's privacy? Have you any reason to beleive he left any personal information intended for you? Tread carefully and respectfully. Sorry for your loss.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If it is really important for you, have one of his friends do it. WHen my husband's best friend passed away, his family asked him to crack the password. My husband saved photos and other family stuff to USB.....and reformatted over anything his best friend would want no one to know about.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "She's a biatch, but you're: \r\n\r\na) Awkward. That wasn't a \"pleased to meet you\" situation. Keep your hand to yourself. \r\n\r\nb) Wrong. Sending that poor-impulse-control text didn't help anything. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "for what it's worth, you *did* cross the line. it's highly unlikely that you will get in any trouble, but technically, that text message is harassment.\n\nthat woman is an ass and failing as a mother. it would be best if you didn't mimic her behavior. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you want your book to be useful to anyone with interest in modern professional game development, there is really only one choice.\n\nC++\n\n", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Depends on who you are targetting, hobbyist or AAA developers. I´d go for python for the hobbyists and c++ for the AAA people. \n\nFor the Optimizing Patterns part of the book C++ is the only choice. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Perhaps pseudo code where possible, or perhaps two languages (C++ being one of them) for applicable stuff...?\n\nPersonally I'd opt for pseudo code for the less gritty areas of the book.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "They don't have many K-Marts in Texas anymore, but I have heard the smell of Target very aptly described as \"crayons and popcorn.\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've been working there for a couple of months. It's detergent plus this really thick layer of dust on *everything* (I really don't know where it comes from or why no one has ever bothered to clean it all) and an industrial grade cleaner we use. \n\nIf you ever happen to work at Kmart and if they ever ask you to refill a cleaning bottle with the undiluted cleaner DO NOT get it into your paper cut. It will sting really bad for hours on end. \n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Believe me, I can understand your concern. Indeed, not everyone is ready to be saved at any given point in his or her life. Even St. Augustine had a wild young adulthood, despite being raised in an orthodox Christian household and later becoming one of the faith's great champions--when he was about your age, he was a follower of Mani. \n\nI would ask them that you be left to come to God on your own terms, and if that doesn't happen that they respect that. If your family is of a particularly Calvinist bent, tell them that you haven't had the \"conversion experience\" that such theology lionizes, and that you don't want it to be forced--you want it to happen on its own. Tell them that you frankly don't like the inspirational stories/chain mail/annoying and condescending Bible quotes/whatever, that it feels trite and synthetic to you (I feel the same way). Remind them to keep their prayers between themselves and God, as per Matthew 6. If they're not, mention that detail about Augustine. Tell them that it feels like you're going through the motions of Christianity without it meaning anything to you.\n\nAnd please, if you do decide that there is no God, don't be a dick to those of us who have come to the other conclusion. We have our reasons for continuing to believe, just as you'll have your reasons for not believing.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "My advice is to tell them how you feel. Tell them that you want to figure things out at your own pace. I'd also mention maybe that they shouldn't worry about you but you're just on your own spiritual journey. They should respect that. As far as that, bro, I wish you luck with parents and figuring things out. I will say that you need to figure things out for yourself and not from someone else (religious or not).", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Is this something that comes up fairly often in conversation, or is it the standard pressure to go to church/bible study/potluck events even though you don't want to? I would just tell them that you aren't interested in going through the motions because that won't change what you believe, and when asked what you believe just say that you'd prefer not to talk about it.\r\n\r\nI stopped going to church with my parents because they abruptly switched to a different church in spite of the fact that all of my friends belonged to the old one. I told them that if I continue to believe in God not going to church isn't going to shake my faith, and if I stop believing, going to church isn't going to save me anyway, so I don't want to talk about it. Ultimately religion and spirituality are personal issues and no amount of badgering on the part of concerned family members changes that. I wish you the best of luck and I hope your dad doesn't try to kick you out of the house (as mine did to me).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Some have offered books to read. Let me suggest Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. This book deals with exactly the same tensions you are going through. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Civilization IV, Galactic Civilizations II, Medieval II: Total War, Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes, World In Conflict, Starcraft", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "T-mobiles 3G network is near non-existent. That's the only reason I can think of for the price discrepancy. I have t-mobile though and, besides the slow data connection, I've been quite happy.", "score": 25 }, { "body": "AND T-mobile did not participate in the wholesale wiretapping of American citizens. Vote with your dollars people.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Find a friend with a slightly older iphone and convince them to upgrade and purchase their old one. I think it's getting ready for a refresh soon anyway, so you might have a slightly used 3g for not much money.\n\nI bought my wife and me 1st gen iphones from friends, and ended up spending 150 total. I need to replace the battery in mine, but still ending up ahead, and I'm on the network I like (T-Mo).", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I love T-Mobile. Their customer service is amazing. They allowed me to upgrade to the G1 months before my plan was up because my Nokia died. They also, without even me asking, upgraded me to the unlimited everything plan before it was public. Back then, it was an exclusive 'loyalty' plan.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Straight Talk is $45/mo for unlimited talk, text, and 3G web, and they carry over Verizon's infamous \"map\". Downside is no iPhone or Droid, but you can get Samsung's browser for the web. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "T-Mobile's 3G coverage is laughable. Go with Sprint if you want a decent price + excellent nationwide EVDO coverage. Their customer service has improved the past year or so as well.\n\nI'm one of the lucky few grandfathered into the old SERO plans. For $30/mo I get 500 minutes, unlimited weekend/night minutes, text, web, and picture messaging. I have the unfortunate drawback of a limited Windows Mobile phone selection, but I'd switch back to Virgin Mobile prepaid before paying another $70 a month for an unlimited plan. It comes close, but WinMo isn't THAT bad.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I have an iPhone on T-mobile, the plan is an amazing deal.. especially if ur also on a family plan... but the AT&T 3G frequency i'snt the same as the T-mobile one, so you'll be stuck with EDGE\n\nOh and other thing, theres a way to get you're interent for 10 dollars instead of the 30 making your plan even 20 dollars cheaper.. if you add the t-mobile Web2Go and put in the right settings on the iPhone u'll be able to use the internet.. (not sure if its slower than edge..)\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "T-mobile's network is considerably smaller than AT&T's (and most everyone elses), but you're right, it's a great deal. T-mobile has always been by far the cheapest.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "wait wait wait wait.....\n\nATT has \"faster 3g\" and a 'great coverage map' as I was told (just not 3g). \n\nTOTALLY worth paying more. \n\n~Sincerely, an iPhone owner. \n\nEDIT: Apparently sarcasm doesn't translate well. SERIOUSLY? You thought I ENJOYED the data network? ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "This is funny on so many levels, because T-Mobile and AT&T are both equally shitty, coverage-wise", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "From one cancer survivor to another: Did your family sign up for marrow donation/go through the screening? Did you expect them to?\n\n(some people can do it, some people can't even bring themselves to say it out loud. It's interesting to compare/contrast)", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Seeing your little AMA has given me a lot of hope as my brother is battling cancer right now.\n\nCongratulations!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Is there anything uplifting that helped you in tough times that you might be able to pass on to me?\n\nI've had colon cancer for the last 1 1/2 years. My doctors are impressed I've lived as long as I have, but as time goes on and the metastases relentlessly return, my optimism and fighting spirit are fading. I'm afraid it might be awkward to get into details, but having cancer has directly or indirectly screwed up many parts of my life, and I can feel that each time I give up some part of my life, I lose a little bit of my will to live along with it. \n\nFrom some of your other posts it sounds like you've been fighting it for 20-some years. That's amazing -- you're like a god to me. It also sounds like you developed a fighting spirit not initially but later. On the other hand, I'm trying to figure out how to keep my fighting spirit from fizzling out. Any advice or, well, anything?", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Rock on, sir or madame. \n\nA few questions:\n\n\"Radiation induced, chondroblastic osteosarcoma\" Was this a side affect from the treatment of the first?\n\nAlso, how did your friends/family feel after hearing news of the second or third cancers. Did they ever really dip into depression? How would you compare your reaction to theirs?\n\nStay well.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I have nothing to ask. I just wish to say. CONGRATS! Way to not give in. Well done. Live life, you deserve it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Well fought, sir or ma'am!\nI had a brief bout with it in '99. Do you have any dietary considerations?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You fighter you! Amazing!\n\nWhat's your take on being positive during treatment? I heard one cancer patient say it is all bunkum and she felt pressured to be cheerful, felt pressured to carry around the pink ribbons with a happy face, felt pressured to smile and laugh and clap when all she wanted to do was cry and scream at the world - for god's sake she had a possibly fatal condition.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "By the third time did you just feel like, \"hell, I made it through two... maybe I can make it through this one too.\"?\n\nOr was it more like,\n\n\"Cancer, you just don't know when to quit. I BEAT YOU ALREADY.\"?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Do you know what tumor suppressor gene you have mutated? Three rare malignancies in a single individual imply that you unfortunately harbor a somatic mutation in a rather important gene.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I would say that Peak Oil has already been active in making our bubbles.\n\nThere are two types of resource wars ongoing at the moment. The explicit (Iraq and Afghanistan) and the implicit (Global Warming Hysteria). \n\nSeeing the ascension of asia (esp China) coming sooner rather than later, our leaders came up with 2 concurrent plans to try to hold on to their monopoly of dwindling oil supply. (a) go get it via military invasion, and (b) come up with a framework to convince others to stop using it.\n\nOf course, we ourselves would be impacted by choice B, but it was a risk free offer since we know we would lose X percent of production to China anyway. So might as well \"offer\" to cut our CO2 emissions by 17% since China would take that from us anyway - if we can also get them to agree to halt using resources, since that gives us more time to ensure our wars are successful in grabbing the remaining bits.\n\nPersonally, I think this approach has been wrong on both parts and think that even if \"Peak Oil\" is true, we would've been better to stumble our way through it.\n\nOf course, the global elite is firmly against the idea of moving away from oil since they have top down control of every aspect of it. The future will not be *just one thing*, but a combination of solar, biodiesel, nuclear, etc....therefore they see control decentralizing from their grips...\n\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "The two aren't the same thing. If you are talking about speculation in the value of oil, then that certainly has happened and parallels can be drawn between that and the crash of housing values. But peak oil itself is more a scientific observation of the nature of the rate at which we can extract easy oil from the ground to the rate at which we are consuming it. It is a prediction of the availability of supply rather than a speculative trend, thus it is a different matter altogether.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Many investment banks and hedge funds bought oil futures when the price was cheap, accepted delivery, and store the oil offshore in tankers not used for shipping so they can wait for prices to rise (or pump the prices) to sell the oil at a profit. bamfb is also correct: the easy oil has been used up. BTW I buy oil & gas services stocks and some are still a good deal. One of mine has gone up 120%. I believe the next bubble is gold.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I'd be interested, but I think most of the gamer girls on reddit get their geek on in the gaming subreddit, and their girl on in here. While not a lot of feminine-centric things go on in /r/gaming, there's a good bit of posts about gaming in here.\n\nIf you do end up making it, I suggest calling it along the lines of geekychicks just so it can encompass more than gaming :)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "male, here...was in an emotionally abusive relationship for a few years.\n\nthere's not much you can do. there's no magic wand. odds are, he will never change. it's possible but unlikely. the burden is on your friend. she has to come to the realization that this is not love, nor acceptable, or even normal. she has to come this realization on her own and it will take some time.\n\nthe problem is she thinks it will stop if she changes X...and the Y...and then Z...but it never stops. there's always something else that will set him off. but, meanwhile, she's changing so much that she's losing herself. ultimately, she has to realize that she's unhappy and that their relationship is why she's unhappy.\n\nthe only thing you can do is stick by her and counter his abuse. when he hits her, be there to patch her up. when he tries to isolate her from her friends and family, surround her with friends and family. when she tries to say \"it's ok\", tell her \"it's not\". make plans with her and stick to them. always invite her out when you go out even though she keeps turning it down. always answer her calls, texts, and emails. always make her welcome at any time, any place. never make him welcome.\n\nit's not necessarily good advice but you can also harass him. if he stalks her facebook, you stalk his. if he get's shitty with her, you get shitty with him. if you're out and he shows up, throw a drink on him and tell him to fuck off. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I've always found grav bongs to be incredibly harsh. Like nose bleed, coughing, asphyxiation harsh.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Lay low and don't tell them until you've moved out. I think it will only lead to a lot of stress and grief for you while you still live with them.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Tell them that you are an atheist. When they start trying to convert you back to Christianity, tell them that they've convinced you, but be open about the fact that you are lying in order to get them off your case.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Have you tried asking them questions about God, Jesus or the Bible that they can't answer? That is what shut my mom up.\r\n\r\nOne thing that might help you is to know the Bible better than them. You can bring up issues they have never thought of.\r\n\r\nIf you need some questions let me know.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": " <?php\n $message = \"\";\n $file_path = \"/path I want to upload to/\";\n\n if($_SERVER[\"REQUEST_METHOD\"] == \"POST\")\n {\n \t$target_path = $file_path.basename($_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); \n\n \tif (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) \n \t $message = \"The file \". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). \" has been uploaded\";\n \telse\n\t $message = \"There was an error uploading the file, please try again!\";\n }\n echo $message;\n ?>\n\n <form enctype=\"multipart/form-data\" action=\"<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>\" method=\"POST\">\n <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"MAX_FILE_SIZE\" value=\"100000\" />\n Choose a file to upload: \n <input name=\"uploadedfile\" type=\"file\" />\n <br />\n <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Upload File\" />\n </form>", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It seems like you're in a rush, so maybe you don't have the time to do this the \"right\" way... but... wouldn't it make sense to make the ZIP and SIT files automatically on the server side if they're just archives that contain the compressed PDF? Better yet - unless these PDFs are expected to be really large all the time - why have zip/sit archives at all?\n\nAt the very least, I would think Mac users can all open a zip file nowadays... though I'm not a Mac user, so that's just an assumption...\n\nAll that said - Using OrangePlus's response to save the file, it shouldn't be hard to automatically make a zip. [PHP has a library for it](http://php.net/manual/en/book.zip.php), though you may need it enabled if it isn't on the web server you're using.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "FWD: fwd: fwd: re: FWD: RE: fwd:\n\nI'm surprised you remembered to snip off the 50 'THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN VIRUS SCANNED' and 'Get more with Hotmail!' messages at the bottom.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Okay, I'm nobody but I spent my life in L.A., read my share of screenplays, was a world-published author of fiction and know the bs of Hollywood. I read the first 30 pages and the last 20. \n\nWhat I found was a feeling that this felt like a script for TBS or Lifetime (if Lifetime was an adventure channel). There was no TRUE character development for me. I did not feel like your main characters were badasses or any way unique. \n\nI kept trying to put Dwayne Johnson, Harrison Ford or even Matt Damon in this movie. I wanted a character to have some 'special power' (physical or not) to beat the savages. \n\nI wanted something MORE mystical and character driven. I wanted more human interaction and intimacy. I wanted a REAL personal goal for the characters because that's where movie branding and franchising comes in -- not from the story but from the actor mostly. \n\nHollywood is a bitch and want EVERYONE to jump on board your script by FEELING they know these characters. I didn't get that in the first 5, 10, 15 or 20 or the last. The formatting and ease of reading is GREAT but give me a hero I want to really care out. Sorry if I sound like a dick, I'm just writing stream of thought and that can come off as dickish. \n\nEDIT: Okay, I see that there IS intimacy in the middle section of the script but my guess is that agents did exactly what I did: read the first part, then the last and if it doesn't pop, then they pass on it. I know it's not fair, but yea, well....that's Hollywood. ", "score": 27 }, { "body": "Hollywood will hire you if you show them the money. How to do that? I know two methods:\n\n* you create a movie and post it on the web. If the movie is good and has millions of views and create buzz, they will call you;\n* you create a book and this book sells zillions of copies. They will call you.\n\nThat fat asses in hollywood are not interested in good stories, they are interested in money. If you show them you can give them more money, they will call you. \n\nHollywood is not interested in talented writers and stories, unless they can prove them to be a valuable source of money.\n\nPut this in mind and you will get there. When you get there, remember me. :-)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I know we had an IAMA by a script reader once, but my google fu is weak today. I'd suggest a little searching to see if you can find it and maybe ask her nicely. Her rates were reasonable, if I remember. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "OK, My dad has been working on a screenplay longer than you have. He has won many contests and even this year got flown out to LA to accept the award for best screenplay...\nGreat screenplays don't make great movies, necessarily. Movies these days are washed down versions of novels, or remakes from something that was popular 20 years ago.\nAs far as my dad knows, his agent says that European companies would be interested in buying the script..then european agencies say the movie is too american..(it's about the coup in 1970's cyprus)\n\nmy advice to you: find a comic book, make it crappy, meet a few jew bankers, dispense cocaine, make a movie.\nedit: might I add: In 1974, amid rising tensions in the Aegean, a megalomaniac seeks to resurrect the glories of ancient Greece by provoking a war between civilizations.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Well, maybe you should write a novel. It's easier to find somebody who publishes a book. And if it hits, you can still send in the screenplay and a movie can be made (:", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Garlic. \n\n\"Oh we already have garlic.\" was what I heard when I got home yesterday.\n\nNo, dear. There's never enough garlic.", "score": 32 }, { "body": "Pepper. I go through so much pepper that one time the cashier was all like \"SLLOOOOOWWW DOWN\" and I was all like \"FUCK YOU\" and bought my pepper.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "can't say just one thing but I always try to have the following in the cupboard:\n\nonions\n\nlemons\n\ngarlic\n\ncans of tomatoes\n", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "My english teacher last year said I'd fail because was lazy and lacked the disciple to learn.\n\nI passed the exam with a B, and out of 20-25 people, I was one of under 10 that passed.\n\nEveryone she had pegged that would pass, failed.\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "my stepmother told me when i was nine that i was going to be the loneliest person ever because no one wanted to be around someone so weird and rude. thing was, she hated my mom and thought i was raised badly because i liked art and books and playing by myself - she thought my mom was fucking me up in the head. she was trying to get me to tell her that my mom said bad things about she and my dad when my mom had honestly never, ever said any such things. i knew exactly how she was trying to manipulate me, and i called her an evil bitch, which i knew to be true then, all the way to this day. \n\nthing is, i have a bunch of great friends, supportive and wonderful family, a fantastic lover and a great relationship with both of my parents. she won't speak to me. i guess i win!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Just to clarify, the Marriott Hotel Company is owned by a man who happens to be Mormon, the church itself does not have any hand in the business affairs of that company.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Church of Scientology is owned by... Church of Scientology. It is a business *and* and Church in one.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "Check your spam filter.\nMost of my \"Is it still for sale\" emailer's send an out of country buying scam. Thankfully Gmail catches them.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't respond to those. I put in the front of my ads that says \"IF YOU SEE THIS IT IS STILL AVAILABLE. DO NOT EMAIL ASKING IF IT IS AVAILABLE.\"", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sounds like overheating issues, you should try running CoreTemp with the logging turned on. Then, go play some L4D2 and after it crashes check the logs to see the temperatures of each core.\n\nIf you want to do better you can get RivaTuner and run it's on-screen display of the GPU temperatures and the CPU core temps.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes it is possible, I do it all the time. Thinking is more like 3D movies, which I then can describe in words, a bit. It works for sound techniques, programming, drawing, figuring out how I feel about a situation, deciding on which couch to buy, and wether I want to spend money on a faster engine for my boat. All this I do thinking in images, it's only when I think of how to get these across that I start using words.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I used to have seizures. The ones that didn't knock me out completely, made me forget how to speak. There were quite a few times that I tried to talk to someone when it was happening, but I could not remember any words or even how to form sentences. I also tried to write notes to myself when it was happening, but it always seemed to turn out to be gibberish.\n\nEven though I couldn't speak, I still tried to, and I remember the episodes, so I believe you can think without words.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Yes definitely - there are a few examples of humans growing up with animals in the wild and being more intelligent than the animals that it grew up with. Though the way you used \"thinking\" makes me believe that you are talking about consciousness which is in itself controversial. I personally don't believe in free will in the context of consciousness but many do.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Consider feral children, who grow up without language (usually raised by animals) -- they can *think,* to a certain extent, but they won't think in the same terms as you or I do. They think about the things they need to survive. \n\nThen compare that with the notion that language exists to facilitate communication of shared concepts in a social environment. We don't need language to frame ideas in our own heads, necessarily, but more to communicate those ideas with others. Language is all about making our understanding of things common to another, where our shared conceptual background is the set of sounds we make and the shared understanding of those sounds.\n\nAnyway, I suck at explaining this, but long explanation short, words and language are for communicating ideas, and we are just so overly accustomed to conceptualizing things in order to share them with others that we use language to \"think\" about things. It's not needed... it just comes as a result of being social, communicative creatures.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Depends how you define thought. If thoughts can be reactions in the brain to stimulus, then no language is required. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Read \"Languages of the Mind\" by Ray Jackendoff. He postulates, I believe 5 internal languages only one of which is speech. Internal languages are systems the brain can think (write) in and translate between.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Jackendoff", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You might think you hear yourself speaking, but really, you're experiencing thought clusters. You can think much faster than you can speak! The idea that you \"speakthink\" is probably a bit of an illusion; really, you're probably just fitting words to your concepts more than using words to form concepts.\n\nNote: this post heavily relies on personal experience and is likely inaccurate.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Most of my thinking is without words. I think more in concepts. Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue, but the *concept* you have in mind is very clear and palpable? That's how I think most of the time. I really only switch to words when I am considering something to say or write to someone.\n\nI also have a couple memories as a child that pre-date my ability to speak English, and I certainly was thinking in those memories. \n\nIn one memory, I was taking a bath in a sink (it was in an apartment my family moved out of right around my first birthday) and my dad repeatedly jumped up from behind the counter to surprise me. I distinctly remember trying to anticipate when he would pop up next.\n\nIn another memory, I was riding in the backseat of the car while it was raining, and my parents were talking in the front seat. I had *no* idea what they were saying; it didn't even occur to me that they were trying to communicate anything at all. They were just making pleasant sounds, and I remember thinking how warm and safe I felt hearing them speak.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It is possible for people without language to exist in modern society-- catching subways, working, etc-- according to Pinker's book \"The Language Instinct.\" Also, I can see my dog thinking, sometimes. She has a few words, but no language to speak of.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Yes.\n\nLooking outside of humans into animals (which seem to have nothing as complex and generative as human language) you can find cognition in the absence of language all over the place. Non-human primates have an intricate understanding of their social standing and use it to navigate their social environment, crows and other birds demonstrate complex problem solving behaviors, and even human infants, prior to learning a language, are thinking about their world and learning all sorts of things.\n\nBut as undeniable proof of thought in the absence of language? I'd probably point to Helen Keller and call it a night.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Some folks are visual. I use my visual thinking to imagine systems and how subsets of systems work together on an individual basis when I design and work on software.\n\nI then translate what I see mentally into whatever objects or syntax is necessary to recreate it or fix whatever's already there.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is pretty much exactly what I nearly posted an hour ago, after some depressingly sexist posts I found this subreddit and had a bit of read. I'm a guy, and it's nice to know I'm not the only one out there.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "You may also like /r/TwoXChromosomes\n\nIt's not the same thing as this subreddit, in that it's not specifically feminism-focused, but if you like it here you'd probably like it there too.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "check out some other subreddits-\n\nwomen\n\nequality\n\ngender theory\n\nand if you're feeling salty men's rights", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Subscribing to /feminisms/ and /mensrights/ can make for some great reading on your front page many days. It'd be nice to see a lot more people do that and really get a feel for both sides.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "TXC and feminisms both deserve shoutouts- the folks in both are pretty awesome, and both places are generally free of the trolling that can be a bit pervasive in some of the main reddits. Always a good discussion to be found here!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "To avoid being that girl who wears a ridiculous amount of perfume lightly mist your clothes before getting into the shower. It gives them a bit of time to air out before you put them on. And by lightly I mean like two spritzes. \n\nAlso if you're seeing someone, I've had very good results with making one of my fragrances a naughty time fragrance. I pretty much only wear that one scent when I want some, with consistency and time it's started to get my hubby in the mood as soon as he smells me = D \n\nI actually have five fragrances, the one sexy time fragrance and then four other regular fragrances that I rotate through depending upon my mood and if I feel like it matches my outfit, which totally doesn't even make sense. \n\nIf I'm leaving the house I wear fragrance, if not then my husband is lucky if I even bother putting on deodorant. ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Eau du parfum has a higher concentration of fragrance than eau du toilette, spend the extra money. I recommend picking up a perfume sampler from Sephora so you can see how each scent reacts with your body chemistry before you make a big purchase.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I wear perfume when I go out dancing. Because there are so many scents in the room, my goal is to wear just enough that the guy I'm dancing with can smell it, but no one else.\n\nMy favorite is Bvlgari jasmine noir - I tend to stay with the jasmine noirs. My dancing partners' favorite on me is Pure Poison. I like that one less because it has a vanilla base.\n\nIf I'm spraying, I will spray into the air and walk through it wearing as little as possible. Part of what makes a scent \"yours\" is the way it reacts to your body chemistry. That won't happen if you spray it on to clothing. That said, the scent will make it into your clothing.\n\nI also have a roller tube, which is great for travel. I roll a bit into the curve of my throat, and onto each wrist. I then dab my wrists on the sides of my neck. Always dab, never rub, this hurts the structure of the scent.\n\nThe oils in perfume can spot silk. Once they dry, they're fine. I'm not sure what else might be vulnerable to this.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "i love perfume. love love love. at one time i had over 100 fragrances. now i am down to about 10, but usually wear only one.\n\ni would strongly recommend getting some samples from [black phoenix alchemy labn](http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com) (they sell perfume oils), and some from [the perfumed court](http://theperfumedcourt.com/) (they sell *a ton* of different samples, from all different kinds of perfumes. they have various sampler packs, and... i can't recommend them enough.) \n\nthe best part of samples is that you can see what you like, what notes, what scent families, and don't have to worry about spending a ton of money on a scent that you end up hating. when you find something you love, then you can buy a bottle of it somewhere. :)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "1) Im not sure. I think most people don't even own a bottle of actual perfume. I am a collector, and I have about 20 bottles, ranging from hundreds of dollars, to 20 dollars.\n\n2) Anything really! For me, I use for special occasions, and use other perfumes for every day. As long as you don't over scent yourself, it's perfectly fine to use them daily. \n\n3) Personally, I do a spray or two on the wrists (depending on how strong the scent is), and one of my neck. If it's a light scent or you have skin that weakens the power of the smell, you can also spay on your shirt. There is no right or wrong way to wear perfume. \n\n\n\nAlso, less *is* more, but a lot of expensive perfumes are not very strong, so don't worry about being overly smelly. Unless you drench yourself, its not an issue. \n\n\nI have a few suggestions as to less expensive \"starter\" perfumes that smell very good and last long. \n\nI use this for every day. It's a bit strong, addicting, and will make you want to smell yourself all day\n\nhttp://www.nstperfume.com/2009/04/07/halle-by-halle-berry-perfume-review/\n\n\nI use this for \"special night out\". It's very light/sexy\n\nhttp://www.associatedcontent.com/article/617675/intimately_beckham_for_her_by_victoria.html?cat=69\n\nThis is a great mature scent for both special occasions and every day\n\nhttp://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Celine-Dion/Sensational-2518.html\n\n\nAlso, for scents like these (less expensive) don't go to a Macy's or something that sells high end perfumes. Chances are they will only have the large bottles and overprice them\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "One thing that I haven't seen anyone else note:\n\nYou need to get a sample or a tester and *wear* a scent you like. Hit the pulse points with it, let it dry, and then smell your wrists. It may smell divine in the bottle or on a card and terrible on you (or vice-versa, or it may smell divine on your best friend and terrible on you). Your own natural chemistry/smell will interact with the perfume's; it rarely smells exactly the same on a person as in the bottle (if you're applying it to clothing, this may be less true).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "do any of you just use body splash/mist/etc? I have Calgon blackberry melon, cost me a dollar at big lots, that i spray on after a shower or just before i leave the house. is this incredibly stupid? am i doing it wrong? help~!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You don't have to spend a whole ton of money to smell nice. Skip the Love's Baby Soft (although...ah, memories. stinky memories) and find something you like. I definitely prefer shopping at a place like Sephora or Ulta for scents- it's a little more clinical type atmosphere vs a mall.\n\n[Demeter](http://www.demeterfragrance.com/) makes a ton of scents that are kind of imitative of smells you're already familiar with. They make bananas flambe scent, black pepper and bulgarian rose. And that's just in the B's!\n\nI've actually never owned anything by the company, but I suppose I'd like to. The idea of smelling like basil or something like that sounds nice to me.\n\nAlso, according to my great grandmother, one never perfumed her clothes directly as it can stain. I do the walk through technique, usually once in my underwear and a time or so over my outside layer once I'm dressed (coat/scarf/etc). \n\nOh! Also, Guerlain (which makes a variety of stronger, headier scents) does a lighter line called I think Allegoria - I have the Lilia Bella and it smells a little floral, a little soapy. There are others in that line as well. Happy hunting!\n\nEdit: Uhh, not to be a pest but if anyone's ever smelled [Guerlain's Anisia Bella](http://www.amazon.com/Allegoria-Anisia-Guerlain-Women-Toilette/dp/B000C1UFJI) and report back- it sounds like it would smell incredible!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Girl: I have a boyfriend.\nMe: When I was seven I had a pet goldfish named Goldie.\nGirl: Puzzled Look\nMe. I'm sorry I thought we were talking about stuff that doesnt matter right now ", "score": 18 }, { "body": "touch womans shoulder gently\n\n\"want to come home with me tonight girl?\" \n\n\"ughhh no\" \n\nsqueeze shoulder tightly \n\n\"bitch, don't turn this rape into a murder\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\"Heres a bottle of Tequila. Drink it, and tell me when you're ready\"\n\nOr... \"I bet you 20 bucks you'll turn me down\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "One of the best ones I've seen is we were at a bar that has free peanuts. Some guy walked up to a lady friend of mine and put one in her mouth. At first she had the look that she was going to slap the shit out of the guy, then he said \"How do you like my nuts in your mouth?\" She started cracking up.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "The issue will never resolve.\n\nThe corporations and their bribery has worked, and the lawyers love it.\n\nDownvote me all you want, but the truth is that simple. They may sugar-coat it into some treaties or other binding agreements, but it is the basic fact.\n\nThis is also why corporations like Microsoft or IBM NEVER want to do away with the patent system - because it aids them more than smaller companies.", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "The Mummy and The Mummy Returns are like crack to me. I know I shouldn't want it, I know it's bad, but I can't HELP it. For some reason, Scorpion King and that third piece of shit mummy movie hold no influence over me. What the hell's up with that?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Fucking Con Air is so stupid it hurts but I watch it ever time. Nic Cage's accent is horrendous, the title sounds like a goddamned hair dryer, and they land a fucking plane on the Las Vegas strip. I love it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's hard to say what we really need right now. It's impossible to know how many people are going to remain active. We can use literally anything at this point, I think. Although I would advise against rolling a DK for now.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "So what are you trying to do with this? I have no problems with muslims, in fact one of my best friends at school is Islamic. The hate brought about towards them is from ignorance and people just looking to hate. I feel bad for all of you who have to endure this kind of hate.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "On the other hand:[In 1786...The Americans asked Adja why his government was hostile to American ships, even though there had been no provocation. They reported to the Continental Congress that the ambassador had told them \"it was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave\"- Thomas Jefferson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates#18th_century)\n", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I am gonna call **hogwash** here. \n\nThe koran, which AFAIK is more highly esteemed by muslims than any other writings (sacred or non) explicitly teaches that people who convert away from islam must be killed.\n\nI won't contend that there aren't muslims who don't have hate toward Christians or people of other faiths in general. This, however is because they are human beings, not because their religion tells them this. See, when Christians hate other groups, they are going against a commandment of God (love thine enemy, be kind to those who hate you), muslims have no such commandment. The modus operandi of islam, laid out in their scriptures, has always been conversion by force. Study the life of mohammed. He was just a dude with some crazy ideas while he was living in mecca and just prayed and acted pious all the time. Needless to say, he didn't win many converts doing that. Then he went to medina, got wild with military power and raped and murdered for converts. \n\nThere are over a hundred verses in the koran that advocate spreading islam by violence, since muhammed figured out that it's the only way anybody would buy into his ridiculous ideas. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Thanks for sharing this. One of my close friends is Muslim, and she told me these things. It's a shame that wicked things are being done in the name of religion, with no basis in religion *by people of all faiths.*", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Funny that the OP is only answering the \"easy\" questions and ignoring others. \n\n* How can you explain the treatment of Christians in Muslim countries such as Egypt, Pakistan, etc.? \n\n* What happens when the daughter of a Muslim tries to marry a Christian man? \n\n* What happens when someone abandons Islam (apostasy)?\n\n* Explain the concept of abrogation.\n\n* Is it permitted for a Muslim to lie to a non-Muslim?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "The history of Islam from the time it came out of the desert has been to attack into Christian lands. We can see how Christian dhimmis are treated today in places where Islam holds the power. For every surah you can point to telling you to respect Christians there is another telling you to wage war against them.\n\nPakistan itself is one of the most radical, anti-western nations that there is. You might excuse us for being incredulous.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What happens when the daughter of a Muslim tries to marry a Christian man? What happens when a son or daughter tries to convert to Christianity? What happens when a pakistani starts telling his friends that Jesus is God and should be worshipped?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You are saying that Muslims respect Christians and are tolerant of the practice of their faith. Can non-Muslims practice their faith openly in a Muslim country? Can a Christian wear a cross and carry a bible in a Muslim country? In a Muslim country, can a Christian hold a seminar explaining his faith? Do Muslims consider it immoral to lie to a non-Muslim?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Close your eyes.\nEnvision yourself at a bathroom urinal, with everybody you know crowded around you.\nThey're cheering you on. They're chanting your name. Not only do they want you to urinate, they wanna see it.\n\n[Refrence](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348333/)", "score": 18 }, { "body": "As a kid I couldn't crap in a public space, ever; but in my 20's I was able to go if there was no one else in the room. I would stop and wait mid-shit until I was alone again, if need be. As time went on I grew less and less timid till now, in my forties, I can let the wettest of wet farts (thpthpppppppwhosh) and laugh to myself surrounded by others. ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I use to have a really big problem with the ol' stage fright. I read up on it and realized that it was a self-esteem thing. Now when I'm in that situation I think. \"Fuck everyone else. I'll stand here all goddamn day if I have to.\" That usually helps, but not always.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "It's called [Paruresis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paruresis). I have a really severe case. Yes, it sucks, and I wouldn't wish for my worst enemy to have to experience it. Living in fear of going to the bathroom -- in my case, giving up vacations and day-trips just for fear of going to the bathroom -- is just awful.\n\nOne of the main reasons I didn't go to a traditional college (I chose to work) was the fear of being forced to use a public restroom. At least, at work, I can hold it and go at home if necessary.\n\nMy biggest fear in life is being forced to use a \"trough\" toilet surrounded by other people. Either that, or a drug test. Any situation where I'm under timed pressure simply won't allow me to go at all, whatsoever.\n\nThere are [support groups](http://paruresis.org) and strategies out there, but I've found nothing to be effective. I've been a sufferer since age 12 or 13 (I'm currently 20).", "score": 8 }, { "body": "YES. I have a really shy bladder and it's fucking annoying. I avoid urinals like the plague, but I'm fine in a stall. Sucks when the bathroom is almost full, but no matter how bad I need to pee, nothing will happen at the urinal if there's *anyone* else in the bathroom.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Guess what, EVERYONE shits. EVERYONE. Even girls, yeah I said it. Also, if there is a dude in the stall next to you, guess what, hes shitting too. As you get older you will have no qualms with erupting as loudly as possible. Nothing better than a little giggle afterward. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Man, me and my coworker used to have \"see who can piss the highest\" competitions. No issues here at all.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I think I ran into a fellow shy pee-er just the other day. We both went into the bathroom, did a double-take that someone else was there, made a beeline to the sink and pretended to wash our hands, and left.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I totally agree with you Jazzyzaz! I've gone several stories out of my way to get to a washroom that's less frequented. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Yep, and I don't to hear what they're doing either. Sometimes, while waiting for them to leave, I cover my ears.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "YES. I have no issue peeing with lots of people around me, but I have serious public poop-phobia. I wait until everyone else in the bathroom is gone so no one can hear me... or if I'm in a big public bathroom where there's lots of noise, that's okay, too. But if there's one other person, then I can't do it. Or worse yet, if I'm over a friend's house, I can't poop either, because I'm so embarrassed. OR WORSE YET, when I go to visit my boyfriend (we have a long distance relationship), I'm so embarrassed by it that I find myself holding it in for days until he has to go out for a little while. :/ So unhealthy, but I just can't get over the issue", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Practice, practice, practice. That's how you'll learn and grow to be not nervous. But, perhaps you can try thinking \"fuck it, I'm never going to be with this girl, she's too... (or I'm too...).\" Maybe you're already investing and thinking way too much into it.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Don't try. What you say is unimportant so long as its not 'i like she shape of your skull it will look nice on my table.' Smile, be friendly and simply say 'hi, I'm LordTimbob, you having a good time here' if she answers yes follow up with 'me too i like it here' etc, if she says no reply with 'well its not so great yet but it may warm up later, besides how much fun you have in a place is up to you and your friends i always think'. The point is not to make it a hard sell just be yourself and chat like you would with an old friend. The only modification early on is to not be too negative or critical. Thats all there is to it. They are just people at the end of the day...", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Try to avoid \"So, do you come here often?\" type lines. \n\nI find it way better to start with some humor. Jokes are hard but poking fun at others isn't. If you're in a bar you could say something like \"Check it out that guy's sweater it's straight out of the 50's\". Or, \"Looks like that guy over is getting laid tonight\" (with or without sarcasm). Or \"Damn, I might have to go for double popped collars next time too, like that guy\" (sarcasm). \"Do you have a camera on your phone?\" - \"Euh yeah, why?\" - \"I want to get a photo of that guy's mullet / 'great' hair do, I'm getting a haircut myself tomorrow\". These are not chat up lines but a good way to fill a conversation and make her laugh. \n\nGirls love spying and commenting on other people's behavior and provided you don't overdo it and sound like a gay fashion designer, it's a great way to break the ice.\n\nGirls also go for the funny / mysterious / slightly arrogant type alot more than the \"nice guys\" who spend the entire evening buying drinks, being polite and agreeing with everything she says. \n\nGet a drink for yourself and come back saying \"Sorry, you drink way too fast for me\" or \"You don't like _insert drink here_ anyway right?\" (while she blatantly does). The former line will set her back, worrying if she appears to be an alcoholic, and then she'll appreciate anyting nice you say after that so much more (\"phew, I don't look like a freak\"). \n\nThis is being borderline rude but when tipsy she'll just try to figure out what that all meant exactly, and the intrigue starts there. Obviously the setting needs to be right and you need to say this with a slight smirk.\n\nAlso, offsetting your arrogance with self mocking works really well. Saying something like \"Shit, if I get on that dance floor you'd be embarrassed to have even spoken to me!\" should crack her up.\n\nAfter you've been making small talk for a bit, ask: \"Could I just ask your for a sec: I have to buy a gift for a real close female friend I've known for years and I'm thinking of X. Would YOU like to get that as a gift?\". Girls love chatting about this stuff and it will make you seem considerate, trustworthy cause you have a close female friend and it's an entirely plausible question to ask a stranger.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Just focus all your brainpower on thinking up of *any* semi-legitimate question you could ask her. For example, one time my friend commented on the construction going on across the street to some girl. It sounds like a ridiculous conversation starter but it worked and he got her number. Once the ball gets rolling, it's a lot easier to make conversation.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann. Your life is not complete until you watch it. Go. Now.\n\nOther notables from the past few years:\n\n* Higurashi no naku koro ni\n* The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi\n* Death Note\n* Black Lagoon\n* Code Geass\n* Nodame Cantabile\n* Claymore\n* Mushishi\n* Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei\n* Lucky Star\n\n\nPersonal Favorites:\n\n* Bokurano\n* Kaiba\n* Kaiji\n* Kara no Kyoukai\n* Red Garden\n* Potemayo\n* Doujin Work\n\n[The Best Anime of 2007](http://anime.ign.com/articles/843/843118p1.html)\n\n[2007 Again](http://cuteproxy.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/my-top-anime-for-2007-final-version/)\n\n[The Best Anime of 2008](http://randomc.animeblogger.net/2009/01/01/the-best-of-anime-2008/)", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Death Note. It's about two insanely smart guys trying to outsmart each other, and the loser will die. It's the same kind of awe you get from watching two master chess players compete, except here you don't actually need to know all the intricacies of chess to appreciate it.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Cannot explain how much you must see this show.\n\nEDIT: also, Code Geass was pretty badass. Both seasons.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. It can be seen at Funimation.com, and it is still airing in Japan.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Sola. This one seems to be over looked quite a bit. It instantly became one of my favorites. One of the best endings of an anime series I have ever seen.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think Zachary Quinto is the sexiest manperson I have ever laid my eyes on and I am yet to find anyone that remotely agrees with me.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "i'm content with other peoples opinions on *hotness*... but i can tell you someone who is super dreamy. \n\n[Matthew Gray Gubler](http://www.watchingcriminalminds.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/imodels.jpg) : Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds) ", "score": 19 }, { "body": "I was just talking with my husband, and this topic came up. I said Mike Rowe is hot, and he said he couldn't see why. Am I the only one seeing this?", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Those vampire and werewolf bitches from Twilight: they need to wash and wear shirts...\n\nPatrick Stewart is the hottest bald man on the planet!\n\nI would also totally go for a younger Attenborough...props for you!", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Hm, most people have done dudes, so I'll go with ladies since the question doesn't specify gender.\n\nSo, respectively, Megan Fox and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Megan looks like an airbrushed porn star to me with big fake lips. Maggie, sometimes referred to as \"Maggie Bag-lady-face Gyllenhall\" on the internets, I find stunning and refreshingly non-shoppy.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "O.k\nDoesn't do it for me/society hot:\nBrad Pitt\nBen Afleck\nAll the \"usual suspects\" \n\nHot:\nTim Roth (Lie to me) \nRobert Downey Jnr \n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I don't get the love for Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, both of the Twilight guys, Leonardo DiCaprio, plus many others.\n\nI LOVE Ralph Fiennes but most people give me a weird look when I mention it. Also, David Mitchell. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I find Seth Green really attractive, even when people say \"but he's sooo short!\" As well as Elijah Wood and Toby McGuire...but my ALL time famous favorite is Edward Norton <3", "score": 7 }, { "body": "People whom I don't think are attractive: That guy from Twilight, Ashton Kutcher, most male leads close to my own age.\n\nPeople whom I swoon a little over: John Cusack, certain webcomic authors, Jay Baruchel and lots of comedians who aren't classically attractive. Smart + funny = irresistible, as far as I am concerned.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Taylor Lautner. His face is awful.\n\nHawt abs are a dime a dozen, so I don't understand why people go gaga over shirtless guy pics. I actually prefer guys with nice clothes and nice faces.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Most of the horrible Hollywood pretty boys have already been mentioned, so I'll just offer a few unconventional fellas who kind of do it for me. I have secret crushes on Ira Glass, Alton Brown, and John Hodgman. What can I say? I like the nerds.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Does nothing for me:\n\n- Brad Pitt (with the exception of the rubber glove scene in Fight Club.)\n\n- Tom Cruise (Alien lover.)\n\n- Johnny Depp (Too shabby chic. Needs a hair cut.)\n\n- Vin Diesel (definite sex appeal just doesn't do a thing for me.)\n\n- Eric Bana \n\n- Ben Affleck (barf. His brother is cuter.)\n\n- Matthew McConaughey (double barf)\n\n- Robert Pattinson\n\nQuietly hot:\n\n- Jason Lee (My name is Earl fame) I've had a crush on him since Chasing Amy. Fuck Ben Affleck!\n\n- Jack White (Does not need a hair cut.)\n\n- Shia Lebeouf\n\n- Zach Braff\n\n- Jeremy Piven\n \n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Brad Pitt, totally. Do. Not. Want.\nAlso, don't get the gaganess over George Clooney. He's not ugly, but I don't get the fuss over him.\n\nI think [Christopher Gorham](http://www.google.com/search?q=christopher+gorham&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) from Ugly Betty is hot. Not sure if others would get my crush though.\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "My oddball crush is Carl Sagan. My bf and I were watching Cosmos the other night and I realized he was kind of cute. I think it may have something to do with how soothing his voice was and his nerd factor. \r\n\r\nI'm really attracted to smart, nerdy guys. \r\n\r\nAs far as who I'm not attracted to...um, man! Most of these pretty boys don't do a thing for me. It looks like they spend more time doing their hair and making sure their skin is flawless. Zac Effron, Chase Crawford...not so much. I don't really like the beefcakes either. I don't like feeling like I'm hugging a rock. \r\n\r\nOh and Spock....the new one. He kind of looks like a less hot version of my bf :-)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt... nothing for me. Too pretty boy if you know what I mean. \nI have a thing for Jason Alexander and Patton Oswalt. Not just because they're funny but I've always been attracted to shorter, heavier set men. I'm very tall and thin... my husband calls me a ''chubby chaser'' I just like what I like you know?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I think that weirdo from Twilight is horrible looking... as well as all the other pre-teen idols. Granted, when I was 11, I was in love with the backstreet boys.\n\nAs far as super sexy, but no one gets is: I have a thing for Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots. Also, sometimes iggy pop despite looking like a leather bound book nowadays, but he was really attractive when younger.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Brad Pitt: I met him in Santa Barbara a few years ago and that guy is just way too pretty for words... (and pretty as in \"shockingly effeminate\", not that there is anything wrong with that, but I like my men to be a teensy bit more masculine than myself)\n\nMatt Stone: I don't know why... [it all started with this dream...](http://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/comments/8vrwk/nocturnal_orgasms_women_have_them_too/c0al1yf)\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Blech: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Leonardo di Caprio, anyone from the Twilight series.\r\nHot: Steve Buscemi, Lafayette from True Blood, Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder II.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not: I'm agreeing with many of you in saying **Brad Pitt**. I have not, do not, and will never find him attractive. He has a jaw like a snowplow and nasty squinty eyes.\n\nHot: I've been watching the Office a lot lately, so I'll say **John Krasinski**. Partly because the character he plays is funny and smart, so perhaps I should really be saying Jim Halpert :)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I think Gary Oldman is super sexy, but watching Benjamin button made me realize how unattractive Brad Pitt is.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "To be a good father. We are expecting our first in March, and to be honest I'm shitting myself. I want my son to look back on his time with me and think 'that's how to be a dad'.", "score": 32 }, { "body": "To meet a girl that wants to make me as happy as I want to make her.\r\n\r\n....but since that isn't bloody likely, I would settle for enough money to retire comfortably and travel the world", "score": 29 }, { "body": "I want to leave a legacy. Something when people look back in time and still remember my name. I won't be some fade away, good riddance dude. And the easiest way to do that is with a family. Harder, yet more rewarding is the community.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "What I want more than anything in my lifetime is to live forever, and if I don't get my wish then I'll die trying. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "freedom. from this house, this life, maybe this country. I just want to go somewhere nobody knows me and I can start fresh.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Answer: I want to make the world a better place for future generations.\n\nHonest answer: I want my name in a history book alongside Kennedy. \n\nMore honest answer: I want my name in a history book, regardless of how it's portrayed. \n\nBrutally honest answer: I don't want to spend my last few seconds on this planet looking back at my life and saying to myself, \"that sucked.\" \n\nExistential answer: I want purpose. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Honestly? \n\nI want a beautiful Canadian woman, to live in Canada, have an easy job which pays well, have a little place in Japan so I can go there and buy cool stuff (technology wise), own a nice car like a Lambo or R35 and hopefully to never see my hometown again.\n\nI don't know if all that would make me happy but that's what I want right now. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "* To actually find a group of friends that will be with me through thick and thin and not just friends due to circumstance (ie same class). Also to actually get a few girlfriends that turn out to be half decent people.\n\n* To get into medicine and qualify. Medicine was something that i aspired to do but was never an option that i could take, only in my last year at uni did i realize that i could go for it.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I want to be a mother, a good mother. I can't imagine anything more amazing than creating and nurturing a new life. Even better, that life shares half of my DNA and is thus 50% clone. Fucking awesome.\n\nObviously being a good mother means not being single and poor, so I haven't run out and got sprogged up yet.\n\nShould my reproductive system let me down on that front I would be more than happy with just earning enough money for a comfortable life and being a decent person.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Financial Security. My husband and I have been struggling and it's hard. I'm tired of it. We're starting to get on track now though and it's looking like my husband is going to be starting a good job soon so hopefully it's on the horizon. I'm not looking for millions just enough to buy a house and have a baby. That's all.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "To see - and rove through, climb on, and cave under - the most beautiful places in the world, with dear friends to share them with. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "To get over this fucking ridiculously irrational anxiety that I've developed over the past few years. Despite initially trying to overcome it and maintaining many, many, friendships it seems to have grasped me by the throat and I'm now turning into someone I don't like. I'm not confident in myself anymore. I just want to go back to being me - outgoing, extroverted, generally well-liked, and kind-of an asshole. Now I have anxiety about irrational and peripheral shit that shouldn't even enter my mind; nor does the anxiety/anxious thoughts even hold any water - and I know this. Ugh.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A lot of people are talking the obvious: life, love, happiness, etc. Those things are great, but everyone wants that. \nBesides those things, I have this completely irrational desire to be able to fly like Superman (unassisted by any foreign devices).", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I wouldn't mind falling in love, but that's mostly because I want to know if it exists..I smell bullshit at this point.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I want to be immortalized somehow, whether it's creating a new technology that changes the world, running a world government that creates eternal peace, or being the first person to ever say homo cum pants jizzy mcfizzy anus sniff sniff.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I want to be like Jeff Corwin or the late but great Steve Irwin. I have a love and raging interest with anything that has to do with animals and nature. I would love to spend the rest of my life educating others about the wonders of the natural kingdom.\n\nUnfortunately, in the real world the likelihood of obtaining this dream is dismally low. So, I opted for the more practical route and I am doing a double degree program in Traditional Physics and Marketing. In the long run I hope to start my own business, which if all goes well will be quite successful. Then I can use my wealth to adopt tons of kids and help fund conservation efforts and help to make the world a better place for humans and animals alike. Oh, and maybe just maybe I might finally meet a girl who I am both mentally and physically attracted to who will raise my adopted children with me.\n\nEdit: Changed conversation to conservation", "score": 5 }, { "body": "To be regarded as an expert, to have people that seek out my advice.\n\nI'd like to be able to give people advice on how to build a business that earns them enough money to live the life they want. First I need to have done it myself. Once I'd made a small fortune I want to use my money to live a comfortable life and fund research and social projects.\n\n \n \n\nand to keep my wife as happy as she keeps me.\n \n \n \n\n**tl;dr** I want people to come to me for advice and I want to start a university", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I would like to teach people that dyslexia is not a dirty word. Why? 2-3 years of fighting a school system because my daughter was too smart to be dyslexic but couldn't read well enough so she couldn't be gifted. People need to know the real faces of dyslexia and need to know how to help a child as early as preschool. These kids are damn smart and falling through the cracks big time. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I want to have a 'best friend', someone who appreciates me just as much as I do them, I'm tired of being burned.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I want someone to love, someone to love me, and most of all someone to grow old with. I'm a pretty introverted person, so I can thrive on being solitary for a while, but I think I could be happy with my life if I just found someone that I could happily grow old with. Getting old sucks - you're not as good-looking or physically fit as you were when you were younger, death stares you in the face more and more, opportunities that once seemed limitless keep closing their doors. If I can find someone who'll stick with me despite that, and still make me smile every day, then I think I'll have led a worthwhile life. I might have even found that person already, though I guess I'll have to wait and see...", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I want us to meet intelligent life on another planet. \n\nRemember when we came from Europe to North America and we first met the Native people? I like to think it would similar to that (minus the killing), where we would trade supplies and knowledge with each other and we'd both benefit from it greatly.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I want to be happy. Truly happy. I want the kind of happiness where you don't have to worry about what other people think, or where you don't question yourself. I want that pure kind of bliss that only children have. But I want that happiness while still retaining the knowledge of the world that I have at this moment... I don't want to be completely ignorant or blind to my surroundings. I just want to be happy with no consequences for once, instead of almost everything leading to sorrow. That's what I want more than anything else in my lifetime.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "To find a place in the world without selling out to corporate bullshit, just working for the money, etc. No one else in my circle of family/friends seems to understand spending life working for a purpose instead of dollars, and this seems really shallow and empty to me.\n\nUnfortunately, with student loans looming soon, I'm afraid I'll have to go for money over substance. If you have any ideas Reddit, I'd love to hear them.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's called \"midseason\", and almost every popular comedy/drama show goes into remission at this time. Here is when your favorite shows will be returning. \n\nhttp://tvdramas.about.com/od/tvshowsaz/a/fallpremiere07.htm\n", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Rupert Murdoch hasn't lived in Australia for 30 years. He occassionally comes back and tries to push his right wing agenda here. He is an American.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Wrong - In an effort to expand his television interests further in the United States Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985. Once upon a time he was Australian.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I might respect her wishes and not making a big deal about her birthday. I don't think anything would have made me feel worse the day my 15 year-old cat got put to sleep than getting presents from people.\n\nProbably the best thing you can do is be understanding and let her go through the grief in her own way.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I personally think the best thing to do is to be there with your dog. It sucks but its one of the last things you can do for theme is to be there at the end making theme feel better. \n\n\nSorry ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I wouldn't rush out and get a puppy until she's had some mourning time. You might want to check your local animal shelters. Some of them might have an adopt a pet program where you can sponsor a dog so it does not have to be put down and you get a picture of the dog you saved to put in a card or something. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't really have any good idea, but let me wish you good luck with this from someone who's also already lost a loved cat and whos dad has recently lost one of his loved dog to that stupid cancer, too: I'm deeply sorry for your and your mothers loss :(", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yep. I started dating a girl right after an awful 3 year relationship. I ended up dumping the new girl after a couple of months because I hated the feeling of being in a relationship so soon. I think about her a lot. She was (probably still is) great and I blew it. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you truly love someone, isn't there a part of you that will always love that person (or at least who they used to be)?\n\nIt's possible to love someone and at the same time know that a relationship will not work out long term. It's really fucking depressing.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "We need a west server. If i could get a ping around 50ms i would be happy. As it stands now i ping around 10-30ms on a list of about 20 different favorited servers that i soley stick to.\n\nAlthough i love this community i am not going deal with 80-120ms just to be a more active member.\n\nPlus the furthest western server is either Chicago (luls) or i think i saw a Dallas one pop up just recently. ", "score": 23 }, { "body": "Well, professorpan and enum got rid of the password and now the Reddit **Chicago** server actually fills up quite often since xmas (usually after E/C and reloaded fills up first). It's pretty much exactly like what you proposed: 24 slots, Vanilla, + a batch of stock maps. \n\n*Chicago Server: 8.9.4.114:27015*", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I am on the West coast and would love to have a west coast server back up. I frequented the old one, but since it was shut down, I've had to move to the Central/East server where I still get a decent (70-80ms) ping. Reloaded is ok, but I can't stand the lack of crits, that adds a lot of fun to the gameplay for me.\n\nI am one of the (many?) people booting you off, and for that, I apologize, but I think a new West server would be AWESOME and once I get a job, I'd be happy to re-donate more money to the people potentially running one. I know there is demand for one because the old West server was almost as active as E/C at one point (before the lag issues, password issues, and eventual shutdown). I am relatively sure this is the reason E/C is \"too full\".\n\nFYI, I really liked the more \"pub-like\" atmosphere (all-talk on, etc) that the old West server had. The players would also tend to be more silly, which I loved, and I'm sure alltalk contributed to such a free atmosphere. Is there any way we can vote on this? I'd gladly sit in an empty server to build it up from scratch, too, if my ping is good. I did it regularly before.\n\nEDIT: I guess I'll add the Chicago server to my favs now too and try to hit that one up instead of booting players off of the E/C server, I also wasn't aware that the password had been removed.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Technically, this should be in the RUGC subreddit. I know you get more traffic this way, but I just feel r/tf2 should be about the game itself, not about Reddit's servers.\n\nAs for another server, I think it's a good idea. If we could get a west coast server, that would be great. I still remember the days before the old West server died... it was just as active as the East one.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Well, there are a couple of Reddit servers that have the same amount of player slots but never have anyone in them. The Chicago server is even based in the same city as C/E so there won't be anymore latency than you already have. The only server that has constant traffic besides the E/C is the Reloaded server, with a 16 player slot. Whenever I check the servers, E/C is either at 23/24 or 24/24 and Reloaded is almost always at 15/16 during tomes of high traffic, but other that that I'd be surprised if any other server got over 8 people at a time (excluding the event server, which is full when it needs to be).", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Just a tip, there's no harm in leaving GPS 'on' as that basically just means it *will* work when an app wants to use it. It doesn't consume any power by being on without an app actively using it for something.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "* Try not to shut the screen off while a program is running in the foreground - you should go to the home screen first. I left the Calendar app open when I turned off my screen and it completely drained my battery.\n* Turn the screen brightness down and shorten the backlight duration timeout.\n* All widgets will eat battery life - some may barely use any power while others drink it up, so don't fill your home screen with useless filler.\n* Turn off WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth if you are not using them. The G1 (and probably most other current Android phones) use the Qualcomm MSM7201A processor which includes some of the GPS functionality, and it always stays on. There is also a separate GPS amplifier, the Avago ALM-1412, that is turned on and off by the processor. This amplifier is what causes most of the GPS power usage and is only turned on when the GPS is actively being used (icon showing in the notification bar).\n* Increase the amount of time in between automatically checking for new emails, twitters, podcasts, weather forecasts, etc.\n* Turn off data synchronization for the services you don't use (Gmail, Calendar, Contacts). I use K9-Mail, so I have Gmail sync turned off.\n* If you do not use a lot of data, have your phone connect to 2G networks only.\n* This probably doesn't save much power, but hit the end button to turn your screen off instead of letting it timeout on its own.\n\nYou can also calibrate your battery to help Android accurately report how much charge your battery has:\n\n* Use your phone until it turns itself off.\n* Charge the phone completely. Leave it charging for at least two hours after the light turns green.\n* Repeat once.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Have you rooted it? Do you have anything using 2G in the background? How long does your battery last now?\n\nI'm running CM (which reduces min. CPU speed) with APNDroid to disable all data service and I've gotten over 5 days with the stock battery. Considering that my last phone could go for 14 days on a charge, I don't know if you'd consider that to be good.\n\nYou can leave GPS enabled, it doesn't actually turn on unless you're running apps that use it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I bought a 1600mAh battery for $7 from ebay, and I have screen brightness turned all the way down. Screen timeout, wifi, 3G, not turning the screen on unless you really need it, and make sure there are no background images. The extended batteries really help. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Look at your three points again and the answer should be obvious: They are practicing for children.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Not to mention that putting a flying animal in a cage for its entire natural life is fucking cruel. And I'm not one of those PETA types.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Depends on the bird. I think Conures are hilarious. Go to a pet store, stand in front of one for 2 minutes. You will be laughing, I promise.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I had a lovebird as a kid and it was absolutely awesome, one of the best pets I've owned. \n\nThe secret to it is getting a hand-trained bird, these are birds that are hand-fed since they are young, and grow up learning affection for humans. My lovebird was incredibly intelligent and would regularly just chill on my shoulder, even if it could have flown anywhere else. It loved attention, and would desperately try to get out just to be with me. They are very curious little things and, as long as proper precautions are met, are awesome to have in the house. The only real downside to them was the poop (which really wasn't that bad... just birdshit) and the feathers they would kick up. Other than that, I'd highly recommend getting a hand-trained bird for those who want something new (had some regular birds too, but they were nowhere as cool as my lovebird).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Just go to Belmont Station on SE Stark and 47th (ish). They have everything.\n\nEDIT: If you want to go to breweries you should check out Hopworks on SE Powell and 29th. Their beer is phenomenal.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Is the hospital you're working for still using IE6? I work in a relatively large not-for-profit hospital and for the life of me, I cant understand why they're still using that rotten hunk of shit. I'm sure a browser change for the entire hospital isn't on any IT admin's priority list. But I guess I just don't understand how difficult it is to perform an upgrade of this difficulty across the network. Would you please give me some insight?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "WOW! 6 months ago I would have thought you were a bit of a freak. \n; ) That was until I got into a relationship with a guy who could not seem to cum inside me. He was way too addicted to porn/masturbation... (abnormally so). He had been single for a very long time, and yes he conditioned himself. He had no prob finishing himself off with his hand and it became frustrating at times trying to reverse the \"effect\" so to speak. Eventually, I ended the relationship because it did not improve. Now, a healthy dose of masturbation/porn is a great thing, but when it conditions your body to behave abnormally, there is a problem! So, I think you are doing a great thing for yourself and for a very lucky lady that will come into your life! Good luck! Also... hot bod!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Good boy, submissive boys should be locked up like that. :)\n\nAll joking aside the CB 6000 is the best of the series as the ring that goes around the testicles is solid unlike the previous ones that had a hinge that would irritate the skin. The posts as well point away from the body.\n\nI bought one of these for a submissive boy I am looking to dominate or if not then any other. It seems there is a lack of key holders that are sadistic enough when it comes to chastity. \n\nGood luck in finding the right girl to hold your key and you may want to try some D/s sites such as fetlife.com and collarme.com.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Wow! This made me pretty turned on. Thanks for posting this. I am an occasional keyholder but with the CB-2000. I really like the look of this one but the CB-2000 was $50 cheaper. If you'd like to find a dominant girl in Minneapolis, I'd suggest Minnesota Kinky Youth (http://www.minnesotakinkyyouth.org/)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This post is relevant to my interests. Could you provide some details on some of the cutbacks you have made, and some advice you would give to others?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I want to know how you made 19% interest in CDs and savings accounts. I would like to do the same. ", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I don't like being at my job stoned but, that's mostly because I work with the elderly and most of them have dementia. There is no way I could function and get all my work done if I was baked.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "In all probability, yes. Employers can do what they want if they \"believe\" you have been using a substance. You can be fired for drinking on the job or smelling like alcohol as well.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I found a bunch of old Nintendo Powers at a thrift store once. Some of the adds where so cheesy, but still great.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I use the following:\n\n - Breakfast\n - Brunch\n - Elevenses\n - Twelvses\n - Lunch\n - Afternoon tea\n - Tea\n - Dinner\n - Supper\n - Midnight snack\n\n...don't blame me, I get hungry.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "A Confederacy of Dunces reminds me a lot of the humor on AD. There's something great about the combination of obliviousness and self-righteousness in that book that I see in Tobias and the mother. ", "score": 26 }, { "body": "The first several Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. \n\nAlso Christopher Moore gets a good rhythm going with some of his books. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Youth in Revolt had me in stitches. Then outta nowhere i see that not only is it now a movie, but George Michael himself is the protagonist. Who's Mr. Manager now?", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I think Michael Bluth would fit easily into one of Elmore Leonard's better crime novels, and if he didn't, Maeby definitely would; *Get Shorty* might be a good place to start. The early works of Carl Hiaasen are fairly over-the-top as well.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I go to the stable at night after everyone else is gone and ride my horse for an hour or so. I've been riding for 13 years, so it's like moving meditation at this point (when it's going well, at least).", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Find a TV show you haven't seen before and binge on it! Recently I've done this with BSG and 30 Rock, and it was a lot of fun.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Though my boyfriend claims I am never relaxed, I feel \"free\" when I play games, have sex/masturbate or take a bath. Also sometimes I just stare in to empty space and think about things. :)", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Write. Read. Reddit. ;) \n\nGo to movies. Meet girls and boys for drinks and coffee. Manicure/pedicure. \n\nHide out at home surrounded by books.\n\nHiking. Traveling. Cooking. Going to a day spa.\n\nCleaning. Yes it's true.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "For serious de-stressing (the kind a hot bath, good book, cup of tea, walk or even all 4 won't fix) I color, draw marker doodles or paint. I have multiple coloring books from the cheesy to the lovely (there are 'stained glass' coloring books with famous artists work rendered into a line drawing). \r\n\r\nI have some artist friends that actually make a living through their art which is what got me started. Once you hear 'you could totally make that' about 1000 times you start to believe them even with no proof. You can just dive in and everything else becomes white noise. And no, I don't think I have any talent. \r\n\r\nEdit: this post reminded me that I was supposed to be looking for a coloring book that psychologists recommend and found this instead. Thought 2XC might enjoy...\r\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Big-Coloring-Book-Vaginas/dp/B000R0HU92/ref=sr_1_31?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262653220&sr=8-31", "score": 7 }, { "body": "If I stay inside too much, I get depressed. Even if it's doing something I enjoy, like reading. I would break it up by going out for walks.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Back in the day when I worked two jobs and only had one day of free time every week, I used to lay in bed and watch hours on end of \"Big Bang Theory\" and \"30 Rock\", go for long runs in a pretty neighborhood, and harass as many people as possible on okcupid. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I knit, reddit, listen to podcasts, play Bejeweled Blitz and Cafe World on facebook, research my latest interest online, run, lift weights, and ride my bike. Probably other things too, but that's what comes to mind at the moment.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "As strange as it sounds, I often detress/ relax by blowing stuff up. Yes, there is nothing more relaxing than running around on a cartoon character in a game and smashing pixels into even more pixels (sorta). While FPS is fun, I do enjoy a good RPG, and will settle down for some more modest game play when I'm not as frustrated.\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Cleaning. Various art projects (altering clothes, drawing, Play-Doh sculptures, cross-stitching). Reading! Surfing the net, mainly Reddit. I also enjoy mindless children's gamesites, like Puzzle Pirates. Don't judge me. I'm a wicked pirate.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Reddit, StarCraft on YouTube, write neo-Victorian fantasy or I watch documentaries/ read up on religion. A shower works in a pinch, especially during the freezing winter we have.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Oooh. Well recently I acquired the whole series of *Yes, Minister* and *Yes, Prime Minister* and I've been watching that intermittently.\n\nI also poke around a lot on the internet, sometimes I leap down a bloghole and follow the links until I can't remember where I started, hoping I learned something along the way. That, or I write articles that I publish online periodically. Not for anything that pays, alas, but it keeps the mind active. Mah blog!\n\nThen there's reading the news from hither and thither, and poking around webcomics. I haven't kept myself busy with Lego for a while but that's an option I exercise periodically.\n\nOne of the big ways I keep busy late at night is roleplaying usually. I have an IRC room I hang out in and RP in. I just started a Victoriana RP which should be fun! I also did Star Wars and Azeroth settings recently, as well as some long term RP privately with a friend.\n\nThe latter is probably one of my favourite ways to spend time. There's nothing quite like curling up to a night of traipsing about some fantasy dreamscape as a High Elf or what have you.\n\nOne of my favourite things to do, usually after midnight, is to cook up a hot midnight snack and watch something I really enjoy. For most of the year once a week that means watching the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's *Media Watch* which is a particularly geeky ritual of mine. If not that then something on YouTube or preferably something from my programme library like the BBC's *The Office* or my favourite show, *The Thick of It*, a political satire.\n\nI do so enjoy that late night TV snack, however. :)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When it's nice out, I ride my bike aimlessly around some of the nicer neighborhoods around campus or take my ukulele out on the quad. In the colder months I prefer to snuggle up with hot tea and sports radio after a nice, long shower.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "A vote for Treetopia is kind of... like a vote for Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich... both of whom support full legalization! :D 2008 Redo!", "score": 9 } ]

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[ { "body": "Are you guys kidding me? [The Doctor's daughter](http://images1.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/4x06-The-Doctor-s-Daughter-Promo-Pics-doctor-who-1218067_700_400.jpg) is hands down *the* most gorgeous girl in Who.\n\n#2 - Martha, very beautiful.\n\n#3 - Amy Pond\n\n#4 - Lady Christina de Souza\n\n#5 - Romana - Jax9999 is right, she was pretty alluring.\n\nHonorable mention for Lynda (with a Y) from Satellite 5. She wasn't the hottest but I always liked her. So sad when she gets exterminated.\n\n===\n\nOoo, also the main Carrionite from the Shakespear episode. ...The human form. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "[Zoe](http://www.occulomency.co.uk/images/2008/09/03/zoe.jpg) [Herriot](http://www.hotelblues.com/gallery2/d/14322-6/Zoe.jpg) (Wendy Padbury). She was *gorgeous* back in the sixties.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "No mention of [Astrid Peth](http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/astrid/800/09.jpg)? She even got the sexy maid outfit.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I was always a fan of Leela (tigerskin anyone?), something about Ace strikes my fancy as well. \n\nRomana I was beautiful, as was Barbara. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I keep changing my mind. Young Sarah Jane was my first companion so I will always have a soft spot for her, and the first time I saw Romana II my jaw dropped. And then Tegan with her shorter hair cut and there was this time Leela wore a turtleneck and also Ace's eyes and and and...\n\nBut then I always come back to Mary Tamm as Romana I. Hallo!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was always enamoured of Nyssa of Traken. Of course it helped that she appeared during the earlier JNT days when he was trying to attract older males to the series by making the companions' outfits more skimpy. Seeing the promo picture of Nyssa in lingerie, as well as how she \"stripped off\" as the episode went on in her swan-song, \"Terminus\", made her my favorite.\n\nhttp://www.enworld.org/tardis/pics/companions/nyssa.jpg", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Wow - really split on this one. \n\nI had a huge crush on Sarah Jane when I was a kid. Then I grew up a bit more and got a look at [Peri's tight-fitting shirts](http://www.scifiscience.co.uk/img/drwho/peri.jpg) every week... [and then there was the bikini](http://www.scifiscience.co.uk/extras/top50/girls/peri.html) - aahooooogah!\n\nNow we're talkin' \"companion\"...\n\n(edited for extra aahoooogahs)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I know what you mean. One of my friends had a Saab and all it did was break. I can see why nobody wants to buy them. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Don't be so down, man. It's never too late to start over. Life is not defined by our situation, but how we react to our situation.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "4 years is not the \"point of no return\". My mom just turned 54 and is going back to school to become a teacher... Now this is just advice from a dude you don't know from a fly on the wall... but I was always told you only get one crack at life. Make this shit count. You can never really \"start over\" because you've learned a couple of valuable lessons so far. One being that if you hate what you do, nothing really matters if you're days are spent feeling like shit because you do it. Now, we all have to eat... that's fine, we do what we need so that we don't starve. But take the free time you have and put it towards something that 1)Makes you happy 2) Has the slightest chance (even if infinitesimal) of making money. Succeed or fail, at least while your chasing it, or learning it, or doing it... you won't feel like your life is passing you by for no reason. Again, this is just some idiots opinion, take it as just that.\n\nDISCLAIMER: I have \"Started Over\" more times than I can count. I've learned a lot along the way, tried to keep it so that what I've learned has some bearing or input on the direction of my next path, even if not directly related. You'd be surprised how much influence, say, accounting techniques play in scoring soundtracks... for every success I've had, I can easily count 10 failures in it's wake. Good Luck. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've never taught anyone to knit, but the mistake I kept making as a beginner was not realizing the yarn needed to be behind the needles for a knit stitch, in front for a purl. So I did a lot of accidental yarn overs. I would have appreciated someone telling me that was wrong! Eventually I learnt it from a book.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "* I've actually always recommended metal needles because every single person I've taught was an excessively tight knitter at first. \n* I also insist that they all count their stitches after every row until I'm confident they have the hang of it, but that's just part of my strict teaching style! \n* I send them home with [knittinghelp](http://www.knittinghelp.com) as a resource because they usually forget by the time they pick up the needles again and the videos are great.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Don't start them on a scarf. Scarves are too damn big. Something small, like a dishcloth, swatch, hat, even a little neckwarmer thing would be good. I'd also start them out on chunky yarn and size 10 or 10.5s, personally, because even 7 or 8 needles feel painfully slow when you're first getting started. \n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "*I personally believe that frustration is why so many people quit before actually giving knitting a chance, so make your newbies are aware of the multitude of video resources available on youtube and blogs. When I first learned, I couldn't figure out how from the pictures in a knitting book and when my grandma showed me how I quickly forgot after she left. Videos are so important! \n*If you are giving them a pattern, I would suggest 2 versions. In the first write out \"knit 2, purl 2\" and in the second abbreviate it so that they might learn to \"translate\". \n*Teaching them a [rhyme](http://www.handmadenews.org/article/index.php?id=1802) for knitting might help, too. \n*If you are providing a book, Elizabeth Zimmerman's \"Knitting Without Tears\" could be helpful. \n Good luck!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've taught a couple people how to knit, but I'll also speak from my experience. I learned on US 7 bamboo needles with worsted weight yarn. I think bamboo is good because it's not slippery and US 7 is a good size. I still find larger needles to be awkward to hold. Also, I would use a wool yarn, since cotton doesn't give much and if you have beginners that are tight knitters, trying to use cotton can be frustrating, since it doesn't stretch.\n\nThanks for taking the time to bring new knitters into the world. Good luck and have fun!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Wait a month or two (February-March time) and then find them on craigslist super cheap from all the people that bought them for their resolutions. As for actual models, just go try them out. If you have a large sporting goods store nearby, they usually have them to try out. You don't need an expensive one in order to get a good cardio workout. I would suggest one that has movable arms, you will get a little more out of those. Good luck.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I just got an elliptical. I loved working out on them at the healthclub, but I am no longer a member - so I tried a bunch of them out at sears/dicks sports & found the home consumer ones did not compare to the large and very costly ones that the health clubs usually have. It is a personal preference, but make sure the stride is big enough for you (15\" is small, 17/18\" is best), that it is sturdy & feels right when working out on it.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I don't get defensive or offended.. I just quietly lose respect for the person and tell myself that I know better. Because I do.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I think I tend to get defensive or offended when someone likes a hyped up pop culture movie and can't offer any serious explanation for it rather than \"LOL POLP FOCTION.\"\n\nI'm not saying that you have to have an intense metaphorical explanation for why you like a movie, I just think it's useful to be able to appreciate a movie on more levels that \"blood is cool.\"\n\n", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "asking if we want more is like asking a starving alligator if he is hungry...\n\nYour cleavage shot is fantastic... You have a new follower!\n", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "There is no such thing as a fair fight. The moment you can articulate you feared for your physical safety, fight hard and fight dirty. Kick in the groin, punch in the throat, gouge the eyes etc. They all are okay by me because, if another \"man\" is irrational to make this dispute physical, then he is beyond reason and needs to learn a lesson.\r\n", "score": 23 }, { "body": "First, watch Rudy (or some other inspirational film). Then if he comes at you, focus on punching *through* him, so you don't accidentally throw a weak punch and look foolish. Aim for face, gut and sides. Groin shots with the knee, throwing elbows, etc. are all on the table. Anything goes on the streets. ", "score": 18 }, { "body": "1 - Keep careful notes and collect all evidence that can be used against him in court.\r\n\r\n2 - Call the police: If he has threatened you with physical violence, then he can be arrested for assault. I *think* in the US, anyways, the threat of assault can bring assault charges. If nothing else, your local police force should have the experience to advise you further.\r\n\r\n3 - Put your safety first, and try to keep your ego and emotion out of this - be logical and calculated in the decisions you make because you will have to live with whatever you decide.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "First, report his messages, and perhaps get a restraining order. (This will lay some good groundwork if you must hurt him).\n\nNext - do you want to end the fight fast **or** gentlemanly? Gentleman-like behavior has no business in a fight. If you want to be a gentleman, try boxing with him - he'll hurt you and you can claim higher ground.\n\nIf it's to be fast: 1) jab him in the eyes as soon as possible - start by putting your hands up to feign defense. 2) Close distance so you're almost touching. 3) Hit him in the head, chest, and stomach with your elbows. (A few minutes practice at a bag will give you the idea). Don't stop or let up until he's down or running the other way.4) Once he's down use what pathetic strength you have left to get away and call the police as soon as possible / safe. 5) Buy a pistol and learn how to use it, because next time he comes to kick your ass, he'll bring a bat.\n\nETA: and avoid trying to kick, or anything that will move your foot more than a few inches off the ground - lose your balance and lose it all.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "If you're ever actually in danger punch him in the throat. But make sure that you're taking a serious shit kicking before you decide to pull that one out of the bag, because there is a slight chance that you'll kill him.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "There's some pretty good advice on here already, especially about fighting dirty. I study kung fu and here's a few pointers:\n\n-Balance. In most fights the two guys just charge at each other and cling on to each other. People don't consider lateral moves - if he comes at you, step away to the side a bit, and he will instantly be off-balance. Then you can get away or get in a quick kick or whatever you feel like and it will be much more effective if he's off his center. In general, keep your center of gravity low - he has an advantage in this area because he's shorter.\n\n-Most fights end up on the ground ASAP. If he gets on top of you, throw your legs around his torso, lock your ankles together in a crossed position behind him, and lengthen your legs while clenching so that you squeeze his torso. Squeeze as hard as you can. This can cause excruciating pain and make it impossible for him to breathe within a few short seconds. And just for kicks, here's the antidote if someone does that move on you: dig your elbows into their inner thighs and they'll let go.\n\n-Don't let your back face the wall ever, or it's over.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "After he bloodies you up a bit, stand/kneel over him and scream [\"You don't know where I've been *Lou*!\"](http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=1673596420&) Bonus points if the guy's name happens to be Lou. Good luck.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Mostly useless. My high school got them my senior year, and nobody used any of the fancy stuff that came with it. They're mostly a waste of money.\n\nOn the other hand, they also came with cameras that allowed the teacher to put normal pieces of paper and textbooks up on a projector, which is about a million times better than normal projectors. If you can just buy the projector cameras, they're worth it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I heard a story about one teacher that had obviously forgotten that it wasn't a whiteboard and started to write \"assignment\" in dry-wipe marker. Apparently she was informed by the students mid-way into the word and ended up with a permanent \"ass\" on her board.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Blue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc) by Eiffel 65\n\nAnything [Tom Clancy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy)\n\nPearl Harbor (*cringe*)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You don't seem to love her, you certainly don't like her, and you obviously don't respect her as a person. \n\nShe is is a sexy, outgoing, opinionated girl who likes to go out and has a high sex drive. Right now she is stuck to a skinny dude with bad finances who'd rather watch porn than have sex with her more than once a week and who doesn't have a **single** positive thing to say about her other than she likes anal. For the love of god, let her go so that she can find someone who doesn't think she is beneath him and satisfies her sexually. It doesn't sound like she'll have very much trouble.\n\nAnd I am sure there are lots of introverted, atheist, intellectual chicks out there with coarse senses of humor and a low sex drive waiting for you.", "score": 40 }, { "body": "You're just building the case to dump her. You don't need our permission.\n\nPeople are different. Learn to respect differences, or you're NEVER going to be happy in a relationship. Your post is dripping with disrespect and contempt for her as a PERSON, not just as a partner. If you take that attitude (\"If she's not like me, she's less of a person\") into a new relationship, it's going to ruin it as well. \n", "score": 30 }, { "body": "My question is how the hell you two got together in the first place. You just listed pretty much everything negative and the only positive thing was the sex.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "How the hell did you guys make it five years together?! \n\nIt sounds like you need to open yourself up a bit more to the world but that really doesn't have much to do with your relationship issues. You're just full of negativity and that's not going to help you in the long run, especially after this relationship falls apart. You need a tl;dr at the end of your entry as well or shorten it and get to the point, nobody is gonna care if they can't make it to the bottom of all your negativity about this woman. \n\nAnd just an added note, cause I got sick of you going off about what a horrible person she is and disrespecting her as you went along -- You can't claim to be smart and have this whole \"I'm better than she is\" thing going on (and you do -- no matter how much you say you don't, you do) if you can't even get your pronouns right. It's \"My gf and **I**\", \"**She and I** got into a fight\", \"**She and I** have tried to get along in the past\". \n\nThis entire entry is about all the things you don't like her and seems kind of one sided. You can't just blame all the problems in the relationship on her. But if you're so miserable why are you guys still together. Just get it over with and move on with life. Neither of you are getting any younger.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I've said this before here and I'm sure I'll have many occasions to say it again, but the beautiful thing about a breakup is that after it's over it really stops mattering whose fault things were. You don't have to have a laundry list of grievances about your ex to justify not being together anymore. In fact, if you do have that sort of laundry list, you probably come off as a real creep who needs to let go of the past.\n\nMove on. Whether you see it or not, this negativity is turning you into a bitter, hateful, disrespectful person who treats his partner with contempt and condescension. That's not who you want to be and the person she is right now probably isn't who she wants to be, either. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Edit this, please. Stray capitalization and awkward phrasing all over the place. If you're much smarter than she is, then you guys must be the dumbest couple in the world.\n\nAlso, you clearly dislike her. It is unfair to both of you if you stay in this relationship.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "So you disagree with her entire philosophy on life, want opposite lifestyles, and everyone that cares about you says dump her.\n\nHmm...\n\nIf I hadn't been there myself I'd be confused. Dump her and find someone that, you know, is good for more than fucking. There's alot of good sex out there.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Can I ask you an honest question? One that has been hinted at in many posts here but you've somehow avoided answering clearly this entire time? And no, this is not sarcasm, so please don't take it the wrong way.\r\n\r\n*What was it that drew you to her in the first place?*\r\n\r\nWhat do you remember about the way you used to feel towards her in the beginning of the relationship? I ask this for two reasons. One, because I am personally curious, and Two, because I think a good measure of what your next move should be will come from the disconnect between what you *used to* feel and what you feel *now*.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I think you should stay together for another 5 miserable years. Can't risk the tears of a breakup.. that would be a disaster.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Some atheists can't have relationships with religious people for the reasons that you mentioned. I'm one of them. So are you. Recognize that for the future. Also recognize that a person is not automatically stupid for being religious -- sure, maybe she's not as intelligent as you, but there are plenty of religious people who are. Don't stereotype them based on the one person. Furthermore, intelligence is worth almost nothing in life (and I say this as a very intelligent person). Social skills and friendliness are much more important.\n\nThe humor difference also says to me that you're right in your estimation of her intelligence (though of course I'd have to talk to her to be sure). There was another post here or in /r/needadvice where a girl complained about her boyfriend's sense of humor. He didn't get the things she found funny -- not that he didn't think they were funny, he didn't get them in the first place. Same thing here, it sounds like.\n\nYou already know that this is a shitty relationship, and you don't think much of her. Sounds like she's likely to get offended and move back in with her parents when you break up with her, so talk to your friends and make sure they're serious, then dump her. If she refuses to budge from the space you share, put your stuff in storage and see if those same friends will let you sleep on the couch for a while, or see if they want to get a different place together. If it falls through, you can always find roommates on craigslist or whatever.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I do (my husband) and throughout the day we will send links to each other that, usually, we have already individually discovered. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "My girlfriend and I spend about 8 to 10 hours a day combined on Reddit. It's kinda pathetic but also pretty cool. We have our computer desks next to each other where we sit side by side and surf together. I like it.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Yes. Unfortunately, it means every conversation goes something like this:\n\n*bursts into room*\n\n'HEY, GUYS, DID YOU KNOW THAT ______'\n\n'Yeah, did you read that on Reddit, too?'\n\n'Yeah.'\n\n*bursts out of room*\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Why stick the ole' stickstick in one vagina when there are fifteen far tighter ones prancing around the same house? Puss puss is puss puss, regardless of what it's attached to. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Hm, sounds like her titties probably grew. Enter cautiously, but don't use protection 'cause that will ruin it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There are lots:\n\nSavage Worlds, along with its Fantasy Companion, should work.\n\nBurning Wheel has a character history/stat buy system and uses a d6 dice pool mechanic as well, but I have to say I'm not fond of its conflict resolution system.\n\nThe Basic Roleplaying system is venerable, and one of the first skill-based systems.\n\nThe Hero System (derived from Champions), was one of the earliest point-buy systems.\n\nGURPS, as someone else has mentioned.\n\nWhat else are you looking for? I notice you mention homebrew settings. Is there a specific feel you're trying to go for?", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Well, BESM 3e can be adapted to fantasy, and its as customizable as you can get. GURPS fantasy is arguably more realistic, but also more mechanically tedious in many ways.\n\nWhat kind of fantasy setting are you looking for, exactly? Different rules work better for different game types.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "RuneQuest is pretty heavy on skills, if I recall correctly. There's a fantasy version of the D6 system kicking around somewhere too.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ars Magica, 3rd and 4th editions. Fairly idiosyncratic, but it might work for your purposes. There's also a little bit of 'class'-ing, but that's really more related to mage vs non-mage, and henchmen vs person of significance.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Rolemaster has classes, but they don't limit you from doing anything you want with your character. They do determine how much you have to pay for certain skills though. I've only played this system a couple of times, but enjoyed it. Also I feel I should note I like complicated character creation, which Rolemaster has plenty of.\n\nAlso Burning Wheel has no classes. It focuses on the roleplaying aspect more than any other rpg I've seen and even has game mechanics that reward roleplaying in a very big way. Also it is designed to get the players more involved in the storytelling. It's a lot different from any other RPG I've seen. The default setting for Burning Wheel is pretty generic. [Here's a thread](http://burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6527) on their forums describing a group's game sessions, in case you want to get a feel for what it's like.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's in and up (make a come here movement with your finger, that's kind of it), but kinda difficult to find, and sometimes seems to move a bit. The best indication that you've found it is a spongy feeling area of the vagina, and feeling kinda like you have to pee. The having to pee feeling subsides in to good feelings after a little bit. Pressure is the thing, so if you're looking for a toy go with something made of a hard material, the [pure wand](http://store.babeland.com/dildos-g-spot/jupiter-wand) is my favorite toy and it gets it right really easily every time. Anything with a nice curve on it will do though, as will your fingers.\n\nIt was hard for me at first, I was scared that I actually had to pee, not sure the thing really existed, and worried that I'd disappoint my boyfriend if it didn't feel good. It took a while, but once I started to calm down and get used to the idea, it started to feel really good. I don't currently \"squirt\" as it were, but I sort of flood with fluid. I have friends who describe it as gushing and who leave little puddles on their beds. I think people can learn to squirt if they want to, but I don't think it's important for people to do so unless they want to, and some people just do so naturally. \n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_the_G-spot\n\nI'm a guy, and I can tell you that it does exist. I think a lot of people have trouble finding it because they get wrapped up in \"trying to find it\" and so the situation isn't sexy anymore, and thus, it will not engorge and will not provide any good sensations. The more turned on the woman is, the easier it is to find. Once I'd figured out where it was and how to find it, it became pretty easy to use. Typically, when the woman is already really turned on, giving her oral for a little while, if I then start to stimulate the g-spot, it will only take a minute or so for it to become engorged. If you just touch it a little, or don't use much pressure, and don't do it long enough for it to get engorged, then it isn't going to feel good. Once I'd figured it out, there would be the occasional time when she was really horny that it would already be really engorged and would be pretty obvious to find. So if you go looking for it, or have someone go looking for it, it is absolutely key that you be really turned on and that you aren't just \"playing doctor.\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It should be on the ribbed patch on the anterior wall of your vagina, about an inch or two in, where your pubis curves. It should be a differently-textured, probably bean-shaped area that gets larger when you touch it. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This just recently came out (i know it's posted elsewhere on reddit), so take it as you wish.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8439000.stm\n\ngood luck :-)", "score": 3 } ]

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[ { "body": "There is no fucken way to make this sensible - What you'll get is most popular american movies of the decade and not truly the best.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I don't think you'll wind up with a particularly satisfying list. Part of the pleasure of read other people's lists is seeing their individual positioning. That kind of gets lost in one massive, democratic conglomeration. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Ok. The coffee shop I am at is closing, so here is what I have so far. \n\nIll try and group them together - Of course check out Battles, Mars Volta, and Tool they were listed already\n\n\nNon-Traditional Prog, kind of like soundtrack score- \n\n**Estradasphere** - \"Palace of mirrors\", older albums are different, but good as well - These guys are what I call \n\ngenre-core, as in they change genre with the drop of a hat, sounds stupid but they pull it off amazingly. \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#song/504684680895791876\n\n**Mr. Bungle** - Started the \"genre-core\" thing basically, feat. the Famous Mike Patton. Get \"California\" - \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/72339069014964597/Mr._Bungle/California\n\n**Secret Chiefs 3** - Guys Mr. Bungle and such - http://www.lala.com/#artist/Secret_Chiefs_3\n\n**Sleepytime Gorilla Museum** - Really tough to explain, but give em a shot. http://www.lala.com/#album/504684633651151600/Sleepytime_Gorilla_Museum/Grand_Opening_And_Closing\n\n----------------------------------\n\nHeavy instrumental \n\n**Dysrhythmia** - These guys are awesome, but I just don't like them - 3 Piece instrumental, really dense tech \n\n\"metal\", good grooves. http://www.lala.com/#artist/Dysrhythmia\n\n**Behold The Arctopus** - Also awesome, but don't like. Same bass player as above, except its a warr guitar in this \n\nband, same deal as above, but more ridiculous. http://www.myspace.com/beholdthearctopus\n\n**Hella** - Started as 2 piece, mathy crazy stuff, tight grooves. Now 5 peice with vocals \nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/937030198579561280/Hella/There%27s_No_666_In_Outer_Space\n\n--------------------------------------\n\nHeavier, with singing and yelling\n\n**Opeth** - One of my all time favorites. You could say progressive metal/symphonic black metal, but they are very different from traditional black metal (at this point). They are just closest to black metal because of the overall mood of their heavy parts (and how he screams), however, contrasted with their melodic/singing/light parts, it's just a mind explosion of awesomeness. Hands down, one of the best soulful vocals I know of teamed up with some amazing bluesy solos and slower parts, hit you right in the chest with all the emotion. MUST LISTEN, A DESCRIPTION DOES THEM NO JUSTICE.\n\n\"Damnation\" - No yelling/screaming on this album. http://www.lala.com/#album/504684633539113400/Opeth/Damnation\n\n\"Watershed\" - Newest, and most progressive album so far. http://www.lala.com/#album/360569445167085316/Opeth/Watershed\n \n**Textures** - Heavy and also very melodic. Good grooves, and good melodies. Intense vocals. \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/792915010674984590/Textures/Drawing_Circles\n\n**mastodon** - Each album gets more proggesive, and awesome. Drumming/vocals/guitar work are just insane. MUST \n\nLISTEN. http://www.lala.com/#album/360569445171036577/Mastodon/Crack_The_Skye\n\n\n**Burst** - Similar to textures. http://www.lala.com/#album/1657606138037333868/Burst/Lazarus_Bird\n\n**Isis** - Slower, heavier, melodic and screaming. Thick tones. New album \"Wavering Radiant\", is really awesome\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/937030197557901155/Isis/Wavering_Radiant\n\n \n\n\n----------------------------------------------------\n\nRock and Roll/Indie-ish/Mellow at times\n\n**Dredg** - Rock and roll. AMAZING melodies and vocals, and everything else. All albums rules, this is my fav. \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/360569445168807890/Dredg/The_Pariah,_The_Parrot,_The_Delusion\n\n**RX Bandits** - Their latest album \"Mandala\" is really really creative, lots of great melody. Started as a Ska \n\nband so you can hear alot of that influence. Older albums are good, but not as good as this one by far. \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/648799823281391540/RX_Bandits/Mandala\n\n**Minus the Bear** - Not so much prog, but really great vocals and melodies, one of my fav bands. \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/5620773812149551760/Minus_The_Bear/Planet_of_Ice \n\n\n------------------------------------------------\nProg rock/metal - \n\n**Symphony X** - Prog metal/rock, power metal - Some really sold prog/power metal, great guitar solos and sweet PM \n\nvocals. Listen to \"Paradise lost\" first. http://www.myspace.com/symphonyx\n\n\n**Cynic** - Just resurfaced after 10 years, really awesome prog, use a lot of vocoder. \n\nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/937030197557859972/Cynic/Traced_In_Air\n\n**Dream Theater** - Maybe know them. Straight up prog rock, lots of mood changes, awesome guitar solos and drumming \n\n. Listen to there 90's stuff. Pretty thematic at times. \nhttp://www.lala.com/#album/360569445169104114/Dream_Theater/Awake \n\n\nEDIT- Added opeth\n", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Porcupine Tree. By far and away the best of the current progressive rock bands. Truly fantastic music.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "So I'm sure that quite a few of these will be mentioned already, but I also think that some are obscure enough to not be posted yet. So here's some of the ones I can think of right now:\n\n* Comus - prog/acid folk band from the 1970s. Their debut, First Utterance, is a dark, psychotic masterpiece.\n\n* Opeth - Swedish melodic death metal band. They're a big name band, so you've probably already been recommended them. Damnation is great for mellow; Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are awesome for heavy and light mixtures.\n\n* Porcupine Tree - consistently good. Always has a common sound but evolves their sound with each album. In Absentia is their best, but each album has its own greatness. Lightbulb Sun is possibly my preference.\n\n* Kayo Dot - Okay, so this isn't a progressive rock band, but they're brilliant. They mix metal, avant-garde, classical and ambient genres into epic, sprawling pieces. Choirs of the Eye is in my top 5 favorite albums of all time.\n\n* Magma - Weird and energetic and great.\n\n* Cardiacs - Energy of punk rock, brains of prog rock, melodies of pop rock. I really don't know how to describe them other than \"the best band that *nobody* knows of.\" Sing To God is their most epic album, and it's SO EPIC.\n\n* Captain Beyond - Just a good 1970s prog rock band.\n\n* Harmonium - Mostly a folk band but their pieces have a sophisticated air of prog to them.\n\n* Between The Buried & Me - They're heavy. If you can take the abuse on ears (growling, breakdowns, etc), they have some really great progressions and melodies. Colors is my favorite.\n\n* Sand Snowman - acoustic guitarist that has moody, eerie songs that twist and bend.\n\n* The Mars Volta - I honestly believe that Frances The Mute is the hands down best album of the past decade.\n\n* Spiritualized - Good modern prog band.\n\nHopefully you'll like at least a few of those. Cheers.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Same age as you, with similar tastes. Somehow I missed [XTC](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J5GVVz0gjA&feature=related) the first time around, but I'm starting to get into them now.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Listen to Battles for a good modern taste of some of that style. I think you might also dig some Phish (a little obvious I know). Given your Zappa love, try Battlehooch also... they're young still but they'll get to proggy absurdist heaven in a couple years.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You didn't mention Steely Dan in your jazz/rock fusion...if you don't know their music I recommend them.Of more modern bands you may find a lot to like in both Radiohead and Wilco.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I didn't see a mention of Dream Theater, so I'll throw in a hearty recommendation for them. They're easily my favorite band, and I have no qualms with listing them as an unquestionable #1.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Given the time frame of the artists you listed i think you might dig:\n\n* Gentle Giant\n* The following Herbie Hancock records: Sextant, Crossings, Thrust, Headhunters\n* Early Stanley Clark records, specifically \"School Days\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "don caballero!!\n\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OwkI8jh3Wg\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDYl_OOcrgA&feature=related\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "+1 for Don Caballero, King Crimson, Hella, Isis, Tool, Mars volta, Battle, and Porcupine Tree. Zappa is always great also.\n\n\nAnd here is my contribution of mostly newer stuff. I feel it falls under the progressive umbrella. I see the classic progressive stuff you have up there and I'm just listing some bands that represent the different ways it has gone. You may not like some of it but the musical ideas behind all of these bands are pretty solid. Enjoy.\n\n\n* [Russian Circles](http://www.lala.com/#album/5620773812149551930/Russian_Circles/Geneva). Great album and I think its their most solid.\n\n\n* [Gospel](http://www.lala.com/#album/2306124486335718808/Gospel/The_Moon_Is_a_Dead_World). A hardcore band that consistently had some Mars Volta moments.\n\n\n* [Lite](http://www.lala.com/#album/937030197557937528/LITE/Phantasia). From Japan. \n\n\n* [Maudlin of the Well](http://www.maudlinofthewell.net). Good stuff. Kayo Dot is awesome too. I think you can stream from this site.\n\n\n* [Tera Melos](http://teramelos.bandcamp.com/album/untitled). Great band who kinda has gone a different direction from their first and best release. \n\n\n* [The Dillinger Escape Plan](http://www.lala.com/#album/1657606138037336848/The_Dillinger_Escape_Plan/Calculating_Infinity)\nProbably the harshest. Progressive and pretty technical metal.\n\n\n\n* [Kidcrash](http://www.denovali.com/kidcrash/). A band from my home town. Jokes is my suggested album. The rest is very solid.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I don't remember the last time I saw an internet ad. Thanks adblock and [hosts file](http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/)", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "i think that if it is a shirt that you really like (or would really like if it fit correctly) then investing in a tailor is not a bad idea, even if it would cost a bit. that is the point of making an investment. but that's just me. i think what you would ask him/her to do would be a pretty basic operation.\n\nif anything, make a few calls around and get some prices. clothing almost never fits perfectly off the rack.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes. My favorite episode was when a contestant was asked to \"Name movies...in color!\" and he proceeds to name off horror movies and the dozens of sequels. (Eg: \"Halloween 1, 2, 3 4, 5, H20. Scream 1, 2, 3) and in ten seconds he's got like two dozen films. So then the geek get's asked to \"Name black and white movies...remade in color!\" and he names off five before giving up and telling the contestant to fuck off.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "It was ahead of its time right before being a geek became so mainstream. I remember the music geek was the toughest geek to beat. But any victory was hallow since they gave the tougher questions to the geeks.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I remember enjoying that show. Ahh, to be 24 again. I had a TV as old as I was, a crappy apartment, a shitty job that I honestly liked a lot, and was still livid that Bush \"won\" the election. Those were the days. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Snakes on a Plane.\n\nMotherfucking Snakes on Motherfucking Planes.\n\nI want this to become the new RHPS.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "[Plan 9 from Outer Space](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/), there's also a [Tim Burton movie about its director](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Title says it all, check out the trailer if you want to see how horrifically funny it is.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I just watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 and get all the bad with much more good, because it isn't all on me to make fun of it now.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Slither is actually a comedy horror movie parodying ridiculous B movies - the fact that you put it on a list of \"so bad it's good\" movies means it did its job well", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[**I know who killed me**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LaOV87bBmY)\n\nIt stars Lindsay Lohan as a coked out stripper who happens to be the long lost twin of a normal girl who *writes crappy stories about a coked out stripper* for high-school english. The non-stripper one ends up dead. Then fingers fall off.\n\nFrom that point on things just go apeshit. Things that **actually** happen in this movie include:\n\n* Bionic Arm -> FalcOOON PUUUNNNCH!\n* Bionic Leg\n* A number of references to the Blue Man Group\n* Phantom Limb syndrome\n* Secular Stigmata\n* Creepy father/separated daughter conversations that border on incestuously awkward\n* Bad High School writing\n* Lindsay is a stripper\n* Lindsay's appendages just fall the fuck off\n* Some fucked up torture scenes (dry ice is involved)\n* Fucking of the dead sister's boyfriend by the living sister\n* Sewing her fingers back on by herself\n* An axe made of blue glass...what?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Showgirls and Killer Clowns from Outer Space. But seriously, every time Showgirls comes on t.v. I drop everything I'm doing and watch it. \n\n\"That's a nice dress\"\n\n\"Yeah, it's Ver-sase\"\n\n\"Umm, Versace?\" \n\nSo good. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Honestly, I like a blog format more than a podcast. Or at least, maybe a transcribed podcast. I can read a lot faster than I can listen to a podcast, and its hard for me to find an hour at work to just listen to something.\n\nWith a blog, when i'm taking a 5 or 10 minute break here and there, I can check out reddit and a list of blogs. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I've never listened to a podcast in my life, but I feel like if I ever were to listen to a podcast, it would be for MMA, so I say go for it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "No. While it may be possible to build a $250 PC from parts, it's ridiculously inefficient. To build your own, you have to buy a case, motherboard, cpu, memory, hard drive, CD/DVD drive, video card (possibly optional), keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The hard drive alone, buying new, will be something like $40. It's difficult to find a CPU/mobo combo for less than $100, even scraping the bottom of the bucket. \nAnd once you've spent this tiny amount of money for your fire-saled components, you get a machine that can barely run Flash. \nDon't do this. \nDo this: \nSurf Craigslist, Freecycle, and (if you're not overly prideful) dumpster dive. You'll find a hand-me-down Dell system, which you can then spend $250 upgrading, and have something that'll be useful and long-lasting. Just don't expect to run Vista on it.", "score": 43 }, { "body": "Just built a PC on Newegg for $226.03 (including shipping to my address). I would probably upgrade the motherboard, as it is usually the main limiter when upgrading. Also the case comes with a power supply for only $20, but it looks like crap. I would probably spend $10-15 more on a case that comes with a power supply that isn't an eyesore. This is a good computer that will do all your basic tasks for years.\n\n\n Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3160318AS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5\" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive \n Item #: N82E16822148511\n\n Foxconn M61PMV AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail \n Item #: N82E16813186155\n\n G.SKILL 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5S-1GBPK - Retail \n\n AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Brisbane 2.9GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADO5600IAA5DO - OEM \n Item #: N82E16819103279\n\n SAMSUNG DVD Burner Black SATA Model TS-H663B/UOAH - OEM \n Item #: N82E16827151197\n\n Linkworld A617-01FFU+P28 Beige / Silver Steel MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case 300W Power Supply - Retail \n Item #: N82E16811164136", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Hopefully you have some components you can reuse... if so, what are the bare necessities you require (motherboard, cpu, memory)?", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Got a Goodwill store nearby? I was at the one off Venice & National in Los Angeles yesterday and among their thirty or so towers for sale I saw a 2.7 ghz HP system with a 100gb drive (can't remember how much RAM) for a hundred and twenty five bucks. If I were building a \"new\" system on the cheap I'd snag something like that and go from there. They test all the systems before selling them, too, to make sure they're working.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Go to NewEgg.com. Get a Shuttle. This will be your motherboard, case and powersupply.\n\nIf you're lucky, you can catch an open box special, and get it for about $150, shipped. Then, you have $100 to spend on processor, hard drive and memory.\n\nThis is very possible. All of the nay-sayers are hardware junkies/gamers that think you need a 6-foot tower and 1000w power supply with 18 video cards to have a \"decent\" computer.\n\nI have a shuttle that I built for $400. It's awesome, and I can't wait to build another.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Youre best off finding a deal on something used. Or go to slickdeals and hope something for that cheap coming along. Do you need a monitor? If so youre just fucked.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Don't listen to the nay-Sayers here. It's perfectly feasible. My gf asked me to build her parents a pc for Christmas and I picked out all the parts and it came to $230 (no monitor or anything though). I can post the newegg link when I get to my pc (on my phone currently)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom N330 1.6GHz Dual-Core 441 NVIDIA ION Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo - Retail -- $184.99 (currently has a 20$ MIR making it $164.99)\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500027\n\nDual Core Atom 1.6ghz, 9400M Video, built in PSU, built in Wireless... \n\nThe above takes care of Mobo, Proc, Video, WiFi and PSU.... all you need is Ram, Case, and drives (HDD/DVD)\n\nPersonally, I would go with a cheap HDD and DVD drive, then get the cheapest case that will allow a Mini-ITX board..(or, get a piece of wood and screw everything to it... lol\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103228\n\nThis has been a very reliable and quiet pc. $199. Only thing missing is the monitor.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": ">2 . Make it a point that belief in the supernatural is something to be laughed at or mocked.\n\nWhy? Why this? \n\nThat is not a good way to make peace, this will just rally the religious people up and give them more reason to hate atheists. Why can't we just maturely reject religion without feeling need to mock people for having different beliefs than us? I hate religion as much as any of you, but do we really need to make such a low gesture and appeal to our own emotions? \n\nI mean, how is this any different than religious people saying, \"we cannot tolerate atheism, from now on, whenever you see an atheist, mock him/her!\" It isn't. It's completely bigotry. And don't try to sell me no bullshit about how your side has the \"truth\" and their side has \"fairy tales.\" This Us vs. Them mentality is already ripping politics apart. \n\nInstead of focusing on how stupid they are, why don't we focus on how to make ourselves have a bigger, more respectable voice? Why can't we say \"hey, atheists **aren't** the mean devil-worshippers you learned about in Sunday school out to deconvert you into a life of immorality.\"\n\nAs a staunch atheist, I *vehemently* oppose this approach to religion. You can convince people to think differently, and it doesn't require taunting them or fulfilling your need to feel superior to them.\n\nAnd don't respond to me with why \"respect\" automatically equates to \"softness on religion.\" That's entirely wrong, I'm not arguing that you should be nice to religion, I'm just arguing that you don't need to be an immature punk either. There's no need for this bullshit, and you know it.\n\nWe atheists should understand this more than anybody else - you don't need to convert a person to another label, bring the sheep to a new stable, instead, give people reason to think for themselves. I'm not arguing for atheism, here, I'm arguing for open-mindedness and freethinking. You setup the structure for freethinking, and you'll find that atheism will gain a larger voice by the pure nature of human thought, you show somebody to think for themselves, they'll be a more brilliant atheist than if you just convinced them not to believe in god for whatever reasons Dawkins says. You spoil that foundation with a desire to 'convert, convert, convert' while dogmatically espousing bigotry, then you are no different to me than a fundamentalist Christian, I am sorry.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "I disagree with #2. Atheism grows in a grassroots fashion. The religions are top down structures. Instead of trying to organize ourselves to work more like our enemy, we would do better to embrace the guerilla tactics that are already working for us. Convert more people at the base, and employ less power at the top, and we win the hearts and minds of the masses.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I vehemently agree with your two ideas presented above.\n\nTo add: Atheists need to make a conscious effort to be, as they are, atheists. In order to progress forward, they need to step out of the closet and identify with the masses; maybe not by violent dissemination, but at least by identification. Hiding isn't accomplishing much.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Unfortunately Gravity13, religion makes it black and white. I agree that giving in to our baser emotions is not productive in regards to those poor misguided folks who believe in god. What makes it black and white is that we believe that the very core of the religious thinking is wrong. You don't get much farther apart than that as humans. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "1. Absolutely.\n\n2. There's no need to mock them, and it will only make you look childish (and validate the persecution complex that most seriously devout religious persons operate under). What is done now--disagreeing and debating uncompromisingly when provoked, but otherwise practicing a \"live and let live\" attitude and letting the facts speak for themselves--is working, so I see no need to take up mudslinging.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "little late considering the holidays just passed, but I use it instead of orange juice for my cranberry sauce", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Fried potatoes. Or I make popcorn in my cast iron skillet with a spoonful. Amazing! Just hang on tight to the lid until you're sure all those kernels are done dancing around.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "the night sky.\n\nit's unbelievable how important it was to our ancestors and how few people these days have actually seen it.", "score": 85 }, { "body": "Math. So many people are math-phobic. It's unfortunate that math is taught as a dry set of rules that you have to memorize and apply. It's so much more than that. There's so much elegance and beauty in a simple, clear proof. I don't know why it isn't shown to kids as soon as they get to school. If more people understood the pleasure you can get from showing how something is true using pure reasoning alone, the world would be a better place.", "score": 61 }, { "body": "Books. Not just the covers, or the shiny gold on some edges, or even just the words.\n\nJust... books. The way they feel in your hand, the sound of ruffling through pages, the *crack* of a new binding, the smell of an old book, the yellow of the pages. The smoothness of the spine, the black-and-white contrast. What they **mean**, for people and the world. Something so simple and fragile contains knowledge that, 150 years ago, would have been scarce or priceless. \n\nBooks are beautiful.", "score": 56 }, { "body": "Solitude. Most people seem to equate this negatively with loneliness. Healthy solitude can be one of the most peaceful things there is, in my opinion.", "score": 51 }, { "body": "Deserted streets at night, there's just something so beautiful about a single lamp post, and the moon casting light on the whole street. I've never bothered to tell anyone this before, I don't think they'd see it how I saw it.", "score": 41 }, { "body": "Industrial Decay. More specifically, I've done exploring/photography in a handful of abandoned industrial complexes, most specifically an iron foundry. It seems that the workers were simply asked one day to never return, the doors were closed, and that was the end. There were still tools on benches, still ingots and slag around the foundry. In my mind this is how the world would look in 50ish years if humans just disappeared. I find it fascinating and enrapturingly beautiful. ", "score": 38 }, { "body": "Hands. People's hands are just so darn cool. All the little fragile bones, and all the things we can do with them. The spectrum of expressions and touches. \n\nI love looking at people's hands, they say so much about you. Calluses? Scars? They are our tools and so much more. ", "score": 36 }, { "body": "Hmm. The other day I took a shower and when I put the shampoo bottle back on the rack, I noticed that there was a bubble about an inch in diameter sitting on the bottom. Also, streaming from the top of the bottle was a very fine line of shampoo falling right down the center down to the bubble and cascading every which way down the side of the bubble. I just kind of had to stop and revel at this process for about 5 minutes as I realised that I was watching chaos in motion and the movement was being influenced at the molecular level. It felt like a pretty profound moment originating from an otherwise mundane event.\n\nWell, that didn't really fit the guidlines of your question but I just felt like sharing that.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Death.\n\nIt is because of how ephemeral life is in general that makes things beautiful. It is because of how little time we have to live that makes what little we can do enjoyable and worth doing. If we lived forever everything would become mundane and meaningless. \n\nNow, this is not to say that I wouldn't mind living a couple hundred extra years assuming I were healthy. I definitely would. ", "score": 16 }, { "body": "I used to work with this aging Tomcat welder who spent literally, days giving me advice about sex. Everything from how to fuck women in bathrooms to how to pick up prostitutes in bars populated by sailors. When he wasn't doing that he was making \"queef\" sounds around the shop and telling the women how he caught young guys like myself staring at their asses.\n\nHe was doing all of this as a happily married man (he had a good anecdote against cheating if anyone cares to hear). He married a Catholic; so he had six kids. Well, one day we started talking about his kids and the recent snow storm. He told me about how he took them out sleigh riding and the poem his 12 year old wrote about it for school. \nThe metaphor from it that sticks to me to this day is: \"My Dad laughing like a boy\".", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Imperfections. I love scars, gap teeth, crooked noses and freckles. It makes me look twice at a person. I never realized it, but I am always attracted to men who have some sort of visible imperfection. ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Social interactions. It is the only art form that nearly 100% of people take part in and it is completely specific to each different person.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Watching an expert do their thing, especially when they're \"in the zone.\" There's nothing quite like singular focus.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Nature: We spend too much time in buildings and on computers and not nearly enough time going outside and looking at how beautifully serene a walk in the woods, or a hike up a mountain can be.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I carve stone and when someone can hold a piece and they say \" WOW- this is so cool. It is.... \" makes it all worth it.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "to continue the idea of \"holy shit it's water\", it's pretty cool that the liquid that keeps us alive falls from the sky.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Religion. I realize that's a tough sell here, but there it is.\n\nAnd I know that \"the majority\" of the world is \"religious\" in some sense, but I haven't seen much evidence that they've seen anything transcendentally beautiful in it. That tends to have a pretty profound impact on a person, when it's seen - the revelation, the epiphany, the enlightenment; whatever you want to call it - but so many people walk through their lives as though their religion were just some *thing* they've inherited and kept out of sentiment or even resentment: a gift they might not have wanted, but which they can't neglect or give back lest someone else's feelings be hurt or some momentary advantage be lost. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be ugly or painful (or, crucially, harmful) or stupid. It doesn't have to be the weapon in a man's hands or the iron in his heart. It can be something much greater and more beautiful: more good at its best than it is bad at its worst.\n\nThe beauty's there. I'd like people to see it.\n\nSorry guys :/", "score": 9 }, { "body": "As a long time baseball coach I would like everyone to see the beauty in a 10 year old face as he/she gets his/her first ever hit. That smile, when he/she hits the ball is the very reason I coach. Unbridled joy is the only way I can describe it. The only thing that compares are the smiles and cheers of the parents in the stands when it happens.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I realized there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Structures. Bridges especially come to mind. I feel that the average person does not think of all of the engineering and such behind Bridges and Buildings.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I was walking down the road the other day. The sun was out, perfect blue sky, birds were singing and the air was fresh.\n\nI took a deep breath and thought to myself \"In a world this beautiful, who would want to do drugs?\"\n\nThen I remembered, I was on drugs.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Fog, rain, and wind. My favorite three weathers.\r\n\r\nIf you take fire roads onto the ridges of hills around my town, eventually you come to a forest of cypress trees. Almost all of them are less than fifteen feet tall; some of them are shorter than I am; there is serpentine in the soil, and this stunts their growth.\r\n\r\nWatching the fog drift across and through the trees, and feeling and listening to the wind, is the best thing in the world. I have some photos of a hike I just took up there, but they aren't uploaded to Flickr yet, otherwise I'd post them. This is the most serene place on the planet when nobody is around and the fog is blowing across the trees.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Each other. If people could get past their differences and try and see the beauty in other people it would help to make the world that much better.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Life man, LIFE! when ever i see a dog, cat, or even a mouse. It just amazes me that that little thing is moving. \n\nI also like zooming out at certain times, like epic zooming out. just shows how small we are and here i am sending 1&0 through metal, which is pumped by nuclear reaction. sigh.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "other people. i have never seen anyone who is completely ugly. it's all a matter of what you focus on when you look at someone... the positive, or the negative.\n\nalso, themselves. it seems like most people (myself included) focus on negative qualities when they look at themselves, even if they're ready to see the beauty in other people.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i want people to be able to share the moments of beauty that constitute falling in love. i fell in love over the span of a week and it was such an amazing blur.. wish I could capture it in words.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Water\n\nBut not just water in its liquid state, but also ice, snow, fog...\n\nWhen I was in my early teens I slowly started becoming short-sighted. I didn't notice this at first though because, well, I didn't know what short-sightedness was or what it felt like, and I always sat in the front desk at school so I could see the blackboard just fine.\n\nNow, one day my dad took me to the zoo and lent me his camera. I still remember the moment I looked through the lens at a stream of water and how absolutely amazed I was at the sight. The light reflecting off the stream was just so sparkling and beautiful. My sight worsened so gradually I felt like I had forgotten what real water looks like.\n\nNeedless to say I got glasses shortly after. :)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The things we take for granted. I still can't wrap my mind around how privileged I am to be able to take a shit and not really dispose of the waste afterwards. I shit, wipe, and push a button: gone. \n\nThe gnomes do all the work! The same gnomes that do *something* to my trash when I take it out, or produce the groceries I buy to make food, or somehow make hot water come out of my shower head when I want, or make my radiator warm when my room is cold. \n\nThese are the days, people, these are the party days. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Wrathgate. Definitely the Wrathgate. Nothing else really has the epic feel of the way that quest chain ends.\n\nNot gonna post spoilers in case anyone hasn't been through the Dragonblight yet.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I always LOL at the quest in Outland [The Exorcism of Colonel Jules](http://www.wowwiki.com/Quest:The_Exorcism_of_Colonel_Jules)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I can't remember the name of it, but I really liked that quest chain that starts in grizzly hills where you help the bad guy troll join the lich king. Then you get to kill him later. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Link's Master Sword quest chain, that rewards you with:\nhttp://thottbot.com/?i=Linken%27s+Sword+of+Mastery", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Onyxia Attunement (the 1st time, not the 40th). Mostly for the ending in SW. Go go Marshall Windsor!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "From Wiki:\n\nThe Norbourg scandal is a major financial scandal that took place in 2005. The scandal involved the Montreal, Quebec based Norbourg Financial Group a trust-fund company. Nearly 9,200 investors in Quebec lost millions of dollars after the money from a Norbourg trust fund was diverted by ex-founder Vincent Lacroix for personal interests. It is considered as one of the largest Canadian financial scandals in history and largest in Quebec.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "do you run a HUD program like HEM or PT3? if you do, pleas post a screenshot of your stats by stake, and by position ([something like this](http://i.imgur.com/gOf63.jpg)). it would be a lot easier to look at all of your stats and help point out any leaks in your game. if you aren't running a HUD, well there's your problem. i admit 50NL+ is beatable without a HUD, but 90% of winning players at the higher levels are running one.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "It sounds like there's some sort of interaction when you first meet the girl. If you're interested in getting to know her better, focus your attention on her and start up a conversation. Ask her questions, find something you guys have in common, just keep the conversation going. If you do find something she's interested in that you are as well -- let's say an upcoming movie, a band, or an event coming to town -- then suggest you guys go together. Set a date to meet again and it's best if it's something casual that you both enjoy! It's important to make sure you guys have a social connection the first time you meet if you want to get to know her better in the future!", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "First off, \"Buddhism\" is a pretty broad term. It's even broader than asking someone to explain Christianity, in that there are many types of Christianity, but they have much the same belief system. Buddhism varies widely. Tibetan is vastly different from Zen, which is totally different from, say, I don't know. Pure Land.\n\nI'm a Zen practitioner. I would not describe myself as having beliefs, but I do practice a religion. Zen is, I think, the predominant sect of Buddhism practiced by redditors who consider themselves Buddhist. Zen makes no claim to know what happens after you die, it has no creator (except yourself of your own suffering), there is no sin, and no punishment (again, save what you do to yourself). \"Not knowing\" is actually quite revered and sought after in Zen. Every teacher I've met has always added the caveat that we should never take their word for anything. We should constantly investigate, on the cushion, in zazen. It's very much putting the burden of practice on the individual. No one is going to save you, not the practice, not the sitting, not even your teacher. Everything points back to YOU.\n\nBasic ehm... assumptions (I really don't like that word \"belief\") of Zen include that there is no inherent self. \"I\" do not really exist. Just that was enough to attract me to the practice, since I don't know who I am or what makes up my consciousness. Zen isn't really concerned with much metaphysics. Zen is found on the meditation cushion. Zazen **is** Zen practice. Zen practice **is** Zazen.\n\nScripture: not really. We chant the Heart Sutra for service (actually it sums up Zen philosophy rather well. You should look it up) and a couple of other chants, and we definitely get some of our guidance from the works of Dogen and such, but Zen is very much an oral tradition passed down from teacher to student. I just started Koan practice, and there are sets of Koan collections, but they don't really qualify as scriptures.\n\nDivisions. Good lord I don't even know where to start. I should say they aren't really divisions like Catholics vs. Protestants in Northern Ireland, it's more just differences in practice. There are many paths to the summit of Mount Fuji, don't ya know. All sects of Buddhism have the goal of enlightenment in common, but we go about it in different ways. To explain the differences a little better: Buddhism historically has had the habit of absorbing the already-existing local religion and rebranding it. Tibetan Buddhism is the teachings of Buddha mixed with the Bon religion. Soto Zen is basically Taoism with cooler robes. Rinzai Zen is generally the same as Soto, but from what I've heard, it's more intense and koans are a big part of the practice. And so on.\n\nBuddhism is a religion, no doubt. There is some debate about whether Zen Buddhism is considered a religion or a philosophy, but it is definitely a religion, but without the implications and baggage that the word usually carries (typically \"belief\", \"faith\", etc). Having come from a fundamentalist christian background, then deconverting and these days calling myself a firm atheist, Zen is very attractive in its stance on belief. Meaning: no belief, only practice. I don't feel as though belief is really a part of Zen (others may disagree).\n\nIf I could recommend some further reading:\n\n- *Meditation in Action* by Chogyam Trungpa\n- *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind* by Shunryu Suzuki\n\nOther redditors can suggest some more reading. It's late and I'm tired so I can't remember the books I've read. :)\n\nThat answer your questions? Sort of? I need some dinner...", "score": 40 }, { "body": "Four noble truths, eightfold path. These are the most important parts. If the book didn't cover them, ask.\n\nBuddha wanted to know why there was suffering, after years he found out it's because we insist on thinking things like car payments are important. Then said that it's also because we think things like death are that important.\n\nThe things you think are important, aren't really. The most important thing is that you're alive (In the present moment because everything else is an illusion/not important), and that's beautiful.\n\nThink about a food chain. You see a gazelle get eaten by a lion and you both flinch and marvel. It's beautiful! It's nature! Everything is one amazing cycle! The part we so often forget is that humans are included in that. You're part of this beautiful cycle too. But think about how big that cycle is, and suddenly your degree and your job and your collection of stuff doesn't matter. But that's okay because you're going to directly experience this cycle now that you know to watch it. And that's awesome.\n\nIt's a religion because it has practices, but it doesn't have a god or anything supernatural across the board. Between different sects, there may be the occasional supernatural thing, but on the whole, there's not much.\n\nIt's practical and basically says \"Nothing is that important, including this, so stop trying so hard, but don't not try because then that's equally attached.\"\n\nIt's very confusing, I suggest you read any book by Thich Nhat Hanh. Most of them say the same thing. That said, they all say it in great ways and it's worth reading a lot of them. I've tried my best, if I've failed here, ask things.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”\n- Buddha", "score": 21 }, { "body": "wow! all great answers! I would only add two things. When people ask me about being a Buddhist, I like the Dalai Lama quote - 'my religion is very simple, my religion is kindness.' For me that speaks volumes. \n\nI love the Steven Hagen book - Buddhism Plain and simple. which explains Buddhism without all the trappings. very good, very quick read. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I have little to add to the fantastic summaries below. I would just mention the Buddhist precepts, because they are essential guides for the Buddhist life. There are many variations, but the ones I am studying are the ten grave precepts:\n\nNot killing;\n\nNot taking anything that is not freely given;\n\nNot misusing sexuality;\n\nNot lying;\n\nNot using intoxicants;\n\nNot speaking ill of others;\n\nNot praising oneself while putting down others;\n\nBeing generous;\n\nNot indulging in anger;\n\nNot defiling the Three Treasures - Buddha, Dharma (Buddha's teachings), and Sangha (the community of practitioners). ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Glad to hear you're interested. There is lots of good information out there about Buddhism, **BUT** there is also lots of misinformation. I recommend reading major texts written for English-speakers from the most popular sects. Robert Thurman is good for Tibetan. D.T. Suzuki is good for Zen. Thanissaro Bhikku is good for Theravada (his stuff is all free at [www.accesstoinsight.org](http://www.accesstoinsight.org)). Check out [www.audiodharma.org](http://www.audiodharma.org) and [www.sati.org](http://www.sati.org) for good podcasts. \n\nMy take, in a nutshell, and I'm very much a novice, is this:\n\n1. All things change. \n2. Trying to hold onto anything (even the idea that all things change) is impossible since even that idea is changing as you think it.\n3. We still try to hold onto things as if they don't change. \n4. We suffer.\n\nYour mind will jump from \"safe place\" to \"safe place\" knowing full well that each \"safe place\" isn't safe because it is shifting. This is stressful. Think of Mario hopping from column to column, but with the columns always crumbling beneath him. \n\nThose who have figured out how to live the only safe way (Nirvana) behave thusly: \n\n1. They do not kill.\n2. They do not lie.\n3. They do not steal.\n4. They do not take intoxicants.\n5. They do not engage in sexual misconduct. \n\nThese things are not *wrong*, but they are simply signs that you are still not living the only safe way (Nirvana). Thus, if you seek to put an end to suffering and stress, it's best to emulate the Buddha and act as he acted after his enlightenment.\n\nReigning in your impulses takes practice. Your impulse says that the *next* column of land will be the safe one, so you'll kill any Koopa just to get there. Well, turns out that one isn't safe either, but the *NEXT* one for sure. Well, it turns out... etc. The practice of meditation slowly teaches you not to trust this impulse and eventually you achieve Nirvana, which is like forever having a star, a mushroom, a racoon suit, a yoshi, and then some (so I'm told). \n\nSo practice, follow the precepts, and seek out wise teachers. That is how I think Buddhism is done. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Just wanted to throw in that I came here to comment, but after seeing so many excellent responses, I have just been busy throwing out upvotes.\n\nKudos to you, fellow Buddhist Redditors, Thank you for your careful and precise insights!\n\nI just want to add:\n\nWhich line of Buddhism to pursue is a very personal choice, BUT they all lead to the same destination. So you shouldn't actually find yourself being very confused when moving from one line to another, and any Buddhist master who says that his line is the best and others are trash has probably travelled down the wrong path. In that respect, I find Zen a bit easier to comprehend when you have some basic understanding of Buddhist philosophy that gets supplied in any beginner lessons in the other Mahayana or Theravada schools...there is a risk of imagining too much about Zen and ultimately straying all over the place if you don't find some grounding beforehand.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "There are so many books on Buddhism, and there are separate but similar Buddhist teachings (theravada, mahayana, zen, tibetan, etc.) that all lead to the same result - awareness. Meditation is the basis of practice, there are moral, ethical suggestions sometimes based on karma (cause/effect). Buddhism is generally considered a religion. I personally consider Buddhism a philosophy, a guide to living and seeing reality correctly (as it is).\n\nBut I think your question is best answered by some quotes from the Dalai Lama, who exemplifies Buddhism for many: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dalai_lama.html", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I was raised Lutheran but lost all interest in Christianity (and, more generally, religion) when my brother died 15 years ago. I've found Buddhism to be a fascinating and worthwhile set of practices, though I don't consider them beliefs. Certainly, it can be treated as a religion -- karma, reincarnation, etc. -- but as others say, the broader point of Buddhism is enlightenment (aka nirvana or nibbana). Most schools of Buddhism tend to practice meditation (zazen, mindfulness, vipassana, etc.) quite regularly, and they generally treat meditation itself as important and not the means to an end. (As I recall, Shunru Suzuki says in *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind* that sitting is the most important practice.)\n\nIf you're interested in the core teachings, might I recommend [In the Buddha's Words](http://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Words-Anthology-Discourses-Teachings/dp/0861714911/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262658667&sr=8-1). It's a very readable anthology.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Very interesting comments from all. \n\nI would like to add that you don't need to let go of your current tradition to follow Buddhism teachings such as kindness, compassion, and mindfulness.\n\nI have never seen any Buddhist practitioners actively trying to get people to join Buddhism. Instead Buddhist teachers usually encourages you to keep your current practices (Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, etc) but presenting teachings that can help you be a more content and happy person.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm an Agnostic / Zen Buddhist, where Zen Buddhism is more a Philosophy than a Religion to me. I was actually converted from Christianity by three things: 1) I was already asking questions and recieving unsatisfactory answersabout the Christian religion as well as having a distaste for how most people use the religion to justify their biases and immoral behaviors, 2) living in South Korea for a year while a member of the U.S. Air Force, I visited many Buddhist temples and talked with monks, and 3) finally, I was Agnostic when I found out a really cool co-worker of mine (in an IT field) practiced Zen Buddhism and, though he was definitely not a teacher, showed me the practical benefits of it and the kind of lifestyle it promotes. Now, I consider myself pretty much an Agnostic (leaning Atheist) / Zen Buddhist, and, though I would love to believe in the more spiritual aspects of Buddhism, I just don't seem to have the capacity for spiritual belief anymore. Maybe it's simply let me down too many times.\r\n\r\nThat said, I agree with those who say following the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path are the most important things. Consistent meditation (and practice to meditate properly) is key to getting into the state of mind which makes the rest far easier to do. The practical aspects of Zen meditation are numorous, but the best among them is the capacity for concentration one is able to achieve.\r\n\r\nAs stated (not so specifically), I do not believe in Enlightenment being a spiritual afterlife, and internal spiritual being, nor do I believe in reincarnation, though I like the idea of all of these. I see Enlightenment as more of a state of mind which is possible to achieve in the one life we have and it is very likely true happiness, if there really is such a thing.\r\n\r\nI suppose that my favorite things about Buddhism are:\r\n\r\nIt requires no belief i na god or gods.\r\nIt is, by far, the most peaceful religion I've come across.\r\nIt has many practical benefits and promotes a healthy lifestyle.\r\nUnlike most other religions, it promotes knowledge and the questioning of teachings, even of it's own.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Looks like many points about Buddhism have already been addressed. I would point out that Buddhism is compatible with many \"beliefs\", but the word \"belief\" is used in the normal sense rather than the Christian sense - something you suspect might be true based on evidence (or the opposite).\n\nThe one I want to address is the \"religion or philosophy\" question. It entirely depends on your definitions of those two things. As far as \"seeking truth\", I think Buddhism is much better at it then what we westerners think of as \"philosophy\". \n\nAnd as far as religion, I tend to use a more sociological than theological definition. Buddhism is accepted as a religion because it is practiced by many people, not because it is a belief system in the way that Christianity is.\n\nAnd yes, you will find differing views within Buddhism. Everything from \"almost identical to Christianity\" (Pure Land) to \"Quit thinking about it and meditate\" (Zen). While a certain type of Zen is popular in the US (because of an ironically non-Buddhist author, Alan Watts), it isn't very representative of Buddhism in general, especially when getting deeply into the whole \"No Mind\" thing.\n\nProbably the closest thing to a Buddhist \"canon\" is the Tripitaka, which was destroyed by Islamic invaders in all of India so the only surviving copies are from elsewhere. Which, by the way, was why when the Dalai Lama called Islam a \"religion of peace\" it shocked many people. Islamic invaders committed \"religiocide\" by wiping out every Buddhist monk in the entire country of India at one time.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Everything you are experiencing right now is life. Wanting a different experience or more happiness/less sadness will leave you always thirsty.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hi CuriousChristian123,\r\n\r\nBuddhism is an interesting and old religion. It predates Christianity by around 500 years, and occurs roughly the same time as Confucius lived.\r\n\r\nLike Christianity, just as original Christians don't call themselves Christians, original Buddhists don't call themselves Buddhists. They were just followers of the Buddha. \r\n\r\nThe Buddha himself was considered an awakened holy man - although he and his followers were reputed to perform many fantastic miracles, including walking on water.\r\n \r\nThe teachings themselves consider these miracles mundane - where even unenlightened people are capable of performing, and warns people against simply following people who are capable of doing so.\r\n\r\nThere is an order of monks and nuns who largely serve to preserve the teachings.\r\n\r\nThe fortunes of Buddhism has waxed and waned through it's history. Afghanistan used to be a Buddhist empire (that's why there were giant statutes left over for the Talibans to blow up).\r\n\r\nIt has enjoyed a resurgence in the West over the past century because its basic teaching addresses a very modern question: In a world where humankind are largely safe from predators, famine and wars, why are we unhappy?\r\n\r\nThe answer is basically a three-pronged approach:\r\n\r\n1) we have to address the mind's tendency to cause unhappiness. This is paradoxically due to the mind's wish to be happy and fulfilled. One can cultivate their mind through meditation.\r\n\r\n2) secondly, one has to develop wisdom and learn about the basis of the religion/philosophy.\r\n\r\n3) thirdly, one should minimize suffering to others by engaging in upright conduct, and by being kind and all those nice things.\r\n\r\nAs you can see, Buddhism is a very practical in its endeavour of reducing suffering. \r\n\r\nHow applicable is Buddhism to the U.S., particularly it's idea of non-violence, when you are confronted by terrorists? \r\n\r\nThe position of the Buddha is that one cannot fight anger with anger. But then, Jesus said that too.\r\n\r\nBuddhism, in many countries, is practised as a religion. That is - it has all the trappings of religion: a religious order, supported by the laity, with scriptures, festivals, and people who are born into Buddhist families who don't know anything about their faith.\r\n\r\nIn the west, it is less a religion and more a philosophy. Furthermore, due to Buddhism's emphasis on meditation, there is much interest among neuro scientists in the effect of meditation on neuroplasticity. One of Buddhism's promises is that Nirvana, or Nibbana can be experienced \"in this very life\". Perhaps through reprogramming the brain, this is what the Buddha is alluding to.\r\n\r\nI hope this gives you a sense of what Buddhism is, and what types of Buddhists are around.\r\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Outside your Mom... do you have family or friend? You're clearly depressed. And there is a way out. Maintaining strong connections is important. Have you a journal? If you reflect on the daily shit you may be able to appreciate when you do better. Some therapy is at a sliding scale. i'm curious as how far you really sought it out. Last of all, don't hesitate toget back with us. Many of us have done the hard walk... no question is stupid or likely ignored.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "From what you have written, I would advise you to get away from your mother. It sounds like she is the main reason you feel like you do. YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE! You just haven't found what your good at yet. I suggest you take a back pack and your passport and just go! Anywhere you want! You will be amazed at how far you can get and trust me, you will see things that will make you love life. There are some incredible things to see and do and until you are board or have seen them all, then there is no excuse to stop you doing them. Remember, you can do anything you want, you can enjoy life and everything is borrowed so use it while you can.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You're in a bad spot right now, but things *can* change for the better, given time and effort. Don't fall into the trap of thinking your situation is hopeless, that feeds suicidal ideation. It will change, college will come round again, a better job will come sooner or later. Google and see if there are any free counselling services near you. Also, it's good that you want to help people, you could do some volunteering, it's very good for your self esteem and may help give you a broader perspective on life. Things can and will change, don't give in to hopelessness, just because you can't see the way, doesn't mean there isn't a way.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I am wondering where this dissatisfaction with yourself (perhaps self-loathing), has come from. That's what leads to your perception that everybody dislikes you. At least you are able to identify it as a *perception*, rather than be unshakably convinced that it's real. How do you get along at work? Are there people there who you would say you have a good relationship with? And your mother, let's see. How has your upbringing contributed to this feeling now?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "so what i got a 6 months to serve out of a 16 months. my big crime was having 9 grams .3 more than \"personal weight\"\n\nfuck the system", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Here in NC it is thankfully decriminalized...I mean just think about it. It is a PLANT that grows in the ground. Naturally occurring in nature is illegal...they could also say water is illegal too. Why isn't mistletoe illegal since it is poisonous?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "She got off easy compared to michigan, they found No weed, some roach clips. Had to take a blood test, found weed in my system. Got a OUID, (a dui for weed) spent 2 years on probation and paid about 4000 in fines. Macomb County, Michigan.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I am an admin for [/r/AcademicPhil](http://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/) and [/r/PhilofSci](http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience/). The other admins for PhilofSci are doing a remarkable job of focusing on challenging and novel problems related specifically to that discipline (props to sixbillionthsheep and drunkentune for their hard work). \n\nI started AcademicPhil a few months ago because I became rather tired of the redundant self-posts and insipid cartoons that were too frequent on this main reddit. This 'noise' often drowned some of the more detailed conversation so I wanted to create a space for those trained in the discipline to have a place to congregate and share information.\n\nI don't personally believe that reddits for individual philosophers or specific areas of contention are necessarily the best idea as they are *too* niche. I did, however, start the AcadPhil for the purpose of attracting \"practicing philosophers - undergraduate students, graduate students, professors or researchers\" and therefore splitting the community to one degree, but without intending to fracture it.\n\nRight now, there are 445 readers on AcadPhil, not a ton of comments, but generally a good feeling I believe. Just due to my personal orientation, it can be 'Straussian' but certainly not exclusively. There have, for example, [been some good comments on the phil of art](http://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/comments/aag9u/art_or_pathetic_nonsense_spectacle_w_video/).\n\nOne thing that has evolved in AcadPhil is an attention to the *practice* of philosophy - i.e. job postings, discussing tenure, the role of philosophy, conference announcements, self-authored papers, etc. - things that 'punters' wouldn't care about but academics might. \n\nAlso, a lot of people on many reddits complain about Scribd or PDF links, whereas AcadPhil encourages those. People are encouraged to submit their favorite journal articles or philosophical books (I have uploaded a few PDFs of articles I have enjoyed over the years).\n\nI would invite those students or practicing philosophers or academics generally to subscribe, contribute, and comment at: http://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicPhilosophy/\n\nIt can be quiet at times - and I admit not always being able to read most of the articles I have submitted as I am actually working on *academic philosophy* so I can graduate - but I have had some good discussions and enjoy sharing the articles I find and I believe there are others who feel the same. I am pleased to date with AcadPhil, but I admit that is not an objective opinion.\n\nPhilofSci and AcadPhil have an informal 'alliance' of sorts and seek to compliment each other. I would invite subscribers of each reddit to sub to the other. \n\nIf you have any questions, please reply.\n\nnote: edited for clarity.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "I tried to create the Sartre subreddit, but all I got was a can of Spam: http://www.reddit.com/r/Sartre/", "score": 5 }, { "body": "collected so far \n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyofScience+PhilosophyofScience+AcademicPhilosophy+PoliticalPhilosophy+heidegger+wittgenstein+leostrauss+nihilism+PhilosophyOfMind+neurophilosophy+leostrauss+philosophy", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[r/neurophilosophy](http://www.reddit.com/r/neurophilosophy/) is giving it the old college try. It'll take time, but I think people will come around to the virtues of smaller, more focused communities.\n\nashok, I'm digging the Strauss stuff; it's quality material, but I need to read up on the basics before I start contributing myself.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[/r/PhilosophyOfMind/](http://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyOfMind/) is completely empty and only has 4 subscribers.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I have to be on my side in complete serenity. \r\n\r\nI have never been able to fall asleep in a car/train/plane no matter how tired I am.\r\n\r\nI need to be on my side and I can't even spoon/be spooned because I will never fall asleep.\r\n\r\nI actually find this quite handy, as I never fall asleep first when I'm around my drunk mates, so they won't draw on me etc. I can always drive at night even if I haven't slept in 2 days, and I can always stay up late to watch the show everyone else misses because they're too tired.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My favoured sleeping position tends to vary over time. For a few months I'll prefer sleeping on my left side with my face toward the wall with a body pillow in front of me for cushioning. Then maybe for the next few months I'll prefer sleeping on my back with slight support under my left side, lifting me up at a slight angle. Then, most rarely, I'll prefer sleeping on my right side with my back toward the wall and my right arm stretched out straight with my head resting on my arm.\n\nThe one constant all throughout my life though has been the fact that I prefer to have my bed directly up against the wall. I don't know what it is, but I've always felt weird sleeping in a bed that has empty space on both sides. It's not impossible to fall asleep, it just takes a few extra pillows to give me that feeling or sensation of there being something there. Yeah, it's weird.", "score": 3 } ]