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[ { "body": "Its not an option. Don't even entertain the idea because its not an option. Do whatever you need to do. Have a half piece of gum if need be.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Dude, I know how you feel, I'm at the same mark as you and I have the same temptations. My mind is like a Ferengi trying to find any possibility to lure me back into justifying just one smoke. But rule number one is - Don't give in!!! Play it through in your mind. Smoking is just not an option anymore, it's over! \n\nSorry that I can't give you any remedy but I sure know what you talking about.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "They gave me a box of stuff (tshirt, mug, etc.) when I complained that they were selling a shirt with a quote of mine on it without crediting me.\r\n", "score": 30 }, { "body": "They do, indeed, rock. Last year I bought this wand thing that comes with mylar strips, and you float the mylar in the air with the wand. The wand arrived broken, and the woman on the phone told me to just mail it back and she'd send a new one. Well, I put it aside and never got around to mailing in the busted wand, but a couple weeks later a new one came in the mail anyway. Thinkgeek ROCKS!", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I ordered the LED jellyfish lamp a while back and they accidentally messed up my orders with this other guy, so I got ended up getting his stuff (chemistry cocktail set, shirts, and buckyballs). I talked to thinkgeek and they ended up just letting me keep the stuff and sending my my jellyfish tank for free :D\n\n\nI fucking love buckyballs. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I have a feeling they knew these blades were effin' cheap and they gave you free ones so you wouldn't complain about their poor quality on some forum or social website.\n\nAnyway, good for you. I hate their shipping prices, but they still rock.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I would like ThinkGeek a lot more if they would take my money. They refuse to do business with potential customers in Singapore.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My GF got me that WiFi detection T-shirt from thinkgeek. I have to say, it's the first T I've owned that comes with a four-pack of AA batteries.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I love Thinkgeek! They have the coolest stuff and I almost broke the bank shopping there for Christmas presents.\n\nActually, they messed up shipping my last order and I am still waiting for about 4 gifts to arrive that should have been here over two weeks ago (not out of stock, they just screwed up shipping option and address). I'm not looking for a similar handout, but an apology would be nice (yes, I did provide them with feedback about my order).\n\nOops. Did not mean to thread jack. I think it's great what they did for you. \n\n\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I bought two [nom nom nom bags](http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/b91e/) for Christmas gifts this year.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Can Reddit stop with the \"That is all\" once and for all?\n\nBecause it isn't all. THERE IS MORE. THERE IS LOTS MORE. That what all these comments are!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have bought a lot of stuff from them and they have always shipped the order quickly and correctly. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Medically speaking, there has always been myth and rumor suggesting males should be circumcised for health reasons but that's easily dispelled with proper hygiene. Otherwise, I cannot for any reason figure out why or how circumcision got started because quite frankly whomever is responsible for starting the practice was quite sadistic. That being said, I have heard of circumcisions being performed later in life due to conditions like phimosis (tearing/tightening of the foreskin). \n\nIn regards to your unborn child, why not let them choose instead of making an irreversible decision for them?", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Perhaps it was a health concern before the advent of antiseptics, but I don't think that is the case today. It is purely a traditional practice and I think it should be avoided.\n\n", "score": 28 }, { "body": "I'm not making an argument for or against circumcision, but I take some issue with:\n\n>My thought is if we've come all this way, evolutionarily speaking, why in the world is there a need to...\n\nSure, we're doing fine, but we're not perfect. The appendix is still there, some people's tonsils try to kill them, and knees are so poorly evolved they fall apart after any lengthy use. Don't assume every bit of us is on there for a purely beneficial reason.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "If my husband suggested we have a piece of our beautiful baby boy sliced off, I would assume he was crazy and consider divorce. At the most basic level, you are cutting something off which doesn't need to be cut. Circumcision is relatively new actually, and used to be practiced mostly by Jews. In WWII, the easiest way for the Nazis to identify a Jew was to yank down his pants. Circumcision did not become widespread in the western world until they got onto their anti-masturbation kick in the 1950s, and thought it would help prevent it. ", "score": 20 }, { "body": "because we are stupid\n\nedit: don't do it. From your post I assume you're not circumcised. I am. No huge deal really, I guess I like the look of it, but that's probably just what I'm used to... But I keep hearing there are tonnes of nerves in that little bit of skin, which would make sense. Everything feels great in that department, but I always wonder what I'm missing out on without all those extra nerves. I've got no particular complaints, but I bet sensation is better uncircumcised - only makes sense that it would be...", "score": 17 }, { "body": "Generally speaking I am against circumcision of children unless there is a family history of phimosis.\nThat being said, the argument from evolutionary adaption is flawed and quite weak. We also evolved sexual jealousy, an appendix, and a number of other conditions that might be adaptive on the genetic level, while harmful to the human condition. (ie, rape was, or still is, extremely adaptive on the genetic level.)\nI'm all for modifying the body when there is a good reason for it, but an irreversible cosmetic surgery on an infant for the sake of quelling his sexual enjoyment does not seem to be a good reason.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Ok, the truth of the matter is that there are no pros; the main cons are the chance of something going wrong in the process (including a case where an accident led to the penis being completely removed and an unsuccessful gender re-assignment being performed) and a dramatic loss of sexual sensitivity (reported by adult men who have had circumcision after becoming sexually active).\r\n\r\n\r\nThe reasons for performing a circumcision are religious/cultural- like a tattoo or scarification. \r\n\r\n\r\nWhy does your wife want it done?", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Would you consider amputating one of your child's toes? I'm sure it reduces the chance of athlete's foot.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It is unnecessary.\r\n\r\nIt probably started a long time ago because boys/men with foreskins had difficulty living in a dusty/sandy land with no underwear and little to no chance of taking a bath.\r\n\r\nOr, God said so.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "If I have a male child, I will happily explain to him at age (whatever) that if he would like his penis mutilated, he's welcome to go to the hospital and have it done on his own time and dime.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Guys: it's more fun and comfortable to have sex with an uncircumsized guy.. provided he keeps a good level of personal hygene, of course.\n\nMore mobility requires less sticky and icky and potentially irritating lubricants. Possibly most women don't know what they're missing out on lol.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Related to the topic... I restored my foreskin. I threw up a post about it last year: \n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/92oac/i_restored_my_foreskin_ask_me_anything/", "score": 5 }, { "body": "There *no* medical reason to cut off a baby's foreskin. None. It's just a custom now. \n\nPersonally, I feel cutting off bits of genitalia \"because we've always done so\" is bordering on insanity, but what do I know.\n\nIronically, I *did* get circumsized for a good medical reason. Heh.", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">Many people cite health reasons but I've heard that's pretty much horseshit. Anyone know for sure the pros and cons?\n\nYou're asking the wrong crowd. reddit is made of 3 types when it comes to circumcision: Type 1 and 2 are for and against it, respectively, and both deem anyone who isn't in lockstep with them as part of the other camp including those who are part of group 3 who don't give a flying fuck.\n\nI will give some advice for here though: ignore the user LordVoldemort. He makes shit up and resorts to vitriol as the first step, and when he gets downvoted for it deletes the comment and reposts it verbatim to (in his words) [\"throw out the downvotes\"](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8z16w/are_you_an_atheist_who_ignores_all_the_stridency/c0ax4jf?context=5).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If we evolved with an appendix or tonsils, why are we cutting them out?\n\nIf we evolved with a self-detaching umbilical cord, why do we cut it off?\n\nJust because we evolved with it doesn't mean we need it, so that's a poor argument. That being said, just as there's no significant reason to keep the foreskin, there's no significant reason to get rid of it either. As long as the circumcision is done right and keeps the frenulum, there's no real loss in sensation.\n\nIf you live in the United States, the vast majority of boys your son's age will be circumcised. That's the reality of it. I am not circumcised and I grew up being \"different\" from all the other boys in the locker room, other men women might have slept with, etc. Fair or not, it makes me \"weird\" and for these social reasons, had I the choice to do over again, I would have preferred to be circumcised at birth.\n\nMine is not a popular opinion 'round these parts, though. **Edit**: As you can see.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Admittedly I never spent much time looking at penises, but I'd never even heard of circumcision until I was in high school, and I'd never realized it was remotely common until I read about it well into adulthood. Reading over the Wikipedia article, it seems like the medical benefits of circumcision are contentious, and mostly consist of reducing the infection rates of certain illnesses by a few percentage points. While there are benefits, the AMA has said that they're insufficient to justify circumcision as a routine procedure for all boys.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Because the credit card the tenant pays with will charge 2 or 3%. \n\nAlso I assume most landlords to be between 50-70 years old, which means they would have to hire someone to build a 'website' what ever that is.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I am a small time landlord and I have looked into the option. I decided to not offer it because it is too expensive.\n\nCredit card processing costs about 2-3% of the amount paid. So, if your rent is $1,000/mo, that's $20-$30 coming out of my pocket, for little benefit to me.\n\nSome larger complexes in my area do it, but it's not something that I am interested in doing.\n\nHowever, I do offer my tenants automated monthly draws from their checking account. It's not bill pay, it's like direct deposit but in reverse. That costs about $0.50 to process, and I get paid automatically so I like it.\n\nThere you go.\n\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My mother owns 6 condominiums and has done things the same way for years. She also calls me every time she needs to send an email, or open an email attachment. If she tried to work out online payments, even with me helping her, I think her head would explode.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Because landlords prefer you to be late with rent, that way they can bill you late charges. Making payments faster and easier would only ensure rent was paid on time if it were to be paid.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Huh?!? In several countries in which I've lived (excluding the USA), I've always paid the rent via electronic fund transfer (from my account to their account). I'm suprised the government doesn't forbid cash payment (or cheques), since it cannot keep track of money transfers for taxation purposes. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's better to regret the things you *did* do than to regret the things you *didn't* do.\n\nI say go for it. And let us know how the change goes, if you're still online when you get there. My wife and I have also bought a place far away from the big city we live in currently - it sounds like you're a few years further along the goal we set ourselves.\n\nGood luck, and remember: you will always have the option to move back to an office job if country living doesn't appeal to you.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Go forth and press the reset button. Demonstrate what life without debt is like for all we material fools. Enjoy your small happy house and remember to use your local library. Really. Not just for the books, but for the community of people who would probably understand the what and why of your situation. \n\nOh, and yeah - figure out some kind of oh noes health insurance option. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Go to the hardware store. Find a ball-peen hammer. Hit yourself repeatedly in the head.\n\nThis will be more productive than your idea.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Somehow it didn't die out as fast as a lot of other things. \"I'm Rick James, bitch!\" comes to mind. That fucking joke spread like wildfire, and got old after one day.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You're a percussionist. Deal with it.\r\n\r\nI have a friend named Neil who gets invited to parties with the same line: \"I wanna party with you, Neil.\"\r\n\r\nHe manages to get by.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* The Mind Robber for Troughton\n* Ambassadors of Death for Pertwee\n* City of Death for Tom Baker\n* Earthshock for Davison\n* Vengeance on Varos for Colin Baker\n* Rememberence of the Daleks for McCoy", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I prefer [TextMate](http://macromates.com/), personally. I'm not sure if it has everything you're looking for, but it is a very feature-rich program.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I'm firmly in the TextMate camp. What it does it does fantastically well. It has bundles for everything you specified and more. I can write SQL queries and run them directly against a MySQL server. I can mange version controlled files in just about any system (svn, git, cvs, mercurial, etc...). I've got support for Ack, markdown, diff, ctags, xml, and much more.\n\nOn top of that its the easiest to customize for yourself. Using snippets you can pre-set common tasks. Getting in to a little more complex writing you can really expand it to do anything you want it to do. \n\nI manage two bundles for TextMate: one to help in WordPress development and the other as a time tracker that I use everyday for managing my hours on projects. It really is the most flexible editor out there. Anything you can script you can make TextMate do.\n\nUnfortunately it is missing the SFTP support. Fortunately on that one most FTP editors have support for \"edit with\" which can pass the file editing off to a specific editor. Upon save the file is uploaded to the server.\n\nFor code completion of your own classes I think you'll be stuck using something that is Eclipse based and using the Zend PHP extensions. TextMate can approximate this a little bit with the ctags support, but its nothing like you're used to from Zend - I was smitten with Zend 5.5 and hate that they discontinued the native client. I hate eclipse. Too bulky. Too cluttered. Too much time to just get in and start working. The upside is that it (and anything based on it) can pretty much be set up to do anything under the sun.\n\nOne last downside of TextMate is that its multi-file search and replace will leave you wanting. Keep a copy of TextWrangler around for that. In fact, just keep a copy of TextWrangler around. You'll want it for when you have to open ridiculously large files as well as it is the most capable of all the Mac editors in that respect.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I use [Komodo Edit](http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/). It's free, cross-platform, open-source and does everything I need including code completion. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I can't remember life before I learned cmd-click. And after that, I learned that middle clicking does the same thing, and now I only open links in tabs. JUST BECAUSE I CAN. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "A rapist, a murderer, a necrophiliac, an arsonist and a masochist are all in a asylum sitting around a lunch table outside. The rapist sees a small kitten through the fence and tells the group \"I would love to rape that little kitten\". Then murderer says \"and after you're done raping it, I'll murder that little kitten.\" The necrophiliac, aroused by the thought of a dead kitten says \"and I'll rape it again after you kill it.\" The arsonist, not wanting to be left out says \"and I'll burn the corpse after you rape it.\" Then there is a long pause and everyone looks over to the masochist who says \"meow\". ", "score": 184 }, { "body": "Did you hear about the corduroy pillows?\n\nYou haven't? Really?\n\nBecause they are making headlines everywhere!", "score": 166 }, { "body": "A drunkard is going through the daily motions at his local bar. He orders a shot of whiskey and downs it in one gulp. He then turns to a table in the corner, where three large, intimidating brutes are discussing motorcycles and mustaches, or what have you. The drunkard points out one of the three gentlemen and exclaims, \"Hey, you! I fucked your mother last night!\" \n\nThe man looks up from his conversation with a slightly peeved look on his face, but lets the comment slide and goes back to his chat. The drunkard orders up another shot of whiskey, downs it and singles out the second guy. \"You! I pounded your mother from behind last night for hours, and she loved every second of it!\" \n\nThe man moves to get up out of his seat and confront the drunkard, but the other two men hold him back. Eventually he grunts and sits back at his table. The drunkard has one more shot and turns to the third man. \"Hey, you! I rode your mother like a bull last night! Then I hit it from the back! Then we sixty nined! And I video taped the whole damn thing so that whore can never deny it!\" \n\nFinally, the three men, having had enough, get up from their table, walk over to the drunkard, pick him up by the shoulders and say: \"I think you've had a bit too much to drink, dad. It's time to go home.\"", "score": 160 }, { "body": "Heard this from Gilbert Gottfried. \n\nGuy walks into a bank and says to the teller *\"I want to open a fucking bank account.\"* \n\"Sir, I'd be happy to help you, but please do not use that type of language.\" \n*\"Miss, I want to open a fucking bank account right now.\"* \n\"Please sir, if you continue on this way I'll have to get the manager.\" \n*\"Whatever it takes, I still want to open a fucking bank account.\"* \nThe teller briskly leaves and then returns with her manager who then says, \"Sir, what seems to be the problem here?\" \n*\"Listen mister, I want to open a fucking bank account for five million dollars.\"* \n\"Oh, and is this cunt giving you a problem?\"", "score": 120 }, { "body": "\"I'm sorry Mr. Jones, but we mixed up your wife's test results with another patient. As a result, we're not sure if she has Alzheimer's or AIDS\".\r\n\r\n\"Well, that's a big mixup. How can we figure it out\".\r\n\r\n\"Take her on a ride to the woods, and drop her off. If she finds her way home, don't fuck her\".", "score": 112 }, { "body": "Wendy and Tom get engaged. Tom, as an engagement present to his beau, decides to get a tattoo of Wendy's name on his penis. At first it seems like a great idea, but due to size restraints the name Wendy only fits on Tom's erect penis, so the tattoo simply reads \"Wy\" when flaccid. Before leaving the tattoo parlor, Tom goes off to have a tinkle. While standing at the urinal, he notices a dreadlocked rasta peeing next to him with WY on his penis as well. Wanting to strike up a conversation, Tom points and asks:\n\n\"Oh, does yours say Wendy too?\"\n\nThe rasta finds the situation a bit strange, but laughs it off and responds:\n\n\"Nah, nah. Mine says 'Welcome to Jamaica mon, have a nice day'\"", "score": 99 }, { "body": "An old man shuffles into the confessional and sits down. The priest slides open the little window and says 'can I help you?'\n\n'I'm 83 years old, with a wife of 60 years, 4 children, 6 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren,' says the old man, 'and I just picked up 2 teenaged girls hitchhiking, took them to a motel, and made love to them for 3 hours.'\n\n'Well, are you sorry for your sins?' asked the priest.\n\n'What sins?' asked the old man.\n\n'What sins?!?' cried the priest in astonishment. 'What kind of Catholic *are* you?'\n\n'I'm not Catholic, I'm Jewish.' said the old man.\n\n'Well then, why are you telling *me* this?' asked the priest.\n\n'I'm telling *everyone*.' replied the old man.", "score": 98 }, { "body": "A man walked into a bar with his pet monkey. While the man bellies up and orders a drink, the monkey jumps off his shoulder and runs across the bar, across the room to the pool table. The monkey grabs the cue ball, and promptly swallows it. The bartender turns to the man and says \"You sure he should be eating that?\" and the man says \"He eats what he wants\".\n\nThe next day, the same man comes in. He bellies up to the bar, and the monkey jumps off his shoulder, runs across the bar to where the bartender is standing. The monkey reaches across the bar, grabs a maraschino cherry, gently sticks it in its butt, pulls it out and then eats it. The bartender turns to the man and expresses his disgust, and the man replies \"He learned his lesson yesterday, now he measures everything before he eats it\".", "score": 97 }, { "body": "A priest, a rapist, and a pedophile walk into a bar... and that's just the first guy. \n\nYes, I stole this from the roast of Denis Leary. His childhood priest told this joke.", "score": 81 }, { "body": "A dog goes into a Western Union office and says to the clerk, \"I'd like to send a telegram.\"\n\n\"OK, please write your message on this card,\" the clerk replies.\n\nThe dog scribbles on the card and hands it back. The clerk reads the card; it says \"woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof.\"\n\n\"Oh, hold on here, sir,\" he says, \"You have nine woofs here. You get ten words for the same price, might as well add one more woof.\"\n\nThe dog replies \"But then it wouldn't make any sense!\"", "score": 63 }, { "body": "I was walking my dog through the graveyard near my house the other morning. A gentleman walks towards me in the opposite direction.\n\n\"Morning!\" he says.\n\n\"Oh no,\" I reply \"I'm just walking my dog\"", "score": 59 }, { "body": "A guy is driving, and at a stop sign, rear-ends the car in front of him. The door of the other car opens and out steps...a dwarf.\n\nThe guy who hit him is sitting there in disbelief. \n\n The dwarf walks up to the car with a scowl on his face. He looks up at the other guy and says, \"I am NOT happy!\"\n\nSo the other guy says, OK, which one *are* you?", "score": 53 }, { "body": "A jewish boy went to his father and asked \"Can I have five dollars?\"\n\nHis Father was stunned. \"Four dollars?! What are you going to do with three dollars?!\"", "score": 52 }, { "body": "A man walks into a bar and orders 6 shots of whiskey. He downs all of them instantly. The bartender asks, \"Whats's the occasion?\"\r\n\r\nHe replies, \"My first blowjob.\"\r\n\r\n\"Oh, congratulations. Have the next one on the house.\"\r\n\r\n\"No thanks,\" he says. \"If the first six didn't wash the taste out of my mouth then neither will the seventh.\"", "score": 50 }, { "body": "A guy is walking down the street with some chicken wire under his arm. His elderly neighbor sees him and asks what he has. The guy replies, \"Its chicken wire and I'm going to catch some chickens.\" His neighbor says, \"You fool, you can't catch chickens with chicken wire!\" Later that night, he sees the guy walking down the street dragging 12 chickens. The next day he sees him walking down the street with some duct tape under his arm. Once again the neighbor asks what the guy is up to. The guy says he has some duct tape and he is going to catch some ducks. The neighbor yells, \"You fool, you can't catch ducks with duct tape!\" Sure enough later that night, he sees the guy walking down the street dragging 12 ducks behind him. The next day, he sees the guy walking with something else under his arm. He asks what it is and the guy says, \"They're pussy willow branches.\" Wide-eyed, the neighbor replies, \"Hold on, I'll get my hat!\"", "score": 46 }, { "body": "A young woman is standing on the edge of a roadside cliff crying is her eyes out. Her boyfriend, after searching all night finally finds her. He gets out of his car and approaches her. He says, \"what's wrong Jennifer?\" \n\nJennifer says, \"I'm pregnant Tom! My parents hate me, my life is in shambles, and I think I'm just gonna end it right here and jump off this cliff!\"\n\nTom pauses for a moment, pats her on the back and says \"God damn Jennifer, not only are you a good fuck but you're a good sport, too.\"", "score": 45 }, { "body": "Theres a group of soccer moms chatting during brunch one morning. One is brunette, one is a redhead, and one is a blonde; all of them have daughters in high school.\n\"You'll never guess what I found under my daughters bed\" says the brunette. \"A six pack of beer. My daughter might be an alcoholic!\"\n\nThe redhead places her hand on the brunette's shoulder in an act of comfort. \"Well you'll never guess what I found under MY daughter's bed: Marijuana! I can't believe *my* daughter is a drug addict!\"\n\nThe blonde woman cries. \"Well under MY daughter's bed, I found a pack of condoms.\"\n\nThe other two women gasp.\n\n\"I know. I can't believe she has a penis.\"\n", "score": 43 }, { "body": "A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when suddenly a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off completely. When the police arrived at the scene, the lawyer was complaining bitterly about the damage to his precious BMW. \"Officer, look what they've done to my Beeeemer!!!\", he whined.\n\n\"You lawyers are so materialistic, you make me sick!!!\" retorted the officer, \"You're so worried about your stupid BMW, that you didn't even notice that your left arm was ripped off!!!\"\n\n\"Oh my gaaad....\", replied the lawyer, finally noticing the bloody left shoulder where his arm once was, \"Where's my Rolex???!!!\"", "score": 41 }, { "body": "* Have you heard about entropy?\n It's just not what it used to be.\n* Heisenberg is driving down the highway and is pulled over. The cop walks up to his car and asks \"Do you know how fast you were going?\" Heisenberg replies \"No, but I know where I am.\"", "score": 41 }, { "body": "Three cowboys are sitting around the campfire telling their tallest tales:\n\"Nah just the other day I wrastled a bull to the ground by his horns with my bare hands\", the first cowboy said.\n\n\"Aw, that's nuthin!\", the second cowboy said. \"I was herdin cattle in some tall grasslands and a 10 foot rattler jumped out at me from behind, without warnin'. I heard it in the wind, turned around with my knife, sliced off its head in mid-air and ate it for dinner! I got it's head here on my belt-buckle.\"\n\nThe third cowboy sat there quietly, slowly stirring the fire with his penis.", "score": 40 }, { "body": "A boy was playing with himself in the bathtub when his father walked in and said, “Son, if you don't stop doing that, you'll go blind.” The boy said, “Dad, I'm over here.\"", "score": 37 }, { "body": "A man is pissing at the urinal when he notices a midget on a step ladder to his right staring at his pieces.\r\n\r\nThe midget states, \"Those are the nicest balls I've ever seen.\"\r\n\r\n\"Thanks,\" replies the man and he turns his head back towards his business.\r\n\r\nThe midget says, \"Do you mind if I hold those beautiful balls?\"\r\n\r\nThe man is a little weirded out, but sees no harm in letting this little fellow hold his balls for a second.\r\n\r\n\"OK,\" says the man.\r\n\r\nThe midget reaches out and grabs both his balls firmly, one in each hand and says, \"Now, hand over your wallet or I jump off this ladder!\"\r\n\r\n", "score": 35 }, { "body": "Two explorers ventured into 'forbidden' territory in the jungle.\n\nThey awaken one morning surrounded by the local warriors.\n\nBrought back to the 'Chief', he tells them they have two options.-- Death, or Bomba.\n\nThe first trespasser says, \"Well, I don't want to die for trespassing, chief, so I pick \"Bomba\".\n\nThe chief gets slowly to his feet, thrusts his fist in the air, and yells \"**BOMBA!**. And the warriors all cheer and chant as the guy is bound, ass in the air, over a stump, where all the warriors sodomize him and slap him with fish from the river.\n\nSo when they're through, they bring the first guy over and throw him at his buddy's feet. He's a quivering mass of demented pain.\n\nThe second guy says, \"Chief, I can't cope with all that. I choose death.\n\n\nAnd the Chief stands up slowly and says, \"Death! By **Bomba!**.", "score": 33 }, { "body": "Two Orthodox Jews got to see Marcus Pincus, the tailor, for a new suit of clothes.\nWhen they get there, they ask for traditional black suits, but insist that Pincus not use anything less than the finest black material. Pincus replies that he'll only use the material that the nuns wear to make the black suits.\n\nAbout two weeks later, the guys pick up their new suits and wear them the next day. While walking down the street, they encounter two nuns wearing habits. The Jews stop the nuns and politely ask if they can feel the material. The nuns comply and one Jew turns to the other and whispers something in the other guy's ear and they both walk away.\n\nThe nuns are left baffled, and one says to the other, \"What was that all about?\" The second nun says, \"I have no idea, but they said something in Latin.\" The first nun says, \"Why would the Jews speak Latin?\" The second one says, \"I don't know, but it sounded like Marcus Pincus fuctus.\"\n", "score": 29 }, { "body": "A trailer park girl asks her mom,\"when you swallow cum,is that how you get pregnant?\" \"No baby,\" says the mom,\"that's how you pay the rent.\"", "score": 29 }, { "body": "A cucumber, an olive and a penis are talking. \r\n\r\nThe cucumber says \"I hate my life, when I get big fat and juicy they cut me up and put me in salad.\" \r\n\r\nThe olive says \"That's nothing, when I get big fat and juicy they cut me up and put me on pizza.\" \r\n\r\nThe penis says \"You think you have it bad, when I get big fat and juicy they put me in a bag, throw me in a cave, shut the door and leave me there till I throw up\"", "score": 27 }, { "body": "A man walks into a doctor's office screaming.\r\n\r\n\"Doctor Doctor!\" he says. \"I have five penises!!!\"\r\n\r\n\"By the gods!\" the doctor replies. \"How do you wear pants?\"\r\n\r\n\"Oh, they fit like a glove.\"", "score": 27 }, { "body": "**What's the difference between roast beef and pea soup?\r\n\r\n**Anyone can roast beef, but I bet you can't pea soup! (hahaha)", "score": 25 }, { "body": "MacGregor was making his way into town one day, hauling his usual tools and a few fowls to sell at the market. In one hand, he held an anvil, in the other was a goose in a bucket, and under each arm was a chicken. He hadn't got far when he espied a fair red-haired lass leaning on a fence near the road.\n\n\"Mornin' to ye, lass!\" said MacGregor, \"Do ye need a walk into town?\"\n\n\"Aye, but I'll not go with ye MacGregor. I fear ye may ravage me on the road!\" Exclaimed the lass.\n\n\"Ah, but how would I do that?\" replied MacGregor, \"I've got a goose in a bucket, an anvil and a chicken under each arm. I've no hands left to grab ye!\"\n\n\"It's easy, MacGregor, you put the goose on the ground, put the bucket on top of the goose, the anvil on the bucket,\" replied the Lass with a grin, \"and I'll hold the chickens.\"", "score": 19 }, { "body": "What happened to the dyslexic insomniac agnostic?\n\nHe stayed up all night wondering if there really was a dog. ", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I used to work at an orange juice factory. It was great work but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "For Christmas the Travolta family all decided to get each other gaming consoles. So John got an XBox, his wife got a PS3 and his son had a Wii Fit", "score": 15 }, { "body": "A piece of rope walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a beer. The barkeep replies, \"Getouttahere! We don't serve your kind!\" Dejected, the piece of rope exits the bar, tussles his hair, and ties himself into a knot. He walks back in and orders a drink again. This time, the bartender thinks nothing of it but as he reaches for an empty glass, he says, \"Hey! Weren't you that guy that just came in here?\" The rope replies, \"Nope, I'm a frayed knot.\"", "score": 15 }, { "body": "**What did the Mexican say when he was crushed by a house during a hurricane?\r\n\r\n**Get off me, homes!", "score": 14 }, { "body": "A married guy walks into his bedroom at night with a sheep under his arm and says, \"This is the pig I have to fuck when you don't give me any.\"\n\nHis wife says, \"I'll have you know that is not a pig.\"\n\nGuy says, \"I'll have you know I wasn't talking to you.\" ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "A man's car breaks down one rainy night on an old country road so he goes to the first farmhouse he sees and knocks, intending to ask if he can use their phone to call a tow truck. Nobody answers, but the door moves inward slightly, so he peeks his head in to ask if anyone is home. He sees something so startling that he immediately closes the door and hikes to the next farmhouse.\n\nAt this house they answer immediately and invite him in to use the phone and have some coffee while he is waiting. Over coffee, he shares what he saw next door.\n\n\"There was a man and a woman on a couch, naked and facing each other. She was yanking her nipples up and down, and he was masturbating himself and pouring a cup of water over his head!\"\n\n\"Oh, that's just the Johnsons.\" the farmer replies, \"They're both deaf as doornails. She was tellin' him to go milk the cows and he said fuck you, it's raining!\"", "score": 13 }, { "body": "A guy walks into the doctor's office. The waiting room is full. He taps loudly on the glass partition.\n\n\"I NEED TO SEE THE DOCTOR!\"\n\nThe nurse at the front desk is taken aback by his loudness, but asks nonetheless, \"What seems to be the problem?\"\n\n\"IT'S MY DICK!\", he announces to everyone within earshot.\n\n\"Sir, please, the room is full and there are children present. Show a little respect. Couldn't you just say you're here because of your ear?\"\n\nThe man, angered, storms out. Not five minutes later he returns, walks up to the glass and raps loudly.\n\n\"Yes sir, may I help you?\"\n\n\"I WANT TO SEE THE DOCTOR. IT'S MY EAR!\"\n\n\"And what is wrong with your ear, sir?\"\n\n\"I CAN'T PISS OUT OF IT!\"", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Three brothers wanted to take the youngest to a party to get him out of the house and have some fun.\r\nHowever the youngest did not want to go because he had a hair-lip.\r\nThe other brothers finally convinced him to go, so they loaded up and headed to the party. \r\nThe youngest sits in the corner afraid to mingle with any girls because of his hair-lip.\r\nThen he spots this beautiful girl across the room, they make eye contact and he notices that she has a wooden eye.\r\nShe rushes over to him and asks:\r\n\"Would you like to dance with me?\"\r\nThe boy full with excitement jumps up and yells,\r\n\"would I!?!\"\r\nThe girl, now upset, yells back,\r\n\"Hair-lip!!\"", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Man walks into a lesbian bar, says to the massive tattooed blonde six footer at the bar 'would you like to hear a Blonde joke?'.\nShe looks at him angrily and says 'See that blonde sitting next to you? Well she's a black belt in karate, that blonde by the window? She's a marine. The two blonde bouncers over there by the door, well they're man-hating female cage fighters. Now, do you still want to tell your joke?'\n\nMan says 'Fuck that, I'm not explaining the punchline 5 times!'.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "What does Tiger's incident say about his ethnic background?\r\n\r\nThe black part of him bought the escalade; the Asian part crashed it.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "This is the true story of George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi, who was going to bed when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the shed. George opened the door to go turn off the light but saw there were people in the shed in the process of stealing things.\nHe immediately phoned the police, who asked \"Is someone in your house?\" and George said no and explained the situation. Then they explained that all patrols were busy, and that he should simply lock his door and an officer would be there when available.\nGeorge said, \"Okay,\" hung up, counted to 30, and phoned the police again.\n\"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people in my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I've just shot them all.\"\nThen he hung up. Within five minutes three squad cars, an Armed Response unit, and an ambulance showed up. Of course, the police caught the burglars red-handed. \nOne of the policemen said to George: \"I thought you said that you'd shot them!\"\n\nGeorge said, \"I thought you said there was nobody available!\"", "score": 10 }, { "body": "In an old Italian Forum Luigi is sitting with some of his friends drinking wine when he suddenly says,\n\n\"You know what annoys me? For 35 years I've been climbing up and down that mountain, cutting down the most beautiful small trees and carrying them back down, and then making intricate toys for our children, and not once has anyone ever called me, Luigi the Toymaker.\n\n\"You know what annoys me even more? For 45 years I've been lugging my heavy wooden boat over rocks and fishing in the worst weather, braving vicious storms so we have fresh fish to eat, and not once has anyone ever called me, Luigi the Fisherman.\n\n\"One time I fuck a goat.\"", "score": 10 }, { "body": "A man walks into a bar and see a beautiful woman sitting alone. He calls over the bartender and asks him if he knows who the women is. The bartender tells him the the lady is the new proctologist in town and gives the man her name. The next week the man makes an appointment to see her at her office.\n \n'Well what seems to be the problem you're having today?\" asks the beautiful doctor.\n\n\"I have been having a terrible pain in my gut all week long.\" says the man. \"I hope you can help.\"\n\n\"Well, lets get you up on the table and take a look inside.\", says the doc. \n\nWith that, the doctor inserts a proctoscope in the man's anus and begins her exam.\n\n\"Well no wonder you have a pain in your stomach!\", exclaims the doctor. \"You have a dozen red roses shoved up your ass.\"\n\n\"Read the card! Read the card!\" cries the man. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\"Did you hear about that speech impediment those Nazi roofers came down with?\"\n\n\"Yes. Shingler's Lisp\"", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Did you hear the one about the guy who was upset that he sent a picture of his penis to his entire address book?\n\nCost him a fortune in stamps.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "A guy walks into a bar. He goes to the bartender and says \"set me up five shots of whiskey\". As the bartender fills each one the guy grabs it and drinks it down.\nThe bartender says \"man, you're drinking pretty hard.\"\n\"You'd drink like this too if you had what I had\" replies the guy.\n\"It must be something awful,\" says the bartender \"what do you have?\"\n\n\"Fifty cents\"\n\nsisboombah!", "score": 8 }, { "body": "A bunch of friends went to a strip bar,after been there for a while\r\none of them gets really excited and decided to go home,When he\r\ngets into his bedroom he found his wife sleeping so he grabs two\r\naspirine tablets and put them in her mouth,she immediattly wakes\r\nup and ask him:WHAT HAPPEN TO YOU,WHAT DID YOU PUT IN YOU MOUTH !!!??,and the guy answers,Two aspirine tablets and she yells\r\nback :BUT WHY?... I DON'T HAVE A HEADACHE !\r\nand the guy says......That's all I wanted to hear..", "score": 7 }, { "body": "A man wearing nothing but a thin layer plastic wrap runs into a psychiatrists office.\n\nThe psychiatrist takes one look at him and says \"I can clearly see your nuts.\" ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "What's this.....\r\n(wheel chair motion) (smack forehead) (wheel chair motion) (smack forehead)(wheel chair motion) (smack forehead).....\r\n\r\nSpecial Olympics: Hurdles", "score": 7 }, { "body": "[This](http://www.hulu.com/watch/93107/the-tonight-show-with-conan-obrien-norm-macdonald-part-2) was the best joke of 2009 told by the great Norm Macdonald.\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Pirate walks into a bar wearing only a wooden ship's steering wheel on his crotch.\n\nAfter having a few drinks, the bartender dares to ask, \"Did you know there's a steering wheel down there?\"\n\n\"Aye!\" He says, \"and its driving me nuts!\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A vampire walks into a vampire bar. He sits down and says \"Bartender, I'll have a glass of B- blood\". The bartender slides him a glass of blood. A second vampire walks in to the bar and sits down. He says \"Bartender, I need a glass of O- blood\". The bartender gets him a glass of blood. A third vampire walks in and sits down. He yells out \"Bartender, I need a glass of water\". The bar goes silent and everyone stares at the third vampire. He holds up a bloody tampon and says \"I'm making tea\". ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A man was touring an Indian reservation and was listening to the chief talk about their traditions and culture. The man asked \"How do you come up with the names of your children?\"\n\nThe native replied, \"When baby is born, man steps out of tipi and names the first thing he sees. This is how we named my daughters, Running Doe and Quiet Brook, as well as my son, Two Dogs Fucking\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "So it's the end of the month and a cop is short on his drunk driving tickets for the month so he decides to go stake out the popular bars in town. \n\nHe parks his cruiser across the street from one of the busiest bars and waits for closing time. Surely enuff when the bar closes four guys come out one of them can barely stand up. He slowly makes his way to his car tripping over his own feet a handfull of times on the way and then leans on the side of the car while he fiddles with the keys. Trying to unlock the doors the man sets off his alarm 4 times in a row before finally opening the door and sitting down. As soon as the man puts the car in reverse the cop turns on his light sand pulls him over. \n\nCop walks up to the window and asks the man for a breathelizer test, the man agrees and blows a 0. The cop kinda confused asks the man to repeat the test, he again blows a 0. The cop gets this dumb founded look when the man says.\n\n\"What seems to be the problem officer?\"\n\n\"Well judging by the way you exited the bar I was sure you were drunk.\"\n\n\"Oh no, not tonight sir, I'm the designated decoy\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm sick of people calling me racist. \n\nI'm not racist. \n\nRacism is a crime. \n\nCrime is for black people.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "After two weeks of constant sex on their honeymoon, a new bride is eager to show off her culinary skills to her new husband, so she spends all day cooking an elaborate 7 course meal upon their arrival at home and prepares a luxurious table spread. \n\nThe newlywed husband returns from work and, eager to resume the honeymoon activity, sweeps his arm across the table and takes his wife right then and there and proceeds to stay up all night doing the same. The wife is exhausted, but the next day, she thinks about all the wasted food and tries again to please her husband with a gourmet meal. The husband comes home, sweeps all the food and table settings off the table and spends all night having sex with his wife. Day three, same thing. This goes on for the whole week, on Friday night, the husband comes home from work to find his wife, stark naked, standing at the top of the steps. \n\nAs he walks in, he asks \"What are you doing?\" She slides down the banister and when she gets to the bottom, she smiles and says \"I'm just heating up dinner.\"\n\n \n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Two sheepherders are driving through town. One says, \"So, have you ever made a U-turn?\"\r\nThe other one says,\"No, but I made one arch her back a few times.'", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Hopefully this wasn't posted yet:\n\nAn old man from a small rural town has some business he needs to take care of in a big city. His wife passed away quite some time back and, while being in the city, decides he'll make the most of it and stop by a bordello.\n\nArriving at the bordello, he picks the youngest and prettiest woman he can find. After a couple of hours of rough sex...:\nOld man to the prostitute: \"OK my child, I won't be seeing you for a couple of hours\".\nThe prostitute, being surprisingly exhausted by now: \"Are you going to take a nap now sir?\".\nOld man: \"Why no my child, I'm just going to turn you over for a bit\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "A doctor, a priest, a lawyer, and an engineer go golfing. They end up playing behind a group of blind golfers. The doctor remarks, \"I have a optometrist friend. I'll give him a call and see if he can help these guys.\" The priest says, \"How unfortunate. I'll pray for these poor men.\" The lawyer ponders, \"I wonder if they were injured? I could help them sue those responsible.\" The engineer exclaims, \"Can't they fucking play at night‽\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "q. What's the difference between a Ferrari and a prostitute?\na. I don't have a Ferrari locked in my garage.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "What would happen if your donkey ate the legs off my rooster? You would have two feet of my cock in your ass.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "A young woman in her 30's makes her way to the grocery store counter to pay for her items. The store clerk looks and analyses her putting a single microwave dinner, a cosmo magazine, a bottle of water and one chocolate bar on the counter. As he's ringing up her purchases, he looks at her and asks her ''You must be single? Right?'' She looks at him, puzzled and intrigued and then replies to him '' Ya!! How did you know that?!'' He replies ''Because you're fucking ugly!''", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Two hydrogen atoms are talking.\n\nOne says to the other, \"I think I lost my electron!\" In reply the second hydrogen atom says, \"are you sure?\" Then the first says \"Yes, I'm positive!\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My brother apparently made this up.\n\nHow does Blackbeard stay in such great shape?\n\nHe does Piratees. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Did you see that article in the paper recently about an actress who went crazy and stabbed her maid to death? I can't quite remember her name... Reese something.\n\n*Reese Witherspoon?*\n\nNo, Reese with a knife.\n\nHah.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "How are women and tornadoes similar? When they come they are loud and wet. When they leave they'll take your house and car. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "An Chinese man walks into an optometrist's office complaining of poor vision.\r\n\r\nAfter the exam the doctor says, \"Sir, the problem is that you have a cataract\".\r\n\r\nTo which the Chinaman replies \"Doctor it's not possible, I drive a Rincoln\".", "score": 3 }, { "body": "if people with big tits work at hooters where do people with one leg work?\n.....\n.....\n.....\n....\nIHOP! :D", "score": 3 }, { "body": "A social worker, a lawyer, a priest, and 100 school kids are on a boat, and it starts to sink.\n\nThe social worker says... \nWe have to save the kids !\n\nThe lawyer says...\nFuck the kids !\n\nThe priest says...\nDo we have time?\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Q: How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?\nA: It's a pretty obscure number, I doubt you've even heard of it.\n\nQ: How many militant feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?\nA: All of them. One to screw in the lightbulb and the rest to suck my dick.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "For cricket fans:\n\nA man is in an important business meeting when he gets a message that his wife has gone into labour, so as soon as he can he runs out of the office and rings the midwife. In his haste, he dials the wrong number, and ends up calling his friend who's watching the cricket.\n\n\"How's it going?\" he blurts as soon as the phone is picked up.\n\n\"It's going great, mate, it's going great. We've got three out and we expect to get the rest out before lunchtime. The last one was a duck!\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The barman says \"Hey Rene, want a beer?\" Descartes says \"No, I think not\", and disappears.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Guy goes into a bar, sits and says to the bartender \" I could fuck any girl in here tonight\", bartender says \" You seem pretty cocky, what makes you think that?\", guy says \"Because I'm a Rapist\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Little Johnny comes to the door on halloween dressed as a pirate.\n\nThe matronly lady exclaims,\"My goodness, a pirate! But where are your buccaneers?\n\n\"Right here on my buccan head\", replied the little shit.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sure =) of course it is possible. That is what Buddhism is all about =) The Buddha says that this happiness is attainable by non attachment; when clinging to all ephemeral wants and desires has ceased, one can then experience a liberation that is so total and complete that it does not hinge on anything. \n\nBut do entertain the thought that once you are released from all worldly connections and comparisons, then what can be defined as joy or not joy?", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I realised long ago that this was needed, so I just set up my [own sub reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/citricsquid) and test stuff there, takes a few seconds to do and is a huge help. Preview would be cool, but I use this as a workaround and suits me fine. \n\nProbably easy enough to put it together with greasemonkey or something, but would need to steal the reddit parsing code (although it's just markdown). ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "A Pro photographer is one that earns money with his photography. That's all.\n\nEdit: To be clear: having a Pro Flickr account doesn't work.", "score": 105 }, { "body": "That lady sounds a bit off. There is no such thing as holding your camera wrong as long as you're not dropping and breaking it. There isn't anyone who can really tell the difference between a photo taken with a D40 and a D80. She's hiding behind gear and textbook advice to make up for the fact she's not getting the photos she wants. Photography is about trapping light as influenced by a scene. The D40 is also an exceptionally well performing camera, and will sometimes [outperform](http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1034&message=23142645) the D80", "score": 24 }, { "body": "> When I was cold I retreated into a bar and a girl approached me (after seeing my camera) with her D80. She leaned over so she could see what camera I had and then kind of sneered and said \"oh... one of those, I use a d80, been shooting for years though\". Then proceeded to lecture me on how I was holding my camera wrong.\n\nYo dawg, she was hitting on you.\n\nNo, seriously. Some women are just as socially retarded as the stereotypical male. Particularly when they see something they like. They get a case of nerves like a crack-whore two days out from her last smoke and *blammo* retarded shit spews out their mouths.\n\nWe all know that on a daily basis, thousands of men around the world use this same, stupid, *I'm-going-to-impress-the-hell-out-of-this-chick-with-my-mad-knowledge* approach. And it usually fails.\n\nBy the way, in case you're going to come back with, \"but I'm a girl,\" then I'll just preemptively say she was a lesbian. Why? Because humans simply don't walk up to each other and start up conversations solely to attempt to impress them unless it's for sexual or financial gain. And you didn't mention a Rolls.\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I like how the comments went from photographers are dicks if they hav nice cameras to a stupid gear head discussion talkin about magnesium And plastic bodies and the weight of blah blah blah is 2300 grams. \n On another note almost all photographers are dicks. Because photography seems so easy and noone loves their pictures more than they do. So everyone is an expert. I should know. I've been shooting professionally for 10 years and I'm a dick. ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Well the idea is that you grow into the more expensive cameras the more you shoot and realize that you need quicker access to features. She can't really do a whole lot you can't do with your D40, but the camera makes it easier for her to take terrible photos. \n\nOn the other end of the spectrum are the guys that dump $3,000 on a body and never take it off program mode. Can I judge that guy based on how much his camera cost?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I always liked the definition. A Pro photographer is a photographer who's primary income is earned from taking pictures.\n\nTherefore someone could be \"pro\" with a P&S, a bridge camera or a holga... Then there's dumb hobbyists like me who have spent more than their cars worth on camera gear while still keeping their day job! (I do it for the fun for the most part!)", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I have a Canon Rebel XSi with a kit lens and a 50mm 1.8.\n\nI've sold a handful of prints and won a blue ribbon at the state fair.\n\nWhat does that make me? A guy with a camera. A hobbyist.\n\nWould a 5D drastically change the way I shoot or the quality of my photos? Probably not.\n\nI resist the temptation to flatter myself by thinking it's the camera that's holding back my photography. Lots of people have done *much* better work with cameras far more modest than mine.\n\nHand the same pencil to 100 people and you'll get a wide spectrum of drawings. Same goes with cameras.\n\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "A hammer's just a tool. Wielded by a professional framer, you can get a house out of it. Wielded by a jackass, you can get a hospital visit out of it.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Anyone who would judge you on your gear, *particularly* your camera body, isn't worth talking to. For a long time, I felt like my gear was a restriction to my photography--oh, that shot would have been perfect if I had L-glass that fit this focal length, or if I had a full frame body. But the truth is, I've never been in a situation where that *edge* you get from pro gear was really an advantage. I've owned and taken amazing shots with L-glass and magnificent, weather proof bodies. I've also taken amazing shots with kit lenses and 6MP sensors.\n\nPhotography is about being there for the right moment, composing your vision and executing with whatever technique you feel fits. This can be as simple as having your disposable camera out and clicking the one button on the thing.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I am only ever gonna say this once, it is not the tool!! It is the fool behind that tool that makes it work! I have been amazed by those who have shot stunning imagery with basic DSLR's and to those who think a $5k plus body will make a difference!! Keep dreaming!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I've found that good photographers are far less likely to look down on you for your \"inferior\" camera. It's usually the hacks who parade their gear in front of you. As others have pointed out, a good number of pros buy entry-level DSLRs as knock-around cameras for their size, weight and low replacement cost.\n\nI met a pro who shoots with high-end medium-format digitals all week, and heads out on the weekend with his F2 to blow off steam and get back to the \"process\" of making photos.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "People like that probably have very little talent and like to compensate by showing you how much they think they know.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I remember a story, don't remember where I read it (DigitalPhotographySchool.com, maybe?) about a university photography professor who'd take his classes on all these trips. Whoever took the best shot as voted by the class \"won,\" and nine times out of ten it was the professor who was the winner. One time the class complained that his pictures were best because of his expensive gear, so he let them pick a camera for him to use on the next trip. They brought him a disposable 35mm from the dollar store. He still won.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "As simple and common as it is, I never get sick of this one in the afternoon:\n\n2 slices of wholemeal or wholegrain bread. Spread avocado on both slices. Add a can of tuna (pick your favorite). A few slices of tomato. Pepper. Lettuce. Enjoy.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I made this for the first time last night and it is delicious! I would add more chili sauce next time. \n\nThai lettuce wraps\t\n•\t1 ¼lb ground chicken\n•\t¾c golden raisins\n•\t¼c thai chili sauce\t\n•\t½c peanuts\n•\t4t lime juice\t\n•\tbibb lettuce\nBrown chicken in oil, season w/ salt & pepper. add raisins, peanuts, lime juice, and chili sauce and cook until heated through. Form into balls and serve on lettuce. \n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Additionally, we'd like autobalance to work based on the number of players as a given class: for example, if you have two snipers and one of everything else, the first sniper to die gets changed. I think this is likely too complicated to implement, but if anyone knows, it's reddit...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Warning: The following comment poster does not meet minimum X-chromosome requirement.\n\nIMH(male)O, if you need to explain to a guy that you only want to be friends, you're never going to just be friends. It doesn't matter how gently you let him down. It doesn't matter how explicitly you explained it to him to ensure that he really gets it. One of three things will happen. \n\n* 1) He's a emotional person and will try to accept your wishes but ultimately be hurt by your rejection - thus making it awkward to ever hang out. \n* 2) He'll get the message and stop talking to you entirely because he was only interested in you as a potential girlfriend. \n* 3) He'll blindly ignore you and continue to believe that you might change your mind someday.\n\nDon't get me wrong, there will be the occasional exception. But they'll be few and far between. I have a few female friends that are just female friends...but they never started out as a potential partner.", "score": 54 }, { "body": "Did you try saying, \"I don't want to be in a relationship with you\"? Because if you've said that and they still don't know that you only want to be friends, it's not you who has the problem with communication...", "score": 45 }, { "body": "If I'm not single, mentioning and complimenting my boyfriend can usually head off any interest before it becomes awkward.\n\nIf I am single but not interested in that particular person, I might say early on in the friendship, \"You really remind me of my...\" (brother/cousin/uncle/etc.) Most people seem to pick up on that as a cue meaning \"I don't see you in a romantic light.\"\n\nOf course, sometimes people don't get subtlety. Then, \"I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in you romantically,\" works pretty well.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "You have to purge yourself of guilt; no more \"I don't want to hurt his feelings...\" Being upfront is the only way to get it done.\n\nI used to go the avoidance route when I'd get whiff of a guy hoping that friendship would become romance. I don't know about other women, but I can smell that set-up a mile away. \n\nNowadays, I try to not do the avoidance thing, because I'm pretty sure I have lost some potential-good-friends because of that. If the guy genuinely enjoys your company and friendship, he won't mind when you set up frame of your relationship. If he doesn't like it, then it's his problem. At that point, he has the choice to be your friend or not. ", "score": 18 }, { "body": "It's not your fault if a guy wants something that you don't. I don't get guilt trips if a girl likes me and i don't reciprocate. its flattering but apart from that i really don't care. Guys who're good as friends dont need to be told. Guys that need to be told probably aren't the greatest friends.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Um, it never has to get as awkward as a full-on confrontation explaining to them that you \"just want to be friends,\" which is a huge blow to many people. Honestly, this may sound sexist and not very empowering, but whenever I just want to be friends with a guy but keep hanging out with him, I act annoying and weirdly too comfortable around them, like how you act with your siblings. Almost instantaneously people will subconsciously understand this as a big red flag and act accordingly. Then, conveniently, you can see who really wants to get to know you and who is just looking for a pretty girl and nothing else.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Here are some things that you could help us guys out with; also these are my opinions:\n\n1. Dinner/supper is for groups, boyfriends, girlfriends or gay boyfriends not us.\n\n2. saying things like - \"thanks friend\" early on gets the point across without being obtuse\n\n3. Stop flirting or acting \"dumb\" to get us to help you with something.\n\n4. Touching us is okay but not all the time. If I am sitting at my desk and you are trying to get my attention and I am not responding touch me, do not walk up to me and touch me if I know you are there.\n\n5. Hugging- Great way to show support, joy or caring. However side hugs are preferable", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Disclosure: I'm a guy.\n\nA lot of guys will be interested in being more than friends. This shouldn't be a problem. Tell them you're not interested and just want to be friends. This will probably work out fine. Chances are they will still be interested in more, but there will be no manifestation of that desire. They won't hit on you or flirt with you or anything; they'll just be a good friend.\n\nThis is my personal experience with it all and how I've handle it in the past.\n\n*It's my birthday today! :)", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Tell him straight out.\n\nBe like \"I've had problems in the past, so I thought I should make this plain up front: this is a friendship. This is not a pre-dating phase. Please don't try to win me over.\"\n\nThey may still lust after you, but hopefully they'll be respectfully lustful from a metaphorical distance.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Very rarely will a guy want to remain just friends. Even when you tell him in the most direct way possible, he will continue to take that to mean \"I do not want a relationship with you..........for now\". He will continue to hope that the situation will change in the future. These guys also often abandon your \"friendship\" as soon as they get a girlfriend as well. If you feel that you need to tell a guy that you only want to be friends, then you can pretty much guarantee that he doesn't, and will continue not to, no matter what you say.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Surprised no one has said this already, but the most full proof method is to mention you are interested in someone else and that you want to hook him up with one of your friends. You should be trying to hook up your guy friends with your girl friends anyways.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Tell him directly \"I only want to be friends.\" Guys can usually be horrible at taking hints. The direct method is the only way to be sure. Don't hedge that direct message with any other comments like \"if,\" \"but,\" \"maybe,\" \"if it wasn't for...,\" \"I'm currently in a relationship,\" etc. Just plan old simple \"Hey, I'm sorry, but I only want to be friends.\"\n\nLay off the kisses & hugs as these may be interpreted as you potentially changing your mind, or warming up to the idea.\n\nPart of the problem is sometimes women do change their minds. And some women go back & forth. So some men have learned that what you state isn't always a fixed state.\n\nNow the results of that will vary and you may not get the results you like or want. But at least whatever happens from there on out is honest, upfront & non confusing. You have made it clear.\n\nAnd if you think he's a great guy, but just not for you, consider fixing him up with one of your other female friends. It's a great way to get you off of his radar as a potential mate & still maintain a good friendship.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "What do you do, out of curiosity? I'm married, and no longer have to deal with that (unless they're a skeezeball who is not deterred by a wedding ring), but when I was in my early 20s I was often too subtle.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I headed off this guy at work who had been coming to visit me nearly daily by putting pictures of my BF up in my cube. Got the message, now I hardly ever see him. :/", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I suck at this also. For me, there's no gray area. I either don't mention that I have a boyfriend and am accused later on of leading a guy on, or I state up front within the first two minutes of meeting a guy that I have a boyfriend and have the dude walk away from me flat out. These days I only meet my guy friends through mutual people...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have no clue, I've never succeeded either. Even with the bluntly I like you as a friend, I don't want to practice baby making with you.. if we can't just be friends then bye I guess approach... \n\nSo now I have no guy friends anymore, because frankly I don't trust any guy who says he is cool with being friends. Which really, really blows because I like guys, I like male type friendships more than I like female type friendships and now I basically have no friends. = ( \n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I really don't understand why this is a gender issue. I (a women) have had male friends that I have been interested in. I have also had female friends that I've been interested in. They didn't show any interest, so we remained friends and everything was fine. It seems that whenever this discussion comes up, its always males interested in females. I also don't see why there's this assumption that the burden is on the person who is being hit on. The interested party should also realize that the other person isn't interested.\n\nYour question is completely valid, and there have been a lot of answers posted here which I hope have been helpful, but I am curious as to why the question is always formulated in this manner.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Many hydrometers are weighted with lead, which would scare me off from drinking it. Maybe a doctor or chemist can give you a better idea if it's still safe.\n\nI use glass carboys for both primary & secondary ferm, and I just got a wine thief. I can't recommend it enough. It really simplifies taking readings/tastings.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I saw it on here and people thought it was staged, but the [Super Mario proposal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddiwWSh7lk) has become my favorite. If I were that girl, I would have reacted so much better than she did...", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "If I smoke a lot without having smoked for a while, I feel better than normal the next day. Upbeat and clearheaded. If I've been smoking a lot, I feel a bit groggy and kind of lame.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I definitely get weed hangovers, usually after I eat a shitload before bed. The next morning I feel kind of groggy and out of it until I smoke another bowl.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I can't give good feedback on your research, however I will say this: Even if it's true, the story sounds almost too absurd for me to take seriously. \n\n> Normally, I buy some pork to make soup (with the fetuses’ added). I know they are human beings, and (eating them) feels disgusting. But at that time, it was already very popular.\n\nWow. Just... wow.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I think the main reason that your stuff is being shot down is because your sources aren't exactly solid. If there was a Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, The Usa Today, or similar news source, then yes, I would be willing to believe it.\n\nI'm sorry that I don't have anything to add, but remember, this is the internet. Shit gets passed around as true often enough, and this may be it.\n\nI know you probably came here wanting some support, so I'm sorry that I'm just another dissenting opinion, but unless you can find some definitive evidence from a reputable source saying that this happens, then I doubt you can find any support.\n\nFeel free to prove me wrong, but honestly, I hope for the sake of my digestive system that you are incorrect.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "This is maybe the one time I believe something this crazy, because my mom has told me anecdotes of her past as a nurse's daughter. Though it wasn't actual human fetuses, they definitely saw placental material expelled after childbirth as a source of protein that was handed out free to hospital workers. Then again, my mother's English is not exactly perfect, so I might be misunderstanding exactly what she meant, and I am an anonymous figure on the Internet. Take my words with a grain of salt.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "So you've posted it a lot, it's been ignored, and you're posting it again talking about how it's being ignored? Good work.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "hells yes, you ever see the movie Three Extremes? particularly the first part, called Dumplings?\n\namazing film making, stick around for the next two parts as well.\n\ngood luck finding fetus meat for your stews/dumplings. and let me know how much a pound is.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is my hypothesis; kill every spider you see indoors. Eventually over millions of generations spiders that for whatever reason stay outdoors will thrive while the ones that are indoors will perish, and we will have a spider free utopia.\n\nSpecious reasoning, I know, but it makes me feel better.\n\nI would also accept bio-engineered domesticated spiders that kill other bugs and spell out friendly messages in thier webs.", "score": 106 }, { "body": "I don't know why I click on these fucking posts. I hate spiders and cringe at the sight of them.\n\nYet, I click on every picture someone posts of some huge fucking spider eating something massive or with seemingly thousands of baby spiders around it. \n\nI always open the goddamn pictures in a new tab with my mouse safely over the \"x\" button to close it out immediately after it loads.\n\nI HATE THEM. I DON'T KNOW WHY I AM EVEN IN THIS THREAD. ", "score": 67 }, { "body": "I also live in Australia and had a Huntsman in my flat...\n\nI am absolutely shit scared of spiders and so is my girlfriend, it was down to me to get rid of it so I got a broomstick and taped a newspaper to the end of it and took a swing while it was on the wall, the fucking thing jumped off the wall towards my face just before I made impact, I'd like to say that i responded in a calm cool manner...\n\nNope i screamed like a little girl and ran out of the way promptly tripped over and smacked my face on the table giving myself a black eye and carpet burns all down my leg...\n\nThen this huge spider ran behind my TV unit and hid, we had to slowly pull everything out to try to find it until it ran out at me again...\n\nOnce again cue screaming and me swinging a broomstick wildly squinting out of one eye until it was dead...\n\nI fucking hate spiders!", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Huntsmans are harmless and helpful, vacuuming one is not only cruel but stupid, I mean, it's not going to kill it is it? Get a spider catcher so you can put it outside without killing it. My mum was severely arachnophobic, she got over it after we got the spider catcher.\n\nDaddy long legs spiders are the ones you want to keep around the house. My mum was in the garage a few weeks ago moving boxes, and she sees a small spider that looks a bit like a redback. She calls over her partner who confirms it's a redback, but before they could do anything along comes a daddy long legs at full speed and wraps it up in a web as a tasty snack.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "It's just a spider. They look cool. Bites from a huntsman aren't particularly toxic to humans so you should be okay.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Your spiders are the reason I will never be able to even *visit* Australia. My wife is terrified of even our tiny arachnids in Los Angeles (only one of which is mildly poisonous). If I even showed her the photos you posted, she would divorce me. We watch loads of nature shows, so she knows Australia is full of all manner of enormous, creepy spiders, and refuses to even entertain the notion of visiting such a place.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Are you fucking kidding me? whats a huntsman?...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider .... I need to kill myself now, I cant live on the same planet as THAT.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Yikes! Yes leave immediately. But it looks like they were both still contained in the catcher though eh? So just get a new Dyson whenever the catcher is full :)", "score": 11 }, { "body": "As an American, I almost peed myself the first time I saw a huntsman. The warnings really didn't do them justice. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Dude, leave vacuum on, spray Raid directly into hose. Throw vacuum in back of ute. Drive ute very quickly. Make vacuum fall out of ute. Put waterskis on ute and get the fuck out of Australia.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I had huntsman's as pets when I was a 10 year old girl. Shame you felt the need to let it starve to death in your dyson.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It's just a little Huntsman. They kill all sorts of pests and barely even bother a human. Heck, you can pick 'em up and just put it outside. The best pest-control you can get.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Gotta share this story. A few years back I was kayaking with my best mate, we went to get into the kayak and noticed this MASSIVE huntsman sitting inside. Seriously, bigger than my hand, grey and brown striped legs, could have walked straight onto the set of a horror movie and not needed makeup.\n\nMy friend wants to kill it, but having grown up in the bush and fancying myself a Friend To All Animals I take the duty of removing this monster alive. I coax it onto the end of the paddle, then gently carry it over to some bushes, intending to send it back to nature unharmed.\n\nUnfortunately it proves unwilling to be dislodged from the end of the paddle, so I gradually try to start shaking it off with increasingly violent swings. Eventually I get jack of the game and give the paddle a great big heave. The spider flies off the end in a seemingly random direction and lands...\n\n... on my friend's face.\n\nI have never in my life seen the kind of raw, animal panic that I saw then, as he convulsively flung himself around trying to dislodge this giant huntsman, a raw scream of pure terror bubbling up all the while. I have always felt bad for this, but at the time it was hilarious beyond belief. Both he and the spider survived the experience though, and it's acts of terrorism like this that really help forge a friendship.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Does your Vacuum have a blow setting?\n\nThat would be particularly cool as a weapon if it did...\n\nPEW PEW!! Flying spider ammo!\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": ">Maybe they'll eat eachother and i'll have half as many worries.\n\nOr they'll reproduce and come back with their own army...", "score": 5 }, { "body": "great. im going to be in australia in a month and now im fucking scared out of my mind. wonderful. i hate spiders and i'm going to sleep in a misquote net. forever. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You should move to Ireland, we don't have any real animals here apart from those we breed for sport and food.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I've lived in Australia my whole life....never even been overseas. The only time I even think at all about the dangerous creatures we have is when I see stuff like this on the internet. I see a spider maybe once a fortnight, even less....and I live out in the bush (country town). I see snakes way less frequently, maybe once every two or three years.\n\nUnless you roll around in piles of wood, or shove your arms down rabbit holes, you're unlikely to encounter many of our dangerous creatures.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Yeah, Huntsmen can freak you out if you unexpectedly stumble upon them, but they are usually quite lethargic in nature, and sometimes will stay in the same spot on a wall or ceiling for days at a time without moving much, and as other people have already pointed out, many people will relocate a huntsman to a more appropriate outdoor location as opposed to killing it. \n \n\n \n\nThere are much nastier types of spiders on the eastern seaboard, with the most dangerous ones being: \n \n\n \n\nSydney Funnel Web - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider \n \n \n\n\nRed Back Spider - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider \n \n\n \n\nAntivenom for Redback spiders has been available since 1956, and Funnel Web antivenom was introduced in 1981. Apparently there have not been any deaths caused by either of these spiders since the release of the related antivenenes. \n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Don't forget [The Unarchiver](http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html) for extracting pretty much everything. Also I prefer Movist over VLC but Lunettes may change that.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Adium, handbrake, transmission, unrarx (great if you do usenet), nzbdrop, Prey (although luckily haven't had to use it) and chrome", "score": 8 }, { "body": "The more I read this reddit, the more I wonder how many people here AREN'T programmers.\n\nIt took me forever to figure this out. \"Why the fuck does everybody rave about Quicksilver? Time saver? Click on shit. What are you hands doing on the keyboard all the time? OH\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Adobe Illustrator. I'm an [artist](http://egypt.urnash.com), it's my main medium.\n\nAnd of course iTunes is running music most of the time.\n\nLately I've been mucking again, I used to use Savitar but I've switched to [Atlantis](http://www.riverdark.net/atlantis/).\n\n[Adium](http://adium.im/) for IM. It's just so pretty. And I have more than just AIM and Google accounts.\n\nI probably spend more time in Safari than in any other app, to be honest.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "**uTorrent** - A legacy from my Windows days, I suppose. Even though it's lacking a lot of features, it's stable and fast and clean.\n\n**Cyberduck** - Works so much better in an OS X environment than Filezilla.\n\n**MacVim** - I just feel more comfortable with it than TextEdit, and it's free.\n\n**Time Machine** - Yes, it's included in OS X, but it deserves a mention nonetheless. It is simply awesome.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I found a nice app the other day. If you use Pandora and Last.fm, check out [PandoraJam](http://www.bitcartel.com/pandorajam/). It's a simple program that runs Pandora through a desktop app and allows you to scrobble the songs on Last.fm.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I don't use it every day but I think the coolest thing I have is [Disk Inventory X](http://www.derlien.com/). It shows a visualization of what takes up space on your hard drive. \n\n[Colloquy](http://colloquy.info/) if I need to get on IRC.\n\nSnes9x - snes emulator", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Like I said, top two underrated ones for me are Adium and Transmission.\nAdium is bar-none the best messenger program for OS X, Transmission being the best torrent downloader available in my opinion. Compact, easy to use, efficient.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Most have been mentioned, but i think [ScreenFlow](http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm) is simply magical for creating help videos, or just recording other on-screen happenings.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "**launchbar** is great. at this point I can't live without it. I picked it over quicksilver because there was no active development going on at the time for qs. I guess now I may have made the wrong choice (at least financially). I do like being able to use it for things like calculations, and dictionary defs, so I am using it for at least a bit more than launching apps.\n\n**utorrent** is more stable on my machine than Transmission, though I'm hoping the next Transmission release will let me switch back.\n\n**nisus writer pro** is wonderful; quicker and more stable for me that word, and i like having .rtf as my default file format. Supposedly mellel is \"better\", but I find its interface to be just awful, and I don't want to save my work in a proprietary, mac-only format.\n\n**chrome** is more stable than safari for me, and I much prefer its url bar. **omniweb** runs a close second, though it has some of the same problems as safari.\n\n**vlc** for media files\n\n**mailplane** for all my gmail accounts\n\n**automatic** to auto-dl torrents from rss feeds\n\n**growl**", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[Soulver](http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/). Basically it's the Google search bar calculator on steroids. You can type things like \"add 20% to 100 minus 88\" and it'll calculate it.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I like dropbox, VLC, transmission, boxee (especially once the new beta comes out, waitwaitwaitwaitwait), adium, cs4, endnote (to be honest needs some work) Terminal, hmm I'll probably think of a few others later. dropbox is seriously one of the most useful free apps I've found. check it [out](http://www.dropbox.com).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I *love* [ExpanDrive](http://www.expandrive.com/mac) for FTP. I grew up on Fetch, used Transmit in college and when I got into the real world, and found ExpanDrive.\n\nIt makes any FTP connection look like an external drive. It's amazing for working on live files. (I do my development work live on a development server, and make small live fixes). Everything happens in Finder.\n\nLooks a little like Flow— checking that out now, myself.\n\n\n**Edit:** Yeah. Same concept, I guess. Either of the programs, I can drag a selection of folders/files into Textmate and create a new project. ExpanDrive still feels a little more integrated into the OS to me, though.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not free: Things, TextMate, Pages, Lightroom, Photoshop\n\nFree: Firefox, iChat, iTunes, Dictionary, Preview, Tweetie, iTerm, LyX, iCal, VirtualBox, jDownloader, Vidalia", "score": 3 }, { "body": "(in no particular order besides freeware or not)\n\nFREE: clipmenu, vlc, dropbox, transmission, netnewswire, audacity, onyx, time machine, iphoto, ichat w/chax, itunes, evernote, ommwriter, handbrake\n\nNOT FREE: scrivener, 1password, hazel, little snitch, pixelmator, coda, itoner, final draft, debtinator, pandorajam, chronosync, spamsieve, toast, keynote, tweetie, transmit, ripit", "score": 3 }, { "body": "by apple: ical (always running), logic (not free), activity monitor (always running), itunes, notes (running most of the time)\r\n\r\nthird-party: [opera](http://www.opera.com), [cyberduck](http://cyberduck.ch/), [vlc](http://www.videolan.org), [rar expander 0.8.5beta](http://sourceforge.net/projects/rarexpander/) (handles password potectet rars way better than unrarx even though it's still beta), [adium](http://adium.im), [vuze](http://www.vuze.com/), [openemu](http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemu/), [boxer](http://boxer.washboardabs.net/), [VICE](http://www.viceteam.org/), can't live without some adobe (especially ps, ai, id, dw)\r\n\r\ni'm starting to like [inkscape](http://www.inkscape.org) for some reason i can't explain, even though it takes ages to start up... gimp still just pisses me off for never doing what i want it to do. at least not the way i would have liked it...", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My husband always kicks himself for wasting time at a liberal arts degree instead of doing something gainful like a plumber apprenticeship. \r\n\r\nSo...as he's still job hunting...how much do/will you make? \r\n\r\nHow does it rank in your other carreers? Why did you get into it?\r\n\r\nDo you have to be um...not fat...to do it?\r\n\r\nDo you get paid during your apprenticeship?\r\n\r\nThats alot. Sorry Thanks!\r\n\r\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Jeez that's ugly. What is it with Italia and [ugly ass rifles?](http://world.guns.ru/assault/as90-e.htm)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Got rid of 2 of my best friends because of this. They wanted me to continue to be an alcoholic with them but I gave it up and live a much more peaceful and fulfilling life.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Most of my friends don't smoke, a lot of them because of religious beliefs (I'm a christian). Some of these folks used to smoke and most all of them don't really care, they have no judgement for me as long as I don't go on about it. And my best friends don't care at all, whether they smoke or not.\n\nSome of my relationships with women, friend or otherwise, have been plagued by this problem, though. I've had girls that simply tolerated it and worried about my addiction issues from the sidelines and I have had some that thought really highly of me until they realized just how much pot I smoke.\n\nI guess the thing that gets my goat is when people change their opinion of me once they figure out I have a pot habit. It's not like it makes me a different person when I smoke; most of those folks cant tell if I'm high or not anyway. \n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Or create your own [subreddit](http://www.reddit.com/reddits/create) with your username and submit it there.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I often make an instrumental playlist, which mostly includes post-rock bands, such as Mogwai, GSY!BE, The Album Leaf, Sigur ros, Explosions in the sky, etc.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I went to school with a girl named Sandy Poon. Her Uncle owned a Chinese restaurant called The House Of Poon. No one outside of where i live believes me.", "score": 244 }, { "body": "My friend is also Vietnamese. \nName: Dat Ho.\nThe jokes are endless.\n\nQuestion: Did your name affect your social skills at all? Did you ever make any enemies because of your name, or did you tend to make more friends?", "score": 135 }, { "body": "I had a teacher named Anita Gay. She got married to a man with the last name Mann, making her name Anita Gay Mann. That is the word of truth.", "score": 121 }, { "body": "This is the most terrible AMA ever - no one is asking questions, just mentioning other funny names.\n\nI have a few questions:\n\nAt what age did stop being a burden and became kinda cool - I find it pretty cool\n\nDid you ever consider changing your name, using a diminutive - or a \"longer-utive\" I guess, in your case... or do you have an \"english name\" - I know a lot of asians that also have a \"english name\" that they picked because it kinda stems from their real name.\n\nIf/When you have kids are you going to name so that it sounds like something when first + last name are together?\n", "score": 89 }, { "body": "My friend had a tai kwon do instructor whos last name was Baden. There for he was called Master Baden.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "I tried to guess what your name could be before clicking the title. I thought it would be Pete Sakes.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "My mom worked with a guy named Kanga Wu. (not sure if I spelled that right). At my brother's elementary school graduation, the principal called out the name Ronald M'cdonald, and this little kid walked up on the stage. ", "score": 16 }, { "body": "I knew a Wayne Kerr, I once heard someone say after laughing, \"Gee that is a unique name\".\n\n\nHe replied \"No I meet them all the time, like right now\".\n", "score": 16 }, { "body": "There was a girl my freshman year of college at the University of Oklahoma that lived on the same floor as me in the dorms. Her name, I shit you not, was Anita Dick.\n\n[Here's proof](http://www.classmates.com/directory/school/J.F.%20Kennedy%20Elementary%20School?org=17534171) \n\nShe attended JFK Elementary School in Oilton, Oklahoma. Yay for internets!", "score": 14 }, { "body": "If you could go back in time and magically change your name, would you? If so, what would you have changed it to?", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I knew a guy named Bang. One time we were at a movie theater and I was yelling at him from the balcony.\n\n\"Bang! Bang!\"\n\nThen louder because he couldn't hear me.\n\n\"BANG!\"\n\n\"BANG!\"\n\n", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Used to go to Uni. with Hung Wei Lo - it's been a LOOOONG time, so, I am not 100% on the spelling, but almost.\n\n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I used to know a kid, and I swear his first name was Phuc. I also have a client at work named Kumar Jiz. Some names should be left at the border.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Went to school with Mary Virginia Prudehom... guess her parents really wanted her to become a nun or something.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Since this thread has become \"state funny names you knew in school\":\r\n\r\nMy middle school's vice principal was \"Jay Walker\"", "score": 7 }, { "body": "my first name is samantha and middle name is houston. my dad thinks this is incredibly witty. sam houston was a revolutionary in texas. i am sam houston.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A good friend of my mom's named her daughter Crystal Shawnda Leer. My mom was always laughing about it, but I never understood why until fairly recently.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I searched for the term \"korea\" and \"korean\" in this AMA to see if anyone has mentioned it yet.\n\nYour name is a common street food sold in Korea, also called \"Oh-dang.\" Pronounced the same way as your name. To describe this food, it's basically fish on a stick, floating in fish broth it was cooked in. It's made from various fish parts which is why I refer to it as the Korean hot-dog.\n\nhttp://nearandfar.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/odang-guksu-oh-the-pleasure-was-all-mine/ ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "When I was 16 I was part of a youth ambassador program to Israel. One of our chaperons introduced himself as Cosby, Cosby Hunt. I didn't think anything of it until ~a week into the trip when I noticed the official roster of people on the trip and realized that there was no Cosby. \n\n This is where you stop believing me.\n\nThis mans given name was Isaac. Issac Hunt. Yes. Really. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I grew up with a Dick Small and a Michael Jackson. They have both changed their names since. \n\nWould you change your name now? Minus the odd confusion are you fond of it?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I knew a girl in high school named, 'Metallica'. \n\nOur elevator was also inspected by a 'Michael Kuntz'. No, I am not joking.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I swear this is true. I once worked in the mail room for a large corporation, and we had a terrible boss who used to screw things up left and right. I was sorting mail one day and my co-worker asked me who messed up the mail sorting trays, and I answered \"You know who,\" referring to our boss. After I said that I looked down and the next piece of mail was addressed to an employee named Yuna Hu.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I went to school with a Guy Seeman. His parents must've hated him.\n\nEDIT: Proof of his name via a [school newspaper article](http://www.theeagleonline.com/news/story/mr-american-pageant-ends-rha-hall-wars).", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Oh, mah, gah! I also know an Au Dang. And the funny thing is he has a roommate who has a girlfriend named Candie Cain, no joke. Ridiculous shit.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "my mother is british, and she went to school with a girl named \"Fanny Hymen.\"\nFor the Americans here, fanny does not mean butt in England... it means vagina. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "That's pretty rough, dude. I get a lot of flack because my last name is Abel. stupid puns OH GOD. .. but you have it worse, I'm sure.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If it's any consolation, I went to middle school with a hilarious kid named Chris Peed. I hope he grew up ok.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Speaking of funny names, the BBC radio show \"I'm sorry I haven't a clue\" has a long tradition of making up situation-specific names. All shows are available in a 10GB torrent somewhere, btw.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I knew a kid in elementary school named \"Harry Yanus\". This is not a joke.\n\nHis last name was pronounced with a short \"a\" sound, but I don't think I ever heard one substitute teacher pronounce it correctly.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "We constantly prank called a girl growing up named Sharon Hisscock. I still look over my shoulder when I go home on the Holidays.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I remember it all too well... \n\nI was a paperboy at the time. I didn't take my job too seriously- so usually I would just throw the newspapers haphazardly towards the residences, and keep on going on my bike. Sometimes the papers would wind up getting snagged high up in a hedge- sometimes they would slide under a parked car. I didn't really care.\n\nBut there was one day I'll never forget. It was an early fall morning as a I peddled down a very nice street in a posh neighborhood. There was a man waiting by his mailbox at the end of his driveway down the street. I tossed my newspapers as I always do- sort of aiming for the center of the driveways, but not really taking care to be precise.\n\nAs I made my way slowly down the street, I noticed that the man just kept standing there at the end of his driveway... staring at me as I got closer.\n\nI was beginning to get a little bit wary at this point, because I suddenly got the feeling that he was waiting for me.\n\nIt turns out I was right. When I peddled near to his house, he waved me over. \"Come here, boy!\" he said. It was very authoritative. I remembered because no one ever really called me 'boy' like that. It was off-putting.\n\n\"I want to show you something,\" he said, and beckoned me to follow him up to his door. I thought he was going to show me where he wanted me to put his newspapers. I felt a little embarrassed that I had tossed them so lazily.\n\nBut to my surprise, he opened the door to his house, and motioned for me to follow him inside. I was a little bit hesitant, and I guess if I had been thinking clearly I wouldn't have done it, but I was young, and didn't really know any better, so I followed him.\n\nHe left the door open behind me, and I realized he wasn't going to ask me to come in any further than his small entry hallway. He pointed to the pictures on the wall. I recognized some of them- George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln... but there were all sorts of people from different points in history.\n\n\"Do you know who these men are?\" he asked. \n\nI nodded. \"They're the presidents aren't they?\"\n\nHe nodded patiently. \"Some of them are Presidents, and some of them aren't. This one here is Thomas Edison, the man who invented the light bulb. And this one Mark Twain, the great American author.\"\n\nI nodded dumbly.\n\n\"Do you know what they all had in common?\" he asked.\n\n\"They were are really smart?\" I said.\n\nHe shook his head. \"No, they were all people of fortitude. Do you know what that word means?\"\n\nI shook my head, no.\n\n\"It means they possessed strength of will,\" he said. \"It means that if they do a job, they do it right, and they do it with integrity.\"\n\nI didn't know what to say.\n\nHe continued, \"I want you to ask yourself if you're doing your job with integrity.\"\n\nI could feel my face turn red. I didn't say anything.\n\n\"Listen,\" he said, \"from now on, when you're on your bike delivering papers, I want you to think about all the people who depend on you to do that, and I want you to ask if yourself if you could be doing a better job for them.\"\n\nMy mind was racing, trying to think where I could have thrown this man's newspaper that he would go all the trouble to give me such a lecture. Did I throw it on his roof yesterday or something?\n\nBefore I could respond, he sent me back on my way. I handed him a paper, and sheepishly continued on my route.\n\nBut every house I visited from then on, I would walk right up to the door and leave the paper on the steps.\n\nThe next day, before I went on my route, I wrote dozens and dozens of little notes- they all said \"have a nice day!\"- and I stapled them onto the papers before I went out. This time I did my whole route by walking up to peoples' doorsteps. I kept this up for several months- each day with a different note. My route took me about twice as long to get through, but it didn't matter. I was determined to have fortitude- whatever that meant.\n\nOne day, peddling down the street, I saw the same man, standing by his mailbox. By the time I got to his driveway he was already walking inside, motioning for me to follow him. So I set my bike down and went inside.\n\nThis time he walked past the entry way, into the main part of the house... I followed him with a bit of trepidation. I wonder if he was going to lecture me again- though I couldn't imagine why. I'd left his paper right at his doorstep everyday!\n\nWhen I got to his dining room, I saw an elaborate meal on the table. A feast, really. He told me to sit down and have a plateful of whatever I wanted. I took some of the delicious food, and as I chomped away, he told me that he was very impressed with the job I'd done, and at how much integrity it showed.\n\nHe told me that he worked in the government, and that in a few years when I was old enough, he would like to give me a job working in his office. I thought it was a nice offer, but I didn't even ask him what he did. Kids can be a little slow that way. He gave me an envelope on which was written \"Fortitude Tip\". I could tell there was cash inside. I thanked him warmly and headed out the door.\n\nOn the way out of the house I noticed the door to his den was open- inside I saw a whole mess of metal and wires on the desk. A weird humming emanated from the room. \n\n\"What's in there?\" I asked.\n\nHis expression changed- I can't exactly describe it. But he closed the door to the den and told me not to worry about it. He ushered me outside quickly but gently.\n\nI didn't see him again for some time- but I kept writing little notes to hand out with my newspapers. Sometimes it would be the same thing to everyone, but sometimes I would personalize it. 'Nice roses this year' or 'your car is the envy of the neighborhood!\".\n\nFor the man, though, I would make an extra effort to write personal notes. I ran out of things to say, so I would try to find quotes from books. Mostly stuff about fortitude and integrity.\n\nOne day as I was placing the newspaper on the man's doorstep I heard crashing noise from inside, and what sounded like a grunt or a moan. I listened for a moment more and didn't hear anything. I knocked on the door. I rang the bell.\n\nNo one came to the door. I was worried something bad had happened inside.\n\nNow, the thing about delivering papers to people's doorsteps day in and day out, is that you start to notice things about their homes. You notice when they paint, you notice when they get a new planting. ...And sometimes you notice when their spare key is sticking out just a little bit from underneath a potted plant.\n\nI couldn't see the key now, but I had seen a glint of it a few months earlier. I reached under the planter and found the cool metal with my fingertips.\n\nI quickly stuck the key in the door, but before turning it, knocked louder and shouted. There was no answer.\n\nI turned the key and ran into the house.\n\nI heard some quiet groaning coming from the den. I rushed over.\n\nWhen I opened the door to the den, I was shocked. From wall to wall there was electronic equipment of all shapes and kind. Things were buzzing and beeping, and whirling.\n\nIn the center of the room were three enormous boxes, labeled '1','2', and '3'... the boxes were all connected to each other with huge trunks of cable. The boxes had dozens of blinking lights- and noisy fans.\n\nIn the far corner of the room, I saw an overturned workbench, and underneath the man was pinned- surrounded by electronic components I'd never seen or imagined.\n\nI went over to help the man. I was a small kid, but strong enough to help him lift the workbench off of himself. As he pried himself from underneath it, I could see that the table leg was made of wood, and it looked like it had become disconnected from the bench-top and given out.\n\nI helped the man to his feet, and walked with him into the living room. I set him down in a chair and fetched some ice from the freezer.\n\nAs he sat there icing his ribs and his knee, I asked him about the giant blinking boxes in the other room. \"What... what is all that?\" I said. \n\nHe paused for a minute- deciding whether he was ready to share his secret. And then...\n\n\"That, my boy, is the Internet,\" he said. \"I invented it.\"\n\nI asked him what it did, and how it worked. He explained to me that he had written it all down in a notebook, but it would take too long to explain how it worked.\n\nWhen he was feeling a little better we walked back to the den. On one wall he turned on three small television screens- labeled '1', '2', and '3' just like the boxes. He explained that the boxes were computers. I'd heard the term before- but I'd never seen a computer so small before! I was amazed.\n\nThen he showed me how he could make numbers from one computer go to the other computers with just a few button presses. He told me that was sending the numbers *through the phone system*! He pointed to a bunch of rotary phones on the wall which I hadn't noticed before.\n\nHe let me punch some numbers on one computer, and I watched them appear on another. He explained that it didn't matter how far apart the computers were, that the numbers would be transfered lightning quick.\n\nHe explained that the internet would revolutionize society. I didn't understand what that meant, but I knew for sure that this device was like magic.\n\nHe showed me his notebook, and his drawings and schematics. It was all so overwhelming. So I killed him and took all his stuff. Years later I secret sold the technology through a dummy corporation. When I ran for President in 2000, I told everyone that *I* invented it. But they all laughed at me...", "score": 225 }, { "body": "I was 14 or 15, my best friend got AOL in the late 90's. I remember we would go onto chat rooms that were in foreign languages that we didn't understand. I remember going to a chatroom that was in Italian. We would read what the people wrote in Italian and then take random words or phrases that we read and combine them with exclamation points and post them. I have no idea what we said but we could tell we were pissing people off. ", "score": 51 }, { "body": "Me, 5th gradish= \"Mom can I go online and chat?\"\n\nMom- \"Umm..sure\"\n\nMe, calls best friend quickly \"Hey can you go online and chat?\"\n\nBen- *muffled yell* \"Mom can I go online and chat with Luke?\"\n\nBen-\"Yeah, be on in two seconds.\"\n\nGood times.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "It was 1995. I am 12 years old hanging out with my best friend. His parents had Prodigy back then. First thing I remember doing is getting drunk off Irish Whiskey and trolling the Prodigy Christian chat rooms. It took me about 2 hours to be banned from even using the internet. His parents had to call Prodigy the next day to get their service returned. They never let me back over after they learned what happened. ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I was 12. My friend and I would sit in chat rooms and pretend to be sexy 20somethings and send guys pictures we made in the Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover game, and then have cybersex with them. \n\nYep.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "2002, about seven years old - my mother made me look at [Daily Grammar](http://www.dailygrammar.com/)\n\nI used to hate the internet...", "score": 10 }, { "body": "1995: I had read about this \"Internet\" thing in tech magazines. I'm from Southamerica, so all I expected to learn from this technology was from reading.\n\nI was in my 4th semester of engineering, and recently got an HP-48G calculator (sweeeet machine!). And noticed that the last page of the manual had this \"visit us at http://www.hp.com/calculators/..etc\". I was amazed by the fact that a person \"could get in contact with a company just like that\". But again, never thought I was going to be able to witness it with my own eyes for quite a long time.\n\n1996: I moved to the capital of my country (Venezuela) to continue my education in my university's main campus. A few weeks into the semester and.. WHOA!! I saw a flyer announcing Intro to Internet workshops offered by the CS department. I was thrilled! I was going to experience what this technology was about! The price of the workshop was high, though (at around $70, when my student salary was something like $100 per month... whatever, I-MUST-LEARN about it). The workshop opened within the next three weeks. Couldn't wait!!\n\nThen, I commented about the workshop to a friend. He says \"oh, but if you want to access Internet now, go to so-and-so lab and sign up for a machine.\" What? I left my friend and went to the lab... oh, my, god... a whole computer lab connected to the Internet. People using it. And it was free for any student... all I needed was to put my signature on the list. So I did, and waited impatiently until one of the machines was free, so the dude in charge set aside a *whole* half an hour for me to access the Internet.\n\nI was thrilled... I've been a computer whiz all my life, but never got to use a PC (my parents couldn't afford it. Last computer we had in my house was a VIC-20 a few years ago), much less this \"windows 3.5\". There were those icons I didn't know about... \"Netscape\", \"Winsock FTP\", \"Gopher\"... which one to use? Let's try that \"Netscape\" thing. A window opens up, I see the legendary netscape animated logo in the corner, with the N showered by comets. \"Whoa.. state of the art.\" And noticed the status bar: \"Connecting...\" It's connecting!! To where? It's in English, must be somewhere in the U.S. \"Host connected. Waiting for reply.\" *Gasp* They're waiting for my reply!! What should I do?! Fuck, fuck!!! (To the dude in charge) \"Um, excuse me? The screen says they're waiting for a reply.\" \"Oh yeah yeah, just wait until the page loads.\" \"Uh, ok, thanks...\" And there it was, the Unviersity home page, in all its glory. With quick links to search engines! Libraries! Resources! Webcrawler and Yahoo! were among the links. I could... search the Internet! Oh, no, that's too much. Wait a second... what if... what if I type... \"www.hp.com/calculators (etc)\"... and there it was the HP page with tons of software for my calculator. I had a little orgasm.\n\nEventually, I realized I wasn't going to need the course, so I had my money back. Also, my department had its own Internet lab, so I could stay logged in as much as I wanted. Some of my friends stopped by and laughed when they saw me there (\"dude, get a life!\"). At some point they stopped (I guess they lost hope in me). I failed all my classes that semester. I was studying Electrical Engineering at the time, switched to Information Technologies and never looked back.\n\nEdit: I'll never forget my first IRC session, chatting with people in *gasp* Mexico and Canada.\n", "score": 10 }, { "body": "'97, finally convinced dad we needed the internet. Family gathered around, dialed up, excitement builds... now what?\n\nTurned out you needed a web-browser. Had to drive down to the ISP to get a floppy disk with IE.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I was around 7 in '93... I remember the fax noises and Microsoft Chat.\n\n*Apparently I remember wrongly. Wikipedia says Microsoft Chat wasn't out until '96. I'm pretty sure we got our first net connection around '93 though. I honestly can't recall anything about it.\n\n**Oh god, Wikipedia says that this program is the origin of Comic Sans. I feel so dirty for having used it.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "1988, co-oping at a research and scientific indexing firm when one of the other co-ops called out, \"type rn.\" That brought up read news, Larry Wall's USENET reader, which proceeded to ask whether I wanted to subscribe to each and every one of the few hundred newsgroups that existed at the time. \n\nFond memories:\n\nThe Homebrew Digest\n\ncomp.lang.c\n\ncomp.risks\n\nrec.humor.funny\n\nSIMTEL\n\nrec.food.drink\n\nrec.food.cooking\n\nalt.games.roguelike.nethack\n\nalt.binaries", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It was around 1990, I discovered usenet at the university, and I thought it was heavenly. Only smart people, mostly science types. But that changed in a few years.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It was 1993 and I used the Internet to get data from nasa about Antarctic weather for a school report. Back then there were no pictures and we used something called Archie. I got my first computer in 1996 and back then I would dial into my local library to access the net with Lynx. There were pic's then but you had to request them individually.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Virgin story #1: using my dad's friend's Prodigy account circa 1993. The one thing I remember is not realizing that ads were ads - I just kept clicking them and poking my way around the Internet.\n\nVirgin story #2: Fall 1996, I'd just arrived at college. Was in the computer lab to get my account set up, and on my way out I decided, hey, let's try this Internet thing already. I sat at one of the computers and did my first-ever Internet search: Mystery Science Theater 3000. Later in that same session I randomly tried sex.com; I'd heard rumors you could find boobies on the Internet. I got as far as the initial \"WARNING - content not for minors\" page (yeah, those used to be common) and realized folks could be watching.\n\nThat's pretty much it; after a month or so I got my own computer (Dell 200 MHz for $3000) and the rest is history.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I was around 20 and I remember thinking how cool gopher searching was..\nThe year was 1992 or something", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I was 15 or so, and we had just gotten our first PC (a Pentium 90MHz) for Christmas. The Superbowl came up and my stepfather and I decided we just *had* to see superbowl.com ... so in went the AOL disk.\n\nWithin 2 months I was installing Redhat from a *LINUX Unleashed* book, getting in on the early mp3 trading on IRC, and running a wardialer while at school.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "My first experience was in 1994. I was 22. My friend and I tried looking for pics of Anna Nicole Smith, and ended up getting a pic of a hot girl crapping in a man's mouth. The pic took 10 minutes to appear, so we saw the girl's upper body for a while, and the gruesome bottom half at the end.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "November 1998. My Dad opened up the CompuServe chat rooms (Blue Zone FTW) and let me loose. I was 11.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "In 1995 on AOL 2.5 and I was 13 years old. I convinced my brothers girlfriend at the time to let me use her account which she never used. She also gave me a computer; my family was flat broke so this was a major thing for me. I eventually got the account terminated but it didn't matter to me because I figured out how to get AOL for free at that point. AOL was pretty fun during the mid-nineties mainly due to the hacking scene. I realize that sounds lame but seriously, it was fun, especially for a young kid. I learned a lot about programming, Internet security, etc. (AOL was pretty much a cesspool of exploits waiting to be found back then) Without what I learned during those times I probably wouldn't have been able to major in Computer Science.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "1996 at age 21.\n\nUsing a fledgling ISP in Australia that had only recently moved out of a Perth garage - iinet.\n\nI remember getting really excited about the NASA site for the Mars Global Surveyor at the time.\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Playing Elf Bowling.\nI was like seven. Basically the elfs were protestin Santa and he got shit fed up with it.\n\nWith features like elves mooning you, and their maimed corpses after a strike.\n\nIt was a pretty gorey game. My parents had no trouble setting a seven year old in front of it for hours. I got pretty damn good.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was 7 ('95-'96ish) and I went to cartoonetwork.com and played the Jetson's racing game. I remember Space Ghost being their picture or something...awesome. Didn't discover porn till I was about 10.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i was 33, it was just under 3 years ago, i saw a news article on tv about the pirate bay and thought i'd get me some of that pirate treasure. i never did though, i found streaming online video and caught up with all of the episodes of 24 i had missed. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My dad was a programmer for the Military until I was twelve. I was doing my homework one day when I heard him making a weird noise with the computer (sounds of the modem connecting). I made note of the icon he clicked and tried it out later that day, but he heard me right away and told me not to go on there. I don't remember how he explained it to me, but a few days later he took me online and showed me how to get around.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'd like to think that it would reach a maximum velocity at some point but I don't actually *know*. I'm curious as well now.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You can compute the buoyancy force on the container by knowing the volume of the container and the density of the air in the container vs. the density of the surrounding sea water. (Sea water becomes very slightly denser as you go deeper, due to both temperature and pressure effects.) Also, the container might crush and thus change volume if it were deep enough. But anyway...\n\nThe other factor is fluid drag on the container as it shoots up through the water. This is very complicated. It depends on the exact size and shape of the container, and the density of the water its moving through. This drag is also (exponentially?) proportional to the speed the container is moving.\n\nAt some point the fluid drag on the container will balance the buoyant force, and you'll hit terminal velocity. The container will maintain that speed and not get any faster.\n\nSo, to answer your question: due to the complicated nature of fluid drag and its dependence on the exact size and shape of the container, no there's really no good formula for this. You may find some, but they'll probably ask you to assume perfectly spherical elephants.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "First, by knowing the mass and the volume of the container (we will approximate it to be uniform density, it really doesnt matter here) we know the density of the tupperware. Then we calculate the density of the water for the same volume. Using Archimedes principle we divide the density of the container by the density of the water and that ratio gives us the weight of the container divided by the weight of the displaced fluid. Now that we know the weight of the original container, we know how much water it is displacing ( D(container)/D(water) = W(container)/W(water displaced). Using the formula that the apparent force on the container is it's weight in a vacuum minus the weight of the water it displaces, we calculate that there is a force acting upwards. Then using F=ma we can calculate the acceleration due to the buoyant force.\n\nHere is where it gets tricky. The water will act on the tupperware with a drag force, thus it will not go up faster and faster just as a sky diver does not fall faster and faster but eventually reaches an equilibrium. We must solve for this speed using the drag equation that F=1/2* D(tupperware)*surface area*drag coefficient (if cubic in shape use 1.05) times velocity ^2. We can set this equal to the buoyant force we calculated in the first paragraph and solve for the velocity. This will give us the max speed at which it will rise. \n\nThis is overly simplistic in that we are ignoring surface tension and a few others. But off the top of my head, this is how i'd go about it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I called one of these once to say the truck driver was really doing a great job. I hope he got a raise or something.", "score": 36 }, { "body": "I called one of those numbers once. But only because the moron ran me off the road. With great power comes great responsibility.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I actually make a weekly habit of calling those numbers and tell them about what a great job their doing. I usually say I've been driving with them for around 5 miles and find that they are really aware at the wheel.\n\nHopefully karma will pay me back for my good deeds some day", "score": 12 }, { "body": "That's why the first thing I do when I pick up a truck is black out that stupid number with a wide sharpie.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "How do you **know** he wasn't driving badly?\n\nI've called trucking companies up (and the police) because interstate truck drivers with 100 km Speed Limited signs on their trucks have decided to tailgate me for 30 kilometres, only to speed past me at the overtaking lane, going much faster than 100km/h.\n\nAnd I hoped that each and every one of those fuckwits did lose their job and never got in a truck again. At 100km/h if I have to stop, they have to hit me and then we both have to go off the side of the road into the metre diameter gum trees.\n\nYou don't know that the person called in \"just for fun\".", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I have to do a longish journey once a week down a windy country lane with very few opportunities to overtake. The speed limit is 40 or 50 (UK) and its not a particularly dangerous route. Normally it takes about 30-40 minutes at the posted speeds. The other day I was stuck behind a tradesman's van doing about 10-15mph and braking hard on every corner, guy shouldnt have been allowed to drive. It was pretty dangerous as the queue forming behind me was getting impatient. I saw that his mobile/cell number was listed on back, I called it from my handsfree in a hunch that he might answer. The guy actually stopped on a blind bend to answer it (backfire #1) so I couldnt even overtake. He answered and I asked him if there was a problem with the vehicle and could he pull over for a while to let people past.\n\nGuy got out of the van and stormed up and down the queue shouting into his phone looking for the caller (it wasnt obvious it was me as i wasnt holding a phone) and somehow didnt think that it was mee - first in the queue. He got back in the van and then drove off at about 60 mph and at the next corner slowed down, but not quite enough and came off the road, one side of the van in a ditch. I didnt stop. As my dad used to say, probably got his license from a cereal box.", "score": 6 }, { "body": ">So the trucking company can keep their insurance rates lower, this results in the immediate suspension or termination of the driver without any investigation.\n\nSounds to me like the people in the trucking company are the real assholes.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I do hope more lessons will be forthcoming, and that our fellow redditors share their success stories putting this first one to use!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"I guess that idiot doesn't realize when you call those numbers real people with ...real families can lose their jobs...\"\n\nThe general population.\n\nThere actually ARE a bunch of asshole truck drivers, but causing someone to lose their job over something stupid is just absolutely downright low in most cases.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Same thing happens if you see a pizza driver and call the number on top of their car to complain. Sometimes people think they'll get a free pizza cause they claim they saw one of the drivers driving like an idiot.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have a George Castanza style idea on how you can help your dad to get his job back.\n\nKeep making complaints against drivers every few days, have friends do it if you must, and after a couple of weeks call and be all \"you guys are so stupid, I was behind them all!\"", "score": 4 }, { "body": "How do you know he didn't do something bad? 99% of the people who cut me off have no clue what they even did.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My favorite series between ages 11 and 14, yeah. Never stopped loving it, especially the way the main character started discovering the old technology and the resistance groups. His undercover work was an intense read.\n\nI believe that a few years later on was the first time that I saw a movie director butcher a story I loved that much. Blah sci-fi movies", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've just re-watched the BBC series from '84 and it's still just as terrifying today as it was when I was a kid. Very much looking forward to the movie in 2012 as long as they don't stuff it up.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Wow. Yeah, I used to love that series. It was a re-read every summer. Book nostalgia FTW! (And while we're on the subject- the Earthsea Trilogy was another great one for that age, although not sci-fi)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Loved that series. BBC did a very good televised version, but it may have been canceled before the end of the series.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think your definition of clingy is off. Clingy is, by definition, a negative. Something that clings desperately needs to be there, as if hanging on for dear life. Having someone fall head over heels, rely on you and depend on you is romantic. Having someone feel like they can't manage by themselves is smothering and stressful. Making another person entirely responsible for your happiness is unfair, and that's really what people are getting at when they whine about \"clingy\". And if both partners are willing, that doesn't make just one of them clingy. That makes them both clingy, which is usually a sign of co-dependence (very different from dependence/relying on someone) and is unhealthy.\n\n\nI once heard it put that you should never need another person to 'complete' you, because you should be a complete person yourself. Another person might fulfill you, but never complete you.", "score": 69 }, { "body": "Clingy is to insecurity as love is to security. With clingy, there's a lack of trust in the other person; one clings to something they're afraid of losing. When you're in love, you want to be around that person all the time, but you either know they'll be back soon or you love them enough as they are to have no problem with them existing outside of your sphere of contact for a short while. You may miss them, but you're willing to feel that discomfort for the betterment of the s.o. ", "score": 45 }, { "body": "Having been on both ends - I find 'clingy' is the term used by the oppressed who isn't as much into the oppressor!", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Love = they draw strength from you.\n\nClingy = they use the relationship as an opportunity to become *weaker*. They begin to rely on your constant support just to get through normal days.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Sometimes, I believe the person saying the term \"clingy\" just isn't that into the \"clinger\" and they're using that term as an excuse to get away or put the \"clinger\" down.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "You are not necessarily being naive at all. It is just that most people do need their \"me\" time and if there is a clingy gf/bf then that \"me\" time may never have a chance to exist. \n\nSometimes it is just great to shut off all communications with the outside world and do things you enjoy. It does not necessarily mean you are falling out of synch with your significant other. Depending on how communicative the relationship is, the couple should discuss this in the beginning about \"me\" times and such.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "If you're in a happy relationship with someone who loves and adores you and enjoys your company but is also happy to take some time out to catch up with their family and friends on their own without dwelling on the fact that you're not there, that's fantastic.\n\nHowever, if you're in a relationship with someone who obsesses over you and makes you their whole world at the expense of having quality time and strong connections with family and friends, that's clingy.\n\nOne is healthy and the other is not.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It's very flattering but you have to keep in mind that in a clingy relationship, usually the clinger honestly needs the relationship more than the cling-ee...which is innately unhealthy in a relationship. It always ends with the clinger getting their heart ripped to shreds when the relationship falls apart because the cling-er was essentially just humoring them because it was so comfortable and easy to do. Everyone loves being loved. It's hard to say no to a clinger sometimes.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "clingy = feeling trapped and bound to expectations of someone who can't take care of themselves.\r\n\r\nits a bad thing. unless you like that kind of thing. usually control freaks.\r\n\r\nimagine the difference between a new puppy who whines all night until you pet them and a trained dog who is happy to see you when you come home, but is capable of then trotting off to do his own doggy thing.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "A person who clings too strongly and too quickly gives the appearance that they are desperately lonely and just need *someone*. It makes the clingee feel less special because that void could be filled by anyone's affection.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Clingy for me has connotations of some one trying to build a co-dependant relationship. \n\nWe all have certain ideals on how much space is a good idea to have and how much together time is a good idea to have. Clingy tends to come out when two peoples ideals on that don't balance, are not meshed and a compromise cannot be found. \n\nClingy / Distant are one side of a spectrum and well balanced / happy / healthy are the other. \n\nI have a set of friends who live together, spend 6-7 days a week together. Do most hobbies together and it works for them. They are both disgustingly happy with that arrangement. \n\nEven if I live with someone I only want to spend 2-4 (MAX) days with them. I like a lot of space. If it was me dating either one of those people I would feel suffocated, and smothered. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you love someone, you recognize that they need time and space to pursue their own interests.\n\nIf you're clingy, you don't recognize this, and whine about everything all of the time.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "go running. when you run till your head is throbbing and your jaw starts to feel numb. it's the same sensation but supposedly healthier.\r\n\r\nplus if you take this chance to exercise. i promise you when you toke after you exercise it will hit you much faster/harder \r\n\r\npeace", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've developed a large number of major web site login systems, some from scratch and some using frameworks and plugins, so I can answer with some good knowledge.\n\nSites keep you logged in with cookies, and there are two types of cookies - session based cookies and permanent cookies. Permanent cookies have an expiry date that is set by the site that stores the cookie. Typically, if you check that \"remember me\" checkbox, a site will use a permanent cookie (and its up to them how long it lasts), and if you don't it will use a session cookie.\n\nNow how long a session cookie sticks around depends on your browser, your settings and your OS. For example on a mac even if you close every browser window, the browser process is still running and therefore so is your session, and your cookie. (You'll see that little triangle next to the browser icon to indicate that the process is still running... a Cmd-Q will actually quit the process and kill the session cookies).\n\nIn Windows, the browser process exits with the last browser you close, so for example if you're running IE7 on Windows Vista and you close all of your IE7 windows, any of your session cookies are definitely gone, but the permanent cookies stick around. \n\nAs far as when its enough to close one window to kill your session: IE8 on Vista shares processes with other IE8 windows by default, so they all share the same session - so closing one window is not enough. But IE7 on XP typically is a new session for each window, so its enough to close that one window and your session is gone...I think with IE7 and especially IE6 it depends how you open the new window, if you open it from the menu its a new process, if you open it from an existing window with File -> New then it shares the process.\n\nToo much information? :)\n\nTo sum it all up...On Windows (which I'm assuming you are becuase you mention you close your windows from the \"top right\" and not \"top left\"), as soon as you close the last browser window, your session is definitely gone, so it will only stick around if the site set a permanent cookie. If you're really worried, you can always delete all your cookies and that will definitely log you out of anything.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "If you take two ball-peen hammers and smack either side of the rivets lightly it will tighten back up. Alternatively if they're placed in such a way that you can do it you could drill them out and take a 6-32 tap to thread the holes, then you can just use standard case screws and some blue threadlock to keep it tight for a looong time. Bonus for the screws is when you've had enough of the case you just take the screws out and you're left with a few panels and some small angled pieces instead of a large box.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I have the P183 on my list for a new build I'm working on. Definitely worth it to buy a higher-end one. A good case will last for years where a crappy one will need to be replaced.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "When I was a kid, I thought Pablo Picasso was a complete hack who came up with a cutesy style to cover for his lack of talent.\n\nOne time at a museum, I saw a sketch that he had made very early in his career. I believe it was a full-figure portrait. I was amazed at the realism of the drawing. And then I suddenly realized that cubism was not a refuge for incompetence, but an exploration for a man whose mastery had led to boredom with the familiar.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. I never liked their earlier stuff and thought that they were just some generic emo band, but that album definitely made me think twice about my opinion of them.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Short version: to make friends.\r\n\r\nLong version: For whatever strange reason, I tend to get along better with other science-oriented people, girls included. When I first got my job, I was one of the 3 females in the department. If you’re an engineer, it is really hard to meet other women, even if you’re a woman yourself. It was a similar situation in school, although not quite as bad. \r\n\r\nSWE at my school was great. A lot of social events, outreach to local K-12, etc. \r\nSo basically: \r\n1. Social interaction with other women.\r\n2. Outreach. Young girls are a lot more likely to become interested in science if they have role models they can identify with. \r\n\r\nThere is a local SWE chapter where I live now, but it is pretty lame. They only have about 2 events a year on average, one of which is elections. The only point of that group is giving the officers something to add to their resume. (And yeah, I know I could quit complaining and join and organize all the events that are currently not happening, but meh.)\r\n\r\nI don’t really see the point of regional conventions…I’ve heard of a couple of people getting jobs that way, but I think industry-specific career fairs are much more efficient in that sense. \r\n\r\n(For the record: EE, employed, haven't encountered any sexism from anyone that matters.)", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Female CS major here.\n\nThe idea of sexism and computer science is something I've been wondering about for a long time. I have not experienced any overt sexism in engineering, but I definitely still feel like CS is a boys' club. CS boys interact in classrooms and labs in a very male way, and it's just been helpful for me to talk with other CS girls in interpreting their actions and not letting them get to me. For example, I used to be intimidated that boys would always ask seemingly complicated questions in class that I didn't quite follow until I figured out that they were just trying to show off and their questions didn't actually make sense. This is compared to when I ask questions, I ask them because I don't understand the material, not because I want to try and extend the knowledge. Understanding some gender differences has been useful.\n\nI have not been a part of an women's societies or conventions but I'm interested in them for the support they might bring in my thinking that I'm not alone. No, I haven't ever experienced any classic sexism, but just by nature of the field being predominantly male, there are some not so female friendly elements. For example, I see the developer position as being female (read: having a family and being the primary caretaker) unfriendly, so I've never pursued it even though it's the default job for CS students. I've never had a chance to meet many female developers or female professionals in CS and I'd be really curious how they manage the family-work balance.\n\nSo yes, on one side, I don't see much direct sexism anymore (but some of my friends have), but just because it's not there doesn't mean that there aren't obstacles for women in CS. I think these type of groups are useful for support and role models. I've desperately wanted a female CS professional as a role model for some time, and I'm still looking.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "> Outside of engineering I've experience sexism, but never in any engineering environment. And I'm serious when I say 0 sexism.\n\nI've worked as a TA in the computer science department of an engineering school. While doing a massive bit of grading for the introductory course's final exam, one of the professors (an elderly gentleman) noted that one of the students had left a question blank. And look. She's a *girl* of course.\n\nI'm proud to say that myself, the two other TAs, and both of the other professors (one of whom was a woman), all simultaneously went dead silent and stared at the older professor until the awkwardness forced him to stammer out something about it all being a joke, of course.", "score": 7 }, { "body": ">Outside of engineering I've experience sexism, but never in any engineering environment. \n\nMy mom was a structural engineer in the 80's and 90's. She tells stories of how she watched all her male coworkers get annual raises, while she got flowers. Even if you haven't personally experienced it, the overt sexism wasn't all that long ago.\n\nWhether singling female engineers out with women's engineering societies is a useful counter-measure to sexism is a whole other discussion, though, and I don't know enough about what these groups actually do to have an opinion.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "If you want to get to know a lot of male engineers, join coed engineering societies. If you want to meet fellow female engineers, join women's engineering/computing/etc societies.\r\n\r\nSure, they're to some degree a holdover from a less accepting time, but there are also a lot of women in male dominated fields who love their jobs but miss the camaraderie of working with at least a few other women. There are also plenty of women in male dominated fields who do experience sexism. And there are lots and lots of young women and girls who could benefit from meeting a bunch of female role models who are in engineering and related professions.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "To network.\n\nWomen do business differently than men. Also women, in my opinion are BETTER networkers. Women are the match makers of the world and a job or business prospect that they know can help you is no exception.\n\nHere's the deal - I know there is no such thing as an all exclusive \"mens engineering convention\". It's just a regular convention for engineers...Which happen to be mostly men.\n\nI'm going to guess there are men floating around the womens conventions as well. \n\nI've gone to women networking and business events. I think it's just fair warning to men that they will be out numbered but are more than welcome to attend.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "When did US market mobile phones go from being global laughingstocks to the highly desired devices? Serious question.", "score": 99 }, { "body": "Being from the greatest country in the world (/sarcasm), I wasn't aware that there are any youtube videos unavailable in other countries. That really sucks.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Actually, I do understand that, given the realities of the logistics of physical goods (air freight is more expensive than ground shipping, ground shipping takes time, it's uneconomical to suddenly ramp up production and coordinate distribution so much that a product will be in shops everywhere at once). \n\nWhat I have *NO* patience for is distributors of purely digital wares not getting this entire long tail thing, and what the first two Ws in \"*World-Wide* Web\" stand for. \n\nLimited availability in the first case is entirely understandable. Limited availability in the second case is inexcusable.\n\nThough if you wanted to really do it right, you ought to be as transparent as possible and clearly say: \"This is available only here, here, and here at this time, *however,* if you are willing to pay premium shipping and special handling surcharges, and sign a liability waiver and assume responsibility for product safety and/or other applicable issues/regulations that we may not have worked through yet for your jurisdiction, then and only then will we actually air mail it to you, even if you live in Boondocksistan. That's gonna cost you though. Your choice.\" ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "1. Sign up for a freight forwarding service\n2. Get a US based VPN\n3. Buy the phone\n\nJust as easy as watching a cool Youtube video outside of the US.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I heard the general rule of thumb for liquor distribution is that the price doubles every stage of the distribution. (ie, manufacturer sells to distributor for $5 a bottle, distributor sells to retailer for $10 a bottle, retailer sells to end customer for $20 a bottle)\r\n\r\nIs that accurate at all?", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Why must it be Steam? Why not [GOG](http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/)? GOG offers everything Steam does (you can buy games online and add them to an account so that you can download them as many times as you like) without including any DRM.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Never had the hardware to play this back in the day, if you can believe it. I'd like to give it a shot if it was 10 bucks or less...\n\n*Edit*\nEmailed them!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I never never got NOLF to work. I tried using lithrez to extract and edit some rez files, I tried copying directly from the CD to the hard drive, then running with the CD in the drive, everything suggested. Never never ever worked. And I bought a real copy too, not a stolen one. Never got it working, never never.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I would buy NOLF and NOLF2 without any hesitation. easily one of the most underrated and overlooked FPS series. A true example of what a SP FPS should be. Good gameplay/gunplay, tons of hidden stuff to find, great comedy, its got it all.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I lurked for a long time become registering. There were more \"fuck Bush/Cheney\" posts. There were more Ron Paul fanatics. There was a lot less spam on the \"new\" pages and if you submitted a link you didn't have to worry about it being instantly downvoted by people trying to game the system. \r\n\r\nWith the addition of AskReddit came some sound advice (still few and far between but at least it exists), and in general this fostered the first semblances of actual community beyond just \"we all hate x, we all love y\". \r\n\r\nThis was a real positive change of late. Unfortunately, this has also started to give rise to a celebrity redditor culture for frequent posters (many of them are now mods). The ultimate consequence of this is a LOT more self-righteousness about how awesome Reddit is, which glosses over many of the flaws that still exist or have gotten worse. \r\n\r\nWith the influx of newcomers and greater popularity has come a general decline in the originality of the content and comments. People seem to think following redditquette is an attempt to turn our noses up at fellow users. This has exacerbated a lot of problems, in particular using votes to express approval or disapproval of others' perspectives rather than the quality of the arguments being made. People are also spamming front pages with repeats and \"me too!\" posts. Things like karma parties and internet hugs and emoticons exemplify the touchy-feely, almost manic change in the comments.\r\n\r\nAlso there are fewer puns.\r\n\r\nIn general, it's become less informative as a way to capture the best of what's new on the web, and more of a hangout for like-minded strangers who want to speak their mind.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Your friend fucking sucks at Zelda-fishing. Tell him to put the controller down and go look up a walkthrough to tell him how to play.", "score": 27 } ]

[ { "body": "Quote on the subject from a Administrator of thephora.net forum\n\n\n\"KFC has been using the West Indian cricket team to market their fried chicken in NZ and Australia for decades.\n\nThey used to have a jingle that went \"we don't like chicken, we love it!\" (a play on the reggae song \"we don't like cricket, we love it\")\n\nI think this is a genuine case of cultural differences. Fried chicken just isn't associated with racial stereotypes of Black people in Australia and NZ the way it is in America.\"", "score": 19 }, { "body": "I dont know why this is even a stereotype, if you dont like chicken there is something wrong with you.\n\nI am an Aussie and dont find this racist in the least. KFC [the sponsor of cricket Australia, who also have sponsorship deals with the West Indies] makes an add showing an aussie supporter in amongst some \"rowdy\" windie fans[and trust me, what was shown is pretty tame] who we have had a friendly cricket rivalry with since about the 70's so the guy shares his chicken to make friends and ease the awkward \"fan rivalry\" situation. For a bit more context, this is just coming up to a series of matches where Australia plays the West Indies in some pretty important games.\n\nIf anything this is the complete opposite of racist. White man shares dinner with fellow cricket fans who are black.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I'm Australian and I don't understand what the hell black people and fried chicken is about. Or black people and is it ... watermelon? \n\nDid black people in America used to eat a lot of fried chicken? \n\nThis ad is about the West Indies, not Americans.\n\nThese commentators should check out the ads featuring the Indian chefs attempting to overload an Australian cricketer's food with spices and the followup ad where he turns the tables.\n\nIt's all taking the piss. America would do well to start doing a bit of it themselves.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "**No**\n\nAs an outsider that immigrated to the US 10 years ago, here are my observations about our sensitivity to racism; correct me if I'm wrong:\n\n* Three generations ago, racism was rampant and racism was the norm\n* Two generations ago, people realized racism shouldn't be the norm and started fixing it\n* One generation ago, civil rights and liberties became the norm, America in general become more accepting of racial diversity through weed. Children are taught to not judge one by their race.\n* Current generation, the US overcompensates for the crimes of the past and mainstream society treat anything and everything that is remotely insensitive in a racial manner as completely and utterly terrible, applying the label of \"racism\" rather liberally; sometimes appropriately ([\"Barack the magic negro\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfxVkLhlu5s)) sometimes misguided ([said KFC ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftZt-Dw_hQ)), and sometimes deliberately as a political weapon ([John \"Black Hole\" Price](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc)). ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "A flustered guy gets out of an \"awkward situation\"--which in this case appears to mean being stuck in a crowd of happy, cheering fans who is supporting a team that the original fan isn't supporting. He defuses the tension of buying tickets for the wrong seats by ordering in fried chicken for himself and the neighbors around him. At least, that's how I'd defuse this race card time bomb for KFC.\n\nKFC American offices are going to have to throw KFC Aus. under the bus for this one.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't understand why people associate fried chicken solely with black people. I'm white and that shit's delicious.\n\nI mean I know it's some antiquated notion based around chicken being a staple meat(as it was the cheapest) way back when. But those days are long since gone, so should that thinking be.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't think so. Those seem to be carribeans, so I don't see any link to the chicken other than it being a \"crowd pleaser\".", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There seems to be a lot of disinfo spreaders and trolls that get hundreds of upvotes in a matter of seconds, especially regarding 9-11 or Israel. I don't think Conde Nast wants anything to do with 911 truthers since it adheres to the official story whenever it's mentioned in its magazines. They are afraid of losing advertisers or subscribers and want to maintain a poltically correct image. I would expect comments and posts to start disappearing. ", "score": 16 }, { "body": "This is the best I got, Conde-Nast or no Conde-Nast. I've read all the Alex Jones blogs--his comments writers on main issues are generally morons with a sprinkling of esotericists. You could say the same thing's here, but I'd argue it's a better lot. Maybe a better lot on a sinking ship, but still a better lot. When it finally sinks I'll swim to...wherever. Don't know just yet.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Well I hate to speculate, but I've come to the conclusion that many of these alt reddits are owned by one of the larger conspiracy communities on the net (as in their moderators are the same ones running these reddits) Observe your reddit submissions carefully because if they are a competitor to that site it just goes into a black hole. In fact our own alt news site has nearly given up on submitting interesting content to /conspiracy & /ufo. Sometimes we'll use a url shortening tool to make it through but with everything compromised it's hard to maintain interest. Thanks for bringing this to light. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Consider this. I'm probably a person you consider disinfo troll. The same thing happens to my submissions. Most of them don't even show up. Or are instantly downvoted. Seems to go against the prevalent theories here.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I had an interesting run in with that while playing Left 4 Dead 2 a few weeks back...\n\n(Note: I am of the dude persuasion.)\n\nI was playing campaign and one of the players wasn't very good (only just started playing, according to their Steam profile - which I checked out later), so I offered assistance through means of voice chat and in-game protection. The player had quite a high-pitched voice, and I took this as \"pre-pubescent boy\" rather than \"OMG! GIRL!\", so I was trying to be nice and polite and helpful, you know, nursing the gamers of the future or something. Anyhow, after a while, this player goes off at me...\n\n\"You're just helping me because I'm a girl and you're trying to hit on me!!\" etc. etc.\n\nMy response was truthful:\n\n\"I'm sorry, but I just assumed you were a pre-pubescent boy.\"\n\nIt can be seen as sexist that I didn't even jump to the conclusion that the person playing was a girl (pretty androgynous username), or it can be seen as a result of the lack of FPS girl gamers. Either way, the point of this somewhat disjointed rant is that, unless a guy is messaging you in-game asking for boob shots, don't immediately assume he is hitting on you because he is being helpful or a good team-player.\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Frequently x.x I usually resort to defaulting to 'being a guy.' And I stop using headsets long ago, unless I'm in a close-knit group.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've stopped using my headset and changed my screen name to TatAsya from LadyLioness for this reason. (TatAsya, still kinda feminine but not overtly so)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Go to aperture priority then go to manual. For the most part, i would say that this isnt a problem. Post pictures where you think auto caused a problem.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "P mode is a good learning-tool. it basically sets the exposure, then as you move the thumbwheel it'll increase shutter speed/decrease aperture (or vise versa) to keep the same exposure. So you can let the camera's meter figure out the right exposure, but with one wheel-click drop the aperture 1 stop, and raise the shutter speed 1 stop to compensate.\n\nYou know, it's not a sin to use auto anyway. The goal is to make nice pictures, not to be all hardcore about how to made them. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Auto is not inferior to manual, it's just another mode, both are very useful. You can get the vast majority of available-light shots easily with just exposure compensation. If auto is doing a good job in a situation, keep it on. It frees your mind up to deal with framing, composition, light, etc.\n\nI only use full manual mode when bouncing flash off different walls which makes my camera go haywire in E-TTL and when shooting snow or scenes with high dynamic ranges. Av / Tv with exposure compensation and manual iso do just fine the rest of the time. \n\nDon't be afraid to use auto when appropriate. You're doing a portrait outside in early-evening sunlight. You can either spend your time constantly adjusting exposure or looking for good points to exposure-lock or you can talk to the person you're taking the picture of, deal with props, pose, etc. \n\nEdit: One thing I got wrong for months: Don't leave your aperture wide open all the time. Yes it's tempting to get the extra shake leeway thanks to higher shutter speed, but especially autofocus will miss so many shots at 2.8. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's basically the same calculation as the Mandelbrot set, but with different initial conditions and parameter.\n\nTo see if the complex number c is in the Mandlebrot set, you initialize z = 0 and iterate z := z^2 + c. If, in the limit, z flies off to infinity, it's not in the set, if it doesn't it is. In practice you go a certain number of iterations and cut off the calculation.\n\nAs for Julia sets, there is not a unique \"the\" Julia set, there is one for each complex number c. To see whether a point w is in the Julia set for c, initialize z = w, and iterate z := z^2 + c. If, in the limit, z flies off to infinity, it's not in the set, if it doesn't it is.\n\nThe difference is that in the Julia set calculation, the point in the complex plane (the one that might or might not be in the set) determines the inital value of z, while in the Mandelbrot set calculation, it determines the c you add each iteration. You can then see that the Mandelbrot set consists of all of the \"centers\" of all the possible Julia sets, i.e. c is in the Mandelbrot set if the origin of the complex plane (the number zero) belongs to the Julia set of c.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Don't listen to some of these other folks such as northbrook19 and KevinOur. \n\nMore specifically than \"Homeland Security - Smuggling Unit,\" the unit you were dealing with was Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security proper doesn't run operations, but ICE, which is an agency under the bloated DHS umbrella does. ICE does a lot of cool stuff of which the general public is not aware. This includes nuclear counterproliferation, cybercrimes investigation, etc...\n\nI know from personal experience that all the federal jargon can be hard to navigate; the title of the unit in question was probably 10 words or more, all told. Its a bunch of bullshit and hard to keep track of. \n\nIf it was a drug ring they just would have taken it at gunpoint, or even more accurately it would have been retrieved without any interaction, without your knowledge. This was clearly a customs enforcement operation.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Just my $0.02. I'm betting that the tracking unit from the bumper ran off the battery that was behind the license plate. Unless you're sure it was drugs, I'd bet it was the power cell for the tracker.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "why would he sell the car with the drugs still in it?\n\n - seems like the hls was lookin' to frame a shady someone w/ dope an tracking devices; no smugler would be that careless and have their boss get that mad at them", "score": 3 }, { "body": "probably the drugs were planted by the government , they wanted to catch someone in the car in a routine stop and \"find\" the drugs . much easier than plating the evidence after the stop . I imagine the Ring decided to dump the car before the target was acquired", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't think they were crooks or cops--I think they were spooks, and I bet they weren't on our side either", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Offbeat Bride is really great and helpful. Indie Bride is also pretty good, but it's an old-school forum format, and somewhat light on pix. But lots of ideas and people's experiences. I also dig 2000dollarwedding](2000dollarwedding.com). \r\n\r\nMy wedding's in just under three weeks, and these sites have all been superhelpful!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Here are some great websites (especially for DIY stuff and practical ideas) that I've found in the past couple months:\nhttp://www.thebrokeassbride.com/\nhttp://www.i-do-it-yourself.com/\nhttp://100layercake.com/blog/\nhttp://earthfriendlywedding.blogspot.com/\n\nGood luck!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The last wedding I went to had two incredibly unique facets:\n\n1) The reception was a potluck. People brought their own dishes, and when they placed them onto the buffet table they got a card where they wrote their names and what they made. This is a good idea, but if you decide to go down this route, make sure to accommodate for any guests that have allergies to specific foods, and make sure people sign a list telling you what they're bringing. Also, be sure to bring some of your own stuff, too.\n\n2) The wedding cake did not exist. It was a series of trays with mini cupcakes of different flavors: velvet, white, and chocolate.\n\nI'm hoping some of these ideas help you out. Do the parents of the bride still pay for the wedding?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Better yet (using Firefox), add a keyword search. In other words:\n\n* Right click on Wikipedia's search edit box\n* Select Add a Keyword for this search\n* Type Wikipedia as the name\n* Type something like w for the keyword\n\nNow, any time you want to look something up in Wikipedia, go to the address bar (Control-L), and type something like:\n\nw Linzer torte\n\nViola! This will work on *any* search edit box, and is, IMHO, one of the most under-used, under-appreciated features in Firefox. While it has nothing to do with JS, it's still very cool.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You can do this in Firefox more easily:\n\n* select Wikipedia from the search engines dropdown\n* highlight some text\n* right click -> Search wikipedia for \"some text\".\n\nThis works for any search engine.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "are you in the future? it just started...or am i trapped in a time vortex? that would explain the raptors... \n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There's *always* some cool, new thing just around the corner. Do you like the Droid? Have you tried one in person? If so, go for it. \nI got my Droid about a week ago, and it's better than I expected from the store demo. I have no regrets re: upcoming Android products, especially since the N1 doesn't seem to be awesomely better. \nHTH", "score": 5 }, { "body": "yep - Verizon will be subsidizing the Nexus One in a [couple of months](http://gizmodo.com/5440694/google-nexus-one-everything-you-need-to-know). Just hold out a wee bit longer and you'll get the best of ALL worlds.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "$75-$20= $55/month you'll save by staying on your current plan. That will pay for the full price of the N1 in 10 months.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I hosted it on my account. Can people see this on the market now? Let me know if it works as I cannot run it on my Hero (Android 1.5).", "score": 15 } ]

[ { "body": "**Games:** SpacePhysics, Coloroid, Jewels, Solitaire\n\n**Media** Listen, TED, DroidLive (good shoutcast player), NPR News, NewsRob, Pandora, Last.fm\n\n**Utilities** PhoneFlicks (netflix manager), Goggles, Gmote", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Games:\n\n* DopeWars\n* Jewel\n* GameBoid Lite\n* RoboDefense\n\nTools:\n\n* FlashLight\n* Goggles\n* Where's My Droid?\n* Shazam\n* ASTRO File\n* eoeAppInstaller (Installs torrented apps, under a .apk format)\n\nAnyone use Locale with any success? I find that it's not very consistent and don't like that it has to use GPS to be accurate which can be a battery hog.\n\nMedia:\n\n* UStream Broadcaster (huge batter drain)\n* VLC Remote (control your VLC player from your Droid)\n* Mother Ted (watch Ted Talks)\n* Television (Paid app, but I torrented it, you can watch CNN, CBS, AP, NBC, and some other channels selected video clips.)\n\nedit: formatting", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Media: PureRSS, Google Listen, reddit is fun, NPR (although I don't use it very often), Video Player\nUtilities: Weatherbug, OI Notepad, Goggles\nGames: Barrage Lite", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Mine should be arriving today - I'm eagerly waiting to install apps and play around with them! Thanks for adding to this list.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My wife and a good friend who went to film school both hated this movie. My father-in-law and I both loved it. \n\nSome movies leave you with a very basic emotion..for example, Shawshank leaves you happy and hopeful. In Synecdoche, NY, this was more of a strong, focused message. [This, the funeral monologue,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9PzSNy3xj0) while not at the very end of the movie, was what I perceived as the driving message of the film, especially when paired with [the ending.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX8cm5ww0Yg) You write your own story over the course of your life and you should make it worth telling. \n\nMy father-in-law saw the same, but my wife and friend said we were both crazy. I'm interested to know what all of you saw.\n\nEDIT: fixed the second link.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Coming into this movie, I knew nothing about the movie. I bought it a couple days ago for $2.99 at a Blockbuster near my apartment which is closing down. I didn't expect much... maybe another flick with the same boring melancholy themes, self-absorbed characters and shallow, kitschy resolutions, but I actually found myself really enjoying this flick.\n\nHoffman's character IS self-absorbed, but the film doesn't ignore that fact. It's hectic. Not David Lynch hectic... easier to follow on first watch. It's like a story being re-told at the end of someone's life, where the details and timelines are jumbled. Anyway, I think it's a great film, definitely near the top of movies to come out in the past couple years for me.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "i really love this film. it's particularly interesting following Adaptation. I'm pretty sure this is the first movie Kaufman did without Jonze, and you can see the results as he devles deeper than he has previously. The end of Adaptation is exactly the kind of cop-out Kaufman refused to pull in this film, and the result is really not for the faint of heart.\n\nit took me a little ways into the movie to realize the extent to which everything is simply from Hoffman's point of view. rewatching it, i felt like it was not just from his point of view, but his retrospective point of view, as he reflects on his life, culminating with the last scene. it would explain the fragmentation and lack of a coherent timeline (the diary entries, the house on fire...etc.).\n\noverall, i found it to be an extremely beautiful movie exploring how our minds necessarily reinterpret our relationships and place in the world, particularly as we actively try to make sense of these things.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I couldn't make it much past half way. I see what they were trying to do, I just don't think it makes for a very entertaining or engaging movie.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Just wanted to mention that for anyone who subscribes to netflix, this movie is available right now in \"play on computer\" mode there.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My friend had to visit a urologist a lot recently and I couldn't help but want to ask him if he just said neurologist every single time. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I was just thinking about this today… also that we need something light, fun, yet still really good.\n\n**The Hudsucker Proxy** [imdb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110074/)\n\n*I also suggest that we all make suggested titles bold so they stick out more from discussion.*", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I nominated [Waltz with Bashir](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylzO9vbEpPg) a number of weeks ago. I'll toss it out there again. ", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "Mass effect. After playing it for an hour, I can't believe that I have gone for so long without trying this game. It's brilliant! ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Tourchlight. Out of the 20 games I got this is the only one Ive played more than 1 hour of yet. I'm at about 16 in two days actually. Sad...", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Shattered Horizon is epic.\n\nSadly I need a new CPU to better appreciate it; the E6600 is just not cutting it. =(", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Surprisingly enough, Plants vs. Zombies.\n\nBurned > $250, and spend most of my gaming time on this 'casual' title ...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "shattered horizon and mass effect. both very awesome games. was a bit worried that i wouldn't like mass effect (only rpg i've played is FO3), but it's turned out to be fantastic!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes all the damn time.\r\n\r\nA lot of it comes from not actually knowing the meaning of what I'm singing - at least 90% of my lyrical music is not in English, and of that, more than half of it is languages I don't know or haven't studied. After memorizing the lyrics, if I haven't heard the song for a long time, but it jumps into my head anyway, well, this phenomenon!\r\n\r\nBut I do it with English songs too.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It is *exactly* like this. It just loops and loops until I finally break free.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPesWf2TLJM", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I love you baby,\n\nAnd if it's quite alright,\n\nI need you baby,\n\nTo warm a lonely night,\n\nOh pretty baby,\n\nTrust in me when I say......\n\nI love you baby,\n\nAnd if it's quite alright,\n\nI need you baby,\n\nTo warm a lonely night,\n\nOh pretty baby,\n\nTrust in me when I say......\n\nI love you baby,\n\nAnd if it's quite alright,\n\nI need you baby,\n\nTo warm a lonely night,\n\nOh pretty baby,\n\nTrust in me when I say......\n\nI love you baby,\n\nAnd if it's quite alright,\n\nI need you baby,\n\nTo warm a lonely night,\n\nOh pretty baby,\n\nTrust in me when I say......\n\n\nI love you baby,\n\nAnd if it's quite alright,\n\nI need you baby,\n\nTo warm a lonely night,\n\nOh pretty baby,\n\nTrust in me when I say......", "score": 5 }, { "body": "DAE start singing Anyway you Want it, and finish singing Don't Stop Believin' - Every. Single. Time?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "To this day, I have no idea if \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\" has any verses. The only part that gets caught in my head is \"Here I am! Da na da-na-na Rock you like a hurricane! Da na da-na na.... uh.... um... Here I am! Rock you like a hurricaaaaane!\"", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Noooooo... Not a good idea. \n\nGo and get some LSD to start with. You think all those hippies in the 60's didn't know ANYTHING? LSD is a fantastic place to start. I've taken it more than 30 times and each time was a blast. I would recommend that you have your best friend with you. \n\nOther than LSD you might also want to consider magic mushrooms. Not my favourite, but some people swear by them. I just could never get a settled stomach to enjoy the trip.\n\nThe idea of you preparing Morning Glories (of which you apparently know nothing) scares me. You are apparently open-minded to the extent that you are going to end up as a psychonaut. I don't know if I qualify as a psychonaut. Maybe a drugonaut, because there were fistfulls of various white powders in there too. I stopped a while ago of my own volition. \n\nDrugs are great, however:\nDo the drug, don't let it do you.\nLess is more. \nNever be in a hurry to get high - \"See... I got this drop of lsd and it's done nothing.....\" LOL... Just wait a little. In fact... Just wait. Don't be dumb and take a second.\nPreparation is everything: Once you're flying, tripping or rushing you are forbidden by the law of common sense to operate a vehicle.\nLocation location location. Mother nature and psychedelics are made for each other.\nLiquid lsd can be stored for a short period in a sugar cube. \n\nThat is my best advice.... ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Don't. My brother tried this. When I finally got him acid, he wondered why he even bothered with LSA.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Definitely not for first trip!! It's an interesting and somewhat similar experience than lsd but in my experience not as powerful and has more physical side effects. If you do take them make sure to scrape them GOOD. There are extraction process you can find online as well.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If you're interested, go for it. I've had a number of experiences, and can say that with the right mindset LSA can be quite powerful. My experiences have been very deep and personal, with some nice visuals and ego-peace thrown in.\n\nPreparation: Check the size of your seeds compared to others in seed packs; hopefully yours are Heavenly Blues which have the most alkaloids. You're going to want ~300 for your first trip. Wash them anyway, then grind them to as fine of a powder as possible, because they taste AWFUL. I recommend the petroleum ether filtration that, in my experience, removes a lot of nasty tasting bits and reduces the nausea. From here, you'll have a few tablespoons of powder that can be further purified if you want to go the acid/base route, or just consumed.\n\nConsumption: Mixed with water, I've gagged and nearly vomited during the trip just from getting a whiff of the smell, and it tastes terrible. Mixed with alcohol (no need for Everclear, any old vodka will do), you'll have to take it as a shot and the taste alone won't be so bad. My preferred method is to mix the powder with a smoothie or milkshake, which will take on a nuttier but bearable flavor.\nCome up: You'll feel lethargic and might want to puke the first 2-3 hours, so have some food in your stomach already, take a dramamine if you have a weak stomach, and have a LITTLE weed on hand if you feel really nauseous - too much, and you'll be tripping pretty hard once the LSA kicks in. I suggest watching a movie in a comfortable position to keep the seeds down and get you in the right mindset once it kicks in. *Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind* always works for me.\n\nOnce the nausea (if any) wears off, you'll be ready to trip. Visuals can come easier with a little MJ, higher dose, or just patience and soon you'll see the ceiling breathing and other minor visuals. Nature might not look drastically different but the bright colors will definitely *feel* great and you'll want to get some fresh air after the initial lethargy.\n\nFrom here, go with whatever interests you (and your sitter), and if the going gets tough, don't close your eyes. My worst drug experience came from just 3 hits of bud at the end of my first 250 seed trip, when I saw my entire self and soul as a polygon on a roller coaster leading to the center of my mind while getting trapped in thought loops. But with respect and patience, I've also had some of my most powerful life changing moments on morning glories and will definitely prepare them again soon.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Try acid first, LSA can be very bewildering, I'm not saying LSD can't be as bewildering, but it would probably be more enjoyable for you this being your first time and all.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "\"Hurt\" by Johnny Cash (originally by NIN)\r\nand \"All Along the Watchtower\" by Hendrix (originally by Dylan) although the original is still good, just not Hendrix good.\r\n", "score": 68 }, { "body": "Ben Folds' cover of \"[Bitches ain't shit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJxvi767kQ&feature=related)\" originally by [Dr. Dre](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic7KH1PpbMY)", "score": 47 }, { "body": "People who love the 80s might disagree, but I think [The Gary Jules version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4) of Mad World is better than the [original Tears for Fears version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXuXikfIYHY).", "score": 34 }, { "body": "I have a couple, one I'm surprised that it hasn't been mentioned.\n\n1. Leonard Cohen's [\"Hallelujah\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_L2v_DJSxg)\nJeff Buckley's [cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnxmkOAj88)\n\n2. Los Tres's original [\"Dejate Caer\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osu_NZzDUg)\nCafe Tacvba's [cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfwlDbUuJ50)", "score": 32 }, { "body": "I think pearl jam's version of last kiss is better than the original (Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers). Eddie vedder puts in a lot more emotion that makes the song feel more real", "score": 26 }, { "body": "Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Little Wing originally from the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Vaughan's version is one of the few songs sure to give me goosebumps 100% of the time.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Nirvana - Lake of Fire, and man who sold the world (original by Meat Puppets and Bowe respectively)\n\nRage against the machine- The whole renegades album (haha debatable) \n\n", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Lady Gaga covering \"Poker Face\" by Lady Gaga. \n\nThe original should be declared a form of torture, I wish she would stop masking her talent behind all the pop bullshit.\n[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUYvWTd6oA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUYvWTd6oA)", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Iron & Wine's 'Such Great Heights' over The Postal Service's -\nThe Beatles' 'Revolution' [single version] over The Beatles' 'Revolution 1' [on White Album]", "score": 11 }, { "body": "[Cake's cover of War Pigs.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMPrpG09u90) Cake somehow managed to keep the awesomeness of the original song intact, while still adding in their own flair. The ending makes me feel all fuzzy inside each time I hear it, but I think I'm just a sucker for horns.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Alanis Morisette's version of \"My humps\" is a lot better than Black Eyed Peas. That isn't saying a lot really but it is an accurate answer to the thread.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Supple's cover of 'Staying Alive' - still one of my favourite songs ever\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjod-uZEIUM\n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Siouxsie and the Banshees had great success covering The Beatles [Dear Prudence](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MX8T6rZlD0&feature=related) and [Helter Skelter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPQCvJ8MPg&feature=related). They also did a good cover of Iggy Pop's [Passenger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs9NBxH7F8&feature=related).\n\nCake's cover of [I Will Survive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596qaxm-u4o) is awesome.\n\nMotorhead's cover of [Enter Sandman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpOnFgjc5Q) is so much better than Metallica's. \n\nPet Shop Boys cover/mashup of [Where the Streets Have No Name/Can't Take My Eyes off of You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAN3jm_kdc) never fails to make me smile.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "[Beck - Everybody's got to learn some time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVh8Mu1a4Q). Korgi's cover, theirs is great also but I prefer Becks", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Fugees' cover of Flack's \"Killing me Softly\" - the groove is so much catchier.\n\n[Original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpNdMIAnKko)\n\n[Fugees](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ighu4gGlaUE&feature=fvw)", "score": 8 }, { "body": "[The Eels - Get your freak on](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIeqZ3qPFWs) \n\nOn the opposite end of the spectrum I think [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrFwtlMd0H8) is the worst cover ever. (Other than that sweet final countdown cover)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "ive always liked the commitments version of \"try a little tenderness\" over otis redding's original.\n\nwhoops. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDhsBhc8CEQ&feature=related", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My 2 cents -\n\n[Song to the Siren by this Mortal Coil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM) Originally by [Tim Buckley (Father of Jeff)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9JC1tNQUjU)\n\n[Say Hello Wave Goodbye by David Grey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjy3jWLz4Fk). Original by [Soft Cell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42YzfmEQ400)\n\n\n\nand, of course...\n\n[Nobody does it Better by Radiohead](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSArd7fx65A)... because nobody does :) \n\n[Original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZBCcY0nJao)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Renegades of Funk. I like the RATM version a LOT better than the original Afrika Bambataa version. Now that I think about it, I like the covers on the Renegades album better than their originals (especially maggie's farm)\n\n[\"Renegades of Funk\" original by Afrika Bambataa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDdc37P6r3I)\n\nvs\n\n[\"Renegades of Funk\" cover by Rage against the machine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0QhSnNDU5I)\n\n[\"Maggie's Farm\" original by Bob Dylan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpdKxVpAV4)\n\nvs\n\n[\"Maggie's Farm\" cover by Rage against the machine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxHIVxz1K5M)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "[Big Star's \"Thirteen\" covered by Elliott Smith](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6CTSxgANL4&feature=related)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[\"Blinded by the Light\" covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Original by Bruce Springsteen.](http://s0.ilike.com/play#Manfred+Mann's+Earth+Band:Blinded+By+The+Light:64447:s112193.8076722.5069.0.1.82%2Cstd_e6795ae60bde9ae5f939c9ac1f1e2bc2)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "And DKs version shat all over The Clashes.\n\nMe, I'm a sucker for ska/punk versions of 80 synth pop...\n\n* The Hippos version of So Lonely (originally The Police)\n* Reel Big Fish's version of Take On Me (originally A-Ha)\n* Goldfingers version of 99 Luft Balloons (originally Nena)\n* Buck O Nines version of Pass The Dutchie (originally Musical Youth)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "In addition to \"I Fought The Law\", The Clash did other covers that were better than the original:\n\n* Brand New Cadillac (Vince Taylor)\n* Armagideon Time (Willie Williams)\n* Police & Thieves (Junior Murvin)\n* Pressure Drop (Toots & The Maytals)\n* Every Little Bit Hurts (Brenda Holloway)\n* Police On My Back (The Equals)\n* Wrong 'Em Boyo (The Rulers)\n\nSome other covers that I think are better than the original:\n\n* Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dear Prudence (The Beatles)\n* Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)\n* Gang of Four - Soul Rebel (Bob Marley & The Wailers)\n* The Specials - Take Five (The Dave Brubeck Quartet)\n* The Specials - Monkey Man (Toots & The Maytals)\n* Beats International - In The Ghetto (Elvis Presley)\n* The Farm - Stepping Stone (The Monkees)\n* Devo - Working In The Coal Mine (Lee Dorsey)\n* English Beat - Tears of a Clown (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles)\n* Happy Mondays - Stayin' Alive (The Bee Gees)\n* Bananarama - Venus (Shocking Blue)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Apocalyptica's \"[Nothing Else Matters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTozgoj9OQ)\" is better than Metallica's [original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgiGrXpOhYg).\n\n[The Fray](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgnFKNvmV7o) covering [Kanye's](http://vimeo.com/2184757) \"Heartless\" > Kanye and his auto-tune.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[\"Float On\"](http://www.myvideo.de/watch/4072044/Float_On_Gold_Spot) by Goldspot\n\nalso [\"Mahna Mahna\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypVe2DbhxXQ) by Cake", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Wild Horses by The Sundays which is a cover of The Rolling Stones song.\n\n[Sundays cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lEd5bIbbQ) vs [Original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYTPZks1kR8)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Here's a light to start a flamewar\nI wanna be your man is better by the Rolling Stones than by the Beatles.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I quite like the [Nightwish version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zqUrVE9wQc) of [Gary Moore's Over the Hills and Far Away](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyJEytBlp1I)\nAlso [HIM's version of Wicked Game](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5UjmxemXY) speaks to me more than [Chris Isaak's original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oaHHrNQVrg).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Faith No More's [Cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oZXfrf18Y) of Black Sabbath's [War Pigs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo135x0oXo8).\n\nI mean they're basically identical, but FNM's cover is so funky. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Judas Priest ALMOST made a better song out of [\"Diamonds and Rust\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLDazyvMMGw) than [Joan Baez did](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpD5_c2j1OM&feature=related) ... but not quite.\r\n\r\n[But they DID improve](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnOJXIvu6s) on [Fleetwood Mac's](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBQdXv0BhM&feature=PlayList&p=59937085B15D6CFC&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59) \"Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not technically a cover, but [Zach Galifianakis's music video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSpCf8-AE94) for Kanye West's \"Can't Tell Me Nothing\" is much better than [Kanye's](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E58qLXBfLrs).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Elbow's [Independent Woman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMUTiASn2B8) destroys [Destiny's Child](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuMmfDWMLgY).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "A lot of artists do \"ironic\" covers of pop songs; some work and some don't. However. Richard Thompson's cover of \"Ooops... I Did It Again\" transcends hipster snobbery to expose the art in the pop.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAS4ltt7DzI\n\ncompare that to the campy version by the Palast Orchestra (With Max Raabe):\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH49M86Nb98\n\nQuite a flexible tune... Though not quite punk, here's Children of Bodom's version: \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d7-2wooB9g\n\nI prefer the Richard Thompson version to all... including the original:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow\n\n\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "* Dolly Parton's version of [Shine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czirN42RKFY) - [Original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-I_CU2eU8) (Collective Soul)\n* A Perfect Circle's version of [When the Levee Breaks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INSoNZSjL9k) - [Original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbJQT2eDseA) (Led Zeppelin)\n* Social Distortion's version of [Ring of Fire](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BaksqH2YXQ) - [Original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRlj5vjp3Ko) (Johnny Cash)\n\nI'm sure I'll catch flak for the Johnny Cash and Led Zeppelin tunes. I really like A Perfect Circle's take on the Led Zepplin original; I think it's very unique. And I just love the way Social D's cover rocks.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is more like a failed first fap. When I was 12 I had no idea how to masturbate but I decided to try it anyways. All I knew was that your penis gets hard, you rub the area a bit, and then it stops being hard.\n\nSo, I proceeded to simply punch my pelvis for a minute or so, and then my penis went back to normal. I thought I had successfully masturbated for the first time.", "score": 78 }, { "body": "I do, vividly. I was 12, I was taking a bath. I was rubbing it and it felt really good, and I went past the point I normally would stop at and then a whole new world was opened to me. I was very, very surprised at how much semen there was. I expected just a small amount.", "score": 71 }, { "body": "7th grade, I thought I'd invented masturbation. Like Prometheus, I'd bring fire to the people and it would set men free. Then the next week I walked in on my twin whacking it on my bed. Kinda took the wind out of the old sails.", "score": 62 }, { "body": "No, I honestly cannot remember the first time I masturbated, but I do remember it just happening.\n\nI think when I first started doing it, I was on my parents' toilet, and it was some time after I got my period. I guess I'd been feeling my way down there, and one time I didn't stop. It was almost like an instinct.\n\nEdit: I can recall freaking out the first time I really had an orgasm. Not the dry, \"eh\" kind. The \"Holy fucking shit that was awesome\" orgasm. I was paranoid for a month that I got myself pregnant because I thought I was producing semen.", "score": 41 }, { "body": "Oddly enough, I started looking at porn long before I realized I could use it to fap. One day I had just looked at some, and then I went to bed with a boner. I was lying on my stomach and realized it felt really good. I moved around a little and BAM. Sticky pants. After that I would do it everywhere. EVERYWHERE. It's actually something I really regret looking back, because I know that someone must have seen me doing it in an incredibly awkward place.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "This reminds me of a story. A few years ago, a friend of mine decided to dumpster dive at some bookstore [bookstores are great for dumpster diving by the way, never any filth and awesome finds sometimes], I believe it was a Hastings. Anyway, he sneaks around back. The dumpster has a lid on it, so he parks his car and walks over to toss the lid up and see what he can dig out. Inside the dumpster, with the lid closed, flashlight in one hand, dick in the other, pants and underwear all the way off, is a little kid with a porno mag. 11 or 12 year old kid, right there in the dumpster, fapping away. The kid whips around and he and my friend look each other dead in the eye, and the kid screams at the top of his lungs. End of story.", "score": 30 }, { "body": "I was scared... very scared. But I had started, so had to see it through.\n\nThat night I went into my room a boy and left it a sullen, horny teenager. ", "score": 29 }, { "body": "I do, unfortunately. I didn't know you could \"fap\" per say, so I just kind of moved it like a joystick. painfully. In jeans.\n\nThat is all.", "score": 27 }, { "body": "Alright, i have never told anyone about this. Not even my boyfriend of over 1 year whom i tell everythingggg to. Anyway, i am a female. And i had a great best friend, we had been friends since longer than i could remember. Well we had spent one entire summer together. The entireee summer. I hadnt gone home once, until the first day back to school. I am not a lesbian, i am not bi, but that one summer.. That one summer we definitely experimented. We were somewhere around 9-11 years old. We knew what sex was, but not orgasms or anything. We didnt even know what lesbians were. Or what oral sex was. But we did it. We did it all. It all started with us playing barbies. And we would make the barbies have sex. Then we decided to try it ourselves.. we started with just kissing.. then we would make out with each other and pretend the other person was the guy we both had a crush on. Then one night while sleeping in the same bed together, she got on top of me. And we humped, but our clothes was still on. The next day we pretended it never happened. But since we were young, we had showers together all the time. Then baths. and lets just say things continued.. She then decided to suck my vagina one night. and it all went on from there. But after that summer was over, she moved away.. I think her parents suspected something because they would always ask us every five minutes what we were doing in her room with the door closed.. After that, i just masturbate by myself.. hah.\n\nThis is not made up. True life story... I kind of regret it. Thinking back on it now. It was experimental, and lottss of fun, don't get me wrong. But it made me lose my best friend..\nThis is not made up. True life story... I kind of regret it. Thinking back on it now. It was experimental, and lots of fun, dont get me wrong. But it made me lose my best friend..", "score": 26 }, { "body": "i do it was fourth grade, we were in class watching the \"sex video\" of a women giving birth. Right after showing the birth, all the boys in the class got up out of their chairs and proceeded to the bathroom. I didn't know what was going on but seeing as how i didn't want to be the only boy in the class room i joined. It turns out every boy went to the bathroom to fap, i didn't know what was going on so i had some other boy demonstrate for me. My first fap and handjob... thank god for that video", "score": 25 }, { "body": "I snuck into my cousins room during a family Thanksgiving when I was 12. I knew he was hiding something under his bed. I pulled out a Playboy, opened the foldout, and nearly fell to the floor with dizziness. I couldn't understand what was going on. After my head cleared up a little, I looked for more. There were tapes! Dozens and dozens of VHS tapes. I stuffed four into my pants and ran out to the car to hide them. When we got home I waited until my parents went to bed and I put in \"Naughty Nurses\" first. I made it 3/4 the way into the first scene before I had to run to the bathroom. I remember telling myself \"I almost got it! I almost... I got it!\" Then what I thought was hardened pee oozed out. Almost made it through that first scene 7 times that night. When my dad gave me the birds and the bees talk a few months later I felt like I knew more about it then he did.", "score": 23 }, { "body": "It wasn't technically a fap. When I was about 5 or 6, I leaned on a bannister in a certain way that (I believe) directly stimulated whatever nerve is involved in the orgasm reflex and discovered it that way. I had no idea that what I was experiencing was an orgasm until a drop of semen came out when I was like 15 and I put two and two together.\n\nI only switched to \"conventional\" masturbation after I was able to achieve orgasm during regular sex (thank God).\n\n> based on Tyler's recommendations, loaded up the lesbians.com free tour\n\nyou fucking younguns have it so damn easy now... lol. (37)\n\nTL;DR I've been having orgasms since I was 5.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "this is super-retarded and something i haven't told anyone ever (it's not like they need to know anyways). i was around 12. before i started fapping i was already watching porn. i got boners but i didn't know what to do with them, so i just let it be (i mainly watched chick masturbation vids). \n\nBut since i was watching porn and i knew what vibrators were i decided i might try that sensation on my wang. but since i couldn't just get a vibrator and try it i had to find something that sufficed, i couldn't so i let it be and gave up. then one day i was playing the X-Men 2 Wolverine game with cheats and invincibility on. and since i was running around getting shot and stuff, the vibrations on the ps2 controll were going nuts (yeah you read that right, my DualShock2 bitches.). \n\nSo i \"lightbulbed', i was going to stand infront of a guy who continously flamethrowered me so that the controller would vibrate (pretty good too), lol and behold some rubbing on the undersided of my flipped up boner and 30 seconds later BAM! the release of endorphins and the best feeling ever. i remember a small amount of jizz.\n\n\nTL;DR: i 'whacked' it with a PS2 controller.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "When I was 11 me and a couple friends went hiking in some state park. I ended up touching some plants i should have let be. Poison oak eventually appeared on my arm and my belly. \n\nI went to the doctor and got ointment and then was told not to do anything to exert myself for the next couple days. \n\nThe following day or so i was in P.E. class. The teacher tells us we have to run the mile. I tell him my doctor said not to exert myself and show him the rash on my tummy. He doesnt care and tells me to run it anyways. \n\nThe following day im at my grandmas and for some reason my crotch starts to itch all types of bad. The sweat from the mile run and pushed the rash downwards. I immediately go to the bathroom and notice that the it has spread to my dick. I figured, well thats inconvenient and just start putting the ointment on it.\n\nI got carried away for awhile with my topical application until BAM! Ointment comes out of my dick. I was confused for quite awhile afterward.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "This is true...\n\nI can't remember how old I was, probably like 12. I found this old 'massager' in some of my parents old boxes in our basement. It must have been from the early 70s. It was this oddly shaped metal thing. Being a curious 12 year old I decided to use it on my dick. It felt good, and then I thought I was going to piss or something. I had never cum before. So I ran upstairs and found my sister and told her I thought I was going to cum... she was 3 years younger... I told her that I was going to go see if I could and went into the bathroom and finished the deed. I still remember the odd metal smell that massager made. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Oh yeah, instead of playing Barbies, I was reading some really smutty novel I'd found, I have no idea what it was called. One of the protagonists had a daughter who was always doing all kinds of bizarre, kinky stuff, and I started getting really excited, moreso than usual. So I reache dinto my shorts and discovered I was wet, and that's when I started playing around a little, figuring out what felt good, and what REALLY felt good. Soon enough, I came, and it was a revelation. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Erm yeah, mine was a little different...\n\nThe first day I jerked off was also the first day I drank alcohol, the first day I smoked cigarettes, and the first day I smoked pot. I jerked off walking down a dark road at 4AM, still half drunk / stoned.\n\nThanks, drugs!\n\nEdit: age 16", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I did it to a stuffed bunny. It had a hole near where a vagina would be for some reason. Stuck it in there, fucked it with it on top, and after blowing my load was in such euphoria that I actually pondered whether or not I had just lost my virginity - to a stuffed animal. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I think I was about 6 and had discovered that the water pouring out of the bath faucet and jets at the pool felt really good and if I stayed there long enough..Oh yeah!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Okay, now I don't want you all to think I am some fucked up kinky sex pervert but.... When I first fapped to completion I was 13. I was watching some really weird porn called German Goo Girls or GGG for short. It basically was German Bukkake. For some reason that time I got really aroused and I just kept going and all of a sudden I just exploded in my hand and sat there thinking what the fuck? Did I break my dick??? Of course I then proceeded to do that about 5 more times that day. Gotta love when the parents are not home.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I was 14 and a little late to the party. My friends had already started watching porn and were discussing what they did when they watched porn. I asked one of them why he stroked his penis (I was totally clueless). He was feeling particularly superior, so he just said \"It .... feels good\". So I try it the next time I was home alone, watching [Acapulco Heat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hnhRW2utPs) - Alison Armitage getting beer poured on her. I was doing it very tentatively with two fingers, because my friend had been very vague. Suddenly I'm like \"Oh shit I'm going to pee on the couch\" and run to the bathroom.\n\nThen, the sun came out, angels sang and I was never the same again.\n\nFor a while after that, I replicated every aspect of the first time, because I didn't know what caused it. I used to lie down in a weird angle and use two fingers. It was almost a year after that that I actually saw how it's done in a movie.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "i was 12 and i remember being so paranoid the rest of the day around my parents because i thought they would be able to know somehow, through intuition, that i had rubbed one out for the first time. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "i don't remember what i was doing exactly, but i know i got the feeling of imminent pee arrival, because i went and sat on the toilet with my legs all splayed out to the sides (i was maybe 4 or 5, probably had started using the normal sized toilet fairly recently). The feeling went away though, so I sat there and played with my dick in order to bring back this feeling of having to pee. Before i knew it, my first orgasm washed over me in a white flash. No cum, too young. I was flabbergasted. My dad was at the sink beside me, shaving. I told him what happened, don't remember his response though.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I don't I've been doing it for as long as I can remember,which has always seemed odd to me. \"Stuff\" didn't come out until I was like 9 or 10. I called it \"goosie\" because I had no idea what I was actually doing. Found out what it was actually when I was about 10.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I started humping my pillow at 11 or so, couldn't ejaculate, laid off it for a while. One evening at 13 I decided to give it a go in the tub. I never looked back.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Victoria's Secret magazine in my bathroom around the age of 10. I remember looking at my hand, the girls, back at my hand then back to the girls and stroking my shaft and then jizz everywhere. I had no idea what came out at the time it didn't scare me from doing more.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Before I was 11 there was a lot of pseudomasturbation - I found a method of doing a chin up that involved keeping my abdomen very taut and my legs up that would give me what I now know is an orgasm. I also liked to climb poles a lot. \n\nWhen I was 11 I was reading a fiction book about a boy adjusting to middle school life and it came to a section about making out... well my hand was down my pants as it usually, I immediately felt like I had to urinate very badly, ran to the bathroom, and unintentionally ejaculated for the first time. At first I didn't register what had happened, I thought I had cancer or an infection... but then I realized I just blew my first load and I mentally engraved the experience in my mind.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I don't remember my first, but I remember some early faps. I remember finding my dad's bodybuilding book that had a picture of some lady with her tits out on Arnold's shoulders, and discovering that her tits made my dick hard. Then feeling guilty about it.\n\nOh, I also remember the first time I ejaculated. I definitely orgasmed before, but I had never ejaculated, and it freaked me out a bit.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I remember the first time I busted a nut, but not first fap. After a few friends at school talked shit at recess about jizzing for the first time I was set on a mission to fire off the skin pistol. After a week or so my day came, thanks to Howard Stern Late Night with some random hot porn star. It was epic, I ran to the bathroom and danced in circles..\n\nEDIT: My first fap was 8 or 9, I actually fingered this hot neighbor around 3rd grade after we did our \"make out club\" in the back yard. Epic times.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I got a funny story about that. As far as I know this is my first. It was kindergarten, yes kindergarten, and I was in the bathroom there, having a fap, and some kid walked in on me. It was not a good fap. Later, as we were sitting in a circle, doing I don't know what, that same kid got a nose bleed and walked past/over me to intentionally get blood on my shirt. Not a nice kid.\n\nFew years down the road, I was having a fap in a bathroom stall (I believe this was 4th grade, maybe I liked fapping in public I don't know) but anyway, guess what, head over the stall wall, same fucking kid.\n\nI've always hated Matt.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was in 5th grade in the bathtub, calmly fondling my junk. All of a sudden I feel like I'm having a seizure; scared the hell out of me. Since then I have fapped ~4350 times.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The alarm went off, I stopped it, I was all hard, so proceeded to a good time. I then got up, brew some coffee, and logged on reddit. I'm almost done with my coffee, so I'll be able to go for the second one...\n\nOh wait, you did not mean the first today ?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm female and for as long as I can remember I've been \"messing around\" down there. I mostly used my dolls. When I was nine I began using a large stuffed rabbit and I would pretend it was my boyfriend. I remember the first time I really got into it,(still nine) I knew it felt good, but I wasn't expecting what I realize now was a full blown orgasm. I also thought I had made myself pregnant and I felt guilty. After that I found out that not only my rabbit could make it happen, but pillows, blankets, the couch arm, and finally my hands. Although, that took ALOT of practice.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I work in Academia so I can tell you what's going on.\n\nSchools are businesses. They reward money with more money. Athletics are a huge money generator for schools: ad contracts, scholarships and ticket sales. \n\nA visual disparity of this phenomenon across the country was done by [PhDcomics.com](http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd102008s.gif \"Sucks, don't it?\").", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Holy fuck, if this happened at my school I would be PISSED.\n\nAthletics already get unbelievably disproportionate amounts of school funding. If this becomes a trend...", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Can someone explain this American obsession with college athletes to a European? What are people who don't study doing at universities?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Have you ever thought about just going in and using it? Unless they keycard the door you could probably just walk right in, sit down, and do whatever the fuck you wanted. Has a keycard? Could be a fun geek project.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Earn your school money and prestige and they will also give you things. This is generally how life works. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Because we all know athletics help mankind. <_< I guess it's entertainment but I'd put the knowledge of our future doctors and other IMPORTANT jobs ahead of people who throw balls around for a living.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Protest. Fuck that noise, you don't pay top dollar for facilities you can't even use because you are not some privileged elite.\n\nAt least very least, if you become very successful, do not give them any alumni donations.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "well I would definitely take the job. You can always quit and start traveling! Besides you said you needed more money.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Ok, for those of you wondering, the games he's offering are [Borderlands, Dragonage: Origins, and Episodes from Liberty City](http://www.reddit.com/r/REDDITEXCHANGE/comments/am17o/selling_borderlands_dragon_age_and_gta_stories/).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[They're going to.](http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2409269) \r\n \r\nI hope it's not too much of a circus, but enough to get the message out to apathetic Canadians.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Great idea! They should show up and start debating. Harper can keep hiding and further show what a coward he is.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It may have been Liberal strategy to wait for Harper to paint himself into a corner before making any moves. Assuming they have a strategy.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you can get a shop to sell on consignment, that's sometimes the best option and covers all the legal basis.\n\nYou'll get the most money with a private sale. Every other option, consignment, gunbroker.com, etc, will require a cut of the sale. If you try to sell it directly to a dealer or pawn shop, you'll get the worst deal.\n\nIf you're doing a private sale, to a resident of the same state, and you know the person is not legally prohibited from owning a firearm, you don't need any paperwork. According to FEDERAL law. Local laws may differ. A receipt is always a good idea though.\n\nIf you're selling to someone who is a resident of a different state, even if they meet you in your state, or you travel to their state for the sale, you need to make the sale through an FFL. This is true for an individual as well as an organization, such as a dealer. FFL transfers cost you money. Generally $25-$40.\n\nYour best bet is to sell to a local friend you trust.\n\nAgain, check local laws. Some of them are much more strict than the federal laws.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Selling on consignment through a gun shop is a common alternative, and then they take care of the various paperwork issues (all at a cut/fee, of course)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Since I've replied to your question elsewhere, I also wanted to ask...\n\nWhat three do you have your eye on for later?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Anyone who wants less advice should post things that aren't advice. If other people like it, they will upvote it. Really, that's all there is to it.", "score": 36 }, { "body": "Advice is always a good part of a board like this. And there is always going to be mixed results for answers. And guess what, that's always been the case all the way back to when alt.sex and alt.sex.wizards contained useful information. \r\n\r\nFetishes and laws really don't change that much, and I'm not sure there is enough of that sort of content to keep the reddit alive. It could cover new toys and whatnot coming out, but then people will complain that it is too commercial. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "IS this intended to be asking for advice over whether or not we should ask for advice here?\n\nI'm freakin' out man.......", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I have actually stopped reading the sex subreddit, as it is almost entirely advice posts. Honestly, how many times a week do we need to read an advice post about anal? I would not mind if they were slightly more exotic questions, but it just gets repetitive. Especially when it is essentially a person asking for relationship advice--isn't there a subreddit for that? I for one would like to see more articles, as there are a ton of \"academic\" works that never get posted here. And there is a lot of information about sexuality coming out, it is definitely not a stale topic. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It isn't just /r/sex, it's all of reddit. If it were for finding intellectual info to read, and then come back and say, \"I read-it (reddit)\", then you'd expect to see more sex education type stuff, like sexology 101. \n\nreddit used to be like that. But then the self posts took over and it turned into a forum. Now /r/sex is for forum posts about people's sex lives. It went from being about information articles, to people chatting.\n\nToo late to fight it. Start looking for other sites if you're not down with the new way. It is entertaining, but it's becoming more like Yahoo! Answers meets MySpace meets Digg. People here seem stupider.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I would say it's a kosher move.\n\nAfter all, sex is a confusing and mysterious entity that we all face at least in contemplation at some point in our lives. If I were roaming about on Reddit looking for some insight, I would probably try a place called \"sex\" first.\n\nedit: plus, when subreddits get too specific, they tend to go away due to lack of content/traffic.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "write the script, print it out, wrap it in a tamper-evident fashion, send it to yourself with a certified-mail seal, and tuck it under your bed.\n\nNext, start shopping the script. Don't hold your breath.\n\nThe first part is the cheapest (a few bucks) way to provide yourself adequate ammunition in case the idea is stolen. \n\nSlightly more expensive: submit it for copyright once complete.\nSlightly more expensive: take manuscript to an attorney who'll work with you and a notary to do more to capture your intellectual property's history in case of theft.\n\nLast of all, find some talent and make the damn movie yourself. When nobody wants to market it, submit it to film festivals and get feedback. Stick it on youtube. Invent a whole new way to merchandise and market it. You won't get rich, but if the movie is tolerably decent it might get you noticed. Ideas are fuckin' dime a dozen; everything that converts them into valuable property is the hard part (from good script to talented crafts and actors to present it well). \n\nGood luck. Cynic that I am, I do know that success only comes if you stick your neck out and do the grunt work *and* if you're lucky. But a great idea and/or luck are the least important parts of the equation. Like Edison said about inspiration and perspiration...", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I've had some experience with things like this. First and foremost, you don't shop it to the networks/channels. You shop it to the production companies that make the shows/movies for those networks. Look around on imdb for production companies that have made a bunch of stuff for them. Then google those production companies and get in contact with them.\n\nAlso, as nobody_from_nowhere said, if you are serious, honestly consider making it yourself. Even if you don't make the whole film, if you commit 10 minutes to video to really show the concept, you'll have a better chance at selling it than if it is just on paper.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Tell us your idea so that we can verify whether or not someone else has already made that movie. You'd be surprised at how often it happens. You don't wanna bee on the receiving end of a copyright infringement suit, do you now?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm pretty sure you just run around Hollywood, tracking down and then inviting yourself in to producer's homes.\n\nPS I'm sorry I'm of no actual help.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'd cry.\n\nSeriously, you guys are fucking awesome, and the community is so strong that if we all got disconnected permanently, it'd feel like you were dying \n\n:(", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Theres always the older reddit posts on the internet archive. That should ease the 'letting go' period.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Books from the cheap bookstore, read one page per click with a magazine behind it for the ads. lolcats from icanhazcheezburger. Subscription to the Economist and whatever the Paultards are reading these days. Porn from everywhere else on the internet. Spooge-drenched game adverts from the EE department. love/hate relationship with 4chan continues unabated.\n\nThe masses who flock to my new frankenreddit will serve as the stem cells that make the disjointed parts grow together, and then, into something far beyond my control.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "The two types of shares are essentially the same, except for the cost. Warren has refused to split the shares (in the traditional sense) to get a lower share price and reports that Berkshire wants a very different type of shareholder (in for the long run, minimally concerned about daily price fluctuations, and minimal transactions) and the high price associated with Class A shares maintains this.\r\n\r\nBerkshire started to offer the Class B shares after (1) stockholders wanted a mechanism to gift shares to family members, and the gift tax limit is $10,000 ( so in the beginning you could gift a Class A share and it was less than 10K, but as the price rose this became impossible) and (2) private funds were getting ready to buy the Class A shares and then sell fractional interests via their fund.\r\n\r\nWarren wanted to accomondate the first and prevent the second.\r\n\r\nThe floor manger for the Berkshire shares on the trading floor works to keep one Class B share = 1/30th of a class A share. It is not always a perfect 1/30th but it is often very close.\r\n\r\nBerkshire also wants the price of the share to accurately reflect the underlying value of the business, and thus have minimal fluctuations.\r\n\r\nThe Class A shares also have a bigger voting right than the Class B shares (memory tells me that the Class B shares have a 1/200th of a vote even though they are about 1/30th in price.\r\n\r\nhttp://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/forums/p/175721/175721.aspx", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "I found a way to cure cancer as well. You know how parents expose their children to chickenpox at a young age so they won't get it later on? Well, my ingenious plan is to give every single child cancer right now in order for them to develop an immunity to it. Brilliant I know. Perhaps we could add some sort of cancer spreading mechanism inside your giant refrigerator?", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Seriously my biggest fear is that a girl who secretly hates me will pretend otherwise and then while giving me a blowjob..... well.... use WAY to much teeth.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Clint Mansell. Check out [Lux Aeterna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLpJtvzlEI).\nIt's from Requiem for a Dream.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Back before mp3.com was bought and destroyed, there was an artist on there called Symphonic Chronicles. The music was fantastic. You can still listen to some here - [http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=256742&T=6520](http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=256742&T=6520) -including my favorite song [The Flight of the Dragon Riders\n](http://www.acidplanet.com/components/embedfile.asp?asset=365749&T=1648) ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I'm still a fan of Blade Runner and Fifth Element soundtracks. Beethoven's 6th and 7th are top of the list too.\n\nBut thanks for reminding me about Last Of The Mohicans, it truly is an amzing ST.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Some of the Lord of the Rings stuff was really good. The track \"The Return of the King\" stands out in my mind.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Thomas Newman's soundtrack for *Shawshank Redemption*:\r\n\r\n* [Stoic Theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XgzdN-Lik)\r\n\r\n* [New Fish](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kK53LfjVpA)\r\n\r\n* [Shawshank Redemption](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCtRg5RpTz0)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The soundtrack for Aronofsky's \"The Fountain\" is incredibly beautiful, it was composed by Clint Mansell and if I remember correctly was performed by the Kronos Quartet and Mogwai. \n\nI'd recommend everything that both Mansell and Mogwai are involved in- beautiful instrumentals!\n\nEdit: On second thought I'm not so crazy about Mansell's early work with his band Pop Will Eat Itself.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite composers. He worked a lot with Sergio Leone on his spaghetti westerns such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. And if you watch movies by Tarantino you will notice a lot of his influence in those scores as well.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Here is some of my favorite and most moving (primarily single instrument) instrumental music:\n\n[Romeo & Juliet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtNPlUpPT2s)\n\n[Ave Maria](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWi0x_aOzeM)\n\n[Farewell - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTlDceypS-g)\n\n[Moonlight Sonata](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck)\n\n[Winter - Four Seasons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCXjDuYQTA)\n\n[Malaguena](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFvqmIi9Ymc)\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[Conan the Barbarian](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg&feature=related)\n\n[also](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onGWF8mz1Zw&feature=related)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Hey, that commercial after I made it through all the other bullshit was quite good. Going to get my vote sir!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You can skip that that horrendous flash intro with a button that is cleverly placed just out of view on the bottom right.\n\nVoted! \n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You know, I watched it and laughed. I then went to vote, and it asked me to log in, which made me close the tab in rage.\n\nBut then I felt a little guilty about laughing and not voting, so I went back and made the damn account. I really hope your friend wins, that was easily the best video there.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Life](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_%28BBC_TV_series%29). It's an amazing nature series narrated by David Attenborough.", "score": 33 }, { "body": "[Please Vote for Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70Tqkm1lkQ) - A third grade class in china tries an experiment in democracy. Watching 3rd graders try to lie, cheat, and bullshit their way to victory is a satisfaction i'd not experienced.\n\n[The Great Happiness Space] - A wonderful look at the world of hosting in Osaka, where young pretty boys preen and hone the art of fulfilling - incompletely - the fantasies of their female clients at a tragic cost. Oddly fascinating. \n\nBoth of these are on netflix instant play and get my highest recommendation.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Updated: \n[Food, Inc.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/) \n[Home](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762/) \n[The Cove](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/) \n[Man on Wire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/) \n[Deep Water](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460766/) \n[Control Room](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391024/) \n[Shattered Glass](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/) \n[Touching the Void](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/) \n[No End in Sight](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912593/) \n[The King of Kong](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/) \n[Baraka](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/) (Blu-Ray only please!) \n[For All Mankind](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097372/) \n[In the Shadow of the Moon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/) \n[Sputnik Mania](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0937239/) \n[Nature's Great Events](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1380596/) (TV) \n[Moon Machines](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1203167/) (TV) \n[Anvil! The Story of Anvil](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/) \n[Bus 174](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340468/) \n[The Devil Came On Horseback](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912580/) \n\n \nI like documentaries:]\n\n", "score": 26 }, { "body": "[Fog of war](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8653788864462752804&ei=shFES6igLcyXlAeP3JG9Dw&q=fog+of+war&hl=en&client=safari) about Robert McNamera a Military intelligence officer during WWII and Secretary of defence during Nam. Check it!", "score": 25 }, { "body": "*Dear Zachary, A Letter to a Son About His Father* will destroy you, emotionally, but it's worth it.\n\n*Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is a really interesting and personal look at the American phenomenon of steroid usage, and how its treatment in the media exposes contradictions in our nation's alleged moral tenets. \n\n*Waltz with Bashir*", "score": 21 }, { "body": "The documentary \"Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan\" is very informative.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Helvetica - about the typeface and design in general. \nMan on Wire - about Philippe Petit, the guy who high-wire walked between the WTC towers. \nObjectified - great one from last year about design. \nPlanet B-Boy - about breakdancing and battle of the year. \nWelcome to Macintosh - about Apple duh. \n", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\"Power of Nightmares\" from BBC.\n\nBBC is clearly the best source of documentaries on almost any subject, and this one is among the best they ever made. Powerful stuff as the title goes. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "* [End of Suburbia](http://www.endofsuburbia.com/) \n \n* Anything and everything by Attenborough (sp?). If you need specific ones to start with, some favorites are \"Planet Earth\", \"The Blue Planet\", \"Life of Birds\", \"Life of Mammals\" (BTW, always get the British versions, and not the American ones. I think one of the US editions were narrated by Morgan Freeman, who while a good narrator himself, just can't match Attenborough in his own game)\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "[The Union: The Business Behind Getting High](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa4vbw_the-union-the-weed-business-16_news) \n\nVery interesting documentary first detailing a brief history of cannabis and then talking about it in the modern sense and even talking about how British Colombia is being very positively affected by the cultivation of it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[Food Inc....](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Df0mTiHnc)\nShocking Shit! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Will never eat a [meat ball again!!](http://c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/dyn/str_strip/303202.full.gif)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I've always enjoyed Louis Theroux's documentaries.\n\nHe has seen and talked to some *interesting* people in his time on the Weird Weekends series. \n\nThe San Quentin one called Louis Behind Bars is pretty good, but he's done all sorts so there's something for everyone.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I thought \"Grey Gardens\" is an interesting documentary, not like any I've seen before. Although as a warning, If you can't stand the first 10 mins turn it off.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"Connections\" by James Burke is very interesting. It shows of how various inventions have a most interesting and seemingly completely unrelated heritage.\nThe episodes are available on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeWeb#g/c/C9924A8A0F7AF2B6\n\nAs an FYI, a couple of episodes aren't appropriate for kids.\n\n\"Planet Earth\" and \"Blue Planet\" are interesting nature documentaries.\nYou can't go wrong with NOVA, or Panorama.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Definitely [Fast, Cheap & Out of Control](http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3636921113/) by Errol Morris. It's a great look at 'what is life?'", "score": 4 }, { "body": "- The Fog of War\n- Hands on a Hard Body (look it up, but I think it's never been released on DVD)\n- Trekkies\n- Super Size Me", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[My Kid Could Paint That](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912592/)\n\n*The movie follows the early artistic career of Marla Olmstead, a young girl from Binghamton, NY who gains fame first as a child prodigy painter of abstract art, and then becomes the subject of controversy concerning whether she truly completed the paintings herself or did so with her parents' assistance and/or direction.*\n\nIt's like a documentary and mystery in one, trying to figure out if the dad was in on it or not. After watching it twice, I'm convinced the dad was in on it. I can never be 100% though..", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Crumb (1994 documentary about the artist R. Crumb)\n\nCosmos (series by Carl Sagan)\n\nBBS: The Documentary", "score": 3 }, { "body": "King of Kong - regarding content, structure, and the amount of coverage they crew was able to obtain, this film will leave you awestruck.\n\nBeavers - hands-down the best nature documentary ever conceived. EDIT: Yes, it is about small woodland mammals.\n\nMan on Wire - The quality and quantity of reenactment footage surpasses most feature films. Not to mention the larger-than-life character and his spirited narration.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Almost everything by [Adam Curtis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis), in particular the masterpiece [The Century of the Self](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My degree is in math, but I drifted into IT. The nearest working mathematician to my desk, three or four doors down, writes statistical software for genetic association studies.\n\nIf you're comfortable with statistics and/or linear algebra, screw around with MATLAB and/or R until you know the ropes a little, and you can get hired doing quantitative analysis of one kind or another, finance and biology being pretty popular flavors where I am (Northeast US).\n\nIf you're hoping to lead a computer-free life as a mathematician, *looks in crystal ball* I see academia in your future.\n", "score": 17 }, { "body": "biggest employer of mathematicians around:\n\nhttp://www.nsa.gov/careers/career_fields/mathematics.shtml", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I know a number of mathematics majors that got involved in actuarial science. Getting certified to be an actuary is based upon passing a number of exams, all of which require a strong understanding of mathematics.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I'm a math professor, and I get this question a lot. I buy [these](http://www.amazon.com/101-Careers-Mathematics-Andrew-Sterrett/dp/0883857286) all the time, and \"loan\" them out.\n\nThe bottom line is: your degree certifies you as having a good breadth of technical and reasoning skills. This leaves you eligible for a huge variety of careers, but typically you will need some domain-specific knowledge either through experience or training.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Well I'm currently in academia as a phd student in comp sci, I wish I had got a math or stats degree instead of a CS undergrad (even though I minored in math) as I've had to learn a lot on my own. So I guess you could always go to CS grad school, you would likely have an advantage in some fields, I happen to be working in machine learning. A Msc. Only takes two years and you can sometimes score a stipend. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "When I first came to college one of my professors said get your undergraduate in Math, masters in computer science and you'll be worth your weight in gold", "score": 6 }, { "body": "There's lots of interesting programming that involves real math and has nothing to do with web development: in the sciences, in corporate R&D - particularly startups in areas like biotech - and in the financial markets. So programming would be an option if you were open to it, but you'd presumably need to learn to program first. Once you know how to program, most employers won't care that you didn't take CS classes.\n\nFinancial firms are often also be willing to take math majors and train them to be [quants](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quant_(maths\\)), although that's a competitive area which hasn't been helped by recent events. A bachelors with no experience may not be enough - or you may need to start cheap, which may still be ok compared to teacher's salaries.\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I have an undergrad degree in math, and a masters in statistics, and currently I am working in a woodworking co-op as a furniture maker. Who says masters degrees are useless?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "What ever you want. Math degree is an excellent base to build upon and learn what ever interests you. And thanks to the fact that you have been doing brain gymnastics for years now, you will pick any soft skill needed as well. \n\nSo, pick what is it that interests you and start learning. Things that are very close to math are computer science/software development, financial industry, bio informatics, statistics etc... But you could also work for a while and then go to law school etc.\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I ended up in computers - support right now. But before that I was a librarian and got a master's in library science after my math degree. So I'm not much help :/", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Whatever you want. No, seriously. If you are not qualified to do what you want after getting a degree in mathematics, then you at least have a leg up on it. Almost anything you can imagine yourself doing is made easier by having a solid grasp of the concepts math teaches you.\n\nExamples:\n\n * Want to be a carpenter? Your knowledge of geometry will be immensely valuable.\n * Want to be a computer programmer? This one is almost too obvious to talk about.\n * Want to be an author? The mental gymnastics and creative problem solving you've been refining for the past several years will be invaluable.\n * Want to be a doctor? I know several doctors who consider their math degrees one of their best assets.\n * Want to be a lawyer? The logical argumentation you've learned will only help you and the attention to detail will be invaluable.\n * Want to be a baker? A lot of large scale baking is about ratios and understanding how things scale (including non-linear scaling effects).\n\nI could go on and on and on. I would strongly posit that there is no field that is not enhanced by someone with a strong grasp of mathematical concepts and logical reasoning. So figure out what it is you want to do and find out what you need to do to get there. You've got a better starting foundation than 99% of other people out there.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you're not on AT&T but on Tmo, you won't get 3G speeds on your data, only EDGE. Plus Visual Voicemail won't work, and you can't do simultaneous voice and data (though that's an issue regardless of the iPhone.) Frankly, Tmo isn't any better than AT&T (some ways I found it worse) and if you really, really don't want AT&T you might as well sell the iPhone and get a Driod on VZW to get a better overall (carrier + phone) experience. Personally, I like the iPhone so much I'm willing to put up with AT&T's B.S., but that's just me.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Haha, I put the SIM card from my old T-Mobile pay-as-you-go phone into the iPhone and it worked. 10c per minute! This should tide me over until I decide what course of action to take next :)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "T-Mobile.\r\n\r\nThe salesperson I spoke with had already sold three plans to JB iPhone users. \r\n\r\nI went with the flex pay (no data, no text).\r\n\r\nThere might be a way to get unlimited data for cheap still, but I didn't think of it when I was there - I just needed a a few minutes on it.\r\n\r\nSomeone will eventually comment here, with a more detailed suggestion.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have my unlocked(care of blacksn0w) iPhone on the Sidekick pre-paid plan from T-mobile. It seems rather pricey for pre-paid ($1/day+$0.15/min), but I use rather a lot of the unmetered texts. No data...haven't figured out how to pay for it yet. Wifi makes that all better, though.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "In Europe it's normal to mix the weed with 1/4 tobacco (or even more; but the lesser the better, I'd say) while smoking joints. It actually makes the smoke smoother.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "http://s.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/9/6/7/nerd-venn-diagram-9420-1252236207-2.jpg\n\nthis should answer your question", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_(TV_series)#Conner_Conley_murder\n\nConner Conley is the closest I think... that we know about.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I try not to downvote based just on someones opinion, however, if I think someone is a troll, or being an ass to someone else I downvote.", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "Funny you say this, I have always found slight lisps to be kind of sexy. Maybe that is just me though. \n\nI actually have a friend whose boyfriend has a slight lisp, she has a bit of a thing for it. \n\nAnyway, it doesn't sound like a severe problem. You just have to remember that your lisp in no way defines who you are. Own your lisp, if someone cracks a joke, play it up. I'm not saying pull a Michael Scott on them, but be confident about it. There is shit about every person that isn't perfect, why we don't always notice it is because they don't let it bother them. This is a bit of an extreme, but look at FDR. He was in a wheelchair for fucks sake, but continued to BE a President, so much so that some Americans refuse to believe it true.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "If the overbite is causing the problem, you can go to an orthodontist and they may be able to make your jaw bone jut out more using some sort of mouth brace with elastics. I know that they do this kids all the time- it could be possible for adults too.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Hello, fellow lishper here. And just talking about this in writing makes me cringe. Children are indeed not kind, certainly not the ones I knew.\n\nYou don't mention whether you are have a lithp or a lishp. I suspect you are the former, because if you have a lishp, you can probably get a role as the next James Bond and spend the rest of your life somehow becoming sexier to women the older you get.\n\nI tried speech path... the path turned to be the most useless and ineffective person I've met (telling me \"you;'re *so* close, if only you could hear it\" wasn't as encouraging as she thought).\n\nThese days most people who talk to me don't notice (or so they claim). Here are a few tips I figured out on my own:\n\n** replace the sound. I replaced all my 's' with 'z'. I gave myself a lizp instead of a lishp. It made me sound like I was putting on a little bit of a German accent, but it worked very well. That iz, I waz now pronounzing all my zoundz correctly. I tried not to use it around old friends, new ones just assumed that was my accent.\n\n** over time I shortened the 'z' untill you almost couldn't hear it. That made it a bit softer, because there isn't time to get my mouth into the right shape when I do it fast. Now it sounds mostly like an 's', unless you're really paying attention. \n\n** learn another language. Because you have to learn new sounds to speak a new language, you're in the right place to learn how to say 's'. The drawback is you only get to use the correct 's' in your new language.\n\ne.g. I lishp when I speak english and french, because I learned them young (english native). but when I speak chinese (started last year), I say my 's' correctly, because many of the sounds are new, and the s just got learnt with the 'dze' and the other odd ones. I had a great friend teach me. She spent the whole evening teaching me to say 'si chuan'. Now I still pronouce 'sea' as 'shea', but I get 'si' right. odd.\n\n[edit: and stop being an aggressive dick. you are more than your impediment(s). or rather, you *should be*.]", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I want to say that it was the famous Greek orator Demosthenes that cured his own lisp/stuttering speech impediment by putting a lot of pebbles in his mouth, and practicing talking around them, until his diction was perfect... But I don't know whether this actually works..", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Same one I've seen in alot of other SF shows and movies. The next gen episode where Geordi and Ro get \"phased\". They can pass through tables, walls, people, and anything else. Except for the floors. Plus the fact that if they were out of phase with all matter I have no idea what they were breathing.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "could the be a way to load all of the pins for only a certain region? I can't handle all 10,000 and the random selection doesn't show a whole lot of pins in the areas i'm interested in stalking", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "For what it's worth, I know the OP and he's telling the truth.\n\nI doubt he can get a star, though, as there's little evidence and the kidnappers weren't convicted of anything. Most kidnappers/criminals here work for the police, and the second the guys got caught he was told most eyewitnesses had the very bad habit of dying shortly after they gave their testimonies.\n\nI know trolls are very common in IAmA and not speaking english doesn't help, but it was a very traumatic experience and he couldn't speak about what happened for a couple of years. Go easy on him.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "How did you manage to escape? What do you think they were after, ransom? What did they threaten you with? Did you resist the kidnappers?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "¿Te secuestraron por dinero o por razones políticas? ¿Qué tipo de medidas de seguridad empleas ahora?\n\n¿Es el secuestro una actividad criminal común en Argentina? Aparentemente es muy común en otros países latinoamericanos.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "While people say hopworls is a good place, I just want to say that everytime I've been there it's been 50/50 on service and I'm usually surrounded by a bunch of annoying kids. However they do have good beer. \n\nMy choice would be laurelwood on 23rd since it is friendly to redditors who are under 21, there is damn good brew and kids are seperated. Not to mention their garlic fries. Oh god. Those fries are absolutely amazing. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I can't do a bar this time, but my 21st Birthday is next Friday... I've been waiting to get in on one of these Reddit meet-ups for quite a while now.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The meetup was awesome! Everyone was really cool and the conversations were fantastic! Would buy again!\n\nGreat to meet you guys, we gotta do this again soon!\n\n(Baptist J)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Simple. [Outrun](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrun) applies perfectly well to cars.\n\nMight not work with other analogies though...", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I don't think it implies that the car is running the way a dog or a human would. In this case I think it's just a generic verb implying travel.\n\nPS. I have an English degree, too.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You would say that an engine *runs* when talking about its speed. Equally, you might say that a car runs a quarter-mile: *\"It ran it in just under eleven seconds.\"* \nI see no problem with the term being applied to both the dog and the car. If one car can outrun another, it could be said to outrun a dog, or vice versa.\n\nWhen you are talking about driving, I would apply *'outdrive'* to the *skill* of the driver. If one driver outdrove another, he also outplayed him (in terms of driving ability). \n\nIt can get a bit knotty, but I think this is the clearest way to use these terms.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If you want to be nit-picky about it, I would suggest saying \"The dog has the ability to run faster than the car drives.\" This way, there is no confusion over wether or not the car has legs or the dog has wheels. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Started running not even a year ago so I have only limited experience. I always ran barefoot and my feet were killing me after over-doing it for the first few times. Shin splints, muscle soreness, etc. . So if you try barefooting, which you should :-) start slowly. \r\n\r\nDue to the harsh winter here in central europe I recently decided to grab a pair of fivefingers (the KSO model). They are quite pricey but definitely worth it. You feel every pebble, spiky stone (OUCH!) and different surface below your feet and totally feel in control (They are, of course, pretty slippery on ice, fell flat on my ass just today). Putting them on is quite a challenge but it gets easier with time. Plus, I strongly advice getting a pair of (expensive) complimentary socks, because when I ran without them recently I got a nasty blister. Also, they look like gorilla feet (got the black ones), so you should be comfortable with baffled gazes.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This topic comes up periodically, so I'm essentially going to C&P what I've said before about them (with maybe a couple additional thoughts):\n\nMy experience with the Vibram FiveFingers has been somewhat mixed. I decided to buy a pair after reading [Born To Run](http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest/dp/0307266303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263014801&sr=8-1) because I'd had some nagging issues with knee and hip pain that I thought might be correctable by strengthening those under-used leg muscles and tweaking my stride.\n\nWhat I've noticed is that the FiveFingers have more or less helped to solve the knee issues (I used to wear a brace, but have been able to abandon it), but have somewhat aggravated the hip issues. And the truth is that while they do have benefits, for me their appeal is somewhat limited. A couple of miles in the FiveFingers leaves me a lot more sore the next day than a much longer run in my ASICS (not injury sore, but the kind of full-body sluggishness that comes the day after a good long run), and indeed I find running any distance longer than two miles to be a challenge, just because as you grow fatigued, it's more difficult to maintain good form. Say what you will about traditional running shoes, but they are more forgiving as you grow tired on a longer run. Blistering is also a much bigger problem. I measured my feet and toes and am essentially a perfect fit for their size 40, but I still experience a surprising amount of blistering, especially on my instep (and also on one of my big toes, but that's because of an unreasonably large callous I developed years ago that causes toe-wedging to be a bit tight). Although, I should say that I've more or less become the kind of person who ignores the various festering foot sores and toenail bruises that seem to come part and parcel with a 40+ mile/week runner. The other downside is that you're going to freeze to death in them. This is something I hadn't really thought about in the dead of summer, but even the cold weather model leaves your feet pretty chilly: merely separating your toes is enough to cause considerable heat loss, and even at as high as 10 degrees Celsius (with the Sprint model, at least) you're going to begin to feel a little weather-related discomfort. \n\nObviously, I'm still working up mileage on them (now that it's -10 out there, they've been put away for the winter), but even still, I don't think they'll really ever function in anything more than a small niche for me--do my long run, change shoes, and then do a 1 or 2 mile cool-down in the FiveFingers to strengthen muscles and focus on my stride. I'm OK with that, though, because that is more or less why I bought them. And if you're somewhere near a grass or rubber quarter-mile track, so much the better.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Best of luck to you. I just bought a one way plane ticket to Copenhagen, Denmark. If I fail, I plan to do it spectacularly. But I'm tired of bitching about changing my life, so I'm just going to do it, fire the shot, and self correct on the way.\n\nMay the blazing embers of our failures light up the night sky.", "score": 35 }, { "body": "Start frequenting \"all you can eat\" buffets and don't skimp on the breakfast donuts.\n\nSoon,you will be too big to fail.\n\n(If you listen hard...you can just hear me,waving a U.S.flag and crying)", "score": 34 }, { "body": "Fuck it. I'm in. I've never failed because I've never tried. I'm going to fail knowing I tried rather than wondering. ", "score": 21 }, { "body": "*scribbles mad calculations... stops...*\n\nNo! You FOOL! \n\n*looks up, horrified*\n\n\nIf you fail when failing is a goal, you succeed! You're going to fail at failing!", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Good. I've been rejected my over 30 women (I stopped counting) but god damn, you can't say I'm not trying. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Experience is the product of wisdom.\nWisdom is the product of inexperience.\n\nFailure is part of the learning process. Embrace it.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I hope you know that this topic totally just gave me the PERFECT icebreaker to talk to a girl that I didn't know how to get close to last semester...It's almost too perfect in my head right now.\n\nThis could be the 7 glasses of Ovaltine I had before my inexplicable 2 hour nap at 3am speaking, but I think that I owe you some kind of thanks.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Try this pick up line. How much does an average penguin weigh? Gee I don't know, How much? Just enough to break the ice, Hi my name is xxxxx! ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Ho HOOO. My good friend, 2009 was the year of failing for me. Jesus, don't make this another year of it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The reason why people arent reading the reddiquette right now is that it's a wall of text. Maybe someone with graphics skills could make a infographic.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Aristocratic douche food. I like the taste of it, but there's no way I'm paying the ridiculous amounts that are [charged for it](http://www.caviarexpress.com/) ", "score": 18 }, { "body": "It's like the lobster. A food that's rare in a certain way 9in the midwest for example) such to make rich people want it more _because_ it's unobtainable. The rich want it, so it _must_ be a delicacy, then time goes on and the logic dissolves into obscurity.\n\nLobster doesn't taste that good anyway. I prefer salmon, raw.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "It actually doesn't taste like a chocolate orgasm; however, the taste is just very fishy. Get some nice bread, butter, and caviar...it becomes a pretty good tasting appetizer. Kind of like having the flavor of fish but in bite size pieces. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "You think that's bad? I'm in Taiwan and you should see the stuff we eat... from pig ears, sticky tofu, chicken hearts, pig blood.... the list goes on and on.\n\nIt's all really delicious too! Expand your palette my friend!", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I like fish eggs on sushi. They have an interesting and pleasant texture. On crackers, though‽ Not so much. I think some people just eat fancy food because it's fancy and expensive.\n\nedit: addition of interrobang", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Why is eating fish eggs any more messed up than more culturally accepted practices like eating chicken eggs or drinking the breast milk of cows and goats?\n\nAs for the taste, it's not mind blowing, but I enjoy it. It's not the sort of thing you eat by itself, but as others have mentioned it can go great with bread and butter.\n\nBut yes part of the appeal is that it's a rare delicacy. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I am thinking of Tom Hanks in the movie Big spitting it out at the office party. I never heard of an interrobang before, but I like it & the word sounds like some new porn site.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "without knowing her tastes, I would make Penne al Vodka with grilled chicken with a dry white wine. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "How about this recipe for [Lamb Chops with Poached Quince and Balsamic Pan Sauce](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Lamb-Chops-with-Poached-Quince-and-Balsamic-Pan-Sauce-236785)? This recipe is delicious, visually impressive because of the pretty bone-in chops (you can get a little artsy with this one), but also *super* easy. Then you can just whip up some quick mashed potatoes and a nice, lightly dressed salad and you will be in business. I would just be careful about the amount of sugar you add to the quince, although we've done it with the full amount in the recipe and ours was good. And if you can't find quince, some of the comments recommended substituting pear.\n\nYou could also try steaming some mussels if you think she would be into eating with her hands. They are fun, somewhat unusual, and not too filling. We made the best mussels for our new years dinner this year and they were sooo sooo good with just some fresh, crusty white bread and a side salad with a shallot/mustard vinaigrette. We used Anthony Bourdain's Moules a la Greque recipe (in his words):\n\n(serves 4)\n\nIngredients:\n\n* 1/4C olive oil\n* 1 fennel bulb, cored and thinly sliced\n* 2 shallots, sliced thin\n* 4 garlic cloves, crushed\n* 1 cup white wine\n* juice of 1 lemon\n* 1 tsp coriander seeds\n* 1 tsp fennel seeds\n* salt and pepper\n* 6lb mussels, scrubbed and debearded (just before cooking)\n\n*My side notes about the mussels:* If you can find bouchot mussels they are the best... minimal to no beards, little sediment, best taste, texture, etc. I also learned that 6lbs of mussels is a LOT, we ate maybe a quarter of this recipe (we cleaned out the few that were left of the mussels at the fishmonger) and with bread to soak up the yummy steaming liquid (which we did the full amount) it was plenty filling. If you want to go for the full amount, you better have a giant pot, ha ha. Maybe this is all old news to you, but I learned a lot from that first time cooking mussels (which ones are alive and how to check, etc). If you have questions, I can try to answer them.\n\nRecipe:\n\n* Heat the olive oil in the pot. Add the fennel, shallots, and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft.\n* Stir in the white wine, lemon juice, coriander and fennel seeds, and salt and pepper and bring to a boil.\n* Add the mussels. Slap on the lid.\n* Cook until done. Shake. Cook for another minute. Shake again. Serve.\n\n(You can tell the mussels are done when they open up. But maybe you knew that, too, and now I'm just embarrassing myself.)\n\nBut anyway, good luck!", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Okay first of all, pasta is never a good idea for date night--heavy food rarely leads to late-night luvin'.\n\nIf I were you I'd go with a simple, slightly spicey lemon-caper chicken cutlet with a small side salad, paired with a fruit-forward wine like a Sauvignon Blanc. The spice of the dish will will have you both slugging down sweet-cold wine (protip: buy 2 bottles) thus neutralizing the date-jitters and allowing the evening to get a bit more *friendly*...\n\nLemon Caper Chiken:\n\nSalt very thin chicken cutlets, dry-dredge in flour, then sautee in equal parts olive oil and butter. Set aside.\nFill the pan with about an inch lemon juice and a splash of white wine, the scrape all the goodies off the bottom. Add a generous helping of capers and few pinches of crush red peppers.\n\nWhen the delicious liquid is all warm, put the cooked cutlets in for just a minute, allowing them to soak up all the flavor. Serve immediately. \n\nAwesome chick-magnet salad\n\nveggies: baby spinach and arugala, mixed in equal parts. dried cranberries, crushed walnuts, crumbled blue cheese (the milder the better)\n\ndressing: 3 parts walnut oil, 1 part sherry vinegar, dash of dijon. tsp sugar, S&P. Blend well.\n\nDessert (if you make it that far): **good** dark chocolate (70% cacao or thereabouts) roughly broken in pieces on a plate, garnished with 2 or 3 fresh strawberries. Pair it with a deep red wine, like a Multepulciano or a Merlot. \n\nThen just sit back, and let the love flow, bro...", "score": 4 }, { "body": "When you say 'I hate fish', can you be a bit more specific? Do you hate all fish? Just scaly fish? Raw fish? Shellfish? Seafood in general?\n\nThe non-specific term 'fish' can mean so much.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Butter, expensive olive oil, chopped garlic, whole wheat angel hair pasta, halved cherub tomatoes, more butter, more olive oil, more garlic, kosher salt, fresh ground pepper, stir , smell, savor.... turn off heat, stir in chopped fresh basil (the more the merrier). Plate. Top it all off with a ridiculous amount of shaved parmigiana cheese. Pair it with a Pinot Noir, choose a \"Reservado\" when in doubt. Depending on what kind of lady she is, you'll at least get dry humped. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I loved Le Foot, I'm sad it's closed. I'm going to dissagree with some of the other peeps here, Bodega is tres spense and pretty much for sneaker heads. I'd try Urban or the Tannery first.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "While the scenario of a rogue planet with a dense atmosphere and a moon to supply tidal heating is possible, it would require an amazing combination of circumstances. There are examples of bodies in the outer solar system that are warmer than we would expect (Europa, Titan, Enceladus, Triton), but these are acted upon by large gas or ice giants that if they were in the Oort cloud we would be able to detect today. Also, tidal heating removes energy from the orbiting moon, making its orbit progressively larger and reducing the tidal heating effect. In planetary terms any window of warmth would be relatively short.\n\nHowever, it is a big and crazy universe. I'm sure that the proper circumstances have combined to form such a warm rogue. I rather doubt it's in our Oort cloud though.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I've wondered about this as well. I'm looking forward to more missions out there. I wish New Horizons would get out there a little sooner. 2015 isn't awful, but I'm getting on in years and getting impatient.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": ">How Would the Non-Aggression Axiom Apply to Aliens?\n\nConsidering that it doesn't seem to apply to humans, probably not well.\n\nWe'd beg, borrow or steal their tech, and probably fare about as well as the Native Americans did against the Europeans, principles or no.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "And thank you, sixbillionthsheep. It took a great risk to invite me to join in building up this subreddit after our initial skirmish. I know I am often quite testy in my language, prone to drunkenness, and uncompromising in my criticism - which may be at times unfairly nasty or poorly directed.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Thanks for starting it. I love watching you guys talk about it. Gets the brain going. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute some as well, although usually by the time I get to a thread it's already over my head. Damn smart people.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "thanks you guys - really great work. Only found last week or so but now probably one of my more favourite subreddits. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "(Female perspective). I don't see anything wrong with #4. Show up and knock, introduce yourself, say you've seen her around and think she's cute, and would like to ask her out. Make sure to do it when you're in a good mood and feel confident -- like after working out and taking a shower.\n\nA car note (any note) is a terrible idea and the others are nice, unreliable since you might move away before you bump into her, or, more likely, you might once again be in a bad mood if you do see her. #4 is more flattering than creepy (depending on the lengths you go to in order to find her room). ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Is there a question in there? Hehe. Anyway I like plans 1 and 2. If you haven't seen in within two weeks of when you're going to move, then I'd advance onto plans 3 and 4. Good luck!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This springs to mind, but you said you had toys, so maybe you're already all set: http://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild/comments/alk1e/pictures_of_me_and_my_male_chastity_device/", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Here are a few things I use to punish an online slave:\n\n-Make him pluck out his pubic and/or armpit hair with tweezers\n\n-Soak his genitals in a tub of ice and water or put ice in a ziploc bag and put that in his underwear for a period of time.\n\n-Use Bengay on his perineum, nipples, scrotum and if needed his penis.\n\n-Stretch his hole with a large dildo or keep one in for an extended period. \n\n-Tie up and separate the testicles with string and give them a smack with a ruler.\n\n\nThere are many things that can be done.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I stumbled upon a video the other day that was just a domme giving orders to the camera. You could look for videos like that - unfortunately I don't have the link anymore, but I found it while searching for videos of women in chastity belts (I couldn't find any, but I found a lot of femdom vids)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It depends a lot on what your interests are really. There have been many good suggestions already but other things you could look into doing alone are:\n\n- Urethral Insertion\n- Enemas\n- Clothes Pins on various body parts\n- CBT\n\nThe most important thing to remember is that playing solo you have to fully understand what you're doing, what the risks are, and how to handle any problems that come up. I have had some pretty fun experiences solo though so I don't want to discourage you from trying things out.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "this is just a random idea that popped into my head... it could feel a bit silly at first i think. but you could not allow yourself to stand or sit on any of the furniture. You'd have to crawl everywhere and sit on the hard floor. Eat off the floor. Sleep on the floor. You can be naked while doing this, and you could wear rope or toys or ouchie things to make it more difficult. You can make it last however long you want, hours or days. The point is that it would get annoying or uncomfortable, but you'd have to stick to the time period you originally decided on. I imagine that after a long while it would be quite humbling, and you'd sure appreciate having the two legs you were born with afterwards lol. ", "score": 3 } ]