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Who else thinks TF2 needs popup hints in game like L4D to help new players? | I'm thinking like "Right-click with the flamethrower to put out teammates", "Press L to drop the intel to a faster teammate", "Medics cannot heal you while you have the Equalizer out", "Right-click to rotate your tele exit".
I know the game already has tips but these would appear during a game and would only appear if they apply to you (i.e. only show the flamethrower tip if you don't have the backburner equipped). | 88 | [
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"body": "I think they already have this feature. When a hint is about to be revealed, there is a pop of static and a quick one or two seconds of loud garbled noise. The hint is then yelled at you by two or three people simultaneously and one other person just repeating \"Idiot!\" The hint is finished when you hear the the word \"Noob.\"",
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"body": "When faced with a Heavy/Medic combo, the tooltip should point at the Medic.\n\n\"See this motherfucker right here? KILL THIS GUY FIRST.\"",
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"body": "I didn't even know you COULD drop the intel until my cat jumped on the keyboard. I accidentally bumped into the intel and then couldn't figure out why everyone was yelling at me on mic. (I was QUITE new.)\n\n My cat jumps up on the keyboard, and suddenly the intel was on the floor.\n\n \"Kitty! How did you do that?!\"",
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"body": "This feature already exists on the loading screens. The content just needs some updating.\n\nI wonder if a tutorial might be helpful. Something along the lines of the developer commentry.",
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"body": "It'd definitely be helpful. It wasn't until I started reading forums that I realized just what airblast can do. I thought I was supposed to trigger it, then immediately spray fire again to do some kind of massive AoE fireball attack.\n\nI have no idea why I thought that, but I suppose it highlights why that kind of function would be helpful.",
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"body": "The number of people here that didn't know you could drop the intel makes me quite sad. Like rainbows. ",
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"body": "The most annoying thing on the planet is a tele exit facing a wall! Right click people, right click! Although, I tend to play engy like I play simcity.",
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Reddit, I have no sense of urgency. | This is a problem. It results in my procrastination on practically every task, regardless of the consequences of failure. I just can't seem to make a concerted effort. What the hell is wrong with me, and how can I fix it? It's pretty much ruining my life. I've got a lot of things on the line: The roof over my head, my livelihood, my access to transportation, and many other things. I just can't seem to bring myself to do anything about any of it. It's not so much that I don't care enough. I am very afraid of losing it all, but nothing makes me feel like doing anything about it is going to change anything. I've tried to explain this to my parents, but they have no sympathy. They just think I'm lazy and need a kick in the rear. I can't get them to give me any support. I want to find out if I'm clinically depressed, but they don't seem to believe that it's anything more than me wanting to get out of exerting effort. I need help, but I don't know how to get it.
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"body": "I find that the X in the top right corner of my browser helps immensely with these things. Seriously, getting rid of small time-wasting distractions is the best thing you can do. Here's what I do when I have some problems getting on a task\n\n* Play an internet radio station you like. I use World Zelda Music Radio myself. Just something to keep your mind happy while you're doing tedious tasks. Not something really involved though. Pandora doesn't work, as it's intended to be interactive. If you have it set up though, it will do.\n\n* Get a timer. When you sit at your desk, start an egg timer, and close up when it goes off. Once you realize that time is going by, it helps you note how much you're wasting. \n\n* Make a todo list. I make dozens. Not because of I keep them. Normally, I lose them after jotting things down. But, making one before I go on-task helps me pick and choose what one is most urgent, easiest, can do from where I am, outside, fun, etc. Helps you pick what task sounds most pleasant in comparison.\n\n* RSS feeds. Websites like Reddit go on forever. I found that by streamlining the sites I go to into a feed reader, I spend WAY less time going from site to site, clicking random links and general browsing. Now, my fun is compressed into a finite number of links. Then I get bored and close it.\n\n* Start a habit to discipline yourself. I exercise every night. It's good for you, I find it makes me feel happy, and it's something I can beat myself up over. It's a distinct thing that I KNOW I should do, and no matter what, I DO it. It's nice to have a reminder of something like that.\n\nGranted, some of these won't work for you, but it's a start. Make tech work for you too. Have software timers and task managers tell you to get up and do stuff, and just make a habit of listening to them. In the end, it all comes down to you actually doing stuff, but that doesn't mean other things can't help out.",
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"body": "* If you find you can't get started at something, tell yourself that you're going to do it for only five minutes and then stop. A lot of the time, after five minutes you'll be into it and will keep going. Motivation doesn't precede action, it follows it. \n\n* Get yourself a timer and set it for 40 minutes. Work until the timer goes off then play for the rest of the hour and start again. Adjust the ratio of work:play until you get something that works for you.",
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What should I be aware of when buying a second hand Xbox 360? | I'm looking to finally get an Xbox 360, but I made a new years resolution to buy as little stuff brand new as possible. What should I be aware of when buying a pre-owned console? I will get it from a reputable place like GAME or GameStation, I'm in the UK. Is there any type of warranty on pre-owned consoles? Also, can I upgrade the hard drive later on?
Thanks
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Decided to buy new instead, got it today, in many places cheaper to buy new than used | 3 | [
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"body": "I never owned one but there was some news in December about Microsoft banning modified Xbox consoles. If you want to play online and you buy one that was modified and banned then you will waste your money.",
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"body": "Buy a new one. Consoles with optical drives have too short a life even without red-ringing. Sure they still work, but you eventually get read errors.",
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"body": "**What to be aware of?** If you can see the console itself, the manufacture date is printed on the back. The later the better, and this is even more important than you'd think, as Red Rings of Death are much more infrequent in the newer ones.\n\n**Will you get a warranty?** Depends on where you buy it, and I honestly don't know specifics. I'd guess you'd at least be able to trade it in for another within a reasonable window of time at most major chains, but I can't say much more than that.\n\n**Can you upgrade the hard drive?** Yes -- but you have to buy ones that fit the 360's proprietary format, and I've yet to see ones with more than a 120 GB capacity. Additionally, to effectively move data between drives, you'll either need one of their special transfer cables or (very inefficiently) move things using a memory card, also of proprietary format.",
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[M]y boy[F]riend and I having a little fun | 1 http://imgur.com/7bTiw.jpg [M]
2 http://imgur.com/DvbTV.jpg [F]
3 http://imgur.com/MF60R.jpg [F]
4 http://imgur.com/m99DF.jpg [F]
5 http://imgur.com/4ureU.jpg [M]
6 http://imgur.com/SPQSE.jpg [M + F] | 91 | [
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"body": "I cannot thank you enough for the pics of her. Redheads, especially ones with all that copper in their hair, are such a weak (or is it hard) spot for me.",
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I Want a Verifiable Low Level Systems Language | Having a verifiable low level systems language would allow many advances one could write a program to simply run in ring0 natively this would bring speed and massive portability but more importantly reliability and security. Does anyone know of any universities looking into this?
http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/bitc/spec.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) | 31 | [
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"body": "I want a pony. \n\nIn theory this has all been figured out long ago by Hoare and more recently by many of the dependently typed programming languages. In practice you have to write a model of every single bit of the system, which is a lot of work for a real system. There have been PhD advertisements which ask only to formalize one CPU, which is only a part of what would be required. I am not aware of something which is already completely done. \n\nMost \"language designers\" know little to nothing about verification technology and (automated) theorem proving. Certainly those who have designed the most popular languages out there, are clueless in this regard. \n\nThe number of people which actually have the knowledge to build this from scratch and have the time to do is very limited. Generally people that know about theorem proving don't like to think about low-level logic. \n\nThat said the official term for what you are looking for is a \"Typed Assembly language\", which seems to be a rather dormant area of research now.",
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"body": "The issue with BitC is that while they have a complete semantics defined for their language, they don't actually have any theorem-proving experience with it. It was designed to support code that is amenable to proof, but until until they have experience with actually making such proofs its just a pie in the sky. Now that the lead developer has moved on, BitC may never get that experience.\n\nI have some hope that [Ynot](http://ynot.cs.harvard.edu/) will produce something useful for this sort of thing. They are tackling mutation, which is the hardest part of getting a low-level program verified. Their papers include working non-trivial programs that have some properties proven. Someday maybe we'll be writing autopilots and web apps out of it.",
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"body": "http://www.ats-lang.org/\n\nWhat is ATS good for?\n\n* ATS allows the programmer to write efficient functional programs by taking advantage of native unboxed data representation.\n* ATS allows the programmer to reduce the memory footprint of a program by making use of linear types.\n* ATS allows the programmer to enhance the safety (and efficiency) of a program by making use of **theorem proving.**\n* ATS allows the programmer to write safe low-level code that runs in OS kernels.",
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"body": "Seriously, define verifiable. \n\nSure, you can build something that's easier to reason about than C. But reasoning is not the same as verifying. At some level your specification becomes complex enough to have it's own bugs. So then you'd have to write a specification for your specification.\n\nAll interesting, practically useful tools involve some measure of compromise. The world we live in is complex and so are the problems we try to solve. You have to choose where on the scale between foolproof and generally useful you want to be, you can't have them both.",
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"body": "Take a look at the various [typed assembly language](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/) variants (in particular [TALx86](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/papers/talx86-wcsss.pdf) or Hongwei Xi's [DTAL](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.2351).\r\n\r\nThey are basically assemblers with type-annotated back edges.",
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"body": "It looks interesting at a glance but searching the document doesn't return anything related to register access itself....so how could you write a \"low level\" (aka operating system) purely in bitc? You'd have to write at least small fragments in assembly because it doesn't look like it can reference the CPU registers.\n\nWhile it maybe a cleaner C (scala syntax) I'm not sure the problem with writing a secure portable and reliable operating system is prevented because the language used is C itself. How did you arrive at the conclusion that the fact C was used for Linux would be the reason it isn't optimally secure or reliable? I think even readability of C isn't a major issue after having a look at the Minix source code.\n\nI do find it interesting though.",
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"body": "You might be interested in Google's [NaCl](http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/). Instead of being a new language, it acts as a verification layer between machine code and the CPU. \n\nCareful with your assumptions, though. I don't think it's reasonable to expect \"speed and massive portability\" to follow automatically from any kind of verification technology.",
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"body": "In the [D programming language](http://www.digitalmars.com/d/) we are developing the notion of safe functions, which will be guaranteed (verified by the compiler) to be memory safe.",
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"body": "Have a look at the [Mosa project](http://mosa.codeplex.com/), they are writing an OS in C#. In a lot of ways both C# and .NET are excellent platforms for low-level programming (i.e. support for custom value types, unsigned primitive types). Midori is just another name for [Singularity](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/), which is shared source so you can tinker with it. Finally, you might want to have a look at [Inferno](http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/), which is an OS written around a virtual machine. There are others, like KaffeOS, JNode, and JX, which are written in Java. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to google them.\n\nAll of these are built around the idea that the programming languages and intermediate languages (CIL, JVM byte codes, DIS instructions) are verifiable memory safe. This way you don't need an MMU to separate processes, making task switching and IPC a *lot* faster. For those who want to know how much faster, [here](http://www.cs.wisc.edu/areas/os/Seminar/schedules/papers/Deconstructing_Process_Isolation_final.pdf) is a nice paper on the topic.\n\nedit: downvoted? Sometimes I even wonder why I bother with Reddit anymore.",
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"body": "I can verify that C is a Low Level Systems Language.\n\nYou may want to look at [D](http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18914), but you would be one of the few pioneers for kernel development.",
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Does space = vacuum = emptiness = nothingness? | Space and time are both non-physical entities, right? How can, then, they bend due to gravity? What is it that bends...?
A laymen's explanation (that is moderately technical but not laden with equations) would be greatly appreciated.
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"body": "Space Time isn't exactly a non-physical entity, but rather it's what the universe is made of. Just like the oceans are made of water, the universe is made of space time. \n\nAs far as what bends due to gravity, it's the fabric of space time itself. The best illustration of this is a bowling ball on a trampoline. The trampoline is the fabric of space time and the bowling ball is a planet/star/galaxy. The mass of the object puts an indentation in space time that causes nearby objects to fall towards it. \n\nDoes that help?\n\nEDIT: Formatting",
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"body": "Except space is not a true vacuum. \n\n*Outer space is not completely empty (i.e. a perfect vacuum), but contains a low density of particles, predominantly hydrogen plasma, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos. Theoretically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy.*\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space",
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/r/atheism: I see your "Circumcision is bad" and raise you "Early infanticide isn't wrong". | Before you assume this is a troll, please read my post. I assure you I have attempted to justify my position as well as I can.
I think most people on /r/atheism are probably pro-choice. I'll take that one step further: up until significantly after birth, infants lack all the features of sapience which make killing a human wrong. Self awareness, ability to make decisions, self-preservation, and even basic object permanence are lacking in newborns. As such I don't see anything morally worse about killing a neonate than I do in killing a cow or a pig.
An interesting twist: given that some people might find it acceptable to kill an animal painlessly, but not to torture an animal, it is arguably okay to kill neonates but not to circumcise them.
One last bit; I feel obligated to add that I don't advocate infanticide. I think it's enough of a gray area that it should be unequivocally illegal to kill a child after it is born. The risk of killing a potentially sapient being, however remote that potential is, *far* outweighs the rewards, whatever those might be, of killing an infant after birth.
Bring on the downvotes... | 5 | [
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"body": "It is indeed a scale of consciousness, but most pro-choice people don't support late term abortion or even like that abortions are done. That said, I like your point that many atheists are very much against circumcision but support the right to abortion which is conflicting (though I'm sure rationalization will be given). ",
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Dear RA, My girlfriend is getting stressed because my ex is talking to me. | **tl;dr: My ex is trying to get in contact, my girlfriend is shitting bricks**
**Backstory:** I went out with my ex for a couple of months between school and a year abroad. I went on my year abroad, and as she was at uni, and I was thousands of miles away, we decided a long distance relationship wasn't the best idea.
**A year later**, I'm back in the country, in uni, and she doesn't seem all that talkative on instant messenger, but I guess that's not the end of the world. I meet my girlfriend, and we go out for 2-3 years so far.
**Today/ These past few weeks**: My ex has been writing on my facebook wall, trying to call me (I didn't pick up, as my girlfriend was there) and generally trying to get in contact. My girlfriend is studying abroad this year, and is back for the christmas holidays.
My Girlfriend is quite insecure about our relationship, no matter what I say, she's still worried that my ex is trying to steal me from her. Personally, I don't believe this, but I've not been in a conversation with my ex long enough to find out. I'm probably to blame for my girlfriend's lack of faith in our relationship, as I *really* struggle to communicate/ put my sentiments into words, I find it much easier on a computer.
My girlfriend has instant distrust (read: "we have arguments because she thinks I think they're attractive") of females with an "attractive" facebook profile picture who add me, and I've pretty much not added anyone female on facebook in the past year, for fear of upsetting her. She doesn't get on well with any of her ex's, possibly because she was cheated on, however, she seems to object to my relatively laid back attitude to guys she meets. For example: she likes travelling a lot, I don't, and try to study. When travelling with her sister in america, she met a "hot guy from Uruguay" who's on her MSN/ FB or something. I don't see why I should feel threatened by this, but she seems to take offense to my trusting her, which she interprets as apathy.
Nevertheless, I've been doing as my girlfriend asks, and I've not been talking to my ex, but I feel really guilty when doing so. My ex was my first girlfriend, and we lost our virginity together, so I feel I should at least explain the situation to my ex... but I'm fairly sure my girlfriend won't be thrilled to hear that I've spoken to my ex again. My ex recently posted on my fb wall, and, after discussing with my girlfriend, persuaded her not to send a relatively bitchy private message to her, if I remove her post. So, I deleted my ex's post, and hoped (in vain) that would be the end of it. Unfortunately, she called me today (2 days later). I ignored the phonecall, as it was early in the morning, and I don't have my wits about me when I've just been woken up by my phone.
I feel that what my girlfriend is doing is a bit childish, but I really don't want to lose her. She's really important to me. At the same time, I'm really not too keen on lying to her, as that'll likely just blow up in my face, and I hate it when she lies to me. I've been honest with her thus far (which has really blown up in my face on several occasions, on different matters).
So reddit: what do I do with regards to my ex? Is my girlfriend justified in her concerns? Am I being a tremendous penis?
P.S: Excuse the throwaway account, my girlfriend, though not on reddit, knows I'm a user, and may come a-hunting.
**Edit**: Just to add: We're both in our early 20's, we've been going out for 2-3ish years, we met at uni, and we're both still in uni, neither of us has cheated, to the best of my knowledge, I'm male, she's female, I live at uni (UK), she's living in spain most of this year, but comes back to the UK frequently, as she doesn't much like it there, and with regards to whether I've spoken to her about this... I'd say yes, we argue about it (She has a go at me for not telling my ex to piss off and leave us alone) whenever my ex calls/ texts/ messages etc.
**Edit2**: Thanks all for the helpful comments, I've decided to somehow IM/ message my ex, telling her something along the lines of "sorry I've been cold, but I'm in a relationship now and I cant be going around rekindling friendships with my ex. It might make my GF uncomfortable and I love her alot, I hope you understand. But I hope you're doing well and find someone who deserves you". Then I'm going to try and let my GF know I feel like I'm incessantly treading on eggshells in order to keep her happy, and she needs to lighten up about facebook, lest it be the ruin of us both. Thanks Guys!
**Edit3**: Message sent via PM on fb. | 5 | [
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"body": "She has an abominable double standard and you need to stand up to her. It's fair enough to be slightly jealous sometimes, just a tiny bit, I think - if you or she didn't care about \"hot guys\" or ex girlfriends at all it would be as if you didn't care.\n\nBut this is too much, and even if she thinks the guy from Uruguay is hot she shouldn't go around saying it to you and in the same breath dismiss you for occassionally talking to your ex (provided you're not OTT).\n\nA vaguely related story (that I am sure will not happen to you, just saying) - a friend of mine was going out with a guy who was insanely jealous of her and her ex (and any other guy she happened to know), and in the end the guy \"preemptively\" ended up cheating on her because he had convinced himself that she was going to do it/had done it anyway (at least that was his excuse). ",
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What good co-op games have there been released on the PC in the last, say, five years? | I'm going to my brothers for the weekend and we're going to play LAN and drink beer. So, can anyone recommend good co-op games for the PC? Preferably FPS, and full story. | 3 | [
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"body": "You could try [Synergy](http://www.synergymod.net/About) - it's a mod for half-life 2 that lets you play through in co-op and supports ep1 and 2 as well.",
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"body": "Killing Floor could be a lot of fun if you're gonna be drunk - turn the lights down and its a blast. Not really any story to it though. :/",
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"body": "Resident Evil 5 is great for 2 players. I tell other friends that RE5 is the best Resident Evil yet when you play it co-op, the worst when you play it solo.",
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"body": "MERCS 2 is worth a quick look, not that new, not that pretty but the co-op makes it a fair bit more enjoyable.\n\nAlso, if you don't mind the criticisms levelled at Resi Evil 5, it is quite pleasing.",
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"body": "I know it's not FPS, but we had so much fun with this at uni:\n\nRed Alert 3\n\nPlaying 2 vs 4,5, 6 AI players is just so much fun",
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"body": "[Saint's Row 2](http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/12/14/the-games-of-christmas-december-14th/). It's buggy and badly ported, but inconsistently so; some people can run it just fine on their 5-year-old PCs, and some people can't get it to go above 10 fps on their killer machines. The PC port was rapidly abandoned by Volition, but it's lots of insane fun with huge explosions, more like GTA 3 than GTA 4 was, and the coop works really well. It's primarily billed as a single-player game, but they obviously kept coop in mind while designing every aspect of the game, and the storyline plays out in full in coop mode too. It's lots of fun, and makes up for the potentially poor performance with its gameplay and outrageousness. Easily worth the ~$5 it's regularly selling for these days, and if you get a boxed copy it activates on Steam.\n\nSWAT 4. This is great coop, and is actually an FPS like you asked. Not much storyline, and whatever cutscenes there are are skipped over in coop mode, but each level is more of a self-contained story anyway. A little bit technical gameplay-wise, maybe, but shooting terrorists and non-compliant civilians in the face with pepper spray is good for some laughs if you're looking for something less serious.\n\nAnother non-FPS, actually an RTS with action bits and an RPG inventory, but good fun in coop, is Men Of War in which you make tons of tiny little men run around causing explosions. I actually liked the first game in the \"series\", [Soldiers: Heroes Of WWII](http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/soldiers_heroes_of_world_war_ii) the most, mainly because the smaller number of units made it easier to play in \"direct control\" mode, like a really zoomed-out third person shooter. But Men of War is the latest and has the prettiest explosions and collapsing buildings. If either you or your brother likes RTSes, he can control the majority of the units and let the other one run around in an action game.\n\nDoom 3 also has a couple of coop mods available for it, and is about as generically FPS as you can get. All of the Serious Sams had coop and are lots of fun, and I'd assume the HD remix of the first one is just as good. And of course L4D and Borderlands are obvious choices, and tons of fun. L4D2's teammate AI makes 2 player games a little less fun than the original, but only a little.",
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What phrases do you find to be threatening? | I was randomly chatting with my friends when I realized that "Stop, or I will use lethal force" is somehow less threatening than "Stop, or I will use non-lethal force." After a brief banter, we realized that they both pale in comparison to "Stop, or I will use non-lethal force. For hours...."
My question then, is serious or playful, what phrases threaten you enough to get to work, stop and get off the computer, clean the house, etc?
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"body": "\"Do you have a minute\"?\n\n\"Can I have a word?\"\n\nAnd *anything* that conveys the feeling of eternity, including:\n\n\"Will love you forever\"\n\n\"It's always going to be like this\"\n\n\"*No matter what happens*, I will blah blah...\"",
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"body": "\"Class, there has been a slight change in the syllabus.\"\r\n\r\n\"Fine!\" When uettered by a woman.\r\n\r\n\"This will not hurt at all.\" When uttered by any medical individual.",
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"body": "\"No offense, but...\" or any variation of the phrase (\"No disrespect, but...\" \"I don't mean to be rude, but...\") etc. Because you KNOW they don't fucking mean it.",
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[0]Bought a vaporstar - not sure if i like it :/ | I bought a vaporstar recently, to try out the whole vaping thing, however the results aren't as pleasing as i'd expected.
Normally, i just use a water bong and 1-2 good sized hits are enough to keep me good for a few hours.
With the vaporstar, i find i have to use a lot more of my desired smokable. I dont really like the taste either, tastes totally different. I also find the effects to be different, not really a mellow high, more doped up and not with it. I've tried for 2 days now and still dont like it. Tried my bong again to check it wasnt me getting weird, got nicely canned, with all the niceness that usually goes with it.
So, yeah. Anyone else not like using a vap? | 10 | [
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"body": "Honestly - the love of new gadgets often clouds judgement on vaporizer threads. Kids who have never, ever owned a vaporizer will downvote you to hell for suggesting that their fantasy isn't quite what they think.\n\nI own a Volcano, and a nice daily driver bong with a precooler. I use the Volcano perhaps once or twice a month when large groups come over - far easier to share than a bong with ash/water/etc concerns.\n\nBut for a single person? A bong is far more practical on a day to day basis. Efficiency is identical for most smoking techniques, and if you actually know how to corner a bowl and go easy on the lighter it's more efficient in my experience.\n\nPeople will just blindly repeat the \"vaporizers are more efficient!\" (well, not really) and \"they're so much smoother!\" (again, not really, the Volcano produces insanely dry vapor with properly cured weed to the point where I can't smoke it without putting some moisture onto the weed beforehand).\n\nBiggest difference? Vaporizers are better at smoking shitty (ie poorly cured overly wet) weed than bongs. Chew on that for a while - generally it's kids using them for social status with more parental funds than sense cheerleading the things.",
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"body": "I assure you that there are better experiences to be had. I fashion myself handy with a lighter, and although I'm not a pro by any stretch, I can hit a bong pretty well. I switched to my V-Tower about 7 months ago and will never go back. I use about half the amount of green to get the same amount of bake as I did when carefully cornering and controlling my bong bowls. I even recycle my leftovers via [QWISO](http://forum.grasscity.com/harvesting-processing/249056-quick-wash-iso-hash-pics-vid.html) and have had really good results with that.\n\nI have a travel bubbler that I take places with me and I'll pull out the old bong every now and then to show friends so I remember exactly what combustion is like. \n\nI prefer the V-tower, but I have had a long time to get to know it. Make sure you get to know yours before you decide you have wasted your money. ",
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Exciting new way of cooking Bacon (with pictures) | I've discovered a new way of cooking bacon. All you need is: bacon, tin foil, some string, and.. oh whats it called?... oh yeah, an old worn out 7.62mm machinegun that is about to be discarded, and about 200 rounds of ammunition.
You start by wrapping the barrel in tin foil.
Then you wrap bacon around it, and tie it down with some string.
http://imgur.com/Qzt4t.jpg
you then wrap some more tin foil around it, and once again tie it down with string.
http://imgur.com/fuY3J.jpg
It is now ready to be inserted into the cooking device.
I ripped the tin foil a little bit getting the barrel inserted. that part of the bacon got severely burned by hot gasses.
http://imgur.com/q75AR.jpg
After just a few short bursts you should be able to smell the wonderful aroma of bacon.
http://imgur.com/H8fmZ.jpg
I gave this about 250 rounds. but I think around 150 might actually be enough. But then again I don't mind when bacon is crispy.
Ahh the smell of sizzling bacon mixed with the smell of gunpowder and weapon oil.
http://imgur.com/FEeq3.jpg
And the end result:
Crispy delicious well done bacon.
http://imgur.com/AOjRS.jpg | 254 | [
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"body": "Your identity is no longer secret on the internet. Anyone can look up \"awesome\" in the dictionary and see your picture.",
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"body": "Great, just what I need in life. To worry where there is the aroma of bacon, there is also a volley of machine gun fire.",
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"body": "During the First World War, this was also a popular method of boiling water for tea. They would put fresh water in the cooling jacket/water can and cook off a few hundred rounds into no mans land and viola, boiled water ready to go. Pretty resourceful.",
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"body": "This is AWESOME!\nThe only way it could be more awesome is if you killed the hog yourself with the machine gun\nand it was a giant rabid wild boar that was charging at you\nthus exacting your revenge on it for killing your entire family when you were an infant\nso you were raised by narwales and unicorns\nwho, of course taught you how to use a machine gun for cooking bacon.\nBon appetite.\n",
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"body": ">oh yeah, an old worn out 7.62mm machinegun that is about to be >discarded, and about 200 rounds of ammunition.\n\nUpvote.",
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Dear TwoX, I'm graduating in 4 months (Yay!) and I wanna look good for the graduation ceremony. I'm 44 pounds overweight now. Help? | Here's the deal. I'll need to wear a cute and formal dress for the occasion (and a better one for the after-party). I don't mind being fat/curvy at all. It's just the flabs, that I wanna get rid off. I know that it will take a long time to shed the weight that was gained over a long period of time. But I think it's worth a shot. Atleast, I'll look better with less flabs, right? So suggestions, please? Stuff that you've tried out and worked?
Also, you should know that I have thyroid problems + PCOS, that makes weight-loss "seem" painful :( | 13 | [
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"body": "I'm kinda in the same boat (have to lose about 25 pounds to hit my ideal weight by May) - want to have an internet workout/eating right buddy? ",
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"body": "Spanx are your friend. You're probably going to find that weight loss alone won't change your shape very much in 4 months. It takes a while for skin to shrink back into position, so you're still going to have some loose spots. \n\nTry doing some strength training, if you haven't been. It helps firm things up, and is just all kinds of good for you. (Increases bone strength, improves posture, etc.)\n\nWhatever you do, be sure it's sustainable, and not something you'll drop as soon as graduation is over. Rebounding from a diet only causes you to gain more weight.",
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"body": "Since other people already gave you good advice on losing weight, I just wanted to add this: get a good quality shaper. Something like [this](https://www.juliefrance.com/catalog/default.aspx?ID=75&gclid=CMr2xYmPlZ8CFRAeDQod7mI1NQ) or [this](https://www.buythebodyshaper.com/cgi-bin/product.isc). You should be able to find them easily in department stores. Get a one-piece that goes from right under your boobs to mid-thigh. They aren't the sexiest thing ever, but they are great for special occasions when you have to wear unforgiving clothes and need to get rid of all bumps and rolls. ",
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"body": "44 pounds is totally doable. Thats 11 pounds a month or just under 3 pounds a week. \n\nTry to eat mostly fresh fruit and veg, and lean meats (fish and chicken without the skin are pretty good) and try to stay away from processed carbs. That includes all white bread and pretty much anything with sugar in it (including chocolate and pop and candy). Rice is a great source of carbs that are really low GI and good for you. \n\nIf you need to go somewhere and its walkable, walk it. It all adds up. Exercise doesn't have to be painful. Just getting out of the house and walking is good for you. Anything is better than nothing. Just stick to your guns and think of how amazing you'll look in that dress.",
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"body": "You might check out [r/healthproject](http://www.reddit.com/r/healthproject) they seem focused on motivating people to their goals.\n\nGood Luck! :D",
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"body": "I think the advice given so far should work, but with a thyroid problem, it may need to be fine-tuned. Perhaps consulting with a doctor could help come up with the most effective diet program.\n\nFor me, eating healthy and in small portions (I never use the dinner plates because they're so huge), combined with walking everywhere, has worked well in the past.",
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"body": "Weight Watchers! I'm not employed or paid to promote them, I promise.\n\nIt's the only thing that works! I've struggled with weight my whole life. My freshman and sophomore year of college I yo-yoed so much trying fad diets/denying myself carbs/working out twice a day. I'm a smart girl (not to brag) but I just couldn't control my weight on my own.\n\nAfter I hit rock bottom, I joined Weight Watchers with my mom (who is a lifetime member) and it changed my life...I'm not kidding!\n\nWeight Watchers works for many reasons, but here are the most important from my personal experience: \n\n1. Accountability - yes, it takes some humility to get weighed in every week, but going somewhere every week where you have to face the music is incredibly more effective than weighing yourself. When it's just you in the bathroom, you can make excuses, etc. With Weight Watchers, the weigher will privately record your weight in your progress book where you read those digits...there's no hiding from the truth!\n\n2. Group Mentality - Weight Watchers is proven to work because you become part of a community. There will be other women (and some men too) sitting beside you and a leader in front of you (who had success on the program) who know what you're going through. It might sound corny, but losing weight is hard!! I think we can all attest to that. Going to meetings is uplifting whether you lost, stayed the same, or gained weight that week...it keeps you on track. Also, it's so inspiring to see other members who've had success and it feels good to cheer them on!\n\n3. \"It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle\" - Weight Watchers is not a quick fix. The program TEACHES you how to make responsible choices. You can eat WHATEVER you want on WW, as long as you account for it. WW helped me keep track of my weight because counting points is something easy and tangible (trust me, once you're on program for 2 weeks, you'll be a points wizard).\n\nAgain, I am in no way employed or paid by WW...I'm just really passionate about the program. It honestly changed my life - I have a control over what a I eat that I never had before and I feel healthy and confident. I lost 20 pounds on WW and have kept it off for 2 years! No matter what weight loss you're looking for...WW will help you learn habits of healthy eaters that you can maintain for your whole life. I went to a meeting last night and met a girl who is 20 and lost 50 pounds in the past 6 months...you can do it!!! WW is the ONLY way (in my opinion) that you can healthfully change your habits and live a healthy lifestyle maintaining a healthy weight.",
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"body": "[Fatshionista](http://community.livejournal.com/fatshionista) is a great resource to see how other curvy folks put themselves together. I highly reccommend it.",
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AskGoneWild: Any [m] self-suckers out there? | We all know every guy has tried and some have even died trying. That last inch is the longest in the world. Any guys with true [walrus skills](http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/amxbf/walrus_gives_himself_a_blowjob_while_people_watch/) out there care to share your stories or video? | 10 | [
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"body": "Right here. I'm shy about sharing pics or vids because its hard to hide your face and show your dick in your mouth at the same time ;)",
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I interviewed Stallman on whether "piracy" hurts Linux | I'm a long time /r/linux reader and also a student journalist. I wrote a feature article that I have yet to send to my editor, my deadline is in 5 hours,
but I thought I'd give it to this community first. The reason is because 1) It may have errors and I'm sure you'll correct it. I'm not a developer and know there are people on here who know more about GNU/Linux than I do (although I've been using Linux for 4 years). 2) I'm interested in seeing what would transpire if I make an article 'open'.
If you do point out any serious errors, I'll appreciate it and may edit it. In return, I'll give you credit when the article is published. I will also donate half the cheque I get paid to a free-software of your choosing.
The only thing I'd like to remind you of is that this is written for a very artsy school and not LinuxOnline. I have to explain basic concepts (like what Linux is) so the language is purposely approachable (to not bog down the reader in tech lingo) and I have to make some generalizations. Because I'm making generalizations, I need to know I'm not being so simplistic that I'm wrong.
Grammar mistakes will be cleaned by my copy-editor so don't worry about that too much.
Ok here's the article: http://cospire.com/koviewer.aspx?id=21057
[Update: Thanks for the suggestions. Suggestions on who to donate the cheque to are also welcome.]
[Update Two: I've made some edits, fell asleep at my computer. But I'm back up and editing. I also would like to note that it is Stallman's personal request that I refer to Linux as GNU/Linux. After hearing his reasoning and doing my own research, I decided to go along with this request.]
[Update Three: Ok this was a lot more successful than I had imagined it would be. I'd like to thank you all. I will give credit to all who've responded when this is published and the general /linux reddit community. As no one has suggested someone to donate to I will be making the cheque out to the FSF (I'll update with a pic next week of the final article and cheque). Again, this has been a great demonstration on how freeing something, even article, can strengthen it... So thanks again. This article is free for you to re-use as long as you give my name and this sub-reddit credit.
Update Four: I emailed Stallman about this article and this here's his response: "Happy hacking." | 81 | [
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"body": "\"Pirated software has cost these companies about $53 billion.\" \n\nThis statement has several problems. 1) It's not attributed to anyone and many people dispute that unauthorized copies of software cost the industry as much as the industry estimates. 2) It gives no time period for this alleged cost--is it over all time? Over the last year? Over the last ten years? The reader cannot evaluate the truth of this statement without more information. 3) What you really want here is something like, \"The Business Software Alliance, a software industry group, estimated that piracy cost its members $x zillion in 2009 alone.\" but getting that piece of info will likely require some more research on your part.",
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"body": "I would state more explicitly that RMS founded the GNU system which provides many of the programs in all modern Linux distributions but that the his system only became a success when combining it with the Linux kernel originally written by Linus Torvalds.\n\nIf you want you could also insert a bit about the magnitude of the task of writing a whole operation system (maybe mentioning how Apple built their OS X on top of an open source core as well to reduce the workload and how Microsoft hasn't rewritten large parts of it for any of their OS versions since about Win2K) and how lots of people (including Torvalds and RMS) had to combine their work so everyone could enjoy the complete system.",
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"body": "At the end:\n\n> GNU/Linux has issued zero\n\nGNU and Linux are separate projects. Also, GPL violations can be and are pursued, but usually with the emphasis on a successful resolution rather than inflicting damage.\n\nhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html",
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"body": "\"With Microsoft holding a monopoly on about roughly 90% of the market share\"\n\nI'm very really absolutely quite sure \"about roughly\" is a bit redundant.",
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"body": ">With these questions I approached the founder of GNU/Linux OS, Richard Stallman.\n\nThat can't be right. AFAIK RMS was (and is?) only associated with GNU, not Linux.\n\n\n\n>Although neither Bill Gates could not reply by press time, a Microsoft developer gave me a resounding\n\nI think something is missing in this sentence (a second name perhaps, implied by 'neither'?)",
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"body": "If you are serious about being a writer / journalist, you should not leave grammar errors to your copy editor, but endeavour to ensure your copy is completely clean before sending. \n\nAnother tip, if you are told to write 1500 words, write 1500 words.",
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"body": "> Although _neither_ Bill Gates could not reply by press time, a Microsoft developer gave me a resounding:\n\nIs that \"neither\" correct? My English grammar sucks, sorry if it is right.\n\n> From GNU's version of Photoshop to their version of Word\n\nIf you mean \"GIMP\" you might want to add that in parentheses. And what is GNU's version of \"Word\"?\n\nDo you mean Emacs? That doesn't even try to be something like Word.\n\nOr Open Office Writer? That's not a GNU project.",
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"body": ">raison d'etre of piracy\n\nSmall quibble, and I hope that the sub-editor would pick this up, but that doesn't really make sense. Saying 'reason for piracy' is easier to understand, flows better, is shorter and actually makes sense!",
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"body": "\"hippies from the '70s\"\n\nWeren't they from the 60s? Or are the hippies from the 70s a different kind?",
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"body": "\"Stallman hacked it\" -- you should explain that because the software at MIT was free, he was able to look at the code for the password routine, look at how the passwords were generated and figure out other people's passwords -- then send them messages saying \"Oh, I see your chose 'mumble' as a password, why not do as I do and choose [Enter] as a password, it's much shorter...\" -- letting them know that the sense of security was basically false.",
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"body": "> Yet, these same companies haven't set out to completely prevent _privacy_.\n\n\"piracy\"?\n\nI think they do everything to prevent _privacy_\n",
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Has anyone set up an exhibition? | I am working through setting up a photography exhibition at the moment, I am aiming to have it on for about a week in about 3 months time. So far I have the exhibitors and nothing else and wondered what I should be thinking about. At present my list includes the following:
* Premises to exhibit in
* equipment required
* staff
* Publicity
* external advertising (web, social media and real world)
* brochures etc.. internally
* Confirmation
* getting exhibitors organised...
I am also thinking about how to deal with any sales from the exhibition, how to help exhibitors decide what they want to exhibit (none have before AFAIK), possible sponsorship and dealing with costs.
At present there is no budget as such, I want to figure out what I will need to get this done first...
So any pointers or ideas? | 8 | [
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"body": "I did an exhibition at the end of my university course and all of that stuff was pretty much covered. We did publicity ourselves but we had a list of addresses given to us we just had to design flyers (well, I did actually). Even with all the location issues sorted out (the uni had it's own gallery) it was a massive ball ache. \n \nHere are some things to think about: \n\n- How will you attach work to the walls? You'll need to check the rules of your location \n- Will you need to paint the walls of the location, if it has been used for exhibitions previously, you will need to fill the old screw holes and repaint. \n- Will you allow exhibitors to sell work? How will this be organised, will people buy individually from exhibitors or will you handle it centrally? \n- Insurance \n- On the opening night will you have refreshments? \n \nYou might want to try being part of another exhibition before you set up your own. ",
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"body": "My brother did a wildlife photgraphy exhibition in a local villiage hall that I helped him out with. It was quite a success. He distributed flyers to local shops etc and also got the local radio to announce it. Quite a lot of people came but depending where you are in the world bear in mind people might not come if the weather is bad.\n\nHe exhibited mainly canvases and used the tables there to put them on. We just put sheets over the tables and made simple stands for the canvases to stand up on. We also had a couple of laptops showing slideshows and some smaller unframed prints for sale for people who didn't want to spend a lot or couldn't afford to.",
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Other holidays? (I had Valentine's Day in mind.) | [I saw this offer in r/favor, and it got me thinking.](http://www.reddit.com/r/Favors/comments/amxr2/offer_valentines_day_is_coming_up_i_will_send_you/)
I used to absolutely **love** Valentine's Day back in elementary school. At my school, we'd decorate paper bags and hang them at the front of the classroom. Then on Valentine's Day, people would put cards in them. While it could have just been me, I would swear that people would get along a little better that day.
To my dismay, Valentine's Day has a bad rep. It reminds single people that they don't have someone. It puts expectations on guys and girls to find something that will please their SO.
To me, the spirit of it will always be "Hey. You're cool."
It wouldn't have to be secret, and I don't know how I could help out with it, but I would love (no pun intended, I absolutely swear) to see this happen. People wouldn't have to send gifts. Just cards. It would be fun, and it might brighten the day of people that are feeling lonely/cynical.
**tl;dr:** Let's send each other valentines, cause we're all awesome. Tell me how to make this happen. | 24 | [
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"body": "I plan to have redditgifts be able to do card exchanges ... but i don't think i'll have it ready for valentines day. I'd love to do it next valentines day tho, or have a card exchange in like ... march or april.",
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"body": "I like the idea; but run it separately from Secret Santa. Secret Santa should remain a once yearly event, to keep it exciting and not have it tired and worn out by Christmas. I don't wanna be sending out a gift every 2 months and I don't think kickme/5days wanna be doing this shit so often. ",
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"body": "I like it. I would think that instead of the SS 1:1 (even though some chose to send more) you could opt to send as many as you wanted. Have a matchmaking system set to make sure that everyone gets at least as many as they send, with any extras randomly distributed.\n\nIf you wanted to make this really easy, you could just set up a simple email address exchange and have people send ecards on Feb14. Though I agree the physical cards are always more special, and I know we have a lot of creative people on here.\n\nIf there is sufficient interest it might also be prudent to have a flag you can set if you do/do not want NSFW type cards.",
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I just rolled my car 3 times, AMA. | I had just checked the weather, got something to eat, and hopped in the car. Cruising along at 70 MPH I felt I was doing good, the conditions stated bare and dry, wet in some spots. Nearing the start of Snoqualmie Pass proved different, I began to noticed ice building up on the left lane. I slowed down realizing that the road was getting bad. I tried to gradually turn to the other lane, only to have my back end fish tail. My immediate reaction was to try and straighten out causing me to over-correct with my inevitable roll off the highway. I rolled and rolled wondering if I was going to ever get knocked out. Amazingly, I'm here now, 2 hours later. I have nothing more than a few scratches, bruises, and a cut on my forehead, and all I want to do for the next hour is browse Reddit. Feel free to ask me anything. | 3 | [
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"body": "Go to hospital, now. Get checked out and get a report. If you have insurance this will help you a shitload. It doesn't matter if you can feel anything wrong or not, tomorrow you will be in a shitload of pain.\n\nIf the hospital is too expensive (not sure if you've got insurance etc), got to a normal doctor and get checked out. Get some pain meds and rest up. Trust me.",
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"body": "So you're the guy that blasts along the highway in poor road conditions and puts everyone's safety at risk in order to shave a few seconds off your trip. Do you have a 4WD vehicle, possibly a truck or SUV? What did we learn today?",
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"body": "Was your car working after it rolled? Usually shit gets rattled to the point where the car wont start (assuming it rolled and landed right side up). I dunno, sounds fishy to me...\n\nedit: Take some pics of the car. ",
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"body": ">Submitted 10 hours ago by Pi_Rat\r\n>\r\n>Posts by Pi_Rat: 0\r\n\r\nI guess Pi_Rat has succumbed to his injuries.\r\n\r\nEdit:\r\nBah now I look like a dick :/",
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"body": "Did you happen to be listening to music? If so, did the experience seem surreal? I was a passenger in a car when we were forced off the interstate by a big truck and we spun a few times. The whole time I was calm and at peace, I just kept listening to the blaring music. ",
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"body": "Do you feel like an action hero?\n\n> I rolled and rolled wondering if I was going to ever get knocked out.\n\nWas this honestly going through your head while the car was rolling?\n\nWhat was your first thought after it was over? Was there some sort of silence after it was all over?\n\nGlad you're alright, but you should go to a doctor and follow the rest of nalar's advice.",
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Ok Reddit..I've got a problem I need help with. I'm new, but I see people get GREAT advice for stuff just like this. | Temperature here is like 4 degrees (F). Never had my pipes freeze until now. None of the taps work and I can't seem to find where the water (from the main) comes into the house. Shouldn't there be so exposed pipe somewhere? I don't have a propane torch or heat gun or the electric heat tape. What do I do? Thanks for the help.
EDIT: Thanks for all of the advice it was a BIG help. After about 12 hours (at least as long as I had noticed) of having frozen pipes and waiting for the plumber to show up, the water just magically came back on. Which tells me two things: 1.) I obviously turned off the wrong valve at the meter this morning and 2.) I'm very lucky. Because if the pipe had thawed and I didn't know it because the valve was turned off I would have looked liked a total ass in the morning when the plumber showed up. Kinda like having the IT guys show up to plug your printer back in for you. | 7 | [
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"body": "Dude, don't worry about finding that shit yourself. Those pipes are gonna expand, crack then eventually split. Call a plumber, pronto. If you're renting, get the landlord on it, too. Don't wait around man, you could be looking a WAY bigger mess than you thought.\r\n\r\nEDIT: also, make sure to check any obscure or out of the way places for water damage. You never know when it's going to start leaking. With water damage, you want to catch it as early as possible, so as to stop the bleeding, so to speak.",
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"body": "Call a plumber ASAP.\n\nMean while leave some taps open so the water freezing in the lines can expand.\n\nOpen all closets and lower cabinets where water lines may be hidden so heat can get to them.\n\nAre you in a house or apartment? If in a house are you on a basement, crawlspace or concrete slab? Look near yur furnace and water heater. There will be a water meter (are you in the US?) and, often, a red handle to turn off the water.\n\nIf this is new construction - it is possible but unlikely the water lines is frozen underground. Plumber will have to fix. \n\nIf all water in the house is off then the freeze may be in the basement or crawlspace. Crawlspaces have vents which are supposed to be closed in winter. If yours were not closed then the crawl space to too cold.",
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"body": "**If** the water line comes into the house though an outside wall, or a wall in the basement, it may be frozen in there. Open the tap that is next in line, above this pipe. Point a space heater at the wall where the pipe is, and hope it thaws.\r\n\r\nLearn where the main valve is. If you have a burst pipe that is waiting to thaw, you will want to turn it off in a hurry.",
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WTF is wrong with He's Just Not That Into You | Just watched [the movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1001508/) and felt like I was going through some kind of intensive therapy.. In your face-aggressive therapy about my behavior with men and dating.
I do the obsessive phone check, ecstatic happiness after a 'successful' date (that turns out to never lead anywhere), over analysis of.. everything and the lame ass excuses for why he doesn't act the way I want, why he's not interested or why he secretly is but *whatever*. I actually faced some of my fantasies and saw right through them. It was painful, and simultaneously silly (as I was confronted by a movie based on a SATC-quote..) but.. helpful.
And then.. a happy ending? A happy friggin' ending?! I cried with anger when I realized that the movie didn't see its premise through to the end. Not surprised.. | 16 | [
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"body": "Not everyone in the movie got a happy ending. The cheating guy comes to mind.\n\nAlso, I liked that the girl who was constantly failing finally got a guy. The ending wasn't for everyone, but some of us liked it.",
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"body": "I recently re-watched this movie (fueled by insomnia and an impending move to Baltimore) and it was a lot more painful the second time. I like Justin Long and Kevin Connolley in the movie, but that's basically it's only redeeming quality.\n\nThe scene where she's checking her cell during yoga really hit home for me - I used to obsessively try to will my phone to ring in my younger, boy-crazy days.\n\nAnyway, I think the problem with this movie is that it's really annoying...just like Ginnifer Goodwin and Scar Jo's characters! Yea, we all engage in our own crazy/obsessive behavior...and yes, often it revolves around boys. But EVERYONE has their quirks and obsessions. They could make a movie about my dad's obsession with the New York Jets, or my grandparents' insane cleanliness and proclivity for returning items to the supermarket.\n\nEveryone is crazy about SOMETHING...and young, unmarried girls TYPICALLY get a little obsessive about dating.\n\nWho cares?",
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"body": "You expected a hollywood movie to not sugarcoat something for the masses? I'd say as long as you took something away from it then thats a good thing.\n\n> the lame ass excuses for why he doesn't act the way I want\n\ni hope you don't mean that. He doesn't need an excuse to not act the way you want. Men are human beings with thoughts and feelings and ambitions and motivations to.",
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"body": "This is the problem I have with romantic comedies in general. The unrealistic happy endings make me feel so yicky. Real relationships don't work like that, and I think movies like that set up false expectations that are impossible for men (or women) to live up to in real life.\n\nSo, what I'm trying to say is BRAVO. You saw through the sappy false \"happy\" ending and realize it's wrong. That's why you reacted with anger. You should be proud of yourself. :)\n\nDisclaimer: I haven't actually watched this movie, but I'm assuming the \"happy\" ending is one where \"she gets the guy\" right? which defeats the whole point of the rest of the movie, I'm sure.",
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Have you ever woken up in the middle of sex? | How did/would this make you feel?
Please state the nature of the relationship with the other individual(s), i.e. length of relationship, married, friends with benefits, stranger, etc.
Update: What we have discovered so far is that its okay to have sex with someone while they're sleeping. Apparently its a real turn on and not considered rape at all!! | 79 | [
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"body": "used to date this pill popping rattle head of a chick. one night when i saw her downing a handful of soma's (muscle relaxers) i asked her if it was okay that i banged her after she passes out. she said okay. so i waited an hour and then had sex with her lifeless body. it was weird, but awesome b/c she was smoking hot.",
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"body": "Once with a boyfriend of... maybe six-eight months, we *both* woke up mid-coitus. It was pretty epic. Apparently we were both having vaguely sexy dreams and then kinda come around and BAM we're doin' it. \n\n\nI vote it very very win.\n\nEDIT: because it just hit me where i was sharing this story, i thought i would go ahead and add that while i have no idea what his dream was about, in *my* dream i was convinced someone was a cylon but could only be sure if i had sex with them to see if that glowy thing happened to their back. :D good times.",
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"body": "Married, male. I've woken up to find my wife on top of me. I've also been woken up with a BJ.\n\nVery much appreciated.",
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"body": "A few weeks ago I spent the night with the ex of a good friend of mine (we had no choice but to share a bed). Prior to that we'd chatted about having sex but decided it would too weird cause of her history with my friend. \n\nThat night, as we're getting in bed, she asks \"would it really be a problem for you?\" and I said \"yeah ... I think it would\" but secretly I wanted to fuck her so bad.\n\nShe asked if we could at least get cozy so we feel asleep spooning. I had my hands between, but not on, her luscious rack. Sure enough, sometime later I wake up with my hands fully cupping her rack, raging hard on, she's moaning and grinding and we fucked 3 times that night. Some of the best sex we both ever had. \n\nAnother time I actually fell asleep with a one night stand riding me. I woke up to \"you aren't ASLEEP are you?!?!\".\n\nAnd another time I woke up with my face embedded in a big ass nasty bush that stank off piss, fell asleep going down on her.",
"score": 82
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"body": "Once. It was kinda weird at first. I was friends w/ this girl in college and there was a party at her house. I was pretty smashed and she said, \"You can crash in my bed.\" - and there wasn't any weirdness to it. We were pretty cool w/ each other and had known each other for about six months at least. Well, I passed out immediately! What I woke up to was her grinding on top of me like a naughty little schoolgirl. At first I didn't know what was going on but after a few seconds instinct took over and you can guess the rest. The next day it was like nothing happened, we went to a Phish concert and had a great time. I never had sex w/ her again even though I certainly could have. We still remain friends to this day.",
"score": 48
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"body": "I used to date a girl who slept without a shirt. I'd rub her nipples in her sleep and after moaning and groaning for about a minute she'd start to pleasure herself 90% of the time. I'd go in for the kill if she was laying on her side and getting it from behind - I just figured waking up to a guy ontop of you takes away from the sensation. She loved it. I loved not having to persuade her or any of that drama.",
"score": 47
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"body": "My girlfriend wakes me up with a BJ once or twice a month, I'd say. It's almost always fantastic. There was one incident that made me rethink the situation, though. She was going down on me while I was sleeping and I began having one of those \"holy shit, I have to piss\" dreams because my member was warm and moist. A mouth on the penis works way better than a hand in a warm bowl of water. I woke up startled, thinking I was pissing myself only to realize I was getting a hummer. I ran to the toilet, took a piss and then we had sex. Everything worked out better than expected.",
"score": 27
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"body": "I once woke from a deep slumber w/ full-on deep-throating going on from a girl I used to date... For the first 10 seconds I was really groggy and confused, but then after that it was pure bliss. It was probably the best bj I've ever had.",
"score": 26
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"body": "The first thing I thought was \"how in the world can you fall asleep while having sex in the first place?!\"\r\n\r\nThen I realized the sex is being initiated while the user is asleep. Now it makes sense.\r\n\r\nEdit: spelling",
"score": 19
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"body": "I've woken up to it a few times - middle-of-the-night sleep-sex initiated by my own unconscious self, perpetrated on my then-GF who herself was awakened mid-coitus by the act. We woke up in some weird positions, but only barely being awake, we didn't change them much to finish.\n\n\"Hey, you awake?\"\n\n\"I am now - who started this?\"\n\n\"I dunno, but it's pretty awesome\"",
"score": 17
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"body": "Yeah, I'm going to have to go against your update. \n\nWe had gone on a couple of dates, and I came over. Sure, we did, but I absolutely would NOT do it without protection. Next thing you know (after I had gone to bed), I wake up in the middle of sex, it feels strangely much better than I remember it, realize he wasn't using protection, woke up and started screaming at him. \n\nThis was over 2 years ago, I've been tested A LOT since then (hypochondria!), and I'm fine. Thankfully. That was pretty awful to wake up to :\\",
"score": 15
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"body": "The title kind of implies that for you, sex normally occurs while you sleep, and to wake up during it is unnatural.\n\nThe text makes it even weirder because it makes me wonder if you expect to be banging all kinds of people, \"i.e. married, friends with benefits, stranger, etc\"",
"score": 12
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"body": "Try sexing on Ambien. I've dreamed while fucking and came in and out of it (all while \"awake\"). It's intense.",
"score": 10
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"body": "One time my wife woke me with sex and a plate of bacon and eggs on the nightstand. This is why I'm not an atheist.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I have woken up in the middle of *giving* a blowjob. For a few years I had quite regular bouts of sexomnia. (It's a real thing, Google it.) Luckily, the husband normally doesn't mind. ",
"score": 6
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"body": "male living with fiance. I enjoyed it! \n\nthe most recent time i remembered it the next day like it was a dream and i said to my fiance \"hey... i think we had sex last night!\" and she looked at me with a puzzled face and said \"Wow we did!\" LoL apparently neither of us were memorable. Neither of us really woke for it, it was more like sleep-fucking.",
"score": 6
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"body": "I've been half-asleep and initiated sex with my wife and it's taken me a short time (like 20-30 seconds) to fully wake up and not have fragments of whatever dream I was having running through my head. \n\nBut no, I've never awoken to actual sex. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "My ex used to sleep sex, he would wake up in the middle of sex and blame me for making him sex me on a work night. It was hilarious. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "Yes, after I was too drunk and fell asleep in the middle of it being on top. Almost got away with it. My girlfriend at the time was uber-pissed off but eventually forgave me.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I dated my boyfriend for a year, and we had broke up but still lived together and slept in the same bed (I was sleeping with someone else, but not dating him and was open for other sex as well). One night I fell asleep after coming home from work at around midnight and my ex was already asleep. I woke up maybe two hours later to him kissing me on the lips (I had rolled over and was facing him) and I could feel that he was excited. He was fully awake, and when I started to wake up I started to respond (was having a sex dream about this other guy...) and by the time I completely woke up my ex was fucking me and I was so apathetic that I didn't care.\n\nAnother time I was sharing a bed with a male friend of mine that I had known for about 3 years or so (non-sexual at that point, though I had had a sexual relationship with him long before that) and during the night I ended up cuddling him. I woke up to his hand on my wrist (he was dead asleep still) and he dragged my hand down to his area and his jeans had already been unzipped and unbuttoned. He wasn't all that hard...sporting a bit of a chubby, but not full out erect...and he pushed my hand down on his penis. No biggy, I just pulled my hand away but he fucking grabbed my hand again, put it back down his pants and kept his hand on mine to keep it there. Mentioned it the next morning and he was like \"Oh...sorry. I tend to do weird shit in my sleep\"",
"score": 4
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"body": "My old roomate used to have a really hot girlfriend (she was a college cheerleader) that would wake him up with bj's. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I wish. I sleep on my side facing the edge of the bed. Apperently it's too inconvenant for anyone to try anything.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I had been dating a girl for maybe a few weeks and we lived at a resort in the Canadian Rockies and so we partied all the time. One night I was loaded and was going down on her, I awoke to her saying Ow! I had nodded off - literally and figuratively - and the weight of my head was pushing my front teeth into her vag, just below her love button and into her pubis. It was so quick (and I was so drunk) that I pretended it never happened and kept on going. We were together for a few years. It was never spoken of. \nOh, and she would frequently wake me up with blow jobs. A real sport.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I used to be involved with a girl who was a borderline nympho. I used to wake her up for sex in the middle of the night then she made it clear I no longer needed her permission to do so. Often when going to sleep, she would slyly ask \"Are you going to wake me up tonight?\" Which was her way of telling me she wanted me to have my way with her, that night.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I've told this story here before, but here goes (for those who missed it). One night I got beyond intoxicated with a group of friends and spent the night at a close friend's house. As usual, when I stay at one of my boys' houses, I sleep in their beds. They're gay, I'm a lesbian - no worry of anyone trying any funny business.\r\n\r\nOn this particular night, we both woke up in the middle of it, still intoxicated. The next morning was more than a little awkward. Our friends tried to take away our gay cards.",
"score": 3
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Suggestions for improvement? | I play Dan, Rose, and Ryu at a post-beginner level... I can do FADC for a few people, but I'm really plateauing in terms of combos. Got advice/practice strategies? I have the PC Steam version w/ a Nyko Airflor joypad. | 5 | [
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"body": "get a stick\n\nread [these](http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/jul/08/street-fighter-4-strategy-guide-hints-and-tips/)",
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Oh no, they kicked Joan Rivers off a plane! Actually, it DOES matter | Doesn't it seem a perfect example of what's wrong with the system? They kick a 76 year old woman off a plane because of a misspelling, but let a wanna-be terrorist waltz right through? With 500,000 names on our no-fly list, how much noise is there? And won't our government react to this by making it worse, and putting more names on the list? If we want to be secure, it seems to make sense we REMOVE say 90% of the names on the list and make the no-fly list actually relevant again.... | 8 | [
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"body": "Checking names is pointless no matter where the flight originates. \n\nI read a story about a guy in Canada who had the same name as a known terrorist on the US watch list. He would have to go to the airport hours early in order for the US Customs agents to verify he was not the bad guy. He finally got tired of it. His solution? He got his name legally changed in Canada and had his passport and documents re-issued with his new name. He has not been stopped or questioned since.\n\n",
"score": 7
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"body": "They intentionally *put* that terrorist on the plane.\n\n1. [Passenger says suspect had no passport - but a sharp dressed man argued for him to be boarded on plane](http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html)\n\n2. ICTS - the security company responsible for airport security for both Amsterdam and Detroit - was also the airport security company for all 911 attacks and Richard Reid (shoebomber).\n\n3. [Immediately, evidence suddenly surfaced](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27terror.html) linking him to Yemen (as happen in the Fort Hood shooting as well).\n\n4. Just so happens that Yemen, [is considered a major 'choke point' in oil distribution](http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints/Full.html)\n\n3. [Richard Wolffe claims on MSNBC](http://rawstory.com/2010/01/countdown-detroit-bomber-intel-failure-conspiracy-cock-up/) that 'high officials' in the Obama whitehouse have privately admitted to him that they were considering the premise that \"rogue elements in the intelligence\" communities were complicit in the lapse.\n\n4. [Obama comes out days later](http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2010/01/05/obama-slams-failed-intelligence-calls-for-reform.html), blaming the intelligence community for the failure.\n\nI truly think this is a case where Obama may be trying to give \"hints\" to the media of what he thinks is going on -- but at this point its hard to tell if he himself is complicit, or if our broken news media just won't pick up the story.\n\n\n",
"score": 6
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IAMA person with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) | If you dont know what that is....
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/ibs/#what
Ask away.
edit: sorry it took me a while to respond. I made this post abut an hour before going to sleep. Then I went to work. I am back now. | 8 | [
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"body": "I've had moderate to severe IBS with alternating C and D my entire life, was initially diagnosed at 14 (I'm now 23), I've had countless blood tests, allergy tests, scans, and nearly had exploratory surgery at one point before my diagnosis. My diagnosis was officially confirmed in 2008 using a new blood test that uses bio-markers and rules all other major GI conditions including Crohn's, IBD, and celiacs (http://www.ibsbloodtest.com/). I tested negative for everything but tested off the charts for the biomarkers that indicate IBS.\n\nAs for treatment methods, I've tried antidepressants (they kinda helped but I had to got off them for other reasons), tried dozens of \"healthy\" diets (none of them were effective), taken countless supplements (which some can help), and have been taking an antispasmodic (hyoscyamine) for the last 10 years. I also take 40-80 billion probiotics daily (helps prevent the runs but is no cure for the other symptoms), and drink a ton of aloe vera juice (which tastes horrible), as well as supplements such as fiber, calcium carbonate, and eat a lot of rice, olive oil, and avoid all dairy, fatty foods, most processed foods, and any of my other identified triggers. I also inhale Imodium like M&M's, and use it even as preventive (eg: take it before going out as it buys 4-hours without having to use the bathroom). \n\nPersonally I'm tired of all the jokes in movies and on TV shows, the bullshit remedies, and the stigma that IBS isn't serious.\n\nThanks to IBS I'm in pain most days, I have to watch everything I eat, and do. I have to be constantly aware of my surroundings, know where the nearest bathroom is at all times, and plan pretty much every time I leave the house. I also can't eat at many places, and find social dining to be unenjoyable and eat most of my meals alone.\n\nI feel your pain.",
"score": 9
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"body": "I'm going to be one of those 'have you tried' people. Do you chew gum? I had IBS for two years before realizing my habit of chewing sugarless gum with sorbitol was causing my problems. Apples also have sorbitol, just a thought.\n\nEdit: Dicyclomine helped too FYI.",
"score": 6
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"body": "* Do you feel that your diagnosis was a cop out, and that the doctors have missed something?\n\n* How many times were tests run in duplicate, or even triplicate?\n\n* Have you changed your diet, or kept a \"journal\"?",
"score": 5
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Psychedelics and spirituality. | The other day there was a self submission about [getting past a lull in spirituality]( http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/amd03/how_to_get_past_a_spiritual_lull/). There were some good suggestions about reading, praying, focusing, changing church habits, etc. But there at the bottom with negative points was my suggestion: Consider taking an interest in psychedelics.
I am a bit perplexed about the attitude towards psychedelics in /r/Christianity. There has been some good research regarding psychedelics and spirituality. Perhaps some redditors are not aware of it. Or maybe there is another reason why psychedelics receive downvotes rather than serious consideration.
Here are some examples of research that should not be overlooked by anybody who seeks to break a lull in spirituality:
[The Good Friday Experiment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_Chapel_Experiment) :
>Almost all of the members of the experimental group reported experiencing profound religious experiences, providing empirical support for the notion that psychedelic drugs can facilitate religious experiences.
Or the [2006 study]( http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/07_11_06.html) by R. Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine which concluded:
>71% rated the experience as being the single most spiritually significant experience of his or her life or among the top five most spiritually significant experiences. 67% percent of the participants in the experimental group rated the experience to be either the single most meaningful experience of his or her life or among the top five most meaningful experiences of his or her life. The participants often noted that they felt a sense of “unity without content (pure consciousness) and/or unity of all things.”
And the [follow up]( http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/07_01_08.html) to Griffiths’ 2006 study:
>Most of the volunteers looked back on their experience up to 14 months later and rated it as the most, or one of the five most, personally meaningful and spiritually significant of their lives
So what does /r/Christianity think about spirituality and psychedelics and why?
edit: It appears that the redditors inclined to downvote comments involving psychedelic suggestions do not care to share their opinions on psychedelics and spirituality. It is really too bad.
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"body": "One might consider that many psychedelics are part of creation. \n\nAnother consideration is the tradition of fasting, which seeks to mess around with our natural physical state in order to achieve spiritual insight.",
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I need a laugh today: What are your favorite Venture Brothers quotes? | Mine:
Sally Impossible: "What could be more important than your family, Richard?!?"
Professor Impossible: "Sssssssssssssssssssssssscience?" | 54 | [
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"body": "Not a quote, but I love the scene in season 2 when 21 and 24 are getting ready to go back to work for the monarch, all to the soundtrack of Mars by Gustav Holst. \n\nedited: It's not season 3. Oof.",
"score": 46
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"body": "Dr. Girlfriend: Sweetie, isn't that the guy from Depeche Mode?\n\nThe Monarch: Oh, no way! Where? Holy crap, he's with a girl?\n\nDr. Girlfriend: Oh yeah, that guy is totally straight. I saw a whole thing about him on the VH-1.\n\nThe Monarch: But he's the guy from Depeche Mode! It's impossible.\n\nDr. Girlfriend: Straight.\n\nThe Monarch: Come on! He's in Depeche Mode! ",
"score": 36
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"body": "Dr. Orpheus: Don't touch that. For within that Homeboy figurine reside the souls of TWO FOULMOUTHED REDNECKS!!",
"score": 32
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"body": "Brock: You...coulda told me Sasquatch was a...a dude.\n\nSteve Sommers: Really? I thought you knew.\n\nBrock: Naw. I didn't find out until I had to...*shudder*...shave down there.\n\nSteve Sommers: Aww, Sasquatch doesn't have anything you haven't seen before.\n\nBrock: Sasquatch **IS** something I haven't seen before!",
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"body": "Hank: And they kill clean. Don't let dames get in the way.\n\nBrock: Honestly, Hank, where do you pick that stuff up? I never see you read.\n\nDean: It's weird, right?\n\nBrock: It's like he channels dead crazy people!",
"score": 30
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"body": "\"You rescue of the boys, I'll take care of these guys\"\r\n\r\n\"Are you sure, they seem pretty...\"\r\n\r\n\"**THEY HIT ME WITH A TRUCK**\"",
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"body": "**Instructor**: \"Well, let's see here, Mr. Samson. On the driving portion, you totalled every car but the one you were driving; on the pistol range, you refused to use a gun. And, uh, oh. Hah! Yeah, here's my favorite: on the written, you drew a little guy with wings from the Led Zeppelin records.\"\n\n\n**Brock**: Icarus. So uh... what are you trying to tell me here, little man? That you don't like Zep?",
"score": 24
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"body": " You think you're hot shit in a champagne glass, but you're really cold diarrhea in a Dixie cup! \n\nWhat!? You think this is gay, huh? Is that what you fucking said you scrawny piece of shit?! Oh, this isn't gay, but King Gorilla over there is!\n\n(King Gorilla makes kissing noises)\n\nAnd I bet he can't wait to snap off a piece of your dick in his ass!\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Dean: Hank! We’ve got big troubles! The Apaches are back!\n\nHank: What?!\n\nDean: Look! Tee-pee in your trunks!\n\nHank: [running around] MY PANTS ARE HAUNTED! MY PANTS ARE HAUNTED!\n",
"score": 16
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"body": "Colonel Hunter - \"Yeah? Well, the Village People called, AND THEY WANT YOU TO GO FUCKING KILL YOURSELF, YOU PRANCING BASTARD!\"",
"score": 14
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"body": "Henchman 24: Come on! They have one female servicing a large group of males. That implies a species that lays eggs.\n\nHenchman 21: Oh my God, you're crazy! They're so obviously mammals!\n\nHenchman 24: Please! She'd be in estrus 24/7 if she didn't lay eggs.\n\nHenchman 21: Smurfs don't lay eggs! I won't tell you this again! Papa Smurf has a fucking beard! They're mammals! ",
"score": 14
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"body": "Brock: (While interrogating someone by squeezing their balls) \"I.. I'm not sure how to say this... but I felt a lump. I'm sorry...\"",
"score": 12
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"body": "**Mandalay! Help me, I've come aflame again!**\n\n*Please do not be alarmed. We are about to engage... the nozzle. Please do not move while the nozzle is engaging. Moving will disrupt calibration of... the nozzle. Please wait while we calibrate... the nozzle. Please do not look away from... the nozzle. The nozzle is now calibrating. (long pause) The nozzle is still calibrating. The nozzle has completed calibration. Thank you.*",
"score": 11
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"body": "Dean: You've got to follow your dreams, even if they're about a giant spider with your fathers head that keeps stealing your penis.",
"score": 11
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"body": "Prof. Impossible: \"You see, Dr. Venture, I found the piece your father hid in the foundation years ago. Then I thought about you in physics class. You were a daydreamer, a sass-mouth, and not infrequently, a bit of a gigglepuss.\"",
"score": 10
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"body": "So many good ones:\n\nMonarch: \"PEERS?! How dare you! That repulsive display of humanity out there? NO WAY! A list of my peers would read as follows: Flying Squid and Tigeriffic; Truckules; Lord Mostly-Magic; King Fantastic Outfit; Fee Waybill of the Tubes; SuicideGirl Teagan; Bill \"Superfoot\" Wallace; Happy-Go-Clucky and Swiss Misstery; Chaka Igloo; and my 8th grade earth science teacher Mr. Tringe! Oh... and Bizarro Oscar Wilde as an alternate.\"\n\nHank: \"Dude! If we stay here, that means that we'll be Dr. Orpheus's kids. And that means Triana will be your sister. And that means you two will have extra-retard babies.\" ",
"score": 8
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"body": "The Monarch: 24, ready the Monarch-Mobile! Your leader has a date.\n\n24: We kinda...don't have a Monarch-Mobile anymore.\n\nThe Monarch: Why the hell not?\n\n24: We ditched it.\n\n21: You know, the heat was on us after that Venture Brother thing, so we thought...\n\nThe Monarch: Fine, what are our options?\n\n24: We can take my Nissan Stanza.\n\n21: Shotgun called! Totally!\n\nThe Monarch: Alright, what color is it? Is it diabolical? Or at least butterfly colored?\n\n24: It's powder blue. Mostly.\n\nThe Monarch: Great. 21, what do you drive?\n\n21: His powder blue Stanza. ",
"score": 8
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"body": "The Monarch: What? Think this is gay huh? Is that what you fucking said you scrawny peice of shit? Oh this isn't gay. But King Gorilla over there is! And I bet he can't wait to snap off a piece of your dick in his ass! \r\n\r\n[points to Dean] \r\n\r\nThe Monarch: You! Get up! I said get the fuck up! What's your name? \r\n\r\nDean Venture: Dean Ven... \r\n\r\nThe Monarch: [shouts] Your name is bitch! And I own you. You're property! And when I'm tired of having sex with every hole God drilled in your slender frame... King Gorilla! You got a cigerette? \r\n\r\n[King Gorilla hands him one] \r\n\r\nThe Monarch: There! I just sold you for a cigarette! And I don't smoke!\r\n \r\n[realizes who Dean is] \r\n\r\nThe Monarch: Holy shit! You're Dean-Fucking-Venture! King, I've gotta buy my bitch back. Here's your cigarette. \r\n\r\nKing Gorilla: Fuck you. Gimme a dollar! ",
"score": 8
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"body": "After being shot in the arm by The Action man, Dr. Orpheus puts the palm of his hand to Action Mans forehead and says,\"Two years.\"\nAction man: What?\nDoctor Orpheus: Until your stroke.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Master Billy Quizboy: Hold the phone. Total babe alert, twelve o'clock. \r\n\r\nPete White: Oh yeah, I know her type. Watch and learn, Wilhelmina. \r\n\r\nBilly: Okay, one: you're totally gay. Two: she's hot, and you're an albino. And three: you're totally gay. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "From Season 3:\n\"If it was a woman, I'd marry it\"\n\"And I'd jeopardize our friendship by nailin' your hot wife!\"",
"score": 7
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"body": "Hunter: \"No women, no children! It's how we separate ourselves from the bad guys!\"\n\nBrock: \"What if it's a woman vampire?\"\n\nHunter: \"You mean the undead? Nosferatu?\"\n\nBrock: \"Yeah.\"\n\nHunter: \"Technically already dead, so no problem there. Also: fictitious.\"",
"score": 7
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"body": "***WHO....WANTS....PIZZA....ROLLS?***\n\nEDIT: For those that don't remember: http://pizzarolls.ytmnd.com/",
"score": 6
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"body": "Hank Venture: If you're supposed to be our mom, then why you got us tied up, huh? People only do that when they wanna kill us. \r\nDean Venture: Or hold us for ransom. \r\nHank Venture: Or touch us inappropriately. \r\nDean Venture: What? When? That never... \r\nHank Venture: Sergeant Hatred? What, did you block that out? Oh, no, wait - you were passed out from the wine. Most of it was awful; trust me. ",
"score": 6
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"body": "Hunter: What is all this namby-pamby feel bad about good wet work BS?! You're beyond good and evil, Superman. You work for the government.\n\nBrock: What about uhhh, humanity and empathy and all that garbage?\n\nHunter: Who cares? You're going to special ops heaven.\n\nBrock: Really?\n\nHunter: Really! And it's god damned great! The G-Man Valhalla! There's trim and guns everywhere. And we eat steak flavored clouds and poop secrets!!\n",
"score": 6
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"body": "**Brock:** Great disguise, Mol. I barely recognized you in that get up!\r\n\r\n**Molotov Cocktease:** What?! Disguise? This is how I always dress when I am off duty!\r\n\r\n**Brock:** (Laughing) *That's* how you dress when your not on duty?! I may have to rethink this whole relationship thing.\r\n\r\n**Hank:** Who's that hoodrat Brock's talking to? He could get any shorty he wants!",
"score": 6
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"body": "*in a sean connery voice* \n\"Careful, lad. Those hands of his are strong enough to crush a boulder, yet delicate enough to crush a butterfly.\" \n\nlaughed for DAYS.",
"score": 6
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"body": "The Monarch: But see, that's what I'm talking about! Now Venture'll send Samson after the rest of us, and he'll go totally sickhouse on our asses. I LIKE my ass, gentlemen.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Osiris Cultist: Ohh. Fill the Jackal's head with OIL. Now it makes sense! I thought you said hot 'voile'.\n\nOsiris High Priest: What the hell is voile?\n\nOsiris C.: It's a soft, sheer fabric. I warmed some up in the dryer.\n\nOsiris HP: What kind of torture is that!?! Get out of here! I don't even want to LOOK at you anymore!\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "\"I am into costume business, not costume play.\"\n\n\"Get out of here... I have to take a Count Dooku\"\n\nand \"mmmm nice ass sampson\"\n\nall from the same episode!",
"score": 5
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"body": "Dr. Venture: You! Son of a BITCH! You come here from God knows where and took the form of my father because you thought it'd help me? Just who the hell do you think you are? \n\nDr. Jonas Venture: Look, just calm down ok? \n\nDr. Venture: You... prick! \n\nDr. Jonas Venture: I did this for your own go... \n\nDr. Venture: PRICK! \n\nDr. Jonas Venture: Alright! Fine! You really want to see?\n \n[\"Jonas\" removes his face, which we don't see as the camera cuts to a reaction shot of the horrified reactions of the assembled characters]\n \nDr. Jonas Venture: There! Look at you! You nearly crapped yourself! \n\n[pointing at Ned] \n\nDr. Jonas Venture: Except him, he actually did. \n\nNed: [embarassed] Boom boom. \n",
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"body": "I once saw him kill a guy with a sock full of nickels!\n\nWow! Did his head come off?\n\nYes. Yes it did.",
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"body": "\"Dean, tell me if that red light turns on.\"\n\"It's on, it's off again, it's on again, it's off again, it's on again.\"\n\"THAT'S CALLED BLINKING!\"\n(Might have butchered that quote a bit.)",
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"body": "Dragoon: \"Good Lord! We've been stitched together!\"\n\nPhantom Limb: \"Welcome to alive Dragoon, my name is Revenge\"\n\nDragoon: \"You're name is Phantom Limb you fucking lunatic!\"\n\nCuncilman 3: \"Thats Phantom Limb?..\"",
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"body": "Brock Samson: Now, Hank, touch your throat. That tube you feel is your trachea. Think of it as your handle. That thing your thumb is on is your carotid artery. Think of it as your button. I want you to grab the handle, push the button. Can you repeat that, Hank? \r\n\r\nHank Venture: [gasping] Grab the handle, push the button. \r\n\r\nBrock Samson: Let go of your own throat, Hank. \r\n",
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"body": "**Hank:** Hey, Baby Jesus is out of the manger!\n\n**Brock:** Huh? *{looks down at his zipper, then back up again}* Oh",
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"body": "21: *Opening his closet* Gentlemen, choose your weapons.\n\n24: Are these them?\n\n21: Are these they.\n\n24: Who talks like that?",
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"body": "Brock: The Guild works clean, professional. It's surgical with them. In a way, they're the only organization I still respect.\nHank: And they kill clean. Don't let dames get in the way.\nBrock: Honestly, Hank, where do you pick that stuff up? I never see you read.\nDean: It's weird, right?\nBrock: It's like he channels dead crazy people!\nHank: You... think it's a cry for help?",
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"body": "\"I see you have herpes on your mouth there. Did you get it from kissing your wife's ass after I put herpe in it?\"\r\n\r\nsomething like that",
"score": 3
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"body": "Dr. Orpheus: Evil has struck the House of Venture! The air reeks of an ill wind! Yea, though I have smelt it, that hath dealt it!",
"score": 3
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"body": "Jonas Venture Jr.: What do you want from me? I mean, look at you. You had \"super kill guy\" with you and you still got caught.",
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"body": "CAPTAIN SUNSHINE: Take.That costume. OFF!!\n\nTHE MONARCH: What's the matter, Captain Funtime? Isn't this what you've always wanted?\n\nCAPTAIN SUNSHINE: What are you talking about?!\n\nTHE MONARCH: Wouldn't it just fix everything twisted up inside of you if you could just fuck Wonderboy and your worst enemy at the same time!\n\nTHE MONARCH:Well come and get it!!",
"score": 3
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"body": "Jefferson Twilight: Man, you got a secret identity and everything. You're all.. you're all Aquaman!\n\nOrpheus: Aquaman doesn't have a secret identity. Everyone knows what Aquaman does.\n\nJefferson Twilight: Man, I don't know what Aquaman does. Doesn't he protect some fake-ass kingdom or something?",
"score": 3
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"body": "Orpheus' Master:\"I mean look at these breasts, you could bounce a penis off of these.\" A new one, but I laughed.",
"score": 3
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"body": "We haven't been outside in 30 years. I'm old and I'm afraid of everything.\n\nI'm afraid the streets are overrun with teenage gangs!\n\nTeenagers are cruel and they will undoubtedly taunt us because our trousers are not in style any more.\n\nAnd we are two heads in one body. And that has never, ever been hip! ",
"score": 3
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"body": "When 21 has Hank & Dean tied up in the treehouse:\n\"You have been driven insane! You have been subjected to the dreaded Chinese water torture for easily a half an hour. You have lost your grip on reality.\"\n\"We're delirious? So this is a dream, and we're not really here?\"\n\"Oh no, you're actually really here, but if i'm half monster, and like half goat, and half horse... that's stupid. If my bottom half is a horse, and on top I'm Sin-Eater.\"\n\"Who's Sin-Eater?\"\n\"Or Wolverine, with batwings!\"\n\"Dude, you're that henchmen guy\"\n\"With batwings?\"\n\"No, that is mental. You're regular. Are you sure you did this right? Cause I'm not really tortured, I'm just kinda wet.\"",
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"body": "Brock & Hunter are on a road trip during their old OSI days (very obviously the 80s, rat tails abounds).\n\nBrock: \"Cow's on my side, 8-3.\"\n\nHunter: \"Damn!\"\n\n~couple of seconds~\n\nBrock: \"Cow's on my side, 9-3.\"\n\nHunter: \"Blast it all you--\"\n\nBrock: \"OH! OH! *points to Hunter's side* CEMETERY! YOU LOSE ALL YOUR POINTS!\"\n\nHunter: \"WE'RE SWITCHING PLACES YOU BASTARD!\"",
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Breakfast Dilemma- Need your help. | My boss and I constantly argue about food. He keeps telling me "you're not in college you have to eat right". The only thing is that his lunch is something like spiral ham, white potatoes, and canned green beans. Not exactly the most nutritious foods around (canned green beans are basically just poop waiting to happen, am I right?).
So this morning, I was eating a poptart (not the best I know) and he said he'd buy me breakfast. His breakfast was 3 scrambled eggs, 3 slices of bacon, and a biscuit with butter. I really don't think that's any better for me than a poptart, I think all the cholesterol and saturated fat make it way worse.
What do you say? | 4 | [
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"body": "Just to freak him out, tomorrow bring in a 1/2 cup of light yogurt, 1/2 cup soy granola, and a peach. Distainfully look over at his breakfast and tell him he's not in the grave yet, but he needs to start eating better or he will be.",
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Hey Reddit, do you think Facebook killed Myspace? | I once had myspace, ok well I still do and I havn't visited the page in about 7 month and don't plan on doing so as all my friends are using facebook any way. So im just asking, do you think facebook killed myspace and why so? if yes that is. | 15 | [
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"body": "What really killed MySpace was its inability to filter out spam and other crap from its site. So when Facebook came along and did a considerably better job of dealing with it while preserving some of the better parts of MySpace, it became way more popular.",
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"body": "Myspace is that first girl you start dating, you both do crazy stuff and have wild sex. But she's been with a ton of guys before you and just the thought of moving in with her makes you very uncomfortable. Then you move on and meet this girl in university, she's very cute, classy and organized. Although she's not nearly as fun or wild as your ex. But you continue dealing with her as she is obviously the better life partner.",
"score": 26
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"body": "I don't want to hear some lameass screamo song everytime I open your page. And the nice thing about Facebook is that all the pages look the same. It's very aesthetically pleasing.",
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"body": "rupert murdoch killed myspace. no one should support his attempt to control the majority of media and information mediums.",
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New MapleLinks tagline | Well, it's time for a new tagline, so let the voting begin! Same rules as before: only ONE submission per person, and no down-voting allowed (please only up-vote the submissions you like). The winner will be decided next Friday, Jan. 15th at midnight. May the best submission win! | 5 | [
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"body": "what happend to the last vote, it was only there for a minute. I'm not coming up with anything clever for the tagline, but can we change the scary albino pic up top to the Gopher or the Pic crashing Seal?",
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Ask TechReddit: One Intel X25-M or Two Intel X25-V in Raid 0? | I am doing some shopping for SSDs, and right now I am considering two options. Either I will purchase a single 80GB [X25-M](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167016), or two 40GB [X25-V](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167025) drives and stripe them. The X25-M has a higher read/write throughput rating, but would cost me $40 more for the single drive versus the two X25-V's. I am thinking by striping the X25-Vs in RAID 0 I could achieve similar, if not greater performance.
Thoughts? | 7 | [
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"body": "Honestly, I'm not sure you'll even need to go with RAID0. A single cheap SSD will do the trick. The random IO speed will not be increased at all by RAID0, and that speed is what makes SSDs \"HOLY FUCK\" fast. The random IO speed is not cumulative with RAID0. \n\nUnless you need high speed sustained transfers, such as for capturing high-definition video, just get a single cheap SSD. Consider other brands, too. I have an X25-M (80GB) in one laptop and a Corsair P128 CMFSSD-128GBG2D in another. I bought the Corsair later and it does outperform the Intel. ",
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The "post a color as your Facebook status" is apparently something that men aren't supposed to be involved in, we're just supposed to figure it out on our own. | The message that's been going around:
"Some fun is going on.... just write the color of your bra in your status. Just the color, nothing else. And send this on to ONLY girls no men .... It will be meant to see if this will spread the wings of breast cancer awareness. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status... Haha! Please leave color status up for 24 hours so hopefully we will all have them up together. "
It's just another silly meme.
And I screwed up. [Here's the relevant Google search link](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&pws=0&q=What%27s+with+people+putting+colors+on+their+Facebook+status%3F) | 16 | [
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"body": "Some girl on Mashable seems pissed off that men are even involved. Her comment was: \"The real source is support for breast cancer awareness. Why does it have to be more complicated than that? On the other hand, it's been interesting watching my guy friends going crazy because they were not included. Some guys on Facebook even started a guys posting bra color to try to easy the uneasiness. Why do guys have to be included in this and why do they care? Is it that they don't have the upper hand on this movement?\"\n\nWow.. someone feeling a little threatened? Yikes.",
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"body": "[Men get breast cancer too](http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1675538,00.html), but since when did things like facts get in the way of circlejerks?",
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"body": "Is anyone unaware of breast cancer at this point? I mean aren't there many more forms of cancer which get almost no attention. *Sigh* ...",
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"body": "A couple of girls were talking about that last night, and then I remembered the fat, nasty woman I work with whose status update was \"nude.\"\n\n*Shivers*",
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"body": "I really dont think that posting bra colors will make a double mastectomy survivor feel great about herself. awareness is great, when it leads to increased funding, more girls self checking etc, but because this was so secretive i dont think either of those goals were achieved. It seems to me to just be more of a \"teehee the boys dont know\" kind of thing. ",
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"body": "Argg, I saw stupid comments on Facebook and I figured it out while reading Reddit. I think it's just what it is, it's a silly meme. Whenever someone get cancer and he lose his battle, it's a tragedy no matter what kind of cancer it is.",
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Dear redditors, do you start hating one of your picture after viewing it a lot? | because it happens to me the whole time, at the beginning I love the shot, then I grew hating it more and more. Now sometime I can't know which of my shots are good.
Is it normal? | 29 | [
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"body": "This happens with all creative works of art. Whether is a photograph, video, website, poster, etc. We all criticize ourselves and the more we look at our own work the more we criticize it, to the point where we dislike it. This happens to me all the time, and I think it's what makes us better photographers, videographers, designers, etc. I know almost nothing about psychology, but this is my interpretation of why I don't like my previous works that I used to love.",
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"body": "YES! To the point where at least once a year, I feel the urge to purge. Delete all my shots off Flickr, remove the RAWs from my library. Dismantle my website, and reshoot/rebuild everything from scratch.",
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"body": "Yes. It happens alot, but one time in particular stands out.\n\nI had an image that had gotten into a gallery (my first time), but they wanted it to be 11x14 and I only had printed 8x10s. By the time I had reprinted it (which involved about a million tries in the darkroom, even though they were all fine I was finding flaws because I was nervous about the gallery thing), cleaned up some spots and mounted it; I really just never wanted to see the fucking thing again. And after the obligatory standing around while my friends lied to me about how much they loved it, I never looked at that one again.",
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"body": "I don't know if this is what's happening to you, but I find that as I continue to progress as a photographer, the number of photos of mine I actually like gets smaller and smaller.\n\nMy first year *really* shooting, I had a number of happy accidents that I thought were unbelievably good. One of them is actually on my office wall in front of mine right now. However, the majority of them are now either flagged as rejects or have been tossed in the trash forever.\n\nThe more I look at a shot that I initially think is fantastic, the more I find faults with it. My current assumption is that anything I think is perfect at the moment will turn out to be shit after another year of shooting.\n\nPerfect example. I have a shot of some train tracks near where I work that I *loved* when I took it. I knew it was going to be amazing before I had even pulled it off the camera. While it's a decent shot, now when I look at it, all I see is the fact that the sky in the distance is a little blown out, and that the background is in some state between bokeh and in focus that makes it soft and undesirable. \n\nI say trust your instincts. Anything I think might be borderline shite, I treat it, get a print of it and pass it around with a few others to people for opinions. I always make sure to slip in a shot or two that I *know* is perfect as a way to gauge whether they might be visually retarded. It's a good way to figure out if people actually notice what's wrong with the photo or not.\n",
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"body": "Totally normal. With any luck, it means you're getting better; the older shots are less appealing to you.\n\nThat's a good reason to stop showing/selling the older work.",
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What color is your prostate? | Yogurt lids, charity walks, pink ribbons and recently a facebook post of your bra color help fight breast cancer, which is a major health issue that needs to be addressed. It just leaves me wondering-where is the movement to fight prostate cancer? I wonder if yoplait would offer a campaign to send in container lids to donate money to prostate cancer research... | 8 | [
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"body": "I actually think that de-stigmatizing the screening procedures for prostate and colorectal cancers might be a pretty big help. Social networking sites might be useful in helping to move in that direction if a little thought was put into it.\nHell, if the recent facebook forward had included instructions on how to do a self exam, that could actually have done some good. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "Women have joined together and done the work to raise awareness of the cancer that most affects them, and reaped the benefits. It's our fault for not doing the same.",
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"body": "I'm more concerned about colorectal and lung cancer getting such a low cut of the funding, really. Breast cancer gets way too much, but what we should be doing is ensuring that the most lethal cancers get the most funding, not fighting sexism with sexism.",
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"body": "\r\nProstate cancer is an interesting disease. About 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime and prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer. \r\n\r\nHowever, unlike breast cancer for women, which affects women in their prime years, prostate cancer is almost always dx in someone over 60 and can be a very slow moving disease, so the benefits of early detection are (and have been) arguable.\r\n\r\nAnywho, the ribbon for prostate cancer is Light Blue.",
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Reddit, I just wanna say thanks for making what you write as readable as possible. | I think we all take it for granted that reddit doesn't look like youtube, but it could. I just wanted to give everyone a pat on the back for being so careful with what they post onto this website.
*pat* | 43 | [
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"body": "You kind of have to be careful around here: the grammer nazi's will destroy you if your not.\n\nTear it up, grammar secret police. Tear it up.",
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"body": "˙sʇuǝɯɯoɔ lɐıʇuɐʇsqns ɟo ʞɔɐl ɐ ɥʇıʍ pǝnƃɐld ʎlǝʇɐunʇɹoɟun sı 'ɐıpǝɯ ɹoɟ ǝɔɹnos ʇɐǝɹƃ ɐ ʇıǝqlɐ 'ǝqnʇnoʎ ˙spɹoʍ puıʞ ǝɥʇ ɹoɟ noʎ ʞuɐɥʇ",
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"body": "I was kind of impressed that the \"I cheated on my girlfriend with her hot sister\" thread didn't have a single knee jerk \"omg you're a terrible human being how could you do such a thing!\" post. Everyone got the joke and played along. ",
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What are your thoughts on a one world system of government? | I'm not quite sure what to make of it, I want to get opinions of what you people think of the idea.
EDIT: Great diversity of answers so far. Thanks, guys. | 3 | [
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"body": "It's all a question of who would run it. The fact is, there's no \"competition\" between governments, as far as any given citizen is concerned, so that argument is completely moot. It's more a question of how you would elect and run such a large government. \n\nThe only real possibility, shy of Asimovian robot overlords, would be an advanced confederation with a single authority at the highest level... \n\nIn practice, I don't think that would look too different from what we already have (the authority on top would have little control over powerful states, much like the federal government of the USA would have trouble pushing California or New York around, and frequently had to give in to their interests).",
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Looking to Improve Drawing/Sketching Skills - Any Advice? | Drawing has always been something I've wanted to do more of but never made the time for. I've got a *bit* of skill and enjoy sketching a lot. I'm trying to draw at least one object/theme per day to get me back into the swing of things. Does anyone recommend any books/websites/tips to help me develop this skill a bit more?
I'm very into line-drawing and sketching whatever is around. My imagination never seems to be able to work out enough details to come up with something good to draw. I'm looking to get into acrylic painting eventually as well once I've got the basics down.
Edit: I'm confused as to why this question would be voted down. Any ideas? | 32 | [
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"body": "Drawing every day is a good start, try this:\nhttp://www.posemaniacs.com/?pagename=thirtysecond \nNothing beats drawing from life though, so look up and see if there's a life drawing class/group around you. If you live in a city this should be easy enough, just google around or check out meetup.com. \n \nAlso \"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain\" by Betty Edwards turned drawing around for me. ",
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"body": "life drawing.\n\nthat's the best way to improve. lots of life drawing. doesn't have to be figure models, though those help and you can usually find cheap night classes for that. you can draw all sorts of things: still lifes, piles of clothing, etc. all of which will improve your ability to draw.",
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"body": ">Drawing every day is a good start\n\nQ: What is the difference between a person who is crappy at drawing and a person who is awesome at drawing?\n\nA: about crappy 5000 drawings\n\nDraw. Draw. Draw. \n\nI truly believe that we all have around 3000 crappy drawings in us, some gifted folks might only have 2000. Don't worry if your first drawings aren't precious masterpieces. Once you get those crappy drawings out of your system, you can start kicking some ass!",
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"body": "First, your question is being voted down because this is Reddit. No one escapes downvotes, no matter how good their posts.\n\nSecond: My drawing advice to everyone is to buy (or get free) a LOT of cheap paper and draw with total abandon. I know this goes against other advice you've gotten, and people will tell you that you should use archival paper for everything, but this will stifle you, as money will always be an issue.\n\nI took home a few boxes of obsolete letterheads from my office several years ago. Our letterheads are printed on plain white paper. I drew and drew with no concern for how much paper I was wasting, since it was all slated for the landfill before I rescued it anyway. This sheer quantity of drawing significantly raised the quality of my work.\n\nChris Saper wrote in her book about an art school that did an experiment. At the beginning of the semester they gave two different assignments to two different classes. One class was told they would be graded on the sheer volume of drawings they produced, regardless of quality. The other group was told they would be graded on the strength of a single drawing, and they could spend all semester on that one drawing if they wanted.\n\nIn the end, the Volume group's work was superior to the Quality group's work. \n\nProduce endless drawings, and either keep them or throw them in the trash. It's up to you.\n\nExpect real quality to come after a few years of doing this.",
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"body": "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:\n\nExcellent book, it goes in depth about how our brains look when we look at things, and how to process that information into drawings. Its really basic, and it assumes you've never drawn a thing before. I used this book in highschool, and it really helped teach me how to draw. A++ will recommend again.\n\nThe Natural Way to Draw:\n\nThis book has exercises and a schedule to follow. Its broken down into three hour increments. Honestly, I never finished it, but if I did, I would be a badass at drawing. The same thing applies to you. This book talks about how the only way to learn something is to do the hell out of it.\nB- Its good, but its really really rigorous.\n\nThe most important thing, in my opinion, is to keep a sketchbook and work in it everyday, no matter what. Even if its just for 30min before you go to sleep. Drawing is like running, when you quit doing it you get worse at it.",
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"body": "Has anyone used/heard anything about [How to Draw What You See](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/How-to-Draw-What-You-See/Rudy-De-Reyna/e/9780823023752/?pwb=1&) or [How to Draw Anything](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/How-to-Draw-Anything/Mark-Linley/e/9781567315370/?pwb=1&)? \n\nBecause it was suggested several times I think I'm going to get *Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain* and the workbook. Amazon suggested this as well when I searched for the other book. ",
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"body": "My advice is to draw. That's it. Draw all the time. Carry a sketch pad with you and when you have a flat surface and a moment begin sketching. Sketch the things around you (people, bushes, your hands, landscape, etc). Sketch from your mind. Doodle. The more you do it, the better you will likely become. \n\nYou're likely being downvoted by bots or bastards. ",
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"body": "along with \"Drawing on the right side of the brain\" the Andrew Loomis books are great. You can get theme here http://alexhays.com/loomis/",
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Anyone have any good ideas for a children's book? | I have to write a children's book for a class, but I am blanking on a storyline. Any ideas would be very appreciated. | 4 | [
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"body": "The Boy Who Ate Rechargeable Energizer Batteries\n\nWhere The Guidos Are\n\nThe Day Daddy Found My Special Sock\n\nGoodnight New Moon",
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"body": "\"We open on a young tomato. \r\n\r\nHe's had some tough times down at the farm \r\n\r\nWith, you know, a rabbit, and... \"",
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Jeopardy Contestant from 2005 | I saw an IAmA request for a Jeopardy contestant. I was on the show in 2005 - tried out in 2004, taped and aired in 2005. If you have any questions on the process or the show, let me know! | 14 | [
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"body": "What was the screening process like?\n\nDid you win? If not, did you come in dead last?\n\nDid they have to do re-takes or anything just strange?\n\nWhen the host asks the general 1 or 2 questions about what you do, is that all already scripted ahead of time?\n\nWhat is it like using that light pen for the written portion?",
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"body": "It seems getting the timing right for buzzing in is very important.\nDo they give you tips on how to do that?\nDo they give you tips on strategy with regards to the amount of your wager in final jeopardy?",
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Advice for Grad School Interviews? | Hey 2Xers,
I just graduated from college, and now I'm on to something even scarier: applying to grad school! Specifically, I’m applying to programs for non-nurses with bachelor’s degrees who want to become advanced practice nurses, in case that makes any difference.
Anyway, I have an interview coming up two weeks from today and I’m super nervous. I’ve had a couple of job interviews in the past, but they were all fairly casual. What do I wear? I don’t need to run out and buy a suit, do I? Does it really matter what I wear (as long as it’s not jeans or something)? What else do I need to be prepared for? Should I bring a copy of my resume with me?
You all are always so helpful. Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. :)
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"body": "I would absolutely wear a suit. This is an interview to decide at a minimum the next several years of your life to say nothing of the expense. A suit impresses upon the interviewer that your are serious about your selection. If you have doubts, call the university and ask.\n\nA very nice suit can be had for under $20 at Goodwill or the Salvation Army. Keep the color something dark and conservative. This is the equivalent of a job interview. Makeup should be worn, but minimal and natural. No bright blue eyeshadow or shocking pink nail polish. Closed toe pumps with heel no higher than 2.5 inches should be fine. Plain stockings, no patterns in a nude or suntan is fine. Strappy sandals or peeking toes are out. You are applying to a nursing program which is likely to be fairly conservative. This isn't the time to emphasize your lip ring, tattoos or loud makeup.\n\nI would speak with your advisor at the school you just graduated from about possible questions from this particular school if it feeds into this program regularly, but I would at a minimum have your personal and professional elevator speeches memorized, why you want to pursue this degree at this school and what you can contribute.\n\nYou should also bring copies of everything that was included in your application packet. You need your transcripts, GRE score, references, etc. When you call about the dress, find out the schedule. Sometimes these can last all day. How is the interview conducted? Is it individual or a panel? Who is interviewing you? Do some research on them. Know the program and have some questions ready for them. \n\nYou want to give the impression you are responsible, you will contribute to their university, you won't embarrass them when you graduate and you are certainly the person the want. Why would they need to interview other applicants when they've found the perfect student in you.\n\nFinally google yourself. What comes up? If party photos from the graduation party appear, ask that they be removed or at a minimum you be untagged. Is your facebook profile set to the most private? Is thee anything out there you wouldn't want your Grandmother to see? If so, try to get it removed.\n\nHere are some sites with some potential questions:\nhttp://gradschool.about.com/od/interviews/a/intquest.htm\nhttp://www.uwgb.edu/careers/interview_questions_grad.htm\nhttp://www4.samford.edu/groups/cardev/medquestions.html\n\nThe last one is specifically geared for medical-oriented grad students.\n\nI'm not familiar with this degree (advanced practice nursing). Is it like a nurse practitioner? Good luck and let us know how the interview went.\n",
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"body": "Treat it like a job interview. Suit might be unnecessary, but a very nice blouse with a business jacket would be appropriate. Always bring a copy of your CV with you, yes. Be prepared to talk about yourself at length, consider things like recent community service/involvement that could boost you above the other girl you met in the hall. Always focus on the positive, smile lots (but don't be neurotic about it), sit like a lady, et cetera.\n\nThe interviews go very smoothly, they're not there to grill you to death, just to find out who you are once you're not a piece of paper/application, ya know? Regardless, you want to DAZZLE them with how mature and ready you are for this experience blah blah blah. Best of luck!",
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Hey I am looking to buy a PS3, mostly as a media server. Can someone help me out? I have a few questions | Ok, so I do most of my tv watching via the internet. I usually get .divx files for tv shows and .mkv and .avi for movies (independent free ones, of course) These are on my computer.
How is the PS3 with streaming 720p video? I am assuming large file sizes means wi-fi (vs ethernet cable) is not possible?
Whats the deal with Netflix, Hulu, & Youtube?
Any good soft-mods that enable enhanced media capabilities?
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"body": ">Ok, so I do most of my tv watching via the internet. I usually get .divx files for tv shows and .mkv and .avi for movies (independent free ones, of course) These are on my computer.\n\nDIVX and AVI will be streamable with any media server software. MKVs will need a media server capable of transcoding (ie PS3 Media Server from the sidebar).\n\n>How is the PS3 with streaming 720p video? I am assuming large file sizes means wi-fi (vs ethernet cable) is not possible?\n\nIn my experience a wired connection is your best bet. You might be able to get it to stream wirelessly, but the increased bandwidth will make things much easier in terms of lag and ability to quickly generate thumbnails (the PS3 has an awesome navigation mode where it generates thumbnails every 15 seconds/30 seconds/1 minute/etc and puts them in a line for you to browse through like FF/RWD on steroids).\n\nOr you could go with something like MKV2VOB.\nhttp://www.mkv2vob.com/showthread.php?tid=1\n\n>Whats the deal with Netflix, Hulu, & Youtube?\n\nNot in the US so no comment on the first two, but YouTube is pretty much native - set top style interface and decent navigation. Might want a keyboard if you're going to use it a lot since typing with the gamepad can be a pain in the ass.\n\n>Any good soft-mods that enable enhanced media capabilities?\n\nNot too sure what you mean here - not a lot you can play with other than PlayTV I suppose.",
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"body": "PlayOn is great. I use it to stream Hulu, and rented/purchased movies from Amazon.com and they look pretty good. I used to use it for Netflix as well but now Netflix will send you a DVD to link directly to their site with works much better.",
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Help with German to English translation. Story included. | So I'm in Germany for break. After a few bottles of helles, I was good for the night. On my way back on the S-Bahn, I sat across from a cute girl. With the help of the alcohol, I proceeded to flirt with her in my best german. Unfortunately, she claimed to only speak a little English. I gathered that she had a boyfriend but she gave me her number anyway, and said she'd invite me to a club with her girlfriends tonight. Today I get the following text:
>hey, sry das mit heute abend wird nix, mein freund verbietet es mir aber melde dich sobald du wieder in deutschland bist. kiss [name of girl]
So here's my understanding of it, please tell me if I understand the gist of it:
>hey, sorry but tonight isn't going to happen, my boyfriend is forbidding it, but let me know as soon as you're back in Germany?
The last phrase is what's confusing me the most. Doesn't "melden sich" mean "to raise a hand"? Any help would be appreciated. | 9 | [
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"body": "Your translation is correct.\n\n\"sich bei jmd melden\" means simply \"contact sb\". In school, it means \"raising hands\" and dealing with the administration it can mean \"register\".\n\nShe´s looking forward to a text from you.\n\nI don't see any subtext. She wants to hear from you but decided not to meat you (whether this has to do with the b/f or not..)",
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Questions about GOMAD | Hey, Fitness Subreddit! I'm a regular reddit user, but I'm using a throwaway account here to make my anonymity even more anonymous.
I'm 19, 6'2", 135 pounds. Obviously I'm not an athlete. I didn't try to go to a gym until this past semester at school, when I had a personal trainer evaluate me and design a workout for me. The workout is good for a full-body workout, in my opinion. It's simple, but I think it works, and I know I've gotten a little stronger because of it. However, one goal of mine with this weightlifting has been to gain weight, and that hasn't happened. Generally I find it very difficult to overeat, but even when I did manage to overeat regularly, nothing really happened with my weight, I don't know if I could overeat much more than I do.
So, in my quest to find ways of gaining weight, I came across the GOMAD diet. It seems to be effective from what I've read about it, but I have a few concerns:
1) I know that I would be on GOMAD only for a few weeks tops most likely, but I'm concerned about the high fat content, especially the saturated fat, of whole milk. Is this something I should worry about?
2) It seems like much of what I've read about GOMAD links it with the 5x5 workout from Stronglifts, I believe. Is GOMAD recommended for use only with this workout, or would I be able to use it with the one given to me by the personal trainer?
3) I'm a thin guy, and I think it's stereotypical for a thin guy to be afraid of getting fat. I know that would happen with GOMAD, but please reassure me: once I come off GOMAD, I'll be able to drop the fat fairly easily, right?
Thanks very much for your help, guys! | 9 | [
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"body": "For someone with as little mass as you, the fat content is going to give you a few extra needed calories - go whole milk for as long as it takes you to gain what you need to. Don't worry about the saturated fat; don't worry about the fat content in general. It's not going to make a difference in your health in the long-term and the fat won't be translated to fat directly around your waistline.\n\n\nYou're pretty underweight, so if your lifts are heavy and you're doing it regularly (i.e. three times a week), fat gain will be very minimal. At the beginning, you can even aim to gain two/three pounds a week and then cutting back as you deem necessary. Muscle usually grows about half a pound/one pound a week in perfect conditions, but as a beginner, your body can usually handle a lot more. Make sure your workouts are intense as hell.\n\n\nEven if you do gain a little bit of fat, your whole body will (hopefully) be growing in proportion, so it's not going to make you look any worse. Worry about bulking now - make sure you're getting in your calories and moving the scale hand weekly - and then worry about cutting (fat) later. Cutting with muscle is incredibly easy.\n\n\nGood luck!",
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I've got friends down under, what should I include that is *uniquely* American in their care package??? | Some of my buddies are down in Melbourne Australia, and I'm sending them a care package. All I can think of sending them is peanut butter since it is typically American. Any other thoughts/suggestions that would make them feel a little at home? We are all from the pacific northwest and they are both architects. Just to give you some familiarity.... | 26 | [
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"body": "Go to the source: A flea market. Say what you will about rednecks, they are patriotic.\n\nA civil war Rebel Flag blanket to hang on the wall. You can get these at any flea market. \n\nAn American Football. A real leather one. \n\nChili dogs. They probably have hot dogs, but send them a can of Wolf brand chili to put on it. \n\nBBQ Sauce (Head Country brand tastes most Texas/Midwest)\n\nTaco Bell hot sauce packets (Mild, medium, spicy) This is no more Mexican than Pizza is Italian.\n\nAssorted Little Debbie snack cakes (Zebra Cakes, Star Crunch, etc)\n\nAn actual wool, fitted baseball cap. \n\nBigfoot monster truck stuff.\n\nWWF/WWE wrestling stuff\n\nMardiGras beads\n\nEskimoJoe's T-shirt (or RonJon Surfshop, FuddRuckers, whatever local stuff)\n\nNFL/NHL/NBA gear.\n\nAmerican Indian stuff (DreamCatchers/Peace Pipe/moccasins,Turquoise, Woven Blanket etc)\n\nAnything with Southwest style (Navajo Woven patterns, etc)\n\nA John Wayne Zippo lighter would be cool.\n\nBubble Gum (Hubba-bubba, Big League Chew)\n\nNerf Football/Toys\n\nBig bag of salted Sunflower seeds.\n\nBeef Jerky/Venison Jerky\n\nFig newtons\n\nDoritos/Cheetos\n\nHoney Nut Cheerios\n\nPeanut Brittle\n\nPecans\n\nReal Cracker Jacks in the box with the prize.\n\nFortune Cookies (These are American, not Chinese)\n\nReal Tostitos corn chips and Nacho cheese.\n\nCotton Candy\n\nSaltwater Taffy\n\nCoonskin Cap\n\nGatorade\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Muffins; an Aussie friend on mine once said \"Only you fat Americans could find a way to eat cake for breakfast!\"",
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"body": "A subprime mortgage on a McManson 50 miles from the nearest slavewage employement provider who isnt hiring anyway, a Visa card with a 35% APR and some food stamps. ",
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"body": "peanut butter? pfft nah we got tons of that\n\nwhat about twinkies or poptarts? do they require refrigeration or something? They are the two things I would like to try that we don't typically have here.",
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"body": "I'm a US citizen who has lived in Australia for two years. Here are a few items they can't get there (at least, not easily): \nGrape Jelly \nNilla Wafers \nRecces Peanut Butter cups (or pretty much any chocolate/peanut butter combination) \nCanned Pumpkin \nSome brownie mixes\nKool Aid (might be mistaken on this one) \nGoldfishes \n... \nOk, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.\n\n\n",
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Is there a website where people sell secondhand designer clothes? | I'm looking to buy an American Apparel (not sure if that's 'designer' or not) jacket for winter but I'm kinda broke and I don't want to pay $180. It's their peacoat. I tried ebay and craigslist with little result. There have been a few listed on ebay in the past according to their completed listings but not in a month or so. | 9 | [
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"body": "The only cheap place I know to buy AA stuff is ebay. Even then, it's mostly just their bulk items (stuff which could be screen printed on), not things like jackets. You could also check out the market at Superfuture, or the style forum market area. \n\nThat being said, have you considered other brands of peacoat? I know the other poster's suggestion got downvoted, but you should take a look at sterlingwear pea coats, which are often available on ebay for cheap, fit well, and are made in the US. Also, check ebay for Ted Baker peacoats, I think they make a single breasted coat similar to the AA one...\n\nBest luck.",
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"body": "I think there is a Buffalo Exchange in New York. I urge you to check it out. Its the best nationwide clothing resale shop that I have been to.",
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I am on Reddit during work for the first time ever!!! | I work as a seamstress, so there is zero chance that I can get near a computer on a normal day. Today is not a normal day. My boss isn't coming in, I'm alone in the shop, and I have all day to get a few hours of work done. Therefore, I reddit ^_^
That being said I feel a little bit dirty now because of said redditing, so I think I'm going to go back to putting that wedding dress together =p
EDIT: done at 4:35, and going home to browse reddit... | 4 | [
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"body": "i would *rather* be busy than lurking reddit all day, but this is unfortunately not the case. i end up running into the 'there is nothing here' red text frequently. time to mention i want a transfer to another department...",
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What would be a good coding application/environment for windows? | I use a mac at work and am aware of some of the fantastic text editors that exist, but am unaware of anything that does the equivalent on a windows platform. Does anyone have any good suggestions for a good coding application that would work well with rails?
(Originally I posted this in /r/rails since that's what I'll be using, but this sub-reddit a bit larger and might have some great ideas as well - thanks!)
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"body": "I'm not sure why everyone always suggests Notepad++. I've tried to use it a few times, and it always felt like a half-finished editor every time. Most of its functions seem poorly-implemented compared to the other editors I've used.\n\nPersonally, I use gvim, which runs on all platforms. Here's a recent article with some info about setting it up for Rails development, with lots more useful stuff in the comments: [VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors](http://www.adamlowe.me/2009/12/vim-destroys-all-other-rails-editors.html) - note that he suggests not using it on windows (because rails dev is generally worse on windows), but gvim will work fine, you can download it here: http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc\n\nvim does have a pretty wall-like learning \"curve\" though, so if you don't want to deal with that, here's some other good editors that I know of, all of which I would consider superior to Notepad++:\n\n* [Komodo Edit](http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/)\n* [Aptana RadRails](http://www.radrails.org/)\n* [UltraEdit](http://www.ultraedit.com/) (not free, but not expensive as editors go)",
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"body": "Notepad++ is pretty much the best, free, equivillent to textmate for the Mac.\n\nThere is also the e-editor which is a non-free \"port\" of textmate\n\nFinally there is the Ruby in Steel, Visual Studio addon which includes lots of great features such as intellisense, debugging and a hefty price tag",
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"body": "If you're used to TextMate on OS X, try [E Text Editor](http://www.e-texteditor.com/) for Windows.\n\nIt's even compatible with TextMate bundles.",
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[4] penny in grinder? | I have a standard four piece grinder. I recently went on a trip with a bunch of friends, and saw that my friend had a grinder similar to mine. He had a penny in the net (the third piece) of the grinder. I came home and smoked with my friend later. As I was leaving, I saw that he had also left a penny in my grinder.
What gives? The best answer I got was that it helps make more kief. That makes no sense to me. Can someone explain why and how this works? | 20 | [
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"body": "Just to knock keif that would get stuck in the net down. I don't do it because in the long run it wears down that net/screen. Also, I don't want no nasty ass penny touching my powered gold. ",
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"body": "Every time a penny passes through my hands, I stick it up my ass...and then spend it. Why does this give me an edge you ask? It's a long term strategy. I've been doing this for eleven years now. Every day for the past eleven years I've stuffed thirty dollars in pennies up my ass. I use them for everything - cab rides, movie theaters, groceries. What does that accomplish you might ask? That's a lot of ass pennies I've got out there my friend. And here's where the magic comes in. When I meet with someone who intimidates me, who puts me on edge...a real \"hardass,\" I just think to myself they've probably handled one of my ass pennies. In fact, they probably have one in their grinder or pocket right then. That just seems to sort of give me the upper hand. I mean, hey, I haven't touched anything that's been in THEIR ass.\n\nWhat? Do you think you're better than me? You didn't say it huh? You didn't have to, it's written all over your face. Do you have any change in your pocket or in your grinder? Take it out and take a good look at it. Oh my! You've got a penny in there don't you? I've been sticking thirty dollars in pennies up my ass for the past eleven years. That's three thousand pennies a day, twenty-one thousand pennies a week, one million ninety-two thousand pennies a year. To date, that's twelve million twelve thousand pennies - eight times the population of Nebraska. That penny was in my ASS.\n\nYou think you're better than me? You're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies every day. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck, you throw my ass pennies into fountains and make wishes on them, you put my ass pennies in your grinder to help collect more kief, you give my ass pennies to your little daughter to buy gumballs with. You handle my ass pennies every day. ALL OF YOU!!! YOU ALL HANDLE MY ASS PENNIES!!!!!!!\n\nYou hear me? Your PENNIES have been in MY ASS.\n\n\n[If you have no idea what I'm talking about, PLEASE watch this. I've been waiting forever to use this.](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f7112b01fb/ass-pennies-from-greatest-comedy-sketches)",
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"body": "My grinder came with a little plastic triangle that serves the same function (whatever that may be), but also works as a kief scraper.",
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"body": "It's for collecting more kief. Having a relatively heavy small object (such as a coin) in the chamber and shaking your grinder lightly will agitate the weed and cause more crystal to fall through the screen. It also knocks kief that's stuck in the screen into your crystal catcher. The upside of this is that you have more kief; the downside is that your weed will have less crystal and therefore less THC.",
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"body": "Use a dime, it's much better and smaller than a penny. It also doesn't have that dirty, smelly penny smell... ",
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Have you ever had sex with someone whose name you still do not know? | This is perhaps my most shameful moment:
I was at a small music festival in a rural area and had been drinking heavily, as one often does at such an event. Up front, I was raucously dancing away in the packed crowd and a blonde, somewhat hefty woman started grinding with me. This was not typical dance for the zydeco music we were listening to, but I went with it. Before I knew it, she had reached back and had grabbed hold of my cock, which had become hard from all the grinding. She looked back over her shoulder, my cock in her hand, and kissed me.
She basically led me away from the crowd by my cock and took me towards the woods where everyone was camped. She pushed me just off a path, whipped down my shorts and started sucking me off right there. People were passing by literally ten feet from us, but I was so drunk I didn't care. I also didn't care that this was not the youngest or most attractive woman I'd ever seen.
After the blowjob stopped short, we both desperately wanted to fuck. My tent was a no-go because my friends and younger sister were at our campground. I couldn't take this woman back and fuck her amidst them. Then I got an idea. My sister had driven my mom's van to the festival and I had keys. Great, we rushed out of the festival into the large field which served as a parking lot. I took her into the back of our van and had my way with her.
I don't remember much about the sex, but what will stick with me always (besides the awful smell of it) is that she asked me afterwords how old I was. I told her I was twenty-two, to which she replied, "I got a kid that's older than you." I was repulsed and just wanted out of the situation. It was one of those moments that as soon as the sperm leaves your body your entire attitude changes. What had previously filled me with desire now utterly disgusted me. I had to get out of there.
We left the van and she wanted to hold my hand and be all cutesy with me. The only thought racing through my brain was how I would separate myself from her. She had clamped onto my hand so tightly I thought I'd never get away. Then fortune struck.
We reached the gate to enter the festival from the parking lot. I held out my arm to show off my green wrist band. The guy nodded me in and then I heard him ask my new friend to show hers. I heard those fortuitous words, "That ain't no wrist band!" She had tied a thick piece of grass around her wrist to sneak her way in. I faintly remember her frantically telling me where to find her friends, but all I saw in front of me was daylight. I got through that gate and ran, not looking back until I had reached the relative safety of my tent.
The STD tests came back negative and I never saw her again, not that I'd recognize her if I did. I also realized later that we had never even exchanged names. I still get a sick feeling in my stomach every time I think about it. | 124 | [
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"body": "Yeah I did.\n\nShe realized this when we woke up the morning after, and baited me to admit that I couldn't remember her name. She then proceeded to laugh at me casually and started licking my fingers. \"Oh, you silly boy\", she said.\n\nShe then bit off a portion of my left thumb, around the middle of the fingernail, and told me I was an asshole and to get the fuck out.\n\nthankfully, today it doesn't look very bad, just looks like I have stumpy fingers, you won't notice anything unless you compare the left and right together. But the worst thing is: I never remembered her name...\n\n(she had left the hotel room when I got back from the hospital... well at least I smacked her across the face before I left, lol . Oh, and the sex was good :)",
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"body": "Giant houseparty in the hometown. \n\nI and a four friends had been running parties out of this house all year, with fair chunk of the city's arts/punk/scene set as our mainstay. By the end of the year, I was familiar with having folks knowing me and not knowing fuck-all who they are.\n\nOf the four of us running things, I was the only one who didn't live there, and the only one not in any sort of committed relationship. I got lots of attention from the various women (and some blokes) who came to the house, but never really let it go particularly far 'cause I didn't have a room to take them to. I'd done fine with picking up our attendees outside of our parties, so wasn't feeling deprived enough to bother picking someone up and shagging in the corner or something apallingly tasteless like that. Didn't stop others, but I wanted to have *some* decorum. \n\nThis party, though... This was different. I was leaving town in a week, and this was the last blowout before I left and the other three moved out. \n\nI started the night with some pregame \"goodbye sex\" with a girl that I'd been seeing all summer, and from there on in I was completely unencumbered. I made the most of it, kissed all the pretty girls, imbibed plenty, and generally caused mayhem all night. As the evening was winding down, I get pulled off to one side by this sort of cute Punk-As-Fuck gal who I'd been peripherally aware of all summer. She pinned me to the wall and gave me one helluva kiss, then explained her situation. She figured I was kind of cute, but her friend had a giant crush on me. Moreso, she wanted to sleep with her friend, but her friend still claimed she was straight. Punk-As-Fuck figures if she gets me and her Enamoured Friend into bed, she can just jump in too and still get to sleep with Enamoured Friend. Everyone wins, she says. \n\nNo way in hell I can turn down *that* offer, so I go for it. Punk-As-Fuck lives upstairs from where we threw the party, and the Enamoured Friend was staying with her. \n\nWe get into bed, I'm getting great amounts of attention, but as the night wears on, the experience started to wear a little thin. Enamoured Friend was very much in love with me, but only as an idea. In bed, she wanted a penis involved so she could claim she was straight, but mostly just wanted to shag Punk-As-Fuck. Punk-As-Fuck, at least, had been honest about how she was putting me in the bed to get to sleep with Enamoured Friend. She still wanted me to fuck her, though. No getting out of that part. \n\nSo, I was the +1 in a threesome and was pretty much used by two women as an excuse for them to shag each other. Every time I tell the story, it *sounds* like it should have been incredible. Instead, it was a lot of work for relatively little payoff save Enamoured Friend confessing her love for me the morning after. And then confessing her love for Punk-As-Fuck. And then breaking down in tears beacuse \"it's all so confusing...!\". ...So I helped myself to cereal and coffee and left. \n\nAnd I still have no clue as to either of their names. ",
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"body": "i'm a girl and went traveling solo in europe for 3 months. there are a couple of names (and faces!) i don't remember. best 3 months of my life...",
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"body": "My friends' band was playing at a near-ish college, so I was planning on crashing at the hosting friends' frat house. Spend a while at the after-party trying to get into this one girl's pants, goes nowhere, retire and wander back to the frat where I'm expecting to crash. \r\n\r\nEnd up meeting a girl on the front steps, I offer to 'walk her home', which ended up being incredibly unnecessary, as the college was so small her sorority house was down the street. I could have thrown a football and hit her front porch. \r\n\r\nAaanyway.... the night half was kind of a blur, but I do remember after the morning session (thankfully not hung over) of her riding my face and almost breaking my nose we're lying in bed and I say \"I'm John\". \r\n\r\n\"I'm Lisa\"\r\n\r\n...\"Nice to meet you\"\r\n\r\nGood times. And, to top it all off, out of everyone who made the trip up to see the show, I was the only one who got laid *and* the only one who got to sleep in a bed rather than on some frat couch. ",
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"body": "Yes, many times over... \r\n\r\nOne instance, I met an older lady at a club in tahoe. We exchanged emails, and emailed back and forth for a while. Thing is, I didn't remember her name. So while during sex, she asked me to say her name... I didn't know it. I ended up saying her email address. Pretty awkward after that. But atleast we still finished the deed.\r\n\r\nShe ended up telling me her name, and yes I have forgotten it.",
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"body": "> The STD tests came back negative\n\nBut the pregnancy test came back positive. We should meet. Our son needs his father.\n",
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"body": "From my observations, when (if) people reach a stage in their lives at which they start to \"settle down,\" all such incidents are referred back to as \"youthful indiscretions\" and nothing more needs to be said to excuse them. Disclaimer: Anything resulting in death, dismemberment, or imprisonment generally can **not** be written off as youthful indiscretion, not even if you start wearing sensible shoes and going to bed at 10 PM every night.",
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"body": "I used to be on the periphery of a social group of hard-partying hardcore queer activists; I've pulled (and let myself be pulled by) my fair share of riot-grrl types into bathrooms, side rooms, dark corners, kitchens, etc. without much preamble. \n\nThat was a while ago, though. These days I try to at least get a first name before we have drunk, angry, mediocre sex up against a sink.",
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"body": "This really large, saggy girl who picked me up from my dorm, downed a fifth of vodka before going to the bedroom, and lay there sweating for a minute before asking me if I was done yet.\n\nI think I knew her name back then. But seven years later, she's written down in my \"ladies I've slept with\" list as \"Yaaaaggghhhh\".",
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"body": "I can proudly attest that I have never known the names of at least 4 sexual partners. see also, 'college'\n\nbut! i can also guarantee that at least 3 of my sexual partners never knew MY name... because i gave them a fake one... with a great backstory... and corroborating business card.\n\nonly way for a schlep like me to sleep high class and it has worked everytime, 99% of the time.\n\nI often suspect that more people do this than will admit to it. I've very rarely confessed to such business, but at one such occasion a WOMAN responded that she used to pull this move all the time. \n\nIt's complicated, exciting, a thrill to execute, and generally under pretenses of a one-night stand anyway, so no one gets hurt.",
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"body": "Yes. his number is saved in my phone as \"Guy\"\n\nI don't even know why I got his number, but I'm glad I did because I left a shoe at his place. We lived in the same apartment complex so I texted him and asked him to drop it off at mine. He did!\n\nedit: I also have no idea what this guy looks like. It was dark, I was drunk. ",
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"body": "> It was one of those moments that as soon as the sperm leaves your body your entire attitude changes\n\nBoy have I ever been there.",
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"body": "One night working as a bouncer at a university town pub a girl came to the front door and I asked her for her ID. She let out a shocked gasp and asked me seriously if I didn't remember her. After pausing a minute I remembered that I had hooked up with her two years ago when I was her boss at another bar. I laughed and said sorry just not paying attention have a good night. She asked me if i remembered her name to all I responded with was \"ID please\"",
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"body": "i had a similar experience in college. i had recently broken up with a long term girlfriend, and was medicating myself heavily at the only bar in town. about an hour before the bar closed, i was thoroughly hammered and had lost all inhibitions. \n\na girl from one of my classes, who i had never spoken to, was standing right behind me with her back to mine. i had always thought she was cute. so i turned to my buddy and said, \"watch this.\" keeping my back to hers, i proceeded to slap her on the ass. but instead of quickly removing my hand, i left it there... just cupping her ass cheek. i fully expected to get a slap to the face or some stern instructions to remove my hand, but none came.\n\ni was obviously shocked and overjoyed by this, and spent the next 5 minutes repeatedly saying to my buddy, loud enough for her to hear, \"IT'S STILL THERE!!! SHE HASN'T MOVED MY HAND FROM HER ASS YET! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL GRABBING HER ASS!!\" this must have encouraged her, as suddenly, and without warning, she turned around and started making out with me. my friend leaves us for a moment to go buy another round, only to return to find the two of us gone.\n\nflash to the next morning. i wake up in an unknown room, completely naked, laying next to the same girl, completely naked. as i lay there, i start replaying what lead to this. bits and pieces of my night's adventure jump in to my memory: the bar, grabbing her ass, some fuzzy memories of her being a good lay. but for the life of me, i can't remember her name.\n\nsoon she wakes up, and we have another go. still no name in my head though. she then cuddles with me and proceeds to tell me that she's had a crush on me for a few years. i start having an internal panic attack at this point, and (try to) calmly ask her for a ride home.\n\ni then spent the next two weeks talking to her only at class, mainly praying that the professor would take attendance vocally so i could learn her name. awkward. ",
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"body": "I have had sex with many men I never knew their names, which is a shame because I'd like to hook-up again with that cute black guy who fucked me like a god 3 weeks ago… In cruising parks or bathouses, we will have complete orgies without a single word being uttered.\r\n\r\nFunniest one was in a park, late at night. All this guy did was run around with a bottle of lube, hang around couples and whenever anyone turned around to be fucked, without being asked to, he would dab generous amounts of lube on the dick and asses involved!\r\n\r\nHeck, for one week, I had a latino in my house and we fucked each other all the time and we did not speak each other’s language, but that did not prevent us from having sex all the time...",
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"body": "Yeah. At a party in the bush. Fucking hammered. All I remember was, getting there, seeing this pretty brunette eyeing me. I can remember smoking the first j of the night, having a couple beers. Then it gets fuzzy and confusing. I remember looking over to her direction and seeing that she was already looking at me. I went over to sit beside her, then the next thing I remember is furiously making out in a room. Don't remember a ton about the sex, except I woke up in the morning beside her. Oh, and the two condoms I used in my coat pocket, in a Ziploc bag from the night before. O_o",
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"body": "Having been in the swinging lifestyle for years, this has happened to me, my SOs, and my friends, waaaay more often than you would think. When we've all had some social lubricants and share stories, we've come up with an almost universal response: \"Hey, ...you!\". Bloody works, too. Though in the lifestyle the names may not have the same importance as in vanilla life. More often than not the two (or three, or fifteen) parties will have a good laugh about it, then move on to the nekkid. I even had one fabulous woman in Vegas, with whom I had played the year before and couldn't recall her name to save my life, chuckle and say that she didn't want me to write her a letter, she wanted me to fuck her.\n\nThe life, it's no so bad.",
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"body": "I went through a period after my divorce where I would screw anything. Naturally that meant a lot of time trolling AOL (was best ground for finding horny fat chicks at the time). So the below were the anonymous first time meeting screwings where I didn't remember their names:\n\n1. a red headed vet tech that would have been cute except for the mole on her face. she had just broken up with her long time boyfriend. they were living together but he took off with some chick. so anyways, i go over there and sit in her crappy basement apartment at about 1 am. i am a little drunk. i grab her hand while watching tv and put it on my crotch. she goes... no not yet. she wants cigarettes. im like, okay... we go to 7/11 and i buy her cigarettes and a few other things. the list got bigger as we went there. basically i got the feeling she was borderline prostituting herself. we get back to her place and she has a cigarette in front of tv on couch. i do the hand on the crotch thing again. she obliges and proceeds to pull my dick out and suck on it. then she says lets go back to bed room. i proceed to shag the hell out of her. she was by far the wettest girl i ever screwed. it was crazy.... the bed had a huge wet spot on it. i remember passing out then getting up at like 5 am and sneaking out. we chatted online later and she said you dont remember my name... i said... err. i saw her a few months later without realizing it. there was this red headed girl in a grocery store that was staring at me. i was thinking about it on the way home and realized who it was.\n\n2. i had one engineer girl that was a porn fiend come over to my place. she came over and we proceeded to start fucking after watching about 5 minutes of porn. but she started bleeding. so that stopped. then about a month later i was horny as shit and bugged her. she finally let me come over. i went over to her place and there was porn already playing. i ask her to blow me... she gets on her hands and knees and starts blowing me. then she tells me to lay down on couch in particular way so she can watch while blowing. then she mounts me and go grunts her way to an orgasm.\n\n3. way late at night.. like 3 am i am chatting with this red headed lady online. i am kinda drunk and high on pain pills. i say, yeah, i'll come over. she was like i live way north. i say fuck it... i dont have anything to do. so i drive and get lost for like an hour or so. find her place which is out in the middle of the boonies. she says she wont screw me but she'll blow me. so i lay down on couch and she starts blowing me. i am kinda drunk and on pain pills so i dont cum. her daughter walks in on us.... she yells at the kid. im like what the fuck... she puts kid to bed. im about to skip out when she comes in and say so sorry... she starts blowing me in earnest now... then pushes me back on couch and pulls her panties off and mounts me with her nighties hiked up. she rides me like she hadnt fucked in awhile... very wet. i cant remember where i came... it think inside of her. if i remmeber she was one of those grinders that latch onto you. \n\nanyways. those are some of the more crazy ones. strange days those were.",
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"body": "This is how I lost my virginity. Blacked out, some girl pretty much took me on the dance floor, dragged me to her room, did me. I came out of my blackout midway through and was like \"whoa, this is unexpected\". Pretty much ran out the moment it was done, never learned a name but on the upside could give myself a high-five for now contracting any STDs... yaaaaay!",
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"body": "I don't know if this counts since I'm not positive we had sex, but here's my story.\n\nI was at a water ski tournament when I was ~16. We had been drinking heavily (water ski tournaments are essentially drunk fests) at the hotel, and some smoking hot girlsfrom the St Louis team end up in the room some how (turns out they were pretty much the entire HS cheerleading squad). \n\nAnyway we were doing shots and stuff, and next thing I know me and this brunette are walking out of the room to go *somewhere* (still have no idea where we were originally headed) and basically made it 2 steps before we started the furious makout session; and then would do the same every couple steps as we made our way down the hall. \n\nWe made it to the hotel stairs, then I guess decided \"fuck it\" and layed down and continued making out. Pretty soon hands were going places, clothes were coming off, things were getting hot. At this point I'm blackout drunk, but I realized that I had the keys for my parents suburban (who were staying at the hotel also), and we decided to make our way down there. The last thing I remember is putting on just enough clothes (yeah, we both had gotten naked in the stairwell) to make it to one of the hotel's back doors without raising anyone's suspicion. I'm still not entirely clear if we had sex or not, but about 90% sure we did because I know that's why we went down there in the first place.\n\nI saw some of her other teammates at the tournament site the next day, but never saw her again. They said she was a little bit embarrassed as to what had happened as she was generally a more traditional girl. I did however get her friends number and we hooked up at a different tournament.",
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"body": "A few months ago after getting out of a relationship I went to visit some of High School friends. Hooked up w/ a girl every one calls \"The Diesel\". Never have bothered to ask anyone her real name.\nOh, and she got that nickname because for being a big ole girl, she could go for a LONG time, and had a creepy, deep moan. Before anyone asks, rural Kansas pasture parties rock.",
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My boyfriend just admitted that he is asexual, what should I do? | A little background:
We've been together for 6 years. Affection has always been an issue in our relationship. He has never once initiated anything physical, hug, kiss, anything. Whenever I asked him about this he just said that he wasn't a very affectionate person in general but that he did love me and he was very happy with me. About six months ago I decided that I would no longer initiate anything and just leave it up to him. Since then we have not had any physical contact beyond a hug and a kiss hello or goodbye. I recently came upon an article about asexuality and brought it to his attention. He completely identified with it and said that it perfectly described his feelings.
Initially this was a relief. It was out in the open, there was an answer for everything that had been going on, and it seemed like things were going to get better between us. I have tried to research asexuality and have not been able to find any good information (just forums and blogs that haven't really been of any help). I was hoping to be able to get some advice on how to handle the situation, information about asexuality, maybe hear from some people that are asexual or have been in a relationship with someone who was. Please help.
EDIT: Thank you so much for the input. I think that this all made me see that I did make the decision about this a long time ago. I have a lot of thinking to do and a lot of things to talk over with him. Thank you again. | 33 | [
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"body": "I find it odd everyone here is acting as if asexuality is a disease, that it needs to be fixed and/or destroyed.\n\nI know a lesbian couple, in which one of the girls identifies as asexual and has so for years. She just seeks companionship, with very little affection (she even says that kissing makes her feel ill). And, that's all an asexual is - someone who has a very low desire for intimacy (much like how a nympho would be someone who has a very high desire for intimacy).\n\nI always saw sexual orientation and sexual magnitude as polar coordinates - orientation being the direction and the magnitude being between asexual (weak) and nympho (very strong). I view asexuality as part of who this guy is, much like if he identified as being gay or bi. You wouldn't tell a gay guy that he should see a therapist to treat his homo-sexual tendencies, would you?\n\nIs asexuality destroying this guys life? Is he on a self-destructive path? No. So, why try to force treatment on this guy, if he's happy.\n\nIf he has expressed in \"curing\" his asexuality, then, sure, feel free to look into therapy and other treatments. But discuss with him first in how he feels about being asexual.",
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"body": "I have to admit that (once again) I am the odd voice out in one of these threads. As I understand it:\n\nAsexuality is not something you choose to be. In other words, my wife and I might choose to be celibate for a month but that simply isn't on par with what is happening here. That being the case, it is better to think of this as a sexual orientation. There are people (not in anyway \"wrong\" or \"needing help\") that simply do not find sex to be desirable.\n\nI think some confusion arises because we might mistake low sex drive with low need for affection and companionship. Simply not true. It sounds to me as if your boyfriend loves you very much, and there is no reason whatsoever to doubt that, from what I read in your post.\n\nSo no, I do not think he needs \"help\" or needs to change for the very simple reason that he is not in anyway broken. He has no more conscious control over his sexuality than you do of yours or I do of mine.\n\nSo now what? I think in the end, the question is very simple but the answer is very, very difficult. Is sex an important part of what you expect from a relationship? Only you can answer that. But no fair lying to yourself. You both have the right to be happy in who you choose as partners. If you sex is important, then you have to face it now with great sadness, or face it ten years from now, with even greater sadness and a massive dose of regret to go along with it.\n\nWhen This Old Guy was much younger, I dated a girl whose sexual thermometer was set several notches below mine--not asexual but not needing sex all that often either. I loved her then, and I still do, as a friend. She is a very important person in my life. But she is not who I married. And I know that for both of us, we made the right choice. Your choice might be different and just as right. But which ever way you choose, I suspect you know the answer inside already.",
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"body": "My best friend, I believe, is asexual. This may be a good resource for your boyfriend: http://www.asexuality.org/home/\n\nI would say don't worry about it. He loves you. He just isn't a \"sexual\" person. Maybe you should talk to him and make a compromise. Say you crave his touch and try and get him to do it more often.",
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"body": "My last gf identifies as asexual. Because of this and other reasons it got to be a pretty lonely relationship.\n\nHave you ever suggested an open relationship? That should at least scare him into therapy. \n",
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Desktop Window management | Is it possible in Linux to create a constraint like affair for some windows. Like a dock but for applications not their launchers. Think having two desktops on one screen. Pidgin and gkrellm get held to the right whereas songbird is kept in the left
http://imgur.com/OVbFh.png | 5 | [
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"body": "There are any number of tiling window managers that do exactly that. Some popular ones are Awesome and XMonad. I suggest looking at those and see if they fit your needs!",
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"body": "I'm using wmii. It has a very smart shotkeys organization, very flexible and scriptable. \n\nXmonad has problems with java apps. ",
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Omaha Steaks - impossible to find out whether or not they use growth hormones & antibiotics from their website, but at least their customer care is honest. | Dear Friend,
Thank you for your inquiry. At Omaha Steaks, we strive to provide the very best products and we appreciate your concerns.
Omaha Steaks buys the very best beef from cattle producers and
processors in the Midwest. To the extent that these producers prudently use growth hormones in their cattle raising process, our beef MIGHT have come from cattle raised with hormones. According to the FDA and reputable scientific bodies worldwide, the use of hormone growth enhancers is safe.
If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact us via
email or at 1-800-329-6500.
Sincerely,
Julie Davis
Omaha Steaks Customer Care
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"body": "why isn't congress all over this?\n\nthis is blatant cheating and isn't fair for all the other cattle.\n\n/mlb joke",
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Help with cast iron skillet, I have created quite a mess | I received a cast iron skillet for christmas and having a gas stove, was finally excited to be able to have some controllable heat. Unfortunately, I have created a pretty sticky situation (literally and figuratively) while trying to season it. The skillet claimed to be pre-season, but I took that with a grain of salt and decided to start the seasoning process with some bacon. I made a half a pound of bacon and then scrapped the gunk and residue out and wiped it down leaving a smooth film of grease. I allowed the skillet to cool and then added a little bit of canola oil and then baked the skillet at 400F for about an hour. I now have a sticky, tar like substance in the bottom of the skillet that does not want to come out at all. Can someone please give me some good advice on how to clean this mess up and properly season this thing.
Thank You. | 44 | [
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"body": "When you bake the skillet, try baking it upside down in the oven, so any residue can drip out instead of settling. You may end up with a gunky mess in your oven, but its better then a gross pan.",
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"body": "I found an 'antique' cast iron skillet years ago that was in bad shape -- rust AND (unidentifiable) gunk. \n\nI revived it by: \n\n* putting it in the fireplace in a substantial amount of hot coals and leaving it for a few hours\n* rinsing off all the ash and rubbing the soot off with moist paper towels\n* drying it thoroughly by heating it on the stove\n* re-seasoning\n\nAfter the hot coal and rinsing treatment, it looked very similar to a brand-new skillet. I could even read the manufacturer's imprint on the bottom.\n\nedit: bullets",
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"body": "Your mistake was using too much oil. Next time, coat the pan with oil then use a paper towel to wipe away all the excess oil, leaving just a tiny bit. The pan should feel oily to the touch, but there should not be a pool of oil sitting in the pan. Then bake the pan again at around 450F for at least an hour.\n\nEDIT: I've never tried this, but I bet rubbing the pan with a strip of raw bacon would get just the right amount of fat.",
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"body": "From my experience you made two mistakes.\r\n\r\n1) You used too much heat.\r\n\r\nYou often hear \"400F\" but the reality is that you should be at 250-300F.\r\n\r\n2) You used canola oil.\r\n\r\nDon't use a liquid \"vegetable\" oil. They are one of the leading causes of the sticky surface.\r\n\r\nYou actually had it right when you used the bacon for the grease. That is perfect. Don't add any other oil, just save some of the bacon fat, clean the pan with salt and then rub it down with the reserved bacon fat so it is smooth but not excessively greasy. Wipe it down well with a paper towel to get rid of the excess.\r\n\r\nAs others have mentioned on here, you should also place the pan in the oven upside down although done properly this is an unnecessary step.\r\n\r\nI recommend cleaning the skillet with salt (as an abrasive) and starting over.",
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"body": "get rid of it!??!? put it in the freezer! \nwhen its nice and cold, add some whip cream and eat with a spoon.\nSO GOOD",
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"body": "Spray a bunch of carburetor cleaner into the bottom of the pan in a poorly ventilated room of your house; take a wire scrubber and scour the bottom of the pan until the gunk is loose in the pool of carburetor cleaner solution and then toss a lit match into the bottom of the pan. Once the flames subside, your new cast iron pan will be perfectly seasoned.",
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"body": "I have the same issue, but i just take hot water and a metal scrubber to it and it comes out fine. My problem seems to be keeping it seasoned, I have to do this every month or so to keep it it top non-stick shape.",
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"body": "If you don't feel like scrubbing at it and you have a self-cleaning oven, you can always toss the pan into the oven during a cleaning cycle. You'll have to re-season it when it comes out, of course.\n",
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"body": "Baking soda and water should get all the gunk out. When I seasoned my cast iron skillet I used the outdoor grill so it didn't mess up my oven or smoke up the house. Good Luck.",
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"body": "Rule #1) Don't use canola to season your cast iron pan. Corn oil is fine. Clarified butter is fine. Lard is fine. Bacon is fine. Canola.....black gum.",
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Need some advice on promoting a new album release as a new band. | My band has just finished up the last songs on our first album and now we're left wondering what would be the best way to promote it.
We are unsigned and so far our plan is to just look for any radio stations or venues that will have us.
It's kind of a weird place for us, marketing that is. so we're looking for any advice we can get to do it better. | 7 | [
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"body": "Play shows.\n\nYou can get traction online and you *might* be able to get a play or two on radio (and you need to pursue those outlets as well), but for immediate sales, get a CD into the hands of a live crowd. There will be nothing to compare to that.\n",
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Fat wives? Thats bullshit! | I call bullshit on the persistent fat girl/fat wife jokes on reddit. Feel free to link to this whenever you encounter the prejudice.
**Examples on reddit** (don't down vote these, they prove my point ;)
* A post with the title [Marriage causes weight gain in women]( http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/amb6r/marriage_causes_weight_gain_in_women/) followed by comments like “My dad warned me about this...Would I Listen!!!!! “ and “....well that's a shocker.”
* A post with the title [Female toads inflate to avoid sex - in humans we call that 'marriage']( http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/amgcu/female_toads_inflate_to_avoid_sex_in_humans_we/) gets 593 up votes. **[Bullshit call here](http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/amgcu/female_toads_inflate_to_avoid_sex_in_humans_we/c0igcgd)**
* And [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alk5d/who_here_spends_more_time_on_reddit_than_facebook/c0i7ryi) is one of many random comments about hot girls turning in to fat monsters (292 points).
**Rebuttal**
First of all, women are not fatter than men. [According to the National Center for Health Statistics]( http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus08.pdf) (CDC) based on data from 2003 to 2006 of people 20-74 yo 73% of all American males and 61% of American women are overweight (overweight including not equal to obesity).
Add to this that women by their biological construction are supposed to have more body fat than men. [The minimum percent of body fat considered safe for good health is 5 % for males and 12% for females.]( http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/fitnessevalandassessment/a/Body_Fat_Comp.htm)
And that many women have a quite understandable reason for gaining weight at certain points in their lives (pregnancy). [Eating too little during pregnancy can actually cause your children to get fat.]( http://www.nytimes.com/info/obesity/?inline=nyt-classifier)
While it has been shown that marriage for some women is accompanied by weight gain, that is also true for men. In fact, men get fatter from marriage than women do. For example, one study says [newly married women in their 20s gained 24 pounds in five years; newly married men gained 30 pounds.]( http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-10-22-marriage-weight_N.htm) Another study has shown that though men have no biological incentive for it [they also gain weight when the woman gets pregnant]( http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/men-who-swell-with-pregnancy/).
So is there any reason to assume, insinuate or propose that fat women is a bigger (no pun intended) problem than fat men? No, that’s bullshit. | 22 | [
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"body": "Thank you! I saw a lot of the posts in the \"Toads\" thread and although (happily) a great number of them were commenting on what a stupid joke it was, there were also plenty of \"Oh yeah, fat women are fatties durr\" type nonsense. ",
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"body": "Wow, this is great. Thanks for putting it all together wandee - that rebuttal is pretty damn convincing. \n\nBesides, jokes are much funnier when they have at least some basis in reality. Deflating the \"truth\" in these jokes simultaneously deflates the humor. ",
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Hey Redditors that make their living online - I want to hear your stories! | So I'm 28, recently finally graduated college, and want to make a change in my life. I want to make all of my money online and become location independent within the next 2 years. Like many others, I read ["The 4 Hour Work Week"](http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Expanded-Updated-Cutting-Edge/dp/0307465357/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1) by Timothy Ferriss, and thought, "Eh, I could do that." I then found Chris Guillebeau's [Art of Non-Conformity](http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/) and became even more interested. Now I want to hear from you, internet money making redditors, to both stoke my interest and massage my ideas (can you do that with ideas?). Stories, how-tos, advice - all appreciated. | 5 | [
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"body": "simple way to go is get the following\r\n\r\nWilling Girlfriend + Webcam\r\n\r\n..Im not saying, Im just saying. ",
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Time for my periodic rant. This place is becoming a joke. | **EDIT 3**: I have PMed /r/Christianity's mod, smacfarl about the need for greater moderation of this subreddit. **I urge you to go [here](http://www.reddit.com/user/smacfarl) and do the same thing.** Thanks.
When someone asks a question in a Christian forum and the [top-voted advice is from an atheist](http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/amouz/once_again_i_fail_at_being_a_christian/c0icykn) (thanks in part to [this helpful notification in r/atheism](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/amwhm/to_ratheism_from_a_christian/)), something's wrong. When someone asks r/Christianity [to recommend a children's Bible](http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/aloxh/need_a_good_childrens_bible_any_recommendations/) and the top-voted advice [is that children should not be exposed to Christianity](http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/aloxh/need_a_good_childrens_bible_any_recommendations/c0i8oso), something's wrong. When pointing out to the militant non-believers who flood virtually every single submission here that this is, in fact, a subreddit about "All things Jesus" results in nothing but attack after attack, something's wrong.
That's not to say I know what to do about it. If anything, merely pointing this out will exacerbate two existing trends: more atheists coming here and more Christians becoming indifferent to a community that is no longer their own. But it's something we few who remain should bear in mind.
I've tried to make the point time and again that atheists are, of course, free to speak their mind(s) here, but should be respectful (and virtually all are), but shouldn't be surprised when they're voted down for expressing non and anti-Christian views. Would they be surprised to be ignored/derided if they walked into a church and said the same things? But my comments are ignored, or blasted down by the new atheist hivemind (NAH), which has more in common with the Inquisitorial Church than modern Christianity (irony at its best).
It's really a shame, but I guess I shouldn't expect more from Reddit, which provides us all, Christian, Jew, Muslim, non-believer, or whatever, alike with great entertainment, knowledge, and debate on a day-to-day basis. But where it fails, and fails miserably, is in allowing minority views and communities (here - not in the real world by any stretch of the imagination (and I know that very fact irks the NAH to no end)) to flourish.
This is, of course, just a rant. I know that asking *Why can't Christians have a place to freely discuss Christian topics?* is like asking *Why can't I have a quiet conversation about Kierkegaard in this crowded subway car?* There's too much noise, too many mouths, and no way (other than adding more mods) to police this place.
So on that note, I'll just advise the few remaining Christians here, many of whom are my friends, and the handful of folks who come here (knowing where they are) to ask questions sincerely and with an open heart: **Be mindful of the answers you see and how the community responds, because this is far, *far* from being a community of Christians.** It's just the typical NAH and a handful of Christians who enjoy being fed to the technological lions.
**EDIT**: Although I think this is the right forum to discuss Christianity, others might also want to check out: [Ekklesia](http://www.reddit.com/r/ekklesia) for a more moderated Christian community.
**EDIT2**: If nothing else, I will be delighted if this post has the effect of working "New Atheist Hivemind" or "NAH" into the lexicon. | 108 | [
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"body": "As an atheist, I'm quite ashamed about how /r/atheism has turned into a reddit for crusading into other reddits.\n\n[Just a head's up, /r/atheism. Here is a thread in which you are being bashed. Defend your honor!](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/amiiw/just_a_heads_up_ratheism_here_is_a_thread_in/)\n\n[Look at this DAE post. ... When can we end this “evangelical atheists re as bad as evangelical Christians” bullshit?](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/afy42/look_at_this_dae_post_outspoken_christianity/)\n\nAnd then this example here.\n\nJust to name a few.\n\nYou guys have your right to a subreddit, and people have a right to come in and challenge you. It's obviously bound to happen, but when the challenger is a huge bully with a great big downvoting finger with the ability to make your opinion seem inferior, it's annoying. Reddit is effectively driving out any minority and making the majority an extremely sensationalized position because of it.\n\nEdit: the irony, in a post claiming atheists having the biggest voice in the reddit, the comment that begins \"As an atheist,\" is on top. ",
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"body": "Why aren't Christians pouring into reddit's [Moderated Christian Discussion Subreddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/ekklesia)? This has been around for quite some time... but nobody seems interested. It sounds like exactly what you want... Christians talking to other Christians about Christiany things. Perfect!",
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"body": "I think most of the problem -- outside of trolling, of course -- are those that don't want to learn about Christianity. Those who come here with a set view on what it means to be a Christian (either too narrow, or a strawman) and those who just want to refute ideas without learning what the ideas actually are. This isn't bad, per-se, as long as it doesn't detract from other relevant discussions.\n\nWho care about the historical authenticity of Jesus in a thread discussing his teachings? Why should people who post about a divine experience get ridiculed? Why should people be afraid of getting inundated with scientific data when discussing Biblical interpretations of creationism (unless the poster brought it there, of course)? These things, while valid, don't belong every time a subject someone disagrees with comes up. They're based on premises so far removed from the matter at hand as to be completely irrelevant and should get their own posts. \n\nThey are concerned with a problem that isn't particularly interesting in a Christian context: what if Christianity is wrong; what if *you* are wrong? This is not because I'm afraid of having my faith overturned, but because I've studied this question in better detail than can come in an aside stating he blatantly obvious \"Jesus may never have lived\" or \"your experiences are unfounded in science\". I learn far more about this question when I study spirituality outside of a Christian tradition and whenever I look into atheist thought. \n\nThis isn't to say I believe such questions have no place in our discourse, but rather it shouldn't *take over* our discourse, undermining an increased *understanding* of Christianity in order to advance a contrary agenda. These questions are important to the understanding of Christian faith. It's simply not the *only* important aspect, nor is it the *most* aspect. There is such a rich and interesting history, both historically and theologically, that coming to a this subreddit to simply refute base premises far removed from Christian thought is like going to a subreddit devoted to abstract expressionism to insult Rothko and his ilk because of differing aesthetic values and no desire to learn *about* the art movement. Or, going to a heavy metal subreddit and constantly bringing it back to \"I think this is noise, defend your belief that it's not\". Or, going to /r/science and questioning the scientific method constantly, to /r/math attempting to justify impossible theorems, /r/history to continually remind them how unknowable the past is, /r/psychology to say it's too soft a science, etc, etc, etc. There comes a time when one needs to leave behind disagreements to advance learning or admit your true motives and wash your hands of your endeavor entirely.\n\nThis has less to do with \"let the Christians have a place of their own\" in my mind, and more to do with \"well, shouldn't people who want to learn more have a place where they can discuss matters in the Christian paradigm\"? \n\nGranted, I'm not sure how big a problem so-called \"NAH\" is in this subreddit. But if it *is* as widespread as this post suggests, I think that's a disservice to reddit.",
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"body": "I upvoted your submission because I *do* agree, though I should point out as somebody who visits /r/Christianity somewhat sparingly that there really *is* a difference in tone and attitude here. It's a hard line to draw - obviously outside perspectives are more than welcome (as are perspectives from the various sects and philosophies that make up Christianity), though an /r/Christianity dominated by atheists wouldn't really serve the purpose you outlined.",
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"body": "Ok, I really don't want to use this as an argument, because I frankly think it's pathetic, but... welcome to our world.\n\nSeriously. You're basically whining about your own group of like-minded people not being the largest one and able to drown out the noise of the rest. That's it. You _have_ your place here, and you have _no_ problems expressing any views you like. However, being in a \"neighborhood\" where you are not the majority, you have to expect this to happen. You even say so yourself:\n\n>I know that asking _Why can't Christians have a place to freely discuss Christian topics?_ is like asking _Why can't I have a quiet conversation about Kierkegaard in this crowded subway car?_\n\nYes, it is _exactly_ like that.\n\nNow, I feel for you, I really do. I try my best to be respectful, and I really want to think the best of everyone I talk to, but honestly? Sometimes the people in here make it very hard. Mostly, I'm able to have calm, reasonable discussions, but then every other post I make is downvoted for no good reason, or some idiot comes in and tells me I can't be here because I'm not a member of the private club.\n\nYou have a right to complain. I won't deny you that, nor try to censor your comment. But I have just as much right to complain about you complaining. And the fact is, that you're basically complaining about being in the very same position atheists have been in for a long, long time. I'm lucky to live in a mostly secular country, where it's not such a big deal to be an atheist. _Still_ I feel like it's something I should keep to myself. People have so many weird associations to people to don't believe in _any_ supernatural phenomena.\n\nI can give you two alternatives from here. Either you stay here in /r/Christianity and you accept that you are the minority on reddit, or you create your own, closed community where only those that agree with you are permitted. Either you expose yourself to the real world, where atheists exist and _will_ challenge your beliefs, or you stay inside and circle-jerk your beliefs. Either you submit yourself to the unending scrutiny and criticism of the \"opposing faction\", or you expose your hypocrisy and yourselves as people who can dish it out, but not handle it.\n\nLastly, I don't think you're stupid. You even sound somewhat reasonable. I can even honestly say I appreciate your rant a great deal. However, do not for any second believe that I agree with you on this. All I can really say is \"welcome to our world\".",
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"body": ">I've tried to make the point time and again that atheists are, of course, free to speak their mind(s) here, but should be respectful (and virtually all are)\n\nThere you have it. I still believe your NAH's are a small but vocal minority in this subreddit. I would also like to point out, that there is a big difference between your children's bible example and more substantial discussions. I still feel downvoting a dissenting opinion is bad practice.",
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"body": "I'm an atheist. I don't even know why I visit /r/atheism anymore, because they don't take kindly to us nice atheists (they prefer the term \"weak atheists\"). I didn't realize how badly outnumbered you guys were...\n\nI genuinely like /r/Christianity... but I also can't say that I find it wrong for an atheist to suggest to a doubting Christian that he should try atheism. It *is*, however, wrong for /r/atheism to use its voting clout to skew the order of comments...",
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"body": "/r/Christianity is nothing but a giant trollercoaster for basement dwellers. I figured this out after day one. ",
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"body": "This is basically a public area, not a Christian one. Christian's don't 'own' this space. If they want to, they can moderate it. \n\nI'm not an astronomer, but I'm interested in the subject, thus I'm subscribed to the astronomy and space subreddits. The same goes for here. I'm not a Christian, but the subject interests me. \n\nThis is not a place for Christians to gather, it's a place for issues/links/etc that *everyone* subscribed finds interesting related to Christianity. \n\nYou might not like or agree with that, but that's what it is. You can't really complain when the numbers don't lean in your direction. This place is what it is, not what you want it to be.\n\nIf you want more, moderate it, until then, you should just downvote what you don't like and upvote what you do. That's what everyone can and should do. Complaining when everyone doesn't do the same as you just makes you look silly. ",
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"body": ">I've tried to make the point time and again that atheists are, of course, free to speak their mind(s) here, but should be respectful (and virtually all are),\n\nThen why are you upset about [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/amouz/once_again_i_fail_at_being_a_christian/c0icykn) highly respectful post being made? And the other post you pointed to was very respectful too. \n\n>but shouldn't be surprised when they're voted down for expressing non and anti-Christian views.\n\nThis is a sub-community of a larger community. One of the primary rules of this larger community is to not downvote something just because you disagree with it. I'm sorry, but it actually seems from my perspective (as a Christian whose most active subreddit) that *you* are being the poor community member. I'm absolutely annoyed by the \"lol, you're a Christian, therefore you are a retard, lolz\" posts. However, ones like you pointed out to are not a problem. The only problem with them (which has been a historic one for the church) is Christians who are too conceited, hypocritical, prideful, impatient, unloving, uncaring, or insecure to deal with other viewpoints.",
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"body": "> but shouldn't be surprised when they're voted down for expressing non and anti-Christian views.\n\nThis goes against the [redditquette](http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette)",
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"body": "> EDIT2: If nothing else, I will be delighted if this post has the effect of working \"New Atheist Hivemind\" or \"NAH\" into the lexicon.\n\nCool... name calling will surely advance your cause and make this a better place for rational discourse. Indeed it should be easy to clean this subreddit right up now, since you only have to argue against one collective mind. Easy peasy! How many original thoughts can a bunch of atheist drones have anyways?\n\n... or, you could accept that there are not enough Christians on reddit to sustain a vibrant and troll-resistant community, and perhaps do something about that. Recruit some more members, say? Bring in some more folks from other Christian forums outside of reddit? Surely there are other Christians out there who also go for the sort of news that the majority of this site is about? No?\n\n",
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"body": "Why does it matter who is providing the advice, rather than the advice itself? If the advice is \"children should not be exposed to Christianity\" and you think it is wrong, why not explain why you think it is wrong? \n\nMy advice: Harden the fuck up. Favour truth.",
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"body": "I agree. I believe that you should be respectful while in someone else's house. When I am here I keep my athiest opinions to myself.",
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"body": "Hear hear! I'm with you (except for the last comment about it being a typical NAH)\n\nI subscribe because of the interesting discourse. I find people have interesting opinions that are not just knee-jerk \"jesus loves you\" responses",
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"body": "Totally agree. This forum is more a 'Ask a Christian' forum than it is anything else. And those 'Ask a Christian' reddits often have a mocking tone trying to attack Christianity's logic which they perceive faith lacking. I only keep my subscription in hopes that the atheist warriors will get tired of trolling. ",
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"body": ">Be mindful of the answers you see and how the community responds, because this is far, far from being a community of Christians. It's just the typical NAH and a handful of Christians who enjoy being fed to the technological lions.|\n\nI don't see the problem. Feeding Christians to lions is a time honored tradition. Here, we have Christians who **enjoy** being fed to the lions, and what's more, can be recycled over and over again. How is this not win-win?\n\nEdit: Sheesh! I keed! I keed!",
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"body": "I made a new reddit. If anyone wants to come, fine. If not... fine.\n\nThe name is /r/ChristianDiscussion\n\n>A reddit for Christians to discuss matters of faith. Non-Christians are allowed, but any proselytizing for other faiths (or lack thereof) or OT posts will be deleted.\n\nI have a handful of people who are faithful contributors here and will make them mods if anybody actually subscribes over there. I wouldn't be opposed to having ~10 mods since /r/atheism will have a field day spamming it.",
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"body": "Fair, balanced rant. Eh, oh, I think I just channeled Fox news.\n\nWell deserved scrutiny of this thread's moderation as well as Reddit's impartiality toward a specific community. ",
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"body": "I agree. It's more that I simply get bored of atheist POV. I'm just not interested in hearing someone regurgitate atheist propaganda, yet again, in the Christianity reddit... it certainly brings very little to the subreddit - and everyone here has heard it a million times.",
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"body": "Isn't it interesting how you apparently can't have Christianity without forceful erasure of contrary ideas, and even ideas that inspire doubt? There seems to be something about Christianity for many people -- and Islam too, mind you -- that *stridently demands* the privilege of silencing people who disagree. What's up with that?\n\nI know it's not *necessary* to Christianity, since I do know a few Christians who believe strongly in free speech and open discussion. They are not afraid of dissent. But most of you folks seem to be offended by the very notion that people dare to disagree with you. Do you really have so little faith, so little confidence, that it is threatened by people who disagree with, disapprove of, or even (gasp!) laugh at your beliefs?\n\nMeanwhile over on /r/atheism this weekend we've been talking about how to make [anti-atheist jokes and cartoons](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/anlpu/the_most_outrageously_intolerable_things_to_say/). (Admittedly, we stole the idea from the Israeli newspaper that had a contest to prove that Israelis could write better antisemitic jokes than Iranians.)",
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Question about workout order | Hi all,
So I have been working out for a few years (lifting generally 5 days a week), and I was wondering what you all find to be an effective workout *order*.
What I mean by workout order:
For example, on Monday I may do chest/shoulders. Right now I am doing 5 sets of 5 reps @ 70lb free weights (70lb freeweight in each hand). Between sets, I will begin my 5 sets of 5 reps of lateral raises. So generally it looks like this:
5 reps chest
5 reps lateral raise
5 reps chest
5 reps lateral raise
... (and so on until 5 sets is complete for both exercises)
Is this alright, or is it better to focus on just my chest, and then when all chest exercises are complete, move on to focus on just shoulders?
Thoughts? | 13 | [
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Does anyone else have this multivitamin problem too? | I have taken, off and on, Optimum Nutrition's Opti-Men Multivitamin, and no matter how I take it, with or without food, one at a time with each meal or all three together, it seems to make my urine bright yellow to the point that I think if I turned out the lights it would glow. Has anyone else had this problem or know anything about it. I have no other side effects and was just curious if this was normal or not. | 13 | [
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"body": "This is asbolutely normal.\r\n\r\nThose are the vitamins that your body could not absorb being evacuated.\r\nSome people use this as an example of why multivitamins are useless - you basically just end up with expensive pee.\r\n",
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Redditors with nightmares: how do you cope? | For the past 5 years or so I have been having horrible nightmares. I get them in a pretty high frequency, getting more frequent with my current levels of stress in my waking life. For the past 4 months I have been having nightmares every single time I fall asleep (if I manage to fall asleep at all).
In the past my nightmares have caused me insomnia. It got at its worse in college and I wouldn't sleep for longer than 20-30 minutes at the time to avoid getting them. Sometimes I wouldn't sleep for 3 days straight.
The nightmares are in high intensity as well. They would make any Saw movie look like Sesame Street. I usually wake up in a cold sweat screaming, crying and moving all over the place (I make an awful cuddle buddy). In high intensity ones I wake up and go into a panic attack. Nausea follows through out the day and as well as crazy mad headaches from not getting enough rest.
At the same time the amount of blood, gore and horrifying scenarios that pop in my sleep are seriously starting to concern me. I have never hurt anyone in my dreams. I am mostly in panic at sketchy situations or people chasing me (I wake up feeling like I've ran a marathon), people I love dying horrible and very graphic ways, or people torturing me physically and psychologically. I am in no way aggressive nor do I wish any of this onto anyone. These dreams make me feel crazy though.
Reddit, I'm getting desperate. I am craving a good night's sleep. Anyone have the same problem and if so have any tips you can suggest to help cope with the nightmares? At the same time, how do you handle your relationship when it comes to sleep overs? I've had in the past been very hesitant to sleep with someone, afraid that they might think I'm crazy. I did have a boyfriend who would insist to be there for me to soothe me back to sleep but it took a heavy toll on him as he would barely get much sleep. How do you handle bad sleeping habits with your relationships?
I would greatly appreciate any advice. | 3 | [
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"body": "This is usually personality disorder trait, I would seek professional help and not rely on the snarky comments provided by the internet for a solution",
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"body": "I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid. At the same time, every night as I lay down I'd think about being Superman and wishing I could have a dream about flying. Well, that never happened. Instead, I had recurring nightmares. Eventually, I figured out that I never had a dream about what I was thinking about right before sleeping. \r\n\r\nSo, before falling asleep, I'd think the nightmare through in my mind, and voila, I never had the nightmare again. \r\n\r\nThat's just me, of course. Your mileage may vary.",
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I live on drilling rig locations 3 out of 4 weeks of the month. | I work as a medic for drilling and exploration operations in western Canada. AMA
[Here is my current rig.](http://imgur.com/YhWOh) | 30 | [
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"body": "* R U Canadian?\n* What credentials do you have? Emt, Paramedic?\n* What is the pay like?\n* How far from civilization?\n* How do you get to/from work?\n* Where do you stay on your week off?\nThanks,",
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"body": "How find meeting new people/forming relationships on site? I assume there's a high turnover of staff on a job like that.\n\nWomen?",
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"body": "I was thinking of going into wet welding for a while because the money is so good - ever work with many of em'?",
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IAMA student who works at a faculty Blackboard support center. | I routinely speak with computer illiterate professors teaching online classes. Most of them think updating a word document and saving it locally means the file up online has been changed.
Often times I want to gouge my eyes out. Ask me anything.
I will try and get to everyone!! | 28 | [
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"body": "Are the teachers defensive about being inept with technology or open to learning? \n\nI personally find it hilarious that \"teachers\" are often so inept at learning. ",
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"body": "What are your thoughts on [Moodle](http://moodle.org/) as an open-source competitor to Blackboard? Has your faculty ever considered switching to anything besides Blackboard? I think that the University of Victoria in British Columbia has transitioned to Moodle, but I don't know how well its worked out for them.",
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"body": "I feel ya buddy. A large part of my job is supporting Blackboard. I don't know about you, but there's a few numbers that make me die a little inside when I see them on the caller ID.",
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"body": "Is this the same Blackboard system as WebCT, or WebCT Vista or e-Learning or whatever other titles seem to be floating around?",
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"body": "Last year, Blackboard was having huge outages for my school at least. It became ridiculous and teachers had to postpone exams, we couldn't access anything, etc. Life was much easier before blackboard. Seriously, email is fine by me.\n\nMy question to you: Could you describe a bit about how the company operates? For example, when we were having all these blackboard issues, no one gave us any sort of public notice. What's they're role in terms of interacting with individual schools?",
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"body": "I use blackboard (not by choice though). \nI have to say, what a terribly f*cked up system that is :( \nThe day WebCT was bought by blackboard was a sad, sad day for teachers across the US. \n\nMy favourite bug (no longer a problem, but it poisoned my life for at least a year): you could only open one window/frame in a session. So if you have to edit content, you have to save, exit, switch to student view, repeat. Note that the whole thing is SLOW. So in order to edit effectively, you had to have one MS Exploder window with a session running, and one with Mozilla, and possibly one with Opera/whatever - just so you can editin one window and look at the results in the other. \n\nThe current favourite bug - once the quiz is created, you need to make it visible to students in order to test run it (as a generic \"student\"). So, if your actual students are keeping an eye on that quiz and try to take it too, it freezes the whole thing up, and you can't make any more edits. \n\nNot to mention the most ridiculous system for exporting/importing content. \n\nUGH! ",
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What typeface is this? | I stumbled upon [this](http://imgur.com/La6DE.jpg) typeface a few days ago.
Ive tried different font recognizers, but none seem to work. A friend told me that its called Plastica, but i can't seem to find any info on it anywhere.
Can you please help me Reddit? | 23 | [
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"body": "It is Plastica but as you say there's nothing online about it. It was designed by Herbert Post in 1929.\n\n\\[edit\\] It's part of the [Umbra family](http://www.linotype.com/1559/umbra-family.html) that's why it's hard to find under that name :/",
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Does anybody have experience reselling web hosting along with your design & coding? Is it a good idea? | Looks like a great way to make extra money and keep long-term relationships with clients, but bandwidth looks like a *big* worry. | 9 | [
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"body": "No, and I make it very clear to my clients that whenever their site goes down I can do nothing about it and I am not liable. If you sell them hosting, downtime is on you. And believe me they won't take \"sry I can't do anything about it but it should be back up in a couple of hours\" kinda shit. ",
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"body": "What I'm thinking of doing, rather than re-selling, is registering and managing the domain/hosting for clients for an added percentage. I'd make it clear in the contract that if either party can opt to transfer control at any point, and ownership would always be held by the client. I'd also make it clear that I would only be responsible for updating the site to cope with minor hosting changes, and only ever stuff that I'm capable of fixing - so downtime would not be something I'd be expecting to deal with, aside from having to liaise with the hosting company.\n\nWhat do people think about this? I'm planning on starting out freelancing in the next few months, and I'm just brainstorming some ideas.",
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Sleep paralysis? Anyone? | Does anyone suffer from repeated sleep paralysis? Most people experience it at least once in their lifetime, but for some people it happens all the time. And for anyone who's in this situation, it kind of really sucks. Besides taking anti-psychotic drugs, ff you've gone through this or are going through this, do you know of anything that has helped you?
**Edit: Recently, when I experience sleep paralysis I sometimes feel as if my bed is vibrating or as if all the muscles in my body are vibrating. Has anyone else ever felt this?** | 49 | [
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"body": "I suffer from non-regular bouts of sleep paralysis and I used to absolutely hate them... that is until I read an article on lucid dreaming. \n\nBasically in sleep paralysis you eventually snap yourself out of it and wake up fully, but... if you make yourself ( not easy I know ) go back to sleep you can enter a state of lucid dreaming where you can actually control what happens in your own dreams, I swear some of the stuff you can do is incredible, virtually anything from walking up walls to flying high speed across the world, there are *no* limits. \n\nI may sound completely bat shit crazy, but I'm serious, I've been doing it for 15 odd yrs now. If you suffer from sleep paralysis then try it sometime, it'll scare the shit out you the first time, but once you've got a handle on it.... man it's so much fun.\n\nHere's an article on [the connection](http://www.articlesbase.com/spirituality-articles/lucid-dreaming-and-sleep-paralysis-330691.html) if you don't believe me.",
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"body": "I had a sleep paralysis experience that has one creepy element I can't explain.\n\nQuick background: I was experimenting with high doses of melatonin (an OTC neurohormone) in an attempt to intensify my dreams. It's a common side effect of melatonin, and one I greatly enjoyed.\n\nOne night, at a B&B with my girlfriend, I had a classic episode of sleep paralysis -- paralyzed, terrified, and afraid of something malignant in the room. I eventually feel back asleep, but it was really, truly terrifying while it lasted.\n\nHere's the weird part: When I woke up the next morning and looked in the bathroom mirror, I had a bright red handprint on my chest. It was very distinct, and the fingers were long... and there were 6 of them. 5 fingers and one thumb.\n\nMy girlfriend and I tried to come up with an explanation, but nothing fit. I couldn't twist my hand into the position, so it wasn't like I had been sleeping on my hand -- the positioning was not something I could match even with stretching and contorting. And the imprint was so distinct it looked like it had been painted on. It faded after a few minutes.\n\nI have no idea what caused it, nor have I found any plausible explanation after thinking about it over the course of 10+ years.\n",
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"body": "I never fall asleep on my back. It brings on bouts of paralysis. I fall asleep on my stomach some nights...but waking up on your stomach unable to move is terrifying!!! I'm always afraid that I'm going to suffocate. \r\n\r\nI've had this condition since I was 12. The first time I experienced it, I thought that I died. It's very scary.\r\n\r\nI can somewhat remain calm when it happens now. (about 1-2 times a month) I no longer get nightmares with the paralysis. \r\n\r\nI'm sorry you're going through this. It sucks!!",
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"body": "Yep. I blame alcohol, not enough sleep, or cold pills.\n\nI get exploding head syndrom too. No joke. Look it up. Freaky stuff.\n",
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"body": "As far as i know sleeping paralysis is caused by your body falling asleep and your mind staying awake. (which is why the Buddhists call it “witnessing sleep” which apparently means you are a step closer to enlightenment.. I like this heh)\n\nIf you are the sort of person who has irregular sleeping patterns you are more susceptible to it. From everything I’ve heard yes its more likely to happen sleeping on your back.\n\nAs with all hallucinogenic experiences the way to master them is to realise that no matter how scary the experience is, its created inside you, so you simply have to recognise the part that smells of you and then you’ll start to gain power over it.\n\nSome times you can open your eyes and see the room around you (though somewhat distorted) I was unsure if this perception was real or not, so one time I fell into it while watching TV and was still able to carry on watching while in the state after waking myself I found I had followed the story line quite well.\n\nWhile under it you seem to still have full control of your breathing so I can bring myself out of it by making myself breath ridiculously fast. Try it next time you wake up all non-movie. :)\n",
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"body": "Yep, its scary! You try to wake up, try to move a muscle but you can't.\n\nAlso, sometimes when I have it, I feel like I'm floating in the air or something is on top of me. I feel anxiety in general. sometimes i think someone is coming through my bedroom door to get me. one time I had a vision of a church and stained glass. it seems like from other ppls experiences that this is not uncommon.\n\nOne time I had it while napping in the backseat of a car. My friend was in the front seat at the time also napping. While under paralysis I tried to let him know what was going on cuz i wanted him to save me from it. So I tried to stick out my hand and let him know what was going on but I couldn't speak so he didn't know what I want. Then I tried to write on my hand but it wasn't getting through.\n\nFinally I woke up and told him what happened. He was FREAKED OUT. and of course I didn't actually get my hand up at all. That's the thing about sleep paralysis. You think that with all the mental effort you might have moved a muscle but in reality you haven't at all\n",
"score": 3
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Scoliosis, strength imbalance and poor form | So, I know I have scoliosis. The mild to bad type. I self-consciously correct my posture and it has bettered itself manyfold but I still have noticeable curvature. The good side is that women think my ass is great. The bad side is well, back pain and all that comes with scoliosis.
I am now doing Starting Strength with the help of a coach. He watches over my form and thanks to him my squats are now nearly perfect. I still lack some balance but I miss like 1 out of 10 squats and the rest has a good form. If I keep the good form, will it help with the scoliosis and reduce its effects? Squats are not the only exercise on SS, though.
I am currently having a very hard time correcting my form on bench presses and deadlifts.
I invariably rotate the bar on bench presses, to a point that the coach called me hopeless and told me to go to the smith machine and stay there until I correct my form, but even on smith machine, I can't keep my elbows straight and I keep shifting them backwards. Any advice on how to correct my form?
There is a noticeable strength imbalance on my shoulder muscles, so I am also rotating the bar when I deadlift. I look myself in the mirror and it seems to be all right, but when I lower the bar, it is twisted counterclockwise. I spread my legs further and the problem lessened (or maybe was just me being more self-conscious), but my coach suggested that I change the deadlift for the upright row until I lessen my imbalance. What do you guys think?
He is also a strong defender of lunges, but I think they are not needed since I am squating so much. | 6 | [
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"body": "There are many \"simple\" exercises that you need to be working on with the big stuff.\n\nSpecifically, pelvic tilts, hip flexor and hamstring stretches - oh and lots of rowing. Tight hamstrings and poor core muscles are the biggest source of low back pain. \n\nThings you will need to work on:\n\nPelvic tilts to correct the lower back curve. As part of this, you will want to strengthen your ab muscles to further support the tilt/natural curve.\n\n\nDo hamstring stretches *everyday*. Tight hamstrings will \"pull\" on your lower back muscles unless they are elongated by stretchering everyday. \n\nBack muscles: You really need to be working out your back. The back muscles are the direct support for the spine. Do lots of rows and \"supermans\". I would also spend time stretching your neck/shoulders. \n\nPlease don't over look the \"smaller\" exercises. These are really the best to control scoliosis. \n\nWhy Do I give this advice? Because I had a 50 degree curve of my lower-to-mid back and had a spinal fusion in the early 90's. I have a rod and 3 screws \"installed\" that prevented the curve from getting worse, but it did not really correct anything. Let me know if you have any questions, I would be glad to help.",
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/r/photography Challenge: A Glass of Water | I would like to propose a challenge to you, professionals and newbie’s alike.
**I would like you to photograph a glass of water.**
Though this was not originally my idea I still think it’s a good one. A few years back I found a photography book at a Swedish flea market. It was called Ett Glas Vatten / A Glass of Water. It contains 25 B&W photographs of glasses of water by 25 different photographers.
There are only two rules:
1. The picture must contain a glass of water
2. The picture must also be Black & White
Feel free to post and discuss what gear you used or what techniques you implemented.
Water sustains us all and it would be interesting to see a more global perspective on the subject. The book I found only contains pictures taken by Swedish photographers. Here are some images from the book. [Cover](http://imgur.com/dEemA.jpg) | [p1](http://imgur.com/8bgby.jpg) | [p2](http://imgur.com/nqirD.jpg) | [p3](http://imgur.com/kySiq.jpg). I will post a few more later.
The prize will be the standard karma input. And if there are a reasonable amount of submissions the top submission just might get a book shaped package sent by mail.
I have no idea how to set a deadline for this, but let’s say a week and see what happens. So that’s January 15 then.
Good luck!
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"body": "edit3: submitting link on top: http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4258045560&size=large\r\n\r\n>Me: I'm off to the kitchen to shoot some glasses of water\r\n>\r\n>Her: Why?\r\n>\r\n>Me: A guy on reddit said so.\r\n>\r\n>Her: ...\r\n\r\n\r\nBe right back.\r\n\r\nedit: Ok, I'm back. Is there a limit to the number of photos we can post? Although it should be interesting limiting each one of us to a single picture as it would challenge our self-critique as well.\r\n\r\nedit2: Here's mine. Most fun I've had with my camera in two months or so. http://imgur.com/F1kdV (should be viewed large)\r\n\r\nedit4: There are certainly quite a few shots that deserve more points. Credit's due where credit's due.\r\n\r\nedit 5 (jan. 15th) - My personal favourites from this thread, in no particular order:\r\n\r\nbadjoke33 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mflo3/4258585030/sizes/l/\r\n\r\nwerdan - http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4258416210&size=large&posted=1\r\n\r\nCenkCenk - http://imgur.com/5LPdr.jpg\r\n\r\nAlso, I loved the detail in randomb0y's submission, but it lacked contrast, and that's usually a turnoff for me. Otherwise we've had a very pleasant chat :)",
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"body": "OK, here it is, [glass of water](http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomb0y/4256913547/sizes/l/).\n\nOther attempts at the end of my [photostream](http://www.flickr.com/photos/randomb0y/page1).",
"score": 18
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"body": "Sounded like a fun project. [here is my attempt](http://fritzw.com/resizer.php?w=700&h=700&c=0&f=media/gallery/objects/DSC_3715%20-%20Version%202.jpg). Just getting used to my new flash module.",
"score": 18
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"body": "http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkeetch/2506196955/\n\nHere is my submission, it's actually four shot glasses of water. It's a photo from a while ago, but I'm proud of it. Comments and Criticism are always welcome\n ",
"score": 9
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"body": "Here's mine\n\nhttp://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4258416210&size=large&posted=1\n\nI shot it sitting on an old flatbed scanner glass with a flash unit underneath. The flash was connected to the camera with an off-camera extension cable. ",
"score": 8
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"body": "Here: \nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gromgull/4258976764/sizes/l/\n\nPushing slightly what it means to be a photo OF a glass of water. Although not as much as I would have liked, the background is [this view](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gromgull/3882161190/), I wanted to get just the church distorted through the glass, but I didn't find a lens that would focus close enough.\n\nPentax K-7, Good old manual Vivitar 70-200, f22, 1.5s (to allow for:) flash fired manually. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "This shot of mine is very simple -- I took it a couple years ago when I was teaching myself to do lighting.\n\nB&W version is [here](http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4258051452&bg=white&size=large). \nThe original version was in color and it's [here](http://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=2292686191&bg=white&size=large): yes, the glass really is blue, and the backdrop I shot it on is actually sort of peach-colored, which I WB-corrected to white, to bring out the contrast on the glass more. :)\n\nConverted to B&W via Desaturate and some gamma adjustment, plus a little USM.\n\nTech specs: Oly E-410, with ZD 50-200 @50mm, f/8. ISO 100, 1/80 sec. One Vivitar 285HV off-camera, probably at half or full power.",
"score": 6
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"body": "[My modest submission](http://i.imgur.com/nTLNX.jpg) to the challenge. I've really enjoyed seeing everyone's photos so far!\n\n[A second take](http://i.imgur.com/N39SC.jpg) of the same concept.\n\nI did these photos alternately with a cool-white and blue LED, and I honestly prefer the [color versions](http://imgur.com/qu9o5l&9yzgP) better.",
"score": 6
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"body": "http://i.imgur.com/TAw4i.jpg\n\nWell that was fun.\n\nEdit: A little late, but just in case somebody happens upon it, http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandoncoal/4263553889/.",
"score": 5
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"body": "My girlfriend was surprisingly happy to act as my assistant (i.e. pour the water) I must remember and exploit this love of assisting me in photo taking.\n\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeloliver/4257436935/\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "Here is my attempt: http://i.imgur.com/xjf7t.jpg\nThis was a fun challenge. Most I used the camera in a while. \n\nHere is the other one I did. http://imgur.com/OFyKO.jpg I was torn which picture to post so I figured both.",
"score": 5
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"body": "[I took this last summer.](http://i.imgur.com/8ZVON.jpg) Not one of the greatest shots I’ve ever taken, but I thought I might as well give it a go and I’m definitely not going to go outside to take a photo of a glass of water before temperatures have risen by a good 50 °C. All right, I’d be happy with 20.\n\nThe setup wasn’t all that special, I’m not sure there was any (there might have been a reflector standing around somewhere, but I’m not sure). Shot with a Canon EOS 450D (that’s a Rebel XSi) and a Canon EF 70-200 mm ƒ/4L lens at 200 mm, 1/2000 s, ƒ/4 and ISO 400. Post-processing: I corrected the exposure by -1 stop (if I’d only done that in-camera I might have avoided the motion blur on the stream of water), applied a bit of straightening and converted it to black & white.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Here is my entry http://jforestphotos.com/content/glass-water\n\n1/160, f/4.8, ISO 800, Flash, focal length 122mm\n\nGreat idea for a challenge, I love it!",
"score": 4
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"body": "Graphic geeks will notice that the book appears to be printed entirely in Futura, for which the community is currently in mourning.\n\nIKEA this year [replaced their classic typeface](http://www.idsgn.org/posts/ikea-says-goodbye-to-futura/) for web, catalog and signage with Verdana, an awkward, chunky, serify mess from Microsoft.\n\nI wonder if Futura is popular with the Swedes?\n\n(Also, I'll be taking a photo of a glass of water. Later, folks!)",
"score": 3
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"body": "http://www.pbase.com/zakooldude/image/53821836\n\nDry ice sublimating in a glass of water. Go up one level to see the color versions with actual chunks of dry ice.",
"score": 3
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"body": "[here's mine in B&W](http://imgrr.com/viewer.php?file=zpwwuacboacgtc8chby6.jpg). The original photo is in color [on flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/blmurch/2754681293/). Took it last year with my trusty Nikon D40. What caught my eye was the shadow of the light through the bubbles and the glass.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I was going to upload this last night but got back from the bar a little too late.\n\nhttp://bighugelabs.com/onblack.php?id=4260172855",
"score": 3
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"body": "Would anyone be interested in starting a weekly subreddit for photography challenges? Any volunteers for moderators are welcomed.",
"score": 3
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"body": "My glass: http://imgur.com/bIp0K.jpg\n\nNo where near as fancy as all the others... plus my kitten got in the way :)",
"score": 3
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Approaching a girl who is with friends. | I know how to approach girls that are alone and I have already done it, but I'm not sure how I should approach someone with their friends around them.
Most girls that I see are usually not alone, mostly with one or two girl friends. I probably can't just ignore her friends, but still show her that I'm interested. | 3 | [
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"body": "Who else, with cavalier disregard for his personal reputation, is so willing to throw himself upon the cruel mercies of a brazen man-hater, just so his buddy can hook up with a sorority girl with big gazongas? Who else, with just a hint of a grimace, will selflessly dirty dance with a creature so hideous that no amount of hard liquor will wash the stain from his memory? Who else, especially if he’s loaded to the gills, will stand in the deepest depths of hell just so a pal can climb up his back into hook-up heaven?\n\nWhose sterling motto is, “You are going to so owe me, dude.”?\n\n[None else but the wingman, the King Leonidas of the saloon](http://www.drunkard.com/issues/06_06/06_06_wingman.html).",
"score": 10
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"body": "Disarm her friends, and assimilate into the group all while not paying as much attention as you should to the initial girl. Then remove her from the group to show her something (or whatever; be creative). Now you're in comfortable territory: she's alone. Let experience take over from there on.",
"score": 3
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How to run SC from your flash drive on any computer (takes up 1.2GB including BW on mine) or just run from your computer without needing the CD. | This came up in chatting on our new IRC channel and I thought maybe some people didn't know this yet. Anyway, Blizzard included no-CD in one of their patches a while back so start by just following their instructions:
- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the game. To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:
Windows Users:
- Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked. To do this please use the following steps:
- Click Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Windows Explorer
- Click on Tools -> Folder options (Windows Vista users may have to press the Alt key to see the tools option at the top of the window)
- Click on the View Tab In the list, look for the "Hide extensions for known file types" option, and make sure that it is unchecked.
- Click OK to save the changes.
- Now you will need to copy some files from the Game CDs
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq". If you wish to play the StarCraft original missions then please copy and rename the install file from the original StarCraft CD as well, as listed directly above.
Mac users:
- If you own only StarCraft, copy "StarCraft Archive" from the StarCraft CD to your StarCraft/StarCraft Files/ folder.
- If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "Brood War Archive" from the StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft/StarCraft Files/ folder. If you wish to play the StarCraft original missions then please copy the Starcraft Archive file from the original StarCraft CD as well, as listed directly above.
Now you can simply copy the entire StarCraft folder to a flash drive, plug it into any PC, and you are golden (I haven't tried mine on a mac).
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"body": "Protip: I've uploaded an ISO of both SC (693Mb) and BW (635Mb) on baconbits.org if anyone else is on the reddit tracker.",
"score": 3
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Where is a good place to open a Roth IRA, and what should I invest in? | I hope to be finally opening and contributing to my first Roth IRA very soon. I'll be putting $5,000 into it.
For simplicity's sake I'd like to open it at my credit union, but their rates are really low, so I'd like to shop around.
Where would you recommend opening an account? And what should I invest in?
I see Vanguard, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, E*Trade, etc. recommended a lot, and as far as what to invest in, a lot of people seem to espouse ETFs.
Thanks. | 12 | [
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"body": "I'll add my vote for Vanguard.\n\nAs to what to invest in, if you have enough money (3k+) I would suggest you go with Vanguard's funds rather than the ETF's to avoid brokerage fees. For most they have both a mutual fund and an ETF investment vehicle for the same thing.\n\nIf you're looking for the simplest solution just get VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund.\n\nIf you want to get a little more complicated google \"Lazy Portfolios\" for some examples using between 3 and 10 funds; but to pick just one, go with VTSMX.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I like Vanguard, I've been using them for years. \n\nThe S&P 500 is a nice place to start but you really should start looking at the prospectus and doing some research yourself. ",
"score": 6
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"body": "I went Vanguard as well. Pick a target retirement year, and use the fund closest to that year. They manage the risk (through mix of stocks/bonds) depending on how close to maturity the fund is. So I never have to touch it.",
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"We were meant to be omnivores. Om nom nom ivores." - My wife. I love my wife. | Earlier today, in a discussion with my wife on the possibility of becoming a vegetarian, she said that. I figured it was worth sharing with Reddit. | 167 | [
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"body": "I would just love to chime in here and thank all you non meat eaters for leaving extra bacon at the buffet for the likes of me. ",
"score": 35
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"body": "we evolved as omnivores. no \"meant\" involved. your wife is still awesome though.\n\nedit: and as long as I'm getting all pedantic and not-very-fun-at-parties, I also think that one of the greatest achievements of humanity is our ability to surpass nature (including rape, racism, sexism, etc.) for unnatural acts that are more ethical. That said, I love meat too much to cut it out of my diet. I just try to eat it a bit more sparingly and relish it when I do.",
"score": 28
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"body": "Oh i thought this submission would have a pic of your wife naked eating a BLT while sitting in a computer chair with Reddit on the monitor..\n\n*waits*",
"score": 13
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Interested in giving fisting a try | I'm interested in giving fisting a try but my wife is worried by all the images you see where it looks like people's anuses have started to try to escape their owners. I've been able to fir 4 fingers in without any permanent damage but I was wondering if anyone knows exactly what are the risks of stretching yourself out to the point of extreme anal flaring? Something like [this](http://www.latexangel.com/galleries/free/lxa/fhm/ce_kv59/1821492) is what she doesn't want to happen | 7 | [
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"body": "I think you should have titled this anal fisting. If my creepy Bio teacher was correct, the vagina is designed to adapt in size to things much larger than a penis and rebound (a la baby). The anus is not, unless you eat only P.F. Changs (Sorry for the South Park reference).",
"score": 7
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"body": "In my experience, although I've not reached complete fisting, the anus can be surprisingly flexible without any damage, even cosmetic.\r\n\r\nYour anus will start to look bad if you, without having anything in it, \"keep it open and push outwards\". Or if you stretch up to quickly/forcefully. Or if you stretch for extended periods of time, without any pressure release, e.g. wearing a butt plug.\r\n\r\nYou could use anti-hemorrhoid ointments as a precaution. Take the kind that reinforces blood vessels. After a session don't sit, but take a position that puts zero pressure on your anus. I also did \"anal muscle exercises\", i.e. focus on contracting your sphincter, also to relieve pressure.\r\n\r\nI honestly think you can safely fist without looking like Latex Angel.\r\n",
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Reddit, What is your greatest feat of strength? | Me- I can do 100 push ups. about 2 single hand pull ups. I am learning how to do human flag pole. What about you?
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"body": "In weights class in high school I remember my first squat when the bar started to bend over my shoulders. I was so happy to see that happen in the mirror. I think it was a little over 400lbs. on the bar (almost double my weight).",
"score": 3
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"body": "Deadlifting 525lbs while weighing 160lbs. Almost passed out I was so dizzy afterwards but it still was a great day.",
"score": 3
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What kinds of quirky behaviors do you notice in people in your day to day activities? | At work our credit card scanner is built into the side of our monitor. Frequently when I go to swipe a customers credit card, they'll think I'm giving it back to them and reach for the card. More often than not, when they realize I'm swiping their card, they'll stop midreach and itch their face or adjust their glasses or something. I was bored at work yesterday and decided to science it up a little and found that out of 23 credit card transactions, 14 preemptively reached for their card. Of those 14, 9 tried to play it off as something else. I also noticed that where the customer was standing in relation to the register played a role in whether they would reach for their card, though at that point in the experiment it was too late to factor it in as a variable.
Obviously I've taken this particular example to the extreme, but what kinds of discrete behaviors have you noticed in people that are otherwise easily overlooked? | 151 | [
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"body": "Out of the corner of my eye I can see people talking into the microphones hidden in their sleeves.\n\nAs soon as I turn to face them they start acting normally, as if nothing was going on.\n\n",
"score": 165
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"body": "When people are walking and realize they forgot something or for some reason need to turn around, they'll make some arm-flapping motion and mutter to themselves.\n\nApparently they think this makes them look *less* crazy than if they had simply turned around and walked the other way.",
"score": 152
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"body": "When the person taking my ticket says \"enjoy your movie\" or \"have a good flight,\" I'm apt to say \"you too!\"",
"score": 108
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"body": "Drivers tend to follow the actions of the driver in front of them regardless of road conditions. For example, when I swerve to avoid a pothole the driver behind me swerves equally as much. By 'swerve' I mean casually turn the steering wheel to go around the pothole.. not \"OH SHIT DEER\" swerve - thats just unsafe. I've tried this when there wasn't any pothole at all and the result was the same.",
"score": 70
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"body": "I conduct experiments on Reddit to see what people upvote or downvote, or exactly how to word things to get people to respond in certain ways. ",
"score": 58
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"body": "When someone trips over a crack in a sidewalk or something, they always look back at it for some reason.",
"score": 57
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"body": "If someone is standing outside an empty meeting/classroom with a closed door waiting to go in, soon you will have a whole group of people standing there waiting to get in. I love to walk up and open the door and go in. They all go, \"gee why have we been standing here this whole time.\" I don't know why they do it. Maybe they assume the first guy there would surely have checked it out and found that the room was occupied or locked.",
"score": 53
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"body": "forget other people, I have too many quirks myself. After reaching work, I unconsciously reach out for a seat belt on my chair :/",
"score": 52
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"body": "Two things. \n\nI'm so used to watching TV and videos on my computer that when I do watch on a real TV I absentmindedly adjust the volume up and down every 20 minutes or so like I'm making sure the screen saver doesn't come on. Once I caught myself actually jiggling the TV remote. \n\nI was at a party once and realized that if you hold something out to someone quickly, look them in the eye and confidently say \"here\", they will almost always take it without question. My sister and I spent the whole party drinking a few sips from a pop can handing it to a random person and walking away. \n\nAt a dance a couple months later I took this to a completely new level. My sister and her friends had spent a good 1/2 hour giggling over some guy they thought was cute. When the next slow song came on I asked if she wanted to dance with him, picked her up, walked over to him said here and handed her into his arms. His reaction to being handed a cute girl he didn't know was priceless. He just stood there for a good 15 seconds holding her then asked her to dance. They became good friends and later dated. ",
"score": 49
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"body": "When people mime scissors with two fingers when looking for real scissors in the kitchen - like it will help to find them.",
"score": 48
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"body": "When people change direction when walking and need to look at their watch or scratch their heads, as if to tell everyone els that yes, there is a valid reason for my decision. ",
"score": 39
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"body": "People become different when they talk on cellphones. I am guilty of this too. Someone could be just staring into the distance waiting for the bus, but then once they start talking on the phone, now they have to kick around rocks or maybe kick snow into a small pile and step on it, or walk in circles or start investigating the finer details of the bic pen they are holding.\n",
"score": 36
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"body": "If you super glue change to the ground a lot of people will stop and try to pick it up. Afterwards, when they realize they have been made a fool, they will try to play it off as if they were tying their shoe.",
"score": 31
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"body": "In college I ran accross an interesting idea, when I lent someone my notes which were effectively a sheet or two of paper per class, they would always be returned quickly and in perfect condition, while if I lent anyone a book it would often return dog eared, have taken them 2 months to return it, sometimes with water damage or thumb prints on the pages, generally fairly bad condition.\nAs an experiement I started copying pages of books out into my notes before class, then taking notes around the passages of the book, just to see if this would affect the quality of the notes when I got them back.\n\nI noticed 3 things:\nMost people will mindlessly copy 2 paragraphs of a fiction book into their physics notes without realising it.\nThose that do notice will bring it up next time they see you, but have no problems with returning the notes or borrowing notes again at a later date.\nThis is the only way to lend anyone a book without it being returned in a damaged state.",
"score": 30
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"body": "I'm puzzled by the length of time I see older gentlemen sitting in their cars after coming to a stop in their parking spaces, motionless. Are they just listening to the radio or is there something much more depressing and existential at work here?",
"score": 27
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"body": "Whenever I see my boss my left hand middle finger and thumb twitch a little bit. I realized a while ago that those fingers sit near the Alt and Tab keys :).\n\nReminds me of a story:\nOne time two of my buddies was at work checking out some golf equipment online. Neither of them notice when their boss comes up behind them. He stands there for a good 30 seconds without saying anything, and then asks \"so which golf balls are the best?\" My friend turns around, sees him there, and then hits Alt-Tab off of instinct. It really only made things worse.",
"score": 26
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"body": "My father is unable to hear the name of a foreign country without attempting to speak in the associated accent of that country for five minutes following the mention.\n\nAnd it is horrible.",
"score": 23
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"body": "Another more ubiquitous one I've noticed is the disproportionate number of elderly people who pay in cash and have exact change. I chalk it up to living on a fixed income, but I think it may also have to do with growing in a post-depression household where perhaps they were more frugal than the retirement-age baby boomers who seem to charge everything.",
"score": 20
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"body": "Years ago I had a boss who would not just fart in meetings, but also smell his farts in meetings.\r\n\r\nHe would try to be sly about it, but after awhile we all noticed what he was doing, and we would look out for it.\r\n\r\nTypically he would wait until someone else was talking, and everyones attention was on that person. Once he thought the coast was clear, he would slightly lift himself on one buttcheek, and fart into his cupped hand on the other side. Then he would causally make a motion like he was rubbing his nose or something, when in reality he was then smelling his recently laid fart.\r\n\r\nIt was pretty nasty, and I don't believe he thought anyone knew he did it, he did it so often, I'm not even sure he was all that aware of it himself, it was like burping or something.",
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"body": "I work in cube land (at a major animation company) and this one guy who used to share our cube pack had a few quirky behavior patterns I observed.\n1. sniff his wrist, often. He would often try to play it off as a rub of the side of his nose with his forearm but throw in a sniff at the right time.\n2. OCD about washing his hands. I mean he would go to the bathroom JUST to wash his hands, thoroughly, then use one paper towel to use to turn off the faucet, 2 to wipe and a fourth to use on the door handle.\n\nAnd no I didn't follow him around. He would do it so often that I would just catch him in the act as I was going about my own business. \n\np.s.\nI like picking my nose.",
"score": 15
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"body": "I laugh quietly to myself when I see people walking in time to music. Then I think about how stupid I must look trying to time my steps outside of the beat.",
"score": 12
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"body": "Your mom has this tendency to scream old Billy Joel lyrics when she orgasms.\n\nIt's starting to freak me out.",
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"body": "Why don't you swipe the card from bottom to top then hand the card back in one swift motion only to finish it off with a Fonzie like, \"Ehhh!\"?",
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"body": "office building elevators -- if someone is not riding with someone they know, they will stare at one of three things to avoid eye-contact/interaction with strangers in the elevator: a) their phone, b) the numbers, c) the floor",
"score": 10
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"body": "1. People yelling at drive-thru intercoms.\r\n2. I find people who deliberately avoid eye-contact quirky.\r\n3. People who have to look at their shit before they flush it away. I think people are interested in what comes out.\r\n4. People who look at themselves in reflective windows to make sure they're \"proper\".",
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"body": "I have an instant \"Edit+Undo\" keyboard shortcut had twitch instinct that happens whenever I mess up a pen drawing or a painting.",
"score": 9
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"body": "I run to and from work every day. Oncoming runners tend to look right at you up until 10-15 feet away then look away. I always nod to people but I do not think most see it. Every once and a while some will nod back or wave, but it is sadly rare (twice a week).",
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"body": "There's a guy that I know in my office who pees at the urinal in \"spurts\". Yeah, it sounds like he's pinching it off after a second. 20 spurts later he's finished. However, prior to spurting into the urinal he always whispers...\"ohhhh, godddd\".\r\n\r\nOh, and his last name is Weinerman.\r\n",
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"body": "One that people have noticed about myself, is that whenever I say goodbye to someone I always say \"alright have a good day/night\".",
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"body": "I click scan. When reading online I constantly fidget with the mouse cursor, highlighting text as I read it either by dragging or triple clicking.",
"score": 7
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"body": "This one really bothers me: Hair flipping. Mostly youngish males with hair that's long enough to sit on the forehead, but not to cover the eyes. They flip their head to the side, barely moving their hair, every 5-7 seconds in conversation. It makes it very difficult for me to carry on conversation without giggling. \n\n\"So there we were *flip*, sitting at the bus stop, when, like *flip* she suddenly started crying about like, *flip* something I said LAST WEEK.\"",
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"body": "My brother puts a letter M in the word 'open.' Like... 'ompen.'\n\n... you know it actually doesn't sound wrong at all when he says it. Sounds natural as anything. Does anyone notice they do this?",
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"body": "> itch their face\n\nMany apologies, but this one bugs me too much not to say anything. You don't itch your face, you scratch it.",
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"body": "When I'm at a red light I'll inch up then stop, inch up then stop, inch up then stop over and over -- I see how many times i can get the person behind me to inch along with me... they usually don't stop until the light turns green, try it sometime.",
"score": 6
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"body": "If someone asks or tells me something about a date in the future I tend to look at my watch, even if it's something which is happening several days in the future, so the current time would have no bearing.",
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"body": "I am amazed at how many people in the offices I work in pick their noses in plain view. A fairly successful manager at one company I worked at for three years would just pick his nose constantly, even in meetings, trying to play it off as a scratch. He'd then examine the gold he dug. It made me want to vomit and I never, ever shook his hand.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Whenever I'm in a new vehicle I reach behind the steering column to shift the car into drive, despite the fact my car – and every car I've ever driven regularly – has had the transmission shift lever between the front seats. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "Sometimes, when I'm walking along the street without paying much attention to my environment or myself, I will start to step rhythmically or move my hands as if I'm drumming for a few beats, then catch myself doing it and stop. I suppose I'm just bored on these occasions.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I am waiting at a crosswalk for the light to change. There is no traffic. I decide that it is safe to cross against the red light. Most of the others who are waiting will follow me. I think that they suddenly feel foolish waiting despite there being no traffic.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I did a lot of lamaze classes a few months ago. I noticed that a lot of guys roll up the hand out pages into a tube then hold it in their lap so it looks rude. Noticed I did it as well.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I don't work in a convenience store but I've seen this enough times. When someone buys scratch tickets they never take them from the front, and if they have more than one ticket they never grab two that are beside each other.",
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"body": "I find it odd and slightly disturbing when people move their mouths while others speak. There was one girl I met when I first moved to the mainland who looked like she was trying to make the same motions with her mouth as the person speaking. Because of it I refused to say any more than absolutely necessary around her. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "People in a lift/elevator who say \"Thank you\" as they're getting out. Even if you didn't hold the door for them or anything. \n\nLast person who said it to me, I said \"It's ok, the lift did the hard work\". I don't think she got it.",
"score": 4
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"body": "This happens to me almost every time I go to the movies, when the ticket seller hands me the tickets and says enjoy the movie, I almost alwasy say \"you too\" and then kick myself for saying it...",
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"body": "Oh strangely enough i have done the exact same thing as the OP, its all about the speed at which you go to the card swiper if you do it quickly they will try to grab it, the slower you do it the less likely they will do it",
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"body": "There used to be a guy where I work that would always get a new spoon out of the drawer to stir his coffee because someone else might have licked the ones already out. And he would never get coffee out of the same pot as you if he saw you pour it, and would even go as far as to brew a new pot to avoid this if the other pot was empty.",
"score": 3
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"body": "When people turn on a microwave, they look inside for several seconds as if they expect something to happen.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I never noticed until I got called out on it one time, but apparently every time I talk about typing something or using a computer, I type in the air with my hands.\n\n\nI also do the pat-my-pockets-like-I-forgot-something move when I need to turn around.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I like looking at people's cold faces. Ya know, that face we all make when we're walking in the frigid cold.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I smile and make eye contact with people for no real reason except to make them think I am not weird. If I didn't care my face would just be totally blank.",
"score": 3
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"body": "this is me and not other people... BUT. I can't be the only one. Whenever I read 'wink wink' I always wink with it...",
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Hey Reddit, can you tell me why tobacco companies put toxic chemicals in cigarettes? | It just seems weird to me that the US Government approves the purposeful addition of over 500 known toxins (including carcinogens) in cigarettes. I've heard a couple theories (such as a government attempt to control the population) but they don't seem believable. I just don't understand why they don't just put different flavours of tobacco in cigarettes. Anyone?
Here's where i got the info: http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/nicotineinhaler/a/cigingredients.htm
EDIT: Spelling, Info Sources | 3 | [
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"body": ">It just seems weird to me that the US Government approves the purposeful addition of over 500 know toxins (including carcinogens) in cigarettes.\n\nAll of those \"toxins\" are also approved as food additives.",
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How about some heterosexual female consideration when placing ads? Fuck the double standard. | I'm so sick of seeing TV and magazine ads with the typical woman being gorgeous and just waiting to be taken, and the typical male is a middle aged, out of shape selfish jerk with a bad personality to boot. I have no problem with men looking at women they find attractive, but what the hell am I supposed to look at? Why is does there seem to be absolutely nothing aimed at straight women with a sexuality these days? I drink alcohol; why does every guy on the beach in beer or liquor commercial look like old bloated shit unless it's a Parrot Bay (geared towards gay men) ad? Even the typical family (like in a computer or phone commercial) consists of a moderately attractive wife and her butt ugly out of shape husband. It spills into TV shows as well. "According to Jim", "King of Queens", "Two and a Half men", every single "Law and Order". I don't really find these shows entertaining, so how about some eye candy for me? But what really annoys me is the image given by the double standard:
It's ok for men to be mediocre and out of shape; in fact if you're a man and you care about the way you look at all, then you're gay. If you're a woman, you are expected to be in the best shape you can possibly be and then 20Ilbs lighter; but if you expect the same from a man you're a shallow bitch. | 30 | [
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"body": "Male of the species here. I don't really like that men are portrayed as bumbling fatties either. Not so much because I want to look at eye candy, but I'm afraid when my son watches TV it's always the same story: dad's a borderline alcoholic with good intentions who almost always screws up, mom's gorgeous and always on the ball, fixing whatever dad did wrong. It's not really a good message for either gender. \n\nI blame Homer Simpson. Or maybe Archie Bunker.",
"score": 30
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"body": "I've taken issue with this for a long time. If you take a handful of successful male actors/comedians/performers, you get a pretty mixed bag. Sure some are gorgeous, but they are mostly relegated to the superficial borderlands of celluloid. Most really respected male actors are attractive, but not impossibly so. Then take a handful of women actors/comedians/performers. How many of them, even the truly respected ones, look like they were engineered for the cover of Vogue? Additionally, most of them have had work done, even the ones who claim to be natural. Halle Berry, Winona Rider, Beyonce, Angelina Jolie, Ashlee Simpson, Britney Spears, Nicole Kidman, Victoria Beckham, Paris Hilton, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Fergie, Christina Aguilera, Salma Hayek, Demi Moorie, Jennifer Aniston, and even Marylin Monroe had work done. Naturally beautiful women are still not beautiful enough, and this is on top of makeup, hair extensions, body doubles, and air brushing. \n\nI know there is plenty of pressure on men, I'd never deny that. But to some extent, men get to try hard in life. Women have to try harder, and harder. Especially in the media.",
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"body": "Yeah, the sitcoms, Christ. The women are stunning trophies, and the men are boorish, overweight, and shallow, and they can't be assed to think about much. It's not even played for comedic gender stereotype effect like Married with Children or Home Improvement anymore; they're just dumbasses.\n\nI've had to wonder if it's the Caligula effect going on, with networks tailoring depictions of men carefully so that it doesn't trigger envy or feelings of inadequacy in the male audience.",
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"body": "I'm not sure this is actually a double standard in a meaningful way -- women have been slowly presented to be smarter, better looking, while men are presented as bumbling idiots. \n\nI guess that it's mildly offensive to female sexuality to not present men as objects of desire (although c'mon, they are -- look at the movie industry, not many doughy morons there), but what is worse is that not only are they not good looking (which I would disagree with, although there seems to be research that says that women actually [prefer less attractive men](http://www.livescience.com/health/080410-couples-beauty.html)), they are dumb. I personally think that it is a win for women that women are presented as attractive *and* intelligent, not just ingénues with no other redeeming characteristics. \n\nEither way, I think you get what you pay for with mass market entertainment meant to capture your eyeballs for advertisers -- stuff that isn't challenging, or intelligent, but just entertaining enough to keep you watching.",
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Ask Reddit, I quit smoking on January 1st and I find I am fidgety now. What have some of you done to replace the relaxing time you used to spend when smoking. | To add I quit smoking pot and cigarettes and I can't figure out something to do to replace this. and drinking is not an option, I don't like alcohol that much.
edit: well at least I am not alone, I am also trying to not be a fat ass anymore. I am 6' 285 lbs and fat. the food will help but not in the fat loss dept. | 13 | [
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"body": "I am running in to the same issue.\n\n\nI also quit, cold turkey, on January 1st. \n\n\nSo far I've tried eating an M&M every time I get a craving (just one, so I don't become a fatass. It must be peanut butter or I will injure someone) and I also have tried drinking red bull / coffee / mountain dew / etc. to mimic the up you get from a cigarette.\n\n\n\nSo far I can't sleep and I shit a river due to all the extra caffeine and excess food. \n\n\nBut god dammit, I haven't smoked one single drag from a cigarette.\n\n\n\nI'm hoping this thread helps me also.",
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Tiger Woods is Athlete of the Decade, but is golf an athletic sport to start with? | I'm not taking away from the fact that Tiger Woods has some mad golf skills, makes a metric butt ton of money and obviously get the ladies, but is he an athlete?
They hit a ball and then get in a cart to go hit the ball again. Is archery an athletic sport? They are not that different. | 10 | [
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"body": "I've played soccer, baseball, and basketball. I've also skateboarded and snowboarded. The hardest thing I've ever done is try to hit a golf ball straight. And walking 18 holes is harder than catching nine innings any day.",
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"body": "What is an athletic sport? Does it require running? If so, a pitcher in baseball is not an athlete (not to mention winter sports, like skiing).\n\nIf athleticism requires physical strength and coordination, then I'd say a good golfer qualifies as an athlete. A great golfer has to have impeccable body control, physical strength, coordination, timing, etc. That said, how could success in golf not be an athletic achievement?\n",
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"body": "This thread is filled to burst with misrepresentations based on how people feel. Let me try to help:\n\n**sport**: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition\n\n\n**athlete**: a person trained to compete in sports\n\n\nSo I ask you; in what way is Golf not a sport comprised of athletes?",
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"body": "I love golf; played for three years in high school and try to get out as often as my wallet allows these days. That said...golf aint about athleticism as much as it is about muscle memory and decision making. \r\n\r\nIt does take a strong body and ability to play golf well because all the gears need to be working well in unison to produce the best shot, but you don't have to make any snap judgements where your body simply reacts. When I think of what makes a good athlete, I think of things like reaction ability under physical pressure. Tiger's stress stems from the mental aspect of golf...anyone who thinks they can handle playing 18 at the PGA with tens of thousands of fans is lying to themselves, but Tiger never has to deal with a shot that he first doesn't have the opportunity to breakdown all the options. \r\n\r\nBut, since golf is a sport, and it follows that competitors in sports are called athletes, Tiger Woods is an athlete by default. And there was no athlete more dominant in their given sport over the past decade as Tiger.",
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"body": "\"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.\" - Ernest Hemingway \n\nNot really applicable here but thought i'd throw it out",
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"body": "The Onion has [something to say](http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_who_used_stick_to_roll) on this matter.",
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Who would be in your Supergroup? | If you could handpick 3-6 awesome/facemelting/talented/incredible musicians to form a supergroup (that isn't already one) who would they be? EDIT: Mine would be: Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, John Bonham, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, and for good measure Ray Manzarek. | 9 | [
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"body": "David Byrne - vox\n\nDavid Bowie - guitars/vox\n\nDavid Gilmour - guitars/vox\n\nDavid Holland - drums\n\nDavid Vincent - bass\n\nDavid Sancious - keys",
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"body": "The ultimate supergroup (talent-wise): Freddie Mercury (vocals), Jimi Hendrix (guitar), Eddie Van Halen (guitar), John Paul Jones (bass), Keith Moon (drums).",
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"body": "Bruce Dickinson- Vocals\n\nJimi Hendrix - Guitar\n\nStevie Ray Vaughn - Guitar\n\nGeddy Lee - Bass Guitar\n\nKeith Moon - Drums\n",
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"body": "Super group #1: Wayne Coyne, John Frusciante, ?uestlove, & Matt Freeman\n\nSuper group #2: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Topper Headon, and Paul Simonon (already was a super group)",
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Anyone else sore for 3 days after EVERY workout? | Last year I was going to the gym twice a week for hour long intense workouts with a personal trainer (mixing cardio and weights). I did this for nine months. I was sore EVERY DAY.
Monday I would work out, Tuesday, Wednesday I would be very sore and walking around like an old man. Thursday I would be somewhat sore in the morning but usually it would be just about gone by the time I started my Thursday workout. Then three more days of soreness and back at it on Monday.
I'm totally aware that doing a hard work out after being sedentary for a while will cause this, but it never got any better after months and months of staying with it. I got sick of spending every day of my life being sore and it was a big factor in me quitting.
Anyone else had to deal with this? Any tips?
Edit:
Another thing I'll mention is that I'm a big guy, 6' 3" 310 pounds (240 lean), who gains muscle and fat very easily.
For example, take the last 3 month period I was working out.
The first month I worked out 2 hours a week. For the last two months I was only working out 1 hour a week. I was eating poorly. At the end of 3 months I had gained 15 pounds (from 295 to 310). 9 pounds of muscle and 6 pounds of fat. | 8 | [
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"body": "Scientifically I don't know what or why but the following is what works for me.\n\n* Warm up before lifting - Basically the movements without weights and light ballistic stretching with a short light jog or something to get the blood flowing.\n* I have to get enough proper nutrition - lots of protein, good fat, few carbs\n* Plenty of sleep - ~8 hours for me\n\nWhen I do that I'm fine but if any one of those falls through I'm too sore for longer than normal.",
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What is the most scared you have ever been? | I can't think of any times that I have ever been truly scared out of my mind. I've had a few close calls with death/serious injury, but I wasn't hurt, so it didn't hit me until later what could have happened.
I think the closest thing I've got to a story is the time I was held up at knifepoint. I was with a friend on an outdoor walkway on the side of a large apartment complex. The only exit was the stairwell I had just come from. Two guys walked up behind us, one carrying a knife. I think they were high. He asked me to show him my side pockets (just keys) and the contents of my backpack (just books), but strangely didn't ask for my wallet. He didn't see the black camera I had in the bottom of my black back pack, so he didn't even take that. He did take my friend's camera, and that's it.
I didn't help that I was in another country, and barely spoke the language.
The weirdest part is that I wasn't scared at all about the guy holding a knife. I was most scared that he'd see my legs shaking, and think I was scared. My legs were only shaking because I had so much adrenaline pumping through my body, but I was standing still.
Anyway, sorry if it's kind of a weak story. How about you, Reddit? | 61 | [
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"body": "Having a 6'5\" 230 pound guy escape from police custody by hiding a handcuff key under his tongue, escaping his shackles, kicking out the police van door and then knocking out the woman transporting him. He took her gun, carjacked my friend and I and shot my friend point blank in the face with a .357, killing him instantly by severing his carotid artery. The shots missed me and I ran.\n\n\nHe's now on death row.",
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"body": "when we found my 1 yr old baby sister on the bottom of our swimming pool. \napparently she overheard us talking about going for a swim and somehow went in while we were changing clothes. \nNone of us still know how she got to the pool or how she could've gotten past us. \n\nmy dad drove like a madman to the hospital \n\nshe's 13 now.. ",
"score": 110
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"body": "i've worked in several banks and been in 2 armed takeover robberies. for my 1st one, i had just started working in that branch and was the only male in the office. a car pulled up in front of the door and 2 guys jumped out with ski masks and guns in their hands. it was my 4th day there, but being the only dude in the office they assumed i was the manager and put the gun in my face first. i immediately said, \"i just started here, i dont have any cash\" and they moved to the teller next to me.\n\nwhile they cleaned out the teller's drawer i could see the robbers were just kids (late teens, early 20s). i started sizing up one of them when the other one noticed and he said \"kill that nigga\". the robber i was sizing up came and put the gun up to my head and i thought that was it for me. \n\nthey took us into the vault room along with the 1 elderly customer we had in the office and had us all lay down on the ground while they opened the cash vault with a supervisor. she (the supervisor) started saying that we need 2 keys and the other key was on someone out to lunch, which was a lie. i'll never forgive that cunt for risking all of our lives to save the bank a few bucks.\n\nanyways, they ended up leaving with a small amount of cash. they jumped back into the car and took off around the back of the building. they got out, jumped a wall into a residential neighborhood and jumped into a waiting getaway car. it took the police over a half hour to get to us due to a jurisdiction mix up with the local authorities. i guess it is better that way so we didnt have a hostage situation.\n\nwent back to work the next day and went on like nothing happened. i ended up quitting that job and went on to another bank where i was involved in my 2nd robbery. after the 2nd one, it all really hit me. i became a bit racist (both robberies involved black people) and found myself trying to start fights with bigger black dudes when i would go out so i could release some of my pent up anger. it never happened... probably for my own good. i started seeing a shrink and now i feel better about the whole thing.",
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"body": "Every day I am completely terrified. My wife is in the Army and will be deploying to Afghanistan. She tells me that she will be completely safe but I know that bad things happen over there and people die every day. It is absolutely terrifying to know that the person you love more than anything will be gone for a year in a dangerous situation and you can do absolutely nothing about it. ",
"score": 40
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"body": "when I was driving to New York, I accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in New Jersey.\n\nI've also been in a car crash where the car spun when I was 12, when I lived in Israel as a kid this bomb exploded near my house, and another time there was an accident in this underground bunker and it exploded or something and it was huge.\n\nBut damn.... New Jersey.",
"score": 40
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"body": "Getting caught in a rip current a few summers ago. Holy crap and I thought I was a good swimmer too. ",
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"body": "I was newly married with a 1 year old daughter... we lived on the shores of Lake Travis and we were all wading around near shore with our girl in one of those toddler life vests. She was having a blast, kicking around and practically swimming on her own.\n\nThis particular spot on the beach there was a small inlet/cove thing that provided another beach about 100 yards directly across. My wife was a competitive swimmer, so she often swam this gap for exercise. I was not interested at all in exercise and I was lucky if I could swim across a bathtub. I wasn't fat, just not fit.\n\nThere we were, the happy family playing and splashing in the water about 20 feet from shore... I decided to go grab a drink real quick, so I pushed my girl back towards my wife and started walking up to the shore. I fully expected her to see this happen and watch her for the few moments I'd be away.\n\nUnfortunately, at the very moment I turned my back, my wife also turned and decided to swim to the other beach. Our daughter then decided to go paddling after her as I walked up to grab my drink.\n\nI heard the sound of a ski boat coming, and I looked out into the lake and saw it close by, throwing a small wake in our direction. I smiled and waved, then turned back to the gap between the beaches. That was when I saw my baby girl floundering in the water and the wake rolling toward her.\n\nI dropped everything and ran as fast as I could into the water, tripping and faceplanting in the shallows. That didn't slow me down much - I was still in overdrive to get to my girl. Those baby vests aren't 100% effective and my poor baby was rolling over on to her face and she just couldn't keep her head up.\n\nI swam for all I was worth, surprised at how far out she'd gotten. I guess it was about halfway, but maybe it was less. The bottom dropped out quickly as I swam to the center of the cut. In my panicked swim I saw my wife just reaching the other side and walking out on to the beach. I tried to yell but I only sucked in water.\n\nI was about 10 feet away when the roller hit my baby girl and it flipped her face down in the water. It only took me a few more seconds to get to her and roll her back over, but I was freaked. She couldn't breathe for a long moment, then finally spit up an ugly amount of water. \n\nMy girl was coughing and hacking, unable to draw a breath, and flailing her limbs as I lifted her up and patted her back. My legs were kicking furiously to keep from sinking and I began to realize my time was limited. I glanced over at my wife on the other side and saw that she still wasn't looking in our direction. I belted out a weak \"HELP!\" but I couldn't tell if she heard.\n\nI started swimming back to the side I came from, but I'd already expended all my energy getting out there. In trying to get a breath of air, I inhaled a lungful of lake. I pushed up my girl and tried to spit out the water to get another breath, but I got water again. I realized that I was, in fact, going under and there was nothing I could do about it.\n\nI started seeing spots, tunnel vision, and my lungs were burning like fire. Even my nose hurt. I just kicked and kicked as hard as I could, battling against the continuing rollers from passing boats and trying to keep my daughter upright so she could breathe.\n\nFinally I just didn't have it in me anymore... I couldn't struggle enough to even keep my head above water. It was the most powerless feeling I'd ever had, and as far as I was concerned - the last feeling I'd ever have. I remember being sad that my daughter wouldn't get to know me and hoping that her mother would have a chance to save her before she drowned too.\n\nJust that moment I was grabbed by my hair and almost literally launched out of the water. I was still completely disoriented and fading out, but I remember being thrown on the beach where I was folded, spindled, and mutilated so that I'd get rid of the water. \n\nI certainly got rid of the water. Gallons of it. I thought I'd never stop. That, and coughing. I coughed so hard I cracked a rib. When I'd finally regained my wits enough to look around, I saw my daughter sitting close by, happily playing with the plastic bucket and shovel we'd brought with us.\n\nThat was when I put my head in my hands and cried. Soon that turned in to uncontrollable shaking. Finally I was able to get up and head back to the house where I basically laid in bed for the rest of the day. Coughing mostly, but snuggling with my daughter as much as I could.\n\n**EDIT:** It was my wife that saved me. She was a nationally ranked swimmer and a trained rescuer, and she rescued the hell out of my ass that day. Apparently she heard my yell for help and made record time to where I was. She said I'd just gone under for the last time when she grabbed me and my girl and dragged us both to shore.",
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"body": "When my 3 year old daughter started chocking. Her airway was completely blocked, and I tried all of the proper techniques to dislodge the obstruction, and none worked. I started to freak out and put my index finger down her throat as far as I could to remove the obstruction. \n\nShe started to cough and gag and then cry. It still chokes me up to think about it.",
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"body": "I posted this in a previous thread regarding nastiest accidents:\n\nWell this won't include all the gory details because I refuse to go through them all - I have gone through years of therapy and I still can't get the images out of my head.\n\nI was driving with my parents out of the city for a trip to the country. We were going to spend New Years eve up in these mountains I love. Dad had some business to do along the way so we stopped in a few towns and our trip got pretty delayed (its an ~9 hour drive). We were driving on the 28th of December and there was pretty bad traffic out there as everyone was rushing out for the holidays. It started getting late so dad took a detour to find a hotel to stay the night. We were on a narrow stretch with 2 lanes and my dad who was driving saw a car swerve in and out of its lane. The driver appeared drunk so my dad started slowing the car as much as he could and moving his car as far as he could to the right to allow the car for space to get back into his lane, but dad didn't have much space as there was a cliff to our right. At one point dad figured the other dude wouldn't be able to get back into his lane so he stopped the car and my mom and him held themselves knowing the car was going to hit us. The car swerved on the last minute outwards, but it skid and hit us on its side and went down the cliff.\n\nBack in those days, dad traveled a lot through dodgy roads so he bought a fairly strong car (Toyota Land Cruiser) and we had these huge strong grills installed across the front (I forget what they're called in English). The other car was a dinky little sedan. I think it was an old Corolla but I could be wrong. My parents obviously got out of the car and ran down the cliff with flashlights to check on the other car trying to help whoever was in it. They locked me inside our car as it was a tad of a dangerous place/situation and ran to help. All the cars around us stopped and created a mob around the car. Many of them were describing the state of the passengers and until this day I can't get the images I formed from their description out of my mind.\n\nApparently they had a hit a tree on the way down and hit some big rocks and none of the passengers had seat belts so you can only imagine what happened to all of them. Some described the people looking like a bloody puree, others talked about the front passenger being projectiled through the front and being impaled by branches on the tree.\n\nI was scared shitless. There I was, 16, pissed at life that I was going to spend New Year's with my parents out in the mountains but I figured I would make the best out of the trip. I never expected the trip to turn this way. I could have gotten very hurt though. I was sitting in the backseat between my parents two seats talking to them but Metallica's \"Fade to Black\" had played on my CD player so I turned the volume up, zoned out and laid back on the seats. I was half asleep when it happened. The only thing I remember was dad stopping the car, my parents screaming and the loudest bang I have ever felt. I rolled out of my seat and hit the back of my neck against dad's seat. Regardless of the hit I took we got out of the accident with minor injuries. Mom got hurt the most. She got a fissure in one of her vertebrae. My dad didn't have a scratch and I hit the back of my neck pretty badly but we were all alive, while 4 of the 5 passengers in the other car were mush. The driver survived without major injuries. He was pissed drunk.\n",
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"body": "I was freeclimbing on a very steep cliff once, after being assured that I could probably make it to the top just fine. I tried to get back down and it started raining, making the rock too slick to descend. I had to wait on the side of the cliff-face for roughly an hour. I didn't like it that much.",
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"body": "Being raped in an apartment where no one knew where I was or when I was coming back while a guy held a knife against my skin. I was pretty sure I wouldn't be found until I'd decomposed.",
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"body": "when I was drugged at a new years eve party with some sort of hallucinogen. I cant remember the name of the drug the doctors found in my system- its an uncommon type of drug that is hard to come by and is known to produce very unpleasant hallucinations. My doctor says that probably whoever drugged me had the intent to give me a negative experience. It was very scary. I was high as a kite and I dont remember much. From what I do remember, I saw very vivid, violen, scary, and gory and I heard scary voices. It was like being in the scariest, most graphic and bloody horror movie you have ever seen. I have never been so scared in my entire life!! I could have probably easily hurt myself or others so my friends called an ambulance once they realized what was happening. The scariest image that I saw was a monster looking in the window trying to get in and kill me. Also I saw a very scary monster literally eating a friend. And, another friend was tryiing to talk to me and I saw a person stab someone behind them, and then start to creep up on the friend I was talking to with a knife. They got up to the person and put the knife on thier throat and told me not to tell her what he was about to do.",
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"body": "I was robbed at gunpoint by 3 youths in West Philly. \n\nThey flashed a gun at me after they stopped me walking home. They took my phone and my ipod but I really didn't have anything else. I really wasn't scared by the whole process until they told me to turn around, facing away from them, and walk. Immediately, because I couldn't see the threat, I felt that overwhelming panic and feeling that they were just going to shoot me dead in the street right there. Worst part of the whole thing was i was literally 1/4 of a block away from my apartment when this all happened.\n\nEasily scariest moment I've had.",
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"body": "1) My wife had a seizure when she was seven months pregnant. Her face turned purple / black etc... and she was unresponsive for what seemed like forever, but was probably only a few minutes. Luckily everything turned out Ok.\n\n2) Much more amusing than scary upon hindsight, but at the time it was freaking terrifying. I used to go running at night in my neighborhood, which is right next to a park. I was on the way back home with the park on my right and some houses on my left when I heard a horrible loud animal/monster noise like a cat strangling a baby come from about 3 feet to my left. Scared me shitless, and I ended up sprinting the rest of the way home. I had to go about 1/3 mile, and as I was sprinting home the noise first followed me, and then paralleled my course back to my house. I'm not in great shape, so I damn near passed out from the exertion. I grew up in southern NJ and we have the legend of the [Jersey Devil](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil) down there and I guess my usually rational mind was simply caught up in the moment or something. \n\nAnyway, it turns out that I had startled a fox that was raiding a trash can in that person's driveway, and it ran home to it's den in the park, which happened to be almost directly across the street from my house, screaming bloody murder the whole way. I didn't even know that foxes made all that much noise until then.\n\n[Fox noises](http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/thefoxden/sounds.html) - redfox_distress down near the bottom is pretty close to what I heard.",
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"body": "When my oldest child's umbilical cord broke on her side of the clamp just after being born. The amount of blood that came flying out of her was so scary, but even scarier was my husbands reaction. Knowing my husband had worked in neonatal ambulances, I knew it was bad when he turned sheet white and left my side. Of course the \"Dr\" yelling \"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!\" lent to the scariness of the whole thing. ",
"score": 14
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"body": "I saw Dawn of the Dead when it first came out. I was so scared by it that I could hardly sleep that night. THEN, the door to my dorm room flies open and there's this shambling figure outlined by the hall light. It staggers into the room moaning. I thought my heart would pop out of my chest. Then I hear my roommate say, \"Man, I'm so drunk...\" ",
"score": 13
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"body": "Stopped on our way home from a night of drinking by men dressed as Mexican Federales. Guns pointed at us, money demanded, they made us sit by the side of the road with our backs to them for 15 minutes. Fucking terrifying. We had (have) no idea if they were actually police or not. We gave them 4500 pesos (everything we had on us) and eventually they let us go with a \"warning\".",
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"body": "Drunk as a skunk one night with an old friend and a girl I was seeing. She drank Jack and my boy and I were drinking Jameson. AT LENGTH I extolled the virtues of better whiskey until she finally took a shot. 5 minutes later I was in the head and I hear a thump. She's out like a light, completely unresponsive on the floor. In a HORRIBLE moment of stupidity, I piled her into my car and rushed her to the hospital (3/4 mile away thankfully).\n\nGot her to the ER, and was incapable of explaining that she'd been my designated driver that night and it was her first drink. They kept saying alcohol poisoning and doing roughly nothing about it.\n\nI was... inconsolable at best and borderline physical with one of the doctors, (I'm not a big guy, but I've learned to be a touch intimidating as needed), so 15 minutes later the woman I want to marry is unresponsive in the ER and I'm standing on the curb being carefully watched by hospital security.\n\nI have never in my life been that powerless. I have never before or since felt like I could watch part of me being ripped out.\n\nFour hours later they had sent enough benadryl through her to resolve the sever allergic reaction and she was ok. She has since moved to CO and now thinks I'm an asshole.",
"score": 11
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"body": "Short version: laying on a hospital table with my arms outstretched while doctors tried to pull a lost catheter out of my heart?/lungs for a few hours. They had tried going through my arm but had to stop and go through my groin, the problem they kept having is I'd go tachycardia every time they'd push near my heart. I'd hear the nurse count out numbers and then say Sinus? and the doctor would pull back. Scariest day of my life. Xray http://i.imgur.com/VdgWN.jpg",
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"body": "I had a really bad panic attack while on shrooms. I was able to text my brother with shaking hands and he called me back and helped talk me down.\n\nI remember drinking a ton of water trying to flush it out of my system. \n\nMy mom was going to be coming home from work and I was still on edge so I had to leave the house rather than her see me like that. I remember stepping outside and there wasn't a cloud in the sky and no cars on the road. I felt like I was a part of something like the Truman Show.\n\nIt was beyond messed up. I quit taking any sort of drugs after that as I never want to experience that again.\n\nEDIT: missed word",
"score": 9
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"body": "Crossing the street around 3am Sunday morning leaving an all night music festival, and getting hit by a car, and flipping over it. As I felt myself coming down behind the car towards the asphalt, all I could think about was how this was the end of my life, and there was surely another car behind this one. Fortunately, there wasn't.",
"score": 8
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"body": "Being asleep, knowing that you are asleep, and being completely unable to move/wake up. Or do anything other than hyperventilate. Scares my wife something fierce when I do that too. At least she knows to shake me awake now when I start with the extreme rapid breathing.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis",
"score": 8
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"body": "When I was about five years old I was outside playing ball with my mom. At one point I was backing up (my back was to the house) and my mom yelled for me to 'look out.' I turned around and there was a black widow spider not more than 4 or 5 inches from my face (it was in full view!). I was in first grade at the time and had just learned that the black widow was \"the most poisonous spider in the world\" (I am aware this is not currently factually correct, but was the belief at the time).\n\nI was so petrified in fear that I remained afraid of spiders until a few years ago (25 now). I stopped being afraid of spiders when I actually *remembered* this happening about 18 years later. Then, suddenly, I realized I was afraid of them due to what I can only describe as a repressed, traumatic memory. The mind is truly a strange thing. I'm *still* amazed at how fast I got over them when I remembered that.",
"score": 8
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"body": "Being splashed in the eyes with gasoline when I was 10. Being temporarily blinded, and thinking I would never see again. It was a panic, having your world blacked out, your eyes searing from the pain, and nobody was around. After 6 hours of saline flushing, I went home from the hospital. No permanent damage.\n ",
"score": 8
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"body": "When I was younger my uncle worked for some big time drug dealer in Mexico for a little while. Eventually a rival cartel started fighting for control of the city and a crap load of people ended up getting executed, my uncle included. During the funeral I over heard one of my other uncles mention to someone that sometimes \"they like to crash the funeral and light people up\". \n\nMan oh man, I was on edge the whole day. I kept seeing these shady looking trucks with black tinted windows drive by all the time and I'd get a knot in my stomach EVERY damn time. That was the first time I ever really feared for my life....and it was like a slow tensional build up that lasted all damn day. \n\n",
"score": 8
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"body": "Thinking I was dead for about a minute when I was in Iraq; my Sgt. (Sgt. Shenck) shot a suicide bomber who then blew up from about 20 feet away from me. ",
"score": 8
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"body": "Realizing that Sarah Palin had the potential to be POTUS. I was in fear, for America, and the world. Made me realize that something was really, really dysfunctional in America... ",
"score": 7
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"body": "In the 2006 lebanese-israeli war, I was in lebanon it was about 9:30pm and I was watching a program on discovery channel(european revolutions or something) suddenly I heard 2 extremely loud explosions from airstrikes, adrenalin pumping through my veins I shouted my friend´s name, but he didn´t answer so I ran downstairs and regrouped with my family and the neighbours who ran into the building. 2 minutes later we heard a cry from a 3 year old kid whose mom forgot him outside from fear so I ran and grabbed him. I remember staying up all night listening to the explosions, and there was a kid who kept using the bathroom to pee. It was horrible, everyone was crying and i sorta got this feeling of acceptance to die, the night passed and in the morning we packed our stuff and went to syria and from there we took a plane out of there.\r\n\r\n2 weeks earlier, 3 thieves blocked the street and stole close to $400,000 from my uncle, that same uncle died 6 months ago because of a heart stroke he just couldn´t stand his favourite grand daughter dead(she was 5).",
"score": 7
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"body": "When I was about nine, my cousins and brother said they wanted to have a seance and that I should be involved. Little did I know this was all a ploy to freak the fuck out of me. We went down to my dark basement with a pizza pan filled with water. My oldest cousin started chanting that he wanted Jeffery Dahmer to show himself in the water (not that I knew who he was, just a badass dude). Anyway he slowly started counting down from 5 repeating the name over and over. Jeffery Dahmer 4, Jefferey Dahmer 3 and so on. When he got to one he screamed and splashed the water all over my face. I screamed like a little pansy and got the hell out of there as their laughter followed me. Let's just say those basement stairs were cleared in about two steps. Try it on your own cousin sometime.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Walking through an old abandoned mental hospital at night. Especially walking through the boiler room...",
"score": 6
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"body": "The first time I heard my 2 year-old son with croup. it was the middle of the night. I thought he was choking on something, then I thought he was having an asthma attack. There is nothing like thinking your kid is in danger. \n\nFortunately it was winter and when we ran outside to the car to take him to the hospital (we live so close an ambulance would have been slower) the cold air relieved his croup enough that we all calmed down and realized he wasn't in immediate danger. We called 811, a great public health hotline service here in Quebec (you call 911 for emergencies, 811 for a health hotline) who explained what was happening and told us what to do. \n\nNote to New Parents: read up on croup. It is scary as shit, but doesn't have to be. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "I got chased by a guy wearing a mask with a chainsaw. True story. I was prolly 13. I almost pissed myself.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Friend of mine from highschool moved to California a long time ago. I got a call from her late one night and she told me she'd just killed a guy who'd attacked her and didn't know what to do.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Kind of a lame story compared to a lot of these, but I was scared SHITLESS at the time. I'll try to tell the short version.\n\nOne night my friends and I were out camping in the woods, drinking beers, and having a good time. There were just four of us. We were about half a kilometer into the woods, and at one point (round 1 or 2 AM) we decided to go back to where my friend's car was parked to pick up some snacks or something. So we were there at the road, looking at the stars for a while, when we spotted some headlights through the trees (it was a pretty densely wooded area, central Pennsylvania). One guy suggested we hide behind a bush as to not spook them, which I thought was retarded because I didn't care, but went along with it.\n\nWell, apparently we didn't hide fast enough, because these guys pull up and stop from about 40 mph in their Jeep, doors open, and we start hearing hicks yelling \"WE'RE COMIN TO GIT YEWWWWWW\" and shit. So we start bolting into the woods, scared shitless, with me leading the way and basically faceplanting into trees. We hear those fucking hicks running after us for maybe 20 or 30 meters, yelling the same shit. We eventually made it back to our site and just prayed that they had left (they had).\n\nScariest part was probably when we realized that these were the guys who we had heard earlier that night shooting off guns a few miles away (no it was not hunting season). I am never going camping ever again in my life.",
"score": 5
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"body": "When I was on shrooms I got really excited and was screaming a lot (like, OMG THIS IS AMAZING!) until my throat suddenly got overworked. It *felt* like my throat was bleeding from the inside, and my conscious mind knew that blood+lungs=death. The rest of my trip was pretty horrible, as I didn't know whether to call 911 or not (thankfully I didn't... that would have been a debacle) and I realized I wasn't coughing up blood but I got it in me that I was going to die anyway. I became so afraid that I actually got to that peaceful stage where I realized it was okay, because I was being released from my mortal coil.\n\nMan, that was a trip. Looking back on it, I think it did me a lot of good. A man needs some deathly fear in his life to realize what really matters.",
"score": 5
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"body": "When I was about eight, I was fishing from an old windsurfing board in the Sea of Cortez Mexico. All alone out in this peaceful bay, catching small bass and triggerfish in the crystal clear waters. As I was paddling from one small isalnd to another, a pod of Orcas showed up out of nowhere, surrounded me and my little board. They circled around me, inspecting me with their huge eyes. I tried to ball up as tight as I could. I was frozen. Long after the whales swam off, I still couldn't move. A Canadian in a Zodiac gave me a lift back to the beach. The end.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Going down a very, very steep hill in the Texas Hill country on a bicycle doing about 60 mph when the bike suddenly gets the high speed shimmies. Steep cliff on the right and sheer rock face on the left and me knowing I'm going to crash and get the worlds worst road rash. Somehow I manage to get to the bottom of the hill but am shaking so bad I couldn't ride until I stopped and calmed down. To this day I don't go very fast down long steep hills with out riding the brakes to control the speed of my descent.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I was thrown off a quad (4 wheeler) after going around a turn way too fast and it rolled over me. The wind was knocked out of me and my entire body felt like it was crushed. I thought I was going to have to be taken to the hospital in a helicopter because my back was broken. Being in that much pain while having the wind knocked out of you is pretty terrifying.",
"score": 3
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"body": "3 days after graduating high school, I am taking some of my graduation money and went to the mall in Ft. Collins, CO. It was May 22nd 2008 and I was having a great time. Then we got a bunch of phone calls from friends and family and we had no clue what they were saying, it was all jumbled. After about the 7th call we heard one word. \"Tornado\". We immediately jumped in the car and drove back to Windsor. Listening to the radio didn't help. They said that the whole town was gone and the body count was expected to be huge. My girlfriend (now wife) was freaking out and it took everything I had to stay composed. We were expecting the worst. It turned out to only hit 1/4th of the town and most of the homes were fixable. I've never been so scared, thinking my whole family and most of my friends were hurt or worse. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Going in for an ablation procedure to correct my heart condition (WPW). It's not a terribly invasive procedure, but it does take 4-5 hours. I was 16 at the time. I remember walking into the operating room in my hospital gown. The monitors on the wall, all of the surgeons, doctors, nurses, and anesthesiologists. It freaked me the fuck out. I laid on the operating table trembling in fear. \n\nThe last thing I remember is a sharp pain in my chest. My lungs. The nitrous oxide they were using to calm me was making me forget to breathe. The anesthesiologist behind me kept hitting me and telling me to breathe. I was going in and out of consciousness and the ceiling tiles were flying around the room. \n\nThen I woke up...they were unable to correct it :/.",
"score": 3
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"body": "The night I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on my niece. She was almost four at the time, she was chewing on some hard candy. I was in a different part of the house when I heard my father and my younger brother screaming for help. \nI think the whole episode was maybe barely longer than a minute and she was perfectly fine afterwards, but I cried for like an hour and wouldn't let her out of my site the rest of the weekend. I guess I'm still waiting for something scarier than not being able to help someone smaller than myself.\n\nP.S. If you have the opportunity, get certified for this and CPR, you never know when you might need it.\n",
"score": 3
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"body": "The first (and only) time I ever smoked marijuana. I did it alone and most likely smoked way more than I needed to, as I've since heard it only takes a couple hits to do the job. I had no idea what I was doing. I stopped when I started feeling lightheaded. I then proceeded to drive my car (manual transmission) to a bowling alley where my friends were when all of a sudden my legs started going numb. I coasted into a parking lot and parked. My chest started pounding, I thought I was having a heart attack. I went into the bowling alley and sat with my friends. It was \"Rock N Bowl\" so it was dark and there were florescent colored lights flashing everywhere. The world started to slowly slant sideways like I was on a merry-go-round. I stumbled out into the lobby and fell down. My eyes were wide open, but I couldn't see anything. Some EMTs happened to be there and were trying to get me to calm down as the owner was yelling to get out before he called the cops. I spent the next hour or so in my car thinking I was having a heart attack and dying. After about an hour or so I was fine, but very tired.\n\nAbout a month later I was driving a delivery van at work, and all of a sudden I had the exact same feeling come over me, like I was having a heart attack. It turns out I was having panic attacks and marijuana triggered my first one. I had never even heard of anxiety disorders or panic attacks before this happened, so I had no idea what was going on.\n\nI thought the marijuana may have been laced, but my friends assured me it wasn't, as they had seen what it did to me and then proceeded to take the rest and smoke it. They said it was just really good stuff. Who knows... \n\nEver since then I've had to deal with worrying that I'll have another one, which leads to a claustrophobia type thing where I always have to make sure I have an \"out\" for every situation I'm in.",
"score": 3
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"body": "coming back from a kegger I fell out of a mini van with 9 other people in it and got ran over. sat up in the road and saw the van pulled to the side about 30 yards away. i was absolutely horrified. not that i was going to die or anything but that we were all going to get busted",
"score": 3
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"body": " This happened this past year when they had the annual [lighting of the Christmas tree](http://indianapolis.going.com/event-685865;Indianapolis_Circle_of_Lights_Tree_Lighting) on the circle in downtown Indianapolis.\n\n I was there with my mom, my cousin and her two year old girl. They had a stage set up right down on the circle and had everything blocked off so that only people could go through the circle and no cars.\n We parked a couple blocks away on the street and walked to the circle. There was already a decent crowd there and more people piling in by the second. We made our way close to the stage so we could see. It was around 7:30pm. People were really starting to crowd in at this point, so I was getting nervous. The announcer on the stage said that the lighting would take place at 9:30pm. I looked around and there was nothing but a sea of people standing shoulder to shoulder and back to front as far as I could see in any direction. \n I was getting freaked out and thought that there was no way I was going to be able to stand this close in this crowd for two hours.\n We started making our way through the crowd, saying \"excuse me, sorry\" the whole way. People were so packed in that it was nearly impossible to squeeze through. \n We somehow made our way to a building that had a pillar. My mom and cousin wanted to go back toward where we first came in, which was the long way. I don't have any idea why. So, we started trying to go that way. We were stuck in between the building and this pillar, with other people trying to get out and going both directions. Some people were starting to get angry and pushing, trying to push their way through. \n We were basically stuck dead in between that building and the pillar for about 10 minutes with people squeezing and pushing, then my mom and cousin, who were crying and freaking out by now, somehow started slowly moving forward, but I couldn't move even an inch and then I lost them in the crowd. I turned around and started making my way through the way I originally intended to go. After about 10 minutes and 2 blocks, I got out.\n I went around the block and back toward where they would come out. I found my mom and she was crying and thoroughly freaked. She had lost my cousin and the 2 year old. We tried looking for them but couldn't even begin to try to make our way back into the crowd, it was way too dense.\n We went back to the car and waited, thinking that my cousin knows where we parked and would try to find us there. My cousin's phone was in her purse which was in the baby stroller my mom had. After they lit the tree, people started leaving and my cousin found her way out. She had been standing in one of those large cement flower pots with the baby the entire time, unable to get from that spot. Once people started leaving, the crowd thinned enough and she got out.\n That was the most scared I've been in a long time. I felt completely helpless and at the mercy of circumstance. I was worried for someone to throw a punch or something and have the whole crowd go crazy and start trampling people. There was a lot of people I saw who were crying and freaking out because of the crowd.\n \n ",
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"body": "The last time I did shrooms: I decided to trip by myself, explore the cosmos within, blah blah blah. So I set up a music playlist on my computer, got comfortable and ate the shrooms. Everything was lovely. Then, 4 hours in, the play list ended. I had failed to set it to repeat. Logically, my brain figured, the trip must be over! (Never mind the fact that the walls were still swirling.) So I brushed my teeth, turned out the lights, and crawled into bed, wrapping myself up in blankets. No light, no music, no sound in the house. Smart!\n\nI proceeded to hallucinate that I was dead, in my coffin, and that everybody else in the world was dead too. For *hours*. That my friends, is why you should always have a sitter.",
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"body": "This is probably not the most scared I have ever been, but I was scared and looking back it was pretty funny. So I took a foreign exchange class through Europe for the summer during college. I knew one or two people on the trip, but the person I knew best was a 6'9\" guy on the basketball team. He wasn't half bad at ball, and he was in great shape from 3 years of conditioning. So we basically bar hopped from bar to bar in country to country during our \"learning experience\". Well we were in Trafalger Square in London a little drunk late at night when this guy jumped out from an alley or something. He was disheveled and looked like a homeless guy and his clothes were tattered and worn down. But the disturbing part was that his forearms and hands were covered in blood. He looked at me and my friend and said \"You boys looking for a little mischief?\" I already was scared and concerned from this turn of events, but no worries, my huge friend will help protect me from \"mischief\". Instead my friend lets out this high-pitched girl shriek and takes off in a full sprint. At this point my choices were stick around and get hepatitis or start running. We lost him about a block away or so.",
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"body": "This is a long story, so stay with me:\r\n\r\nWhen a was younger I was living in an old part of Liverpool that had been bombed during the war, most of the houses on the street I lived on were either destroyed, badly damaged or empty. I lived on the top floor of an old Victorian row house, the houses either side were empty and boarded up.\r\n\r\nThere was a young couple on the ground floor, the middle floor was empty and I lived on the top my with my dog, Blue, and Old English sheepdog, blind as a bat. One evening I was making my dinner when I heard awful screaming coming from downstairs. I looked over the banister to see the girl that lived on the ground floor crawling up the stairs screaming and screaming that he was dead.\r\n\r\nI ran downstairs and she was hysterically pointing to their bedroom. I went inside and there's her boyfriend, Tony, laying on the floor, he's dressed in women's clothing, fishnet tights, high-heels, short skirt, etc, he'd tied himself in chains with snap-locks and had put a plastic bag over his head. I could see his contorted face through the plastic, his eyes and mouth wide open as he must have struggled for his dying breath. I leaned over and touched him, but he was stiff as a board, I guess he'd been dead for some time, (I can tell you now, corpses feel decidedly weird).\r\n\r\nAnyway, the cops and ambulance came and took the body away, and his girlfriends family came and took her away too. They came back a couple of days later for some of her things and threw out a bunch of his stuff amongst which was an almost new electric drill motor that I rescued from the trash. They also asked me to feed the cat they had until things got settled and gave me tins of cat food.\r\n\r\nSo for about three or four weeks I got into the habit of feeding the cat last thing at night before I went to bed. The apartments were laid out such that all the rooms, (living room, bathroom, bedroom, etc), opened into a central hallway and each room had its own doorlock. When she left the only room she left open was the kitchen for me to feed the cat, all the others were locked tight.\r\n\r\nSo the fateful night arrives, and I’m not making this up: Saturday night and I'm watching a late night horror movie called 'The Norliss Tapes' about a dead guy that won't stay dead, there’s a storm outside with thunder and lightning rattling the windows and blowing through the house like a Banshee. About an hour into the movie there’s a tremendous bang from somewhere in the house, and I think, ‘oh, it’s only the doors on the middle floor that were never locked swinging closed with the wind’; time passes and there’s another bang, Blue’s all a ‘tremble and I leap out of my skin. The dead guy in the movie won’t stay dead, there’s a freaking storm going on outside and now there’s a door somewhere in the house banging; and I’m all alone.\r\n\r\nThe movie finally ends at 1:00 am or whatever and I says to Blue, ‘come on lets go feed the cat’, so I open a tin of cat food and proceeds down the flights of stairs, BTW the light switch in the stairwell were an old fashioned sucker type, you pushed them in and after a while they popped out to shut the light off. We go past the middle apartment and all the doors are closed, I pause for a moment wondering, then shrug and carry on. I’m halfway down the last flight of stairs to where I can see the bedroom door and the door starts to open, swinging inwards. This door has been locked since Tony died, the door gets halfway open, stops then slams shut with a might crash, then, right at that moment the sucker switch clicks off and the lights go out, it’s absolutely pitch black. So the cat food goes flying and it’s a race between Blue and I who gets upstairs first; I won.\r\n\r\nI gets back to my flat and my heart is pounding and I’m terrified, none of my doors have locks on them and there’s only one way out of the house and that’s past his bedroom door; no fire escape in those days. I stood there for a while wondering what to do and eventually pushes on the light switch, goes to the banister and looks over; there, standing in the stairwell three floors below is Tony looking up at me and he’s still got the plastic bag on his head. Why my heart didn’t stop then I’ll never know. Right there is the most scared I've ever been.\r\n\r\nThere’s only one other way out, there’s a 2’ square hole in the wall between the row house’s filled with a single layer of drywall as an emergency escape. I kicked at the drywall like a madman until it broke and crawled through into the house next door which had been boarded up for years. There’s crap all over the floor and I stumbled out of the room in the dark and down the stairs, halfway down the second flight the stairs had fallen away and I flew through the air and crashed onto the landing with the wind knocked out of me. I gets up and runs down the final flights and to the front door, but I can’t get the stinking door open, I didn’t know how to open it in the dark, and I’m still terrified, expecting Tony to grab me any minute wanting his drill back. I went into the front room and started kicking and banging at the plywood that had been nailed from the outside. Eventually the plywood fell out and I jumped through the window, I landed on a nail with my knee which hurt like hell then took off down the street.\r\n\r\nI wandered the streets for a while, ending up at a friend’s house at 4:00 am. I went back to the house later that day with a bunch of friends and got my stuff, I never told anyone what had happened, I just said I had a beef with the landlord. I was frightened even in the daylight with my buddies to go into that house.\r\n\r\nBut the saddest part is Blue was gone, I guess he followed me through the hole and got lost, I never did find him again.\r\n\r\nTL;DR Saw a ghost and don’t believe in them.\r\n",
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"body": "The evening i received a call from the police that our mj-plantation had been busted.\n\nBetween 20 and 25 i was growing pot in my flats, in the first 3 years just small amounts, about 4m², between 2 and 20 plants. Since i enjoyed this hobby so much(technology, biology and politics combined) and the small amount never yielded as much money as expected i always wanted to go bigger(Encouraged by the plantations i had seen on notorius overgrow.com). My distributor introduced me to a other guy who was eager to do the same and together we rented a house in the suburbs of the european capital we live in.\nOne of the rooms was dedicated for the grow and we lightsealed it and installed professional light(8kW), ventilation and irrigation for 210 plants(3 lines with each 70 plants). I really enjoyed the whole planning and building phase and the planting.\nHowever, we managed to finish just one crop before we got busted by accident(Still we cropped 2kg of pure flowers and earned about 3k Euro each with this one crop - we had big plans back then what we where going to do with the money we would earn with the next crops). \n\nOur only neighbour(We had choosen a house in a industrial area) had called the cops as he thought he had seen burglars. The police also knocked at our door and my colleague had no other choice but to open it, revealing the scent of ripe marihuana(I always used charcoal absorbers in my ventilation but i never managed to fully clean the smell).\nThe police had a lot of fun to cut down and remove the unexpected find.\n\nAt the time this happened i was living at my parents summer house which was empty most of the year and i spent this particular evening there, which was lucky for us. The investigator called me late at night and tried to interrogate me right away, but i refused any answers. Since i was a 2 hour ride away i was able to convince him that i couldn't go there right away and he also didn't push me too much. He even agreed on meeting me 2 days later for the interrogation - i later learned that my colleague had done a good job in persuading them that we were good guys(We were!) and he also only confessed that we where growing the pot for our own use(The criminal investigators of course knew that this wasn't true, but luckily they where not too interested to dig deeper).\nWhen i woke up the next morning i immediately remembered what had happened the night before and it was the worst feeling i had experienced so far, a hole in my stomach like from rejected love, just worse - fear of a uncertain future and loss of a decent life(I had quite some trouble and arguments with my father back then - not because he knew about my occupation but because he didn't know what i was doing to fund my life, at the same time i was seeking acceptance from him. This made the whole situation emotionally a lot worse for me back then.).\nI made a phonecall to my colleague and luckily he had already been released from the interrogations at midnight. We arranged a meeting in the city the same day, thoroughly talked about the version of the story he had given to the man and the next day i was able to give them the same story(with some small adaptations so it didn't sound too obvious). The investigator was also pretty nice and mild and told me about his son of the same age at the end of the interview.\nConcering the policework we where really lucky - they where not interested in fucking with us, if it had not been a accident bust they would have been better prepared and they made quite some \"mistakes\"(besides the loopholes i already mentioned they e.g. mixed leaves, trunks and buds all together, so the laboratory measured a very low THC percentage in our crop - which even offered us the option to plead not guilty as we where below the illegal amount - however our lawyer advised us not to fuck with them and we followed this sane advise - we consented and pleaded guilty).\nThe worst part was having to wait 1 year for our trial, it was the emotionally toughest winter of my life, not sure if i would have to go to jail - it was a relief when the date of the trial was finally announced in spring.\nAgain we where lucky, the judge was an old men and his introduction was: \"You are lucky today as i'm going to retire in two weeks\". Later when my colleague was on the trial his first question was:\"So i've heard it was a funny story how you got busted, would you care to tell us about it?\"\nThe verdict was 3 month jail on probation for 3 years(I had trouble getting a new passport in the last year, plus i lost my drivers license for 3 months, despite they never catched me with THC in my urine).\nMy family still doesn't know about this huge cut in my life and i only told a handfull of people about it.\n\nThe day after i received the phone-call i had to shoot photos for my student-ID in a photo-booth. I still have these photos in my wallet, in all of them i try to laugh/look friendly but you can clearly see the weight of the world in my smitten face.\nAfter this year i got pretty straight and in the first years i felt very discouraged and small and it took some time to get back my former confidence and self-esteem(This happened in 2004).",
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"body": "Sitting in a hospital when I was 12 watching my aunt walk across the lobby, seemed like it took forever, waiting for her to tell me my mom has passed away and then just losing my mind when she finally did. And then being in the hospital again a few years later thinking my dad is about to die from his hernia exploding and coughing up pieces of his liver due to long-term alcoholism, but being relieved that he made it out alive and is now over 1 year sober. Besides those, I've been inside a building/convention-type center in Woodland Hills that had to be evacuated due to a bomb threat, and still I don't find that nearly as scary as losing or having my heart broken by someone I love..",
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"body": "I was walking [my small dog](http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs092.snc1/4663_672643395807_72611641_40006122_4796259_n.jpg), a cavalier, through a hydro field last spring that stretched for about 3 km between two quiet residential streets. We'd been through here countless times before, people brought their dogs to the field all the time to play ball and run around on flexi-leashes.\n\nIt's 11 AM, sunny out, a beautiful day. Suddenly I stop dead in my tracks and see a coyote crouched perfectly still about 300 meters in front of us watching my dog sniff around in the long grass. My dog doesn't notice anything is amiss. I turn to the left and see there are two more of them doing the exact same thing, as well as a fourth approaching from further up the field. We've been followed and I'm having Jurassic Park flashbacks where Dr. Grant tells the kid at the beginning of the movie about the two raptors \"you didn't even know were there.\" We've had friends with larger dogs who have been stalked and/or taken down by coyotes in the past when accidentally intruding into their breeding/pup territories.\n\nLuckily the path behind us was clear. I picked up my dog and walked backwards slowly, keeping my eyes on the coyotes who held their ground but never advanced on us. My heart was pounding because I hadn't brought a a cell phone or anything but my keys since we were only out on a quick walk and didn't know if anyone would be able to hear us in the secluded field if we were attacked. I called Animal Control when we got home and learned that there were coyotes denning in the area with young pups and was advised to tell anyone I saw in the area with dogs to avoid the field from then on.",
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"body": "March 15th 2008-- Trying to leave a party gone awry a High School senior named Korey Smith smashed a New Castle bottle over my head, for no reason, as I was trying to get into my car. He was holding a golf club, and I asked him if he was going to hit me with it. He responded: \"Nah, bitch-- with this... and blindsided me with the bottle.\"\n\nI was in shock from the breaking bottle, and could only hear ringing in my ears. I stared at the guy and his friends and watched as their faces turned to horror, they began to run away. It took me a few moments to recognize the strange sensation of warm water being poured down my chest. I asked my friend Sean if I was bleeding, I touched my neck and saw blood squirt a good 7 feet , I then began to panic. I pulled out my cell phone and dialed 911, I started to tell them what was happening to me, but I began to panic-- and gave the phone to Sean. \n\nI stumbled into the back yard of a house holding the party, and slammed on the sliding glass door. And opened it, and begged the first person I saw for a towel. The girl screamed, and dropped an entire stack of plates and silverwear-- and the host of the party came rushing to me from behind her. He asked me what I needed as he stared at me wide eyed. I told him I needed a towel, then I turned around and sat on the floor as a good 20 people stood around me in total shock. Some friends came to my side and began to help me, I took the towel and used it as a tourniquet it around my neck-- and then laid down and waited for the ambulance. \n\nThe next 10 minutes were the hardest moments of my life-- \nI woke up a day later in the hospital.\nI had lost 2 liters of blood (2000cc's), and it took me an entire week to regain my strength and blood.\n\nThe last thing I remember was accepting my own death, and feeling horrible for the fact that my parents and family would never see me alive again.\n\nI find myself blessed everyday I am here.\n[Neck Laceration](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoQzC7vnF3Q)\n",
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/Android, any ideas for a simple app to make as I learn Android? | I'm in my last semester at school and saw a big spike in the amount of Android development positions on Craigslist over the last couple of weeks. I think Android development is an awesome growth market right now, and learning some serious skills will make me really marketable over the next few months.
I'm a decent software developer, but have mostly done web apps. I want to make a simple but useful Android app as my first serious project, but am drawing a blank on ideas. I'd like to make a good Media Player app for Android, but I think that's a bit ambitious for now.
Is there anything relatively simple that you'd like to see on Android? I really want to avoid making some gimmicky fart app or whatever. Since it's bound to be a learning experience, I'll make it free and maybe post here later for input or whatever as I go along, if there is interest.
Thanks! | 14 | [
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"body": "I just recently got a Droid and I'm still learning what apps I find useful. I install a lot of apps to see if I'll use them. It would be handy for my purposes to have an app that would show me when I last used all my apps, because that would help me decide what to uninstall.\n\nJust off the top of my head; I'm sure others will have better ideas, but if Android saves the 'last used' timestamp, it seems like this would not be super difficult to implement.",
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"body": "I would love to see what you come up with. I am looking into learning the android system as well. So far its been rough going but I'll stick with it. Maybe you could try a live background app or a sweet lockscreen",
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"body": "I don't know how simple/difficult it would be but I would really like to see a GoodReads.com app that supports barcode scanning of ISBNs.",
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Why are "free will" and determinism mutually exclusive? | I believe at the most basic level we live in a fundamentally deterministic universe, but I don't see how that interferes with the act of my choosing to drink coffee instead of tea this morning. | 3 | [
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/r/drunk: What do you do when you're drunk as shit and 3 big ass motherfucks are trying to fight you? | Needless to say i"m shitfaced. I was at a bar, and we def. stole a table. Afterwards, most of the patrons of the table showed up and started shit with us. I was surrounded by 3 very tall (6'4" and above) sons of bitches talking shit.
Just based on my fighting experience, 2 on 1 alwyas sucks, let alone when they're big. So what the fuck do you do? I played one off the other by calming one down and getting him to the tell the others to cool off... but it still feels shitty acquiessing (sp?_ and not fighting!
Also, I love yyou all...or, more properly 'y'all' :]
Edit: for reference, I am currently drunk, cause I live in beijing, fo rthose of oyou on EST. | 9 | [
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"body": "Okay, your title and text don't necessarily quite mesh, but hey, here we are in drunkland. That being said, there is such a thing as bar etiquette. If you stole someone's table, then when the people who were sitting there, and say went out for a smoke break, return and would like their table back, you apologize and get up. That is unless they are total pricks, then you must decide what it's worth. \n\nNow, based on logic, between the plural pronoun and the ratio changing from three against you to 2-on-1, you were there with a midget and possibly a lady in tow. It's been my experience not to mess with the shorter people since they are usually painfully close to land a direct punch to the genitals. But if the guys are all over 6'4\" then they could probably just kick him away. \n\nps. spellcheck is a drunk's friend til you realize you don't give a shit\n\ncheers",
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"body": "[this](http://www.reddit.com/r/BipolarReddit/comments/amwc0/how_well_do_you_handle_alcohol_since_you_became/c0if0po) is what you do",
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Looking for an awesome cheesy movie! | Ok so me and some friends have a get together and make food and watch crazy movie nights, we've watched "Oh my zombie mermaid" and "Santa's Slay" with bill goldberg. Im looking for some other suggestions on crazy awesome movies like this. Along the lines of like Dead Alive and Army of Darkness would be fine! | 14 | [
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"body": "Plot: An alien who looks human crashes on earth, who then teams up with vikings to fight an alien stowaway that happens to be very close to a dragon.\n\nI give you [Outlander](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander), a film from 2008.",
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"body": "[Six String Samurai](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118736/)! (There's no reason they have to be *bad* cheesy movies, is there?)",
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"body": "if you haven't seen it see House \n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/\n\nawesome B movie.\n\nedit:added imdb link",
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"body": "If you haven't watched any of Peter Jackson's early zombie movies, go check them out. It's pretty hard to believe he became such a serious filmmaker in the end, he uses so much hilarious gore and camp.\n\n[Bad Taste](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092610/)\n\n[Braindead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/)\n\nYou will not be disappointed!",
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Do you ever wonder if what you’re doing is driven by some primitive human impulse? | I know our primitive desires for love, shelter, sex etc. motivate many of our actions. Sometimes in very plain ways: I want to have sex, I am going to wear an outfit that shows off my boobs.
On the opposite side, last night I didn't want to have sex mainly because I was tired and giving him head would only take maybe 15 minutes. I was thinking about it, and I told my boyfriend that maybe something in my brain was telling me I needed to stop having sex with him, since we've been at it for a year and I hadn't gotten pregnant. Like maybe my primitive instinct was to mate with someone who could get me pregnant. Anyway, he threw a complete fit, asked me if I was cheating, told me he hated me etc. I tried to explain that I was just thinking, and that wasn’t how I actually felt and he thought I was nuts (maybe I am). Anyone else ever question some of the motives behind your behavior?
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"body": "Thinking out loud with someone significant is always a dangerous proposition. :)\n\nI would suggest convincing him that you can fool those basic instincts. Or overcome them with his amazing attractiveness and baby making prospects.\n\nAnd I think you are right, but narrowing it down exactly is a difficult proposition. And coming up with such a conclusion may hurt his feelings too.",
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"body": "Yes, particularly when it comes to attraction or any emotional response. In fact, from what I've read over the years of evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience it seems that higher reasoning itself is quite weak in comparison. It appears that we tend to make instinctual decisions and use higher reasoning to explain why we decided it. We're just not conscious of that.\n\nHowever, I wouldn't take from a single night of disinterest that you had some instinct to find a different mate. If you stopped finding him attractive at all then perhaps so, but there are many reasons why you may have disinterest on a single night. You even said you were tired. So I'm not sure where the question comes from.",
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"body": "I think -- constantly -- that we're being governed by primitive urges. Take a university level Psychology course and discern for yourself whether we're really the complex creatures we think we are.",
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"body": "I've always wondered if this is why I can't win staring contests. Maybe the person I'm having the contest with is just more dominant than I am.",
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Dear Reddit: I am the market for a new billfold. What, pray tell, do you use to secure your monies, debt builders, and identification? | I have been rocking a LowePro wallet for a decade. I swore when I got it that I would part with it until I killed it.
I was 19. It was green nylon. The problem is the LowePro makes really fucking solid products. This thing has been humming along for 10 years impervious to my mental assaults on its structural integrity.
Enough is enough. I turn 30 this year and this shit will not stand. I need a big boy billfold. So, Reddit, what the hell are you rockin' while you're walkin' (or Walken - and if you're out there, sir, you're amazing in *Weapon of Choice*). | 6 | [
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"body": "I have four or five wallets floating around (mostly gifts) but I like [these wallets recycled from men's suits](http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27599636), if you're not into leather and think clips are too messy, like me. ",
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Netflix interface: anyone else find this to be a total letdown? | I was excited to know I could instantly stream movies but only being able to aimlessly scroll through titles has become annoying. If I want to find a specific movie I still have to look it up on my computer and add to my instant stream3. Any word on them changing this setup? | 13 | [
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"body": "Even the interface on the Netflix website is pretty terrible. I have been using [instantwatcher](http://instantwatcher.com/) to add movies to my list.",
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"body": "I heard somewhere that, once they finish working on streaming for the Wii, they are going to redesign the UI across the board. Maybe they need to learn the limitations of all systems using the streaming API and come up with a universally acceptable UI?",
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My family received constant death threats from a neo-nazi group. We had live-in bodyguards for about 2 years. AMA | This took place during my high school years, late 90s. My father was on various talk shows for his work against racism and was semi-famous at the time. The bodyguards were family friends - an ex-Marine and his wife, both still work in security to the best of my knowledge. They kept their Dobermans at our house with them - they were really cool people.
The actual death threats were mostly phone calls, usually late at night. Stuff like telling me I should tell my dad they were going to take me and send me back to him in bits and pieces. I was told not to answer the phone after that and the answering machine was muted so you couldn't hear it when recording. I think some letters too. One time I went outside and there were swastikas spray painted outside our house. One of them was on the mailbox at our corner - the city painted the mailbox in brown and stopped using it, then removed it some years later. AMA except for who/where my family is. | 156 | [
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"body": "I don't know who you are or what you did, but if your father provoked this much ire, then tell him thank you for having the courage to stand up to fascists.",
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"body": "How did the live-in bodyguard situation work? You said they were family friends. Were they paid (or just given room and board)? Were they always armed?",
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"body": "This reminds me of the story fof [Reverend Wade Watts and Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBwIRq_hmjg&feature=player_embedded)",
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"body": "You say you received threats from a \"Neo-Nazi group\". Do you actually mean that a specific group or organisation of them was doing all or most of the threatening? If so, which one and why specifically them? ",
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"body": "Did your family relations become effected by your father's work? ex. other members of your family talk more/less to you and your parents.",
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Are there any good, working Desktop Authenticators out there? | With all the recent news on hacked accounts in WoW and the rumors about authenticators becoming mandatory, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with desktop authenticators.
The only one I could find was at http://www.nihilum.eu/news/196-Blue_Posts_Armory_Parser. | 4 | [
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"body": "This is so stupid. One of the biggest reasons for using an authenticator is to eliminate the risk of spyware from compromising your account data. Why put your extra security measure in the same basket as your game client? If you can't get it mailed to you, rent a fucking PO Box.",
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YouTube - Crosby VS Talbot VS Dryer | Posted first in /r/canada, but reposting here, as it may be more appreciated.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBpPhm-xEQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBpPhm-xEQ)
*edit: added link* | 17 | [
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"body": "So all I needed to do was shoot pucks into a dryer when I was a kid and I'd be a superstar?\n\nSomeone should have told me.",
"score": 4
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Reddit, you're on your deathbed. What is your last facebook status before you make your journey to the undiscovered country? | I'm sure not everyone uses Facebook, so for the purposes of this exercise, just pretend you did.
Mine? "You'll see it's all a show, keep them laughing as you go. Just remember that the last laugh is on you." | 8 | [
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"body": "Well, a couple weeks ago, my good friend posted a picture of his backyard with the text \"How do you like my backyard?\"\n\nThen he hung himself in his backyard.\n\nHe was schizophrenic, and is very missed.",
"score": 4
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I am a former lobbyist. AMAA | I created this account to comment on a comment and was asked to do an AMA. So... I worked on K street and know the Washington game pretty well. I am still under a few NDA's, but I would be glad to answer questions on methodology and other things about politics that aren't exactly common knowledge.
EDIT: I've pm'd Karmanaut to try to get a star. I'll answer some more later. Going out cause it's FRIDAY. Hope everyone has a safe night and I appreciate the support from the community. Reddit is such an awesome place. | 249 | [
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"body": "Would you say most politicians and staffers would accept sexual favors—if they could, which we know they don’t—over money as a means of getting things done? If you’re a woman, how do you know when to dress conservatively for potential legislative “partners,” and when to slut it up? ",
"score": 107
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"body": "In your opinion, is the universal hate for lobbyists which is occurring around the united states from the general public justified? ",
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"body": "It's pretty clear to anyone who has spent time around the US political system that we're slowly (over many decades) sliding into a Corporatist form of government and the two parties are willingly enabling it. \n\nDo you see any possible way for \"the people\" to reverse this trend?\n\nDo you see any way a third party can overcome the massive imbalance of campaign funds and media coverage that is given to the two parties by the lobbyists?",
"score": 28
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"body": "If I had a pet issue, and I wanted a lobbying firm to help me get it noticed by MOCs or the executive branch, how much would that cost? Like, what kind of attention for an issue do I get for $25,000 vs. $250,000 vs. $2,500,000 vs. $25 million? Is it more expensive if it’s already a hot button issue or a personal bit of interest (say, funding bridges or getting a certain tax burden relieved)?",
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"body": "Isn't being a lobbyist generally pretty fun? An ex-gf of mine's father was a lobbyist in Ohio and all we did together was drink and shoot the shit. He invited me to some of his \"work\" functions and it was all just entertainment!",
"score": 17
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"body": "a nice synchronicity that you showed up today. i woke up thinking about creating a reddit PAC, and the ways this forum could be used for active involvement in government (instead of just bitching about it or being endlessly cynical). my mom did a little lobbying sin the 90s, but stopped before it destroyed her soul. she's usually my sounding board for ideas related to the subject, but her experiences are pretty dated at this point.\n\nso, i would love to hear your thoughts on creating a reddit PAC, and the scale of money involved in affecting the kinds of change that would be expected/demanded from the \"average\" redditor.\n\nthank you very much for offering.",
"score": 11
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"body": "[Another lobbyist](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aauuj/iama_lobbyist_for_the_pharmaceutical_industry_amaa/) stated the following:\n\n> I go into meetings with polititians and explain my posistion. I tell them exactly what I'm looking for in an elected official. I say that I'm looking to support a candidate that wants to keep our industry thriving and providing new jobs for America. I don't want innovation stifled by harsh, unnecessary restrictions or a loss of patent rights where we would lose out on time we've spent in research and development. I tell them we have a good track record and why we can be trusted. I ask them if their policies are in line with our ideals. If they are, I tell them that we would be more than happy to contribute to their success in office.\n> If they don't live up to their promises, we stop supporting them.\n> There are lawmakers who think we should be more heavily regulated, but we don't get into debates with them. It's not like I can offer them money to change their mind.\n\nDoes this represent the truth?",
"score": 10
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"body": "Ok, but really, what's the biggest payola transaction you've been part of, or have first-hand knowledge of? ",
"score": 9
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"body": "Are there any lobbyists in it for ideology, or is it strictly a mercenary kind of industry?\n\nThink of lawyers... for the most part, they take whatever client they get, but there are a number of lawyers who specialize in human rights cases or First Amendment cases or what have you.",
"score": 9
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"body": "In your experience, is being financially well-off/autonomous the *only* way you can be a Congressman and vote straight from your heart? Do lobbyists have any pull with the wealthiest of Congressmen? ",
"score": 9
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"body": "Why did you stop?\r\n\r\nDid you ever feel like you were a mercenary, or that your values were up for sale?\r\n\r\nMy wife has an opportunity to do this, but is a strongly-principled person; is it realistic to remain that way while working as a lobbyist?",
"score": 7
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"body": "Did you ever work on the hill? How long were you a lobbyist? I just finished an internship and am looking for a staffing position, but its incredibly competitive and very low pay - my friend also just got done with an internship and was looking to be a staff assistant but ended up taking a job as a lobbyist instead. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "What makes a good lobbyist? What skills or personality traits are essential?\n\nAnd the reverse, what makes a bad lobbyist?",
"score": 7
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"body": "What would happen if all the american people pooled money and we lobbied for what we really want, instead of paying for campaign donations? Would we be able to get our way then?",
"score": 7
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"body": "Which congressman is the most corrupt? ie. would do or say anything if you paid him enough.\n\nIf you can't name names, would you say that there are more than a few that are completely reprehensible or are they mostly people who are genuinely trying their best in a fucked up world?\n\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "Lobbyist for what industry or cause? Was it already an area of your expertise or one of your interests before you got hired as a lobbyist?",
"score": 4
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"body": "Did you have success fees? Do you agree that they should (or could) be banned?\n\nDid you do astroturfing?\n\nWas there any backdoor way of you donating to a party/candidate like a holding company or bank (edit: or trade union)?\n\nWho do you think are the most/least ethical lobbying firms in Washington?",
"score": 4
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"body": "How did you get started in the lobbying business? I ask because when I started college that's kind of the path I was thinking of going down. Then I sort of blacked out and ended up a Sys Admin....",
"score": 3
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"body": "You've mentioned that you got the job through family connections, but could you shed light on how a person could get such a job without these connections? For example, what kind of educational background and work experience did it take? Are there many people in the industry who earned their jobs on their own merit or do most lobbyists get their job because they, or their family, know someone?",
"score": 3
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Do you think that the Calorie(s) used to bend down and pick a penny up off the floor are actually worth more than one cent? Is it worth it? | We would probably have to figure out the average cost per Calorie. I guess this would depend on diet: the cal/cent is much lower for things like caviar compared so say hot dogs. | 11 | [
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"body": "Let's say to pick up the penny you're lowering and lifting half your weight (50Kg) 1 meter. So you're giving up that potential energy and then regaining it.\n\nSo how much energy is 50Kg held 1 meter high? I believe it's 50 * 1 * 9.8 ~= 500 joules.\n\n1 calories is 1000 joules (I think). So you need a penny to buy at least 1/2 calorie. According to karooble's butter example, one penny buys 14 calories. So yes, it is worth picking it up.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Though if you take into account that it could be a [collectible / rare date / error coin](http://www.collectorscorner.org/pocket.html) you could make far more than a penny! ",
"score": 3
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My summer job required me to complete a drug screening. | If they make me submit one today when I need to turn in this application, I will fail. My parents will kill me, and I will be fucked.
Would they do that? Pretty much ask me to pee in a cup before I leave or would I come back another time? Also, if I get said job, would they continue to test or just complete an initial test upon hiring? | 10 | [
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"body": "You can use [synthetic urine](http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&safe=off&client=opera&rls=de&hs=6sg&q=synthetic+urine&btnG=Suche&lr=&aq=f&oq=) or the [Whizzinator](http://www.thealsshop.com/_product_88/The_Whizzinator_in_White) or you try the [reddit drug test pass guide](http://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/9v7v0/drug_test_pass_guide/).",
"score": 18
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"body": "In my experience I've never been asked to test when turning in an application for a summer job. They will only spend the money to test you after they have decided you have the job. However if this application is just a formality and you already know you have the job then you may be asked to do one today. I hope it goes well for you man.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Most places give you a day and time and place to show up to for it. They won't just say \"Oh hey by the way can you pee in this please?\"\n\nBut it depends on the employer.",
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What are some delicious/easy to cook Indian food favorites? | I love Indian food, but I only know how to make one dish (Palaak Paneer, which I eat all the time). I'd definitely like to expand this by cooking more and different Indian recipes, but I don't really know all that much about Indian cuisine and wouldnt know where to start loooking. So give me some ideas: what is your favorite Indian food to make at home? Bonus points if you share recipes/special techniques for making Indian Cuisine!
Thanks! | 22 | [
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"body": "[Tarka Dal](http://www.bbc.co.uk/indianfoodmadeeasy/recipes/episode_4/tarkadal.shtml) is a personal favourite. \nCouple of tips- this can as easily be made with regular red/brown lentils as with the split yellow peas used in the recipe; also it's often worthwhile adding about a teaspoonful of vinegar to any Indian recipe containing tomatoes. Apparently Indian tomatoes are quite lot sourer than the sort that we are used to in the West and the addition of vinegar- or indeed lemon juice as he suggests- is a way of replicating this.",
"score": 5
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"body": "i have been making this [Channa Masala](http://www.route79.com/food/channa-masala.htm) and many variations on it for several years now.\n\ndelicious. and relatively inexpensive if you already have the spices on hand.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I haven't tried any of these yet, but I intend to do so.\r\n\r\n[Manjula's Kitchen](http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/)",
"score": 5
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Hey Reddit - I just wanted to "thank" you for your design adjustments on the NSFW tag today.. | Clearly I was slacking off at work and looking at reddit too much there and in front of my girlfriend, but now that my neighbors and birds of prey can see I surf a site with questionable material on it, I am certain to become a more productive, less satisfied member of society. | 361 | [
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"body": "Did anyone else not see the change until this post was made, or this post was the first time at least?",
"score": 136
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"body": "preferences>content options->label posts that are not safe for work with GIANT RED NSFW TEXT\n\npreferences>content options->label posts that are not safe for work with tiny, black nsfw text\n\npreferences>content options->label posts that are not safe for work with the word [input box]",
"score": 70
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"body": "Dear Reddit. It was fine before and it's fine now. If you change it, it will be fine then too.\n\nPeople will always find something to bicker about. Ignore it.\n\nThanks!",
"score": 14
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"body": "I was confusing the red admin names for nsfw at first glance. This will cut down on confusion, atleast for me.",
"score": 10
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"body": "I almost didn't click this post because it was labeled NSFW. What the hell, reddit?! CAN YOU DO NOTHING RIGHT?!",
"score": 10
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"body": "CSS to change that \"NSFW\" to \"Nintendo\":\n\n .rounded acronym{font-size:0px;}\n .rounded acronym:after{content:\"Nintendo\";font-size:10px;}",
"score": 9
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"body": "I was comfortable with the simple red text we had before, did some people think that was not enough?",
"score": 5
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"body": "How is the NSFW applied? Is it just if somone writes NSFW in the title or puts it in a NSFW subreddit? ",
"score": 4
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"body": "It does look like the Nintendo logo!\nI still don't get it when there are NSFW thumbnails beside and NSFW post. Is this some inane joke? \n\nAnd I agree. If you are trying to be discreet and someone walks by and sees bright red NSFW tags, well, it's enough to make me turn off reddit and, um, get some work done. Sshhheeeeeeiiiiiiittt. Bad tho. I mean it!",
"score": 4
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"body": "Hey this isn't NSFW! :(\n\nI am most disappointed in the false advertising this tag has been involved in. :(",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'd rather have no tag than this new NSFW tag. It's too eye-catching. It grabs my attention even more than a orangered envelop. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I like the old version better. This new logo seems to nice and friendly to be warning about NSFW posts. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Scarlet letters. A pink box. \r\n\r\nIt screams for attention. \r\n\r\nDo we want that kind of attention? \r\n\r\n",
"score": 3
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"body": "You know, people bitched before because there wasn't an NSFW tag. Now that there is one, people are bitching that you can see the NSFW tag. WHAT IS IT YOU ACTUALLY WANT?!",
"score": 3
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Just show me there are good people who care. | I'm lonely. I'm really lonely. I think it's partially the anti-depressants I'm on, and partially my, well, loner-ness. I can usually stand it, usually like it, but every so often I break down a little.
I'm constantly attempting to make communities online, or forums, or something to gather people together. But it generally fails right quick before I meet anyone. Or I go back to liking my loneliness for a while and abandon it.
I'm annoying lazy as well, so leaving the house and going to meet people seems a chore. At least in High School I had acquaintances and friends even, that I'd known for years. In college everyone split, poof. Four, or even seven, years of knowing the same people- all gone.
I hang out a little with my brother, or my mom even [I'm a girl, so it's not that weird] but I guess... I need more people. I need someone who cares. My boyfriend and I are long distance, but even if we weren't, friends would be a good idea no?
I like to think that I care. I know I don't always, God knows I'm not perfect. But I want to be selfish right now. I want people who care about me, want to be friends.
I've been alone for a few weeks, few months. I dropped out of last semester, and had an extended vacation at home. I thought it would be good. And it has been overall. But the being so alone it's eating at me. I never realized that just being in the presence of people at school was keeping me somewhat together.
So that's my rant thing... I'll be about to answer if you reply. Thanks.
EDIT: Thank you guys. Thank you. *Hugs* | 24 | [
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"body": "I as well don't love the medication I'm on. It makes me a bit spacey but I like it more than being in a fetal position at the back of my closet. I'm online pretty much all the time so if you ever want to chat, send me a pm and I can give you my email/im names.\n\nAs another female who forgets to be selfish occasionally, I say indulge! Everything in moderation, including moderation.",
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"body": "Howdy.\n\n> I never realized that just being in the presence of people at school was keeping me somewhat together.\n\nCan you tell us where you live? Be general if you need.\n\nMaybe we can help you find some clubs, coffee shops, or restaurants to hang out and read in. I do much of this the last 10 years that I have worked from home. There are even groups for this: http://workatjelly.com/ - you don't need a job, it can be self-study or students - all are welcome.\n\nDo you have a laptop? You could read reddit in public places around people. If not, books you are reading, magazines?\n\nTrying to give you ideas to get you started...",
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"body": "Being alone can suck just about all the happiness out of you, along with the inspiration and the drive to do stuff... not to mention the enthusiasm and... blah blah.\n\nMedication can definitely fix one thing and then fuck up another. It's happened to me more times than I can count. So, you're not alone ;)\n\nIn regards to getting out... is there a meetup.com group in your area? You should find a movie group or something like that. That's a good place to start.\n\nOther than that, as I'm sure some people around here have said, if you feel like just talking, chatting, telling people about your day, you're more than welcome to PM me, and I'll, of course, answer.\n\nHang in there. You'll be ok. Lots of people care.\n\nJ",
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"body": "I'm sorry that you are feeling lonely Faustyna. If it matters at all I recognized your user name as soon as I saw it. You posted an IAMA about your edged weapons collection and also in the zombies reddit. I'm not a stalker or anything. I'm an old fat married guy who appreciates interesting people, and I care that you're having a rough time right now.\r\n\r\nI hope that things improve for you soon.",
"score": 5
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"body": "We all feel lonely sometime; even those people you see who have lots of friends and do different stuff all day. With how much variation there is between one person and the next, it's something unavoidable. It's just a matter of trying to get through it, no matter how hard it is, because eventually it'll get better.\ntl;dr: I care ^_^. PM me if you need someone to talk to!",
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"body": " You sound a lot like myself, though now I am 32 and you sound much younger.. I also am a loner,and now that I am going through my second divorce, not seeing my third son much, rarely seeing my two oldest who the first wife allowed to be beat and I reported it so now they are in state custody... But you know what? It may have been a rough year last year, but I know this year has to be better. I may not have friends per se, but I have learned that I have to fight my way out of this rut. Keeping myself busy has helped, such as the net, calling family, just basic stuff.. Right now I am facing arthritic buildup and tumors on my spine and had surgery thursday so I cannot exrcise but I still remind myself times always get better.. remember, with out the lows, you would be bored of the highs.. Here is a quote that sticks with me\n*Faith is not believing in a distant destiny, but rather, its taking the next step.* we are promised only one more step, and we must decide to take it, and choose somewhat where it will lead.. You can message me if you want, I always look forward to meeting friends online, since I have a hard time doing so in real life with my sever shyness. I hope you find yourself, or at least keep taking steps again until you do. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "I've experienced the mass exodus of friends during the transition to college as well. For me it was largely due to being in a military community, we were in Italy and all of us moved to different states. Most people weren't interested in keeping friends from Italy because the military mentality tends to be that anyone you meet on a base is temporary.\n\nI'm available to talk, I've got Skype and MSN and I can also do IRC. Email is a possibility but I'm not entirely comfortable with it. I'd also be willing to try any communities/forums you currently have running.",
"score": 3
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"body": "If you want to go the online route I suggest making an MSN thread on /r9k/ on 4chan.\n\nI met some nice people that way. Whether or not you'll mention you're a girl right in the thread is up to you. If you do, you'll be asked to TITS OR GTFO, but you'll get a lot more people to add you, although most will be idiots. So you might want to reveal you're a girl later :3\n\n",
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"body": "Faustyna... Faustyna... Is that a reference to something? One of the kids at school has a WoW character named faustyna. Anyway, while your previous communities have fallen apart, I assure you that I will be on reddit a while.",
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If you could punch any celebrity in the face just once, who would it be and why? | I could whittle my hands to stubs punching celebrities in the face, but choosing only one? I'd say mine would be that jerkfuck from the hills, Spencer Pratt. Why? Do I really need to... | 42 | [
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"body": "Sean Hannity. I don't care about his political positions or his blatant emotioneering, it's that [smug little fucking grin](http://static.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2008/07/hannity-bolton.jpg). I don't know why it bothers me so much, just seeing him act so undeservingly superior makes me reach into the TV screen and slap him around.",
"score": 65
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"body": "Miley Cyrus. What kind of spoiled, self-entitled, mediocre pop singer releases a fucking auto-biography at the age of 16!? She needs a healthy dose of reality via fist.",
"score": 23
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"body": "I can't believe nobody has said Nicholas Cage yet. It's a toss up between him and Shia LeBeouf for doing so much to help ruin Transformers.",
"score": 19
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"body": "No recrimination? Michelle Malkin. I wouldn't normally hit a woman but this is a freebie and she deserves it. If I wanted to hit a man I would probably just do it.",
"score": 13
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"body": "Easy...that bitch on \"So you think you can dance\", I die everytime she opens her mouth and scream like a cat who´s being raped:\nMARY MURPHY",
"score": 13
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"body": "**Gordon Ramsay**. For thinking that resurrecting lame hotel food from 1950 and calling it 'grande cuisine' somehow makes him a great chef. I'm a cook. And every kitchen guy I know (and most of the waiters) wants to see the Rammer get smacked in the mouth with an iron skillet. That combination of mediocre food and filthy abuse of one's staff doesn't cut it in the real world.\n\nEver notice how EVERYTHING the Rammer serves is a standard-issue hotel menu item from the bad old days BEFORE Julia Child? Oooh, Beef Wellington! What a genius! Fuck off.\n\nHe's a third-rate chef, a lousy boss, a beastly bully, a toad. He needs his nose broken.",
"score": 11
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"body": "David Hasslehoff. Not because I hate the hoff, just because I think it would be awesome to wipe that shit eating grin off his face.",
"score": 7
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"body": "This reminds me of this question posed to Lebron James.\n\nReporter: If there was one guy on the planet you could dunk on, who would it be?\n\nLebron: If it doesn't have to be a basketball player, George W. Bush. I would dunk on his ass, break the rim, and shatter the glass.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Mark Wahlberg for robbing a pharmacy and half-blinding a Vietnamese man while under PCP... and generally for being a douche.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I once found myself - in a James Bond tuxedo no less - literally an arm's length from Fabio with a can of pepper spray in my hand. And for a second, I really did have to fight the impulse to just go for it and watch my life change forever...",
"score": 6
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"body": "Cameron Diaz. She's pretty frail and old. I'm not that strong, so I'd imagine I could do more damage to her than to some d'bag guy from the Hills. ",
"score": 6
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"body": "These are all excellent choices, but here's one for the gamers out there:\n\nI would knock Jack Thompson the fuck out.",
"score": 6
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"body": "If you want to go for maximum sustained damaged, just pick any annoying brat from the Disney channel. Like that show with those twin fags at some hotel. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "Bruce Willis. \n\nWhy? Something about his tough guy image doesn't sit with me. Remember when he pretended like he wanted to sign up for Iraq, but was bummed out the US Military wouldn't take him because he was too old? I call Bullshit. Blackwater would have taken him. He could have worked security over there and played badass. \n\nI wouldn't sucker punch him, I'd give him warning. A fair fight. I just want to find out what he's got.\n\nP.S. I heard he was a fluffer when he first got to Hollywood.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Does Fred Phelps count? If not, whoever wrote Trust Me, that's the biggest crock of SHIT that's ever disgraced my bookshelf.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Can I put two up here? \n\n**FUCKING CARROTOP**\nJesus look at him!\n\n**THE ASSHOLE FROM HELLS KITCHEN**\nHey, you're not a Marine Drill Instructor. This is not Parris Island. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "Elizabeth Hasselback - Come the fuck on, you live in the 21st century and you \"don't know\" if the earth is round? AND someone allowed you on TV?\n\nAlso, she's wee, so it'd be a 1-Hit KO.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I apologize, but I cannot limit it to one. Here's my three way tie:\r\n\r\nLenny Kravitz\r\nDave Matthews\r\nBono",
"score": 3
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"body": "Penelope Cruz... but not out of anger, only because I think she's hot and I'm into that kind of thing with girls.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Chuck Norris. I have nothing against him -- don't really know anything about him, though I've heard plenty of rumours! I just want to tell my friends I've punched Chuck Norris in the face.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Ben Affleck. I was watching Politically Incorrect with Bill Mahr (at least I think that was the show. It was a few years ago) and Ben disagreed with another guest on the show who I happened to agree with. Instead of refuting her arguments and offering why he believed they were incorrect, he started calling her views \"stupid\" and he was extremely condescending.\n\n",
"score": 3
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"body": "Heather Mills, if you can call her a celebrity. Just because you got pity boned by McCartney a few times does not entitle you to his well earned money ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Chuck Norris.\n\nChuck Norris supports gun rights and ownership and is against public schools condoning homosexuality. He does not believe in evolution and subscribes to intelligent design. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_norris#Political_views)",
"score": 3
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"body": "Kathy Griffith. She needs to staple her fucking mouth shut. Nobody wants to hear that woman talk. Ever.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Rhian... JUST KIDDING every one knows that Chris Br... JUST KIDDING.\n\nHonestly, I'd punch him. Wait no. I'd punch none other than: **Soulja Boy**.",
"score": 3
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"body": "George Lucas for raping childhood dreams. For more info, refer to this [70 minute review of the Phantom Menace](http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/).",
"score": 3
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Hi, please stop posting asking people to do your work for you. | As I imagine it, this sub reddit is to ask for actual favors. This isn't to ask people to do your work for you.
So many people that post here are asking people to create logos for their site, other design work, and recently asking for a complete website designed. People - these things take a lot of work, which is why people get paid a good amount of money for it. Find a service and pay for it. Stop expecting everyone to do your work for you.
Is anyone else annoyed by this?
That's it, thank you.
TL;DR: Stop being cheap, lazy bastards and asking everyone else to do your work for you. | 75 | [
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"body": "As a graphic designer, I've to totally agree. I ignore it because it's not a big deal if an amateur or student wants to do it, it's not my business. But I've \"hidden\" every logo and design request here because it's just irritating to see my profession once again be devalued. Hard enough having a real paying client telling you their sister who had an art class in high school once thinks the font should be bigger and green; it's yet another to see umpteen software companies selling packages by saying \"You can do this at home!\" Yeah. Because all it's all about software. \n\nSorry, had to vent. \n\nSincerely, Grumpy McPoopypants.",
"score": 28
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"body": "This is good in theory. But, then, how will we have time to browse Reddit if others aren't doing our work for us?",
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"body": "**PROTIP:** If placing a [request] tag before what you want is a whole hell of a lot more annoying than it would be with an [offer] tag in front of it,\n\n...don't.\n\nAs I imagine it, this subreddit is to ask **and to offer** actual favors. As a mod, I'm perfectly cool to see the people turning this into /r/begging get downvoted to oblivion and harassed - just like I love seeing the people who are offering something fun or asking for something quixotic get upvoted (I loved the one about the elevator buttons).\n\nThe people who are asking for design work are the same people that *always* ask for design work - they surf the web all day so assume that design is the simplest, easiest thing... yet when told to DIY, come up with a million and one excuses why they're too important, too busy, or too enthralled by your mad design skillz. \n\nAs for the lack of tag? Even better. That means nobody can hide it. \n\n/mod out",
"score": 17
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"body": "I hear what you're saying, but a favor is a favor, and it should not matter what it is as long as it's legal. Someone might need a logo, but do not have the means, it comes with the territory. \n \nLet me also remind you what the definition of *favor* is in regards to this sub reddit: \n \n>fa·vor (fvr)\nn.\n1. A gracious, friendly, or obliging act that is freely granted: do someone a favor.\n ",
"score": 11
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"body": "A to the muthafuckin' men. By the way, would you mind doing some data entry for me... I got a date tonight, and I don't think I'll be able to do this all myself.",
"score": 6
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"body": "I disagree. If it weren't for reddit I wouldn't have my lovely logo for my non-profit activist blog 1world1change.com (which I need to get started writing posts for d:)",
"score": 4
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"body": "well, the other side of this is that people who do help might make some connections, the requester may make some contribution to whoever helps them out?\n\nin the case of design etc it is something someone can add to their portfolio, if you don't agree with a request say something in the comments or hide it so you don't see it again.\n",
"score": 3
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What is one movie that people are shocked to learn you have never seen? | Mine is Empire Strikes Back. I believe I was even once called a communist, for some reason, by a friend after learning I'd never seen it. | 28 | [
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"body": "I haven't seen The Godfather yet, someone actually got me the box set for Christmas because of this, but I haven't felt like watching it yet.",
"score": 35
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"body": "Used to be Lebowski, but then I finally went, fuck it, I need to see this, and saw it. (Loved it.)\n\nNow. Hm, maybe Schindler's List? Just feels like homework. I don't want to see it. Or Saving Private Ryan. \n\nOh, or any of the Godfather movies. Nothing against them. Just hasn't happened somehow.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Wizard of Oz.\nApparently 'everybody' saw it when they were young.\n\nI hate trying to watch kids films I missed now though, always seem so bloody stupid. I watched a bit of mutant turtles the other day and just thought 'I must have been a fucking retard!'.",
"score": 6
},
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"body": "E.T. for at least 6 years beyond it's initial release because everyone knew I was a science fiction fan. I have my standards. E.T. wasn't the brightest gardener on his ship.",
"score": 5
},
{
"body": "Up until a few years ago I haven't seen any Monty Python. When I told my neighbor, he sat me down in front of his TV and made me watch Quest for the Holy Grail.",
"score": 3
},
{
"body": "I have never watched any of the Indiana Jones movies. Not for any particular reason, just has never happened. ",
"score": 3
},
{
"body": "The Wizard of Oz. My sister told me there were flying monkeys in it, and that freaked me out, and I've managed to stay away from it for over 30 years.",
"score": 3
},
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"body": "After having *finally* seen Edward Scissorhands over break, I think I've seen basically every need-to-see movie, and quite a few that no one should ever, ever watch. ",
"score": 3
}
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