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Hey /r/fitness, So I've got a bit of a gut and a larger then I'd like ass... how do I fix this | Im 5'9" and weight about 225. I have a decent build too but I wanna tone up some areas.
ok lemme give the rundown because I've got a pretty weird schedule.
I sleep from approx 10am until 4pm (give or take an hour) I work overnights behind a desk and I really only eat 1-2 meals a day. Ive replaced one of them recently with salad. I also drink 1-3 boost drinks a day because I find they seem to curb my appetite are are around 240 cals. Id love to work out more but due to my schedule I wanna make it count, being that I maybe have an hour or so a day to spare on this.
Any and all advice accepted. | 6 | [
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"body": "HIIT. Google that to learn more about it.\n\nEat less calories, but make them count. If you only eat 1-2 real meals a day, then you were eating some HEAVY calories in that one meal to sustain 225 lbs. Find out your BMR (also can be googled) and split up your caloric intake into smaller meals more often so you don't binge and eat a shitload at one sitting like it appears you were doing before. Going from eating 1-2 densely caloric meals to two salads and a couple of boosts a day is not realistic. \n\nIf boosts are 240 calories each, you could be eating a small meal there instead. A piece of chicken breast and some cooked veggies (I do this easily buying bags of frozen veggies and seasoning to taste instead of using butter). Or a handful of nuts and some oatmeal instead of a boost. Basically what I'm getting at is you want a lifestyle change, not a quick fix, and lets face it, most people aren't going to stick with eating a salad and a couple of boosts a day to maintain weight. You want to build some muscle to increase your metabolism.",
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Always check expiration dates! (Friendly reminder.) | I am so vexed with myself! I was racing through the market four days ago. I bought some mince lamb. Usually, I check all "sell by" or expiration dates. To save time, I always start with the packages closest to the back. (They usually give you more time before they expire.) If there is a good deal, but, the product will expire soon, I just freeze it as soon as I get home.
So, today, I begin to prepare for dinner, only to discover the mince has gone bad. And Frugal Reddit has been so good to me, that I thought I'd just post a friendly reminder. Take the time to check the expiration dates of perishables! Always! Thanks for listening! | 27 | [
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"body": "Best in store expiration story I have was in a Hopewell Junction area Wal-Mart at least 10 years ago when I brought the moldiest bread I've almost ever seen up to the clerk as a joke, because it was St. Patrick's day. She started to apologize when she grabbed it off the belt, because of the mold, and I just deadpanned, \"Hey, take it easy a little bit. You're knocking off all the St. Patrick's day green coloring.\"\n\nI left letting her think I was buying batteries and thought I found a deal on St. Patty's bread. The bread was just hidden behind some batteries for a long time, and I saw it by chance. She was talking to me slowly and with deliberately chosen words, like I was insane and possibly dangerous. It was hilarious. :)",
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"body": "Much research shows that most expiration dates are pointless (from a consumption point of view.) Most canned goods can be consumed literally years after their expiration date. Like warranties, expiration dates are there to reduce potential cost to the manufacturer. I buy and eat expired food all the time. In years of doing do I hand only one can go bad, that of corn. The only ones I am cautious about are canned tomatoes. Those have acid that can etch the can.",
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"body": "Just getting over some food poisoning. Always cook or freeze meat within 8 hours of purchase, or suffer the stinging starfish as I now do!",
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"body": "Did you smell it? \"Use By\" dates are always a few days earlier than they should be to avoid lawsuits etc. Before useby dates, you could still eat food! Give it a sniff and look it over, and if it looks and smells OK it probably is. Cooking (especially things like mince) should kill all the bacteria in it, so if it hasn't actually started rotting (bad taste) then it should be fine.",
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Please, when coding your registration/login forms, be consistent with your password enforcement policy. | Those of us who use password generation schemes to generate long, secure passwords despise it when a website or piece of software accepts a long password during registration, but refuses/truncates it during login.
An example: I just signed up for no-ip.com's Dynamic DNS service. They accepted a 64-character alphanumeric password during registration, but they truncated it arbitrarily. Now, I can't log in, and can't recover my password, as I usually just enter gibberish into "secret question" forms, which are themselves a liability.
So, please: Either accept arbitrary-length passwords up to at least 100 characters, or be very clear and consistent in your password restrictions. If you're truncating/refusing long passwords, indicate the length of the accepted password on both your registration and login form. | 4 | [
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"body": "Is there any reason to ever have limits on password length? Shouldn't you always store some kind of hash which ends up having a fixed length anyway?",
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"body": "I had the same problem with a discount brokerage site. I wrote to them with a detailed analysis about where they were going wrong. Now they trim the password field on their login page using javascript.... I just shake my head. ",
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"body": "My local community college's website is horrible. (I had to take a class there that I didn't take at my high school so that I could meet my high school's graduation requirements.)\n\nThe first problem, was that the login form was simply missing from their website. I'd used the website on other computers, and knew what the site should look like. I was running NoScript, and eventually I disabled it on the website. Poof, there's the login form. I look at the site's source, and right where the login inputs should be (between the <form> and </form> tags), there was a piece of javascript that used document.write() to add in the two input tags for the textboxes. What the hell is the point of doing this, instead of just putting the damned input tags there by themselves? (Also, I notice a lot of websites insist on doing this to put flash into a webpage. Why?)\n\nThe biggest problem was that when I registered there, apparently it seems to have truncated my password to 8 characters (my password was a short phrase with numbers that was over 20 characters). When I tried to log in, apparently the login form doesn't truncate the password at all, so it said I had the wrong password. I repeatedly tried for a half hour trying different passwords I thought I might have used before I randomly tried truncating my password to 8 characters.\n\nWhat the fuck. I want to kill whoever made this form.\n\nWhat confuses me is I've never heard of anyone else who has run into this problem. Surely at least one person of the dozens I've known registered with a password longer than 8 characters. Right? ... I guess it must be popular to use just your favorite color as your password these days and this college thought to enforce that complexity.",
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DAE lose respect for any professional use of the font "Papyrus"? (hello Avatar subtitles) | Do you want your business to feel exotic, earthy or tribal? Try "Papyrus", as seen in Crocodile Dundee, Arizona Ice Tea bottles, and now the hit movie Avatar! Pay no mind to the rest of the signs and business cards in your area utilizing this font, it never loses its impact.
note: This is actually something I picked up from my boyfriend. Now I am passing it on to you, so you can notice it everywhere you go.
EDIT: look, folks. Its not about Avatar. Avatar was great. I loved it. The 3D made me a little car-sick, but I stuck it through thinking about that fish taco I ate for breakfast all the while. I'm saying: If you, like me, notice this font everywhere and it makes you crazy, I wanna know! Isn't that the spirit of DAE? To bring our quirks together and romance about them? Haters to the left. | 35 | [
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"body": "Wow, I've been saying this for forever. I would upvote this a million times.\nPapyrus is the new Comic Sans.",
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"body": "I thought it went well with the movie and the only people that care about the damn font of the subtitles in a movie are those that are just *looking* for something to bitch about. ",
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"body": "I completely agree, being a film that's so technically self praising (of course with complete merit), and such a budget spent on its other elements, to have a typeface that the audience is *required* to read to understand plot dialogue be in a typeface that just falls on itself in front of technically minded people is just a stupid decision in design.",
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How can I be a great sister? | I have a 6 month old brother that I love with ALL MY HEART. And I was the youngest until he came along (im 14) and I want him to love me, too. What things can I do to make his childhood memorable? | 10 | [
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"body": "When he starts getting into girls get some of your hot friends to show him their boobs and stuff. This is pretty much the ultimate thing you can do for him as a sister.",
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"body": "Be the one who always bring the Lego for birthdays and christmas!\n\n(This advice valid for ages 4-13)",
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"body": "Pound into him that you will love him unconditionally and that he can tell you anything. That you will never look down on him and will always love him. \r\n\r\nI think that is the greatest gift, because when he's in his teens he'll have someone to talk to that cares. Kids have a hard time talking to parents at your age. Wouldn't it be nice if you had an older brother to confide in (maybe you do, I dunno).",
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"body": "Regularly play and converse with him. Read to him (when he's old enough). That's all you need to do (besides caring for him in general).\n\n\nAlso try to keep him from putting awful stuff in his mouth, or getting himself hurt (they can be very creative about getting injured). Especially watch out for choking hazards: both from strings, wires, ropes, cords, and things like hard candy, nuts, popcorn, small toys or parts, etc.",
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"body": "Actually, you don't have to do shit until he's ~ 2-3 years old. He, most likely, won't remember anything before then. However, you should spend some time with him so that he'll be comfortable around you.\n\nJust do shit with him... when he gets a bit older play with him because your parent aren't going to want to. Give him food. \n\nOn a side note: You should also try making him listen to good music and read a lot at a young age. Make sure he doesn't fall into the new age norms. You have an awesome opportunity for a science experiment here. \n\nGood luck.\n\nedit:// Typos.",
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"body": "When he is 16 and dings up the bumper of someone else's car while going to a gay bowling night out & his parents don't know, foot the bill & cover his ass.",
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"body": "Be patient and be kind, be there to help him grow up and always give him honest good advice. You are already on your way to being a great sister just by seeking advice and showing a desire to be the best you can be : ). Good Luck!",
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Could life be a huge evolutionary algorithm designed to optimize... something?? | [Evolutionary algorithms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_algorithm) seek to optimize a method by a kind of purposeful trial-and-error. Methods that solve a problem well are promoted in favor of those that don't meet the need.
Clearly in human life there are all kinds of examples of success and failure and all levels in between.
Is God just a lazy software developer, instantiating countless life forms, including us, to do its bidding to optimize its "code", for an ultimate goal beyond our reckoning? | 12 | [
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"body": "Evolution, over time, favors species which persist the longest under the widest variety of conditions. The three characteristics of God, omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, seem to be the optimal qualities for a life form to possess to persist beyond all obstacles. Evolution's goal, if it can be said to have a goal, is to attain godhood.",
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"body": "Yes. Our fitness function is defined by our environment. We are optimizing to live in our environment :).",
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End of time.. Now what? | So just finished watching this season and while waiting for the next season to start I felt like checking out the original series.
Problem is that it seems impossible to find them.
With that I mean either reasonably priced (the only one I could find on amazon was roughly 890£ without shipping internationally) or something less legal (though I'd prefer downloads and not streaming). R/Lending or buying in a store isn't going to be an option here in Belgium.
Also
Does anybody know which brand of coat the 10th Doctor had?
Edit: Found a 200gb or so [torrent](http://www.monova.org/details/2601866/[[DEMONOID%20COM]]-DOCTOR%20WHO%20COMPLETE%20CLASSIC%20SEASONS%201%20TO%2026%206934331%205302.html) which seems to have all the series in separate maps so I could download them one at a time, going to give that a shot. | 8 | [
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"body": "I know you said you didn't care for streaming [but...](http://www.doctorwho-episodes.com/watch-doctor-who-episodes/doctor-who-season-1 \n)\n\nThey have almost every episode. Quality isn't great but it's better then nothing if you need a doctor who fix ;)",
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"body": "The only full torrent of the entire Doctor Who series I've encountered was around 300gigs iirc ( been awhile since I went looking for it ). But the Tom Baker torrent was like almost 50gigs. And when it had finished, I had at least half that was corrupted. Been meaning to regrab it, but alas space is tight.",
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Does anyone else find themselves doing significantly better the first time they play a game? | I've always noticed a phenomenon where I tend to get a high score or something the first time I ever touch a game, and then fail to come anywhere close to that score subsequent times.
Examples:
-recently got [trism](http://www.demiforce.com/games.html) for the iPhone, and on my first go I scored 1,750,000 but now all of my scores hover around 45,000.
-For the past 3 madden games I've bought, I scored a touchdown on the opening kickoff, but kick return touchdowns are few and far between in my franchise seasons (I've always suspected this was built into the game, but I kind of doubted it)
Does anyone else have similar stories? | 8 | [
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"body": "[**Girlfriend Luck**](http://pjammer.livejournal.com/2001/08/28/) *noun* (gērl frēnd lùk) \n\nthe uncanny and highly annoying phenomenon where girlfriends who are invited to join player-vs-player computer/console games that they are wholly unfamiliar with, nonetheless beat the stuffing out of more-experienced male opponents.",
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"body": "Over thinking leads to over doing. The first time you run through a new challenge, your brain is processing on the fly the most accurate way of interpreting that information and then instantly implementing it. The second time through, you are now trying to reference what you have previously seen to what you are now trying to do. Your own interpretations at this point may or may not be as accurate as the interpretations that your brain made when it was just reacting to the situation vs. critically analyzing.\n\nI also just made all of that up and any accuracy that was including was purely by chance.",
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"body": "Same happens to me when I get a new weapon in Modern Warfare 2. First round after unlocking some new gun and I absolutely tear it up with it thinking holy shit, this is the best gun ever. Then I start playing more and by the time I'm a few rounds in I suck again. I don't know what it is about the initial few rounds with a gun that makes it awesome but I wish I could bottle it.",
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"body": "More often I find that if I stop playing a game for awhile and come back to it a few weeks later, I seem to play it better than ever. Especially when it comes to twitch aiming in FPSs. But then for some odd psychological reason, my skills inevitably seem to drift back to pre-hiatus levels. Any one else experience this?",
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Reddit web developers, what easter eggs have you left in the sites you've built? | Hidden URLs? Konami code? You don't have to name the sites themselves, just describe what you did. It's Saturday and this will entertain me greatly. Thanks! | 30 | [
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"body": "Our company's website contains pictures of pedo bear hidden in two different flash headers. Hovering over a special area makes him appear. [Find him!](http://www.palindrom.ch/de/2d_3d/architekturvisualiserung.html). Clicking in the right moment on the 'D' makes him snatch the little girl. [Try it!](http://www.palindrom.ch/de/2d_3d/2d_-_animation.html)\n\nSo far nobody outside the company has discovered them, not to my knowledge anyway.",
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"body": "I made a machine that slowly counted down on a big clock, and if every 108 min. you didn't punch in a specific series of numbers, the world ended.\n\nI put it on an island out in the ocean somewhere, but then I left it and can't go back.",
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"body": "The closest thing to an easter egg I ever left was a \"self destruct\" code, that if entered into the Email field on the contact page would delete the MySQL database and primary web files. I did it mainly because I was having a \"disagreement\" with the client, and wasn't sure if I was going to get paid. Once paid I removed the code, but, yeah.",
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"body": "Once I was working on an orthopedics website and if you had typed \"wooden leg\" in the search box, as a result you would get a picture of a pirate. \n",
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"body": "Every 404 page I have any influence on the content of contains a random Flash game (Tetris, Street Fighter 2, Sonic etc).",
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"body": "I often put extra headers in starting with things like:\n\n\n\n\n x-developer=\"MYNAME\"\n\n\n\n\nbut eventually leading to things like:\n\n\n\n\n x-stop=\"hammer time\"\n\n\n\n\nor\n\n\n\n\n x-haiku=\"Girls that eat bacon\n Are hotter than girls that don’t\n Scientific fact!\"",
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"body": "I did a website for this small doctor's office once and I needed placeholder photos for the thumbnails that would show up randomly on the sidebar of the site. I put [The Dude](http://10minuteramble.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the_big_lebowski___jeff_bridges1.jpg) there as a placeholder. He would only show up if you didn't have any photos.\n\nGuess what they did. They deleted all of the doctor photos one day and I had to explain to my boss why The Dude was on their website.",
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"body": "I'm not a developer or anything close to it but on occasion I hide \"would you like fries with that?\" in white font somewhere on the page within my excel reports to management. ",
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"body": "I had to develop a flash christmas card for a local highschool every year, and one year which featured santa, if you typed, \"futurama\" it swapped in robot santa.",
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"body": "Not much of an egg, but if you type my name into the search box, the page title becomes \"King of the Internets\".\n\nI work for a magazine company though, and one issue, our theme was 'Try something new'. I mocked up about a dozen different covers for the issue centring around images from the article. One was 'Tropical World', so the photo was of a huge flamingo. The other staff laughed and said there was no way we were putting a flamingo on the cover.\n\nWe ended up choosing an image from a movie featuring a guy standing against a football crowd in the stadium. I gaussian blurred the flamingo into the crowd behind him. If you know it's there you can see it quite easily, but without it being pointed out it just blends in for most people.\n\nEDIT: Here's a closeup of that part of the cover, with identifying details redacted (I don't want my company to see my reddit account): http://imgur.com/8BJ6r.jpg",
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"body": "Worked on training software for the MFD (multi-function display) of a weapons system. The imagery on the display, when the craft's camera was selected, is generated by a 3D engine. Deep in the crevasses of this virtual world are hidden a multitude of eggs. The odds of finding one, though, would only become significant after more than a 1000 hours on the sim (which is highly unlikely for any student)",
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"body": "My company runs a kind of indie news site about the city of Richmond, Virginia. We had a feature upcoming about Mother's Day (I think it was about Mother's Day at least) and my boss wanted the picture that accompanied the article to be a uterus. A science-y diagram of one, not a picture of a real one.\n\nHis wife, the site's official editor, refused to let him do this. It wasn't professional enough or something. She wanted some flowers instead. Not wanting to give up his dream of there being a legitimate reason to have a uterus on his website, he used Photoshop to hide the uterus within the flowers' blooms. It took a little fussing to match the hues but no one who didn't know about it noticed.\n\nI wish I could find the image but I can't even remember what the article was really about. The end result wasn't that cool anyway; the idea of it was hilarious, though.",
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"body": "IMO, the absolute best \"easter egg\" you can put in code is your personal \"signature\" (code/comment style).\n\nThere's nothing more satisfying to me than seeing my own code years later knowing exactly that those lines of code were the product of my early mornings and late nights, my babies... And that most were considered good enough to last untouched through so many others' revisions.",
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"body": "piped all user content through [jive filter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive_filter) (output only) when you set a specific GET var.",
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"body": "I did an agriculture website that had a flash movie on it that showed a sunrise and some birds flying over a field. If you typed DUCKHUNT on the keyboard, you could use the mouse to shoot down the birds flying through the scene. It would keep score and everything.\n\nAlso, I made Flash versions of scratch ticket games for the California Lottery website. The games were programmed with the actual odds from the Scratcher games, but if you scratched off the regions in a specific order you'd always win the grand prize.",
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About to replay Half-Life 2 - any mods/tweaks /r/gaming could reccomend to enhance the experience second time round? | So, after being shocked by realising that Half-Life 2 is now over 5 years (half a decade) old, I figured I should pick it up and have another bash at it.
I asked a similar question about Deus Ex a few weeks ago, and reddit pulled through in a big way for me, so I was wondering - are there any updates (graphical or otherwise) that I should consider to improve my gameplay experience? I have heard about [FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod](http://www.cinematicmod.com/) - has anyone tried it? Is it anyone good? Should I bother with any mods at all?
Thanks, /r/gaming!
PS - I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on a Pentium Dual-Core E5200 with a Radeon HD4850 and 4 gig of RAM, if that matters. | 35 | [
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"body": "I don't know if you've seen this one or not, but \"all sounds replaced with my voice\" is by far my favorite mod.\n\ntrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwxN8sCIOOE\n\ndownload: http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=79093",
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"body": "Don't use FakeFactory. If not because magically all characters become whorish in appearance but on the principal that much of the material is falsely claimed as self produced by the author.\n\nI tried it, the environments look better but the artistic license taken with many of characters made me stop the playthrough before even finishing \"A Red Letter Day\".",
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"body": "I had some good fun with [SMOD: Tactical](http://www.moddb.com/mods/smod-tactical) on one of my playthroughs...but otherwise, I keep it vanilla.\n\nThe game's fantastic every time on its own.",
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"body": "This was released not long ago, it's much like Cinematic Mod only not shit. However, judging from the video it seems he messed up facial expressions. Other than that it looks good but I've not tried it myself.\n\nhttp://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1093025",
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"body": "A few days ago I made a list of some decent HL2 mods. None of them affect the singleplayer campaign, but since you have HL2, you might be interested.\n\n\n* [Garry's mod](http://www.moddb.com/mods/garrys-mod)\n* [Eternal Silence](http://www.moddb.com/mods/eternal-silence)\n* [Age of Chivalry](http://www.moddb.com/mods/age-of-chivalry)\n* [Research and Development](http://www.moddb.com/mods/research-and-development)\n* [Zombie Panic Source](http://www.moddb.com/mods/zombie-panic-source)\n* [Goldeneye Source](http://www.moddb.com/mods/goldeneye-source)\n* [Situation Outbreak](http://www.moddb.com/mods/situation-outbreak)\n* [Dear Esther](http://www.moddb.com/mods/dear-esther)\n* [Dystopia](http://www.moddb.com/mods/dystopia)\n* [CSS Sci-Fi](http://www.moddb.com/mods/css-sci-fi)\n* [Fistful of Frags](http://www.moddb.com/mods/fistful-of-frags)\n* [Kreedz Climbing](http://www.moddb.com/mods/kreedz-climbing)\n* [Pirates Vikings and Knights 2](http://www.moddb.com/mods/pirates-vikings-and-knights-ii)\n* [Insurgency](http://www.moddb.com/mods/insurgency)\n* [Battlegrounds 2](http://www.moddb.com/mods/battle-grounds-2)\n* [Orion](http://www.moddb.com/mods/orion1)\n* [Neo-tokyo](http://www.moddb.com/mods/neotokyo)\n* [Jailbreak](http://www.moddb.com/mods/jailbreak)\n* [Half-Life 2 Wars](http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-wars)\n* [Smod](http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SMOD)\n* [Smod: Tactical](http://www.moddb.com/mods/smod-tactical)\n* [DIPRIP](http://www.moddb.com/mods/diprip)\n* [Curse](http://www.moddb.com/mods/curse)\n* [Minerva](http://www.moddb.com/mods/minerva)\n* [Suicide Survival](http://www.moddb.com/mods/suicide-survival)\n* [Flipside](http://www.moddb.com/mods/flipside)\n* [Eclipse](http://www.moddb.com/mods/eclipse)\n",
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"body": "Its more of a hardware add-on for HL:2 but its still impressive. \n\n[Falcon Controller](https://home.novint.com/store/store.php) by novint, adds more realism with recoil when you shoot as well as the package comes with the pistol grip. check out the video I fully intend to get one myself...this is not shameless advertising.\nits compatible with battlefield 2 as well...",
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"body": "I've promised myself that I won't play Half-Life 2 again until episode 3 is out. By that time, Black Mesa should be done so I can play through the entire story in one go.\nThat being said, the sound that combine soldiers make when they die is incredibly satisfying. ",
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"body": "\n\nsourceforts is a multiplayer mod where you build a fort out of blocks and the physics gun in the 'build' period, then you try to invade the opponents fort and capture their flag.\n\nhttp://www.sourcefortsmod.com/index.php",
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IAmA Former Drug Dealer AMA | I am a former drug dealer out of Canada who easily took in 75-100k in sales per week. Specialized in cocaine and meth but dabbled in the organics like pot, oil, hash and shrooms.
The high ended when I was arrested and incarcerated for my actions. To this day have stayed away from the game and have an awesome job and an even greater family.
There are certain details I will not divulge in but I'll see what I can answer. Ask me anything. | 50 | [
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"body": "Do you know where the coke originated from?\n\nI'm Colombian and even though I don't care who you are or what you did I still feel some pain that coke still has hurt so many. I left my country because my neighbor's brother was involved in some bad business. They killed the brother and any immediate family members by close range shotgun execution. I don't want to judge anyone for choices they made, but god damn do i hate coke. ",
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"body": "Did you ever feel really guilty because you knew the person you were selling to was a really heavy addict and couldn't help them selves?\n\nAn extension of this question, for someone that didn't have money, what were you offered for the drugs?",
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"body": "How long were you living this high-flyin' lifestyle before you were arrested? \n\nAnd the followup question is... was it worth it? The line of thinking that I'm running with is that if you were doing this $750k/yr profit operation for a decade.. then had to spend three years in prison, it might seem more \"worth it\", then if you were doing this for a shorter period of time.",
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"body": "did you have a super nice cell phone? in my experience, drug dealers have the nicest cell phones. ",
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"body": "At that level of sales, you will have been buying from the producers and selling to gangs, or people who deal with gangs, who would then split it up and sell it down the chain.\n\nDid you ever have any issues with your clients or producers? As in violence, threats, extortion, rip-offs etc.\n\nI used to have some family members involved in the trade who got me involved too, but the most I ever did was up to a kilogram of speed and several big black garbage bags of weed (a few pounds). Mostly I was at the lower end, dealing $250 ounces and to my friends, just $50 bags. This was about 15+ years ago.\n",
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"body": "* Did you develop any good friendships via drug dealing, and if so, do they still persist?\n* What kind of people did you cater?\n* What were the repercussions of your arrest?\n* Have you ever gotten your nose hairs in a burning trajectory over Moscow?",
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"body": "* What's your personal drug use history, particularly awith coke and meth?\n* Did you use them much or at all when you were a dealer?\n* Do you still use any drugs?\n* What is your job now?\n\nedit: more readable formatting",
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"body": "What is your occupation now? Would you say that your experience in dealing has made you a better candidate for your current job?",
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"body": "Ok but 75-100K a week? That's a couple of million a year, who were you Pablo Escabar?\n\nWhat are the logistics of such an operation? I mean, how could you even store that much product, and move it, without a lot of people noticing?",
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"body": "What do you think the effect of legalizing drugs and allowing commercial production/distribution would do to your fellow drug dealers?",
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"body": "Any close calls from cops or competition before you got caught?\n\nHow do you feel about entertainers who glorify selling drugs?\n\nAre you worried that anything from your past will come back to haunt you?\n\nDid you get to keep any of your money?",
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Something about light's speed that I've never understood. Physics redditors, can you explain..... | Here's what bothers me: the fact that the speed that light travels at is identical to the maximum velocity at which anything could possible travel (186,000 m/s).
I get that there could be some upper bound on velocity in the universe. I also get that there could be something that moves faster than anything else does. But when I hear physicists explain that "nothing can move faster than the speed of light," it sounds like either (A) light's velocity is somehow preventing other things from moving faster than it or (B) it's a really odd coincidence that the hypothetical limit of velocity is identical to light's velocity. I mean, isn't the "FTL" language misleading?
If the upper hypothetical limit were, say, 201,000 m/s and light were still the fastest thing in the universe at 186,000 m/s, then I wouldn't find it strange. So, there's no inherent connection between the two velocities, is there? But if not, why the synchronicity?
[I took no classes in college relating to science, as is surely obvious]
EDIT: The wittensdog's reply thread gives me the impression that there's no inherent connection how fast light moves and how fast all other things can move. But brock_lee's reply thread is giving me the impression that light's behavior somehow dictates the behavior of matter. I'm confused. | 5 | [
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"body": "It's not a coincidence. There definitely is a connection between the speed of light (c) and the fact that c is the upper speed limit.\n\nRelativity starts with the axiom that something moving at c in one inertial reference frame, moves at c in *all* inertial reference frames. \nThis simple axiom has quite a few ramifications when it is explored. The laws of physics must be logically consistent after all. Basically, all of Newtons laws need revisiting. And one of the changes is to relative velocity. Once the math has been worked through, you get the [velocity addition formula](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_addition_formula). w = v + u / (1 + v u / c^2), as distinct from w = v + u. If you look at this formula, you'll see that for any v,u < c, w will be < c also. So something moving at < c in any frame, will be moving at < c in all other frames.\n\nThis is the weirdness where if you're standing on a ship moving at 0.9 c (relative to Earth) and turn on the headlights, the light moves away from you at c and *also* away from an observer on Earth at c. Weird, huh?\n\nThe hard speed limit gets introduced when one talks about energy and momentum. As one approaches the speed of light, p != m v, it's p = m v / (1 - v^2 / c^2). At higher velocities, it takes more and more energy to get any acceleration. This is required for the theory to be self-consistent.\n\nIt may help if you realize that c isn't *just* the speed of light. It's the speed at which massless particles travel, and also the coupling constant between space and time. Light is a massless particle, and it was with light that c was first calculated. But it applies to gravitational waves as well, and other force carrying particles (those for the strong and weak nuclear force I believe). ",
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I've been told I'm a bad kisser. Any tips? | I'm a guy in my late teens, and have made out with about half a dozen girls. About half of them there was no problem, but the other half either gave off the impression or straight up told me I was a bad kisser. On a couple occasions its probably even prevented me from going further. Any advice?
Consensus: **More lips, less tongue** | 36 | [
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"body": "The key to good kissing is being subtle. You have to make her want more. Only move your bottom lip - not your top, otherwise it will feel like you're eating her face. Restraint is very important with the tongue. You don't want to jam it into her mouth. Just let it follow your lip motions and use it to gently play with the tip of her tongue. It should feel natural. If it does then she will reciprocate and you can continue for a bit, but you should be the one to pull away leaving her wanting more. Then just smile and say something sauve and you're now a good kisser.",
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"body": "Know what drives me nuts that some guys do? Open their mouths REALLY wide when they kiss. This causes either A: I end up kissing *into* their mouths and they slobber all over my face or B: I try to mimic and open my mouth much wider, which honestly seems hilarious if I try to picture it. Also, I'm not sure what you described with the circular motion thing but if I think about my tongue when I kiss, it's more like and in-out kinda deal rather than a \"stand there with your mouth open and tongues waggling\". Sorry, best description I could muster...",
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"body": "Open your mouth as wide as possible and lick the bottom of her chin. \n\n15 percent of the time, it works every time. ",
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"body": "Okay, so you can totally become a \"good\" kisser by just stopping kissing her and kiss her ear or her neck for a few seconds. She'll forget that you are bad at kissing her on the mouth. If you make out with a chick more than once, you can figure out her special spot (some will just tell you) and they'll STFU pretty quick.",
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"body": "Bad kissers are one of the following:\n\n1) Too aggressive (I'd say that half of the bad kissers I've had experience with were bad because of this reason). Pace yourself, tease the person you're kissing by not ramping up the pace as quickly as possible. It's always important to be more affectionate than demanding.\n\n2) Prone to breathing HEAVILY *through their mouths* while kissing. Panting can be a hot symptom of making out, but I don't want some dude huffing and puffing into my mouth right off the bat, thanks.\n\n3) Unaware of the dimensions of their lips and mouth. If you have fuller lips or a wider mouth, please be aware that what may seem to you like sweet, wet lip-smacking smooches are in fact chin-sucking, nostril-blocking black holes to your partner.\n\n4) Afflicted with halitosis or generally sour breath. Keep in mind that talking a lot at a loud volume for an extended period of time will make your breath bad no matter what -- keep mints handy.",
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"body": "Begin by kissing with your lips closed. Slowly open your lips with the next couple of kisses. Don't kiss with your mouth open at first - and don't slip the tongue in right away.\n\nAlso, intersperse the kisses on the lips with kisses in a few other places, and a few soft bites.",
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"body": "flick your tongue quickly while drooling like a puppy until she gasps for air, then cover her mouth with yours and stick your entire length of your tongue inside. this is the deep kiss.",
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"body": "I'm too lazy to give a thorough explanation but in general: less tongue, more lip-work. I cannot stress that enough: less tongue, more lip-work. You can be great kisser without ever using your tongue... Throw in a little nibble every now and then, and realize that one good kiss is just a series of multiple little kisses. Escalate the kissing, then slow it down, and escalate again. Get into a flow and kiss with more then just your mouth. Use your entire body. Lean in, hug her, grab her, caress her, tug her hair a little and do all of that in sync with the kissing. A good kiss is alot like a good massage: you don't just rush through it. A good kiss, is a slow kiss. Savour the moment and enjoy every little touch. Lead the kiss, but be responsive to her reactions. \n\nOh and when you're done, just look her in the eyes and stroke gently through her hair. Then push her away, grab her close and kiss her again. A good kiss isn't just about the kiss itself. It's about giving her the feeling that what just happened transcends pure physical pleasure. It's about connecting on a different plane. ",
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"body": "1) Don't tilt your head too much to one side\n 2) Don't open your mouth too wide and clamp your lips over hers\n 3) Don't overdo the tongue -people have a gag reflex for a reason\n 4) If you keep your eyes open don't make it too obvious\n 5) Try to vary it abit. Too much of the same can get dull",
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"body": "1) Make a hand puppet (you know the kind you made in middle school with the eyes)\n\n2) Kiss it\n\n3) ????????\n\n4) Profit!",
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"body": "Wait what? All these comments make no sense to me. What is all this shit about tongues and like subtlety and like bottom lips and making her want more? None of this is right at all. Just open your mouth as wide as possible and like slobber all over her and then blow air down her throat so it makes a weird noise. If she won't kiss you again she wasn't worth making out with in the first place. If she still wants to kiss you it doesn't matter what you do because everything seem better in comparison to what you just did. Problem fucking solved.",
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"body": "Don't shove your tounge down their throat, don't suck hard on their lips and on their tounge (it hurts). Be gentle, that's my tip.",
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"body": "i've often been told that I'm an amazing kisser by straight and lesbian girls alike. here's some advice based on my experience and discussions i've had with other confirmed good kissers about bad kissers. \n\ndo not make a cage of teeth and tongue. if you are going full force lunging (not that it doesn't have it's place when done properly) try starting slowly like a normal kiss, then move into french kissing. \nthere should be a slow rhythm to the widening and closing of the mouth. but make sure your mouth is only as open as theirs. If you over open, they end up with slobber around their mouth or vice-versa. \nthe tongue should be introduced gently with just the tip. find their tongue with yours and do a bit of light play before withdrawing as the embouchure begins to narrow in rhythm. use your jaw and the muscles around your lips to adjust the openness of the kiss, the lips themselves should remain supple and not tight or pursed (not too supple lest your saliva escapes in unwanted ways). \nThe opening of the kiss shouldn't fully collapse for at least a few cycles, when it does you can do a few things like gentle lip biting, or tracing the lips gently with your tongue, cheek kissing, necking, etc.\n\nThose are some basics, I'll leave forceful kissing, necking, biting and advanced techniques for another discussion. And of course don't neglect hand work: back, neck, jaw, etc.\n\nRemember everyone has a slightly different style, pressure, rhythm, etc. Unless your partner is a straight-up hopelessly bad kisser, you'll need to adapt as well as coax the rhythm and the structure of the kiss into something that works and feels right for both of you. And really that's the main thing, don't be nervous or overexcited, let it become something that feels right and natural.",
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"body": "I think the only way to really get better at it is to keep practicing..so..keep kissing those folks!",
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"body": "Use your lips more, with traces of tongue thrown in like whip cream on top. And when it gets hot and heavy go for some full tongue in, then retreat back to lip massages, then go for the neck kisses, soft bites and then start sucking the clit.",
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"body": "follow their lead. if they're soft and gentle, be soft and gentle, if they're hungry and aggressive, ditto.",
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"body": "Use tongue sparingly, you only need to open your mouth a little. Also I have found out that a lot of girls like a little bit of lip biting. I also like to do a thing where I start off by barely kissing them and licking their lip a bit in my experience this drives them wild. ",
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"body": "Practice on a tree and then recite the following words... SUPERSTAR!\n\nbut seriously stop kissing like a fish and be passionate about it, good kissing comes from emotions and recognizing your partners patterns while they kiss. Its usually up to the guy anyway to become the \"complimentary kisser\" aka she sets the tone and you compliment her style by following or changing it subtly.",
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"body": "The comments posted here are good advice on how to *be* a good kisser. The answer may be slightly different if you want your *partner* to think that you're a good kisser. I've been told that I'm a good kisser by many women. The trick is to follow their lead, while keeping the other key points in mind (easy with the tongue, not too wide, etc.). Everyone kisses a little differently, even when they follow the basic \"rules\". If you can figure out their own style & play it back to them, they will almost always give you the complement you're looking for: \"Wow, you're a really good kisser\". It takes a little practice, but it's fun practice! :)",
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"body": "A three-day stubble, attractive as that can look on a guy, can really hurt when a guy presses it hard onto a girl's lips and face. If you have any facial hair, take it lightly for a while.",
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It's now about -25° celsius outside in Finland. I was an army medic. As in, I lived in a tent for weeks out there with my squad. AMA | We had these training camps in the woods, varying from 1 to 2,5 weeks long. Slept in a tent with 14 guys. No showers, no toilets.
EDIT: Went sleepy time for a while, now back. Also, if you wanna know about the real hardcore motherfucking cold, you should ask [exborderranger](http://www.reddit.com/user/exborderranger), [kasot](http://www.reddit.com/user/kasot) or [buffi](http://www.reddit.com/user/buffi). You can ask about finnish medic stuff from me.
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"body": "1) What's your favorite technique for dealing with the cold?\n\n2) How did working in the cold alter your um..medic-ing..? Did you have to take any different precautions?\n\n3) What were the most common types of illnesses/injuries you treated?\n",
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Dear Reddit. I am severely depressed and often suicidal. My family wants to but doesn't know how to help. Can you help with suggestions? | **tl;dr: How can my loving family help and not just watch the very depressed me.**
I do have a loving family, but they don't exactly know how to help. Often they'd ask, "What *can* I do?"
I've been like this for a few years now and I think they're getting used to just living with it. It is strange how depression takes a life of its own. I no longer care for what I initially became depressed about. Now it seems there is very little to live this life we don't remember asking for. I also now find it odd that more people aren't as horribly lost and broken down as I am.
I no longer like sharing how I feel because I hate their blank stare of knowing they are unable to help.
Is there anything they can do? Any methods, suggestions, etc. so something can be done before it
Although I like to believe completely otherwise, I think I might be a pain to live with.
Btw, we have tried professional help several times. Twice they gave up on me. One psychiatrist saying there's little hope for me, after being on his medication and many visits later.
At most times I'd be happy to be able to choose to cease to exist, but I'm very afraid of experiencing death. Also I'm kinda religious and I believe there is a technically kind yet very unloving god who is likely to make things much much worse later.
P.S. Even though I'm using a new account, it is surprisingly not easy writing about this.
I hate having to consider living a horrible life I'd never want just because I'm afraid of dying.
UPDATE: I went to another Doc. This guy was rubbish too. | 11 | [
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"body": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy\n\nConvince yourself that the depression is purely chemical. On top of that, exercise, eat properly, take in a lot of sunlight, get off the computer, stop watching TV and maybe go on vacation. \n\nWorked for me.",
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"body": "The psychiatrist giving up on you sounds like a disservice, but honestly, he has the legal right to \"abandon\" you with sufficient notice (i.e refer you to someone else). \n\nYou probably have not received the proper medication, or worst, the proper diagnosis. This is not something that you can do alone. You are already in the right track of seeking professional help. \n\nIf one psychiatrist does not work, look for another one. Also, may I suggest you talking to psychologist. (Psychiatrist and psychologist may have difference approach, discipline and techniques that may work for you or help you.)\n\nGoodluck. I have depression myself, bipolar and continues to fight this. I do understand that it is not easy, but you are blessed that you are not doing it alone. Family helps.",
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[4] Treeps, ID my new stash? | LINKS
http://imgur.com/bpNKt.jpg
http://imgur.com/ho7y8.jpg
http://imgur.com/4QVeU.jpg
Treeple; I've been on a 2 month tolerance break and just picked up a new delivery for the next few months.
It's from a new contact for me in the oshawa area. I just a pinch in a joint at noon today and I'm still buzzing away. I felt it buzz in my mind more, so that means it's a sativa strain right? He said it was 'SuperKush' but it felt like stonerspeak. Help me ID the strain?
It's cold here but not a cloud on the sky. Hope you're having a happy Saturday too. :) | 8 | [
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"body": "\"SuperKush\" as you know is a complete bullshit term. It looks like it could have some Kush genetics in it... but that says little at this point.\n\nYou can't ID strains of weed like a can of beer - a strain is just the genetics, which have shockingly little influence on the quality of the weed itself. The biggest factor by far is the skill of the grower and the techniques and timing he/she uses.\n\nIt looks like good weed. Don't worry about irrelevant crap like a funny name and just smoke it! :)",
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"body": "One day when I was working at Staples, a customer placed a large order at the Copy and Print Centre. He had something like fifty copies of a 100ish-page manual or guide or something printed and bound. When he came in to pick up his order, he declared that there was something wrong with the way they were printed (it was actually a mistake in the originals he gave us), refused to pay (I think he was offered 50% off), and left.\n\nDerrek was the manager who was on duty that day. He was the one who had to deal with this guy and it put him in a furious mood. At some point shortly after someone returned a multipurpose printer/scanner thingie under the replacement terms of a warranty, where we give them a brand new one and the old one is destroyed. Derrek asked me if I'd like to take this into the back of the store and do the honours, but I declined (I can't remember why).\n\nPissed-off Derrek then decides to relive stress by taking the device, walking out in front of the cash (just inside the doors of the store), raising it over his had and smashing it to the ground. Everyone else in the store was freaked the hell out, but Derrek was angry no more.",
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"body": "To be honest, unless you know the guy grew it himself there is very little chance that it's actually anything name brand. Do what I do and just appreciate if for the quality bud it is.",
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Not-really-wedding ideas? | My husband and I pretty much eloped last August, in a ceremony that was basically just us at a courthouse. We would like to have a sort of reception on our first anniversary for our families, but the more I think about it the less I know what to do for the party. I think it would be tasteless somehow to buy a white dress and have a 'faux' ceremony, and somehow just a dinner doesn't seem quite enough to justify his parents flying in from Australia, so...what to do? What would you do? Does anyone have any friends who did something similar? | 9 | [
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"body": "In his book the Commitment, Dan Savage tells of how is mom advised him to have is not-really-a-wedding-party taken as seriously as a wedding: treat it that way.\n\nSend out formal invitations well in advance. Require formal attire. Throw a wedding sized shindig. In his inivitations Dan specefied that people were invited to a Not-a-wedding-wedding. You could do the same. \"You are cordially invited to attend the, well not a wedding because we're already married, party honoring the commitment of .. . \" \n\nIf you treat it like it's a big deal, others will too. ",
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"body": "You could call it a post-wedding reception and make it a huge shindig! If you have relatives coming in from out-of-country, I suggest making it a weekend event that has a tour included, maybe a spa getaway for those who love that kind of treatment, some outdoor activities that's appropriate for your region (snowboarding, white water rafting, etc.).\n\nI do second Mooshiga's idea, though, of treating it as a huge formal thing. Instead of saying it's a not-wedding, I think framing it as \"honoring a commitment\" is better though. Either way, hope you figure something out :D",
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"body": "I have a HUGE extended family, but always wanted to have a small wedding. So, I always planned on having a small destination wedding, followed afterwards by big-ass reception. I see a lot of parallels in your situation and my dreams. \n\nI think you should just see it as an excuse to have a party celebrating your love! You don't have to get a white dress and recite vows, but buy something fancy that you look gorgeous in (or, if you wore something special to the courthouse, wear that again). Book a space (back room of a restaurant, upscale bar, hotel convention room if you have the $$etc) and get it catered. Invite all your friends and family. Get a band or dj. Decorate with pictures of your and your husband. If you have a video of your actual wedding, play it. Get a guest book people can sign. Hire a photographer, or place disposable cameras all over the room so people can take pictures of the party for you. \n\nPlan it exactly the way you would a regular wedding reception--the PARTY part, not the ceremony part. If you say from the beginning that you want people to treat this party as the reception you didn't get to have at your original wedding, it doesn't matter how much later it occurred.\n\nAnd for god's sake--this is for you, not them, so have fun!!!\n",
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Reddit.. I think I may have travelled back in time?? | Hey Reddit, you collective conciousness you.
I think I may have ended up in the 90s?
I'm staying in a hotel and it was most definitely 2010 when I got out of the taxi, however I think walking through the hotel doors sent me back in time.
The hotel itself is timeless inside and there is nothing to suggest anything beyond 1999. The hotel doesn't have Wi-Fi, there isn't a CAT5 socket on the wall, there is a phone but my netbook doesnt have a modem and I left my accoustic coupler in the 80s.
I have an iPhone with me but I have only discreetly used it in case I freak anyone out. It will be obvious i'm from the 21st century if I flaunt it.
I'm in an urban area but it barely gets reception. I don't think many towers have been built yet. When I do get reception I get GPRS, i'm in the UK so i'm thinking late 90s.
I tethered the iPhone to the computer by USB and when I use the web it does look like i'm still connected to the 2010 internet, maybe there is some kind of electromagnetic connection through time from the phone to 2010. Maybe I could phone and get help.
But first, maybe i should invest in Apple?
TLDR; I'm in a Hotel in the UK in an urban location and it's practically isolated from the Internet. I wrote a story about time travel because watching YouTube on GPRS makes me cry. | 3 | [
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"body": "Reddit... oh my god, like, I totally couldn't find a frappucino this morning! Like, WHAT EVER!!! Oh my god, like, what kind of place can't you get a frappucino?",
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"body": "You have to call me. I'll give you my old ATT calling card number. Better yet, email me on my old AOL account. Tell me you're from the future and that I should stop messing around with Judy. If it's too late, just tell me not to go to that concert in 2000.",
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"body": "Dear Reddit,\n\nI'm always working on the time machine. It's almost by definition a never-solved problem: you can't ever sit back and say, \"There. That fixes the problem of time travel, forever.\"\n\nFor every complaint that time passes too slowly, I get another complaint that time doesn't pass slowly enough.\n\nI've been working on one particular idea for a long time. It will hopefully help a lot, but I'm hesitant to preannounce specifics. Sit tight.\n",
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To the Woman on the Oakland BART to San Francisco at 9:30 this morning - Can Reddit help me find her? | I want to thank you, the classy brunette lady on the San Francisco bound train. I would be willing to bet you are not reading Reddit. I know I should never assume, but you just don't seem the sort. But you might be, and if not maybe you'll tell someone about the crazy argument you saw on the BART train this morning, and they can tell you that they read something *just* like this, and you'll know how much you impacted me.
I was on my way to work. I know I probably didn't look like it, but when we work on the weekends, they relax the dress code. Makes sense, I guess; when you're on your 60th hour of work, ironing a shirt just doesn't seem to matter anymore. I decided to take the BART to work this morning because none of the parking garages are open late enough on the weekend. So, I walked to the BART, and on the mile long walk, I called my Mom.
She's a nice lady, and we hadn't talked since Christmas, so she was worried about me. We were engaged in a serious conversation when I entered the station, and my train came more quickly than I had expected. She also raised me to have courtesy to others, so I try not to talk on the phone on the BART unless it's necessary.
I chose a seat where I wasn't sitting next to anyone, and was about to explain to her that I had just boarded the train and would call her again soon, when I heard a commotion and people yelling. I looked up, and realized the yelling was directed at *me*. An older man and woman were yelling at me, telling me to be quiet and get off the phone. The man told me to "Stop jabbering!"
I told them to relax, and though I admit my tone was fairly curt, it was more because I was surprised than because I was angry. They were sitting in the seats reserved for the handicapped or elderly, yelling across the aisle, and people were still boarding the train. It was a strange and awkward scene. I tried to tell me Mom that I should probably go when I was interrupted again by another woman, a row across from me, who also started yelling at me to get off my phone. I told her to relax also. The original couple started yelling at me to respect their privacy, so I told them they should respect mine, and mind their own business.
Then they started talking about me to each other. I apologized to my Mother for the disruption, told her I would call her back later, and hung up. I then turned to the woman nearest me, and told her she did not have to be so rude as to yell at me while I was on the phone, and that I was actually in the process of getting off the phone when she interrupted me. She refused to look at me while I spoke to her so I turned to the other woman and told her that she must be very proud of herself for her behavior. She nodded and smiled and said "Yes we are."
I told her I thought it was incredibly rude, to which she put her finger to her mouth, shushing me. She said "I know you're embarrassed, but just be quiet."
I told her I was not embarrassed, but I thought she should be. To which she replied "I don't care what you think." I told her that was what made her an insufferable hypocrite, because she thought I should care what she thought, even though she had no concern for my opinion. She had no response to that except to turn to the woman next to her and talk about me as if I wasn't there.
"They just don't get it, do they? They have no idea how wrong they are. It must be a generational thing, no respect for other people."
I really felt like a crazy person. I was so angry I wanted to invite these three sad, self-righteous, entitled cell-phone vigilantes to step outside the train so we could handle this the old fashioned way.
And that is where you stepped in, and gave me some hope. You leaned over and quietly informed them that, in fact, they were the ones who were rude, and that they were the ones disturbing people. Or something to that effect. You were such a class act that you managed to respond so quietly that I didn't hear all of what you said. Honestly, you handled the situation better than I did. I was so rattled that I actually missed my stop at 12th St, making me late for work.
This happened 5 hours ago, and I am still angry about it. I can't believe there are people so self-righteous that they can accuse people of the very same behavior they are engaged it, with no sense of recognition. Even worse is that they literally congratulated themselves on standing up for good against...against what? Someone talking on the phone to their 63 year old mother? I was so baffled that people right this acceptable that I felt just outraged and disgusted with humanity in general.
I know that's a silly reaction, but that's how I felt. And then *you* stepped in and pointed out that it was *not* acceptable, and that they were being jerks. And you restored my faith in...I don't know...I guess just in common decency. So, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Also, to my fellow riders, I apologize that your morning started with a screaming match about etiquette. I know it probably seemed beyond strange. In my pre-caffeinated state, all I could think to myself was "Is this real life?"
TLDR - I got yelled at for being rude on BART, and a nice lady came to my defense. | 8 | [
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"body": "Is it just me or have the old fart manners police been upped a notch on BART? I was told it is dangerous to wear earbuds because a train will hit me (nevermind that I'm sitting IN a train). I mean honestly. \n\nOh and you were ok, I don't give a shit if people talk on their cells as long as they aren't screaming into them or being dicks about it.",
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"body": "Would they ever tell the ghetto guy from Oakland to stop obnoxiously rapping to himself? Don't think so.",
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ASKNEXUSONE: Can anyone recommend a good Twitter app for the Nexus One? | There seems to be a bunch of choices, but I was wondering what others are using. Which Twitter app works best for redditors .... | 6 | [
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"body": "Last I knew—and google (the search engine) still seems to agree—Twidroid is the most featureful and popular.\n\n(I don't have any personal experience though. I get my Nexus on Monday!)",
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Advice for a dude looking to start yoga. | I'm taller than your average bear (6 foot 2) but only weigh 180 lbs and I am also not the most flexible person around. I've found that bulking up isn't where my body wants to head and neither do I. I'm only 21 and figure in due time my mass will increase but until then I wish to start doing yoga and treating my body with more respect.
I have never done a single class and was wondering what should my schedule be (once, twice, three times a week?)
What goals should I be setting, and what kind of results should I be expecting (physically and mentally).
Also should I be doing only yoga or should I also add some cardio or weight training. I should add I'm an avid surfer and I believe that counts for something (cardio perhaps).
Any other advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you! | 9 | [
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"body": "I'm all about yoga. Feel free to ask me anything! There's pretty much nothing else in the world I enjoy pontificating about than yoga.\r\n\r\nThat being said, I'll restrain myself from blabbing, and try to answer your questions in as few characters as possible.\r\n\r\nThere are many types of yoga to choose from. Some focus more on meditation, some on flexibillity, some on strength. If you're looking for strength, I'd recommend Ashtanga. Do some research and see what you have available as far as yoga studios in your area. \r\n\r\nI'd recommend yoga studios over yoga in a gym setting because they are usually stricter as far as teacher quality control. There are some excellent teachers in gyms, but shop around and don't feel shy about asking the teacher what training they have. There are a lot of \"Be a yoga teacher in a day!\" type of programs out there.\r\n\r\nAs far as schedule, whatever you decide to do, be consistent with it. You don't want to go everyday one week, then 0 times the next week, then once the next week, etc...Maybe start out at once a week, and see how you feel and go from there.\r\n\r\nAs far as goals, a big goal is to be happy with where you are and not worry about you want to be doing or where you think you should be (I know, it's new-agey but seriously, yoga taught me to think this way)\r\n\r\nIf you enjoy cardio and weight training, keep at it. You can build incredible strength with Ashtanga yoga, and it is a cardiovascular in some respects too.\r\n\r\n(As far as the other comment making fun of you for considering yoga... There are many men in my yoga classes. In one particular power yoga class I go to, the ratio is about 70% men to 30% female. And yes, the vast majority of those guys are straight. I happen to think men with the yoga build have the best physiques...kind of that lean swimmer build.)",
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"body": "Yoga is great. Especially for men and its helped me work through plenty of lifting injuries. Its also a great form of meditation. IMO it covers both mind and body. I've actually been doing it since I was born (my grandmother has been a yoga teacher for 60 years). She's still active and teaches my kids (her great grandchildren). \n\nThat being said. Try to find an Iyengar studio. They are a solid teaching facility, every instructor is highly qualified. They work with you directly. The class sizes are always small. Its traditional and thorough. Its not new agey (sp?) and there is not some dude in a saffron robe chanting. \n\nIts also damn hard work and it takes some time for your body to acclimitize. \n\nYoga can complement your other activites or its fine by itself. \n\nAs far as goals, get the basic asanas down and work on your breathing. That should take you a year or two. ",
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"body": "Start with a class once a week; try a couple of different instructors to get a good sample set of rhythm, hokey factor/spirituality focus, and intensity. Don't expect to drop weight from doing one or two classes a week (one class == 1.5 cookies). Still, your overall flexibility and stabilizer muscle strength will really improve; you'll find yourself in positions that you haven't been in since you were six years old.\n\nDefinitely add cardio and weights. Nothing better to ward off long run or heavy squat/dead DOMS than some pigeon pose :)",
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Wife is considering deployment to Iraq. Seeking advice. | My wife has been in the Air Force for over seven years now. We've been living paycheck-to-paycheck since August of 09. She doesn't seem to mind this, but she's noticed that it has been causing me a lot of stress. So this morning she asked my opinion on her being deployed to Iraq for six months. I didn't know what to say, other than it scared me to think about it, but I would support her 100%. She wouldn't be in a combat role, which helps put some worries to bed, but I still don't like the idea of her being gone for that long. To be honest, I don't think I could run a house and manage a teenage girl on my own.
Any other Redditors been in a similar situation? What were some things you discussed with your significant other? | 4 | [
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"body": "If you need the money and you don't mind her being gone then she should go. Don't worry about the danger, it is minimal, on-base vehicle accidents are a more common way of getting injured while deployed.\n\nI've been 8 times....the extra cash is nice. \n\nTip: Don't let her come back to a zero bank account. When she gets back there had better be $10,000 in the bank or else she will be pissed.\n\nAlso, cut expenses. There is no reason why a Staff Sergeant (Tech?) should be living paycheck-to-paycheck. ",
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"body": "I did one about a year ago. It's calmed down considerably and there is less and less threat to our forces....but it's still there while we are. If she's at Victory the living conditions are quite good, jobs can be stressful but it's a deployment so it's not like there's going to be a lot else to do. \n\nThat said, I'm not sure it's worth the money to be away. I'd go again if they needed me to, but spending time with my wife and kids is more important to me. Money will come and go.",
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Is combating mediocrity as important as combating "evil"? | I ask this because I believe that the great majority of human suffering and environmental destruction is caused not by malice but by mediocrity. For every serial killer, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers conditioned to follow orders, pious village idiots, and corporate executives who earnestly believe in the bottom line. | 7 | [
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"body": ">I ask this because I believe that the great majority of human suffering and environmental destruction is caused not by malice but by mediocrity.\n\n[citation needed]\n",
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So, it turns out some of my real life friends are kinky. And now I have kinky real life friends. Huzzah! | OMG
So, a few months ago I asked a question about ["Coming Out"](http://www.reddit.com/r/BDSMcommunity/comments/9xh29/coming_out/). At the time, the idea of revealing my interests to friends was inconcievable. And I certainly didn't think I'd meet someone via real life that was interested in this sort of thing (well, other than this one creepy guy that goes to my school.)
And now... I'm out with a few friends.
It started with one of my best friends from high school. As mentioned in the post I linked to above, her boyfriend and his ex-girlfriend experimented with bondage and such. When I was hanging out with her and her boyfriend during Thanksgiving break, we went to an upscale sex shop. We all eventually wondered over to the kinkier section, and her bf and I were discussing things like how silly it was to pay so much money for the rope cuffs they had, and how ridiculous the rhinestone encrusted handcuffs were, and I showed him how the nipple clamps were adjustable, and so on. My friend said something like, "I know why he knows all this. But, OQG, I'm surprised about you!"
And so, long story short, she now knows... quite a few things. Not everything about me. But most things. I'm terrible with secrets. Especially with my best of friends. And after learning that they are experimenting, I did a motherly safety talk to make sure they were being safe. Goodness.
And then there was the old friend from high school.
We had been ok friends. Mostly out of convenience- my main friends didn't have the same lunch hour as me, so I sat with her and some other ok-friends. She graduated early, and I lost contact with her. Fast forward to a month-ish ago. She gets FB. We reconnect. We both hint at a couple of things, and pick up on those hints. And, low and behold, she's also into BDSM. And we are both like, "OMG, this is awesome! We can go to the Folsom Street Fair together! And all sorts of things! And we will be a perfect alibi for friends and family; when asked where we are going, it's to visit an old high school friend." I hung out with her a bit during winter break, and it was super fun.
And then there's *another* high school friend. I haven't really come out to her, but she's revealed to me that she's now into kinky things. Which is kind of adorable. She was so ridiculously innocent when I first met her. First I taught her sarcasm (to teach a person sarcasm, just be sarcastic at them till they get it) and then things like what the difference between a dildo and a vibrator was (long story. She and another friend knew nothing about sex, despite having dated multiple guys. While I hadn't even been kissed at the time, I knew knowledge was important, so educated myself about all sorts of things. One night we were hanging out and I learned of their ignorance and we had a long educational talk. It was... interesting).
And then the other day she said that she is into "crazy" things. And has a whip, which she thinks is quite fun. So I'll probably eventually end up coming out to her. Although she's kind of horrible with secrets, so maybe not.
And *then* yesterday I was hanging out with a good friend that's in a club I'm in. I knew she had slept with the aforementioned Creepy BDSM Guy. Which I didn't approve of, because he's crazy sketch. But it turns out that it's actually something she's in to. The result of that conversation was that she convinced me to get a FetLife account (username: "Not Green Tea" but without spaces). And we are hopefully going to go to a Kinky Coffee thing some day at a nearby city. She's actually the first one of all these people to know the word "munch"
This is all... quite exciting.
**TL;DR**: Turns out some of my real life friends are into BDSM, and I've recently started finding out. And it's awesome, and so I wanted to share because I'm happy. | 7 | [
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"body": "Yay kinky RL friends! I have tons of them, I'm not sure how that happened. Something about people who like star trek also liking nipple clamps. But it's always awesome when you find people in your real life who you can talk to!",
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Expanding the sidebar description. | I've just added a bunch of subreddit links to the description, unfortunately, due to the 500-character limit, it was necessary to use a URL shortener on all of them. **EDIT:** Scratch that, just found out about Reddit's internal link system.
Right now it stands at 444 characters. Suggestions for any good Linux-related subreddits that've been missed are welcome.
If the subreddit you're suggesting is already mentioned, please upvote that comment rather than adding a new one.
For those interested in adding a similar description to their own subreddits, here's a copy of the description: http://pastebin.ca/1744677 | 12 | [
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"body": "How about [/r/kde](http://www.reddit.com/r/kde) and [/r/gnome](http://www.reddit.com/r/gnome)? Also [/r/xfce](http://www.reddit.com/r/xfce) and [/r/xmonad](http://www.reddit.com/r/xmonad) possibly.",
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Anyone else watching the Bengals-Jets game and surfing reddit? These announcers are horrible | How does Theismann get any type of announcing job still? He has to be one of the worst NFL announcers in the last 10 years. | 102 | [
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"body": "I don't know...Theismann saying 'Palmer's been high all day' might just have been the greatest quote out of an announcer all year long...",
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"body": "If you're watching it in 5.1, try turning off the center channel. I do this with college basketball because Vitale is the worst.\n\nedit: [credit to consumerist](http://consumerist.com/2006/12/howto-remove-annoying-announcers-from-sports.html)",
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"body": "I've said it before: We need free feeds of games so we can change angles on our own and have open source announcing.\n\nI would call games in a Midwestern accent with vocabulary that would be Al Swearengen blush. Instead of info about players game, I would bring up their personal lives. ",
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"body": "Dear NBC: I do not care about Saturday Night Live or Charles Barkley wearing a dress while I'm watching football. Fuck you very much.",
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"body": "Go to NFL.com and look at the video from Dustin Keller's touchdown reception. Theismann was convinced that Mark Sanchez was Brad Smith.",
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"body": "I was, but as soon as the bengals missed the fg I threw my tv out the window. Just reddit for me now.",
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"body": "They were so chatty at one point that there was a penalty called, and we never found out what it was. Bastards!",
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"body": "It's the fourth quarter and I think Joe Gibbs just figured out that Rex Ryan is coaching the Jets and not Buddy Ryan. WTF?",
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"body": "When the Jets scored their second touchdown, I thought I was watching a local Bengals broadcast because of how unimpressed the crew was of how Keller stayed inbounds.",
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"body": "Totally. Looks like Sanchez has shown up today. He's having a great game so far.\n\nUPDATE: Yeah. He rocked it.",
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"body": "It's amazing how bad the analysis is. If I hear, \"Oh, I think that last pass was a little high too...\" one more time I may drive to Cincy and choke the life out of Joe Gibbs.",
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if you're an overweight 14-year-old brat, or any size/aged asshole for that matter, and you try to talk down to me because I don't live and breathe every fine mechanic of the game, you can take a bath in sulphuric acid. | Just because I don't know every fine detail and stat and every single number's effect on everything in the game, and don't have the time to grind PUGs all day for badges to get uber-awesome gear, doesn't mean that I can be berated. I bought the game and pay my monthly fee to have fun. I know, it's fucking bizarre that some people still think WoW is a game for fun, but they're out there and I'm one of them.
I like WoW, but god damn I wish about 85% of the community would just fucking disappear.
Fuck off and shave your neckbeard/take a shower/eat a salad/go outside/whatever it is you need to do. Thanks. | 5 | [
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"body": "There is always elitist jerks out there. I had one guy telling me all the skills on my bar that weren't the right rank. It was REALLY irritating but I knew he was doing it to help. He told me at the end of the instance that he had some thing similar happen to his mage. Apparently if you're duel spec'ed it doesn't always update the rank of your skills. o_O\n\n@OP Your best bet is to right click the person's name and ignore them. Then you won't get grouped with that person again. You'll learn all that stuff he's blabbering about as you go. Run enough dungeons and you'll learn the layout. If it's about dps/healing/tanking that's simply remedied as well by going to one of the many good fansites out there. ",
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"body": "I don't know what server you're playing on ( sounds like Spinebroken though ) but some servers are kinder than others. It also sounds like you encounter too many Ruleplayers and need to find some Roleplayers. It may take a bit, but search the forums and look around. You'll find a decent guild that will care more for you as you, than what your animated pixels can or can't do. Don't give up yet. It is your $15 a month to do with as you see fit.",
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"body": "I know exactly what you are talking about, it's the fucking gear snobs. Before this expansion, as soon as I hit 70 everyone was like \"your sp is too low\", I would even have people look at my armory page just for a simple 5 man, to have them either refuse to group with me, or be a dick about it. I had to spend a month getting pvp gear... \n\nFucking gear snobs, and the people by any bank with their super cool mount, it is just a reflection of their over obsession. \n\nI am always a good healer no matter what gear I have. ",
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"body": "I agree, there can be some very annoying elitist assholes out there.\n\nBut y'know? You sound like more of an asshole than any elitist I've ever encountered. ",
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"body": "You don't have to be fat/anti-social/ungroomed/obsessed to be able to play wow properly. It doesn't take much time to learn your class mechanics properly, some people prefer to play the game in such a way that they will excel and be the best they can, don't fault them for that.",
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"body": "What is your case study which made you mad? I cannot tell if you have a legitimate case for anger or something was your fault. Judging that you preface the title with an ad hominem, I'd like more info.",
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Is anyone else depressed by porn? | I don't hate porn, but i don't enjoy it either. Whenever i see it or think about it i just feel this sort of weird tug of melancholy... i don't know whether it's a rather patronising sense of pity for the people in it, or sorrow that whoever's watching it even needs to (i'm aware plenty of sexually fulfilled people watch it sometimes anyway - i'm not saying this is a rational response.). If i think about the volume of it out there, it makes me feel really sort of hollow.
I don't think i've ever encountered a similar response in anyone else, so i was wondering whether it really is just me. | 17 | [
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"body": "I sure am. Porn is the only type of movie that makes me cry.\n\nAll those dildos are getting more than I am. Outscored by an inanimate object.\n\nIt's a tragedy.",
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"body": "I completely see your point, but you have to be selective about the kind of pornography you watch. Standard modern porn with fake tits/plastic surgery/shaved stars/dyed hair/weak dialogue/spitting on genitals/gagging on cock/staring at the camera/fake fuck noises/overdone profanity does absolutely nothing for me. And it makes me sad as well to think that that is what apparently (?) turns people on. At least that's what sells. I'm left to assume that the people that enjoy this kind of porn are out of touch with the most meaningful aspects of human sexuality and they don't even know it - gentle kissing, real bodies, subtlety, humility, caressing, breathing, etc. So my advice is to search for porn where it seems like the 'stars' don't even know the camera is there. Porn where is seems like the the 'stars' are natural and seem to truly have feelings for each other. There is some amateur porn like this, and some professional porn as well (but usually not from the U.S.). The feeling you get from watching this kind of porn will be totally different.",
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"body": "I agree, I always wonder how many of the women are eastern Europeans smuggled out to be sex workers. ",
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"body": "After being a Google Rater for 11 months and seeing countless bizarre and mortifying things, I actually quit a month early. The handful of times I saw and had to report CP disgusted me, too. (Plus gave me the added paranoia of having the FBI breaking down my door..)",
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"body": "> ...pity for the people in it\n\nWhy would you feel pity for the people in porn? They're getting paid to do what they love. They obviously don't mind people watching them have sex, they wouldn't do it for a living if they did.\n\n> ...sorrow that whoever's watching it even needs to\n\nWell I'm afraid you're right. People masturbate. People who watch porn need (I use that word reluctantly) to watch it because they have sexual desires. People get horny and want to have sex, it's completely natural and part of being human. If sex isn't available they go to the next best thing: Masturbation.\n\nI can understand that you don't like to watch porn, it's not everyone's cup of tea. But you don't have to feel sorry for us porn-watchers, we're just like everyone else, except we watch porn.",
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How much of a hassle is owning a car in Manhattan (assuming you're not a freaking millionaire)? | Is it expensive to register a car in Manhattan?
Is it expensive to insure a car in Manhattan?
How hard is it to park? Do you pretty much have to get a lot or can you park on the street right outside (or within walking distance to) your apartment?
Just interested... | 5 | [
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"body": "It's a huge hassle. When I was moving into my apt in the W.Village from my parents house in Staten Island I would sometimes bring my car in to move stuff, and keep it there for a week or so. Every day I'd have to move my car, and as I work an odd schedule, by the time I got around to doing it, there would be no spaces. Some days it was a simple 5-10 minutes riding around the block looking for a spot, but there were some days were I was literally looking for over an hour and a half.\n\nOf course depending on the part of the city YMMV.",
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Could anyone recommend some bebop? | I never liked bebop until I heard Cal Tjader's version of "Now's the Time". I usually just found it too old timey and it reminded me of big bands and those 50's cartoons.
EDIT: Here's the tune I'm talking about http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Now+S+The+Time/24209786
Note the playing style starting at around 40 seconds in. | 6 | [
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"body": "Can't give you titles of albums but if you like Cal surely investigate Milt Jackson, another boppin vibes player. Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Dizzy, Miles, Woody Shaw (all trumpets) are all worth worshipping daily. Charlie Parker inspired so many and Cannonball Adderly is a must for inspiration. Oscar Peterson, piano, did alot of those Jazz at the Philharmonic records that have a ton of bop sidemen really stretching out. One with Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson is excellent. Dexter Gordon, Gerry Mulligan, Clark Terry, Bob Brookmeyer, Ray Brown...too many to list. Go to a local jazz jam and you will dig it. Almost forgot-Art Blakey and the Jazz messengers and Horace Silver. Classic, classic, classic. ",
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Workplace conundrum - developer curiosity/enthusiasm? | Are there workplaces where the majority of developers are passionate about their craft, and continually seek new ways to improve?
At my workplace I've introduced bug tracking, continuous integration, integration testing, unit testing, decent source control (was VSS) and more importantly source *management*... all initiatives I've made on my own, because I felt they were important. Generally these efforts have been met with indifference, and recommendations are only half implemented. I'm also the only developer that appears to have an interest in development outside of work, and actively learn new languages and frameworks.
To make matters worse, recently our former manager was replaced with an internal promotion who has no project management or software development experience.
Is this typical for the industry, or am I in a particularly bad place? | 7 | [
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"body": "i did exactly what you did and got the same response.\n\n*here is what changed*\n\nThere was a huge change fiasco a week or so later. Not a false flag, although very useful. The other developers (read web monkies) were abut to cry. Backups don't happen as regular as they should. \n\nI did a simple git revert to head (yeah there are cleaner ways to do this) and all was well.\n\nSince then, the attitude has been meh, this is useful.\n\nA new guy came on board and has been all about agile practices.\n\nNow there are two of us that are pushing to have this stuff used.\nIt has been a lot easier to sell now.\n\nThe acceptance and adoption is increasing at a steady rate now.\n\nAs for passion. Expect maybe 1 in every 20 developers to actually care about their craft.\n\n**EDIT**: The numbers get even lower for developers who are actually good much less have passion.",
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"body": "While I have a lot of frustrations here at EA, just about every single person I work with is super smart and very passionate about what they do. That's one of the really nice thing about the game industry: so many want in that the people who make it tend to be pretty sharp.",
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"body": "I have not worked at any place like that in the 15 years I have been in the industry. I literally have not worked anywhere that source control and issue tracking were not long-established before I arrived, or taken for granted when I was in the first wave of developers.\n\nI have never worked with a developer who did not ask \"what version control tool are we using\" at the beginning of the project (except when it was obvious from history).\n\nActually: I did once for a one month on a contract, so I guess such companies do exist.",
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"body": "I'd say anecdotally it's a little less than half of developers in general who are passionate about their craft, so if you're in a place where you're the *only* developer like that, you're in a particularly bad place. I'd recommend looking for a move—not just because you'll be happier, but because there are teams out there *looking* for talented developers who care about what they do, and they deserve to have you on their team rather than wasting away at a workplace where your skills are unappreciated and likely untapped.",
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"body": "People respond to incentives. If your manager doesn't support your efforts by providing incentives you have no hope of success. It's time to move on. This is how bad cultures get reinforced. Good people move on, and only those who don't care remain.\n\nI've been a manager for quite a few years. I don't tolerate the unprofessional bits (not using source control, not writing unit tests, not working with our bug tracking system), and I encourage the good bits (suggesting better ways of doing things, proposing tools and frameworks to make our product better and easier to maintain). People who work for me therefore tend to do the good bits.\n",
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AskHardware: Can I convert a salvaged laptop LCD into a DVI or VGA monitor? | I recently took apart a 2-year old HP Laptop and salvaged (among other things) its 14" widescreen LCD. Does anyone know what steps or adaptors I'd require to convert it into a VGA or DVI monitor?
edit:
Model: LG LP141WX3
Connector: 30-pin it seems
Still have the inverter and 40-pin LCD cable hooked up to it (originally connected to the mobo)
I'm fairly tech-savvy but have limited knowledge (read: none) of LCD screen hardware and its communication with a laptop mobo.
Thanks so far for all the help so far guys! | 15 | [
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"body": "You CAN do it, it's just not worth it. Most people that have done that usually use an FPGA to interface to the laptop screen and decode the VGA/DVI output.\n\nIf you're not an EE, or an electronics wiz, the answer is no.",
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"body": "magic powder\n\nedit: sorry I realize I wasn't being very helpful there: Apply liberally to all connectors on the salvaged panel, as well as onto the video output on the back of your computer. Magic powder is UPnP so it will autodetect and install drivers.",
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"body": "Yes you can, you need a controller, [like this one](http://cgi.ebay.ca/TMDS-LVDS-TTL-Driver-for-PC-HDMI-and-AV-input-PMB200X_W0QQitemZ220535563237QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3358f1a3e5), it is $70, so it isn't that bad. I am going to pick one up so I can eventually build my own HD projector. Just make sure that your LCD is either listed on that page, or is in the pdf.",
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When is it appropriate to ask for a source in Reddit comments? | For example, which of the following statements could be replied to with either "Source?" or "Citation needed":
* Hippos are well-known to kill tazmanian devils.
* Bill O'Reilly actually killed a homeless man once with a machete.
* The USA has regressive taxes if you consider local, state, and federal taxes together.
* Liberals are more likely to engage in pre-marital sex than conservatives. | 8 | [
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"body": "It's hard to know. If someone states a fact and I don't know it, I do this (kind of):\n\n* Google. If inconclusive,\n\n* based on other things I know, what is the probability that that statement is true? If it is unlikely, I'll comment on why I think they're incorrect and ask them to resolve it, \"But if that were true, wouldn't...?\"\n\n* if I can't decide if it is likely to be true or not because I don't know anything then I gauge the probability that, if true, I would have known it already. If high, I ask for a source. Ex: If Bill O'Reilly had killed someone I probably would have heard about that already. Source?\n\n* Now, if I Google hasn't helped, I have no prior beliefs on the subject and I wouldn't have known this fact anyway (like your fact 1, say) I now estimate the importance of being correct on the issue. Fact 1: I don't care; it's a random bit of trivia and I mentally file that away as 'heard it somewhere, maybe true.' Fact 4: I assign a higher importance to information like this-- it's broad, generalized information on a controversial subject and may offer some deeper insight into something. I'd ask for a source.\n\n* For statements of opinion or statements that have a word that is subjectively defined, I wouldn't ask for a source, but I might ask them to defend their statement and opinion if I disagreed with it, but I would also say immediately _why_ I disagreed. \n\nSo I read your comment history (I figured you'd been downvoted for asking for a source...) and in that case, I would not have asked for a source. The person's statement was essentially 'a large company has a large profit margin.' It's difficult to confirm this with Google, I also don't know this as a _fact_, but I do assign some importance to understanding this. But it does seem reasonable that (possibly by definition) a large company has a large profit margin. So, I'd have said \"But does being a large company necessarily mean you have a huge profit margin? A 'large' company on the brink of failure could be seriously impacted through small losses also\" or something like that to draw out their point more. So, I'd have asked for an explanation but not a source.",
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What's the best way to store fresh herbs? | I'm the stew girl below...I have a ton of fresh organic rosemary, thyme, and bay leaves, more than I have any chance of using right now. Can I freeze them? I doubt they'll hold up in the fridge...I do have a dehydrator, should I dehydrate them? | 4 | [
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"body": "If it's something with a stem you can do the following for extending freshness. \n\n* Clip the bottom of the stem like a flower\n* Put it in a small cup of water\n* put a plastic bag over the whole thing \n* put it in the fridge\n\nI usually do this with cilantro and can keep a bunch of it fresh for a few weeks.",
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"body": "I had the same question a while ago. After looking through a bunch of my cookbooks and stuff I found out that it really depends on what you are trying to store. Different herbs require different storage methods. A quick google for different methods leads to this [decent article](http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/herbs-spices/best-way-store-herbs-10000001192665/index.html) I've also been told to let herbs dry naturally not with a dehydrator, but I've never known why. \nOf course, if you have the space, you can always do what I do- a mini herb garden. Always fresh, no need to store, you know what they've been treated with, etc. The space and time commitment obviously depend on who you are though. I only need a small shelf in front of my window and some water occasionally. (college student in CA)",
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"body": "When I got a couple of herbs that I don't need right away (basil, oregano, thyme), I chopped them finely and mix them in olive oil. This way I got a nice aromatized oil to use on pizzas or pastas with some parmegiano.",
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A father (friend of mine) lost the second of two adult children (both died in their 20's). Looking for suggestions to reach out and support. | I consider the father a friend, but his oldest son, who died about 10 years ago was one of my best friends. The father is just a fantastic guy in so many ways, and he took the first loss hard, and the second loss just happened. Of three boys, he has one left. I lost my Dad when I was 1, and my Grandfather always said how wrong it is to bury a child.
We're 1500 miles apart, though I'm guessing there'll be a memorial service I'll attend in the next few weeks (body wasn't found - so not a usual funeral).
Ideas? | 21 | [
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"body": "That's extremely difficult, jeez, my heart goes out to him and the fam. I have been there, I lost one of my good friends a couple years back and his mom and dad are two of the best people I know. All I can think of is when you do go down for the funeral, make sure you get some time to talk to him alone, one on one...\n\nFirst off, definitely share some memories you had with his son, let him know what you guys may have done or experienced together and how much joy his son brought to your life via your friendship, it's indescribable how powerful this is, the sense of pride a father has that his son did good by others. Also, this is tough without all the details but you may wish to talk to him about how you can spend time with him and help support him, whether a phone call a week/month and you'll pay the long distance, or playing some silly online game(s) with him here and there, you know any positive excuse to spend some time with the guy, that's gonna work to help him.\n\nMy situation was different in that the parents are local, and what I did was make it a regular part of my schedule to go over there and get their other kids to hang around and we'd all play board games, Wii, etc.-- anything to spend time together holmes, that's what counts. Best wishes.",
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"body": "I can't imagine losing one let alone two kids. Just thinking about losing one of my kids leaves me so desperate that the only possible solution I can think up to reconcile it is to want to be dead. I don't think that we are ever loved more then by our parents and I don't think we ever love anything is much as we love our children. Losing parents is hard but your children is something else. I don't think that there is anything you can say but to be present with your whole heart , your whole heart without reserve to let it lead you into this situation and thru it would be your best. Best to you.",
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Reddit, is CSS difficult to learn? Have any of you taught yourself? | I want to learn CSS to help a friend with a website, but is it difficult to learn on your own? Any suggestions or resources for me? Thanks! | 3 | [
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"body": "CSS itself is not difficult to learn. The basic syntax and selectors are easy, and you can just use a reference to look up properties that you don't remember.\n\nUsing CSS to create layouts that work in all browsers, however, can be very difficult. But you can find working layouts and solutions for most common problems online.",
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What are some good 360 arcade games? | I bought 1600 M.Points from Amazon recently and WAS going to buy Monkey Island redux or whatever it's called, but then I played it and it was the same Monkey Island I had already played.
So suggest me some good games oh reddit of lore!
Other games I have are: Sam and Max, Rez, Castle Crashers, Prince Of Persia, Geometry Wars, and Metal Slug. | 8 | [
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"body": "Shadow Complex is pretty damn good too. Plays kind of like Super Metroid, but with modern graphics and a 3 times larger map.\n",
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"body": "Trials HD is awesome. It's sorta like a revamped ExciteBike. I've been playing the demo over and over and over.",
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"body": "I recommend a few indie games for no more than a couple bucks apiece:\n\nLeave Home (Awesome scaling difficulty shooter)\n\nMiner Dig Deep (exploration game involving digging tunnels)\n\nI MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 (Dual-stick shooter with some awesome humor and great music)",
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"body": "Bionic Commando: Rearmed as a remake turned out to be better (actually great) than that \"new and re-imagined\" piece of shit that Capcom made and released for the 360 and the PS3, not to mention it [didn't have sausages](http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/05/bionic_commando_comics.jpg).",
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"body": "Braid, Battlefield 1943, Portal: Still Alive (if you've never played Portal), Peggle, Catan, Carcassonne",
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"body": "From the games you listed you like comedic, exploring, action, and platforming genres. I recommend:\n\n'Splosion man (This game is GREAT)\n\nI Maed a gam3 w1th zomb1es!!!1 (Only $1! (80 points))\n\nAlien Hominid (similar to metal slug but way harder (but still fun and playable) and from the makers of castle crashers)\n\nThe Maw\n\nAny of the Worms games",
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Updated Poker Standings | The [Poker Standings](http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t1BoIODBV3g1maHuqcoPacg&output=html) have been updated after today's FTP tournament. (Or see the link to the right.)
Thanks to all who played and a special 'congrats' to Oozo for taking first!
There's another tournament tomorrow evening set up by protell. Sign up early! The more you play, the better your ranking.
> Name: reddit FTP 4
> Tournament #130309483
> Password: reddit
> Date: Jan 10 2010 19:00 EST (Sunday)
> Game: NL Hold Em
> Buy-in: 5+.50
> Late Registration Enabled | 6 | [
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"body": "DAMN I FORGOT .... Ok ... Adding the next tourney in the /r/poker description. Mods please keep it updated :)",
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CAE figure out how there has not been a popular uprising against Abercrombie stores concerning the stench that emanates from their doors? | If you can taste it from the second you walk in the mall, it is too strong. How do people even work there. I don't visit the mall often, but every time I do ... fuck ... it's gotta be against the law. | 7 | [
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"body": "Its kinda low on the list after [racial discrimination](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abercrombie_%26_Fitch#Legal_issues) and [selling kiddie-sized thongs](http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2002/06/05/Opinion/Abercrombie.Fitch.Too.Sexy.For.Young.Kids-517925.shtml).",
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What type of music does Reddit play during sex? | I'm curious as to how often other people play music while having sex, and if so what kind of music do you like to play when doing the deed? | 19 | [
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"body": "Massive Attack and Portishead are essential. Try Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine for more experimental fare.",
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"body": "I can't have music on during sex because I am very apt to actually listen to it. If I know the song at all, I have an unstoppable compulsion to sing along. Also, if the beat of the song matches up with the rhythm of the thrusting at any point, I WILL laugh.",
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"body": "I hardly ever play music during sex - spoils the mood having to set it up in my opinion. There are better things to listen to, anyway ;)",
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"body": "For love making I like Explosions in the Sky's \"All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone.\" Amazing instrumental album. Also worth mentioning.. Andrew Bird's \"Armchair Apocrypha,\" Sigur Ros's \"Takk...,\" and Sufjan Steven's \"Seven Swans.\" The flow is great; you can just put the album on and let it play start to finish.\n\nFor a fuck, I'd want something a little less sweet. I like The Smashing Pumpkins - \"Ava Adore,\" MSTRKRFT - \"Bounce,\" MSTRKRFT vs Sean Paul - \"Temperature in Paris,\" and David Guetta feat. Akon - \"Sexy Chick.\"\n\nI sometimes like the volume down pretty low so that I can hear his sexy moans, but its fun to change it up sometimes.\n",
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"body": "Intense Sex - Pearl - Monochrome (Gabriel & Dresden Remix), [Is It Love - IIO (slow version)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxkixQRPSL8), [Zocolo - Armin Van Buuren](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp4bfbGroA0), [Mr. Brightside - Killers (Jacques Lu Cont's Remix)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K4cPv9IAlw)\n\nMassive Attack, Radiohead, Joe Purdy, Rocky Votolato, Damien Rice, Andrea Bocelli, Cat Power, and classical music all make for good sex music as well.",
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"body": "Speed Metal on a mono system that cross fades each speaker independently with Big Band Swing based on a psuedo random program whose variables are manipulated by the acceleration of the bed.\n\n40% of the time, it never works.",
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I made something free and possibly useful. | Hi fellow Redditors :) Long time member, but creating an "inverse" throw away account (that actually uses my real name as opposed to my usual handle).
Over the last three months I've been working on an iPhone app called LoudTap. It's like the native messaging application, but offers free texting and photo sharing without limits. I think it's pretty awesome, and I wanted to share it with my fellow Redditors :) Go forth and chat with other iPhone-having friends without paying SMS fees.
[Project Site](http://www.loudtap.com/)
[iTunes Link](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loudtap/id349353930?mt=8)
Let me know what you think :) And I'm happy to answer any other questions you may have about iPhone development.
**Edit:** Yep, as people have commented, this is "yet another IM client". Although I personally break messaging clients into two varieties: those like AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, etc that have an online vs. offline state, and those like SMS (textplus, whatsapp, etc) that are persistent, state-ambivalent threads.
LoudTap falls into the latter category - there is no online/offline state, and it acts in most ways identical to the native messaging app. And no, we did not integrate with SMS, so you can only interact with people on an iPhone. So ya, that limits functionality. But it's free. Try it, you might like the interface better than other apps and choose to use LoudTap to send messages/photos to your other iPhone-having friends. | 4 | [
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"body": "I mean no offense, but this just appears to be an IM client. What's new/novel/innovative about this?\n\nHow do you expect to steal market/mine share from the more popular IM clients/protocols?",
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Got high. Took shower. Got massive head rush trip. What was your most intense trip? | I got pretty baked, took a shower and put my head under the water to wet it for a couple seconds, closed my eyes and started feeling lightheaded. Then a head rush started coming on, I couldn't open my eyes and my world started shaking in my head, like everything was wobbling and spinning around uncontrollably. I forgot what I was doing, I forgot how it happened, I didn't know how to do anything but extend my arms to my wall to make sure I wouldn't fall. I can't explain the feeling I had, but it was the most intense thing I had ever felt in my life. But as I started realizing "...what the hell is going on? All I did was put my head under the shower, right?" then I opened my eyes and everything was back to normal. My guess is that it was probably a small head rush, but the fact that I was high made me prolong it's feeling along with a whole bunch of craziness just for shits and giggles.
It was awesome, I want to try to do it again.
Tokers, tell me your most intense experience you've ever had while you were high as balls. | 11 | [
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"body": "I was smoking in the woods way up in North Ontario. Got surrounded by wolves. It was the most intense marijuana trip I have ever had. I don't feel like typing the whole story right now, but if anybody is interested I will oblige. ",
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"body": "Salvia. Worst trip I've ever had. Ever since then I can't enjoy any hard drugs cause I get panicky when I start to trip. Not enough to say anything about it, just enough to be miserable.\nThe first emotion that hit me was the kind of surreal bottom falling out of the stomach anxiety that hits when something really terrible has happened.\nIt felt like I was dying, like all my higher mental processes were broken down until it was just blackness. Only way we ever got salvia to actually work was with a bong or bubbler, using the 20x extract. The straight leaves don't do shit and the extract barely works out of a pipe.",
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"body": "The third time I smoked, the first day/night that I smoked, we smoked a bowl of some really potent \"lemon kush\" and hotboxed a car. Afterwards all 8 of us went inside and started working on a jigsaw puzzle. All sounds would stop while I zoned out for a few seconds, then they would all rush back and I'd hear them in one instant. I stumbled into my girlfriend's room and laid on the floor since her friend was in her bed talking on the phone and watching motocross until she came in and told me to get off the floor and into the bed.\n\nEdit: Actually there were two times. Later that same year I was at Wakarusa (a music festival in Kansas) and smoked a few bowls out of a nice bong with these people from Colorado where they were packing a new bowl every time it went around the rotation. After we finished this guy that looked like Tommy Chong came out of their van and started talking about how the best way to apply Gold-Bond is to put it in an old tube sock and beat your nuts with it. I lost it and started laughing so hard that I had to lie down, and after that I couldn't get up for a few minutes. My girlfriend from the other story (who was an ex by this point) got freaked out and made me walk back to our camp despite the people insisting I could lie on the grass in their shade if I needed it.",
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"body": "Around 15 years ago when I first started I was in a motel bathroom standing on the toilet and blowing the smoke up the electric vent. I took a big hit and within a few seconds I had a gnarly head-rush. I essentially passed out standing up and I was leaning against the wall and I started to melt into the wall and become one with it. It was incredibly intense and I was wayyy gone. Then all of sudden I hear this loud crash, that I'm quite sure, is what saved my dumb ass as it woke me up before I fell and hit my head on the toilet/bath tub/tile floor. The crash was the heavy metal water pipe I was smoking out of hitting the tile floor. Needless to say I no longer stood on anything to smoke.",
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"body": "the first time i had edibles was the summer before sophomore year. i had snuck out and met up with some friends who had club edibles. i decided to only have half just to be safe. that was way too much. a friend of mine also had half and we drove to a friends house. fast forward an hour and a half. i'm trippin balls and worried about my friend driving me home. i start freaking out about getting home soon because i realized if he started trippin as hard as i was he definitley wouldn't be able to drive me home and i thought i'd have to walk. i was so high that i could no longer participate in the conversation because i kept forgetting what we were talking about. my memory span was literally about 10 seconds for a while.",
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"body": "on new years i took a huge bong rip of what i thought was just weed but actually it was weed and DMT that my freinds were smoking before. i knew that they were smoking the DMT but i just kinda spaced and didnt make the connection and so i took a huge rip and held it in for a really long time. everything got all fractally and turned into binary code (weird) then i collapsed on the bed and kinda travelled to another dimension. it was the most intense experience of my life",
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Dear Mighty Gamers of Reddit; I Need a game that doesn't require a powerful computer. | I am looking for any FPS, RPG, or RTS game that is both single-player and multiplayer and doesn't require a good computer. I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. I don't game much and I don't want to spend money on a gaming laptop. I don't care about graphics much either. I just played through TORCHLIGH and it was ok, but I need something new already.
My system specs are:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2
Dual-core processor TK-53 1.7 GHz
1.87 GB of RAM
Any ideas would be awesome, and I am hoping for games from 2004-present. I will most likely be purchasing this game on steam.
EDIT: Thank you for the excellent suggestions. I will hopefully work my way through all the games mentioned eventually. | 18 | [
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"body": "Masturbation is a FPS that doesn't require much from your computer. All you need is an internet connection.",
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"body": "Titan Quest was fun if you liked Torchlight\n\nEDIT : I really should read these posts fully because initially I suggested Torchlight. I guess I've been a gamer too long because I never read the text, I just go for the kill.",
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"body": "You have plenty of options with the system you listed above. If you're not worried about graphics why not hit some of the pre '04 games as well? Let's see here uh... How bout Starcraft, Unreal Tournament goty (or UT2004), Freespace II (with freespace open installed), homeworld, sins of a solar empire... I'm sure I'm missing some gems here but what I have listed should keep you busy for a bit. ",
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"body": "Some forget that the best games don't always have to be new....\n\nSome good old games:\n\nDiablo 1&2\nStarcraft\nAge of Empires\nAge of Mythology \nHalf Life 1\n\nAs far as newer games, I think you have enough RAM for bioshock so give that a try...that game was fucking awesome.",
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DAE really, really love updating software? | Even if the changes aren't massive or even noticeable it still makes me feel warm and tingly inside when I get to see the version number go up. | 18 | [
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"body": "No I hate it. Your software works fine then you update and for some reason it does the opposite of what it's supposed to do. Improve. \r\n\r\nIt happened with my sound card, latest version of Opera(10.10) and my friend's PS3. Then the company releases a second update to fix the first one...MAKE SURE IT WORKS THE FIRST TIME RETARDS!\r\n\r\nI never update anything anymore, I wait a while and make sure it's both safe and significant. Small improvements that you don't even notice are a waste of time. \r\n\r\nMy last update was going from Digg to Reddit. Next one will be from Windows XP to 7. ",
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How does a non-writer go about creating lyrics? | I'm good at the music part, but my poetry sucks balls. It's too stuffy and hard to relate to and too much like an essay. Does anyone have tips on how to loosen up and write better? | 4 | [
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"body": "Listen to your music and get into the groove. Then just start singing. Sing whatever words or just scat. Record it. I find this is usually the best way to come up with the melody and most times I get a few good lines. Maybe even as much as a verse and chorus. You'll find in those few good lines that usually you'll have a rhythmic and melodic structure to fit words into and a basic concept of what the song can be about. Then expand from there. Break out the thesaurus, dictionary and rhyming dictionary and start writing down words and phrases that you like. And remember it's a song. It doesn't have to be great literature, it has to sound good. Read the lyrics to your favorite songs and songs in the style you're going for. Most songs have just a couple lines that really stick with you. Now finish that song up and do another 5-10 that day. Or find a lyricist to work with.",
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Shimano Tiagra Vs 105 Vs Ultegra | Hello Reddit,
I am looking to buy a new road bike and I was looking for some advice on the type of crankset I should get.
I have narrowed my selection down to 2 bikes and the main difference between the 2 bikes is the crankset.
1) Shimano 105 in the front and Ultegra in the back. (Bike costs $1350)
2) Shimano Tiagra in the front and 105 in the back ( Bike costs $1050)
So it basically boils down to a difference of $300 for the upgrade from Tiagra/105 to 105/Ultegra.
Is the upgrade worth it ? Will there be a noticeable difference ?
If you are wondering, I'll be using the bike for long bike rides on the weekend and possibly commuting as well.
Thanks! | 7 | [
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"body": "I'm not sure what the overall components are on your bike, but I would absolutely stay away from any Sora / Tiagra set up. My first bike was a combination of these two, and they are terrible. They feel cheap and don't work very well. Also, they don't last. At the very least, you want to get a bike with 105 components on it. Also, I might recommend check out SRAM Rival over 105. It's cheaper, lighter, and IMO works better than Ultegra.\n\nAnyways, this doesn't totally answer your question, but I thought it was worth saying for someone who's getting a new bike.",
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"body": "In general the `cheapest' way to buy equipment is as part of a new bike, so I'd splash out the extra $300 and get the upgrade personally (if I could afford it). If the upgrade included Ultegra shift levers, I'd definitely go for it - I love the new Ultegra levers.\n\nHowever, if it's from Tiagra-mix to 105-mix, are you going from 9-speed to 10-speed?\n",
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"body": "So, in 2008 I rode across the country (Seattle to Washington, D.C.) on a Bianchi (2006 model) Forza. I had sora brakes (the lowest quality), sora front derailer, and tigara back derailer and tiagra shifters. Not only did I get across the country with NO problems to the shifters and brakes, but guys on my team who had more expensive components/bikes had more problems. \n\nBased on those experience I HIGHLY recommend the $1050 bike. I can't speak to smoothness of shifting, but honestly, if you're asking I bet you wouldn't notice a difference. I still ride my bike with sora brakes and tiagra back derailer for 60+ miles a week. I've put almost 8,000 miles on the bike, and it still works like a charm, and I've never had a problem. ",
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How does one write good death metal? | I've been playing guitar for 7 years. I'm able to write decent riffs but am unable write a song. How do you guys do it? Im just curious. Death metal is a varied genre so i don't think there is any one single way too approach song writing. Some people speak of keeping a certain level of momentum present, others speak of making an "expanding context" of riffs. What do you do? | 15 | [
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"body": "Listen to classical music. It's about fitting riffs together so they complement each other for dynamic change.",
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"body": "In your lyrics make sure you use lots of D-E words like [decay, decrepit, deranged, and um... delouse](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGOZq_eE2Y).",
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"body": "My two cents: \n\nThis might sound weird but torrent some lectures by the Teaching Company by a guy called Robert Greenberg. There are loads of lectures on classical music by that guy and he's not too dry. Study Beethoven, because he has a way of creating crushing music that develops around a few themes. Theme development is the central writing device in classical music and if you start to understand it you can take a single decent idea and turn it into an entire composition. Study Bach as well. If you listen to and study Bach there's no better way to understand musical structure in my opinion.\n\nTake it easy on the sweeps and stuff at first I reckon. I see a lot of guitarists who's fingers move quickly but their ideas are lost in the general din of the full band. Learn how to make your riffs present and assertive in the mix and then you'll learn where the spaces for embellishment are. Listen to your Black Sabbath and stuff and learn how the simplicity of those riffs makes itself felt. Then the complex stuff can be built on a solid foundation. it's amazing how good it feels to play some of those simple Sabbath riffs and it gives you a good feel for how heaviness is achieved. Learn about why a riff sounds heavy, it's not just about the guitar part but how it plays against what the drummer's doing. ",
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"body": "I think a good idea is make one bad-ass riff, and use that as a basis, or theme, for song-writing. Once you've established your theme, create variations of the theme and BAM, you've got a song.",
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"body": "Make a full song even if its total shit. Then figure out what makes it so shitty. You'll begin to realize what exactly it is that turns a few riffs into a complete song.",
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"body": "As far as the riffs themselves, atonal shit has its best place in death metal. Try to work on syncopation, so keep the drums in mind as you write riffs, or start playing random shit with a drum machine playing.\n\nLike what a lot of people have been saying, start listening to/studying more symphonic music, especially something called \"motivic development\". And syncopation. \n\nWith death metal and black metal, you can't really use conventional song structures (verse chorus bridge whatever), so studying this stuff is important. One trick I use when I'm stuck is to associate a story with the song, and link musical ideas with characters or events - it works a lot for black metal, but I can't see why it wouldn't work for death metal. Doing so also helps you keep in mind the general \"feel\" for the song - which is important with a visceral genre like death metal.\n\n",
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"body": "'Good death metal' is subjective. Like you said, it varies so much that the way the music is written can be completely different from one band to the next. If you're looking to make well composed music of any kind I will agree with the others that have already said classical music is the best way to go though.",
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"body": "Well first you have to move to a Scandinavian country and experience the full 8 months of a dark black and cold winter. Death and metal will come next.",
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Book recommendations for a Twilight fan? | Having been made to watch Twilight three times by my girlfriend I am now being prodded to read the book. I said I'd agree to it if she read a book of my choice in return.
She's not much of a reader so the Twilight series and anything by Nicholas Sparks are the only basis on which to build upon. Any suggestions for quality literature that might actually entice her? (Nothing too long, complex or stuffy.)
EDIT: I realise I haven't been too helpful. It doesn't necessarily need to be a romance. Any genre really as long as it isn't over facing enough for her to put it down.
EDIT: Thanks for the great response so far guys. Having browsed through some of the suggested authors I think I have somewhere to start. :) | 6 | [
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"body": "This is hard. It's one step above trying to recommend a book for someone based solely on their favorite brand of toaster. Or some other totally non-literary object.\n\nUh... Harry Potter?",
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"body": "I had a couple female friends who liked [The Perks of Being a Wallflower](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower). Pretty sure they were also into [The Time Traveler's Wife](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Traveler%27s_Wife).",
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"body": "From reading the thread it seems appropriate to suggest books targeted at teens. \n\nIf she's any amount of nerdy then _Little Brother_ by Cory Doctorow is good. \n\nIf she likes the fantasy then _So You Want to Be a Wizard_ by Dian Duane is one of my favorites. Harry Potter might be good, but she would have liked it better if she started younger. \n\nNeil Gaiman has some she might like. Start with _Stardust_ and _The Graveyard Book_ and if she likes those _Anasasi Boys_, _American Gods_, and _Neverwhere_ come next. Actually, I'm going to go with the Neil Gaiman line as the best bet to ease her into more serious literature just in the order I described it",
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"body": "How about [The Princess Bride](http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0156035219)? The book, which is not a novelization of the movie, is a good, engrossing, easy read. I'm guessing she won't mind reading a book after having seen the movie it inspired.",
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"body": "What do you mean by \"quality literature\"? Do you want something that is generally accepted as a classic, or do you just want some well-written books to start to expand her reading experiences? \n\nIf the later, I would recommend the very first Dragonrider book by Anne McCaffrey, *Dragonflight*. It's a fun read, has good strong female characters, a bit of romance and if she likes it there are lots more. I read them when I was a teenager and thoroughly enjoyed them. They are decently written, enough so that I still like them a lot. \n\nIf she loves the vampire aspect, I highly recommend a book called *Sunshine* by Robyn McKinley. She's a really good writer, and it's my all-time favorite vampire story. She also wrote a wonderful adaptation/novelization of \"Beauty and the Beast\" called *Beauty*. I freakin' LOVE that book.\n\nI just recently read *Little Brother* by Cory Doctorow, and that book rocks -- fast read, exciting, and really well written. I don't know if the subject matter would interest your gf, though (teenage hackers).\n\nAnyway, those are the first things that spring to mind! Hope they're useful to you :-)",
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"body": "The books in *The Dresden Files* by Jim Butcher are on the light side in terms of size and complexity. They're based upon a wizard detective in an alternate version of our world that is populated by a wide variety of magical creatures. Then again the vampires in the series are portrayed as being evil creatures of darkness as opposed to shining abs of teenage hunk.\n\nOther than that I'd suggest *Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy* or *Discworld* if she \"gets\" British humor, or *His Dark Materials* if you think she'd prefer a series with a female protagonist. ",
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"body": "So pretty much my younger sister. I don't know what to tell you she basically reads:\n\nTwilight\n\nDo they serve beer in hell\n\nThe lovely bones\n\nand that's the entire sum of her reading experiences. I don't fault her though, she is highly dyslexic.",
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"body": "It might be helpful to give an age for your girlfriend, as well. Since she seems to like simply written stories that move quickly, I would suggest Mary Higgins-Clark (mystery novels) or Nora Roberts (romance novels). These might appeal to an adult more than to a teen, though. \n\nErrr...just reread your post. I don't think these authors qualify as \"quality\" authors; I just associate them with Nicholas Sparks.",
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"body": "* The Southern vampire Series ;C. Harris\n\n* True Blood DVD's (based on the Southern Vampire series) \n\n * The Vampire Chronicles; A. Rice\n\n * Sime` Gen series ; jacqueline Lichtenberg",
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"body": "What about *Wuthering Heights*? Twilight is supposedly based on the classic; it's a great novel and pretty impossible to dislike. ",
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"body": "[Here you go.](http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Books/b/qid=1263082107/ref=sr_tc_2_0?ie=UTF8&node=4)",
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"body": "[Shiver](http://www.amazon.com/Shiver-Maggie-Stiefvater/dp/0545123267/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1) by Maggie Stiefvater. \n\nAlso, [Kraken are the new vampires](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwM6uoQAh50) (video).",
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"body": "My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult? Jodi Picoult in general? She's not a difficult author to read, similar to Nicholas Sparks. ",
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"body": "The Anita Blake novels!\r\n\r\nAn actiony necromancer girl/vampire hunter has hot sexings with the homicidal city-prince vampire and the local werewolf pack-leader. In one book, at the same time. ",
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"body": "This is easy. The Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. They're about vampires, they're a fast easy read, and they're slightly better than twilight.",
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"body": "[It's](http://bottomshelfbooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/story-of-little-mole-who-went-in-search.html) probably better in the original German.",
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A three year relationship, driving and it's related costs. | Here's the situation and I could use just some general advice about it.
>-My girlfriend and I have been dating for nearly three years
> -She has a vision condition that makes her unable to drive at all, ever.
> -She lives ~25 miles from me
> -I do all of the driving in the relationship, pick her up, take her places, pick her up from work twice weekly, etc.
> -I never complain about driving, I actually quite enjoy it.
> -Because of the teacher layoffs in CA I have less work than I did two years ago and find the costs involved in driving so much are starting to weigh on my ability to save money.
> -I've tried very hard not to make money an issue ever in our relationship but today we had a big fight about her writing a check to me for a pair of concert tickets I bought and I mentioned "It'd be nice if you threw in a little extra for gas."
> She took this badly and felt that I was being a jerk for making a big deal about her not driving and made her feel like shit for "making me date her."
What do I do? I've already apologized, but I don't want to feel like her not driving is a burden on me, even though financially it is. I'm not even really sure what to say. | 3 | [
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"body": "I'm not sure you could have handled this more poorly if you had tried. What you should have done is sat down with her and said \"I know I've never mentioned it before, but I don't have as much work as I used to and it's costing me a lot of money to drive all the time, so I was hoping that *going forward* you could help a bit with the expense.\"\n\nWhat you said: \"I've been doing you a FAVOR for years and it'd be nice if you'd throw in gas money once in a while you selfish bitch.\" You gave her no warning that the situation that, from her end, had been working perfectly well with no complaints on your part, changed. It comes off as though you've been waiting and waiting for her to finally pitch in and finally pounced on her while she was writing you a check for something else. \n\nAlso, evaluate her costs. Do you eat her food? Use her utilities? Who pays for more dates? Once you get out of division of labor and into trying to balance the dollar values in the relationship it gets very complicated. ",
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"body": "Well, you probably should have brought this up sooner with her and with some better form, so I'm not surprised you guys got in a fight.\n\nBut, now that the cat is out of the bag, you do have a valid concern. Saving money when you have not much to begin with in the first place is hard and money is always an issue in relationships. This is something she does have to understand and try to help you out with, though I want to be careful here and make sure that you are not forgetting if she is already doing stuff for you that you might be taking for granted? (and I'm not talking about \"favors\", I'm being serious.)\n\nBTW, since you two have been together for 3 years, why are you not living together yet? ",
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How do I tell a group of women I hang out with it's not ok to make certain sexual comments about people or grope random guys? | I've tried to tell them several times the things they say are rude and kind of creepy but they just say "oh it's ok because we're girls". Personally I think that's a horrible excuse. They also grope random guys when drunk (and sober sometimes).
I only tolerate them because they are friends of friends. Any advice? | 7 | [
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"body": "what your going to get here is a request for their phone numbers. \ndo they get upset if some guy makes sexual comments towards them and gropes them, or is that what they are after? ",
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"body": "Forcefully. Clearly. And if it were me, with a certain brutal flair. I abhor physical violence, but verbal violence...\n\nSo they objectify men. Suggest they do so because they are incapable of handling a real person. Maybe they are afraid of connecting with a real man. Maybe they are afraid that if they were to connect with a real person they would quickly be revealed to the person as hollow, irrelevant, and unloved.",
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"body": "Certainly, such double standards shouldn´t be tolerated, I don´t think though that you can made them stop as you are not a close friend. I`d make my point clear and avoid them.",
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"body": "Since when don't men want to be randomly groped? All my male friends pray for that sort of thing to happen. ",
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"body": "You don't have to tell them anything. Society has already created the double standard for them, and they may as well enjoy it.",
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"body": "Ok, this doesn't fit into the category of good advice, but it's something I did in a similar situation. First, find a food that always makes you flatulent and eat it before you hang out with them. As you \"enjoy\" their company heed the literary advice of Benjamin Franklin and \"Fart Proudly\" amongst them. Do so without subterfuge. When they protest, explain that it's ok because you are a guy. Whenever one of them gropes someone put you hand on the offender's breast. Do not remove it. Just leave it there and look them in the eye. If you say anything, say only, \"Shhh, it's ok.\" It's especially affective to fart audibly with your hand on their boob. That gives your \"Shh\" an especially hilarious double meaning. Again, this isn't good advice, but it's fun. I'm glad I took this course of action with the drunk co-workers that used to annoy the shit out of me. I was quietly uninvited from their functions and earned the respect of a couple of other ladies that also, silently, found their conduct embarrassing. They made sure to invite me when the gropers did not. ;)",
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"body": "I grope random guys when drunk... but they are usually gay and scantily clad. They usually ruffle my hair afterwards and call me adorable before strutting off.\n\nWait, why is it creepy that they grope random guys? How do the guys feel about it? Do they cover their crotches and squeal \"OH MY GOD SHE TOUCHED ME!\"",
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PHILLY AREA MEETUP: The meet is official and going on! | **Saturday, January 30th, at 7:00PM at [Victory Brewery/Restaurant](http://www.victorybeer.com/restaurant.aspx)**
*420 Acorn Lane, Downingtown, PA 19335-3040*
Yeah, and I apologize for the new information spam. I hate PMing everyone one at a time.
I hope to see some familiar faces! Last time was a blast, lets make this one the biggest yet. I will have a reservation for 20 people made. Bring a friend, wear any Reddit regalia you have, bring a Narwhal toy, etc. **BRING CAMERAS** | 20 | [
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"body": "Sweeet, I'm so requesting off from work for this. Thanks for setting it up!\n\nPS - Did you ever upload the pictures from the last meetup? :3",
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"body": "Edit- I was a little too excited - I didn't look at the location :(\n\nI haven't got a car and would need to hitch a ride.",
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"body": "Cool! Just seeing this now and it's not too far from me. Sounds like I'll be clearing that night then :)",
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IAmA convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) AMA | So I am 19 years old, I joined the Mormon Church when I was 17. I was raised in a devote Catholic family. I was an Atheist from age ~14-17. I served 7 weeks as a missionary in Salt Lake City; before health problems made me return home.
Edit: These [Pics](http://etuxr.imgur.com/mormon) might help show that I am not a troll. They are me with my temple recommend.
Edit2:**TL;DR** *I was catholic I rejected it I was an intellectually fulfilled atheist, I met with Missionaries because a girl asked me to. Somethings happened to make open to the possibility of God. I got baptized because I thought Mormonism might be right and I knew I would be happier. I am now happier and I believe Mormonism to be true.*
A lot of questions have been asked about how I came to believe in the LDS teachings, I was raised in a Catholic home sent to Private school, but came to reject the religion of my parents when I was in 7th grade or so. I am very skeptical and scientifically minded. The first crack in my childhood faith came when I was taught about evolution. I saw the contradiction between the bible and the scientific theory.
I then began a study into the history of the Catholic Church, the Protestant Religions, Jewish Faith, and Islam. I was fascinated by the adaptation of the Ideas. These religions had common roots, yet they were taught so differently and there believers were all professed such great faith. How could I know that I was right?
Then I started to pick apart the Nature of God, If I was to worship one I had better know who he/she/it is and make sure I want to worship It. This lead me to an inspection of my relationship to God and His relationship to us. Why is there evil in the world? was next then the questioning of his tri-omni (Omnibenevolent Omnipotent Omniscient). That lead to an out right rejection of God. I then told my parents that I was an atheist as a freshman in high school. I went to bible studies that friends invited me to, when they started to worry about my soul. I went and tore up bible in a figurative sense. Every discrepancy every evil act committed in the bible in the name of God. I started reading religious and atheist literature.
I was the only outspoken atheist in my small school. I gave speeches in forensics and when I was assigned a persuasive paper, my topic was that religions are inherently evil. There was one Mormon in my high school, and I had a crush on her from my Freshman year on. I was lab partners with her in a few of my science classes, and I finally worked up the courage to ask her on a date my junior year. We ended up sitting at a local park talking about religion (it was our first and last date), and she asked me to meet with the missionaries. I said I would for several reasons one I wanted to show her that I was willing to at least learn about her faith, I wanted to know more about why people believed what they did, and why, and I figured that I could show her all the logical flaws in her religion.
I met with the missionaries for about a month and a half. The first time it was interesting but nothing special. The second time I meet with the missionaries I was given a tiny shred of what I consider to be evidence I thought to myself "If God is Real, He will flip open a verse that just speaks to me. At that moment one of the sister missionaries flipped open the Book of Mormon and read, [3rd Nephi 27:29](http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/27/27a) Therefore, ask and ye shall receive... I had a wave of sensation come over me, it nearly brought me to tears. At this point, I dismissed what I felt as an evolutionary holdover. An appendix of emotions if you will. It served a purpose in the early days of humanity, uniting factions or tribes together around a common good, increasing the procreative chance of those in the group. What I heard and saw as coincidence.
Then I was give an experiment to try. [Alma 32](http://scriptures.lds.org/alma/32/35) contains a challenge and a promise, along with [Moroni 10:3-5](http://scriptures.lds.org/en/search?search=Moroni+10%3A3-5) which promises all of those that read ponder and pray about the Book of Mormon will be given an answer from God as to whether or not it is true. I tried it. I got good feeling from it. I then started comparing it to all of the other things I had studied, and none of them let me feel the same way. None of them made me feel good. I was walking home from work thinking about ways I could experiment on this further: I came up with another experiment. I was going to try Buddhism. I then had a horrible feeling come over me, and the only way I was able to shake it was to read the BoM, and talk to the Missionaries. Still I wasn't sure.
One of the guys I knew in the high school was getting baptized and I was invited to the service. When I saw him get baptized, I knew I wanted what he had. I know it would make me happy. I wasn't sure it was true, but I was willing to make the leap of faith. And as Slartibartfast said in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy "I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
So I got baptized, I have kept active in the Church, and It has made me happy. I do believe its true my Faith has grown, I have grown. I would like to keep it that way.
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"body": "If I had a $1 for every teenager I've ever known that exclaimed \"In my life I've been A, B and C but man, D is where it's at!\" I'd be able to buy myself some shiny gold plates. \n",
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"body": "Ex-Mormon here (from age 5-15, currently 22), hope I don't come across as hostile.\n\nI know a big part of the Theology is \"progression\", but how do you deal with the things the church has done with the past, like banning blacks from the priesthood until 1978? Even if it is all about progression and changing, I refuse to believe that, if there is a perfect being out there, they would choose 1978 as an acceptable time to stop being barbaric and, well evil.\n\nPlus the whole thing about Native Americans being \"cursed\" with their dark skin because of Laman and Lemuel really doesn't sit right with me. \n\nAgain I hope I'm not coming across as hostile or anything, I'm honestly curious. How can you be sure in 30 years you won't look back at something the church is doing today and be horrified?",
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"body": "Is there any physical evidence that would convince you that the LDS faith is not true, or do the experiences you've had with the Holy Ghost negate everything else?",
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"body": "To whatever idiots are downvoting etuxr answers, please stop. This is a Q&A. Some people actually want to read his responses.",
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"body": "as a native american i see that LDS's hold on the rez. i've seen it brainwash and make some think their own culture is wrong. we are NOT tribes from israel. if you believe that, you're a stupid idiot.",
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"body": "Been there, done that (rather similar, actually). But there are some things you should think about:\n\n1. That feeling you get when you pray to know if something is true - that's a purely physiological response and has absolutely nothing to do with a supernatural ghost talking to your heart. Experiment with it sometime. Pray, earnestly, to know if it's raining when it clearly isn't. If you work at this long enough, you'll feel exactly the same thing you felt when you spent an hour praying to know if the BofM was true. \n\n2. The church to which you belong (and to which I belonged for many years) is disgustingly bigoted and sexist. The oppression of women in the LDS church is abominable.\n\n3. The church believes that every word of the scriptures are divine, inspired, and true. The church teaches that the bible stories are fact. Do you actually believe all the stories? Do you really think that Eve was made from a rib, taken from a man's body? Do you really believe that the entire Earth was flooded? Besides the physics of it, does it seem reasonable that a loving father would chose to kill all the his children because they were misbehaving? The garden of eden, which existed only a short 6000 years ago, was in Missouri? Really? I bought into all this, because I had to to be a good mormon. But it's all just stories, designed to manipulate and control the masses.\n\n4. I know the sense of community, the sense of feeling like you're special (you know the truth! you are part of the one and only true church!), the power of the priesthood - it all feels good, but there's all the guilt (it's impossible to follow every rule perfectly), all the control, all the manipulation and brainwashing - it's not worth it!\n\n5. I'm quite sure that there is no such thing as a magical, eternal, celestial afterlife. Sure, we wish there was, but it doesn't hold up. There's just no evidence. Why should you sacrifice the only life you know you have (this one) in exchange for some promised (though not guaranteed!) life to come? Why not make the most of what you've got? Do what you can to make your life, and the lives of those around you, as good as possible. This is, in my humble opinion, the root of happiness - the realization that this life is what we get, so we should make the most of it.",
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"body": "As you probably know, Sam Harris says that \"Mormonism is just Christianity plus some rather stupid ideas.\" Why did you choose Mormonism over other sects of Christianity? ",
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"body": "Sorry about that dude, we all make mistakes. Good luck getting your head on straight before you're old and you wasted your life believing in a centuries old scam. ",
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"body": "What convinced you Mormonism was legit? Or what's your favourite \"proof\" of (or reason to believe) Mormonism?\n\nDid you experience the \"burning in the chest\" and how much significance do you attribute to that?",
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"body": "I hope you are happy. If your belief consoles you, let it do just that. What you have elucidated above is a very profound beautifully worded sentiment on how your religion has affected you. I ask you one thing: Please do not vote or tell anyone else to vote based on your personal religious beliefs. That is all.",
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"body": ">I was raised in a Catholic home sent to Private school (...) The first crack in my childhood faith came when I was taught about evolution. I saw the contradiction between the bible and the scientific theory.\n\nDoesn't make sense. Catholics aren't fundamentalists. I was raised as Catholic, went to a Catholic school and was taught evolution. Both in school and church classes they taught us that many stories in the Bible are allegories.\n\nBTW, I'm an atheist so this isn't about defending the Catholic church.",
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"body": "Have you actually read the Book of Mormon in its entirety?\n\nI am usually not one to judge people for following their own spiritual path, but Mormon dogma is just a bit much for me. I will readily admit that I've known a lot of Mormons, and they were nearly universally happy people, but the actual belief system, mythology, and historical background of the LDS church makes absolutely no sense to me.",
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"body": "1. Given that you were willing to return to theism after a stint as an atheist, why was it to that of the LDS rather than that of your Catholic upbringing?\n\n2. Pursuant to that, what do your devout Catholic family members think of your conversion? How about your friends?\n\n3. What books or authors might you recommend to someone outside of the LDS who wanted a good introduction to the church and its doctrines?\n\n4. Is there anything about the LDS or its doctrines that you don't agree with? That you just don't like? \n\n5. What do you hope to accomplish with this post? This isn't meant to be a hostile question, as though there's no possible good answer; I'm just curious as to why you'd subject yourself to the withering contempt that is even now beginning to pile up.\n\nBonus question: What do you think of ***that*** episode of *South Park*? Have you seen it? You can bet that most of the people criticizing you here have.",
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/r/Michigan, let's organize an Ann Arbor meetup | Suggest dates, times and locations, please.
Also, *anyone* is welcome, not just people in Ann Arbor. I just picked Ann Arbor because that's where I and hyp3rfastrxn go to school, not because I don't like other cities in Michigan.
EDIT: Location and time are decided. Friday 1/29 at 7:30pm, Biggby Coffee on Liberty St near Maynard. If you know any redditors in Ann Arbor who didn't respond to this thread (I believe I messaged everyone on this thread, though I may have missed a few), then tell them too!
Oh, and I'll be there with a /r/Michigan sign or something. | 11 | [
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"body": "Times and dates are below. If you'd like to suggest a modification or add a time, feel free to do so, but it'd be easiest if you just voted on the times below. Currently, I'm assuming a location *in* Ann Arbor, probably near Campus (the Cube) or downtown (near Borders or, say, Liberty and Fourth).\n\nFri 1/15 at 9:00pm\nSat 1/16 at 2:00pm\n\n(I'm omitting the week after MLK Weekend because I'm attending a conference; feel free to suggest those times in a reply if you want to organize a meetup separately.)\n\nFri 1/29 at 7:30pm\nSat 1/30 at 2:00pm\n\nFri 2/5 at 7:30pm\nSat 2/6 at 2:00pm\n\nIn the event that multiple times/dates receive the same number of votes, I'll pick the nearest one. Also, I'm not going to cancel if it's below 10, because the total number of people in this thread who've expressed interest in an Ann Arbor meetup is around 10, if that.",
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"body": "A2, at the rotating cube ([Endover Cube](http://www.plantext.bf.umich.edu/planner/sculpture/central/cube.htm)). Because it would be with the win and the awesome.",
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I need help reddit - this should be something you're good at... | This time last year my girlfriend and I signed up for a local gym. At the time it was a good idea as we were both in a position to use it a lot, as we both had plenty of spare time.
Only problem is, my girlfriend is now pregnant, and because of that I'm working every hour I can to save money. Our 1 year contract finished with the gym at the start of January, but when my gf went to cancel it, they pointed out a clause asking for 3 months notice. They then explained that despite the fact that she can't use her membership (she's 4 months pregnant and has already had complications), and I have no time because I'm always working, they're still going to charge us over 130 quid a month for three months.
Any ideas how to persuade / shame them into letting us off the 3 months notice as we really can't afford this? BTW the gym is David Lloyds and the email is [email protected] ... | 8 | [
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"body": "Your gym is being penalizing you for reproducing- contact a le leche group and ask them to help you- there's strength in numbers. in case you don't know, a le leche group is a support group for nursing mothers- they organize protests for breastfeeding rights and are generally sympathetic towards womens/parents rights. they will have people who know the law as it pertains in this case and can help you contact the media if it helps.",
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Reddit, how can I find a good job without any experience? | I just graduated last month with my BBA in Finance. I have no work experience in Finance, not even an internship. I guess I should have attended a lot more job seminars my college would give. All I have been doing is uploading my resume/cover letter on various companies websites. However I feel this is the most ineffective and time wasting thing I could be doing. I have little professional networks and am 22 with a decent GPA (3.25), my only work experience is as a T.A. and a waiter. What is the most effective way for me to be searching for a job? | 6 | [
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"body": "\"What every employer wants, is someone under 30, with higher education and preferably 10-15 years of work experience.\"\n- My girlfriend's uncle, and currently director of a large-ish company. \n\nBasically, although you might be fit for employment, whenever a company interviews two people, and one of them have relevant work experience, they will go with that person unless they get horrid feedback from references. You will not get employment without work experience, and you will not get work experience without employment. \n\nSo in order to break this catch 22 situation, you need to start doing shitty work, most probably as a temp. After a year or so of temping for a company with few to no rights as an employee, and absolutely no security what so ever, you can start applying for positions at the company.\n\nSo basically, give up trying to set yourself up for life right away. You will never get a good job right out of college, and if you do, you should be very nervous about the reputation of the company. Sad fact of life.",
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Roommate horror stories anyone?? | I have a few I'll share in the comments. They likely don't compare to what some of you have to share.
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"body": "I have had several pretty bad roommates. Probably not the bottom of the barrel, but.\n\nRoomate 1\n\n\nShe never showered. She had several various vaginal based infections and would leave her soiled infected panties in the bathroom for other roommates to find. Along with various tubes of infection cures laying about.\n\nShe would also only eat mcdonalds. Multiple bags of it at a time. Leave them for weeks at a time in her room along with various dishes to create different smells and stenches like the pits of hell. \n\nShe was so dirty her car was filled with old mcdonalds bags and trash so you could barely get in. Wherever she touched would be black from filth. We hired a maid to clean her room and they wouldnt touch it. I offered the maid 100$ cash extra and she agreed. Under the pile of dirty clothes that she never washed and just rotated through the maid found a gigantic black dildo covered in infected filth.\n\nShe also liked to talk to us in weird voices. Played lots of wow so we rarely saw her. She also liked to accuse us of stealing her food, which was generally sitting in the front of the fridge.\n\nEdit: I should also mention she left feminine remnants all over the toilette multiple times. Never even owned a towel, and used my other roommates towel at one point and left it smudged with black after.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nRoomate 2\n\n\nShe liked to save money by not running the AC in Florida during the summer. On top of this she also liked to save money by not flushing the toilet after using it and leaving it in the hot house all day for me to come home to.\n\nShe would turn off the hot water heater to conserve money while she was at work. She would also sleep with her door open wearing 3-4 size too small hooters clothing with her legs spread. She also didn't shower often to conserve money and substituted that with an entire closet full of Eckerd brand douche.\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nRoomate 3\n\n\nLived with us for about 6 months. Would walk down the hall and jangle keys and slam doors when I was working overnight at the time. Generally I am tolerant of noise, but I counted the slams one day. 45 slams in the span of 5 mins. I confronted him a few times about the noise and he kept telling me he didnt know I worked overnights.\n\nWe were all super broke at the time and we had bought a really nice/large trashcan to house the other roomates trash so we had enough room for it all (there was 5 of us living there at the time). One day my girlfriend and I came home to find it missing and in its place a tiny bathroom sized garbage can.\n\nWe assumed someone felt bad for stealing it and perhaps replaced it with a tiny can. I looked in the bottom and found a receipt. I mentioned it to my roommate and he said he had accidentally hit it while backing out of the driveway. He said he didnt want to get out of the car and pull it out from under the car so just kept driving down the street with it under the car and down the road, and that it eventually flew out from under the car a few miles down the road.\n\nMy other roomate and my girlfriend ended up venturing out to find said garbage can to try to retrieve it. It was maybe 3 houses down in the ditch with about 3 scratches on it, and he was too lazy to get out and bring it home. I went and helped them retrieve it and bring it back.\n\nHe also lied to me about what day it was when I asked him when I was having him fill out and sign a little roommate contract we all would agree to agree for rent and move in date and such. I didn't think about it and should have checked my phone but it wasn't on me. It was so ridiculous I couldn't believe it after I noticed and confronted him about it.\n\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nI had one roommate who had epilepsy and didnt tell me until after I found him unconscious in the bathroom floor seizing. Another who had aids and we were sharing a bathroom / had helped him w/ some cuts and such. I'm not a aids phobe, but if you are sharing space it would be nice to at least know that about someone.\n\nI've written enough, but I have had my share of fun roommates.\n\nEdit: One other roommate, another girl. I had a stuffy nose and she suggested she had some extra extra large tampons I could plug it up with. \n\nShe also kept leaving blood in the middle of the bathroom floor and then would suggest it was because she kept cutting her toe somehow, eventually realizing each time it was her time of the month.",
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"body": "I shared a suite with an absolute psycho my junior year of college. She seemed normal at first, really quiet and only hung out with her boyfriend. Then, freaky things started to happen. \n\nThe two of them would shower together in our incredibly tiny shower but swore up and down that they were saving themselves for marriage. I didn't really care but anytime they came out of the bathroom together, I got a fifteen minute talk about it. \n\nThe two of them would get into these horrible fights where I'm pretty sure she'd beat the shit out of him and they would call each other some horrible things. The n-word got thrown around a lot which from two white kids from bum fuck Georgia was unsettling. \n\nShe shared her room with another girl who would come into my room in tears because they would start arguing and throwing shit at each other with her in the room. The boyfriend also liked to get the roommate's attention and motorboat/grope his girlfriend. \n\nShe would come back to the dorm at weird hours, take a shower, then blow dry her hair directly outside our door. We asked her to either go out into the hall or wait until a reasonable hour but she ignored us.\n\nStrangely, the breaking point was something really stupid. They rarely spent the night in the room but before leaving, she would always turn the heat off completely so we would come back to a freezing apartment. I asked her to stop and she lost her shit which culminated in her threatening to punch me. I told her to give it a shot and it went downhill pretty rapidly from there. \n\nBasically, me and my roommate spent the rest of the year making her life a living hell. She was a wicked obsessive compulsive so we would super glue random stuff in the common room at weird angles, we disabled the thermostat, and called the cops on them during a fight. ",
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"body": "Short and psychotically sweet.\n\nFreshman year moved in they matched me with a senior. I knew I was in trouble when he hung up a poster for the Burt Reynolds movie \"Hooper\". Day 2...By luck a neighbor was in our room when \"roomie\" says...\"We should fight now to get it out of the way.\" Thinking he was joking around I said \"Yeah, right.\" And turn away from him. He springs up punches me in the kidney and slams my head into the dresser. I was out like a light and proceeds to gut kick me while yelling \"Alpha Dog! Alpha Dog!\" before the neighbor can push him away. The police took a report at the health center. I asked if he'd be back at the room when I got released. No...when the cops came he took a swing at them too he'd be doing the rest of this semester in jail.\n\nepilogue...he came to visit a few weeks later in the dead of the night. But the genius went to the wrong floor (the women's floor) of the dorm and was howling for me. Some nice police men escorted him back to a cozy jail cell. \n\nNever lived with a \"blind\" roommate again.",
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"body": "When I was in the Navy stationed in Great Lakes, IL I was living in the barracks. I had a roommate that was so lazy, rather then get out of bed at night and walk down the hall to take a pee. He would just pee in a towel and throw it in his locker. It would stay there all week until laundry day. ",
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"body": "Had a crazy weeaboo for a roommate my freshman year of college. (I think I've posted about this somewhere else on Reddit, but I'll tell it again.) We got along alright for a little while. She was kinda quiet, and would just go up into her bunk and watch Death Note or whatever else all day, and when she wasn't in her bunk she'd sit at her desk and look over and stare at me every so often really creepily. At first I asked her why she was staring at me, and she'd just blink and look away, then laugh really quietly a few minutes later. It was kinda annoying, but I learned to ignore it. Sometimes her friends would come over and watch anime with her or bring their manga collection and lay them all over the floor, so I would just leave and go to a friend's dorm. If I stayed in the room they'd ask me awkward questions, like about me being agnostic (they were all really religious), or if I knew this or that anime (I don't watch anime, so I never did.) One of her friends sent me a message on facebook once telling me she hoped I \"got gangrene at one of the parties you always go to and died\", just out of the blue. I'm not sure how I'd get gangrene at a party, but whatever. I didn't tell my roommate about it, to avoid confrontation.\n\nThen one day I was alone in the room and talking to my friend on the phone. Roommate walks in, kinda in a huff, and sits down at her computer. I didn't really pay much attention to her after that, and continue talking on the phone. My friend and I were talking about a girl we know, and were laughing a lot. Suddenly, roommate jumped up and started screaming at me about how I apparently am a giant bitch, and how my friends and I always make fun of her, and how I think I'm \"so cool\" and all of this other stuff. I was kinda in shock, and asked her what the fuck her problem was. She grabbed my phone from me, slammed it down on the floor, and grabbed my hair, trying to shake my head. Thoroughly freaked out, I hit at her to try and get her off, and ended up putting the heel of my hand into her eye pretty hard. She ended up running off to the RA and, now having a swelling black eye, told her that I had suddenly gotten up, walked accross the room, and started beating her up. (The story *sorta* worked, since she had a black eye and I didn't have any visible marks.) We were moved into separate rooms and had to both meet with the hall coordinator, but it ended up working out in my favor; after the incident, I guess the roommate went to a bunch of RA's and her bible study coordinators and told them all differing and outlandish stories (that I had put her in the hospital, destroyed her laptop, etc.), and the hall coordinator said she flat out thought the girl was crazy and didn't believe her story. I haven't heard from crazy roommate since the night she attacked me, she transferred to a different school after that semester.\n\n**tl;dr: I had a weird roommate who attacked me. And I've told this story before. But she was real crazy.**\n\nEDIT: Woah, weird. The first time I posted this story, I got *very* different responses compared to what I'm getting now. I guess I come off as a little bitchy in this post...? I just want to clarify that I wasn't talking about this girl over the phone, and I had been trying to befriend her the whole semester--I generally don't like confrontation. She *always* acted very strangely towards me, even when it was obvious I was trying to include her in what I was doing, and was very verbal about not wanting to do things with me and my friends. It was my impression that she really didn't want to be my friend, and that she thought my friends and I were somehow \"the enemy\". That's why her outburst was so unexpected and surprising. Sorry if I came off sounding like a bitch myself...",
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"body": "My very first roomate in college, was a disgusting fat slob. The type that can barely walk and spends 100% of their free time sitting on the couch and watching pokemon on tv. I'm big on buying food in bulk, and having a decent pantry for weeks at a time. I left to go back home for one weekend, and when I returned, he had eaten 5 boxes of pasta, and a 1lb bucket of butter; by himself in a period of 48hrs.\n",
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"body": "I am the HORROR of my room mate. When I first move in, for the first 3 months, he was not able to have decent sleep because I SNORE so loud. I mean, so loud, he even recorded it and made me hear it. I was embarrassed, annoyed and frustrated.\n\nI went under surgery to fix my deviated septum, remove my tonsil and adenoid, and other airways issue. Now, I still snore but not as much. My room mate told me, the surgery SOLVED the problem. Sadly enough, he has to move out 3 months after my surgeries. He was not able to fully reap the fruit of my sacrifice for him.",
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"body": "I mentioned this guy before but it deserves to be mentioned again. My freshman year roommate was a smelly guy named Elwin. He was a lispy bisexual, loved Inuyasha, had an unkempt afro, wrote fan fiction all day in a yellow-stained wife beater and he slept on the floor. \n\nI should have requested another room but I decided to endure the weirdness, a decision I would soon regret. One night I awaken to see him laying on his side in his bed, completely naked with just a pillow in front of his thrusting arm and presumably an erect penis. These rooms were tiny, and all of this was going on within 10 feet of my eyes and nostrils. It was so close I could smell the cheese. There he was, staring into my eyes, masturbating in the middle of the night. In some sort of trance, he kept going and I just pretended to sleep. I just laid there listening for another 5 or so minutes until it stopped. From this point on I spent all of my time outdoors and I quickly turned to a life of drugs.",
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"body": "My last roommate was what she called a \"pagan-Christian.\" She had a hand-painted shrine in her room, and regularly cast spells (serenity, peace, luck, whatever). She'd leave pans of water around the house, and burn candles all night long. Once, she left a candle burning overnight and I blew it out when I came in from the bar at 3 am. The next day, she fussed at me and told me, \"You can't blow out spell candles or the spell won't work!\" and when I said that leaving candles burning all night long was a fire hazard, she replied, \"These candles aren't fire hazards. The spells keep them safe.\" One day she got mad at me and told me that she cursed me. She was just trying to fuck with my head. I don't think she could pull of a curse anyway.\n\n*Edit (there's more!): Additionally, when I first moved in, I was looking for a mop, and asked her where she kept one. She said, \"Oh, I don't keep mops. They spread germs.\" Yet she was perfectly fine with leaving her cat food-encrusted dishes in the sink for a week at a time. I called her a hypocrite (see below). Plus, the whole house smelled like a cat box. One time her cat shat on the floor and she left it there for 2 days. \n\nOverall, this girl was really weird. Her best friend was a 59-year-old psychologist she called \"Mr. Kev\" (she was 21), who would come over at all hours and hang out in the living room with her. She claimed that he was one of the men who stare at goats, and that he'd written the Stone Sour song \"Through Glass.\" Also, she claimed that he made one of the pieces of jewelry that Lady Gaga wore in her \"Poker Face\" video. \n\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n\nHere are some messages we exchanged during an argument. My explanations are in brackets.\n\nFirst, let me explain something. We didn't have wireless internet for a long time because she was too cheap to pony up her portion, so she would sit in the bathroom across the hall from my room, using the neighbor's connection, for HOURS. It was creepy and I told her so, and she got upset. This message is from me to her. I made up some story about having pooping anxiety in order to smooth things over (I often threw myself under the bus with this girl, just to stop arguments from getting worse and worse). \n\n\"I just want to clear the air. The bathroom-laptop thing weirds me out not because of you, but because I have bathroom anxiety things... Like, I guess you could call it stage fright. Knowing someone is right across the hall with the door open makes me feel like I'm under surveillance, so I get freaked about certain things (going #2 for instance). I feel like you will know when I go in and when I come out because you're right there, and I know rationally that you don't care and are not taking notes on my bathroom habits, but it's a stupid anxiety thing of mine. You should have seen how bad I was when I lived in the residence halls. I would wait until around 5 am to go in there because I was so self-conscious. Anyway, I hope that explains my comment earlier... Sorry that it came out so mean. I wasn't trying to make you feel bad, I was just lashing out. But really, we need to get internet SOON!\"\n\nHer reply: \n\n\"I've noticed that you have been lashing out very much and I do not appreciate it. It is difficult for me to confront you about issues because you become combative and argumentative, when I am trying to approach a subject respectfully. You do not respect my person, property, or beliefs. I respect your boundaries. Respect is a two way road. Also, households work on a synergy basis, not one person rules all. I understand you have an obsessive compulsive disorder and also a control issue. Do not take it out on everyone in this house. \n\n[I am not OC. This was the first of many times she \"diagnosed\" me. Apparently, asking that she not leave dishes in the sink for more than 48 hours constitutes an obsessive disorder.]\n\nAs to whether or not I am keeping you up by my coming and going goes both ways. You were loud today when I was trying to sleep. I didn't say anything about it because I really don't want to start a fight and I knew if I did say something about it you would become combative. Tonight I had a friend emergency that I had to deal with that could involve the police. Remember, not everything is about you.\n\n[She got pissed and yelled at me for waking her up from a nap when I \"was talking really loudly with Mellissa, then stomped around the house and slammed the front door.\" It was 6 pm. When I asked her to keep her phone conversation down, it was when she was in said bathroom, yelling on the phone at 3 am. I'd asked her to either keep her voice down, or go into her bedroom (which was at the other end of the house).]\n\nAlso, I know that you have been in my room without my permission when I left my door open for the cats. I know this because when borrowed your fingernail polish, it was not where I had left it. I had no intention of stealing it or keeping it. It did slip my mind to return it. I do not trust you.\n\nAlso, the walls in this house are very thin, as you might have noticed. You overheard a conversation about the cat going missing that I had with heather. I overheard a conversation you had with heather and/or melissa about me in the kitchen. You are entitled to your opinion, however, I urge you, for the sake of curtailing drama, to watch what you say. \n\n[Her cat went missing (i.e. hid behind the washing machine for 9 hours) and her first thought? \"Heather [our other roommate], did Dixie do something to my cat?\" I flipped out, because what the fuck? I am not some wacko animal beater! God, did she think I had her cat in Tupperware in my closet or something? My conversation with my best friend (the one she overheard) went as such: \"She owes me an apology. The fact that she would even THINK that I'd done something to her cat shows that she doesn't trust me, and I don't think I can trust her, either, if she is saying stuff like that behind my back.\"]\n \nI am very offended that you called me a hypocrite tonight. I have many things I could say and call you, however, I don't because I'm not petty and I prefer to keep the moral high-ground. When people room together, there needs to be compromise. We have our differences. I feel like I have compromised enough. I have come to you respectfully with my concerns, and I hope you will do the same.\"\n\n[If you have to say you aren't going to say it, you've said plenty, AND pissed me off for passive aggression.] \n\nHere is my reply:\n\n\"Carolanne, the bottle of nail polish was on the kitchen counter (as I recall, to the left of the sink). I did not take it from your room, and the only times I have gone past the door (to put your cat in) was when you were also present, and that was to look at the kitten. However, if you are uncomfortable with this, I will put an end to it.\n\nAs for your late-night phone conversation, I would appreciate it if you would take it into your room in future. As you said, the walls are thin, and since the school year has begun, I am trying to get my sleep schedule back on track. You can nap whenever you want, but don't get angry if I don't tiptoe around at six pm. If you want quiet, close your door. You seem to be in the habit of leaving it open while you sleep, and I don't see how I am to blame if you are woken up by normal household activity. Past ten pm, I could see this being an issue, but not during the afternoon or evening.\n\nI called you a hypocrite because you don't seem bothered that the house is dirty, yet you won't keep a mop because 'it spreads germs.'\"\n\nI never got a reply.\n\n**TL;DR Stop at --------. The important info is above that. Below is just a few messages we sent back and forth.**\n",
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"body": "I had a room where the sink was in the room and i slept with my head basically over the sink on the top bunk. The first thing my roomate would do was walk over to the sink and hock up some lung/loogie shit. Every morning. HOOOOOOCCCKK. It was terrible and he usually woke up before me.\n\nUnfortunately, the (well established) tradition of my (military) alma mater holds that the roomate that stays up later (and thus needs the overhead light more) sleeps on top so that the other roomate can sleep \"in the shade.\" The regulations also dictated which way the bunks went. His biology/physiology dictated the rest. I was pretty much screwed.\n\nHe was also a rampant conspiracy theory nut as well as being an ex-druggie. (School had a zero tolerance policy on drugs, period.) He scared me off from drugs permanently by saying one day \"I used to be smart man, real smart, then I did drugs. Now I'm like this.\" Yea. Total \"scared straight\" moment.\n\nOther than that, he had good taste in movies and music so at least that was a plus.\n\ntl;dr - roomate hocking loogies was my alarm clock.",
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"body": "My husband and I had a roommate who clogged up the toilet in one of the bathrooms and let the water overflow all over the bathroom floor and out in to the hallway. He refused to clean it up and eventually the giant pile of clothes he had on the floor soaked most of the water up. Later, when it came time for him to move out, he decided to remove the pile of clothes, but they were stuck to the wall with black mold... He also lit a pan on fire which charred the microwave... He also let so much food explode in the microwave that we nicknamed it the \"blood cubby\" ",
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"body": "I had a roommate who turned out to be a raging alcoholic with three girlfriends none of whom knew about each other. At least two of his girlfriends were meth/crack users and would leave their paraphernalia around the apartment. On top of this I later realized they stole a shit-ton of my DVDs and video games.\n\nThe worst damage however, was done by the guy himself. He was arrested for blowing three or four times the legal limit while driving without a license, registration, or insurance. He got one of his skanks to bail him out, then didn't show for his court date. Apparently not having heard of caller ID, he called the bail officer from my apartment and tried to convince him he was at a relative's place. The bail guy came and eventually had to kick down my door to drag him out (I was at work for all this) and the whole incident got me kicked out from a $700/mo two bedroom with free utilities across the street from college.\n\nSo, Sean P. Kelly, wherever you are... Fuck you twice!",
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"body": "I once walked into my apartment after a long day at work, only to see a leg violently kick a hole from INSIDE our bathroom, and seconds later my naked roommate crawl out of said hole like a naked, hairy insect emerging from its hollow-core-door-slab cocoon. He then stood up, noticed me, and walked into his bedroom.\n\nAnd that's just ONE of the stories.",
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"body": "This isn't really a horror story, but it was still amazingly awkward for 6 months. \n\nMy second roommate my freshman year living in the dorms (first one moved out for personal reasons, not because of me) was basically a stranger to me. When he first moved in we greeted each other and since he moved in the second semester I introduced him to everybody else and invited him to go eat with us and stuff but he never took us up on it or anything. So after the first couple weeks of this we said all in all maybe 10 or 20 sentences to each other and from that point on never said a word to each other. For 6 months we did not talk, nothing was shared, everything was split pretty much perfectly down the middle of the room. I would watch TV, play games, and be on my computer and stuff and sometimes other people would be in there with us, but he never said anything and only sat on his bed doing shit on his laptop. The only good thing was he went home every weekend, which for him was roughly an hour drive each way (and he didn't have a car, his dad drove there, picked him up and drove him back *every* weekend) so at least I got to get drunk in peace without having to worry about awkward drunken conversations with him.\n\nEdit: spelling",
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"body": "The roommate that asked if it was okay to have pets. \"No, we're not allowed to have any cats or dogs.\" \n\n\"What about a bird?\" \n\n\"Well, I guess a bird is okay.\"\n\nShowed up a week later with a 5 foot tall, 4 foot wide cage strapped to the roof of her car. The bird was a parrot or something like that... I don't remember now. I just remember that it stunk to high heaven and it pooped over everything in the apartment. We lost our entire deposit. ",
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"body": "I'm about to begin the last semester of my final year of college and have been living with a friend I've known since freshman year of high school. He's never been a problem until this last year. \n\nOur apartment is shared by four guys, three of which aren't completely oblivious to personal hygiene. I was the unlucky one that used to share a bathroom with our fourth roommate, my friend from high school, who has become an offense to the senses. When we used to share a bathroom, it wouldn't matter how often I would clean it because it would always end up trashed. He would even sometimes forget to flush the toilet after taking a shit. It was disgusting. \n\nEven worse is that he randomly stopped using soap in the shower and substitutes Axe body spray for deodorant. What makes the lack of soap and deodorant worse is that no one can recall him ever doing laundry in the past semester, which means his clothes and towels have just been accumulating his stench making it even worse. We have emptied countless cans of spray into his room and tried almost every idea short of setting fire to his room to improve the smell with no luck.\n\nDid I mention he has a girlfriend? Now we can't figure out if she's just so desperate she won't say anything to him or maybe her hygiene is just as bad. None of us can comprehend how he has gotten this far in life without figuring out how to maintain even a basic level of cleanliness. \n\nAlso, since I have started sharing the other bathroom with my two other roommates, his bathroom has gotten even worse. There is scum buildup around the drain, mixed with hair, and what we believe are chunks of mildew from the shower curtain. We almost threw up when we saw it yesterday.",
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"body": "Aw man, I have some good ones. Not the worst of the worst (my friend has some damn funny stories), no heroin abusers or anything, but here goes:\n\n**Roommate 1** (freshman year of college in a dorm):\n\nWell, for starters, just to give you a mental picture, he looked kind of like The Yellow Bastard from Sin City. I sometimes wanted to ask him what he did to little Nancy Callahan.\n\nHe had fairly little regard for hygiene. He showered, but he smelled anyway. I often supposed that he just stood in the shower with the water on, yelling, \"I'm doing it! I'm showering!\" He also began to develop an un-groomed (I don't think that's a word) beard at times. He usually sat around the room in his underwear, or, at best, also had a giant Miller t-shirt even though he didn't drink. But he dressed/dresses up for class. Nice pants, all that. I never asked why.\n\nAll he would eat was sandwiches/hamburgers from the school cafeteria, Quizno's, and fluffernutter sandwiches. Yes, a staple of his diet was sandwiches with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.\n\nHe played a lot of Saint's Row on Xbox. He had his own \"gang,\" which I guess is the same thing as a clan. He would play it past midnight, yelling into the mic. When I told him that he might want to keep it down so as to not wake up/piss off others, he basically told me that he doesn't like them anyway, so it's okay.\n\nHe had very, very large collections of soda bottles and cans, and a giant cardboard box in the middle of our floor. The box was there for months until somebody he liked wanted to make something out of it and he let it go.\n\nAnd, some smaller things, but it's the smaller things that really get you over time: He chewed with his mouth open and clicked a pen all the time. Oh man, those got to me. He was also just a bit of a general douche, and wouldn't hold doors open for people, even though, as this was a dorm, you had to swipe your keycard to get into the building.\n\nTo round all this out, at the end of the year, he bought cookie cakes for everybody on the floor in the dorm. I have no idea why, I think his mom made him do it.\n\nAnd finally, my friends once dropped by the room while I was out because they were [going to get food/going to a movie/whatever]. When asked where I was, he said he didn't care if I was dead in a ditch. And no, I'm almost positive I never provoked him besides that he was fairly argumentative.\n\nAre we having fun yet?\n\n**Roommate 2** (sophomore year of college in a similar but not quite the same environment):\n\nThis was a big guy. And just generally annoying for the following reasons, as I will show.\n\nHe listened to about 15 songs on loop. And they were mostly songs you would find on a 15-year-old girl's playlist. Nickelback, Linkin Park, etc. One day I discovered that he didn't even own the songs, he just had a YouTube playlist that he would keep running. This was intensely maddening, as you might guess. I sometimes had to just leave the room and go anywhere else.\n\nThe only solace from that high-quality music was when he would occasionally play Diablo 2. Which he played a lot (but not enough), because it was just about the only thing he could run on his eMachine.\n\nHe would talk about the most boring things. I did just about everything short of telling him to kindly STFU in an attempt to get him to kindly STFU. Plain face, \"Uh huh...uh huh...\", etc. Not responding also didn't work. He would keep talking to me, even if I didn't say anything back. For minutes. I'd have my headphones on and he'd keep talking, it was like a monologue. In retrospect, I guess I could/should have just said, \"I'm trying to get some work done, please,\" but I guess that's in the past.\n\nHe would often just stand over my shoulder while I computer'd. I usually just stopped and looked at him to see what he wanted, but he just wanted to watch me compute, I guess.\n\nOne day, upon arriving back from a friend's, I went to use the bathroom. There were raisins all over the floor for some reason. Like 5 of them just sitting there. I didn't know why, but I decided I didn't want to pick them up, I certainly didn't make the mess. So, in the end, they never got picked up and just got squished into oblivion and nothingness. That one never got explained to me.\n\nThe only time he ever had a friend in the room, was on a school day, and they were watching a movie. I'm almost certain it was Underworld and well past 1 AM. I think I had a class at 8 AM or maybe 10 AM the next day. I tried to let them watch it and just sleep through it, but that didn't happen. I asked them to stop watching it, he said there was only like 20 minutes left. I don't remember if that was true or not, but it definitely felt like longer.\n\nMy girlfriend and one of her friends once came over to play Brain Age Wii. They played a few times, then we went to do whatever else. He asked if he could play, they said sure. So he played and apparently beat both their scores. We didn't notice, so he started saying, \"Hey, girls. Look. Hey. Look.\" That carried on until they looked and gave him some kind of recognition. It was kind of like Navi with something to prove.\n\nHis side of the room was also a complete mess, but that's always a given for bad roommates.\n\nHe ended up leaving half-way through the year. Not sure why. He actually didn't even tell me. I came back from break and he just never appeared, but his stuff was still there. A few weeks later, he came to take his stuff, told me he was transferring, and that was it.\n\nHe used toilet paper like mad. I mean, I'm not sure I can be angry at him for that necessarily, but WTF. I think I bought a thing of 6 rolls one time, and I probably used 1/4 - 1/2 of one of them by the time they were all gone.\n\nThis doesn't sound so bad now. But I was really pissed at him most of the time, I think the 15-song loop really took its toll. Even with headphones, it was still awful. I'm really not hard to get along with, I swear. My next two roommate experiences were great. One of them was with a friend and we're still friends, we got along well that year too. Didn't have to move out to save the friendship or anything like that.",
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"body": "Was subleasing from a friend for a few weeks. My boyfriend brought over his dog; new roommate came home, met him and the dog, then went upstairs and called the cops because dogs weren't allowed in the apartment. Neither my friend nor she told me this; she just called the cops for an 8 year old lab in her living room.",
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"body": "I had a roommate who would masturbate 10 times a day. Once, my teenage niece was visiting, and she had a shower, when i heard her screaming from the bathroom. It turns out my roommate ejaculated on her towel before, and she, without knowing wiped her hair, which got all sticky with the guy jizz. ",
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"body": "My roommate would consistently sleep through his 8:30am, heavy metal alarm clock. I didn't start class until noon. ",
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"body": "Not mine, but my sister's old roommate in college. I don't remember the details exactly but I do remember two things. She was horribly overweight yet had this dream of being one of those Disney characters at one of the Disney Parks. Therefore she would wear these obnoxious dirty old tweety bird shirts. This paints the picture for the worst part. She would cook whole chickens on a George Foreman grill at 3 am every night, and eat it whole. Her family would come every two weeks and completely fill the freezer with meat, all solely for her consumption. This resulted in the apartment always smelling of undercooked chicken, much to the disgust of my vegetarian sister. The roommate was horribly moody and delusional.",
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"body": "I spent a summer in France, and was stuck living in a tiny 1-bedroom apartment with three other girls. Two of the girls were great, but one of them was NASTY. She was this pretty-looking chick, and you never would have guessed she was so gross, but she was. She had this thing for throwing used tampons all over the floor of the bathroom. I have no idea why she did it, as there was a perfectly good trash can in the bathroom. Even after being confronted, she continued to do so. ",
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"body": "I've had a few. The most recent one just didn't show up to sign the lease, so now I'm stuck paying for it myself until I can find someone else. [details here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/amvgz/got_left_in_a_lurch_anyone_have_tips_for_finding/)\n\nI lived with 3 other guys during college. One of them kept track of my girlfriend's menses and would steal her tampons out of the trash. He then disappeared along with my Shun knife set (~$3k) and box of defective nokia cellphone chargers (fuck if I know why).\n\nA few years after that with a different roommate, a mutual friend wanted to come stay with us because his dad \"had been diagnosed with cancer\". Needing a place to stay didn't really seem to have anything to do with cancer, but we just went with it. Fast forward a couple months and he's in the living room on his computer, and his girlfriend is in my room on MY computer while their baby is on the floor in my kitchen covered in shit.\n\nThey were doing the gates of AQ WoW event and couldn't be bothered to deal with their baby. When I confronted them about it they said the event only happens once per server and being covered in shit would \"help the baby's immune system build up in the long run\".\n\nRoommates are awesome.",
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"body": "I wound up with two different roommates in two different cities, each roommate being a pothead on anti-depressants. That part didn't bother me NEARLY as much as each one's constant bitching about how depressed he was all the time.",
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"body": "I'm fairly certain my roommate is psychotic, or at least bipolar. He seemed normal at the beginning of the year. Aside from sleeping on the apartment sofa instead of his bed, never talking, and leaving and returning to the apartment at 4am, I didn't foresee any problems with him.\n\nHe has a medical marijuana card and keeps prescription bottles out in the open in the living room, despite medical marijuana being against the housing policy. At first I thought he was just a stoner gaming the system like everyone else I know, but now I am convinced he actually needs it, because stoners at least tend to be mellow and easygoing. \n\nThe first thing I noticed was that toilet paper was disappearing faster than it should. Like, an entire roll in 2 days fast. I narrowed it down to this guy using all of it up. Okay, I think to myself, so he needs to eat more fiber, I can deal with that.\n\nAbout two weeks in, he shaved all his hair off. Another of our roommates, someone he actually had a conversation with, told me he got depressed about something, or some reason. \n\nWhen I'm on my computer, and he's somewhere in the apartment, if I make a small noise or cough he will bang on the wall extremely hard. I am almost afraid he's going to put a hole in the wall and blow our security deposit.\n\nStarting about three months ago, every now and then I have heard him pacing the apartment and muttering obscenities, probably at me, since I am the only other person in the apartment when he does this. Right outside my closed door he has said stuff like \"fucking geek\", \"white trash motherfucker\", and other unpleasant phrases.\n\nI just avoid the guy now and keep my leatherman on hand in case he decides to try anything stupid.",
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"body": "Roommate 1: She wasn't a terrible person, she was just dirty. She'd go to bars and then stay out all night, but get back to the dorm in time to leave for class with the rest of us. We always said we'd wait for her to change clothes or brush her teeth, but she would just grab her stuff and hurry us out the door. \n\nRoommate 2, Alena: I didn't mind my roommates using my kitchen things as long as they cleaned them, so Alena was using my silver pot to boil water *supposedly*. She ends up boiling whatever it was into burnt on mounds on my pot, and instead of cleaning it, she shows me the damage like it's a fucking trophy. I tell her to replace it, but insists she can clean it...by scraping off the matter with one of my knives.\n\nRoommate 3, Chen. Fobby Chinese girl: She was a total hermit. I never saw her leave her room unless it was to use the bathroom, go to class, or \"cook\". Her definition of cooking was throwing her meal into the microwave, set it, and forget it. She nuked raw chicken, whole vegetables (carrots, potatoes, broccoli, asparagus), dumplings. After watching her throw in 3 ears of corn, complete with the outside leaves, I finally said something like, \"I don't think you thoroughly cook foods by microwaving them\", and she bitched me out in broken English for about 10 minutes.\n\nMy ex-boyfriend's roommate, Rob: My boyfriend met Rob through a mutual friend. He seemed normal for the first months we knew him but we started noticing his behavior changing. I woke up one night with Rob in the room, staring at us while sleeping. I seriously thought he was going to kill us that night. I asked him if anything was wrong, but he just mumbled something in a daze and left. \n\nSoon after, my boyfriend slept over my place more often, telling me stories about Rob's strange behavior (not paying bills, acting spacey and just a completely different person). Finally, my boyfriend called Rob's Dad, who owned the house, and told him about Rob's behavior. His Dad turned the situation around on my boyfriend, asking if he had been keeping track of whether Rob was taking his anti-depressants and other meds. He basically ends up telling my boyfriend that Rob was crazy but he'll remind him to take his medicines, and if Rob acts out again, just call the police. Soon after, my boyfriend and his other roommate told him that they didn't feel safe living with Rob, so Rob's Dad just took him home.",
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"body": "I have a roommate I am having problems with, and want to move out. She is a friend I've known for years, and we were both looking for a place to live so we got a cool apartment with my sister and have been here for 6 months. She treats the place like it's her apartment, and we don't live there. When we first moved in, she put her shitty computer and desk in the dining room, complete with old crt monitor and windows2000 POS pentium3 computer and printer that doesn't work anymore. When we asked her to put it in her room like we both do, she refused, completely refused. When she cleans, she moves any stuff that's out in the open and hides it without telling us. We have a cupboard with spices next to the stove, and one day she moved all the spices and stuff into a cupboard below the sink next to the garbage, which makes no sense, but that was where she wanted it. She unplugged the charger/base to our portable phones (2 portable phones, 1 charger and 1 base that plugs into the wall) and hid it in under the tv in a bunch of stuff, because she thought we didn't use it, it took me 2 days to find it because she was away for the weekend, and I couldn't call her as I didn't have a phone. She gets drunk at a local bar and brings all these random guys back to the apartment and plays rock band until 5am and doesn't give a shit that we have to wake up early for work. The clincher was just the other day when I had to be up at 7am. She was banging on the door, and ringing the doorbell at 5am because she couldn't unlock the door. Apparently it was unlocked already, and she kept locking it with the key instead of unlocking it. When I let her in, she gives me this attitude telling me not to be an asshole to her. I lost it, and told her to fuck off. We haven't spoken in a few days, and I want her gone. All 3 of us signed the lease, so I have to find someone to take over her part have her agree to it, and boot her ass out. Wish me luck.",
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Did any one else in Northern California just feel an earth quake? | I was sitting at my computer and the chandelier started rattling. I'm near the oregon border, I figure if it's this bad up here it might be worse down south. Any one else feel anything? | 32 | [
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"body": "Nothing here in Southern California. Then again, most people here lost the capacity to feel long ago.\r\n\r\nEdit: **Ever get the feeling people didn't get your joke?**",
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"body": "Yeah, it got a bit bumpy. My legs were pretty shaky for a good five minutes afterward. Did not enjoy that at all.\n\nedit: speeling\n\nedit #2: They just keep rolling in. ",
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"body": "yes. just felt it. im in 96094 weed. was kinda weak here but i felt both an initial jolt and a few seconds later a lesser one. lasted about 10 seconds.",
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"body": "Here outside of Ferndale was like a roller coaster for over a minute. Fortuna Safeway had booze and salad dressing all over the place. Smelled nice!",
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"body": "Central Oregon here, nothing for me, but my cats have been freaking out all day. I mean more so than usual.\n\n\"There it is *again* human! Tell me you didn't feel that! OMG! No wonder you can't land on your feet when I drop you! Hide, you idiot, hide!\" ",
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I just spent 3 days at the dentist's in Mexico, AMA. | No job, no insurance, and some dental issues that needed to be addressed. Was going to fly to Costa Rica but figured driving to McAllen, TX and crossing the border to Progreso would be cheaper. My girlfriend has family in Mission and I have a friend in McAllen, so we planned on staying with them. Got a recommendation from another friend on a dentist in Progreso, called to make the appointment, then hit the road. Three days, two root canals, two sets of posts, two crowns, and $1300 later, I'm back in Houston a satisfied customer. | 23 | [
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"body": "Good deal, heard both kinds of stories. I myself spent so much friggin money on me mouth, i had the uppers yanked, and got some dentures. So much pain, so much money...but at my age (60) it's all about eliminating pain...you deal with enough pretty much all the time if you did alotta physical work over the yrs.Keep brushin sparky!",
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"body": "Are you going to start flossing now? ;)\n\nWas the dentist legit and the facility fairly modern? I think a lot of people picture foreign medical treatment as going to some back alley business with a guy that bought his degree off a tv infomercial. \n\nLooks like you got a decent bargain, my co-worker had one root canal at $800 [EDIT, for service done here in the ol' USA]. $800 seems to be in the range for root canals: http://www.aboutcosmeticdentistry.com/procedures/root_canal/cost.html\n\n",
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"body": "Damn, I'm in the middle of catching up after not visiting a dentist for 10 years. On 12/21, I had an extraction/bone graft, which cost $600, and that doesn't include the cost for the future post and implant that will take the place of the removed tooth. Yesterday, I started the process of one root canal and crown, which will cost $1200.\n\nSo I'm about 20% done, and I've already spent $1800.",
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I'm on Fetlife. Now what? | I'm completely new to this, and I've been on fetlife for a few months now, but I haven't done anything. I do not know how to get the ball rolling. Any suggestions?
Oh, and add me. My name is tulio. | 8 | [
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"body": "Interact\r\n\r\nStart adding the yourself to groups your in to, and start posting in the discussions threads or start your own. \r\nLike any forum or social networking site it will take time for people to click with you.\r\n\r\nAnd look for local events and get involved.. \r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"body": "Yes, joining groups and participating in them is a great place to start. Look for munches in the local events to find other people in the community . Enjoy :)",
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"body": "Add me if you want, I only registered yesterday myself, I'm in the same boat.\n\n**edit:** yeah, username's meeeow",
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my last gift hasn't arrived YET. and SS is forcing me to confirm if it arrived or not. | my santa contacted me to tell me that my gift was indeed sent in december. i believe him... i'm patiently waiting for it, but a mail arrived telling me to confirm or no more secret santa for me.
i don't want to put that i didn't received my last gift because i don't want to put my santa in troubles, since i know it's the post office fault.
so... what should i do? what happens if i confirm that i didn't got my last gift? | 7 | [
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"body": "Put that it has not arrived. You can change it later when it arrives.\r\n\r\nFor the statistics, it is important that you do that. Do **not** mark the gift as arrived.",
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Reddit, I am going to Norway within a few days for 3 months. Any internet laws I should know about? | I come from a country with very relaxed internet laws. I am not a pirate but I admit downloading a few movies/music. I do not want to go to jail or get kicked out of the country for these. | 4 | [
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"body": "You’re required to post candid pictures of all the hot norwegian girls you *meet* (if you catch my drift) to imgur.",
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Reddit Beards - Post your beard. | If you have some other interesting display of facial hair, that's fine too.
I need some inspiration. I always cop-out halfway through growing one because it looks horrible. But I know if I wait it out, I might one day have a long, glorious beard to call my own.
So with that said; Bearded Redditors - inspire me! Post your beard!
Edit: I should add, if your beard looks too good to be true, verification may be requested.
Can't have nobody taking credit for another man's beard. | 45 | [
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"body": "Paste this in the address bar to view all images on the page:\n\n> javascript: var x= $(\".content\").find(\"a\").each(function(){var href=$(this).attr(\"href\");if(href && (href.indexOf('imgur')>=0 || href.indexOf('jpeg')>=0 || href.indexOf('jpg')>=0 || href.indexOf('png')>=0)){var img = $(\"<img style='display:block'/>\");img.attr(\"src\",href);img.attr(\"width\", \"300\");$(this).replaceWith(img);}});\n",
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"body": "Here's [mine](http://imgur.com/VeryB.png).\n\nI have about three inches of mustache per side hidden in there somewhere, but I couldn't get it to behave for the camera this morning. Here's a less recent picture that shows the [mustache](http://imgur.com/2xEFe.jpg).\n\n*edit: punctuation",
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"body": "my beard is pretty weak compared to some of these beards, jeez, way to make me insecure about my beard.\nhttp://imgur.com/ktYCm.jpg",
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"body": "http://imgur.com/3Ozsl.jpg\n\nI rock only the chinhawk you see in the foreground. The guy in the back is my wife's cousin sporting a finely groomed standard goat.",
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"body": "[me and my senior thesis](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JH16rLQ5LbY/S0F_oP1f0gI/AAAAAAAAAGE/0ZaI6Ui-8N4/s1600-h/byron-ldpi.jpg) photo was taken by a buddy of mine.\n\nEdit: \n\nI had a pact with my self that I would not cut my beard until I graduated. My mustache alone is like 4 inches long on the sides... :P I cut some of the sides down but the goatee/stache are still there.",
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"body": "godDAM reddit, you've got some hot beards\ni fancy beards, myself, but i can't grow them like i wish i could.\n\nyou guys get everything! penises, beards...",
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"body": "http://i.imgur.com/3beTf.jpg\n\nI know im way behind on this thread, but I had to post mine. I usually wear a full beard, but did this for fun a little while ago.",
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What songs does one play at a ninja party? | Okay, so I need a little help here. My brother has gone batshit crazy and ordered 15 ninja-suits and he is planning on throwing a ninja-party. Of course he managed to drag me into his insanity(or awesomeness?) and put me in charge of making a playlist. Of course I come to reddit with this query. Now, give me your best ninja-songs! kung fu fighting is a given. | 5 | [
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"body": "\"Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting\" and \"Secret Agent (Asian) Man\" seem appropriate. With the former though the ninja (note the s-less plural which is proper usage) might become angry at the DJ for confusing kung fu with ninjitsu and promptly use their numchucks on his nutsack.",
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Hey Reddit I need help choosing my video card | ok hey guys, now im having difficulty choosing between these cards.
[Sapphire ATI HD 5770 Vapor-X](http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=82&bid=4&sid=53451)
and This one
[XFX HD4890 PCI-E 2.0 1G Core Edition](http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=82&bid=4&sid=49559)
P.S if you could what games could it play on max.
Thanks For Commenting (: | 4 | [
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"body": "Both can run pretty much anything. The 4890 is faster, the 5770 has Dx11 and consumes less power. If you only care about raw performance, go for the 4890. \n\nedit: oh, and some Sapphire Vapor-x 5770s shipped with a faulty BIOS, so if you decide on that one, make sure you get a good one or update the BIOS. [-article-](http://www.techpowerup.com/111186/Sapphire_HD_5770_BIOS_Botchup_Leaves_Users_with_Just_720_Stream_Processors.html)",
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DAE enjoy tracking packages? | Here's a recent package (tracking) I sent off to family. It hasn't arrived yet:
* 1/10/2010 6:36:00 AM UNLOAD SCAN PAMPANGA, PH
* 1/10/2010 6:14:00 AM ARRIVAL SCAN PAMPANGA, PH
* 1/10/2010 4:52:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN CHEK LAP KOK, HK
* 1/10/2010 4:35:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN CHEK LAP KOK, HK
* 1/9/2010 10:43:00 PM ARRIVAL SCAN CHEK LAP KOK, HK
* 1/9/2010 4:58:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
* 1/9/2010 4:54:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
* 1/9/2010 12:48:00 AM LOCATION SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
* 1/9/2010 12:33:00 AM LOCATION SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
* 1/9/2010 12:32:00 AM UNLOAD SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
* 1/8/2010 11:12:00 PM ARRIVAL SCAN KOELN (COLOGNE), DE
* 1/8/2010 9:39:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN PHILADELPHIA, PA US
* 1/8/2010 4:49:00 AM ARRIVAL SCAN PHILADELPHIA, PA US
* 1/8/2010 3:34:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN LOUISVILLE, KY US
* 1/7/2010 2:15:00 PM LOCATION SCAN LOUISVILLE, KY US
* 1/7/2010 2:02:00 PM LOCATION SCAN LOUISVILLE, KY US
* 1/7/2010 1:00:00 PM ARRIVAL SCAN LOUISVILLE, KY US
* 1/7/2010 6:04:00 AM DEPARTURE SCAN ONTARIO, CA US
* 1/7/2010 1:16:00 AM LOCATION SCAN ONTARIO, CA US
* 1/7/2010 1:08:00 AM UNLOAD SCAN ONTARIO, CA US
* 1/6/2010 11:35:00 PM ARRIVAL SCAN ONTARIO, CA US
* 1/6/2010 10:21:00 PM DEPARTURE SCAN ALISO VIEJO, CA US
* 1/6/2010 7:03:00 PM ORIGIN SCAN ALISO VIEJO, CA US | 91 | [
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"body": "For me it's usually like this: package received...\r\n\r\nnothing\r\n\r\nnothing\r\n\r\n\r\nnothing\r\n\r\ni go pick up the package\r\n\r\n\r\nlots and lots of tracking information\r\n\r\ntwo days pass\r\n\r\n\"package delivered\"",
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"body": "Obsessively. It grates my nerves seeing my package at a shipping center twenty minutes away and having to wait all day for UPS to reach my neighborhood. \n\nMy blood pressure!",
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"body": "I work for a courier company and sometimes i tail the webserver logs watching people F5'ing incessantly (our system gives ETAs in minutes) so the refreshing of the page isn't like watching paint dry. Hilarious times!",
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By request: I have been to a massage parlor. AMA | I went to an Asian "massage parlor" while on a business trip in Atlanta.
My co-workers and I found it listed in the local publication paper. It was the only time I have done anything like this.
I was told the place was closed down a couple weeks after I left. AmA.
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"body": "i am gonna get down voted to hell but here it goes....\n\ni used to go to massage parlors (escort services too when i could) back in the day.\n\ni probably should be doing this ama instead of the op due to an unhealthy amount of more experience. and might start one.\n\nso anyways all services sexual or otherwise are full of exploitation and slavery. there is a reason so many strippers are eastern european and that the chinese carry out down the block will sell you a huge meal for five bucks with free delivery and that hispanic contractors are thirty percent cheaper. i am not saying its right that so many people are exploited (even the ones i paid for sex) but the exploitation happens all over the world every time somebody buys a pair of sneakers or eats at an ethnic restaurant. and most people being exploited would probably choose sucking a couple dozen or so condom wrapped dicks a day to toiling in a mine/kitchen/sweat-shop/etc for sixteen hours a day.",
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"body": "Here's a few questions, thx for doing this AMA it's always interesting stuff!\n\n* Were all of the girls who had sex aged 18-25 or close to it?\n\n* Were they all asian at the parlor you went to?\n* Where do you think they were from mostly, America or an asian country?\n\n* Was there magazines in the waiting room?\n\n* Did they play any music in the room, or was it just you and her making strange grunting noises\n\n* How did she perform? Was she very vocal near the end? :D",
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"body": "How do you feel about the fact that many of these women and their families spent years saving up to pay organized crime families to come to the United States, all based on fake promises of legitimate employment? When they get here, they are forced to do this kind of work, not knowing better, and on threat of their families back home being harmed.\n\nAs someone who used to live in China, I just want to say I find what you did sick. That's my opinion, at least. If you knew this about the girl who massaged you, would you have gone through with it?",
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"body": "I don't mean to ask for creepy details...but I'm curious how it transitions from the regular massage to the happy ending. I mean there is no kissing or anything right? Just she ask first or just start grabbing at it? Were you already \"up\" or did she have to work it first?",
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"body": "So did they make it obvious that the place was for sex or did they at least try to play it off as a massage parlour?",
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"body": "Thank you for posting this. I passed one in downtown Orlando last week and was quizzing my husband on what he would do if I got him a massage there for his birthday.. \n\nI do have a question though.. one of the commenters mentioned a condom. Is there anything between *you* and *them* protection-wise? I shudder at the thought of the diseases they must get as seemingly anyone can go in there... Also, did she get naked too? ",
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"body": "Did you go with your friend knowing that you were going to get a happy ending?\nEver find out why they closed down? Police raid?\nAny recommendations for your fellow redditors who want a \"massage\"?",
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Everyone has one (yes I mean you don't lie). So Reddit, what's your Zombie Plan? | Me and my 3 roommates live near Seattle, but close enough to the rural areas where I'd have a fighting chance. One of the 3 roommates has a dad with a sizable gun collection, and he lives within 1 mile of us. He's always out of town on business. Now my first instinct is to take one of the three passes to Eastern Washington, but no. That's too obvious, everyone will try that. Here's why
I have three realistic options of getting to Eastern Washington. Stevens Pass to the north, Snoqualmie Pass just east of me, or White Pass to the South. All three will be jam packed, guaranteed. Stevens will be taken by all the North sound people, Snoqualmie by all the Seattleites, and White Pass by South sound and SW Washington people. Going across Highway 14 along the Columbia is out of the question, too far away.
So here's what I do: make a mad dash for either the Kitsap or Olympic Peninsulas to the west. The exact opposite direction of nearly everyone. While they're all trying to slip across the passes to "safer" Eastern Washington (only to either freeze to death or get stuck in the passes like fish in a barrel) Me and whoever else wants to survive will slip across the Puget sound. Fuck the ferries, those will be the first to go, probably run aground once the last crew member succumbs.
This is very important: We have to steal a boat by any means. Only way to go, the only way to get west by road is Highway 16 near tacoma or Highway 101 in Olympia. Both will be at a standstill, and good luck with the Tacoma Narrows bridge there. (Fish. Barrel.) Since I live on the Eastside, It'd be easier to get some richie-rich's boat off lake Washington and follow that to the sound. Gotta choose one boat and go with it. If they're a zombie, deal with them. If theyre alive, invite them along at gunpoint, but make it clear that we're taking the boat.
Once we're on the boat, we have plenty of options: Go up to the San Juan Islands, or land near the base of the Kitsap Peninsula and just scout ahead. But either way we'll need to find a semi-isolated place with livable weather. That's why the mountains are out, but I'm thinking the foothills of the Olympic Mountains would be perfect. | 83 | [
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"body": "*A* zombie plan? Of course not, I have 37 different zombie plans. In 36 of the 37 plans I use your fresh corpse as bait so I can make my initial escape from the legions of the undead. In the 37th plan I knowingly infect myself with the zombie virus just so that I can devour you.",
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"body": "Everyone knows that the goal is to crush the head or destroy the brain. As such, my plan is to make sure I'm buried wearing a crash helmet, in order to afford me the most possible time to snack on delicious brains.\n\nHm, perhaps that's not quite what you meant.. ",
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"body": "Dear OP: You would need someone to operate the Ballard locks to get from Lake Washington to the Sound ",
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"body": "got the [zombie survival guide](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide). got [world war z](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z). They are my bibles.\n\n\nMy gf does clay pigeon shooting. she owns her own [Baretta Silver Pigeon](http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=beretta+silver+pigeon&btnG=Search&aq=0sx&oq=baretta+sil&start=0) (shotgun). this is no the sport for a lady (*amirite folks?*) but ill let that pass because I like her and she has an average of ~90%. I do rifle shooting and thus have access to .22 calibre rifles (I am 1 min sprint from the range). I am also at 90%. I have also been running for the past 3 years and can comfortably run 2 mile in 13mins and indefinitely at a jog. I have been doing rock climbing for the past 2 years and thus have good upper body strength required to climb up building if i need to.\n\n\nso my background above, now to the plan:\n\n\nI live in the small town of Luton, England. I am very close to my rifle range and very close to the train station. I abandon my flat mates as they cannot run as well as I. I take a manageable amount of food and water. I take my swiss army knife. I take my multi tool with pliers on, etc. I leave all electronics behind as they will be useless. I take a torch and batteries. I take rope. I take the two hammers I keep y my bedside *just in case*. I take the smell mdekit i keep near my seat *just in case*. I take a sewing kit i have next to my sink *just in case*. I take one change of clothes and toothbrush and toothpaste.I do not take things that I cannot run with. My flatmate has leather jacket. I cut off he arms to it and take the arms. leather is hard to bite through. If he tries to stop me then he gets hurt.\n\n\nI immediately I run to the rifle range, break in and take my trusty rifle and the majority of the little ammo that is left there. I leave a small amount for my fellow rifle shooters as another competent finger on the trigger in a world gone ape shit may come in handy one day. This also counteracts my bad deed with my flat mate.\n\nIts a single shot then reload firle. It is cumbersome and heavy. I am only head shot accurate up to 50 meters away when *lying down* (although it can kill up to a mile away) - so the rifle is for only if I am in a safe shooting point such as roof.\n\nI assume that the urban roads are unmanageable to travel by car but rural ones are not- abandoned vehicles and crashes everywhere. I head for the train tracks and walk and jog. I need to get 200 miles to my gf in lincoln, lincolnshire. I have been doing this journey twice a week on the train for the past year so I have a good idea of the turns I take. as soon as I hit the tracks I hide in a good place. I then wait for darkness and start jogging beside the tracks on the grass. I jog at a faster than walking pace all night and find a hiding place when its daybreak. Im thinking a tree with leaves. eat and tie self to tree and sleep. dry out sweat soaked tshirt and socks. I take off shoes and put on dry socks. wake at night. torch to check area for zombies. if there is, shot in the head with torch on. wait 30 mins. check again. if safe go. if not then shoot and wait 15 mins. check again. if unsafe, shoot and wait 7 mins. check again. if unsafe shoot. when safe, get down and run at speed, run for 1 mile. I will know when 1 mile is done as that is when I start sweating. I tone it down to a jog and change tshirt.\n\nthis will continue for about 7 days until I get to my gf's place. I wait to dark then go to her place. it is in a rural town so not too dangerous. most of the streets are terrace so I climb one and get to end and look for best new terrace to climb from my point and continue like this until I get to her place. This may take all night but It would be safe (I trust my climbing skills more than I trust the Zeds on the streets). when I get there I break in through roof, first alerting her who I am. if there are any zeds I dispatch, even if she is it.\n\n\nIf she is not here then she will have scrawled on her bedroom wall where she had headed, the date she went and by what route (**yes we have agreed to do this!**). If this occurs I trail her journey and go to her next place and read the new instructions of where she went. I do this until I either find her or loose her trail completely. continue with next step either way, except that i do her duties alone. I/we leave after a day of rest and go to get her gun (she is at uni and keeps her gun at home [30 miles away]). I expect this to take about 3 days as she cannot run as I can run. we travel through fields. it is fields almost the whole way.\n\nHer house is in country side so dont expect too much Zeds. we take good vantage point close to her house and pick them off. .22 calibre rifles make a *pop* more than a bang so it should not bring them from miles around. She enters her house armed with the hammer. I cover her from vantage point. If there is anyone there she dispatch with hammer. If there is more than one she retreat to me and dispatch them with rifle.\n\n...so...house cleared she takes shotgun and ammo and her brother's other shotgun if he is not dead. we do not shoot the shot gun unless necesary. it will bring more zombies from miles around. It is a worst case scenario. humans can run. She will learn to run as I run. we get in her car if it is still there are drive to her grandad's (<1 mile away). if no car we walk when it is night. he has 4x4. if it is there we take and hot tail it out of there. if it is not then we hotwire one of his neighbours (farmers have many a old 4x4, the kind that the internets teaches how to hotwire)\n\n\nwe head for as far north in scotland we can get, avoiding cities and people. we head for the cold. we head for where there were few people. we head for somewhere where zombies freeze. we live there until we can find a boat and fishing rods and we just circle britian and fish for food and come back to dry land for supplies. we listen on the airwaves for other survives. we interact with few people. we join a safe haven if we find one.\n\n\nTHE END",
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"body": "Now, what I'm going to do is detail what I'd do and how I'd go about doing it, explaining why I think I need what I need and why I'm going where I'm going. Please feel free to discuss or ask questions at the end of the note. Now, I'm not going to go into too much detail in regards to my ACTUAL route or the businesses I intend on looting, nor will I divulge who I would and wouldn't take. Rest assured though, should we cross paths, I'll probably just blow your zombie brains out. Actually, come to think of it, I might even blow your normal brains out too, per apocalypse protocol.\n\nPreface: I'm going to be talking about the classic zombie apocalypse, not the running zombies or the Left 4 Dead bullshit. Moseying, undead zombies that function so long as their brain stem is attached to some part of their spinal cord. If limbs fall off, they don't work, if you sever the spine, everything below is dead, zombies don't heal, have gnarly blood, mucous is the only vector of transmission, and they're very, very hungry for braaaaains. Most people are somehow infected, the power grid may or may not be up, the military may or may not function, and it spread enough worldwide so that Russia didn't just nuke the fucking bejesus out of us to take care of shit.\n\n===================\nFirst, the end-all-be-all truths:\n\n1. Always have ammunition\n2. Always have a gun, preferably two or three\n3. Shoot first, aim for the head\n4. Always have ammunition\n5. Carry enough food and water for a week on foot\n6. Have a sword or machete handy\n7. People are just as dangerous as zombies and should probably be eliminated with extreme prejudice\n8. Never stop moving until you reach the Tundra\n9. Protect your body with Kevlar at all times\n10. Wear light, comfortable, waterproof, somewhat insulated boots at all times\n11. Have quick access to your weapons at all times\n12. Wear a helmet on your motorcycle\n13. Find a motorcycle or dirt bike, next comes an ATV, followed by an off-road vehicle\n14. Get hopped up on amphetamines until you reach the Tundra. Again, have a lot of water handy. If the zombies don't freeze, they're coming, and sleep makes you dead.\n15. Trust nobody. You forgot about number 8\n16. Don't be a dumbass (this is a separate list)\n17. Don't look for survivors (this is on the dumbass list)\n18. Always have somewhere to run\n19. HAVE FUN!!! ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE AAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1!!one!!!11!\n\nand the most important rule:\n\nIf they're gonna eat you, they're gonna be hungry, and they'll tear you into pieces. I would press my gun up against where my neck meets my jaw. That SHOULD be the quickest. Temple might just make you go blind, underneath your chin might just blow off your face, and in your mouth might either miss or just paralyze you. If you're gonna blow your brains out, blow them out the back of your head, and get as much as you can.\n=================",
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"body": "To everyone who's plan is to use a boat, consider the following;\n\n* If you're nice enough to let people onto your boat, they will intentionally lie about not being infected.\n* if you decide to go back to shore and pick anyone standard up, be prepared for a mob of people all running towards your boat, and individuals that will forcefully take your boat off you/board.\n* zombies can survive underwater, and will reach up to your boat.\n* ... Just what will you do after you've left the shore?\n\nMy house is defenseless against Zombies, the best I can hope for, is to get myself on a plane on Antarctica. So here are some tips for you.\n\n* Fill your bathtub, buckets with water as you can't be sure when your water and electricity will be turned off.\n* If you have a vegetable,herb garden, re pot the plants and put them close to your windows inside.\n* If your safe haven is accessible by stairs, destroy them.\n* Rule 32, always check the seat behind you when getting into a car.\n* Don't attempt to drive on the freeways, other people would have the same idea as you and you'll be stuck in peak traffic.\n\n\n",
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"body": "I would disguise myself as [Amy Winehouse](http://www.thesunblog.com/frosting/amy_winehouse_4_wenn1832955.jpg) and just blend in",
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"body": "Drive to a casino in northern Manitoba and wait for winter to hit (and freeze all the Zombies). Then head for the ocean and steal an ocean liner. Load up on guns and shoot Zombies on the coast as we cruise around North America. ",
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"body": "> So here's what I do: make a mad dash for either the Kitsap or Olympic Peninsulas to the west.\n\n>We have to steal a boat by any means.\n\nSee, if I lived there, I'd go try and steal a sub from the base at Kitsap. Sealed steel tube? Check. Can sit on the bottom of the ocean for months at a time? Check. Carries a large stash of small arms? Check. Generates it's own water and air? Check. Perfect zombie hideout. If there's only a few of you on it, the food stores should last for years.\n",
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"body": "I'm in rural New England, half way between Montreal and Boston. The closest city to me has a population of about 6000 and the largest urban area a total of maybe 11,000. My parents have a dairy farm, lots of wood and probably 2 years worth of food we have preserved in ball jars in their basement. My father has a good collection of firearms. My goal is to get the 23 miles from my house to the farm. There are about 6 ways I can get from my house to their place, all with different traffic patterns. The fastest two of these 6 routes goes through the 'city', the other four are dirt roads and secondary highways not used by most drivers. I think my family and I will safely reach the farm.",
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"body": "I am going to the bar around the corner. I will pack my crowbar, and my messenger bag full of powerbars. It's a good thing I have more bars in more places. ",
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"body": "Grab my guns. Load them up. Siphon the fuel out of the rest of my cars. Load up my truck with fuel, supplies, cook stove, water, etc. etc. Bring my ammo. Drive over to my friend's house. Go to his basement. Grab his sizable gun collection (12 at last count). Go to his closet. Get the vast amount of ammo and gear from it.\n\nDrive my truck over to the local gun store. Get more weapons. Go to the hardware store. Get seeds, soil, trowel, shovels, hammer, wrenches, nails, bolts, nuts, etc. etc.\n\nDrive truck to airport. Shoot zombies accordingly. Find others who have similar plans. Gather food and supplies. Break into security area. Retrieve AR-15s and combat shotguns, along with multiple handguns. \n\nBoard plane, preferably a Boeing. Load all free space with above listed supplies. Get in cockpit. Fly to JFK International Airport. Once landed, cautiously walk outside, wielding AR-15. Kill any zombies that may attack. \n\nFind large helicopter. Load up chopper with guns, ammo, food, and two other survivors. \n\nFly to Ellis Island. Drop supplies and survivors. Fly back to JFK. Repeat until all survivors and supplies are on Ellis. \n\nBuild, build, build. Within a week, basic shelters should have been constructed. Within two weeks, a crude solar power system should have been constructed.\n\nMake semi-regular trips into the city. When going into the city, travel in tight groups. Travel in vehicles when possible. Bring weapons. Return to Island by boat or by air. \n\nBring in computers, broadcasting equipment, and receiving equipment. Build a basic broadcast system. Broadcast a message across all frequencies. \n\n\"Survivors on Ellis Island. Coordinates 40° 41′ 56.5″ N, 74° 2′ 22.2″ W. Have supplies, shelter, weapons, food, and water. Will accept new survivors. If you can hear this, send a return message to frequency 102.9 FM.\"\n\nRepeat in several languages. Broadcast 96 times a day, once every 15 minutes. Wait for responses.\n\nIn the meantime, grow food, filter water, build. Buildings should get more and more complex, and more and more efficient. Also, acquire live animals to raise.\n\nEventually, once responders are at an area where we can retrieve them, fly over to them in the chopper, or multiple choppers. By now, we've gotten to a military base, and have Apaches, Chinooks, and Black Hawks, along with high power machine guns, mini-guns, grenades, mines, rocket launchers, etc. etc. Collect survivors and bring them back to Ellis. \n\nNow that we have a fair sized population, we can return to farming and living like our ancestors. Except that we have guns, indoor plumbing, and fun game systems with us, powered by our solar panels, CST plants, and micro-wind turbines.\n\nLead my colony and sustain humanity. Live prosperously until I pass away, still clutching my Winchester by my side, after living a good life of zombie slaying.",
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"body": " \n- get weapons\n\n- grab a truck \n\n- go to the grocery store\n\n- fill up the truck with food/supplies\n\n- drive truck to the harbor and jack a yacht with sails and fill it up with supplies\n\n- pick up some chicks along the way\n\n- sail boat to some remote island \n\n- sex up the girls and start a new life on the remote island\n",
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"body": "Great question OP\n\nI already have some supplies accumulated (water, food, etc). However this is only enough to last me a few days. \n\nI'm in San Diego, so this could be hard. Trying to get anywhere by road would be suicide. My gut instinct would be to try to steal a boat, like the OP, which is somewhat feasible in WA, as it has the highest boat per capita of any state. Getting one in SoCal would be more difficult, as there are fewer, and they are concentrated in urban centers. \n\nNow hopefully, I could see the infection coming, but if not, I would wait until nightfall and pray that Zombies sleep. While waiting, I would get my backpacking gear together, as well as barricade my door. Try to find anything that could be useful that I could trade with other survivors. Perhaps my most useful tool will be a handheld water purifier. I would be cautious though, as these things could just as easily make me a target, so its best to hide them until I am in some survivor settlement, or in dire need. For weapons all I have is a hatchet and some knives, but I would try to improvise a spear out of closet doweling to maim zombs and hostile humans enough that I can finish them with the hatchet. Some of the posts on here suggest bringing people, but I think this is folly. Far better to go alone for stealth reasons. Later, join up with survivors, who are probably better to have in a group, as they were smart enough to get out anyways.\n\nWhen night falls, I would repel out the window of my apartment then make my way East up the San Diego River Trail, keeping in the shadows if possible. Don't think I could make it far away enough by dawn, so I would try to find shelter somewhere safe.\n\nAt this point, the infection would be hitting its peak, and while it would be tempting to help people being torn limb from limb by merciless brain-eaters, there is nothing one can do. If I did find someone who wanted to join me, I would see if there was something he/she could offer that would add to my already impressive inventory. If he has nothing, kill him. If he has something that I cannot use by myself, or would be greatly benefited by, I would let them tag along. However, if at any point these hangers on jeopardized my life, I would not hesitate to slay them.\n\nTraveling only by night, I would eventually find myself at the Pacific Crest Trail. Make my way north along the trail. Try to live off the land (I have a cursory knowledge of wild edibles). When I need supplies, I would closely surveil a store or home until I knew no one, living or undead, was there. Then, at dawn (if at night, i would attract zomb attention with light, like in 28DL) break in and quickly scavenge what I could. \n\nMy northbound trip would take a long time, but hopefully it would be springtime/summer when I hit the cold mountains. I would continue on like this until I found an abandoned house with enough nearby acreage to farm, or a community of survivors. Hopefully by now, the zombies will have died off \n\nTips: \nEarly on\n\n-Avoid supermarkets, outdoor stores, sporting goods stores, etc. The object here is to survive. You don't need a gun to do that, as if you are in a situation where weapons are required, you are probably already fucked. Humans can live without food for weeks. \n\n-Find a way to get clean water. All you people who are stealing boats and going out to sea had better make damn sure there is a water-maker (desalinator) on the boat. \n\n-Second to Zombs, people are your enemy. They are just one step away from being zombies themselves, and will kill you to get what you have. Best just to avoid them unless they can help you. \n \n\nLong term\n\n-Avoid areas near nuclear power facilities. Without electricity and monitoring, reactors will melt down. \n\n-If the infection doesn't die out, try to get as far North as you can. In addition to being unpopulated, any undead who try to follow you will freeze, as I doubt they have enough intelligence properly warm themselves.\n\nThoughts?",
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"body": "the whole boat thing isnt the silver bullet solution. and also you better pray they arent fast moving like 28 days later cause, fuck that shit. \n\n*ill pass on the 28 days later and i am legend types of baddies. im all for some real slow, non-learning, non-submersible zombies.\n\n**the whole letting yourself get bit idea is bad too. zombieland for example...they just eat you to pieces and tear you all up. you would have to control the biting. ",
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"body": "I live in Seattle, and I'd say that your plan kills any that I've thought of so far. May I please join you?",
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"body": "Ha, amateurs: you guys only have *one* zombie plan? It's like you're all cheerleaders or something.\n\n* If slow, stupid zombies that die from being shot in head: There's a large mansion 4 minutes up the hill from where my house is with a fantastic vantage point to the only entrance. It has a large celler designed to safekeep wine, and can be fitted with 4 generators that power the 8 floodlights easily fixtured from the powerlines nearby. The cold snowy weather here will make it easy to store food outdoors, while the old stone fireplaces will provide heating. Our team of 6 will break up into squads of 2-- two to hold the fort from outsiders (we will kill on sight, zombies or not), two to secure supplies, and two to set up first 24 hour necessities such as generators. \n\nEstimated establishment time: 8-12 hours. \n\nEstimated survival time: ~4 years\n\nComfort level: High\n\n* If fast zombies: These fuckers are fast, but they aren't smart, nor are they very strong-- their strategy is just claw and bite. About 12 minutes away is a private warehouse. While it doesn't have the comforts of the mansion, it does have a lot of open land before the main building, along with a relatively strong wire mesh fencing. This will provide sufficient buffer zones where we can place plenty of traps. The easiest traps are classic Vietnam style triggers, but for the closer range ones we would go for something a bit harder hitting. Since these guys will require some heavy firepower, one squad will have to venture to a distant military base (about 2 hours drive) for firepower and ammunition, but only if it's deemed safe to do so. The alternative is to use melee weapons, but this is only if necessary. The warehouse will provide various materials like sheet metal, which will be used to reinforce any and all vehicles involved. When vehicles are properly reinforced and sufficient supplies collected, make a break for it into distant rural areas. \n\nEstimated establishment time: 48 hours\n\nEstimated survival time: Highly temporary, need to escape to further distance.\n\nComfort level: Moderate\n\n* If fast/strong zombies: Well, shit's hit the fan, so might as well try to live for as long as we can while being comfortable. 10 minutes away is a luxury hotel. Within 4 hours, collect as much supplies as possible (water, food, medical) and charge for the penthouse. As soon as we get there, seal off all the entrances right after heavily blocking the stairwell (if possible, remove stairwell) except for the roof access. The hotel emergency generator is on the roof, so there is plenty of power in the first week or so if necessary. Hope for rescue. \n\nEstimated establishment time: 8-12 hours\n\nEstimated survival time: 2-4 weeks depending on supplies\n\nComfort level: High\n\n**All strategies are pre-planned so each person can make arrangements asap. Power will not last long and chaos will be abound. Kill all non-friendlies on sight, show no mercy.**",
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"body": "My situation is tough, I'm in New Delhi, India. This is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. \nThe plan is to quickly pack my backpack with fireworks which we always have laying around, and these aren't legal in America. The fireworks we have are pretty much bombs, equivalent to 1/2 stick of dynamite. I'd also bring my bokken, which I have two of [bokken is a wooden practice sword, capable of breaking bones]. My airsoft gun would also be brought, it looks just like a real pistol when you leave the clip out. This would be helpful if other humans come near us.\nI'd hop on my bike and ride over to my friend Conor's house, about a 10 minute ride, and on the way hopefully not be eaten, and scout out the situation. Once there we'd grab a baseball bat or two. He's an avid ball player, along with his brother. \nBiking would be our main mode of transportation. The streets are likely to be crowded with abandoned cars, and so we'd be stuck in traffic all the time. The 'bombs' would be lit and dropped off the back of our bikes in case we're being chased. Both he and I could easily learn to ride one handed and hit zombies with the other hand. \nThe main problem is getting from our house to the American Embassy. The reason for this is because they have many steel doors and few people inside. I know all the passcodes to these doors and can get me and Conor inside, however disposing of the zombies once we're there will be a challenge. After that we'll have a food source nearby (the american supermarket) and a safe place to sleep. ",
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"body": "I live in chicago, we have a boat...zombies cant swim..and they cant operate boats..ergo, take my family on the yacht, have live six fishing poles and live off the land, err i mean water..whatever",
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"body": "I've got Louisville Sluggers strategically placed throughout my house and a baseball swing Ted Williams would be proud of. I probably wouldn't want to survive a zombie apocalypse because afterwards I'd be so lonely, but I could certainly thump a few skulls on my way out. \n\nI've also seen enough horror films to know that whatever you just killed probably isn't dead, so I'd bash brains until I made soup. No turn-around-and-surprise-your-attacker-isn't-dead sitchy-ations for me. ",
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"body": "I love you, my girlfriend makes fun of me for having zombie apocalypse plans, but you just made my day!!!! btw I have a few shotguns as backup, as well as 'manual' weapons in the event of ammo shortage. I am confident I can survive...",
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"body": "When I was watching a *Life After Humans* documentary, they mentioned that the Hoover Dam would provide electricity to a VERY large portion of the American south-west for between 50 to 80 years without any maintenance. I have no idea what I would do during the initial out-break, but if I survived that, I would head south-west.\n",
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"body": "Theres an army base not 5 miles away, either that or the gun store 30 minutes away. \n\nAlso, my friend owns a boat and said that he will have plenty of rations at all times. He invited me to come with him and bring one other person out to sea. We would stay there for a month or so, or find some sort of island where we can live on. \n\nWhat I never understood is why everyone doesn't just evacuate to Hawaii or some other island in the movies? Last time I checked zombies can't swim. There should be some sort of \"Zombie Island\" that is kept as a stronghold for the world's most powerful people in the event of a zombie apocalypse.\n\n**EDIT: SHIT I NEED TO WATCH MORE ZOMBIE MOVIES AND READ MORE ZOMBIE BOOKS**",
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"body": "My boyfriend is studying law, and he's torn between going into human rights law and being a fantastic poor person, and going into corporate law and being a capitalist animal, so we can afford a well stocked, lead walled nuclear bunker. I am torn, but if i'm honest my love of our future children makes me favour the latter slightly.",
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"body": "I work at a park in Metro Detroit in the summer time so my plan is based off of the event occurring while I'm there working. I made my plan using Google Maps. It's sort of longterm but I would definitely stay put at the park and hope the best for my family because they would be 25 miles away. Reasons why I would stay? Wide open area with few people. A lot of resources (fuel/trees/wood/vehicles/food), i know the area exceedingly well. There is also a gun store nearby and police officers are stationed there. Long term, I think living at the park would be sustainable. If human activity stopped, as a zombie apocalypse would certainly cause, the fish population would bounce back and one could use that to survive. There are a lot of Canadian geese in the summer time and while I do not look forward to eating them, I'd prefer that to dying of starvation. There are a few deer too but I don't think they are sustainable resource...or maybe they are but I wouldn't hunt one in the first year though. In case we were overrun, my plan would be to leave a boat at the end of the point (the peninsula that extends into Lake St. Clair) and use that to go to any uninhabited island in the St. Clair River delta a few miles north of the park. \r\n\r\nThe actual land that the park sits on is an island too so if I had a lot of human resources, I'd try to set up road blocks on the bridges but I'd assume that I'd forget to do that in the actual emergency. \r\n\r\n[The map](http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=\r\n101478885077580990070.00046f3e0bd954d3ae891)",
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"body": "Firstly, get in contact with my other associates. We arm ourselves with the firearms and weapons we have at our homes. We agree to meet at Wal-Mart at a certain time. After the meeting time is established we head to Wal-Mart and scope out the premise. At this point, I'm assuming the infestation has just started and people are staying in their homes and have already left the store. We look for any entrances, exits, or fire escapes and blockade them as we see fit. Now we collect everything we'll need. More guns. More ammo. Plenty of food. A few changes of clothes. Once we have a spotter on the roof, the others will begin to assemble booby traps and safety measure to ensure any entrance is quickly taken care of and easily repairable. Once sealed well, the crew will begin assembly of makeshift items. Anything that can be used as an explosive or otherwise deadly device will be implemented. Creativity will be important and use of all available means is essential. Once the infection is well under way we should be aptly barricaded and supplied to fend off a fairly large push into the store. Sleeping will happen in shifts. Always at least two people on the roof to provide recon and keep an eye out for planes/helicopters. Flares will be kept on everyone's person as well as two-way radios and a loaded firearm. Any infection will be dealt with swiftly and in a responsible matter.\n\nBring 'em on.",
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"body": "I'm thinking cruise ship. We could put it in a bay or Great Lake or something. Somewhere that's not the ocean, as to avoid hurricanes and the like. \n\nOr an Ewok village in the redwoods. We could build large platforms and grow our own food. We'll put solar panels on the tree tops. ",
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"body": "I live right outside of Boston (like 2 miles) but grew up in southern Maine so I have plans for both areas.\n\nFor Boston there is only one area that is secure enough for me and my group of friends that few people would consider: Fenway Park. Large area, has existed for almost a century, designed to withstand riots, huge supply of non-firearm supplies like bats. Plus there will be non-perishables supplies. The large field has multiple benefits as well: extraction point for helicopter removal, field for gardening.\n\nTo get there I'd have to follow the commuter rail line from Belmont towards South Station. I'd stay above ground initially and be able to use a bike for the first mile or two of the trip before being forced to move on foot. Weaponry would consist of homemade gear, that doubles as a walking stick. Important items for travel include: seeds, whetstones, iodine and hydrogen peroxide. When winter comes, use the cold as a means of escaping the city to head north.\n\nMy Maine plan is slightly different since my mother's farmhouse has several benefits. First off, it is surrounded on 3 sides by fences that can withstand a moose allowing for easy patrolling and security. In terms of long term survivability, we have a garden, orchard and animals, sheep and chickens, which allow for both a food supply and clothing supply since we all know how to sheer, spin and knit. The barn allows for great protection with the loft since it is 12 feet up. A rope ladder would be best for security, which we have.\n\nGuns should be used on zombies as a last resort, they are better used for dealing with other humans who threaten the survival of a group. Whenever possible stick to bladed weapons.\n\nThere's no point to move too far north, far too few people have the survival skills. Unless you can kill a deer with a bow and arrow and effectively skin it, don't bother. With an outbreak, don't expect to have much time waiting around so large amounts of meat will go spoiled since drying methods are not an option.\n\nIf in the south or during warmer climates, consider a horse. The extra set of eyes will catch things you wont, along with a sense of helping another living thing. \n\nAvoid islands, sounds great at first but the undead will eventually get you and good luck fortifying an island that also has an escape route.\n\nThose saying \"Wal-Mart\" or \"gun shop\" have death wishes. Crazy people are always there when it isn't the end of the species, imagine how much worse it will get. Besides, much of what Wal-Mart has is crap. It will break and isn't repairable. It was made to be disposable, you want sturdy things.\n\nAlso for other Mainers, do not bother going to L.L. Bean for supplies. First off, it will be a madhouse like any other big box store. Secondly, the doors do not have locks on them, making it near impossible to secure.\n\nAnother area to consider for safety would be a prison. Could take a while to clear out but could work wonders as a base camp given the security they are designed for.",
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"body": "**If I'm at my apartment**\n\nMy apartment is walking distance from the Pentagon as well as about 40,000 other military facilities. If I'm there and have enough of a heads up, I'd try to make it to one of them. I figure that, if I'm inside before they go on lockdown, then I'd at least have a large number of well-trained gunmen between me and the zombies. \n\nIf I'm at my apartment and don't think I have enough time to follow through on plan A, then I'd hole up on the second floor of our house. The first floor is high enough to make a window entry very difficult. There are two heavy doors with deadbolts in the front, and an even heavier door on the back. Moreover, all of the deadbolts are keyed on both sides, meaning that a smart zombie couldn't simply break the little windows, reach in, and unlock it. \n\nThe best part, though, is that the place is broken into apartments, but the second floor guy has to go through my place to get into his — the only entry into his apartment (the second floor) is through a deadbolted door in mine (though all of our keys work in each other's locks, which makes perfect sense, right?). \n\nThe weak point is the exterior door to the basement apartment. There's a staircase between that apartment and mine that we can take out, though, and there's a deadbolted door at the top of the stairs, so I think we can make it at least relatively safe for us. \n\nIf shit hits the fan and we have to evacuate the upstairs apartment, we have an escape route. There's a skylight / window about at chest level in the upstairs apartment that leads out on to the roof. Once up there, we make the jump to the carport roof, and then down to the driveway where we'd hop in a car and take off. I anticipate this being long enough after the initial outbreak for the streets to have cleared of normal humans. \n\nWe'd head towards the Pentagon, hoping someone military-like would recognize that zombies don't drive cars. If we don't find anyone there, then we cross the bridge and head to the Washington Yacht Club, grab a boat, and take the Potomac into the Chesapeake Bay. \n\n**At School**\n\nI usually walk or bike to school, so making a quick and safe escape isn't happening. Instead I make my way to the top of the library, as it's the best place I can think of to hole up due to its limited accessibility. There are two staircases. The central staircase is a suspended spiral. So, before heading to the library, we'd hit up the construction site next door and steal some of their tools (saws and / or torches). I haven't cut metal in a long time, so I can't hope to be precise or make pretty cuts. Pretty damn sure that I could drop the staircase, though.\n\nThe second staircase doesn't grant access into the library, only out, and it has firesafe, heavy steel doors that only open from the inside. I'd enlist help and would push at least one bookshelf against each of those doors except the top one. We'd dismantle a couple shelves and use those to make a barricade on a lower landing so that, if shit hits the fan, we could use that staircase to get to the roof. From there we could make it to the construction site next door (they're building a new building attached to ours) and use that building's stairs to get to ground level. From there though, we'd be on foot, not exactly ideal.\n\n**If I'm at Home**\n\nMy mom's place is both good and bad. Upside, it's in the middle of absolute nowhere, so the quantity of zombies should be nice and low. Plus, there are a ton of guns, and at least 100 yards of open field between the house and any obstructions in all directions but one, and that side has a 12-foot concrete retaining wall, not exactly scalable by zombies.\n\nThere is, however, a significant downside — glass. The house is built like a French country estate, with many, many large windows and doorwalls. So, once they got to the house, it'd be near impossible to stop them from entering.\n\nI do have one card up my sleeve, however. My mom's house burned to the ground five years ago and was a total loss. Nothing survived — no pictures of the kids, nothing (every picture she has of me before college came from friends and family). Even the contents of the supposedly fire-safe safe were destroyed. As a result, when she built her current house, she built a fireproof room in the basement to keep stuff in. \n\nSix-inch thick concrete walls and a concrete ceiling separate it from the rest of the house. The room is about 10 feet by 12 feet and has two fire-safe steel doors — one opening out, the other opening in — both with two deadbolts going into steel frames. She also started canning a lot over the past couple years and has been using the room to store what she's made, along with a lot of other non-perishable goods. There's even a drain in the floor (for peeing purposes in this scenario). I can't think of a better place to fall back and wait for the zombies to starve.",
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"body": "My wife and I have a \"Zombie Clause\" in our pre-nup. Should a zombie apocalypse occur, and should one of us become undoubtedly infected, the other is obligated to headshot the infected party. \n\nIt made a lot of our friends laugh, but we're totally serious about it. So many zombie movies go like this: \n\n* Boy: \"I think I've been bit.\"\n* Girl: \"Oh, its just a scratch. You'll be OK.\"\n* Boy: (30 minutes later) \"BRAIINNNNS\"\n* Girl: \"I think I've been bit.\"",
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"body": "My plan is to assume nothing. I don't assume that the zombies will be slow, stupid, or killed easily. I also won't assume that some of you, having remembered my detailed plan as you succumb to the ravages of the infection, won't decide I might make for good sport. So I will disappear with a small band of multi-talented individuals to an undisclosed location where preparations have been made in advance. I just pray that, for your sake, one of you suck heads doesn't find us.\n\nEdit: Actually, I hope some do find us just to break the monotony of post zapoc life. It's highly unlikely, but would be fun sport.",
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"body": "My squad an I have one written up. We live right next to the motor pool, so in short the plan is to gather everyone up and secure at least two vehicles and as much ammo/food that we can and try to make it to a hellipad or possibly boat if we can get far enough south.. shouldn't be too hard to spot zombies out here in the sandbox where you can see miles in any direction...",
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"body": "I'm going to suck up to the killer robots for protection. Kinda like in Oz, only no sodomy. Well, no *human* sodomy.",
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"body": "Depends on the time of year. If mid or late fall or winter, simple. I'll stay where I am (Boston) in the beginning, but quickly make plans to move north before the thaw hits. I'll bide my time by keeping the lights off at night, securing all doors (third floor, don't have to worry about windows) and watching out in shifts. \n\nAny other time? Raid the pantry. Bail at the first sign, before panic hits. Depending on where the virus originated, Boston will fairly quickly succumb and become a blistering white zone. I don't need a snake of 3 million undead leading to my apartment.\n\nWe'll take one of our cars and just head north west, possibly Vermont. ",
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"body": "I think the more important question is this: after the infection is cured or the remaining non-infected humans have developed a good-enough defense, how do you rebuild society? How do you get electricity generated again? What about al of the infrastructure involved—crumbling freeways, silent datacenters, etc.?",
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"body": "There are a few things I've thought about. First, some information on my location. I live in Western New York, about an hour southeast of Buffalo and about an hour south of Rochester. First of all, I'm in decent shape geographically. Sure, NY has the biggest city in the country (or one of...is it still the most populous?) but it's far away from me, and all of our other cities are actually fairly small. And of course I'm in a rural area at least 40 miles from the nearest city.\n\nWhen I was in college, about half an hour south of Rochester, I worked for a while in the scenery shop of the main theater on campus. This building was a tower that was about 7 or 8 stories tall, and it was all empty. They used the space to have the necessary height to hang counterweights and hide curtains and sets far above the stage. There are only two ways up there: a ladder on one side the the stage, and a very narrow, very tall spiral staircase on the other side. About halfway up there is also access to the catwalks above the auditorium which connect to the AV control room (and the only other access to THIS room is a narrow staircase). \n\nThis is a very easily defensible spot, because the ladders can be retracted and the spiral staircase can be blocked. If a rescue was expected, it would be the perfect place to hole up for a few days if you had some supplies. There's even access to the roof so you can signal the rescue chopper.\n\nIf it's expected to be a prolonged plague, I can get to either Lake Ontario or Lake Erie in less than 2 hours. The plague will probably hit more populous areas first, so I'd have as much as 6 hours warning before it came to my area (could be even more, but Toronto so close is a problem). Out on the lake I have several options. Travel between the lakes is out due to lack of anyone to operate the locks, but simply being on the water offers a measure of protection, and the ability to scout shorelines without actually exposing ourselves to danger.",
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"body": "So, I live in a suburban area in England.\n\nI'll just drive in my hummer to the gun store and stock up on... oh nevermind.\n\nI suppose I could get used to the taste of brains & raw flesh, eventually.",
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"body": "I'm in north bend, obviously you know where that is at. You also probably know that half of all residents around here own guns. Our gun collection is MASSIVE. We have Mt. Si. in our back yard and about 20 acres of property. Me and my brother in law have been planning this since we moved here. We have a tree line just in front of the road and everything else is cleared. We have 3 houses on the property to setup defenses. I cannot go into those detail because one of you redditors might be a zombie coming to kill me with such knowledge of traps and attempt to avoid them. You can sent me a message if you would like to R.S.V.P for a survivor slot in our fortress.\n\n*edit I also own a EXTREMELY fast car(2009 subaru WRX tuned by Tim Bailey) with AWD and snow tires if needed. This baby will get us anywhere we need to go in a emergency. It's geared with GPS and a kit in the truck for ANY auto problems. ",
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"body": "Metropolitan museum. They have armor and a katana exibit right now. Zombies can ruin their teeth on my full plate while I decapitate them. That's stage one. After that I'll try to get out of the city somehow. ",
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"body": "Just out of curiosity, who here has actually *ever* fired a gun?\n\nI fired a Beretta M9 about three weeks ago, it was the first time I fired a gun.\n\nI can headshot like a motherfucker on Counterstrike, but I got all bodyshots, and never got a headshot at 20 yards.\n\nI doubt many would do much better the first time they picked up a gun.",
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"body": "I used to have lots of very intricate zombie plans, involving a rural area and an already fortified location, in theory self sustaining somewhat isolated location.\n\nAs I now no longer have a gun with me and I live in the city, my current plan is to go get a hammer and go to town on all the assholes I wanted to earlier, regardless of if they are zombies or not. I understand that this plan does not have a high survival probability in terms of escaping the city and making it to my destination, but I think I'm pretty sure it is what I'm going to do in a zombie scenario now.",
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"body": "I thought about this recently, especially because of the movie 'Zombieland.' I've realized that if the world fell prey to zombies, i'd have to shed a few pounds so that 'cardio' isn't as much of an issue. My goal would be to basically try to limit myself as far away from population epicenters as possible, either somewhere in Nebraska or the ocean. Yes, I realize zombies can probably handle water - but there would be less of them, and you'd see them coming. \n\n\nSpeaking of which, does anything think a movie combination of Zombieland and Cast Away would be decent to watch?",
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"body": "I'm in China, so shit is definitely going to be buck-zombie-wild...there are no guns here, so i'm going to have to fashion a weapon out of chopsticks and aborted fetuses... ",
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"body": "Assuming conventional slow zombies.\nFuck this \"grab my guns, screw everyone else I'm headed the hell out of here plan.\"\nIf we want to survive this we need to work together as a species, as human beings, as fellow citizens of the towns and cities we inhabit.\nMy plan is to gather a weapon or two, assemble my flat mates and go door to door forming a group of anyone who will join us, taking out every zombie we encounter on the way, sweeping and clearing the streets as we go. If someone doesn't want to join leave them be but ask them to barricade their house/property and to help support each other. \nThe fighting will most likely be at close quarters in the style of the ancient Greeks and Romans, forming a line and slowly pushing against a horde with shields and spears, if order can be maintained a small number of individuals could take down a vastly superior(numerically) foe.\nThe mob will take the fight to the zombies attacking them when they are found, destroying them in every building/road/park in the city. We will have numbers, speed and our minds on our side, from this victory will be crafted, so long as we can work together.\n\nThat is my plan for when the dead rise.",
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Did anyone else catch this episode of "COPS"? | There was a very interesting episode of the US TV show "COPS" that I happened to see roughly a year ago. I would really like to track it down again, now that I am more conscious of men's rights.
Basically what happened was a man and a woman were having some kind of argument. It was outside near a beach, and someone must have called the cops. The cops arrived and of course were in the process of arresting the man, when this chill black dude goes up to them and says, probably not in these words, "WTF are you arresting him for? She was punching him repeatedly in the face—I'm amazed he doesn't have a mark on him because she was really hitting him—until he eventually pushed her away. I was watching carefully because I thought he might lose his cool, but he didn't."
So the cops release the dude and instead arrest the woman. One of the officers told the camera that the guy was "lucky" there was a witness. And of course the boyfriend is just wondering how long his girlfriend will be in jail and when he can see her...
Is that what justice is like in the US, that if you're an innocent man, you need to be "lucky" not to be screwed by the system? And if you're a guilty woman, you need to be unlucky in order to be harmed in any way by the system? | 37 | [
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"body": "Also what got me is that the witness was watching just in case the man lost his cool, indicating that although the woman was assaulting the man, the witness' primary concern was for the woman's safety.",
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"body": "Happens all the time. Ive only hit a girl once and that was when she picked up a giant rock (needed both hands) and tried to bash me on the head with it after an argument which went something like;\n\n\"Are you checking me out!\" \n\n\"No\"\n\n\"stop staring at me\" \n\n\"I wouldn't be looking anywhere near you if you didn't ask me a question\"\n\n\"what so I'm ugly now!\"\n\n\"I didn't say that... you know what fuck off\" it was late at night, she had her female possy and was drunk, i was tired and had to walk 3 miles to get home.\n\nwalked off and heard her running at me with said rock. So I turned around, saw it and punched her strait in the face( a strait jab not a swing or anything, that would had wrecked her) knocking her flat out. \n\nCars stop, every guy in the street runs up and surrounds me, her friends run over and start having a go, people call the cops claiming that i had punched a helpless girl and then shit hits the fan when they start trying to attack me. \n\nStupid thing on their part, I was the little kid in class all my life, ive had as any fights as hot dinners and i defend myself. Cops come, slam me to the floor, cuff me, boot to my head and give me the usual femenist crap about being a sissy, her being defenceless and innocent and do nothing to her or the guys who attacked me. I try to explain when some kid runs up with his cellphone and shows them what happened. I'm \"lucky\" apparently. They ask if i want to press charges while trying to convince me not to because even though I'm pretty banged up (took a good few crowd kicks and a few punches) a couple of the guys have broken noses, girl has a broken foot where her rock dropped on her and her head is split open and they can press counter charges so i gave a statement and let it go. \n\nWish I hit that fat bitch harder tbh. It still wouldn't have been worth the shit I went through but i would had enjoyed it a whole lot more. ",
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"body": "To answer your question anecodotally: it sure seems like it.\r\n\r\nTo answer your question statistically: I'm not sure.",
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"body": "If you watch COPS a lot you'll see plenty of women arrested for domestic abuse. Probably not quite as often as men, but generally speaking what determines who gets arrested is not the gender but things like who has the most obvious injuries, if there were any witnesses, whether or not the abuser is still running around like a crazy person with a weapon, etc. \n\nArrest in such cases is generally mandatory, even if the victim tries to cover for the abuser and says nothing happened (despite witnesses who saw it, blood streaming down their forehead, etc), which is rather common. ",
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"body": "Many US states have mandatory arrest laws, which are not in the best interest of either a) innocent men or b) women who actually have been victimized by their partners.\nThe 'treatments' they have for domestic violence are also ineffective, especially if the wrong partner was arrested, obviously. Most treatments are based on the feminist perspective of violence against women, rather than providing individuals with cognitive behavioural therapy, or some other empirically validated approach, which could actually help with behaviour change...",
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"body": ">Is that what justice is like in the US, that if you're an innocent man, you need to be \"lucky\" not to be screwed by the system? And if you're a guilty woman, you need to be unlucky in order to be harmed in any way by the system?\n\n\nActually reading your story I was expecting the cops to arrest the witness too.\n",
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Karel Čapek was born 120 years ago today. He's
the guy who introduced the word 'robot'. | If you didn't know him(or that) read this article on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Čapek
I think everybody using that word should know that.
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"body": "The word was suggested by his brother Josef, a famous painter. Another tidbit is that Karel Capek was famous for his anti-totalitarian writings, and he - perhaps fortunately - died shortly before Nazi gestapo tried to van him after the Munich betrayal. ",
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"body": "He did a lot more. I read [War with the Newts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_with_the_Newts) as a youth. So great.",
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So why aren't home urinals common? | I've never seen one in a home before and I think it would be pretty handy. The toilet seat could be nailed down and end that stupid conflict once and for all, along with all the other advantages the urinal has over the toilet. They can't be terribly expensive compared to a toilet and they can't be any more complicated to install than a toilet.
Does anyone have one in their home, or know a guy who does? How do you, or they, like it? | 4 | [
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"body": "Pro:\nIt uses less water.\n\nCon:\nTakes up wall space\n\nPro: PERSONAL URINAL CAKE SCENTS!\n\nEvery house should have one. /thread\n",
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Digg.com "Power Users" | Digg is loaded with "Power Users" like MrBabyMan who can post any old shit and it's on the front page literally within minutes.
The whole system sucks and Digg is full of "YOU-ESS-EH!" type comments (I've seen stuff "buried" simply because it wasn't relevant to the US).
Reddit FTW. The community is streets ahead and the rest of the world is given a fair look-in. Don't see any power users here either.
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"body": "If I found a magic lamp on a beach and a genie came out to grab me three wishes, the first one would be I would get to wipe my ass with Kevin Roses' face for the rest of my life.",
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Reddit: What can I name my kitten? | So, I've just adopted [this](http://imgur.com/y6rfL.jpg) little fella (more pics: [1](http://imgur.com/LGBi2.jpg), [2](http://imgur.com/n6rC9.jpg)). He's 3 months old and to be honest, I have absolutely no idea what to name him. Help me decide and you can win the internet!
I'd like to say that I'll take the name with the highest number of upvotes, but *that* name may end up being Fuckitty McCocklington, so I'll have to go within reason here ;)
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"body": "Name him Jet. As in Jet Black (either for the colour or the Cowboy Bebop character).\n\nAlternatively, you could name him Thor.",
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"body": "Tenmoku.\n\nI had a cat that looked like yours. Late in the day his black fur would show a hint of brown under the surface. My mom said it looked like this particular glaze, and that if she could pick his name again she'd go with Tenmoku.\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tenmoku\n\nI miss my cat :'(\n",
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"body": "Give it a vaguely human sounding name, then do [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_with_fraudulent_diplomas) with it. instant conversation piece.",
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My theory on shooters; A game is only as good as its shotgun. | Think about it for a moment. Look back at all the first person shooters that you've played over the years. All the best ones have had awesome shotguns. The first two Doom games had brilliant shotguns, they were almost the staple weapon of the game. However, Doom III, had in my opinion, a terrible shotgun. Tinny sound and not a lot of 'boom' to the feel of the boomstick. Anyone else have any examples or anything they'd like to add to this? | 59 | [
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"body": "Half Life, while not exactly the best looking, had a great double shot sound. Enjoyed it very much esp with Scientist Slaughterhouse",
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"body": "Gears of War series has a penis enlarging shotgun that explodes people at close range.\r\n\r\nLook, I know the writing and characters are shit, but Gears of War offers fucking fantastic gameplay.",
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"body": "Bioshock takes the cake for shotguns. Sure there was custom ammo, but all of the guns had that. The thing that really defines shotguns besides the spread shot is the fact that they are slow and powerful. Nothing is more satisfying than sending a splicer spinning with a close range shot to the chest, followed by the metallic ' KA-CHUNCK' of the next shell sliding into place as if it was the period at the end of the ' BANG. ' of the shotgun.",
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"body": "I like the theory but I can think of some exceptions. \n\nGoldeneye\n\nCoD 4 had an alright shotgun but it wasn't too useful\n\n",
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"body": "The good shotguns in Borderlands really destroy up close. 300x12 ones can be found pretty early in the 2nd playthrough. Roland is amazing with them! The Eridian shotgun is quite strong as well, It can crit \"through\" enemies such as the armored spiders.\n\nI love borderlands, though its weapons are random its shotguns are also good!",
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"body": "Possibly.\n\nI like a good sniper rifle myself.\n\nHalo 3 - OK sniper rifle. \nRainbow Six - awesome sniper rifle \nMW1 AND 2 - awesome sniper rifle when you get to use it. \n\n",
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"body": "Duke Nukem 3D. Awesome shotgun. C'mon, it even had the atomic symbol. and they were carried by hogs.",
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"body": "I loved the shotgun from the Jedi Knight series. It glowed and hummed and when I turned it on it was like getting an erection.",
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"body": "I like l4d2's multiple shotgun options. They all have a satisfying sound to them, especially the second level ones. If the assault rifle wasn't so good I'd definitely use them almost exclusively.",
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"body": "Serious Sam had a bad ass double shotgun that really made a difference in the game so I support your theory...",
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"body": "Soldier of Fortune. Because of the way limbs could be blasted off on the enemy models, you could get downright surgical with that bitch. Very satisfying. I also liked how when you selected the shotgun, it twirled around into your hands.",
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"body": "No, a game is only as good as it's shotgun **EFFECTS.** \n\nFTFY\n\n\nSeriously, I hate games in which the shotgun does **not** cause my enemy to turn into a richly textured, slightly chunky mist of blood and guts. ",
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"body": "Soldier of Fortune 1 had the best shotgun to date. One: it blew off heads, legs (from standing enemies), arms etc. Two: John Mullins could reload it with 12 fresh shells in 4 seconds. Three: John Mullinas would do trick with it when not in action.",
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"body": "AVP2 has one of my favorite shotguns to date.\n\nSimply because you can swap out buckshot for slugs on the fly.\n\nBlasting predators in the face with a shotgun slug was supremely satisfying. Especially when the mask went flying haha\n\nI have to agree with the OP I use shotgun feel to judge a lot of FPS games.\n\nSystem Shock 2 had a pretty good shotgun as well. Loved the ammo choices and modding of it.",
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"body": "I agree with the general theory, but present Quake as a counterpoint. It had a piddly little shotgun with next to no stopping power and a weak sound effect, possibly because it was supposed to be the game's pistol. The super-shotgun by comparison was pretty powerful, but made Doom II's super-shotgun look like a sniper rifle.",
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"body": "Mass Effect had the **worst** goddamn shotgun ever. It's like they took the absolute worst shotgun mechanics they could find, and then nerfed them. And on top of that, then made every shotty in the game shoot slower than sniper rifles.",
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"body": "I really liked the shotgun in STALKER. It wasn't exactly *good*, but it felt great, especially as such an early weapon. It seemed a little more like an actual shotgun - in most games, the spread is really over-exaggerated.\n\nI just liked wandering around, shooting the weird mutant animals with it, like some kind of crazed hunter.",
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What's a decent, relatively inexpensive camera for a beginner photographer? | I'm starting an introductory photography course pretty soon, and I need to supply myself with a "35mm camera with manual operations." I have absolutely no background knowledge with film, and I've only ever used digital cameras before. I'm not really sure what the differences are between different types of film cameras (e.g. SLR, point and shoot), so I don't know what I'll need. After a cursory online search, it looks like most cameras sell for around $300. I'd like to keep the price down pretty low, maybe around $100, but I'm fine with buying a used one if this won't buy a good enough camera. Still, I plan on taking more photography classes in the future, so I want something that will last me a while.
Any suggestions on what I should buy?
tldr: I'm looking for a simple, beginner's 35mm film camera for around $100. | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm a big proponent of the Asahi Pentax K1000 as a beginners learning camera. All manual SLR, has a built in lightmeter. Takes a reasonably standard set of lenses [Pentax K-mount].\n\nPretty popular as a student camera, [even today](http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?AsahiPentaxK1000.html~mainFrame). [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_K1000)",
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"body": "Get yourself a Pentax K1000 from a local pawn shop near the college. Those things get bought and sold with every new crop of students. It is a perfect camera to learn on. It has metering that shows in the viewfinder as well as your current f-stop and shutter speed.",
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"body": "I don't think you're going to find a new film SLR for $100. My default answer to this question is the [Canon AE-1](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_AE-1). I've bought a couple off [Shopgoodwill](http://www.shopgoodwill.com/search/SearchKey.asp?itemTitle=ae-1) without issue. I paid about $25 shipped both times. I also found a perfect-condition [Nikon FM-10](http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Film-Camera/1689/FM10.html) at Goodwill a month or two ago for $40. \n\nYou could also try Craigslist for this sort of thing on the cheap.",
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The "What if you were born in" argument... | So, I keep running into this argument alot, and it seems so silly, I want some further elaboration. I keep hearing, "You should be an atheist, the only reason why you're a Christian is because you're parents were, what if you had been born in the middle east? You'd feel the same way about Islam as you do about Christianity!"
The thing I don't understand is the logical link between "My theological starting point is influenced by my family" to "I should reject the religion of my parents regardless of what it is." What if I had been born to an Atheist family? Should I equally reject that viewpoint? Seems like a poor way to argue.... | 4 | [
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"body": "Wow did you miss the point.\n\nAnd I have *never* heard that begun with \"you should be an atheist\". Not ever, until just now from you.",
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"body": "Maybe I am wrong but I don't think many people at least on here are telling you simply to disregard your parents religion because it is your parents religion. I think the point is that you are the religion you are because you were born into it and for no other reason than that. Have you really looked into other religions and tried to see if they would fit with you? I have a feeling most of us on here have found that we are who we are regardless of what we were born and raised as. I have seen a lot of comments on here that started with \"I was raised catholic.....\" and I think all these people want you to do is really look at yourself and say \"Why am I catholic/whatever you are\" If you can really sit down and give us a rational logical argument as to why you are the religion you are, I think most of us would accept it. I just don't believe you will have one.",
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"body": "The argument applies when the theist says \"I believe religion X because I have FAITH\" etc etc...\n\nMore generally, it's related to the notion that they don't have reasons for believing that are actually stronger than \"because that's what my parents told me\"\n\nAlternately, it's a way of asking \"why should I effectively trust your family vs some middle eastern family or chinese family or whatever. Why should I assume they have more reliable info on these things? Do you have _any_ other actual justification for believing what you believe? Justification strong enough that if someone from another religion came to you with an analogous argument in favor of theirs, it would weaken your belief in your own?\"",
"score": 5
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"body": "Not \"reject your parents viewpoint\" - simply \"question your parents viewpoint\" - something I encourage my own kids to do.\n\nI'd be bitterly disappointed if my kids grew up parroting all of my opinions.",
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Hey reddit! Does anyone remember Kid Pix? | I used to spend way too much time in front of the computer playing Kid Pix when I was a young lad (on my family's old mac). Kid Pix was so effing great, think of MS Paint on steroids with an easy kid-friendly interface.
**Post your old Kid Pix pics if you can find any!** I'm gonna see if I can't dig up some of my old ones...
EDIT: I hunted down some old Kid Pix i made!!! I was a pretty twisted kid... Ha.
[Here's one I made of a Star Wars battle using the User-Created Stamp function](http://i.imgur.com/2xIkc.jpg)
[This might be the best one I ever created, a Barney the Purple Dinosaur Massacre](http://i.imgur.com/Bvp27.jpg)
[A collection of some of the Stamps I used HAHAHA](http://i.imgur.com/HNofX.jpg)
[Astoundingly, I probably made this image when I was 9, long before I had ever dropped acid](http://i.imgur.com/Uxz0o.jpg)
[This one looks like Ronald Reagan getting assassinated?](http://i.imgur.com/lJnzM.jpg)
EDIT 2: [Link](http://www.applefritter.com/filestore2/download/13664/kid-pix.hqx) Original B/W freeware Kid Pix for Mac :D | 267 | [
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"body": "Holy shit! Now I do!! Remeber the fucking nuke button? Where it would count down then delete everything. ",
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"body": "I used to work for Broderbund, the publisher of this game, and I have a story for you.\n\nOne day our customer service department received a call from an angry grandmother. She swore that her granddaughter was playing with the game when it displayed a satanic message. The customer service representative was apologetic, but felt that the old lady was obviously crazy. Nonetheless, she was very persistent about the issue and it was escalated through the chain.\n\nThe issue was forwarded to the QA department to see if they could reproduce it. Surprisingly, they were able to do so. In fact, several testers in QA had already known about it. It was an Easter Egg in the \"Magic Eraser\" tool -- the tool you can use to \"erase\" the canvas and slowly reveal another picture beneath it. Using some very unlikely combination of modifier keys you could get the magic eraser to display a picture with the words \"Craig Hickman is Satan's Love Child\". Craig Hickman is the original developer of the game, and the easter egg was coded by someone else in the Engineering department.\n\nFrom that day forward, QA was to notify product management of all known Easter Eggs, however inconsequential they might have seemed.\n",
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"body": "I love(d) Kid Pix. In fact, I keep [this](http://imgur.com/oWbkk.jpg) right next to the dash in my car. Why? Because I love Kid Pix.",
"score": 49
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"body": "I used to love playing with Kid Pix in elementary school. I remember laughing every time you would undo a drawing and it would say \"OH NO\".",
"score": 38
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"body": "I was a very disturbed tween. Can't believe this [image](http://imgur.com/Zo1Zh.png) is still in the depths of my hard drive.",
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"body": "I spent hours in school playing Kid Pix and Oregon Trail! And an old game on the Apple II e's called Transylvania!",
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"body": "One of my elementary schools (International School of Manila FTW!) had it installed on all of the Mac Performas (this was 1997). When I first came accross the launch icon I thought it was a racing game (I misread \"Pix\" for \"Prix\") and didn't run it for fear of being told not to play games in the library.\n\nI did toy with it a bit later on in the year, but didn't find it as rewarding an experience (not did I have it at home) as paintmashing. I remember one of my first uses of MSPaint was to do a diagram of Brunel's vacuum railway for a school project, full-colour on A4 paper, it took a while to print (so much in fact that I missed the school bus that morning).\n\nI remembered Pix' stamp tool when I got into Photoshop some years later (PS's \"Clone Stamp\" tool had a similar toolbar icon), I wondered if it behaved the same way, but alas it didn't (is that a good thing?).",
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"body": "I remember I used to modify the animations in Kid Pix to murder people and explode bombs and jam jackhammers into brains.\n\nI also used to take the 'line that randomly changes direction while beginning from the same point sort of like a helicopter' and stick it on people like a cock. Hilarious!",
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"body": "Just for you, Reddit: The [Classic Mac Goodie Bag](http://www.mediafire.com/?mmm0chzrndd)\n\nKid Pix, Oregon Trail, Mario Teaches Typing, and more. Includes an emulator for OS X.",
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"body": "QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ.... lol best part",
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"body": "Heck yea I remember Kid Pix!\n\nI loved the shit out of some Kid Pix when I was a kid.\n\nAlso, [The Manhole](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole)\n\nHah I remember getting both of those on like 10 fucking huge floppy disks each.",
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"body": "Remember blowing up the images. Awesome. Loved how you could freeze it somehow before it went away.\n\nNo longer though--- it's gone \"politically correct\" (their words!) http://www.mackiev.com/kp_politically.html",
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"body": "Kid Pix is awesome! [Here](http://www.pixelpoppin.com/kidpix/index.html) is a little history about it by the author. It's really interesting, especially if you're into UI design.",
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"body": "FUCK YES. I LOVED IT SO MUCH. I think I ought to have some of my old stuff on this comp somewhere, now I'm going to go look for it.",
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"body": "Holy Crap! I had a computer lab in grade school which had Kid Pix, Oregon Trail, Descent 2, and Scorch. I swear to god, best four games of my life, and to this day I play the same type of stuff: creative, RPG, FPS, and 2D action.",
"score": 4
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"body": "HELL YEAH I REMEMBER KID PIX. \n\nWe used it at school, so I unfortunately don't have any of the pictures. I remember one time, for some reason I don't remember, a bunch of us made a slideshow of the Titanic going down over the course of like 5 computers in a row. The movie had probably recently come out or something. It was kinda sweet, like a really bad animation that requires walking.",
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"body": "I think that KidPix totally started my creative side. Where else could I make a mess on on a canvas and not get in trouble! I also loved how you could record short sounds clips. I wish I had my pictures saved somewhere!",
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"body": "Kid Pix was great because you could hack it. Anyone remember an amazing application for Macs called Key Whack? It was an application which let an infant bang on the keyboard with cool things happening on every keystroke...sounds, pictures, sample sequences.... All other actions were locked out. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Did anyone play Magic School Bus games? I'm trying to remember how many of them I had... it was around the same era (maybe a little later)",
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"body": "You're not the only one getting nostalgic about this. [Here's](http://steveasleep.appspot.com/splatterboard) a program that's trying to imitate it. There's only binaries for OS X, but it's cross-platform Python.\n",
"score": 3
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"body": "are you kidding kid pix is the greatest thing ever. i never had so much fun blowing up computer images.\n\nUsually when I would quit out of that shit I'd and go get cholera and 200 lbs or meat on another certain program.",
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"body": "My brother and I used to record a video of the multi-armed purple alien dancing to the cowboy music and leave it on loop to annoy our parents. Never could figure out the lyrics to the song though.\n\n\"Cuz it's a Dang, Fong, Rezzin' Feelin', now pos' a cattin' all aroun'...\"",
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"body": "Holy shit! My entire childhood is coming back in floods of memories. Bless you, OP, I had entirely forgotten Kid Pix and the amazing dynamite delete. The fact that I spent countless hours on stuff like this makes me remember that my parents were cooler than I give them credit for.\n\nDid anyone play [Cosmic Osmo?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Osmo_and_the_Worlds_Beyond_the_Mackerel) I'm the only person I know who played it, but damn I loved the shit out of that game.",
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"body": "I'd make multiple dynamite explosions, freeze them with the option key or whatever, and look at the interference patterns. Yeah. It's not surprising that I turned out to be a redditor..",
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Idea for IAmA: Get some css to highlight the submitters entire posts throughout a thread | I think it would be much easier to scan through Iama threads and quickly find where the submitter has answered questions. It certainly would be an advantage from just looking for the little blue [s]. You could use a maybe a light green or something. Just something to ponder O_o carry on | 220 | [
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"body": "I've prototyped some CSS hacks to display only on this page. What do you think?\n\n**Edit**: here's a simpler style to [emphasize the poster's name](http://www.reddit.com/r/chromakode/comments/anruq/inverse_submitter_display_test/). Which do you prefer?",
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"body": "1) [Get Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html)\n\n2) Install [Adblock Plus](http://adblockplus.org/en/installation)\n\n3) Install [Greasemonkey](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)\n\n4)?????\n\n5) Install [Reddit highlight OP](http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38417)\n\n6) PROFIT!!",
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"body": "drag this to your bookmark bar, and click it :)\n\njavascript:$(\".submitter\").closest(\".entry\").css(\"backgroundColor\", \"#e0ffe0\")();\n\n**edit:** stole ideas from insaneflame24's post to make mine simpler\n\n**edit:** further improved",
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"body": "I think someone made a bookmark that hid all threads except the ones the submitter has replied to.\n\n\njavascript:$(\".commentarea%20.thing\").hide();$(\".submitter\").parents().filter(\".thing\").show();%20alert(\"\")",
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Dear Reddit, my girlfriend is pregnant and, today, due to unforseen circumstances the abortion was cancelled. Now she wants to keep it. What can/do I do??? | The title says it all I think. I am in no way emotionally or financially ready to father a child. I know people will say that I was old enough to have sex so I'm old enough to deal with the consequences but we were being careful i.e. using protection. I was happy with the decision to have the abortion but now things have changed ... for her at least. I am going out of my mind.
I'm not sure what I'm expecting to hear. Hopefully someone whos been in the same situation will have some words of wisdom.
Oh and before anyone asks this is a throwaway account for the life of this thread. Sorry.
EDIT: My girlfriend opted for an abortion. We talked at length about our situation and we both agreed it was the sensible choice. I'm massively relieved, which seems wrong, but its just the way I feel. She seems fine now but I expect she will have bad days where she will regret the decision. I plan to be there for her, regardless of whether we are still together. I was lucky (?) this time, it could have gone the other way. I have so much more respect for those guys who stick with their girlfriends when they decide to keep it. Thanks to those who gave advice, shared experiences. You really did help. | 12 | [
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"body": "have her reschedule the appointment, and tell her you can have lots of kids together in a few years when you are more financially stable. You want to be able to give your child what they deserve, not just scrape by in poverty.\n",
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"body": "I think a lot of women get pregnant and think it's all about them. I really don't think your girl is considering the effect this is having on you. She's probably thinking 'this is my baby, this is my body', but I would say that it's as much an issue for you as it is for her. \n\nI think you need to seriously sit her down, tell her this, that neither of you are ready and that it's a decision you need to both be happy with. \n\nI really hope it all works out for you, and that she changes her mind again.\n\nChicks can get so one-sided about this, completely forgetting what's going on with the guy.",
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Are you married? Can I touch your penis? | So I went to see the movie Daybreakers, which I highly recommend. Staring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill. Written and directed by The Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter Spierig, they made "Undead" a great zombie movie). Nothing like Twilight with lots of vampires blowing up and a great ending that makes it all worthwhile.
So, my friend and I go to a bar near Harvard Square to have a few beers after the movie. I'm sitting at the corner of the bar near the entrance feeling no pain when some people come in. They walk around and then heads out again. Just as they’re leaving a woman in the group looks me up and down and asks, "are you married?"
I'm a little buzzed but my spidey sense starts tingling. I realize how I answer this question could be important; do I say yes or no? Well, I figure what the hell, I tell the truth and say, "I'm married but my wife and I are separated," which is the truth.
Her friends are already on the stairs (the bar is in a basement) and she walks up to me and asks, "Can I touch your penis?" The woman doesn't look crazy and she doesn't have a knife in either hand so I say, "well, do you want me to take it out?" She smiles, shakes her head no so I say, "sure".
She walks up to me reaches down between my legs and gently give me a quick squeeze and then looks up at her friends and says something like, "see, I did it.” I’m not sure if that’s the exact wording, I wasn’t exactly taking notes at the time but it was something like that.
I think she said thanks and away she flew, up the stairs and out into the cold, cold night. I turned to my friend and then to the bartender just to make sure that someone hadn't spiked my beer with LSD and they had that WTF look on their faces that told me that I hadn’t imagined any of it. I raised my glass and said, "Well, I'm certainly planning on coming back to this bar in the future."
Edit - Well, you've all been wonderful but I have to go to bed, it's past 2 AM here in the frigid Northeast and I want to start dreaming about my wonderful penis touching lady (oh, sorry about the imagery). But please, continue to discuss about me behind my back, I don't mind.
To answer all the people wanting to know the location of the bar it's:
[John Harvard's Brew House](http://www.johnharvards.com/index.shtml) | 74 | [
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"body": "The male version when i was a teenager was \"I bet you 50p I can make you're tits move without touching them\" Hand the girl 50p and give them a good shake while she's still looking at the coin. ",
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"body": "lol. wasn't there a thread earlier today by a girl who thinks a group of other girls are rude and creepy because they do stuff like this? i was about to respond, \"no guy would care if a girl used us as a sex object\", but hesitated and declined the thought (\"that's a real nice offer, brain, but i'm gonna go ahead and and turn that one down.\") thank you for posting, good sir. i am vindicated.",
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[Offer] I am an A&R Exec for a Record Company. Send me your music. | I work for a well established record company.
Post a link to your band/music. I would be more than happy to give it a listen and help you out as much as I can. If you request, I will even give you a non-bias opinion of what I think about your music... and what some labels might think.
We are always looking for great artists to work with!
*Edit: Wow guys, thanks for the response! Looks like I will be busy for the next couple of hours listening. Give me some time and I'll get back with everyone!
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"body": "Might I suggest [Radio Reddit](http://www.radioreddit.com) . Everyone on there is a Reddit user and unsigned. You may find some true gems there. The Reddit user name for the currently playing song is in the title. The stream varies in genre, but there is something for everyone. \n\nIf you're looking to help out some Reddit users, those are the ones. ",
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How do i assign a command to a variable and have the variable assigned on start up? | how would I assign a command like $ls -a to variable "kk"? I know that after i can assign a command i just need to put the line in .bashrc
second question if i wanted to give several commands to one variable all i need to do is put ";"s between the commands right?
thanks so much for your time and help | 6 | [
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"body": "It sounds like you're looking for an alias...\n\nEdit your ~/.bashrc file... you may find some pre-configured aliases already there, but commented out, something like this:\n\n #alias ll='ls -l'\n #alias la='ls -A'\n #alias l='ls -CF'\n\n_(that's from a default Ubuntu install)_\n\nremove the #, close the terminal, start another terminal, to use them...\n\nYou can add aliases with that syntax (but without the # sign, of course)... \n\nAlso, the default Ubuntu setup loads aliases from a file called ~/.bash_aliases... this is done by a few lines in the default bashrc that say:\n\n if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then\n . ~/.bash_aliases\n fi\n\nAnd, yes, you can run multiple commands by stringing them together with the semi-colon.\n\nAny more questions, reply here, and I'll try to help...\n\n",
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i always forget there are religious people on reddit | i don't know what it is but i always forget there are people who would be offended by some of the things i say. for instance, in another thread about how the SA got screwed over by a bounced cheque, i basically compared the situation to how homeless people must feel if the SA (edit: Salvation Army) pulls out of their city due to gay marriage. i basically compared both saying they are both cases of "a person/organization pretending to be generous, but actually looking out for themselves." and now i think i'm getting into a comment fight with someone :( | 8 | [
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"body": "It's ok. I forget there are religious people in real life. I have to watch my tongue in most places. ",
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Reddit drama! "blocparty" gets caught lying. | Re: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/anp0t/an_attempt_to_motivate_my_roommate/
Reddit user "blocparty" surely isn't the first to use embellishment to drive up those karma points. [Claim an image you ripped off the Web as your own, add a personal angle](http://i.imgur.com/irviz.png), yeah, that'll work. Not if [you get caught](http://i.imgur.com/Im78g.png) though. | 83 | [
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"body": "Here is an [image I didn't rip off](http://imgur.com/GG6yv.gif), but that didn't earn me any karma either. And it *should* have. LOVE ME, DAMN YOU!",
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"body": "So what? We want to be told an entertaining story, not an accurate one. Else all reddit post would have the name \"Found this on the web\" or \"Someones dog, whose picture i stumbled upon while being bored and online, looking really silly dressed as Marie-Antoinette\". I prefer to be lied to in these cases.",
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Anybody care anymore about musicians selling their songs to be used in commercials? | In the late 80's, Neil Young wrote a pissy little song about superstars selling out to corporations, [This Notes For You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSvzCNBvlQ), and back in the 90's everyone had a shitfit when Nike dared to use the Beatles Revolution in a commercial. Now Blackberry has "All you Need is Love" and Pete Townsend can't seem to sell his rights fast enough. Does anybody feel/believe this belittles their favorite music and/or artists? | 5 | [
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"body": "I guess it depends on the product and artist endorsing it.\n\nI don't think Christina Aguilera sucks any more then she did before doing a Target commercial. However when... I think it was Target, did a Beatles 'covers/renditions' of their songs for their adds, I wanted to kill people. Not only were they just bad but trying to associate the Beatles with shopping would make, at least, John Lennon cringe... However if there were a Beatles song that went to a non-profit's add in fighting hunger or some good cause I'd see it as a good fit and I think the artist would as well... dead or alive.\n\nNow when you have some underground artist that gets to do dance music for some Scion commercial, I think it's a win win. The company gets cheap music and the artist gets to 'get out there' more. \n\nIt's a thin line but it can work well or suck, one or the other",
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"body": "I've given up TV and don't have to endure the soul-crushing experience very often. However, just knowing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exists is depressing enough. My answer: Live the ethos yourself, and don't worry if some musicians can't.",
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"body": "I was saddened the first time I heard \"Let's go Outback tonight\" to the tune of Of Montreal's \"Wraith Pinned to the Mist.\"",
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[10] "The 'Hi!'-man" | When I was a little kid, I'd go to the grocery store with my mom. It was fun, I got to push the cart. Looking back on that, I bet my mom was snickering in her head about how I was convinced that pushing shit around all day listening to your mom say to pick up more shit and put it in the cart to push the cart some more was actually fun and something I wanted to do.
Anyways, there were these stumps in front of the grocery store that were supposed to protect us from zombies and women trying to drive their minivans into the building. Or zombie women. They're the worst drivers.
Now, those stumps didn't do much, so over time they wore smooth from rain and hail and women bumping into them with their cars a few times, but only a little dink, there isn't even that noticeable of a dent honey we really don't have to get it hammered out (come to think of it, get it hammered out might mean abortions, and they were talking about what they should have done with me while pretending to argue about actually fixing the dent my mom had created when she backed into the stumps).
One stump, however, was not damaged by zombies or women with cars. It was slightly less weathered, except for its incredibly smooth top. The top of that stump was well-worn, but not by rain, hail, snow, or women in some funny yet offensive manner that might get me yelled at for even mentioning it but chicks totally do that all the time. That stump was worn down with an old pair of Carhartt denim overalls.
In those overalls and on that stump was a man whose name I never learned. He was an old, weathered black man who looked pretty content with his life. He had huge, coke-bottle glasses, and had this way of moving his entire body like Ray Charles when he spoke to you. I still don't know if he actually was blind or not. Nobody I've ever asked knew. Then again, I've asked nobody any questions about it. So, there you go.
He had won the lottery a few years ago. Fifty million dollars. Now, his kids have already grown up and forgotten him, and his Carhartt overalls, black undershirt, Doc Martens, and the occasional leather bomber jacket when the weather got cold still fit, and his rent was $200 a month. Apartment's been in the family for all of his years, and half of his father's. What was he going to spend all of his money on?
Well, food, for one. And rather than hang out at his place, he decided that being close to food would be a good spot to spend the rest of his days. He parked those overalls on the wooden stump nearest to the doors, and said "Hello" and "Good-Bye" to people coming in and out. When he got hungry, he would go inside and get some prepared food or the occasional full rotisserie chicken when he was feeling fancy.
He was there just about every day I visited that grocery store with my mom. I would wave to him from the bus as it drove past the grocery store (he would wave back every time, so he must not have been blind. I should've seen that one coming (Har!)). If it snowed so much school was cancelled, it was a 50/50 bet. We went and visited him on those days too, 'cause my parents were usually rather late in getting the whole "Blizzard (which, if you say like "Retard" makes it sound like you're a dinosaur, so that's cool (Blizzard! Har!) Warning (which you say after "Blizzard" making it sound like that much cooler of a word (also, pirate))!" thing on TV.
My parents decided it would be best for the family to go out in the worst of the storm just so that we could be way over-prepared for the tapering end of the storm, so off we'd go. And he'd be there. Still cheerful, still happy to just sit back and say "Hello" and "Good-Bye" and the occasional story about his life to passers-by.
He knew us, because my mom made sure to stay for a while and talk to him (to make sure he was doing okay). I heard all about his life, but that's another story. This story is about this man's name. We had talked to this man for many years, but never knew his name. Wasn't because he wouldn't tell us, we just never asked.
As he grew older, his voice became more raspy (he had also bought sweet-smelling tobacco for his pipe, and his lungs weren't that great any more). He didn't tell as many stories then; his voice would give out and he would shrug, grin, and wave good-bye as his story was tragically cut short. He would always remember, though, and pick the story up exactly as he left it the next time we needed groceries.
He always had advice for me, though, changing through the ages. In the beginning I drew pictures of him waving, and gave them to him. He would keep them in his pocket, every one. Filled up both pockets. I'm not sure if he used them for warmth or because he liked them, but I guess he liked them 'cause every now and then, when the bus rolled by and I saw him looking at the letters with a grin on his face instead of noticing us for the wave "Hello/Good-bye!"
His "Hello" turned into "Hey" when I was about ten, and from "Hey" to "Hi" when I was about fifteen. It was "Hi" for another nine and a half years. After that, it was nothing at all. His funeral was, like him, simple. He was buried in his usual clothes, and had my letters still in his pockets. I cried, though he told me not to.
All that time, and I didn't know his name. My mom called him "The 'Hi!'-man" and that was good enough for me. Every time I went to the store, I would say "Hi, man!" and he would respond with the appropriate greeting based on time period. So, that was his name.
I just realized what my mom meant. My mom, slightly racist but not in a really offensive way just the way that kind of makes you funny at parties but actually mean what you're saying, meant something totally different than a greeting. She meant "The 'High'-man," as if the man smoked dope through that old pipe of his.
It would make sense; the man was perpetually peaceful, and always friendly. He never had a bad day, no matter the weather. Always had a new piece of insight when I came around. Always had that wonderful crooked smile with a couple gaps where his teeth were missing from the smokes.
I don't know if my mom meant it in one of those "funny yet slightly offensive and you really aren't sure weather to laugh or not" moments, but her nickname went to a whole new level with me just now. I knew him well enough that by his dying day, I should have known that guy was an old stoner. His stories were always fantastically epic.
So, "The 'High/Hi!'-man", this bowl is for you. You taught me so much of life, but I never got the chance to thank you.
"Good-bye!" | 97 | [
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"body": "you sir, are a gentleman and A scholar.\n\ni'm a [0] but this made me tear up, it's such a great story.",
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"body": "Beautiful story. Cracking good prose. Hard to believe you wrote this at a [10] it's so good, if you didn't give reason to believe you spent some time carefully writing it out.",
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"body": "This story made me honestly tear up. What a phenomenal story. I shall toke up for him as well, just because your story made me feel like I knew him.\n\nWhile reading it, I imagined a man who works in the cafeteria at the Uni. We call him Gandalf.",
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"body": "This story really got to me, as there has been a number of \"Hi!-men\" in my life, but there weren't high-men. Left me as a story should usually, satisfied yet slightly conflicted.",
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"body": "[5]There is a man that knows how to be happy in life no matter what it gives him. \n\nThank you for this excellent story.",
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Nothing in life thrills me anymore. I'm starting to think that no matter what I do or who I am with that I won't experience joy anymore. Help. | Just for the record, I am NOT depressed. And I'm not saying this because I'm afraid to be depressed. Quite the contrary, if i was depressed, then I would have a reason for these feelings...but I'm not, it's almost unfortunate. I'm only 19 by the way, but am not really a 19 year old...if you understand what I'm trying to say. | 3 | [
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"body": "Does your definition of joy come from reality or does it come from the commercial world, i.e. TV, movies, billboards selling insurance with smiley happy faces on them, etc.? \n\nThere are many people in this world whose job it is to make us constantly feel like there's a great party going on out there in the world to which we're not invited. They get paid big bucks to make us feel that way, because when we do, we tend to buy stuff and that's all they're really interested in.\n\nAnd if you're not aware of it, you tend to get bounced around like a ball in a pinball machine, which can be a real downer.",
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TIL that if you send a text message to a Google Voice number from your regular cell phone number, Google cross-references your number to your Google Voice number and uses your Google Voice number as the sender ID. | I just texted my friend's Google Voice number from my cell phone without even touching my Google Voice account, and his cell phone said the message was from my Google Voice number. | 4 | [
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"body": "Unfortunately, I have no friends who have google voice (the use of even gmail is rare), so I can't try this out :(",
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Looking for scholarships geared towards women in tech -- any suggestions? | Well, I'm sure there's some, but I'm having a hard time finding any outside of the ones that are specific to certain colleges. Do any of you know of scholarships that cater to women in the IT / Comp Sci major? (Any scholarships for (male or female) minorities is also a plus.)
P.S. - Also, are there any mentorship programs for women looking to get into the industry?
Thanks for the help. | 4 | [
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"body": "The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship is specifically catered to women in IT/Comp Sci majors.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/anitaborg/\n\nThe bar is set quite high for this award, though!",
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Why is it ok to upvote/downvote a submission you agree or disagree with, but not a comment? | I know the [reddiquette](http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette) says you shouldn't downvote posts that don't add to the discussion, but I kind of disagree with this. What about someone who *is* adding their opinion to the discussion, but you vehemently disagree with it?
Why can't you downvote it? Shouldn't that be what it's for? To show you agree or disagree with a comment. That's exactly what we do for submissions. I am confused. Your thoughts? | 18 | [
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"body": "For one reason, that would probably make people with a minority opinion reluctant to contribute.\n\nFor another, that would break the genius part of reddit's comment ordering. A well-thought-out and nicely stated comment that people disagree with would be on equal karma-footing as a half-assed response that people disagree with.",
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"body": "You shouldn't downvote something you disagree with unless it is poorly written, not factual and/or out of context. Opposing views help bring conversation to a topic and, if you're open minded, you might be able to learn something new. In a perfect world people can come to consensus that way.\n\nEdit: Here is an upvote to help further conversation on this subject ;)",
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"body": ">I know the reddiquette says you shouldn't downvote posts that don't add to the discussion\n\nHuh? Actually I'm pretty sure it says the exact opposite of that.",
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"body": "I don't downvote posts because I disagree with them, I downvote because they're bad posts. The opposite is true for upvoting submissions. If I don't agree with a submission or don't like what it says but have no reason to downvote, I don't.",
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"body": "What I find funny is that a lot of the time a good story has like **359 comments**, and only **27 upvotes**. Forget to upvote a good story, anyone?",
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What are some good websites to print your images as posters? | I am looking for a relatively inexpensive website to print posters of my photographs. It would be nice to see some high quality sites versus lower quality and less expensive companies. | 38 | [
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"body": "Here is lower quality/less expensive option. \nhttp://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ \ngive it a photo, give it dimensions you want (can be anything, I have a 7 foot by 3 foot above my bed) and it will give you back a pdf document with the image separated into a4 sheets that you can print out yourself and stick together.",
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"body": "[WHCC](http://www.whcc.com/)\n\n\nThey go up to 30\"x45\" for about 60 bucks, after that it's based on how many square feet the final print is. [Pricing (Warning: PDF)](http://www.whcc.com/uploads/pdf/WHCC_2010_Photo_Prints_0110.pdf)",
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"body": "If there's a Costco in your neighborhood, check them out. I bought five 20x30\" prints for Christmas and the quality was unbeatable for the price. $8.99 for a 20x30\", plus they have canvas prints which are really cheap too.\n\nFrom one photographer to another, the quality is great. \n\nhttp://www.costcophotocenter.com/",
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"body": "There's actually a redditor who has a poster printing site, and he advertises on reddit. I can't do the research because I'm on my phone, but there was a thread not too long ago. ",
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Should I become and Atheist? | Ok, so here's the deal. I've been raised a Christain by my parents all 17 years of my life. I met my girlfriend of 3 years during a church-based visit to a soup kitchen downtown in a city I live near. I've gone to what basically is a church camp, sung songs, had fun, and been generally happy because of it. But in the past two years, I have become ever-more skeptical of the existence of God. I listen to sermons in church and I notice problems with them, inaccuracies, hypocrisies, and just general lunacy with scriptural references. I need help, give me your advice guys. I don't think I can go back to completely believing in God...as I've gotten smarter and learned more, I've become so much more skeptical. Advice?
EDIT: Thanks to all the thought-provoking comments/discussions guys, this is really getting me thinking. Keep it up :) | 12 | [
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"body": "You don't really become an atheist, you just kind of reject the idea of God. Meditate, go for hikes and really think about what you want not what your surroundings dictate for you. ",
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"body": "Stop believing in God. Bam, you are an atheist. No real tricks to it.\n\nHere is a good way to look at. Think real hard about this. Just look around you, look at the roads, the cars, the Internet, reddit, the iPhone, Mars rovers, cancer medicine, distributing food to the poor. All created by man. In my mind, they are way better than the bible could have ever imagined. The creators of the bible could not have possibly thought that man would create the Internet. A system that is way better than any magic conjured up during that time.\n\nReligion, the Bible these are also man made. The stories in these religions are just that. Even the concept of God is a man-made creation. So you have to consider, would you rather with the amazing technology that as been created during these modern times or side with ancient, magical fantasies created hundreds of years ago. \n\nMe, I am on the side of the iPhone and the Internet. That is why I am an atheist. There has been zero evidence of any God or any proclamations foretold by the Bible. But man has been able to create some pretty \"magical\" things on our own.\n\n*Edited Some More:* Internet great, cars great, Mars rover great. We have done a good job so far and we will get better. I can't even imagine the kind of advances we will see in the future. But they will be better than what we have now. And belief in God won't have anything to do with such advances. Like I said, what side do you want to be on?\n\nLet's say that evidence of God, two Gods, N number of Gods have not made it to us humans. If there is no evidence of God, for simplicity let's say there is no God. If there is no God, the basis of most religions evaporates. It is like buying a car without the engine. I can kind of sympathize with some people, going through the motions of religion to please their family or not to stand out. But at some point, these people need to move on.\n",
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"body": "An atheist isn't something you consciously make an effort to become. When you stop believing in god, thats when you know you're an atheist.",
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"body": "An atheist is not something you *become*. There's no sanctioned club, there's no official membership card. It's not (necessarily) a *choice*.\n\nIf you figure there are no gods, you're an atheist. That's it. Heck, you could even still be going to church every **day**; as long as you think there's no such thing as a \"god\", it doesn't matter.\n\n... having said that: best of luck settling the issue / cognitive dissonance that might (seemingly) be going on in your head. If you need a talk or whatever answers we can provide, by all means step on up and sing it out. Good luck.",
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"body": "I don't know... you will have to agree with our long list of official doctrine and keep 10% of your earnings every year. Not to mention all of our rituals. Oh, and if you don't follow the edicts of our non-existent leader nothing bad will happen to you.\n\nAre you sure you are up to the challenge?",
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Anyone take medication for anxiety? Need some help... | So I'm a 24 year old male and I used to take paxil, but I hated the side-effects(mainly the gained weight, decreased libido/delayed orgasm). It sucked. I was wondering what medication people have taken and really liked. I talked to a doctor friend of mine and he suggested lexapro. I'm curious of any others that are very successful. I suffer from mainly social anxiety and [blushing](http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-stop-blushing-7).
EDIT: Thank you everyone for the advice. I got a 2-week sample of lexapro today so we'll see how it goes. I feel odd right now(same thing that happened with the Paxil when I first started.) Let's hope we get positive results and minimal side effects. | 9 | [
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"body": "I was started on one anti-depressant and it actually wore off. I had the same side-effects with it. I was switched to lexapro (and eventually an off brand of it) and it worked pretty well. It's worth trying one or two out to see if you can find one that works best for you.\n\nFor the most part the sex side effects usually stick around, at least in my own experience.Try to use it to your advantage.\n\n Weight gain is a bitch, I just got off mine and I'm getting hit with it. Do you have any more extreme side-effects when you first started the drugs? I know when I first started, I had some really bad problems with [depersonalization](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization), and it would re-occur if I got dehydrated (for some reason...not sure as to why) I also had some interesting experiences of feeling like my brain was floating above my head.\n\nWith anti-depressants anything can happen. Some people they really mess up, and others take them pretty much ok. Some people actually get a crazy active sex-drive from them. Hope you can find one that works!",
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My girlfriend lied to and cheated on me, and now is pregnant with my child. I need advice. | Hi Reddit,
First, an apology: I've been reading for quite some time and have never contributed, or even made an account. However, having seen you offer support for some very serious problems, I would very much appreciate any advice you can offer on mine, as I am completely at a loss.
I, a 25 year old male, recently found out that my girlfriend (23, who I have been dating for a few months, but known for years) lied to and cheated on me in a fairly epic fashion. Telling me she was working out of town, she drove across several state lines to be with an ex. When I grew suspicious, she blamed me for ruining our relationship with my paranoia, only confessing when I found incontrovertible evidence (a receipt in her purse) that she had been several hundred miles from where she claimed. She cried, apologized, told me she loved me and regretted everything, and I decided to stay with her to see if we could make it work out. I have since found out that she has lied in this way before, not only to me but to her friends and family as well.
It should be mentioned that my hands are in no way clean in this issue. In order to find out for certain that she was lying to me, I did some pretty awful things: I called the company she was supposed to be working for, asked her to send me a picture of her there, checked her phone when she got back, and, as previously mentioned, went through her purse to find the conclusively damning evidence.
In any case, a few weeks later she told me she was pregnant. The baby is definitely mine. We talked about abortion, and I thought that was the plan until last week she told me she couldn't go through with it. She is now a little over 11 weeks pregnant.
Now, all I can think about is how I'm going to have a child to a mother I don't love or trust, a proven liar and cheater, who is going to be the teacher and role model of my child. I can't sleep for thinking about the wrong I've already done to this unborn person. I don't know whether I should try to live with the girl to support the child and provide another (I desperately hope better, though this incident has given me cause to doubt) influence, or whether my anger and disgust for the mother will just make it harder for the child.
Since she told me she couldn't go through with the abortion, I haven't been able to talk to her about the issue. I think telling her how I really feel about her as a mother would just make it more difficult if we do end up having to raise this child together. I haven't talked to anyone else about it, but she has talked to some friends and her mother.
I am in my first steady job, a nine month contract with health benefits, and she is in her first year out of college, a freelancer with no health insurance and no steady income. When she's not staying with me, she lives with her parents.
Any advice would be welcome, and I thank you all very much for your help. | 5 | [
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"body": "Definitely get a paternity test. but...\n\nI'd make it clear that you will support the baby but that you will not stay with her and that you two will have no interaction henceforth not related to the kid. She will be a single mother for all intents and purposes apart from picking up a check once in awhile. Or you can volunteer to raise the kid. The point being, you and her are done. ",
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"body": "Get a paternity test, as luck might have it, it may not be yours. \n\nDrive her to the abortion clinic.\n\nTell her you can have you or you can have the kid, but you can't have both.\n\nShe sounds psychotic enough to buy that. She might be lying about the pregnancy too.",
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"body": "Let's examine three quotes here:\n\n> The baby is definitely mine.\n\n> I found incontrovertible evidence (a receipt in her purse) that she had been several hundred miles from where she claimed.\n\n> I have since found out that she has lied in this way before, not only to me but to her friends and family as well.\n\n**The baby is not \"definitely\" yours.**\n\nI strongly suggest you do not stay with this woman. In fact, make an ultimatum/bluff: Tell her that you will not stay with her if she brings the child to term. Or tell her goodbye altogether. It's quite possible she'll change her mind (so to speak) on the abortion issue. (see note at end for bluff)\n\nUnless you're ready to spend the next 10-20 years with a compulsive liar who may or may not have fathered your baby *this time around*, I suggest you get out. Fast.\n\nI apologize for the harshness expressed here, but I'm sure you understand the gravity involved.\n\nNOTE: If she does give birth, whether you support the baby beyond the legal requirements is up to you, and while, if I were you, I would threaten *not* to support the child in any extra-legal way, I would support it afterwards if that bluff didn't work.",
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"body": "Have you seen a positive pregnancy test? I've heard of woman doing this right after they fuck up just to keep you for a couple more months to patch things up.",
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"body": ">When I grew suspicious, she blamed me for ruining our relationship with my paranoia\n\nParanoia is a baseless suspicion of others. Yours was a valid suspicion.\n\n>She cried, apologized, told me she loved me and regretted everything\n\nEh, smokescreen. Often, when really weaselly women are trying to manipulate men, they cry to put you in a comforting mode. They know that men don't know how to react to tears, so they do that to throw you off.\n\nFriend of the husband had a wife that was a total piece of shit, and everytime she acted badly and was confronted with it - would start yammering. Both her husband and mine were thrown off by it, and would not know how to react... She pulled that shit one time in front of me, and I told her \"go ahead and cry - you'll pee less\", and then it went from tears to screaming. It was pretty funny stuff. :))\n\nDon't just accept as a given that any possible pregnancy is yours. That is probably a smoke and mirrors job as well. There is always the chance that she got pregnant by someone else who informed her that they weren't going to deal with it.",
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"body": "Just in case it hasn't been said enough, PATERNITY TEST!!!\n\nWomen (who do cheat) are much more likely to cheat when ovulating, and as a consequence are that much more likely to conceive with the person they cheated with.\n\nDon't trust circumstances. GET IT CHECKED.",
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Hey druggit, any advice on recovering from a bad trip? | I tripped some mushrooms yesterday with my friend. These ones hit me faster than normal, I could feel small stuff at about 20 minutes in and by the 45 minute mark I was tripping. It was my first time being at my friend's house but I thought that since I've tripped before at twice the dose (I did 2 grams) I'd be fine, it was a really comfortable place too. We played some Halo for a bit then decided to pop in Being John Malkovich, neither of us had seen it before but a friend recommended it as a good trip movie.
For the first 20 minutes that I was peaking I was euphoric, my friend and I were talking about all the design elements of his house and monocular cues. His mom has a hair salon in their basement and I sat in the swivel chair and stared at myself for a good 10 minutes, the entire time I was thinking about how I had been acting the past few months, how I treated other people, how I treated myself, and how I dealt with several losses that I've had. I started having a lot of questions squirming through my mind. I decided to go back to watch the movie with my friend who had been staring into a mirror for the past half hour or so (he did about 3.3 grams). Everything in the room looked sinister, like a western right before a shootout. I got some OJ, sat down, and put on some Beatles. I texted a friend I had grown distant with apologizing for being a dick, I said I realized it was at least half my fault. I thought about a girl who had broken up with me over a year ago and I realized I've never gotten over her and that she had broken up with me because I wasn't treating her how she deserved. I went outside trying to find peace in nature but I still couldn't calm down. I continued to rack my brain looking for answers to my problems, but I couldn't come up with anything.
I've felt like shit ever since. I just don't feel right, I feel awkward. Almost like I'm looking at myself in disgust. I've never thought of myself as a bad person before and my friends have told me that I'm not but I really could use some advice for how to get over this. Thanks for reading.
tl;dr: I feel like shit 24 hours after a bad trip, advice?
**EDIT** I'm really astounded by the outreach, people sharing personal stories and seeming to genially care about my self improvement. I'm just now realizing that for the first time in a really long time I feel good about my future. Thanks for the hugs /r/drugs. | 28 | [
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"body": "Take action. Don't try to treat the symptoms, try to change the behaviors that lead you to realize you weren't satisfied with the way you treat some people in the first place. You don't feel bad because of the drug, you feel bad because of some things you've realized and the only way to change that is to change yourself. \n\nGood luck. ",
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"body": "I think you just need a little time to reintegrate. Don't try to push the trip out of your mind for too long - you need to face the demons inside of you that it let loose. Chances are, you're not a shitty person. Shitty people rarely realize how shitty they are. You've just done some hurtful things sometimes, maybe without even realizing that you were hurting people.\n\nTake some time to think about what you want in your life and who you would like to be. I have had terrifying experiences where my ego died, and I was shown the things that were important in life as well as things that this person that I had been had done wrong.\n\nI wish you the best in reintegrating this tough experience. It won't be easy, and it probably will take a while to fully recover, but this is one of the greatest things about psychedelics: they show you your life without the filters you place on it, yourself. Good luck, mate.",
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"body": "Almost every shroom trip I've ever had has ended up with self realization and personal revelation type of experience. It's like the inner gateway to oneself... I've sat for hours questioning my thoughts, my beliefs... I think what you went through was not a bad trip... sounds like you took really strong mushrooms, and just took a cpl to many. Generally, \"bad mushrooms\", lead to passing out and constant stomach cramps/vomiting.. violent visions and/or complete loss of reality. Im sorry to hear about your after discomfort.. Shamans use strong hallucinogens in rituals (very religious) and consider the brain is processing \"evil demons\" during your trip. When I've tripped really hard the night before, I try to take those thoughts as a life changing experience (as tripping is intended) and consider the night before as a ritual clearing experience... you've purged your thoughts. It's time to take them for better or for worse, and try to review them as making life a better experience for oneself.\n\nPS. I also try to avoid making any phone calls/msgs to the outside world when tripping unless emergency is needed. Try writing down things you want to cover once your sober again, then msg those parties ness. if you feel it's a must.\n\nedit... punctuation ",
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"body": "Wow, that sounds a lot like a trip I've had a couple of months ago. All the shit in my life started bubbling up to consciousness, you know, stuff you talk about, lost opportunities, broken friendships, ex lovers ... it was worse, in fact, as every time I tried to think of something else I saw visions from the \"future\", domestic violence, spending time in jail, loneliness and alienation, shit like that. I ended up in my room thumbing through the Bible, of all things, and I found this passage in Revelations \n\n> But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.\n\n> Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.\"\n\nTake from it what you will. Those words seemed a lot more profound then than it does now, as most things do, but it felt to me like a religious experience of sorts. I did cry and ask 'God' for forgiveness (was an atheist, still am), and somehow I felt a force I can only describe as pure unjudging love flow through me. It's hard to put down it words. \n\nI guess you could try your best to forget it all, drown it out in drink and exercise, or whatever, but I'd hate to be the one who tells you that most of it are valid insights. I acted upon most of it and I'd dare say I'm a better person. But that's just me hey",
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"body": "I've been there before and I pretty much just take it easy for a few days. Eating healthily and resting a lot gives your mind and body a break from the stress of being on hallucinogenics. Also, Vitamin B has been known (but not proven) to act as a mood stabilizer and a stress reducer. I suggest some light exercise as well to get a nice natural endorphin high, but don't push it. ",
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"body": "It's normal to feel bad after a trip, some people will even get full on depression for a few weeks. Be aware that some people can have a prolonged 'hangover' of sorts after tripping, especially after a jarring bad trip. Few things you can do:\n\n* Drink plenty of water\n* Eat fresh fruit\n* Go on walks, especially if it is sunny where you are\n* Rest a lot, but don't oversleep\n* Avoid computer games or television, but music is always dandy, avoid the harsh shit. If you're not into jazz or classical, good time to try it out.\n* Take up a new hobby if you've got anything on the back burner\n* Coffee is also great if you're just looking for a quick shot out of the funk, but avoid soda. Actually, hanging in a coffee shop people watching while getting over a particularly intense trip has always been fun for me.\n\nIt's okay to be self reflective, it's good. Just don't get harsh. Critical is fine, but there's a fine line that if you cross it you're just beating yourself up for self-pity; avoid that extreme, but do take to heart your personal revelations. Some people prefer to write about it, whatever works for you. But do remember that this funk can be as short as a day or so, or as long as a few weeks. Stay healthy, and take to heart that it will end, and you'll do fine.",
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Hey cookit: I just got a rice cooker/steamer. Have any good recipies or tips? |
So for Christmas, I got a pretty sweet rice cooker/steamer [like this]( http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Wolfgang-Puck-7-cup-Stainless-Steel-Steamer-and-Rice-Cooker/4421200/product.html) , and it did come with a few recipes that seem either too complicated for what I am looking for (I want to just throw some things in with minimal prep), or not to my taste (most of them have fish). Anyone have any easy meals they like to make with theirs that do not involve seafood? I really like a wide variety of things! Please share! :) | 5 | [
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"body": "Curry: throw in a handful of carrots, peas, chopped onion, and curry powder when you put the rice & water in. A teaspoon of oil will keep the rice from clumping. Cook as normal.\n\nMexican rice, the lazy way: replace 1/3 of cooking liquid with salsa or picante, green or red. Use chicken broth for the other 2/3 of liquid, sprinkle a bit of onion powder on while cooking, salt to taste. You can also throw in beans towards the end of cooking. I will sometimes throw in chopped carrots, green beans, green peppers and onions for a full meal.",
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What do you think is the funniest movie ever? | I'm in the mood for comedies and I was wondering what your favorite comedy movie is.
I'm watching Borat right now, and I would say that this is probably my favorite comedy ever. Although I heard good things about Bruno, so I'm going to watch that next.
My favorite line from Borat. "Are you trying to tell me that the man who tried to put a rubber fist up my anus was a homosexual?" | 23 | [
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"body": "Caddy Shack is my favorite comedy. Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase, oh yeah directed by Harold Ramis (Egon from Ghostbusters), how can you go wrong?",
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"body": "Naked Gun is always funny, and its lesser know follow-up, the hardly seen \"Top Secret\" is, if not funnier, far far weirder than any other of the Airplane style films. If you're looking for something more subtle, try \"Mighty Wind\". Have to disagree with the submission of \"Death at a Funeral\" as a suggestion. It's not funny. (If you're really looking for the best film comedies ever, then you have to go back to the silent era and watch Buster Keaton films like The General, Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator, but I'm assuming you're looking for more contemporary stuff.)",
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"body": "Better off Dead, an early John Cusack film. It is hilarious, quotable, and painfully reminiscent of high school in the 80s.",
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"body": "40 Year-Old Virgin. One of the funniest movie scenes ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ltLl_WXow",
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"body": "BASEketball. Matt Stone and Trey Parker (creators of South Park) at their very best. One of the few movies that's actually made me shed tears from laughter.",
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"body": "Step Brothers. I find this movie fucking hilarious, and it only gets funnier the more I watch it.\n\nDazed & Confused. Some hilarious parts in this movie.\n\nOld School. Classic movie, incredible for its time and remains incredible to this day.",
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"body": "Not sure if I could pick an absolute favourite... but Death at a Funeral is right up there. It's hysterical.",
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What comment of yours that went unnoticed were you most proud of? | Me first:
There was a post a while ago about how J.P. Morgan used to attack photographers who made fun of his deformed nose. I remembered from my high school class study of the "robber barons" that people used to joke "Johnny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue." After thinking a little bit, I posted this:
*Johnny Morgan's nasal organ has a purple hue.*
*If he dashes at your flashes, you'll be purple, too.*
No one cares about J.P. Morgan scandals, though, so it went unnoticed.
What's yours? | 4 | [
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"body": "[This one.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/anptz/what_comment_of_yours_that_went_unnoticed_were/c0iie00)",
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Made the mistake of taking her back after she cheated; one more broken heart and many months later and I just can't get right | I told the story here many times before when it was first going down, so sorry if this sounds familiar. The details hardly matter any more, I don't think, so I'll skim over it.
In short I fell in love with this girl when she was just a child and could not possibly imagine how manipulative and dishonest she'd grow up to be. I ended up following her to college when our initial plans of going to nearby schools didn't work out because she got rejected from all of them. We both hated the place, so we decided to transfer and tried again, and this time I had my sights really set on one of the best schools in the country. When she again got rejected from the places she applied nearby, she sat me down, crying, and begged me not to abandon her by transferring. I thought about it for a while, decided to take the chance and told her she was more important to me. I didn't send out my transfer apps, then at the start of the summer she got an acceptance letter from a school I didn't know she'd been seriously considering, and they gave her a tight deadline to reply, so she didn't even tell me about it until after she'd sent off her acceptance. I was obviously upset and deliberating breaking up with her when my little brother (who was honestly my best/sometimes only friend) passed away suddenly. I needed some support and we ended up staying together. Over the course of the next year when we were long distance, she'd have me do her homework so she'd have time to go out drinking. Even when I asked her to stay in and talk to me. We broke up for a bit, I felt guilty and asked her to take me back, we lived together for a summer, and two weeks after she went back to school she cheated on me, repeatedly, because she was too 'proud' to stay with someone who couldn't divine, after being together for three years, that she'd made the first drunken-mistake hookup. I figured out what happened, she felt guilty and spent the rest of that academic year telling me that if we stayed together, how perfect everything would be after that. She told me that all the cruel shit she'd said about how I was inattentive and didn't care about her unless she threatened to leave me, was really just so that I'd be able to get over her more easily. Yes, in hindsight, I should've seen how much of a psycho bitch she was. But I was excited by her promises to live with me the next summer, and at the end of the school year we drove out to where I got my internship. Or, started to -- her parents (who always hated me) said she was stupid to let me manipulate her into doing what I wanted her to that summer, and that they would stop paying for her school and essentially disown her. So she left. Me. Alone, on the opposite side of the country from anyone I'd ever known. But told me that she had to deal with her shitty relationship with her parents, and then she'd be back. Just, for now, she was too unstable to be in a relationship with anyone, but she really loved me and I was so strong for being able to wait for her. Then she stopped talking to me entirely, and when I pressed to find out why, it turned out that she started seeing someone else as soon as she got back to school. I was pissed and went legitimately crazy, I'd have done anything I could to hurt her or get revenge in some way, but it didn't help much and she got her father to threaten me so I eventually stopped (fortunately for her, before showing her school all the copies I had of the homework I'd done for her).
So that was at the start of the Fall. I took a semester off from school to sort shit out and work on one of my own projects. Ended up getting hired full-time back where I was over the summer. I'm (at least temporarily) dropped out but that doesn't really bother me. Now my life is perfect in pretty much every way. I love the city I live in. I love my job. I'm in the best physical shape of my life. I've removed all of these negative influences. I should be happy. But most of the time I'm haunted by these memories I have from when she wasn't such a crazy bitch, and just depressed that the girl I remembered ever could've turned out that way. I feel like it could be ages until I feel like myself again. I... don't really know what I'm asking here. Help? | 9 | [
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"body": "I sort of wrote that in a hurry (too much caffeine today, too little actual food) and forgot to mention... I think what bugs me the most about this is that for years I've been a big romantic/heart-on-the-sleeve kind of guy and this whole thing has really soured me to it. I don't believe in love like I used to. I could picture, maybe years in the future, being in a relationship and no longer feeling this way... but I can't see going through the dating/getting to know people/etc to get there, or even wanting to. Or what it would take to start trusting someone new, now that I've seen what can happen after years of thinking you could trust someone.\n\nBut then again, maybe I've just raised my bar a lot -- after seeing how much I gave up for so vile a person, just because I cared about the memories I made with her -- I'm hesitant to even take that chance again unless it's someone who I'm positive is worth it. Then again, I tend to set a lot of high standards for myself, and in the end that always works out for me. So maybe that's not so bad. Just.. god, never again will I settle for someone like her.\n\nBut damn it! I don't speak to her any more, I never want to see her again, I fucking hate her. So why can't I stop thinking of her?",
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"body": "Well, it's like the girl you knew died, didn't she? That girl is gone, don't go thinking about how she turned into this new person. The fact is, she is this new person and there's nothing you can do to change her.\n\nIt's depressing because you lost a very dear person and even more painful because she still similar to the girl you used to remember. IMO I think that you're going to need to go through the grieving process before you'll be able to let her go. Everyone grieves differently, so that is where my advice ends. \n\nIn a few years you won't be the same guy that loved the girl you remember, if that is any consolation. I feel for you, please feel better!\n\nEdit: I completely understand how you feel in your comment below. As in, I feel the exact same way right now. I think that part just takes time, honestly.",
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What is the most evil thing anybody else has ever done to *you*? | This is of course inspired by this topic
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/annoz/what_is_the_most_evil_thing_that_you_have_ever/ | 119 | [
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"body": "When I was like 13-16 I had braces and the orthodontist would fondle me. In plain site of his dental assistants, but he was able to shield this from the other patients by how the chairs and supply cabinets were arranged. I'm pretty sure his dental assistants were in collusion with him, as they would rub their tits into the side of my face when adjusting bands and wires. It was all sick. If I resisted, he used these things on me:\n\nhttp://www.kitaorthodontics.com/tools.htm#ten\n\nMost painful thing I've ever felt. Then when I figured the only way to make sure this would all stop was to really resist overtly, he \"accelerated treatment\" and ground down the enamel on my biting surfaces to get my bite even, rather than letting the orthodontics do their work for another six months or so.\n\nI remember visiting my regular dentist and the look on his face when he looked into my mouth and saw how the work had been botched. He had referred me to the orthodontist. I think he learned later the guy was a pedophile, drug abusing sadist.\n\nBefore braces I had never had a cavity. My teeth are OK now, but I know he fucked my mouth up pretty bad. Fortunately my current dentist is doing some pretty good cosmetic work and is a good listener, so she knows the history and really pumps in the novocaine before any serious work.\n\nThe guy really fucked me up sexually and I'm still dealing witih it 30 years later. I also knew at the time that he was doing even worse to other kids, but back then in the late '70's this was just something you didn't take to your parents.\n\nFortunately he is now dead. I think he may have touched the wrong person's kid cuz he happened to get his hands mangled in some sort of workshop \"accident\" or at least that's what it sounded like to me. He died a few years later. I read his obituary online -- turns out he had all these professional accolades.\n\nI know where his grave is and one day I will desecrate it.",
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"body": "It was new years eve a few years ago. Me and a couple friends were at a house party, and the ball is dropping. It was a pretty laid back place, so I offer everyone there a new year bowl to smoke, being friendly, and of course buzzing pretty good.\nAnyway, it turns out there was this \"gang\" of straight edge kids there, and they didn't like the fact I was being friendly and sharing my weed. I see a stream from across the room come at me and hit me in my eyes. Fucking mace. The real stuff. It was one of the worst feelings ever. Couldn't open my eyes for probably 2 hours, entire face was burning.\nApparently these kids like to jump people who smoke pot or get drunk. I hate straight edge people like that. Straight edge isn't just abstaining from drugs, it's about being a good person and leading a decent life, which I respect.\nAnyway, I thought that was pretty evil, especially since I was probably the jolliest one there, trying to spread the joy.",
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"body": "Ex-wife... She said she loved me, then made me go 30,000 in debt for her gastric bypass, lost weight, fucked a bunch of dudes, became an alcoholic, did drugs, beat the shit out of me, pissed on me as I slept several times (literally), beat me some more, fucked more dudes, got divorced, took everything I owned included my dog and cat which she killed...\n",
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"body": "One time during one of my Born Again Christian Dad's rage tantrums where he would knock books off shelves, throw whatever was handy (salt/pepper shakers, hot pots full of spaghetti, etc) across the room, he ended up hitting me so hard with the spine of a phone book that it knocked me unconscious. He left me bleeding on the kitchen floor for approximately 5 hours. When I came to, I had to peel my face off the floor because the blood had congealed/dried under my face. He left a note next to my head that said, \"Clean this mess up before you go to bed. Love, Dad.\" This was in addition to everyday torture and intimidation, in a town with no pity (ask me about the worthless police dept!) and where I had no friends or family to turn to.\n\nI stood over his sleeping frame for about an hour or two with a butcher knife thinking about whether or not to stab him to death. I finally convinced myself that I would figure out some way to graduate high school early and gtfo. He wasn't worth it to derail my potential future professional career. While I didn't make it to grad school or medical school (ask me about my summer of repeated sunstroke due to above mentioned individual), I did get out and away by 17 and haven't looked back.\n\nHaving a great wife has helped immensely. I wish everyone was so lucky.",
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"body": "There is an entire litany of evil that I have neither the energy nor the will to retread. For one specific incident, my father once drove me out to an abandoned mine and told me to find my own way home with nothing on but a t-shirt, shorts and a pair of sandals. I trekked through woods, rivers and swamps for a day and a half before I found a town where a friend lived. I was 10.\n\nNeedless to say, I was glad when my father finally left us two years later.",
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"body": "My brother abused me for years and I was unable to tell anyone because he would kill me. \n\nI'm sorry, did that damper your spirits? \n\nI had food and water hidden in my closet. I was locked in my bedroom for most of my childhood. I had to piss in jars. He would videotape the beatings and show his friends. I have repressed memories that still come back. I saw \"Open Water\" the other day. I wake up at night because I think I'm drowning. I had asthma as it was, but he thought it was funny to push my head under the water. It could have been three minutes for all I know, but it felt like hours. I guess it was funny though, right? I'm laughing because I can't sleep. \n\nI'm sorry. I'm sorry I fucked up so bad. I'm sorry I had to tell you. \n\nI had bruises in my hair and under my clothes. He would beat me so nobody could see the bruises in public. He would beat my dog if I didn't leave my room so I could get beaten. \n\nI have a drinking problem? It is my problem. Wow. \n\nIf people approach me, I shriek. Coworkers think it's funny. They'll try to get a startle out of me because I'll overreact. It is funny, I'm always laughing. I laugh with them because they aren't laughing at me. \n\nWow, I sure do feel a lot of pain, if I could feel. \n\nAt least I can draw. There wasn't much else to do in my bedroom. I remember I spent a month making this picture of Homer drinking a beer. I felt like I accomplished something, I can't remember too well. It no longer exists because of my brother, my blood. He's a teacher now. I'm a chemist. Maybe I'll order some ink toner and make crystal meth. I can't find a job as it is. \n\nI suppose I should stop focusing on the negative. Better be happy. Do you know what it's like to get beaten when you're asleep? You don't, unless you do. Do you know that I confuse pain with pleasure? Your mind wanders during the beatings. \n\nFuck you. ",
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"body": "A crooked pastor in Tanzania tried to get me arrested after I outed for him lying and stealing - He filed a police report saying I stole from him, he had immigration steal my passport, they then lied to the US Embassy about even knowing me, a friend paid to get my passport back, then on a tipoff I had 5 minutes to get out of my apt before the police showed up to arrest me. Thankfully I got a very fast ride to Kenya when I left. I hope that man chokes to death. Yes, I said it.",
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"body": "My (soon-to-be-ex) wife screamed at me the day my grandma died because I was being too withdrawn. It sucked.",
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"body": "my first roommate was a guy i met working at my first job, living in the first city away from my hometown.\n\ni had a friend come visit from out of town and, as the apartment we were living in was small, my friend and i stayed over at my mom's house through the duration of his visit.\n\nwhen i returned to my apartment, i found the majority of my belongings (anything of immediate value at least) missing: computer / stereo system / microwave / game console. \n\nhe said that he didn't think i was coming back and took my belongings over to his mother's house for safe-keeping. that seemed peculiar as his only mode of transportation was the bus.\n\na couple weeks passed and i came across the pawn receipts with my stuff and his signature. \n\nhis response : yeah? so what? what are you going to do about it? he then proceeded to physically intimidate me.\n\nneedless to say, my trust in people dropped immensely.",
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"body": "Even though this is a series of entwined incidents for the sake of argument I consider it as one grand evil act. In my catholic school when I was 9 we had our first sex ed class that was taught by our religion teacher. This woman had just gone through a nasty divorce and in what I later assume to be a punishment to all the *children* decided to what I know can only consider psychologically torture those of us who were devout (we were all taught and brought up in this school since we were 4).\nShe told us the generic information about how puberty affects systems, but with the twist that most natural bodily functions were an affront to God.\nThese ranged from the uncontrollable such as getting an erection or nocturnal emissions to the typical stance on masturbation, but with a greater emphasis on what I now know were uncontrollable responses.\n\nWhen I confessed my sins to our elderly priest he in fact did not take the opportunity to correct the misguidance on her part but instead took it as a prime opportunity to molest me and did so for approximately another 3 years during which due to my devout status and overall confusion as to the whole nature of sexuality and being in sin I accepted without reporting to anyone. After those three years the elderly priest died of a heart attack, and was replaced by another priest who never corrected me on the nature of the sins I had committed, but instead gave the usual litany about 10 Hail Mary’s and an our father response to everything as he was an interim priest.\n\nBy the time the next true pastor of our church came in I was 17, and had already started to have my faith erode out from under me given the nature of what I was learning in high school, but once a year I still did penance. It was at this time that the new priest turned around from the confessionals (we only had the kneelers not facing each other) and basically asked me who the hell told me that those things were a sin.\nSo I proceeded to tell him essentially this entire story and he was appalled. He offered me great counseling during that period and in the end I still wound up losing my faith over this chain of events for which he has never blamed me. \n\nThis single event messed me up for years and still does on some level to this day which is over 15 years later. The sheer amount of time I spent loathing myself for desecrating God’s words and laws as a child and the total amount of self loathing over that period has turned me into a very cynical person with a number of relationship and trust issues.\n\nWhen I finally opened up to my older sister about this she told me she had essentially the same story of the teacher who taught us sex ed. not the same material of course, but things like menstruation and the development of breasts and how when they were menstruating they shouldn’t take the Eucharist as they were unclean and unfit vessels for the lord our god.This caused her to lose her faith from the inherent abuses present within the system.\nI realize the grammar on this throwaway isn’t lovely, but for any really egregious errors my apologies I really do not want to proofread this.\n\nEDIT: A few readability things modified males to *children* as after my sisters story it made little sense to do that and some of the breaking points qgyh2 suggested. Sorry for the oddness I really did not want to reread this after I wrote it as it is to this day one of those decaying corpses in my closet.",
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"body": "I was jumped by three 6th graders while in 4th grade for refusing to give up my seat for them on the bus. The fucked up thing was, the school magically \"lost\" the video that showed these kids beating me up. Oh well, I've forgiven them a long time ago. The only thing is, now I'm probably overprotective of people who I feel are bullied, and it's gotten me in a quite a bit of trouble.",
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"body": "NSFW - b/f was eating me out and decided to suddenly blow in there like I was a balloon. It hurt like hell for days.",
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"body": "This is not actually the most evil thing someone has done to me, so it won't really compare to some of the other stories here... but it's the one that I'm willing to share.\n\n\nWhen I was young and really stupid, I went home with a guy from the bar (we'll call him Jim for the sake of simplicity), along with a bunch of his friends. They promised me they'd get me back to my car, which was close to the bar. It turned out that Jim wasn't from around here, but was staying at one of the friend's houses, outside of some tiny town that I had never heard of, like an hour away from where we were. Being drunk and in the mood for some lovin', and already halfway to the guy's house by the time they told me where we were going, I didn't care. \n\n\nThe house was a tiny one bedroom, Jim was planning to sleep on the couch, and the friend that owned the house spent all night loudly fighting with his girlfriend. All of the other friends left shortly after we got there, since it wasn't exactly a party atmosphere. Needless to say, Jim and I got absolutely no sleep because we were both trying to fit on the couch (his stinky feet were in my face), we didn't get laid, and things got really awkward throughout the night as we sobered up and I realized how stupid this all was. The guy's brother (we'll call him Tom) stopped by really early in the morning and offered to give me a ride home because he was going in the direction of my car, so I agreed to go with him.\n\n\nWe're heading towards the tiny town and Tom mentions that he needs to stop and get some cigarettes. As we pull up to the gas station, Tom recognizes someone that's sitting in a car, and they chat through their windows. Since I hadn't brushed my teeth and really wanted some gum, Tom asks if I'll grab his cigarettes while I go inside. He gives me the money, I grab my purse and head inside. I come back out two minutes later, and... he's gone. \n\n\nI think I must be losing my mind. I look around the corner, I wonder if I've just forgotten what his car looks like, I tell myself he must have just left for a minute. I can't comprehend that someone would just leave me there with no way to get home. I sit on the curb like a sad, pathetic panda for a good half hour. Thankfully my cell phone was in my purse and not in the leather jacket that I left in his car, so I tried calling cab companies in the nearest bigger city but couldn't convince anyone to drive all the way to where I was. I was finally able to get ahold of my best friend who drove to pick me up. The guy never came back in the hour and a half that I sat there. I've never been so angry and humiliated. AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET LAID. \n\n\nStill to this day I wonder how the guy convinced himself that it was okay to leave me there. I wonder if he told Jim that he had left me there, or maybe that was the plan all along. I wonder if they thought it was funny.\n\n\nLesson learned: Always drive your own car to a one night stand.",
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"body": "A \"friend\" I trusted online stole my WoW account that I had been building up for a year (~10 hours a day).\n\nIronically, though, due to the fact that it made me quit playing, this may have been the best thing that ever happened to me.",
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"body": "Okay wow some of these are way worse than mine, but here's my go:\n\nWhen I was younger I started going out with this girl and we dated for a long time (1.5 years, and this was while I was in middle/high school). We were really serious and we loved each other. First girl I'd ever said that to.\n\nThen comes around Christmas, it was the second Christmas we'd had has a couple and our 1.5 year \"half-iversary\" (her words) was Christmas Eve. I biked over to her house in the middle of the night and gave her my present for her: a $500 ring with her birthstone. I'd been saving up for a while (read: 8 months) and it was literally all the money I had (well, I got her a b-day present too, but that was really inexpensive). On my way there I got nicked by a car, fell down, and re-tore a scar on my knee. When I got there I gave her my present and all she did was cry.\n\nThe next day she called me and broke up with me, saying that it just wasn't going to work out. It killed me, and I was seriously depressed for a long enough time that my parent's sent me to a shrink to make sure I wasn't going to have a go at killing myself. It helped.\n\nFast forward to three months ago. I now have a girlfriend that I love more than I've ever loved anyone before, but my ex texts me and says she wants to talk over AIM. I get on and we start talking; we hadn't really talked at all since the breakup and I was over the fact that she dumped me, and knew that I didn't love her anymore. In fact, the only thing she had told me since then was that she had donated all the stuff I had given to charity, which I thought was kinda nice.\n\nWe get onto the subject of our relationship (you know how these things go) and she tells me that she knew our relationship was kinda falling apart at around 15 months, but that she just wanted to see how long she could make it last and see how much she could \"toy with my emotions\" (yes, literally a quote). She then went on to say that when it got to around November she really couldn't stand it any more but she really wanted her birthday present and Christmas/\"Half-iversary\" present as well, so she just put up with it to get them.\n\nYup, while I was dating the then girl of my dreams she was just using me a psychological experiment and to get money/presents. Also, I still have that fucking scar on my knee, she never gave me a present, and she didn't donate the shit to charity. Saw facebook pics of her wearing the ring and a necklace I gave her. What. A. Fucker.",
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"body": "I used to have this girlfriend when I was 15. Lets call her...Samantha. I fell in love with her and it was way too early to be doing that but I did it anyway. That part of my story is sort of typical, given the subject of this thread.\n\nWhat isn't so typical is that one day she told me there was something \"wrong\". I got out of her that it was that she was sick and dying. I vowed to stay with her through it because I loved her so much. She just didn't want a lot of people to know. That night I woke up crying over and over again out of grief.\n\nFast forward a few days..\n\nShe ended up breaking up with me via email because she said she didn't want to put me through everything, that I deserved better, that kind of shit. I was heartbroken and tried to tell her that I couldn't do that but never was able get a response out of her...she lived like 30-45 minutes away and I had no way to get over to see her.\n\nFast forward a couple months of me sitting alone at home by myself dwelling on such things.\n\nLater on I was talking to her on the phone (I eventually was able to get hold of her) and she revealed to me that she liked to go to parties and blow other dudes, etc. I didn't know how to react, I was drowning in grief and was emotionally drained. So I didn't. In the same conversation she tries to get me to hook up with her sister, which I had never even met.\n\nFast forward another few similar months. I think of nothing else during that time.\n\nI am talking to one of our mutual friends, and I had been under the impression from an email Samantha sent me that my darling was now in crutches. I wasn't sure if this friend *knew* yet and so I tip-toed around the subject trying to find out any updates.\n\nI hear that yeah, she actually saw Samantha not long ago, they had fun, etc. I assume she knows then. I ask how she is doing with being sick...my friend is confused as to what I mean. Samantha is fine.\n\nI still to this day have no idea why she did that to me. The last time I have spoken to her was in that phone call. She can't possibly imagine how much that hurt me. I don't know if I can really being to explain it, other than it fucked me up emotionally. \n\nOh yeah, and eventually I grew to be great friends with that mutual friend of ours I learned the truth from. Best of friends. We started dating, and then Samantha starts laying the guilt trip on her for dating an old boyfriend of hers, she is jealous ETC even though initially she had given the OK apparently. This eventually lead to us breaking up and losing the original friendship.\n\nAfter that I couldn't handle being in a relationship for like...6 years. I tried going on a few dates but just couldn't do it. True story.",
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"body": "Swallowed several capfuls of bleach and then talked to me about how it was my fault as I called 911. \n\nI just wanted to make her happy.",
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"body": "Back in 2002, I cheated with some guys gf while he was in hospital. I was a cook at a restaurant and was dealing drugs on the side.\n\nI’d call the loser up and go “Haha! I totally stole your girlfriend”.\n\nSomehow this dick got hold of my e-mail address and my password (Which was 1234).\n\nHe got in to my e-mail and found a picture of a friend and I hanging out.\n\nHe crafted an e-mail about me being a homo, and crap like that. What a fag.\n\nThe guy couldn’t write for crap.\n\nThe prick sent it to everyone in my address book.\n\n..But it got even worse.\n\nNeither my friend or I are homos. He was engaged to get married, and his misses thought we were hanging out to much anyway, so she believed the whole fucking thing.\n\n..but it got even worse, (Not better).\n\nMy mother had recently become a nun. She completely flipped out on me, going on about “Living a life of sin and lies”. Fuck the stupid bitch. I told her it was a hoax!\n\nNeedless to say, it caused a giant shit storm with everyone in my life.\n\nIt was pretty evil, and the guy who did it to me was an asshole loser, and I hope he fucking chokes.\n\ntl;dr - Guy was a dick who couldn't handle the fact that his girl thought he was shit in bed, he sent out ‘homosexual confession letter’ from my email. Misery ensues[.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/annoz/what_is_the_most_evil_thing_that_you_have_ever/c0ihxhm)",
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"body": "In my senior year of college I was returning home when my mom called me to tell me that I might not want to come home, because my dad was upset over the birthday gift she bought me. I guessed what it was pretty quickly since it was during the era of brokeback mountain remix trailers for every movie ever made. We had plenty of good laughs from those and she knew I would appreciate the gift.\n\nWhen I arrived home things seemed still. My mother and father were in separate rooms watching television. I purchased coconut pineapple ice cream from riteaid on the way home. I served them both and while serving myself I announced that I am ready for my gift. My dad immediately throws his bowl of ice cream at me and it shatters on the wall. I ignore it and nonchalantly say how excited I am for the gift. My mom brings it out amidst the commotion and my dad shouting his head off in the background about how against the gift he is. While unwrapping the package my dad grabs it from my hands and finishes the job. I thank him for helping out and take it back now that the packaging is sufficiently mangled. I remove the disc and ask if my parents are ready to watch it. My dad snatches the disc and attempts to mangle it the best he can. He looks quite silly doing this and after he stops I pick up the disc and proceed to place it in the dvd player and watch it. He is so upset now that he starts furiously throwing punches. I easily subdue him with a tight hug pinning his arms to his side and tell him I refuse to fight. He attempts to knee me in the groin and tackle me to the ground. I then release him and stand there with my arms wide open and a loving smile. He throws a punch and I slightly tilt my head to butt it into his fist. I don't feel a thing and when I look up he is holding his hand in visible pain. He leaves.\n\nThis was the first of four major incidents. The second incident ended with my mom hitting my dad in the back with a 6 foot 2x4 to get him to stop attacking me. The third incident ended with my dad walking 10 miles to my grandparents' (his parents) home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona after he grabbed the steering wheel while I was driving and tried to force us over a cliff. The fourth one ended with my dad spending the night in jail after I put him in a sleeper hold, dragged his semi-conscious ass outside, locked the door, and phoned the police. He threw the dog bowl through my bedroom window before they arrived.\n\nHe and my mother are divorced as of last march. He was diagnosed bipolar manic depressive. I love him very much. I know he has a lot of guilt and he is trying to better himself. I still feel uncomfortable when we are near each other for more than an hour, but I want to be able to accept him with warmth and kindness. He lives in a world governed by the magic of religion and ultra-conservatism and it is crashing down all around him. He is only beginning to deal with his issues in a rational manner.\n\nWhen he is able to sit down and view something like Brokeback Mountain with an open mind and heart I will know he has come a long way. On December 26th, 2009 my father, my aunt, my mother, my girlfriend, and I went to see Precious. I saw him cry a few times. I think that counts.",
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"body": "I said it [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/al6m6/whats_the_worst_thing_a_guy_has_ever_done_to_you/c0i6513), but when I was in middle school, two other guys held me as someone else kicked me in the face. It's the most evil thing I can think of right now.",
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"body": "Got sued for $16 million. Took 3 1/2 years and nearly a million to fight it. Total garbage, no merit to the charges, and it was thrown out. Screwed my life and put strain on my marriage -- I don't recommend it.",
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"body": "A few dollars was worth a lot to me when I was younger (maybe 9 years old). Around this time vanilla coke came out, and I've always wanted to know what it tasted like. My mother wouldn't buy me junk food so I was lift hanging for a long time. Luckily there was a vending machine at the school, and it had vanilla coke as one of the options. Right when I put my money in the machine, a kid I was playing with ran up and pushed the button for regular coke. I got so mad, but he just ran away laughing. ",
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"body": "Someone who had first approached me as a friend ended up tormenting me. First, he mocked my clothing. Then, he mocked my other friends. When he found out one of them was bisexual, he told me that I'm a hypocrite. He then guessed (accurately) that I'm bi myself. Now, every day, he tells me that I need to be castrated, have my neck slit, be killed, and burn in hell for committing such an atrocious sin against God. \n\nI almost killed myself because of this bastard. Just by talking about this, I'm finding myself crying about the hell he put me through.",
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"body": "My girlfriend of five years just told me she doesn't want a serious relationship and wants to date other people. I just moved across the country to be with her. I'm starting a new job on Monday, and really need to wow them in order to be hired on full-time. I'm going to be so depressed I don't know how I'm going to manage to even get up in the morning.\n\nGod, I feel like shit.",
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"body": "I hadn't had sex in 2 years and I finally hook up with this girl I've been in love with. I blow my load in like 30 secs and she says,\"Are you kidding me that's it?!\"\nDumped me shortly after.\ni've been scarred since. ",
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"body": "In a social studies class in high school, we had to break into groups to perform a task by the end of class. We were each told to take on one of the \"group roles\": reporter, leader, challenger, etc.\n\nAt the end, the teacher wrapped up the class by talking more about the group roles. She picked me out of the class and said, \"Now class, take Mr. nhlfan here for example. Would he make a very good leader? No, he wouldn't, because of [my personal traits].\"\n\nI was a somewhat shy kid in highschool who often didn't have many friends in my class. To pick me out like that and say that I wouldn't make a good leader was just garbage.",
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"body": "A former friend, whom I'll call Anne Margaret Lyons so as not to protect her identity, called my house and said that she had caught me in bed with her brother Max (BTW, Anne said this to my then-13-year-old sister). \r\n\r\nNow, there are three problems with Anne's story: \r\n1) I've never been caught in bed with anyone. \r\n2) I've never known anyone named Max. \r\n3) Anne only has sisters. \r\n\r\nShe denied having done it, even though my sister said the caller sounded exactly like Anne (nobody else who knew my phone number sounded even remotely like her!). I knew how Anne loved to lie to other people (friends, even), so I never spoke to her again. \r\n\r\nTHEN (this is the best part), 19 years later, Anne sends me a message via a social network site, saying, \"Hey! I've missed you! How have you been?\" and the like, apparently having forgotten that we didn't just \"lose touch,\" but that I stopped being friends with her due to this prank.",
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"body": "I've eluded to this tale in previous, unrelated threads, but I think this qualifies as \"evil\". Here goes. \nWhen I was but a toddler, my father left me and my mother to our own devices. Apparently the excitement of being with a couple of fast, loose women was more than one hayseed farm boy could take. Stranded in Everett, Washington, my mother worked whatever jobs she could manage to make sure we could stay at our meager apartment. \nBecause of her working schedule, she had to find a babysitter fast. This person turned out to be the guy that everybody else there trusted with their children. I'm guessing that the decision they made had more to do with convenience than anything else. The problem with this, of course, was that this man that everybody trusted so much was a disgusting pedophile. \nHe abused every single child that had been entrusted with him. All of us. Myself, my friends, kids that I didn't even get along with. We were all sexual pawns in his own personal, one-sided game of gratification. I'm still shaky on details, but I have distinctive impressions of his dwelling. The orange-brown-red-cream multicolor pattern of the carpet. The small staircase leading up into the areas where his desires reigned supreme. If you could help it, you *NEVER* went up those stairs. Unfortunate for those of us that were potty trained, the bathroom lay up that forbidden climb. \nIt's not like he didn't know exactly what he was doing. Just a couple years after he sexually abused all of us, he commited suicide, leaving as a suicide note a list of every child he ever abused. \nThe worst thing? To this day, I still think somewhere deep within me, that even though the sexual abuse caused me a tremendous amount of sexual and psychological anguish, that the suicide note with my name, as well as the names of thirty or so other children, is the thing that haunts me most to this day.",
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"body": "Hm.\n\nWhen I was 12 my brother decided that he'd tie me to a chair and kill our family cat in front of me. I told our parents when they got home from grocery shopping, and they didn't believe me. Rather than risk me convincing them, he decided to silence me, so he took it out on me by stabbing my thigh in my sleep with the same bloody pair of scissors he used to kill my cat and muffling my screams with a pillow. He said if I said another word to our parents about it, he would stab my neck next time. I know this was even more evil toward the cat, but it was pretty damn evil to me too, since the cat was my best friend.\n\nI miss that cat. :|",
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"body": "Told me they'd be there for me through a shitty time I was having and then a few days later told me she didn't want to be friends any more. A few more days later, trying to talk things out with her, she told me I repulsed her. I don't think there is a meaner thing anyone's ever said to me.",
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"body": "An old roommate was a cokehead and a thief. She stole my migraine medicine and my TV, but the most evil thing was when she tried to steal my cats. I found them in a barn and raised them from kittens; they're the most precious thing to me in all the world. I came home to them on a carrier in her car. She was inside, so I put them both in my car and drove away. I have no idea why she was doing it, but dude, do not mess with my anipals. I still have angry fantasies about what I would have done to her if she had taken them.\n",
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"body": "One of my stepfathers made 2 attempts to drown me. I was purely lucky to survive the first one, while he himself aborted the second in the process, saying something along the lines of \"Actually, it's between me and your mom. You have nothing to do with it.\" There was no room for luck this second time; I'd be plain dead and no one would find my remains.\n\nThis happened 30 years ago. I was wondering whether I should email and thank him for letting me live.",
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"body": "I was molested when I was in elementary school by a cousin whose house I would go over every day after school while my mom worked. \n\nI developed all sorts of anger problems, issues with depression, and weird sexual fetishes, and I'm pretty sure they all had something to do with my past.",
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"body": "My dad used to flush my head down the toilet when I was a kid on a regular basis for shits and giggles. He didn't care who was in the house at the time and did it in front of my friends, other brothers and sisters, even my mum. It really didn't matter. I remember one time when it happened and I was with a friend, we went back to his house and he told his parents, and they just laughed at my expense.\r\n\r\nIn my opinion though the most evil thing done to me ever was by the police. I was 10 at the time, and had been home for less than half an hour before they knocked on the door wanting to speak to me. They said that I'd vandalised someones car by spray painting it. Needless to say it was a lie, but they insisted I'd done it and came in to turn the screws. As you can imagine I was pretty upset by this with it being my first ever encounter with the filth and they were accusing me of something I hadn't done.\r\n\r\nAfter roughly an hour or so of being asked by the police to admit to it and being told to admit it by my useless parents, one of the two officers asked to see my parents on their own, so they left the room while I'm still sat at the table in the dining room with the other one. This officer then said to me he's going to tell me what to say for the statement, and that if I didn't go along with it my dad would lose his job and my mum would go to prison.\r\n\r\nFive minutes later my mum comes back into the room, and the copper starts his questioning, prompting me all the way with what to say and filling in details on the statement. At the end of that ordeal, he handed the statement over and told me to sign it at the top and bottom of each page, and to initial any corrections that had been made. Then they lectured me for a couple of minutes and they were on their way saying I'd get a summons in the next week or two. The officer that took my false statement even had the nerve to leave his card with my parents as they left.\r\n\r\nIn the end I was fined some small amount at juvenile court and as far as my parents were concerned that was the end of it, although it wasn't the end of it for me. (Somehow my teachers all knew about it the next day and used to bring it up, things like that.)\r\n\r\nNobody really believes me to this day when I tell them this story, and I don't care. This happened 20 years ago, but it's still clear in my head and I know what happened. I still remember the name of the officer that got me to confess, and I hope he dies an agonisingly slow death, preferrably of some horrible debilitating disease that takes a few years to progress.",
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"body": "My neighbor had two pit bulls. They were awesome, convinced me to get one when I finally got a dog. \nHe never had control over them, didn't keep them in check the way they needed. If they got loose, I usually did the neighborly thing and helped him catch them since I've got plenty of experience with that. \nOne night I hear him yelling for his dogs, so I head out to give him a hand. I walk down the alley were I hear the yelling come from, and I see him near his dogs, but they're not running from him. I had a feeling of dread and sprinted to them. My instinct was right. \nThey were eating my fucking cat. This asshole was standing there barely able to control one of his dogs while his other dog was gorging on my goddamn cat and his worthless fucking girlfriend standing there yelling at the dog to drop it like *that* is going to fix the problem. I ran up and cut off the dog's nostrils, forcing it to open it's mouth for just a second and I yanked my cat from its jaws. Limp. My cat is limp, lifeless. The one animal I love more than most of my family members is dead. \nI sat on the curb and held her. Stared at the hole in her stomach, the blood coming out of her mouth and nose, her beautiful fur ruined. I cried for a long time. I couldn't talk. \nMy girlfriend wanted to take the fucker to court. I didn't want that - my cat wasn't coming back no matter how much we tried. We decided to file a report with Animal Control just to cover our bases - we weren't trying to get a cent. Just wanted to make sure it was on record. \nAbout a week later the douchenozzle comes over while I'm working on my truck. Senor Fuckstick starts asking why I filed a report, why do I have to be an asshole about it, what's my fucking problem, trying to get up in my face about it. Seriously, dude? I mean, *really?!* \nWe've since moved and we let our landlord know that it was because of him. She evicted him because of it. I know where he lives now. Not sure if I'm going to use this knowledge. \n[RIP Girl.](http://imgur.com/DaR6Gl.jpg)",
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"body": "My girlfriend cheated on me two different times when I was in hospital. When I asked her why she just said \"because\".",
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"body": "Ugh. My brother did meth for a couple years while I was in late middle school and early highschool. He would scream and threaten me if I changed a channel on a tv or used the computer. He claimed he would use both TVs and the computer while he wasn't even home. I remember making a sandwhich and brought it to my room, and he decided I was hiding something from him so he punched a hole through my door and started screaming at me. Oh, also about once a week he would kill crows and hang them from trees in our suburban yard. I don't know how the hell my parents were able to deal with that shit. But the worst, by far the worst, was when I went to visit some relatives. I was a senior accepted into a really great engineering school, and he was a 23 year old working at subway who spent a half semester in a bad college when he was 18. My relatives asked what he was planning for his future, and he said he wanted to be a chemical engineer. Two seconds later they asked me, and I responded with the same thing. I was fuming on the inside when they told me I was following in my brothers footsteps. ",
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"body": "A little kid told his parents I'd harassed him while babysitting, just because he didn't like me. I haven't trusted kids since.",
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"body": "I was three years old.My parents were immigrants working two jobs each so I stayed with a nanny at her house during the day along with other kids.I used to arrive there at 5 am still sleepy of course and before I should go back to bed, I went to the loo but since she was in a hurry to get back to sleeping, she would pressure me to be quick taking a poop, when i wasnt she would just pull up my undies and pants without cleaning me and i would spend the rest of the day all messy and stinky.I ended having incontinence problems till I was 10 wich brought me many humiliations at school and other public places to the frustration and anger of my parents.She would beat me with a martinet.she wouldnt give me water to drink until soon before my mom arrived to pick me up.She and her teenage kids would have fun putting other kids against me and one time the kids locked me for what felt like forever in a dark compartiment in the garden.Once my mom came earlier than expected and found me sitting alone at the entrance gate while everybody was eating ice cream in the backyard and another time she found me with the red imprint of an adult hand on my cheek wich my nanny blamed on a poor little kid who was as much a victim of all that bullying as I was.They ended finally pulling me out of that place when we encountered the nanny in the supermarket and I ran screaming away begging not to be taken to the nanny´s house. That was only the first chapter of bullying in my childhood.When I was about six my parents decided to move to social housing neighborhood to save money on rent.There, I was bullied by the kids of the place. every toy that I would bring to the street to play with would be stolen from me.I would be thrown stones at and once I was forced to drink pee and afterwards thrown into a garbage dumpster.The worst thing that happened to me in that place wasnt event that:Once i was playing in some bushes when two teenagers accosted me and they were holding this terrified girl with them.I´d seen her before,malnourished dirty pitiful 11 year old girl everybody treated like trash.I was six, the boys grabbed me, undressed me from the waist down and fondled me.They then tried to make me penetrate the girl who they also undressed but I didnt understand what they wanted me to do to her not having learned about the birds and the bees yet.I will never forget the sheer look of terror in her eyes.I managed to run away before anything else could happen.My parents never knew about this. I managed to remain a good student and \"normal\" kid until I started college but at 19 with so many changes in my life after high school i started feeling the toll of keeping this all to myself. I was diagnosed at 22 with clinical depression and obsessive compulsive disorder stemming from those traumas. I am 27 now. I will finish college next december, I hope. Never got a girlfriend though I have made many good friends over the last years.Actually, i have never had so many good friends as I have now and for that I am thankful.\n\ntl;dr: I was physically and emotionally abused by a nanny when I was 3 and suffered all kind of bullying throughout my childhood.\n",
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"body": "I lived in a large house in New Orleans with a bunch of my friends one summer while in college. For some reason our air conditioning would constantly fail if the temperature outside was 90 degrees or higher, which over the course of a New Orleans summer, meant almost every other day. This would lead to our house becoming unbearably hot (our thermostat maxed out at 108 degrees F, but it was definitely bent meaning that the temperature could consistently be higher than that). Each floor had its own A/C unit, so that only added to the frustration. During mid-July I had to go out of town for a week, and no one else on my floor was in town either. Conveniently, our floor's A/C died as it always did and no one in the house felt it was a priority to get it fixed because it didn't directly affect them in any way. Upon my returning to town I found a nice little present left in my bathroom by a downstairs roommate: he had shat in my bathroom and not flushed it about an hour after I had left. On top of this, it had festered in over 110 degree F heat for the entire week while I was gone. The rancid smell was indescribable, and took probably a week to dissipate. It was so brutal that I couldn't step foot into my room to even flush it without having to put on a gasmask we had lying around from when we bug bombed our house. That was the single must evil thing that has ever been done to me.\n\ntl;dr: While out of town one of my housemates shat in my bathroom when it was over 110 degrees inside during summer in New Orleans, and let it sit for a week until I came home.",
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"body": "When I was about twelve, before I was scheduled to have braces put on, I had to get three baby teeth pulled (originally was four teeth, but one managed to become loose and I pulled it out before the appointment). The dentist had a bad habit of not listening. He had numbed up both sides of my mouth, two teeth were coming out on the left, one on the right. Right tooth came out fine, first tooth on the left side starting hurting a lot.\n\nI guess he didn't put enough numbing solution in my gums. I told him about this, and how it was hurting a lot, but he pushed my hands down to the armrests of the chair, and took the pliers to final tooth, and gave it a good twisting. By this time, I was leaving a pretty good impression of my fingertips in the leather armrest covers. All three teeth removed, I'm tearing up a bit from the experience.\n\nFast forward four years later, I had recently gotten my braces removed. My gums had become swollen from who knows what (orthodontist just said \"brush\", dentist said \"buy this $100 solution\"), and I was scheduled for laser gum removal by the dentist. I'm sweating, recalling the horrible teeth-pulling experience years before. The assistant numbs the right side, where most of the problem areas were. The laser starts, and I don't feel a thing. I'm relieved.\n\nStarting from the front-most premolar on the upper righthand side, the dentist starts getting closer towards the left side, which hasn't been numbed in the least bit, save for a swipe of some pink gel (novacaine? not in the needle, just some gel on a cotton swab). Second by second, I feel the laser slowly burning away my gums, as they get closer and closer to where the novacaine didn't reach. I start waving my hands for the dentist to stop, even grabbing his wrist and pulling it away from my mouth and telling him that it was not numbed. I was again told to sit it out because they were almost done. At the end of the day, I'm questioning his practice entirely, with charred gums, and a slight fear of future visits to him.\n\nNow, my family has switched to a new family of dentists, who spend most of their time asking if things are going okay, now that they've heard my history.\n\n\nEdit: Had another procedure recently to lance a pilonidal cyst. Got a few shots, still felt the blade slice the top of my crack. Nice doctor, he stopped immediately, gave me more than enough anesthetic the second go round, and didn't feel a thing from then on.",
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"body": "When I was 6, I developed a condition in my eyes that caused painful [Chalazions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalazion) or \"bumps\" on my top or bottom eyelid. Sometimes after one would heal with medication, almost immediately another would start forming on my other eye. The condition would also go dormant for months and just when I started to feel normal, I felt the familiar twinge of one coming. Luckily I never had two Chalazions at the same time. The treatment I received from my doctor consisted of antibiotics (which help some of the time) and allergy meds that I didn't need. If nothing worked, surgery was my only option. When I did, I was awake when the doctor sliced the bump out of my eye.\n\nSchool was the last place I wanted to be. It wasn't a normal day until someone asked who hit me or told me I was ugly; I learned to accept this. My friends helped me fight back, but even they didn't want to be tormented like I was. However, words weren't enough until my peers began channeling the verbal prejudices into physical harm. Now I had dirt and small pieces of gravel thrown at me \"to see if they could scar my face\", I was chased off the playground, and probably the worst being when three bigger kids fell on top of me and beat me while I struggled to get out from underneath them. My school wrote it off as \"kids being kids.\" I trusted no one.\n\nThen on my 13th birthday, everything changed. For the next few months I kept my fingers crossed that I wouldn't feel that twinge of pain and I didn't. It almost seemed like my condition never existed. I focused on improving my appearance and became versed in makeup to cover up the scar on my top left eyelid. Although I was self-conscious, I was slowly coming out of my shell until I met Josh. We went to the same grade school, weren't friends, but knew of each other. He would pick on me in class and I would get mad, but when he admitted he had feelings for me and asked me out, I said no. He begged me until I accepted; I wanted to give someone a chance when others never gave me one and I thought it would be a step towards trusting others.\n\nAs the rain fell the next day, Josh greeted me with a bittersweet, almost victorious grin. That's when he admitted that he was dared to ask me out and dump me the next day because he \"never turned down a good dare.\" I felt myself shatter but instead of crying, I screamed and hit him as hard as I could over and over again. I wanted him to feel my anguish and embarrassment, wishing for karma to take care of the rest.\n\nA year later, Josh was riding his bike at night, high on Marijuana when he was struck head-on by a car; he was put on life support and never regained consciousness. After he died, I said, \"I hope you're happy now.\"\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Carefully constructed a website with simple up and down arrows that I would spend the rest of my life clicking. Losing friends family and weight in result.",
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"body": "It's not the most evilest thing for sure, compared to the wide scope of evil things that can happen out there... but here it goes.\n\nBack in high school, I had a pretty messed up triangle relationship with this girl and this other guy. Let's call them Jane and John - we were all pretty good friends with each other.\n\nSo I've liked Jane for almost a year but never went out with her formally. I was almost obsessed with her. I know that she likes John but after a years worth of effort, I've finally gotten an answer from her that she prefers me over John and would like to make this formal. It was a long and hard battle but I felt like I've won over the world.\n\nThen, I believe it was just a day afterwards, John had a little party at his apartment (he lives alone) and I didn't go because I don't like going over to his place for reasons explained below. Jane went, and because it got pretty late she decided to stay overnight at John's. She promised me nothing would happen.\n\nThe next morning it was raining shit storm (I remember this well), and I called to check on her. She was pretty weird and sounded upset... I knew something had happened. As I was walking her home from John's place, I learning what has transpired on the way. Turns out John woke up in the morning and was feeling pretty uppity, and insisted that they should do it. For whatever reason, or maybe she still loves John more, she agreed, did the deed, and regretted immediately afterwards (as I was told). She was a virgin...\n\nNeedless to say I was devastated. I couldn't even make full sentences without choking up. I swear I loved her and she was the one for me. The fact that I was betrayed by both my love and my friend at the time was heart breaking - it was nothing like I've felt before. So far, this doesn't sound like any epic story, I know, but here me out...\n\nThe twist here is that, John is a closet gay. Rewinding the time two years or so before the incident happened - He had came out to me and confessed his love for me. I told him there's no way and we could still be friends (we were like best friends). He wasn't okay with that and got pretty obsessive... that's when I decided I had enough and broke off all contacts with him. A year later, I met Jane, and because of the circle of friends she has, John is there as well (i.e. she liked him, alot). He seemed fine and is over with whatever that was between us (nothing), so we became good friends again... which led to this incident.\n\nAfter the incident, he apologized for what he did and he seemed sincere about it. But I'm sure deep inside he had another reason, and I know because he isn't even remotely interested in women. He told me he had done it with another girl before and he didn't even enjoy it, and that was before I even knew he was gay. If I know John, and I know him pretty well, then he had taken Jane away from me because he wanted me to feel that she doesn't love me, and that the devastation of mistrust and betrayal would prove that only he is the one for me.\n\nThe worst part of it? Jane moved away a few months after that. It was only another year later I'd learn that Jane was pregnant and had to get an abortion. Her life's been kinda messed up ever since (dating other guys getting dumped, turning into a lesbian... etc).\n\nSo there you have it. As an adult, in hindsight, the incident doesn't really seem like a big deal... but as a teenager and when you really believed you loved someone so dearly, that she is the one, only to lose them to another friend in this manner... that's a shitty thing to happen to a teenager.\n\n**tl;dr** - A gay friend of mine seduces the girl of my dream and slept with her, so that he can destroy our relationships and have me all to himself (at least he believes so), because he's got the gay for me.\n\nEdit: Shit I need to write shorter and better. TBH though, this is more like the most evil thing John's done to Jane instead of me.",
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"body": "this ass monkey tried blackmailing me the day i went to college because he thought i stole this kids Zune but i didnt, and he put a letter in my mail at my parents house telling them \"everything i did that summer\" including drinking with people and doing all kinds of drugs and sneaking over to my girlfriends house to have sex. my dad read it and said it was the most retarded thing hes ever seen and sent it to me and didnt get mad at all.\n\nif i ever see that kid again i would try to kill him. i couldnt help myself.",
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"body": "I don't know if you guys will believe me, my own family didn't for for a long time... For more than eight years an evil monkey lived in my closet. I could never sleep and I got bad grades because every time I wanted to study the monkey would freak me out. Eventually the monkey and myself became friends, but until than I felt like I was being violated every time I was in my room by myself.",
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"body": "So far down, doubt anyone will read this, but I had a pretty miserable youth.\n\nI don't know why, but a friend of my brother's at the time was always a real asshole to me. Whenever we were hanging out in a group, he would get everyone to gang up on me one way or another. One time, there were about 8 of us sleeping in the basement at my house, when they decided to have \"spit wars,\" which meant turn out the lights and everyone spit on me. That was a *real* fun three years. >_>\n\nHe's still friends with a bunch of my old friends, and he's matured since then. He came up with my room mate a few nights and we just spent the night drinking and hanging out. After talking with him for a bit I saw him as significantly less intimidating as he was when I was 13.",
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"body": "I don't know that I would completely call it evil, but it was one of the more fucked up things that's ever happened to me; certainly my biggest regret, and most tear-my-eyes-out emotional experience.\n\nI met this guy online. I know, you know how it ends. Except... you don't. He was an artist I worked with on DeviantArt, a guy who I wrote music with. Well, he died. Another friend messages me and says \"hey, you won't see him around - he did himself in.\" We start talking, and I find out the first guy had a twin brother. We start talking. We make music together, we talk about our lives, we *mesh*. He is in Jersey, I'm stuck in the south. We talk about meeting. Nealry 1 year into this, I find something that confuses me. It's an active profile off a social networking site for the dead brother. He's posting comments on other people's pages, he's updating his music lists, the whole 9 yards. Keep in mind that I've talked, at one time or another, to every person in their tight group of friends (about 8 people in all). \n\nConfused, I confront the twin (living, not dead). He confesses - he isn't who he says he is. He stole the identities of the entire group of people, and created fake profiles for them on various sites. He has been regurally hacking into their computers and stealing music, poems, artwork, letters, everything. I break down, sobbing hysterically, completely unaware of everything around me. \n\nI couldn't believe that a person could do that kind of shit. I hate to say it Reddit, but I was in *love* with this guy. I know it sounds stupid and immature (which hey. I guess it was), but he was my first love, and he wasn't even real :(",
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"body": "An ex who always went on about how people should do the right thing broke up with me using facebook by changing her status to \"single\".\n\nA second ex cheated on me while I was in basic training. ",
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"body": "Ok, I never managed to confirm who actually orchestrated this, but the way it went down it seems I was betrayed by someone who I thought was my best friend.\n\nI was 15 at the time and the story begins one weekend when I have the house to myself and my parents and sister are away for some reason, I forget why. A friend of mine comes over and we decide to go and get a video from the rental store. We walk down there and at the store we meet up with a couple of girls we know from school, one of them is called Debbie, and she's (one of?) the hottest girls in school. As far as I knew she was going out with this mental dude.\n\nEven so, I end up inviting her and her friend back to my house and we manage to score some booze on the way back too, their idea. When we get back to my house my friend starts chatting in the hallway with Debbie's friend and so Debbie and I go into the lounge and are horsing around, she's teasing me with my cigarette pack and I'm climbing on her, on the couch, playfully trying to grab them back, I just decide it feels right, so I kiss her on the lips, and she kisses me right back, shoving her tongue into my mouth. Without getting all penthouse letters on you, we end up snaking our way off the couch and around the back of it, so we're underneath the dining room table, pulling each others clothes off... [CENSORED] ...After about an hour, we finish, and suddenly she starts going crazy about her BF and as soon as she sees her friend she immediately starts crying and saying the BF's name.\n\nAt that age, I don't really understanding the mechanics of crying foul/fake rape, so I have absolutely no idea what is happening, and I'm just feeling all awesome after what was amazing hour long sex. My friend too doesn't understand, and is amazed at what's happening. \n\nAnyway, the girls leave pretty fast, (by the way all of what took place happened within minutes of arriving at my place, there was no alcohol consumed or anything I've left out, aside from the graphic details of mutual underage sex.)\n\nAgain I don't understand the risk that I'm under at this point and call up one of my friends on the phone and say, \"Guess who just fucked me!?\" ... and tell him her name... He's completely shocked and says \"No fucking way!!! what about ______?\" (the BF). I say \"she didn't seem to care about that until suddenly after...\" .. he simply says, \"Oh shit... you're in the shit.\"\n\nFor a while nothing happens, then after a few weeks, I start to realise that there are rumors flying around, and one day a bunch of girls from school are walking past my house and one says \"There's that guy who fucked Debbie.\" At 15 I'm just proud as hell that anyone thinks I'd had sex, (did I mention it was my first time?)\n\nThen a few days later I see my friend who was at the house, and Debbie and her friend who was also there, the atmosphere is weird, and Debbie says I mustn't tell anyone, or she'll say I raped her.\n\nI'm pretty shaken at this, but don't really understand what rape is at this age, and the implications of what she's saying, I tell her the truth, that even though I'm hearing these rumours and whatnot, I'm not telling anyone anything, and will make sure I don't give anything away.\n\nShe says she just doesn't want her BF to get mad about it, and she's sorry if I think she's threatening me. I'm pretty clueless and I just like her, and I'm kind of weirded out by the whole thing, but I'd realised pretty much right after that she was just fooling around with me, and that I didn't mean anything to her.\n\nAnyway, a few more weeks go by, and my best friend is talking to me, and says... \"why didn't you tell me?\"... I try and pretend I don't know what he's talking about, but I cave in and grin at him, and say \"Sorry I was supposed to keep it a big secret.\" ... \"You're talking about Debbie, right?!\"\n\nHe laughs and says don't worry about it, I also know at this point that he's been loose friends with the BF for a while, and I find out that he's been getting into fights, well, actually just random beatings with the BF and other dudes. At that time I felt like I didn't really know him anymore, and he was getting into the football violence thing.\n\nFor whatever reason, naivete for want of a better word, red lights do not flash in my head. They should've.\n\nAbout a week after this, we are all out, including Debbie and her BF, and her friend is also there, she has a quiet chat with me at some point in the evening, telling me that he knows what happened and is going to \"do me over\". That evening though, nothing happens and everyone is just acting normal, I'm not close with the BF and so I don't have much to do with him.\n\nOne week later, this is when it all happens.\n\nI'm out with my \"Best Friend\" just us two, and we are walking to no where in particular, but in an area we don't normally go. Everything seems normal, and we walk by a pond that heads into a housing project. When we get to the project, suddenly the BF appears with about 20 or 30 other \"mates\" and I'm suddenly surrounded. My \"best friend\" is no where to be seen...\n\nAll of them have pieces of wood, chair legs, etc... \n\nThe BF walks up to me from the circle and points his block of wood in my face... \"Did you fuck Debbie?\" ...\n\nMe: \"Er... no, what are you on about?\" \n\nHim: \"Well, I keep fucking hearing about how you fucked Debbie.\"\n\nMe: \"Well, I don't know how that rumor got started, fucking look at me, why would she fuck me?\"\n\nHim: \"Well, if I hear about it one more time, I'm going to fucking kill you.\"\n\nMe: \"Ok, well you won't hear it from me\"\n\nI turn around to walk away, and from the corner of my eye I see him begin to take a swing with his chair leg.\n\nI reflexively bring my hand up to block it, and it smashes into my hand, breaking it. I draw my and up to my face to protect my hand, and turn a little more to face him. He brings the chair leg down again across my head, but I'm already in shock so I don't really react.\n\nThe chair leg shatters into pieces on my skull and all he has left in his hand are a few splinters... This has visibly scared him, since the blow didn't appear to have any effect and the pain in my hand is probably making one mean fucking face on me.\n\nSo he says, \"If I hear about this again... \" and he sort of waves the splintery bits in my face... and turns back to his circle.\n\nAll these fuckers just stand there, I'm too busy holding my hand, and with luck a couple of my other friends have wandered up seeing all the lads crowded around me, I see them and simply walk away.\n\nAnd that was the end of that.\n\nWell, except the fact that I was too much of an idiot to realise that my \"best friend\" had led me up to that, and I think they all imagined it would be a lot worse for me.\n\nBunch of pussies.\n\nEDIT: **TL;DR**...\n\nWhen I was 15, I hooked up with a girl when she was either split from or just randomly cheating on her BF, after threatening to cry rape if I told anyone, it all went quiet, my \"best friend\" found out and then ratted me out to her BF and led me to what was supposed to be a mass beating. My extremely robust noggin saved the day and I ended up walking away with just a broken hand.\n\nEdit: fixing typos.",
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"body": "Raped under the influence of alcohol. It took me a very long time to admit to myself that it was indeed rape, because it was someone I know and had been friends with. Also, when I was 15 I was in a really horrible car accident and almost died. A male nurse came into my hospital room as I was sleeping and started fondling me. I woke up in the middle of it and started kicking him until he went away. I told my mom about it and I'm not really sure she believed me because I had been hallucinating A LOT due to all of the painkillers I was on. I started to doubt it myself, but then he came back into my room a couple of days later to restock some bedsheets and said, \"Don't worry, I'm leaving.\" A cold shiver goes up my spine just thinking about it. I try to be aware of these things, accept them, and not let them fuck me up sexually. It's not fair to my husband. ",
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"body": "Pretty sure this ended up worse for my boyfriend but here's the story.\nI was young, he was my first love, problem was he was older than me. I confided in my best friends that he took my virginity and in a jealous fit they all went to their youth pastor and told him all sorts of crazy lies like he was satanic and forcing me to do coke etc. But the one truth was his age. The youth pastor called the cops, cops called my house, he was charged with child molestation and my parents had to testify to keep him out of jail. To this day, of course, he is on the registered sex offender list. I lost my first love, what I thought were my friends, and the respect of my parents. I seriously considered attempting suicide but luckily for me I wasn't that dumb. ",
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"body": "My girlfriend of 3 years left me out of the blue over a phone conversation at 9AM when I called her to wish her a Happy Valentines Day. I was stunned. I realize this was the most devastating emotional event in my life, but I'm still not able to hate her, and we still occasionally talk, almost 3 years later. I have immense trust issues with women and I can't commit to anyone, and I expect it stems from this relationship.\n\n*sigh* What a downer conversation!",
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"body": "Some bastard shot me in Reno and watched as I rolled around in pain. He got bored pretty quickly though. ",
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"body": "This wasn't done to me, but to my sister, yesterday. She's the sweetest, kindest person you would ever meet, and she's also a cop. She's one of the few people who chose the profession because she wants to eliminate crime (no power trips here). She's authoritative when she has to be, but not in an abusing sort of way.\n\nAnyway, she went out to dinner with my parents at an Italian restaurant near her house last night. After they were seated, she mentioned to my parents that she'd had run-ins with a few of the waitresses there - one had crashed her car while drunk and my sister had to take her to jail for DUI. Another waitress had gotten into a domestic dispute with her boyfriend and neighbors called the cops (including my sister) to their apartment to resolve it. Neither of the waitresses was waiting on my sister and parents, so she didn't think anything else of it.\n\nAfter my family placed their order, their waitress brought out a large antipasta salad for them to share. They were almost finished eating it when my sister notices something sticking out from the bottom of the plate. She clears the salad away and sees jagged pieces of wood mixed in with the lettuce. When she realizes what could have happened if she or my parents had mistakenly eaten the pieces with the salad, and that the waitresses were likely to blame, she burst into tears. Now she's afraid that she won't be able to return to the restaurant, and even more worried about the repercussions of her actions at work on her and her family.\n\nI know that Reddit likes to trash cops, and I'm with you most of the time, but if someone commits a crime or is involved in a dispute that warrants the police being summoned, it's not the cop's fault. And it's definitely not a reason to try to harm a cop.",
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"body": "So, I was in this really abusive relationship for years. My boyfriend did a lot of drugs and hit me, stole my money, cheated on me, so forth and so on. I lost my mom when I was 16 and had a lot of abandonment issues and was just pretty much a mess at that point. Anyway I ended up getting pregnant and decided to have an abortion. There was no planned parenthood facility close by so I had to go to a place and pay around $800 bucks for the procedure. The day before I was to to to the clinic, my boyfriend took all $800 bucks and bought heroin with it. \r\nThat was just one of many of the messed things he did to me. ",
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"body": "A handful of middle school socialites with significant influence devoted themselves to ending a platonic friendship I really wish I still had.",
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"body": "Three years ago, my parents' house was robbed for a safe which contained $35,000 in cash, jewelry, keepsakes and other personal, sentimental things, a handgun, titles to the house, car, boat, all our birth certificates, and other sorts of personal documents. My parents have not been the same since...",
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"body": "I don't know if this is actually the *most* evil thing anyone's done to me, but my mother read my journal cover-to-cover when I was about 17. When she told me, she said that she was \"drawn in by it\" and \"couldn't stop reading it,\" as if that justified looking in the fucking journal in the first place. Then she talked to me about how I'd cut myself a few years earlier and what I'd written about it. I still don't trust her.",
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"body": "When I was a kid, I had a crush on the same girl from 5th grade till 7th grade. During 7th grade, I went to one of my friends birthday party in which I told him who my crush was. Note that all my friends knew who it was already except for him for two reasons: 1) he wasn't that close of a friend really and 2) He has a big mouth(not literally). Being a good friend, I told him 'cause I didn't want to leave him out plus I already knew who he liked. Anyways, he blabs to my crushes best friend. Word gets out and the whole school knows(well my grade at least). I have her in all my classes including band. I got teased of how I didn't have a chance with her. She thought I was weird and practically avoided me throughout middle school even though we were good friends. \n\nMiddle school sucked : /",
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"body": "I have never told anyone this so you are in a treat. Not really though it saddens, and angers me that I was a doormat.\n\n6th grade was the absolutely the worse. I would be picked on everyday and I would secretly cry and tell everyone that my day was good. I was playing soccer with some kids that would mess with me and this kid kept teasing me over and over again. I said are you gay because you keep on talking to me. He grabbed me and [DDT'd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT_(professional_wrestling)) me on the ground. No adults saw what happened and I didn't know what to do. I never got in trouble and a fight is a big no no. I was holding my neck and the top of my head. I felt pain that I have never felt before and I didn't feel right. One of the yard duties saw me in pain and told me to go to the nurse's office. I don't remember the walk there but the kid who ddt'd me was there too and I don't know why. He was in the nurse's office with me and he was joking about the whole thing. Acting like we were the best of friends and we simply ran into each other while playing soccer and I got hurt. I never told my parent's because they would have done something, and I would have been the tattletale and would be put through more hell. That fucker I will never forget, and I would love to have payback. It wouldn't surprise me if he was in jail though. As for the other kids that tormented me, one is still a douche and the others apologized for making fun of me. That is probably the best payback ever. Well maybe they were scared because I shot up to 6'3 and weigh 270. ",
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"body": "Been dating a girl for about a year. She's wonderful. People tell me I'm wonderful because of her. She's looking around at where she wants to go to college. I'm ambivalent about taking that particular path. We fill out applications together. It's all very cute. She really wants to go to BU. UTK is our back-up. Some others for shits and giggles. We both get accepted to UTK. I get accepted to BU, she doesn't. I didn't open any of the other letters and just said I didn't get in if she asked. My mom, fished one out of the trash that she found really exciting, but I stopped her before she could tell me which one. Never told her that.\n\nWe get an apartment together in Knoxville that neither of us can afford individually. We shop for furniture together. It's all sweetly domestic. A short while after classes start she tells me she doesn't think she wants to be together anymore. It occurs to her that she's in college as a college student and that the whole long term relationship thing is a bit of a problem to her concept of what that means. Did I mention that one of us moving out wasn't an option?\n\nEventually our lease runs out. Since we've actually had to work out how to live together, there's an agreement to part on more-or-less friendly terms. To simplify lugging our shit around she convinces me to move into this same suite/dorm style apartment complex/compound elsewhere in town. I wait to find out what building she's in. I get a room at the opposite end of the complex. Never told her that, either.\n\nInvite each other to any parties we or our roommates might be having. Infrequently I play scary male friend on call and designated driver if she and her friends all want to get drunk. She tries to sleep with me after I take her home on these occasions. I usually do.\n\nHer roommate asks me to help have a chat with her about why it's uncool and awkward to bang a neighbor. Fortunately neighbor's gotten enough before we get around to it. Unfortunately, expected awkwardness ensues. In rebound she starts wanting to spend a lot more time with me over at my place. \n\nThen she notices this really hot guy in one of her classes. She's learned from awkward neighbor so engineers so group/social things to get other people's opinions. Pretty well agreed guy is a creepy piece of shit. She goes for it anyway, but he's not interested, so she wants to spend some more time with me again. Then the end of school-year shuffle occurs, there aren't enough people living in her suite, so she's told by the complex that she'll have to hunt up some more roommates or move. She decides she wants to move as far away from the awkward neighbor as possible... which means my building. Different floor at least.\n\nWe spend a lot of time together over the summer. School starts back up. She develops an interest in another guy in one of her classes. We don't talk for a few months. Birthday in January, she mention she's doing something for it. I figure her deal with the classmate has run its course or didn't work out so now she wants to hang out again. Turns out she invited the other guy making it pretty clear she'd jump his bones if he so much as showed up, and invited me in case he didn't. This only becomes clear as the evening wears on, the other guy hasn't shown up, and she's starting to interject herself into any conversations I might be having with female people. I go home shortly after working this out. She ends up hooking up with a guy from the next building over instead.\n\nHe's actually a really nice guy. He drinks way too much, but otherwise solid and fun. They date for a while. They drink way too much. I briefly tutor him in calculus. I infrequently serve as designated driver. She usually asks if I'll stay and put her to sleep on these nights. I decline these offers less often than I should. She gets pregnant. Tells him, he bursts out crying. Tells me, I offer to accompany her to the clinic. She gets an abortion. Calls me afterwards so she doesn't have to be alone.\n\nEnd of school-year shuffle. We're both told to find new roommates or move. I've been in the same place for two years and have become rather entrenched. She doesn't want to lug all her shit around again, either. Mutual friend from back when we were first dating is moving into town. Tada! She and the mutual friend take two rooms on one side, I take the other side with yet-to-be-filled vacancy.\n\nSummer is again interesting. The fourth room is filled with a bisexual man-slut who is a great deal of fun. I spend a lot of time ebing scary male friend on call and designated driver. Classes start and this dynamic is pretty much unchanged.\n\nRemember the creepy piece of shit from about a year ago who she had a crush on? Seems he moved into a unit upstairs when the semester begins. Neither of us has been seeing anyone else at this point for about 6 months, but it's being treated as if things are still open. Mutual friend disapproves, but has been friends with her longer than she's been friends with me. Bisexual man-slut thought me and her were a couple, but declines to express an opinion. One evening I come out of my room to deal with laundry and discover she'd finally gotten this guy to come over. They're on the couch in the shared area. She's watching TV. He's waiting for her to finish watching TV. Eventually, I come out to check on my clothes and they've gone to her room. He, being a creepy piece of shit, never talks to her again after that night.\n\nYou know that whole cycle of gets with me, finds someone new to play with, ignores me, new thing falls apart, gets with me? Yeah... that's all fine when it's happening out of sight, but gets pretty fucking depressing when you're all living together. I have an organic chemistry class that started with a little speech about how 60% fail each semester and most of the 40% who pass are not taking it for the first time. I make a game of seeing how little I can do (or alternatively, how much I can get away with) in class. I go to o-chem specifically to take a nap. I end up getting a D- passing. That game's no fun. I sign up for spring semester classes, spend a lot of time playing games from the fine folks at Blizzard, and then withdraw from the university. Remember having some vague interesting in the Navy back in high school.\n\nWalk-in to the recruiter's on Monday. Have signed away 6 years of my life by Friday. In Delayed Entry Program for about 8 months Stay in Knoxville until the end of the school-year and then move back home during the shuffle. Apparently, my impending drop date has gotten her doing some thinking about how I've always been accessible and how that's not going to be the case. She also moves back home for the summer, which means we're about an hour apart. She'll ask me to drive up and see her and, for whatever reason, I do. I have monthly DEP meetings with the recruiter in Knoxville. Sometimes we drive out there together to visit mutual friend and bisexual man-slut. She gets a place in Knoxville before school starts. I spend a few days at her place every month when I'm in town for DEP. Things seem to be getting and staying serious for a change.\n\nSkip about 6 years! I'm honorably discharged as an E-6. We're married. We have two kids. I'm going to go back to school under the GI Bill. She's talking about applying to an MBA program (it will be her third degree) rather than get a job. Wait for it. Shortly after classes start she tells me she doesn't think she wants to be together anymore. ",
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"body": "When I was about 14 or 15 I was cybering hotly over a newly found medium, the internet, with a girl on the other side of the country. It didn't just limit itself to chats (while at school, we didn't have it at home), but we eventually sent each other emails as well since we didn't have that much time available in the day, and we were both in the same situation. \n\nOne of the rules we laid down was that we'd delete it after reading and sending so that there'd be no trace of it anywhere. We tried to be clever at least. We'd both write it at home or something like that, when we had time available from school, so it was brought on a floppy (good old days!), loaded into the computer and copied over to the hotmail editbox, and then promptly deleted locally and on hotmail. We didn't want any traces, and it made it all a bit more exciting. \n\nOne of my stories involved me climbing into her room and seducing her several nights in a row (kind of like that twilight dude!). That particular story was incredibly well-received by the way, she thought it was downright amazing, and had a hard time deleting it. Not bad for a kid, I think. \n\nIt all went to shit the moment I forgot to delete the local copy. I put it in the trash bin, but didn't delete. I fucked up so badly. Weeks of routine, perfect secrecy, and then it all went to shit. Someone on school found the local copy and opened it. This wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it wasn't for two things, it was obvious that I was the author, and someone edited it. They made it go from an innocent erotic story to a nightmare rape story where the \"several nights in a row\" was changed to \"several girls in a row\", with actual names of girls in the school inserted. The name of the girl I was cyboring with was changed to a girl in my class, and instead of being a Don Juan, it was more like Jack the Rapist Bludgeoner. \n\nThey printed it in several copies and circulated it around the school with my name whispered along with it. When I found out I panicked and simply denied it outright instead of trying to dig up evidence of it having been an innocent story. The girl in question found out of course, even teachers found out, and suddenly I went from being \"just\" bullied to downright ostracised. \n\nI've never told anyone my version before. Never defended myself. I was a fool. I just wanted it all to go away, and thankfully it did when I left the school, although it's haunted me forever as one of the, if not most cruel thing, anyone has ever done to me. ",
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"body": "My parents abandoned me when I was a small child leaving me at my aunt and uncle's. My cousin raped me for years (from about 3-7) I finally got professional help to deal with the abuse when I was around 18. Once my family found out what I was in therapy for it was never the same with any of them. I was the family pariah. He went on to have many children, all girls. It makes me sad that my family is (probably) repeating the cycle. ",
"score": 3
},
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"body": "When I was in Third grade I was really flexible and, since I had no friends, I would do tricks on the monkey bars... I wanted to be a gymnist... One day a girl came up to be and was like \"Wanna play with us? we love monkey bars.\" And I was like \"cool.\" \n\nSo we went over there and had a back bending contest. Basically you hold on with your knees and hang down and do as much of a backbend as possible by pulling yourself with your arms across the bars... Kinda like [This](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1psuDVx-3Hc/SOFrKpEJwgI/AAAAAAAADF4/goFm2SiB_xE/s400/Ustrasana2.png) but on monkeybars...\n\nWell she decided it was a good idea to grab me around the middle and pull me off the bars as I did this. I was a twig, like really skinny, back then... She wasn't... But now I have permanent back problems from it and have to wear a back brace. And I am fat now because I can't move so much. (I am trying to fix the fatness problem.)",
"score": 3
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"body": "Gradually, over the course of 4 years, my ex-fiancee methodically adjusted her behavior and interactions with me in an attempt to transform me into a man who would better suit her 'needs.'\n\nIt was insidious. \n\nShe slowly stopped helping with cooking, cleaning, and housework. Then, she started easing out of helping financially. She worked daily to convince me that her perceptions and opinions were in fact the truth. This was a long-term attempt to turn me against my family, my friends, and co-workers, all of whom were terrible, awful people and were also responsible for her unhappiness, and the problems in our relationship.\n\nAttempts to discuss any of the above were met with explosive and emotional outbursts that bordered on violence and psychological abuse.\n\nBeing very intelligent, educated, and articulate - and consistent - she worked at me, constantly saying how \"you need to change\" or \"how am I going to get you to change\", among other things. \n\nClose to the end, I caught on to what she was doing. It was all about control - she controlled who I hung around with, who I talked to, what I did with my free time (which was limited to taking care of her, the house, the animals, etc. and then sitting in the living room while she worked on her laptop until midnight). I began to wonder if she was right about all the terrible people in my life. I began to look at them differently.\n\nI rejected her attempts, and ended the relationship.\n\nI think what she was doing was evil. \n\n*edit* - I won't even get into the verbal and physical abuse. And I'm a guy. Wow. ",
"score": 3
}
] |
Should I convert to Atheism? | I've believed in one God or Another on and off for most of my life. Any cool perks from joining the Church of Atheism? Any nifty tax breaks or ultra-spooky secret rituals? If it helps, I already have a strong sense of smug superiority over all my intellectual inferiors (you know who you are). | 48 | [
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"body": "Exhibit A : *posts in circlejerk*\n\nExhibit B : \"strong sense of smug superiority\"\n\nYou've already met the minimum requirements!",
"score": 14
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"body": "Clearly the correct religion to choose is the Norse religion. All the Norse gods are super bad-ass and cool and if you believe in Norse gods then you will also be bad-ass and cool. ",
"score": 6
},
{
"body": "You must read [the holy book of Atheism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory) before converting. ",
"score": 5
},
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"body": "Whats really fucked up about Atheism is, their is really no support system. It's more of an every man for himself sort of deal. I for one would like to see more Unionization. The only consolation i got is figuring out the meaning of life. oh and read some Richard Dawkins his stuff is alright. ",
"score": 5
}
] |
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