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Well i just created a joke account and forgot the fact that since i was always logged in. i forgot the password to my real account, (didn't provide an email...i think) so anyways Reddit. What was the stupidest thing you did that you immediately realised your mistake? | Another fun one. i was holding cake and a glass of milk in my hands and couldn't be bothered putting it down to close the door behind me. so i decided to use my elbows, specifically the elbow of my cake arm. i tipped the cake over. still ate it though. it was just a little floored, it's still good, it's still good. | 15 | [
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"body": "During the last holiday season, I went home so drunk to the point where I thought I lost my wallet. I had the \"presence of mind\" to call the credit card company to have my credit card cancelled. When the person on the phone asked for my credit card number, I told her to wait, then I reached my back pocket for my wallet, pulled out my credit card, and read the number to her. Plain fucking stupid!",
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"body": "I can't recall any, just that I always yell \"YUP\" when they happen.\r\n\r\nEdit: this just happened and I couldn't find this thread, then remembered I posted in it and looked through my history. I was sitting down with one leg on the table and the other foot on the floor. I was trying to put on socks that were rolled up tight. So I'm swinging them around to get them to unroll and I david and goliath myself directly in the sweet spot of my left nut. I can't remember a nut hit that hurt that bad. I dropped out of my chair and basically layed on the floor like the catcher during a doggy sex position. Rocking back and forth and making I guess moo noises. More like a yak...yaking? Lots of badwords. It was fuckin stupid and could have been avoided and will be avoided in the future. That's for damn sure.",
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So I have just confirmed I'm gay... | I have been almost certain that I am gay (male) for the past ~2 years, but I was never 100% sure. Well, now that I've had my first gay experience (read: not sex), I am positive now.
The weird thing is, I get a surreal feeling about my whole life now. Like I'm living a dream and it I'll wake up from it and be a "normal" person. Have any of you guys it experienced it and is there a way to get rid of it?
Thanks!
edit: thank you so much guys, I <3 reddit ^_^
edit2: You know what, ODSTAdrianFii is right and I don't even know why I made a throwaway account for this. My real account is TheGrammarPerson and I spend 99% of the time in the r/linux subreddit. ;) | 92 | [
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"body": "It takes time to get used to the idea. It won't be too much longer after that point when you won't really think \"I'm gay\" often. It'll be like if someone comes up to you and points out that you're a man. You're kind of, like, \"*Well, yes, of course*.\" It's a bit odd not because they're correct but because it's not really something you think about on a daily basis.",
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"body": "It's so funny that you put it like that. You're normal. There's nothing abnormal about you. You're just adjusting to something new and that's always weird. I felt something similar when I realized that I'm a guy (I'm an FtM transexual) and gradually that feeling went away when I started really accepting and living as that. It felt more real after getting over the initial shock and weirdness of it. You'll get over and it congratulations on coming out, even if it's just here on Reddit.",
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"body": "Lol. You are 'normal.' That just happens to involve liking boys :D\nIt'll probably go away with time. Time wears down a lot of things.\n\nEdit: Welcome into the community full, btw. <3\nAlso, remember that the universe doesn't know or care the difference between the concepts 'normal' and 'weird' or 'gay' that the monkeys have made up for themselves.\nBeing aware of your social programming is the first step to overcoming it.",
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"body": "I understand what you are saying. When I was in High School I constantly felt like I was weird, or different just because I am gay. Part of it was because of an unsupportive family. It took me four years to be comfortable enough with myself to be able to say \"I am gay\" and not feel strange about it. \n\nYou have taken a big first step and accepted yourself, now it's time to be comfortable with who you are. It may take a while to get to that point, but you will and it will be worth it :)",
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"body": "I thought I was bi for a long time (didn't realize I liked girls til the beginning of a relationship which lasted 4 years, so I didn't get to \"try it out\"). Being bi was a lot more comfortable. I could appear normal to those who didn't know me cause I dated guys, but I was super cool to my guy friends cause we could check out girls together. \r\n\r\nWhen I had my first experience with a girl and realized what I had been missing and that I'm most likely never going to date a guy again, it was super scary. I think the thing that hit me hardest was that I had always wanted the stereotypically normal life. I used to be a fundie Christian and had, for my whole life, always wanted to get married, make babies, and homeschool them. I'm not saying I can't have all that because I'm gay - it's just going to be a lot harder, and if I ever go anywhere out of the gayborhood with a partner, I'm no longer invisible.\r\n\r\nYou kinda have to learn how to date all over again. I had guys wrapped around my little finger. I know exactly how to get guys to do for me what I want and to think it was their idea in the first place... girls are a whole different ballgame. It'd be much easier to continue dating guys; I just can't live with that empty feeling, knowing it's not really what I want. ",
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"body": "congratulations on your realization. :) it felt weird when i finally owned up to the obvious and admitted and accepted that im a lesbian. for me it seemed as though a weight had been lifted and was a huge relief. \"oh THAT's why all of this always felt strange and why i couldn't feel a kinship with the other girls in this matter\". it was like having the answer at long last and i was ecstatic. i was also horrified, because i wasnt sure how everyone else would feel. shortened story im a very lucky person, surrounded by people who are kind a loving. i hope that you can have some similar fortune. enjoy!",
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"body": "Just keep living your life. Come out to your family and friends (and maybe your workplace if that's safe). Interact with other gay people - eventually it will stop feeling \"different\" and integrate with the rest of your life.",
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"body": "It takes time, at first it's like wearing a bright shirt in a gray suit conference, you just feel awkward and out of place, but as you get to know more people and dive into it that feeling goes away.",
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"body": "For me it certainly felt like a dream for a while, but after i was willing to just acknowledge the full truth to myself I felt such a relief. For me now, its just another one of my qualities like being right handed or tall. Big changes just take time to adjust to. Know that you are in a community of millions even if you feel alone or different. ",
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"body": "Took me a while to effectively accept it. Then I kept it hidden because of some unfortunate things. I can tell you that love for me is very deep, and that my gayness had nothing to do with sexuality initially, only with a deep desire to care for someone.",
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"body": "You know, the whole problem boils down to the fact that being gay feels interesting to you. But the truth is it's not, it's banal. Have fun in your romantic life, but it's not your complete living experience. ",
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"body": "I got that surreal feeling when I came out. I had dreamed and fantasized about being out so much that when I finally did come out of the closet it felt like I was living in an alternate reality in my brain. This was just in October and I still feel like that a lot. ",
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How do you guys copyright your music? Is there a precedent for someone defending a copyright from a youtube or soundcloud post? | I've heard that you can send sheet music someplace (anyone know where?) and get a copyright relatively cheaply. But this practice is so 15 years ago. What are the alternatives? If there were one legal precedent of a studio getting successfully sued for ripping off a timestamped post on the Internet, I would skip the painful process of writing sheet music. | 13 | [
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"body": "This link is for songwriters based in the U.S. but the process is essentially the same everywhere: Complete the forms, pay the fee and register a recording of your composition. \nhttp://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl105.html",
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"body": "What you are looking for is a [poor man's copyright](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_man%27s_copyright). There is no such thing and it will not hold up in court. You don't really have to register your works, but if you end up in court having to protect your property, having your shit official will mean *they* have to prove *you* wrong rather than the other way around.",
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"body": "I would recommend using something like [Creative Commons](http://creativecommons.org/). In my opinion, a little more reasonable than copyrights",
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Reddit, I met this guy on a plane | The flight was from JFK to Seattle on Jetblue, a couple days before the new year.
We talked the entire flight. He taught me that game where you try to make more boxes than the other guy. I was reading a nerdy animal behavior book, he was ready a nerdy science magazine. He was visiting friends in Seattle for new years.
After the flight, he went to the bathroom and I'm pretty sure he assumed we'd meet back up at baggage claim. I hopped on a bus, never to be seen again...
Anyways, he was a redditor(!) so I'm hoping he will see this and it will be one of those stories you tell your grandchildren...
We know nothing but each others first initials... and I forgot his.
Here's to hoping he sees this and I make a great friend...
edit: Apparently everyone missed the part where I said "Here's to hoping he sees this and I make a **great friend**
edit2: Well, no luck. I'm guessing he exaggerated how much he goes on reddit. And no, I don't think he found this creepy and ignored it. That just wasn't the situation. Thanks for all the support though =) | 1,689 | [
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"body": "> so I'm hoping he will see this and it will be one of those stories you tell your grandchildren...\n\nAnnnnnd you lost him right there.",
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"body": "Someone should really just invent some sort of secret sign or hand shake that only Redditors know. That way, if you suspect someone of being a Redditor, you can do it and they will immediately know who they are talking to.\n\nMy suggestion is to \n\n1) make a fist with one hand\n\n2) extend your index finger ( like you are pointing at something)\n\n3) hold it on your forehead, so as to resemble a narwhal\n\n4) wait for a response\n\n\nDoes anyone else have any ideas for handshakes? \n\nEDIT: Formatting. \n",
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"body": "I love airplane meet ups. I met this guy in Malpensa Airport in Milan. The layover was ridiculously long so after walking around the airport 4-5 times I decided to sit in the waiting room and just - wait. \n\nI was reading G.G.Marquez' \"100 Years of Solitude\". A few feet away he was reading a book on Turkish culture. For hours I caught him staring at me. When we finally boarded the plane his seat ended up being diagonally behind me. When he saw the seat next to me wasn't getting filled up he came over and asked if he could sit with me.\n\nIt was a long flight from Milan to Caracas. I don't remember how long the flight was exactly but it was more than 10 hours for sure. We skipped through all of the inane superficial dribble. We had an intense conversation through out the whole flight. After a few hours we couldn't help but be excited about having randomly met someone else we connected so easily with. We of course kissed. We kissed a little more. We kissed pretty intensely. Towards the last hour we both grew tired. I changed seats with him so he could rest his head on the window. He pulled the arm rest and cradled me in his arms for the rest of the trip. It was kind of weird to have a guy you just met be this affectionate but we somehow felt as if we knew each other for years. \n\nThe passengers seated around us were pretty shocked, knowing clearly that we did not know each other prior to that. They kept peeking over the whole flight trying to see what we were up to.\n\nI have been known for being ridiculously picky with the men I get involved with. I regret so much as to kiss or hold hands with a guy I'm not fully sure about, but this - this was pretty exciting, and it was fun, and it was something I would normally never do. He was coming from Turkey and headed to Colombia. I was coming from Ghana and on my way back home so we both had great stories to talk about. We talked about our personal lives, we bared ourselves entirely to one another.\n\nWhen we landed he walked me to my gate and waited with me until I made my connection. He gave me a pretty intense goodbye kiss, one that I still get chills from just thinking.\n\nWe keep in touch every once in a while through MSN. He's back in Turkey now and has several times indicated wanting to come to see me. I've felt apprehensive about it since now I'm still pretty stuck being hung over an ex, and I don't know what would happen after. I feel like meeting again would take away the excitement of that one time encounter. \n\nAnyhow, good luck finding him! I wish I had some useful information to chip in.\n\n",
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"body": "I just don't understand why you're hoping this will be one of those stories you tell your grandchildren (can be misconstrued as creepy), if you didn't want to wait the 3 mins for him to take a leak. ",
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"body": "Come now reddit, it isn't that hard to find a pic of [her](http://cdn.okcimg.com/php/load_okc_image.php/images/16/150x150/558x800/0x2/150x152/0/8162069487526687447.jpeg).\n\nAnd *I* agree that the \"grandchildren\" thing is creepy.",
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"body": "ACTUALLY i have a really good idea. If this trip was recent, why don't you \"pretend\" he left something behind at his seat-\"like important paper work\" and slip your number in it with a note. Call the airlines and say you know the date and seat the passenger was sitting in and maybe they can contact him and ship it to him. You can say you have been trying to find out a way to contact him but theres no way because the only thing you know is his name. Try it out.",
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"body": "Two things: The grandchildren thing, while sweet, might be a bit much...If it were to be a \"tell your grandchildren story,\" why not exchange numbers before disembarking the plane or hitting the bathroom?",
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"body": ">Anyways, he was a redditor(!) so I'm hoping he will see this and it will be one of those stories you tell your grandchildren...\n\n\nYeah, he was a Redditor. I always tell chicks that I visit the websites they go to too.\n\n\"buttplugaficionado.com? Oh, yeah, go there all the time. Grannytrannypanties.net? Yep, I was a contributor there back in the old days. Reddit.com? Sure, controversial to say the least but it's great. We have so much in common it's like we're sole mates! Enough about me, tell me more about your boobies.\"",
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"body": "Every time I'm on a plane I always hear random people just start off conversations and talk the entire flight. Why can't this ever happen to me? ",
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"body": "The game he taught you is called Dots. It's what got me through my sister's initial college and then later law school graduations.",
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"body": "I think it's cute that you stayed to rule and waited a couple of days instead if redditting him immediately.\n\nBut anyway good luck man!",
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"body": "I met this very attractive girl once at a bar. I thought there was something extremely enigmatic about her. This probably to do with the fact that she was watching old old reruns of the price is right by herself while everyone around her was getting drunk and socializing. \n\nDespite the endless topics we easily discussed, she mentioned some stuff about the wrongdoings of Monsanto and seem pretty passionate about it. During that time, reddit had alot of frontpage news dealing with Monsanto, so I asked her if she knew what digg was, thinking to myself that she would know digg before reddit. She said she didn't really know of digg but lately she has been on reddit alot. My heart skipped a beat, I never saw her again. She was like 1 in a million. *sigh*",
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"body": "You blew it. Take this as a life lesson. If you want to connect with someone again, tell them and exchange contact info.",
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"body": "What do you mean, make more boxes than the other guy. Was one of you flying from a Corrugated Cardboard convention or something?",
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"body": "If you liked this guy why didn't you stick around to get some contact info?\n\nDid you have to catch the bus right then? It was the last bus? Or you figured it would just be more romantic this way...?",
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"body": "I think this is kinda cute and I wish you luck. If you two do meet and hook up, I think you owe it to reddit to share some love with /r/gonewild ;).",
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"body": "You probably started creeping this guy out with your awkward gaze and he realized you were going to try and latch your tentacles around him, so he \"went to the bathroom.\"",
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"body": "Can't someone here get hold of the NSA's passenger list and seat numbers, then you can look up where you and he sat.",
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"body": "Damn, I hate when I fly JetBlue and the chick next to me wants to talk THE WHOLE DAMN FLIGHT. I don't care about your life story, I just want to get to Seattle.",
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"body": "Ah .. there you are. Let me finish telling you all about [QIX](http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMA_enUS356US356&sourceid=chrome&q=qix&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi)",
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"body": "Just so you know, there has been [a subreddit towards that purpose](http://www.reddit.com/r/missed) for 6 months.",
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"body": "Can you just enjoy it for what it was?\n\nNo offense meant, but i had a very interesting experience once where i was working and i stopped at a fast food place. A most amazing thing happened. While standing in line something happened and i made a comment and the guy in front of me responded. It started a conversation and we talked through the line and then through our orders and then sat down and talked over lunch. \n\nWe talked about politics, religion and just about everything else. When it was time to go i told him it was great meeting him and it was a great conversation (and it was) and i wished him well and left.\n\nI never regretted a moment of the experience. It was in fact the *perfect* experience. A random encounter with a stranger where we both connected and we parted. He was a guy and i am a guy and i know i am heterosexual and i am fairly sure he was too.\n\nIt was just this wonderful moment where i had somebody with a good mind to sit down and share a meal with and i will never forget it.\n\nIs that all there is?\n\nYes.\n\nAnd it was beautiful.\n",
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"body": "I like to think that whenever someone makes a post like this the person their looking for goes through it all and doesn't notice the OP is talking about them. In fact, I like to think the person even makes a witty comment and lol's, I'm looking at you realisticspeakers.",
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"body": "I met a fantastic girl on the plane one day flying back to Sydney from London. We were both Aussies, heading back home for Chistmass, about 10 years ago. We shared first names, and we talked about everything after I broke the ice with an initial bad joke. Which she found funny. She was really warm and friendly and was also damn fine. She told me about where she worked, where she lived (nothing specific), what was going on in her life. I reciprocated. She'd just broken up with her boyfriend of 5 years and wasn't looking for a serious relationship. (I didn't ask, she just said it. I took it to be a hint.)\n\nWe get to Sydney and got split up looking for luggage. I turned around and she was gone. I never got her number.\n\nI always wonder if she spent any time at all looking for me, or whether I was just a single serving friend that she could safely open up to knowing that she'd never see me again. Or whether she made everything up and just spun me a whole load of bullshit the entire flight.",
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"body": "> I'm hoping he will see this and it will be one of those stories you tell your grandchildren...\n\n> Here's to hoping he sees this and I make a great friend...\n\nSo, friends with benefits, then?",
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"body": "XV. For an order-of-magnitude increase in upvotes, redditors shall directly address \"reddit\" in submitted headlines.",
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"body": "I had something like this happen once. Had a seat mate who was from the same city as me. We talked for almost the entire 4-5 hour flight. He was a guy and I'm straight, that's not really the point, though. Would have been happy to make a friend. And I gave him my business card. We live in the same motherfucking city! The douche never emailed me or nothin'. What the fuck?\n\nPeople suck.",
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"body": "once on a flight back from hawaii to SFO i sat across the aisle from this cute girl. i guess i was about 15 at the time. i had a notebook in my backpack and it took me a while but i worked up the courage to write a note and hand it to her. for some reason i thought it would be better to use the notebook since it was rather loud and talking across the aisle would be difficult. we ended up \"talking\" for an hour or longer using the notebook until we finally decided to actually speak to each other. it turned out we had a lot in common and, as i recall, didn't have many pauses in conversation.\n\ni might even have that notebook somewhere at my folks' place. i don't remember what all was in it but i will remember, forever, the first thing i wrote to her: Your pants are shiny. and around the word shiny i had put some stars.",
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"body": "This submission made me sad that I am incapable of making friends even online. Shizzle.\n\nAnd here you go, trying to find a stranger who left a big impression on you. Double shizzle.\n\nSorry, I don't make sense. I'm jealous of that guy. ;P\n\nAnyway, good luck on finding that guy. :D",
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"body": " I tried to create [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/missedconnections) and it looks like it's already been done. This would be an awesome subreddit if redditers knew it existed!!",
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"body": "What are the odds that the majority of Redditors, on seeing a reply from the guy in question, would downvote it just for fun?",
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"body": "This is something like what I imagined your story sounded like in my head as I read it: [emmyla](http://soundcloud.com/user2536013/emmyla)",
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"body": "> Anyways, he was a redditor(!) so I'm hoping he will see this and it will be one of those stories you tell your grandchildren...\n\nNo pressure or anything...\n",
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"body": ">edit: Apparently everyone missed the part where I said \"Here's to hoping he sees this and I make a great friend \n \nAs a nerdy guy I always find myself thinking, \"You know what Taylor, you need more female **friends**.\"",
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"body": "So you met him, got him interested, took off on him.\n\nThen you post about telling your grandchildren this story and end up emphasizing the fact that you just want to be friends. \n\nPerhaps you should decide what you actually want, and then try to send consistent signals.",
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"body": "Why are you wanting to find this guy so bad if all you want is a \"great friend\"\n\nIf I were him, I'd forget about it. The last thing I need is another soul crushing black hole friend zone relationship.",
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"body": ">**edit:** Apparently everyone missed the part where I said \"Here's to hoping he sees this and I make a great friend\n\nBullshit....you are toooooootallly hot for him......\n",
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"body": "I think the big story here is, you're just now learning to play that game?! \n\nI'm assuming its the one that starts out as a grid of dots and you try to draw lines to make squares and if you make a square you get to put your first initial in the square.",
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Are there any decent Facebook alternatives out there? | After seeing [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/anriy/facebook_founder_mark_zuckerberg_told_a_live/), I feel very much inclined to jump ship on facebook. The thing is, I use facebook to keep in touch with loads of friends that I wouldn't otherwise. Are there any other social networking sites out there (not MySpace or Twitter either) that are decent and might actually care about their users a bit? Then I can start up an account there, and convince my friends to move over there... | 13 | [
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"body": "im working on an alternative! but it's still not done. :(\n\nshould be in a couple more months (privacy, REAL privacy is a tough cookie to crack beyond just making everyones content private. but we think we got something cool.)\n\nanyone care for an invite when it's out in beta? i'd love to get some fellow redditors on it!",
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To what cult did these weird hippie dudes I encountered 10 years belong? Funny/freaky story within. | I live in a major Texas city. About ten years ago or so I was walking home from work. Along come these two young, hippie-looking guys on bikes. Both wearing [ponchos,](http://imgur.com/CtoaR.jpg) both with unkempt beards.
They pull up next to me. One of them goes, "Excuse me, sir."
"Yeah?"
"Excuse me, but do you read the Bible?"
"I've read parts of the Bible, sure."
"Do you believe in God?"
"Nope."
What follows is the dumbest back-and-forth conversation, as if either of us was going to change the other's mind. Them with their weird cult-y Christianity, me with my dumb 20-something version of atheism **(not that there's anything wrong with atheists or 20-somethings)**.
Anyway, why I engaged these guys for 5-10 minutes is beyond me. I guess I just was confused and determined not to back down. In any case, after a bit of really stupid, pointless debate from both parties, they say something to the effect of, "Well sir, we hope that one day you come to God and realize the mercy of yadda yadda yadda," and I go, "Great, thanks, good luck yadda yadda yadda," at which point one of them says:
"Oh, by the way, it looks like you've stepped in *dung*."
I had stepped in dog shit at some point during our Great Debate. He'd noticed and hadn't said anything until the very end. He won. He fucking won. FML.
**And now, the freaky part:** I saw two of these guys, different guys but with the same ponchos and beards, at a coffee shop a couple of days later. I'm sure I was imagining it, but God*damn* if it didn't seem like they were eyeballing me over their newspapers. Probably what happened was that I kept checking them out out of surprise and they were responding.
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OKAY, SO. Who were these guys? I never saw them again, so I'm pretty sure they were just passing through. | 14 | [
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"body": "Could be Twelve Tribes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_(New_religious_movement)\n\nThese folks show up at a lot of jam band shows., usually in a big camper type bus. They're very friendly.\n\nDon't get on the bus.",
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Batman: Arkham Asylum. Is it possible to get decent Physx Performance with Ati cards? | I've been looking around on forums using Google and it seems some people have found work arounds, but links to them have been removed for whatever reason. Do any of you know whether it's possible? I don't want to start the game until I discover whether it's possible, I feel as though I'd be missing out.
I've found this post:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?p=1332461
But that's about it. | 4 | [
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"body": "PhysX will soon either - 1 die - 2 be freeware - or something else that makes it usefull for ATI cards. Why? - because shaders in directx 11 are just fine for physics why shouldnt developers use directx 11 logic (like dirt2) instead of physX",
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"body": "By the looks of it that still runs on a CPU, and is of lesser quality to the Nvidia GPU version. I suppose if it doesn't take that much of a hit on the frames per second then it'd be better than nothing. \n\nIf you're using XP or Windows 7 and have a spare PCI-E slot you can use a nvidia card as a dedicated Physx card (http://www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/508305-howto-ati-nvidia-physx-guide.html) it all comes down to whether or not you think the added price / power usage is warranted. ",
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What random song is going around your head right now? | My head is like an always-on radio station. Yours probably is too. What random song is going around your head right now? | 6 | [
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"body": "[This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00&feature=player_embedded) it's been doing the rounds up there since Christmas. ",
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"body": "I've finally realized after listening to my kids that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the ABCs have the exact same tune...it didnt occur to me until my 2 year old interchanged the words...and now I can't get it out of my head.",
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"body": "[This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JX_G698i0) but only because it's a song I'm working on and probably listened through it about 100 times today.\n\nAdvice welcome!",
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Why are skinny guys more unacceptable than skinny girls? | In the same vein of "Why are fat guys more acceptable than fat chicks?", well;
Why are skinny guys more unacceptable than skinny girls?
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"body": "I was thinking this last night. I think the answer is because waif, childlike women are attractive to men - they can be protected and picked up and cuddled etc.\nConversely, it seems that not many women like weedy awkward men who do not seem manly or able to protext them.\n\nIt's the same reason that certain women who act dumb and cocquettish are seen as cute, whereas men whoi act dumb and childlike are seen as retarded.\n\nThis is a generalisation though and does not apply to all circumstances, so people, do spare me from pointing out your own unique personal preferences.",
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"body": "Because men are supposed to have at least a moderate amount of muscle, and if they don't they are less manly.",
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"body": "Depends on the skinny. Most rock singers are bone thin with floppy hair and a guitar now, aren't they? I'm sure they get dates. It really isn't so much how skinny he is, its if that skinny is paired with gawky awkwardness and bad clothes and weirdness.",
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"body": "If by skinny you mean all bones then yeah, that's a weakling. That guy would surely be unable to hunt for meat, preventing him from gaining higher authority within the pack. Females will jeer at his protruding rib cage, lumpy spine and lanky, knobby arms and mightier males will take advantage of this.",
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Do you find that your partners have a higher sex drive than you, or vice versa? | I was thinking about this the other day, and asked some of my friends, but I want a large influx of data.
State your gender, and whether your partners normally have had a higher sex drive, you have had a higher sex drive, or they've usually been about the same. | 15 | [
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"body": "Woman, and I've always had a fairly high sex drive, but two years ago, around when I turned 29, I suddenly became insatiable. \n\nI've also discovered that while guys always say they want a woman who can't get enough, it can be a big issue. With the two guys I dated since then, I had to stop initiating sex because I was ALWAYS needing more, and when I would get turned down I would get insecure, even though I knew it was silly when we had already had sex twice that day. I think I finally know how 18 year old guys feel.\n\nAlso, I've always had an issue with being a bit kinkier than my most of my partners, which is another bummer. ",
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"body": "I'm a 23 year old girl. I started dating girls exclusively when I was 15. This probably had something to do with the all-girls school I attended and my high sex drive. I always had a higher sex drive than my girlfriends in high school. I got to college and things were a bit better as I think I specifically dated girls who were more sexual. About a year and a half ago I started dating an older (~30 year old) guy who finally seems to want sex as much as I do. I feel completely satisfied for once but he's told me before that he thinks my sex drive is still higher than his. =) I personally feel like it's about the same.",
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"body": "Female, 40. I always have a higher sex drive. Have begun to consider poly lifestyle as a viable alternative. The more you love, the more you can love.",
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"body": "Female, 24. Fairly high sex drive, unfortunately my boyfriend has a pretty low sex drive. I try not to make it an issue, though it has taken some getting used to. I was really not used to being with someone who didn't want to have sex at least once a day. ",
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"body": "Male, 37, libido fluctuates up and down and is rarely at the same point as my wife's, which does the same. It's probably a good thing I went into my marriage knowing sex was a very small part of it.",
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"body": "Female. I haven't done the hard math, but, my sex drive is about, oh, a thousand times higher than my partner's. \nFor me, once a day would be preferable. I get it about twice a month. The number of times I cried myself to sleep from frustration and rejection in the first year of our relationship were too frequent to keep count (at that time, sex seemed like a necessity, instead of just a want). Eventually I got over it. Sorta. ",
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"body": "**Female 18 + Male 17. We would probably be equals.**\n\n**Male:** We've discussed it before (since he's not particularly demanding) and while he would even be happy with just once a week his theory is that the more he has the more he wants. \n\n**Female:** My sex drive varies a lot. My general rule is, the better the sex the more I want it. \n\nAn ex of mine had a really high sex drive but I didn't enjoy sex with him so I didn't want it - ever. With my current boyfriend I love sex and so I want it a lot more... In fact I want it right now, but he's ~8000km away...",
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"body": "Male, 29. My drive has always been double what my gal's is. I'm dating this gorgeous 22yo but I end up consuming alot of porn to keep my libido in check and keep me monogamous.",
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"body": "21 yo female, and I don't think I've ever been with someone who had a higher sex drive than me. I have a very high sex drive, am very orgasmic, and honestly, I would have sex 9 or 10 times a day if I could, realistically would be ecstatic with 2 or 3, but in reality I'm getting it about 2 or 3 times a week (kind of ld relationship, with few places to have sex in). I'm also pretty much into BDSM stuff, and am very lucky to be with someone who shares these interests. I've often wondered if I'm a nymphomaniac, but I'm probably just someone who has a very high sex drive.\n\nI think it's easier for women to have a higher sex drive, because there isn't such a limit on how often they can have sex. When men cum, that's them done for an hour or two, whereas women could potentially go all day.\n\nThe guy I'm with now has a pretty high sex drive, he keeps me perfectly happy, and is probably the closest I've been with in terms of sex drive compatibility. But I appreciate that I'm probably never going to find someone who has as high a sex drive as I do, and that's fine.",
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"body": "You know what's funny. Almost no one here states to have the lower sex drive in their relationship.",
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Should I upgrade to a D90? | I currently have a D200 and looking at some reviews it seems like it's obsolete now in comparison to some new generation cameras. Is it worth it to get a D90 instead? I don't want to go all crazy and get a D3 or D700. On the other hand people always say "don't worry about the body, invest in good lenses." What do you guys think? | 17 | [
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"body": "In regards of image quality alone, D90 would be upgrade from D200, especially in high ISOs and dynamic range. But in regards of features, D200 still wins (better metering, better bracketing, more weather seals in body, faster framerates, bigger buffer, integrated intervalometer and whatnot).\n\nAnd Lightroom 3's new colour denoise features has - in my opinion - made the higher ISOs of D200 more usable if you sho(o)t RAW, [compare](http://www.flickr.com/photos/vilpertt/4054973193/sizes/o/).\n\n- a happy D200 owner",
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"body": "I like my D200 for most purposes, I find it to be pretty versatile. My only complaint with it does get to be with the high ISO noise that can be somewhat annoying, and it seems the D90 has it beat in that respect. I'd like to get my hands on a D90 just to tinker around with it a bit, take some comparison shots. ",
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"body": "I've got a D90 and love it. i haven't notice the controls being annoying as some people have said in this thread.\n\nThat being said, stick with your D200, $800 can get you a few really nice lenses (i would go tokina 11-16 and Nikon 35mm f/1.8 if you dont have them). Or you can just as easily put the money aside and wait. I imagine that in a few years the price of full frame cameras will come down quite a bit as they produce more and more, so eventually they will be in your price range. \n\nthe D200 to D90 just doesn't seem like a big enough upgrade to justify a whole new body. if you had a D40, sure, but not a D200. I'd put it into glass. If you're into more telephoto stuff and the crop would actually be beneficial, maybe think about buying lenses for full frame cameras, that way you dont have to swap your entire collection with you do upgrade.",
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How do I grow a pair? | So, reddit. Obvious throwaway account here. So how do I grow a pair? I've been rejected by the last 20 or so girls (don't ask. It's a cause of deep depression.
Here's the thing: I only have three months before I go somewhere else. There's a possibility she might follow, although that I'm not quite sure of. (It's a college thing here). | 7 | [
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"body": "uhm... so you have been rejected a couple of times but now you are seeing a girl but moving away in 3 months? and now you want to know how to dump her? or whether you should start a LDR with her? or were you born without one and now literally want to know how to grow a pair?\n\nyou, sir, are confusing me. ",
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Reddit, Help me teach my 12 year-old son the second law of thermodynamics. I'm stuck. | I was telling him about Orbo a few weeks ago (as a marketer, I tell him lots of stories about crazy ads, pr attempts, etc). This got us talking about over unity (which I honestly had not heard of until I came to reddit) and the laws that dictate you can't create something from nothing. He actually started thinking about this, and started having ideas about how you could create a simple perpetual motion device. I have agreed that we would try to create a device that uses water to demonstrate the laws of perpetual motion (something using gravity more accurately - like a water wheel that pumps the water back into the tank). I don't want to discourage him, so I want to work with him to discover these rules openly, but I'm having trouble coming up with a simple example that we can practically build and that I can use to explain the principle to him.
Be warned, I don't understand this stuff either, other than I know that you can't create energy and this example device would be called an over unity device (and I may be wrong here as well).
We were thinking about the water wheel thing, but I'll bet some of you know a very easy and clear way to use household elements to display this principle. I've found a few videos on youtube, but these devices are simply too complicated to build.
Thanks for any help - and also any suggestions for simple explanations that a child (ehem or 43 year-old that is just learning) can understand would be appreciated. | 6 | [
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"body": "You could try building one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27s_fountain\n\nsee also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5LpJAR3cM0",
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Why is contemporary academic philosophy so inaccessible to non-philosophers? (Request for input.) | I often hear from non-philosophers who are interested in philosophy that they find contemporary philosophy very difficult to read. I'm a philosopher who thinks this situation is less than ideal, and I'm currently writing a book. My goal is that a dedicated and intelligent non-philosopher should be able to read the book and follow along.
Does anyone have any insights into what makes contemporary philosophy so inaccessible or any suggestions for how to write the book so that it is maximally accessible to non-philosophers?
Edit: Thanks everyone for the advice. This has been extremely helpful. | 47 | [
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"body": "Why is contemporary academic particle physics so inaccessible to non-physicists? Because it's *hard*.",
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"body": "I'm not certain why you're asking about *contemporary* academic philosophy, as if Kant or Hume or Heidegger or Berkeley were readily accessible to non-philosophers. \n\nWhat's the subject of your book?",
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"body": "Because it's a business and job security is thought to be had in the publishing of articles. Most of the articles published are responses to other articles that have been published for the sake of tenure. Just as with the Scholastics of the Middle ages, this sort of academic response to academic minutia is causing terms to proliferate faster than the concepts which they express. Hence we're left with a bloated vocabulary many terms of which are at best merely unexplained and at worst not understood by readers.\n\nI fear that academic philosophy is a culture in decline. The OP's goal of making things more accessible, or at least understanding why they aren't might be one way to reverse the decline. Making philosophy more accessible to the people might be a way to get more people involved and get some fresh blood in the discipline.",
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"body": "The problem is with the media and the public, not with philosophy: People aren't exposed to even basic philosophy, so they don't know how to handle it. In addition, they're used to things being fast and easy, two things philosophy is not.",
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"body": "To begin with I am both a MA of Philosophy and a JD. The JD is much closer to non-philosophers than one would intuit. In my own experience \nthere are two reasons:\n\n1) The extensive training and background creates a culture unto itself. Philosophers have their own vocabulary with technical definitions for many different terms. Frequently there is no manner to surmise the meaning of the terms from the text. We also have manners of saying things, syntacticly, that is different from the general populous. I'm afraid I cannot describe it, but I know it when I see it. (Sorry lawyer coming out)\n\n2) Philosophers are comfortable with the abstract. We are able to discuss concepts and generalities without ever discussing particulars. Most people cannot (or don't like to) think on this level. The person is unable to develop a strong, or sometimes any, understanding of the discussion. Examples, instances and analogies help over come this resistance.\n\nI hope these help.\n\n**edit for structure and ease of reading.",
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"body": "Point 1\nPhilosophers, like many writers, use a back-to-front writing process. They often start their writing with a vague idea of a truth in their mind, work through the proof of the idea in the act of writing, arriving at the desired conclusion at the end, seemingly in a logical manner. Problem for the reader is that they didn't have the 'vague feeling of truth' that the writer had when they started.\nSolution: write the piece and then turn it upside down. Start with your conclusion (and even vague feeling of truth) and then explain your journey of working out the proof.\n\nPoint 2\nPhilosophy is rarely a single idea that stands on its own. It requires an edifice, and each timber in the structure requires its own support, and so on. It's easy to get lost in the nuances of each timber to the point where the overall picture is lost. Likewise, at some point, all timbers fail (drop into the realms of uncertainty) if you subject them to enough questioning.\nSolution: Always keep track of what the main timbers are and what's the minimum required thinking to support them.\n\nPoint 3\nThe most useful and difficult task of philosophy is to make our own assumptions explicit. In that sense, identifying what we don't know is as important to defining our topic as defining what we think we know. \nSolution: Always be honest and up front about your assumptions, that is, the stuff you believe to be true, but haven't got around to proving or testing further.\n\nPoint 4\nAll sentences have a level of difficulty when it comes to processing. Things like prepositions, negatives, conditionals, clauses, conjunctions, abstract nouns all add complexity to a sentence. Always be aware of what linguistic devices you are piling into your sentences.\nSolution: keep your key ideas in short sentences, and then use longer sentences to flesh out the reasoning. Also, always make sure you've made a key idea clear before you problematise it further to get deeper into the issue at hand.\n\nLet me know if you want more points to consider.",
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"body": "Try reading some [Plotinus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus) or Aristotle's [Metaphysics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics_%28Aristotle%29) and tell me its only contemporary academic philosophy. As others have said, it's because it's necessarily difficult, and to participate you must desire to this difficult knowledge more than anything else.",
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"body": "I think I'll leave [this](http://digitalconversations.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/calvinacademiahereicome.jpg) here.",
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"body": "This inaccessibility is by design, I think: research papers are aimed at stubborn people with a certain background, and aim for brevity. To write accessibly you have to accomodate — slow down and pause when it gets thorny, give hints on good analogies and pictures, recommend further (or prior) reading, show applications, etc. Tell me why obscure-seeming things are necessary and good, remind me at times of why the stuff I'm reading isn't just navelgazing and nitpicking. Maybe pick someone you know who's intelligent and open-minded and pretend you're writing a letter to him or her. Just be yourself, as long as that means that you are a successful explainer, and if being yourself means that you are a loser, then reading this post has been a waste of time for you, because there's nothing I can write that will make your life any better.",
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"body": "I read philosophy as a hobby, and I can make it through the more difficult stuff.\n\nJust because you can use a big word doesn't mean you should.\nA lot of philosophers take a pretty simple concept and present it in the most verbose over the top way.\n\nIf I were doing this I would think about the books that are out that introduce people to other \"Professional\" fields:\n\nFreakanomics\nBlink\nStumbling on happiness\n\nNone of these have the depth of say Being and Nothingness, but they arent' supposed to. \n\nA lot of philosophy doesnt utilize metaphors or examples. They give you the rule in strange language and you have to visualize the example yourself. I think this is why all of those \"The Philosophy of Lost\" things are popular.\n\nThose books also prove that there is a market for casual philosophers. Malcom Gladwell didn't make a new economic therom, but I maybe his contribution to economics is just as important because he gets people interested in them, and someone, somewhere is going to read one of his books and decided to study economics and go on to do something really great.\n\ntldr: Dont write like an asshole and people wont think you are one.",
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"body": "Too much jargon.\n\nLanguage used as a barrier to communication, rather than an enabler -- John Ralston-Saul has written on this phenomenon, although not specifically in the context of philosophy.",
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Who are some people who got no credit during their life, but were incredibly influential after their death? | This comes to mind is because I was watching a Bill Hicks DVD earlier and I was thinking of his posthumous influence and how relevant he continues to be. | 4 | [
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"body": "Van Goh was largely ignored during his lifetime. He produced all of his work (something like 900+ paintings) over a ten year period, before developing a mental illness and later committing suicide. ",
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I'm sure everyone is tired of the grammar Nazis correcting their writing mistakes. So what do you think of this suggestion? | I'm a grammar Nazi (I admit it), and I'm not the only one. We probably shouldn't go around "helpfully" correcting writing mistakes, because it sometimes hurts peoples' feelings, but on the other hand, everyone can benefit from writing correctly, since it can only help them in their educational and professional lives.
So what if we had a Writing Clinic subreddit where people can ask for help with their writing. Do I use who or whom? Should this word be their, there or they're? The non-native English speakers can come here for help before they post something.
What do you think, Reddit? | 5 | [
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"body": "Since I've been here (2 years now), my English writing is so much better; thanks to all the Grammar Nazis out there.",
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"body": "It wont work. In fact, watch as this comment is downvoted for the absence of the apostrophe in the contraction won't.",
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How to get a nuke in MW2 - Even if you're a sucky player. | Alright so a lot of you have been playing MW2 lately, as have I. The highest goal being the eslusive nuke. It's a strange feeling, when you do have one. The power to end the game. They require 25 kills without dying, a feat that seems near impossible!
But when enforce some simple strategy, is it really?
Turns out it's not. And I'm here to teach you how to get one. Even if you suck at MW2.
The goal is to get 25 kills. That sounds hard, but it's not when you have powerful tools such as the Chopper Gunner and Harrier doing all the work for you. All you need is 7 kill streak for the harrier.
First off - **the game mode**: We have to be sure to pick a game mode where games last long enough. Team Deathmatch is out of the picture because of the short game length. Another thing is respawn time. If people take a long time to respawn you're chopper gunner won't get it's worth. So scratch off Mosh pit, hardcore TDM, search and destroy etc. We're left with Headquarters pro. Instant respawn and long games. Another thing that makes HQ pro perfect is that people tend to clog up at the headquarters. This is good news for our setup.
Now for **the setup**: We have to get to seven kills. And seven is more than you think, especially if you suck - like me. We're going to be using a setup that lets us get easy skill-less and safe kills. You guessed it - the noobtube. The class we're going to be using is your favourite assault rifle with a grenade launcher, a rocket launcher or the thumper as secondary, claymore, scavenger, danger close (or hardline if you prefer), and commando.
**The tactic**: To get to seven kills all you do is go to the headquarters when it's online but keep some distance. Then fire noobtubes into the emptyness in hope to kill some people that try to capture it. Sounds easy? It's because it is easy. Altertavely - if you're team has captured it, keep firing explosives from a distance untill enough people run into your orgy of fire. There is really nothing to it. Just keep firing explosive shit into the little HQ room for easy kills. Once you get seven kills it's time to hide.
**The hiding spot** is very important. Make sure you are stashed away somewhere safe where enemies won't be able to get to you without crossing an open field.
**Time to call in the harrier**. Now when you call in your harrier make sure - and this is crucial - to throw it while the headquarters in online, but not yet captured. The harrier will kill the people around the headquarters with its airstrike and machine gun. After 4 or 5 kills you should have a chopper gunner ready.
**Call in the chopper gunner** right when the headquarters goes offline. It doesn't matter whether it was your team or the other team that had captured it. Timing is crucial! Once in the air, mow down the poor, instant respawning, defenseless suckers. Keep doing this untill your chopper gunner ends.
**Now you should be at 25 kills** or so. If you need some more keep repeating the nubing tubing tactic while being extremely careful. Go for the easiest of easy kills only. Time is no factor so be sure to take it.
And there you go. Make sure to yell "suck it losers" over the microphone as you send them back to 1210.
Now the great thing about this tactic is that it doesn't require any skill at all. But it does require some luck. You have to hope that the enemy won't shoot down your chopper and you have to hope they all gather up at the headquarters.
Caution though: having the nuke is extremely satisfactory and once you have one all you can think about is the next one. | 23 | [
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"body": "Too bad this strategy will never work against me or any other able-minded player. A Stinger missile cuts your Killstreak pretty damn quickly.",
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"body": "If you are using scavenger I would say swap out the tac insertion for claymores. Great for maintaining a safe hiding spot. Tac insertion is only good in those situations where its very annoying/difficult to get into a spot which doesn't happen much. ",
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"body": "Why not use One Man Army? That way, you get infinite noob tube ammo, without having to expose yourself by running for Scavenger packs.",
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"body": "\"you're chopper gunner won't get it's worth\"\n\nIt's \"Your chopper gunner won't get its worth\".\n\nPeople should know this stuff by now.",
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"body": ">And there you go. Make sure to yell \"suck it losers\" over the microphone as you send them back to 1210.\n \nBy this time, someone like you would probably already be muted. So yell away.",
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"body": "> danger close (or hardline if you prefer)\n\nNo, not Hardline if you prefer. Getting seven noob tube kills with Danger Close is a *lot* easier than getting six noob tube kills without Danger Close, especially if you're firing at targets you can't see. Hardline has a time and place, and this isn't it.",
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I am Faroese, and we kill and eat pilot whales. AMA. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-finned_Pilot_Whale
this is the whale that we eat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands
this is where I live.
Ask me anything | 37 | [
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"body": ">As of the end of November 2008, the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales. [from Faroe Islands Wikipedia entry]\n\nWow. Thoughts?\n\n\nDoes the intelligence and sociable nature have any effect on your feelings towards the eating of whales? What would your response be to arguments that cetaceans diverse special 'person' status (e.g. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6973994.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084)? I'm interested on hearing your take on environmental / animal rights arguments vs. cultural traditions.",
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"body": "1. Do the Faroese have any common genetic disorders?\n2. How often do you get tourists?\n3. How is the education system there?\n4. What do you do for a living?\n5. What kinds of alcohol do you like?",
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"body": "Whee, i love whale, best meat i've ever had. I especially like it raw, carpaccio style, or as i tried it the other day, cubed down and marinated in soy sauce and wasabi, was delicious. I'd love to try the grindahvalur, as i've only had minke whale (i'm from Iceland).\n\nI have a few general questions about people from faroe islands:\n\n1) Why are you so good at Danish ? I live in Denmark and happen to speak perfect danish because i lived here as a kid, but most of my Icelandic peers are pretty sucky at Danish, even though they study it in school from the age of 10, people from Faroe Islands are at least 10x better.\n\n2) Is it true that Faroe Islands are REALLY religious? You keep hearing stories that gay people get beat up there and it's basically like living in alabama as far as religious dogma goes.\n\nI love people from Faroe though, my favorite bar in Denmark is Skarv, the faroe bar, always a party there on saturdays.",
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"body": "In lots of North American indigenous cultures that go whaling, the whale holds a special place in their religion. Is there any spiritual or religious connection between the Faroese and whales? Is there a spiritual element to hunting and eating them, or is it just a matter of available meat?",
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"body": "I've always wondered what whale tastes like after I saw it on TV ... it looked so delicious when prepared .. \n\nSo, how does it taste? can you describe it relative to other food/meat or does it have no parallel?",
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"body": "1. Is the crime rate high?\n2. How's the weed over there?\n3. How fast are the internet connections?\n4. How bad is the economical recession over there? How's the job market?\n5. How do you see yourselves compared to the other Nordic nations?\n6. It's cold and snowy in Helsinki, Finland at this moment. How's the weather over there?\n7. How are the women?\n8. Are the prices high? How much does a liter of gasoline cost? \n9. I'm considering of traveling to Faroe Islands this summer. What's the best time to travel there? Are people fluent in English? Any tips?",
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"body": "How would not being able to whale change your lifestyle and the lifestyles of those on the Faroe Islands?",
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"body": "I know this isn't necessarily related to the AMA, but would you have any resources or links to help some of us that want to visit the Faroe Islands and when would be the best times to visit with regards to eating whale? This really peaked my interest and the fact that you guys are environmentally conscious about it and try to abstain from overfishing of the whales makes it even more enticing to visit!",
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"body": ">Like the orca, the Long-finned Pilot Whale is really a dolphin.\n\nPilot Whale = Dolphin\n\nDolphin = People\n\nCannibal!",
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"body": "On a side note - I found this funny Image\n\nhttp://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/4a/Shame_On_Hunters.jpg\n\nIt basically sums up what some people tell me, when they find out about us killing whales. I started this AMA to inform people, so your first impression of us isn't horrible images, that you can't see the reasoning behind.",
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AskReddit: What is a good program that will let me convert FLAC and other lossless files to MP3? | I can appreciate the need for lossless files, but they aren't practical in that I can't put them on my mp3 player. I'm into classical music, and much of the music I try to torrent is only available in FLAC or other lossless format. I need something that will allow me to turn a FLAC file into MP3...
Edit: I'm running Vista | 5 | [
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"body": "[foobar2000](http://www.foobar2000.org/) ... I don't believe it comes with LAME encoder, so [here](http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php#lame-current) it is. ",
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Warner and DCMA takedown notices | Do these guys at Warner have a clue? I went to show someone a video on YouTube yesterday of some concert footage, only to discover it had been taken down because Warner issued a DCMA takedown notice.
Funny thing is, because that video was on YouTube in the first place, I bought 3 DVDs of the concert in question as gifts, and a copy of the CD for myself. That's four sales made as a direct result of that video being up, sales that never would have been made if I hadn't seen the footage in the first place.
Do these people even *think*? | 17 | [
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"body": "Are they still doing this? YT and Warner had a spat not too long ago and Warner went crazy. They were flagging cover songs submitted by bedroom guitarists, even.",
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Does anyone else like to call their guy "Daddy" during sex? | If so, is it part of more involved role-play, or do you just sort of say it instead of the person's name?
**tl;dr for the text below:** I just recently discovered I like to call my boyfriend "Daddy" when we're having sex. I'd love to hear from anyone who has had a similar experience or knows of any good related porn.
*My thoughts and some background:* I am a 23 year old girl and I started dating other girls exclusively when I was 15 or so. A year and a half ago I started dating this older guy who was my first-ever boyfriend. Over the last year he has completely melted my mind as far as sex is concerned. For example, I never understood why people would say "Who's your Daddy?" and things like that while having sex. However, after I started dating my current boyfriend I started getting into power games and dominant/submissive roles while having sex. One time we were having sex and my boyfriend told me to "be good for Daddy" or something along those lines. I was surprised at how hot that was for me. "Daddy" is a word that carries such strong tones of dominance and it just seems so dirty for me to use it while having sex. I told my boyfriend right after that I really liked when he did that, but it was still quite a while before I felt comfortable enough to actually say it myself while having sex. As of now, I just sort of moan out the word sometimes instead of his name. I was interested in hearing about the experiences of anyone else who also finds this hot. This seems new and exciting, but I feel a little lost and inexperienced as far as what I can do to explore this fantasy further. I'd also love to see any good related porns...
**EDIT:** To answer some questions, I actually have a great relationship with my father. I do have a pretty horrible relationship with my mother if that makes a difference. For me, I think it's more about the naughty/power aspect that turns me on, more than pretending that my bf is actually my father. =) | 20 | [
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"body": "Despite being rather kinky (you know, a fan of ropes and floggers and D/s and so on), calling a guy \"Daddy\" is one of my hard limits.\n\nIt just creeps me out a bit. Couldn't say why. I'm on really good terms with my father, and he's the \"head of the household\" sort. But... yeah, creeps me out.\n\nBut my friend's boyfriend likes to be put in a diaper and treated like a baby. So you certainly aren't that strange :)",
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"body": "I had a girl suddenly moan \"daddy!\" during sex.\n\nAt first, it weirded me the fuck out. Later, though, I found it really hot in a profound way.",
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"body": "Also 23, also recently discovered I like to call my SO \"daddy\" but I much prefer when he says \"who's your daddy\" or \"\"cum for daddy\". OMG! It gets me sooooo hot!",
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"body": "I think it might be beneficial for you to understand the [Electra Complex](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex), coined by Carl Jung after collaboration with Sigmund Freud on the concept of the [Oedipus Complex](http://changingminds.org/disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/oedipus_complex.htm). The theory argues that women are destined to be attracted to their fathers and resent their mothers during phases of sexual maturation and awakening. I am interested to know if you are on good terms with your mother.",
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"body": "See, I love all the benevolent dominance and such wrapped up in calling my bf daddy. Alas, it seriously creeps him out. So I just think it really hard. \r\n\r\nI think he's had exes with father issues which causes the creep out factor for him. Oh well.",
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"body": "I have been called \"Big Poppa\" by this crazy bitch a few times. One time, after she blew me, I was trying to get to a party and when I went to get my pants, she threw them out the window onto the street. I had to go down to the street in my boxers and retrieve them. And yet, like an idiot, I kept going back to her apartment for more domeskees.",
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"body": "My gf calls me daddy all the time and not just during sex. At first it was kinda weird but it doesn't bother me anymore.",
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"body": "My last girlfriend went from 0 to pornstar when we had sex. She was a quiet asian (not that that really matters, just painting a picture) 22 year old med student. Very quiet and understated. But when we would have sex she would start screaming and saying all kinds of shit. \"Pound me...fuck me harder...I'm your whore...I want your cum in me\" It was pretty awesome.\n\nThat being said if she ever said \"fuck me daddy\" I'd probably find it incredibly hot...at the time. *But* chances are afterward I would be a little creeped out. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with it, but I'd likely over-think it. Wanting to be fucked like a whore just suggests that...well she wants to be fucked like a whore. \"Fuck me daddy\" while hot in submissive kind of way would just get me wondering what kind of daddy issues she has. (Actually...she did have daddy issues, but none that manifested like that).",
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"body": "I wish my wife did this. It's one of my secret turn-ons. She thinks it's weird and funny, so I just laugh along with her and keep it to myself =X",
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"body": "As you can tell from the he comments this particular kink (I think it's fair to call it that) has mixed reactions.\n\nI'd just like to add a little anecdote:\n\nI was a very D/s relationship in the past... this girl was very submissive, I believe that she discovered this through our interactions and adventures and as such I don't believe that I ever really reached a full understanding of how far this goes for her.\n\nI had a suspicion that age-play/daddy-daughter type role play was her thing so I tentatively introduced it by making her refer to me as Big Daddy or 'her Big Daddy' in texts/emails and when we were getting frisky.\n\nThis strategy works for several reasons mainly because it is not overtly daddy-daughter (which understandably comes with a shitload of issues) it's kind of kinky and funny and it also could be taken in the Hip Hop sense... basically it was a name that was open to interpretation. \n\nAnyway: one fine day we are fucking like crazy, I am filming her using a dildo on her holes/taking stills of her in outfits etc. and at one stage I just toss the camera aside push her onto her side, one leg over my shoulder and thrust myself insider her in one go - in that instant she was so horny/surprised that she kind of lost herself and just screamed: \"ugh... DADDY!\" instead of 'Big Daddy'. \n\nIt was insanely hot.\n\nWhat was even hotter is that now it was pretty much out in the open but we never spoke of it so thereafter every time she called me 'Big Daddy' we both knew what she meant and we were able to indulge the fantasy without the awkwardness.\n\nSometimes your kinks need a proxy - pro tip;)",
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Backwards creationist logic | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN2oc7l1mPU&feature=related
This is false logic, Life as we know it is a product of our environment, not the other way around, the only way he is able to stand on that stage and make those claims is that life would evolve to an intelligent level is in a Universe in which life could exist.
If Gravity was too strong, we wouldn't know about it because we couldn't have evolved to observe it. This means that we would only be able to observe a universe in which is "tailored" to us.
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"body": "And yet rabbits have to eat their own feces because they don't fully digest food the first time through. A+, god. ",
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"body": "I forget who said \"It would be like praising how well-designed our noses are for our glasses to sit on them so well.\"\n\n**Edit**: It may have been Voltaire.\n\n>Of course one must not make an abuse of final causes; we have remarked that in vain Mr. Prieur, in \"The Spectacle of Nature,\" maintains that the tides are given to the ocean so that vessels may enter port more easily, and to stop the water of the sea from putrefying. In vain would he say that legs are made to be booted, and the nose to wear spectacles.",
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"body": "Guy doesn't understand the Anthropic principle. He is tens kinds of retarded.\n\nIf the universe were not fit for us, we would not be here to observe it, or comment on it.\n\nNot exactly rocket surgery now, is it?",
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AMA Request: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. | For those of you who don't know who Dr Karl is (I'm not sure how famous he is outside Australia), he is the [Julius Sumner Miller Fellow](http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/about/jsm.shtml) of the University of Sydney, he hosts a couple of hours a week of [science-based talkback radio](http://www.abc.net.au/science/drkarl/default.htm) (along with frequent television appearances), has written [dozens of books](http://www.drkarl.com/catalogue.php) on science (all in layman's language - they're primarily aimed at kids/young adults - though I own a bunch of them!) and even answers fan's science-y questions [on Twitter](http://twitter.com/doctorkarl) (through which I've learned he's on his way back from the Antarctic).
He's also won an [Ig Nobel prize for his groundbreaking work into belly button lint](http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/lint/), and [holds degrees in Physics and Maths, Biomedical Engineering, Medicine and Surgery](http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s2193276.htm?site=science/k2).
I'm sure I'm not the only redditor that could think of a few questions for this man, either about him, or science in general!
Dr Karl is also very well known in Australia - there must be a redditor out there who has a line of contact with him. If he can, I'm fairly confident he'll participate! | 42 | [
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"body": "Oh man that would be great. :D\n\nYou could always try and get his details from zoo magazine, or just email him from his website?\n\nHmm, ill keep an eye out for you. :)",
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"body": "I once got into an argument with the good Doctor when he came to my school years ago. We were arguing about colonisation of Mars/space.\n\nUnfortunately the bell rang for end of school and I had to cut it short else the entire school would have beaten me up for making them stay and listen to to nerds arguing about space colonisation.\n\nDr Karl, are you out there? I'd love to finish that argument...",
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"body": "Can't upvote this enough, I've read a few of his books and try my best to catch his segment on triple JJJ. It's great to see someone who can make science this approachable and enjoyable.",
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Suggestions requested for a good Recreational math book | Hi /r/math, I would like some suggestions on a good recreational mathematics book, which does not assume a full-fledged math background. The context is: I want to gift a book my brother-in-law who is very interested in mathematics. He is currently doing CS, and does not have a formal math background, hence the second requirement. He is very comfortable with high school level mathematics - integrals, derivatives, basic set theory, analytical geometry, trig, etc., loves math and is interested in logical analysis too. AFAIK, he is interested in number theory most.
I thought of [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach) and [To Mock a Mockingbird](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird). Would you recommend either of them, and if so which one? Does the second one require us to know Combinatory logic (he probably doesn't)? Is the first one really about math, or do other topics dominate it?
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"body": "[What is Mathematics by Courant](http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Ideas-Methods/dp/0195105192) is a great book. It is not only accessible, but also gets across the joy of doing mathematics. It seems like it would be at his level. ",
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"body": "You can also look up Martin Gardner. He wrote a few recmath books for Scientific American years ago. They are probably out of print now, though. You could probably get them used.",
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"body": "It's not really a math book, but heavily mathematically-oriented is Roger Penrose's \"The Road to Reality\". I started GEB a year or so ago and loved it for about an hour, then got frustrated by how all-over-the-place it was--it didn't seem like a thought ever got completed, Hofstadter just jumped around. Since, I've picked up Penrose's book and am still captivated by it, 200 pages in. It does get to some pretty high-level stuff though, and it's not a whole lot of number theory so much as geometry (setting the stage for current physical models).\n\ntl;dr\n\"The Road to Reality\" is a good mathy book, but perhaps not what you're looking for.",
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Dear Reddit: What's the dumbest thing you ever did as a kid? | Here's mine: When I was about five, my parents got a pre-built shed delivered to our house, it came on this big truck with a crane on it. The shed was lifted over the fence and placed into position in our garden. As the truck left I decided to chase it up the street (we lived in a quiet area, so running around in the streets was pretty normal).
The truck drove quite slowly up to the end of the street, so I was able to keep up with it without a problem. At the end of the street, the truck stopped - I didn't and ran full pelt into the back of the truck breaking my nose, two teeth and causing various cuts and bruises to my face.
That was the day I learnt what brake lights are for.
What dumb things did you do as a kid? | 72 | [
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"body": "I ate some poison that I found in the shed. I saw the little skull and crossbones on the box and thought to myself, \"OHH! Pirate candy!!\"",
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"body": "Threw Waterplant off of a freeway bridge in California. Luckily, no one was hurt. My brother, however pushed a pinto bean up his nose and then told our parents, whom after looking couldn't find it and got angry when he kept insisting it was there. Two weeks later we took him to the hospital where the doctor removed it, along with a **two inch root that had been growing into his head**",
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"body": "i stuck a marble in my nostril. it stayed there all day. i didn't tell my parents because i didn't want to get in trouble. it came out when i was playing cards with my siblings (i sneezed it out). it shot across the kitchen table and everyone stared at me with big eyes.",
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"body": "When I was about 12, I tried to jump onto a moving train, that was going like 2 miles an hour. My foot slipped off the bottom rung of the ladder, and I fell. Both of my legs landed on the rail. I rolled sideways and off the rail just as the wheel was about to chop my legs off. I have never been so fucking scared in my entire life. I could hear my heart pounding in my head, and I was shaking. Whenever I am about to do anything risky in any way, I think about that train and how stupid I was. ",
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"body": "* I set my bed on fire. When I was 4 or so I watched Disneys version of A Christmas Carol. Scrooge McDuck checks under his bed for ghosts with a candle. I tried to do the same, with less than spectacular results. \n\n* I threw a toy tank at my sister. It was cast iron. It hit her face. It did WAY more damage than I would have expected.\n\n* My other sister was a baby, and I came into the room to find her with a wire coat hanger, hook end, in her mouth. I panicked and grabbed it away from her, this raking the end of the hook across the roof of her mouth cutting it quite badly. \n\n* The one I'm most ashamed about was when I was 15. My friends grandmother was having her second wedding and asked me to come along. Throughout the night his older cousin (18 or 19) was sneaking us drinks so we were fairly tipsy. At some point the cousin convinced me to grab a bottle of crown royal from the open bar for him under the pretense that there was tons, and it would never be noticed. I got it, and for some reason he RATTED ON ME, and apparently this was the \"brides special drink\" and I was ejected from the wedding. 15 years old, drunk, shamed, in a strange part of town with no cell phone. ",
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"body": "There's a few. When I was real young, like 4 or maybe a bit younger, I was with the girl from next door who was black. We were talking and I said it'd be cool if my skin could be black, so I proceeded to colors my arms and face with permanent marker. Another time I thought I could be invisible if I colored myself green and lay down in the grass. Naked of course. \n\n",
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"body": "when i was around 7, i found this watch in a drawer that belonged to my dad, and it was making a weird ticking, beeping noise that wouldn't stop. I didn't know at the time that some watches have alarms, so i assumed it was a warning that a bomb inside the watch was going to go off. I took it outside and threw it into the creek that ran by our house, and then i ran back into the house terrified it would explode. Later my dad asked me why i threw it into the creek and I told him I was scared it was a bomb. He just stared at me all disappointed. ",
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"body": "My mother and I were having a picnic in the backyard. She was making a whole lot of food. This was the point in time when I was started to think I was cool and using abbreviations and slang terms. After eating, \"Mom, can we can secs?\" \n\nI didn't get it at first, but meant to ask if I could have \"seconds\" of food",
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"body": "When I was 5, I found inspiration in a Squeeze-It fruit drink commercial. The commercial featured a personified Squeeze-It bottle yelling out \"wacky wild!\" when squeezed.\n\nI decided that my pet hamster would be a good subject to squeeze in the same manner. So I squeezed the hamster while saying \"wacky wild!\" Its guts spewed out of its mouth. And my 5 year old mind thought, \"oh shit!\" So I threw it back in the cage and ran.\n\nHonestly, I don't know why I did it.",
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"body": "I threw a bunch of snow into the mailbox thing at the post office. I probably ruined a ton of mail.\n\n",
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"body": "I once found a 1L bottle of paraffin (kerosine) in a dumpster when I was about 8-9 years old. Went out into the woods around where I lived, poured some in the bottlecap and lit it up. The problem was that I had poured way too much and had gotten quite much of it on my trousers. There I was, alone in the middle of nowhere, on fire. I got my pants of in time to extinguish it all, but I had no eyebrows left. Mother did not take it well…",
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"body": "When I was little I had a habit of not wanting to wear gloves during the cold, Boston winters, so I would just pull my arms up through the sleeves of my coat, near my chest. I also had a thing for cowboy boots. One day, after one of the worst ice storms of the 90's, my mom and I went to pick my brother up from his friend's house. We were standing in the driving, my mom talking to the other mom, my arms in my coat, and my cowboy boots on my feet. There was a crack in the asphalt of the driveway, and I stood there staring at it and convinced myself I could stick the tips of my cowboy boots in it and balance. I couldn't. I also had no means to break my fall, and thus I split my chin open for the second of three different times. Lovely.",
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"body": "When I was 8 years old or so, my brother and I decided we would thank our parents (for being generally good parents, I suppose) by painting the shed for them.\n\nWe opened a tin of paint and started painting the walls, their expensive leather jackets were hung up in there. We decided that, rather than taking the jackets down, we'd paint around them. Then after we got a little high off the smell of the paint, we decided to paint over the jackets.\n\nAfter a little while things got out of hand and we were crying with laughter, painting each other with roller brushes - in our hair, over our faces etc. We ended up naked and coated in white paint.\n\nI remember the shock on my mum's face when we walked into the living room. She ran into the shed and looked at the paint tin and burst out crying. She phoned my aunty explaining to her \"They've coated themselves in gloss paint, are they going to die?\"\n\nThe rest of that day was spent in a bath filled with water and turps. If I wasn't so high off my face, it would have probably stung a lot more. My brother and I spent the next few months with scabbed over faces. It burnt right through our skin. Though, luckily neither of us have scars.",
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"body": "I got new shoes for my birthday when I was 8... I decided to run full speed across the yard as I look at my feet shining bright in the sunlight. \n\nI ran head on into a tree branch and had to get stitches.",
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"body": "I was eating over my aunt's house and I accidentally spilt almost an entire bottle of hand lotion on my pasta. My aunt didn't see, and I thought if she found out she'd get really mad at me, so I poured tomato sauce over the pasta, mixed it, and ate it. Yuck",
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"body": "In 7th grade I was playing the penis game with a friend of mine. We were in public obviously and with a group of friends. I stopped when it got a little too loud but my friend continued. She even asked some extremely young girls on the corner how big their penises were. Next thing I know the cops show up and ask who said these things to the little girls. \"It was me and her.\" said my friend. We got detained. Worse choice ever was to be friends with someone so stupid. ",
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"body": "My dad chews tobacco. When you chew tobacco, you often have to spit. My dad had a coke bottle that he would spit into.\n\nWhen I was two, I drank it.",
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"body": "I was in the locker room at our country club and saw a guy named Bernie come out of the shower. At five years old, I told Bernie I thought his penis was huge. For years, he would walk around the locker room totally naked after that despite all the men reminding him that I was five, and just about anything looked big by comparison.",
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"body": "think the belt loops on my jeans worked like a climbing harness. several broken belt loops, a 20 foot fall, and a caste on my left arm proved otherwise.",
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"body": "When I was about 10 we were getting swimming lessons at school. We would all be in the pool while the teacher would be standing out of the pool giving instructions. When she showed us the breast stroke for the first time, she said, while standing, \"move your arms like this\", moving both her arms in the normal way, then \"move your legs like this\", only demonstrating with one leg, otherwise she would fall over. After a few lengths of trying the breast stroke, I was spluttering and falling behind the class, not moving very fast and sinking into the water. First I was given a float to hold with my hands to help me stay afloat. Then arm bands. Then a inflatable belt. I still didn't improve. A few weeks later, I had to leave the pool early on lesson. As I stepped out, I looked into the water from above and noticed everyone kicking out with both legs while doing the breast stroke. I thought you were only meant to use one leg while doing the breast stroke because that's what the teacher showed us when giving the instructions standing up...",
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"body": "When I was about 6 and my brother about 3, we lived in Idaho. We walked to a friend's house in the winter to see if he was home, and when he wasn't, we decided for some reason to go into his garage and wait for him.\n\nAfter a while, we both got really sleepy and warm and took off our gloves and boots and lay down for a nap. Edit: this is a dangerous thing to do in negative temperatures and is a telltale warning sign of hypothermia.\n\nAt some point I heard my mom hollering for us, so we sluggishly put our boots on and stumbled back up the hill to our house, where my mom immediately panicked and threw us into a warm bathtub. It felt like stabbing and burning, but she thawed us out without further drama.\n\nWe were so. so. lucky.",
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"body": "I convinced a friend to punch me in the stomach when I was around 12 years old, so he could see how hardcore my karate training had made me. He was the nervous type, but finally agreed and punched me. It didn't really hurt, but at the exact same time my (huge) german shepherd came strolling into the room. Now, this kid was scared of dogs to begin with, and I'm not really sure it helped having my dog go crazy on him, thinking he was assaulting me. The dog jumped up and placed his paws on the kids shoulders against the wall, barking and growling a few inches from his face, without ever doing any damage. \n\nI'm sure that cost the kids parents a few hours of therapy.",
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"body": " My mom once told me as a young child to call 911 if I needed help. She put the term too loosely, \"Help\" I thought, \"What did she mean, her work?\" I assumed it was just a way to contact her, because she'd been my help. \n\n Well, fast forward a couple of months or so. My brother was taking a shower(7 years older than I), my mother at work and I guess I got so upset because he wouldn't put my soup in the microwave, I called 911, thinking I could get a hold of my mother at work to try and make her coax my brother into doing it. Well, some angry serious man picked up the phone and said \"911, what's your emergency?\" I panicked and just hung up. I guess as the police showed up my brother had just got dressed, and answered their stern knock. As soon as I heard the knock, I hid under my brothers desk, terrified. They gave me a long lecture about how it's a serious crime to prank call 911, and how I'd go to juvy if I did again (just a scare tactic, I was VERY young). I was too shocked to even tell them I was just trying to get in contact with my mom. \n\nTL:DR I called 911 because my bro wouldn't put my soup in the microwave, he was showering, and couldn't.",
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"body": "I posted this earlier but it's probably more applicable here,\n\nWhen I was three I snorted 3 popcorn kernels up to furthest depths of my nasal cavities. I then went up to my mom and said \"Look Mommy I stick popcorn up my nose,\" *I then took the biggest inhale through my nose possible* My mom and dad flipped their shit apparently, and took me to the ER. The tried to get it out with pliers while I screamed bloody murder but the kernels were too far up there. They eventually had to hook a suction cup to my nose and strap me to a table like a mental patient to remove them. My very first memory.",
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"body": "I was pretty hyperactive as a kid and would do various martial arts moves and somersaults. One day I was at a little house party with my friends and the girl I had a huge crush on, just having a good time.\n\nPeople started to try to break-dance and so, of course, I felt the urge to try a few because nothing really bad ever happens, right?\n\nA few of my \"moves\" went off without a hitch, but it was only when I was done and decided to launch onto my feet from my back that disaster struck. Perhaps it as the adrenaline from being around the girl I liked, I do not know, but I did a power launch from my back, missed landing on my feet completely and instead did a full 180 and landed straight on my mouth.\n\nMy left front top tooth went through my top lip, split on the concrete floor and shot out somewhere. The impact shoved the top right tooth over noticeably and it was loose. I remember immediately shooting up from the ground, not feeling pain but feeling around on my face and realizing part of my top lip was dangling a bit. My friends were all just standing there staring at me, still in shock, saying \"holy shit.\"\n\nAt this point, I bolted for the nearest bathroom. I looked into the mirror and I remember freaking out as I washed away the blood, saying \"no, no, no, no, no\" just because I felt like I'd disfigured myself. My friend's mom called my parents who were there in less than ten minutes, and they sped me to the hospital.\n\nThe doctor removed part of my left tooth from my top lip and stitched me back up. Another part of the tooth is still in there and I remember him telling me it would \"dissolve after a few years.\" It's still in there.\n\nFor the tooth, my mom took me to an orthodontist. Since the root of the tooth was still anchored, he decided to completely kill the nerve, grind the tooth down to a stump and just attach a porcelain crown over the top. I still have it to this day. If you looked at my face, you would never know this happened as the doctor did an amazing job stitching up my lip.\n\nThat's the dumbest thing I did as a kid.\n\n**tl;dr:** Went to a house party as a kid, tried to launch from my back onto my feet but missed my feet, landed on my teeth and messed myself up pretty bad.",
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"body": "I pried open a can of pink paint, took a scrubbing brush, and started painting the family boat. I was probably four or so. My dad being angry upon finding out what I did that day would be a severe understatement.",
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"body": "We had the dumbest Spanish teacher in second grade, and she always made the projector so that half the words were off the screen and we couldn't read it. One day, I was so fed up with it, I adjusted it. She didn't notice. I got an idea.\n\nEveryday I adjusted the projector before class a little bit more, so it got a little blurrier every day. Eventually, it was flat-out unreadable. Everyone in the class knew what I was doing, but no one cared... until she came to class one day with prescription glasses. \n\nI fixed the projector after class and left it alone from then on.",
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"body": "The year, I forget. My age, I forget that too, but would have been 4 or 5 years old. The place, my Grandmother's. Tools: Metal cube frame about 3\" per side, and about a foot of wire. Method: Wrap wire around cube, until both ends meet at the end. Point ends away from cube keeping them parallel. Insert ends into active power socket.\n\nI was fine, the power phase was not. It left a black scorch mark on the wall, and took out the kitchen circuit breaker. My Grandmother didn't notice anything until she tried to use the microwave. I was playing innocently in the garden by this point, ignoring the chaos I had caused.\n\nEDIT: no I recall one even better; the setting was a huge freak storm. As the rain downpour turned into just light rain, I went out to see the massive flooding down the street, angled at about 40 degrees. A very steep incline.\nThe gutter had a jutting out part of cement, causing a massive 'wave' of rainwater up to about half my height at the time, so I put my foot in it to feel what the water was like, but it grabbed my leg and pulled me down into the torrential flood down this hill. I tried to get up but it was too strong, and I couldn't roll out of the gutter as water was across the whole road, just a bit thinner in the middle, but entirely flooded other-wise.\nVery quickly I was heading towards a parked car at the bottom, and as sheer luck would have it I got out the same way I got into it, a jutting out piece of cement. Full force into my left buttock. Completely tore my left pantaloon asunder, and gave me massive bruising and bleeding on my left arse cheek.\n\nMost embarrassing walk of shame back up that hill ever.",
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"body": "You know the old story of the monkeys jumping on the bed? I didn't. I was having fun jumping up and down on my grandparent's bed. The next thing I knew I was in the hospital. I had fell off the bed while jumping and hit the dresser. I managed to crack my head open and had to get a few stitches. You can still see the scar above my left eye.",
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"body": "a friend and I were smoking a stolen cigarette (from my friends mom) in the back of his house. I was maybe 10 years old. It was winter time and the house had bermuda grass. since it was winter the grass was \"dead\", brown and dry. when we finished smoking the cig we tossed into the lawn... it started a fire. at first we just watched the fire burn out in a circle, then before we knew it, the fire was licking the side of my friends house!!! we tried to put it out with our feet, but my friends dad came outside when black smoke started to pass by the window he was sitting at. He call the fire department and used a garden hose to put out the fire... no major damage other than the lawn was black for months...",
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"body": "I declared war on ants inside my bathroom. My lengthy fights with them resulted in epic water bills. They always come back. Always.",
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"body": "When I was about 4 years old I was riding down a hill on my bike. As I was coasting, I noticed the space between my wheel and the steering \"fork\" where the wheel sits. For some reason this space looked very inviting to my foot, which I then, for no memorable reason whatsoever, proceeded to stick my foot into. My bike came to a halt at the expense of various layers of skin which were singed into a fine mess from the friction.",
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"body": "I broke my arm trying to fly whilst dressed as Batman.\n\nOf course now I know that Batman can't fly, hence my fall down the flight of stairs.",
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"body": "1. my parents are still mad at me for this one: i was born.\n2. at the age of 9months i climbed over our back fence, and went down to get a ball. if that wasn't bad enough (wildlife could have killed me, there are coyotes around) a couple weeks later, someone discovered an explosive over there left behind by the miltary from a hundred years ago. i could have blown the whole area up.\n3. I ran away in safeway to get a balloon, i was only 10months at that time. they locked all the doors, and had security everywhere looking for me. from that point on, my parents LITERALLY KEPT ME ON A LEASH.\n4. When i was 8 I saw kim possible doing this thing on a cliff, which required hanging off of it. wanting to be like her, i grabbed on to the tv, which was up high, and tried to use the top as a ledge of a cliff. it toppled on top of me, and to this day i have back issues.\n5. at the age of three i smeared my own poop all over the walls.\n6. When i was 9, one time, i had my friend lock me in my dog's old crate, and roll me down the hill, which was now free of explosives, but given how steep the hill is, i got cut up everywhere, and needed stitches.\n7. i saw the exorcism of emily rose at 9(or around there) and then i became convinced demons were trying to kill me, having no religious affiliation, i made crosses out of paper, and taped them all over my body to repel the demons.\n\nif you want more, i've got plenty XD",
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"body": "When I was five or six, I was riding my bike up and down the street, until I had this great idea to see if I could ride with my eyes closed. I can still remember the colors I saw as my face smashed into the side of that old rusty van parked in the neighbor's driveway. I managed to stagger across the street before I collapsed in a scrubby field with blood pouring from my face. So in my kindergarten graduation photo I have a mullet, a black eye, and a huge scab on my lip.\n\nThen when I was 16 (not really a kid I guess) I jumped off a two story building into a lawn, and would have been fine if it hadnt been for the manhole cover hidden under the grass. Cracked the plate of my heel in two, and no one would help me or call an ambulance as I rolled around in a ditch screaming in pain and cursing at the passing joggers.",
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"body": "Many years back when I was just a young kid driving a truck for a shed company, I saw a crazy boy probably 5 years of age, trying to chase my truck for some reason so I slowly led him up the street so he was able to keep up without a problem and finally jacked up the brakes an watched him smash his face in. ",
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"body": "In 2nd grade i stuck my index finger under the business end of a stapler and slammed on the top with my fist as hard as I could to \"see what would happen\". Strangely, it didn't really hurt until the school nurse yanked out the staple and ran my finger under ice cold water.",
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"body": "Jumped off the garage with a big garbage bag thinking it would be my parachute...thankfully I landed in the grass and avoided the sprinkler head next to me.",
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"body": "This is a re-post (Don't worry the original one is mine too):\n\nWhen I was twelve I got REALLY REALLY drunk at a memorial service held in my building for a doorman who had recently died. (I was in that faze were I thought, \"Haha Im a rebel im gonna drink alcohol even though im twelve and probably cant handle it!\") Anyway right after I drank my 4th glass of wine I started talking to a fellow resident of my building (A grown up) and was trying to express how sad I thought it was that my doorman died but ended up saying, \"this is ridiculous, we shouldn't be down here\" This pattern continued the entire night.",
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"body": "The house that I grew up in has a military cemetery right down the road. It's nearly out of space now, but growing up there were burials there pretty regularly and they always had 21 gun salutes. One afternoon when I was there I found an empty blank bullet cartridge. Thinking it was just an empty bullet cartridge and not aware of what a blank was at the time, I took it home to my favorite smashing spot (a section of sidewalk that had a little indent in it from putting stuff there and whacking it with a hammer), and started to go to town on it. Luckily my Dad came home after a few minutes and noticed what I was up to, because I'm sure I would've shit my pants had that thing went off.",
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"body": "* Impaled my hand with a sewing machine needle when I was 5.\r\n\r\n* I lit a toothbrush on fire with a space heater and tried brushing with it when I was 6.\r\n\r\n* While stabbing the garden hose with a steak knife at seven years old, I severed the tendons and nerves in my right pinky. Never said anything about it, didn't even get stitches.\r\n\r\n* Stuck my tongue to a flagpole when I was 12. I knew what would happen, I did it anyway.\r\n\r\n* While standing next to a freight train moving at full speed at 13 years old, I stuck my hand out to touch it. This time I got stitches.\r\n\r\n* I stiffed a landing on the trampoline after half-committing to a flip, tearing my rotator cuff or some shit. My shoulder is still fucked up. That was when I was 15, and I stopped doing dumb shit like that - for the most part.",
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"body": "I was at a light parade with my family and I started chewing on the glow stick I had, for no reason really. My mom and dad didn't notice until I had chewed up most of the glow stick. I don't remember what they did with me afterward but I do remember loving my glowing face.",
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"body": "When I was about six, I had the brilliant idea to take the AC plug out of the back of an Atari 2600 and stick it into my mouth.\n\nLuckily I just touched it to my tongue and didn't have much of a grip, so as soon as it shocked the hell out of me I dropped it. I was a goofy kid.",
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"body": "I was about four or five. Me, my mum & Gran were at some shop. I wandered off myself looking for the latest toy doll or something and came across something I found hilarious. I ran to get my mum and gran and made them follow me around this shop to show them what I found so hilarious. Finally I found it, pointing and laughing, screaming out \"IT'S SO FUNNY RIGHT! LOOK MUMMY, IT'S SO FUNNY.\" I see my mum and gran put their heads down and walk the other way as the midget gave them both this look that could kill and walked out the shop in embarrassment. \r\n\r\nI also one time stuck my tongue in a bottle. But I thought the midget story was more appropriate. ",
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"body": "Ok, this will be a long one\n\nOne day my friend and I decided to ditch school. We were 8yrs old and we were looking forward to the idea to spending all day wandering around without adult supervision. I brought a lighter from home because we wanted to create a campfire in the park. Because I was 8 it didn't occur to me that Arizona has practically zero humidity and fire spreads quickly.\n\nSo we take a stroll over to a local park. It was completely deserted. We took some dry pine needles, put them in a pile and set them on fire. it got increasingly bigger, so we stamped it out.\n\nWe continued to walk until we came across another gradeschool. In all our paper recycling bin (made of plastic). We did this under the pretense that all the paper would turn to ash and the bin would be perfectly ok. We thought it might be funny to see the look on the recyclers face when they went to get the paper and all that was left was some ash.\n\nSo we tossed the paper in and proceeded to walk to another park. By the time we put two blocks between us and the bins there was a huge cloud of black smoke in the air. by the time we reached the park the police had found us. They brought us back to the school, and there was a big black puddle of goo where the plastic bins used to be.\n\nHow did they find us you might ask? well when we threw the burning paper in the bins the school just happened to be at recess. Yes that's right, we did this all with hundreds of witnesses.",
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"body": "I bent a paperclip so that it would go into the outlet. When it did and it shocked me, I thought oh wow, I though that would happen.",
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"body": "* I swallowed a quarter before dinner, felt myself choking, and tried to control my breathing. I was afraid of my parents freaking out so I didn't tell them, but during dinner, I washed down the quarter with a lot of water until I felt my throat clear.\r\n\r\n* I was helping my mom cook marinara sauce and decided that it needed more spices. After my mom left me to tend the sauce, I was looking through our seasonings when I found pickling spice. I figuring I'd add a little and she wouldn't know the difference. Well, more spice came out than I expected and I tried drowning these tiny balls in the sauce but I was clearly screwed. My mom noticed right away, called my dad in who actually started cracking up, and reamed me out while I strained the sauce into another pot.\r\n",
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"body": "Cut open a [Stretch Armstrong](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31JQ90ZGGDL._SL500_AA280_.jpg). It was messy.",
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"body": "My parents' house is mostly a hill. Some clever land developer was hasty in preparing his lakefront property for sale, and no grading was done on any lots, so it's a prevalent theme through their neighborhood. Steep hills; lake. As such, the driveway is about 60 degrees on the steep side, and 40 degrees on the non-steep side. The driveway forms a triangle to allow guests to pull-through. The steep side also continues straight ahead at the bottom of the triangle, and joins the side of the garage. Garage being to the right, if you continue straight further still, you hit a 70-degree drop-off into the back yard. Essentially, you can drop more than a story in the span of ten feet. The back yard is a hill still, but only 20-30 degrees at worst. Then you get to the lake and the jagged rocks my dad had put in to prevent erosion. (Rip-rap, he called it. Can anyone confirm that this is even a thing??)\r\n\r\nEnter: The Blizzard of 1993.\r\n\r\nSo, my best friend and I are sledding. We're at the top of the driveway, and the idea is that we'll stop at the garage, walk back up, and run it again. The driveway is more than long enough to be a fun run all by itself. Mother Nature, however, did not intend the fun to stop there. In her only attempt ever to entice me to the Winter X Games as a profession, it was decided that I would slide through the flat patch of driveway beside the garage, careen off the super-steep back hill, slide uncontrollably down the bank and narrowly escape wetness by grabbing the boat dock and bailing out on my sled as it flew into the lake.\r\n\r\nWe fished the sled out with a pool skimmer minutes later, and the handle on it was already frozen. We decided to try a different sort of run over at my friend's house.",
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"body": "When i was a 10 i tried to cut a dinosaur out of those big clear bouncy balls. The scissors slipped off the ball and ended up deep in my left nostril. I had to be taken to the ER.",
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"body": "Alright guys, you're all much too tame, just too tame. It's obvious that you've spent too much time indoors: DVD's, TV., computer games.... You've gained some in a way in your lifestyle, but I'm sixty with a much different childhood.\r\n\r\nAll of your stories below wouldn't even get an honorable mention with my buds over a brewski. We grew up when we all \"played\" outside so that Mom could get her housework done. TV was only watched at night if we were good, homework and chores done. We had many outdoor experiences!\r\n\r\nDumbest thing? Well, there were many, but what sticks out being both dumb & embarassing was when I was 5 or 6 during a Maine winter when we tried to see how quick we could touch the swing set pipes with our tongues without sticking. Alot of us got caught, but that's not my super-dumb story.\r\n\r\nDrum roll... Maine winters can be damn cold and all of the Moms would dress us in multilayers of clotheing. When you were outside & to take a whiz all of us boys would find a spot and unzip the snowpants, the wool pants and pull down the longjohns. I was in the process of whizzing near the vacant swings when I was slipping on the ice and grabbed the pipe, hugging it for dear life. I didn't want to wet my pants.\r\n\r\nI hugged it a little too closely and Bosco got pipe-stuck. I was there for about an eternity when I shifted my weight and one of the chestnuts got stuck.\r\n\r\nAbout that time, I heard a voice behind me said hi, how are you or whatever and I immediately recognized her voice. It was Kathy. I had been trying to get the nerve up to ask her to my upcoming Birthday Party. I had a crush on her. I hugged the pipe tighter to cover up, but that didn't help Bosco and his two brothers.\r\n\r\nWe had a short conversation before Kathy's Mom called her to lunch. Shortly thereafter my Mom called me and I waved her over. Mom's are great and so is warm water.\r\n\r\nI never had the chance to ask Kathy, because her Dad got transferred and they moved out-of-state.\r\n\r\nI think I'm glad that I was circumcized on that one.",
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"body": "This happened when I was in 9th grade glass arts class. We were sitting at square tables with electrical plugs hanging from the ceiling. We were just dicking around to pass the time, so of course I stuck a length of wire into the plug, got electrocuted, flew out of my chair screaming onto the floor. Had to get psychologically evaluated to make sure I wasn't trying to kill myself.\n\nFun times.",
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"body": "When I was about 3 I stuck 40 cents worth of a roll of pennies into a VHS of my parents wedding\r\n\r\n...the ONLY VHS of my parents wedding.",
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"body": "I made a fort out of cardboard in my backyard. It was placed in some places against this grill (the little cage outside) we had removed from old airconditioners when we replaced them with splits. The cardboard that were over these grills were pretty sturdy but the cardboard in between them was not.\n\nI awkwardly placed some big rocks over the structure somehow trying to make it more solid as well as keep the cardboard from flying off (wind was crazy). Anyhow, I crawl in and I must have pushed on some cardboard but it collapsed and rocks fell on me and ow.\n\nI'm surprised I got away with it without anything broken. I did get a lot of bruises or cuts but my head made it ok.",
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"body": "Stuck a coffee bean up my nose when I was 3. It smelt good...\n\nOn a side note, I thought that that was the reason I could only breathe through 1 nostril at a time. Reddit taught me that everyone is like that...",
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"body": "Threw a battery out of the 6th floor of a building. Almost hit a young child. Manslaughter charges avoided. Pondered about my actions. Resorted to throwing paper airplanes out of the window instead. I was just fascinated by gravity as a kid. Still am.",
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"body": "Me and 2 friends walked onto a golf course near my house. Right around the corner, actually. We saw a guy at the green with his caddy behind him about to make a putt. About 100 ft away, his cart and clubs were unattended.\n\nWe made a mad dash for it, all jumped in, and slammed on the gas pedal. However, we did not consider how slow a golf cart goes with 3 people and clubs. As the screaming caddy closed in with golf club in hand, we cheesed it and my fatter friend was mere inches away from being bludgeoned. But we made it out.",
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"body": "When I was about 4 I got into my dad's Lincoln during a backyard bbq at my grandma's. The car was parked on an inclined driveway. I pulled on the gearshift lever and took it out of park. When it started to roll backwards I panicked and racked the lever back and forth a few times but never could find the position that made it stop. The car rolled backwards across the street, bounced up the curb and backed over a sapling tree (new subdivision), killing it.\n\nI was so freaked out, I hid on the floor in the back seat until they came and found me.",
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"body": "I pulled back a tree branch and called my little sister over. I let it go, expecting it to hit her flying back. Instead, it hits her in the face and a tiny piece sticking out of the branch hit her right in the between her eye and her nose. I almost blinded her. Luckily though she didn't even need stitches but she does have a scar there.",
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"body": "1) I was swinging on a rope from one tree branch to another tree branch when the rope came undone during my upswing, Gravity sucked me down quite fast and I broke both my arms on impact.\n\n2) I found my fathers gold pocket watch one morning, i remember asking him if i can take it apart to see how it works, he was still in bed when I asked them this. so I went outside with a hammer in one hand, and the pocket watch in the other and proceeded to take it apart with the hammer, a few mins go by, and my father runs outside to see his gold pocket watch in several dozen pieces, and proceeds to whip my ass for it, all the while I kept saying Dad, you said i could take it apart!",
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"body": "One time in the middle of winter I was out in the garage messing around with a car-battery charger. I was repeatedly connecting it to a D-Cell battery until it got hot and was then rolling it on my face and hands to warm up. Luckily my Dad came out before the thing burst in my face.",
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"body": "One day I felt like embracing my inner woman and entered the kitchen in hopes of frying up some spring rolls for my brother and I. As I was cooking, the bottom of the pan caught a little flame, no big deal right?\n*Wrong* My brother entered the kitchen and started freaking out, telling me to put out the fire but I refused. The flame would just die out by itself, it happens all the time. \nBut he wouldn't have any of it, he *grabbed* the pan (filled with hot oil) out of my hands, turned on the tap, and tossed it in the sink. \n\nThe whole kitchen was blazing so hard the blinds began to melt off and the ceiling turned to black, and as a punishment, **I** had to eat the soggy/burnt spring rolls because It was my idea to cook.\n",
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"body": "I made a parachute out of a small rug. It was about 4x3 feet, and a heavy cotton loop type. I probably should have used a sheet. It was pretty heavy. I took two lengths of cord and tied each to two corners of the rug, and took the resulting loops and hooked them under my arms. \n\nThen I jumped off the roof of the carport. \n\nI instantly landed hard, and an instant later the rug came flopping hard on top of me. It's funny how quickly I realized how stupid my experiment was. ",
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"body": "I checked my BB gun to see if a BB was in the chamber. I was POSITIVE there was nothing in there. I pumped it up, went downstairs and told my friend to hold out his hand. I convinced him it was just air, and it would just be like a big PUFF. I shot, and at the time we thought the air was so powerful it blew his skin off. It bled, I cried - he cried - I got my BB gun taken away for a year. \n\nFastforward like 9 years, senior year of highschool, still one of my best friends he goes to the hospital complaining of pain in his hand. They diagnose him with Carpal Tunnel syndrome. They do an Xray, and the BB is still in his hand. He can feel it below the skin, and even move it around a bit. He also uses it as a conversation piece in groups. ",
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"body": "When my current house was being built, my family used to go to the site to talk with plumbers and the like. So, before my current yard had grass in it, my twin sister and I (probably 5 at the time) would pick up dirt chunks and throw them at trees and such. \n\nOne day, an electritican came when we were there, and was meeting with my parents about payment and such. My sister and I were harmlessly throwing dirt chunks at his car. Well, my sister picked one up and threw it, but it turned out to be a rock covered with dirt, and she just happened to hit the window. The window of his van shattered, and we had one of those \"oh crap\" moments.\n\nI just remember trying to get the electrician to go around the other side of his van so he wouldn't see the window. I don't remember our parents reactions to the window being broken, but I do remember crying that Christmas when some of our money was being used to fix the windows (probably like $20 was taken out as punishment/repayment, but $20 is a lot for a kid).",
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"body": "Ok, beat this redditors:\n\nAs a two-year-old, I ate my parents' lottery ticket. I can't say for certain whether or not it was winning, but according to them the news said it was bought at the liquor store my dad always gets his at, and the winner never came forward. The prize was supposed to be really, really big because my parents only buy when it's over $500,000 or so, and this was in the 80's. They never retrieved the ticket, I think whatever shreds I coughed up was unrecognizable.\n\nI also did things like lock my mom out of the house before I could even walk, and fart really loudly whenever my dad was there so he'd get blamed for it. I was an evil, evil baby.",
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"body": "One- Rode on the handle bars of my bike while my friend pedaled. A small dog jumped out at us and barked startling me considerably. I jolted and got my foot stuck in the spokes which promptly pulled me off the bike face down onto the pavement. Several stitches, a concussion, and broken nose made me realize the importance of proper bicycle use.\n\nTwo- At around 7 i took every flamable thing I could find in my house and took it to the sand lot next door. My friends and I created an elaborate trap bomb with quite potent fuels, paints, and paper lots of paper. Needles to say we were quite inexperienced with igniting such bombs and failed miserable, but not before we got caught by our parents. Hooray. \n\nThree- Put a not on a girls back in the 5th grade that said \"I LIKE BALLS\". It was hilarious of course but stayed on for the whole day apparently and was inevitably seen by some one who cared enough inform her as to why everyone was laughing at her. I got sent home for the day and had to attend sexual abuse classes as a 5th grader, quite funny and confusing, not the least bit informative. \n\nthats all ",
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"body": "Alright. \n\nWhen I was a teen. I took my fathers guns out in the middle of a populated city and shot bottles on the street.\n\nAt night I would make Molotov cocktails and set them off in back area drainage ditches.\n\nAlso at night, group of friends would mix napalm, light that shit on fire and throw it at each other.\n\nWe would juggle lit gasoline soaked tennis balls with our feet in a juggling circle.\n\nRemember nerf bow and arrow... well there was one with a sponge tip for soaking up water.... yep we use gasoline and lit it and shot it down the street towards friends.\n\nWe would pour a giant puddle (10ft X 10ft) of gasoline and light it in the middle of the street... then proceed to run at full speed and slide through the flaming gasoline. It is very slippery.\n\nBB Gun wars. This was before airsoft or paintball.\n\nI made a smokebomb mixture on the stove top. It got to hot and ignited from the bottom up. I had to grab it while it was smoking and spewing flames and run out the door. \n\nIll stop there... I have a lot more. I only got in trouble for the last one... the rest was known only to me and my friends. ",
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"body": "Not the dumbest, but probably the most embarrassing. I put a cup over my mouth and sucked all the air out so it would stick there. I had a huge hickey on my chin for like a week.",
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"body": "A little late to the game:\n\nIn middle school, my friend lived directly next to a golf course. We used to run wild all over it. One weekend we were playing in the stream on the course. We caught a bunch of crayfish (crawdads, little lobsters, whatever you want to call them). We proceeded to stuff the crayfish into the ball washes, and then peed all over and in the ball washes for good measure. Later we got his little sister to pee in a soda can (naturally we watched) and planted the soda can in their refrigerator... I wasn't around for when a parent sipped out of the can.\n\nAnother time I was at a friends house and we thought it would be a good idea to booby trap the house. We took tan toothpicks and planted them into the tan carpet at said friends house. We planted about a hundred across an entire part of the house so it was practically impossible to walk around. Later that night, we heard the dad start screaming obscenities and hopping around, only to hear a second bout of screaming from the dad. He had 2-5 toothpicks stuck in each of his feet. It was fucked up... ",
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Is their a book specially aimed at gently cultivating the seeds of doubt of a theist person (rather than, for example, The God Delusion being aimed at fortifying the resolve of skeptics)? | I feel like the mindset of a believer (Christian or otherwise) requires such a different argument style that there really should be a book out there that sort of leads them along by the hand. Dawkins basically said "You shouldn't believe. You shouldn't be okay with people that believe. Here's why." There should be a book that starts with "It's okay to ask questions" and moves on from there.
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Anyone remember the "Dr. Brain" games? | I'd absolutely buy them again if steam put them up for sale. I loved those games, they had great puzzles that I think could still be challenging for a 23 year old. | 50 | [
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"body": "Yes! Dr. Brain was the reason I schooled the rest of my class in quizzes on element abbreviations and Roman numerals. ",
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"body": "[I am Dr. Thaddeus P. Brain the third. The 'P' stands for \"puzzles\"! I am... the PUZZLE MASTER! Always ready for the master experiment! Nothing can go wrong!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7IIAufMzI#t=23s)",
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"body": "Oh that brings back memories. 2nd game I ever bought once I had my very own computer. I'd bought plenty of games, but it's different when the computer is yours, and you've helped upgrade it to the point it can play games. :D\n\nIf you have a DS and haven't already, check out the Professor Layton games - very much in the same vein.",
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TIL the cross symbol (✝ or ✠) looks exactly like an ancient Chinese character, it means shamman or witch | one of the fascinating fact the wikipedia entry [cross](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross) failed to mention is, in ancient Chinese writing system (3000 B.C.), the cross symbol (✝ or ✠) also means shaman or witch. The corresponding character 巫 still means witchcraft and is commonly used today. This character is **unique** in all Chinese characters
Chinese explanation with some English here:
http://zdic.net/zd/zi/ZdicE5ZdicB7ZdicAB.htm
Here's the picture of how it looks like on oracle bones
http://zdic.net/pic/zy/jgw/5DEB.gif
Also on caved metal vessels:
http://zdic.net/pic/zy/jw/5DEB.gif
Here's how it looks like in the first unification of Chinese writing system (221 B.C.)
http://zdic.net/pic/zy/xz2/5DEB.gif
Modern handwrite font:
http://zdic.net/pic/1b/5DEB.gif
font for printing
http://zdic.net/pic/zx/cn/5DEB.gif | 9 | [
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"body": "Why do I get the feeling that I will soon be seeing a new Dan Brown novel whose plot will center around a conspiracy involving an ancient cabal of Chinese witches that killed jesus and are now out to destroy the church?",
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Urgent! Metal detector required at Hampstead Heath! | This is a long shot but maybe reddit can help. A friend has just lost a ring that's very special to her in the snow on Hampstead Heath, London. Do any nearby redditors have metal detectors to contribute to the cause? We have a small area narrowed down but it's lost under the snow. Please PM if you can assist! | 27 | [
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"body": "METAL DETECTORISTS LONDON - http://www.thamesandfield.co.uk/\r\nRing Long Steve for more info on: 0208 310 8817\r\nNEW MOBILE NUMBER: 07854873299\r\nemail: [email protected]\r\n\r\n",
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"body": "Argos sells them for under £100\n\nhttp://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2705877.htm\n\nAnd there's likely to be one near you.",
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"body": "You could dig up a lot of snow (into a dustbin say) and retrieve from it whatever's there after it melts.",
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What ever happened to story lines? | Is anybody else sick of porn where the actors are already naked from the first 10 seconds? Or 10 pictures of some girl posing nude. Where's the creativity, arousal, inspiration, ... in that?
Edit: Sentence construction. | 19 | [
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"body": "**From actual experience: Most men just don't have the time to watch a \"creative porn\". Most of us just want to see something that will get us off before the wife (and I stress wife) gets home. Unmarried tethered mens mileage may vary. ",
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"body": "Absolutely; I'm kind of hoping that the popularity of the porn parodies will bring back a bit more of storyline to porn. It's also part of why I look to people like Tristan Taormino and Eon McKai for porn. \n\nFor me the worst thing to happen to porn is the couch-porn boom. Whenever I'm browsing for something to download on cheggit, if I see a couch in the screencaps, I bail. Seriously guys, go fuck somewhere else.",
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"body": "i agree. i also fail to see the point in prolonged close-ups of a hole.\n\nor spitting .... darwin help me, spitting well turn me off for days at a time.\n\nhowever, i'm digressing a bit here. i completely agree with you. it would be nice to see a healthy mix of action AND good story. it's a shame we can't have both, nowadays.",
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Seattle cyclists: what is your life on wheels like? | I'm considering a big move, to the northwest coast of the country. Due to job constraints (I need a job in software) it seems that Seattle will be my best bet. I've lived car-free for a number of years now. My current home - Boston - is very bicycle friendly.
I'm curious as to how Seattle treats its cyclists - from general public perception to road quality. Does Seattle have a reasonable cycling community?
Also important - how easy is it to get out of town via public transportation, say, to go mountain biking?
Thanks for any input - I know someone on here knows exactly what I'm trying to find...
edit - I'd like to point out that any input is incredibly valuable... Cycling is my life. Old-growth trails are the reason I'm intending to move west. The cycling community is perhaps the most important aspect of my move - I am confident that I'll be able to find work where the bicycle leads me. Thanks, reddit! | 8 | [
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"body": "Seattle is generally a good bike town. Not as nice as portland, but we have lots of bike infrastructure, and drivers aren't too aggro. \n\nAs far as getting out of town goes, I haven't tried riding the bus to get out. I'm sure you could find a way, though the bus is kind of expensive. There is a 42 mile bike path that goes from seattle all the way to issaquah, which is on the outskirts of town, almost in the cascade mountains. \n\nThere's a bunch of bike groups here, too. For the young, geeky hooligan there's [point83.](http://www.point83.com) For more respectable bicyclists there's [Cascade Bicycle Club](http://www.cascade.org) and the [Seattle Bicycle Club.](http://www.seattlebicycle.com) The [Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance](http://evergreenmtb.org/home/index.php) is your source for MTB stuff. They have a list of trails near seattle [here.](http://evergreenmtb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page)\nThey maintain a pretty sweet [MTB park](http://evergreenmtb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Colonnade) underneath I-5 in the heart of seattle. It stays dry in the winter so you can practice even when its rainy. ",
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"body": "Road quality sucks in Seattle (concrete, but they tend to be pothole free), but some of the core roads in downtown have bike lanes, and 3rd ave is closed to everything except buses and bikes before 9am. \n\nAs far as neighborhoods, downtown Seattle and Belltown, Capitol Hill, and Queen Anne are very bike friendly. West Seattle isn't too bad, but the area that links the west Seattle bridge to the rest of Seattle is pretty industrial, and can get a little freaky at night, but the actual traffic there isn't bad. Ballard is a big residential section, but you have to cross one of two bridges to get to the rest of Seattle, and one of those bridges really, really sucks for bikes. \n\nThere are some dedicated paths, for the most part they're nice, but you do have to deal with occasional annoyances -- such as something being closed for some random event. Or lots of tourists on the bike lane near parks. Transit in-and-out of Seattle-proper isn't too bad, but going from suburb A to B tends to be a pain. \n\nAs for getting out of town to go mountain biking, it's possible via public transit to go as far west to North Bend, as far north as Granite Falls (be prepared for a couple of transfers), and in the summer there is a way to get to Mt. Rainier. However, even though all three of these are big trail systems, I have no idea what percentage of those trails allow mountain biking. That said, there enough clubs and groups here that you can probably find someone to give you a lift.",
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"body": "Bikes are treated well in Seattle. I live on Bainbridge Island and bike to work (also in software) in Seattle via the Ferry. Bikes get to board first followed by motorcycles and then cars. There are probably about 50 other cyclists on the boat I ride.\n\nFenders and disc brakes are a good idea in the winter. In the summer there is not much rain.\n\nI don't have much experience with trail rides. The Seattle-Portland bike ride every summer is nice though.",
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I have a stomach bug, what should I do? | I have a stomach bug, I feel shit and have dioreah. My friend, off whom I caught it, also ended up projectile vomiting. I feel really ill, but if the length of time it lasted on my friend is anything to go by I should be okay by tomorrow, Tuesday at the latest. What shoulkd I do? | 7 | [
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"body": "All the diarrhea is your vital fluids leaving your body. If you want to live, you must reclaim your fluids as fast as humanly possible. Get a long crazy straw, insert it into your anus, then suck your fluids back into your mouth. It's your only hope.",
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"body": "1) Add more bugs.\n\n2) Get one of those cameras that doctors use to put down your throat to see into your stomach.\n\n3) Connect the camera to a reliable video recording source.\n\n4) Sell the videos.\n\n5) Use the profits to setup a pay website.\n\n6) Get more bugs.\n\n7) Make more videos.\n\n8) Sell the videos.\n\n9) Repeat Steps 6-9 until you have enough money to host ultimate subscriber only live feeds that people can watch and make requests on.\n\nYou will have t3h m@d m0neyz and become an internet superstar. Your life goals will be fulfilled.\n\n",
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"body": "#1: Learn how to spell.\n#2: Put on some Depends\n#3: Eat 6 cans of Beanie Weenies\n#4: Eat 50 Vienna Sausages\n#5: Down an entire bottle of the shittiest vodka you can find\n#6: Sit back, relax and enjoy!",
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DAE prefer to sleep in a bed that has been "made" as opposed to one which is all rumpled up? | My spouse thinks I am crazy for many reasons. Among them, that I sometimes "make the bed" just before going to sleep in it. Anyone else? | 25 | [
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"body": "I can't stand when the sheets are tucked in. BUT if the blankets or whatever are all bunched up an falling off the bed and/or my toes are uncovered...I will freak out. ",
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"body": "I never got the point of making your bed. You're just going to sleep on it the next day, so why waste the time?",
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Trying again: ATX cheap food/drinks list | What awesome deals do you know about?
Here's mine:
Tuesday - Half price pizza at Jackalope, $1 taco at Maria Maria (has anyone tried these?)
Wednesday - 2 for 1 burgers at Jackalope.
Mo-Wed - Dollar beers at Barton Springs Salloon
Oh, and Thursday at Jackalope is $2 pint night after 9, and they have some great stuff on tap.
(I'm not doing promotions for jackalope, promise! it just has some great deals)
Okay, your turn. | 12 | [
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"body": "Cains on 24th, 1$ beers but mainly a college scene.\n\nSushi Nichi on 24th as well has half price sushi rolls from like 4-7pm i think too.\n\nEl Arroyo on 5th has 1$ margaritas before 7pm on thursdays!\n",
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Hey Reddit, you're pretty amazing at finding people. I have a picture I want to give someone. | Back before Thanksgiving I was shooting some stock shots down at the St. Pete Saturday Morning Market, in St. Petersburg, Fl. This guy asked me about my camera, and although I don't really do portraiture, I spur of the moment asked him if I could shoot him and his son. He agreed, and I snapped the shot and thanked him before taking off.
It took me a while to sort the pics on that card, but I really liked how the shot came out, and I wanted to see if I could locate him to send it to him. I have no idea who he is or where he's from, because that market has a lot of tourist traffic. If you recognize him, could you PM me an email address? I'd love to send him the hi-res file.
[This is the pic](http://imgur.com/5SHMt). It's compressed here, but if anyone thinks it would help, I'll post the original. Thanks in advance for anything y'all come up with.
Edit: Really? Homey G jokes? I really liked this shot as a strong father and son shot. As a father, I really think the Dad would appreciate having a copy. | 68 | [
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"body": "> asked him if I could shoot him and his son. He agreed\n\nWHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD AGREE TO THAT?",
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"body": "We're awesome at finding nerdy white people with a trail of digital evidence that could cover the Appalachians. ",
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"body": "This photo looks like it could be advertising photography services.\nI guess i'm trying to say it's pretty damn good.\nGood Luck!",
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"body": "i have a condo a few miles from St Pete. I will keep an eye out for him this summer. But I won't be able to talk to him unless he is a Rays fan. Sorry.",
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"body": "Did you go to the UHURU booth ? yummmyyyyy and it's for a good cause! I volunteered there before, it was rewarding. ",
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Hey, Reddit! What's the best software to convert Divx to DVD? | I tried with Nero once, but it took forever and the quality sucked, it even messed with the aspect ratio. Are there any good programs to do this out there?
Edit: Thanks for all of your suggestions! | 3 | [
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"body": "[ffmpeg](http://ffmpeg.org/), if you want a nice interface, something easy to use, then [HandBrake](http://handbrake.fr/)",
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Weightlifting Bulk Question. | So i've been lifting weights and eating a lot, for a while now...and have seen pretty good results.
A friend recently started lifting weights and I told him he needs to eat heaps and bulk. He instantly stated that he had no interested in bulking and much rather cut. Note: This guy is skinny as hell, with almost no fat or muscle.
I told him he must bulk otherwise he was wasting his time. After a bit of a discussion I discovered he believed the term bulking meant he was going to look like one of those fat Olympic lifters.
I told him he was incorrect, but he still doesn't believe me. My question is, how do olympic lifters eat and lift differently to look like that? is it just the same as a normal bodybuilder without the cutting after gaining excess fat? | 9 | [
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"body": "Well, for one, to lift in the olympics, you're gonna be genetically special. They are whittled down from however many thousands (even maybe millions, in china) of applicants, so they are a special case. They have the best trainers involved as well.\n\nFurthermore, oly's aren't concerned with looks, just pushing the most weight at their weight class. They might cut to move weight down.\n\nNow, tell your friend, in order to gain muscle, he's gonna need to bulk. Lifting weights is like hiring people to build a house. Eating is giving them bricks and cement. ",
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"body": "If your friend is too ignorant enough to even listen to people than i say just leave him as he is. But seriously bulking up is not looking fat. IT takes YEARS of lifting and experience to even look somewhat like olympic lifters, and you can stop at anytime when your happy with the results. The only way he'll gain muscle and strength is if he bulks. CUTTING does nothing at all other than your muscles are showing. \n\nI think your friend is not sure what he is after.",
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"body": "There are clean bulks and dirty bulks. I prefer the latter. Largely cause I like tossing twix bars into my morning shake. Tell your friend to do the former. \n\nDave Tate (top 10 powerlifter) ate 10k-12k cals per day.\n\nHossein Reza (olympic animal) eats almost double that. About 18k cals/day. But he does the bulgarian thing and trains twice a day thing. And he clean/jerks 600lbs a shot. \n\nOlympic/power lifters eat differentyl then body builders. Largely cause aesthetics are irrelevant to the former and a priority to the latter. \n\nYour friend can do a clean bulk. Lift heavy and eat 500-1k cals above maintenance per day. Do this for 6 mos or so then cut, i.e. eat 500 calories below maintenance and keep doing the same routine. \n\nIts not that easy to bulk up. The eating is often the hardest part as its not pleasant to consume 7000cals a day. ",
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Looking at Cyclocross bikes... would love to hear what you think! | I am a beginer. I've ridden bikes before, but nothing like what I want to do. I've decide that I'm going to get a cyclocross bike to have the best of all worlds that I can for riding around here. Road bike will not do. Any advice for me in my search for a bike? What should I be looking for?
I have found this bike used locally: http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/08/cusa/model-8XR4C.html | 7 | [
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"body": "I highly recommend the [Kona Jake the Snake](http://bikes.konaworld.com/09/09_jakethesnake_en.cfm). I was in a similar situation as you--I used to ride only mountain bikes, but after going on a few longer day rides with friends and deciding to commute daily to work, I researched what bike would satisfy these needs. It looks like the cyclocross does all those. \n\nI then researched the reviews of cyclocross bikes. Most highly recommended the Kona Jake the Snake and it even came up high in a few lists for [best cyclocross under $1,500](http://thatswhatshesaidaboutyourbike.blogspot.com/2009/09/top-nine-cyclocross-bikes-under-1500.html). I talked to people at local bike shops and they said the same thing.\n\nI've had mine for about 3 months now and put over 600 miles on it. Besides having to clean and lube the chain and the requisite 1st month tune-up, it's been problem-free, even in the harsh snowy and icy conditions this winter--I live in Colorado where it's snowed over 4 inches about 5 times this winter. The JTS also has rear eyelets to attach a bike rack and panniers for commuting and light touring if you are interested in that which I see that Cannondale lacks.\n\nTake a look at one if you can. A lot of 2009 models are on sale for about $1,200 or less to clear out inventory for the 2010 models. Now is a great time to purchase a bike in general for that reason, but it may take a little bargaining on your part to lower the price.",
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I have acne problems. Anyone have any good advice? | I'm 22, and I have overactive sebaceous glands. I've tried every over the counter wash and cream and nothing seems to really work to help clear my skin up 100%.
I'm wondering if there's anything I could do dietary-wise to get my skin to fix itself? Any helpful suggestions are welcome! | 8 | [
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"body": "Okay I found out since I had longer hair that since I didn't wash it as much, my face would take the beating. I also started changing my pillow cases almost everyday and that's a big one. Your sheets will screw you a lot.\n\nLastly I'm guessing you haven't tried soaps with sulfur in them, that was a huge help for me. It did wonders.",
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"body": "I used to do this when I was getting pimples (in small areas, not all over). Before you go to bed, apply some toothpaste (the paste kind, not gel) onto the acne itself. The idea behind it is that it sucks out the moisture, dries it and kills it. It heals up in a couple of days.",
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"body": "Honestly, go to http://acne.org and buy the shit there. It's basically a guy who tried everything then was able to find out a solution using simple instore products. He started his own line of higher quality products. \n\nI know this sounds like a crock of shit, but *he actually lists other alternatives on his site*. People can review these other products also. As a matter of fact, of the 3 steps, I only use one of his products (the benzoyl peroxide).\n\nI've been clear for 2 years now or so.",
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Reddit, please help my friend before the shit hits the fan. | One of my friends has been obsessing over this girl for well over a year now, and recently he's gotten it in his head that he's going to get her one way or another. Not in the sense that he's going to rape her, but he's managed to think himself into so deep a downward spiral that any interaction between him and this girl will be interpreted by him as something totally detached from reality. This is the byproduct of about three years of getting shat on by the people around him for not being the sharpest tool in the shed. After reading some Malcolm Gladwell books, he's decided that he's going to turn his life around and become a leader of men and the harbinger of truth and justice to our campus.
At the moment, the girl is very much afraid of him and has already contacted several of the faculty in the dorm she resides. My friend is constantly re-evaluating himself towards such an odd and jumbled array of conclusions that I'm afraid he is losing his mind. After making eye contact with said girl from across a window he came to the conclusion that, and I quote, "I learned more about [girl] in that moment than I have ever learned before. I feel like now I can trust her, and that's really the most important thing in relationships, right? Trust." At this point I don't even know if it's really all about the girl anymore or if getting the girl is just his only way of vindicating his "newfound beliefs".
Talking to him yields no significant benefits as through conversation it appears that he has about as much an idea of what is running through his mind as we do. Only he is much more convinced of his ever-shifting ideals and has no problem with acting on them, regardless of whether or not he'll come to different conclusions about his various "philosophies" the very next minute.
I have no clue what to do and it's really beginning to creep me out as well as almost half the people on campus who have had the opportunity to be "talked at" by him in the past few weeks. At some point I feel like lines are going to be crossed which cannot be uncrossed. The point of no return seems to be lying just around the horizon and me and my community of peers feel like hapless bystanders.
What can we do?
EDIT: This is High School.
UPDATE: It's come to the point where my friend has announced that regardless of what the girl says, she will be "testing him". It seems extreme for me to be contacting authorities in this situation, but it seems like the best CoA at the moment.
UPDATE 2: So after so many comments, Subtextual's was the one that finally hit home. I emailed our school counselor who just so happens to be my psych teacher and informed him that I was worried for my friends well being. Not long after my friend was told to go to the counselor, who can usually be found on campus at the health center. After conversing with the counselor, my friend was found to be in need of a full psychological evaluation, so after staying the night at the health center, my friend was sent to the hospital where he is officially on suicide watch. This marks his second day at the hospital, and I have been approached by many a faculty member who wish to remind me that I did the right thing. I can only hope now that he returns from the hospital soon and the same as the person I once knew.
Thank you Reddit. I owe you more than you can imagine. | 6 | [
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"body": "To use a technical term, and please excuse me for doing so, your friend is **\"bat-shit-fucking-looney-tunes\"**, and needs help.\n\nThe first step in psychosis is detachment from reality, especially when contriving and installing abstract thoughts into *other peoples heads*, based on what you think they should be thinking.\n\nYour friend is dangerous, and do not kid yourself about this. \n\nEDIT: The second step in psychosis is **ACTING ON THOSE THOUGHTS**. I'm dead serious, get help any way you can.\n\nSeek help for him, and **DO IT NOW**",
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"body": "Wow - this sounds like a really scary place for you to be in, and before I offer some advice I'd like to offer you my sympathies. \r\n\r\nOkay, here's the advice part: Your friend definitely needs help. As if the teenage years weren't stressful enough on your mental well-being, there are a few disorders that are more likely to arise during late adolescence, such as bipolar disorder and thought disorders, that need to be addressed right away. What can be tricky about these disorders is that they tend to be *insidious* - meaning that they sort of sneak up on the person, and can come and go for a while, so sometimes friends and family aren't always sure if there is something going on, or if the person is just having a hard time.\r\n\r\nWhen trying to get help for a friend, the confidentiality laws can make things a little complicated. For example, there's nothing I could do if a person called me up and said \"I know this person who needs help\" if that person is an adult (18+). But in the U.S., it's a little easier if the person in question is 17 or younger, because then all mental health professionals (like school therapists) have an obligation to help children if they know that they might be a danger to themselves or others. Therefore, I'd suggest talking to (a) this person's parents, and (b) your school counselor/therapist (if your school doesn't have one, then talk to a faculty member you trust). \r\n\r\nTell them as clearly as you can about your concerns. Specifically, tell them that you are worried that:\r\n\r\n* He is having difficulty thinking clearly (e.g., trouble separating fantasy from reality)\r\n* He is having difficulty interpreting social situations correctly\r\n* He seems to be \"obsessing\" about things\r\n* He seems to have an inflated sense of self esteem (this is called 'grandiosity') - e.g., \"leader of men\", \"harbinger of truth and justice\"\r\n* He's having pressured speech and flight-of-ideas (that's what I'm taking from your \"talked at\" comment... pressured speech is when the person talks fast and in a monologue that may not always make total sense, and seems to be thinking faster than they can get the words out; flight-of-ideas is jumping from topic to topic so fast that you can't follow the connections from one idea to the next)\r\n* He is scaring this girl\r\n* He is worrying his friends \r\n\r\nIf there are other concerns, list them as well (especially if you have noticed any hyperactivity, agitation/pacing, impulsivity, starting outlandish projects, telling you that he stayed awake for 24 hours at a time, stopping taking care of his hygiene, having a really good mood for no reason/'giddiness', being depressed or really withdrawn at times, hearing or seeing things that aren't there, having suicidal or homicidal/violent thoughts, having panic attacks, unusual sexual behavior, new substance abuse, or new cognitive problems like seeming to be more confused or inattentive than he used to be). Try writing your concerns down so that you don't get overwhelmed by this conversation with his parents and the people at school. \r\n\r\nDo NOT worry that you are overreacting, or that you're somehow betraying a friendship. Think about it - if nothing is going on and your friend is fine, he'll probably be thankful that you were concerned about him (at least eventually). If something is going on, and it really really sounds like something is, then the earlier he gets help, the better things will be for him. \r\n\r\nBest of luck, and good wishes to you and your friend.",
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"body": "This is the kind of guy who shoots up the campus.\n\nI am not kidding around.\n\nAccelerate your concerns up the hierarchy of campus faculty and also security - maybe even his parents. He's potentially dangerous to himself, you and especially that girl. The best thing that comes of this, is that you've gotten this guy some help and you've prevented a shooting. The worst thing is that he never speaks to you again... I'd error on the side of defusing a situation.\n\n",
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Do you rinse canned beans or not? | I'm making chili with beans tonight using red and white kidney beans. Should I rinse the beans before putting them in or use the liquid to thicken the chili?
Edit: Rinse it is! Thanks for the tips. | 3 | [
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"body": "I always rinse them. Most of the salt in canned beans is in that slurry, and it's (at the risk of sounding like your mom) really not good for you to be eating all that.",
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"body": "For god's sake, you don't want to thicken the chili with that. Rinse them off; your chili probably won't need thickening anyway. If it does, use a cornstarch slurry or a little bit of roux.",
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"body": "I particularly like crushing up tortilla chips into my chili as a thickener (thanks Alton).\n\nAnd yeah, it's probably better to rinse the beans, or at least drain the liquid off. That stuff's kinda gross.",
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"body": "With kidney beans I always rinse them off a little bit at least. I don't think the liquid in the can will help much with thickening anyway.\n\nYears ago my home economics teacher scared us all into always washing our kidney beans by pointing out that the raw bean is [toxic](http://www.foodreference.com/html/artredkidneybeanpoisoning.html). :)",
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"body": "Well, as others have already made statements as to whether to rinse the beans or otherwise, I'd just like to add - Rinse the can itself before you open it. The lids of cans have a tendency to be gross, even though they look clean. ",
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"body": "I only rinse if I am serving the beans alone. The juice is part of the bean and will be incorporated into whatever you are cooking. That said, I rarely use canned. I find the texture to be too soft, kind of like the difference between al dente pasta and overcooked. I like to \"feel\" the bean in my mouth otherwise it is like baby food. \n\nAs for chili thickeners, I prefer corn meal over masa or broken chips. Sometimes I use ground pumpkin or other seeds as a thickener -- riffing off of mole. It adds a more interesting texture and additional flavor. \n\nIn my opinion, beans are a side dish to an all meat chili. They don't belong in the chili itself. I make my chili VERY picante so the beans and usually some rice are a nice go to when the chili gets a little intense. I like the contrasts of flavors not just one homogenized flavor. \n\nAs for beans and farts, I think James Beard (could have been someone else, I can't remember) suggested that beans that are cooked at a slow simmer rather than a rolling boil produce less gas. That seems to work as I have tried both ways. Not scientific but that seems to be my results. Soak first -- over night, discard water, no salt or acids until the end of cooking and use bottled water if your tap water has lots of minerals (hard water).",
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What style of ship and captain are you planning on making? | I was quite excited when I heard that, while the traditional tank, dps, buff/heal triad is preserved in STO, there will be quite a bit of diversity in that your captain's specialty does not need to match the ship type. Thoughts? | 6 | [
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"body": "A lot of people in game seem to prefer the Escort right now but I have to go with the cruiser. All the previous Enterprises fall into that category, although I am very tempted to get a Defiant class ship. The cruiser is probably most like a tank as other people have said but don't be mistaken, they can dish out the hurt. Some games take forever to solo as a tank but in STO it is not a problem. As I see it the main difference is that an escort can take a ship out super fast but has to back off a little to recover once in a while. The cruisers can fly right into the center of the fight, take a beating from all sides from multiple enemies, and give it right back. You may take longer to take down a single ship but against groups it is probably just as fast as the escorts since you don't need time to fall back and recover. I love my Constitution Refit :)",
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"body": "I'm definitely going for a Cruiser/Engineer class. I like tanking, wading into the middle of the flight. And if you can customize your facial features at all, I'm making my captain Nathan Fillion. :)",
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"body": "Just FYI for anyone who does not already know, you can mix and match your Captain and Ship type. For example, you can create a captain with a background in engineering (tank class) and pick an Escort (Damage dealing) You abilities will focus more on shield boosting and stuff like that but your ship will still have the Escorts firepower. If you had picked a Tactical captain and an Escort all your abilities would be focused on dealing damage as well as the ship itself, so you would do more damage but lack a lot of the defenses of the ENG/Escort combo.",
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"body": "I'm a bit torn, I'll need to see how things pan out in-game. I'm thinking science captain/escort ship maybe. Or maybe science/cruiser. I might have to flip to tactical/science though. I want something that is good at rooting out cloaked ships.\n\nAnd the klingon alt I will inevitably roll up will relish in the sneaky cloaked ships I imagine. Too bad I can't be Romulan or Cardassian.",
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"body": "I am actually going to start out Science/Science just to see what happens. We haven't heard much about what the support abilities will be like so I'm interested to find out.",
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Tourist with one full day in LA. What to do? | My wife and I are actually traveling to San Diego like we do every year, but have never really visited any other part of SoCal. We are thinking about flying into LA, spending a day and then driving down to San Diego and I am looking to get the biggest bang for my buck.
First time there and limited time so I want to do the tourist thing. Question is... what do you recommend I do to get the most of such a short trip? I don't need the beach, as I will get plenty of that in San Diego. I would not be opposed to a museum, but it would have to be pretty awesome.
We were thinking about staying at a hotel in Hollywood, taking the package 'VIP tour' at Universal studios and then the Walk of Fame. Thoughts, suggestions?
Will be there in early March and it will be a Saturday.
EDIT: I ... WANT..... to be a tourist and do the tourist thing, just want the best tourist things to do in the very short time I am there. I will not get a good sense of 'the real' LA in the 8-10 hours of time I have in the area and know that. What I want to know is what touristy things are good to do.
Put yourself in my shoes... lets say you were going to Paris for 8 hours and it was your first time. Would you skip the Louvre, Eiffel Tower or Arc de Triomphe? Now replace Paris with LA and 'Louvre, Eiffel Tower or Arc de Triomphe' with the best places in LA. What would be in and what would be out.
Sounds like the Griffith Observatory is definitely on the 'to see' list. Thanks Reddit. | 17 | [
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"body": "You should try and get up to the Griffith Observatory too. The view is totally worth it. The walk of fame is pretty lame honestly. Maybe it's just cause I live here but I never got the appeal. But it's great for people watching. There are tons of great restaurants in hollywood too. Enjoy your time here. And also the La Brea Tar Pits are sweet as well as MOCA.",
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"body": "-Griffith Observatory (for the views and lay of the land)\n-Take a stroll down Hollywood Blvd (@ Highland) \n-Chinese theater (H'wood Blvd.)\n-Farmer's Market for lunch (Fairfax and Third st.) \n-Melrose Ave. (start near Sta Monica Blvd. and head east) \n-Beverly Hills (Rodeo Dr.)\n-Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood ",
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"body": "You should make Griffith Observatory your top priority and it looks like you don't need any more convincing of that, so I'm gonna go against the general consensus here and suggest that since it's the touristy things you're looking for, the rest of your day should be spent in Hollywood. There is no way around this; it simply doesn't make sense to avoid the Walk of Fame if your goal is to be a tourist. You've been given plenty of reasons why *not* to visit Hollywood, but keep in mind that the people suggesting to stay away are people who live here and are not just desensitized to the appeal it has to tourists, they're probably occasionally inconvenienced by it, as well.\n\nWhen I'm stuck in traffic on the surface streets of Hollywood, inching my way north on the way home to Burbank, I have plenty of time to watch tourists stumble around, completely captivated by things that are now mundane to me. But as a local, if you don't occasionally get the chance to see the effect Hollywood has on tourists, it's easy to forget how truly awestruck many of them are. For us, the Walk of Fame and the Sunset Strip become places to avoid when we're in a hurry, and it's easy to forget how special a place can be when its everyday effect on your life is as the source of the traffic you sit in. But for first-timers who *want* the tourist experience and *enjoy* people watching, there are no two places more appropriate than the Walk of Fame to the east, and the Sunset Strip to the West. There's a mile of Hollywood Blvd between Highland and Gower that is so steeped in entertainment history that you'd be remiss not to see it. And yea, you'll be around other tourists, but isn't watching the folks from Fargo snapping pics with the street performers on Hollywood & Highland the *epitome* of people watching? If your goal is to be a tourist, do the tourist thing and do it shamelessly. Get a couple of hawaiian shirts and own it.\n\nStart your day at the Griffith Observatory. Spend your afternoon on Hollywood Blvd between about Gower to the east and Highland to the west. In fact, park near Hollywood and Gower and walk [this route](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Hollywood+Blvd&daddr=Hollywood+Blvd+to:N+Highland+Ave+to:W+Sunset+Blvd+to:N+Gower+St&hl=en&geocode=FZJZCAIdSIvy-A%3BFSVZCAId4kvy-A%3BFYVLCAIdkkvy-A%3BFW5LCAIdhIvy-A%3BFaZaCAIdRYvy-A&gl=us&mra=cc&dirflg=w&sll=34.097697,-118.32211&sspn=0.034294,0.059438&ie=UTF8&z=15) I Google Map'd for ya. After you've had your fill of Hollywood proper, hop in the car and spend your evening on the [Sunset Strip](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Hollywood+Blvd&daddr=Hollywood+Blvd+to:N+Highland+Ave+to:W+Sunset+Blvd+to:N+Gower+St&hl=en&geocode=FZJZCAIdSIvy-A%3BFSVZCAId4kvy-A%3BFYVLCAIdkkvy-A%3BFW5LCAIdhIvy-A%3BFaZaCAIdRYvy-A&gl=us&mra=cc&dirflg=w&sll=34.097697,-118.32211&sspn=0.034294,0.059438&ie=UTF8&z=15). Drive until you find a bar, club, or restaurant that looks interesting, or use Yelp, because as someone mentioned, there is absolutely no relationship between the way a restaurant looks and the way its food tastes. Park, eat, and spend your evening hopping from the Whisky to the Roxy to the Viper Room to the Rainbow to anywhere else that looks fun in between. \n\nOne more thing: if you're gonna spend your \"LA day\" in Hollywood, fly in and out of Burbank Airport (aka Bob Hope). *I cannot stress this enough!* Not only is LAX enormous and crowded, it's overkill for your trip's purposes, and it's separated from your destination by miles of congested freeways. Don't waste your time in airport crowds and traffic! Burbank airport is a *breeze* to get in and out of, you can get to everywhere I suggested without the freeways, and you'll spend your time doing, rather than driving. This is the kind of advice that you can only appreciate once you've tried it both ways, and if you haven't done that yourself, please, take my word for it. If there's one thing I don't like about LA, it's traffic, and I know everything there is to know about staying away from it. \n\nIf you've got any questions about LA or my suggestions, I can help you out or find someone who can. Hit me up here or PM me, I'll be around. Have a great time in LA!",
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"body": "I'd recommend the Getty. You don't even have to look at any art, just the buildings and the views are worthwhile. Then drive the length of Mulholland Drive. There are little parks all along Mulholland where you can stop for spectacular views of the Valley and the city proper. If you really want to be touristy, go all the way to Cahuenga, turn right, bear right onto Highland, and park at the Hollywood and Highland complex. That's LA tourist central. It's interesting people watching, but there's really no \"there\" there. Better would be to just turn right on Hollywood, do a drive-by of the Chinese Theatre, then drop down to Sunset and go down to Beverly Hills by way of the Sunset Strip. There are a zillion interesting (though not necessarily particularly good) restaurants on the Strip, along with famous clubs like the Viper Room, the House of Blues, and the Laugh factory. If you want really good food with a touristy flair, have dinner at Spago (you'll want to make a reservation well in advance and bring a credit card with a high limit).\n",
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I never cared for Bev Crusher, until I started season two of TNG... | ...when I had to bear witness to perhaps the most annoying character I've seen in any film to date, Bev Crusher's replacement: Dr Pulaski.
Has her smug prescence and android prejudice annoyed anyone else? | 99 | [
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"body": "Yes yes a thousand times yes. I HATE her for exactly the reasons you cite. She does not belong in Starfleet. \n\nHow could you have such a narrow view of what constitutes life when you're the top MEDICAL officer on the flagship of an organization whose mission it is to scour the GALAXY for NEW FORMS OF LIFE?",
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"body": "Oh Dear GOD, we can't STAND Pulaski. Virulent hatred.\n\nIt seems to us that the writers tried to re-create a \"McCoy\" type character -- crabby, irascible, crotchety, not really liking technology, etc. and tried to make her relationship with Data kind of like McCoy's relationship with Spock. It didn't work.\n\nIt really is a shame, because there are some good episodes in second season, but she just sucks.\n\nI do love Dr. Crusher, though :-)\n\nEdit: \"we\" = me and my hubby, both of us life-long trek fans.\n",
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"body": "I found Crusher pretty annoying because she would always want to break the prime directive \"for those poor people\". Pulaski was far more pragmatic and seemed to embody more of the \"just get the job done\" attitude that I imagine a space marine corp should have. She was great in \"The Icarus Factor\" when she told Riker to STFU already and talk to his dad.\n\nThe contrast was pretty clear in 3rd season when Crusher came back and we were subjected to more relentless bleeding heart whining.",
"score": 35
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"body": "The problem with Pulaski was that she was so obviously derivative of Leonard McCoy -- very badly derivative. ",
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"body": "I think you'll start to like Bev a little more as the show progresses. The beginning on TNG can be a little rough...\n\nBut to help you through the pain, Wil Wheaton has a wonderful book (and accompanying podcast) called \"Memories of the Future\" which is hilarious and insightful. I highly recommend it. Don't let how fucking annoying Wesley Crusher is dissuade you.",
"score": 7
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"body": "This isn't the best TNG edit I've seen, [but they do kill Dr Pulaski](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVm7ypt3KJY) in it.",
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"body": "she'll be gone soon enough. I ran into that problem when I rewatched the series with a friend. We both wanted to skip Pulaski episodes. She was pretty annoying. Just wait for the season full of Wesley wearing the same orange sweater and you'll have hit treasure.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Yes. That's why she didn't last beyond one season and they had to beg Gates McFadden to come back ;)",
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"body": "Pulaski always reminded me of a female Dr. McCoy. The same kind of gruff, curmudgeonly attitude. I never had a problem with her.\n",
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"body": " I didn't much care for her but she does make you appreciate Crusher. I loved \"Remember Me\" episode \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Me_(TNG_episode)",
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"body": "Be patient. I felt exactly the same way, but Dr. Pulaski grew on me. She's no Beverly Crusher, but she's a good star fleet officer (and human) in her own right. \n\nAre you working through all the seasons of TNG? I have been and am down to the very last episode. I don't want it to end. :( ",
"score": 4
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"body": "ARGGHH!! I threw a beer can at the TV whenever she appeared in an episode. Why couldn't Armus have killed Pulaski instead of Tasha Yar? ",
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"body": "Yeah, she was fucking awful. Hence why she didn't last very long... I find myself getting really worked up when I hear her constantly pointing out Data's 'shortcomings'.",
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"body": "Her rivalry with Data looked like it had room to grow, but it was a bit too reminiscent of Spock-McCoy.",
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Today, after almost 10 years, I bought a Spider-Man Comic book.... | So, I was coming back from partying, 6.30am walking on the street, and I went by a newspaper stand and bought a special edition of The amazing Spider-Man. The last time I remember buying, and reading one, was when I was in the hospital for almost a month because of a rare infection I had.
Ten years later, I'm sitting on my desk, reading this comic book, and things could not be better. I did not know how much I miss this type of reading (reading a LOT of books of medicine and papers, and reviews for the last 6 years, and counting, has nothing to do with this).
Anyone wants to share similar experiences?
(this post may suck, but hey, I did not know how happy something this simple could make me feel) | 5 | [
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"body": "I kept most of my comic books and a graphic novels I stopped collecting years ago but occasionally if I see an interesting indie comic or whenever Peter Bagge comes out with a new Hate Annual I pick it up. Recently I reread the savage dragon graphic novel and became re-amazed will just how great it was. Every so often I Reread The Maxx series or Hate or the Spiderman miniseries Kraven's Last Hunt. The last new comic (well graphic novel) I read was \"Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!\" by Art Speigelman. Sometimes it's definitely comforting to return to a place mentally where your only worry is \"How will Spiderman defeat the Lizard\" as opposed \"Shit, I'm short on rent\" or \"Fuck, my liver hurts\". ",
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Breaking up when still in love. thoughts needed. | Last July I broke up with my girlfriend of two years. My reason for breaking up was the variety factor (so called grass-is-greener argument), my gut instinct was telling me to get out, and I actually wanted to experience the pain of breaking up as I had never had that before. Over the course of the year, she called me often trying to get back together with me and i would occasionally go over and sleep with her; around 2-4 times a month.
The entire time i was broken up with her last year, I never grieved her well. Since she was calling me and I could tell how much she still loved me, I never felt like I lost her. Part of me thinks now that I never really wanted to break up with her, but rather needed a break.
Flash forward to new years, and i am hanging out with her almost daily and we get back together on new years day. I could feel a part of me hesitant about doing so. The way my mind works, I began to panic when i thought i had made a mistake in getting back together, and eventually broke up with her the next day. I told her my heart wasn't in it and it wouldn't be a good relationship if we got back together. I went to sleep and panicked because i thought i lost her. I called her up and i worked it to get back together.
I took getting back together very seriously and knew that i had to change my desire to game girls and change my mind about committing to her. I realize i had never fully committed to her before because i didn't believe in it. Now, I want to believe that i can commit and try it; i have never done it this seriously before. In fact, i have always been of the opinion that people who settle are compromising themselves and this idea holds me back a lot.
THe problem was that it took me a lot of energy to try to change myself and it began to give me heart burn and my body felt rigid being in the relationship; so I broke it off with her and we stopped talking. THis was four days ago and I have begun to seriously grieve.
I have thought long and hard about what i would have to do to change my mind about settling in with one person and still feel like i can be fulfilled and passionate about life. I would have to know that I could still grow as a person and be in a relationship. I would have to commit and build trust that i would not cheat.
Is it really possible that i could change my attitude about relationships so dramatically, or should i accept the loss, move on, and explore a new relationship? She will be in Costa Rica traveling for until the end of March.
I think I could change as I really love this girl. I'm 28.
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"body": "I feel genuinely sorry for your girlfriend. Please stop fucking about with her, you need to sort your life out before you even think about screwing hers up on a whim.",
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"body": "\"I actually wanted to experience the pain of breaking up as I had never had that before.\"\n\nI find the above a little disturbing and confusing. What were/are you expecting to learn from it?\n\nHow many other relationships have you been in?",
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"body": "> she called me often trying to get back together with me and i would occasionally go over and sleep with her; around 2-4 times a month.\n\n**That's** what makes you an asshole. You evil, self-centered son of a bitch.",
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"body": "Stop giving her hope and then breaking it off a couple days later. The poor girl loves you, and knows she wants to be with you. You're uncertain what you want and you're selfishly stringing her along for the ride. As someone who has been that girl, you need to shit or get off the pot. Either be with her or don't, but don't get back together and then break up with her a couple days later. And don't go fuck her when you feel lonely. You're eating away at her self esteem. I think you should let her go so she can be with someone who is committed to her and will respect her in a relationship. \n\nEdit: Grammar. ",
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"body": "> I actually wanted to experience the pain of breaking up as I had never had that before.\n\nWhat are you, stupid?\n\n",
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"body": "Stop treating her like trash. I don't know this girl, she could possibly be a terrible person in every other way, but she doesn't deserve this simply because she *does* love you. If part of your reasoning (even if not all) to break up with her was because you wanted to experience, you do not love her. If you did, you would not have done such a selfish thing. Yes, you are selfish. You are not the victim here, even if you are confused and don't know what you want. The victim is the one who is being toyed with, and you are toying with her. Stop it. She deserves to be able to move on from you to someone who actually *will* love her.",
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"body": "until I read your age, i seriously thought you were my ex boyfriend. He feels exactly the same as you do. Do the girl a favor and leave her alone until you know FOR SURE EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT. Don't drag her through the mud. ",
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"body": "All this negative feedback is pretty much what you should be expecting for your actions, man. This girl is passionately in love with you and how much of her time have you wasted just to discover you're JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE and may never know if you can handle being with 1 person for the rest of your life? Just assume you wont change too much in the near future and stay away from this girl. She has been ripped apart and finally, so have you on this final breakup. You have to keep in mind that for 90% of breakups, BOTH parties are still basically in love and would rather take the easy route and stay together, but the one who initiated the breakup has realized that it's better in the long run to be apart for some reason. ",
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"body": "The answer is yes you can change, but it takes time. You cant change overnight, or just because you decide to, but you can slowly and meditatively point your mind at the goal and achieve it. You just have to believe it's possible and be dedicated.",
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"body": "http://menwhocantlove.com/\n\nMy girlfriend did this same thing to me. It will never work out.\n\nAnd when she breaks up with me she always crawls back, too.",
"score": 6
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"body": "get you life on track man, if you are 28 and have commitment issues, there are two reasons.\n1. you dont think she is the one\n2. your life is full of crap that you are having trouble including someone special in your life.\neven if you were not really 'together' i wouldnt say you were not with her all along. just be a man and gt your life organized, so you finally stop being a pussy. girls are smarter than you think.",
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Does anybody know of any good cheap (or possibly free) budgeting software? | I'm not looking for anything extremely complex. I'm 30, rent, no investments, etc...just looking for something basic to better track my spending and help budget. | 3 | [
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"body": "An any spreadhseet program. There are many budgeting templates available online you can plug into them. I made one for myself.",
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Hey Reddit, what are your favorite limericks? | Hit me with your most creative or favorite limericks
Mine is:
A mosquito was heard to complain
'A chemist has poisoned my brain!'
The cause of his sorrow
was paradichloro-
triphenyldichloroethane | 5 | [
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"body": "A preoccupied vegan named Hugh\n\npicked up the wrong sandwich to chew.\n\nHe took a big bite\n\nbefore spitting, in fright,\n\n\"OMG, WTF, BBQ!\" ",
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"body": "There once was a man named Dave,\n\nWho dug up a whore from her grave.\n\nShe was mouldy as shit,\n\nAnd was missing a tit,\n\nBut think of the money he saved.",
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"body": "if(computer.fail==true){\n\n\nbackground.setColor(blue);\n\n\nuser.frown();\n\n\nsys.shutdown();\n\n\nuser.scream(\"OH, FUCK YOU\");}\t\n\n\n\n\n\n[Source: LimerickDB](http://limerickdb.com/?top150)",
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From a post in /r/technology: Let's make a non-craptastic social networking site to replace Facebook. Pull together, reddit! | A [response by KarateKid](http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/anriy/facebook_founder_mark_zuckerberg_told_a_live/c0iiqz4) to someone talking about how crappy Facebook is and how there are no real alternatives out there:
> How about we build one? imgur is a shining example of what need can invent. Image shacks and buckets are gone. Why not create a better social networking site?
>
> Edit:
>
> Thanks for all the comments and upvotes. I think we can do it. Although, not everyone may believe in this. I am contacted by a brilliant designer who is willing to help. I totally want to do this as a community project. Please send me a message or reply to this thread. I will setup a group meet and we all can allocate appropriate tasks. Let's make it happen.
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> Here's a sort of blueprint. Everyone is welcome to join hands if they believe in it. I can't possibly do it alone
>
> 1) It will be a .org much like Wikipedia. At least run on the same ground i.e. absolutely no advertisement connection
>
> 2) Simple rules. Member owns everything which is their. We just provide a platform to engage
>
> 3) All the clutter of applications (no wars and farms) will go.
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> 4) No public user profile i.e. there be absolutely no information visible without login
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> 5) Status updates, message sending, wall, photos stay
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> 6) For photos we can use imgur infrastructure
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> What do you guys think? | 52 | [
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"body": "How will this be financially supported? There needs to be some revenue to support bandwidth, space, and database hosting.\n\nEither way, if there is a need for a coder, and I have spare time, then I'm in for whatever.",
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"body": "How the hell do you expect to use imgur's \"infrastructure\"? He's hosting images. There isn't exactly an infrastructure behind it, last I checked. A dedicated server or AWS. How do you suppose MrGrim feels about you suggesting we just use his shit?\n\nThis sounds like a pretty poorly-planned idea. Apps are a cool addition to Facebook. It's the spam of invitations/notifications that I don't like. How do you expect to finance it without any sort of advertisements? Public profiles are actually pretty nice, to be honest. Being searchable like that but being able to restrict what people see (which is exactly how FB is now) is perfect to me.",
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"body": "Considering most people don't actually care about Facebook's privacy settings (and when I say most people, I mean people who don't post on reddit, or other tech sites, i.e. the general population). If you were to make privacy your distinguishing feature then I think you'd have a lot of trouble getting inertia going.\r\n\r\nYou should try and find a very specific niche and try and focus in on that, for example: gaming; maybe you could have a social network for gamers, you could link your Xbox Live account, Steam account and PSN account to the site and there would be easy ways to arrange tournaments and the like.\r\n\r\nYou also have the added advantage of it being a lot more marketable to advertisers. ",
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"body": "What I personally dislike about social networks is that they rarely connect you to new and interesting people. They primarily deal with people that you already know or people that know people you already know.\n\nI'd like to see a social network that would connect you to other people based on your submitted data. For instance I'm interested in web design and development so ideally the network would connect me to other people with the same interests and provide us with a way to share information easily. ",
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"body": "I want a social networking site based around the concept of guilds. The guilds could be either professional or hobby based. The members could pool resources and offer rankings based on something like Reddit's Karma. \n\nExample:\n\nA design guild could a have pool of resources that include things like stock photography, tutorials, fonts, ect. The members of the guild can vote up the resources they find useful and anytime someone downloads a resource for use it automatically provides an upvote. Members can also earn points by helping other members with advice, critiques, ect… Members would be ranked by the amount of points they accumulate. Members would also be encouraged to promote the guilds they are part of as members of more prestigious guilds could justify charging higher prices. Just for shits and giggles guilds of the same type could battle each other for glory. Also, maybe guilds could form alliances for getting group discounts for things like health insurance. I suppose you could offer job boards where companies could pay to have their jobs viewed by the guilds. You could even offer services like making sure the job listing were only viewable by guild members of a certain rank or even specific guilds.\n\nThis is all kind of off the top of my head but I imagine I could come up with more if anyone is interested. ",
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"body": "This is a good idea. I think a decentralized approach from the start might help solve some issues of ownership, scale and financing. Also, it should build on existing web standards such as FOAF. Just like Wikipedia I think building on Free Software would be essential to keep things transparent and truly community supported. I might be able to help with the design and by hosting a machine at MIT. One of the main challenges is how to reach the network effect Facebook already has. For example, Identi.ca is not nearly as popular as Twitter even though it has almost the same functionality and it's built on Free Software. \n\nI think the ability to connect to existing services is essential. Push and pull data from FB, Twitter, imgur, etc would be an essential step towards making a transition. For example, some people might be attracted to this new service because they can have more control and ownership of their data, complete data portability is a big plus. Eliciting the concept of Wikipedia is a good idea because it has good reputation and values.\n\nPeople should not be forced to have things private and available only behind login, it should be an option. \n",
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Cat rescuers! How do I entice a stray cat coming to my door inside from the immense Canadian cold? | I have been placing food outside for the last few nights (it has been eating it), but I've never actually been able to SEE the cat itself--only pawprints in the snow. I don't want this poor cat to freeze to death. Any advice? | 8 | [
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"body": "Set a humane trap, with food, and if you can, wrap a [warm pack](http://www.campmor.com/grabber-sleeping-bag-warmer-extra-12-hour-warm-packs.shtml?source=CI&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=99587WC) in a towel for safe warmth. Camping stores, etc will have them.\n\n",
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"body": "Cats like feeling safe. Give it lots of room, don't stare it down if you find it. Let it come and go as it pleases.",
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LFG with the Oculus: Did this happen to you? | I've been hitting the random normal dungeons on a regular basis with my alt priest. Great way to level, by the way, for those of us who are still avoiding it. This morning, I click the LFG button, enter the dungeon, and face the Oculus loading screen.
Most people will just alt+F4 at this stage. Me? I'm happy. I LOVE the Oculus.
So, we enter the instance. Tank looks decent, above average HP for level 79. First thing I ask on party chat: "If you've never been here, please press 1".
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Alllllright... This is going to be interesting. Basically, I spent about 2-3 minutes explaining the idea behind the instance, mechanics, etc. I mostly underlined the fact that nobody should move away from me. I took the green dragon, told the others to stick to me like the stick up a paladin's behind.
And, surprisingly... Everybody listened! We finished the instance in 25m, or so, including lengthy breaks for explanations. Nobody pulled drakes. Bosses were clean fights, everyone doing the right things at the right time (even hiding from Urom's arcane explosion). We wiped on Eregos once, no one left group, and then we finished him and the instance.
All in all, everybody said it was a great experience (we proceeded to do another random afterward). The tank said it's a nice one time experience, but that he won't want to do it again. The three DPS said it was fun and that they liked it.
I just *love* the Oculus. | 23 | [
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"body": "I love how Blizzard thinks that throwing more loot at a dungeon will fix it. As much as you try to rationalize, Oculus will always be a pain as long as the drake mechanic is there. Every time I see that loading screen I want to put a bullet in my head... then I realize I can just leave group.",
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Switching from GNOME to KDE in ubuntu, now I can't get my wireless to work | I've been having loads of problems with gnome crashing and having to constantly restart my computer, it's almost as bad as with Windows!!!
I thought using KDE might help, but it's not connecting to the wireless. I had these problems when I got ubuntu, but I don't know how to do anything in terminal, or really how to navigate the kde menus. I'm on a compaq presario A900 if that helps. | 6 | [
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"body": "i had a problem with the kde network manager, so I just told it not to load and loaded nm-applet instead (this was on 3.5 a couple months ago). It's not elegant or even really a hack, but it works. ",
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Chrome is getting slower and slower | I installed Chrome about a month ago and loved it. It was blazingly fast. However, about two or three days ago, things started to get slower. Some of the big comment threads take time to load, switching tabs gets slower, some tabs become unresponsive for a few seconds, the rendering takes time, etc. When I check Chrome's memory and CPU consumption, most of the time the faulting tab is taking up 50% of the CPU. I haven't made any changes since I installed Chrome, and I'm running XP on a 2.66 Ghz, 1 GB RAM box.
Any ideas? | 6 | [
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"body": "Bug reports go to the bug tracker:\nhttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry\n\n(Be sure to pick the right \"template\" from the list)",
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Ask /r/Wow: What kind of headset do you use for Vent? | I've currently been just using some plain old earbuds and the internal mic in my MacBook Pro. It's just not cutting it. If I use PTT in vent it's an annoyance and the internal mic picks up way to much background noise to have a threshold set if I've got the TV or anything on in the background. I'd love to have some earbud style headphones with a mic in the wire as you often see with cell phones (see: iPhone, whatever), but the single 3.5mm jack obviously doesn't work with the computer's headphone jack, and I can't seem to find a USB set. I prefer earbuds mostly because I have never found a set of 'over the ear' phones that is comfortable for an extended period. The major caveat with my MacBook Pro is that the mic port on it is unpowered so any headset would have to be USB. I am planning on getting a new MBP in the coming months so if there is one that uses the 3.5mm (or is it 2.5mm?) jacks I can probably pick up a cheap usb converter on Amazon to get me by as I believe the newer MBP models have powered jacks. Any suggestions?
tl;dr - Looking for a comfortable headset that'd also work with a MacBook Pro. | 4 | [
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"body": "I'm a raid leader, and constantly get complemented on the clarity of my microphone. \n\nOriginally, my mic was only going to be a stand-in until I could be bothered to get down to Best Buy and get a real headset, but once the complements started rolling in, I decided that I should probably leave well enough alone.\n\nSo what is it?\n\nIt's my Rock Band microphone, sitting in a coffee cup (the coffee cup acts as a pretty decent mic stand.)",
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"body": "My wife and I both have Sennheiser PC151's and like them a lot. They were only like $40 when we got them from Amazon, and have lasted several years now.\n\nLuckily, we don't have any 12-year-olds in our guild... everyone is an adult and most know at least one other person in real life.",
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Reddit, can you name 3 books to better understand humankind? Here is my list: | I came across this question after reading these 3 books and realizing how much I had learned and reflected about so many different human issues. Here is my list:
**The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins** - What better way to understand ourselves than beginning with the evolution of life? Even though how dangerous or misleading it can be to directly apply the concept of the selfish gene to the human culture we can't deny its influence and how it has been shaping life itself since its origin. The concept of the meme was also introduced which unveiled a whole new world of replicants.
**Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond** - The human being as the evolution of civilizations . I had never seen so much knowledge and research condensed and presented in such an enlightening and comprehensive way. Diamond tries to explain why there was such a humongous gap between Eurasians and the other civilizations and that these difference in power and technology originated mainly in environmental factors.
**The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky** - One of the finest pieces of literature humankind has ever produced. Dense philosophical and psychological thoughts, ethical debates and very spiritual dramas. The human being as an individual full of existential questions, always in search of something greater and in constant struggle with himself. | 164 | [
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"body": "To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee\n\nLord of the Flies - William Golding\n\nCatcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger",
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"body": "Just three books makes for a *very* short list but since most people won't read three nonfiction books in all of 2010 I suppose it's fine. Any of these three should easily be more than worth the time investment. I'm sure there are always better books, but these three will help you better understand humankind.\n\n**Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert M. Cialdini** - this one will challenge how you look at marketing and deliberate attempts at reaching for your vote or your wallet. Extremely informative and will easily pay for the time spent since you're better able to recognize the pitfalls.\n\n**The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman** - this one can help you see the human artifacts that surround us all as emotional communication rather than lifeless objects. You won't ever look at a door handle the same way. Especially useful if you work in design of anything.\n\n**Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud** - a cartoon by a cartoonist about cartoons as sequential art and more, is easy and entertaining enough to read for almost anyone and yet can offer genuine insight into how we process and abstract information in the world. Because it uses a visual medium, it is able to offer some very tangible insights into the human consciousness. This one often makes the short list of books for game developers also, of which I am one.\n",
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"body": "*1984* by George Orwell\n\n*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley\n\n*Catch 22* by Joseph Heller\n\n\nHonorable mention: *The Autobiography of Malcolm X*",
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"body": "Brave New World. It is more pertinent to our society than 1984. Orwell thought we would be oppressed by our governments, Huxley thought we would be oppressed by our own indifference. Huxley was right, and so we are owned by the corporation. \n\nTime Enough for Love. I think the title speaks for itself. This is not so much an explanation of humankind as a guide to what our priorities should be. \n\nMein Kampf. WHAT NOT TO DO.",
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"body": "I'd put \"The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature\" by Steven Pinker on the list. (Perhaps even higher than Jared Diamond's book, although that was a great early account of unequal development between cultures.)",
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"body": "The Bible, Twilight, Going Rogue, just to name a few.\nHey, you have to see both ends of the spectrum if you want a better understanding of humanity.",
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"body": "*Heart Of Darkness*, if you want the morbid and gloomy view of human nature.\r\n\r\n*The Platonic Dialogues* by Plato, dictated by Socrates.",
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"body": "*War and Peace* by Leo Tolstoi. He looks right through all the pretentious elite bastards that cause most of the trouble in the world, and looks right through everyone else, too. Nothing has changed since he wrote it, or ever will change.\n\nI like *The Brothers Karamazov* too, and maybe Shakespeare's tragedies.",
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"body": "**Man and his Symbols** by Carl Jung, this is the easy one. Jung was an analytical psychologist, and he had unique and complex ideas about how consciousness operates. I have a lot of books, but few of them ring as true as this one does. I can genuinely say I was a different person after I finished it.\n\n**The Content of our Character**, by Shelby Steele. Steele is a black professor (now research fellow) at Stanford: this brilliant book was written as an examination of black culture and white guilt, but in its totality it's a wonderful read on the nature of victimization in general, both in society and in individual life. I love this book and bring it up every time this question's asked.\n\n**The Masks of God**, by Joseph Campbell. I hesitate to bring him up right next to Jung, it almost feels like cheating, but this book takes a unique approach to religion and myth that I think even an atheist could read with enjoyment. It's a great study in comparative religion, but has a lot to say about the shared archetypes that underlie these beliefs as well.",
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"body": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hamlet, Catch 22\n\nNo matter how nonsensical they may seem the two comedies, really do reveal a lot about human nature, while Hamlet shows us, how far we really can go, when consumed with an intense emotion",
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"body": "Prometheus Rising--R.A. Wilson. Taught me more about humans and the why's of our behavior than any other book to date.",
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"body": "Just to point out the obvious: Nearly all of the suggestions made so far indicate more about the people doing the suggesting than they do about humankind in general. The biggest favor you could do yourselves right now would be to look back over what you've written and wonder what.",
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"body": "[The Moral Animal](http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Animal-Science-Evolutionary-Psychology/dp/0679763996) by Robert Wright is a fierce introduction to evolutionary psychology with an effusion of scholarly wit.\n\nRead it if you haven't; you will not be disappointed.\n",
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"body": "Having read the title, I immediately thought of The Brothers Karamazov. I was tempted to just come here and repeat it three times to make a point. But lo! Reddit's taste in damn near everything astounds me yet again. High fives all around. ",
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"body": "Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault. God. This book rocked my brain. Post-structuralism is a beautiful thing, and Foucault on power is probably the best and most universal lesson for understanding human systems.",
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"body": "***Last Chance to See*** by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. Wonder whether humankind is only vaguely selfish, short-sighted, and stupid or balls-out selfish, short-sighted, and stupid? Follow these two as they find the answer.\n\n***Three Steps to Yes*** by Gene Bedell. A beautiful philosophy/cogsci book in a cheesy motivational book's clothing. Not as cheesy as Bedell's book \"The Millionaire in the Mirror,\" where the dust jacket is silver foil with a big blank space for your face to kinda reflect in a distorted fashion. That might be clever irony.\n\n***The Tenacity of the Cockroach*** an interview collection by The Onion AV Club. To understand people, why not take a look at how some interesting folks understand -- or at least try to represent -- themselves? Partial list: Ralph Bakshi, Ron Jeremy, Merle Haggard, Ray Bradbury, Elvira, Harlan Ellison, Bob Barker, Alice Cooper, Penn & Teller, Joan Jett, James Elroy, Lemmy, Jello Biafra, Mr. T., \"Weird Al\" Yankovic, The Unknown Comic, Henry Rollins, Tom Lehrer, Billy Barty, Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, and Quentin Crisp.",
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"body": "Nice choices. The chapter 'The Grand Inquisitor' in TBK might be the best literature ever produced.",
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"body": "[The Majjhima Nikaya: Middle Length Discoures of the Buddha](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/index.html).\n\nNot to be lame and post something religious, but in general these discourses are quite easy to read and understand, and provides maybe the most in depth discussions about the nature of the human mind, the good and the bad. And even better, how to do something to improve our situation.",
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HAE met someone awesome and then later regretted not getting some form of contact info when you separated? | Sort of inspired by this [thread.](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/antnd/reddit_i_met_this_guy_on_a_plane/)
I was at a festival a year or two ago and met someone who I spoke to for over 2 hours just on the off chance after he asked me for a lighter. Later I met a girl on the bus journey home who had been travelling all over the UK volunteering at the music festivals over the summer and we talked the entire journey.
I keep looking back at these and basically kick myself for never getting any sort of phone number or email for these people. Any other stories? | 31 | [
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"body": "I met one of my best friends this way. We met at a club and had a blast but didn't exchange information. Then, two years later, we happened to be taking the same class. We both stood up and shouted, \"YOU!\"",
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Would anybody around here be interested in starting some sort of site for Linux software articles? | Popular software for Linux gets quite a bit of press in various places, but an awful lot of it does not. Every one of us has software on our machines that, if searched for in Google, would reveal only the project's homepage, a vague description of it from some distro's repository, a bunch of "this prog r0x0rz" comments on the arse-end of someone's blog, and maybe a lacklustre mention or two on those link aggregator sites. This sort of software is the bread and butter of what Linux is all about, and I notice it's being neglected.
So how how about yet-another site for reviews, articles and interviews (glorified email/IM exchanges) with a focus on software that could honestly do with a bit more exposure. Have the articles copy-edited to distinguish them from the stuff you find in Some Random Blog™, and have a proper domain with a decent-looking CMS, replete with contact information, and then have just a few contributors who can manage an article or two a week (the more we have, the less we all need to write). And blammo, we've filled a noticeable gap in free software coverage on the web.
The reason I ask _here_ is because there are loads of folk on this subreddit who know their shit, and more than that can turn a pretty phrase or two. A number of you probably keep blogs or write hobby software yourselves, so it can't be that hard to muster some support.
Tell me it can't be so easy, reddit! | 45 | [
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"body": "As somebody who was roped in to help on the now-defunct MozillaNews site, I present the following advice/rambling:\n\nAt first, I wasn't even a writer for the site, I just kind of hung around on IRC and cracked lame jokes. After I wrote something on Mozilla for my website around the 1.0 release that was mildly blogged about, they didn't take my excuses any more that I couldn't write, and I was roped in to produce a couple of articles.\n\nThe organisation we has was pretty loose: somebody would log in to the CMS, write an article, set a few attributes (basically, category and summary), post the URL to the IRC channel, where the other contributors would make comments, possibly pop in and make edits, and eventually somebody who actually ran the site would hit publish.\n\nAlthough we had plenty of minor issues (like Google deciding our article IDs were session IDs and denying the site any SEO-secret-sauce), the big one was simply getting content in the first place. I would have written more articles, except most times I just heard about stuff from MozillaZine instead, at which point re-hashing their article seemed kind of pointless.\n\nSo, the big question is, where do the articles come from? Are they community-reviewed via wiki or comments, or are they \"secret\" until whatever team has assembled itself has reviewed and published them? Do you take submissions from anybody that comes along, and if not how much participation is required to be a \"contributor\". Are you going to publish live or on a time-delay schedule?\n\nNext, I would ask if you plan all of your articles to be news-like ($COOLAPP just released an update!), or if any of them are of long-term interest (HOWTOs, cookbooks and so on). If so, is there any provision for updating or collating them?\n\nAnd then there's the nasty issue of negative reporting. A certain *other* site got plenty of attention with some rather trollish articles. They were a nasty blend of opinion and deliberate distortions, but the aggregator sites of the day lapped up the chance to post something controversial. Now, I'm not saying every article needs to be positive - if a program is bad then we should be honest about it - but I feel it's a dangerous road to go down. As long as nobody's epenis is grown by the article hit counter, everything is fine. ",
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"body": "There's [Linux Journal](http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine) and [Linux Mag](http://www.linux-mag.com/). IBM also publishes unix articles like [this one](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu_screen/). Starting your own news site would be fun, and probably good for the community, but there is no dearth of existing news publishers.\n\nThe question is, can you garner enough participation (authorship) to make it worthwhile, and can you pay for server costs? Because if not, you may just want to look into submitting articles to Linux Journal.",
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"body": "I used only a gnu/linux os (mainly ubuntu) for about five years before recently switching back to windows. I am, however, still interested in the linux ecosystem, and have had similar observations regarding linux distro and software reviews (i.e. poor prose, grammar, and style and a lack of clarity regarding audience). \n\nI never had the inertia to create a blog or a website using CMS to create an aesthetically pleasing look because of the amount of work required of me. But I have entertained the idea. \n\nI'm computer savvy; and like I said, I have used gnu/linux for many years. And even though I no longer use (k)ubuntu regularly, I do read linux news sites (distrowatch, tuxmachines, etc.), and keep up to date on the various events which take place in the FOSS community. More importantly, I write and edit well. I recently received a B.A. in English literature and have interned at a largely read newspaper (The Baltimore Sun). At the very least, being a copy editor would be a fun experience. I would love to write articles, too. And, in general, I think that I'd have interesting ideas in terms of site content.\n\nMy first suggestion for the site would be to include distribution reviews, too. These reviews would have the same sort of rigor as the software reviews, making the website distinct from Some Random Blog, as you said. This wouldn't be difficult either: setting a basic starndard/format for the reviews (not to imply that each review would have the same layout, but ensuring each review presents essential information in a manner which flows well).",
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"body": "I would be happy to contribute content. I think that there is a lot of great software out there that for various reasons isn't found and used as much as it should be. A really solid site that helped users make the right software choices would be a great resource for the community and I would love to see it happen.\n\nSome quick brainstorming:\n\nI think that organizing software by category or functionality would be a good approach. This would make it helpful for people who are trying to find a program to meet a specific need. There could be short summaries of each program to help differentiate them on a superficial level and then larger pages that feature more in depth reviews with screenshots, distro specific install instructions, information about config files, etc.\n\nLetting users rate software (1-5 or something) and leave short reviews might be a cool addition. It would need a decent number of users to really work but it would be a good way to help people decide which pieces of software are worth looking into.\n\nIf users were to have accounts then it might be useful to let them set up preferences. Things like feelings about library dependencies, memory usage, and how linux savvy they are. The sort of preferences that have a big impact on how users might perceive software. Some of these preferences could be taken into account with something like hardcoded tags. It might be overly complex, but it would be awesome if other users ratings were weighted based upon their similarity in preferences.\n\nI don't know... just throwing ideas out there. In any case, I would be happy to contribute reviews.",
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"body": "In my opinion we don't need more software reviews but hardware reviews. I'd love it if there were a site that basically kept up with what hardware worked flawlessly with what software or even linux in general.",
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Whats your favorite film? | Mine is "In Bruges", but I am curious what movies do other people consider to be their "favorite". I'm looking to see some films I have still yet to see, so I figured why not AskReddit. | 19 | [
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"body": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Charlie Kaufman is a great writer, and Michel Gondry is an even greater director. ",
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"body": "How about something that isn't American? Solarys, Come and See, The Return (Russian); Celebration (Danish); 400 Blows, With Friends Like Harry (French); ANYTHING by Fellini, Werner Hertzog and Tarkovsky.\n\nOr maybe something that's American, but wasn't made in the last 15 years... Like Face in The Crowd, Night of the Hunter, Citizen Kane, Hearts and Minds, Midnight Cowboy, Days of Wine and Roses, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Do the Right Thing\n\nOr maybe made in the 15 years but not such predictable Hollywood garbage, like Grizzly Man, Chopper, Corn Dog Man, Anything by Errol Morris, Ghost World, Crumb, Team America World Police.\n\nSheesh. I love reddit to death, but these threads often depress me.",
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"body": "Requiem for a Dream. Darren Aronofsky is an incredible director.\n\nHaving said that, I don't think I will ever watch it again *shiver*",
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"body": "Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, The Godfather, Empire Strikes Back, The Usual Suspects and the less-well-known Memento.\n\nP.S. Citizen Kane is pure film glory too.",
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"body": "Being John Malkovich - I doubt many people would agree with me, but I love how all the main characters in the movie are such assholes in an incredibly weird situation. I can't explain it. \nalso, Delicatessen and American Psycho. Stereotypical ones are American Beauty and Fight Club",
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IAmA 21 year old girl who is getting labiaplasty. AMA. | Obviously a throw away account! ;)
I've been tossing around the idea for years, and I've finally decided to do it. Having ridiculously huge labia minora is incredibly uncomfortable and not sanitary. I'm prevented from wearing many types of clothes and ALL types of panties are uncomfortable. Having giant labia minora is affecting my profession (horse trainer) because 9 times out of 10 it's painful to ride and affects my position.
Anywho, idk if this is interesting to anyone, but AMA :)
*Well, holy shit. I think I've responded to about all I can respond to right now! Thanks for all the support and suggestions. I'm going to go root on the Cardinals rand eat some very unhealthy food. I'll be back on later!!
**Jesus tap dancing Christ. This thread blew up! I tried to respond to as much as I could, apologies if I didn't get to you...there were LOTS of repeat questions ;) It seems as though some people want a "Hiyo Reddit!" on my vag pic. I could do that for ya'll. But first, I'm making some pancakes. To eat...not creepily include in the picture somehow...errrr, anyway. I'll back later.
***IIIIIIIIIIII'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! Got word from my insurance, they're giving me the 'ol 1 finger salute. So I've heard that the next option is to get a referral from my OBGYN to a plastic surgeon for labiaplasty saying that it needs to be fixed because of the discomfort/infections/what have you. Haven't actually asked my OBGYN/Surgeon about this yet. School and work is kicking my ass. Not much of an update, really, but a few people asked. Just more of the waiting game, which I'm fine with. I'd like for insurance to pitch in at least a little bit.
****Why, hello Reddit! :D I still have my big floppy vag. I seriously injured my back about two months ago, so I haven't been riding at ALL, which is really cutting down on my labia-soreness. The surgery might get put off until I'm all finished up with school. Sorry to disappoint anyone eagerly awaiting post-OP pics. Weirdos ;P In the meantime....hmm. Not much to talk about I suppose. What a boring-ass update! Hugs and kisses and I'm out... (flap flap flap) | 569 | [
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"body": "Ask your doctor if there is any thing that can be done with the skin he'll be removing.\nThere was a little boy born at the hospital in my town last month who didn't have fully developed eyelids. They circumcised him and grafted the skin over his eyes to give him some eyelids. \nThey believe because of it he'll be okay, but may be a little cockeyed.",
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"body": "Hahahaha The comments here are hilarious. OP you sound like you have a great sense of humor and I wish you all the best with your upcoming operation! I hope everything comes out satisfactorily for you. Though I have no questions for you... this is the first time I've ever heard Wizard's sleeve and I can't stop laughing right now.",
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"body": "MC, Thanks for the pic for reference. VERY beautiful. BUT, I can see how it will chafe when riding. If it weren't for your profession, I'd say leave it be, you're a work of art.",
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"body": "> Anywho, idk if this is interesting to anyone\n\nLet's see, you're a young but fully legal woman who wants to talk about her coochie *ON TEH INTARNETS.* \nYeah, I don't know if this will attract any interest either.",
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"body": "Ok lets go for the serious questions:\n\n1. What is involved with the operation procedure? \n\n2. How long is the healing process?\n\n3. If insurance is not covering this, how much will it cost?\n\n4. How much research did you put in before deciding to do this?\n\n5. What complications if any could there be?\n\n6. What are your expectations when the surgery and healing are complete?\n\n",
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"body": "> Having giant labia minora \r\n\r\nAre they big enough to fill with perhaps some ground beef, diced lettuced, and diced tomatoes? Maybe with or without some sauce?",
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"body": "As a girl, I find this very interesting. So first, a couple of clothing questions: What kinds of clothing are most and least comfortable? Do you go commando under skirts if they're long enough? What underwear is least versus most comfortable? What do you do for a bathing suit?\n\nAnd, for a ladyquestion, I would imagine you use tampons, as, especially looking at the pictures, it looks like trying to use a pad would be a hot mess. Am I right, or is there not as much of a problem? And, have you ever talked to your mom about it, and why or why not? A lot of vagina things tend to be genetic, so I'd just be curious as to whether she had large labia too.",
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"body": "Ya haven't mentioned the oh-my-god-what-is-that factor. Has this giant labia stifled your love life? Care to share your most embarrassing moment?",
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"body": "not really much to say other than.. you seem like an awesome chick with a great sense of humor. Good luck to you and 'gina\n\n",
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"body": "I bet the downforce they generate when you're running gives you an advantage while cornering. Girl, you should be flapping those wings in the Olympics.\n\n",
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"body": "Wow. Thanks for your honesty and the pic! \nI honestly thought all women had pretty much the same labia size, and any significant deviation thereof was due the amount of sex (hence, porn star=huge labia minora). I will no longer judge flappy ladies as being sluts. \n",
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"body": "When did you realize that your anatomy was built different than the other girls'? I feel like that would be a tough thing to figure out.",
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"body": "I've noticed that a surprisingly high number of girls or young women go through a phase where they seem to be really into horseback riding. Any idea why? I'd always vaguely and perhaps cynically assumed that it was for the sexual stimulation, but then I'd expect motorcycles to also be popular.",
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"body": "This may sound a bit silly, but why did you go down the route of getting a career in something where 9 times out of 10 you are in pain?",
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"body": "Well I have testicles and I manage to horse-ride; tight fitting pants and jodhpurs help (by lifting and separating) on more than one occasion I have returned from a ride with them inside me. So how does your huge labia made it painful ??",
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"body": "If your insurance does not cover it, have you ever thought of doing some niche soft-core porn to pay for your surgery? Some would consider what you have a gift...",
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"body": "Dear Meat,\nI just wanted to say like others here:\n1. Kudos to you for a sense of humor\n2. Props to you for being mature and smart enough to figure out what makes you happy\n3. Being brave enough to go through on it.\n\nThat being said I just want to encourage you to talk to your parents. Tell them you have something very embarrassing that you need help with. I'm sure your mom and dad will understand. This isn't you getting a tattoo or being rebellious. This is your happiness. Think about it like this. They love you enough to let you go to college and learn to be in equine science. They aren't pushing you to be a doctor or teacher or lawyer... they're betting you're going to be good at this. And they're paying for you to learn it. So I'm sure if you go home, you can explain this to them. There's nothing worse than going through something like this with less support than you could have had. If you just ask your friend to take you well and fine. But your parents... I'm willing to bet if you told them they'd do anything to help you. I'm sure they even WANT to know when stuff like this happens.\n\nAn easy way would be to go home, bring your dad a drink and explain you need his help. Tell him... \"Dad, have you ever sat wrong on your twig or berries?\" Or something like that. Just like the examples above of a guy having to readjust his cock and balls in tight pants, your dad is bound to understand. I just think your family would want to know and its possible you're going to need some help afterwards, and your family knowing why would help tremendously.\n\nAnyways good luck. Before and after would indeed be interesting, because I personally don't think there's anything wrong, but my wife says yes.. lips that big are a problem. She knows :) She also says good luck from a fellow rider of Arabians.",
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"body": "Thanks for doing one of the most unique AMA's I've seen in some time and for being so engaging and responsive!\n\nAny idea on how long the recovery period will be and what it will entail? I have to imagine that this kind of surgery would have a pretty significant impact on your daily life during recovery (even walking seems like it would be very painful at first). \n\nWill you be forced to use a catheter (or something similar) for a while? I can't imagine that your own urine would be super terrible for it, but, then again, I've never heard a surgeon suggest peeing on sutures.\n\nHow long will your ladybits be out of commission for \"adult\" activities, solo or with a friend? I imagine that, at first, you'd have continuous unpleasant sensations down there. After a while, though, I'd think you'd hit the point where it would only hurt if you did something to the surgery site, like walk take a weird step while walking or poking it with something. How long should that second period last? Are you worried that something might activate the ladybit machinery while you're unable to relieve the frustration?",
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"body": "The three hottest women that I have had sex with are also the three with the biggest labia. Coincidence?",
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"body": "Here are some [before and after shots](http://stanford.wellsphere.com/women-s-health-article/labiaplasty/904549). Am I the only one who likes most of the befores better?",
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"body": "Oh wow, I've been wanting to do this for years. Mine aren't very large, but they bother me so much. There's just enough for there to always be chafing... it's so annoying and uncomfortable. And I'm really, really self-conscious about it.\n\nWhen are you having the procedure done? Do you know if it won't be considered \"cosmetic\" and thus wouldn't be covered under insurance?",
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"body": "What is the procedure supposed to be like?\n\nWhat is your expected recovery time?\n\nAre you currently sexually active, and if so, how do you expect sex to change?\n\nWill you return after the procedure to give us a post-snip update?",
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"body": "I have the same problem hun! One of my labia minoras is slightly longer, and I used to horseback ride as well. It's only a tiny piece sticking out, but I know how you feel :( I was contemplating labiaplasty, but it's really not that bad for me (plus I think it's kinda cute that one is a lil longer lol). Good luck!",
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"body": "Is it like a tonsillectomy? Will they let you keep them in a jar? If so, can you just send them to me?",
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"body": "How short do you plan to trim them? Do find that guys have a preferance. Also will there be any loss in sensation after the procedure? Best of luck, I hope it works out well for you.\n\nP.S. Before and after pics would be spectacular. I find this very interesting",
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"body": "I actually like them like that. Sorry, but my preference. Ever been with someone that had that fetish? how was it? thanks for the pics. ",
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"body": "Good for you on getting the surgery, no matter what the reason. Just wanted to let you know I haven't had that specific surgery done but I did have laser surgery done (down there) and it was worth it but very very painful after. I had to pee in the bathtub for like 4 weeks...it sucked. But on the upside they keep you supplied with good drugs til most the pain stops :) Good luck hun I really hope it goes well for you.",
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"body": "How would you rate your labido? Of the girls I've slept with I've noticed a relationship between flap size and sex drive - i.e. bigger flaps = more sex. \n\nThe girl with the largest, somewhat similar to yours, wanted so much sex she went into porn!\n\nOf course, I've not slept with enough women to cover a large enough proportion of the population to be sure, but I'm working on it.",
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"body": "Great post. Very informative. I never considered they'd be uncomfortable -- or unrewarding sexually.\n\nThey look beautiful. If I were your boyfriend, I'd beg you to keep them. But that's because I'm selfish. Best wishes to you. ",
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"body": "Does anyone else wonder why a girl has a problem with a little extra down there but we all have ball sacks and dicks to deal with... they chafe sometimes too.",
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"body": "i guess i understand your reasoning, and i do applaud your sense of humor and good spirit, but it seems somehow tragic to do anything to alter such a cute cooter.\n\nthink twice, and don't do anything you'll regret, okay? you're beautiful.",
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Jeremy Scahill, the author of Blackwater, has a blog that has gotten very little Reddit Love. If you want to know what's happening next with the Pentagon and Blackwater, RebelReports is Required Reading. | So much of the news is press release and noise machine, Scahill is honestly out there doing the real reporting. People were wondering who the next Seymour Hersh going to be, he's the candidate. [www.rebelreports.com](http://rebelreports.com/) | 132 | [
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"body": "It was through this video interview with Bill Moyers that I first became aware of Scahill. He's incredible; you can see his passion is evident throughout the interview, and his courage... the guy's got balls like grapefruits.\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10192007/profile.html",
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"body": "He was originally a producer and reporter for [Democracy Now!](http://www.democracynow.org/) He went to Iraq a few weeks before the invasion to begin reporting un-embedded and has gone back so many times I think he is kind of crazy! Balls. of. steel.",
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So could anyone explain to me the ending in A Serious Man? | I mean what was the meaning behind the whole tornado scene?
I heard the movie paralleled the Book of Job the way Gopnik loses everything.
Also, that the movie had something to do with Schroedinger's cat. | 5 | [
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"body": "I loved this movie and thought the ending was spot-on to bring the message home. \n\nI was immediately moved by my feeling of bafflement at the complete hopelessness and powerlessness in that final scene. My tiny taste of his futility in that I have to accept the climax of this film being interrupted by the end credits and the total lack of resolution to follow, and finally by my resentment toward the Cohens for purposefully creating the same.\n\nThen I got that our fearless hero has been overwhelmed by these feelings throughout his experiences in the film. The Cohens are the audience's God in this metaphor, and they did it well. I felt Catholic again (not that I was grateful for that), and for those of you who wonder what the state of mind is like, this film created an accurate facsimile.",
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"body": "Apparently you all missed the crucial turning point of the film.\n\nThe instant that Gopnik changed the Korean student's grade from F to C-, the bad news came. He is going to die of lung cancer (doctor made it pretty obvious that he had terrible news) and his son gets killed in a tornado (again, we do not witness this, but I think it's safe to assume it's not just going to blow past, it has to be in the film for a reason).\n\nSo -- what about changing that grade brought all this on to Gopnik? He stated to his boss \"I haven't done anything!\" Meaning, he had been without sin. He said he once seen an erotic film, but \"it wasn't even that erotic!\" He scolds his brother in the hotel pool for using the word \"shit\". He does not have sex with the neighbor, he only dreamed that part. He was sinless, until he changed that grade, because in doing so, he officially ACCEPTED THE BRIBE which is a sin.\n\nIf the Bible tells us anything about God it's that He hates sin. Even one sin is enough to deserve death. That is why He became a man so he could life a sin-free life and therefore be the only perfect sacrifice (replacing the need for animal sacrifice).\n\nAnd yes, I am fully aware that the Coen brothers are Jews, but that is the theme of this film nonetheless. God hates sin.",
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What was this game called? | I played this pyramid-style trivia game as a kid. I believe it was software already installed on our prefab PC. Our computer was either a Tandy or Compaq. I was a teenager at the time, so it had to be mid to late 90's.
**Here's what I remember about the game:**
* My guy ascends a big purple pyramid when I answer correctly
* A robot voice that sounds like the first few seconds of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2NG28vKNw) song
* Sounds of a crowd cheering (maybe even little purple people at the bottom of the pyramid) when I answer correctly
* Lightning strikes when I answer incorrectly (not 100% on this one)
I used to play this game for hours! It would be nice to find it again, or an emulator for it. | 5 | [
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"body": "Cosmic Consensus? It came from Brezerk(Berzerk?) Games or something along those lines. Also had Acrophobia, I believe. Good time wasters.",
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AskReddit: Physics minor... worth it? | Reddit, I need some life-guidance! I'm a film student who began college as a mech. engineering major for 2 years before changing my mind. This past semester I had holes to fill in my schedule so, thanks largely in part to my newly acquired love for science (exponential increase over past 2 years...ever since i gave up ME. Ironic.) and a fat collection of now irrelevant science credits, I took a stellar evo class and modern physics. Now I'm considering getting a minor.
My question.. is it worth it?
If I don't minor in physics, I'll be able to graduate next Dec. If I do, I'll have to stay for one more semester. If there is a problem with this, its financial.
I enjoy physics to the extent that I kind of wish I was majoring in it. However, film is my top priority. I want to enter the film industry and, hopefully, be successful. At the same time, I have a strong interest in the idea of graduate school and/or spending some of my life doing some sort of research (I've done a little within our astro. dept.)
I'm all about reading scientific literature so I feel like getting a minor makes me more qualified in a sense vs. just being a film student who likes to geek out from time to time. Not so much that I want to be a science snob, but rather appreciated for someone who understands and appreciates a number of scientific arenas and is capable of participating.
Worst case scenario.. if I have to get a real job... how will having a physics minor look to the average employer? Enough to justify the effort?
I ask this because the next physics classes are only going to get more tough in a time where I'm buckling down with film in preparation to become a legit contender in that industry. I'll be spending the next two semester wrapped up in film projects.
Considering the already lengthy background info I've given, is it worth the extra effort, possible deterioration of my otherwise excellent GPA and additional semester of $ for college to get a minor is Physics? Thanks ahead of time! | 13 | [
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"body": "I'd like to encourage you to develop your interest in science, but here's the thing:\n>I ask this because the next physics classes are only going to get more tough in a time where I'm buckling down with film in preparation to become a legit contender in that industry. I'll be spending the next two semester wrapped up in film projects. \n\nIt you're going to be spending a lot of time working on projects for your major, a physics minor might not be the best thing to do. Sophomore and junior level physics classes eat time. You'll spend many nights doing the homework and studying if you want to do well. Upper level classes demand a lot of you. If you think you're up to this, then by all means do it. \n\n>how will having a physics minor look to the average employer? Enough to justify the effort? \n\nI don't know how you qualify \"justifying the effort\" but it'll look great on an application. \n\nEdit: If you can possibly stay in school another year instead of an extra semester, generally the difference between physics minors and physics majors is ~three classes. If you really want to do the minor, consider doing the double major.",
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"body": "I'd go after a physics minor, but only if she were cute and you know you wouldn't get caught as a sex offender.",
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Bandwagon: I finally finished "The Road". Off to see the movie in an hour while it's fresh in my mind. | Beautiful book. I loved how different the story was told.
The setting was bleak (obviously), the characters lovable, the story helpless yet strangely inspiring.
No speech/quotation marks, informal breaks for chapters (which were technically missing), simple yet endearing dialogue between characters. Poetic, insightful and descriptive storytelling.
I wanted to see the movie after seeing its trailer at the cinema. At the time I'd not heard of the book and thanks to Reddit I was compelled to read it, and decided to do so this weekend before I saw the movie. First time I've done this and I think I'll have a true comparison between a book and its film adaptation.
Well done McCarthy. | 6 | [
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"body": "When I recommend The Road, I describe it as bleak, but I don't actually find it so. I'd say it has a bleak flavor, but on the whole it is a story of how the old tend to limit the young, while the young find rejuvenation regardless. What's more, the tendencies McCarthy writes about are part of human nature, which means that what enables us to forge new paths is part of us and can't be gotten rid of. It's so easy to write about how things go wrong, but to understand how they go right is what makes McCarty way more than a pulp writer.\n\nIt's really quite a beautiful metaphor, a man who sticks to the road when the road has been made meaningless, the road itself a symbol of something that no longer exists and will never again. The sadness the man feels comes from his memories, which is why death is a necessary part not only of our biological evolution but that of our culture. Death erases the emotional ties to outdated ideas.\n\nHelluva novel. McCarthy's real masterpiece.",
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"body": "I don't think I have the heart to watch this film. The book was so heart breaking, and such a dismal outcome, that I think seeing it visually, would just make me super sad. :(\n\nJust the idea that Earth and everyone one it, will probably never recover, or maybe even see the sun, canibals etc, was too much for me. ",
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Worst Book to Movie Transition | I've been thinking about this for quite some time now. I understand that somethings MUST be changed in order for a screenplay to work.
That said, this is for all the books that were maimed unnecessarily.
My vote: Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
I'll post why if it's even necessary.
What are your worst book to movie transitions? | 6 | [
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"body": "[I, Robot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot). I...I... *deep inhalation* I have a difficult time expressing my outrage at Hollywood's rape of one of my favorite story collections.",
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"body": "The Golden Compass was the most disappointing for me, just because it is my favorite story, and in the trailer, it truly looked like the stars were aligning to produce an extraordinary experience. \n\nPart of me knew that New Line would pussy out of producing a story that kept the bittersweet ending that truly tied everything together, and instead ended the movie about 3/4's of the way through the book. They wanted the next Narnia, from a story written by an author who explicitly identified the work as a rebuttal to C.S. Lewis. \n\nThey didn't think American audiences could handle the religious controversy in the book, so they watered that down, and the choice of director (Chris Weitz) was just tragic. His talents are a-dime-a-dozen, and the story really needed someone with a stronger willpower to resist the influence of New Line with some measure of authority. \n\nI would've been satisfied if they had at least included the last chunk of the movie (WHICH THEY FILMED!) in the DVD, because the die-hard fans would have absolutely bought it. ",
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"body": "Did it make anyone else feel a little irked that the movie V for Vendetta was more quotable than the graphic novel?\n\nI fully realize this is down-mod territory but the 'v' introduction and even the line \"A government should be afraid of its people\" aren't found in the graphic novel at all.",
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DAE wonder about the bookless? | I find it downright creepy to visit someones home and see no books....at all....anywhere. What do these people Do? | 12 | [
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"body": "From a purely aesthetic and emotional point of view, I find a big warm wall of books, tied to memories and different times in my life comforting. When I look for one book I have lots of fun seeing all the other books I have read or am meaning too. Whenever I have moved it has never felt like home until the first few boxed are but up on shelves. I think creepy is strong or perhaps the wrong sentiment but I definitely would not like to live in a house without books, even if I never read again. ",
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How I Lost my Paranoid Religious Mindset, How I Became Free | When I was 19 I was suffering badly from anxiety to the point I wouldn't leave my dorm room in college to pee or brush my teeth. I was somewhat religious, I was tormented by my tyrannical mind. I was under a delusion of special importance; I thought I was called to do something of great magnitude but I didn't know what it was (my mother suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and had in the past been under a similar delusion).
Anyway, for me doing anything that could be perceived as impolite, or especially narcissistic or intellectually snobby, I would be unable to sleep and when I did sleep, unable to stay asleep. I was a slave to my mind. As an aside, I feel that my obsession of being perceived as narcissistic indicates some inward assurance that I was "better" than other people. (See Tom Cruise's interview with Matt Lauer [will start at 5:20]; see 5:28, Tom Cruise is as ill as I was).
Anyway, one of the symptoms of my illness can be seen in the fact, for instance, that when I had a fake ID I had a tremendously difficult time using it. I was at a friends house on the upper west side of manhattan on 87th and riverside drive when one of my friends said the most important thing to me, its real meaning only becoming apparent two year later. I was explaining to him my anxieties with buying beer while underage and how badly it cripples me.
So on Broadway he said to me, "I used to be like that, completely paranoid about such trivial things, and then I realized that I wasn't the center of the world." I almost took offense to this as I was obsessed with not seeming as though I was conceited or pompous.
But what he was saying was that I had secretly and inwardly convinced myself, by way of granting myself a status of special importance, that I was truly "the one" or that I had some ability which trumped all others. That was my delusion. Probably in an attempt to right my capsized self-worth I had overreacted and my impoverished ego now had something to which it could be proud of; I was a prophet, a disciple, a saint, a martyr.
Many year later, I tell you, it is precisely this theme you see in ALL those religious fanatics or all those freshman philosophy majors (I was one) who are consciously or unconsciously convinced that the world is according to them and that they are more right or possess better access to a special truth. There was one reddit post attempting to understand the mind which allows a person to come to such and such [religious] reasoning. I hope this helps. | 27 | [
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"body": "Edit: Removed quote of submitter's text since it's fixed. Thanks.\n\nI think there is a lot of truth to what you said. People are told in their churches that they should have a personal relationship with an all-powerful being. Now, if one believes that an all-powerful being cares about them, there must be some reason.\n\nBut explaining what that state of mind is doesn't help to dispel it. It is a habitual/conditioned state that must be broken like any other habit. You said you broke out of that mindset, so maybe you could follow up to explain more about that part of the process?",
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"body": "Great post, glad you're doing well :) some things that *were* likely in effect here....\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_control\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect",
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My son left his instant messaging up at my home, but was using the same IM at his moms home, so I could see what his girlfriend was sending him. I saw some disturbing stuff. Question inside. | So his little girlfriend, who's a major drama queen, is discussing the possibility of her being preggars, among other things. I'm thinking about telling them that I'm taking them out to lunch, and then dropping their asses off at Planned Parenthood. Think that's a good idea?
They're 16 years old, and according to the dates discussed, it looks like they had a rendezvous at his moms house during "visitation". I put quotes on that, because visitation usually involves him going over to her home to babysit her 4 and 6 year old boys that she's had with her new husband.
I also found some topless pics of his mother and her friends on my son's computer. Not sure how to approach that subject either. I'm not sure how the photos ended up on his computer. It's possible that he sent them to his home computer via email from my Xs home, but there are other possibilities as well. She's a weird chick, and it's possible that she sent them to him or one of his friends. Yea, she's like that.
I'm also thinking about placing her and her friends pics about the internet. They're all a bunch of douchebags, and could use some bad karma their way.
EDIT: This is a back up account that I used for this very personal post. I'm a very regular redditor for over 3 years, and in the past year, reddit has really disappointed me, but not this time. There's been some great replies to my post, and I really appreciate all of them. Thank you all. | 50 | [
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"body": "This is not sarcasm: you sound like a great parent.\n\nIf I were you, I'd ask him about the topless pictures, then ask him exactly how he got them, and ask them if he thinks you're an idiot who doesn't know how to use a computer. I would do all of these things in a cool-as-a-cucumber tone, so that if he gets emotional, it doesn't become a battle of who can be MORE emotional.\n\nRegarding the girlfriend, I'd tell him flat out that you know what you know, and ask him what he plans on doing about it. I would then remind him that you care about him quite a bit, but if he's going to act like an idiot for the rest of his life, he's going to deal with the consequences.\n\nI suppose I would also consider his actions to be grounds for keeping him off your computer via password protection. That's yours, and you don't like how he's using it, so don't let him any more.\n\nThen, after you sort all this out, let him know that you don't hate him, take him out for a steak somewhere, and let him know that your relationship is strained, but it can be improved if he stops acting like a God damned idiot.",
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"body": "He's 16. You can start grounding him, embarrassing him, telling him off, whatever, but it won't stop him, will reduce your authority and will cause him to trust you less, and in a few years there'll be nothing you can do anyway.\n\nInstead, concentrate on preparing him as best you can. It's clearly time you started moving from the \"rules and punishment\" stage of parenthood to the guiding, helpful phase. Don't give him any indication you know anything, because that'll just damage stuff, just make sure he knows you'll help him whatever, and if he's in a tough spot he can come to you, and you'll help him not punish him.\n\nTo be honest, I'd also suggest stop doing things like checking out his IM history and looking around on his PC. He's 16, if he catches you doing it at that age he may well never trust you fully again. He's 16, he's going to have sex. Encourage him, with a fatherly prod towards contraception - he might get embarrassed, but at the end of the day he'll know you're cool with it and it will mean that if he does have problems he'll be able to talk to you about it.",
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"body": "Forget sending the pics out, the only bad karma that'll generate will be on you. She sounds like she might get off on it anyway.\n\nYou're not going to be able to stop your ex encouraging these rendezvous, they want to do it as well. Oh how nice for your ex to encourage young love.\n\nWhy not give him some condoms \"just because\". It's not like any aspect of this is actually under your control at least that way you may be able to stop it going where it is headed.",
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"body": "I don't know about the rest of it, but if you put their pictures up on the web, you're a grade-A asshat and deserve a beating. \n\nThat is all.",
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"body": "I know it's different from most of the other advice on here but I think you should sit down with your son, not to yell at him, but to ask if there is anything you can do to help with his problems. Say you went to use to computer and saw some things you aren't happy about and you'd like to help him out. If he sees you are there to be helpful and support him than he'll be more apt to come to you in his times of need rather than not. O and don't post any pictures anywere that'll probably just get you in trouble somehow.",
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"body": "About the planned parenthood: Yes. \n\nYou may want to be more friendly about it, but the people their are the best for that kind of stuff. Been there quite a few times for emergencies...",
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"body": "I'd leave the pictures be for now, since you have no idea of the circumstances by which they got there. If could be that your son did it out of his own volition, and violated his mother's privacy - in which case, you've got to have a serious talk with him (considering he's also having unprotected sex with what sounds like a really stupid girl). ",
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"body": ">I'm also thinking about placing her and her friends pics about the internet. They're all a bunch of douchebags, and could use some bad karma their way.\n\nYou deserve every bit of fallout from this, if you do. ",
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"body": "Perhaps you should talk to your son and explain about things like contraception/consequences, rather than telling him you read his IMs. He will probably never trust you again and not want to talk to you at all.\n\n\nTalk to your ex about the photos. Putting them online would be a particularly bitter and inappropriate action to take; if she found out, she would definitely inform your son, and you would not get to speak to him for a very long time. You being this hostile to your ex is probably not doing your son any good, either, and hating his girlfriend openly (if you do so) will make him more hostile to you, as you're disliking the two main women in his life. He will undoubtedly have other girlfriends and more sex; they're not getting married. Just tolerate her like you would any sixteen-year-old, inform your son about sex, and try to at least be civil to his mother.",
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"body": "Ignore it, please. His conversations are not yours to monitor and regulate. Same thing happened to me when I was 16, and her parents were assholes to me from then out, even threatening her with having me sent to jail because they were ignorant enough to believe that child pornography laws extended to text. Ignore the IMs unless you want your son and his girlfriend to hate you, and trust me they will. Exposing the fact that you know won't make them stop doing anything, only be more secretive. \n\n\n\nThe mother is a different matter...",
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Hi reddit-- would you help me test out my new personal project? It's a web app for organizing your reusable code. | I've spent the last few weeks working on a side project, mostly as a teaching exercise. I'm particularly pleased with the CAPTCHA alternative used in the registration process.
Indexing reusable code by just a file name is kind of a pain, so I created foo(book). foo(book) lets you store your scraps of code, store them with tags and descriptions, and organize by title, date, syntax, etc.
You can search others' scraps, narrow by syntax and license, and add them to your favorites.
I haven't really run this through it's paces yet, so I'm hoping you'll let me know when and if things go to hell. Without further delay, here's [foo(book)](http://www.foobook.org). | 86 | [
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"body": "[your CAPTCHA isn't really a CAPTCHA](http://www.foobook.org/xxx/scraps/breaks-your-captcha/)\n\nalso sharing links are broken (reddit etc.)\n",
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"body": "Wow, this is really well done. Clean presentation, excellent implementation, and a genuinely good idea. I love the embed feature, that's brilliant.\n\nI like it! :D\n\nEdit: I just noticed your logo has a colon at the end. It makes the end look like a sad face ):\n\nAlso, I click the pencil next to my name in my profile, and it says I win.",
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"body": "This is really cool!\n\nBut: if possible (without using *too* much bandwidth), it would be good to host the images for your not-a-captcha on your own server. I'm at work right now, and the images are blocked by our filter (Websense), since they're hosted on Flickr. I imagine this is fairly common, despite the fact that this is a site that really should be useful to people who are at work.\n\nAlso -- and this is a very minor issue -- it would be nice if you were automatically logged in to your account after confirming your email address.",
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"body": "This looks pretty cool. One comment I would make is that I think you should define \"Anything you upload must be free to use.\" a little better. Perhaps use the [OSI](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) or [FSF](http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#SoftwareLicenses) list of licenses?",
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"body": "This is fucking beautiful.\n\nI particularly like the CAPTCHA. Mainly because I love penguins, and my second group had penguins. Great implementation.\n\nI'm going to go play with the actual service now.\n\nThanks for taking the time to share your work with everyone!",
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"body": "I like the inspiration here, but I'm not sure I like the direction. If you have something reusable, it should be packaged up in a library or a utility. something you can immediately *use*.",
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"body": "Scraps -> Favourites results in a 404 error.\nAnd a way to browse scraps would be useful.\n\nOtherwise, this is really, really nifty. \nI can honestly see myself using this.",
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"body": "Great site. I'm for sure going to be using it massively and recommending it too all of my dev friends.\n\nSome things that would be awesome to have.\n\n* Is there a way to share a specific snippet in a short URL? PasteBin for example has pastebin.com/3827aR as a URL for a given snippet. Something like this would be great.\n\n* File upload. Right now you can only upload the text by pasting it. Uploading files would be useful for quicker uploading.\n\n* Be able to see a master list of all scraps and then sort them by views/downloads/etc. To see which snippets are the most useful.\n\nI wish you great success and many years of increased traffic. Another site that has AdBlock disabled from me. :3 (Reddit, GiantBomb and now you, FooBook. :D )",
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"body": "A couple of things:\n\n1. Please try and work a javascript \"hack\" that allows us to use tab to indent while typing into the submit window, I have no idea if it's practical and/or possible, but I would absolutely love it... although typing in notepad++ would be best, I guess, but I might use this when I'm away from my own computer.\n\n2. Please remove the advert. I have no idea what sort of web developer you are, but adverts on a site with less than 10k uniques are absolutely worthless and do nothing but devalue your work. You will never make the $100 google require to cash out from this website (without click fraud) so instead I suggest you dump them and add a donations option or \"super\" accounts. I would have no problem donating $10 to the server costs and I'm sure many others agree. Adverts do nothing but make it look ugly and it's a shame to see them, because they won't net you anything...\n\n3. It's \"PHP\" not \"pHP\"?\n\n4. Keep up the good work :-D I can see myself using this, a lot!",
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Alternative to WolframAlpha? | It's a really nice tool, but I really need better plots. I'm not a big fan of plots that aren't graphed. | 4 | [
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"body": "[Mathematica](http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html), also by Wolfram. Hell of a lot more functionality than Wolfram Alpha though. \n\n\n[Matlab](http://www.mathworks.com/) is good too.",
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"body": "I've heard good things about [Sage](http://www.sagemath.org/), and it's opensource/free. However, it seems a little confusing to me. Not sure about its plots, either.",
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"body": "Get the free and open-source math program [Sage](http://www.sagemath.org/) and install it. You have much better control over plots ([some examples](http://arachnoid.com/sage)), and you still haven't spent any money.",
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I need help finding music similar to this (sounds like electronically synthesized instruments mixed with an orchestra and a choir) | I need some help finding music similar to this instrumental from the movie, Paprika:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqCdptfpaTA
I don't listen to much music, so I'm not familiar with specific genres. Nevertheless, This song just blew me away and I've been searching for the genres that might characterize this type of song. If you know of any artists or genres with similar pieces or styles, please let me know. I really enjoyed this instrumental as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4doHF0dIuh0
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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"body": "Off the top of my head... the Katamari Damacy soundtracks had a similar (though simpler) feeling to them. \n\nIf you want more classical stuff done electronically try Wendy/Walter Carlos and/or Tomita.",
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IAE still holding out hope despite not having received a gift yet? | Most people would have given up by now I imagine--it's been a month since gifts were shipped (or... were supposed to be shipped), and the statistics tell me a *lot* of presents still haven't been received yet, myself included.
I've had a great Santa who's been sure to update and check if my gift's arrived yet, which is awesome.
Have you guys/girls given up hope yet, or are you still holding out?
**Edit:** Don't give up hope! I just received mine after 40 days in transit. FORTY. DAYS. | 7 | [
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"body": "My gift hasn't made it but I don't mind. I found the whole SS process was a lot of fun and really not about the getting. So if something were to magically arrive or not - I'm cool.",
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"body": "My ss said he would need to ship it late, since he wasn't quite done with it yet. He still marked it as shipped on time, and I don't have anything yet.",
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American Redditors: Why is there so little gun control in the US? | Hi, this is mostly to American redditors. I am from the UK and I recently made an uninformed comment on gun control/carrying of offensive weapons, and got abuse flowing full throttle at me. I was in the wrong in the comment, but it brought out something that worries me.
Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised?
I am aware of the second amendment but I am asking why this over 200 year old seemingly barbaric law is still in place?
Am I completely wrong? Can someone either restore my faith in humanity? or inform me of what I'm missing.
I am reluctant to have abuse thrown at me again but i want to know your opinions so i'm willing to risk it, and bad karma to get them.
EDIT: Firstly thankyou for the number of responses
Secondly to all the Redditors who have tried to educate me in American history, the lessons have been valuable and i now understand this much better in a historical context. The need for weapons in America's history is clear. I wont take any gibes about the british empire personally as at that time my ancestors were under its regime and actively fought it. But point well made, I appreciate the irony of British people such as myself judging Americans for something that we brought about.
I realise also that i shouldn't be judging americans as 'gun owners' as the majority of gun owners are clearly responsible citizens.
I realise too that even if the government wanted too they couldn't disarm you all. Whether this is good or bad.
Probably a good thing that they cant.
In summary, I still don't see guns as a good thing, but I understand much better why Americans feel the need to arm themselves, and i also realise why this attitude is not going to change, so thank you.
I will try and trawl through all your comments but it is almost midnight my time and i need to sleep.
Thankyou again and you really have changed my ideas. have a good one | 61 | [
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"body": "You see, your countrymen, the British Army, tried to take away the colonist's weapons in an effort to subdue the population.\n\nThat *kind of* rattled the population, *a tad.*",
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"body": "There is plenty of \"gun control\". There are mandatory background checks, restrictions on what can be bought. For instance, full automatic weapons and sound suppressors cannot be bought. Short barreled rifles cannot be bought. Sawn off shotguns cannot be bought.\n\n\nNow, the reason why \"owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life\" is legalized for several reasons. One, only law abiding people follow the law. By outlawing guns then truthfully only the outlaws will have guns. I follow the law. I own a firearm. If the law said I couldn't own a firearm I wouldn't own one. But would that deter a criminal from having one? Absolutely not. They mostly are undeterable. \n\n\nOkay so why is it legal? The second amendment allows it. And no, the second amendment isn't barbaric. The colonists wished to have the freedom to have arms for many reasons. One of the main reasons was to protect themselves against their own government. One of the theories is when a populace owns weapons it deters the government from becoming totalitarian. Another theory is it facilitates the theory of self defense. I believe the former argument was stronger back in the 1700's. The latter is what I subscribe to as a much more valid argument.\n\nThe fact is Americans like being very self dependent and autonomous. For instance, our declaration of independence says everyone has the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Of course, all of us history buffs know that pursuit of happiness was originally \"property\". I digress. But if I have an inane right to my life, my liberty, and my property or pursuit of happiness, how am I supposed to protect that? Due process and legal remedy is one way. But when something is imminently threatened such as my life, which my property interest in doesn't need to be expounded on, there is only one other option: an effective weapon. My weapon of choice is the gun.\n\n\n**edit:** I am aware it is possible to purchase full autos and sound suppressors. But, they have made it so difficult to attain that you really cannot. You need to have a form signed by the chief law enforcement officer of your jurisdiction, a back ground check, submit a $200 tax fee. If purchasing a fully automatic weapon, the receiver has to be made before 1984. These receivers usually go upwards of $5,000 a piece. Price continues to go up as the years go on because they become more rare. Also the only people that can sell these sort of things are FFL's with a class 3 certification. Private individuals can sell but only if the aforementioned paperwork is complete. It takes six months to a year for the ATF to approve the forms. And it is almost impossible to get a Sheriff or Chief of Police to sign off on the forms required. So like I said, you can't just buy a fully automatic weapon or sound suppressor. The process is so hard, convoluted, and expensive that it is nearly impossible to obtain these objects, hence my statement.",
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"body": "> \"...designed purely for the purpose of ending life\"\n\nBy making that statement, you seem to be implying that anyone interested in learning about or carrying a gun is primarily doing so because they are planning on using it for killing another human. Thats an incorrect assumption. \n\nI don't own any guns,.. but I'd be very interested in learning how to safely and properly use them, and eventually own some. I have no intent to use them to kill anyone -- but be damn sure if anyone ever threatens my life, breaks into my house,etc.. I would use a gun to defend myself. (EDIT: could I use other things to defend myself?.. probably, sure. Would those other choices be as effective as a gun?.. maybe/maybe-not depending on the circumstances. I'd rather have a gun and not need it,.. than need it and not have it. )\n\nThe point about gun ownership is not killing people. It's about having the freedom to defend yourself in the manner of your choosing. If you'd like to defend yourself with black-belt kung fu--go right ahead. If you'd like to defend yourself with an expensively armored car and body-guard protected home-- go for it. If you'd like to defend yourself by carrying a gun... you should be able to do so, freely.. without judgement. \n\n> \"seemingly barbaric law...\"\n\nbarbaric... compared to what?... if you could wave a magic wand and remove guns from the planet -- people would still kill each other. Probably in even more barbaric ways. I'm not making that argument to be pro-gun.... just saying that killing has been around for much, much MUCH longer than guns have. ",
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"body": "I don't own a gun. I've never owned a gun. I don't plan on ever owning a gun. I grew up in the south and gun ownership was a fairly normal thing. Most of my friends' families owned a gun or two. Hell, my family had a whole stockpile of guns in our attic that was left to us by my grandfather. \n\nI've been shooting a number of times (at targets, I've never had any inclination to kill anything), and I must say, it is fun. I can see the appeal of becoming an accomplished marksman. It requires immense concentration and physical discipline. It's not really something that I would dedicate my time to, but I can understand why others find it enjoyable. Many gun-enthusiasts in the US also enjoy guns for their mechanical and aesthetic properties, much in the same way that car-enthusiasts enjoy cars. The majority of gun-owning Americans are responsible, law-abiding, upstanding citizens. Also, the people fighting to maintain \"gun rights\" and the people committing gun-violence are largely disjoint groups. \n\nThere's nothing \"barbaric\" about owning guns. The only barbarism is in their use. Canada also permits gun ownership yet avoids the gun violence that the US sees. I don't know what the solution should be, but I don't think banning guns is the answer. \n\nThe gun violence seen in the US stems from much deeper cultural issues. Banning guns is like putting a band-aid on a bullet-wound and I doubt it would have much effect at all, especially with the number of guns already in circulation. \n",
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"body": "I'm not an NRA guy, but I own 14 guns. Most are relics passed down from my father, but I do have a handgun I purchased for home security. I do not support owning assualt weapons.\n \nThe main worry over gun control laws in the States is the \"slippery slope\"...i.e. ending up, no offense, where Britian is today. I'm thinking of the story I read a day or so ago, of some woman in England who, after seeing people sneaking around her home, grabbed a knife and banged on her windows to scare them off. IIRC she was admonished by police and possibly may be charged for \"brandishing an offensive weapon\". \n\nHow is that remotely justifiable? What is the woman doing wrong? Is she to wait until someone assaults her prior to grabbing something to defend herself? It's asinine.\n\nIt's fear of this sort of \"Nanny-State\" idiocy that drives the general American public's view on weapons. \n\n ",
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"body": "If you're reluctant to have abuse thrown at you then why take such a negative stance in your question? \"Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised?\", \"I am aware of the second amendment but I am asking why this over 200 year old seemingly barbaric law is still in place?\", and \"Can someone either restore my faith in humanity?\" all give the impression that you're automatically opposed to the law, rather than taking a neutral stance and coming to a conclusion **AFTER** hearing all the facts and opinions from actual American redditors. So yes, you're going to get downvotes from this post, but you wouldn't have if you hadn't been so negative to begin with.\n\nNow to address your post. I am a European, born in Poland, lived much of my life in Europe, and I completely support the lax gun laws in America. This is mainly because you can't quite argue the fact that the people who would be committing crime with guns, are not the people who would care about following gun laws. Most of the people who both own guns for the purpose of killing people and committing crimes **AREN'T REGISTERED GUN OWNERS**. They are people with criminal records who aren't legally allowed to own guns, and they obtain their guns from illegal dealers, and **WILL CONTINUE TO EVEN WITH MORE GUN RESTRICTIONS**. Take a look at Washington DC. That is an American city with massive amounts of gun crime, yet it has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the nation. I can guarantee you that there are more breaking and entries ending with death or injury for the property owners in Washington DC than there are in say, Houston Texas, where many people own guns for the purpose of defending themselves, as well as hunting (which they must first obtain licenses for, which they do).\n\nThe people who follow the gun laws are the people who will use their weapons properly, for self defense or careful sport. Maybe if the people of Iran had more weapons they wouldn't be quite so helpless to their government, or maybe if the people of occupied Europe had more weapons during World War 2 they might have stood a better chance in resisting the Nazis. The most surefire way of ensuring the liberty of the people is to responsibly arm the people.\n\nEDIT: Also, take a look at Switzerland, a very liberal and safe country, which has never been oppressed. Practically every male citizen is **REQUIRED** to own a firearm after finishing their term in the Armed Forces, and I bet you the data shows that there are far less crimes including firearms in Switzerland than there are in say, Canada. (Not meaning to trash Canada, I'm just arguing a point here)",
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"body": "*For clarity I am a UK citizen who lived in the USA for a few years*.....The gun control argument should stop, Americans have guns.....millions of them, there is no way to get those guns out of circulation even if the law required it and the will to do it existed, the bad guys would keep theirs and the good guys would be in the shit. \n\nWe would be pissed off if the government decided to take away one of our rights because a small fraction of the population abused it in order to take lives....we would say \"control that small fraction of the population, don't blanket bomb us all for their misdeeds\" \n\nThe Americans right to bear arms is just that, an inalienable right. I admit it does seem incredible to us but that is because we are unaccustomed to it; the majority of the gun crime is young idiots who think they have been 'dissed'.....in the UK that lot just stab each other with the knives the law says they cant have, there is little difference.",
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"body": "Because in our hearts we are free men. The government cannot complete its takeover of our lives as long as we have them.",
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"body": "[I like this article.](http://www.guncite.com/swissgun-kopel.html) (It isn't saying Switzerland lacks gun control and is better off because of it, as many pro-gun advocates like to say. It tries to get to the root of why Switzerland has such little gun violence.) Also, taking away or more strictly regulating a weapon doesn't make people less violent.",
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"body": "As Americans we feel the right to have big shiny dangerous things. Guns are collectible, fun, and give one a sense of safety. Most gun-related violence comes from guns that were illegally obtained, by being able to legally obtain a gun, it gives Americans a sense of protection from others with guns. We have a large amount of hunters in America as well, also a large number of target and sport shooters.\n\nAs Americans, sometimes we ask ourselves- why is there SO MUCH gun control outside of the US?",
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"body": "Americans for the most part believe in the rights of an individual. The UK believes in the rights of society. In the US an individual can defend themselves and their property with lethal force. In the UK they freak out at even the smallest show of force.\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ansx3/uk_woman_cautioned_by_police_for_waving_knife_at/\n\nI am an adult citizen of this country. There should be no higher authority. It's amazing what people will give up for some protection; in the US and UK. Similarly, we see many of your self defense laws as barbaric (as above). You submit full authority and the ability to challenge that authority to a few ministers. The UK is still very much a feudal society.\n\nThe UK government treats it's people as children in the name of society. Bans on everything. If you aren't nice to your neighbors they penalize you with fines and ASBOS? You see us as barbaric, we see you as sheep.\n",
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"body": "Because America is the [most individualistic country](http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_united_states.shtml) in the world. For the most part, we want the government to stay out of our shit, and not being told what to do is worth more to us than a small possible increase in safety; if you study our Constitution, you will note that it is mostly concerned with limiting the power of government. I'm not saying this is a superior viewpoint, but it is our culture, and it has worked well for us for the last 223 years.\n\nThat's why, although I am not a gun owner, I do not view the 2nd Amendment as outdated or barbaric at all. I believe if someone wants to buy a gun and use it for non-criminal purposes, they should have the right to do so. After all, we are citizens, not subjects.",
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"body": "Because it is not a police officer's job to protect me, it is my job to protect me. A police officer is there to catch the bad guys after they've already hurt you. \r\n\r\nI'm always a little confused by those who call firearms \"barbaric\". They usually have never handled a firearm in their lifetime, and are usually just afraid. The only thing that gun control does is take firearms out of the hands of law abiding citizens and put them in the hands of criminals. If that's the kind of world you want to live in, go for it. I don't.",
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"body": "If you phrase your post that negatively, and address American gun-owners, then you're going to get abuse.\n\n\nThere is an unavoidable clash of ideologies when it comes to the US vs. the UK when it comes to keeping guns for security purposes. We have never seen the need to have guns, and most of us wouldn't want them. Even the most vocal comments on The Daily Mail's website don't go as far as to say we should shoot anyone who comes onto our property, despite choruses of \"hang the paedo!\" etc.\n\nIt seems that, overall, Reddit is entirely liberal except for when it comes to guns. I will likely be questioned as to why owning guns isn't liberal, in my opinion; I think that keeping something on your person that you are keeping \"just in case\" someone pisses you off by trying to rob you is encroaching on the liberties of everyone you know. It is, essentially, an accident waiting to happen. A kitchen knife is kept primarily for the purpose of serving food, but could be picked up in the heat of the moment - an overly emotional argument, or the fear of an intruder. It takes a lot of mental strength to jab a knife into someone; you are right there next to them, and have consciously decided to injure them with your own hands. Shooting a gun is distant and cold. It's not even really you, it's the bullet that did it.\n\n\nOver in the UK, we know that you're more likely to get stabbed if you carry a knife. It is more likely to inevitably be used against you.\n\n\nAdditionally, we (largely) trust our police. When they fuck up, it hits the news - big time. It doesn't happen often, either. I have had a few dealings with the police and have not experienced any kind of heavy-handedness. A lot of Americans I've spoken to think of the cops as largely corrupt and trigger-happy. We have no real need to think we need to act as a surrogate police force.\n\n\nAlso, despite what you read from The Daily Mail - and, for god's sake, it's like us getting our impression of the US from Fox News, stop listening to that bullshit; we read it for entertainment if at all, not proper journalism - we are not a fucking police state/nanny state. Most of the CCTV is privately owned (for the five hundredth time, Reddit). We LIKE the NHS. We LIKE the things that are government owned because, up until your incompetent leader dragged us into an illegal war, we could sort of trust it. Now, they have to earn the trust back, and it is going to be a long process (see: MP's expenses scandals) but the UK is a nation of intelligent, cynical people, and cannot be fooled. We are not the \"sheeple\" you wish we were.\n\n\nIf the government has got you so afraid that you feel you need guns in order to save yourself from strangers you haven't met, and to start a revolution you will never actually begin - YOU are the ones under control. Not us.",
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"body": "I don't know what *you* learned about the american revolution in your high schools, but what *we* learned was that we fought for our freedom. We formed militias, we rose up against an oppressive regime, and kicked their asses because hell no were we paying a tax on fucking tea. America was founded on a theory of \"leave us the hell alone, we want to make our own choices\" - and you can't make your own choices if someone else holds more power over your life than you do. \n\n\nThe idea that the government can oppress citizens via overt or covert power is exactly against our founders visions: we run the government, the government does not run us. Gun rights exist for the purposes of fighting oppression (which is why the founders specifically mentioned *militias* in the constitution; a revolution succeeds via a group of like-minded citizens) and are part of our national birthright. You may not understand this because your country was formed out of a different cauldron (royalty, landed gentry, blah blah) but the tone of your question seems to show you do not respect this viewpoint: you view weapons as purely offensive and barbaric, when in this case, the right to own them is a *defensive* right.\n\n",
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"body": "it's because people love their guns. they hold onto the constitution as a definition of their 'right', but it's not about that. People just love guns. ",
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"body": "How else are we going to fight off the King of England?\n\nA more serious answer: there's a cultural difference in how guns are perceived and integrated into life, particularly in the rural areas of America. If you ask a European what comes to mind when they think of guns many will answer war or crime, while Americans - particularly those in rural areas - are more likely to answer hunting, sport, or protection. However, America is a very heterogeneous country, and there are plenty of people with European-style views on gun control, especially in urban areas. That's why it's such a controversial issue - even within the same country, there are essentially two different cultural views on guns.\n",
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"body": "I have never owned a gun in my life.\n\nI would fight tooth-and-nail to protect this right.\n\nThe fact is, threads like this make me want to go and purchase.",
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"body": "i think the founders were trying to keep the country from falling into another monarchy or dictatorship so they provided the second amendment. You have to remember too that this country was built with guns. we still have the \"don't fuck with me\" attitude that we had to have to be here today. personally, I have mine because too many crazy people have theirs.",
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"body": "I would be more interested in hearing the other side of this. \n\n\n\"Europe, why do you disagree with citizens owning guns\"\n\n\n\nNot because I want to rag on Europeans OR Americans or anything. I am genuinely interested in knowing why the US is so obsessed with owning guns (to the point where many people don't give a crap about health and survival of their people, but freak out about firearm registration) VS why Europe thinks that they are barbaric and horrible. ",
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"body": "I was robed at gun point while in college and it changed my attitude towards guns as a means of self protection. After I contacted the police they told me they couldn't do much but take a description of the two guys. I now live in a suburban town in NJ where we have one patrolman per square mile on the road at all times. Guns may not seem necessary here but in some states there are only one sheriff or State trooper for hundreds of square miles. they cannot be everywhere all the time. Rarely are crimes stopped by cops while in progress, maybe bank robberies whereas murders and rapes are investigated.\n\n200 million guns.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7359513.stm",
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"body": "America is a bit paranoid. Culturally. Why does Israel demand military service from all able persons? Why does Switzerland make every household both have a gun and know how to use it?\n\nPlus, when the zombies show up, which country do you *really* want to be in? The island with shitty food, or the continent full of fat people and guns?",
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"body": "This is hilarious coming from someone who lives in a place where citizens are chastised by the authorities for using a makeshift weapons to defend themselves.\n\nHere is the short answer to your question: if you illegalized guns, only criminals would have them, and we would be at their mercy. \n\nThe slightly longer answer: If you were planning on, say, breaking into a house to assault someone you wouldn't really be too concerned about the added crime of getting a gun. But if you are not planning on committing a crime, a gun law would stop you from obtaining one. But you, the aw abiding citizen, would now be more or less defenseless against the person set on doing violence. So, who has the law protected in this case? The criminal. ",
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"body": "\"purely for the purpose of ending life\"\n\nYour bias is showing. I carry so that if I am in a situation where my wife's or my safety is threatened, I can use it to protect us. \n\nBarbaric law? Have you seen some of the videos out there of the barbaric animals who aren't satisfied to have your wallet, they kick you in the face when you're down, hit you with whatever heavy object is nearby, and generally try to kill you with their bare hands? Those are the barbarians we defend ourselves from. \n\nJust to give you an example, the major gang in my area uses frigging MACHETES to attack their victims. ",
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"body": "Look at the crime rate in places where there is gun control. ITS HIGHER! Look at the rate of knife crimes in the UK. \n\nIt comes down to this if you outlaw guns than a law abiding citizen wont carry one but a criminal will. So the one now doing the crime has the gun while the good citizen doesnt. If guns are legal the citizen can now fight back and still be a good citizen. \n\nA criminal would use a gun even if it was illegal so legalizing guns just helps the people out there that are trying to be good citizens.\n\nLast of all if the person you are shooting at is a criminal I think that his life should be ended just to save society. That is why everyone who carries a concealed handgun should have hollow points. ",
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"body": "Born out of the revolution where militias rose up against the monarchy, the second amendment was created to ensure the american people had the power to bear arms against the government should it be required.\n\nI'm not an american, but this is my understanding of the issue. I've never been able to decide if I approve or disapprove of it. There's a million and one ways to revolt against the government that don't involve guns... but then again, maybe that one single way will be the only solution one day.",
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"body": "> Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised?\n\nMilitias and protection and all that jive aside, this is one of your big misunderstandings. I'm presuming that you meant \"human life\" because I assume you don't have a problem with devices which exist solely to kill cattle or chickens, for example. In modern times hunting is generally a matter of \"sport,\" but historically (and US's history doesn't go that far back) hunting was an important means of sustinence. If you couldn't have guns then you could only eat things you could grow or trap.\n\nHunting isn't the only reason, of course, but please appreciate its influence on the current state of things. As I understand it, England doesn't generally have a lot of game to hunt, especially for commoners, so that probably represents an important difference in culture that informs your opinion on the matter.",
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"body": "Here's how I look at it. It's not as though we say \"sure, you can have a gun, and go ahead and shoot people if you get angry.\" From a philosophical standpoint, I'm not sure I see the difference between \"you can't have a gun\" and \"you can have a gun but you can't shoot people with it (with a narrow exception for self-defense).\" \n\n\nI do think it's fair to ask whether more people end up getting killed by guns as a result of their greater availability, but I don't think the answer is so obvious. A proper analysis would have to take into account the greater likelihood that a criminal has one, the greater likelihood that the potential victim does as well, the behavioral implications of these probabilities, and the extent to which strict gun control would succeed as a practical measure. That last point in particular may depend on your starting point (i.e. strict gun control where guns are fairly common in the population might in fact result in a \"bad guys have them, good guys don't\" scenario, while strict gun control where guns are less common might result in a \"no one has them\" scenario).",
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"body": "I don't have a gun, but i've been shot at in my hometown by someone who DID have one that was *most likely* obtained illegally.\n\nWith gun control, the upstanding citizen can't defend themselves, while the criminal will still be able to obtain whatever gun they can get illegally.",
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"body": ">I realise also that i shouldn't be judging americans as 'gun owners' as the majority are clearly responsible citizens.\n\nYou give the impression that \"gun owners\" and \"clearly responsible citizens\" are mutually exclusive.\n\nOf course, in the context of this: \n>Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised? \n\nI'm not that surprised if you feel that way.\n\nIf someone wanted a gun thinking of it only as a tool to threaten, intimidate and kill humans, I'd be wary of that as well. However, it's more common in my experience that people who have made the choice to arm themselves think of them as tool for protecting themselves and/or their families.",
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"body": "Why do Americans do XXXXX, while Europeans do XXXXX? Because different nations and regions have different histories and different ways of doing things. I'm an American and I prefer that sane, law-abiding citizens have access to firearms for defense of their lives and property. However, it also seems perfectly normal that a country such as Holland, for instance, would have a different view on gun control, given their culture and background. Both nations have their reasons for having different sets of laws, and neither is particularly wrong. This isn't to say that I'm some kind of cultural relativist. There are many issues (health care, for instance) where there is clearly a good and bad way of doing things. I'm just saying that, on the issue of gun control, there are valid arguments on both sides, and that cultural aspects unique to a certain country have much to do with with whether or not gun control should be viewed as good or bad.",
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"body": "> Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised?\n\nWhy shouldn't it? \n\n> I am aware of the second amendment but I am asking why this over 200 year old seemingly barbaric law is still in place?\n\nThe second amendment is about giving the responsibility of liberty and freedom to individual citizens. If you and I lived in the USA that would mean that you and I are as responsible for keeping our liberty/freedoms intact as the police, military and government are (in fact more so). \n\nIn Countries like the UK and Australia (I'm Australian), the citizens entrust their governments to be responsible for their liberty and freedom. By American standards, this is why they are more free than social democracies. \n",
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"body": "Here's a few things you might want to consider...\n\nA few years ago, more than 100 people showed up at a government meeting. Virtually everyone in this meeting was legally armed. Everyone was there to protest. Children were present. And nobody got shot.\n\nhttp://media.hamptonroads.com/media/content/pilotonline/2007/08/gunmeeting.html\n\nAnd did you hear all the stories coming out about a small town in Georgia since 1982? About all the crazy loons running around in Kennesaw killing each other? About the gunfights every night as the town burned so brightly you could see the flames over in Texas? No? That's because Kennesaw Georgia is one of the safest towns in the United States. Not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting in 25 years. That's as a victim or as an attacker. 28,189 people live in that town. 28,189 people and not one murder. Not. One. So how do they do it? Better schools? Prison reform? Superior healthcare? I think it has something to do with the fact that in 1982 Kennesaw mandated all of their citizens own a firearm.\n\nhttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288\n\nOh, and Penn and Teller had a few things to say about it....\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCXtfR0_roE\nand part two...\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtqufzEFCzw\nand about Columbine...\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joBMq6b4MmE\n\nWhat really bothers me is that all the gun \"activists\" and people who want to ban guns have the same narrow minded view. They all assume people are as ignorant and hot-headed as they are about firearms.\n\nIf everyone has a firearm, everyone is going to think twice... about everything. Is it really important? Do I really want to rob this guy if he has a pistol to defend himself with? Do I really want to throw a punch at someone who I just had a car accident with? Do I really need to escalate matters all the time?\n\nYou think about these things when you carry a firearm. You do keep civil. You do think things through. Détente. You don't pull a firearm out and wave it around or menace people with it. That's a fast way to (a) wind up in prison for life and/or (b) get shot and killed yourself.\n\nIn my opinion, firearm ownership is really about personal responsibility.",
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What music writing program do you use? | I need a music writing program very soon. I use a windows computer now but am expecting to get a mac laptop in a few months so I need something that will work on both. I know about guitar pro and have gotten the demo but it's really obnoxious and limiting. So, before I try to buy the full version, to get rid of the limitations, I want to see if there is a better program out there so i figured you guys would know.
edit: For the record I'm using it for writing a duet piece for a violin and cello right now so i don't need anything with guitar tabs. Also, yes i know it would be better to just write with a keyboard and blank sheet music but a program is quicker and more convenient for me right now and I'm trying to meet a deadline. Also, thanks for the quick responses I really appreciate it you guys are great. | 11 | [
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"body": "I have used both Finale and Sibelius and Finale is more 'intuitive' to me though Sibelius has its uses too. Officially my college's school of music uses and teaches Finale but all the professors use Sibelius. Both function equally well on Windows and Mac, and Finale even works great under Linux with wine. Sibelius has a [30-day trial](http://www.sibelius.com/cgi-bin/download/get.pl?com=sh&prod=first) called Sibelius First, and Finale has a [30-day trial](http://www.finalemusic.com/NotePad/Demo.aspx) of their basic-level Notepad program, or the more serious [Allegro](http://www.finalemusic.com/Allegro/demo.aspx) program as well. (All the Finale programs are essentially similar, with functionality stripped away in the more basic options.)\n\nYou can also go the FOSS route with [MuseScore](http://musescore.org/download), but it can be squirrelly, and may require additional setup to get MIDI input/output working if you want that functionality. (I used it on Linux; the Windows stable release probably works out-of-box, for playback anyway.)\n\nIf you do wind up wanting something with tab capability, Finale lets you add TAB staves directly to your music, next to the musical notation. You can even copy/paste to get it to automatically transcribe your notation to TAB.",
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"body": "Sibelius and FL studio, also sheet music by hand.\n\nTabs are a waste of time and are detrimental to musical skill as far as reading sheet music goes.",
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"body": "Finale and Sibelius are the two main options for professional music notation software. I personally prefer Sibelius.\n\nIf you want something quick and free though, check out MuseScore. LilyPond is another free option but it doesn't have good interactive frontends.",
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"body": "Been using Sibelius for about 2 years, works both on a mac and pc, somehow I prefer writing music down on a piece of paper, paper has a nice smell.",
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So far, all three NFL Playoff games have primarily been one-sided. Regardless of whether you want Green Bay or Arizona to win, let's hope the final game is interesting... | It's 24-7 Ravens at the half; The Cowboys dismantled McNabb and the Eagles; Even Cincinnati couldn't get closer than 7 points from New York. I was pumped for this weekend, but so far the games have been nothing but a disappointment. I really hope we see a better second half in New England - even if Baltimore still comes away with the win - and have a great game in Tempe later in the afternoon.
Who agrees/disagrees?
EDIT: I think somebody on Arizona or Green Bay is a redditor. Thanks NFL! You made my Sunday evening! | 89 | [
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"body": "I think there's a typo in your headline:\n\nYou wrote, \"let's hope the final game is interesting\". I think you meant, \"let's hope Green Bay destroys the Cardinals and stomps on their still-twitching corpses.\"\n\nIt's an honest mistake, so have an upvote.",
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"body": "I'd say 51-45 overtime on a stripped fumble and 17 yard return, after the Packers came back from 31-10 was pretty interesting.",
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"body": "I can't believe he totally **SHANKED** that field goal! \n\nDAE See that ref totally biff it tripping over himself backwards on like the 2nd or 3rd last play of the game???",
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"body": "From the future: it was not interesting at all. No big offensive scores and totally didn't go to overtime and a shock finish.",
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"body": "I was expecting good games as well, and have also been dissapointed. You would think the game tonight would be good, but judging by what we have seen so far it might not be",
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"body": "Yesterday's games were boring as hell...but the 1st Qtr of the Pats/Ravens was incredible! I've never seen Brady and the Pats look as much like a junior-high football team as they did there.\n\nAnd it warmed my heart to see it :)",
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"body": "Welp, highest scoring playoff game ever that ends in OT after a 17-point comeback?\n\nLooks like you got your wish...",
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How about a screening of "The Life of Brian" in Dublin to test the new blasphemy law? | Seems to me like a very low-key way to test the rediculous blasphemy law that came into effect this year | 178 | [
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"body": "Wrong movie. For Ireland, it should be *The Passion of St. Tibulus*.\r\n\r\nDown with this sort of thing.\r\n\r\nCareful Now.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mmge8nfsyg",
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"body": "Life of Brian was actually banned outright in Ireland until 1987. From [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/trivia):\n\n> Due to Terry Jones' refusal to allow certain cuts, this film was banned for one year in Norway for blasphemy, being released with an '18' rating and a warning from the censors at the beginning. Thus, it has been marketed in Sweden as \"The film that is so funny that it was banned in Norway!\" Ireland banned the film for blasphemy until 1987. Torbay Council in Devon refused to show the film until September 2008. Aberystwyth in Wales finally lifted its local ban in 2009 after cast member Sue Jones-Davies was elected mayor of the town.",
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"body": "But the Life of Brian is [clearly not a blasphemous film, it is holy scripture](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUyK6JWt9U)",
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"body": "Thats too easily ignored by everyone. Atheist Ireland has already demonstrated the silliness of the law by publishing those quotes.\n\nIf you want to do something worthwhile do something REALLY offensive and to a group who will try to press charges. That or petition for a referendum to change of the constitution.\n\nBoth are easier said than done of course.",
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"body": "I think a download campaign to make \"Every Sperm is Sacred\" the #1 song would be a great way for the Irish to snub the new law.",
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Anyone remember the monogrammed Jansport back-packs from the early 90s? | Does anyone remember those monogrammed Jansport backpacks? They were like the MUST have item when i was in middle school (early 90s). You were NOT cool unless you had one with your initials stitched onto them. Was my school/area the only place like this, or was this nation-wide? Are they still cool? Where did whole fad even come from anyway? | 9 | [
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"body": "We didn't monogram in my school. We just wrote down the names of our favorite bands with black marker on the leather bottom part, and on the rest of the backpack the cooler kids wrote more bands with white-out.\n\nNIN, Silverchair, Nirvana, REM, The Doors, The Cure, Pearl Jam, and The Offspring were the most popular if I remember correctly.",
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Do temporary "breaks" work for troubled marriages to re-ignite the flame? | Wife and I are taking a break. I will be leaving the house and living elsewhere. For our daughter, I will stay overnight every other weekend while the wife is working, and additionally 1-2 times a week. There will be no dating, and no removal of the rings.
Does this sound like a plan? What's good about it? What's bad? How do you see this working or failing? What other details do you need? | 9 | [
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"body": "No, this means she is fucking someone else, while telling you she needs a \"break\" \n\nWomen never want a \"break\" they don't let go of one man until they have grabbed onto another",
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"body": "If you want an answer to this, read the problem pages in any paper.\n\nCouple takes a break, one of them (usually the girl, its easier for them) has sex with someone else, and neither will ever forget about it.\n\nUltimately, they're doomed.",
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"body": "I was always under the impression that these exist only so Partner A can cheat on Partner B and excuse it with, we were on a break. Whose Idea was this?",
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Need help find name of a free market anarchist idea. | I read a while ago about a free market economic system which went along as follows.
The government would work kind of like we have now, prices will keep going up and the currency will continually debase. The govt will keep regulating making the problem worse.
Now this economic idea presented the notion that black markets will form and continue to get stronger and stronger taking up larger parts of the economy. It will do this until there is actually no need for a government anymore and thus it will just go away.
There is a name for this idea and I cant seem to remember it.
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"body": "I think you're thinking of the [counter-economics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics) strategy of [Samuel Konkin's](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Edward_Konkin_III) philosophy of [agorism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agorism).\n\nThat was a Google search, btw. I just did it because I found the question interesting.",
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I need some advice about potentially suing someone for defamation | Yesterday, someone in my ex's family posted on Facebook that my ex was deleting her account because of stalkers. This is a pretty big deal to me, because we have a daughter together and she has about 10,000 photos of her on there. My ex and I each have the other blocked.
There was a firestorm of people who asked what the situation was and if everyone was ok. Later in the day they posted that it was me, and that I had been stalking her and am taking her to court to change custody. I knew nothing about this until someone came to my door asking about it, and I have gotten texts all day. People are asking if I'm driving 3 hours to stalk her (we don't live in the same town) or if I'm doing it online or what. My ex is a notorious liar, and I think the situation is either
1) She's lying for whatever benefit she thinks it may give her in court
or
2) She really has a stalker and she thinks it's me
My biggest concern is that someone really is stalking her (more importantly, my daughter) and if they've thought it was me, how long have they let this go on? We have went to court before and she has been yelled at by a judge for the information and things that she has done on the internet. Most of the information earlier was lies about me as well. I've written my attorney but I just want some advice from sources outside of this conflict. Would I be able to successfully sue someone for this? Like I said, she's done this in the past and been yelled at, she's doing it now, and I want it to stop.
I think I should say that, again, we both have each other blocked and the only reason I knew about this is from someone coming to my house and subsequent other conversations. I do **not** care what she does with her life, my primary concern is with my daughter's safety and my reputation.
Update: I met with some very good lawyers today, and they said that there's not much I should do except ignore it. I just feel like it's no different than me telling people she is a prostitute, but oh well :/
Separately, it does help with my custody case, so I guess not all is lost. | 29 | [
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"body": "You can sue anyone for any reason at any time. The question is whether you can win. That depends on your attorney.\n\nI think you have more serious problems about to occur. If your lawyer isn't a specialist in Men's Rights, find one quickly.",
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"body": "Any questions or references about you being the stalker should be met with frank and simple denial, as well as questioning that if they did happen to find out who the stalker is or any more details on it, to let you know.\n\nI honestly wouldn't try to muscle my way into clearing my name, if I were you, since you have done nothing. Rumors are simply rumors.\n\nIf you find actual evidence of someone trying to tarnish your name, then I'd certainly use it as evidence in a potential court case, though.",
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"body": "No, you won't \"win\" in court. what you can do is make it unpleasant enough that the other side stops hassling you.\r\n\r\nThat's how the game works. \r\nYou just convince her, through long experience, that you won't tolerate this stuff, and you will drag her into court every time she tries something. It's not personal. It's like training a pet. Just keep on delivering the negative reinforcement. Eventually they get the idea that this thing they are doing, is too unpleasant. and then it stops.\r\n",
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"body": "Be glad you haven't been arrested for stalking. Be careful, thats probably what she's trying to arrange. Mine tried to get me arrested.",
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"body": "No disrespect intended, but would you seek medical advice about a life-threatening condition you suffer, from a bunch of people you do not know?\n\nI think this analogy safely applies to your current scenario. Go seek professional legal advice, not from a group of people who might, or might not, be qualified to do so.",
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"body": "Since it was published to the public and you can prove, reasonably, that it is your wife who said this, you have a case for liable slander.",
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Moms of reddit: How is your post-childbirth sexdrive? | Since me and my ife had our 2 children, her sex-drive has reaaly fallen to an all time low. It seems to fluctuate somewhat, but generally it is just lower than before by an order of magnitude.
We are both influenced by the lack of sleep, free-time and adult twosome-ness, but still considering these factors, it's way harder to get her aroused than before. She also says that she feels 'changed' in her sexual drive - to being much less concerned with it.
So - what is your experiences in this matter? Any good advice? | 5 | [
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"body": "I think you already know the answer -- lack of sleep, free-time, and adult twosome-ness. So work on building more of that, without expectations. \n\nShe needs to be able to see herself as someone other than \"mommy,\" and that needs to happen consistently and frequently.\n\nI also think that if you approach her physically in a needy way, it can trigger the \"must take care of this person in spite of my own needs and exhaustion\" mode, which leads to resentment and guilt.\n\nI'd focus on physical touch that nurtures her, whatever that is. Maybe massage w/out sex as a given. Maybe petting her skin (not sexually, necessarily) while she dozes off. Maybe footrubs with peppermint oil. Maybe exercising together. Maybe giving her space to figure things out for herself.\n\nBabysitters. Early bedtimes for the kids. Help with the housework. Listen to her anxieties/fears and reassure her.\n\nReally, be her friend. Love her. Take care of her. Take care of yourself, too.",
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"body": "Not enough info provided. How old are the kids? Do you plan on having more? Is she still breastfeeding? On any form of hormonal birth control?",
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"body": "My drive bottomed out during the first year, got a little better during the next year, and right after the two year mark came back with a big huge bang. I think breastfeeding and exhaustion were the real killers. Once we made it past those first couple of years, my physical interest skyrocketed.\n\nBetter than ever atm.\n\nFWIW, I will not do hormonal bc. Paragard FTW.",
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"body": "My sex drive crashed for the first year. Then it came back doubled. You just have to be patient and wait for things to calm down, for the night time wakings and the stress to diminish somewhat.",
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[request] Computer problem.. | So tried to add an old IDE HDD to my comp to back up files before installing Win7. Main drive is a SATA2. Powered up and the normal booting screen was up then went blank 'no signal' on the monitor. Power button unresponsive. Thought it was weird but I'll just turn it off via power supply switch and go into the bios. Turn on and there was no output to the monitor. Removed old HDD, nothing changed. Tried outputting via the mother board, nothing. Checked the video card. Have original config but it still won't output anything. Everything is running fine as far as I can tell (ie fans are on).
What happened/how can I fix it? | 6 | [
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"body": "Sounds like your PSU didn't like the extra load from the added HD. Does your video card's fan spin when the machine is turned on?",
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"body": "I had a similar problem with a friends PC, I couldn't isolate the problem eighter though. He had moved recently and when he hooked up his computer in his new apartament the pc would turn on but no picture showed up.\n\nHow i remedied the situation was by re-seating the videocard, ram and the processor. Physically removing the sticks of ram and putting them back in, along with the CPU, heatsink and videocard.\n\nSomehow everything was honky dory afterwords. Maybe somehow the parts inside got dislodged partially while you were installing your hard drive.\n\nFYI: If you remove your heat sink from you cpu, make sure you don't remove the heat sink compound from the cpu, or better yet put on a new layer of the stuff.",
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Unprotected sex with a girl on BC, didn't finish, but am scared pre-ejaculate could get her pregnant. | Throwaway account here...
I'm 28 years old and finally lost my virginity last week to a girl that I have been into for years. I was excited at first because I thought, man what a great way to start the new year. We're childhood friends, and get together when I head back home to visit my family on holidays. I live about 500 miles away.
Anyways, now that I look back on things, it wasn't as great as I thought it was during the moment.
We were watching TV in her living room, having lots of drinks and she said I should just stay the night and we could watch another movie and drink some more. Shortly after, she climbed in her bed and invited me to join. I did, and we talked for 20 minutes or so about all types of things, politics, her search for a new job, etc. We had been good friends all my life and never did anything, so I didn't really think that night would be any different.
The next thing I know, the lights are out and the TV is off, and she's got her legs all over me and is feeling up my body. She climbs on top of me and asks if I have a condom. I said no (i mean, why would I?), and she said okay but I would have to pull out. She said she's on birth control, but that she's taking another medication that can reduce the effectiveness of the pill.
I didn't really think anything of it, because, being my first time I was concerned about two things: don't be a premie. We start making out, I go down on her for a while, she reciprocates, and then she climbs on top for intercourse. We go at it for what seemed like a few minutes and then she changes positions and falls off the bed. Embarrassed, she just climbed into bed and went to sleep.
So, the penetration didn't last long, I didn't finish, but I can't help but think that the pre-ejaculate could get her pregnant. I know she's on the pill but what has me worried is the fact that she's taking the other medicine to reduce the effectiveness of the birth control.
Am I worrying too much? There's nothing I can do about it now, but I can't stop thinking about it. I also can't help but think that I took advantage of her because she clearly was drunker than I thought she was. We usually talk several times a week, but don't want her to think that I'm freaking out over here. She's had several boyfriends in the past, so she's much more "experienced" than I am.
So what do you think? | 7 | [
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"body": "Another victim of abstinence only education. Pre cum has no viable sperm. There is a minute chance that there was some leftover viable sperm in the urethra but this amount would be minute, plus she's on BC. You're fine. Now read a good sex ed book or find a good website. I recommend the guide to getting it on. ",
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"body": "I read the headline as \"Unprotected sex with girl *in* BC...\"\n\nI thought the link was gonna have information about the higher than average fertility rate of girls from British Columbia, Canada",
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How would you use some nice Olive Oil? | Hey Foodit,
I was browsing an Italian store in the markets the other day and noticed a lot of nice looking olive oil, but aside from salad dressing with balsamic and cooking - I've never really used olive oil for much.
Anyone have some ideas as to how I could use a nice bottle? | 6 | [
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"body": "If it's a really top notch oil just dip bread in it and eat away. Most you'll find at a supermarket aren't going to be that amazing but I've tasted a few imported ones -- $30+ per bottle -- that were practically too good to cook with.",
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"body": "Bread, mozzarella, tomato, basil, salt and pepper with olive oil drizzled on top. Great easy tasty snack",
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"body": "Wait instead of Cooking? \n\n\nYou mean like using it as a sex lubricant?\n\nPulling wire through conduit? \n\nLoosening a rusty hinge?\n\n",
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"body": "get a really tasty tomato. cut it in half and rub the tomato guts onto a piece of crusty bread. drizzle with olive oil and salt. enjoy",
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"body": "You should never use your best oil for cooking. Use it wherever you find a need for it that does not involve heating. When the olive oil is heated it tends to lose a lot of flavour and aroma.",
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"body": "Italians generally save the really good olive oil for the table and use the decent but not amazing stuff for cooking. (and the crap for deep frying)\n\nIf it is really good stuff use it like a condiment and not a cooking ingredient. Dump it into your soup, onto your rice, etc. ",
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"body": "Don't heat your good olive oil too much, don't use it for cooking. You'll lose the flavor. Try a couscous salad. Cook up some couscous, chop up some green onions really fine, maybe some sun-dried tomatoes or roasted red peppers, minced garlic, parsley or chives or oregano or thyme, salt, pepper, and olive oil. Don't drench it, you want enough oil to get things coated but you don't want a puddle at the bottom of the bowl. Serve cool or at room temperature. \n\nYou won't ever want to eat potato chips with a sandwich again. Would also be good with fish or chicken. In fact, you could probably put some chicken in there and make a meal out of it. Couscous is a great food to play around with. You really can't screw it up, and it only takes a few minutes to cook. ",
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I'm a father of triplets. AMA. | I just became a father for the first time, to triplets. They are now 3 months old, two girls and a boy. AMA | 8 | [
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"body": "wow, congratulations. That's awesome.\nCan we have cute baby pictures? come ooon :D\n\nreal question: are you planning to have other children later?",
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Reddit has a movieclub, how about a gaming club? | We could set a subreddit and pick a game of the month, have everyone play it, then discuss it there. It could be a terrible idea, and it would be hard for some newer games, as not everyone has the same consoles, but we all can download emulators so at least we have somewhere to start. Plus, this might help some people pick out some old gems they might have missed. I'm using this to gauge if it's worth the trouble of setting up so tell me your opinion and ideas.
Edit: I've made it
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamingclub/ | 26 | [
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"body": "Sounds interesting. But are you willing to take control of the idea and make it happen? 'Cause we're all really, really lazy.",
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"body": "Good idea, but a film only takes two hours of your time. A good game can take days or weeks.\n\nEdit: Fair enough, I'm up for it.",
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Practical advice for jealousy/self esteem issues | I have a lot of trust issues that stem from a bad relationship that went on far too long. I thought I was over it. But now that I'm in a new relationship with a new guy, the closer we get, the more I realize how much I've been affected.
It seems to me that I'm confident about some things, but in a relationship, I feel pretty worthless. And I never realized how emotionally manipulative my ex was. There was an AskReddit recently about the most asshole thing you've seen/done and my ex did the thing mentioned in the [comments](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/akwm2/what_the_most_asshole_thing_youve_ever_seen_or/c0i3ya6) where a guy deliberately lowers a girl's self esteem so she's dependent on him. I think my ex did this to me and we dated on and off for five years. I'm pretty sure he knew what he was doing because he specifically said to me, "I know how much I hurt you to keep you" at the end of our relationship. He cheated, he lied, he was hot and then cold.
So now with my current boyfriend, I'm constantly worried he's going to leave me. He'll find someone better because he deserves better. More and more I view other girls as a threat, even though I rationally know it's ridiculous. But my emotions are really overwhelming me. If I have time to think things through, I can usually have a rational discussion with him and everything is okay. But if I get blindsided and we're talking at the time, I tend to be more emotional. He's been really amazing about it, really understanding and really patient. I know he's one of the good guys, he's treated me so well and we communicate really well. But I still can't get over this feeling of jealousy. It doesn't help that we're doing long distance right now and I'm about to move to his country at the end of the month, so I'm getting nervous (though excited). I'm mostly moving for him, but also to pursue my own interests and I'm not particularly attached to where I am now, nor do I want to head back to my home country. But I know our relationship will change and I'll see him more often. We're both hoping that help solve a lot of my jealousy problems.
Nonetheless, what are some practical small steps we could take to help me get over it? I don't know if I should talk to him about it when something comes up, because sometimes I think it makes it worse. Like it becomes an issue when it doesn't need to be and if I just wait until he elaborates on whatever we're talking about, it usually turns out okay. But he pointed out that if I don't bring it up, I may end up taking it out on him in other ways or I'll let it build until I blow up. What do you think? What are other ways I can build up more relationship confidence? I feel this way about some of my close friends too at times, I wonder why someone so awesome would want to be friends with me. Anyway, I know it's my problem and not his fault, but it affects both of us and I'm hoping for advice that's more concrete in terms of actual things I can do. | 21 | [
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"body": "First of all : YES. Talk to him. Communication is *always* key. When you don't talk about something, it festers. So tell him exactly what you've been through in your previous relationship, and what concerns you have. Make sure to tell him it's not a result of the way he acts, but as a result of issues you've had before. Be up front, and I promise this will not make things worse. Sometimes it can seem a little harder in the short term. But what do you want? Short term success at the cost of the long term, or allowing yourself to go through some short term discomfort for the sake of the relationship as a whole?\n\nThat said, as for how to build more confidence in your relationship and defeat jealousy as a whole, I suggest you do some writing. Rather than leaving all these negative emotions bouncing in your head, you should write down exactly what scares you in a relationship. Make a list. Then itemize them. What are the ones that really scare you? What are the ones that sound bad in theory, but maybe you could get over them? What's extremely unlikely, and what's something you could see reasonably happening? The idea here is to apply a logical system to your concerns, and not just let them be irrational thoughts with no anchor.\n\nThen make a list about your current partner. What are traits he exhibits that make you feel insecure? And what are traits he exhibits that honestly make you feel *better* and safer? If things are as good with him as you say there are, you may find your positive trait list overwhelming your negative trait list. If there's a large list of negatives, then talk to him about it. Don't blame him, just let him know how you're feeling. Let him know you're talking to him BECAUSE you want things to work.\n\nAlways take the time to remind yourself that you are strong, capable, and independent person. One of the main causes for jealousy is that we base too much of who we are on who we're with. If he were to cheat on you or suddenly leave you, you would still be you. This is important to remember. You would still be lovable, and you could prove this by taking the time to love yourself. This may sound odd, but spend some time getting to know you. This can be very important especially after getting out of a negative relationship. Find what you love about yourself. Find your positive traits. You can even make another list, if you like. ;) You will find that your relationships with other people will always be more positive if your relationship with yourself is healthy and positive, too.\n\nTL;DR: Talk to him, be logical about your fears, and love yourself.",
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"body": "Owy2001 has good ideas. Jealousy, and self-esteem are driven by your subconsciousness. It can be retrained, but it takes time, effort and skill. Skill ---> it's hard to do on your own. There is no one quick fix or a magical technique.\n\nOne great resource would be the book The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden. If you follow up with the program in the book - and it takes months of daily writing - you will see some big improvements. \n\nThere is one other thing you could do. Find a good counselor or a psychologist, and tell them what you wrote here. This is actually important enough to get handled soon. Otherwise, you could run into serious trouble, few years down the track. Trust me - I got the T-shirt ;-).\n\nI hope this helps.\n",
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Shopping List Compiler? | Hey, folks! I was just going through my weekly Shopping List, adding new items, looking up new recipes, updating the List, and generally window shopping for what I want to eat this week. Don't worry, I have snacks to stave off the hunger.
Now, I have a problem. My List is almost done, but the ingredients are all out of order!
Spaghetti, potatoes, chicken breasts, back to onions, over to canned soups, over to ice cream (plain vanilla; don't judge), back over to carrots and beyond. My entire List is out of order, and I just know that I'm going to miss things on the List when I go to the store.
Is there a website (or simple program) I can use that will automatically organize and group items I have on my Shopping List? How cool of a program would that be? Just input the recipes or ingredients you want, and it organizes them by category. Bonus points if the Categories are organized in the order that most people walk through the store (Vegetables, Meats, Pastas, Canned Goods, Frozen Foods as an example).
If it doesn't exist, can it be created? I'm not good with computers, otherwise I would. =(
Thank you! | 8 | [
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"body": "[Gourmet Recipe Manager](http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/) is primarily a... well, recipe manager, but let it know what you've got, and it'll tell you what you need to get, and [organize it by market section](http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/#shopping).",
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"body": "I made up a paper with several sections, each section corresponding to a part of the grocery store (produce/meat/dairy/bakery/frozen/canned/boxed) When I write my list, I just skip around the page and put each item in the \"right\" spot so when I go to the grocery store, my list is easy to follow. Low tech, but it works!",
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"body": "God. Any day now. I have been trying to get this app written for like five years. I am getting close. When I get a releasable version, I'll post it. I promise. ",
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"body": "I believe there is a firefox add on. [Here you go](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1327)",
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Found camera (Austin, TX) - Know this girl? | I found this camera last night while leaving a restaurant. It had been run over several times and looks quite damaged but the pictures on the card are fine. Can anyone help identify [this girl](http://picasaweb.google.com/bolapara/FoundCamera?feat=directlink) so she can get her camera/pics back?
Edit: called the restaurant and that is indeed their parking lot. I'll drop it at the hostess stand in a couple hours!
Edit: Don't need the photos any longer; camera has been dropped to lost and found. | 528 | [
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"body": "It'd be funny if the girl was in witness protection, and by you posting these images on the internet she was discovered, located, and killed.",
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"body": "did anyone else get scared by this http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ostBGugg2rI/S0owkkmS32I/AAAAAAAAABw/kh0W753hhjA/s800/DSCN0714.JPG\n\nOMG SHE'S STARING INTO MY SOUL",
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"body": "Why don't you call the camera company and see if the person ever registered it for warranty or something, maybe they can track him down?",
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"body": "Goddamn it, that's Ginella Demarco. We've been looking for that traitorous bitch ever since she disappeared into the witness protection program four years ago. So they moved her all the way to Texas, did they? Not far enough!\n\nThanks!",
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"body": "Anyone else share this pet peeve: People who leave those horrible \"advertisement\" stickers on their electronics?\n\nExamples:\n\n* \"New!\"\n* \"10 Mega Pixels!\"\n* \"Energy Star Compliant!\"\n* \"Intel Inside!\"\n* \"Powered by Windows!\"\n\nI'm obsessed with removing them from friends' products.\n\nI guarantee that if each of you go into your kitchen and look at the rubbermaid plastic trashcan there, you will find a big ugly sticker on the side, which is likely stained and curled around the edges.\n",
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"body": "You mentioned there were a lot of pictures on the camera.\n\nGrab one of the very first and run it through [tineye.com](http://www.tineye.com) - perhaps she has already uploaded some of the initial pictures and just not emptied the card before taking more pictures.",
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"body": "That was really kind of you to put in so much work and effort for a perfect stranger and their broken camera. Kudos to you! ",
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"body": "Get the serial # off of it and call the factory to see if it was warrantied or if they can give you any info.",
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"body": "I'd suggest printing a photo, going back to Trudy's, and asking for management's permission to post it in the entryway. Pretty much everybody who goes to Trudy's goes more than once, so it's likely that they will see her again.\n\nAlso, you could try something like: http://www.daemonnews.org/2009/12/03/coca-cola-launches-face-matching-facebook-app.html",
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"body": "Check the local churches too. These pictures may be of a religious function: Various reasons:\n\n1.) She's wearing a cross in the enlarged picture with the calendar\n\n2.) Same picture: her friend has writing on her shirt that may or may not say \"pray\" with the butterfly.\n\n3.) The picture with an older lady (possibly her grandmother) has a sign that says \"Lord\" in the upper right of the area. \n\n4.) Picture with middle aged lady (blonde) who wears religious necklace.\n\nAlso take note that it seems to be a party but no alcohol seems present (plastic cups and no beer bottles etc.). While this may not necessarily be the case (I haven't seen all the pictures), church social functions, like parties, are normally non-alcoholic, serving soft drinks instead.",
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Smokers of Reddit! Just.....why!? | Why did you start smoking? This applies more to younger people, as information and warnings about the negative effects are abundant nowadays, whereas somewhat more scarce before.
Smoking is expensive, smells terrible and you know, the whole cancer thing.
Also, I've tried it before (never knock is without trying) and upon breathing in, it hit my throat like a wall of stingy death, why do that often enough to get you addicted?
It boggles my mind.
**Edit**
I'm not saying people who smoke are bad people, who annoy me and i demand they all quit, i just wonder how they came to be addicted.
For example, i picture myself trying to decide wether or not to start smoking, and when i think of all the negatives, i can't imagine why i would go for it. | 8 | [
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"body": "I smoked pot before I ever smoked a cig. At some point I would go smoke a cig after I finished a bowl. By the time I was 21, I could go over a year without thinking about pot, but the tobacco had become a habit. I quit cold turkey when I started fighting. \n\nThe first few times I smoked a cig sober, I got euphoric and felt awesome for about 5 minutes. Then I'd feel kind of sick. Then I'd want another one a couple hours later. The intensity of the good and bad both went away, and you just end up satisfying a craving.\n\n",
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"body": "I used to smoke in college. Not because of peer pressure, but because when I went on a smoke break I could quietly process all the information that I got from homework, lecture, or study. I would also smoke when I was at friends' houses or parties. It just gave me something to do. Yeah the first time i tried cigarettes it felt like a \"wall of stingy death\", but after a while it gave you a pleasant buzz. \n\nI no longer smoke due to the health complications that come from extended use. ",
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"body": "Tobacco is delicious. I like it out of pipes. I like it in cigars. I like it in cigarettes. I love it in a spliff. That is my only reason. When I smoke a cigar or pipe I don't inhale. I just like the flavor.",
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"body": "I started at 15. To be honest, it was to look cool. I never felt addicted (probably because I only smoked around other smokers) and I quit after college.",
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"body": "Why do you care?\n\nWhat's to say my habit is any worse than those who go out of their way to constantly preach at us. My parents were both smokers, I was addicted before I ever started. I agree I would have rather been brought up in a world where smoking never existed and maybe future generations probably will, but I didn't, it's not the case and it's not illegal. \n\nSo for now... live and let live eh. I don't preach at you, you don't preach at me and we'll all get along swimmingly. \n\nNow I'm rightly presuming every whingeing non smoker will downvote me over this and FTR your arguments will fall on deaf ears, I've heard them all before. So I'll just post a preemptive \"Mind you own fucking business please, we all have vices\" before it all starts. ",
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"body": "It's like having a treat after everything you do. \"I ate a meal!\" treat \"I'm driving a car!\" treat \"I'm winning on Xbox Live!\" treaaaaat.",
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"body": "Because there is nothing better in the morning, than a fresh cup of coffee and a cigarette. It's all downhill from then on. ",
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"body": "I started at around 13 to look cool. First thing I smoked was a joint, tho.\n\nI quit 2 months ago, am now 35. Had a really strong cold for a month, just quit and then I thought I might as well quit for 5-6 months then start as a social smoker, smoking only after lunch, a run (yes, I run 10k a day, no problem, been doing that for 4 years already), on weekends, etc... I was a heavy smoker, one pack a day on weekdays, two/three on weekends.\n\nI've been a smoker, am a smoker and will always be a smoker. I just love it. Now that Im a non-smoker I can see that non-smokers are boring people... they never take smoking breaks, do not socialize as much as we do, when they are waiting for someone they are just wasting time, while us smokers, indulge in pleasure. A ciggie is the perfect companion for a stroll. If it's cold outside, all the better. I could think of so many things... \n\nPlus, go to Turkey or some country where smokes actually taste good and not the crap that big tobacco is selling us in Europe and the US and you'll appreciate the pleasure of smoking.\n\nSmokes!!! I miss you!!!",
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"body": "I started smoking heavily about two months ago. It started as me just having a drag off my friends cigarettes (virtually all my friends smoke). Then as I did that more and more, my friend got tired of it and told me to smoke my own cigarette. So I had a moment where I just thought \"fuck it\", and smoked my own. I had gotten to the point where a drag wasn't enough, and so I smoked a whole one. For the next six months it just slowly progressed and now I'm not a chain smoker or anything, but I definitely smoke at least once a day. This is only because I can't bring myself to buy a pack of cigarettes. That probably will seriously fall through because I originally said I would never smoke an entire one. It's not looking good. How the addiction works for me is weird. I'm writing this, realizing what a weak person I am, and all it is legitimately making me want a cigarette. Real bad. ",
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"body": "All of my family smokes so i guess that´s why i started experimenting. It is true that when first starting it is rather nasty and it takes a while to get used to. But once you hit the sweet sweet addiction there is nothing more satisfying than a good smoke. You could just as well ask why people stay in big polluted city´s or eat at Mcdonald´s, drink Coke or pepsi or what have you. Everybody knows the dangers of that. Yet most of us do it and some eat only fast food. In the end of the day it is a personal choice. And should not be judged by people or society. I for one know the dangers, but the thing is, i love smoking. ",
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"body": "OP the reason why addiction is so hard to break from is because these drugs hijack brain circuits which serve pleasure centres and motivation. There are also many genetic events which help sustain addiction. So it's not a matter of it tasting bad, or other superficial qualities like that. Actually you cited the stinging throat. A smokers brain loves that sensation, which causes activation of a brain centre which regulates motivational desires. ",
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"body": "What I don't get about starting smoking is: \r\n\r\n1) The smoke smells disgusting. \r\n2) It makes you cough when you first do it. \r\n\r\nSo, what exactly is the attraction? I just don't understand. Now, I understand the typical reasons for starting, e.g. \"all the cool kids do it,\" \"my family all smokes,\" \"all my friends do it,\" etc. But how do you get around the REALLY bad smell and the coughing on the very first time enough for you to want to do it again???",
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"body": "Reasons smoking is good;\n\n1) It is a good means to meet people and also maintain a group of friends via a common means to meet up.\n\n2) It is something to do when waiting for someone/something rather than sitting around doing nothing.\n\n3) If there is an awkward pause/moment in a conversation it allows on to do something in order to fill the gap.\n\n\nObviously there are plenty of drawbacks too, but these are my reasons.",
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"body": "It's not their fault if they weren't immune to the zombie infection. At least they don't try to vomit on you like the Boomers do.",
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HAE dreamed through their morning schedule? | Every so often I will have a dream that involves everything I do in the morning: waking up, taking a shower, getting dressed, brushing teeth eating breakfast, waiting for bus, going to class. At some point I will then wake up and realize that I was just sleeping and still need to do all those things. It's kind of a bummer.
Do other people have dreams like this? | 21 | [
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"body": "Man, I wish. I had dreams that I woke up, took a shower, got dressed, ate breakfast, and then went to my respective classes at school in order. Finally, on the drive home from school, I'd wake up, only to find that I would have to do it all over again.\n\nThe start of a [bad day](http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html#19871129).",
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My shy girlfriend wanted to ask Reddit feedback on her artwork | My girlfriend is horribly shy and she keeps wondering if her art is any good. I like it but, you know, that doesn't count.
[Have a look at her work.](http://bit.ly/5iPbYv) (better pictures is very high on my todo list)
Anyone know a good place where she could get constructive feedback?
[This is her by the way.](http://bit.ly/7XyfNZ) | 9 | [
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"body": "I like it. She should not concern herself with \"constructive feedback\", as there is no such thing in the world of art, once you are no longer a student and consider yourself an \"artist\". Either people like it or not, and no matter how \"good\" it is, someone, somewhere, will invariably *not like it*. No big deal.\n\nBut, I like it!",
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[6] You are not whole | This thought often comes to my mind when wandering the aisles of a grocery store. We are not whole beings. We are not singular. We are composed of trillions of individual cells, a number so huge that our minds cannot even conceive it properly. Our bodies are like a swarm of bees flying in unison, darting amongst the produce, changing direction as one. Every person is like this. Think about it. | 15 | [
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"body": "Yup, also we are walking petri dishes, we have 10x more bacteria cells than human cells in our bodies.",
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"body": "woah, i just reread this. what a crazy thought. i imagined an amorphous blob of bees, shaped like a human, wandering down the produce section, droning constantly.",
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"body": "We can extrapolate that to even larger things like flocks of birds, colonies of ants and schools of fish which seem to move in unison and act more like a single being than a collection. Coooool.",
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What things helped defined who you are today, but aren't good to tell your friends because they won't be able to deal? | Do you have something that you're just not going to share with others because you know you'll be telling them something they won't be able to unlearn and may forever change how they see you. In particular, things there are people out there who would tell you "Look, that's nothing to be ashamed of!".
If you have such a thing, here is an opportunity to share it. Feel free to create a throwaway account, or just tell the story about a friend to give you plausible deniability. If you did tell and it went badly, here's your chance to vent. If you haven't told, tell us your fears.
And if you're a friend who someone told and you really wish they hadn't exactly because you can't see them the same way afterwards, you can share that too. | 6 | [
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"body": "I think marijuana has changed me for the better. I am a more understanding, tolerant, fun-loving person because of my experiences with it. I have told my friends that I smoke, but they don't approve and don't want to hear about it much. It sucks because there is a whole other side of me that I can't share with them.",
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"body": "My depression and drug use. I often get suicidal because of the depression, but weed helps with that. I use harder drugs, but only when I go clubbing, but it doesn't happen that often. I believe I have my drug usage under control, so I'm happy about that. If I were to tell my family about all of this they'd demand I meet a shrink, but that isn't something I'd want, since I'd just lie to him, as I lie to everyone else. I have emotional problems, I'm considered a sociopath... I have a lot of issues. Isn't life grait?!",
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So, I'm a guy and I cried in front of some friends and now I'm embarrassed to hang out with them again... what should I do? | The back story is that I'm studying abroad in England. I've been here for about 6 days. I absolutely love it. There are also 9 other kids studying here from my home school. We get along really well and we are having a great time. Last night, we went out to the pubs and drank quite a bit. Following that, we went to a club and we got in and paid the cover. When one of my friends went outside for a smoke, I followed him out and when we were going back in, the bouncer wouldn't let me in because I forgot to get a mark on my hand that tells them they I paid or something like that. I tried going in through the front again and they wouldn't let me in. For some reason (probably the alcohol), that really bothered me. My friend went back in to get the others so we could leave and when we were on the bus back, tears just started pouring out of my eyes. I didn't know why I was crying but the tears just came and came. Everyone was trying to console me but that just made my cry even more. I'm really embarrassed by what happened but I'll be living and travelling with these same people for the next 6 months. So what should I do? How do I explain something like this? I don't want them to think that I'm soft or that I'm irresponsible for drinking so much to the point that I didn't have any control. I need some advice, Reddit.
PS: I've been lurking around Reddit for a long time but this is my first post. | 10 | [
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"body": "The first thing you need to do is a take a deep breath. The process I am about to explain will be a sure way to know that all your English friends will forget about what happened.\n\n* Step 1: Go to your neighborhood convenience store.\n* Step 2: Purchase duct tape, Norco, Nyquil and some Ambien.\n* Step 3: Invite your friends over for a sober get-together at your place.\n* Step 4: Create a Punch Bowl Cocktail out of the assortment of goodies you purchased earlier.\n* Step 5: Wait for them all to become unconscious and then use your duct tape to restrain them all in a fashion of your choosing.\n* Step 6: You are now in complete control, you can do anything you want with your new friends, no matter what you choose they will know that you are the man, and they will remember you forever. Unless you kill them, which I recommend you do. In that case all you need to do is go get some new friends.\n* Step 7: Problem Solved.",
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"body": "For your first post, you posted in the right section for good advice!\nNext time you go to a pub with them again, go up to the biggest guy in the room, kick him in the nuts, punch him in the throat and headbutt him until he falls to the ground. Then grab a bar stool, beating him until he becomes unconscious. Then whip out your dick and piss all over him screaming, \"Don't ever look at me dirty again bitch!\"",
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"body": "Start drinking heavily and when you are nice and drunk start calling all your friends in tears apologizing profusely for acting like a wimp. Your buddies will recognize the nuts it took to face your problems like a man and they will respect you for it. You will be welcomed back into the group and everyone will see you as hard as FUCK.",
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"body": "You weren't crying, you were so full of rage that your eyes started to sweat. Tell them about the eye sweat and that when you left them you beat a homeless man to death to vent your rage. They'll never mention your eye-sweat again out of fear.",
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"body": "Ok, this is a classic problem that I help people with all the time. The key to solving this one is to look long term. Sure, you could kill/eat your new friends and the problem would be solved, but that's a noobie mistake because it could happen again. \n\nFirst, you're gonna wanna get your eyes removed. That way you can't cry again which was the central problem here. Second, you need to remove the witnesses. Now, killing your friends is a start, but that's not gonna solve the problem (another noobie mistake). You have to kill everyone who could ever claim that you have ever cried. Otherwise, someday someone could still say that they believe this story happened because they once saw you cry, and ruin your life all over again. \n\nI would start by killing everyone you know, because that's the easier part. Killing everyone who has heard stories from the people you know is harder and you want to get your feet wet first (no pun intended!). \n\nTo kill the people you know, hold a solemn event at your house mourning the loss of your two eyes and invite friends, family, etc. Then blow your house up from afar. \n\nNext, pretend to be the police, and invite anyone who knows ANYTHING about you to a solemn get-together in order to talk about the murder. Then blow THAT event up as well. Now you should be done. No thanks necessary!. \n",
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"body": "Hey pussyboy, come here and i'll give you a real reason to cry. wahhh. \ndon't foget the lube if you only want to moderately cry.",
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The solution to world peace is simple. Stop electing sociopaths. Implement vigorous psychiatric candidate screening to block and remove all sociopaths from public office. | food for thought:
Nearly all politicians fit this description:
"Usually, the lack of a conscience, being manipulative, dishonest and the inability to love or have lasting and profound personal relations and cruelty are the key symptoms of a sociopath"
It's easy to see why we have global political strife when sociopaths control all the power.
"Sociopaths are able to dupe a lot of people. It's hard to detect the insincerity of their words," a position in government presents an opportunity to lie and steal, and still get away with it using their "charm."
Another description:
"The essential feature for the diagnosis is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood."[1] Deceit and manipulation are considered essential features of the disorder. Therefore, it is essential in making the diagnosis to collect material from sources other than the individual being diagnosed."
Put best by this fella: http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/12/sociopathic-politician.html
"Everyday, citizens everywhere pay the price for the deeds of Sociopathic politicians. We pay for it with higher taxes. We pay for it with a bureaucracy that looks out for the interests of power brokers rather than the public. We pay for it by having a government full of waste, and one that looks out for special interests rather than the interests of the public at large. We pay for it by having corruption swept under the rug and overlooked. Of course, in the most extreme, citizens pay for it with their loss of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The Sociopathic politician is a cancer to any political system and unfortunately the nature of the beast breeds such an individual. As such, we, the voters, must always be aware of it and be able to identify all Sociopathic politicians. Such a combination has explosive possibilities."
So how do we stop this?
Is it possible to get a global grassroots movement going? Something along the lines of a "bansociopaths.org". Global awareness, laws implemented and requirements of politicians to pass rigorous psych evaluations. Failing that maybe an independent source that rates candidates past history so voters can know the likelihood their candidate is a sociopath. I know I'm dreaming.. but if we are looking for a root cause of all of our problems you will find sociopaths at every turn. Something must change or we are doomed by allowing these maniacs to control every facet of our lives!
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"body": "I think it was Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein who wrote that the desire to run for public office should automatically disqualify someone from holding the job. ",
"score": 6
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How do I motivate myself to do my homework? | I need help, this is really messing with me. Every day when I come back from school, I just don't feel like doing anything and the simplest thing I can think of to kill time is to play games.
I currently have lots of homework to do in Chemistry, Physics, Cisco and English, but I don't feel like doing it. In fact, I don't even feel like asking this question.
I don't go out much; I'm not a very social person. The only times when I do go out are on Monday and Wednesday when I have taekwondo classes and on Fridays when I go down to the gym.
What should I do?
Edit: Thanks for the advice, it definitely helped me out. I would appreciate it if someone would give me a link where I can get help with homework. Free online tutoring would be nice :)
BTW, I'm in Grade 11. | 14 | [
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"body": "It's my understanding that, if you ask, reddit will gladly remind you to do your homework whenever you make a post.",
"score": 24
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"body": "Get out of your house, it has too many distractions. Try your school's library or the public library. Hell, even a local cafe where you can post up for a while is great. A change in surroundings could be a good thing for you to keep you from getting distracted and start to focus on your work. You say you're anti social? Get out anyways. Get some nice over-the-ear headphones, sit down in any place other than your house put your music on and shut the world away and do your fucking homework. \n \nOr you can just imagine yourself working at the most terrible, mundane job in the world (think McDonald's or equivalent) after you don't graduate (I'm assuming you're in High School) and don't get into higher learning afterwards.",
"score": 17
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"body": "Go sleep in an alley for a night under a newspaper, and think about how nice it will be when you get your diploma and can find a paying job. ",
"score": 12
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"body": "http://i.imgur.com/3wLAd.jpg\ntranslation: use this desktop wall paper, can effectively limit your computer time everyday (so u can do homework).",
"score": 6
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"body": "Assuming that you're taking college credit, you've paid tuition for the opportunity to take the classes. A big part of completing class is doing the homework, so that you might hopefully learn something by the end of the semester. If you don't want to learn, you've just wasted quite a bit of money.\n\n\nIf you're still in high school and want to get into college, think about how you're going to get there. Grades might not matter so much when you're in your thirties, however transcripts and evaluatory tests are pretty heavily considered during the collegiate application process. If you have bad grades, you'll have to explain why.\n\n\nIf you're not planning on going to college, you can still put in at least enough effort to graduate. If you don't graduate from high school, your future employment options will almost certainly not allow much time for playing games. \n\n\nOne idea would be to turn 'game time' into a reward for yourself. If you do the work first, you'll be able to play knowing full well you've already honored your responsibilities. Getting others (GF or BF / parents / responsible friends) involved would probably help also, if you're unsure whether or not you can get your shit together solo.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Homework has a very important purpose. It acts as a way for the school to extend surveillance into the home and ensures you have limited time to learn anything unauthorized from your parents or other intelligent adults.\n\nThe point of school is to grind away at you for 12+ years until you're in such a state that you have no problem performing seemingly meaningless tasks from a predestined chain of command. \n\nOur society is setup in such a fashion where we need vast numbers of peons and mid-level managers who will do what they're told without question. School is the process of creating these people.\n",
"score": 3
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I found a 16GB SD card in Mexico filled with photos and I really want to return it to its rightful owner. Does anybody know these poeple? | [First shot](http://imgur.com/elTFy.jpg)
[Second shot](http://imgur.com/hxDZG.jpg)
I found this memory stick lying on the ground in Cozumel, Mexico (if i remember correctly). Anyway it has a heap of photos on it, I think most are from Spain and there are a couple of videos.
I have no need for this and would love to return it because the poor owner is probably wondering where half their trip photos went.
I knew reddit would be the best place to ask, so if knows these people, or knows someone who knows these people, please let me know!
Thanks! | 104 | [
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"body": "shoot these people an email maybe? the girl in the yellow maybe identifiable from the sisters at phi mu. \n\nhttp://sites.theginsystem.com/phimuappstate/index.php?page_name=contact_us",
"score": 55
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"body": "I know one of these people. The one on the far left of the first pic is Sarah green. I will send her the link and leT her know what's up. ",
"score": 15
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"body": "The girl in the second shot has a Appalachian State University tee shirt on. That might be of some help. Maybe they have board or something you can post to.",
"score": 9
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"body": "Unfortunately no incriminating photos... ;)\n\nBut really, i will shoot an email off to that phi mu thingo and see what they say.\n\nThanks for the help so far.",
"score": 7
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"body": "In a world... where demons and angels find common ground... one man must take the ... *final* ... **stand**.\n\nThis summer... Robert Rodriguez brings you...\n\n###16GB SD Card in Mexico",
"score": 6
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"body": "There is a really good website and facebook group for \"orphaned\" pictures and cameras. \n\nhttp://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=7884234733\n\nhttp://www.ifoundyourcamera.net\n\n-post them on there!",
"score": 3
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Monday night life in Austin? | I'm in San Antonio and don't make it up to Austin all that often, but I was thinking about heading up tomorrow night with my girlfriend. (It's her birthday, and yes, she's a redditor too.) San Antonio's night life, especially during the week, sucks.
What are some cool/fun/weird things that are open later at night? We probably won't make it up there until after 7.
**EDIT:** We didn't make it to Austin. Sadly my car just quit working before we were even able to make it out of San Antonio, but we will head up soon. Thanks to everyone for the advice, we've got a lot to consider now! | 9 | [
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"body": "There are always shows going on in Austin. Here are some websites to help you find something you like:\n\nhttp://do512.com/\nhttp://www.showlistaustin.com/\nhttp://austin.concertcoop.com/\n\nThere are more websites to help you find stuff to do, just do a google search.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Lovejoys. Mondays the pool tables are free and the jukebox is usually slugged up a bunch so no one has to pay all night. And the place is cool, with awesome beer.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Nasty's has a great hip-hop DJ, DJ Mel, that spins on Mondays. http://www.yelp.com/biz/nastys-austin\n\nMangia's and Amy's Ice Cream is nearby if you're hungry.",
"score": 3
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"body": "TC's Lounge is Austin's best-kept secret Monday nights. It's bring-your-own-liquor, cheap cover, soul food and a ton of people. Hard to describe.\n\nhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/tcs-lounge-austin",
"score": 3
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I asked her out on Friday but... | Ok here goes. Basically there is girl I've been hanging out with on a fairly regular basis for a few months now. The reason for this though is we both take the bus to and from work, and work in the same building. I know office romances are a bad idea, but as far as work goes I rarely ever actually see her while I'm there.
So we've been hanging out on the bus and chatting for months, and she really seemed like she was into me. Now I'm a shy guy and not really experienced in knowing any signs, but I could have sworn there were quite a few. I mean she was always smiling and laughing at my jokes, always telling me I was funny and all kinds of other things. We even adjusted our schedules to better coincide with each other and maximize our time hanging out on the bus.
So finally last week I decided I was going to ask her out. I was real nervous and not quite sure how to bring it up but I went for it on Friday. I knew she was busy Friday and Saturday, and asked her if she had any free time this weekend if she wanted to go out. Well it did come out kinda awkward, and she said something like "Well I'm kinda busy all weekend. Why don't we talk about in on Monday?". I took this as a bad sign, but wasn't quite sure so I left it at that.
Well later on, and I know this sounds a little weird, I was reading her twitter and it said something like "Hmmm... well damn. How do I say no?". The reason this is kind of weird is she doesn't know I occasionally read the twitter feed. It's not as bad as it sounds though, she was always talking about it and telling me all kinds of funny things she does with it and I got curious. So I started reading it to get some ideas for something to bring up later.
Well after seeing the message she left I've been kinda crushed. I don't know what to do. It seems pretty definitive that it's a no and I'm not asking how to change her mind. But what I want to know, is how do I face her tomorrow and take a no I know is coming?
Basically where I'm coming from is I've never been able to work up the courage to ask a girl out before, and have only been on a few dates. I've never asked anyone out because I usually want to really know I could easily get along great with them. Which is what makes this so hard. I don't regret asking, because it was eating me up inside not knowing, and she's been all I can think of for a while now. I now know I can move on, but I just don't know what to do now.
TL;DR: I asked a girl out and got told we'll talk on Monday, and I know I'm getting a no, so how do I take it?
**EDIT:** Ok just in case anyone sees this now and is wondering what happened. Well it didn't go to bad. She was kind of acting like it didn't happen and was making small talk, but I could tell it was on her mind and she was nervous. So I decided to take advice from some of you and just make it into no big deal. I basically just said "Ok, so about Friday, I could tell you weren't really interested so don't worry about it". She told me that I just kind of caught her off guard but left it at that. That seemed to help quite a bit, and we just kinda continued on like it didn't happen. So I think it went well enough that we can still hang out without any worries. Though it still kinda sucks getting turned down. But yeah the first thing I always see in these situations when someone asks is people saying to just man up and ask him/her out, so that's what I did and you win some you lose some. | 4 | [
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"body": "Well to avoid all awkwardness you should just walk right up to her and face it like a man. Tell her you took her \"lets talk about it\" as a no and hope there's no hard feelings.\n\nUnless you don't mind her not being close to you in which case just let her do her thing. Sounds like she is a shitbag so I bet she won't come up to you on monday and say anything.",
"score": 7
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"body": "come now, you seem like a nice guy. using twitter to guess what people are thinking is not only creepy-sounding but totally unwarranted (this isn't an attack on you, buddy. we all do it, just try not to act on it!). besides, you get a lot of face time with her, and THOSE reactions are what count for so much more than anything that could be posted online. charliedayman is right, though, it could be anything she referred to so don't beat yourself up when the verdict isn't even in yet. chin up, friend!\n\nbear in mind that she's not perfect herself, and might need some more time to be convinced that you're the right guy. this is especially true if she's not able to give you a straight-up \"no\" to your face. (unless she is the exceedingly shy type who's legitimately too afraid to tell anybody no... which the evidence suggests she is not)\n\ninstead of doing something definite which may cut off the chance of anything happening in the future, just tell her (if you feel the need to do something) that it's not a big deal and wait. if it continues to feel right you can always make a move later. probably the most true thing i've learned so far about about ladies that i didn't expect is that they LOVE self-confidence in a guy. \"being in control\" is manly, and the misconception is that it means being aggressive or a douche (pardon my French), where it's actually as simple as not letting anything take you by surprise or get you down.\n\nTL/DR: tweets are not a definitive form of communication. *maintain your suavity* at all costs and don't shut the door forever if she doesn't.",
"score": 5
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"body": "You shouldn't have any problem. You got your answer in a round about way so unless you ask her anyways on Monday you have nothing to loose. Just continue on as though it never happened. As for things being weird it will be a for a bit, but things will settle into normalcy. ",
"score": 3
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