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I had a raw milk share from an Amish farm for a year, AMA | Raw milk is illegal in Michigan unless you 'own' the cow. So we paid $200 to own 1/5 of the cow, and began bringing home thick, yellow Jersey cream & milk. We learned how to make many things, and I developed an aversion to dairy! However, I know know I can provide for my family a little bit better if I ever had to 'live off the land'. | 18 | [
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"body": "Do you know if the same concept applies to cheese made (by someone else) from raw milk from your shared cow? \n\nI tried some Gouda made with raw milk in the Amsterdam airport once and it was delicious. Sadly the shop guy wouldn't let me buy any as I was heading to the US.",
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"body": "Do you have any opinion on this idea of switching from \"normal\" to raw dairy products for health, à la Weston Price? Did you notice any changes in your health as a result of the experiment?",
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"body": "Are you not worried about e. coli, campi and listeria and other problems associated with raw milk? We had a large outbreak of campylobacter in colorado because of raw milk last spring. From studies, the milk has the bacteria inside the cow so if it is not pasteurized it will be in your raw milk",
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"body": "I've always been interested in doing this myself. My family have been farmers up until my grand father/mother and I've listened to them tell me stories about the chores surrounding dairy products. I've always wanted to learn these skills!\n\nI've checked countless cheesemakers and family farm booths at the farmers market, looking for someone to help me! Alas, apparently the selling of raw milk is illegal where I live (Canada, no less!) and farmers, even if they know there are no problems with their cows, are too nervous to sell.",
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"body": "You mention that you made raw milk butter, which is illegal according to both US and EU law, so I've never had the pleasure.\n\nHow did it taste? And how did it bake? If you're familiar with the cultured buttermilk found in supermarkets, how was yours different?",
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Has anyone else chuckled at the DAE subreddit header image? | It's undeniable, going up the stairs on all fours *is* something I do occasionally.
P.S. I've never typed "on all fours" before, weird.
EDIT: I now know It's related to how this subreddit was created (see "wiiiizard"s comment below!) As a relatively new Redditor, this is an interesting tidbit so I'll leave the thread unhidden. <3 | 9 | [
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"body": "[This post about climbing up stairs on all fours, was what inspired this subreddit.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9fho2/out_of_pure_curiosity_does_anybody_else/)\n\n[This comment to be precise](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9fho2/out_of_pure_curiosity_does_anybody_else/c0cko9j)",
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The Lean, Mean Lambsaucin' Machine: Lambsauce's Fitness Thread | Bear with me, my dear 33 subscribers. I know I'm turning reddit into a blog and that that is bad. But, see:
1) This is my subreddit and I shall fill it with whatever I please, and
2) If I made a blog about this I'd never visit it. Reddit, on the other hand, has intercalated into my DNA.
So feel free to downvote/hide/whatever. I pinky-promise that I will keep all my goings on regarding this within this thread.
It's mostly for my own information (yes, even though I'm writing it as though for an audience) and to keep myself on track. If you want to pitch some ideas, en/discouragement, playlist suggestions, whatever, I won't stop you. ;)
### What I Am Doing
I'm about 5'4 and 120 pounds. I could stand to lose a few, but that's not what I'm trying to do. What I am trying to do is whup my flabby bottom into shape, because, well, I'm flabby. I *used* to work out and was actually starting to see results, but getting sick over the summer and having no energy due to school last term put a stop to that.
### Why I'm Doing This: AKA, The Big List of Motivation
* Plain and simple I want to look hot, right now I am not.
* So I can be healthier.
* I want to be a nuclear operator when I graduate--a job that's quite a bit more physical than Homer Simpson's ;) I'll need to be able to have the energy to be moving around on my feet for 12 hour stretches.
* Over Christmas, my grandfather had two strokes. They were very minor and he's almost completely recovered now, but only because he's healthy and fit. I figure it's better to get active now than when I'm 50.
* I have SAD (I don't care if it's real or not, it feels real) and getting my blood moving is a good way to keep me from being Debbie Downer.
* It feels good to go outside when it's -10.
* No, really, it's like walking in an air conditioner, it sucks for the first ten minutes and then it's really great.
* According to various guys, the sexiest part of me is my arms. Well, work with what you've got, right?
* I want to run a marathon someday.
* I also want to climb the CN Tower.
* Ducks are cute.
* I'm only taking 4 courses this term, leaving the equivalent of one course in free time.
* Weballergy.
* I've been under a lot of stress lately and don't want to take up smoking. I have been craving a cigarette when stressed lately and it kinda scares me.
**Note to self: Remember to take daily photo of self for potential future time-lapse .gif of self getting toned, pending determination of how much Reddit will make fun of me for having underwear that does not match bra most of the time.** | 7 | [
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"body": "What kind of school do you attend… as in, what are the campus and the commute like? Any chance yours has a gym full time students can use, so you can go swimming or something? Could you ride a bike to class instead of driving?\n\nAlso, the CN Tower is freakin awesome and huge, so work those quads! SAD = Social Anxiety Disorder? If so, totally real, and I've personally found that exercise has an excellent long-term effect on mood/attitude/peoples'-abilities-to-tolerate-me. Physical fitness/hotness is very closely related to mental stuff, so just being conscious of the processes of your life will make a huge difference - eating and sleeping in particular. Huge.\n\nAlso, you're freakin nuts - the cold is terrible and there should be laws against it.",
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To gay redditors: How do you find other gay men/women? | First submission, I'm sorry if I've broken any rules!
I'm gay, under 25, and I've no idea how to find other guys my age who aren't the typical Graham Norton type. (;])
I've heard mixed things about gay bars, but I wouldn't want to go alone, and my friends are all typical lads... Which is fine, but they obviously wouldn't want to go to a gay bar.
Otherwise I'm at a loss. I've been waiting almost two years (since my last bf) for something to happen by chance, but no luck so far. So I've decided to be a little more pro-active about it.
Thanks!
(Being new to posting stuff on reddit, I posted this a second ago in AskReddit, that's now gone! Sorry for the double post. :}) | 38 | [
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"body": "Go to random bar, find someone interesting, ask: \"Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?\"\n\nAm I doing it right?",
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"body": "I've met a whole bunch of cool people on OKCupid. I hear DList is good if you live in a major metro area.\n\nAlso: even if you're conflicted about the bar scene, it helps to go out at least a few times to meet some people and find out where they go when they're not at the local gay spots. Plugging into the Fraternal Alliance of Gays is usually a good starting point.",
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"body": "The internet. I've met lots of people from the internet and not one of them turned out to be a creep. I've made a few good friends that way and gained two relationships that lasted for a good while. Also check out any local lgbt youth groups etc. \n\n",
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"body": "I found my potential mate on a gay/geek oriented board. It's not like I went there for anything sexual, just to have new friends. We're talking, think each other is mutually interesting, and now I have a new best friend. *holds up glass* And the future stands before us.",
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"body": "How did I find my boyfriend? Absolutely delicious with a bit of lemon pepper...\n\nWe met through OKCupid. I was in much the same boat as you, other than I was 30 at the time, recently out of the closet, and desperately looking for someone.\n\nMy area had 3 gay bars: one catered to the 20-something crowd, and at 30 I was sticking out a bit (not that anyone cared, there were several older men that went frequently), and the 2 others were more suited to my age. One of them I had some dude pawing at me the last time I went (it also closed shortly thereafter) and the other catered to older gay men, in which I was definitely fresh meat; it was very much a seedy, dirty bar and I make it a point now to avoid it.\n\nMost of my friends were willing to go out to a gay bar with me if we were going out for drinks. I don't care, as beer is beer, and they all cost about the same regardless of what kind of bar I go to. You may be surprised: some of your friends may not mind going to a gay bar. I was rather surprised when a friend of mine actually recommended it when we were discussing where to go have drinks one night. \"Eh, drink there, drink at my usual place, either way you're driving me home.\"\n\nEDIT: Also, don't be afraid to talk to people when you go. Before I met my partner, I was a regular at the club, regular enough to know who would be there on certain days. There was this one guy I found absolutely attractive, but I never followed it up as I felt I was too old. We chatted a couple of times while waiting to order drinks, but nothing serious.\n\nShortly after I met my partner, I took him to the club for a night out. I would later find out from a friend of mine that they guy I had written off as too young had his eye on me for a while, but was too afraid to make the first move, and was crushed when I showed up with my boyfriend. C'est la vie.\n\nTo go back 11 years and be under 25...I would do so many things different and not wait like I did. I wish you all the best :)",
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"body": "I meet them at the grocery store, or in line at the bank...all of the places you'd meet anyone else. I'm afforded the comfort though of talking openly to another gay person in public without fear of discrimination. Where do you live?",
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"body": "Do you attend a university or school? Often times there are lgbt events or groups you can attend.\n\nIf not, I am the female friend of a couple shy gay boys and I love going dancing at the local gay bar. Try taking a couple female friends with you, perhaps? That way you wouldn't have to go alone. :)",
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Need to learn to type. Can you recommend some options | Hey Reddit. I'd like to learn to type faster and was hoping I could get your input. Wha tis some good software to use? Are there any other good options to help me out beyond learning software? | 11 | [
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"body": "It's really about practice, I like http://www.typeracer.com/ since it's pretty fun to compete while typing. I improved my average from somewhere around 80 wpm up to about 105 on the site. \n\nOutside of programs though, you need to actively analyze the way you type to get better. Identify your bad habits and actively try to change them; it'll make you slower at first, but in the long run is good for you. For example, I used to never use my pinkies, and shift my ring fingers to hit pinky keys, my middle fingers to hit ring finger keys, and my index fingers to hit a massive number of keys. It was only after I sort of willed myself out of these bad habits that I could really improve my typing I feel. I still have some bad ones, like I never use the right shift, and I never hit the spacebar with my left thumb, and it won't be a program that will help me fix those problems.",
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"body": "http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/courses/\n\nThis is a really good website to hone your typing skills. It really helped me out. It is free and works in a web browser.",
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"body": "I learned by doing. I never used a program, I just gradually got faster, and here I am today with roughly 100 wpm. To be fair I started typing when I was about 10, and heavily at about 12.",
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"body": "Here's [something that helped me.](http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/9esl1/something_i_made_i_sanded_down_all_the_keycaps_to/)",
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Guys: Any advice/insight for a woman about to take her seriously introverted boyfriend's virginity? (details in comments) | Longer version: My boyfriend is a virgin, and we are approaching the point of sex. He's pretty introverted and quiet/shy, so he's never dated anyone before me even though we're both in our mid-twenties. I'd like the experience to be as positive for him as possible. I realize that my ideal first time as a female is likely different than his, and I don't want to assume anything. He and I have talked about it, but he doesn't have a very good sense of his own sexual identity yet, so I think it's hard for him to really understand what he wants/needs.
I'm particularly concerned because I'm more experienced than he is (into kink, etc) and though he knows this and is into the idea of it, I don't know if I should be concerned about insulting his manhood, for lack of better phrase. I tend to be submissive by nature, and from everything I can sense from him, he's pretty dominant sexually, so me leading him through his first time is a little bit of a role reversal for us.
So... any advice/insight from guys about what you liked, (or would have) about your first time is wholly appreciated. Or just generally anyone who's been in similar circumstances.
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"body": "As an introverted guy myself, here's the one greatest bit of advice I can give: Make sure he's comfortable vocalizing his feelings/desires. One of the best ways to to this is to be open about your wants and needs, and especially to make with the vocal behavior in the bedroom.\n\nI often held back with my early girlfriends in the bedroom, not wanting to offend them or say something that would throw them for a loop. Then I hooked up with a girl who was open about what she was wanted and what she was feeling in the bedroom , and things were elevated to the next level. When a girl feels comfortable telling you to \"stick that fucking thumb in my asshole, I want to feel it in me,\" it's so much easier to tell her all of the things you want to share with her.\n\nOf course, communication is important in all aspects of a relationship, but some people can talk about anything but sex and what they want. There's something very nice about feeling comfortable enough to text your girl telling her that if you come home and find her on the bed, with her hand in her panties again, you're just going to have to punish her -- and then coming home to find just that. It's so much better than wanting to come home to that and hoping she'll pick up on your inner desires.",
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"body": "Yeah, for one, don't make it a \"performance\" for the guy. Guys tend to get a little \"must do A, then do B, then do C\" when it comes to sex. He might feel like he has to rock your world or be better than everyone before him. Let him know it's just play, no pressure. Pressure can be a real drag for guys when it comes to sex and can make it a whole lot less fun.\r\n\r\nIf, or rather when something eventually goes wrong act like it's totally normal and natural for that to happen. This goes for the guys too. The girl on her period and makes a big mess? Act like it's totally normal. The girl can't come? Let her know it's perfectly normal.\r\n\r\nBasically, you gotta be all \"every is cool, we can do or not do whatever the fuck we want, no expectations, let's play and have fun\".",
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"body": "Pick a night. Start making out and kissing and then take charge and give him a nice bj and then go to having sex with him. Don't have him plan it out or he'll be nervous about it. Have him on the bottom and you lead the way. ",
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"body": "in those days i remember hearing that a woman falls in love with the first guy she has sex with, but a man falls in love with the first woman he has *regular* sex with. you may be already there (i mean in love without the sex), but i think that if my first time had started with her getting me off orally it would have taken a lot of the stress of whatever came next. for me, it was an opportunity of convenience: i had to *carpe bootay* and \"get it, get it, get it;\" if it had been in a dedicated, playful, and relaxed setting, it would have been a great experience instead of just a great story.",
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Reddit, what is the most powerful short video you've ever watched? | Basically, what short video or film has given you goosebumps after it finished? My personal vote is for this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h710ptFIMk
What's your opinion? | 244 | [
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"body": "[Kiwi!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs)\n\nedit: If you haven't seen it before, don't read the comments replying to this video. Watch it, then come back.",
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"body": "[Signs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0HNWto0UY)\n\nNot exactly goosebumps but it made my day and gives you a good and warm feeling inside. :)",
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"body": "Last Daydream. Really makes you realize how finite our lives are. It's less than a minute long; and yes, that is Pauly Shore in the middle.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWlbZO92ZyA\n",
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"body": "A few that haven't been mentioned. Also see this [article](http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/37-inspirational-motivational-videos/) for 37 more suggestions.\n\n[Spin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc)\n\n[High-Five Escalator](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abt8aAB-Dr0)\n\n[A Thousand Words](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Z8gW8NBks)\n\n[Pale Blue Dot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g), [Alternate Version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw)\n\n[Crutch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1KPjiVkybA)\n\n[Beneath the Rubber Tree](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6nf3RZA90c)\n\n[I'm Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzSr5F8gt3o)\n\n[Elevator Music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k4j-cVlUY0)\n\n[Moving Windmills](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arD374MFk4w)\n\n[A Vision of Students Today](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related), also [A Vision of K-12 Students Today](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8&feature=rec-fresh+div-f-7-HM)\n\n[Challenge Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKmMGsRvDA)\n\n[The EyeWriter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84H-xLrLvvk)\n\nAlready posted:\n\n[Father Runs Triathlon with Son in Tow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH943Az_lPQ)\n\n[More](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aFxk0aUuU)\n\n[Last Minutes with ODEN](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAcRKZxjy47)\n\n[16 Moments](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNVPalNZD_I)\n\n[Where the Hell is Matt?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY)\n\n[99 Balloons](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6Njr-qkq0)\n\n[Team Hoyt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRvsO8m_KI)\n\n[Advice to Live By](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-AJYi-wzpA)\n\n[Say, Marimo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22fSspZCA-c)\n\n[50 People, One Question](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kow8OoOCm6Y)\n\n[Glory at Sea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hBZToDSbM)\n\n[Free Hugs Campaign](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4)\n\n[Kiwi!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs)\n\n[Signs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0HNWto0UY)\n\n[Validation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao)\n\n[Last Day Dream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWlbZO92ZyA)\n\n[Everything Will Be OK](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUJw7Dq5uo)\n\n[Dove Evolution](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U)\n\n[Balance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91bNp7HJolE)\n\n[Try](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj9x6kUJX98)\n\n[Music and Life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4)\n\n[Stop the Bullets. Kill the Gun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylvAovoO2kk)\n\nEdit: Added alternate Pale Blue Dot version (thanks, PathogensQuest)",
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"body": "[Dennis.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zFeHJzS5E)\n\n\n18 minute short about an introvert bodybuilder.",
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"body": "[Philip Spooner speech on gay marriage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beEh6jBM8CE)\n\nI cried because that was the America that I used to believe in.\n",
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"body": "I have to say this [anti-gun commercial was pretty powerful](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylvAovoO2kk) for being only one minute long.",
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"body": "[Balance](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8073232428056054186#) by Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein.",
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"body": "[Glory at Sea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hBZToDSbM)\n\nIt's where that lovely Google Chrome commercial song comes from. Beautiful, creepy, happy/sad short about Katrina, and more especially, about love, falsehood, and reality. I had to watch it again, because it haunted me and definitely falls into the goosebumps category.\n\nedit: Almost forgot, [Johnny Cash right before he died](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go). It's a Nine Inch Nails cover, but very much his. I find this music video so moving.",
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"body": "1:04am. I'll check out one more post then head to bed.\n\n2:19am. Teary eyes. I'm ready to start living my life.\n\n(BOOKMARKED)",
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"body": "[Pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLSRMoKKS0)\r\n\r\nPowerful in that I can't not laugh when watching it.",
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"body": "Don Hertzfeldt's [*Everything Will Be OK*](http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/vjmZX2z9WPs/) is amazing.",
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"body": "Fifty People, One Question. \nI think everyone needs to watch it. \nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kow8OoOCm6Y",
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"body": "There was one about procrastination: http://motionographer.com/media/nexus/400Procrastination_final_H264_low.mov",
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"body": "Once saw this video of terrorists murdering a soldier, execution style with a knife. \r\n\r\nI wasn't quite right for a while. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone, except for those who go nuts for PETA abuse videos. If you think those are disturbing, then you have no idea what it's like to see a person's speech turn to gurgles as they step on his head and saw through his neck, eventually severing his head which they then kick away. No Hollywood bullshit.",
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"body": "It took me a while to track down the title so I could find it, but it is worth a watch. [Das Rad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT13GuPZHMA) ",
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"body": "Not really a short film per se, but it'd say it's on the same level as some of these maybe.\n[Rabbit In Your Headlights](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cud_k9f6tqk&feature=related)\n",
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"body": "[Fairy Tale - Michael Wong](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz82_6hPrgI)\n\nBad quality video - not a terribly popular song.",
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"body": "[Isle of Flowers](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5263978110274124891#). This is the original version with English voice over.\n\nThis short movie really stuck with me when I first saw it in high school. \n\nHere's an excerpt from the [Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Flowers):\n\n> Isle of Flowers (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores) is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado. It tracks the path of a tomato from garden to dump with the help of a monotone voiceover and a collection of bizarre images. While a very humorous film, the message it delivers about how human beings treat each other is anything but such. The director himself has stated that the film was inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut and Alain Resnais, among others.\n\n> The film has been denounced as \"materialistic\" because one of its early credits displays the phrase \"God doesn't exist\". Nevertheless, critic Jean-Claude Bernardet defined Isle of Flowers \"a religious film\", and the Brazilian National Bishop Confederation awarded the film with the Margarida de Prata (Silver Daisy), calling it \"the best Brazilian film of the year\" in 1990. In 1995, Isle of Flowers was chosen by the European critics as one of the 100 most important short films of the century.",
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"body": "I remember a seeing a video of a couple of sociopaths (I think they were Ukrainian) murdering an innocent man with a screwdriver in the woods. I remember every excrutiating moment of his disembowelment and the two men's maniacal laughter. \r\n\r\nI doubt too many people have seen it and I suggest that none of you seek it out. It opened my eyes to the horror we're all capable of, but at a huge cost.\r\n\r\nI haven't been the same since.",
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Should I simply give up on some of my dreams? | I love to sing. The last time I sang in any "professional"/"amateur" way was back in high school (5 years ago, now), where I was a part of the womens choir, junior choir, and concert choir (10th, 11th, and 12th grades, respectively). I enjoyed it.
My first semester of college I attempted to join a religious choir, but didn't enjoy it quite as much, and also got sick. So I stopped attending.
Now, I would like to join a choir again - but I'm realizing that most community-based choirs are horribly expensive, and require auditions. I haven't sung in a professional way in nearly 5 years ... my range has decreased. I also can't sightread to save my life. With these factors in mind, I'm thinking that maybe I should just give up on my desire to sing in a choir (and hopefully land a solo or two eventually), and stick to other things.
I have similar problems with my desire to be a writer. I used to love writing, but I haven't done it in so long that I don't know if I *could* do it again. And what would be the point of putting all the time and effort into it, when I know it's *extremely* likely I'll never be published, anyway?
I think I mainly wanted to talk about this, but I don't know what anyone on here could say to help. Anyway, thanks for reading :) | 7 | [
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"body": "Here's some tough love for you:\n\nYou know, I interviewed [Bangs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJbJs-9ST0&feature=related) on Saturday backstage at a music festival in Melbourne. If you're unfamiliar, the song I linked to became a youtube hit a few months back, for being really cheesy/shit. He performed at this festival, had about 2,000 people watching him. It drew a lot of people, most people came for the comedy of it all.\n\nAfter his set, we asked him about the reactions to his music. He said that he didn't care if people didn't like his stuff, he's just excited to be doing it and to have exposure. He said:\n\n\"You know, a lot of rappers don't like me, they say I dont have skill or talent. But at least I'm doing something, ya know? In five years I'll still be out here playing shows, and they'll still be at home feeling angry in front of their computers.\"\n\nSo dude. If you wanna do it, do it. But you're gonna have to put effort into it. You sound like you've given up before you've really tried. Regardless of what you choose to do, you have to own it. If you dont make it as a writer or a musician it's not because the world's against you, or because it's too hard, or anything like that. It's because you didnt back yourself enough.\n\nI would go to auditions, write articles for free news sources and get a folio going, do whatever you have to do to get the skills you need to succeed. \n\nFurthermore, I think you need to reassess your definition of success. You say there's no point of writing because you'll never get published? Who gives a shit? Writing/music/any artistic venture is about self satisfaction; about being creative and turning your thoughts into something tangible. It's not about book signings, meetings with publishers and snooty wine and cheese parties where people discuss your book. That's all external. The success you feel should be from internal factors; whether *you* feel happy with what you've done, not whether others are happy for what you've done. It sounds like you're doing this for fame, rather than a joy of writing. If that is true, then give up on your dream now, because unless you love what you're doing you'll never be any good at it.\n\nWhatever you do, whether you try or you don't, you have to own your decision. Roll around in it, get dirty, and start takeing some responsibility rather than lamenting the fact that it's all too hard.",
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Hey Reddit, Croatia just elected its second agnostic
president. How are irreligious politicians treated in
your country? | Althought the country is officially 87% catholic, we already had an atheist prime minister and an agnostic president. Just today we elected [Ivo Josipovic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Josipovic) as our third president, who declares himself as an agnostic.
Does your country have any declared atheist/agnostic politicians on high places, despite the high percentage of religious people? | 7 | [
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"body": "As an American, I don't know what you mean by \"irreligious politician.\" It's kind of a requirement here that politicians be Protestant, often Evangelical.",
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Why are you an anarchist? Why should I be an anarchist? Anarchist utilitarianism? | I fear there have been other, similar posts, but I cannot find them. I've come to admire /r/anarchism over the past few months, yet my own political philosophy is undecided. I'm fairly committed to [preference utilitarianism](http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_Utilitarianism) (Peter Singer is a well-known preference utilitarian) as a system of ethics -- although I'm open to persuasion towards another, should reason and evidence suggest it -- and wonder how one would advocate anarchism from this system. I have what I hope to be a reasonable grasp of history (Woodcock's *Anarchism*) but I don't really see why anarchism is right. I'm not sure that I should object to a state, although I'm open to the idea. In short, I'm open to everything: please explain your viewpoint. | 25 | [
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"body": "Just to get this ball rolling....\n\n>I'm not sure that I should object to a state\n\nThe State is an institution that can **only** exist by way of violent coercion. I believe that human existence is not dependent on violence. There are still some, albeit few, communities that exist without the threat of internal violence looming above them. I say internal because while Nation States exist the threat of external violence will always loom above us all. The Aborigines of Australia is just one example, even if considered primitive. \n\nI do not hold to the idea that State and Capitalism are the best, most efficient, most free, or most equal ways of organizing society. If we can agree to that, then all that it left is to answer this question...\n\nIn what ways can we live that best utilizes our natural resources and supports freedom to its fullest extent most equally? For me the answer is in anarchism. \n\n>Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.\n\n(sic) **Emma Goldman**\n\nI believe that we cannot truly be free until everyone is equally free. As long as there are folks in this world that are being oppressed, our own freedom is at risk. \n\n>I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.\n\n**Mikhail Bakunin**\n\nIf this is true, then we should seek freedom for all individuals.... even if only selfishly. \n\nNo one has the right of governance over me. If I am not restricting the freedom of another, if I am harming no one other than myself or someone who is willing to be hurt, then no one is the master of my conduct, my mind, or my body.\n\nI believe that State, Religion, and Capitalism are a direct threat and hindrance to my beliefs and to my life. I also find that anarchism is the only political, social, or philosophical ideological perspective that encompasses these beliefs. \n\nThis, in short, is why I am an anarchist.\n\nEdit\n\nI reread this and I may have came off as a selfish asshole. I care about the health and well being of all humans. This is specifically why I wish to see us all free from tyranny, wage slavery, and oppression in all its colors. ",
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"body": "Historically Anarchism emerged as a branch of utilitarianism that (roughly) looked to maximize choice rather than happiness. Godwin was seen as a follow up to Bentham and Mills, but his approach saw a radical divergence and opened up the possibility of a \"stateless socialism\" in the social movements around Europe.\n\nGodwin was not a preference utilitarian, and would have rejected it as slippery relativism -- the old fashioned \"if everyone constructed their own personalities so as to derive happiness from murder and/or strife...\" intuition pump -- instead he saw the expansion, development and self-improvement of one's mind as the only moral/ethical good possible (hazy conceptual phrasing, I know, more on that later, but roll with it). Godwin noted that the existence of the State fundamentally impeded this to some extent because it by definition relied on faith or coercion. Thus, he argued, *eventually*, *ultimately* the state must be done away with. (As must all systematic forms of domination.)\n\nBut what Godwin was effectively getting at, and what his legacy has been, was to reconcile the whole expanse of golden rule or Kant's \"treating people as ends unto themselves rather than means\" ethics with utilitarian/consequentialist calculations. *In any ethical situation the solution is whatever maximizes the agents' net capacity for (informed) choice.* This solves pretty much all of the classical thought experiments thrown at either consequentialists or deontologists. Especially if you consider all the externalities of an act (psychological, game theory, etc). Anarchists have by and large been the ones historically best asserting that ends and means are interconnected (you can't gulag people into being free), but not 1:1 (shooting a dictator can sometimes result in more freedom).",
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"body": "I don't support anarchism as an *ought*. I look at it from the perspective of *is*. Politicians and (most) capitalists are no different or more highly skilled than anyone else so it doesn't make any sense to support their position at the top. I want to pull them back down to the level of the rest of us because that's the only way you can elevate yourself.",
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"body": "because of a strong belief in self-determination and autonomy amongst anarchists, many people would be reluctant telling you what you 'should' do in terms of your politics. If you're really interested in Anarchism, try asking direct questions about current social problems, the role of the state, or simply find a part of anarchism which you don't agree with, and post it in this subreditt.\n\nanyway, I'm an anarchist quite simply because I believe that \"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely''. it's not hard to see if you take pretty much any period of history that if the state or the wealthy sections of society happen to act in the interests of the population, it's coincidental. For the remaining periods, states have been on the side of small interest groups concerned with the loss of their power and influence.\n\nFollowing on from that, I don't really see a difference between a tyranny of government and a dictatorship of and private property, apart from maybe a tyranny of government is harder to conceal than an abuse of private property rights.",
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"body": "My view is somewhat of a different one, I study Philosophy and through my studies I did political science, ethics, bio technology, sex and sexuality - but what really guided my understanding of how I believe a society *should* be comes from my understanding of evolutionary biology, the very fact that our evolutionary ansenstors lived in far smaller tribes has allowed our mind to work *best* with smaller groups. \n\nYou of course only truly trust your close kin and friends (I would hope) and hold much reservations for people you do not know. Unfortunately in order for complex societies to exist we have decided to have representative democracy, but of course that is always been a joke which has been overtly influenced by money and power.\n\nGenerally, the phrase \"power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely\" has merit because as a human being you are incapable of truley caring, or understanding innurtly about decisions you make - this is why people in centralized positions of power can make such seemingly careless decisions with ease - they truely do not have to live with the consequences, either directly or mentally.\n\nThe only way, I believe, a society can be run is in the decentralized sense, with local leaders that are on a basis of rotation and equal say. A form of direct democracy. Democracy you see, when you really look into it has its values either instrumentally (as a decision making process) or intrinsically (for it boasts egalitarian principals), our representative form allows 'technical' decisions to be made by elites, keeping the masses in the dark yet allowing them to vote in the elites. This makes little sense, for society only makes its fools to work hard and not ask questions.\n\nThe only thing I am still 'figuring out' is where certain centralized components may somehow fit in to an anarchist society, for example ambulances and hospitals. The role of the technical elite has a part to play, we are stuck in these technologies I believe, and cannot realistically see us leaving them behind unless there is some mass event and we do not have the choice.\n\n(wrote that quick and fast, may be riddled with errors, das ma bad!)",
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"body": "I started out being just vaguely liberal - supporting things like welfare because it just seemed like the decent thing to do.\r\n\r\nMoved on to democratic socialism based on the belief that if you tried to implement economic equality without political equality, then the powerful will enrich themselves; if you try to implement political equality without economic equality, then the wealthy will buy power.\r\n\r\nThen happened to come across the history of the Histadrut - a union that actually owned businesses? It made me consider possibilities I had never heard of before.\r\n\r\nDuring a strike at GM one Independence Day, I posted a version of the Declaration of Independence, rewritten such that it was the employees declaring independence from the executives (instead of the colonies declaring independence from the king). Someone told me it looked like anarcho-syndicalism.\r\n\r\nI'd never heard of it before, but I looked it up... and that's what I've been calling myself ever since. \r\n\r\nHere's an earlier post on this subreddit of a right-wing \"libertarian\" who became an anarchist: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhbvr2gz_45hq9crw3z",
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"body": "I'm an anarchist because I believe currently the world is more or less run by corrupt rich people. All they care about is amassing more money and power. This causes a lot of problems for everybody else.\n\nAs long as that system is in place I refuse to be governed. I abide what laws I do out of fear of the state's violence and persecution. Also in fear of what happens when you are ostracized by the state. Jobless and cut off from habitation and perhaps food as well. Medical treatment? \n\nBut in my mind and in my heart I know this interwoven state/corporate control over society is feudalism. Whatever and whenever I can do something against that system I do it. \n\nYou know if you really get down to it I feel like the state is a violent animal that is always ready to squash me if I get out of line. For that reason alone I plot and ruminate against it. God help me if they ever find oil on or want to run a pipeline through \"my\" property.",
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"body": "Why Anarchism over a State? Simple. A person should never be forced by compulsion to do something they are against, regardless of whether it's better for a society as a whole. That is a morally just reason to denounce the state; and the only moral that really means anything.\n\nSo, I'm an anarchist because I choose to be free, I value that freedom highly, I want others to be free to choose that value for themselves if they want to, and the state prohibits that free choice.",
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I wish there were a "Pandora"-style site for books. | Like, a website I can punch in Murakami, Maugham, Durrell, and have it pump out some "You might like..." recommendations. I have a tough time finding new books/authors to read and a site like that would be super useful. | 35 | [
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"body": "[What Should I Read Next?](http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/books/search)\nEdit:\nI would also like to add that I wish there was a place where you could learn about background information that is presented in the book that would make the story more enjoyable, but doesn't give away the plot of the book. For instance, if you were getting ready to read \"A Tale of Two Cities\" and you didn't know anything about the French Revolution, the site would direct you to a nice essay on the French Revolution including historical facts that are presented in the book. I think it would also be nice to present a vocabulary list of words that you could learn before you read the book. That way, you wouldn't have to keep putting the book down to look up words you don't know. You make an effort to learn them first. Then, you are free to enjoy the book without interruption.",
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"body": "Crap you guys are fast, i was gonna recommend all 4, Literature map, what shoudl i read next, librarything and goodreads.\n\nalso Amazon Lists and what people bought with.\n\nLibrarything is my favorite for finding books",
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Someone has created a Facebook page pretending to be my fathers business. He doesn't have a Facebook account. Is it possible for me to have Facebook either delete the account or seize control of it on his behalf? | Someone has created a Facebook page pretending to be my fathers business. He doesn't have a Facebook account. Is it possible for me to have Facebook either delete the account or seize control of it on his behalf? | 22 | [
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"body": "There's a link on the left side of the page to \"Report Page.\" From there you can select \"Fake page\" and explain the situation.",
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"body": "My school principal took over a fake account made in his name by one of the students, so I don't see why not. Unfortunately I don't know exactly how, but just email them and I'm sure that they'll help.",
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"body": "You should post the page in question so that we can also report the page as fake. Facebook Mods tend to respond pretty quick when they get blasted with reports on a single page.",
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Question for cogsci: Canonical CogSci Tomes? | What are good CogSci canonical tomes? Books that just _have_ to be read by the overwhelming majority of CogScientists?
Comes to mind The MIT encyclopedia of the cognitive sciences, but beyond that, where are the unavoidable books? | 10 | [
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"body": "[The 100 most influential works in cognitive science in the 20th century.](http://www.cogsci.umn.edu/OLD/calendar/past_events/millennium/final.html)",
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Reddit, my university has cut *a lot* of Friday classes, and is now polling to get student opinions on a "4-day schedule". Thoughts? | As someone who is currently attending, I *think* I'm for it. But I'm worried about more overcrowding/less classes being available. We already have huge impersonal lectures for the majority of our freshman and sophomore curriculums, and I know tons of people who already have problems getting into the proper classes.
Thing is, a lot of students already successfully avoid having Friday classes. So making it official may not make a *huge* difference. And it'd help deal with all the budget cuts.
DAE have a school that already does this? How is it? Thoughts/opinions? | 7 | [
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"body": "Sign me up. The only issue I can see with this is for hard science majors like myself who would be buried with labs. Taking a full course load or more with three labs would be horrible to squeeze into four days.",
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Welcome to Gaming Club | I'm open to people suggesting any picture ideas, submit them here.
Game of the Month voting will start as soon as enough people join.
I don't believe I can run this on my own, so any people willing to be a moderator should make their requests here.
Edit: Game must have a PC version of it in order to be played if it they were released after the ps1/N64 generation. Exceptions may be made if the game can not be passed over e.g. Shadow of the collossus or Ico
GAME Boy games are ok too, as it is easy to emulate them. | 14 | [
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"body": "I won't mind being a moderator, whatever that entails. \n\nI also nominate having an official steam Group, so we can post announcements, etc.",
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Best Half Life 2 Mods? | So im finally able to play HL2 and im having a blast, and since im about to understand why everyone is crying why Episode 3 is taking so long (currently playing Episode 2) i want to know about good mods for HL2, the only one i have heard off is one called Minerva . So anyone willing to share a good kickass mod that they have played? | 8 | [
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"body": "Dystopia.\n\nClass and objective based in cyber-punk setting. Very fun, and one of the first HL2 mods released so it's very feature complete and stable.",
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"body": "You have to pay for it, but [Garry's Mod](http://www.garrysmod.com/news/) can be really, really fun.",
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"body": "[Research and Development](http://www.moddb.com/mods/research-and-development) is not only one of the best HL2 mods out there, but it's one of the best mods I've ever played. Most AAA retail games aren't as good as this.\n\nIt's a puzzle game set in a Combine research facility. Think of it as a really violent Dr. Brain game. Hugely inventive, every room you're doing something new, and I was never stuck for more than a few minutes at a time. \n\nBrilliant, brilliant, brilliant. If you like HL2, then this and Minerva are all that you need.",
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"body": "Eternal Silence \n\nFPS + Space Fighter Combat = Awesome\n\nIf only it had more players. \nEdit: YOU ALL NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME",
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"body": "Synergy is great. It allows you to play through the HL2 (and both episodes 1 & 2) with friends. (Multiplayer campaign)\n\nRiot Act was a good one too. More challenging than most of Half Life, and even more fun when you play it with a friend using Synergy.",
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"body": "[Age of Chivalry](http://www.age-of-chivalry.com/) - Medieval mod for HL2 and it is built using the Orange Box SDK so it looks pretty nice also.",
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Rust removal tips? trying to clean up a fork with surface rust | I'm restoring an old trek and the fork is a bit rusty. not so bad that it's structurally compromised, but enough that it's aesthetically compromised (although according to bikesnob rust is becoming [fashionable](http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html)).
Does anyone know of techniques for removing rust and restoring a nice metallic finish? | 5 | [
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"body": "I don't have any personal experience with this technique, but I've heard aluminum foil works really well. Just crumble it up and rub the rusty spot down.",
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Help! Parents know and I'm freaking out! | Long time lurker, 1st time posting because I really need your help.
Long story short, I smoked weed in my backyard with a friend the other night. Today, my friend calls me and tells me my mom told his mom we had been smoking weed together.
Now I learned this about an hour ago, and all today my parents haven't acted any different than normal when talking to me. As I found this out, I have yet to talk to my parents again, and have maybe 2 hours to go till dinner with them.
Basically, I'm freaking out. I don't know if a neighbor saw me or my mom smelt it, if my mom knows I have weed at home, how long I've been smoking for, etc.
Please help calm me down you guys. | 9 | [
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"body": "If smoking is a part of your everyday life, then own up to it and treat it like the nothing it is. Why hide? Why lie? If your parents bring it up, tell them that yes, you do smoke, and dismiss it as that. If they press, tell them it's no different than any other hobby you have. \n\nI assume you're under 21 (or of an age where you can't drank either). Your parents are going to be worried about every decision you make. That's their job. They will be concerned with how much you drink, eat, and sleep, especially once you leave home for school. Their discovery of your smoking habits just adds one more worry to their minds.\n\nIn order to convince them that your smoking is okay, you need to live your life in a way that smoking *is* okay. Keep up with your schoolwork. Do charity work for others. Play nice. If you live a good life, your parents will see that smoking is not a harmful habit, and will gradually come to accept it.\n\nI recently had a discussion with my parents about what they did when my brother and I did when we were younger. They still worry about us getting enough sleep, what I'm eating and drinking, but less so these days. They know that we can handle life by ourselves, though, as my brother and I are in good shape, I graduate soon, and my brother has a stable job and a fiancee. A new question has gradually entered their minds, though, one that is worse and takes a higher priority than all others.\n\n\"Did we do a good job as parents?\"\n\nThis simple question has had my parents doubting every aspect of the last 26 years of their lives. Were they right in putting us through soccer practice and soccer leagues as we got older? Should they have taught us football or baseball instead? Did my father teach us how to swing a golf club well enough (he did, but we never could master the sport as well as he has. My old man stomps us every run through the links, and his woods are still *actually* made of wood.)?\n\nIt goes deeper than just sports. Did they feed us the right foods? Teach us how to cook well enough? Were they right in putting us through public schooling? They didn't hit us much when we were bad; rather, we were told to fix our mistakes for our mistakes and move on. Should they have used more discipline? Did they give us a good enough example of how to be a parent, so we may in turn be a good parent to our eventual kids?\n\nIf you feel your parents will \"freak out\" about your smoking, it is likely not because they are truly angry at the act of smoking. They are most likely freaked about about that dreaded question. Smoking is seen by many to be a Bad Thing; if their kid smokes, what does that say about them as parents? What did they do wrong?\n\nSo it's your job to show them that they did a good job raising you by living a good life. Show them that respecting your freedom to choose to smoke is the right thing, and that you are mature enough to smoke responsibly.\n\nTL;DR - Own up to your smoking, live a good life, and show them by example that responsible smoking is nothing for them to worry about.\n\n[5]",
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"body": "I've been there. High school girlfriend's parents found a note that mentioned weed, called my mom and we all had a nice long talk about it. It was an awkward few days but we got over it.\n\nGranted I don't know your parents but if they bring it up just say you've tried it a couple times. It'll suck for a little while but it's not the end of the world. It'll pass. Chances are they've been in your position too.",
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"body": "i'm confused. are you stoned right now? cuz, if so, you may be suffering from a common symptom of marihuana poisoning- paranoia.",
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"body": "I'm lucky because my parents smoke so I've never had to hide that I do it, but honestly, what is the big deal? Have your parents said before that smoking is a big issue for them? What is the threat of them knowing? I'm guessing you're a teenager and if your parents ask, I'd just be honest about it unless you really fear an extreme punishment. \n\nOverall though, take a chill pill dude. ",
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"body": "You have to just take it, if your mom knows theres nothing you can do, maybe your parents will be cool about it. You should just be honest. Don't tell them you have stuff in the house. Just act like you've only tried it a few times. ",
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I went from rags to relative riches. AMA | I was born to an extremely poor family in the south. I lived with my mother and 4 brothers. We didn't have running water and I had to go to the bathroom in a pot. I've had a job since I was 12. I began by being a farmhand and worked my way through college by flipping burgers. After college, I joined the army and then went to medical school. I'm now a successful physician.
While my childhood was pretty bad, I'm happy I went through it. I literally went through a phase when if I didn't work, I didn't eat. Hunger was a powerful motivator to work hard in school and jobs. It also precluded me from being too arrogant. | 124 | [
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"body": "'I literally went through a phase when if I didn't work, I didn't eat. Hunger was a powerful motivator to work hard in school and jobs. It also precluded me from being too arrogant.'\n\nor fat.",
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"body": "How old are you?\n\nBecause I can't imagine not having running water, but I guess you can get used to anything.",
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"body": "What medical school did you go to & what field of medicine are you in?\n\nDid you go into medicine for the money?",
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"body": "What would you say made the difference between the success you achieved and people who were from a similar background but who remained poor or less successful?",
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"body": "Recent research into \"happiness\" has indicated that people tend to have a biological \"set point\" of how happy/peaceful/free of depression/anxiety they are, and that this set point is, in the long run, surprisingly unaffected by big changes in circumstances...positive or negative changes often have a significant temporary impact, but people have a powerful tendency, over time, to revert back to somewhere close to their set point. Given your journey through the socioeconomic spectrum, what's your personal experience with this? I'm sure you have worries now that are probably different than the worries you had earlier in life...do you think overall you're significantly \"happier\" in terms of your overall levels of worry/anxiety/depression or lack thereof? I'm particularly interested in whether you noticed a change from the time just after you had escaped the really extreme poverty, but were not yet \"successful\", and your position of relative affluence now. thanks for any comments. ",
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"body": "How prevalent is drug use in your profession? I was recently on a flight with a psychiatrist, and he mostly councils and treats physicians with drug issues. He told me that its more common than you my think. A lot of meth, cocaine, and ironically, lots of nicotine.",
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"body": "are your brothers equally as successful? do you have a wife and if so, whats her career and upbringing? ",
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"body": "How old are you? Do you live on your own? Rent or own? Do you drive? What time do you need to leave for work and when do you get back home? Thanks in advance!",
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"body": "Is your username from that old Clarence Carter song? If so, do you know how much I am irritated that it will now be in my head for the next two weeks?\n\nSeriously, though, that is awesome what you've done and become. I grew up pretty poor as well, didn't have running water until I was 10, and I do believe it has kept me somewhat humble also. ",
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"body": "Do you have any anxieties or fears from your past, e.g. about poverty or being poor, that influences your life in the present? Or, conversely, do you find yourself not worrying so much about that stuff because you've been there and done that?",
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"body": "What was your experience growing up black past Jim Crow?\n\nDo you still live in the south?\n\nYou mention you travel, whereabouts?\n\n",
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"body": "Where would you say you stand politically? More to the right or more to to the left (elaborate more if you can)? How much do you think your personal childhood/life experiences shaped this?",
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"body": "This is going to sound shallow and crude, but whenever I read about chamberpots in historical contexts, I've wondered if people just peed in them or also took dumps in them? You're the first person I've ever found who could answer this.",
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"body": "what do you think of modern rap culture? do you feel like it is discouraging to young african american youth? It seems you took the right road, and rap culture pushes education to the side and drugs and rapping to the forefront",
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"body": "I have a few questions for you, based on responses I have seen you post so far. \n\n* Being 50, that puts you at the same age as my father. At what age and where at in your career/ life path were you when you had your first child? Did you and your wife **decide** to have a child, or was it accidental? Is your wife near your age, or younger, or older? How old was she when she had her first child?\n\n* Being a successful black male in the US, do you tire of being asked your opinion with the qualifier \"as a successful black male in the US?\"\n\n* Since you were in your 20's in the 80's, how do you feel about the popularity of media hyped \"black culture\" (e.g. rap music, spinning rims, FUBU clothing, grilles, etc) and it's evolution over the last 30 years and it's influence on the black youth of today? \n",
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my dog doesn't eat or drink when i'm not home.. even when i'm gone for the whole day... | my dog doesn't eat or drink when i'm not home.. even when i'm gone for the whole day is this normal? has anybody else noticed something like this?
when i get home he kinda greets me n stuff then starts eating and drinken =) it's kinda cute :p | 9 | [
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"body": "My dog gets pissed off and takes a nice steamy shit when we leave her at home. Consider yourself lucky",
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"body": "my dog has started doing that too, he has realized that if he eats when I'm not home, he may have to hold it for the whole day, so when I get home he will get all happy then go gorge himself and then go outside.",
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"body": "could be an 'exaggerated' submission display? as the alpha you're supposed to eat first and if you're not there your dog doesn't understand if it's ok to eat. (this is a pretty wild guess.)\n\ndo you leave food out for them all day? if so try putting their food bowl down, give then 10-15 min. to eat and pick the bowl back up. pretty soon they'll learn to eat at meal times.",
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"body": "Yes it does sound like it could be Separation Anxiety. I have never had to deal with SA in my dogs but I have an idea about how to deal with it. Is the eating and drinking the only problem? If so:\n\nFirst off it sounds like your dog has access to food all day. This is a no-no. He should be allowed to eat at two certain times (morning and evening) and have ten to maybe twenty minutes to eat. If he doesn't eat his food in that time too bad, take it away. A dog won't let its self starve. Don't worry about him not understanding this. Dogs will pick up on when meal time is pretty fast.\n\nIf he isn't eating unless you're in the room try taking some canned dog food, mixing it with his regular food and warming it up a little. I have yet to meet a dog who will pass this treat up. \n\nI wouldn't worry about him not drinking. Dogs will drink when they are thirsty (at least to my knowledge). Just make sure he has fresh, clean drinking water at all times. \n\nAlso you mentioned something about him pulling your arm off on walks. Instead of popping the chain and pulling him around just walk in the other direction. One of my puppies started having a leash walking issue when he was about 7 Months. This fixed it very quickly. \n\nFinally please stay away from The Dog Whisperer. He uses an extremely outdated theory as the basis of his training and could be considered abusive by some. I suggest watching It's Me or the Dog instead. ",
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Trees, how often do you ponder death after smoking? | does it plague your thoughts? if it does, are you experienced enough deflect the temptation to ruminate about it? | 5 | [
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"body": "A lot actually. But not in a morbid kind of way. Just, how I feel about my own mortality. It makes me really love that I am alive.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Pondering death is the sole reason for me getting a license for medication. 3.5 years since my father has passed, and at times i feel like an orphan. Medication has brought a sense of balance to my life that didn't seem there before.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Don't worry about death really, just very interested to see whats going to happen when i get there. Waking up tomorrow morning is just as interesting and new as is after i die. So far seeing the way the world grows and changes, this dieing thing should be fun.",
"score": 3
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Here's a game. Potentially NSFW. | * Roll a female character, preferably on a high-population RP server.
* Go to Goldshire, outside Stormwind. Go into the inn.
* Submit the pick-up lines you get to this thread.
Feel free to do other stuff like male characters and other areas. Following these instructions is bound to get you some interesting submittals, though. | 13 | [
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"body": "I once decided to try an RP server. Too bad I didn't research first. I picked Moonguard. I rolled a human. I wandered into Goldshire 5 levels later and the first thing I get is some guy /emoting masturbating to me. Just as I spot him and notice he's in a furbolg costume, he sends me a message asking if I'd like to do some RP with him as a furbolg.\n\nI deleted the character and went back to PvE.",
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"body": "My \"other server\" is RP, but I play horde. I also don't roll female toons so I've never encountered anything like this. Out of morbid curiosity, what's the Goldshire equivalent for belves?",
"score": 5
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"body": "Ok... Rolled a female warlock, dressed her in Xmas red winter clothes, armed her with a red rose, gave her a pet cat, and spent 30min at and around a PVE Goldshire inn. \n\nHorde was there killing the guards and trainers and I managed to stop the mayhem by dancing in front of them- three ran up to me and just stood there saying things in their horde language.\n\nWas invited to group with several random people. Unfortunately the only pickup lines I received were \"ASL\" and \"Sexy dancer hello\"\n\nI never thought of the Macarena as a sexy dance before.",
"score": 3
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"body": "This is from a while ago. Once decided to roll on an RP server, then got invited to do a level 1 raid on Hogger. We only get around 20 people, then I get invited to a guild.\n\nWe went into Goldshire, and the amount of ERP I seen was just ridiculous. At least 5 chars led on a bed /emoting sexual stuff, like a full on cybersex convo. There were even Night Elf and Draenei females dancing naked around the inn and cybering with everyone.\n\nI logged off and deleted that character.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Not me, but this is the wierdest thing I seen on an RP server (assumingly)\n\n[From WoWbash](http://www.wowbash.com//image-7806.html)",
"score": 3
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I've got a $1500 budget for my new desktop build... recommendations? | i.e. is crossfire/sli really worth it, best mid-tower case/mobo/processor for my budget, etc...
*EDIT: wow tons of great responses already. thanks! | 5 | [
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"body": "My suggestion build a cheap X58 Intel system, with a small SSD boot drive, and a fast Radeon GPU:\n\n$174\t[GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128375)\n\n$289\t[Intel Core i7-920](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202)\n\n$140\t[Patriot Viper 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1333](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220369)\n\n$410\t[SAPPHIRE 100281SR Radeon HD 5870](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102856)\n\n$220\t[OCZ Vertex Series 60GB SSD](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227394)\n\n$85\t[SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 1TB HDD](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152102)\n\n$90\t[ENERMAX INFINITI 650W PSU](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194022)\n\n$60\t[Antec Three Hundred](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042&cm_re=antec_300-_-11-129-042-_-Product)\n\n$26\t[Sony Optiarc Black 24X DVD-R](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118030)\n\nTotal: $1494\n\nEDIT: Just saw Tom's Hardware's January GPU guide recommending getting two Radeon HD 4890s instead of one HD 5870 if you're going to spend $400. You would need a more powerful and expensive PSU than I listed here if you did that though and would lose DX11.",
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Need help selling my collection | So I want to sell what I have, and I know that some of the books are worth something but I have never sold anything back so I don't want to get ripped off. Any tips? | 6 | [
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"body": "I would see what they are going for on eBay. That is going to have more relevance to you than any price guide.",
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"body": "Things are only worth what people will pay for them. For example, if your *convinced* you have a comic worth £20, but you can't find anyone that will give you £20 for it then its *not* worth £20.\n\nI'd just catalogue it the best you can and stick it up on ebay, it'll find the price its worth.",
"score": 5
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"body": "IMHO bundled complete runs of a title sell better own their own, especially on Ebay where you can court oversea collectors.\n\nComic book stores will rip you off by the nature of their business so wait for conventions if you have to sell in person.",
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"body": "Pick up an [Overstreet](http://www.gemstonepub.com/) guide, if you don't already have one. It'll give you *some* idea of what your books are worth, but more importantly it should have a grading guide, so you'll know what criteria potential buyers are looking at as far as the condition of your comics. \nNote that you most likely will *not* get full guide price for any of your comics, unless you find some generous and/or desperate buyers. Judging only by my own experience, I'd say consider yourself lucky to get 65-75% of Overstreet value. Of course, this will vary depending upon the buyer and the demand of the particular comics you're selling. \n \nWhere are you looking to sell? Comic shops may not be your best bet. Again, it depends on what you've got, but usually if a shop will buy at all they're going to buy in bulk. You may be able to find a buyer at a convention or maybe even a flea market, but I have no firsthand experience with that. Likewise with the buyers who probably still advertise in the Overstreet guide (been a while since I picked one up). Craigslist and eBay are a mixed bag, but I think you stand a better chance of getting fair value for your stuff that way... provided you divide it up into lots that will appeal to potential buyers looking for something specific (all Spider-Man comics, all Justice League comics, etc). If you have a very large collection this process may be more trouble than it's worth.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Cull the crap from your collection. From what I've seen, most comic shops don't want to wade through your 80s collection of West Coast Avengers or X-Force. You'll likely get a better reception if you've pulled all the Death of Superman out, too. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'd wait for comic conventions. People tend to be less stingy there. Comicbook shops will only rip you off and people are only looking for deals online.",
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Does anyone else want the person they are going to be in a long-term relationship with (or marry) to have tried certain drugs? | I have always felt that the person I am going to be with and remain committed to should be someone who has experienced states of mind opened up by certain drugs (in my case, I would be completely satisfied if they had tried mushrooms, once, for example). The only problem is that my two relationships relationships with people who had done as many psychedelics as me ended abruptly largely because of a lack of communication and lack of true and open emotional connection. Other really strong relationships of mine have lacked drug experience as a common bond in any way--and trying to introduce people after they pass a certain age feels like I'm forcing them--I want them to want it for themselves. Is it wrong of me to consider a lack of drug experience against someone as a potential partner a negative even though we get along in other ways? I can answer more questions about specifics but really I'm interested in any stories other people have about how they came to accept that they won't find someone who clicks in other ways *and this way* or people that haven't settled until they found someone who *did* click in this way. Am I conceiving of things wrongly? Is this symptom of some other need in my psychology or part of a larger societal cultural phenomenon? Thanks for any insight. | 93 | [
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"body": "I'd like a partner who is open for a bonding 1 on 1 MDMA session from time to time to be completely honest.",
"score": 17
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"body": "I do. I believe it is only natural to want people close to you to experience what has made you happy. It is also a happiness that one would naturally of course one would want to share with someone who is closest to you.",
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"body": "i always felt that same way. the person i am with now (who is my soulmate and long-term partner) and i have done several psychedelics together. i know i can be completely open and be myself around him, that i won't ever have a bad trip. it's important to me that we both want to peer out at life from different perspectives. i also feel that because psychedelics break all your frames of reference temporarily and allow you to enter higher states of consciousness, that if you do that with someone, that you bond together on a higher level. for me it is important, just as important as good communication, trust, sex, etc.\n\nwe actually just did lsd yesterday in the woods, in the snow, bright and sunny day. we did yoga amongst the trees and went trail running...it was unbelievable! not to mention the warm toasty in-bed time we had afterwards on the comedown :) i feel so close and connected to him, in a different and deeper way, every time we trip together. it's not false, either, it is lasting and noticeable and very much beneficial.",
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"body": "It'd be nice. But at the end of the day if I wanted a potential partner to be into even 1/4th of what I am I'd be alone for life. The population of nerdy girls into experimenting with psychadelics is pretty low. ",
"score": 10
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"body": "I've tried about everything and my fiance hasn't even smoked a cigarette. It troubles me some but she's cool enough about it and doesn't judge me if I occasionally partake. I want to live mostly clean now anyway so it's cool. I would rather her have done some experimentation but it's definitely not a deal breaker for me.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I would be a totally different person if I hadn't experimented with drugs, and it's nice to connect with someone who has had similar experiences. I've dated a couple people who had never used drugs and I felt like they were judging me when they found out about my past experimentation. I smoke weed daily and dabble in other drugs occasionally, and I really enjoy sharing those things with my boyfriend. I have plenty of straight edge friends, but when I'm looking for a relationship partner, it does factor in.",
"score": 7
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"body": "I can say from personal experience my first marriage was very strained by my use in psychedelics. My wife was okay with marijuana but she never grasped how psychedelics made me who I was. Her biggest problem was fear and not understanding how they meshed with your body. I'm a nurse. I work out and run every day and she knew how I take care of my body but still wouldn't join in my journeys. I definately think it's important in a relationship if that's something that's important to you, but it also can't be something that's a phase either.",
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"body": "Hm. I'm a druggitor who has been in a relationship with a completely 100% drug-free (*other than caffeine*) person for almost three years now, and we're pretty very serious about one-another. \n\nHe doesn't really care that I smoke pot, but I got the look of disapproval when I tripped on 2C-I the other week and mixed music for eight hours in my apartment... and I ended up cancelling a trip with two of my friends for him just yesterday. I've tried explaining that, for me, tripping is the closest I really get to having a religious or spiritual experience of such intensity and substance... but, really, how does one convince someone of that?\n\nHe'll never do a drug with me, and I find that sort of disappointing and depressing sometimes. I've never done ecstasy, and if I did now, he'd be the only suiting partner... so, I guess, I'll probably never get to experience ecstasy the way I'd like to. So I guess I probably won't.\n\nAnyhow, I can see why people would want their partners to have had certain experiences-- or, at least, to be open to those experiences-- for me, at least, it's survivable that my sir does not partake in any way. It hasn't made me look back... yet. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "a girl bought me a beer and a shot at the bar, then offered me a handfull of mushrooms. we then did a couple of lines in the bathroom.\nover two years later SHE IS NOW MY WIFE!\n\n",
"score": 7
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"body": "Considering there was a decent portion of my \"finding myself\" period spent smoking quite regularly, it would be far too difficult to date someone who thought all drugs were evil. I'm not even sure they would be able to completely understand why I became who I am today.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I think it's far more important just to meet someone who is open to new experiences. This applies to everything, not just drugs. A curious person makes a more interesting partner. \n\nTo answer your question though, I wouldn't mind if they had never done anything in the past, though I think I'd prefer to be in a relationship with someone who was willing to try something with me in the future.",
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What's it like to live in State College, home of Penn State, the nation's #1 Party School? This American Life devotes a 1-hour radio program to answering this question, from the perspective of life-long residents, students, administrators, and cops. | A description of the full show is [here](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1330).
You can listen by clicking on the Full Episode button that's below the picture of 'Beer Pong Balls'
I live in State College, too. This is a really accurate description of life here. | 13 | [
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"body": "This was a good episode. \n\nAs a former pizza delivery guy in a college town (Ft. Collins - CSU), I could relate. The part about people not tipping for wings was **so** true. I never understood that. ",
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Hey Music! Can you recommend some good industry mags? | Specifically, I'm looking for something about recording / producing / engineering. There are quite a few choices out there and I'm interested in hearing people's opinions before I just give up and pick a few myself. | 4 | [
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"body": "[TapeOp](http://www.tapeop.com/) - if you're in the states it's a free subscription as well. Never gets to the mailbox soon enough!",
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Ask Proggit: How do I get the rest of the programmers in the FIRST Robotics team I am in to use a VCS? | I am a member of a FIRST Robotics team, and one of the programmers. Last year, we would often work on parts of the code at the same time, and it was not uncommon for me to stay a half of an hour later to diff the other's code, and try to patch my copy. If we had worked on the same line of code, breaking the patch, I had to manually make the changes.
The kickoff was yesterday, and I have setup a VCS for us to use. The other two people on the programming team are resistant to using a VCS because they do not think there is a need and that copying files using a Windows shared drive on the desktop is sufficient.
I have a server at home using RAID 5 and I have setup GIT, complete with an empty repository for this coming build season, but I still cannot convince the programming team to use a VCS.
EDIT:
I am just going to use Git myself, and when something goes horribly wrong, fix it by checking a copy out of it. Thanks for the suggestions. | 15 | [
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"body": "It's high school dude, chill out. If one of the mentors or engineers helping out can force good coding practices, then ask them. Otherwise don't stress. Now, that being said:\n\n1) Get a github account, it's shiny\n\n2) Start using it just by yourself\n\n3) When shit breaks and you need to merge or revert or whatever, and github saves your ass, you'll gain cred, and eventually they'll start using it on their own.\n\nFIRST is a learning experience. Don't worry about being over-competitive; just worry about having a good time and learning something :)",
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"body": "I would advise using SVN over GIT as it is easier for people who have no VCS experience. As for getting them to use it I would set it up on all their machines for them with a GUI like Tortoise or if you are using an IDE that has integrated support like netbeans or eclipse I would use that.",
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"body": "Don't listen to all those guys who are like \"Pfft, you are a high schooler who cares\" -- I deal with the same issue in my professional life in a robotics research institution with people who are PhDs in CS. People just like to do things the way they're used to. \n\nAll it took for my group to switch to DVCS was a server crash right before a major deadline. Since the central server was down, I published a temporary Mercurial repository and we were back in business. After that incident, my group uses Mercurial for everything. However, it will still take some time for them to get used to it (they mostly still rely on the central Mercurial server as if it traditional VCS, and freak out when merges have to happen). \n\nJust use Git locally, and when shit breaks and their RAID crashes and they lose everything, you'll still have all your own Git clones of the code, and you'll be the hero. \n\nStill eventually want to get my other group (RoboCup humanoid league team) to switch from SVN to Mercurial. We still have a hiccup from time to time where someone commits something to the trunk that breaks the firmware or kernel module compilation, or adds a feature but forgets to commit an important file, and then everyone is stuck if they update. The long term behavior is that people don't update frequently (because they fear having to deal with complicated merges) and therefore they don't commit frequently (leading to enormous commits that are hard to grok). \n\nFor those stuck on Windows platform, I highly recommend [TortoiseHG](http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/) and [TortoiseSVN](http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/). These integrate into the Windows shell and make it really easy for them to work with the VCS. I have never used [TortoiseGit](http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/) but it may be good. ",
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"body": "Just make a script or cmdline to do a full sync and checkin. Put it on their desktops and mark it \"Sync Source\". Tell them it's faster than manual copies. You don't need a user to understand a good policy, just entice them to comply.",
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"body": "FIRST robotics? Yeah high schoolers can be shit-heads about good coding ideas.\n\nWhen I did FIRST it ended up being 2 programmers working on the same computer the whole time doing all of the coding work. The other three (including me) sat around and worked on the website because we couldn't work with the other 2. (Our website was pretty kick ass in the end though).\n\nUse whatever methods are necessary to force them to use a VCS. Show them how shiny github is and make them make free accounts there (instead of using your setup).\n\nGood luck.",
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"body": "Send a hot blonde over with a note that says, \"if you use VCS through to the end of the project I will be yours for a night\". When project is over tell guys you were kidding, but then point out how much more smoothly the project went by doing it your way... Then after they are finished beating your ass, remember the warm glow you felt by getting people to do it your way. \n",
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Should I send a Message | Okay, I know this is a novelty account, but I wanted to protect who I was.
I was on Match.com, just looking around because I'm single now. My GF and I broke up.
But I saw this girls profile. She's cute, and she seems like a match. Only problem is that I'm too poor being a college student to buy a subscription to send an email.
But she gave enough information that I was able to track her down of FB. She gave her first name (very unique name), what school she goes to and what year she is. So with my amazing FB stalking skills, I found her profile. I want to send her a message explaining this, but I'm afraid that it's too creeperish. What do you think Reddit?
Edit:wording AND she doesn't have a subscription either, she mentions that in her profile.
Edit: Well I sent it. I took all of your advice into mind. Let me know if you want me to copy what I sent. Thanks for all your input. | 6 | [
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"body": "'hi. i'm a broke-ass guy putting myself through college. instead of paying for a membership on match.com, i used my interninja google-fu and found you here on facebook. i find you attractive and feel we'd make a good match. let's go for some coffee. your treat.\"",
"score": 23
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"body": "If you don't want to pay for it just go for it. What's the worst that could happen? If you don't do it you'll never contact her in any other way. ",
"score": 11
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"body": "match.com sucks, but they have always offered a 7-day trial\nhttp://www.match.com/promo/promopage.aspx?keyword=tryitout",
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Redditers from the UK; In the US we're aware of "British" words that you use that we don't. Are there any American words that you drop when imitating us? | Examples of "British" words include: bloke, lorry, chap, cheers (when used outside of drinking), crisps, and roundabout.
Any terms that Americans use that sound characteristic and funny to you?
Edit: Stop suggesting more British slang. You're getting upvoted, and the helpful loyalists and their insights on American speech are at the bottom! | 16 | [
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"body": "word, dawg, yo, bitch, 'sup, totally, like, y'know, whatever, gun, neocon, commie pinko, freedom, pre-emptive strike, blackwater, hick, y'all, amiright?\n\nI could go on...",
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"body": "I watched Conan O'Brien interview Daniel Radcliffe once, and I was treated to the surprisingly astute Mr. Radcliffe imitating the American phrase \"I know, right?\" \n\nThe funny thing about this particular expression is that I'm fairly sure it did not originate organically, but was rather adopted after everybody saw *Mean Girls*. Tina Fey invented an Americanism.",
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"body": "\"I could care less\", \"LEGOs\", asphalt, keister or tush, tom-EY-to, eggplant, zuchini, scallion, cilantro, \"highway\" or \"freeway\" for motorway, the word \"ad\" referring to an advertisement, attorney, an \"anchor\" as in a newsreader, apartment, trash, \"bangs\" as in a fringe of hair, \"jel-o\" for jelly, \"skim milk\" for skimmed milk, using \"pudding\" for a specific type of dessert rather than a word for dessert, \"college\" for university,\"grade\" for a year of school, \"condo\", \"airplane\" for aeroplane, \"fender\" for bumber, diaper, flashlight, ladybug, popsicle, teleprompter, vacation, alimunum. \n\nThis is a surprisingly fun game.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Certain words with an O in them that sound like an A.\nFor instance when the word 'pocket' sounds like 'packet'.",
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How were you first introduced to Gentoo? Why did you start using it? | My story (not that interesting. skip if you don't care):
I was working for an ISP/hosting company in '04 or '05. Redhat announced the organization change and the whole Fedora thing, so the powers that be decided to investigate other distributions. A few test installs later I was hooked on Gentoo. The head admin mandated CentOS.
Around 2 years later one of the senior admins was replaced by a former Gentoo developer who managed to get some machines into production, and it grew from there.
tl;dr: work | 17 | [
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"body": "Dependency hell with a different distro made we want to try something new. \r\n\r\nAfter using Gentoo for a couple of months I noticed that even though the initial learning curve might be a bit more steep than the standard distros out there, it did result in a much more in-depth knowledge of what was going on in the system.\r\n\r\nOnce I realized that I never looked back, running Gentoo on both development and production servers since then.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I got a shiny new amd64 computer, before there were many 64bit distros. Because Gentoo is completely compiled, they were one of the first to release a 64bit version (aka: instructions on how to build your own) By the time I had Xorg compiled, I was so proud of myself. I was hooked. I left RH9 forever.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I started using linux around 99/00. Slackware for 6 months or so (not great for a beginner), then Mandrake for a little over a year, then I tried a few different distros before deciding Gentoo was the one for me. I especially liked the (then novel) idea of the package manager fetching stuff for me.\n\nI was also teaching myself to do more advanced programming at the time, so I liked the idea of have the toolchain, dependencies, and source code already installed.\n\nIt's basically been my full-time OS since then, I'm in grad school now, so I do have to dual-boot to edit collaborative papers and stuff (damn microsoft). I've run it on 2 laptops, 3 desktops, and a couple different personal web servers with little issue.",
"score": 3
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Does anyone have any suggestions for alternative exercises for chin-ups/pull-ups? | I'm doing a new workout routine at home. Chin-ups and pull-ups are awesome, and are a part of the routine, but I don't have anywhere I can do them. For the time beign I've replaced them with bent over dumbbell rows, but the muscle group focus isn't quite the same.
Does anyone have any decent substitutes? | 9 | [
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"body": "I thought you were asking because, like me, you can't eek out more than 1 or 2 and then hang from the bar while wiggling and grunting for a while until giving up. Damn it... anyone have an alternative to pull ups that will build strength in order to do more pull ups?",
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(f)irst time? Go easy on me and my pearls | More to come if commented that you want more.
http://imgur.com/GJfVy
http://imgur.com/7xBPB
http://imgur.com/NxgP3
http://imgur.com/DZpyO
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"body": "A very promising start, lady. But...that pesky bra keeps blocking my view of what look to be fantastic breasts.",
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[Offer] Considering gastric bypass surgery? Have a friend who wants it? Worried about someone considering it? I have an offer. | I've had the surgery (over 5 months ago) and I can answer any questions you might have, be an email buddy through the process, make recommendations of books or websites for information, whatever you may need. Even if you're really not sure surgery is for you, are worried about the risks, etc, I will honestly give you the positives and negatives. It's not something to jump into lightly and I don't think anyone should. I'm not a recruiter, just a girl who happens to know a good deal both good and bad about the surgery. I've done plenty of research on weight loss surgery and the various options. My mother and I have both had the surgery (she a year before I did) and we both have been very successful. I've lost almost 70 lbs now. I'd love to help someone else to achieve the same thing for themselves or at least to help them to learn more about the option in case alternatives don't work in the future.
I know this offer really only appeals to a very small niche of people, but I wanted do do something that would give back that few people could really do. Thanks! | 25 | [
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"body": "The only guy I knew who did it was desperate... over 400 pounds. Did it several years ago... i think 2004, kind of early.\r\n\r\nHe is now back up to 400 pounds, the hundred(s) he lost were torture, and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. \r\n\r\nHe was suicidal before, and is suicidal again. \r\n\r\n90% of those surgeries are done on people who shouldn't have them.\r\n\r\nYou are posting 5 months. I dare you to post five years from now.\r\n\r\nSick shit.\r\n\r\n\"I'd love to help someone else to achieve the same thing for themselves\"\r\n\r\nI'd love for you to post before and after pics of yourself, and commit to some 5 years from now pics. The real test is if you've maintained a healthy weight long term. ",
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If you want children but would NEVER adopt, can you give me a good explanation of why not? | I have fought with an ex girlfriend over this, and we once discussed it in a bioethics class I took in college. Nobody could give a good answer, it was all just, "I don't know, I just want my kids to be related to me." I just don't get it. I see no need to have my future kids be biologically related to me.
I have studied ecology and evolution for four years and intend to make a career out of it. So I know that we naturally should want to pass on our genetic material to the next generation. BUT humans do a ton of shit that goes against what we SHOULD do from an evolutionary perspective (like risk taking that could lead to death before reproduction, for example).
What I'm looking for is a good reason that does not have to with science, because I've already ruled that out. I just want to know how you feel about it. What is it specifically that you feel that makes you want to have your own biologically related kids, rather than adopting? | 3 | [
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"body": ">BUT humans do a ton of shit that goes against what we SHOULD do from an evolutionary perspective (like risk taking that could lead to death before reproduction, for example).\n\nThis sort of thing is a reproductive risk; while it might kill you, it might also make you more attractive to the opposite sex. Suicide would be a better example. It's a moot point, though; biological imperatives (in this case, wanting to pass on your genes) can influence behavior in one case while not influencing behavior in another. We're complex beings. ",
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"body": "I'm still young and if things go according to plan, still 5-10 years from seriously considering kids, but I am pretty sure when I get to that point I will want my own biological children.\n\nThe reason that I would want them to be my own is well... isn't that the whole point of having children? To pass on your genes to the future? I feel that I have some worthwhile traits to pass on, and with the right woman, I would want to see what we can create together.\n\nI just don't think I could ever be as attached to an adopted child as I would be to my own, and the reason for this is simple if not rational - because they are not mine.\n\nThough I tend to lean towards the nature side in nature vs nurture, maybe this has something to do with it.\n\nI would respond by asking you this question - in your opinion what is the purpose of having kids, if not to continue your genetic line?\n\nThey're tons of work, cost absurd amounts of money, cause you so much grief, and for what? Sure you can get an altruistic feeling from helping unrelated people succeed in life, but I've always had a greater urge to help my own family.",
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"body": "Sheer curiosity. I'd want to see if they'd look like me, act like me, have my husband's intellect and creativity, or my mother's baking skills. If I adopt instead of having any of my own kids, I'll never know what they could have been like or what they could have done with their lives. And that bugs me. ",
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"body": "Well, apparently this is just intended to be a pile-on against anyone who is less than 100% pro-adoption, but I'll give it a try anyway.\n\nAdoption is hard. Very hard. There's another comment in this thread that says \"All adopted kids have issues\", and it is being piled-upon, but the comment is true. At an absolute minimum, adopted kids have the issue that they're adopted (which is an issue that adoptive parents have to take seminars on, read books on, and be extensively quizzed upon, before adopting). Usually, they have many other issues besides. \"Perfect\" newborn children are quite rare, and most preferred, but most adoptive parents have to settle for a kid that is older, or damaged in some way.\n\nIt's entirely reasonable, IMHO, to decide that spending thousands of dollars, getting interrogated over a process of months with an extensive background check, all so that you can get the privilege of adopting a five-year-old with fetal alcohol syndrome who has been in six foster homes so far..... to decide that that just isn't a good deal. And that's totally separate from the genetic argument, which is also reasonable.\n",
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Reddit, I suck at drawing. How do I get better? | I'm awful at drawing, and always have been. What can I do to improve? I'm not expecting to become an artist, I'd be happy enough just being able to draw little doodles and MSpaint comics. Any advice? | 23 | [
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"body": "I'm glad you asked. I have also struggled with drawing. When I was little, I could never stay inside the lines in coloring books. As I got old I took some classes but nothing really helped. I could not make the images in my head appear on the paper. Everything changed when I met Sang-Tua, the Craftsman.\n\n---\n\n**Sang-Tua the Craftsman** (A reddit community **choose your own adventure** story) [as requested]\n\n**Chapter 1**\n\nSang-Tua is a kind of underground celebrity in art world. He designs moving sculptures from liquids and plastic casts. His work has been displayed all over the world. There is a show at the MET in NY this year. You should check it out if you get a chance.\n\nI met Sang-Tua in undergrad when he was a guest lecturer for some sort of seminar that the liberal arts school was hosting. I didn't see the lecture, though in retrospect I wish I had. No, I met Sang-Tua as he was being accosted by campus security for cutting down a tree with a pocketknife.\n\nSang-Tua was wearing an ill-fitting business suit. He'd cut the bottom half of the legs off the suit, to turn them into the ugliest shorts you've ever seen. On his feet were a pair of simple leather sandals. \n\nIf you had seen these things you would not have noticed. What you would have noticed was the tri-corner hat he was wearing. You know the kind- like the Americans wore during colonial times.\n\nThe security guards were standing about 10 feet away from Sang-Tua. One of them gripping his belt as if he had a gun to pull out. Of course he didn't and this was before tasers- so I was think maybe pepper spray? The other guard was talking into his radio, saying how they were having an \"incident\".\n\nI had noticed the situation too late, as I only became aware of this complete loony when I was about 5 feet away from him, as I exited the administration building. I saw the guards first, because one of them was making a hell fuss. \n\nI thought he was talking to me at first, but I quickly realized that he was talking to crazy-McGee over here next to me, as he was attempting to cut down this significantly sized tree, beaver-style with a pocketknife.\n\n“Dude,” I said, because I talked like a jackass in those days. “Dude, those guys are getting pissed, you might want to put that knife way.”\n\nThe strange man kept on chipping bits of wood, and he did not turn to me as he said, “Knife will know when work is done. I no need tell it.” His accent was foreign and strange to my ears.\n\n“Yeah, but, dude,” I continued, “you’re kind of destroying campus property.”\n\nThe man said, “Campus will no mind. Campus will keep wood. Campus will keep, also, much beauty.”\n\nNow the guards were talking to me, “Hey kid, why don’t you step away from this guy before you get hurt.”\n\nThe man said, “I no hurt boy. Boy stay. Boy maybe learn something. Not like you teach. Maybe learn to see.”\n\nThe campus guard said, “You’re getting him agitated. Take a hike.”\n\nI said, “he seems pretty calm to me.”\n\nBefore the guard could replay the man said, “See? Boy want to stay. You go. I teach.”\n\nAt that moment an Assistant Dean stepped out of the administration building behind me. He said to the man, “Excuse me? Just what do you think you’re doing?!”\n\n“I am fixing the beauty,” said the man.\n\n“You are destroying school property,” said the Assistant Dean.\n\nThe man stopped chipping away at the tree and turned to face the Assistant Dean. He spoke calmly, “You invite me come here- teach art. Then you invite me talk art. No one understand talk art. Now, I *do* art. Boy learn. Maybe you learn too?”\n\nThe Assistant Dean was at a loss for how to handle this man. “You say we invited you?”\n\nThe man nodded. “You say ‘Sang-Tua, come teach art’. I come teach art.”\n\nThe Assistant Dean was exasperated, “I don’t understand how destroying school property is art,” he said.\n\n“Ahhhh,” said the Sang-Tua. “You see building? How long has building stand here?”\n\nThe Assistant Dean thought. “Uh, this building has been around since at least 1933.”\n\n“Yes, is old building,” said Sang-Tua. “How long, you think window there?”\n\nHe was pointing to a second-story window in the center of the administration building. The tree’s branches had grown to obscure it. The Assistant Dean said, “Same amount of time I guess. That’s my office window. What about it?”\n\n“Yes, is old window,” said Sang-Tua. “How long you think tree grow here?”\n\nThe Assistant Dean shrugged, “I don’t know- fifty years maybe?”\n\nSang-Tua nodded, “I think tree here sixty years.”\n\nThe Assistant Dean waited for more, but the man just turned and resumed chipping at the tree. I notice he seemed fairly close to felling the thing.\n\n “…AND?!” said the Assistant Dean, impatiently.\n\nSang-Tua said, “You go to office. You look out window. You will understand.”\n\nI said, “I think he’s almost done, anyway.”\n\nThe Assistant Dean shot me a cold look. Then he looked at the damage to the tree and told the guards to keep everyone away.\n\nThe man paused and looked at the Assistant Dean again. “You go to office now. Take boy. You will understand. He will learn.”\n\nThe Assistant Dean paused and said to the man, “you don’t even think about leaving.”",
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"body": "Practice, experiment with all sorts of crazy drugs, realize that altered states of consciousness don't really help improve anything in your life, practice some more. ",
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"body": "Draw more. Practice quick gesture drawing, to give you a feel for capturing the underlying shape of what you're drawing rather than minute detail. Get some good instructional books, like those by [Hogarth](http://www.amazon.com/Burne-Hogarth/e/B000APHOOK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1263162855&sr=8-2) and [Bridgman](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=George%20Bridgman), but focus on drawing from life, not just from the books.",
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"body": "Pick up Drawing With The Right Side Of The Brain. It wont turn you hyper good, but you'll have some basics and won't suck so much.",
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Do you finish inside your girlfriend / wife on birth control? | Sup Reddit.
I realize this is a pretty juvenile question, but it's something that's been nagging at me for a while.
How many of you guys finish inside your GF / Wife on birth control?
My girlfriend and I have been dating for two years now and she's been on birth control since before she met me. I've always seen her take it on time everyday and she's never missed a pill. She tells me that it's ok to finish in her without protection, but I am scared to death of having a kid so I still wear a condom *most of the time*.
That's the issue though. Anybody who has had sex without a condom will tell you that the difference between wearing one and not wearing one is night and day.
I guess I'm just wondering how big of a risk you guys think it is and I'll take whatever advice comes my way.
Thanks for your time guys <3.
EDIT: Thanks so much for your comments everybody. I thought I was just being paranoid (which is why I asked). | 63 | [
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"body": "I've been with this girl for about two months and we don't use condoms or birth control pills. I know it's kind of risky but I just pull out and 'finish' on her tummy.\n\nHer bf is cool with it as long as I don't get her pregnant.",
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"body": "Yup. Every time. I think we stopped using rubbers the that exact 1 month after she started on the pill that the doctor assured us was the kick-in time. \n\nBoth of us are on the same page about short-term and long-term goals in terms of kids, and we both enjoy it more ... bare, so we just go for it. \n\nWe're aware there's a risk of getting babby formed, but are willing to live with it given the odds. ",
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"body": "Talk to your girlfriend, ask her about what if she would get pregnant, ask her how she feels about abortion and just get everything settled ahead of time and also let her know how you feel about it. ",
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"body": "My GF is super paranoid about this even though she is on the pill. She always want me to finish in her ass.",
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"body": "Been in a relationship with a girl who is on the pill for a year and a half. I only used condoms when we started dating. I haven't put one since. Finished 99% of time inside of her. No little Ox so far. ",
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"body": "I have with previous girlfriends, but not yet with my new girlfriend.\n\nI suppose it's really a question of trust. If you think that she *might* dupe you and get pregnant, then stick with the condoms. Sex with a condom still feels good, as you'll know from the past two years.\n\nHowever, if you trust her to keep taking pills, and if you've had a serious discussion about what would happen if, despite the pill, she got pregnant, then take it off. It feels very different, and I think much nicer.\n\nNote that the downside of comdom-less sex feeling much nicer is that I finish quicker.",
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"body": "Every time - she hardly ever misses a pill and we're kid free after 10 years (but usually wait a few days if she has missed one)\n\n\nIf you're both STD free then don't bother with the johnny. ",
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"body": "Thank God for abortions. They make it safe for condomless sex with BC; if the BC manages to miraculously fail (pretty impossible), non-invasive abortions can be acquired long after the pregnancy is discovered. Why worry?",
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"body": "My first child was a result of the .01% chance that comes with birth control :P Mind you I wouldn't trade her for the world, but if you are really not ready to be a parent, then use a condom too. ",
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"body": "My boyfriend finishes inside everytime. I've been on the pill since about 1 month after we met. Been 2 years and we haven't had any baby bumps yet. ",
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"body": "F/18 using Implanon. Yes.\n\nCondoms kill his erection (girls - if you have ever put one around your fingers and felt inside the vagina its easy to see why ... I assume most reddit guys already know why) and I love it when he comes inside of me. 5 months and counting without any signs of a baby. Implanon has a failure rate of 0.02%.\n\nAs for your situation take the opportunity and run with it, its worth the tiny risk.",
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"body": "My boyfriend does. Originally we were planning to just use condoms (though I was nervous about it; they're not that dependable, with a 15% typical failure rate), but then I ended up taking the pill to regulate my menstrual cycle and control pain. We talked about doing both, but ultimately opted against condoms because we both tested negative for STDs, they wouldn't dramatically alter the chance that I'll get pregnant, and they're a bother.\n\nWe *do* use condoms when I'm on antibiotics or when I forget a pill. Honestly, I wouldn't mind using condoms (or at least the pull-out method) more often; I've discovered that semen can really alter the pH of my vagina, and I'm susceptible to yeast infections a day or two after sex.\n\nWe're both adamantly pro-choice, but neither of us like abortion. We've already agreed that if I end up pregnant, we'll go the adoption route. Needless to say, I *really, really* don't want to get pregnant. \n\nI don't distrust him in any way, but it's nice to take my pills and feel in control of my own reproduction; I can understand where you're coming from. You probably don't have a whole lot to worry about, but an additional safety net certainly can't hurt.",
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"body": "It was 4 years of pure bliss! I just isn't the same with a rubber. It is by far more intimate to bust a nut inside your partner. It also means you can be more spontaneous too.",
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"body": "Keep in mind, too, that the choice doesn't HAVE to be between finishing inside or condoms. You can go without and practice the withdrawl method...it's gotten a bad rap, but [new studies](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Economy/story?id=7688558&page=1) show that it is an effective, viable form of birth control. No condoms AND an extra layer of protection? Yes, please!\n\n",
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"body": "When taken correctly, BC is 99% effective. I can't understand why you wouldn't come inside your girl.",
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"body": "My wife got pregnant while on the pill. She took some antibiotics, and it somehow made the pill ineffectual.\n\n[documentation](http://www.drugstore.com/qxa1091_333181_sespider_antibiotics_interact_with_birth_control_pills.htm/)",
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"body": "I wish my fellow would, but neither of us are in the position to have a slip up, so it hasn't happened yet, even though I've been on the Mirena IUD for almost a year. ",
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"body": "I didn't when I was really young. Knocking someone up when you're a teen, and doing so when you're in you mid to late twenties is a very different scenario. Now, while I don't really have a burning desire for kids I could see myself as a dad. Back then it would have been the end of the world. ",
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"body": "Studies show that due to still unknown chemical processes, women tend to bond with men with whose semen they have come into direct contact. \n\n(which is why you see that certain sparkle in her eye whenever I walk by)",
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Noob question: How do you flesh out a simple melody? | I have a noob question that's been bothering me for a long time. Suppose I had a simple melody in my head that I'd like to turn into a song. How would you find a chord progression that matches what you hear in your head?
I've tried reading a little music theory before to help, but it was overly technical and did not help. Is this more of an ear-training issue? Or do musicians typically start out with a chord progression and go from there? I guess the answer varies between musician and genres, but I'm just trying to get a general feel for how music is typically taken from an idea in your head to a more developed song. Again, I don't know much about music composition so I can probably learn something from any feedback you can give :)
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Edit: Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to reply. | 23 | [
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"body": "\"Safe\" melodies, the sort that tend to appear in nursery rhymes, tend to resolve to chord tones. That is, when you have, say, a melody that goes CdefGabeFabE, where the capitalized letters represent the first beat of a measure, you are looking for chords in which the resolve note is functioning as a 1, 3, or 5 of the chord.\n\nExample: The above melody could have a chord progression of C C F C. Or F G Dm Am. Or C G Bb A...\n\nThe possibilities are nearly endless, and that's with keeping the resolutions fairly \"inside\". There is nothing stopping you from resolving to, say, a 9 or 11 of a chord. \n\nPoint being, you should experiment a ton, but also find a method of learning music theory that you can get into. If you already KNOW what will be \"inside\" or \"outside\", then you can experiment with a bit more focus on purposefully creating and releasing tension.",
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"body": "The other angle is to *figure out how to write down the melodies that interest you or have some impact on you*.\n\nYou study and immerse yourself into that body of music, so you understand it not just intellectually, by emotionally, etc. and how you write it down so someone else can also play it.\n\nThen you start to learn to write by imitating the things that inspire you, and then at a pace comfortable to you, shift them around and change them up.\n\nAt some point you will internalize the artistic vocabulary of the style that you are studying, and you will be able to make new things with it.\n\nYou can steal all kinds of snippets from all kinds of styles and blend them together into your own voice, which might not be the style you are first interested in.",
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"body": "Usually, I just put the melody into a software program, and just sort of make up a harmony without following rules. My only rule is to not do the same thing twice. However, if you want to make pleasing and consonant music, try using the circle of fifths. To use this, you need to know your key. There is probably a note in the melody that feels kind of like the home base. It is strong, and it feels like the other notes lead to it. This note is your key. If you can make the melody somehow fit onto the circle of fifths, then you are in luck. If not, then try making the harmony so that there is a note that stays the same between any two chords. Like, for I to V, the fifth of I is the same as the root of V, so that note is the same between chords. Obviously, that's not always possible, but it does sound good. Try not to let the harmony get too clustered on the lower notes, it should be a bit spacey on the lower end and less spacey on the upper end. The lowest note usually should be the root of the chord, but it doesn't have to be. Obviously, these suggestions aren't rules, and tastefully breaking them is part of what spices music up. More avant garde music uses different systems of harmony entirely, so don't let yourself get confined.",
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"Why can't we listen to my music?" | EDIT: I see some of you don't like my taste in music. I'm just curious, someone tell me what you think of [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6a4cJU3vA) ... (I always thought of it as a good alternative to an R&B song)
Almost everywhere you go these days, people are listening to the same songs by these glorified pop stars. Now I have nothing against pop music, but MTV and radio have destroyed music in general. I feel like these mediums have created an almost a "shallow" perception of music.
For example, you go to a party, and what's playing? Some lady gaga song, some beyonce song, etc... I have nothing against these artists, but why is all this music so limited and similar? Why can't we rock out at a party? My girlfriend loves to listen to z100 (for you redditors from the NY, NJ areas) and all I hear is the same wannabe pop songs played every hour.
Break, so far, does anyone agree with this? or am I just coming off like a condescending asshole (not my intention.)
Anyway, my next point, which to start off I'll say I'm not a huge fan of rap or hip-hop (I won't bash, just not my thing). Lots of people my age (20's) tend to like more rap/hh stuff and they're always shocked when I have no idea what songs they're referring to. It's almost made me nervous to play my preferred music around other people because I know they just want their music played and won't even bother giving my music a chance.
I guess it all boils down to the fact that my taste in music feels underrated, I feel like I should turn on the radio and hear the musical stylings of [Anthony Green](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZlAunMb8o) or [Jonny Craig](http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Set+It+Off+Like+Napalm/11135595) (Two amazing vocalists, I often wonder why they aren't more popular). I'd like to go to a party and rock out to some [Closure in Moscow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1XFtLYfgr0) or [The Color Morale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5WUPTZd9cg). I feel like rock is under-appreciated and often overlooked. And bullshit, Nickelback shouldn't even be considered to be ANY form of rock.
It's hard telling people what bands I like because they never know who I'm talking about, and it always makes me a feel a little uncomfortable. I mean I'd once like to talk to someone about that sick guitar riff, or that nasty double bass, or how good craig owens sings.
Anyone else feel this way with even with your own taste in music?
TL;DR Why does less musical talent = more praise and notoriety.
Also, unrelated, [here's](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eKSbgF9Q40) a cover of bittersweet symphony that you guys may enjoy. | 7 | [
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"body": "My favorite is when people say things to me like \"Oh, you are a musician why don't you put on the kind of music you like, I'm sure its good.\" so I'll pick a song and 30 seconds later someone goes \"wtf is this shit?\" and switches the stereo back to pop/rap. ",
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"body": "Ah the classic hipster in a mainstream world problem.\n\nAnyways there is plenty of music that isn't mainstream that would go well at parties. [Passion Pit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfseWNmlds), [Cut Copy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1X2TxW5Rk), [Ratatat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCCxQTI9zw) and [The Streets](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGtlUMMkOU) are a couple i can think of right now.",
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"body": "Since when were you the arbiter of taste? Since a lot of people like to listen to pop and hip-hop, but they don't like \"your\" music, that makes them wrong? Just because you have fairly specialised taste in a certain area, doesn't necessarily make you more enlightened. It's just music - lighten up.\n\nFor the record, I like some weird-ass music - but just because I appreciate the skill and beauty of Frank Bettschneider and Max Richter doesn't mean I'd ever put them on at a party.",
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"body": "At parties people just want to have fun. And pop music is mostly universal and mostly fun, so it makes the most people happy. So... yeah.\n\nPop and hip-hop dominate the majority of the people's musical taste(is this even true?) probably because its what they grew up on. So, they understand the \"language\" of the genre and they are able to extract as much enjoyment as possible out of the songs. I would suggest immersing yourself in pop or hiphop and trying to enjoy it, or at least see where everyone else is coming from. You might not ever like it as much as rock, but maybe you'll have a better time when you're forced to be around it.\n\nAlso, throw your own party where you are in charge of the stereo.\n\nEDIT: Also, start dancing more.",
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"body": "The reason people do this is they' are looking for familiarity, not good music. Same reason why popping in a Backstreet Boys song makes people go wild. Most people at parties aren't looking to expand their musical taste, they just want familiar noise.\n\nThe other problem is. Even with \"good\" music, there's still going to be a huge dispute over what is good. For example, I just checked out Closure in Moscow and The Color Moral. To me, that is terrible music. I would never listen to it myself, and I'm sure you would feel the same way about mine.\n\nSo, the two choices are:\n\n1. Play \"bad\" music that most people are familiar with.\n\n2. Play \"good\" music that most people won't know, or even agree on whether or not it's good.",
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"body": "get cooler friends. don't be ashamed of what you listen, introduce them to what you like, if they don't like it, who cares, who do you need to impress? I hang out with friends who wouldn't know a lady gaga song if they heard it, i have always been real into various types of music and so have my good friends. I am the asshole always introducing my friends to new music and bands, half the stuff they hate (specifically metal, grind, psych, etc) but they're always open minded, ",
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"body": "Party music needs something joyful with a solid beat that you can dance to and the music you linked to doesn't fit the bill in the least. ",
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"body": "The worst is when someone says, \"I LOVE music!\" You expect a good conversation to spring from this, until you found out the music they \"love\" is the same music everybody else listens to because it's on the radio all the time. Also, I hate picking up someones iPod and discovering they only have one or two songs per artist. I'll say, \"if you love this artist so much why don't you get more of them?\" I think people take music for pure entertainment nowadays. Most of the time they seem to like these rap and pop songs because the subject of the song amuses them. ",
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"body": "It's the same reason you can't find good movies, good art, or, on a different note, real science, being discussed in pop culture. I just don't think enough people have the capacity. I think I sound like the pretentious asshole that I am. Sorry.",
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23/m/NYC seeks running advice for starting and beyond. Also, cyberz. | **TLDR: Do you structure your jogging progression? How often do you increase the duration of your runs? When do you stop adding minutes? How often do you jog (at the beginning as well as when you're "done.")**
Wassup b/r/ohemoths.
Recently I moved out of my parents' house for graduate school. As in, from Seattle to New York move out. One of the things I want to do as far as taking care of myself is concerned is get a regular running regimen going.
Here is some information about me. I don't know if all of it is necessary, but I figure too much info is better than not enough.
**About me**
* 5'9, 215 pounds
* 19% Body fat (last measured 2 weeks ago)
* Previous experience in cardio is elliptical-only
* Not the best distance runner in the world. Football through high school and emphasis on lifting weights has left me with more explosiveness and less speed over distance.
**My goal**
* Six-pack in 2 to 3 months. I don't care what I'll end up actually *weighing,* I just want that cover model figure.
Here's what I have done so far for "setup":
* Got shoes
* Watching what I eat ("clean," filling foods. Lots more veggies/beans/fibrous stuff. Avoiding high-calorie, low-nutrition convenience foods)
* Looked up Pose Method and ChiRunning (have no f*cking clue what this feels like to actually do properly).
Here's my plan so far:
I've got a 1 mile round-trip course plotted out for my first run tomorrow using mapmyrun.com. I'm thinking of running first thing in the morning M/W/F, and adding another half-mile every week. NYC is a fairly flat area to run, and I'll mostly be sticking to pavement & sidewalks.
From what I can remember from high school, I bust out a whopping **TEN MINUTE MILE** :(
That translates to tacking on an extra fifteen minutes of running a week until I hit 3 miles a day, 3 days a week.
Is that enough? Do I have my program's progression scheduled appropriately? Should I push harder? What should my ultimate goal be as far as frequency and duration of workouts?
Thanks b/r/os.
*I take off my robe and wizard's hat.* | 7 | [
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"body": "21/m/MA here. I've been barefooting since last summer. I'm not suggesting you do the same unless you really want to. NYC's terrain would probably factor into that decision quite heavily. Anyway, some tips:\n\nIt's very much mental. Try to enter into a state of mind where you realize that running is one of the most basic forms of locomotion and humanity has been running for millions of years. If you like running, you will keep running. Find some way to enjoy it. Stay comfortable while you run and it will be easy.\n\nOur bodies have evolved into a form that is optimized for running distances, and you are the proud owner of one of these fine meat-machines. Make use of that evolution by running efficiently. There are plenty of resources out there that will help you understand how to get more efficiency out of each stride - Pose and Chi and good to look at for ideas.\n\nBreathe. Don't listen to music. Appreciate the scenery, mind your surroundings, beware hazards, and try not to get pissed off at the inconsiderate pedestrians that will inevitably do something to annoy you.\n\nDon't assume that dogs are safe. Most are, but some aren't, and they are easily excited by runners.\n\nI personally like to run in the mornings or at night, but running in the morning is really a great way to start the day.\n\nIf you're having trouble staying motivated, get a running partner. The obligation to show up to meet this person will keep you from sleeping in.\n\nI could go on, but I'd be rambling.",
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Is it possible to have conky on both sides of the screen? | [This](http://imgur.com/LgQEv) is what my conky looks like. I was wondering if it was possible to make it looks something like [this](http://imgur.com/Tqynn). | 17 | [
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"body": "Of course you can.\nOne of the way to do this is to have a **very** wide conky, with elements on both sides. I wouldn't recommend this, though, because it would be a real mess. \nThe proper way is to have two conkys running (you can specify the configuration file you want with conky -c). You put one on the left, one on the right, and you're done.",
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"body": "You can run two instances of conky with a separate .conkyrc for each one, you just have to specify which configuration to load for each one.",
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I want to become Buddhist. How can I know what branch is better for me? | Now, this has been in my head for a month or so. I find the beliefs of tolerance and communion found in the teachings of this religion/life philosophy to be accordant to my view of the world. I've been trying to get a hold of the basics, with little luck so far. I've read "The Laws of Life" by the Dalai Lama (i read it in spanish, my mother tongue, so I dont know what the english title is).
Maybe someone can guide me to contents that can enlighten me on the best branch/school/tradition to follow. Thank you for your input. Maybe you can even point me to some books or content. | 26 | [
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"body": "I practiced Tibetan Buddhism for about 5 years (and helped run a center), and practiced Zen for a few years. All I can say is, don't discount any one in particular. \n\nLike one of my teachers said, it's like dinner. Some people like certain flavors that others don't. All will feed you.\n\n\n",
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"body": "I see. Actually, i'm in Central America, and there are no groups near me. I don recognize that as one of the things that led me to cosider Buddhism: It's not all blah-blah-blah. Can you recommend me any information sources? If you can, in plain english. I've been trying to look for myself but I honestly dont know where to start",
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"body": "Check out the back of Shambhala Sun (and other, similar) magazines. There are listings around the U.S., so hopefully there will be something near you. There are also many good teachers on the internet, possibly in Spanish.\n\nAs for the type of Buddhism you practice, it depends on your inclination. Get some more books on Zen, Theravada, Tibetan Buddhism, mindfulness, and read a little on each one. \n\nMost important though, is to start a daily meditation. There are many places on the internet with instructions. Meditation is the foundation of Buddhism. I found this: http://www.alternative-medicine.net/meditation/spanish.html",
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"body": "Standard Buddhist disclaimer: All paths lead to the same destination.\n\nStraightforward answer:\n\nMahayana or Theravada.\n\nWhy?\n\nThese schools start of with simpler concepts and gradually build on them, which is easier for a beginner to understand, compared to Zen, where you have to try to experience wisdom spontaneously, or compared to Tibetan, which is hard to find a good teacher. Mahayana or Theravada have very well structured syllabuses. I highly recommend starting out with either, and then exploring further, delve into Zen and Tibetan Buddhism once a firm foundation has been gotten. The other branches are merely different ways of looking at the same problem or different ways to tell the same story, so it will probably be a very eye-opening experience. But since you merely asked where to start, so there you have it =)",
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"body": "First figure out what you already believe, then eventually figure out which strand sounds most similar. ",
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"body": "Doing a long term meditation retreat will really get to the heart of Buddhism. I spent several years studying text and trying to muddle through meditation, but it was only when I did a meditation retreat that I really got something beyond the intellectual understanding. In Japenese Zen, they say a person can reach Kensho, small awakening, within 10 days of intense meditation.\n\nI highly recommend the following retreat centers surrounding Goenka's Vipassana. They're 100% free including free fiood and housing and not dogmatic. There are also centers worldwide.\n\nhttp://www.dhamma.org/en/bycountry/la/\n\nAnd as everyone said, be open to all the sects. They're all paths reaching to the same mountain top.",
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"body": "I like the branch with the 4 Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, meditation, the concept of impermanence, cause and effect, etc. \n",
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I made a TF2 Imgur account | I thought that it might be cool to have a single imgur account with some of the greatest TF2 screenshots and images in one place.
http://teamfortress2.imgur.com/
If you want me to upload an image send your picture to:
[email protected] | 10 | [
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"body": "Am I the only one that thinks this will eventually become just a bunch of stupid pictures that aren't even cool/funny?",
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IAmA convenience store manager. AMAA! | No idea if this is interesting at all, but I love IAmA and wanted to contribute. I definitely have a few interesting stories anyway.
General info:
* We're located on a university campus in Canada.
* We're open 7am-4am, 7 days a week, and 24/7 during exams.
* I am involved in the business side of things, as well as HR, and I work regular shifts. Last night I worked until 4am.
AMAA, including about:
* Exclusivity contracts and why we all hate Coca-Cola
* Our insane duelling chocolate sales reps
* The sort of people who work in convenience stores
* How to buy cigarettes as a minor
* Getting customers arrested
* Working nocturnally
* The business and logistics of running a convenience store – how magazine stands work, various orders, etc.
or pretty much whatever else you guys want to know, I guess! I will not identify the specific city I live in, lest I end up saying some harsh things about my coworkers.
**EDIT**: 19:30 EST, going to get dinner. Will check back later this evening if there's any more questions.
**EDIT 2**: 20:20 EST, I'm back, answered the rest of the questions. | 12 | [
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"body": "What are the logistics of running the store? It may seem boring to some but I find it absolutely fascinating.",
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"body": "I also work at a convenience store in Pennsylvania. We are supposed to card everyone who looks under 27. So how would you recommend buying cigarettes as a minor?",
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Hey Reddit artists, please give me feedback on my art and photo community! | I started the image bookmarking website http://imgfave.com about a year ago, and it has since grown to about 30,000 visitors a day.
My goal has always been to build a community focused on original, user uploaded art and photography, I just felt that it would be easier to gain traction if I start it off as an image bookmarking site.. and that has seemed to work pretty well.
Now I want to make imgfave a killer art community. I just recently added an upload option for artists and photographers and I'm beginning to bump more and more user uploaded work to the front page. I'd love your feedback on how I can make imgfave a great art community. It will never be as feature rich as deviantart, but I think that could be a good thing. What do you think?
PS. I know the ads suck, but I'm barely breaking even as it is. I hope to have a paid pro account for artists in the future and get rid of ads completely. | 11 | [
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"body": "you started imgfave? rad dude, i use it all the time (i'm /robertfrancis on there). love the simplicity of the layout and the image-adder-mabob, and there's always good content. i half expected it was melissa's website since she seems to be the imgfave all-star. hadn't noticed the user submission deal, i will give it a try. thanks and well done!",
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How do you cope with death--specifically the death of a loved one? | A bit of background: I was raised Catholic but left the Church in a few years ago and have self-identified as an atheist since then. I have not had a major loss in my life since then. My grandmother, matriarch of my family, was found fallen by staff at her nursing home this afternoon after she missed breakfast and lunch. A CT revealed that she had a [subarachnoid hematoma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subarachnoid_hematoma) (if I remember what I was told on the phone a few moments ago) this morning; the prognosis isn't very good--she will probably be dead in a day or two.
I am by no means questioning my atheism or the existence of the soul or an afterlife &c, but I want to know how you deal with it when things like this happen. Is it simply that she's lived a good full life and now she's gone and it blows for us but she's not suffering and that's good? Am I trying too hard to assign a qualitative value to this and it just is?
Thanks. | 11 | [
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"body": "For me, it goes like this:\n\nEvery human life, for good or ill, maybe even for both, affects the lives around it.\n\nThe effect transfer from those people to others, like a wave.\n\nSome people make big waves, some people make small ones, but we all make waves.\n\nThose waves we create when we're alive don't stop when we're dead. They keep going, bouncing around human society.\n\nA woman could be dead a hundred years, but the way she treated her husband, the way she raised her children and helped with her grandchildren, the way she did her job, all of that has ramifications, maybe very small, but present nonetheless, for possibly thousands of people.\n\nSo we die. Of course. Like plants die, and animals, and stars. But the light from a star keeps traveling even after the star has expended its fuel and exploded.\n\nThe other thing I'm hoping for is that in a future time, millions of years from now, a highly evolved species, either evolved from humans or aliens, are going to find a way to dip back into the stream of time and rescue the consciousness of every sentient being. I expect to awaken from death, my memories and personality imprinted into a robot. Eight feet tall and *ripped.*",
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"body": "I suppose I would deal with death the same way I deal with fear of my own death.\n\n* I will always *have lived*. My existence cannot be erased.\n* We all have had an effect on the world no matter how small.",
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"body": "Do you remember your legos? Remember how you'd always make something amazing, but then eventually have to take it apart to make something else amazing? People are those amazing things. Not just people; the entire universe is made up of little legos. Sometimes they come together to form amazing, wonderful things, but they always have to be taken back apart eventually because other amazing things deserve their time too.\n\nWhen a family member dies, I'm sad, but at the same time I'm happy; for one thing, I'll always have the memories, and now no longer have to worry about ruining my relationship with that person, but more importantly, I think about all the atoms that make them up. Carbon, Phosphorous, Nitrogen, and dozens of others now free to wander the universe again, until someday they join together with other atoms and make something else amazing.",
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thiis one goes out to all sleep walkers. what is the weirdest thing youve ever woken up doing while sleepwalknig? | mine was in the middle of the woods when i was about 9 years old. i was camping out and apparently i wandered off in my sleep and woke up to have to find my way back to camp in the pitch dark. | 9 | [
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"body": "When I was seven years old, my mum (newly split from my dad) took us away to Gran Canaria, where we stayed in a swanky hotel. God knows how because money was tight but she scrimped all year and we went on an awesome holiday.\nOne night a waiter at the hotel (who had his eye on my mum) invited her for drinks in the hotel bar, after his shift finished. She naturally jumped at the chance, horny squirrel that she was. \n\nThey were hitting it off just fine. I was all the way up in our room on the 8th floor. They were both sitting where they could see the elevators.\n\nThe light flashed, the buzzer dinged. I walked out stark bollock naked, into the foyer. Before anyone could get to me, I wandered back into the same elevator and pressed the 8th floor button.\n\nI think I ruined her evening of lust.",
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"body": "I had a dream that I was on a spaceship that was flooding with water. I panicked about getting electrocuted and unplugged everything I could find, then barricaded myself in a room.\n\n\nI woke up to find that everything in my room was unplugged, and my exercise ball was lying on top of me.",
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"body": "I once woke up naked outside my front door. My other half was on holidays so I had to stay outside for eight hours before borrowing a towel off one of my neighbours and then walking a mile to the estate agents to get a spare key. Thank God it was summer!",
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"body": "(1)Woke up freezing my ass of with the all the windows in my room open, with all my blankets stuffed in the closet, and I was in my nice dress clothes tie and everything. (2) Woke up while I was making a sandwich. (3) I was a moments away from peeing on the roommates floor in his room, luckily he stopped me.",
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Reddit: Who is your role model? | I was asked who my role model is for a college application and I could not think of one. Since I was on reddit anyway (like always), I figured I would see if your role models would spark any ideas.
So Reddit: **Who are your role models?** | 16 | [
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"body": "Richard Feynman. Great, honest scientist and human being, with a love for nature and human quirks. One of the finest humans who ever lived, in my opinion.",
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"body": "My dad. He came to the US with only part of a high school education and now owns a business. He also lost his own father when he was only 7, but somehow knew how to be the best dad in the world when he had me and my sister.",
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"body": "[Stephen Fry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEhtOhwL8xk) and the dude that wrote [this comment](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/alae8/warning_potentially_disturbing_question_sexy/c0i6kuh).",
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"body": "I've never had one specific role model. My ideals, morals, values, etc come from general observances. Not only from things like TV and movies, but whats going on around me as well. I learned how to act (or, to be more specific, how *not* to act) by these examples. ",
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"body": "1SG Dowdell.\n\nHe was my section sergeant in the Army and eventually my platoon sergeant. I don't really know how to describe it, but he was just constantly a perfect professional. He had a way of joking around, but never putting himself in a position to compromise his position. There were hundreds of times where I realized that he was teaching me a lesson and I had no idea. It's really weird to think about, that I'm almost as old now as he was when I met him.\n\nHe's since become a First Sergeant (which is incredible for his age/time in service). I've been out of the Army almost 5 years, but even now I still think to myself \"Is this what SFC D would want me to do\".",
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"body": "Not really a role model, but I always liked the character of Jerome in Gattacca, he seems to have the discipline, self-worth, determination and responsibility sense I wish I had. So when I find myself slacking, procastinating or simply not doing something productive to improve my current situation I always remember this acronym: WWJD?\n\nI know it sounds very silly but it works wonders for me, also I'm thinking of printing it and posting it in my cubicle so I stop getting harrased by my religious co-workers",
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"body": "Michael Collins\nIrish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and MP for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. . founded the IRA won Ireland independence from the british all before he was 32\nThis man is a KING\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_%28Irish_leader%29",
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Is the fight worth fighting? | One of my coworkers is very forceful with there political opinions. Everyone has learned to ignore him at this point, because of how annoying and aggressive they are. He actually threatened to sue the company if they tried to prevent him from watching his particular news channel in the break room.
Many of the things he is saying are factually wrong, and normally I would at least try to correct those, if not engage in a full debate on some of his view points. I just don't think it will be at all productive for anyone though.
So reddit, what would you do? Is it worth debating with those you are fairly certain won't change their minds? Or can I just continue to ignore him and enjoy my breaks? | 5 | [
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"body": "Print and post this in the break room wall or bulletin board:\n\n\"I HAVE LEARNED EARLY ON NOT TO WRESTLE WITH A PIG. IT GETS DIRTY. BESIDES, THE PIG LIKES IT.\" - George Bernard Shaw\n\nPick your own fight (wisely).",
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"body": "Politics shouldn't be discussed in the workplace (unless you work for a politician) any more than religion. I wouldn't get into an argument with him, but I would report to HR that you feel he is being unprofessional and encourage anyone else who is sick of his ranting to do the same. ",
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"body": "Well, given the fact that he's an idiot, independently of his political opinions, don't lose one single second trying to change such dumb mind. It's a lost battle.",
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"body": "Or try laughing at every incorrect thing he says like it's hilarious. When he asks why you're laughing, tell him you thought he was joking. Then leave while snickering. ",
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What movies are there out there that have a quote where somebody says the title of that movie? | I *love* it when I'm watching a movie and somebody in the movie says the title... I'm not sure why.
Can anybody name some movies (and maybe provide some quotes) of movies where this happens? | 5 | [
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"body": "Michael: You know, your average American male is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development.\n\nNarrator: Hey. That's the name of the show. ...",
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"body": "[Star Trek: First Contact](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/)\n\nDr. Zefram Cochrane: So you're all astronauts on some sort of... star trek?",
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"body": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, when Mary reads to Dr. Mierzwiak a fragment of Alexander Pope's *Eloisa to Abelard* from Bartlett's Quotations.\n\n\"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.\"",
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"body": "- The Godfather\r\n- Apocalypse Now (if you count that it's written)\r\n- Fight Club\r\n- Snatch\r\n- You Only Live Twice\r\n- Johnny Dangerously\r\n- Spies Like Us\r\n- The Big Kahuna\r\n- Fire Walk With Me\r\n- Nuda v Brne (Bored in Brno)\r\n- Goodfellas\r\n- The Departed\r\n- Casino\r\n- Ghostbusters\r\n- Lord of War\r\n- Mulholland Dr.\r\n- 24 Hour Party People (if you count song lyrics)\r\n\r\netc",
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How do I stop being an asshole | Last night I got drunk for the first time in a long while. I have an abrasive personality which I try really hard to tone down. Basically I got drunk and a friend came over and started to talk about the car accident he saw and how he witnessed a mangled person on the street. Mr Asshole (Me) decided to ask "Did they scream" before knowing he had witnessed this. I originally thought he just drove by and I was hating on street racers. He was very offended and hurt, and I immediately apologized. I also managed to piss off everyone else and made a buddy's "friend" (girl he is going to date) almost cry and say she hates me. Now I woke up this morning realizing I am an absolute prick and I am lucky I was not stabbed and dumped in a snow bank. Friends who were there said I was being an annoying drunk and am not usually like that, but that night I got bad. How should I stop (mitigate) such stupid outbursts and tone down my abrasive personality? | 7 | [
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"body": "Be empathetic. Put yourself in as many people's shoes as possible.\n\nAlso, remember to **shut the fuck up.** There is supposed to be a filter between your brain and your mouth. If it's not there, then put it there. There's no twelve step program or clever acronym to help you become a nice person. You just do it. Easier said than done, but still. Don't let stuff \"spill out\" of your mouth, particularly when you know your mind tends to rest in that darker, insensitive territory.\n\nAnd if you can't drink without turning into the kind of person people want to lift over their head and break over their knee, then don't drink.\n\nDon't forget, your words and actions reflect your state of being. That is to say, happy, empathetic people will say and do empathetic things. Assholes will say and do asshole things (it's a symptom of being an asshole).",
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"body": "* Stop thinking a conversation is about you putting your 2 cents worth in whenever you feel like it\n* don't look at every situation through your own filters but from the other person's\n* remarks aren't for points scoring but for exploring issues, people etc\n* a good saying, great minds talk about ideas, average minds events and small minds others or themselves\n* have a goal of leaving a conversation with everyone on an up not a down\n* abrasiveness actually achieves nothing at all, so why do it, use your obvious rational mind to confirm this\n* if you don't exercise do some cardio, you feel fantastic and less inclined to be negative/abrasive/douchey\n\nHow do I know this, because I took a first at Oxford in being a prick and have learnt the hard way.\n",
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"body": "Every time you can control yourself, do so. Then, stop, think about it, and enjoy the thought that *you just became a better person*. It feels really good. It's a really satisfying feeling. Eventually you can train yourself with this reward to do it all the time. Your brain will learn quickly. I've done it myself.",
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Omegle with William Penn - An English Major | *Disclaimer: I am not a female. My name is not Lisa. I do not live in Brazil.*
*See [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/anulo/ouch/c0ij744?context=4) for a little bit of background.*
*Screencaps [here](http://p0rn.imgur.com/omegle_william_penn)*
**You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!**
Stranger: Hello there
You: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Stranger: ...what?
You: just asking
Stranger: I think you might want to rephrase your question
You: Why?
Stranger: I didn't get what you were saying at all..
You: I just asked if anyone has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Stranger: ...do you mean, using those words?
Stranger: or what?
Stranger: Seriously, like, I can't understand what the heck you're asking.
You: Well, you know English well?
Stranger: I do, indeed
Stranger: I'm an English major at William Penn University. :)
You: You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? William Penn? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It's just common sense.
Stranger: ........
Stranger: HUH?
You: Seriously>
Stranger: ........seriously...
Stranger: What is wrong with you? lol
You: Your linguistic skills seem sub-par.
Stranger: common sense HOW?
Stranger: No, no, no
Stranger: LOOK at your sentence
You: Well because my guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like
Stranger: no, no, no...
Stranger: Look at how many verbs you're using at the same time
Stranger: "to use even go want to do look more like"
Stranger: What the heck is that supposed to MEAN?
You: Well it's just common sense.
Stranger: It's not common sense at ALL. The common man or woman couldn't understand what you're asking
You: My name's Lisa and I'm also learning english in Brazil.
Stranger: Ahhhh, that explains a lot..
Stranger: No offense, Lisa.
You: . I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that?
Stranger: Lisa, you're using way more verbs than you should be.
You: No offense taken William Penn
Stranger: ....
Stranger: My name is not William Penn
Stranger: It's Aaron
Stranger: I'm from the USA.
You: Okay.
You: I thought you said it's William Penn
Stranger: William Penn University. That is the college I currently go to
Stranger: The school
You: college is your name right?
Stranger: No, no, it's not
Stranger: College is SCHOOL
You: Yeah my name is pretty school too.
Stranger: -_-
You: I think USA rock is school
Stranger: No, no, no, no...
Stranger: USA stands for United States of America
Stranger: In other words, North America
You: Really, America? In the past, can I really be using a lot of prayer as a half go? My guess is that when one want to use the move has never even been is really, then he is really far as well, so at least that is decided to use the move I want to do it.
Stranger: .......
Stranger: Lisa, how old are you?
You: I am 19. Sao Paulo lives in me.
Stranger: ..Sao Paulo lives in you?
Stranger: No, I think you mean: "I live in Sao Paulo."
You: Are you making fun of me?
Stranger: No, I'm not making fun of you, Lisa.
You: I asked you some questions earlier before we can chat outside.
You: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Stranger: That question makes no sense.
You: Why? You haven't yet decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Stranger: T_T
Stranger: Wait a second...
Stranger: AH HA!
Stranger: 4chan!
Stranger: Of course!
You: What?
You: What's 4chan?
Stranger: ^_^
You: My English friend Mike taught me this sentence
Stranger: Mike was joking with you
You: He told me I should ask this before I can give my msn id on Omegle
Stranger: I bet so.
Stranger: Let me explain why I cannot answer that question, Lisa
You: Why?
Stranger: That sentence was put on a forum called 4chan, a place that's popular for people who wish to remain anonymous.
You: What's anonymus?
You: I saw him on youtube telling bad to religion
Stranger: Lisa, let me explain
You: is Anonymus your friend?
Stranger: T_T
Stranger: Lisa.
Stranger: Shut up and let me explain.
You: Okay. Please don't abuse
Stranger: Anonymous is a term that refers to keeping your identity secret.
Stranger: For example, right now, in this chat, I'm labelled as "Stranger"
You: Then why he was telling bad to science and religion on youtube?
Stranger: You are also labelled "Stranger
Stranger: LISA
Stranger: SHUT IT
You: Ok
Stranger: I don't want you to type anymore unless I tell you to!
Stranger: GOT IT?
You: Okay William Penn
Stranger: .....
Stranger: Okay, seriously, fuck it, 4chan.
You: What?
Stranger: I've had enough with this shit
Stranger: I can't fucking take it
Stranger: Fuck you, Lisa
Stranger: and Fuck you, Mike!
You: You abusing?
Stranger: FUCK YOU, 4CHAN!
You: Please don't abuse. My mummy might watch
Stranger: Lisa, shut up
Stranger: Just shut up.
Stranger: I'm sick of talking to you
Stranger: You're annoying as hell
You: You have live messenger?
Stranger: La puta!
Stranger: >_<
You: William.. u there?
Stranger: My name is NOT William!
Stranger: It's Aaron!
Your conversational partner has disconnected. | 259 | [
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"body": "> Stranger: USA stands for United States of America\n\n> Stranger: In other words, North America\n\nApparently they don't teach much geography at William Penn.",
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"body": "I skipped like half of it because i got sick of seeing \"I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can\"",
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"body": "You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!\n\nYou: hello\n\nStranger: HI\n\nStranger: wanna yiff?\n\nYou: let me tell you a story\n\nStranger: sorry go ahead\n\nYou: all about how, my life got flip-turned upside down\n\nStranger: proceed\n\nYou: now, let me take a minute just sit right there\n\nStranger: o\n\nYou: 'bout how i became a prince of a town called bal-aire\n\nStranger: *drum solo*\n\nYou: Never gonna give you up\n\nYou: never gonna let you down\n\nStranger: never gonna turn around \n\nYou: and desert you\n\nStranger: WHAT IS LOVE?\n\nYou: baby don hurt me\n\nStranger: DONT HURT NME\n\nYou: no more\n\nStranger: win\n\nTLDR- no, i dont want to yiff\nEDIT- Formatting",
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"body": "javascript:void(document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')).src='http://tlrobinson.net/misc/elizabot/omegliza.js')\n\nput that in omengle.com ",
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"body": "You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!\n\nStranger: hello\n\nStranger: asl\n\nYou: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?\n\nStranger: ok bye\n\nStranger: what?\n\nYou: just want to know\n\nYou: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?\n\nStranger: What????\n\nYou: have you ever?\n\nStranger: what???\n\nStranger: done wat\n\nYou: been so far even!!\n\nYou: its simple\n\nStranger: even to do what?\n\nYou: i understand if no tell\n\nStranger: lol\n\nYou: veeb far as decided to use even go want\n\nYou: you know? to look more like\n\nStranger: ur question is worded like a 3 r old drop out from kindergarten\n\nYou: why so mean?\n\nYou: simle question\n\nStranger: i dont understand it\n\n\nYou: why? commen sense\n\nStranger: not tryin to be mean\n\nStranger: and if i am\n\nStranger: then im very sorry\n\nStranger: but its confusin\n\nYou: here english not so good, my sister come on, she better\n\nYou: Hello\n\nStranger: hello\n\nYou: My brother is not so good at english, I'm much better\n\nStranger: ok\n\nYou: He was just asking\n\nYou: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?\n\nStranger: omg\n\nStranger: lol\n\nStranger: bye\n\nYou: what? it's just a simple question? is your english good?\n\nStranger: yes\n\nStranger: A\n",
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"body": "That was a hilarious read!\n\nHere's the [Encylopedia Dramatica page](http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Has_anyone_really_been_far_even_as_decided_to_use_even_go_want_to_do_look_more_like%3F) for that ridiculous phrase that Lisa used. There's a screenshot of the original 4chan thread where the phrase first appeared.\n\n\n...\n\n\nSo I ask you Reddit, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?",
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"body": "William Penn University is in the small town of Oskaloosa, Iowa. I went to high school there and have experience with some students of William Penn. \n\nThe typical Penn student is either from one of the surrounding small towns or an athlete on scholarship. I know quite a few people that decided that a major university was too much for them and decided to stay at home and go to Penn.\n\nWhy you would want to major in English at William Penn eludes me.",
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"body": "I had so much fun on Omegle last night. Someone even tried to do the disco joke on me!\n\nThis one was fun:\n\n* Stranger: well anyway - u want to heara joke?\n* You: Sure\n* Stranger: Knock knock\n* You: Who's there?\n* Stranger: disco\n* You: I'm getting this joke! amazing.\n* You: okay okay\n* You: disco who?\n* You: (go on)\n* You have disconnected.\n\nOr\n\n* Stranger: hi\n* You: hey\n* Stranger: my name is selena gomez whats yours\n* You: taylor swift\n* Stranger: taylor seift is right next to me\n* Stranger: swidt\n* You: that's cool, my last name's swift\n* Your conversation partner has disconnected.\n\nAnd they were almost there :(",
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"body": ">You: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?\r\n\r\n>Stranger: Yeah, but even I make use more like having it wanted.\r\n\r\nI just got schooled.",
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IWASA Paparazzi. AMA. | Not sure this will be of much interest to anyone, but I was a paparazzi from 2002 to 2005. I was independent and sold my photos to the highest bidder. The most expensive picture I've sold was for $35,000, the average would be a could of thousands per set (Usually, a magazine will buy the whole set and publish the best photos of the set, to make sure I do not resell any remaining pictures to a competitor). AMA. | 15 | [
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"body": "I hate everything about what you did for a profession. The whole culture of it disgusts me. That is all.",
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"body": "Whose picture did you sell for $35,00?\n\nWhich celebs did you take pictures of?\n\nHow did you keep track of them? Just follow them around?",
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"body": "How do you feel about the characterization of your profession in Ms. Gaga's song \"Paparazzi\" and how does it affect your social standing amongst your peers?",
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"body": "Were you ever abused by a celebrity/subject/bystander? Were you a papparazzo that got in close and unleashed the 12FPS shutter on a blind and dazed celebrity walking out of their apartment to get breakfast, or a 300MM sniper style stalker, snapping shots from afar?",
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"body": "* What do you think of the whole Paparazzi profession? \n* Did you feel guilty that you were intruding in someone's private life? \n* What is the craziest thing you did to take a picture of celebrity?\n* Most famous person that you photographed?",
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"body": "A bit about your equipment of choice would be interesting. Cameras, lenses and in what situations you favor one for another (none obvious ones like 400mm vs 24-105mm)?",
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HAE started judging people as Reddit-worthy, or not Reddit-worthy? | Maybe not immediately, but have you started to have thoughts like "this person would never appreciate or understand Reddit" or "He or she would enjoy or make a good Redditor"? | 20 | [
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"body": "ohh yeahh. i have started doing that, its one of the standards that i have set to make new friends :p, the list is becoming pretty long.",
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"body": "I'm normally more inclined to think that someone wouldn't be cut out for Reddit, based on the way they act. I hang around a whole bunch of people who I really have nothing in common with.\n\nThere is this one old friend I just recently started talking to again, that I have been spamming with reddit links. I think she would really enjoy some of reddit's humor.. and now I'll probably spam her with this link. ",
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My birthday is coming up and my girlfriend asked me what I wanted.. what do I ask for? | as the title says, my birthday is soon and my girlfriend of almost a year offered to do anything to me or let me do anything to her.. what do I do?
I've already done anal with her so thats out, and i dont like being tied up or anything, but I haven't really explored any other fetishes. This may sound weird but if any of you have a fetish that you really enjoy and isn't too extreme then by all means suggest it, I sort of need one :P
I know what you'll probably say, that this should come from inside me, but that's why I'm coming here, I'm looking for ideas! :)
PS: we'll be in a hotel room so pretty much anything goes | 10 | [
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"body": "My perfect birthday: She cooks me a nice steak, and while I eat she does a strip & masturbation show, she then rides me cowgirl-style (I just ate a big-ass steak, make her do the work :), have her give me a full body massage and finish it off with a BJ happy-ending, go smoke some pot and fall asleep...",
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"body": "I can't believe nobody said threesome! That would be my ideal gift for my SO since his birthday is coming up quick. But since I know that's not going to happen, the plan is to go out for dinner then go home and change into something more \"comfortable\". Waiting for us will be a cake I made from scratch and he gets to have it off any part of my body. That'll be followed by a bj and really amazing sex.\n\nThe sex doesn't have to be a new fetish experience. I mean your gf shouldn't just make sex special one day a year and not give you full access the rest of the year. Just because you've tried anal before, doesn't mean you can't revisit it. Maybe she likes being tied down (I know it's your birthday and she should be doing something for you) but who knows, it might just make sex better for the both of you.\n\nHmmm... last time I was in a hotel room, my SO and I ordered room service and don't forget the dessert! Waiting for room service gave us the perfect amount of time to take showers and for me to slip into some lingerie hidden under a robe (surprise for after dinner). When it was time for dessert, I slipped out of the robe, slipped a blindfold on him and had him lie down in bed. Whipped cream, strawberries and ice cream never tasted sooooo good. And the sensations he felt were unlike any other since he couldn't predict what was going to be placed on his body and the cold feeling from the food followed by a warm tongue and soft lips to caress the area. Afterwards, wipe off with a warm towel and commence fucking! =P\n\ntl;dr - incorporate food and lingerie, fuck like mad and on any surface you can find in the room.",
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"body": "Introduce her to /r/gonewild and public exhibitionism. She posts hot pics, gets an ego boost and you treat her like the dirty minx she is.\n\nEverybody wins.\n",
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I'm in my twenties and I have little to no income. I'm of above average intelligence and poor background. I need help finding a way to create income so I can stay out of the military. | I've done three years of college. I have not finished because I can't afford it anymore. Not even a community college. I've had all kinds of jobs from warehouse work to door-to-door sales and I've exceeded expectations on all. But none of them ever pay me enough to do what I want to do. Right now, I can't get a job. I don't know why. I've got experience in a number of fields and I've always shown an exemplary ability to become proficient very quickly with any new skill.
I need a stable job that will last me more than half a year that will pay me enough. I've got a million ideas to make money but they all require initial startup capital which I do not have. As much as I hate money and how everyone is wrapped up in it, because everyone is so entrenched into it I need it just like them to do anything. To eat, to have a roof over my head, to do fun things, create art, etc.
I'm sick and tired of being told I need a degree when it's so f*cking obvious I can't afford one. I know a handful of people with degrees that I can put to shame in their own field of "expertise". I've never believed the piece of paper meant squat, but I do know it is a higher paygrade. I really just want the knowledge, don't really care about the degree.
So, after months of traveling around Texas and the southern midwest, I've only come up with two real options:
1) sell roofing in storm damaged areas in the spring.
The problem with this is that it's not immediate. I need to more freedom now and I need to get on top of paying student loans from my freshman year which are already piling up the overdue notices.
2) Military.
No, I do not ever want to be a part of the military. I've always believed it to be stupid, even with all the incentives. I do not want to contribute to the crap our military contributes to. The only parts of the military I could take as positive is the physical training and possibly a job doing research experimentation with electromechanics. That's why I would probably choose the Air Force above any other branch. But then I also have to account for having a bad heart (one major heart attack already) and my background of balls to the wall drug use. Although I'm not currently partaking in any illegal substances regularly, I'm sure my body will show the damage.
So, I'm posting this so I can get some informed suggestions. Has anyone been in the same boat in these times? How did you get out of the hole? Any quick and easy ways to get going that you can suggest? | 4 | [
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"body": "...no offense ... but that doesn't strike me as 'above average' intelligence without raising the question of what your baseline comparison is. smart people figure out how to do, you know. thats sort of what it means, is self-defining, ie, the inverse meaning of 'stupid is as stupid does' ... word? if you in your 20s and already had a heart attack id say get something with strong medical insurance and get on meds, lay low and relax in your lifestyle or its not going to matter anyway. (better get on Omega-3s at a minimum, its something you can do) you spent out your life already in what you flippantly describe as ' balls to the wall' drug abuse. the real smart people were the ones telling you what would happen if you did that. guess what g? there is no such thing as quick and easy anything, except perhaps drug use. read the bible and get to work my friend. you are way overdue and have been living the easy life believe it or not. \n\nlife is hard to be successful at and easy to fail. red flags i see are \"didnt finish college\" - how could you go 3 years and not finish it out? - \"experience in number of fields\" - you should have chosen 1 good one - \"quick and easy\" - shows you fail to grasp the meaning of life adequately, further proven by your too-easy assessment of your actions, ie, \"balls-to-the-wall drug use\" - that is actually an extremely heavy, scary proposition out here in real life, usually chosen INSTEAD of life, not in conjunction with any real form of a successful life (ie, the terms are mutually exclusive) . it seems like you need to understand also that most everyone has 'a million ideas to make money', but only 1:1,000,000 actually follows through. You lack follow through my friend, you wear it like a mantle. \n\nI mean dude, I have never even heard of someone that I have ever personally known having a heart attack in their 20s. That is likely something you will need to build your life around or my honest assessment is you arent even long for this world, much less needing to worry about a career. if you are still doing drugs after having a major heart attack its hard for me to even rationalize the time i spent typing this in an attempt to offer advise. Are you worth it? there is never a lack of free-floating egos with no anchor of true intelligence and diligence, especially in america where kids are coddled so much (it seems like 'poor people' often attempt to 'spoil' their kids even more in an attempt to mask their true circumstance - it is a circular sort of self-fulfilling and self-defeating prophecy that traps you - spoiling a kid is actually an indicator of a mediocre backgound at best since the rich are hard at work, you know, doing the things that make them rich and you poor); few realize how tough life actually is once you are out on your own until its too late. It seems like your ego is larger than your intelligence and you may lack the diligence to close the gap. You are n the hole and there will be no easy way out. \n\nUnderstand that the reason you encounter this attitude is that life is real, we are real people who have paid these dues that you dont want to pay. \n\nI worked on a fishing ship in the Bering Sea to pay my way through college, and almost died there. Are you somehow more deserving than I, better? A king perhaps? Born into royalty are you? There can still be good things for you if you assess yourself keenly and honestly, and make your career choice in accordance with making sure you live past 40 because its much closer than you think. Life has no room for those not willing to do the work necessary to live you see; you are succumbing to Darwin's laws by all outward appearances and you need to fight back hard with all God has given you to stop from being piled under like most are ... you appear to be farther ahead of the curve than most. To me you appear to lack true diligence which is a hallmark of intelligence. You can never get ahead without sustained hard work. One career point i could bring up is you could look at sales of some sort , if you can talk the talk all day, is good money, not too hard. \n\nYou better grow up fast and do the right things, make the right choice or your family line as far as your contribution appears to be on a dead-end course ... I can tell just by watching this dialogue unfold a couple more things that strike me strongly: why arent you finishing these things you start? you are saying you know the Bible front to back yet people spend their entire lives studying it. People spend lifetimes developing their photographic talents to the level you think you are already at; there is a vast ocean between exhibiting a little talent and closing a deal with someone for a $80k annual salary to do it for them full-time ... ceremonial drug use? maybe you can make a living as a shaman? You seem to put your failings off on any shelf available. Are you not strong enough to bear them yourself? \n\nAs Socrates said: \"The unexamined life is not worth living\" You dont appear to be honest in your assessments or you would not be where you are; close the gap between what you want and what you have, or question how strongly you want. . You quit too soon in your endeavors. It takes years and years of any one thing to achieve success. The rule is 10 years of mastery of any true art. 10 years. You are not so super smart to do it in even 5 (think of it this way - IQ 100 is baseline adult intelligence - to achieve mastery in one art / discipline in 5 years instead of the normal of 10 would theoretically require an IQ of 200) . Be honest in your assessments or you will never gain the traction you say you want. Hard words for a hard world man. you are no different. my IQ has tested over 130, I worked my way through Seattle University, a Jesuit college, by working on fishing ships out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska - and it has still been hard to make over $100k per year. But i am. The fact is it is a waste of time to work for $7.50 an hour if you are actually smart. At a minimum you should be a journeyman by now, i know because I did the same thing until I realized it would keep me exactly in the same place for the rest of my life. I figured that out when i was 19 though...I also refused to go into the army as my folks kept telling me to do. \n\nExcept for the heart attack your story is one of millions in america, for decades and more. you have to be above them all to get out. sales is an easy way to do it if you cant be a doctor or a lawyer. I sold software and moved into operational management and analysis. my degree is in analysis. as for a 'lazy generation' I am genX, the slacker, your older brother from the sounds of it and not even close to your parents generation. I am telling you. get off your ass, put the pipe down, get your meds rolling and do what it takes or life will beat you down permanently. if you wait you will miss the boat, it is leaving now... good luck to you, sincerely. Seattle has a great economy, even now. you may need to move form your state. my younger brother is in his mid 20s and lives in Tenn and is just like you are describing except no heart attack and booze instead of drugs. You are making your choice every day, internalize that. \n\nPeople with bonafide credentials in their field, ie, completed degree, talent and corporate experience are struggling too. You have none of these and yet seem surprised at your lack of progress. How would you even realistically entertain the army with a bad heart? You really need to come to terms with reality in order to do anything. I am not here to lie to you my man, as a software business consultant here for a major company I am paid about $60 an hour and I just gave you a freebie. \n\ni sincerely hope you can take something concrete from this but only you will know. For the record marijuana in moderation seems to have helped me to get through school but i appear to be something of an anomaly there, not drinking much and despising heavy drugs. anyone who uses the terms \"drug\" and \"ceremonial\" in the same sentence except in academia raises my hackles, just FYI, I wouldn't spread that concept too far as it is a sure giveaway of a questionable personality not really ready to take responsibility for it's own actions.. Call it what it is or it will be written in that great mythical book, \"The Book of Last Thoughts\"",
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"body": "Have you actually sat and talked with financial aid officers about your college situation? It amazes me how many people avoid financial aid and college loans, but in the same respect a lot of people get fucked out of it because their parents make to much money. \n\nI would first talk to a counselor about your finances and see if there are any open job opportunities at the college you wish to attend. A lot of colleges offer job positions to people who attend. Security, janitorial, book stores, office aids, etc. These offices also usually have ties with local businesses that will come to them when they need people to work, usually part time. There is opportunity there to help. \n\nAs for other job opportunities... there are jobs out there, you just have to not be so picky. If working at McDonald's for 3 months while you try and find a better job is a bad idea... just think of the money you can earn in 3 months, versus being jobless. Also, doesn't McDonalds offer health benefits for their employees? I believe CVS and Walgreen's does also, but I'm not 100% sure.\n\nP.S. The whole \"I'm smarter than everyone\" thing won't get you very far also...",
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"body": "Hate to break it to you, but with a heart defect and one heart attack already, add to that your self admitted tons of drug use, your chances of getting into the military are slim to none.",
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Who are the most prominent linguists I should know about? | My undergraduate education in linguistics has not had any focus on learning about actual linguists and their contributions to the field. So I've decided I should probably learn it on my own.
Wikipedia's [list of linguists](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguists) is way too long. But I did go through it and write down any name I recognized, even if I had no idea why the name was important.
My list so far:
* J.L Austin
* Jon Barwise
* Emile Benveniste
* Juliette Blevins
* Bernard Bloch
* Leonard Bloomfield
* Bob Blust
* Lera Boroditsky
* Michael Brody
* Penelope Brown
* Lyle Campbell
* Wallace Chafe
* Eugene Charniak
* Noam Chomsky
* William Croft
* David Crystal
* David Dowty
* Penelope Eckert
* Daniel Everett
* Gilles Fauconnier
* Charles Fillmore
* Talmy Givón
* Joseph Greenberg
* John Goldsmith
* Paul Grice
* Jacob Grimm
* John Gumperz
* Ken Hale
* Morris Halle
* Irene Heim
* Charles Hockett
* Larry Horn
* Fred Householder
* Dell Hymes
* Roman Jakobson
* Otto Jespersen
* Keith Johnson
* Aravind Joshi
* Dan Jurafsky
* Hans Kamp
* Martin Kay
* Stephen Krashen
* William Labov
* Peter Ladefoged
* George Lakoff
* Robin Lakoff
* Ronald Langacker
* Stephen Levinson
* Elliot Mishler
* Richard Montague
* Geoffrey Nunberg
* Harriet Ottenheimer
* Panini
* Barbara Partee
* Hermann Paul
* Paul Pimsleur
* Geoffrey Pullum
* Suzanne Romaine
* John "Haj" Ross
* Malcolm Ross
* Ivan Sag
* Edward Sapir
* Ferdinand de Saussure
* Ron Scollon
* Emanuel Schegloff
* Deborah Schiffrin
* Sarah Thomason
* Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy
* Diedrich Hermann Westermann
* Walt Wolfram
Please post the names of any prominent linguists you think I should know about (and preferably a short description of what they are best known for). I am limiting my list to about 50 people, if it gets that long.
EDIT: Removed Zamenhof, added all the suggestions so far.
EDIT 2: Added a few more. Split into two lists, with the second list being well-known people who are not really linguists or whose work is not particularly high caliber.
EDIT 3: Okay, separate lists was probably a bad idea, and a limit of 50 people was probably too low. I didn't expect to get so many responses. I'll keep taking suggestions until I feel overwhelmed; pretty soon I'll need to start cutting away the less essential names. Thanks everyone! | 22 | [
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"body": "That's a pretty weird list. Why Zamenhof?? Forget Whorf, he didn't write that much, and almost all of it is wrong. \n\nClassics: Ferdinand de Saussure, laid the foundation for 20th century linguistics. Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield, founders of American linguistics, and Bloomfield the forerunner of Chomskyan grammar. Jespersen is very readable, and 80 years ahead of his time. Hermann Paul, Emile Benveniste for early 20th century European linguistics. Trubetskoy and Jakobson for the Prague School. If you want one more Old School, Charles Hockett was probably the smartest, Fred Householder the most reasonable, Bernard Bloch the most orthodox of the mid-century American structuralists.\n\nContemporary: Talmy Givón, founder of the functionalist school, Ronald Langacker, co-founder with Lakoff of Cognitive Grammar, William Croft, the most lucid theoretician from the anti-Chomsky movement. ",
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"body": "I wouldn't get too down on Deborah Tannen. She's not a theoretical linguist; she's a discourse analyst, and her work is a great way to engage non-linguists in the discussion. And frankly, I don't know what more you have to do to be a \"real\" linguist: she has an MA and a PhD in the subject, and teaches it at a university-level. But maybe this is why linguistics split from anthropology in the first place, and maybe we're headed for another split between socio and theoretical. \n\nI just finished my masters in sociolinguistics a couple years ago, so my suggestions will be in that subfield. I'd suggest Wallace Chafe (narrative), Robin Lakoff (language, body, gender, politics), Ron Scollon (intercultural communication), Dell Hymes (ethnography of communication), Deborah Schiffrin (discourse structure, discourse markers), Elliot Mishler (narrative, identity, medical discourse), Walt Wolfram (variation), Suzanne Romaine (pidgins, creoles, language death), John Gumperz, Emanuel Schegloff, Penelope Eckert, William Labov (who I think you have)... \n\nReally, the best thing to do, if you have a professor you like, is to talk to her/him and get suggestions. A trustworthy professor or grad student you can talk to face-to-face is going to be a much better arbiter of questions like \"Is Deborah Tannen a real linguist\" than a bunch of strangers on reddit. You could also check out the bibliography in your textbook and see who it's using to build its arguments. You've got a pretty good list here, and you could compare what your books contain with what's been suggested. ",
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"body": "Deborah Tannen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Tannen She's done a lot with gender and linguistics.",
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"body": "This is going to quickly morph into a list of every linguist anyone has ever heard of, but I still feel compelled to add a few more.\n\nSemantics is pretty underrepresented:\n\n* Richard Montague - Okay, technically, I guess he was in a philosophy department, but he's the single most important figure in modern semantics.\n* Hans Kamp - Discourse Representation Theory\n* Irene Heim - the Leibniz to Kamp's Newton in dynamic semantics\n* Jon Barwise - Generalized Quantifiers, Situation Semantics (Okay, he was a logician, but still.)\n\nI'd probably also add folks like Larry Horn and David Dowty. On the cognitive linguistics side, Gilles Fauconnier is pretty awesome.\n\nOutside of semantics:\n\n* John Goldsmith - Autosegmental phonology\n* John \"Haj\" Ross - Island constraints",
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"body": "Geoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley professor) does a lot of work with computational linguistics and also writes books about technology and political matters.\r\nhttp://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nunberg/bio.html",
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"body": "Chomsky is easily the most important by far, but don't read him directly, at least not at first. Read others' explanations of his theories.",
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"body": "I would add these people. My descriptions are fairly poor because I'm tired, but there's enough information around to figure out why they're important.\n\nCharles Fillmore -- Construction Grammar, Frame Semantics (and FrameNet), Case\n\nIvan Sag -- GPSG, HPSG, SBCG, other great stuff\n\nAravind Joshi -- Tree-adjoining Grammar/Penn Treebank\n\nEugene Charniak -- more of a computer scientist, but I'd still want all linguists to know about him\n\nMartin Kay -- same here, more or less\n\nAlso, it's nowhere near complete, but the LSA inducts linguists into their \"hall of fame\" every year. So far, they've picked about 30, iirc. It's also a good place to look.",
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IAmA former phone phreak who got busted at age 13. AMAA | I'm not sure if this is interesting to people here, but we'll give it a shot. [Phreaking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking) is basically messing with the phone system. I got into it because I was into [BBSing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system), and wanted to be able to call BBSes outside my local area, giving me access to more warez (pirated games) and other hard-to-get files. At the time, in the late 1980s, making long distance calls was relatively expensive (i.e. not free), and barely anyone had Internet access from home, or had even heard of it.
A kid at school introduced me to 950s, which were basically local numbers of the form 950-xxxx which you would call, enter a six-digit code, and then be able to call anywhere in the country. Think of it as just a local access number for a calling card. Of course, once a lot of people started sharing a single code, it would be flagged for fraud and disabled. So if you wanted a code to last, you had to find your own. There were programs you could use to do this by repeatedly calling the 950 number over and over, trying different codes until it found ones that worked.
What I didn't realize (or maybe didn't want to believe) at the time, was that these calls could be easily traced. I hadn't yet learned about diverters, PBXes, or anything else that would have helped cover my tracks. So inevitably the police showed up at the door. They questioned me and confiscated all my equipment, and that was the end of that, for a while anyway.
I wasn't prosecuted or fined. Since this was a juvenile offense, I petitioned to have the record sealed once I turned 16. Through high school and even college I continued with various aspects of phreaking but mostly of the toll fraud variety. I got into red boxing, diverters/bridges, voice mail boxes, calling cards, social engineering, and probably some other things I don't remember.
I'm not under any delusions that being able to do these things made me clever in any way. All of the really interesting stuff like blue boxing had been made ineffective long before I got into it. The stuff I got into was easy to do and something that you could just pick up through word of mouth, a crapload of text files, and a few underground connections.
Phreaking isn't nearly as prevalent these days, though the phreaking mentality continues with hackers always picking apart new systems and technologies, figuring out how they work and exploiting weaknesses.
Ask away if you're interested! | 23 | [
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"body": "I also got busted for war dialing 950's. I was young and dumb. Funny part about that situation is my friends dad did security for that company. My friend called me one night, said his dad was going to bust me and I could no go over to his house. I had no idea what his dad did till that day. Talk about awkward. His dad was understandably livid.",
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"body": "You say blue boxing had been made ineffective long before you got into it, and yet you said this took place in the late 80s. Just a comment, but blue boxing remained possible until the late 90s, maybe even a little longer. It may even still be possible to do off some old phone networks, though I'm not sure anymore. \n\nThe odds are most people lived under digital switches like a 5ESS or a DMS-100, so you couldn't fake the in-band signals. The trick was to call into an older system. Even until the mid 90s some isolated government sites were using old crossbar switches. That was dangerous though. You didn't want to be making too many calls to Plum Island. The most common technique I saw was calling using toll free numbers that went through international trunks where it was still possible through CCITT5.\n\nIt has been so long since I thought of any of this stuff. I just glanced at the wikipedia page for BlueBoxing and was surprised to see a lot of the same information. They even comment: \"It is rumored that some international trunks still utilize in-band signaling and are susceptible to tones, although often it's 2600+2400Hz then 2400 Hz to seize.\" That sounds like what I remember it being in the mid to late 90s. I never understood why, but pink noise was often necessary as well. The wikipedia article mentions \"BlueBEEP.\" I had forgotten about it, but that program was usually used on a laptop to do it, though I knew people that even did it from home.\n \nMy childhood may have a little in common with yours, except I never got busted.\n\nSome questions:\n\n* Do you ever regret doing these things and getting into all of that? Since your record is sealed I guess there was no lasting harm done? \n\n* How did your parents react at the time?\n\n* Who did the raid? Was it just local police? Were the SS or FBI involved at all?\n\n* You said in a different reply that you gave information to the police on someone you knew? This was someone you knew personally? Why did you talk to the police? Did you have a lawyer? What happened to that person? \n\n* How long did it take to get your equipment back? They never pressed any charges?\n\n* So, early 30s now if my math is any good? How do you feel all of this affected your life? Are you pretty normal these days? Do you work with technology? \n\n* You say you did these things throughout college. Were there issues continuing down this path with your parents? Did you have worries about the government watching after getting busted? \n\n* Were you involved with computer hacking at all, or just phreaking?\n\n* When I was young somehow these things seemed morally justified. There was strange logic about it not costing the big companies anything. Years later when I worked on the other side it became obvious that logic was wrong. At the time there was almost a \"freedom-fighter\" type aspect to it all. The small individual able to manipulate the systems of the powerful, or something. How did you justify it morally at the time, and how do you view these types of acts now? \n\nThanks.",
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Dear Reddit: What Canadian city should I move to next year? | So here's the deal. I'm graduating University this april. Fairly standard stuff: arts degree (anthro / history), going tree-planting this summer to get a heads start on repaying student loan. Thinking about going back to school to do the whole high school teacher education thing in a few years, but right now I'm 22 and I'd like a few years off.
I've lived in Victoria, BC for the last 4 years. Right now I'm thinking Montreal (big city, I can already speak french, some friends there), but I'm not counting anything out. Not really that interested in Alberta (no offense). For some reason I keep thinking about the Maritimes: St Johns, Halifax, Charlottetown. Anybody have any good experiences living there?
I'm not expecting to get a great job out wherever I move. Chances are I might just try to live off EI (from planting - seasonal work) for awhile.
Things I like: cheap rent, old cities with character, live music, young people.
So, where should I move? | 7 | [
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"body": "Go with your first choice! Montreal! So much diversity! Wonderful weather in the summertime. You'd still have your skislopes in the county side for those colder months. I really enjoy living here. ",
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"body": "Kingston, Ontario!\n\nFood: Excellent. There is a ridiculous number of great restaurants there, especially considering how small the city is. There is also a good selection of bars, ranging from dirty dance bars to Irish pubs with live fiddlers every weekend.\n\nRent: You can get a decent room in a student ghetto house for about $350-400/month.\n\nWalking: Everything is so close that you don't need a car. Imagine being able to stumble home from the bar. You don't need a cab or DD!\n\nPeople: I'm originally from Van, so I would compare the culture to something between Gastown and Granville Island with a little bit of the more granola parts of UBC thrown in there for good measure. Since it's largely a university town, there is always something going on, a show to see etc. The Queen's radio station is also really good, as is the student newspaper.\n\nScenery: There are lots of good running trails and bike routes. You can be outside the city and in the middle of grassy fields within 20 minutes on a bike. Lots of green space as well.\n\nHope this helps. :)",
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"body": "I came here to jokingly say *not* Winnipeg, but the city does have a reputation for cheaper living expenses, older neighbourhoods with character (some good, some bad), and a decent music scene. You just have to get over the weather, the horrible transportation infrastructure and the mostly lifeless downtown.",
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"body": "Ok I search and did not find the name here so I'm gonna throw it out there!\nQuebec City\nCheap rent outside downtown Area, its the oldest city in North America, The city does have a university that schools an excess of 20,000 student, (that qualifies as young people i think).\n\nQuebec city is great, no traffic, great history, lots of museums, lots a great place to eat, Pubs, bar, lounges, etc.\n\nYou could work as a boss boy, barman (maid?)\n\nJust throwing it Out there since i didnt see it in the thread!\n\nGood luck",
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"body": "I'd recommend Ottawa as a contrast to Montreal. The city has a lot of history and it is very active. It's got a great music scene and the Byward Market is full of pubs that are never empty.\n\nOttawa is a large (~1million) city that feels smaller. The transportation system is one of the best in Canada (aside from that strike we had last winter). It also has 2 universities and several colleges so there is a huge population of young people. You can even put your French to use.",
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"body": "Montreal for sure. If you're at all out-doorsy it's within an hour of some great (good if we're going by your west coast standards) climbing (ice and rock), skiing, boarding, paddling, everything except big-wall climbing, back-country skiing or mountaineering/alpine. Oh, the strippers in Montreal are pretty awesome too... ",
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"body": "St. John's is a strong choice. It's a beautiful city (the oldest in Canada, for whatever that's worth.) The locals will tell you the cost of living is skyrocketing, but that's only because it's been so low for so long.\n\nIf you like a strong arts scene, Newfoundland also has plenty to offer there, and not just accordion and fiddle Irish music. I moved here two years ago from Toronto with no regrets.\n\nAlso, if you're planning on going on EI, there's no better place to do it than Newfoundland. If you throw a stone, you'll hit three fishermen and a taxi driver that are all experts in navigating the Service Canada bureaucracy.",
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Dear GW: a message regarding faces | I have been a browser of GW for some time now, and I felt it was time to throw this out there.
I have seen a lot of pics with blurred faces, or faces otherwise hidden or just not visible. Now, I know a lot of folks are perhaps shy, or don't want someone in real life to find out or what have you... which is understandable. It's your choice to decide what you share.
But the face is such a huge aspect of making the picture really something. Once you've seen a few vagina's or cocks or breasts... you've seen em' all. Even if said component(s) are exceptional specimens.. without a face in there, it's just not the same.
So instead of some nicely cropped shot of your naughty bits, try taking one that somehow includes your face. And if your shy, be cute about it. Wear a mask or zoro or something.
Personal story: there's a pic around here of a bunch of girls standing in a line naked... it's been posted elsewhere on reddit (nsfw i think) before. anyway, when I looked at that pic of a bunch of yummy naked chicks.. the first thing I looked at is faces, THEN their bodies. for me, Yummy face + OK body = fap, where OK face + yummy body might not be the same thing.
Anyway, just saying folks: gonewild pics with pics of your face in them are just hotter and better than ones without. I'm sure this could be said for [M] posts as well, which I'm sure are more often than not just cock shots.
reference: http://www.scientificblogging.com/news/gender_and_porn_where_men_and_women_look_first
EDIT: this is merely something of a public awareness campaign. If you don't want to post your face on the internet that's entirely your choice. Just want people to know that a pic of your naughty bits isn't as hot as a pic of your naughty bits + face. | 15 | [
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"body": "I do agree that the face is important, But at the same time, I must respect the posters desire for anonymity. ",
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Why does there have to be such a leap in guitar difficulty between Medium and Hard in Rock Band? | Let me first say I only play when we have company over, so I'm not a frequent player and never will be. I can sail through any song on medium with around %95 (depending on how many pops I have) but I can't get past 15% on Hard. It's not even the additional fret that hinders me, it's just the notes they expect you to play.
Now I'm stuck between playing the game on medium and it not being challenging, or playing on hard and ready to throw the guitar through the TV. | 3 | [
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"body": "to separate the weak from the fucking righteous. if it makes you feel better, the difference between hard and expert is minimal. ",
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Hello Reddit, First time user -- had a horrifying experience. Is this a normal response to marijuana? | So I'd never done pot before last night. I finally got around to trying some, and had one of the worst experiences of my life. That night I had already consumed about 5 beers over 3 hours, and had maybe 5-7 grams of Kratom over about 5 hours prior to smoking. I did not feel drunk, but I definitely had a lot of relaxation, and was nodding off a bit (it was fairly late).
So the experience: the first couple hits were fine. I took a toke and held it in for a few seconds. I took roughly 3 good hits before laying down the pipe. I initially felt fine, a little giggly and light hearted. But a few minutes later, things began to turn really sour. It is difficult to articulate what exactly I was feeling, but I'll try my best.
I got up and moved around, and immediately felt time slow down **a lot**, and my body no longer felt as if it were mine. I had an extremely difficult time comprehending reality. It was like I was experiencing the world through someone else, but in my own body. The present moment no longer felt "present"; rather, each consecutive moment was rushing into the next, everything was perceptually skewed, smashing together.
It is extremely difficult for me to convey the perceptual change in reality. It was a profound and pronounced change from my normal sense of awareness. I could not think. My mind no longer existed. It was like I was missing an extremely important sensory/interpretation process, and my consciousness was left in a raw rush of incomprehensible sensory input. I was no longer myself. I felt disconnected, and separated from my body. I found I was also "spinning" pretty hard (synergistic effect with alcohol?), and began to feel really nauseous.
After about 10 minutes (which seemed like an eternity, time lost it's meaning) of pacing around in circles, trying not to get stuck in a time/thought loop, I took a walk down a road with a buddy who supplied me the pot. We talked a bit; she told me to calm down, but I was unable to do so. Suddenly my voice did not seem like my own. I did not know how I was talking, but there was a voice coming out of a mouth that sounded foreign, yet I knew it was mine. I felt like I was going insane. I knew it would all pass, but things were becoming unbearable.
As we were walking, my spacial awareness became profoundly different. Things seemed close and far at the same time. I felt like the world was moving, swirling, flowing around me, and yet I saw it remain static, as it always is. This, too, was quite unsettling.
Her voice then sounded accusatory, despite what she said. She was telling me everything was going to be alright, but my screwed up mind was perceiving it to be some sort of accusation.
I went inside and tried to lie down and close my eyes. However, this only made the effects worse. I was spinning, faster and faster, forwards and back, side to side, I felt like I was going to burst out of my mind, flung out of reality.
At this point, I was panicking. I felt stuck in this strange, timeless dream world, and couldn't comprehend anything. I couldn't talk in coherent sentences, I couldn't remember what I was doing a few seconds prior, time didn't mean anything anymore, everything just felt "wrong".
After 40 minutes of this hell, I finally tried to sleep it off. Somehow I managed to doze off. In the morning, I still felt a little disconnected, but I could think again.
I am terrified at the thought of trying marijuana again. I have done a lot of different drugs (morphine, hydromorphone, Kratom, Kava, Zaleplon, alcohol, etc), most being opiates, and even the insanity of a Zaleplon/Zolpidem trip was more tolerable. I could still "think" and had a sense of self in all of the above, except with weed.
What do you all think of this? Was it laced with something? Has anyone else had similar experiences? | 8 | [
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"body": "Mixing unfamiliar drugs can't be good for you. Erowid actually strongly recommends against mixing kratom and alcohol, so I'd assume that was a bad idea to begin with.",
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"body": "HA! and they call weed the Gateway Drug... WTF kid?\n\ntry it again when you're not already loaded; you may still not like it but at least you'll know its the weed and not the plethora of other things coursing through your system.",
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"body": "The \"spinning\" is likely a synergistic effect with alcohol, as I experience this every time I get a bit too crossfaded. I have never experienced the bizarre perceptual changes you describe.. I would attribute that to the kratom and alcohol interacting with the pot. Having never smoked kratom, I'm not sure how it interacts with weed.\n\nIf you do try pot again, stick with a small dose at first and make sure there are no other drugs in your system. You will probably be pleasantly surprised :)",
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"body": "Your description is exactly the way I experience it with nothing else in my system. The difference seems to be that I like it.",
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"body": "Pro-tip: Pot isn't \"done\" it's smoked, but no that doesn't sound a run of the mill cannabis experience. Try it again without the booze or Kratom and don't go into it expecting that feeling to return.\n\nMarijuana can get your head going especially with doubts. The important thing is to remember your completely fine. Regardless of whether you're paranoid, or feeling unsure - nip it in the bud before a panic attack starts, or you might sort of create a pavlovian link between smoking up and having panic attacks.",
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So I live in dogtown.... | Earlier today, I took out the trash. There it was in the dumpster. A torso-like thing. No organs or skin, legs or a head. Just meat, fat and bone. It was enough for me to call the cops. They said it (most likely) was a dog or a deer. I think it looks too flat to be human. Who does this? It took me a while to get my appetite back.
* [one](http://imgur.com/NoUbf.jpg)
* [two](http://imgur.com/becBD.jpg)
* [three](http://imgur.com/kGNk8.jpg)
* [four](http://imgur.com/r3A4z.jpg) | 5 | [
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"body": "Looks rather goat/sheep like to me, could also be a deer that someone home-dressed. We do live in MO after all.",
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"body": "Archery deer season is still open. That would be my guess. If they brought the whole thing home they gotta dump it somewhere. Coulda used a bag though. It costs 90 bucks to get a deer processed \"professionally\".",
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Average amount of time spent on the ground in MMA. | As promised [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/9mfan/how_much_of_the_time_in_ufc_fights_or_mma_in/c0ddwfz), I have recorded the amount of time spent on the ground in all main card, televised fights from UFC 104-108, TUF 10, Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Rogers, Strikeforce: Evolution, Dream FW GP, Dream 12, and Fields New Years. Here are the results:
Average time spent on the ground in any MMA fight: 3 minutes, 21 seconds
Average length of fight: 9 minutes
Average percentage of time spent on ground: 35.9%
Average amount of time spent on ground per round:
* Round 1: 1:29
* Round 2: 1:32
* Round 3: 1:05
* Round 4: 1:07
* Round 5: 1:13
* Average Round: 1:17
Average Time on Ground in fight ending in 1st round: 0:54 (32%)
Average Time on Ground in fight ending in 2nd round: 2:30 (32%)
Average Time on Ground in fight ending in 3rd round: 6:31 (49%)
Average Time on Ground in 3rd fight going to decision: 4:58 (29%)
Average Time on Ground in 5 round title fight: 5:45 (23%)
I hope this was informative! | 46 | [
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"body": "Cool. I'm not a huge stats guy, but I know plenty of people are.\n\nIt might be interesting to see it broken down but instead of how long the round is, go with % of the fighters actually being engaged?\n\nThat might be too subjective, because I know Lyoto, Anderson, Beflort, and others are 'engaged' somewhat even when they're out of striking range....\n\nBut in general, it would be interesting to see what percentage of 'fighting' takes place on the ground; if you cut out all the circling, resting, breaks, etc.",
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"body": "This is somewhat interesting. One thing I'd like to know is how long after the fight goes to the ground does it end? What percentage of the time does taking the fight to the ground end up in a stoppage?\n\n I've competed in a wrestling and grappling tournaments and my experience has been that a good amount of those [ground-based] matches spend a good amount of time on the feet as well.\n\n",
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"body": "this is super useful information for discussing mma with those who are not hardcore fans. particularly those that dismiss it, saying, \"it's just a bunch of sweaty dudes, humping each other on the floor\"\n\nau contraire, mon ami. it's only a bunch of sweaty dudes, humping each other on the floor 35.9% of the time. ",
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Reddit: I've just found out my sister is dating a loser, what would you do in my position? | Hi reddit, long time user, first time anonymous poser:
So, i've just found out on facebook that my sister and one of my acquaintances are in a relationship (they haven't announced who their parter is but they both changed their relationship status within a minute of each other - I also have it on good authority from mutual friends that this has been brewing for a while - I also know they have fooled around in the past so I am pretty confident - although not certain)
Now I am aware this could be just me being an over protective big brother, but the guy is a complete loser. He finished university 7/8 years ago, and has been stuck in dead end jobs ever since. He is in a shit load of debt, a possible alcohol - he drinks every day and not just a pint.
My sister isn't perfect, she has been struggling on her course judging by her exam marks and I fear this relationship could drag her down further and seriously affect her future.
How should I approach this situation? I don't live anywhere near my sister anymore so any communication is likely to be via internet or a phonecall. However I am pretty sure the "What the hell are you doing?!" reaction will get me no where and is the wrong thing to do. Any ideas? | 3 | [
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"body": "You can't do anything about it. It's sweet of you to care, but perhaps you are not the great judge of character that you think you are. Maybe he's a great guy that inspires her to get more out of life.\n\nApproach the situation however you like, you're not going to make a difference either way, you're just going to make her dislike you.",
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Another racist, hateful, and religiously intolerant chain email from my father-in-law ... and my response. Thought you might find this interesting. | His email:
CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS?
(This is certainly 'food-for-thought'. What do you think?)
This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish and send it on to everyone. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities. Can a good Muslim be a good American?
This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in Saudi Arabia for 20 years.
The following is his reply:
Theologically - no. . . . Because his allegiance is to Allah, The moon God of Arabia.
Religiously - no.. . . Because no other religion is accepted by His Allah except Islam (Quran, 2:256)(Koran)
Scripturally - no. . . Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.
Geographically - no . Because his allegiance is to Mecca, to which he turns in prayer five times a day.
Socially - no. . . Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.
Politically - no.. . . Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual Leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America,
The great Satan.
Domestically - no. .. . Because he is instructed to marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him (Quran 4:34 )
Intellectually - no. . Because he cannot accept the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be corrupt.
Philosophically - no. . . . Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.
Spiritually - no.. . . Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' The Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 Excellent names.
Therefore, after much study and deliberation.... Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. - - - They obviously
cannot be both 'good' Muslims and good Americans. Call it what you wish it's still the truth. You had better believe it.. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.
The religious war is bigger than we know or understand.
....
Footnote: The Muslims have said they will destroy us from
within.
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My Response:
Can Christians be Good Americans?
(This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish and send it on to everyone. Maybe this is why our American Christians are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities. Can a good Christian be a good American?)
This question was forwarded to a guy who lived in the United States for 26 years.
The following is his reply:
Theologically - no ... because his allegiance is to Jesus, the sky god of Jerusalem.
Religiously - no ... because no other religion is accepted by his god except Christianity.
Scripturally - no ... because his allegiance is to the Church and the Bible.
Geographically - no ... because his allegiance is to the sky, which he turns to in prayer regularly.
Socially - no ... because the social pressure of his fellow Christians forbid him to make friends with Muslims or Jews.
Politically - no ... because he must submit to the television pundits and evangelists (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of foreigners and oppression of minorities.
Domestically - no ... because he is instructed, through the parable of Eden and the Bible, that women are the root of all evil and that men should remain in charge.
Intellectually - no ... because he believes that the American Constitution is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be infallible.
Philosophically - no ... because Christian philosophy cannot accept the possibility that other viewpoints might be correct.
Spiritually - no ... because it is declared 'one nation under God' the Christian God is vengeful and jealous and the Bible condones slavery, racism, homophobia, genocide, sexism, murder, and rape, among other atrocities.
Therefore, after much study and deliberation ... perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL CHRISTIANS in this country. - - - They obviously cannot be both good Christians and good Americans. Call it what you wish it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.
The war for reason is bigger than we know or understand.
Footnote: The Christians are actively destroying us from within.
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EDIT: As pointed out numerous times in this thread, Islam is not a race, and therefore my title was incorrect. Unfortunately, I cannot change the title. If I could change the title, or go back, I would have said "Another bigoted, hateful, and religiously intolerant chain email ..." | 663 | [
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"body": "Despite the fact that this will do very little to change your father-in-law's mind about anything, I would just like to say kudos! for having the balls to say something, and so well I might add.",
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"body": "\"Intellectually - no ... because he believes that the American Constitution is based on Biblical principles and he believes the Bible to be infallible.\"\n\nThat one is probably my favorite one in that whole e-mail response.",
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"body": "Nice! Do one for us atheists! but add incredibly insane things like the imminent robot invasion and the orgies we have at the center of the earth AND THEN send it to him, once a week, but never bring it up in conversation while with him. ",
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"body": "> Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic\n\nHe forgot about [Turkey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey).",
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"body": "Good intent, but I expected a bit more quoting of the bible in your response to keep with the tone of the original message (and driving the point home)...\n\n\"for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.\" 1 Corinthians 11:9 \n\n...and so on. It seems more credible and harder to ignore that way",
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"body": ">Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion\n\nMade me lol\n\nI read it as;\nWhy should we be intolerant towards another religion ? Because they are not tolerant towards religions while we are tolerant. So because we are tolerant to other religions we should be intolerant to this one !\n\nIts like circular reasoning, except instead of two statements that rely on eachother it is two statements that contradict eachother.",
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"body": "So now that we've proven that neither true Christians or true Muslims make good secular citizens can we do something about it? Then we can start eradicating all of the other sky fairies.",
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"body": "Ugh, is this going around still? I got this in a huge chain email a few years back.\n\nI answered each point (differently than you, I made them yes and explained why the original reason was wrong) and sent it to every other person on the list.",
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"body": "\"Can Muslims be good Americans?\" sounds like a potential record for the largest offense-to-word-count ratio.",
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"body": "Hrm... the Muslim Arabs that run the corner grocery store and those who shop there (in full non-western garb) seem like nice enough Americans... as nice as any other obviously religious folks. The owner always chats with me for a long time and asks if I know how to cook the foods I buy. Moreover I was standing there talking to him with a friend who's obviously a Jew when a bunch of other customers walked in -- no problem.\n\nWhy the hate?",
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"body": "Is it wrong that I agree with -both- letters? Maybe people should stop letting themselves be told by books written thousands of years ago that killing eachother is just dandy. Fuck, we are going to destroy ourselves and it's going to be brutal. :( for the future of humanity.",
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"body": "Nicely done americancynic - And that's precisely the response I was thinking when i read his email! Confronting theists with their own hypocrisy may not dissuade them from their own folly but it's a great way to highlight it to those not so ideologically rigid. **HUZZAH!**",
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"body": "So, in my alternate universe, the e-mailer is my mom and she drives me and my husband up the wall with the conservative political stuff (most recently a hoax birther e-mail). How does your wife feel about you responding to your father-in-law this way? I just ask out of curiosity since my husband would often like to do similar stuff to my mom, but I ask him not to do so.",
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"body": "What really pisses me off is that the word mullah has become a buzz phrase for dat dang feriner sumbitch terrist. None of these fucks know what a mullah is, it just sounds foreign and, in context, threatening. If they knew that mullahs left and right were on the side of the green revolution in Iran to overthrow the corrupt and illegitimate government in favor of democracy they'd probably just call you onedem durn librls. Fuck the average Joe American.",
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"body": "It's wonderfully ironic when Christians cite other religions' texts as a demonstration of how out-of-touch the other religion is. ",
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"body": "How is being anti-muslim racist? I would never hold being Arab against anyone, because that is how they are born. But being Muslim is a choice. A choice to join an organization that does hold allegiance to the same fictitious blood-thirsty genocidal asshole that the Christians worship.",
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Upcoming DJ's of 2010... | Hey Trancit! Do you know of many new and up-coming DJ's for the coming year? I feel like I listen to a lot of the same mainstream DJ's, and fancy listening to something fresh, maybe some artists who aren't popular yet. Any ideas? | 9 | [
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"body": "Maybe not all new, but (in my eyes) still doing fresh stuff:\r\n\r\nGareth Emery (awesome podcast, tons of fun live), Sander van Doorn (keeps broadening the genre, loving it!), Sean Tyas (so much energy), Simon Patterson (his ADE set, as well as his Essential Mix blew me away), Cliff Coenraad, Cosmic Gate (classic, but still great), Marco V (his new album is *brilliant*), Richard Durand, Sied van Riel, Mark Sherry, Dash Berlin, W&W",
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Reddit: Do you cut people out of your life completely? | I was just curious, because I have heard people say they do this before. How many of you guys out there, when "done" with someone just completely cut someone out of your life? Meaning cutting all contact, etc?
And if you do, what exactly do you do? | 5 | [
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"body": "I've done it and had it done to me. You cut them off quick and with no warning, no drama. It's not as hard as it seems, you just need to keep yourself preoccupied, or regrets start building up. Books help when you're home alone, new friends help a lot. ",
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"body": "I did this lots of times. It's not very easy to make me angry, and I'm a very forgiving person. But there is a threshold that when someone reach there, I suddenly go cold turkey on them. I cut all the relationship, all the ties, block all communication, and simply ignore their existance. My friends call this my \"Delete\" button. I know it sounds harsh, but life is too short to put up with bullshit.",
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"body": "I've done this. It's not fun, but sometimes you just have to if you want to move on as a person. \n\nThe people I've had to do this with I \"left\" because they were not doing me any good. They were manipulative or (and this is where things really suck) were great people but too wound up wioth the bad ones to make breaking off contact possible. I know a few people who I'd love to se again, but whose lives are so mingled up with the few I will not be seeing again that I just can't come 'round anymore.\n\nSo, basically, when you want to cut one person from your life, often you are cutting more than just that one person.\n\nHowever - I've never regretted the decision to cut people out. As I stand right now I'm doing better than I have in years. I've surrounded myself with people who are good to me and who I can be comfortable with. It's like getting a new start - it just sucks to go through the process of starting over.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "I do it all the time without issue. If some one is not adding to your life, and dragging you down, why keep in contact?",
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"body": "If I cut someone out of my life completely, it means: \r\n\r\n1) I gave them a second chance, and \r\n2) They totally screwed it up.",
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Just put in an old dvd... but only because I saw it
was on TV right now and realized the TV version
would be so cut up that I couldn't stand to watch it. | I had just looked at the dvd cover the other day and had no interest in watching it. But now I see that it's on TV and can't resist putting the dvd in. What is that? | 5 | [
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"body": "Even worse for me is that in this situation I don't even bother with putting in the DVD... I just give up an hour or so of my life to commercials to see a movie I already saw and didn't like that much anyway...\r\n\r\nThe ultimate irony? \r\n\r\nI am sitting here right now watching No Country for Old Men on my DVR while I have a DVD copy of it. \r\n\r\nI was watching this morning and was too lazy to put in the DVD copy to avoid the cuts and commercials. I had to go out so I hit record. When I came back, I didn't put the DVD in to finish, I just loaded up the recorded DVR version.\r\n\r\nTL:DR\r\nI am so lazy I will go out of my way to not go out of my way and put in a DVD to save my self commercial breaks and missed scenes.",
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Developing proper squat form? | I just read over Starting Strength and now have an understanding of how a squat is supposed to be performed. I find myself simply *unable* to squat that deep without feeling like I am going to fall over. I am guessing that I lack in the hip flexibility to perform a squat with perfect form. The muscles in my hips seem too tight to give me a full range of motion ( from sitting all day??)
Are there any exercises I can do to strength my muscles and increase flexibility to allow me to use proper form when Squatting? Hip stretches, leg stretches, advice for muscle tensions? | 22 | [
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"body": "I'm going to take a page from Bruce Lee on this one:\n\n\"If you want to be good at squats, practice squatting.\" Try dropping the weight WAY down. I'm talking like, 120 pounds under your current rep weight (this will make sense later).\n\nPerfect squat form begins from the ground up. Make sure you're driving from your heels. If you start to feel you're pushing from the balls of your feet, that's the first point of failure you need to address. One thing I used to do to make sure I got the right kind of weight distribution was to put 2.5 pound plates under my heels. Any forward lean would totally ruin the lift. Feet are about shoulder width apart, possibly wider. You don't have to take the balls of your feet off the ground, this just makes it infinitely more obvious when you get a bad weight distribution going.\n\nNext up is the knees. Specifically, where they're pointing. I don't know if they're still teaching you to do this, but **do not point them straight ahead.** That's hell on your ligaments. Instead, point them slightly outwards (while keeping your toes pointed in the same direction as your kneecaps). Everybody's body is slightly different, but I think it's safe to say that 45 degrees is too severe an outward angle.\n\nYour center of gravity stays over your heels at all times. Precision is key here. This is where most people fuck up. This will pop your ass out behind you on the way down. That’s okay. You want this.\n\nThe spine is the second most common point of failure for people first learning to squat (after the feet). You've heard this a million times before: \"Keep your back straight.\" Here's what that actually means:\n\n* Stick your chest out and get your shoulders back like you've got a pair. Testicles or tits, doesn't matter which. Prove you've got em.\n* You can keep a rigid/straight back **even when your spine isn't perpendicular to the ground.** A slight bend is to be expected. This doesn't mean de-arch your spine, it means your shoulders will stay in one place as your ass pops out behind you.\n\nDon’t flip out if the angle of your spine to the ground changes slightly on its way up and down. Keep it arched and **use your ass muscles to straighten yourself out** (a la Romanian Deadlift). Still, keep this extra movement to a minimum. Don't wanna stress your lower back muscles & spine.\n\nAs far as the \"depth\" of your squat is concerned, the deeper you go, the more you work out your ass & hips. Bare minimum depth is 90 degrees. Keep in mind, **this does not mean your thighs are parallel to the ground.**\n\nLong story short:\n\n* Feet flat at all times. All weight on the heels.\n* Ass **will** pop out behind you slightly. Slight increased forward lean will follow -- keep your back arched, minimize how MUCH you lean, and you're okay.\n* Your center of gravity stays over your HEELS. Not the whole foot.\n\nTry going ass-to-ground at -120 pounds. I'm assuming you do a full-body workout every lifting day, so increase the weight by twenty pounds every session. If you do a focused muscle group split, then adjust that to your program. The idea is to start low, and work your way up (maintaining form the whole way).\n\nIf you want a warm-up exercise/stretch, static stretching won't really do a whole lot for you. Instead, just do bodyweight squats while maintaining perfect form before you start. That should stretch out your ligaments enough for you to handle this kind of stress. If you have access to a foam roller, use that to roll out any kinks in your legs before your workout.",
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"body": "[Try the squat stretch](http://stronglifts.com/wp-content/uploads/squat-stretch.jpg)\n\nAlso, [try this one](http://www.webefit.com/Stretch/Stretch_Images/Str_Butterfly.JPG)\n\nhttp://stronglifts.com/7-dynamic-stretches-to-improve-your-hip-mobility/",
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"body": "I like to go ALL the way down, but to ground, with a lighter weight, to strengthen myself throughout the entire motion.\n\nI get way down. I'm talking butt 3- 5 inches off the ground. I'm 6'1. \n\nI go as deep as I can when I do heavier weights, but I always do a couple lighter sets where my butt gets to the floor.",
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So i just moved to boulder. | So i just moved to boulder to study at Cu for the semester. What do i need to know. Where should i hang out, and what should i do while I'm here? | 6 | [
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"body": "Go skiing/snowboarding at least once. Hapa Sushi is awesome. When it gets a bit warmer there are a lot of fun hikes right around Boulder (Bear peak, etc.). 4/20 is coming up so if that is your bag, head out to Farrand Field. Lots of fun bars on Pearl Street. \n\nNote, I don't live in Boulder, so some others might have better ideas.",
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"body": "Myself as well, recently. All suggestions are good so far, though I should add that you are a reasonable bus ride to Denver, which has all sorts great things to do. Do you like beer? Well, this is one of the top regions for American craft. One word: Avery. Here's another: Upslope. Go there and drink. Additionally, while the service and attitude is spotty, the Falling Rock bar in lower downtown cycle the best beers in the world on tap. Enjoy!",
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Anyone already start on their mix, even though they haven't been matched yet. | I have a few songs already picked, and am about to start making a list in foobar. I imagine I will have it done before I am matched. Hopefully I won't get matched up with someone that explicitly stated they don't want any specific genre that I plan on putting on it. | 12 | [
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"body": "I have quite a few songs I definitely want to use, but because I'll be sending both a mixed and unmixed compilation I'm going to hold off on the actual recording. Plus I wouldn't want to have to rewrite the liner notes and all that.",
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DAE try to steer the "floaties" in their eyes? | i recently had a very boring job and would constantly be looking at the white of my monitor screen and would see so many floaties in my eyes. I realized eventually that i could control where they floated by moving my eye quickly, therefore moving my "eye fluid" the floaties were in, which would make the floaties move.
I would then try to get one in the dead center of my vision.
I was very bored at my last job. | 109 | [
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"body": "This thread made me Google [Floaters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater) and subsequently [Tinnitus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus). Things I always promised myself I would look up but never actually did.\n\nEdit: Fuck, now I am overly conscious of both phenomena....",
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"body": "When I was like 5, I saw my floaties for the first time as I lay on my back looking at snow falling.\n\nI thought I was seeing my guardian angel.",
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Reddit, what are your favorite history books? | I find as I get older that I like reading history more and more. I seem to have been able to enjoy history of almost any era or location - to me what seems to make the most impact is the quality of the writing.
So Reddit, which history books do you recommend? | 23 | [
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"body": "Jared Diamond's Gun, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Especially the former because of how he brings up the evolutionary biological implications of agriculture. ",
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"body": "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen\n\nAlso, anything by Sarah Vowell.",
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"body": "[A Short History of Nearly Everything](http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything-Illustrated/dp/0767923227) by Bill Bryson.",
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I recently quit smoking weed and have a question/observation | Alright, I recently stopped smoking. No ideal moral reason. Im just broke =). Anyway, my question for Reddit is I've always heard MJ increases your appetite which it obviously does but has anyone experienced that opposite? Like, now that Im not smoking I have completely NO appetite and when I try to force myself to eat I get kinda sick after one or two bites. Im not attributing this to anything else because the same happened when I quit for the military and while my wife was pregnant. Weird right? | 36 | [
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"body": "i smoked weed daily for many years, i couldnt eat properly for about a month after i finally gave up cold turkey\r\n\r\nit has nothing to do with increased appetite while on the drug, it's just that you've become dependent on marijuana\r\n\r\nthat said, reddit is, for the most part, the worst place to come to for advice regarding marijuana. everyone is a fiend, and they all circle jerk any useful information way the fuck down to the bottom of the page with their downvotes.",
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"body": "absolutely... I'm a long time no-smoker (cos of the cost), recently had some cash, so got some pot, then it run out... no biggie, but I also found myself sick to the stomach at the thought of eating for a few days after, it does pass tho",
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"body": "I cannot relate to your experience and can only suggest you give yourself some more time to let your body adjust to the change. Hopefully you start feeling better soon. \r\n\r\nOn a side note, weed has the opposite effect on me. I lose my appetite whenever I smoke.",
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"body": "I could not eat properly or digest food properly for about a good 6 months after quitting.\n\n\nAll of a sudden it changed and I was estatic that I could finish a normal sized meal. But sadly, I became used to being full before aknowledging that I didn't need to eat anymore, which in turn made my stomach expand, and resulted in gaining weight. Alot of weight.\n\n\nI was 45kg when I quit (very unhealthily underweight). Within 12 months of being able to \"eat properly\" I doubled to 90kg (overweight).\n\n\nNot sure if that is a normal thing that happens to most ex drug addicts, but thought I'de share it just so you're aware and not putting your body through unneeded weight gain (then weight loss)",
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"body": "I don't get it. I smoke now and then, on and off, more or less. I'll smoke every day for a month, then not at all for another month. I've smoked every day for years, then quit cold for years. \n\nI've never had any problem with quitting pot. I'll get vivid dreams, or maybe I'm just remembering them. But my appetite doesn't change a bit (pot doesn't make me hungry, either). \n\nYeah, I might wish I had some pot to smoke, but it isn't anywhere near as difficult as quitting tobacco. I happen to like pot, but also recognize that if you smoke it every day, you don't get high. You just maintain a certain dullness. I mean I do, that is... your mileage may vary. \n\nThere's only one reasonable thing to do when you're not hungry. Don't eat. If you need food for energy, you'll get hungry. If you need it for amusement, you have a problem. ",
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"body": "I think i can definitely chime in here with an anecdote. I've been plagued with the exact same issue time and time again. Just one question, because I'm pretty sure that it's the reason it happened for me:\n\nWhen you were getting high, did you only eat after getting high. Like say you woke up in the morning, before eating breakfast would you get high?\n\nI've never been a breakfast eater as long as I can remember. But I do eat lunch all the time, and one thing I noticed, when I was in the height of my getting high, I would always be high by the time I ended up eating for the first time that day. \n\nMy theory is that, eventually your body gets used to the weed, and then correlates getting high to eating, therefore getting your metabolism going. Perhaps, a case of Pavlov's Dog classical conditioning of sorts.\nEventually, even if I hadn't stopped(cold turkey) getting high, I still wouldn't even be able to think about food until i had gotten high that day.\n\nBasically, I attributed weed to priming my appetite and metabolism, and it had gotten so used to it, that when weed intake subsists, so does the metabolism, and it needs a few weeks to recover. \n\nI've faced that problem for the last 7 years since I became a heavy user, quit last year. But, rest assured within a couple weeks to a month you will actually feel hungry in the mornings.\n\nHope it made some sort of sense. I'm not gonna say something as cliche as, \"I'm so high right now, so it might be confusing.\" Because, really, come on now, who's ever really been THAT high off weed. Hope this helps.\n",
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"body": "It's very possible that you relied on the extra appetite pot gives you and now your body has acclimated to that. If that's the case, it should only be a matter of time before you're acclimate back to not smoking.",
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"body": "never heard of that. Please keep us updated. How are you dreams? I always have very vivid nightmares/extremely weird dreams when I don't blaze.",
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"body": "exercise, exercise exercise.\n\nIt will increase your appetite and help you sleep better.\n\n\nI recently quit as well, after smoking upward of 3+grams a day. I also had loose stools and digestion problems for roughly a week after stopping. Cannabionids have a very large impact on gastrointestinal function.\n\nIt will pass, don't worry.",
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By Request: I'm a wingwoman. I can help my guy friends pick up almost any girl they want. AMA | This was brought up in another AMA a while ago and some people mentioned that they'd like to know more. I'll give tips or answer questions as time and homework allow.
The original discussion came up [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/al56s/what_is_the_worst_thing_a_girl_has_ever_done_to/c0i600x). | 61 | [
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"body": "Maybe you should go drag the guy who hasn't left his house in 6 years to a bar. Would you accept that challenge?",
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"body": "When I was in college, I had a few wingwomen like yourself. The problem? I was attracted to the wingwoman. Unfortunately, the wingwoman always tried to hook me up with her ugly friends. Variation on the theme of the \"friend zone\". I hated dating in college. \n\nDid you ever have this happen to you?",
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"body": "On behalf of socially inept guys out there, this is a sincere and honest thank you. The world needs more angels like you. Would you consider it as a career somehow?",
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"body": "How would you rate yourself on attractiveness? I feel like an unattractive woman would not garner the same response in the bathroom situation as a more attractive one. \n\ndo you do this just because you're a generally nice girl or do you get some sort of compensation from this? I saw a craigslist ad where a guy was offering to pay $30 an hour for a wingwoman and to compensate her for any drinks she had to pay for... \n\ndo they reciprocate and play wingman for you to help you get with guys? or are you just entirely too good at what you do for that?",
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"body": "As a fan of How I Met Your Mother, I always thought the, \"Haaaave you met [his name here]?\" was a good pickup line. It would surely work on a fan of the show, and I think a lot of girls would go for it anyway.\n\nThoughts?",
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"body": "Reddit needs you more than your homework!! P\n\nPaste your homework somewhere, we'd fix it for you. But for now, stay with us!!!",
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"body": "Wingwoman, why is it that I will invariably fall head over heels in love with you and then have you reject me leading me to be a blubbering mess?",
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"body": "Are you a tomboy?\n\nWhy do you feel they need your help? Do they ask you to be their wing woman or you do it out of your own interest? Are your friends looking for casual sex or a date?\n\nedit: gmr",
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"body": "I wish I knew more people like you. Most (read: all) of my female friends are pretty worthless in this particular area.\n\nUpvote for being awesome!",
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Features of comrade? | What features can we agree on (mabye if we make each comment a different idea, upvote/downvote ideas) and what principals will we work by ie. never having advertising, selling personal information etc. | 8 | [
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"body": "No applications or chat, but I would welcome syncing with iCal for calendars and exporting friend lists so they can be used in other applications.",
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"body": "I could do with chat, if implemented well, including a group chat option.\n\nI could also do with *non-frivolous* apps.\n\nThe problem I have with Facebook is that all the status updates in their news feed are just jumbled up, and even in live feed, there's no way to give anything a custom priority.\n\nAlong those lines, while you can add contacts to different groups, it would be useful if you could select a feed of status updates for one or more groups alone, distinct from the \"everybody\" feed.",
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"body": "I suppose that the biggest technical improvement that Comred (I prefer this spelling to 'Comrade') should have over Facebook is the capacity to filter exactly what one wishes to see and what not. The problem with Facebook is not that Farmville and Twilight personality tests exist, it is that there is no unified interface to shut them up for good. All it takes is a \"Don't show Games/Quizzes/etc.\" preference box. Of course, discussing applications at this stage is quite useless, but the principle can be applied to other fields.\n\nI have previously suggested (ironically) that an IQ test should replace captchas on the signup page. While we cannot filter stupidity, we can certainly build an environment where stupidity is discouraged. \"Likes\", \"Pokes\", the Wall, \"I love Hanna Montana\" groups, even one-line status updates displayed one after the other in a vertical flow of diarrhea should be seriously reconsidered.\n\nWho said anyway that 'feeds' are the best way to display changing information in a social network? From the point of view of the \"social network experience\", my biggest grievance with Facebook is that it represents an all-in or all-out experience. When you log on it you immediately access the entire mess of your network's busy (and mostly boring) life. There are no intermediate stages or ways to split up the mess into meaningful domains or ignore systematically chunks of it.\n\nUltimately, if the social network is eventually developed I suggest that its code be released as Open Source.",
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"body": "Call me radical, but I've had this idea about creating a social networking site that doesn't, by default, store everything that is posted there indefinitely. Everything posted to the site has a default 'expiration date' where it will eventually be deleted from the servers(completely). Exceptions could be made for basic info, as well as profile pictures and photo albums and such. But, things like wall posts, status updates, shared links and comments would, by default, disappear after a fixed(or algorithm?) amount of time. \n\nThe reasoning behind this is that, *it's just kind of creepy and weird* to have conversations that 'last forever' on the internet. It's kind of unnatural, and I think that the fact that conversations work this way is something that a lot of people don't really understand and/or know what they are 'in for'. \n\nKeeping with the overall privacy focus of the site, I think that it makes sense to regularly 'purge' very old material from a personal protection standpoint as well as a... for lack of a better term *human* standpoint. \n\nI recognize this is kind of an extreme/radical view, and to be honest I have not thought about it extensively, there maybe some glaring flaws to it, but that's one idea that I've felt would really enhance the usability of a social networking site. \n",
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"body": "I hate to say this, but I love how easy it is to find your friends on facebook, just type their names, no weird NaMe ~~ F*U * C*K*I*N*G ~~ aRT™ . Also the standard pages were cool. Opening MySpace pages is like russian roulet, you never know how much it will rape your connection, not to mention what happens when people think they understand html, css and so on and forth.\n\nI think [Orkut](http://www.orkut.com) got it right, a standard layout with a choice of colours.\n\nAlso, no chat or third-party apps. Another thing that pisses me off abut facebook is the ammount of useless groups and advertisement groups, but I can't really think of a solution for that.",
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"body": "I wonder if other services that do require client programs could be integrated with this in the long term, e.g. some kind of integration with IM (text, voice and video) programs might be interesting, or some extension that allowed you to meet your friends in your own private 3D space not completely unlike Second Life. Some games that require you to find people to play might also benefit from integration.\n\nMaybe some kind of API could be designed for the needs of external apps like that.",
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"body": "I think we should have a friend tagline feature in which rather than showing a picture to anyone who wants to add you in order to confirm identity, people can put a short one-liner that contains information their friends would recognize.... This way, we can keep everything but the name off Google if people wish, but still make it easier to find and connect with your friends.",
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Where do you meet cool girls, Atheist Reddit? | I've been a redditor for a few months now, but I've always been afraid of posting anything. However, the time has come.
I ask you, reddit, where do you meet cool girls?
I'm a sophomore in college studying physics with a 4.0 and I like to think I'm a pretty attractive guy. However, it seems like every girl I meet is either extremely religious or is a smoking, drinking, partier. Is it because I live in the bible belt (Oklahoma) or is this just a universal dichotomy?
I just want a girl whose life doesn't revolve around God and doesn't party; is that too much to ask? | 5 | [
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"body": "Every guy over 40 will tell you to get as much pussy as you can while you are still young.\n\nTrust me on this. ",
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"body": "You can meet girls at parties that are not the \"smoking drinking partier\". \nThe party is a social gathering. Go in and enjoy yourself. Don't go in looking for that girl because you'll just give off a bad vibe. ",
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"body": "Why not bang the godbots? Most of them are hypocrites who don't require all that much to bang. I had friends who used to attend Baptist churches just for the easy poon.",
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"body": "A google search for \"atheist dating\" brought up several sites that cater to nontheists looking for love. You could try your hand at those. \r\n\r\nBut considering that the majority of the American population are religious believers of some sort, you might have better luck dating anyone, and being up front about your lack of beliefs when it comes up. Any women who view that as a no-go issue aren't worth your time anyway. Good luck out there!",
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My girlfriend wants to take up the mandolin. Can anyone recommend a good mid-priced instrument for her to learn on? | She's a skilled pianist, so she's not new to music. However, this is her first stringed instrument. I've been playing guitar for 15 years and can help her with what's what, but I'd love to hear from some serious mandolin players out there. So what's good? | 6 | [
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"body": "I took up the mandolin several years ago and it's a really fun instrument to learn. I found it's just like any of the other pieces I've picked up on a whim, the best thing you can do is pick up a used one from a bluegrass store, mine was about $150. There's no reason to drop anything more into it as you don't really notice significant improvement in tone until you get into the $750 range. After I got comfortable with it, I upgraded when I could tell the difference. That's just my two bits.",
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This is almost too simple, BUT. You shall never lack
QR Codes again! | This one is a bit crude, but it's made with a deadline (work in the morning).
If you ever want an [QR Code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code) capable phone to visit an URL, it makes sense fast to use a QR Code instead of typing.
Prepend ANY url with "**QRCur.com/?**" (even less, depending on your browser), point the Barcode barcode app at your screen, and [there you go](http://qrcur.com/?http://qrcur.com)!
Let me know what you think, does it make sense to you?
The domain name is merrily inspired of [MrGrim's](http://imgur.com), what good is a website if you cannot remember it?
*****
EDIT:
Generating is done by the [Google Chart API](http://code.google.com/apis/chart/types.html#qrcodes), so this requires hardly *any* effort to create or host. It's entirely too easy, but it's neat for a 5-hour web page.
By popular demand, there's now also a [Bookmarklet](http://qrcur.com/bookmarklet.html).
If you're looking to generate for other URLs than the one you're visiting;
*Copy* --> *QRCur.com* --> Paste --> *Encode!* | 36 | [
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"body": "This bookmark works too:\n\n javascript:void(window.open('http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl='+encodeURIComponent(location.href),'Qr%20code','top=100,left=200,width=350,height=350,status=yes'));",
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"body": "For you firefox people, there's also [Mobile Barcoder](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2780) that can generate a QR Code from any link in the browser by using the right-click menu, or for the current page. Been using it for a while and it's bloody useful.\n\nHowever, QRCur.com also looks useful. Nice one.",
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"body": "Wow! This is a really cool idea! I had been using [another](http://qrcode.kaywa.com/) QR generator but this just makes it so much easier! Just need to let it handle encodeURIComponent URLs for a javascript bookmark button like this: \n\n javascript:(function(){ window.open('http://qrcur.com/?'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)); })();",
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When the Cardinals missed a FG Aaron Rogers pointed to God in thanks...then fumbled away the game in OT. Now I think maybe there is a god and he thinks Aaron Rogers is an asshole. | I can sort of understand a player thanking God after he does something good - Thanks for giving me skills, making me awesome, blah, blah, blah. But to thank God for a missed field goal? That's messed up. | 20 | [
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"body": "He was probably thanking god for the chance to give it another try. Because you know, god is responsible for that. However, I am pretty positive it wasn't gods fault that the Cardinals got the ball. \n\nThat's the thing about god. He gets all the praise but none of the blame. Must be a politician.",
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Reddit, what is the most comfortable piece of clothing you own? | I'm wearing a really comfy pair of one-size-fits-all light cotton pants (and I'm not a fat ass), and was wondering what other comfy clothes do other people wear? Links would be appreciated. | 3 | [
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"body": "My GF is in the medical field and gets me badass scrubs to sleep in. Love 'em.\n\nI also like to wear her vagina frequently, which is pretty awesome too.",
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Kriek Chocolate Chip Cookies | A recipe I posted in in /r/food.
[Here it is!](http://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/anzau/kriek_chocolate_chip_cookies/) | 6 | [
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"body": "There are a couple options here to increase the lambic flavor.\n\nButter is 20% water, so the first option is that you replace the 1 cup of butter with 4/5 cup of butter flavored shortening, which frees up 1/5 cup of liquid (in this case the lambic). You can probably round those figures to 3/4 cup and 1/4 respectively without damaging your recipe too much.\n\nThe second option is that you can start with about 1.5 cups of lambic and reduce it to 1/2 cup (~8 TBSP). Use a heavy-bottomed sauce-pan and reduce slowly or it will definitely burn due to the sugar content. Then you have a concentrated syrup to add instead of just the lambic. You may want to throw in a couple of TBSP of plain water to offset the reduced water content of the syrup though.\n\nI recommend trying option #2 because you should get a more concentrated flavor that way, but it's possible that you will cause chemical changes that alter the flavor of the lambic. \n\nDefinitely post your new recipe when you've had a chance to improve it.",
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If you can design/draw it, I'll get it tattoo'd on me. | I've been looking locally for months now for an artist who can draw a full sleeve concept for me, but I've had no real luck finding someone who can replicate the designs I'm interested in. I'm willing to allow for a significant amount of artistic flexibility - I just want dictate the general images that are to be included.
There are two reasons I'm posting this to reddit:
1) There are a huge number of talented people who frequent this site, and some of you must be amazing designers/visual artists.
2) My dream tattoo is sci-fi themed and we all know reddit isn't lacking in the fanboy department.
So, to start I guess I'll just list the images that I want to be part of the tattoo:
- The Planet Express ship from Futurama
- Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from MST3K
- Hal 9000 from Space Odyssey
- The crowbar from Half-Life
- Zombie silhouettes from Dawn of the Dead
A few notes to mention that are important in terms of scale and design:
- I'm a 6'1 tall male with fair skin and a thin build, so most colors will show well and the tattoo has to be scaled for a thin person (i.e. wrap-around of the design determines the scale since I can't fit a giant spaceship on one side of my bicep.
- I maintain a pretty steady weight and have a low BMI - so stretching isn't an issue until I quit exercising or turn 60, whatever comes first.
- I have a few tattoos already, so inking isn't much of an issue (I can deal with the thicker needles used for outlining - so pain isn't a problem - although I'd prefer not to have to sit though 6 hrs of 1inch thick bordering)
- Price isn't an issue - if I'm going to get something stuck on my for the rest of my life I'm going to put the necessary cash into it in order to make sure it turns out perfect.
I have a tattoo artist that I have used before who is great at accurately replicating cartoonish figures, but if you can draw and are a professional tattoo artist I am willing to travel (I'm located in Ottawa, Canada), but I would prefer to not have to spend $3000 on a plane ticket to Australia - you never know though! I can also provide compensation for your time and would allow you to keep whatever *rights*/images you want if you maintain a portfolio.
I specifically chose images that are curvy; since it's a large tattoo I'm trying to avoid a lot of straight edges which will warp over time.
If you or someone you know are interested you can post any questions here or I can send you my contact info and we can start talking. I can also provide measurements of my arm and possibly try to get a scale template done up. I'll also reply to any questions from other redditors who have any interest in this.
Cheers! I hope this works! | 102 | [
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"body": "aaaah, i had a fucking novel written to reply to this post, but i sounded like a huge dick - so i erased it all and will try to make this short and sweet. but still sound like a dick.\n\nfull sleeve tattoos shouldn't be drawn up by people who don't tattoo. Cause they don't get it. drawing on a piece of paper isn't the same a 3 dimensional object with varying degrees of skin texture. and it's not the subject matter that has to be curvy - it's the flow o\n\nGet a tattooer to draw this for you. you have some fun ideas, and i know plenty of tattooers, including myself, who would love to take a crack at this. \n\nThere are plenty of tattooers in Montreal/Ottawa/Toronto who will blow your mind. very talented people. get them to draw it for you - give them a huge deposit so they aren't wasting their time. and be patient. this is a full sleeve. and it's permanent ( crazy, huh?).\n\nPSC in Montreal, Studio tattoo mania in MTL, five cents tattoo in ottawa has some very talented dudes.. \n\nfuck, this was still long and dick-ish. sorry.",
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"body": "You could totally have *zombie airship pirates* driving canoes through **GARY BUSEY'S** garage and running over his lawn plants. Oh! and you'll totally need that travelocity *gnome* flying his *lawnchair* into **power lines** at which point he gets blown up and smells of **leathery** **BURNT** ***BACON***. Then you can have that futurama ship fly in with *pew pew lazers* shooting the time machine from Dr. Who, but just before it *asplodes* you can have Gordon Freeman *hack* and *SLASH* AND ***THROW GRENADES*** AT **BILL COSBY** as he rides a hover-round out the window of the phone-booth-time-machine. This is about the time dave matthews comes into picture. He'll be equipped with *flame thrower arms* and **CHAINSAW HANDS** and he'll cut up the blue man group whilst commanding hal to play the benny hill theme. **IM SORRY DAVE, I CAN'T LET YOU DO THAT** shall be emblazoned upon the outter rim of hal's eye and lastly helper from **VENTURE BROS** shall shit out *bolts* and *MOTOR OIL* and **BROKEN CEILING FANS AND HEAVY METAL LP'S** ALL OVER THE *GODDAMNED* TATTOO.\r\n\r\nEdit: upvoting you for awesome idea.",
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"body": "I've been lurking for quite some time, but this post inspired me to come out and throw in my $0.02.\n\nIf you're really serious about getting a large-format tattoo with this much depth and intricacy, you should skip reddit and go directly to the BME community. Use [BME 411](http://411.bmezine.com/search) to find some artists in your community or browse the [artist portfolios](http://bmezine.com/tattoo/miniport/index.html) until you find someone whose work you like.",
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"body": "Off topic kind of, but still about tattoos:\n\nSo I had this roommate in college, kind of a mix of things, he was a gymnast, OCD mathematics whiz that solved 5 different shaped rubix cubes every morning before class, was able to find wicked shrooms anywhere, ran down the halls naked constantly, had a bunch of piercings and a tattoo of a Koi fish running down his side.\n\nSo one day, we see him, and he shows us this tattoo that he hadn't had finished before now, and it was like musical note lines going around his arm. I asked him what song it was, *\"Why does it have to be a song? Why can't I just have musical notes wrapped around my arm?\"\n\nI didn't write down what it was on his arm, but to this day, I think the tattoo artist did the opening to \"Never Gonna Give you Up\" on his arm, because the timing kind of fit.",
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"body": "Guys... I think we have a winner:\n\nhttp://bmezine.com/tattoo/miniport/A90811/high/iv4w-narwhaljohnny4.jpg",
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"body": "Here's my art get a tattoo of anything that grabs your attention: http://prosthetichead.net/elded/elded/",
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"body": "I realize this may sound weird if I'm wrong, but are you deadmau5?\n\nI mean the parallels are pretty close: Canadian/thin/looking for a sleeve tattoo etc. I just saw the post on facebook about looking for people to design part of the tattoo so I may be a little skewed in my judgement though.",
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"body": "you should get a cartoon alligator with wings, and a banner over his head that reads \"hope\". just a suggestion.",
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"body": "I've never been fond of tattoos, but if I were to get one, I'd have something useful like a ruler on my arm. Maybe a scale for converting F to C temperatures, too. Blood type, any allergies, a phone number to call in an emergency, stuff like that. ",
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What can I do with a bunch of unwanted vinyl records? | I recently acquired about 50 records from a garage sale, mostly religious music. What can I do with them besides donate them or throw them away? | 5 | [
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"body": "[Room Divider](http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/01/03/recycle-diy-how-to-make-a-room-divider-using-old-vinyl-records/)",
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"body": "Use them as throwing discs to fight off oncoming zombies, but then realize that doesn't work and go into your toolshed, pick up a shovel, and finish off the zombies with that.",
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The Torrent Site Invitation Giveaway | Hey Reddit, I was browsing through the [post your bookmarks](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/anspd/hey_reddit_what_are_your_mostfrequented_websites/) post today, and decided it's nigh time Reddit has a torrent site invitation giveaway. So, if you have a site in mind you'd like to obtain an invitation for, or have invitations to give away or trade, post them here! | 8 | [
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"body": "I'll start, with my 4 invitations to BitGamer. I'm asking that you've been a member on Reddit for at least 2 months.\n\nIn return, does anyone have an invitation for [PianoSheets](http://tt.pianosheets.org/)?\n\nEDIT: Sorry everyone, but I'm out of BitGamer invites :(",
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It's my birthday and I want to get some warm leggings! | I have quite a few wool skirts that I like to wear them under, but I'm not a fan of the thin spandex-y ones. I have a pair from Gap that are really thick cotton and I love them - I think they were sleepwear, actually - but I'm having trouble finding anywhere that carries anything other than obnoxious day-glo styles that aren't like forty dollars a pop (e.g. American Apparel, they have some that look comfy, but I could practically get a pair of jeans for the price that they are). Anyone have any suggestions? | 12 | [
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"body": "I love my Cuddl-duds (though, I don't know if they're the thin spandex-y ones you're referring to). You can get fakes at Walmart for like $8 a pair. They're the only things getting me through IA winters. ",
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"body": "I wear pantyhose under my jeans on cold days.\n\n\nWHAT?! They're warm! If they're good enough for Joe Namath, then they're good enough for me.\n\n*And they make my legs feel smooth too.* ",
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"body": "I got a couple of pairs of really comfy leggings at Target for about $8 a pair. they may be too thin and spandexy for you, but I also saw some sweater-knit type leggings there that seemed nice.",
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"body": "I was given a pair of Underarmor tights/long underwear, and I use them for everything now, from running tights to under skirts at nice dinners. Of course, Underarmor is pretty expensive, but if you looked for cheaper brands of long underwear or running tights, you might find something that would work.",
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"body": "[american apparel winter leggings](http://store.americanapparel.ca/rsatt328.html?cid=905) are expensive but soooo comfy and so worth it!",
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Soundcloud: A pain in the ass for anyone else? | EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to up a song on SC it seems to freeze 2/3 of the way through. I don't get it. I've got a few songs I'd like to post here, and I don't really feel like linking straight to my webspace with all the other crap I have on there... are there any alternatives I can use to SoundCloud that will easily stream my music or am I stuck looking at "1 Second Remaining" forever? | 7 | [
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"body": "bandcamp.com, sites.google.com (you get 10G if you use google apps), myspace.com, soundclick.com, there must be many facebook apps that lets you upload mp3...",
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Is there a plan like "100 pushups" but for pull-ups? | I've already seen http://www.twentyfivepullups.com/index.html , which is coming soon! Do you know of anything similar? I got the Iron Gym pull-up bar for christmas and I want to be able to do at least 8 before summer (I can do zero now). | 17 | [
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"body": "Here's a four week plan I'm currently working on to get myself started, along with diet and exercise:\n\nWeek 1: Try to do one pullup.\n\nWeek 2: Try to do one pullup.\n\nWeek 3: Try to do one pullup.\n\nWeek 4: Try to do one pullup.",
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"body": "If you are looking for a way to get your body up for pull ups, a great way to start is doing negatives. jump up to your highest point in a pull up and slowly go down. repeat. \n\nOr, have a friend hold up your legs to give you support lightening the load, but still making you do all the work.",
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"body": "Try this:\n\n1) Do them 3 days a week, with at least one day between.\n\n2) Do no more than 3 sets, with as many reps per set as you can manage.\n\n3) Do them fairly slowly (try and be controlled), so as not to let gravity or your own momentum help you.\n\n4) Do negatives to start off with. To do these, get a chair and put it just in front of you. Stand on the chair and pull yourself up to the 'top' position of a pullup (your chin just above the bar). Now, feet off the chair and lower yourself in a controlled way. Do as many reps as you can until you can't do any more without almost dropping with no control.\n\n5) Do chinups first (i.e., when you grab the bar have your palms facing you, not away from you). This engages your biceps and other muscles a little more than true pullups (with your palms facing away from you), so are usually easier to do.\n\n6) Take a minute break between sets, then try again with the next set.\n\n7) Try and eventually do unaided pullups. You may still want to use negatives when you can do a few unaided pullups.\n\nBonus: \n8) Do other upper-body exercises too, like pushups and dips.\n\n9) On every 5th or so session, try and push yourself a little further than usual.\n\nHave fun!",
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"body": "Can you maybe tell us a little more about yourself? Sex/Age/Weight/Height/etc? Makes a big difference in how long things may take, though getting to 8 before summer shouldn't be much of a problem. For not being able to do any you can either do negatives (like G_Parmesan said), or put a chair under the bar and use your legs to help. Just make sure if you're using a chair that you don't help yourself too much, try and use your legs just enough so you can barely do them.\n\nOnce you can do 1 on your own it will be much easier to work on as you can just randomly do them through out the day. Personally I try and do a few ever time I pass under my pull-up bar... I've been doing this on and off for years and it's just become a habit.",
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If I were to grow tobacco: Would it be smokeable? Is it legal? | I live in Florida and had a thought that I'd grow my own tobacco; as I am an avid cigarette smoker. I read some things about how tobacco, unprocessed, isn't great for the smoking. I don't know much, so I'm looking for some insight from people that do. Thanks.
Has anyone gone through the aging process? How long did it take? | 9 | [
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"body": "http://www.howtogrowtobacco.com/\n\nNo joke. Its legal as long as you don't try to sell it, not that selling it is explicitly illegal, but because its regulated and taxed.",
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"body": "legal.\n\nvery difficult to grow. hard to germinate. hard to prevent mold and parasite diseases on the plants without putting poison in your lungs.",
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"body": "I used to live in a town where they produced a lot of tobacco. I don't know much about it, but as far as I understand it, you have to hang it and let it cure before you can smoke it.",
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"body": "The Indians and early settlers smoked it without complicated processing, so I really don't see why you couldn't. Maybe if you buy a peace-pipe?",
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"body": "I once installed a phone for this guy who had a very small tobacco field.. about 15 metres by 10 metres.. anyways he was saying that its fine to grow a small amount.. but the special equipment needed to properly dry out and shred was tightly regulated and controlled.\nPS i tried some, it was amazing",
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Australia beats Iceland 3-1 to win gold in IIHF U20 Div III in Istanbul. | My brother was selected to play for Australia; undefeated and top of their pool, they scraped past North Korea in the semi-final (4-3 in sudden-death overtime) to face Iceland, who looked to be the dominant team of the tournament. They played their best game of the tournament to defeat Iceland 3-1 and win the gold!! I'm really proud of my brother!!
Also, both Australia and Iceland are now promoted to Div II as a result.
Edit: http://www.iihf.com/channels0910/wm20-iii http://www.iihf.com/channels0910/wm20-iii | 8 | [
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"body": "Thats awesome, I love hearing what is happening in the other divisions. Is there any way of seeing hilights of this game?",
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Reddit: What's your UFO sighting? | I think i have one. About 20 years ago, while stargazing on a starry night i saw something fly across the sky. At first i thought it was an aircraft. As i continued my gaze on it, i noticed that it didn't blink its wing lights as regular aircraft does. It appeared like a orb of continuous light that flew in a straight line parallel across the horizon. Another unusual thing i realized a split second later is that it moved faster than regular aircraft. It's not possible that it was a shooting star because it continued to move silently & swiftly along both ends of the horizon until it was out of my sight. | 31 | [
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"body": "I was 15 years old and on my way home from my ex-girlfriend's house. It was 3 a.m. and I was taking my time leisurely peddling down a rather dark street. Suddenly, but not unusually, I hear a loud shriek. The shriek was just a bat hanging around among the tree tops, but what I saw then changed my perspective of the world I live in. At the same moment I hear the shriek, I look up towards the direction of it, and I see a very large, circular object shoot across the sky at a phenomanal speed. I almost fell off my bike, stopped, stared at the sky for a few more minutes, and went about my way thinking \"What the hell did I just see? Was that real?\" I'm positive that what I saw was no illusion. But the scariest thing was the way this vehicle looked and sounded. It could have been no more than 100 ft. above the modest, suburban tree tops. It radiated a strange light, that was no identifiable color, but every color at once. It made no sound. No whistle, no hum, nothing. If I had not heard the bat, I would not have seen this.",
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"body": "About '90 or '91, while attending college in Phoenix, it was clear, full moon, temperate night and I decided to take a drive. I ended up northwest of town in some fields out near the \"triangles\" somewhere close to Luke AFB... It was about 2 or 3am, before I had a cell phone or GPS, so I didn't know exactly where I was. All I knew was that I could see the city lights glowing behind me. Out of nowhere, there's this really bright white light off in the distance. It was the kind of light that a modern white LED would put out, but only much, much brighter. At first I thought it was a crop duster or something, but then it started moving slowly in the shape of a stretched out figure 8 on its side. I took a few turns to follow the road and to see if I could get closer, and then the weird stuff started. The motion of the light sped up considerably, almost to the point the figure 8 was very clear. I noted that it was extremely accurate in its motion. My car's headlights started to go dim and flicker, but I had alternator problems in the past, so I thought I was just having bad luck. I didn't have a radio, so I don't know if I was getting any kind of RF interference from anything. A few minutes go by, I'm still watching the light, it's speeding up it's motion even more, and I'm trying to stay on the road. Then the car just dies - as if I turned the ignition off. Luckily, I had my analog multimeter with me that we had to use for electronics labs. So I rummage through the moonlit darkness, and dig that out to see if I have any voltage on my car battery. Nothing. No movement on the gauge, that I could see. I had some lengths of hookup wire, so I figured I'd test for a spark, again nothing. Now I'm getting worried that I wouldn't make it back to the city. I focus back on the light and it's moving at an insane speed, not like anything I've seen, even to this day. And just when I think it couldn't get any weirder, it shoots straight up into the sky and disappears from view. A few moments later, my headlights produce light again, and my hairs stand up on end (they are standing up again typing this out). I head back to the city as fast as I can, with my adrenaline going full steam. I have an electronics background, and I still to this day question everything that we know about electrical theory, and the possibility of what's out there... plus I haven't told many people about this up until now... \n\nAnd yes, I was in Tempe, AZ when the famous \"flares\" appeared west of Phoenix and I witnessed them through binoculars, but I can't disprove they were or weren't flares. This sighting, on the other hand, freaked me out... ",
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"body": "A few years ago I was in Mexico, travelling on a night coach somewhere between Mexico City and Guadalajara. We were crossing the plains and the terrain was featureless and boring even in the light. In the moonless dark of night there was literally nothing to see and I fell into an uneasy sleep, upright in the seat. Around two in the morning I woke, freezing, the only passenger awake. Bleary-eyed and sleepy I made a blanket from my jacket and turned to resting my face against the window. As I did I happened to look through the glass, and saw something I never thought I’d see. \n\n20 miles from the road, as the driver continued oblivious, hovered an object of staggering scale and beauty, sitting there stationary in the sky. The thing hung there in the night, made visible only by the lights that ran along up and down its length - multicoloured strings of yellow, red, blues, greens, milky pinks and fiery oranges; a rainbow. The lines they formed were random and organic, certainly not the shape of any aircraft, and anyway much too big, miles long. \n\nMy heart began raced as I realised the significance of what I was seeing; we are not alone. As I turned to wake my travelling companion, something happened. I realised I’d mistaken a town on a hill for something out of Star wars. \n",
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"body": "I was probably around 14 or so and I was outside one night and saw a UFO hovering in the distance. It was the classic saucer shape with a row of lights around the side. It would hover for a while, then move a bit and hover some more. I took pictures with a super crappy camera, as this was before the days of digital cameras. After a few minutes of watching the saucer, it zipped across the sky (WAY faster than anything should) to another identical saucer and they flew off into the distance. ",
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"body": "Neither of these happened to me, obviously, but they're both pretty interesting incidents with literally thousands of witnesses:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_sun",
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"body": "My story is very similar to yours. It comes from my dad:\n\nBack when he was living in Iran he was lying down on a grassy field with his brother, just watching the sky. I guess there was nothing better to do 30 years ago :)\n\nAnyways... they see a light in the sky moving at a \"normal\" pace and don't think anything of it until it stops for a few minutes. He told me that they thought it was a helicopter until, out of nowhere, it shot across the *whole sky* in a speed not possible by any modern aircraft. It did so in a matter of less than a couple of seconds.\n\nI have no reason whatsoever to believe my dad was lying to me :)",
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"body": "I had something similar to yours coldplane; stargazing and saw a bright light moving *fast* across the sky but then it turned and started just moving around in the sky rather than going in a straight line. Eventually it started going again and went out of sight. Was around for a good 10 minutes though.",
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"body": "I was driving down the highway in the middle of a city recently when I saw a giant green glowing something shoot across the sky. Probably just a meteor but is sure was big, bright(saw it despite light pollution) and green.",
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"body": "My grandfather on his deathbed told my father and I about a sighting he had in the navy when he was deployed around Guam. He said he saw something large and glowing in the sky, moving around large speeds before finally all of the lights vanished. He said he wasn't the only person on his ship to see it, although he wasn't sure if there was an investigation.\n\nI always thought his story was especially interesting because if true, it was before the huge increase in sightings and frenzy surrounding it, also before technology reached the point where it could easily be confused for a alien craft (advanced UAVs etc). \n\n\n\n*dyslexia!!!",
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"body": ">i noticed that it didn't blink its wing lights as regular aircraft does. It appeared like a orb of continuous light that flew in a straight line parallel across the horizon. Another unusual thing i realized a split second later is that it moved faster than regular aircraft.\n\nI think you must have considered it, but possibly you saw the reflection of a satellite as it made it's orbit? You didn't indicate any velocity changes, and everything else in your story seems in-line with a satellite.\n\nI can see several every clear night just after dusk or before dawn.",
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"body": "I was driving down the interstate with my friend (during the day), when we saw a bright light. It was too bright to be a star or a plane, so we kept watching it (and the road, of course). All of a sudden the thing took a sharp turn and disappeared straight up into the sky. ",
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"body": "i had the picture on my computer but had to wipe my hard drive. I still have the pic on facebook but its so low res you cant even see its there. but we were in san diego on vacation and there was this weird sphere in the distance, so i decided to snap a picture of it. Later when i looked at it on the computer i zoomed in and it was like a bubble, filmy looking and multi-colored. really cool",
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"body": "This was mine. I submitted this article on two sites, \"now public\" and \"Newsvine\". I called local television and newspapers and even a u.f.o reporting sight. No one else came forth to say they saw this. To this day I am baffled, pretty sure it was a meteorite but it went over downtown and close enough to light up the buildings.\n\nhttp://levey-p.newsvine.com/_news/2009/12/02/3577328-did-anyone-else-see-the-meteor-over-seattle-last-night",
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"body": "My mother's story: sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s (she was in her early teens) in Ecuador, she was staying over at a friend's house. The house was in countryside, an estate, with a large open ranch land. After dinner, my mother, her friend, and her friend's parents went out on the porch to relax, drink coffee, smoke and saw a bright white light in the distance moving slowly and occasionally hovering above the tree tops of an orchard. She and her friend climbed up on a brick wall to get a better glimpse and as they did the light came closer and suddenly shined an intense beam of light on them. After a moment, just as suddenly, the light launched itself directly up into the sky and out of sight. That story has terrified me since I was a child.",
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"body": "When I was an air traffic controller, I was in the tower one morning (Randolph AFB, Texas) and it was maybe 1/2 hour after day break. The other controller was taking a nap (there were no planes in the air at that time of the morning). Something caught my eye and I looked up and saw this metallic object flying very fast over the tower. I couldn't make out what it was, I just knew that it wasn't a plane. I called down to radar and asked them if they see anything on their scopes, and they said no. I have no idea what it could have been. Satellites do not fly that low or that fast. Oh well. I know they're out there somewhere.",
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"body": "This past June, three of my friends and I were wandering off from a party to purchase some snackables at a local grocer. (We settled on berries)\n\nOn the way back to the house, we all lay down in a soybean field, to eat, and laugh, and stargaze. After about 30 minutes of staring up, laying on the ground, all of us start to feel a bit uneasy. One after the other, we realise we're not staring up at stars, but something about 100 feet above us; a triangular outline of 5 lights per side. It starts to move away, silently, at which point, it becomes obvious that it's a full black craft. One of us says, \"Holy shit, do you guys see this?!\"\n\nWe all agree on seeing it, and watch it accelerate roughly southwest until it's out of sight. We talked about it for awhile, and compared its movement to a few planes in the sky, and determined it was moving about 3-4x the speed of a commercial aircraft (the field is near an airport, so we'd see low flying planes as well, and could compare the speed.), but totally silent.\n\nThey all refuse to discuss it now.\n\n**TL/DR** spotted a massive airship with 3 other people that was basically invisible until it began to move.",
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"body": "I was about 12 living in the San Fernando valley in Los Angeles. I was outside one night watching the sky and generally screwing around. I caught a glimpse of something and turned towards it. What I saw is difficult to describe, but it looked like about six stars (which is what I thought they were at first), all the same intensity and color, moving across the sky in a sort of vague V-shape, definitely an obtuse angle (maybe 130 degrees or so?). Whatever it was shot across the sky relatively quickly. I watched it until it was out of view and then stood stupefied for a moment. I never could tell how high up I thought it was.",
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Who are some of the greatest female authors/poets in history? | My friend and I got into a discussion on male vs female authors/poets and he seems to think that men are better at writing than women. He justified this by saying that most of the good literary/poetic work comes from great suffering (which I agree with) but that a man's suffering is ...different... than a woman's. Unfortunately, my knowledge of great female authors/poets doesn't go beyond Emily Dickinson. Help! | 23 | [
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"body": "[ Virginia Woolf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf) was a straight up pimp. \n\nEverything of her's that I've read has been astounding. I mean... uh... ghettofantabulous.",
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"body": "English major here, so brace yourself (though if he's arguing that men's writing is better than women's, he's probably a misogynistic douche and won't be swayed by these marvelous examples...)\n\nAuthors: Harper Lee, Willa Cather, Sandra Cisneros, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Iris Murdoch, Alice Munro, Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Edith Wharton, Charlotte and Emily Bronte\n\nPoets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, H.D., Louise Gluck, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, Muriel Rukeyser, Sara Teasdale, Elizabeth Bishop\n\nNot to say that I like all of these writers... but still, it's a start",
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"body": "Men aren't necessarily better poets than women; Women just weren't educated enough to write until a relatively short time ago. \n\nFor an example, read about [Sor Juana Inez](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz) who was a gifted poet but was reviled later in life because she was too outspoken. ",
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"body": "Flannery O'Connor. She was a total visionary, way ahead of her time. Her short stories are bright, deep, unforgettable. ",
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"body": "Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, Virginia Woolf. Mary Oliver is probably the most amazing poet I've read.",
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"body": "While I can't stand her work, [Toni Morrison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison) is widely considered a top American author, regardless of gender. She has won a Pulitzer and Nobel. \n\nOh and [Maya Angelou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_angelou).",
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"body": "My knowledge is also limited, but off the top of my head:\n\nMary Shelley - Frankenstein\nCharlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre\nEmily Brontë - Wuthering Heights\n\nPlus in terms of sheer book sales:\n\nJ. K. Rowling and Agatha Christie, although we're not talking about literary masterpieces there!",
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"body": "Virginia Woolf, Patti Smith(!), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Camille Claudel, Ingrid Jonker, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rosetti, Joyce Carol Oates.\n\nWarning, the following text contains gross generalizations:\n\nWomen are a lot more altruistic than men. The self-absorption necessary to create great art is not something which comes naturally to most women.\n\nGreat writers, due to their complete self-absorption, need someone to look after them. Men are less likely to fill this role than women, hence the imbalance in numbers between male and female artists. I guess this may go some way to explaining the disproportionately large number of lesbian poets/writers (as a percentage of all women).",
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"body": "46 comments and nobody has mentioned Barbara Kingsolver yet. Amazing writer. Start with *The Poisonwood Bible*.\n\nIn \"history\", Barbara Tuchman, whose books I'm going through one by one currently. I had *Guns of August* on my shelf for a few years because I knew I'd want to read it based on its reputation as one of the best history books ever. Once I read it, I got a bunch more from the bookstore. But perhaps you weren't looking for nonfiction :)",
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"body": "Whilst not really a literary genius, I think J.K. Rowling has had made a big impact on the world, mainly for getting so many kids into reading. It's so nice to have kids getting excited for book releases :D",
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"body": "It was not considered proper for a woman to publish her writing for quite some time. I would argue that there are just as many great female authors as male, it was just that the work was never published.",
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"body": "Jeanette Winterson is a great post-modern female author. Try reading Sexing the Cherry and then branch out into her other works. ",
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"body": "As a previous English major, Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; The Posionwood Bible) and Annie Dillard (American Childhood; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) are some of my favorite, albeit more recent female authors. I'd also highly recommend Tracy Chevalier, who wrote The Girl With the Pearl Earring, if you have an interest in historical fiction. ",
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"body": "Lots of good suggestions. One that stands out to me that's missing is Charlotte Perkins Gilman.\n\nAs for that writers \"genius,\" or whatever you want to call it, that is found in men and not women is a common argument when it comes to art history as well. Really, though, it comes down to the historical lack of opportunity, education, and cultural acceptance of female authors. The 'different suffering' that your friend proposed is, in all likelihood, complete nonsense.",
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Hey Reddit: Did it take you months of using reddit to figure out the envelope was clickable for messages and then only goes orange when you have mail? I feel stupid | It's not that hard to get around this site, but I keep finding new things.
What other tips do people have? | 12 | [
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"body": "Ever read the [FAQ](http://www.reddit.com/help/faq)? I discovered it after a short while on Reddit and discovered a lot of random things. ",
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If I don't like "Star Trek" would I like "Deep Space Nine?" | I loved the hell out of the film from this summer, but I can't stand TOS or TNG.
I've heard good things about DS9, and I desperately want to get into a good sci-fi show, but I just can't seem to enjoy TOS or TNG.
Would I like DS9?
EDIT: Just to note, I really felt the characterization was a lot better (even though the plot was somewhat dumb) in the new film than in any episodes of TOS or TNG I've seen.
One thing I can't get past on TOS is the hammy acting and awful sets/make-up, and with TNG I don't particularly care for any of the characters.
EDIT #2: Thanks so much for the responses, guys! I really appreciate it. I think I'll check it out and get back to you all with my thoughts.
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"body": "You will love DS9. Make it through the first season and you'll be hooked. The Dominion War is one of the greatest pieces of ST.",
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"body": "Probably not, DS9, while a very different than TNG, is still more traditional \"Star Trek\" than the new movie is. You would probably enjoy some episodes, but the series as a whole is similar to TOS and TNG.",
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"body": "TOS is so different from DS9. The last couple seasons of DS9, the show gets serialized. It's an awesome transition.\n\nI'm saddened that you can't stand TNG. It's probably the all-time best sci-fi *adventure* show. DS9 is probably the all-time best sci-fi drama (second to Farscape)... but DS9 owes a lot to what it builds off of the world that TNG helps establish.",
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"body": "It's a terrible shame that you can't enjoy TOS. TNG was pretty good in its day as well.\n\nDS9--give it a shot. My opinion of that show is that its darker tone kinda separates it from the spirit of what Trek was really supposed to be about. That makes it sufficiently 'diffferent' that maybe you'll take to it.",
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"body": "I personally hold DS9 to be the best ST series. I like them all, but this one is just my personal favorite. Altho Voyager seems to be the more popular choice.\n\nAs you liked the film, I'd say just give it a go.",
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"body": "The reasons you disliked the other star treks are still present in DS9. However, the political story lines are more intricate in DS9 than has been in other trek series. It's definitely worth your time to give it a shot, but I suspect there's only a 50/50 chance you'll enjoy it. After seeing things like the new BSG series, DS9 is going to look somewhat dated and corny and definitely not as multi-dimensional.",
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Reddit, I want to quit smoking and a good friend recommended something called superdetox to me | Link to their site - www.superdetox.co.uk
[www.superdetox.co.uk](www.superdetox.co.uk)
Basically he swears by it as he quit with it 3 years ago and everyone else he recommended to it has quit with it as well (total 4 people). Question is; has anyone had any experience with it or can vouch for any of the science behind it? I know there's not much information on how it works, but the whole site reads like voodoo to me. I really don't trust it and wondered if any of you have had some good or bad experiences you could share.
Edit: Found this on wikipedia after a gentle nudge from FasterEddie:
> Lacking any scientific explanation of how bioresonance might work, researchers have classified it as pseudoscience. Scientific studies did not show effects above that of the placebo effect.
Think that pretty well answers my questions | 5 | [
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"body": "Allen Carr's [Easyway](http://www.allencarr.com/).\n\nThe people I personally know who've quit as a result using Easyway: 6.\n\nSeriously. Just a book. Read it, get off cigarettes and pass the book on to someone else. It really does work, and it's easy.",
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"body": "I know nothing about superdetox, but I know a bit of a mental trick that helps me not smoke as much and had a lot to do with my quitting for a long time. The sensation you are feeling that you mistake for a cigarette craving is actually the state achieved by smoking, the high if you will. Smoking another cigarette will not make this feeling go away, it will increase its urgency. Not smoking a cigarette will make the feeling go away.\n\nRepeat this in your head.",
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"body": "i think it's about willpower and for that you need to have a good enough reason to quit and to hang on to quitting.\n\nit's been six days for me (and counting) and oddly enough for me it was a lot easier in the first three days. over the weekend the cravings got rather bad and i was arguing with myself over 'rewarding' myself with a cigarette (i know, right?) but i prevailed!\n\nit also helps to know that i'm not alone so i've actually posted on /r/stopsmoking and seeing my badge and wanting to get the next one is actually kinda helping! =D\n\n\n",
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Who is the most talented metal drummer? | My top three as far as technical prowess would be Dave Lombardo, Gene Hoglan, and Lars Ulrich. Hoglan probably is the most precise. Lombardo invented the thrash drums. Ulrich is Ulrich. | 4 | [
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"body": "Vinnie Colaiuta. He wrote and recorded the parts for a megadeath album in three days, played with Zappa, and has the chops and feel to play things other than metal and get paid very handsomely to do so.",
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Relationship with a Christian | I have been in a relationship with a girl for about eight months, and since this past November, I have started going to Church with her and her family on Sundays. Today, her youth group leader (we are both seventeen) pulled her aside and talked to her about a verse about oxen not being evenly yolked, and asked if she would be comfortable with "cooling it and just being really good friends". It was just a suggestion, but this certainly makes me uneasy about the whole Christianity thing. I grew up almost completely without religious influence, and now I'm not necessarily jumping into this (she and I talked for a good while before I started coming with her, and I had been sort of feeling out in the cold in a spiritual sense for a good while), and for someone who she sees as an authority figure to tell her that a relationship with a non-Christian, even one who's trying, is something that she should beware of. I'm curious as to what this verse was, and I'm curious as to whether or not this is a shared belief among all Christian communities. | 22 | [
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"body": "I think the verse is 2 Corinthians 6:14. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%206:14&version=NASB\n\nMost of the Christians I know hold pretty strongly to this. IMO, this is talking about believers in relationships with unbelievers. The concern is that a believer and an unbeliever will make different choices in life. An believer may do something because they feel they were called by God to do it, while an unbeliever would not. This could eventually cause strife. It is a valid concern IMO, and should be discussed and prayed about.\n\nJust my $0.02\n\nIn any respect, I wish the best of luck to both of you.",
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"body": "This is such a Youth Pastor thing to do. I'm playing armchair youth worker but it seems to me like a better strategy would be to equip your girlfriend with the verse, what the general understanding of that verse is (see other comments), and asking her what she thinks she should do.\n\nChristianity is intended to be a personal decision lived out in community. It was his place to educate and counsel but counseling's ultimate goal is to allow the counsel-ee to make the decision on their own.\n\nI hope that you don't generalize all of Christianity but the actions this one time of this one pastor. Youth Pastors are an interesting breed of Christian.",
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"body": "I, as a disciple, desire to have a husband who is also a disciple. Not simply a man who believes in faith, but a man who acts in faith. As a woman, I want a man with whom I can share my life - every aspect of my life. I can't imagine not being able to talk to (and find understanding from) my boyfriend or husband, the someone who is supposed to be my most trusted person, about something that I think about and try my best to act in every single day. There would just be so much of my life that I could not share. I would have to turn to others to seek encouragement and comfort when I need it, receive exhortations from others, share joys and difficulties with others who would not be my husband. I just simply cannot imagine loving someone, and not being able to share everything with him. And if I am supposed to love, honour, and follow God above all (and everyone) else, I can't see how that could possibly be fair to a man, my husband, if he does not also hold God in the same regard. If he does not strive towards that same goal, then he would only be getting second best from me. But if we were moving towards the same thing together, then we would be getting the best of each other. So you see, at least for me, its not about being led astray, and it's not about what sort of company I keep, or someone not being worthy, but it's about an equal and fair relationship. He (a hypothetical not-Christian guy) may be giving me his everything, but he can't have my everything otherwise. \n\nNow, I have girlfriends with boyfriends who are not Christians. You're both still in high school, you've *probably* not really thought about marriage and kids and the like yet. But I (and these said friends of mine) are at the age where we start thinking about these things and looking towards these things. And it kills them inside to want their serious boyfriends to be their (future) husbands, but at the same time their boyfriends aren't understanding these big chunks of their lives. And it's not for a (total) lack of trying, they come to church sometimes, we hang out, and they're perfectly, perfectly nice guys. But I firmly believe that you can't \"just\" become a Christian, especially for someone *else's* sake, just because you would like to; you need to be convicted in your heart. And so they continue these relationships all the while knowing that their futures together are conditional. Myself, on the sidelines only observing these relationships, I think this is unfair especially to the men, but the women suffer greatly emotionally as well. Essentially, they feel like they have to pick between God and the men they love and have failed to choose God. \n\nOne of these girls broke up with her boyfriend (their relationship got really bad leading up towards it, the faith thing was only one of many issues). Honestly, I was relieved for her. She wanted to call him and apologize for everything, but I told her she shouldn't, and at the very least wait several days to let the raw emotions settle down. But she couldn't deal with it and called him the next day and got back together with him. I was supportive from that point. I ask her about their relationship, if they're doing the things they said they would work on to fix their relationship, and one of those things is related to faith. \n\nPersonally, I don't think it (being a Christian dating someone who is not a Christian) is a fair or good idea for the reasons above. And I think that the others are right to say something to her because they are concerned for her, probably for the reasons above. However, no matter her choice, they should be supportive of you both as a couple and as individuals.",
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"body": "Yeah, as a Christian I had dated quite a few people who weren't Christians. When I made decisions based on Christian principles they were almost impossible to justify to someone who didn't have the same convictions that I had.\n\nI was dating this girl and we would go out to parties and drink until we were sloshed. (I wasn't a very good Christian at this point.) I decided to read the Bible one day and I felt compelled to stop getting drunk. So I told my GF about it. She didn't understand it or how I could change myself just because I had felt that God wanted me to.\n\nShe talked me out of it and we continued to party. Then I felt conviction even more. I felt like I was betraying my soul. I told her that I was stopping again. She was like, \"Really, this again?\"\n\nInstead of giving me the support I needed she would talk me out of something that I felt was in the best interest of my soul.\n\nIt happened many times in my dating life and then I dated a Christian. She understood what I had to do. She supported me. She told me to follow what God was saying instead of always trying to talk me out of my moral convictions. (we have been married for 3 years now)\n\nIt was like she was on the same team as I was on instead of trying to explain away my convictions using \"common sense.\"\n\nThings that I have stopped because of moral convictions:\n\n+ getting high\n\n+ getting drunk\n\n+ cutting people down with words\n\n+ gossiping\n\n+ procrastinating excessively\n\n+ saying perverse things\n\n+ lying to save my ass (I actually just own up to things now and accept consequences.)\n\n+ spending money irresponsibly\n\n+ I can actually tithe now without getting guilt from somebody who doesn't understand tithing.\n\n+ obsessing over sex\n\nAnd it works the other way around as well. She feels like God wants her to stop watching TV because she becomes obsessed with body image. So I respect her convictions and support her in them.\n\nI don't think a person who is not a Christian can successfully provide the spiritual support that a Christian needs in a relationship. Also, you may not understand why some things are priorities to a Christian.",
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"body": "I'll never understand the attitude that some of the saved have. Jesus didn't spend his most of the time preaching to the saved. No, he went down to try to bring His word to the sinners. I'm really glad that you are at least open enough to go to church, and I'm sorry that her youth pastor suggested that you guys just become friends. Although, to be fair, he was probably just worried about her being led astray by you.\r\n\r\nI wish you the best of luck with your relationship with her, and your relationship with God.",
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"body": "The verse he probably referred to is this \"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?\"[2 Corinthians 6](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20cor%206&version=ESV)\r\n\r\nIt is a common interpretation of this verse that it means the Christians should not marry or be in committed relationships with non-christians. Personally, I think that is an out of context interpretation and a shaky one. To me, the fact it specifies 'unequal' yoking implies that 'equal' yoking is possible. To say that a marriage between a believer and non-believer is by default unequal seems to be a very broad generalization.\r\n\r\nThat being said, from a pratical point of view, I think it is *usually* a bad idea for a Christian and non-Christian to carry on a romantic relationship. In the short term you have issues of differing morals, and one of you will drag the other into their moral system. I have seen this over and over in relationships, both my own and those around me.\r\n\r\nThe consequences down the line can be even harder to reconcile. If you marry and have kids, what beliefs about the world do you teach them? Does the whole family go to church on Sundays or no? \r\n\r\nKnow that the youth leader probably understands these practical problems. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he is seeking to protect his sister in Christ. It is not a snub against you, rather you are seeing his brotherly love for another believer. He wants to see the best for her, and he thinks a man of God is best for her. The burden is on you to prove your worth.\r\n\r\nEDIT: To actually cite the verse I meant to.",
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"body": "2 Corinthians 6:14-15 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?\n\nPersonally, I think it's good advice, even if this passage isn't super clear about it. It's especially important for a Christian lady as opposed to a man since the Bible commands the woman very specifically to be submissive to her husband. In this case, she might have some convictions about something, like for example sending her kids to Christian school, you may want to send them to public school. The Bible says for her to do what you say, so she would have to send them to public school even though it's against her wishes.\n\n>It was just a suggestion, but this certainly makes me uneasy about the whole Christianity thing.\n\nYou should be more worried about the prospect of marrying someone who doesn't share your beliefs. Either one of you has to give or both of you are constantly going to be fighting. My wife and I were agnostic when we met, but ended up getting saved and picking a church together.",
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"body": "Whether you are a Christian, Hindu, atheist, etc., marrying someone who has a completely different foundational worldview than you have is probably not something that is going to promote harmony within the marriage.\n\nI'm not saying it can never work but it has a great potential to cause a lot of strife. Especially when there is conflict or kids come along.",
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"body": "> youth group leader\n\nOne of the things that bugged me most when I was still a Christian, was all the continuous interference, all the unsolicited \"advice\". Probably all \"well-meant\", but sooo annoying. This youth group \"leader\" should just *mind his own friggin business*, and stop interfering in (and possibly destroying) people's (possibly OP's and girlfriend's) lives. Butt out already!\n\nAnd even now, now that I am no longer a Christian (freedom! free! free! free at last!), some of the people from the Church I used to go to *still* ask me when I will come to Church again, telling me that \"God loves me\" and that he \"misses me\" (no, he does *not*, and the feeling is entirely mutual).\n\nDear OP, if you love her and she loves you: go for it!",
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"body": "So basically Christians try to sabotage the relationships of their coreligionists if those coreligionists are involved with non-Christians?\n\nAnd the reddit Christians seem to generally agree that this is not merely acceptable but good?\n\nCan you see why us non-Christians might feel a **teensy** bit annoyed, nervous, and worried about you guys?",
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I am currently browsing the web at approximately 1.3KBps... AMA | Some background info: I live in the middle of nowhere. There is virtually no prospect of getting cable, DSL, or any of that fancy shit any time in the near future, at least not without forking over several thousand dollars upfront. I can't even get satellite without cutting down a couple of dozen trees on my property. I pay Verizon $59.99/Month for "unlimited hi-speed" wireless internet via EVDO. Most days I get speeds of around 100KBps, which is still crap, but today has been especially bad. When a 400KB file takes a few minutes to download, you know it's a bad day. I haven't seen speeds like this since the BBS early 90's. Ask me anything.
EDIT: Here is a pastebin of a traceroute to google.com
http://pastebin.com/m3a5f8823
EDIT: Speeds have improved slightly. I'm now at about 3KBps. Here is a screenshot to prove it:
http://imgur.com/qCKIW.png
This download actually failed about a minute in, with 156KB downloaded. :)
EDIT: Thanks, everyone, for providing me with some low-bandwidth entertainment tonight. I enjoyed your questions and I really appreciate everyone's sympathy. I'll be back on tomorrow, and hopefully back to normal speed!
EDIT:Speeds seem to better than normal this morning! Verizon must have fixed something, as I'm currently downloading a 20MB file at about 200KBps, which is better than I've seen in months. | 115 | [
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"body": "How long did it take you to submit the AMA?\n\nIs moving just not an option?\n\nWhat is your opinion on [this fucking awesome video?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw)",
"score": 20
},
{
"body": "Sir, I have no questions. I just wish to salute you for your bravery in still taking on the internet in your bandwidth-deprived state. A lesser man would have crumbled long ago.",
"score": 18
},
{
"body": "[Would the mobile version of Reddit be of assistance?](http://m.reddit.com)\n\nYou can use the \"m\" prefix with most popular websites.",
"score": 7
},
{
"body": "What do you do while the pages load? I cant imagine you'd stare at the screen for several minutes straight.",
"score": 7
},
{
"body": "**Here's an awesome tip - get Opera and enable \"Opera Turbo\" - it loads low-res versions of page images for slow connections (it's like ten times faster)**",
"score": 3
}
]
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[4] People of the Tree, what shall I watch? | All the talk of a movie club has gotten me in the mood to watch a movie. I've got dead fast usenet speeds so I can download a whole movie while I go outside and smoke some more. Need some suggestions for a great comedy movie.
I'm a massive fan of Family Guy etc, and had a great time watching Step Brothers the other day [8]. Suggest me a movie please. | 4 | [
{
"body": "I just watched a movie called \"Whatever Works\", directed by Woody Allen and starring Larry David. Totally went over my head whenever it came out, but I saw it at the Redbox machine and gave it a shot. I must say it was pretty, preeetty, preeeeetty good.",
"score": 3
},
{
"body": "[0] Watch some Venture Bros. The show is a satire of Johnny Quest and action shows in general with the theme of failure driving its hilarious, yet complex and ever-evolving storyline.\n\nI know you asked for a movie, but I felt this is a better recommendation.\n\nHave fun, get high.",
"score": 3
}
]
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