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Please help, I am being bullied by conspiracy theorists. | Some conspiracy theorists came to my forum and started a flame war and lost. They then filed a $42.5 million lawsuit against me for it. But not only this, they have also applied for a trademark on my forum name and have threatened me with lawsuit for that to. The other day, a third threat turned up in the mail.
So I am turning to the internet for help. I am broke. Due to them stalling I have run out of money to pay my lawyers. I am not asking for money though. I need a barrister to help me fight this in the Australian supreme court. It would set a precedent which if won, would protect all Australian webmasters from legal harrasment like this.
Please, internet. Please help me. | 7 | [
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"body": "Wow, that guy is a cockasaurus rex. I hope that you win this case and can countersue him for legal expenses and so forth.",
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Reddit.. Need advice badly, girlfriend was raped. | Most obvious emotions aside, anger, hate, etc. I am torn up emotionally and have not really communicated with anyone about this. It is a bit outside of my field of experience..
The question I have to ask, I suppose... Any of those of you with experience with this sort of thing, what can I do? She has not spoken to anyone in a few days, even family.. I love her more than anything and I want to do whatever I can to make it easier.
I know she is in a bad place psychologically, I hate to just wait. She is under suicide watch at the hospital at the moment. My mind is a mess so an outside perspective would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: thanks so much for all of the suggestions so far, there are a few things I had not considered.. going to
sleep now though has been another long night.. tried to respond to most comments, will try more when i wake up.
Edit: Still no new developments.. | 24 | [
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"body": "As a Rape Crisis Counselor and survivor of sexual assault, I have some suggestions for you:\n\n1)Do your best to read up on Rape Trauma Syndrome and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It will help you understand the wide range of emotions, thoughts, and processes she may go through. Be patient (though I know you hate waiting), because it can take a lot of time for someone to heal after this kind of trauma, but learning about it is a constructive and substantial way to both increase your understanding of the situation and help you cope with it (and thusly, support her).\n\n2) You should (as some commenters have astutely pointed out) make sure that you are paying attention to YOUR physical and emotional wellbeing. Self-care is of the utmost importance for loved ones of rape victims, as much as for the rape victims themselves. It can be a shattering, traumatic, and heartbreaking experience to see someone you care for hurt and assaulted in this way. I don't know what State you’re in (I'm in CA), but there are plenty of 24-sexual assault and domestic violence crisis hotlines, which are in place to offer you (and people in her position, and other family members) some solace. The operators can direct you to counseling services (at free or low cost in some areas), information, or simply lend a listening ear in a time of need. It is important that you don't repress all that anger, confusion, and pain that you may be/are experiencing. It's really good that you took the step to even post this to reddit; it shows you’re really making an effort, though you know it's a challenge.\n\n3) When it comes to basic self-care, there are a lot of options out there for you: exercise being a commonly cited one, as well as anything that you really enjoy, being reading, drawing, cooking, etc. constructive activities are generally what you want to work toward. \n\n4) Know, Believe, and Reassure yourself (and/or, when the time comes, her) that it was not her fault; that any action she did or did not take was the RIGHT ONE, as she survived; appreciate the fact that she told you, or told anyone at all (it is a hard and trying thing to do for many); and above all things, BELIEVE HER. \n\n5) DONT ASSUME ANYTHING. I saw one comment on this thread that said something to the effect of \"she won’t want anything to do with men.\" This is true for some, but not for all. Same goes with things like physical contact: some need a loving embrace, others want none of it. You need to follow her cues on this, because this is HER individual experience. ex) right now, she isn't talking to anyone, but silent support on your part can go a long way. Show her you're there for her, but take her cues. If she doesn’t want you there, leave, but make sure she knows *you'll come back*, and will keep coming back until she is ready. Make her comfortable--not just in the physical sense (like bringing her favorite blanket in case she gets cold)--but also comfortable around you, by showing this kind of support.\n\n6) While being supportive is fantastic, it can be easy to fall into protective/dependent mode. DONT try to solve all her problems. You can't. In addition, sexual assault is a violent act intended to strip control, power, and autonomy from its victims (in effect, rapists seek to obtain these very qualities through the act of rape). So, it is important that you let her a) regain her independence and b) know that you seek and require her consent--and when I say consent here, I'm not just talking about sex, I’m talking about everything. Ask her what she wants to drink IF she wants anything, don't just bring her coke and expect her to want it/drink it/etc. Do you see what I mean? You can help her regain her power and sense of control (and the sense that her wants and needs are being heard) through steps like this. \n\n7) When and if the time comes, let her tell you as much or as little as she wants. Don't pry. She may tell you nothing at all--don't be offended if this is the case--in all likelihood, she is making that choice to protect you or protect herself. Respect that.\n\n**EDIT: A supplement which I originally posted in the thread, before I realized that I should just put it here.**\n\nOn self-help: I know this is not easy. This is something even victims have a hard time with (because many feel responsible for the rape), but don't feel guilty about helping yourself. It might not feel natural at first, but getting into some sort of routine whereby you can start to release all that tension in a positive way is very important--it can help you in various other situations later in life, as well, if you want to look at it that way. I understand that this is all much easier said than done, however, but it will help you stay strong.\n\nAs for believing her, I didn't mean to imply that by that statement that you didn't, but rather just a prodding reminder to never ever doubt the validity of her experience. That's the easiest and quickest way to lose her trust. Many friends and relatives can fall into this trap, because for some, denial is much easier than the harsh reality of the situation--it is better to see the victim as lying (in some capacity) than come to terms with the terrifying and very real implications that arise from the truth. Understand that others may react this way upon hearing news of the assault, and understand that this reaction often stems from fear, and not misogyny/misanthropy (though these people are out there too, sadly). Let me stress that I am by no means condoning this mentality, merely trying to explain it so you can prevent yourself from getting more angry and upset than you already are. If you like, by all means tell these people your thoughts on the subject, encourage them to open their eyes. Ignorance coupled with fear never did anyone any good.\n\nI'd also just like to take a moment and apologize for my assumption that you live in the United States--I realized after posting that this may not be the case. Regardless, whatever country you're in probably has the many of the same services available (crisis hotlines, for instance), and there are a plethora of excellent websites, books, and articles which require no specific country of origin or residency.\n\nLet me know if there is anything else I can do to help, and take care of yourself.\n\ntl;dr -- There are many ways (books, articles, websites) to help you cope with this, whether it is raw information about sexual assault (motivations, rape trauma syndrome, the myths associated with it, etc.) or self care tips. You, like her, need to figure out what works best for you.\n\n",
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"body": "I have experience with the same thing. My girlfriend was drugged and raped in a nightclub in Spain. Just before, she called me to tell me something did not feel right. As i was in another country i could not do anything. I was trying to tell her to find her friends and get out, over the phone when she was grabbed and dragged into the bathroom at the club and i heard the whole thing over the phone as she did not get a chance to hang up. It is the most terrible experience and it took me a long time to get over the anger. \nTo start of with you are very lucky that she actually went to the hospital and is under care cos most women do not ever seek any help after being raped. So that is a big step just there. You must always keep in mind that she most likely feels like she has betrayed you, it is a twisted idea that she feels in some way like she has cheated on you even tough that´s not the case. And all the anger and hatred you feel is nothing compared with what she feels. She is probably ashamed, confused, angry and in denial all at once. I am so sorry to be the one to point this out but if you really love this girl you have to bite the bullet and push your emotions aside. This is about her and you need to do everything to show her you love her, respect her and want to get through this with her. So if she needs a few days alone so be it. You must not let your anger get the better of you when you are around her. It will make her feel worse as she will feel you don´t deserve all this shit, and she feels like she is personally inflicting this pain upon you. There are a lot of unrational ideas that she will have going through her mind and you need to just help her to push those away. I know how much this sucks and how angry you are. And the worst part is that you can not really do much except be there for her at all times. And just show her that you love her. Later on when she has had some time to get her thoughts sorted she will hopefully go into therapy. This is something you could do with her if she asks you to. Do not push for going with her. In the mean time i suggest you seek therapy yourself. On your own terms to help you with the anger cos the last thing she needs now is a pissed off boyfriend. This is a terrible situation man and i am so sorry. You need to be there for her even if it is just sitting with her as she cries, or listen to her she needs to feel like you are there for her. ",
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"body": "As a survivor of a variety bag of sexual violence I'll try and give you some tips (please be advised all women are different and what works for me might not work for your girlfriend. You best bet is to use your common sense (you know her better than us) and communicate with her). \n\nSo right now you can't see her and are willing to respect that but also want to help support her in some way, shape or form? \n\nPut together a care package. Hospitals are horrible and mind numbing places especially for someone who has been traumatized. Fill it with things that are comforting to her and things she can do that don't require a whole lot of focus. If there is a meal she particularly loves add that in a heat / cold bag for her (I once hand delivered bacon made by a friend's boyfriend when she was in a similar position). \n\nIf you are close with her family talk to them. They are probably in the same place as you are emotionally (especially her parents). \n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Make sure she knows that you're not angry **at her**. Tell her she is totally fine in your book, and you'll get through it together. (if it's true, of course^^)",
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"body": "I was sexually assaulted a few months ago while on a date with my boyfriend. The best advice I can give is let her take the lead on how she wants to discuss it with you, how comfortable she is being physical with you, etc, but let her know that you're there. He never pressured me to talk, but was always supportive when I did. Stayed with me, kept me distracted when I got worked up, made sure I was eating, etc. Called to check up on me. Honestly, the first couple days were pretty silent, but it was all that \"actions speak louder than words\" such.\n\nAlso, I went through a period where I was worried he thought I was slutty, ruined, etc because I somehow let it happen (not true, but it was a recurring worry), and it took him saying \"you're a strong person, I admire that, I don't think any less of you\" for me to get with it. \n\nEveryone told me to get counseling and I didn't want to. You should mention it, suggest it, but don't pressure her into it. It has to be her decision.\n\nIt's a long recovery process, but you're right for looking for help. It's not easy, and there are good days and bad days. If you want to talk more, you can message me.",
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"body": "You should probably seek professional help to deal with this also--this is also traumatic for you. I'm sorry. I don't really know what other advice to give you, other than to be supportive of her, perhaps urge her to contact her family (if they are in a position to be supportive of her as well). \n\n\nYou may also want to call a rape crisis hotline like this, http://www.rainn.org/ and ask them for resources on her behalf.",
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"body": "I think you would both be better served if you asked the same questions at the local rape/abuse shelter. There are some forums that might be able to guide you as well:http://www.pandys.org/forums/\n\nhttp://www.aftersilence.org/forum/\n\ngood luck to you and your girlfriend.",
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"body": "Firstly, I extend my condolences to her for the trauma, and to you for the pain, rage, and (i'm guessing now) irrational guilt that comes along with a rape.\n\nI can't tell you if this is the right approach, but it is what I would do:\n\n1) I would tell let her know that we were in this thing together. This attack happened to her, but it also happened to *us*.\n\n2) I would tell her how helpless and emasculated I felt knowing that this happened and that I couldn't stop it.\n\n3) I would tell her how scared I was that she might not ever be able to be with me sexually without thinking of her attack.\n\n4) I imagine her self esteem would be very low. I would make sure she understood that I still thought she was beautiful and sexy and pure as the day I met her.\n\n5) I would tell her I loved her a thousand times.\n\n",
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I would like to travel this summer by bike for a month in Europe. I'm situated in the Netherlands. Where should I go to and do you have any advice? | I have some experience travelling, but no experience with travelling by bike. I don't have a lot of money. I'm Dutch so I can ride a bicycle, but my stamina is not that good (is that a correct sentence?) so mountains are a no-go area. It's not a problem fo me to go by train to Berlin for example and start my journey there (as long it's not too expensive). At this moment I would like to go to Eastern Europe (Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus are all places I would like to see), but I'm open to suggestions.
Any advice about good websites or books about this subject are also greatly appreciated.
Thanks! | 5 | [
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"body": "Hey! (Hoi!)\n\nThis is something I've wanted to do, but I haven't had the guts/time to do it yet. I have a really good friend (unfortunately a non-redditor) who is an avid-biker, and does these things all of the time. He recently completed a nice trip originating from Amsterdam through Belgium, France, Italy(?) and Germany. Even if that's not your preferred route, he'd certainly have some nice tips.\n\nI'll PM you with more info, maybe you two should meet up.",
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I'm a little angry, guys, and you want to know why? [0] | I can't get to sleep, that's right, I use marijuana as a sleep agent and that's perfectly fine. However I can't smoke right now because I want to get a job and the jobs that I want to get, so that I can pay the rent, don't allow people who use "controlled substances." But why? Because they think we'll come in stoned? Are you kidding me?! I'm nearly scared to death taking a walk outside while I'm high you think I'd go into a setting where I would have to physically interact with people? Although I did work at a print shop where it was promoted to smoke and come to work as long as you could function.
The worst part of it is I'm a very hard worker and a wonderful person to be around... and they wouldn't take me because I smoke a plant that makes me an even nicer person who does and says funny shit. Well fuck that man, I can't sleep. | 20 | [
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"body": "http://www.drankbeverage.com/\n\ni swear on my life it puts me to sleep. i go down like a rock 1/2 hour after the can. anytime a day.\n\n[6]",
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"body": "Give it a week or two, it WILL get easier. I also strongly advise reading, it always helped me get to bed when I was lacking some good ol' mj. ",
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"body": "I've smoked with by boss in every single job i've ever had - I've smoked many a fat tree before or while doing my job even when working in frounf of 100,000+ people (on stage between bands) and it's never been a problem... Never had to worry about paranoia / the fear because no one cares that i'm stoned so i don't need to hide it - i think so many of the negative feeling associated with weed actually come from the fact you get in trouble if caught.\n\nWould prefer it if i could get a job in a different industry but if they don't want me then meh their loss.",
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"body": "You don't need to quit smoking to get a job. Passing an Urine Analysis for a job is easier than you could possibly imagine. All you need to do is get synthetic urine from any smoke shop or on online and you'll have no problem passing. google \"quick fix\"",
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Anyone ever try medicinal marijuana? Is it really a
lot better than illegal marijuana? | I heard from a friend of mine that prescription weed is way more potent than what you get on the streets. I'm a bit intrigued... | 10 | [
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"body": "medical marijuana is the exact same as regular marijuana, it's just that it's more likely to come from experienced growers than dirty mexican fields and thus is a higher quality product",
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"body": "Dispensaries carry various strains and there is always consistency. The usual street level dealer doesn't. ",
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"body": "The farmacies in Los Angeles are non-profit. We far pay less for an 1/8th there than we did \"on the streets\", and the quality and varieties available are far better. Also, if I buy before 8pm, I get a 10% discount!\n\nAlso, the farmacies have other forms besides just the plant. Hash, resin, edibles, powders, drinks, cannabutter.... They are knowledgeable and can really tell you what each plant can do, what kind of high to expect, etc.",
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"body": "Shit, all my dealers sell *only* medical marijuana. It is definitely the danks and it is awesome knowing the name of whatever strain it is you are smoking.",
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"body": "Without getting into too much detail I had the pleasure of enjoying some blackberry kush from a mm dispensery. I was straight wrecked. One joint with 4-5 people and it left us all very very high. The strain might have more to do with it than the source.\n\nI hope to have more experience with mm strains soon.",
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Listen up, sexxit. If you want to an informed contraceptive user, you need to understand one thing: effectiveness rates are measured per year, not per encounter | I thought of creating a ContraceptiveStatisticsNazi novelty account, but I decided I'd just do a self post and hope the message reaches more people that way. I don't have enough time to respond to every comment about having two babies a year.
Contraceptive effectiveness is measured *per year* instead of *per encounter*. If your birth control method is 99% effective and you have sex twice a week you will have only one baby every hundred years; if you have sex three times a week, you will have only one baby every hundred years; if you do it every day, you will have only one baby every hundred years. EDIT: of course, the more often you use a product, the more chances it has to fail; the point is that you should not worry about how often you have sex when considering contraceptives.
Contraceptive effectiveness is measured per year instead of per encounter. There are no (at least, very few) statistics about contraceptive effectiveness measured against how many times the user has sex. To measure effectiveness, they just give condoms/pills/IUDs to a hundred people and tell them to use them for a year, and then a year later ask "how many of you got pregnant/impregnated somebody this year?"
To work out a per-encounter failure rate, you'd have to estimate how often the people in the study had sex, which is usually not recorded (probably because it's difficult to do accurately). You also need to take into account that at some times of the month, the chance of pregnancy is smaller than usual, even if no contraception is used.
There are also "ideal use" failure rates, which doesn't count failures due to misuse (skipping a pill, putting condoms on incorrectly, etc). Not sure how those are measured. As an example, the ideal-use failure rate for abstinence is zero; the typical-use failure rate is significantly higher (because a lot of people aren't very good at not having sex). If you read up carefully on your chosen contraceptive and follow the instructions, you might get a little closer to this rate, but everyone makes mistakes.
Failure rates of some common contraceptives (for more, see [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_methods)):
* Male latex condoms: 15% (ideal: 2%)
* The Pill: 8% (ideal: 0.3%)
* Copper IUD: 0.8%
* Vasectomy: 0.15% | 137 | [
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"body": "> because a lot of people aren't very good at not having sex\n\nI'm an expert at this.\n\n...\n\n*\\*cries\\**",
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"body": "One thing I've always wondered... how the hell does one put a condom on incorrectly? Stretch it across your elbow or something?",
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"body": "For those who are curious;\n\nat a 99% rate, assuming you had sex the average number of times in the study and your fertility represents the study perfectly.\n\nAfter 69 years [giggle], the odds that you will be free of pregnancies first drops beneath 0.5.\n\nIn other words, after 69 years, you are more likely to have had one _or more_ pregnancies than none at all.\n\n0.99^69 = 0.499837\n\nFor the pill, at 0.3%, it would take 231 years!\n\nFor the pill, at 8% (the typical use the OP posted); 9 years presents a 47% chance of being pregnant-free.\n\nSo, using it properly clearly makes a huge difference.",
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"body": ">Vasectomy: 0.15%\n\nI was a vasectomy baby. \n\ndad got the snips and my mom still got pregnant. supposedly the doctor told them there is usually remnants of baby making juice still left in there so its quite possible. ",
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"body": "Contraceptive primer: Condoms can break, the pill and spermicide can't. The time window where you can get a girl pregnant is about 5 days wide ending in the day she ovulates, but the ovulation day can vary per cycle. You can test when it happens by her internal temperature. Barring misuse, Spermicide only has a chance of failure the actual few hours before ovulation, since sometimes it doesn't kill sperm quick enough.\n\ntl;dr It is not that complicated to not have kids.\n\nEDIT: Of course people can screw up, thus the ability to test when people ovulate. If you want to avoid kids, don't have sex on ovulation day and use contraception on other the days leading up to it. If your sleeping with someone this should be an open topic.",
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"body": "Thank you, I am tired of people stating that they don't trust BCP's or condoms because \"for every 100 times we have sex, I'll/she'll get pregnant once\"",
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"body": "Great post. Much needed. Everyone is so damn scared of sex, now I wish someone would post the odds of getting each STD in a format like this.",
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"body": "Statistically you are correct, owing to the nature of the research; however common sense tells us that if you have sex more often, you are more likely to get pregnant.\n\nEdit: however, I am not suggesting we stop enjoying ourselves :)",
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"body": "You also shouldn't forget that abstinence has wicked side effects. There was a just reported study claiming that having regular sex cuts the chance of heart attack by half for men. This, of course, reported from a specific viewpoint. A better way (in my opinion) to state it would be that abstinence doubles the chance of heart attacks in men. There are many, many dangerous side effects from abstinence that are never reported as such. Every benefit to regular sexual activity (of which there are many) that disappears with abstinence can be seen as a side effect of abstinence.",
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"body": "According to http://www.aafp.org/afp/2004/0815/p707.html, emergency-contraception effectiveness is measured differently: the effectiveness rate is the percentage reduction in the number of pregnancies from non-users of EC in the middle two weeks of the menstrual cycle.",
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"body": "> If your birth control method is 99% effective and you have sex X times a week you will have only one baby every hundred years.\n\nDude, if you are going o be a Statistics Nazi of any stripe you should at least get your statistics right!\n\n.99 ^ 100 = 36.6% chance of not having a baby, not 0% chance.",
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I want to replace my old laser printer.
Why do printers still have 1MB of
memory? | I wanted to replace my old trusty HP LaserJet 6L. It's a good grayscale laser printer but it has very little memory and that gets annoying when printing large files like PDFs.
I checked what was on the market and surprise surprise. Anything that's reasonably priced only has 1MB to 8MB of memory. I didn't even know they still made flash memory chips so small.
You'd expect that in 2010 a buffer of 1GB would be standard. | 7 | [
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If there any food you just wont eat? | And I dont mean cant eat because it will kill you, just wont eat it.
I like to think i'll will try anything except maybe the fear factor diet.
I was having dinner and my flatmates wont eat avocado they just do not like it, I have another friend that wont eat mayonaise he just refuses to no rhyme or reason.
So what would you turn your nose up at? | 3 | [
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"body": "I have a rule that I will absolutely try anything (that is, anything generally considered food in at least one culture) once. One exception -- monkey brains. ",
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"body": "I will not eat American beef. It's simply not trustworthy food and having had imported, grass-fed beef I know that what's presented as beef in the US is all sorts of wrong. I stopped a few years ago after doing a bit of reading on the lax safety standards and corruption at the USDA. In fact, just the other day, there was a big kafuffle about ammonia being injected into American beef. \n\nEdit: after seeing Food, Inc., I'm open to finding a local , free-range, organic, grass-fed source, but even then I'll probably want to see the cattle myself. ",
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"body": "No, there is nothing I won't eat. Makes life very easy, and interesting. Picky eaters are not invited to my dinner table a second time, nor will I dine out with them a second time. I thoroughly understand the necessity of avoiding allergies, and in matters of taste there is no debate. But that does not mean I have to have such people around me. We all have likes and dislikes -- I like bacon the most and celery the least -- but a lot of peoples' eating habits are childish notions that were not straightened out. \n\nI know a man who will not eat anything that flies or swims. I know a woman who believes tomatoes are poisonous (ala 17th century.) A man and a woman who eat no vegetables. A woman who eats no mushrooms. Four of those five are obese and the fifth could lose weight. ",
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"body": "I really hate pasta. I know this is blasphemy to most (including my Sicilian husband). I just know of years and years of trying to like pasta that it's not going to happen. It has nothing to do with how it's cooked or what form it is. I don't like how pasta feels in my mouth, and it has a weird taste. It adds no enjoyment to my dining experience so I just pass on pasta dishes.\r\n\r\nAnd I've had \"good\" pasta. Like I said, I married into a Sicilian family. Believe me, they've tried to convert me. (But the fact that pretty much all of them have diabetes---probably due to years of excessive pasta consumption---doesn't really help either)\r\n\r\nBlech. It's like chewing on worms.\r\n\r\n",
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TIL that a lot of fairy tales are much more grim than what we grew up with. | A lot of the fairy tales most of us grew up with are either dumbened down, 'child-friendly' versions of the original Grimm/Christian-Andersen/etc. fairy tales, or in fact just much more violent than we remembered.
E.g. The Ugly Duckling - I think most of us are familiar with [this story](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapDmCnZN3A) - an ugly duckling hatches, then runs away after being teased only to discover that he's actually a swan.
If you read the [original](http://hca.gilead.org.il/ugly_duc.html) [translated] version, you'll see that it actually has a LOT of really dark overtones, from the outright violent attacks, the geese getting shot and mauled by the hunter/his dog, right down to when it says "Kill me!".
Another example: [Hansel and Gretel](http://www.mordent.com/folktales/grimms/hng/hng.html) - involves two kids actually being abandoned in the woods by their father to die, and the image of Gretel as she pushed the witch into the oven. It wasn't a slight push either, she "drove her far into it", leaving the witch to burn alive. | 98 | [
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"body": "I wrote a paper on this in undergrad. The lesson behind 'Beauty and the Beast' was intended for very young women/girls forced to marry older, uglier men. If she stuck it out, she'd come to view his princely qualities.\r\n\r\nThe interpretations of Red Riding Hood's origins were the craziest. One author suggested that the red coat she receives symbolizes her first menstruation. Thus, after receiving the 'gift' of her period, she needs to protect herself from male predators - i.e. - the wolf. \r\n\r\n",
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"body": "Having moved to the States when I was 12, I immediately noticed how all the fairy tales here have happy endings.(Bambi excluded I suppose) They are not edited in Europe, maybe this explains why Americans are so much more upbeat.\n\nThe Little Mermaid fucking kills herself.",
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"body": "I grew up with a fairy tale that was VERY grim. My parents called it \"The Word of God.\"\n\nEdit: Tale not tail. Although I wouldn't mind gettin some fairy tail!",
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"body": "Those are the versions I grew up with (and so did everybody I know), and they're great stories. Until about two years ago it never actually occured to me that someone might consider them \"violent\".",
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"body": "Allow me to introduce all of you to [Struwwelpeter]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter), a series of illustrated children’s stories designed to teach young German children morals and good behavior. You really have to look at the pictures to fully appreciate how incredibly fucking disturbing these stories are. Three of my favorites include:\n\n[The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb]( http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/daumen_dual.html) – Where a young thumbsucker gets his thumb cut off by a crazy guy with huge scissors.\n\n[The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches]( http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/pauline_dual.html) – Where a little girl sets herself on fire while cats make fun of her.\n\n[The Story of the Inky Boys]( http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/bub_dual.html) – Where some white boys make fun of a black man, only to be dipped in a vat of ink as punishment.\n\n*Credit to my awesome High School German teacher for including this in our coursework.*\n",
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"body": "When I was in junior high we did a theater production of the non-Disney Snow White, in which the evil stepmother was forced to dance in a pair of hot iron shoes until she died at the end.\n\nIt was a pretty disturbing ending especially since I played the role of the stepmother. Kept me awake for a few nights thinking about the evil tendencies of mankind.",
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"body": "I see what you did there (the brothers [grimm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm) ) I assume that's what you were doing... ",
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"body": "This has a few explanations. One is that fairy tales weren't initially kids' only stories, they were told as stories between adults, in a time before TV and radio.\n\nThe idea behind many stories was also to teach adults and kids alike to think and to understand the consequences of their actions. You don't really learn anything when everything turns out great in the end, aka there aren't really any consequences, however stupid your actions may have been. So, they were basically wisdom packaged as an intriguing tale.\n\nSome authors wrote their own, other took stories gathered through oral tradition and wrote them down. For more information, see *The Bible*.",
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"body": "A lot of classical fairy tales have been reviewed in Bruno Bettelheim's book : [\"The uses of enchantement\"](http://www.amazon.com/Uses-Enchantment-Meaning-Importance-Vintage/dp/0307739635/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263217084&sr=1-1).\nThe book highlights the \"undumb\" versions (i.e. pre XXth) and exposes their psychological and educational purposes. Great reading",
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"body": "The prince raped sleeping beauty in the original and the resultant offspring woke her up by licking her finger or something.",
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Dear ex-farmville/farmville redditors, what's the charm? | as someone who has never been overly addicted to any FB apps, I fail to see why some people spend so much time on farmville/mafia wars etc!
am I missing out on anything? | 6 | [
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"body": "I was surfing around one day when I found a picture of a seductive cabbage dressed in lingerie. It was one of those audio ads and it cooed to me \"Come play, My Lord (Free forever!)\". What can I say? I was hooked. I've been rollin' in the sweet cabbage ever since.",
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"body": "Years ago we farmed the land feed ourselves and survive. We industrialised and built up big cities, increasing our standard living. The technological revolution and growth of the Internet occured, and now we use computers to pretend we're farming. ",
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"body": "I started playing when I was unemployed because I had an excessive amount of free time. Then I found a job and realized I could spend my time on more important things like Reddit and Bejeweled Blitz.",
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I just watched Avatar with some design/typography geeks. It was fun watching them wince every time the eroded letterforms of Papyrus were emblazoned upon the screen. | You'd think with a $300,000,000 budget they could have used a better typeface than one usually reserved for cheap Chinese takeout menus... | 3 | [
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"body": ">I just watched Avatar with some design/typography geeks. It was fun watching them wince every time the eroded letterforms of Papyrus were emblazoned upon the screen. You'd think with a $300,000,000 budget they could have used a better typeface than one usually reserved for cheap Chinese takeout menus...\r\n\r\nThe above is best read in comic sans.",
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"body": "I had a bitch about it, and sadly one of my friends said We used it on our wedding invites HARUMMPHHH! Whoops. But I stood by my point of view. Papyrus? Really? ",
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FedEx destroyed my gift apparently | So, I was waiting for my gift since before Christmas. Yesterday I got the email from RedditGifts asking me to confirm receipt or be chucked off the programme.
On clicking the link I discovered that there was a FedEx tracking code*, and with I did some investigating only to discover FedEx destroyed it as they couldn't find my address.
Harrumph!!!!
(* - Yes, I know I should have looked for the tracking number sooner, but I was dealing with the death of a relative just before Christmas) | 18 | [
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"body": "FedEx *destroys* gifts they can't find the recipient to? That's crazy. I wonder how they do it? Crushing? Burning? Exploding? My personal vote is that they put it up against a wall and let a llama kick it.\n\nEdit: Oh yea, sorry about your gift..that sucks.",
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"body": "After four days? That sounds like utter bullshit. I used to routinely work with Fed Ex and UPS because of my job as a sales associate specializing in custom orders from national manufacturers. When we had packages that had a delivery error, they sat in the local delivery office for 5 days minimum, and then were returned to the sender. They don't just destroy the package willy-nilly. \n\nCheck out this I found via googling:\nhttp://blog.humuhumu.com/2006/02/23/a-truly-rotten-fedex-experience\nIt sounds like this is something that's likely to have happened with your package. Maybe your item was flagged as destroyed and discarded because they made an error in the delivery process.\n\nWas there actually an error with your address? It seems like if there wasn't, there should be some accountability on their part to fix the error.",
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"body": "My ex-roommate worked at a FedEx distribution center; and, I can assure you that your package was most likely destroyed by some accident.\n\nEvery morning he would come in and ramble off all the stupid shit they did in that building. some common occurrence were to ram one of the spikes from a forklift through a new TV, spill some caustic chemical on books, cut into packages with a razor and damage the goods inside, crushing, ripping, dropping, stabbing, melting, etc. I heard it all.\n\n\nThis is why I use UPS whenever possible. It actually scares me that my Nexus One is coming through FedEx.",
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WTF happened to the RTS? | age of empires, age of mythology, star wars battlegrounds, starcraft, warcraft, rise of legends, command and conquer, battle for middle earth, company of heroes, dawn of war. all great games. (i'm sure i've missed some)
sure starcraft 2 is on the horizon along with whatever new c&c game they're making, but wtf?! in '09 there were maybe a handful or two of real time strategies for the pc. none of them being original or remarkable in any way. where's the new star wars rts? why the hell did ensemble studios not make halo wars for the pc? why did they even have to shut down? i play age of empires 3 to this day and love it. the rts on a console doesn't even compare. its a fucking joke.
i want to construct a fortress, harvest resources, assemble an unstoppable army and slaughter my enemy as i tear his base to the ground.
what has happened to my beloved rts? | 160 | [
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"body": "What I don't like about a lot of new RTS's is the emphasis on \"hero characters\". Even experience levels for units are not particularly interesting to me. I enjoy playing with specific unit types and I love recovering from near defeat with good macro and skill. The winning sides heroes and units will naturally be more experienced than mine. ",
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"body": "The answer to this lies in another question. Why would developers make an RTS when they can sell a million units by creating Generic Space Marine Bloodbath 2 and later ship out the Extra Testosterone DLC pack?",
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"body": "Didn't they announce cutting base-building completely from the next Command & Conquer? Made me cringe. The worst thing is, they sell this as a \"gameplay innovation\". ",
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"body": "I don't know. As far as RTS games go me as a TBS-favouring player, I have a very unique taste. If I can feasibly win via my economy-management even if I do the odd mistake on the army-micro, I enjoy a game a lot. It allows me to out-think (instead of -click) the opponent.\n\nAs such, I loved Age of Mythology (as the egypts), I enjoy Sins of a Solar Empire a lot since the Entrenchment expansion, I like Company of Heroes (this is an odd one out for me, I admit ^_^), Rise of legends was brilliant.\n\nOTOH, Warcraft3, BfME, C&C... *shrug*. Don't know, way too clickity-click for me.\n\nSo as far as I am concerned, SoaSE will last me for a good while longer. Diplomacy expansion \\o/\n\nI also don't mind the hero units as much as I usually do in SoaSE, because they're rather weak, even including their abilities. They're the support for your army, not your army the support for them. Exceptions apply, ofc. And no, I don't dual-Halycon as Advent, despite playing that constantly. Hate that rush.",
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"body": "none of the developers strayed from the \"gold collectors, then build more units than the other guy \" formula since dune and command and conquer. Compare that to other genres and the RTS field has been almost completely stagnant. \n\nExcept for Relic however who has done away with gold collectors, introduce a squad system, made realistic vehicles and the concept of cover. With a relic game you cannot mindlessly throw your forces head on and hope your guys come out on top, they will get slaughtered. You have to flank, snipe, bombard or break through with a armored vehicle first to defeat the enemy. That is to say you need to use real tactics to win against your enemy. ",
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"body": "The short answer is that it's a small market segment with a small cadre of die-hard fans, and that doesn't support the number of triple-A titles a year that genres with broader appeal do (first person shooters being the key example).\n\nOf course, it doesn't help that the genre has a few titans developing games, making it difficult to break into. Would you want to compete against Relic, Blizzard, or what's left of Westwood at EA West? For a developer-- even an already-successful developer-- to break into the genre, they have to develop from a standing start a game that's as polished and refined as Company of Heroes, Starcraft, or any of the Command and Conquers, all for the promise of a small market segment. Why would they not go for an MMO or FPS or action game? The money's a lot bigger, and there's a lot more tolerance for somewhat weaker games.\n\nAn RTS fan will play the same game for *years*, regardless of graphics. They're not going to move to a new game unless it's *better*. Why develop for that market when you can release an annual FPS update?",
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"body": "I interviewed Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games a couple of months ago and asked him this question (or at least, asked him how he felt about SupCom2's competition in the modern market against C&C and Starcraft 2). He told me PC Gamer UK's reaction to him when he told them he was making Total Annihilation way back when. They essentially asked him what the hell was wrong with him, and told him that they had over 100 RTS games down to come out that year - and here he was making yet another one. The problem back then was market saturation.\n\nAs a developer, he explained that he's actually pretty pleased at the relatively slim modern RTS market. It enables his games to get more press and more of the customer market share, and it allows each RTS title to come out to have more coverage as well, levelling the playing field. He's not worried at all.\n\nIn other news, SupCom 2 looks great.",
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"body": "Don't despair. There's an Indie RTS in the works whose main feature is that one of it's main features is *time travel.* \r\n\r\n*During the game.*\r\n\r\n*As in build a tank, send it back in time to the start of the match, kill your opponent's builders.*",
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"body": "I'd like to tip my hat in for the advance wars series on DS. It's turn based, but does allow great base building and strategy.\n\nIMHO it's the best game on the DS.\nhttp://www.gamespot.com/ds/strategy/advancewarsds/review.html\n",
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"body": "Developers would be foolish to sink much time or money into a \"fresh\" RTS project with Starcraft II on the horizon.\n\nBlizzard killed the dreams of thousands of MMO devs. I think since that happened people get nervous when they're about to release a big title.",
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"body": ">the rts on a console doesn't even compare. its a fucking joke.\n\nIt might be just the general decline of the PC as a gaming platform; I'd say that a large number of games are now console ports.\n\nThe other day, I noticed that [the combat flight sim](http://www.gamespot.com/reviews.html?platform=5&category=Combat+Sims&type=reviews&mode=top&sort=post_date&sortdir=asc#), long a strong point on the PC, has not seen a single new PC entry on Gamespot since 2007.",
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"body": "Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun was the first game that took over my life. I remember loosing sleep because I was hearing voices that said \"Unit Ready\" and \"Construction Complete\"",
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"body": "I really liked [Z](http://www.mobygames.com/game/z) back in the days. Is there something similar today?",
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"body": "Hey, fuck you. RTS on consoles rocks.\r\n\r\nEver hear of Starcraft 64? Playing through that game to get to the extra secret levels not included on PC was well worth it.\r\n\r\nSure every time I open my eyes I start bleeding from my ears now, and when I pee it comes out brown and smelling like eucalyptus, but it was WORTH IT.\r\n\r\nSplit screen Starcraft is the most amazing thing since Gonorrhea.",
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"body": "Man, I bought Red Alert 3 on the Steam sale. It's been a dissapointment to me. Perhaps I'm not hardcore enough, but all I want is a good story with interesting missions. Red Alert focuses way too much on the micromanagement for me. Every single freaking thing has some dual fire mode, and if you want to use everything \"effectively\" you have to split up your tanks into 2 groups, helicopters into 2 groups, planes into 2 groups, soldier into 2 groups. Then you need to tell your tanks to move backwards so they keep their best armor forward, blah blah blah. What I want is the option to move, move-attack, and patrol. And why do I need some AI co-commander for EVERY SINGLE MISSION!?\r\n\r\nIs Dawn of War 2 what I'm looking for? I just finished the soviet campaign and every single freaking level was basically \"Build a base, destory the other base.\" I am dissapointed.\r\n\r\nTho, the cut scenes are still entertaining.",
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"body": "I played Halo Wars on the console. I can tell you, the entire time I was playing I was thinking to myself that I would be enjoying myself SO much more on the PC. \r\n\r\nThey did as well as they could for a console RTS, that much is granted. But it just solidifies the thinking that strategy games of any type don't belong on the consoles.",
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"body": "Ever play Stronghold Crusader? That and the first Stronghold were both amazing games. I thought it was a nice spin on other RTS games, where you had to focus on the economy and popularity with peasants in order to build up a military to win. Stronghold games since Crusader have sucked for some reason or another, so don't bother with them.\n\nAnyone that's played Stronghold know of any RTS games with a similar style?",
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"body": "> the rts on a console doesn't even compare. its a fucking joke.\n\nYour answer. In your own question. There are PC RTS games, but the fact of the matter is that even more so than an FPS, an RTS benefits greatly from a mouse+keyboard over game controller. Since the PC is rampant with piracy, the only games that most companies feel comfortable making for it are console \"ports\".\n\nWe're in interesting economic times, however, and Steam has shown that gamers will pay appropriate prices for titles, so we'll have to see how this changes things. I have a feeling a lot of indy studios are going to survive the depression (this is not a recession unless inflation kicks into high gear) fairly well.",
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"body": "Play Men Of War : Red Tide.\nI love RTS war games but I'm no expert, but this is the best one I've played so far, it's extremely satisfying and huge and hard!",
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"body": "You are unhappy because you are sticking to dead or dying RTS franchises. Please try:\n\n- Dawn of War\n- Dawn of War II\n- Company of Heroes\n- World in Conflict\n\nCheck out metacritic to search for good RTS games. ",
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"body": "> rts on a console doesn't even compare. its a fucking joke.\n\nThat's why you don't see a lot of RTS development these days.",
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"body": "Here's one that is upcoming. It might be Okay to play, well see how it works out.\r\n\r\nhttp://achrongame.com/gameplay.html",
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"body": "World of Warcraft happened. Blizzard spent too long working on that (since it is making stupid money) and didn't put out Starcraft 2. Because starcraft 2 didn't come out, there were no blockbuster RTS's to show that the game style was still commercially viable. Since other developers didn't have a blockbuster to point at and say \"See, this makes money!\", no publisher funded one.\r\n\r\nI predict that things will change after starcraft 2 comes out.",
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"body": "Did anybody else use to play Star Trek Armada? That was one of my favorite games, and I was really disappointed when they shut down the servers. It doesn't even work with Himachi :(. Stupid old games not recognizing multiple network adapters...",
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"body": "Hopefully this gets read....\n\nI'm a HUGE ensemble studios fan. The reason they didn't make Halo Wars for PC is because they were TOLD not to by M$oft and then shut down for not selling enough games (yeahhhhh bullshit).\n\nEnsemble is now both [Robot Entertainment](http://www.robotentertainment.com/) and [Bonfire Studios](http://www.bonfire-studios.com/)\n\nI expect they will both be fairly good RTS creating companies.\n\nIts a bit depressing to see so few RTS' these days, specially quality ones, but we can hope :(",
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Reddit, what're some of your odd cures for being sick? | I just want to know how to get rid of this damn annoying soar throat. But I'm also curious of some other odd cures out there. | 5 | [
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"body": "I've gotten rid of many sore throats by gargling salt water if you can stand it. It has to be pretty strong and warm.",
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"body": "Red Wine. Repeat as necessary. Honestly, I prefer this over NyQuil and other cold medicines.\n\nCaution : May cause drowsiness. Do not operate heavy machinery.",
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"body": "A brilliant cure is hot tea with brandy, lemon and plenty of honey. Gives great relief. Also - eat a few cloves of garlic whole.",
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"body": "Peppermint tea will settle a stomach. It takes a few minuites to work so if you are throwing up everything instantly its no use, but beyond that it helps (must be peppermint though, no other form of mint works). As I currently have a stomach bug I have been drinking a lot of it! \n\nSage tea is a mood stabiliser. If you feel like someone has taken an agg whisk to your innards and you can;t think straight, drink sage tea. It won't stop you feeling depressed but it will stabilise you enough that you can actually think about the problems and deal with them. It does have a mild stimulant effect though so don't drink it just before bed.\n\nTurmeric is supposedly antiseptic and will close a small cut. I haven't tried this one but can believe it",
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"body": "Marijuana works for me. I get sick I smoke thc opens up bronchial passageways and allows me to clear mucus from my lungs and whatnot. What use to take 2 weeks takes 3-5 days now.",
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Mission Statement, Ownership and Finances | Dear all,
I am thankful for all the support, views and even concerns. Till yesterday I was saying "we can do it" but we are slowly moving towards "doing it".
**Mission Statement**
In one line we want Comrade to be "Safest Social Networking Site".
It will be offered as a service with absolutely no advertisement connections. It will be a non profit. All efforts to offer the best social networking capabilities will be made together with keeping the service focused only to that.
**Ownership**
Comrade will be a service; made possible by service offered by members. It will be a social site built by society. No single person or organization will own it. It will have collective ownership of members who are contributing in making it possible.
Once things start gaining momentum, we will register as a non-profit and transfer all ownership to it.
**Finances**
Our biggest investment will be us. Reddit has some of the most brilliant people and we can make this possible. It will be tough but it will also be lots of fun. Hardware costs will not be high and has to be funded on donations at least in initial stages.
All proceeds can only be spent on service's sustainability or other social ventures. A non-profit can employ people with appropriate salaries but all information will have to be publicly disclosed.
Next:
We should all meet for a group discussion to churn all the ideas and concerns and decide a time frame. | 8 | [
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"body": "I'm a web-dev, mostly open-source - php, Drupal, Magento etc. I only have 3-4 years professional experience but I'm passionate and willing to get stuck in. Sign me up.",
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"body": "As I mentioned in a previous thread, I'm willing to contribute a few bucks to the project on a regular basis just for the craziness of it and to see where it can go. Unfortunately I cannot devote any significant skills to its development other than my (dubiously useful) smarts.\n\nI disagree with the no-ads policy. Assuming that the project is jumpstarted successfully, at some point money WILL become an issue. In that event, I don't look forward to seeing Comrade/Comred go about asking donations Wikipedia-style. Ads are not necessarily bad.",
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"body": "I know you're set on the name \"comrade\", but it has negative connotations for those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nHow about calling it something totally wacky like \"fresh air\" or \"you need this\" or \"pendulum\" or \"lifeblood\" or something",
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"body": "I've been a *nix sysadmin since about 2002 and have since been involved in the webhosting industry, virtualization, and high-performance computing (supercomputers). This would include almost all aspects of infrastructure including networking, storage, etc. but I don't know everything. I'd love to be a part of a larger project like this, and hopefully grow it into something bigger. \n\nTo me, the biggest problem is financial stability, and I don't know how to make it work, but can make things work on a budget if absolutely necessary.",
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GF vs. strip bars. Am I an asshole? | So I have an amazing girlfriend. Like total marriage material. She's very smart, loves to cook for us, has been helping me turn my bachelor pad into a respectable apartment (and has bought her fair share of furnishings for it), loves gaming almost as much as I, and is incredibly sexy to boot.
So here's the thing. I love strip clubs. There's a really great one in my town and I just really like to go there. I probably go about once every other month. She has no idea that I'm doing this and made it very clear from the start of our relationship that she would be very upset if I was to do such a thing.
I don't really know what it is about this club that I like so much, aside from the obvious thing about having strange random girls rubbing their unmentionables all over me. I'm not spending a ton of money at the club or anything, but I wonder if it might be having other impacts on myself and my relationship. Mostly I am just wondering if this is a weird thing to be doing or if I should just chill.
I should probably add that I don't really feel much guilt over it, but obviously enough to make a new account and post this question. Any kind of input would be appreciated. | 4 | [
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"body": "Which do you love more? There's your answer.\n\n\nOh yeah, the girls at the strip club couldn't give two shits about you. It's up to you where you spend your time, your money, and who you hurt.\n\n\nEdit: PS You're not an asshole. Just stop going. Strip clubs are not that f*cking rad.\n\n",
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"body": "Give up the strippers dude. It's fucking hard to find a woman worth settling down with. Oh, and if you don't give up the strippers and she leaves you (Like you seem well aware that she will, so you will only have yourself to blame), can you introduce me? :-P",
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"body": "You lie to your gf and go do something she has told you that she has a problme with.\n\nYes, you are an asshole.\n\nThe fact it's a strip club doesn't even enter the equation. You're still lying to the girl you think is \n> Like total marriage material\n\nThat makes you a lying asshole.",
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"body": "I don't care about the authenticity of Christianity, or whatever. But I'm pretty sure \"do unto others as you would have done unto you\" applies here. Like, a shit ton. \n\nPeople who say they love someone then go out and do things that are dishonest and disrespectful are the people who make the word \"love\" seem like such a hollow, useless word in today's language. \n\nIf you can't take the effort to do that, then you really shouldn't be with her. Seriously, man.\n\nAlso, there's a difference between feeling guilty about what you're doing and feeling enough shame about being potentially found out to cover your tracks. \n\nDo the right thing, dude. ",
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"body": "Personally I think it is OK to go to a club, If your lady has a problem with it, well then that sure sucks for you. I guess they feel that somehow you are cheating or that they are not keeping you happy, etc.\n\n",
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"body": "Yeah, she's gonna find out eventually and blow her shit, and for good reason. If you know she doesn't want you going, and you go behind her back, that's not gonna be good for the relationship long-term. Ask yourself how you'd feel if you found out she was sneaking out about once every other month to go to some place where a bunch of male strippers are gonna rub their junk all over her, and lying to you about it.\n\nI'd say, stop going, or see if you can work out a compromise. Check to see if she'd be open to going as a couple. See if there are any clubs in your area that are couples-friendly or have couples' nights. Or see if she'd be okay with you having this as your vice, if you let her have one of her own.\n\n**Edit**: Though for your own safety, I'd gloss over the part about how you've been going to the club all this time. Ask as a hypothetical, you know, IF I were to go to this strip club...",
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"body": "As long as the \"strip club\" isn't the local elementary school, you're in the clear. That's how I lost my first wife.",
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Pound-for-pound, what do you think is the best motion picture score/soundtrack ever released? | This is a "desert island" kind of question.
Please enter ***only one title*** (two at maximum if you have a tie), and explain your reason for choosing it. Any explanation is valid, from your emotional reaction to music theory to the fact that you just play it again and again.
I wondered today whether there was something missing from my enormous sounstrack collection. Perhaps Reddit knows... | 16 | [
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"body": "I've only ever bought 2 soundtracks... possibly unusual choices but they were *The Blues Brothers* and *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*",
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"body": "[The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXldafIl5DQ) \n \nThe word 'epic' gets thrown around so much it has lost all meaning, but this score is true to the definition.",
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"body": "Holy crap, 5 hours and no one has said Requiem for a Dream???\n\nI think it's not only the best soundtrack ever made, but [Lux Aeterna](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLpJtvzlEI) may very well be the most moving song ever made. I saw people mention Clint Mansell's other work in The Fountain and Pi, but Requiem tops them by a mile. It's so good that other movies (including the Two Towers) regularly steal it to use in trailers.",
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"body": "I've played Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack to the death. Don't know if that means it's good or not.",
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"body": "When you consider composers like John Williams, Thomas Newman and Hans Zimmer it is impossible to pick just one film score!\n\n\n\n\nHans Zimmer - True Romance, Gladiator\n\nThomas Newman - American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Shawshank Redemption\n\nJohn Williams - Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws\n\nJohn Barry - Midnight Cowboy, Diamonds Are Forever\n\n\n\n\nFTR: I was really impressed with Jesper Kyd's score for Assassins Creed II but that's not technically a file score although it's very cinematic.",
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"body": "A Clockwork Orange.\n\nBrutally original, entertaining to listen to, fits well with the movie, fucking trippy music.",
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Hi everyone! I'm a girly girl that plays videogames!!! | Aren't I special! Decide for yourself, [here I am](http://i.imgur.com/a0uzh.jpg) :) <3
So like how do you feel about a **GIRL** playing videogames? It's normal right? A **GIRL** isn't weird if she does that right boys? Some of my friends say I am weird'n stuff and some of them are gay. | 91 | [
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"body": "Let me apologize for all the neanderthals on here. Not all of us guys are like that!\r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\n. \r\nPM me if you want sex.",
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"body": "I dunno what's funnier about this thread - the obvious troll, or the fact that people seem to be genuinely hitting on \"her\".",
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"body": "I have zero female contact so maybe you recognizing my creepy attempts at flattery will make me feel validated. OMG a female gamer, thats so awesome all my hundreds girlfriends have been lame compared to you. Your so hot too! ",
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[Poll] **Most** Christians are actually nice (IRL) even after telling them you're an atheist? | Please only upvote my **Yes** or **No** comments so it doesn't turn into a charlie foxtrot, and discuss.
I don't expect it to be perfect, but I'd like to see how this turns out. I can speak for a few interactions, but I have no way to tell if MOST
Also, "nice" is a subjective term, so please go by your opinion and discuss.
If someone wants to make an internet version, go for it. | 4 | [
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"body": "The definition of Christian is too broad for this question to be meaningful. You can't make a blanket statement about a group that includes the members of The Westboro Baptist Church, Quakers and people who call themselves Christians but never step into a church unless they're at a wedding or a funeral.\n\n[Edited for lack of grammar before first cup of coffee]",
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"body": "in my experience, most christians are really nice decent people, as are most atheists, and most of any large group of humans ... you get extremists in any group, and you get evil people in any group, but those are the minority who are sometimes used as examples to give the whole group a bad name",
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What is the proper response if your girlfriend is disrespecting you by flirting with another man in your presence. | It's happened to me a few times in my life and it's a terrible feeling. You're together with your girlfriend maybe in some social setting and in some way encounter another man (maybe a friend/maybe a stranger) and some form of the following occurs:
You get ignored. They become excessively friendly and the body language ramps up to flirting. Playfully teasing, touching on the shoulder or leg, the girl is teasing her hair, suggestive things are said. You become invisible. It's emasculating.
If you approach your woman and tell her your upset you risk sounding petty and insecure. If you confront the guy you might make a scene and he would of course just say they were being friendly. How do you stop or prevent this? What's the proper response to this behavior? I suppose after the incident occurs you can confront your girl in private but what should you do WHILE it's happening?
*EDIT There are some good replies but most seem to deal with approaching the girl after the situation. What about while it's happening? I recently was in a situation hanging out with my girl and a male friend for drinks. Unless I pulled her to the side we are all together for a couple hours. What do you when the situation continues on? | 43 | [
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"body": "Slap her ass, tell her she's being a naughty slut, and that you'll have to punish her later.\n\nThen go to the bar, get a beer and chat up the girl closest to you.",
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"body": "While it's happening, I don't know but I'll tell you something about her and something about you.\n\nHer: She's not in love with you. I am physically, emotionally, wholly incapable of doing that when I'm involved someone. I don't stay with people I'm not either in love with on or on my way. Her behavior, to me, illustrates ambivalence and immaturity. It's tempting to frame it like she's so crazy about you that she's trying to make you jealous, but that's not quite the same thing.\n\nYou: The fact that the \"disrespect\" concerns you says either that you're not there either, or that you don't think you have a leg to stand on unless you address the disrespectful nature of her behavior. What about the fact that someone who's totally crazy about you and mature wouldn't do this? There's no real harm done by her behavior, except that it says some things you may or may not want to think about.\n\nI think you can do better here. This is one of those times where I would read more into the behavior than is apparent on the surface. ",
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"body": "> [T]he following occurs: You get ignored. They become excessively friendly and the body language ramps up to flirting. Playfully teasing, touching on the shoulder or leg, the girl is teasing her hair, suggestive things are said.\n\nDrive her home. Reach over and open her door for her. Tell her it's over. Let her get out. Drive away. Forget all about her.\n\nWhat you've described above is not *ever* done by any decent woman.",
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"body": "Two approaches:\n\n1) Approach her from behind, put your hand on her back and whisper in her ear \"you know, if you're feeling slutty, I've got a job for you\"\n\n2) Walk up, if necessary remove her hand from his body: (disappointed to her) \"You aren't leading this nice man on, are you babe?\" (friendly to him) \"Sorry about that, still breaking her in\" *shrug*",
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"body": "Assuming that your in an otherwise stable relationship, excuse yourself. Bring yourself back into the conversation and state that she is your girlfriend.\n\nSay something along the lines of \"Hey, cuteypie, I'm gonna run off to the bathroom for a minute. Wait here for me.\" (Feel free to replace cuteypie with any nicknames you have for her, and the bathroom for any other excuse to leave [friends, getting a drink, hitting on the cute blonde in the corner]) What you are doing is saying, casually, that she's already spoken for (to the guy she's flirting with) and making your claim known. Your not making a scene with either person and your pulling off confidence to your girlfriend that you know she'll be coming back to you (by leaving for a few minutes), and she'll find confidence a sexy thing.\n\nIdeally, don't sure any amount of upsetness or distress while executing this, otherwise the illusion is ruined.",
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"body": "just walk up to the two of them while he's flirting with her, and casually suggest that the two of them should date. they'd make a perfect couple!\n\nconfidence and subtlety, man. confuse the fuck out of her, make him uncomfortable. works every time.",
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"body": "Grab the stupid bitch by her nappy ass weave. Then, reach back like a pimp and slap the hoe. She needs ta ackright. ",
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"body": "Kiss her on the cheek. Tell her you're getting a beer. Leave. Let her find you. Be talking to someone- girl or guy, doesn't matter, but you should really be talking, not just talking to make her jealous- when she comes back.\n\nIf you don't see her for the rest of the party, dump that bitch.",
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"body": "Remember when George McFly almost let Lorraine Baine be taken from him, while dancing to Earth Angel, by some obnoxious punk? If George didn't man up, steal Lorraine back, and give her big ol smooch.....Marty might had never been born? Do you understand? This. Is. Serious. You must fight for her back....and give a huge smooch. You may not realize it, but you could be saving your unborn children!",
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"body": "I'm responding to the edit part at the end of your post where you want to know how to handle the situation *during* an occasion where this happens.\n\nAll the advice so far is about handling it after the fact for your sake. If you do anything *during* the situation (be it retaliating by flirting yourself, or pulling him or her aside) you risk looking petty and jealous even if you are perfectly in the right. If you talk to her *seriously* afterward and in private and tell her you find it unacceptable and embarassing, then it should be the last time it happens. If she won't stop, then it might be time to find another girl, one who *won't* disrespect you in public.\n\nI'm a naturally friendly and outgoing girl, but I would feel awful and be totally **mortified** if after a night out by bf said that he felt alienated, emasculated or embarassed by how I interacted with another man. I would from then on keep *everything* I do in check, because I would hate for the shoe to be on the other foot, and would hate to hurt my bf by making him feel that way (I'm saying this beacause maybe your gf's flirting is unintentional, maybe she is just very friendly and a bit flirty naturally... but if you are *not* ok with it then she needs to keep it in check)",
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"body": "Possibility The First: She is trying to get your attention and/or make you jealous. Could be because she feels you're not giving her enough romantic attention and she wants to feel desired, could be because she wants so see you stand up for your relationship with her...something like that. In this case the flirting is mostly for your benefit and wouldn't be happening if you weren't around.\n\nPossibility The Second: She really is into flirting with the other guy, whether it's harmless fun or not, and she would still flirt with the same (or greater) fervor if you were absent. It's up to you to determine which one it is, and how you want to act accordingly.\n\nSome things you can do: \n\n1. Casually go over to her and show her some attention. Nothing too possessive or threatening to the other guy, just an arm around the shoulder of some kind of an attentive gesture to remind everyone involved that you and your girl have a special relationship.\n\n2. Pretend to ignore her behavior and flirt with the most threatening girl in the room. Be careful not to exceed your gf's level of flirting, otherwise you'll find yourself having to do most of the explaining when the inevitable private argument ensues.\n\n3. Actually ignore her behavior, enjoy yourself and the other people around you.",
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"body": "But seriously, it's a call for you to man up. I actually had a similiar thing happen to me; a (n unhappily married) friend of mine got a little to flirty with my girl and she let him flirt and talked back only semi flirting. \nI waited until after the party toned down ( or it was the next day), so I would be seen as causing a scene, and told her that she needs to squash flirting like that, even if he instigates, because if she stops it, it's him being a perv and her standing up for herself. But if I confront him, it's me being jealous and causing a scene. \n\nMoral: man up. A girl won't respect you if you don't. ",
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"body": "Oh man. It's funny you posted this, because my boyfriend just got on my case for apparently doing this as well.\n\nConsider the following.\n\n- Many people are naturally flirtatious. What is flirting to you could just mean \"you seem like a cool person, I want you to think im cool too\" to them. Some people are touchy with men and women, and consider it being natural and friendly. If it's someone they know and already have a relationship with, it makes even more sense that they would act like this. \n\n- As far as the distance thing goes, I personally try to avoid looking like that obsessive couple that can't function without each other at parties. When you are with a group, it's nice to assert your independence once in awhile.\n\n\nWhy haven't you talked about this with your chick yet? A good girlfriend is willing to listen to her guy and chill out if she is making him feel insecure. ",
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"body": "Some people are just flirts - she may very well mean nothing by it, and just do it for the validation. She may also be doing it to remind you that she could find someone else if necessary.\n\nHaving said that, it hurts like hell.\n\nMy advice to you for while it's happening: Assert yourself. Start chatting up the guy she's chatting with, put your arm around her. Rub her arm. Make it clear that you're together. This will show that you are capable of holding your own. Don't let him, or the flirting, intimidate you.\n\nLater: have a talk with her about WHY she does it, and explain that it hurts you and makes you feel emasculated. If she doesn't improve a bit, you'll either have to accept that it's part of her nature, or you can move on if it's too much to bear.",
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"body": "This exact thing happened to me last summer with my current GF. \n\nThis was pretty early in our relationship and we had just a few weeks prior established that we were an exclusive couple. After we saw a concert, we went to a bar to meet up with some of her friends. I end up in a booth across the table from my girlfriend, and one of her guy friends was sitting next to her. They were joking around and laughing and kind of playfully touching/hitting each other, and she didn't really address me or look at me for about 10 or 15 minutes (seemed like an eternity!). \n\nI found myself getting a litte frustrated and angry, so I got up and motioned to her. She came over and I took her aside and just asked her what was up with her friend. She said it was just a friend, and I told her they were acting a little touchy feely with each other, that I didn't really like it/appreciate it, and that she is there with me. I told her I had to tell her what I was feeling about the situation (which I did \"have\" to; I really liked her and just had to). We went back and forth for a couple of minutes. She finally said she didn't realize I felt that way, was sorry for it and would stop. It's been a good 6 or so months and we've never had that issue again.\n",
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"body": "If your gfs obviously flirting heavily with a man you do need to do something about it. You need to give off the attitude towards the guy of, \"Your no threat to me, just a minor annoyance\". If you lose your cool, you look like a chump in front of the gf. This includes looking overly defensive, like going up to her and putting your arm around her and pulling her in close. It's a subtle game of one-upmanship designed to make you look cool and in control and him look dorky, normal and boring. Don't be afraid to talk over both him and ur gf. You must dominate the conversation.\n\nSome techniques:\n\n- Squeeze inbetween there pair of them and put your arms around *both* of them (one arm around each, over the back of the neck), then say, \"So what you too talking about?\". If he pulls away mock him for being over sensitive.\n\n- If you think he's about to buy ur gf a drink, say, \"Ahh, your getting the drinks! Mine's a JD and coke\". If he refuses to buy you a drink (even though he offered to buy your gf one), or if he gets her the drink and not you start jokingly talking about how him getting her and not you a drink must mean he's trying to pick her up. Say how you think your gfs not easy enough to go with a guy just because he buys her a drink.\n\n- If they're sitting down and he's touching her thigh, sit next to him and touch his thigh in exactly the same place. If he becomes uncomfortable with this point out he thought it was OK to touch your gf like that so you just assumed it was a threesome.\n\n- The most powerful technique of all. Girls like a man they meet to have an air of mystery about him. To be exciting and different to all the other guys. If you can make him look the opposite of this: dull, boring and ordinary, your gf will go drier than sand papper between her legs. To do this just chat to him normally, thus getting him to expose the monotonous minutiae of his life. His job's a good one to start. If he says he's an accountant for example, get him to talk about all the little (dull) details of tax law. Pretend you're really interested in an attempt for him to get into as much detail as possible. If he says stuff that's exciting (e.g. he's a circus performer who travels the world), change the topic of conversation.\n\n- If he really won't leave her alone despite doing these things, put your arm around his shoulder and take him to one side and tell him it's been nice chatting but you'd like some time alone with your gf now. Offer to take his number so you can call him and the three of you meet up some other time. If he really still won't back of you **must** fight him. This isn't as impressive to a girl as being able to socially outmanoeuvre him, but if he wont leave her alone when asked to it's fighting time. Could you get hurt? Yes. Could you get in trouble? Yes. Sometimes you just have to man up and trade punches, although if you perfect the above tips this will happen rarely.\n\nEdit: you do have to make sure he knows shes your gf early on too.",
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"body": "Don't stand to let her disrespect you. If you let her get away with it, she'll keep doing it. \n\nSet shit straight if you care about her. If you don't, flirt with CUTE friends. ",
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"body": "The proper response is to dump her and then be more selective about future girlfriends. That is not at all acceptable or negotiable behavior.",
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"body": "Don't ever confront the guy. He's not the problem.\n\nGo up to them and ask her to talk for a moment. Pull her aside and tell her that the relationship is over since she's clearly more interested in this other guy. Leave.\n\nIf she refuses to follow you out of earshot of the guy, just tell her that you're leaving (not \"we're leaving\", but \"I'm leaving\") and the relationship is over. If she protests, say something dismissive (\"whatever\") and walk away. Leave.\n\nIf she drove, then before talking to her, either call a cab or get a friend to take you home, and leave right away. Don't give her any leeway. Break off contact from then on. Move on.\n\nThis is, of course, assuming that it's as extreme as you described. If she's just giving a little more attention away than you'd prefer, join or continue your part in the conversation and casually do one of the little affection-showing things that you usually do: lay your hand on her back, maybe give her a little rub; touch her shoulder with the back of your fingers; whatever. Later on, when you have a moment with her, tell her that you thought she was giving that guy a little too much of the wrong kind of attention and if she's more interested in other guys than she is in you, maybe this isn't the best time for you two to be together. Then it'll be her call to either realize what she was doing, apologize, and stop doing it in the future; argue the point and tell you you're being overly jealous, in which case you have to decide whether she's right or not; or decide that she doesn't want to be with you. Of course, depending on her reaction(s), you can also decide that you don't want to be with her.",
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"body": "I would suggest playing up to her potential worries about what other women would think of her. When my gf and I first got together, she had a very close, single male friend. Nothing has ever happened between them, but they were the kind of friends that everyone thought would definitely get together eventually. \n\nAnyway they would always flirt with each other in my presence and I would get a bit grumpy about it, and she would just laugh it off, \"oh it's just a bit of fun lol\".\n\nSo one night we get back to hers, and I \"innocently\" raise the topic:\n\nMe: You know, you guys have a really good friendship. I'm not bothered any more, really.\n\nGF: Really? Oh good\n\nMe: Yeah, and you know I bet all your other female friends act that way around him as well don't they? Even (married friend) and (friend with long term boyfriend)\n\nGF: ...\n\nMe: And also, I'm sure once he does find himself his own girlfriend, he'll be certain to carry on with you in the same way. She'll probably feel the same way as you do, that it's just a bit of fun, and won't be threatened at all. And there is no way once he has a girlfriend that you will see less and less of him as she gradually phases you out of his life.\n\nGF: ...\n\nThey both calmed down after that.\n\nIf you really need something to do at the time, there are some replies here suggesting you should walk off and start flirting with the hottest girl you can find. You are probably aware of this, but you are bigger than that, it is an immensely douchey game-player thing to do, and will more than likely backfire if you are perceived to be upping the stakes. If anything, walk away for maybe 20 minutes. Without an audience I am fairly certain they will feel less inclined to flirt (unless they really mean it, in which case you have an even bigger problem). Then come back, scoop her up in your arms and say \"let's dance, baby\" (or words to that effect), take control and remember she's yours. \n\nIf all else fails, and you really can't take it, it may be time to move on (and for all I know, that may be your fault or hers). But talk first. ",
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"body": "Not much you can do while it's happening except just walking up and introducing yourself as her boyfriend.\n\nAfter wards, just tell her you feel like shits when she does that kind of stuff and you would be happier if she didn't.",
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"body": "It's not inherently disrespectful. If you don't like it, tell her to stop. If she doesn't or can't then there might be a problem but regardless, quit being so serious",
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"body": "Butt into the conversation and chat with him yourself. Trying to pull her away may look petty, but actively engaging the guy asserts your position.\n\nIf she was actively trying to make you jealous, this will show her that she's failed in damaging your ego.\n\nIf flirting was unintentional and she was just trying to talk to him, it shows that you're taking an interest in her friends.",
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"body": "I was just dumped by a girl like this, about a month ago. She was constantly flirting with and dancing with other guys when we went to parties, usually leaving me to sit and twiddle my thumbs. For some reason, I thought I was in love with this girl. Shortly after I told her how much I loved her, she broke up with me, citing her inability to be as flirty as she wanted to be while she was with me. Fucking bitch. It seemed like she still kind of cared about me as a friend after the breakup (so she said when she broke up with me), and I still had feelings for her (I know I'm an idiot). But through a series of events that eventually culminated in me finding out that this guy who I thought was my friend fucked her after we broke up, I eventually learned that she (and the guy who I thought was my friend) didn't give two shits about me. It turned out that for the last couple months of our relationship, she claims that she didn't have feelings for me anymore.\n\nWhen we were in the relationship, I never did anything about her flirty behavior. I just sort of assumed it was the way she was, and I knew (thought I knew) that she wasn't going to betray me. I even told her I was okay with a little bit of flirting (like I said, I know I'm an idiot). One of my biggest regrets from that relationship is that I never manned up and did anything about her flirty behavior.\n\ntl;dr: do something about it before you get hurt bad",
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Can Reddit have a "Seen it before" option? | Don't get me wrong, I understand not everyone has seen...[this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goIeSaZQESk) or [this NSFW](http://bp0.blogger.com/_bMmCEn74dGc/R8bjCf__OtI/AAAAAAAAABU/6mdyWlNN0uk/s1600-h/ebay.jpg)...or...etc. But seriously, there's so much shit just recycling itself that it becomes a chore to actually find something new and refreshing to help me through my arsehole of a day.
Perhaps a button like "seen it" and if it gets X hits then it just drops off...or you can set in preferences "Join Seen it group". So anything the group vote is removed from my eyes. I'm pretty sure there's a group of us who've all seen the same things....
**Edit1: I'm well aware there is a down vote button. This suggestion was merely to say "listen..we've seen it before, but maybe others haven't. So instead of down voting..**
**Edit2: Cheers all and a huge high five for telling me about the Hide button. Never heard of it in the year+ I've been here. ;) . Anyway, sarcasm aside see [here.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ao5qb/can_reddit_have_a_seen_it_before_option/c0il3zd) [Xert](http://www.reddit.com/user/Xert) and [Mattyi](http://www.reddit.com/user/Mattyi) pretty much nail what I'm on about.**
**Edit3: Added NSFW to the second link....work out yourselves why it is. It's about as obvious as the combined acting skills of the twilight cast but hey....people were offended.** | 685 | [
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"body": "I'm pretty sure what you're describing is the \"hide\" button.\n\nI know it's generally not good reddiquette to say \"look at the reddiquette,\" but in this case I'll reference it to point out that the suggestion seems to conflict with a reddit core value and the proper mechanism for dealing with this is given right there:\n\n> **Don't:** Complain about a story being old. Reddit is about interesting stuff, not new stuff only. Just hide the story.\n\n",
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"body": "there are a lot of newbies like me who are enjoying these old links for the first time, but maybe you could a have an option to hide all links which have been submitted before, then everyone is happy :)",
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"body": "I agree.\n\nThey should make it so things you've already viewed show up in like purple text or something. Or maybe add a button down where it says save and report, that makes it disappear.",
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"body": "I think the hide button accomplishes this with little annoyance while not affecting other users' experiences.",
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"body": "I don't think just a straight drop is good because then people who don't spend as much time on reddit miss out on some good stuff. A preference that would let you drop the \"seen it\" ones sounds like a very good idea though. The X hits number should probably be some sort of percentage of the post view or votes or something rather than just a straight number.",
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"body": "Some whiny bitch petitioning from some stupid feature that's not worth the time it takes to build? Yeah, I've \"seen it before\". Fuck off.",
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"body": "Some indication of when or how many times a link has been reposted (maybe as flagged by users) would be useful...\n\nAutomatically hiding it based on this indication would be a bit too much. Perhaps that could be configurable.",
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"body": "I like the idea but I'll expand it a bit further on what could all be options. Hiding something that's been resubmitted is a good idea but how often is there something new and awesome that makes the front page but had been resubmitted minutes, hours, or a few days earlier where that post only got a couple of upvotes and no one saw it? What would be even better is if you could hide resubmits where you have already clicked on the link that's already submitted. Granted this would require that you click ont he \"comments\" for the post or that Reddit act as a redirect.. but a neat feature nonetheless. I'd also like to see posts that I've viewed already (or clicked on the comments/commented on) to show up as a different color. Sure this happens with hyperlinks when you click them but I do change computers frequently so this isn't always easy to see.",
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"body": "I use to have the same problem. I'm a bit OCD when it comes to consuming data I like, so I always try to read all the new articles that make it to the front page. The problem is, I'll have to scroll through pages of articles I have already read just to find a few new ones.\n\nIt became really inefficient, so I started to use Google Reader on the main page. Google Reader will automatically tag all the articles I have read and has an option of only showing me articles that are new to me.\n\nAfter this, I do all my web browsing through GR.\n\nnote: I use to take advantage of the \"hide\" button, but after clicking it 50 times, it started to become absurd. Google Reader does exactly what you're looking for.",
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What do you like about London? | I'm guessing most people found this place from the post on /r/Canada and most people commenting on that post seemed to not like London or find it boring.
Does anyone else rather like living in London?
I do.
To start I work downtown and I like being down there every day. Especially in the summer. Sure its not as vibrant as a place like Toronto, but its got its share of nice places to eat, plus the market. Obviously there are the drug-dealers and their buddies that hang out at Dundas and Richmond but every downtown in every city has people like that. | 14 | [
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"body": "I like it too! It's not a nice place to visit, though. I never have any idea what to show people when they come to town to visit.",
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Photo critique please? | Hey Redditors! I did a shoot with a London photography group yesterday. What do you think? :)
[gallery](http://www.jameswhayman.com/galleries/london)
The website is about two weeks old so if there's anything you don't like about it please let me know, I would really appreciate your feedback! | 3 | [
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"body": "The photos were probably just fine to start with, but I have to say I really do not understand what you have done to them.\n\nI get that it's \"art\", but I look at this the same way that I look at myspace photos with super high contrast, or HDR photos that look like shit.",
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Am I the only one with zero interest in a "tablet computer?" What am I missing? | The rumor mills are churning out news about Apple's allegedly impending release of a tablet computer. Other companies appear to be working on them as well. Am I the only one who simply cannot conceive of a use for such a device?
As far as I can tell, my iPhone and my laptop have my computing needs covered. My iPhone seems to have the "portability" niche covered, and my laptop seems to have the "getting serious work done" niche covered. What's left?
I can't exactly imagine a satisfying way of using a tablet computer. Do I need to hold it like a clipboard with one hand while prodding at it with the other? Sort of like an iPhone, but way less convenient? Do I need to lay it flat on a table and hunch over it so I can type on a virtual keyboard that hogs half the screen? Sort of like a laptop, but way less convenient?
What am I missing here? What niche would a tablet computer fill? | 202 | [
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"body": "Look. I'm going to blow your mind.\n\nI have a Tablet PC.\n\nFrom 2 years ago.\n\nNow, I know you're freaking out. \"WHAT? BEFORE APPLE?\"\n\nBut yes, it's true. It's a computer, with a screen, with a built in *wacom tablet.*\n\nAnyway, it's nice because it's a *normal* computer, and I can *write* on it if I want to.\n\nHell, my sister in law has one which has a combined *wacom* tablet and has the ability to accept finger input, as well.\n\nPeople are just freaking out because Apple's doing it. Possibly. Maybe.\n\nEDIT: BTW, It's a Lenovo X61T. Me mentioning this will probably cause many responses on how awesome this computer is, and indeed, it is quite awesome.\n\nEDIT: You're looking for uses? Maybe you can't use it. I got it so I could do a multitude of neat things, like:\n\n1) Engineering work. Marking up prints is a big one. Annotations is a HUGE time saver, especially when half of our engineering force is overseas.\n\n2) Presentation work. Before, write on blackboard or have large poster printed to sketch onto. Now? Do I need to explain how this pump works? Draw directly on the PDF using Bluebeam, which is incredible software BTW.\n\n3) It's ultraportable, lightweight, and gets many many hours of battery life. ",
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"body": "everyone is thinking it, but nobody will say it...\n\nthis is the computer you use when you're on the throne.",
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"body": "> Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640K of RAM?!--Bill Gates, 1981 \n\nIt's a new product, nobody knows what the future holds.\n\nJust relax: if you don't need it, why worry about it?",
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"body": "After owning one and being asked this question repeatedly, the simplest explanation I've found is that anyone who uses a clipboard or something similar will sin in their pants over a well done tablet. \n\nThe really nice ones are still wicked expensive. $2000 for a good Ultra-portable + $500 for a good touch panel is out of my range. Sticking the touch panel a slightly modified low-end or mid-range laptop makes for an uncomfortable beast which is basically what most of the reasonably priced tablets really are.",
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"body": "A host of my lecturing colleagues have recently purchased tablets and they are raving about them.\n\nThe main advantage for a lecturer is annotating handwritten notes on lecture note slides or pdf research papers.",
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"body": "I think that the hoopla is not so much anticipation of the hardware, but the anticipate of the software for it. Traditionally, the issue with slate or tablet computers has been that they rand desktop software with desktop UIs and a desktop mentality.\n\nWhat people are anticipating is Apple's \"twist\" on the concept. First, the UI -- it won't be the desktop OS X UI as that will be just as disappointing to people as Windows-on-a-tablet was (I know that some liked it, but the overwhelming public response was negative) -- but the iPhone UI (which is OS X based) would probably be too limiting -- so what's Apple's middle-ground; do they have something that people will go for? If so, how much of that can be ported to other platforms?\n\nAnd, there are a range of apps which are well suited to the tablet. Traditionally, Apple's made sure that applications and services are ready from the get-go. If, for example, Apple is going to aim at the e-Book market, you know that they'll have books in iTunes or developed a strategic partnership with Amazon. A user-facing camera might mean a focus on portable video-conferencing, possibly pointing to new video chat and streaming features in OS X, etc...\n\nYou get the idea. The hardware itself is interesting, perhaps, but it's what they bring to the table along with is that's the tantalizing question.",
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"body": "Every captain of their own spaceship needs a tablet as to look important in the radio room. Whenever you send for a cadet, you can just stare down at the tablet, while giving the cadet the quickest of glances to show them they are not worthy of your attention.",
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"body": "what you are missing:\n\n* your hand covering half of the screen\n* un-ergonomic keyboard input\n* piss-poor handwriting recognition\n* smeary screens\n* your arm getting tired from holding the damn thing\n\nnote most of these don't apply to hybrid tablets, which are actually useful. because you can still type on them.",
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"body": "I think that if the input method is decently solved, I would probably ditch my laptop. A good desktop, and a thin, light, long lasting battery tablet for on-the-go.\n\nAlso, a friend, who is a hospital MD, has often told me it would be a great tool for them. ( I almost wrote \"a killer tool\":)",
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"body": "this is how you realize you're getting old...\nnew technologies just seem to become awkward, unnesessary",
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"body": "Enders Game. Thats what youre missing. I cant not think about that book when i see those tablet computers.",
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"body": "And before the iPhone came out everyone asked the same type of questions of it. What role will it fill over my current phone?\r\n\r\nFact is we do not know what role a tablet will fill. Don't assume it is meant to replace anything. If Apple is going to release this thing, then they probably have some kind of use for the consumer market in mind.",
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"body": "Does anyone know why the iPhone keeps reloading tabs again and again and again? I mean I have an unlimited data plan, but when I'm on holiday this really adds up. I think 75% of data is because of reloaded tabs. And it makes browsing freaking slow. \n\nThe disturbing part is that I only admit this on the Internet. When I'm at work or with friends I say the phone is awesome. Weird isn't it? ",
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"body": "There are some neat things that device reminiscent of a tablet could do--things that I'd be excited about if a product did them.\n\nThe tablet buzz I've been hearing is for a product that's more like an eReader (Kindle, nook) than a notebook or netbook. There'd be a touchscreen like an iPhone, or possibly a separate e-ink screen and touch surface like on the nook. You wouldn't really use it for work, except maybe simple document editing or research.\n\nWhat I like about this product idea is that it would function well as an e-reader, but wouldn't be tied down to a particular distribution platform or format (unless Apple launched it, in which case it would be stuck with iTunes). A popular client that's platform and format independent is good for customers. It might finally make e-books a technology that's worth adopting. If it had decent battery life, it might also be a compelling gaming platform (like the DS). ",
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"body": "Also, [this computer](http://www.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/hp-iq770-touchscreen-media-pc.jpg) makes my arms sore just looking at it. ",
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"body": "You don't even know what they're going to make. No one does. Typically Apple takes an existing product category and makes it much better. Perhaps they will do that with the \"tablet\". Perhaps they won't. But judge it when it is announced/released, not before then.\n\nI also have no interest in tablet computers as they exist today, but you never know what tomorrow brings. Even having said that, I already have a laptop and a smart phone so I seriously doubt I will want to cram another tech gadget down my proverbial gullet.",
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"body": "Around 6 months ago, I purchased an HP TC1100 Tablet PC from eBay for $300. I'm a pianist and a tablet gave me easy access to the public domain sheet music on [IMSLP](http://imslp.org/wiki/), effectively acting as a portal to a massive music library. A laptop without a detachable keyboard would be unworkable; e-reader's screens or web browsing capabilities are too limited, as are those of iPhones or similar handhelds.\r\n\r\nPerfect for sight reading and highly recommended if you're a musician. Don't go less than a ~10.5 inch screen size though.\r\n",
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"body": "seriously if you need this crap at your beck and call, then you're likely one of the dozens of idiots i see walking around all day with their faces glued to some stupid shit while real life goes on around them.\r\n\r\ngod forbid in the 21st century anybody look up for a minute to see a cloud or smile hello at another human being.\r\n\r\n",
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"body": "I plan to keep mine in the kitchen mostly, as a little media machine to watch hulu and surf the net. I like to think of it as the next step from television, I'll have a mount for it on the wall so I can put it up to watch cooking shows and pause it from the remote when I need to. I'll take it down and flick through reddit in the morning when I eat breakfast. I won't have to worry about crumbs in the keyboard, and it probably won't cost as much as my laptop so the risk will be less than if my coffee tips over and drenches it. I get frustrated with my iPhone UI for even casual browsing.\n\nI'd probably watch a lot of movies on it in bed too, and I'd probably have places to prop it up all over the house so I could drag my 'tv' wherever I go. I'm sure there will be lots of great multi-touch apps introduced that will make it even more amazing. If it has an integrated cam I'm hoping for the ability to arm it as a motion trigger security cam for catching intruders in that area of the house.\n\nI'd like to have some kind of tablet like device that I can use as a home automation hub to work with insteon/x10 hardware - a home remote, but that's probably not in line with apple's vision. However, it does seem appropriate that it would access all the other network device libraries, so you'd be able to integrate your iPhoto and iTunes media. I think if airtunes got an update I might go with that kind of setup for whole-house stereo system. \n\nIf drawing really worked as well as it possibly could I could sketch up my ideas for a planned remodel from somewhere comfortable, when I tried to do that on my laptop it was really awkward.\n\nAnd, finally, I'm hoping it won't be a closed system like the iPhone, as I want to start developing for apple products and there's no greater incentive that fulfilling a personal want... a tablet is a new world of possibilities. That's why I'm excited to get the final word on apple's vision for it.",
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Reddit can now rate/list/find what hardware matches best with linux software. | So I've been wanting a site where users are actively reported their experience with what hardware worked best with software but couldn't find many good sites and the few that I found weren't well maintained or active. So I figured "why not just make my own site?" and then when I realized the data base needed, I figured "why not something on reddit?" So this is a basic set up I came up with where you don't have to ever leave reddit to check/update/read. Basically it's a subreddit hooked up with a custom google search. But the search has been tweaked to only lists posts about hardware-software links and not any chats/questions/off-topic posts, and it does it quite efficiently (You just have to write "Tuxrate" in your title so that the bot will know you wish to add to the hardware list). Later I may add more ways to sort the data (or someone can help). I also used reddit and google so that we don't have to worry about downtime, money..etc.
So now I just need redditors to list what hardware they find works great or out-of-the-box with linux:
http://sites.google.com/site/tuxrate/
..let me know what you think.. or if anyone wants to help out let me know.. | 17 | [
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"body": "The problem with hardware compatibility lists is that hardware producers will often release a totally different hardware under the exact same name.",
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"body": "There are several HCL (Hardware Compatibility Lists) out there for different equipment. linuxquestions.org, just about every distro has some type of HCL on it's doc pages, linux-laptop.net......not saying it's a bad idea, just saying that it's out there.",
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Hi r/music, recently I've been listening to a lot of Ray Charles, Edwin Starr and James Brown and I was wondering if you could introduce me to anything in the same vein? | Underground or mainstream, I'm just really enjoying more soul-edged music recently.
Thank you in advance! | 5 | [
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"body": "Don't forget [Al Green](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWPDGWP568) and [Bill Withers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYi7uEvEEmk)",
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"body": "[Jackie Wilson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1odvp-_bhk). He's hit and miss, had a lot of clunkers, but he might have the vibe you're going for. He had an amazing voice, that's for sure.\r\n\r\n[Here's my personal favorite Jackie Wilson song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuu18Hh3CTM&feature=related) ",
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"body": "Parliament-Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Sly and the Family Stone, Rufus Thomas and Betty Davis (Miles' wife).",
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My boyfriend has never initiated oral sex. Is it like spitting or swallowing..some people like it and some don't? | Is it possible that having never done it before makes the experience scary? Is it just repulsive? I'm very particular about keeping hygeine and hair growth in check, but I just can't think of anything other than these reasons.
I do feel a little bit rejected. I enjoy oral sex, but I feel like I'm missing out. I don't want to say anything because it's obviously a very personal thing and I'd rather he wanted to do it.
I try to bring up talk about it casually, but it usually doesn't lead where I want it to.
If anybody has any advice, I'd appreciate it. | 21 | [
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"body": "\"Ay guy, when you gonna eat me out?\"\n\nI'd bring it up and get to the bottom of it. Communication is important, if he's opposed to it you need to know either way.",
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"body": "I'd recommend some kind of presentation involving posters with graphs and charts and whatnot. Make it informational, and sexy. Like, you have a diagram of the female anatomy, and you're pointing to things with a laser pointer, but also you're wearing a selection of fine lingerie.",
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"body": "I wouldn't date someone who didn't like oral sex. Just saying. \n\nIts not a dealbreaker for everyone, but it is for me. ",
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"body": "Direct answer to the subject: Yes.\n\nBut it's quite a bit more complicated than that. I like to go down, but only on some women, and then, not all of the time. A lot of it has to do with smell and taste. Some women smell and taste divine. Others, well, I start to wretch when I even get close. I have noticed this has a lot do do with diet. Women who eat well (healthy organic diet and no junk food -- regardless of body type) tend to be more appealing. Vegetarians tend to be particularly tasty. Almost invariably I cannot go down on a woman who smokes. Then there is the issue of microbial flora and fauna which is far more difficult to control. \n\nIt is possible that your BF had a bad experience once. It is possible that your BF just doesn't doesn't care for your smell. And if he really has never done it before, it could be simple fear of the unknown.\n\nBut the real problem here seems to be one of communication. If you really want him to go down on you, you are going to have to let him know, and you are going to have to find out what the problem is. And where are you? Are you going to break up with him if he won't? Is it a critical part of the relationship? Is he not attentive otherwise?\n\nI'll point out that the issue of whether or not he'll go down on you is far less important than your difficulty as a couple to talk about it.\n\n",
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Foodit, has anyone tried mutton? | I want to try mutton or goat. I live in the US, so it's not very popular. My usual recipe sites haven't yielded anything. So, does anyone know how to procure and/or prepare mutton?
**edit: Thanks for all the good ideas guys. Once I track one down I'll tell you how it went** | 6 | [
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"body": "Goat is awesome! Its lean and its tasty. Can be a bit tough if not prepared properly, and sometimes a bit gamy, but some people like that.\nI don't know about procuring, but look up mexican, african, indian mutton recipes. There are thousands! My favorite is Dum Biriyani.",
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"body": "Mutton is just like a grassier slightly tougher lamb, you could probably just substitute it in (traditional stew like) lamb recipes and cook for a while longer.\n\nSome [mutton recipes](http://www.muttonrenaissance.org.uk/recList.php)",
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How does a theorist who is not a professional scientist get ideas published? | Say for example you have yourself a real life Will hunting, or perhaps Kim Peek. They have a great provable idea but no PhD or money to get an advanced degree or perhaps just no interest in being a professional scientist. How do these people get their ideas out and into the scientific community? | 3 | [
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"body": "There are no requirements on qualifications to publish work in journals or present at conferences. But without some academic background (and even with it) it can be difficult to know what is expected of you publishing your first paper. \n\nIt is not enough to simply have a good, provable idea. You need to present it in a way that makes it fix into the context of previous work in the field of interest and argue for why it is important. Most good ideas, and particularly revolutionary ones, are easy to overlook unless they are presented in the right context. \n\nThis is the main problem people coming from outside academia have, getting to understand the context. To know how a knew idea fits with existing work, you need to know what work already exists, and what is considered significant. But from outside of academia this is very difficult to discover as sadly the vast amount of prior research is published in academic journals that are not free to access. \n\nWithout access to the relevant journal articles, it is essentially impossible to publish your work anywhere. And considering the amount it costs to purchase articles individually, unless you are fabulously wealthy that is unlikely to be an option.\n\nIf someone seriously has what they think is a truly great idea, I would suggest they seriously research that idea as best they can, using open access journals, friends library logins, copies of papers from researchers websites etc. Write up the idea formally and (humbly) approach an appropriate academic at a local university to ask to discuss it.",
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A "Hide All On This Page" button. | While I'm clicking through links on reddit, I usually run through the whole page and then browse onto the next one at the bottom to escape the old links. I was wondering if there were a way to implement a simple, bottom-of-the-page button that hid all of the links on the page, which would save the time of having to go through and click each one manually. | 15 | [
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"body": "Try this bookmarklet:\n\n javascript:(function%20f(){var%20u=$(\".hide-button%20a\");if(u.length){setTimeout(f,500);u[0].onclick()}%20})()\n\nAdmin tested and approved.",
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Relaunching /r/apple | Great news! /r/apple will be working with [CultOfMac](http://www.cultofmac.com/) to build the ultimate apple community over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the new theme, and other cool stuff! | 28 | [
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"body": "What benefits will this bring to /r/apple? I can think of plenty it will bring to CultOfMac, maybe even to qgyh2, but struggling to come up with benefits to /r/apple. Please explain.",
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"body": "Cult Of Mac sucks. It's the worst kind of Mac blog, an awkward combination of extreme fanboyism and baseless speculation framed as fact, all while lambasting Mac users themselves in the process.\n\nAnd Leander Kahney (lead editor, author of tripe such as Cult Of Mac (the book) and Inside Steve's Brain) is a moron and a blowhard. [I mean, look at this bullshit. It's almost like he's trolling for Wired.](http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_apple?currentPage=all)\n\nIn other words, this is bad. Putting a link to /r/apple on Cult Of Mac will bring in all sorts of riffraff we most certainly don't want.\n\nEDIT: I've got a new Apple reddit ready to roll if this goes the way I think it will.",
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"body": "I have never felt like /r/apple needed any help from outside reddit. What's in it for me? What in it for CultOfMac?\n\nEdit - I have thought about this more.. If I want CultOfMac I will go to their site (which I do), I don't see any value in a connection with reddit. Are we talking about reddit voting buttons on the CultOfMac site or something more? Why?",
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"body": "CultOfMac has no credibility with me because it's clear many of the articles are written by people hostile to apple or ignorant of it's history and nature. Criticism is fine but it's useless if the person giving it lacks understanding of the subject matter.\n\nIronically it is problems like this that leads to the popularity of forums like reddit where there is not a single voice holding sway over all.",
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"body": "Just my opinion, but I'm not at all interested in Cult of Mac. I've never liked their \"style,\" such as it is. I've enjoyed /r/apple for the short time I've been following it, but I'll be dropping out when Cult of Mac comes in...",
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"body": "Not happy.\nHow well did this plan work out with /r/gaming and destructoid? \nOh well un sub now I think.",
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"body": "Leander here from cultofmac.com. 1. The name is definitely a joke. 2. We are fans but not fanboys. Google what I wrote about steve jobs and philanthropy, or apple and chinese sweatshops, for example. 3. Cultofmac is independent of wired, conde nast and backbeat media. The site is basically how I'm trying to make my living after getting laid off from wired.com 4. There is no merger or takeover. It's a simple reskin to help promote cultofmac to the Reddit community, and Reddit to the cultofmac community. ",
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"body": "Great news! You screwed your userbase once again! Fuck cultofmac and fuck you. I can't wait untill your shithead marketing ideas chase everyone away to the next social news site. ",
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"body": "Can we get a view from the admins here on this move?\nFrom the comments below there is obviously overwhelming opposition to this idea. \nAs a result of this is it possible that the merge could be either abandoned or possibly moved to a new subreddit rather than taking over a healthy and active current one?\n",
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"body": "Isn't it a little odd that the company that now owns Reddit also owns Wired and Leander Kahney (who started Cult of Mac) use to be the editor for Wired until he got laidoff?\n\nFrom what I can tell Leander Kahney owns CultofMac.com, as the bottom of the site indicates \"Cultomedia Corp 2009\" and not Conde Nast Digital. They also use Backbeat Media as their advertising partner, and not Conde Nast.\n\nAnyhow, I've been following Leander's work for years and I've met him on several occasions and he's a great guy so more power to him.\n\nP.S. Does this mean /r/apple will start covering news again instead of tech support?",
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"body": "The only help /r/apple needs is someone to put a muzzle on the rabid fanboys and avid haters to get us a more even productive discussion about things. There are some gems in the community and I don't want to lose them by bringing in a bunch of cult douchebags. I hope our mods keep the spirit of the subreddit intact or improved through this.",
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"body": "leander again. \n\nthere's no intention whatsoever to mess with the content of /r/apple. \n\nthe content won't be touched. and it will certainly not become just a feed for CoM stories. in fact, we're not going to add 'reddit this' buttons to the CoM site, as they just encourage random and thoughtless posting of everything.\n\nbut we will be adding a reddit.cultofmac.com subdomain which will feature all the /r/apple posts -- making it quick and easy for CoM readers to get news from all over the web, courtesy of reddit.",
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Please help me find a comic, been looking for it everywhere and can't find it. :(( | I remember reading once about this comic of a girl who thought she was pregnant but turns out it was a false positive so she got to do what she wanted, she became a rock star, cured many diseases and shit and at the end of the story, it turned out that she was actually pregnant and was telling the story to her child :( I just couldn't find it please help me. | 12 | [
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"body": "Ooh yeah, I remember this comic... But I thought it was too depressing to save, so I can't remember what it was called or where it is. \n\nOr\n\nhttp://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=91\n\n?\n\nI just searched a little, that's the one I remember.",
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So Foodit, when someone says "Stuffed Mushrooms" what do you think of? | I was just wondering what everyone's definition and favorite recepies for stuffed mushrooms was, and what you enjoy stuffing them with. I'm in the mood to try something new this week. | 10 | [
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"body": "I stuff mushrooms with a mixture of hot breakfast sausage, picante, finely diced onions, and garlic. I top it with pepper jack cheese and back them for 20 mins on 350. Good stuff!",
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"body": "i like to brush mushrooms with olive oil, then grill them. while they cook, take grilled pineapple, tabasco-marinated shrimp, garlic, red yellow and orange peppers, jalapenos, raw onion, cilantro--mince finely, add sriracha, mix. \r\n\r\nthen stuff the 'shrooms and put them in the oven to bake for a few minutes. crazy good. the one flaw is they can get a little acidic, so i need to figure out how to cut that. any suggestions?",
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"body": "mushrooms stuffed with... more mushrooms!\n\nTake n mushrooms of appropriate size. remove stems, mince stems, toss with minced onion, garlic. Toss with olive oil. Add panko & egg. Add chopped pine nuts, chopped ham, etc if desired. Stuff caps. \n\nPrepare a compound butter with thyme, rosemary, plenty of salt. Put a large dollup of butter on each. Bake for a while. ",
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"body": "My favorite restaurant in Mar Del Plata has stuffed baby Portabellas filled with a chopped walnut mixture and covered in goat cheese. Absolutely amazing combo.",
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Reddit, a web design client owes me about $6000 and is not returning my emails. Should I send all his Facebook contacts an emails asking if they know where he is? | I have noticed that I can message all his friends which I am sure he would be very upset about as he is one of those people who but haven't got a clue but like to pretend they are big in business (you know... a former Microsoft employee) so he has a lot of people who I am sure he would not want to know that he is shady and a bad payer.
But would it be illegal (I am based in Spain)?
I run a very small company and I am finding it tough to make ends meet and I really need this money that he owes me.
I think I hold more power by threatening to do it than actually doing it, so I sent him a message pretending to be concerned about his health and saying I might ask around on Facebook.
BTW - he is not even on my friends list so he will not have seen this one coming :-)
UPDATE: The client has agreed to pay after I sent him the message about contacting his friends on Facebook. I immediately changed my settings to that only my friends can see who my friends are. Otherwise any person can contact all your Facebook friends! | 20 | [
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"body": "Under no circumstances. It would be highly unprofessional. It doesn't matter if the client is professional or not. It only matters that you are.\n\nI have found many times a delinquent client simply doesn't have the money and is avoiding confrontation out of embarrassment. A stunt like that will only embarrass them further and the whole thing will get messy.\n\nOne of the things I like do is send a message asking how they are doing personally and how they feel about the current state of the product. From there I move into the late payment issue gently and ask them when I should expect payment and if they would like to set up a payment plan. You can't get blood from a stone.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Don't do this. Think about it, you're a struggling designer and if you sent a message to all his facebook friends those are all potential clients that will think \"oh man if i'm late he's going to publicly tar and feather me.\" it's bad business. \n\nWhen I freelanced a few of my clients would pay late and it was to be expected. When you send your invoice have a net 30 days on it for payment. If payment is not received in 30 days you send another invoice with late fee attached. if it gets to 3-4months you can, depending on how your company is doing financially, take him to small claims court or send his bill to collections. for a time I used a collections agency and was honestly quite surprised at how well it worked. \n\nIn the future NEVER EVER EVER EVER start ANY work without a nominal deposit upfront. this is the BIGGEST mistake any web/graphic designer can make. Deposits keep you and your client honest and also give you a cushion while you work on the project. If a possible client balks at the idea of having to pay a deposit RUN. Run and don't look back. \n\nEmail him again, assuming your previous emails haven't been rude and demanding of payment, and just ask him how he's doing personally. chances are he's having financial issues thus the reason you're being ignored. Look into the possibilities of setting up a payment plan with him. In the long run this will be better and chances are for networking it will also benefit you as an understanding and flexable designer that is willing to work with their clients as far as payment is concerned.",
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"body": "If you still have access to the site, put up a nice landing page explaining that the company has trouble paying its bills on time- I'm sure you'll get a response.",
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"body": "Is the website incoming producing for the client? Can you take down non-incoming producing pieces of it? And then threaten to start taking down income producing pieces unless you start to see some payment? ",
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An alternative to Winamp ? | Dear reddit,
I've been using winamp for a few years now, and was happy with it.
But few weeks back, i installed 7 on my computer. After installing winamp on it, my .mpc files, some flac, and other audio files were not support natively. So i figured out winamp was not as swell as it was few years back, and there must be a software that can play all this files without installing extensions.
So here's my question, what mp3 player software, wich support most audio files, do you use ?
Ps : Please excuse my english.
Edit : One thing i shoud mention, i like to put all my files in a list, and use the search option. I'd like a player with the same option =) | 6 | [
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"body": "[foobar2000](http://www.foobar2000.org/) is all you need. (don't know how it behaves with windows 7 tho)",
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"body": "I downloaded [Media Monkey](http://www.mediamonkey.com/) a couple of years ago and haven't looked back.",
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"body": "This comes up every so often and I never find an alternative. I have tried foobar, songbird, windows media player, media monkey, VLC, iTunes and even the software that comes with the Zune. On Linux I have tried banshee, amarok, rhythmbox, Audacious, Exaile, totem and nothing is as good as the imperfect Winamp in Windows.\n\n\n\n",
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My motherboard caught fire. (yeah, you heard right). I just have one question for any techheads out there | I had a Gigabyte P35 DS3P motherboard. I am only going to replace the motherboard, sadly due to lack of funds, and therefore will have to get a P45/X48 chipset. All my other components are fine, but after I have purchased the new board and hook everything back up, what issues am I going to encounter?
For example, will I have to re-install windows? Will my hardware work fine, or will it be expecting a gigabyte p35 ds3p and start having a cry because the motherboard is now something different? Can anyone recommend a good P45/X48 board. I won't be hooking up Xfire/SLI.
Sorry about the question and if it is stupid, but I guess if it is going to cause that much hassle, I might wait 6 months for some funds to build up and buy a P55 chipset, cpu and ram (and probably graphics card, ssd and win7, since I am already saving for a new pc, I might as well go for broke)
Oh yea, [PIC](http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw/ClientUserFile/OK/860144/IMG_0032.jpg)
Cheers | 9 | [
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"body": "GA-EP45-UD3P\nUses DDR2,\nShould not have to reinstall, will have to reactivate. Replace your power supply, because a motherboard shouldn't get burned in that spot. Forget needlessly high wattage, go for high quality. Seasonic is a good choice. As are most Antecs that are not of the \"Basiq\" series. Earthwatts EA-430 should be great for you, and about $60. That Bestbuy unit or other $50 or less 500W unit is asking for another burnout.",
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Reddit, do you accept the premise that workers are coerced into selling their labor in order to maintain a living? | I feel like this is what divides socialists and libertarians the most. Socialists tend to think that people are selling their labor under coercive conditions, whereas Libertarians believe that they are selling their labor by choice in a free market. What do you think? Why?
What other premises are there that divide Libertarians and Socialists? | 7 | [
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"body": "Absolutely. The entire system (and I can only speak for the US since I've worked in several states, but no other countries) is designed so that exceedingly rare is the person who can \"get ahead.\" Also exceedingly rare is the person that does what they love, and makes a living at it. Everyone else is a wage slave or worse. You are forced to work and you have only a very slight negotiating power over your wage.\n\nI've always described work as \"Getting up at a time I would not normally get up, going to a place I would not normally go, and doing something I would not normally do.\"",
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"body": "Sort of...most people have no choice other than to participate in a market which makes it difficult for them to save enough money to extricate themselves from it. In order to not participate you need to have access to a parcel of arable land in order to subsistence farm or barter with those who do.",
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1 less subscriber: See you later /r/Australia :( | After [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/ao58c/a_message_from_the_moderators_of_raustralia_to/), Im about done with this subreddit. If the moderators need to make a public threat to people instead of simply moderating, then I will not be dragged into this mess. Yes, we have racist retards posting on an internet forum, but we also need remember we are in fact, on the internet. We WILL have anonymous morons posting all sorts of crap. We reddit users have a fantastic method of removing what we collectively dont like. The down button. We also want to debate these morons and possibly even change their ways. There is no hope in that if the posts are removed instantly. Personally, I dont want a 'sticky' thread at the top of the subreddit with "DONT BE RACIST" as a reminder every time I visit. We are not by nature, racist. And the racist trolls wont give a damn if the 1st post on the subreddit is a sticky telling them not to be racist.
Thats my rant.
Also, its looking more like an RSS feed of abc.net.au as well. | 78 | [
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"body": "I agree, I wonder if it is possible to start a new SubReddit for Australia without that ego tripping, controlling mod? \n\nThere are many things I find wrong their attitude but I am particularly disgusted with what it implies; that, yes, Australia is so racist we need to constantly be reminded not to let it show in public. Of course the reverse is in fact true, I am proud of how diverse and tollerent the majority of Australian society is and it is one of the reasons why I love this country dearly.\n\nIts a shame to see you leave this subreddit over this, you are actually the kind of user that makes /r/Australia worthwhile as you \"get it\". It is also annoying as I've seen this so many time before on other forums and I thought Reddit was a step in the right direction to weeding out this kinda of obnoxious immature moderator. \n\nI was not aware that /r/Australia even had moderators before the submission you linked to, in my eyes that means the other mods are doing something very right, shame about this one over zealous idiot. \n \nI can also see their stupid ego trip post being used against Australians on other Reddits (look you have to be told not to be racist, LOL), but further than that, it also implies that, yes, Australians enjoy censorship.\n\nIn my opinion, that mod does not fit with Reddit and is not representative of Australian Reddit users, further does not have the maturity to be trusted with any kind of power. \n \n",
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"body": "I initially down voted this (the ABC comment isn't helpful) but changed my mind based on your overall argument, vs say the headline.\n\n<strike>Sorry, but leaving is just a cowards reaction. I'd encourage you to stay and continue to put forward your argument, and given the votes so far I'd say many on r/Australia support you.</strike)\n\nEDIT: ignore the above comment: seeing what the mods do first hand: I'm leaving as well. Just ping me at let me know where the next Aus reddit is.\n\nAgree fully in terms of our ability to censor via the voting process, and would encourage mods for this method to be the primary way of dealing with racist comments etc...\n\nAlso what @melb_ev says: we are mostly a tolerant country, and the suggestion that we need a notice from a mod stating that we're racist, particularly given the recent suggestions out of India and the US isn't helpful. Also what you say @Toma- posting a notice isn't going to change the odd troll out there who is purposely provocative, be it on race or other such thing.\n\nUpdate: I've just seen this via the earlier thread\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/aocdr/australians_so_racist_mod_has_to_warn_all_4000_of/\n\nNow I'm fucking furious. Mod needs a kick up the back side at the very least.",
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"body": "too true, it annoys me that some person thinks he can say what can and can't be posted on a forum that isn't his to begin with, he should keep his hands off and let the up and down arrows do the talking. ",
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"body": "Doing the politically incorrect on the Australian Reddit is like denying the holocaust. You never hear the end of it.\n\nIts a joke and full of pluralistic ignorance. I also question its integrity. Its called Australian subreddit, Not luckybdx4 subreddit.\n\nIf it continues; I will be joining Toma-",
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"body": "The comments in that thread represent the view of one moderator, not all - and he is entitled to his viewpoint.\n\nAs a policy, racism goes against the reddit TOS.\n\n>The down button. We also want to debate these morons and possibly even change their ways. There is no hope in that if the posts are removed instantly. Personally, I dont want a 'sticky' thread at the top of the subreddit with \"DONT BE RACIST\" as a reminder every time I visit. We are not by nature, racist. And the racist trolls wont give a damn if the 1st post on the subreddit is a sticky telling them not to be racist.\n\nGood points, thanks for sharing those.",
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"body": "it's OVER\nThe Mod is no more\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/aok2r/after_the_recent_shitstorm_i_have_removed/\n\nJoin me in thanking andrewinmelbourne for putting this to an end. ",
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I'm near 200 hours in game, but less than one hour as Pyro. I know the basics of playing the class but I'm terrible at it. Any advice? | I've been killed thousands of times by talented Pyros (Peanut, Watertex, Alex, [insert your name here], to name a few, argh). I know about the Compression Blast and I can sometimes even reflect Direct Hit rockets (maybe I should say 'deflect' because they usually don't go back and hit the soldier). I need advice about positioning, how to approach the different classes as a pyro, what the Axetinguisher is for, etc. I'm pretty good at setting people on fire but I don't usually get very many kills. Thank you in advance! | 15 | [
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"body": "If you want to play pyro you better get ready to get your hands dirty. You have to charge in (hopefully when they're not looking), raise hell, and hopefully charge out. \n\n* Fastest way to kill: Light them on fire, blow them into the air with CB, then Axtinguish them as they come down. Just think of it as a Street Fighter Combo: Left-click -> Right-click -> 3 (or q) -> Left-click\n* Ambushing is your friend, your flamethrower is way too short\n* You probably can't kill heavies\n* You can probably kill all the light classes\n* You can edge sentries with your flame\n* The flames aren't where the actual \"flame hitbox\" is, they're bunch of particles so just count on it being really wonky\n* Pyro vs. Pyro, don't charge into his flamethrower. Retreat and/or use shotgun.\n* Don't rely on afterburn for more than a few seconds\n\nIf you want to play pyro **you have to get your hands dirty**. If you don't like being on the bottom of the scoreboard, play some 24/7 servers and work your way up to reddit-level servers. Good luck!\n\n-- A former Pyro",
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"body": "Less than one hour? I'd say just keep playing as the pyro over and over. You'll learn from your losses and develop a good sense of how to play. But this can only come from actually playing it. ",
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Reddit, what things help you get started on a Monday morning? | I have to admit reddit. Two of my favorite things in the world are my monday morning coffee, and my monday morning reddit review of the weekend...
Anyone have anything else that really helps make Monday morning bearable? | 13 | [
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"body": "I usually find waking up 10 minutes before I have to leave works well. I just about wake up properly when I arrive. I don't like sitting around when I have to go somewhere later. ",
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"body": "Nope. Nothing works against Mondays except coffee. \n\nThe only other option is to sleep in until it's Tuesday. But this method of coping with Mondays is somewhat frowned upon outside of colleges/universities.",
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"body": "Masturbate in the shower. It's amazing how it improves my mood.\r\n\r\nI've been tempted to do it in the office's bathroom, but I think that they have cameras everywhere.",
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To everyone with their panties in a bunch over Letterman's joke: The butt of it was the ignorant way 'average' Americans handle the transgender issue. | Think about it. Where, at any point, was there any mockery directed at Amanda? The announcer, by freaking out the way he did, represented the stereotypical ignorance and queasiness people have with the issue, making him, not Amanda, the butt of the joke.
Simply showing someone as being overly transphobic is not itself advocating or condoning transphobia, just as portraying a caricatured Klansman or Neo-Nazi spouting ignorant, racist remarks isn't itself advocating racism, but highlighting it to make fun of it.
So, in conclusion, I saw the joke as mocking transphobia, not the other way around. | 5 | [
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"body": "At what point were the announcer's actions condemned, ridiculed, or in any way shown as unjustified and irrational? Showing transphobic behavior with no contextual bookends is irresponsible, cowardly, and not something that should be supported. Especially in an environment in which such behavior is considered by a large portion of the populace to be justified, rational, and otherwise acceptable. ",
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"body": ">I saw the joke as mocking transphobia, not the other way around.\n\nbut do you think it's likely the majority of people watching letterman saw it that way?",
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"body": ">So, in conclusion, I saw the joke as mocking transphobia, not the other way around.\n\nDo you identify as trans?",
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Movie watchers, do you automatically discredit a movie if you can guess what will happen? | The reason I ask is that I know a lot of people who say things like, "Oh, *The Sixth Sense*, that movie sucked because I saw the ending coming a mile away!" like a movie has to surprise them to be good. The way I see it, if I try to guess what will happen, and what actually happens is less interesting, then the story is bad. If I guess what will happen and then get pleasantly surprised, then the story is awesome. But if I guess correctly about the story, and the movie otherwise is still good, then I don't see it as a negative thing. | 5 | [
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"body": "It depends on how much of the movie's merit is invested in the twist ending. For a director like Shyamalan, who seems to live off the \"woah\" factor, making predictable films is certainly not a good thing. It always depends on the movie's intention and it's reliance on said twist.",
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"body": "Depends on the movie. A movie like The Sixth Sense is all based on the surprise ending... so if you guess it, then it isn't surprising and therefore is a letdown.\r\n\r\nif you go to avatar expecting to be surprised by the ending, you'll be disapointed. Some movies you get exactly what you expect and are very pleased. Mindset, if you will.\r\n\r\nI watched The Condemned with the right mindset and enjoyed it, even though compared to something like True Lies it was horrible.",
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"body": "This happened to me with *The Illusionist*. I saw the big plot twist coming a mile away, and it was the kind of movie that really banks on the surprise twist. I couldn't believe they made it so obvious, but then walking out of the theatre I heard so many people saying \"wow, what a twist!\"",
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My band is going to be playing a large gig tonight. Any advice or song requests to get the crowd going? | After years of playing together, writing a couple of our own songs and playing some covers to please the crowd my band have finally landed a huge headlining gig at a large venue and tickets have sold out; rumour has it that a number of big record company executives and talent scouts will be there tonight too! We want to put on our best show ever and we need some advice to make the night and ourselves successful.
Any advice? | 10 | [
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"body": "Cover 'piss up a rope' and 'hey fatboy (asshole)' by Ween. Then write an original song called 'jam out with your clam out' and perform it in assless chaps (no pants) with your dick taped back and your balls swinging in time to the the sound or spider monkeys using popsicle sticks to smack the painfully erect penises of the 12 donkeys that comprise your backup dancers. You can't go wrong.",
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"body": "Do an acoustic version of Soulja Boy's Crank Dat. Once you have the crowd in a wild frenzy, do your infamous rendition of David Hasselhoff's Ooga Chaka. ",
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Hi Reddit; I'd like to ask about your musical talents. | - How would you rate your own musical ability?
- What formal training do you have (if any)?
- What instrument(s) do you play?
Myself I was in school band for 7 years playing the trumpet. I took piano lessons for a couple years when I was much younger. I can also play basic guitar/bass/drums/piano (simple chord progressions, beats, etc). I picked up a lot of music theory while learning jazz in high school, which I am able to extrapolate to other instruments in a rudimentary way.
Edit: having listened to most of the links in the comments over the last 24 hours, I can safely say that you're a pretty talented bunch. Thanks for responding! | 39 | [
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"body": "1.) Below average with saxophone, above average for my air guitar.\n\n2.) A few years of school band on the sax, none for air guitar.\n\n3.) Saxophone and air guitar.",
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"body": "Self taught guitar - 4/10\r\n\r\nSelf taught bass - 2/10\r\n\r\nSelf taught drums - 6/10\r\n\r\nBeing horrible not mattering whatsoever because I'm in a punk band - Priceless",
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"body": "I am a concert pianist, so I would rate my ability extremely high\n\nI have had lessons since i was young and I have a masters degree in classical performance and am thinking of a Phd. I also regularly attend masterclasses with famous pianists all over Europe, and have done for some time now.\n\nI play piano, but I can also play violin, a bit of viola and I can sing.",
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"body": "I used to think that I was amazing at guitar. I was the next Hendrix. I practiced for 5 - 6 hours a day for years on end. And then I played with Joe Satriani.\n\nYup, I'm over myself.",
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"body": "1) Slightly above average (assuming I compare myself against the general population and not to only other musicians).\n\n2) No formal training, unfortunately.\n\n3) Guitar, Saxophone, Piano, Tin Whistle",
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"body": "Ive spent my whole life writing and playing music. Three Grammys, 5 Emmys and two dozen gold and platinum albums. Id say im not half bad....\n\n",
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"body": "Erm, probably not that skilled, could be better if I actually worked at it :/\n\nDid piano lessons for 7 years as a kid, a few exams, never went on with it :/ Still play when nobody is listening. \n\nA few years ago did a degree in music studies (so, history, theory, aural, choir etc and a little prac). \n\nNow a total band nerd, tuba and euphonium/baritone. In 3 bands. Don't work anywhere near hard enough :/",
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"body": "1) Compared to the vast majority of people who play guitar I'd say above average\n\n2) I took lessons for 2 years about 8 years ago after I had first started playing. The rest was self taught - starting with the offspring, then metallica and megadeth.\n\n3) Physically - Guitar and some bass\nSoftware wise - Drums\n\nSHAMELESS PLUG: http://chriswickens.com\n\n",
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"body": "1. On a scale from 1 to 10 it would have to be a 1. (as in bad)\n2. None\n3. Guitar\n\nI think I'm slightly tone-deaf, or at least have a really bad ear for tones, in spite of having a good sense of rhythm. If two notes that are right next to each other are played to me I can't tell which one is higher. I can hear if something is out of tone or if someone sings badly (like myself, so I don't sing :) ), but I can't point out what's wrong about it (if that makes sense?). ",
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"body": "I've dabbled in drums, guitar, trumpet, violin, and piano, and I'd say I'm not really good at any of them, but I'm good enough to play \"The Middle\" by Jimmy Eat World on any instrument",
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"body": "- Above average on most instruments I play\n- 2 years of college music major (switched to CS)\n- Most proficient on bass, drums (kit and various hand percussion), and guitar and I also play harmonica, mandolin, piano (very little), and cello (very little)\n\nI am also starting to build instruments and plan to make custom guitars, basses, drums and odd hybrid things.",
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"body": "Hi!\r\n\r\n1) I would say above average, since I was born with perfect pitch.. I have been studying theory by myself for the past 4 years, and have played with various jazz bands (piano). I currently produce music under the moniker Shamantis.\r\n\r\n2) None. I am all self-taught, and have never regretted it.\r\n\r\n3) Piano, Guitar, Drums, Bass, Tabla, Sitar, Kalimba, Harp... if you can show me where C is, I can play it. \r\n\r\n/brag",
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I'm thirty five, I'm finally getting help for ADHD that's basically ruined a promising career and made me generally miserable, the drugs are working but now I'm developing palpitations and my pressure is high, WTF I need ideas. | Ok, so I have pretty much been a wreck most of my pubescent life onwards, always considered myself manic-depressive with a ADD and I should just deal with it. About 2 years ago I tried anti-depressants prescribed by my GP again, and they helped a little bit, not as much as I wished, but anytime I got low (at least it wasn't a complete bottoming out) and called a psychiatrist I got the "I have an opening in 7 weeks" and just trundled on.
I'll make this short(er); I finally got serious about getting my head together about 10 months ago after getting laid off. I called a psychiatrist, made an appointment. We did the med shuffle, she suggested therapy, I explain it never helped before, I'm not emotionally damaged, just cranky. She goes on to explain about CBT, to which I'm like "holy shit, that sounds like what I've been looking for."
Fast forward a bit, I happen to luck out and find a great therapist. I take a ADHD test (it's not like it's not noticeable, it was more to quantify how bad and where my trouble spots are). Almost a perfect score, I'm "diagnosed" ADHD, my wife's response; "ummm we didn't know this already?" Ok, so back to the psych, she switches me to welbutrin since it has some ADHD benefits and I drop the lexapro. Again we fast forward, welbutrin is helping my mood, but not with the ADHD. Psych mentions stimulant ADHD meds, I tell her about 8 years ago I tried ritalin prescribed by my GP, it didn't do anything, but I'll try anything at this point. So she suggests Vyvanse, but I have to go for a cardiac clearance first since it's stimulant based.
Another 3 weeks, one stress test, a 24 hour monitor, one echo cardiogram; the ticker is good. I go back and finally get what I thought I needed in the very first place 10 years ago, a true ADHD med. The psych is super conservative, she starts me on 20mg of Vyvanse and we get signals crossed, I didn't realize she wanted me to stop the welbutrin. Two weeks go by, I go back, tell her that it's possible the Vyvanse is helping, she hears I'm still on the welbutrin and nearly faints like I was going to go into a seizure on the spot. We talk a bit, we agree to half the welbutrin (to 150 since it did help some) and up the Vyvanse to 30mg.
Which brings us to today; my third day on Vyvanse 30mg. I felt like my pulse and pressure were high. I happened to walk by one of those automated pressure machines and checked it, pulse 108, pressure 155/88 (I'm almost always 120/74 +/- 2 pts). Since I started the Vyvanse I've felt like my pressure and pulse would elevate easily, but checking them by the doc showed everything good until today. I did have a small cup of coffee this morning, which couldn't have helped, but WTF.
The meds actually seem to be helping, it's the most hopeful I've been in a long time. Am I just not meant to be productive? I'm open to ideas/experiences. | 12 | [
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"body": "First things first: Get of the intarwebs and call your psychiatrist (or prescribing physician)! It may be nothing, it may be something, but you should talk to the professional(s) who know your case.\n\nWhile you're waiting for a return call, here's some things that have helped me when I started my meds -- though, note, I'm NOT a physician, ymmv, etc.:\n\n1) Slowly consuming sugary drinks can help take the edge off of the symptoms.\n\n2) If you have some benzos handy, you might take a small dose of those. (Again, you should check if they are contraindicated for your condition and/or medications.)",
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"body": "I also tried Vyvanse 20 then 30mg for a few months. I noticed similar high blood pressure and faster heart rate. My recommendation is to commit to getting plenty of cardiovascular exercise, so that your body is more capable of handling the strain of the drug. This sort of exercise is better than any of the drugs anyway, so if you are serious about improving your condition, you don't really have a choice. I am a space cadet unless I keep up with my cardio. It is actually the only thing that truly helps me. I stopped taking ADD meds because in my case, they offered no benefit and affected my mood negatively.\n\nOh yeah, you mentioned coffee. I remember that being a bad combo. Even faster heart and feeling awful. I avoided caffeine when I was on Vyvanse. ",
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Torchwood - So why do they make fun of Cardiff? And why did Gwen make fun of London? | As an foreigner outside of the U.K., I have no clue about regional attitudes towards other regions. They seem like they make fun of Cardiff now and then (and now that I think of it, in Doctor Who "The Unquiet Dead" they seemed to poke fun at it as well). From the shots in the show, Cardiff looks like a really nice place to live.
Also, I forget which episode, but Gwen was driving into London while talking on the phone. She made a remark like "oh god I'm enterring London."
Please tell me it's not something banal like football rivalry. | 11 | [
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"body": "It's because in the UK everybody hates everybody else.\n\nPeople from Scotland hate English, people from Edinburgh hate people from Glasgow\n\nManchester and Liverpool, Glasgow divided by football. It goes on forever.\n\nThey are just poking fun at each other in a bantery fun way. \n\n",
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"body": "I could be wrong but I was under the impression that the filming was done in Cardiff and I figured it was a joke to poke fun at the city that they film in.",
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"body": "I know someone from Ireland and someone from Scotland. They met at a Christmas party and spent the evening on opposite ends of the room in a foul mood looking at each other. I know someone else from Wales who grew up watching Doctor Who, but now doesn't. He considers it British which makes it worthless (and he doesn't care about football).\n\nEdit: This was in America and all are now US citizens. It strikes me as funny to see people clinging to their cultural rivalry when they are completely removed from their culture.",
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"body": "I am also ignorant of the true answer but I'd guess it has something to do with the fact that Cardiff is a Welsh city. Something akin to a little bit country verses a little bit rock and roll. Fuck the Osmands.",
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"body": "I dunno...everybody makes fun of the Welsh. In the US everyone makes fun of the South and if you're from the Southern states you end up just making fun of people other then your state (I\"m from GA we make fun of AL). However, just like in the States generally it's just regional issues and the people are just as nice. The welsh folks I met were quite pleasant. \n\nTo be fair though, I spent a week in Cardiff last summer and other then having to hike stupid Bute street to get to the bay or watch the insane amount of drinking that takes place during Cardiff night life, there wasn't much to do. Points for the Doctor Who museum though. ",
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How do you gals meet friends?(cross posted from /askreddit) | I'm 23 years old and I really want to meet some new female friends. I grew out of my friends from high school, and my friends from college. My latest friend just moved away to Seattle.
I've used the internet to find my bf (okcupid) - but have had little luck using it to find friends.
Anyone have any advice???
**Thank you all very much for your upvotes and comments**
PS - If any of you want a friend and are in the Somerville, MA area - let me know :P | 22 | [
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"body": "I make guy friends. By that, I mean most of my close female friends I met through men. After I moved out on my own I had a bit of trouble meeting people (I wasn't really trying). I met my current group of friends through an adult kickball league, became fast friends with the fellas, and they introduced me to their female friends. \r\n\r\nOne of my closest girlfriends in the area is an ex-girlfriend of one of my best guy friends. Since we hit it off, it only made sense that I'd probably get along with her other female friends. And voila! I went from very few friends to multiple groups of them. Birds of a feather flock together--I'd recommend looking for friends in general (without concentrating on a specific sex). If you find guys (or girls) with whom you click, the other will most likely follow.",
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"body": "What do you mean you grew out of your friends from high school and college?\r\n\r\nI'd say just find some local groups in your area that do stuff you're interested in, i.e. book groups etc, and join. I think it's easier to make friends offline than online tbh...\r\n\r\nGood luck!",
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Hello Reddit, Have you witnessed an event (UFO, Extraterrestrials, Big Foot, Ghosts) and have been to afraid to say anything out of fear of being an outcast? If so, please explain. | I have never seen anything out of the ordinary, and would really like to one day. Does anyone care to share their experience? What they were thinking at the time? how did you react? Were you scared, anxious? I've always wanted to talk with someone about this, I don't think TV portrays the actual story of the average person witnessing a phenomenon... | 5 | [
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"body": "I'll share!\n\nI was out with a friend of mine and group of his friends (I didn't care for their company, but it didn't bother me either way) Now this friend and I had always had a fascination with Ghosts and such. Well, we decided we'd go get a Quija board and use it...in a cemetery...at midnight. Come along! :P\n\n So we're sitting there, doing our Quija thing, with nothing really happening. Then, after a long while, we start getting bored, so we decide to head home. \n\nAs we stood up, we heard some faint noises farther in the cemetery. We all agreed to go investigate. As we got deeper and deeper in, the sound got louder and louder. We realized that the sound was a baby. And it was crying. A little more rushed, we continued to search for the sound. Finally, we got to a light that was planted in front of a statue. We got closer and closer, positive that the sound was coming from the statue. We get to about 4 feet away, and the crying stops. The light flickers, and dies. We're all standing there, breathless, in darkness. We quickly turn to head back.\n\nThis is where things got creepy :P As we're walking along the road towards the exit, we could see....someone walking towards us. They turned to head towards some of the graves, and as if it were walking down stairs, disappeared into the ground. We could also catch movement that was just beyond our field of recognition behind other gravestones. Almost cornered, we make a run for the gate. We still see things moving, and now they all seem agitated. Moving quickly, and in our general direction. \n\nRight before the exit, we stopped to take a look back. We couldn't see anything. No movement whatsoever. As we passed through the gate, we hear a baby start crying.\n\nNow, I'm usually a skeptic, and I wouldn't put it past that particular friend to set something like this up to scare the bajeezus out of me. Whatever it was, it did just that :P",
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"body": "I have never shared this with anyone. I'm not claiming to have seen an alien spacecraft or anything crazy like that, but here goes:\r\n\r\nmy friend and myself. dark night. mississippi dirt road. trees about fifty feet high on either side. cow fields in front, back, and on the side. You have to understand that on these podunk roads where i'm from there are NO lights. complete blackness. to see a light is to see someone else. period. so as we come upon a fork in the road, there is a massive amount of lights on the ground in the field next to us. I assume it is an oil rig, since there is one in the field in front of us. They have been exploring, drilling there some. loud pipes on my friend's truck so everyone hears it coming. I point to the lights (no more than a baseball throw to the right of us) which are absolutely blinding. At that moment, they quickly ascend into they sky.... well not quite the sky; water tower height, let's say. I could again throw a baseball and maybe hit it. The lights move directly above us. frightened, we quickly turn right. I can see the support structures of these MASSIVE lights... the metal holding them reflects and is visible because it is so close, but that is all I see. no wings, no nose, no stars or clouds being blocked by anything that sticks out in a helicopter or airplane form. Then, the two bright yellow lights COMPLETELY TURN OFF. the craft simultaneously turns on two beady red lights, exactly perpendicular to the bright yellow ones. The craft STOPS IN PLACE. It then backtracks into the same exact track it just made... in reverese. reverse. yes reverse. I couldn't believe my eyes and then as I stared, it climbed into the stratosphere as the lights turn off abruptly. \r\nAgain, i'm not claiming anything unusual. I'm a skeptic. but this has been truly unexplainable to both of us, and being from such a simple conservative place, we are usually unable to tell most people around us. ",
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"body": "I saw three lights together forming a triangle in the sky at the backyard of my house. My dog was barking really loud and that called my attention and when I went outside I saw those lights but just for 2 seconds and then they disappear and my dog stopped barking. I told my family and since then they think I smoke weed.",
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Realizing some faults, need help. | First, let me give you a little background. I'm currently 32. I was married at 22 to the first woman I really cared about. We separated late last year and divorced amicably earlier this year. I'm educated and successful, and would consider myself an all around good guy (and humble, too, though it's not really coming out here).
I've recently begun dating again, but seem to be attracted to the wrong kind of women. Without fail, I always find myself pursuing attractive, professional, smart, funny, and independent women with hidden issues. The last two were alcoholics. The most recent one had huge abandonment/trust issues and suicidal tendencies. I believe they are all good people, but I always seem to meet them right before their breaking points, when all hell breaks loose. To most, this would make for an easy break up but my other issue is that...
I get attached way too easily. When I fall for someone I fall hard. I'm all in or I'm all out. I wear my heart on my sleeve and I'm not into playing games. Which also means...
I don't enjoy casual sex. I never have. For me, there's more to the intimacy than the pleasure. I sometimes tell myself I'd like to be the PA type, even tried it a few times, but ultimately it's just not who I am.
So R_A, am I doomed to a life of heartbreak? Comments, concerns, questions and suggestions welcome.
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"body": "Try living alone. Don't pursue women. Those who are afraid to be alone always end up in the worst relationships because they are co-dependent hence pick bad partners.",
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"body": "\"I'm not into playing games\" is codespeak for \"I don't want exert the effort of restraining myself and my emotions in a new relationship before I actually get to know someone.\" As long as you have this \"all or nothing\" attitude, your heart will continue to get broken. I know this, because I was you once.\r\n\r\nYou must change your entire approach to dating, especially if you're the type who \"falls hard.\" Do not sleep with a person until you know them thoroughly because sex-- especially good sex-- will cloud your judgement about a person's faults. My guess is that you're getting completely emotionally entrenched with these women before you even really know who they are as people.\r\n\r\nValuing yourself as a person means holding back, even if it feels anathema to your passionate nature. Not every single attractive woman you meet who appears \"good on paper\" is worth expending the whole of your emotional energy and your sanity.",
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"body": "31 male, went through almost the exact same situation. Separated almost 2 years ago from my wife/high school sweetheart. Never really dated before age 30 and not into casual sex (not at all the same thing as being asexual btw). Tend to fall for unstable women with daddy issues.\n\nGetting attached: I would build women up in my head. Create elaborate fantasies and start to fall in love with the daydream. This is really not healthy. Now I stop myself if I start to future trip - thinking about our last date or what I want to do on the next date is fine, but I don't think about the future beyond that. Now I try to keep perspective, she isn't \"the girl of my dreams\", she's \"a cool girl that I like to spend time with\".\n\nKeeping Your Head: Think less and listen/observe more. Now that you are out of your fantasy, you can actually pay attention to the woman you are with. This makes it a lot easier to pay attention to warning signs for unstable behavior. Ask her about past relationships. Take her out in different social settings and see how she acts.\n\nKeep Perspective: Just met her? Remember, you aren't \"in love\" you are \"infatuated\". Don't jump into bed right away (I try to wait until 3rd date, but that doesn't always work).\n\nMy one word of caution is once you learn to spot warning signs, don't let it stop you from taking risks entirely. Sometimes you can assume a woman is bad news when it's not the case. 18 months after my separation I met a wonderful woman and we're in love now. I almost blew her off though because I thought she was trouble. Luckily I made a move on her after another date stood me up.",
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What kind of condoms do people use? | I'm just curious to see what kind of condoms people are using when using protection, whether it be LifeStyles or Trojans, regular or large, glow in the dark or strawberry flavored (or glow-in-the-dark berry).
So, tell me, what condoms do you and your partner use? | 4 | [
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"body": "I use a tied off section of pig intestine dipped in warm milk. I know, it's old school, but it beats pulling out.",
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"body": "My standard condoms are Trojan Ultra-Thins or Trojan Thintensity (they're shaped slightly differently, but I mostly just like that they're thin and I've never had one break).\n\nLately we've been using Trojan Ecstasy Her Pleasure, because I wanted to try them and as such bought a pack. \n\nFor anal we use the regular blue box Trojans. ",
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"body": "was chinese condoms from deal extreme, banana flavored(still keep them around), but now lifestyles ultra thins, about 20 bucks for 100 on amazon.\n\nkeep a bottle of lube just incase, condoms break from friction, so even cheap condoms hold up well if you add a bit of lube.",
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"body": "[Okamoto Beyond Seven Aloe](http://www.okamotousa.com/htmls/fe_male.htm). So well-lubricated, so thin, so nice. Okamoto makes great condoms, and these are by far my favorite.",
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What are some of the funny things you've heard old people say? | Have any of you noticed the trend (trend probably isn't the right word -institution?) of older people, say 60 years and up, being masters at the delivery of seriously hilarious one-liner humour?
I was at the Goodwill yesterday, looking for old records, when I bumped into an elderly gentleman who asked me if I had a light. I don't smoke, but I did have a lighter (I was wearing my camping jacket). Without my noticing, he subtly began his routine. He said his wife was inside buying jeans. I was told it didn't matter if the clothes she found didn't fit her quite right - his wife was a seamstress, and she could fix anything.
Then he told me he had tried to learn to sew, back in the 50s. He had signed up for a course put on by the Singer Sewing Machine Company, but all the woman kicked him out after the first class, apparently because he couldn't mend straight (menstruate).
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"body": "Whenever it was cold out, my Grandfather used to say, “It’s just like Pearl Harbour out here – there’s a nip in the air.” \n\n(Did I mention that the one-liners are rarely politically correct?)",
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"body": "From an incredibly posh Old Lady (Baroness of Somewhere-or-Other):\r\n\"Oh yes, the house is lovely; and the garden is beautiful. Shame about the terrible cunts that live there.\"",
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"body": "Old people say hilarious stuff because they weren't brainwashed to be sensitive little PC down-voting conformity enforcers. Think Archie Bunker. His karma would be negative 14,000 but he was funnier than any of us.",
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"body": "At least 80% of conversations I have with old people end with them saying \"Ayep, that's how they get ya.\"",
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"body": "I was sitting in a park and a really beautiful teenage girl walked by. The old guy next to me said, \"Ah, to be 70 again!\"\n",
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"body": "My grandfather and his best friend, Brook, both had dark senses of humour. Sadly, Brook committed suicide in 2001 by jumping from the window of his 3rd-floor hotel room. At the wake, my grandfather poured everyone a glass of scotch – his best friend’s favourite drink – and asked that we listen while he said a few solemn words in Brook’s memory. My grandfather raised his glass and said, “Brook was never a man of convention, but in this instance, I wish he had of used the stairs. Cheers.” \n\nThe room cracked up with laughter. \n",
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"body": "Some kid let go of an Elmo head balloon inside a theatre so it's hanging out up at the high ceiling. My little sister remarks on it, and as we're looking up at it this old guy in a hat says \"Even Muppets get high sometimes.\"",
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"body": "96 year old man: \"So I see you've started reading trash.\" when he saw 'Going Rogue' on my parents table.",
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"body": "My great-uncle died about 8-9 years ago, and at the luncheon after his funeral, his wife of 63 years walked up to talk to me. She had always been a very funny and dynamic woman, so I wasn't sure what to say to her about the death of her husband, because they always seemed so happy (think, the elderly couple that still shows affection in public) and I was nervous about seeing her so devastated. Anyway, our conversation:\r\n\r\nMe: I'm really sorry about Jimmy. Is there anything I can do?\r\n\r\nAunt Dorothy, taking my hands: Yeah. You can get yourself married. There's no ring on this finger!\r\n\r\nMe: I'm... 16.\r\n\r\nAunt Dorothy: I met Jimmy when I was 13. \r\n\r\nMe: But how old were you when you got married?\r\n\r\nAunt Dorothy: Good point. Lemme give you some advice about marriage.\r\n\r\nMe: Okay.\r\n\r\nAunt Dorothy, leaning closer, low voice: Never argue with your clothes on.",
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"body": "My grandmother liked her boys better than her girls. One of hr lines was...\"I should trade you girls in for horses and then shoot the horses\"",
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"body": "\"I swear, once they grow up it's like they have minds of their own!\" --elderly woman to another, while discussing raising kids",
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"body": "I was visiting my Grandmother this summer, and asked her how she had been doing. Her response? \"Pretty good, but that damn robin keeps shitting in my rain gauge.\"\r\n",
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"body": "Me: \"My daughter knows her colors\".\nOld Dude: \"Good. As long as she knows the difference between white and black she'll be fine\". \n\nOld people and overt racism. Gotta love (hate?) it. \n\nEDITED punchline. ",
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"body": "As I was taking my grandma back to the car after a grocery store visit...\n\nHer - \"Look at how this guy parked. What a jerk!\"\nMe - \"Grandma, hes standing right next to me.\"\nHer - \"I don't care!\"\nHim - \"There was another car in the way\"\nHer - \"You're still a jerk.\"\nMe - \"Sorry\"\n\nAll this cause she couldnt open her car door allllll the way.",
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"body": "My educated, intelligent grandmother used to make me laugh with her pronouncements about entire nationalities/ethnicities based on her one experience with them.\n\n\"One thing I've learned..(knowing look)..the Swiss are a very gassy people.\"\n\nIt was almost always completely out of left field, too. Not like during a discussion of Switzerland. Or gas.",
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"body": "An old man from the backwoods of N.C. once told me, \"I'm so unlucky that if you throw me into a barrel full of titties I'd come up suckin' a dick.\" ",
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"body": "Bee's knees. Cat's pajamas. Carter's liver pills. On thing my grandmother always says \"Shit mother I can't dance\".",
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"body": "When it was sun shining and raining simultaneously, my Grandpa would always say that the devil was beating his wife with a frying pan. I say it now, when the occasion arises, and it always makes people laugh. ",
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"body": "The setting: live-in Grandmothers couch/bed. Saturday morning cartoons are on and an Isle of Capri Casino commercial featuring feather clad can-can dancers has come on\n\nGrandmother: (watches them dance and shake their collective 'thang' for a minute, then in a gravelly voice gained through 60 some-odd years of chain smoking) Meh, I beat 'em all.\n\nMe and Childhood friend: (Stunned silence as we imagine everything she could have possibly meant by that)",
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"body": "We were hiking with my Grandmother when she suddenly farted. We've never heard her do this before. We started to make fun of her for it, and she said, \"Well, it's not like I've never farted before in my life.\" \nSo I said, \"Oh yeah? What happened?\" \nShe replied, \"Chernobyl.\" ",
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"body": "When informed that we no longer have senior discounts at my work - a casual food place (we haven't for at least a year):\n\n\"well, that's Obama for you.\"\n\nI have no idea how those two things are supposed to be related.",
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"body": "\"I feel like I'm in a fucking submarine!\" an old guy trying to get to his seat through a crowded row",
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"body": "I was working on this one old lady's computer and I left my pen on her desk. She said which one is it? and I said \"its the black one, the big one.\" She said that's just how I like em. She had a perfectly straight face. And she continued on with her conversion with her co-worker like nothing happened. It took me a minute to comprehend what she said. She was the kind of person furthest from the type who would talk dirty. A nice white haired old lady about 75.",
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"body": "my wife inquired to my grandmother about which anniversary they had coming up, to which my grandmother replied that it would be the 65th. my grandfather remarked, \"seems like longer\"",
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"body": "My grandmother is a badass. The last awesome thing I heard about her doing was just before Christmas -- she was about to go into Trader Joe's and some guy was outside in the parking lot singing and playing a guitar, trying to make a few coins. A couple walked by and were bad-mouthing him for being out there like that... My grandmother got pissed off at them and told them \"well at least he's not out snatching purses.\" They both looked all ashamed and went and gave the guy some change. \r\n\r\nSome of the stuff she says cracks me up -- or maybe they just sound funny to me because she's the one saying them:\r\n\r\n\"It's colder then a witch's tit out here!\" \r\n\r\n\"I don't talk to him, I don't care about him, I think it would be difficult for me, if he was on fire, to even pee on him!\" (about her neighbor, who's a racist asshole and she once cussed out for yelling at a couple of black kids in the neighborhood and calling them niggers).\r\n\r\n\"He's uglier then 12 miles of bad road.\"\r\n\r\n\"I'd rather have his nose full of nickels then a 100 dollar bill.\"\r\n\r\na customer at her old job: \"You kiss my ass!\"\r\ngranny: \"you spit so I can find where it is!\"",
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Finally got TF2 working. | After reinstalling steam and TF2 twice, I finally was able to play for the first time this weekend. Being and rpg'er, I wasn't quite ready for how much my fingers and hands were going to hurt after 5 hours of intense play. Some conclusions after two days of playing. I enjoy engy and pyro and suck at everything else. I loose every sniper duel I get into, I can't seem to kill anyone with demo or soldier and I never get a medic when I use heavy. Spy confuses me (enemy always seems to know Im there even when I choose too look like one of them). I just learned about the air-blowing for pyro, so Im looking forward to using that. How do you use offensive taunts? The baseball thing for scouts, the arrow stab with huntsman? etc. | 9 | [
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"body": "I've got around 40 hours total, so I may not have the best advice, but I certainly sympathize - the first few hours are brutal. I remember reading a thread 6 months ago or so when I first started, and someone made the point that you really won't know what the hell you're doing at all, until you've logged 15+ hours. Need time to learn the maps, familiarize yourself with the classes, etc.\n\nFor general info (taunt kills, basic tactics) check out the [TF2 Wiki](http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Main_Page).\n\nTo further address some of your comments: The pyro is probably one of the easier classes when first starting out, because the objective is clear, and if playing W+M1, fire and forget. If you find opportune times to ambush, you can do well even as a beginner.\n\nMy guess is that everyone who primaries sniper has been twitch-shooting everything in other games for years. I don't even attempt to get involved with the duels.\n\nWhen playing soldier, aim for the feet. If you can blast them up, you can kill most classes with a well-timed rocket when they land. At the very least you'll cause splash damage. Aiming for the body or head is much more difficult, especially at range, because the default launcher moves relatively slow.\n\nDemo took some practice, but for me is one of the more fun classes. Practice area denial with the stickies. This works well in payload maps and chokepoints. The grenades take more work to learn how to put on someone, but it's very satisfying when you can gib someone in a single hit.\n\nMedics seem to come in two flavors, and they can change depending on situation. One stays back and heals everyone, the other pushes with the heavy or other class, and waits to uber through a chokepoint. If you are not being chosen by a medic to push, it's probably because you're not near the top of the leaderboard.\n\nSpy is arguably the most difficult class. I suck, but I try to play a little bit and have improved. People recognize you because you aren't blending in - running out of battle, for example, or staring at a sentry. A lot of that has to do with acting. Also, once an area begins to see spies, everyone gets paranoid and begins spy-checking every new-comer.\n\nI hope this helps a bit. As I said, I've a relative noob myself, so I'm sure someone with more experience will come through to refine or contradict my suggestions.",
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"body": "Offensive taunts: equip the weapon, then taunt. Baseball Bat (scout), Huntsman (sniper), Eyelander (demo), Equalizer (soldier) all need to be found/unlocked before you can use them to taunt kill. Fists (heavy), Hadouken (pyro, shotgun or flare gun), Knife Duel (spy), all are useable without any unlocks. These take time and luck to get, I recommend trying them every time you win/lose a map (during humiliation). Or camp a teleporter.\r\n\r\n\r\nAs for people detecting you as a spy, you probably are not acting as the class you are disguised as would, or you ran into them. You can't run through enemy players, so you need to avoid bumping into enemy players. It could be that the players are just paranoid (I have gotten really good at detecting spies).\r\n\r\n\r\nDemo - spam spam spam. Eventually you will get used to the trajectory of the pipes so you can hit people more accurately with them.\r\n\r\nSoldier - spam spam spam. Aim at feet, walls, use your shotgun as well.",
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"body": "If you find your hands and fingers hurting a lot, you might want to get an auto-heal script for medic like the one in [this config](http://code.google.com/p/tf2compconfiguration/). As long as you have a script that simulates constantly holding mouse1, playing medic is relatively painless and all you need to worry about is movement (and occasionally changing healing targets when tactically advisable).\n\nAlso, if you are using mouse acceleration, disable it:\n\n Control panel > Mouse > Pointer Options > untick the box that says \"Enhance Pointer Precision\"\n\nYou might also want to consider lowering your mouse sensitivity (helps with aim) and getting a larger mouse pad (or just playing without a mouse pad and using your desk). If you play a hitscan class like sniper or scout you probably want at least a square foot of usable mouse space, and you might want to go beyond 1.5 square feet. Supermats are $10 at Fry's (or Amazon) and worth it if you play FPS games with any regularity.\n\nSome in-game options you might want to enable are under:\n\n Options > Multiplayer > Advanced\n\nI highly recommend using \"Display damage done as text over your target.\" Most of the other options available are also worth trying out; hitsounds and auto-medic call are both pretty handy but the constant \"ding\" noise can get a bit annoying at times.\n\n>Spy confuses me (enemy always seems to know Im there even when I choose too look like one of them).\n\nThere are a number of tell-tale \"signs\" that commonly lead people to assume that you are spy. If you are disguised as a blu player and you are charging along with a bunch of your red friends, they're going to know that you're disguised. There's no penalty for spy-checking, so most people will shoot their teammates if they have nothing better to do. As such, when playing spy it's important to remain out of sight for as long as possible. The disguise will only hold up to the occasional cursory glance; try to stay out of your enemy's line of sight when possible and make use of the cloak when you need to pass in front of enemies.",
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Visiting Portland next week, broke, and wanting to camp. Where do I camp close to town /r/Portland? | Me and my girlfriend are driving in and staying in Portland Wed 20 and leaving Sat 23. We are mainly coming in to explore the city by bicycle. We both are avid bicyclist and want to visit Portland so we can come back to Spokane and teach the city council how it's done.
What are the cheap places to stay? Any close forest land or BLM land? How does the hostel thing work?
Thanks alot Portland. We both look forward to visiting your fine city. | 8 | [
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"body": "Head to the north part of forest park, hike in on a trail and go off the trail about 200 meters. although illegal, I guarantee you will be left alone... at least by humans.\n\nsource: I slept in those woods for a week when I had no home in-between houses :)",
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Question for the dubsteps. | Where does everyone procure their music (tracks,sets, ect.) Currently I am on a few torrent sites but the majority seems to come from slsk. Just wondering what the general consensus is?
Also if you are on Slsk whats your username?
EDIT: Not trying to steal music from artists here. I guess my question is mainly for finding sets. | 13 | [
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"body": "http://nicenoiz.pl\n\n\nhttp://hush-house.blogspot.com\n\n\nhttp://rub-a-dub-dubbb.blogspot.com/\n\n\nhttp://orlytuffguy.blogspot.com/\n\n\nhttp://www.thefatclub.com/\n\n\nhttp://getdarker.com\n\n\nhttp://www.dubstepforum.com/mixes.html\n\n\nhttp://maddecent.com/blog/\n\n\nhttp://filestube.com\n\n\nhttp://warez-bb.org (search for Dubstep)\n\n",
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"body": "Browsing soundcloud is a good way to stumble across tunes from unknowns, other than that I'll always just google \"<track name> <artist> mediafire\", works fairly well. HypeMachine is another good way to get singles. ",
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"body": "http://doktorkrank.blogspot.com/\nhttp://bassmusicblog.com/\nhttp://generationbass.com/\nhttp://bluntsmokin.blogspot.com/\nhttp://lsdb.eu/list/genre/44.html\nhttp://glitchhopforum.com/glitch-hop-mix/\n\nbeatport.com and addictech.com/ if you want to buy",
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So, I'm an X-Box 360 guy and I just bought a PS3. What are the first titles I should buy? | Hey Reddit. I've been the proud owner of an X-Box 360 since 2007. I just purchased a fancy new Playstation 3 and want to know what you think the really good exclusive titles are. | 8 | [
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"body": " * Get both uncharted titles. Play them in order. Not because of the story, but because 2 took 1 and made everything better, playing them in reverse will do yourself a disservice.\n\n * Infamous is a *MUST BUY* it is an amazing game. I played through it in a weekend and had not been absorbed in a title like that for years and years.\n\n * God of war collection. If you have never played them, or even if you have, for the price asked this is a must buy\n\n * I for one, hated the resistance series, but many people loved them, get the first on used for like 10 bucks anyway\n\n * Killzone 2 is an amazing game with some decent multiplayer\n\n * MGS4, even if you don't like the series, this game is a masterpiece and must be played to be appreciated. It is cheap, too.\n\n * As far as down-loadable titles you have Wipeout HD, Lumines, and Super Stardust, all very, very good games. Super Stardust is almost a must if you want a game to kill 15 minutes now and then. Warhawk is a must for its frenetic combat and epic scale, it just has a wicked learning curve. \n\n * Ratchet and clank is a great platforming series.",
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"body": "Valkyria Chronicles for sure. \n\nLittle Big Planet is super fun, and kid friendly.\n\nKatamari Forever is also good.\n\n",
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"body": "Ok the Ratchet and Clank games should be number 1 on this list. They are by far my favorite games I have played on the PS3, and PS2 for that matter.\n\nMost that you will ever laugh in a game!",
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Which do you think will happen first: immortality through technology and medicine or building a machine god? | Alternatively I wonder whether we'll build sentient, self-aware AI before or after achieving human longevity breakthroughs. Feel free to expand on any thoughts you have in these areas. Edit: Longevity breakthroughs in which the average person's life expectancy exceeds 80, 90, 100 years. Got some interesting responses. | 9 | [
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"body": "If you allow [actuarial escape velocity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_escape_velocity) immortality, then I think I'd give it slightly higher odds. I hold some hope that we'll achieve it in my lifetime (but suspect I may miss it by a generation or two).\n\nAI is less predictable, but still seems in with a decent shot. Mind uploads are on the fringes of becoming feasible, and I think there's a good chance that we'll see some form of AI within 50-100 years. \n\n(All this presupposing that civilisation doesn't collapse before any of this can be achieved)\n",
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"body": "I'm sure a self-aware AI will be built long before true biological human immortality becomes possible. However, a self-aware AI need not be smarter than a chimp or dolphin or average human being. It may actually be quite tough to build an AI that's super smart. I wrote about the difficulty years ago in [The Anti-Singularity](http://www.jrmooneyham.com/sing.html).\n\n\nFor true immortality we'll actually have to build human equivalent AI first: for I don't think we'll ever find an acceptable biological path to immortality. Instead, we'll find uploading ourselves into various virtual realities and/or synthetic bodies far more preferable. And getting a human level AI fully functioning will be an important milestone to that form of immortality for people, in my opinion.\n\n\nI discuss these developments at length in [An illustrated speculative timeline of future technology and social change](http://www.jrmooneyham.com/future_history_timeline.html). However, as they take place over decades and centuries, the various texts related to them are widely spread across much of my future timeline content.",
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"body": "I think we'll get immortality first (or very long life). I think the first person who will live to 1,000 years old is probably alive today. ",
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"body": "God is a bad descriptor in my opinion. That would imply absolute control over all existence and I don't think any man made entities will ever achieve such things.\n\nI do believe however, that we will completely integrate with our technology in the future and thus achieve much greater life spans and knowledge. Exactly when that will happen or what the catalyst will be remains to be seen.\n\nAI by definition is artificial and machines will only achieve sentience by integrating with man.",
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DAE take ADHD meds before they go to bed at
night? | I was having trouble falling asleep at night, and especially staying asleep, so I figured what the hell, and I started taking 5mg time release dexidrine right before going to sleep. It's been a few weeks now and I feel like I sleep great and it's definitely easier to get up in the morning.
Is the dumbest thing you've ever heard of? Am I going to slip into a psychosis?
Seriously though, my sleep seems more balanced. Generally I feel like I dream for days while I sleep and I'd wake up at the slightest noise, but now the dreaming isn't as tiring and I can sleep through most normal house noises. The only trouble I run into is if I don't take it right before I try to sleep, then it can take me up to an hour to fall asleep.
Anyone else? | 5 | [
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"body": ">Is the dumbest thing you've ever heard of? \n\nYes.\n\n>Am I going to slip into a psychosis?\n\nDo you take dex when you wake up too? Decent chance then, especially if you escalate dosage eventually due to tolerance.\n\nBut honestly, this is a ridiculous waste. I'm amazed you can get to bed, I'm amazed you stay in bed, and I'm amazed this works at all.\n\nI think the only reason this works is that the dose is so low.",
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"body": "All I can tell you is that there needs to be more research done. I agree that sometimes it seems as if the quality of my sleep improves if I take the meds before sleep (and waking up is certainly easier), but i cannot say that it feels safe.",
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Dear Reddit: How do you deal with hating your job? | I stupidly took a position right out of college a couple of years ago without thinking about the future. There were a lot of factors involved in the decision that made it the right choice at the time, but now I see that it was a bad one. One of the key factors was that they offered my wife a job too, so we'd both be employed right out of school. We finally decided on the job I have now. It was for less money than most of the other offers I'd had, but there were assurances of eventual raises for both of us. All of the job offers I got were lower than the average starting salary for people with my degree; I'm fully aware that this is because my state is so poor and they can get away with it.
Basically, we're stuck at a tech job in a small town with a small economy that refuses to pay market value for the services our company provides. To make matters worse, the economy went straight to hell soon after we started working here. That's both discouraged us from looking for work elsewhere *and* allowed them to use the recession to essentially hold us hostage. Because of some things that happened a few months ago, we're actually making *less* money now than when we started. I'm pretty sure this has less to do with any malice on their part and more to do with our area's weak economy combined with some general mismanagement on the company's part.
So we're looking to move to a bigger city that hopefully has a richer job market. It's a slow process because we have student loans to pay off (thankfully, this is our only debt), moving expenses, and not very much money saved up. But every day we're getting more signs that this is the right thing to do.
I was hoping somebody out there had either some similar stories to share (misery loves company), or some tips on how to get by without losing all our sense of self-worth. It's incredibly soul-crushing to be this disillusioned with our careers so *early* in them. | 9 | [
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"body": "\"If you don't like your job you don't quit. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.\" -- Homer Simpson",
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"body": "Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door so Lumbergh can't see me. After that I just sorta space out for about an hour. \nI just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. ",
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"body": "If you go to a bigger city with richer job market, the cost of living is going to be higher. So do be sure to calculate that in to the salaries you are offered. \n\nYou asked for similar stories, so here goes:\n\nI was up for a promotion (with an accompanying big fat raise), but a situation with a family member arose, so I took a pass, since I needed to give my full attention to the situation. My work was incredibly supportive and worked with me to reduce my responsibilities for awhile. All goodness. \n\nWhen the situation had improved and I was ready to go back to full level of responsibilities, the economy tanked. I was VERY lucky I did not get laid off. I have now made it through several rounds of layoffs. However, we aren't getting any bonuses, there is an indefinite raise freeze, and even if I was to get that promotion now - there would be no money to come along with it. \n\nI was moved into a different department in an attempt to keep me happy and fulfilled, but my motivation is stuck in the toilet and it's worse in this new job, not better. \n\nHere's how I cope: \n\n- I know that pretty much everyone is in the exact same boat at this time. The economy sucks. While I'm sick of hearing this, I know it's true... I should be thankful I *have* a job. And I am. I spent the 2001-2002 recession unemployed, and that wasn't fun.\n\n- I always ask myself, \"How will this look on my resume 5 years from now?\" And the answer is \"pretty darn good: I weathered the downturn with the same company, without getting laid off.\" \n\n- Because the economy sucks, budgets have been slashed and the reality is that this slows down the amount of work there is to do. I like to keep busy and I fret when I don't have enough work on my plate. But, I'm trying to see that as a positive, and just ride with it for now, and find ways outside of work to fulfill my need to be productive. Like decorating my house, working on fitness goals, spending time with family and friends. I.e., find fulfillment and self-worth outside your job. \n\n- I know that the economy - and the IT field in particular - goes in cycles. I have worked in IT for 25 years. I have been laid off 3 times. We have our booms, we have our busts. It is what it is. When it's boom-time, job hop and rack up the promotions and salary increases, while saving as much as you can. When it's bust-time, stay where you are, hunker down, work on outside interests (especially those that can lead to later career opportunities), keep in touch with your network, and move sideways. If you can't get the money, get the experience. \n\n- Do go on interviews, if they sound interesting. Always return headhunter calls. Yes, you can move during a downturn. Just be very very careful about any moves you make, because if it doesn't work out, it'll be harder to find an alternative to fall back on. \n\n- Finally, it may be wise to change your priorities and make it less about money, more about pursuing what you love and find challenging and fulfilling. This recession has a different character and it seems to me that is the way the world is going in general. Might as well get used to living with less now (I did that back in 2001-2002). Truth is, I don't need a raise. I make a decent salary. But I have it ingrained in my head that salary increases and promotions are some sort of measure and goal. I'm trying to change that mindset. \n\nTL;DR - it's not just you. Everyone is in the same boat. And while moving to a new city/new job may provide more challenge, it may not/will probably not solve your money woes. \n\n",
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"body": "I hate the ever living crap out of my job. Every morning is literally me trying to convince myself to go to work.\n\nThe only thing that keeps me going to work is the fact that I have to pay my car off and that I want to go back to school so I can get a better job.\n\nGenerally my time at work is spent doing crappy, menial jobs that I hate while being bothered by employee's who belong to a union and have the classic \"It's my way or I dont work\" attitude which I have zero respect for.\n\nI think about my guitar and what I'll do when I get home, probably 80% of the day.\nI'll write lyrics for songs that pop into my head and obviously reddit helps a lot.\n\nI've actually become quite good at doing my work while daydreaming at the same time.",
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Can any biophysics people comment on this? | I asked [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/anzyg/can_you_give_an_example_of_a_genetic_mutation_or/) question to r/science and haven't gotten much of a response.
Mostly I'm asking about the tie, if any, between the _information content_ of a genome and its evolutionary fitness. I'm asking r/Physics now, since (I think) physicists are the most likely to have a good quantitative understanding of what 'information' is. | 15 | [
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"body": "My understanding of information with regards to the genome is admittedly limited, as information theories were not part of my formal studies.\n\nFrom a few books I've read recently, the amount of information in any sentence, or in this case any gene sequence, is a the total amount of unique information embedded in that sequence - *given the context of what the sentence/sequence is trying to convey*.\n\n\"I have a brown horse that is brown\" has less information than content, due to duplication. However, if the question is \"how many time does the word \"brown\" appear\", then horse color information duplication is not problematic, and the 'information' in the sentence is suddenly greater.\n\nIn general, however, questions about information content refer to the data which is being conveyed by the sentence/sequence. Questions about the sentence/sequence itself, meta-data questions, are not included.\n\nAs such, the application of information theories to the genome would involve a measure of functional codons as a percentage of the overall genome, and possibly a dual measurement of control sequences/protein coding sequences/the entire genome.\n\nIn either case, however, I'm not sure a link can be made between information quantity and evolutionary fitness. Areas of the genome that are not active (introns) would reduce the signal/noise ratio, but would likely have very little negative effect on an individual's reproduction chances. By definition, these area of genes are not expressed, and can't act to harm the individual.\n\nThe only thing about the presence of introns which could have a negative effect on fitness is the energy overhead for copying/maintaining DNA/RNA strands which are not actually used - an energy burden with no obvious benefit. I wouldn't expect this to have a major impact, but I could be wrong.\n\nFinally, I do wonder if there is any sort of correlation between the volume of introns and the rate of mutation of a particular species. I don't know enough about these two factors to know if any such correlation exists, so I'd want to see the experimental numbers prior to proposing any connection.\n\nedit: since the original post in /r/science was in reference to the question posed to Dawkins a few years back, here's a link to his response to the question once he was able to mull it over.\nhttp://www.skeptics.com.au/publications/articles/the-information-challenge/",
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Is vigilantism really as "badass" as it seems? | You've seen it in the movies. Common law doesn't work, so the nothing-to-live-for civilian takes matters in his own hands.
I am not sure if anybody has had a taste with vigilantism, but is it really as satisfying as it seems? | 3 | [
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Reddit, I'd like to introduce you to my latest obsession -- Anonyma, an imageboard client (10 promo codes in the comments) | Does this belong in /r/iphone or /r/4chan? It could logically go in either but why choose? Ten lucky redditors in each will receive a free copy!
I wanted to bring our favorite imageboards to the iPhone. Safari just doesn't cut it and the only other app was a pale shadow of the real deal. I think I succeeded in a very compelling way but I'll let you be the judge of that.
Anonyma contains full support for 4chan, 420chan, 7chan, 2chan and 99chan, including thread watching and posting. You can take a picture with the iPhone's camera or snag an image with the built-in search feature if what you need isn't in your photo library. Future versions will contain an image editor and other goodies.
Watch the demonstration video at my website -- http://www.anonapp.com/
All imageboards on these websites are available in Anonyma but some are not visible by default for obvious reasons. If you don't see it, you can probably add it! But don't hold me responsible for content on the boards you choose to view!
Any other websites you'd like to see in Anonyma? Did I overlook a killer feature? Post it here and I'll do my best!
Have a great Monday, Reddit, and maybe I'll see you on the boards...
EDIT: I guess I should mention that the promo codes only work in the US! Sorry foreigners! (Unfortunately, I am one of you and know the pain all too well.)
EDIT2: Thanks to everyone who checked the app out and commented on it. If you enjoy it and find it useful, tell you friends! | 7 | [
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DAE get so disgusted with the crap on multiplayer voice chat that they either turn it off or stop playing altogether? | So, I was playing TF2 CP_Well last nite and our team was doing ok when we started getting pushed back a bit. The enemy, sensing a turn in the tide, hit us with a heavy / medic uber. I started saturation bombing them, trying to drive apart the pair (as described here: http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/%C3%9CberCharge) and a teammate of mine started berating me for wasting ammo, can't attack uber, etc. After about 5 minutes of being called noob, useless and a few expletives, I just quit. I've turned off voice chat for all my online games and am wondering if anyone else has too? | 20 | [
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"body": "The people on servers who bitch at you about not being able to attack ubers must have not mastered pyro juggling.",
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"body": "I dont think that I would have anyone else in my life to remind me that Im a \"Fag Nigger Queer\" without helpful voice chat",
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"body": "Last night, I was playing on a public server I frequent that had all-talk enabled. A guy joined the other team and proceeded to become their \"commander\", issuing orders left and right, calling out our positions, etc. This went on for a few rounds before we started replying to his commentary. There was a pause before he asked \"Is this an All-Talk server?\" and was answered with laughter from both teams. I think he popped a blood vessel as he left with the most dramatic rage-quit I've ever heard.\n\n",
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"body": "Your teammates were stupid. Going up against an uber means you're probably going to die, yeah, but anything - _anything_ - you do to counter it is going to be useful and worthwhile.\n\nHell, even if all you did was block them for three seconds, that's a full third of their uber time.\n\nAnd really, \"wasting ammo?\" What map were you playing where there wasn't an ammo box within five feet?",
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"body": "I can't imagine TF2 without voice chat.\n\nThe game would be very boring without a community of players that talk to each other and socialize.\n\nFor occasional jerks, I usually tell them off, ignore them, or mute them. Otherwise TF2 voice chat has been a pleasant experience for the past 2 years.",
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"body": "Don't know about you guys, but I've only heard three types of players use the voice chat:\n\n- Russians, can't make shit out of it despite living in a neighbor country ;)\n- pre-15 kids, with their hig-pitch voice\n- British, with their funky accent\n\nOnly group of players I'm comfortable with is the last one - it's especially amusing when they thank me for healing them - it almost feels like part of the game.",
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"body": "I realize this thread is just asking for people to come in and complain about how voice chat on pub servers is terrible, but I have a couple of pub servers I stick to and there is rarely a problem with voice chat. I've had to mute two people in the past month or so. \n\nWhile on a pub server, I've been able to coordinate ubers and team pushes to win games that we never would have won with out voice. I've also gained several friends. \n\nI would suggest looking around to find a more mature server. I've had great experiences with the Lotus Clan servers. To be fair, a lot of people seem to hate them for the faked player counts, but they have a good mature player base, just stay away from Stocks 2.",
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"body": "Done that before, even with my own clan. They'll start talking about unrelated BS so nobody can call out tactics.",
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"body": "TF2 has voice chat? \n\nSeriously though, as a Pyro nothing is more satisfying than airblasting an ubering medic away from his target and trying to juggle him in the air. No points but definitely worth it. ",
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Reddit, I'd like to introduce you to my latest obsession -- Anonyma, an imageboard client (10 promo codes in the comments) | Does this belong in /r/iphone or /r/4chan? It could logically go in either but why choose? Ten lucky redditors in each will receive a free copy!
I wanted to bring our favorite imageboards to the iPhone. Safari just doesn't cut it and the only other app was a pale shadow of the real deal. I think I succeeded in a very compelling way but I'll let you be the judge of that.
Anonyma contains full support for 4chan, 420chan, 7chan, 2chan and 99chan, including thread watching and posting. You can take a picture with the iPhone's camera or snag an image with the built-in search feature if what you need isn't in your photo library. Future versions will contain an image editor and other goodies.
Watch the demonstration video at my website -- http://www.anonapp.com/
All imageboards on these websites are available in Anonyma but some are not visible by default for obvious reasons. If you don't see it, you can probably add it! But don't hold me responsible for content on the boards you choose to view!
Any other websites you'd like to see in Anonyma? Did I overlook a killer feature? Post it here and I'll do my best!
Have a great Monday, Reddit, and maybe I'll see you on the boards...
EDIT: I guess I should mention that the promo codes only work in the US! Sorry foreigners! (Unfortunately, I am one of you and know the pain all too well.) | 31 | [
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I'm bored at work and curious; what class do you play and why? | I personally play an undead priest. You think it's because I like to heal people? FUCK NO! I play a shadow priest. I look bad ass on my mount. I could ride the BE Chocobo and make it look badass.
I fell in love with shadow priests back in Vanilla. While I don't mind healing the random heroics from time to time, it's still a rare day that you'll find me out of shadow form. I like to believe my utility brings something worthwhile to raids... and typically, most guilds are more than happy to have a full time shadow priest. | 27 | [
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"body": "Warlock since release, Affliction is my favorite but I love Destro on big fights.\n\nWhy do I like Warlock? I have a box of swiss army pets, that's why. \n\nThe Imp is a mage and DPS machine with a massive stamina buff. Combined with Destruction and a little Demonology he is tough, and his crits become my crits immediately afterwards.\n\nMy Voidwalker is a taunting punching bag that is more than capable of tanking for me in any encounter where the mobs don't hit for over 3K a shot, and I can heal him as well as any resto priest. With threat reduction gear and a little cleverness I can pump out tons of DPS without pulling aggro away from him. His shield spell allows me to bubble myself priest-style every minute. With him I can regularly solo 5-player content - including nearly every single group quest in WotLK. Oh, and if I tell him to full heal/consume shadows, I'll see every rogue for miles plain as day.\n\nMy Succubus is a rogue with a bad attitude. In PvE she's really only good for crowd control and auto-farming lower level content. In PvP she's fun for charming and locking down annoying players who won't let me finish killing their friends.\n\nMy Felhunter eats spellcasters for lunch. He boosts everyone's intellect and spirit which is handy on raids. He can eat nearly any harmful magic on my friends or beneficial magic on enemies and heal himself in the process. He can silence spellcasters (which makes for an awesome combo with my Blood Elf racial silence).\n\nThen there's the Felguard which one needs to purchase with talents. Done right, with the right glyphs, buffs, and talents picked out, he can fill in for a proper tank even on many boss fights. Using this build also allows one to sacrifice one's demon for a variety of beneficial effects.\n\nThose pets offer me radical versatility to match nearly any situation. I can also summon players, hand out health stones, scout better than anyone using the Eye of Kilrogg, and make random demons my bitch/pets with impunity thanks to enslave and banish. Banish also means you'll never have to worry about demons or elementals (or Druids in tree of life form). The Eye of Kilrogg is one of the most underrated and fun abilities in the game. Then there's the Soul Stone, 30 minute resurrection. Awesome for trying shit you shouldn't in PvE, frustrating to others in PvP, and handy as hell on any dungeon encounter.\n\nAs an Affliction Warlock, your enemy's health is YOUR health. I regain 40% of the damage I do as heals. My two nastiest DOTs are instant cast and require no line of sight. I can spam those in PvP all day long and with +600hp/sec coming in from five or six sources I am very hard to kill. I can spec with glyphs and certain gear to increase that 40% to closer to 65%. One cast of Corruption per mob and I'm nearly invincible in anything but Heroics and 10/25 man raids. When my DPS goes up, so does me healing - and did I mention the pet gets auto-healed by this as well? I am never out of health or mana, no point in carrying mana potions, or in food except for the buffs.\n\nThe class has acres of depth to it, and a variety of tricks you can apply to many situations. Sometimes I wonder if folks playing Warlocks know even half of what the class is capable of.\n\nIf I had to pick a nit about what I don't like, it's that in raids and in most heroics I'm reduced to playing mage and spamming the same handful of DPS abilities over and over ad nauseum. Oh, and Soul Shards, but that's going away.\n\nI have an alt Warrior I rather enjoy - it's much more sophisticated playing tanks than I expected going in thanks to having so many abilities, stuns, charges, etc. \n\nI also think I might enjoy a druid because of their similar versatility, but I haven't taken one for a test drive yet.",
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"body": "I play a priest and I bounce between all specs. On raid nights, I'm typically mainspec disc, offspec holy. On off raid nights, I'm typically mainspec shadow, offspec pvp.\n\nWhy priest? Like tanking, it is very fight specific and has a lot of variety. It also requires good situational awareness. Healing is just a different type of game. ( Not to say DPS is brain dead; A good DPS is very hard in terms of proper cooldown usage and rotation timing. That isn't my cup of tea ).",
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"body": "Male orc shaman. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I get the maximum I can out of the class but I feel held back by it at the same time. Shamans are poorly designed and underpowered, but for some reason I can't put mine down. Whenever I level an alt I just go \"fuck it\" and go back to my shaman, but it hurts seeing people put in less effort and be significantly more effective or have significantly more tools to be effective in pve (dps) and pvp (healing and dps).",
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"body": "Feral NE druid since I started in early 2006. After my 6-month adventure leveling to 60, I quickly found out there was no place for them end-game. I would often thottbot \"feral\" gear from AQ and the like, but I always knew it would be out of my reach (no time to raid).\n\nBC came along and it was a dream come true. Started tanking night of release in ramps (still have fond memories of those t3 geared snobs who wiped on that first pull). I reached 70 as a capable and experienced tank, and would often get complements on my skills. Milestones: Earthwarden, Swift Flight Form (after the quest!!!)\n\nWrath hasn't brought anything of much interest to feral druids besides a 360° unlimited target swipe. I guess it's convenient to use rogue gear to tank (for the most part), but it just strips bears of their gear flavour. I was completely saddened by the HP and armor nerf though. I mainly play my feral tank now because I'm addicted to tanking. I'm always in control of the pace of groups in dungeons, and I don't have to limit myself in any way (mana, threat, etc), I can go all-out all the time. I also assume it's a welcome surprise for my fellow group members to see a druid tanking in the instance. It's incredibly useful to be able to charge at enemies immediately even during combat, and to have a powerful, spammable AOE with no CD. Tanking on my pally is such a cakewalk that I go back to my bear just for the challenge.\n\nFeral has been (at one point or another) the most underplayed, underrated, overpowered, unique, difficult, homogenized, annoying and fun spec in the game.",
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"body": "I play a female gnome warrior -- and I'm a dedicated tank for our guild. I decided to play a tank because, as a warlock previously, I apparently just love being the centre of attention. And I chose to be a gnome because... dude. I'm the smallest tank out there. It's hilarious to be a gnome tank.",
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"body": "I'm a tauren druid. I have two druids at 80. One is boom/resto, the other tank/kitty. The fact that you start this character with a couple of spells and can evolve into essentially a prot warrior, rogue, priest or mage makes it one of the most interesting and versatile classes in the game. Changing forms for different abilities and aesthetics is appealing too.\r\n\r\nAlso, instant flight form means I can jump off a cliff as if a flying Delorean were waiting below :D",
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"body": "Night elf hunter. She's my main because I solo a lot, and with beast mastery, I am never *really* solo. ",
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"body": "I can't make up my mind. My main characters are a Undead Affliction Warlock and a Night Elf Druid. But I also like playing hunters and mages.\r\n\r\nEssentially, I like range attacks, and I also like having my own minitank pet/demon. ",
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"body": "I play pretty much one of everything. I'm a big-time altaholic. My level 80 \"mains\" are Troll Shaman (Resto/Ele), Blood Elf Mage (Arcane), and Blood Elf Paladin (Prot/Holy).\n\nMy favorite is probably my Prot Pally. Tanking is fun and challenging. It also helps me develop my situational awareness in raids. I am good at healing as well, but I find it's a little less interesting. DPS is probably my least favorite role, the competitiveness of dps meters I find distasteful.",
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"body": "I'm an undead priest. Holy raid healing for PvE and Disc healing for PvP. I played Shadow for a while (leveled between 70-80 and then DPS'd 1 fight in ICC10 man a couple of weeks ago) apart from that I've been a healer all of my WoW life. \n\nI started playing WoW with a group of friends and asked then \"what class do you need the most\". Tanks was the obvious answer, but the guild that they were in needed healers, so I rolled priest. I enjoy healing, mainly because of the complete lack of rotation and how dynamic fights can be. Although I do find that the only time people pay attention to healers is when it's going wrong. I'm not such a big fan of that part. Also being a raid healer I tend to find that my HPS is fairly low when compared to a main tank healer. Don't ever let that fool you DPS/tanking classes though, most of us can pull it out when we need to.\n\nI love Disc healing because, and I don't often say this about the class that I'm playing, it's pretty imba. Seriously, a disc priest with high health can make a huge difference. In AV/WSG if there's 4 of us and 7 of them I can often turn a fight in our favour. It's not entirely me, as I play with some pretty good players from my guild, who I also get on with, so they also deserve credit for being really good at what they do. I want to get into arena in the next season.\n\nPenance should be nerfed (but don't let blizzard know).",
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"body": "I play a dwarf ret paladin. I picked it because it felt most like me. I can't really explain it. I also picked mining and engineering. I'm a sw dev IRL. ",
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"body": "I play a dedicated priest healer. When my guild is working on progression fights my two specs are disc and holy so I can switch back and forth depending on the needs of the fight. \n\n\nAfter 3 years of raiding as a rogue, it has been delightful to spend the last year or so playing a class that needs to pay attention to *all* fight mechanics. The rhythm of the playstyle is much less frantic, too. You need to anticipate, react, and manage as opposed to *pressbuttons pressbuttons pressbuttons*.",
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"body": "Orc Hunter, since day 1 of WoW... I've always played rangers in games, from D&D in high school and then EverQuest for several years, followed by Shadowbane, Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes (rifle blaster is as close as you could get) and WoW.\n\nI've thought about trying another class but never get them past level 15 or so.",
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"body": "Female Undead Priest. She was my 2nd 60, 2nd or 3rd 70 and my first 80. I'm Discipline main spec and i love the playstyle. The lack of raid healing is a bummer, but the amount of oh-shit buttons makes up for it.\n\nI've also revived my DK, main spec Blood dps. I love how much dps i can do with crappy gear. I do try to min/max with what i've got, so it's not a breeze tho.",
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Has anybody here "gone green" and quit their tobacco/spliff habit in favour of pure weed smoking? Any advice please? | This is pretty difficult for me to write about, though I have been meaning to post about this for a while so I hope you can help me out... I'm from the UK but recently moved to Germany, and anyone around Europe will know that The Spliff is the way to go here. When people post about it, a majority of people from the Americas will talk about how they would never mix the two. I've been toking since I was 18, now 23, and was basically blazed throughout University where I learned to roll spliffs and enjoyed it very much - and still do. I've never been a cigarette smoker.
Still, it's been a good four years and regularly smoking unfiltered tobacco for that long has got to do a number on your lungs. There's a number of reasons I want to give it up, but the best reason I can give is that at the end of the day, it's a shitty, shitty drug and I don't want to give any more money to these companies, nor do I want to continue to increase my risk of emphysema or lung cancer - the former is something I've heard is much likely to happen to spliff smokers over cigarette smokers, due to holding the smoke in your lungs for longer. Not to mention, it's so much more addictive than weed that it seems stupid to add it in that way.
Today I still primarily smoke them, and it seems like it's more out of habit than anything else. I have a nice bong sitting in front of me, and every time I smoke a spliff I think "man, this would have been better if I'd just had this weed without the shitty tobacco and put it in my bong instead," and yet it still sits there, unused and waiting to be cleaned, every time. All of my friends locally and back in the UK are still enjoying their spliffs which makes it much more difficult, as I feel like not partaking in a joint going round causes some kind of schism in our bond.
Unfortunately, most weed smokers here won't ever concern themselves with the health risks if you ask them about it, and will instead just use justifications like "it's better socially," "rolling with tobacco is just how we do it" or "it makes joints burn slower," etc, which are valid but the complete wilful ignorance of the damage being done to our fellow stoners' bodies is a little baffling.
So is there anybody else out there who can relate to this? I understand the answer is basically "self-control" and "don't give a fuck about what others think about you," but I'm sure in a few days I'll start getting that craving to roll a nice satisfying spliff instead of using my bong or something else. The tobacco must be the biggest reason for it but it'd be really nice to have some kind of affirmation from others who have gone through the same thing, other unusual advice or just a chat on the subject from you awesomely friendly people!
Maaaan that was long. Sorry if it was a bit much for any of you people currently on a [10]! | 18 | [
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"body": "You could try a dugout and bat. It's not the same as a joint, but it's incredibly portable, and would simulate the joint smoking experience more accurately than a bong.",
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"body": "High School: I used hash to quit smoking cigs (more and more hash each day until I couldn't smoke more than one). \n\nUniversity: I used tobacco to quit smoking pot (more and more American Spirit until I was barely smoking pot)\n",
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"body": "I still prefer to use tobacco in my Js, but I also [toast my cigarette](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8EOg6CX26o#t=0m42s) before. Not saying it'll make it a lot healthier but it does get rid of a lot of the nicotine and a lot of other crap which makes smoking smoother. Another alternative is herbal mixes, which they now use in a lot of Amsterdam cafes. Personally, I'm not a fan as I think it makes the taste a lot harsher and overall doesn't taste as nice. Only other alternative is rolling pure weed joints but I feel that you waste a LOT of weed that way.\n\nEither that, or use a bong, vaporizer, etc. End of the day, nothing beats a nicely rolled joint for me :)",
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"body": "um I've never made wacky tabbacky just smoked the straight ganja. oh oh oh roll a twisty oh oh oh a tiny twisty!",
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"body": "My old manager quit drinking and started smoking. He went from being an unpredictable asshole to a really funny, nice guy.",
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Reddit, I cant type, I've been a tech support rep for 3 years. How can i unlearn my bad habits? | I've been a tech support rep for 3 years in a cable company, a computer geek my whole life. I still cant type without looking and I cant touch type at all, all index fingers and thumbs. How can i unlearn all the bad habits I've picked up over all these years. Any suggestions for something I can do, or software I can use(preferably at work(no audio)) to get better? | 7 | [
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"body": "Take up gaming. Once you can game and still talk trash by typing, you will have mastered the art. By typing too slow, you will be subjected to constant ownage. You'll learn to type fast.",
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"body": "I learned in high school with some Mavis Beacon software which had typing speed tests and games. We primarily used drills where you type sets of nonsense words made with a couple of keys to learn per lesson. Do these types of drills with paper draped over your hands (look only if you absolutely must) and you will learn in no time.",
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"body": "Start by learning the homerow that will familiarize you with where the keys are. If you ever find yourself not knowing where your hands are on the keyboard, look for the nubs that rest on the f and j keys of the homerow. If you want to develop good form, be sure to use all your fingers equally. Though you can learn to do it without worrying about evenly using your fingers it can slow you down a bit. I didn't bother with this in learning to type and now my left hand rests and on homerow typing with all fingers equally while with my right hand i now just use my index finger for letters, my middle finger for periods and commas, my thumb for the spacebar, my ring finger for backspace, and my pinky for enter; though for me this works fine and feels much more natural than the proper form, it does limit me to about 36-40 wpm max.",
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DAE still play original XBox games? If not,
what were your favorite games when you
still did? | As far as gaming consoles go, I've always been 1 generation behind -- As a little kid, I purchased a NES well after my friends had a SNES, then a SNES, PS1, all after the next generation had been released. Also got an original Gameboy after the GBC debuted.
The disadvantages of this are obvious: I never get to play the latest, coolest games.
The advantage, of course, is cost: I've never spent >$100 on a gaming console, and generally never more than $10 / game.
Most recently, I got an XBox for cheap. I've been having loads of fun buying old games on Ebay for $3 or $4, playing through them once, and reselling them for usually >100% of the cost.
Am I the only one having fun on outdated hardware? DAE do this?
What are some essential games to play? My most recent favorite was 'Destroy All Humans 2'. I like open world environments and spent ~30 hours completing everything. | 10 | [
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"body": "Currently my xbox 1 gets more playtime than my 360. Two years ago I decided to be current to the generation; in retrospect, it seems a bit pointless. The latest, coolest games are decidedly less cool when you pay $60+ for them instead of just $10-15. GTA IV comes to mind. Expectations vs. cost and all that.\n\nAnyway, here are my picks:\nBeyond Good & Evil, Chronicles of Riddick, Forza, Jade Empire, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Psychonauts, Sega Soccer Slam, All the Splinter Cells (DA is significantly better on xbox1), Timesplitters 2, XIII\n\nAnd two sort of obscure 'like or hate 'em' titles: Gunvalkyrie and Panzer Dragoon Orta.\n\nIf a title is on the PS2 AND the xbox, I generally pick the xbox for the nicer graphics.\n\nFinally, don't forget about [Xlink Kai](http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/).",
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"body": "GTA: San Andreas still gets some action a couple times a month and is hella fun once you start opening up the map.",
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"body": "Mercenaries 1. By far one of the best. After you beat the game, enable the cheat codes and just walk around hijacking stuff and sniping people.",
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"body": "I just bought a PS3 three weeks ago, but until then I was happily playing with my original Xbox. I still have it, and boatloads of really good games.\n\nOverall good games:\n* Halo 1 (despite the Flood, I really hate the flood)\n* Black (you MUST get this one, incredible looking FPS)\n* Jade Empire\n* Burnout 2 and 3\n* Baldurs Gate - Dark Allegiance\n* Red Dead Revolver\n\nGood sandbox games (like 'Destroy all humans 2') are:\n* Simpson's Hit & Run\n* Scarface\n* Mercenaries\n* GTA III and GTA San Andreas\n* Bully\n* Ultimate Spiderman\n* Hulk - Ultimate Destruction\n\nBut my top three are: \n* Oddworld - Stranger's Wrath. \n* Fable\n* Beyond Good And Evil",
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"body": "Yeah I would have to say Knights of the Old Republic is pretty bitchin as far as RPG's go. The story and dialogue really draw you in on a bigger screen. You will literally play this game in like 8 hour sessions and not even realize it.\n\nX-Men Legends, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Halo 1 &2, Mercenaries, Psychonauts, GTA SA, VC and 3. \n\nI actually would recomend modding it just for the sake of backing up games to the HD. The loading time difference will blow your mind and make games so much more enjoyable. ",
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"body": "Ninja Gaiden Black, the Splinter Cell series (although Chaos Theory was my favorite), Crimson Skies, Psychonauts, Fable, Jade Empire, ESPN NFL 2K5 (best football game ever IMHO), GTA Vice City, and all my old school ATARI/Colecovision/NES/SNES/GENESIS/N64 games on my emulators (modded only, of course)",
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"body": ">I like open world environments\n\nDude, get Morrowind (Game of the Year edition has the expansions included, all the better).\n\nYou will probably spend >100 hours on this game (if you can bear the long loading screens).",
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/r/WATMM, I need help finding a music composing website! | I'm looking for this website designed for composing guitar music. The background is blue, and you can choose different chords to make up progressions. You can also add drum loops and keyboard/bass lines to go along with it.
The problem is I CAN'T remember the URL, and no amount of searching has helped me so far. I really hope you can come through for me. | 8 | [
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"body": "There is a new online manuscript editor called [noteflight](http://noteflight.com)\n\nI am sure you are thinking of this:\n\nhttp://www.jamstudio.com",
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Is it rational to claim atheism is morally and intellectually superior to theism and then remain closeted? | Maybe you need a set of [atheist balls](http://avangelism.com/blog/avangelism/atheist-balls-do-you-need-a-set/)? | 9 | [
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"body": "it depends why the atheist is remaining in the closet ... if their life would be much more difficult, for example if they would not be able to get a job, or may be attacked, then it would be *intelligent* to keep their views to themselves until they could maybe move to a more tolerant place",
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"body": "I think that depends on the situation but I think it's safe to say that being closeted can be justified. As an extreme example, if you lived in a society that punishes atheists with death, then it would be entirely justifiable to hide in the closet.\n",
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"body": "I am an atheist and when it comes up in conversation I have no problem letting it be known. I think people should have some convictions in their beliefs and lifestyle and not be ashamed. Be who you are. If others can't accept that you don't need them in your life. ",
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"body": "People who remain closeted generally do so *because* of the moral inferiority of religion. For fear of what religious people will do.",
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I would like to travel this summer by bike for a month in Europe. I'm situated in the Netherlands. Where should I go to and do you have any advice? | I also posted this on r/travel, but greyjay suggested this reddit :)
I have some experience travelling, but no experience with travelling by bike. I don't have a lot of money. I'm Dutch so I can ride a bicycle, but my stamina is not that good (is that a correct sentence?) so mountains are a no-go area. It's not a problem fo me to go by train to Berlin for example and start my journey there (as long it's not too expensive). At this moment I would like to go to Eastern Europe (Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus are all places I would like to see), but I'm open to suggestions.
Any advice about good websites or books about this subject are also greatly appreciated.
Thanks! | 8 | [
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"body": "Here's a flat, beautiful trail with no traffic that will take you--to some extent at least--to Eastern Europe.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donauradweg",
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Can't find tabs for the gorgeous fingerpicking progression in "The Darkest Side" by The Middle East [indie/folk/acoustic] | [mp3] : http://melodywritings.com/burgotunes/01%20The%20Darkest%20Side.mp3
The finger-picking pattern repeats throughout the whole song, but I can't seem to find it. Nor can google seem to find any tabs for it. They are a new band and still relatively unknown, but if anyone can help me work out the chords I would be eternally grateful. | 5 | [
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"body": "i may be nutz.... but i think there is a passing quote of a Elliot Smith song in there... something off Either/Or maybe?\n\nVery pretty song... not sure it goes anywhere but... a place that pretty may not ever have to do much other than be pretty...",
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What grid system do you recommend? | I was looking into 960.gs, but it looks like it doesn't use the entire 960 pixels, but rather pad it down about 10 or 20 pixels each side. | 5 | [
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"body": "First of all do you understand the purpose of a grid? If not then I suggest you study up on that first. To me it seems as though you are looking for a solution when you don't know the problem yet. These pre-made grid systems are great to give you a jumpstart if you already know the basics of grids and understand already how you wish to layout your content on a site. However, if you are just looking for a grid system and you will somehow fit your content within it to make it work, that is the wrong way to go about things.\n\nThe only thing these systems really do is prevent you from having to create your own custom columns, which would only take you a couple of minutes anyways. I have used most of them at one time or another, but that is because I found they helped in my solution. Maybe you want a 750px width design or a 1160px one. Figure out what you are trying to achieve first then you can start to narrow down your grid framework choices to see if one really fits your needs.",
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"body": "You can modify the 960 to be 980 (or whatever value) if you prefer. user pixel7000 already mentioned the tool to modify the 960 gs to your liking, which is found here: [http://www.spry-soft.com/grids/](http://www.spry-soft.com/grids/).\n\nI've also used blue print ([http://www.blueprintcss.org/](http://www.blueprintcss.org/) back when it was trending (it was actually the popularity of that link at the time that introduced me to the concept of grid system).\n\nThere are some simlirities and differences. The fun part is getting used how they've assembled it... I ended up learning new things just by viewing the source of each.\n\nFor you css framework haters, designing from scratch hasn't gone anywhere. The OP is just asking a question.\n\nThere comes a point with every designer that they find themselves writing the css declarations over and over again to set up a flexible site. Frameworks are a way for us to look over each other's shoulders and see how the next person did it. I usually end up learning alot from this process and seeing what I can incorporate into my own melting pot, which often ends up in me writing less, and more efficiently.\n\n",
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"body": ">it looks like it doesn't use the entire 960 pixels...\n\nUm... so? It's a grid that's based on an essentially arbitrary value. \n\nWhy would it make any difference if it's \"actually\" a padded 940? And why wouldn't you count border padding as part of the overall width?\n\n960.gs works well not because it's based on some divine number, but because it helps you organize the relationship of internal content elements. I imagine it would be just as effective scaled up or down considerably, and frequently \"cheat\" it into designs that are larger than 960 at their widest.",
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"body": "That padding is important(at least if you're using the grid as it's meant to be used) because it keeps text from being too close to browser chrome, which can make it difficult to see or click.",
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"body": "What ever happened to people doing their layouts from scratch? I think learning CSS and playing around with it is a better investment.",
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My wife and I watched Heroes last night - have a question about lip reading... | So, we were watching Heroes last night, and the character played by Deanne Bray (Emma) is a deaf woman, who's capable to reading lips. I'm sure many deaf people are able of reading lips.
My question is, are some languages easier to lip read than others (say, a latin-based language vs non-latin based)? Is learning to lip read a foreign language easy/hard/impossible? Does it make a difference whether you knew the language before becoming deaf (if applicable).
Thanks!
**Edit** Thanks for the replies! | 39 | [
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"body": "I know some languages have tonal inflections that greatly change the meaning of words. They're probably difficult to lip read.",
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"body": "I go to RIT which has one of the largest deaf populations in the US and someone once told me that even those who are excellent lip readers aren't excellent at it and can fully understand about 30% of what you say. For example, \"I love you\" and \"Olive oil\" are the exact same mouth shape. ",
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"body": "As a polyglot I can say that the mouth, tongue, and throat movements greatly vary from language to language. Which brings me to the point that lip reading is more than just lip reading, it takes in consideration other aspects of vocal communication. Most lip readers I've met (not many, but considerable since my College hosted NTDI) are native speakers of whatever language they can lip read.\n\nEdit: Heroes sux (lately).",
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"body": "I'm partially deaf (L ear only) so I learned how to lip read as a child, kinda by default. \n\nFor me, lip-reading is associating the movement you see of the mouth, lips, jaw, face and cross-referencing this with body language/posturing and the context of what you are \"reading\". In that way, any language you are familiar with would be easy. But since I don't know any other language to that depth, it would be harder to read. \n\nAny sounds that are made with a similar face shape would be harder to read. Also people who don't use their face to enunciate their words are harder to read.\n\nAs to knowing the language and whether or not this makes a difference, I can't really say as I was deaf from birth, but still was able to learn English and then lip-reading. I actually had to learn how to turn it off, because you can sort of accidentally eavesdrop that way. I can lip-read TV shows on silent (much to my boyfriend's delight) and most people enunciate enough that I can follow conversations from across the room. It's startling how many people curse on TV before the sound is turned on their mikes.... :P",
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"body": "I'm not exactly sure which languages would be easier, but I think a lot of the difficulty would depend on the inventory of sounds used in a language, and how those sounds are produced. The only cues a lip reader can use are the positions of the lips, teeth, and the tongue (if it happens to be towards the front of the mouth to be visible), though other articulators are used in producing speech sounds. For example, /v/ and /f/ would be indistinguishable to a lip reader, as they are produced with the same gesture (the lower lip against the upper teeth), and the only difference in sound is that the vocal folds vibrate when producing /v/ (this is referred to as a voiced sound; conversely, /f/ is voiceless). Also, some sounds (such as /n/) are produced with the nasal passage open (compared to /d/, which uses the same tongue gesture--tongue tip against the ridge behind the upper teeth--but with the nasal passage closed), which a lip reader could not see.",
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Why is this subreddit (/r/Israel) the ONLY ONE where I get those fucking "submit too fast" error messages? | Anyone want to shed on some light on this? Seriously, I can pound reddit with comments and submissions all day and all night but when I get to this bitch mother fucker of a subreddit, I get those god damn "submit to fast" messages CONSTANTLY. | 6 | [
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"body": "It happens to most of us due to the excessive down voting by our \"respected\" counter parts. \n\nBut go ahead, keep alluding to some moronic conspiracy. ",
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"body": "It is not personal. Every subreddit has a 100 karma (or so) throttle to keep spammers from flooding the subreddits. Just submit enough stuff to pass 100 karma and it goes away.\n\nAnd repeat after me: it's not a conspiracy against me, it's not a conspiracy against me.",
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"body": "/r/Israel is the only place on reddit where comments other than \"LOOKS LIKE ISRAEL IS THE REAL NAZIS NOW LOL\" or \"Fuck Israel\" aren't immediately downvoted to hell.\n\nIf you come from worldnews or politics or any other place on reddit and are therefore not used to seeing any other side but the fanatically pro-Palestinian, than I can understand how this might be a shock.\n\nBut I advise you to either step up your game, and realize that you aren't going to be masturbated furiously here for every childish and small-minded anti-Israel outburst, or go back to the rest of reddit.",
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May put an end to that joke | Today was supposed to be a good day, I was about to get a new job but I'm not even sure it will work. As usual, I had difficulty throughout the interview and I was reallly nervous which didn't help at all. Now, I'm on trial I'll be working there this afternoon so that they can see how I can handle the work. If it doesn't work like it's supposed to, I don't think I'll be able to go through this big joke my life has become for long. No matter what I'm trying, it just seem like I end up being the creepy lonely guy. I can't handle the pain anymore, I considered it to be ok when I was younger, I didn't care if I had a shitty job and I didn't care if I couldn't get to do anything else but now it's just too much. | 12 | [
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"body": "Why so skeptical it would work out? What happened? And if you don't get this job, you'll get another one.",
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"body": "Howdy man.\n\nthis 'creepy' thing is out of hand. I swear that 20% of the population must qualify as 'creepy' to most people. Socially, I have to wonder if it's a side-effect of the movie and TV content - and people selecting their favorite actors/friends/content. One could make the case that people generally fall in love with their own choices and image too much...\n\nAny careers or places you want to live that are outside the norm? Does what people think of you hold you back in things? Just asking, I really don't know you.\n\nHow old are you, i'm going to guess 25? What part of the world are you living in?\n\nIt can really take time to sort out what's best for a unique person... and creepy can become cool if you position yourself and are confident and happy with yourself. We are here, keep talkin.",
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"body": "Hey, if you wanna chat with someone, we have an IRC channel set aside to have one on one talking... the room is called SuicideWatch and its on irc.freenode.net \n\nThere are usually a good amount of people in there to talk. Be well! (hugs)",
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"body": "Well having work is great! Did you know that over 20 million people in the US don't have a job or can't get one? Yep, so you're better than them already.\n\nAnd creepy? What makes you say that? Give yourself a break. If you got a job they must not think you're creepy.",
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Hey, gunnit! Anyone found any cheap mail order 9mm lately? | I'm looking to buy 1-2000 rounds of cheap 9mm, and the cheapest I can find is around 189.00 and shipping per thousand. Has anyone found a better deal?
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"body": "gun-deals.com\n\ncheck it out\n\nDisclaimer - I don't work for them, they are just the best resource for ammo available",
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"body": "I don't think you'll do significantly better than that. I've been paying $240 per thousand, delivered.",
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Is anyone else as excited as I am that the sequel to Daemon, Freedom™ is finally out? | What with the superhackers vs. evil corporations it's like this book was written just for reddit. My copy came on Saturday and I'm just about finished with it. It's nigh unputdownable if you're into the techno-thriller type of thing. | 3 | [
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"body": "This book (series, now) is awesome and I'm a little surprised to not have seen more mention of it on Reddit. I reread Daemon last week in preparation for Freedom, and I'm about 65% of the way through it. ",
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Looking for a pair of walking shoes / flats that will last | I take the bus and do a lot of walking in between. I work in an office so I tend to wear a lot of semi-office attire. I do not like the look of tennis shoes when I’m not working out, so I would like something that is comfortable, sustains my foot arch and looks like a flat. Currently I own a few Target flats that need replacing. I sometimes wear my Doc Martens (14 eye), but sometimes I don’t have the time to lace them up in the morning, so If I can slip them on and run out, that would be perfect.
I live in southern California, so there are a lot of trendy shoe outlets, but I don't know the quality. Any good, trustworthy brands? | 13 | [
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"body": "Five years ago, I bought two pairs of Merrell shoes. They are still going strong. I wore them almost every day when we lived in London. They've gone through 2 years of walking almost 15 miles per day. They are still water proof. They were comfortable from the first day and even more so now. I get the feeling these shoes will never wear out. (Which means I'm not getting anything new for long, long awhile.)\n\nhttp://www.merrell.com/",
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"body": "Spend more money on a well made pair of shoes that will last longer rather than cheaper shoes that you have to replace every 6 months. Merrill, Dansko, Born, Mephisto and Ecco are all quality, supportive and well made walking shoes. ",
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"body": "Clarks are stylish and comfortable, they have many slip on styles in leather that last. Usually under $75 and can be found online and at outlets for less. ",
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"body": "I am a huge fan of the classic Sperry's, but you may not be able to pull that off in your office. I'd recommend something from Born; great arch support and will really last.",
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"body": "I get my shoes at Sierra Trading Post. You do know about Sierra Trading Post, right?\n\nhttp://sierratradingpost.com",
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"body": "I got a pair of Nike Free's about 5 years ago and replaced them this year with a new pair. Constant use, including: Track Practice, Working at an airport, walking to and from class in all weather(snow, rain, ice), running and biking indoors and out. And 3 trips to the Quetico/Boundary waters portaging and canoeing.\n\nThese things are great. They are also the type of shoe thats basically a sock so your feet feel the ground. I'd suggest going with the \"Sparq\" or \"7\" cause they have more rubber for wear and would be easier on your foot. \n",
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Can you make sure AdBlock works on external pages when RedditBar is turned on? | I had turned off AdBlock for Reddit.com, but since Redditbar shortens urls to reddit.com domain, I get served the ads on all external links where the bar is used. Are you considering to use a different domain for the RedditBar url so that it doesn't disable AdBlock? | 5 | [
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"body": "I guess you could try whitelisting the reddit.com/ads/ iframe instead of all of reddit. This filter should do the trick:\n\n@@||reddit.com/ads/$subdocument\n\n\nMore info at the [adblock plus filter guide](http://adblockplus.org/en/filters).",
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Do you talk during sex? | I'm a girl dating this new guy and he likes to talk about what we're doing, what he's going to do, etc. Is that normal? | 206 | [
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"body": "The drunker I am, the more talkative I become. And not sexy \"Yeah, how do you like that?\" talkative, but \"Do you remember Street Sharks?\" talkative.",
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"body": "I had one guy who had a serious thing for asian chicks. He was great in bed and was not outwardly a japanophile or anything. So one time I just decided to talk dirty to him in thai (my ethnicity) and he had the fastest/hardest orgasm I've ever experienced with him. ",
"score": 278
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"body": "I had a friend who liked to quote NBA Jam when he was with a special lady.\n\nFROM DOWNTOWN!\n\nBOOMSHAKALAKA!",
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"body": "I sing the national anthem, followed by the lord's prayer just before I begin. \n\nWhen I am just about finished, I will shout ***\"IT'S HAPPENING!!\"***\n\nThen I roll off and ask \"How's your father?\"",
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"body": "A few weeks ago I did something stupid and ended up with a pretty prevalent gash on my forehead. My friends IMMEDIATELY began to make Harry Potter jokes, which was clever at first (barely), but got old fast.\n\nThe worst was yet to come, though, because my girlfriend caught wind of the gag and found it goddamn hilarious, so at every opportunity she would ask how Dumbledore was doing or if I was enjoying Snape's class this semester. It's not that it really bothered me, but it would kind of kill the flow of conversation, so it began to grate on my nerves. \n\nI would have the last laugh, though. \n\nI told her that it was in her best interest to stop making jokes, but she persisted.\n\nA few days into her continual onslaught of shitty jokes, I decided I'd had enough and began to plot revenge.\n\nThe opportunity arrived quicker than I expected, as things began to get hot and heavy one afternoon.\n\nWe ripped each others clothes off and I threw her onto the bed. We're both getting into it pretty hard, and after awhile we're about to climax at the same time. I was just barely ahead of her though, and a wild idea entered my head. Just as I was about to blow I pulled out and pointed my meaty wand at her and yelled \"EXPECTO PATRONUM BITCH\", shooting my load like a blinding cascade of protein-rich magical sunbeams into her face. \n\nShe fell off the bed laughing, ruining her orgasm and leaving me with the greatest feeling of simultaneous relief and victory I had ever experienced.\n\nShe stopped the jokes.",
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"body": "No lie, I used to hum the \"candy man can\" song when going in for initial penetration. Had to get over that one.",
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"body": "No, but ... I take an antidepressant that makes it very hard/impossible for me to reach orgasm, but I get more and more turned on the more we fool around. This can lead to brutal marathon sex sessions where I'm almost desperate to get off, barking orders, and generally using her like a fuck puppet to trick my cock into coming. On a couple of such occasions when we've both been very proud and relieved that I made it, I've felt the need to raise my fists in the air and belt out the first few bars of \"We Are the Champions!\".",
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"body": "Apparently I say really dirty things during sex...I just have no idea I'm saying it all. It's like my brain switches over and just goes full sex-fiend. \n\nAnd I've met my share of men who like to talk during sex. Just as long as what he/she's saying doesn't make you uncomfortable or scared. \n\nMaybe try talking back to him. Or, if his talking really does bother you could ask him to try sex with no speaking; sometimes when sex becomes more activity and less of a time to connect I suggest doing this with guys I am dating. It forces you to really pay attention to what your partners body is doing and how it's reacting to everything.",
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"body": "I find people who talk during sex to be just plain bothersome.\n\n-Yeah, fuck me!\n\n-Uhm.. what?\n\n-Fuck me!\n\n-It's what I'm doing here. Didn't you notice?\n\n-Oh yeah!\n\n-Yeah what?\n\n-Yeah, fuck me!\n\n-Look, if we wanted to say completely obvious things to each other, we could have just stayed in that bar. The music wasn't that loud. Anyway, I'm trying to.. hmm.. I seem to have forgotten where I was.",
"score": 77
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"body": "My wife is fairly prim - we have a great sex life, but she's not much of a dirty talker. At 30, and after 8 years of marriage, she's still hot, 5'8\", blonde, nice TNA. The other day we're getting it on, and she blurts out \"I want your cum inside me, gimme your cum!\"\n\nI fucking blasted off, like, immediately. Surprise dirty talk is fucking awesome, lady redditors.",
"score": 67
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"body": "Double penetration... multi penetration, ultra penetration... mmmmmonster penetration... Penetration SPREE. Unpenetrationable, Penetration Like. ",
"score": 49
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"body": "Yes, it's very normal! I usually say something like:\n\n*\"Is this in accordance with your preferences?\"*\n\n*\"Please accept this, you female canine.\"*\n\n*\"My finale is not that far from fruition.\"*\n\n*\"Can you tell me the identity of your father?\"*",
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"body": "Sometimes I talk during sex. Not about the weather, or anything.\n\n* Ow.\n* I'm totally okay with what we are doing right now.\n* Did that hurt?\n* No, that isn't right.\n* Can we switch?\n* Just spit on it!",
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"body": "granted i was pretty drunk, but when i was sleeping with this chick from the reserves i sang proud to be an American...she didn't think it was nearly as funny as i did.",
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"body": "We were playing with a couple this weekend and the guy was practically directing his own porno. It was rather...odd. He was going on and on about what he was going to do, etc. I could tell that this routine was pretty tired with his wife. She seemed to perk with what *I* do in bed though - I like to whisper in their ears. And not porno stuff, but how soft their skin feels, how great they smell, or how good they are making me feel, etc. The talking thing can really ruin things...",
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"body": "Talkers always seems to want to prod non-talkers into talking. And it is freaking annoying. It's like they think they are in a porno and they are required to have dialogue.\r\n\"Do you like it?\"\r\n\"Oh, yeah...oh...\"\r\n\"Tell me you like it\"\r\n\"Mmmmm, oh, yeah.\"\r\n\"Tell me you like it.\"\r\n\"Oh god, oh....god.\"\r\n\"Tell me you like it.\"\r\n\"Oooooo\"\r\n\"Tell me you like it.\"\r\n\"I like it?\"\r\n\"Yeah you do.\"",
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"body": "it's usually a lot of \"don't worry, the pain is normal.\" and \"yes, you can go when I'm finished.\" but lately it's been \" no, you can't have more roofies\"",
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"body": "\"Oh, so the penis goes IN the vainga. I've been misinformed.\"\r\n\r\nAnd as a Haiku:\r\n\r\nOh, I get it now:\r\n\r\nPenis goes in vagina\r\n\r\nI've been misinformed",
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"body": "I charge extra for that. :-)\n\nIt *can* be hot. It is a developed ability and best used with caution at the onset.\n\nEXAMPLE: A lot of people like dirty talk. Some people prefer it without profanity.",
"score": 22
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"body": "One of my ex-girlfriends asked me to explain the gist of natural selection during sex one time. Being a biology student, I find myself thinking about that particular encounter quite often during class.",
"score": 20
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"body": "Yes, I do. It is not extensive or anything. I look into his eyes, smile, say I love him, and kiss him passionately. I also tell him things like, \"you are so handsome.\" =)",
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"body": "No, my mouth is usually otherwise occupied.\n\nEdit: BTW, silent_night, if he is doing what you say, he watches **WAY** too much bad porn.",
"score": 16
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"body": "I'm married, so my wife usually decides this is a good time to discuss her plans for our weekend, what chores I need to get done, and what we are having for dinner tomorrow night....",
"score": 11
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"body": "I say things like \"god I love you\", \"Wait....don't move!\", \"Oh fuck\", \"god damn\" and \"I'm really sorry\". ",
"score": 11
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"body": "I tell ya, my wife likes to talk during sex. Last night, she called me from a motel.\n\nRodney Dangerfield (November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004)",
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"body": "Sounds pretty normal. \n\nMy girlfriend likes it when I talk to her (dirty or not) and it really keeps my mind off the many screaming voices in my head. ",
"score": 9
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"body": "Um, never a conversation but position change, questions, dirtyish. This reminds me of the other night when my wife and I were getting into it and then my cat shows up and starts licking my wife's bare shoulders. We both broke out in laughter.",
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"body": "I say things like,\r\n\r\n\"How are you doing, young lady?\"\r\n\"This is a nice way to spend 5 minutes.\"\r\n\"Do you mind if I stick my dick in your ass, young lady?\"\r\n\r\nThings like that. Inquisitive, Factual, polite and to the point. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"body": "One time I was having sex with my vegetarian girlfriend and started listing all the meats that she was missing out on. I think I got through a solid 15 different kinds before she asked what the fuck I was doing. No, I don't know how she could avoid eating bacon either.",
"score": 7
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"body": "He's just being a gentleman. Would you like something shoved up your ass without a little warning first? ",
"score": 6
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"body": "It says something about the depth of your relationship that you are asking 100,000 random strangers instead of telling him about how you feel about it. Something to think about.",
"score": 6
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"body": "one's brain is the largest and most complex sex organ we have. The older I get, the more I need my brain engaged in the act to feel really pleased. Sex talk/narration can definitely help as long as it is not scripted...",
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"body": "I do. I have a guttermouth. What I'm doing, what I'm going to do, what I want to do. Sometimes a bit degrading, \"You little slut...etc\"\n\nI find *most* women like it. But everyone is different.",
"score": 5
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"body": "He growls a lot, which was surprising at first but also a huge turn on. I'd say I'm probably the most verbal. A lot of commands and compliments, teehee. :p Suck my nipples! Harder! God you're so strong, fuck me deeper, make me scream!\n\nOn occasion we've stopped and had humorous conversations. One morning we woke up and just jumped each other, and stopped in the middle to look at each other and say \"by the way, good morning.\"",
"score": 5
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"body": "Since I'm still in high school girls my age are easy to tell what to do in bed so that is what I do.",
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Hai /guitar/, help me out with some improv theory | I'm a beginner, been playing a steel-stringed acoustic casually for the past year. I don't know any theory whatsoever, so far I played by ear or guitar tabs.
I'm seeing friends / random people doing improvs while other people simply play a progression of chords, and I can't figure out how it's done. Off the top of my head, here's [an example](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKNV3AU0-Eo#t=0m48s) of what I'm talking about - the part Michael Cera is playing.
Can you explain/throw me some links for the music theory behind this kind of thing ? Thanks !
EDIT: Many thanks to everyone, got a lot of good things out of this thread. | 8 | [
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"body": "Well, if you get good enough, you can make anything work -- it's called \"jazz\". But if you're asking how to do basic improvs: practice. \n\nPick a key, like Cmaj, and play something -- anything -- using only the notes of that scale on your guitar. You'll probably need to keep playing the note \"C\" just to remind yourself that it's your root, your starting point. Don't work on the improv aspect at first: just try to settle on, say, four bars of fixed notes that sound good to you, a mini-solo that you can memorize and play over and over.\n\nThen pick another chord, like \"F\" or \"G\", and do the same thing. You might wind up with the same solo in the new key, maybe not. Keep practicing every day for at least a couple hours.\n\nNext: constructing a solo with two base chords, like four bars over a C, four over an Emin, and back again in a loop. Going into longer progressions is even harder, and takes even more practice.\n\nThe improv thing will come of its own accord over time, but obviously how good you get will vary with the player. But even the greatest rock lead guitarists have only perhaps 40 soloing patterns they play (starting at the right fret for the current chord), and their improv is usually just minor variations of fixed mini-solos chained together.",
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"body": "She is repeating a G-D progression. He is noodling around in a G major scale. Look up he shapes for the Major and Minor scale and then play around with them over a recording of yourself playing a simple progression in the same key. ",
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Dear Reddit, I leave in an hour for my first day at my new job. I guess this is goodbye :'/ | I'm gonna miss you. I know, I know...but it's something I have to do. My wife is shouldering most of the burden, and it's not fair to her. Yes, she knows about us...but she doesn't know my true feelings about you. How I long for your escapist embrace. The private moments we have shared, the joy, the pain, the senseless arguing, and the pun threads...oh, how I love those pun threads.
Today is the first day of the end of my life. It's a sucky managerial position, so I'm going to be working 40-60 hours a week...and there's no internet access (it's in a restaurant, not an office). I'll try to sneak in a fleeting moment with you, on my iPhone, but it's not going to be the same. Maybe we should just break it off clean, you know? That way it'll be easier for the both of us.
I know you're going to be fine without me. You'll meet other people, some that are even funnier, wittier, and use less annoying memes than I have. My insides well up when I think of all the fun you're going to have...and I won't be there to share. This is really it.
Goodbye, reddit...:''( You'll always have a special place in my heart.
/karmaknotte | 25 | [
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"body": "This hurts man! You can't break up with us like this! You have to call each and every member on the phone. Breaking up over the net is a douche move man!",
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"body": "noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! No internet access? How do they expect you to twitter the police if something happens... Unless they don't want you to twitter the police!!! Egads! Who the hell downvotes a chap moving up in life? The unemployed! Positive attitude guys! Good luck with your new job, buddy, and remember brush up on your spanish so that things get done! \n\nI know that they are easy to get used to, but please kill the rats when you see them, your place of business CANNOT be bothered with things like legal employment and sanitation, and the municipality will no longer have the funds to enforce them.",
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"body": "Ummm, think you can bring home some leftovers for us tonight? I mean, we're redditors, so we're up late and like to snack...preferably something fried? Maybe some mozza sticks or nachos or something?",
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Hey foodit what is your favorite local eatery and what is their specialty? | I love to support the local little guys in the food scene. What local food do you have in your area that you would miss too much if you moved away? I can give you 2 great examples in the Metro Minnesota area [Town Talk Diner](http://www.towntalkdiner.com/) and their Croque Monsieur and [Key's Bakery and Cafe](http://www.keyscafe.com/menus.shtml) and their Spinach salad with hot bacon dressing | 45 | [
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"body": "In Rochester, NY:\n\n[Dinosaur BBQ](http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/) - best BBQ in New York.\n\n[California Rollin'](http://www.californiarollin.com/) - addictive sushi.\n\n[Bill Gray's](http://www.billgrays.com/) - great burgers, amazing hot sauce.\n\n[Jines](http://www.jinesrestaurant.com/) - reasonably priced higher-end food\n\n[Rubino's](http://www.rubinos.net/) - Italian deli & subs\n\n[Pasta Villa](http://www.thepastavilla.com/) - very tiny Italian restaurant with a fantastic menu. If you can think of it, and they have the ingredients, they'll make whatever you ask of them.\n\n[Nick Tahou's](http://www.garbageplate.com/) - can't forget \"The Garbage Plate\".\n",
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"body": "Also some other notables that are still in business in Columbus, OH:\n\n*[Schmidt's Sausage Haus](http://www.schmidthaus.com/) - Cream Puffs & Birthplace of the Bahama Mama\n\n*[Haiku Poetic Food and Art](http://www.haikupoeticfoodandart.com/) - Best Sushi Around\n\n*[Jenni's](http://jenisicecreams.com/) - Eclectic Flavors (Personal Fave Queen City Cayenne) \n\n*[Starliner Diner](http://www.starlinerdiner.com/) - Best Cuban Diner, nothing bad on the menu!\n\n*[Dirty Frank's Hot Dog Palace](http://dirtyfrankscolumbus.com/) - Get any type of hot dog any way you want it!\n\nEDIT: Clarification of the food served at said eateries",
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"body": "Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor, MI - The Buenos Aires brownie and basically every single sandwich they offer. Sidetrack in Ypsilanti, MI's sweet potato fries. Cafe Muse in Royal Oak, MI's grilled cheese sandwich. Also Polish Village in Hamtramck, MI and Slow's BBQ in Detroit, if only for their apple bbq sauce.",
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"body": "It's a tough call living in New Orleans, but currently it's [Mahony's Poboys](http://mahonyspoboys.com/), serving up classic New Orleans sandwiches (Roast Beef, pulled pork, fried seafood, other deli meats, everything all on one sandwich...) as well as my personal favorite, the cochon de'lait: pulled pork and cole slaw. I didn't even know I liked cole slaw until this sandwich. That, and add some of their unbelievably fantastic onion rings on top, and I'll be having my third heart attack by next week. ",
"score": 9
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"body": "[Charcuterie hébraïque de Montréal](http://www.schwartzsdeli.com/) best known as “Schwartz’s”, which you can [see in greater details here](http://www.youtube.com/user/canadiantourism#p/c/05ED0FE98DFCB4C7/64/tzg7GfKnsd8). \n\nPeople will queue for hours at all time of day and night even when it is minus 20 degrees.",
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"body": "[The Flying Biscuit Cafe](http://www.flyingbiscuit.com/). They're in Atlanta, and they do organic-y dishes, and they serve great breakfasts all day. Their biscuits are amazing--light and poofy and great with their cinnamon apple butter (\"It tastes like Christmas,\" as one friend of mine described it).",
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"body": "[Oklahoma Joe's](http://www.oklahomajoesbbq.com/) \nBest BBQ joint in KC, therefore in the world. Its inside a gas station near downtown KC. Anthony Bourdain put it on his top 13 places to eat before you die. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "[Fat Matt's Rib Shack](http://www.fatmattsribshack.com/) in Atlanta, GA.\n\nThey do ribs... and they are quite delicious,",
"score": 7
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"body": "[Cornish Pasties](http://www.cornishpastyco.com/) in Chandler, AZ. I flippin' love their Oggie. Also, they have $2 carbombs all day everyday.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Just about any of the places listed at [foodcartsportland](http://foodcartsportland.com). \r\n\r\nAlso [Le Pigeon](http://www.lepigeon.com). Gabriel does amazing things with sweetbreads. And the beef cheek bourguignon. And .... ",
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"body": "Falafel's Drive-In, San Jose, CA\n\nI always get the falafel special which is a falafel pita (I add extra white sauce, they are a bit heavy on the spicy red sauce) and a fresh banana milk shake. MMmmMMm.",
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"body": "A Taste of Africa is my favorite place to eat in the whole world. It's a tiny (4 or 5 tables) little restaurant in south Berkeley, right at the Oakland border. The guy who cooks, serves, and pretty much runs the whole place is this hella awesome dude from Camroon. He used to only have a catering truck that would be parked at the flea market on weekends, but then finally opened a storefront about 4 or 5 years ago. The service is definitely african style, slow and friendly, more like waiting to eat at a friend's house than a restaurant. I can't even begin to convey how much I love this place. Also, the best hot sauce I've ever had, he'll even put some in a jar and sell it to you for like $10. Pricey as far as hot sauce goes but so worth it.\n\nIf you're reading this Malong, thanks for the veggie combos man!",
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"body": "NYC (this includes Brooklyn): \n\nVeselka on W. 9th (ish?) & 2nd Ave is 24 hours and makes AMAZING pierogis. \n\nLe Gamin on Vanderbilt has great brunch-- everything from their simple tartine to the croque madame is delicious. \n\nPomme de Terre on Newkirk in Brooklyn has INCREDIBLE steak/frites, but I adore their pan roasted skate with lemons & capers. Orgasmic. \n\nOwned by the same people as PdT, but Farm on Adderley, on Cortelyou, makes an amazing burger. \n\nKatz's makes INCREDIBLE fries, btw. And delicious everything else, too. \n\nI could list these for hours. ",
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"body": "[Booches](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booches) in Columbia, MO. Get two cheeseburgers with everything and a coke. \n\n[Old Town Cafe](http://maps.google.com/maps/place?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=old+town+cafe+bellingham&fb=1&gl=us&hq=old+town+cafe&hnear=bellingham&cid=8338968021998968116) in Bellingham, WA. Google says it's a vegetarian place, but they definitely have meat too. their breakfast is amazing, I usually get a #9, which is a crazy eggs Benedict. \n\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "[Rutt's Hut in Clifton, NJ](http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=1362)\n\nDeep fried hot dogs are so good!",
"score": 5
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"body": "[Gracie's Ravioli](http://www.graciesravioli.com/). It's in Nyack, New York. Ravioli obviously, which is delicious. But they sell a lot of other Italian imports. The broccoli rabe ravioli is my favorite.",
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"body": "[The Art of Pizza](http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-art-of-pizza-chicago)\nHere in Chicago, there are plenty of options for pizza. There are those who will argue blue in the face that Giordano's, Uno's, or Lou Malnatti's are the best options in town...those people are sheep! You will never get a better combination of sauce, cheese, crust, and toppings than what you get at Art of Pizza, no matter if you get the deep dish or the thick crust (i prefer the thick crust). SO YUMMY!",
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"body": "[Smackies BBQ](http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/33/372247/restaurant/North-Side/Smackies-Barbeque-Columbus) was one of my favorite places to eat in Columbus. I am a BBQ lover, and City BBQ is good, but it does have that chain feel to it. Smackies was the kind of place that the owner would stop by at your table, took pride in his food, and made sure that your meal was good. Great environment and music. Like many of the eateries listed here, it has since closed. It was a sad day for me having only visited it 4 times. Does anyone know of a good BBQ joint near Columbus?",
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"body": "Yakitori Boy in Philadelphia. They specialize in food on motherfuckin sticks (yakitori)... and karaoke.",
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"body": "[Moscow on the Hill](http://moscowonthehill.com/), also in the Twin Cities. Beef Stroganoff. Anything on the breakfast menu at [Hell's Kitchen](http://www.hellskitcheninc.com/Menu.html), lemon-ricotta hotcakes and wild rice porridge in particular.",
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"body": "Madison, WI -- there are several awesome places...Harvest, L'Etoile, The Weary Traveler, THE OLD FASHIONED (incredible Wisconsin cuisine), State Street Brats, Sardine, The Great Dane, etc...Madison's got GREAT food.",
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"body": "Gotta rep Baltimore. \n\n[b. Bistro](http://www.b-bistro.com/) - My absolute favorite place in Baltimore. Their scallops are always perfect, and the menu changes depending on what they can get freshest per day. \n[Tyson's](http://www.tysonstavern.net/) - This is my favorite place to go for Football. The signature wings are amazing, the beer is cheap, and the Owner/Bartender, Dean, is approximately the nicest guy on the planet. (Obviously not a web designer, though) \n[Joe²](http://www.joesquared.com/) - Pizza is phenomenal, Salads are even better. \n[Iggie's](http://www.iggiespizza.com/) - I'll get knifed by hipsters for saying it, but Iggie's pizza is better than Joe². The guy who makes the pizza is a former sommelier for a few well-known resurants in the area, but the story goes that he started dating a woman who was opening a pizza joint, and now he makes pizza and gets high. Can't knock it. \n\nEdit: spelling\n\nThere's a lot of excellent food around here, so don't let Baltimore's bad rep get you down. This place is totally fucking awesome.",
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"body": "[Ted's](http://www.tedsrestaurant.com/) Cheeseburgers in Meriden, Ct. \nThey steam the burgers, and the cheese, combine on a large roll, mustard, maybe lettuce, tomato, Fantastic!! \n\n*edited for formatting",
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"body": "www.chicagogyrosohio.com\n\nthis place is the bomb, its a local Gyro shop in Cincinnati near my house.",
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"body": "Nothing where I live now in PA is worth mentioning, but back when I lived in Lake Stevens, WA there's a pizza place called South Lake Pizza, which has one of the best pizzas I've ever had, anywhere. \n\nThat is, with the notable exception of Cassano's Pizza in Sidney, OH (which is *not* a part of the Cassano's chain in Dayton and Cincinnati) which has *the* finest pizza on the planet, bar none. \n\nAlso, in Seattle there's a small chain of Mexican restaurants called *Tacos Guyamas* which has the finest, authentic Mexican food I've ever had outside of Mexico itself. ",
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"body": "In Yellow Springs OH there are some great places. I'll edit them in when I get off the bus and to a real computer. \n\nHere they are\n\n[Sunrise Cafe](http://www.sunrisecafe-ys.com/)\nAn amazing breakfast with upscale classic diner fare. Try the pancakes.\n\n[The Winds](http://www.windscafe.com/)\nAmerican casual dinning with a rotating menu.\n\n[The Emporium](http://www.emporiumwines.com/)\nCoffee shop/liquor store. The croissants are fresh daily. \n \n[Current Cuisine](http://www.currentcuisine.com/)\nI would always get the build your own sandwich smoked turkey, swiss, green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and humas on a sourdough baguette \n\n\n",
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"body": "Seattle: \n\n[Tacos Guaymas](http://tacosguaymas.com/?page_id=4) -- most authentic mexican food (cow tongue burrito, anyone?) and super cheap/fast. \n[Lunchbox Laboratory](http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=lunchbox+laboratory&fb=1&gl=us&hq=lunchbox+laboratory&hnear=Seattle,+WA+98121&cid=0,0,3570579494956129935&ei=6LlLS8XFFpT8tAODu_H1Dw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=4&ved=0CBIQnwIwAw) -- best burgers I've ever had. You don't want to miss the dork (duck + pork) burger. Menu changes semi-daily. Nutella shakes to boot! \n[La Carta de Oaxaca](http://www.lacartadeoaxaca.com/) -- proving mexican food can be high end.. and delicious. My brother never comes to town without us stopping here once. It's basically mexican tapas. Their mole sauce is the best I've had anywhere, and that includes mexico. \n[Than Brothers Pho](http://www.thanbrothers.com/) -- cheap and delicious pho (only topped by pho bac 3 in the ID), and you get a homemade creampuff as an appetizer! \n[Uli's Sausage](http://www.ulisfamoussausage.com/) -- sausage. If you want it, they have it. Basic things like andouille and spicy pork sausage, custom ones like loaded garlic chicken sausage, and more obscure ones for difficult recipes like french avignon or south african boerewors. Their hot links are fantastic. \n[Salumi](http://www.salumicuredmeats.com/) -- owned by mario batalli's dad. if there was a heaven for meat lovers, it would be in the back room of this place. \n[Cafe Campagne](http://www.campagnerestaurant.com/cafe_home.html) -- best french cooking in seattle, with a cassoulet to die for. Delicous duck confit. Only bad part is that the steak frites is pretty good, but a bit underseasoned for my taste. \n[Rover's](http://www.rovers-seattle.com/) -- the chef is a god among chefs. What more can you say? \n[Poppy](http://www.poppyseattle.com/) -- a weird \"thali\" idea; basically a set number of small dishes for a fixed price. But it's always unique and always includes something I wouldn't normally eat. \n\nThere's plenty more, but that's a good intro to seattle :) \n\n",
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"body": "There's this lovely little place in Bloomington, Indiana called Dat's. They do Cajun food, and the guy who owns the place really ought to be on my Christmas card list.",
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"body": "[Bennie Dollard](http://www.udreview.com/2.1980/best-kept-secret-bennie-dollard-1.136783). He makes all different kind of steak sandwiches, very reasonably priced and he's the friendliest guy you'd ever meet.",
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"body": "I'm in Ann Arbor and I am going to go with: \nChai-Shiang - best authentic chinese here\n\nGreat Plains Burger Co - Amazingly fresh and delicious burgers\n\nZingerman's Deli (obligatory I know) - best deli EVAR\n\nAs to Sidetrack, I wasn't impressed. ",
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"body": "[City Cafe](http://www.therecord.com/entertainment/dining/dining_427.html) is an awesome locally-owned chain of bakeries in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They don't have a cash register or a phone -- you go in, they make your pizza or sandwich or you pick up your bagels, breads, and desserts, put your cash in the antique bus fare box beside the counter, and you go.\n\nThey're exactly what a local bakery-cafe ought to be. I used to live within walking distance of one, but I moved out of the area about a year ago. They're the thing I miss most about living there.\n\nIf you're in southern Ontario, I highly recommend getting to Cambridge or Kitchener and checking them out.",
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"body": "Tom Jenkin's BBQ, Fort Lauderdale, FL.\r\nWhatever else I get (usually a beef or pork sandwich plate), I try to get the collard greens on the side.",
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"body": "[Zaytoon](http://www.cafezaytoon.com/) in Santa Barbara. Awesome middle eastern food, with the best lamb kebab I've ever had. The banana cream cake is awesome as well. IMO, it's the best value restaurant in Santa Barbara for what you get. The ambiance itself beats out many other local restaurants.",
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"body": "Grinders is a tiny chain around here. They do sandwiches and pasta dinners for the most part. Their bread is out of this world, and their bolognese (sp?) sauce is superb. I think they have an old Italian woman chained up in the kitchen that tends the sauce pot at all times. The downside is, the place messes with my intestines if I eat too much of it. But it is delicious nonetheless.",
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"body": "[Kopp's](http://www.kopps.com/)\n\n\nThey make custard and thats just about the pinnacle of everything Wisconsin. They deliver across the nation because it is just that good.",
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"body": "[The Alligator Grill](http://www.alligatorgrill.com/), Austin, Texas. They serve Cajun food. In case any one has seen Office Space, it's where all the Chachski's scenes were filmed. They serve alligator. Yummie stuff. And their gumbo is to die for.",
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"body": "[Misal of India](http://misalofindia.com) in Norman, OK.\nMy favorite is the Dal, but most other people I know love the Chola the most. ",
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"body": "Vancouver, BC: [East is East](http://www.eastiseast.ca). It's a romantic restaurant serving Indian and Afghan cuisine. Their specialty is the chai they serve there, and as soon as you walk in they'll offer you a sample of it so you can't miss out on it.",
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"body": "Le Pigeon, Portland Oregon. They take NW food and cook it in a French Style. The best things I've ever eaten.",
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"body": "Here are a few favorites of mine in Silicon Valley\n\n[Tres Potrillos Taqueria](http://www.yelp.com/biz/tres-potrillos-taqueria-sunnyvale) in Sunnyvale - best carintas ever. It's very crispy and salty. They also have an excellent green salsa that has lots of avocado in it (not salsa verde).\n\n[Athena Grill](http://www.yelp.com/biz/athena-grill-santa-clara) in Santa Clara - best Greek place in the Bay Area. Their gyro plate with fries comes with this garlic/olive dipping sauce that my coworkers in adjacent cubicles can probably smell on my breath for hours after lunch.\n\n[JJ & F Market](http://www.yelp.com/biz/jj-and-f-food-store-palo-alto) in Palo Alto - best sandwich place around, though there sadly doesn't seem to be much competition. Sandwiches are huge and their bread, meat (mostly [Columbus](http://www.columbussalame.com/)), and vegetables are high quality. The Columbus pepper turkey is excellent.",
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"body": "white manna. 10 minutes away from me in hackensack, nj. \nthink of white castle on crack. \n\nedit: misspelled the name haha. just because it's good doesn't mean i should know how to spell it!",
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"body": "[Screendoor](http://www.screendoorrestaurant.com/) in Portland, OR. Probably the best food I have ever had, and it's reasonably priced. \n\nBest damn Southern food this far north. ",
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"body": "[Roast Grill](http://roastgrill.com/), Raleigh NC - They do ONE thing and do it right! Hot Dogs and a small bottle Coke. WARNING: Don't ask for Pepsi or Ketchup... you might get your feelings hurt!",
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"body": "my SF favorite is a tiny sushi joint called Sushi Zone. It has 2 tables and 8 seats at the bar. if you want some sushi, be prepared to wait a couple hours if you don't happen to get one of the first seats. Even on most weeknights. It's basically run by one guy, his assistant who cooks the hot food and such and a waitress. Cheap too, compared to hipster sushi joints that play techno music and try to come up with hipster names for rolls. Takes some time for the food and the service but it's soooooooooo good. I've never had a bad experience there and I go as often as I can. (Hawaiian Roll #1, Spicy Mango Salmon and a Baked Sea Bass and Baked Mussels and I'm good to go)\n\nIf I bother going to Oakland, I really like [zacharys](http://www.zacharys.com/) pizza. It's probably the best pizza I've ever had, definitely the best in the Bay. ",
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Ask Reddit DMs: How much preparation do you make prior to starting a new campaign? | I'm about to start a new 4ed D&D campaign with my regular group of players and have spent the past week or so constructing the game world. We're slated to start play on the 26th, giving me plenty of time to wrap up the current campaign (only intended to go to level 10 just so everyone could get a feel for 4ed) and plan out all the things I'll need to make the next campaign a (hopefully) huge success.
My question, fellow DMs, is how much preparation do you make prior to the first roll of the dice? World/city/village/encounter maps? Analysis of political structure with footnotes detailing major players? Entire overarching storyline from start to finish?
I'm really big on reincorporating players' backgrounds in unexpected ways into the main story, so I find having a fully flesh-out world prepared prior to character creation gives the players a greater ability to make good, solid backgrounds I can later use. Any other thoughts or suggestions? | 5 | [
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"body": "Depends on the game and the setting.\r\n\r\nModern, I do next to no prep at all. Modern games are the easiest to improvise IMO.\r\n\r\nI've done exactly one homebrewed campaign and decided they were too much work. Or rather, too much of the work didn't pay off. Maps took several hours to write, but provided 1 minute of game time. Not worth the trouble IMO, unless you're going to use the setting over the span of several campaigns.\r\n\r\nMost of what I do is in existing settings. I like Forgotten Realms. I can look up what's out there already but have room to make up what I need to. \r\n\r\nSetting aside, I usually plan ideas but not sessions. I keep a wiki for dumping random ideas into. These ideas can be anything I'd use - an NPC, long term plot, major villain, themed dungeon, puzzle or riddle, etc. Even when I'm not GMing I sometimes stumble on ideas that would be good for a game. These end up in my wiki. When I have enough ideas that could exist in one world, I start a game around them. \r\n\r\nAt this point I call for players. In theory this happens about a month before the game starts. I used to require backstory, but gave up on that. Now I just tell my players that if backstory will be rewarded with personal plot and if they can't be bothered to write them, I'll write plots for the other PCs. \r\n\r\nWhen I get backstory (usually from 2/3 of the players) I read through them looking for plot hooks and NPCs. I don't really like the super obvious plot hooks that PCs usually include. I mean, I'll still use those but they're not as fun for me as pulling out something the player didn't expect. Usually I merge NPCs here. What I mean by that is if two backstories mention NPCs in similar roles, or if a backstory's NPC sounds like one of my aforementioned ideas, they become the same NPC. This makes it easy later on to link plots together. So if one player is following a personalized plot, it will extend into the main plot, bringing the character along with it.",
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Why hasn't there been a Canada vs. USA RTS game yet? | I've been dreaming of a game like this since I read about possible war plans written up in the 1930s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
If you can imagine a game like company of heroes played out in an alternate reality where WWI never began because of some US / Canadian relations issues caused this war first.
There are a million ways this can play out. And I'd love to see it explored.
-USA declares war on Canada. Canada attacks major US strategic cities and wait for Commonwealth reinforcements.
- US invades Canada and Britain with its allies need to invade and push them back
In my mind I'm picturing a massive RTS with money management based on the countries abilities at the time. Social issues could also arise, leading the countries to either withdraw or better support Canada.
My mind is racing with possibilities. But I'm hoping someone at EA or some other development studio will pick up and run with this idea.
Any suggestions on how I can get this off the ground even? I'd love for this game to be made. | 4 | [
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"body": "There's also the [war of 1812](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812) to think about for reference.",
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"body": "I think in the later parts of the campaign, following the official fall of Canadian government into American hands and the rise of intense guerrilla resistance outside of major cities, the conflict would become America vs. The Rest of the Planet \n\nEDIT: for clarity; the other (former) British colonies, and the UK (united with the European Union), would pour military into Canada",
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"body": "Oh my god. Talk about the shortest military campaign ever.\r\n\r\nIt would be like Protoss vs an ant hill.",
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is it me, or are there too many churches? | coming home from work everyday i pass 5 large churches, and there's another huge one right down the street. one of them is just a little place with a small parking lot, but the other ones are ridiculously big, and constantly filled with cars. they look like multi-story fancy libraries or shopping malls.... all for god.
Is anyone else disturbed by this?
edit: thanks to you all, i am reassured that i am not the only one pumping my fist. | 43 | [
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"body": "Now, think about all of the money involved with all of the churches and what else more useful it could have been spent on.",
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"body": "There are more churches in the United States alone than there are McDonalds' in the entire world.\n\nFood for thought...",
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"body": "You want to be disturbed by churches... go to the ghetto. \n\nTake Benton Harbor, MI for example. Used to be a thriving town, now it's a shit-hole ghetto. The main drag in Benton Harbor has more churches than it does businesses. ",
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"body": "I live in a small town in southern Georgia, USA.\n\npopulation <10,000\n\nEasily over 200 churches, mostly Baptists.\n\n\nyea, there are a few too fucking many.",
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"body": "I've noticed that this usually allows for further fracturing of denominations, at least as far as christian churches go. My wife's family goes to a smaller protestant church b/c the large & closer one is too liberal. ",
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"body": "It makes me upset because so many churches are gorgeous buildings from an architectural standpoint and I wish those resources were put into something more productive than religion. ",
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"body": "One is too many, but tens of thousands not having to pay taxes and taking money from people is bullshit.",
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"body": "The fact that they have the money to purchase the land and build a church on it tells me that they are NOT giving all of the money that they collect to Jesus.",
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"body": "I'm in Massachusetts. In the last year or so, about a dozen Catholic churches in my area have either been merged or closed. It seems when they pay out millions in settlements to abuse victims, under-performing divisions --er, parishes can't be maintained. It makes me smile.\n\nThen there are stories on the local news about employees --er, parishioners protesting the closings. That makes me laugh. ",
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Hey Reddit, I'm bed ridden for the next several weeks. What shows should I get into? | I will be sitting on my couch for the next 6 weeks doing nothing. Any suggestions for a good series to get into?
Here's a list of shows i've watched already, to give you an idea of what I like:
Dexter, The Wire, Sopranos, True Blood, Battlestar Galactica, 24, Californication, Curb, Weeds
Suggestions?
Thanks. | 8 | [
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"body": "Generation Kill - about seven hours.\n\nOz - well over a hundred hours\n\nArrested Development - three seasons\n\nBand of Brothers - about 7 hours.",
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"body": "*Lost* is about to go into it's final season. The show has fallen off more recently but it is still one of the best, most thought provoking shows out there. Watching through the first few seasons leading up to this final one would be probably be the best thing you could possibly do.",
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"body": "* Band of Brothers\n* From the Earth to the Moon\n* Planet Earth\n* Blue Planet\n* Cosmos\n* Life on Earth (probably hard to get)\n* The Nature of Things (probably hard to get)",
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"body": "**Burn Notice**. Awesome show.\n\n**The West Wing**. If you have never seen it, give the pilot a try. Definitely something to watch in order.\n\n**Veronica Mars**. Maybe just the first two seasons.",
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"body": "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.\n\nThe first season was shit (so you can just read summaries on wikipedia if you want), but season two shaped up to be one of the best TV shows I've ever seen, on par with BSG.",
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"body": "Babylon 5\r\n\r\nIt's the greatest sci-fi series ever. Unfortunately the first season is a bit weak, but they set up the characters for the rest of the run so you at least need to watch some of the key episodes. Seasons 2-4 are pure awesome.",
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"body": "\"Son's of Anarchy\" is one I don't see here yet. \r\nI have to second The Sheild, Deadwood, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers, and OZ. After watching these and the shows you've posted...I think I've completely ruined television for myself...nothing else seems to cut it. Deadwood FTW though. ",
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"body": "Castle (DVD)\n\nWhite Collar (Friday nights on USA, starting up again like Jan 22)\n\nStargate Universe (aka Battlestargate) Sci Fi, again on Friday nights and again starting up again sometime in January.",
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"body": "I'd suggest getting into some chick's pants. I did that when I was stuck at home for a few weeks once.",
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Dear Dwarf Fortress subreddit mods | Could we please have the links to [Changelog](http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html) and [Update Progress](http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=30026.msg398829#msg398829) to the right ? --->
It's just that I'm bored to have to go to the wiki each time. I know it's just an extra click....but it's the dwarvish way to create shortcuts ☺
Although the little & inside my head tells me that it's blasphemy that I haven't bookmarked them already ☻. But I suppose they are useful to have for new players. | 26 | [
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"body": "I saw this post and thought, \"What could he possibly be complaining to the mods about? For a subreddit devoted to one of the most sadistic games imaginable, this is possibly the most agreeable subreddit on the site.\"",
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What is the most difficult instrument you've played or attempted to play? | Reading this [reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ao7lz/hi_reddit_id_like_to_ask_about_your_musical/) got me thinking. Trying to play the violin was one of the most difficult, intimidating, and frustrating things I've tried to do musically. After several hours of trying to produce anything that resembled a musical note, I gave up and never tried again. Any similar musical experiences reddit? | 3 | [
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"body": "My wife.\r\n\r\nJust when I think I have it all figured out, I have to start pressing the buttons in a totally different order.",
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"body": "I played the bassoon senior year of high-school after a request from our music teacher. Double-reed instrument whose music is written in 3 different clefs. It was a nightmare. ",
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"body": "I would like to think that any instrument can be as challenging as you make it, but each has a unique learning curve. For example, most anyone can sit down at a piano and play notes. After a few minutes, most people would probably even be able to play a simple melody. However, sit the average non-musician down with a bassoon or tuba, and they will have a hard time making any noise whatsoever. \n\nThe instruments with the steepest initial learning curves that I have personally encountered are double reed instruments such as bassoon and oboe. \n",
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"body": "I found it impossible to play the didgeridoo because of how hard I was laughing. The thing is a couple feet long and about the circumference of a softball. You blow into it like you would any valve instrument but it's HUGE so you have to use your whole mouth.\r\n\r\nThere are clearly no double-entendres that can be drawn from this, so I expect there to be no childish replies.",
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I'm drunk. my ex girlfriend, the only person i've ever loved other than myself, just got engaged and my brother is dying..... | ...the only other person i'm close to and I ran away to another country to escape everything. I'm fucked up and i'm alone in a foreign country. Give me some wisdom reddit. Every night I hope i'm gone. I really do. I won't respond to you, i'm sorry. | 14 | [
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"body": "That sucks man, I am so sorry you have to go through this shit. \n\nMy wisdom for you: stop drinking (alcohol is a downer) and go buy a bag of weed. It's not going to make anything go away but it will make the entire situation a bit easier to handle. \n\nAlso, do you have any other immediate family who is also upset over your brother? Go be with them. You say he's 'dying', not 'dead' and that you're close to him so *go be with him*. Undoubtedly he needs you and it's very clear you need him too. *Be with him* until you can't.",
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"body": "Don't not respond to us :(\n\nWhat is wrong with your brother? Can you go back to where you came from to spend time with him?",
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"body": "Assuming that your brother isn't dying immediately (e.g. terminal cancer), is there anything you can do with him now that you won't be able to do in a few weeks/months? It might be worth trying that now, rather than wanting to later and realising it's too late.\n\nAs for love... it's often said that there are plenty more fish in the sea, but usually difficult to accept that this is true. Even if you're 'over the hill' and consider life to be winding down it can still surprise you!\n\nLonger term, since you've moved to another country, you need to build a life there. It's no good just existing... go out and live a little. If you're not great at meeting people try to find some local redditors (there was that post your location submission last week). If you've got nothing to focus on then that nothing will become a big void inside you.",
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What is your favorite (currently active) Twee or Twee-ish record label? | Part of the fun with Twee music for me is record labels. I love labels that have a certain aesthetic and that feel like real passion projects for the person/people who run it. I've sort of fallen off on my record collecting during my career transition, but I hope to get back into it soon.
So, I was wondering, what's your favorite record label that puts out Twee-ish music and is still active? | 4 | [
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"body": "My absolute favorite records being put out lately are on [Shelflife Records](http://www.shelflife.com/).\n\nFor their 1000 series they put out these beautiful 7\"+CDs with different tracks on the 7\" and CD, in beautiful packaging. Here's a pic that doesn't quite do it justice: [1000 series](http://www.shelflife.com/1000series.html).\n\nMy favorite of these releases is The Ruling Class and the Kuryakin, but I think they are all pretty good. I like the packaging so much that I'm going to collect them all anyways.\n\nMy favorite Shelflife artists in general are Brittle Stars and Burning Hearts.",
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"body": "Probably K Records. More for their locale than the catalogue, but I do like Mirah and The Blow quite a bit.",
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that whole sex thing.. | Why is sex before marraige considered a sin? Does GOD ever directly speak against it? Is the whole "no sex before marraige" thing just more of a guideline becasue it could potentially be problematic? Or is the act of intercourse in and of itself a sin? I'm already aware of what 1st Corinthians has to say aobut it.. so don't just drop off the passage in a comment and be on your way, le'ts get a little creative here.
Is there any validity with the idea that the concept istself is out-dated? Weren't people getting married at 14yrs old back then? and for property?
Perhaps it is supposed to be under the confines of marraige, but what is marraige aside from a piece of paper and public acknowledgement of ones togetherness? Doesn't it seem a little absurd that in order for me to have sex with the woman I am in love with, I have to have slip of paper with some writing on it?
How do you guys feel about it?
Edit: This is not in the context of sleeping around with whomever, whenever. This is between a guy and his girlfriend who yes, are in love and yes, plan on getting married. | 9 | [
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"body": ">Why is sex before marraige considered a sin? Does GOD ever directly speak against it? Is the whole \"no sex before marraige\" thing just more of a guideline becasue it could potentially be problematic? Or is the act of intercourse in and of itself a sin? I'm already aware of what 1st Corinthians has to say aobut it.. so don't just drop off the passage in a comment and be on your way, le'ts get a little creative here.\n\nSex before marriage is considered a sin for a number of reasons. You already mentioned 1 Corinthians, so I'll skip that one and move on to what I find to be the most important aspect of sexual relationships and marriage – Genesis 2\n\nWe see in this passage that God creates everything, and it is good, but there is one thing that is not good, and that is that the man is alone. So God makes the woman out of the man's rib, brings her to him, and officiates over, what is in fact, the first wedding ceremony. The text than says that the man and woman were naked and knew no shame, meaning that the two of them enjoyed sex.\n\nSo what does this mean for us and our sexual partnerships? Well, what it does is establish a Biblical pattern for sex. There is a distinct ordering of events – read verse 24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” The Biblical pattern is “Leave and cleave.” To mess up that order is to go against the established order of Creation. And the man does not just go off and have sex with just anyone – he comes together with his *wife*. There is a prescribed order of things.\n\nThe huge thing that is often missed out on is that sex is the covenant sign of marriage. As you read through the Bible, there are many covenants made – with Adam, with Noah, with Abraham, with Moses, etcetera. So, as Adam and Eve come together, they make a covenant with one another before God. They then participate in the covenant sign of marriage which is sexual intercourse. Each time they participate in sexual congress, they are both reminding and renewing the covenant that they have made to one another (cf. Genesis 9:12-17 for another instance of the covenant sign being used to remind and renew).\n\nTherefore, with all that in mind, to participate in the covenant sign without actually being in covenant is foolish, and if I may be perfectly honest, impossible. By participating in the sign, you are, by rights, participating in covenant – you're acting like you're married, and I would say you are married. To continue living in that estate without publicly recognizing it is foolish. And if you don't see where this is going, let me shed a bit more light on it.\n\nWhat happens if you and the person you're having sex with break up? You've participated in the covenant sign of sexual intimacy, and in effect have appropriated the covenant of marriage in to your lives. Do you have free license to now go and sleep with someone else? Wouldn't you then be committing adultery on your first spouse and beginning a covenant with this new one? It's messy all around. Better to delay sexual intimacy until you are married, and then make up for lost time.\n\n>Is there any validity with the idea that the concept istself is out-dated?\n\nNo.\n\n>Weren't people getting married at 14yrs old back then? \n\nAnd I would say that our society would do much better to place a greater responsibility on younger men and women. This idea that you're not responsible until the magic day you turn 18 is ludicrous. I know some 30 year olds who act like children and some 15 year olds that act like mature adults. \n\n>and for property?\n\nAs opposed to today, where people get married for totally altruistic reasons, right? Don't tell me people don't get married to better their social situation, put themselves in line for a huge pay day (read: Anna Nicole Smith), or for any number of reasons besides love.\n\n>Perhaps it is supposed to be under the confines of marraige, but what is marraige aside from a piece of paper and public acknowledgement of ones togetherness?\n\nA covenant agreement between two people with God as the witness and authority? To reduce marriage to a piece of paper and public affirmation is to totally deny what Genesis 2 says, that we are to become “one flesh.”\n\n>Doesn't it seem a little absurd that in order for me to have sex with the woman I am in love with, I have to have slip of paper with some writing on it?\n\nDoesn't it seem a little absurd that you're not willing to enter in to a legitimate covenant with this woman that you supposedly love?\n\n>How do you guys feel about it?\n\nI imagine you've picked up on how I feel.\n\n>Edit: This is not in the context of sleeping around with whomever, whenever. This is between a guy and his girlfriend who yes, are in love and yes, plan on getting married.\n\nGreat. Where do you live? If you're anywhere near me in upstate New York, I'll gladly marry the two of you. I'm a pastor and can do that sort of thing. Why wait? What's keeping the two of you from getting married? Apparently you have the desire to live in covenant, otherwise you wouldn't be having sex. And if you're not near me, what's keeping you from going down to the church and getting yourselves married?",
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"body": "Upvoted. I wish I could vote twice.\n\nI lived with my wife for 5 years before we got married and would recommend it to everyone who plans on getting married. Why would you ever choose to live with someone when you have no idea how they are during regular life? Living together provides the proper exposure to each others shortcoming and helps us to first work through problems before marriage. ",
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"body": "This is being discussed here:\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/anqyy/dear_rchristianity_premarital_sex_wrong/",
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"body": "If you're going to follow the Bible's word only, it is pretty clear how to deal with sex and marriage. What isn't clear at all is the _why_. \n\nMy take at this is that the Bible, and especially the new testament, adds pretty much nothing new to the story. Everything we know about \"christian marriages\" predates the new testament, and probably even the old. So what we have are rules of old abrahamic and pre-abrahamic Israeli tribes, maybe only slightly modified during the ages. \n\nSince marriage predates the Bible, we should not try to use the Bible as a means to explain the marriage rules, since God didnt _make_ those rules, but merely confirmed them in way.\n\nIf you ask me, the institution of marriage was set up by men in order to be able assert control over females easier. Since females were second order citizens back then, and their job basically was getting married agains their will and bearing children for men, inventing marriage was a way to help men controlling whom \"their\" female sleeps with. Without marriage the man had to do the tracking and eventually punishing, but with the marriage this duty was shifted to the community as whole. With marriage, the unfaithful woman could now be punished not by her man only, but basically by anyone. Later then, they elaveted this adultery to a \"sin against god\", so the unfaithful woman was additionally punished for not obeying god. \n\nWith time, it was forgotten that \"marriage\" was invented to prevent women from \"sleeping around\" (what they obviously would do if marriage wouldnt exist) and people just concentrated on the, now \"religious\" part of it, as if God had invented it.\n\nJust think about it. Why would the creator of the earth, sun, universe (and the rest) require humans to sign a life-long _contract_ in order to have sex? Why does this contract have to be until death, do no 5, 10 or X year options exist? Why a contract with _God_ at all in order to have sex?",
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"body": "Sex has the potential to be a profound act. It can be an incredible expression of love, where both parties make a total gift of themselves to the other. At the same time, they accept this \"gift of self\" from their partner. To withold a part of ourselves, or to refuse a part of the other, would be to lower the dignity of ourselves, and to change the act to one of conditional love. Or worse, barter. One aspect of ourselves we ought to include as our gift to the person we love is our fecundity. \r\n\r\nIf you accept that much, it's a small step to say that sex ought to be undertaken responsibly, since it might result in having children. As you point out, Christians say that the responsible thing to do is to have sex while married. You ask, what is marriage besides a piece of paper and a public acknoledgement of togetherness? Well... a whole lot. Otherwise you may as well say that any two people who share a room are married. Marriage is a promise. It's like making a nest. It's also a sacrament, meaning it is a method of receiving grace. ",
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"body": "> Perhaps it is supposed to be under the confines of marraige, but what is marraige aside from a piece of paper and public acknowledgement of ones togetherness? Doesn't it seem a little absurd that in order for me to have sex with the woman I am in love with, I have to have slip of paper with some writing on it?\n\nMarriage is two becoming one. In a biblical sense, it has nothing to do with a piece of a paper, and only public knowledge as a way of helping commitment. \n\nSaving sex for marriage is about keeping your new \"one\" pure in the eyes of God, and just like God commands us to have no other idols, your \"oneness\" is obscured by having \"become one\" with more than one person.\n\n------------------\n\nOn a societal stand point, yes, people were being married at ages 12-14 during biblical times, they didn't all have to have licenses, their was limited medical research behind it (such as how healthy it is), sometimes marriage was pre-arranged, sometimes women were traded as property, and people were living much shorter lives. Also, celibacy/monogamy does solve many health issues (STDs) and can prevent heartache emotional issues (breakups, bastards).\n\n------------------\n\nPer your girlfriend / boyfriend situation: \n\nIf you are serious about your relationships with God then you will marry before sex. I don't care if you have a license though it should be known to all your friends and family (and you should get their blessing) to share your commitment and new \"one\"ness.\n\nIf you're not that serious, then the solution is up to you. You're obviously trying to escape this bond/oath and may lack the self control (work on that holy spirit thing) and care more about bringing up trivial government paperwork (!screams Troll!) and societal misgivings.\n\nUltimately, whatever decision you make will either honor or dishonor God, and is likely to have a heavy effect on your heart.\n\n---------\nDisclaimer: I had sex before I got married, my current interpretation of the bible throws most of it out of the window - making me not a Christian. I did make a legitimate decision before having sex and had previously denied serious relationships of sex.",
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"body": "God never said anything about it, it's just a tribe-control thing, superfluous nowadays, just like religion as a whole.",
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Ask /r/tea: What teapot or tea set should I get? | I've been thinking of getting a medium or small-sized cast iron pot / set, because it'll keep the tea warm for a good long time.
My criteria (more or less in order) for a tea set would be:
* price
* appearance
* completeness of set (this relates to appearance -- I guess I'm going for a ceremonial type of feel with my tea set / drinking); I'd like things to match.
* 4 cups (I'd like to be able to share, should the opportunity arise)
So, I guess I'm looking for a trivet, some cups, and a pot.
**What to get? Where to buy?** | 9 | [
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"body": "What kind of tea do you prefer? Different types of tea can taste significantly better depending on what you brew them in.\n\nI brew my black teas, darker/stronger oolongs, and smoked teas (like lapsang souchong) in a cast iron pot.\n\nFor lighter oolongs and some green teas, a [Yixing clay teapot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixing_clay_teapot) is the way to go.\n\nAnd for the rest of my green and white teas I use a porcelain teapot or [gaiwan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiwan).\n\nFor aged raw pu-erh I'll either use a gaiwan or cast iron pot depending on the tea and how much I'm making. \n\nIf you drink a lot of scented/flavored teas, I'd recommend using a separate pot for them (probably glass or porcelain, something easily cleanable), as the scents and flavors can linger and spoil brewing other more delicate teas.",
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"body": "Quick note: If you're planning on brewing green tea, invest in [a thermometer.](http://www.tgtea.com/buy/3/41/287/Thermometer/3261.aspx) Nothing ruins the taste of green tea like boiling water, trust me.",
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Overcoming being too short and being a male. | I have had an issue with all my dating life and that is I am a 5' 3" tall man. Most women are taller than myself. I really cannot seem to get into a relationship with a woman, on a personal or even as a friend. I really do not have any female friends either by the way.
Once even I approached a woman and she straight up said "oh my god, you are way too short!". She immediately apologized for saying it (obviously she did not mean to say it aloud) but I know that is the real problem I am having.
I do not want to lie on the dating sites but if I know you can filter by height on most of them plus people seem to not want to talk with you anymore if you lie on your profile. I have lied and said I was taller a few times but it date #2 never happened.
So I guess I am asking how do I make women see past the height issue? It is not like I can take a pill and become taller. | 13 | [
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"body": "Are you open to dating women who are 5'3\" or shorter? Answer honestly. I ask, because being only 5'0\" my preference has always been for shorter men - it's easier to kiss standing up, dance, and, well, there's better hip-to-lip ratio. However, in all my dating life, I've only had opportunity to date 3 men who were 5'3\" and under:\n\n- One didn't mind, but moved far away\n\n- Two told me, \"Sorry, but I just can't get past how short you are.\" One specifically explained that he needed to marry a woman who was taller than himself, to ensure his offspring were taller!\n\nIf you are harboring no such discrimination of your own, then I have a simple suggestion: practice looking down, not up, when you are in social situations like bars. \n\nI have noticed that those of us who are short are always looking up, because we are used to looking up, since most everyone is taller than us. Tall men don't do this - they are used to looking down. Because they are looking down, they have virtually all of the females in the room to make eye contact with and to choose from. If you are a guy and you're in the habit of only looking up, you will only be making eye contact with women who are taller than you - and missing out on all us shorties. \n\nThe average female is only 5'4\" so that means that half the population is shorter than 5'4.\" Pay attention to that half, and you will have more luck. \n\n",
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"body": "As far as your height, it's confidence.\nNo matter how much you don't want to believe it, it's all your issue.\n\nI don't know how to overcome being a male.",
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"body": "I'm 5'4, and most people in this thread are all saying its bullshit, its in your head, and its about confidence and projecting yourself since it doesn't matter. \n\nThis is absolute bullshit. Height does matter. When I walk into a room, especially with people who don't know me, there's definitely a feeling that I seem out of place. The internship I'm about to start was achieved through a phone interview, where the other person had no idea how tall I was. It's like someone saying they don't see color. Even if you're the most accepting person, everyone (physically able) notices most of the differences between race.\n\nDoes working on your image and showing confidence still help? Absolutely. I'll even admit that I'm personally not very confident, and I let my height get to me sometimes. It's something I need to work on, and apparently something you should work on too.\n\nSure, there's women out there who are sworn to dating taller men. There are certainly also many who really don't care, or some who might even have a preference to shorter guys, as evidenced by many people in this thread. And you know what? They probably want a more confident short guy if one at all.\n\nSo yeah, height does matter, but it's not the end of the world. You're already behind physically so to speak, don't erect even more barriers yourself.",
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"body": "I had a roommate in college who was a shorter guy (probably 5'6 or 5'7) and brought home smokin' hot tail on a regular basis. The dude was confident as hell, and definitely had a way with the ladies. Although I think women in general like men taller than them, the force of your personality is enough to overcome that in most instances.",
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"body": "If your height were the reason you weren't getting dates, you would be friend-zoned with LOTS of girls, and unable to get anywhere with them due to height. But that's not true. You don't have female friends. So your height is just a handy excuse you've made up. It may be part of a larger problem, it maybe used to be a problem and now you have a bigger problem, but I'm sorry hun, while it's true that some women (and, for that matter, men) do discriminate based on height for partners, most people don't discriminate based on height for friendship. It's your Napoleon complex that's pissing people off to the point where you're no fun to be around anymore. ",
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"body": ">how do I make women see past the height issue?\r\n\r\nShould read \"how do I make myself see past the height issue?\"\r\n\r\nYou need to accept your height *yourself* and be at ease with it... the fact that you have no female friends is likely because of your lack of confidence.\r\n\r\nYou are not the only short man in the world! Others find friends and mates, plenty of men have taller partners, probably because they don't carry their height with anxiety.\r\n",
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"body": "I once dated a man that was only an inch or two taller than I was (I was taller in heels, and I am 5'3). The height thing didn't matter to me - he was a really interesting person with unique hobbies. He had lots of female friends and was outgoing. It didn't last past a few weeks simply because I had some stuff going on in my own life that made a relationship a bad idea. \n\nHe is married now to a really hot Asian chick. \n\nMaybe you should get involved with something other than a dating site, where first impressions are often about looks. Volunteer, go to events with you friends - put yourself in situations where you can meet people and show them the whole you. \n",
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"body": "If it makes you feel better, I'm 6\"2, muscular build and not tooting my own horn, but I think I'm at least moderately attractive (I take good care of myself)... But...I'm a bit of a hermit, have limited social skills and take a long time to make friends..and guess what, I am not lucky with the ladies at all! Its all down to your personality/attitude. I would glady substitute a few inches for some nice social skills and confidence.",
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Thoughts so far on Demon's Souls | I recently picked up Demon's Souls. So far I'm on soul level 41, and it's been a blast. I haven't played a game that's challenged me to this extent. This game and MGS4 are reason enough to own a PS3.
I never was a big fan of RPGs. I played some Zelda and some Final Fantasy. I avoid MMOs like the plague*. I don't want to listen to whiney 14-year-old douchebags while I'm trying to quest. The point of an RPG should be to make you feel like you're working towards an ultimate goal, and not some pointless escapade in a fantasyland. The great thing about Demon's Souls is that as a part of the current generation of video games, it has achievements, i.e. trophies on the PS3. I have made it my life's mission (okay, that's a lie, it's really more short-term) to win the Platinum trophy for Demon's Souls. I think it's the only Platinum trophy worth getting. You can sit on your cloud of uber l33tism and say "I am above the common folk, for I am the slayer of Demons!" Who knows what this could mean when Sony decides to do cool things with trophies.
I have determined it will take at least three new games (up to NG+++) until I can earn "Toughest Soul Trophy." You have to learn every spell and miracle, which requires demon souls you can only accquire once per play through, and there's three NPCs you can learn magic through, each with their own unique spells learned via demon soul. [This wiki](http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/) has been invaluable in helping me plan out my quest to conquor Demon's Souls.
What's great about Demon's Souls is the manner it puts you through hell. You start out as a dead guy no matter what you do. You can get your body back, but only if you work hard and learn from your mistakes. Rest assured, whenever you do make a mistake, this game will knock you down, and if you're down too long it will stomp on your genetalia. I've had my ass handed to me multiple times. Sure I've gotten upset at some points (I lost 8000 souls while trying to kill the Dragon God), but like any endeavour, if you fail you simply try again. Sure you'll be dead again, but there are methods made available to circumvent the effects of being living impared.
But what I like most about Demon's Souls is what seperates it from every other MMORPG I could give less than two shits about: as a living player, you can summon up to two people--max--to help you on your quest. You can't talk to this other person; they either know what they're doing or they don't. The most interaction you can have with other players is gesturing to them. It's fantastic. I don't have to listen to some nasally-voiced kid spam into his microphone. I don't have to read asinine text chat that adds nothing to the game. And at the end of your epic battle, you can rate other players, and that's it. You're questing your way through the most horrifying and desolate landscape in the universe with a little help from your friends. But they're not always your friends, because sometimes they'll spawn in your world and try to kill you.
And of course the messaging feature is a nice supplement to the game. I've avoided many pitfalls and ambushes thanks to it. Some of them even pointed me towards awesome treasures. I'm glad they thought out a predetermined set of messages, because let's face it, if people were given the ability to write whatever they want on the level, every other message would be "penis" or some variation thereof.
I want to meet the person who designed this insanity. I want to give him a hug, but at the same time I want to punch him in the face. I can't remember the last time I've been so engrossed in a video game (FFVII perhaps, but I cheated my way through it). If anybody wants to quest with me, my username is my website--Lurchworld.com. Maybe I'll see you on the battlefield, and together we will slay demons and quest for glory.
*btw you can catch the plague in Demon's Souls if you're not careful. This game will give you a disease if you fuck up. I love this game! | 15 | [
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"body": "I LOVE Demon's Souls.\r\n\r\nThis game actually got me excited to be playing video games again, and that's quite a feat.",
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"body": "I just bought a PS3 for this game. I love it. \n\nA question though for other players: I beat Phalanx and then died and am back in soul form. I then went back and got my bloodstain, but no body. How do I get that back?\n\nAlso I heard that speccing either magic or melee is the way to go. I'm loving my light buckler/rapier and some magic mix character though. Will I have a problem keeping my dexterity and magics both up to par?",
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"body": "demon's souls can kiss my ass. I prefer non-abusive, loving relationships. You guys are all battered gamers enabling eachother.",
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"body": "Losing 8000 souls seems like a lot early on. Wait until you lose half a million. I love Demon's Souls. I love that I can help other people and that they can help me. I don't try to beat any bosses in Soul Form. Typically I try to play to the fog right before the boss, drop the blue eye, and then help someone else. I get revived for doing so, replay the map to the same spot again, and then pick up other blue phantoms to help me.",
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"body": "A truly amazing game, challenging and immensly satisfying at the same time. I actualy avoid playing it sometimes because I´m afraid of going back to soul form and losing my hard earned souls.´\r\n\r\nIf you don't have it, you seriously don´t know what you're missing!\r\n\r\n",
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Where should I go, and how? (USA -> ?) | First of all sorry the self centered post, but I figured this subreddit is small enough as to not offend too many people.
At this stage in my life, I'm relatively young with no attachments to any one place and would love to be able to find work outside the country. I currently live in Austin, TX and work for a Fortune 200 company (one of the 200 largest companies here for you non-US folks) as a systems administrator. I have about 6 years professional experience and a college degree in mathematics, so I don't think selling myself as a worthy immigrant to any country should be a problem outside of language concerns - but I may just be naive here.
My questions are where should I try and move to, and *how?* I would think that I would need a company to sponsor a work visa, especially coming from the US. I currently have an application in at a company in London that a friend works for, but other than that I'm not even sure of any resources for which to find employment. I suppose a good start would be to list places I have considered moving to, and see if anybody has any ideas.
* London
* Amsterdam
* Seoul
* Prague
* Berlin
* Stockholm
etc, I suppose it should be obvious that I am primarily looking at urban centers where one could get by on English + being an adorable foreigner. I do some *some* rudimentary spanish as a Texas resident, but beyond "mas cerveza por favor" it is pretty grim so I would not want to rely on it.
So what do you think my plan of attack should be? Is there someplace I should think about moving to that I have not listed? Here in the states my primary job source has been craigslist but for international cities its job postings are pretty sparse. Should I maybe think about looking up specific companies and contacting them directly? Any advice would be **greatly** appreciated, thanks! | 10 | [
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"body": "There's a book called [\"Getting Out\"](http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Out-Leaving-America-Self-reliance/dp/0976082276) that I recommend you read. It won't tell you where to go, but it'll give you a lot of information about a lot of places. That should at least help your decision making process.",
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"body": "Let me tell you a little about me...\n\nI live in Austin... have for 3 years. I'm 40 now... age 31 to 37 I lived in a motorhome traveling (while telecommuting computer work) the USA... with a 1 year break in Arica, Chile (no travel in South America, just one city for 12 months).\n\nso I have some experience to share.\n\nI have sysadmin experience in both Microsoft, Linux, and OpenBSD worlds... I've run my own small consulting company for over 10 years. I even worked for SAP as a contractor early in my career and hosted one of their trade shows (Orlando)... and was sent to their HQ in Germany for training.\n\nThere are so many angles to your question to focus on... like how long you intend, how flexible you are at jumping (concerned about polluting your resume). Honestly the global economy is down... I think it would help if you had some idea of of a lifestyle in mind. Giving up a good Austin job is hard.. have you been stashing away money? It really helps to get enough to live off of for 6 months ($7,0000 to $10,000 saved should really be more than enough for most places if you live conservatively, primary on housing). But it helps to describe what your idea of an 'acceptable lifestyle'.\n\nPersonally, I would go low and inexpensive and see if I enjoyed a place... and work on learning a second language if you have the mental talent (I personally realized I have a human language learning disability, so language is not something I acquire easy). I think for the foreseeable future, nimble and flexible will win out over entrenched and \"crafted' lifestyle (\"I want things *my way* attitude\").\n\nHow much have you lived in different cities of the USA?",
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"body": "I think you should modify your list to focus on countries where English is the first language. Anything else, and you would probably find it difficult to be hired (IMO) out of the blue.\n\nI've worked my share of hours in a few foreign cities where English was widely understood as a 2nd language (Amsterdam, Beijing). The people are great, enjoyable to work with, and all had a good command of the English language. Having said that, it was *not* my impression that they'd want to have to use English all of the time to interact with a co-worker. When **we** weren't specifically meeting on something - they *always* went back to their native language when working with each other. Maybe if you had a really specialized skillset that was hard to find (COBOL programming on an old DIGITAL system, or something) but if you're talking generic sysadmin ... I wouldn't expect others to be so accommodating of your complete inability to speak *their* language. Seems a bit presumptuous to me.\n\nI don't mean to throw cold water on your ideas ... but having worked in these cities, my best suggestion is to add more English-first cities onto your list.\n\nAlso - by chance, do you have a grandparent that was born in Ireland? If so, see my post on the subject (now on the 2nd page here) for an easy way to gain citizenship and get around all of your visa problems. I could hop a plane tonight, land anywhere in the EU tomorrow, and start looking for a job if I wanted to ... no paperwork needed.\n\n",
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Question for UK Redditors | In US media (TV, Film) sometimes a British person is used to strike the right tone. For example if a television commercial wants to appear sophisticated they'll have a British (more specifically English) narrator. Or in a film British actors stand in for any European nationality (think of Nazi's played by English actors with English accents.)
Are Americans used in anyway over there to get a tone or point across in your media?
Edit: I forgot to add, are there any other nationalities used in British media to set a tone? | 3 | [
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"body": "We don't often hear American voiceovers in commercials because they tend to sound a bit fake when they are used. By which I mean they seem overly enthusiastic and eager, something you don't really want when trying to flog stuff to people.\n\nThough we do still have these guys for movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw&feature=related\n\nActually sometimes American voiceovers are used specifically to get that over-the-top feel and add comedy to an ad.\n\nLike xurble said, Americans on TV shows tend to be badasses with little regard for the law etc. If they aren't doing that then they are being pretty ignorant or just plain dumb though. It's pretty much one or the other.\n\nThere was one show, called The Book Group, that had an American as the central character and she was pretty normal but it was written by an American so it hardly counts. Good show though.",
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Where should I start with H.P. Lovecraft? | I just bought this collection of 67 of H. P. Lovecrafts stories for my kindle. What would be a good place for me to start?
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-H-P-Lovecraft-Classics-ebook/dp/B002E19KU4/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263234898&sr=8-9 | 9 | [
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"body": "For a really simple but effective Lovecraft story without all of the trappings of his more developed mythos, start with *The Music of Erich Zann*.\n\nIf you want to jump straight into the mythos stories, start with *The Shadow Over Innsmouth*. The story doesn't require any prior familiarity with Lovecraft, and it's a good, gradual introduction to basic element of the mythos.",
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"body": "His dream sequence stories are less interesting to me than the ones rooted in reality. For some reason when I start reading a dream sequence my mind shuts off.\n\nThe Case Of Charles Dexter Ward is a good place to start. Scared the hell out of me. Also, Herbert West: Re-Animator.\n\nI think his best stories are the ones that draw you into some old part of a New England town untouched by modernity. The idea that there's something ancient and evil lurking beneath the distractions of the modern day is what really appeals to me.\n\nIf you liked John Carpenter's The Thing, you should read At The Mountains of Madness. Its written as a scientific report of an antarctic expedition and is gripping. ",
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"body": "Other than *The Call of Cthulhu*, obviously, *The Nameless City* might be a good one. If you keep going past the first couple, I would particularly recommend *At the Mountains of Madness* as damontal has done, and also *The Colour out of Space*, which I think is genuinely fucked up and scary above and beyond almost everything else he's written. \n\n(For those who don't know, you can read all the stories [here](http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/)).",
"score": 5
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"body": "You may want to consider [searching](http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/akn16/so_i_consider_myself_fairly_wellread_but_ive/) first before starting new threads. Just saying.",
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"body": "Obligatory: The Call of Cthulhu (only obligatory because it is good)\n\nMy Favorite: Herbert West: Reanimator (The movies were crappy old horror, but I liked them too.)",
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"body": "Almost forgot...\n\nIf you can find them, get the editions edited by S.T. Joshi. \n\nWhat happened was, when Lovecraft was writing, the editor of Weird Tales magazine would regularly chop out large chunks of text to make room for advertising. \n\nYears later, Joshi was going through the Lovecraft archives at, I think it was Brown University? I might be mis-remembering that bit...\n\nAnyway, Joshi found all the original manuscripts and when he compared them to the existing texts found that there were significant differences. He produced a multi-volume set through Arkham House which is considered the definitive collection of Lovecraft.\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Cthulhu-Stories-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0141182342/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/At-Mountains-Madness-Other-Novels/dp/0870540386/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263254963&sr=8-36\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Dunwich-Horror-Others-H-Lovecraft/dp/0870540378/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263254963&sr=8-40\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Dagon-Other-Macabre-Tales-Lovecraft/dp/0870540394/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Stories-Penguin-Modern-Classic/dp/0141187891/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263255082&sr=1-22\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Thing-Doorstep-Stories-Penguin-Classics/dp/0142180033/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263255190&sr=8-16",
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"body": "My personal favorite story is The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath but for starting The Music of Erich Zann, Rats in the Walls, or The Dunwich Horror are good bets.",
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Reddit, I'm investigating a scam taking place on Facebook. Care to lend a hand? | Today I recived an invite to a group called [MODELS, ACTORS & ACTRESSES WANTED..](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=413990245547&ref=nf). They ask you to invite all your friend and then submit your name, mobile number and number of people you invited to their [website](http://www.asns.co.uk/). This alone set off alarm bells for me; since when do model agencies need possible modles to invite loads of people to become eligable to join their books?
Anyway, I started investigating and found that asns.co.uk is actually pointing to [alizay.co.uk](http://www.alizay.co.uk) which is strangely hosted in the USA... So I looked up the WHOIS and found the name [Kevin Amenumey](http://cqcounter.com/whois/). This lead to me finding [a page on the website about himself](http://www.alizay.co.uk/kingston/).
Kevin Amenumey goes to [Kingston University in London](http://www.kingston.ac.uk/).
A scan across the internet searching the domain in search engines popped up posts about the domain alizay.co.uk being used for a compilation cd scam where artists submitting their song to them would recieve £10/cd sold... What on earth did the compilation CD sell for then? £100?
Anyway, I've done some research but I know you Redditors are just as good, if not better than myself. Can you guys find anything else?
Do I inform his university of what he is up to? Or do I just pressure him personally to stop his scam?
I await your response, my fellow Redditors. | 6 | [
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"body": "From his page: \"I believe studying at Kingston University will unable me to get very good skills\" \n\nOK... maybe not. \n\nFTR: how do you know it's the same Kevin Amenumey, it might not be? ",
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"body": "Has anyone found anything to suppliment my search? I'm contemplating contacting his university to inform them of his activities.",
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This flyer will be submitted to all Penn State student mailboxes in the dorms as of tomorrow. It kinda makes me full of rage... | I got my hands on a flyer that has been submitted and approved by the university and will be distributed tomorrow into all student mailboxes for students that live on the Penn State University Park Campus.
Front of the flyer: [http://imgur.com/a5uFA](http://imgur.com/a5uFA)
Back of the flyer: [http://imgur.com/thfaM](http://imgur.com/thfaM)
Remember, this is a state (though privately run) university which claims it is not religious in nature...but has plenty of vocal religious sections. As a student here, this makes me sick. It makes me angry. I'm going to file a complaint, because I think this flyer sends a message the university itself would never want: **Education doesn't matter when you have the Bible.**
It's just sick that a college would allow this submission to be passed out to the student body...it's encouraging skipping class because church is more important. Anybody else, PSU or otherwise, as infuriated or peeved as I am? | 95 | [
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"body": "As pissed as you might be, there's nothing wrong with people disseminating flyers like this around your university. Equally, someone else could pass out flyer's for satanic worship, judaism, flying spaghetti monster, etc. I don't think your complaint you're planning on submitting is going to do you any good either. As others before me have said, I'd try and find others with the same viewpoint as you and make a mockery of them with a counter-campaign. ",
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"body": "I would be more outraged that your mailboxes are being used for solicitation, rather than at the religious nature of the advert. I don't think that Penn State should be censoring its student organizations, but such solicitation is pretty wasteful in terms of paper materials, and pretty useless in getting people to go to church.\n\nI would contact the Penn State Atheist Agnostic Association and put out a counter flyer, or complain to the Collegian. I don't think the University will really care what you have to say.",
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"body": "Put up a flyer that reads, \"Go ahead and skip classes and go to church. In fact, drop out of society and turn your back on your family as Jesus demands.\"",
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"body": "\\*shrug\\* It's a student organization that produced this. If anything, I applaud the university for not censoring them, as that would imply they would restrict other organizations' communication efforts too. Ultimately though, it's the recipient who decides whether they go to class or not. I think the students there deserve more credit than you're giving them.",
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"body": "[Matthew 6:19-34](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206:19-34&version=NIV)\n\nOf course education isn't important, Jesus himself said to not think about or plan for the future, just follow him\n\nWho cares if you have no job prospects or way of clothing or feeding yourself or making life comfortable for yourself, just pray to the magic man and all will be well :)",
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"body": "Encouraging students to skip class should be enough to get the religious organization tossed off campus. At last at University of Me it is. ",
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"body": "Why censor? You are wrong for requesting this. Grow some mental balls.\n\nThis message in your mailbox is, of course, nonsensical, so use it for shit paper and move on.",
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"body": "I disagree with most of the people here. You don't need a counter flyer. You need more supporting flyers.\n \n \"God will provide for you, donate your tuition to the needy. Christian Fellowship Alliance\"\n \n First, they can't get upset about you using their name, you've switched up the word order making it a completely new organization. Second, if they complain or ask you to stop, chastise them for their lack of faith, \"You *don't* think God will provide for you? I thought you were a true Christian.\" Third I would love this, it would entertain me greatly.",
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"body": "On the bright side, all the dumb fundies will fail their courses and will not be competing with you for jobs. :)",
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"body": "Mass produce a shitton of atheist pamphlets and get those in the mailboxes too. Start an on-campus atheist group (if there isn't one); and if there is one, join it.",
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