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Old film SLRs & lenses (Canon AE-1) | I have an old Canon AE-1 with about 7 - 8 lenses, which are in good condition and I'd really love to play around with them on a newer digital SLR - but I've been told that only the EOS series of Canon's have transferrable lenses, is this true? Am I all outta luck?
*edit: missed a word | 5 | [
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"body": "You can get adapters to use the old Canon FD lenses on EOS cameras, but there are big trade-offs. The basic problem is that it's not possible for the lens to fit close enough to the sensor to allow it to focus properly. Some adapters use glass elements to overcome this (which are mainly cheap and reduce the picture quality, or the vary rare and supposedly high quality ones that Canon made in the late 80s which occasionally change hands on ebay for > $1000), other adapters have no glass, but this prevents the lens from focusing to infinity.\n\nAnother possibility has come along recently, which is the \"electronic viewfinder, interchangable lens\" cameras from Panasonic and Olympus (which both use the micro 4/3 lens mount) and soon from Samsung (the NX, which uses a new mount). Since these cameras don't have SLR-style mirrors and prisms, they're designed to allow lenses to be mounted much closer, and it's therefore possible to adapt Canon FD lenses to fit these cameras without glass elements and without restricting the range of focus. A number of different micro 4/3 adapters for FD lenses are available, and presumably Samsung NX adapters will be available in due course.\n",
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I've Been to Disneyland's Club 33. AMA. | *Anything*
**EDIT** My family actually has a membership. I've been going there almost every time I go to Disneyland since I was a kid. I'm doing this per some people's request on another post. If you're curious about anything, I'll try to answer it. | 33 | [
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"body": "Wow, this is so cool. I am way jealous. Any boy that brought me to an exclusive club in the middle of Disney World would be one I'd try to marry. ",
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"body": "I was curious... Do you enter the club from the front door? If so, do non-members look at you wondering what you are doing?\r\n\r\nIf not, how do you get inside the club?\r\n\r\nIs it busy inside?\r\n\r\nIs it a friendly atmosphere inside or do the patrons act like they are better then the other park attendants? ",
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So this guy with meth mouth knocks on my door.... | I'm minding my own business at 6PM tonight in my apartment, filling out some paperwork, when suddenly there is an annoyingly cheerful knock on my door. *(Shave-and-a-haircut....)* I open the door and a college?-age guy stands there. He has glasses, seems painfully thin and OH MY GOD HIS TEETH. Serious case of meth mouth, I'm pretty sure.
He is holding a flimsy laminated colored thing, (the ONLY thing he has with him,) about the same width as several book marks and launches into some pitch. I only catch the words "neighborhood" and "magazines."
Seriously, reddit, what is up with this? He says it's a door-to-door contest to sell the most subscriptions? PLEASE tell me the more sinister truth that has to be behind this lame gimmick. I want to know why this guy bothered me tonight!! (I'm scared now! I'm a petite girl! I'm alone! I have no upper body strength!)
Oh, and I told him no thanks.
TLDR: Shifty guy tried to sell me magazine subscriptions. Seemed fraudulent. I told him no. But wtf was he up to?
*Edit: Is he going to come back and kill me or steal my shit?*
**Edit:** Thanks for the info. Especially because I live down the street from the police station and I didn't think I could call for soliciting. Honestly, I just feel bad for Mr.Hacking-Cough Meth Mouth. | 10 | [
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"body": "He might be checking houses to find who is home or not, and then break into them. I would invite a friend or neighbor over to keep you company. You might also want to notify the police of suspicious activity.",
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"body": "One time I had two Mormon priests on crutches knock on my door and try to convert me to the church. I had ramen on the stove, so tough luck.\n\nWhy the crutches? Who knows.",
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"body": "\"you better get outta here before my boyfriend wakes up. he's nationally ranked in ultimate fighting, and he hates tweakers with a holy fervor.\"",
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Batshit crazy dreams | So I'm about 5 days into a T-break that is going to last a month and I have started having some crazy arse dreams, Now I know that I don't dream when I smoke and when I stop I start dreaming again but this time around they all seem to be about smoking weed. Usually there just weird but for some reason the last two nights all I dream about is smoking weed and I think its my body telling me that I should never stop smoking the green goodness. Anyone else find they have dreams like this. | 5 | [
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"body": "i think even when you smoke you still dream. it's just that you don't remember it when you wake up. you 'lose' them quicker, if you know what i mean.",
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"body": "Not really...but I don't remember my dreams at the best of times. Well, I don't remember my dreams, I sure as hell remember my nightmares. \n\nThey are always hyper-real, and feel like they are in real time. And usually when I wake up I'm in a cold sweat and have to call a few people to make sure things are normal. ",
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What fun stuff do you get up to during the weekend and other periods of free time? | Hey guys, been living in Brissy my whole life but have realised that i really haven't explored it much past where i grew up (Western Suburbs).
Last weekend i went out Samford way and stumbled accross a cool pub and had a great weekend.
Just wondering where you guys tend to go of a weekend and what things you tend to get up to? | 6 | [
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"body": "Since I came here with my wife we have been exploring a bit. I know what a pub and malls are just convenient, but being Norwegian the nature is really exciting to me.\n\nI'll try to rattle my brain, but we've been at:\n\n* Mt Coot-Tha, both on the lookout point and the botanical gardens.\n* Southbank, which is kind of nice, but can get a bit crowded sometimes. The ciname there is awesome!\n* Mt Nebo and Mt. Glorious.\n* Far out on Wellington Point\n\nRecently we have been to Burleigh Heads to cool down and enjoy the waves with our bodyboards.\n\nThat is what we've been up to.",
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"body": "i've lived here my whole life and i don't do shit at night or on the weekends. i'd love to know what's out there too. but then again i'm a little Agoraphobic, which means packed places like pubs/clubs, food courts, movies, etc are out as i'm just freaking out constantly and can never relax.",
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I'm a Dog Walker, Pet Sitter, Dog Trainer. AMA. | I'm a professional dog walker, pet sitter, and dog trainer. I own my own business with my girlfriend called Dog's Best Friend. We are hoping to move to retail in the near future. If you're interested in this line of work or something with dogs, feel free to ask.
**EDIT** Thanks for the questions everyone, but I'm going to bed right now. Feel free to continue asking questions, and I'll get back to them tomorrow.
**EDIT 2** I've received a lot of good questions about training. I hope I was able to help everyone. Continue to ask questions and I will respond to them as soon as possible. | 8 | [
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"body": "Ever make it with one of the dogs? I'm sorry, I'm just nervous, let me rephrase that... Ever make it with one of the dogs? ",
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"body": "My Golden loves 'pawing' at me. Meaning he keeps low 5iving me over and over. What does he want when he is doing that?",
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"body": "What do you suggest about a barking dog? \n\nMy boy is nearly a year old and wasn't a huge barker until we recently moved house. At first I thought it was just the new environment, new sounds, etc. But it hasn't stopped.\n\nHe's not barking recreationally (!), always at a neighbour's dog or someone passing on the street, possums, etc. But it is quite intense and when he's outside he's almost certain to get into a barking jag every 5-10 minutes. Driving me NUTS!\n\nAny advice would be very gratefully received!",
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I finally had a flying dream. | It's one of those classic dreams, but I'd never had a dream where I could fly before, until a few nights ago. It was fucking *awesome*. It was incredibly easy, and I was soaring all over the place. I loved it. I didn't even realize immediately when I woke up that it wasn't real. It was one of those deals where 10 minutes later, you think to yourself "..... that was a dream, wasn't it? FUCK."
So reddit, what are your experiences with flying dreams? Fucking awesome? Crashed and burned? Never had one? | 8 | [
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"body": "In my flying dreams, I always end up landing and then struggling for the rest of the dream to fly again. I run around, jump, and just drift back to the ground. I'm entirely convinced it's a matter of concentration, but the more I concentrate, the further I feel from actually flying.\n\nIt's incredibly frustrating.",
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Is there any version of Pokemon that is updated with new graphics and for pc/mac? Or any other games that would be as fun? | I really loved catching, training, evolving, and discovering pokemon but I'm done with using emulators to play the old red and blue. Is there any new version of it that is really fun for computer or any games with a similar premise? That'd be awesome.
Edit: Damn, no new 3d pokemon. Mostly looking for any nice looking game thats similar. I think the main thing I like is lots of different kinds of friendly monsters | 4 | [
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"body": "you can emulate silver, gold, and crystal. You can emulate all of the GBA games, and all of the DS games",
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"body": "You may want to check the following out. It is a free pokemon MMO that is in the works (with a beta download): \n\nhttp://www.pokeworldonline.com/\n\n",
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Finding non-web development jobs | Hey all. I've been browsing monster.com, dice.com and other job boards to see what's out there for me. What I've found is that almost every job is for web dev, an area in which I'm not particularly experienced, even as a junior developer. I know my way around HTML, CSS and Javascript in general, but nothing advanced and barely anything but the basics server-side.
What resources have you found to be beneficial that aren't overwhelmed with web-development positions?
EDIT: I'm currently enjoying [indeed.com](http://www.indeed.com/) | 4 | [
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"body": "It totally depends on the work environment. Both places I've worked at since college had two different roles, UI Developer and (.net, PHP, JSP, etc) Developer. The UI developer is the one expected to know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The (.net, PHP, JSP, etc) Developer is the one who does the business logic and SQL connections and normally has a pretty basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.\n\nGuess what I'm trying to say is don't write off web development, especially now as it's only going to get more popular.",
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"body": "Instead of looking at job listing sites, look at specific companies that don't primarily produce web products like defense contractors or engineering firms (embedded systems).",
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Creation of a "Does not pay" client list? | What are your thoughts on setting up a website that would allow freelancers, contractors, etc (I guess it doesn't need to be limited to web development) to register a client in a "does not pay" database.
This could be used in two ways.
First, before taking on a new client you could check to see if they are in the database. If they are, then you know ahead of time if they are a bad client and could ask for payment up front or not take them on altogether.
The second use could be as leverage when you are trying to get paid by a client that is refusing to pay. You could tell them, "If you continue not to pay, then I will register your business in this directory and it will be very hard for you to get developers in the future."
I'm sure there are a variety of issues from legal to authenticity, but it was a thought that occurred to me and I wanted to see what you thought. | 17 | [
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"body": "Get ready to be sued for slander. That's the first thing that came to my mind. The BBB, on the other hand, is more likely to be useful.",
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"body": "What If I'm some random asshole and feel like putting random companies on the list?\n\nThere is no way to enforce this for only good, and I think its a bad idea. sorry.",
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"body": "Problem with lists like this is abuse, just like \"game cheat/hacker\" list sites that are based on user submissions.\n\nIt would take about 10 minutes from opening the doors, when someone starts submitting their competition to the \"black list\" just because they can.",
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Anyone else here purposely still not seen two girls one cup, and not on moral grounds? | I am pretty calloused (pun intended) when it comes to porn, but this video genuinely scares me. I don't know what it is, for sure, but I am convinced it is about two chicks shitting in a cup and eating it. I am equally convinced that this could destroy some part of my psyche. Anyone else? | 22 | [
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"body": "Here, I hope I never see it. It would take a Clockwork Orangean effort to make me watch it. I've unfortunately been tricked into seeing flashes of Goatse and Tub Girl and can never unsee them, who knows what damage a video would do.",
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"body": "i have not seen it. i can hardly think of something i would want to see LESS than that. i have a hard time un-seeing stuff. i dont even like the decomp fox in \"closer\"",
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"body": "I started watching it once, but as soon as I realized what was going to happen I just closed the damn window so fast it left a dent on the screen.",
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"body": "Have not seen it, the reaction videos make me want to puke. I have a pretty weak stomach, and a memory that would never let me forget. I do have a good friend who acts as a filter, he will message don't watch ..... and he watches everything. ",
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"body": "I've seen things on the internet that have left my inner child crying in a dark corner, Blair Witch style.\n\nI honestly believe watching two women eat shit and puke to a cheesy piano track would throttle the poor thing fully to death. I'd never enjoy puppies or lollipops again. There's not enough Cute Overload in the universe to mindscrub that away. \n\n",
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Hey Reddit - some advice for live play? | I've been playing poker for about 7 years now. On and off more seriously in the last couple. I only play no-limit cash games (until recently occasional played home tourneys). I have recently moved up to 2-5nl with a max buy-in of $300. (i play at snoqualmie near seattle if anyone else does..) I feel like I am a fairly strong player. I have learned a lot playing live cash games in the last couple years. There are a mix of decent to terrible players at these tables - usually only 1 or 2 people at a table who i feel are really strong. When I first started up again at snoqualmie (about a month ago) i built up a large bank roll quite quickly (I was up over 2G for a while). I have now lost consistently the last 4 times I have gone and am almost back down to where I started. Its very frustrating. Any advice on what I can do to improve my game at this level? | 5 | [
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"body": "A pro might want a bankroll as high as 20 grand to play NL500 and be immune to variance. If you were looking to improve your game, I would look into the Harrington on Cash Games books (especially beating weak games chapter in volume 2) and check out the 2+2 forums.",
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This may be an odd question, but what stereotypes do you have or have you heard against Asians (specifically to Filipino, Japanese and Chinese) | I am of Asian descent and curious to know the past and current stereotypes. I will not down-vote any comment and will honestly keep an open mind in reading comments.
**Please include, if you can, some stereotypes against [INDIANS.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aof88/this_may_be_an_odd_question_but_what_stereotypes/c0imhoq)** | 13 | [
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"body": "They (especially the women) SUCK at driving.\n\nAll they care about are their grades.\n\nThey have squinty eyes.\n\nThey are ridiculously concerned about saving money.\n\nThey're horribly racist.\n\nTheir dicks are tiny. (*ahem* Not mine, of course.)\n\nAnd yet, they love you long time.\n\nBy the way, I'm Asian as well.\n\nEDIT: Formatting\n\n\n",
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"body": "Lousy drivers. I can attest to this, at least for first generation Vietnamese, as I used to have to drive through Garden Grove a lot in the 80s after a major immigration wave. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I narrowly missed death.\n\nA good one is that they are known for excellent math skills!",
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"body": "I have a friend that's filipino, and she's a total slut that goes clubbing despite her underage-ness. She also is one of the top students in our Calc class. Basically, she's a bad ass.\n\nI can't say whether or not it's a stereotype though..",
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"body": "I hear they steal children in the dead of night. They wait under the beds of the innocent and strike when they are their most vulnerable, dragging them kicking and screaming back to their paper-walled dens in the woods.\n\nOnce there, they make quick work of their captive victim. Skillfully using their horrid claws as knives and axes, they slice and chop the body and wrap them in rolls of rice and human entrails seasoned with the tears of orphans.\n\nYour people are truly, truly terrifying, chicoski.",
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"body": "Yes:\n\n* \"All filipinos own a kareoke machine of some sort\"\n* \"All filipinos have some knowledge or can play basketball and or breakdance\"\n* \"All filipinos have innate abilities to climb trees with ease\"",
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"body": "I'd always heard Chinese were dirty. Just filthy little people uncaring over sanitary conditions etc. By our standards I'll be honest, China is kinda dirty, but the weirdest thing ever happened to me there.\n\nI went to a bath house, where you can take some baths, go to a sauna, get a massage, eat some buffet, etc. They also have this thing called assisted washing, where some guy puts a rough sock on his hand and basically scrapes 2 or 3 layers of skin and dirt off your body. \n\nImagine my shock then, when during this deep cleanse of an activity, my friend told me they were basically calling me the dirtiest person they ever had go in. Excuse me? \n\nWesterners who shower every day, scrub down with a wash cloth, etc, imagine themselves to be pretty damn clean. But it turns out the local population goes to these bath houses quite frequently, and quite frequently remove several layers of skin. Whereas my simple wash cloth and soap doesn't quite give me the same treatment no matter how often I do it. \n\nShocked. Shocked. ",
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"body": "I think there is also the stereotype that Japanese men are perverted.\n\nIn my vast my sample size of having dated one for about a year or so, I would have to agree. He tried to watch me when I peed, even while I was yelling at him to go away, and would still lurk outside the bathroom and listen. There was also some weird sex stuff, but I need not go into that. He was also an asshole in general, though, so correlation vs. causation, etc.",
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"body": "Start here: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_East_Asians_in_the_Western_world \n \nThere are whole fields of study that cover all this -- cultural theory, media and communications studies, post colonial theory.... lots of places.",
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"body": "The first generation Japanese people I know are respectful and polite, but look down on everyone else and have an heir of superiority. They really believe they are better than everyone.\n\nFilipino and Chinese males have at least 3 of the following vices: smoking, drinking, gambling, infidelity, laziness\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "Filipino's are superstitious beyond belief. I think it has more to do with their Catholic traditions than anything else. The Spanish ruined those people... (Sorry, I do like Pinoy just not Spanish influence)",
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"body": "We like to eat rice (rike to eat lice?) and are all stupendously good at mathematics.\r\n\r\nWhich is true, I suppose.",
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"body": "I've heard all Filipina women are batshit crazy party girls. I know one who is and a few who aren't. I've also heard that whenever two meet in America, they start going through distant relatives because there's always somebody who knows somebody.",
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"body": "* Horizontal vaginas\n* Eat dogs/cats/duck fetuses/monkey brains/tiger penises\n* All yellow (this one dates back to before the 1900s)\n* Know martial arts\n* L's become r's\n* All rooka da same\n* Everyone's name sounds the same\n* Incredibly cheap\n* Everything is based on family honor\n* Every Viet is a Charlie in the trees\n* Every Jap girl is a schoolgirl slut\n* Some family member must either own a laundromat or a nail salon\n* Asian girls during sex sound like either Pokemon or chipmunks\n* Suck a lot at driving\n* We make your electronics and your railroads\n* And your designer clothing and jewelry\n\n[edit] For south Asians too? The list goes on:\n\n* All smell like curry\n* Very hairy\n* In all Bollywood films, there are only 4 types of singers for every song ever made: older male, younger male, older female, younger female\n* Incoherent tech support\n* They, too, all rooka da same.\n* Y'know, I can't think of that many stereotypes. I just mostly see/hear people poke fun at their garb and accents.",
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"body": "The stereotype that says Japanese people are all incredibly polite is pretty true in my experience. I lived there for three years and found the whole nation to be really polite. ",
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"body": "* Chinese are cheap, can't drive and some hate Filipino's\n* Koreans have excessive pride, beautiful and many have undergone plastic surgery\n* Japanese are short, weird and perverted\n* Filipino's are ugly and are like the new \"Mexicans\"\n* Thailand has an alarming number of transvestites\n* All Asians hate Japanese\n* All Asians are racist to other Asian racist and towards themselves too\ne g. Cantonese people don't like Fujianese people\n* All Asians are cheap\n* All male Asians have tiny penises\n* All Asians are good at math\n\nAre the stereotypes that I've heard.",
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"body": "Overly academic with driving parents that demand that they be successful.\n\nI do not subscribe to the above thought, but I do attend a very selective university and have heard that stereotype from other people.",
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"body": "They walk slow. Not a big deal because a lot of people walk slow but all the Asians around campus seem to walk slow. (Yeah yeah conformation bias)",
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"body": "Filipinos have a huge crab mentality (they will tear down anyone who becomes more successful than them). <- Confirmed by two different Filipino girls I know.",
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"body": "For Filipinos, I get \"They want to be nurses\" a lot.\n\nJapan is perverted is another common one.\n\nAnd the ever popular one: They all get good grades.",
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"body": "I do not want to throw this in, but one stereotype about Filipinos which may be debatable to some who would not want to admit, that they gossip a lot. :(",
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"body": "Filipinos are the ghetto asians, not as smart at other east asians and more likely to breakdance and rap than go to school. Yes I'm pinoy, i was one of 3 pinoys in my 60% specialized high school, only pinoy in my math and physics majors, only pinoy in my grad program's history, and only pinoy in my company at my level. and yes i do not like Fil-ams",
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"body": "\"If you cross Filipino women, they will knife you in your sleep.\" Supposedly WWII Navy men said that originally.\n\nWhen a guy found out I was Filipina: \"You remind me of all the women I bought during the navy\"-- implying that all Filipinas are whores, I guess.\n\nAll Chinese are dirty chinks. \n\nAsian women are submissive... Their vaginas are sideways. They really know how to treat their men. \n\nThe usual \"Asians are good in school, good in math\"...\n\nI'm a Filipina-American, born here. \n\nEdit: None of my family has eaten dog meat, or no one will admit it. ",
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"body": "\nFilipino men seem to have a greater chance of being a little shit heads than other people. They do stupid things, and then can't understand why they're in trouble. After talking to a couple filipinas, I was lead to believe this was because they're allowed to get away with more crap back in the Philippines.\n\nI'm a little biased in this - I have had to deal with a huge number of the shit head types. I would like to hear others comment and prove me wrong.",
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"body": "Koreans have drycleaners, Chinese have laundromats, Vietnamese have nail salons and Thais have restaurants. ",
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"body": "Indians: \n\nWrap everything new they buy in plastic wrap, no matter what it is.\n\nAttempt to haggle at Kroger.\n\nHighest median income of any group in the US yet refuse to pay the 35 cents for extra Jalapenos.\n\nAll true.",
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DAE: think people should research more on the product they purchase rather than relying on customer support? | I was looking at Google Nexus One complaint of no direct technical support. I want to know how many Reddit folks even care about customer support these days. I have not used customer support for 10 years and found the answers to my problems online or through the manual itself. I get a feeling more and more consumers are getting lazy on trying to figure things on their own.
Sure there are times where the product blows up for no reason and there are needs to exchange those with a store at times - which is why I try to find stores to purchase from that has good exchange policies.
Example of a stupid consumer: a friend of mine bought an iPod Touch and he was trying to figure out how to get music on it. Frustrated after half an hour, he goes back to the Apple store to get help from the Genius bar and learns he needed to install iTunes on his PC in order to sync. Tried it back at home and got it to work, but he hates this method and decides to return the device. He had to fight the store for an hour to get a refund. | 3 | [
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"body": "Google is always your Tech Support best friend, I haven't ever called a tech support line. But warranties are what you need, I want to be able to huck my phone over Niagra Falls and have them send me a new one. ",
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Isn't the more appropriate question "Why do you believe other people should adhere to your belief system?" rather than "Why do you believe in [insert religion here]?" | If you really stop and think about it, what's your primary problem with religion?
Is it that fact that people believe in a possibly make believe deity who tells them to live their lives according to somewhat archaic rules?
Or is it the fact that people who believe in a possibly make believe deity who tells them to live their lives according to somewhat archaic rules also believe that everyone else must also adhere to those somewhat archaic rules?
For me it is absolutely the latter. If you want to believe that gays shouldn't be married, that's cool. Don't marry a gay. But it becomes a problem for me when you feel the need to tell gay people not to marry other gay people.
It seems to me that you're much more likely to get your point across if you start a debate with the first question rather than the second. What do you guys think?
EDIT: I want to clarify that I'm not saying you should ask religious folks why their religion is the correct one, or even the best one. I'm saying you should ask religious folks why their religious laws should apply to people who don't adhere to their religion. | 15 | [
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"body": "> If you really stop and think about it, what's your primary problem with religion?\n\n... because it's a sign of psychological and intellectual *dysfunction*; which succeeds in excusing and supporting the spread of further-and-deeper similar dysfunction.\n\nThese are people who are using *fictions* in order to mediate their dealings with reality; and can even get away with **murder** by doing so.\n\nIt's like letting an alcoholic talk other people into alcoholism because \"drinking is fun\". It's like a spouse-beater encouraging other people to beat their own spouses because it's such a \"great stress reliever\".\n\nTo pre-address the hoary old argument: no, it won't stamp out all the world's mental illness. But we don't stop fighting cancer just because fighting cancer won't stop all world death.",
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"body": "Religion is rather benign when the religion doesn't promote the idea that there is one way to live.\n\nYou might be interested in reading this book: [Ishmael](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_\\(novel\\))",
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Dear Reddit, I am going to a "Dress as your Favorite Drink" party and need costume suggestions. | I am attending a "Dress as your Favorite Drink" party and need suggestions for a witty and hilarious costume. The rules are you can dress up as any mixed drink, liquor, beer or wine brand. So far the best drink/costume I can think of is "Rocky Mountain Bear Fucker" - lumberjack shirt, hiking boots, fake beard, stuffed bear taped to crotch. I was also thinking Porn Star (dress as Ron Jeremy) or Bloody Cesear (dress in a toga w/ fake sword and red paint all over)
I was wondering if the creative juices behind reddit could help suggest other options. I am a male, and can grow facial hair if required.
Fire away with your suggestions! | 14 | [
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"body": "Dress up as Captain Morgan, carry around an empty barrel and put your leg on it occasionally looking triumphant. Bonus points for a real parrot.",
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"body": "Dress as a super gay doctor (short shorts, glitter white coat) with a Dr. Pepper name tag and call yourself a *Flaming Dr. Pepper.*",
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"body": "Fuzzy navel; totally naked with a mirkin in the middle of your abdomen (ginger for greatest comedic effect)\n\nScrewdriver; go as whatever you like, but make sure you are spotted disappearing upstairs with the cab driver and some fluffy handcuffs\n\nManhattan; toy planes on invisible wires attached to a headband, all in nosedive position... or is it still too soon?\n\n",
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"body": "Jack and coke\n\npick a famous jack (lumberjack?) and walk around with something that looks like a dimebag or line of coke?\n\nbonus points jack and cokes are actually good.\n\nminus points jack and cokes are popular and well known.",
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"body": "A Black and Tan. You could probably throw it together from an army surplus store. And then have fun opening fire on/verbally harassing anyone dressed as Guinness or Irish whiskey. ",
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"body": "http://www.breakingthetape.com/keeping-pace/Shirley%20Temple.bmp\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Temple_cocktail",
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"body": "Top hat, Coat with tails, Cane. \n\nJohnnie Walker\n\nMake sure the coat is Blue, and see if you can get someone to buy you a two hundred dollar bottle of scotch.",
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Recipe:Salad Soup / Everyone does this but in case you forgot like I did.... here you go. | For a while I was buying bouillion cubes - or prepared broth if it was on sale. Then a few months ago, I remembered a special moment I had right before my Grandmother passed away. She explained why her food always had a "special" taste. She made "Salad Soup" once a week and used it to cook the entire week. When my son became vegetable resistant and I sought to become even more frugal, I remembered what dearest taught me.
RECIPE:
1. Carefully wash every vegetable you use. 2. Over the course of the week, place all of your onion, garlic, carrot peels, parsley and broccoli stems and unused ends from other veg in a plastic bag. If it is a part of vegetable you will compost or discard, add it to the bag. (I do not include potato peels. The one time I tried I didn't like the flavor.) 3. Before your weekly shopping day, scan the refrigerator for any veg which is likely to turn.
4. Throw the soon to turn veg and the weekly bag into a large crock pot. Add Bay leaves, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper. (If not terribly full, add chopped carrot, turnip and parsnip. Fill with water. Turn crock pot on low before you go to bed. 5. In the morning, drain the broth through cheesecloth and a strainer. Pour into containers for use during the week. 6. Compost the detrius. | 76 | [
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"body": "Not to rain on this parade, and I do like your name for it, but it's more commonly called Vegetable Stock.\n\nHomemade is *Always* better than store bought.",
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"body": "Amusingly, that sounds very close to how medieval peasants lived. They would make a stew with whatever vegetables and meats were handy, and whatever was left at the end of the night they included in the next day's meals. [Here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottage)'s some info. I've always heard it called Endless Stew. \n\nAs an amusing aside, I can't help but imagine the frugality movement slowly beginning to mimic peasants from the dark ages, as they were almost entirely self-sufficient. And, well, I think that's about as frugal as you can get.",
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"body": "PS - I'd like ideas on how to better preserve the vegetable broth. I always just strive to use it all up by the end of the week. On the otherhand, I do have a phobia about canning. Thanks! ",
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"body": "I've done this for a long time. Not because I'm particularly frugal but because it tastes so much better than store-bought broth. I use the slap chopper on everything; it goes farther that way.\n\nHere's a tip: It helps a lot to put in a piece of Kombu (aka dashima). \n\nI also always include some shitaake mushroom stems, but this results in a fairly strong flavour that not everybody likes.\n\nI freeze containers & ice cubes, and use the broth as a base for crock-pot beans, soups, to add flavour to stir fries, to make quinoa (yum), and in many other dishes.\n\nI sometimes also throw in the bones of a roast chicken. ",
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Dear Reddit. How can something be "Very Illegal" ? | Illegality as defined by the dictionary "forbidden by law or statute." Very as defined by the dictionary "in a high degree; extremely; exceedingly"
I would think that law would be a binary object. Either you can or you can not do a certain thing. Same as how can something be "Very true" or "Very false" ?
So how can you do something "Very Illegal" ?
I'm not from an English speaking nation so pardon me if you think I'm exceedingly dumb for all this. | 3 | [
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"body": "going 36mph in a 30mph zone is *kinda* illegal \n\ndrinking while driving is illegal \n\ndriving around with a bottle of lye, a shovel, and a 14 yr old tied up in your trunk is **very illegal**",
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My Dad owns and runs Bootdisk.com. The webpage has looked the same for the past 10 years. Ask us anything. | Unfortunately he isn't local, but once we get some questions I'll give him a call. [Here is a link to the site](http://www.bootdisk.com)
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Edit 1: Dad says he can't elaborate on a few things (legal stuff), so almost anything. He says he "doesn't want to open up a can of worms." He also says **thanks**, and he really enjoys reading all the comments. | 63 | [
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"body": "Oh man, I used to use this site back in the day for 98SE boot disks. Anyway, what's with the girl lifting the weights on the front page?",
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"body": "Thank your dad for me. I've used this site many times over the last 10 years (saved my ass so many times when working on win98 PCs, and anytime I needed to boot into MSDOS w/ MSCDEX support!)",
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"body": "I don't have any questions. I just wanted to extend a thank you. It is an amazing resource and has saved me a lot of time and trouble throughout the years.",
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"body": "[YOU LIE!](http://www.archive.org/)\n\nBut you still got an upvote because it's still pretty damn close haha",
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"body": "Oh man, I remember we formatted my friends computer. His dad was so pissed, he didn't have information on it but we had to get it back to a working state. We couldn't get the system to boot the Win98 CD and be able to access the HD. I remember the website and I take off running home without telling anyone what I was doing, I return with a single floppy and a miracle is had.",
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"body": "Oh, well, so here's *that* website! I only stopped using it since bootable Linux (and CD-R drivers) became widely available and user-friendly.\r\n\r\nWell, say thanks to your dad! I've surely used the Win98 boot disk back in the day. Last time I got a use of it was to set up a DOS virtual machine to play DOS games, but Dosbox seems to still outperform VirtualPC.",
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My fiance and I are doing a month raw starting today. Advice? Recipes? | My tastes are very simple. I'm more than satisfied to eat a few tangerines, a couple bananas, some snap peas, etc etc, and never once make an actual dish. My fiance however does not want to go a month without having some sort of prepared meal, so do you all have some advice on variety, recipes, staying healthy, and getting our vitamins and minerals?
Or, any raw experiences to share? | 13 | [
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"body": "Congratulations! I love raw vegan food, but don't do it all the time. I go in spurts of completely raw for about 2 weeks every 2 months , but incorporate raw food into my diet every day. \n\nFirst off, most raw foodies I know of love it and are insanely dedicated to this addiction, to the point of always thinking about their next step in the process of eating raw food. So you will need to plan ahead and be prepared to devote a couple hours a day to planning and preparing.\n\nSecondly, if you don't already have it, get a commercial blender (Vitamix 5000 or Blendtec) and a commercial juicer. I use these all the time. You may wish to get a dehydrator as well.\n\nThirdly, eat food that you enjoy and tastes great! If you don't enjoy the experience, it won't do you any good. I love dessert and eating raw in the terms of smoothies and juicing. I don't really have the time to make the amazing dishes many raw foodies make, so I juice many of my raw foods and have a liquid diet. \n\nHere are some of my favorite meals:\n\nRaw Nori Burrito:\nHummus\npine nuts\nthose tiny (grape?) tomatoes\nsprouted almonds, blended smooth\nbarely sprouted mung beans, sunflower and flax seeds\nsprouted alfalfa sprouts \nsliced cucumber\nceltic sea salt\nNori Sheets\n- combine all ingredients into a burrito and sprinkle with cayenne pepper\n\n\nRaw Green Smoothie\nJuice the following:\nDinosaur Kale, Collard Greens, Carrots, Dandelion, Cilantro\n- add in a couple of teaspoons of powdered maca, camu camu (you can get these from essential living foods.com or ultimate super foods.com)\n- add in 25% raw juice of grapefruit or pomegranate\n- add 1/2 teaspoon celtic sea salt for your minerals\n- sweeten by using more carrots or adding in honey, stevia or\n\nI also like to cold ferment my extra juice with probiotics. NCP, ascended health are my favorites. This will help with the breakdown of the food and add in the necessary vitamins, bacteriocins and digestive enzymes you need. Just add the probiotics to the extra juice and put into the refrigerator for at least 48 hrs. \n\nRaw Coconut Almond Hot Chocolate Smoothie\n- take 5 whole coconuts, open them up and scoop out the meat and water. Blend until smooth\n- take 1/2 pound of raw soaked almonds and blend\n- add in 1/2 cup cup raw Cacao\n- add in 3 teaspoons vanilla extract\n- add in 1 cup soaked goji berries (soaked 4 hrs)\n- add in 1 cup of coconut sugar (to taste)\nBlend these all in the blender\n- heat to 118 degrees\n\nApple De Sol (raw apple \"pie\")\nCrust:\n1 cup soaked almonds or almond meal\n1 cup soaked goji berries (or raisins as a substitute)\n1 tbsp vanilla\n1 dash cinnamon\n\nBlend almonds in a blender and add everything else to desired consistency. Press in bottom of dish\n\nFilling:\n1 apple\n1.4 cup raisins or 5 dates (soaked for 4 hours)\n1 tsp vanilla\n1/4 tsp cinnamon\n\nBlend apples, raisins, cinnamon and vanilla to desired consistency in blender. Spread evenly over crust and enjoy. Blessings!",
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"body": "I was never much for raw recipes, they seem to me almost all too high in fat and sugar. But I am 100% for a salad-based diet based on raw leafy greens. I find the lettuces to be most palatable, make those your main course, and add things to it that you like. I like walnuts, tomatoes, spiralized summer squash, red bell pepper, corn, extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, red wine vinegar, and fresh Italian parsley. Make fruit smoothies in the morning and add some ground flax. You can sneak in a handful of spinach, chard, or beet greens. I am not completely raw (I use steamed veggies and cooked legumes) but I think it's a great thing to have a diet based on uncooked fruits and vegetables with undamaged fats. Yes, you might be not getting as much of a particular fat-soluble isolated nutrient but you are probably getting a wider spectrum of synergystic benefits. Definitely you will be exposed to fewer glycotoxins, as these are formed on cooking.",
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Last year I posted that 31% of Reddit users were subscribed to the Atheism subreddit, now it's closer to 33%. | [Here's the old submission](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/7ob4m/31_of_reddit_users_are_subscribed_to_the_atheism/) (27033 out of 86680)
Now there's 67774 out of 208010 subscribed to Reddit.com.
/edit: I guess the true count is closer to 29% considering /r/announcements has 235959 subscribers (thanks db2). It doesn't necessarily mean it's less than the time I posted that last submission, but it's important to note. | 50 | [
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"body": "Based on how accurate the \"1 year ago\" is on Reddit, I guess that could be anywhere from 12 to 23 months ago.",
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"body": "How many people are unsubscribed from /r/reddit.com/ ?\n\nWe'd need a total user count which that doesn't provide.\n\nThey subscribed everyone to /r/blog and [/r/announcements](http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/) automatically when they made those recently. It shows about 236,000 which is probably closer to the mark but I know for a fact some have unsubscribed from them in protest to being autosubscribed.",
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"body": "How many are doing opposition research? It might be like Fox News audience numbers which is beyond the number of republicans or conservatives and must contain many liberals who tune in just to find out what crazy thing Glenn Beck is going to say next.\n",
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shouldn't we be empowering boys too? | I was looking at the post earlier that led to Barbie.com. At Barbie.com they are getting ready to create the next barbie role model. The site claimed that barbie has had over 120 careers, ranging from typically female ones, to more male dominated ones.
This got me thinking. We push girls so hard to break through barriers and do what they want, stereotypes be damned. We've gotten so good at this that women now outnumber men in colleges.
But where is this support for young boys. While barbie can climb trees, go on a dream date, and come back in time for her job as a dentist, little boys are left with nothing but cars and superheroes.
Now I won't knock comic book heroes, because I am a big fan. But am I the only one wondering if this is a bad thing. Barbie can be anything. An action figure solves all his problems with violence, and words are only used as a verbal attack. Shouldn't we encourage boys more than that? | 72 | [
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"body": "We should not be empowering boys or girls, we should be empowering children to be whatever they want regardless of gender.",
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"body": "Dragontoes kind of mentions this in-comment, but I'd like to expand a bit.\n\nBoys are still naturally seen as \"powered\" to a certain extent, because masculinity is still somehow the default superior. You don't encourage GI Joe to wear a tutu into battle because it's effeminate which according to our continuing social standards is weak. Therefore, we empower girls to be more like boys.\n\nHowever, as someone who came of age in the 90s (riot grrl third waver right ehre) I think that feminism came to encompass different-ism, including a host of lgbt issues - at least they were discussed. So to me, being a feminist doesn't include empowering a boy, it means helping him to understand men's roles, why things are the way they are and protect his space to develop as he will, and help give him tools to support his identity - defend his right to dress as he wishes, including skirts, as much as I'd defend a little girl's desire to be a drag king scientist wizard spy agent.\n\nFeminism does not only equal \"pro girl\". It implies an analysis of gender roles and social constraints, not the sparkly pink rhinestone \"girl power\" bullshit.",
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"body": "The specific reason for this can be summed up in one word:\n\nKen.\n\nOkay, that's a name, but stay with me! If an action figure does something besides kill things with oversized weapons it becomes a doll, i.e. a girl's toy. Until we as a society get over this deeply ingrained idea that it ought to be a man's/boy's worst nightmare to ever be associated with anything feminine, we will continue to have this problem.\n\nWe very much ought to encourage our boys to dream as expansively as we encourage young women to do.\n\nThe problem lies in the fact that women are empowered to seek what has been traditionally masculine because this was, previously, the preserve of those who had all the power; but the inverse was never allowed since femininity is still seen as something a male must *lower* himself to. That taboo is the source of an enormous number of problems for men and women across a great many demographic groups.\n\nThat too is a feminist issue and has been articulated a great many times by feminists; the trouble is that it often gets derided by too many as \"emasculating\" or \"feminising\" men and thus weakening society. Yet who pays the price for resisting this so called emasculation? Men, of course. Fewer choices, greater restrictions, absurd standards and ugly stereotypes.\n\nThe problems are made quite plain in this thread. Big80sMullet suffers in his job needlessly, and why is that? Too many people here know nurses who happened to be men that faced opprobrium for their career choices and why is that?\n\nWe must end this asinine embargo on the \"feminine.\" I put it in quotes because there's nothing intrinsically feminine or masculine about any job or role or toy, just the burden of tradition; who society made do what, or play with what. It's time for that to end, and it is *very much* a feminist issue.",
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"body": "Male nurses have this problem by the boatload... I know quite a few wonderful guy nurses from my dad's days in the service and all of them have been made fun of for it (including by me when I was a little kid-- shame on me, but my parents were big fans of Traditional Gender Roles and did not see anything wrong with this behavior). Typically there's this problem that women are allowed to cross over somewhat into male dominated areas but men can't cross back -- just like women can wear pants but men generally can't wear skirts. It's sad and it's not right.",
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"body": "I've run into problems with this with my son. He's two and a half and enjoys playing with toy cars and action figures as much as playing with his baby dolls and pretending to cook.\n\nI've gotten weird looks and bewildered, \"Why do you let him have that?\" from friends at the fact that my son has baby dolls and has a section of the backyard outfitted with old pots, pans, spoons and a toy stove for cooking mud pies.\n\nI once got chewed out in a grocery store by a woman because my son was wearing silver nail polish. I'd been paining my nails that day and he wanted nail polish too. She claimed that I was a horrible mother and that I was going to make my son gay. I just shrugged and told her that I thought silver was a pretty manly color.\n\nI don't get why, especially, cooking and babies are such \"girly\" things. My husband cooks and takes care of our son just as much as I do and no one has ever questioned his masculinity. Most women my age *expect* their boyfriend or husband to do just as much cooking and child rearing as they do. What is so horrible about a little boy pretending to do the same things?",
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"body": "O.k maybe it's just me being me in the way I'm raising my son, or me trying desperately to rebel against how I was bought up, having been taught never to show weakness, emotions, feelings, and we sure as shit don't talk about them, that I'm taking the very opposite path with my son. Sure he's only 4, but he knows it's o.k to cry when he's hurt, or upset, or to get angry and scream and shout if he needs to (within reason and context) \nHe's currently OBSESSED with the colour pink and while he doesn't have any pink clothing at the moment that wouldn't stop me buying him pink cloths He's even gone as far as to ask for a sun dress as it made him feel pretty and felt nice to the touch. \nHe carries a teddy bear with him almost everywhere, and it is the rattiest thing you've ever seen but he loves it, he talks on teddies behalf. \n\nI'm not going to discourage any of his behaviours. \nIn fact he came home from a play date with his nails painted hot pink and was very proud of that, and sure it wouldn't have been something I would have let him do (he was with his father) but He was proud, so I showed him how proud I am of that for him. \n\nHe's 4, loves to bake cookies, help cook dinner, clean the house, can empty the rubbish bin and change a toilet roll, oh and put down the toilet seat. And he's doing all this, not because he's a boy and I think he should, but because he's my child and I think he should, it wouldn't change if he was a girl. \nSure there might not be as many cars to trip over in the house, but that isn't to say that if he was a girl I wouldn't buy them cars if that is what he showed interest in. Hell he's attracted to the \"girls\" toys at the store, but I think only for the fact that they are different to what he has at home, and that they make different noises. \n\nI guess what I'm trying to say is that some of us are out there, doing our bit, trying our best to empower people, regardless of gender. \nAt least I think that was the point I was trying to make, maybe I should go have another coffee...",
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"body": "Not to sound sexist or anything, but here is what I think. Now I am strongly on women's side because I am from middle east and I hate how horribly women get treated there.\nAnyways what I noticed is that my girlfriend likes to fantasize a lot, whereas all I need to achieve my goals is reality. My girlfriend gets motivated off of watching women being businesswomen and wants to become like them. I never had any need for those things to be motivated. All I ever want is to take the best damn care of my girlfriend I possibly can, and make enough money so she does not have to work a day in her life.\nBut I do not think even when I was a kid I ever needed to be told what I am capable of or not. I just went and did things.",
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"body": "*sniff* well said, submitter! A million billion upvotes for you! I often feel like guys are given the short end of the stick and I do my best to be myself and not try to force overly machoistic behaviour.. and i've been harassed for it on several occasions.\n\nApparently, having pink/purple/magenta striped polo shirts and colored socks means you enjoy the company of the same sex. blast this society we live in! we let you girls wear our plaid shirts in the 90s, why can't I wear a bright blue, lime green, or hot pink hoodie?\n\ngoddamnit, I LIKE pink.",
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"body": "What about LEGO? There are tons of sets, but you can build your own city - past, present, or future - and play any of the roles. It's not exactly one-on-one like a doll is (unless you pick a main LEGO character and play around it), but the sets don't necessarily require violence to be fun.",
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"body": "I think it's also *very* important to encourage boys to be able to show affection and be more open about himself. I went to see a speaker who had dressed up and passed as a man for a year (she was a woman). She spoke of much of the repression men experience, especially regarding affection (because it's 'gay,' etc). The gender roles of 'tough man, gentle woman' don't necessarily need to be upheld if it benefits a man to be able to express himself more openly.\n\nAlso, we need more male nurses.\n\nIn a gender neutral sense, it's good to approach all children with the idea of empowerment and to have good role models.",
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"body": "Encouragement of both sex's comes more from parents, teachers, coaches, and family than from any action figure. To be honest, I played with Barbie and I never saw her as independent and successful because no Barbie was complete without her Ken and her riches. As well, it was never \"my Barbie is going to work and bringing home the money\", during my Barbie experience. I may be wrong, did anyone here play with Barbie's fulling intending on making her successful and independent? I wasn't even thinking about that and I am not sure that making a figurine for boys, or even Barbie for that matter, is teaching boys and girls that they can be whatever they want. I learned that I had choices from the adults that were a part of my life. I just think it is silly to assume that children even think of Barbie as a role model and not just a doll/toy...I always just thought she was a lucky girl with a lot of cool clothes, cars, and houses. I've never heard of a kid saying she wants to be like Barbie when she grows up. I wanted to be like my grandma and my mom and my awesome, smart, cousin Kristin...boys not having an \"action figure role model\", is not very likely to be the reason that girls outnumber guys in college. It is more likely affected by the fact that more girls are born than boys, not by much but this could have some effect. As well, skilled trades are done by a lot more men than women and does not require college, so this also a likely reason why this trend is occurring. I am sure there are tons of reasons that play into why this is happening. I don't believe that having a \"figurine role model\" or just that people have forgotten to encourage their sons and focus only on their daughters has much to do with it. ",
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Help me find the origin of this definition: "Grace is unmerited favor." | Most of my Protestant acquaintances know this definition by heart, having learned it in Sunday school. But it seems kind of an unexamined assumption, especially since nobody I know can point to where this definition came from.
It's unique to Protestantism, so I assume there's a writer in the last 500 years who said it. Any idea who that was? | 8 | [
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"body": "Hmm, sil, that's a good one. I'm a Protestant, and I'd not heard that -- more famously known to me is G.R.A.C.E. (God's Riches at Christ's Expense).\n\nI found this...\n>One of my dictionaries defines grace (in its theological meaning) in this way: \"the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from Him\". Elwell's Evangelical Dictionary of Theology states, \"its meaning is that of an undeserved blessing freely bestowed on man by God--a concept which is at the heart not only of Christian theology but also of all genuinely Christian experience.\"\n[grace](http://www.fix.net/~rprewett/BG-grace.html)\n\nI found this also in the [New International Bible Dictionary](http://www.amazon.com/New-International-Bible-Dictionary-Douglas/dp/0310331900)\n\nThere is also a CH Spurgeon book titled [Grace: God's Unmerited Favor](http://www.amazon.com/Grace-Unmerited-C-H-Spurgeon/dp/0883689561/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263266318&sr=8-2)\n\nAnd I get a sense from the 100 or so pages I looked at in search engines, that it stems from some definition from the Greek, though I can't find anything more on origin of it regarding \"unmerited\":\n[Strongs 5485: charis](http://strongsnumbers.com/greek/5485.htm)\n\nIt sounds like Romans 4 to me -- That God would do what Abraham could not do, in providing the promises of many children, etc.\n\nEDIT:\nMy best guess is that \"unmerited\" comes from [Ephesians](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202:8-9&version=NIV). Grace is not because of our works, therefore nothing was done by us which merits its assignment to us. Still no luck on where those two words were first used together.",
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Dear Reddit: On a scale of 1-10, if your parents were to watch a highlights reel of the last year of your life, how disappointed would they be and why? | I'd definitely make the 7-8 mark, it would be higher, but they know what I am like by now. The drugs and mild violence would be the only things... What about you guys? | 16 | [
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"body": "10 because i only need to show them the highlights from one night in the last year, which included, anal sex, k-holing, assault and public urination. Then there was the 30 day drinking binge with the 5 day vegas trip in the middle. Using my australian accent to trick american girls into sleeping with me probably wouldn't impress my parents. Since i didn't go to church or pray or even think much about jebus they would most definitely be ashamed. ",
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"body": "1 because more than just the last year of my life has been dedicated to helping my parents and siblings out in their current position (single income household since one is sick, lack of ability to pay for daycare for young ones, inability to balance budget without a neutral observer setting it all up, tax preparations, dealing with mortgage companies to get into an affordable situation, general house cleaning/maint, pushing for better grades for all siblings in school, etc I take care of all of this)... Sure, I am older while living at home (which many outside of this situation may look down upon when not informed about all the circumstances), but I've been helping them out in this regard for quite some time and it has helped them stay afloat. I know for a fact they appreciate what I have done for them and I would never have done it any other way. My family is my number one priority and there's nothing I wouldn't do for them.",
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"body": "hmm... probably 7-8. \r\n\r\n* I drink too much \r\n\r\n* play video games too much\r\n\r\n* only clean stuff when company is coming over\r\n\r\n* drove drunk a few times\r\n\r\n* when my parents have wanted to hang out or go to dinner, I have lied a few times that I had prior plans when really I was just sitting on my couch drinking and playing xbox or on my computer.\r\n\r\n\r\nI think that might be most of it.",
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"body": "About a five or six. But if they knew what was going on in my head, probably an eight, nine or even a ten. ",
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"body": "Is 10 most disappointed? If so, I pick that one. I can never seem to satisfy them. No matter what I do, it's not good enough for them.\n\nIf I went to the Moon, I should have gone to Mars. And when I get to Mars, I should have gone to Jupiter. It's a never ending cycle.\n\nI try not to talk to them any more because of this.",
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"body": "10 - they think I'm a smart PhD student... actually, the highlight of my year was opening a reddit account...",
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Did anyone else notice that Avatar used some canned-out sounds from Jurassic Park? | Namely, the T-rex and the Raptor sounds? I cringe when I hear recycled sounds on commercials, but this should NEVER occur in a $gazillion film. | 18 | [
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"body": "It's a tax dodge. Fight Club used a cold breath CGI effect from Titanic in the ice cave scene, happens all the time. The door sound from Aliens is in dozens of films. \n\nWhat happens is that the same studio owns both assets. They bill themselves at a hugely inflated cost, transferring the profit from the new film onto the original. This allows them to screw over anyone who was dumb enough to take net instead of gross such as [Stan Lee](http://www.out-law.com/page-5238), because, financially speaking, Spiderman didn't make a profit.\n\nIt's called [Hollywood Accounting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Accounting).",
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"body": "I distinctly remember hearing a Jurassic Park sound during the segment where he's first learning to ride the \"horse\" type things.",
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"body": "It should be noted that the Jurassic Park sounds were created by melding together real animal sounds like elephants and walrus alarm calls.\n\nBut yeah, there was a definite overlap.",
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"body": "Yes, I noticed two or three raptor sounds, plus the T-rex roar. I've only watched JP 30 times, so I am pretty sure.",
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AskHardware: How much better is the Geforce 210 than a 8600GT XXX? | Hello all,
I currently have an XFX 8600GT XXX and I am going to pick up a new harddrive in the next couple of days and I noticed they also have a Geforce 210 on sale for $42CAD so I figured I would upgrade to that.
So I was wondering what I should expect when gaming, will there be much of a difference?
Its on a 2.2GHz Athlon64 X2 with 2GB of ram. | 7 | [
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"body": "From what I heard, the G210 might perform much worse in games than the 8600. I know its slower than a 4350, which isn't a gamer card either. I'd say you're better off staying with the 8600.\n\nedit: [here](http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-q3-2009-mainstream-quality/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-1280x1024,1504.html) you can compare the 8600Gt and the HD4350.\n\n[Here](http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,694223/Geforce-G210-Nvidias-first-DirectX-101-card-reviewed/Reviews/) is a comparison for the 4350 and the G210.\n\nAs you can see, the 8600GT performs much better in games.",
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Good 2-d platform game for linux? | I'm looking for a good 2-d open-source platform game (preferably something like Metroid or Megama for NES)
EDIT: Thanks for all of the suggestions. Blob Wars is especially great! I actually found out about GFCE Ultra and started playing Megaman on there. | 8 | [
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"body": "It's not Open-Source, but [Cave Story](http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/downloads_1.php) is one of the best platformers ever. ",
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Durable, low power, smallish USB screens? | So, I like the general idea of a netbook, what with the low power requirements and all, but find them lacking in a few respects:
1. Keyboard. I want a full-size keyboard. I'm not a child.
2. Battery. Yes, they have good battery life. But what if I want more, and don't care about the extra weight?
3. Screen. Well, actually I don't mind too much about this. But if I could get significantly improved battery life by using a 3hz monitor, I'd be perfectly happy with it. Video is not a necessity.
4. Durability. Actually I don't know if this is a problem with netbooks, at this point I'm just stating design goals for the project I'm outlining to you.
As you may have guessed, I don't really care about software, in fact, I'd be happy if the thing could run Emacs (though if that's all it can do, obviously I'm hoping for battery life measured in days.)
The [Beagle Board](http://www.beagleboard.org) seems like a natural starting place. From there I need some sort of a display. [Mimo](http://www.mimomonitors.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-faq) has some sketchy Linux drivers available, but they're full color, and I'm hoping I can find some more power-optimized screens. Is there anything that would fit the BeagleBoard's DVI-D/S-Video out that is also conservative on power? Keyboard, I'm expecting I can just plug one in (fullsize, non-redundant keyboard being the primary goal of this project.)
Battery will likely be dependent on the precise power requirements of the other pieces. Something like energizer's [solar powered USB](http://www.energizerpowerpacks.com/us/products/sp2000/) would be a step in the right direction, but seeing as it's designed to charge batteries, it probably has more yield than I need.
I have put a computer together, and am a (fairly young) programmer, fresh out of college. I haven't played with solder, but wouldn't be too scared to deal with it (and I do know a few people who could probably help me with that if push came to shove.
Any ideas for parts? On a scale of one to ten how crazy am I?
EDIT: tl;dr: I'm looking to build something at about the form factor and weight of a full-size laptop, but with maximal battery life and a standard, full-size keyboard. 7" display or thereabouts. | 9 | [
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"body": "You could also try the 945GSEJT motherboard from Intel -- you'd get more performance from it than with a Beagle Board, and it uses the Mini-ITX 17x17x2 cm. The board has built in LVDS and inverter power out, so it can directly interface with a monitor (unlike USB VGA or DVI, which need to be converted through an analog to digital converter).\n\nI used them during my project in [Nepal](http://www.nepal.charlesparkerwatson). Cheap, small, low power consumption, and good performance.",
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reddit: Ask Me Anything (our video interview series) is creating a new 5 sec animated intro for. We need music, or a "stinger" as they call it. Anyone want to contribute? | - The animated intro will be in front of all new interviews, probably starting in Feb.
- A fellow redditor, who happens to be an awesome motion graphics pro is creating the animated intro.
- You will get a credit in the intro, link in video description, and shout out on blog, etc.
- Our interviews are released under Creative Commons License Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States
- You can see them here: [youtube.com/reddit](http://www.youtube.com/reddit)
edit: My headline grammatically poor is.
edit2: The intro is being created now. I can share it and details here once we have a draft, but was wondering if anyone in this community was interested at all. Thanks for the responses! Glad to know we have some interested MusicMakers. | 11 | [
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"body": "What kind of intro is it?\n\n\nI work with synth//vox//guitar and I'm happy to give it a crack but I need a backdrop to work with, any idea what the intro will actually be?",
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"body": "I would need more info to create the music. Are there hit/sync points, is there a general genre/direction, etc.?",
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Why do we get caught up in dichotomies? | I've wondered for a long time - why do we so easily get up in dichotomies? Why, if I like Pepsi, should I hate Coke? Why should I hate Ford if I like Chevy? Why, if I like Reddit, should I hate Digg?!
Of course people are going to have preferences for one thing over another, that is natural. What I am getting at is where people who like a particular thing strongly dislike another for no valid reason.
Here are some other examples:
Ford vs. Chevy,
Budweiser vs. Miller,
Digg vs. Reddit,
Coke vs. Pepsi,
Harley Davidson vs. any Japanese sport bike,
Mac vs. PC or Apple vs. Microsoft,
Intel vs. AMD,
liberal vs. conservative,
Linux vs. Windows,
Facebook vs. MySpace,
Capitolism vs. Communism,
Theist vs. Atheist,
Analog vs. Digital,
Star Trek vs. Star Wars,
Army vs. Navy
In most cases, the two items are similar to eachother! Rather than hating Macintosh because I like PC, can't I just like computers? | 4 | [
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"body": "I call bullshit on the whole \"because we're humans\" or \"it's human nature\" arguments being posted. We get caught up in this stuff because whether we like to admit it or not, we're products of consumerism and marketing.\n\nShow me a peer-reviewed, scientific paper that establishes an empirical link between our evolutionary biology and our obsession with one brand or another.",
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"body": "It makes it easier for people who otherwise lack a unique identity and sense of self to define themselves as part of a group. People who do this are also likely to worry a lot about what other people think of them.",
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Hey r/Michigan, I'm moving to Ann Arbor in a month, any tips on places to live and things to do? | Hey everyone,
I'm moving to Ann Arbor MI from CT for a new job in Van Buren Township. I'm 24, single, and while I won't be a student (unless I get my MBA one day), I would love to live near campus instead (aka near downtown).
Any suggestions or tips about living in the area? Places to avoid? Things to do? Any restaurant or takeout recommendations?
PS: If anyone is looking for a solid indoor rock climbing partner come Feb, let me know. | 7 | [
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"body": "Bienvenidos. That's Michigander for get the hell out, you stupid cur. Why in the stupid world would someone move TO Michigan?\n\nActually, that's Spanish for welcome and awesomeness in moving to Michigan. Are you looking for city life? Ann Arbor or (downtown) Detroit are your hopes there. In Ann Arbor, students tend to permeate all facets of life, which is fine until you realize that you were once \"like that.\" Unless you are looking for a college-type roommate in a house, your best bet is to look into apartments, condos, or lofts. I'd look on craigslist. I've recently moved from Ann Arbor living in an apartment managed by CMB, http://www.cmbmgmt.com/ They were decent.\n\nYpsilanti also is home to a (tier 3) national university, Eastern Michigan University, and is more of an-up-and-comer, a Williamsburg to the Manhattan that is Ann Arbor. You can probably live in Ypsilanti for 2/3rds of the cost that you'd live in Ann Arbor for, however it's a smaller city. \n\nBoth cities have downtowns, neighborhoods, opportunities to for fun, things to do, etc. Living downtown is an awesome choice in either. There's not to much to do out in Van Buren, unfortunately, so unless you like near-the-airport bars, you're going to have to live far from work. There are smaller cities, with \"downtowns,\" such as Belleville, Romulus, and Plymouth. However, they are much smaller than the previously mentioned Ann Arbor and Ypsi.\n\nIf you're looking the Detroit route, there are built-up areas in Hamtramck (a different city surrounded by Detroit), Mexicantown, Downtown, and Midtown. They all provide city-related activities and are going to be completely different from Ann Arbor and Ypsi. For starters, you can find two bedroom flats in Hamtramck for 400-500 dollars easy. I'm moving there in a month myself. \n\nExplore, enjoy, and welcome.",
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"body": "Ann Arbor is awesome. There's lots of things to do around here... food being a big one. There are SO many great restaurants. Everyone will tell you to try Zingerman's, so I'll include that. Most of the Main St. and South University restaurants are solid choices.\n\nAlso, one of the greatest stores of all time is Middle Earth, on South University. If you like eclectic, weird, pretty much anything not main stream, they probably carry it. Most of it is gift-type items, but there is also a lot of jewelry and figurines and such. It's worth a stop. \n\nObviously, athletics. Michigan (prior to the past two years) has always had solid athletic programs and they're a lot of fun to go watch. Michigan also has a lot of cultural and music events, if you like that. Check the University Musical Society website (www.ums.org) for a list of upcoming performances. Additionally, the theater and dance schools put on a lot of performances that you can find on their websites, as well as a capella groups. Cultural dance teams also put on a lot of performances that are a lot of fun to go see (the Indian dance teams here are phenomenal). \n\nIn terms of adventure-y type things -- Nichols Arboretum is a nice place to get lost in. It's back behind the University hospitals. Another one of my absolute favorite favorite FAVORITE spots near campus is Bandemer Park/Argo Pond. Argo is a dammed portion of the Huron River, and Bandemer surrounds it and there are some nice bike paths and stuff. There is also a... I'm not really sure what to call it... bike park? It's a bunch of large dirt mounds and ramps and stuff to take bikes off of, and that's just past the boathouses at the main entrance. You can rent canoes and kayaks from a shop on one side of the dam. Also, if you like watching rowing (you're kind of coming from the right area), the University of Michigan Men's Rowing team and three local high school teams practice and hold competitions on Argo. Bandemer is awesome, especially in the early morning when the sun is coming up over the treeline. \n\nMichigan also has a number of free museums -- Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Art Museum (it's worth a visit), and the Ruthven museum of natural history and anthropology. Go around and look at campus architecture - the entrance of Angell Hall (GO IN the inside is even more amazing, I think), the Law Quad, etc.\n\nAnd to end this rant, if you're a meganerd who appreciates things like this, there is a field on the north campus of UofM (it's where the engineering school is), that has waves that were designed to be an exact cosine function I think it is. If it's not cosine, it's sine. I've never been there but I heard its nice.\n\nHope this really long rant helps! I'm a current student and Ann Arbor is one of my favorite places ever. ",
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"body": "wesumd has it right. I definitely recommend living in Ypsilanti if you don't mind having to drive/cab over every time you want to hang out in Ann Arbor. Ypsilanti has its share of things to do, and really is cheaper.\n\nAlso, I'd be down for indoor climbing. Planet Rock is a good gym, if a bit expensive ($15 or so for a day pass). I can top rope belay (lead belay too, but I have very little experience); usually, I boulder. Send me a message when you get here!",
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"body": "As a student who has spent much time in towns such as Kalamazoo, East Lansing, Detroit, Marquette, Mount Pleasant, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti (pronounced with a silent T) or more readily known as Western Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State/CCS, Northern Michigan, Central Michigan and UofM respectively. Let me just tell you one thing - Ann Arbor is the nicest city out of all. \n\nPlain and simple. The quality of the city, the people, the bars - Ann Arbor takes the cake. If I had a choice to live anywhere in Michigan, it would be Ann Arbor hands down. It's close to the detroit area, you don't have to worry about getting [shot](http://outside.in/ypsilanti-mi/tags/fatal%20shootings) and the stores and community are extremely close knit. There are multiple record stores, comic book shops, unique one a kind restaurants, bars and grills. The live music scene is fantastic and there are plenty of places to explore around town. ",
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When to stop chasing the strange and settle down? | Hi RA, I'm 22 years old, with a really sweet girlfriend. We get along great and I'm happy with the relationship. The problem is, I always feel like I'm passing up opportunities with beautiful girls all the time. It's like I should be experiencing all there is to experience while I'm relatively young, and then settle down with a single person later.
So basically, am I being selfish and shallow, destined to be unhappy and alone? Or, is it normal and a good idea to sow those wild oats before becoming too old?
Thanks RA, it's not a question I can ask anyone else and expect an honest answer.
Btw, this is a throwaway account, for obvious reasons. | 6 | [
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"body": "You're going to receive a veritable shit-ton of responses telling you to go ahead and experience life while you're still young, so allow me to be (what will most likely be) the lone dissenter. \n\n>We get along great and I'm happy with the relationship.\n\nIn light of all the stories here of people who are lonely or in miserable relationships, many of whom would kill to be in your shoes (myself included), you're willing to throw that away? \n\nGo ahead and chase those beautiful girls, if you feel compelled to do so. Your odds of having phenomenal sex with a great number of them are probably in your favor. Your chances at finding true love and happiness again and again are probably not. Could it happen? Sure; anything's possible. Does it make you selfish to want to leave your sweet girlfriend for the pursuit of tail? Without a doubt. Shallow? Not really. Having the idea that the grass could be greener on the other side of the fence is absolutely, 100% normal; however, I'd strongly advise you to think long and hard about whether or not giving up what is (by your own admission) a good relationship is worth the possibility of not finding anything half as good again. \n\n**Edited to add**: ...then again, I'm over 30. Take everything I said with a grain of salt. :P",
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"body": "you should know that when you're in a relationship you feel like you have those opportunities WAY more than you actually do. As soon as your single and you hit your 6th straight saturday sleeping alone, it isn't as glamorous. but it sounds like you could use a break from your relationship to really fully re-evaluate how much this girl actually means to you. if you aren't 100% sure, why not find out? you only have one life, 'playing it safe' might not be your style",
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"body": "Just a thought: don't overestimate how serious she is. I shelved a lot of my concerns and made a decision to commit to a girl who turned on me in the blink of an eye. Almost three years of smooth sailing. I thought we were going to get married when she got cold feet.\n\nAll I'm saying is, at your age (she was 22), things can change fast.",
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"body": "I did what you are thinking about doing around the age of 21 or so. \n\nI'm 25, and in the best relationship of my life.\n\nI've learned quite a bit, in regards to relationships and my life.\n\nIf you want this person in your life forever, you have to make this sacrifice. Realize that you could/probably will lose them forever.\n\nThe chance that you will meet someone better is just that. Chance. \n\nOn the more practical side, I know no guys who are lamenting over the girl that they broke up with in their early 20's, and many of my friends are over 30, and many single.",
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"body": "How happy are you in the relationship?\n\nIf your current level of happiness would be higher, leave and go out and do your best to get laid a lot. Otherwise, don't throw out a good thing in favor of something that you don't think will be better.",
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Howdy r/Austin. Can anyone recommend me a good bike lock for downtown? | Also any other Austin cyclists, do you have any good tips or tricks, secrets, etiquette, etc. for riding our fair town? | 8 | [
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"body": "Alright, i ride and park my bike downtown almost every day, so i'll tell you what i use. It's a bit of a startup cost, but when you use it, you'll realize how much time you'll save not dealing with normal bike nonsense.\n\nFirst: [Krypto Mini](http://www.google.com/products?q=krypto+evo+mini+-long+-ls&hl=en&aq=f)\n\nThis lock is strong and small (contrary to what you might think, smaller is better... think: less leverage). Or you can fork out the cash for the insanely heavy/impractical fuggetaboutit (though one of these is good to have around for especially high risk areas).\n\nSecond, assuming you have quick release skewers: [OnGuard Locking Skewers](http://www.google.com/products?q=onguard+locking+skewers+2+piece&hl=en&aq=f)\n\nThese are the most badass way to lock your wheels, they are keyed and you dont have to fiddle with long cables and crap like that.\n\nThird: [OnGuard Seat Cable](http://www.google.com/products?q=onguard+seat+cable&aq=f)\n\nIf you make a slip not with this around your seat (not your seatpost) then you can just slip your krypto mini through it with you are locking your frame (it takes 2 seconds and is much less noticeable than you think, make it pretty by buying some electrical tape the same color as your bike to cover up the nasty yellow bits... it'll blend right in). \n\nFinally: make your bike look cheap. Nothing says steal me like a shiny new bike with racing graphics.\n\nIf you are willing to bust the cash for this you will be locking your bike in under 10 seconds, as secure as you're going to get, with zero things to carry besides the krypto mini in your back pocket. Also, park your shit next to the cops at night, and never leave a bike outside overnight (if so you'll need a Krypto NYC Chain, and that can easily be broken with a truck with a winch)... oh, and write down your damned serial numbers people (it's under the [bottom bracket](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_bracket)).",
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Hi Reddit: Have any of you actually learned a language using Rosetta Stone or LiveMocha (or a similar program)? | I'm trying to learn french...I understand it pretty well, and had been learning it from the age of about 8-18...but I have forgotten a lot (I'm 28 now) and want to relearn some of the grammar. What are your experiences using these teaching software? | 5 | [
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"body": "Rosetta Stone is one of the worst possible ways to learn a language, IMO. If you stick with it, you WILL learn it, but it will take you so many more hours than dedicated independent study. The only way it is better than independent study is if you don't have the patience or dedication to teach it to yourself outside of a game-like environment. Grammar training is non-existent. It will take you hours to piece together minor grammatical quirks (probably a bit exaggerated because I briefly used it only for Asian languages and I'm a native English speaker unfamiliar with several sounds as well as the various alphabets) that you could learn in a textbook in 30 seconds. \n\ntl;dr buy yourself a beginner's language textbook. It might be more expensive if you were just pirating Rosetta Stone, but it will save you hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours in the long run.",
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Dear Reddit: Which is correct? | Would it proper to say, "If I were", or "If I was"?
(I.e, If I were/was a dog, I could bark)
I usually say "If I were". | 4 | [
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"body": "It depends:\n\n\"If I were an astronaut, I would be in space right now.\"\n\n\"If I was rude, I apologize.\"\n\n",
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"body": "[The Washington State University explains:](http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/were.html)\n\n>The subjunctive mood, always weak in English, has been dwindling away for centuries until it has almost vanished. According to traditional thought, statements about the conditional future such as “If I were a carpenter . . .” require the subjunctive “were”; but “was” is certainly much more common. Still, if you want to impress those in the know with your usage, use “were” when writing of something hypothetical, unlikely, or contrary to fact.\n\n>The same goes for other pronouns: “you,” “she,” “he,” and “it.” In the case of the plural pronouns “we” and “they” the form “was” is definitely nonstandard, of course, because it is a singular form.",
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"body": "I think it might be more complicated, but I always understood that, \"If I were...\" was used when you were expressing a thought that couldn't ever be \"real.\" For example, \"If I were a tree I would...\" rather than, \"If I was a tree I would..\" (since you never actually *could* be a tree). ",
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What is the advantage of Lightroom? | Currently, I use Picasa from google to manage my photos. It seems to be fine, but I also hear good things about Lightroom. What is the main draw for lightroom? | 5 | [
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"body": "The benefit to Lightroom, is it's usefulness for quickly color correcting and enhancing raw images. I use it, but I am working with about 1200 images at a time. I am a wedding photographer. Using Photoshop to color correct that many images would take a week, versus an 8 hour day in Lightroom. I have friends that do professional post production, and they have all migrated to Lightroom as their primary post production application. Photoshop is more for the heavy retouching and modification.",
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"body": "Read this post and watch this video for all that you can do in Lightroom, and how quickly you can do it. http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2009/video-before-after-family-photo/\n\nHe does dip into Photoshop for some more complicated editing, but 80-90% are in Lightroom.",
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If you could get rid of Lobbying out of our (US) political process by funding elections with Taxes, would you do it? | I don't know if this has been suggested/tried before, but how do people on Reddit feel about this.
(p.s. I hate taxes)
(p.p.s I also hate Lobbyists)
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"body": "I don't think very many people understand what lobbyists do, and why they are necessary. What we need to get rid of is corruption.",
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"body": "We can't get rid of lobbying. That's how citizens tell their representatives how they feel on issues: they lobby. Me having a conversation about health care reform with my senator (haha just kidding, I live in DC) is lobbying.",
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"body": "I think a better idea would be to pass a law requiring that every time a politician appears on television, a list of all campaign contributers is displayed under their faces, listed from largest to smallest with a dollar amount next to each. If the list gets too long the list gets superimposed over their faces. imagine defending the war or the bailouts with Haliburton and AIG as a big fat #1 & #2 next to your face.",
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"body": "This wouldn't work. \n\nGroups and companies would still campaign for candidates that show them favor in the form of tax dollars. There is no way we could stop people from publishing favorable things about a candidate without violating some fundamental principles of a free society...\n\nI would love to see a political system where money doesn't influence politicians, but thats about as naive as believing in a world freed of nuclear weapons.",
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"body": "What would be the requirements for getting said funds to pay for a campaign? If there were none it would be rife with waste and corruption (so no help). On the flipside it would hurt smaller candidates that aren't affiliated with one of the two major parties. Yeah, not sounding like a good idea is it?",
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Hey reddit, can you help me find a hobby? | The situation: I'm finishing up school and am finding myself with a strange, unfamiliar amount of free time. I'm enjoying the luxury of having time, but I'd also like something to occupy part of my off-hours. Can you help me find a hobby?
Possibly relevant project specs:
- looking for something physical and aesthetically pleasing I can create (or collect)
- I'd like to be able to enjoy my hobby in my apartment (glass-blowing would probably be difficult)
- general interests: 18th and 19th century European history, art and philosophy; the written word; paranormal
These specs are meant to be foundations, not limitations - please let me know of any suggestions you think might be interesting. More generally, I'd love to hear what hobbies other redditors have.
*Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll definitely give a few of these a try. I know of a stained glass workshop and wood carving workshops in my area, so I'll start with those and see where they lead. | 8 | [
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"body": "Carving/whittling. Try bones, antlers, drift wood, stone among other materials. Assuming you don't mind the animals products that is. You can learn to make cutlery, cups, handles, canes, arrows, sculptures, whatever. Give them as gifts, sell them on e-bay.",
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I am a teacher of Australian aboriginal students in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia. | One of the lowest socio-economic status communities in Australia, this community is closed, meaning outsiders are not allowed in without permission. Alcohol is technically illegal. Attendance at the school is about 60%, a vast improvement from last year. | 35 | [
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"body": "You are doing a great job there. I envy you.\n\nI visited Melbourne last month and I saw a lot of aboriginal businessman in Victoria Market. Saying that aboriginals cannot be as wise as others is unfair in my humble opinion.\n",
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"body": "Govt Intervention - Useless political stunt, or valid response to the issues in some of the communities?",
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"body": "Nothing really to ask, just wanted to say I used to work on the Navajo and Hopi lands in the US, would really like to see what it's like in comparison sometime now that I live in Australia (met my husband online, moved here two years ago). Best to ya!",
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"body": "How are the kid's teeth? I did some work in the Inuit communities of the far North of Canada and their teeth were terrible, mostly because the kids were put to bed with sippy cups or bottles, sometimes with juice or pop! Do they do a lot of hunting, traditional or otherwise? ",
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"body": "White Australians' opinions of Aborigines sometimes strike me as pretty racist (aborigines as welfare-spongers, useless, backward etc), but it's clear there is a real poverty problem. You've already said it's a really complex issue, but do you think these views are justified at all? My (outsider) impression is that mainstream Australia has quite a limited attitude and needs to wake up a bit; I'm interested to know if you feel the same or not.\n\nFor example I recently heard an Australian girl saying that there used to be problems with race in Australia but it's all OK now, which kind of shocked me given the socio-economic inequalities.",
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What is the most exotic thing you have ever owned? | Hey guys, I want to know what exotic things you have purchased in your life. It could be a pet(ex: my bro had a cool uramactus lizard. really expensive and rare) or it could be something that isn't alive. I have a cool drum that came from Egypt, handmade. Also a CD that makes cats fall asleep. So, I was wondering what things my fellow Redditors have come in contact during their lives so far.
Edit: well guys, i didn't know this post would get so popular,but it has. I am getting tired, so I;m going to go to bed. I will answer all questions in the morning.
Edit: I couldn't possibly think that there were so many things like these listed that people have come by. | 22 | [
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"body": "i bought myself a 2,100 year old greek tetradrachm with my patron diety, dionysus, on it.\n\nit's very similar to [this](http://www.aeqvitas.com/thasos1.jpg).",
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"body": "1955 Gibson Les Paul Special. Bought it in 1974 when I was 17 yo. \nDamn. but I wish I still had it.",
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"body": "I have an antique ECT machine that was recovered from a closing museum exhibit. It's quite beautiful and weighs a ton.",
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Dear Reddit, can you implement a poll feature? | Yes, I have read the [reddiquette](http://www.reddit.com/help/reddiquette) about polls, but it is not very user-friendly, plus people are still downvoting instead of just upvoting for their preferred option.
Ironically, I will need to conduct the poll the old way (in the comments)... | 40 | [
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"body": "Oh I hope not. \n\nLast thing we need is a bunch of dumbass polls. \n\n>people are still downvoting instead of just upvoting for their preferred option.\n\n**No - they are downvoting stupid polls. They don't care what the options are - it is the stupid mindless poll they are downvoting.**\n\nDo you like bacon? Yes or No? How fucking stupid can you get? \n\nBesides, a \"poll\" is a self post anyways, so you will never get or lose karma out of it. ",
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"body": "People have been asking for this for about 3 years, it hasn't been implemented because it isn't necessary.\n\n[edit] Typo.",
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"body": "No. Polling is stupid and accomplishes nothing of value. If you want to poll Reddit users there are a million other places to do it.\n\nYou don't *need* to conduct a poll.\n\nReddit: Please do not implement polling as it will add nothing of value and contribute to groupthink.",
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Is it me or is it yahoo buzz? | http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:newsweek:3d4dae9786c187c257b78c3ce42bb435/The-Conservative-Case-For-Gay-Marriage
Some Idiot: "Why should nasty freaks of nature be allowed to marry strictly for economic reason?...the homo queer population deserves nothing...they can be together just don't try to shove down the straights throat...what weakens humans IS allowing that form of behavior in the open..now if 2 nice looking lezbos want to hook up OK but when I see that horse Rosie..yuuuck." | 6 | [
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"body": "Ah yes, the old \"shoving it down our throats\" complaint. Probably the most common phrase they use. I'm sure there's absolutely nothing Freudian to it, nope, not at all. ",
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"body": "It's Yahoo! Buzz!\n\nYahoo! Buzz (as well as Yahoo! Answers), judging by comments, spelling, etc., has a much younger, less educated, more misogynistic, more bigoted, more homophobic audience than any other major website on the internet. You'd have to start looking at the Free Republic or Stormfront websites to find worse.",
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IAMA loss prevention agent for a major retail store, AMA. | Basically, I catch shoplifters and occasionally do other security/safety functions. I'm an undercover (no uniform, I do my best to blend in with the customers) loss prevention agent at an "everything" store. We use a combination of floor surveillance and CCTV.
I haven't been doing this for a very long time, so I don't have the best stories or anything, but if you were ever curious about the best and the worst ways to shoplift (seriously, the most common ways that people shoplift are the easiest for us to catch, it's ridiculous), ask away. I'm down to share the secrets. Where I live, companies with loss prevention departments actually MAKE money off of shoplifters, which negates any kind of moral implication in stealing from them, in my opinion. | 26 | [
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"body": "When I worked customer service for a retail store a few years ago, I repeatedly asked LP to hire me on as an undercover agent. They told me that I was a \"little girl\" and wouldn't be strong enough to tackle shoplifters. I argued that since most consumers are women, I would be an excellent LP agent because I would blend in better than most agents. They just laughed at me. It made sense to me at the time since all the agents were big and male and stuck out like a sore thumb while undercover shopping in our clothing store. In a sea of women customers, there would be a large man looking at pink fitted tees a little too long...\n\nDo you know if LP agencies intentionally employ more males than females as undercover shoppers? Or was the LP at my store just lame?",
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"body": "A rent-a-cop? I was followed around by one of you guys in a department store as a teenager. How do you expect me to steel the raddest gear when you're hovering about like bad news?",
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"body": "Who steals most? By that I mean, is there any similarities between people most likely to steal? Are they most likely: young? male? alone? fat? female? children?\r\n\r\nWhat do people do when you catch them? Anger? Crazy lies? Fight to get away?",
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"body": "What was the policy on chasing down suspects? \n\nIf you have someone on camera taking something, but don't physically catch them, can you prosecute? Assuming you have a license plate or some kind of ID.",
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"body": "I was in a large \"everything\" store last week and saw two kids shoplifting. I didn't do anything about it and still feel a little guilty for choosing to ignore it. What, if anything, should I have done?",
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"body": "Since several studies have shown that the employees actually steal up to 3 times as much as customers, how do you address that? Do you naturally give the employees a free pass at the store in most instances or is employee shrink simply not your responsibility?",
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"body": "Yesterday, I was at a local discount food store, and I was wearing a heavy Jacket. I took it off and put it in my basket with the items I was buying. I was with a friend and he pointed out that we were being tailed by 3 rather large male employees. Apparently, putting your jacket in a basket is a big no-no. Is this normal? ",
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"body": "I am actually curious as to how I find the loss prevention agent out on the floor. Not for shoplifting purposes but the entertainment of exposing the person. Is there any thing you do to remain unnoticed while being undercover? I do not pay attention to other people watching me, but I would be a bad thief and probably be looking out for someone like you.",
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"body": "Just to share some info (I'm not bragging or proud of doing this, which is why I'm giving you this tip): when I was a teenager I used to think I was an evil genius for devising this shoplifting scheme. This one store was pretty much on to kids stealing cigarettes. It got so bad that they hired an undercover loss prevention agent. I never was into stealing, but a few times I was pretty broke and needed my nic fix so I devised a plan. My friend, who looked like a punk rocker would come in the store alone and walk by the cigarettes. This obviously alerted the loss prevention guy to get ready to take him out when he exits the store whithout paying. So, he picks up a carton, walks around a bit pretending to shop, and when nobody is around (the loss prevention guy is by the door waiting or something) he hides the smokes behind the bread or some pre-determined place. Meanwhile, I (wearing \"normal\" clothing) had entered the store, had not gone anywhere near the cigarettes, walk straight to the bread, grab the smokes, and walk out while the loss prevention guy had \"caught\" my friend at the door holding nothing. Of course my friend gets away after an argument, and later we meet up! We had done this exact scheme at one particular store so many times just to screw with them, they must have been going insane!",
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A neat combinatorics result: the sum from 0 to n of (nCk)^2 is (2n)Cn. | The informal proof: imagine needing to walk a certain number of blocks east and south on a regular, rectangular street grid (without ever going west or north); in general, you have (e + s)Ce (equivalently, (e + s)Cs) ) equidistant paths to choose from. Now, to travel n blocks east and n blocks south, you pass through exactly one point along a diagonal from (n blocks east, 0 south) to (0 east, n south). At a given point on this diagonal that is k blocks east, there are nCk ways to reach it from the start, and nC(n-k) = nCk ways to reach the end from there, so (nCk)^2 paths from start to end through that point. Then we simply sum over all values for k.
I worked this out maybe a decade ago, in high school (actually, I think it was while I was at math camp, during the summer break, while passing time idly by myself). But I was inspired to post it by DENNISMethod's submission. | 14 | [
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"body": "This is a special case of [Vandermonde's identity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandermonde%27s_identity). (In the Wikipedia article's notation, take m and r to both be n.) The proof of the general identity is not much harder than of this one.",
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"body": "Not to be a math Nazi, but can we write, for clarity,\n\nSum over k from 0 to n of C(n,k)^2 is C(2n,n).\n\nBonus question: Suppose n is even. What is the sum of C(n,2k), k from 0 to n/2?\n\nFurther question: Can we petition to get LaTeX on here?",
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"body": "You might be delighted/appalled by [A=B](http://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html) which gives the sums of squares of combinations on page 19 as one of its examples of the hypergeometric identities for which it provides a decision procedure.\n\nFor sums of cubes of combinations, page 20 offers a recurrence\n\n 8(n+1)^2 f(n) + (7n^2 + 21n + 16) f(n+1) = (n+2)^2 f(n+2)\n\nand indeed the first ten values\n\n 1 2\n 2 10\n 3 56\n 4 346\n 5 2252\n 6 15184\n 7 104960\n 8 739162\n 9 5280932\n 10 38165260\n\nagree with direct computation.",
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Right Now, I Wish I Was A Believer... | Right now, I wish I was a believer...
My wife is leaving me. Words I never dreamt I would have the displeasure of saying, but there’s no denying it. My wife is leaving me. My heart is breaking, my whole body hurts, I feel cold, I can’t think straight. Literally every thought leads me back to thinking about her, about us.
I grew up a Christian (Disciples of Christ) and my parents are true believers. Growing up, I spent many a night crying out to God to take away my pain, make me “whole”, make me happy. I have some pretty bad anxiety/depression problems and have been in therapy for years, but at that age, I thought God would make me well. Turns out all that praying really got me to examine what was going on - why there were no answers, no signs, why I still felt the way I did - which started the ball rolling and led me to where I am today - an atheist.
But right now... right now I would give almost anything to still believe. To feel that no matter what is happening, no matter how bad I feel, that there is a loving, nurturing figure in the sky that is there for me. That I’m cared for and not alone, even when I’m by myself.
Right now, I wish I was a believer... but I’m not. | 20 | [
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"body": "I wish I could help you there bud, but I can't. Sometimes life sucks, it really does. You can try to put it in perspective, there's plenty of suffering in the world to go around, but really we all exist in a world centered around our own ego, so that only helps so much.\n\nFor what little it is worth, I hope your corner of the universe brightens soon.",
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"body": "Sympathy and condolences. It is no consolation for me to say that I know how you're feeling because I went through this myself, but I'll say it anyway. At the end of 1997 my much-adored wife of almost ten years told me she was leaving me for someone else and that she didn't love me anymore. \n\nI had no idea. No warnings. Everything had seemed fine. I cannot imagine anything ever happening to me again that would shock me more than her words did that night. \n\nI broke down. Lost my mind, sort of. I wept, cajoled, begged, pleaded for time, tried to get her to try counselling with me, implored her to try a trial separation, *anything*, please, just not this brutal, instant execution. \n\nIt didn't work. She moved out the very next day. I saw her one more time that week. Poured it all out again. She cried, but there was no sense at all that she would reconsider and she never did. I only saw her one more time after that - a public meeting which was to be my final, desperate attempt to get her not to write us off just yet. As I entered the place we were meeting I saw her sitting at a table, crying her eyes out. Hope soared in my heart. I sat down, said something like \"This is awful, isn't it?\"\n\nShe blurted out, \"He's left me\".\n\nI took off my wedding ring, put it on the table and walked out. I have never seen her since. I moved into a phase of grief-drenched anger. It took a long time for me to regain anything approaching emotional stability. \n\nI still feel the pain, the anger and the sadness, twelve years later. I will never understand why she was so brutal to me or why she gave me no sign that she was unhappy; why she gave me no second chance. We had been very happy. We hardly ever rowed. Our friends thought of us as the solid couple. So did I. And just like that, it all ended. \n\nIt's hell. It's one of the worst things life can do to you, losing someone you love; whether this way or through bereavement. I don't know the exact circumstances of your situation but all I can say is try to talk with her and try to persuade her to not do anything intemperate or irretrievable. But be prepared for the fact that she may very well do that, and that her mind may be made up, and that you have to go through this soul-aching pain. No God is going to help you whether you believe in him or not; you know that, really. Self-delusion is a poor comfort because ultimately it makes healing take longer and it increases bitterness when you realise, eventually, as you have to, that your \"comfort\" was just self-delusion.\n\nSee your family. See your friends. Stay occupied when you feel strong enough to do things; cry alone when you need to. Try not to get drunk; it's a disaster when we're unhappy or emotionally disturbed. Talk with people online. But most of all, recognise that this is like recuperating from a major physical illness: there's no ducking it; it has to be borne and it will take time to heal. \n\nThe very best of luck to you. ",
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"body": "I am sorry man. I really feel your pain. I am sorry that there is nothing that I can say to you to make it better. If I were to tell you something it would probably seem pointless to you. \n\nJust hang in there. Talk to your friends and family about what you are going through. Sometimes talking helps brain deal with traumatic events. \n\nAnd you do not need God to love you. DO you have friends and family? I do not know you, but I feel your pain and I would help you if I could, and you would help me to if roles were reversed. So hang in there. ",
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"body": "i wish i could give you a man hug with the firm back pats to prove we aren't gay. but alas, all i can say is that i'm sorry and i know it hurts.\n\ni will keep my fingers crossed that you don't do anything regrettable like attempt to hurt yourself, or listen to the cure non stop while drinking absinthe and smoking clove cigarettes. \n\nstay strong bro!",
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"body": "This may be inappropriate, but after you get over your pain, you get to to have some fresh new pussy. ",
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"body": "Dude, I was never religious but back in 98 things were so fucking bad that I tried to turn to religion. It was either that or possibly risk suicide.\n\nLong story short, I started talking to a priest. Over the course of a week we must have talked a total of two hours. Now this priest had once been married and had kids, so he had life experience. Only after his wife died did he enter the priesthood. Despite all this experience with real life, all I got from him was the most facile of advice based on biblical stories. In a nutshell, he told me to follow Joseph's lead in my situation. You can guess the type of situation I am alluding to.\n\nThat incident made it clear once and for all that religion has nothing to offer. \n\nIt was sad really.",
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"body": "There are plenty of loving, nurturing figures right here on Earth that care for you. I can't imagine the pain you are going through, but I can imagine that your wounds will heal as time goes on. Call up your best friend and talk about whatever. Ask for more conversation with anyone here on Reddit. I guarantee there are people at your local Unitarian church that would be more than happy to lend an ear. These help me when I am down. It doesn't matter what I talk about.\n\nAs for general depression, I used to have the same thing until I set aside a little time each week to read some deep philosophical text. But that is for later. Find an ear first.",
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"body": "“No matter how much it hurts, no matter what the pain is inside, work hard to make somebody happy everyday, even if it is yourself.” - Unknown\n\nGood luck buddy.",
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"body": "Then let experience & evidence soothe your mind. Look around at the millions who've lost their marriage. The vast majority suffer a while, maybe a pretty good while, then gradually return to their own peace of mind and move forward in a new direction of discovery (often with glorious sex with new people!).\n\nHang tough, friend. The odds are with you.",
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"body": "In your situation, I would take the genuine empathy of an anonymous, supportive group of redditors and the support of family and friends over the alternative. When I say I know what it feels like to be in your situation, I say it based on my own personal experience. I won't lie to you and tell you that god cares and he'll see you through this. I care. A real person gives a shit that a fellow human has a problem. I won't pray for you. I probably won't even keep you in my thoughts that long honestly. I will however, right now, reflect on my own life, and imagine loss in my own life. Your loss is now a lesson for the rest of us to think about our own lives. Now you're no longer weakened by this, but eventually you'll be the strong one.",
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"body": "Hey man you got to go do something. If you cant go to sleep because you cant stop thinking read a book or exercise. \n\nOne thing I do if I am feeling really down is some hard cardio. Just run/bike/swim until it hurts. Anything to blank your mind.",
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"body": "To quote Penny Arcade: \"Life sucks, and then you're raped by wild boars\"\n\nNo, wait, that wasn't helpful...\n\nAnyway, hope this gave you a little laugh. Best of luck figuring things out. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Lawyer up and try working things out.",
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Ok, so I've found the 'Standards of Conduct' original at my job, and I'm going to make some shenanigous edits. Any Suggestions? | So far I've got: Spelling Errors are grounds for immediate dismissal; No wearing of the Color Red on days that are divisible by 8; Number of blue pens shall never exceed 5; We shall never speak the name 'Charles' again; Playing of 'Stairway to Heaven' is grounds for dismissal...
**Edit**:
The Original 'Standards of Conduct'
Employees of [place that I work] may be disciplined for poor job performance. The following behavior shall be grounds for **progressive** disciplinary action, up to and including termination:
* Unsatisfactory work quality or quantity.
* Poor attitude (for example, rudeness or lack of cooperation).
* Excessive absenteeism or tardiness.
* Abuse of break and meal privileges.
* Refusal or failure to perform assigned work or failure to follow instructions.
* Failure to follow assigned work or failure to follow instructions.
* Failure to obtain permission to leave work early.
* Discourtesy.
The following behavior shall be grounds for **advanced** disciplinary action, up to and including termination:
* Clocking in and out for another employee.
* Insubordination.
* Dishonesty to guests or colleagues.
* Theft.
* Misusing or destroying [hotel] property or the property of another hotel premises.
* Violating conflict of interest rules.
* Disclosing or using confidential or proprietary information without authorization.
* Falsifying or altering records, including an application for employment or time records.
* Threatening, fighting or provoking any employee or guest.
* Harassing, including sexually harassing, or bullying employees or guests.
* Being under the influence of, manufacturing, dispensing, distributing, using, or possessing alcohol or illegal or controlled substances on hotel property or while conducting hotel business.
* Gambling on hotel premises or while conducting hotel business
* Sleeping on the job or leaving the job without authorization
* Possessing a firearm or other dangerous weapon on property or while conducting business
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Jeez, it just goes on, doesn't it? | 3 | [
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"body": "Editing of the Standards of Conduct from this point forward shall be grounds for immediate termination.",
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"body": "Can you post the full list of rules? It would be fun to make minor word changes that subvert the original intent.",
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Thanks for the theme | Could whatever redditor that put up all the nice graphics on this subreddit please stand up? They're fantastic. | 6 | [
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"body": "Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I have had some time over break to play around with the CSS. There are a couple of useless features, but I am especially proud of the quote styling. Bonus points if you recognize the background pattern.",
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AskReddit: The local economy has tanked, saturating the market with people just as qualified as me with relevant background experience. I haven't been able to find a job for over 6 months. The bills are starting to pile up. What are some telecommute jobs? | I've just had my 4th good lead on a job fall underneath me. I've recently realized that due to the local economy falling apart, there's more resumes than most employers can handle.
I've begun the desperation search about a month ago -- McDonalds, Pizza Hut, anything fast food even migrant worker work the under the table shady stuff. But have come out with nothing.
Any ideas or leads on anything would be greatly appreciated. Daily i scour local newspapers (bnd.com, stltoday.com), snagajob, monster, dice and craigslist. I spend about 3 hours a day (on average) filling out applications online and filling out the stupid questionnaires.
I'm sick of it all and would probably sacrifice a week's paycheck for a simple job. Anything will do now (except jiggalo-ing and only because I'm married.) | 7 | [
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"body": "is anyone else annoyed by those with jobs preaching to us without them how it should be easy to find work?",
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Which Simpsons episode should I watch? | I'm watching the 20th anniversary special and am now in the mood to watch some classic episodes. I can't decide which one. I've got seasons 1-12 and now I turn to you reddit.
edit: I went with "Barts Comet" Skinner could be my favorite side character. | 10 | [
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"body": "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Both parts)\n\nMoe's polygraph scene is one of the funniest Simpson's moments ever.",
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"body": "Lisa the Vegetarian or the Monorail.. or any one where either Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz make an appearance.",
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Tory MP Tony Clement "It may not be what the chattering classes want, but we're not here to govern on behalf of the chattering classes," Is anyone else as disgusted by this comment as me? | "It may not be what the chattering classes want, but we're not here to govern on behalf of the chattering classes,"
Seriously this shows serious disdain and lack of concern for the people he is suppose to be representing.
EDIT CONTEXT
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/01/11/prorogue-protest-professors.html
About half way down. Seems to be referring to the facebook group with 160,000 plus people and other people who have contacted the government and are opposing them.
Clement says 'elites' making prorogation an issue
The Conservatives appear unfazed by the criticism, however, with Industry Minister Tony Clement saying Monday that ordinary Canadians don't consider prorogation to be a big issue.
"I know it's a big issue with the Ottawa media elite and some of the elites in our country, but I got to tell you if reaction in my constituency is any indication, I've had maybe three dozen emails," he said.
Clement said the government was focused on the economy and the next session of Parliament.
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"It may not be what the chattering classes want, but we're not here to govern on behalf of the chattering classes," he said.
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Opposition parties suggested Harper's move to prorogue, or suspend, Parliament was an attempt to muzzle parliamentarians and avoid the controversy sparked by hearings into Canada's role in Afghanistan — specifically, the treatment of detainees transferred to Afghan authorities by the Canadian Forces.
EDIT
Just an idea if you want to contact him and let him know that you care, or don't care or whatever.
[email protected]
http://www.tonyclement.ca/EN/contact_tony/
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"body": "Tony Clement is a hypocrite. If his past doesn't indicate that he's a member of \"the chattering classes\", what does?\n>\"As a student at the University of Toronto, he was elected twice, both as an undergraduate and as a law student, to the university governing council . He was also president of the campus Progressive Conservatives.\" -[wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Clement)\n\nHe's a dick about other stuff too, including harm prevention for drug addiction, and bunch of other stuff.",
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"body": "Maybe Clement could tell us exactly who they _are_ governing for, by shutting down Parliament. I don't think anybody asked them to do that.",
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"body": "It seems to me the only time I ever learn a tory's name it's because they're being assholes. \n\nThe \"chattering classes\" are the most important part of democracy, you short sighted moron.",
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"body": "The facebook group of 160,000 plus people is more than likely populated by those who are unlikely to vote Conservative anyway. The political reality is that Clement and company need to look to their likely voter base, and let the rest say whatever they are going to say. This is no different than what the Liberal and NDP camps do.",
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Fairly new user, just a quick question about the site itself :-) | Hey reddit! I love the site, and have been a member for a little while now, I was just wondering if there is any way to change the 'theme' of the site (E.G. colors, format, etc.)? If so, how? I fiddled with the preferences and stuff, and looked in the reddit tools at the bottom, but I couldn't find anything. Am I just failing at looking for stuff? Or does reddit not have changeable themes? | 3 | [
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"body": "once you get sucked into it you won't care.\n\nI found this site initially to be a painfully boring way to find interesting stuff on the net. But you will soon embrace the simple, understated elegance of the red envelope.\n\n",
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"body": "[Read this](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a73zz/you_guys_think_we_could_get_some_dark_themes_for/).",
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Do you believe in Project Serpo? | Have any of you read this stuff? Its interesting fake or not, someone has went to a lot of work to make a story.
http://www.serpo.org/ | 5 | [
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"body": "Do I personally believe it? No, I can't say with honesty that I do. I've spent a couple of hours on that site reading though.\r\n\r\nIt's interesting, either way. Be it for the possibility of something like that being real, or the creativity required to put all of that together from scratch.\r\n\r\nBut who knows? Perhaps I'm wrong and all kinds of crazy conspiracy theory tinfoil hat stuff actually does happen, and for some strange reason its all available in explicit detail on serpo.org. \r\n\r\nIt's a fun read nonetheless. ",
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What funny things have you experience while out at the bar? | My Dad and I were at the bar one night a band was playing. It was early evening and we decided to step out for a smoke. While out smoking we started bullshitting with 2 other guys who were also out smoking. After about a minute or two a decent looking girl comes up the sidewalk and walks into the bar. My Dad and I had a few drinks at this point and as she walked by he said something along the lines of "Where is the party". Not to my dismay she walked past with nothing but a smirk on her face and didn't look at or talk to my dad.
After she went into the bar my dad looked across the sidewalk to the other guys still standing there and says, "I wouldn't fuck her with YOUR dick".
The guy responds, "That's my girlfriend".
Hilarity ensued, apparently she hadn't noticed her boyfriend standing there as his back was turned to her.
We got a good laugh out of it and continued to drink and listen to music inside without causing too much of a ruckus. | 47 | [
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"body": "I was at a bar on U Street in DC.\n\nI got there really early, like 8:30. I was meeting friends there at 10. I was the only customer in the place. Some technician is setting up for a band that has yet to arrive.\n\nI walked to the bar and sit down. No one is around to serve me for the first few minutes, then finally she notices me from some side staff room. The bartender was an attractive black girl with beautiful curly hair.\n\nShe made me a drink and winked at me. She walked away, and I turned to look at her as she went. But to my surprise, I saw man on the stool right next to me. I couldn't believe he got there without my noticing.\n\nHe was an over-the-hill black man. About 65 years old to my eyes. He wore a stylish cap and dark sunglasses in an already dark room. He had drink in his hand- scotch maybe.\n\nI felt instantly uncomfortable. Why was this stranger crowding me when he had the whole bar to choose from. I stared straight ahead and drank my rum and coke self-consciously.\n\n\"Have you ever had a 4 hour erection?\"\n\nI choked on my drink. After I stopped coughing I said, \"excuse me?\"\n\nThe old man said, \"I asked if you ever had a 4 hour erection.\"\n\nI didn't say anything. The old man continued, \"my doctor gave me some pills today. He said that if I had a 4 hour erection I should go to the hospital.\"\n\n\"uhhhh...\" I started to respond, but couldn't.\n\n\"When I was your age,\" he went on, \"old farts like me, we didn't have sex. Now you can get it in a pill. Isn't that something? Isn't that just something?\"\n\nI nodded. Yeah, this was something all right. I wanted to leave.\n\nHe put shaky hand on my wrist and he said, \"son, I want to tell you something. I've been watching you a long time.\"\n\n\"I don't think so,\" I said. \"I only just got here 10 minutes ago.\"\n\nHe took a sip of his drink, \"yeah, I suppose you're right.\"\n\n\"Listen,\" I said, \"I've got to go... it's been... nice meeting you.\"\n\nHe strengthened his grip on my arm- but not in a hostile way, \"Now, now,\" he said, \"at least stay with an old man while he finishes a drink.\"\n\n\"Look,\" I said, \"I should probably put this out there right now: I'm not... I'm not into guys. I mean. I'm not gay, if that's what-\"\n\nThe old man exploded with laughter. \"Son,\" he said, \"that's not what this is about.\"\n\nI relaxed a little, but I felt like a jackass.\n\n\"Listen, Mister, I-\"\n\n\"You can call me God,\" he said.\n\n\"Gob?\" I said.\n\n\"God,\" he said. \"As in, the Almighty. You know- with the smiting and whatnot.\"\n\n\"Okay,\" I said, \"It's really time for me to get going.\"\n\nHe smiled, and said, \"you know, that's usually the reaction I get.\"\n\n\"I'm not surprised,\" I said, standing up.\n\nHe said, \"Come on, son. Don't you have even one question for me?\"\n\nI stopped and said, \"If I could ask God one question, I would want to know why he created a world with pain and suffering.\"\n\nThe old man said, \"It's all part of my plan, son.\"\n\nI said, \"What's a plan except a means to achieve an end? If God is all powerful, why doesn't he just make whatever the end result is *happen right now*? The idea that it takes time to achieve a desired result is a human construct because we are bound by the rules of cause and effect. God is not.\"\n\nThe old man said, \"well, I don't suppose anyone's ever put it to me quite like that.\"\n\nI found myself agitated- talking about religion does that to some people. I left a fiver on the bar and walked away. \"Good luck with your almighty boner,\" I said.\n\nI turned around to see my companion's reaction. But he was *gone*. \n\nI ran back to the stool where he had been sitting. I leaned over the bar, I ran into the restrooms and peeked my head into the staff room. No trace of the man. It was *impossible*. My hands were shaking.\n\nAs I was walking out, I brushed past a bouncer who had come in from the street. I said, \"did you see an old man walk out of here a minute ago?\"\n\nThe doorman said, \"white boy, you the only thing sad enough to come in here this early.\"\n\n*Well, that was uncalled for*, I thought. Where had that old man gone?! I pushed on the heavy wooden door that would take me back out to U Street.\n\nI stepped out onto the street... and the world had changed.\n\nThe buildings around me were bright and beautiful. The architecture was unlike anything I'd ever seen. The streets were... gone, replaced with lush strips of grass. \n\nAnimals I'd never seen before, and insects that looked like giant glowing butterflies were darting happily through the open air. My eyes following them skyward, I saw starlight as I had never seen- beautiful lights played across the horizon... like some heavenly light show.\n\nAnd the moon! The moon was a blue and green marble with wispy white clouds- all the colors of life.\n\nEverywhere around me were beautiful men and women- naked in the perfect night air. A saw a girl, perhaps the most lovely I'd ever seen. She was was with a handsome man. I felt a pang of jealousy, and just at that instant she saw me, kissed him on the cheek and ran over. \"I think you're amazing, too!\" she said, as she hugged me.\n\nThe man she left behind smiled and waved at me, and moments later another girl came into view and jumped on his back playfully.\n\nI looked at the girl who had hugged me, she was unbuttoning my jacket. \"What is all this?\" I asked.\n\nShe looked at me with the most loving eyes I'd ever seen. She kissed me as though we'd be lovers- lost to each other for years but found at last. \"I love you,\" she said. I knew it was true. It was impossible, but somehow I knew that I loved her too.\n\n\"But what *is* all this?\" I asked again.\n\nShe said, \"this is the place where we don't worry about what all this is.\"\n\nShe helped me shed the rest of my clothes. I stood naked, but not even slightly self-conscious... she pulled me through the grassy lanes until we could no longer see any buildings at all.\n\nIn the middle of beautiful meadow we made love for a time that seemed endless.\n\nThe sun rose in the sky, and I explored with my new love. She brought me to the most beautiful tree- like something out of a painting or a dream. \n\nShe pointed at shape on one of the branches, it was a fruit I'd never seen. \"Never eat from this tree,\" she said.\n\n\"But why not?\" I said.\n\nShe put a finger to my lips. She seemed almost frightened as she said, \"This is the place where we don't ask 'why not'.\"",
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"body": "I was in a bar in london, i believe it was De Hems in China Town. I was waiting for a friend, so i just sat at the bar and had a pint. This guy sat down next to me and we exchanged the usual \"Alright\" \"Alright\" that you get in london pubs. The guy turned to me and asked if i like football. I told him i watched it once in a while but i wasn't a huge fan. This guy was obviously australian, as am i so we got chattign about home and various things. My friend was running quite late. This guy who had introduced himself as Mark bought me another drink and we just chatted away. My friend eventually turned up and as he sat down next to me he looked like he was gonna shit his pants. Anyways turns out this guy i was chatting to for an hour or so was Mark Viduka, who's a pretty fucking famous australian soccer player. I had no idea. He was a nice guy. ",
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"body": "Got pulled over by the cops **right** after leaving the bar. I'm nervous, but staying cool. Some random guy throws himself on my car and starts taking his clothes off. \"Don't worry, man. I'll get you out of this.\"\r\n\r\nI'm about to have an apoplectic fit, the cop has his baton out, and this guy (the most normal nondescript fratboy) is getting down to his boxers. Must've lost a bet or something. The cop was making some calls to dispatch, then he just left, and the dude ran off in his underwear.",
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"body": "Was on a date with a non-English speaker: The same split second the musicians finished a jazzy tune my date hollers across the table (now the entire room) \"I love sex!\" \n(she meant sax)",
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"body": "A guy I know walked up to a girl at the bar, said \"Hi my name is ....\" shoved one hand down her pants and with the other stuck a squirt gun filled with tequila in her mouth and pulled the trigger. They are still friends.",
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"body": "New Orleans (of fucking course). The bar is in a house that looks like the house of the Rising Sun. Katrina damage, but it still looks a graceful hundreds of years old. The wall facing the bar depicts an 18th century French scene of Aristocratic life except that there were pieces of old wall paper obstructing it. \n\nA stately, white haired gentleman walks in with a dark haired, dark eyed milf. Both are carrying traveler's cups. His a frat party style blue cup and her's a clear, plastic glass full of red wine. They sat on either side of me; so, immediately I knew corruptive plans were afoot seeing as how I looked 21 or so at the time. Brief words of introduction were exchanged. Shooting the shit style conversation ensues. Then the gentleman says to the milf, \"Why don't you put your hand on his leg? You'll have some fun then.\" While all of this is happening the milf is hiccuping uncontrollably. The man in response says, \"Everytime that happens, she queefs. I swear.\" Roars of laughter ensue. I mention that I haven't heard the word \"queef\" since the 7th grade. Whatever. The white haired man confesses to fucking the milf in a hotel room all afternoon to explain how he knows so much about her queefs. The milf acts demurely in the face of this obvious misogyny. A way that can only be imagined if you saw \"Gone With The Wind\". Conversation moves on. Talk of the things the white haired man and others did when in the bar before Katrina. \"Shit, we were hornier than three peckered billy goats. Well, that was a different bartender there behind the bar. I'd be sucking on one tit and Lefty be sucking on the other.\" \n\nStately white haired man gets a call on his cell phone. It is his wife wanting to meet him for dinner. While he is finishing his drink, the milf is telling me about her daughter who supposedly lives in Italy (the facts didn't quite line up) and about her healing powers. It turns out that she considers herself a certified massage therapist and an Apostle. The heat/energy of her hands can heal all of my ailments. The white haired man leaves the bar to have dinner with his wife.",
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"body": "My memory of the event is a bit blurry, but here's what I recall:\r\nIt was my birthday and a friend and I had been on a major bar crawl. We'd been at least a dozen different places, and I had at least a shot and a beer in each one. I was wrapped in a glistening fog, only barely aware of my surroundings, when some lady at the table behind me bumped into my chair and caught my attention. Somehow, somewhy, she asked me to dance. We got out into the crowd and then the next thing I know, she's gone and I'm caught in a mosh. Drunk as I was, the physical activity was exhilirating, but it also seemed to speed the fluids through me. Before long, I stumbled off to the restroom and then, after, found my way back to my table.\r\n\r\nAs I sat down, my friend was laughing hysterically, \"Dude, that was classic!\" Confused, I just stared at him for a second, before he continued, \"Check this place out. What kind of club did you think you were in?\"\r\n\r\nI scanned the bar, but it was darkly lit, and I was too gone for anything to register. \"What? Huh?\"\r\n\r\n\"Dude, everybody else was line dancing...\"",
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"body": "A girl walks up to a couple friends of mine in a bar, rating random women and says, \"what are you guys doing\". \n\"Rating women on a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is best\" \n\"Ah\", she says, \"We do the same thing with guys but our scale only goes up to 5\"",
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"body": "I went out to a small bar with a friend while I was home on a holiday. They usually have a DJ, he actually dances, and it's close enough to drive home afterwards. So we're out on the dancefloor, dancing near each other and then going off to dance with other people that catch our eye. \r\n\r\nWell, I think it might have been apple or tobacco picking season, so there were a lot of migrant workers out getting drinks after a long day in the sun. \r\n\r\nAt this point, I think I was just dancing solo. Well, this \"little person\" came up to me and started dancing with me. This deserves a description. I am 5'7. He was pretty much booty dancing (yes, like a floozy at 3am) on my knee. I just went with it.",
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"body": "For no apparent reason, a chant of \"ASS TO ASS! ASS TO ASS!\" was started, joined by the entire bar and sustained for a healthy 1 1/2 minutes. \n\nEDIT: spelling error",
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"body": "There's this one dude who introduces himself to me everytime I see him. We have a mutual friend and so this has happened 5 or 6 times. He's always incredibly drunk and looking to get laid. One night, about a month ago, we had this conversation:\r\n\r\nHim: \"You know, you're really pretty. You're the prettiest girl in this bar.\"\r\n\r\nMe: \"How many girls have you hit on tonight? I've witnessed at least 4 different girls!\"\r\n\r\nHim: \"No, baby, it's just you.\"\r\n\r\nMe: \"You're hilarious! You don't think I'm going to fall for this, do you?\"\r\n\r\nHim: \"No, it's not like that. It's just that I like to have fun without commitment. I don't like commitment.\"\r\n\r\nMe: \"That's too bad.\"\r\n\r\nHim: \"Well, I guess it depends on the kind of commitment.\"\r\n\r\nI almost died laughing. ",
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"body": "over the weekend, i was out at the local dance club with some friends, drunk as all hell. our town is medium-sized and we had been running into people we knew all night, but not a whole lot. anyways, we're on the dance floor and i get sort of separated from the group. i'm dancing away, having a good time when suddenly, someone takes the glasses right off my face. abruptly unable to see because A) it's dark and B) i'm half-blind, i have no idea who took my glasses or where they went. for a moment, i panic. however, in my drunken sort of logic, a voice in the back of my head tells me that they'll find their way back to me eventually. and they did - about half an hour later, a total stranger came up to me and put them right back on my face. i dunno if my buds put them up to it, but in any case i was overjoyed and freaked the hell out.",
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"body": "I was in a bar in Shanghai chatting to a guy I knew. We were minding our own business when this guy walks straight up to us, holds out his hand and says 'Canadian'. We were somewhat nonplussed, but we shook his hand mumbling 'Irish'.\n\nWithout further ado, the man says 'My name's Todd. I've been blowing up shit under water in the Middle East for the past ten years. If you got a passport photo of me and stuck it on a razor blade, that would be my fucking life. Can I buy you a cigar?'\n\nWe let him buy us cigars and we chatted to him for a while. He was part of the crew of a Canadian navy ship that was currently docked in Shanghai. After a few minutes the rest of the crew turn up and inform Todd that they were moving on. As they were leaving one of them turns to me and says 'Hey, if you want to see the ship come along tomorrow and ask for Steve'. I don't know if he was just being friendly or had been too long at sea.\n\n",
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"body": "Ive seen a guy stab a guy in the face with a broken beer bottle, I was drunk so it was pretty cool at the time. Me and some friends got into a big brawl with some people one time and a guy got his eye knocked out. It was fucking gross. ",
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"body": "In March of 07, I witnessed, author Tucker Max, who at the time I talked shit about and privately to my group of friends called a punkass, thinking he was just some average joe, successfully drink a bottle of J D alone. Then he got two older women to make out right at the bar. The most shocking part, a younger girl, who looked exactly like one of the older women was standing there in disgust, to which he says quite loudly and with a drunkard tone, \"Would you like to join in?\"\n\n\n\nMost epic night of the second week of March in 2007.",
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"body": "I was sitting in a bar in Glasgow with a friend discussing her latest relationship, half-shouting because of the music. Anyways, somehow the conversation leads me to say \"well, you could have least have given him a blow job!\" just as the music went silent. Picture 30 people pissing themselves laughing, including all the staff. ",
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"body": "I was at a bar on Greenville Ave. (mid like lovers lane) in Dallas when a fat old naked man came out of the kitchen, hopped on the bar and strutted around. It was a good thing everyone at that bar was wasted. Evidently his name is Naked Bruce and he does the same thing at the numerous bars up and down the street. \n\nI also used to watch hookers meet up with their johns in the same bar when it came to the height of it's shadiness and it was always entertaining. Sometimes a hooker would hang out and make the dude wait while ordering other men at the bar drinks, or be talking with a regular and ignoring him while his face gets red and he gets pissed. \n\nThat bar was awesome, I have drank there well past 3am with a bar full of people many times.",
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"body": "My buddy George and I were at a local dive bar having some beers. Sitting at the bar, just talking and hanging out. The place wasn't very full, but the people who were there were all older. We were late 20's, everyone else was 50+. Anyway, about halfway through our second beer, this lady comes up and sits next to George at the bar. George and I were kinda sitting facing each other as we talked, so this woman was basically sitting behind him. \n\nWe were probably talking about movies, or computers or something else this 57 year old woman (who was pretty haggard) would have no clue about, but she was horning in on the conversation. Laughing a bit too much. Trying to comment. She couldn't see George's face, so I'm encouraging her by engaging with her, while George (the obvious object of her lusty desires) was giving me dirty looks. \n\nThis lady was working HARD to get her a little piece of George. Unfortunately, George was having none of it, so we paid for our beers and hightailed it out. Of course, it became a running joke whenever we were out. Always looking for the next roughed up grandma to try to pick him up.\n\nFunnily enough, the exact same thing happened with another friend years earlier. We were at the local \"hook up\" bar, where all the college students go. We were out on the patio just talking, minding our own business. This guy comes up and does the same stuff, edging into our conversation, asking questions, etc. We just thought he was lonely and awkward... But eventually it dawned on us that he was actually hitting on my friend Mike. So, Mike was telling a story about something and added, \"... so me and my WIFE (as he raised his hand and flicked his wedding ring)...\" To which the guy exclaims \"You're MARRIED?\" like Mike was leading him on or something. It was very odd. \n\nAll I could think of was the Seinfeld episode where the guy Jerry was with was being picked up on and Jerry was upset that he didn't assume they were a couple.\n\n",
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Where are your favorite places to imbibe libations in B-Town? | Just curious as to where B-Town redditors go to let off a little steam. I'm partial to the Alley Bar on Thursday nights, as they have 32 ounce beers for $5. (Good beer too, not just light domestic swill). I also enjoy Soul in the Hole (basement at Farm) when they have dance parties on Saturday nights. Nicks is always enjoyable, basically anytime. Sink the Bizz is always a good throwback to my undergrad days. The fried mushrooms and bucket of fries are drunk foods of the highest caliber. I know a lot of my friends love the Vid, but I think it's gone down hill the past couple of years--too crowded and the atmosphere has changed. The OL (office lounge) is a fantastic place too. It has 1/2 drinks, all drinks, on Tuesdays and Karaoke Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. It's a good townie bar, and a nice place to get away from the college scene. Those are some of my favorite spots, and I would love to hear your recommendations. I'm always on the lookout for more cool places to go in B-Town. | 3 | [
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"body": "I don't go out much, but there's an ~100% chance that if I do, it's a Monday night, and it's karaoke at the Bluebird.",
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What Brit Hume forgot to tell Tiger Woods | As someone who grew up in the Christian tradition and found refuge in the loving-kindness of Buddhism, I feel a lot of strong emotions when I read Brit Hume’s words. Aside from proving Hume’s sheer ignorance of what Buddhism teaches about forgiveness, his words also remind me of all the reasons why I left Christianity and its far too costly and exclusive “forgiveness.”...
http://mettarefuge.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/what-brit-hume-forgot-to-tell-tiger-woods/ | 10 | [
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"body": "The only problem is that the road to 'salvation' as Buddhism presents it is for most humans in this day and age still hard to fathom, let alone reach.\n\nThe promise of most monotheistic religions of near-instant gratification of salvation in this lifetime is for most people more appealing.\n\n\"All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence.\"",
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HTML5 or iPhone/Android? | I'm bringing on a mobile app intern to my startup. We're considering developing a mobile phone app- and had previously been debating whether to do an iPhone or Android app. But.. the more we look into HTML5 the more we're thinking of developing in HTML5. Where do you see the future of location-based applications going? In what timeframe? | 9 | [
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"body": "HTML5 is the way to go IMO. You should also look into Mobile Safari's hooks, you can make it do some rather native type stuff from a webapp, and still make that webapp accessible from other platforms. You also avoid the draconian app approval process.",
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"body": "Please, please, please use HTML5. I'm tired of all these separate app stores full of native apps that could have just as easily been cross-platform web apps.",
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"body": "IMHO, if you've got that option, go with HTML 5. Several reasons come to mind:\n\n* It'll be ready for other browsers as they all tend to adopt standards.\n\n* HTML 5 as has been documented here is full of improvements that *really* will give current GUI's a run for their money(for business software at least, not 3d action games or highly demanding graphical stuff which neither Android or iPhone run anyway)\n\n* With iPhone or Android you're closing doors, choosing one particular maker in a world that tends to be more and more open and diverse....\n\nIn summary, with either Android or iPhone you're limiting your playing field to each respective company whereas with HTML 5 you're pretty much keeping all doors open.\n\n",
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"body": "While I think the term \"HTML5\" is a bit of a misnomer, since most of the stack people think of when they say that is outside of that spec, it is what you should go with.\r\n\r\n1. If needed, you can wrap a container around your application, and ship it in the Apple App store.\r\n2. [Widgets](http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/) will allow you a revenue model on the numerous handsets that do or will ship with support for it (disclaimer: I've been involved in these specs and work for Opera, and we ship widget runtime engines on a large variety of platforms, both desktop, embedded and mobile).\r\n3. Other platforms, like Palm will also run your app.",
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"body": "One cool thing about the Palm webos (seen on the Palm Pre): you can develop your app in HTML5 and port it as an app to webos reusing most of the same code.",
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Hey Reddit, I was just wondering if you could help me with this. | Now I already know this is going to get downvoted into oblivion. So, my question is: how the hell do you make the look of disapproval?? | 3 | [
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"body": "Furrow your brow and straiten your lips. Slightly narrowed eyes help. The idea is to go for horizontal features. ",
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"body": "Damn, I wish I knew. My mom had it down to an art form. Terrified me. I try to do it, and people (usually my kids) think I'm constipated and either laugh or offer me unsolicited advice on which fiber is best.",
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"body": "Not everyone can do it - you need a special unicode keyboard.\n\nಠ_ಠ\n\nThis keyboard cost me a lot of money.",
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Help! my Google Chrome for mac is broken! | This is what my screen looks like http://imgur.com/Z6FGx.png
I've tried searching on google for some fixes, but I can't find any solutions. Apparently my default font is broken. Facebook still works, but reddit and google do not.
Has this happened to anyone, and have you been able to fix it? | 5 | [
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"body": "Get [FEX](http://www.fontexplorerx.com/download/) and use the **clean system font cache** function. ",
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"body": "I've noticed that on both my chrome and chromium installs. Tried debugging fonts, installs, etc. no love. i chalked it up to them being super betas and went back to firefox\n\nedit: or maybe chrome is just going so fast that reddit is like \"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!\"",
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My mouse is upside down. | I have a substantial dilemma, folks. I have had to `TAB` my way here on my keyboard in order to seek advice from my fellow brothers...sisters...uncles...Listen, I was just playing around with Mr. Click-Me and one thing led to another and now the mouse is upside down. It's red light shining at me with disgrace, I feel ashamed. I feel like I let her down. As I type this, she is right next to the keyboard helpless. Upside down. What do I do? | 8 | [
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"body": "* item 1 Go out and find a dog and a cat.\n* item 2 Stick one fist up the dog's ass and one up the cat's ass.\n* item 3 Perform a puppet show for your mouse. It's likely that the mouse is tired of fulfilling your every porn driven desire. Entertain it for a while. Perhaps it will right itself in appreciation of your puppetry skills.\n* item 4 If this doesn't cause the mouse to flip back over, the mouse is obviously suffering from delusions. Go with it. Cover your dick with syrup and try to convince the mouse that it is a flapjack. \n* item 5 If the problem persists, call the Geek Squad. When they arrive, pierce their assholes, and use the fresh piercings to string them together just as you would string popcorn to hang on a christmas tree.\n* item 6 Waggle your syrupy cock and living puppet hands in their general direction. Refuse to communicate in anything but interpretive dance and pig latin. \n* item 7 Hopefully the mouse will get righted during the ensuing ruckus, but if it doesn't, I'll come over and fix it in exchange for video of the whole adventure. ",
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"body": "The mouse is only an extension of yourself, your life, if it is upside down then that means you are too. Straighten out your life and everything will be right again.",
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Open Source Tabbed Remote Connection Manager (RDP, VNC, ICA, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, rlogin) | I have just released the first version of mRemoteNG, a fork of mRemote, which was abandoned by its author over a year ago.
mRemoteNG allows you to open multiple remote connections (RDP, VNC, ICA, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, rlogin) in one tabbed window.
http://www.mremoteng.org/
Let me know what you think. Thanks! | 6 | [
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"body": "I AmA freelance IT guy / computer consultant I will give it a work out today.\n\nThank you so much for rescuing a project.\n\nEdit: Lol, I guess I wont, this is a windows only deal. Still though thanks for rescuing a project like this. ;-)",
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So tonight my boss told me she hasn't taken her eyes off her computer for 7 hours... | I work at a restaurant, and things started to get pretty busy tonight so naturally I wondered why my boss (the owner) was just sitting staring at her laptop. I asked her if she could help me with the crowd and she replied "I'll do it, but come watch my computer", naturally, I ask why. She then tells me how every time she takes her eyes off the computer, especially when she sleeps, she'll receive spam in her yahoo account. She told me to watch and try to catch the "hacker" in his tracks as he tried to put spam in her mailbox, and to tell "him" that she is going to sue him if she gets any more advertisements. I asked her if she was serious and she said that she was and how she always misses him by a second, so I need to keep my eyes super peeled.
I obliged and sat down to look for the hacker. | 253 | [
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"body": "Ask her to promote you to \"internet security\" detail so she never has to waste her time staring at a computer again.",
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"body": "\"I obliged and sat down to look for the hacker.\"\n\nUpvote and worship you for this ^\n\nyou saw the opportunity to get paid to do nothing and you took it... you grabbed onto it with both hands... I salute you",
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"body": "OP isn't answering us. He took his eyes off the computer!\n\nSPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM!\n\n(Muahahahaha.)",
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"body": "I was hoping your boss discovered reddit and couldn't take her eyes off for 7 hours. Like the rest of us do. But now stupidity has made me sad :(\r\n\r\nedit: seplling.",
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"body": "Why does your boss assume the perpetrator is a guy??? I mean was it porn spam??? We always get the bad wrap.",
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"body": "AHhhhh! I know that spammer! Tell me if you catch that bastard as I want a piece of him!\n\nHere's what I did. I got tired of watching my screen all day and having to sit at the damn desk. So I got a laptop! They're really cheep now so I got one and started carrying it around with me. This way I wasn't chained to the desk anymore. That worked much better, but here's the kicker! \n\nI realized I didn't need to be there at all! I put an empty box on the chair at the desk and set hte laptop on the box *facing the computer!* The laptop has a webcam on it so I turned that on and found a mobile phone program that let's me watch my webcam video!!! Now I can watch the computer without sitting around wasting all my time!\n\nLet me know if your boss wants to know how I did it. I'm looking for investors.",
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"body": "> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke\n\nOf course, the level of advancement may vary from individual to individual.",
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"body": "whether or not your boss is knowledgable of computers, she's clearly insane and needs a day or three off.",
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"body": "Boss: \"I need you to catch this hacker.\"\r\nWaiter: \"But that will take hours.\"\r\nBoss: [Points gun] \"You've got 60 seconds.\"\r\n\r\nAdd in a progress bar and some blippy noises and you've got a movie.",
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How many Herbs/Spices/Sauces do you keep around your kitchen? | I keep around 50-60, simply because you never known when one in particular will prove to vastly enhance a dish. A friend believes that this is utterly insane. | 6 | [
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Glenn Beck thinks the Great Depression happened in 1948. | Who doesn't love a good Glenn Beck gaffe? Since unemployment lags behind other economic indicators, the graph might not be wrong, but he tries to take this concept and compare it to the Wind Chill Factor, which is stupid. And he says that the Great Depression happened in 1948. EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add the link http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001110036 | 3 | [
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"body": "There was a significant recession in 1948...this is not hyperbolic. (he does say recession...did you listen?).\n\ncontext: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/S0c1SpJEkNI/AAAAAAAAHMs/lPW1FP1zchE/s1600-h/EmploymentRecessionsDec.jpg\n\nGlenn is still an idiot though...\n\nWait a minute! (it's playing again in the background for me)\n\nThis may actually be a VERY RARE instance...of, wait a minute!?! I think the OP is somehow confusing recession with depression and in that video Glenn never says anything about the depression (other than \"giving it some context...\").\n\nHe's also using a graph similar to the one I linked...\n\nI've watched this twice, and I can't believe I'm doing this but here's the deal, this isn't a ***story***. I hate to be the spoiler here (trust me, I mean it!) but Glenn isn't being perfidious, nor rapacious. Glenn Beck did not say and cognitively speaking, he did not imply the Great Depression was in 1948. Using that link above, this post is hyperbolic and a little distorted.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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The Fleshlight, who has one? | I just ordered my very own, very shameful to find when your a friend sex toy named the Fleshlight. I wanted to know if you redditor have one and the reason behind it. Is it a satisfactory way to replace the twin sisters or not?
**EDIT: Thanks for the answers! But if you got one, tell us how and why you got it :)** | 144 | [
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"body": "I had one. I got it (ordered online from their website) during a time when my girlfriend and I were not able to be together much. I don't cheat on women so seeing other girls was out of the question, but I wanted to have some fun. Long story short, I did not regret the purchase. Since it was a relatively tough decision for me to buy it, I will humor you and give a full disclosure of my experience.\n\nI purchased a real Fleshlight with a vagina shaped orifice and the inside was the \"STU\" or stamina training unit. As far as how it affected my stamina with real sex goes, I don't think it really made a difference, even when I was actively trying to delay ejaculation. Despite this, I would pick the same type of fleshlight if I were to buy again. The STU has large and relatively flat bumps on the interior, which I thought was the best option. The material is incredibly soft and stretchy, well beyond what you're imagining. I needed a shit load of lube (astroglide) every time I used the thing. Otherwise, it just feels wrong. So make sure you pick up plenty of lube; it won't go to waste.\n\nIn a way, it is like superhuman sex. And I am not using hyperbole. I mean exactly what I am saying. It is somehow *beyond* human sex yet not what you'd experience during real sex. I will explain below.\n\nDuring a female orgasm, the vagina contracts as you thrust, which feels quite good as the smooth muscular walls of the vagina create semi-firm circular ridges that stroke your penis, and the tighter the vagina, the more you can feel these ridges' stroking action. Experiencing sex during a female orgasm is more or less the best case scenario when it comes to vaginal sex. Moreover, there is the (assumed) physical attraction, weight (i.e. resistive force during thrusting and something to hold on to), as well as someone holding on to *you*, heat (normal human body temperature), sounds, smells of your partner, probably some adrenaline, a little sweat, and emotional attachment, which all contribute to the pleasure of normal human sex. At least 6 out of 7 days of the week, I would prefer normal human sex. \n\nThe STU, on the other hand, is like one of the most awesome and unreal feelings that your penis, (but your penis alone), can experience. Compared to the experiences of normal sex, the fleshlight has no weight to it, meaning you have to stroke it up and down (more on this later). The vagina shape is a decent visual aid, but it is nothing like looking at an attractive woman. Porn could help with that, but I don't exactly have an immersive porn watching setup, just a 22\" widescreen monitor. One of the surreal things about it is the heat. You can use it at room temp, but it feels much better if you warm it up in hot tap water. Usually what I would do was start up a porn vid, fill up the sink with hot tap water, also run some hot tap water through the hole, then let the thing float around for about 4-5 min while I watch some porn, lube up the fleshlight liberally with my hand, and then I'd be erect from watching the porn and it would be ready. Usually, I find that a bit too hot is a lot better than too cold. Just be careful. \n\nAs far as sounds go, the thing sounds fucking terrible, unless you unscrew the bottom cap entirely in which case it is silent. But then you are likely to drip some lube on the ground. The case is not a perfect design. If you want suction, you can insert your penis with the cap open, then close the cap, and bam: mega suction. The suction lowers the pressure inside the fleshlight, which makes your penis a bit fuller for the duration of the suction.\n\nSmells: there is a faint silicone smell, and then if you don't treat it properly, you will get a little bit of mildew smell as well. I think most people get the mildew smell because they put it away without fully drying it out, because let's face it, most people don't want to see this thing sitting on your dish rack to dry. I \\*ALWAYS*\\ washed it with hand soap (not dish soap) before every use, and I never got any weird fungus or any problems with my penis. It is just a smell, get over it. It goes away if your hand soap smells good. \n\nNow for the masturbation. Since the fleshlight has no weight behind it, you can't grab it like a woman and fuck it up and down on your bed or desk chair. You are limited in the number of positions. It cannot kneel. And so on. It really still seems like masturbation in essence, yet it is somehow more. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It is a good thing because it can do things that your hand and a vagina cannot. For one, it can rotate. You can fuck it at interesting / extreme angles that wouldn't work in a vagina or with a hand. It feels slightly different if you fuck it clit-up or clit-down. And you can do all of this without making your girlfriend very confused as to what you're trying to accomplish. It's a toy, so play with it.\n\nHowever, there is still the issue of manually stroking. Manually stroking gives you lots of control, and it's a lot less physically demanding than having sex, so you can get nearly perfect control over your performance. But, it still feels like you are just stroking your dick, albeit with something that feels incredibly awesome. You will probably have to lube up a couple of times more if you go at it for as long as I did, but it is nice not having to get lube all over your hands. \n\nI tried many ways to brace it with something so I could stop feeling like I was just stroking my penis and finally feel like I was fucking a vagina. After many attempts, *one method worked thousands of times better than anything else*. I have a normal height bed/mattress (frame+box spring+mattress), this probably won't work unless you do too. I just braced it between my mattress and my box spring. It was the perfect height for fucking somewhat reminiscent of doggy style. Then, I simply knelt down on a towel and finally I could thrust my pelvis to my heart's content, watching porn and having a blast.\n\nNow, unlike with a woman, you can thrust it as fast, as slow, as hard, or as soft as you want, and you don't have to worry about how anyone feels but yourself. The biggest concern you have is how long you want to last before you ejaculate. And with this thing, you can really tease the everliving fuck out of your penis and practically give yourself blue balls. When you're thrusting, yeah, it feels good. It feels a little too good, I will admit. It is so much more intense than a vagina because of those broad and flat bumps. It is no substitute for the real thing, but it is nice to know that in a way it is actually better than a vagina.\n\nFinally, when you're ready to ejaculate, it is a bit like a thousand angels' fingers stroking your penis rapidly, like you're fucking a vagina that's on overdrive, or if you're using some suction, like 100 blow jobs at once. Your penis will get incredibly sensitive. More sensitive than it has probably ever been in your entire life. And you have to make that critical decision, are you going to keep stroking? It can be a little too intense to keep going. When I am having sex, I do an internal cumshot 99% of the time. And since my girlfriend and I are monogamous, I never use a condom. Yet, a vagina is never going to feel *too intense* to keep thrusting during your orgasm, even riding bareback. \n\nI hope it's understood what I'm talking about here. I'm sure all you men have experienced this during masturbation... the point at which you are coming and you have to decide whether you're going to focus on massaging the shaft and sort of \"squeezing out semen\" (i.e. tight fist, ), or if you are going to keep a looser fist and continue stroking the *tip* of your penis and ride out the intense waves of hypersensitivity, that feeling that in a sense feels so good but it kinda feels bad at the same time. For me, an orgasm is usually a bit more pleasurable with the former, but the orgasm lasts almost 2-3x as long with the latter, concomitant with the production of more semen. With the STU, it's this hyper-intense feeling times 100,000. \n\nI mean let's face it. You will never experience this feeling with a woman, especially not with vaginal sex. Maybe if she is adept at giving the world's most perfect blow job, she kicks the BJ into high gear while you orgasm (gobbling your semen up like it's the Great Depression), and meanwhile manipulates her tongue as if it were as agile as all 10 fingers. \n\nAfter you experience this for the first time, you won't regret any of the prep or care that goes into owning and using a fleshlight, although if you have roommates it is not going to be too easy to hide. You might as well just let them know you have it so they can quickly get over how funny it is. Just keep it out in the open. Soon enough they will be curious. They will probably end up wanting one, especially if you carry yourself with confidence. \n\nI don't own it anymore, at some point I decided it was getting a bit too beat up from all the washing. (I think the soap is the biggest killer) and if I really wanted another one, I'd just buy it. But lately, my girlfriend has been around a lot and we fuck sufficiently, so I don't really feel like I need another one at this time.\n\nIf you are single, there is no reason not to own one. It is one of the greatest experiences your penis can have outside of an actual woman. And for this, the price is negligible. It is the cost of like one or two dates. I would never ever ever go without either a steady girlfriend to fuck or a fleshlight. It is so much better than manual masturbation, you just have to experience it to believe it. \n\nSorry for the long post, I didn't really intend to keep writing this much.\n\n**TL;DR** - You should buy one. If you are single, it's not even a question in my mind. Buy one. And the best thing to do is wedge it between your mattress and box spring.",
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"body": "I have a Fleshlight, HD Video goggles, Zune HD, and about 30 gigs of Fap-fodder. The best is to have a few drinks, maybe a toke or two, and lay down in the pitch black closet. Get the \"Solo Dutch Rudder\" going and you cum like a baby gorilla. Then rip the goggles off and your all like disoriented wAaaa... Where was I? Some magical A2M island?\r\n\r\n#Edit: Do not attempt this! Turns out this is how you make time travel. Needless to say, the founding fathers were not pleased when I showed up at some paper signing meeting, balls deep in a anus shaped flash light.\r\n\r\nT L D R: Time travel, goggles, Balls deep in a anus shaped flash light.",
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"body": "I think it's strange how male masturbation devices are seen as such shameful things, yet female ones (vibrators, dildos, etc) are seen in a much more positive light.",
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"body": "My friend was looking though his girlfriends brothers backpack and found a fleshlight in it. He said he knew what is was and was checking it out. He decided to unscrew the bottom and said semens spilled out everywhere. I asked him why the fuck he would open that and what he expected to come out (candy?). He had no answer.\n",
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"body": "I've considered getting a Fleshlight but then I realized that fat girls are free. In fairness however, fat girls do not transform into flashlights when your friends walk in. \n\nThey should. ",
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"body": "How's [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/shirt/aoh8d/the_fleshlight_who_has_one/) for an icebreaker?",
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"body": "I know a guy in the marines and he says that a little over half of his guys (himself included) had one over in Iraq. His reasoning was that beatin it can get kind of old after a while and they aren't allowed to diddle the locals.",
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"body": "Im gonna pass down my fleshlight in the family. I'll give it to my son and he will give it to his son etc. ",
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"body": "Bought the aptly named \"Stamina Training Unit.\" Bought it because of teenage movies and the minuteman stigma which I thought haunted anyone who tried to have sex for the first time. Turns out when I did have sex, the thing actually did quite the number on my stamina. Normally I would just bust a quick 20/30 min session before I went to sleep, but when I received the FLight, I used it for a solid month, maybe 2 times a week to train my stamina. First time I had sex I lasted 2 hours! No, I'm not trying to sell you one, but I can say it helped!",
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"body": "I might be awesome for all I know but I'm never getting one.\r\n\r\nThe shame of washing out a piece of plastic I just fucked would cancel out all pleasure it gives me.",
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"body": "i'm late to this, but i work for fleshlight and i just got back from AVN. as someone who has taken a test drive of just about everything and is still a rather well adjusted individual, you should order one.",
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"body": "From what I've read with having to heat it and the larger process involved, it might be more of a hassle than you might think. I don't own one though, so don't take my word for it. \n\nI'm simple: lotion, hand, imagination",
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"body": "Just buy and eat bananas and then use the the peel to masturbate with. It is self lubricating and feels incredible.",
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"body": "I've got one, but it's not my favorite toy. I find the material to be far too stretchy to provide a good level of stimulation.\n\nI like a toy which provides some guidance for hands-free insertion. For that, you need a concave surface surrounding the actual opening. Most of the fleshlight orifices protrude, which doesn't provide that guidance, so I ordered the anal version, for the cup-shape surrounding the opening. The problem is, the opening itself is really seriously too tight and the enclosing structure of the case just makes that worse.\n\nMy favorite sex toy is actually homemade from melting down several other toys that were too small to be useful. It's LARGE, about seven inches long, with an opening over an inch across, but the walls are thick and relatively inflexible. (I probably boiled away some plasticizers when I melted it down.) The result is a toy I can slip into without an erection to get started. The semi-rigid structure provides more intense stimulation as I get more excited. It has given me some of the most incredible experiences of my life and it's too bad I couldn't find a toy like it anywhere.\n\nOn the issue of hands-free use, the fleshlight company has really not thought this through. The case is far too slippery, the round shape doesn't rest solidly, so when you thrust into it, it just slips. It must be clamped somewhere. You'll do fine clamping it between couch cushions or beneath a mattress, but otherwise, forget it. The bottom cap leaks, no matter what I do, so forget about \"cuddling\" with it afterward, you will make a mess. They sell something like a speaker enclosure to remedy the clamping problem, but as a sex toy, that's too bulky and obvious to find a place in most people's homes.",
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"body": "I bought one at the behest of one of my (female) friends, mostly as a joke. I got bored of it after 2 weeks. It was too much effort to clean out after every use.",
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"body": "When I was a sophomore in high school I found out that my honors Alg II teacher had one. My boyfriend was friends with his son. ",
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"body": "[If your two greatest pleasures are having orgasms and cleaning stuff when you're really not in the mood, then the Fleshlight is for you.](http://i.imgur.com/sPXv3.jpg)\n\n",
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"body": "my girlfriend bought me one years ago. i think she liked it more than i did. i never really used it when she wasnt around. she liked using it on me tho especially when she was on the rag. it was alright but i would've rather used her mouth ",
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"body": "i worked at a sex shop for a few years. \r\n\r\ni would suggest getting a decent masturbator *without* the flashlight casing, which makes it impossible to squeeze the toy, thus denying you a range of sensations.\r\n\r\nimho the best value out there when it comes to durability and sensation is from the Colt line of toys, and is called the Power Stroker.\r\nColt is considered a 'gay' line of products though, so if you're homophobic be warned. I personally consider inanimate objects to neither be gay or straight, so it works for me.",
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Star Trek Online beta unlocked on Steam | Is anyone else exited / getting a [slow download](http://i.imgur.com/JxBoS.png) from steam while they shake in their chair? | 17 | [
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"body": "Hope you liked the TNG movies the best.\n\nBecause that's all that's in the game ATM. \n\nThey say seek out new worlds and new civilizations. They lie, you'll just kill klingons and gorn the whole time.\n\nPlayed over the weekend. Really hopeful for the game, but people have been begging for more real trek content for months and cryptic hasn't added anything.\n\nOver the entire weekend, i did three non-combat missions. One where i just had to take a quiz about what the npc's i had just talked to had said. Another one where i literally did nothing but walk around in a very tiny area scanning identical looking debris in identical looking little forest patches that were only around the debris. The last one was in space and it was a \"deep space exploration mission\". They had me fly in a straight line in an asteroid field flying through checkpoints. That was it. All the interior environments were overly huge because they use a really bad pathing algorithm or something. The inside of my bridge looked like the kingdome. Ship scaling is totally off. The Miranda class is as big as a negh'var and can solo it, borg cubes are at most just 3 times as big as a miranda class. If cryptic wants to make a good star trek game, which they don't, then they've got another few years ahead of them.\n\nSo if you think Nemesis was the best trek movie because it had the most laser battles and none of that boring morality stuff, then STO is for you.\n\nAs for me, this is just one more thing that a marketing department has ruined for me.",
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"body": "Apparantly \"open\" beta in this case has the meaning of \"open, to preorderers and fileplanet subscribers\", aka: not open.\nWell, I´m sure as shit not buying it before i try it out. As much as I like Star Trek, MMO´s are too easy for developers to screw up.",
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Smile! God Loves You! But.... | So 5-6 years ago my friend was working at Walgreen's and had this nice old lady hand him a slip of paper.
It says this (Which I scanned myself):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/DLDude/Jesus.jpg
Being a semi-spiritual guy, my friend felt warm in his heart. He checked the back to see what other nice things it may say and got this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/DLDude/Jesus1.jpg
Ouch. | 46 | [
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"body": "Yeah, the whole Crucifixion thing is one great guilt trip that really makes no sense if you think about it. Why wouldn't God just forgive your sins? Why all the blood gore and drama? And who pays of debts by killing their kids anyways? Seems kind of barbaric - but that's just me. ",
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"body": "A gift? Jesus, I don't want your gift of eternal life. What? You say I cannot refuse your gift? And, to not take your gift means I must burn severely for eons? How can you call it a gift, then? Oh, it's because you're god and since you can call it any damn thing you want the term 'gift' is useful in that it implies something that, typically, is rarely refused by the average stupid-fuck human. Hell, you're a sly bitch, god.",
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"body": "smile! jesus loves you.\nnow SUCKIT!\n\nreligion is just too gay for me. seriously, the nature of religion is so homoerotic that it seems like the whole thing was designed by the queer eye crew",
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Reddit, what invaluable skills or trades are worth learning? | Hello Reddit, I feel as if I spend a good amount of time on the computer, wasting precious time. There are plenty of things to learn and try, but what? Preferably something easily picked up, not something like developing software.
One thing I've thought about is automobile mechanics. I have an insatiable lust for cars, but I know next to nothing about their insides and how they move so damn fast. The problem is that I don't know how to get introduced into it. No one I know is well versed with cars, so what, do I read some books?
So, any ideas Reddit?
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"body": "\"*A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.*\"\n— [Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent\\_man)",
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"body": "Languages. Learn different languages and you'll discover new cultures. It will enrich your life as long as you live.",
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"body": "Learn how to change the oil on your car.\r\n\r\n**EDIT** I just learned how important what I just said was. I was on the road and in dire straits for an oil change, and had to get it done in rural Tennessee. I just went down to have a tune up, and apparentley the guys in Tennessee cross threaded the plug, ruining the whole oil pan. My car is in the shop and I'm out 475$ (just walked home from the mechanic).\r\n\r\nSomething simple can be so important, I'm withholding the name and town of where this happened until I find out if they are going to pay for this. I'm not holding my breath, it took them 20 minutes to find the records of service because \"they don't have computers\" there.",
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"body": "Welding is a great skill to have. Both real-world and post-apocalyptic. \n\nIf you're interested in getting into cars, there are a few ways to do it. First thing is to get a car you can work on. Something cheap you like. I wanted something fun and odd, so I bought an '85 RX7 with a carbureted rotary engine for $500. A set of hand tools is $100-150 from Sears, and that should get you started. Buy a service manual. Change all the fluids, and gradually start fixing all the things that are wrong with it. You will break something, so make sure it's not your only car. You obviously know how to use the internet, so find the user forum for that particular car. It's out there. Honda? honda-tech.com. Subaru? NASIOC. Nissan? NICO. There are a million of them.\n\nAre you a college student?",
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"body": "Social Skills, learn how to communicate, socialize, work in groups, present, all those are necessary for life.",
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"body": "First Aid/CPR/ Using a Defibrillator \n\n\nI picked it up when working on my Fire Fighter I class, and have to say it has come in handy. I think it will help you from freezing up a bit in the event of a real problem, as it's a lot of practice makes perfect/muscle memory stuff. If you work at a camp like my friends, or myself this summer? It also becomes very important.",
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"body": "I brew beer. This year I brewed almost 70 cases. My hobby is invaluable because when the world goes to shit no one is going to care about the guy who collects stamps. I will become king of the world. It's all part of my master plan.",
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"body": "Negotiation. \n\nThis is the most valuable skill I have ever learned and pretty much use it everyday in someway. Everyone should know how to negotiate, it will save you money, time and stress. ",
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"body": "Really people?\n\nLearn the basics of everything that works in your house. Plumbing, heating, carpentry, etc.\n\nProbably the best way to save money, and not make you look like a complete tool your entire life.",
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"body": "Invaluable skills aren't typically ones that are \"easily picked up\" by everyone. There's an element of practice as well as an element of predisposition to most skills. If it's truly a valuable skill to you, you'll put in the time to learn it properly.\n\nThat said, reading books is great and all, but the best way to learn is to DO something. Do it badly, fail, and try again. You won't get it right the first time, or for many subsequent times. If you care enough about it, you'll naturally learn from screwing up. You'll also learn to identify when you've done a passable job, and how that's different from something that's truly excellent. Some people are fantastic at learning skills from books. Where this falls down is when something goes wrong. However, you will have practiced screwing up in the process of learning your skill.\n\nEveryone wants an auto mechanic in the family. This is a great idea.\n\nAnother one is cooking. Learn to cook a proper, healthy meal. You'll thank yourself - this is a REALLY appealing quality in either a woman or a man, but is less expected in men.",
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"body": "* Emergency Medicine\n\nWhen I was younger I ended up becoming EMT certified and spent a year working on an ambulance. Even though my certification has expired a long time ago knowing how to react and perform in emergency situations is a great skill to have. To pass the class you have to spend a couple days working in an emergency room. It will change your perspective and give you a set of skills that will last a lifetime even if you never plan on pursuing it as any form of career.",
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"body": "Masturbating while hanging upside down from your knees on a public jungle gym in the middle of the day without having any fear.",
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"body": "Skills:\n\n1. how to change a tire\n\n2. how to change your oil\n\n3. how to fix a flat\n\n4. how to jump-start a car\n\n5. how to push-start a car (with a stick)\n\n6. how to pick up a dumped motorcycle by yourself (good trick for small guys and women too)\n\n7. how to draw a straight line without a ruler\n\n8. how to estimate dimensions (of a room, distance, etc)\n\n9. how to read a map/chart, how to navigate using a compass, sextant\n\n10. how to sail a small boat\n\n11. how to use a paddle (canoe), oar (row boat), kayak\n\n12. how to tie various knots\n\n13. how to bang a nail: frame out a space, insulate, put up sheet rock, paint a wall, install electric/LAN outlets, \n\n14. how to trouble shoot basic plumbing, house electric, insulation and other energy needs\n\n15. how to change a diaper\n\n16. how to give a bottle to a baby\n\n17. how to put a baby down for a nap\n\n18. how to care for a small child (diet/nutrition, exercise/play, education, etc)\n\n19. how to shop/cook for your family (healthy diet)\n\n20. how to exercise (for good health and longevity)\n\n21. how to lose weight, build muscle mass, increase endurance, train for a marathon, etc\n\n22. how to design a website, optimize it for SE, submit it to social networks, increase traffic, make it sticky\n\n23. how to edit images in a variety of formats\n\n24. how to play a musical instrument: so you can join a band or record and perform live infront of an audience (that takes years of practice, son)\n\n25. how to travel safely\n\n26. how to clean, load and fire a weapon (bow, pistol, rifle, shotgun)\n\n27. how to clear a forest: use a chainsaw, axe, various saws, come-along, other woodsman tools\n\n28. how to plant and maintain an organic garden to feed your family\n\nThose are just a few I recommend that you learn before you are 25\n\n",
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"body": "Using a firearm. Everyone assumes you can pick one up and be a fucking sniper. I promise that it isn't like that. And for FSM's sake, don't turn it sideways....",
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"body": "Knot tying? Grab some rope and learn how to tie a few different kinds of knots. It may not be the most exciting thing, but it's cheap, easy, and will probably come in handy at some point.\n\nYou could learn an instrument. After playing my fair share of Guitar Hero, I went out and picked up a real guitar. I have fun learning it, and it's easy to pick up and play whenever I feel like it.\n\nLearning to pick locks could be cool too. I've heard there are starter kits out there with tools and practice locks. Who knows if you'll ever use it, but it seems like a fun little skill to learn.",
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"body": "Plumbing. People will always shit. It will always get stuck. They will always have no idea how to fix it and will be willing to pay damn nearly anything to have someone else fix it.\n\nPlumbing. Mark my words.\n\nDave",
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"body": "YOGA!!!\n\nTo be honest, the main reason I'm posting it is that my lower back doesn't hurt constantly ever since I started it.\n\nIt makes you more flexible, and some of the poses are good exercise. And exercise is just lovely.\n\nI hope that if some of you try it, you'll feel better and rid yourself of random pains and such.",
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"body": "Soldering. If you can fix a power supply with some good gauge wire and some heat shrink, you just saved yourself $40.",
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"body": "Laughing at yourself, and not giving a shit what others think. If you can master these two skills, you'll be okay.\n\n**edit:** not giving a shit what *idiots* think...the key is being able to identify the idiots as soon as possible.",
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"body": "As a guy I often get a lot of trouble from friends for mentioning this, but I feel everyone should know basic sewing skills - and by basic, I mean sewing a basic button up shirt. \n\nI also think everyone should know basic farming\n\nIn general, the skills needed to live self sustainably without relying too much on big stores. ",
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"body": "Try to think of skills that will get you accepted into the post-apocalyptic stronghold when they are turning all the other refugees away.",
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"body": "I have a long list of things I'd like to become intermediate to expert at by the time I'm 40 (I'm 24 now). The most valuable to me would be:\n\n* Electrical Engineering (or any Engineering, really)\n* Auto Mechanics\n* Botany\n* General Medicine\n\nAlso honorable mention goes to a working knowledge of Physics.",
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"body": "Grow your own plants and learn how to skin and prepare animals.\r\n\r\nI'm not a nut who thinks the endtimes are on us. But they are great skills to know you posess and there is nothing tastier than rabbit stew that you really did make yourself.",
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"body": "Nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.",
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"body": "There's nothing wrong with hobbies, but after you learn a few different things it's smarter to specialize and push your advantage in those skills than it is to learn different ones.\n\nBeing a jack of all trades is entertaining, but not particularly profitable.",
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"body": "Rational thinking. No matter what ideas you come across, always force yourself to evaluate them through the filter of pro and con, and ultimately logic vs intuition.\n\nThe ability to weigh something's merit based on supporting evidence for that idea is invaluable. Too often we allow ourselves to be suckered into agreeing amongst ourselves about a concept or a theory without really putting that concept through the wringer of due diligence, without really testing the hypothesis of the claim.\n\nDemand concrete, irrefutable evidence for extraordinary claims, otherwise you will find yourself defending something that is weakened with every astute question of it's validity, and you'll be annoyed that there isn't an established theory in place to solidify your beliefs. Is the current uptick in average global temperature irrefutably attributable to man's actions? If you aren't sure, hedge your bets. You'll be rewarded for your skepticism.",
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"body": "Lighting a fire.\n\nI know what you're saying, \"I know how to light a fire. Roll joint, apply flame!\" But that's not what I mean.\n\nNow light a fire with only one match.\n\nThen take away half of your kindling and do it again.\n\nThen go outside in damp weather, find kindling and do it again.\n\nEtc.",
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"body": "“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.”\n\n- Robery Heinlein",
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"body": "Common daily tasks from which you can derive enjoyment. Most importantly, the ones which you *know* you will be doing in one way or another for the rest of your life. Cooking is the perfect example, sex is a good one too. You will be eating food for the rest of your life, why not teach yourself to be the best cook possible, within the scope of your particular life? While you may not be able to become a 5-star chef, you certainly can know how to make a few staples of your particular genre of cuisine well. \n\n\nAlso, the ladies love oral. Being good at that gets you far in life. Massage is a winner too. ",
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"body": "A basic knowledge of plumbing and carpentry will wind up saving you plenty of money throughout your life.",
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"body": "Learn to surf. It will take you to some beautiful and amazing places all around the world. It will keep you mentally and physically fit. It is a lot of fun.",
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"body": "* Survival skills (hunting, trapping, fishing, making a fire, building a shelter)\n* Mechanical skills (change a tire/brakes/oil, disassemble and clean a sink, small engine repairs)\n* Construction skills (hang a door, grout tile, build an indoor wall, lay brick)\n* Musical skills (keep a beat, play an instrument, whistle, match a tone)\n* Language skills (public speaking, formal writing, comedic timing)\n* Athletic skills (swimming, running, hand stand, back flip, juggling)\n* Potpourri (knot tying, sailing, second language, botany)",
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"body": "Sewing/knitting/crochet/weaving. Bonus points if you learn to spin your own wool using a drop spindle or spinning wheel. I get hours of enjoyment and satisfaction from creating my own clothing, making something that no one else has. And when I make items to give as gifts, the giftees are always extremely impressed that I actually *made* them something. And really, I know many people who don't even know how to sew on a button, which is rather sad.\n\nAnd as to the post-apocalyptic wasteland infested by zombies. I'll be the one making the clothes you wear or need repaired. I would be a good person to have around. ",
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"body": "Mining is a good earner. Combine it with Jewelcrafting and you can use the gems you mine to make necklaces and stuff. That way you don't have to pay for the raw gems. \n\nYou will be a money making machine. People will bug you to cut their gems for free though, that kind of sucks. \n\nPick up first aid, cooking and fishing. They're less important though.",
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"body": "Eating.\n\nLearn how to eat in a refined way for occasions that I never get invited to, or learn how to eat anything, for when you need to survive.\n\nAlso - memorize where the edible and delicious parts of the human body lie.",
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"body": "Juggling! It's not just a party trick, it increases coordination, concentration, a sense of rhythm, and has been shown to increase both white and gray matter, not to mention the fact that it's decent exercise and never ceases to be entertaining. Furthermore, it earns instant admiration from others and for the paranoid throngs that apparently habituate reddit, imagine how useful it is to be able to earn money performing in any part of the world if you are ever stuck without a wallet or so much as a means to communicate --it truly is an invaluable life skill, though sadly often overlooked.",
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"body": "Construction, cooking, plumbing, sewing/patternmaking, mechanics. All important trades. \n\nedit: oh, and swimming. That's an important one. And CPR. ",
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"body": "Being able to read symbolism in films, and more than that, having a decent grasp of semiotics. If you can properly analyze entertainment, considering who wrote it, when and why, you can watch an episode of Jersey Shore and still get a little bit more knowledge about the world you live in.",
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"body": "http://www.howstuffworks.com/\r\n\r\nNot as good as it used to be but there are many good articles on there.\r\n\r\nIf you want to learn about cars I'd start at the article on gasoline engines, from there on you can read how super/turbocharging works, what makes a diesel engine different from a gasoline engines. I love the more obscure stuff like the Miller cycle and Wankel engines.",
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"body": "Maybe not what you are looking for but I've always valued the skill of playing down your intelligence dependent on situation you are in.",
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"body": "How to light a fire with limited materials. No paper, no lighter fluid, no gas lighter. Just dry wood and 2 matches max.\n\nThen you can start on the wet wood :)",
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"body": "There's a german book called \"Ein Mann ein Buch\" (one man one book), which contains every task a man should be able to do (e.g. cooking a steak, emergency land a plane, ...). I don't know if there's any equivalent in english but I'll try to translate you all the tasks described.",
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"body": "* Clean as you cook\n* Pick up after yourself, right there on the spot\n* Dont talk too much\n* Learn to listen and be sincere about it\n",
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"body": "These should not count as skills in our day and age, but here they are:\n\n**Skimming or Scanning**. While you were discouraged from reading at a glance in school because you were supposed to regurgitate the facts on command, once you leave school all your reading will be done like this.\n\n**Saving.** You know that thing you did when you were a kid and you really wanted something you couldn't afford? You had the right idea, keep doing that.\n\n**Common Sense**. Sometimes you think of something obvious and you figure everybody has probably thought of that. Well, they haven't. In the real world, this is a fucking superpower.\n\n**Lying.** Adepts as socializing know that the trick is to make yourself look good. Masters know the trick is really to make everyone else look bad. For getting promoted using the process of elimination, cheating and lying are valuable skills that will put you on the fast track to success!\n\n**Drinking.** You need to learn how to drink. Now you might be thinking: I know how to drink! I just had the craziest kegger you wouldn't believe! If you just had a crazy kegger, you don't know how to drink. Kids drink to get through parties. Adults drink to get through the day. \n\n**Power-Napping.** Alright, so now you sleep like a baby every night. Well one day you will have a baby, and sleep will be a thing of the past! So start spending your days desperately sleep-deprived now, and get some practice in. And when you wake up after fifteen minutes of rest to go to a full work day, remember that it is not only the first day of the rest of your life, but, in fact, all of them!",
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For the last year, Scientology has been harassing me because I share a name with a protestor from New York. I've started fucking with them. AMA. | I live in a small town in Ontario Canada. About three months ago, some Scientologist with a huge shit-eating grin on his face showed up at my door and handed me a letter. I'd only heard of Scientology in passing before, and so I had no idea why he was giving me this letter in person.
It was some poorly written cease and desist order for protesting their church.
Since then, I've been fucking with Scientology in my spare time. AMA. | 77 | [
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"body": "Alright, I know who you are. I'm the guy that stole the first boxset from the library, by the way. You actually served me last week.\n\nP.S.: I won't tell anyone who you are, don't worry. You can send me a PM on here and we can talk more if you're interested.",
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"body": "Can you somehow drop my name to them, I have too much free time on my hands and would rather like to repay the church for fucking over my best friends mother.",
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"body": "You have to give a little more information. What have you been doing to fuck with them. What have they done to you, besides send you a letter?\n\nThis seems a bit boring.",
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"body": "1. If you know the guy that was harassing you, you can retaliate in force. Find out where he lives, where he works, what his schedule is. Print out 1000 sheets of a photo shopped flyer saying \"have you seen this man? he's a convicted sex offender\" with his picture on it. Paste up around his home of residence, work, shops and convenience stores between the two, etc etc. Have friends help with this endeavor. \n\n2. buy [THIS VALVE CORE REMOVAL TOOL](http://www.kingpincruisers.net/index.php?option=com_store&manufacturer=1&item=WD-VCT-1) it only costs $5, and it will pull out the actual stem core of the valves of his car tires. Most people wouldn't have a clue what to do and would have to call someone to fix this, but you could execute this in less than two minutes and be gone. \n",
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"body": "Hey good for you. I too fucked with them but not in my spare time, it was in college and I decided to write an article on the them. So I went to their Church/BookStore in NYC and pretended to be lost and interested. The people talking to me were pretty creepy looking into my eyes and not blinking at all. Guy admitted to much drug use in his past and being from an incestuous family from the Mid-West. It was awesome, my professor read the paper to the whole class. Your experience? ",
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"body": "This post should be called *I prank call some local Scientology dudes when I get bored of playing Xbox: AMA.*",
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My dream self has more karma than me. | Last night in my dream I apparently posted something on reddit that got a lot of upvotes. I don't know what it was that I submitted, or maybe my dream self was just waking up and going for a quick browse, but seeing all that link karma made me happy. I've experienced Tetris Effect before from playing video games for too long, but never before has reddit crossed into my dreams. Or any website for that matter.
Congratulations, reddit. You're apparently the first website my dream self checks too. | 28 | [
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"body": "I once had a dream that seeing a huge pile of shit made me happy and I got incredibly excited as the huge pile of stinky boggy warm shit got bigger and bigger. As time went on I kept looking out the window expectantly wanting to see more and more shit, I wondered how much shit I would end up collecting and I dreamed of all the things I would do with the shit. I imagined how good I would feel having more shit than others and how having so much shit must make me a good person. ",
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I'd like to learn how to cook. Any advice or cookbook suggestions for a newbie? | * I know absolutely nothing about cooking. If they made pre-buttered toast, you'd probably find that in my fridge.
* I'm not trying to impress the ladies with fancy crap that takes 4 hours to make. I just want to learn how to ween myself off the poisonous sludge I eat now, and form a meaningful connection with healthy organic meals by preparing them from scratch.
* I'm totally open to cookbooks with multicultural recipes too.
* I love chicken. I LOVE CHICKEN.
* I hate vegetables. I've really tried to like them, but I haven't figured out how. Any cooking hacks you've discovered that would change my mind would be most appreciated.
* Any suggestions on invaluable or universal kitchen utensils you think I'll need would be welcome too.
* Writing this made me hungry. | 5 | [
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"body": "The Joy of Cooking. Essential cookbook for any kitchen. It gives a basic recipe and then a few pages later says to use that \"base\" and add to it for something different (lots of these for breads, cakes, pastas). There is even a section for how to store your produce long term in the freezer. I absolutely love it\n\n",
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What things have you lost lately, Reddit? | A few months ago, while I was traveling around Southeast Asia, I lost my camera (SD1000) in Malaysian Borneo somewhere around a jungle lodge. I suspect it was stolen. I really wish I had it back. | 11 | [
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"body": "My free-time. However, I'm sure that if I keep checking posts on reddit, I'll eventually find it at the bottom of a comment tree.",
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"body": "back in New Years Eve I had about 8 condoms in my back pocket. here in NYC, condoms are given in the streets by Safe Sex Organizations for free. so I had then in the jeans for a while.\n\nso I come home drunk as a skunk. and proceed to throw up all over my bed, pants, and shoes. so I take off my pants, put it on a chair, put on some shorts and proceed to clean the mess before my family sees it.\n\nafter that I passed out, I wake up the next morning and my jeans are emptied out and stuffed in the closet along with the pillows I thew up on. I do remember stuffing them in the closet because they were covered in cranberry-vodka, Dominican rum and beer vomit. but god damn it I don't remember emptying out my jeans on my bed, which means I also put the condoms on the bed...but they weren't there! so I think my mother or someone else saw them and for some reason threw them away because till this day they completely disappeared.\n\n",
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"body": "I lost my headphones, then I realized I was sitting on them.\n\nThen, I lost my interest in learning JavaScript.\n\nThen, I lost my interesting in finding a new media player.\n\nThis was in the span of 10 minutes.",
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Has anyone else had this problem with their dog's skin? | My dog is about one year old. We adopted him from the shelter on October 31. Around the beginning of December or so, he started scratching and seemingly hasn't stopped since. He scratches all over, anywhere he can reach, but INTENSELY scratches his face. He digs at it with his dew claws and with his back foot really hard to the point he is whimpering. The skin on his chest (another really itchy area) is quite pink.
We obviously took him to the vet who raped us up the ass with multiple bills only to tell us he is allergic to his food and to tell us to buy some 70.00 bag of prescription food.
He has a few spots that look bad, half a centimeter sized bumps or spots that the vet didn't see, but he doesn't necessarily scratch these, he scratches his head for the most part. He doesn't seem to have ear mites or an ear infection. He eats and drinks and poops and pees. And this definitely isn't the worst thing that he could have by a long shot, he just seems miserable. I would gladly pay money for something I know would work.
What do you think, doggit? Has your dog had something similar? From everything I've read it sounds like allergies, but could it be anything else?
And I'm brand new here. Hi
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"body": "I had this exact same problem with my dog not too long ago. If he came up negative on a mange test, it's definitely an allergy of some sort. I agree that you should try switching foods. You don't have to start with the $70 food, but don't feed him Kibbles and Bits, either. Another thing you might try is bathing him with an oatmeal/aloe shampoo - cheap shampoos can dry out a dog's skin and cause a reaction.\n\nIf he just looks miserable, you can give him about 50mg of Benadryl to help with the itching. It'll probably make him very sleepy, which obviously isn't a big problem to a dog but I wouldn't try to take him out on a run while he's doped up.",
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"body": "Also, you might want to get a second opinion. We got bent over when the vet told us our dog had mange, and needed special weekly treatments. 600$ later, we moved to another city and got a new vet. The vet told us he had mange, and that he needed a shot. One $15 shot later and he was cured. I felt like an idiot. Still do. ",
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"body": "I have dogs with food allergies. They had the same problems for a while, though not so severe. One thing we did was switch their food to a grain free blend. Most dog foods have a lot of corn or wheat and those are two really common allergies with dogs.\n\nTaste of the Wild is the brand I use, and my dogs problems cleared up within a couple weeks. www.DogFoodAnalysis.com is a site that can help you find other brands that are grain free and might be easier for you to find.",
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Are things getting a little silly with "exotic" teas and tea accessories and what not? | Background: I drink simple black tea, bitter, any temperature. I drink a LOT of it.
I'm confused. I see a lot of posts in r/tea that seem to focus on peoples' fascination with special equipment to brew tea and the preciseness of how to brew it and the special types of teas one should drink, etc. I'm 46 (it's my lawn, you know what to do). I grew up drinking tea. Iced tea, hot tea, room temperature tea, you name it. I've had loose tea, bagged tea, even whole leaf tea. I've had it brewed in teapots, gold filter vessels, cups, saucepans, microwaves, and instant hot water dispensers right into a plastic cup.
I have a pretty discerning palette and nose. I've never seen any one device that makes tea magically turn into some better form of tea over any other device's outcome. There may be certain functional benefits to one method over another, but flavor wise, I've never in 46 years seen one thing that directly affects the flavor of a tea leaf in water (other than some particular metals used for teapots, obviously).
The same goes for loose tea versus bagged tea. Any brand of tea tastes the same whether loose or bagged. Now, some brands of tea have certain properties that make them better than others IMHO; Tetley seems to always brew up cloudy, for example. But I've never seen anything that proves loose is better than bagged or vice versa, with regard to flavor. Now in terms of functionality and ease of use, I can see one being more of a pain in the ass than the other, but nothing that'll alter the flavor.
Does anyone have anything definitive that would change my mind?
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"body": "It is all opinion, when it comes down to it. \n \nIn the end, it is *your* tea. Drink it however *you* like it best. ",
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"body": "1) Loose tea is cheaper.\nAs long as you buy it from the right place, that is. If you're really into simple black tea, I suggest checking out an Assam from someplace like Adagio.com or SpecialTeas.com. Once you work in the fact that you can get 3-4 really good steeps from a loose-leaf black tea, whereas you can only get one really gooder from a cheap bag, it's actually much cheaper to buy loose leaf.\n\n2) Like what you drink, drink what you like.\nIf you really like your morning cuppa, don't change it. Why would you. It makes you happy, screw everybody else who looks down on you for it.\n\nI could go on for hours and hours about the finer side of teas: how certain types of clay pots accent qualities of certain types of tea, how tea from the grocery store probably isn't going to be top-notch no matter what because the biggest factor in really good tea is that it's very, very fresh, and so on. But why bother? If you're happy and don't feel the pull to explore, stick with what you know.",
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"body": "It's called ceremony. Throw a tea bag in a mug with some warm water and you have tea. Congratulations. Now sit cross legged on a soft, purple crushed velvet pillow while a nubile Asian women dressed in a kimono slowly pours tea brewed with the spring water from an ancient fountain into a carved jade mug from a ceramic tea pot that is 4000 years old then hands you the mug with both hands while deeply bowing. It's still just tea, but in your mind it probably tastes a lot better.",
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"body": "I was all with you until loose vs bagged. I used to really dislike tea, as most Americans do, but I began working at my Aunt and Uncle's teabar and I can tell you the reason I disliked it is because of the quality of teabags. The difference in a typical Lipton blend and our China Breakfast is years apart. \n\nI'm not the only one who believes this, I've had plenty of people just checking in, hate tea.. try some of our samples and then they come out with a new found respect for tea. \n\nI mean honestly if you can't smell the difference between a very good loose leaf tea and then a typical terrible teabag then I really have to question your \"palette\" especially when you posted before you brew tea however and don't bother caring about water temp (which I'll admit isn't as critical in black as it is greens and whites..). We actually use that as way to sell tea.. show a jar full of lipton teabags ripped out and then show a jar of our black tea and everybody notices the difference. ",
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"body": "Not sure how refined your palate really is. It's like saying boxed wine tastes the same as a bordeaux from France. Lately I have been on a Matcha kick, tried some of the best tea I have ever tasted. The difference between Matcha and bagged tea (as well as loose vs bagged) is PHENOMENAL. Bagged tea is the absolute bottom of the barrel parts of the leaf, called the \"fannings.\" Though I applaud anyone who picks up a cup of that stuff and enjoys it, but if you want flavor, go with loose. You have to go from bagged to loose in one tasting and then you'll go \"wow!\" Albeit, some loose leaf can be bad, but I have never had a loose leaf that was worse than a bagged tea (unless the stuff in the bag was actual loose leaf :)). I'm not trying to be rude or anything like that, but it's crazy that you can't tell the difference! \n-Pat\nhttp://teacast.net",
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Frankfurt (maybe Munich?) in March. Tips on where to stay, how to get around, etc. would be appreciated! | The title says it all. Not sure which would be the better place to go. Munich is slightly more expensive but it's still an option, so if there's better reason to go there, let me know.
I'm looking for pretty cheap places to stay, otherwise maybe couchsurfing for 2. More specifically we're planning to be there on March 14th, and leave around the 21st or so. Might be cut short, but if there's anything interesting going on during that time, that could change things.
Thanks in advance for any help :).
EDIT: I checked prices for Berlin, and flights there are about the same as the other places... So any advice on stuff there is appreciated, too.
PS also I do know a little German... But it's not so great... | 6 | [
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"body": "Are you there on business or pleasure? If pleasure, you should skip Frankfurt entirely. Not that it does not have its charms, just that it is not a tourist city and has little in the way of the museums etc.\n\nIf you have time to visit only one city in Germany, I would recommend Berlin. Unparalleled culture, fantastic restaurants, very inexpensive (compared to Munich and Frankfurt, at least). You can get there in about 3-4 hours from Frankfurt with the ICE train directly from the Frankfurt airport.\n\nI'll be happy to answer any other questions you have.",
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I took a picture of a jellyfish. I think it came out really well. | [http://ryansphoto.tumblr.com/post/329888952/yellyfish](http://ryansphoto.tumblr.com/post/329888952/yellyfish)
I just discovered tumblr recently, so if anything is messy, it would be great if you'd like me know too. | 27 | [
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"body": "Very cool shot. Jellyfish rock in general. You should check out the itookapicture reddit. Lots of cool pictures that people have taken, and you can talk about/get feedback on the technical aspects of your photos.",
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Bullshit: Women are less sexual/don't like sex as much as men. | Every few weeks one of two links gets posted to reddit: Either the ["We the Robots" comic](http://www.wetherobots.com/2008/01/07/youve-been-misinformed/) or the "OMG What if girls were horny like dudes" [video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL61JreooRk). The most recent discussion, [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ao4c9/are_women_as_horny_as_men_nsfw/) is one long string of self-perpetuating drivel about how women just can't possibly like sex as much as men. This, I think, is bullshit.
There are a couple of reasons that men have difficulty getting laid, but the standout is the enormous social cost to women. In the WTR comic, the girl refuses to go have sex with her friend in the bathroom. Think about what would happen to the girl's reputation if she were to have sex with her friend in that bathroom: she'd be considered a slut, easy, trashy, etc. Him? Probably getting fist-bumps from his bros. The amount of punishment women are subjected to for sexual activity is absolutely phenomenal and comes from both genders.
Reddit often says that no, we men really LOVE it when women are as sexual as men are. This is not the case: check out most of the comments on [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/ad3om/2_years_ago_i_slept_with_over_50_men_and_my/) which talk about how horrible the girl is, how she's a walking infested swamp of disease and "damaged goods"-- despite her comments that she's been very careful and fully tested clean. But no, she must at least be "emotionally" unstable. Why? Some people can have sex with no strings attached.
Secondly, I agree that there are big differences in the way men and women process sexuality. A lot of women are more turned on by words than images; a lot of women feel more comfortable with foreplay than just rushing straight to the deed. But this is certainly not the case for all women, and we really have to take into consideration how much social training impacts these aspects of sexuality. For absolutely centuries women have been trained to be passive recipients rather than active participants in sex, and there is no way we can overturn this old miserable tradition in just the few short years since women started taking sexual initiative.
Even in scientific studies that test what turns people on, the way that the people involved have been interacting with society for the past 20-odd years is going to influence their results. Up until a very few years ago, women were admonished to keep their legs closed, not be "cheap" and to avoid! sex. Mothers *actually taught* their children that masturbation was evil, that sex was for procreation only. Obviously masturbation is great for both sexes but for a girl it means pleasure without the possibility of pregnancy. If every time you have sex you have the spectre of pregnancy hanging over your head, hell NO you are not going to want it. I don't think that fear has eked it's way out of the system yet; at least another generation of women will pass before the idea of sex-for-procreation really gets dead and buried.
Then there's how this portrays men-- as little more than a penis with a vestigial brain, like I said in the last thread. Men have standards, despite WTR, and plenty of men turn down girls who offer to sleep with them. We probably all know women who have been rejected for one reason or another.
Lastly, some of the aspects of that video are simply not accurate. I'm not the only woman on reddit who has awakened their husband for sexytime or just by masturbating loudly. And really, what does the video's author think happens at male strip clubs? The ladies sit there and titter? | 27 | [
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"body": "In these conversations, I also see a strong assumption that there's only one way to be horny, and that is the way that many men experience horniness. Strongly wanting sex does not necessarily imply a drop in selectivity. I can be really hungry and yet still want to wait to eat until there's something I like, in other words. There's this assumption that in order for women to be as horny as men, women have to act like men in their pursuit of sexual activity, which is just defining sexual desire in terms of a common male experience and not a sound argument.",
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"body": "Ok I decided I was going to post something serious about this.\n\nIf both sexes define horniness differently, than It's obviously impossible to compare the sexes' relative general horniness. And if you try, you will only end up with with a conclusion that's biased ad discriminates the other sex. You can try to argue which definition is the right one, but you'll always conclude that your definition is the right one; and you will be forced to do this, since you experience your horniness as always coming naturally and logically.\n\nBut for the fun of it, let's try to define horniness.\n\nIMO being horny means being willing to do it despite not having \"enough\" time or the best possible place/\"equipment*\" (*bed etc.). I believe this, because horniness overrides your brain natural logic and critical thinking. And that's not to say that decisions made while horny are bad - I think it's great to be freed from the restraints of logic every now and again.\n\n\nThat being said, I think women (in my experience), don't let down their \"guard\" so much as men do, while horny. Or maybe they're just don't get as horny, and thus don't \"stoop\" to that level as easily.\n",
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"body": "Even when I have been in a relationship, I have always been the one more often initiating sex or masturbation or whatever. While I understand that women can and do enjoy sex as much as men do, possibly even more, it does seem to me (anecdotally, I'm no sexologist) that almost across the board men crave sex more than women do.",
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"body": "It's also disgusting the double standard of \"Ladies' man\" versus \"Slut\" regarding people who have many sexual partners.",
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"body": "> talk about how horrible the girl is, how she's a walking infested swamp of disease and \"damaged goods\"\n\n...\n\n> this portrays men-- as little more than a penis with a vestigial brain\n\n...that infests, diseases, and damages any woman it touches. Unfortunately, coming to terms with what humans have been doing includes discovering a predator-prey pattern in male-female sexual behaviour. So we all learn a certain disgust for male sexuality. A man who rejects this finds it expressed everywhere else, especially in a woman's rejection of his sexual advances. These rejections, specifically the man-hate perceived in them, ground a growing resentment, self-pity, and sense of entitlement -- justifying, even in those previously innocent, a disrespectful attitude towards women. It's a very effective system. Which part of it can you break?\n\nAlso... I'm no connoisseur of strip clubs, but don't professional strippers (male and female) put more effort into appearing young (e.g. shaven), healthy, and (above all) enthusiastic?",
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Hey /r/Music, I'm not sure where to submit this, but if anyone out there wants to help me make a party-song playlist, that would be awesome. | Right now I have a fair bit of Hip Hop dance music, and what I'm kind of looking for right now are dance songs.
I have a bit of Lady Gaga/Basshunter/Cascada lined up so far, but if anyone wants to recommend me anything similar that would be awesome :)
(If this is not the right place to post a thread like this just so) | 7 | [
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"body": "spank rock, css, lcd soundsystem, and spank rock again.\nedit*\nif you feel like getting a bit geeky...\n[Freaks Come Out At Night](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLYC7ltxOrk)\n\n[Herbie Hancock - Rockit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0Pi4wC8Hk)\n\n[Sly and The Family Stone - Loose Booty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZcAl1sn2s)",
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"body": "Though I wasn't looking for a specific genre I was in a similar situation where I eventually found a torrent of Reddit's favourite songs from 2009 and some big songs off the billboard chart (separate torrents) and filtered it down to a 6 hour playlist.\n\nOne thing I would warn against if you're just going to have an ipod or mp3 play connected to a stereo and you've put the time into putting together a playlist for this event, take measures to ward off ipod pirates, these are simply the 'ouchebags at parties who come along and unplug whatever's plugged in and playing to play their own music, if possible, I'd suggest electrifying a small barbed wire cage and putting your ipod in there.",
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"body": "Bassnectar, STS9, Daft Punk, and some Justice.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBugKse-BEg\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfw65D0CJwk&feature=related\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xgbeHsJXI\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfDQg2dF8uw&feature=related\n\n",
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Let's talk Sides. Post your best accompaniment. | I'll start with one I whipped up tonight:
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2 tomatoes, chopped
1 clove garlic, sliced.
1 small head broccoli, chopped.
a pinch dried oregano
1/4 cup dry white wine
olive oil
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Pour a glug of olive oil into a pan on medium-high heat.
Add garlic and let sizzle for a minute
Add tomatoes, stir, and let sizzle for a few minutes.
Add broccoli and stir it up.
After another minute or two (and a couple of stirs), add the wine, oregano. Salt and pepper to taste. Drop heat to a simmer.
Simmer until broccoli is to your preferred bite.
Serve with whatever you'd like. I set mine against roast chicken and blue-cheese mashed potatoes. | 4 | [
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"body": "Steamed broccoli and carrots. Instructions:\n\n1. Put broccoli and carrots in steamer\n2. Steam\n3. Serve OM NOM NOM",
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Does anyone know any good books about changing habits or developing personal discipline | I have read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Getting Things Done. I was looking more for something that discusses "Here is how bad habits form, and these are the steps you need to take to develop better habits." Basically I know what my goals are and I know how to accomplish them, except I waste a lot of time not doing them.
Thanks | 6 | [
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"body": "I'm going to recommend **The Happiness Hypothesis** by Jonathan Haidt. It's not directed towards improving your willpower, nor to helping you recognize triggers etc. However, it does give a good explanation of why we tend to slack off, and why our willpower sucks so much. There aren't any positive steps laid out from that though. Good luck.",
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How will you die? (or Predict-A-Death™ 1.1) | Simple: based on what you already know about your own life, predict your own death. Do you take part in risky activities or extreme sports? Perhaps you'll have a jetski accident. Do you play it safe? History of heart attacks in the family? Smoker?
Not really looking to get deep here, this is just for fun. | 10 | [
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"body": "The best possible way to die:\n\nOn the day that the man from the Guinness Book of World Records comes to visit me, confirming that I am the oldest living human being, I have coincidentally just won first place in a 10-mile charity race which was raising funds to distribute an anti-aging serum to the very few impoverished folks who have yet to enjoy its rejuvenating properties.\n\nAs I celebrate my victory by making sweet love to my three brilliant and beautiful girlfriends, in my strong and youthful body (thanks to the wonders of modern medicine)- I am suddenly struck by a rare side-effect of the rejuvenation dietary supplements. The side-effect, aptly named \"prolonged hyperorgasmic seizure\" leaves its victims in a state of prolonged sexual ecstasy (sometimes lasting for days), before they expire instantly and painlessly.\n\nAs my girlfriends sit by my bed for my last glorious, glorious days, they pass the time by reading my final novel entitled \"I've Said and Done Everything I Needed to Say and Do: A Retrospective on a Fascinating and Extraordinarily Blessed Life.\"\n\nMoments before I breathe my last mortal breath, my long-time friend from the Consciousness Transferal Institute barges in, announcing that he has finally created a device that will capture and preserve the memories and consciousness of a human being for storage in a mechanical (and anatomically correct) body.\n\nThe last thing I hear before my human body dies in a final, fitful orgasm is: \"Don't worry ladies, he'll be fine. Unfortunately, he'll have to spend the next several years trapped inside this Lesbian Pleasure Bot.\"\n",
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"body": "Hmm... based on my lifestyle and my family history: high blood pressure, lung cancer, high cholesterol, diabetes, stroke.\n\nDeath by being American.",
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"body": "I've always been what westerners consider suicidal.\n\nThere's one way i have coped with this in my darkest of times... a promise a made to myself.\n\nI don't believe that suicide is wrong if you go about it the right way.\n\nObviously its a terrible tragedy if someone feels there is no other way to deal with their pain and life than to end it. To take ones own life out of sorrow is despicable. Humans were put here to survive not pussy out.\n\nHowever, if there comes a time when i am an old man, who has lived a full and happy life, i think it should be my right to decide when i want to leave this world. I would gather all my family and friends. Have a huge celebration to celebrate life, my life, and their lives, happiness and duty. say all my good byes, take care of my estate and final will.\n\nAnd then kill myself in the craziest funnest most amazing way i could possibly think of. No pain, No sorrow, just one hell of a last ride.\n\nI ALWAYS PROMISED MYSELF THAT THE ONLY WAY I WOULD EVER EVER KILL MYSELF....\nwould be skydiving from miles above the earth, so high i would need an air mask, straight into the open lava field of an active volcano.\n\nyou would, be vaporized instantly, it'd be hella fun, you'd be remembered for years to come and im pretty sure no one has ever died like that before\n\n",
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"body": "Essential Thrombocythemia. No idea when, I'm all kinds of a case study being the youngest person with this form of cancer, so doctors are always, \"Wait and see but don't do anything stupid.\" I got to be the lab rat for every pill I took, which was fun, I think I might haved saved a few lives through that. I could last until 80s or 90s, I could be dead in 5 years. Me being human I just assume that I'm going to die sooner rather than later but I honestly have no fucking idea. \r\n\r\nI've been on the verge of it becoming Myelofibrosis which again, a 20 year old **should not have** because: \"The disorder usually develops slowly, in people over 50 years old.\" \r\n\r\nI think I broke some kind of record for platlets in the blood stream because my oncologist did not believe me when I told him how many I had when diagnosed. I had to have him call my mom and the Mayo Clinic in Houston. \r\n\r\n\r\nBeen meaning to do an IAMA, I've got a few documents that prove it. I think I'll show them off to an administrator and get the okay that I am who I say I am. ",
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I am starting to get angry at my friend | (This is a throw-away count.) I'd just like to hear some perspectives from my fellow redditors. Advice, if you have it, but opinions and streams of thought would be useful to me as well.
First off, I am a guy who is a little ruthless when I find something/someone I want, and so I try to be very careful about deciding that I want something. This means that when I flirt, I flirt with purpose; I will not start anything with a person if I think it won't ultimately lead anywhere.
Now I have a friend, who is a girl. She has been in a long distance relationship for as long as I've known her (about a year). Right from the outset (from second time we met), I made it clear that I am attracted to her. I started flirting with her. She responded very strongly. First it was body language cues, then she initiated the touching (hugs, accidental brushings, etc), the invitations to hang out, and the invasions of personal space. This was happening as recently as two weeks ago.
We have not gone beyond that. She has 'rejected' me three times - times where I've attempted to push further, and each time I backed off, but each time afterwards she would intensify her flirting to gain my attention again.
I plunged into this 'pursuit' expecting to face a lot of resistance. I liked/like her enough to attempt it anyway. She was giving me a lot of reinforcement, and I felt that if she was flirting with me this much, she did not truly love her current boyfriend anyway and that I had a shot. She also mentioned early on that he was 'kind of a rebound guy,' however you wish to interpret that.
At this point, we a fairly good friends. We communicate, in one way or another, just about every day. It's cliche, but we really do have a lot in common, in terms of life aspirations and personality traits.
However, she has also stopped openly flirting with me. That's fair - ultimately she is loyal and doesn't do anything more than flirting. I half-knew it wasn't going anywhere anyway (though I really do like this girl.)
Now, here's my problem: I'm starting to get angry at her. I find myself getting annoyed when I notice she's about to sit down next to me, but stops, and then moves herself to a different spot (when we're in a group), and I get annoyed that she doesn't sneak peeks anymore as much when she thinks I'm not looking. She doesn't touch me anymore, and to be fair I stopped as well because she said I was starting to cross some lines, but she casually touches other guy friends she is close to.
I know that any relationship born from this situation would most likely result in disaster, owing to the "if she did it to him..." adage, and she knows it too. I understand that, but I can't help but get kind of pissed off anyway. Now that's she's stopped flirting (or is trying to stop herself - I can't tell which at this point), I'm starting to feel kind of used.
I have not told her of my mounting irritation, of course. I'm not really sure that I should.
**Edit:** Yes, I know I was/am being an ass, and I know she's being honorable. Intellectually, I respect her for that - it's the only decision she could've made, and that's one of the reasons I'm attracted to her. But I have been getting angry anyway. I do have a slight chip on my shoulder where I'm afraid to be used.
**Edit:** A secondary clarification. I have not exactly been sure **why** I have been getting annoyed. And it has been irritation when I think about the situation, not fuming anger. These responses have been enlightening. Thank you all for that. | 4 | [
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"body": "What exactly are you angry at? The fact that she is not cheating on her boyfriend? Right now, she is behaving honorably. She is attracted to you and, more importantly, I think she has realized that you are seriously attracted to her, so this is not harmless flirting. Admirably, she is avoiding situations where she might be tempted and avoiding situations where she might lead you on. She is being a loyal girlfriend to her boyfriend of over a year. This is a good thing. Respect that and don't get annoyed with her for being faithful!",
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"body": "So, you're annoyed that this girl who is dating another boy no longer flirts casually with you when you made it *very* clear you wanted to date her?\n\nOf course she's stopping! That is the right thing for her to do. It isn't fair to her boyfriend, it isn't fair to her, and it isn't fair to you to keep on flirting when you've made it clear it isn't flirting for flirting's sake but flirting with intent.\n\nAre you sure you're not just annoyed she's cutting off any chance you have of dating her and that is manifesting as annoyance over the lack of flirting?",
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"body": "You're a dick. You knew she was in a relationship and now you're pissed that she managed to control herself and stop flirting with you? \n\nI'm so sorry your ego was hurt, do you need me to get an icepack for it?",
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"body": "You can't blame her. You need to learn to win and lose sometimes.\n\nIt sounds like you're not even really trying to be a friend to her, it's like you've decided you want to posses her and now that she's turned you down you're angry at her.\n\nMy advice is to do some deep thinking about what real friendship is. \n\nWhen you can learn to be happy for her that she's got a relationship that means a lot to her, then you're ready to be a friend. Until then, you come across like you really only care about yourself.\n\n",
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"body": "She had a little fun and got an ego boost from you. Your anger is just the result of being hurt. What are you going to do, \"FightTillYouDie is ANGRY! Must SMASH EVERYONE!!!\"? I think you should just feel the hurt and tell yourself, \"This is why I shouldn't flirt with a girl that is already in a committed relationship.\"\r\n\r\n*typo",
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"body": "I seem to flirt with most of my friends. We hug. We cuddle. I lean my head on my best friend's shoulder with my arm around them. We make highly teasing comments back and forth. \n\nIt's just how interact with people around me. \n\n>She has 'rejected' me three times - times where I've attempted to push further, and each time I backed off, but each time afterwards she would intensify her flirting to gain my attention again.\n\nI've had friends end up in your situation. Now it usually doesn't get to three times for me. But here's the thing I give them the benefit of the doubt at least once (unless they are uber creepy or things seem tense). I explain I'm not interested. They back off. I figure we can go back to normal. \n\nIf the other person doesn't get the message then I cut all physical interaction with them. I don't sit near them and I do all the things she seems to be doing now. \n\nNot because I was using my friend for validation but because it's clear that my harmless flirting means something more to someone I consider to be my friend and I don't want to lead them on and I don't want to mix them up emotionally. \n\nIt seems to me you are now living with the consequences of not having backed off when you should have (the first time you were rejected). That is your own fault. Not hers. ",
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"body": "You sound like an assassin or something. Love and romance is not an A,B,C guide you can just master. If you want to use techniques and plays to win girls then you're going to wind up having one night stands. \n\nPeople make mistakes, maybe she was considering it but if you don't respect her and keep hammering at the door trying to get her to be yours, well you're just going to wind up losing a friend. \n\nIf she wants to be with you, she will. ",
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"body": "Familiar with the five stages of grieving?\n\nDenial: She must have stopped flirting with me because she's so totally attracted to me and is just getting ready to break things off with her boyfriend.\n\nBargaining: Maybe if I just keep giving her opportunities she'll start flirting with me again, and then she'll dump him to date me.\n\nAnger: That bitch! How dare she lead me on! (insert the rest of your post here)\n\nDepression: God, that sucks, she's not flirting with me any more. I guess I don't have a chance after all. Woe is me.\n\nAcceptance: Well, you win some and you lose some. Hey, who is this other cute girl flirting with me?\n\nThis is the process people seem to go through when getting over any romantic involvement, from an unreciprocated crush (you) to death or abandonment of/by a loved one. Fortunately, you'll go through it rather quickly.\n\nAs said elsewhere, if you don't want this to happen again don't pursue people in relationships. If they're really that interested they don't need your encouragement to pursue you, and then you get the bonus of not being a homewrecker.",
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"body": "she's just being mature. take it as a compliment that she was clearly attracted to you and move on. find someone new, and if she ever breaks up with her bf, then re-evaluate the situation. but you really need to move on.",
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What would be the best way to transfer a 4.76 GB file to someone over the internet? | I'm trying to figure out a good way to send my friend a MASSIVE single file. Anyone know of an uploading site that would handle something this large, or a program that can break it into several smaller ones?
EDIT: Someone on anybodyoutthere.com found me a site that can do files of any size http://host02.pipebytes.com/ | 23 | [
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"body": "[HFS](http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/) is a 600 Kb HTTP file server that is a single executable, no installation required, and it works straight out of the box. Simply share a folder in it and send your IP address to your friend, who will be able to access that folder. \r\n\r\nSince the file is so large, I would suggest that you use Winrar to split it into smaller chunks, and your friend would also benefit from using a download manager that supports resume.",
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"body": "You don't want to send anything that big as single file over http. If it gets corrupted during the transfer, you'd have to resend the entire file.\n\nIf you can keep your computer constantly on, you could torrent the file. Use embedded tracker and email the torrent file to your friend if you want to keep it private. Torrents have error checking so you don't have to worry about data getting corrupted.\n\nOr if not, you can split the file (rar, zip or even something like hjsplit if you want to keep it really simple) and then upload the individual files pretty much anywhere you want. If a single split part gets corrupted, you'd only have to reupload that part.\n\n",
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"body": "HTTP - HFS - http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/\n\nFTP - FileZilla http://filezilla-project.org/\n\nBuy a USB stick or SD Card and mail it\n\nhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=send+large+files\n\nZip it into multiple segments to make it easier to handle. \n\n",
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In a "what-the-@#!% were you thinking?!?!" moment, the owner of my preschool hung a "We are all God's children" banner in the middle of the main hallway. | I work for a state-funded preschool in Missouri. In two days, state accreditation is going to visit and evaluate our school. Umm... state funded schools can't do that, lady. | 32 | [
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"body": "print this out for her:\n\nhttp://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/fedprog/earlychild/MPP/Religious_Affiliation_Info.pdf",
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"body": "When I was little and going to church, they used to tell me \"We are all God's children.\" Separately, they would tell me that Jesus was the son of God. I didn't understand how that made Jesus special, because we are all God's children. I think that was probably the first time I started realizing things the church said didn't necessarily make sense.",
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"body": "Yeah - that is pretty dumb. (Actually I was about to reply that there is nothing to stop a private preschool doing such a thing, but then I saw the comment. I didn't even know there were State Preschools!)",
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[Request] Send me some good philosophy books that reddit recommends. | I'm currently in university studying engineering but I'm an avid reader of Hawkings, Hitchens, Dawkins(Just finished his new one) and some novels too.
I'd love to get into philosophy and really don't know where to start. Even if you could recommend some authors to get me started let alone send me any tattered, old books you have.
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"body": "**Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance**. I would lend my copy to you but I've read it so many times it's falling apart. It's by Robert M Pirsig and is a really great story of his travels with his son juxtaposed with some really striking philosophical inquiry.",
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"body": "Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Its a philosophy of capatalism but with morals. (Don't listen to anyone who says that she promotes evil coporatism - her philosophy is the exact opposite of that.)\r\n\r\nIts one of the longest books ever written (its a novel); but I found it a very entertaining read. \r\nIf it sounds like your thing and you promise to read it send me your address and I'll buy you a copy on Amazon. ",
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Am I gay or straight? | I'll try to keep this simple/short:
*I'm attracted to females, but I'd rather eat raw sewage from a dumpster than eat a pussy out.
*I am not attracted to males, unless they could be mistaken for a woman, but penis is an ultimate turn on.
I could add more to this, but I just want to know if anyone else has the same attractions. I'm guessing not, since the attraction to the male organ probably came about because when I was like 6 or 7. I sucked this one boy's dick. Fucked up, but I was a child, how was I suppose to know better. That was my only sexual encounter until a few years ago I had sex with a woman, and I was absolutely disgusted by her vagina and I had to leave the next day.
I typically identify as straight, since they have 90% of what I want, while males have 10%.
I figured this would be the best place to ask a strange question like this without being called a freak..
EDIT: I'm male
EDIT2: Thanks all for the feedback, just wanted some second opinions. I think I'll stick with women. | 34 | [
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"body": "Stop submitting to these labels society insists on placing on everyone. Be what you are and stop trying to submit to someone else's idea of what that is supposed to be.",
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"body": "\"Am I gay or straight?\"\n\nAnswer: No, you are not. You are a person. A unique person. Labels like \"Gay\" and \"Straight\" may be useful, or they may not. If they aren't useful, then ignore the labels -- there is nothing requiring you to use them.",
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"body": "There may not be a hard and fast label for you, and all that means is that you are unique. \n\nAll I can really offer is that there are probably some trans folks who would love to meet you.",
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"body": "I think going down on a woman is a very personal thing, not something most people truly enjoy until they're in loving relationship. It's not exactly a one night stand type of deal.\n\nThat said, sexual activity at 6 or 7 can severely impact your preferences. It makes a difference depending on how old the other boy was, but this could be considered sexual abuse.\n\nThis might be something to talk to a therapist about. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with you, the world is big enough for all of us. I hope you find the answers you're looking for.",
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"body": "Regardless of who or what you are attracted to, your level of disgust is noteworthy. Perhaps this is not a sexual question at all. It strikes me as being more about how you feel about yourself in relation to other people whatever their gender. I have no solution to offer, except that perhaps you are looking at the wrong 'problem'.",
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"body": "I'm going to say that you are gay because I used to feel the same way sexually. I've only ever had crushes on girls and I'd only want to have sex with boys, but not ever date one. I wasn't openly bisexual even though that's what I classified myself as. But then I realized that it's not bisexual if you only want to have sex with one gender. I feel like it was just extreme denial and some issues with sex because I grew up catholic. After I came out, it was really weird to start dating guys, again, probably because of the many years of sexual denial, but I eventually got used to it. \n\nI don't know if any of this is helpful, but hopefully it is.",
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"body": "Give your orientation any name you want. It is more important to figure out what you actually desire.\r\n\r\nIt sounds like you are visually attracted to women but prefer male plumbing. And you know what, that's OK. You can find people that look like women and have dicks.\r\n\r\nI now label myself as bisexual, but I had trouble accepting that classification for a long time. If you are attracted to 2 men and 20 women, does that make you bisexual? Situationally homosexual? Open-minded? I see a handsome guy and feel nothing, and think \"I'm straight,\" but then I meet a guy I find devastatingly attractive and think, \"ok, now I'm gay, but all that attraction I had towards women still exits, so what the fuck is going on?\"\r\n\r\nIn the end I realized I'm picky and very specific, and you may be too. It's hard when you want to KNOW what you are, but trust me on this: figure out what you enjoy doing first, and then worry about name-calling.",
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"body": "Labels fucking suck. Be what you want. I have a friend who is an crossdressing utter cockslut, but wants to have a girlfriend because \"they offer emotionally things that a guy just cant\".\n\nI was like, whatever dude, but to each his own. I suppose you can find a woman that likes it in the ass rather than the pussy, and who'll where a strapon for you to suck? ",
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"body": "How is it not obvious that you're bi?\n\nYou are attracted to males if you are attracted to penis. You just don't seem interested in the rest of them. Is a straight man only interested in females' vaginas and not the rest of them not attracted to women?\n\nMale or female, we're all attracted and disinterested in different aspects of our targets. That doesn't complicate anything, but is a perfectly natural reality.",
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Is reddit autobanning all new Apple subreddits in preparation for the upcoming CultOfMac merger? | I created the subreddit called r/applehelp a couple of weeks ago as a place where experts could admin and beginners could ask questions. It was banned almost immediately and there's been no reply to my email as to why.
Tonight I created a subreddit called r/apple2 as a fallback if the merger with CultOfMac negatively impacts my experience. This new subreddit worked for sixty seconds until it was also banned. I sent another email, perhaps this one will be answered.
I'm a long time redditor with great karma, daily reader and contributor to r/apple, and a Mac OS X (and Unix) expert. Given my history, how is it reasonable that I am instantly banned and ignored?
Am I being paranoid or
* is it typical for a new subreddit to be instantly banned?
* is it typical for emails regarding banning to be ignored?
* are they really autobanning new apple subreddits?
For those who know reddit, to whom can I escalate this issue to get my subreddits restored? | 32 | [
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"body": "New subreddits are often autobanned. All of these mentioned were autobanned by our spam filter, and have now unbanned. \n\nAnyone who has a banned subreddit, please send me a message, and I'll fix. Sorry to all of you who got ignored previously if you sent in feedback mail. Not intentional, but not acceptable either. PM me if you have any problems.",
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"body": "I submitted another message on 11 Jan 2010 at 21:09:\n\n> My two new subreddits:\n\n>r/applehelp\n\n>r/apple2\n\n>Have both been banned immediately after creation. There has been no spam to these subreddits as they are brand new. Further, I am a long-time redditor with excellent karma, I have expertise in Mac OS X, and I have a history of posting in r/apple.\n\n>I would be most grateful if you would unban these subreddits or at least contact me for discussion.\n\n>Thank you.\n\nHopefully, I'll hear something back this time.",
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"body": "Really? *Cult of Mac*? Isn’t Reddit a Condé Nast property now? I’d have hoped we could do a little better—maybe the *New Yorker* or *Vanity Fair*. *Vogue* would be pushing it.\n\nTo answer your question: it’s not just you, and it’s not just Apple. Almost all new subreddits are banned immediately. There’s probably nobody you can take it to who gives a crap, but it can’t hurt to try the [feedback](http://www.reddit.com/feedback/) link.",
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"body": "Can we make a reddit about Apples, the delicious fruit? make it about apples on the surface, but just submit what we want into it?",
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How To Kick Caffeine | I have one vice in life and it's diet coke, I drink between 8-12 cans a day. I'm going to quit but I know the withdrawl will suck.
Anyone with suggestions, the common internet theme seems to be gradual vs. cold turkey. I'm not sure which road to travel. | 17 | [
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"body": "Simple: just stop.\n\nThe withdrawal is nowhere near as bad as you think it is. Quit being a little baby, this is not heroin.",
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"body": "I had the same habit, as I grew up drinking diet coke from an early age. The only way I was able to kick it was cold turkey. Here are a few tips from the rough period:\n\n1) It's waaaay easier if you replace it with another carbonated beverage, as carbonation makes you *feel* full. I'd suggest getting sparkling water as a surrogate. Juices and other such beverages may be better for you, but they can't satisfy the need for bubbliness.\n\n2) If you are quitting caffeine entirely, I'd suggest taking a little break from work/school. If you can't, then you should stop around mid-week (wednesday or thursday) because the third day is usually when the irritability begins. Try to avoid prolonged contact with others because you won't be able to help but be a total asshole.\n\n3) Remove all cokes from your house/workplace/school. Avoid people who tend to drink them. There is nothing like the pain of withdrawal crankiness combined with watching somebody enjoying a coke.\n\n4) When you start to fee like you can't lift a finger from tiredness, go do something active. The pain of aerobic activity will make you forget your withdrawals, and you'll actually get an amazing energy boost.\n\n\nOverall, the hard part is only about a week. After that, you'll be perfect, and the cravings won't be as bad.\n\n\nPersonally, I went cold turkey for about a year and started drinking coffee. Now, I do an on/off schedule. I will drink caffeine normally for about 2 months then quit for two weeks. That way my tolerance stays low, and I get the added benefit of a caffeine boost rather than addiction.",
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"body": "(one of) My new years resolution(s) was to give up drinking pop. I was at between 6-8 cans a day of Coke. Here's how it went (I kept a log to keep my sanity):\n\nDay 1:\nNothing too bad, a small headache before bed, but that could be attributed to some other activities most likely\n\nDay 2: \nWoke up feeling okay. By about two or three in the afternoon, I had a major headache. I went to take some medicine, but found that it had caffeine in it, so I took some generic ibuprofin. This helped a little bit. Rest of the day I just chugged water like nobodies business. That seemed to be the only thing that helped\n\nDay 3:\nSame as day 2, but constantly going bathroom. Throw in a nap or two, and call it a day. Nothing gets done.\n\nDay 4:\nWoke up with a headache, but not nearly as bad as before. About midway through the day the headache becomes barely noticeable. It comes back later on, but thats no big deal.\n\nDay 5 (aka the worst day):\nWoke up, terribly headache. Feels like a got my ass kicked by both a fifth of tequila and Mike Tyson. no amount of ibuprofin helps. Later on in the day, the dry heaving starts, and the dizziness kicks in. I go to bed extra early because otherwise I feel like passing out\n\nDay 6:\nLike day 5, but a lower headache with a lot less dry heaving. Either because of the early bed time or the withdrawal, the insomnia kicks in.\n\nDay 7:\nDry heaving stops. Spends most of the day sleeping, up all night. Medium headache, other than that not bad.\n\nDay 8 til now:\nHeadache got less and less every day, to where it is non existent now. \n\nMoral of story:\nIt was rough, i would hate to do it again, however it is definitely worth it. The only thing I really have now is the urge to drink pop. Whenever I got to get a drink, I always contemplate whether or not I should drink one, and i envision the taste of it. Yesterday, my sister was drinking a pop and I had a sip, and i absolutely could not stand the taste. Since then, the thought hasn't even crossed my mind to open one. Once you get past the first week, everything is smooth sailing.\n\nEdit: You'll also want to murder people, and will generally be extremely cranky/generally unpleasant. I forewarned people I was going to be in contact with just so they didn't think it was anything they did.",
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"body": "I use to drink about half that amount of diet coke on an average day. I decided to quit cold turkey on New Years. It's been a real bitch but after the first couple of days, the withdrawals and wanting to murder someone goes away. Try swapping out diet coke with tea or drip coffee even. \n\nEleven days strong here! You can do it!!!",
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"body": "Don't they have caffeine-free cola? Or do you want to eliminate coke as well?\n\nedit: Maybe you could slowly sub in the caffeine-free stuff for the regular coke?",
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"body": "I have had to quit several times because I volunteer as a healthy subject for drug studies and caffeine is not allowed for 3 days prior to entry. I have had to quit cold turkey and I know it can cause a massive headache that will knock you into a mental fog for day. \n\nHowever what I found that works better is to totally quit, then, when you start to feel your first headache coming on, after a day or so without, take a small dose of caffeine, such as one can of caffeinated pop or a strong cup of decaff coffee. This one or perhaps two doses will allow you to wean yourself off successfully without the intense headache. Feel free to drink decaf pop as a replacement.",
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Japanese electronic dictionary recommendations? | Hey everyone, I am currently looking into getting a Japanese electronic dictionary. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations because I not quite sure which one to get. I'm looking for a very thorough and detailed dictionary to help me with my studies. A cheap one would be good, but I wouldn't mind spending a pretty penny on it. | 5 | [
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"body": "I've been using an iPod touch for the past few years, and it's been working out superbly. There is a free app called kotoba which acts as a great dictionary (includes example sentences, kanji stroke order, etc.) You can also enable kanji input by using the chinese character keyboard, allowing you to search for kanji. Overall, this has worked better than any dedicated electronic dictionary that I've come across so far. Hope this helps!",
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"body": "Honestly, I have been in Japan for about three months and have tried most of the dictionaries available for iPhone, the best one BY FAR is from codefromtokyo, it runs the gamut on pretty much every function you need, it's pretty and allows you to save word lists and does stroke order for kanji as well as letting you up Kanji by radical and so on. It's twenty dollars but it's worth every cent. ",
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"body": "i have a casio ex-word and an iphone with kotoba. kotoba is just a shiny interface for jim breen's dictionary, and you can use the built in hand writing recognition for kanji you don't know. On the other hand, the built in hand writing on the iphone is a lot less forgiving than that on the electronic dictionary, and its pretty sweet to have access to other dictionaries when edict just doesn't do it for you. tl;dr: iphone/pod is great on the go, the electronic dictionary is better for intense studying. ",
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"body": "Another cheap alternative is one of the kanji software for the DS, if you have one. I use Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten.\n\nI still think anything available for DS or iPhone is way behind a real dedicated dictionary (a typical Wordtank includes more than a dozen famous Japanese, English and Kanji dicts!), but there are much more expensive. ",
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I just finished reading "The Feminine Mystique". I and shocked, horrified, and dumbfounded. | I am 28. I guess I take it for granted that I, as a woman, am considered a whole human being with every right to fulfill my potential as a man. I had no idea how BAD it was - or rather I had a simpleminded idea that didn't take into account the actuality of living to the housewife expectations. But I think I am most shaken by the notion that I just read, in essence, about what eventually killed my mother.
My mother killed herself in 2006. She was raised within the mystique to a pathological extent. When she was a young teenager my grandmother would starve her and her sisters because we run big in our family, and "a lady never weighs over 110". She cut their hair, forced them to dye it blonde. She repeatedly told them that their job was to be a "jewel on a man's arm", and that was all they could ever hope to be. And so they are. My aunt is married to a wealthy man and dabbles in art, my other aunt is an escort, and my mother went through four marriages before she eventually killed herself.
My mother was a brilliant woman. She was a talented artist, a voracious reader, but because of the way she was raised she never took herself seriously. When my brother and I were very young, she started nursing school. But one day, my then four or five year old older brother told her "I need a mommy, not a nurse". She quit that day. And It seems to me she also quit having any plans for herself, her life, other than wife and mother, and whatever affairs she could wrangle up on the side (which were a lot). Just as it said in the mystique, sex had become her function, her job, the only thing she was good at. My escort aunt took it to an extreme. My mother just let it slowly eat her.
She wrote a couple of books that could have been published had she been willing to do the editing required. She got a BA in art and could have gotten a Masters and become a teacher, but she just didn't want to make a commitment. She turned her attention to attracting the attention, at 56 or so, of a ..let's call him a minor celebrity. My mother did eventually seduce and befriend this minor celebrity. He dabbled with her, and then went on to marry a woman in her young thirties whom he could have children with. She obsessed about him for a couple of years and when she finally realized it was never to happen, and (I think) that she was going to get older and lose her looks, she shot herself. I know that isn't the whole reason but it is a lot of it. Her function was gone. Her self imposed reason for living was being taken away by the years and I guess she couldn't stand it.
The worst part is even though she had a man in her life who did (and still does) love her without limit, but he was overweight, and only a waiter, and threfore" wasn't good enough" for him. She had to live trhough a successful man. Every man she had married was a "successful" man who hadn't loved her back. But this fat waiter loved her, the very heart of her, and she turned him away in favor of some "status" man she could never have - who would fulfill her own need for a self. It enrages and saddens me - on top of the sadness of having lost my mother I slowly start to realize I never had her in the first place - this cultural idea took her from me way before I was born.
I even see these ideas in active in my own life and self-regard. I see how guilty I feel for not "using" my beauty, not starving myself, not "being all I can be". I see the ways in which everything I did was subtly to attract a man. I finally did, and I realized that I had nothing much inside but dreams. No real opinions, no real stances - just a vague notion of whatever interested me, whatever might best please who I was around. I'm working through that trying to find more of myself, as it were, but before I read this book it never occurred to me that what I was suffering was a cultural symptom, handed down, and that it contributed to my mom's death a lack of life. I think I have been, all my life, subconsciously accepting that as soon as I married and had children my life would be essentially over, and living in dread of, but having no real choice but than, follow my mother's morbid footsteps into the dark. It wasn't until I read this book till I realized how I grew up and what I have been denying myself, and why my mother died, and I have to stop now because frankly I'm going numb and I feel like I'm going to vomit. Thank you for listening.
**edit** : Thanks everyone for your replies. | 48 | [
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"body": "What a powerful testament to why feminism is necessary to this day. Established social norms have a way of eating at people on the inside, psychologically; so sorry to hear what effect this had on your Mom. There's some psychological corrosiveness awaiting those of us on the \"consuming\" end of these behavioral expectations too, but I'm not sure it's as weighty as what women have been subjected to over the years.",
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"body": "Thank you for posting this. I somehow have never gotten around to reading the Feminine Mystique but your story inspires me to move it to the top of my book list. I'm sorry about your mother. ",
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"body": "It must have been very difficult to read that book, you showed strength to keep going.\n\nI'm very sorry for your mum. Our generation has really almost a duty to ensure other women don't endure such images, such coffins of self regard.\n\nWelcome. We need more of you. ",
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"body": "There's nothing braver than standing in the borderlands of your emotional memory and all you hope to become. Sharing your story is a huge step, and critically thinking about your psychological makeup is essential. For me, it was like waking up to a splash of icy water. My mother taught me how to throw up when I was 4, and my stepdad started making moves on me ten years later. I was repeatedly told how unattractive my opinions were and how marginal my aspirations. Waking up was treacherous, but slowly I changed. I'm not all new and shiny, but I have a dream of what I'll be. I want the same for you--the same for everybody.",
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"body": "There are rumors my great grandmother suffered frequent nervous breakdowns. My grandmother was the first woman valedictorian of her high school in the thirties, she got a job as a secretary out of high school, married and quit her job a year later, was diagnosed with depression, and then given shock treatment for the rest of her life. My aunt married a fundamentalist as a teen, was unhappy, and was given shock treatment. Crazy Aunt Milla, worries static electricity might be the first sign of a spontaneous combustion, like she saw on TV. My mom was was a housewife when we were kids in the 70s, she'd dropped out of school, she was diagnosed with depression. She decided to start school again at 35, where she was working as a secretary. Someone handed her a copy of Betty Friedan, she just retired as vice president of the University. \n\nI feel the same way people do about the holocaust, it's not something we should ever forget--50% of the women of my parent's generation had their minds erased by the patriarchy for discontent with being housewives, and they weren't the only ones. ",
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"body": "Thank you for sharing. That must have been very difficult to write. Friedan is someone I always intend to read but always seems to fall to the wayside for some reason or another. This is another reminder that I should prioritize it.",
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Okay, I met this guy, we texted a bit, now he's threatening to kill himself. What the hell am I supposed to do? | I don't even know this guy. We met a few months ago at a bookstore, once. We've been texting, and at first it was all right but then gradually he started to talk more and more about how he was depressed or how his friends ignore him. Basically, he was looking for an emotional crutch. I also found out he lied about his age (from what he said when I met him) and that he's in high school. I'm in college and at least 4 years older than he is.
I just now told him to stop contacting me. I sent him, "Please stop texting me. You lied about your age, and if you need someone to talk to it should be your high school peers, not me." He totally freaked out. **In the past hour he's sent me over 30 text messages about how he's going to kill himself, that he loves me, that he's very hurt, it's my fault if he dies.** I have no idea what to do. I am afraid that he'll actually do it and then I'll get blamed somehow. I haven't responded to anything or taken his calls.
To absolutely clear, I only met the guy ONCE. I don't know his last name and I don't know where he lives. And he won't stop texting me. I can't block numbers, either.
Edit: I also never flirted with him or led him on in any way. I only attempted to be nice and said things like "I'm sure it will work out" or "yeah, people suck". I don't know where this "I love you" crap is coming from.
Edit 2: He's finally stopped texting me. I think he's just the classic emotional blackmailer. He started out with the "I'm so hurt" and "I love you" texts, moved on to "I'm going to kill myself", then concluded with 10 versions of "well I hope someone makes you as depressed as you've made me!" (more like "i hope u lern how much it hursts 2b ignord somday!!) Thanks for the responses. If he had continued making threats I would have tried to find out his last name or address so I could contact police, but he's obviously not going to do it. Not sure what I'm going to do if he keeps contacting me in the future, guess I'll just keep ignoring him. | 12 | [
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"body": "Call 911 (or 999 if you are in the uk). Explain the situation and give them his number. The police and ambulances can do amazing things. I've had them find someone from the online support group I ran with just a city, isp and ip address to go off of. Keep the text messages where he threatens to kill himself saved on your phone (cover your ass in case when they show up he says you were clearly harassing him). \n\nStart keeping track of him contacting you. Do no respond to him at all unless he tries a new way. If he emails you reply with \"Do not contact me in any way shape or form\". If he shows up and talks to you tell him to leave you alone very clearly. \n\nWhy? Because he sounds very unstable and it is a good idea to cover your ass. \n\nIf he continues to contact you report him to the police. \n\nRemember: If he kills himself it is not your fault. You did not drive him to it. You did not force him into it. Do not let the threat of suicide manipulate you into continuing contact with this person... because he will most likely continue to use it to get his way. ",
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"body": "Report the threat to the police. Because that f'ed up kid can pay an online service to track your address and eventually kill you. \n\nyou are lucky if he has no credit card to pay for the service. ",
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"body": "if you know his name, find out who his parents are and notify them. hes in high school and underage. its not your fault if he does anything, but you have a responsibility to contact his parents. ",
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"body": "He's probably full of crap, but there's a possibility he means it. Either way, calling the authorities is the right answer. If he's for real, he gets the help he needs, and if he's trying to manipulate you, he learns that suicide threats are serious business, and not a way to get attention from a girl. ",
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Dear Reddit: I own a free web host and offer up to 2GB of space. If you don't have money for hosting, this is for you. | I have posted a couple comments around here (See: [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/ajpmt/i_need_to_get_a_free_web_hosting_account_anyone/c0hx7vm)) about my site/service and there seems to be a number of people who find it helpful/useful to them.
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The server currently supports:
* PHP 5.3.1 (I like the keep this up to date)
* MySQL 5.1 (with MySQLi)
* PostgreSQL
* Python
* Perl
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* Ruby on Rails
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As requested by a current member of my site there is an ad-free plan for $5/month if you want it.
I'm a very transparent person so if you're wondering what I get from VlexoFree here it is. I make about $6.40 a month from co.cc referrals, like $2 from Namecheap referrals, and I'm getting next to nothing from the Project Wonderful ads (like $1 a month so far). Donations are (so far) the main source of support I get and that can be done and seen in full from the forums.
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***
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> Can I run a Wordpress blog on the server?
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: Yes.
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* Addition 2: There are 4 steps to getting an account. Dont stop at step 3.
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* Update 1: I'm going to go to sleep. I have to wake up for class in the morning. I'll check back here in the morning.
* Update 2: I'll check back here on and off throughout the day. | 111 | [
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"body": "I looked at the website, FAQ and server specs. Some questions:\n\nthe site is ran by single person?\n\nthe server is a desktop machine with 250gb desktop SATA hard drive?\n\ndo you do backups and how?\n",
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How do I get rid of my eye-bags? | I surf /r/cogsci and my occupation lends itself to a lot of its work. As a result, I focus most of my attention on people's eyes. That part is fine, however, with so much attention to the eyes, when I look at my own eyes, I just see bags. I'm talking [Paul Lieberstein](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPaul_Lieberstein&ei=hgZMS9DgMNiQtgfzkKHODA&usg=AFQjCNEcmedaaegaxFAZixWeASQIWT3eGA&sig2=xsZg3X7of1x38M4c15CV-g) bags here (love the guy, but I hate those bags on me).
Does /r/fashion have any tips beside the cucumber/teabag stories I find off Google? I'm not ruling out concealers, its just as a guy makeup isn't exactly my forte.
EDIT: Sleep and water are my friends, so how much more of them do I seriously need? | 8 | [
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"body": "Not much help but I find bags under the eyes strangely attractive on people. Something about a tired-eyed, pretty girl...",
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"body": "preparation H, althought you're going to want to just do a test dab first. Some people are reactant to it. We used it in film shoots when we were up balls early. Its designed to shrink tissue therefore taking your bags away.",
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Remember those old Text Based Muds? | My friends and I have been working on this GodWards LOW4 Codebase for a number of years and opened it a few months ago. We have had up to 10 people on at a time although it has been a bit lax lately. Drop on by for old times sake. Aesir.dune.net 9001 | 23 | [
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"body": "Text based MUDs ruined MMOs for me. Every time i play wow all i can think of is \"10 years ago i raided an entire city and robbed the entire player populace of most of their goods because the Thieves Guild in the mud came up with a heist of Ocean's Eleven proportions. Once I stole an airship (something that had never been seen ingame before) and then had it overrun by *bees*. On a random day some high level character ported in teleporting demons from hell and the entire playerbase banded together to fight off the spawn before it destroyed everything\" \n\nAnd the stories go on and on.\n\nWhat story could i possibly have from WoW that wouldn't be *exactly the same as millions of others*? Everything is designed now so that every player can experience it. Everyone gets to have everything so absolutely nothing in any of the worlds is special.\n\nI miss MUDs :(\n\n\nedit note: Those tales all come from After the Plague, a small english language mud based in hungaria i think. It's still up but no one plays anymore really. ",
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"body": "I'll play achaea on and off, but I always end up losing interest when I realize I either need to buy a healing/combat system or write one myself.",
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"body": "I played Duris: Land of Bloodlust for over 7 years.\n \nThe greatest times were when we would get bored and did some crazy stuff to mess with goodies. \n \nLike the Roper Relocation Program. \n \nAlso, PVP was so much more rewarding. When you killed someone you got all of their equipment (minus a few items which would get destroyed at their death). \n\ni.e. when you died to the opposite racewar you lost all your equipment. It made raiding (pvp) so much more exciting. When you killed someone it was so much more rewarding and when you died it was devastating. Your heart would really get pumping during a pvp fight. Doing high level zones (what would be called raiding in WoW I guess) would be more exciting because you never knew when goodies would attack you while you were zoning. \n \nAs a thief or illusionist you could disguise and sneak into the opposite racewar's home towns and psteal and pkill other players. \n \nThere was also sailing. You could buy a ship and run cargo or fight goodies on the open seas with your frigate. Upgrade your crews, etc. so your accuracy and speed would go up. \n \nThere were powerful unique artifacts that you could get which would change hands from evils to goodies, etc. \n \nSadly, the player base isn't what it used to be. ",
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"body": "Hell ya, I've been playing Medievia on and off for like 15 years. I think that MUDs are great for the opposite reason as MMOs: there are tons of worlds with usually a few hundred to a thousand people in them, rather than a single world with millions of people. There's a sense of community as well as that you can affect the universe in which you live.\n\nI'd like to see a modern MMO where the worlds are intentionally small, rather than intentionally big. Limit each world to, say, the first 500 people who sign up in it, and then give each of them one invite for every 1/3 of the max level they complete, plus one up front. (Ex: if the game had a max level of 30 the first 500 people to join would each get one invite at lvl 1, one at 10, 20, and 30, so the world would eventually have 2500 players).\n\nYou'd have to offer some really compelling end game play to keep people interested, or give some sort of bonus for starting new players in new worlds. Maybe borrow some ideas from RTS's like tech trees so the world can grow, and have some sort of system where players can create new content, like combining spell effects and designing buildings, etc.",
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When can we carry in National Parks? | As I understand it, the recent credit card bill that Obama signed had an amendment that allowed concealed carry in National Parks if permit holders were otherwise allowed to carry in that state. Then an injunction was granted to prohibit this. It's my further understanding that the injunction is to expire in February 2010. But I can't find any more details than that. Does anyone know the status of this law? For three years now, I've been visiting National Parks out West. It's absurd that I can travel across most of the country armed, but I have to be unarmed to enter a park. | 22 | [
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"body": "The law in question is [Amendment 1067](http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=111&amdt=s1067) to [H.R. 627 - Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009](http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-627). As such, it takes effect on the same date. The effective date section of H.R. 627 states \"This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall become effective 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act.\" Since H.R. 627 was approved May 21, 2009, I would conclude that the exact effective date would be Feb 21, 2010, as I see no wording in the amendment that alters that provisions effective date.",
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"body": "I'm a dedicated long-distance backpacker/hiker and would love to know a definitive answer to this. It's not that I want to carry in parks for no reason, it's that when I go deep into the woods, I'd like to at least pack some sort of firearm with me for protection from various animals who think I am tasty. I'd rather not become a delicious mountain lion treat because I couldn't carry a rifle into the woods with me due to some ridiculous legislation.",
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I like the current reddit iPhone app .. but there's a few things we'd like to see | For me, silly graphs aka Redditaddict would be cool but really, what I'd **love** to see is our little orangered envelopes *pushed* to the app.
Honestly, I haven't seen any features missing (except for maybe edit an entry) ... What would you like to see? | 39 | [
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"body": "Oooooo this is easy. I'd like to be able to open the comments to an article without having to precision locate my finger exactly over the comments icon, thus saving me endlessly opening and closing the parent article when all I want is to look at the damned comments.",
"score": 13
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"body": "It would be nice to be able to access my *liked* submissions or my entire user overview.\n\nOrangered envelope pushing would be great, too (but, hell, I would like to have those go to my email account, also (remind me why we can't do that again, please?)).",
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"body": "I would like to not have to close out the app and restart it to get any new mail. Can't it fetch every couple of minutes? Also, I'd like to be able to switch to a different theme like reddit dark when reading in bed. Also, the ability to edit comments, ability to view my comments, view another users comment history and profile, and the ability to view my own profile (karma, even though nobody actually cares about this, just for research of course). The ability to search is a major one. The ability to make submissions would be nice, but not as important. Also, fix the part where replying to mail rarely takes you to where it's supposed to. This seems to happen most often with relatively new threads or ones with many comments. Also, incorprate in the the ability to see the total number of up and down votes for each submission. And while you're at it, throw in the greasemonkey script for comment up and downs. Ok, I'm asking for too much aren't I? I'll even offer to pay another $1.99 for iReddit Pro if it has even 3/4 of the features. I'm not asking for much :)\n\nAlso, I've always thought it would be nice if other iReddit users would think to search for videos that are not viewable on the iPhone (break.com) on sites that are viewable such as youtube and vimeo and posting that link in the thread when they are viewing reddit from a computer. Something like [iPhone viewable link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgvv-Hj62H0). And then others surfing from their iPhone could vote it up. Think of it as an opportunity to karma whore.\n\nSorry for this. I tend to ramble when I just wake up and my contacts are still stuck to my eyeballs. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "How come we can't create new posts? Even if its for stuff like ask reddit or IAMA, where it's specifically text and no page linking?",
"score": 3
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"body": "It would be nice if the app wouldn't crash as much. And maybe it loading comments wasn't painfully slow.",
"score": 3
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"body": "1. I'd like to be able to look at my user page.\n2. Links to comments (e.g. bestof) do not work very well. The app needs to work more like the main reddit site.\n3. The embedded browser does not perform very well, resizing some content takes a long time.\n4. The comments icon needs to be bigger. It's too small to click on.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I would like to not have a separate reddit app, I would rather just have a iPhone friendly reddit website (ie webapp). I mean I shouldn't need a separate application to get an iPhone friendly version of a *website*.",
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given the planets reserves of fossil fuels, how high can co2 go realistically? | I've seen tons of predictions about how high co2 concentration can go if we 'stay the course' but none of them address whether or not there are even enough fossil fuel reserves to get it as high as they say it will go. I have a sneaking suspicion that the economically extractable reserves of fossil fuels aren't large enough to put co2 levels as high as many are predicting. I read an article today that said co2 could go to 770 ppm by 2100. Just wondering if anyone has some insight into whether or not we even have enough stuff to burn to get it that high, and perhaps some articles that explore this in more depth.
Thanks all! | 3 | [
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"body": "Don't forget about feedback cycles! Those are what will get you.\n\nFor example, more warming means more permafrost and methane hydrate melting, which results in the release of carbon dioxide from formerly frozen peat and methane (a significantly more potent GHG) from deep ocean hydrates. Perhaps the methane is added to some of those predictions in terms of how much CO2 would produce the same amount of warming.\n\nAnother example is that the solubility of CO2 in water decreases as the temperature increases. Seeing as how the ocean is loaded with carbonates and dissolved CO2, this could turn it into a source, rather than a sink.",
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Official STO Fleet info/enlistment post | Ok we were sort of derailing the other [post here.](http://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/aof8c/lets_decide_on_a_name_for_the_reddit_fleet/). That post was supposed to be about naming the Fleet. So I am going to use this post to consolidate all other information like members, meeting places, ventrilo server info. Check back regularly as this will be updated often. This is the current roster for the Fleet, if you aren't listed and you would like to be just send me a message and I will add you. I will keep this updated with the most recent list. So, here are the people I have so far for the Fleet:
* dscoleri/dscoleri **IN FLEET**
* Guest101010/Ristol **IN FLEET**
* Tyrun/tyrun101 **IN FLEET**
* Idoliside **IN FLEET**
* Robosatan
* ZaoGao/ZaoGao **IN FLEET**
* Shinaku/Shinaku **IN FLEET**
* FearOfSuccess/FearOfSuccess **IN FLEET**
* gerundronaut/MrMister **IN FLEET**
* whackyjack/smor **IN FLEET**
* Thunderkor/Stinkenfooten **IN FLEET**
* eodmatt/EODmatt
* Farktoid/Farktoid5000
* ZeppelinJ0/ZeppelinJ0 **IN FLEET**
* bageloid/BagelX **IN FLEET**
* FrankVice/Facade_the_Pirate **IN FLEET**
* Zalkali/Zalkali
* gordotheman/gordotheman
* LycanElite/LycanElite
* haxd/Haxd **IN FLEET**
* RamblingCoder/RambleMyth **IN FLEET**
* GeneralKang/GeneralKang **IN FLEET**
* Kardlonoc/Kardlonoc
* afty/eyelark **IN FLEET**
* Fernmood/Taurathan **IN FLEET**
* BelieveinFacts/DnvnQuinn **IN FLEET**
* GlumChampion/Dragutin
* Fusoya **IN FLEET**
* phlyingpenguin **IN FLEET**
* dienaid/twobit
* Homelesshobbits/Hoobity
* farkas/Jordan_Farkas **IN FLEET**
* redleader/killertom101
* NB28980 **IN FLEET**
**34** total so far.
**The Ventrilo server is up! I am at work so I haven't been able to play with the settings too much or screw with the codecs at all but it is up and running. Here is the info: V78.DARKSTARLLC.COM port: 3913** | 7 | [
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"body": "Is the cryptic name the nickname for the account, the actual username login for the account, or the character name in STO?",
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DAE blow their nose in their hands in the shower? | I mean, if my nose is really stuffed up, that's a great opportunity. I've got plenty of water and soap right there. | 93 | [
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"body": "No. God no. Not INTO your hand. You pinch your nose and blow directly into the drain.\r\n\r\ntsk tsk. Savages.",
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"body": "My 26 yo cousin told me a relevant story... She was on a third date with a guy she really liked, he came over to her tiny one room apartment in NYC and she suddenly had to poop right when he got there. He was on the couch watching TV, she was in the bathroom 4 feet away. She gave the excuse that she was still getting ready but what she was really doing was pooping in the shower. Her thought was she could wash it down the drain, no flush, no smell. Boy was she wrong. Her first problem was getting it down the drain. She had to use her foot to smoosh the poop down there. Then she ran hot water which caused steam and made the entire bathroom smell like a big hot shit. She was drunk when she shared that story. They dated for over a year.\n\ntl;dr Cousin pooped in the shower so bf wouldn't know but plan backfired.",
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"body": "Well yeah, it doesn't really bother me when I know I can clean it off with water the very same second. When you're under the shower, a lot of things that are generally gross become not, well, gross.",
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On shuffling and randomness... | So, TheCid and Spaceman_Spiff had an interesting, heated argument about the fairness of manaweaving, the random nature of shuffling, and the applications to Magic therein. I thought a demonstration would be in order, so I used two decks of playing cards to help sort out the issue.
My blue "UK See blue" cards are my lands and red "Aviator" cards are my spells. I have 20 lands, in my deck, because I decided to build a slow, pricey red-blue deck. :-P Actually, this was to make the land-land-spell manaweave nice and obvious. http://imgur.com/NOXWD
This is my deck, just built... http://imgur.com/AmL0b
And fanned... http://imgur.com/mVxtZ
* One ruffle shuffle... http://imgur.com/fDCR1
* Two... http://imgur.com/Ph90A
* And three. This was Spiff's recommended riffle shuffles, though after a freshly built deck. Looks nice and random, don't it? No clumping, really, really nice mix there. TheCid would get me thrown out, and he'd be right to do it. Why? Well, as I hope to demonstrate, there is difference between a randomly shuffled deck of cards where the order really could be anything and a deck of cards with a nice even mix. This is important to maintaining fair play. I also hope to demonstrate why seven ruffle shuffles should be sufficient to fair play. ^
I'll continue, but skip some shuffles... http://imgur.com/yDVmQ
At five riffle shuffles, we've got clumping! http://imgur.com/yWhEm
Pretty bad, too. Even then, though, that's five mana out of seventeen cards. Not so bad. http://imgur.com/8UvYS
At TheCid's / Harvard's prescribed seven shuffles... http://imgur.com/GLDWl
Now you can see where a judge would agree is fair. There are parts that are nearly spell spell land, and other parts, notably starting around card 30, that includes clumps. I'll shuffle to fourteen and simulate a few games...
Fourteen ruffle shuffles... http://imgur.com/B49J7
What a beautiful mix. A few clumps, but they're small, and you can bet that it's nice and random. Looks like we got lucky with our ratios. Let's play a game, shall we? http://imgur.com/1W98J
Turn ten, and things are heated... http://imgur.com/2sfOV
(Apparently, according to my lands, I'm playing a club-diamond deck, but I have a lot of heart and club spells. After checking the rest of the see blue cards, it's clear I've never used the "See Blue" deck.)
That diamond creature enchantment is giving my queen of hearts flying, and the seven of hearts is giving my queen of spades deathtouch. My opponent is locked down, so I take a risk with the Convenient Experiment card, an instant that allows me to search my deck for a heart, put it on top of my library, and then shuffle my library... http://imgur.com/3C8Zz
I'm going to run this a few times, and note where my three of hearts lands. No intrem pics here, that would take forever.
* One. Pretty much to be expected... http://imgur.com/gyiyq
* Two. Good lord this clumping is awful I don't even... http://imgur.com/EbBma
* Three. The three of hearts kept near the top this time. Unfortuanly, it seems as though this picture is missing. :-(
* Four. I not sure that I fanned them out the same way each time. Keep an eye out for which is the top of my deck. http://imgur.com/AL48t
* Five. From now on I'll fan left to right. I drew an arrow to help me remember. Also: wow! The three, I swear, wasn't on top from shuffles two through six! http://imgur.com/4xx73
What I want you to take from the convenient experiment card, especially, is part of the reason 7 shuffles is demanded for a 33 - 64 card deck. Please notice that the three of hearts ranges from the very top to near the bottom after 7 shuffles. How did it get there? Let's say I shuffle cards perfectly, and want to send that three south. There are 36 cards in my deck*. I seperate them into stacks of 18, and I plop them down on the table, from the bottom card on each stack, starting with the top stack... http://imgur.com/Gmf5N
* 1 shuffle... http://imgur.com/NP2l4
* 2 shuffles... http://imgur.com/Xrlnp
* 3 shuffles... http://imgur.com/5f4j0
* 4 shuffles... http://imgur.com/5AU3q
* 5 shuffles... http://imgur.com/aERTr
Hah. It's close to the bottom.
* 6 shuffles... http://imgur.com/zSrjQ
What's this? It's coming back up!
* 7 shuffles... http://imgur.com/cIp1G
My, it's the ninth lowest card, up from the forth lowest after 5 shuffles.
This is actually exactly what I expected from perfect shuffling, and this is my point. You see, in a riffle shuffle, the initial cut is important. Say you always lay cards down first from your left hand when you riffle shuffle. The cards from you left hand's stack have a tendency to travel downward in the deck, and the cards from your right will move up. In my perfect shuffle, I put the top of the deck in my left and and the bottom in my right. Shuffling perfectly, it took five shuffles for my three to get to the bottom half, and then another two shuffles mixed things up for good measure. Of course, only card sharks can shuffle perfectly, you and I will shuffle imperfectly. This is preferable, as far as randomness goes, because when we shuffle imperfectly, the three could wind up anywhere! The concept is clear: a precise or an imprecise shuffler could put the top card, or any card for that matter, anywhere in the deck after 7 shuffles, allowing for imperceptible adjustments, such as uneven cutting, and laying more than one card down at a time. At one, two, three, or four shuffles, a reasonably precise shuffler could ensure that preferred cards remain near the top, or non-preferred cards are sent south. After seven shuffles, however, an imperfect shuffler of any stripe will find that a given card could be anywhere. A perfect shuffler, naturally, could be a cheat no matter how many times he shuffles.
Okay! I continue my game. It becomes a creature buildup, so this is how it looks after 25 turns... http://imgur.com/BQAds
My king of diamonds, buffed with the ace artifact (which gives it intimidate; my opponent was playing mono-clubs), wins the game!
So I gather my cards rapidly and place them on top of my library... http://imgur.com/GY6Us
* Shuffle three times... http://imgur.com/yMcK8
* And seven times... http://imgur.com/E0XnI
A little mana hungry next game, but nothing a good player with a solid deck can't worm his way out of.
Oh, I made notes on the distrabution of cards after taking the last picture. I stack the deck just like it was post simulation... http://imgur.com/mTXtS
And then I mana weave all of the played or drawn cards... http://imgur.com/lf8T0
Look ma, no clumping up on the top!... http://imgur.com/gsNKl
And three shuffles. Now this is the really, really big one. Spiff argued that this was a fair shuffle, after a game. My simulation produced 13 lands and 20 spells, so I weaved land-spell-spell and put an extra land near the top, bottom, and in the middle.
Three ruffle shuffles... http://imgur.com/XVRoL
For the sake of clarity, this is how the deck came out. L for land, S for spell.
* SLSLSSLSSL
* LSSLSSLSSL
* SSSSLSLSSS
* SLSSLSSLSS
* SLSSSLLSSS
* LSSLSLSSSL
But, after seven shuffles, we see clumps actually formed!... http://imgur.com/0GPk7
* SSSLSLSSSS
* SSSLSSSLSS
* LSLSSLSLSS
* LSSSSLSLSS
* SSLSLSLSLS
* LLSLSSLSLS
Well, cards 1-20 are awful, and 21-40 are oddly repeating, LSLSS. But I hope this helps get the point across. After shuffling the prescribed 7 times, clumping is typical. Three times after a mana-weave, ideally, will still give you clumps, but your deck may be a little too nicely mixed to be fair. Not to rest on a sample size of one, I'll take 5 manaweave, three shuffle simulations with 24 cards, on top, weaved SSL. but I'm going to remake my deck... http://imgur.com/KGD4S
The yellow bordered pokemon cards (thank my ex) searve as the mana-weaved lands, the black boarded magic cards are mana weaved spells, and the white and blue boarded playing cards are the library after a game. I've maintained the 20-40 ratio, just marked the manaweaved cards. Oh, and after the first picture, I found yellow electric pokemon cards and the black magic cards, so as to make everything stand out. Here it is before any shuffling # ...
* One... http://imgur.com/ezfGv
* Two... http://imgur.com/bnH0J (This should say take 2 on the bottom. Oops!)
* Three... http://imgur.com/NZK89
* Four... http://imgur.com/gAArC
* Five... http://imgur.com/X57q3
Sadly, these are pretty visually noisy, but the longest single run of spells, by my check, was six, one each in shuffles one and two. So! Although my methods are hardly rigorous and the demonstration is dependant on my own shuffling, I've shown, at least to myself, that three shuffles after a manaweave gives a more even distribution of spells and lands than seven shuffles with or without manaweave, and that is an unfair advantage.
This is far from Q.E.D.! Please, if you think I wasn't quite right somewhere, do your own demonstrations. Also, if you guys are interested, I'll do some pile shuffle demos, too.
.* I gave one card the boot for an even number, if you're tracking along carefully and wondering why that ten shows up on the discard pile suddenly. Still, miscounting 18 cards for each stack and imperfect perfect riffle shuffle simulation makes this a non-rigorous demonstration.
.# I was kinda hoping to have a cute pokemon there, but my ex got all of my pokemon cards for all of her magic cards in the breakup, and those eight are the only eight electric pokemon I own anymore. She missed a stack. :-P
.^ This bit was added in an edit, as per thedarkhaze's point. | 26 | [
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"body": "I've just skimmed this since I've got to head off to work, but this is a great example of why our perception of \"randomness\" really isn't very good.\n\nYou should cross-post on r/math or r/statistics or r/probability, with a minor explanation of what \"manaweaving\" is and why it's to your advantage in Magic to have a more even mix.\n\nI'll read in more detail after I get back from work.\n\n(PS- you actually *want* imperfect riffle shuffles, a perfect \"ABABABAB\" or \"BABABA\" shuffle is not random. Some stage magicians can do perfect riffles and use that to stack their decks.)",
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Chase decides to lose a 2 yr customer by paying me 10 dollars... WTF? | So I get a 30 dollar bill from Chase Bank on Saturday.
The 30 dollars is for an annual fee for a "rewards program."
I never use this card for anything other than small debit transactions, so I have no need for this. On top of this, I always specifically ask if there are any service/annual fees before I sign up for anything.
I call Chase today and the lady says no problem, she'll take me off the program and that's that.
The mail comes a bit later and it's another bill from chase, same account, but now there's an additional late fee of 15 dollars, bringing my total owed to $45!
I call back and the guy tells me that it's past the 30 day window to cancel and I have to pay the full amount, and the lady who I talked to earlier didn't do anything about the charges because she had to get approval first, and it's denied.
I speak to his manager, and it's the same story. I have to pay all $45 despite me not getting any notice, because it's too late.
He explains that I do have a $55 dollar check coming in from my rewards points for making an initial purchase or something... so this is what happens next:
Me: You can keep the $55. Just waive my balance and get me outta this BS program I never signed up for in the first place.
Dumbass Manager: Sorry Sir, as I explained, we can't do that. You will get your $55 in two weeks, but you will still have to pay the outstanding $45 bill.
Me: Listen, I'm gonna go down to chase tomorrow and cancel every single account I have with you guys, unless you take care of this right now. I hate dealing with these kind of surprise charges.
DM: Sir, that would be your decision.
Me: You mean to tell me, as a business manager, you would rather have to pay me 10 dollars to cancel every account I have with you, then for you to just credit or erase these charges and keep the rewards I earned?
DM: I don't have an opinion on that. It would be your decision.
Me: You have to be the dumbest manager I've ever spoken to. What kind of customer service is this? Are you not concerned you will lose a customer of over two years?
DM: I lose tons of customers every day sir.
Me: That's not something you should be achieving to. Seriously, though... you're gonna pay me 10 dollars to lose me? Do you not see the lack of logic behind this?
DM: Are there any other account questions you have sir?
I hang up at this point... I'm so confused...
Am I going crazy, or is this the most fucked up customer service you've ever seen??
Then Bank of America is offering 100 dollars to people opening new accounts.
When all is said and done, I'm gonna make 110 dollars tomorrow because Chase didn't was too stubborn to budge.
WTF is going on?
UPDATE:
Went to branch and spoke with the branch manager... she took care of this in 5 minutes.
Dropped all charges, and now I'm still getting the rewards check in the mail.
Lesson learned: Always go down to the branch and speak to the manager before calling these worthless customer service people. | 4 | [
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"body": "Find out who the District Manager is for the area, call them, explain your situation. Then switch your account to Bank of America anyway like you were going to.",
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