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Anyone ever taken part in or DM'd an "evil" campaign? (DnD) | I'm not sure what to expect. I may be playing the cleric, which will be tricky enough. Probably going to worship Nerull and use a scythe, which could be fun. Seems like it'd be hard to drive a story when people are just thinking 'Evil' though... Any experiences, good, bad, or otherwise?
*Edit: Had our first session with the evil campaign and thought I'd share. It went surprisingly well and was a lot of fun! The culmination was having to kill 4 clerics of Cuthbert, one of which was a dwarf and a bad-ass. Instead of a direct fight, we set a trap off the road they were traveling. We took about 4 gallons of oil and spread it around in a small clearing and had one of our female characters wear normalish clothes, smeared her with some blood, and had her lay down in the middle of our oil trap. Then used ghost sound to make it sound like she was being accosted. The clerics all ran in to help. Once they gathered around, she booked it out of the trap, 2 people tossed more oil onto a couple of clerics (directly covering them esp. the dwarf) and then came the alchemical fire! All went off better than could have been expected. We almost burnt the damn forest down, but it was awesome! | 22 | [
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"body": "Once, in the middle of a long running campaign, I had my players roll up evil characters for a \"break\". They plotted a raid on a relatively small town (they were itinerant cultists) which they carried out, torched down and murdered as was their wont. Since it was a throwaway game, I let them roll up quite powerful characters involved in some moderately evil scheme of their own invention, then at the end I took away their character sheets, gave them back their old ones and ended the session with.\n\n\"You arrive at the town, your destination for some weeks of travel, to find a smouldering ruin, corpses strewn across the cobbles, the houses burning and the smell of burning flesh heavy in the air\"",
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"body": "The problem is that you always get two schools of thought on what should make up an evil campaign. \n\n1) We're Anti-heroes. We are a little mean to people, but come good in the end. \n\n2) We're total shitcocks to everybody. Rape, steal, murder anything that moves. \n\nWhen in reality, the best types of evil are the ones that believe they are totally righteous. People who consider themselves heroes in a land of people who think they are evil pricks. Consider a group of Paladins (or something similar) who went adventuring in a land where the kidnapping and sacrifice of innocents from remote lands was believed to keep them from being consumed by a giant demon that lived under the lands?",
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"body": "My brother once ran an Evil campaign. I made an assassin. Within a short time of playing, we were taken through a adventure that at the end had us killing a clutch of baby gold dragons. We got quite the haul from it. More than we could carry on our horses.\r\n\r\nThe first night of traveling back to the town we stopped for the night. The rest of the party, still thinking like 'Good' characters decided to setup single man watches. I drew first watch.\r\n\r\nI pulled my brother out of the room, and told him that while I was on watch I kill everyone and take their horses filled with loot. We rolled some dice, came back into the room and told everyone they were all dead.\r\n\r\nThat was the last evil campaign my brother ran.",
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"body": "I ran an evil campaign for quite a while. \r\n\r\nThe game started out with the players in prison awaiting judgement for crimes. They are given the option of being put to death or being sent to colonize a new land.\r\n\r\nThe plot followed them travelling to the location and dealing with the hardships of colonization. They ended up playing the indiginous peoples against each other.\r\n\r\nThe game was inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Colonial History.",
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"body": "Currently Two of my characters are Neutral Evil, Two are true Neutral, and one is Chaotic Neutral. Over time the more radical characters have become less likely to commit wanton acts of evil and instead try to act strategically in order to gain power. Sometimes this occurs by torturing captured individuals, sacrificing them to Grazz't, or getting entire towns addicted to drugs that only that character can make.",
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"body": "These are the kinds of games my players always think it will be fun to play. Personally, these are the most difficult and annoying games to either run or play in. A good number of the players will probably figure \"evil\" means license to just do whatever they want and go \"What? I'm EVIL man. That's what an evil person would do.\"\n\nD&D does not do evil as well as some more story-driven games like Vampire the Masquerade. If you aren't evil in that game, then you likely will be some shade of it before the game is done, and you'll certainly be at a disadvantage compared to all the other \"evil\" charcters.\n",
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"body": "\"Evil\" campaign always drive me nuts, personally, because players think it Carte Blanche to go run around and do whatever madness they want without any consequences. Also, its difficult to motivate an evil party unless there is some serious loot at stake.",
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"body": "Not DnD, but I used to run campaigns where I'd take a storyline from a movie or game or a previous campaign and have my PCs role play from the antagonists point of view. This works well, as you already have the plot, an overall goal (of the antagonists or protagonists), and you know how the protagonists are going to try to thwart the party. (or vice versa.)\n\nIt's also fun to play a campaign through as the good guys, and then again as the bad guys fighting your previous characters.\n\nThis always worked well in WoD settings, but I imagine it would work well in DnD too.",
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"body": "I ran an interesting game a while ago where I actually had the players start out playing (neutral and chaotic) good characters. Over the course of 7 or 8 sessions I had them being slowly manipulated into doing atrocious things.\n\nEssentially they were working for an NPC who would send them on missions, and then either set up the missions to fail, or else stage false flag attacks against the party, using that to rile them up into taking more and more extreme measures for the sake of their cause.\n\nI got as far as getting the party to kidnap a group of children and torture them using an enchanted dagger that would store the pain of all of the suffering that they inflicted with it before the players actually realized that they were playing completely evil characters.\n\nThe characters eventually realized what was happening when a thief stole some of their gear and was cursed because they had been unknowingly using items (given to them by the NPC that was controlling them) by those who were truly evil.\n\nThey then had the option to stay on the path that they were on, or seek redemption and use their knowledge of the group that they'd been working for to help bring it down.\n\nI guess it wasn't a traditional evil campaign, but it worked out well because it kept the players out of the \"bastards for the sake of being bastards\" mindset, and helped fuel a lot of character motivation in the end of the story.",
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"body": "As a gaming group a number of us have taken turns DMing over 15 years of sunday gaming sessions. We usually play 'good' campaigns but whenever we decide we want to start an evil campaign, I end up getting DMing duty.\n\n\nI've DMed a number of evil campaigns, but only for a select group of close friends. I think familiarity between players and ease with the subject matter can make or break an evil campaign, as often questionable social circumstances, possibly offending players and paranoia(quiet players) would normally rule in evil campaigns where people don't know each other well. I also know the maturity level and role-play preferences of this core group won't disrupt or cause an untimely end to the campaign, and in general all are committed to playing their characters to the full within the framework of progressing the campaign-something that is always in question when playing an evil group.\n\n\nOne thing I always do now as a DM that started when I began evil campaigns is to have each player run through at least 1-2 solo gaming sessions. It's a great way to introduce the player to the setting, their peers, the local laws, consequences and workarounds. This can also provide players with a wealth of secrecy they can bring to the play group, allow them to involve themselves with their story, and get familiar with their 'structure of responsibility'. \n\n\nAs a DM in an evil campaign I think it's far easier to provide content in a long campaign and ensure players aren't at each others throats if they're given a distinct environment within a clear power group that provides that player with this 'structure of responsibility'. I usually exclude the chaotic types for this reason, as it can make running a structured campaign unwieldy and often turns into dead end situations, although I won't limit anyone who wants to try. \n\n\nFor obvious reasons, I allow the players to keep their true alignments secret[although deities are often telltale alignment giveaways], as most in my play group are now, out of self-preservation, always wary of companions & associates who act in chaotic manners. \n\n\nI encourage note passing and recently IMing & texting between players(with DM supervision) to allow players to mask their intentions, form agreements and role play their characters to the full. I also provide alot of insight into situations to players this way, and leave it to them to add to group knowledge or role play their way through it.\n\n\nI keep a 'master' character sheet for each PC that includes alignment shifts, peer approval ratings, running inventory(nasty rogues), known and unknown item abilities, and often will 'edit' a players character sheet upon request and without explanation to motivate each player to play detective for themselves and explore the other players' backgrounds and motivations.\n\n\nI also provide players with a small 'character tree' of 2-4 characters within that power group to develop or use as backup in fatal sessions. It seems to keep the players involved in developing their own power groups and allows you to vary or grow the party for certain sessions as needed. It also allows players to continue in the game session with a clean slate after running a well role-played evil character to it's untimely end. \n\n\nForgotten Realms is always my preferred locale as I've got extensive resource material with great general background info/setting/lore, and I've spent years fleshing out 'the darkside' of what's already available or injecting complete modules[Dungeon Mag] into the setting to lessen the creative load so to speak.\n\n\nThe best evil campaign I ran after I picked up a copy of the **Book of Vile Darkness [highly recommended for evil power group ideas]** and the Sigil boxed set with Tome of the Planes.\n\n\nIn all, DMing or playing an evil campaign takes more time & effort than a good campaign IMO. Essentially instead of creating a Good vs Evil scenario, you have to create an Evil vs Good and/or OtherEvil scenario. Secret identities, associations, illegal dealings, corrupt contacts and networks, safe areas, hunting areas and hunted areas, all have to be provided, as well as limitations within each. The incentive for cooperation by the players has to be provided by the DMs backstory, the players long term goals and 'structures of responsibility'. The DM & players both have to buy into the campaign progression to keep it on the rails at times. \n\n\nIf all goes well though, you can establish some genuinely frightening scenarios, unique roleplay incidents, disturbing content, and truly open gameplay where players really feel like they aren't in Kansas anymore,...\n\n",
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"body": "I once participated in an evil campaign. It was D&D, set in Forgotten Realms. I played a ninja, my brother played a bard (or something). \n\nSo, we travelled to an evil city, our objective being to eventually pose as good heroes, liberators of the downtrodden populace. Our adventures always included twisting everyone against each other while having them believe we were their best friends. \n\nWe did missions for the Sultan's advisor. One of them was to infiltrate a nobleman's house and steal something. We went to the locksmith that built the locks to the house, kidnapped his child and told him that the nobleman did it to prevent him from giving away the secrets of the house's locks. Naturally, he made a key for us. Next morning, we marched downtown on a white horse parading as the saviours of the child. The people loved us and the nobleman's house was looted.\n\nLater, the Sultan's advisor revealed to us (surprise-surprise) that he was plotting against the Sultan. Long story short, we killed the Sultan and made it seem as if it was the advisor's doing only. \n\nFinally, we conspired to escalate the tension between the Sultan's faction and another faction in the city. While their armies attacked each other, we went to their bases and looted them both. \n\nThings went downhill after we attracted the attention of (hate hate hate) Jarlaxle and we were killed by an attack of the Shadow Thieves leaders. \n\nThis whole thing was so damn interesting that inspired me to create a modern-day campaign with sociopaths destroying people's lives for fun.",
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"body": "yes, as a player. It's really tough to keep an evil party together. They either have to be part of the same criminal organization/evil empire/cult or be physically unable to part ways (eg trapped on a desert island/prison/ship). Otherwise they say \"hell with these nerds, I'm leavin!\"",
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"body": "I have players in my group who can't seem to play anything **BUT** evil! Usually this is held somewhat in check by the other party members but in my current campaign the entire group is filled with psychopaths. At times it's been frustrating. \n\n\nI've found the best way of dealing with this problem is usually the character or group themselves! Sooner or later their actions come back to bite them in the ass, usually in a big way. Other times the party implodes due to infighting, scheming, and back stabbing...something I've been known to foster.\n A lot of GM/DM's seem to overlook cause and effect, I find. Psycho characters can't exist without society for long unless they want to live alone in the wilderness foraging for food and that's pretty much where they end up assuming they aren't killed or imprisoned first. \n\n\nIf you're going to play a Cleric of a dark god remember that nothing is free! Your fellow party members owe your church and god for any boons or healing they might receive and should be willing to pay appropriately for it. Be it gold, servitude, conversion...the killing of enemies, whatever. Have fun with it, ",
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"body": "I've run an anything goes game with evil and non evil characters. It's a lot harder to keep them together than usual. The phrase 'herding cats' comes to mind. I'd only do it again if I knew the PCs were okay with each other playing individually for a majority of the game.\r\n\r\nI was lucky that the players were sensible evil though. They didn't torch orphanages just to keep their kill quotas up. They were self serving bastards, who didn't want to attract unnecessary attention.",
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"body": "Not the same, but I once played in a Player-versus-Player one-shot. The game was split into two rooms, with the Good characters in one room, and the Bad characters in another. The system required two GMs, one for each room, who communicated with each other using a chat program...explaining what their team was doing, and coordinating when Good and Bad characters would see each other, so nobody had an *unfair* drop on anybody else.\n\nIt was an awesome game, but took hours to play. I was the first to die :(",
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"body": "Scythes suck. I know that it's the holy weapon and looks really cool in you r head, but trust me on this- go for the heavy mace.",
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"body": "I've had ideas to run a campaign where the PCs are 'evil', but the plot is 'good'. I'm fairly sure that I'll frame it so that the PCs are prisoners: rapists, murderers, arsonists, and are offered the choice of staying in jail to serve out their sentence (likely with someone on the inside gunning for them) or willingly subject themselves to a ritual that binds them to a service, which, upon completion, will free them. This could be something like fighting a war, doing battle with a great beast, assassinating a cruel neighboring king, whatever. I'd hope that some of them would be less evil than others so that we can deal with confrontation and knowing that they must all survive or all die.",
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"body": "Evil or good campaigns are all made up of two things: characters with motivations, and an environment that the story takes place in. DnD's alignment system makes a big deal over people whose motivations are antisocial. No big deal, if you want to play someone who doesn't play by his society's rulebook, just make sure that he has motivations that make him playable with the other PC's.",
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"body": "We ran super villains in M&M back in the day. I played a Uzbek brawler assassin. I was already getting kind of worn down playing such a despicable character when the [Beslan school massacre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis) went down. I just couldn't do it any more after that and killed the campaign.",
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"body": "Yup, one of the most fun games I ever played in. It was in 2nd AD&D. I played a half-drow priest and my buddy played an anti-paladin. Another friend of ours was a necromancer. \r\n\r\nPart of what made it fun was there was so much more humor, and with the gloves off you could really let your characters loose. \r\n\r\nWe were in a Forgetten Realms setting, I don't really remember the details but we were trying to raise the dead evil god. And my character, when we got to a higher level, got a spell to make crawling claws, so we chopped off the hands of everyone we came across. I later bought a bag of holding and just filled it with the claws. We usually began our encounters by tossing the bag into the room in front of us and leading the flood of claws come out.\r\n\r\nIt was very specifically all the things parents who hate D&D warn you about...",
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"body": "There was once a time when enough of our (8-person) group wanted to play, but not enough to run our regular campaign. We decided to roll up characters for an evil one-shot.\n\nOur characters included a drow dominatrix, a malicious ghost, a blood thirsty yet moronic troll, and a savage orc. We all began in prison, and had to break out, and get our equipment back. Then we ransacked the city that our regular characters had just saved, and fought off and killed the big boss-type leader. It was fun, and lasted all night long.",
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"body": "I want to say that I have done so, but I just realized my \"evil\" campaigns are really more amoral.\n\nMy players, though new to the game, were pretty tired of heroic tropes by the time we needed an alternative campaign. So, I let them make characters of whatever alignment they wanted. The only stipulation I put on them was that the party needed to get along; no backstabbing. I have found that things work well if that rule is in place. \n\nWhat it allows me to do is use the same kind of story arcs (such as \"you must save the world from this horrible, devouring evil\"), but the character's motivations for doing so are far from altruistic. Rather than save the world because it's the right thing to do, they do so because they want to protect the power they have amassed. \n\nIt also forces me to be more flexible as a DM. Generally, when running a \"good\" party, there is no outright murder of a good-aligned person whose goals happen to run counter to yours. Being evil puts more options on the table for the party in terms of how to go about doing things.\n\nSomeday we might run one where they want to destroy the world, but they're having fun being able to do evil things without having to try to morally justify their actions.",
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"body": "I never DM'd an 'evil' campaign, but I have at least twice spread the players into two groups (one good and one evil) and ran parallel campaigns whose objectives put one group against the other. Best games I DM'd ever.",
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"body": "Played a short burning wheel campaign where everyone was orcs, with a single troll. The warboss said: \"Go kill the elven general, and you'll be rewarded. Don't fuck up\".\n\nIt was insanely fun.",
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"body": "I did something similar to what glummdead did below. However, I actually ran two completely different groups, both supposedly the 'good guys' and they interacted through tons of adventures, just barely missing each other, knowing of the other group but not who they were, or what their goals were. Eventually through some player collusion, they figured it out. Ah well.",
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"body": "I am about to start an evil campaign but its pretty lax for alignments. We are mostly lawful and neutral evil but our DM isnt to particular about alignment. there is emphasis on lawful/chaotic but the evil/good isnt paramount. \n\nHis reasoning for this is the blood war (i think in the vile darkness books), which is the war between devils and demons in hell. Killing a devil or demon is a good deed, so all the devils and demons would be in an upward spiraling accent to lawful/chaotic good alignment, hence the non-focus on good or evil.\n\nWe have only rolled our characters but i have the evil frail conjurer with jacked up int so its looking to be fun. Will post again once we get things rolling. \n\nWe have laid down the guidelines that we cant turn on each other since some people just like to do that.",
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Reddit Meetup: Ethiopian Thursday Night (1/14) 7 PM | Be there or be square. [Mudai](http://www.ethiopianrestaurant.com/oregon/mudai.html) on Broadway. Comment below if you are coming so we can let the place know what percentage of the internet is going to descend on them like a pillaging horde.
PS: jesster114, if your broke ass would like to come, I would be happy to float you.
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"body": "Meetup was awesome! We had a great Ethiopian meal with the place all to ourselves (I think we totally freaked out the owner) and then those who stayed went to McMenamins down the street. We had around 16 folks show up.\n\nWatch for another one next Thursday 6:30 at Henry's!",
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"body": "EDIT: Well apparently my camera didn't come out until after the meetup when a few of us went to the bar. perhaps someone has pictures from the actual meetup!?\n\n[Next time I will take the camera out before I drink a few beers.](http://sweetcircus.imgur.com/rportland_meetup)",
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"body": "I'll try to make it, I haven't had Ethiopian food this millenium.\nNo guarantee though, we'll see if I'm up to it after work in Hillsboro.\n\nEDIT: OK, I'll be going.",
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"body": "Thank you very much for the thought, but you just had to choose 7 for the time... right after I did last minute invites to the bar at that time. I'll see if I can rearrange some stuff because I fucking love ethiopian food.",
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Dear NSFW: I'm thinking of starting a clever porn site, see inside for details | Ok, so I have a few UBER boring web projects I'm working on for some clients in America (I'm freelancing at the mo). Anyway I like to have a personal project or two I can work on from time to time to break the boredom. This is a throwaway account as I don't want to associate this project with my work.
Hennyway, basically I'm sick of clicking on a porn vid on say redtube, youporn, pornoxo etc and it recommending shit. If I click on "Amateur Blonde Teen Blowjob", I don't see why I might also like "3 Black Guys fuck 1 MILF". So I had the idea, you load up my site (let's call it CleverPorn), it presents you with 2 (or 3 or 4) images of contrasting porn. For example: Amateur vs Pro; Black vs Asian vs White; Skinny vs Curvy vs BBW etc etc. Basically under the images there'd be recommended videos and eventually after you'd clicked through enough images the site would learn what you like and show it to you.
Problems include sourcing the videos and finding an API I could use (failing that, parsing videos some other way).
Thoughts?
Dave (throwaway name for a throwaway account, seems suitable) | 7 | [
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"body": "What would be more fun is if you could somehow combine videos so that the viewer could start off an adventure in fist person style and then \"Chose his own Path\" like those old books.\n\nI might actually even pay for that.",
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Your wisdom, please. | My boyfriend told me the other day, he needs to know my ring finger size (did I phrase that correctly?) because "it will be good to know one day." (!) All squealing aside, how do I figure this out? I have no rings that fit that certain finger, I don't know if a jewellery store will help me figure it outt if they know I'm not going to use their resizing services (although I'm thinking this could be a personal thing, and not a store policy). I have checked some things online but none of it makes sense to me. Yeah, measure my finger with a string, but it doesn't say whether I need mm's or inches, and the results are gibberish to me.
Can someone please use simple terminology and tell me how I should figure this out.
Thank you.
Edit: Thanks, ladies! I was unsure about just walking in, but I feel comfortable now. I trust you all. :)
PS. It's okay, I already drew him a picture of what my engagement ring shall look like. I've got it covered. ;) | 6 | [
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"body": "Just ask a jewelry store for help. The higher-end ones will help you in hopes that you'll remember how friendly they were and come back to them to purchase jewelry.",
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"body": "First of all congrats!! :) And I'm sure any jewelry store would help you figure it out. If the people at the expensive jewelry store won't, just go to a cheap jewelry store and try the ones on display. I'm sure nobody will care there.\n",
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Surviving on your own? | I am a 19 year old guy who is attending a two-year college and working full-time to support myself. I commute to school and live with my parents. I am getting very tired of living with my parents and once I finish my two-year degree I am going to need to move out to attend school in a different area.
My question is how the hell do young people make enough money to support themselves? I am able to put some money away right now (not a lot, about 2 hundred a month on average) but if I had to pay for rent on top of tuition, car, and food I would be broke. How the hell am I supposed to make enough money to support myself while still going to school? | 3 | [
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"body": "Not to be harsh, but you have to start by wiping the stars out of your eyes. Moving out sucks, especially when you aren't financially ready.\n\nHere's a check list of things you must learn to do, sink or swim style:\n\n* Grocery shop (you cannot eat out every night)\n* Laundry\n* Budget time\n* Budget money\n* Pay all bills on time without question\n\nHere's a check list of things that you should probably consider learning to do now:\n\n* Stop eating out\n* Eliminate frivolities (situational)\n* Limit social activities.\n\nI moved in with 5 other guys about 18 months ago. I recommend moving in with friends, not randoms if possible. If you move in with randoms, you'll be going out a lot more often to see your old friends, if you move in with friends, then you can entertain yourselves around the house more often than not.\n\nI have a room mate who works 24 hours a week, making a little over $9.00/hr. He's not living in the lap of luxury, but he's comfortable. It can be done.\n\nAlso, avoid assuming that you'll be living a charmed life, and be prepared for the day-in-day-out droll that is real life.\n\nBeyond that? Good luck!",
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"body": "Student loans, scholarships, grants, working a lot of hours, not getting much sleep, and eating ramen every day.",
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"body": "Whether you live with your parents or not, their income counts for your FAFSA until you're 23. One solution is to emancipate yourself, or get married. You also probably have the option of student loans. There are two kinds of student loans: subsidized and unsubsidized. Your main goal should be to **use subsidized loans** as much as possible, if you have to use loans. The government pays the interest on these until you're out of school.\n\nYou also may want to get certified to do a crappy health care job. There is ALWAYS a shortage of CNAs ands CMAs, it may suck as a job, but it's in demand and you can work 7-3, 3p-11p, or 11-7, and that usually will be around your classes, but a crappy sleeping schedule, and make ~$13-20/hr.\n\nAnother option is UPS or fedEX, which generally offer a lot in tuition assistance and pretty good pay. \n\nScholarships are also a really good thing to work on. Every little $500 scholarship you can win is time you don't have to work.\n\nRoommates are good for saving money. You may even find you can buy a cheap house with the home credit, and with roommates pay less than renting alone.\n\n[/r/frugal](http://www.reddit.com/r/frugal) has some good ideas, and some..extreme ones.",
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Let me google that for you | I just discovered [this](http://lmgtfy.com) today. I've got a friend who calls me to ask basic questions that he could find out himself in a few moments, so this has really made me happy. | 4 | [
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"body": "I had just left a job, and my previous employer was having one of their replacements for me ask me questions over GChat almost daily. At first they were simple things, but they became more and more complex over time. \n\nAfter 2-3 lmgtfy's... the questions ceased. ",
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Can you recommend me any free anti-virus software? | My Norton subscription is about to run out and I don't really want to renew it, mainly out of malice. It tells me to multiple times a day and I've reached the point where I just want to spite it.
If there isn't any reliable free software on the internets, what's the cheapest and/or most reliable one? | 3 | [
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"body": "I use Microsoft Security Essentials, it's free and it isn't a resource hog like AVG. Never used Avast.",
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"body": "[avast](http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html).\n\nit updates frequently and works very well. give it a shot.",
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Women, I'd like to suggest we all embrace "urinal etiquette." Please? | I've heard men refer to urinal etiquette a few times and I've always been jealous. I really, really hate public washrooms to start with, and it just makes it worse when someone takes the stall right next to me -- even though there are five other empty stalls to choose from. Please? | 7 | [
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"body": "hey wait, can we talk about real urinal etiquette? \r\n\r\nlike, stop leaving your piss on the seat. it only leads to squatting which leads to more piss on the seat.",
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"body": "It bugs me too, honestly. But worse for me is when people are talking to each other or on the phone while I'm trying to pee. I've sat in stalls waiting for people to shut the fuck up because my bladder just won't work until they do.",
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"body": "Sorry but I refuse to support this. I get bathroom anxieties, too, but I'm not going to hold it against someone for taking a stall next to mine. Finding the \"right\" stall within a small time frame is stressful enough as it is. I usually do whatever is in my power to avoid using a public restroom. So, by the time I'm in there, I've already held it in for as long as possible. I'm not going to take an extra moment of my time to check to see if there are feet under the door of the stall next to my first potential choice, especially if I've made that first choice because it seems like the most comfortable choice at the time. ",
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"body": "What I don't understand AT ALL - why, in the one place where I'm sure 99.9% of humans you polled would NOT WANT to overhear others, are restrooms always built of thin panels with huge gaps under and over, as though deliberately designed to maximize sound sharing?",
"score": 6
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"body": "I would be happy if able bodied women didn't sneak into the accessible toilet. \n\nIt's a huge pet peeve of mine if I have to stand outside of the accessible stall only to see someone literally jump up and bounce out. \n\nAlso please don't apologize to me as I am leaning heavily on my cane if your explanation is you like to have more room. It only takes away my mantra of \"there are hidden disabilities\" that is running constantly through my mind. ",
"score": 6
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"body": "I'd rather embrace being less paranoid about our bodily functions. As the children's book says, everybody poops. Japanese women are so shy that they have buttons on some public toilets to play noises that cover up the noises made by bathroom activities. That's excessive. I have some bathroom anxieties, too, but when I get weird about public restrooms I just think back to my high school forcing all the incoming freshmen to go camp out in the mountains for three days together. Nothing like pissing behind a bush and then realizing you forgot the TP to make you appreciate public restrooms.",
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"body": "I have never been bothered by this. I have on the other hand been bothered by women who occupy toilets to fix their make up when there is a line of people waiting outside. How do you know they are doing it? They stay in there a long time after flushing and the bathroom smells like spring blossoms afterwards.",
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I need some bottom bracket maintenance advice... | Over the past two years I've driven three bottom brackets to destruction. The last one was replaced not more than six months ago, and I'm already hearing the tell-tale signs of stripped bearings. What are some maintenance tips to prolong BB life? Also, if anyone has some information on outboard style BB I'd appreciate it. I'm considering the leap. For what it's worth, I'm a daily commuter on a 2001 Schwinn Homegrown. The ride's about three miles each way, but I'll go on anywhere from 5-10 mile additional rides. Thanks in advance! | 9 | [
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"body": "What kind of bottom bracket is in there now, and what brand have you been using? I know ISIS has a bad rap but the FSA Platinum pros I've been using have been bombproof for thousands of miles. Make sure you don't have a tweaked frame or something where the cups are out of alignment. Make sure it's not being torqued down like mad when being installed. If you want to go to an outboard bearing BB, they're pretty easy to install and probably even less likely to grenade, but given your experience so far you might not have good luck with them either. ",
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DAE love getting wasted at the airport while waiting for your next flight? | I travel by plane maybe once or twice a month and whenever I'm stuck at a layover I head straight to the bar/burger joints and pound some beers.. Nothing like crossing the Atlantic shitfaced waiting for your single serving meal..
EDIT:
Airport Bars:
* Detroit: Fox Sports Bar
* Atlanta: Sam Adams Brew House or Miller Lite Victory Lane (Terminal C) | 9 | [
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"body": "I used to fly in to Chicago regularly when I was 15-16 years old and always thought O'Hare was the best part of the trip. \n\nI'd drink beer at the bars, buy stolen jewelry from the people hawking it, talk to homeless people, you name it -- everything my folks would have freaked-out over had they been with me.\n\nReturning to my sleepy little hometown always made me feel like I'd just been to Oz.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Whatever you do, don't buy those little super expensive, tiny single-shots of liquor you have to buy in-flight. Your way of doing business is way more efficient.\n\nActually I can't remember the last time I flew and *didn't* drink. Being ten thousand feet in the air inside an aluminum can barrelling through the sky at five hundred miles an hour with over ten thousand parts built by the lowest bidder makes it drinking time, in my book.",
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Peace prize Obama wants record $708 billion for more wars | Our peace loving, Nobel peace prize winning president wants $708 billion dollars to keep fighting the war on terror. | 25 | [
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"body": "This is not accurate by any stretch. $700 billion will be the total Defense spending, not just the wars. Quit lying and giving libertarians a bad name.",
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[offer]►►►Cool free pen to first 50 people who promise to make an offer thread this month | **Edit: Looks like this thread has dried up, so the pen offer is now closed! Thanks for playing! :)**
This offer is dedicated to the redditor tree\_of\_life for being awesome :D
The pen looks like [this](http://imgur.com/qCow6.jpg).
United States only please! (Minus Alaska/Hawaii, sorry!)
To get one, all you have to do is:
* Upvote ;D
* Comment in this thread: "I promise to make an offer thread this month"
* PM me your address
The favors subreddit is a much cooler place when there are more offers than requests, so my motivation behind this post is to help tip that balance. You might not have an idea for an offer thread right now, but don't let that stop you from making the promise today. You don't have to pressure yourself to have the greatest offer ever, and you have plenty of time to ruminate on how you'd like to give back to the Favors community. It doesn't take much. The simplest offer I can recall was a redditor who was willing to listen to people's troubles.
So for those first 50 people who make the pledge, enjoy your karmic boost and expect your pen to arrive in February :)
Pen Pledgers [You're only added to this list after doing all three steps above]:
* darksabrelord
* youngluck
* DarkSynapse
* bassett
* dihydrogen_monoxide
* xxpeacenotwar
* ima007
* thepoopsmith
* goldmastercandidate
* future_robot
* yeahlemurs
* justinteeth
* rainybluesky
* DonSlice
* bsx | 40 | [
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"body": "I shall make an offer right now. Link to come as proof.\n\nedit: [Here's](http://www.reddit.com/r/Favors/comments/apc1s/offer_i_will_make_you_a_map/) my offer thread! Free maps for all!",
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Oh, hi, Reddit...what things have you and your significant other gotten the other to enjoy that you never would have been interested in otherwise? | I've watched a few episodes of Gilmore Girls (one of her favorites) in the past week, and I must say that though it is a silly show where silly girls make a huge drama out of silly little things, I kinda like it. I'm less sure what I've gotten her into...the only thing I can think of is that she's finally seemed to admit that my Droid is a nifty little device, despite her stated opposition to smart phones, aka umbilical cords to your place of work.
What about you, Reddit?
EDIT: I'm mostly thinking along the lines of cultural things (Christmas village and Reddit definitely count!), though I'm definitely interested in hearing about other things (fleshlight!). | 5 | [
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"body": "For her: Anal Sex.\n\nNo kidding, she was *totally* against trying it but now she can't get enough of it.\n\nSometimes during sex she'll just grab my pen0r and stick it in her butt without saying anything. \n\nFor Me:\n\nAnal Sex.\n\nI was totally against trying it, but we got a (small) strap-on for her, and while I'm no where as enthusastic about \"catching\" as she is, it's actually enjoyable.\n\nJust make sure she gives you the reach-around.",
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Bachelors of fine arts degree, worth it? | I want to make photography a career and I'm looking into getting a Bachelors of fine arts from one of the universities. Is it worth it though? It will be three years out of my life and I would hate to find out that there aren't any jobs for photographers or that it's next to impossible to get into the business. The plus side is my GI Bill will cover the entire tution so the only thing I'll be out is time. I just don't want to spend the GI Bill on a degree that will be worthless. | 6 | [
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"body": "No one in the biz cares if you have a degree or not. The only thing which matters is your portfolio. ",
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"body": "Let me just go ahead and get one thing across for sure: there *aren't* any jobs for photographers.\n\nThat's obviously not true, but it might as well be. We employ three photographers where I work, and I can't even explain the mass of resumes we received during the hiring process. It is a cut throat market for full time employment.\n\nMost of the photogs I know who make a living doing it either work for themselves, or work somewhere like here (we're a museum) doing full time, soul crushing photography to support their own creative aspirations.\n\nIf you *want* to do this, *really* want to do this, then I think you should go for it. You'll learn to look at your photography with different eyes while in school, and you'll get a lot of outside opinions. It'll be a good time to grow. But if you're thinking it's going to be something where you get a degree and you can walk in the door somewhere with your camera and get a job, you're in for an unpleasant surprise.\n\nAll of this said, follow your fucking dreams. Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do something because it's difficult. If you want this, you'll make it happen.",
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"body": "I have a BFA in photo and my experience is that no one cares if you have a degree. They care if you can do the work and do it well. \n\nI am a fan of going to art school though. Art school can be a safe place to learn and discover with lots of materials available to you. You can teach yourself just about everything technical that you will learn at art school but it is the other stuff you will stuggle with. Also, at school you are required to take art history classes and to take classes in other disciplines. This was huge in my development as an artist. My style of shooting grew directly out of an assignment from an art history class. \n\nAs others have said, work is hard to find. I work mainly in the film industry because I can find more work there. ",
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"body": "the degree is not the point of a BFA it the honing of a craft, the finding of a voice, and the maturation as a person and an artist. It is a safe space to screwup and make mistakes. your GI bill will also cover some school expenses like cameras and such. especially if your on the GI bill you have no reason not to, it's free. I would however double major or minor in business or entrepreneurship so you know how to MAKE money with the art that you produce. There are lots of great photographers out there, most of them know dick all about how to run a business and so fail to \"make it\". For you I think it makes sense, so long as you recognize that you are going to have to not only be a great shot but also a great businessman.",
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What is the most tactful way of getting out of being a bridesmaid? | A friend of mine asked me to be a bridesmaid for her wedding in May 2011, and I said yes, which was a mistake. We're not close friends at all, and have only hung out maybe 15 times in the couple years we have known each other. She expects to have lots of parties thrown in her honor before the big day, and I neither have the money nor the desire to partake in these festivities. I don't want to make things super awkward due to the fact that we live in a small town and know a lot of the same people, and see each other in passing sometimes. Anyways, I would like to get out of this bridesmaid position, but I'm just not sure how to get out of it cleanly and drama-free. Any advice? | 22 | [
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"body": "Tell her you made a mistake by accepting and didn't realize at the time that you wouldn't be able to fulfill the duties of a bridesmaid. Maybe add something like, \"I want your special day to be perfect, with perfect bridesmaids, and I know I'd disappoint you if I kept the bridesmaid slot after realizing I can't fulfill that obligation the way you deserve.\"\n\nMake it sound like you're doing her a big favor by bowing out and it's only because you want her to be happy. Maybe suggest another mutual friend who's more interested in being the type of bridesmaid she wants. The only way to keep *anything* drama-free with a bride-to-be who's gone down this road is to make it seem like your life revolves around everything being perfect for them. She'll return to relative sanity after the wedding.",
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"body": "\"Oh, I thought about it a little more and now I'm wondering: do you mind if I do it at your next wedding instead?\"",
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"body": "Be truthful. If she is a good friend she will understand. If she goes apeshit then you KNOW you made the right decision. \n\nI turned down being the best man. I was truthful why I didn't want to do it and we are still close friends today. ",
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"body": "You could say that you've thought about it a bit further and doubt you'll be able to fulfill the duties of a bridesmaid fairly. You appreciate the honor and wish you could do what was needed, but in order to be fair to her, and to the rest of her wedding party, you have to respectfully decline. Offer to help out in other ways (setting things up on The Big Day, for example,) and hope she takes it well.\n\n",
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"body": "Just tell her that you cannot afford it. be open about it and humble. And let her know that you will be able to lend a hand, just not as a bridesmaid.",
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"body": "Just to give an alternate view: when I got engaged I asked a friend of mine to be a bridesmaid because we hanging out a lot and had at one point been very close. But I had a long engagement, and by the time the planning really got started, we weren't close at all anymore, and in fact just got on each others nerves. I have a feeling she may have felt the way you do, and if she had come to be and asked not to be a bridesmaid, I would have been very happy to hear it. So you never know - telling her could be just what she's wanting to hear!\n\n(My friend didn't ask, and I didn't want to ask her to back out, since a bride asking a bridesmaid to leave seems much more insulting than vice versa, but we managed not to annoy each other too much and it was an amazing wedding anyway.)",
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"body": "Tell her you're going in for chemotherapy a couple of months before the wedding, that you expect to lose all your hair, are allergic to wigs, and that the prospect of being a bridesmaid and standing next to her for all those photos is what's keeping you going through your harrowing ordeal.\n\nThen wait for her to tell you about her best friend from way back who it turns out didn't really die in that plane crash after all, and would you mind awfully if she took your place? ",
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What happens when an illegal good becomes a legal good with a high excise tax? | After reading about the continuing legalization movement in California, I couldn't help but think about the effect on price its changing status will bring. Obviously I can't quantify the pseudo-tax of the black market, but it is interesting to compare it to the upcming excise tax of 50/oz. Will the demand change drastically once it is no longer taboo? How will the elasticity of both demand and supply change?
Anyone have a good idea of what will happen to old Mary Jane's equilitbrium point? | 13 | [
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"body": "You will see the price drop radically. Pot is by far the cheapest of the drugs to product and bring to market. In fact in many areas it is literally free to produce. Even with a excise tax like that, there is still huge room for margin to cover operating expenses and profits. ",
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"body": "I think there will start to be different markets: bargains, but also reputable brand names.\r\n\r\nSome illegal financial services are also in the process of becoming legal with a high excise tax, I think...",
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"body": "I recall doing a paper on this when I was in Uni. Let me see if I can still remember the facts.\r\n\r\nDepending on how the tax is applied, it may either be absorbed by the supplier, or passed on to the consumer. The first affects your supply, the latter affects demand. This is largely dependent on the elasticity of demand and supply. When supply is more elastic than demand, the consumer bears the tax. This is seen in the case of tobacco taxes, where a tax increases the price of cigarettes. \r\n\r\nAs a result of this, there is a dotted line to show the increased price while demand and supply are assumed constant. Resulting would be 3 things:\r\n\r\n1. At a higher price, there is less demand.\r\n2. At a higher price, there is more supply.\r\n3. This creates a surplus, and an inefficiency in the market.\r\n4. As a side effect, there is also a tax revenue.\r\n\r\n",
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Reddit, can you please help me with my website? | I started a part time computer business in 2006. When I was laid off last year I decided to take it full time and make my 'be your own boss' goal come true. I just started passing out flyers in my neighborhood today and would love my future customers to see a professional website.
I am not completely done, but the design is mostly done and the content is mostly there.
If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, spelling / grammar errors I would love to return the favor sometime!
http://indimicro.com
Thanks,
Jake
-moments later-
Thank you for all of the criticism and suggestions! This is my first php / css website that I am not relying on wordpress or some other cms. I will make a bunch of these changes tonight when I have some time and please keep the comments coming!
-12:36AM EST-
I have made a few changes to the website. I have not changed any of the content. I will worry about that last. I really like the way it looks and I would not have thought to make these changes on my own. Please let me know if there is anything else that stands out! I should have the content completed this weekend. | 3 | [
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"body": "I'm no expert so I could be wrong, but I think having the google analytics code at the top will make it slower to load, it should be at the end just before </body> somebody correct me if that's not true.\r\n\r\nI'm not keen on the black line down the right hand side and the plain white background, that's just my opinion though. ",
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"body": "Web designer here.\n\nusernameunavailable was correct in [his comment](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ap9v6/reddit_can_you_please_help_me_with_my_website/c0ippk0). Bring the analytics code to the bottom just above </body>. I'm also not to keep on the black line or background either.\n\nSearch around online and find a nice (maybe stripped) and subtle background. Don't make it too 'in your face'. Make sure it's toned down and doesn't take away from a user's attention.\n\nAlso, I think that the hover effects on the 3 boxes is a little intense. Try to tone that down too. Look at these \"web 2.0\" sites nowadays. They all use gradients, but they're almost barely noticeable. You're mind doesn't have to think about it, but it does recognize the gradient. It's all about subtlety.\n\nThe bottom graphic (flier or ticket, whatever it is) seems unnecessarily large.\n\nYou also have a <title> tag after <body>. That's not correct.\n\n[Clean up your code.](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Findimicro.com%2F&doctype=Inline&group=0) For a few reasons... a) browser compatibility b) to learn best practices\n\nI'm leaving work now, but I'll be back later on or tomorrow and I'd be glad to answer any questions.",
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What kinds of odd conversations have you had with complete strangers? | The following is a transcript of a conversation I had with some random homeless person.
Him: Where have you been?
Me: Pardon?
Him: Where have you been?
Me: Um, at work.
Him: Don't go to Haiti.
Me: Why not?
Him: It smells bad there.
Me: Really.
Him: Yep. It smells bad there. That's why they call it Haiti.
Me: They call it Haiti because it smells bad there?
Him: Yup. Don't go to Haiti.
Me: Ok, I won't.
Him: Because they have a corrupt government there.
Me: They sure do.
Him: Just like we had a few years ago.
Me: True, but it doesn't smell as bad here.
Him: You're right, it does smell better here.
And with that we parted ways. What kinds of funny or weird conversations have you had with random people?
Edit: removed location information. | 5 | [
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"body": "I was doing laundry at college, and this kid comes up to me and just starts talking.\n\nHim] Doing laundry, huh?\nMe] ... yeah.\nHim] I'm so afraid that I'll throw a red shirt in with my whites and then all my whites will be pink. Actually, I'd be ok with it because there's a saying that's 'real men wear pink' and it's from my mom's beast cancer support group. Some people think breast cancer is funny, but I don't think it's funny at all. It's NOT OKAY.\n\nAnd then he just turned around and left the laundry room.",
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Optimizing Windows 7 for DAW | So I do not have the option to downgrade to windows xp, as the drivers are impossible to find, or don't exist since this is a brand new laptop. And after countless hours I spent just trying to get my M-Audio 410 to work(which it finally is), I still have one minor issue... I keep getting annoying pops and clicks. And after posting on the m-audio forum, the tech replied with the following:
**Pops and clicks are digital error usually caused by "dropped" chunks of audio data. This usually occurs when data cannot pass between the firewire controller and the processor fast enough. Other processes are usually taking up the processors time and slowing down the processing of audio data. You need to look for anything that would cause the processor to not process audio data quickly. This is usually an IRQ conflict, an inadequate firewire controller, or low power to the processor (power management). The less data needing to be processed will help. This one of the reasons you should disable any hardware and services that you are not actively using.**
**I have read some really bad stuff about those NVidia audio drivers. You should uninstall or disable them.**
>SPECS
dv8t quad edition
* Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
* Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-720QM Processor (1.6GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB)
* 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
* 1TB 7200RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (500GB x 2) with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
* 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 230M
* 18.4" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
* SIIG Firewire express card
* My m-audio 410 is plugged into my firewire express via 6pin cable, and the m-audio is powered by a powersupply
Software:
Ableton Live Suite 8.0.9
I disabled all my nvidia audio drivers, as well as wireless. And cant think of what else to do to free up my system. Any tips would be amazing. I cant stand these pops and clicks. Thanks guys. | 6 | [
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"body": "Looking at your specs, the idea that your cpu is not fast enough is absurd. I get no clicks/pops on a Pentium M 1.6 (that's a 5 year old cpu) and less than a gig of ram.\n\nI would first check the ASIO driver - and that Ableton is actually configured to use it - , then try something like Reaper to try and replicate the problem.",
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"body": "Did you disable onboard sound in the BIOS? Also, it's possible that you have the buffer set too low. That's a powerful computer, but when I've used ExpressCard in the past I couldn't get the low latency that I got from a PCI Firewire card. \n\nAlso, I've used this guy's website in the past on XP, but my interface doesn't even work in Win7 so I have no idea if they help, but it's worth a try: http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm#Windows_7\n\nEdit: also, can you find out if your Firewire card has a TI chipset? I'm not sure if it's the case anymore, but those were the only cards that were worth buying a few years back. Everything else gave people problems. ",
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Women only get married to have "an advantage in court" or because "they've been conditioned to believe that it somehow key to happiness." | http://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/ap0s3/alright_single_men_of_rfrugal_lets_talk_the/c0ipeqm
I think this attitude is disgusting. It paints all of us women as either 1. gold diggers or 2. mindless emotional saps. As a rational female (and wife for over 8 years), I see many real benefits, both legal and emotional, for both myself and my husband.
For example, here are the legal ones (in the U.S.):
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-30190.html | 15 | [
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"body": "I think the poster did not choose his/her words carefully, but I can see where he/she is coming from. Although I totally disagree that women get married to come out with court money (as far as I know, no one marries with the intention of divorce), I do think that many people (read: both men and women) are taught that it is a key to some sort of happiness/relationship success. While this is certainly not a bad thing to those who are in happy marriages ect. , I personally am of the view that you can have a very fulfilling relationship without needing to attach the marriage label to it. And if you think about it, the idea of marriage itself is a huge societal construct that is not necessary to the kind of stability and love we often attribute it to... this is mostly what I think the poster was getting at.",
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"body": "Give some people who see marriage as a silly, romanticized, needless institution a few years and most will come 'round to figuring out its advantages.",
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"body": "Perhaps he can't see the beauty in a mutually satisfying relationship, and for some reason thinks women are trying to take things from him.",
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How does the religious right still exist in 21st century America? | I would think that by now we should be past all this stupid shit. I hate to criticize someone else's ideology, but religious people (while not being necessarily bad people) are dumb. I'm holding out hope for the white dwarf theory of religion in that it will be brightest right before it is extinguished. We are intelligent beings and we don't need to give these horseshit theories any credence. | 39 | [
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"body": "The Religious Right has only been around about 50 years, and through most of the 70s and 80s it was building. It's only really been at its current volume the last 15-20 years. Movements with that much momentum usually take at least a generation to disappear.",
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"body": "The thing is that it's no longer just about religious ideology- it's a powerful political and economic force- and as long as it gives people power like that it will be in their best interests to keep it going. Religious groups can keep numbers up because, unlike other organizations, they don't need to be responsible for the promises they make in exchange for public support.",
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"body": "I would say the religious right is not shining particular brightly, and has been in decline since its peak circa 1994.\n\nThey all out lost battle on abortion and school prayer, and are taking a beating on intelligent design. They have had a few victories on gay marriage recently, but have definitely lost ground on gay rights in general. Bush/Cheney has left many of them disaffected: after being thrown a bone on stem cells, they got virtually nothing for 8 years, and now feel pandered to and are not as politically charged as they used to be. \n\nTheir leaders are dead or marginalized, and few from the next generation are picking up the torch. They are less concerned about abortion and gay rights, focusing more on poverty and the environment. \n\nSure, they can still be loud, and some of them are getting headlines...but Palin and her teabaggers are much more the punchline than Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority ever were.\n\nCall me an optimist, but from where I am sitting, things have gotten better.\n\nEDIT: fixed a typo",
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"body": "Religion still exists because our species is pathetic. We are indoctrinated young and infantile as adults.\nedit: I didn't catch the religious \"right\" part",
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"body": "Religion has latched itself onto a very ingrained aspect of humanity: emotions. If they can convince people that their feelings are of the utmost importance, then they win.",
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Hey Reddit. Help me get excited about MATH!!! | I'm not ashamed to admit that math is a weakness of mine. Back in middle school I was way ahead of most of the students in mathematics. Unfortunately, I lost interest and now find myself in year four of university and taking Intermediate Algebra for the third! time. I think the problem is I don't associate math as an interesting subject like I do science, history, politics, etc. Basically, I'm asking you to give me some reasons to get excited about math, because I'm sure there are plenty.
tl;dr: I suck at math. Why should I be interested in it?
Thanks y'all! | 4 | [
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"body": "So, I love math. I am not really sure why, but I can try to put it into my point of view to help.\n\nMath is a way to figure things out. It defines its own \"playfield\" through axioms and definitions like \"the number after 1 is 2\". It then builds on these _very_ simple concepts to get to addition, multiplication, division, etc. This playing field is defined solely for the perfection that is mathematical computation. There will always be a perfect answer (even if the answer is long-winded or more complex than the original problem).\n\nThis perfection is why I love math. On an English paper, they can say your sentence structure was technically correct, but still give you a C. In History, there are always mildly conflicting facts that can lead you to incorrectness. However, in math, there is only one right answer (and an infinite number of ways to display that answer).\n\nOnce you get involved, you realize that the truth of math is bigger than finding the value of X at a specific point on a function. It is about collecting tools which will allow you to find the value of X at any point, on any function, using one of 3 or 4 devices.\n\nFor me, it was high school, when it all kind of came together. I was just barely into calculus when I started to notice that all of algebra was just a simplified version of calculus. Then I realized that all of these equations and stupid rules complemented each other in the most profound ways. e and pi became more than just numbers to me. I don't care that pi is 3.14159.... , but that it is actually the perimeter of the unit circle. This made it so much easier to understand how sine, cosine, tanget, etc all worked. This worked geometry into the same world of calculus/algebra, and really started to bring the shit together.\n\nNow, there will always be people that don't like math. It is difficult, especially if you don't do it a lot. It takes a strictly designed thought-process of how to get from question A to answer B. The rules are rigid, and wrong answers are unquestionably wrong. There is no \"schmoozing your way up a grade\" in the same way you have with Philosophy. However, if you do it a bunch, you might just see the same things I have.\n\nMy advice is to do as much as you need to. They require algebra, because really you will need this in almost any (real, college-level) job. Think about trying to find the distance across a gap using a compass and a telescope. Or trying to figure out how the business process optimization you propose will cost money in hardware, but save money in personnel, at what rate, and how long until the ROI tops 5%.\n\nI know it sounds shitty, and it is. But, it has to be done. You can't just \"gut check\" your way to the top of a company, as your intuition is sometimes (extremely) wrong about numbers, and how the answer will work out in the end.\n\nBest of luck.",
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Does anyone else actually use mutliple workspaces/desktops on mac/linux? | Does anyone actually use the multiple desktop/workspace feature available on OSX and (most) linux distros? I have never had the desire to use more than one workspace at a time, and I honestly cannot think of a good use-case for this feature beyond eye-candy.
Thoughts? | 5 | [
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"body": "When I code I have all the coding windows open in one workspace and all the windows that distract me from coding on another.",
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"body": "I do in Linux. I can't do without it. alt+ctrl+arrow = whole desktop moves? Count me in, hell yes. I don't on my windows systems, but my wife does - she uses a program called [Virtual dimension](http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/). It works pretty well, but it's nothing like it is in Linux.\n\nI typically put one thing in each window. AIM in one, file explorer in another, terminal in a third, and internet browser in a fourth. Not organized that way, but that's what I typically use. And when I'm coding, I usually put the terminal in one desktop (or multiple terminals), and each active source code file in it's own window, with the one I'm working on and compiling the most in the desktop right next to the terminal. So when it comes to compile, it's super easy.\n\nAlso, I hate mice in favor of the keyboard whenever possible. Tab is my favorite key.",
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I need some opinions before I end up doing or saying something stupid. | Well, you see I have been going out with this one girl for about a year and a half, i really like her alot. In the past she has cheated on me by kissing a guy. Yet that was early in our relationship and i forgave her for it. Not to mention she has put her self in other bad situations that really hurt me. Rare but they have happened. Yet now she is planning to meet another guy to have lunch with him to show me she is loyal or something. Yet im still hurt. I dont know if I am thinking irrationally or what. But I just need some advice before I act on my own and thought some redditor out there would help a little. | 6 | [
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"body": "Start going out with other girls. If she complains, tell her it is showing her how loyal you are.\n\nIf she bitches, leave, if she starts acting correctly, stay.",
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"body": "> Yet now she is planning to meet another guy to have lunch with him to show me she is loyal or something\n\n...what?",
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"body": "The only reason she's going to have lunch with this guy is just to show you how loyal she is? Not only is that stupid, it's an oxymoron since if she wants to prove her loyalty, she should be staying away from guys she might be tempted to sleep with. I'd be suspicious or at least confused too. Find out more about him from her. If he's a co-worker or a friend of her family or something, I doubt there's much to worry about. You don't really have cause to protest her having lunch with him yet, but as her boyfriend, I think you do deserve to know who this is and exactly what kind of relationship she intends to have with him.",
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"body": "I'm completely confused. Either your post is leaving something out or your girlfriend has some very strange ideas of how to prove loyalty. In either case if you're not comfortable with something, it's perfectly okay to say, \"Hey, honey, I'm not comfortable with that, so if you're doing it for my sake as you say, please don't.\"",
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"body": "Here's the real deal. People are animals. Intelligent and self aware but animals that are often driven by the overwhelming instinct to reproduce. I am totally loyal to my wife and the best way not to cheat on someone is to not put yourself in the position that something could happen. Have you ever been driven by lust so much that you did it with someone that maybe you shouldn't have or maybe not used a condom or something. You never know who is going to be attracted to you and you don't know how far they'll go until they go there. So say your giving a ride to someone who think is a *friend* but half way there, they rip of there pants and start masterbating because they want you so bad. Then say she slips her fingers into her vagina and then puts those fingers in your mouth and she says \"I want you inside me\" What do you do then? Well, maybe you shouldn't be there in the first place",
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"body": "You sound like an honestly nice guy, and it sounds like she doesn't respect you enough to keep the common courtesy to prove that she wants to be with you, **BY BEING WITH YOU.** Honestly, I think you deserve better and if she doesn't respect you now, she will not respect you later when/if you make a life long commitment and she'll hurt you more later down the road. Jump out of it when you can. Everyone deserves someone who likes to be with them.",
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"body": "Her actions completely unacceptable. She is showing absolute disrespect to you and you should not tolerate it. \n\nBe a man with some self respect. Tell her to pack her bags and learn a lesson on what relationships are all about.",
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"body": "dude, dump her. If your girlfriend makes you feel like shit move on and find a new one. That's the great thing about girlfriends-they aren't wives, you can move on and get another one without giving up half of your belongings",
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"body": "Without trust, there is no relationship.\n\nYou cannot trust this girl. It's that simple.\n\nTime to start planning you exit.",
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To UK Redditors. I know there isn't even a set date yet, but who will you be voting for in the General Election and why? | Personally I favour the Lib Dems however I would rather a Labour government than a Conservative one and so will probably be voting Labour. A lot of people say that it's pretty much a sure thing that the Conservatives will win however and so voting Labour is futile however I'm not too sure of this.
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"body": "This is incredibly depressing. I'm a life-long Labour voter but there is no way I can vote for them with a clear conscience. The reasons are too numerous to list. I'd like to see a Lib Dem government but that's not likely to happen. So do I vote Tory (I'd probably have to kill myself) to keep Labour out? Or follow my heart and vote Lib Dem? I guess it will be Lib Dem.",
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"body": "Voting tory may be the only option to dispose of the political cockroach called \"Mandelson\". Which is depressing.",
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IAE's penis slightly tilted from fapping so much? | What I mean by tilted is that the whole thing is turned on an angle. Like, my urethra faces 1 o'clock instead of 12. | 5 | [
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"body": "I don't really think it has anything to do with fapping, probably just random or based on the way you sleep. Mine had a fair lean to the right before I encountered upon fapping",
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How do I become motivated? | Lately things haven't been going my way. I have no motivation, no will to do anything. I'm failing two of my classes, and yet I see no point in trying to succeed. I am of above average intelligence and I could *easily* get all A's if I had the willingness to do so. My parents are infuriated at the mere thought of me not going to college in the fall, and, while I think it may be nice to have a degree to do something steady with, I'm really fed up with society's way of doing things. I would rather live meagerly, traveling to different places with my girlfriend than fit in and do the regular high school-college-job-house thing.
I think this may have to do with the fact that I was once a Christian, but now dismiss the existence of the Christian God to the extent of, say, Dawkins. This transition caused me to rethink life and society. A post I once read--along with a quote from Mark Twain--caused me to think about suicide, and what it would be like for the people I left behind. The quote was something like this: "I was dead millions of years before I was born, and it wasn't so bad." The comment explained how death would be something like sleeping, but with no dreams. I do like sleep.
This all said, life would be much better if I found some reason to put effort into things. It simply does not appeal to me for some reason. So Reddit, I come to you. Why should I do work that I don't want to do, if it will lead me to a place I don't want to go?
Sincerely, Temporary Account. | 12 | [
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"body": "Drywall screws come in coarse or fine threads. The fine-threaded ones are for screwing into metal studs, and the coarse-threaded ones are for screwing into wood. Neither handle lateral stresses well, so you should opt for wood screws if it's a load-bearing application. ",
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"body": "Do you think maybe you're depressed? I do. It's okay, though. I was pretty much like you from my late teens to my late 20s. I think most guys are, actually.\n\nI'm convinced those are the hardest years for a male. You've just finished puberty and your hormones have shifted gears. You can't help but perceive society's expectations of you as a man: You must go to college! You must get a great job that pays lots of money! You must buy a flashy car! You must fuck many attractive females! And no matter how hard you work at it, 9 times out of 10 none of these things become reality.\n\nOne option is to talk to a therapist. He/she might prescribe an anti-depressant. [That anti-depressant might actually make you kill yourself](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121300452.html). Or not.\n\nAnother option is to walk the common path in our society, all the while keeping a pragmatic attitude about it. You need money to eat and to travel, you need a job to get money, you need training/education/experience to get a job. With that in mind, you can put effort into getting into a university. You can choose your school and your major based on what you want your earning potential to be after school, and then put in the appropriate level of effort to get the desired outcome. Then you'll enter a shitty job market (EVERYONE enters a shitty job market for now on, forever), and have to work your way up from the bottom. In the meantime, you will live meagerly in order to save for traveling, because you won't get paid nearly as much as media advertising will lead you to believe you'll get paid. Maybe during all of this, you can find a hobby or something that you're passionate about--an escape from the drudgery of \"real life.\"\n\nI'm 33. Over the past decade and a half and two degrees, I've thought long and hard about the same things you have, and how I'd finance it. Well, I know that I hate to work. There isn't a single job that I would enjoy doing. Nada. But I need money to live the life I want to live, so I work. And I chose the major and the career that would get me the money I need with minimal crushing of my soul.\n\nGood luck.",
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"body": "If you have the capacity to easily make all A's then you shouldn't be making F's doing nothing. You should be making C's and B's, assuming you go to lecture.",
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What is the worst thing you've ever INTENTIONALLY done? | Just as an outgrowth of the question about the worst unintentional thing you've ever done...
I had once been "dating" a girl from Baltimore (I live in VA). It wasn't very serious, or at least it wasn't for me. It was one of those relationships where you're not into it at all emotionally, but the other person really is (I would typically have been on the other end of this stick.. This time it just so happened that she was on the end of MY stick... HIYO!).
That said, pretty early on I was feeling like she was getting very attached and I wasn't quite sure why, as really all we'd been doing was having sex. No deep conversations or anything like that. Feeling sort of bored, I tried to break it off with her, at which point she tried, for about a period of only 5 minutes, to tell me that she'd missed her period. I KNEW it was BS. It was just so obvious. I got her to admit she was lying by telling her maybe I had been too quick to break things off and that we just needed to slow down and just enjoy what we were doing, etc. etc. Needless to say, I always used a condom with her after that day.
So what did I do that was intentionally bad?
Being that we lived several hours apart and were both not making a ton of money at the time, we decided to meet in the middle at a not-that-great hotel for an evening of wild weird hotel sex.
We proceeded to go after it like a couple of starving velociraptors. After we took a break for food, water, etc., she insisted that we get back to it, and being a guy, I obliged. It was probably the 4th or 5th time that day/night, so by then I was on the verge of having powdered semen shoot out of my penis instead of the traditional liquid variety, and had pretty much had my fill for the evening. Afterward she went outside for a cigarette (one of the many things I didn't like about her), and I was left alone with precious minutes.
It was then that I decided I needed to get dressed and get away IMMEDIATELY to A) get back at her for the faked pregnancy attempt and B) make a clean break.
She came back inside as I was trying desperately to get my clothing back on and my belongings together going..."WHAT...ARE YOU DOING!?!??" And I then had to explain to her that I just didn't feel about her the way she felt about me, which obviously she didn't like hearing being that I had been absolutely knocking the bottom out of that thing for several hours. I distinctly remember the phrase "So you bring me here to fuck my brains out and then were trying to just leave me here like a whore?" to which I responded "Well... I didn't pay you anything soooo..."
That pretty much did it... She turned and went outside to the balcony, and I could NOT get her to come back inside (I was a little worried she was going to jump), so eventually I just went back in, finished gathering my things, and left her there.
The last contact I had with her was a few days later in an email where she asked me to "delete the pics and videos" that she had been sending me religiously.
And THAT...Reddit... was the worst thing I ever did intentionally.
tl;dr - Girl wants to stay w/ me, girl fakes pregnancy, I call BS, make up with her to get her to admit she lied, then F her brains out and desert her at a hotel. | 6 | [
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"body": "When I was in college I was in a semi-open relationship with a girl, dating but not totally monogamous. We had a general agreement not to bang each others friends. \n\n\n\nShe broke this agreement and banged a very good friend of mine. I got mildly upset but I was more upset because she tried telling me that we had no such agreement about each others friends. She then said a phrase she would grow to regret \"there are no limitations on who we fuck.\"\n\n\n\nFast forward two weeks. Her 18 year old sister is out at school and I'm throwing a raging house party so my girl can show her sister a good time. My psuedo-girlfriend passes out early from trying to ride the tequilla rail with us, which is 1 shot of every type of tequilla behind my bar, roughly 9 types.\n\n\nHer sister and her 2 friends are still partying on, so my buddy brown bear drops the my kinda sorta gf off at her dorm.\n\n\n\nI continue getting wasted, pounding drinks as the night went on. The party is starting to die out and my buddy glances over just in time to see me swing dancing with my girlfriends little sister. I spin her out, bring her back in, dip her, and give her a long slow kiss.\n\n\nI then took her to my room and banged her brains out.\n\n\n\nI dropped her off the next day at my soon to be ex-psuedo-girlfriend. She takes one look at the both of us, dressed in the same clothes from the night before and starts yelling at me.\n\n\n\nI calmly look at her, smile, and say \"I thought there were no limitations on who we fuck, honey\"\n\n\n\n\n",
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Reddit, how do you feel about vegetarianism? | Seems like vegetarians have a "treehugging whacko" reputation. Though I could never give up eating meat, and though I understand the whole "that's why we have teeth"/"meat is our natural food" argument, I support vegetarians and the whole vegetarian movement, mainly out of hatred for the food industry. I was wondering who else felt the same way. | 3 | [
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"body": "i think a vegetarian diet is admirable. i also think that most people object more to vegetarians than a vegetarian diet.\n",
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Ok let's just be done with all the confession posts, if you have anything to tell us, do it here. | Past few days I've noticed a lot of posts asking whats the worst thing you've done\had done to you, lets just get the rest out of the way. So tell us, what's been eating away at you? | 3 | [
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"body": " I, er, a friend, more like someone I know, has a very, erm....\r\n\r\nthis other person has a small penis.",
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Next Tuesday I am starting to teach middle-schoolers (grades 2nd -5th) Japanese once a week for eight weeks. Suggestions? | I was not planning on teaching them any part of either alphabet or any kanji, however my partner believes we should attempt to teach them hiragana. How strong is the ability for kids this age to retain that kind of information? Would it be worth it? Also any fun crafts/games to do would be much appreciated. Thanks! | 3 | [
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"body": "Once a week for eight weeks isn't really much time, and won't allow for anything really in-depth. I'd personally spend the time playing games that teach and reinforce a few basic words and phrases. Things like colors, shapes, and animals - maybe clothing and body parts too. Songs are great for retention and making learning fun.",
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DAE read TL;DR: as "The lesson, dear reader"? | It took me a while to find the true meaning, so my brain just found the closest somewhat-matching phrase with the right letters.
Problem is, now I can't retrain to read/think it "properly". | 3 | [
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"body": "No. But I remember spending like two books retraining myself to pronounce Hermione properly. In my head, I read it as \"Hermy-own\".\n\nTotally offtopic, but there we are.",
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Interviewing for a programming job: Does anyone have advice for determining whether a company/job is any good? | Lately there has been a lot of very valuable discussion on reddit about how to prepare for the interview questions a software shop is likely to throw at you. I'm wondering if anyone can offer advice on how to figure out whether a company is a reasonable place to work. What should the interviewee be watching for/asking about?
When researching a company for an interview recently, I inadvertently found a BUNCH of ex-employees complaining on message boards. They said that the owner of the place micromanages the whole operation, and that there is a lot of yelling, cursing, and belittling of employees. Apparently they check the cars in the parking lot on the weekends and even have hidden cameras in the workplace. Based on this information, I thought I probably wouldn't want to work for the company. I went to the interview thinking the stuff I read could have been inaccurate, just a bunch of complainers, but I definitely did notice an undertone of hostility. The part that worries me is that I'm not sure if I would have caught it without having been notified beforehand.
So how can you find out whether a shop is any good? Can anyone suggest things to ask the interviewers, or to watch for?
Edit: Wow! Thank you all for the awesome comments. There is quite a lot of value here. | 25 | [
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"body": "Here's the list of prompts I've been carrying to interviews:\n\n**Process / Practices**\n\n* Version Control\n* Issue Tracking\n* Continuous Integration\n* Testing\n * Unit\n * Acceptance\n* Reviews\n\n**Tools**\n\n* Standard equipment\n* Standard environment\n* Do they pay for tools?\n* \"What's your favourite OS and tool?\"\n\n**Books & Blogs**\n\n* What's your favourite programming book?\n* What are you reading at the moment?\n* What blogs do you follow?\n\n**Package & Prospects**\n\n* What salary do you offer? Including super or plus super?\n* Prospects for raises and promotion\n* Time off for study\n* What work would I start on?\n* Is the company growing? By how much?\n* Perks and conditions?\n * Training\n * Subsidies\n * Equipment\n\n*Update:* I got an offer from the company who did \"best\" on this list. I hope it works for you too. ",
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"body": "Watch out for any company that describes itself has having \"a fast paced, dynamic work environment\".\n\nThat's a euphemism for poorly scheduled and managed: \"Dynamic\" means that the organization is incapable of planning and scheduling at a major league level, and \"fast paced\" describes how those who are actually stuck with doing the work are constantly playing catch-up as a consequence of the aforementioned poor planning and scheduling…",
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"body": "I have a set of questions I've developed over the years I ask potential employers. I always like to talk to people who are doing similar jobs to what I might be doing (other programmers), not just a potential manager, since they'll have better answers for many of these:\n\n* What do you like best about working there?\n* What do you like least?\n* What would you change if you could?\n* How are conflicts resolved? technical, social? (this was a major problem at one of my previous jobs)\n* What end-users do you deal with? How do they feel about the app?\n* How do you balance technical/business goals?\n* Does management set reasonable goals & expectations? How do you handle missed deadlines?\n* Do you have any sort of technical principles or vision?\n* Do you do testing? Can you release with failing tests?\n* Do you have source control? code reviews? docs? QA group?\n* How would I fit in?\n* What might a typical day look like?\n* What are the policies on releasing work as open source?\n* Hours?\n* On-call?\n\nThe [joel test](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html) also has a bunch of good questions.\n",
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"body": "I ask, \"Are you having fun here?\" Almost everyone says yes, but a few hesitate, and once I got an earful.\n\nAlso, find out what happens when they go over schedule. If they spend months at a time in death march, something is wrong. If they say, \"we never go over schedule\", they are liars :)\n\nAlso also, if someone had the position before you, ask why they left.",
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"body": "Definitely don't be afraid to ask them questions about their work environment and policies. For example, you might wish to know how flexible the hours are, if you get to administer your machine, how the time tracking is done, stuff like that. Find out if overtime is common, and if it is compensated, those two things tend to be mutually exclusive.\n\nOn the technical side of things, you should ask how a typical project is planned, how the tasks are scheduled, how much input the developer has in this process. Be wary of any place that does not let the developer set the times for completing tasks and arbitrarily restricts the technologies you can use, or what approaches you can take to solving a problem.\n\nIn general think about how you like to work, what you don't like about your current work, and try to find questions that will give you an indication if the place operates the way you'd like it to or not.",
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"body": "I worked for a company as a lone programmer with no other programmers on staff.\n\nSeemed like a good idea at the time. Until I realized that there was no one in the department that I could bounce ideas off if.\n\nIt starts to become a problem after a while. \n\nThe company became very dependent upon me for the programs I wrote.\n\nSounds great, but I was miserable.",
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"body": "If you are interviewing at any company in Marin County CA you gotta make sure that everyone at the board meetings is, ummm, corporeal. How you try to find that out without marking yourself as a nutty new-ager, I don't know.\n\n(I once found out after taking a job that the executive team would make decisions based on advice from an \"8th dimensional being\" contacted via channeler. Let's just say that their financial decisions were less than enlightened)",
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"body": "http://dohashawki.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/how-to-interview-your-future-boss/ has some good suggestions. I'd recommend this as a reverse phone screen if possible (probably in a separate call), to avoid wasting both of your time in a face to face interview.",
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"body": "* Ask what the culture is like, do they expect you to work more than 40 hours / week. I would ask a technical person this question rather than a manager, you're more likely to get a straight answer.\n\n* Can you find anyone working for the company on LinkedIn that is a 2nd degree connection, maybe you can ask them through one of your contacts.\n\n* Ask about training and certification, do they pay for that kind of stuff.\n\n* Perks like free coffee / soft drinks.",
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"body": "This is not a complete test, since I'm just augmenting the good stuff people have already said. But if you're interviewing at a place where there are people who do programming full time, don't forget the questions in the [Joel test](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html). 10 might be a bit high (where I am is holding at 9 now that I've corrected #2 and #11 and only one of the remaining ones I'm missing bothers me), but certainly if you're scoring a 2, you're not dealing with professionals; you're dealing with people who think they are professionals.\n\n0 is right out.\n\nAs a bonus, if you _are_ dealing with good people you will get _major_ bonus points for asking those things. It is rare to hear those questions and has always been a good sign so far.",
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"body": "+1 for what everyone else has said. I'll add a few of my own.\n\nYou should exercise a good degree of wariness when dealing with small companies. A badly managed company rarely gets big. Most small companies are good, however the bad ones are really bad.\n\nAsk about the technical competence of your immediate supervisors. If they do not understand the job you are doing they will get paranoid and micro-manage in the fear that you are goofing off on them.\n\nBe wary of small companies where your boss/supervisor is the owner or a major shareholder. They will micromanage and get paranoid as they have a major financial interest in your performance.\n\nClosely observe the premises. Cheap offices in a dodgy does not bode well. They could be cheapskates.\n\nSome people may disagree with me on this one, but if you are called back more than once for another interview, be wary. They may be being too picky or are testing you to see how loyal/desperate you are.\n\nIf you are being interviewed away from the work location, ask why. Do they want to hide something? Are they just short of space, if so does it affect staff performance and morale? \n\nIf you are interviewed by people in t-shirts then be concerned. I know the IT industry can be very casual, but I would expect staff to make an effort to look a bit smart when conducting interviews. You will be making the effort to look good, so why shouldn't they?\n\nIf your interviewer sits back and says \"Convince me to give you this job\", walk away. It happened to me, I convinced him (i.e. licked his feet) to give me the job, I hated it!\n\nTo sum up there are no hard and fast rules to follow, a company that looks awful during an interview may end up being a great place to work and vice versa. Observe and listen when you interview, look at the condition of the office, look at the staff, soak it all up and use you gut instinct to make an educated decision.\n",
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The christians are after my child! | My 9 year old has a tutoring class through his public school through a local church. They told me they would not bring up religion of any sort, just tutor. But, of course, they got a hold of him through a friend at school going to church activities with games and fun. They even gave him a children's bible.
My dilemma. Do I allow him to go, and get the religious background, hear all the stories we all know and loathe? While I teach him the 'other' side of christianity, for obviously, he is not old enough to decipher between truth and fairy tale, but to allow him to be informed on both sides, so he can make an informed decision as he gets older. Or do I tell them to leave him alone, because they, I am sure, would not appreciate me teaching their child about atheism, evolution, or the similarity of other gods to their god, etc...
Advice please. | 3 | [
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"body": "They aren't after your child, they're after everybody. Personally as long as your kid is having fun I don't see it hurting so long as you take the trouble to ensure that you take the trouble to debunk their nonsense. You should also bring up the issue of giving your son a children's bible when they said they weren't going to bring up religion, because the two things are not consistent and they should apologize for doing that.",
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"body": ">Do I allow him to ... hear all the stories we all know and loathe?\r\n\r\nHuh? When I was a kid, myths were my *favorite* stories. I loved the ones about old man Coyote, Theseus, and Joshua the best.",
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Trying to meet some nice girls, can you guys help me out? | Here are some of my details, to help you out:
* I'm 34 and live in my mom's basement
* I haven't been out of the house in 12 years
* I love mountain dew, bagel bites, and masturbating
EDIT: I also have no clue how to reddit. | 12 | [
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"body": "There's a girl right upstairs, and she obviously doesn't judge you. \"Nobody fucks like family\", that's what they say. ",
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"body": "It doesn't matter where you meet them. Girls are everywhere. What matters is the pick up line you use. I'm a girl, and I will let you in on a little secret. There is a foolproof line that always works. Swagger confidently up to the lady in question. Lift your chin, tilt your head, raise a single eyebrow, and say, \"yo furburger, you want to go out front and bang around ye olde shuttlecock?\" Guaranteed action.",
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"body": "Try constructing a girl out of bagel bites using mountain dew to hold it all together. Make sure to microwave it before you have sex with it to get that fresh-baked smell.",
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"body": "Get money. Girls love money. Each has a different critical amount after which point they don't express explicitly how ugly you are.",
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Ask Programming: I'm looking for a linux command line based free/open source program or library to convert HTML to PDF, including images and CSS. Does anyone know of any? Thanks! | I've looked around and found some converters, but they either won't include images, or won't include CSS formatting. Any help you guys can provide would be greatly appreciated. | 4 | [
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"body": "Do any of the mainstream browsers have a command-line option to print a page? That and printing to pdf could work - and you'd know exactly the rendering to expect.\n\nI'm thinking something like:\n\n firefox ./doc.html -print pdfPrinter\n\nNo idea if it exists (on a Windows box currently). Also, no idea if you expect a browser to be installed, or what. Good luck!",
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Anyone know a few good games to play at a LAN party? | I'm looking for lesser known games, mostly. There will be 6-8 people there most of the night. We have a lot of the more common games covered, Warcraft, Starcraft, etc. I'd prefer non-RTS's. A few people people have horribly outdated computers, so most really recent games are out.
Several people have really short attention spans, so anything with a long learning curve is out, too.
So, anyone know any obscure games that would be fun to screw around with for a few hours?
Edit: Thanks for the tips. I'll look into some of these. | 7 | [
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"body": "For LAN we usually hit up the following:\n\n**RTS:**\n\n* Starcraft\n\n* Age of Empires 3\n\n* Worldshift (lesser known, but fun!) (coop)\n\n* Mech Commander 2\n\n\n**FPS:**\n\n* Borderlands (coop)\n\n* Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (coop)\n\n* Unreal Tournament 2004\n\n* Unreal Tournament\n\n* Quake online\n\n* Farcry (with coop mod)\n\n* Doom 3 (with coop mod)\n\n* Half Life 1 & 2. Can play deathmatch, but coop with Svencoop mod is better\n\n\n**Racing:**\n\n* V8 Supercars 1 & 2\n\n* Insane (Good to play destruction derby)\n\n* Flatout 1 & 2 (If you get too drunk, playing the side games are good)\n\n* Big Red Racing (OLD!)\n\n\n**RPG:**\n\n* Neverwinter Nights (IMO, 1 is way better than 2)\n\n* Baldurs Gate 1 & 2\n\n\n**Hack & Slash:**\n\n* Diablo 1 & 2 + expansions\n\n* Titan Quest + expansions\n\n* Sacred 1 & 2\n\n\n**Other of note:**\n\n* Mechwarrior 3 & 4 (Vengeance and Mercenaries). Vengeance has a coop mod.\n\n* Giants Citizen kabuto (coop)\n\n* Freelancer\n\n\nI'll post more as I think of them.\n\n**EDIT:** Big thanks to blzed for help with formatting",
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"body": "IF you want first person shooters that are FREE, try:\n\n World of Padman http://www.worldofpadman.com/ (this game is very entertaining to play)\n\nNexuiz: http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/ Quake/Unreal type FPS\n\nTremulous http://tremulous.net/ (a base defense/FPS game with humans VS aliens) ",
"score": 5
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"body": "Left4Dead, Starcraft, pictionary in MS paint(sounds dumb but you have no clue how fucking great it is)",
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"body": "UT2004 is a lot of fun and runs on almost anything, but it takes a long time to install. Have people installing and patching in the background while another game is going.\n\nFor the most part the game works on one CD key. If you have any issues we found renaming UT2004.exe to UT2004x.exe makes it work for a reason we have not yet been able to explain. Also, sometimes the game complains if you don't run the original exe at least once before patching. (Just preemptively troubleshooting. (: )\n\nThe game is permanently $10 on [Good Old Games](http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/unreal_tournament_2004_ece) so if your friends have fun I'm sure you can entice them to pick up a copy so that setup will be shorter next time.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Baldurs Gate 1. Baldurs Gate 2. Icewind Dale. Icewind Dale 2. Neverwinter Nights. Neverwinter Nights 2. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Warsow is an awesome multiplayer shooter. The specs are low, but it looks great and gameplay is an absolute blast.\n\nOh, it's free and it's PC and Mac compatible. http://www.warsow.net/",
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Ask Conspiracy: Now that Canada's Parliament has been prorogued, does Harper have dictatorial powers? (What happens if something dramatics occurs during the Olympics?) | I asked the same question from [/r/canada](http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/ap8ci/ask_canada_now_that_canadas_parliament_has_been/) but no reply, so if anyone has any insight please comment. | 4 | [
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"body": "Parliament doesn't sit during the summer either, but the wheels of government move on, and the Prime Minister makes the decisions but can't install new legislation. The same is true here.\n\nThe difference between the prorogation and the suspension of Parliament for summer holidays is that any bills that were under consideration by the House or the Senate at the moment of prorogation disappear and have to be reintroduced in a new parliamentary session and go through all the readings again. \n\nShould it be necessary to do so in the case of some crisis, the Governor General can call for Parliament to be reconvened. Until that point, the Prime Minister can exercise any powers that are available to him under currently existing legislation, in the scenario you present, we would be talking about the [Emergencies Act](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergencies_Act), which, ironically, would require that the Parliament be reconvened to review the declaration of emergency.\n\nThe problem with prorogation was that Harper cancelled the legislative session to avoid answering questions about what the government knew or did not know about torture in Afganistan (they now have a few months to cover their tracks, get the stories straight and strong-arm the necessary people to get them to tell it the right way) and stack the senate with a few more tory appointments before facing a new legislative session. The claim that asking for prorogation was politically motivated is quite legitimate and under the circustancs the request for prorogation shows an enormous contempt for Parliament by the Prime Minister, especially since the legislative program was far from complete. ",
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[TOMT] The name of those backpacks from the early 90s that were boxy and meant to look like a mini locker? | I think they opened on the side and had a shelf inside. I cannot find any pictures of these on the internet because I can't remember the name of them.? I think they've been lost in time. Can someone confirm they remember these please and even maybe find a picture? It's not Jansport. They were pretty cheap-looking and intended for young kids.
**rlbigfish coming through! The Wiz!** | 15 | [
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"body": "I know exactly what you are talking about. I had one as a kid, but I can't find any pictures or what they are called online. Im thinking something like a sort of trapper keeper type thing with a thermos. Mine had the solar system on it!",
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The guy next door to me sprayed my property and killed a patch of plants, plants that could save his life! | I live next door to the herbicide equivalent of a pyromaniac. Today I have discovered that he has decided to wipe out a big patch of plants that were on my side of the fence. The irony is that he is the sort who dies from heart disease or stroke and the plants he killed have the highest levels of omega-3 of any terrestrial plant. [Purslane](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portulaca_oleracea) i.e. eating them could save his life.
He probably thinks they are weeds, but they are not and I feed them to my elderly pet to keep her healthy. Nobody should just spray chemical shit into another persons yard like that anyway, and he knows I have a young child who loves to play in the garden.
What can I do, that will not start a war with him?
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"body": "Talk and talk nicely. Start with a different topic. Figure out what values he has and appeal to them. So if he talks medical, then mention the plants, but if he talks property, discuss private property rights. ",
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"body": "Call the cops.\r\n\r\nI had a neighbor who sprayed all my tomato plants on the property line. Just as they were bearing fruit. I did NOT call the cops. It got worse. H would lean over my yard and spray fully mature perennials. I did NOT call the cops. I got new tires on my truck, our parking spots next to each other. They began to go flat. Side punctures. 28 tires in a row. I missed many, many days of work.\r\n\r\nAfter 28 tires I called the cops.\r\n\r\nThen, I stood on the sidewalk waiting for him. I stood right in his face an told him, very quietly, and without anger, each word pronounced perfectly, that I would kill him if he came near me or my property again.",
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"body": "Talk to your municipality. A lot of municipalities in Canada are implementing bans an cosmetic pesticides. It's an easy way for your municipality to have green PR and most people support it. My municipality has banned the use of pesticides for cosmetic use- people who want to use pesticides can apply for a permit. A lot of residents ignore the ban, but at least they try to be sneaky about it and if they spray on your lawn, you can do something about it. I live in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), NS. You can suggest your municipal government look into it as a new policy.",
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"body": "I'm constantly amazed by the number of reddit questions for which there is a very obvious answer which the poster appears to be attempting to avoid even though it is highly likely to lead directly to a solution to their problem: Talk honestly and openly to the person about your feelings. Tell them what you are telling us. Ask them how they feel about it.\n\nWhy is this approach so scary to people?",
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"body": "If I were in your position, I would talk to him, but avoid making any accusations. Just pretend like it was an innocent mistake so he can save face and so you don't give him any reason to go on the defensive. You are probably right that he thought they were weeds, maybe he sprayed them because he thought they would spread to his yard? Not that that makes it ok....\n\nMaybe try something like \"Hey, what's up, pleasantries, etc. I was wondering, do you think you might have gotten some weed-killer on my side of the fence? Just so you know, I actually grow those plants to treat my dog, etc., so would you mind being careful when you're near that part of the fence? Thanks a lot!\" I don't really know anything about Purslane, but if it's tasty, maybe you can offer him some when you regrow the next batch?\n\nAlso, is it possible for you to replant the Purslane in a different part of your yard so you don't have this problem again? At any rate, best of luck, I will never understand people who think it's ok to do stuff like that. :P",
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How to approach a girl in a computer lab? | So its almost completely silent and everyone is doing homework in the computer lab, What would be the best way to approach a girl?
This girl is a lab assistant at the computer lab that frequent. I asked some of my female friends and they suggested that I pass her a note, but this computer lab is big and somewhat open so I think it would be pretty awkward to sit right next to her then pass her a note (I thought this was grade schoolish but maybe it could be sort of cute too, idk). At that point I think it would better to just start conversation, but its not really the place to chat it up. I don't want to be blunt and just directly ask her if she wants to get some coffee because I'm sure with everyone else around it would put pressure on her and be awkward.
I don't usually have trouble talking to or approaching women in almost any other situation so once we're out of the computer lab I'm sure everything would be fine.
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"body": "* **BOLD**\n\nAsk her to help you. Say your document won't print. When she comes over to take a look, she'll notice it's two tickets to an event (such as avatar i-max) this friday. It's important she sees what it is, without knowing it's for her.\n\nShe'll print it, it'll work. Invite her to go with you. If she politely declines, offering a reason (ie: she's seen it, she's busy that night), say \"hold on\" and go print a quickly typed invitation to dinner.\n\nIf at any point she makes it clear she's not interested at all (ie: has boyfriend or she's extremely shy), smile and say you've already seen it and give her both tickets and tell her to go see it with a friend. This lets her know (1) you are interested in her, not the movie, and (2) you're not a jerk and (3) you're confident.\n\n\n* *DISCRETE*\n\nSave a document to a flash drive. Open the document in notepad. Delete random lines all over the place. Open it, ensure it's corrupt. Now sit as close to her as you can, look like you're in a rush. Try to open file. Ask her for help. She fails. Tell her you'll just have to rewrite it. Show good humor in the face of woe! Chat with her while you redo it. Ask her questions about her schooling, etc.\n\n\n* EASY MODE\n\nGet an invite link to bacon bits. Print it on bacon themed paper. Give it to her. You win!",
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"body": "Just sit next to her. Have some funny picture on the screen and just be like omg i have to share this with someone. Easy dude.",
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"body": "make a picture or somesort of cute note and have it up on your computer screen. then, when she is nearby say you are having some issues with your machine. when she takes a look she will see the note and fall head over heels for you",
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"body": "Wait till you two are the only ones in the room. Walk over to the door, lock it, and yell \"GOTCHA BITCH!\"",
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"body": "In college, this was my work study job. I would be wary about asking for help with a problem you're having with your computer as a segue to asking her out. Something you may not realize is that fixing your computer prevents her from doing her homework/screwing around on the internet, and also realize that troubleshooting is generally pretty frustrating. While this is her job, your goal is not to make her fix your computer but to be open to being asked out. My advice is to ask her advice about something, preferably something that's cheap or free for you - has she ever heard of open office (flickr, gmail, whatever) and does she recommend it. She'll be flattered that someone appreciates her computer knowledge outside of fixing their corrupt files or loading more paper in the printer. Even if she gives the worst advice ever, take it seriously, be interested and ask questions (not too many). Hold off on giving your own opinion about it - the goal is to get her talking and feeling good about you, not for you to prove how smart you are (you've already done that by asking her for advice). If she doesn't know, laugh and say, yeah, I don't know much about it either. Thank her and leave. Go back a couple times and say hello, maybe make small talk (how's it going, bitch about classes, etc) if she's open to it. A week or so later, bring up the thing you first asked her advice about. Tell her you followed her advice, or did the thing that neither of you knew about. Ask her if you can buy her a drink/coffee to thank her. See what she says. This takes a little longer than tying her up in a sheet, but probably has a better chance of long term success. ",
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Reddit, what is the best charity for us to donate to in order to help out Haiti? | I'm moved by what I've seen and read. What is the best bet for aid donations so my donated dollar can do Haiti the most good?
Edit: please upvote direct links! | 4 | [
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"body": "If you don't mind donating to religious organizations, UMCOR does incredible work. They mobilize super-fast and have very low administrative costs.\n\nIf you're anti-religion or whatever, Direct Relief International is great too.",
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My roommate and I go out to a bar... | A friend of mine is turning 21 so I go out to the bars with him, my roommate and a bunch of mutual friends. One of them is a girl my roommate and I have had our eye on for a while. It becomes clear that she's interested in both of us and is bouncing back and forth to talk to us at the bar. At one point, the three of us are talking and she mentions something about relationships (it's all a blur) and I bring up that my roommate has a girlfriend (long distance thing he just started and doesn't talk about much... for obvious reasons). Blah blah she stops paying him much attention and is with me for the rest of the night.
So my question is ... was bringing up his girlfriend a cheap shot? My roommate was pissed about it and pulled me outside to cuss me out. Nothing too serious but still - I don't have to apologize for that right?
EDIT: coherence | 5 | [
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"body": "You did the three of you a favor. Had you left it up to her to decide, she would have had to ask all of her friends who they thought was hotter over the course of three weeks, make a couple inconspicuous facebook status updates about it, and eventually lose interest the next time a guy complimented her shoes.",
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"body": "I think you definitely blocked him but it was shitty of him to have a long-distance gf and then try and keep it quiet so he can still get around at home. Thats trying to have his cake and eat it too. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "he already has a girlfriend, so technically, you're the only one in the picture. Get it done and buy a beer for your roommate later.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I hate it when there is a mixed group of guys and the ones who are hooked up will not gracefully bow out to the single guys. Most of the time they're not even seriously interested and they cockblock any single guy doing anything.\n\nSo I say, fuck him. If someone is hooked up in any way they're fair game for epic cockblocking.",
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"body": "You may have avoided an awkward drunken threesome with your roommate. Good move if you look at it that way.",
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Dear Australia, @MarkNewton asked us Frenchies for a new Statue of Liberty... | ...[here](http://twitter.com/NewtonMark/status/7724086017). (If you haven't been paying attention, he's one of those on the front line of the No Clean Feed debate.)
Here's my response:
[*Give me your wired, your NOR,*
*Your bundled messes yearning to DSL free,*
*The dialup refuse of your cleanfeeding shore.*
*Send these, the /home-less Telstra-tossed to me,*
*I lift my LAMP beside the IPv4!*
](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty#Inscription)
Edit: I meant, of course, [@NewtonMark](http://twitter.com/NewtonMark). | 3 | [
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"body": "... actually, though, France is a pretty poor choice for internet freedom. Sarkozy is [firmly in the pocket of the *AA](http://boingboing.net/2009/07/12/sarkozy-brings-back.html), thanks to his wife.\n\n\nOh well, there's always Denmark...",
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"Hire to your demographic" - Is this legal? | If a district manager tells a store manager (in the United States) to "hire to their demographic", is this legal?
For a specific example, if the district manager says "Your demographic is mostly older, white women. Your store staff is currently too mixed. Until I tell you otherwise, I don't want you to consider any new employees who are not white, female, and over 35." This seems to me to violate [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964](http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/titlevii.cfm).
When confronted directly about this, the district manager says it's not racist because he doesn't care about race. If the store's demographic was black, he'd tell her to hire more black people. In other stores in his district, perhaps he's even done this. Does this make it okay?
I can see a certain amount of logic here - people will spend more in a place where they feel more comfortable, and the district manager feels it's his duty to leverage any avenue to increasing sales, and I really don't think he's racist - but isn't the whole point of EOE to remove these kinds of passive so societal shifts about "what makes people comfortable"? Isn't this the same argument someone could use for segregation?
The person who is in this situation is afraid to push the issue further for fear of losing her job in an indirect reprisal (the metrics for store managers are so high that any manager could be fired "for cause" at any time, and continue to be employed only by the good grace of the company), but I tend to think that if the company fired her for -any- reason after formally filing a complaint like this, they'd open themselves to a very costly lawsuit and probably settle high just to make it go away. | 3 | [
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"body": "It doesn't matter if your boss likes or dislikes someone based on their race. What matters is whether or not race, age, gender or other protected attributes are used as a prerequisite for employee selection.\n\nIt doesn't matter if it's racism; that isn't the point. It's definitely discrimination, and it's definitely illegal.\n\nGet a copy of that memo, if possible. The fact that it seems to be corporate policy is a *big problem*, and that'll be both your (and your manager's) best defense against retaliation. Failing that, have your manager record the next phone conversation she has with her district manager, and have her bring it up. At that point, she'll have absolute proof of their policy, as well as her opposition to it, and their response.",
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[TOMT] Name of movie help... | The only thing I remember about the movie is this. Mother of parents died. Dad is about to remarry. The woman he is going to remarry is abusive to the children. They find out she killed their mother. On the wedding day, in her wedding dress she chases the children but ends up falling into some kind of well/construction and is strangled to death by her wedding dress. ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME. I think its from the 80's. | 5 | [
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"body": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic_(film)\n\n\"strangled by her wedding\" googled one and only correct result",
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Conviction Question: Is it a dealbreaker? | My fellow atheists, ag's and ig's...
If you find out the person you are dating is more than just a little religious, is that an automatic dealbreaker in the relationship?
I have a crazy teacher who has embraced all that is technology and wants us to ask a framed question with an open topic. I am not on any of the social sites so Reddit is all I have, thank Darwin. If a few of you could answer this question for me I'd appreciate it. I don't need a dissertation, just a yes/no, maybe a small caveat but nothing huge. I am positive this has been asked many times in the past however I have to go with my findings not previous findings. The inch long limb I'm stepping out on leads me to believe this will not be the last question I have for this group so I hope you can bear with me.
Edit - Yes I am responding to each answer and upvoting for the effort. (I just added to dictionary 'upvoting') My responses are also part of the assignment. This will be reported anonymously as I value the privacy of everyone else at least as much as I value my own.
Edit #2 - The lack of a space between the comma and "ag's" was pissing me off. I'll root out any other errors later. Thank you to all fellow members of Earth for responding thus far. The response has been excellent. | 9 | [
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"body": "My best friend, an agnostic and the nicest, kindest, most moral person ever to live was just dumped by his gf because \"God told her to\". Not answering the question per se, but offering a story. \r\n\r\nIn conclusion, Bryan rules. He deserves better than that...",
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"body": "It wouldn't be a dealbreaker for a relationship. It would be for marriage though. And I'd make sure to be buying good rubbers so I'd *know* they were going to do their job.\n\nI'll send you a bill for my participation in your poll. ;)",
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"body": "If I were just interested in something short-term, it wouldn't matter. I'd stay or leave based on how fulfilling the relationship was.\n\nIn the long term, it's a deal breaker, for one simple reason: kids. How do you raise the kids? I've seen marriages torn apart by this issue, and there's a constant trickle of posts in this subreddit by people who got married assuming that the issue would resolve itself.",
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"body": "Not a dealbreaker.\n\nI dated a girl who was very religious. -Not traditional, more like spiritual, aura, life energy, etc. Basically, a list of all the things I don't believe in would describe her beliefs. - But it wasn't a problem at all. In fact, that's how we met; at a party debating each other passionately. We had some great civil, respectful arguments. Only once or twice did it get awkward. Mostly, we both cared about the same kinds of things, we just approached them differently.\n\nWe ended up breaking up for other reasons. I wouldn't have had any ideological problems marrying or starting a family with her. ",
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"body": "yes, it would be a dealbreaker. i'm probably quite a bit older than most here, and in my younger days, i might have thought it wasn't. however, having been happily married for over a decade, i have to say, the most important thing is that you see eye to eye with your spouse on important issues. in my view, such a fundamental aspect of your life and how you see the world is likely to cause strife. life is difficult enough as it is without such an added flash point. just my $.02.",
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"body": "Depends on the religion, certain religious bents would be easier to get on with than others. Fundamental in your face religion would be very hard to deal with. A strong belief in spirituality would be okay...\n\nThe other thing is that religion is not something that can be taken in isolation. I respect free thinking, and someone who is more than just a little bit religious is probably going to annoy me on more fundamental grounds, they will probably be credulous, even willfully ignorant on a variety of topics. I would find this infuriating.\n\nThis would probably stop me from being able to connect with them on any meaningful level. If I can't connect with someone then I'm probably not really going to be able to get past the initial stages of the dating game.",
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Xenon headlamps suck and must be abolished. | So, I'm biking to classes today and it's already dark and the roads are icey. Every time one of these new cars with the "ultra bright" headlamps come I am blinded for a good couple of seconds and it's getting ridiculous. Today on my 10min ride I almost hit a car and popped the sidewalk. Couldn't they at least make them less bright or point downwards when in the city?!?!
</rant> | 112 | [
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"body": "Most of the time it's poorly adjusted lights. The lights should aim at the ground roughly 2 car lengths ahead of the car. Although in the case of those shitty Xenon bulbs, it's just way too bright. I hate driving at night because of them now.",
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"body": "Even worse are the fuckwits who have a second set of lights mounted on the bumper. FFS, in the city you can drive pretty much without headlights at all; visibility is not an issue - at least it isn't until I'm blined by some dickhead with a compensation problem.",
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"body": "The problem is that people install them into reflective housings instead of lensed housings like HID's were designed for.\n\nPutting them on your truck, chevy impala, old honda etc is really inconsiderate of other drivers and illegal in the US since HID's are only DOT approved for road use when they are in a housing that has a horizon cutoff.\n\nSo pretty much, if the car didn't come with HID's or doesn't have focusing lenses, don't be an asshole and buy xenons.\n\nedit: \nThis is the only acceptable cut-off pattern for Xenons. \nhttp://lh4.ggpht.com/_dyPdFBDFbq8/S0528vg3jtI/AAAAAAAAAXo/L2AcJ-swjCw/s1152/DSC02053.JPG\n\nAnything else is inconsiderate at best and typically just dangerous.",
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"body": "Yellow sunglasses help a lot. I wear yellow sunglasses when driving at night and I find it makes a huge difference with bright headlamps. The blue tinted ones turn greenish and get toned down a lot. At first you might think that a yellow tint would reduce your vision even more but it doesn't. I'm not sure if it's a complete explanation but the human eye is more sensitive to green wavelengths so shifting the predominantly blue hues that you see at night into the green gives you a higher perception of what's around you. ",
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"body": "I think the worst are when people who have older cars think \"man, I'm gonna to be so bad ass when I install these new HYPERWHITEBRITES.\" I kid you not, they aim them up to blind people. I almost wrecked because of some on a truck that was 4 feet in the air.",
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"body": "My favourite part is the chromatic pulsing from the refractors as they bounce over bumps. I thought the cops were trying to pull me over or pass one night until I realised it was just headlights.\n\nAfter 1200 clicks last weekend I was to the point where I would flash them for having \"high beams\" on. I'm just as blinded either way and maybe with enough repetition they will get the idea or die off.",
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"body": "Wish I still had the link to it, but I remember a NTSB study that found that given same-intensity levels, the basic yellow headlights illuminated the best, while expensive \"ultra-bright\" blue/white lights were not as good. IIRC the metric they used was % of light that made it back to the driver.",
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"body": "I hate those damn things. My wife has those on her car and they aren't too bad since her car is low to the road, but the friggin' SUVs with them are blinding. Why do you need 29857982759875 candle power headlights!!???",
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"body": "Solve the problem in this manner: Put your brights on. When asshole in SUV turns his on : Pull light lever in so that regular lights AND brights are on. When Suv driver sticks finger out window, turn on aircraft landing lights behind grille.",
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"body": "I do hate them. I think if properly adjusted they aren't too bad, but they usually aren't adjusted right.\n\nWhat sucks almost as much is the idiots who drive with their fog lights on all the time. Just because you have your low beams on doesn't mean you aren't blinding other drivers. They feel they can get away with it just because it isn't their highbeams. ",
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"body": "Well the problem doesn't lie with Xenon headlights, it mostly lies with retards self-installing 10,000K's into their old cars with shitty adjustment. My car came stock with self-leveling 4300K's (soft white hue) so they readjust every time I start the car. I've met similar cars on the road and it doesn't bother you at all.",
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"body": "I was making a left turn off of a highway once, and an opposing vehicle had them, and on high beams. blinded me and a went somewhat off road. lost my a/c. i hate them.",
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"body": "Pretty soon we'll just put arrays of led's directed at the other drivers eyes. Same effect but more energy efficient. ",
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"body": "A suggestion: It should be possible to obtain filter material that is the complementary color to those zenon lamps. Go for the gels that are used for filters on theatre lights. It would take some research to find out what the typical spectrum of those lights is and work out how to calculate the complement to it. Even a very dense vilter would not leave you night-blind because the the bluish frequency of light that it filters out would not account for a large portion of your night vision. This would result in a filter that allows you to see while blocking the light of those awful headlamps. If anyone here can help out with the research that will be appreciated. ",
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"body": "If they're in your eyes they're poorly adjusted, that's it. But my car is lower than most (stock suspension, just low) and every SUV/truck light goes RIGHT IN MY FUCKING EYES. No one ever gets pissed about this though. I almost want HIDs just to give you guys a little of what you give me each night.",
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"body": "I've got a car with factory-installed xenons. Every time I start it up, it does that nifty self-leveling dance.\n\nXenons without self leveling are very bad.",
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"body": "I've noticed police strobes have become so bright as to be blinding, too. I doubt it is necessary for them to be that bright.",
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"body": "Real HID lights are DOT approved and have a \"cut-off\" built in so that no light bleeds above a certain line. It's when people put HID bulbs into halogen housings you have problems. Light is thrown up too high and massive amounts of glare cause unsafe conditions for drivers of other cars. Basically it boils down to \"if the car came with it, it's fine and engineered to not blind you, but if you slap one in your 89 bronco you're gonna blind people\".",
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"body": "It's the SUVS/TRUCKS with Xenons now that are the problem, they're too high up and you get hit in the direct path. For the record REAL Xenons flicker blue to white as they approach you, because the blue(ish) light is actually a waste product. Fake bulbs only emit the blue light because they're stained, ironically resulting in less light output (for all the honda kiddies). After having Xenon lights for many years if I'm ever driving a car without them I'm terrified of the lack of visibility at any higher speeds.",
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Two months ago I quit smoking, two months ago I created this reddit.... We have now hit over 200 subscribers!! | I really want to thank everyone for the support, and congratulate everyone else who has quit! If you're thinking of quitting now is the time!
Also! Look at all the money I've saved! :D
I haven't smoked for 2 months, 1 week and 16 hours, saving 2,060.16 cigarettes and $618.04 .
How much have you saved? | 22 | [
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"body": "Congratulations redtaboo, I'm so proud of you! \n\nThose are some pretty staggering numbers. Just look at how much smoke you've kept out of your lungs and how much green you've put back into your pockets!",
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"body": "Yay redtaboo!\n\nStill a young 'un over here but I've managed to not smoke nearly 60 sticks and saved around $30 =)\n\nA lot of it has to do with the online community of quitters though, honestly! ",
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"body": "A sincere thank you RedTaboo! Finding this subreddit was the final straw that convinced me to give up smoking. That was 8 glorious smoke free days ago. Wish I could upvote a million times.",
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"body": "Congratulations redtaboo and everyone else.\n\nI haven't smoked for 2 months, 1 week and 5 days, saving 1,465.99 cigarettes and $439.79. Although I already spent the money :(",
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"body": "This subreddit is the only support I have gotten throughout my quitting, all my friends smoke, but thanks to the awesome people of this sub/r/ I am constantly inspired to keep off the cigs. Thanks everyone.",
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Reddit: How did you get used to taking straight shots? Can't do it for the life of me... | I suck at doing straight hard alcohol, even the light 20% stuff (Malibu, for instance). If anyone ever asks me to do shots with them, I'll pass it off OR choose to hold my nose and then immediately have a chaser afterward. | 4 | [
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"body": "if you don't like doing them, don't do them.\n\nif you *-want-* to be able to shoot like a champ, get yourself a bottle of bacardi 151 and practice at home. when you get to shooting that without even a wince, you can shoot anything... except maybe everclear... and rocket fuel.",
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"body": "Try some practice shots with good vodka (ruski standard platinum or something like that) well chilled. It should feel like water after a few.\r\n\r\nTo get used to hard alcohol in general get some Jack Daniels, put it in a whiskey glass, add a cube then savor it. Keep your nose in the glass and breathe the fumes and smells. When you sip it keep it in your mouth and move it around. Your mouth might go numb the first few times then you'll start feeling the great taste of Tennessee Whiskey.\r\n\r\nIf you do this 2 or 3 times you'll get used to alcohol for life.",
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"body": "I used to not be able to stand shots. Then one day I was drinking with a girl I liked, and apparently the social pressure not to have it bother me had a very real effect, as I started taking swigs from the bottle, and it genuinely hardly bothered me at all. Around this time I started drinking more frequently, which had the effect of making this tolerance persistent.\n\nNow that I've not been drinking much for about six months, I'm back to where I was before. I'm not much bothered by this because I've mostly sworn off alcohol in favour of pot, which is less unpleasant and less unhealthy.",
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How much traffic is Reddit getting from China right now? | Is Reddit able to get traffic from China? Is there an increase at this moment? I notice from Google Trends that China is not even in the [top 10 for searches](http://www.google.com/trends?q=google) related to Google (on Google, at least), but I know Baidu is the bigger search engine (thanks to Reddit research).
Is there some way to find out how much traffic from China that Reddit receives?
Or is asking this question going to possibly awaken the sleeping dragon and flag the Reddit site again, blocking it from [China search results](http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html) (it's not blocked at the moment)?
Thanks in advance :D
Edit: This are not Chinese government. All your base are belong to you (for now, kekekke). Ha ha ha ha.
Edit: A bit more [context](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ap4re/step_1_visit_wwwbaiducom_step_2_search_for_google/c0ip6ir) to what prompted the question. | 13 | [
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"body": "I just want to take a moment to praise chairman Hu. Such a great man. I like how the Chinese have not ordered my execution, what is there not to like about China as long as it stays like that?",
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Ladies, what do you mean when you say to your boyfriend "I want a cuddle/snuggle"? | My gf will sometimes say to me, after a long day, something along the lines of "let's go lie down, but I just want to cuddle". So I go and lie down with her, but always within about 30 minutes of cuddling little ianscuffling rears his ugly head and before I know it my hands are everywhere and it's BAM sexy time. Then afterwards she says "Naughty boy, I told you I just wanted a cuddle".
I am sure she is only joking but I'm starting to worry that she will just see me as a sex pest. Is a cuddle sometimes just a cuddle and should I calm down a bit? | 49 | [
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"body": "Usually when I say I just want cuddles I really just want cuddles right at that moment. But after 30 minutes of cuddles, I get kinda horny, and so cuddles often (not always) turns into sex.",
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"body": "It depends. Sometimes we girls really do just want to cuddle, in which case I generally make a point to wear sweats and stay away from my guy's stick shift, for fear of dropping it into drive, if you get my drift. If I'm looking for more naughty snuggling, then it's t shirt and panties and \"Snuggle my bum!!\" requests. It's all in how she reacts.",
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"body": "A tip I once got from a guy that was amazing with women, which I think applies here, is \"Don't change her mind, change her mood.\"\n\nWhat it means is she probably meant what she said to begin with (just wants to cuddle) but that's not a binding agreement. As you cuddle and her mood improves from doing so, she may very well start wanting sex.\n\nI wouldn't worry about it, actions speak louder than words. If she really didn't want to do anything, she would say so, or get actually mad at you after, not just make that little comment.",
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"body": "I don't think you should apologize for thinking your gf is sexy and wanting to have sex with her after doing some intimate touching. ",
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"body": "You could find out by letting Mr Happy ease down a bit, and see if Miss Happy decides to instigate... \n\n... and Im going to go out on a limb here and guess that chances are, she likes to cuddle and then she likes to get it on. But if she didn't ask for cuddles she might miss out on half of what she likes. ",
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"body": "You are a saint. My boyfriend refuses to cuddle because \"it's too much of a tease.\" Your girlfriend probably doesn't mind the sex, otherwise you'd know.",
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"body": "Usually if I just want to cuddle, we just cuddle. What I want in a cuddle is some spooning, kissing, and I like to scratch my boyfriend's back until he falls asleep. If neither of us can fall asleep, though, it's sexytaimmm ;D nais. ",
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"body": "Funny how you're double-bluffing yourself. (Is that a word?) You're assuming that she means some sort of innuendo since girls do that, and now that she said what she literally means you're confused.",
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Help with cafe/deli plan in australia for first timer? | After years of running other peoples restaurants in other parts of the world, I'm thinking long term about a cafe in Aus.. any help with business plan resources or wisdom to share? | 3 | [
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"body": "Have run a cafe in Aus:\n\n* the big question for you is where, as that will determine pretty much everything else",
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"body": "what he said................\n\nMelbourne has fantastic cafes and it's socially an interesting city. \n\nWhere I live in Sydney, you'll be choked by preposterous rents and council charges and worst of all try and make a profit if you've been taken over by soccer mums who leave their prams in the doorway and wanna sit all day on a pot of tea while their children paint their own shit on the walls (yeh it's happened to me).",
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I got hit by a car while riding my bike and the driver took off. Can reddit do some CSI and help me find out who it is? | Story:
This last Sunday at 10:30AM I was riding my bike in Mountain View, Ca. I went for a stroll northbound on Shoreline Blvd with my girlfriend running behind me where I came to the intersection of 101 and Shoreline. We were on the sidewalk in the direction that faces traffic. I hit the pedestrian button and waited for our turn to cross the intersection. When the light went green, and I got the signal to go in the crosswalk, I slowly started to go across with my girlfriend again running behind me. A car that was waiting to turn right was not looking, and took off hitting the backend of my bike. I spun around and was able to get my right foot down. My bike got twisted a bit and my left foot got stuck in the peddle. At this point I ripped my leg out to free myself and fall away. The car abruptly stopped, the driver looked stunned, and then they took off. Other people in the intersection that clearly witnessed it drove off without even offering help. Thankfully my girlfriend was there as a witness and was able to get all kinds of information. This is what she and I have put together:
White Male; Clean Cut; 23 - 35; Dark Hair; Wearing Dress Shirt
1992 to 1996 Black Honda Prelude
CA License Plate: 3GBT627 (This turned out to not be right)
What I have done so far:
I contacted the Mountain View police department and they came to me at the scene immediately. They were wonderful in all respects, the officer that assisted me was great. It turned out that the license plate number we jotted down was not correct. One thing is for sure, whatever the license plate was, it was VERY close to what I have listed above. The Mountain View Police said they would investigate it, I have not heard from them since.
Damage To Me:
My left knee is injured. I have an appointment this week to see my doctor to try to find out what got damaged. I am extremely disappointed regarding this because for the past four months I have been training for a marathon that is only three weeks away which I will have to cancel.
My bike is all twisted up. I cannot ride it and I use it as my primary mode of transportation.
Can anyone here help a fellow redditor?
Do you have the means to maybe find what the right license plate is? Can you get the guys info? Is there another way I should approach this? What else can I do to investigate this myself? Anyone here a PI and would be willing to take me as a client to find out who this person is? I suppose I am looking for answers if they are available or for advice that can lead me to these answers.
Thanks Reddit!
Here is a google maps sat view of the intersection... maybe it will help? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=N+Shoreline+Blvd,+Mountain+View,+Santa+Clara,+California+94043&sll=37.410034,-122.078201&sspn=0.003835,0.004908&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=N+Shoreline+Blvd,+Mountain+View,+Santa+Clara,+California+94043&ll=37.410593,-122.078156&spn=0.000959,0.001227&t=h&z=20
* edited to add what time it was that I got hit.
**01/13/09 8:15PM UPDATE:** I am just going to call it and say QuorumCall figured it out! My girlfriend verified the plate he suggested and it checks out as a 94 Prelude in the CA smog database! I will follow up with more details after I hear back from the police! Thank you everyone for your help. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it! I am a reddit fan for life! | 84 | [
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"body": "Perhaps 3GTB627 ?\n\nUsed relupa's link. Came up with a 1994 Honda Prelude, it's last smog check in 2009, which means someone's still driving it.",
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"body": "Look around the area to see what CCTV cameras may have recorded the vehicle's license / driver's face, then do what is necessary to get a copy of that recording. Use subpoena power if necessary. Hang out on that same corner during morning commute time with a camera ready - the person may have been going to work on a Sunday. Since you didn't say what time you were hit, so hang out during evening commute time - he may have been driving home from work. Hang out there on Sunday next around that time. Be the squeaky wheel at the police department and the city government. Be polite but firm about your resolve to inquire with them daily until they do the simple work of running a scan of the DMV database for vehicles with similar license plates and descriptions that are garaged in the area. Eventually they'll do it just to get you out of their hair. If you're feeling clever you can run a script against this site using a list of similar license plate numbers and see which ones match your description.\nhttp://www.bar.ca.gov/pubwebquery/Vehicle/PubTstQry.aspx",
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"body": "It might be helpful to furnish the police with a list of possible alternative license plate numbers... that at least gives them a place to start if their system is incapable of doing non-exact searches. Try to figure out which characters are easily confused when reading the plate under non-ideal circumstances (B vs 8, 6 vs G, etc).\n\nExamples:\n\n* 3G8T627 \n\n* 3CBT627 \n\n* 3GBTG27 \n\nAlso, depending on how it was captured, some characters might be reversed. Say, for instance, if someone read it aloud but was unable to commit it to writing for a minute or two.\n\nMost intersections these days also have cameras. If there was one at this location, even if it lacks the resolution to read the plate (probable), it may help police to pin down a more exact year on the car, further narrowing the possibilities.\n\nOne would hope the police would think of these things, but one should never assume that a stranger is clever.\n\nGood luck.\n\nedit: clarity",
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"body": "You can look up a car's California smog test history from the license plate number at:\r\nhttp://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/pubwebquery/Vehicle/PubTstQry.aspx\r\nThis will also give you the year and make of the car.\r\n\r\nFrom this, I found the license plate 3CBT627 is for a 1992 honda accord though it was last smogged in 1997.\r\n\r\nI'm not too far away from that location so I will keep a lookout for any black preludes.",
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"body": "When you go to the doctor make sure that you mention that you were in an accident if your state has no fault coverage laws. ALL of your medical bills should be paid through no fault insurance. \n\nDO NOT try and track this guy down yourself. Leaving the scene of an accident is indeed considered a serious crime so you should get a detective working on your case. I was involved in a similar accident with a yellow cab on my motorcycle in Manhattan. The witness actually got a partial plate, but through the process of elimination they were able to track down the cab and charge him. It should be fairly easy for the detective in your case to just plug in the possible plate numbers and cross reference that with vehicle registration data. As long as your witness wasn't a tweaker you should be OK. \n\nThanks to this jerkoff I now have limited mobility in my shoulder and a seemingly permanently swollen thumb. Needless to say, I have a lawsuit pending. \n\nOnce they track him down and charge him, you might have to make an additional statement to the police. Do not do this until you speak with a personal injury lawyer. The fact that this douche nozzle committed a crime directly after the accident makes your case a slam dunk. \n\nOh yeah, you should also stop posting on reddit unless your comments are verbatim from your police report. Why bother? The police will track the guy down and your lawyer will sue to recoup your losses and pain and suffering. \n\nLigament damage can lead to permanent issues with your knee. \n",
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"body": "All I can offer is some advice (which may or may not be 100% correct, but take it for what it's worth)\n\n\n1. *** Sunday 10:30 dress-shirt, he might have been coming from/going to church. Are there any nearby? If not, he may do the same route next weekend if you want to camp out**\n\n2. Also maybe talk to some local auto bodies if you think you made a good dent in his car.\n\n3. I'd imagine that a partial plate # would be much better than a complete but incorrect number. If she remembers it at all try to guess what is the least likely. edit: I wrote a matlab code that interchanged all combination of what I deemed to be similar looking letters/numbers, but I got like 2000 combination so I didn't post it.\n\n4. Did the plate have any picture on it?\n\n5. I strolled south on North Shore Blvd a bit. At 1022 it looks like some sort of restaurant? Maybe they have a camera. Also there's a stoplight there too - if he just panicked and took off maybe he ran a red. Someone, somewhere got it on a security camera, if you can find it you could probably pull some CSI shit.\n\nI found a site that lets you search cali license plates, but it wanted me to pay :(\n",
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"body": "If you have personal car insurance you are covered for all your medical bills. It is an oddity of insurance poli ces, but essentially it is considered a hit-and-run by a non-insured driver- giving you full med coverage. Call your insurance company and file a claim. They will also help investigate and quickly run a DMV report on the license plate. ",
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"body": "> My left knee is injured. I have an appointment this week to see my doctor to try to find out what got damaged. I am extremely disappointed regarding this because for the past four months I have been training for a marathon that is only three weeks away which I will have to cancel.\n\nHard luck man, hope it's not too bad. You never know, you might recover in time. Best of luck with it anyway.",
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"body": "I hope you find the guy, looks like reddit has provided some useful info.\n\nAlso, not trying to be a dick, but you are supposed to walk your bike across crosswalks.",
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"body": "I'm sorry to hear that happened, but glad that QuorumCall lent some brain to the issue.\n\nWell done, QuorumCall.\n\nI was hit at night and my bike was scraped, I was bloody and haven't fully healed, my arm is sore still. I was well lit (4 lights) and on the bike path (road side). They hit me, then accelerated and pulled into a garage for a condo with 50 units. They **knew** they hit me and they took off. ",
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"body": " I'm glad that you're relatively OK and that you're making progress on the search! I don't have anything to offer but I wanted to tell you that I empathize with your plight. Never forget that when you're on two wheels (motorcycle or pedal-power), you're a mouse in a cat's world. \n\n I hope you nail the fucker. Good job, Reddit. ",
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Short of memorizing the whole Qur'an, what surahs are the most important to know? | I'm just looking to get a sense of which are the most often-quoted. Obviously al-Fatiha is in that category, and I have heard that the last section of the Qur'an is as well. Does anyone have more advice about this? | 6 | [
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"body": "Shalom, friend!\n\nI'd suggest \"Al-Asr\" and anything in the last 30th of the Holy Qur'an, esp the last 60th.\n\nJust as a side, I suggest you read \"Yusuf\" with some concentration. That's a very powerful one. ",
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I say we send Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson to Haiti for a week to provide help, so they can experience the hardships for themselves. | I'm seeing both these talking heads say the worst of things about the Haitian population that is certainly hurting right now. You have Rush always making it a political (with a hint of racial) thing, and Pat always trying to justify natural disasters as being the fault of the people regardless of how impoverished they may be.
Seeing these comments from Rush and Pat purely make my blood boil. I'm not surprised to see those kind of comments from assholes like themselves, but because I doubt neither one has ever experienced even being poor on a level of the lower class in the USA, let alone a Haitian before the quake.
I challenge both Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson to take an economy flight to Haiti (might need to be by boat) for a week of helping these people. Just a week out of their busy schedules of screaming hatred to do something good for a change is all I ask.
Any suggestions? | 41 | [
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"body": "Remember when Rush was caught with unprescribed boner pills while on probation coming back from Dominican Republic a few years ago?\n\nDominican Republic is on the same island as Haiti. Chances are, Mr. Limbaugh was screwing the local underage sex slaves.",
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DAE have really bad eyesight? | Post your prescriptions!
I have astigmatism and I have a -6.50 in my right eye and -6.00 in my left for contact lenses. I am 22. | 17 | [
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"body": "I'm not sure what the prescription on my glasses are. There's a -7.50 on the box for my right contact lenses, so that's probably it. My glasses are slightly stronger and my left eye is worse.\n\nOne of my nightmares is actually breaking my glasses surrounded by strangers in an unfamiliar place. I pretty much can't function without 'em.",
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Reddit, met a girl on MSN, traveled across the world to come stay with her for a month, really interested in her, but no idea what to do | Been here for a week, we've spent every shared waking hour together going out, watching movies, etc. I really like her, but I don't know if she feels the same about me or what to do. Advice please. | 5 | [
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"body": "Dude, you are across the world! Enjoy yourself! Be awesome and have a great time with her. Be attentive to her. If she feels the same way, she'll reciprocate and then you'll know. Don't ruin this awesome trip by being insecure and needy.",
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"body": "So you traveled across the world to stay with her for a month ... I'll bet right now she is wondering why you would come all this way and not make a move. The next time you have a quiet moment, and she's looking at you not saying anything, just lean in and kiss her on the mouth.",
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Carl Zimmer's "evolution: The Triumph of an Idea" caused me to go atheist. | When I was still a fully-deluded mormon, I spent way more time than I *should have* reading science fiction instead of focusing all my study on the Book of Mormon.
Eventually, all this sci-fi reading had caused me to learn more than I was strictly comfortable with about evolution, coming from my creationist background.
Being a rational, though deluded, person, I decided to tackle this evolution thing once and for all. I did some internet searches, and found 'evolution' as the book that I should read. I was doing these searches in about 2007.
Going into my reading, I was fully armed with all the anti-evolution arguments, ready to apply all of them as I went along. Anything you've seen used to bash evolution, I knew about, and I was ready to pick up the hammer.
Still, my curiosity drove me to go ahead and read the book, just so I could learn fully about what the theory was actually saying.
Imagine my shock as Zimmer fully laid out the evidence for evolution, and every time I was about to apply anti-evolution thinking, Zimmer brought up the argument himself, and explained exactly why the argument was wrong.
Even more shocking, Zimmer generally showed who originally proposed the criticism, and that the criticism was unchanged since the original proposal.
Through the reading it also became crystal clear that while evolutionary theory itself had advanced, evolved, and grown over the 100 years since Darwin's work was published, the arguments against evolution had all been proposed within a few years of "Origin of Species", and hadn't evolved or advanced a bit!
I learned there were no 'new' anti-evolutionary theories. I learned each and every one that I'd heard in my life was old, stale, and competently refuted by evolutionists.
Now, at the end of the book, Zimmer bends over backwards to include religionists, and show ways to reconcile evolution and creation. For that I was grateful, after the blows my preconceived ideas had already taken throughout the book.
But less than a year after reading Zimmer's book, I made some connections about things that I knew.
For instance, I knew that the mormon church wasn't perfect, and I knew that the history of Christianity had issues as well. I had known these things for some years, but slight imperfections weren't enough to make me change my worldview.
Now that I understood evolution, however, and furthermore was well-equipped to defend evolution, the next time I had serious doubts about God I was able to say to myself "If there is no God... imperfections in Mormonism and Christianity make more sense... *and* evolution makes more sense!"
This moment for me, happened within 6 months of reading 'evolution'.
Incidentally, the thing that made me think about whether God existed was an atheist ranting, I believe on a UK-based skeptic blog or website, about why there is no good reason to believe in God. With what I now knew about evolution, in addition to my previous issues with religion, I couldn't refute his arguments and found myself agreeing with him. My faith was dead. | 11 | [
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"body": "Your story is the basic reason why there's such a strong pushback against evolution among strong Christians and the neocon/Straussian right who leverage the ignorance and gullibility of Christians into political power.\n\nWith naturalistic evolution, the role of Creator moves back from 6,000 or 50,000 years back to 15 billion years, essentially turning the Judeo-Christian creation story into bland deism with literally zero real-world (ie earthly) relevance.",
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What is more logical, driving on the left or on the right? | It would seem the left would be more logical to me, considering you can hold the wheel with your right hand and change gear with your left, and thus have more control... | 3 | [
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"body": "It makes more sense to drive on the right, given that it is best for the drivers position in the car to be the side closest to the center line of the road. Begin positioned at the left side of the car frees ones right hand (dominant in the majority of people) to tend to the radio, shift, etc.",
"score": 7
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How to get a date with a older girl? | I am 22, the girl I wanna date is 25. She is petite and as immature as I am. I mean we both work and study but we like also the same childish stuff with the exception of metal music.
What can I do to convince her? I have tried direct approach and haven't give any result yet. | 4 | [
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"body": "<Guy here>\n\nIf it's a 3-year spread beyond the drinking age, that's hardly a big deal; it'd be more prevalent if you were say 15 and she were 18.\n\nI say get to know her some more. What was your \"direct approach\"?",
"score": 3
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Hi proggit, I made a python script to backup your reddit comments/submissions | A user (Cthuloo) in the baconbits irc channel was asking for a script to backup reddit comments/submissions, I couldn't find one so i wrote a small python script that saves your comments and submissions as either json or xml.
If anyone else is interested the source is available at [http://pastie.org/private/risolndw033zi2w4xkcna](http://pastie.org/private/risolndw033zi2w4xkcna)
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"body": "There is an error in your code \"while not HASBACON:\", at what point will I not have bacon? Is there something you're not telling us?",
"score": 3
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Today I feel better about the life... (turned in to a Pokemon analogy and kept going ) | For the last couple years I've had this heavy feeling in my chest and a cynical out look on just about anything I did. I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to just about anyone at all, I didn't enjoy some of the normal things I used to do and would try to avoid pretty much any social contact. I had an anxiety attack several months ago and it was the strangest feeling in the world, I feel like part of that feeling has stayed with me every since. After a week of intense anxiety I started trying to get away from that feeling. www.panicend.com really helped me with it and finding that site was the turning point, I've been feeling a little bit better everyday.
I have an eccentric, silly, and goofy personality that some people didn't like or were critical of when they first met me and after being put down a couple times or criticized I started to try not being how I naturally am. I started getting anxiety over evey thing and I'd withdrawal in to myself very quickly telling myself, 'dont act like that, dont say this, dont say it this way' so all that would come out when I talk to people is, 'heh heh, yup. uh huh.' and trying to say things in the fewest words as possible.
The last couple months have been great, I woke up from a dream last night, I can't remember what was happening but I had the feeling that everything was alright. I went to work (where I sit by myself all day) and starting feeling overwhelmingly happy, I had to go out and jog for a bit to calm down from it. I didn't do any work and instead sang Gordon Lightfoot, and Paul Simon songs instead of opening up. I think I'm not used to feeling so good.
I'm not sure what the dream was about but I had this feeling that everyone is connected in a way, It's kinda like Pokemon, all of them have a different types (water, fire, grass, etc) and none are necessarily better than the other. Brock can brag all he wants about the strength his rock Pokemon, but all it takes is a water or grass to take him down. Maybe our society gently pushes us to try and be normal Pokemon (is there any pokemon that end up using only normal attacks all the way through? Anyways being normal works for Nidoking/queen but not for Charizard) so we end up only using 'tackle' and 'tail whip' through most of our lives instead of ever learning 'watergun' (Squirtle is learning a new ability, make room for watergun? 'ah no I don't think so, erm I probably shouldn't anyways').
There's no point getting down on your self for being an Oddish, but maybe it's not the best for you to surround yourself with Growlithes and Charmanders. If you're an Electabuzz don't go seeking out Poliwhirls, and Poliwhirls don't be sore when you get Thundershocked. If we all work and grow together as a team, each using your own qualities we may one day collect all the badges and become a Pokemon Champion!! (not talking about life and analogies anymore, now I'm getting in to purely Pokemon goals) | 21 | [
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"body": "> Every challenge along the way\r\n\r\n> With courage I will face\r\n\r\n> I will battle everyday\r\n\r\n> To claim my rightful place!\r\n\r\n> Come with me, the time is right!\r\n\r\n> There's no better team\r\n\r\n> Arm and arm, we'll win the fight!\r\n\r\n> It's always been a dream!\r\n\r\n\r\nGreat analogy and I hope that you continue to be happy! =)",
"score": 9
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2012 - Vote any party but republican or democrat. (At this point what the hell do we have to lose.) | We have got to tear power from these corrupt bureaucrats. We all know we hate something about both false parties. Lets just say screw it and vote Libertarian. HELL any party but the TWO. But lets all pick a THIRD party and knock the bastards out of power. At this point what the hell do we have to lose.
I, for one, will never vote against a party. I am going to vote for one. I choose Libertarian.
What say you? | 41 | [
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"body": "You see, the two party system is like a bad case of diarrhea. Something's badly wrong somewhere else, and as a result, you're stuck with a massive pile of shit. \n\nThe two-party system isn't the problem, it's a symptom. The problem itself is plurality voting, which according to [Duverger's Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law) (which is more a hypothesis) will naturally push toward a two-party system. So without some seriously remarkable circumstances - and the entire readership of a site like Reddit voting for a specific third party would not even come close to counting - the way to get out of the two party system is to change the voting system away from one that encourages people to vote AGAINST a candidate instead of for one.",
"score": 12
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"body": "I do feel (not stated as a fact, I could be wrong) that it is easier to make progress or at least stem disaster under Democrats than Republicans.\n\nI do sense that there is some tangible good done by having Democrats in office--things like the life-saving removal of aid being tied to abstinence-only stances being a small but significant example.\n\nI fear the results of Republican power on things like net neutrality and the sciences.\n\nI counter-propose that voting is clearly not a good enough tool, in this current political climate. I will keep voting and promoting the Dems, despite my serious grievances, while I look for more powerful tools, and more meaningful action.\n\nWe need better, smarter action, on the part of progressive citizens. We need to gain control of the debate, we need to treat each obstacle as a new challenge, not a reason to give up. We need to find ways, fast, to undermine the entrenched system; and not undermine like in conversational undercutting, I mean like in pulling the soil out from under a structure built on a hill. We need to be powerful, in smart ways, probably new ways.\n\nLetting the Republicans back in hampers all of that, more so than keeping the Dems in.\n\ntl,dr: I am seeking better tactics than just shooting myself in the foot.\n\n**edited** for clairity",
"score": 12
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"body": "Yeah, i knew democrats that said that because they thought Al Gore was too conservative.\n\nSo then they got George Bush - who attacked the wrong country, stood by while an American city flooded, an filled most job posts with ideological losers. Fuckers.",
"score": 8
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"body": "Do what you like in the *general* election... but the most effective way of getting rid of corrupt politicians is during their party primaries. (Well, except for Lieberman.)",
"score": 8
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"body": "problem is that unless everyone, or at least a majority, are convinced to vote for the same third party, the votes for the \"lesser of three evils\" and the middle of the three will be split. meaning the greater of the evils will win.\r\nnot saying i dont think its a good idea, its just not a logical one.",
"score": 6
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"body": "A vote voted for a candidate is NEVER a vote wasted! I've been a Republican most of my life, but for the past several years both sides are a JOKE. A freaking clown show. I'm totally libertarian, anyways.\n\n>edit waiting for the downvotes<",
"score": 6
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"body": "**Kodos:** It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.\n\n*murmurs*\n\n**Man1:** He's right, this is a two-party system.\n\n**Man2:** Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.\n\n**Kang:** Go ahead, throw your vote away.\n\n*Kang and Kodos laugh out loud*\n\n*Ross Perot smashes his \"Perot 96\" hat*\n\n[simpsons](http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F02.html)",
"score": 5
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"body": "I keep hoping enough people will get fed up and something like this will overtake the crooked politicians in Washington.\n",
"score": 3
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"body": "I choose not to waste my vote. It's too important. That's why I never vote for a Republican or Democrat.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Here's a better tactic to accomplish the same goal: Never vote for the incumbent. Once the seat is repeatedly contested, *then* a third party has a chance to take it. As an added bonus, even members of the established parties will broaden their platforms for the chance to represent you.",
"score": 3
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Girls of Reddit, how do I persuade my girlfriend into trying anal? | I've been trying for a while, I mean I just want to experience it but she is mega against the idea, but I was wondering if anyone had any GOOD experiences or tips that I could use towards my advantage | 3 | [
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"body": "You don't pressure someone you supposedly care about into doing things they don't want to do. Just, FYI.",
"score": 18
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"body": "If she doesn't wanna, she doesn't wanna.\n\nLive with it.\n\nhttp://regretfulmorning.com/2010/01/my-girlfriend-just-shit-during-anal-what-now/",
"score": 11
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"body": "Simple. Get a dildo the same size as your dick, lube it up and shove it up your ass. That way, she can see firsthand just how much fun it is!",
"score": 8
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"body": "I'm not a girl, but this is all it took for me.\n\nMe - We should try it.\n\nHer - No.\n\nMe - You think you're going to go your whole life without trying it?\n\nHer - Alright.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Start by teasing her ass with your finger when you're going down on her. There are a lot of sensitive nerve endings on the outside that feel REALLY good. If she seems okay with it, make sure it's lubed up and try putting just one finger in there. Once she becomes comfortable with that, you can work more anal play into your routine. Girl on top is the easiest way for beginners so she can control the speed/depth.",
"score": 4
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2x... I need some employment advice... | First off: I have no idea why I am asking the internet for advice, maybe I'm that depressed/ desperate right now. Secondly: I know this could go in other sub reddits, but I thought I would ask my favourite community.
I'm a female in my very early 20's, and I've recently moved to Australia from Canada. I graduated high school a few years ago with top grades, and went to Uni for a short stint, before getting sick and having to leave. Due to unfortunate events in my life, I still haven't been able to go back. Currently, I am living in a smallish town/ suburb thing-o outside of a major city. I have given a resume to almost every business in town, put my name out there, told people etc, and there's nothing. A lot of places won't hire me because I'm not an Australian citizen, and my working visa only allows me to work for 6 months at a time for one employer. In a little over half a year, I will be able to apply for a permanent visa, so I have a lot of long-term things happening, but the short-term is lacking. People also don't want to hire me because I don't fit into the "junior wage" bracket (even though I'd work for that right now if someone would hire me), and no one seems to want to take the risk of trying me out, even though I have a pretty decent resume (if I say so). I've done restaurant and retail management, mostly, with a sprinkle of other things. I have basic alcohol serving, and food safe training/ certs, but they aren't valid in Aus, and we can't afford for me to take these courses because money is so tight. Oh yea, my boyfriend has been paying all the bills, rent, groceries etc, on top of his high car payments. This isn't the issue though, I'm just trying to be crafty to find a way to make some cash on the side while I get a job.
(I feel really bad, by the way. I feel like a total bum living off my boyfriend. It really bothers me that I don't have my own income, and I've never had such a hard time getting a job before. He's been really good about it, but every day that goes by, part of me starts to panic more about how urgently I need a job.)
A web designer/ developer friend of mine, who owns a company that builds web sites, wants to make a comic site of sorts, and has asked me to help her come up with idea/ write material/ subject matter which is cool, but more of a long term and only *possible* source of any income, and likely unreliable.
I've signed up for a small account on Elance, as a provider, and I thought this might be a start to try to make some money. I'm totally lost though. I'm a total noob to something like this, and how it works, or where to get started. I should make some sample writtings for a portfolio, but I have no idea where to start, or what to write about. I know I could easily apply myself and make *something* even if it is to help pay my credit cards, or pay for some groceries, atleast.
So, in short. Any advice/ suggestions? Any stories that might just make me feel better? Anyone familiar with Elance enough to let me PM them some pestering noob questions?
(PS. I have been looking for a job here since September 09, and have handed out about 50 resumes. The longest I have ever been unemployed, before now, has been maybe a month, when my car was stolen and I was stuck in the middle of nowhere.) | 6 | [
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"body": "How do you feel about kids? Babysitting won't pay tons or be steady work, but it will also help you meet people who might be able to get you a job.\n\nThere should be a way for you to get cheap certification in CPR which might make you a more appealing hirer if you do go the babysitting route.\n\nAlso look into volunteer opportunities. They can sometimes lead to jobs, but more importantly you'll be meeting people who could help.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I don't have any decent advice for you, but I wanted to let you know you aren't alone. I'm also unemployed for the first time since I started working, have a pretty stellar resume, but am having no luck at the moment (it's only been about a month, though). I also happen to be new to an area where I have no connections or contacts. All I can say is don't give up hope, and keep on trying...good luck!",
"score": 3
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Ok Reddit, post a pic of you wearing your most favorite shirt. GO. | And please, no three wolf moon shirts.
EDIT: Dang, this turned out to be more popular than I thought, and I must say that I am duly impressed with both the men and women of Reddit. (Mostly the women though). I guess this means I'm gonna have to post a pic of mine!
EDIT: Post this into your address bar to see all the pics. Credit goes to rko123
javascript: var x= $(".content").find("a").each(function(){var href=$(this).attr("href");if((!$(this).hasClass("drowsapMorphed")) && ($(this).next(".drowsapMorphed").length==0) && href && (href.indexOf('imgur')>=0 || href.indexOf('jpeg')>=0 || href.indexOf('jpg')>=0 || href.indexOf('png')>=0)){var ext =(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0 && href.indexOf('jpg')<0 && href.indexOf('png')<0) ? '.jpg' :''; var img = $("<a class='drowsapMorphed' href='"+href+"' target='blank' style='display:block'><img style='display:block;max-width:780px;' src='"+href+ ext+"' /></a>");$(this).after(img);}});
EDIT: [And here is my current favorite.](http://i.imgur.com/2lLW0.jpg)
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"body": "obligatory javascript to view all photos on this page:\n\n javascript: var x= $(\".content\").find(\"a\").each(function(){var href=$(this).attr(\"href\");if((!$(this).hasClass(\"drowsapMorphed\")) && ($(this).next(\".drowsapMorphed\").length==0) && href && (href.indexOf('imgur')>=0 || href.indexOf('jpeg')>=0 || href.indexOf('jpg')>=0 || href.indexOf('png')>=0)){var ext =(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0 && href.indexOf('jpg')<0 && href.indexOf('png')<0) ? '.jpg' :''; var img = $(\"<a class='drowsapMorphed' href='\"+href+\"' target='blank' style='display:block'><img style='display:block;max-width:780px;' src='\"+href+ ext+\"' /></a>\");$(this).after(img);}});",
"score": 103
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"body": "[It's the truth.](http://imgur.com/cYaTm.jpg)\n\n*Edit: apologies for cell-phone quality. Also, resized smaller.*",
"score": 96
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"body": "My favorite only b/c I made it:\r\nFront: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3865/deerhead.jpg\r\nBack: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9013/reardeer.jpg\r\n",
"score": 86
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"body": "That would be [this](http://90percenttrue.com/images/cd.jpg). I found it on sale for $2 at a thrift store. On the back it says \"1994 World Tour\". I wear it to every concert I go to. ",
"score": 53
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"body": "[This one's called, \"Extreme Beginnings\"](http://i.imgur.com/4Kl1F.jpg)\n\nOh, and my [second favorite](http://www.threadless.com/product/576/Funkalicious)",
"score": 49
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"body": "http://i.imgur.com/SWGRY.jpg\n\nMy favorite because I got it at the Star Trek Experience in Vegas, before it was tragically shut down. :(",
"score": 45
},
{
"body": "[I chuckle every time I put it on.](http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/\\AUTOIMAGES\\TRCBS154lg.jpg)",
"score": 43
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"body": "I'm impressed by all the women of reddit posting here. Bravo. \n\n[Here's mine.](http://imgur.com/suywa.jpg)\n\n(Made it myself after trying to purchase the one I'd seen in a Bjork picture)",
"score": 43
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"body": "Mm, evolution is tasty.\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/My3Jh.jpg\n\nEdit: stupid [hair](http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/qc-evol.gif)",
"score": 40
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"body": "[After the wolf shirt, I guess...](http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs141.snc3/16851_1235276795882_1048050020_30687150_4243344_n.jpg)",
"score": 39
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"body": "[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Say No To Drugs!](http://imgur.com/VdD7f.jpg) I took the pic just now.",
"score": 32
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"body": "[You're A Good Man, Charlie Darwin](http://imgur.com/nkHZL).\n\nPurchase your very own [here](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TO&Category_Code=DC).\n\nEDIT: [This](http://imgur.com/nICXx.jpg) is my other favorite, but my friends make fun of me and tell me it looks like a bad tie from the '70s.\n\nDOUBLE EDIT: Ah, hell, we all know this is a contest and I'll never beat all these pretty reddit ladies!",
"score": 29
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"body": "[booze time!](http://imgur.com/rRwpz.jpg)\n\nFrom [http://www.sharingmachine.com/](http://www.sharingmachine.com/)",
"score": 28
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"body": "You can find my favorite shirt [here](http://mypartyshirt.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/n/o/no-2.png) .",
"score": 27
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"body": "I have [this](http://i.imgur.com/l5z3m.jpg) one. I only wear it when i know I won't run into children, or people with bad hearts.",
"score": 26
},
{
"body": "I may not be as geeky cool as you guys but I love my white sweater. [I feel pure, soft and cozy.](http://imgur.com/unA54)",
"score": 25
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"body": "http://imgur.com/2sEq1\nI've had this baby for eight years or so...brings me nothing but good luck whenever I need her. ",
"score": 22
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"body": "My fav EVER ... [FRONT](http://imgur.com/uh71G.jpg) [BACK](http://imgur.com/zlQ1o.jpg) ... and YES ... that is Mrs. koolaid in bondage riding Captain crunch like a pony ... and pinching his nipple ... ",
"score": 19
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"body": "[Popular, but still awesome :D](http://i.imgur.com/1cVjd.jpg)\n\nSorry you can't see the shirt that well...[here's the image](http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~pbrinson/images/Communist%20Party.gif)",
"score": 19
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"body": "http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs45/i/2009/077/a/c/ID_III_by_cainadamsson.jpg ftw. That is all i can say :) ",
"score": 18
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"body": "uploaded for whiskerino 2009, originally ( www.whiskerino.org/2009/beards/furricane/ )\n\nhttp://imgur.com/ywtmh.jpg",
"score": 18
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"body": "[Science geek shirts are the best!](http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/madscientist/aff5/zoom/)\n\n\n[But explosions and bears has to be a close second.](http://s3.amazonaws.com/wootsaleimages/X-treme_National_ParkdznDetail.png)",
"score": 14
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{
"body": "I just got a new camera a few hours ago. This is its first picture of a person and its first picture to turn up on the internet. http://imgur.com/9fS1H",
"score": 13
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"body": "[Here](http://imgur.com/Fhxin.jpg) is my favorite casual/comfort shirt, and [This](http://imgur.com/PWVG2.jpg) is for slightly more formal.",
"score": 13
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"body": "Very few pictures of me exist, and for good reason, but here is my [favorite shirt](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=RUMB-HUGS&Category_Code=RUMB) sans me.\n\nThe first one that was shipped to me had a hole in it, so it had to be returned, but it resulted in the [best customer service experience I've ever encountered](http://i.imgur.com/oDhlu.png). And yes, I really do use the Terminal theme.",
"score": 12
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"body": "[My favorite shirt.](http://imgur.com/zcCrQ.png)\n\nI'm pretty sure that T-shirt Hell no longer sells these, so I usually just keep it stored in a safe place.",
"score": 12
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"body": "My favorite isn't cute or clever. It's a wrinkled, faded, red and black [Honda](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31IqFWPG5eL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) shirt. ",
"score": 11
},
{
"body": "[This](http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/3d/f/AAAACwdQEKwAAAAAAD35-A.jpg) is what's on my favorite shirt.",
"score": 11
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"body": "[I made this shirt myself](http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs223.snc1/7023_1187194959859_1227840514_30624039_3477829_n.jpg)",
"score": 10
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"body": "everyone asks me if i made this shirt in my likeness, since i'm a photographer. but it was just fate that brought this shirt to me.\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/TaMvH.jpg\n\nbtw, i won that pool tournament.",
"score": 10
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"body": "[Balloon Crew](http://i.imgur.com/jlR6q.jpg)\n\nI've never owned another shirt that fits as well as this one. I like to make up stories about how I was in the Air Force on a team working on weaponizing balloons. I've never been able to get all the way through it, though.",
"score": 9
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"body": "[Very old shirt](http://i.imgur.com/HECLM.jpg) my brother got at the Nickelodeon store for $9 marked down from $50 something many many years ago. [Here's what makes it the best](http://i.imgur.com/MI7y5.jpg).",
"score": 9
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"body": "http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v196/222/88/667805276/n667805276_2669512_5730.jpg\n\nIt's a bit wrinkly here but it says \"FUN IS FOR ASSHOLES\"",
"score": 9
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"body": "[This](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=SMBC-DANGEROUS&Category_Code=SMBC-SHIRTS) is definitely my favorite shirt.",
"score": 8
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"body": "I'm not wearing it at the moment. But it's my favorite shirt for sure. I found it at a thrift store for 99cents. AND, I'm from the westside!!\n\n[front](http://imgur.com/ceIJL)\n\n[back](http://imgur.com/VsBrA)",
"score": 8
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"body": "Only [pic](http://i.imgur.com/rOxZH.jpg) I could find. It's the Smashing Pumpkins [Zero](http://i.imgur.com/zGJxc.jpg) shirt.\n\n\n\nJust to clarify. I look terrible because that was taken the morning after a hard night of booze and strippers. ",
"score": 8
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"body": "no wonder I can't stand you people. most of you are half my age.\n\nwhere is the reddit for old people",
"score": 8
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"body": "My favorite shirts for now. [Shirt 1](http://imgur.com/Bxhzu.jpg) [Shirt 2](http://imgur.com/XORvS.jpg) [Shirt 3](http://imgur.com/8oZeN.jpg)",
"score": 8
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{
"body": "that would be my [in Dude we trust](http://media.80stees.com/images/products/The_Big_Lebowski_In_Dude_We_Trust-T.jpg) shirt.",
"score": 8
},
{
"body": "A subtle shout-out to my favorite television program. [This is my favorite shirt.](http://imgur.com/j9fWJ.jpg)",
"score": 7
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{
"body": "http://www.rizzotees.com/bacon.html \n\nI'm not wearing it right this second, but I am wearing it in this picture. ",
"score": 7
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"body": "[cannibal](http://imgur.com/D3uPW.jpg)\n\nPoints of interest:\n\n* I'm a chef\n\n* Shirt obtained on one of the few islands still practicing cannibalism\n\n* It's 3 a.m. and I'm in bed on reddit in my favorite shirt",
"score": 7
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"body": "[Here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/29281036@N04/4273749750/) is my favorite shirt. I've had it for nearly 2 years.\n\n*edit: [imgur](http://imgur.com/2yfdO.jpg) for those using the script.",
"score": 6
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"body": "[this](http://www.redbubble.com/people/metrognome/t-shirts/1377302-11-goodbye-kitty) is probably my favorite.\n\nalso, have [this](http://www.cafepress.com/+orange_bear_t_shirt,8327021) one.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Keep in mind that this was taken years ago when I had no idea how to apply makeup. \n\n\nI think it's hilarious. \n\nhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/MadHatterTheLilly/l_0cb574a0388b5f5023d4ec696196fcf5.jpg\n",
"score": 5
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"body": "My absolute favorite of all time\n(shy of the dos equis bacon shirt down below)\nhttp://imgur.com/WzKaW&Qurpp&3CDCAl ",
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"body": "I don't mean to disappoint, but my favourite is a plain white.\n\nhttp://imgur.com/wZc9U.jpg\n\nAnd I love my panda sweat shirt to bits.\n\nhttp://imgur.com/qh6k2.jpg",
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"body": "I have the green on black version of [this one](http://www.threadless.com/product/205/Doin_My_Best#top). The ink started wearing out and people just thought it was part of the shirt.",
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"body": "My [gooooogle shirt](http://imgur.com/yRYP4.png) is my current favorite, but only cause I got it at the headquarters :D",
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"body": "Why do redditors insist on wearing such clever and/or ironic t-shirts? What happened to solid colors? :(",
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"body": "DAMN! I'm really late to this thread! :(\n\nI have to sing praises about my [Arcade Fire](http://imgur.com/iOS3f.png) shirt though. IT GLOWS IN THE DARK! ",
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"body": "No pic of me wearing it, but [this](http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC-EVOLUTION&Category_Code=QC) is my favorite.",
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"body": "Here is mine. [Front](http://imgur.com/Kb6vKl&wpI2Z) and [back](http://imgur.com/Kb6vK&wpI2Zl). Hurray for Powell's!",
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"body": "http://imgur.com/QLr1x.jpg\n\nHere's one of my favorite shirts. Only pic I got of it. For those who can't see it says: Chuck Norris Destroyed the Periodic Table Because He Only Recognizes The Element of Surprise!",
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"body": "[This](http://flyingphotog.com/CalShirt_Web.jpg) is one that I picked up at an Oaklandish booth. They have all sorts of fun(ny) t-shirts, some of which - like in this case - I can't really wear out often. It being late, I apologize for the crooked/forced smile.",
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"body": "[I don't like shirts with words on them, I prefer an auditory experience.](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2030024/photo.jpg)",
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"body": "[I just love this shirt so much.](http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=426181130&albumID=102275&imageID=17778085) It's colourful, it's soft, and people mistake me for a woman when I wear it. \n\nThat last one is more of a con than a pro, but fucking hell it's a nice shirt. ",
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"body": "[THREADLESS](http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs171.snc1/6409_1122961165879_1582590022_306074_5046464_n.jpg)",
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"body": "[Here's](http://i.imgur.com/1NDgv.jpg) mine. It's the [theobromine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine) molecule. You can get the shirt [here](http://www.moleculewear.com/chocolate-molecule-shirt.php).",
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"body": "Death From Above 1979 T-shirt: http://imgur.com/yyIQY.jpg\n\nI really love the simple yet hardcore design.",
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"body": "[My fav, so epic](http://www.imaginaryfoundation.com/index.php?pagemode=detail&type=mens%20t&uid=BB2FAC)",
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"body": "For all my fellow Star Wars fans:\n\n[front](http://imgur.com/LNQT4.jpg)\n[back](http://imgur.com/KsdlY.jpg)\n\nShows are: cancelled on Alderaan, acoustic set on Dagobah, rained out on Kamino, snowed out on Hoth, and TBD for the Death Star.",
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Gameplay and overall impressions. | I really want this game to be good. I don't have access to the Open Beta, so I would love some early feedback. | 7 | [
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"body": "I just made it to Eath's spacedock before being kicked for emergency maintenance. Here's a few things I loved:\n1. Space combat. It's certainly the best we've had in a Star Trek game so far.\n2. Customization. I absolutely love that I can rename and create a bio for my AI bridge officers. \n3. The \"feel\". I know, corny, but it FEELS like the Star Trek Universe to me. To appear in a starbase and the fist things I see out the window is a fleet of ships volleying photons at a Borg cube. Loved it.\n\nHere's what really bugged me:\n1. Your \"away team\" is terrible. They rarely did what I told them to and when they did it was too late.\n2. The bugs. I know, it's still in beta but there is a TON of rubberbanding and it's hard to shoot the bad guys when all of a sudden you're a foot behind them.\n3. The social aspects like chat and friends,etc is very wonky.\n\nI didn't jump onto Wow until after it'd already been out for over a year. Like vanel said, this game has a TON of potential. Here's hoping that it finds an audience and keeps getting updated because I'd love to see the best it becomes in a year or so.",
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"body": "I haven't played an mmo in quite a few years. After about 5 hours these are my impressions. \n\n1. Ground combat is severly lacking, the whole AI controlled \"away team\" needs major work. If they put a system in similar to the AI in FF12 it would be much better. \n\n2. Everything is an instance, this has pros and cons. I'm not really sure which it's leaning to more yet.\n\n3. Starship combat is fun, it's simplictic but has depth. This seems to me the selling point for the mmo. Someone compared it to the starfleet command series, which is a fair comparison, it's kind of a mix between bridge commander and starfleet command. \n\nThis game has a LOT of potential, it's definitely ready for launch, but I'll be curious to see the game 6-8 months down the road.",
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What's your stance on combining psychedelics? | I've been contemplating smoking some salvia on the comedown of an acid trip, but I'd like to hear what you chumps have to say about it first. I found a couple trip reports on erowid, and essentially all I got out of it is that it is rather mind-blowing, which is to be expected. Anybody out there ever tried this, or any other combinations of psychedelics? | 18 | [
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"body": "I once did exactly what you described, and smoked 100x salvia coming down from an lsd trip. It was the most profound, most visual trip I've ever had. To say the least, when I came out of it, I thought I was in a different universe than the one I left before the salvia hit. The insight while tripping was also hugely interesting.",
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"body": "IF you care to really do your research on this idea\nknow that there's been a few deaths from people mixing some RC with other active molecules in the past. Some of these people were simply just plain stupid and reckless while others were better experienced and still made what turned out to be a deadly error. \n\nPersonally, I think that LSD is perfectly fine on it's own and needs not any addition by any other substance (with the exception of MDMA)\n\n\nIf you wish to know more, I suggest you read the published texts from **DM Turner**. Who before his death wrote the **The Essential Psychedelic Guide**.\nI spoke to him a few months before his death at a gathering of various speakers in San Francisco. He was a brilliant and friendly person that might have also been extremely lonely in his real life. A life where he pushed the envelope with combinations of different \"exotic\" molecules well before the RC scene emerged.",
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"body": "I really like doing hits of nitrous during an lsd trip. And of course MDMA plus LSD or mushrooms is wonderful. I've only smoked salvia a couple times and never while tripping, but if I had some around during a fry I would give it a try. ",
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"body": "There's always a point I come across while tripping where I cease to know what the fuck is going on. My experiences with high doses of mushrooms and acid + mushrooms combined have led me to this conclusion. Most of the time I don't even remember what I revelations I come across, knowing that that least they'll be stored subconsciously. I can only imagine that salvia+lsd will be vastly beyond all comprehension and retention. \n\nAnyhow, what's important is getting something out of psychedelics... not just using them as an escape. ",
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DAE suck at telling stories | I leave out vital pieces of information, put details out of order, and fuck up in every other conceivable way when telling stories. Yet I know some people who can make the most mundane things sound amazing when they're telling the story. | 82 | [
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"body": "I leave the story telling to my pathological liar friend. Since I've known him all my life, and know he lies, he'll add me into some completely exaggerated shit in return for not ratting him out. It works out for the both of us. Ah friendship.",
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"body": "I always end up finishing my stories with \"and then I found 5 dollars\" or \"the end\" because by that point I have fucked up the story so badly.",
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"body": "No, I'm great at telling stories!\n\nLike this one time, me and this one friend of mine were down by this other friend's house (this was after his accident) (the first friend i mean) and the third friend that was there (there were 4 of us there) and then his sister comes in (not the friend who had an accident) and the she left, but then my one friend (not the one who had the accident and not the one who didn't have an accident, which is the one that had the sister) said something in the voice of that one cartoon guy, you know who I'm talking about. The one with that catchphrase that's all like...uhh well I can't do it. You just had to have been there.\n\nit was sweet.",
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"body": "Without beer or weed: I am awful at relaying any sort of happening to even one person.\n\nWith beer: I'm excellent at capturing the essence of the action of a story, reaching a climax, and ending it. Effective on groups of up to three people.\n\nWith weed: I can entertain an entire room recounting even the most trivial tale by focusing on the details that make the story immersive and entertaining.\n\nWith both: I cannot even carry on a conversation without laughing or possibly farting inappropriately. Usually I do not mix the two.",
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Has anyone ever rented a commercial space to live in? | The idea is intriguing: office/warehouse space is generally cheaper than a similarly-sized apartment/house. If you've done this or know someone who has, what are the benefits and drawbacks? Is the idea worth further exploration? | 21 | [
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"body": "I currently live in 6,000 sq ft of warehouse/office space with 2 loading docks. This is the ultimate living space. On the weekends when apartments and subdivisions are full of kids and assholes my industrial park is deserted. When I went through my having a rave every weekend phase the cops came after another guy living in the building called to bitch about the noise. The cops told him to stop bothering me.",
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"body": "It's all about having: (in this order)\n1. A shitter 2. shower 3. sink 4. stove 5. hot water.\nI have all but the hot water.",
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"body": "I would be very careful considering a warehouse space. What was the space used for? Was it used to store PCB's? Industrial waste? Radioactive Medical Waste? Asbestos insulation & pipe wrapping? There is a lot of nasty stuff being stored that can leak and cause health problems following long exposure. Who would you look to to pay the bills if the space makes you sick?\n\nA store front or office space would be a much safer option.",
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"body": " I lived in something like that in my younger days. The set up was brilliant, as the landlord could rent the units out as 4 bedroom apartments or a 4 'office' office with kitchenette. There were 3 in a row and we had the middle one.\n\n By the time we got off work the business were generally closed. Makes for quit neighbors. On days off it wasn't much of a problem either.\n\n The drawbacks were, the hot water tank was way to small and there were no washer/dry hookups. Other then that, it wasn't a bad place for 3 roommates.",
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"body": "Depends where you live and also typically zoning does not allow you live/work in industrial-designated areas. Also, some places charge higher rates in property tax on commercial, which is passed along to you.",
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"body": "The way the economy' going there's more and more businesses closing shop. Be a good time to get a deal on commercial space. Garage type places will cost a lot to heat.",
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Hit by a car with no insurance - Advice? | First off, nothing's broken. I was lucky enough to land in some snow. It was completely the car's fault, he had a stop sign, I didn't. I've only got about 100 bucks worth of damage (Handlebars & front wheel need replacement.) I was wondering if anybody has any experience in this situation. I called 911 right away and was carted to the hospital. I don't really know what happened to the driver after that. | 10 | [
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"body": "File a police report asap. Your car insurance might cover your expenses. I was hit by a car, and no questions asked, they said they'd put $2000 down towards medical. Also, if your policy covers un-insured motorists, you might be able to get them to pay to replace your parts. Go to a bike shop and have them do a check on your bike and write up everything that was damaged or might have been damaged. Send this to you insurance company. (E.g., if you have a carbon fork with no visible damage, they should write it up because it's no longer safe to ride). ",
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First run-in with Boosters | I've only been playing for a few weeks, so maybe I just haven't noticed anyone else doing it. I ran into a room and there was one of my teammates with two of the enemy and they all turned and looked at me like I walked in on mommy and daddy during special time. I followed him around after that and he kept going back to this spot to kill his friends. He ended up with 75+ kills and the game ended with a nuke. How do you guys deal with boosters besides quitting the lobby? This was on xbl, no surprises. | 6 | [
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"body": "Gah, boosters. The bane of Free-for-All. I reckon about 20-30% of FFA games have some form of boosting going on. I've been nuked a few too many times, so when I notice some artificial scores I usually try and track them down before they get 25 kills.\n\nI now have a class designed just for dealing with boosters - essentially Cold Blooded + SitRep. Cold Blooded allows you to evade any air support they might call in, and SitRep will highlight their Tactical Insertion through walls. Check the remote corners of maps, track down their hiding spots and kill 'em - then wait for the tactical insertion respawn - and kill 'em again. ",
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"body": "Er just quit the lobby I guess... standard 'Ah crap not Derail I ain't playing that shit snipefest' scenariio, then quit.",
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"body": "Unfortunately if the \"boostee\" is on your team you can't do much about it aside from trying to kill his friends before he does. You could have tried to beat him to that spot and kill his friends before he got there. But yeah, boosters like that suck.",
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How do I become better at drawing? | I really enjoy art (in general), and I get down when I realize I can't draw worth a damn, since I enjoy cartoons and animation, as well as portraits and scenery.
I am a very left-brained individual, so the best I can do is pretty much crap. I would really enjoy being able to draw well, because it seems that people put so much emphasis on formulas and equations and coursework in general, that the fine arts get disregarded in the mix. | 3 | [
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"body": "Find the book, Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain, by Betty Edwards, better yet, check it out of the library. You only need to read about three or four chapters...then practice as much and as often as you can.",
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How do I deal with my existential crisis? | I've recently been having a horrible bout of nihilism. I'm only 19 years old, but all I can think about is how meaningless everything is in the context of the physical universe. I'm hoping this is just a phase because I can't imagine living the rest of my life with this underlying feeling of insignificance in everything I do.
Has anyone else dealt with an existential crisis such as this and gone on to not have it constantly in the back of your mind? | 3 | [
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"body": "I went through the same thing about a year ago, but then I realized that even though a single life or moment or what have you in the larger scheme of things doesn't matter in relation to the physical universe, things have meaning because we give them context and substance. In the larger picture, the universe isn't always as important in our every day life as the menial. ",
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IAmA gal sitting quarantined in a hospital with meningitis. :( | Well.....i had been a bit sick with a sinus infection when i got a really bad headache. The pain radiated down my neck and to my spine. It felt like i had threw my back out or something. The pain proceeded to get so bad that no kind of otc pain meds would work. I woke up in the middle of the night crying and moaning in pain.
I was taken to the ER where they did a spinal tap among other tests and im just waiting to see if its viral or the more deadly bacterial. Ive been in the hospital for 1 day already and after many drugs, im feeling a lot better. My spine and neck still hurt. ask me anything...
**edit**: Okay, so thy say it is just viral. BUT i also have a bladder infection. so..i still am on antibiotic. The pain is awful and its looking like im going to be here another day.
**Edit2** Well ive been released. Im still in lots of pain so ive been given percocets. Not sure how they think im better since im still in a lot of pain. Im supposed to be back to normal by tuesday. We'll see. Thanks for all the well wishes. It was awful, just awful. Please wash your hands often because i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy. I rather have been waterboarded. ;) | 23 | [
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"body": "Oh dear! That's awful. Well...although you're still in pain, I have to say at least you're in a hospital!! Meningitis is not something to be messed with as I'm sure you know. :( Here's hoping it's just viral! Get well soon :)",
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I'm ~20 and I want to spend this summer at an outdoors camp, learning outdoors skills. Suggestions? | I really love being outdoors, but my knowledge of wilderness survival is practically nonexistant. I would be happy to pay for a summer experience where I could be taught things like how to make a fire and how to cook outdoors as well as gain experience hiking and camping outdoors. Being with others who were interested in the outdoors would also be highly enjoyable for me.
I am having trouble finding a program that suits my needs. LifeSong has some cool camps [(link)](http://www.lifesongadventures.com/) but they are either too intense or for teenagers (14-17 years of age). Other programs that I have found are for troubled youth. While I could be happy at such a program, I would be uncomfortable during the regularly scheduled therapy sessions.
Does anyone have suggestions as to programs that might suit my needs?
Cheers.
EDIT: I live in Arkansas (USA) in the summer and Rhode Island during the other time. I didn't initially list my location because I am willing to fly to other areas for a good program.
EDIT: I would prefer to spend <1k on the "course", and I'd like for it to be at least 2 weeks. | 13 | [
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"body": "I'd highly recommend National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), sometimes called the \"Harvard of outdoor education.\" It's based in Wyoming, but has several branches in the western U.S., Alaska, and other countries. It's simply the best place to learn real skills, rather than hokey \"survival fantasy\" stuff.",
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Anyone here familiar with the legend that is Chris Kamara? | I just thought I'd highlight one of the funniest guys in football. There's a campaign on Facebook now to get Chris Kamara to do commentary on FIFA 11, one I fully support (along with the "Jimmy Bullard on the FIFA 11 cover" campaign).
He's a true legend of English football.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5T-ItZc8TA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXe9u-t226I | 8 | [
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"body": "Kammy and Jeff Stelling make Saturdays bearable on sky sports news. I wish I could buy them both a beer.",
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What does it take to have a successful (small) vegetable garden? | Thought I might as well put one substantive question in this subreddit...
It seems to me that the world would be much improved by a multicentric attitude towards produce. I've never had a garden of my own before, and I'm curious about what kind of plants to grow and when.
I'll eat anything, so my personal veggie preferences aren't really an issue. What plants can I plant to put the most food on my plate for the longest?
I live in Davis, CA. I figure I could plant a couple varieties of lettuce to spread it across multiple growing seasons. I also know that tomatoes put out a ton of fruit for quite awhile. Are there winter veggies and fruits that would grow in my climate?
My backyard is about the size of my living room, btw, but it gets plenty of sunlight and rain.
I'll update this as I find my own answers; I'm sure there are resources online for this kind of thing.
[EDIT] **I hope to make at least a start at this over the weekend. I'll try and post pics. If anyone else wants to join me, report back here and post links to your own pictures! This is the kind of thing I started this community for :)** | 6 | [
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"body": "For production of greens out of a small area, I recommend items that can be harvested over a long time. For example, a cabbage takes up space for 2-5 months and gives one (admittedly heavy) harvest, while collards (a type of loose leaf cabbage) can be harvested leaf by leaf over a period of most of a year in your climate.\n\nSome particularly productive leaf greens in your area...\n\nCollards, Kale (specifically Sutherlin http://www.sustainableseedco.com/sutherlin.html), Swiss Chard\n\nSome productive \"calorie crops\".\n\nPotatoes, quinoia, amaranth, dry beans (about 1 lb per 16 sqft well grown), fava beans (winter crop for you), beets and turnips and carrots.\n\nOthers...\n\nPeppers, tomatoes and eggplants can be hugly productive where you live but have a rather short harvest period. Dehydrated tomatos, peppers and eggplants can last all winter, summer squash can be shredded and frozen, winter squash will last fine as it is until next spring (for winter squash I recommend either \"buttercup\" or \"sweet meat\")\n\nGreen beans will produce massive amounts of food in a small space. A 20' row of climbing green beans might put out something on the order of a pound a week right up until the first frost.\n\nRandom tips....\n\nCotton seed meal is cheap, can be bought from farm supply stores and is a fantastic organic fertilizer. Add a little bone meal (3 to 1 ratio) and you can grow anything.\n\nStrong garlic tea makes a great fungicide.\n\nA little dish soap in water makes a great insecticide for aphids.\n\n10% milk solution (can be powdered milk) can keep powdery mildew at bay on squash for months\n\nEDIT #1: \nPiracicaba Broccoli (http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/SeedsOrderItem.php?id=3327&listname=Broccoli) is awesome for a small garden. It never produces a big head, but puts out sprouts for months and months. a 4'x4' planting will let two people have broccoli once a week for most of a year.\n\n",
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What does it take to grow a (small) veggie garden that will produce food for much of the year? | This is a question as well as a plug for a new subreddit, www.reddit/r/dosomething. If you know good plants to grow that will produce a lot of food, or veggies that grow outside of the typical growing season, I hope you'll head over to this question at http://www.reddit.com/r/dosomething/comments/apc01/what_does_it_take_to_have_a_successful_small/ and spread the knowledge! If you know of a good book or website, that would help too. | 16 | [
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"body": "Space: you don't want to crowd your plants\n\nDirt: with fertilizer. They need nutrients and such. Make sure you mix the fertilizer with the soil well (I wouldn't expect you to have a rototiller, but it will be a lot of work without one)\n\nIrrigation: spread the water evenly. Get a simple drip hose and make sure that it reaches all of your plants. Some need more water than others, so make sure you use it for the minimum and then supplement it for the thirstier plants\n\nPlanning: know what crops will survive in your environment and climate, when they would need to be harvested, and in what concentration they would be harvested. \n\nSun: make sure they can get as much sun as possible. If you're building next to a fence, considering mirroring the fence so that the light reflects onto the other side of the plants, and they aren't adversely affected by the shade.\n\n",
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"body": "Well, if what you are growing is legal, put it outdoors in flower pots.\r\nI have grown everything in flower pots. Just a few flower pots will make a lot of vegetables.\r\nIt takes a little more water than planting in the ground but you can rotate the plants so they get full sun and you will not have bare spots.\r\nOne night I woke up and the cops were on my sidewalk with flashlights looking in my tomato and pepper plants to see if I had weed growing in with them.\r\n",
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Ask WATMM: When do you get a sample cleared? | I make some beats, I sample stuff. I'm sure many of you do too.
When is it time to get a sample cleared? At what point is it necessary? I know Girl Talk and other big mashup / whole sale lyric infringers do it guerilla style, but when do you need to clear a sample and when not?
If it's been sampled by a big artist before, and it is not "the main part" is it already cleared? How abstract does the sample need to be?
I know this is all legal grey area and the only way to be sure is to lawyer it from orbit (or take the slightly more risky but much cheaper clearing house route). But lawyers and sample clearing is expensive for me. What do you do?
**Edit**: wow, only 4 sentences that don't end with a question mark.
**TL;DR** : what up with sampling legality? | 4 | [
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"body": "If you're a big artist like say the prodigy, it'll be done before the track is ever released, if it's a small independent release I wouldn't even bother. But if it looks like it's about to blow up, then you'd need to reconsider. \n\nDrums on their own, I wouldn't even bother clearing.\n\nAnd don't think for one minute you can fool one of those musicology sample clearance guys if it come down to the wire either. I did a two step tune a few years ago that sampled the intro to Tracey Chapman's 'Fast Car' which was blowing up, so I approached her for clearance and she said no. \n\nWe had it re-played, but, to be honest, it wasn't the same so I underpinned it with the original and I swear it was so low in the mix you couldn't even hear it, it was also chopped, recycled and some of the notes had been reversed. It gave a flavour of the original but not the sound, if you know what I mean. \n\nThe sample clearance guy from Polydor spotted it instantly within about a second of it coming in he was like, nope the original's still in there, it'll have to come out. So I took it out. I left in one of the reversed notes however to take it into the chorus, you're talking milliseconds here, he spotted that immediately too. He also mentioned that the high hat loop had come from a Sly and the family stone track. It had, but how the fuck he knew that I will never know, it was the B-side from an obscure track I'd forgotten I'd even sampled. Not a problem though, he said he didn't really care about drum loops\n\nHats off to this guy, he did his job, and he did it fucking well. \n\nFTR: I love having my own work sampled, I think it's an honour. The Pet shop boys sampled one of my beats and used it in their live show for two years, I was absolutely fucking stoked. ",
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Today I ran for 20 minutes on the treadmill at a -5 incline. It felt great. My previous record was 4 minutes on 0 incline. I'm very over-weight. Negative incline felt great. | I love the negative incline treadmill at the gym. I've been used to walking at a slow pace, then running a little bit and becoming so taxed that I'd have to slow down to a snail's crawl. I like to do the "Grand Tetons" setting....walking up to a 50 incline and then back down. I like the challenge and the work out. But today's running felt great. My heartbeat was up to 160/170 for a full 16 minutes.
I'm going to be sore tomorrow.
Edit: Okay. I'm sore. But I only really noticed the soreness when I decided to go downstairs at work to lunch. The top of my legs hurt so much. :) | 54 | [
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"body": "Errr... I'm confused. How do you avoid falling off if you're both\n\na) on a decline\n\nb) moving \"forward\"\n\n\nedit: wait, no. I'm stupid. Congrats!",
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"body": "Good job, but let me give you some advice.... first off i would recommend something easier which you can do for longer.. such as the cross trainer; to start burning the actual \"fat\" you have on you so to say you need to do at least 30 minutes before it starts, you should aim to 45 that be ideal!! Your HBPM should be at a steady 150. Anyway let me us know how it goes!",
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"body": "Whatever keeps you going is fine, obviously there is always a 'better' way... but a way that's sustainable is important. Nice going!",
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"body": "you should be throwing in some mustard greens and spinach in your diet to keep your system flushed. Make sure to keep up with glucosamine and fish oil for your joints. I'd definitely say mix it up with a recumbent bike and swimming. You'll be in love with your body in no time. ",
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"body": "good job. be careful though, that can put alot of stress on your knees and make your shins hurt like a mofo. you might want to add some biking or swimming (a great full body aerobic workout) to the mix if possible.\n\nedit: i agree with what andoo said.",
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"body": "You should keep at it for longer. Spend 45 minutes on the treadmill. You can do it - it is okay to run and walk. Try to go for 1-3 minutes running and 1 minute walking, and repeat for the entire 45 minutes. If this is too difficult for you right now, then switch to 1 minute running and 2 minutes walking. \n\nCalories burnt is mostly a function of your weight and the distance you covered. For me at 215 lbs, I burn over 700 calories in 45 minutes, which is pretty significant. \n\nYou don't have to train for a marathon but this method of training can help you with going longer distances.\n\nhttp://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/walk_breaks.html\n\n\nI promise you it is a lot more rewarding to go the whole 45 minutes even with walk breaks. The walk breaks let your muscles rest a bit and you usually don't even get out of breath at the end of the 45 minutes, and you don't really get nearly as sore either. \n\nIt's good that you're training cardio, and you should keep challenging yourself. ",
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"body": "I'd say be careful, if you are very over weight then pushing yourself too far too fast can get you hurt and set you back. Your knees are your weak point and if you have access to an elliptical machine I would suggest working on that instead (assuming by very overweight you really do mean very over weight).",
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Dear Reddit, How many showers/baths do you take a day? | This came up at work today. I am a female, mid 20's. I say one shower a day is fine, a woman sitting next to me seem appalled at the idea of less than 3. What is your take on this? Please say if you are male or female. | 4 | [
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"body": "On average, less than one. I am male. She takes at least 3 showers? If she lived in my house I'd have no choice but to kill her. ",
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"body": "I'm female and I shower every other day or so. More if I am active or go to the gym less if I am just hanging out at home or school. \n\nI'm appalled at the state my skin would be in if I washed it three times a day. I'm pretty sure that it would just peel off completely like a snake. ",
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Safari keeps crashing with flash, and I have searched the web and I still cannot figure out why. | So I have Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) and the latest Flash player (10.0.22.87) and ClickToFlash running on Snow Leopard macbook pro.
Every time I try to load a page that has a flash component (even those blacklisted on ClickToFlash), beachball of death. No way out of it.
I have tried clearing safari, reinstalling safari and flash, uninstalling 10 and installing flash 9, and no luck with anything.
Anyone have any advice?
I'm about ready to "repair permissions" for the hell of it at this point.... :) | 15 | [
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"body": "Adobe released a flash 10.1 beta. It cleared up most of the problems I wa having with flash. There was a reddit post about it about a weeks\n ago.",
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I am a reality TV producer. AMA | I have produced shows for NBC, ABC, MTV, CW, WB, TVLand. I can't name the shows but will tell you anything you want to know. | 14 | [
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"body": "I've always had this theory that reality TV show producers that make trash like Laguna Beach, Jersey Shore, etc etc were actually brilliant Harvard grads or whatever that were totally aware of the bullshit they were making, but having an utter blast while doing so. As in, they knew they weren't making anything worthwhile, but while they were at it, they were going to make the best trash they could come up with. Is there any actual evidence to back up my theory, or am I in for a let down?",
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"body": "Can you make sure the next survivor is either Siberia or South Central?\n\nAlso can you explain the selection criteria you used to get candidates for your show? ",
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"body": "How often do you only show one side of a person's character for effect, when that might not be a true representation of that person?",
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"body": "You know those annoying talking head sequences where the people make vapid commentary on something happening in the show? When are those shot? Some set time later in the day or do they pull cast members aside shortly afterward to talk about it? ",
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"body": "Do you ever slip he said/she said comments to people to stir up drama?\n\nWithout going into too much detail obviously, what is the craziest thing a person has done on a show you've produced?",
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"body": "How much would you say Andrew Zimmern of [Bizarre Foods](http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_Foods) makes?\n\nHow are the stars of reality tv shows compensated typically? Salary + good ratings bonus?",
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"body": "YOU MUST DIE!! Hopefully slowly and painfully. Or, stop producing fucking shit that no-one apart from stupid 13 year old girls and bored housewives wants to watch.",
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"body": "Now, I know it's your job and so I've nothing to hold against you for that. But that being said, neither your, nor I, nor anyone here is going to argue that reality TV is \"good TV\", or perhaps a better phrasing would be \"worthwhile TV\" in that it does not offer in any way a fulfilling experience, let alone a realistic portrayal of the \"situations\" they pretend to orchestrate. Reality TV has done a lot of fucking up.\n\nMy question is simply, do you ever feel at least a little responsible for the reduction in quality programming since the reality boom started? I understand that television is a business and businesses need to make money, but do you ever feel guilt for at least allowing for the lowering of standards?\n\nAgain, I'm sorry. This is in no way a personal attack. You are most welcome to (and should be) proud of your creative work. Let's just not pretend that reality television is good television, yeah?",
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New truth revealed about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE! | I was recently reading Arnold's filmography when I came upon a mind-shattering fact. Here's how I discovered the true meaning behind the governor.
His latest movie is The Expendables. Nothing too shocking about that title. Then I scrolled down. Collateral Damage? Hmm... End of Days... Eraser... The Terminator... Oh my god.
It hit me like a bag of bricks.
Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are names for abortions.
I recoiled in shock. Total Recall. Red Heat. Raw Deal. The puzzle pieces snapped together as the big picture revealed itself.
Predator.
Kindergarten Cop.
Conan the Destroyer.
I immediately sat back in my chair. The awe of this realization hit me like a freight train. Here is the conspiracy. Here is the truth. I realized I could help spread the truth, and I have brought the truth to reddit. I can now depart, but not before one final line.
Hasta la vista, baby. | 40 | [
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"body": "Thank you for using sheeple in the title so that just about everyone could know you're a retard without reading your entire abortion of a point.",
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Hey RedditSC, in memory of GomTV lets make a collection of all your favourite Gom Starcraft games | Be it favourite commentary, craziest cheese or all out brilliant micro, id love to know :) If you can, try not to post something thats already been posted! | 25 | [
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"body": "http://www.gomtv.net/classics3/vod/697\n\nThis was the first competitive Starcraft game that I ever watched. Still my favourite.",
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"body": "[Boxer v Baxter Game 2 from Season 2](http://www.gomtv.net/classics2/vod/305)\n\nThis is the game that really got me into watching pro Starcraft.",
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How can we justify a system of morals without a belief in God? | It seems to me that the purpose and execution of a system of morals is to say that somethings are "good" while other things are "bad". In a world without God or some higher power or purpose defining these for us who are we to define them for ourselves?
Some may suggest that social or individual welfare are the ultimate good. Others evolution and progress. Another order and the diminishing of Chaos. Some might say love. Who's to say who is right?
An example- If there is no God, no soul, then I am completely subject to my genes and environment. Nature and nurture play their course to make me who I am. If this is true then I had the exact same probability of being born Hitler, Hannibal Lecter, or Jesus Christ. (their genes, circumstances etc) as I had of being born as me. Then who am I to judge what they did? If I would have done the same? | 4 | [
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"body": "It is very likely that there is no God. \n\nMorals exist because society functions better when people cooperate and don't cause trouble for each other. We've operated under this principle for long enough that it has surely affected our genes, and surely affected the development of our amazing brains.\n\nThis is one of those ridiculous theistic trolling attempts, like the, \"If we were all atheist there would be no rules!\" bullshit.\n\nMorals exist because they do. Under different circumstances, different moral codes develop, which you can witness for yourself by studying other cultures, especially those that are most different from our Western industrialized society.\n\nThe moral code under which you live is likely a combination of your genes, your upbringing, and some level of choice that you are making on a day to day basis regarding your actions. In a cosmic sense, perhaps it is true that Hitler \"had no choice\" but to be Hitler; that it was predetermined from the moment of the Big Bang that the string of probabilities between then and now includes an Adolf Hitler, and that he would be a son of a bitch.\n\nBut I think these are two different debates that are difficult to meld together, and it may be philosophically useless to do so. There are people on this planet. They are presented with choices. Whether free will is an illusion or not, it is a useful illusion if one is attempting to build a cohesive society. If it is illusion, it is an illusion that has served us well.",
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"body": "> In a world without God or some higher power or purpose defining these for us **who are we to define them for ourselves?**\n\nWell, see, here's the thing: We're already living in a world that \\[very probably\\] doesn't have a \"God\"; that is to say, the morals that you are attributing to a \"higher power\" are *already* just morals that *humans* have themselves formulated.\n\nIn fact, I proffer that the \"God\" concept makes human morality worse than it could be: Religions encourage the strict following of rules, which ultimately stifles a person's ability to think critically about *each* decision within the full context of the situation; people begin shoehorning complex issues into completely inadequate systems of understanding.\n\n> Then who am I to judge what they did? If I would have done the same?\n\nThen judge not the individual, but the individual's conditions.",
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"body": "I don't think including a deity into the equation actually helps with the problem: we'd still have to make the judgment of whether to accept that deity's set of morals or not. \n\n> If this is true then I had the exact same probability of being born Hitler, Hannibal Lecter, or Jesus Christ. (their genes, circumstances etc) as I had of being born as me\n\nI ...don't think that's an accurate view of the probabilities involved at all.",
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"body": "How did God decide what what is right an wrong? Were the rules randomly drawn from a hat? Could the rules suddenly change?\n\nThe question of is there morality without God is like asking if there would be mathematics without math instructors.\n\n\n",
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"body": ">In a world without God or some higher power or purpose defining these for us who are we to define them for ourselves?...Who's to say who is right?\r\n\r\nEven if there is a god, who decides whether or not to accept his/her moral teachings? Who ultimately decides to accept that *these* are his/her teachings whereas *those* aren't? Who decides that *these* teachings have been superceded by the new teachings but *those* teachings haven't? Ultimately you're responsible **in either case**.\r\n\r\nWithout leaning on the existence of a deity, we have moral intuitions, we have rational thought and we have social rules and customs. These appear to be sufficient.\r\n\r\nEthics isn't necessarily about \"the ultimate good\" so much as it is about right action - no one has to be right about whether love or order or progress or social welfare is \"the ultimate good\" - we just need to behave with consideration of our impact on others. \r\n\r\nIf you're genuinely interested in ethical questions rather than simply asking rhetorical questions in order to promote your own agenda (which seems more likely), there's a ton of literature on the subject. May I recommend the early Platonic dialogues for a start - what is justice? what is piety?",
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What's your "lift morale" movie? | When you feel down, in a bad mood, depressed for no particular reason, what do like to watch to inject some happy? | 20 | [
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"body": "At the risk of pissing off that guy who told everyone on here to stop mentioning this...The Big Lebowski will always cheer me up",
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"body": "\"Almost Famous,\" preferably the untitled Director's Cut. If I'm the one guy in the audience not getting off, that movie finds me and *makes* me get off. Actually, *that* you can print.",
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"body": "**HOOK.** \"Rufio, if I'm a maggot burger why don't you eat me! You two-toned zebra-headed, slime-coated, pimple-farmin' paramecium brain, munchin' on your own mucus, suffering from Peter Pan envy!",
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DAE do nothing all day but wait for people to notice them? | I mean like... I check my email. I check my dating-website account. I check my facebook. I check my reddit account for orangred or even a single upvote. over. and over. and over. So many times a day. It's all just wanting to see a reply, or a message, or an acknowledgement of any kind. LOTS of people do this don't they? It's not just me?... That's.... crazy.
OH AND BELIEVE ME. I'll be obssessively-compulsively checking this account for acknowledgement.
EDIT: YES! AN UPVOTE. FUCK I wish this would get like, A MILLION upvotes. That would make me feel amazing. WTF is wrong with me???
EDIT: Whoop! I saw's it on the front page! YAY! I'm a whole and healty human now! | 288 | [
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"body": "I used to, but then I realized something: being dependent on the actions of other people, even in a digital environment, is a shitty way to live your life. Instead of waiting for someone else to make a counter-action to your action, how about going out and MAKING something happen for yourself?\n\nSitting in front of a computer is not exactly the best way to communicate with fellow humans. Go to a bar, or a park, or a coffee shop, or somewhere where it's easy to strike up a conversation with a perfect stranger. Talking to people you don't know easily puts that sense of needing to be noticed on the backburner, and also has lots of redeeming qualities! And there are literally billions of strangers out there just waiting to share new and exciting information with you. Bad stranger? Move along to the next. There's always somebody new.\n\nMy point is, instead of passively waiting, be the one that everyone waits on because you're always acting.\n\nI believe in you, fellow Redditor.",
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"body": "I do this too. Sometimes I'll close reddit, open a fresh tab with the intent to check something else, then go back to reddit before I realize what I'm doing. Have an orangered and I've upvoted all your comments in the thread.\n\nEdit: Hell, I've upvoted everyone in the thread.",
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"body": "Yes - I am mentally pathetic. I don't like to initiate conversations, in public or electronically. In my mind, we (Person X - anyone, a friend or stranger - and I) are equally to blame, as he/she is making no more of an effort than I am to initiate communication or friendship. I am also mentally prohibited from taking on the responsibility of initiating the communication, as in my mind, such an act would be intrinsic proof that the other person does not desire to communicate with me as much as I desire to communicate with him/her, and I do not wish to engage in such an interpersonal relationship with anyone.\n\nWhile I am able to overcome these mental roadblocks, and I appear to be well-adjusted and normal, and I appear to be unphased by the existence of these concerns which are apparent to no one, these feelings still remain, and they are shit. However, sometimes they will get the better of me. Sometimes I will sit in a bar, alone, actually wishing for accompaniment. More often, I will refrain from \"reconnecting with an old friend\" on the internet - if they do not wish to reconnect with me, why should I desire such a potentially one-sided friendship? But that's stupid. Someone has to make the first move, and it means nothing. Sometimes, I will see an attractive person of the opposite sex, and would rather wait to be approached than do the approaching - not because I am shy, but rather for the aforestated reasoning (which is actually, in fact, perhaps a type of shyness).\n\nDoes any of this make sense to anyone else? Of course it does. However, it's nice to summarize it all so neatly.",
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"body": "If someone doesn't come up to me and announce how great I am within two hours of my waking up I simply take my pants off and wear them upon my head. works a trick. ",
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"body": "I'm a musician, and I love posting just like little beats and shit I make on my facebook, soundcloud, thesixtyone, some random forums etc. \n\nI don't even care if people like it or not, i just want someone to listen to it. Usually they go uncommented\n\nps: http://synthesizershaikh.com\n\nbut my newest little song is this http://soundcloud.com/synthesizershaikh/jazzy-postrock-something\n\n",
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"body": "I do this, too.\r\n\r\nWhen I'm at work, I check my hotmail...my gmail...my reddit...I can't check FB, but I check my email to see my comments on Facebook...start loop over.\r\n\r\nI get a few random texts from friends throughout the day, too. \r\n\r\nI don't feel bad if I have a slow day, but I enjoy the acknowledgement. ",
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"body": "I just wrote a ridiculously long comment but deleted it all after realizing it had turned into a big sob story about how much it sucks being intelligent and craving intimacy and connection with people but having that need go continuously unmet for very long periods of time. \n\nAnyway, have an upvote and an orangered and know that you are not crazy, and at least for just this one little second, you are not alone. ",
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"body": "If you really like acknowledgement, you can take it upon yourself to broadcast the best parts of the internet to facebook then wait for comments/likes.",
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"body": "Yeah but you know, I knew what I was getting into when I went down the \"living statue\" career path, so I guess I've just got to put up with it. Have an upvote and an orangered :)",
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What concise sources of information are out there on Anarchism? | I like reading about the topic to a point, but it seems like most sources out there present incredible walls of text. Take the Anarchism FAQs: there are several topics I would love to read on, but I can't justify spending 20+ minutes reading one article on some Anarchist minutiae. I have homework to do after all! Where do I find the Cliff Notes? | 8 | [
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"body": "I'm not exactly sure how concise of an explanation you are looking for, but I hope the following helps.\n\nBasic Principles of Anarchism: http://question-everything.mahost.org/Socio-Politics/BasicAnarchy.html",
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Can a power of 2 ever be divisible by 3? | A person wrote on Facebook that they are 1/3rd Haitian as a joke. I wonder if it is actually possible to be 1/3rd something, and I assume this is how you set up the equations, and then find their intersection (if any). So if anybody has a tool to solve it, you'd satisfy a tiny itch. | 3 | [
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"body": "Take some arbitrary power of 2, 2ⁿ (n >=1). If you prime factorize it, it will be written 2 * 2 * 2 ... (with n 2s). For it to be divisible by 3, a 3 would have to show up in the prime factorization (e.g., 12 = 2 * 2 * 3). So in short, no. A power of 2 can never be divisible by 3.",
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"body": "If you went back in time and became your own grandparent, and one of your 3 other grandparents was Haitian, then you'd be 1/3 Haitian.\n\ne.g. [Futurama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_That_Ends_Well)",
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"body": "You could be arbitrarily close to 1/3rd Haitian if, say, your dad was fully not Haitian, your mom's dad was fully Haitian, your mom's mom's dad was not Haitian, your mom's mom's mom's dad was Haitian, [and so on](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system#Fractions_in_binary).\n\n*Edit:* That is, if your family tree looks like this. Numbers indicate Haitian-ness.\n\n . .\n . .\n | | \n . 1 --+-- 1/3\n . |\n | |\n . 0 --+-- 2/3\n . |\n | |\n . 1 --+-- 1/3\n . |\n | |\n 0 --+-- 2/3\n |\n |\n 1/3 <--- You",
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"body": "Boo claims that the number is very large. Larger, maybe, then the number of butts that Minsc has deservedly kicked along the way. I find this hard to believe, even though Boo is usually very reliable in these matters. ",
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"body": "To answer your other question (1/3rd) Haitian you'd first have to assume that is a well defined thing. But if you do and it were say a genetic thing then yes that's possible.\r\n\r\nYou get half of your genes from your father and half from your mother, but not necessarily 1/4 from each grandparent. So you could in theory have 1/3 of your genes from one grandparent who is Haitian. Thus making you 1/3rd Haitian (assuming if you could do it this way- which really you can't since these things are so ambiguous to have no real meaning).",
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"body": "Another possibility is pedigree collapse.\n\nA sick variant is that his parents are half-siblings because they share one Haitian father.\n\nA less sick variant is that his parents are cousins, say, 3 times removed, because out of their great-grandparents, 5 were Haitian, and one fathered grandparents on both sides of the family tree, so there are 15 total.\n\nSo 1/3 of the ancestors are Haitian. One way to look at it is to say that Haitian genes were doubled so he's still more than 1/3 Haitian. Another way is to count the ancestors at some level, then you get a clean 1/3.",
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Hey Archireddit, do you guys know of any internship opportunities for high school students? | Obviously at an architecture (or engineering, really) firm. Specifically in the NYC area... It would be awesome if you guys could help me out. | 4 | [
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"body": "The bad news: everything they used to get aspiring architects in high school to do, they now give to college co-op and intern students. Everything that was an intern job is now given to grad students. And so on up the line. Your best bet is to research and visit a small firm, where someone can hire you to do busywork without a lot of red tape. You could also go to an architecture summer daycamp (they exist! check out local architecture colleges like Pratt) for the experience and fun of it.\n\n--If you're an art person: show up, talk to someone, and have a mini-portfolio of your best work with you in case they ask to see it. Talk to a couple of teachers beforehand in case you can get their recommendation.\n\n--If you're a sneaky person: it might be easier to call them up and ask to do a mini-career-interview \"as a project for my pre-engineering/architecture class\" (ask your teacher to assign it for extra-credit so you're honest). Ask the engineer or architect how they got started. Call later and ask if there's someone they can recommend you to.\n\n--If you're an engineering person: are you thinking about civil or architectural engineering? I was like that, and now I'm studying civil engineering. I'm also more of a programming person so I work a lot with CAD and mapping. Anyhow, I'd suggest playing around with a free program like Maya or SketchUp so you're familiar with those concepts. Find schematics of something and make it into a 3D model. I remember using the diagrams in [this book](http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Imagineering-Behind-Dreams/dp/0786883723/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263434587&sr=8-1) and having some fun with it.",
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Does zigzagging diagonally across a square still equal the distance of two sides when the zigzags are infinitely small? | My friend thought of this today as he was walking. If you zigzag through blocks it's still the same distance as only turning once at the vertex. But, mathematically, would a diagonal line with infinitely small sides still equal this distance? He thinks it always equals the two sides...
If you take the limit of (two sides)/(n) times (n) as n approaches infinity, you would still have the distance of the two sides left over. But if the sides of the zigzags are infinitely small, the width of the line would also be infinitely small so wouldn't the zigzags turn into a straight diagonal line? I see this similarly to .9 reoccurring, it seems like it should never reach 1 but it's still equal to 1. | 26 | [
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"body": "So here's the part I have never understood about this. Several posters have claimed below that this argument shows that the limit operator and the length operator do not commute. Fine.\n\nBut many legitimate mathematical arguments seem to depend on the fact that they *do* commute, at least some of the time. For example, suppose we would like to calculate π, the length of the perimeter of the unit circle. One well-known method for doing this, due to Archimedes, is to inscribe an *n*-gon in the circle and calculate the perimeter of the *n*-gon. As *n* increases, claims Archimedes, the *n*-gon approaches the circle, and its perimeter approaches π. \n\nAnd in fact Archimedes is correct. So why does it work for an *n*-gon inscribed in a circle, but not for a zigzag drawn along the diagonal of a square?",
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"body": "You have a sequence of zigzag \"curves\" `C_n`, which converge to the diagonal line `C` (whatever that means, exactly, but I assure you that they do actually converge to the diagonal line in some meaningful sense).\n\nYou were hoping that the following would be true.\nLet \"`lim`\" be short for \"limit as n approaches infinity\".\n\n length ( lim ( C_n ) ) = lim ( length ( C_n ) )\n\nUnfortunately, it's not, by the very reasoning you gave.\nLet's use the unit square for simplicity.\n`length(C_n) = 2` for each n, so the RHS is equal to `2`.\nBut, `C = lim(C_n)` is the diagonal line, so the LHS is `sqrt(2)`.\n\nThis is just one of those cases where you cannot exchange the limit sign with something else in general.",
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"body": "Assuming the concept of \"infinitely small\" exists for this argument:\nWhen you follow the two sides, you have 1 large deviation from the ideal diagonal. As the zigzags become smaller, the amount that they deviate from the diagonal decreases, but the number of deviations increase. So, by the time you're down to an infinitely small zigzag, you have an infinite number of these zigzags that are \"infinitely small\", but still zigzagging.",
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"body": "The limit of the length of the path as the size of each zig approaches zero is 2, not sqrt(2). That is because it is the limit of the sequence 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2...\n\nThere is no such thing as an \"infinitely small\" side. All you can do is talk about what happens as the sides get arbitrarily small.",
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"body": "This question comes up about once a month on every math forum everywhere. The short answers:\n\n1) Yes, if the zigzags *were* \"infinitely small\" then the length would be reduced by a factor of sqrt(2).\n\n2) This is OK because the length of a curve is not a continuous function.\n\n3) \"Infinitely small\" makes no sense in the real world, so this is a non-issue.",
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TF2 Update - January 13th, 2009 | Important changes in *italics*
**Additions**
* Various improvements to Spy disguise and feign death
* Disguise weapons copying weapons with special animation requirements (Sword, FaN) now look correct
* Spies now play the appropriate death cry on feign death based on the corpse that appears
* Feigning death can now play custom death animations like a normal death (head loss, sniper shot, backstab, etc)
* Feigning death due to explosive damage now has a chance to gib, like a normal death
* Corpses from a feign death now use the correct wearable behavior (hats stay on, or fall off as they should)
* The weapons dropped by feign death corpses now have appropriate physics and collision for their type
* Combat text for damage done to Spies that feign death will now show the un-modified damage amount
* Fixed Spies that feign death while disguised as enemy spies dropping fake ragdolls wearing a mask
* Fixed a couple of physics issues on ragdolls created by feign death
* *Added convars to further customize the "play a hit sound whenever you injure an enemy" option*
* tf\_dingaling\_volume". Sets the volume of the hit sound
* tf\_dingaling\_pitchmindmg". Sets the desired pitch of the hit sound when a minor damage hit is done
* tf\_dingaling\_pitchmaxdmg". Sets the desired pitch of the hit sound when a major damage hit is done
* *tf\_dingaling\_wav\_override". Specifies an optional custom wav hit sound. If unspecified, the default ding sound is used*
* *Added Medic Ubersaw kill taunt*
* Added backstab death animations for Scout, Spy, Medic, Demo, Engineer, and Pyro. All death animations have a 25% chance to play
* Updated various localization strings
**Changes**
* Removed the clamps on the "viewmodel\_fov" convar
* Added "viewmodel\_fov\_demo", a convar that controls viewmodel fov during demo playback
* Force-a-Nature will now correctly knock back players on the ground
* Increased minimum damage required for the Force-a-Nature to cause a knockback from 30 to 40
* *Changed the Direct Hit to only minicrit enemies that have been launched into the air by an explosion*
* *Increased the rate of the Soldier's Rage generation by 40%*
* *Reduced the duration of the Soldier's Buff Banner effect from 14 seconds to 10*
* *Reduced the explosive damage resistance on the Chargin' Targe to 50%*
**Fixes**
* Fixed the Scout's legs twisting out of shape during a double jump
* Fixed player models popping up and then down when they duck during a jump
* *Fixed Sniper rifle not penetrating friendlies*
* Fixed Bonk! Atomic Punch phase effect
* Fixed rockets not being removed if they explode in func\_nogrenades zones
* *Fixed the Sandman being able to bat balls through doors*
* *Fixed the Gunboats absorbing damage from the Soldier's grenade kill taunt*
* Fixed the naming of non-unique quality unique items (Community Kritzkriegs, etc)
* Minor fixes to the crafting UI
* Changed the item layout in the crafting panel to better fit the backpack panel
* Each 1 of the 4 crafting pages now shows half of 1 of the 2 backpack pages
* Fixed the crafting panel next/prev page buttons being hard to use while dragging
* Fixed the "equipped" label in the item panels stealing the mouse focus from the item panel itself
**Updated Novint Falcon settings (no effect on non-Falcon players)**
* Recoil/Reload force added for the Direct Hit rocket launcher
* Recoil/Reload force added for the Scottish Resistance sticky bomb launcher
* More defined flesh hit force added for the Equalizer pick axe
* More defined flesh hit/world hit force added for the Eyelander sword
* Added swing forces for Eyelander sword
* Added appropriate trumpet forces for Blu Buff Banner
* Added appropriate trumpet forces for Red Buff Banner
* Shotgun reload for Heavy & Pyro changed to feel more appropriate now
* Changed Huntsman pullback force so that it goes in the right direction (was still pulling as if the Huntsman was on the left hand side of the screen, which was default until a later update) | 78 | [
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"body": "> January 13th, **2009**\n\nWell I'll be damned. The engy update is definitely going to have time travel.",
"score": 56
},
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"body": "> Fixed Sniper rifle not penetrating friendlies\n\n\nOH GOD YES, FINALLY \nedit: Too many times have I \"missed\" headshot because somebody stepped in front of me. No more!",
"score": 50
},
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"body": "> Feigning death can now play custom death animations like a normal death (**head loss**, sniper shot, backstab, etc)\r\n\r\nwait wait wait... head loss? seriously? how did the spy feign his death? *pretend* to lose his head?\r\n\r\n...I love Team Fortress 2",
"score": 19
},
{
"body": "Thank you for actually properly formatting it, instead of just racing to post it in a sloppy copy and paste job",
"score": 17
},
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"body": "> Fixed the Gunboats absorbing damage from the Soldier's grenade kill taunt\n\nNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO",
"score": 16
},
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"body": "> Changed the Direct Hit to only minicrit enemies that have been launched into the air by an explosion\n\nFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU",
"score": 10
},
{
"body": "Does anyone have a WAV for the Quake III damage sound? That ding is fucking annoying.\n\nedit: Should have googled it. Found it for y'all. http://www.fpsbanana.com/sounds/10038",
"score": 7
},
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"body": ">Added Medic Ubersaw kill taunt\n\nZis makes me so very very happy!\n\nI haff heard rumors zat it charges ze über by 50 percent. Can anyone confirm zis? It vould make mein day even betta!",
"score": 4
},
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"body": "It would really be great if they nerfed the direct hit, it can 1 hit kill any light class which pisses me off to no end because you have no chance in fighting back.",
"score": 3
},
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"body": ">Added Medic Ubersaw kill taunt\n\nUbersaw got a buff, effectively? Not complaining, it sounds awesome.",
"score": 3
},
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"body": "> The weapons dropped by feign death corpses now have appropriate physics and collision for their type\r\n\r\nCan the weapons be picked up for metal/ammo?",
"score": 3
}
]
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I am new to Demon's Souls. Any tips? | I recently picked up Demon's souls. I played through the tutorial and part of the first level. Is there anything you wish you would have known when you first started playing the game?
So far I know little about it. I get that I'm a ghost or something and when I kill people I get their souls. There's a market area in limbo-land where I can spend the souls to upgrade my gear.
I get that If you die you leave a bloodspot and if you don't get back to that bloodspot without dying you lose the souls you originally had.
Other than that and the basic mechanics of the game I don't really know much.
What's this I hear about getting your body back? How does that work? | 10 | [
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"body": "Equip yourself with an anti-stress ball. I mean it.\n\nThe [wiki](http://demonssouls.wikidot.com) is a good starting point.\n\nI've been playing it for some hours now and the best tip I can give you is that you should use the right tool for the job. For example on World 4 I went with a mace and it was a piece of cake since blunt is the week point of the skeletons. In like an hour I collected 30000 souls and leveled up several times.\nAlso have a bow with you, all the time. Ah and after killing a boss exchange it's soul for more souls, AFAIK you can get amazing items when giving it to some NPCs.\n\nGL\n",
"score": 9
},
{
"body": "The game is hard, but it's reasonable. Most of the issues that people have are due to greed. Get the miracle that returns you with all your souls to nexus ASAP. As soon as you have enough souls to level, return. Don't try to explore new areas with 5x a level's worth of souls with you. Losing souls is not the end of the world, and you get them much faster later on. People get frustrated not because the game is that hard, but because they're used to playing games as a demi-god. You're mortal, act like it. Dying is not a big deal, and most of the time you can recollect your souls as long as you don't press forward too much.\n\nhttp://demonssouls.wikidot.com/\n\nThat website will give you the info you need to properly upgrade your equipment. Read the part about crystal geckos so that you can be prepared when you run into them. \n\nWorld 4 is the best soul farming area. World 2 has the most geckos and upgrade equipment. World 3 needs equipment you won't have at the start.\n\nMy advice for equipment: \n\nGet the purple flame shield next to the dragon's in 1-2. Several ways of getting close enough, I just zerged my way with a flame resist ring and the resist spell. \n\nGet a dragon weapon. Normally a slower weapon will hit harder. This will allow you to kill highly armored mobs with ease. The +5 version is one of the harder hitting weapons until you get into New game +. \n\nTry the winged spear. You should get one rather early. They allow you to attack with your shield up. This allows you to learn the enemies attacks without getting destroyed on the first attempt. The R2 ability has a huge range that allows you to keep your distance.\n\nIn general, the bosses aren't as bad as they look. Many of the mob situations are tougher. Don't go into the fights with too much souls.\nOnce you find their general weaknesses, you can wear them down. \n\nThe game kind of forces a str/dex choice for melee. I went up the middle and it hurt me later on. When 2 handing a weapon, ,the str modifier is increased, but not the dex. So for the big slow crushing weapons you should prioritize str. \n\nMagic users can give you advice on that route, I was primarily melee. ",
"score": 6
},
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"body": "Make SURE you get the Cling Ring from World 1-1!! It's one of the most important items in the game, it lets you keep 75% of your health in Soul Form instead of just 50%. \n\nMake sure you know all the combat animations for your weapons so you don't get caught off-guard by hitting a wall or something. For example, there are some button combos that trigger special attack animations, such as forward + R1, which is sort of a fake-out/shove, roll + R1, which is attacking out of a roll, and maybe some others that I'm forgetting. You might not use them but they can be helpful. \n\nGet used to dying; accept your death as inevitable; don't expect to get through a level on your first few tries, just look at it as \"exploring,\" getting to know the levels. This will hopefully decrease your stress levels for when you do die. \n\nGood luck!",
"score": 5
}
]
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January 13, 2009 TF2 Update | Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Additions
Various improvements to Spy disguise and feign death
Disguise weapons copying weapons with special animation requirements (Sword, FaN) now look correct
Spies now play the appropriate death cry on feign death based on the corpse that appears
Feigning death can now play custom death animations like a normal death (head loss, sniper shot, backstab, etc)
Feigning death due to explosive damage now has a chance to gib, like a normal death
Corpses from a feign death now use the correct wearable behavior (hats stay on, or fall off as they should)
The weapons dropped by feign death corpses now have appropriate physics and collision for their type
Combat text for damage done to Spies that feign death will now show the un-modified damage amount
Fixed Spies that feign death while disguised as enemy spies dropping fake ragdolls wearing a mask
Fixed a couple of physics issues on ragdolls created by feign death
Added convars to further customize the "play a hit sound whenever you injure an enemy" option
tf_dingaling_volume". Sets the volume of the hit sound
tf_dingaling_pitchmindmg". Sets the desired pitch of the hit sound when a minor damage hit is done
tf_dingaling_pitchmaxdmg". Sets the desired pitch of the hit sound when a major damage hit is done
tf_dingaling_wav_override". Specifies an optional custom wav hit sound. If unspecified, the default ding sound is used
Added Medic Ubersaw kill taunt
Added backstab death animations for Scout, Spy, Medic, Demo, Engineer, and Pyro. All death animations have a 25% chance to play
Updated various localization strings
Changes
Removed the clamps on the "viewmodel_fov" convar
Added "viewmodel_fov_demo", a convar that controls viewmodel fov during demo playback
Force-a-Nature will now correctly knock back players on the ground
Increased minimum damage required for the Force-a-Nature to cause a knockback from 30 to 40
Changed the Direct Hit to only minicrit enemies that have been launched into the air by an explosion
Increased the rate of the Soldier's Rage generation by 40%
Reduced the duration of the Soldier's Buff Banner effect from 14 seconds to 10
Reduced the explosive damage resistance on the Chargin' Targe to 50%
Fixes
Fixed the Scout's legs twisting out of shape during a double jump
Fixed player models popping up and then down when they duck during a jump
Fixed Sniper rifle not penetrating friendlies
Fixed Bonk! Atomic Punch phase effect
Fixed rockets not being removed if they explode in func_nogrenades zones
Fixed the Sandman being able to bat balls through doors
Fixed the Gunboats absorbing damage from the Soldier's grenade kill taunt
Fixed the naming of non-unique quality unique items (Community Kritzkriegs, etc)
Minor fixes to the crafting UI
Changed the item layout in the crafting panel to better fit the backpack panel
Each 1 of the 4 crafting pages now shows half of 1 of the 2 backpack pages
Fixed the crafting panel next/prev page buttons being hard to use while dragging
Fixed the "equipped" label in the item panels stealing the mouse focus from the item panel itself
Updated Novint Falcon settings (no effect on non-Falcon players)
Recoil/Reload force added for the Direct Hit rocket launcher
Recoil/Reload force added for the Scottish Resistance sticky bomb launcher
More defined flesh hit force added for the Equalizer pick axe
More defined flesh hit/world hit force added for the Eyelander sword
Added swing forces for Eyelander sword
Added appropriate trumpet forces for Blu Buff Banner
Added appropriate trumpet forces for Red Buff Banner
Shotgun reload for Heavy & Pyro changed to feel more appropriate now
Changed Huntsman pullback force so that it goes in the right direction (was still pulling as if the Huntsman was on the left hand side of the screen, which was default until a later update)
http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=440
Faster rage regen, more blast damage to demos? Lovin it. | 4 | [
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"body": "> Fixed the Scout's legs twisting out of shape during a double jump\n\n:'(\n\n[Some ](http://lh3.ggpht.com/_-GzSuSLOytI/SoYHS-xFDjI/AAAAAAAAAKo/JBfEL3mQrl0/s720/frenzzy%20is%20looking%20good%21.jpg) [Memories](http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg95/xxpyromancerxx/Physics-fail.jpg)",
"score": 10
}
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What is the best way to convert and burn an MKV file to a disc for playback on the Xbox 360? | I know the console won't support it directly, but I want to somehow get 5.1 audio, HD quality picture, and subtitles in playback. Please help! | 6 | [
{
"body": "Transcode it to WMV. \n\n\nAnother solution is to use something like [gotsent](http://sentry23.googlepages.com/) to demux the mkv file and remux it into an mp4 with stereo sound. This transcodes the audio but the picture stays untouched. 360 can't play MP4 files with anything but stereo sound, so you lose your 5.1.\n\n",
"score": 3
},
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"body": "Buy a mac mini (or whatever similar solution you prefer).\n\nSorry, I fought this fight for years. It's a real headache to do the conversion, in many cases it takes time, and often the quality of the resulting file isn't as good.\n\nIn the end, I wound up buying a separate solution for video playback. For me it was a Mini just because I knew it had digital video out, and knew it would handle 1080p effortlessly (and I like unix).\n\nThen I downloaded XBMC, Plex and Boxee, three media players all based on XBMC source. Eventually settling on XBMC itself as the most stable of the players.\n\nI hated having to do it. You'd think Microsoft would be interested in making customers happy with the Xbox as a media player so they could leverage that position. But the continued lack of support for modern video standards finally just got to me.",
"score": 3
}
]
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"FACT: Women speak 3x more than men on a daily basis." | This according to [hitthewebz](http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ap5r2/study_demonstrates_the_silencing_effect_of/c0iq0cf)
However:
[Men Talk More Than Women](http://www.livescience.com/health/071129-most-talkative.html)
[Do Women Talk More than Men? In a word: No.](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=women-talk-more-than-men)
[It’s Official: Men Talk More Than Women](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/its-official-me/)
[Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11762186)
| 19 | [
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"body": "I was not expecting to see \"men talk more than women\"-- I think I caught the study that said they talked equally. Interesting.\n\nBTW this was submitted perfectly; linked to the comment in the self post, posted a reply to the original comment, and backed up your claim with good resources. Thanks!",
"score": 5
},
{
"body": "Such bullshit, after a few drinks, I always dominate the conversation whether people like it or not. Also, my girlfriend is a very quiet person. So much so that people think she's really uncomfortable or feels left out. The truth seems to be that she is just reserved and has fun watching other people make fools of themselves. \n\nI guess I like the strong silent type. ",
"score": 5
}
]
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When younger and home alone DAE just yell about random crap? | I remember being younger, maybe 11+ and whenever I was home alone I would randomly run around and yell about what I was doing. For example if I wanted some cookies, I would run to the kitchen screaming about how I was about to eat cookies. Is this something that is common amongst people, or was I just too excited to be home alone with freedom? | 11 | [
{
"body": "If I wanted cookies I would put a blanket over myself and begin crawlin' on my hands and knees. Then the amoeba-me would ooze down the stairs, across the living room and into the kitchen to engulf my target.\n\nThe perfect crime.",
"score": 3
}
]
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